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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 THULQADA 29, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Bin Laden Israel kills 2 White tiger Men’s squash son-in-law Palestinians kills youth gold for sentenced to suspected of at zoo in comeback life in prison4 teens’ murder8 New11 Delhi Kuwaiti20 US, Arab allies bomb Max 42º Min 25º High Tide IS militants in Syria 00:07 & 11:53 Low Tide Washington also strikes Qaeda group led by Kuwaiti 06:03 & 18:33 40 PAGES NO: 16295 150 FILS WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time yesterday, killing Oppn rejects scores of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate Al-Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against mili- revocation of tants by joining Syria’s three-year-old civil war. In a remark- able sign of shifting Middle East alliances, the attacks citizenships encountered no objection - and even signs of tacit approval - from President Bashar Al-Assad’s Syrian govern- ment, which said Washington had notified it in advance. ‘No reconciliation’ US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates partici- By Staff Reporter pated in or supported the strikes against Islamic State tar- gets. All are countries hostile to Assad but now fearful of KUWAIT: A leading opposition group called on the the fighters that have emerged out of the anti-Assad rebel- government yesterday to rescind a series of decisions lion they backed. US President Barack Obama said in a tel- the revoked the citizenship of dozens of Kuwaitis main- evised statement that the breadth of the coalition, includ- ly for opposing the government, describing the deci- ing the five Arab states, showed the United States was not sions as “null and void”. In a statement issued at a press alone. conference, the so-called majority bloc, a group of for- The White House said some of the strikes had been con- mer opposition MPs who formed a majority in the Feb ducted to disrupt an Al-Qaeda affiliate known as the 2012 Assembly, also denied there were any reconcilia- Khorasan Group which it said had been plotting an immi- tion efforts to resolve the political crisis in the country. nent attack either in the United States or in Europe. “Once The group, headed by veteran opposition leader again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot against and former Assembly speaker Ahmad Al-Saadoun, reit- America and do Americans harm that we will not tolerate erated its total rejection to the decrees issued by the safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people,” Obama government to revoke the citizenship of its opponents said before leaving the White House for the United Nations and called on the government to withdraw such in New York, where he planned more talks to enlarge his decrees. It urged the government to stop such “selec- alliance. tive punitive measures”, adding that the revocation of Warplanes and ship-launched Tomahawk cruise mis- citizenship of former MP Abdullah Al-Barghash and siles struck dozens of targets including fighters, training owner of the pro-opposition television station compounds, headquarters and command and control Continued on Page 13 ARLINGTON, Virginia: Lt Gen William C Mayville Jr speaks about the bombing campaign in Syria at the Pentagon yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 LOCAL In Brief MP Ministers House break-in Hajj flights

KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Mayouf revealed that KUWAIT: The Foreign Ministry received a letter from KUWAIT: Twenty two planes carrying 278 pilgrims Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim and Prime a Kuwaiti man living in Lebanon saying that nearly left to Medina and Jeddah Monday in order to join Minister His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- 30 armed men broke into his house in Beit Mery near Sabah are set to discuss an idea promoted by some the Hajj season that starts this weekend. Pilgrims’ Beirut. The suspects took a number of residents and lawmakers and ministers to appoint five MPs in the cab- flights which began Monday will continue until next inet. Candidates will be announced in a meeting after domestic workers hostage, then returned them to Sunday in accordance with Saudi authorities’ instruc- the Eid Al-Adha holiday if the premier gives approval, the house after an unspecified amount of time. tions, said Saleh Al-Fadaghi, Operations Manager at Mayouf said. He added though that the step should not Some of the detainees were subjected to ‘brutal the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Twenty sev- come on the expense of selecting qualified candidates treatment’ during their apprehension, according to en flights were scheduled to leave yesterday, from outside the parliament. — Al-Jarida the letter. — Al-Qabas Fadaghi added. —Al-Watan ‘Kuwait can play major anti-terrorism role’ FM reaffirms keenness on supporting Iraq’s stability iPhone 6 available in Kuwait ahead of release date

By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: Many people are crazy about the latest mobile phones and they rush to the stores to buy them immediately after they are launched in the market. This mania has become even more evi- dent in the age of smartphones, with the rapidly developing functions and programs on these phones. So the launch of any new mobile phone becomes a topic of discussion, and various stores start competing in providing the best prices or promotions. Eureka, one of the largest stores selling electronics in Kuwait, launched the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus recently. “We are the only store in the local mar- ket to offer the new phones in commer- NEW YORK: Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah speaks to UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura during cial quantities. Any customer can simply iPhone passes through phases of quality Comtel, a mobile phone store in their meeting Monday. — KUNA come to any of our stores and buy a testing, which ensures the best product,” Kuwait, also published ads in the press NEW YORK: Kuwait could play a major new task. The two ministers discussed Al-Sabah committed USD one billion in phone without waiting or previously stressed Hijazi. Various social media stating they have the new iPhone 6 in role in the confrontation of terrorism in ways to bolster bilateral relations in all soft loans for the African countries to be reserving it. Even in the United States posted information during the past few store. “Unfortunately, we currently don’t the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister domains of mutual interest. used for development projects over five people had to wait in queues for 48 days that the price of the new iPhone 6 have the iPhone 6 Plus available, but we Ibrahim Al-Jaafari said. years, and offered another USD one bil- hours to get their desired phone,” has reached KD 700. Hijazi denied their have the iPhone 6 in 16, 64, and 128 GB “Kuwait has suffered from terrorism Mideast meeting lion for infrastructure projects in African Mamoun Hijazi, Marketing Manager of store ever sold the iPhone for such a variants in three colors - black, gold, and and occupation in the past” thus deeply Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Sheikh countries to be channeled through the Eureka, told Kuwait Times. price and warned customers against silver. The price for the 16 GB phone is understanding the threat of terrorism Sabah Al-Khaled attended the 9th annu- World Bank and international financial Eureka is offering the iPhone 6 and scam ads posted by individuals claiming KD 330, the 64 GB is for KD 380 and the and can play a major role in confronting al ministerial meeting over the Middle institutions. HH the Amir also iPhone 6 Plus at competitive prices that offering the iPhone 6. “Many of these 128 GB one is KD 420,” said a saleslady at it, Jaafari said in a statement to KUNA East, held by President of the announced a USD one million award range between KD 350-410. “We have ads are not real, and they demand pay- a branch at the Avenues mall. after a meeting with First Deputy Prime International Peace Institute Terje Roed- under the name of late Dr. Abdulrahman 18 varieties that include all sizes and ing money to reserve the phone and This high demand for the iPhone 6 Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Larsen. The meeting, held Monday night Al-Sumait dedicated for development colors. The demand is really high for the they don’t really have it,” he concluded. and other new smartphones is part of Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, at UN on sidelines of the United Nations research in Africa, Sheikh Sabah Al- new phone, even more than what we The price of the iPhone 6 is similar in people’s passion for new technology, Headquarters Monday night. General Assembly’s (UNGA) 69th session, Khaled went on. The award, in apprecia- expected, but we assure customers that the few other stores in Kuwait that have especially in the telecommunication Kuwait, in its capacity as the rotating touched upon regional and international tion of Al-Sumait remarkable philan- they will find their desired phone at our it. According to reports from neighbor- sector. A recent study by the Social presidencies of the Gulf Cooperation issues that would be addressed during thropic contributions in the African con- stores. Eureka is also providing the best ing countries that previously Media Club in Kuwait on Kuwaitis using Council (GCC) and the Arab League, can the UNGA meetings. tinent, would be supervised by Kuwait warranty in Kuwait,” he added. “We don’t announced the approximate price of smartphones showed that young peo- contribute to improving relations Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled is accompa- Foundation for the Advancement of have doubts about the quality of the the iPhone 6, the price in Kuwait is the ple here spend 5 to 6 hours daily on between Iraq on one side and the two nying HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Science (KFAS). iPhone. Apple is the leading company in highest, compared to Saudi Arabia or their phones, compared to 3 hours on organizations on the other, he said. Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s representa- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled noted that a this field, and the manufacturing of an the United Arab Emirates. average globally. “Kuwait has good relations with all tive to the UNGA session, HH the Prime team was formed to follow up the imple- countries and has a balanced policy with Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- mentation of HH the Amir’s initiatives for all. We hope this presidency will have Hamad Al-Sabah. Africa. positive impacts on the GCC and the The Kuwaiti minister thanked the Arab countries,” said Jaafari. Ebola threat Arab League and the African Union for With the wisdom of His Highness the In the meantime, the foreign minister their endeavors to bring about success Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber called for concerted efforts to address to the Arab-Africa partnership. He also Al-Sabah, he added, “we hope relations the spread of the deadly Ebola virus dis- welcomed the African Union’s unfreez- with Kuwait bilaterally and with the ease. ing the membership of Egypt. region through Kuwait could become “The world is facing one of the worst stronger.” epidemic threatening our societies and Regional issues On his meeting with Sheikh Sabah Al- health, particularly in the West African Also Monday, Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled, Jaafari said they discussed future countries where Ebola killed thousands Khaled headed a meeting between the relations and how to help the Iraqi peo- of people,” Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ple against growing threat of the Islamic in a speech before a ministerial meeting ministers and Australian Foreign State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). of the Arab-Africa Partnership Minister Julie Bishop. Both sides dis- They also discussed Kuwait’s support Coordination Committee chaired by him cussed the bilateral ties and means of to Iraq, he said. “We are looking forward Monday night. “We have a shared boosting them especially in the fields of to boosting relations not only in the responsibility to confront this epidemic. economy and investment, and political domain but in investment and This should happen within the frame- exchanged views on regional and inter- exchange of expertise,” said Jaafari. work of the World Health Organization national issues of mutual concern. GCC’s The Iraqi top diplomat meanwhile (WHO),” he said. Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said his country was facing “difficult” He noted that Kuwait donated USD and Qatari Director of Department of challenges however the Iraqi people five million for WHO to help confront International Organizations and have a strong will and were capable of this disease, adding: “I urge the continu- Conferences Ambassador Dr Mutlaq bin overcoming them. The attacks waged by ation of efforts to contain this epidemic Majed Al-Qahtani attended the meeting ISIL against the Iraqi people forced dis- and stop its spread.” Kuwait was keen on held at the headquarters of GCC mission placement of some 1.8 million people. bolstering economic and humanitarian in New York. He acknowledged that Iraq needed a conditions of people around the globe. Meanwhile, Sheikh Sabah met UN long time to address repercussions Kuwait attaches great importance to Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura caused by the ISIL. “We need to repair the provision of humanitarian and eco- at the Kuwait Mission, and discussed the the damage and the Iraqi will is serious nomic assistances for the developing latest developments in Syria, and inter- in address it,” he added. On his part, and least-developed countries, Sheikh national efforts to find a political solu- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled reaffirmed Sabah Al-Khaled went on. During the tion to the crisis. Sheikh Sabah also led Kuwait’s keenness on supporting Iraq’s Third Arab-Africa Summit, hosted by his country’s delegation to the ministe- stability, prosperity and territorial unity. Kuwait in November, 2013, Kuwait rial meeting of the Asia Cooperation During his meeting with Jaafari, offered huge financial contributions to Dialogue (ACD), which touched upon Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled congratulated development in the African countries, he coordination and cooperation in eco- his Iraqi counterpart on the government recalled. nomic, social and development formation and wished him success in his HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad domains.— KUNA Kuwaiti-Iranian meeting ‘positive’

TEHRAN: Kuwait’s Undersecretary of gation departed the Iranian capital forward for the committee’s future the Foreign Ministry Khaled Suleiman after taking part in the first meeting of meetings. Al-Jarrallah signed yesterday with the Kuwaiti-Iranian political commit- Jarallah arrived in Tehran Sunday Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for tee. Meanwhile, Khaled Al-Jarrallah heading a delegation of Kuwaiti Arab and African Affairs Hussain Amir described the meeting of the Kuwaiti- Foreign Ministry officials. Abdullahyan the first meeting min- Iranian Joint Political Committee as Later the same day, Jarallah with utes for the Kuwaiti-Iranian political “positive and fruitful,” adding that it Ali Akbar Velayati, the foreign policy committee. addressed issues pertaining bilateral advisor to the Supreme Leader Ali The signing ceremony, held at relations and topics connected to the Khamenei. In statements to reporters Iranian foreign ministry’s building, regional security. after the meeting, Jarallah said his was attended for the Kuwaiti side by Speaking to KUNA yesterday, talks with Velayati centered on ame- Kuwait’s Ambassador to Iran Majdy Al- Jarallah said that the meeting, which liorating bilateral relations in all possi- Thafeiri, Foreign Ministry he co-chaired with Iranian Deputy ble fields of mutual interest. Undersecretary’s Office Chief Ayham Foreign Minister for Arab and African The Kuwaiti official said he talked Abdullatif Al-Omar, director of the Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, with his Iranian host about the his- Ministry’s legal affairs dept. Ghanim focused on boosting relations within toric visit of His Highness the Amir of Saqer Al-Ghanim, and a number of all possible domains. Kuwait to Iran last June and the result- foreign ministry officials. The Iranian The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry offi- ing understanding that relations side was represented by director of cial also said that the meeting between both countries should be second Gulf department at foreign touched on the situations in Iraq, strengthened. ministry Mohammad Ali Bake, and for- Syria, and Yemen, stressing the neces- Al-Jarallah also met with Ali eign ministry advisor Dr Sayed sity of addressing the security issues Shamkhani who is Iran’s Supreme Mohammad Shihabi. in each countries. Jarallah thanked the National Security Council secretary Following the signing ceremony, Iranian officials for their hospitality with whom he discussed regional and Jarrallah and his accompanying dele- and affirmed that Kuwait was looking international issues. — KUNA LOCAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 Kuwaiti court acquits 67 stateless protesters Men charged with illegal protest, police assault

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s lower court yesterday acquitted 67 stateless people charged with taking part in an illegal protest and assaulting police. The stateless men, locally known as bidoons, were arrested in October 2012 at a gathering to mark international non-violence day and demand the right to Kuwaiti citizen- ship and other rights. Authorities charged them with participat- ing in an illegal protest and assaulting police, NEW YORK: In this Wednesday, March 19, 2014 courtroom sketch Osama bin Laden’s which they denied in court. They were son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, right, testifies at his trial in New York, on charges detained briefly and released on bail pending he conspired to kill Americans and aid al-Qaeida as a spokesman for the terrorist trial. The ruling is not final as authorities can group. — AP challenge it before the court of appeals and supreme court. Yesterday’s ruling was not the first to acquit bidoon protesters but it includ- Abu Gaith gets ed the largest number of defendants so far. Around 110,000 stateless people were born and raised in the oil-rich Gulf emirate life in prison and claim the right to Kuwaiti citizenship. The Palace of Justice. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat But the government says only 34,000 of held demonstrations to demand citizenship MP Nabil al-Fadhl in April called on the NEW YORK: Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law two other top al-Qaida leaders as they tried them qualify for consideration and that the and other basic rights, and police have dis- government to send stateless people convict- was sentenced yesterday to life in prison to justify the attacks. rest hold other nationalities. persed them using force, arresting hundreds ed of breaching public security to a camp he for acting as Al-Qaeida’s spokesman after Taking the witness stand in his own Over the past three years, bedoons have who are on trial. proposed be built in the desert. — AFP the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. defense, Abu Ghaith calmly denied he was Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was the highest- an al-Qaida recruiter and claimed his role ranking Al-Qaeida figure to face trial on US was a religious one aimed at encouraging Crime soil since the attacks. The Kuwaiti cleric all Muslims to rise up against their oppres- became the voice of al-Qaida recruitment sors. He insisted he agreed to meet with Report videos after the 2001 attacks. He testified at bin Laden in a cave on the night of trial that his role was strictly religious. September 11, 2001, out of respect for bin Abu Ghaith was sentenced by US Laden’s standing as a sheik. MoI officer District Judge Lewis A Kaplan, who said he “I didn’t go to meet with him to bless if saw “no remorse whatsoever” from the 48- he had killed hundreds of Americans or steals sheep year-old imam. not. I went to meet with him to know what “You continue to threaten,” the judge he wanted,” Abu Ghaith said. KUWAIT: Policemen arrested a citizen for stealing five said. “You sir, in my assessment, still want to In asking for leniency, Cohen compared sheep from an animal pen in Ratqa area, as he was seen by do everything you can to carry out al- his client to an outrageous shock-radio the pen’s owner who called police. A security source said Qaida’s agenda of killing Americans.” host. The attorney wrote in court papers the suspect, a non-commissioned officer at the Interior Defense attorney Stanley Cohen asked that Abu Gaith “faces the harshest of penal- Ministry was allegedly under the influence of drugs when the judge to impose a 15-year sentence. A ties for talk - and only talk - which is at he entered the animal pen and loaded the five sheep in his prosecutor called for life in prison. times zealous, pious and devout; at other car, but the owner spotted him and gave chase and then Abu Ghaith was convicted in March on times intemperate; at still others, offensive called law enforcement. Police patrols from Qashaaniya conspiracy charges that he answered to core values of humanity.” police station helped the farmer and forced the suspect to Osama bin Laden’s request in the hours In a submission seeking a life sentence, stop. He was sent to concerned authorities. after the attacks to speak on the widely cir- the US government responded by calling culated videos used to recruit new follow- the comparison to a radio host “as absurd ers willing to go on suicide missions like as it is offensive” and accused the defense Egyptian wanted for the 19 who hijacked four commercial jets of trying to minimize Abu Ghaith’s role in assaulting roommate on Sept. 11. “The storm of airplanes will not promoting al-Qaida’s deadly agenda. “Abu Detectives in Ahmadi are looking for an Egyptian man stop,” the Kuwaiti imam warned in an Ghaith was a terrorist who sat alongside who attacked his roommate with a stick and cut his October 2001 video that was played for the bin Laden on the morning of Sept. 12, head. A dispute broke out between two Egyptian jury. Jurors also saw frames of a video 2001, celebrating the murder of nearly roommates in Abu Halaifa over the weekly cleaning of made September 12, 2001, in which Abu 3,000 innocent, men, women and children their flat, then one of them hit the other with a stick Ghaith was seated next to bin Laden and the day before,” prosecutors wrote. — AP before escaping.

Charges for manhood insult dropped Chinese consortiums An Egyptian dropped charges against his wife following a complaint he filed against her for insulting and “doubting” his manhood, following a dispute between the two. wages price war to win Meanwhile the woman said she was also insulted by her husband, and the dispute is a family one, then the husband new airport tender dropped the charges.

Companies urged to file bids Student attacks uni guards Guards at a college called police when a student ahead of Nov 2 deadline attacked them for unknown reasons. The parties were sent to Ardiya police station. A security source said that a university student attacked the guards of a col- KUWAIT: Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister, Interior lege in Ardiya, so police responded and brought the Minister and Acting Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs honored members of a student under control. Police are investigating. SWAT team who carried out a recent campaign to free hostages held by a drug addict in Taima recently. The minister had given orders to promote four of six members of Haris beaten over parking spot the team, including two officers who were injured in the fire exchanged that ended A custodian (haris) of a building accused a man who rent a with the suspect’s death. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary, flat in the building where he works of beating him when he Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahad, honored Criminal Investigation Department found the car of neighbor parked in his spot in front of the officers who recently thwarted an attempt to smuggle KD 134,000 worth of forged building. The Palestinian resident arrived late at the Abu Kuwaiti Dinar banknotes, and $1 million worth of forged US Dollar bills. Halaifa building and was surprised to find another car in his spot, so he woke the haris and admonished him because his parking spot was occupied by another car, Kuwait army hosts then beat him. Police are investigating. logistics conference Maid suicide attempt thwarted A citizen foiled her domestic helper’s attempt to com- mit suicide by ingesting medicine in her a Doha-area KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti army seeks to con- tional forces, who come together to dis- home. The Asian maid was found unconscious in her stantly update its logistics capabilities cuss advancements in logistics operations room, so the employer called police and paramedics A model of the new terminal project along with its partners and suppliers, said and the resulting challenges for militaries who rushed to the house. The maid was charged with Major General Lafi Al Aazmi, Assistant in the region. KUWAIT: Governmental sources said that demanded by the MPW,” he stressed. attempted suicide, and will be questioned when she Chief of Staff for Logistics & Supply The objective is to develop, promote November 2, 2014 will be the last date for Notably, the project that is expected to recovers. the new airport project’s tender and attract $6 billion in investment, was Authority in the Kuwait Armed Forces at and share best practices with like-minded stressed that applying companies would designed by the British Foster Co. The proj- the 2nd annual Military Logistics summit professionals engaged in material and have to file their bids before that time as ect was promoted in the presence of over or conference taking place here on logistics operations, said Maj Gen Lafi. Three killed in bus crash there would be no further extensions. 70 applicants from 21 countries during a September 23 and 24 2014. The summit serves as an ideal platform to “I am looking forward to getting real showcase success stories and, most Kuwait is seeking the lowest bid for the special exhibition held at the Mishref fair- By Hanan Al-Saadoun new airport project as it is one of the grounds on Dec 23, 2013. results from the event, particularly solu- importantly, provide opportunities for tions and shared experiences regarding collaboration and cooperation among major projects in the development plan, According to design blueprints, the ter- KUWAIT: Three Egyptians were killed and 11 others injured logistics challenges and obstacles. I hope world armies. said the sources who spoke on the condi- minal has a trefoil plan, comprising three after the bus the workers were in flipped over on Kabd the success of this gathering will form the In yesterday’s conference or summit tion of anonymity, noting that the tender symmetrical wings of departure gates. Road after an accident. A security source said the victims core for future events,” said Major General UK experiences in logistics over the past had been extended to allow the largest Each facade spans 1.2 km and all extend worked at the rodent fighting department at the health Lafi, in a speech opening the conference. 10 year period were discussed in addition number of companies to make their bids. from a dramatic 25-m-high central space. ministry. The sources also noted that some bid- The terminal balances the enclosure of this The 2nd annual Military Logistics to understanding procurement chal- ding companies have withdrawn from the vast area with a design that is highly legi- Kuwait again welcomes the participation lenges and learning how to ration opera- tender under pressure of fierce competi- ble at a human scale - for simplicity and of senior officers and logistics experts tions to save costs and improve efficien- tion by Chinese companies that have ease of use there are few level changes. from Kuwait and abroad, including the cies. Also discussed were solutions avail- waged a ‘price war’ to win the tender the The building is planned under a single roof US, UK, Belgium and NATO among others. able to overcome logistics challenges and way they did in other markets and forced canopy, punctuated by glazed openings The event once more hosts a cross sec- ways to offer support for training and many European rivals, namely British ones, that filter daylight, while deflecting direct tion of General Officers involved with development of logistics personnel to withdraw. solar radiation. The canopy extends to logistics from Kuwait, NATO and interna- achieve future sustainability. — KUNA Notably, the Cabinet had authorized shade a generous entrance plaza and is the Ministry of Public Works to execute the supported by tapering concrete columns - new airport (Terminal 2) project in collabo- their fluid, organic forms draw inspiration Manpower authority warns ration with the Civil Aviation Directorate, from the contrast between the solidity of as the prime beneficiary that would oper- the stone and movement of Kuwait’s tradi- of delaying labor claims ate such a vital facility that is expected to tional dhow sailing boats. The project aims annually serve around 25 million passen- to be the first passenger terminal in the By A Saleh starting with notices and ending with sus- gers compared to only 8 million using the world to attain this level of environmental pension,” Doussary concluded. current terminal. The head of a company accreditation. The concrete structure pro- KUWAIT: The Manpower Public Authority that has had intentions to apply for the vides thermal mass and the roof incorpo- director Jamal Al-Doussary stressed that it Zour contract signing extended tender and refused to reveal his identity, rates a large expanse of photovoltaic pan- was not acceptable to delay looking into Kuwait National Petroleum Company said that the withdrawal of some British els to harvest solar energy. labor claims for months. He also pointed (KNPC) stressed that in response to requests companies from the project’s tender was The site has flexible master plan, with out that the authority’s PR department had made by four out of the five bidding consor- decided after learning that a consortium of the terminal strategically located to antici- formed a special committee to inspect tiums, the signing of the Al-Zour refinery Chinese companies intends offering the pate and enable future expansion. The air- investigators’ work and make sure all griev- contracts would be delayed four months. KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality’s Hawally emergency lowest prices in what he described as a port will initially accommodate 13 million ances were duly attended to. He also noted KNPC added that evaluation would take team confiscated 1,884 kilograms of expired food prod- ‘price war’ to win the tender regardless of passengers per year, with the flexibility to that his deputy for manpower affairs, around two and a half months before ucts during a recent crackdown on restaurants and how they would execute the project. “My increase to 25 million passengers and to Badriya Al-Mukaimi, had formed a commit- declaring the winning consortiums. Notably, supermarkets in Salmiya. The inspectors also issued 12 company withdrew although we had pro- accommodate 50 million passengers with tee to follow up complaint investigators’ the contracts are expected to be signed by citations and closed four shops. Separately, municipali- vided all guarantees and securities future development. — Al-Anbaa work. “The committee is authorized to use March 2015 as applications for the tender ty inspectors confiscated 32 kilograms of spoiled fish gradual penalties against underachievers would be closed on Jan 13, 2015. during a recent campaign at the Mubarakiya Market. LOCAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 Seventh ‘Kuwait in Egypt’ week to be held Dec 15-18

KUWAIT: The 7th ‘Kuwait in Egypt’ event is due to be become a main event where both countries’ top offi- held from Dec 15 to 18, 2014. The function will be cials take part. “The success achieved by holding oth- held in Cairo in collaboration between Kuwait’s er weeks in UK and Dubai encouraged more Kuwaiti embassy in Cairo and the Egyptian embassy in companies and establishments to take part this year,” Kuwait, at the Cleopatra Ballroom in the Semiramis she concluded. Hotel. “The function, organized by Al-Jabriya Exhibitions Group (JEG), will witness the participation of over fifty Egyptian and Kuwaiti public and private sector companies in addition to Kuwaiti-Egyptian joint ven- KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) sponsored the Kids Expo 2014 fair that took place recently at tures,” said JEG’s board director Jaber Ahmed 360 Mall. The CBK’s pavilion at the event saw visits from a large number of ‘My First Account’ clients and their Behbehani, pointing out that the exhibition had families. The My First Account offers children up to 14 years of age the opportunity to benefit from discounts attracted great interest and visitors in its previous and special offers at various shops around Kuwait. editions. “This indicates the strong relations between both countries and aims at developing them further in various fields, namely economic ones,” he added. Behbehani also stressed that the exhibition’s mot- to reflects Kuwaiti economical, cultural, media and arts activities to be displayed in Cairo during the exhibition to reflect the strong bilateral bonds between both brotherly countries and peoples. He also highlighted that with all its potentials such as location and its leading regional role, Egypt is open to all Arab investors in various fields, be them touris- tic, real estate, road, ports, education, health, commu- nications and others. Moreover, Behbehani stressed that Kuwaiti invest- ments in Egypt had witnessed remarkable increases over the past few years to form over 25 percent of Arab investments in Egypt, that are diverse covering all kinds of investment. “The aim of holding this activity in Egypt is to probe invest- ment opportunities and fields,” stressed Behbehani, noting that Egypt is open to all Arab investors and the main goal of holding interna- tional exhibitions was for commercial exchanges. “The success achieved in the previous six editions helped attract more par- ticipants to take part in this year’s edition,” he noted, pointing out that such activities help boost both countries’ relations. JEG’s marketing and PR manager Najla Yousif stressed that the Kuwaiti Week in Egypt has WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 LOCAL

In my view kuwait digest IAEA and Abbas: Israel’s Kuwait last hope for peace?

By Abdullah Erakat

By Labeed Abdal alestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to go to the United Nations this week and Pset a time limit for Israel to leave the land it cap- tured in 1967, meaning the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, in exchange for a peace deal with Israel. It is the latest example of Abbas’s attempt to seek inter- [email protected] national recognition for a Palestinian state, after US- brokered peace talks failed to achieve any progress. “President Abbas has a tough mission ahead of him uwait has praised the continuous efforts and he is going to be facing some serious obstacles made by the International Atomic Energy Al-Anbaa from the United States and its allies in Europe and from KAgency (IAEA) for clearing the Middle East of Israel,” Palestinian journalist Maher Abu Khater said. weapons of mass destruction. Kuwait’s position Since he took office in 2005, he says Abbas has reflects an important step in international coordi- become frustrated with negotiations with Israel. “His nation and service of the international community. only choice is to try this new avenue, the United The significance of IAEA’s efforts are felt especially Nations, with the hope that he may be able to sway the in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, including kuwait digest vote in his favor,” he said. Kuwait, that are concerned with the importance of Earlier this week, Abbas said Palestinians would con- living in security, stability and safety from nuclear tinue their resistance and struggle in all legal ways and threats. Why take Kuwaitis’ rights and international conventions. There are some countries that recklessly con- “We will head to the Security Council to present our duct experiments with rockets carrying warheads, cause and find a solution to our people who seek free- as a way of showing off, with disregard to the give them back as charity? dom and a state with east Jerusalem as its capital,” harmful effects that these actions could leave to Abbas said, adding that if this fails, he plans to join all By Dr Abdul Rahman Al-Awadhi international agencies and treaties.Prior to the out- break of this summer’s war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority joined 15 UN organi- hings in Kuwait are very strange. It is a well-established hardly makes employees perform their job duties with dedica- zations, namely in a bid to get Israel held accountable fact that in any sound state economy, there is an annual tion to the government as the boss or employer. The article for possible war crimes at the International Criminal Trate of inflation to be taken into full consideration in the also states that “Work is a duty of every citizen necessitated by Court (ICC). state budget and the amount of expenditure on employees. personal dignity and public good. The state shall endeavor to The Israeli Foreign Ministry strongly disapproves of Inflation usually equals currencies’ lost purchasing power. make it available to citizens and to make its terms equitable”. Abbas going to the UN saying that the only way to According to economic variables, what one could buy with KD Well, reality says that the government is responsible for provid- achieve substantive progress is through bilateral talks. 1 five years ago is much less that what can be bought today, ing job opportunities and not mandatory recruiting citizens. “A unilateral strategy of Palestinians has not brought which is normal in any economy, and thus the government will Such interpretations have deprived Kuwaiti employees of them any results until now and there is no reason to have to adjust wages and payrolls in view of such inflation their rights in economic systems that observe all people’s suppose it will bring results in the future,” Israeli Foreign rates and the lost purchasing power because employees’ rights. Inflation does happen in all regimes but states usually Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said. salaries are most often their sole source of income and their set laws that protect employees’ rights. Oh, people! Do not He also says that Israel still believes peace with the lives mainly depend on them. make citizens accustomed to begging and considering their Palestinians is possible. Naturally enough, citizens have every right to be annually rights as charity or grants given by the parliament or the gov- “The only way to achieve peace is through negotia- their neighbors. The IAEA’s activity creates some compensated and have their salaries adjusted according to ernment. We have had enough of this. tion and compromise and not by evading the tough sort of international security by following up the annual inflation rates. What actually happens is that the state The best example of this is that all those who yelled, issues by going to international bodies,” he said, not commitment of countries in the Middle East to the does nothing and lets inflation rates multiply, and after years, it demonstrated and took part in political movements demand- elaborating on what the ‘tough issues’ are. safety of other states, and avoiding reckless actions gives citizens a grant that never equals the lost purchasing ing pay hikes, got what they wanted and stopped protesting, Abbas adviser and Deputy Secretary General of the that could threaten innocent civilians’ lives, their power. The contradiction we experienced over the past three while retirees got nothing though they have been getting the Fatah Revolutionary Council Dr. Sabri Saidam says Israel environment and the future of their children. years and approval of new payrolls have cost our economy its same pension for 20 years. This is the sort of the injustice should be the last state to talk about unilateral actions. Countries that commit these actions must be held balance. Kuwaitis are experiencing because of not following sound eco- “Maintaining the longest occupation in modern accountable through international sanctions. We cannot take what rightfully belongs to the people for- nomic rules in handling the state’s revenues and expenditure. times is a unilateral Israeli oppressive decision, so a uni- When countries conduct atomic tests without getting that with such action, the government will have We need a little wisdom and justice for all employees. lateral reflection of dismay and wish to solicit UN sup- coordination with the international community, deprived employees of normal rights only to give it back to Let’s give each employee his due rights without taking this port should be seen as a natural protest against this puts obstacles in the road towards achieving them, after long sociopolitical strife, in the form of a gift from as charity given by the state. Let us change this concept of hav- decades of oppression,” he wrote to The Media Line in true security. Realizing this goal requires that all the state! ing a government job as the only insurance of leading a an email. countries join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Taking into consideration the misperception of article 41 of decent life, just like many Egyptians believe. So stop being Kuwait’s constitution that states, “Every Kuwaiti has the right to unfair to people and give due rights! (NPT) and adhere to all of its articles. Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa Unilateral move work and to choose the type of his work”, such an attitude, — The United States has said it would use its veto in the Security Council against what is it also considers a “unilateral move.” Two years ago, the UN General Assembly granted “Palestine” the status of non-member observer state after Washington vetoed his petition at kuwait digest the Security Council. Journalist Abu Khater says Abbas is a deep believer in non-violence, and wants a peace- ful solution with Israel. Mr Minister... “When he took office, he took a very strong stance against militants, lawlessness until he was able to restore law and order to the West Bank because Abbas I dislike you! knows that lawlessness is not the way to liberate Palestine,” he said. But he says he thinks Israel is becoming more of a By Thaar Al-Rasheedi rejectionist to peace than before because it keeps put- ting demands on the Palestinians that are difficult to nder no circumstances will I ever blame meet. Minister Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej for what is By refusing to show any flexibility on issues, like the Uhappening at the ministry of education. I am future of Jerusalem and Israeli control of the Jordan not defending him because ever since he accepted Valley and wanting to keep its army on the borders and the responsibility of acting as minister of educa- control airspace, he says Israel will never allow the tion, he became officially and politically responsi- Palestinians to have a sovereign state. “I don’t think ble for everything starting with the ministry’s gate there is much more that Abbas can do. If Israel cannot keys to the last screw in a school in Al-Zour. make peace with President Abbas, I’m not sure who However, to set things straight, regardless of how else can make peace with it,” he said. capable he can be, even if he was Superman, Director of the One Voice movement in Gaza, nobody is capable of handling three ministerial Ezzedine Masri agrees. The One Voice movement is an portfolios at the same time - commerce and indus- international movement with an objective of ending try, education and higher education. The same the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the vision of applies to the minister of state for Cabinet affairs two states for two peoples. Sheikh Mohammed Al-Abdullah who also holds the “Unfortunately, he did not get his chance. He’s the justice portfolio as acting minister and Sheikh best thing that’s happened to the Palestinian peace Mohammed Al-Khaled too. camp. We have Nelson Mandela, and the Palestinian Despite these ministers’ endeavors to be fair in side, but on the Israeli side, there is no Frederick De distributing their efforts and time amongst the Klerk and we are waiting for that,” he said, comparing ministries they are responsible for, something Israel to South Africa. remains missing here and there. This missing some- At the same time, Abbas is unable to reassert con- thing can be disastrous such as having an acting trol over Gaza, where 1.8 million Palestinians live. Gaza minister of education commencing a new school reconstruction will cost billions of dollars and the inter- year when many things have to be done, such as national community is unlikely to come up with the appointing a new board of trustees for private uni- money if Hamas remains in control there. Abbas is find- versities, appointing media attaches abroad, ing it difficult to get Hamas to agree to disarm in order accrediting some certificates and the violations in to allow his presidential guard to return to the Gaza the Shadadiya University project, which can only be Strip. A unity government formed earlier this year has done by a minister with full liabilities. In addition, so far failed to make any changes on the ground. there is a huge difference between the ministries of education and of commerce. PA popularity Ministers are not supermen. A Cabinet reshuffle While unifying the Palestinian security forces was a was expected to appoint new ministers by the end key item on the agenda of the consensus government, of August, but nothing happened. Now, announc- it has yet to be addressed. The lack of support the ing any such a reshuffle is deferred till after Eid. Palestinian Authority President is facing is not giving Some lawmakers even believe that it will not be Abbas the vote of confidence he needs to take on announced until the beginning of the next parlia- Hamas. mentary term. During the war, popularity ratings for the PA chair- There are political reasons behind delaying the man dropped while Hamas’ popularity soared. Abbas reshuffle though many nominees have been named was seen among many as keeping too low a profile to fill vacancies over the past two months. despite his formation of a negotiations team compro- Portfolios have been offered to former politicians mised of Fatah and other parties to work out an and current MPs, but the whole thing is still being Egyptian mediated cease-fire deal with Israel. discussed. The problem this reshuffle faces is the “So unless something happens in the peace process conflict to gain ‘political satisfaction and approval’. with Israel, with declaring a Palestinian state, I think Though this parliament was supposed to be one of Abbas’ popularity will remain low,” said Abu Khater. achievements not political conflicts, a certain Political analyst George Jaqaman shares those senti- group may approve appointing a certain minister ments, saying the PA is under a great deal of pressure while another hates his guts and cannot stand him from its people and therefore results in New York are a in office. must. He talks of a “political vacuum.” The lack of talks This parliament seems to be no different from between the sides is dangerous for the Palestinian previous ones that used to reject appointing cer- leadership’s reputation. “It raises the question of legiti- tain ministers and works on dismissing others macy of the existence to administer Palestinians with- because of their temporary political whims. I out gaining sovereignty,” he said. believe this parliament follows in the same foot- PLO Executive Committee Secretary General Yasser steps, though in a less tense manner. But to reject Abedrabbo told journalists this week that Palestinian appointing a minister or demanding dismissing unity provides political strength to break the political another merely because you ‘do not like him’, this is siege both between Hamas and Fatah, and between new to Kuwait’s political arena! Israel and the PA. “There is an opportunity now, after — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa the war. Hamas is more pragmatic than before,” he said. —The Media Line

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GOLAN HEIGHTS: Smoke rises following explosions in Syria, seen from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, yesterday. The Israeli military said it shot down a Syrian fighter jet using the Patriot air defense system after the plane infil- trated airspace over the Golan Heights early yesterday morning - the first such downing in decades, heightening tensions in the volatile plateau. — AP Israel shoots down Syria warplane

JERUSALEM: Israel downed a Syrian warplane over the Golan Council resolution passed earlier this year calling for interna- Heights yesterday in the first such incident in three decades tional action against jihadist groups. and warned it would respond “forcefully” if its security is threatened. It was the first time Israel had shot down a piloted Respond ‘forcefully’ Syrian plane since 1985 and drew a sharp response from But Yaalon warned that Israel would not tolerate any Damascus. Israel said the Syrian fighter jet had crossed the threats to its security and would respond “forcefully”. UN-patrolled ceasefire line on the Golan which it regards as its “We will not allow anyone, whether it is a state actor or a international border. terror organisation, to threaten our security and breach our Pictures taken by AFP showed smoke rising from the Syrian sovereignty,” he said. “We will respond forcefully against any village of Jubata al-Khashab which had been bombed by the such attempt, whether it is an error or intentional.” Since the warplane just moments before it was shot down by a Patriot uprising against Assad’s rule erupted more than three years surface-to-air missile fired by Israel. The burning wreckage, ago, the Golan has been tense, with a growing number of also caught on camera, plunged down on the Syrian side of rockets and mortar rounds hitting the Israeli side of the cease- the ceasefire line. Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said the fire line. Most of them have been stray, but there have been army had brought down “a Syrian fighter plane which several incidents of intentional fire, one of which killed an approached Israel’s sovereign territory on the Golan in a Israeli teenager in June, and Israel has occasionally retaliated. threatening manner, and even crossed the frontier.” Some 510 square kilometres of the Golan remain under Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of Syrian control, with UN peacekeepers overseeing a buffer the strategic plateau from Syria during the Six-Day War of zone along the armistice line stretching some 70 kilometres 1967, then annexed it in 1981 in a move never recognised by (45 miles) from Lebanon in the north to Jordan in the south. the international community. A senior military official quoted Last week, the UN Disengagement Observer Force, which by Israeli public radio said the Russian-made Sukhoi Su-24 had monitors the ceasefire, was forced to withdraw hundreds of its penetrated some 400 metres (yards) into Israeli air space peacekeepers to the Israeli-occupied sector after rebels before being shot down. advanced on their positions. The downing came just three weeks after Israel shot down Syria’s UN ambassador accused the rebels of seizing UN a drone over the Golan as heavy fighting raged on the Syrian- weapons, uniforms and vehicles from the peacekeepers in controlled side of the plateau, most of which has been seized order to set up a “safe zone” from which to wage attacks. by rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The UN Security Council held a special session on the dete- The Assad regime has been hitting back with frequent air riorating security situation on the Golan, at which members strikes in a bid to retake control. Some have been close to called on the rebels to withdraw from the buffer zone and Israeli positions. Damascus said the downing of its fighter jet return peacekeepers’ equipment. showed Israel’s support for the rebels on the Golan, who The session was convened over concerns for the safety of include Al-Qaeda loyalists who held 45 UN peacekeepers the UN force after 45 Fijian peacekeepers were held captive hostage for two weeks before releasing them earlier this for two weeks by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front. They were month.It described it as a “flagrant violation” of a UN Security eventually released unharmed earlier this month. — AFP Israel kills two Palestinians suspected of teens’ murders

HEBRON: Israeli troops yesterday killed two Palestinians in The Shin Bet said in a statement the army had also the West Bank suspected of the murders of three Jewish arrested several other Palestinians who had helped hide teenagers in June, which sparked events leading to the Qawasmeh and Abu Eisha after the teens were killed. bloody war in Gaza. “Troops also arrested Bashar Qawasme, Mahmud The killings, during a raid on the two suspects’ hideout, Qawasme and Taer Qawasme, the sons of Arafat Qawasme came as Israeli and Palestinian delegations were to negoti- who was himself arrested on July 14 on charges of helping ate in Cairo a more permanent Gaza ceasefire, almost put- the killers hide after the murder of the teens,” it said. ting the talks in jeopardy, a Palestinian official said. Amer Abu Eisha, 32, and Marwan Qawasmeh, 29, whom ‘No longer a threat’ Israel accused of kidnapping and murdering the teens, The suspects “no longer pose a threat to Israeli civilians,” were killed “in an exchange of fire” in the southern West army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said on Bank city of Hebron, the army said. Twitter, posting pictures of the two men. The two men were hiding out in a house in Hebron and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the opera- killed when gunfire broke out during an operation by the tion, saying the suspects had been “dealt with.” Shin Bet internal security services and the army’s anti-terror “I said that whoever perpetrated the kidnapping and unit, it said in a statement. murder of our boys would bear the consequences... that we Residents told AFP they heard shots fired during the would pursue the enemy, find them and not return until assault in what appeared to be a firefight between the sus- they had been dealt with,” he said in a statement. pects and security forces, and that the army had also bro- The June abduction of Gilad Frenkel, Gilad Shaer and ken down the doors of several shops in the area. Eyal Yifrach from a hitchhiking stop near Hebron sparked a Dozens of local youths threw stones at the soldiers near huge Israeli search operation in which hundreds of the scene of the raid, and following the shooting, a general Palestinians were arrested and at least five killed. strike was being observed across the city. Israel immediately blamed the kidnappings on Hamas Sporadic clashes between stone-throwing youths and militants, rounding up hundreds of suspected members soldiers continued during the day, an AFP correspondent during the arrest operation. said, but ceased briefly during the funerals of Qawasmeh The brutal revenge killing by Jewish extremists of and Abu Eisha. Some 3,000 mourners attended the proces- Mohammed Abu Khder, a Palestinian teenager in east sions and burials, with many waving the flags of Islamist Jerusalem, was followed by an uptick in rocket fire from movement Hamas, which controls Gaza and has a large Gaza, and the launch on July 8 of a full-scale Israeli military support base in Hebron. operation against the Strip.—AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Gaza truce negotiators set new talks for end of October Palestinians demand to end 8-year blockade

CAIRO: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in West Bank. That incident shocked Israel and led Cairo is set to host an international donor Cairo yesterday agreed to schedule new talks on to weeks of simmering violence culminating in conference on October 12 on reconstruction, a durable Gaza ceasefire for the last week of the war between Israel and Hamas militants in amid warnings that the Palestinian Authority October, a Hamas official said. Gaza which killed more than 2,140 Palestinians, should manage the work and the funds allocat- A delay in the talks after their first Egypt- most of them civilians, and 73 on the Israeli side, ed to it, urging Hamas to hand over power in mediated negotiations since the end last month mostly soldiers. Gaza to the PA. of a devastating 50-day war in Gaza had been The war ended on August 26 with an agree- Hamas, an Islamist militant movement desig- expected, because of upcoming Jewish and ment to hold future talks on Palestinian nated as a terrorist group by the United States, Muslim holidays. demands to end an eight-year blockade of Gaza Israel and the European Union, will also hold The Palestinian delegation, which includes and exchange prisoners in Israeli jails for the separate negotiations in Cairo with Fatah repre- rival factions Hamas and president Mahmud remains of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza. sentatives today and tomorrow. Abbas’s Fatah, will remain in Cairo this week to Rishq said the Palestinian negotiators in Cairo The factions formed a unity government in discuss resolving their own disputes. “We fin- proposed that the talks in October centre on June to end a seven-year rift during which SANAA: A captured military vehicle is parked outside of the Political Bureau of Shiite ished the indirect negotiations... it was agreed to reconstructing Gaza and setting up an airport Hamas seized control of Gaza, and the Islamists Huthi rebels after they seized it during clashes with government forces in the capital resume them in the last week of October,” wrote and port in the Mediterranean enclave. remain the de facto rulers of the coastal enclave. Sanaa yesterday. Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi vowed to restore state senior Hamas negotiator Ezzat al-Rishq on his Israel has insisted that Hamas, which possess- The talks in Cairo will focus on the transfer of authority and warned of “civil war” in the Sunni-majority country as Shiite rebels Facebook page. es a considerable arsenal of short- and medium- power in Gaza to the national unity government were seen in near-total control of the capital. — AFP The Israeli negotiators left Cairo after yester- range rockets, disarm. and on security there, a member of the Fatah day’s talks, an official at Cairo airport said. The The July-August war caused a vast amount of delegation said. talks were almost derailed earlier yesterday as destruction to homes and infrastructure in They are also expected to address withheld Yemen leader warns of civil Palestinian negotiators threatened to pull out densely populated Gaza, leaving more than salaries for Hamas civil servants in Gaza, one of after Israeli soldiers killed two suspects in the 100,000 Palestinians homeless in the long term, the main stumbling blocks to implementing the war, rebels cry ‘victory’ June murder of three Jewish teenagers in the according to the United Nations. reconciliation deal. — AFP

SANAA: President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi government building, parliament, army head- warned yesterday of “civil war” in Sunni- quarters and the central bank. Syrian rebels fear US strikes will help Assad majority Yemen and vowed to restore state But Hadi insisted: “Sanaa will not fall.” authority as Shiite rebels in apparent near- UN envoy Jamal Benomar, who mediated ISTANBUL/AMMAN: Syrian rebels affiliated with A grouping in northern Syria of “Free Syrian ians and blame their deaths on coalition air strikes,” total control of Sanaa hailed their “victory”. the accord aimed at ending deadly fighting the main Western-backed opposition said yester- Army” (FSA) fighters - as the troops affiliated with the statement from colonel Hassan Hamadi said. Yemen “is facing a conspiracy” and “the between the rebels and Sunni Islamists, said day they worried US air strikes on Islamic State mili- the main Western-backed opposition coalition are Hamadi, speaking on behalf of a grouping of danger of slipping into civil war”, Hadi said in the rebels’ taking of key institutions virtually tants could benefit President Bashar al-Assad. called - said that while it supported attacks on northern rebel forces known as the FSA Fifth a speech at the presidential palace, two days without resistance seemed to signify the “col- While the main opposition coalition welcomed Islamic State, the full solution meant striking at Legion, urged coordination between the FSA and after Ansarullah rebels took all other key state lapse” of the security forces in Sanaa. “What the strikes, several commanders contacted by Assad, “the source of terrorism.” U.S.-led forces to avoid civilian casualties and to institutions in the capital, overshadowing a has happened these past few days could lead Reuters said the campaign against Islamic State “The regime plans to exploit the current situa- allow rebels to secure areas vacated by Islamic UN-brokered peace deal. to the collapse of the Yemeni state and the could backfire if it allowed forces loyal to Assad to tion, by taking the opportunity to massacre civil- State.—Reuters In a televised speech, rebel leader end of the political transition,” he told Al- fill the vacuum on the ground. Abdelmalek al-Huthi hailed what he called Arabiya television late Monday. “There is a fear that the regime will exploit a the “victory” of his fighters. “We congratulate As Benomar spoke, the peace accord military vacuum in areas of Islamic State control to our people on the victory of their popular appeared to be holding after a week of clash- realise military advances,” a commander in western revolution that has established a new era es that the government said killed at least Syria said via online message. “This will make the based on cooperation,” Huthi said. 200 people. Yemeni authorities have repeat- alliance appear to the people as the saviour of the Hadi had earlier evoked the spectre of for- edly accused Iran of backing the Huthi rebels, Assad regime.” eign plots aimed at torpedoing progress in who also appear heavily influenced by The commander, who is linked to the main rebel Yemen. “Internal and foreign forces (have) Hezbollah, Lebanon’s powerful Shiite militia Free Syrian Army, said that if pro-Assad forces end- allied to... overthrow the Yemeni model” of that is backed by Tehran. ed up benefitting from the strikes it could even power transition following an Arab Spring- Ansarullah waged a decade-long insur- increase the popularity of Islamic State, a hardline inspired uprising, the president said. Yemen gency in the mountainous north before Sunni Muslim force which has captured tracts of was the only Arab Spring country where an launching a bid for power in Sanaa last land in Syria and Iraq. uprising led to a political settlement by which month. Sunday’s UN-brokered deal aims to The targets of the air and missile strikes includ- Hadi replaced former autocrat Ali Abdullah put the troubled transition back on track in ed Raqqa city in northern Syria, Islamic State’s main Saleh. Hundreds of rebels manned check- impoverished Yemen, which borders oil king- Syria stronghold. Part of US President Barack points on the airport road and other major pin Saudi Arabia and is a key US ally in the Obama’s strategy against Islamic State depends on throughfares yesterday while heavily armed fight against Al-Qaeda. equipping and training Syria’s more moderate patrols cruised the streets in four-wheel-drive The speed of the rebel advance reflected rebels to strengthen the opposition as the best vehicles, AFP correspondents reported. the fragility of Yemen’s regime three years counterweight to the extremists. after the uprising. “You were shocked to learn But the rebels, who have found themselves ‘Sanaa will not fall’ that public and military institutions were fighting both the Islamic State and Syrian govern- SURUC: A Syrian Kurdish woman crosses the border between Syria and Turkey at the south- Insurgents alongside small detachments handed over (to rebels), but be aware that the ment forces, have said they urgently need heavy eastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province yesterday. The UN refugee agency warned that as of military police guarded public offices the plot was already brewing,” Hadi told Yemenis weaponry rather than the training and the type of many as 400,000 people may flee to Turkey from Syria’s Kurdish region to escape attacks by rebels entered on Sunday, including the main yesterday.—AFP light arms they expect to get. the Islamic State group. — AFP p10 2_Layout 1 9/23/14 8:39 PM Page 1

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Azerbaijan nabs 26 alleged militants

BAKU: Authorities in Azerbaijan said gets in eastern Syria. Azerbaijan, but the ministry didn’t say pect encouraged his 15-year old son to side militants in Syria, but there has yesterday they have arrested 26 citi- Azerbaijan’s National Security when the arrests were made. go to Syria to join the militants, which been no official information about how zens of the ex-Soviet nation accused of Ministry said in a statement that those The ministry detailed the case of he did. The ministry said that the offi- many Azerbaijanis have gone there joining militants in Syria, including the arrested have been accused of involve- one suspect, Elshan Gurbanly, saying cial investigation is under way, adding and how many of them have died. Islamic State group. ment in illegally armed groups, traffick- that he was accused of moving to Syria that it was searching for other sus- Azerbaijan, a mostly Muslim energy- Azerbaijan, a staunch US ally, ing of weapons and explosives and via Turkey earlier this year to join IS. It pects. rich Caspian Sea nation, has main- announced the arrests hours after the other charges that could carry life said Gurbanly was wounded in fighting Local media have reported that tained close ties with Washington and US and its Arab allies launched a series imprisonment. The suspects have been in Iraq in August 2014. more than 100 Azerbaijani citizens contributed troops to the US-led mis- of airstrikes against Islamic State tar- taken into custody after returning to The ministry said that another sus- have been killed while fighting along- sions in Afghanistan and Iraq. — AP British, Iranian leaders to discuss IS at first talks First meeting since 1979 Islamic Revolution

LONDON: British Prime Minister Rouhani yesterday. “If Iran is willing pelling case for immediate action David Cameron is to hold talks with to join the international community such as a humanitarian emergency. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to defeat ISIL (another name for IS), But he is desperate to avoid a over unrest in Iraq and Syria, offi- then we will work with them on repeat of last year’s humiliating cials said yesterday, the first meet- that,” a Downing Street source quot- defeat in the House of Commons ing between the country’s leaders ed by British media said. over military action in Syria. since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Britain has supported the cre- It is thought he wants to be sure The talks at the UN General ation of a more inclusive Iraqi gov- that he would have sufficient cross- Assembly in New York come as ernment and has called for Syrian party support for any military action Western powers seek to build sup- President Bashar al-Assad to cede before considering a recall of parlia- port for the fight against the Islamic power to a broad coalition. ment. There are currently no plans State (IS) jihadist group, which holds Iran is highly influential in both to recall parliament but this could swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria Iraq and Syria through the strong change on his return from New and has beheaded two US journal- Shiite communities in both coun- York. ists plus a British aid worker. tries but it is unclear how open “It would be very odd in a way if The United States and Arab allies Tehran will be to Western advances. UK air power was not part of this launched the first air and sea strikes Rouhani said Monday that peo- package,” Professor Michael Clarke, against Islamic State militants in ple in the region were “defending director general of defence think- PARIS: An employee of Saint-Martin-Vesubie’s town hall shows a poster depicting Herve Gourdel, 55, a mountain Syria yesterday, while US-led strikes themselves... against the terrorists” tank the Royal United Services guide who was seized on September 21 evening while trekking in the rugged, heavily forested Kabylie area, against the group in Iraq have been and that Iran would help them. He Institute (RUSI), told BBC radio yes- where Al-Qaeda is active, and reading “Supporting Herve Gourdel”, at the town hall of Saint-Martin-Vesubie, taking place since the start of has also criticised the US for not terday. southeastern France, yesterday. — AFP August. sending in ground troops. “Because Mr Cameron’s very US Secretary of State John Kerry Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah aware of the damage the Syria vote said on Friday that Iran had a role to Ali Khamenei has also said he reject- did just this time last year, he wants France vows ‘no negotiation’ play in tackling the group although ed a US offer to join the internation- to make sure he gets it right this Tehran has so far seemed reluctant al coalition it has been building time so he’s taking it step by step.” with Algeria hostage-takers to cooperate. against the jihadists. Britain is currently arming With the US seeking to build an Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting PARIS: Paris vowed yesterday there issued a statement urging Muslims to ened to kill Gourdel within 24 hours international coalition, Cameron is ‘Step by step’ IS militants in northern Iraq. As the would be no negotiation with kill Westerners whose nations have unless Paris halts its air strikes. still deciding whether Britain should France last week joined the US in former colonial power, Britain has jihadists who kidnapped a French hik- joined a campaign to battle the “It is up to Hollande, president of join military operations against the conducting air strikes in Iraq. It has had tense ties with Iran since the er in Algeria, as the local army raced jihadist group, in particular Americans the criminal French state, to halt the IS group. Britain’s defence ministry vowed that these will continue Islamic Revolution in 1979. against time to find him before his and French. attacks on the Islamic State within 24 said Tuesday that “discussions were despite the kidnapping of a French Amid an apparent thawing in threatened execution. The United States has built a broad hours of this statement,” one of his ongoing” about possible action. national in Algeria claimed by a relations, Britain said in June that it Algerian military planes were coalition of more than 50 nations to kidnappers says in the video, threat- In the meantime, Cameron and group linked to IS jihadists which planned to reopen its embassy in combing the mountainous eastern fight the IS organisation, after the ening to kill him otherwise. other Western leaders are working says it will kill him unless Paris Tehran as IS militants gained Tizi Ouzou region backed by elite anti- jihadists seized large parts of Syria Gourdel lives in the southern city on building cooperation in the desists. ground, calling Iran “an important terrorist troops in a desperate bid to and Iraq and committed widespread of Nice and works as a mountain region, including from Iran, a strong Cameron has pledged to seek country in a volatile region”. find 55-year-old Herve Pierre Gourdel, atrocities including beheadings and guide. He arrived in Algeria on backer of the Syrian government. the approval of Britain’s parliament But the mission, which was a security source said. crucifixions. Saturday and was seized a day later French President Francois before joining air strikes on the closed in 2011 after being stormed The kidnapping was claimed by On Friday, France conducted its while hiking with Algerian friends. Hollande was also set to meet jihadists, unless there is a com- by a mob, has yet to reopen. — AFP Jund al-Khilifa (Soldiers of the first air strikes in Iraq. “These strikes, The 55-year-old is a passionate Caliphate), a group linked to Islamic this engagement will of course con- photographer who has travelled State jihadists who vowed to kill the tinue,” promised Valls. The country widely to countries such as Morocco, hostage by Tuesday night if Paris did “cannot be scared of those who Jordan and Nepal. not stop air strikes in Iraq. threaten it in this way,” he said, but “I have always wanted to capture The French government confirmed added: “I want to convince our com- these incredible landscapes. It was in as authentic a video posted by the patriots ... that we have never been up the Moroccan Atlas mountains that I group showing the white-haired and against such a threat, in France and in began to progress. I wanted to bring bespectacled hostage squatting on Europe.” back images of the people who lived the ground flanked by two hooded However while the United States there,” he explains on his professional men clutching Kalashnikov assault launched strikes against the Islamic site. Gourdel’s 82-year-old mother rifles. State jihadists in Syria, France has said told the Express newspaper the kid- However Paris refused to be cowed it will not do so. Paris had however napping was “an ordeal for us.” She by the threat against Gourdel and been prepared to strike military tar- last heard from her son on Sunday. Prime Minister Manuel Valls insisted gets in Syria after an August 2013 “Everything was fine, he said he was the country would press on with air sarin attack, before the US backed off going for a two-day hike and that it strikes alongside the United States. after the regime agreed to turn over would be hard to reach him,” she Valls told French radio there would its chemical arsenal. said. Several French citizens have be “no discussion, no negotiation and “In Iraq, we are taking part in the been targeted by kidnappers in the we will never give in to blackmail. aerial operation. In Syria we are help- Sahel in recent years, the base of Al- Even if we are of course very worried ing the opposition. That is our posi- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or after the authentication of this video.” tion and it has not changed,” Foreign AQIM. “If we give in, if we retreat an inch, Minister Laurent Fabius said in New AQIM is currently holding anoth- we will be handing them victory,” Valls York on Monday. er French citizen, Serge Lazarevic told Europe 1 radio while on a visit to who was kidnapped in November Germany. 24 hour ultimatum 2011. Experts say the group has col- In a YouTube video posted on lected over $120 million in ransom Strikes ‘will continue’ Monday night-Jund al-Khilifa, which payments in the previous eight The video surfaced shortly after IS has pledged allegiance to IS-threat- years. — AFP Ukraine rebels pullback under new peace deal DONETSK: Pro-Russian rebels said yes- has killed around 3,000 people and sent after several rounds of talks with terday they were withdrawing guns and East-West tensions soaring. Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who tanks from the frontline in eastern However, AFP journalists said the air- is blamed by Kiev and the West for Ukraine under a peace plan forged with port in Donetsk, a key battleground in fomenting the rebellion by sending in Kiev that aims to end five months of the conflict, was hit by heavy artillery elite troops and heavy weapons. conflict. yesterday morning, sending flames and The war “cannot be won by military AFP correspondents said they saw large clouds of black smoke shooting means alone,” Poroshenko said Sunday, tanks moving back from an area east of into the sky. while warning that Ukraine would the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk, Donetsk city hall said a civilian was defend itself with renewed vigour although fighting was reported around killed overnight, bringing to 40 the should the truce collapse. the city’s airport. number of Ukrainian troops and civil- Kiev signed up to the deal after the “We have withdrawn artillery but ians killed since an initial September 5 rebels-apparently with Russian backing- only in those areas where the Ukrainian truce that was also signed in the swept across the southeast of Ukraine, regular units have done the same,” said Belarussian capital. delivering a series of battlefield defeats the prime minister of the self-pro- “Not everything’s clear with the to government. claimed Donetsk People’s Republic, ceasefire,” Zakharchenko said. “Firing Ukrainian lawmakers earlier this Alexander Zakharchenko. from the Ukrainian side is still going on month offered the rebels temporary “Where Ukraine hasn’t withdrawn as before. I would call this a slow-mov- self-rule but the Minsk deal puts on the artillery, we haven’t done so,” he told the ing military operation.” back burner all issues concerning claims Interfax news agency. Ukraine had said Ukrainian President Petro by the separatist regions for full inde- Monday it was starting a pullback under Poroshenko agreed to the peace plan pendence.—AFP the terms of the deal signed in Minsk on Saturday that calls for both sides to withdraw from the frontline and estab- lish a 30-kilometre (20-mile) wide demil- itarised zone. A rebel commander who identifed himself as “Krest” near the town of Komunar east of Donetsk told AFP the last of his tanks had left the frontline. “We received the order to pull back and we are respecting it even if were are not certain the Ukrainian army will do the same.”

‘Slow-moving operation’ Across the flashpoint industrial regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, the level of violence appears to have sub- KIEV: An employee repaires an armoured vehicle at an armor repair plant sided after five months of warfare that yesterday in Zhytomyr, some 150kms west of Kiev. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Chinese and Indian troops in Himalayan standoff

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Hundreds of Defence said the two sides’ understand- each other, he added. order to monitor the border situation, a the official Xinhua news agency said on Indian and Chinese troops have dug into ing of the line of the border was not the The alleged incursion by Chinese government official in New Delhi said. Monday. positions on a high Himalayan plateau, same. troops into territory claimed by India Military commanders from both sides Xi’s comments were widely reported leading India’s army chief to cancel a for- “The two countries’ border, to this dominated a visit by Chinese President were due to hold a meeting in the bor- in Indian media and came days after a eign trip and monitor a standoff that day, has not been designated,” the min- Xi Jinping last week, overshadowing his der area today, another official said, in a speech in New Delhi in which he said underscores deep differences between istry said in a faxed statement, adding pledges to invest $20 billion over five fourth such gathering to try and resolve China was not a warlike nation. the Asian giants as they seek closer ties. that the Chinese military respected pacts years and a bid to warm personal ties the dispute. During Xi’s visit Modi urged an early Military officials in New Delhi and signed by both countries. with new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi has promised to take a tougher border settlement with China. Both sides Kashmir said yesterday that Chinese “Both sides, if problems occur in the After a summit between Modi and Xi stance in India’s border dispute with have held 17 rounds of border talks since troops set up a camp about 3 km (2 border area, can reach an appropriate on Friday, the soldiers pulled back from a China, joining other Asian nations, the early 1990s, with little progress. miles) into territory claimed by India in resolution through dialogue and consul- face-to-face confrontation to take up including Japan and the Philippines, Small incursions are common across the Chumar region of the Ladakh tation.” India has deployed about 1,500 more distant positions. which have pushed back against Beijing. the Line of Actual Control between the plateau more than a week ago. troops in the Chumar area and there are China must be combat ready to win a nations, the de facto border that runs Indian soldiers have set up their own about 800 Chinese soldiers, an Indian Trip cancelled “regional war” and the armed forces some 4,000 km (2,500 miles) across the base nearby and have been told not to government official said. The two sides India’s army chief, General Dalbir must make sure they hew to decisions by Himalayas, but it is rare for either country back down, the officials said. Asked are not in an eyeball-to-eyeball con- Singh, cancelled a three-day visit to the central leadership, Chinese President to set up camp deep within disputed ter- about the standoff, China’s Ministry of frontation and are well separated from neighbouring Bhutan on Monday in Xi Jinping told senior military leaders, ritory. — Reuters White tiger kills youth at New Delhi zoo

NEW DELHI: A white tiger yesterday to have been “under the influence of screams,” Himanshu, who only gave attacked and killed a youth who alcohol”. “The security had tried to one name, told CNN-IBN news chan- appeared to have jumped or fallen keep him away from the enclosure but nel. “We saw some kids throwing in into its enclosure at a zoo in the Indian he somehow managed to jump in and small sticks and stones inside the tiger capital, witnesses said. the white tiger who was present at the enclosure.” “Then we saw that a white The tiger grabbed the youth by the enclosure leapt on to him,” junior offi- tiger had caught a boy by his neck and neck after he entered the enclosure at cial Rohit Kumar told AFP. he was writhing badly in pain. “He kept the New Delhi zoo as onlookers “This is the first time such an inci- suffering for the next 10-15 minutes screamed and threw sticks and stones dent has occurred in this enclosure.” but nobody helped him.” Himanshu to try to save him, they said. Photos posted online of the attack said the railing of the tiger enclosure “The boy seems to have leapt over show the tiger standing over the vic- was “very low” and speculated that the the railing into the tiger enclosure. It tim, who was lying on the grass curled victim may have fallen in. “I called the police, the police came very quickly, but the guy couldn’t be saved, he died.” The victim’s body was lying in a corner of the enclosure, drapped in a white sheet, while the tiger had been removed, an AFP reporter said. The enclosure is separated from vis- itors by a concrete ditch, with shrubs on the other side of the ditch followed by a two-foot-high (61-centimetre) railing. Another witness said the tiger kept “roaming around” the enclosure, holding the victim by the neck. “The tiger first caught his neck and HONG KONG: Students get identified by police outside the Chief Executive headquarters in Hong Kong yester- then left him before coming back day. Thousands of Hong Kong students began a week-long boycott of classes, kicking off what democracy again and taking him to the other side activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against Beijing’s refusal to grant the city full uni- (of the enclosure) by his neck,” Bitto, versal suffrage. — AFP who only gave one name, told TV net- works. The zoo has three white tigers, NEW DELHI: In this handout photograph received from the Delhi Police at although only one of them is let out Scuffles as HK students the scene of the incident, an Indian schoolboy is confronted by a white into the enclosure daily for visitors to tiger inside its enclosure at the Delhi Zoo in New Delhi yesterday. A white see, a zoo official said. tiger attacked and killed a schoolboy who appeared to have jumped or fall- White tigers are found in southern escalate democracy strike en into its enclosure at the zoo in the Indian capital, witnesses said. — AFP and eastern Asia, particularly India, and owe their appearance to a reces- was a white tiger that attacked,” New into a ball and trying to protect his sive gene. They are regarded as an Protest marks the start of campaign of civil disobedience Delhi zoo manager Riaz Khan told AFP. head with his hands. endangered species. HONG KONG: Hong Kong students mobbed the city’s movements, and we’re here to continue that tradition,” she “We are trying to find out who this India is home to 1,706 Royal Bengal leader yesterday in angry scenes as they took their anti- said, huddled with others under the shade of trees and boy was and why he did what he did. ‘Nobody helped him’ tigers and fewer than 100 white tigers, Beijing strike to government headquarters, where more tents. The students are heartened by past successes, The police are here and they are inves- A witness said he raced to the according to the last census in 2011. than 1,000 protested against China’s refusal to grant full including the government’s 2012 climbdown on a plan to tigating.” Accounts varied of the vic- enclosure after hearing screams, to see All the white tigers are in captivity. democracy. implement patriotism classes which was abandoned in the tim’s age, with some witnesses saying the victim locked in the tiger’s jaws, Rampant poaching and loss of habitat Organisers said 13,000 university students massed at a face of mass protests outside government headquarters. he was in his mid-teens while others “writhing badly in pain”. due to human encroachment are cited campus in the north of the semi-autonomous city on “Someone needs to take the lead in showing the gov- saying he appeared to be in his 20s. “Around 1.30 pm, when we were in as the major challenges to tiger con- Monday to launch a week-long boycott of classes, a strong ernment they’re wrong, and this time it’s up to the stu- One official said he also appeared the reptiles area, we heard very loud servation efforts. —AFP showing that breathed new life into the democracy cam- dents,” said 19-year-old theatre student Ryan Lo. “We paign which had been stunned by Beijing’s hardline stance. oppose the Chinese government trying to limit the free- Activists say the student protest marks the start of a doms Hong Kong people deserve.” campaign of civil disobedience against China’s plan to vet Organisers said 4,000 people attended Tuesday’s day- nominees for the leadership of the former British colony, time activities outside the government headquarters, dashing hopes for full universal suffrage at 2017 polls. which are set to last until Friday, with numbers expected to About a dozen students rushed towards Hong Kong’s ebb and flow throughout the week. leader, chief executive Leung Chun-ying, yesterday when Chinese political dissidents including Beijing-based Hu he emerged from government headquarters after holding Jia called on the international community to take action to a press conference. Leung was hustled away while security prevent a repeat of the bloody crackdown on the student- officials forced the students back, escorting them from the led Tiananmen Square protests. “As widespread demon- grounds as dozens of journalists joined the melee. strations grow against Beijing’s violation of its promise to “This is a warning. Your actions have already severely allow universal suffrage, there is a danger the infamous disrupted order here,” police said over loudspeakers, while 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square could be repeated in in response protesters chanted: “Hong Kong belongs to us!” Hong Kong,” they said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Leung told the press conference that authorities had “paid Journal. close attention to the demands for the election in 2017 by “The United States and the international community the university students” and that Beijing’s proposals were share the responsibility to prevent another murderous an improvement on the current state of democracy in massacre,” they said. Hong Kong, whose leader is currently appointed by a pro- A coalition of pro-democracy groups, led by Occupy government panel. Central, have labelled the election restrictions a “fake “You can see that he has no intention of having a dia- democracy” and have vowed a series of actions including a logue with the students,” said Alex Chow, chairman of the blockade of the Central financial district.—AFP Hong Kong Federation of Students and one of the activists who challenged Leung. Chow threatened an escalation of the protest action if Leung refuses to speak with the stu- dents within 48 hours. PESHAWAR: Pakistani security officials and rescue workers gather at the site of bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday. A Pakistani police official says a roadside bomb has targeted a Pakistani army vehicle, killing several Dissidents warn of and wounded more than a dozen people in a northwestern city. — AP ‘second Tiananmen’ The park outside the Hong Kong government’s Tamar headquarters took on a carnival atmosphere as protesters Suicide bomber targets trickled in under the summer sun, to attend a programme including lectures on the lawns. “The government officials, the legislators, they can look out their window and see us calling for true democracy,” army in Pakistan, kills 5 20-year-old political science student Ester Wong told AFP. “This park has a lot of significance in Hong Kong protest PESHAWAR: A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a convoy of security forces in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing five people and wounding 29 others, police said.In another development, the military said it carried out airstrikes against militant hideouts near the Afghan border, killing 19 insurgents. The bombing in Peshawar took place as the deputy commander of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Brig. Khalid Javed, was driving along a busy road in a convoy, the city’s police chief Ijaz Ahmed said. He said Javed escaped unharmed, but one of the soldiers and four bystanders were killed. “This suicide car bombing in Peshawar seems to be a reaction to the ongoing military oper- ation against Pakistani Taleban and foreign militants in North Waziristan,” he told The Associated Press. He said five people, including a soldier, were killed and 29 people were wounded in the suicide attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes at a time when Pakistani security forces have been carrying out a major operation against the Pakistani Taleban and al-Qaeda in North Waziristan. The long-awaited June 15 operation was launched after militants attacked Pakistan’s one of the busiest airports in the southern city of Karachi. The operation is aimed at targeting those accused of targeting US forces in Afghanistan and attacking civilians and security forces in Pakistan. The Pakistan army continued tar- geting militants near the Afghan border yesterday. Air strikes there targeted militant hideouts in border town of Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan yesterday and killed militants, the military said.—AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Anwar targeted in Malaysia sedition dragnet: Lawyer

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader tion,” Latheefa said. percent of the vote-a historic rebuke for a party opposition. Sodomy is illegal in Muslim-majority Anwar Ibrahim is the latest figure being targeted The sedition probe centres on comments he that has ruled since independence in 1957. Malaysia. in a government crackdown on free speech that allegedly made during a 2011 political speech, The ensuing crackdown is widely viewed as a In the past two weeks, courts have convicted has sparked deep fears for civil liberties and the his People’s Justice Party said, without specifying desperate bid by UMNO to harass the increasing- two student activists of sedition and sentenced rule of law, his lawyer said yesterday. the offending remarks. ly successful opposition. them to prison terms of 10 months and one year. Authorities have opened a sedition investiga- AFP was unable to immediately confirm the The sedition blitz has rapidly accelerated in Groups such as Amnesty International and tion into 67-year-old Anwar, attorney Latheefa claim with police. The government, which has a recent weeks. More than a dozen people have Human Rights Watch have denounced the clam- Koya said. He is to be questioned Friday by history of authoritarian tactics, has stepped up been charged or are under investigation for sedi- pdown as a sustained assault against freedom of authorities, his party added in a statement. its use of the British colonial-era sedition law tion. expression. That would make Anwar-who already is since it lost the popular vote in elections last Political tensions are rising ahead of Anwar’s Malaysian civil-society groups and the legal appealing a highly controversial March sodomy year. The Sedition Act outlaws speech that October 28 appeal against his five-year sodomy community have demanded that the arrests stop conviction that threatens to end his political incites hatred of the government or racial hostili- sentence, amid fears that his jailing could trigger and that Prime Minister Najib Razak honour a career-the highest-profile person snared in a ty, but critics say it is too vague and ripe for anti-government protests. 2011 election promise to repeal the Sedition Act. sedition dragnet that has seen new charges abuse. He has denounced his conviction on charges Sedition convictions bring up to three years emerge on a weekly basis. The ruling United Malays National he sodomised a former male aide which contro- in prison. Najib’s office insists the Sedition Act “Anwar Ibrahim has become the latest target Organisation (UMNO) clung to power in last versially overturned an earlier acquittal-as a gov- will eventually be replaced with new legisla- in the string of people being charged for sedi- year’s polls, but the opposition won nearly 51 ernment-orchestrated bid to decapitate the tion. — AFP India court cracks down on police ‘encounter’ killings

NEW DELHI: India’s top court ruled yester- Exact figures are not available, but day that police killings must be independ- human rights groups say hundreds of peo- ently investigated, seeking to hold the ple have been killed in clandestine offen- force accountable for a high incidence of sives launched by the police and armed extra-judicial killings across the country. forces over the years. A 2009 Human Rights Indian police have long come under fire Watch report quoted an Indian police offi- from human rights groups for so-called cer as saying that almost every so-called “encounter killings”, in which they gun encounter killing was in fact deliberate. down an alleged criminal to sidestep court “In 99.1 percent (of cases), it’s fake... in a procedures and claim the victim fired first. real encounter, the police would also get The Supreme Court said every death at injured,” said the unnamed officer. police hands must now be recorded and Many such cases occur in parts of cen- investigated by an independent agency or tral and eastern India battling a long-run- a police unit not involved in the case. ning Maoist insurgency that has claimed Each death must also be examined by a thousands of lives, and in northern regions magistrate, said the court. Amnesty where secessionist activities are rife. International welcomed the ruling and In one high-profile case in 2005, police called for an end to impunity. “Too often, in the western state of Gujarat gunned investigations into alleged fake encounters down a Muslim man, Sohrabuddin Sheikh. are neither independent nor impartial and They claimed he planned to assassinate the lead to impunity for these crimes,” it said in then-chief minister Narendra Modi, now a statement. The court gave its ruling after India’s prime minister. The state later admit- the People’s Union for Civil Liberties filed a ted in court that police had killed Sheikh in petition asking it to investigate the matter. a staged gunbattle. — AFP SYDNEY: Visitors are seen on the deck of the Australian navy destroyer HMAS Vampire at the Maritime Museum in Sydney yesterday. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Canberra was treating as genuine a call by the Islamic State group for Muslims to indiscriminately kill Australians, issued after anti-terrorism raids foiled an alleged abduction plot. — AFP Australian PM warns jihadists face prison Would-be fighters had their passports canceled CANBERRA: Australia’s prime minister warned and Syria with Islamic State and another al- Attorney General George Brandis said entire yesterday that Australians who fight with the Qaeda offshoot, Jabhat al-Nursa, also known as countries would not be banned, but locations Islamic State group in the Middle East will be the Nusra Front, the prime minister said. He such as the Syrian city of Raqqa, which has “jailed for a very long time” when they return revealed that more than 60 Australian would-be become an Islamic State stronghold, might home under a proposed law that would make it fighters had had their passports canceled on be.The onus would be on an Australian who trav- an offense to simply visit terrorism hot spots secret service advice to prevent them from flying eled to such a no-go zone to prove that the visit abroad. to the Mideast. Dozens of suspected fighters was for an innocuous purpose such as humani- Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government will have already returned to Australia from the bat- tarian work or journalism. introduce the proposed law to Parliament today. tlefields. The government rejects criticisms that the law The legislation is designed to make it easier to Security agencies fear that they now pose a would effectively shift the onus of proof from the prosecute Australian jihadists when they return domestic terrorist threat. Under current legisla- prosecution under the Australian legal system by BEIJING: In this Feb. 4, 2013 photo, Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar of China’s home from Mideast battlefields. tion, fighting with terrorists overseas carries a requiring defendants to prove they are not ter- Uighur minority, gestures as he speaks during an interview at his home in Beijing, “If you fight with a terrorist group, if you seek maximum 20-year prison sentence. But few have rorists. Details of new penalties under the pro- China. A Chinese court yesterday imposed a harsh life sentence on Ilham Tohti, who to return to this country, as far as this government been charged due to the difficulties in gathering posed laws have not yet been released. Abbott championed the country’s Uighur minority, the most severe penalty in a decade for is concerned, you will be arrested, you will be evidence from distant war zones. leaves late yesterday for New York, where he will anyone in China convicted of illegal political speech. — AP prosecuted and you will be jailed for a very long Under the proposed law, an Australian would attend a United Nations Security Council meet- time indeed,” Abbott told Parliament yesterday. be committing a crime by visiting an area that ing on the multi-nation problem of 15,000 for- Life term for China At least 60 Australians were fighting in Iraq the foreign minister has designated off-limits. eign fighters who are in Iraq and Syria. — AP scholar chills Modi to get rock star ethnic dialogue reception in New York BEIJING: A life sentence given to a moderate But many Muslim Uighurs bristle under Chinese scholar yesterday shows the ruling Beijing’s heavy-handed restrictions on their NEW YORK: It is a rock ‘n’ roller’s dream to “sell out Modi wrote Sept. 11 to his 6.5 million followers on Washington was late to warm to Modi. Its Communist Party is cutting off dialogue on religious life and resent the influx of the Han The Garden,” but for a foreign politician to pack Twitter. ambassador to India only met him in February, ethnic tensions and could backfire by radical- majority into their homeland. New York City’s most famous sports and entertain- India’s economy, the third largest in Asia, has when opinion polls already put his nationalists on izing minorities, scholars and analysts said. For years, Ilham Tohti has been speaking ment arena is another thing entirely. struggled to recover from sub-par growth, shack- course for a big election win. A court found economics professor Ilham openly about the problems in his home Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his led by layers of bureaucracy anathema to the dias- Tohti, an ethnic Uighur Muslim, guilty of sep- region. “At present in Xinjiang, the exclusion first trip to New York as leader of the world’s most pora. Modi’s general election triumph in May was DILIGENT DIASPORA aratism and sentenced him to life in prison. It of and discrimination against Uighurs is quite populous democracy, will draw perhaps the largest driven in large part by his entrepreneurial mantra. India’s US diaspora is a highly educated popu- was the most severe penalty in a decade for systematic, with the government leading the crowd ever by a foreign leader on US soil when he On the eve of his US visit, tensions remain lation of nearly 3.2 million, making up about 1 illegal political speech in China and eclipsed way,” he said in an interview with Voice of takes the stage on Sunday in Madison Square between the Washington and New Delhi over percent of the US population, according to lat- the 11-year jail sentence given Nobel Peace America last year, following a deadly attack Garden before a crowd forecast to total more than trade and spying. The 64-year-old former chief est US Census Bureau data. As a group, they are Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on subversion involving Uighurs in the heart of Beijing. 18,000 people. minister of Gujarat was denied a US visa in 2005 more likely to be hooked to the internet than charges. Prosecutors said Ilham Tohti was the ring- Thousands more are expected to pack New over sectarian rioting that killed more than 1,000 their fellow Americans, far more likely to have a “Ilham Tohti’s situation gives scholars like leader of “a criminal gang seeking to split the York’s Times Square to watch his address in Hindi people, mainly Muslims, three years before. Modi, college or professional degree and twice as well me who ... work on the issue great concern country” and “caused severe harm to national on big screens as well as smaller viewing parties who denies wrongdoing, has been exonerated by off with an average household income of more about our safety and academic freedom,” a security and social stability.” His lawyers said around the country and on TV in India. a Supreme Court probe. than $100,000. — Reuters scholar said after yesterday’s sentencing, the scholar’s remarks - on the Internet, in his The Indian diaspora hopes this visit by a leader requesting anonymity because of fear of pun- classrooms or with foreign media - did not who was until recently barred from the United ishment from authorities. advocate separatism and instead sought to States will signify India’s importance not only on Ilham Tohti is seen as a moderate voice resolve the region’s ethnic tensions. these shores but in wider the world too. with ties to both ethnic Uighurs and the Han James Leibold, a scholar of ethnic policies The event is being emceed by prominent mem- Chinese majority. A Communist Party mem- at La Trobe University of Melbourne, said bers of the Indian American community, Nina ber and professor at Beijing’s Minzu Ilham Tohti “made a positive, moderate, and Davuluri, who has just relinquished her crown as University, he ran the website Uighur Online courageous contribution to the ongoing dis- Miss America 2014, and TV journalist Hari that highlighted issues affecting the ethnic cussion on China’s ethnic policy” and his life Sreenivasan. group. sentence is a “real tragedy.” “Indian citizens and diaspora over the world are The sentence of life imprisonment “is a “The sentencing will clearly have a chilling hopeful that this (Modi) administration will cut very disturbing message, as the door to dia- effect on other minority scholars, especially bureaucracy and focus on people,” said Dr. Dinesh logue is closed because this scholar promot- those within the Uighur and Tibetan commu- Patel, chief of arthroscopic surgery at ed dialogue between the Uighurs and the nities, whose voices and opinions are clearly Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who Chinese intellectuals,” said Willy Lam, a politi- crucial to fixing some of the problems with arrived in the United States more than 50 years cal analyst at the City University of Hong China’s ethnic policies and creating an envi- ago. Patel, who says he was given an award for Kong. “Beijing’s message is that they do not ronment more conducive to interethnic har- work in education by Modi, a fellow Gujarati, look to dialogue with the Uighurs but sup- mony,” Leibold said. added: “People are passionate to see the new pression.” The verdict drew international condemna- leader. Another Narendra is coming to this country China says it faces grave terror threats, tion. The European Union called the life sen- to let the USA know what India is about.” particularly in Xinjiang, the ancestral home of tence “completely unjustified,” and Amnesty The first Narendra was Swami Vivekananda, a Uighurs. Riots in 2009 in the regional capital International said the decision was “shameful” 19th-century philosopher and monk who propa- of Urumqi killed nearly 200 people, according and “an affront to justice.” gated the Hindu faith in the United States. Modi to the government, and violence over the Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang often cites a speech by Vivekananda, born past year and a half has left more than 300 regional government, has defended the Narendra Nath Datta, to the Parliament of people dead, nearly half shot by police in a Communist Party’s ethnic policies, calling Religions in Chicago in 1893, as a source of inspira- strike-hard campaign by the government to them earlier this year “the best in the world.” tion. KOH TAO: Thai policemen conduct DNA tests on staff from two beachside bars as part of the fight what it calls terrorist cells. “Some people are always pointing their “Let us remember the words of Swami investigation on the murder of two British tourists on the southern resort island of Koh Tao Beijing has blamed the unrest on foreign- fingers at China’s ethnic policy. They must Vivekananda and dedicate ourselves to furthering yesterday. The battered bodies of British holidaymakers David Miller, 24, and Hannah influenced terrorists seeking a separate state. have ulterior motives,” he said. — AP the cause of unity, brotherhood and world peace,” Witheridge, 23 were found on the island of Koh Tao on September 15. — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In this photo taken on Sept 20, 2014, a wind-gnarled tree, lit by a flashlight, is photographed along the Scenic Point Trail inGlacier National Park, Montana. — AP

US, Arab allies bomb IS militants in Syria Oppn rejects revocation of citizenships

Continued from Page 1 hostage captured in Algeria. Continued from Page 1 also reiterated its calls for the government to halt its In a sign of how Islamic State’s rise has blurred conflict crackdown on opponents, release political prisoners facilities, storage sites, a finance centre, trucks and lines, the Syrian government said Washington had Al-Youm Ahmad Jabr Al-Shemmari was “null and and remove any curbs on freedom of expression. The armed vehicles, CENTCOM said. “I can tell you that last informed it hours before the strikes in a letter from viod” and against the law. group called on the government to take effective meas- night’s strikes were only the beginning,” Rear Admiral John Secretary of State John Kerry sent through his Iraqi coun- Saadoun told the press conference that based on the ures to fight against rife corruption in the country. Kirby, a US Defence Department spokesman, told terpart. The Pentagon said the US Ambassador to the documents he had seen, revoking the citizenship of In a related development, Saadoun denied reports reporters. The overnight attacks had been “very successful”, United Nations, Samantha Power, had informed Syria’s Barghash, his children and brothers is illegal because all indicating that a national reconciliation to bring the he said, but gave few details and would not discuss casual- envoy in advance but there had been no coordination and his papers and documents are genuine. He also said opposition back into the political process was immi- ties. no communication between the two countries’ armed that the withdrawal of Shemmari’s citizenship is illegal nent, saying that “all the talk about national reconcilia- Washington also said US forces had acted alone to forces. because he is a Kuwaiti by birth and according to the tion is untrue and the government should reconcile its launch eight strikes in another area of Syria on the The Syrian foreign ministry refrained from criticising the law, his citizenship cannot be withdrawn. The govern- policies with the constitution”. Saadoun also said that Khorasan Group, which US officials have described in US-led action. State media reported that a senior Iraqi ment has also revoked the citizenship of 10 other peo- the opposition will organize gatherings and meetings in recent days as posing a threat similar to that from Islamic envoy briefed Assad on the next steps and the Syrian ple, mostly Islamist activists including popular cleric the near future and these will be extremely important State. A US official briefed on intelligence confirmed leader said he supported any international effort to fight Nabil Al-Awadhi and based on media reports, the for the future of the country. Former MP Adel Al-Damkhi reports that the group is led by Muhsin Al-Fadhli, a Kuwaiti terrorism. Only a year ago Washington was on the verge of Cabinet is expected to revoke the citizenship of others. also told the press conference that the decisions to who spent time in Iran and has long been identified as a bombing the Syrian government over the use of chemical The group also reiterated its previous calls for com- revoke citizenship of a number of Kuwaitis breached a significant Al-Qaeda player. US officials said they did not weapons, before Obama cancelled the strikes at the last prehensive democratic and political reforms as the only number of international treaties and agreements that know whether he was killed in the American airstrikes. minute. Tightly-controlled Syrian state TV interviewed an solution to the ongoing political crisis in the country. It Kuwait has ratified. Briefing reporters at the Pentagon, Lt Gen William analyst who said the air strikes did not amount to an act of Mayville, who directs operations for the Joint Chiefs of aggression because the government had been notified. Staff, said the Khorasan Group was nearing “the execution “This does not mean we are part of the joint operations phase of an attack either in Europe or the homeland”. The room, and we are not part of the alliance. But there is a Khorasan Group, which consists of Al-Qaeda veterans who common enemy,” said the analyst, Ali Al-Ahmad. fought in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is focused on attack- Syria’s closest ally, Iran, responded cautiously. President ing the West, not the government of Assad, Mayville said. Hassan Rouhani said in New York that without a UN man- “We know that the Khorasan Group has attempted to date or a request from the government of the affected recruit Westerners to serve as operatives or to infiltrate state, military strikes “don’t have any legal standing”. back into their homelands,” he said. “The Khorasan Group is However, he neither condemned nor endorsed the action. clearly not focused on either the Assad regime or the Residents of the city of Raqqa, Islamic State’s de facto capi- Syrian people. They are establishing roots in Syria in order tal in eastern Syria, said by telephone that people were to advance attacks against the West and the homeland.” fleeing for the countryside after the bombs fell overnight. Mayville added that it was too early to describe the effects Islamic State vowed revenge against the United States. of the strikes against Khorasan Group targets, or say who “These attacks will be answered,” a fighter told Reuters by may have been killed. Skype from Syria, blaming Saudi Arabia’s ruling family for The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which moni- allowing the strikes to take place. The Sunni fighters, who tors the war in Syria, said at least 70 Islamic State fighters have proclaimed a caliphate ruling over all Muslims, shook were killed in strikes that hit at least 50 targets in the the Middle East by sweeping through northern Iraq in provinces of Raqqa, Deir al-Zor and Hasakah. It said at least June. They alarmed the West in recent weeks by killing two 50 fighters and eight civilians were killed in strikes target- US journalists and a British aid worker, raising fears that ing Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, in northern they could attack Western countries. Aleppo and Idlib provinces. The Observatory said most of The presence of Arab allies in the attacks was crucial the Nusra Front fighters killed were not Syrians. for the credibility of the American-led campaign. With The air attacks fulfil Obama’s pledge to strike in Syria the backing of Jordan and the Gulf monarchies, against Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim group that has seized Washington has the support of Sunni states hostile to swathes of Syria and Iraq, slaughtering prisoners and Assad. None of Washington’s traditional Western allies ordering Shiites and non-Muslims to convert or die. It has so far joined the campaign in Syria. Britain, which remains to be seen how effective air strikes can be against joined the United States in war in Iraq and Afghanistan Islamic State in Syria, where Washington lacks a strong ally last decade, said it was still considering its options. to fight the group on the ground. The militants vowed France has struck Islamic State in Iraq but not in Syria, cit- KUWAIT: Members of the opposition meet at the diwaniya of veteran politician Ahmad Al-Saadoun (second reprisals, and an allied group is threatening to kill a French ing legal constraints. — Agencies right) yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Steven R Hurst

s world leaders gather at the UN, the US and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt Athe savage advance of the Islamic State group, to end the raging Ebola epidemic and to make progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran. That’s likely just fine with Vladimir Putin, since these issues distract from Russia’s presence in neighboring Ukraine. While attention focuses elsewhere, the Russians are consolidating their annexa- tion of the Crimean Peninsula. They are also deeply involved in turmoil in Ukraine’s east and south, hoping to prevent the country from moving out of the Kremlin’s orbit. Europe and the United States insist the independent nation must be free to choose its own course. Russia is already enraged over NATO’s having brought Would US have right of hot pursuit in Syria? former Soviet satellite nations in Eastern Europe and some Baltic nations, once Soviet republics, into the alliance over the past two decades. The Kremlin insists it was promised, By Stephen Braun self-defense, which includes the right to use necessary and sea. The 1958 Geneva Convention codified authorities’ right to after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, that that would proportionate force to address armed attacks that emanate pursue and apprehend ships that have violated a nation’s laws not happen. It’s doing its best to prevent Ukraine from Secretary of State John Kerry told senators last from another nation, if that nation is unwilling or unable to and have escaped from a country’s national waters into inter- making the same move. week that a “right of hot pursuit” could provide a address the threat.” Neither Kerry nor his spokesman identified national waters. Kerry cited that law in 2008 when, as the What’s more, says American University professor Keith USbasis for military forces to move across the border which military forces, Iraqi or American, might rely on such a incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Darden: “Their strategy all along has been to argue that between Iraq and Syria to strike at Islamic State militants. But legal basis. But Kerry’s comments, which came during an Committee, he called for the pursuit of pirates onto land in does Kerry’s legal theory - which has little grounding in inter- exchange last Wednesday with Sen Ben Cardin, closely fol- what they did in Crimea is not abnormal. Intervention in Somalia. The United Nations Security Council later authorized national law - provide firm precedent for Monday night’s mas- lowed a discussion about the role US and Iraqi forces and an sea-to-land pursuit in Somalia. Ukraine is not unusual for great powers. The US has inter- sive US airstrikes in Syria and for future military actions? international coalition would play in countering the Islamic Even without any clear legal grounding for hot pursuit on vened in Latin America consistently. Ukraine, they say, is President Barack Obama has said repeatedly in recent days State threat. Cardin had asked Kerry how the government land, the US has previously done it when officials believe it’s in their sphere of interest.” And given the chaos in other that US troops will advise Iraqi forces but will not be used for should obtain congressional approval for a war that would the national interest. President Woodrow Wilson ordered an areas of the world, says Andrew Weiss, of the Carnegie combat directly against the Islamic State group. During a hear- also “protect us against any lengthy particularly combat expeditionary force of 4,800 troops under Maj Gen John J Endowment, “I can’t say I see the Russian challenges and ing last week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, involvements in these countries in the future.”US forces used Pershing to pursue Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1916 issues as being front and center. Ukraine, to a degree, Kerry said the same, but then unexpectedly explained the hot fighter jets, bombers and Tomahawk missile strikes against into Mexican territory. US soldiers were sent on raids into already has been pushed out of the public eye by the pursuit doctrine, which had not previously been cited by any- Islamic State targets in northern Syria yesterday, Pentagon offi- Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War. Middle East crisis and the Ebola epidemic. I don’t think one in the Obama administration to legally justify any part of a cials said. Officials also said Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, And US forces have struck at Taliban militants in Pakistan Ukraine will have the same centrality.” new war. Jordan and the United Arab Emirates took part in the airstrikes. from positions inside Afghanistan. In March 2007, US Army Lt The Russians will likely raise objections to US threats to “So, Iraq is asking us to help them,” Kerry said. “And as a Even recognizing that nations have repeatedly invoked their Gen Douglas Lute acknowledged that American troops had bomb Syria to take out Islamic State group fighters and matter of right, if they’re being attacked from outside their self-interest in striking at opposing forces across borders, legal crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan to attack retreating facilities. But, since the focus in Syria has shifted from the country, you have a right of hot pursuit. You have a right to be experts said there is no governing legal code that sanctions a Taleban forces. “If they demonstrate hostile intent - so, for counter-revolutionary brutality of President Bashar Assad, able to attack those people who are attacking you as a matter right of hot pursuit on land. example, if just across the border inside Pakistan we have sur- Russia’s obstinate backing for him likely will not come to of self-defense.” veillance systems that detect a Taleban party setting up a rock- the fore. Putin, the Russian president, won’t be in New International law experts said there is a recognized right of Doctrine et system which is obviously pointed west into Afghanistan - York for the UN General Assembly. The Kremlin will be rep- hot pursuit to pursue ships escaping in international waters, Temple University law professor and international law we do not have to wait for the rockets to be fired,” Lute said at resented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who, Weiss but there is no clear global legal authority that would allow authority Peter J Spiro said the hot-pursuit doctrine is well- a congressional hearing. “They have demonstrated hostile says, will be on the defensive and unpersuasive as he one nation to violate another nation’s border to apprehend an established in criminal law, used to justify US law enforcement intent and we can engage them, and by the way, we have.” As opposing force on land. Even without that precedent, numer- argues that “Russia is behaving in a normal way in pursuit of an armed fugitive across a border or state lines. But a Swift Boat commander during the Vietnam War, Kerry prac- ous nations have repeatedly taken action across borders - that doctrine is “contested when it comes to the use of military ticed a version of hot pursuit on his own, beaching his boat to Ukraine.” But Russia’s actions in Ukraine aren’t likely to take including raids by US troops in recent years pursuing militants force,” he said. Spiro added that “without some justification or pursue Vietcong guerrillas firing from land. In one incident, center stage at the world gathering. from Afghanistan into Pakistan. UN National Security Council authorization, any use of force Kerry shot and killed a Vietcong armed with a weapon and was While the United States has delivered aid to Ukraine, A State Department spokesman, Jeff Rathke, elaborating will comprise a violation of Syrian sovereignty.” later awarded the Silver Star - even though his superiors had the White House has so far refused to send lethal military on Kerry’s comments last week, said Kerry “was referring to There is clearer authority when it comes to pursuit on the ordered boat commanders not to risk combat on land.— AP equipment that would beef up Kiev’s forces in the battle against eastern rebels who are fighting to break away and join Russia. Moscow, no doubt, is happy about Washington’s military restraint in Ukraine, but is feeling New jihad appeal makes policing harder the effects of heavy sanctions levied against Russia by the United States and the European Union. And it’s no doubt ELAINE GANLEY Lyon, which has a significant Muslim population, envisioned that sons. Americans among them include a nurse’s aide who converted heard the rumblings in Washington of serious divisions in possibility as soon as the Islamic State group’s order went public. to Islam, a community college student with a Palestinian dad and the White House over increased lethal aid to Kiev. he Islamic State group’s call on Muslims to go after the “filthy Kamal Kabtane, along with two other Muslim leaders, said Monday Italian-American mom - not people who would necessarily elicit French” and other Westerners multiplies already deep security the appeal risks creating an “anti-Muslim tsunami” and hands suspicion. Propaganda Tconcerns in nations targeting the militant organization. The ammunition to those who “cast doubt on the loyalty of Muslim citi- France has already seen homegrown extremists take up arms So far, Putin has voiced determination not to be divert- appeal made public Monday makes intelligence tracking of poten- zens regarding (French) values and democracy.” close to home. A Frenchman, Mehdi Nemmouche, is the chief sus- ed from his course in Ukraine regardless of Western tial suspects virtually impossible and opens up Muslims in the West French Muslim leaders recently called for the nation’s imams to pect in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Brussels in May that actions. He has also been able to use the punitive meas- to the possibility of being unfairly put under suspicion or stigma- use their pulpits against the Islamic State group, which has con- killed four people. And in 2012, Frenchman Mohamed Merah, who ures in a propaganda drive to build support at home - cre- tized. Nations are honing mechanisms to monitor Westerners who quered wide territory in Syria and Iraq, where it was born under had trained on the Afghan-Pakistani border, killed seven people, ating anger against the US and Europe as a distraction head to Syria and Iraq to fight in the jihad, the better to catch them another name in murderous advances and displays of brutality like including three Jewish children, three paratroopers and a rabbi in from the pain his citizens absorb from the economic sanc- when they return home with deadly skills. But how do you track videotaped executions of two American journalists and a British aid separate attacks in Toulouse. More recently, Merah’s sister is tions. Beyond that, key Putin advisers are promoting his someone who reads the Islamic State group’s call in a newspaper or worker. Magnus Ranstorp, a specialist on asymmetric threats at the believed to have travelled to Syria. Her husband was detained yes- desires to protect and perhaps reabsorb regions with pre- on a mainstream website, and then carries out a spontaneous Swedish National Defense College, said that returnees and sympa- terday along with two others at Paris’ Orly airport upon return from dominantly Russian speakers. attack? thizers would listen up most closely to the new appeal for Muslim the region, a French security official said. Experts in terrorism agreed that the options to counter-act the They are not only in Ukraine’s east but in former support, and warned of a contagion effect. “If there are instances Claude Moniquet, a former agent of France’s DGSE counter- call on all Muslims to kill are virtually nil, beyond bolstering security like that it’s the momentum that matters,” Ranstorp said. “If you intelligence unit and now head of Brussels-based European republics like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - the Baltic forces’ visibility - thus allowing them to act quickly if need be. “We have an incident here and an incident there, you’ve got a problem. Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, said the appeal could nations on Russia’s northwest border. U.S. President are not waging a war between east and west, or Christianity and People imitate, people copy.” also speak to people who suffer from emotional instability. Barack Obama recently visited the region and promised Islam,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday. The French The UN Security Council is expected to adopt a binding resolu- Moniquet pointed to a young French convert to Islam who that NATO would indeed fight to protect those new government says what it calls the “butchers” of the Islamic State tion this week that would require nations to bar their citizens from attacked a soldier outside Paris days after a British soldier was alliance members if attacked by Russia. group don’t represent Islam. But Valls acknowledged that France is traveling abroad to join extremist organizations. But it doesn’t hacked to death last year in London by suspected Islamist extrem- “It is a miscalculation because Russia is far stronger, facing an unprecedented challenge from “the enemy within”. “We address what to do with radicals who stay at home but espouse the ists. Psychological tests showed the Frenchman suffered from a and the West far weaker, than many imagine,” writes Putin have compatriots who could strike us,” he said on Europe-1 radio. Islamic State group’s goals. And officials in the Obama administra- range of emotional problems. “It’s too large a problem to be foreign policy adviser Sergey Karaganov. “The West that On Friday, France became the first country to join the U.S. in car- tion, which has championed the measure, acknowledge that it has answered by intelligence services alone,” Moniquet said. “It’s a call Russia now faces is not the self-confident alliance that rying out airstrikes in Iraq. France, with the largest Muslim popula- no enforcement mechanism. Even before this week’s new threat, for a kind of non-organized jihad: ‘You can kill anyone ... and God proclaimed itself victor of the cold war. tion in Western Europe, an estimated 5 million, also counts the Westerners have pursued or aided jihad in Syria for a range of rea- will help.’” — AP It is a directionless gaggle, beset with economic inse- highest number of citizens and residents who have turned to jihad curities and losing sight of its moral convictions. America in Syria and Iraq - more than 900 people travelling or planning to and its allies once held the future in their hands, but at the go. France has increased security around places of worship, airports beginning of this Asian century they have let it slip and “symbolic” sites after the first airstrikes. through their fingers. Their crowning accomplishment A French citizen captured Sunday evening in Algeria by a break- was globalization - and they are destroying it with eco- away Al-Qaeda affiliate was the first victim of the new threat. A nomic sanctions they incoherently describe as instru- masked man crouching with the hostage in an authenticated video ments of self-defense.” threatened his death if France doesn’t end airstrikes on Iraq within That is a message that plays well with Putin and the 24 hours. The group, Soldiers of the Caliphate, said the kidnapping was a response to the Islamic State group’s call. The sweeping Russian people. There is a latent xenophobia and funda- appeal in an audio statement implored Muslims to “not let this bat- mental distrust of the West abroad in the sprawling coun- tle pass you by, wherever you may be”. try, where Putin grows more and more popular as he The statement, issued by group spokesman Abu Muhammad stands up to Washington and its European allies. — AP Al-Adnani, asked Muslims to use all means to kill a “disbelieving American or European - especially the spiteful and filthy French - or an Australian or a Canadian” or any disbeliever and others whose countries have joined to try to disable and destroy the Islamic State All articles appearing on these group. pages are the personal opinion of Matthew Henman of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center the writers. Kuwait Times takes no said, “When you have people traveling out to Syria to fight, there are mechanisms in place that make it easy for security forces to responsibility for views expressed track and survey those people ... when they return from the conflict therein. Kuwait Times invites read- zone”. But “all someone has to do is read a newspaper” reporting ers to voice their opinions. Please the threat and be inspired, he added. “It’s extremely difficult for security forces to predict and intercept that because there’s almost send submissions via email to: opin- no intelligence.” [email protected] or via snail Collateral Damage mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Muslims in the West could become the collateral damage, stig- The editor reserves the right to edit matized as potential extremists, as they have in the US and Europe A paratrooper patrols under the Eiffel Tower yesterday in Paris, a day after the radical Islamic State group called any submission as necessary. after attacks of the past. But this time they could fall under suspi- on Muslims to kill citizens of countries taking part in the US-led coalition against the jihadists, which includes cion even if nothing happens. The rector of the Grand Mosque in France. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 SPORTS

Santos to coach Portugal India, Pakistan hockey clash RFL charge Leeds chief LISBON: Fernando Santos is taking over as Portugal coach, despite his INCHEON: India warmed up for their Asian Games field hockey clash against arch- LONDON: The Rugby Football League (RFL) yesterday charged Leeds chief execu- eight-game international ban for misconduct at the World Cup. rivals Pakistan by thrashing Oman 7-0 yesterday as South Korea nudged ahead of tive Gary Hetherington with improper conduct for criticising its investigation into The former Greece coach replaces Paulo Benton, who quit two weeks Japan in the race for the semi-finals. alleged homophobic comments by his club’s full-back Zak Hardaker. ago after a run of poor results, the Portuguese Football Federation said in India, seeking their first Asiad gold medal since 1998, converted five penalty “Leeds Rhinos chief executive Gary Hetherington has been charged with a brief statement on its website yesterday. corners and a penalty stroke in the one-sided pool B game, but several scoring improper conduct for questioning the motivation and integrity of an RFL investi- The 59-year-old Portuguese will be presented at a news conference on opportunities were wasted. India and Pakistan face-off tomorrow in the competi- gation into an incident in his club’s First Utility Super League fixture against St Wednesday, the statement said, but gave no further information. tion’s marquee match that could determine the pool leader. Both teams have won Helens, played on Friday, August 29,” the RFL said in a statement. “Mr Hetherington FIFA banned Santos in August for verbally abusing match officials in their first two games in the 10-nation tournament. is charged with a breach of operational rules ... by engaging in conduct which is Brazil while coaching Greece. Santos is appealing that ban, with a ruling India beat Sri Lanka 8-0 in their opener, while Pakistan showed their prowess prejudicial to the interests of the game.” Hetherington, 57, will appear before an expected this week. Santos, who was due to leave the Greece job after with a 2-0 win over China and a 14-0 rout of Sri Lanka. independent tribunal on October 1. He had accused the RFL of mounting the tournament, was banished from the dugout after extra time of a sec- “There is always room for improvement, but we will be well-prepared for a “witch-hunt” against Hardaker. The RFL announced last week that it ond-round match against Costa Rica, which finished 1-1. His team then Pakistan,” said India’s Australian coach Terry Walsh. “I am confident we will do well.” was dropping the investigation into Hardaker’s comments due to a lack lost the penalty shootout. Santos needs to rally a Portugal Two teams from each pool qualify for the semi-finals. Hosts South Korea, the high- of evidence. Speaking at the time, Hetherington said: “We are con- team that disappointed at the World Cup, where it went est ranked Asian team at number eight and four-time champions, took a step cerned there appears to be a witch-hunt by the RFL towards Zak home after the first round, and then lost 1-0 to Albania towards the last four from pool A with a 4-0 demolition of Japan. Veteran Jang Hardaker and we are calling for an external investigation into the this month in its opening European Championship quali- Jong-Hyun scored off a penalty corner and a penalty stroke as the Koreans swept issues surrounding the investigation.” Formerly a player with fier. Portugal’s next match in its campaign is against past the lacklustre Japanese with two goals each in the first and third quarters. Castleford, Leeds, York and Huddersfield, Hetherington has Denmark on Oct. 14. Santos has built a reputation for res- South Korea beat Singapore 12-0 in the first game, to join Malaysia at the top of presided over the most successful period in Leeds’ history cuing troubled teams. He took over a Greece that the pool with six points each. Japan, left with one win from two games, must since taking charge in 1996. The Yorkshire club have recorded was in the doldrums after the 2012 World Cup, defeat Singapore and Malaysia in their remaining matches to stay in the hunt for a six Grand Final victories and become world club champions and racked up an unbeaten run in his first 15 semi-final berth. In other matches, Bangladesh beat Singapore 2-1 in pool A and three times in the last decade, while last month they ended a months on the job. —AP China blanked Sri Lanka 6-0 in pool B. — AFP 15-year wait to win the Challenge Cup. — AFP Royals blank Indians

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Happ won for the first time in four starts W L PCT GB Washington 91 64 .587 - and the Blue Jays dealt a blow to Seattle’s wild card Baltimore 93 63 .596 - Atlanta 76 80 .487 15.5 hopes, routing the Mariners. NY Yankees 81 75 .519 12 NY Mets 76 80 .487 15.5 Bautista went 3 for 3 with a walk and drove in Toronto 79 77 .506 14 Miami 74 81 .477 17 two runs before getting the rest of the night off. His Tampa Bay 75 81 .481 18 Philadelphia 71 85 .455 20.5 solo homer in the fifth against Mariners reliever Tom Boston 68 88 .436 25 Wilhelmsen was his 35th. Kevin Pillar hit a two-run Central Division Central Division St. Louis 88 69 .561 - homer and Anthony Gose added a solo blast as the Detroit 86 70 .551 - Pittsburgh 85 71 .545 2.5 Blue Jays handed Seattle its third straight defeat. Kansas City 85 71 .545 1 Milwaukee 80 76 .513 7.5 Happ (10-11) allowed an RBI double by Robinson Cleveland 82 75 .522 4.5 Cano in the first, and Kyle Seager’s solo homer in Chicago White Sox72 84 .462 14 Cincinnati 72 84 .462 15.5 the sixth. Seattle’s James Paxton (6-4) gave up a Minnesota 66 90 .423 20 Chicago Cubs 69 88 .439 19 career-high nine runs, walked a career-high six and Western Division Western Division matched a career-high by giving up seven hits in 2 LA Dodgers 89 68 .567 - 2-3 innings, his shortest career start. LA Angels 96 61 .611 - Oakland 86 70 .551 9.5 San Francisco 85 71 .545 3.5 WHITE SOX 2, TIGERS 0 Seattle 83 73 .532 12.5 San Diego 75 81 .481 13.5 Chris Bassitt pitched into the eighth inning for Houston 69 88 .439 27 Colorado 65 92 .414 24 his first major league win, and the White Sox slowed Texas 63 93 .404 32.5 Arizona 63 94 .401 26 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 SPORTS When losing hurts worse than winning

GLENEAGLES: Jim Furyk is the only player in the Furyk offered a sound piece of reality for whoev- “The high of winning comes and goes,” Mahan and the pressure was even greater as a captain’s last 25 years to experience both ends of emotion in er winds up in that position Sunday at Gleneagles. said. “You win, it’s great, you move on. But you pick who didn’t win a point all week. He tries to that moment the Ryder Cup is over. He knows how “Losing hurts worse than winning feels good,” he remember your losses. You remember the bad shots think back to that 10-foot par putt he made on the empty it feels to lose the decisive game. And he has said. Losing is lonely in the Ryder Cup. Americans more than the good ones. The Ryder Cup has a 18th hole that swung all the pressure over to Martin been soaked in a celebration of champagne. Oddly know that all too well. “You feel like you’re stranded longer effect. When you lose, it’s hard to stop and Kaymer. The most vivid memory is Kaymer making enough, both happened in the same match. in the ocean,” Hunter Mahan said. Mahan was lost in move on to the next thing. his 6-foot par putt to clinch another victory for It was in 2002 when Paul McGinley made an 8- a sea of Europeans just four years ago at Celtic “I remember winning in ‘08. It was great. It felt Europe. “Unfortunately, someone has to make the foot par putt for a half-point against Furyk that won Manor. He never imagined the Ryder Cup would awesome,” he said. “But losing lingers.” Bernhard last out,” Stricker said. “You end up playing the game the Ryder Cup. Pandemonium broke out on the come down to the 12th and final singles match Langer showed the strength of his mind when he of what-ifs and what-could-have-been.” 18th green at The Belfry. European captain Sam because it happens so rarely. He was down one hole missed a 6-foot putt at Kiawah Island in 1991 in the Stricker said he talked with Tiger Woods about Torrance was close to tears. McGinley was mobbed to Graeme McDowell, needing to square the match final match that allowed the United States to win. In coping with the loss. Woods didn’t win a match that by his teammates. for the Americans to retain the cup. That’s when one of golf’s great bounce backs, Langer won the week, either. Furyk, Phil Mickelson and Webb “I’m trying to go over and shake hands,” Furyk McDowell hit 6-iron to 15 feet and made the birdie following week in the German Masters. Simpson all gave up late leads. But it stuck with said. “Sam Torrance had a bottle of champagne in to go 2 up with two holes to play. It’s one thing for players to lose as individuals. Stricker, who said he was struggling to accept the his hand and he was spraying everyone. He had his Too much is made of Mahan flubbing a chip Losing the decisive match in the Ryder Cup brings loss two months later. back turned to me. He saw someone come up from short of the green on the 17th because he probably an element of guilt. There are 28 points available “Even as a kid in baseball, your team is losing 7-3, behind and he turned and sprayed me - and then would have had to hole the chip to have any over three days, and all anyone remembers is the two outs in the bottom of the ninth. You don’t want he realized it was me. He immediately put the bot- chance. But it made losing feel worse, and that one point that is the difference between losing and to be the guy who ends the game,” Furyk said. “And tle down and said, ‘Oh my god, Jimmy, I’m so sorry.’ I much was clear when Mahan broke down trying to winning. that’s how the Ryder Cup is. It just (stinks) to be in said, ‘Sam, look, it’s OK. You all deserve to celebrate. talk about it. “I took it hard,” Furyk said. “I was upset by the fact that spot.” But he wouldn’t mind another opportuni- I know it was an accident. You all have a good time Mahan played a vital role in the American win at it was my point. When I look back, we had 28 points ty, even if the pain of losing can be just as great as tonight.’” Furyk eventually got his day. Valhalla in 2008 by making a 70-foot birdie putt on to be won. I know it was my fault. No one on the the glory of winning. Six years later, he defeated Miguel Angel the 17th hole in singles, which secured a half-point team is thinking that. No one in the media is think- “It’s cool to be in that position. How many guys Jimenez on the 17th hole at Valhalla that clinched at a time when his team badly needed it. He was ing that. No one is thinking that - except the person get that chance?” Furyk said. “When you do some- victory for the Americans. The winning putt was looked upon as a scapegoat two years later. And in that position. It wasn’t Hunter’s fault. But he’s thing good, it’s a boost of confidence. When you do conceded, so the celebration wasn’t as sponta- while it’s unfair to say it was his fault, he just hap- going to feel bad because you’re stuck in that spot.” something not so good, I promise you learn a hell of neous, though it felt just as good. pened to be in the last match. Steve Stricker was in that spot two years ago, a lot from it.” — AP Bears ground Jets

EAST RUTHERFORD: Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears needed to claw back from a big deficit last week. On Monday night, they had to hang on against the New York Jets. “It was quite a game,” Bears coach Marc Trestman said after a 27-19 vic- tory that wasn’t sealed until the final moments. Even after spotting the Bears a 14-0 lead with early mistakes, the Jets had one last opportunity to tie, getting into Bears territory on Geno Smith’s 51-yard pass to Greg Salas. But Jeremy Kerley came down out of bounds in the back of the end zone after making a leaping grab of Smith’s desperation fourth-down heave from the Bears 9. Cutler then took a knee three times to seal the victory for the Bears (2-1). “We just have to ride this momentum,” Cutler said. Last weekend, the Bears rallied from a 17-point deficit to beat the 49ers in Green Bay. They never trailed in this one, but they had a hard time putting away the Bradley Wiggins rides in this file photo. Jets (1-2). “It’s not so much that teams are beating us,” Jets linebacker Demario Davis said. “We’re beat- Wiggins aims to ing ourselves, and you can’t do that in this league.” New York was coming off a disappoint- ing 31-24 loss at Green Bay in which it blew an dethrone Martin 18-point lead. Smith was 26 of 43 for 316 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions - and Jay Cutler in action in this file photo. nearly had a few others in this one. Kerley fin- become a major factor in the Bears’ offense. his right ankle, but returned in the second half. PONFERRADA: Olympic champion Bradley This year he hasn’t managed quite so ished with seven catches for 81 yards, and He leads the team with 20 catches and is tied Wiggins is confident he can dethrone much success but he did win one at the almost came up with a diving grab off a tipped with Marshall with four TDs - and came in with a UPSET WITH REFS: After an ill-timed timeout reigning three-time titlist Tony Martin Tour of California, which helped him to pass in the end zone on the final drive. little extra motivation. call last week, the Jets took issue with two more when the world championship timetrial overall success. “There were some plays you wish you could “I felt a little disrespected,” Bennett said, incidents involving referees. A video review takes place in Ponferrada on Wednesday. And Wiggins rode like a beast in have back,” Jets coach Rex Ryan said. The Jets adding that he watched a video in which Ryan reversed a call late in the half on which the Jets Twice in the last three years, Wiggins has Sunday’s team timetrial event in also scored just one touchdown in six trips into praised the Bears receivers and referred to him might have taken the lead. Cutler was sacked by finished runner-up to Martin at the world Pontferrada for Sky. The British outfit had the red zone. simply as “a big dude.” David Harris and lost the ball, but was declared timetrial event, with those defeats coming lost two of their six man team before the Cutler threw two touchdown passes to down by contact. A review showed Cutler had either side of the Briton’s victory over the halfway mark while both Kanstantsin Martellus Bennett and Ryan Mundy returned an INJURIES: The Jets lost wide receiver Eric fumbled, but Davis’ return to the end zone was German at his home Games in London. And Siutsou and Dario Cataldo were struggling interception 45 yards for a score. Cutler finished Decker in the first half to a hamstring injury; he negated because the whistle had blown. “It having been chastened by the time gap and missing turns at the front, yet they 23 of 38 for 225 yards and Alshon Jeffery caught was questionable for the game with tightness in could’ve been a game-changing play, but the Martin put into him last year, Wiggins missed out on a medal by just two seconds. eight passes for 105 yards for the Bears, who got the hamstring. Decker said he pulled himself out referee blew the whistle,” Harris said. believes he’s in a better position to chal- And it was Martin’s Omega-Pharma Quick- a 45-yard field goal from Robbie Gould to make when he couldn’t get it loosened up. “What can you do? What else is new? It seems lenge the German this time around, partic- Step team that denied them. it an eight-point game with 3:10 remaining. Defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson like we’re playing against two teams out there ularly after his timetrial success at the Tour Yet given the power in their line-up- Here are some other things to know from the also left with an injured right knee, but Ryan did- sometimes.” The Jets were also unhappy with a of Britain earlier this month. which included Paris-Roubaix winner Niki Bears’ victory over the Jets: “This year’s course probably suits me a Terpstra and former world champion Tom n’t think it was serious. Bears fullback Tony pass interference call on Darrin Walls that helped Fiammetta injured a hamstring and safety Chris set up the Bears’ second touchdown. “I thought I little bit better than it did against Tony last Boonen-and the fact they finished with five QUICK START: The Bears wasted no time get- Conte hurt his left shoulder. Neither returned. had perfect coverage,” Walls said. “If anything, I year, and there’s also an element of the riders, the gap was surprisingly close. ting on the scoreboard. On New York’s second Marshall left in the second quarter after injuring thought it was offensive pass interference.”— AP unknown with where he’s at right now,” Martin certainly wasn’t happy with his play from scrimmage, Smith didn’t see Mundy said the 2012 Tour de France winner. showing or his form. “It’s always a nice test lurking in the flat as he floated a screen pass to “Tony’s been so dominant all year and this for your condition, for data and for the Chris Johnson. Mundy stepped in front of the race will be about whether he’s sustained individual timetrial,” said Martin after the toss and ran it back for a touchdown. NFL standings that form. He won the time trial at the team event, which is competed by profes- After the Jets stopped the Bears on three Vuelta but he didn’t look as convincing sional teams rather than national unions, plays on their first offensive series, rookie Jalen American Football Conference National Football Conference there as he did at the Tour. like the rest of the world championships. Saunders dropped Patrick O’Donnell’s punt at AFC East NFC East “It’s one of those things though, it’s so “My feeling was OK but I’m still not 100 per- his 40 and it was recovered by the Bears’ Ahmad W L T OTLPF PA PCT Philadelphia 3 0 0 0 101 78 1.000 unknown. I thought I’d be closer to him last cent. I still have to analyse now with the Dixon. Cutler threw deep down the right sideline Buffalo 2 1 0 0 62 52 .667 Dallas 2 1 0 0 77 69 .667 year but he put 42 seconds into me, so you team and trainer how to prepare the next to Jeffery one play later, and cornerback Darrin New England 2 1 0 0 66 49 .667 NY Giants 1 2 0 0 58 77 .333 can’t predict what other riders are going to days: if I should take it a little easy or train a Walls was called for pass interference to put the Miami 1 2 0 0 5 83 .333 Washington 1 2 0 0 81 64 .333 do.” Last year, Martin actually beat Wiggins bit harder.” Regardless of what condition ball at the Jets 7. NY Jets 1 2 0 0 62 72 .333 NFC North by 46sec, although that was 30sec less than Martin is in, Wiggins says he is right on Three plays later, Cutler rolled right and AFC North Detroit 2 1 0 0 61 45 .667 the incredible gap the German achieved in form. found Bennett in the back of the end zone to Cincinnati 3 0 0 0 80 33 1.000 Chicago 2 1 0 1 75 62 .667 2011. “I feel with the form I’m in, I should be in make it 14-0 - and get the MetLife Stadium Baltimore 2 1 0 0 65 50 .667 Minnesota 1 2 0 0 50 56 .333 As Wiggins said, Martin has been peer- the ball park, and we’ll see where we are on crowd booing. Pittsburgh 2 1 0 0 73 72 .667 Green Bay 1 2 0 0 54 79 .333 less this year in timetrials, winning one the day. “In the back of your mind you build Cleveland 1 2 0 0 74 77 .333 each at the Tour and Vuelta as well as a yourself up mentally and I’m telling myself GENO WATCH: The calls for Michael Vick AFC South NFC South number of others, including two at the Tour there is a chance I could win it.” It won’t just might start to intensify - even though it’s just Houston 2 1 0 0 64 50 .667 Carolina 2 1 0 0 63 58 .667 de Suisse and one each at the Tour of the be about those two, though, with three games into the season. Smith passed for Indianapolis 1 2 0 0 95 78 .333 Atlanta 2 1 0 0 103 72 .667 Basque Country and Tour of Belgium, not American Tejay Van Garderen, Wiggins’s Sky the second-most yards of his career, but he’s got Tennessee 1 2 0 0 43 69 .333 New Orleans 1 2 0 1 78 72 .333 to mention his national championships. teammate Vasil Kiriyenka of Belarus, and five turnovers in three games. “I’ve got to do a Jacksonville 0 3 0 0 44 119 0 Tampa Bay 0 3 0 0 45 95 0 However, Wiggins has beaten Martin Canadian Svein Tuft all in the mix. better job to give us a chance to win games,” AFC West NFC West several times in races against the clock, The men’s race will be run over 47.1km, Smith said. Denver 2 1 0 1 75 67 .667 Arizona 3 0 0 0 66 45 1.000 particularly in his golden year of 2012 more than 10km shorter than last year’s. San Diego 2 1 0 0 69 49 .667 Seattle 2 1 0 0 83 66 .667 when he triumphed in timetrials at the Tour The women’s event is a 29.5km timetrial UNDERRATED BENNETT?: While most of the Kansas City 1 2 0 0 61 65 .333 San Francisco 1 2 0 0 62 68 .333 (two), Criterium du Dauphine, Paris-Nice with Dutch reigning champion Ellen van attention is on Chicago’s big wide receivers in Oakland 0 3 0 0 37 65 0 St. Louis 1 2 0 0 56 85 .333 and Tour de Romandie. Dijk the favorite. — AFP Jeffery and Brandon Marshall, Bennett has also Lisa clinches women’s world time-trial gold

PONFERRADA: German Lisa Brennauer pro- rential downpour that also affected New duced a stunning ride to win the women’s Zealand’s Linda Villumsen, last year’s runner- world time-trial title in Ponferrada, north- up, who could only manage ninth. western Spain, yesterday. Solovey’s silver medal ensured a dramatic The 26-year-old, junior world champion in return to form for the 22-year-old who came 2005, beat Anna Solovey of Ukraine by 18sec back from a two-year doping suspension a with American Evelyn Stevens another 3sec year ago. Before that she had won back-to- further back. And she admitted it was an back junior time-trial titles in 2009 and 2010. unexpected success. Stevens, the runner-up two years ago, “For me, it couldn’t have been any better so made up for the disappointment of finishing I’m very happy right now,” she said. “I’m still fourth last year, missing out to teammate surprised right now, I can’t believe it. The Carmen Small by just four hundredths of a world championships have their own rules; second. sometimes there are people who you don’t Earlier in the day, another German took see the whole year who only prepare for this gold as Lennard Kamna won the junior men’s one race so they’re not on your plan. “I’m very event, also held over 29.5km. happy and overwhelmed, it needs time for it His winning time of 36min 13.49sec was to sink in.” Last year’s champion Ellen van Dijk more than two-and-a-half minutes quicker finished a disappointing seventh, more than a than his compatriot’s. American Adrien Costa minute off the pace on the 29.5km course. was second, nearly 45sec behind, with But the Dutchwoman, who was last to ride, Michael Storer of Australia third, almost a SPAIN: Germany’s Lisa Brennauercompetes in the women’s time trial at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in Ponferrada. — AFP was hampered in the closing stages by a tor- minute slower. —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 SPORTS FIFA ethics judge Photo of the day hesitates on hosting of WCup

GENEVA: For Qatar or Russia to be potentially be involved in legal cases aris- stripped of the World Cup, a key person in ing from the Garcia-Eckert probe. Eckert the legal chain needs to make use of the refused to say if sanctions were likely powers available to him. against some officials involved in the con- Events of recent days, however, suggest test, such as voting members of the FIFA FIFA’s independent ethics judge Joachim board or staffers from the nine bidding Eckert will interpret the rules more cau- candidates from 11 countries. However, tiously and have added to the pessimism Garcia’s initial investigative reports sug- of critics who want the 2018 and 2022 gested “conclusions concerning further World Cup hosting awards overturned. action with respect to certain individuals,” Eckert is a middle man in the process - according to a FIFA news release this between Michael Garcia, the ethics prose- month. Eckert said he expects to finish cutor who must provide the evidence, and reading these reports within weeks. Further FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who heads the drafts and evidence-gathering can be 27-member executive committee and ordered before formal cases are opened, Congress of 209 national associations. possibly in November. Defendants and It may fall to Eckert - in the toughness of charges are unlikely to be identified then, his verdicts and language of his final report and Eckert has suggested the first verdicts - to raise public pressure on FIFA to take the could follow in the European spring next highest-risk, highest-reward options in a year. By playing down expectations, the case that will define the reputation of foot- German judge was supported by some ball’s world governing body. established sports lawyers. “That is not our job,” Eckert said at FIFA One who has worked in past FIFA cases last Friday, when giving his most detailed agreed that Eckert could only target indi- insight yet on the investigation. “We will viduals, and not collective bodies such as not make any recommendations.” an executive committee or bidding team. Alex Sorgente performs at the Vans Bondi Bowl-A-Rama at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on February 22, 2014. —www.redbullcon- Ever since a 22-man FIFA executive com- Eckert does not have the powers of “a tentpool.com mittee chose Russia and Qatar in December super-president or a super-ExCo” to change 2010, critics have sought reasons to justify decisions, the lawyer suggested. change. Their hope has been sustained by Asked if Russia or Qatar could lose host- reports and allegations calling into ques- ing rights, the lawyer said: “Personally, I tion Qatar’s fitness to host the world’s doubt that.” “The assumption that some- Serena follows seeds favorite sporting event: Voting collusion, thing is wrong was so strong,” said Luis bribery, rights of slave labor and gay fans, Moreno Ocampo, a prosecutor from extreme heat and disruption to European Argentina who was blocked for the FIFA club football have all been raised as rea- position in 2012 by the executive commit- out of Wuhan Open sons to remove the tournament. tee, when Garcia was appointed. The wait for a definitive independent A majority of the 2018-2022 voters were probe into the contests has been peppered also on the FIFA board that chose Germany CHINA: World number one Serena Williams with resignations of FIFA executive com- ahead of a South Africa bid supported by added her name to the list of slain seeds at the mittee members implicated in other cases Nelson Mandela to be 2006 World Cup Wuhan Open yesterday after the American was of unethical behavior. host, and then took South Africa ahead of forced to retire from her second round match The integrity of FIFA’s ruling board has Morocco for 2010. Both votes were dogged against France’s Alize Cornet because of illness. been lacking so often that it added to an by rumors, intrigue and - in the case of The top seed, playing her first match since impression something must have been Morocco - verbal evidence of bribes paid winning her 18th grand slam singles title at the wrong when those now-discredited men that was presented to the Court of U.S. Open earlier this month, broke Cornet to were power brokers. Arbitration for Sport. lead 6-5 in the first set when she called for the For those critics of FIFA, last Friday must A majority of the FIFA board who took doctor to come on court at the change over. have been difficult.Still, Eckert has more part in those World Cup votes were still in Williams sat solemnly, head down with a tow- authority than he admits to, according to office in December 2010, when the Qatar el around her neck and a thermometer in her some sports lawyers who talked to The vote was taken. mouth during the examination before making Associated Press about the blockbuster Most have since left, and could refuse the quick decision against continuing. case. Eckert suggested last Friday he is lim- Garcia’s request for cooperation. Mohamed The 32-year-old also had her blood pressure ited by FIFA rules to only judge individuals bin Hammam, Jack Warner, Ricardo Teixeira checked and walked slowly off court with the using evidence provided by ethics prosecu- and Nicolas Leoz all resigned while under help of the trainer, with reports saying she went tor Michael Garcia, the American lawyer investigation in other cases. to hospital for further tests. leading the investigation. “90 percent of the big guys have gone,” She had shown flashes of her usual brilliance It is, according to Eckert, for the FIFA noted one senior sports lawyer to the AP but looked shy of full fitness throughout her executive board or the congress of 209 about Eckert’s limited sanctioning powers. hour of activity on the centre court, with the member associations to decide if the inde- However, with some reform-minding lengthy 11th game, which included several pendent ethics committee’s work justifies newcomers at the FIFA board table perhaps deuces, proving particularly taxing as she leant voting again on which country should host the 27 current members could push for a on her racquet between points. the competition. Not necessarily so, some high-risk, high-reward strategy of a re- Her exit only added to the headache for CHINA: Alize Cornet of France hits a return during her women’s singles match against Serena experienced sports lawyers told the AP in vote? Unlikely, the sports lawyers suggest- organisers of the inaugural $2.4 million hard recent interviews. ed. A breach of contract case brought by Williams of the US at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament. — AFP court event, where top names tumbled in early tournament. One German who did make it highest seed standing at the tournament at “What is the point of an ethics commis- the Russian and Qatari organizing commit- action after the city’s tennis trailblazer Li Na sion if it can’t take the biggest political tees would likely go through civil courts, through was seventh seed Angelique Kerber, third, had a relatively easy outing in the day’s announced her retirement from the game last who also needed three sets to beat Kazakh qual- last singles match. The Czech world number decisions?” said one lawyer who has been not CAS, and embroil FIFA in lengthy, costly week. Former world number one and 10th seed involved in FIFA cases.”According to the actions with the clock ticking ahead to the ifier Zarina Diyas 4-6 6-2 6-4. three brushed past Italian qualifier Karin Knapp Jelena Jankovic was also forced to quit her sec- Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, the 6-3 6-0 in just over an hour. — Reuters rules it is possible,” said another, suggesting 2018 kick off. “Those are the practical con- ond round match yesterday in the first set while that FIFA’s ethics committee can take “any siderations,” said one lawyer. Another sim- trailing American CoCo Vandeweghe 4-1. kinds of decisions.” The lawyers spoke on ply doubted if FIFA had the will for a fight The Serb, suffering a back injury, joined 10 condition of anonymity because they could like that. —AP other seeds in failing to make the last 16. They Matosevic upsets Kyrgios included Romanian world number two Simona Halep, who was beaten by an aggressive display KUALA LUMPUR: Austrlian Marinko move into the second round where he will Afridi among 12 fined from Garbine Muguruza to kick-off a second day Matosevic produced the first upset in the face Japan’s Go Soeda. Matosevic, whose last of upsets in China. Malaysian Open yesterday when he downed match was against Roger Federer in the US The Spanish 20-year-old smashed 34 winners eighth-seeded compatriot Nick Kyrgios 7-6 Open, was a relieved figure after notching a for being out of shape as she knocked out the second seed 2-6 6-2 6-3 (7/4), 7-6 (7/3) in just over 90 minutes. morale-boosting win against the home and set up a third-round meeting with Ukrainian Matosevic, 29, who had never played Kyrgios crowd favorite. “This is my first match in over LAHORE: Pakistan cricket authorities yes- including Test and one-day captain Elina Svitolina, who battled back from a 5-0 first before, found his 19-year-old rival’s hard-hit- a month since I last played Federer. I am cer- terday fined 12 players, including star all- Misbah-ul Haq. set deficit to edge Germany’s Sabine Lisicki 7- ting serve difficult to deal with in the first set, tainly pleased with my performance, espe- rounder Shahid Afridi and batsman Umar “Misbah, Ahmed Shahzad and Bilawal 6(3) 6-3. Italian 11th seed Sara Errani was ousted conceding five break points to trail 6-5. cially my serve. I knew it always going to be Akmal, for failing to meet fitness standards. Bhatti will get ten percent bonus while by American Alison Riske 6-4 6-4, while Swiss But he countered with some solid ground- tough to beat Kyrgios who was seeded, but it The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) set Shan Masood and Umar Amin will get 17 qualifier Timea Bacsinszky defeated 13th seed strokes to force the set into a tie-break which worked out well and I’m happy with the win,” tough new fitness guidelines in June, warn- percent bonus of their monthly salaries,” and U.S. Open semi-finalist Ekaterina Makarova he eventually clinched 7-4. Kyrgios, cheered he said. Kyrgios, who had made headlines by ing that failure to stay in shape would lead the spokesman said. of Russia 6-4 6-1. on by the 200-odd crowd because of his becoming the first male debutant in a to players having their salaries docked. The new screening protocol has been Danish eighth seed Caroline Wozniacki, who Malaysian roots, powered back in the second decade to reach the last eight at Wimbledon, A PCB spokesman said the players were divided into five levels, with players facing lost to Williams in the Flushing Meadows final in set to take a 4-2 lead, but Matosevic acknowledged his opponent’s prowess. assessed against the guidelines earlier in 17 different tests to undergo assessment. New York, narrowly avoided joining the exodus remained calm and played the experience “Marinko has certainly improved a lot. I September, and the 12 who failed would “Those who maintained fitness levels are after battling back from a break down in the card by forcing Kyrgios into numerous didn’t play well today and I know that. lose 25 percent of one month’s salary. Azhar Ali, Umar Gul, Ehsan Adil, Junaid third set to edge Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro 6-1 unforced errors. Perhaps I will take some rest after this tourna- “An assessment of 29 players’ fitness was Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Rahat Ali, Adnan 3-6 7-6(4). Wozniacki returned to the centre Matosevic’s powerful and accurate fore- ment,” he said. Seventh seed Pablo Andujar carried out between September 6 and 8, Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Fawad court later in the day to present twice grand hand drives to the baseline caught Kyrgios was also on form as he disposed of and 12 players did not meet the fitness Alam and Anwar Ali,” said the spokesman. slam winner Li with flowers as the Wuhan resi- out on many occasions, enabling him to Frenchman Gregoire Burquier 6-2, 6-4 in a 74- standards,” said the spokesman. Three players-Nasir Jamshed, Wahab Riaz dent received warm applause from the crowd. recover and level the match at 5-5. minute battle. Along with Afridi and Akmal, those fac- and Saeed Ajmal-have not been tested for Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard was This prompted a frustrated Kyrgios to Meanwhile, 2014 US Open junior singles ing fines include Khurram Manzoor, Sarfraz “personal reasons”. another seed pushed all the way in Tuesday’s smash his racquet on the ground which led and doubles champion Omar Jasika was Ahmed, Abdur Rehman, Haris Sohail, All Pakistan players get monthly salaries evening session. The Canadian set up a third to a penalty foul. Sensing his opponent’s agi- tamed by USA’s Rajeev Ram 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. Sohaib Maqsood, Mohammad Irfan, ranging from 425,000 rupees ($4,250 dol- round clash with Riske after edging Germany’s tation, Matosevic, the world number 78, Ram’s reward will be a second round match- Sharjeel Khan, Mohmmad Talha, Raza lars) to 100,000 rupees ($1,000 dollars) Mona Barthel 4-6 6-3 6-4 in her first match of the forced a tie-break before sealing victory to up against Japan’s Kei Nishikori today. —AFP Hassan and Zulfiqar Babar. under central contract categories A, B C and But five others were rewarded with per- D. Afridi is in the A category while Akmal cent bonuses for improving their fitness, gets a B-group salary. — AFP Cook to discover one-day fate

LONDON: England captain Alastair Cook is set to 50-over cricket.Former England off-spinner Graeme find out if he will be skippering the side at next Swann, a friend of Cook’s, was damning in his year’s World Cup when the selectors announce assessment last month. “If he (Cook) truly believes today their squad to play seven one-day interna- England can win this World Cup...I am the greatest tionals in Sri Lanka. If, as seems likely, Cook is con- patriot there is but we do not have a cat in hell’s firmed as skipper for the tour of Sri Lanka, which chance,” Swann said. “I love Cooky totally, but I do takes place in November and December, it is hard not think he should be bothering playing one-day to see how, barring injury, he won’t also lead cricket any more.” England at the one-day World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in February and March. SRI LANKA DILEMMA Much of the speculation in the build-up to the But while England have found a more aggres- squad announcement has focused on whether sive first-wicket partner for Cook in Alex Hales, Cook is the right man to lead England as they go in there is no obvious replacement for the skipper as search of their first World Cup title. an opener, although middle-order batsmen Joe The left-handed opening batsman faced ques- Root and Eoin Morgan have both been suggested tions throughout all of England’s recent home cam- as alternative captains. Alastair Cook paign but answered his Test critics by leading the The England team which managed a consola- Sri Lanka are set to be very different to those they side to a 3-1 series win over India following a tion win over India at Headingley this month is like- encounter in Australia and New Zealand. defeat by Sri Lanka. However, doubts remain about ly to be retained en bloc but the intriguing ques- But they will also be mindful that the last thing his suitability for white-ball cricket following a 3-1 tion surrounds the identity of the other four play- England need before a World Cup is another crush- one-day international series loss to world champi- ers who are set to comprise the rest of a likely 15- ing one-day series reverse-they’ve already lost ons India that included several thumping defeats. man squad. their last five ODI campaigns under Cook. The major criticism of left-handed opener Cook, In the injury-enforced absence of Stuart Broad, All-rounder Ravi Bopara, surprisingly omitted an orthodox Test batsman, as a one-day cricketer is who is nevertheless set to recover in time for the against India, could be included in the Sri Lanka that he scores too slowly at the top of of the order World Cup, the 15 will be competing for the 14 squad could Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid who, in terms of what is now required in modern limited squad places teams are restricted to at the global unlike England’s current specialist slow bowlers, overs internationals. His critics point to an strike tournament. But England’s task will be complicated primarily turns the ball away rather than towards a Shahid Afridi rate of under 80 as proof of Cook’s unsuitability for by the fact conditions in traditionally spin-friendly right-handed batsman. —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 SPORTS Marseille thrash Reims

PARIS: High-flying Marseille picked up gloss. Marseille, who won the last of their their fifth straight victory yesterday as nine French titles in 2010 under Ligue 1 top scorer Andre-Pierre Gignac Deschamps, put the icing on the cake claimed a brace in a 5-0 thrashing of with 16 minutes remaining when Gianelli Reims. Imbula celebrated a rare goal much to Gignac could even afford the luxury of the delight of the travelling faithful. a missed eighth-minute penalty, before “It’s a fair result because we were seri- scoring two first-half goals while Ghana ous and played in the way we wanted international Andre Ayew also struck too,” said Bielsa. “Despite the result, we twice in a one-sided affair at the Stade sacrificed a lot against an opponent who Auguste Delaune. never lost their attitude and didn’t give The win takes Marcelo Bielsa’s in-form up.” “It was a really great match, we were side three points clear at the top of the superiour but also consistent and French table ahead of a busy Wednesday advancing. We attacked well and defend- slate, before Saint-Etienne host Bordeaux ed well and a big result like this will give on Thursday with both teams currently us confidence,” continued the Argentine. tied for second. “It’s very satisfying to get “Of course it’s too early to talk about five wins in a row and we did it in style as the title and we just have to keep going well,” said Gignac, who also scored twice in this way without jumping to conclu- in the 3-0 win over Rennes at the week- sions about the title. We will know that at end. “Obviously it’s been a good day and the end of the season.” he added. now we can look forward to a big match Reims remain on seven points, with against Saint-Etienne on Sunday. “We two wins from seven outings, and lie just want to keep things going and go on to one point above the relegation zone. have a great season.” added Gignac. They will fall into the bottom three if Gignac, who was left out of Didier Bastia draw or win at home to Nantes on Deschamps’ World Cup team that Wednesday or Guingamp draw or win at reached the quarter-finals in Brazil, gave home to Metz. the national coach food for thought as In the only other match yesterday, he took his tally to eight goals in seven eighth-placed Rennes host Toulouse. matches. Defending champions Paris Saint- France are preparing to host Euro Germain are now five points adrift, and 2016 and qualify automatically but have will be without injured striker Zlatan preparation matches against Portugal on Ibrahimovic for their trip to Caen on October 11 before facing Armenia three Wednesday, while fourth-placed Lille days later. travel to fourth-from-bottom Nice. SPAIN: Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo tries to score during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Elche at the Santiago Bernabeu French-born Ayew, who helped Ghana Montpellier, the 2012 champions stadium. — AP finish runners-up to Egypt at the 2010 under current Lille head coach Rene African Championships, put the result Girard, host last season’s runners-up beyond doubt seven minutes after half- Monaco, before tomorrow’s big clash at time, before an audacious back-heeled the between Saint-Etienne and Ronaldo hits four as goal on the hour mark added further Bordeaux. — AFP Real ease past Elche

MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo scored four dominated by Real coach Carlo Ancelotti’s Ronaldo smashed the ball high into the net times as Real Madrid came from behind to decision to hand Navas his debut ahead of to make it 2-1 and was celebrating again four move within three points of La Liga leaders the under fire Iker Casillas in response to his minutes later when he leapt highest to power Barcelona with a 5-1 win over Elche yesterday. side’s defensive troubles so far this season. Marcelo’s cross into the far corner. The Portuguese also scored a hat-trick in However, the Costa Rican was left with no Herrera atoned for his earlier error by beat- Real’s 8-2 thrashing of Deportivo la Coruna on chance when Albacar slammed his penalty ing away a fierce Ronaldo free-kick as he went Saturday and now has 12 goals to his name in into the top corner to give the visitors’ the in search of a second hat-trick in as many just eight appearances this season. lead. Things very nearly got worse for Real games and made an even better stop to deny The Santiago Bernabeu had been briefly moments later as Marcelo was lucky to escape Toni Kroos his first Madrid goal at the end of a stunned as Ronaldo was penalised for a foul with just a yellow card after bringing down lovely move involving Ronaldo and on Pedro Mosquera as he tried to clear inside Garry Rodrigues on the edge of the box and Rodriguez. his own area after 15 minutes and Edu Albacar curled the resultant free-kick inches However, Ronaldo’s 25th hat-trick for the Albacar slammed the spot-kick past debutant wide. Ancelotti’s men were gifted a route back club finally arrived nine minutes from time Keylor Navas in the Madrid goal. into the game on 20 minutes when Bale made when he slammed home another penalty However, the European champions a good contact with James Rodriguez’s cross after he had been clipped inside the area by responded in style as Gareth Bale headed from the right, but Elche ‘keeper Manu Mario Pasalic. home an equaliser before a Ronaldo penalty Herrera should have kept the Welshman’s And there was more to come from the 29- put them in front. Ronaldo then produced a effort out at his near post. Referee Clos Gomez year-old as he raced onto Bale’s brilliant assist towering header to send the hosts in 3-1 up at then balanced up his decision to award Elche to slot home his fourth of the evening. the break before completing his hat-trick with a soft penalty by pointing to the spot despite Victory takes Madrid up to fourth with another penalty and rounding off the scoring there appearing to be no contact between Barcelona in action on Wednesday away to with a cool finish from Bale’s pass in stoppage Mosquera and Marcelo as the Brazilian full- Malaga, whilst champions Atletico Madrid time. The build up to the game had been back tumbled in the box. travel to Almeria. — AFP Bayern back on top

BERLIN: Bayern Munich restored some nor- a loose ball in the box, before Mueller got his Mainz the lead after 41 minutes and Shinji mality to the Bundesliga table yesterday as name on the scoresheet in the 85th minute to Okazaki grabbed his fifth of the season for the the reigning champions eased past surprise see Bayern to 11 points. visitors in the 44th minute. early leaders SC Paderborn 4-0 to take over Hoffenheim missed their chance to keep But Alexander Maier halved the deficit for first place. pace with Munich but Jannik Vestergaard Frankfurt a minute into injury time before Munich also leapfrogged Hoffenheim and scored three minutes into injury time to Seferovic secured the point. Schalke picked Mainz 05 - who both played out draws to slip secure a 3-3 draw at home to SC Freiburg and up their first victory of the season with a dou- two points behind Bayern while Schalke 04 see them move on to nine points. Mike Frantz ble strike early in the second half to beat FRANCE: Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac (right) challenges for the picked up their first victory of the season. scored in the 32nd and 33rd minutes for Werder Bremen 3-0 on the road. ball with Rennes’ French miedfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure, during their League One Munich did not wait long to strike, taking Freiburg. Tarik Elyounoussi pulled back a goal Max Meyer scored in the 48th minute and soccer match. — AP the lead after eight minutes with some fine in the 44th minute and Sebastian Rudy Roman Neustaedter doubled the lead in the passing. Arjen Robben fed Thomas Mueller, equalised for Hoffenheim from a free kick 51st minute for Schalke and Tranquillo who back-heeled to Mario Goetze and the after 63 minutes. Barnetta made it 3-0 in the 85th minute. Liverpool get go-ahead youngster placed his shot perfectly inside the Freiburg went ahead as Vladimir Darida Bayer Leverkusen can jump from fifth to right post to make it 1-0. converted a penalty in the 75th minute. But second today when they host FC Augsburg. for Anfield expansion Munich doubled their advantage in the the Czech international was sent off six min- Borussia Dortmund also play on Wednesday, 14th minute thanks to a powerful strike by utes later, setting up Vestergaard’s heroics. at home against VfB Stuttgart, while Borussia Robert Lewandowski. The champions took Haris Seferovic scored in the 82nd minute Moenchengladbach welcome Hamburg, VfL LONDON: Liverpool have been granted navigate through in order to give us the their foot off the gas but Goetze added his to secure a 2-2 draw for Eintracht Frankfurt at Wolfsburg travel to Hertha Berlin and Hanover permission to redevelop their Anfield certainty that we need to proceed with our second goal in the 78th minute, pouncing on home against Mainz. Jonas Hofmann gave 96 host Cologne. — AFP home by the city’s municipal authorities, expansion plans.” the Premier League club announced yester- Construction work on the main stand is day. Members of Liverpool City Council’s expected to begin early next year and be planning committee voted in favour of the completed in time for the 2016-17 season. scheme after visiting the stadium, which Matches will continue to be played at currently seats 45,276 and has been Anfield while the work is carried out. Liverpool’s home since 1892. The planning committee also approved Liverpool will now be able to proceed outline proposals to expand the Anfield with the first phase of the project the addi- Road stand by adding 4,800 new seats. tion of 8,500 seats to Anfield’s main stand, In its current state, Anfield is dwarfed by taking the ground’s overall capacity to the stadiums of some of Liverpool’s main around 54,000. “Today’s approval by the rivals, such as Manchester United’s Old Planning Committee is another step on our Trafford (75,731 capacity) and Arsenal’s journey which we embarked on nearly two Emirates Stadium (60,338). years ago,” Liverpool’s chief executive offi- As a result, whereas United generated cer Ian Ayre told the club’s website. £127 million ($208 million, 161 million “We received very positive support for euros) in matchday revenue during the our proposals during a public consultation 2013-13 season, Liverpool’s equivalent exercise earlier this year and whilst we are income was £52 million, according to finan- delighted about the progress made today, cial analysts Deloitte’s latest Annual Review there are still some steps that we need to of Football Finance. — AFP

Matches on TV (Local Timings)

Spanish League Italian League Serie A Vallecano v Bilbao 21:00 Inter v Atalanta 21:45 beIN SPORTS 7 HD beIN SPORTS 3 HD Eibar v Villarreal 21:00 beIN SPORTS 9 HD Juventus v Cesena 21:45 Almeria v Madrid 21:00 beIN SPORTS 6 HD beIN SPORTS 2 HD Parma v Roma 21:45 Granada v Levante 23:00 beIN SPORTS 3 HD beIN SPORTS 9 HD Napoli v Palermo 21:45 Sevilla v Sociedad 23:00 beIN SPORTS 10 HD beIN SPORTS 9 HD Malaga v Barcelona 23:00 Sampdoria v Verona 21:45 beIN SPORTS 2 HD beIN SPORTS 7 HD GERMANY: Paderborn’s Christian Strohdiek (left) and Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski from Poland challenge for the ball during the German First Division Bundesliga soccer match. — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 SPORTS Kicking game: It is called football, after all NEW YORK: In the biggest game of the NFL season there.” Sometimes, though, the guys doing the 41-yard field goal the previous day and was just 3 Houston’s visit to the Meadowlands. so far, the winning coach said the game wasn’t booting don’t get off those ridiculously long kicks. for 7 this year after being selected in the seventh Damontre Moore got Shane Lechler’s kick to give decided by superstars Peyton Manning, Marshawn Washington’s Tress Way put his first kickoff at round of the draft. the Giants the ball at the Houston 29. With a short Lynch or Richard Sherman. The MVP, Seattle coach Philadelphia into the front of the end zone, where Usually not as damaging as missed three-point- field, Eli Manning and Daniel Fells then hooked up Pete Carroll said, was punter Jon Ryan. Chris Polk fielded it and took off. Way got a slight ers are short kickoffs. With the ball placed at the 35- for a touchdown. The Giants also had more time to The unsung heroes of special teams took center touch on Polk as he sped by for a 102-yard touch- yard line nowadays, and with weather not much of set up a block attempt because they challenged stage around the NFL Sunday, with crucial field down, the first for an Eagle at the Linc, and the first a factor, coaches expect kickoffs to soar deep into Ryan Fitzpatrick’s run for a first down and won. goals, punts that flipped field position and electrify- by any Philly player since 2008. That made the game or through the end zone. When they don’t, well, “Get a punt blocked, it’s not a formula for suc- ing returns. 7-7 — it finished 37-34 for the Eagles. danger awaits for the defending team, as the cess,” Texans coach Bill O’Brien admitted. Of course, In the Super Bowl rematch between the Broncos “We started the game fast, which was a point of Redskins discovered. Two field goals were blocked most punts are taken from a team’s own territory, and Seahawks, Ryan averaged 50.2 yards per kick emphasis,” said Eagles receiver Jordan Matthews, Sunday: Arizona got a 45-yarder by San Francisco’s and virtually no field goal attempts are. So getting a and had five punts downed inside the Denver 20. who had two touchdown catches. “Chris Polk came Phil Dawson, one of the NFL’s best placekicker for piece of a punt can be more impactful. After the Seahawks allowed a safety when Lynch out and put points up for us. They came out on a more than a decade; and Baltimore’s Asa Jackson Placekickers and punters are so good these days was stopped in the end zone, Ryan’s free-kick punt long drive and scored, so that was huge. It must deflected a 36-yarder by Cleveland’s Billy Cundiff. that weak performances are rare. If they continue — from his 20 was caught by Denver’s Emmanuel have been a bit demoralizing for them to have a big “I thought I hit a really good ball,” said Cundiff, see Freese in Detroit — they quickly lead to unem- Sanders at his 1. Yep, 79 yards. drive and have us come right back and score on the whose miss was particularly critical in a 23-21 loss. ployment because there are so many solid kickers “He had probably the best day of his career, I next kickoff. Chris helped us, calmed us down and “Then I heard the double thump. For a kicker, that’s who are out of work and ready to step in. would think,” Carroll said of Ryan following a 26-20 set us up.” Coaches have little patience for kickers in one thing you do not want to hear.” So maybe the best advice is to emulate Ryan. Or overtime win. “The booming kicks, the great cover- general — unless they perform consistently the way Many blocked field goals, while costing a team Pittsburgh’s Shaun Suisham, who has made a team- age that matched up with it, the gorgeous kick on Ryan has in nine pro seasons. Detroit released rook- points, don’t directly wind up in points for other record 23 straight field goals. Don’t miss and you the safety, it changed that whole opportunity right ie placekicker Nate Freese on Monday. He missed a team. Blocked punts very often do, as occurred in don’t have to worry about your job. — AP Celtic aim to bounce back against Hearts

GLASGOW: Celtic manager Ronny Deila squad,” the Celtic captain said. has backed his side to bounce back from “There are a lot of people who have their disappointing draw with Motherwell been here for a few years and struggled when they take on Hearts in the Scottish when they first came into the squad, League Cup today. including myself. Everyone knows how A poor first half display meant the hard it is to come into it. Hoops had to come from behind to claim a “There are a lot of new faces, so it will 1-1 draw at Celtic Park. The Glasgow giants take a little while to gel together but it’s now go into Wednesday’s clash with Hearts definitely coming as it’s been coming on with just one win in their past seven games the training field, and hopefully we can do while the Jambos sit top of the Scottish that in matches as well. Championship as they bid to bounce “It’s only one bad performance in the straight back up following relegation last last couple of games. We have been getting season. However, Deila says he is confident better and better. It’s a small setback and his side will respond accordingly and get we will definitely kick on.” back to winning ways. “We will be meeting Elsewhere today, Dundee United host a good team at Celtic Park and can bounce Dundee at Tannadice in the second back in just a few days after a bad perform- Dundee derby in just three days. United ance,” the Celtic manager said. brought their city rivals’ unbeaten start to “I’m really looking forward to the game. the season to an emphatic end on Sunday Our dream is to win the Treble. So this cup as they triumphed 4-1 at Dens Park to go is important to us and we are going to go top of the table and will be favourites to with our strongest team in this game.” progress to the quarter-finals. High-flying Club captain Scott Brown believes Celtic Hamilton take on Motherwell at New will soon hit full stride once the new play- Douglas Park in the first Lanarkshire derby ers brought in by Deila adjust to life at the of the season as both sides battle it out for club. The Scottish champions have made a a place in the last eight. Hamilton are stuttering start to the season but midfield- unbeaten in seven matches while er Brown insists progress is being made. Motherwell will take heart from their week- “It’s hard for people coming into this end draw with Motherwell. —AFP Rodgers backs Gerrard amid fears over form

LONDON: Liverpool manager Brendan to prevent Gerrard having the time and Rodgers says he has no concerns about space to launch the raking passes that the form of captain Steven Gerrard after proved so effective in Liverpool’s unex- a series of ineffective displays prompted pected title challenge last season. calls from fans and pundits that it is time “I think the problem that Liverpool ITALY: Milan’s to reconsider his role in the team. have got at the moment, particularly Fernando Torres At 34 years old, Gerrard is entering the with Steven Gerrard dropping into that and Empoli’s period in most players’ careers when talk back three, teams have worked that out,” Lorenzo Tonelli turns to managing dwindling reserves of former England and Manchester United challenge for the energy and protecting tired legs from defender Phil Neville said. ball during an the exertions of the modern game. Yet “Against Aston Villa last week (Gabriel) Italian Serie A there has been no reduction in Gerrard’s Agbonlahor just sat on Gerrard all game, match between workload this season with the midfielder they didn’t let Steven Gerrard dictate the Empoli and AC starting and finishing all of Liverpool’s pace of the game, and that’s what he did Milan. — AP matches in a patchy and inconsistent last season, particularly from Christmas beginning to the campaign. onwards. On Saturday, Stewart Downing While questions are being asked did it for West Ham.” about whether Gerrard, for so long a tal- If Gerrard is no longer providing an ismanic figure at the club, can still be an attacking threat then the spotlight is effective part of Rodgers’s side, the man- increasingly focussed on other areas of Torres scores for Milan ager himself appears not to have any his game including his ability to shut the doubts. door at the other end. “I have no concerns about him - he is a Liverpool conceded 50 goals last sea- ITALY: Fernando Torres scored his first Serie A Empoli looking more likely to go 3-0 up after season-long loan, also made his first start for the brilliant player for us,” Rodgers said, son, more than any other team in the top goal yesterday as a leaky AC Milan battled back Lorenzo Tonelli had headed the home side club but was substituted after half an hour due before hinting that his legs could be five, while they have already shipped from two goals down to draw 2-2 at a feisty ahead in the 13th minute and Manuel Pucciarelli to injury. spared for the bigger games as the sea- eight in their five league games of the Empoli. doubled the score in the 21st. Japan playmaker Empoli ended with 10 men after Mirko son wears on. new campaign. Making his first start after a late appearance Keisuke Honda equalised for Milan with a clinical Valdifiori was sent off in the 86th following two “We want him to be involved in the Three of Liverpool’s starting four at the San Siro on Saturday in a 1-0 defeat to left drilled low shot into the corner in the 58th, yellow cards in the space of two minutes, the Juventus, the former Chelsea striker began the with Torres then substituted with nine minutes second for a heavy challenge on midfielder big games because of his experience and defenders against West Ham were new Milan fightback with a looping 43rd minute remaining. Nigel De Jong. Milan are fourth in Serie A with signings, suggesting they might need we will always taper that recovery to header. Netherlands midfielder Marco van Ginkel, seven points from four games, while Empoli are allow him to be at the very best he can time to gel, but in front of them, Gerrard The Spaniard had been quiet until then, with who followed Torres to Milan from Chelsea on a 18th with two. — Reuters be.” The question fans are asking now, won just 25 percent of his duels, the low- however, is whether Gerrard can still be est figure of anyone in the team. effective in his deep-lying quarter-back The former England captain was quot- role when teams come armed with spoil- ed on Monday saying he would not let Benitez in battle to make er tactics to restrict his creative influence. his career “fizzle out”, but he now faces a Recent defeats against Aston Villa and battle to show he can remain a force in West Ham United have suggested teams one of the most physically demanding will now routinely employ a man-marker leagues in the world. — Reuters up for Napoli shortfall

MILAN: Pressure is mounting on Napoli coach with a chance to regain the league lead. Rafael Benitez ahead of Palermo’s visit to the San Unbeaten Roma have yet to concede a goal Paolo today as the Serie A club continue to reel although Rudi Garcia’s injury list is growing with from early season setbacks. midfielder Daniele De Rossi set to miss the trip to Napoli’s hopes of competing in this season’s Parma with a suspected calf strain. Champions League ended with elimination in the Depending on the results of a scan, De Rossi third qualifying round at the hands of Athletic could also miss upcoming games against Bilbao. Manchester City in the Champions League and After three Serie A games Napoli are six points Juventus. Garcia, meanwhile, has called for Roma behind Roma and Juventus and, with Inter Milan to maintain focus no matter the calibre of their and AC Milan looking stronger this season, seem- opponents. “Having a big squad isn’t enough. We ingly set for an uphill struggle to qualify for need to have a team mentality and to give every- Europe’s premier club competition. thing in every game,” said the Frenchman. Parma Two defeats in three games-a 1-0 home defeat welcome the Giallorossi having claimed their first to Chievo followed by a 1-0 reverse away to win of the season, a 3-2 away defeat of Chievo Udinese-equates to Napoli’s worse start to a season thanks notably to a brace by striker Antonio in five years. Cassano. After the game Italy international Benitez reportedly prompted the ire of club Cassano gave his side the good news that he will president Aurelio De Laurentiis when he travelled now focus fully on club football, adding that the Rafael Benitez to Liverpool to pay a planned visit to family at the methods of new Italy coach Antonio Conte are too strain, but facing Cesena, who have lost 12 of their start of the month. brutal to bare. 14 previous encounters against the Turin giants, at After defeat to Udinese on Sunday, planned “With Conte the Italy squad risks becoming too home is unlikely to trouble the Bianconeri. talks over a contract extension Benitez’s current much like Juventus, when you leave the pitch With Milan in action away to promoted Empoli deal runs out at the end of the season-have been you’re physically destroyed,” said Cassano. on Tuesday, Inter host Atalanta at the San Siro look- put on hold, according to a report in Il Mattino “I play football to enjoy myself, if it has to ing to get back to winning ways after being held 1- newspaper Monday. Napoli will be expected to become a job ...” Juventus, now coached by former 1 by Palermo. Inter had put seven unanswered account for Serie B champions Palermo, where any- Milan handler Massimiliano Allegri, host Cesena on goals past Sassuolo previously but a stuttering per- thing less than a victory would likely plunge the the back of a morale-boosting 1-0 win away to formance in Sicily has left Walter Mazzarri’s men in club into a mini-crisis even ahead of meeting Milan thanks to a second-half strike from Carlos sixth place, four points off the pace. Juventus, Roma, Inter and Milan. Tevez, who is expected to be recalled from the Elsewhere, Fiorentina host Sassuolo looking to Roma sit top thanks to superior goal difference international wilderness by Argentina. grab only their second win of the campaign while on Juventus but face a potentially tricky trip to Allegri could be without defender Martin Torino travel to Cagliari looking for the win that Steven Gerrard Parma while Juve host promoted Cesena in Turin Caceres after the Uruguayan suffered a left thigh could move them off rock bottom. —AFP Serena follows Ronaldo hits seeds out of four as Real ease Wuhan Open past Elche

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INCHEON: Kuwait’s Abdullah Al Muzayen (right) and India’s Saurav Ghosal (left) compete in the men’s individual squash finals at the Yeomurul squash courts during the 2014 Asian Games. (Inset) Al Muzayen bites his gold medal after defeating Saurav Ghosal. — AP Kuwait’s Al-Mezayan wins squash gold Amir congratulates Al-Mezayen

INCHEON: Kuwait’s Abdullah Al Mezayen claimed The Asian Games, which this year combines a performance with some flashes of brilliance. his country’s first gold medal of the Asian Games total 45 nations from across the continent, is con- The 24-year-old world number seven came fly- Medals Table yesterday in the men’s squash singles with a sidered the second largest multi-sport event after ing out of the blocks to take the first game as David remarkable comeback against India’s Saurav the Olympics. struggled to find her rhythm. Ghosal. Trailing by two games in the best-of-five Meanwhile, Malaysia’s world squash number But David stepped up a gear from the second INCHEON: Yesterday’s Asian Games medals table (Gold, silver, bronze, total): encounter, the 26-year-old Kuwaiti turned the one Nicol David declared yesterday she wants four game, dominating the centre of the court and China 40 22 20 82 Hong Kong 1 1 9 11 tables on the world number 16 in a bruising more years at the top of the sport after fighting sending Low scurrying with an array of disguised South Korea 19 19 21 59 India 1 1 9 11 encounter at Incheon’s Yeorumul Squash Courts. back from a game down to claim the Asian Games drop shots and clever angles. Japan 16 22 22 60 Thailand 1 0 5 6 Afterwards Mezayen said he was thrilled to win singles gold. David eventually outclassed her com- The decisive fourth game was a fiercely-contest- Kazakhstan 4 4 10 18 Indonesia 0 3 2 5 the first gold for Kuwait, while a despondent patriot Low Wee Wern 9-11, 11-6, 11-5, 12-10 in the ed affair, culminating in a titanic rally with Low North Korea 3 4 7 14 Macau 0 3 0 3 Ghosal could only pay tribute to his opponent. final, but had to work to regain her Asian Games leading 9-7. With Low on the edge of three game Mongolia 3 3 6 12 Uzbekistan 0 1 6 7 “I didn’t play badly but he put together some title. The 31-year-old, who now has four Asian points and the prospect of a fifth set looming, Malaysia 2 2 2 6 Singapore 0 1 5 6 Turkmenistan 0 1 2 3 very very good periods, some great shots-things Games golds to add to her seven World Open titles, David dug deep to produce a superb winner. Taiwan 2 1 5 8 which other people at that stage wouldn’t think of warned rivals that she felt her game was still The defending champion got the game back to Laos 0 1 1 2 Myanmar 2 0 0 2 Philippines 0 1 1 2 doing,” the Indian told reporters. improving-and she had no plans to hang up her parity before an unforced error from Low gave her Vietnam 1 2 9 12 Mezayen, who admitted thinking all was lost racquet yet. the opening she needed to wrap up the match in Lebanon 0 1 0 1 Iran 1 2 1 4 Iraq 0 0 1 1 after slumping in the second game, eventually won “When I’m feeling this good I don’t want to set- 53 minutes. David praised her opponent. “She’s got Kuwait 1 2 0 3 10-12, 2-11, 14-12, 11-8, 11-9. tle down any time soon, so in another four years or a lot of experience as well coming into this game Pakistan 0 0 1 1 Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir Sheikh so I’ll be playing this game for sure,” she told and she’s not in the final for nothing and I knew it Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent yesterday reporters. “After all these years I’m understanding it was going to be a great battle and it showed today,” And the years have done nothing to dim the that court so that’s what motivates me and that’s a congratulatory cable to Kuwaiti squash player a lot more and it’s even more exciting so every time she said. Low, singles bronze medallist at the smiling David’s enthusiasm for the game. It has what gives me that drive to keep wanting to play Abdullah Al-Mezayen for winning a gold medal for I step on court it’s something new and for me it’s games in Guangzhou, China four years ago, said been 16 years since she won her first Asian Games and wanting to win.” Kuwait at the 17th Asian Games (ASIAD) in Incheon, just a challenge that I love.” she was pleased with her performance despite gold in Bangkok but the thrill of big stage still Despite her enthusiasm David is set to end her South Korea. In the cable, His Highness the Amir Rounding out the podium behind the coming up short. “It was a very good match, the drives her on. career with at least one disappointment after fail- praised Al-Mezayen’s sports achievement, wishing Malaysian one-two were India’s Dipika Pallikal and two of us gave it our all, but Nicol is the world num- “Playing in that show court, the glass court, you ing in her cherished ambition to get the sport him lasting success and progress in attaining fur- Hong Kong’s Annie Au Wing Chi. ber one and seven-time world champion, so it’s work so hard and you want everything to come added to the Olympics. “It’s tough, but what I want ther sports prizes and hoist Kuwait’s name high at Low, facing her idol in a major final for the first obviously very hard to break her down and her together all at once,” she said. to see is a squash player one day being on the regional and international sports events. time, was far from overawed and put in a spirited experience helped her towards the end,” she said. “That buzz-you can’t get it anywhere else but on medal podium at the Olympics,” she said. — AFP Sun shines as first drugs case hits Asiad

INCHEON: Chinese swimming superstar Sun Yang wearing a pair of gold headphones and he kept his Olympic champion Ye Shiwen crushed the com- shooting, wushu, weightlifting, synchronised swim- stormed past his rivals to an emphatic 400 metres cool when Hagino shot out to an early lead. petition in the women’s 400m medley, Ning Zetao ming and gymnastics, where Yao Jinnan won the freestyle win yesterday as the Asian Games was The towering Chinese reeled him in by the won the men’s 50m freestyle and Chen Xinyi won women’s individual all-round title. rocked by its first positive drugs test. halfway mark and powered away over the second the women’s 100m butterfly before China’s women Eighteen-year-old hooting sensation Yang The world and Olympic champion hit back from 200m to take Park’s Asiad crown, as he did in the finished off with 4x200m freestyle gold. Haoran led a sweep of the men’s 10m air rifle event his shock 200m loss to Kosuke Hagino to dominate same event at the 2012 Olympics. China claimed 14 golds on day four across as the world champion claimed the individual title the Japanese and South Korea’s Park Tae-Hwan, after helping China to team gold. Teammate Cao winning comfortably by 1.3 seconds. Yifei picked up the silver, conceding the lead to Sun roared in celebration at the win, among six Yang in the last two shots of a well-contested eight- for China on the night as they finally hit form in the man final. Bronze went to Abhinav Bindra, India’s pool and leapt ahead of Japan 11-7 in the swim- first and only individual Olympic gold medallist ming titles tally. It completed a triumphant day for who has announced he is retreating from full-time Asia’s powerhouse, which has long dominated the shooting. “I have been shooting for the last 20 regional Olympics and has now accumulated 39 years-there is nothing else I have done all these gold medals, more than double the 17 of second- years-and I know it’s time to rethink my future,” placed South Korea. There was controversy else- Bindra said. Another rush of weightlifting records where after it emerged that a footballer from saw Taiwan’s Lin Tzu-chi break two world bests to Tajikistan had become the first athlete at the win the women’s 63kg, while China’s Lin Qingfeng Incheon Games to fail a doping test. “It’s a con- took gold in the men’s 69kg. China’s world and firmed case,” a source told AFP, adding that the as Olympic champion Lyu Xiaojun summoned up a yet unidentified player would be kicked out of tour- glorious final lift, staggering to his haunches but nament. The Central Asian republic are due to play then recovering with sheer determination to clean Iraq in the second round of the men’s football and jerk 200kg and win the men’s 77kg. In squash, tomorrow. The doping case comes after two inci- celebrated women’s world number one Nicol David INCHEON: Gold medalist China’s Yao Jinnan dents of alleged sexual assault at the Games, involv- fought back from a game down against fellow reacts during the awards ceremony after the ing an Iranian football official and a member of the Malaysian Low Wee Wern to successfully defend her artistic gymnastics women’s individual all-round Palestinian team. Sun, who blamed a thumb injury INCHEON: China’s Sun Yang competes in the final for the men’s 400m freestyle event during the title. China took on hosts South Korea in the men’s final at the 2014 Asian Games. — AFP for his 200m loss to Hagino, strolled out for the race 17th Asian Games at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Centre. — AFP team badminton final. — AFP Rival mobile players delay newcomers’ entry to Saudi

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FRANKFURT: Yves Mersch from European Central Bank (ECB) board revealing the new 10-euro banknotes, at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt / Main. The new banknote including a portrait of the Greek mythological figure of Europa came into circulation yesterday. The ECB is gradually phasing in new banknotes to replace those in circulation since the euro became a physical currency in January 2002. — AFP Arab Bank backing terrorism: US jury Jordan CB supports bank after Hamas case NEW YORK: In a landmark decision, a New York jury on court. Analysts now expect a motion to trial court to set would lead you to conclude that any one of those people than 600 branches in 30 countries and a shareholders’ Monday found the Jordan-based multinational Arab Bank aside the verdict and then appeals, which would likely take deliberately supported terrorism,” Arab Bank lawyer equity base of $7.8 billion. liable on 24 counts of supporting terrorism by transferring years. There would also have to be a separate trial to deter- Stephens told the court on Thursday. The Arab Bank says it funds to Hamas. mine how much the bank will be liable to pay in damages. closed accounts after holders were designated terrorists. CB support The jury deliberated for nearly two full days after a The defense argued there was no evidence Arab Bank The plaintiffs allege the bank violated the 2001 Anti- Meanwhile, Jordan’s central bank said it backed Arab month-long trial at the eastern district court in Brooklyn executives supported terrorism and rubbished the allega- Terrorism Act when it served as a conduit for money from Bank was confident in its ability to defend itself against a that followed a federal law suit filed in 2004. “This is an tion that the institution knowingly made payments to des- a Saudi Arabian fund to families of Palestinians who died, US ruling which found the country’s top lender liable for enormous milestone,” said Gary Osen, a lawyer on the team ignated terrorists. including suicide bombers. financing Islamic militant group Hamas. The US civil law- representing around 300 American relatives and the vic- But the plaintiffs said the bank transferred more than They also claimed that Hamas, which the United States suit brought against the Jordan-based bank has been tims of 24 attacks carried out in Israel and the Palestinian $70 million to an alleged Saudi terror entity, charities they officially designates as a terror group, directed the distri- described by lawyers as the first of its kind to reach trial. territories. claim were a front for Hamas and 11 globally-designated bution of the money from the Saudi fund. Stephens said Jurors found the bank liable for giving material support to “For the first time a financial institution is liable for sup- terrorist clients. Arab Bank provided routine banking services and that no Hamas and said it must compensate victims of two dozen porting terrorism. The question now is to see how other charity-including the Saudi committee-to which it trans- attacks attributed to the group in Israel and the financial institutions, regulators will deal with their banks ‘Rolodex full of Hamas customers’ ferred funds was on any US, UN or EU blacklist at the time. Palestinian territories. and this decision,” he added. The bank had “a Rolodex full of Hamas customers,” and Stephens said there was no evidence to prove any “The Central Bank of Jordan remains confident about Arab Bank, which has assets worth $46.4 billion, said it lied in its defense, the plaintiffs said in their concluding money transferred by Arab Bank had been used to finance the strength of Arab Bank’s banking operations and com- would appeal. “The trial was infected by scores of errors,” it arguments Thursday. Prosecution lawyer Mark Werbner attacks and that the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian con- pliance procedures and ability to withstand the likely said in a statement pledging to “seek prompt review by the said the bank must have known that its helping Hamas flict had nothing to do with his client. repercussions of this litigation,” Ziyad Fariz, Jordan’s cen- Second Circuit.” “In addition to the deeply flawed sanctions, would mean “bad things were going to happen and that’s Former US prosecutor and lawyer Jacob Frankel told tral bank governor said in an interview. Jurors needed less the court gagged the bank by excluding many of its wit- enough to make them responsible.” The trial heard that AFP the verdict had no implications for the Bank’s licenc- than two days of deliberations to reach their verdict after nesses, severely restricting the ability of other witnesses to the bank was able to transfer $60,000 to Hamas spiritual ing in the United States since the claim was brought by a six-week trial in Brooklyn federal court. testify, and precluding all evidence of its innocent state of leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by individuals. Arab Bank has said it will appeal the verdict. Jordan’s mind.” Israel in 2004 — due to a spelling mistake of his name, “What it does, though, is send a message that institu- central bank had extended strong backing for Arab Bank Shand Stephens, lawyer for Arab Bank, told reporters which was not detected by screening software. tions that do business with organizations identified as ter- since the case against it was filed in 2004, “offering sup- the verdict should not have been found on “evidence that Every bank that has operations in the United States-like rorists do put at risk their assets if they also chose to do port and assistance”, Fariz said that stemmed from the thin.” “This verdict is going to be reversed,” he said. Arab Bank-uses the same automated software to screen business in the United States,” Frankel said. He said it was government’s confidence in the bank, a main pillar of District Judge Brian Cogan indicated it would be a long those on terror blacklists. significant that it was the first major verdict under the the financial system with an over $46.4 billion balance road ahead. “This case is a long way from over,” he told the “There’s not one word of testimony in this case that 2001 anti-terrorism act. The Arab Bank Group has more sheet. — Agencies Valls: France would never ask Germany to solve its problems

BERLIN: French Prime Minister Manuel has stuck to his line that reform is the best Valls sought to reassure Berlin yesterday way to foster growth. Burgan Bank launches that his country was making progress on Ulrich Grillo, head of Germany’s main $500m Tier 1 bond at 7.250% economic reforms and would not ask industry association, had earlier told the Germany to solve its problems. Speaking conference France’s economic problems DUBAI: Kuwait’s Burgan Bank has launched a $500 mil- after a German industry leader said were not Germany’s fault, adding: “It’s also lion Tier 1 capital-boosting bond at 7.250 percent yester- Germany was not responsible for France’s not Germany’s responsibility to solve these day, and is expected to price the deal later in the day, economic problems, Valls pledged in a problems.” Earlier this month Paris acknowl- according to lead managers. speech that won a standing ovation to pur- edged it would not bring its deficit down The lender had set final guidance in the 7.25-7.375 sue reforms to revive an economy often below the EU limit of 3 percent of national percent range yesterday. The bond was initially marked characterized in Germany as “sick”. output until 2017. Initially, it had pledged BERLIN: President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) Ulrich Grillo (center) on Monday in the low to mid-7 percent area via HSBC as “Do you think that if I thought Germany to do so by 2013, before winning a reprieve shows the way to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (second left), French Minister global coordinator and Citi, JP Morgan and National Bank was to blame for the problems in France ... I until 2015. Data confirmed yesterday that of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir (left), French Minister of the Economy, of Abu Dhabi as lead managers. The bond, with a perpet- would stand here today and explain to you the French economy posted zero growth in Industry and the Digital Sector Emmanuel Macron (second right) upon their arrival ual tenor, can be bought back by the lender after the fifth what reforms we are implementing?” Valls the second quarter after stalling in the first at the BDI’s annual congress in Berlin yesterday. — AFP year. told an industry conference in the German three months of the year, while surveys Investor orders for the issue grew to over $850 million, capital. showed business activity slowed again this selling daily Bild has dubbed “Krankreich” back in recent years thanks partly to labor the document showed. The bond, which enhances the “I would never ask Germany to solve our month amid weakness in the key service or “sick France”, would now tackle its prob- reforms pushed through by Gerhard bank’s Tier 1 - or core - capital, is being issued through a problems but I would like us to join forces,” sector. lems head-on. “A lot of politicians in Paris Schroeder, the Social Democrat predeces- vehicle called Burgan Tier 1 Financing Ltd and will be he added. Germany, Europe’s largest econ- Valls said while France did have prob- have talked the talk but haven’t walked the sor of conservative Chancellor Angela guaranteed by Burgan Bank, which is rated BBB+ by omy, is under pressure from its euro zone lems, German comments on a lack of walk. Speeches aren’t enough - we must Merkel. “I know the obstacles and chal- Standard and Poor’s and A3 stable by Moody’s, the docu- partners to loosen the fiscal reins and use growth in France were sometimes a “carica- carry out the reforms,” Valls said. lenges that France is facing. But if Germany ment showed. — Reuters government coffers to boost investment. ture”. He insisted that the euro-zone’s sec- Germany was itself once dismissed as managed ... why shouldn’t France be able But Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ond largest economy, which German mass- the “sick man of Europe” but has bounced to do the same?” Valls said. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 BUSINESS News in brief

Saudi banks in strong health, says CB chief RIYADH: Saudi Arabian commercial banks are in good health and easily meet international standards for capital adequacy, central bank governor Fahad Al-Mubarak said yesterday. Their combined capital adequacy ratio was 17.8 percent at the end of the second quarter this year, well above the 8 percent minimum specified by Basel stan- dards, Mubarak said in a speech to mark the country’s National Day. “In addition, stress tests that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency conducts regularly on commer- cial banks showed good results.” Mubarak also indicated that the central bank would continue a cautious monetary policy emphasizing stability. “Our balanced monetary poli- cy helped boost the stability of national economy through unrest and global turmoil, helping to raise the kingdom’s credit rating,” he said. In March, Fitch Ratings upgraded the kingdom’s long-term foreign and local currency credit rat- ings to AA from AA-minus, citing strong state spending and the government’s steps to address unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing.

Dubai Aluminum plans $600m smelter upgrade ABU DHABI: Dubai Aluminum (Dubal) plans to spend $600 million over the next three years to upgrade its smelter, an executive of its parent com- pany, Emirates Global Aluminum, said yesterday. The Dubai entity currently produces 1.1 million tons of aluminum per year, with the planned upgrade set to enhance output by 100,000 tons when completed, HANOVER: A “tristar” model of German carmaker VW is displayed yesterday in Hanover, central Germany during the preview day of the 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles 2014 according to Yousuf Bastaki, senior vice president of fair. The fair for commercial vehicles with more than 2000 exhibitors runs from September 25 to October 2, 2014. — AFP major projects at Emirates Global Aluminum. “About $600 million dollars is the plan for upgrading the plant in three years time,” Bastaki told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry event in Abu Dhabi. Dubal Security, rival mobile operators merged with Emirates Aluminum last year to create Emirates Global Aluminum, the world’s fifth-largest aluminum company with an enterprise value of about $15 billion, but remains a separate entity with- delay newcomers’ entry to Saudi in the overall structure. Bastaki declined to confirm if funding for the upgrade would come through bank loans. Banking sources told Reuters earlier this Telecom regulator seeks to boost competition month Dubal had held preliminary talks with banks about raising a loan to help fund its general opera- DUBAI: State security requirements and a interconnections with other operators,” said Vinter. total market share within the coming three tions, in what would be the first such facility for the lack of cooperation from Saudi Arabia’s Yasser Alobaidan, chief executive of Jawraa, Lawful intercept allows for electronic years,” he said. firm in years. existing telecom operators have delayed told a conference in Dubai this week. surveillance of an individual. “All these fac- Vinter was more cautious on VMMEA, the launch of two new mobile companies MVNOs usually pay their host operator a tors have to come together, the regulator pointing out Oman’s two MVNOs had a until later this year, their chief executives percentage of their revenues plus fees, has to give the final stamp of approval and combined market share of about 10 per- Barclays fined $62m for said. The national telecom regulator, trying while also allowing the host to target seg- then we can launch,” said Vinter. “We’re now cent, with his company claiming the major- client fund failings to increase competition, instructed the ments outside their core market, In STC and very close. I’d be very disappointed if it’s ity. “It would be fantastic to match that, but kingdom’s three mobile operators to each Mobily’s case, these would probably be not this year.” Saudi has one more operator than Oman, LONDON: British bank Barclays was fined 38 million host a mobile virtual network operator Saudi’s low income foreign workers. Saudi Jawraa also aims to launch by year-end, it’s a fiercer market and there are also new pounds ($62 million) yesterday for exposing customers to (MVNO), announcing winning bidders as has 1.8 mobile subscriptions per person, said Alobaidan. The Communications and players coming in at the same time,” said unnecessary risks by failing to ensure client assets were long ago as June 2013. which means the new firms must likely Information Technology Commission Vinter. properly safeguarded and adequate records kept. Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa woo customers from existing operators and (CITC), which in April ordered the MVNO “Our business case is fulfilled with a sig- Imposing its highest fine for client asset breaches, Britain’s (VMMEA), part-owned by British entrepre- that threat could explain their apparent license for No 3 operator Zain Saudi be nificantly lower number than that. If we financial regulator said there were “significant weaknesses” neur Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, reluctance to cooperate. retendered, did not respond to requests for could get 10 percent between us in 2-4 in Barclays’ systems and controls between November 2007 teamed up with former monopoly Saudi comment. STC and Mobily claim 45 and 39 years that would be a strong performance.” and January 2012 that put 16.5 billion pounds of client’s Telecom Co (STC), while Jawraa Lebara Year end target percent respectively of the kingdom’s Jawraa, 15 percent owned by London’s assets at risk. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which partnered with No 2 operator Mobily. The MVNOs have also faced difficulties mobile subscribers, according to loss-mak- Lebara group with the rest held by Saudi has tightened rules governing client asset protection since VMMEA in March said it hoped to launch meeting the demands of Saudi’s security ing Zain Saudi, which has 16 percent after investors, also plans to expand abroad. the collapse of Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, services in the first half of 2014, while apparatus to allow for so-called lawful failing to make major inroads into the big “We are working on licence papers with said that customers risked incurring extra costs, lengthy Mobily initially said its Jawraa’s launch tar- intercept, Alobaidan and Mikkel Vinter, two since launching services in 2008. Yet Tunisia, we’re working with the regulators delays or losing their assets if the bank had become insol- get was the end of March, yet both have VMMEA chief executive, told the confer- Alobaidan was bullish for Jawraa’s in Morocco and Turkey as well as some Gulf vent. yet to do so. “Most of the challenges are ence. “That’s the same for every operator,” prospects. “We want to own 5-10 percent of markets,” added Alobaidan. — Reuters Aluminum Bahrain gets nod KUNA releases 9th biannual for Line 6 gas allocation economic report

ABU DHABI: Aluminum Bahrain has reporters on the sidelines of the the project, while BNP Paribas is the KUWAIT: Kuwait News Agency offers data on the local economic reviews the local banking sector, received approval from the kingdom’s event. financial adviser. (KUNA) yesterday released its 9th developments based on objective both traditional and Islamic, and government for the gas allocation The Line 6 project will add 400,000 The company is also interested in biannual economic report, in three methods with high accuracy and the financial results of each bank, needed to support its planned sixth tons to the smelter’s current 890,000- buying upstream projects to provide chapters covering key issues relat- credibility. Data is obtained from comparing them to the responding production line, which is expected to ton capacity. The company is ramping alumina, a raw material used in alu- ed to the national economy, the reliable sources, she stressed. The period in 2013. start operating in 2018, a top compa- up production amid expectations for minum production, Ansari said. ny executive said yesterday. growing aluminum demand, which is Gulf-based aluminum firms have Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE), local first chapter of the report reviews The chapter also addresses Alba, owner of the world’s No. 4 already forecast to rise 7 percent this been moving into upstream projects banks and national development. the changes in the three KSE developments of the banking sec- aluminum smelter, expects final year. Aluminum supply contracts for in recent years, to secure the raw The report on the first half of 2014 indices through a technical analysis tor based on data by the Central approval for the gas pricing structure consumers in Europe are likely to materials needed for their expanded depicts the changes in indexes of of their performance, on monthly Bank of Kuwait (CBK). Chapter on the line by the end of the year, almost double next year as spot mar- production facilities. Emirates Global various economic sectors over a basis, Al-Hasawi said. three of the ninth economic report Chief Operating Officer Isa Al-Ansari ket premiums - the cost to get metal Aluminum, created last year from a pace of six months, KUNA’s Deputy The KSE chapter also covers the is on national development, after said at an industry event in Abu immediately - rise to record highs on merger of Dubai Aluminum (Dubal) Chief Editor for Economic News changes on the regional and inter- the end of the first mid-term devel- Dhabi. rising demand and supply cutbacks. and Emirates Aluminum (Emal), is Awatef Al-Hasawi said. national scenes over six months, as opmental plan (2010/2011- Once secured, the scheme will Alba’s Line 6 project is expected to expected to start production in 2017 She added that the report, pre- well as the developments at the 2014/2015) and arrangements for take 36 months to complete, mean- cost around $2.5 billion. Bechtel at a $5 billion project in Guinea, pared by KUNA’s Economic and KSE regarding trading. As for the launching the second one ing production should begin in the Canada was hired in December 2012 which includes a bauxite mine and Petroleum Affairs Department, second chapter, Al-Hasawi said it (2016/2017-2019/2020). — KUNA first quarter of 2018, Ansari told to complete the feasibility study for alumina refinery.— Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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SHANGHAI: The largest stock offer in his- offering in Alibaba, based on company fil- economy. It grew an annual 7.7 percent in tory has made Jack Ma, founder of e-com- ings, with the value of his remaining stake 2013, the same as in 2012 — which was merce giant Alibaba, China’s richest person of 7.8 percent surging to more than $17 the slowest rate of expansion since 1999. with a fortune of $25 billion, an annual billion by Monday. Last year the estimated Gross domestic product growth was 7.5 in wealth ranking for the country showed wealth of the former English teacher the second quarter this year. yesterday. turned Internet entrepreneur was just over Still, Hurun Report said the number of Ma, who had to persuade friends to $4.0 billion, which did not even place him US dollar billionaires in China hit 354 this give him $60,000 to start Alibaba just 15 in the top 20, according to the 2013 sur- year, up 39 from last year. But a corruption years ago after being rejected by US ven- vey. crackdown and austerity program ture capitalists, now leads a company val- Ma’s parents were poorly educated and launched by leader Xi Jinping has taken its ued at more than $200 billion after listing his father depended on a monthly retire- toll on current and former members of the on the New York Stock Exchange Friday. “It ment allowance of just $40 to support the rich list, with several facing criminal pun- has been an amazing year for China’s best family, according to Chinese state media. ishment or fleeing overseas. tycoons despite the jitters about the Alibaba’s listing raised a total of $25 bil- They include Liu Han of conglomerate Chinese economy,” said China-based luxu- lion. Only one other of Alibaba’s 18 co- Hanlong, who was sentenced to death for ry magazine publisher Hurun Report in its founders made the rich list this year, “mafia” crimes, and Xu Ming of conglom- annual rich list. according to the Hurun Report. He is erate Shide who is awaiting sentencing in Ma reaped more than $800 million from Simon Xie, now vice president of Alibaba’s a corruption case linked to disgraced selling shares through the initial public China investment, with $1.6 billion. politician Bo Xilai. “The anti-corruption Ma pushed property tycoon Wang drive has a strong effect. We found 18 Jianlin, whose Wanda company bought US people from last year’s list in trouble with cinema chain AMC Entertainment, into the authorities,” Rupert Hoogewerf, second place from first last year with a for- founder of the Hurun Report, told journal- BERLIN: A fairgoer takes a look on the wheels of a train during opening day of the Innotrans tune of $24.2 billion. The bursting of ists in Beijing. — AFP International Trade Fair for Transport and Mobility in Berlin yesterday. The Innotrans runs from China’s real estate bubble chased most September 23 till 26, 2014 in the German capital. — AFP developers out of the top 10, Hurun Report said.

Technology on top A new face, Li Hejun of renewable ener- gy firm Hanergy, tied for third place with $20.8 billion, alongside beverage magnate Zong Qinghou of Wahaha. But technology commanded half of the top 10. Pony Ma of Tencent, operator of China’s most popular instant messaging application WeChat, was fifth with $18.1 billion. Robin Li of China’s dominant search engine Baidu was sixth, Richard Liu of Alibaba competitor NEW YORK: Chinese online retail giant JD.com took ninth, and Lei Jun of upstart Alibaba CEO Jack Ma arrives at the New mobile phone producer Xiaomi was 10th. York Stock Exchange in New York. The Completing the top 10 were father and largest stock offer in history has made Jack son team Yan Jiehe and Yan Hao of road- Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, builder China Pacific Construction in sev- China’s richest person with a fortune of enth position and another real estate $25 billion, an annual wealth ranking in mogul, Yan Bin of Reignwood in eighth. the world’s second largest economy China’s real estate and infrastructure showed yesterday. — AFP industries have been hit by the slowing China Sept factory activity edges up

BEIJING: China’s manufacturing sector its army of migrant workers. unexpectedly picked up some momen- The employment index aside, other tum in September even as factory measures in the PMI poll fared better, employment slumped to a 5-1/2-year which could temper Beijing’s policy low, a potential source of worry for response for now. Total new orders rose, Communist leaders who prize social sta- and new export orders also climbed to bility above all else. their highest level since March 2010. The Signs of a weakening labor market overall output level remained flat on the reinforced expectations that China month, while output prices fell to a six- would further relax financing conditions month low. The final HSBC/Markit manu- in coming weeks, but stop short of cut- facturing PMI for the month is due on ting interest rates or loosening the Sept. 30, with the official reading on Oct reserve requirement for all banks to sup- 1. port the economy. The HSBC survey largely covers small- The HSBC/Markit Flash China to medium-sized companies, which are Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to facing tighter credit conditions and 50.5 in September from August’s final greater stresses than the larger, state- reading of 50.2. Economists polled by owned firms which the official report Reuters had expected factory growth to tends to focus on. Smaller firms account stall at 50.0, the mark which separates for about 60 percent of gross domestic expansion from contraction, citing dete- product and 75 percent of the new jobs riorating business confidence and the created in the country. growing drag from the cooling property A dramatic increase in reliance on market. state support starkly illustrates the indus- “We believe liquidity conditions will trial weakness that is weighing on the be easy,” said Ting Lu, an economist at economy. Subsidies accounted for four- Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. “But we fifths of the profits reported by Chinese don’t expect a universal cut in interest steel companies in the first half of this rates or the reserve requirement ratio.” year, according to a Reuters analysis of Instead, policymakers are likely to corporate financial statements. lower select lending rates such as mort- “We still expect some more measures gage rates, and the central bank may to support growth, such as stimulating extend more loans to big banks with the infrastructure investment, relaxing prop- cash being re-lent to businesses under a erty market policies and some more “re-lending” exercise, Lu said. monetary easing steps,” said Louis Kuijs, Economists’ bets that there would be an economist at RBS in Hong Kong. no overt policy easing are in line with “However, the recent signs of policymak- remarks by senior leaders such as ers suggest to us that they will not resort Finance Minister Lou Jiwei, who said over to more significant and higher profile the weekend that China would not dra- measures unless growth takes another matically alter its policy based on any turn for the worse.” one indicator. But the government’s promises to Gradual slowdown desist from ramping up credit supply are Export growth has been unsteady, increasingly being tested by a run of data and the cooling housing market is showing that the world’s second-biggest undermining already softening domestic economy is sliding into a deeper slow- demand. Recent data showed factory down. Yesterday’s PMI showed a measure output grew at the weakest pace in near- of employment shed more than a point ly six years in August. Prices for Chinese to drop to 46.9, its lowest since February steel and iron ore futures have slumped 2009 during the global financial crisis, to record lows, while oil, copper, rubber when a collapse in exports threw tens of and other raw materials have also skid- millions of Chinese out of work. ded on fears of slowing China demand, A hefty drop in employment could which is rapidly leaving the United States raise alarm bells for the government, as the only major driver of world eco- which has indicated it will tolerate slower nomic growth. economic growth below 7.5 percent for Chinese leaders have publicly ruled the year as long as employment is not out another massive stimulus program affected. “The real estate risk is already this year like the one launched during materializing,” said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an the global financial crisis, but are pre- economist at Credit Agricole Corporate pared to take targeted measures sup- and Investment Bank in Hong Kong. porting the most vulnerable sectors. “This will keep gross domestic prod- Further measures are already being uct growth at a depressed level of rolled out even as leaders publicly advise around 7 percent year-on-year this quar- caution. The central bank last week ter.” Still, Asian markets found consola- injected money into the country’s top tion in the PMI poll that China’s economy banks in a bid to help support the econ- was not faring as badly as some feared. omy by keeping borrowing costs down, Stock markets and the Australian dollar and media have reported this week that clawed back some of their early losses, the “Big Four” banks plan to ease rules on while Shanghai stocks rose. mortgage lending in a move orchestrat- ed by regulators. “The economy still faces No aggressive measures significant headwinds, particularly from China’s urban unemployment rate was the property sector, and our base sce- nearly 4.1 percent at the end of June, nario remains a gradual slowdown in the though many economists believe the coming months,” Capital Economics said real number may be much higher given in a note to clients. — Reuters

BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

A positive outlook amidst AstraZeneca, Shire fall as US geopolitical turbulence moves to curb inversion deals MARKET COMMENTARY Move may deter Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca By Byron Wien innovation strongly disagreed. They said the entrepreneurial activity in LONDON: Shares in drugmakers AstraZeneca and lem later, perhaps in 2015, as part of a broader over- food chain Burger King Worldwide is also in the Shire both fell more than 5 percent yesterday after haul of the loophole-riddled federal tax code. midst of inverting to Canada in a deal with Tim very summer for the past several Silicon Valley is huge and start-up the US Treasury took steps to curb “inversion” deals “Inversion deals now are clearly going to be very Hortons. About 50 such deals have taken place since decades I have organized a companies are developing ideas that that allow companies to escape high US taxes by difficult to pull off,” Navid Malik, head of life sciences the early 1980s, but half of those have been complet- Eseries of lunches for serious will change the world even faster than reincorporating abroad. The move could jeopardize research at Cenkos Securities, said. That could kill off ed just since the 2008-2009 credit crisis, according to investors who spend their weekends what we have experienced in the past. an agreed deal for AbbVie to buy Shire for $55 billion prospects of Pfizer returning to bid for AstraZeneca a Reuters review. on Eastern Long Island where the tem- We will see big improvements in and deter Pfizer from making another attempt to at the end of November, when a six-month cooling- A key target of Treasury’s actions is foreign profits peratures are cooler, the scenery is health care, agricultural production, acquire AstraZeneca, after a $118 billion takeover off period imposed by British takeover rules comes held offshore by US multinationals under a US exceptional and ordinarily intense energy consumption and a number of attempt failed in May. to an end and the US company has a free hand to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule that defers taxa- The slide in both companies shares wiped out publicly launch a new offer. tion on such profits unless and until they are brought people are more relaxed. This year other areas. There will be collateral around $8 billion in their combined market value. The Shire deal, however, may still go ahead, since into the United States. One new Treasury rule will about 90 attended the four lunches on damage; some of the innovations will Smith & Nephew and Swiss biotech group Actelion , it is already in train, although AbbVie will lose upside prevent inverted companies from using “hopscotch” successive August Fridays. Many of result in the loss of jobs and the two other perennial targets of bid speculation, also from planned tax savings, making the picture uncer- loans that allow them to avoid dividend taxes when the participants are well known and a demands of the workplace will be fell around 3 percent. Investors had been expecting tain. The transaction is due to be completed in the tapping such tax-deferred foreign profits. Another number are billionaires. There are greater, requiring more education and some action from the Obama administration to fourth quarter of 2014. rule will bar inverters from gaining access to the hedge fund managers, corporate lead- quantitative competence. There are clamp down on tax-avoidance inversions but the “Shire has enough momentum in its business and same kinds of profits by using “decontrolling” strate- ers, activists, buyout specialists, real 4.6 million jobs open right now in the steps announced on Monday were more far-reaching a good enough pipeline that it would be attractive to gies that restructure foreign units so they are no than anticipated, analysts at Deutsche Bank said. AbbVie anyway,” Malik argued. “The tax inversion was longer US-controlled. estate titans, private equity folk and United States and most of those out of The new rules, effective immediately, will make the icing on the cake.” Treasury is also tightening limits on the levels of venture capitalists, providing some work do not have the skills to fill them. new inversions more difficult to do and less poten- ownership that the former US owners can have in an diversity in terms of their daily activity. There is also the danger of a cyber- tially rewarding. The action follows months of politi- Inversion surge inverted company to qualify for foreign tax treat- The group was correctly positive dur- attack affecting our quality of life. cal debate, with Democrats urging prompt legislative Inversions have surged in the past year, pursued ment from the IRS, a move that will make it harder to ing the past two summer sessions, so I Knowledgeable attendees said that action and Republicans pushing to address the prob- by healthcare companies in particular, although fast- do these deals. — Reuters was curious to see if their mood had we have been both smart and lucky in changed with so much unrest around avoiding a major calamity so far. the world. Hackers, many from Eastern Europe The answer is that the investors and Asia, are trying to break into our almost universally believed that all of banking system, and the inability to the threatening geopolitical problems conduct business resulting from a would somehow work major financial institution themselves out favorably being shut down would without significantly dis- have an impact on the turbing the United States whole economy. The risk economy or its financial is that the hackers get markets. There were a few ahead of the people pro- with negative views; one viding cyber-security, and raised the possibility that a the possibility of that nuclear detonation from a happening over the next satellite over North few years is consequen- America could release an tial. electromagnetic pulse As for other asset which would knock out classes, there was almost the electricity grid across the United no interest in gold, in contrast to past States, causing famine and chaos. A years. Some of the younger investors minority were cautious because of the thought Bitcoin would gain in accept- escalation of geopolitical conflict. But ance. Commodities generally were the majority held a positive view that uninspiring to the group. They was untempered by the fact that the believed that technology in the use of Ukrainian unrest has already had an plant nutrients would increase agricul- impact on the economies of Europe, tural output. Most believed that the with Italy in recession and Germany, price of oil would remain around pres- the economic driver of the continent, ent levels. Several trillion dollars had turning down. If Europe slips back been invested in drilling over the past into a recession, the United States few years and yet production is flat ATHENS: Laid off ministry of finance cleaning staff and public sector workers march holding a banner “we rise our glove - re-hire now!’ in central Athens economy is surely going to feel it in because Nigeria, Iraq and Libya are yesterday. The Greek Supreme Court postponed its decision on the fate of 595 government cleaners laid off a year ago to save money, who have some way. producing less. The US and Europe become figureheads for the country’s anti-austerity movement with their protests to demand their jobs back. — AFP Those attending were worried are reducing consumption, but that is about evolving situations in the being more than offset by increasing Middle East, Russia and South China demand from the developing world, Sea. But All of these issues did not particularly China. Jimmy Choo unveils London Australia energy keep the assembled from believing that the Standard & Poor’s 500 would Euro-zone concerns IPO to fund Asia expansion industry faces finish 2014 above 2000, which it may Looking at markets around the LONDON: Shoemaker to the stars Jimmy Jimmy Choo has since developed into a reach soon. When this year’s lunches world, there was clearly concern about Choo unveiled plans yesterday for a luxury fashion brand encompassing shoes, big deregulation started it was at 1930. Most also Europe. The impact of the conflict in London stock market float valuing it at up handbags, leather goods, scarves, eye thought real Gross National Product Ukraine was becoming evident in to £800 million ($1.3 billion, 1.0 billion wear and fragrances. Since the opening of SYDNEY: Australia yesterday said it wants to dramati- (GDP) growth would be about 3 per- Germany; Mario Draghi had to provide euros) to fund expansion in Asia. The com- its first store in London in 1996, the com- cally deregulate its energy industry, boost domestic cent in the second half of this year, more monetary stimulus to prevent pany said in a statement that its owner, pany has grown to become a leading gas supply and cut renewable energy subsidies as it with only a few believing 2 percent Europe from falling back into reces- investment firm JAB Luxury, has agreed to global luxury brand with 120 shops world- prepares to ramp up exports of liquefied natural gas. was more likely. Regarding Fed policy, sion. float a 25-percent stake in a partial initial wide and annual sales of £282 million. In a draft policy blueprint, the conservative coalition most expected the Federal Reserve to Most of the investors were opti- public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Revenues jumped 9.4 percent to £150.2 government unveiled a range of policy proposals - Exchange next month. million in the first half of this year, or six most involving scaling back government interference increase short-term rates before June mistic about China. While the new The top-end luxury brand, whose shoes months to the end of June, compared with - that it said would keep the country’s energy industry of 2015 in spite of the recent softness leadership has been committed to retail at beween £350 and £2,100 per pair, a year earlier. Shoes are widely regarded competitive amid dwindling demand and investment. in the economy. No surprise here. reducing corruption, it will take a long counts Kate Middleton, Nicole Kidman, as one of the fastest growing segments of “The Australian energy market has undergone sig- There was some discussion of the time to implement reforms effectively. Victoria Beckham and Lady Gaga among its the global luxury goods market. nificant transformation in recent years as a result of fact that the low level of interest rates There will be some bank failures, but celebrity fans. The company is seeking to declining demand and changing patterns of con- was doing more harm than good. the government will engage in stimu- tap further into booming Asian demand for Asian markets targeted sumption,” industry minister Ian Macfarlane told a While low rates made borrowing by lative measures to keep the economy luxury goods, particularly in China and The company added yesterday that it mining conference in the city of Melbourne. businesses and real estate developers growing at 7 percent. I worry that the Japan. “Jimmy Choo is an outstanding busi- would continue to open 10 to 15 stores a “We cannot afford to just coast along because we are blessed with such a diverse energy resource.” attractive and increased values of increase in debt needed to accom- ness operating in one of the fastest growing year, with growth in Asian markets a key segments of the luxury market,” said Pierre target. “Since JAB Luxury acquired Jimmy Australian energy resource exports in 2013 were financial assets, those living on retire- plish that goal is unsustainable. worth about A$69 billion or nearly a quarter of the Denis, chief executive of Jimmy Choo, in Choo in 2011, the business has undergone ment incomes were hurt because their On emerging markets there was country’s total exports, with more than half of those savings in short-term fixed income interest in India where a number of Tuesday’s statement. significant investment and is now compre- exports coal, making it the world’s No2 coal exporter. “Jimmy Choo is a clear success story with hensively scaled for growth,” added the instruments were earning less than 1 mid-capitalization companies were But profit from coal exports is slowing because of low- strong momentum and I am confident that group’s non-executive chairman Peter er coal prices and a relatively high Australian dollar, percent rather than 5 percent. Given believed to be attractive. The Modi our future as a public company can only Harf. that those people are likely to spend election victory had generated consid- the paper warned, and energy investment has extend our reputation and position in this London-based haute couture designer “peaked and is entering a downturn” as companies 100 percent of their current income erable investor enthusiasm but some attractive sector.” A source close to the mat- Jimmy Choo sold his interest in the luxury shift from construction to production. while the top 10 percent of income suspected that the Indian stock mar- ter told AFP that the group was seeking to goods firm that bears his name in 2001. It Australia will become the first country to develop earners spend only a portion of their ket was ahead of the potential funda- raise up to £200 million from the IPO in late has since been owned by various private coal-seam gas for LNG export in late 2014, and “must earnings, consumer purchasing has mental improvements, especially October. equity firms until 2011, when German- remain at the forefront of industry innovation...to been slowed by lower interest rates. since it was hard to implement owned JAB acquired the business. The secure its share in growing global LNG markets”, it Because those in the lunch groups reforms in India’s argumentative legis- Celebrity fans group now straddles the globe, with oper- added. It said governments must streamline workforce benefit from appreciating invest- lature. There was some interest in The brand was founded by Malaysia- ations in Europe, the Americas, the Middle and environment laws between states, “rationalize” ments, they were concerned about ris- Argentina as a troubled country where born Jimmy Choo in 1996 with British East, Asia, Africa and Australia. “Jimmy subsidies for households which return unused solar power to the grid, introduce “smart metres” so con- ing rates, but one attendee pointed there were many assets for sale on a socialite Tamara Mellon. It became a house- Choo’s aim is to shift to a regional mix hold name after repeatedly featuring on more in line with the wider luxury market sumers can use appliances at cheaper times, and out that it usually takes several distressed basis, while Mexico had a high profile TV shows including “Sex and through growth in Asia and selected new speed up gas supply so prices don’t rise as gas exports increases in short-term rates by the number of supporters because the the City”, and was worn by celebrities and markets, whilst maintaining its presence in begin. The government, swept to power a year ago Fed before stocks feel the impact, leadership there was making both royalty, including Britain’s Princess Diana. EMEA. — AFP partly on promises to repeal an unpopular carbon although the market gets skittish at constitutional and legislative changes. emissions tax, published the so-called “green paper” any sign of Fed tightening. The country has significant oil reserves after taking 260 submissions over a previous draft In spite of low interest rates and but needs to improve its infrastruc- document. It will take submissions on the document increasing demand throughout the ture. It will benefit from stronger before unveiling an official policy later this year. The new energy measures should benefit the coun- recovery, there has not been much growth in the US, but personal securi- try’s largest energy retailer, Origin Energy Ltd,, which construction of new commercial ty is a problem. plans to export LNG from Queensland state to Asia, buildings and hotels. Money is being All in all, as I thought about the dis- and No 2 retailer AGL Energy Ltd which plans to fill the poured into established real estate in cussion across all four sessions, I was domestic supply gap left once Origin and others sell the United States from all over the struck by the optimism about the out- gas offshore. world. Retail space has not benefited look for the US in the face of the About 80 percent of Australia’s power is produced as much and may be held back for unsettled conditions around the by coal-fired power stations, making it one of the some time because of the impact of world. I wondered if our economy world’s biggest carbon emitters on a per capita basis. Last month, a government-commissioned report rec- the Internet. could continue to thrive in the face of ommended Australia effectively end its Renewable so many problems elsewhere. On top Energy Target (RET), a scheme designed to ensure that Technology of that you had the threat of cyber 20 percent of its electricity would be generated from We had a useful discussion about warfare and terrorism. Our political renewable sources by 2020. Australian Greens Senator the pace of technological change. process seems unable to respond to Larissa Waters criticized the energy paper as “cling(ing) There have been so many significant the challenges confronting the US and to last century’s ideas by focusing on fossil fuels while developments since 1980 that I inequality is a growing problem. Can the world calls for action on climate change”, a refer- ence to the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 tak- doubted that the next thirty years America move ahead economically at ing place in New York. But the Energy Networks could match the last thirty. Those a satisfactory job-producing pace with Association, which represents grid companies, said it whose work involved leading edge all these conditions in front of us? NEW YORK: A sign for Wall Street on the side of building near the New York Stock supported the proposal to change “unfair cross subsi- Exchange, in New York. US stocks opened lower yesterday, following disappointing eco- dies between users”. — Reuters nomic news and US-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. — AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Chevrolet Alghanim offers family oriented Traverse at special price The best 2014 family vehicle for second consecutive year

KUWAIT: In a move that reconfirms its com- ger, providing added protection for both front and silver accents and available blue ambient mitment to offering the best offers in the mar- occupants in side-impact crashes. Traverse lighting that glows throughout the cabin. ket for its customers, Chevrolet Alghanim, the also offers advanced crash-avoidance tech- A center stack houses illuminated climate sole distributor of Chevrolet vehicles in nologies, including forward collision alert and controls and showcases a 6.5-inch-diagonal Kuwait, is proud to offer the Chevrolet lane departure warning that use a camera and color touch radio with the available Chevrolet Traverse, the all-time favorite family SUV, for sensors to alert the driver with visual cues on MyLink or MyLink with navigation infotain- exceptional prices starting from KD7999. the dashboard, as well as audible signals. ment systems. The Chevrolet Traverse is one of the safest Traverse’s standard 3.6L V-6 uses direct vehicles on the road today and it is no coinci- injection technology to deliver up to 288 Chevrolet Care: New levels dence that the Traverse has a bag filled with horsepower and EPA-rated highway fuel econ- of aftersales service awards. It is one of the 10 best family cars of omy. That’s comparable with competitors’ All customers who purchase the All New 2014, according to Edmunds.com and Parents SUVs and crossovers, many of which cannot 2014 Chevrolet Silverado will receive the ben- magazine and it is the second consecutive match Traverse’s roominess or capability. efits of the Chevrolet Care program. year that the Traverse made the list in the SUV When properly equipped, it can tow up to Chevrolet Care is a high level customer category. It also was named one of Kelley Blue (2,358 kg). All-wheel drive also is available. service experience based on four pillars: To Book’s 12 Best Family Cars for 2014. Criteria’s Traverse is designed for families, from easily provide customers with the best in service used for consideration included strong safety cleanable seats and multiple USB ports to an pricing and cost transparency; booking service efficiency, value and style. available power liftgate and available rear-seat with same day delivery; quality service by cer- Traverse has a 5-star Overall Vehicle Score entertainment system. The second-row seat tified technicians as well as a regional 3 for safety in US Government New Car comes with a pair of captain’s chairs or a three- year/100,000 km warranty and 24x7 regional Assessment Program (NCAP) testing. The passenger bench. Each configuration imple- comfortably accommodate three adult pas- around its Chevrolet heritage, with the classic roadside assistance. Drop by any Chevrolet Traverse offers the segment’s only Front ments the SmartSlide feature that allows sengers and Traverse’s 24.4 cubic feet (691 gold bowtie positioned on a three-bar grille. Alghanim’s showrooms today in order to take Center Airbag, this available feature deploys unobstructed access to the third-row bench liters) of cargo room behind its third row is the Inside, premium materials include soft-touch a full advantage of this Traverse’s one-of-a- from the inboard side of the driver’s seat and seat with one hand, which makes it easy for most storage space in the segment. surfaces on the instrument panel and front kind deal and own the family SUV they have inflates between the driver and front passen- children to operate. The third-row seat can Traverse’s exterior design is centered door uppers, contrasting stitching, chrome always wanted. Alpha Tours goes on roadshows in Russia, Kazakhstan

DUBAI: Alpha Tours, the leading destination management company in the Arabian Gulf, recently conducted successful roadshows accompanied by 25 hotels from the UAE in the CIS states, including Russia, Kazakhstan, aimed at promoting the UAE, as a leading tourism and travel destination. The roadshows, conducted last week at vari- ous strategic cities across the region, were held in collaboration with Natalie Tours, a premier tour and destination company based in Russia. Representatives from various leading hotels chains across the UAE were part of the visiting delegation. During the roadshows, Alpha Tours highlight- Kenyan govt hails progress ed the salient advantages and attractions across the UAE to the travel industry in Russia and at Rift Valley Railways Kazakhstan, one of the fastest growing markets in the global hospitality and tourism sector. NAIROBI: Rift Valley Railways, the national rail ern railway operating equipment, an invest- operator of Kenya and Uganda and a unit of ment of $2.3 million (KES 200 million) that will Qalaa Holdings in the East African transporta- dramatically improve the pace and quality of tion and logistics sector, celebrated the arrival railway track improvement.” of three new locomotives manufactured in the As a result of these and other investments, United States. Sadek said, “RVR has reported a 50% reduction The roadshows covered Omsk, Tomsk, ied, world-class attractions, to the global audi- The deliveries, the latest in $ 287 million in incidents per million ton-kilometers in the Novosibirsk in Siberia and Almaty in Kazakhstan, ence. The response was amazing, and we are (KES 26 billion), five-year turnaround program first half of this year, a 51% decline in blockage and were part of Alpha Tours’ objectives to thankful to our partners Natalie Tours for their for RVR, are part of a program that will see the time, and a 29.5% rise in monthly net ton-kilo- expand its reach all cities in the region and pro- support in our endeavor.” rail operator add 20 new US locomotives and meters in the same period. We have landed mote UAE as a world-class destination, offering He added, “The growing importance of six rehabilitated engines to its fleet this year. important new freight clients and cut the cycle tourism avenues for all age-groups and budgets. Kazakhstan can be gauged from the recent deci- “Qalaa Holdings and its partners in Africa time - or round trips - from Mombasa to As part of the visit, officials from Alpha Tours sion of Fly Dubai to launch its direct service to Railways have so far invested more in improv- Kampala from 16 days at the beginning of the and Natalie Tours made presentations about the Almaty. We will continue our aggressive promo- ing RVR in the last 32 months than had been year to the current 10 days. One-way trips from UAE as a prominent travel and tourism destina- tion across these markets to bring in more invested in the previous 30 years combined. the port to Kampala are now being completed tion and highlighted the unique offers of each tourists to the UAE.” Alongside our track record in the past two- in 3.5 days, down from 7 days in January.” participating hotel. Targeted workshops with The company, which offers unmatched luxu- and-a-half years, the $ 25.3 million (KES 2.3bil- Kamau observed that: “I am now happy to agents and travel representatives were also held rious entertainment options, extends that to lion) acquisition of 20 new locomotives from note that following the disbursement by in each city. The roadshows received enthusias- destinations’ consultancy and management, VIP the United States is proof positive of our com- lenders and the contribution of the agreed tic responses and over 150-200 agents attended tailored made programs, helicopter tours and air mitment to investing in RVR - of doing every- amounts by the shareholders, RVR has been the presentations in each city. charter operations, eco-tourism programs, luxu- thing necessary to ensure it succeeds,” said able to invest to the tune of $343 million (KES Mr. Adnan Al Aridi, Managing Director of rious tours and excursions, leisure group pro- Karim Sadek, Qalaa Holdings’ Managing 30.4 billion) which exceeds the aggregate sum Alpha Tours, said: “We have immense pride in grams, medical tourism and hotel reservations Director for Transportation, at a ceremony held required to be invested contractually. promoting our beautiful country, with all its var- services. in Changamwe, Mombasa. “I have no doubt that if Rift Valleys Railways A senior Kenyan government official continues to invest in both the track and attending the event noted that RVR had been rolling stock, we shall see improved perform- Oil up above $97 as US Gulf Insurance provides found wanting in the first three-and-a-half ance in the railway sub-sector. It is notable that years of its concession before the entry of since January 2013, RVR’s freight haulage per- insurance services in Spain Africa Railways as lead shareholder. (Africa formance has seen a fairly steady rise mainly launches Syria strikes Railways is a vehicle for investment in the due to investment in permanent way on the LONDON: Brent crude rose above $97 a nent attack” against US and Western inter- KUWAIT: Gulf Insurance, the African rail sector controlled by Qalaa Holdings Mombasa-Nairobi section and the refurbish- barrel yesterday as the United States and ests by “seasoned al Qaeda veterans” who leading insurance services and leading international limited partners, ment of rolling stock. In addition, RVR is cur- several Gulf Arab allies launched strikes had established a safe haven in Syria. provider in Kuwait and the including top development finance institu- rent in the payment of concession fees and so against Islamic State strongholds in Syria, They were carried out with the support Middle East, announced that it is tions). “The Government of Kenya is commit- far has paid a total of $ 50 million (KES 4.4 bil- and as a surprise pick-up in China’s factory of Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and providing its comprehensive ted to supporting RVR’s investment and lion) to the Government since commencement activity boosted the demand outlook. the United Arab Emirates, the US military insurance services in Spain. growth goals and to provide an enabling envi- of the concession. “We want to thank the Oil prices fell to a two-year low last said. Islamic State vowed revenge, singling Customers residing in Kuwait ronment that will allow railway operations in shareholders and lenders whose support has week under the weight of a supply glut out Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil can benefit from acquiring a Kenya and the region to thrive,” said Eng made this possible. We value your partnership and tepid demand, but prices have stabi- exporter, for supporting the US-led strikes. wide range of insurance pack- Michael Kamau, Cabinet Secretary for and willingness to invest in rail operations and lized as pockets of strength in the world At the same time Syria said Israel had ages that include property, Transport and Infrastructure. “Taking cog- choosing Kenya and Uganda as an investment economy have emerged and as tensions shot down a warplane over the Golan motor, or health. nizance of the investment made and the work destination,” Kamau concluded. have risen in the Middle East. In China the Heights, confirming the first such incident Khalid Al- Sanousi, Corporate in progress by RVR, there are indications that Africa Railways is backed by lenders includ- manufacturing sector unexpectedly in three decades. “Given that the world’s Communications and Investor this public-private partnership is turning the ing African Development Bank, International picked up some momentum in September largest oil production region is in a state of Relations Manager said, corner - and there are encouraging signs of Finance Corporation, KfW Entwicklungsbank, even as factory employment slumped to a crisis... it is remarkable that oil prices are so “Individuals across the region bright days ahead in the railway sector which FMO, Belgian Investment Company for 5-1/2-year low, with the HSBC/Markit unmoved,” said David Hufton, managing will positively impact many other sectors of Developing Countries, ICF Debt Pool, and Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rising to director of PVM oil brokerage in London. have developed an interest in the economy and society at large.” Kenya’s Equity Bank as well as Standard Bank 50.5 from 50.2 last month. Keeping oil price gains in check are ample acquiring real estate and various The ceremony was attended by senior gov- of South Africa and CFC Stanbic Bank. Africa Brent for November delivery was up 40 supplies created by rising US shale oil out- properties across Spain. This requires protection against theft, fires, ernment officials from both Kenya and Uganda Railways shareholders alongside Qalaa cents at $97.37 a barrel by 1101 GMT, after put that have pushed Brent down by more accidents, as well as medical expenses. The aim of this new initia- including Stephen Chebrot, Uganda’s Minister Holdings include IFC African, Latin American falling by more than a dollar on Monday. It than 5 percent in September, with the oil tive is to facilitate the overall process of acquiring any type of of Transportation. In remarks to attendees, and Caribbean Fund, LP (ALAC), the private hit a two-year low of $96.21 last week. US benchmark on track for a third straight insurance, in collaboration with leading insurance providers in Sadek noted that, “Since our entry to the con- equity fund managed by the IFC Asset crude rose 54 cents to $91.18 a barrel, monthly fall. But Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al- Spain.” cession, we have led the rehabilitation of the Management Company, LLC; FMO; DEG; FISEA rebounding from a session low of $90.58 Naimi on Monday downplayed worries “We urge our customers to call on the following numbers — most damaged sections of railway track (a vehicle owned by Proparco); and that was its weakest since Sept 11. The about the impact of sinking crude oil 22961819, 22961960, 65779953, 65099771, where an insurance better-than-expected China PMI fuelled prices, which had fuelled recent specula- between Mombasa and Nairobi. In the International Finance Corporation. consultant will provide the necessary information to complete the the recovery in prices, said Avtar Sandu, tion that the Organization of the process, RVR removed 24 kilometers of speed “Qalaa Holdings and our partners in Africa procedure efficiently,” added Al- Sanousi. senior manager for commodities at Phillip Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Gulf Insurance continues to implement a number of ambitious restrictions in just two months. We have rebuilt Railways are entirely committed to the nations Futures. could reduce oil output. nine crumbling culverts between Jinja and of Kenya and Uganda. We are absolutely con- projects that aims at meeting customers’ dynamic needs while “The market was really oversold earlier His views were echoed by United Arab exceeding their expectations. By providing insurance services Busembatia in Uganda, allowing the direct vinced that we can create not just the best rail- and there was not much room for prices to Emirates oil minister Suhail bin movement of heavy trains to Uganda. We have way operator on our continent, but that we across the region and expanding around the globe, Gulf Insurance go further down,” Sandu said. The US mili- Mohammed Al-Mazroui yesterday who continuously caters to its individual and corporate customers’ repaired and re-opened the 500-kilometer- can write on the ground a shining example of tary said air and missile strikes against the said it was premature to decide whether insurance requirements. long Tororo-Pakwach railway line after 20 years how African solutions are the best solutions to militant Sunni group Islamic State were OPEC should lower output policy ahead of of disuse. We have led the acquisition of mod- African challenges,” concluded Sadek. designed to disrupt the threat of an “immi- its Nov 27 meeting. — Reuters technology WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 Messaging app wants voices back to phones

SAN FRANCISCO: Longtime technology guru Ray recording when it’s convenient, rather than being talkie,” he said. “It was much faster than texting or Messages app in Apple’s new iOS 8 software for Ozzie wants to bring back the emotions of the interrupted by a traditional phone call. All mes- trying to set up a conference call.” mobile devices also lets users record and send human voice to phones. His mission began more sages will be stored for 10 days, though users can short audio messages. Recipients raise their than two years ago as Ozzie noticed people were buy a subscription - expected to be $5 to $9 per Voice gets a new outlet iPhones to their ears to automatically play the increasingly communicating through texts, emails month - to permanently store messages. For the Ozzie isn’t under the delusion that voice mes- message. Under default settings, messages expire and social media posts instead of calling each oth- first few months, Talko will store all voice record- sages are going to supplant popular communica- two minutes after listening. er. ings for free. tions apps such as WhatsApp, Snapchat and Ozzie was well known before Microsoft “When you see nothing but words and num- Users can choose to make their recordings Tango, which combine texts and photo sharing. bought one of his previous startups, Groove bers, it becomes very mechanical and very trans- available to more than one person; a feature that Talko also accommodates texts and photos to Networks, for an undisclosed amount in 2005. In actional,” Ozzie said in an interview. “But when you Ozzie believes will make Talko ideal for employees supplement the voice recordings. the 1980s, he played a key role in creating a suite hear the sound of someone’s voice, it really brings working in the same department of a company. Another technology industry veteran, Alan of document-sharing tools at Lotus Development it much closer to home.” Ozzie, 58, Microsoft’s for- The five DigitalGlobe workers who installed the Braverman, also is trying to give voices a new out- Corp, now owned by IBM Corp. Shortly after join- mer chief software architect, hopes to orchestrate app in July as part of Talko’s testing didn’t use it let on phones. Last week, his San Francisco startup ing Microsoft, Ozzie succeeded company co- voice’s comeback through Talko, a mobile applica- much initially, partly because they were so accus- incubator, Giant Pixel, released an iPhone and iPad founder Bill Gates as chief software architect, a tion was released yesterday for the iPhone. A ver- tomed to texting and emailing each other or try- app called Sobo that offers a vocal twist to Twitter, role he held until he left Microsoft in 2010. sion for Android phones is expected in a few ing to schedule a conference call when they need- the popular short-messaging network. Sobo users Although Talko is focusing on the business mar- months. ed to talk, said Ed Locher, DigitalGlobe’s senior can record six-second sound bites that are then ket, Ozzie said he hopes employees will have Talko sends the equivalent of text messages in vice president of corporate marketing. But Talko broadcast to their followers. Braverman is best such a positive experience that they will encour- the form of a spoken word. Talko users can record turned out to be valuable in the five days leading known as a co-founder of Yammer, a social net- age their family members and friends to install a voice message and send it over the Internet to up to the launch of a DigitalGlobe satellite last working tool for businesses that Microsoft Corp the app, too. “I really do believe it will spread by anyone else with the app. Recipients listen to the month, Locher said. “It reminded me of a walkie bought for $1.2 billion in 2012. Meanwhile, the word of mouth,” Ozzie said. — AP Electronics giant Philips to split in historic move ‘We’re preparing Philips for the next century’

THE HAGUE: Philips announced yesterday it would split in two, separating its healthcare-lifestyle division from the his- toric lighting business in a dramatic streamlining move by the 120-year-old electronics giant. “We’re preparing Philips for the next century,” CEO Frans van Houten told a tele- phone press conference. “Giving independence to our light- ing solutions business will better enable it to expand its global leadership position and venture into adjacent market opportunities,” Van Houten said. “I do appreciate the magni- tude of the decision we are taking, but the time is right to take the next strategic step for Philips.” Shares in Philips, the inventor of the compact disc, jumped by more than 3.7 percent after the announcement, which analysts said could herald the selling off of the light- ing business. They were later showing a gain of 2.5 percent at 24.08 euros. Both companies will continue to use the Philips name, the company said in a statement, noting that BEIJING: A journalist uses her mobile device during a media event. — AP its HealthTech business had sales of 15 billion euros ($19 bil- lion) in 2013 and its lighting business sales of seven billion euros. Useful ways to hide and Details on how its lighting business will be split off into a separate legal structure are to be announced in 2015. “Both companies will be able to make the appropriate invest- secure data on phones ments to boost growth and drive profitability, ultimately generating significantly more value for our customers, NEW YORK: Apple got a lot of attention last week when it want to let people glance through your entire collection of employees and shareholders,” Philips said. released a new privacy policy along with a declaration that photos. That could be when you’re sitting with a friend in the The companies will be based in the Netherlands, Van police can’t get to your password-protected data. Essentially, same room or making a presentation before a large audience. Houten said, adding that it was too early to say how many your photos, messages and other documents are automatical- You can hide embarrassing or private photos - as long as you job losses might be involved. The global HealthTech busi- ly encrypted when you set up a passcode, with or without a remain in control of the device. If you hand it to a friend and ness is worth more than 100 billion euros and the lighting fingerprint ID to unlock the phone. Apple says it cannot walk out, your friend can browse through the albums section. business worth more than 60 billion euros, Philips said. The bypass that passcode, even if law enforcement asks. new structure should result in savings of 100 million euros in AMSTERDAM: This picture shows the logo of Dutch Google says it will also encrypt data by default in an Samsung’s galaxy devices 2015 and another 200 million in 2016. The move will also electronics giant Philips on a building of its headquar- upcoming Android update. The option has been there, but The Galaxy S5 phone introduced a private mode. You turn incur annual restructuring costs of around 50 million euros ters. — AFP many people don’t know about it or bother to turn it on. it on in the settings, under “Private Mode” in the up to 2016, the company said. Apple, Google and other tech companies have been trying to Personalization section. You then go through your phone to Siemens in July last year separated the activities of its light- depict themselves as trustworthy stewards of personal infor- mark certain content as private. With photos, for instance, just ‘Surprise’ announcement ing company Osram, the world’s second largest. Osram, with mation following revelations that the National Security go to the Gallery app and select the photos or albums you Analyst Jos Versteeg from Theodoor Gilissen private bank about 40,000 staff worldwide, restructured after suffering a Agency has been snooping on emails and other communica- want to keep private. Then hit the menu icon for the option to said: “It was a big announcement and quite a surprise.” The net loss of 378 million euros in 2012. tions as part of an effort to identify terrorists. Apple is also try- “Move to Private.” This also works with selected video, music, move could herald the sale of Philips lighting-the business Philips, Osram and fellow light bulb market leader ing to reassure customers about its commitment to security audio recordings. started by Philips in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven in General Electrics are facing stiff competition from players and privacy after hackers broke into online accounts of After you’ve marked your files as private, you need to go 1891. “Yes, it is the end of Philips as we know it,” Versteeg celebrities who had personal photos stored on Apple’s iCloud back to the settings to turn Private Mode off. Think of that such as Samsung and LG as the market has shifted toward said. “Both companies will keep the brand name Philips, but low-energy bulbs and light-emitting diodes. Philips, a house- service. Here’s a closer look at some of those options: setting as the door to a vault. Turning it on opens the door it’s only a question of time... It’s quite clear that it will be and lets you move stuff in and out. Turning it off closes and hold name around the world for home appliances, has completely split and in the end have two different owners.” Apple’s iPhones and iPads locks the door. It’s the opposite of what you might think: already in recent years stripped down its business to focus In the latest software update for mobile devices, iOS 8, Private Mode needs to be off for your content to be secure. “The end result will be the sell-off of Philips lighting,” he said, more on advanced lighting technology and on medical tech- Apple offers an easier way to hide photos from your collection Once locked, it is as though the content never existed. No adding yesterday’s announcement was a “logical step.” nology where margins are strong and less vulnerable to com- in the Photos app. Simply press down on the photo or the one will know what’s inside the vault, or whether there’s Philips announced in June that it was creating a separate petition from emerging markets. Last year, Philips thumbnail of it and tap “Hide.” However, the photo will still even anything inside. To unlock the vault, you need your company for some of its lighting activities, notably in the announced the sale of its lifestyle entertainment branch, appear in individual albums, including a new one called passcode or fingerprint ID. The private-mode feature is also auto and mobile phone sectors, and it said this activity was which makes stereos and DVD players, after selling its trou- “Hidden.” You can go there to unhide hidden photos. part of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S tablets and the upcoming benefiting from demand for energy efficiency. The split bled TV-making arm in 2012. Founded in 1891, the company So why bother? This feature is mainly useful when you Galaxy Notephones. — AP comes after German engineering and technology giant employs around 112,000 people worldwide. — AFP Microsoft to Dragon arrives launch Xbox One at space station in China next week with 3-D printer

SHANGHAI: US technology giant Microsoft will launch CAPE CANAVERAL: The International Space Station accepted its Xbox One in China on September 29, becoming the another SpaceX shipment yesterday, this one containing the first game console to enter the market in 14 years, it said first 3-D printer ever launched into orbit. Two days after blast- yesterday, in an apparent reversal of a delay announced ing off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the SpaceX cargo ship, just three days ago. In January, China formally authorized Dragon, arrived at the space station. German astronaut the domestic sale of game consoles made in its first free Alexander Gerst used the robot arm to grab the capsule. trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, ending a more than “Well done capturing that Dragon,” Mission Control radioed. decade-long ban. The Dragon is delivering more than 5,000 pounds of supplies. Microsoft previously said it would start delivery of con- The 3-D printer - an experimental model - is the headliner pay- soles yesterday, but on Saturday announced a delay load. Also on board: mice and flies for biological research, fresh potentially until the end of the year without giving a pre- spacesuit batteries so NASA can resume routine spacewalks, cise date or reason. A new statement from Microsoft and and a $30 million instrument to measure ocean wind. its Chinese partner BesTV New Media issued on yesterday NASA is paying SpaceX to stock the space station. Last suggested government approvals of games might have week, the California-based company won the right to transport contributed to the delay. “After receiving government astronauts, too. That’s still a few years off. The Dragon will approval for the first wave of games, we will launch with remain at the orbiting outpost for about a month. It will be the first ten games now and continue our work to bring filled with science experiments for return to Earth. The Dragon more blockbuster games and a broad offering of enter- is the only unmanned cargo capsule capable of returning tainment and app experiences to the platform in the items. This was the fifth Dragon to visit the space station. weeks and months to come,” Xie Enwei, general manager “We’re happy to have a new vehicle on board,” Gerst said. of Xbox China, said in the statement. Another spacecraft is due to arrive in another couple days. Under the rules of the FTZ, set up a year ago to pilot CAPE CANAVERAL: Brad Kohlenberg, a business development engineer with Made In Space, looks over a 3-D printer Russia is poised to launch a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan economic reforms, games must pass inspection by cultural identical to the one that will be transported to the International Space Station aboard the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket at the tomorrow with a three-person crew. That will bring the num- authorities, who conceivably could censor content they Kennedy Space Center. — AP ber of astronauts at the space station to the usual six. — AP deem to be obscene, violent or politically sensitive. Xie added more than 70 titles were in the pipeline to bring to China. Microsoft beats rivals like Japan’s Sony, which makes the PlayStation console, and Nintendo’s Wii into the Investors fret Yahoo’s future Chinese market. But illegal machines, smuggled into the country, are widely available from online vendors and electronics mar- SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo may be losing some appeal on Wall Yahoo was one of the few ways US investors could tap into the regaining some of the advertising business that Yahoo lost in kets. In China, Microsoft will sell the Xbox One for 3,699 Street now that US investors can buy directly into Alibaba. growth of e-commerce in the world’s most populous country. recent years to newer rivals like Google and Facebook. Yahoo yuan ($602) or 4,299 yuan ($699) with the Kinect sensor, Yahoo’s stock fell Monday as investors grappled with uncer- That was because of Yahoo’s large stake in the Chinese compa- was an early pioneer in the lucrative market of online advertis- the statement said. Those levels are far higher than its US tainty about CEO Marissa Mayer’s efforts to turn around the ny. Yahoo’s stock has risen more than 30 percent over the past ing, but it hasn’t been able to keep up with rivals’ fast-growing website prices of around $400 for the basic console and struggling Silicon Valley company. The sell-off came even year, largely on the strength of investor excitement about audiences and sophisticated tools for selling ads targeted to about $500 with Kinect-which can obey motion and voice though Yahoo reaped more than $9 billion last week from sell- Alibaba’s booming business. On the second day of public trad- users’ likes and interests. commands. Analysts say Microsoft is targeting high-end ing some of its stake in Alibaba, as the Chinese e-commerce ing for Alibaba, Yahoo shares fell more than 5 percent to close “My expectations for Yahoo’s core business are pretty mut- users in China with the Xbox One, but the prices might company held a record-setting initial public offering of stock. Monday at $38.65. Although Mayer has not said what she’ll do ed,” Wieser said. “There should be pretty tepid growth, if any, in prevent it from reaching a wider market. The 10 approved Yahoo has promised to return at least half of the after-tax with $3 billion or so of the Alibaba proceeds not going to the near term.” That didn’t stop Wieser and a handful of other games include several sporting titles, such as Forza proceeds to shareholders - likely through stock buybacks. But shareholders, analysts believe she could use that for acquisi- analysts from raising their price targets for Yahoo’s stock. Motorsport 5 and Powerstar Golf, according to the state- some investors aren’t waiting, now that they’re able to buy tions to help Yahoo revive its struggling advertising business Yahoo, which acquired its stake in Alibaba back in 2005, still ment. — AFP Alibaba shares directly, according to Brian Wieser, an Internet and expand its online video programming. holds more than 380 million shares in Alibaba, worth more stocks analyst at Pivotal Research. Before the Alibaba IPO, Yet many investors lack optimism about Mayer’s chances of than $34 billion at Monday’s closing price.—AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE TB tests for babies after hospital worker exposed

TEXAS: Health officials in West Texas said officials used guidelines from the became infected, Saldivar said. has dealt with investigations where it between six to nine months. have begun testing some babies for Centers for Disease Control and Audrey Garcia, Providence Memorial was possible hundreds of people were Garcia said the hospital has taken tuberculosis after the revelation that Prevention to determine how far back Hospital spokeswoman, said that so far exposed to TB, but those were in actions to prevent similar incidents. more than 700 infants at an El Paso to test people who could have been no other workers have tested positive school settings, involving older chil- After the discovery of the infected hospital were exposed to a worker exposed to the disease. for active tuberculosis. She would not dren. “This involves babies, who are employee, hospital regulators launched found to have the disease. The children “We took the date of first signs and comment on how many results have more likely to develop the deadly form an inspection and found several viola- may have been exposed at a nursery in symptoms (of the health care worker) come back or whether there were cases of the disease,” she said. In a fact sheet tions that could threaten the hospital’s the Providence Memorial Hospital of El and went back three months to deter- of latent tuberculosis. People with posted on its website, the El Paso Medicare funding. The Centers for Paso between September 2013 and last mine who is considered ‘exposed,’” he latent tuberculosis have the bacteria in Department of Public Health says Medicare & Medicaid Services has not month, when a health care worker test- said. Saldivar said local health officials their bodies but do not appear ill. They babies cannot spread the disease to specified what the violations were. The ed positive for TB. Local health authori- do not know why the worker was not cannot spread the illness but may family members because they lack the hospital has until Tuesday to submit a ties declined to say Monday how many tested by the hospital until Aug 21 if develop symptoms later on. lung capacity to exert air, and with it corrective plan. Tuberculosis is at an all- children have come in for testing. the person had symptoms as early as Carrie Williams, a spokeswoman for the bacteria, the way adults do. Those time low in the US with fewer than Armando Saldivar, spokesman for the December. Also, officials are still inves- the Texas Department of State Health who test positive for TB should take 10,000 cases in 2013, according to the El Paso Department of Public Health, tigating how and when the worker Services, said the agency previously several anti-tuberculosis drugs CDC reports. — AP

Liberia warns Ebola may cause civil war outbreak

MONROVIA: Liberia has warned it may slip Threatening society back to civil war along with neighboring Sierra Leone, along with Liberia one of Sierra Leone if the Ebola epidemic ravaging the world’s poorest countries where half West Africa is allowed to continue to the population lives on less than $1.25 spread. Information Minister Lewis Brown (0.97 euros) a day, is still struggling to said the lack of urgency in the international recover from its own linked 11-year civil response risked allowing a breakdown of war which ended in 2002. Guinea, where societies in the region, where the outbreak more than 600 have died, has not suffered has claimed almost 3,000 lives. civil war but has been plagued by deadly “Hospitals are struggling, but so too are civil unrest in recent years between sup- hotels. Businesses are struggling. If this porters of President Alpha Conde and the continues the cost of living will go to the opposition. “The effect of Ebola is being roof. You have an agitated population,” seen not just as a public health situation Information Minister Lewis Brown said late but it is also a political situation. Liberia is Monday. “The world cannot wait for Liberia, just ten years out of our conflict,” said Sierra Leone and Guinea, to slip back into Brown. “We are just in the 11th year since conflict, which could be the result of this we started rebuilding our capacity to live slowness in response.” together. This Ebola is threatening that More than 3,000 people have been capacity.” infected in Liberia and almost 1,600 people Liberia announced on Sunday a four- have died, with health workers turning fold increase in hospital beds to 1,000 for away people from treatment units due to patients in the capital Monrovia by the end chronic shortages of beds and staff. Sierra of October. But Brown said the govern- Leone, where more than 1,800 have been ment needed 1,000 beds in ten Ebola treat- infected and nearly 600 have died, said ment units across the country “immediate- Monday it had “an overflow of bodies”, after ly”, and didn’t have the cash. a controversial nationwide lockdown “That is what is lowering public confi- helped uncover more than 200 new cases. dence in this fight (and) as a government, The World Health Organization warned yes- we simply cannot afford for our people to terday that the number of Ebola infections have dwindling confidence in our govern- will triple to 20,000 by November, soaring ment to respond,” he said. “That is why we by thousands every week if efforts to stop are urging the international community to the outbreak are not stepped up radically. assist us. “If the population continues to Liberia has spent a decade recovering from see... that we are beyond our resource two ruinous back-to-back civil wars which capacity to respond the way we would like NEW YORK: A man dressed as a polar bear takes part in the “Flood Wall Street” demonstrations, preceding the United Nations’s “Climate Summit ran from 1989 to 2003, leaving a quarter of to respond, it creates a sense of anxiety 2014. — AP a million people dead and the economy in which can translate into urgency on the tatters. part of the population.” — AFP World leaders urged to alter Ebola cases to explode course at UN climate summit without drastic action ‘Today, we must set the world on a new course’

GENEVA: The number of Ebola infections The WHO study, carried out with the UNITED NATIONS: World leaders at a UN sum- President Dilma Rousseff said tackling climate The Global Environment Facility, a broad will triple to 20,000 by November, soaring Imperial College in London, forecast that if mit billed as the largest-ever gathering on cli- change and development were not contradicto- partnership of governments, civil society and by thousands every week if efforts to stop no significant action is taken, “the cumula- mate change faced calls yesterday to take bold ry goals, saying “we have reduced poverty and the private sector, pledged $3 billion in climate the outbreak are not stepped up radically, tive number of confirmed and probable cas- action to reverse global warming. “Today, we we have protected the environment.” finance for the next four years, focused on cities the WHO warned in a study yesterday. “If we es by November 2 ... will be 5,925 in Guinea, must set the world on a new course,” United and commodities suppliers. The summit talks don’t stop the epidemic very soon, this is 9,939 in Liberia and 5,063 in Sierra Leone”. Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at DiCaprio at the podium are separate from the negotiations held under going to turn from a disaster into a catastro- The case total for those three countries the opening of the summit at UN headquarters Leonardo DiCaprio brought star power to the the UN Framework Convention on Climate phe,” said Christopher Dye, the head of strat- alone will therefore surpass 20,000, said the in New York. “I am asking you to lead.” UN summit, urging leaders to stop treating glob- Change (UNFCCC), which will culminate with egy at the World Health Organization and a study published in the New England Journal The meeting is the first of its kind since the al warming as if it were a fiction. “As an actor, I the Paris conference in December 2015. The co-author of the study. Unless reined in, the of Medicine yesterday. Higher infection outbreak could drag out for years and possi- rates would translate into a jump in the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters United Nations is seeking to limit global warm- bly become entrenched in West Africa, number of deaths as the experts suggest in disarray in 2009 and is seen as crucial to build often solving fictitious problems,” the actor told ing to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees where it has already killed more than 2,800 the real fatality rate is much higher than the momentum ahead of the Paris conference in the summit. “I believe mankind has looked at cli- Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels, but scien- people. “Without drastic improvements in widely estimated one in two. late 2015. Diplomats and climate activists hope mate change in that same way-as if it were fic- tists say current emission trends could hike tem- control measures, the numbers of cases of If only cases of deaths and recovery were the summit attended by 120 leaders will pave tion.” Sporting a ponytail and suit and tie, the peratures to more than twice that level by cen- and deaths from Ebola are expected to con- taken into account, the fatality rate stands at the way for a deal to be reached in Paris on star of “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Titanic” said: tury’s end. tinue increasing from hundreds to thou- about 71 percent, the study showed. “We reducing greenhouse gas emissions after 2020. “Now it is your turn, the time to answer One recent report warned that a surge in car- sands per week in the coming months,” the are seeing exponential growth and we need But no-shows from the leaders of China, the humankind’s greatest challenge is now. We beg bon dioxide levels had pushed greenhouse gas- study said. to act now,” Dye said. The United Nations is world’s biggest polluter, and India, the number- of you to face it with courage and honesty.” es to record highs in the atmosphere, increasing “We’ve rather modestly only extended seeking to raise nearly $1.0 billion to defeat three carbon emitter, cast a cloud over the The summit was being held after marches at their fastest rate in 30 years in 2013. The 1997 the projections to November 2, but if you go the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola, which the event. France pledged up to $1 billion to the UN drew hundreds of thousands of demonstrators Kyoto Protocol, the first international agree- to... January 2, you’re into hundreds of thou- Security Council has declared a threat to Green Climate Fund, which helps finance cli- to the streets of cities worldwide on Sunday in a ment to reduce emissions, has commitment sands,” Dye told reporters in Geneva. The world peace. mate change reform in poorer countries, and show of “people power” directed at leaders periods, the last of which expired in 2012. But it epidemic might simply “rumble on as it has Ebola fever can fell its victims within the United States was expected to make reluctant to tackle global warming. Key players has since been renewed. However the protocol for the last few months for the next few days, causing severe muscle pain, vomiting, pledges later in the day. French President from the private sector also stepped into the was never ratified by the US. Attempts to nego- years,” he said, stressing that “the fear is that diarrhea and-in many cases-unstoppable Francois Hollande said the Paris conference fray to trumpet their commitment to greening, tiate a new treaty ended in fiasco at the Ebola will become more or less a permanent internal and external bleeding. It is one of should deliver a “global and ambitious” deal and with Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing on Copenhagen conference in 2009 and the pres- feature of the human population.” the deadliest viruses known to man, and the warned that climate change posed a “threat to Monday that the tech giant would prioritize sure is on to avoid a repeat of that failure at the current crisis, which quietly began in south- world peace and security.” In her address, Brazil’s low-carbon growth. UN talks in Paris next year. — AFP An overflow of bodies ern Guinea last December, has by far killed In the West African region reeling from more than all other Ebola outbreaks com- the outbreak, the steepest challenge is cur- bined. The previous deadliest outbreak was rently facing Liberia, where more than 3,000 the very first one on record, in Democratic people have been infected, nearly 1,600 Republic of Congo in 1976, when 280 peo- Spain abandons plan to tighten abortion laws people have died, and where health workers ple died. turn away people begging for their lives MADRID: Spain’s conservative government yesterday from treatment units due to chronic short- Virus mutation abandoned controversial plans to restrict access to abor- ages of beds and staff. Dye said that while the virus ravaging tion after failing to agree on how far the reform should go, The country has some 150 foreign spe- West Africa was acting similarly to previous Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said. Rajoy told reporters his cialized medical workers on the ground and outbreaks, what has changed is the density government would drop the most contentious parts of the needs at least 600, and it’s aiming to scale its and mobility of the population affected. proposed reform, which would have ended women’s right current 400 Ebola beds up to around 2,000 Cultural practices like washing and touching to freely opt for abortion up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy. within weeks. “It is like trying to remedy an dead bodies have compounded the prob- “I think I have taken the most sensible decision at this earthquake when it is happening,” said lem, as had the very slow response in coun- time,” Rajoy told reporters. “We cannot have a law that will Antonio Vigilante, UN deputy special repre- tries never before hit by the virus as well as be changed in a minute as soon as another government sentative for recovery and governance. by the international community, he said. comes along.” He said his government would push on with Sierra Leone, where more than 1,800 have Weak health systems in the hardest-hit a family-planning reform but it would focus on just two been infected and nearly 600 have died, countries are also largely to blame, said issues: requiring girls aged under 18 to get their parents’ said Monday it had “an overflow of bodies”, Christl Donnelly, a professor of statistical consent to have an abortion, and other “family support” after a controversial nationwide lockdown epidemiology at the Imperial College and a measures. helped uncover more than 200 new cases. co-author of the study.— AFP It will therefore abandon the most controversial ele- ments earlier proposed by Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz- Gallardon, which sparked street protests and dissent within Rajoy’s own party. A draft of the reform approved in January would have allowed abortion only in cases of rape reported to the police or a medically-certified threat to the mother’s physical or psychological health. It would have ended a woman’s right to opt for an abor- tion on grounds of fetal abnormality. The former Socialist government brought Spain into line with much of Europe when it passed the current law in 2010. The existing law allows women to opt for abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, and up to 22 weeks if the fetus is seriously deformed or if the birth poses a serious risk to the mother. Ruiz-Gallardon had said lawmakers had to balance the woman’s rights with the unborn child’s, but he failed to gain enough support to bring his bill to parliament. “The government has tried as hard as possible to reach the NIGERIA: Guardian Secretary of Tundunwada Secondary School Roseline Edogbo broadest consensus possible,” Rajoy said. “We will contin- PIERRELATE: Pierrelatte’s zoo director Samuel Martin holds African dwarf crocodiles, speaks to students about Ebola during an assembly in Abuja. — AFP ue studying ways to obtain greater acceptance of the three days after their birth at the zoological centre La Ferme aux Crocodiles in south- reform.” —AFP eastern France.— AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Dr Lobna Bassiouni Indian spacecraft on Ibrahim joins Royale Hayat Hospital course to reach Mars KUWAIT: Dr Lobna Bassiouni, is the new physician at RHH Department of Nation to join elite club of Martian explorers Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr Lobna has a Medical Doctorate in Infertility and IVF, NEW DELHI: With homegrown technology and a a Masters Degree of Obstetrics and remarkably low budget of about $75 million, Gynecology in hysteroscopy, in addition India was on course to become the first nation to graduating her MB ChB from the to conduct a successful Mars mission on its first Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, try. If the Mars Orbiter Mission, affectionately Egypt. Prior to joining Royale Hayat nicknamed MOM, settles into orbit today morn- Hospital, Dr Lobna was a consultant at ing as planned, India will join the US, European Space Agency and the former Soviet Union in Hayat National Hospital-KSA, and a full the elite club of Martian explorers. lecture of Obstetrics and Gynecology in The next few hours will be crucial as the Faculty of Medicine - Tanta University Indian Space and Research Organization com- Egypt, where she is currently an active mands a series of maneuvers to position the member of its Educational and training spacecraft in its designated orbit around Mars. committee. “We have to excel,” space agency Chief K With over 20 years of experience and Radhakrishnan said, adding that the mission training in Obstetrics and Gynecology would “establish the capabilities of India to orbit Surgery at St Charles Hospital - Ohio USA, a spacecraft around Mars.” Dr Lobna cares for patients with normal If India can pull it off, it would be a major feat and operative deliveries and caesarian Dr Lobna Bassiouni for the developing country of 1.2 billion people, deliveries, in addition to managing most of which are poor. At the same time, India repeated abortions and performing fol- laparoscopy, laparoscopy for ovarian has a robust scientific and technical education low-up on Infertility and Assisted cysts, ectopic pregnancy and system that has produced millions of software Reproduction, and treating menstrual Adhesiolysis and Hysteroscopy programmers, engineers and doctors. It would disorders, as well as diagnostic (Diagnostic and Operative). also be the first success on a maiden attempt. More than half the world’s previous attempts - 23 out of 41 missions - have failed, including attempts by Japan in 1999 and China in 2011. Scientists were giddy when the orbiter reached the outer sphere of Mars’ gravitational pull on Monday, after the main liquid engine successfully fired after being dormant for 300 days as the satellite traveled 666 million kilome- ters (413 million miles) since breaking away from Earth’s gravitational sphere on Dec 1. “The spacecraft is healthy. It has completed 98 per- cent of its journey to Mars,” Radhakrishnan said. The Indian space agency confirmed that MOM had a “perfect burn for 4 seconds as pro- grammed” that adjusted the spaceship’s trajec- tory. Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to join scientists at the agency’s command center in Bangalore to monitor the satellite’s final inser- tion into orbit today morning.

High-tech space abilities The 1,350-kilogram (nearly 3,000-pound) orbiter would join NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, or Maven, which reached its position around the Red Planet on VIENNA: US Concept Artist Joseph Kosuth poses during the opening of his exhibition SRIHARIKOTA, India: In this Nov 5, 2013 file photo, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- dedicated to psychanalysm founder Sigmund Freud. —AFP Sunday for a price tag of $671 million - nearly 10 times that of MOM’s. Maven’s chief investigator, C25) rocket lifts off carrying India’s Mars spacecraft from the east-coast island. — AP Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado, said launched a lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, which how planets form, what conditions might make Vienna still struggles with Freud the US team was rooting for the Indian mission. discovered key evidence of water on the Moon in life possible and where else in the universe it “We’re hoping for their success,” he said Monday. 2008. might exist. Some of the data will complement VIENNA: Even before Sigmund Freud fled of ideas and the analysis of dreams and “We’re sending them the best wishes from the MOM’s scientific goals including using five research expected to be conducted by Maven. Hitler on the Orient Express from Vienna in libido, including in childhood. entire Maven team.” solar-powered instruments to gather data that The spacecraft is expected to circle the planet June 1938, the father of psychoanalysis and Such revolutionary ideas, formulating for There are three more satellites already circling will help determine how Martian weather sys- for at least six months, following an elliptical orbit his ideas about sex, dreams and cocaine instance the Oedipus Complex theory- the planet - NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter tems work and what happened to the water that that gets within 365 kilometers (227 miles) of the divided opinion in the Austrian capital. And involving sexual attraction to a parent of the and Mars Odyssey, and the ESA’s Mars Express. On is believed to have once existed on Mars in large planet’s surface at its closest and 80,000 kilome- even now, 75 years after his death in London opposite sex - and pushing cocaine as a cure the Martian surface, NASA’s Curiosity and quantities. It also will search Mars for methane, a ters (49,700 miles) at its farthest. Radhakrishnan on September 23, 1939, Freud and the for mental problems won him admirers but Opportunity rovers are rolling across rocky ter- key chemical in life processes on Earth that could said that while the space agency hopes to soon groundbreaking theory of mind that he also many detractors. After Adolf Hitler rain. India has said the spacecraft - also called also come from geological processes. None of the put a rover on the Moon and to launch another fathered still lack the recognition they entered Vienna to cheering crowds in March Mangalyaan, meaning “Mars craft” in Hindi - is instruments will send back enough data to space mission to study the Sun, its main focus will achieved elsewhere. 1938 and “annexed” his native country into chiefly meant to showcase the country’s high- answer these questions definitively, but experts remain developing technologies for commercial “Nobody is a prophet in their own coun- the Third Reich, the octogenarian Freud did tech space abilities. Already, India has successfully say the data will help them better understand and navigational satellite applications. —AP try, and this is particularly true of Freud and not at first recognize the dangers facing Vienna,” Monika Pessler, director of the small Austria’s Jews — 65,000 of whom would ulti- museum at Berggasse 19, the spot where mately die at the hands of the Nazis, with Freud lived and worked for 47 years, said. another 130,000 forced to flee. He was never Satellite tracking company offers Because he and his many followers had to to return, dying the following year aged 83, escape, “it was elsewhere that psychoanaly- and the Nazis publicly burned his works. to help search for missing planes sis really took off - in London, New York, Buenos Aires. In Vienna it still fights for Rat man NEW YORK: Aireon LLC, a provider of satellite- to have crashed, killing 239 people, it could have or an emergency, we would have that information recognition today, even at universities,” she Today, Vienna’s Freud museum attracts based aircraft monitoring, said it will offer its vastly improved the search. Existing technology (and) provide it to the appropriate authorities.” said. some 75,000 visitors every year to see where tracking data for free to help authorities search for can track aircraft flying over seas every 10 min- The McLean, Virginia-based company has Freud was born in 1856 in the present- his many famous patients, given nicknames future missing planes. The system will go live in utes, while Aireon says its upcoming system will received more than $280 million from air traffic day Czech Republic, moving aged four to like “rat man” or “wolf man” in his case notes, 2017, when its parent company Iridium transmit location data twice per second, using authorities in Canada, Italy, Ireland and Denmark Vienna, at the time a glittering imperial capi- would take to the famous couch - now itself Communications Inc finishes installing 66 next- what’s known as automatic dependent surveil- as well as from Iridium to put ADS-B capability on tal and a haven for the leading minds of cul- in London. “Freud? He is Vienna’s most generation satellites plus spares that will provide lance-broadcast, or ADS-B. the satellite network. The US Federal Aviation ture and science of the time, many of them, famous face the world over. Thanks to litera- real-time data to air traffic control centers. “Because of these inter-satellite links, it not Administration has erected 634 towers nation- like Freud, Jewish. Qualifying as a doctor, ture and cinema, and Woody Allen in partic- While Aireon’s system might not have prevent- only provides pole-to-pole coverage, but it gives wide to support ADS-B communications, although Freud over the decades sought to treat men- ular, he became a kind of global pop culture ed the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which real-time transfer of that data,” Aireon’s chief exec- unlike satellite systems, the coverage is limited to tal disorders by investigating a patient’s icon,” Vienna’s tourism chief Norbert Kettner vanished from radar on March 8 and is presumed utive Don Thoma said. “In the event of an accident aircraft flying over land.—Reuters unconscious mind through “free association” said.—AFP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

TESOL Kuwait invites educators to ‘Open Meeting’

he teacher organization, TESOL Kuwait, invites all educators throughout Kuwait to their fall open meeting to be held on Saturday, September 27, 2014 (9:00 am -12 pm) at the Australian College of Kuwait located in Mishref. A choice of Tteacher development workshops will be offered as well as an update on our organization and membership. Registration starts at 9:00 am and the program will start at 10:00 am. CRYchess 2014

riends of CRY Club (FOCC), announces plans for rounds. After each round, the computer software 2014 Chess Tournament for children of all ages pairs players based on the automatically calculated Fup to high-school. “CRYchess 2014” will be held player rankings. at the Salmiya Indian Model School (SIMS), on After the fifth round, the final ranking is deter- November 28 from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. The players mined by the software according to the number of will be allocated groups by their age, to play in the games won and on the rating of the opponents Swiss pairing format. defeated. Each group is supervised by an arbiter. The Sponsors are also welcome to encourage the par- arbiters are volunteers who have a sound chess play- ticipating young chess players. The last date for reg- ing background and offer their services for the cause istration is on November 22. Children of all ages and of promoting this game. Friends of CRY Club was various nationalities competed in the annual event established in November 2003 in Kuwait with the which had some of those participating over and over objective of having sustainable, result oriented, well every year. “With CRY everyone wins” is the slogan founded organization to continue to be in service of FOCC carries. The players are paired in the Swiss the deprived children with synergic participation of Pairing System, which is used in many international a cross section of people in Kuwait. chess tournaments. All the children play all the 5 Indian Frontliners bids farewell to G Rajasekar

ajasekar, Ex-AGM of Warba Insurance Company was given a farewell by RIndian Frontliners (IFL) in a small get- together at Saravanabavan Restaurant in Fahaheel. Rajasekar, who has lived in Kuwait for more than three decades, has decided to call it a day and settle down in his home country. Singaravelu in his welcome speech gave a hint about the contributions of Rajasekar Onam celebrations by to the society. This was followed by Serarelvan, Gen Secretary of IFL who warmly recounted his experiences as a good friend. Kuwait Malayali Cafe NC Mohandoss, founder of IFL, elaborated about Rajasekar’s priceless contribution to uwait Malayali Cafe, a Facebook group organ- Mavelikkara as part of its charity and altruistic pro- IFL as a founding member and the trials and ized by the expatriate Malayalees in Kuwait grams. tribulations they went through together in Kheld its 4th annual meet and Onam celebra- The celebrations titled as ‘Ponnonam 2014’ started at the initial years. He also fondly recalled how tions on 19 September 2014 at Abbasiya. Leaving 10am by lighting up the traditional lamp by Sam he emotionally appealed to Rajasekar to be behind all their busy schedules, nostalgic feeling, pain Pynamoodu, group administrators and the little kids of part of Frontliners, in spite of his re-location. and torment of exiled life, all the members gathered the group. Dinesh Kaniyattil offered the welcome Muthukrishnan appreciated Rajasekar’s to celebrate Onam - their homeland Kerala’s most speech and Saju Oommen, Sajeev Koshy and Manoj contribution to the growth of Warba insur- auspicious festival. There are loads of similar organiza- Kumar delivered the Onam greetings speech. Jobin ance and LIC of India and his service to his Kalai Mandram. She spoke about how he praised his contribution to the professional, tions in various parts of the Gulf countries including John delivered vote of thanks. Various cultural activities fellow men, country and society at large. used to plan and present great programs on social and spiritual field. Due credit goes to Kuwait but Kuwait Malayali Cafe stands out among like cinematic dance and other traditional art forms of Rama praised his unassuming nature, humil- a tight budget and his perfect book-keep- Usha who is the woman behind the success- others through its contributions and social commit- Kerala were performed under the leadership and partic- ity, simplicity and hard work. Selladurai ing. Nandagopal regaled the audience with ful man. Rajasekar thanked everyone for the ments. On 27 December 2013, KMC gave out more ipation of Dinesh, Renjith, Haseeb, Shajina, Shaji, Prasad spoke about his spiritual inclinations, his an account of how he became friends with beautiful sentiments they expressed. He than IRS 2, 07,000 as charity to various individuals and and Jamshi,Vinu Vijayakumar, Sonu, Azad and Eldo selfless service to friends and his generosity. Rajasekar and how he took his daughter on wondered whether he was worth all that organizations in Kerala. To top the list, on the Onam conducted games for the cultural programs. The meet- Ann praised his tenacity, his dedication to a tow truck to his house. praise once again revealing his humility. He day (07 September 2014), the group provided ing honored the teachers in their group Deepa, Noel work, principled lifestyle and his profession- Nagu, Srinivasan, Tangam, Durai, promised to be in touch with his friends. The Onasadya (traditional Onam special feast) to the 212 and Anu Mathew. The meeting concluded at 4 pm with al ethics where as Anandi recounted their Mariappan, Arumugam, Subbu party came to a close with a sumptuous din- inmates of Shalom Orphanage Kurathiyadu, a traditional Onasadya. days together as team members in Bharati Lakshmanan, Nisha and everyone present ner.

Greetings Marthoma Church wins KTMCC Mega Bible Quiz uwait Town Malayalee Christian Congregation’s (KTMCC) Mega Bible Quiz (MBQ 2014) trophy has been lifted by Sally KVarghese and Rosy Oommen of Kuwait City Marthoma Church. The Second Prize went to St Thomas Marthoma Church represented by Dr Alice Kurian and Jolly Mathai and the Third Prize was secured by E M Jacob and Varghese Mathew of Pentecostal Church of Kuwait. This colorful event was presided over by the Convener Mathew Daniel at National Evangelical Church and Parish Hall in which hundreds of attendees were pres- ent. The winners were appreciated and trophies were distributed by M Mathews (Sunnychayan), Pr Sunny Alexander, Abey Mathew (KTMCC President), Roy K Yohannnan (Secretary NECK), Giby Varghese Tharaken (Treasure KTMCC). Shajy Cherian John (Secretary KTMCC), Joy Paniker, Sam T Koshy lead various sessions and congratulated the winners. Mathew Daniel, Joy Panicker, Zachariya Mathew, A G Cherian, any happy returns of the day to our darling Blesson Varghese, Finny Cherian George, Biju Philip. Mathew Shannon Coelho who celebrates her birth- Daniel was the convener and Joy Panicker was the Coordinator. Mday today. May God bless you with a lot of Teams from 16 churches represented the Bible Quiz. Mathew happiness and excellent health. Wishes from your John (Kishore) and Pamod George were the technical team mem- sister Nicole, mum, dad, nanas, Fr Franco, cousins, bers. Scoring team consisted of Gigy M Thomas, Sunny Andrews, aunts, uncles, Rachelle, Melvi, Stanley, Husnein, Sunil Mathai and Thomas John M, Issac Varghese, Sam V Thomas, Saad and your friends here in Kuwait. CM Abraham, KP Koshy and John M John was in the judging pan- el. Sabu Geore Pandalam and Tina Amit were the anchors. A call amid communal complexities

By Sunil Cherian script a divided nation vulnerable for invasions of spare any forces that have left their evil footprints in many kind. His logic that we were all once one-culture the otherwise refined society whether it be the moral hayankaraamudy (The alarming mount), the not people before we became Muslims, Christians and police, or the charismatic movement or the young much explored place in southern Kerala, is the Hindus may not be approved by all, a point that in a militia who have been practicing their shooting skills Btitle of a novel that very much explores a theme way can only strengthen his point. on wooden figures. that many writers decline to tread: the growing com- The 150-page Malayalam novel, published early Abundant references, brief quotes and quips, and munal disharmony in Kerala. The point, the first time this year, had its second edition released in Kuwait last relevant newspaper stories blood the body of a novel novelist Ravivarma Thampuran is making is worthy of week during Venmany Association program in which that is written from an investigator’s angle. The jour- note that we are all bound by our own human nature Varma was the chief guest. “My aim is that we, as nalists who form a resisting alliance are frustrated by despite our color and creed. Heard this thousand responsible people, do not turn a blind eye to the their discovery of their fiery editor’s unholy links. But times over? Varma asserts his positive premise dividing forces”, said Varma, a journalist and an author the killer is yet another frustrated both on a personal apophatically, attaining his point through negation, by of a couple of short stories and studies. At heart the and social level. Varma does not offer solutions nor detailing the blemished chapters of a 100 years long novel is about the decadence of Malayali society that does he intimidate the reader. He does find fear as the history - from Tipu Sultan’s divide and rule policy is prone to detachment and exclusion of others that root cause of evil then of the rulers and now of the through Narendra Modism’s hold in Kerala, a state are even facilitated by the media. The setting, a news- separatists. The novel is rather a signboard than an in once resistant to communal politics. His intentions are paper office where an editor is killed at the eerie hours depth treatise or critique on the communally-corrupt- pure even when he imagines that Kerala, like Kashmir, of the night, could be possible anywhere. The eeriness ed society. Perhaps that is the author’s tactic for the Rajan Daniel releases the second edition of Bhayankaramudi, a Malayalam novel penned might ask for independence by its own destructive is translated into the language of the rowdies and the novel to reach a greater audience which is the pur- by Ravivarma Thampuran during Venmani Association Onam program at United Indian forces conditioned by external power brokers who radicals for the democratic reader. Varma does not pose of such a theme. School, Abbassiya last Friday. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah The groom Abdullah Sharidah Al-Mou’sharj The groom and his father

Sheikh Naser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah HH the Crown Prince and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khalid Sheikh Fahad Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Al-Sabah Al-Muoasherji hosts son Abdallah’s wedding

hareedah Abdullah Al-Muoasherji held a wedding for his son Abdallah on Monday at Badrya Hall, in SJumeira Hotel. The wedding was attended by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, HH Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad, Deputy Premier, Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al- Abdallah Al-Sabah, Sheikh Salem Al-Abdulaziz Al-Sabah, Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Fahad Salem Al-Ali, and other dignitaries.-Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah Sheikh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah

Sheikh Ali Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Abullah Al-Roumi Jassem Al-Aoun MP Yaqoub Al-Sane’a

Salem Al-Othaina Hussein Al-Hraiti Essa Al-Kandari

Friends and relatives at the wedding ceremony. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

07:15 The Weakest Link 17:30 Brain Games 08:00 As Time Goes By 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 08:30 One Foot In The Grave 19:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 09:00 Eastenders 20:00 Hunter Hunted 00:45 Buggin’ With Ruud 09:30 Doctors 21:00 Brain Games 01:35 Animal Cops Houston 10:00 Great Ormond Street 21:30 Brain Games 02:25 Shamwari: A Wild Life 10:50 Call The Midwife 00:30 Untold With Maria 00:40 The Hungry Sailors 02:50 Shamwari: A Wild Life 11:45 As Time Goes By Menounos 01:30 Coach Trip 03:15 Bondi Vet 12:15 One Foot In The Grave 01:25 Keeping Up With The 02:00 Emmerdale 04:05 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 12:45 Walk On The Wild Side Kardashians 02:55 Coronation Street 02:20 Fashion Police 04:30 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 13:15 Eastenders 03:25 Murdoch Mysteries 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 03:15 Eric And Jessie: Game On 04:55 Into The Shark Bite 13:45 Doctors 05:15 The Chase 05:45 Buggin’ With Ruud 14:15 Great Ormond Street Stewart 04:10 E!ES 06:10 Please Marry My Boy 06:35 Animal Airport 15:05 Call The Midwife 01:00 The Colbert Report 06:00 15 Remarkable Celebrity 07:00 Meerkat Manor 15:55 As Time Goes By 01:30 Legit Body Bouncebacks 07:05 Coach Trip 07:25 Dogs 101 16:25 The Weakest Link 02:30 South Park 07:50 Style Star 07:30 Murdoch Mysteries 08:15 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 17:10 Eastenders 03:00 Hot In Cleveland 08:20 Fashion Police 09:20 Lightfields 08:45 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 17:40 Doctors 03:30 Baby Daddy 08:45 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 10:15 The Chase 09:10 Weird Creatures With Nick 18:10 Great Ormond Street 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 11:10 Emmerdale Jimmy Fallon 11:10 The Drama Queen Baker 19:00 Dead Boss 12:00 Coronation Street 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 12:05 Fashion Police 10:05 Call Of The Wildman 19:30 Big School 12:30 The Hungry Sailors 10:30 Call Of The Wildman 20:00 Last Tango In Halifax 09:00 Hot In Cleveland 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 13:25 Please Marry My Boy 11:00 Shark Girl 20:55 Afterlife 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 13:35 THS 11:55 Meerkat Manor 21:40 Absolutely Fabulous Jimmy Fallon 14:30 Style Star 14:20 Coach Trip 12:20 Animal Airport 22:10 Mo 14:00 Baby Daddy 15:00 Kourtney And Kim Take 14:45 The Chase 12:50 Bondi Vet 23:50 The Weakest Link 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon Miami 15:35 Doc Martin 13:45 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors Stewart 17:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 16:30 The Widower 14:15 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 16:00 The Colbert Report 17:30 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 17:25 Lightfields 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 18:00 E! News 14:40 Shamwari: A Wild Life 18:20 Please Marry My Boy 18:00 Hot In Cleveland 19:00 Giuliana & Bill 15:05 Shamwari: A Wild Life 19:10 Coronation Street 15:30 Dogs 101 18:30 Baby Daddy 20:00 Giuliana & Bill 19:35 Doc Martin 16:30 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 19:00 Melissa & Joey 21:00 E! News Special 17:00 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 00:20 When Fish Attack 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 21:30 Keeping Up With The 20:30 The Widower 17:25 Preposterous Pets 01:10 Fish Legends Of Jakub Jimmy Fallon Kardashians 21:25 Lightfields 18:20 Call Of The Wildman Vagner 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 22:30 E! News 22:20 Coronation Street 18:45 Call Of The Wildman 02:00 Fast N’ Loud Stewart 23:30 E!ES 22:50 Emmerdale 02:50 Storage Hunters 21:30 The Colbert Report 03:15 American Diggers 22:00 The Boondocks 03:40 The Liquidator 23:00 South Park 04:05 How It’s Made 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 04:30 How Do They Do It? Wallonia Brussels 00:20 Simply Italian 05:00 Gold Divers 00:45 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 06:00 Classic Car Rescue 06:50 Deadliest Catch Taylor 00:00 Royal Pains Federation 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 01:10 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 01:00 Devious Maids 01:40 Bargain Hunt 08:30 Storage Hunters 08:55 American Diggers 02:00 Burn Notice 03:55 Homes Under The Hammer 03:00 American Horror Story: backs 47 projects 04:45 Food & Drink 09:20 The Liquidator 09:45 How It’s Made Coven 05:15 Simply Italian 04:00 The Voice aco Van Dormael’s “The Brand New Testament,” 05:40 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 10:10 How Do They Do It? 10:35 River Monsters 06:00 Royal Pains Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s “Let The Bodies Taylor 08:00 Criminal Minds 06:10 Bargain Hunt 11:25 When Fish Attack JSunbathe” are among the 19 feature films selected 09:00 Devious Maids 08:30 Homes Under The Hammer 12:15 Fish Legends Of Jakub by the Wallonia Brussels Federation to receive funding. Vagner 10:00 The Voice The org will be injecting more than 3.2 million Euros 09:20 Food & Drink 12:00 Emmerdale 09:50 Simply Italian 13:05 Storage Hunters ($3.8 million) into 47 projects, including feature films, 13:30 American Diggers 12:30 Coronation Street 10:15 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show STANDING OVATION ON OSN MOVIES HD shorts, documentaries and TV movies. Taylor 13:55 The Liquidator 14:20 Deadliest Catch 14:00 Criminal Minds Van Dormael’s “Testament” is a surrealist comedy co- 10:40 Bargain Hunt 18:00 Overboard-PG15 02:15 My Naked Secret 15:10 Classic Car Rescue 15:00 Royal Pains written by Thomas Gunzig. The film, which is now 12:55 Homes Under The Hammer 20:00 Win A Date With Tad 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 16:00 Emmerdale shooting in Belgium, stars Benoit Poelvoorde, 13:45 The Restaurant UK Hamilton!-PG 03:05 Secretly Pregnant 16:50 How It’s Made 16:30 Coronation Street Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau. Le Pacte han- 14:40 Food & Drink 22:00 Dude, Where’s My Car?-PG15 00:30 AFL Premiership highlights 03:55 Long Island Medium 17:15 How Do They Do It? 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show dles international sales. It’s produced by Terra Incognita 15:05 Simply Italian 01:30 Currie Cup 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 17:40 Gold Divers 18:00 Criminal Minds 15:30 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 03:00 NRL Full time 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress Films. Cattet and Forzani, whose latest singular films, 18:30 You Have Been Warned 19:00 The Voice Taylor 04:00 Futbol Mundial 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras “The Strange Color of Your Bodies’ Tears” and “Amer,” 19:20 What Happened Next? 20:00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 16:00 Bargain Hunt 04:30 ICC Cricket 360 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes were extensively showcased at festivals and sold world- 19:45 What Happened Next? 21:00 The Fosters 18:20 Beat My Build 05:00 Super league 07:00 Driving Me Crazy wide, will next venture into a film noir with “Let The 20:10 American Diggers 22:00 Mistresses 19:10 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 01:00 The Philly Kid-PG15 07:00 Golfing World 07:50 Oprah’s Master Class Bodies Sunbathe,” an adaptation of Jean-Patrick 20:35 The Liquidator 23:00 American Horror Story: Taylor 03:00 50/50-PG15 08:00 Top 14 08:40 Oprah’s Next Chapter 21:00 You Have Been Warned Coven Manchette’s novel. Anonymes Films is producing. 19:35 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 05:00 The Intouchables-PG15 10:00 ITM Cup 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 21:50 What Happened Next? Production fund will also go to “AnimaL,” Frederic Notebook: London 07:00 The Philly Kid-PG15 12:00 WEB.COM tour Highlights 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 22:15 What Happened Next? Dumont’s follow-up to “Un ange a la mer,” and “Kebab 20:00 Extreme Makeover: Home 09:00 Salmon Fishing In The 13:00 Golfing World 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 22:40 Dynamo: Magician Royal,” Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth’s tale Edition Specials Yemen-PG15 14:00 AFL Premiership highlights 11:10 Cake Boss Impossible about the King of the Belgians who gets lost in the 21:20 DIY SOS: The Big Build 11:00 The Intouchables-PG15 15:00 NRL Full time 11:35 17 Kids And Counting 23:30 You Have Been Warned 00:00 Bad Country-18 22:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 Atlas Shrugged-PG15 15:30 Futbol Mundial 12:00 Little People, Big World Balkans. Artemis Prods. and Nexus Factory are produc- 01:45 Absolute Fear-PG15 23:00 Beat My Build 15:00 The Chateau Meroux-PG15 16:00 Currie Cup 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes ing “Kebab Royal” and “AnimaL,” respectively. Among 03:30 Ghostbusters-PG 23:50 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 17:00 Salmon Fishing In The 18:00 Golfing World 13:15 Say Yes To The Dress – the minority co-production set to receive funding from 05:30 Jack Reacher-PG15 Taylor Yemen-PG15 19:00 Trans World Sport Bridesmaids Wallonia Brussels Federation is Clement Cogitore’s 07:45 Ghostbusters II-PG 19:00 Between Us-PG15 20:00 Inside The PGA Tour 13:40 Say Yes To The Dress – Afghanistan-set “The Wakhan Front,” written by Thomas 09:45 Snake Eyes-PG15 21:00 Maladies-PG15 20:30 European Challenge tour Bridesmaids 11:30 Dante’s Peak-PG15 Bidegain and produced by Kazak Productions. 00:00 Is It Real? 23:00 Arthur Newman-18 21:30 European senior tour high- 14:05 Secret Eaters 13:30 Chinese Zodiac-PG15 Belgium’s Tarantula is co-producing. Belgium has a 01:00 Untamed Americas lights 14:55 Brides Of Beverly Hills 15:45 Jack Reacher-PG15 small but vibrant film industry anchored by critically- 02:00 Nat Geo Amazing! 22:30 ITM Cup 15:20 Cake Boss 18:00 Snake Eyes-PG15 aclaimed filmmakers. The country will be represented 03:00 Divine Delinquents 15:45 Driving Me Crazy 20:00 Vantage Point-PG15 04:00 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras in the foreign-language Oscar race by Luc and Jean- 00:15 Eastenders 21:45 Transformers-PG15 Pierre Dardenne’s “Two Days, One Night” with Marion 00:45 Doctors 05:00 Breakout 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 01:00 Saturday Night Fever-18 00:00 NRL Full Time Cotillard (pictured above). Last year’s Belgian candidate 01:15 Great Ormond Street 06:00 Inside Combat Rescue 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 03:00 The Perks Of Being A 00:30 Futbol Mundial “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Felix Van Groeningen’s 02:05 Call The Midwife 07:00 Inside 18:15 17 Kids And Counting Wallflower-PG15 01:00 European SENIOR TOUR 03:00 One Foot In The Grave 08:00 Is It Real? 18:40 Little People, Big World romance drama, got shortlisted, while Michael R. 05:00 Girl In Progress-PG15 02:00 Challenge series Golf 03:30 Stella 09:00 Untamed Americas 00:00 Cottage Country-PG15 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes Roskam’s “Bullhead” was nominated for a foreign-lan- 07:00 Bobby Fischer Against The Highlights 04:15 The Weakest Link 10:00 Nat Geo Amazing! 02:00 The Guilt Trip-PG15 20:05 Brides Of Beverly Hills guage Oscar in 2012. — Reuters World-PG15 02:30 Champions Tour Highlights 05:00 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 11:00 Ultimate Airport Dubai 03:45 Mrs. Doubtfire-PG 20:30 Cake Boss 09:00 You Got Served: Beat The 03:30 Champions Tour Highlights 05:20 Boogie Beebies 12:00 My Brilliant Brain 06:00 12 Wishes Of Christmas-PG15 World-PG15 03:30 WEB.Com Tour Highlights 05:35 The Green Balloon Club 13:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 08:00 Meet The Fockers-PG15 10:30 Hoosiers-PG 04:30 V8 Supercars Highlights 06:00 Nina And The Neurons 14:00 Sea Patrol 10:00 The Stepford Wives-PG15 12:30 Les Miserables-PG15 05:30 V8 Supercars Highlights Resurgent Film Group 06:15 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 15:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 12:00 Drillbit Taylor-PG15 15:15 Buck-PG15 06:30 Challenge series Golf 06:35 Boogie Beebies 16:00 Hunter Hunted 14:00 Dudley Do Right-PG 16:45 You Got Served: Beat The Highlights 06:50 The Green Balloon Club 17:00 Brain Games 16:00 Meet The Fockers-PG15 launching with Brad World-PG15 07:00 Indycar Highlights 00:00 Violetta 18:45 The Missing-PG15 09:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 00:45 The Hive 21:00 Idlewild-18 10:00 Golfing World 00:50 Art Attack Thor’s ‘Lions of Lucerne’ 23:00 Mo Better Blues-18 01:15 Art Attack 11:00 NRL Premiership esurgent Film Group is launching operations with a movie 13:00 Champions Tour Highlights 01:40 Jungle Junction 01:50 Jungle Junction version of Brad Thor’s action-thriller “The Lions of Lucerne.” 14:00 WEB.COM TOUR The newly minted company is aiming to fund and produce 15:00 Challenge series Golf 02:05 Jungle Junction R 02:15 Jungle Junction its own projects in the mid-budget range. “Lions of Lucerne,” 01:00 Celeste And Jesse Forever- Highlights 02:30 Violetta which is planned for a shoot in Switzerland for the fall of 2015, will PG15 15:30 WWE This Week 03:15 The Hive have a budget in the $60 million to $70 million range. Des Carey is 03:00 Quartet-PG15 16:00 WWE RAW 03:20 Art Attack president, with Brent Baum as chief operating officer, Matthew 05:00 The Way Way Back-PG15 19:00 WWE Vintage 03:45 Art Attack Marsden as exec VP of development and Thor as executive chair- 07:00 Sky Force-FAM 20:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 04:10 Jungle Junction man. 09:00 The Internship-PG15 21:00 WWE Experience 04:20 Jungle Junction “The Lions of 11:00 Standing Ovation-PG15 22:00 WWE Vintage 04:35 Jungle Junction Lucerene” follows Scot 13:00 Muhammad Ali’s Greatest 23:00 Indycar Highlights 04:45 Jungle Junction Harvath, a young Navy Fight-PG15 05:00 Art Attack SEAL turned U.S. Secret 14:45 Hitchcock-PG15 05:25 Art Attack Service agent who sur- 16:30 The Internship-PG15 05:50 Mouk vives an attack, which 18:30 Man Of Steel-PG15 06:00 Jessie leaves 30 of his fellow 21:00 Five Thirteen-PG15 00:30 Champions League T20 06:25 Liv And Maddie agents dead and the pres- 23:00 Stoker-18 Highlights 06:45 Dog With A Blog ident of the United States 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 07:10 I Didn’t Do It kidnapped. He begins a 02:00 England Women v South 07:35 Sabrina: Secrets Of A worldwide hunt for those African Women T20I Highlights Teenage Witch responsible in an attempt 03:00 England Women v South 01:00 Hammer Boy 07:55 Win, Lose Or Draw to rescue the president. African Women T20I Highlights 02:30 The Great Bear 08:20 I Didn’t Do It Thor’s writing credits 04:00 England Women v South 04:15 Dragon Hunters 08:45 I Didn’t Do It include thrillers such as African Women T20I Highlights 06:00 Barbie In The 12 Dancing 09:05 Liv And Maddie “Act of War,” “Hidden 05:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue Princesses 09:30 Liv And Maddie Order” and “Black List.” He Highlights 08:00 Blue Elephant 2 09:55 Jessie told Variety the company 06:00 Champions League T20 10:00 Scooby-Doo! Adventures: 10:15 Jessie is hoping to turn “Lions of Highlights The Mystery Map! 10:40 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Lucerne” into a franchise 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 11:30 Jelly T Warrior since it’s the origin story 07:30 England Women v South 13:00 The Great Bear 12:05 Prank Stars for the Horvath character African Women T20I Highlights 14:30 Eleanor’s Secret 12:15 Austin & Ally and is aiming at high-quality projects with worldwide appeal- 08:30 England Women v South 16:00 Krazzy Planet 12:35 Sabrina: Secrets Of A along with investors committed to financing. “We’re combining African Women T20I Highlights 18:00 Scooby-Doo! Adventures: Teenage Witch Merchant-Ivory, Goldman Sachs and Jerry Bruckheimer as our 09:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue The Mystery Map! 13:00 Sabrina: Secrets Of A inspirations,” he added. The company began taking shape three Highlights 20:00 Pacific Pirates Teenage Witch years ago as Thor sought a return to his pre-novelist roots in 10:30 ICC Cricket 360 22:00 Eleanor’s Secret 13:25 Jessie broadcasting. 11:00 Champions League T20 23:30 Krazzy Planet 13:45 Jessie “A new era has begun in entertainment and Resurgent will set Highlights 14:10 Austin & Ally its gold standard. By developing top quality projects, attracting 12:00 Champions League T20 14:35 Win, Lose Or Draw top quality people, and deploying top quality processes, we are Highlights 15:00 Dog With A Blog going to create exceptional entertainment product that respects 13:00 Champions League T20 15:25 Gravity Falls our audience.” Carey has designed and produced the digital fin- Highlights 15:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A ishing on over 80 films including “Quantum Of Solace,” “Pirates Of 00:00 Looper-18 14:00 ICC Cricket 360 Teenage Witch The Caribbean: At World’s End,” “Terminator: Salvation,” “Mission: 02:00 Peeples-PG15 14:30 Champions League T20 16:10 Violetta Impossible III,” “Fast & Furious” and “Flight.”Baum is the 04:00 Good Day For It-PG15 Highlights 17:00 Zapped founder and previous president of Destination Films. He’s current- 06:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 18:30 Wolfblood S2 ly directing/producing the feature documentary “Finding Noah” 08:00 Stolen-PG15 18:55 Mako Mermaids and has been involved with development, production, financing, 10:00 Dangerous Attraction-PG15 19:20 Violetta distribution and sale of such titles as “The Wedding Planner,” “Eye 12:00 Jack The Giant Slayer-PG15 20:05 Sabrina: Secrets Of A of the Beholder” and “Beautiful.” Marsden’s credits as an actor 14:00 Red Dawn-PG15 Teenage Witch include “Black Hawk Down,” “Rambo” and “Resident Evil - 16:00 Stolen-PG15 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 20:30 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Extinction.” TV credits include “CSI Miami,” “The Ghost Whisperer,” 18:00 You Will Meet A Tall Dark 01:00 Hoarding: Buried Alive Teenage Witch “Nikita,” and “Two and a Half Men.” — Reuters CHINESE ZODIAC ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION Stranger-PG15 01:50 My Naked Secret Classifieds

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

SITUATION VACANT Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY Required a driver, any (18/09/2014 TO 24/09/2014) nationality for a Kuwaiti businessman, familiar with SHARQIA-1 INTO THE STORM (DIG) 3:15 PM 360º- 1 Kuwait areas. Contact: THE GIVER (DIG) 12:30 PM DAAWAT-E-ISHQ (DIG) (HINDI) 5:15 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:30 PM 97334456. (C 4770) NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 2:45 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 7:45 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 3:00 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 4:30 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 10:15 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 5:30 PM 24-9-2014 ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 6:30 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:45 AM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 8:00 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 8:15 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 10:30 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 10:15 PM FANAR-3 THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 1:00 AM SITUATION WANTED NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:15 AM THE GIVER (DIG) 12:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 2:30 PM 360º- 2 Indian female (MBA in HR), SHARQIA-2 THE GIVER (DIG) 4:15 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 2:30 PM 10 years experience in A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 6:15 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 4:45 PM HR/Administration. Capable TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 3:15 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 8:15 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 7:00 PM of managing all functions in JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 5:15 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 10:15 PM Special Show “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES” 7:00 PM HR/Admin. Proficient in MS A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 7:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:15 AM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 9:15 PM Office. Good communica- A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 9:45 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 11:30 PM tion skills. Please contact: A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:05 AM MARINA-1 94062123. (C 4765) THE GIVER (DIG) 12:45 PM 360º- 3 SHARQIA-3 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 2:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 1:15 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 1:00 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 4:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 3:30 PM Accountant (Indian) having THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 3:30 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 6:45 PM AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 3:30 PM experience in Middle East AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 3:00 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 8:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 6:30 PM and Africa for the last 23 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 6:00 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 11:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 9:30 PM years working in Kuwait as THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 8:00 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 12:45 AM AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 6:30 PM chief accountant since 2006 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 10:30 PM AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 9:30 PM looking for post of accounts THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:30 AM MARINA-2 HERCULES (DIG) 12:30 AM manager or chief account- THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 1:30 PM ant with iqama transfer. MUHALAB-1 NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 3:45 PM AL-KOUT.1 Contact: 97934610 / AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 1:30 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 5:30 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 1:00 PM 98856808. (C 4769) AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 4:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 7:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 3:15 PM 21-9-2014 single bachelor only, C-A/C (surname). Address: AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 7:30 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 9:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 5:30 PM with furniture, 2 BR + 2 bath Chirathadathil, THE GIVER (DIG) 10:30 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:15 AM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 7:45 PM new flat with small family, Kuravilangad, Kottayam, THE GIVER (DIG) 12:45 AM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 10:00 PM ACCOMMODATION rent KD 135. Contact: Kerala-686633. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 2:00 PM MARINA-3 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:15 AM 98007972/50038875. (C 4767) THE GIVER (DIG) 4:00 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 1:15 PM Sharing accommodation - (C 4766) NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 6:00 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 3:30 PM AL-KOUT.2 18-9-2014 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 7:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 5:45 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 1:30 PM two fully furnished & spa- Jolly James, D/O THE GIVER (DIG) 9:45 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 8:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 3:45 PM cious bedrooms in C-A/C Manamthadathil Mathai THE GIVER (DIG) 11:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 10:15 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM flat in Ishbiliya, block 1, very CHANGE OF NAME Chacko, holder of Indian A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:30 AM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 7:30 PM close to Farwaniya are avail- Passport No. J-5342969 MUHALAB-2 JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 9:30 PM able. Single Shajimon Jose hereby change my name to THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:45 PM AVENUES-1 ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 11:45 PM Pakistani/Indian Muslims Chirathadathil, S/O Joseph Jolly (given name) James THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 3:00 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 1:45 PM preferred. Contact Afzal THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 5:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 4:00 PM AL-KOUT.3 Chirathadathil, holder of (surname). Address: Shafi # 99714430. (C 4763) ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 4:00 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 2:00 PM Indian Passport No. J- Manamthadathil, THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 9:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 7:00 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 4:15 PM 5342968 hereby change my Kattappana, Idukki, Kerala. THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:05 AM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 10:00 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 6:15 PM Room with attached bath- name to Shajimon Jose (C 4768) AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 7:00 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 8:30 PM room in Salmiya near 18-9-2014 MUHALAB-3 AAGADU (DIG) (Telugu) 10:00 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 10:30 PM Amman Roundabout, for (given name) Chirathadathil A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 1:15 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 1:00 AM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 12:45 AM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 3:30 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 5:45 PM AVENUES-2 AL-KOUT.4 JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 8:00 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 2:30 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 12:45 PM 112 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 10:15 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 4:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 2:45 PM A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (DIG) 12:30 AM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 6:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 4:45 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 8:30 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 6:30 PM Prayer timings THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY FANAR-1 ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 10:30 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 8:30 PM FORCIVIL INFORMATION TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 1:45 PM ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 12:30 AM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 10:30 PM Fajr: 04:18 Automated enquiry about IF I STAY (DIG) 4:00 PM THE GIVER (DIG) 12:30 AM Shorook 05:37 the Civil ID card is ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM AVENUES-3 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 7:45 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 1:45 PM BAIRAQ-1 Duhr: 11:40 ELLY JAY AHSAN (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 4:15 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 1:00 PM 1889988 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 11:45 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 6:45 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG-3D) 3:15 PM Asr: 15:07 THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 9:15 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 5:30 PM Maghrib: 17:43 FANAR-2 THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 11:45 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG-3D) 7:45 PM THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 1:00 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED THE MAZE RUNNER (DIG) 10:00 PM Isha: 19:00

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Arrival Flights on Wednesday 24/9/2014 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 Departure Flights on Wednesday 24/9/2014 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 Airlines Flt Route Time SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 Airlines Flt Route Time UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:40 AIC 982 Ahmedabad/Hyderabad/Chennai 00:05 MRJ 4814 Mashhad 14:15 QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 FDB 081 Dubai 14:55 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:20 FDB 058 Dubai 14:25 JZR 267 Beirut 00:25 JZR 257 Beirut 14:55 JZR 562 Sohag 00:20 CLX 792 Hanoi 14:30 DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 UAL 981 IAD 00:25 IYE 827 Riyan, Mukalla/Sanaa 14:30 JZR 239 Amman 01:00 IRC 526 Mashhad 15:30 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 QTR 1079 Doha 14:55 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:25 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 JZR 502 Luxor 01:30 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:00 JZR 539 Cairo 01:30 KNE 462 Madinah 15:45 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 THY 764 Istanbul 01:40 IRM 1180 Mashhad 15:45 THY 773 Istanbul 02:20 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 AGY 680 Alexandria 15:50 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:45 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:35 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:00 KNE 460 Riyadh 15:55 KKK 6701 Istanbul 03:10 FDB 082 Dubai 15:35 KKK 6700 Istanbul 02:20 JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 MSC 404 Sohag 03:30 SVA 503 Madinah/Jeddah 15:45 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 FDB 070 Dubai 03:40 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 MSC 403 Sohag 02:30 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:15 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 JAI 576 Kochi/Abu Dhabi 02:35 FDB 051 Dubai 16:25 FDB 068 Dubai 04:05 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 02:45 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 KAC 513 Tehran 16:20 FDB 067 Dubai 03:05 UAE 857 Dubai 16:45 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 IRC 527 Mashhad 16:30 CEB 7694 Manila 03:10 NIA 251 Alexandria 16:50 OMA 644 Muscat 04:20 KNE 463 Madinah 16:30 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 KAC 562 Amman 16:50 QTR 1077 Doha 04:25 KNE 481 Taif 16:40 OMA 643 Muscat 03:20 FDB 073 Dubai 16:55 CEB 7695 Manila 04:40 AGY 683 Sharm el-Sheikh 16:50 QTR 1076 Doha 03:30 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 FDB 078 Dubai 05:00 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:00 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:10 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 FDB 077 Dubai 04:15 FDB 075 Dubai 17:45 JZR 560 Sohag 05:35 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 RBG 556 Alexandria 06:05 FDB 074 Dubai 17:35 RBG 555 Alexandria 05:25 KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 DHX 172 EBL 06:10 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 RBG 553 Alexandria 18:20 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 BAW 157 London 06:35 QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 NIA 262 Luxor 17:50 JZR 1541 Cairo 06:40 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:30 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JZR 563 Sohag 06:45 JZR 483 Istanbul 18:35 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 KAC 166 Paris/Rome 18:40 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 KAC 204 Lahore 07:35 FDB 063 Dubai 18:45 KAC 545 Alexandria 07:20 UAE 58 Dubai 18:25 JZR 503 Luxor 07:40 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:00 JZR 256 Beirut 07:30 FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 ABY 129 Sharjah 19:00 FDB 76 Dubai 18:25 BAW 156 London 08:25 JZR 56 Dubai 18:35 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 KAC 618 Doha 19:00 FDB 054 Dubai 08:25 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 JZR 134 Bahrain 18:50 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 RBG 554 Alexandria 19:00 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 KAC 502 Beirut 19:20 QTR 1081 Doha 19:25 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 FDB 064 Dubai 19:25 KAC 344 Chennai 08:20 KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 MSR 606 Luxor 19:30 JZR 238 Amman 19:25 KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 ABY 120 Sharjah 19:40 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 KAC 102 New York/London 19:35 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:35 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:45 KAC 284 Dhaka 08:55 OMA 647 Muscat 19:55 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 MSR 619 Alexandria 20:30 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:10 FDB 061 Dubai 20:05 KAC 117 New York 10:00 KAC 283 Dhaka 20:30 IRA 665 Shiraz 09:25 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:15 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:20 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 ETD 919 Abu Dhabi 20:25 FDB 056 Dubai 10:20 FDB 062 Dubai 20:45 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:25 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 JZR 189 Dubai 20:25 KAC 361 Colombo 20:50 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 DHX 173 EBL 20:50 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:50 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 KAC 514 Tehran 20:50 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 IAW 157 Baghdad/Al Najaf 11:00 FDB 079 Dubai 21:05 DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 FDB 069 Dubai 21:10 KAC 501 Beirut 11:40 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 FDB 8051 Dubai 11:45 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:50 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 FDB 065 Dubai 11:55 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 IAW 158 Al Najaf/Baghdad 12:00 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 BON 101 Sarajevo 12:05 FDB 080 Dubai 21:50 JZR 561 Sohag 12:00 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 SYR 341 Damascus 12:05 JZR 135 Bahrain 21:45 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 12:10 KNE 480 Taif 22:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 FDB 071 Dubai 12:35 FDB 059 Dubai 22:10 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 ETD 920 Sharjah 22:25 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 KAC 103 London 12:30 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 MRJ 4815 Mashhad 13:00 AGY 682 Sharm el-Sheikh 22:45 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 FDB 8052 Dubai 12:30 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 JZR 157 Dubai 22:55 FDB 066 Dubai 12:40 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 CLX 792 Luxembourg 13:15 JZR 786 Riyadh 12:50 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 BBC 043 Dhaka 23:10 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 IYE 826 Sanaa/Mukalla 13:30 JAV 621 Amman 23:15 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 KAC 672 Dubai 13:40 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 SYR 342 Damascus 13:05 KNE 461 Riyadh 22:50 FDB 057 Dubai 13:45 NIA 263 Luxor 23:20 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 FDB 060 Dubai 22:50 QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 IRM 1189 Mashhad 13:15 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:35 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:15 KLM 411 Amsterdam/Dammam 23:40 FDB 072 Dubai 13:15 AGY 681 Alexandria 23:45 KAC 546 Alexandria 14:15 THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 KAC 415 Kuala Lumpur/Jakarta 23:50 DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION stars34 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

CROSSWORD 677 STAR TRACK

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

Your keyword today is responsibility. You are able to find yourself in others- Before this day is over you will have a better idea of how you want your a mirror or clear pool. You are a genius at bringing out others and getting new personal year to proceed. New goals and new energy seem most posi- them to do things for themselves or for you-you are a born strategist. You like to discuss tive at this time. You might have set up a schedule for moving ahead in business, purchas- and communicate, usually at a psychological and very personal level. Careful-some may ing land, organizing research, making time for loved ones and most of all making a better find you a bit too intense. Your love of the spiritual and the eternal is clear to all who meet balance in all of your affairs. If we missed this forecast, you might consider creating the you. You could find yourself involved in long conversations while visiting with friends this forecast for your own as this is the best time for planning ahead and creating future posi- afternoon. You love to solve the problems of the world, at least in words and images-and tive outcomes. You are quite intuitive and can sidestep most difficulties without realizing when you tell it, all are enchanted. A favorite hobby may take up the evening: building, you have done so. On this special evening, you should abandon the cares of the day, relax admiring, plotting to make additions, etc. and enjoy life. Happy birthday!

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

Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation You are coming into a time centered on taking what you know and what is concerned. You crave organization and practicality and you want to get things accom- you have and then making the most of it. Assimilating information and plished. Your hard work pays off today and much can be accomplished. You have a mind experience and learning lessons and putting what you learn into practice are the focus as for what is practical, organized and logical. Your employer is probably happy to get you- this period unfolds. Taking care of business is a major theme. You enjoy the results of prac- you are a natural for any management position or in dealing with the public. Some past ticality and organized works; you are successful. You aim to have a place for everything investment needs review and perhaps revising. You may find that now is a good time to and everything in its place, including your personal life. On a personal level it is important reinvest this old investment in some other direction-there is the possibility of additional to keep all of your basics in perspective; rest, appreciation of life and laughter are ade- gains. If you have not had communication with the eldest person in your family, you may quate to your needs. Romance can be wonderful in the right circumstances and those cir- want to show that person some consideration now. cumstances present themselves tonight. Good smells come from the grill tonight.

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

Your efforts really pay off and life seems to run smoothly. Now you have the There is time this morning to complete unfinished business. This morning ability for sustained work that allows you to coordinate and organize like you will also accidentally find an item that has been missing for some time. never before. You will bring uncompleted tasks to completion. This is a nice day that This could be a possession that belongs to you or to someone that is close to you. Your ACROSS DOWN should just flow along. The schedule you set for yourself today can be helpful but taxing. If decision-making ability in the work area shows some well-directed action is called for 1. The part of the nervous system of verte- 1. South American armadillo with three you can work in some focused exercise program later today, you will find it easier to relax today. However, you must be watchful for possible moments of pride. Challenging author- brates that controls involuntary actions of the bands of bony plates. this evening. Children have your attention this evening and it is a good time for play. ity and striving for success are on your agenda now. Ambition is a powerful motivation smooth muscles and heart and glands. 2. Being on the left side. Really join in and enjoy the play that children can create. This may mean creating some- and can lead you into conflict if you let it get out of control. If properly channeled, ambi- 4. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic 3. Of inferior or mixed breed. thing out of clay or simply coloring in a book. You could feel real connections and harmo- tion results in great achievements and recognition. Some fun time with friends this evening brings plenty of opportunity for laughter, song and gossip your way. root. 4. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed dur- ny at this time for circumstances and those around you. 12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially ing respiration and by the decomposition of in Turkey). organic substances. 15. A form of entertainment that enacts a sto- 5. At any time. ) ry by a sequence of images giving the illusion 6. An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Cancer (June 21-July 22 Capricorn (December 22-January 19) of continuous movement. Aegean Sea. Taking care of business is a major theme today. You desire successful organ- You are a great doer, and can accomplish quite a lot. You will find yourself 16. Be central or dominant. 7. A period marked by distinctive character or ization and practicality and you want to get things accomplished. Things are 17. A periodic paperback publication. reckoned from a fixed point or event. working with the public today. This could mean solving customer-relations happening and your career or path depends upon your own aspirations which are strong problems. The skillful ways you handle people make you a natural for working with or for 18. A city in northern India. 8. A dissolute man in fashionable society. now. You are able to use good common sense and you can feel the trends and make the the public. You would make an excellent teacher, career counselor or financial advisor- 20. Physicist honored for advances in solid 9. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect right moves. You will be pleased with the results of your actions. You are most persuasive and could enjoy performing these tasks quite well. The only problems in your career are state electronics (born in Japan in 1925). stalks bearing bright-colored flowers com- with others. You have eloquent skills in speech. The circumstances are good today for self- the fears you might have toward qualifying for work with which you are not familiar. Your 21. A condensed but memorable saying posed of three petals and three drooping expression. A good conversation with those you love is possible later this evening. Any career is never really a problem-you have the kind of drive that others could only dream of embodying some important fact of experi- sepals. misunderstandings of the past have a good opportunity to be healed. Enjoy a brisk walk having. This evening there is an opportunity to use your imagination to improve your liv- ence that is taken as true by many people. 10. A radioactive element of the actinide with your friend this evening. ing environment. Simplicity works. 23. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten series. cooked and sweetened. 11. Largest crested screamer. 25. A radioactive transuranic element pro- 12. A woman hired to suckle a child of some- Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) duced by bombarding plutonium with neu- one else. You somehow manage to gravitate to the center of almost any happening trons. 13. Mentally or physically infirm with age. There is a certain amount of transition taking place. This could mean job these days. Others accept you, for they sense you are a leader and they advancement soon. You may find yourself uninterested in sidetracks-what is not essential 26. A holy war by Muslims against unbeliev- 14. Advanced in years. admire your almost regal manner. You talk with someone new and find a different vision. for future advancement. You can really tune in on how to solve problems and get where ers. 19. Terminate before completion, as of a You may decide to ask for a raise or request a loan today. Refinement and relationships are you want to go when it comes to your profession. This could be a crucial time during 27. Wet spongy ground of decomposing veg- computer process, a mission, etc.. the keys to emotional satisfaction now. Close personal ties to other people are focal points which-depending upon your age when this takes place-you reach new highs of accom- etation. 22. English theoretical physicist who applied for your feelings; marriage and other partnerships could be key arenas for this. If you plishment. This will bring great discipline and a concentration or focus that could make or smoke, or have some other habit that is bad for your health, this is the day you will create 28. A Russian river. relativity theory to quantum mechanics and break you. You have the ability to work hard. You draw emotional sustenance and a sense another avenue where you can express yourself. Insights into your deeper, more spiritual 31. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic ele- predicted the existence of antimatter and the of security from ideals, friends and social involvement. There is a need for change, a desire nature are available now. Harmony surrounds you this evening. ment that resembles iron but is not magnetic. positron (1902-1984). to break with outmoded patterns. 33. A radioactive gaseous element formed by 24. God of fire. the disintegration of radium. 29. African tree having an exceedingly thick 34. A river that rises in central Germany and trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and Virgo (August 23-September 22) flows north to join the Elbe River. has an edible pulp called monkey bread. Pisces (February 19-March 20) 37. By bad luck. 30. A circular segment of a curve. This is a productive day. You have insight into your professional life and Working in groups affords the opportunity to strengthen a unit. You may be 41. Tropical American aroid having edible 32. A port and tourist center in southwestern required to lead or lend advice. Your management abilities are good and tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or Italy. you are developing future plans that will be valuable. Your path is toward cooperation and union with others, even at the expense of the practical and selfish. This may mean your sense of responsibility is so well developed that you always end up managing the sit- potatoes. 35. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. you are working toward some goal that involves legal or psychological subjects. You uations in which you become involved. You may have to be careful in this area since oth- 44. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir. 36. A statement that deviates from or per- enjoy the interaction with others and may find yourself in volunteer programs so as to feel ers could take advantage of you quite easily. You display your eagerness for your work and 45. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and verts the truth. useful and complete. You may often wonder if you are doing your job well and if you take much is accomplished today. This is a particularly good day in that a new piece of equip- brown and black and tan. 38. Hungarian choreographer who devel- a look at the results, you will be pleased to see the successes. 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This June 19, 2014 photo shows Chateau de Chenonceau, spanning the River Cher, near the village of Chenonceaux, France. —AP photos Cycling France’s Loire Valley

By Karen Schwartz Self-guided trip eral festivals, including a popular music event held outside Each town we visited - Amboise, Chenonceaux, the massive Chateau de Chambord, one of the biggest here are hundreds of miles of bike trails through the Chaumont, Chambord and Blois - was built around an and most striking chateaus in France, and a garden festival chateaux towns of the Loire Valley - and that’s what ancient chateau. Although few were ever fully inhabited on the castle grounds in Chaumont that continues until Ttripped us up. We’d been trying to cycle the 17 miles and all were emptied during the French Revolution, they Nov 2. (27 kilometers) from Chenonceaux to Chaumont, but kept are architecturally interesting and historically intriguing. getting lost. We even asked directions from a passing Our favorite was the Chateau de Chenonceau and its A worthwhile luxury motorist who was certain she knew which way the bike beautiful gardens. It has not only been refurnished, but We rented our well-maintained Trek hybrids from a route went, then sent us to the wrong town. Now we were the wing built spanning the river Cher has been turned chain called Detours de Loire because it offered a network at a Y-intersection on the outskirts of Chaumont; facing into a gallery that recounts the 16th century love affair of drop-off options, allowing us to pick up our bikes in two green-and-white bike path signs mounted on the between King Henri II and his much older mistress - along Amboise and leave them in Blois. There is an additional fee In this June 20, 2014 photo, opposing signs are posted same post, but pointing in opposite directions. with the revenge his wife, Queen Catherine de Medici, for this seasonal service, which varies with distance along a bike route in Chaumont-sur-Loire, France. Perplexed, we took a guess and went right, eventually eventually enjoyed. between locations. We also hired Detours de Loire to drive reaching our bed-and-breakfast from the back of town. It was also the site of our best meal, on the terrace of our luggage from one hotel to the next for about $50 per Perhaps the other fork would have led to the front. our hotel, La Roseraie, a simple 18th century inn that transfer. We sometimes arrived before our bags, and on Perhaps not. Despite the misadventures, cycling in the claims it has hosted Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman and our last day, the driver forgot completely. It took several Loire Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is thoroughly Winston Churchill among others. We planned our self- frantic phone calls to get them delivered in time to catch enjoyable. With 500 miles (800 kilometers) of bike routes, guided trip with the help of Maggie LaCoste, who runs our train. there are countless options depending on interest and ExperienceFranceByBike.com. In Amboise, we passed two I later noticed ads from a similar service, Bagafrance, ability. group cycling trips, one run by Backroads and the other which appeared to charge a little less. We encountered Our five-day trip took us through farmers’ fields where by Butterfield & Robinson. They both offer six-day guided several cyclists who rode with panniers and carried their we helped ourselves to fresh peas, and through shaded trips, but visit different towns. Any feeling of superiority I own gear, but I felt the baggage transfer was a worthwhile forests that surprised us with deer. We cycled along mostly had as we passed the riders in matching jerseys on those luxury. With no worries about securing personal items, it flat pathways, paved roads, cobblestones and occasional organized trips quickly vanished after a few wrong turns. was easy to lock up the bikes and explore with only a gravel. While the biking wasn’t nearly as challenging as Still, I liked the spontaneity of not keeping to a fixed water bottle and lunch in hand. And, as we racked up the navigation, that isn’t why one cycles the Loire. It’s schedule, and at one point, we hopped the train to Blois extra miles looking for the correct path, it was nice not to about the food, the wine, the scenery and the history. with our bikes and checked out a bustling Saturday mar- have the extra weight. That said, there is one item I’ll be Indeed, the easy riding and fairytale castles make this an ket. sure to keep close on my next Loire cycling trip: a GPS nav- ideal trip to take with older children and teens. Spring and fall are the most popular cycling times as igation system.—AP summers can be hot. Our trip in June coincided with sev- Bicyclists stand outside a bike shop in Blois, France.

Crowds gather for the musical festival outside the Chateau de Chambord Bikes sit parked in front of a cafe in Amboise. Photo shows cyclists bike along the Loire River near Blois, France. Getting animals to dazzle on screen is a wild job or animal trainers on film sets, the job can be wild. is the industry’s only sanctioned animal welfare program. Snakes can’t exactly be trained, he says, so if you want Getting snakes on a plane takes a bit of heat or light, The book celebrates the unit’s 75th anniversary this year. them to move in a certain direction, you work with light, Fbut cajoling a bear to perform for the camera can The group will come on set for a fee to ensure animal height and heat. The book features a poignant passage require buckets of fried chicken. Casey the bear, seen in safety. If all goes well, it allows the familiar tagline “No ani- about a monkey on the set of “Night at the Museum” and “Evan Almighty” and other movies, had that diva-like mals were harmed in the making of this film” to roll in actor Robin Williams, who committed suicide last month. demand written into his contract. KFC was his favorite, and movie credits. But for another animal welfare group, the Williams preferred to spend time between takes with it had to be fresh. Sometimes, on remote locations, it efforts are not enough. People for the Ethical Treatment of Crystal the monkey, trainer Thomas Gunderson wrote. would take a 90-minute drive to get to the nearest fast Animals says it opposes the use of live animals in film and When the monkey’s scenes wrapped, Williams and the rest food outpost, his trainer said. television work. And if animals appear on camera, there are of the cast gave her a big card and a cake. “Laughter filled The story is among those in the book “Animal Stars,” a ways to make the work more humane, said Kathy the soundstage when I let her dive headfirst into the behind-the-scenes look at how trainers get species from Guillermo, a PETA senior vice president. dessert,” Gunderson wrote. badgers to bears to safely do what dazzles. Set for release “A behaviorist would be very helpful, and somebody Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of the American Sept 25, the book is co-written by the head of the who can enforce the law should be there, too,” she said Humane Association who co-wrote “Animal Stars” with This undated image released by Prokino Fox shows American Humane Association, whose entertainment unit about film sets. The American Humane Association recently Linda and Allen Anderson, said the last decade has been Richard Gere in a scene from ‘Hachi: A Dog’s Take.’ required all of its on-set representatives to be veterinarians. largely free of animal accidents on set. —AP photos The book features quotes from actors and directors like In one high-profile incident, three horses were injured Quentin Tarantino, who says animals need an advocate. and had to be euthanized during production of the HBO “They need somebody saying, ‘No, it’s too much.’ ‘They’re series “Luck,” a racetrack drama starring Dustin Hoffman too tired.’ ‘It’s too scary for them.’ ‘Something could hap- and Nick Nolte, in 2011 and 2012. The association recom- pen,’” the “Django Unchained” director said in the book. mended shutting down the set after the second death, The “You can do amazing, eye-popping things. You just need Associated Press reported at the time. Filming resumed the time to train the animals and get them ready so they after new protocols were put in place. Despite the guide- don’t get hurt.” lines, a third horse had to be euthanized and HBO agreed to end production. “We estimate, including everything Animal stars from cockroaches to horses, that we protect over 100,000- Trainers like Nicholas Toth also offer their insights. Toth plus animal actors a year,” Ganzert said.—AP divulged that besides Casey’s KFC fix, the bear refused to leave his trailer if it rained. It’s a bit easier for Jules Sylvester, General Custer, portrayed by Bill Hader and Able the a snake wrangler and herpetologist for nearly 45 years Space Monkey, portrayed by Crystal the monkey, are whose 18-foot Burmese python was the star of “Snakes on shown in a scene from ‘Night at the Museum’. a Plane.” He also provided 450 other snakes. LIFESTYLE37 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 Music & Movies Reality TV personalities Kris and Bruce Jenner to divorce

ris Jenner, the matriarch of the network E!. They also star together in spin- Kardashian reality television family, off shows. Kon Monday filed for divorce from her The couple married in 1991 and they husband Bruce Jenner, the gold medal-win- have two teenage daughters, Kendall and ning Olympic decathlete, almost a year Kylie, who appear on the Kardashian reality after they announced their separation. TV programs. Bruce Jenner, 64, won the Kris Jenner, 58, cited irreconcilable dif- gold medal in the decathlon at the 1976 ferences in the divorce petition, a spokes- Summer Olympics in Montreal.—Reuters woman for the Los Angeles Superior Court said. The couple announced their separa- tion in October last year. Kris Jenner is the star, along with her daughters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe, of “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” a reality show on US cable This April 5, 2009 file photo shows Kris Jenner, left, and her husband Bruce Jenner at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.—AP ‘Vincent: the musical’ to mark 125 years from Van Gogh’s death

he tragic life of Vincent van Gogh will production will be directed by Dutch pro- be brought to the stage as a musical ducer Albert Verlinde. Tto mark 125 from the death of one of It is commonly believed that Van Gogh the world’s greatest artists, organizers said shot himself aged 37 in a small village near yesterday. Simply called “Vincent”, the Paris, although researchers have also put musical will open late next year along with forward theories that he may have been several other events commemorating the the victim of an accidental shooting. “It’s Dutch Post-Impressionist painter’s death in perhaps a little odd to celebrate his death,” July 1890. The production aims to “bring Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum director Vincent van Gogh’s works to life in a non- Axel Rueger told the Dutch news agency traditional way,” Martine Willekens, spokes- ANP. woman for the Van Gogh Europe “But over the years the artist has Foundation, told AFP. become a global celebrity, a kind of rock Known for his bold colours and rough, star,” he said. Next year’s celebration, called vibrant painting style, Van Gough was one “125 Years of Inspiration”, will also include of the most revolutionary painters of the an exhibition of Van Gogh’s paintings in 19th Century. He only sold one painting in Amsterdam and that of Norway’s Edvard his own short lifetime, which was wracked Munch, best known for his painting “The with bouts of mental illness and depres- Scream”.—AFP sion, including one famous episode where he sliced off part of his ear. The role of Van Gogh himself has not yet been cast but the

Sequel to ‘My Sassy Girl’ set as China-Korea co-production

sequel to 2001 smash hit comedy one of the leading production houses in romance “My Sassy Girl” is to be the late 1980s and early 1990s, produc- Amade as a co-production between ing hits such as “Happiness Does Not Korea’s Shincine and China’s Beijing Sky Come in Grades” (1989). It has been com- Wheel Media. It will be the first co-pro- paratively inactive since. The sequel, duction since the signing of an inter-gov- titled “My New Sassy Girl,” is to star the This June 9, 2013 file photo shows the cast of ‘The Lion King’ speaking onstage at The 67th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New ernment agreement between the two original film’s male lead Cha Tae-hyun York City.—AFP and Victoria, a Chinese member of the Korean girl group f(x). Victoria is to play Cha’s elementary school classmate from China who was often teased about her broken Korean, Lion King is best-selling but who ends up becoming his wife. Talent agency SM Entertainment and Shincine say the story will focus on the early days of their marriage. The picture is to be directed by Jo Geun-sik who production of all time (“Conduct Zero,” “Once in a Summer”), with production beginning next week lockbuster musical “The Lion King” was on A spokesman told AFP that Phantom had col- Theatrical Productions, which announced the (Sept 29). “We’ve only had collaborations Monday named the most successful pro- lected $6 billion worldwide at the box office and record-breaking numbers. “Our goal then was to so far in Korean cinema with the Chinese, Bduction in history, raking in $6.2 billion at pulled in 140 million spectators. The 2009 movie tell the story purely and theatrically so that audi- but this is the first co-production the box office-more than any other stage show Avatar is the highest-grossing movie on record, ences could feel it in their heart.” There are cur- between the two countries in the gen- or movie. The earnings come from ticket sales netting $2.8 billion at the box office worldwide. rently 10 productions of “The Lion King” staged uine sense of the word,” Kim Hyung-oak, alone and do not include merchandise, record- With a catchy score by Elton John and British around the world, including in London, New producer at Shincine told Variety. Beijing ings or revenue from the Disney film on which it lyricist Tim Rice, “The Lion King” made its debut York and Tokyo. More than 75 million people Sky Wheel Media Company is an is based. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom on Broadway in 1997, three years after the have watched nearly two dozen global produc- Investment and distribution company of the Opera,” which opened in London in 1986, release of the Oscar-winning film. tions of “The Lion King.” It was the highest-gross- and the first such company to co-finance was previously the highest-grossing show and “It’s difficult not to become emotional at this ing show on Broadway in 2013 and so far in a Korean-originated movie. The film’s has still been seen by twice as many paying realization of the show’s impact,” said Thomas 2014.—AFP budget is set at RMB32 million ($5.2 mil- audience members. Schumacher, president and producer at Disney countries in July. The original film was a lion). Distributors have not yet been box office success around much of Asia, locked in, but Shincine says it is aiming and launched the career of superstar for a simultaneous release in Korea and Gianna Jun (then still known as Jun Ji- China in May 2015.—Reuters hyun). Paula Deen documentary The new movie is to be the first inter- national venture by Shincine, which was tells her side of downfall aula Deen is ready to tell her side of punch of public relations disasters cost the story behind the racist remark her nearly all her book, TV and endorse- Pthat decimated her career, but ment deals. In 2012, she was criticized you’ll need to pay to hear it. The former for announcing she had both diabetes Food Network star has been working on and a lucrative endorsement deal for a a documentary about herself and her drug to treat the condition she’d until downfall - triggered in 2013 by her then hidden. A year later, during a legal acknowledgment that she’d used a racial dispute with a former employee who slur in the past - but it will only be avail- accused her of racial discrimination and able to subscribers of her new website, sexual harassment, she acknowledged the Paula Deen Network. Recipe content having used racial slurs in the past. on the site will be free, but viewers will Deen - whose comeback effort began need to pay $9.99 a month to view earlier this year, when private investment videos. firm Najafi Companies put up $75 million “We hope to have it out the first of the to $100 million to rebuild her - said she year and tell everybody the true story of had opportunities to return to traditional what really happened,” Deen said of the television, but both she and her fans pre- documentary during a recent telephone ferred the flexibility and social elements interview. “It was a painful year for me. It of the digital world. The new site, which was a hurtful year when I found myself is being overseen by longtime Deen pro- being labeled for something I was not.” ducer Gordon Elliot, also will feature all The website, which launches Wednesday, of the content Deen produced during will feature an ambitious array of original her more than 10 years at the Food video content, including traditional Network. The network parted ways with cooking shows as well as lifestyle and her following the revelations about her game show segments, all starring Deen comments. Deen wouldn’t say how much and her sons. The site, which will include it cost to acquire the videos, only that it no outside advertising or sponsors, also was “very valuable to us.” That content includes thousands of Deen’s recipes, as will be slowly rolled out for sub- well as menu planning tools. scribers.—AP The site and documentary are part of Musician Steven Tyler and actor Adam Sandler arrive to the Los Angeles premiere of a larger effort by the star and her backers File photo shows celebrity chef Paula Deen poses for a “Jimi: All Is By My Side” at ArcLight Cinemas yesterday in Hollywood, California.—AFP to resuscitate her career after a one-two portrait in New York.—AP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Fashion

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves as he leaves In this handout photograph received from the Gujarat In this photograph taken on September 1, 2014 Indian after his special lecture at the University of the Sacred Information Bureau on September 17, 2014, China’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by children wav- Heart in Tokyo on September 2, 2014. President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra ing the flags of Japan and India upon his arrival at an ele- —AFP photos Modi shake hands as they arrive in Ahmedabad. mentary school in Tokyo. India’s PM ups fashion ante for maiden US visit

rime Minister Narendra Modi is pulling out all the fashion stops for his upcoming visit to the United States, hiring a Ptop Mumbai designer to create outfits that will sell his vision of a newly confident, aspirational India. India’s politicians are often mocked by media for their crumpled traditional cotton shirt-and-pyjama attire, which serves as an austerity badge in a nation where simple living is prized as a political credo. But fashion experts say Modi, 64, has taken Indian political dress to a new level with his fastidious style, favoring crisp, half-sleeved linen, khadi or silk kurtas-shirts-and churidar pyja- Princess mas he pairs with tailored Nehru jackets. A former tea boy who rose to the top, Modi has embraced a look of prosperity and power, in line with his message of economic reform, and is credited with demonstrating that Indian men don’t have to Diana gowns forego traditional wear to look well-dressed. “He’s selling aspirational India,” said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, author of one the few biographies on the to go under secretive leader, adding that Modi’s affinity for traditional wear ties into his nationalist image. Modi’s use of colour makes him a fashion standout-from canary yellow, to lime green to sky- blue and an in-your-face saffron, one of his ruling Bharatiya hammer in US Janata Party’s colours, aside from elegant cream. The move to hire Troy Costa, who designs for Bollywood stars, has given rise our dresses designed for and worn by to speculation Modi might adopt a more sober suit and tie for Britain’s late Princess Diana are to go under his US visit. Fthe hammer in Beverly Hills, the auction But Costa, who defines his label as “focusing on modern house organizing the sale said Monday. Three of masculinity and flattering functionality”, is keeping the gar- the gowns were made by British dressmaker ment bag firmly in place over what he will design for Modi’s In this photograph taken on August 3, 2014 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to unseen well wishers after Catherine Walker, Diana’s favorite designer and barrel-chested frame. “I’d rather let my product speak than me meeting with Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala in Kathmandu. close personal friend, and are expected to fetch personally,” the 39-year-old told AFP. In Costa, Modi has chosen between $60,000 and $80,000 each. a clone of himself-someone from a humble background who Modi has always observed a nine-day fast. Despite the hectic tailor who refined the design, Bipin Chauhan of clothing chain The first is an off-the-shoulder petal pink pulled himself up by the bootstraps. “I have no vices-I don’t schedule, he is expected to restrict himself to a liquid diet of Jade Blue, has trademarked the style-with Modi’s permission. gown embellished with bands of simulated drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t love parties, I try to spend 14-to-15 lemonade and tea for much of the visit, eschewing the lavish His style sense has drawn potshots from opponents such as pearls, faceted glass and beadwork. Also on offer hours a day working and I thank god I’m doing what I love,” meals that traditionally characterise such trips. powerful socialist Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh is a strapless ivory silk crepe dress and a char- Costa told AFP. Commentators say Modi is acutely aware of the image he Yadav, an old-style politician who cares not a jot about his treuse silk georgette gown worn by Diana in wants to portray-a self-made man who hasn’t forgotten his appearance. During the election campaign, Yadav wondered 1993. The fourth, an evening gown created for In from the cold roots. GQ India editor Che Kurrien said Modi, who won his aloud how much time Modi would have to run the country Diana by Zandra Rhodes, is estimated to sell for Modi’s White House welcome will be a remarkable transfor- sweeping mandate in May with backing from India’s young, when he “changes 500 kurtas a day and wears a new kurta to $80,000 to $100,000. The dresses, along with oth- mation for a man once refused a US visa, after being accused upwardly mobile voters, had a “keen eye for what makes him every meeting”. But most observers seem to be happy with a er Diana-related items, will go under the hammer of failing to stop 2002 riots by Hindu extremists against minori- look good”. leader who looks good on the national and international at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills on December 5 ty Muslims when he was chief minister of Gujarat state. Modi “It’s clear details matter to Mr Modi, from his designer eye- stages. “Seems like the era of unkempt, paan-chewing netas and 6. — AFP has always denied any wrong-doing. But while India’s premier wear, to his watch, to his waistcoat-every part of his image (leaders) with pot-bellies, crumpled dhotis and discoloured looks set to dress snappily during the visit, there will still be a counts,” he told AFP.Once in a while Modi likes to mix Western kurtas is a thing of the past,” commented news magazine India clear nod to his strictly observant Hindu and teetotal vegetari- attire with Indian-sporting a Texan cowboy hat for instance. Today.— AFP an lifestyle. But he’s best known for his signature half-sleeved kurta known The trip coincides with the Navratri festival during which as the Modi Kurta-men’s kurtas are normally long-sleeved. The Beehive hair, Mad Men skirts kick off PARIS FASHION WEEK

ine days of Paris fashion got off to a retro start yester- cular padded strips in place of the skirt. day with a 1960s-inspired collection from Corrie The show was among the first of over 90 due to be held NNielsen featuring beehive hair and Mad Men-style over the next nine days, the highlight of which will be Jean looks with futuristic, voluminous twists. Citing 1960s icons Paul Gaultier’s last ready-to-wear show before he stops to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin as influences, Nielsen dedi- concentrate on couture. Speaking backstage, Nielsen told cated the collection to “the women of the 1960s who reporters she had “huge respect” for the flamboyant design- shaped and influenced the world as we see it,” including her er and would be very sad to see him go. “He’s had an incred- late mother. London-based Nielsen said her “Single Girl” ible career. I mean incredible. He’s been a huge inspiration ready-to-wear collection was all about a “strong independ- to myself and I wish him all the luck,” she said. ent and active woman, whilst remaining true to her simulta- The 62-year-old showman of the catwalks is bowing out neous delicacy, adolescence and slenderness”. Plunging of ready-to-wear after nearly 40 years. The designer has said hood-like backs, and oversized tops dominated her the decision was taken after an “in-depth assessment” of his spring/summer 2015 collection in a palette of off-white, eponymous fashion house’s future with Spanish fragrance cream, beige, gold and dark brown. Among the less wear- and fashion group Puig, which has a majority stake. able looks was an entirely transparent dress with nothing Gaultier’s last show will be held on Saturday and is the more to it than the skimpiest of knickers and a series of cir- must-have ticket of the collections.

Models present creations by Corrie Nielsen during the 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, yesterday in Paris. — AFP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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Other highlights will be first collections by Georgia’s David Koma for Mugler and France’s Julie de Libran for Sonia Rykiel. Three names also making their debut in the Paris ready-to wear calendar are Japan’s Anrealage, the US’s Hood by Air and India’s Rahul Mishra. Stephane Wargnier, new executive president of the French Federation of Couture, said Gaultier’s last show was likely to be spectacu- lar and upbeat, albeit tinged with sadness. “Everyone will want to be there and I think it’s certainly going to be a very moving moment,” he said. In recent years Gaultier, considered one of France’s most talented design- ers, has been the subject of a major retrospective by the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. Since 2011, the exhibition has been seen by a million visitors worldwide and is due to arrive in Paris in 2015. One room in the exhibition is devot- ed to “Eurotrash”, the outlandish adult television show host- ed by Gaultier and Antoine de Caunes on Britain’s Channel 4 during the 1990s. The designer said earlier this month that “commercial constraints as well as the frenetic pace of collections” had left him little freedom to explore fresh ideas and innovate. “The pace is harder than in the past, retail demands sev- eral deliveries per season, so we are no longer in an era when one calmly does a collection every six months,” Wargnier said. “It’s the way it is in fashion now and everyone adapts in their own way,” he added. — AFP

Models present creations for French fashion designer Christine Phung’s Spring-Summer 205 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented in Paris yesterday.

Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette is pampered muse of new book ikes: playing hide and seek in the bathtub, dining on wet or at least has someone to do her tweeting for her. The first food in sauce, flicking pencils fromthe desk onto the floor. message under her Twitter handle @ChoupettesDiary two years LDislikes: opera, room sprays, flight take-offs. Such are the ago boasted that “everything, from my whiskers to my meows, fancies and ennuis of Choupette, the most famous cat in fash- are a source of inspiration.” She now has more than 41,000 fol- ion owned by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, according to the lowers. new book “Choupette - the Enchanted Life of a Fashion Cat”. In various modelling sessions captured in the book, pub- With photographs by Lagerfeld, the small 123-page hardback lished by Flammarion, Choupette is seen draped around the being released on Wednesday is an homage to the three-year- neck of model Laetitia Casta, the Eiffel Tower in the background, old fluffy white Burmese with spectacular blue eyes who has a or wrapped in the arms of Linda Evangelista. It also includes life any supermodel would envy. recipes to please feline palates imagined by chefs from the From her specially made-to-measure Louis Vuitton luggage most prestigious restaurants of Paris. “The Cafe de Flore’s to the three silver bowls that serve as her dinnerware - she eats (Destructured) Choupette Club”, named after the famous Left at the table, never on the floor - Choupette leads a charmed life. Bank cafe that is a favorite of Lagerfeld’s, calls for cubed chick- Tending to her every whim are two “ladies in waiting” and a en, egg, bread, bacon and mayonnaise. bodyguard. On flights on Lagerfeld’s private jet to Rome, Monte Another mixes Alaskan King crab, smoked salmon and caviar Carlo or New York, she is allowed to visit the cockpit. She poses - which Choupette’s veterinarian notes must be given in moder- with top models and celebrates her birthday with fresh shrimp ation as its saltiness can encourage high blood pressure in cats. cocktail. Then there is her everyday menu - two types of dry food and The book shows Choupette doing things any ordinary cat chicken, turkey and fish wet food. Simple tastes that no doubt would do: curling up in a box, curling up in the sink, playing endear the haute couture cat to Lagerfeld, the man who once Designers Silvia Venturini Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld greet the audience at the end of the Fendi collection show during with a feather toy, hiding in a shopping bag. Next to those are famously pronounced: “I’m very much down to earth. Just not the 2015 Spring / Summer Milan Fashion Week on September 18, 2014 in Milan. — AFP pictures of her playing with her very own iPad. She also tweets, this earth.” — Reuters

Damas launches exclusive range from acclaimed OneSixEight diamond brand

amas, the Middle East’s leading jewelry and watch retailer, has announced the launch of an exclusive range of jewelry Dfrom its much-loved diamond brand OneSixEight. OneSixEight refers to the number of hours in one week and the unique brand aptly captures the brilliance of diamonds in an extraordinary collection that is designed to be worn every day of the week, for all occasions. Each piece highlights the bold beauty of a single solitaire diamond, accentuated by individually matched stones. The result is a stunning illusion of a far larger carat. The full collection, which includes earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, bangles and different ring designs, is essentially available in white gold. The designs can, however, be customized upon request. The collection is now available at all Damas stores through- out the GCC. Anan Fakhreddin commented: “OneSixEight enables a woman to be a star and sparkle with diamonds of her choice, making her feel special every day of the week. We are confident the new range will prove a great value addition to the OneSixEight collection that con- tinues to be one of Damas’ most popular brands.” Princess Diana gowns to go under hammer in US

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Activists carry balloons during People’s Climate March in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept 21, 2014. Berliners will ‘just quickly save the planet’ with three parallel marches all leading into a colorful festival with concerts of famous musicians and inspiring speeches at Brandenburg gate. Initiatives from recycling to renewables will engage people in climate actions. — AP Record-breaking year ROCK’N’ROLL CHASES for contemporary art he contemporary art market experienced a record- breaking year in 2013/14, smashing through the $2 bil- Tlion mark for the first time, according to new figures HATRED AWAY IN SREBRENICA released yesterday. US artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988, Jeff Koons and Christopher Wool remain the uslims on the guitar and drums, Serbs on key- ing age. “I decided to come back to Srebrenica in 2009 to Serb neighbors, bass guitarist Miroslav Andric and key- market’s biggest stars accounting for sales at auction of 339 boards and bass: a Srebrenica band hopes to lift give a chance both to myself and to the town itself,” he board player Rade Markovic to replace them, and found- million euros ($436 million), according to Artprice, a Paris- Mthe “curse” on the Bosnian town scarred by said. These days the local Serbs and Muslims live side by ed Afera. Andric, the band’s youngest member at 21, lost based organization which keeps the world’s biggest data- Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. On a late side once more-but they do not mix. Each community an uncle in the war, and his father was seriously base on the contemporary art market. summer’s day, the rock outfit Afera (Affair) is warming up has its own cafes and shops, a far cry from the multieth- injured.”Everybody here lost a loved one, but it is not the In the year from July 2013, sales of contemporary art at for a concert in the near-deserted town, an event nic ideal promoted in the Communist former Yugoslavia. fault of the people I make music with,” said the computer public auctions reached $2.046 billion dollars, up 40 percent dubbed “Like Before.” Before, that is, Bosnian Serb forces The band Afera tells a different story, however. science student. “People have a hard time forgetting,” he on the previous year, Artprice’s annual report said Thirteen massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern admitted. “But if we continue to live engulfed in hatred, pieces alone fetched more than 10 million euros ($12.8 mil- town in July 1995 in a wartime campaign of ethnic ‘Hard time forgetting’ it would be better for the two hills surrounding lion) each, compared with four in the previous year. Pop cleansing. Civic and Smajlovic used to play in an all-Muslim rock Srebrenica to collapse and end it all.” Markovic, who is 46, artist Koons, the subject of a major retrospective due to be “Is it crazy to play rock’n’roll in this dead city? You can outfit. But when two members quit, they called on their admits being “hopelessly nostalgic for the golden age” of held at Paris’s Pompidou Centre at the end of November, cur- ask yourself that, and choose to do nothing. But life goes the ethnically-mixed town. “We will fight for this band rently holds the record for the most expensive work of art by on,” said Muamer Civic, Afera’s 30-year-old lead singer because we love this town,” said the professional musi- a living artist ever sold at auction. and guitarist. Once the soul of the small town, the con- cian and father of five, who splits his time between His “Balloon Dog” went under the hammer in November cert venue-a bandstand shaded by lime trees-has stood Srebrenica and Bajina Basta in neighboring Serbia. 2013 at Christie’s in New York, for a record $58.4 million. The abandoned since the end of the 1992-1995 war. “We rest of Artprice’s top ten is made up-in order-of Zeng Fanzhi can’t perform miracles and bring back the old life to Rock’n’roll healing (China), Peter Doig (Britain), Richard Prince (US), Martin Srebrenica 365 days of the year,” said 43-year old drum- Nevenka Jelisavcic, a 50-year old Serb, was one of Kippenberger (Germany) who died in 1997, and three more mer Faruk Smajlovic, who like Civic is Muslim. “But just around a hundred people, Serbs and Muslims alike, who Chinese artists-Luo Zhongli, Chen Yifei and Zhan Xiaogang. for one day we are trying to show young people what it rubbed shoulders as they watched the band play. “Before Fanzhi’s 2001 painting “The Last Supper” was sold at auction used to be like.” the war, it was always like this,” she said. “I used to work in Hong Kong last year for $23 million. nearby, and at lunchtime I would tip a waiter to keep a Despite the presence of Basquiat and Kippenberger in ‘Cursed’ table under the big lime tree for me in the evening.” Artprice’s top rankings, the body’s president and founder For the scars here run deep. Nineteen years after the During rehearsals, the band members never talk Thierry Ehrmann told AFP “the old adage that ‘a good artist is end of Bosnia’s interethnic war, Srebrenica is a ghost about the war-and their songs, mostly about lost love, a dead artist’ was changing”.”For the first time, young artists town of barely a thousand inhabitants, 6,000 if its sur- make no direct mention of Srebrenica’s tragic past. Music voluntarily want to start on the second market,” he said refer- rounding areas are included-compared to 37,000 before critic Ahmed Buric says Afera’s rose-tinted lyrics “verge ring to auctions, as opposed to galleries, which are known in the war. “Even during the siege by Bosnian forces, there on the banal”. “But there is great sympathy for the mere the art world as the first market. was more life than today,” said Civic. “We held concerts, fact there is a rock band in Srebrenica, especially one “It’s a real revolution. The two markets are in the process we screened films, we even had horse races. There was with two Serbs and two Muslim members.” “This does so of merging.” Of the three top-selling contemporary artists, no electricity so we powered the cinema with a tractor-it much more to heal the town than some of the events defined as artists born after 1945, Basquiat maintained his made so much noise you could hardly hear the movie!” staged to commemorate the genocide.” lead in 2013/14 with sales worth around 162 million euros Today the town’s streets are all-but-empty, most Afera’s first album, entitled “Absurd”, was named after while Koons and Wool clocked up 115 million euros and 61 shops have closed down, and youngsters have left in a song written during the war by Samir Mehic, a local million euros ($78 million) respectively. search of work and a future elsewhere. “No business can musician affectionately known as “Bowie” who was killed If US artists remained ahead on individual sales, China succeed in this town, it’s as if it were cursed,” said Civic, in the massacre. The title song, which opened the gig, has overtaken the US in terms of overall market share. China who recently married and scrapes a living together from was dedicated to Mehic as the “best guitarist in now has 40 percent of the world market with sales worth his music as he completes a final year of law school. Civic Srebrenica ever”. “In my heart there is no hatred,” run the $811 million compared to $752 million for the US. — AFP was 11 years old at the time of the massacre, ruled a lyrics. “Rock’n’roll has chased it away.” — AFP genocide by the international tribunal in The Hague. He fled with his mother as Bosnian Serb forces over- ran his town, despite it being declared a UN-protected Members of Bosnian band ‘Afera’ (Affair), during area, executing all men and boys deemed to be of fight- their promotional concert in Srebrenica.

This file photo taken on September 9, 2008 at the Hercules salon in the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, shows ‘Balloon Dog’, a sculpture of top-selling US artist Jeff Koons. — AFP Pictures taken show members of Bosnian band ‘Afera’ (Affair), during rehearsal, prior to their promotional concert in Srebrenica. — AFP photos