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MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 THULQADA 29, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Al-Rai sheep Iraq launches Accused of assault Alonso brace market readies battle for Tal in , boosts Chelsea, for Eid Al-Adha Afar, IS bastion ’s Grace Huddersfield buyers’2 surge near Mosul6 Mugabe8 flies home win16 again Spain police uncover gas Min 34º Max 47º arsenal at bomb factory High Tide 10:46 Low Tide Extremists planned massive attack • Barcelona mourns victims 05:08 & 18:20 32 PAGES NO: 17311 150 FILS BARCELONA: Spanish police said yesterday they had uncovered a cache of 120 gas canisters at a house believed Police arrest to be the bomb-making factory of suspects in terror attacks that claimed 14 lives, as Barcelona mourned victims of the 14th convict of rampage. The suspected militants had been preparing bombs for “one or more attacks in Barcelona”, regional ‘Abdaly cell’ police chief Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters, revealing that traces of TATP explosive had also been found. But the suspects accidentally detonated an explosive at KUWAIT: The interior ministry announced the arrest of the house on the eve of Thursday’s attack in Barcelona - an the 14th fugitive convict of the so-called “Abdaly cell” error that likely forced them to modify their plans. Instead, on Saturday evening. In a press statement, the ministry they used a vehicle to smash into crowds on Barcelona’s identified the convict as Las Ramblas boulevard as it was thronged with tourists, Abdulmohsen Jamal Hussein killing 13 people and injuring about 100. Several hours lat- Al-Shatti, a Kuwaiti, who was er, a similar attack in the seaside town of Cambrils left one sentenced for 10 years in jail. woman dead. Police shot and killed the five attackers in Shatti was caught as a result Cambrils, some of whom were wearing fake explosive belts of the ministry’s relentless and carrying knives. efforts to enforce the final The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for verdict against him by the the attacks, believed to be its first in Spain. Police are hunt- court of cassation’s case no. ing a Moroccan man suspected of driving the van used in 55 of 2015. Barcelona, and warn that he could be at large outside Last week, the ministry Spain. “We don’t know where he is,” said Trapero of the 22- captured 13 other convicts of year-old suspect, Younes Abouyaaqoub. the same cell. Kuwait had Three days after the attack that plunged the country charged 25 citizens and an Iranian member of the cell into deep grief, locals and tourists turned out in force yes- after the discovery of guns and explosives in a raid in terday to mourn victims at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia 2015, which escalated sectarian tensions. Prosecutors basilica. King Felipe, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and said that the men intended to carry out “hostile acts” BARCELONA: A police officer stands by the Sagrada Familia basilica yesterday before a mass to commemo- Catalonia’s president, Carles Puigdemont, against Kuwait. — KUNA rate victims of two devastating terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. — AFP Continued on Page 11 Qatar: No delays to World Cup Stadium shaped like Arabian cap to be built Qatar has not approved hajj flights: Saudia

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said yesterday its aircraft have not been given permission to land in Doha to pick DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad delivers a speech to members of up Qatari pilgrims for the annual hajj after the king Syria’s diplomatic corps in the capital. — AFP authorized flights to transport people to Makkah. Saudi Arabia reopened its border with Qatar last week to allow Qataris to attend the hajj amid a Assad rejects security months-long rift between the neighboring coun- tries. King Salman also authorized Saudi planes to transport pilgrims at his expense. Already, more cooperation with West than 100 Qataris have crossed into Saudi Arabia since the border was opened. DOHA: A visitor takes a selfie during an exhibition of artworks, which were Rocket hits Damascus fair But Saleh Al-Jasser, the general manager of Saudi donated by members of the community, depicting Qatari Emir Tamim bin Arabian Airlines, was quoted by Saudi state TV as Hamad Al-Thani titled “Glorious Tamim: In celebration of national unity” in the saying Qatari authorities have not authorized the garden of the Islamic Museum yesterday. — AFP DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Al- country under the cover of Russian kingdom’s aircraft to land in the capital, despite a Assad yesterday refused any security airstrikes. Many countries have ceased call- request submitted several days ago to transport DOHA: Qatar’s 2022 World Cup prepara- “The impact has been minimal,” Thawadi cooperation with Western nations or the ing for him to step down. Speaking before Qatari pilgrims from Hamad International Airport in tions have been inconvenienced but not told Doha-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera reopening of their embassies, until they dozens of Syrian diplomats in Damascus, Doha. Qatar’s foreign minister said his country wel- delayed by the political and economic English in an interview yesterday. “In terms cut ties with opposition and insurgent Assad praised Russia, Iran, China and comed the decision to facilitate the hajj for Qataris, boycott by its neighbors, the country’s of stadium progress or stadium construc- groups. Shortly after Assad gave his Lebanon’s Hezbollah for supporting his however the moves do not appear to have been most senior tournament organizer insist- tion and infrastructure requirements for speech, a shell hit the first international government during the conflict. coordinated with Qatar’s government. ed yesterday. Hassan Al-Thawadi, the World Cup, progress is being made as fair in the country since the war began He said Syria will look east when it In early June, Saudi Arabia sealed Qatar’s only Secretary General of the Supreme well.” He added that the crisis has “caused six years ago, killing and wounding sev- comes to political, economic and cultural land border. The kingdom, along with the United Committee for Delivery & Legacy, said an inconvenience”. Asked outright if proj- eral people. relations. “The direct support of our Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt also cut all diplo- alternative suppliers outside those coun- ects had been delayed, Thawadi respond- Assad’s defiant comments come at a , politically, economically and mili- matic and transport links with Qatar, including tries involved in the ongoing dispute ed: “Projects are on schedule. No delays time when his troops and pro-Iranian mili- tarily, made our advance on the ground Continued on Page 11 have been found for tournament-related have occurred.” tiamen are gaining ground across the Continued on Page 11 construction projects. Continued on Page 11 Media tested Shunned Lebanon band anew in ‘war’ finds audience in West BEIRUT: Lebanese band Mashrou’ apparently, we obviously can’t Leila’s blend of indie rock and play in Saudi,” he said, listing with Trump lyrics about social and political places where conflict or social injustice has won a passionate conservatism prohibit them from : When Donald Trump sought this following among fans seeking an performing. week to lump white supremacists and those alternative to Arab pop with its And things don’t seem to be protesting against them into the same bag, he romantic themes. But securing a changing in the region, Sinno triggered a political firestorm with Republicans firm footing in the Middle East said, so the band has been play- and Democrats warning “both sides” could not be has been difficult for the band. ing more abroad. Mashrou’ Leila treated alike. He also added fuel to an increasing- Jordanian authorities cancelled has played concerts in cities ly urgent debate over whether the US media can its concert in June, for the second including Paris, London, uphold its tradition of so-called “both sides” year in a row. Lebanese radio sta- and San Francisco since its 2015 reporting - which strives to give equal weight to tions steer clear of its music. album Ibn El Leil reached number rival viewpoints - in the Trump era. “They don’t know where to 13 on the Billboard world album “This week should put the nail in the coffin for place us,” said Hamed Sinno, 29, chart. The band’s music has bro- ‘both sides’ journalism,” wrote Washington Post the openly gay vocalist of the ken away from the norm in a media columnist Margaret Sullivan following five-member band formed in region whose pop stars steer Trump’s claim that leftwing counter-protestors 2008 that has stirred controversy clear of social issues, singing shared in the blame for the neo-Nazi rally that in the region with songs tackling mostly of romances. Arabic music turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia. oppression, classism, sectarian- doesn’t really have a tradition of “Journalists should indeed stand for some things. MOUNTAIN VIEW, : Attendees hold signs protesting against US President Donald ism and homophobia. “We can’t “teenagers rebelling or express- Continued on Page 11 Trump and the GOP at a rally against white nationalism on Saturday. — AFP play in Syria, we can’t play in ing a lot of anger”, Sinno said. Palestine, we can’t play in Jordan Continued on Page 11 MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 LOCAL

Amir receives top officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday received His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Sief Palace. His Highness also received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim. His Highness then received His Highness the Premier Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-hamad Al-Sabah. — KUNA photos

Legalese Family questions

By Attorney Fajer Ahmed

lthough I write for the news- and to ask these questions and to paper on a variety of legal understand what law applies to Atopics, I only handle employ- them or what law they would like to ment and commercial issues per- be applied to them, so they have the sonally. Being a lawyer can be very full picture. I also suggest they hire a difficult as it is, usually dealing with lawyer before anything happens, so tension or differences, so I have the when an unfortunate event takes utmost respect to lawyers that han- place, they are prepared. dle family issues. I really urge you Question: I am not Kuwaiti but I though if you have a family issue to would like to make a will for my resolve things amicably, to know wife to manage all my belongings what your rights are as a man, in Kuwait should something hap- woman or child, but to always seek pen to me in the future. Can I do a quieter alternative. Even if you are this? Also if I am to travel outside of to seek a lawyer always request Kuwait and let my wife live here, Al-Rai sheep market readies for Eid Al-Adha from your lawyer to resolve things can I give her the right to handle with dialogue and respect as family my bank accounts, other properties By Ben Garcia market in Al-Rai turns into a thriving the sheep are in Kuwait now, but we expensive, a vendor told Kuwait is really important. Like I men- and so on. marketplace for sacrificial sheep. need to prepare the place to make it Times. The reason is that they are not tioned, I am not a family lawyer but Fajer: Yes, you could, but this KUWAIT: Eid Al-Adha (Feast of the Yesterday, Kuwait Times witnessed more organized. Also, we have built fed chemically-modifiedfodder. “We I can answer your legal question depends on what law applies to you or Sacrifice), one of the holiest celebra- the place being prepared for the shaded areas for them,” said one of have a lot of stock from , so with the help of my hardworking what law you have your marriage tions in the Islamic calendar, is round arrival of truckloads of sheep. the traders. Prices are traditionally maybe this is why Australian lamb is team. under. If the applicable law prohibits the corner. Traditionally, sheep are According to workers in the area, higher compared to the rest of the cheaper. It also depends on supply Question: Fortunately, my family your wife from managing your wealth slaughtered and the meat is distributed sheep from various countries are now year, where prices range from KD 50 and demand. The prices will be clear comes from different religions and in Kuwait, then you could give her the to friends and family and the needy. A in Kuwait, and are currently kept at to KD 120 depending on the type of in the next three to four days when we different backgrounds - which law right through the Kuwaiti courts or couple of weeks before Eid, the sheep various farms and holding areas. “Yes, sheep. Local sheep are the most open the sheep market,” he added. will apply to us, should there be a have the will written in your country family death? but notarized in Kuwait. Fajer: This depends greatly on As for your bank account and who has passed away and where other properties, you could give they are from, and whether the dead your wife a POA (although not a person has made a will or not. In power of attorney, it is referred to Kuwait, Shiite and Sunni courts deal generally as a POA) and it is a docu- with inheritance differently. The mat- ment obtained from the Ministry of ter is very complicated and it is not Justice to act on your behalf and something that you want to find out you can personalize the document at a time of mourning. This is why I to fit your needs. always suggest for my clients to see Questions or concerns can be a lawyer before anything happens emailed to [email protected] Chinese projects in Kuwait hit 84 KUWAIT: China’s Ambassador in China for participation in the Belt Kuwait Wang-Di said yesterday that and Road Initiative. He hailed His the number of projects executed by Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Chinese companies in Kuwait till Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s ini- the first half of this year has tiative to transform Kuwait into a reached 84 - and worth $18.12 bil- regional financial and trade hub as lion. In an interview to KUNA ahead being in harmony with the Chinese of Vice Premier of the State Council Belt and Road Initiative in a strate- of the People’s Republic of China gic manner. Zhang Gaoli’s visit to Kuwait today, Wang reiterated Chinese compa- the ambassador said the projects nies’ eagerness to join Kuwaiti include the sectors of oil, housing mega projects and to continue pro- and infrastructure, and the value of moting cooperation with Kuwait in the contracts concluded in the first housing and development half of this year was $2.22 billion. domains. On Zhang Gaoli’s visit to China is Kuwait’s key trade partner Kuwait yesterday, the Chinese in non-oil fields, he said, adding ambassador said it comes at the that two-way trade exchange invitation of First Deputy Prime amounted to $9.5 billion in 2016. Minister and Foreign Minister He pointed to both sides’ will- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad ingness to upgrade the level of Al-Sabah. During his stay here, the cooperation in financial, invest- Chinese official will meet with a ment and communication areas. number of Kuwaiti officials for pro- The Chinese diplomat noted that moting and consolidating bilateral Kuwait was the first country to sign cooperation between both friendly KUWAIT: Dealers and workers prepare the sheep market ahead of the Eid Al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), one of the holiest celebrations in the Islamic a document of cooperation with nations, he said. —KUNA calendar. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 LOCAL

Amir, Crown Prince receive families of martyrs

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ate consolation and support offered to their families over their loss. The also prayed to Allah Almighty that souls of the martyrs rest in peace, and to and His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- deceased were martyred in Ouagadougou capital of Burkina Faso, as they inspire their families patience and solace. On his part, His Highness the Crown Sabah yesterday received the families of martyrs; Grand Mosque Imam Sheikh were on a charity mission. His Highness the Amir expressed pride over the Prince stressed that Kuwait is one family for better or worse, praying to Allah Waleed Al-Ali and Sheikh Fahad Al-Husseini at Sief Palace. Both fathers distinguished contributions of Kuwaitis in various domains to best serve their Almighty to protect our country and its people, and to bestow the deceased extended their deepest thanks to His Highness the Amir for the compassion- beloved country, setting an example to upcoming generations. His Highness with his mercy. — KUNA

Interior Minister holds talks with Brazil envoy KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister issues, mainly security. On his part, the and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khaled Al- Brazilian Ambassador said they talked Jarrah Al-Sabah met with Brazilian about ways to enhance the existing rela- Ambassador to Kuwait Norton Rapesta on tion between both nations. Rapesta said bilateral cooperation. During the meeting, Kuwait and Brazil share the same views on Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah stressed the several matters, which leads to more strong relation between both countries. cooperation and coordination in the The two top officials discussed mutual future. — KUNA

Consortium wins Kabd Solid Waste Project

KUWAIT: A consortium led by French documents were sent to the State Constructions Industrielles de La Audit Bureau (SAB) for approval, the Mediterranee (CNIM) has been chosen to KAPP added. The project aims at the execute Kabd Municipal Solid Waste construction of a solid waste treat- Project, Kuwait Authority for Partnership ment plant with a capacity of 3,275 Projects (KAPP) said yesterday. The tons per day located in the south of investment period is 25 years, in addi- the ground broadcasting station in the tion to 44 months for designing and Kabd area, 35 kilometers away from construction, KAPP said in a statement Kuwait City. The project covers a total to KUNA. Led by CNIM, Gulf Investment area of 500,000 square meters. The site Corporation (GIC) and Al-Mulla Group, will provide a number of services the consortium has been selected for including treatment using incinerators the project according to financial and for generating electricity, and landfill- technical assessment results, it added. ing the ash from the remains of the As a routine procedure, the relevant incineration. — KUNA Awareness for pilgrims

By Meshal Al-Enezi Khaleefa Hamada said the amount of tax income expected from imposing value KUWAIT: The Health Ministry set up a added tax and selective tax is nearly KD booth at Kuwait International Airport to 600 million, adding that the amount will spread awareness among pilgrims. Head not end the budget deficit, but it will of the information office at MoH Dr Ghalia boost non-oil revenue. As for postponing Al-Mutairi said the goal behind the cam- the VAT and selective taxes, he said these paign, under the slogan “towards a safe will be imposed as soon as they are pilgrimage”, is to commit pilgrims to fol- approved by the National Assembly, low health instructions to guarantee a hajj adding that these taxes are simple and without illnesses, and the program will easy to implement. continue for 10 days. She said the booth will be open round the clock. Automated procedures The Commerce and Industry Ministry Eid on Sept 1 will start trials to automate procedures The astronomy department at the before the end of this year, and will seek Science Club said the first day of Zul Hijja to start official operation of the new sys- for 1438 will be Wednesday, Aug 30. Arafat tems by the start of the next year. The Day will be on Thursday, Aug 31, and Eid ministry seeks to automate all company Al-Adha will be on Friday, Sept 1. procedures, aiming to start a new era of procedures and government transac- Tax income expected tions away from the current long docu- Finance Ministry Undersecretary mentary cycle. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 LOCAL

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yes- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received His Highness the Prime terday Sheikh Ahmad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Dr Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and Sheikh Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Bader Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. — KUNA photos Crown Prince meets senior officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met at Seif Palace yesterday National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim. His Highness the Crown Prince also received His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and other top officials. — KUNA

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Minister of State for His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met Kuwaiti Army’s Chief of Staff Lieutenant His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received First General Mohammad Al-Khoder, and his deputy Gen Sheikh Abdullah Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and several other generals. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Hamad Al-Sabah.

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim. Sabah received Chairman of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Sabah received Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Industry (KCCI) Ali Mohammed Thenian Al-Ghanem. Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah.

Clean-up campaign Lawmaker By Hanan Al-Saadoun said the campaign resulted in collecting 100 bags. blasts Health KUWAIT: The Municipality’s Public Relations Department said Director of Entry visa forger Cleanliness and Road Occupancy in Residency detectives arrested a Minister Hawally Saad Al-Jalawy issued instruc- swindler and entry visa forger. Detectives tions to cleaning companies contracted learned about a citizen conning expats by By A Saleh by the municipality to send 30 workers to forging visas and charging them money. clean clumps of oil, starting with the The suspect was arrested red-handed with KUWAIT: MP Khalid Al-Otaibi accused Health Balajat beach to the Bidaa coastline. He a visa containing incorrect information. Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi of violating laws and rules with his latest appointments. He said the health ministry made wide-ranging changes in the posts of department directors and hospital deputy managers and supervisors, adding that most of these decisions are in violation of Civil Service Commission decisions.

Education zone Director General of Ahmadi education zone Waleed Al-Oumi said the zone is considered the largest education zone in the country, as it has 97,500 students and 11,500 teachers in 172 schools. On being ready for the new school year, he said a team was formed, adding two schools will be opened in Sabah Al-Ahmad. He said that the zone receives 300 to 400 teachers every year due to the increase in the number of schools. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 From the Arabic press

Crime Al-Qabas Report Story of spinach, Brothers in trouble olive oil, smoking KUWAIT: A wanted man got his brothers in trouble after police arrested him. He gave police the name of one of his By Ahmad Al-Sarraf brothers, then gave investigators the name of another brother, before they realized he was lying. The Interior t is known that the Popeye the Sailor character was Ministry didn’t have the suspect’s fingerprint data. created by an American named Elzie Segar and Iappeared in a comic book in 1929, then became a character in plays, cartoons and films. In 1934, an agricul- 5 suspects nabbed tural epidemic destroyed the corn crops of popular Jahra detectives arrested five persons - three thieves American farmer John Charks, which he was supplying to who targeted farms, while the other two were caught tens of major food factories in the United States, which by accident while selling liquor, and 45 bottles of also recorded heavy losses. imported liquor were found on them. Police arrested One day, Hollywood short film producer Patrick Seally the three thieves and were taking them to the pens paid a visit to his friend Charks at a huge ranch north of where they used to sell what they stole, when they Los Angeles, and saw material destruction that hit the noticed two cars with their trunks open. When police farm and its owner. That visit coincided with the presence approached them, the suspects ran on foot, so detec- of agricultural engineers who came to present a summa- tives chased them down. ry of what they reached with regards to the future of farming. Their chief advised him to stop relying on just one crop and he should diversify his products to include Wanted man arrested fresh vegetables to sell daily, plant tobacco to sell season- Salwa police arrested a Syrian sentenced to 90 years in ally and plant olives to create a long-term option that he jail. The Syrian running when a patrol came close can rely on, besides other products. to him, but police chased him on foot and caught him. Seally listened to the agricultural expert’s report and his The suspect claimed he did not have an ID on him. He suggestions, and planned something in this mind, especially was taken to the police station and his fingerprints were since his friend Charks wasn’t too happy with what he heard. taken. He was identified as wanted and sent to concerned When the experts left, the two friends sat together, then authorities. Seally told his friend he was ready to buy a small share of the farm for much lesser than its actual price, and in exchange he promised that profits from the farm will grow in a few Women exchange blows years if he agreed with his ideas, and if the profits do not Police broke up a fight between four women in a multiply, he will return the land free of charge. mall, with one taken to hospital for treatment. The Charks gave it a deep thought and did not comment, fight started for unknown reasons. Policemen took the Al-Anbaa then after a period of long silence that included several women’s IDs and asked them to go to the police sta- puffs from the pipe that was hanging between his teeth, tion, where they all refused to reveal the reason he got out of his chair and extended his hand to his behind the fight. friend, saying: I accept - give me what you have. Seally said what the expert suggested was logical, and that there is a cartoon character called Popeye the Sailor Man, which is very popular among various ages, particularly among mothers and children, and that a great idea occurred to him, which is to convince the character’s owner to make some adjustment and have Popeye eat spinach, which boosts his muscles and he becomes strong. He then beats his archenemy Bluto and recovers his love Olive Oyl. Then Popeye celebrates his victory with a few puffs from his pipe! Seally said this adjustment will make mothers to indi- rectly encourage their children to eat spinach, which has a high nutritional value, and it will be easy to convince the family to consume larger amounts of olives and oil, other than urging men to smoke, as the bad effects of tobacco on health were not known then. Time proved Seally right, especially after the introduction of television in homes, and this was the start of the two men’s growing wealth out of a simple and small practical idea. The story above, except for the first paragraph of it, is totally fictional, and some may have believed it out of their confidence in what I write. What I did here does not differ much from what many are doing nowadays with bad and sometimes criminal use of social media through publishing and republishing bad news and mostly lies, ABK marks World Humanitarian Day create mythical stories in order to create chaos and dis- tort the movement of individuals and groups and coun- tries for a certain purpose. So it is necessary to be careful KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) recently cele- personnel who dedicate their lives to the cause and to from ABK to demonstrate its support to these hard- and not believe in any message before looking into it, brated World Humanitarian Day, as a group of ABK staff encourage humanitarian deeds worldwide. working individuals that keep the streets of our especially those related to health or politics, or benefits volunteered to distribute packages to street cleaners The packages distributed by ABK included essential beloved Kuwait clean. and harms of certain foods, besides other matters that across Kuwait. World Humanitarian Day, which falls on food items, water bottles, caps and towels; all in an For more information about Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait may be confusing to us all, and it is enough to have 19 August, is marked universally through initiatives effort to keep street cleaners refreshed and hydrated please visit eahli.com or contact an ABK customer serv- doubts about a message to erase and forget it. and projects committed to recognizing humanitarian throughout the day. This initiative came as a gesture ice agent via ‘Ahlan Ahli’ at 1899899. —Translated by Kuwait Times Ooredoo participates in launching of Business Center

KUWAIT: Under the patronage of the Ghanim lauded the efforts of the gov- who underscored on numerous occa- Speaker of the National Assembly ernment officials for launching this sions the importance of investing in Marzouq Al-Ghanim and the Minister of initiative, expressing his optimism youth, especially from private sector Commerce and Industry Khaled Al- towards a better future for young entities.” He added, “We are certain Roudan, Ooredoo, Kuwait’s strongest entrepreneurs that can help them that the launch of this center will have network, proudly participated in the build a better future and realize their immense positive impact on local official inauguration of the Kuwait potential. Meanwhile, Minister of economy, and we look for more Business Center’s headquarters in Commerce and Industry Khaled Al- opportunities in the future to enable Ishbiliya last Thursday. Representing Roudan noted that this achievement youth and propel them towards suc- Ooredoo Kuwait at the event was comes as part of the government’s cess and taking challenges head-on.” Ooredoo Kuwait’s CEO and General serious efforts towards creating an Manager Sheikh Mohammed bin attractive environment for youth Comprehensive solutions Abdullah Al Thani, Senior Director of B2B entrepreneurs, noting that the Prime In collaboration with FASTtelco, Sales Abdulaziz Al-Babtain, Senior Minister directly endorsed the project Ooredoo is offering all individuals Manager of Public Relations and Internal due to its importance. upon the completion of their registra- Communications Fatemah Dashti, and tion with 3 months of free DSL inter- Senior Manager of Corporate Social Longstanding partnership net, with up to 20Mbps for three Responsibility, Sponsorships and Social Ooredoo Kuwait’s CEO and General months, inclusive of hardware and Media Yousef Al-Shallal. Manager Sheikh Mohammed bin installation. Ooredoo has also Cadillac Alghanim supports KRCS The inauguration of the center Abdullah Al Thani noted during a state- announced recently the launch of a counts as a substantial leap, deliver- ment made to the press on the occasion new bundle that offers customers by providing key home electronics ing business licenses for one-person the company’s commitment towards its with a comprehensive connectivity companies and microenterprises core values of caring, connecting, and solution, including high-speed mobile KUWAIT: Ahead of the upcoming Eid within the period of 48 hours of sub- challenging. “Our collaboration with the internet with a capacity of 1TB, a fixed holiday, Yusuf A Alghanim & Sons mitting requests via the center’s web- Ministry of Commerce is an extension to router and a fixed landline that can be Automotive, the exclusive distributor site, with a comprehensive one-stop our policy at Ooredoo Kuwait to be a installed without the need for tele- of Cadillac vehicles in Kuwait, and in shop method, combining all responsi- leading supporter of youth and young phone infrastructure, for KD cooperation with X-cite by Alghanim ble government entities under one entrepreneurs. We have strong and 20/month only. The launch of the new Electronics, concluded a donation roof to streamline the process. The deep-rooted belief in our role as a pri- plan comes to reiterate Ooredoo’s campaign towards the Kuwait Red center also counts as a vital step vate sector entity in enabling youth, commitment to enriching the lives of Crescent Society (KRCS) as part of its towards fulfilling the government’s and having a pro-active role towards customers, especially small business ongoing commitment to supporting Kuwait 2035 vision, aiming to bolster their growth and success. owners who compromise a big num- various segments of the community the economy, especially among the With this participation, we hope to ber of Ooredoo’s targeted audience through education, raising aware- segment of young entrepreneurs. fulfill the recommendations of His through its strategy to enrich and ness and assisting individuals with Speaking at the event, the Speaker Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh support the experience of young special needs. of the National Assembly Marzouq Al- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, entrepreneurs. Through the partnership with X- cite by Alghanim Electronics, KRCS received essential home electronics and appliances to support the rebuilding of houses for vulnerable families in Kuwait. The donations included refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, Automotive vision and strategy, ward to partnering with Cadillac portable fans, gas cookers and Cadillac Alghanim is committed to Alghanim for future initiatives.” water dispensers. supporting the local community and In the months of May and June of A team comprised of employees strive to do our part to raise aware- this year, Cadillac Alghanim organ- from Alghanim Industries, Cadillac ness. We are proud to have partnered ized a donation campaign where it Alghanim, and X-cite by Alghanim with the Kuwait Red Crescent Society donated shares of its profits with Electronics participated in the deliv- this year and are grateful for their con- every new Cadillac vehicle purchase. ery of these key appliances to families tinuous efforts to better the lives of Since the brand’s promising arrival to in Jleeb Al Shuyoukh, in preparation those less fortunate.” Kuwait, Cadillac always pushed the of the upcoming Eid holiday. Commenting on the donation, boundaries of design and engineer- According to the KRCS, there are 4,000 Secretary General of Kuwait Red ing in the nation. Since Alghanim registered families who cannot afford Crescent Society (KRCS) Maha Al- Industries partnered with General to pay for adequate living conditions. Barjas said: “We are extremely grateful Motors, Cadillac customers have These families consist of non-Kuwaiti to the Cadillac Alghanim team for been enjoying great facilities, and residents, many of whom are facing continuing to support us with gener- the largest GM service center in the financial difficulties. ous donations. This support will go world. This care for excellence in cus- Speaking about the initiative, towards improving the quality of life tomer service is embedded in General Manager of Cadillac for families in need, by providing Cadillac Alghanim’s identity, and is Alghanim, Mohamed Eltalkhawi said: them with the essential equipment to reflected through the customer cen- “As part of Yusuf A Alghanim & Sons make their house a home. We look for- tricity of all its processes. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 Train crash claims at least 23 lives Mugabe returns home despite assault claim

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Fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitaries advance towards the city of Tal Afar, the main remaining stronghold of the Islamic State group, after the government announced the beginning of an operation to retake it from the militants yesterday. — AFP Iraq launches battle for Tal Afar IS bastion near Mosul is a key supply hub

TAL AFAR AIRBASE: Iraqi forces yesterday said, using an alternative acronym for IS. “We Iraqi forces with “equipment, training, intelli- know how many civilians are still in the areas planes had dropped leaflets to residents in Tal pounded the Islamic State group in Tal Afar, have won all our battles, and Daesh have gence, precision fires and combat advice”. IS in where fighting is occurring, but we are prepar- Afar and its surroundings, the Hashed said in a one of its last bastions in the country, in a new always lost,” he said, telling his troops: “The June 2014 overran Tal Afar, a Shiite enclave in ing for thousands more to flee in coming days statement. The authorities said they had set up assault just weeks after ousting IS from second entire world is with you.” the predominantly Sunni province of Nineveh, and weeks.” Authorities have accused the a radio station to keep residents briefed. IS city Mosul. Once a key IS supply hub between Several hours after the battle began, the on the road between Mosul and Syria. At the approximately 1,000 jihadists in the city of overran large areas north and west of Baghdad Mosul-around 70 kilometres (45 miles) further federal police said it had retaken the village of time, its population of around 200,000 was using civilians as human shields during Iraqi in 2014, but Iraqi forces have since regained east-and the Syrian border, Tal Afar is the last Al-Abra Al-Sghira west of Tal Afar. The US-led overwhelmingly Turkmen, one of Iraq’s largest and coalition air strikes earlier this week in much of the territory. Once Tal Afar is retaken, major population centre in northern Iraq coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria wel- ethnic minorities. preparation for the ground assault. Abadi said Iraqi authorities intend to turn their sights under jihadist control. Weeks after recapturing comed the start of the offensive and pledged Tal Afar’s Shiites were directly targeted by that Iraq’s Hashed Al-Shaabi paramilitary south to jihadist-held Hawijah in the province Mosul in a major blow to the jihadists, convoys support to Iraqi forces involved. The “opera- IS, while some members of its Sunni minority forces would help army, police and counter- of Kirkuk, 300 kilometers northwest of of Iraqi forces around Tal Afar began pounding tion to liberate Tal Afar is another important joined the jihadists and went on to form a con- terrorism units to retake Tal Afar. Baghdad. Jihadists also still hold areas of Anbar, IS positions from three sides at dawn Sunday. fight that must be won to ensure the country tingent with a particularly brutal reputation. a western province that borders Syria and faces An AFP correspondent reported mortar fire and its citizens are finally free of ISIS”, the head According to the coalition, between 10,000 ‘Victory is near’ major security challenges. in the mostly desert area dotted by some of the anti-IS coalition Lieutenant General and 50,000 civilians remain in and around the The umbrella organization, which is domi- As well as in Iraq, IS has suffered major set- farmland, with columns of smoke billowing Stephen Townsend said in a statement, using city. Un Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq Lisa nated by Iran-backed Shiite militias, has already backs in Syria, where US-backed fighters have skywards. Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi another acronym for IS. Grande said Sunday that “more than 30,000 been fighting to retake other Iraqi cities from IS. retaken more than half of its de facto Syrian announced the offensive in a pre-dawn tele- people have already fled” the Tal Afar region “In the early hours, the guns and flags turned capital Raqa. Russia-supported Syrian troops vised speech. Wearing black military fatigues Coalition support and that thousands more were expected to towards their targets,” said Hashed spokesman have almost entirely encircled IS in Syria’s cen- and standing in front of an Iraqi flag and map, “The coalition is strong, and fully commit- seek to flee. “Families are trekking for 10 to 20 Ahmed Al-Assadi. “Victory is near” in Tal Afar, an tral desert region, and the jihadists are also fac- he announced “the start of an operation to ted to supporting our Iraqi partners until ISIS hours in extreme heat to reach mustering “Iraqi city taken hostage and humiliated for ing twin assaults from the Lebanese army and free Tal Afar”. “I am saying to Daesh that there’s is defeated and the Iraqi people are free,” he points. They are arriving exhausted and dehy- years by attacks from these barbarians”, he said. Shiite movement Hezbollah on the Lebanon- no choice other than to leave or be killed,” he said. The coalition would continue to support drated,” Grande said in a statement. “We don’t Even before Abadi’s announcement, Iraqi Syrian border. — AFP For Trump, complicated Iran to protect nuclear deal from US: Rouhani

return to White House TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani investment and technology,” Rouhani said, said yesterday the top foreign policy priority adding that Iran needed $200 billion in WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump makers Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell “recog- for his new government was to protect the investments for the oil and gas sector alone. returns to the Oval Office today after a two-week nize Trump for what he is, and there’s no love nuclear deal from being torn up by the Parliament approved 16 of his 17 cabinet vacation rife with chaos-and the dark clouds lost,” said Larry Sabato, a politics professor at United States. “The most important job of our picks, rejecting his suggested minister of plaguing his fledgling presidency show no signs the University of Virginia. “But they have to pro- foreign minister is first to stand behind the energy, a reformist named Habibollah Bitaraf. of clearing up. Seven months after taking office tect their members on the ballot in November JCPOA, and not to allow the US and other Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the real estate magnate’s approval rating has 2018,” he told AFP. “They have no choice but to enemies to succeed,” Rouhani told parlia- who was the charismatic face of Iran’s nuclear plunged to a record low. And far from striking a work with Trump, and Trump knows that and ment, using the technical name for the 2015 negotiations, retained his position. more unifying tone, Trump’s words and actions enjoys playing with them as a cat would a cor- deal that eased sanctions in exchange for So did Oil Minister Bijan Namdar continue to feed the sense of a rudderless presi- nered mouse.” curbs to Iran’s nuclear program. Zanganeh, who recently struck a billion-dol- dency, lurching from one self-generated crisis to the next. A nation on edge “Standing up for the JCPOA means lar deal with French giant Total. Rouhani, a In perhaps the worst to date, he dealt a crush- Friday’s ouster of Steve Bannon, Trump’s con- standing up to Iran’s enemies,” he said on political moderate, worked hard behind the ing blow to his own embattled administration by troversial former chief strategist and key cam- the last day of debates over his cabinet scenes to secure support for his choices, saying “both sides” were to blame for the blood- paign ally, from the White House could be seen selections. Rouhani indicated a week ago including from the supreme leader and the shed in Charlottesville, Virginia following a rally WASHINGTON: This file photo taken on July as a turning point for an administration in tur- that Iran was ready to walk out on the military. He began his second term earlier by neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Al Gore, a 12, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump moil. But the timing was disastrous, capping one nuclear deal if the United States continued this month after winning a resounding victo- former Democratic vice president, advised and First Lady Melania Trump departing the of Trump’s most catastrophic weeks yet after his to apply fresh sanctions. US President ry over a hardline challenger in May, vowing Trump to “resign.” Mitt Romney, a recent White House. — AFP series of ambiguous remarks on the white Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to tear to continue his outreach to the world and Republican presidential nominee, urged the ment that Trump’s unpredictability cannot sus- supremacist rally in Charlottesville, which ended up the deal during his campaign, and it has improve civil liberties at home. president to “acknowledge that he was wrong” tain his four-year presidential term. with the death of a counter-protestor at the come under mounting pressure after Tehran But he has angered reformists by again and “apologize.” With his return to Washington, number one hands of a suspected Nazi sympathizer. carried out missile tests and Washington failing to appoint a single woman minister, Parts of the business world are now openly on the president’s to-do list is tax reform. Bannon’s departure does offer a semblance of imposed new sanctions-with each accusing and looks no closer to securing the release voicing exasperation with Trump, as members of Delivering on that campaign promise would clarity concerning the balance of power in the the other of violating the spirit of the agree- of jailed opposition leaders-one of whom, his own Republican party-long “off the record”- mark Trump’s first significant legislative achieve- White House, where John Kelly, a retired Marine ment. But Rouhani has insisted it remains Mehdi Karroubi, briefly went on hunger grow more audible and assertive. “The president ment since his January swearing-in. general, now reigns as the president’s chief of staff. Iran’s preferred way forward, not least to strike this week to demand a trial after six has not yet been able to demonstrate the stabili- His verbal attacks on top members of But the president’s true agenda remains unclear, help rebuild the struggling economy and years under house arrest. Rouhani has yet to ty nor some of the competence that he needs to Congress have cooled relations between the and Bannon’s status change from White House create jobs. “The second responsibility of the appoint a minister of science, research and demonstrate in order to be successful,” White House and Capitol Hill, but lawmakers power player to outsider has policy experts asking foreign ministry... is to get involved in eco- technology, which conservatives consider to Republican Senator Bob Corker uttered in one with next year’s midterm elections on the mind what will remain in the administration of his nomic activities. It should help attract foreign be a sensitive post. — AFP chiseled phrase, capturing the growing senti- also fear an open clash. Top Republican law- extreme anti-establishment views. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Erdogan urges ‘slap’ for German ruling parties

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan third consecutive day, Erdogan called on ethnic of the SPD, had bitterly denounced Erdogan’s calls Ankara and Berlin risks propelling a months-long yesterday called on Turkish-origin Germans to give Turks living in Germany not to vote for parties who as an “unprecedented act of interference” in crisis in ties between two NATO allies with deep his- a “slap” to both parties in Chancellor Angela are “enemies of Turkey”. “Be with those who are Germany’s sovereignty. This prompted the Turkish toric links to a new level. Merkel’s ruling coalition in September polls, press- friendly to Turkey. Don’t worry if it’s a small party, president the day earlier to tell Berlin’s top diplomat Berlin has lambasted Ankara over the magni- ing on with what Berlin has condemned as give them your vote. They will then grow and get to “know your limits” and question his political tude of the crackdown that followed last year’s unprecedented meddling. Erdogan has caused con- bigger.” “In my opinion, those who attack Turkey in experience. failed coup, which has seen several German citizens sternation in Berlin by urging ethnic Turks in this way need to be dealt a slap in this election,” And Erdogan yesterday brushed off the criticism arrested, including journalists. Ankara meanwhile Germany to vote neither for Merkel’s Christian Erdogan told ruling party activists in a televised that he was meddling in the elections. “What are has accused Berlin of failing to extradite suspected Democratic Union (CDU), its coalition partner the speech in Istanbul. they saying now? They are saying ‘he’s interfering in Kurdish militants and coup plotters who have taken Social Democratic Party (SPD) nor the Greens in the He did not specify which parties the Turkish our democracy’. But all we are saying is that our citi- refuge in Germany. Analysts estimate that about 1.2 September 24 legislative polls. community in Germany should consider voting for. zens should give the enemies of Turkey a lesson at million people of Turkish origin will have the right Defiantly returning to the controversy for the Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a senior member the ballot box. That’s all.” The latest spat between to vote in the September elections. — AFP

Christian teen imprisoned in Pakistan over blasphemy LAHORE: A Christian teenager in Pakistan Massih was charged under section 295- has been arrested and imprisoned for B of Pakistan’s penal code, added Iqbal, allegedly burning pages of the Holy Quran, referring to a part of the country’s constitu- officials said yesterday. The incident occurred tion that makes the death sentence in the central province of Punjab, with a local mandatory for anyone who damages or police official saying police had caught 18- desecrates the Quran. He will stand trial year-old Asif Massih “red-handed”. “On the and faces the possibility of being put to night of August 12, police received a com- death. Blasphemy is a sensitive charge in plaint that a Christian boy has been found the conservative Muslim country, where burning pages of the holy Quran outside a even unproven allegations can trigger mob shrine,” Asghar Ali told AFP. lynchings and violence. The incident was confirmed by another A Pakistani man was sentenced to death local police official, Pervaiz Iqbal, who is for committing blasphemy on Facebook in investigating the case. “When the police took June. In May, a 10-year old boy was killed the suspect into custody and brought him to and five others were wounded when a mob a police check-post, a crowd of around 200 attacked a police station in an attempt to men gathered outside...demanding the cul- lynch a Hindu man charged with blasphemy prit be handed over to them,” Iqbal said. “We for allegedly posting an incendiary image on then secretly moved the culprit to the police social media. At least 65 people have been station in Wazirabad where he was interro- murdered by vigilantes over blasphemy alle- gated and confessed to his crime.” gations since 1990. — AFP Finland marks a minute of silence for stabbing victims

HELSINKI: Finland observed a minute of hospital, attending the ceremony in a silence yesterday for the victims of a stab- wheelchair. “I wanted to show my respect bing attack that left two people dead in to the victims,” he told Swedish daily what is being investigated as the country’s Aftonbladet before returning to hospital first-ever terror attack. Another eight people for further treatment. Similar ceremonies were wounded in the stabbing spree, which were held across the country. NORCO: Buzz Riebschlager (R) who is a supporter of President Trump with his horse in the town of Norco. — AFP took place on Friday in the southwestern port city of Turku. At the market square Women targeted where the attack happened, several hun- Finnish police said Saturday that an 18- In California horse country, Trump dred people gathered to hold a minute of year-old Moroccan asylum seeker deliber- silence at 10:00 am (0700 GMT). ately targeted women in the attack. His Among the crowd were emergency motive was not yet known. All of the victims voters still standing by their man workers, city officials and police who formed were women, including the dead, except for a ring around a makeshift memorial of can- two men who tried to fend off the attacker. ‘I like his aggressiveness, people don’t walk on him’ dles and flowers, where Archbishop Kari An Italian, a Swede and a Briton were Makinen, who heads Finland’s Evangelical among the injured. The suspect was shot NORCO: In Norco, a California desert town an They clashed with counter-demonstrators and a He’s not alone-nearly two out of three Lutheran Church, was also present. “Peace and wounded by police minutes after he hour inland from Los Angeles, the joke is that young woman was killed by a neo-Nazi sympa- Americans feel Confederate statues should and Love - No Violence Finland” read one began his rampage on Friday afternoon. there are as many horses as there are residents. thizer who rammed his car into a crowd. remain in place. note next to a bouquet of flowers. The National Bureau of Investigation And on a recent visit, it seemed there were The bells of Turku Cathedral, the coun- (NBI) said Sunday it was hoping to interro- almost as many Donald Trump supporters as ‘They’re all racists’ Immigration ‘problem’ try’s largest church, rang out for 15 min- gate him later in the day. In hospital with a there were horses. This community where rid- Trump has come under fire from Republicans Many in Norco are quick to echo Trump’s utes before falling silent as the crowd gunshot wound to the thigh, he has so far ing trails are used as sidewalks, and rodeo and Democrats alike after he drew an equivalen- own words on the topic, after he rhetorically bowed its head to remember the victims. refused to speak to investigators. Police events and gunslinging are favorite pastimes, is cy between the far-right demonstrators and the questioned whether statues of early American Also there was Hassan Zubier, a visiting arrested four Moroccans linked to the sus- one of the most Republican in the deeply counter-protesters, saying there were “very fine presidents would have to come down too, since British paramedic who was injured in the pect in a raid late Friday, but police said Democratic state. people on both sides.” “I think his reaction was several were slave owners. “You had your presi- attack after coming to the aid of a woman Sunday their involvement in the attack had And almost all Norco residents are standing absolutely correct,” Fischer said. “President Obama dents that had slaves, George Washington, who later died. He arrived directly from “not yet been fully established.” —AFP by their candidate, even as he faces a storm of would come up and without any facts he’d say Thomas Jefferson, what are you gonna do? Get bipartisan criticism over his response to a violent these guys were wrong, the police was wrong. rid of their statues just because some people white supremacist rally. “Look at all the jobs he’s President Trump waits until he has the facts.” got their feelings hurt that this was in the past?” bringing, he’s working on tax reform,” said Skip Lana James, 70, who was running errands Fischer said. Fischer, a 62-year-old contractor as he left the with her granddaughter, said the reaction to Some African Americans say “we’re still affect- Saddle Sore Saloon, a Wild West-themed restau- Trump’s comments has been too extreme. “He ed by slavery. Well, no, you’re not. You’re free rant and bar. “I like his aggressiveness, people certainly did mean to condemn the suprema- now, you can do whatever you want,” he added. don’t walk on him, that’s what America needed.” cists and he did,” she said. “When you have two Beyond Charlottesville, the fervent Trump sup- “I think he’s gonna be the one that changes the groups that are so radical, either to the left or to porter also approves of the president’s war rhet- world,” said a young housewife who would not the right, there are hateful people and extreme oric aimed at the authoritarian regime of North give her name. on both sides.” Mark Birdwell agreed with James’ Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. “Sometimes you Seven months after the wealthy businessman assessment. have to be more aggressive instead of passive was sworn into office, Trump has seen his popu- “I think they’re all wrong, everybody needs to like Obama was, otherwise people take advan- larity plunge to 36 percent, according to a recent take a big breath and relax,” said the 48-year-old tage of you,” Fischer said. Washington Post-ABC News poll. And yet 61 per- who works in industrial refrigeration. “I don’t Fellow Trump fan Buzz Riebschlager said he’d cent of Trump supporters said they could not agree with Black Lives Matter, I don’t agree with like to see more achievements in tax reform and see the president doing anything that would the KKK... they’re all racists.” For him and all the in repealing Obamacare, the health care reforms make them disapprove of him, according to a Norco residents who spoke with AFP, public stat- that Republican lawmakers have been pledging Monmouth University poll. ues of Confederate leaders-who fought to pre- to tear up for years. But on immigration, he’s on Everyone interviewed by AFP in Norco serve slavery during the US Civil War from 1861 the same page as the president. “If you don’t live applauded his reaction to the recent deadly vio- to 1865 — should remain standing. “I had mem- here, you shouldn’t get a job. I’m not being lence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where several bers of my family fighting on both sides during racist,” he said. “This is America, it’s 2017, every- TURKU: Hassan Zubier, injured in a mass stabbing as he attempted to help a stab- hundred neo-Nazis, white supremacists and oth- the Civil War, taking down symbols of the coun- body’s welcome here. The problem is when they bing victim, is pictured at the Turku Market Square. — AFP er far-right extremists had gathered for a rally. try is wrong, it’s part of history,” Birdwell said. come here and start doing bad things.” — AFP Lebanon army advances against IS in border fight

BEIRUT: Lebanese soldiers renewed fire on waged its own campaign against jihadists Lebanon’s army denied any coordination to remain in IS hands.It is not clear if they are Islamic State group positions on the coun- operating in another border area south of with Hezbollah or the Syrian army. alive or not. try’s eastern border with Syria yesterday after the current battle. The group’s six-day offen- Hezbollah’s War Media outlet said its fighters Three more Lebanese soldiers were killed capturing a third of the territory held by sive against IS and Al-Qaeda’s former affiliate and the Syrian army had on Saturday “man- yesterday when a mine exploded under their jihadists in the area. Lebanon’s army began in the Jurud Arsal area ended with a cease- aged to liberate 87 square kilometers of the vehicle in the east of the country along the its operation in the Jurud Ras Baalbek and fire. The agreement saw around 8,000 total area controlled by the Daesh (IS) organ- border with Syria, the army said in a state- Jurud Al-Qaa region early on Saturday, and in refugees and jihadists transported to a ization... in western Qalamun region” of Syria. ment. The soldiers were en route to partici- the first day captured around 30 square kilo- jihadist-held area of northwestern Syria in Security along Lebanon’s eastern border pate in an operation that began Saturday to meters of territory, a military spokesman return for the release of five captured with Syria has long been a concern, and in oust Islamic State group militants from an said. “That is around a third of the area con- Hezbollah fighters. 2014 jihadists invaded the town of Arsal and area further north on the border, an army trolled by the terrorists,” Brigadier General Hezbollah said Saturday it had launched a kidnapped 30 Lebanese soldiers and police. source told AFP. “An army vehicle was hit by a Nazih Jreij said late Saturday. simultaneous operation against IS from the Four were executed by their captors while a landmine on the Al-Najsa road roundabout Jreij said 20 IS fighters had been killed in Syrian side of the border, where the group’s fifth died of his wounds. Sixteen were in Jurud Arsal at noon today, killing three sol- the clashes, and 10 Lebanese soldiers fighters are battling alongside President released in a prisoner swap in December diers and injuring one soldier seriously,” the wounded. Lebanon’s battle against IS comes Bashar Al-Assad’s army against rebels. 2015, but another nine solders are believed army said in a statement. — AFP as the jihadist group faces assaults in both neighboring Syria and Iraq, where the gov- ernment early yesterday announced an offensive on the group’s bastion of Tal Afar. The attack also comes after IS claimed sever- al international attacks, including twin car ramming incidents in Spain that killed 14 people. Lebanese soldiers raised the Spanish flag on a hilltop captured from IS on Saturday in a tribute to the victims of those attacks, the army said. Lebanon’s military estimated around 600 IS fighters were present in the Jurud Ras Baalbek and Jurud Al-Qaa areas, controlling around 120 square kilometers of territory before Saturday’s advances. Yesterday, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported soldiers were firing heavy artillery and rockets at IS positions in Jurud Ras Baalbek.

Hezbollah campaign The army’s assault comes after Lebanon’s Syrian pro-government forces hold a position in the western Qalamoun yesterday during an offensive against Islaimc State (IS) powerful Shiite militant group Hezbollah group fighters. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Russia steps up probe in attack claimed by IS MOSCOW: Russia said yesterday that a stabbing Saturday morning, stabbing people apparently at the attacker’s home and were establishing the cir- object taped round his waist. which injured seven people and was claimed by random before being shot by police. Russia, which cumstances and the “motive for the attacker’s NTV television aired witness video of a police- the Islamic State group is being probed by top initially said the theory of terrorism was “not the actions.” man chasing the attacker through streets and fir- investigators in Moscow, as new details emerged. main one” being considered, has opened a criminal The attacker was born in 1998, the Investigative ing apparently at his head, after which the attacker IS claimed responsibility for the attack in the probe into attempted murder and has not reacted Committee said, while previously it had said he falls to the ground. Earlier investigators said that remote city of Surgut along with the attacks in officially to the IS claim. was born in 1994. Unconfirmed media reports on they were looking into the attacker’s “possible psy- Spain that killed 14 through its Amaq propaganda The Investigative Committee, which probes Saturday had described the attacker as a 19-year- chiatric disorders.” One of the stabbing victims agency, calling the attacker “a soldier of the major crimes, said in a statement on Sunday that old whose father originates from Dagestan in remained in a serious condition while the others Islamic State.” “due to the wide public reaction,” its chief Russia’s mainly-Muslim North Caucasus region. were stable, investigators said. Late Saturday, the A black-clad attacker in a balaclava ranged Alexander Bastrykin has put the case directly Video posted by Izvestia newspaper on its website governor of the region Natalya Komarova visited through central streets of the city around 2,100 under control of its central apparatus in Moscow. on Sunday showed the attacker, a slim young man, the wounded in hospital. She said one victim was kilometres (1,330 miles) northeast of Moscow on Investigators said they had carried out searches of lying on the ground dressed all in black with a red fighting for his life. — AFP

Deputy PM Baa-naby’s N Zealand woes create chaos in Canberra

SYDNEY: Australia’s top court will this that he was a Kiwi citizen. Prime Minister week examine a constitutional crisis Malcolm Turnbull seized upon the fact threatening to topple the conservative that a member of New Zealand’s Labour government, after parliament’s attempts Party asked questions about the citizen- to deal with it ended in sheep jokes and ship issue the previous week to allege a conspiracy theories. At least three senior grand plot to bring him down. Opposition government figures, including Deputy leader Bill Shorten of the Australian Labor Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, have been party was attempting “to steal govern- snared by a previously obscure constitu- ment by entering into a conspiracy with a tional provision that bars dual citizens foreign power”, Turnbull thundered. from sitting in parliament. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop accused With the government’s one-seat major- Shorten of “treacherous behavior” and ity on the line, Joyce has refused to stand said she would find it hard to trust New down, arguing he previously had no idea Zealand Labour if it won the country’s he automatically inherited New Zealand elections next month. citizenship from his Dunedin-born father. “(It) is not only highly improper but is The Australian-born deputy leader’s case in direct breach of the international obli- will go to the High Court on Thursday, gation for non-interference. Labor have along with four other politicians who have now been well and truly caught out,” unwittingly found themselves on the Bishop said. wrong side of the law. Labor’s Penny Wong accused Bishop of A sixth lawmaker, National Party senator running “a Kiwis under-the-bed scare cam- Fiona Nash, is also set to join the court case paign”, invoking anti-communist “Reds after discovering late last week she was a under the beds” fears of the Cold War. Her dual Australian-British citizen. Professor colleague Rob Mitchell turned up in par- Don Rothwell, a constitutional expert from liament holding a tinfoil hat, which he the Australian National University, said the said was for Bishop. “Sounds like Julie’s on stakes in the case were high. “One possibili- the phone now,” he told reporters as his ty, albeit remote as it stands at the mobile went off with the ringtone playing MARONDERA: This file photo taken on June 2, 2017 shows Zimbabwe President (L) with his wife Grace Mugabe (R) raising their moment, is that the government of the day the theme to “The Twilight Zone” televi- fists in a vehicle before meeting delegates during a Zimbabwe ruling party Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) youth could fall... in which case we could see an sion show. rally at Rudhaka Stadium. — AFP election called,” he told AFP. “She’s been on to NASA and Area 51 at The dual citizenship provision was Roswell claiming that it’s all our fault inserted in the 1901 constitution to about Barnaby Joyce,” he told reporters. ensure parliamentarians had no “adher- Meanwhile, Joyce’s status as an accidental Mugabe returns home ence to a foreign power”. Rothwell said it Kiwi led to inevitable sheep jokes, never was framed at a time when Australians far from the surface when Australians dis- still believed their primary loyalty was to cuss their trans-Tasman cousins. Joyce the British crown, and appeared increas- endured taunts of “Baa-naby” from the despite assault claim ingly archaic in an immigrant nation such opposition benches, while Bishop was as Australia. “It has this time-warped told “you’ve just jumped the sheep!” after understanding of what foreign powers outlining her Kiwi conspiracy. ‘She is tarnishing our image as a nation’ were from 1901,” he said. “A much more Rothwell said the High Court was likely liberal approach is taken (in the communi- to expedite its judgment on the citizen- ty) towards dual citizenship these days.” ship saga due to its potential impacts. But : Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe said they were on high alert to make sure neighbors with deep economic and historical he said a ruling in the case, due to start at flew home from South Africa yesterday, state Mugabe’s 52-year-old wife did not leave the ties. Zimbabwean officials have declined to com- Tinfoil hats, treason! a preliminary hearing on Thursday, was media said, ending a week of confusion over her country with officials reportedly weighing up ment on the allegations against the first lady or Much will rest on whether the High likely to be weeks away. In the meantime, whereabouts after she allegedly assaulted a whether to issue an arrest warrant. her immunity claim. Yesterday, Zimbabwe’s state Court adopts the same approach or takes Australians can look forward to their rep- model. Mugabe, who has sought diplomatic media made its first mention of the alleged a narrower view of the constitution’s sec- resentatives in Canberra continuing to immunity but is sought by police for allegedly Hot-tempered assault, hitting out at the “media frenzy” and say- tion 44(i). Regardless, the court will cer- snipe at each other as they scramble to attacking the 20-year-old model at a The first lady is alleged to have assaulted ing there was “nothing meaningful being said”. tainly give the issue more sober consider- check they have no citizenship skeletons Johannesburg hotel, flew home with her hus- Gabriella Engels with an electrical extension But a spokesman for Zimbabwe’s opposition ation than Australia’s politicians, who in the closet. As the Kiwis would say when band in the early hours yesterday, public broad- cable on August 13 at the hotel where the model Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said turned Canberra into a sideshow after expressing approval over something caster ZBC reported. was staying with Mugabe’s two sons who have a Mugabe should not be granted immunity, Joyce dropped the bombshell Monday “choice, bro’”. — AFP “President Comrade Robert Mugabe returned reputation for partying. Engels said she suffered describing her as “a thug and violent person who home... accompanied by the First Lady Dr Grace deep cuts to her forehead and the back of her committed a heinous assault on an innocent Mugabe... in the early hours of this morning head and has opened a police case alleging young woman.” “Whatever is legally possible aboard an Air Zimbabwe plane,” the broadcaster assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. should be done to ensure that she faces the full said. The president had flown to South Africa on On Wednesday, Mugabe applied for diplo- wrath of the law. There should be no impunity,” Wednesday to attend a two-day regional leaders’ matic immunity although South African officials MDC spokesman Obert Gutu told AFP. “She is a summit in Pretoria that began Saturday-which were not immediately available on Saturday to disgrace and she owes us an apology for tarnish- police said she had been expected to attend. say whether or not her request had been grant- ing our image as a nation.” Grace Mugabe has not been seen since the alle- ed. Seen as a potential successor to her hus- And AfriForum, a pro-Afrikaner civil rights gations were made and failed to appear at the band, Grace Mugabe is known for her temper. In organization which helps victims of crime and summit. 2009, she successfully claimed immunity in has vowed to help Engels seek justice, also Anticipating her arrival, a group of protesters Hong Kong after repeatedly punching a British denounced what it said was a regional “culture of had gathered outside, some waving signs read- photographer for taking pictures of her at a lux- impunity”. “We have corrupt government people ing “Grace is a disgrace”. The 93-year-old presi- ury hotel. (...) who are protecting one another,” said Willie dent appeared to cut short his visit to fly home Spies, a lawyer for AfriForum, suggesting the early, skipping the second day of talks among Political headache authorities had turned a blind eye to her depar- leaders of the Southern African Development The alleged assault is a political headache for ture. “She has left the country. The whole thing Community (SADC). South African police had South Africa and Zimbabwe which are close was done secretly.” — AFP Thousands march in Boston at anti-racism demonstrations

BOSTON: Thousands of anti-racism demonstra- that crowd,” Evans said. “Sometimes it doesn’t ‘Racists out!’ tors flooded the streets of Boston Saturday, look pretty, but that’s what they’re trained for.” Thousands of counter-protesters had con- Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen Joseph Dunford works in his private cabin aboard his dwarfing a gathering of white nationalists in The demonstration was held at a time of vened in two groups before the main rally in plane, Saturday, Aug 19, 2017, while traveling to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. — AP the city and triggering scuffles with police but anguished national debate over racial relations, Boston, chanting “No Nazis, no KKK, no fascists in avoiding the serious violence that marred a which was fanned when Trump defended some the USA!” One man held a sign that read, “Stop similar event a week earlier in Virginia. A so- participants in last week’s white nationalist and pretending your racism is patriotism,” and a US reach decision called “free speech” rally by far-right groups had neo-Nazi rally in Virginia as “very fine people.” woman’s sign said, “Muslims welcome, racists been scheduled to run until 2 pm (1800 GMT), Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who is Jewish, tweet- out.” “It’s time to do something,” said Katie Zipps, but a half-hour before that police escorted its ed Saturday night: “It was beautiful to see thou- who traveled from Malden, north of Boston, for on Afghan strategy participants-whose numbers appeared to be in sands of people across the USA come together the counter-demonstrations, organized by an the dozens-to safety past a throng of anti- today to peacefully denounce bigotry, racism & amalgam of mostly left-leaning groups. “We are AMMAN: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis the estimated 8,400 that have been in the racism protesters. anti-Semitism. We must continue to come out here to add an extra body to add to the confirmed yesterday that the Trump country-close to 4,000 more, according to Officials estimated turnout of about 40,000 together, united as Americans!” numbers of those who resist.” — AFP administration had decided on a new strat- reports. But Mattis said he was loathe to demonstrators. Authorities said there were 27 egy for Afghanistan after “rigorous” debate, move before he had a true picture of the arrests, mostly for assault and battery against but said President Donald Trump would be numbers, which he said were actually high- the police, and disorderly conduct. Aerial pho- the one to announce it. Mattis refused to er than 8,400, and before Trump had his say tos showed counter-protesters filling one of hint at any details of the decision, which on the broader strategy. Boston’s main streets for several blocks, in a came after months of speculation over “The president had to make strategic huge outpouring of anti-racist sentiment in this whether Trump, frustrated with a stalemate decisions,” Mattis said. “He delegated to me, strongly Democratic northeastern city. While after 16 years in Afghanistan, would allow when he came in, the tactical and opera- Boston saw no repeat of the violence that the Pentagon to boost troop numbers on tional decision. He did not delegate one erupted last weekend in Charlottesville, the ground in the country. ounce of the strategic decision.” “He really Virginia, isolated scuffles between police and However Mattis appeared satisfied after did come in with very different courses of protesters prompted President Donald Trump what he described as an in-depth review of action, and I think he now needs the week- to weigh in, with a tweet intoning against the the policy by much of the president’s cabi- end to collect his thoughts about how he’s “many anti-police agitators in Boston.” net and top security officials at Camp David going to explain it to the American people.” But as protesters began departing central on Friday. “I’m very comfortable that the Mattis arrived in Jordan yesterday on Boston without major incident later Saturday, strategic process was sufficiently rigorous, the first day of a five-day swing through he followed up with a more positive tone. “I and did not go in with a preset condition in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In want to applaud the many protestors in Boston terms of what questions could be asked Jordan he will meet with King Abdullah on who are speaking out against bigotry and and what decisions could be made,” he regional security matters. In Turkey he will hate,” he tweeted. “Our country will soon come said. “Everyone who had equity was heard,” hold discussions with President Recep together as one!” Boston Police Commissioner he said, including budget officials responsi- Tayyip Erdogan and top military officials William Evans told a press conference that ble for funding the effort. focused on the Syria conflict and the fight while there were people “who came here to Trump had several options on the table, against the Islamic State group. In Ukraine cause problems,” authorities were able to that ranged from backing away from the he will discuss US support for the country’s maintain order and keep the two sides apart. country to stepping up US efforts to defeat military fighting pro-Moscow rebels and BOSTON: A counter-protester, part of a small group who remained on the street hours after a He credited a unit specially trained for crowd the Taliban. In June he gave Mattis the attend celebrations for the country’s “Free Speech” rally was staged by conservative activists, scuffles with a security guard and control. power to increase troop numbers above national day. — AFP “I thought they did a good job of moving police. — AP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Crowds protest in HK after activists jailed

HONG KONG: Thousands of supporters of ‘Ashcan of history’ three jailed young democracy activists took The three jailed protest leaders were found to the streets in Hong Kong yesterday to guilty last year on unlawful assembly charges protest their sentences. Joshua Wong, for storming a fenced-off government fore- Nathan Law and Alex Chow, leaders of the court known as “Civic Square” as part of a 2014 Umbrella Movement rallies, were sen- protest calling for fully free leadership elec- tenced to six to eight months in jail Thursday tions in September 2014. Wong and former for their role in a protest that sparked the legislator Law, who was disqualified from par- months-long demonstrations calling for liament last month following Beijing interven- democratic reforms. tion, had expressed their intentions to run for People took on the summer heat to office in future elections, but will be prevent- stream from the district of Wan Chai to the ed from standing for five years because their Court of Final appeal in the heart of Hong jail terms exceeded three months. Kong Island, protesting the jail terms. They Wally Yeung, one of the panel of three held signs including: “Give back hope to my judges that handed down the jail terms, said children” and “One prisoner of conscience is in a written judgment there had been an one too many” as they gathered in one of the “unhealthy trend” of people in Hong Kong biggest recent rallies the city has seen. breaking the law for the sake of their ideals William Cheung, an engineer in his 40s, and having what he described as “arrogant described the ruling as “the beginning of and self-righteous ideas”. Protesters stayed white terror” in Hong Kong. “These young on until the evening yesterday as campaign- people are our hope for the future. We ers addressed the crowds and messages of shouldn’t treat them like this,” Jackson Wai, a solidarity were projected onto the building retired teacher in his 70s, told AFP as he of the Court of Final Appeal. teared up. Rights groups and activists called Veteran activist and former lawmaker “Long the case against the trio “political persecu- Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, who was ousted along tion” and more evidence that an assertive with Nathan Law, said elite officials including the Beijing is tightening its grip on the semi- justice chief understood the 2014 mass protests UTTAR PRADESH: Indian policemen and emergency crew stand next to the wreckage of a train carriage after an express train derailed on the autonomous city. differently from judges of lower courts, who evening of August 19 near the town of Khatauli. — AFP The Beijing-backed Hong Kong govern- adjudicated on everyday matters in society and ment brought the case for harsher sentences had decided on lighter sentences for the protest against the three, saying previous non-custo- leaders. “Those at the top-they are the ones who Search ongoing after train dial terms were too light and did not serve as met with Xi Jinping during the July visit and a deterrent to activists undermining stability. were lectured by him,” said Leung, referring to University student Ann Lee said the govern- the high-profile visit last month where the crash claims at least 23 lives ment’s efforts to overturn the previous sen- Chinese President delivered a hardline message tences were “attempts to intimidate us from warning against challenges to China’s control of taking part in acts of resistance.” Hong Kong Hong Kong. Lau Siu-lai, another unseated law- Fourth accident this year on the crumbling network enjoys freedoms unseen on the mainland maker, told supporters the court cases against after being handed back to China in 1997 activists in recent months sought to wear NEW DELHI: Emergency crews searched man- Mohammad Jamshed, a senior official with describing how hundreds of locals rushed to under a “one country, two systems” deal, but them out, bankrupt them and “push Hong gled carriages yesterday for any further victims the government’s railway board, said some their rescue. Officials said 200 meters of track there are growing fears Beijing is trampling Kong people into a state of heartbrokenness after a train crash in northern India killed 23 pas- repair equipment was found near the accident had been damaged in the accident, but it was the agreement. and giving up”. —AFP sengers, the fourth major accident this year on site-indicating work was being carried out. But hoped services would be restored by yesterday the crumbling network. Another 156 people he cautioned that the evidence was inconclu- evening. India’s railway network is the world’s were injured when 14 carriages came off the sive and a thorough probe would unveil the fourth largest and remains the main form of tracks in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh exact cause of the crash. “The investigation will travel in the vast country, but it is poorly funded state, 130 kilometers from New Delhi, on deal with all the aspects, be it technical, and deadly accidents often occur. Saturday evening. human error or sabotage,” Jamshed told Experts blame under-investment and poor The coaches were left piled atop each other reporters. Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu safety standards for the frequency of rail acci- after the express train derailed at 100 kilometers vowed in a Twitter message to “fix responsibili- dents. This latest derailment is the fourth major per hour, crashing into nearby houses and a col- ty” for the crash. Authorities have also asked crash this year, and follows another accident in lege. Rescuers used gas-powered saws yesterday anti-terror officers to investigate whether sab- Uttar Pradesh last November that left 146 dead. to pull apart the tangled metal and search the otage was involved. In January nearly 40 people were killed when a wreckage with sniffer dogs. “We are checking passenger train derailed in the southern state of the coaches thoroughly for any survivors or bod- ‘Miracle’ Andra Pradesh. ies,” Anant Dev, Muzaffarnagar district police The Utkal-Kalinga express left Puri, a temple A 2012 government report described the loss chief, told AFP. city in India’s coastal east, on Thursday evening of 15,000 passengers to rail accidents every year A large crowd gathered at the accident site to and was scheduled to arrive in the northern in India as a “massacre”. Prime Minister Narendra help free passengers from the damaged car- Hindu holy city of Haridwar, a 2,400 kilometer Modi has pledged $137 billion over five years to riages, many of which were upended and torn journey. But survivors described sudden jolting modernize the crumbling railways and his gov- open. Some of the injured were seriously hurt followed by a violent crash near Khatauli railway ernment has signed numerous upgrading deals but many had been released from hospital after station in Muzaffarnagar. with private companies. Japan has agreed to receiving treatment, Dev added. The govern- “There was a huge thud and a shake before I provide $12 billion in soft loans to build India’s HONG KONG: A protester (C) holds a picture of Nathan Law, Joshua Wong and Alex ment has ordered an inquiry into the accident fell off the berth,” Nadeem Shauket, who first bullet train, with Modi and Japanese Prime Chow, the leaders of Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Movement’, during a march to protest amid speculation unscheduled maintenance escaped with minor injuries, told AFP. “It’s a mira- Minister Shinzo Abe tipped to break ground on their sentencing at the High Court.— AFP work was underway at the time. cle,” he said of his survival virtually unscathed, the project in September. —AFP Young Taiwanese choose China jobs over politics

TAIPEI: Taiwan has long seen its young people in particular have prices spiralling upwards, some are now international allies switching alle- increasingly developed a sense of taking a more pragmatic approach. giance to an ascendant Beijing, but pride in their Taiwanese identity. China is also wooing young now there are also fears of a brain They have been at the forefront of Taiwanese talent in what analysts say is a drain of the island’s youth as they anti-Beijing sentiment in recent years, “soft power” push to sway political senti- pursue careers in rival China. Cross- famously occupying Taiwan’s parliament ment. Katherine Wang, 33, quit kinder- strait tensions have soared since in protest at trade deals with China in garten teaching in Taipei and co- China-sceptic Tsai Ing-wen took the Sunflower Movement of 2014. launched a business in May offering a power last year, with Beijing cutting However, with monthly starting salaries variety of courses for young Chinese all official communication. China still for college graduates unchanged at women in southeastern Xiamen city, say- sees the self-ruling island as part of below Tw$30,000 ($1,000) since the ing she feels “hopeless” about Taiwan’s its territory to be reunified, but 1990s and property and consumer economy. “I see a ray of hope in Xiamen and working there makes me happy. I want to make a name for myself and my partners and hopefully expand our busi- ness to all over China,” she explained. Wang receives free housing and office space as an incentive from the Xiamen city government, an example of the perks offered by provincial authorities, which also include gener- ous grants. According to China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), over 6,000 Taiwanese young people are working or interning at more than 50 youth start-up bases launched since 2015. Top Chinese political and business leaders, including Premier Li Keqiang and Alibaba founder Jack Ma, have also encouraged Taiwanese youth to chase careers in China. While Wang says she has no strong political views, others who do are putting them to one side TAIPAI: A woman introduces the jobs opening at Fujian province, southern for jobs. One twenty-something has China, during a jobs fair. —AFP opted to work in China even though he supports Taiwanese independence- a concept intolerable to Beijing. Malaysia sorry for showing “I just focus on how to do my job well,” the young worker told AFP on Indonesia’s flag as Poland’s condition of anonymity, saying he KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia apologized reprinted. Indonesia appears to have hoped it would be a stepping stone to to Indonesia yesterday for an “uninten- taken particular offense because the an international career. “My Chinese tional” mistake in printing the guidebook was distributed to VIPs at colleagues sometimes say things like Indonesian flag upside down in a sou- Saturday’s opening ceremony in Kuala ‘Taiwan is a part of China’ but that’s venir guidebook for the Southeast Lumpur for the 29th Southeast Asian their freedom of speech,” he said. Asian Games. The error made the red- Games and only its flag was shown Despite being a fully fledged democra- and-white Indonesian flag resemble incorrectly. cy, Taiwan has never announced a for- Poland’s and caused anger in Nahrawi, who earlier described the mal split from China. Beijing has threat- Indonesia, where “shameony- error as “very painful,” said he accepted ened military action if it ever did. oumalaysia” has become the most the apology. “We hope these mistakes There are already well-established popular hashtag on Twitter. don’t get repeated because flags are business links between China and President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo important symbols for each country Taiwan. Taiwanese manufacturers demanded an apology for hurt national and should be respected,” he said. flocked to the mainland to take advan- pride but also cautioned against exagger- Khairy said the mistake was “uninten- tage of its resources and cheaper labor ating the incident with his neighbor. The tional and it happened due to our after restrictions were lifted in the late two countries share the same religion lessness.” “This was a big, big mis- care 1980s. China is also Taiwan’s biggest and language but often trade accusations on behalf of the host, have con-take. I, trade partner and market, with of stealing the other’s food and culture. our apologies to ... Imam asveyed the exports there totaling $112 billion — Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister Indonesian minister and also I apolo- 40 percent of last year’s total. But the Khairy Jamaluddin met his Indonesian gize to the people of Indonesia for this youth links have an extra dimension, counterpart Imam Nahrawi to personal- mistake,” he said. says Shih Cheng-feng, a political ana- ly apologize. After a brief private meet- The creation of Malaysia when the lyst at National Dong Hwa University. ing Sunday, the two ministers shook British empire was dismantled after “China realises that it needs to take a hands at a news conference. Khairy, World War II was bitterly opposed by soft approach and use ‘carrots’ to who was quick to issue the first apology Indonesia, itself then a new nation attract (young people) in the hope late Saturday on Twitter, said that the emerging from Dutch colonial rule and a that they will have some impact at crit- guidebooks will be corrected and short-lived Japanese occupation. — AP ical time, such as the presidential elec- tion,” Shih told AFP. —AFP

NEWS MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 Assad rejects security cooperation... Qatar has not approved hajj flights...

Continued from Page 1 Syria and revitalizing its ravaged economy was getting Continued from Page 1 right to use force if necessary, and shows a bomb strik- under way, despite the violence that continues in parts of ing an unmarked aircraft. greater and the losses of war less. Therefore, they are the country. barring direct flights between the countries. They Saudi Arabia’s facilitation of the hajj for Qataris our partners in these achievements on the road to crush While Damascus has been insulated from much of the also blocked Qatari flights from using their airspace. The came after a visit to the kingdom by a Qatari royal terrorism,” Assad said. “Let’s be clear. There will be no secu- worst violence of the country’s war, several key rebel four countries accuse Qatar of supporting terrorist family member who resides outside Qatar and whose rity cooperation nor opening of embassies or even a role enclaves remain in the Eastern Ghouta region outside the groups and of trying to foment unrest in the region. branch of the family was ousted in a coup more than for some countries that say that they want to play a role in city. Fighters in the area have regularly fired rockets into They have tried for years to pressure Qatar to stop sup- four decades ago. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani, who ending the crisis in Syria before they clearly and frankly cut the capital, and government warplanes have frequently porting Islamist opposition groups like the Muslim holds no official post in Qatar, also met Saudi King their relations with terrorism,” Assad said. “At that point carried out devastating raids across Eastern Ghouta. In Brotherhood. Qatar rejects the allegation that it backs Salman at his summer palace in Morocco over the maybe we can speak about opening embassies.” recent weeks, much of the area has been quieter after the extremist groups and says the moves are politically weekend and launched a verified Twitter account to Following months of steady military advances, Syria’s implementation in July of a “de-escalation zone” covering motivated. raise his profile. He has since taken credit for setting government has sought to portray itself as the victor in a parts of Eastern Ghouta. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported that the small up a hotline inside Saudi Arabia for Qataris who war that is winding down, and is looking ahead to recon- The trade fair dates back to 1954 but was last held in the Gulf country filed a complaint to the International Civil require additional assistance during the hajj, which struction. The Syrian president said his country’s economy summer of 2011, months after the eruption of protests Aviation Organization against attempts to “terrorize” starts at the end of the month. is turning to growth again “at a very slow pace, although against Assad’s government. Since then, the country has spi- travelers flying on Qatari Airways. The complaint point- Sheikh Abdullah used his new Twitter account yes- we are under an almost complete embargo”. The govern- ralled into a bloody civil war that has killed more than ed to a report by the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news terday to express his disappointment over Saudi aircraft ment had billed the international trade fair, which opened 330,000 people, displaced millions and devastated the channel that shows a simulation of a fighter jet forcing a not being given permission to pick up Qatari pilgrims. “I three days ago, as a “victory” and a sign of renewed confi- economy. The fair is hosting firms from 23 countries that Qatar Airways flight to land if it enters the quartet’s air- hope the brothers in Qatar cooperate to facilitate the dence in the war-torn nation. The Damascus International have maintained diplomatic relations with Damascus space. The video says that these countries have the pilgrimage of citizens,” he wrote. — AP Fair was once the leading event on Syria’s economic calen- throughout the conflict. The United States and European dar but had not been held since shortly after the outbreak countries, which maintain economic sanctions on the Assad of the country’s war in March 2011. regime, were not officially invited, although a handful of Media tested anew in ‘war’ with Trump The Mortar News in Damascus Facebook page, which Western companies are attending on an individual basis. Continued from Page 1 “What is needed now is interpretive journalism that backs tracks violence in the capital, said the shell hit the entrance Assad said that hardly a week passes without an attack up its perspectives with facts,” he said - as well as the in the West, referring to assaults carried out by IS support- of the fair, killing four people and wounding four others. They should stand for factual reality.” In the line of fire resolve to “call a liar a liar and a racist a racist”. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based ers. “These facts are what forced them (the West) to change over his response to the Charlottesville events, which end- Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism monitor of the war, said six people, including two women, their stance,” Assad said. ed with the death of a young protester, Trump lashed out professor, agreed that news outlets need to avoid a were killed and around a dozen more wounded in the He welcomed recent deals to de-escalate violence in at the mainstream media with which his camp has “mindless” effort at balance. “The idea that everything has rocket fire near the entrance to the fair. Syria, but vowed not to give the opposition in politics what declared itself at “war”, charging that they “totally misrep- to be balanced is never correct,” Kennedy said. Even A rescuer speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity it failed to gain through arms. resent what I say about hate, bigotry etc”. before the latest polemic, New York University journalism confirmed the toll. A source at a hospital in Jaramana, an area The de-escalation zones in central, northern and south- With many in Trump’s loyal supporter base, the charge is professor Mitchell Stephens wrote in a Politico essay that southwest of the capital, told AFP he had seen dead and ern Syria were proposed in a plan approved in May by likely to resonate: Major cable news outlets like CNN and it’s time to think differently about journalistic objectivity. injured being evacuated from the scene. There was no confir- Russia, Turkey and Iran in the Kazakh capital, Astana. The MSNBC are indeed seen as increasingly hostile to the US “An abandonment of the pretense to ‘objectivity’ - in mation of the toll from officials. But state television briefly plan included a cessation of hostilities, a halt to Syrian gov- administration - with pro-Trump outlets like the ultra-conserv- many ways a return to American journalism’s roots - is carried a breaking news alert reporting the rocket fire and ernment air raids over designated areas, and provisions for ative Breitbart News at the other end of a polarized media long overdue,” Stephens wrote in June. For many news saying it had caused injuries, citing its reporters at the scene. humanitarian aid access. landscape. “Dislike of Mr Trump within the mainstream media organizations, he said, “their obsession with nonpartisan- The alert was removed shortly afterwards, and a reporter Despite that deal, Assad said Syrians don’t trust Turkish is unalterable,” conservative columnist Peggy Noonan wrote ship lingered long enough to leave them deeply vulnera- broadcasting live from the fair interviewed several officials President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and that the Syrian in the Wall Street Journal in June. “It permeates every net- ble to manipulation by a boisterous, rudderless presiden- who made no mention of the rocket fire or casualties. leader does not consider him to be a guarantor. Erdogan’s work, from intern to executive producer and CEO.” tial candidate like Trump”. “We were preparing to receive visitors when I heard an government is a main backer of Syrian rebels, and sent Muddying the waters, Noonan argues that “media bias A study released last week by the Berkman-Klein Center explosion...then I saw smoke to the side of the entrance to troops into Syria a year ago to battle IS and to halt the now is in part a financial decision”, with outlets eager to at Harvard University offered a lesson on media ethics, the exhibition hall,” 39-year-old Iyad Al-Jabiri, a Syrian advance of Kurdish forces. Those troops, and allied Syrian use Trump to boost ratings. “What we need from media concluding that mainstream outlets allowed themselves to working at a textile stand at the fair, told AFP. The fair forces, now control a stretch of Syrian territory along the folk is a kind of heroic fairness. What we have instead is be manipulated during the 2016 presidential campaign, opened on Thursday at the capital’s Exhibition City and is border. “Any Turkish citizen who is in Syria without per- endless calculation,” she said. But the tumultuous Trump enabling Trump supporters to set the narrative for a large scheduled to last 10 days. mission from the Syrian government will be considered presidency has also triggered a genuine debate about how amount of coverage. The study found that Trump support- It was touted as a sign that work towards rebuilding an occupier,” Assad said. — Agencies to uphold the cherished American tradition of even-hand- ers succeeded in creating a false equivalency between the ed reporting. email scandal dogging the Democratic candidate Hillary Qatar: No delays to World Cup Stephen Ward, a former director of the Center for Clinton, and potentially far more serious concerns over the Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said Republican candidate’s fitness for office. The effort to many media are being forced to rethink their “old-fash- divert attention was led by “the rightwing media ecosys- Continued from Page 1 Also yesterday, the Supreme Committee published ioned view of objectivity”. Ward said journalists cannot tem” but widely picked up by the mainstream press, the plans for the design of its sixth tournament stadium, Al- simply be “stenographers” - liable to repeating the mis- study found. “The fact that the traditional professional Qatar has been isolated since June 5 when Saudi Thumama, and the first to use a Qatari architect, statements of facts to which the current president is media were the targets of intentional manipulation does Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut Ibrahim Jaidah. prone. “The old style of objectivity allows you to be not absolve them of responsibility for checking the materi- ties with the World Cup host - accusing it of backing The 40,000-seater Doha stadium will be based on a manipulated by the sources talking to you,” Ward said. als put in front of them,” the authors wrote. — AFP extremism and fostering ties with Iran - triggering the traditional gahfiya cap worn throughout the region and biggest political crisis in the Gulf for several years. Doha matches will be played there up to the quarter-final denies the claims. Qatar initially gave priority to Gulf stage in 2022. “We’ve always been very careful to com- Spain police uncover gas arsenal at bomb... suppliers for the vast construction projects - the country bine the past with the future in our designs.” said is spending $500 million a week on World Cup projects - Thawadi. “The gahfiya is a continuation of that theme.” Continued from Page 1 Investigators are looking for DNA traces to see if the imam accompanying the controversial tournament. Construction work will be carried by a Qatari and had been blown up in the explosion in Alcanar. Since the conflict began some have questioned Turkish company. Turkey is one of Qatar’s strongest led the 90-minute ceremony, while heavily-armed The imam was reportedly known to police, with Spanish whether the gas-rich emirate can subsequently meet allies. Qatar is preparing eight stadiums for 2022, police stood guard outside and snipers deployed on media saying he had spent time in prison. El Pais and El deadlines to build or renovate the eight stadiums cur- though this may eventually increase to nine. A final rooftops. Catalonia resident Teresa Rodriguez said she Mundo quoting anti-terror forces said the imam had met rently earmarked for 2022. But Doha has said it swiftly decision is expected by governing body FIFA this year. came to pray for the victims, who came from three dozen prisoners linked to the Al-Qaeda-inspired bombing of replaced Saudi and UAE companies with Chinese and Originally, up to 12 venues were to be used for the tour- countries, some as far afield as Australia, China and Peru. Madrid trains that killed 191 people in March 2004 in what Malaysian contractors, among others, since June 5. nament. — Agencies The individual tragedies lengthened on Sunday as the remains the worst terror attack in Europe. A man who iden- family of a seven-year-old British-Australian boy, Julian tified himself as Moha, 46, who lives in Ripoll, said the Shunned Lebanon band finds audience... Cadman, who had been listed as missing, confirmed that imam was initially part of the only mosque in town, but the lad was among the 13 killed in Barcelona. “What hap- “later left and (set up) his own prayer hall in a garage”. Continued from Page 1 Others wore Nirvana and Beatles T-shirts. Both pened in Las Ramblas is really hard for us, we go for walks “There has been a change in the community since he Lebanese and non-Lebanese fans said they liked the there often, it could have happened to me, my children or arrived more than two years ago,” said Moha. “Are we the rebellious teenagers of the Middle East? band because it is not at all like traditional Arabic music. anyone. And here we are. It’s huge, huge,” Rodriguez said, He said youths who used to frequent a Moroccan cafe No, I think we’re just a band that’s writing about our “They have this sort of Western twang,” a Lebanese fan, fighting back tears. Nearly 100,000 people were expected near the first mosque where they would watch football lives and about the stuff that affects us,” he said. “And Anthony, said. “The way he sings and vocalizes, it’s not later yesterday at the Camp Nou stadium for Barcelona’s matches stopped doing so more than a year ago. In the because of the way we are as individuals and people, a very clear what he’s saying.” first home game of the season, to be marked by a minute Moroccan town of M’rirt, relatives of Abouyaaqoub also lot of what does inspire us is political, because that’s the In fact, Sinno said the music they most identified of silence for the victims. accused the imam of radicalizing the young man, as well as stuff that we freak out about on a daily basis.” with growing up came out of the United States and Traces of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) - a homemade his brother Houssein. “Over the last two years, Younes and The band’s most recent song, Roman, focuses on Britain. The band draws inspiration from R&B, jazz, rock, explosive that is an IS hallmark - were also found at the Houssein began to radicalize under the influence of this overcoming betrayal. The video was directed by a Seattle grunge and metal, he added, and they listen to a bomb factory in Alcanar, about 200 km south of Barcelona, imam,” their grandfather told AFP. woman, Jessy Moussallem, and is dominated by lot of Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Madonna and where the gas canisters were uncovered. Investigators said Most of the suspects are children of Moroccan immi- women, their hair and hijabs flapping in the wind side Fleetwood Mac. Beirut, with its eclectic mixture of noise they believe the terror cell comprised at least 12 men, grants, including Ripoll-born Moussa Oukabir, 17, one of by side in the back of a truck as Sinno sings among and language, also had a big influence on the band. some of them teenagers. An imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, was five suspects shot dead in Cambrils. His older brother Driss them. “I think it’s literally speaking about what I would Asked if he believes the band’s music had alienated among the suspects, police confirmed. Investigators are is among the four arrested. In Morocco, their father Said like to see and what I think men should do, especially in audiences, Sinno said that’s always a risk, but one he’s seeking to unravel the role of the imam, who is believed to broke down on hearing the news. “I hope they will say he’s the Middle East, which is just to shut up and sit back,” willing to take. have radicalized many of the youths in a small town called innocent... I don’t want to lose my two sons,” he told AFP. A Sinno said in an interview ahead of a concert in the Critics in the region often focus on Sinno’s way of Ripoll at the foot of the Pyrenees. cousin said Moussa “loved playing football, having a good Lebanese town of Ehden. singing: He elongates words so they are often incom- Several suspects - including Abouyaaqoub - grew up or time, chatting up girls”. “The last few months, he started to At sunset, young fans gathered at the venue, wear- prehensible. The Arabic word for jasmine hung in the air lived in the town of about 10,000 residents. On Saturday, become interested in religion. He used to go to a mosque ing shirts emblazoned with the Arabic numeral “3”, the for 11 seconds in a live rendition of “Shim el Yasmine”, or police raided the imam’s apartment in Ripoll, his flatmate, in Ripoll. Maybe that’s where he was brainwashed,” the symbol of Mashrou’ Leila’s latest and third album. “Smell the Jasmine”. — Reuters who would only identify himself as Nourddem, told AFP. cousin said. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 ANALYSIS

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Focus Lula seeks rebirth where he began: Among the people

he very thought that Lula might go to prison caus- Tes Maria Helena da Conceicao to break into tears. To her, the former Brazilian president is much more than just a politician facing corruption charges and fighting to regain power. The fortyish Maria Helena is one of the many people who benefited from the social policies of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a hugely popular leader who in his two terms as president (2003-2010) pulled millions of Brazilians out of lives of barefoot poverty. Brandishing a poster bearing a photo of her proudly Germany second time lucky with migrants? receiving a university diploma, Maria Helena would not have missed the visit of the aging leftist icon to Feira de s Germany struggles to absorb more incomers in western Europe, is to integrate and asylum seekers from countries such as largely low-skilled migrants given that sectors Santana, some 100 km from Salvador de Bahia. It is the Athan a million migrants from the them into society over the long term. With its Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan. The new rules requiring unskilled labor such as catering and third stop on a three-week tour of some of the poorest Middle East and Africa, the government strong economy, Germany is better placed also included a ‘Give and Take’ clause giving hospitality are growing fastest. “In the last areas of Brazil’s northeast. “Before, we had no access to is hoping to avoid the mistakes it made half a than many European countries, especially in authorities powers to cut financial aid to asy- three years, 1.6 million positions were created universities. Rich people did not accept us. But today, century ago when it brought in a generation southern Europe, to accept migrants. German lum seekers if they don’t attend language in low-skilled sectors, 45 percent of which though I am black and poor, I am doing advanced studies of guest workers from Turkey. In the 1960s, unemployment is at its lowest since 1990 and courses. The government speeded up work were jobs for which one requires no formal alongside those with money,” said Maria Helena, who has hundreds of thousands of Turkish men were seven straight years of growth mean the gov- permits for asylum seekers, and scrapped a qualifications,” said Bruecker of Humboldt a law degree and recently began studying psychology. invited in to fill labor shortages. But Germany ernment can afford to put aside more than 10 rule under which Job Centers had to prove University. “We don’t only need doctors and Standing among an animated crowd of thousands of made no attempt to help them learn the lan- billion euros a year for refugees. “The lesson they couldn’t find a European Union citizen engineers”. militants - many wearing the red T-shirts of the Workers’ guage or upgrade their skills. The result is that that Germany learnt is that integration is for a vacancy before they could offer it to a Party that Lula founded in the 1980s - she makes no effort three million Turks in Germany are still strug- something you work on,” said Herbert refugee. There are several signs that the Here to Stay to hide her emotion when the former president arrives for gling today. They are the least integrated Bruecker of Humboldt University of Berlin. “It measures are working: Some 203,000 Despite its integration push, Germany a rally billed as dealing with “the defense of public policies minority, with an unemployment rate of doesn’t happen on its own”. migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, appears to be repeating one mistake it made for family farming”. Greeted by thunderous chants of “Lula, about 16 percent, almost three times the Iran, Pakistan, and Somalia were with the Gastarbeiter in the 1960s. Last year it warrior of the Brazilian people!” the bearded politician national average. Give and Take employed in May, according to the Labor granted fewer applicants full refugee status, with the gravelly voice clearly cultivates his image as a Now, two years after it threw open its When the first Turkish guest workers Agency, 23,000 more than in February. “The suggesting it is expecting some migrants to man of the people. Sporting the traditional leather hat of doors to the latest migrants, Germany has arrived in the 1960s, German politicians, still employment numbers leave much to be go home. Temporary residence permits, Bahia, he is showered with gifts from the crowd, including devised an integration strategy based on lan- preoccupied with rebuilding the economy desired,” said Thomas Liebig of the rather than full refugee status, hamper inte- locally grown fruit and vegetables. guage and job training intended to get the after World War Two, regarded them as a tem- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and gration, economists say, as this discourages newcomers into work and off welfare. Among porary measure. The perception was that Development. “But clearly many of the meas- companies from hiring people who may not A promise of ‘much more’ the changes are 600 hours of mandatory lan- Turks were guests who would go back home. ures that have been taken are in the right remain in Germany. A native of neighboring Pernambuco state, Lula him- guage lessons and fast-tracked work permits. The Turks of course did not go home. And direction.” In the first seven months of last year, more self knew hunger growing up in the arid northeast, These measures are starting to show signs of their wives and children began following than three-quarters of Syrian applicants were before emigrating to Sao Paulo to work as a metallur- success: A growing number of migrants are them, just as the oil crisis of the early 1970s Incentives granted full refugee status and just over one- gist. But this tour is not just about returning to his roots. joining a labor market where a record 1.1 mil- pushed Germany into a recession that cost The government is also offering financial fifth were given a one-year residence permit. Lula wants to put himself back on the political map lion jobs are unfilled. many guest workers their jobs. With low skills incentives for companies that offer vocational Over the same period this year, only one third ahead of next year’s presidential elections, and he “Things are very different here,” said and little grasp of the language, many found traineeships to refugees and asylum seekers. of Syrians were granted full refugee status makes clear that he considers the many corruption Merhawi Tesfay, a 32-year-old Eritrean who it hard to find work again as Germany shifted This could amount to half a new recruit’s and six out of ten got a temporary permit. charges facing him as nothing but a “plot by the elites” was hired by Kremer Machine Systems, an away from industry towards automation and salary for a year. More than 13,500 refugees “The main mistake is that most refugees are to prevent him from running. engineering company in the town of Gescher services. are taking part in these schemes, which being given temporary residency permits “They want to destroy me and they think I will hang in western Germany. “In Eritrea you find work This time, Germany has taken a different involve learning a profession at a technical because of the false expectation that they my head,” he tells the crowd. “But don’t worry about me: through word of mouth. Here you have the approach. One month after her decision to college while at the same time gaining expe- would return,” said Bruecker. “This could have if one day I should return to power, we are going to do Job Centre and online job sites. Everything open Germany’s borders to refugees fleeing rience with a company. While it’s too early to fatal economic consequences. Why would much more,” the former union leader promises, before comes with too much bureaucracy and my war and persecution, Chancellor Angela say whether the program is a success in firms invest in someone whose prospects to being interrupted for long minutes by shouted cries of German wasn’t good enough.” Tesfay was Merkel told parliament in Sept 2015 that Germany, salary assistance schemes have remain are uncertain?” “Lula, president!” At 71, he has lost none of his charisma. hired initially as a trainee and then full-time, Germany should learn from its mistakes with boosted migrant employment rates in About 90 percent of the new arrivals have While the corruption charges have not helped, he through ELNet, a government-funded project the Turkish guest workers and seek to inte- Scandinavia. said in surveys they want to stay in Germany knows how to charm his public, reminding them of the run by charities who assign mentors to grate asylum seekers from day one. Since “Most of the refugees come from coun- permanently. The stricter asylum rules were incredible path he followed from youthful poverty to refugees. He had been looking for work for then, her government has focused on lan- tries where they either study or work,” said quietly introduced last year after Merkel’s becoming a leader once described as “the most popular almost three years. guage and vocational training to help 1.2 mil- Christina Mersch, who heads a government- conservatives were punished in regional elec- politician on earth.” Waves of migrants, many forced to flee lion asylum seekers get into a manpower- funded project at the DIHK Chambers of tions by Germans angry with her decision to “I know where I come from and I know where I’m Syria’s civil war, began arriving in large num- hungry labor market and wean them off Commerce called ‘Companies integrate welcome asylum seekers. Voters backed the going. I am not going to Paris or London. You can count bers two years ago, one of the biggest migra- Germany’s generous welfare system. refugees’. “So it’s difficult to explain to them anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), on a comrade ready to fight to the very end!” he shouts, tion movements Europe had seen since World Under legislation approved in Aug 2016, that in Germany you can do both simultane- which is expected to enter the national parlia- to a roar of applause. That is just the sort of hopeful War Two. The challenge now for Germany, integration courses including language learn- ously.” Germany suffers from labor shortages ment for the first time in a general election on message that got Maria Jose Pereira da Silva, a 65-year- which took in the largest number of the ing were made mandatory for all refugees as its population ages. This bodes well for the Sept 24.—Reuters old farmer, out of bed at 5 o’clock in the morning to see her idol. “Today, we have running water, a fridge, a TV. It’s Lula who gave us all this. We consider him as a sort of father,” she said, clearly moved. Catalonia fertile ground for terrorists Legal woes continue While Lula may find the adoring crowds invigorating, espite its long experience in fighting During the morning rush hour of March 11 Although some lawyers say the measure sis published early August shows that 25 his ambitions may yet be nipped in the bud. Last month terrorism, Spain failed this past week of that year, bombs packed with nails does not always respect human rights, it percent of people detained in relation to he was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison D to prevent two deadly attacks in exploded on four commuter trains heading has been credited with helping to spare Islamist terrorism come from the Barcelona on corruption and money-laundering charges. Judge Catalonia - a key tourist magnet but also into Madrid, killing 191 people and injuring Spain from the terror attacks that have province,” Garcia-Calvo said. Sergio Moro accused the former president of accepting the Spanish region most vulnerable to such nearly 2,000. In the aftermath of the car- plagued its European neighbors. The coun- Geographically, that is “the main center of bribes from a construction company seeking to win assaults, analysts say. In attacks claimed by nage, Madrid overhauled its security forces. try, with its 5,000 km of coastline and long jihadist activity”. contracts from state-controlled oil giant Petrobras. The the Islamic State group, suspected jihadists It bolstered its police and intelligence serv- sunshine hours, has also succeeded in luxury seaside flat that he allegedly was given as a bribe killed 14 people and left 120 wounded, ices with new hires, recruited translators attracting tourists shunning turbulent des- A troubling history is worlds away from the gritty realities of the humble using vehicles to mow down pedestrians in and reinforced its cooperation with neigh- tinations like Tunisia or Egypt. In fact, Catalonia has seen a long history rural dwellers of Brazil’s northeast. While he remains free Barcelona on Thursday and in the nearby boring France and Morocco, said Mikel of jihadist activity. Spain’s first jihadist - a pending an appeal, Lula must appear in another case seaside resort of Cambrils early Friday. Buesa, a terrorism expert at Complutense ‘Centre of jihadist activity’ member of the Algerian Armed Islamic before Judge Moro on Sept 13, shortly after the people’s Spain has five decades of experience of University in Madrid. Authorities also start- But the militant threat has risen since Group (GIA) - was uncovered in the state in tour that will help him take the measure of his continu- fighting against the Basque separatist ed routinely detaining suspects as a pre- 2016, when Islamist websites named as a 1995. Mohammed Atta, the pilot who ing popularity. Even if opinion polls show him leading a group ETA, which killed over 800 people ventive measure, he added. target “Al Andalus” - the name of Spanish slammed a passenger plane into one of hypothetical 2018 race, Lula faces headwinds. The eco- until it declared a ceasefire in 2011. Additionally, “self-indoctrination” over territories governed until 1492 by Muslims New York’s World Trade Center towers on nomic boom he oversaw is long past, some of his social But it was jolted to another dimension the Internet with the intent of carrying out better known as Moors. And experts are Sept 11, 2001, spent time in Catalonia policies have been rolled back, and he faces political of terrorism in 2004 when it suffered an attack became a crime in 2015, easing particularly worried about the concentra- shortly before the attacks. And in 2008, a opposition, particularly in richer southeastern Brazil. But Europe’s deadliest Islamist attack to date. the process of such early detentions. tion of militants in Catalonia, home to the plot targeting Barcelona’s underground to people like Maria Helena, none of that matters. Lula biggest community of Muslims in Spain. trains was foiled when it was already in will always be her “warrior”. — AFP Muslims number 1.9 million in the country advanced stages. of 47 million inhabitants, or about 4 per- The Vanguardia newspaper, quoting cent of the population, according to the security sources, claimed last year that Union of Islamic Communities of Spain. Catalonia was fertile ground for Salafist All articles appearing on these Most of them are North Africans, with prayer halls, with 50 in the region at the last Moroccans topping the list. Because many count. The state is also now home to a sig- pages are the personal opinion of are new arrivals, there has until now been nificant number of second-generation the writers. Kuwait Times takes no less risk of radicalization than elsewhere in immigrants. Among them is the group of Europe, where disenfranchised second- or youths believed to have carried out this responsibility for views expressed third-generation immigrants have some- past week’s deadly attacks. Most were chil- therein. Kuwait Times invites times turned to extremist ideology, said dren of Moroccan immigrants who had Javier Zaragoza, a prosecutor and anti-ter- grown up in Ripoll, a town at the foot of the readers to voice their opinions. ror specialist. Pyrenees mountains. Relatively few have left Spain to join The town is frequented by tourists, and Please send submissions via email jihadist groups such as the Islamic State its unemployment rate is not particularly to: [email protected] or organization, with only 214 leaving to fight high, while neighbors described the sus- along militants in Iraq or Syria, said Carola pects as hardworking and serious boys. But via snail mail to PO Box 1301 Garcia-Calvo of the Real Instituto Elcano, a police warn that it may have been a case of Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves think-tank. That is just a small fraction of rapid radicalization, with the suspects turn- the more than 1,000 people who have quit ing to extremism in just a few months. For the right to edit any submission France for jihadist ranks since 2012. But the the security forces, that is the biggest as necessary. think-tank also warned that “the metropoli- headache - because unlike returnees from A picture taken yesterday shows people passing by the Monastery of Santa Maria tan region of Barcelona is the home of the Middle Eastern war zones, such poten- and a city sign in Ripoll. — AFP jihadist terrorism in Spain”. “Our last analy- tial militants are difficult to detect. —AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 SPORTS

Hamburg’s Mueller City outcast Nasri Bulgaria’s weightlifter tears knee ligament to join Antalyaspor Cholakov dies aged 35

BERLIN: Germany international Nicolai Mueller faces half a year on the side- ISTANBUL: Manchester City’s former French international mid- SOFIA: Bulgarian weightlifter Velichko Cholakov, lines after rupturing his cruciate knee ligament as he celebrated fielder Samir Nasri is in talks to join big spending Turkish side an Olympic and world medallist, died yesterday scoring in Hamburg’s opening game of the season. The 29- Antalyaspor on a two-year deal, reports in Turkey said yesterday. at the age of 35, the hospital in his hometown year-old was left red-faced after scoring the winner in the 1-0 Nasri, 30, will earn an annual salary of four million euros ($4.7 mil- of Smolyan announced. Cholakov took +105 home Bundesliga victory against Augsburg eight minutes lion) plus bonuses at the club in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort kg bronze at the Athens 2004 Olympics and into Saturday’s match. After netting, Mueller twisted away, city, the NTV Spor website said. The Fanatik sports daily said that silver in the same division in the previous repeatedly twirling in his goal celebration and leapt at the Nasri arrived at Antalya’s airport early yesterday afternoon and year’s world championships. He was part of corner flag before tumbling to the floor in obvious pain. He would sign a two-year contract. The Turkish club has yet to com- the Bulgarian team pulled from the Beijing tried to play on, but had to be replaced after 15 minutes. ment. On his Instagram page, the player posted a picture of him 2008 Games after failed dope tests. Cholakov “That is certainly a downer, I have never experienced anything grinning broadly and making a victory sign as he boarded a pri- was one of 11 members of the contingent to like it before,” said Hamburg coach Markus Gisdol. Hamburg’s vate jet, with no comment except two aircraft icons to show he test positive for a banned anabolic steroid. In worst fears were confirmed yesterday and the diagnosis was travelling and a “...” to show an announcement was expected. recent years Cholakov dedicated his time to means Mueller, who made two appearances for Nasri joined Manchester City in 2011 after three seasons at training young weightlifters in Smolyan. Germany on their 2013 tour of the USA, is out for at Arsenal, emerging as one of their key players but then spending The cause of death has yet to be con- least six months. —AFP last season on loan at Sevilla. — AFP firmed. —AFP

Kuwait Shooting Sport Club honor shooters

By Abdellatif Sharaa ruled in favor of KSSF, allowing participation Marzouq Al-Ghanem who also congratulated Kuwait national anthem four times. He The honored shooters are: under the Kuwait flag and the national the shooting club and shooters. added that we are also happy that our jun- • Abdelrahman Al-Faihan who won the KUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sport Club cele- anthem was played four times. Al-Otaibi thanked the Public Authority for iors participated for the first time in an inter- individual, team and mix team trap gold brated the achievements made by Kuwaiti The celebration was held in the presence Sports, its Chairman of the Board Minister national tournament. medals. shooters during the Seventh Asian Shooting of President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Khalid Al-Roudhan, its Director General The Kuwaiti shooters had earlier won four • Talal Al-Rashidee who won the individual Tournament held in the Kazakh capital Federations Eng Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi. Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber gold medals and one silver in the tournament trap silver medal, and the team gold medal. Astana. Al-Otaibi thanked His Highness the Amir Al-Sabah and his deputies. in which 29 countries represented by 350 • Sarah Al-Hawal who won the trap mix Kuwait ended in first place after winning Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for Al-Otaibi said we are very happy for win- shooters. Kuwaiti shooters won an event that gold medal. four gold and one silver medal. This achieve- congratulating the shooters and congratulat- ning the seventh Asian shooting tourna- was held for the first time which is the mix • Abdallah Al-Rashidee, Mansoor Al- ment comes following the lifting of the sus- ed HH the Amir and HH the Crown Prince for ment. He said Kuwait was first followed by event in which a male and female shooter Rashidee, Hamad Al-Ablani pension on international participation which the achievement that the shooters made. China and India. Al-Otaibi said we are very participate as a team, with Abdelrahman Al- • Ahmad Al-Awad was placed on Kuwait by the ISSF, then CAS He also thanked Speaker of the House Eng proud with this achievement and having the Faihan and Sarah Al-Hawal. • Hamad Nawaf Al-Khaldi.

GOLF US in control against Europe at Solheim Cup

LOS ANGELES: The United States take a she and Thompson teamed up again to birdies and made 10 in the first 15 holes. second win of the day, 2 & 1 over France’s commanding five-point lead into beat Scotland’s Catriona Matthew and Lang holed a wedge for eagle on the sev- Karine Icher and Sweden’s Madelene Sunday’s Solheim Cup singles matches England’s Georgia Hall 4 & 2 in fourball enth hole as they vanquished a European Sagstrom. after another dominant fourball display play. Kerr’s birdies at the first and third pair that were 10-under. Creamer and Ernst had beaten Reid in the match play showdown with put the US duo 2 up before Hall’s eagle at and Dane Emily Pedersen 5 & 3 in four- Europe on Saturday. The United States the par-five fourth trimmed the deficit. ‘AMAZING GOLF’ somes play, with Reid and Pedersen won three of four fourball matches-and But the European pair never managed to European captain Annika Sorenstam undone by four straight bogeys on the five of eight points on offer on the day-to get ahead, and Kerr and Thompson were said she could only congratulate the back nine. Europe, missing England’s stretch their lead to 10 1/2 to 5 1/2 going 2 up through 14 when Kerr holed out Americans on “some amazing golf”. “We Charley Hull who aggravated a wrist into Sunday’s 12 singles matches. from a bunker for eagle at the 15th to had 35 birdies and one eagle and lost injury on Friday, rallied from early deficits After being whitewashed in Friday’s put the Americans on the brink of victo- three matches,” she said. “It’s easy to just to win two foursomes matches. fourball matches, the Europeans couldn’t ry. “She was an animal out there,” kind of throw in your towel but they did- gain any ground with a split of Saturday Thompson said of Kerr after the match n’t. They kept fighting back and fighting ‘STILL A CHANCE’ morning’s four foursomes matches at concluded at the 16th-where Matthew’s back, getting it to 1 down. Nordqvist and Hall beat Lewis and Des Moines Golf and Country Club in long putt to extend the contest came up “So very, very proud of them. But you Piller 2 & 1, while Matthew and Icher Iowa. And the Americans, trying to inches short. know it just wasn’t enough. It’s just notched a 2 & 1 win over Danielle Kang retain the title they won in Germany in “We just knew they were going to play sometimes you just get beaten by good and Michelle Wie. Hull is poised to tee it 2015, went on to win three afternoon really tough, and they did,” Kerr said. golf. And that happened today. So they up on Sunday, when Europe will attempt matches to extend their lead. Veteran “They made a lot of birdies, they stuffed were on fire. All I can think of is I hope an unprecedented comeback. Cristie Kerr set a US Solheim Cup record it on some holes that I had to make putts that fire is contagious and that we’re on The Americans rallied from a 10-6 with her 19th career point when she on top of them-Lexi had to make putts fire tomorrow.” deficit on the final day two years ago, but teamed with Lexi Thompson for a 5 & 3 on top of them.” A strong display from England’s Jodi Ewart Shadoff and no Solheim Cup or Ryder Cup team has fourball victory over England’s Jodi Ewart England’s Mel Reid and Spain’s Carlota Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist delivered the come back from more than four points Shadoff and Germany’s Caroline Masson. Ciganda also proved fruitless as only afternoon win for Europe, defeating down on the final day to win. “We saw WEST DES MOINES: United States’ Paula Creamer hits to US captain Juli Inkster held the previous Americans Brittany Lincicome and Lizette Salas and Angel Yin 4 & 2. In what happened in ‘15,” Nordqvist said. “If the 16th green during her four-ball match in the US record with 18 1/2 points. Kerr fin- Brittany Lang emerged with a 2 up tri- another close one, Americans Paula there are matches left, there’s still a Solheim Cup golf tournament, Saturday, in West Des ished the day with 20 career points as umph. Lincicome started with six straight Creamer and Austin Ernst collected their chance.” —AFP Moines, Iowa. —AP MONDAY, AUGUST 21 , 2017 SPORTS

Olympic champ Simone Biles back in gym as she weighs options

ANAHEIM: Simone Biles is back in the break following her run atop the sport, a “(Mom) better not tie me not too difficult. We’re taking it day by day.” For Raisman called Biles’ uncertainty a natu- gym. That’s it. That’s all. The Olympic stretch that included three straight much to the gym,” Biles said. “I’m not try- now, it’s just basic skills like back hand- ral response to the daunting work that gymnastics champion is in no hurry to world all-around championships and five ing to be there all the time unless I’m springs and leaps. Maybe a couple of lay- could lay ahead. declare whether this is the start of a medals (four gold) in Rio. training.” Which she’s currently doing, outs. No tumbling. No vaulting. A bit of “I think a lot of people sometimes comeback following a year off after her The 20-year-old joked the only exer- just not nearly at her pre-Olympic level. beam. A lot of questions. think you take a year off and you can just historic performance at the 2016 Games cise she’s done since she got back from There is no formal plan either. Part of the Biles sat in the stands at the US cham- go back and do a floor routine just like in Rio de Janeiro. And she’d be just fine if Brazil is walking her dog, though that’s problem is Biles doesn’t currently have a pionships on Friday night and watched that,” Raisman said. “I think it took me at everyone else took the same approach. not exactly true. She participated in a coach. Longtime mentor Aimee Boorman as her sport went on without her. It was least two full years to do a full floor rou- Asked Saturday why she started post-Olympic tour and competed on left for a job in last fall and more than a little weird. She misses com- tine since I stepped in the gym. I spent doing semi-formal workouts earlier this “Dancing With The Stars,” some of the there’s no plan for a reunion. For now, peting. All the work in the gym is anoth- like six months just conditioning.” month, Biles shrugged her shoulders. “I perks of her newfound celebrity. Biles is just kind of feeling her way and er matter. She’s well aware it will take Biles would prefer not to wait that don’t know yet, that’s the thing,” Biles Life is starting to calm down a little. having one of the current coaches at the countless hours to get anywhere close to long to figure out whether she’s serious. said. “What’s the hardest point of all is Her family is working on turning one of World Champions Centre check in occa- the form that helped her make history. For now she’ll just wake up each morn- everyone has already set expectations the rooms in the massive gym and sionally to see how she’s doing. She also won’t have to look far for advice. ing, figure out how she feels, go to the for me for my comeback before I’ve lifestyles center they opened in 2015 “Aimee went to Florida, so it’s hard for Fellow “Final Five” teammate Aly gym and kind of make it up as she goes. come out and said it.” into Biles’ personal office. That kind of even the coaches to look at me and Raisman won three medals in 2012, took “I’m still getting my body right and see Which, Biles stressed, she hasn’t. The sounds like a job, which Biles insists it’s gauge what’s happening because they a two-year sabbatical and was back on how I feel,” she said. “Yeah, testing the last 12 months have been a welcome not. weren’t there before,” Biles said. “That’s the world championship team by 2015. waters basically.” —AP

ARLINGTON: Texas Rangers’ Robinson Chirinos is tagged out at the plate by Chicago White Sox catcher Kevan Smith while home plate umpire Tim Timmons, right, watches during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, in Arlington, Texas. — AP

BASEBALL Yankees continue to thrive with win against Red Sox

BOSTON: Tyler Austin hit a three-run home beat Kansas City. Bauer (12-8) gave up seven run homer in the eighth and Jose Martinez the second wild card spot, scored five runs off Strasburg then settled down against his run, Todd Frazier added a solo homer and CC hits, walked two and struck out four. Relievers homered in the ninth. Chad Kuhl (6-8) Diamondbacks starter Zack Greinke (14-6) in hometown team, retiring 10 straight batters Sabathia retired 13 of the first 14 batters he Bryan Shaw and Cody Allen did not allow a hit responded well following a rain delay that last- the fourth after a costly error by second base- and 13 of 14. He went six innings, allowing faced as the New York Yankees beat the over the final 2 2/3 innings to complete the ed nearly two hours, giving up one run and man Daniel Descalso ended a chance for a two runs and four hits while striking out eight Boston Red Sox 4-3 on Saturday night. shutout. Bauer joins teammates Corey Kluber three hits in five innings. Felipe Rivero got his double play. Max Kepler drove in two runs dur- and walking one. He hadn’t pitched since July Sabathia (10-5), returning from a stint on the and Carlos Carrasco as 12-game winners. The 13th save. Michael Wacha (9-6) was tagged for ing the inning, and Brian Dozier and Joe 23, when he went only two innings at Arizona. disabled list because of sore right knee, retired Indians are the only team in the majors with five runs and seven hits in four innings. Mauer each had an RBI single. That was more He went on the disabled list with an elbow 13 of the first 14 batters he faced on the way three 12-game winners. Roberto Perez deliv- than enough for Berrios (11-6), who allowed nerve impingement. San Diego’s Travis Wood to improving to 3-0 in three starts against ered the clutch blow, a two-out, two-strike, MARINERS 7, RAYS 6 only two hits for the second time this month, (2-1) also settled down after laboring through Boston this season. He allowed two runs and two-run single in the fourth inning that scored Mitch Haniger hit a grand slam, Nelson and got some solid defensive support to win the first inning, when he threw 35 pitches but four hits to earn his first victory since July 21. Jay Bruce and Carlos Santana. Jose Ramirez Cruz added his 31st home run and Seattle for the second time in three starts. Berrios didn’t allow a run. Brad Hand pitched the Dellin Betances got the last three outs for his and Jason Kipnis hit consecutive doubles in rolled to its fourth straight win. Haniger’s first combined with reliever Alan Busenitz to retire ninth for his 11th save. ninth save. The Yankees won for the fifth time the first inning for the first Cleveland run. career grand slam came in his first game back the last 19 Arizona batters. Greinke had won in six games and snapped Boston’s three game after a three-week stretch on the disabled list, four of his previous five but ended the night BREWERS 6, ROCKIES 3 winning streak to pull within four games of CUBS 4, BLUE JAYS 3 lifting the Mariners to a 4-1 lead in the third with his shortest outing this season. He Pinch-hitter Jesus Aguilar connected for a the first-place Red Sox in the AL East. Chris Rookie Ian Happ hit his 18th home run, inning. It was his eighth homer of the season. allowed seven hits and four walks, while strik- go-ahead home run with two outs in the ninth Sale (14-5) struck out nine, but was tagged for Jose Quintana pitched six effective innings Cruz, who is on an 11-game hitting streak, hit ing out four. inning and Milwaukee got its fifth win in six the four runs and seven hits. He is still looking and Chicago kept up its success against AL his seventh homer in 10 games with a man on games. It was 3-all when Greg Holland (2-4) hit for his first victory in the rivalry. opponents. The World Series champions have base in the fourth, raising his league-leading REDS 11, BRAVES 8 Keon Broxton with an 0-2 pitch with one out in won nine of their last 10 interleague games. RBI total to 100. Both home runs came off Jake Scooter Gennett hit a grand slam to lead the ninth. Aguilar hit his 12th homer, and DODGERS 3, TIGERS 0 The NL Central leaders have won five of seven Odorizzi, who gave up seven runs and eight Cincinnati past Atlanta. Julio Teheran, expect- Milwaukee added another run as Eric Thames Adrian Gonzalez’s seventh-inning single overall. Happ hit an RBI single in the first hits in 3 2/3 innings. Odorizzi (6-7) lost his ed to be the Braves’ ace for a fifth straight year, walked, stole second and Neil Walker’s RBI sin- broke a scoreless tie and Los Angeles went on inning and added a solo homer in the fourth. third straight start. Steven Souza Jr. hit his set an Atlanta record by losing his ninth gle chased Holland. Travis Shaw also homered to its sixth straight win and 21st in the last 24 In the sixth, Happ drew a leadoff walk from 26th homer and Lucas Duda hit his fifth for the straight home decision. He dropped to 1-9 for the Brewers. DJ LeMahieu got three hits games. Detroit has lost six straight and 12 of Danny Barnes (2-4) and later scored on a two- Rays, who lost for the eighth time in nine with a 6.98 ERA in 13 starts at SunTrust Park. and Trevor Story had two doubles for 14. Dodgers right fielder Cody Bellinger left out single by Javier Baez for the go-ahead run. games. Logan Morrison added a pinch-hit Gennett’s 21st homer, his third grand slam this . The Rockies remained a game ahead the game in the seventh inning. He rolled his In his seventh start since being acquired in a homer in the ninth, his 29th of the season. season and fourth of career, made it 11-4 in of Arizona for the NL’s first wild card and 4 1-2 right ankle in the sixth while catching a fly trade from the White Sox, Quintana (4-2) gave the ninth. The Braves scored four runs in the up on Milwaukee. Anthony Swarzak (2-0) ball from Nicholas Castellanos. Yasiel Puig hit up two runs and four hits. He struck out eight ASTROS 3, ATHLETICS 0 bottom half, but Michael Lorenzen, the second for him the next inning. Bellinger is listed as and walked two. Cubs closer Wade Davis Collin McHugh threw six innings, Marwin Cincinnati pitcher of the inning, earned his tossed one inning and Corey Knebel got the day-to-day. Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched five innings, pitched a perfect ninth for his 26th save in 26 Gonzalez hit a two-run single and Houston second save after Blake Wood failed to retire a last three outs for his 25th save. allowing three hits and walking four while chances. He tied the franchise record for con- beat Oakland. McHugh (1-2) gave up six hits batter and allowed the four runs. Robert RANGERS 17, WHITE SOX 7 striking out four. He needed 89 pitches to get secutive saves opportunities converted. and struck out three. McHugh, who missed the Stephenson (1-4) gave up three hits, three through five innings, and was replaced by first 3 1/2 months with right shoulder tendini- walks and two runs - one earned - in five Rougned Odor homered twice, Mike Napoli eventual winner Ross Stripling (3-4). Brandon PIRATES 6, CARDINALS 4 tis and a right elbow injury, has allowed two innings. He struck out five, but had some also went deep, and both had five RBIs to help Morrow and Kenley Jansen finished off the Adam Frazier homered, doubled and sin- runs or fewer in four of his six starts this sea- struggles, dropping a ball at first base, hitting Texas rally from an early five-run deficit and shutout, with Jansen pitching the ninth for his gled as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St Louis son. After Jose Altuve and Josh Reddick a batter and throwing a bunt attempt into the roll past Chicago. Odor’s first homer, a three- 33rd save. Tigers starter Michael Fulmer (10- Cardinals 6-4 Saturday to end a six-game los- walked and Yuli Gurriel singled to lead off the Atlanta dugout. Teheran (7-11) allowed eight run shot in the third, made it 7-5 and ended 11) gave up an unearned run, three hits and ing streak. Frazier hit a two-run homer in the fourth, Gonzalez followed with his two-run hits, three walks and five runs. the night for White Sox starter Derek Holland two walks in seven innings. He struck out six. second and doubled off the wall the next single. Kendall Graveman (3-4) induced flyouts (6-13), the former Ranger starting as an oppo- inning. Starling Marte and pinch-hitter Jose from Carlos Beltran, Juan Centeno and Derek ANGELS 5, ORIOLES 1 nent in Texas for the first time. That came soon INDIANS 5, ROYALS 0 Osuna also homered for Pittsburgh. The Fisher to prevent further damage. Alex Mike Trout and Luis Valbuena each hit two after Napoli’s two-run double. Napoli added a Trevor Bauer pitched 6 1/3 innings to get Cardinals scored 11 runs in each of their two Bregman added a solo home run over the train home runs off Kevin Gausman, and the Angels three-run homer in the fourth before Odor hit his career-best fifth straight win as Cleveland wins to start this series. Paul DeJong hit a two- tracks above the left field wall to lead off the won for the eighth time in 10 games. Trout a solo shot into the second deck of seats in eighth. homered in the first and third innings, and right field to cap the Rangers’ second consecu- MLB Results/Standings Valbuena connected in the second and fourth tive six-run inning. Napoli and Odor each have METS 8, MARLINS 1 to give Los Angeles a four-run lead. It marked 26 homers. Martin Perez (8-10), needed 40 Rafael Montero pitched six strong innings the second straight night in which the Angels pitches in the first as Chicago went ahead 5-0, Philadelphia 12, San Francisco 9; San Diego 3, Washington 1; Milwaukee 6, Colorado 3; Texas 17, Chicago White in his best effort of the season, and Wilmer got all their runs via the long ball. In the series but made it through six innings to win his Sox 7; Cleveland 5, Kansas City 0; Minnesota 5, Arizona 0; Cincinnati 11, Atlanta 8; NY Mets 8, Miami 1; NY Flores and Kevin Plawecki each hit long two- opener, Los Angeles homered five times in a 9- third straight start. The lefty needed only 56 Yankees 4, Boston 3; Houston 3, Oakland 0; LA Angels 5, Baltimore 1; Seattle 7, Tampa Bay 6; Pittsburgh 6, St. run homers to help the New York Mets snap a 7 defeat. Trout now has 26 home runs. He has Louis 4; LA Dodgers 3, Detroit 0; Chicago Cubs 4, Toronto 3. more pitches and gave up only one more run five-game losing streak. Asdrubal Cabrera and six seasons with at least 25, tied with Tim after the first. American League National League Michael Conforto each drove in a run for the Salmon for most in franchise history. JC Eastern Division Eastern Division Mets, who scored seven runs in the sixth - Ramirez (11-10) allowed one run and five hits PHILLIES 12, GIANTS 9 W L PCT GB Washington 73 48 .603 - their season high for an inning - after being over 5 2/3 innings before leaving with right Pinch-hitter Ty Kelly had a grand slam, Rhys Boston 70 52 .574 - Miami 59 62 .488 14 held to just three base runners over the first forearm tightness. In his last start against the NY Yankees 66 56 .541 4 NY Mets 54 67 .446 19 Hoskins hit a three-run homer and five innings by Vance Worley (2-3). New York Orioles, the right-hander gave up six runs in Philadelphia snapped a six-game losing streak. Baltimore 60 63 .488 10.5 Atlanta 54 67 .446 19 began the day with an NL-worst .221 batting seven innings on Aug 7. Gausman (9-9) strug- Tampa Bay 60 65 .480 11.5 Down 12-4, the Giants scored five times in the Philadelphia 44 77 .364 29 average in August. Aided by five double plays, gled through four innings, allowing five runs Toronto 59 64 .480 11.5 Central Division ninth inning and brought the tying run to the Central Division Montero (2-8) kept the Marlins off-balance and six hits. Chicago Cubs 65 57 .533 - plate before Hector Neris struck out Carlos with a fastball-slider combination to allow a Cleveland 68 53 .562 - Milwaukee 64 60 .516 2 run and six hits. The right-hander walked three PADRES 3, NATIONALS 1 Moncrief for his 14th save. Adam Morgan (1-1) Minnesota 62 59 .512 6 St. Louis 63 60 .512 2.5 threw just one pitch and got the win. Kelly Kansas City 61 61 .500 7.5 Pittsburgh 59 64 .480 6.5 and struck out five. Marcell Ozuna drove in Yangervis Solarte hit a two-run home run Detroit 53 69 .434 15.5 Dee Gordon for the lone Miami run. off Stephen Strasburg in the first inning of the batted for Morgan and hit a slam that capped Cincinnati 53 71 .427 13 a seven-run burst in the sixth inning for an 11- Chicago White Sox 46 74 .383 21.5 Western Division right-hander’s first start in almost a month and Western Division 4 lead. Hoskins homered for the fourth time in LA Dodgers 87 34 .719 - TWINS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 0 San Diego beat Washington. Strasburg (10-4) Houston 76 47 .618 - Colorado 68 55 .553 20 Jose Berrios threw seven innings for his retired the first two batters he faced before seven games. Since going hitless in his first 12 LA Angels 63 60 .512 13 Arizona 67 56 .545 21 11th win to help Minnesota keep pace in the allowing a single to Jose Pirela and then the at-bats after being called up from Triple-A, the Seattle 63 61 .508 13.5 rookie is 7 for 21 with four home runs in seven Texas 61 61 .500 14.5 San Diego 55 68 .447 33 AL wild card race. The Twins, who entered the homer to the switch-hitting Solarte, who Oakland 53 70 .431 23 San Francisco 50 75 .400 39 night in a tie with the Los Angeles Angels for drove a 96-mph fastball to right for his 13th. games. Ty Blach (8-9) took the loss. — AP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 SPORTS

BADMINTON Ageing legends hope to defy youngsters at worlds

GLASGOW: China’s Lin Dan and lot of hard players in the draw.” Lee, who World Championship for Lin and Lee? medal. “My expectations are very high. I is the local Scottish hope and a valid Malaysian Lee Chong Wei are both in will turn 35 in October, is on a golden With a knowing smile, they replied in have had two great months of prepara- outsider for a medal having taken on a the twilight of their careers, but they mission after being the best man and unison-”I don’t know.” On the woman’s tion and feel even better than at the new coach. “I am in great shape,” said remain among the leading lights at this never the bridegroom too often-he has side Carolina Marin is seeking to add a Olympics.” the 23-year-old who underwent a knee week’s World Championships in won three World Championship silver third world crown to her burgeoning India’s fourth seed Pusarla Sindhu operation after last year’s Olympics. Glasgow. Dan, 34 in October, is a five medals and three Olympic silvers. “I am medals cabinet. (known as PV) is bent on revenge hav- Gilmour believes new coach time champion, and recognised as per- very focussed, but it is going to be very The 24-year-old added to her lustre ing been beaten by Marin in the Malaysian Wong Tat Men has trans- haps the greatest player of all time. hard,” said Lee, who showed he is still a by winning Olympic gold in Rio last year Olympic final and with two bronze formed her as a player and turned her So can he make it number six? “There force to be reckoned with by winning his although she sets little store in the past. medals in the worlds, in 2013 and 2014, into a viable contender for a medal. “He are very many young players coming fourth All-England title this season. “At “But this week I am forgetting about the she feels it is time to move up to the top has been great,” she said. “Everything through, so it is a massive challenge,” the Olympics, three are only two Chinese past,” said Marin, who has slipped to step of the podium. “I hope I do well this has improved since last year and I am so admitted Dan, the seventh seed. “I would players, but here there are many more. fourth in the world rankings. week and I want a change of colour,” she excited to be playing in front of my be delighted to win again, but there is a The draw is very tough but I am going to “This is a new championship. “But my said with a smile. “I want better than home crowd. It is a privilege to be under lot of hard work to be done. There are a do my best.” So will this be the last goal this week is to fight for the gold bronze.” Kirsty Gilmour, the No.16 seed, pressure.” — AFP

PREVIEW Once-bitten Guardiola wary of Everton threat

LONDON: The Premier League title creden- due to a thigh injury. tials of Pep Guardiola’s new-look Manchester But he is back in training, along with long- City face an early-season examination today term injury victim Ilkay Gundogan, and both when Ronald Koeman’s ambitious Everton players are expected to return to action soon. visit the Etihad Stadium. With around £150 While Guardiola prioritised signing full-backs million ($193.1 million, 164.1 million euros) of over the close season, his former Barcelona new players on show, City made an assured team-mate Koeman has apparently been on a start to the campaign by winning 2-0 at pro- mission to cram as many number 10s into his moted Brighton and Hove Albion last week- squad as possible. Sigurdsson and his fellow end. But Everton are also stronger, taking new signings Davy Klaassen and Wayne their spending past £130 million this week Rooney all tend to play in central attacking with a club-record £45 million move for Gylfi roles and Ross Barkley also remains on Sigurdsson, and they trounced City 4-0 when Everton’s books for the time being. the teams last met in January. “They are a top Rooney and Klaassen played in support of squad and they have important players,” said Sandro Ramirez, another new signing, as Guardiola, the City manager. Everton won 1-0 at home to Stoke City last “They lost an important player, (Romelu) weekend through Rooney’s first-half header. Lukaku, but they have a good group of play- Room must now also be found for Sigurdsson ers-midfield players and strikers. They are one following his switch from Swansea City, but of the best teams in the Premier League, I am Koeman says it is a pleasant headache for a pretty sure of that. manager to have. “You need competition in “I expect they will play the same way and your team,” said the Dutchman. “It is not attack our defence. “Sandro Ramirez and about 11 players.” Wayne Rooney are used to playing in that For his part, Sigurdsson says he will wear way. They have a strong defence. They have his hefty price-tag lightly. “It’s not up to me great players and are dangerous on the how much clubs pay for me,” said the 27-year- counter-attack.” City’s 4-0 defeat at Goodison old Iceland international, who supplied nine Park in January was the low point of goals and 13 assists for Swansea in the league Guardiola’s maiden campaign in England, last season.—AFP which ended with his side 15 points adrift of champions Chelsea in third place. The visitors had 71 percent of possession and registered 13 attempts on goal to Everton’s six, but they were wasteful in attack Matches on TV GIRONA: Atletico de Madrid’s Argentinian forward Angel Correa (R) vies with Girona’s defender Pedro Alcala during the Spanish league football and alarmingly porous in defence. Of the (Local Timings) match Girona FC vs Club Atletico de Madrid at the Municipal de Montilivi stadium in Girona on Saturday. — AFP goalkeeper and four defenders who started at Goodison, only centre-backs Nicolas ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER Otamendi and John Stones are expected to Manchester City v Everton 22:00 be involved today. beIN SPORTS HD 2 Guardiola has used a three-man defence in pre-season and at Brighton, with captain SPANISH LEAGUE Vincent Kompany bringing much-needed Levante v Villarreal 21:15 beIN SPORTS HD 2 Atletico defy Griezmann red authority at the back and new boys Kyle Malaga v Eibar 23:00 Walker and Danilo supplying thrust on the beIN SPORTS HD 3 flanks. City’s third new full-back, Benjamin Mendy, is not yet ready to make his debut card to salvage Girona draw

BOXING MADRID: Atletico Madrid battled back from 2-0 down after a red card for Antoine Griezmann to salvage a 2-2 draw at newly-promoted Girona to Unbeaten Crawford KOs start their La Liga campaign on Saturday. Kyle Busch completes Bristol Tight security measures oversaw the first top- Indongo to unify titles flight match in Catalonia since two terror attacks sweep with 20th win at track in the region left 14 dead and hundreds injured in Barcelona and the nearby seaside town of LINCOLN: Terence Crawford took all the dra- on. Though Crawford was a heavy favorite, BRISTOL: Erik Jones really needed to win, and it sucks to run second, but it’s a bummer. It Cambrils on Thursday and the early hours of ma out of his fight against Julius Indongo, Indongo had height and reach advantages Kyle Busch would have loved to celebrate the hurts,” Jones said. “This was the first shot that I Friday morning. and he did it fast. Now Crawford is the only that caused his camp some concern. first Cup win for the kid he discovered. But this really had to come really close to it in the Cup Concrete road blocks were mounted outside undisputed world champion in professional But Crawford sent Indongo to the canvas is Bristol Motor Speedway, and Busch practi- Series. It’s Kyle Busch. He won all three races the Estadi Montilivi as in both attacks vans had boxing. Energized by his huge home-state with a right to the body in the last minute of cally owns the place. Busch swept the week- here this weekend.” been used to mow down pedestrians. However, following 45 minutes from his Omaha base, the second round and just missed with a mas- end for the second time in his career by win- Jones conceded how difficult it is to beat a near capacity 13,500 crowd weren’t dissuaded Crawford stopped Julius Indongo in the third sive left hook before the bell. At that point he ning the Monster Energy Cup Series race Busch anywhere, particularly at Bristol. Busch round Saturday night to claim all four major was in firm control. from attending and thought the hosts were Saturday night. He also won in the Truck Series is also Jones’ former boss, and Jones was belts at 140 pounds. Midway through the third round, Crawford headed for a dream start to their first ever La on Wednesday night and the Xfintiy Series on amazed at Busch’s ability to win three national The fight was the first four-belt unification caught Indongo with a left hook to the body Liga campaign. Friday night . He’s the only driver to pull off the NASCAR races in four nights. Jones said he’s bout since 2004, when Bernard Hopkins that put him down writhing in pain. “We Christian Stuani took advantage of some sweep, and he also did it in 2010. done a triple-duty weekend before, and “it was stopped Oscar De La Hoya to claim all the knew the body was going to be open, being slack marking at the heart of an Atletico defence Busch toyed with the crowd, which had something I honestly never want to do again, belts in the 160-pound division. Crawford that he swings so wild,” Crawford said. “We felt shorn of the suspended Diego Godin to head equal cheers and boos, by cupping his ear to so I respect him for that.” came in with the WBC and WBO belts; we could catch him in the middle of his home twice in three first-half minutes. the fans who disapproved of the win. “So “He’s a hardcore racer, he really commits Indongo, from Namibia, was the WBA and IBF punches. That’s what we worked on in the Atletico’s hopes seemed to have gone when proud of Rowdy Nation. This one’s for you!” he himself to that and he does a really good job champion. “It means everything,” Crawford gym.” Crawford (32-0, 23 knockouts) was in Griezmann was controversially dismissed 23 shouted. And the haters? “I don’t care. All noise that he doesn’t let it affect his Cup racing, at said. “When you start boxing when you’re 7 his home state for the fifth time in nine fights minutes from time. The French international is good noise,” he said. He then collected a all,” Jones said. Denny Hamlin and Matt years old, that’s your dream to become world but for the first time in Lincoln, 45 minutes appeared to have been clipped by Gorka Iraizoz broom from an onlooker to commemorate the Kenseth were third and fourth as Joe Gibbs champion - and after that you want to from his Omaha base. as he rounded the goalkeeper, but was instead sweep. Busch admitted this win was the most Racing took the win and two other spots become something bigger than world cham- Indongo (22-1, 11 knockouts) made his booked for diving and then shown a straight red difficult of the week because of the race he inside the top four, while all four drivers were pion. You just don’t stop there. You go to the rise in his weight division in less than a year card for his protests towards referee Juan had with rookie Erik Jones, his protege, future in Toyotas. Busch passed Jones for the lead highest level possible.” after winning bouts in Russia and Scotland. Martinez Manuera. teammate and fellow Toyota driver. Jones led with 55 laps remaining as the track changed Crawford’s work at 140 pounds probably is Crawford entered the ring to roars from the Despite their numerical disadvantage, the most laps and the rookie believes he and the top lane became the preferable spot. finished. A move to 147 looks imminent. Pinnacle Bank Arena sellout crowd of 12,121 Atletico responded heroically to salvage an needs a victory to lock up his spot in the play- Jones’ car didn’t handle as well in that area, Promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank said the plan after coming down the steps from the arena unlikely point as Angel Correa blasted into the offs. “Erik Jones put up a whale of a fight,” said and he had Busch and Kenseth all over his is for Crawford to go with him to Australia for concourse. He wore a red No. 140 Nebraska top corner from outside the box 12 minutes Busch. “I was running with my tongue hanging bumper. It was Busch who moved from third the expected November rematch between Cornhuskers football jersey, a nod to this city from time. out, my arms were Jell-O and my throat hurts.” to first, but Jones didn’t relent. Jeff Horn and Manny Pacquiao. Arum wants being home to the University of Nebraska. Jose Maria Gimenez completed the come- Busch won for the 40th time in the Cup He chased Kenseth after Kenseth moved Crawford to fight the winner. With fans on their feet and chanting his back when his header from Koke’s free-kick Series, sixth time at Bristol in Cup, and second into second, but Jones ultimately gouged “I’m all for it,” Crawford said. The 29-year- name, Crawford seized control early. When his caught Iraizoz in no man’s land. “Many at 2-0 time this season. All told, he’s won 20 times Kenseth out of his way. It put Jones in the mid- old Crawford was as dominant as ever against final blow took down Indongo, the decibel down in the first-half would have thought the across NASCAR’s national series at the dle of a weird JGR sandwich. In front of him, Indongo, a 34-year-old from Namibia who level increased even more, and Crawford game was over,” said Atletico boss Diego Tennessee bullring. Jones settled for second, Busch, the driver who launched Jones’ career was fighting in the United States for the first jumped in the air in the middle of the ring in Simeone. one spot short of his first career victory. He led and future teammate, and Kenseth, the guy time after making a rapid ascent to champi- celebration. Indongo couldn’t get up. — AP “When we went down to 10 men that a race-high 260 laps and felt it had been his Jones is replacing next season who is looking thought would have been doubled, but the best chance to date to win a Cup race. for 2018 employment. Hamlin eventually took team kept going in the same way they have the He was admittedly disappointed to fall a position from Kenseth, but it was so obviously a past few years with effort, a never say die atti- spot short. “You don’t want to sound like night for Toyota. Martin Truex Jr. finished 21st tude and kept going until the end.” you’re whining or being a sore loser by saying and did not clinch the regular-season title. — AP The visitors still had their own goalkeeper Jan Oblak to thank as the Slovenian produced an outstanding reflex save to prevent Manchester City loanee Olarenwaju Kayode from netting a last-minute winner. Atletico didn’t lose any ground on their likely challengers to once again be Spanish football’s third force behind Real Madrid and Barcelona as Sevilla were held 1-1 at home by Espanyol. Clement Lenglet bundled the hosts in front from a corner midway through the half, but Leo Baptistao levelled 10 minutes before half-time. Sevilla also ended with 10 men as Ever Banega was sent-off following an angry exchange with the referee. Earlier, Real Sociedad also came twice from behind to beat Celta Vigo 3-2 at Balaidos. Maxi Gomez had put Celta in front early in both BRISTOL: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M’s Caramel Toyota, poses with the trophy after LINCOLN: Terence Crawford stands over Julius Indongo, after a punch brought him halves, but goals from Mikel Oyarzabal, Juanmi winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol down in the second round of a junior welterweight world title unification bout in and Willian Jose’s penalty two minutes from time Motor Speedway on Saturday in Bristol, Tennessee. — AFP Lincoln, Neb., Saturday. Crawford won by knockout during the third round. —AP handed the Basques all three points. — AFP Kuwait Shooting Unbeaten Crawford Sport Club KOs Indongo to honour shooters unify titles

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LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean striker Son Heung-Min (L) vies with Chelsea’s Belgian striker Michy Batshuayi during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium in London, yesterday. — AFP Alonso ruins Spurs’ Wembley house-warming

Spurs went unbeaten throughout their final The Italian celebrated Alonso’s winner with Chelsea debut with an early goal, only to head nate to be behind, but they were also a little league campaign at White Hart Lane, but strug- characteristic abandon on the touchline, wide from seven yards when Cesar Azpilicueta’s lucky to keep 11 men on the field after Eric Dier Tottenham 1 gled at Wembley in the Champions League and thoughts of his side’s transfer window struggles cross picked him out unmarked, but in the 24th and Jan Vertonghen escaped with yellow cards have now lost eight of the last 10 matches they and his long stand-off with want-away striker minute his side did go ahead. for ugly fouls on Luiz and Victor Moses. have played there. Diego Costa seemingly banished. Chelsea were awarded a free-kick after Dele With Chelsea’s back three becoming more of Mauricio Pochettino’s men appeared to have Chelsea’s list of absentees-suspended pair Alli clipped Luiz and from a position 25 yards a back five, they successfully held Spurs at bay Chelsea 2 avoided the worst when Batshuayi put through Gary Cahill and Cesc Fabregas, injury victim from goal, slightly to the right of centre, Alonso in the second half and came close to adding a his own goal in the 82nd minute, only for Hugo Eden Hazard and the exiled Costa-moved Conte arced a magnificent shot into the top-right cor- second goal when Willian’s low drive came Lloris’s feeble attempt at a save to gift Alonso to adopt an unfamiliar 3-5-1-1 system, with ner. Harry Kane, Alli and Mousa Dembele had skidding back off the post. LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur made a losing the winner two minutes from time. For Spurs, David Luiz anchoring the midfield. all threatened for Spurs prior to Chelsea’s open- Spurs thought they had rescued a point start to life as Wembley’s full-time tenants after who are playing at Wembley while White Hart He also gave a debut to £40 million ($51.5 er and after falling behind, they dominated the with eight minutes remaining when Batshuayi, Marcos Alonso’s double earned Premier League Lane is rebuilt, it was a first home defeat in the million, 43.8 million euros) new signing Tiemoue rest of the first half. Kane bent a shot against who had only been on the pitch for four min- champions Chelsea a 2-1 victory yesterday. The league since a 2-1 loss to Southampton in May Bakayoko, who produced a leggy 90-minute the base of the right-hand post after cutting utes, inadvertently headed Christian Eriksen’s Spaniard struck either side of a late Michy 2016. Having endured a deeply trying start to showing in his first appearance since arriving inside Andreas Christensen from Alli’s pass, free-kick into his own net. Batshuayi own goal to get Chelsea back to win- the season, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte will from French champions Monaco. while Ben Davies saw a swerving effort from But six minutes later, Alonso picked up a ning ways after their opening 3-2 loss at home hope victory over the team his side pipped to range clubbed away by the diving Thibaut loose ball in midfield and swapped passes with to Burnley and end Spurs’ club-record run of 14 the title last season will bring some much-need- KANE HITS POST Courtois. substitute Pedro before drilling a low shot successive home wins. ed positivity back to Stamford Bridge. Alvaro Morata should have crowned his full The hosts could count themselves unfortu- beneath Lloris to give Chelsea victory. — AFP

India power to 9-wicket ODI win over S Lanka SCOREBOARD

DAMBULLA: Opener Shikhar Dhawan’s blaz- Dambulla. But it was the spinners, led by thing is that he is cashing in on his good options at Rangiri Dambulla International DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka: Final scoreboard of the first one-day interna- ing century and a disciplined effort by the Axar Patel, who set up the opening win for form,” Kohli said of his swashbuckling opener. Stadium but failed to stop the onslaught. It tional between Sri Lanka and India in Dambulla yesterday: spinners powered India to a nine-wicket win the visitors in the five-match series after “He is in a good state of mind and we make was a forgettable 200th ODI for veteran pace- Sri Lanka over Sri Lanka in the first one-day internation- bowling out Sri Lanka for 216 in 43.2 overs. sure we do everything to keep him in that man Lasith Malinga, who was not only stuck N. Dickwella lbw b Jadhav 64 al yesterday. Chasing a modest 217 for victo- India, who last week achieved their first zone because he is a match winner. When he on 298 wickets but was carted for 52 runs in D. Gunathilaka c Rahulb Chahal 35 ry, India rode on an unbeaten 197-run stand clean sweep in an overseas three-Test series, plays like that he will win you games of crick- his eight overs. between Dhawan, who smashed 132, and lost an early wicket after Rohit Sharma was et and that’s why we back him so much,” K. Mendis b Patel 36 skipper Virat Kohli, who made 82, to canter run out for four. The partnership between added Kohli. Dhawan was in marauding BATTING IMPLOSION U. Tharanga c Dhawan b Jadhav 13 home in 28.5 overs. Dhawan, who hit his 11th ODI century, and form, hitting 20 fours and 3 sixes, but Kohli Earlier put into bat, opener Niroshan A. Mathews not out 36 The left-handed Dhawan hit the winning Kohli made sure India had no more hiccups in also attacked the opposition during his 70- Dickwella’s 74-ball 64 took Sri Lanka to 139-1 C. Kapugedara run out (Kohli) 1 runs off a boundary and later received the their road to victory. “We really enjoyed bat- ball stay at the crease. New limited-overs in the 25th over before their batting implod- W. Hasaranga c Jadhav b Patel 2 man of the match award for his 90-ball blitz in ting together, me and Shikhar... The good captain Upul Tharanga rotated his bowling ed. Patel claimed three wickets with his left- arm spin to return career-best figures of 3-34. T. Perera b Bumrah 0 Fellow spinners Yuzvendra Chahal, Kedar L. Sandakan lbw b Patel 5 Jadhav and paceman Jasprit Bumrah took L. Malinga st Dhoni b Chahal 8 two wickets each. V. Fernando b Bumrah 0 “At 139-1 (in Sri lanka’s innings) we surely Extras (lb6, w10) 16 had a bit to think about but again the way the bowler came back into the game and got us Total (all out, 43.2 overs) 216 those breakthroughs along with our fielding Fall of wickets: 1-74 (Gunathilaka), 2-139 (Dickwella), 3-150 really made the difference,” said Kohli. Off- (Mendis), 4-166 (Tharanga), 5-169 (Kapugedara), 6-176 spinner Kedar Jadhav then struck twice to get (Hasaranga), 7-178 (Perera), 8-187 two important wickets of Dickwella and (Sandakan), 9-209 (Malinga), 10-216 (Fernando) Tharanga, who made 13. Bowling: Kumar 6-0-33-0, Pandya 6-0-35-0, Bumrah 6.2-0-22-2, Patel bowled Kusal Mendis for 36 and Chamara Kapugedara’s run out by a direct Chahal 10-0-60-2, Jadhav 5-0-26-2, Patel 10-0-34-3. throw from Kohli made the hosts slip further. Former captain Angelo Mathews tried to stick India (target 217) around with the lower-order but eventually R. Sharma run out (Kapugedara) 4 ran out of partners to be stranded on 36. S. Dhawan not out 132 Bumrah combined with the spinners to wipe off the tail. “We started really well and after V. Kohli not out 82 that we didn’t capitalise. The middle order Extras (w2) 2 collapsed. One stage, we were thinking of Total (1 wicket, 28.5 overs) 220 300,” said a disappointed Tharanga. Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Sharma) “If you want to score 300 in an ODI, some- Did not bat: L. Rahul, K. Jadhav, M.S. Dhoni, H. Pandya, A. Patel, one has to get a big score and that is what we are lacking in the last one or two years. We Y. Chahal, J. Bumrah, B. Kumar. have to learn from the mistakes,” he added. Sri Bowling: Malinga 8-0-52-0, Fernado 6-0-43-0, Mathews 2-0-9-0, Lanka must win at least two games in the Perera 2-0-18-0, Sandakan 6-0-63-0, Hasaranga 4.5-0-35-0. series to gain direct entry into the 2019 World Result: India won by nine wickets DAMBULLA: India’s wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, left, stumps out Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga, right, during their first one-day Cup. The second ODI is scheduled for Series: India lead the five-match series 1-0 international cricket match in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, yesterday. —AP Thursday in Pallekele. — AFP Investing in the New Kuwait: Challenges and opportunities Page 18

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MUMBAI: This file photo shows the Scorpene-class submarine INS Kalvari (S50) at the naval dockyard in Mumbai. Defense firms eye billion-dollar chance in India India to rope in foreign players to join ‘Make-in-India’ drive

NEW DELHI: India has drawn up a shopping $15 billion-it will “support the advancement of orders and allowing smaller businesses to Under the strategic partnership policy, president for industrial development at list for tens of billions of dollars of foreign Indian manufacturing expertise.” develop around them. India will line up domestic companies that Airbus. fighter jets, armored vehicles, submarines and Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems “Countries that have a robust defense foreign players have to choose from to set “Or let the Indian guys assume full liabili- helicopters but it will only sign the cheques if and France’s Naval Group are eager to com- industry have a few large companies that up local plants. For the Indian companies, ty (as per the policy). Assuming liabilities on they are made in India. pete for a contract of up to $10 billion to build are supported by their government with which would hold the majority stake, it is a an aircraft is not easy.... If a product fails, we The world’s largest defense importer has submarines in the South Asian country. large, long-term defense orders,” Amber big win, says Dhiraj Mathur, an aerospace are talking about hundreds of millions.” announced a new policy inviting foreign Luring foreign defense companies to build Dubey of the KPMG consultancy in India and defense specialist for the PwC consul- His suggestion is a middle road where defense manufacturers to set up shop as in India would be a major and much-needed told AFP. tancy. “You know nothing about defense foreign companies can hold the majority minority partners in India. It initiated the bid- boost to the economy. Prime Minister “They in turn create an eco-system of manufacturing and you’re going to partner stake, which can be pared back over time as ding process for submarines in July. Such deals Narendra Modi, with less than two years to large and small suppliers to stay competi- with a global leader to make highly sophisti- the Indian partner gains in knowledge and would boost job creation and bring key national elections, is under intense pressure to tive.” India currently imports at least 90 per- cated equipment and the only reason experience. “It takes years to transfer (tech- defense technologies into India. create more jobs for the hundreds of thou- cent of its defense equipment including they’re talking to you is because the govern- nology) and to get proven products. These Foreign companies say the opportunity is sands of people joining the workforce every parts for assembly. It is banking on foreign ment has told them to,” he said. are complex products that need to perform too good to miss. Europe’s Airbus Group, month. Growth in the first three months of companies to bring in new technology. The The Indian government wants to bring in battles,” said Saraf. The other hurdle in the angling to sell its Panther helicopters, has said 2017 slowed to 6.1 percent. Experts expect lowest bid is one key selection criteria that the local companies up to global standards policy is that transferring defense technolo- that if it wins a contract worth several billion further disruption as businesses adjust to a worries some of the competitors. “We’d like to compete for the next round of orders. gy requires government approval. In a strat- dollars and expected to span at least a decade, new nationwide goods and services tax to see the Indian government work with the China also built up local defense equipment egy similar to one followed by the United it would make India its global hub for the mul- launched in July. US government to ensure that these acqui- manufacturing by forcing international firms States, India puts the onus on the foreign ti-purpose choppers. sition policies don’t disadvantage US com- to link up with Chinese companies and to partners to get the green light from their The company currently builds them at Make in India panies just because we can’t get the lowest hand over technology. respective governments, a challenging task Marignane in France. Lockheed Martin says if India is seeking to follow other countries price,” Cara Abercrombie, former US deputy In India’s case, the foreign players are still for them. “But if you want indigenization, its F-16 fighter jets are selected-it will likely which created defense sectors by backing a assistant secretary of defense for southeast pushing for ownership. “Let us take a lead, this is the only way you’ll get it,” said PwC’s compete with Saab for that order of close to few big players with long-term defense Asia, told a recent panel in New York. let us be the majority,” said Ashish Saraf, vice Mathur. —AFP

Britain will not exclude EU oversight of UK borders US did not detail LONDON: Britain will not rule out the possibility that the tions and seek information from customs bodies. If OLAF finds body policing the UK’s monitoring of imports destined for request for auto rules European Union may retain oversight of customs controls at weaknesses in a country’s systems and that the member is not the EU. “In practical terms they (Britain and the EU) would UK borders after it leaves the bloc, as the country seeks ways charging the appropriate duties on imports from outside the have to operate in the same way or the whole thing would of origin at talks to keep unhindered access to EU markets following Brexit. EU, it will recommend that the European Commission, the EU’s fall apart,” he said. WASHINGTON: In the opening NAFTA session of Last week, the UK published a policy document proposing executive arm, should recover money from the offending Bernard Jenkin, a member of parliament for May’s talks, the United States did not give precise details two possible models for British-EU customs arrangements member. Conservative party, who backed Brexit in last year’s referen- of how much it wanted to boost North American after withdrawal from the EU in 2019. For example, in March OLAF slammed lax UK border con- dum, said he opposed continued EU oversight of UK borders. content for autos, a source directly familiar with the The first model was a “highly streamlined customs arrange- trols and recommended the European Commission reclaim 2 “There is no need for an EU institution to police our cus- negotiations said on Saturday. Robert Lighthizer, ment” which involved the re-introduction of a customs border billion euros the agency said was lost because Britain had toms, and we should not accept this,” he said in a statement. President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser, this but which envisaged electronic tracking of shipments, rather failed to apply the correct EU duties on imports of Chinese “Any dispute about each other’s customs arrangements week said Washington wanted tougher rules of ori- than physical checks of goods and documents at the border. clothes and footwear in recent years. should be settled by an independent arbitrator, as with any gin for autos, which determine how much of a vehi- An alternative proposal was the “new customs partnership” A spokesman for the UK’s tax authority said it questioned other international agreement, not by an institution which cle must be built in the three NAFTA nations. which would remove the need for a UK-EU customs border alto- OLAF’s estimate of lost revenue. Duties collected are paid to belongs only to one party of the agreement,” he added. He also said the United States was seeking gether. Under this model, the UK would operate as if it was still Brussels. Commission duty recovery claims can be appealed to Van Den Hende said the ECJ may not accept the creation new measures to ensure “substantial US content” part of the bloc for customs purposes. British goods would be the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), the EU’s of an independent body to overseas EU customs. Customs for autos. exported tariff-free and Britain would levy EU tariffs on goods highest court. are a matter of EU law and the court is supposed to be the Companies wishing to take advantage of free coming into the UK for onward passage to the EU directly or as UK Prime Minster Theresa May has said the UK will no highest authority on this. trade in goods guaranteed by NAFTA must cur- components in UK export goods. However, lawyers said there longer be subject to the jurisdiction of the ECJ after Britain’s Also, the breadth of areas in which the UK wishes to rently meet the 62.5 percent North American con- would be a need for a mechanism to oversee the “new customs exit from the bloc. However, the British finance ministry retain free trade with Europe means many such independent tent requirement for autos and 60 percent for partnership” to ensure that the UK was correctly monitoring declined to say if the country would bar OLAF from policing arbitrators would be required. They would be needed to components. goods coming into the UK and destined for Europe. The EU’s the UK’s customs system under the “new customs partnership” monitor enforcement of health standards, standards in But during the opening four-hour round of talks system of movement of goods across EU borders without model or whether it would allow the Commission to make financial services and rules that apply to a host of other reg- on rules of origin on Friday, the US delegation did checks works on the basis that all members closely monitor demands for recovery of lost duties. ulated markets. not give details of how much it wanted the shipments coming into the bloc from outside, to ensure the “The exact form of the arrangements will be agreed as part “In theory you can design that, but in practice neither the requirements to be lifted by. It also did not give a correct tariffs are paid and that goods meet EU standards. of the negotiations,” a ministry spokeswoman said. UK nor the EU would want that because you would be repli- specific figure for what substantial US content for cating institutions which already exist. It would be a huge autos could mean, said the source, who asked not Weakness Money and effort amount of money and effort,” he said. “This is in one of the to be identified because of the sensitivity of the The EU anti-fraud agency OLAF polices customs agencies Lode Van Den Hende, a partner with Herbert Smith fundamental problems about Brexit. The UK wants to retain matter. US officials said they could not confirm the across Europe to ensure they are correctly monitoring Freehills in Brussels, said it was hard to see how the customs deep integration but the UK doesn’t like the institutions that source’s account. —Reuters imports. 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Hossam Abdullah Venezuela’s PDVSA defends Young Taiwanese choose ‘perfect’ ties with Russia CARACAS: Venezuela’s alliance with PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino China jobs over politics Russia is “perfect,” the president of state said the United States and its allies were oil company PDVSA said, blasting what trying to hurt Caracas’ relationship with he said was a US-led attempt to sully the Moscow because they feared losing Latin TAIPEI: Taiwan has long seen its international growing ties between the two nations. America to Russia’s sphere of influence. allies switching allegiance to an ascendant Reuters last week published a Special “That’s why they’re attacking you Beijing, but now there are also fears of a brain Report revealing that Venezuela’s unrav- Russians,” said Del Pino in a televised drain of the island’s youth as they pursue careers eling socialist government is increasing- broadcast from the Petrozamora joint in rival China. ly turning to Russia for the cash and venture with Russia’s Gazprombank. Cross-strait tensions have soared since China- credit it needs to survive and offering “That’s why the North American sceptic Tsai Ing-wen took power last year, with prized state-owned oil assets in return, empire goes against our nation, why Beijing cutting all official communication. China sources familiar with the negotiations they threaten us so blatantly. Because still sees the self-ruling island as part of its terri- told Reuters. they see a threat to what for over 80 tory to be reunified, but young people in partic- Venezuela’s opposition lawmakers say years they considered their backyard.” ular have increasingly developed a sense of Russia is behaving more like a predator Without directly mentioning Reuters, pride in their Taiwanese identity. than an ally, scooping up assets on the Del Pino also criticized that “every piece They have been at the forefront of anti- cheap and gaining control of much of of news that these nation-hating people Beijing sentiment in recent years, famously the OPEC nation’s crude for trading at a generate goes against the oil industry” as occupying Taiwan’s parliament in protest at time when President Nicolas Maduro is part of a broader attempt to destabilize trade deals with China in the Sunflower desperate for financing. leftist-run Venezuela. — Reuters Movement of 2014. However, with monthly starting salaries for college graduates unchanged at below Geopolitical uncertainty stalks Tw$30,000 ($1,000) since the 1990s and proper- ty and consumer prices spiralling upwards, some markets after Spain attacks are now taking a more pragmatic approach. China is also wooing young Taiwanese talent in LONDON: An aversion to risk was evident in business leaders. The White House was also what analysts say is a “soft power” push to sway financial markets Friday after the attacks in forced to issue a statement dispelling swirling political sentiment. Spain. Stock markets around the world were rumors that Gary Cohn, head of the National Katherine Wang, 33, quit kindergarten teach- under pressure while traditional safe haven Economic Council, was stepping down, say- ing in Taipei and co-launched a business in May assets, such as gold, were in demand. ing they were “100 percent false.” offering a variety of courses for young Chinese KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, the FTSE 100 ANALYST TAKE: “We’re seeing risk aver- women in southeastern Xiamen city, saying she TAIPEI: This photo taken on July 1, 2017 shows visitors walking past recruitment booths dur- index of leading British shares was down 1 per- sion in the markets again on Friday, with the feels “hopeless” about Taiwan’s economy. “I see a ing a jobs fair in Taipei. Taiwan has long seen its international allies switching allegiance to an cent at 7,316 while France’s CAC 40 fell 1.1 per- possibility of a self-inflicted crisis within ray of hope in Xiamen and working there makes ascendant Beijing, but now there are also fears of a brain drain of the island’s youth as they cent to 5,089. Germany’s DAX was 0.5 percent Donald Trump’s White House and another ter- me happy. I want to make a name for myself and pursue careers in rival China. —AFP lower at 12,137. Wall Street was poised for a ror attack, this time in Barcelona, weighing on my partners and hopefully expand our business things like ‘Taiwan is a part of China’ but that’s reduced and that for Beijing is a worthwhile subdued opening with Dow futures and the risk appetite,” said Craig Erlam, senior market to all over China,” she explained. their freedom of speech,” he said. Despite being investment,” he explained. There is no official broader S&P 500 futures down 0.1 percent. analyst at OANDA. Wang receives free housing and office space a fully-fledged democracy, Taiwan has never data in Taiwan on the number of youngsters BARCELONA ATTACK: The source of the RISK: Risk aversion traditionally sees sup- as an incentive from the Xiamen city govern- announced a formal split from China. Beijing has currently working in China. However, a sur- risk aversion gripping markets particularly in posedly risky assets such as stocks come ment, an example of the perks offered by threatened military action if it ever did. vey released by the Taipei-based Global Views Europe was the attacks in Spain. On Friday, under pressure, while supposed safe havens, provincial authorities, which also include gener- magazine in March showed that nearly 60 police shot and killed five people wearing such as gold and the Swiss franc, garner sup- ous grants. ‘Carrots’ for youth percent of respondents aged 20-29 years old fake bomb belts who staged a deadly car port. The precious metal was up 0.7 percent According to China’s Taiwan Affairs Office There are already well-established business were willing to work there. attack in Cambrils, a seaside resort in Spain’s at $1,300 an ounce. (TAO), over 6,000 Taiwanese young people are links between China and Taiwan. Taiwanese Interest was reflected in a recent recruit- Catalonia region, just hours after a van ASIAN SCORECARD: Japan’s benchmark working or interning at more than 50 youth manufacturers flocked to the mainland to take ment drive by China’s Hainan Airlines, with plowed into pedestrians on a busy Barcelona Nikkei 225 index lost 1.2 percent to close at start-up bases launched since 2015. Top Chinese advantage of its resources and cheaper labour more than 1,500 Taiwanese applicants apply- promenade. Spanish authorities said the 19,470.41 and South Korea’s Kospi shed 0.1 political and business leaders, including Premier after restrictions were lifted in the late 1980s. ing for 80 jobs based in Beijing, according to back-to-back vehicle attacks - as well as an percent to 2,358.37. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Li Keqiang and Alibaba founder Jack Ma, have China is also Taiwan’s biggest trade partner and Chinese state media. explosion earlier this week in a house else- sank 1.1 percent to 27,047.57, while the also encouraged Taiwanese youth to chase market, with exports there totalling $112 billion Some say such cross-strait exchanges are a where in Catalonia - were related and the Shanghai Composite index ended flat at careers in China. — 40 percent of last year’s total. good alternative way to promote stability as offi- work of a large terrorist group. In total, 14 3,268.72. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.6 per- While Wang says she has no strong political But the youth links have an extra dimen- cial ties worsen, but others fear a brain drain that people were killed in the attacks, 13 in cent to 5,747.10. views, others who do are putting them to one sion, says Shih Cheng-feng, a political analyst will hurt Taiwan’s competitiveness. Barcelona and one in Cambrils. CURRENCIES: The euro was up 0.2 per- side for jobs. One twenty-something has opted at National Dong Hwa University. “China A commentary in Taiwan’s Liberty Times this TRUMP TROUBLE: More uncertainty over cent at $1.1741 while the dollar fell 0.4 per- to work in China even though he supports realises that it needs to take a soft approach month accused China of trying to divide the developments in the White House also added cent to 109.08 yen. Taiwanese independence-a concept intolerable and use ‘carrots’ to attract (young people) in island and draw young people away from their to investor pessimism. President Donald ENERGY: Oil prices were little to Beijing.“I just focus on how to do my job well,” the hope that they will have some impact at political ideals. “If young generations can’t see Trump abandoned his plans to form an infra- changed, with the benchmark New York the young worker told AFP on condition of critical time, such as the presidential elec- hope in Taiwan and feel pessimistic about the structure advisory council, a day after the rate up 9 cents at $47.18 a barrel. Brent, anonymity, saying he hoped it would be a step- tion,” Shih told AFP. future, and if poverty becomes a fact, how can administration said it would close down two the international standard, was 8 cents ping stone to an international career. “Young people may not actively support they feel the obligation to insist on democracy other advisory councils made up primarily of firmer at $51.11 a barrel. —AP “My Chinese colleagues sometimes say Beijing’s agenda, but their hostilities can be and defend ideals?” it said. — AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Thai Bhat 10.094 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Swiss Franc 316.020 Indian Rupee 0.004160 0.004848 Australian Dollar 240.230 Turkish Lira 86.281 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 US Dollar Buying 301.550 Turkish Lira 86.247 ASIAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 0.002701 0.002881 Japanese Yen 2.759 GOLD Korean Won 0.000255 0.000270 Indian Rupees 4.746 BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL 20 Gram 249.070 Malaysian Ringgit 0.066809 0.072809 Pakistani Rupees 2.870 10 Gram 127.450 Srilankan Rupees 1.971 Nepalese Rupee 0.003020 0.003190 5 Gram 64.570 CURRENCY BUY SELL Nepali Rupees 2.981 Europe Pakistan Rupee 0.002669 0.002959 Singapore Dollar 223.020 Philippine Peso 0.005802 0.006102 Hongkong Dollar 38.695 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd British Pound 0.383761 0.393761 Singapore Dollar 0.216814 0.226814 Bangladesh Taka 3.737 Czech Korune 0.005652 0.017652 Philippine Peso 5.988 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001597 0.002177 Rate for Transfr Selling Rate Danish Krone 0.043818 0.048818 Thai Baht 9.127 Taiwan 0.009856 0.010036 US Dollar 302.350 Euro 0. 351058 0.360058 Thai Baht 0.008773 0.009323 GCC COUNTRIES Canadian Dollar 241.007 Norwegian Krone 0.134821 0.134821 Saudi Riyal 80.787 Sterling Pound 390.710 Romanian Leu 0.081622 0.081622 Arab Qatari Riyal 83.207 Euro 357.167 Slovakia 0.009020 0.019020 Omani Riyal 786.772 Swiss Frank 293.338 Bahraini Dinar 0.796242 0.804742 Bahraini Dinar 804.440 Swedish Krona 0.033277 0.038277 Bahrain Dinar 802.247 Egyptian Pound 0.015110 0.021018 UAE Dirham 82.482 Swiss Franc 0.307603 0.318603 UAE Dirhams 82.716 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Qatari Riyals 83.861 Iraqi Dinar 0.000189 0.000249 ARAB COUNTRIES Australasia Egyptian Pound - Cash 21.200 Saudi Riyals 81.477 Jordanian Dinar 0.422330 0.431330 Australian Dollar 0.232241 0.244241 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 16.972 Jordanian Dinar 427.428 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.216 Egyptian Pound 17.045 New Zealand Dollar 0.215517 0.225017 Lebanese Pound 0.000155 0.000255 Tunisian Dinar 127.210 Sri Lankan Rupees 1.973 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020826 0.044826 Jordanian Dinar 427.490 Indian Rupees 4.718 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.018 Omani Riyal 0.779814 0.785494 Pakistani Rupees 2.869 Canadian Dollar 0.235542 0.244542 Syrian Lira 2.159 Qatar Riyal 0.078854 0.083794 Morocco Dirham 32.414 Bangladesh Taka 3.742 US Dollars 0.298600 0.303020 Saudi Riyal 0.079633 0.080933 Philippines Pesso 5.877 US Dollars Mint 0.299100 0.303020 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 17.991 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 US Dollar Transfer 302.750 Japanese Yen 3.765 Tunisian Dinar 0.122158 0.130158 Asia Euro 356.940 Syrian Pound 1.585 Turkish Lira 0.081232 0.091532 Bangladesh Taka 0.003260 0.003844 Sterling Pound 395.540 Nepalese Rupees 2.948 Canadian dollar 239.710 UAE Dirhams 0.080989 0.082689 Malaysian Ringgit 71.344 Chinese Yuan 0.043777 0.047277 Turkish lira 85.890 Yemeni Riyal 0.000984 0.001064 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.765 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036817 0.039567 MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 BUSINESS Fed policymakers split on inflation view NBK MONEY MARKETS REPORT

KUWAIT: Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s RBA highlights household debt risk July policy-setting meeting were released last They Royal Bank of Australia’s minutes from week as investors awaited more details its August meeting indicated that the central regarding the Central Bank’s plan to move bank has removed the country’s labor market away from its crisis-era stimulus. In particular, from its watch list. The RBA left rates at record economists were looking for hints as to when lows this month amid a feeling of confidence the Fed will begin taking steps to reduce its that inflation and jobs will pick up. However, tremendous balance sheet size, as the quanti- the report also added that “members regarded tative easing programs have scooped up tril- conditions in the housing market and house- lions of dollars of Treasuries and mortgage- hold balance sheets as continuing to warrant backed securities during the financial crisis. careful monitoring” and that the board need- Additionally, markets wanted to get a better ed to “balance the risks associated with high feel for how many members remain resolved household debt in a low-inflation environ- to raise interest rates again this year, and how ment” by keeping policy unchanged. The many are wavering amid a five-month stretch Australian Dollar edged slightly higher imme- of soft inflation reports. diately following the release of the report. Regarding the FOMC’s views on the federal funds rate, the report stated that “some partic- China growth stalls ipants expressed concern about the recent Earlier last week, disappointing figures decline in inflation, which had occurred even pointed to a second-half slowdown in China’s economy. Industrial output readings in China as resource utilization had tightened, and not- enjoyed a mild recovery as it closed the week the ECB needs to navigate around as it looks stores” managed to prop up the final retail were underwhelming, whereas analysts ed their increased uncertainty about the out- at 1.1760. In the UK, the pound sterling weak- to unwind its quantitative easing program, sales figure to a better-than-expected 0.3 expected a 7.1 percent increase y/y, the figure look for inflation. They observed that the ened against the US dollar, mainly due to the which will at least continue until December of percent m/m, versus expectations of 0.2 came out at 6.4 percent. Prior to that, the fig- Committee could afford to be patient under percent. Howard Archer, economist at EY weaker-than-expected inflation readings. The this year. Recently, the euro has climbed ure was 7.6 percent in June. Additionally, retail current circumstances in deciding when to pair dipped by 0.64 percent as traders fiercely, reaching a two-and-a-half year high Item Club commented on the contents of sales increased 10.4 percent y/y, versus a fore- increase the federal funds rate further and absorbed the news. Positive wage and unem- against the dollar and rising almost 5 percent the report, saying that “a drop in most sales cast of 10.8 percent y/y. Furthermore, fixed- argued against additional adjustments until ployment indicators did not lift the Pound, as against a basket of currencies since the middle categories except food points to consumer asset investment in urban areas rose 8.3 per- incoming information confirmed that the it closed the week lower at 1.2871. of May. The strength of the single currency hin- caution in making discretionary purchases. cent from a year earlier in the first seven recent low readings on inflation were not like- In Japan, the yen failed to capitalize on ders the ECB’s efforts of reaching its inflation This fuels suspicion that the pick-up in months, versus a forecast 8.6 percent rise. ly to persist and that inflation was more clearly strong GDP figures, which indicated that the goal of just under 2 percent, making imports retail sales in the second quarter was partly on a path toward the Committee’s symmetric economy grew at an annualized rate of 4.0 per- cheaper and weighing on export growth. The a correction to the sharp fall in the first Japan exports on the rise 2 percent objective over the medium term.” cent, the 6th straight quarter of expansion led minutes attributed the rise of the euro to the quarter, helped by some warmer weather In Japan, exports rose for the eighth con- Meanwhile, investors are still skeptic about a by private consumption and capital expendi- elimination of the political uncertainty follow- and the later Easter.” secutive month in July after robust shipments third rate hike before the end of the year, with ture. Even though the reading came in well ing the election of Macron as well as market to the United States. The recovery in overseas the current probability standing at 31.2 per- above expectations of a 2.5 percent annualized expectations over US interest rates. Following Germany growth demand from a soft previous quarter under- cent in terms of market confidence, confirm- increase, this information has failed to reflect the report, the euro fell to its lowest level in In Germany, 2nd quarter growth numbers pins a recovering economy. The data under- ing that it will be a challenging time ahead for positively on the Japanese yen which has trad- three weeks. Nonetheless, it recouped its losses indicated the German economy grew by 0.6 scores the Bank of Japan’s view that the the Fed policy-setting committee. ed weaker against the US dollar most of the as it rose back to the same level later that day. With regards to the timeline of when the week. Nevertheless, the yen managed to gain Fed intends to starts the unwinding process, some ground against the greenback towards UK inflation disappoints the minutes appeared to show that Federal the end of the week, where the pair traded In the , the Consumer Price Reserve policy makers were split over the deci- near 4 month lows after being triggered by the Index readings disappointed as they indicated sion. Some members “were prepared to release of the FOMC minutes, which was inflation was weaker than expected. The offi- announce a starting date for the [unwind] pro- viewed as slightly dovish by traders. The pair cial report indicated that consumer prices gram at the current meeting”, the report said. It ended the week higher at 109.17. increased 2.6 percent in July, less than the 2.7 also added “most [policymakers] preferred to On the commodities front, markets wit- percent forecast by economists. The figures defer that decision until an upcoming meeting nessed the largest drop in US crude stockpiles took their toll on the British pound, as it weak- while accumulating additional information on in almost a year. Crude oil inventories dropped ened against the Dollar. The Bank of England is the economic outlook and developments by 8.9M barrels last week, and are currently at facing a challenging time preparing the potentially affecting financial markets”. 4.9 percent below the level a year ago. The ground for higher borrowing costs against the Earlier during last week, US treasury yields drop was more than double the decline fore- backdrop of worsening economic indicators enjoyed a mild boost on the back of solid retail casted by analysts at 3.1M barrels. However, and continued uncertainty about Britain’s exit sales. However, the yields managed to find despite the fall in inventories, which would from the European Union. their way back down after the release of the normally give a strong lift to WTI crude prices, dovish FOMC minutes. Even so, political tur- oil futures managed to fall immediately fol- UK consumers squeezed moil in the US and abroad garnered demand lowing the release of the EIA report. While oil Wages in the UK rose 2.1 percent year-on- for safe, low-yielding bonds amongst nervy prices opened the week at $47.59, it closed it year and continued to lag behind a surge in investors, dropping yields even further. The slightly higher at $48.59. consumer prices caused by the British pound’s yield on the benchmark 10-year bond closed decline after the Brexit vote more than one the week slightly lower at 2.1940 percent. US retail sales beat forecasts year ago. Still, wage growth readings came in While the Dollar Index opened the week at United States retail sales figures came in above expectations of 1.8 percent y/y, while 93.072, the greenback consistently strength- well above market expectations. Whereas the prior month’s figure was revised up to 1.9 ened throughout the week, and was support- economists predicted a 0.4 percent m/m rise percent y/y. Per the Office for National ed further by strong retail sales data. in sales, readings released by the Census Statistics, this leaves real incomes down by 0.5 However, the greenback faced downward Bureau showed that overall sales increased 0.6 percent y/y. Meanwhile, unemployment in the percent, marking 3 straight years of growth. world’s third-largest economy is showing pressure when the release of the Fed minutes percent from the previous month. Meanwhile, United Kingdom reached 4.4 percent, its low- While the released number is not as bullish as increasing signs of strength, as private con- coincided with US domestic troubles. Still, the the core retail sales figure, which excludes est level in 42 years. Unemployment numbers analyst estimates, the 2nd quarter’s growth is sumption adds momentum to an export-led dollar Index managed to close the week high- automobile sales, came in at 0.5 percent m/m, beat forecasts of 4.5 percent, a match of the in line with the prior figure, which has been recovery. Total exports increased 13.4 percent er at 93.434. also above expectations of 0.3 percent m/m. prior figure. In a further sign of labor-market revised up to 0.7 percent. According to in July from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance The euro was affected by a number of eco- Even though the positive figures support the tightness, the number of unemployed people Destasis, Germany’s federal statistics office, data showed, roughly in line with a median nomic news and events last week. The single case of a third rate hike this year, markets are per vacancy was at a record low of 1.9. growth was supported by rising domestic market forecast for a 13.6 percent gain. The currency opened the week at 1.1804 and was still skeptic, with the probability of a demand and investment. However, trade may rise, which followed a 9.7 percent increase in mostly stable during the beginning of the December hike currently sitting at 31.2 per- UK retail sales have held back growth after Germany suf- June, was driven by solid auto shipments to week. However, the release of the FOMC min- cent in terms of market confidence. Shoppers in the UK continued to spend fered its worst month for exports in almost the United States and demand from China for utes strengthened the euro as the dollar weak- at a rate higher than economists’ expecta- two years in June. Nevertheless, the recent electrical equipment. ened across the board. Nonetheless, the euro ECB policymakers tions, as falls in all categories of expendi- solid economic data in Europe’s largest econ- hit its low of the month as the release of the European Central Bank policymakers tures were outweighed by higher spending omy has helped prop up Angela Merkel- Kuwait ECB minutes indicated that policymakers were expressed concern regarding the euro’s on food, the official report on UK retail which is eyeing her 4th term as German Kuwaiti dinar at 0.30185 showing concern with regards to the euro’s strength, according to the minutes of the sales indicated. A 1.5 percent m/m increase Chancellor- in the opinion polls ahead of the The USDKWD opened at 0.30185 yesterday strength. Afterwards, the European currency ECB’s July minutes. A strong euro is a hurdle in the volume spent in “predominantly food late September election. morning. China’s solar panels shine Kosovo’s election deadlock spotlight on N Korea trade blocks funds, recognition DANDONG, China: Traders from PRISTINA: Kosovo’s failure to estab- of the poorest parts of Europe, Kosovo power offers you more favorable con- North Korea visit Yuan Huan’s shop in lish a government two months after also lost around 16 million euros in ditions to negotiate immunity”. the Chinese border city of Dandong an election is stalling its bids for July from an International Monetary While the stalemate ensues, hopes several times a month to place greater international recognition and Fund program because there was no are waning that Kosovo can join inter- orders, bringing their own translators blocking funds for the poverty-strick- government to make a required legal national organizations such as Interpol and wads of cash. Yuan, manager of en country. A coalition led by amendment on war veterans, local and UNESCO this year. Such accession Sangle Solar Power, said sales to President Hashim Thaci’s PDK party- media reported. Although the sum is bids have long been fiercely opposed North Koreans have soared in the itself in power since 2007 — topped relatively small, “this sends a bad mes- by Serbia, but Kosovo’s own internal past two years, one of the border early parliamentary polls held on June sage to all potential foreign investors woes are now holding them back. businesses still thriving despite grow- 11, but the alliance did not win the on the situation in Kosovo,” said eco- Kosovo’s acting foreign minister ing US pressure for China to limit absolute majority needed to govern nomic analyst Naim Gashi. Emanuel Demaj said the country had commerce with the Stalinist regime. alone. Made up of the old guard of ex- not yet reapplied for UNESCO mem- Since North Korea mostly relies on guerrilla fighters, the coalition can Stalled accession bids bership, following a failed 2015 bid, outdated generators, blackouts are only form a government after nomi- Hanging over Kosovo’s political cri- with the UN cultural body’s general common and solar panels are prized nating and winning support for a par- sis is the creation of a new special conference taking place in two for their role as backup power. liamentary speaker. court to try war crimes allegedly com- months. The new application depends Berkeley-based researchers at the But so far the coalition has boy- mitted by members of the Kosovo on the amendment of two laws-one Nautilus Institute estimated that at cotted assembly sessions and a vote Liberation Army (KLA), which fought for religious freedoms another for cul- the end of 2014, about two percent for speaker because it needs the back- Serbian forces for independence in tural heritage-which are impossible to of North Korea’s population had ing of more deputies. “The ruling the late 1990s. Thaci is speculated to pass without a functioning parliament. acquired solar panels. And despite In this picture taken on July 6, 2017, solar panels are seen on the roof of political class doesn’t want to give up be among those on the list of ex-KLA Pristina has also applied for member- new United Nations sanctions further a building in Dandong. — AFP power,” said Agron Bajrami, editor of fighters to be indicted, which may be ship of Interpol, which meets in Beijing narrowing the categories of goods years, according to domestic media up since,” Shi told AFP. Both Yuan the Koha Ditore newspaper. announced later this year. in late September, but Demaj said that can be traded with the hermit Kosovo, a former Serbian province, reports, but Chinese panels appear and Shi said their best-selling items Bajrami suggested that the PDK’s there were going to be “difficulties”, state this month, solar panels have unilaterally declared independence in to remain in high demand. Last year, are rooftop units that provide hot keenness to cling to power was a self- with many member-states yet to remained off the growing blacklist. 2008, backed by Western powers. The China exported 466,248 solar panels water supply. These cost between preservation tactic, because “being in respond to Kosovo’s bid. —AFP Yuan’s shop offers a window into across the border, according to offi- 2,700 and 14,000 yuan ($400 and move has since been recognized by how Chinese traders do business cial figures from Beijing. $2,060). The purchases by house- more than 110 countries-but not by with North Korea, a country with few holds, offices and factories show Serbia or Russia-and Kosovo is not a United Nations member state. allies and whose economy relies Immune from sanctions? that many urban residents have ade- The UN mission in Kosovo warned heavily on China’s patronage. China on Tuesday started ban- quate disposable income, Johns on Wednesday that the political dead- Every day, trucks filled with cargo ning imports of iron, iron ore and Hopkins University researcher Curtis lock was hurting the country econom- cross the Sino-Korean Friendship seafood from North Korea as it Melvin told AFP. “Aside from a few ically and socially. “The election Bridge that connects Dandong to the implements the new UN sanctions, high-profile cases, such as the process itself consumed the energy of North Korean city of Sinuiju. After which could cost Pyongyang $1 bil- increase in fuel prices in North Korea institutions during these past three receiving orders from North Korean lion per year and were imposed after or temporary suspension of coal months,” UN envoy Zahir Tanin said at customers, Yuan drops off packages its two intercontinental ballistic mis- exports to China, we haven’t seen a Security Council meeting. at a riverside depot, and a Chinese sile tests. But in Dandong, where much evidence that (previous) sanc- “Important economic and social logistics company takes care of trans- some 70 percent of trade between tions have had a tremendously neg- port across the waterway. China and North Korea flows, solar opportunities were missed during ative effect on North Korea’s econo- such a period.” The country is a poten- Some of her North Korean cus- panel merchants remain unfazed. my,” Melvin added. tomers place orders by phone, but “It seems that overall, there are tial candidate for European Union Sino-US relations have soured as membership, but it now risks missing most prefer to make arrangements fewer North Korean traders coming President Donald Trump has pressed in person, she said. “It is actually over recently, but we’re not affected out on pre-accession assistance Beijing to step up pressure on North totalling 78 million euros ($92 million) quite easy for traders to go back and by what’s happening politically,” Korea, complaining about their con- this year, according to the EU office in forth. Some buy over 20 units at a said Shi Zhiyong, manager of the tinuing trade. In the first half, trade Pristina. The office said the funding time,” Yuan told AFP. Huang Ming Solar Power shop. “In between China and North Korea program needs to be ratified by par- PRISTINA: This file photo taken on June 8, 2017 shows Kosovo Albanians walk- Several North Korean solar ener- 2009, I started seeing more North increased 10.5 percent to $2.5 bil- liament and that this “should occur by ing past electoral banners in Pristina. Kosovo’s failure to establish a govern- gy research and assembly plants Korean traders coming to the store lion, compared to the same period have begun operation in recent and their numbers have only gone last year. — AFP December 2017, otherwise Kosovo ment two months after an election is stalling its bids for greater international will risk losing” the allocated aid. One recognition and blocking funds for the poverty-stricken country. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 BUSINESS Shift from non-GAAP norms could be good for stocks WALL STREET WEEKAHEAD SAN FRANCISCO: Investors worried about lofty significantly shrink in 2017 for a second year, after hit- 8-percent rise in 2017, the S&P 500 is trading at 17.8 New standards of Equity Methods, which advises companies on stock-market valuations may take comfort in signs ting a high in 2015, according to a Thomson Reuters times expected earnings, a level many investors Following new accounting standards cov- equity compensation. Silicon Valley’s technology that companies in the benchmark S&P 500 index analysis. Such a decline may be good news for consider expensive and increases the risk of a mar- ering the taxation of stock-based compensa- giants have additional reasons to start emphasiz- are padding their bottomlines less than they have investors worried that stock prices have risen too far. ket selloff. But the expected earnings in that valua- tion, Google parent company Alphabet Inc. ing GAAP results. “The biggest companies who, in previous years. Recent changes to accounting “The closer reported earnings are to GAAP, the tion are adjusted, not GAAP. To the extent that com- stopped excluding stock-based compensa- earlier in their evolution needed to show num- standards and a crackdown last year by the more confident I’d be that investors are getting a panies use non-GAAP accounting less this year than tion from its costs in the first quarter. bers that put them in a more favorable light, no Securities Exchange Commission are encouraging fair characterization,” said Jack Ablin, chief invest- in recent years, investors may feel more comfort- Facebook Inc. said it would no longer empha- longer need that advantage,” said Pivotal many companies to be more cautious about ment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago. On able paying higher valuations for their stocks. size non-GAAP expenses, income, tax rate or Research analyst Brian Wieser. — Reuters reporting metrics that do not adhere to Generally their income statements, companies often exclude “You’re getting more conservative in your earn- earnings per share. Responding to a new Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). “extraordinary” items, like charges associated with ings approach rather than more aggressive,” said standard on revenue recognition, Microsoft The difference between S&P 500 companies’ layoffs that they believe give investors an unclear Phil Blancato, head of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Corp. recently said it will switch to GAAP rev- GAAP net incomes and the adjusted versions of net picture of their performance. Those adjustments Management in New York. “That’s exactly why I enue reporting. Analysts expect S&P 500 cor- income that they play up to Wall Street is expected to tend to make their profits appear stronger. After an don’t think current PEs are very expensive.” porations in 2017 to report a total of about $1.06 trillion in GAAP net income, according to Thomson Reuters data. But allowing for non-GAAP adjustments made by many com- panies and analysts, total net income is expected to reach around $1.17 trillion. Still, that 10-percent difference between GAAP net income and the net income compa- nies and many investors focus on is much smaller than in 2015, when the difference was 33 percent, the largest gap since at least 2009. Last year, the difference shrank to 22 percent. Thomson Reuters analyzed 494 S&P 500 companies and adjusted some of their fiscal years to reflect calendar years. In cases where companies and analysts focused on GAAP, that number was counted as adjusted net income. Adding to pressure on US chief finan- cial officers, the SEC last year sent comment letters to corporations questioning their accounting methods. It warned companies not to produce misleading quarterly reports using larger fonts and bolded type to empha- size non-GAAP metrics. “The SEC was upset about how non-GAAP was being used, and I think people have tried to listen to that. Nobody wants an SEC com- ment letter,” said Takis Makridis, chief executive MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 BUSINESS Best summer offer ever from infiniti Al-Babtain Buy in 2017 and pay in 2018

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KUWAIT: The Saudi equity do well in general versus the investor rules by the Capital also selective opportunities in market is set for a boost as it overall market going forward. Market Authority; the survivors - the best-run tel- heads for possible inclusion in Corporate earnings should l Initial public offering in co and consumer stocks. A MSCI’s influential emerging start recovering during the Saudi Aramco, the world’s round of banking mergers market index in 2018. “In the second half of the year, sup- largest oil producer. should benefit Kuwaiti meantime, active Kuwaiti ported by better oil prices and SICO Kingdom Equity Fund investors too.” investors could reap early on-going economic reforms,” invests exclusively in Saudi On the macro front, as a gains as corporate earnings he added. equities. Against the Tadawul result of increase in oil prices should start increasing this return of 3 percent during the and structural reforms under- year,” said Shakeel Sarwar, first six months of 2017, the taken by the government, the Head of Asset Management at fund has returned 7.6 percent macroeconomic numbers for SICO BSC ( c). during the same period includ- 2017 are already looking much “The market has moved ing a cash dividend of 5 per- better than those of 2016. sideways in the first half of cent. The fund has posted Further improvement in the 2017 after the spectacular 30 returns of over 55 percent in next couple of years as the Burgan Bank announces percent rally late last year. the last 5 years compared to a pace of economic reforms However, the latter part of the modest 10 percent return for increases. winners of Yawmi Account second half could again be an Tadawul during this period. “The Listing of Aramco and interesting period for the mar- This is due to a focus by implementation of VAT and KUWAIT: Burgan Bank, the second largest largest by assets in Kuwait, with a signifi- ket. The key catalysts for SICO to invest in companies other taxation and subsidy in terms of assets, announced yesterday cant focus on the corporate and financial another rally are going to be that are expected to benefit removal measures will be some the names of the daily draw winners of its institutions sectors, as well as having a FTSE and MSCI related devel- from economic reforms, rising of the key milestones which Yawmi account draw, each taking home a growing retail, and private bank customer opments. With FTSE set to interest rates and changing the market will be following cash-prize of KD 5,000. base. Burgan Bank has majority owned announce its country classifica- regulatory landscape. very closely over the next cou- subsidiaries in the MENAT region support- tion review in September, mar- With consumption relatively ple of years. These reforms and The lucky winners are: ed by one of the largest regional branch 1. Gigy George George networks. ket participants estimate that Shakeel Sarwar subdued, we are looking at measures will not only improve 2. Mohyi Aldeen Salah Aldeen Albaghdadi The Bank has continuously improved it can result in regular inflows well-managed companies that the financial flexibility of the 3. Ujitha Prasnna Kudakalu its performance over the years through from September onwards. SICO expects many stocks to will benefit directly from a government but would also 4. Aarah Mohammad & Aliah Mohammad an expanded revenue structure, diversi- MSCI upgrade is expected next benefit from cyclical trends more diverse, more open econ- ensure that going forward like 5. Ali Mohammad Al-Sayegh fied funding sources, and a strong capital year but positive news flow on and further structural reform omy as the Kingdom moves in the developed world, capital In addition to the daily draw, Burgan base. The adoption of state-of-the-art this front will keep coming and efforts, including: away from its reliance on markets are used more effi- Bank also offers a Quarterly Draw with services and technology has positioned it sustain the interest of active l Broad recovery in earnings petroleum,” says Sarwar. ciently in the efficient alloca- more chances to win higher rewards, as a trendsetter in the domestic market fund managers in the market. after two to three years of “Falling oil prices were tion of capital. Growth and offering the chance to one lucky cus- and within the MENA region. Burgan Large caps which are expected decline; tough on the domestic econo- development of capital mar- tomer to win KD 125,000 every three Bank’s brand has been created on a foun- to be the biggest beneficiaries l Dividend increases as cor- my over the last three years. kets will remain one of the key months. The Yawmi Account offers daily dation of real values - of trust, commit- of such flows are trading at porate cash flows improve; Astute firms have cut costs and priorities of the government,” and quarterly draws, wherein the quar- ment, excellence and progression, to attractive multiples and should l Further easing of foreign gained market share. There are added Sarwar. terly draw requires customers to maintain remind us of the high standards to which a minimum amount of KD 500 in their we aspire. ‘People come first’ is the foun- account for two months prior to the draw dation on which its products and services date. Additionally, every KD 10 in the are developed. KFH announces cards summer account will entitle customers to one The bank was re-certified with the pres- chance of winning. If the account bal- tigious ISO 9001:2008, making it the first ance is KD 500 and above, the account bank in the GCC, and the only bank in campaign 11th draw winners holder will be qualified for both the quar- Kuwait to receive such accreditation for terly and daily draws. the third consecutive year. The Bank also Burgan Bank encourages everyone to has to its credit the distinction of being KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House locally earns 1 chance and every KD grant them additional value; thus it dominates the largest market open a Yawmi account and/or increase the only Bank in Kuwait to have won the (KFH) announced 7 winners of the 1 spent internationally earn 3 achieving customer satisfaction share in the field of banking cards. their deposit to maximize their chances JP Morgan Chase Quality Recognition eleventh draw of the new banking chances to enter the daily draw. and boosting their confidence. The KFH strives to continuously of becoming a winner. The higher the lev- Award for twelve consecutive years. cards summer campaign themed This campaign is part of KFH campaign also aims at enhancing offer its clients new promotions el of the deposit, the higher the likeli- Burgan Bank, a subsidiary of KIPCO “Get Back Double the Value of your efforts to reward its clients and the bank’s presence especially that and discounts in order to distin- hood to win. (Kuwait Projects Company), is a strongly Purchases”. The campaign was guish them among peers, not to Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the positioned regional Bank in the MENA launched in an attempt to encour- mention to further bolster bank’s youngest commercial Bank and second region. age clients to use KFH credit, pre- leading position in the field of paid and debit cards while making banking cards. purchases in Kuwait and overseas. KFH marketing campaigns play The winners are: Saud Al-Farhan, a significant role in underlining Shamaa Al-Mutairi, Abdullah KFH’s principles that include boost- Dasmeh, Ahmed Juyed, Jassim Al- ing sales, and benefitting clients Rasheed, Zainab Abdelkader and and merchants. It is worth noting Khaled Abuqmaz. that KFH has won several awards in The campaign that lasts for 120 the field of banking cards which days gives KFH customers chances reiterates its success and efficiency to enter draw to win double cash- in banking cards market. KFH back up to KD 2000 daily. KFH enjoys high confidence and lead- Credit and Prepaid cards used for ership in the market in addition to domestic and international purchas- high quality products which have es and KFH Debit cards used for enabled it to achieve growth in international purchases are eligible cards market and increase the CBK announces winners for the draw. For every KD 1 spent number of customers. Al-Najma Account AUB gives customers chance to win 100% cash-back when they shop with AUB credit cards KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait held customers with opportunity to get their the daily draw on “Al-Najma Account” yester- dreams turned to reality by winning great KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank has launched its new and consistently through innovative and unique offers.” prizes starting from KD 100,000 for the first day at the Bank’s Head Office to select 5 win- exciting credit card campaign, which is designed to Customers will receive one fresh chance to enter the ners to win a cash prize of KD 7000 for each. quarter escalating thereafter by KD 50 thou- reward selected customers to receive a cash-back draw for every KD 50 being spent locally, and will The draw was held in the presence of sand for each quarter to reach KD 250,000 in worth 100 percent of their total spend using their AUB receive two fresh chances to enter the draw for every Abdulaziz Ashkanani, representative of the the last quarter. Customers can enjoy addi- credit cards up to a maximum of KD 1,000 for each win- KD 50 spent abroad. The draw is scheduled to take place Ministry of Commerce & Industry. The fol- tional benefits including obtaining ATM card ner. To be eligible, the AUB cardholder only has to on 17th October 2017 at AUB’s headquarters with rep- lowing names were announced as winners and a credit card against the customer’s spend KD 100 or above through his AUB credit card resentatives from the Ministry of Trade and Industry. All of the prizes: account along with enjoying all other banking during the campaign period. This new campaign will customers are welcomed to witness the draw. In addi- 1. Amal Abdulraheem Abdulkarem services. feature 5 prizes and will run for two months, from 12th tion to this exciting 100 percent cash-back campaign, 2. Ahmad Ghloum Ali Baroon The Bank congratulates all the lucky win- August till 11th October 2017. customers who spend using AUB credit cards will also 3. Boulous Muqabel Labas Jendi ners and draws their attention that the cash In a press statement, the bank said “We are delight- automatically benefit from the Pearls reward program 4. Nedum Purathu Joseph Mathew prizes will be credited into their accounts with ed to launch our new campaign, which further as well as AUB’s instant discount program. These offers 5. Nihaya Abdullkarim Saleh Boor the Bank. Further, the Bank appreciates the enhances the value proposition for AUB cardholders. provide our clients a real added value that rewards the Al-Najma Account allows its customers to Ministry of Commerce & Industry’s significant All customers using the bank’s credit cards are eligible AUB credit card and ATM card holders through unique win a daily prize of KD 7000 which is the high- role & its continuous cooperation and effec- to enter the draw and win valuable prizes. This cam- discounts at major well-known companies and retail est daily prize in Kuwait. In addition, the tive supervision on the draw that was smooth- paign reflects AUB’s ongoing commitment towards our outlets in Kuwait as well as points to be redeemed for Account offers quarterly draws that provide ly and transparently organized. customers, and our underlying efforts to reward them air tickets Kuwait, Gulf and Qatar Airways.” technology MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 Spacewalking cosmonauts release 3-D-printed satellite

CAPE CANAVERAL: Spacewalking cos- Polytechnic University, where the satel- launches. The rest of their work took monauts set free the world’s first satellite lite was made. The other satellites longer than expected, however, and made almost entirely with a 3-D printer deployed Thursday have traditional Russia’s Mission Control outside on Thursday. In total, Russians Fyodor spacecraft parts. Each weighs just 10 to Moscow sent the planned six-hour Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy ended 24 pounds. They’re expected to orbit for spacewalk into overtime. up releasing five nanosatellites by hand. five to six months. One commemorates It ended up lasting 7 1/2 hours, and One by one, the tiny craft - no more than the 60th anniversary of the world’s first the cosmonauts said their hands were 1 to 2 feet in size - tumbled safely away satellite, Sputnik 1, launched Oct 4, tired. All but one task got done. “We will from the International Space Station. The 1957, by the Soviet Union. have actually some grounds to get exterior casing of the first one tossed Another pays tribute to Russia’s drunk today, I think,” one of the cosmo- overboard was made with a 3-D printer. father of rocketry, Konstantin nauts joked in Russian. A flight con- So were the battery packs inside. Tsiolkovsky. He was born 160 years ago troller replied that he’d do it for them. Researchers want to see how 3-D-made next month. The remaining two small The cosmonauts collected science parts weather the space environment. satellites involve navigation and other experiments from outside their 250- The 3-D satellite contains regular experiments. Yurchikhin and Ryazanskiy mile-high home, and wiped thruster IN SPACE: In this image made from video provided by NASA, Russian electronics. It also holds greetings to completed the satellite releases within residue from various surfaces for analy- cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky holds a mini satellite before launching it planet Earth in a variety of languages, an hour of venturing outside. Barely a sis. Three Americans and one Italian also by hand from the International Space Station. —AP courtesy of students at Siberia’s Tomsk minute passed between a few of the live on the space station.—AP Hollywood’s hacking pains are bigger than movie leaks Cybercriminals put company secrets at risk

NEW YORK: Piracy is a long-running seem to have driven customers $250,000 as part of a negotiation ments, including sensitive informa- and even routine issue for away. Netflix added more than 5 over data swiped from HBO’s tion such as employees’ salary infor- Hollywood, whether it’s street ven- million subscribers in the April-to- servers. Whether or not HBO ever mation and Social Security num- dors hawking bootleg DVDs on June period, the largest increase intended to follow through with the bers. Racially insensitive comments street corners or video uploaded to ever for that quarter. Separate from offer, the email raised questions made by the former co-chair of file-sharing sites like Pirate Bay. Now HBO’s recent run-ins with hackers, among security professionals about Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amy cybercriminals are also putting upcoming “Game of Thrones” the importance of the data. Besides Pascal, paved the way for her exit a embarrassing chatter and other episodes have leaked several times, upcoming episodes, the HBO data few months later. company secrets at risk. The reputa- and it is TV’s most pirated show. The dumps included what appeared to Michael Lynton, who left as Sony tional risk from leaked email is show is still a massive hit for HBO, be contact information of Pictures’ head in January, said that much more difficult to calculate with high viewership and critical Hollywood actors , a month’s worth press coverage of the emails hurt than any financial risk from piracy. acclaim. As for the recent hacks, of emails of one employee, sensitive the studio’s standing in Hollywood “In some ways, that risk can be episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” internal documents like job offer and that the public airing of higher because you have no way of “Insecure,” “Ballers” and several oth- letters and scripts for future employees’ private information and knowing what’s in those emails,” er shows leaked. It helped that episodes. conversations “took a long time to said Erik Rasmussen of Kroll Cyber entire seasons weren’t released, A person familiar with the situa- deal with,” the trade publication Security. The cataclysmal event in the back of everyone’s mind is the Sony hack in 2014. While unreleased movies were leaked, what’s remem- bered is the chaos unleashed amid a network shutdown and the disclo- sure of derisive comments about such well-known actors as Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio and racially insensitive remarks about then-President Barack Obama. MORIYA: In this photo, an Asahi Breweries employee works on the produc- Although the recent HBO leaks so tion line at a factory in Moriya near Tokyo. —AP photos far have fallen well short of the damage inflicted on Sony, there Reverence for robots: Japanese were concerns early on that hackers were setting the stage for an workers treasure automation embarrassing sequel for Hollywood. Piracy still a problem MORIYA, Japan: Thousands upon thousands of skilled jobs, that trend has been less pro- cans are filled with beverages, capped and nounced in Japan than in the US. The OECD While the attention is on leaked washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at data, which studied shifts from 2002 to 2014, emails, that’s not to say Hollywood dizzying speeds - 1,500 a minute, to be exact - on showed employment trends remained almost isn’t worried about piracy. On online humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a unchanged for Japan. forums where criminals “advertise sprawling factory near Tokyo. Nary a soul is in That means companies in Japan weren’t their ill-gotten gains,” there is now sight in this picture-perfect image of Japanese resorting as aggressively as those in the US to entertainment content “popping up automation. The machines do all the heavy lifting robots to replace humans. Clerical workers, for as basically sections of these web- at this plant run by Asahi Breweries, Japan’s top instance, were keeping their jobs, although their sites,” Rasmussen said. Some people brewer. The human job is to make sure the jobs could be done better, in theory, by comput- believe that video leaks can help gin machines do the work right, and to check on the ers. That kind of resistance to adopting digital up media and viewer attention for a show or movie, but leaking shows CALIFORNIA: This file photo shows an exterior view of the Sony Pictures Plaza building in quality the sensors are monitoring. technology for services also is reflected in how Culver City, California. —AP “Basically, nothing goes wrong. The lines are Japanese society has so far opted to keep taxis and movies does hurt Hollywood’s up and running 96 percent,” said Shinichi Uno, a instead of shifting to online ride hailing and take, especially if it happens before manager at the plant. “Although machines make shuttle services. the official release, Carnegie Mellon forcing viewers to subscribe to view tion, speaking on condition of Variety reported . The movie studio things, human beings oversee the machines.” The professor Michael Smith said. the whole show. anonymity because the person was- said in April 2015 that “investigation Harmony with machines In a 2014 analysis, Smith and his n’t authorized to speak publicly, and remediation expenses” related debate over machines snatching jobs from peo- The fallout at HBO ple is muted in Japan, where birth rates have Still, automation has progressed in Japan to co-authors concluded that a movie’s said HBO was proactive in commu- to the hack cost it $41 million, or been sinking for decades, raising fears of a labor the extent the nation has now entered what box-office revenue dropped 19 per- HBO’s hackers demanded a multi- nicating with actors ahead of their about 8 percent of the film and TV shortage. It would be hard to find a culture that Iwamoto called a “reflective stage,” in which cent, on average, when it was million dollar ransom payment, personal information being division’s profit that fiscal year. It lat- celebrates robots more, evident in the popularity “human harmony with machines” is being pur- leaked ahead of the theatrical something HBO refused. Because released to the public. That may be er reached an $8 million settlement of companion robots for consumers, sold by the sued, he said. “Some tasks may be better per- release, compared with a leak after piracy is already prevalent, the leak helping mitigate the impact of what with current and former employees. internet company SoftBank and Toyota Motor formed by people, after all,” said Iwamoto. Kiyoshi the movie hit theaters. The research of several scattered TV episodes leaks did occur. Companies that do Studios are learning to be cau- Corp, among others. Sakai, who has worked at Asahi for 29 years, was part of a Carnegie Mellon initia- might not have been enough to get hacked should be up front with tious. “I know people in the industry Japan, which forged a big push toward robot- recalls how, in the past, can caps had to be placed tive funded by the Motion Picture force such a payment, said Alex Heid, customers, employees and other that now don’t do deals over email,” ics starting in the 1990s, leads the world in robots into machines by hand, a repetitive task that was Association of America, Hollywood’s chief research officer at risk manage- affected parties as soon as possible, Smith said. “They do deals over the per 10,000 workers in the automobile sector - hard not just on the body, but also the mind. lobbying group. One way to over- ment firm SecurityScorecard. said Richard Levick, the head of cri- phone because it’s not archived.” 1,562, compared with 1,091 in the US and 1,133 And so he is grateful for automation’s helping come pirates is to make programs “Pirated content ends up on Pirate sis-management firm Levick. “You Lynton told Recode in 2016 that in Germany, according to a White House report hand. Machines at the plant have become more widely and cheaply available. Bay within 24 hours of airing. Any can’t sweep it under the rug,” he instead of email, “my fax machine is in submitted to Congress last year. Japan was also than 50 percent smaller over the years. They are Netflix has many shows and movies show on HBO, any movie, the said. “You can’t be opaque about it.” great use at this point.” Sony declined that are easily accessible around the moment it’s released, on the first comment on Lynton’s remarks. ahead in sectors outside automobiles at 219 faster and more precise than three decades ago. Comparisons with Sony robots per 10,000 workers, compared with 76 for Gone are the days things used to go wrong all world for a single monthly price. day, you see it on pirated internet Rasmussen said companies are also the US and 147 for Germany. the time and human intervention was needed to In April, hackers leaked most streams.” In the Sony case, hackers crip- sharing information with law enforce- get machines running properly again. Every 10 to new episodes of Netflix’s “Orange is But hackers released an email pled Sony’s network, wiped the ment in an effort to protect the whole Lifetime employment 15 minutes, people used to have to go check on the New Black” before their official from HBO in which the company company’s data and dumped thou- industry - and stave off another One factor in Japan’s different take on the products; there were no sensors back then. release in early June. That doesn’t expressed willingness to pay them sands of internal emails and docu- sequel. —AP automation is the “lifetime employment” system. Glitches are so few these days there is barely any Major Japanese companies generally retain work- reason to work up a sweat, he added with a smile. ers, even if their abilities become outdated, and Like many workers in Japan, Sakai doesn’t New research could help reveal retrain them for other tasks, said Koichi Iwamoto, seem worried about his job disappearing. As the a senior fellow at the Research Institute of need for plant workers nose-dived with the Economy, Trade and Industry. That system is start- advance of automation, he was promoted to the who is buying online trafficking ads ing to fray as Japan globalizes, but it’s still largely general affairs section, a common administrative in use, Iwamoto said. department at Japanese companies. “I remember NEW YORK: A US researcher says she has Portnoff, a UC Berkeley doctoral candidate in sign that these five phone numbers are all Although data from the Organization for the work being so hard. But when I think back, developed automated ways to identify links computer science who developed the tech- related to each other,” she said. “I knew this Economic Cooperation and Development show and it was all about delivering great beer to between online sex trafficking ads and the niques as part of her dissertation. was an issue that law enforcement was espe- digitalization reduces demand for mid-level rou- everyone, it makes me so proud,” said Sakai, who digital currency Bitcoin, techniques that may “Where previously you might have five cially interested in.” tine tasks - such as running assembly lines - drinks beer every day. “I have no regrets. This is a help locate children being sold for sex. Law Having automated style and time stamp while boosting demand for low- and high- stable job.” —AP enforcement and anti-trafficking groups analyses to identify sex ads by authors and could use the methods to investigate Bitcoin owners is significant, said Damon Backpage.com, an online classified advertis- McCoy, a New York University Tandon School ing site where sex ads can be found, said a of Engineering assistant professor of com- statement by the University of California puter science and engineering and a co- Berkeley, where the research was based. author of the research. “Any technique that Some 1.5 million people in the United can surface commonalities between ads and States are victims of trafficking, mostly for potentially shed light on the owners is a big sexual exploitation, according to anti-traf- boost for those working to curb exploita- ficking groups. Most sex trafficking victims tion,” McCoy said in a statement. are children, and most are advertised or sold The National Center for Missing and online, according to a US Senate subcommit- Exploited Children has said more than 70 tee report released this year. The new percent of the reports it gets of trafficked research uses an algorithm that analyzes children involve Backpage, based in Dallas, writing styles to identify authors and could Texas. Backpage did not respond to a be applied to online trafficking ads, Rebecca request for comment. The findings will be Portnoff, its lead author, said on Thursday. published by the Association for Computing A second algorithm can use time stamps Machinery’s Conference on Knowledge to trace ad payments to accounts, known as Discovery and Data Mining, UC Berkeley said. wallets, at Bitcoin, a web-based digital cur- It said the work was funded by the rency that allows money to move quickly Web Services Cloud Credits for Research and anonymously. Comparing time stamps different phone numbers that you had no Program, the technology and security firm MORIYA: In this photo, Asahi Breweries employees work at the central con- of ad purchases on Bitcoin and time stamps idea were connected, when you can see that Giant Oak, Google, the National Science trol room at a factory in Moriya near Tokyo. and information on Backpage ads could help they all came from the same wallets, that the Foundation and the US Department of identify who is paying for them, said same person paid for them, that’s a concrete Education. —Reuters MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE Low-cost prostheses offer Indian amputees a 2nd chance Artificial limbs give disabled a new hope

JAIPUR, India: Vishnu Kumar had barely reached adulthood when he lost his limbs in a freak electrical acci- dent, seemingly condemning him to the life of penury endured by mil- lions of amputees in India. A year lat- er, the 22-year-old is preparing to walk again with the aid of a “Jaipur Foot”-a no-frills prosthetic made locally. These prosthetics allow INDONESIA: This file photo shows a total solar eclipse in Belitung, amputees to work in muddy fields, Indonesia. —AP sit cross-legged on the floor and comfortably use Indian-style squat Can’t see solar eclipse? toilets without needing to remove the limb. The manufacturers can churn out Tune in online or on TV 50 prosthesis a day from a simple workshop in Rajasthan and, thanks LOS ANGELES: Ronald Dantowitz has been looking accessible in virtual reality through Oculus and other to donations, fit them for free. An forward today’s solar eclipse for nearly 40 years. An VR headsets beginning at 1 pm EDT. Accompanying estimated 10 million Indians live astronomer who specializes in solar imaging, he’s television coverage will include reporting from with some form of movement been photographing eclipses for more than three Oregon, Missouri, Tennessee and . impairment according to govern- decades, and will be using 14 cameras to capture the “Eclipse Over America “: The PBS science series ment figures. It is common to see Aug 21 celestial event. The cameras have solar filters NOVA is planning a quick turnaround on its eclipse amputees begging at traffic stops or to capture the eclipse in its partial phases, along with documentary premiering today. Senior executive dragging themselves about on custom modifications that can photograph the coro- producer Paula S Apsell said “Eclipse Over America,” wheeled carts. Kumar, who worked na and light wavelengths that are invisible to the which delves into why eclipses occur and what sci- as an electrician, feared he would human eye, allowing scientists to view and study the entists can learn from them, will incorporate images endure a similar fate after his limbs sun’s temperature and composition in a way only pos- of the event from across the country shot earlier that were blown off in a catastrophic acci- JAIPUR: In this photograph, 50-year-old Rajkumar Saini (2nd R), who suffered a road accident in sible during a total eclipse, he said. day with Dantowitz’s high-tech cameras. “Great dent involving a high-tension wire. Just a fraction of those maimed 2004, gets his fourth prosthetic leg at the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti non- Dantowitz, who is based at Dexter Southfield American Eclipse “: The Science Channel will broad- profit organization’s main branch in Jaipur. —AFP School in Brookline, Massachusetts, is lending his cast its live coverage from Madras, Oregon, from in accidents have access to artificial expertise to NOVA’s “Eclipse Over America,” airing at 9 noon to 4 pm EDT, with commentary from educa- limbs or other aides. “I was devastat- pm EDT tomorrow on PBS. That hour long special, tors and astronomers from the Lowell Observatory. ed thinking I will have to spend the engineering for the success of the It’s just like getting an all new gum- Created in collaboration with which will incorporate his images, is among extensive “The Great American Eclipse “: David Muir will rest of my life on crutches,” said design and its proliferation across boot,” said 50-year-old Rajkumar Stanford University in the US, the coverage planned on TV and online of the first solar anchor ABC’s two hours of live coverage, with corre- Kumar, fighting back tears as he India. Saini, who lost his leg in a road acci- artificial knee is considered so cost eclipse to cross the United States in 99 years. Still, wit- spondents reporting from viewing parties across the waited for a fitting at Bhagwan Made from durable plastic piping dent 13 years ago. effective it was named one of 50 nessing totality - when the sun is completely country. NBC also plans live coverage, with Lester Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, the limb-available for above and best inventions in the world by Time obscured by the moon - is best done with the naked Holt hosting special reports at 1 and 2 p.m. EDT fea- the charity behind the unique below knee amputees-requires little New technologies magazine. The advent of 3-D print- eye, not a camera, Dantowitz said, adding that the turing correspondents reporting from Oregon, design. “These limbs have given me maintenance and can be fitted in The design has been so success- ing has opened new possibilities, total eclipse is safe to view without special lenses. Illinois, Wyoming and South Carolina. Shepard Smith new hope.” hours. Wearers can leave the clinic ful that it has found its way abroad, too. The charity has teamed up with “Enjoying totality by eye is more rewarding,” he will break into typical broadcasting on Fox News able to run, swim, climb trees and assisting amputees in countries from a 24-year-old Indian engineer said. “There is much to see: stars during the daytime, Channel from noon to 4 pm EDT to update viewers Local design ride a bicycle, Mehta said. A unique Africa and Asia to the Pacific Islands. Prashant Gade to print inexpensive the million-degree solar corona, and seeing the sun on the eclipse and introduce footage from NASA Prostheses cost thousands of design allows movement in the More than than 25,000 artificial artificial hands using the revolution- blacked out during the daytime. “I have been wait- and observatories around the country. dollars and take weeks to manufac- ankle and unlike models elsewhere limbs and other aides have distrib- ary printing technology he was gift- ing almost 40 years for this eclipse, and although I “Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA “: NASA ture in many parts of the world, they can be worn without shoes-a uted worldwide since Mehta’s charity ed at an MIT conference. will be operating 14 cameras during totality, I will will offer hours of coverage online and on NASA but for 50 years the creators of the huge plus in a region where every- first rolled the Jaipur Foot off the Funding remains a constant certainly take a moment to gaze at the eclipse the Television beginning at noon Eastern. It plans “Jaipur Foot” have been making one goes barefoot in kitchens and assembly line in 1975. It is now challenge, but Mehta was confi- same way people have done for thousands of years: livestreaming of the eclipse beginning at 1 pm EDT dozens of limbs a day for roughly temples or mosques. branching into more advanced tech- dent his thrifty operation would with wonder.” with images from satellites, research aircraft, high-alti- $60 apiece. “The technology we As the prosthesis endures wear nology. One of its most successful continue to reach those in desper- For those not in the 14 states comprising the tude balloons and specially modified telescopes. “The use is such that the limb can be and tear, or the shape of the leg new creations is a self-lubricating, ate need. “I strongly believe that eclipse’s “path of totality,” here’s a look at some of the Total Solar Eclipse”: The Weather Channel is kicking off made very, very quickly,” said changes over time, new fittings can oil-filled nylon knee replacement even if one percent of people in viewing opportunities online and on TV: “Eclipse of its live coverage at 6 am EDT and continuing through- Devendra Raj Mehta, the 80-year- be arranged quickly and free of that can be manufactured for $20, a this country or in the world are the Century “: In partnership with Volvo, CNN plans out the day with dispatches from seven locations old founder of charity behind the charge. “I am getting my fourth leg mere fraction of the $10,000 charged compassionate, we shall sur- two hours of livestreaming, 360-degree coverage along the “path of totality.” —AP ‘Jaipur Foot’. Mehta credits frugal and I didn’t have to spend a penny. for models elsewhere in the world. vive.”—AFP Indian wildlife reserve park devastated by monsoon floods

GUAHATI, India: Rising floodwaters have inundated straw. Eleven million people have been affected by the killed in West Bengal state. At Kaziranga, nearly 80 per- large parts of a famous wildlife reserve park in north- floods in 17 districts of the state, said Pratay Amrit, an cent of the 430-square-kilometer wildlife park was eastern India, killing more than 225 animals and forcing official in Bihar’s disaster management department. under water. Some of the animals had crossed a high- hundreds of other animals to flee, the park director said Nearly half a million people were in more than 1,300 way and moved to higher land. Saturday. Around 15 rhinos, 185 deer and at least one state-run relief camps, where they were being provided The Assam government has deployed security Royal Bengal tiger have died in the devastating floods rice and lentils and medical care, he said. guards on the highway to protect the rhinos from that have submerged almost the entire Kaziranga In neighboring Uttar Pradesh state, the death toll poachers, said Singh, the park director. In Nepal, floods National Park in Assam state, Satyendra Singh said. rose to 40 as floodwaters submerged entire villages after have killed around 110 people since the monsoon “Carcasses of animals were seen floating in the flood- 13 small dams were washed away, state officials said. rains began in June. However, the floodwaters were waters. It’s a heartbreaking scene,” Singh said. The Rohini, Gandak and Rapti rivers were flowing above receding and no new casualties have been recorded, Meanwhile, across northern India and neighboring the danger mark and could breach their banks, adding officials said. In Bangladesh, more than 70 people have Nepal and Bangladesh, the death toll from drowning, to the sense of urgency in evacuating people from low- died over the past week due to drowning or snake collapsed houses and landslides triggered by annual lying villages, said Avnish Awasthi, a government bites this monsoon season. monsoon rains climbed to around 578 on Saturday. spokesman. The flood situation worsened after water The government’s Flood Forecasting and Warning Army soldiers and disaster management workers in the was released from swollen rivers in Nepal that threat- Center said Saturday that the flood situation was three countries have launched mammoth rescue efforts ened to overflow, Awasthi said. expected to continue to improve over the next few days. to evacuate and provide food and shelter to the nearly Soldiers used motorboats to rescue people Many flood protection embankments and dikes have 16 million people affected by the floods in South Asia. marooned on rooftops while air force helicopters collapsed because of the force of the floodwaters across ASSAM: In this photo, the carcass of a tiger lies in floodwaters at the Bagori In the northern Indian state of Bihar, at least 153 peo- dropped packets of food and drinking water to those the impoverished northern region of Bangladesh, a range inside Kaziranga National Park in the northeastern Indian state of ple died as swirling floodwaters submerged hundreds trapped in their homes. Officials said 144 people were delta nation of 160 million people that’s crisscrossed by Assam. —AP of villages and swept away homes made of mud and swept away or drowned in Assam while 60 others were more than 130 rivers. —AP WHAT’S ON MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 Treat your taste buds at Hilton Kuwait this summer

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And Cat Noir 14:15 Future-Worm! 19:30 Command Decisions 03:48 The Loud House 12:45 01:20 Science Of The Movies 11:55 Disney Mickey Mouse 14:40 Kirby Buckets 20:00 Missing In Alaska 04:12 The Loud House 13:10 The Middle 02:10 You Have Been Warned 12:00 Welcome To The Ronks 15:05 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 21:00 Ancient Aliens 04:36 Breadwinners 13:35 The Middle 03:00 Mythbusters 12:15 Hank Zipzer 15:30 Walk The Prank 22:00 Cities Of The Underworld 05:00 Breadwinners 14:00 George Lopez 03:48 Mythbusters 12:40 Dog With A Blog 15:55 Right Now Kapow 23:00 Your Bleeped Up Brain 05:24 Get Blake 14:25 Suburgatory 04:36 Mythbusters 00:25 EastEnders 00:45 Treehouse Masters 13:05 Star Darlings 16:25 K.C. Undercover 05:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 14:50 Mom 05:24 Mythbusters 00:55 Rillington Place 01:40 Treehouse Masters 13:10 Good Luck Charlie 16:50 Kirby Buckets Warped 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 15:15 Trial & Error 06:12 Mythbusters 01:50 Ashes To Ashes 02:35 Treehouse Masters 13:35 Austin & Ally 17:15 Mech-X4 06:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15:40 Making History 07:00 How Do They Do It? 02:45 Unforgotten 03:25 Treehouse Masters 14:00 Jessie 17:40 Gravity Falls 07:00 The Loud House 16:05 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:26 Kings Of Construction 03:35 Unforgotten 04:15 Treehouse Masters 14:25 Lolirock 18:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 07:24 Rabbids Invasion 17:00 Seinfeld 08:14 Mythbusters 04:20 The Coroner 05:02 Preposterous Pets 14:50 The Zhuzhus 18:10 Milo Murphyʼs Law 00:20 Ice Road Truckers 07:48 Get Blake 17:30 Seinfeld 09:02 Science Of The Movies 05:05 Death In Paradise 05:49 Preposterous Pets 15:15 Whisker Haven Tales With 18:35 Disney11 01:10 Pawn Stars 08:12 Harvey Beaks 18:00 The Middle 09:50 How Do They Do It? 06:00 Father Brown 06:36 Swamp Brothers The Palace Pets 19:00 Disney11 01:35 Pawn Stars 08:36 Sanjay And Craig 18:30 The Middle 10:14 Food Factory 06:50 The Coroner 07:00 Swamp Brothers 15:20 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 19:25 K.C. Undercover 02:00 Mystery Pickers 09:00 Rank The Prank 19:00 Son Of Zorn 10:38 You Have Been Warned 07:40 EastEnders 07:25 Gator Boys And Cat Noir 19:50 Marvelʼs Ant-Man 02:50 Storage Wars 09:24 Henry Danger 19:30 Son Of Zorn 11:26 Kings Of Construction 08:05 Death In Paradise 08:15 Treehouse Masters 15:45 Elena Of Avalor 19:55 Milo Murphyʼs Law 03:15 American Pickers 09:48 100 Things To Do Before 20:00 Wrecked 12:14 Mythbusters 09:00 Doctor Who 09:10 Preposterous Pets 16:10 Liv And Maddie 20:20 Mech-X4 04:05 Pawn Stars High School 20:30 Wrecked 13:02 How Do They Do It? 09:50 Father Brown 10:05 Mutant Planet 16:35 Descendants Wicked World 20:45 Kirby Buckets Warped 04:30 Pawn Stars 10:12 Game Shakers 21:00 Seinfeld 13:26 Food Factory 10:35 EastEnders 11:00 Gator Boys 16:40 Girl Meets World 21:10 Walk The Prank 05:00 Mountain Men 10:36 Regal Academy 13:50 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Death In Paradise 11:55 Deadliest Snakes Of South 17:05 Stuck In The Middle 21:35 Marvelʼs Ant-Man 06:00 Big Easy Motors 11:00 Winx Club 14:38 Kings Of Construction 12:00 Doctor Who Africa 17:30 Bunkʼd 21:40 Disney Mickey Mouse 06:25 Big Easy Motors 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 15:26 You Have Been Warned 12:50 Father Brown 12:50 The Vet Life 17:55 Bizaardvark 21:45 Lab Rats Elite Force 06:50 Duck Dynasty 11:48 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 16:14 Mythbusters 13:35 The Coroner 13:45 Preposterous Pets 18:20 Disney Mickey Mouse 22:10 Lab Rats Elite Force 07:15 Duck Dynasty 12:12 The Loud House 17:02 Science Of The Movies 14:25 EastEnders 14:40 Mutant Planet 18:25 Alex & Co. 22:35 Phineas And Ferb 12:36 Breadwinners 00:40 Chicago Med 17:50 Kings Of Construction 07:40 Counting Cars 01:30 Still Star-Crossed 14:50 Death In Paradise 15:35 Untamed & Uncut 18:50 Best Friends Whenever 23:00 Programmes Start At 6:00am 08:05 Counting Cars 13:00 School Of Rock 18:40 Mythbusters 15:45 Doctor Who 16:30 Treehouse Masters 19:15 Sunny Bunnies KSA 13:24 Hunter Street 02:20 Blindspot 19:30 NASAʼs Unexplained Files 08:30 Pawn Stars 03:20 The Flash 16:40 Father Brown 17:25 Catching Monsters 19:20 Liv And Maddie 08:55 Pawn Stars 13:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 20:20 How Do They Do It? 17:25 The Coroner 18:20 Monster Croc Invasion 19:45 Mako Mermaids 14:12 Henry Danger 04:10 Quantico 20:45 Food Factory 09:20 Storage Wars: Best Of 05:00 Bones 18:10 Casualty 19:15 Preposterous Pets 20:10 Jessie 09:45 Storage Wars: Best Of 14:36 The Thundermans 21:10 Science Of The Movies 19:05 Death In Paradise 20:10 Gator Boys 20:35 Cracke 15:00 100 Things To Do Before 06:00 Good Morning America - 22:00 NASAʼs Unexplained Files 10:10 American Pickers Weekend 20:00 Orphan Black 21:05 Catching Monsters 20:40 Alex & Co. 11:00 Billion Dollar Wreck High School 22:50 Kings Of Construction 21:00 Ripper Street 22:00 Monster Croc Invasion 15:24 Rabbids Invasion 07:00 The View 23:40 Mythbusters 11:50 Duck Dynasty 07:45 The Chew 21:55 Scott & Bailey 22:55 Mutant Planet 00:00 Hollywood Medium With 12:15 Duck Dynasty 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 08:30 Chicago Med Tyler Henry 12:40 Counting Cars 09:20 The Flash 00:55 Famously Single 13:05 Counting Cars 16:36 The Loud House 17:00 Regal Academy 10:10 Quantico 01:50 E! News 13:30 Ax Men 11:00 Blindspot 02:50 Celebrity Style Story 14:20 Mountain Men 17:24 Winx Club 00:00 Still Star-Crossed 00:00 Henry Hugglemonster 11:45 Chicago Fire 03:20 Celebrity Style Story 15:10 Big Easy Motors 17:48 Hunter Street 01:00 Blindspot 00:15 Calimero 12:30 The View 03:50 Mariahʼs World 15:35 Big Easy Motors 18:12 Henry Danger 01:50 American Horror Story: 00:30 Art Attack 13:15 The Chew 04:40 Mariahʼs World 16:00 Storage Wars: Best Of 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Roanoke 00:00 The Haunting Of... 00:55 Zou 14:00 Live Good Morning America 05:30 Celebrity Style Story 16:25 Storage Wars: Best Of 19:00 School Of Rock 02:40 Chicago Med 01:00 Cursed: The Bell Witch 01:05 Loopdidoo 16:00 Quantico 06:00 So Cosmo 16:50 Pawn Stars 19:24 Game Shakers 03:30 Still Star-Crossed 02:00 Measuring Evil: Britainʼs 01:20 Henry Hugglemonster 17:00 The Flash 00:20 The Undateables 07:00 So Cosmo 17:15 Pawn Stars 19:48 The Thundermans 04:20 Blindspot Worst Killers 01:35 Calimero 18:00 Blindspot 01:05 My Big Fat Fabulous Life 08:00 So Cosmo 17:40 Pawn Stars 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 05:20 The Flash 03:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 01:50 Zou 19:00 Rosewood 01:50 Katie Priceʼs Pony Club 09:00 So Cosmo 18:05 Pawn Stars 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 06:10 Quantico 04:00 The Haunting Of... 02:05 Art Attack 20:00 Chicago P.D. 02:35 Outdaughtered: Busby 10:00 Celebrity Style Story 18:30 Mystery Pickers 21:00 The Loud House 07:00 Bones 05:00 Cursed: The Bell Witch 02:30 The Hive 21:00 Chicago Justice Quints 10:30 Celebrity Style Story 19:20 Mountain Men 21:24 Sanjay And Craig 08:00 Good Morning America - 06:00 The First 48 02:40 Loopdidoo 22:00 Marvelʼs Agents Of 03:20 Our Little Family 11:00 WAGs Miami 20:10 American Pickers 21:48 Rabbids Invasion Weekend 07:00 It Takes A Killer 02:55 Henry Hugglemonster S.H.I.E.L.D. 04:05 Toddlers & Tiaras 11:55 WAGs Miami 21:00 Ultimate Soldier Challenge 22:12 Breadwinners 09:00 The View 07:30 It Takes A Killer 03:10 Art Attack 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Tigger & Pooh 07:00 05:33 The Day Henry Met 18:00 Formula-E Championship 14:00 Delinquent Gourmet 10:50 Alien Outpost 09:05 How Itʼs Made 14:30 The Lion Guard 08:00 The Pioneer Woman 05:38 Blaze And The Monster Highlights 14:30 George Clarkeʼs Amazing 12:20 Age Of Tomorrow 09:30 Redesign My Brain 14:55 Harry And Bip 08:30 The Pioneer Woman Machines 19:00 Formula-E Championship Spaces 13:50 Beyond Redemption 10:20 Mythbusters 15:00 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 09:00 Sibaʼs Table 06:00 Rusty Rivets 15:25 Chasing The Sun 15:20 Spooks: The Greater Good 11:10 My Cat From Hell 15:30 Mickey And The Roadster 09:30 Sibaʼs Table 06:13 Paw Patrol 15:50 Testing The Menu With Nic 17:05 DCU: Justice League vs 12:00 Finding Bigfoot Racers 10:00 The Pioneer Woman 06:37 Dora The Explorer Watt Teen Titans 12:50 How Itʼs Made 16:00 Sofia The First 10:30 The Pioneer Woman 07:00 Zack & Quack 00:00 Xtreme Waterparks 16:20 Raw Travel 18:25 Escape 13:15 How Itʼs Made 16:25 Goldie & Bear 11:00 The Kitchen 07:21 Bubble Guppies 00:30 Xtreme Waterparks 16:45 Raw Travel 19:50 Rise Of The Legend 13:40 Playhouse Masters 16:50 Doc McStuffins 12:00 The Pioneer Woman 07:44 Blaze And The Monster 01:00 Bikinis & Boardwalks 17:15 Cesar Millanʼs Dog Nation 22:00 Green Street 3: Never Back 00:30 UFC Top 10 14:30 Kenny The Shark 17:15 The Lion Guard 12:30 The Pioneer Woman Machines 02:00 Top Secret Beaches 18:10 Bad Trip Down 01:00 Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup 14:55 Kids vs Film 17:40 Jake And The Never Land 13:00 Sibaʼs Table 08:07 Paw Patrol 03:00 Top Secret Swimming Holes 19:05 Chasing The Sun 23:35 Company Business 03:00 FIA World Touring Car 15:20 Guinness World Records Pirates 13:30 Sibaʼs Table 08:30 Shimmer And Shine 04:00 Xtreme Waterparks 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 19:30 Testing The Menu With Nic Championship Highlights Smashed UK 18:05 PJ Masks Watt 08:53 Nella The Princess Knight 04:30 Xtreme Waterparks 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 09:15 The Day Henry Met 03:30 FIA World Touring Car 16:10 Redesign My Brain 18:35 Mickey And The Roadster 20:00 Raw Travel 05:00 Xtreme Waterparks Championship Highlights 15:00 Chopped 09:22 Paw Patrol 17:00 Life On A Wire Racers 20:30 Raw Travel 05:30 Xtreme Waterparks 04:00 UFC Unleashed 16:00 The Kitchen 09:45 Rusty Rivets 17:50 Dirty Jobs 19:05 Sofia The First 21:00 Cesar Millanʼs Dog Nation 06:00 Mysteries At The Museum 05:00 MotoGP Rookies Cup 17:00 Cooking For Real 09:57 Bubble Guppies 18:40 Mythbusters 19:35 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 22:00 Bad Trip 07:00 House Hunters International 07:00 Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup 17:30 Cooking For Real 10:20 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 19:30 How Itʼs Made 20:05 The Lion Guard 22:55 Bad Trip 01:15 Dirty Work 08:30 Boat Buyers 09:00 V8 Supercar Series 18:00 Chopped 10:40 Zack & Quack 19:55 How Itʼs Made 20:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 23:50 David Roccoʼs Dolce India 02:45 Three Men And A Little Lady 09:00 Lifeʼs A Beach Highlights 19:00 10:52 Team Umizoomi 20:20 Guinness World Records 21:00 Goldie & Bear 04:30 Love, Rosie 09:30 Island Secrets 10:00 V8 Supercar Series 20:00 11:15 Shimmer And Shine Smashed UK 21:25 Doc McStuffins 06:15 Miss You Already 10:00 Hotel Impossible Highlights 21:00 11:38 Shimmer And Shine 21:10 Life On A Wire 21:50 Harry And Bip 08:05 Three Men And A Little Lady 11:00 Flippinʼ RVs 11:00 FIM Speedway Grand Prix 21:30 Mystery Diners 12:01 Max & Ruby 22:00 Dirty Jobs 22:00 Little Mermaid 09:55 Love, Rosie 12:00 Guiding Alaska Highlights 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 12:25 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 22:50 Finding Bigfoot 22:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 11:45 Miss You Already 15:00 The Treehouse Guys 12:00 MotoGP Highlights 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 12:36 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 23:40 Guinness World Records 22:55 PJ Masks 13:40 Take Care 16:00 Lake Life 13:00 TCR International Series 23:00 Chopped 12:47 The Day Henry Met Smashed UK 23:20 Henry Hugglemonster 15:20 Trust Me 16:30 Lake Life Highlights 00:10 Wicked Tuna 12:52 The Day Henry Met 17:00 Murder Of A Cat 17:00 The Vanilla Ice Project 13:30 Indy Car Highlights 01:00 Alaska Fish Wars 12:57 Blaze And The Monster 18:45 Fierce Creatures 17:30 The Vanilla Ice Project 02:00 Fidel Castro: The Lost Tapes Machines 20:20 The Last Shot 18:00 Guiding Alaska 03:00 Challenger Disaster: Lost 13:19 Blaze And The Monster 22:00 How To Make Love Like An 18:30 Guiding Alaska Tapes Machines Englishman 19:00 Hotel Impossible 04:00 Wicked Tuna 13:41 Zack & Quack 00:30 Paranormal Lockdown With 23:45 The Ladies Man 20:00 Texas Flip And Move Nick Groff 05:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 14:03 Team Umizoomi 21:00 Mysteries At The Museum 01:30 PGA European Tour 01:20 Ghosts Of Shepherdstown 00:20 Wheeler Dealers 00:00 Donʼt Tell The Bride 06:00 The Known Universe 14:25 Olive The Ostrich 22:00 Expedition Unknown Highlights 02:10 Evil Lives Here 01:05 Mega Trains 01:00 Emmerdale 07:00 Worldʼs Deadliest Gangs 14:30 Olive The Ostrich 23:00 Booze Traveler 02:00 Asian Tour Highlights 03:00 Jonben?t: An American 01:50 Gold Rush: Remembering 02:00 Coronation Street 08:00 Human Inferno 14:35 Paw Patrol 03:00 European Challenge Tour Murder Mystery John Schnabel 02:30 Masterpiece With Alan 09:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 14:58 Little Charmers Highlights 03:48 Your Worst Nightmare 02:35 What On Earth? Titchmarsh 10:00 Airport Security: Colombia 15:10 Ben & Hollyʼs Little Kingdom 00:25 Born To Be Blue 04:00 Europro Tour 04:36 Murder Comes To Town 03:20 Fast Nʼ Loud 03:25 Iʼm A Celebrity...Get Me Out 11:00 Highway Thru Hell 15:22 Dora The Explorer 02:10 The Homesman 06:00 Asian Tour Highlights 05:24 The Detectives Club: New 04:05 Running Wild With Bear Of Here! 12:00 Big Fix Alaska 15:44 Max & Ruby 04:20 Before I Disappear 07:00 Golfing World Orleans Grylls 04:20 Tonight At The London 13:00 The Known Universe 16:07 Nella The Princess Knight 06:10 Man In The Moon 08:00 Chronicles Of A Champion 06:12 Blood Relatives 04:50 Gold Rush Palladium 14:00 Robo-Humans 16:31 Shimmer And Shine 08:00 Land Of Mine 00:05 David Spade: My Fake Golfer 07:00 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 05:35 How Do They Do It? 05:15 Couples Come Dine With Me 15:00 Inside The American Mob 16:54 Dora And Friends: Into The 09:50 A Birderʼs Guide To Problems 08:30 Europro Tour 10:20 The Locator 06:00 Deadliest Catch 06:05 Donʼt Tell The Bride 16:00 Airport Security: Colombia City! Everything 00:55 South Park 10:30 Golfing World 11:10 Suspicion 06:45 Wheeler Dealers 07:05 Masterpiece With Alan 17:00 Highway Thru Hell 17:17 Zack & Quack 11:25 Before I Disappear 01:20 South Park 11:30 Challenge Series Golf 12:00 Blood Relatives 07:30 Fast Nʼ Loud Titchmarsh 18:00 Big Fix Alaska 17:29 The Day Henry Met 13:10 Oliverʼs Deal 01:45 Another Period Highlights 15:20 The Locator 08:15 Running Wild With Bear 08:00 Iʼm A Celebrity...Get Me Out 19:00 Inside The American Mob 17:34 The Day Henry Met 14:55 The Descendants 02:10 Tosh.0 12:00 European Challenge Tour 16:10 Blood Relatives Grylls Of Here! 20:00 Airport Security: Colombia 17:38 Blaze And The Monster 16:55 A Birderʼs Guide To 02:35 Tosh.0 Highlights 17:00 The Perfect Murder 09:00 Storage Hunters 09:00 Tonight At The London 20:50 Highway Thru Hell Machines Everything 03:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 13:00 World Golf Championships 20:20 True Crime With Aphrodite 09:25 How Do They Do It? Palladium 21:40 Big Fix Alaska 18:00 Rusty Rivets 18:30 The Manchurian Candidate Noah Highlights Jones 10:10 Fast Nʼ Loud 10:00 Couples Come Dine With Me 22:30 Inside The American Mob 18:13 Paw Patrol 20:40 The Kings Of Summer 03:25 Disorderly Conduct: Video 14:00 Golfing World 21:10 Disappeared 10:55 Sacred Steel Bikes 10:50 Donʼt Tell The Bride 23:20 Robo-Humans 18:37 Dora The Explorer 22:20 Inherent Vice On Patrol 15:00 European Challenge Tour 22:00 Scene Of The Crime With 11:40 Street Outlaws: New Orleans 11:50 Masterpiece With Alan 19:00 Zack & Quack 04:15 Lip Sync Battle Highlights Tony Harris 12:25 How Do They Do It? Titchmarsh 19:21 Bubble Guppies 04:40 Ridiculousness 16:00 Europro Tour 12:47 Storage Hunters 12:45 Emmerdale 19:44 Blaze And The Monster 05:05 Disaster Date 18:00 Golfing World 13:10 Gold Rush 13:15 Coronation Street Machines 05:30 Catch A Contractor 19:00 Inside The PGA Tour 19:30 Chronicles Of A Champion 13:55 Running Wild With Bear 14:10 Donʼt Tell The Bride 20:07 Paw Patrol 00:10 Cher Ami 06:20 Framework Golfer Grylls 15:10 Masterpiece With Alan 20:30 Shimmer And Shine 01:45 Frog Kingdom 07:15 Disorderly Conduct: Video 20:00 PGA European Tour 14:40 Deadliest Catch Titchmarsh 20:53 Nella The Princess Knight 03:20 Ducktales: The Movie On Patrol 00:20 My Life Is A Zoo Highlights 15:25 Fast Nʼ Loud 16:00 Broadchurch 01:10 Insect Wars 21:15 The Day Henry Met 04:40 Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The 08:05 Disaster Date 16:10 Wheeler Dealers 21:22 Paw Patrol 3 Musketeers 08:30 Disaster Date 20:30 This Is PGA Tour 16:55 Victoria 02:00 Asiaʼs Deadliest Snakes Latinoamerica 17:00 How Do They Do It? 17:50 Couples Come Dine With Me 02:50 Snakes In The City 21:45 Rusty Rivets 06:00 Vickie And The Treasure Of 08:55 Ridiculousness 17:50 Storage Hunters 21:57 Bubble Guppies Gods 09:20 Key And Peele 21:00 Golfing World 00:00 Hank Zipzer 18:45 Emmerdale 03:45 Jobs That Bite! 22:00 Challenge Series Golf 00:25 Alex & Co. 18:20 Storage Hunters 19:15 Coronation Street 04:40 Last Devils 22:20 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 07:40 Weʼre Back! A Dinosaurʼs 09:45 Lip Sync Battle 18:50 Running Wild With Bear 22:40 Zack & Quack Story 10:10 Ridiculousness Highlights 00:45 The Hive 19:45 Coronation Street 05:35 Asiaʼs Deadliest Snakes 22:30 Inside The PGA Tour 00:50 Evermoor Chronicles Grylls 20:10 Masterpiece With Alan 06:30 Snakes In The City 22:52 Team Umizoomi 08:55 Albert 10:35 Disaster Date 19:40 How Do They Do It? 23:15 Shimmer And Shine 10:25 The Heart Of The Oak 11:00 Urban Tarzan 23:00 European Challenge Tour 01:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A Titchmarsh 07:25 Jobs That Bite! Highlights Teenage Witch 21:00 Cooperʼs Treasure: The Hunt 21:00 Broadchurch 08:20 Last Devils 23:38 Shimmer And Shine 11:45 Frog Kingdom 11:25 Tattoo Disasters 01:40 Sabrina Secrets Of A For A Secret Fortune 21:55 Victoria 09:15 Worldʼs Weirdest: Animal 13:20 Ducktales: The Movie 11:50 Lip Sync Battle Teenage Witch 21:50 Deadliest Catch 22:50 Emmerdale Taboo 14:40 Pet Pals In Windland 12:15 Catch A Contractor 02:05 Binny And The Ghost 22:40 Devilʼs Canyon 10:10 Dr. Kʼs Exotic Animal 2.5 16:10 Albert 13:05 Disorderly Conduct: Video 02:30 Binny And The Ghost 23:30 Fast Nʼ Loud 11:05 Wild 24 17:40 A Town Called Panic On Patrol 19:00 Izzieʼs Way Home 13:55 Sweat Inc. 02:55 Hank Zipzer 12:00 Wild Untamed Brazil 00:00 The Rugby Championship 03:15 The Hive 12:55 Monster Croc Hunt 20:20 Pet Pals In Windland 14:45 Lip Sync Battle 00:15 The Middle 21:50 Weʼre Back! A Dinosaurʼs 15:10 Lip Sync Battle Highlights 03:20 Hank Zipzer 13:50 Snakes In The City 01:30 World Rugby Special 03:45 Alex & Co. 14:45 Zambezi 00:40 The Middle Story 15:35 Disaster Date 00:00 Ancient Discoveries 01:05 Breaking In 23:05 The Heart Of The Oak 16:00 Ridiculousness 02:30 AFL Premiership Highlights 04:10 Alex & Co. 15:40 Soul Of The Elephant 03:00 HSBC World Rugby Sevens 04:35 Sabrina Secrets Of A 06:00 Milo Murphyʼs Law 01:00 The Lost Evidence 16:35 Worldʼs Weirdest Pets 01:30 Saturday Night Live 16:30 Impractical Jokers 02:00 Serial Killer Earth Syndicated 16:55 Lip Sync Battle Highlights Teenage Witch 06:25 Supa Strikas 17:30 Dr. Kʼs Exotic Animal 2.5 03:30 HSBC World Rugby Sevens 05:00 Sabrina Secrets Of A 06:50 Mech-X4 02:50 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 18:25 Zoo Confidential 02:20 The Tonight Show Starring 17:20 Ridiculousness 03:40 Ancient Top 10 Jimmy Fallon Highlights Teenage Witch 07:15 Right Now Kapow 19:20 Zambezi 00:15 Ex Machina 17:45 Ridiculousness Arabia 04:30 Heroes Of War 03:10 Late Night With Seth Meyers 18:10 Key And Peele 04:00 NRL Premiership 05:25 Binny And The Ghost 07:40 Gravity Falls 20:10 Soul Of The Elephant 02:15 Last Knights 06:00 Watersports World 05:20 Ancient Discoveries 04:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 18:35 Impractical Jokers 05:45 The Hive 08:05 Marvelʼs Ant-Man 21:00 Worldʼs Weirdest Pets 04:20 Man Of The House 07:00 Gillette World Sport 06:10 The Universe 04:50 George Lopez 18:59 Disaster Date 05:50 The 7D 08:10 K.C. Undercover 21:50 Dr. Kʼs Exotic Animal 2.5 06:10 Hudson Hawk 07:30 State Of Origin Highlights 07:00 Ancient Discoveries 05:15 Suburgatory 19:22 Ridiculousness Arabia 06:00 Jessie 08:35 Milo Murphyʼs Law 22:40 Zoo Confidential 08:00 Last Knights 09:00 Trans World Sport 08:00 Serial Killer Earth 05:40 Trial & Error 19:48 Ridiculousness Arabia 06:25 Jessie 09:00 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 23:30 Wild Untamed Brazil 10:00 Finding Forrester 10:00 Mitre 10 Premiership Final 09:00 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 06:05 Making History 06:50 Tsum Tsum Shorts 09:25 Supa Strikas 12:15 People Like Us 20:11 Lip Sync Battle 10:30 The Rugby Championship 10:00 Brad Meltzerʼs Decoded 06:30 Mom 06:55 The Zhuzhus 09:50 Supa Strikas 14:10 Beaches 20:33 Lip Sync Battle Highlights 11:00 The Lost Evidence 06:55 Breaking In 07:20 Elena Of Avalor 10:20 Kickinʼ It 16:15 The War 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 12:00 NRL Full Time 12:00 Serial Killer Earth 07:20 Late Night With Seth Meyers 07:45 Bunkʼd 10:45 Kickinʼ It 18:20 The Bucket List Noah 12:30 World Cup Of Gymnastics 13:00 Ancient Discoveries 08:10 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:10 Stuck In The Middle 11:10 Mighty Med 20:00 Terminator Genisys 21:30 Another Period 16:00 The Rugby Championship 14:00 Smartest Guy In The Room 09:00 The Tonight Show Starring 08:35 Bizaardvark 11:35 Mighty Med 22:05 End Of Days 22:00 Broad City Highlights 09:00 Austin & Ally 12:00 Lab Rats Elite Force 14:30 Smartest Guy In The Room 00:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jimmy Fallon 22:25 Kroll Show 17:30 World Rugby Special 09:25 Austin & Ally 12:30 Lab Rats Elite Force 15:00 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 00:36 Rabbids Invasion 09:50 George Lopez 22:50 John Oliverʼs New York 18:30 Gillette World Sport 09:50 Good Luck Charlie 12:55 K.C. Undercover 16:00 Brad Meltzerʼs Decoded 01:24 Sanjay And Craig 10:15 Suburgatory Stand Up Show 19:00 Trans World Sport 10:15 Good Luck Charlie 13:20 K.C. Undercover 17:00 The Lost Evidence 02:12 Winx Club 10:40 Mom 23:15 John Oliverʼs New York 20:00 The Rugby Championship 10:40 Alex & Co. 13:45 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty 18:00 Pirate Treasure Of The 02:36 Winx Club 11:05 Breaking In Stand Up Show Highlights 11:05 Lolirock Much Everything Knights Templar 03:00 Harvey Beaks 11:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 23:40 The Daily Show With Trevor 20:30 The Rugby Championship 11:30 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 14:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 19:00 Command Decisions 03:24 Harvey Beaks 12:20 Seinfeld 00:30 Science Of The Movies Noah Highlights stars26 MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017

CROSSWORD 1691 STAR TRACK

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

You are concerned with performing your job well and are stable in your Someone could challenge you on a very sensitive issue this day. This could ways of moving forward. You resist change and may have trouble getting result in a very intense discussion. You may find yourself analyzing a situation. Too much started with initiating changes, but once on the move you can be unyielding. You may time spent in serious thought could undermine your progress. Lighten up! Tell some mistrust that which is new or untried. Given time, you will become more confident and jokes and enjoy the company of others. Soon, you will find the most sensitive issues can trusting as well as understanding. You are a good employee and eventually you will be be put to rest. You may become very interested in research surrounding life survival, sci- given more and more responsibility-just be a little more patient with yourself. Listen to entific research or what have you. There is a passion for searching, finding out and com- your intuition-it is strong and can guide you accurately in making decisions. You know and municating your discoveries. This may turn out to be a very interesting day with perhaps understand more than you realize; others may experience growth quickly but will forget a renewed appreciation for all that is beautiful and fine. There is a time of meditation the basics; you are a strong worker and will teach the basics. You are an important asset. when that first sip of wine or a little evening refreshment is quite relaxing.

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

Decisions made now may have to be rethought later; take your time with Things are happening, and your career or path depends upon your own how you think you want to proceed on some project. You are a heavy-duty thinker and ambition and drive, which can be quite strong now. There could be some discussions serious student, always ready to work an idea through, reducing it to what is essential. over business affairs but a compromise can be reached. Learn better time management You enjoy mental efforts and discipline and will often work long and hard toward any by briefly monitoring your use of time. Schedule tasks so that they serve your larger goals project's end result. Teaching opportunities give you a way to coach others and see the and are achievable in time and circumstances. Build some time for breaks and rewards positive results. You enjoy working with other people and may pour a lot of energy into into your schedule. Leave some space for regular and periodic review. Last, but not least, helping those around you. Your home and surroundings reflect this as well. When it provide time for exercise and relaxation as well as sleep and nourishment. Strength, per- comes to educating young people, you are a natural and may be asked to motivate and severance and an attitude that emphasizes common sense will also enable you to help inspire. Tonight could be a socially active evening. make proper decisions in family matters.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Your ability to work more efficiently with others eventually enables you to You are able to act quickly and get things accomplished fast. You may find achieve even bigger and more encompassing goals. As a good detective people coming to you for those odd jobs that nobody wants and that need to be com- or research person, you will find yourself having a passion for answers. Questioning and pleted and out of the way. You may like to be depended on in this way but it could cause searching finds you in pursuit of some piece of useful information. It could only be that some stressful moments in getting your own work accomplished. So that others will ACROSS DOWN an accounting problem is solved. You enjoy a game of team sports this afternoon. When respect your time, you must learn to politely say no, occasionally. Your organizational abil- you are not involved in sports, create for yourself a regular period of vigorous exercise- 1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin 1. An amino acid that is found in the central nerv- ities and sense of responsibility will be what guides you and proves successful. Your and then use exercise to drain off tension. This evening you may want to dive into some career could assume a much more determined and solid form. You naturally are a giving in response to stress or anxiety. ous system. interesting philosophical ideas with a love partner. Cultivate methods that enable you to person, sacrificing your own interests for the sake of what you feel is right. A born psy- get enough good sleep-wind down first, perhaps with a bit of relaxing music. 4. The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially 2. Someone who works (or provides workers) dur- chologist, you may find yourself counseling a friend this evening. of the semicircular canals of the ear. ing a strike. 11. Similar to the color of jade. 3. Located in or toward the back or rear. 15. (informal) Of the highest quality. 4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone 16. (of persons) Befitting a warrior. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. else. 5. An Indic language. You may find yourself very appreciative of your own career and practical You have a relentless drive to get at the heart of things this Wednesday, 18. The cry made by sheep. skills. You might enjoy solving puzzles and technical problems-finding solutions. There is 6. Indicating the most important performer or whatever is under the surface or behind the scenes. Your relentless pursuit of anything 19. A member of the Caddo people who formerly a renewed appreciation for your work that may be apparent to your superiors and to hidden or secret makes you a researcher or investigator bar none. Emotionally, you are lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri riv- role. everybody. Put your back into whatever needs accomplishing today. You will be pleased also hot stuff, rushing into areas and handling subject matters that others would never er. 7. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap sec- at the outcome of your efforts. Circumstances may stimulate and encourage an apprecia- come near. You may not like displays of emotion and pushy people, or at least find them 20. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother onds. tion and enjoyment of your life situation. Your system of values may deepen, providing challenging and thought-provoking. There is not much to slow your progress, however, you with a better sense of discrimination and good taste. Purchasing, selecting colors, and raised by hand. and by this afternoon you are moving forward with your professional activities at full 8. act between parties with a view to reconciling etc., are easy for you. Plans to redecorate or perhaps, add a room or new entry to your speed ahead. This evening is a good time to have a long talk with your partner about 21. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and differences. existing home are looking like a done deal. your future plans. You may decide on a new budget at this time. the father of Isaac. 9. In large part. 23. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in 10. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of vertebrates and that function as antibodies an organism. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) in the immune response. Leo (July 23-August 22) 25. Fringed or adorned with tassels. 11. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery. It may be hard to organize or persevere today. Everything may seem to be The word for today is accomplishment. If there is a job, you can do it. As a 27. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of falling apart and coming unglued. Do not force things. A little note-taking can bring the prodigious worker, you pour yourself into any task with absolute determination. You are rotation. 12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mytholo- plans for the day back into focus. Be patient and let the chaos of others dissolve. It is time responsible to the extreme and take on obligations as though you just cannot get 30. (computer science) The smallest discrete com- gy. to dive into your work now-you seem to shine when it comes to practical matters or enough. You enjoy discipline and limitations are seen as opportunities rather than handi- ponent of an image or picture on a CRT 13. An informal term for a father. those involving work and career. You have an easy way with superiors or those in authori- caps. Home and family matters can play a big part in your life. Relatives take on greater ty and can always manage to get the most out of any skill or ability you have. You may importance than ever before. You are pleased with the results of your efforts and may screen (usually a colored dot). 14. Any place of complete bliss and delight and tend to fear that others find you too sense-oriented from time to time. You radiate energy busy yourself making new plans with family. This may mean a game of golf, a tennis 31. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India. peace. and have to just accept the fact that people like to feel your warmth. Enjoy the attention match, camping, or some other activity. Music plays an important role and you enjoy 35. The animal order including amoebas. 22. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or you receive from your loved ones this evening. photography, especially to capture the moments of family time. 38. A soft silvery metallic element. emotion. 40. French philosopher (1909-1943). 24. A graphical record of electrical activity of the 41. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980). Pisces (February 19-March 20) brain. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere 26. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat near Telescopium and Norma. You enjoy working hard and being organized and you exercise skill and Take a little trip, or get outside. You may want to break that routine and 44. A radioactive element of the actinide series. trimmed off. discipline in anything that affects your career and reputation. Today you will enjoy work- take a little walking exercise around the area where you work. Sometime 28. A member of the Semitic speaking people of ing in the environment where higher-ups show off their independence and originality. today you may discover insights into day-to-day problems that will be of great value later. 46. Being ten more than sixty. You could find yourself engaged in nonconformist causes, always ready to promote The encircling networks of friends and co-workers are crucial to your success. You are 47. Not reflecting light. northern Ethiopia. what is independent and innovative. You like radical approaches and may find yourself in nourished in great measure by the atmosphere and conditions you are able to set up for 50. A linguistic element added to a word to pro- 29. Of or relating to coitus or copulation. support of whatever new-wave product or breakthrough advance is next in line. yourself. You are happiest this afternoon as you accomplish your chores and improve duce an inflected or derived form v 1. 32. A style of glazed earthenware. Communication, computers, electronics and everything new excite you and these are your surroundings. All that is fine and luxurious may be what you enjoy most. You are 52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia 33. The 11 southern states that seceded from the the areas in which you excel now. You may discover new ways of working with tradition- very much the creature of habit and habitat as you go about making your own way and al materials. This is a great time to reflect. Enjoy a walk this evening. finding solutions to whatever problems may come about. Tonight is for romance. or North Africa. United States in 1861. 54. Type genus of the Percidae. 34. Being nine more than seventy. 55. A milky exudate from certain plants that coag- 36. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metal- ulates on exposure to air. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution lic element. 56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant 37. Informal terms for a (young) woman. white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice. 39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali 58. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs. earth group. 60. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac 43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely insects. the razorbill. 61. The blood group whose red cells carry both 45. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agri- the A and B antigens. cultural area. 62. The United Nations agency concerned with 48. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft. atomic energy. 49. A monastery for lamas. 66. A special anniversary. 51. Of or concerning the face. 72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 53. An island in Indonesia east of Java. 73. A complex inorganic compound that contains 57. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. ammonia molecules. in golf balls. 75. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged 59. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun. and massacred American rebels who were 63. Make less active or intense. fighting to make Texas independent of 64. United States designer noted for an innova- Mexico. tive series of chairs (1907-1978). 76. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of 65. A positively charged electrode by which elec- their time. trons leave an electrical device. 77. Severely simple in line or design. 67. Relatively small fast-moving sloth. 79. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's 68. A vigorous blow. wearing Edwardian style clothes. 69. Expel, as of gases and odors. 80. The month following July and preceding 70. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind September. and shiny black seeds. 81. The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express 71. A polite name for any woman. opposite meanings. 74. The United Nations agency concerned with 82. The compass point midway between east and the interests of labor. southeast. 78. The square of a body of any size of type. Yesterday’s Solution

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GOSSIP Jay Z's tribute to Chester Bennington ay Z paid tribute to Chester Bennington during his V solo piano version of Linkin Park's 2000 hit 'Crawling' at a @coldplay. It sounded beautiful.(sic)" Chester was laid to rest Festival performance on Saturday. The 47-year-old rapper Coldplay concert in New Jersey. Chris made a mistake at the earlier this month at an intimate funeral with just a few hun- Jended his headline set at Weston Park, Staffordshire with start of the song but began again, after saying: "I know this is dred people in attendance. Chester's family wanted a private a rendition of his 2004 Linkin Park collaboration probably going to end up on YouTube so I want to do it right, memorial for the star and the service was attended by family 'Numb/Encore' and he asked the crowd to "make some noise" and I want to do it respectfully." He dedicated the perform- members, friends, bandmates and musicians he had worked so Chester could hear. He said: "Can I get some love for ance to musicians and to people everywhere, who are missing with over the years. Chester tonight?" before asking them to "make some noise so loved ones. He added: "This is to everybody who misses he can hear you in heaven". Chester, 41, died by suicide in July someone you know. This is for our whole community of musi- at his home in Palos Verdes, California. And, earlier this month, cians." Chester's bandmate, Mike Shinoda, shared a video of Jay Z's close pal Chris Martin paid tribute to Chester with a the emotional recital on Instagram and wrote: "Thank you

Gallagher wants to play Peter Andre plotting We Are Manchester show duet with son eter Andre is going to record a charity single with his son. The 'Mysterious Girl' hitmaker is a big fan of 12-year-old Junior's iam Gallagher wishes he could perform Liam, 44, performed the song at Ariana's One P"beautiful voice" and though he won't be putting pressure on at the 'We Are Manchester' benefit show Love Manchester benefit concert in June. And the youngster to launch his career, he'll give him as much support as Lon September 9. The former Oasis front- even though Noel donated the royalties from he can when he decides to take the plunge. He revealed: "Junior has man's brother and bitter rival Noel Gallagher the track to the victims, Liam blasted his for- decided he wants to be a singer. He's actually got a beautiful voice and is headlining the first concert at Manchester mer bandmate for not performing the song I've said to him he's got to promise me I'll be the first person to record Arena following the terrorist attack at Ariana with him at the Emirates Old Trafford Cricket his vocals. "I'm not going to pressure him but I've told him when he's Grande's concert in May, and though Liam is Ground. At the time, he said: "He's made it ready we can record a track for charity. "I was actually around Junior's playing in Spain that day he'd love to make clear that a reunion is not at the top of his pri- age when I decided I wanted to be a singer, so it's nice that history is the show. The 'Wall of Glass' singer wrote on orities and right now it's not the top of mine. I repeating itself." However, the 43-year-old singer - who has Junior and Twitter: "I would love to play that gig in MCR would prefer it if I was in Oasis, but that's not his sister Princess, 10, with ex-wife Katie Price, and three-year-old on sept 9th but I'm afraid I'm playing in Spain what the Manchester concert was about. He Amelia and Theo, eight months, with spouse Emily - won't be allowing saying that though it's only a hop skip n a could have got up and done 'Don't Look Back his son to neglect his studies in favor of his pop ambitions. He added: jump LG x (sic)". Noel's High Flying Birds will in Anger' and never even had to see me. "Are "He's such a sweet boy and although he's turning into a bit of a be joined by local acts including Blossoms, you telling me that if Noel Gallagher rocked teenager, I've said to him that as long as he keeps his manners and fin- The Courteeners and Rick Astley at the con- up with his guitar and knocked on the door ishes school, then he can do anything. "I've got him extra maths and cert following the atrocity, which saw 23 peo- they would say, 'You're not invited, mate'? So English lessons and he's doing really well at school at the moment." ple were killed and 250 were injured. All mon- he can take off on that one. I don't care if he The 'Behind Closed Doors' star thinks it is important his kids also help ey made from ticket sales will be donated to was in the Amalfi Coast or wherever, it lacked out around the house. Writing in his latest column for new! magazine, the Manchester Memorial Fund, which has sympathy on his behalf. We have family and he explained: "I can't bear clutter. I like a home to feel like a home, but been setup to fund a memorial for the people friends in Manchester and me mam's still if we don't need it, I say get rid of it. "The kids have a playroom where who tragically lost their lives. It is only fitting there, and it would have been nice to do it for all their oys are kept and the other day Emily said she was going to that the 50-year-old rocker should perform at his people. End of." tackle it. "But I said the kids need to help clean it otherwise they won't the show as Oasis' 1996 hit 'Don't Look Back learn. In the end, we all tackled it." in Anger' has became an anthem for the city in the wake of the horrific terrorist bombing. The Amazons dream of headlining Reading Festival he Amazons' dream is to headline Reading Festival. The 'Junkfood Forever' hitmakers are from the English town where the iconic music Textravaganza takes place every year and the say topping the bill is far more important to them than the number of albums they sell. Speaking exclu- sively to BANG Showbiz, frontman Matt Thomson said: "This is going to be my 10th year when we play it this year. "Growing up with a festival like that on your doorstep it really shapes our success in rock n roll. "It's not how many records can we sell, it's can we headline Reading Festival that's what is excit- ing." The 'Black Magic' rockers - completed by guitarist Chris Alderton, bassist Elliot Briggs and drummer Joe Emmet - have been riding high on the success of their self-titled debut LP, which was released a few months ago, and were surprised by how well it was received. Matt said: "The response to the album has been humbling. "I didn't really expect the reaction to the album that we got in terms of the love we received on social media and the pre-orders we beat our weeks target in a day. So we are gobsmacked by the response. " The Amazons' play Reading's Festival Republic Stage on August 25. Selena Gomez confirms collaboration elena Gomez has recorded a song with anonymous DJ her fans - who are known as Selenators - that new tunes are dating 'Starboy' rapper The Weeknd - admitted she needed Marshmello. The 25-year-old pop beauty will be putting "coming for sure" as she is making headway in the studio. some space to work out what she enjoys most in life as an Sthe untitled track with the EDM superstar - who has She said recently: "I spent a year in the studio, and now I'm actress, singer and as executive producer on hit Netflix series previously collaborated with - on her eagerly- putting all of these pieces together, and it's coming a lot '13 Reasons Why'. She explained: "I kind of hovered away a lit- anticipated third studio album and says she brings her own faster than people think. But that's what makes it great, tle bit because I really tried to find the balance in my life. I vibe to the 'Chasing Colors' hitmaker's electronic dance because there's a little mystery to it, and it sounds so sepa- think it's really important for me to figure out what makes sound. Speaking to San Diego's Energy 103.7 radio station, rate from everything else I've done. I mean, from the Kygo me happy, and I don't really want to be all over the place. "I she said: "It's really cool. It's kind of in that world, his world, record, to 'Bad Liar' and the next thing that's after 'Bad Liar' is want to pick the things that I'm passionate about, and I want and I'm stepping into it and bringing my style too." The single so separate from that, it's just me trying to figure out where to make them great, and I think that's where I'm at in my life will follow 'Fetish' featuring rapper Gucci Mane, which was it's gonna go. And I don't really have a set plan, but a lot of and in my career. So, I take the moments for myself." released in July. The 'It Ain't Me' singer previously promised new music is coming for sure." The brunette beauty - who is

Miley Cyrus Kieran Shudall: The charts are broken irca Waves' Kieran Shudall says it's "a shame" the charts 'n' roll and spend money on tickets as apposed to records. We are filled with "sugary pop acts". The 30-year-old rocker have big streaming numbers so I guess that is how people channels Elvis in Chas been vocal about his distaste for the state of the consume our music genuinely." Kieran previously slammed charting system and thinks it's sad that legendary acts like the acts like Ed Sheeran and James Arthur for being "purely com- late David Bowie don't feature in the top 10 anymore. mercial". He said: "Bands survive now by people buying gig music video for Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he said: "It's strange. It tickets, the charts. "I don't like any of the music in the charts, I feels like something is broken with the way it is all working. "It don't like Ed Sheeran and I don't like James Arthur and the is a shame that back in the day you used to have people like people who see my band don't care about them. "Rock bands Younger Now Carole King and David Bowie, all these great influences but no will stay strong as long as record labels don't care too much it is just full of sugary pop." However, the 'Fire That Burns' hit- about the charts because otherwise we will have too many iley Cyrus channels Elvis Presley in the music maker says he is not bothered by having his band's music in singers that are purely commercial. "We need people to still video for her album-titled track 'Younger the charts and says people buying tickets for their shows and invest in bands and good honest music." Now'. The 24-year-old pop beauty's third sin- M the number of streams they receive is a better measure of gle, following on from 'Malibu' and 'Inspired', is now their success. He continued: "It is a shame, but I don't concen- available and features lyrics about feeling at her best. trate too much on it because I think people who are into rock She sings: "Feels like I just woke up/ Like all this time I've been asleep/ Even though it's not who I am/ I'm not afraid of who I used to be." The promo for the track sees the 'Wrecking Ball' singer rock a number of looks, including a rhinestone-encrusted all-in-one with her hair in an Elvis-esque quiff while she prances around with puppets. Miley has also taken to social media to unveil the full track-listning for the 11-track record, which includes a special collaboration with her godmother, country music legend Dolly Parton, on 'Rainbowland'. If the song titles are anything to go by, Miley seems to be wearing her heart on her sleeve and has no doubt written several of the tracks about her fiancÈ Liam Hemsworth. They include 'I Would Die For You', 'Miss You So Much' and 'Love Someone', all carrying strong themes of love. The album will be released on September 29, and is the first studio LP from the 'Hannah Montana' actress since 2015's ' & Her Dead Petz'. The star is set to perform at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on August 27. MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017 lifestyle

GOSSIP Daniel Craig to cut down on dangerous stunts

aniel Craig has agreed to cut back on dangerous stunts with them. They've come to an agreement about how hard he girls and not marry them. Daniel is a very good actor and very for the new James Bond movie. The 49-year-old actor will push himself and he is pulling back from the edge this talented. We are really into normal life. I looked at the Greek Drecently revealed he will reprise his role as the suave time. It's a prerequisite." Daniel has previously admitted that peppers and thought that looks like a nice recipe Daniel spy in the forthcoming 25th film in the series but will be opt- his work on the franchise has left him needing extensive sur- would like that." ing out of some of the more thrilling stunts after his wife gery. He said: "I knackered my knee and had surgery, I've had Rachel Weisz begged him to be careful. A source told the my right shoulder reconstructed, my other knee operated on Mirror: "It's a big bone of contention. Rachel doesn't want him and my thumb got hurt." And Rachel, 47, has insisted her hus- in agony again. None of his aches and pains have gone away band is nothing like his alter-ego. She said: "I am not married completely. "There's a legacy to all these injuries and she lives to James Bond. He doesn't get married. I've watched him bed

Will Poulter praises Ryan Reynolds Kathryn Bigelow's wants to see calm nature Deadpool in the MCU ill Poulter relied on Kathryn Bigelow to help with his yan Reynolds wants to see Deadpool in the evil character in 'Detroit'. The 24-year-old actor stars Marvel Cinematic Universe - but only if it was R- Was Philip Krauss, a police officer involved in the Rrated. The 40-year-old actor starred as the Merc Algiers Motel incident of 1967, in which three African with a Mouth in the hit movie and is currently working American men were killed during the 12th Street Riot, and on a sequel, but due to the use of violence and graphic said he needed the filmmaker to help maintain a "calm, level- language, the character is unlikely to appear in the cur- headed" feeling. Speaking at the press conference for the film rent MCU despite Reynolds saying it would be a "great at London hotel Claridge's on Wednesday. Poulter said: "I idea". Speaking to Total Film Magazine, Reynolds said: relied heavily on Kathryn. "Someone who in the presence of "That sounds like a great idea but a very expensive idea. chaotic and overwhelming action, maintains a calm, level- "Can you imagine that s**t-talking contest with Iron headed, aspiring closure. "I think the fact that I was generally Man? Oh, that would be great. But it would have to be friends with the cast helped as well. We had those bonds and rated R to completely unharness everybody. "Unbridle respect and trust with each other. "A sense of purpose came the merriment and watch them go..." The next with the film. The psychology of that character was very 'Deadpool' movie stars Josh Brolin as the villain Cable - uncomfortable. Any time I was feeling emotional, I would the son of X-Men members Cyclops and Madelyne Prior think of those that who have been the recipient of that abuse. - and Reynolds said Brolin is "everything you want in a "My feelings don't even measure up to what the real people character". He said: "Josh is everything you want in a went through. I kept that in mind when shooting the film." character that's as iconic and imposing as Cable. "He's Oscar-winning filmmaker Bigelow, who has helmed very suc- going to bring the right levels of intimidation and cessful gritty movies including 'The Hurt Locker', recently charisma." It's slated to be released next year and revealed she based her script on court reports and testi- Reynolds said the script has been finished for a while. monies of people who witnessed the atrocity. He explained: "I don't think a day's gone by where I haven't worked on it in some manner or other since we wrapped on the first one. "Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and I have been having so much fun. The script's been done now for quite a while; we're in the place where we're just writing alternative jokes. "We're fortunate David Tennant that we can tell the story and not worry about any form Kathryn Bigelow of censorship. "We get to scream in the Deadpool lan- guage with a full-throated ease." Stefan Kapacic will reprise his role as Colossus and Brianna Hildebrand joins Mary wants Detroit to help returns as teenage psychic Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Morena Baccarin will also return as end racial profiling Deadpool's love interest Vanessa Carlysle, and Leslie Queen of Scots Uggams will reprise her role as Blind Al. athryn Bigelow hopes 'Detroit' will end "racial profiling". The 65-year-old filmmaker helmed the new movie Kbased around the real life murders of three African American men during the 1960s race riots in the US city, and one of her main goals was to encourage viewers to start healthy debates about race issues. Speaking at a press confer- Jaime King signs ence for the film at London hotel Claridge's on Wednesday. Bigelow said: "If there is a chance for the film to create a posi- tive dialogue and create some tensions, then that is my great- est aspiration. "I hope it starts the conversation of ending up for indie drama racial profiling. "I think any opportunity to try and meet head aime King will star in 'Ice Cream in the Cupboard'. The 38- on with this racism is really important for me personally." This year-old actress has joined the cast of the indie drama, year marks 50 years since the incident in the Algiers Motel and which tells the heartbreaking story of how a couple cope Bigelow wanted to make the film to give an opportunity to J when the wife is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. tell the "tragic story". She said: "I think with this material and Claudia Ferri and Dana Ashbrook will portray the couple, subsequent films I have made, lend itself to an immersive while Jaime has signed on to play the neurologist who treats experience. "I try to have an active relationship between the the woman. Drew Pollins is directing the movie, based on the audience and the screen. I actually try to draw you in. "I had book by Pat Moffat. Along with working in front of the cam- this opportunity to tell this tragic story and give it a life of its era, Jaime has also previously turned to writing and directing, own and a potential to create empathy for these characters. with her directorial debut 'Latch Key', which was released in "There were two reasons why I wanted to make this film. One 2011. Speaking previously about it, she said: "I've always want- because it was not well-known and also how it felt contempo- ed to write and direct. I've been writing since I was seven. It's a rary. "These were the two elements that certainly motivated film called 'Latch Key', about a 14-year-old girl who loses her me." The film stars John Boyega, Hannah Murray, Algee Smith, mother suddenly and because she can't cope with the stress Will Poulter, Jack Reynor and Anthony Mackie. Many of the of it, she wakes up when day and decides to pretend like it characters featured in the film are based on real people, never happened, so it's her first day back to school after the including Melvin Dismukes (Boyega) and Julie Hysell (Murray), tragedy. And, I used actors and crew who were all from and the director has praised the cast for being "hugely Omaha. It was really an amazing experience." And she also responsible" for the way the movie developed. worked in TV for four years with 'Hart of Dixie', after Rose Byrne encouraged her to try the small screen. She said: "Rose Byrne said to me, 'Jaime, you have to do a television series!' She said, 'There's nothing like it. The roles for women are so spectacular and amazing, and you get to act, every single day.' There's something to be said about that, and I really wanted the opportunity to not only be consistently working, every single day, but also, on my hiatus, have the time to really focus on my work as a director." Kate Beckinsale's surprising career

ate Beckinsale's entire career has been a avid Tennant has joined the cast of 'Mary, "surprise" to her. The 'Underworld' actress Queen of Scots'. The former 'Doctor Who' Kinsists she has never had a plan in place for Dactor's role is yet to be revealed, but he joins her future, and didn't set out to make her name Dunkirk's Jack Lowden, Guy Pearce, Martin in any particular film genre but thinks it's "cool" Compston, Joe Alwyn and Downton Abbey's Brendan she's become known as an action star. She said: "I Coyle in the forthcoming drama. Margot Robbie is have never really had a map of my career. "So I set to portray Queen Elizabeth I, who died in 1603, always find myself going, 'Oh I'm here - this is a opposite Saoirse Ronan as the titular character. The surprise!' "I never, ever saw myself doing an big screen project, which is being directed by Josie action movie, yet I've found myself becoming Rourke and is expected to go into production this closely associated with that genre. "This is con- year, is based on the true story of Mary Stuart's tinually surprising to me and at the same time attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth's seat on kind of cool, too." The 44-year-old actress can the English throne, which, ultimately, led to her being next be seen opposite Pierce Brosnan in drama condemned to years in prison before facing execu- 'The Only Living Boy in New York' and she liked tion. Filming has begun in England and Scotland on the fact the film - in which she beds a father and the Working Title Films production. The feature film is his son - was relatable. She told HELLO! maga- being produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Debra zine: "What I like about it is that it's very much Hayward. Academy Award-nominee Beau Willimon about people being human and flawed and still has penned the script which is adaptation of John being decent. Let's face it, we're all just bumbling Guy's biography 'My Heart is My Own: The Life of along." The film was shot in New York and took Mary Queen of Scots'. The movie is expected to be the British star - who has 18-year-old daughter released next year. The chairman of Focus, who own Lily with former partner Michael Sheen - back to worldwide rights and will release the movie in the US, her first filming experience in the States. She Peter Kujawski said: "We are privileged to be collabo- recalled: "My first American movie, 'The Last Days rating with our partners at Working Title on this stellar of Disco', was shot in New York. "I was so terrified production, and with Josie as she makes the exciting to be away from my family and life in Britain and move from stage to screen work. With two of today's here in this city that I had only seen in movies most vital actresses bringing to life two female titans, and was sooo intimidated by... But I had an amaz- 'Mary, Queen of Scots' will be one of the movie events ing time and made some really close friends. "I of 2018." returned to make 'Serendipity' when Lily was a baby. She said her first words, and learned to walk there so it's special to me for that." lifestyle MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017

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Indian models showcase creations by designer Manish Arora at the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festive 2017 in Mumbai yesterday. — AFP photos Los Angeles at war over gentrification

ne morning, Los Angeles businesswoman Eva of harassment from community activists trying to halt the country. Boyle Heights, a few miles (kilometers) Chimento was about to open her art gallery in an influx of affluent residents. Mihai Nicodim, a neigh- away, is the logical progression. Tension between the Othe city's Hispanic enclave of Boyle Heights boring gallery owner, has had his door vandalized and established community and newcomers was ratch- when she found the door slightly open. While puz- his store front defaced with insulting slogans such as eted up a few weeks ago with the opening of Weird zled, she didn't think much of the incident until a sec- "fuck white art," while exhibition openings have been Wave Coffee, its long counter and walls decorated ond occasion when she found the lock had been met with protests. "All the while I had a Chinese artist with work by local artists, and a poster of Filipino box- forced. She was later invited by a group of women on display. I represent a South African, local artists," er Manny Pacquiao. said Nicodim, who has lived in Boyle Heights for Some locals weren't exactly happy to see the decades, since arriving in the US as a penniless place, judging it too "hipster" and ensuring it was wel- Romanian refugee. comed to the neighborhood with protests and van- The entrepreneurs are among a growing number dalized windows. "We're not trying to gentrify the of aggrieved in an escalating battle between the bur- neighborhood-we couldn't do it even if we tried-we're geoning galleries, coffee shops and other new busi- just here to sell coffee," says Jackson Defa, one of the nesses and activists who fear their community is three partners in the business. being threatened by a wave of gentrification. A few hundred meters (yards) from the galleries lives Irma Rebellion Aguilar, who has just seen her rent jump from $1,000 Despite its problems, Defa says he doesn't regret to $1,800 a month and risks losing the apartment she having chosen Boyle Heights for his business. "After has called home for 20 years. "What do they want us our windows were vandalized, the whole neighbor- to do with art galleries? We are not going to buy hood donated money to pay for the repairs," he paintings. Our community needs schools," says the reveals. "People would like to picture that we are not Owners Jackson Defa (right) and Mario Chavarria (center) work at 43-year-old. welcome, but the facts are different." For others, like their Weird Wave Coffee Brewers coffee house. art gallery Pssst, the harassment has already become Too 'hipster' too much and the business has shut down. The devel- they get a gallery; 'places for youth or seniors,' and Gentrification-a gradual process of transforming opment was welcomed as a victory by "Defend Boyle they get breweries. That's not what the people are an area to appeal more to middle-class tastes-often Heights," a group of activists at the forefront of the asking for," she told AFP. She added that while vandal- begins with the arrival of artists and galleries in search rebellion against gentrification. ism and violence are wrong, people need to be aware of vast spaces with low rents. Then come the trendy Chimento, who opened her gallery with a small that the campaigners are "fighting for their home and Coffee shop owners, Mario Chavarria (second left) and Jackson shops and restaurants and, in the long term, rents budget to satisfy her passion for art, has no intention this basic need is being taken away from them." Defa, working the machine, talk with customers at their Weird soar and the original inhabitants are forced to leave. of following suit. A single mother, she says she under- "These businesses are known as gentrifying business- Wave Coffee Brewers in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los "Historically, the inner cities of Los Angeles have been stands the need for affordable housing, but empha- es and it's about who they attract. And they attract Angeles. working class and poor. Rich people were living in the sizes the need for "dialogue and compromise" and developers who increase the rents."— AFP suburbs, further out," says urban planner and activist plans on staying put. Other residents are fatalistic in calling themselves the Ovarian Psychos to a commu- James Rojas. "Now, young rich people want to move the face of what they see as an irresistible influx of nity meeting "to talk about gentrification," but back to the city. It started in the early 2000s." gentrifying businesses. Elizabeth Blaney, a member of encountered hostility and verbal abuse when she Los Angeles, which is experiencing a real estate the local residents' association, says no one wanted stood up to talk. boom and a housing and homelessness crisis, has the types of businesses that have contributed to the "It was horrible, I was insulted," says Chimento, seen its downtown sector, once a no-man's land, gentrification of the neighborhood. who believes the incidents are part of a larger pattern become one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in "They said, 'We need a laundromat' and instead

Eva Chimento who runs the Chimento Contemporary Gallery, outside her premises in Boyle Heights, California. — AFP photos Community activist Elizabeth Blaney is interviewed in front of the apartment block where, with no rent control due to the year it was built. lifestyle MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017

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A refugee girl writes at a library.

Refugees read books at a library set up on the premises of an international non-governmental organization (NGO) hosting Syrian and Afghan women and children. A refugee woman studies a book at a library set up on the premises of an international non-governmental organization (NGO) hosting Syrian and Afghan women and children, in central Athens. — AFP photos Books to go: Bringing literature to refugees stuck in Greece

he brightly coloured minivan that pulls into Athens' food market, drawing a group of refugees around it, is Tnot carrying something edible. The contents-hundreds of books-are there to satisfy a different sort of hunger. For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past two years after European states shut their borders in rapid A refugee woman looks at a book shelf at a library. succession, survival is no longer an issue. Instead, boredom and creeping despair about their future are their new ene- mies as they wait for months, even years, for their applica- tions to relocate elsewhere in Europe to be processed. Now, at least two separate initiatives have emerged to help refugees fill the long hours of their day. One of them is Echo Refugee Library-a minivan fitted with shelves carrying over 1,000 books that does a weekly round of refugee camps in the greater Athens area, plus poorer districts of the capital where many refugees live in UN-rented flats. The goal of the initiative is to "make culture accessible to all," says Esther Ten Zijthoff, 25, the Dutch-American coordinator of the project. The books-in English, Greek, French, Arabic, Kurdish and Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, author of Zorba the Greek A man reads a book as Farsi-have been provided by benefactors in Greece, and the Last Temptation of Christ. he sits inside a library Belgium, Britain and Lebanon or purchased with money "I like this book because it's a new culture for me," she van in central Athens. donated online. Ali, a 26-year-old Syrian, is among those says whilst poring through Nikos Kazantzakis's Odyssey, a who never misses a delivery at the food market. "I really love sequel to Homer's classic opus. "But my favorite is the Tales having something to read. It does me good," he tells AFP, an of the Brothers Grimm, which is similar to faerie tales I used Agatha Christie novel under his arm. The English mistress of to read as a child," the young Afghan says. — AFP the whodunit is proving a top draw for refugees, says A man reads a book as he sits inside a library van in central Athens. Zijthoff. "The mystery and romance present in her stories are well- liked by Arab speakers. We would like to have her whole col- lection." Language dictionaries are also in demand, with many readers borrowing them to photocopy and keep close at hand. In another part of the city centre, a similar initiative draws Syrian and Afghan refugees to the offices of We Need Books, a volunteer group formed last year that also gives language classes in Arabic and French.

'Escape through literature' We Need Books has the largest collection of Farsi books in Athens, including over 150 sent directly from Afghanistan, says co-founder Ioanna Nissiriou. Here, the most popular book is Arabian Nights. The sole copy in Farsi, delivered in June, is already in tatters, she notes with pleasure. "Initially our goal was to help refugees escape through literature. But now we also seek to educate the children and help them integrate," says Nissiriou, a 38-year-old former journalist. Seated on a brightly-coloured pouffe, 16-year-old Zahra A man looks at books inside a library van in central Athens. from Afghanistan has just discovered the works of iconic A man reads a lexicon as he sits inside a library van in central Athens. Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies

ick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke es heard on Lennon's anti-war anthem "Give Peace a Chance," was supposed to be a one-night gig, but lasted two months- racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread recorded in the Montreal hotel room where Lennon and Yoko and landed him a profile in Time magazine and a spot on "The Dmessages of social justice and nutritional health, has Ono were staging a "bed-in" for peace. Tonight Show." died. He was 84. Gregory died late Saturday in Washington, DC An admirer of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr, Gregory after being hospitalized for about a week, his son Christian embraced nonviolence and became a vegetarian and marathon 'The Last Laugh' Gregory told The Associated Press. He had suffered a severe runner. He preached about the transformative powers of prayer Vogue magazine, in February 1962, likened him to Will bacterial infection. As one of the first black standup comedians and good health. Once an overweight smoker and drinker, he Rogers and Fred Allen: "bright and funny and topical ... (with) a to find success with white audiences, in the early 1960s, became a trim, energetic proponent of liquid meals and raw way of making the editorials in The New York Times seem the Gregory rose from an impoverished childhood in St. Louis to food diets. In the late 1980s, he developed and distributed cinch stuff from which smash night-club routines are rightfully win a college track scholarship and become a celebrated satirist products for the popular Slim-Safe Bahamian Diet. made." "I've got to go up there as an individual first, a Negro who deftly commented upon racial divisions at the dawn of the second," he said in Phil Berger's book, "The Last Laugh: The civil rights movement. Solid food World of Stand-up Comics." "I've got to be a colored funny man, "Where else in the world but America," he joked, "could I When diagnosed with lymphoma in 2000, he fought it with not a funny colored man." His political passions were never far have lived in the worst neighborhoods, attended the worst herbs, exercise and vitamins. It went in remission a few years In this July 21, 2012 file photo, comedian and activist Dick from his mind-and they hurt his comedy career. The nation was schools, rode in the back of the bus, and get paid $5,000 a week later. He took a break from performing in comedy clubs, saying Gregory poses for a portrait during the PBS TCA Press Tour grappling with the civil rights movement, and it was not at all just for talking about it?" Gregory's sharp commentary soon led the alcohol and smoke in the clubs were unhealthy and focused in Beverly Hills, Calif. clear that racial integration could be achieved. At protest him into civil rights activism, where his ability to woo audiences on lecturing and writing more than a dozen books, including an often went without food or electricity, Gregory's intellect and marches, he was repeatedly beaten and jailed. through humor helped bring national attention to fledgling autobiography and a memoir. Gregory went without solid food hard work quickly earned him honors, and he attended the He remained active on the comedy scene until recently, efforts at integration and social equality for blacks. for weeks to draw attention to a wide range of causes, including mostly white Southern Illinois University. when he fell ill and canceled an August 9 show in San Jose, Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey tweeted, "Dick Middle East peace, American hostages in Iran, animal rights, "In high school I was fighting being broke and on relief," he California, followed by an August 15 appearance in Atlanta. On Gregory's unflinching honesty & courage, inspired us to fight, police brutality, the Equal Rights Amendment for women and wrote in his 1963 book. "But in college, I was fighting being social media, he wrote that he felt energized by the messages live, laugh & love despite it all." A tweet by actress/comedian to support pop singer Michael Jackson when he was charged Negro." He started winning talent contests for his comedy, from his well-wishers, and said he was looking to get back on Whoopi Goldberg said, "About being black in America Dick with sexual molestation in 2004. which he continued in the Army. After he was discharged, he stage because he had a lot to say about the racial tension Gregory has passed away, Condolences to his family and to us "We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were struggled to break into the standup circuit in Chicago, working brought on by the gathering of hate groups in Virginia. "We who won't have his insight 2 lean on R.I.P" Gregory briefly wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and odd jobs as a postal clerk and car washer to survive. His break- have so much work still to be done, the ugly reality on the news sought political office, running unsuccessfully for mayor of that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First through came in 1961, when he was asked to fill in for another this weekend proves just that," he wrote. He is survived by his Chicago in 1966 and U.S. president in 1968, when he got class," he once said. Richard Claxton Gregory was born in 1932, comedian at Chicago's Playboy Club. His audience, mostly wife, Lillian, and 10 children. — AP 200,000 votes as the Peace and Freedom party candidate. In the the second of six children. His father abandoned the family, white Southern businessmen, heckled him with racist gibes, late '60s, he befriended John Lennon and was among the voic- leaving his mother poor and struggling. Though the family but he stuck it out for hours and left them howling. That job Books to go: Bringing literature to refugees stuck in Greece

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Runners participate in the annual Color Run in Centennial Park in Sydney yesterday. The Color Run is a 5km fun run started in the US in 2012 and is inspired by the traditional Hindu festival Holi, where people throw natural coloured powders as the seasons change from winter to spring. — AFP Couple’s arranged marriage turned into 19-year ‘love story’

avid and Elizabeth Weinlick’s life America to renew their vows - an event that dropped it off. The commitment to a rela- together began like a reality TV show, will double as a fundraiser for the Angel tionship that made Bethy David’s surprise Bizarre Dblossomed into two decades out of a Foundation, which has helped their family bride has also been the key to their long News romance novel, and now seems destined to and countless others suffering from cancer marriage, the pair said. end in tragedy. David Weinlick and Elizabeth with financial help and free camps for chil- Mystery surrounds a pair of Teenager’s tan turns Runze were strangers when they said “I do” in dren. Their arranged marriage started with A happy marriage false teeth strapped to a tree out like Nutella front of thousands of shoppers and in the an offhand joke: David told nosy relatives “Finding a good partner for life is about A teenager looked like she’d self-tanned in national spotlight at Minnesota’s Mall of and friends he would be married June 13, working with people as they are, not insist- A pair of false teeth “Nutella” after falling asleep with the lotion on. America in June 1998. Now it seems the 1998, never mind the unknown bride. As the ing that ... people have to be the perfect per- have been found Alicia Bettsworth, 18, put three layers of St thing that will end what they call “our great date approached, he enlisted friends and son for you,” David said. “You’re not going to tied to a tree. Lois Moriz ultra-dark fake tan all over herself to try love story” is cancer, after David was diag- family to help find one. find somebody carved in a statuary that’s Salcombe, from and get the perfect beach body look, but got a nosed with terminal and inoperable stage IV perfect for you.” David was diagnosed in Skegness, discov- shock when she opened her Snapchat and her colon cancer. March, and the cancer had already spread to ered a pair of false face resembled the color of the chocolate They were brought together not by love his liver. Bethy quit her job as a nurse soon teeth inside a plas- spread. The mother from Crawley, West Sussex or mutual attraction but by friends and fami- after, while David had left his work for the tic food bag that claims she couldn’t leave the house for a ly, whom David tasked with finding him the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor party years was strapped to a whole week because of the tanning fail. She right bride. Nineteen years and four children earlier. After a few rough months, there’s still tree as she was out told the MailOnline: “When I woke up the next later, it’s obvious Elizabeth, or Bethy, was the plenty of laughter in the Weinlicks’ house in walking, according day and saw what color I was I thought ‘what right choice. The Weinlicks bristle at even the suburban St. Paul - another key to a happy to Mirror Online. the hell have I done?’ “Once I got over the suggestion that their union wasn’t meant to marriage, they said. The teeth were left shock I started laughing and thought it was last (“It was a spectacle wedding, but not a They’re squeezing in as many laughs as with a note, which hilarious. I looked like I’d bathed in Nutella. “My spectacle marriage,” David quips). they can, joking about who would remarry read “Have you lost faster - David, because he would need his your teeth?” but pants ironed - and recalling Bethy telling there was no further information. Lois took a their growing children, two boys and two photo of the finding and circulated the picture girls, now 8 years old to 16 years old, that on Facebook in a bid to track down the mys- “Daddy’s friends picked mommy because tery owner. she was the prettiest that day.” They shot a commercial, placed adver- But Bethy can’t help but cry as she pic- Father designs app to force tisements and did countless television tures the unfulfilled future she had drawn up teens to reply to parent’s texts interviews, eventually soliciting inquiries for them: building an empty nest when their from hundreds of women. David’s friends youngest child leaves home or road trips on a A father has designed his own mobile grilled the applicants with questions. As the motorcycle together. “The hardest part for phone app which forces his son to reply to field narrowed to two dozen women, Bethy me is knowing that there are going to be his text messages. Nick Herbert, of West stood out to his screeners because she things that I’m going to miss about Dave in Wickham, London, was fed up of his 13- showed she was willing to build and work the future and knowing that there’s nothing I year-old son Ben ignoring his messages so little girl looked a bit confused at first and then on a relationship. can do right now to make up for that,” she much that he designed an app called she burst into tears - she was probably a bit They overwhelmingly chose Bethy, and said through tears. “When our first grandchild ReplyASAP. According to The Sun newspa- scared.” Alicia said she ended up having a nice the pair was married that day at the mega- is born, he’s not going to be there. What per, the app takes shade once it had faded a bit. She added: “I mall, having met briefly just twice before - as would have been our 25th wedding anniver- control of his son’s just stayed indoors and hid from the world. I Bethy picked up a questionnaire, then sary, he probably won’t be there.” — AP mobile phone home-screen and tried to get it off in the shower it wouldn’t go sounds an alarm any lighter. “It was only a week later that I got a that doesn’t stop really nice tan from it, but in the meantime I until he has replied just didn’t go out.” to the message. Nick said: “I’m hop- Two boys allegedly ate £300 worth ing the app will of food after supermarket lock in In this June 13, 1998 file photo, Elizabeth make our relation- Runze looks up as David Weinlick says, “I do” ship better. It will Two young boys locked themselves in a super- during their wedding ceremony at Mall of alleviate the stress market and allegedly scoffed £300 worth of America in Bloomington, Minn. — AP photos when I can’t get hold of him as I will know food. Police have launched an investigation that he has seen my message.” If the mes- after two 12-year-old schoolboys from South “Basically, our fairy tale romance is being sage is read, it alerts the parents but they Lanarkshire hid in a Sainsbury’s store in cut short by decades. We’re hoping that we also get a message if the phone has been Kingsgate, East Kilbride, after closing time on get Dave for another year. We’ll be lucky if we switched off, which notifies them that the Monday and allegedly gorged on hundreds of get that,” Bethy told The Associated Press. message is pending. At the moment, the pounds worth of produce. After allegedly hid- The Weinlicks, both 47, will write their app is only available on Android phones ing in the clothing section supermarket, it’s final chapter together in the mostly ordinary but it’s expected to be rolled out onto claimed the boys spent four hours roaming the way their lives have unfolded since their iPhones. The app costs 99p to snoop on one aisles helping themselves to treats and goodies unusual marriage. There will be family gath- person, £2.49 to track four people, £6.99 for before being found at 2am by workers who erings, a high school reunion, books to read ten people and £12.99 for platinum, which were just about to start their early morning and binge-watching “The West Wing.” On connects with 20 numbers. shifts. The children’s parents were called and Friday, they will return to the same spot the police were contacted. — BangShowbiz where they were married at the Mall of David and Elizabeth Weinlick, poses for a photo at their home in Woodbury, Minn.