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MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 RAMADAN 16, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Traditional Iran bans Brazil Girgian fashion show booed as becomes organiser over Netherlands Emsak: 03:14 commercialized flag designs claim third Fajer: 03:24 Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:28 Maghreb: 18:50 2 39 18 Eshaa: 20:20 Interior minister: No Max 48º Min 31º need for martial law High Tide 01:33 & 12:23 Low Tide Assembly, government discuss developments 06:57 & 19:53 40 PAGES NO: 16226 150 FILS By B Izzak GERMANY GRAB WORLD CUP GLORY KUWAIT: A large number of MPs met several key minis- ters yesterday to discuss political and military develop- ments around Kuwait and the confrontations between police and opposition activists last week. During the meeting, attended by more than 30 MPs including speak- er Marzouq Al-Ghanem and his deputy Mubarak Al- Khrainej, Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah reportedly told the meeting that there is no need to declare martial law as has been reported by some local media. The minister showed a video about clashes between opposition pro- testers and police over the arrest of opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak and the way authorities dealt with them. The minister assured MPs that the security situa- tion is under control and there is no need to declare martial law. Besides the interior minister, the minis- Marzouq Al-Ghanem ters of foreign affairs, defense, information, oil, health and Cabinet affairs attended the meeting convened instead of calling the Assembly back from recess to hold an emergency session. Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah RIO DE JANEIRO: Germany’s defender and captain Philipp Lahm holds up the World Cup trophy as he celebrates with his teammates after winning the 2014 said the meeting discussed regional developments and FIFA World Cup final football match between Germany and Argentina 1-0 following extra time at the Maracana Stadium yesterday. —AFP (See Page 20) ways to safeguard Kuwait’s security and stability. Continued on Page 15 Gazans flee as Ramadan Kareem Israel cranks Scientific up crackdown GAZA CITY: Israel harshened its campaign against Gaza miracles yesterday, warning Palestinians in the north to flee after marines mounted a ground attack, as diplomatic efforts to halt the bloodshed intensified. World powers prepared to meet over the spiralling bloodshed as the Palestinian death of fasting toll from the punishing Israeli air campaign hit 166, with another 1,120 people wounded, the emergency services said. But fearing for their lives, more than 10,000 people By Dr Hala Badawi have taken shelter in installations of the UN agency for efinition of fasting: Abstaining from food Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said its spokesman Chris and drinks or anything passing through Gunness in a tweet. the digestive tract like tobacco smoke Despite increasing calls for a ceasefire, Israeli Prime D Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military was hitting from Fajr (dawn) to Maghrib (sunset). Besides, abstaining includes sexual relationship with any Hamas “with growing force,” warning there was no end in sight. “We do not know when this operation will end,” he related acts or behavior by any means of the told ministers. US Secretary of State John Kerry phoned human senses that leads to excitation of the Netanyahu to renew a US offer to help mediate a truce and desire. Fasting is one of the five pillars which con- he “highlighted the US concern about escalating tensions stitute the foundation of the huge building of on the ground,” a senior State Department official said. The Islam, the latter includes manners, conducts and top US diplomat also told the Israeli leader that he was the way of dealings with people and surround- engaged with regional leaders “to help to stop the rocket ings during the lifetime. fire so calm can be restored and civilian casualties prevent- Fasting in early nations: Ancient Egyptians, ed”. Indians, Buddhists practiced fasting, believing in On the Palestinian side, president Mahmoud Abbas said its rapid effect on curing diseases and stomach he would ask UN chief Ban Ki-moon to “put the State of relaxation. Palestine under the UN international protection system” in order to address the violence in Gaza. As the death toll from The goal of fasting: the six-day campaign spiralled, the Gaza-based Palestinian • Fasting is a precious opportunity to offer Centre for Human Rights said most of the victims were civil- relaxing time for the stomach and to get rid of ians, putting the number at more than 130, among them harmful waste products accumulated in liver after 35 children and 26 women. It also said Israeli had targeted ingestion. Some scientific Western research 147 homes and badly damaged hundreds of others. reported that the only way for the human body to So far, no Israelis have been killed, although militants in be capable of excreting waste products from the Gaza have pounded the south and centre of the country liver is by abstaining from food and drinks for 12- with more than 690 rockets since the fighting began on 14 hours continuously along 3-4 weeks, which July 8. More than 150 have been intercepted. Continued on Page 15 exactly defines fasting.

Fasting is essential in the treatment of: • Obesity which triggers diabetes, hyperten- sion, atherosclerosis and heart diseases. • Digestive disorders like “Irritable Bowel Syndrome”(IBS). • Osteoarthritis. • Addiction to drugs or habituation to coffee, tea and smoking. • Bad temper and anger as it reduces the secre- tion of adrenaline which controls the system of the nervous system. Fasting has a crucial role in increasing the potential of body control as it hinders the person from fulfilling his routine desires that are built in his body instinctively, like eating and having a marital relationship. Thus, he turns into a stronger, compatible member in the society.

Courtesy of the TIES Center, the social and edu- cational hub for English Speaking Muslims in GAZA: Palestinians bury human remains yesterday Kuwait. For more information, please call during the funeral of 18 members of Al-Batsh family 25231015/6 or e-mail [email protected] or vis- who were killed the previous night in Israeli strikes it www.tiescenter.net. that hit their house in Gaza City. — AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 LOCAL

Food of Ramadan Quaker Oats Fish Fingers For the Fish • 1/2 kilo of fish fillet • 4 tbsps. of flour • 1/2 tbsp. of cumin • 1/2 tbsp. of dried coriander • Salt and pepper • 1 cup of Quaker Oats spiced with cumin, corian- der, salt, pepper, garlic powder and chili • Oil for frying. Zain shares Ramadan Iftar meal with Salmiya, Mishref Fire departments For the Sauce • 1 tbsp. of Quaker Oats KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunica- ments’ officials and Zain’s team who attend- their lives at risk every day to protect the company further affirmed its Corporate • 1 cup of milk tions company in Kuwait, announced that it ed the Iftar gathering as a gesture of grati- society, and this is why Zain saw the impor- Social Responsibility Program during the • 1 tbsp. of flour recently organized a Ramadan Iftar gather- tude and appreciation to those noble fire- tance of recognizing their great efforts and Holy Month of Ramadan, which includes an • 1 tbsp. of butter ing for the Salmiya and Mishref Fire fighters. Waleed Al-Khashti, Zain’s Corporate sacrifices”. It is worth noting that Zain extensive array of programs that cover dif- • Pinch of nutmeg Departments to share the blessings of the Communications and Relations Manager recently shared the Ramadan Iftar meal with ferent areas. The initiatives and programs • Pinch of salt holy month of Ramadan with firefighters in said: “Zain further continues its interactive the Land Force Command of the Ministry of will include humanitarian, voluntary, cultur- • Fresh parsley recognition of the tremendous efforts they visits initiative, where the company shares Defense in the Boubyan Duty Base and the al, religious, sports, and recreational activi- • 1/2 cup of cheese (optional) are exerting during the holy month. The Iftar the blessings of the holy month with several 6th ‘Al Tahreer’ Mechanized Brigade Camp as ties to cater to the different segments of was held with the presence of the depart- sectors of our community. Firefighters put part of its interactive visits initiative. The society. Fish Preparation • Cut fish fillet into strips (2 inches wide). • Mix flour, cumin, coriander, salt and pepper with enough water to form a smooth batter. Children celebrate Girgian • Dip fish slices into the batter, and leave it for one hour. • Take the pieces out and coat them with spiced By Nawara Fattahova expensive packs of sweets of popular Quaker Oats, then fry them. brands, and some of them even put gold KUWAIT: Kuwaitis still celebrate the inside the pack. So now when kids knock Sauce Preparation ancient tradition of Girgian, which is a cele- the door, they will receive a packet instead • Combine all ingredients while the milk is cold. bration for children held on the 13th, 14th of few candies, nuts or lollypops. • Mix well, and let it boil, until it’s slightly thick. and 15th of the holy month of Ramadan. Parents have also expanded this tradi- • Add cheese and stir until it’s fully melted. Serve it Similar traditions are also observed in some tion to distribute Girgian packages to with baked potatoes or steamed vegetables. other GCC countries, but with different friends and relatives with the name of their names. son or daughter. Some parents even dis- With rapid modernization, this tradition tribute it at their workplaces to their col- has changed very much. During these leagues. Some families organize celebra- three days, kids used to go roaming in their tions at their homes and print invitation neighborhood, knocking on doors of the cards to invite guests. houses and singing songs with the name of In the past, the mother or grandmother the son living in the house, and parents used to make the costume for the kids to gave these kids sweets and sometimes wear during Girgian, but currently, these tioned that due to poverty in Kuwait during some noise accompanying their songs. coins. The kids used to collect it in a bag costumes are sold at various markets and the pre-oil era, people didn’t have enough Nowadays, various authorities and hanging on their neck, and always wore exhibitions. Hundreds of designs from dif- resources, so Girgian was celebrated only organizations hold Girgian celebrations for special costumes for this occasion. ferent materials are available in the market, on one night - the 15th of Ramadan. children, which usually includes entertain- In the present time, Girgian has become especially Souq Mubarakiya in Kuwait City. Children roamed between the houses ment activities, competitions, prizes and an occasion for showing off, as parents buy Some Kuwaiti historians have men- banging on drums or empty boxes to make other activities. MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 LOCAL

Qatar Airways, Kidzania bring Ramadan cheer to children

KUWAIT: As part of the Ramadan celebra- role-playing activities available at KidZania. Sajet thanked Qatar Airways for their contin- airline, has seen rapid growth in just 17 years ing the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, France, tions, Qatar Airways partnered with KidZania Qatar Airways Country Manager Kuwait, uous support and said: “This has been an of operation, to the point where today it is last June. The airline was awarded World’s Kuwait in bringing more than 50 children Mohammed Yusuf Al Jumairi, said the airline amazing experience for the children, and has flying a modern fleet of 134 aircraft to 144 Best Business Class, World’s Best Business with special needs to enjoy an unforgettable always looks forward to supporting the local brought bright smiles to their faces, and in key business and leisure destinations across Class Lounge and, for the second consecutive evening of entertainment and loving hospi- community through events during Ramadan. fact, to everyone involved.” Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, year, Best Airline Staff Service in the Middle tality. “We plan to hold the event on an annual Supporter of several community initia- North America and South America. East. The annual initiative is part of Qatar basis to ensure these children continue to tives, Qatar Airways is a worldwide partner of On Oct 30, 2013, Qatar Airways joined the During the 2013 Dubai Air Show the air- Airways’ tradition of engaging communities experience cheer and happiness that make Educate AChild (EAC), a global education pro- oneworld Alliance, becoming the first Gulf line placed orders for more than 60 new air- in order to create a positive impact on socie- Ramadan such a special time. gramme designed to ensure every child has carrier to join a global airline alliance, craft - a mixture of Boeing 777X and Airbus ty. “The holy month of Ramadan is a time of access to a quality education. Launched by enabling its customers to benefit from almost A330 Freighters. In total the airline has 300 Children from the Al-Kharafi Activity Kid giving - to the community, each other and to Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of 1,000 airports in more than 150 countries, aircraft on order worth more than US $50 bil- Center and Kacch (Kuwait Association for the those less fortunate. We truly hope the out- Qatar in November 2012, Educate A Child with 14,250 daily departures. lion. For more information, visit our home- care of children in hospital) had the opportu- ing at KidZania was a memorable and enjoy- addresses the plight of 61 million out-of- Award-winning carrier Qatar Airways was pagewww.qatarairways.com or our sites on nity to take part in activities and professions able occasion for the children. school children around the world. presented with three honours at the annual Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, of their choice from more than 80 engaging KACCH Senior Child Life Specialist Hadia Qatar Airways, the State of Qatar’s national Skytrax 2013 World Airline Awards held dur- andYouTube.

KUWAIT: The Special Task Force hosted a ghabqa recently on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, attend- ed by top Interior Ministry officials led by Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Acting Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 LOCAL

in my view In my view Irresponsible ‘Isn’t this a rerun?’ Nationalunity behavior

By Linda Gradstein cartoon that appeared in the daily newspaper Ha’aretz captured the feelings of many in Israel. A Acouple is sitting on the couch watching television while on the news program an Israeli army commander is By Labeed Abdal shown asking his soldiers, “Okay guys, ready for action?” The Strife wife turns to her husband and asks, “Isn’t this a rerun?” The situation seems similar to that of 2012 when Israel launched widespread air strikes on targets throughout the Gaza Strip in order to halt rocket fire aimed at southern Israel. Then, like now, tens of thousands of Israeli reservists [email protected] were called up. And then, like now, hundreds of rockets landed in Israel. In the end, after eight days, the two sides irefighters rescued nine people, including two children, reached a cease-fire with the help of the international com-

Al-Anbaa from a flat that caught fire recently in Hawally. The news- munity, and there has been relative quiet since then. Fpaper report indicates that firefighters struggled to evac- This time, rockets fired by the Islamist Hamas movement uate the eight-story building and free the residents inside the are reaching deeper into Israel than ever before, up to 80 burning apartment because of wooden partitions inside. miles from the Gaza Strip. Life in Israel was disrupted, sum- Investigations that followed revealed that the fifth floor apart- mer camps cancelled and many adults and children alike, ment did not have minimum safety conditions, as it was were forced to spend extended time in bomb shelters. inhabited by more than 10 people from different nationalities, During one 24-hour period, Hamas fired more than 100 rock- who were separated by wooden partitions. Those partitions ets resulting in some some property damage but no casual- helped spread the fire, and flames could have moved to other ties. apartments if it was not for firefighters’ intervention. In Gaza, Israeli air strikes took a heavy toll, leaving at least The main responsibility for this incident and similar events 35 Palestinians, some of them children, dead, and hundreds falls on the shoulders of greedy property owners, who divide more wounded. Residents said an already difficult situation in Gaza had deteriorated dramatically over the past two days. kuwait digest “The streets are empty and all night the Israeli aircraft are The main responsibility for bombing and shelling,” Adnan Abu Hasna, the spokesman Running in circles for the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) told this incident and similar The Media Line. “People are really panicking because it feels very dangerous here. The bombings make the windows By Abdullatif Al-Duaij events falls on the shoulders shake and a lot of glass breaks.” Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev says Israel has heikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah said after being ques- weird ambitions. This has become clear by projects, policies of greedy property owners, one simple demand. tioned by the Public Prosecution that he requested that and decisions that the government approved only to retract “The overriding goal is to protect our civilians and to end SSheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and Sheikh later, the most famous of which is the decision to amend the who divide apartments into the rocket launches from Gaza at our civilians,” Regev said. Khalifa Al-Ali Al-Sabah be summoned to testify as witnesses. 25 constituencies distribution in the electoral law to 10 con- “We want to dismantle the formidable Hamas military terror- Two hours before Sheikh Ahmad’s statement, a person stituencies. smaller rooms in order to ist machine and to reestablish deterrence. Ultimately, Hamas wrote on Twitter that the sheikh was going to request sum- Wise people remained neutral and offered advices, but they must understand it is not in its interest to shoot rockets into moning Sheikh Mohammad Al- cannot continue to do the same increase their profit, with total Israel.” Sabah to testify as a prosecution now when the problems started Those limited goals seem to signify that Israel does not witness. This is normal, as that per- to affect them. This is why we disregard to safety standards. want a ground operation that could significantly increase son might have had access to For years, we have been have to say out loud ‘enough’! We casualties on both sides. When asked, Regev said he did not those information before every- are tired of court cases and accu- call to dismantle Hamas, only the “military terrorist machine.” one else. He could be close to running in circles and on sations. Enough with running apartments into smaller rooms in order to increase their profit, Israeli officials know that it is not possible to get rid of Sheikh Ahmad. Or he could have around astray and behind stolen with total disregard to safety standards. Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007. simply made a good prediction. a hot tin at the same time. money. At least before returning Some residents are also responsible, when they install par- Hamas has its own set of goals for the current conflict But the problem is that the those funds, explain to us how titions inside their apartments following an agreement with with Israel, most of which have nothing to do with the ‘Tweeter’ indicated that Sheikh we go from one scandal they were stolen in order to pro- the building’s janitor in exchange of some money. They would Jewish state. Hamas is being squeezed politically and eco- Mohammad Al-Sabah will be sum- tect what we already have! then offer rooms in their apartments for families looking for a nomically. Politically, Hamas was forced to capitulate to the moned to testify as a witness in to another, and create a We are tired of trials, lawsuits, flat near their workplace or simply to save money. This is very terms of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the financial transfers case. Here is case to cover for another. and countersuits. Some people dangerous especially when partitions made from wood and join a unity government. Economically, Hamas has not been where I find the problem, a 1,000 call for conciliation, but with who other flammable materials are used, and during the summer able to pay the salaries of its 40,000 civil servants. Hamas has one, or actually all the problems and against who? Nobody knows. when the chances for fires increase with the rising tempera- also been isolated internationally since the overthrow of that we have been facing in the Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah tures. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi who strongly supported past years. will be summoned to testify in the transfers case. Other witnesses, These kindS of incidents cannot be justified. They show a Hamas. For years, we have been running in circles and on a hot tin accused parties and prosecutors will be involved in the case. In disturbing case of negligence and irresponsible behavior by Hamas’s main goal, say Palestinian analysts, is to get the at the same time. we go from one scandal to another, and cre- the meantime, we will continue running in circles, until the year reckless individuals who put innocent people and children’s Rafah crossing with Egypt reopened to get both people and ate a case to cover for another. It has also become clear that 2020 arrives and we perish while our running is still yet to end. lives at risk in order to feed their greed. goods moving in and out of Gaza. — The Media Line the government here is multi-headed, has many visions and —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas

kuwait digest The Israeli offensive

By Khairallah Khairallah t is clear that Israel is not against an escalation in itself in a deep crisis, and the way out was to run Gaza. When it comes to the Palestinians, Israel towards national reconciliation. That allowed it to Icannot miss the opportunity of taking advantage transform its crisis into a Palestinian crisis with the of any mistake they make, such as kidnapping and absence of a leadership capable of asking questions killing three teenagers in the West Bank, to practice such as ‘where are the rockets going to lead us to?’, its favorite game. The game is known as the terrorism and in light of the presence of an Israeli government of a state which believes that time is in its favor, and that believes in nothing but occupation. helps create a new reality on the Palestinian ground. Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in the summer Ironically, Palestinians are happy these days with of 2005. Then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon justi- the rockets fired from Gaza and reach Jerusalem, Tel fied the decision with the desire to have more control Aviv and Haifa. Their jubilant reaction is reminiscent over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians to the happiness expressed by those who celebrated had the opportunity to turn Gaza into a model exam- when Saddam Hussein fired rockets towards ple for what a peaceful Palestinian state that lives in Jerusalem in 1991 during the international military peace with its surroundings could become. Hamas, action to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi Invasion. however, chose a different formation that brought A country like Israel can only welcome such rock- calamities to the strip and its inhabitants, and turned ets which allow it to expand its assault and killing of the area into a large prison. Palestinians, the majority of whom are elderly, Hamas forgot that Gaza had an international air- women and children. The scary part about the recent port named after Yasser Arafat and was opened in offensive in Gaza is targeting the houses of Hamas 1998, and also forgot that former United States and Islamic Jihad leaders in disregard of civilians President Bill Clinton visited the Gaza Strip in that within their perimeters. year and spoke to the Palestinian Legislative Council. There is an Israeli project pertaining with Gaza in Israel used Hamas every time to prove that a the horizon. Because of this project, the aggression Palestinian partner it can negotiate with does not will continue for a long time; especially since the exist. It has always escaped from the peace process’ world is currently busy with many other issues dues because it wanted to perpetuate the occupa- including Iraq, Ukraine, and Syria where the president tion. insists on disintegrating the state, in accordance with The fear now is that Israel uses the escalation to Israel’s main project for the entire region. achieve two goals. The first is to separate Gaza com- There is no doubt that Hamas has achieved what it pletely from the West Bank, and the second is to put wanted from the escalation. What it wanted was pressure in order to expand the Gaza Strip towards transporting its crisis from Gaza and turn it into a Egyptian territories, and have international guaran- Palestinian and even Egyptian crisis. The Palestinian tees in order to establish a demilitarized state in authority cannot stand and watch what is going on. ‘Greater Gaza.’ And what applies to the Palestinian authority applies The talk about ‘Greater Gaza’ is not new. It was first to the national reconciliation government led by Dr mentioned years ago by Major General Giora Eiland, Rami Hamdallah, which Hamas insists to make it hold former Israel’s National Security Advisor during more responsibility than it could. Sharon’s tenure. This project was accepted by the Meanwhile, Egypt seems more embarrassed than Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt during the tenure of ever as it is required to act in any way to stop the former president Mohamed Morsi. Therefore, there aggression. It has to do so despite the fact that the was calm between Israel and Gaza after 2012. The bitter taste towards Muslim Brotherhood groups calm lasted over a year, or during Morsi’s tenure as which encouraged terrorism in Sinai and conspired Egypt’s president. That time was a ‘honeymoon’ peri- against Arab states in all means possible, is still in its od between Hamas and Israel because Hamas want- mouth. ed to avoid any action that could embarrass the In the long term, the Palestinians in general will Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt. have to face the Israeli project that aims to create a It is certain that Hamas’ rockets will not liberate new fait accompli in Gaza. Gaza cannot under any Palestine, or end Gaza’s siege. But what is not certain shape or form stay out of control, and a launch pad is whether or not Israel can achieve its goals. for rockets fired towards the Israeli territories. Not Either way, there is a big loser from the escalation: only does Israel seek to achieve that. There is an the Palestinian National Authority, which became 16- Who was the first caliphate to add the name international stand in its support, and seemingly pre- required to reconsider its positions on many fields, of Allah to his name? pared to cover up for its terrorist practices against including the viability of the national reconciliation the Palestinians who in reality are victims of Hamas in light of malicious intents that Hamas has and - Al-Mu’tasim, thus became known as ‘Al-Mu’tasim and its militias which controlled the strip since mid which contradict with the meaning of the word ‘rec- 2007, to achieve a very clear goal of establishing an onciliation.’ These intents include making the bi-’llah’ ‘Islamic emirate’ there. Palestinian Authority involved in its wars and crisis. Hamas preceded the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Is that in the Palestinian Authority’s interest? This Yes No in establishing its state with the original goal of is a question that needs a clear answer if standing expanding towards Egypt in coordination with the against the ‘Greater Gaza’ project is what is needed. Muslim Brotherhood’s ruling there. Hamas’ project But is there anyone who actually wants to face the failed when the Egyptian people said no to the project that is already rejected by Egypt? Muslim Brotherhood on June 30, 2013. Hamas found —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Rai MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 LOCAL ‘Amiri wisdom saved Kuwait from disaster’ Recent demonstrations ‘pre-planned’ KUWAIT: Kuwait’s security and stability could have been jeopardized without the “blessing and protection” of God then “wisdom” of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Alshaya celebrates latest intake of graduates Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, a senior government official said Saturday. Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and Acting KUWAIT: M.H. Alshaya Co. was pleased to Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Sheikh Mohammad celebrate successful participants from its Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah was speaking at a dinner ban- Kuwaiti Graduate Programme at a special quet for senior commanders and officers of the Ministry of ceremony recently held at the company’s Interior (MoI) on the occasion of Ramadan. head office in Shuwaikh. The programme, He said recent demonstrations “have been pre-planned,” which has been operating since 2006, sup- and the MoI has followed the rules of engagements. ports Alshaya’s commitment to train and “We have warned the demonstrators and followed the develop young Kuwaiti nationals and intro- law in our actions,” said Sheikh Mohammad. “We will act duce them to a career in retail. strictly if the situation concerns the security of the nation.” The latest intake of graduates has been Sheikh Mohammad said the MoI personnel were follow- working for the past six months in a range of ing directions and guidance of His Highness the Amir. The departments across the business including MoI is backed by His Highness the Amir, His Highness the Digital Marketing, Customer Service and Crown Prince and the Kuwaiti people, he underlined. Fashion. During this time they have not “We as security forces have pledged to His Highness the only gained valuable work experience, but Amir to implement justice and law ... we succeeded in con- have also received training and coaching on fronting all those who want to undermine the security of a range of core business skills. Having suc- Kuwait, at the time people were spending their time in cessfully graduated they are now able to worshipping and reading Holy Quran” in Ramadan, said the develop their careers at Alshaya within their minister. Sheikh Mohammad warned against false informa- chosen discipline. As a leading international tion posted on the social medial network, which aimed at retail franchise operator, Alshaya is able to (MGRP), a government body which partners al franchise operator for over 70 of the understanding and a comprehensive com- inciting discord and attacking the judicial authority. offer a wide range of career opportunities with business to help build the number of world’s most recognised retail brands mitment to customer service. Growth in “Kuwait is a state of institutions, and freedom is guaran- within the company, both in retail opera- Kuwaitis developing a career in the private including Starbucks, H&M, Mothercare, each of its operating divisions and brands is teed for all ... .” tions as well as within specialist functions. sector. As well as its Graduates Programme, Debenhams, American Eagle Outfitters, P.F. supported by continuous investment in tal- Commenting on the ceremony, Dalal Al- the company manages a wide range of ini- Chang’s, The Cheesecake Factory, Victoria’s ent and infrastructure. It applies best prac- Emergency meeting Jaser, Nationalisation Project Manager, said tiatives, including the annual Retail Summer Secret, Boots, Pottery Barn and KidZania. tices in retail operations, merchandising, Meanwhile, the National Assembly held a meeting yes- “We are very pleased to welcome this latest Programme, a month long programme that The company operates over 2,600 stores marketing, information technology, logis- terday between members of the Legislative and Executive group of graduates to Alshaya. I graduated provides first-hand experience on the shop across diverse customer sectors: Fashion & tics, real estate, human resources and finan- authorities to discuss the recent local and international myself from this programme in 2006, and I floor, and the Retail Management Footwear, Health & Beauty, Food, Optics, cial controls. developments. National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- am honoured that my role today is to assist Programme, a dedicated two year course for Pharmacy, Home Furnishings and Leisure & M.H. Alshaya Co. is the retail business of Ghanim invited members of the two branches last other Kuwaitis to join our company and con- those interested in retail operational roles. Entertainment. the Alshaya Group, which was founded in Thursday to convene a meeting, which will substitute an tribute to its success. There are plenty of Young Kuwaitis interested in finding out Alshaya’s stores can be found in markets Kuwait in 1890 and today represents one of emergency parliamentary session. opportunities for young Kuwaitis at Alshaya, more about any of these programmes can across the Middle East and North Africa, the most dynamic companies in the Middle The meeting was attended by First Deputy Prime and we have a full team ready to help and email the HR team at hrsu- Russia, Turkey and Europe and the compa- East. In addition to its retail operations, the Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah support them.” [email protected] or call (+965) 2224- ny employs more than 40,000 people from Alshaya Group is active in a number of oth- Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Alshaya was recognised in 2013 as the 3688. over 110 nationalities. er sectors including real estate, automotive, Minister of Interior and Acting Minister of Awqaf and leading company for training Kuwaiti The company has established itself as hotels, trading and investments. Learn Islamic Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Khalid Al-Hamad Al- nationals by the Manpower and Retail brands the industry leader across these territories more about the company at Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Government Restructuring Programme M.H. Alshaya Co. is a leading internation- through a combination of local market www.alshaya.com. Minister of Justice Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Mubarak Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Minister of Health Ali Al-Obaidi and Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Ali Al-Omair. — KUNA Dozens of expats face deportation

KUWAIT: Dozens of expatriates face deportation even if they can prove that absconding cases filed by their employers are false, after the Interior Ministry became solely responsible for looking into such cases. The labor relations department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor used to handle investiga- tions in cases filed by employers who claim that their employ- ees went missing and failed to report to work without valid reasons. The process allowed the department to reveal when employers made false accusations against workers to deny their rights, or negotiate a settlement between the two par- ties after the absconding employee was summoned. The department also determined when a worker committed a vio- lation of the labor law that requires deportation, and approved workers’ requests to transfer to another employer in case their original employers were uncooperative. But things have changed when the Interior Ministry was recently assigned to handle absconding cases as misde- meanors, allowing senior officials to make so-called ‘adminis- trative deportation’ decisions without giving workers the right of due legal process.

Complicated procedures This situation has already affected many expatriates who say that they struggle to navigate through the Interior Ministry’s complicated procedures to drop absconding cases filed against them, even when they have evidence to prove that the accusations were fabricated. The residents, who face the risk of being deported with their families, appealed with officials at the MSAL and Public Authority of Manpower to ‘cor- rect’ the situation and reassume the authority of settling labor-related disputes. The only legal way to settle these disputes now is through the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Investigations Department or by a court order, according to sources in the Public Authority of Manpower. “After absconding cases became classified as misdemeanor crimes, labor relations departments can no longer negotiate settlements,” said the sources who spoke to Al-Jarida on the condition of anonymity. “Instead, they should refer all absconding cases they receive to the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Investigations Department.” Meanwhile, the sources warned employers from lodging false absconding cases against their workers, or using the new stipulation to take advantage of or ‘exact revenge’ on their employees. “If investigations prove that a case is fabricated, employers face being charged with forgery and a jail term ranging between three to seven years,” the source said.

No settlement Maj Gen Talal Marafi, the General Director of the Immigration General Department, issued a decision recently to stop visa transfers of any expatriate charged with abscond- ing. The decision, which was circulated at immigration admin- istrations in Kuwait’s six governorates, stipulates that an expa- triate in such a case would not be allowed to transfer his visa even if he has approval from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor or reached a settlement with his original employer. The decision applies to expatriates who were charged with absconding after last August. A worker does not have the right in this case to settle his dispute and return to working for his employer, and instead would be required to leave the country immediately. The Interior Ministry says that the meas- ure will prevent workers from leaving the company that hired them and signing contracts with other employers, then obtaining approval from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to transfer their visas without the original employer’s approval. A worker in this case can avoid deportation if he wins a court order that stipulates reinstating his visa. But the prob- lem comes from the fact that senior Interior Ministry officials could make decisions to deport expatriates for visa violations before investigations in the case conclude - a decision known as administrative deportation.

Legal rights A constitutional expert said that the controls for making administrative deportation decisions are vague. “The legislator used general terms to define the general interest regarding the law that gives the Interior Ministry authority to deport an expatriate if that decision meets the general interest,” said Dr Mohammad Al-Feeli, constitutional law professor at Kuwait University. “There are no certain controls to determine if an expatriate poses a serious threat to public security, such as the case in other countries,” Dr Feeli told Al-Watan daily. MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 LOCAL Two-member ‘police’ robs Asian in Granada Drug addict steals jewellery

KUWAIT: An Indian in his 30s told Sulaibkhat police that but he was surprised by the Asian’s request to buy a Flirtatious words he was robbed by two young men who told him they recharge card for him first, then he will tell about the A travel agency employee accused a man of urging were detectives and took KD 360 from him before escap- place later somewhere in Farwaniya or Khaitan. The her to commit vice acts when he left his phone numbers ing in a car. A security source said the victim told police source said the husband realized that the Asian was cau- with flirtatious words. The 27-year-old woman who that while he was in his parked car in Granada, he was sur- tious and careful about his moves, so he went to the nar- works in Farwaniya attended to a person who inquired prised when a car pulled up next to him and two men cotics authorities and told them what happened. about summer offers, then attempted to get personal came out and showed an ID with the word “police” in Detectives traced the phone to the central prison, and with her, but she prevented him from doing so, so he left English on it. The two ordered him to put all what he had may be a prisoner, and are working hard on identifying a note with his phone number and flirtatious words. The on the hood, then asked him to open the trunk. He hardly him. woman took the paper to Farwaniya police station and did so when the two drove off with KD 360 and his driving filed a complaint. license. The victim gave them the license plate number. Layer released Security authorities released a lawyer on a personal Jewellery theft Drug promotion guarantee after questioning him for four hours, when he A drug addict in his 20s stole jewllery and a smart- An Asian is promoting drugs from his cell at the claimed that detectives attacked him during a fight with phone from his mother and sold them to get money to Central Jail, according to a security source, by making them at a gathering in front of criminal detectives, buy drugs. He was arrested by detectives and confessed random phone calls in repeated attempts to lure new before finding out that the claim did not have any proof, to thefts his mother did not mention. A security source customers! The source said the incident that made and he ended up charged with insulting a security man. said that a citizen in her forties told Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives begin their investigations started when a The case is still under investigation. police that a thief entered her house and took her jew- female citizen received a phone call from an unknown llery and smartphone, but there were no signs of a number, and was surprised by a person speaking with an Couples fight break-in. When police asked her if she suspects anyone Asian accent. “Do you want drugs... do you want liquor?” Hawally patrols sent a citizen and his wife to Hawally including maids or those who live with her, she said no. he asked, but she hung up thinking someone wanted to police station when a dispute between the two turned Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives worked on the case, and flirt, but he repeated the call several times. So she called into a threat, according to the wife. A security source said got the serial number of the stolen phone, and followed her husband, who was surprised by the Asian reading a police received a call about a fight in a restaurant in it until a person used it, and was later arrested. He said list, “heroin, shabu, hashish, tablets, original whisky...”. Shaab, so policemen went there and found the fight was that he bought the phone from friend who was found to The source said the husband went along with the between a couple, and the wife claimed that he threat- be the son of the lady. The son was arrested and ques- Asian pretending to wanting to buy drugs, and attempt- ened her. She said that she was the one who called tioned and confessed to stealing the jewellery and ed to agree with him on a place to complete the deal, police. Investigations are ongoing. phone to buy drugs.

A group photo of the graduates with NBK officials. NBK celebrates graduation of newly hired Kuwaitis KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Kuwaitis. The ceremony was attended by attract young Kuwaitis by offering them Academy which aims to train and devel- celebrated the graduation of the fifth Mazin Al-Nahedh, NBK General Manager, a range of career and professional devel- op the professional skills of fresh gradu- batch of newly hired young Kuwaitis Consumer Banking Group and Emad Al- opment opportunities. ates, the Summer Internship Program for from the new Shabab Training Program. Ablani, NBK Deputy General Manager, NBK Shabab Training Program high school and college students, in The program is specially designed to Human Resources Group along with sen- extends over a period of two and a half addition to professional training and develop the skills of newly recruited ior leaders from the bank. months and is specially tailored to pro- development programs especially KUWAIT: Emergency inspectors at the Kuwait Municipality carried out a diploma holders as part of NBK’s strategy Shabab Program is the first initiative vide trainees with theoretical and practi- designed and provided by world widespread campaign on food stores and butcher shops in Shuwaikh and to attract and develop young Kuwaitis. of its kind in the private sector in Kuwait cal skills covering the different aspects of renowned institutions to enhance the Sharq recently. They confiscated 20 kg of ‘Girgian’ foodstuff found unsuit- NBK organized a special ceremony for designed to develop the skills of diploma the banking industry. skills of the Bank’s young leadership able for human consumption, issued 36 tickets and closed a restaurant in the graduation of the newly hired young holders, and is part of NBK’s strategy to NBK’s training programs include NBK members. Sharq. —By Hanan Al-Saadoun Govt approval for new rights body By A Saleh Council in May 2010 in the form of com- international standards that organize mitment to create an independent and directs the work of national human KUWAIT: The Kuwait Society for Human rights entity according to Paris princi- rights bodies, and they were adopted Rights welcomed - with reservation on ples to support the efforts of protecting by the UN General Assembly in 1993, some points - the government’s human rights and freedoms, and because the text of the previous text approval of a proposed law to establish strengthens mechanisms of national contradicts the text of item 1 titled “for- a human rights diwan and send it to the cooperation in order to achieve require- mation and independence and plural- National Assembly to include it in its ments of this protection according to ism guarantees”, of the principles relat- agenda during the next term. The socie- international standards that were ed to the center of national establish- ty said in a statement that the establish- approved by the international commu- ments (Paris principles which says that ment of a national independent estab- nity as per United Nations resolution the formation of the national establish- lishment for human rights according to number 48/134 issued regarding princi- ment and appointment of its members, Paris principles is a basic demand by ples related to the center of national be it by elections or without elections, NGOs, and the society has made this establishments of protecting human according to procedures that provides demand since a long time due to its rights, know internationally as Paris necessary guarantees for multiple rep- positive effect in strengthening and principles. resentation for social powers that are protecting human rights in Kuwait. The The society said that its reservation is involved in strengthening and protect- establishment of this body will com- on Article 3 which says that the diwan’s ing human rights. plete the role of concerned NGOs, duties and actions will be administered The society hoped that members of important in coordinating between the by a board of directors formed from sev- the diwan be chosen from national per- government on one hand and the civil eral national personalities known to be sonalities from the NGOs, and appealed society on the other. competent and experienced, adding to members of the National Assembly The statement said the establish- that this method of nomination and to vote on the proposed law because it ment of the human rights body comes appointment is keeping NGOs away is a notable step towards the develop- as a fulfillment of Kuwait’s voluntary from participating in this important ment of rights action, and will be undertaking during the periodical national achievement. respectable for Kuwait at the interna- review of the human rights situation in It said that this text contradicts the tional level and help in strengthening front of the International Human Rights Paris principles, which is a group of freedoms and rights in our societies. Sheikha Intisar encourages youth to be positive

KUWAIT: Sheikha Intisar Salem Al-Ali Al- Sabah, the head of the social initiative, Al- Nowair, has affirmed the group’s approach of boosting cooperation among the vari- ous national teaching and educational sec- tors to promote themes such as positive conducts and thinking among the youth. In a statement yesterday, Sheikha Intisar revealed that an agreement was recently worked out with the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) to encourage positive behaviors and instill positive thoughts in the con- science of the youngsters in the Kuwaiti society. Positive conducts among human beings is “communicable,” said Sheikha Intisar, and “we are the ones that make the about necessity of maintaining upbeat The non-profitable Al-Nowair initiative world around us either positive or nega- sentiments and approaches and creating a was launched in 2013, with the aim of tive.” Sheikh Intisar indicated that according lucrative positive environment for them. spreading optimistic sentiments and to the accord, a program would be The program, to be launched on encouraging abstention from negative launched at GUST to educate students December 2, will be valid for a year. thinking. —KUNA Allergy medicines Germans hail Kuwaiti found in girgean catheterization device FRANKFURT: A German heart center in the city of Frankfurt has con- KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry refuted rumors which spec- ducted catheterization operations for seven German patients using a ulated that drugs were found to be mixed with girgian device invented by Kuwaiti Cardiologist and Head of Cardiac busted recently inside a shop in Ahmadi. Catheterization Department at Al-Sabah Chest Diseases Hospital Dr The ministry’s security media department said in a Ibrahim Al-Rashdan. Dr Al-Rashdan has also participated with the statement yesterday that tests at the Drug Control General German medical team in the operations. Department and Criminal Evidence General Department In a statement to KUNA following the successful operations, Dr. revealed that the substances found are allergy medica- Rashdan stated that the German medical team has expressed great tions. interest and admiration of the device. The ministry further indicated that investigations are He noted that his device helps doctors remove the dye injected ongoing to determine why the medications were mixed during catheterization before it reaches kidneys to avoid any harmful with candy at the shop. side effects on kidneys. —KUNA MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014

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Page 10 Page 12 Libya’s airport closed as rival militias clash Seven dead as heavy fighting breaks out in Tripoli TRIPOLI: Deadly clashes raged yesterday A foreign ministry source said Libya would around Libya’s main international airport, clos- be represented by its ambassador to Tunisia, ing it down, as the anti-Islamist militia that Mohamed al-Maalul, at the closed-door meet- control it came under attack, airport officials ings in Hammamet, a town south of Tunisia’s said. capital. The exchanges of fire with heavy weapons The former rebel Zintan militia helped top- killed at least six people and wounded 25, a ple strongman Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 health ministry official said. It was not imme- NATO-backed uprising, and is now well estab- diately known if civilians were among the lished in Tripoli, controlling the airport and casualties. military sites. The assault on the Zintan militia which The heavily armed group, named after a controls the airport by Islamist militants came hill town southwest of the capital, is consid- after the UN pulled staff from Libya citing ered the armed wing of the liberal movement security reasons, and as Washington warned jockeying for power with Islamists who domi- of further escalation. nate parliament. An airport official said “rockets struck inside Yesterday’s attack was claimed by the the airport perimeter around 6.00 am (0400 Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries, a GMT)”, followed by heavy clashes between the coalition of Islamist militias seen as the armed rival gunmen. wing of Islamists within the General National Loud explosions and heavy gunfire were Congress (GNC) or parliament. heard in the city centre, 25 kilometres (15 “The revolutionary forces arrive within the miles) away, AFP correspondents reported. perimeter of Tripoli airport and clash with An airport source said Zintan fighters armed groups inside,” it said on its Facebook pushed back the assailants but that clashes page. continued to rage around the facility, as locals Britain’s Minister for the Middle East Hugh reported seeing tanks deploy and smoke bil- Robertson in a statement urged an immediate lowing. end to the fighting and called on all parties to The clashes later scaled down to intermit- engage in “meaningful dialogue”. tent exchanges of automatic weapons fire, an European Union presidency holder Italy, TRIPOLI: Smoke rises on the horizon in Tripoli, Libya, early yesterday. Explosions and gunfire have been heard around the international meanwhile, called for United Nations-led AFP correspondent said. airport in Libya’s capital as airlines have canceled some international flights. The fighting erupted yesterday morning, thought i was The authorities said the airport would stay diplomacy in Libya to aid the democratic tran- unclear who was involved. Libya has seen fierce fighting between rival militias since the 2011 civil war that toppled dictator ammarMo closed for at least three days. Government sition. “There has not been adequate support Gaddafi. — AP spokesman Ahmed Lamine, meanwhile, for transitions after regimes are toppled and power. struggled to establish a strong army and the ongoing violence in Libya and dangerous urged an “immediate and unconditional” we are still paying the price,” Foreign Minister police force, allowing ex-rebels a free hand to posturing that could lead to widespread con- ceasefire, calling on both sides “to halt all hos- Federica Mogherini told the ANSA news act. Yesterday’s clashes came just hours after flict there,” State Department spokeswoman tile actions”. The closure prevented Libya’s for- agency. Plagued by lawlessness Libya, awash with weapons since the upris- the United States warned that the conflict Jen Psaki said. eign minister, Mohamed Abdelaziz, from trav- The fighting comes weeks after a contest- ing three years ago, has also been plagued by could become “widespread” unless a new par- On July 6, Libya’s electoral commission elling to a two-day meeting near Tunis open- ed June 25 general election to replace the growing lawlessness, while on the political liament is seated quickly and a new constitu- scrapped the election results from 24 polling ing Sunday of his counterparts in North Africa Islamist-dominated GNC, which has been front rival cabinets are jostling for power. tion drafted. stations, citing fraud, and said final results to consider how to aid chaos-riddled Libya. mired in controversy and accused of hogging The embattled Tripoli government has “The United States is deeply concerned by would be announced on July 20. — AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Yemen president sacks two top army commanders SANAA: Yemeni President Abdrabuh al-Hawry to the post. The capture of their mountain strongholds in the He appointed Brigadier bombers, rocket-launchers and heavy Mansur Hadi has sacked the military Amran, just 50 kilometres (30 miles) remote north towards the capital, bat- Abdurrahman al-Halili as a chief of the machineguns. chiefs of two regions following sweep- north of Sanaa, threatened a federalisa- tling loyalist troops and pro-govern- region that has seen a rise in Al-Qaeda The assault killed 15 soldiers and ing advances by Shiite rebels and a tion plan that was agreed in February fol- ment tribesmen. attacks on security forces, including police. Twelve militants also died, three surge in Al-Qaeda attacks, state media lowing national talks as part of a political Huthi rebels said Saturday they brazen attacks in Sayun. of them suicide bombers. reported yesterday. transition. agreed to pull out from the city after In late June militants briefly seized Sayun is the main town in the Major General Mohammed al- The rebels, also known as striking a deal with the defence min- Sayun airport in Hadramawt and tar- Hadramawt valley, a jihadist stronghold Makdishi, who headed the sixth mili- Ansarullah, have complained for years istry allowing troops back into Amran. geted a military headquarters with a in the province’s interior. tary command based in the northern of marginalisation in the Sunni majority Hadi also sacked Brigadier-General car bomb. Hadramawt’s rugged terrain pro- city of Amran overrun by Shiite Huthi country, and say the transition plan Mohammed al-Somali, who headed the On May 24, militants had launched a vides hideouts for militants of Al-Qaeda rebels, was sacked Saturday, Saba news would divide Yemen into rich and poor first military command in charge of the massive pre-dawn assault, attacking in the Arabian Peninsula, considered by agency said. regions. southeastern Hadramawt province, police and army bases and public Washington as the jihadist network’s Hadi appointed Brigadier Mohammed In February they advanced from where Al-Qaeda militants are active. buildings in Sayun with suicide most dangerous affiliate. —AFP US, Iran say big gaps remain as deadline looms in nuclear talks

VIENNA: Big gaps remain in talks there, will also seek to ease a major row Khamenei on Tuesday declared that between world powers and Iran aimed over spying with Germany, which saw Iran wants to immensely increase its at reaching a lasting agreement on the the CIA chief in Berlin expelled from the enrichment capacities for theoretical Islamic republic’s nuclear activities by country. future nuclear power plants-directly the end of next week, both sides said Speaking about the Iran talks, Kerry challenging the P5+1’s demand that yesterday as foreign ministers flew into said: “Obviously we have some very sig- those capacities be greatly reduced. Vienna to push negotations along. nificant gaps. We need to see if we can Araqchi said: “Concerning enrich- “We have some very significant make some progress.” He added that “it ment, our position is clear and rational. gaps,” US Secretary of State John Kerry is vital to make certain that Iran is not As the supreme guide said, the enrich- told reporters on arrival. “On practically going to develop a nuclear weapon, ment programme has been planned all the important issues differences per- that their programme is peaceful”. with the real needs of the country in sist and we have not been able to nar- French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius mind, meaning our need to ensure row them,” one of Iran’s top negotiators, also underlined the big gaps remaining reactor fuel.” Abbas Araqchi, told Al-Alam television. when he arrived. “If we can reach a deal On Saturday, Araqchi has said Iran The unbridged positions threaten to by July 20, bravo,” he said. was ready to walk away from the talks if prevent the much sought-after, historic “If we we can’t there are two possi- the world powers pushed on with deal being struck by its July 20 dead- bilities: one, we either extend, a so- “excessive” demands. line, when a six-month interim accord called rollover; or we will have to say The UN Security Council and its with Iran runs out. that unfortunately there is no perspec- International Atomic Energy Agency If no agreement is reached by yes- tive for a deal.”We don’t know yet. It’s (IAEA) have long been concerned terday next week, both sides can not yet July 20. We are trying to go in about Iran’s outsized atomic activities decide to extend the interim pact for the right direction.” and secret construction of two uranium some months to keep talking. British Foreign Secretary William enrichment sites, one of which is heavi- In a sign of the high stakes at play, Hague also underlined the “significant ly fortified under a mountain. The Kerry and the foreign ministers of gaps” on his Twitter feed after arriving, Security Council has passed six resolu- France, Britain and Germany flew into and said talks were at “a critical stage”. tions demanding Iran cease all enrich- BAGHDAD: In this Saturday, July 12, 2014 photo, Iraq Shiite fighters with the “Peace Brigades” patrol in Vienna yesterday to face off with Araqchi, in his interview with Al- ment, which Tehran has defied. Samarra, 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Fighters of the voluntary armed group Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Alam, said “differences have been nar- Despite Iranian insistence that the formed after the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda Al-Sadr called to protect holy shrines against possible Zarif. Russia and China, the other two rowed” on “certain” other issues and enrichment is exclusively for energy attacks by Sunni militants have been deployed to protect the Shiite holy Al-Askari shrine in the city of members of the P5+1 group compris- “some solutions have been put for- production and medical purposes, the Samarra. —AP ing the five permanent UN Security ward” in the final-round negotiations P5+1 fears Tehran’s programme was Council members states plus Germany, which started on July 3. aimed at attaining nuclear weapon were sending only lower-ranking offi- But on the major divergences, “it is capability. cials however. still not clear if we will get there,” he The talks are designed limit Iran’s Iraq parliament postpones The Western ministers were to use said. atomic activities in a way that they can the opportunity to also discuss only be used for civilian ends, and that between themselves the deadly con- Tricky issue of enrichment any “breakout” point is pushed back decision on new leaders flict escalating between Israel and the The core sticking point of Iran’s ura- years. Washington wants Iran’s uranium Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza. Calls nium enrichment-an activity can pro- enrichment limited for at least 10 years, BAGHDAD: Iraq’s deadlocked parliament ter’s post to a Shiite. The greatest disagree- mer members of Saddam Hussein’s now- for a ceasefire are mounting, but have duce fuel for Iran’s sole nuclear plant or, a senior US official said Saturday. ended its second session after just 30 min- ment is over prime minister, the most pow- outlawed Baath party. An audio recording so far been ignored by the warring if further enriched, the matter for an In return, Iran would be permitted utes yesterday without making any erful position in the country. purportedly from Naqshbandi leader Izzat sides. atomic bomb-has run up against decla- to carry out reduced enrichment under progress toward forming a new govern- The incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki, has Ibrahim al-Douri surfaced overnight, in Kerry, coming directly from rations by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s close IAEA monitoring and Western ment that can unite the country and con- ruled the country since 2006 but is now which he hailed the militants’ “historic vic- Afghanistan where he brokered a supreme leader who sets the parame- sanctions that have crippled its econo- front the Sunni militant blitz that has seized under pressure to step aside. His govern- tories” in recent weeks and reserved spe- breakthrough to end an election crisis ters for his country’s negotiators. my would be lifted. —AFP control of a huge chunk of the country. ment’s inability to prevent the militant cial praise for the Islamic State group. The legislature is under pressure to offensive over the past month has sapped “Our great Iraqi people along with quickly choose a new speaker of parlia- public - and international - confidence in their brave forces have achieved a great ment, president and prime minister - the his ability to hold Iraq together. victory through a tough and bloody first steps toward a new government. The struggle since more than 11 years,” the international community has urged law- Monopolize man reported to be al-Douri said in the makers to overcome their divisions, while Al-Maliki’s opponents, and even many nearly 15-minute recording. The authen- the United Nations has warned of chaos if of his former allies, accuse him of trying to ticity of the recording could not be imme- the political impasse drags on for too long. monopolize power and alienating the diately confirmed, though it sounded like Hopes had been raised that lawmakers Sunni community, and are pushing him to previous recordings made of al-Douri. might at least vote on a speaker of parlia- not seek a third consecutive term. Al- The fugitive al-Douri is the highest- ment after Sunni blocs announced late Maliki has so far refused to withdraw his ranking member of Saddam’s toppled Saturday that they had agreed on a candi- candidacy, and points to his State of Law government who escaped the 2003 U.S.- date for the post, Salim al-Jubouri. But act- bloc’s capturing the most seats in April led invasion and eluded security forces ing parliament speaker Mahdi al-Hafidh elections to claim he has a mandate. ever since. He is believed to have a signifi- was forced to adjourn Sunday’s brief meet- The urgency for Iraq’s lawmakers to cant role in the Naqshbandi Army, which ing, he said, “due to the absence of any bridge their differences and forge an proudly touts Saddam-era symbols on its agreement on the names of the nominees agreement stems from the threat the website. for the three posts.” nation faces from the Sunni militants who He was the “king of clubs” in the deck of “There are still deep differences,” he swept across much of northern and west- playing cards issued by the US to help said. “We need more discussions to agree ern Iraq over the past month, raising the troops identify the most-wanted members on the names.” He scheduled the next ses- prospect of an Iraq cut in three along eth- of Saddam’s regime. sion for Tuesday. The names aren’t the only nic and sectarian lines. The insurgents are In the recording, he said the “liberation” point of contention. There’s also disagree- led by the Islamic State extremist group, of Ninevah and Salahuddin provinces, ment on whether to choose the speaker, which has declared the establishment of which the militants overran last month, president and prime minister individually, an Islamic state ruled by Shariah law in and the ongoing fighting in Anbar, Diyala or to agree to all three as a sort of package the territory it has seized straddling the and Taamim provinces as well as the out- deal - which has been the case in the past. Iraq-Syria border. skirts of Baghdad marked a “historic and Under an informal arrangement that The jihadi group has been joined in great turning point in the nation’s march of took hold after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraq by an array of other Sunni militant jihad to achieve its freedom and unity and the speaker’s chair goes to a Sunni, the factions, including the Army of the Men of to build prosperous future for coming gen- presidency to a Kurd and the prime minis- the Naqshbandi Order - a collection of for- erations.” —AP Political novice Cerar bids to win Slovenia snap election

LJUBLJANA: Slovenians voted yester- voters looking for someone new and leader and two-time prime minister, day in a snap election likely to put untarnished by the corruption scan- Janez Jansa, was jailed for graft last political novice Miro Cerar in charge of dals that have dogged the mainstream month for two years. a quest to fix the country’s shaky parties. The new government is unlikely to finances and implement reforms He owes much of his celebrity to be in place before mid-September. already agreed with the European his Olympian gymnast father, one of Cerar is expected to turn to at least Union. the greatest sportsmen the small two smaller parties to form a coalition If opinion polls prove right, the cen- southeast European country of 2 mil- government - the Social Democrats tre-left Cerar will form Slovenia’s lion people has ever produced, and his (SD) and the Desus pensioners’ party. fourth government since the financial late mother, a prominent state prose- Both were part of the outgoing cabi- crisis in 2008 shredded the country’s cutor, politician and cabinet minister. net and were reluctant recruits to the reputation as the best-performing Cerar’s main rival is the centre-right toughest of Bratusek’s crisis measures, new European Union member. Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS). Its particularly privatisation. —Reuters “I expect people will recognize that Slovenia needs a change and vote for our party,” Cerar, 50, a former law pro- fessor and parliamentary adviser, said after voting in the capital, Ljubljana. However, given his reluctance to sell some of Slovenia’s major state assets, analysts expect a limited makeover rather than the sweeping change that many believe is needed after the country only narrowly avoid- ed having to seek an international bailout for its banks late last year. Investors are still nervous about what will happen to a package of measures agreed with the European Commission. Chief among those is the sale of big state enterprises that out- going Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek put on hold last month until a new government is in place. Cerar created his Party of Miro MANAMA: Young Bahraini Shiite Muslim boys read the holy Quran, Cerar (SMC) barely six weeks ago and during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in the vil- shot to the top of opinion polls among lage of Sanabis, west of Manama, yesterday. —AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Christie blames Obama in part for Mideast unrest

NASHVILLE: New Jersey Gov. Chris up its bombardment of northern Gaza. ing a meeting of the National Governors icy experience, the two-term governor has whether Obama should take military Christie blamed the unrest in the Middle Israel says it is acting in self-defense Association. been speaking more aggressively on inter- action if necessary. East in part on President Barack Obama, against Hamas rockets. “Israel is not sure that they have national affairs in recent months. When Obama spoke earlier this week saying the president has not spoken firmly Christie, who is considering a 2016 pres- America’s full support like they used to,” Christie said Obama should be focused with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and forcefully on Israel’s behalf and that idential bid, cited the violence sparked by Christie said. “And that’s a real failure of this on trying to bring stability to the region Netanyahu, the White House said the presi- the country no longer trusts it has the full the deaths of three Israeli teenagers and presidency, in my view. And I think the “by having America be a forceful voice in dent condemned the rocket attacks and support of the United States because of said organizations like Hamas that are unrest you see in the Middle East is caused favor of a democracy like Israel, and be said Israel has the right to defend itself. He him. The Republican governor’s remarks engaged in such conflict with Israel “need in some measure - not completely, but in condemning in the strongest terms and also urged both sides not to escalate the came as Israel targeted civilian institutions to be dealt with, and dealt with firmly.” some measure - by the fact that this presi- with actions the things that are being crisis and offered to have the U.S. negoti- with suspected ties to the militant organi- Obama has not done so during his presi- dent has not acted in a decisive, consistent done by Hamas against Israel.” ate a cease-fire, the White House said in a zation Hamas and declared it would step dency, Christie told reporters while attend- way.” While Christie has limited foreign pol- When asked, Christie declined to say statement. —AP Putin, Kirchner seek ‘multipolarity’ in visit BUENOS AIRES: Russian President that also targets global economic and Vladimir Putin and his Argentine counter- financial regulation. The pair looked on as part Cristina Kirchner called Saturday for a their delegations signed a series of bilateral multipolar world order as Moscow sought deals, including one on nuclear energy that to boost ties with Latin America amid comes as Argentina ramps up work on its heightened East-West tensions. fourth nuclear plant, the $3-billion Atucha Putin is on a six-day tour seeking to III reactor. increase Moscow’s influence in the region Kirchner said members of the Russian at a time when the Ukraine crisis has erod- delegation would also visit the massive ed Russia’s relations with the United States Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas field, poten- and Europe to their lowest point since the tially one of the largest finds in history, Cold War. which cash-strapped Argentina-locked out His itinerary includes meetings with a of capital markets since its 2001 default- string of leftist leaders critical of the United needs investment to develop. States and a summit of the BRICS group of The pair also discussed military coopera- emerging countries-an agenda that neatly tion, including the prospect of Russia pro- aligns with his push for a multipolar world viding transport planes for use in less dominated by the West. Antarctica. Kirchner is meanwhile waging her own fight against Washington, battling a US Cold War echoes court ruling that Argentina must pay more Putin’s six-day trip will next take him to than $1.3 billion by the end of the month Brazil, where he will participate in a summit to hedge funds refusing to accept the of the BRICS emerging nations-Brazil, A screengrab taken yesterday from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows the restructuring of the country’s defaulted Russia, India, China and South Africa. leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau (C), referring to the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in favor of debt. Putin said Russia shared “a very simi- The Russian strongman has invited young women abducted by the group. — AFP lar, very close view of international rela- Argentina, which is keen to join the group, tions” with Argentina. to attend the meeting as an observer. He also voiced his support for He will also watch Argentina play Argentina’s long-standing territorial claim Germany in the World Cup final. There were Boko Haram chief claims Lagos, to the Falkland Islands, the British territory distinct Cold War echoes in the former KGB it calls the Malvinas, which sparked a 1982 spy’s travel itinerary. war between the two countries. He launched his tour Friday in Russia’s Abuja attacks in new video “We favor the principles of a multi-polar Cold War ally Cuba, where he met with world, which are equality, indivisibility and President Raul Castro and his 87-year-old LAGOS: The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram has Later that day a huge explosion also rocked Fashola.The error is consistent for Shekau, who security. Russia continues to support the brother Fidel, father of the island’s commu- claimed responsibility for a bombing in the capi- the Apapa port district of Lagos, which the has regularly appears out-of-touch and need to find a solution to the dispute over nist revolution. tal Abuja and an attack hours later in Lagos authorities blamed on a cooking gas explosion, unhinged in his messages. He has previously the Malvinas Islands at direct negotiations He then made a surprise stop in which the authorities tried to cover up, in a with no casualties. threatened ex-British prime minister Margaret between Great Britain and Argentina,” he Nicaragua for talks with President Daniel video obtained by AFP yesterday. An AFP investigation has revealed the blast Thatcher months after her death and the said at a dinner in his honor. Ortega, a former guerrilla whose govern- In the 16-minute video, Boko Haram chief was a deliberate attack involving high explo- deceased pope John Paul II. The Argentine leader for her part insist- ment was close to the Soviet Union during Abubakar Shekau also voices support for the sives. The government has since conceded it was ed that global institutions must be over- the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS) militants who too soon to determine if the Lagos blast was a Extremist ‘brethren’ hauled and made more multilateral. But Putin also had plenty of modern-day have taken over large swathes of territory in Iraq bombing, and says investigations are ongoing. Declared a global terrorists by the United “We firmly believe in multipolarity, in business on his agenda. In Havana, he over- and Syria. “A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered (the States and sanctioned by the UN Security multilateralism, in a world where countries saw the signing of a dozen bilateral deals, He mocks the social media and protest cam- bomber) who went and detonated it,” Shekau Council, Shekau is thought to have previously don’t have a double standard,” Kirchner said including for oil exploration off the island’s paign Bring Back Our Girls, which emerged after says in the video, which shows him flanked by at claimed credit for attacks that he did not directly after the pair toured the presidential palace coast. the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 school- least ten gunmen in front of two armoured per- order. Near the beginning of the video Shekau in Buenos Aires. In Nicaragua, he vowed to strengthen girls on April 14 from the remote northeastern sonnel carriers and two pickup trucks. calls several of the world’s most prominent “We need to globally regulate the flow economic ties with the Central American town of Chibok. The girls, whose abduction has “You said it was a fire incident,” he added. Islamist extremists his “brethren”. of capital that has turned the world into a country, which earlier this month finalized drawn unprecedented attention to Boko Haram’s “Well, if you hide it from people you can’t hide it “May Allah protect you” he said, listing IS financial casino where many countries are the route for a planned alternative to the five-year rebellion, are not pictured in the video, from Allah.” Analysts have said the Lagos attack chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Al-Qaeda head drowning in huge debts.” Panama Canal, a Chinese-backed plan that which was given to AFP through similar chan- was likely carried out by a local militant cell with Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Omar She called for the next meeting of G20 promises to reshape the global shipping nels as past messages. loose or perhaps no ties to Boko Haram’s core and several others. Speaking in English, Shekau major economies to set a broader agenda industry. — AFP One previous recording showed more than leadership in the northeast, the group’s strong- recited the Bring Back Our Girls slogan used by 100 of the hostages, some of whom are hold. Prior to June 25, Lagos, sub-Saharan activists to pressure for the release of schoolgirls. Christian, reciting Muslim prayers. Shekau also Africa’s largest city, had not been hit by Islamist “Bring Back Our Girls... bring back our army,” said his loyalists carried out twin car bombings militants. An escalation of violence in the city, he says, in what may be reference to a previous in May in the central city of Jos and a June attack Nigeria’s commercial capital, could have devas- offer that the hostages could be freed if Nigeria at a public health college in the northern city of tating consequences for the government of releases Boko Haram fighters held in custody. Kano. President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been Boko Haram’s uprising, aimed at creating a fiercely criticised for his handling of the insur- strict Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim Claims Abuja, Lagos attacks gency. Shekau, in boasting about the Lagos north, is estimated to have killed more than “We were the ones who detonated the bomb attack, incorrectly identifies the Governor of 10,000 people since 2009, and Shekau vowed in filthy Abuja,” he said, referring to a June 25 Lagos State, taunting Adams Oshiomole, who is more bloodshed. He said he will continue to be attack on a popular shopping centre in the heart in fact the Governor the southern Edo State. “a huge problem” for the West and people across of the capital that killed at least 22 people. Lagos State is led by Governor Babatunde Nigeria. — AFP Senator Warren hits road for Democrats

CAMBRIDGE: Sen Elizabeth Warren is quickly home in the liberal enclave of Cambridge, Mass. working families trying to get a fair deal in an becoming a top Democratic fundraising and Part of Warren’s economic pitch is legislation she economic and political system that Warren campaigning powerhouse, hitting the road on sponsored that would let college graduates refi- argues is rigged against them. behalf of candidates in key races the party will nance their student loans at lower interest rates, Warren found herself thrust into the national need to win to retain control of the US Senate in an effort blocked by Senate Republicans. political spotlight during a grueling 2012 cam- November. Warren found a receptive crowd during a paign against incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Since March, the Massachusetts Democrat recent campaign stop at the University of Brown. It was the most expensive campaign in has stumped for candidates in Ohio, Minnesota, Louisville with Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Massachusetts history with both candidates rak- Oregon, Washington and Kentucky and has trips Kentucky secretary of state hoping to unseat ing in tens of millions in donations. planned this week for West Virginia and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Warren’s profile has made her a go-to cam- Michigan. It’s a hefty schedule for a freshman Cast by critics as a typical Northeast liberal, paigner for Democratic Senate candidates, in senator who not long ago was teaching law at Warren, 65, grew up in Oklahoma in a family part because as a newer arrival on the political TBILISI: Relatives of former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze attend his Harvard. which she said lived on “the ragged edge of the stage she is free of some of the political alba- funeral in Tbilisi, yesterday. Shevardnadze who helped end the Cold War in his capac- Along the way, Warren has found her brand middle class” - an experience that she said trosses carried by other top Democrats like ity as the Soviet Union’s last foreign minister, died on July 7, 2014, aged 86. — AFP of economic populism resonating far from her helped forge a lifelong interest in advocating for President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. —AP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Death toll in Aegean migrant boat shipwreck raised to 4

ATHENS: Greece’s coastguard yesterday Greece is one of the main ports of entry said four people had been confirmed into the European Union for people fleeing drowned in the latest boat sinking in the war-torn and impoverished countries in Aegean Sea, while around 100 migrants Africa, the Middle East and the Indian sub- had been rescued in other incidents. continent. Many of the recent arrivals are The coastguard said it had recovered escaping civil war in Syria. the bodies of a man and a young boy of People traffickers are increasingly using around 10, part of a group of over 30 peo- Greece’s Aegean islands to smuggle ple whose boat capsized as they tried to migrants into Europe after a tightening of reach the island of Samos on Friday. border controls along its land border with “The vessel carrying them sank under Turkey. In May, another 22 migrants unspecified circumstances,” a coastguard drowned in a similar incident near Samos. spokeswoman said. The bodies of seven people in the same The Turkish coastguard found another group were never recovered. two bodies, she added, while a further 20 Late on Saturday, another 17 migrants people from the Samos group are still were rescued from the sea in another inci- believed missing. dent near the Greek island of Farmakonisi. Thirteen people were rescued, including And 77 more were found early Sunday a woman and a teenage boy, who was hos- in two separate parts of the island of Chios pitalised. after managing to land on the coast. —AFP Romania puts former prison commander on trial BUCHAREST: For the first time since commu- ago when he cursed and lunged at reporters after nism collapsed in Romania 25 years ago, a former hearing charges against him and says he expects prison commander goes on trial today charged to go to prison. Another former prison guard was with being responsible for the torture and mur- charged in 2000 with aggravated murder, but DONETSK: A pro-Russian rebel holds flowers, a gift from local residents, in Donetsk yesterday. Thousands of panicked refugees dering prisoners considered a threat to the coun- died before his trial could get underway. Former are flooding highways and packed trains heading out of Donetsk, the main remaining rebel strongholds in eastern Ukraine, fear- try’s old order. ministers, diplomats, army officers, farmers, ing attacks by government forces who lost 30 soldiers to defiant militants. —AFP Survivors say the delay in bringing perpetra- priests and workers considered a threat to the tors to justice was a cynical tactic by Romania’s Communist regime were locked up in prisons new rulers, some of whom held senior positions from 1948 to 1964. Historians say one-fifth of the Russia threatens Ukraine under the communist regime, to avoid accounta- 500,000 who were incarcerated died. Bjoza says bility. “These criminals were left in peace on pur- there were 40,000 political prisoners when com- pose and most died in their beds. now they are munism ended with only 3,000 alive now. Former bringing some of the crimes to light and it is prisoner Valentin Cristea, who was incarcerated in after shell crosses border important,” said Octav Bjoza, director of the Ramnicu Sarat while Visinescu was commander, Association of Former Political Prisoners in an communicated by Morse code in the grim lockup interview with The Associated Press. where prisoners were mainly kept in solitary con- Ukraine deny forces fired across the border Alexandru Visinescu, 88, goes on trial charged finement and banned from communicating. with crimes against humanity for deaths that Cristea, 84, said he learned that the inmate in MOSCOW/KIEV: Moscow threatened Kiev yester- ing the incident as “an aggressive act by the The Russian town is called Donetsk, sharing the happened under his command at Ramnicu Sarat the neighboring cell, former army officer Jenica day with “irreversible consequences” after a man Ukrainian side against sovereign Russian territory name of the Ukrainian city of 1 million people that prison from 1956 to 1963. Since authorities Arnautu, had gone on hunger strike to protest was killed by a shell fired across the border from and the citizens of the Russian Federation,” the the rebels have declared capital of an independ- brought charges against him, Visinescu says peo- mistreatment, was being force-fed with a tube Ukraine, describing the incident in warlike terms Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement warn- ent “people’s republic”. ple in the street have shoved him to the ground down his throat. In November 1959, three days as aggression that must be met with a response. ing of “irreversible consequences”. and called him a criminal. He has pleaded not after the tapping on the wall stopped, Arnautu, Although both sides have reported cross-bor- “This represents a qualitative escalation of the ‘Total Nonsense’ guilty and calls himself a scapegoat. “I only fol- who was 36, died, Cristea said in an interview der shootings in the past, the incident appears to danger to our citizens, now even on our own terri- Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s lowed orders. They should ask those that gave the from his home in Campina, 80 kilometers (50 be the first time Moscow has reported fatalities on tory. Of course this naturally cannot pass without a National Security and Defence Council, called the orders,” he told the AP on Friday. “I am convinced miles) north of Bucharest. Visinescu denied its side of the border from the three-month con- response,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister accusation that Kiev’s forces had fired across the they will do anything to take revenge. “Why didn’t knowledge of the case. flict which has killed hundreds of people in Grigory Karasin told Rossiya-24 state TV. border “total nonsense”, and suggested it might be they put me on trial in 1964?” when the political Prosecutors say 14 people died under Ukraine. “What has taken place once again reinforces the work of rebels trying to provoke Russia’s prisons closed “or after (Communist leader) Visinescu’s command, and said corpses showed Ukraine denied its forces had fired across the the need for an urgent end to the bloodshed,” he response. Nicolae Ceausescu died? Why now?” signs of malnutrition according to doctors who border and suggested such an attack could have added, calling for talks between “the sides in the “The forces of the anti-terrorist operation do He contests the number of deaths that prose- signed the death certificates. They accuse been the work of rebels trying to provoke Moscow conflict”, language Moscow uses to demand Kiev not fire on the territory of a neighbouring country cutors say happened under his command and Visinescu of denying medical treatment and post- into intervening on their behalf. The rebels denied recognise the rebel leaders - many of them and they do not fire on residential areas,” he said. denies mistreatment happened under his com- poning the hospitalization of gravely sick prison- they were responsible. Russians who crossed the border to fight - as legit- “We have many examples of terrorists carrying out mand that led to prisoners’ deaths. The word ers. “The regime ...did not allow for the minimum The bellicose rhetorical response from Moscow imate interlocutors. provocation shooting, including into Russian terri- “criminal” is scrawled on the outside wall of the survival conditions in the long term, “the indict- raises the renewed prospect of overt Russian inter- Russia’s Investigative Committee, a crime-fight- tory, and then accusing Ukrainian forces of it.” building where he lives in a shabby one-room ment said. “Prisoners died in a long drawn-out vention, after weeks in which President Vladimir ing body answering directly to Putin, said it had The rebels denied blame. Interfax news agency apartment, full of old photographs of him in uni- process, that was nonetheless efficient, in which Putin had appeared intent on disengaging, pulling launched a criminal case for murder after a shell quoted the rebels’ self-proclaimed first deputy form and as a young boy. Born into a family of they were tortured physically and mentally,” were back tens of thousands of troops he had massed landed in the yard of a house in a small town on prime minister, Andrey Prugin, as saying he was peasants, Visinescu said his father died the year he denied food, and were physically punished on the at the frontier. the Russian side of the frontier, killing a man and “90 percent certain” it was Ukrainian troops that was born. slightest pretext, the indictment says. Visinescu Russia sent Ukraine a note of protest describ- wounding a woman. had fired across the border. —Reuters He seems more resigned than he was a year says fewer died. —AP

RIO DE JANEIRO: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during their meeting in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday. Putin, whose country will host the 2018 World Cup finals, will join Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff for the World Cup final between Argentina and Germany. —AFP Merkel laments breakdown of trust in US spy row

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel tive had been arrested on suspicion of most effectively resolved through estab- lamented on Saturday the breakdown in having sold over 200 documents to the lished private channels, not through the trust between Germany and the United CIA. media.” The scandal has also seen the States amid a spying row that saw the While Merkel was critical of how the chancellor come under political pressure CIA chief in Berlin expelled from the US intelligence services had behaved, at home, with many Germany politicians country. she expressed the hope that the damage urging a strong response. “The thing we always have to keep in could be repaired. She repeated, however, that the espi- mind when we are working together is if “We no longer live in the Cold War era onage affair would not jeopardise nego- the person across the table is possibly where everyone is suspicious of every- tiations between Berlin and Washington working for someone else at the same one. I think the secret services in the 21st over a transatlantic trade deal. time, that for me isn’t a trusting relation- century should concentrate on impor- German Foreign Minister Frank- ship,” she told German ZDF television in a tant issues,” Merkel said. “We work very Walter Steinmeier reacted to the scandal pre-recorded interview. closely with the Americans and I hope by saying he wanted a revived partner- “Here we obviously have different that will continue.” ship with Washington, based on “trust points of view and we need to talk to and mutual respect”. one another,” Merkel said, adding that ‘Trust, mutual respect’ He pledged to begin rebuilding confi- she had “naturally hoped for a change” in In recent days, Washington has hinted dence at a meeting with Secretary of Washington’s behaviour. at its displeasure with Germany’s deci- State John Kerry in Vienna over the The shock move to kick out the US sion to respond in a highly public man- weekend. intelligence chief on Thursday followed ner by expelling the CIA’s Berlin chief-an Steinmeier has been one of a number the emergence of two alleged spying unusual display of fury by Germany of German politicians who has spoken cases within days of each other, re-ignit- towards its ally. frankly and openly about the espionage ing German fury already on a low boil On Friday, White House spokesman drama, in a way that appears to have irri- from another spying scandal last year in Josh Earnest, who previously declined to tated Washington. which it was revealed that Washington go into detail about the row because it The two nations cooperate broadly was monitoring Merkel’s phone. touched on intelligence matters, offered on foreign policy and on intelligence In the latest case, German police on an insight into US thinking. matters, including on the vital work of Wednesday searched the Berlin-area “Allies with sophisticated intelligence trying to detect and disrupt terror plots. home and office of a man who, local agencies like the United States and Germany has in the past sought a “no media reported, is a German defence Germany understand with some degree spying” pact with Washington similar to ministry employee accused of passing of detail exactly what those intelligence US agreements with Australia, Britain, secrets to the United States. relationships and activities entail,” Earnest Canada and New Zealand, but the US A week earlier, a 31-year-old German said. government balked at a deal that could BND foreign intelligence service opera- “Any differences that we have are set a precedent for others. —AFP

MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Taiwan starts using drones to spy on China

TAIPEI: Taiwan has started using Chung Shan Institute of Science and eastern coastal area,” an unnamed senior The US raised the topic during a recent ening trade and tourism links. He was re- unmanned surveillance aircraft to spy on Technology. Initially the drones, based in officer at the defence ministry was quoted military exchange programme with elected in January 2012. China to reduce the risk to its pilots from the eastern county of Taitung, were watch- as saying. Taiwan, it said. Taiwan’s defence ministry But Beijing has still not ruled out the an increased deployment of Chinese mis- ing airspace in the east and south but late- The paper said the operation has declined to comment on the report. use of force against the island should it siles, media reported yesterday. ly they had extended their range to the attracted interest from the United States Tensions across the Taiwan Strait have declare independence, even though the The army in March commissioned a Taiwan Strait, the Liberty Times said. which has been using the sophisticated eased since President Ma Ying-jeou’s two sides have been ruled separately fleet of 32 unmanned aerial vehicles, or “Now they can effectively monitor high-altitude Global Hawk drone to collect China-friendly administration came to since their split in 1949 at the end of a drones, developed by the military-run China’s military movements in the south- military intelligence on China. power in 2008 on a platform of strength- civil war. — AFP

Pakistani jets, artillery kill 18 in anti-militant offensive BANNU: Pakistani jets and artillery pound- of the district after years of pressure from ed militant hideouts in a lawless tribal dis- Washington and other powers. trict, killing 18 foreign and local insurgents The assault was finally launched after a in a massive ongoing offensive against the dramatic attack on Karachi airport which Taleban, officials said yesterday. killed dozens of people and marked the Air strikes were carried out in Mosaki end of a faltering peace process with the area, 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Pakistani Taleban. Miranshah, the main town of North More than 400 militants and 20 soldiers Waziristan yesterday while artillery shelled have been killed in the offensive so far, militant hideouts in Kharkamar area, 30 according to the military. The area is off- kilometres west of Miranshah on Saturday limits to journalists and the number and night. “Six terrorist hideouts and a huge identity of the dead is impossible to verify. ammunition cache were destroyed and at The rugged mountainous area has for least 13 militants, most of them Uzbeks, years been a hideout for Islamist militants were killed in the Saturday morning strikes,” of all stripes-including Al-Qaeda and the a security official told AFP. homegrown Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan as He said five other insurgents were killed well as foreign fighters including Uzbeks and two militant hideouts destroyed by and Uighurs. artillery fire in Kharkamar area on Saturday The latest air strikes came a day after night. A local intelligence official confirmed militants crossed from the Afghan province the raids and militant casualties. of Kunar to launch a pre-dawn ambush on A military statement also said that a a check post in Bajaur tribal district, killing number of terrorists were killed but did not three Pakistani soldiers. give the exact number. Last month “Pakistan lodged a strong protest with Pakistan’s military launched a long-awaited the Afghan side in Islamabad and Kabul on offensive in North Waziristan, aimed at wip- Saturday and reiterated that Afghanistan KABUL: The head of the UN mission to Afghanistan, Jan Kubis, (L) speaks while Head of the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) ing out longstanding militant strongholds should eliminate the terrorist sanctuaries Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani looks on during a press conference in Kabul yesterday. The audit of Afghanistan’s disputed presidential poll will take in the area, which borders Afghanistan. and not allow its territory to be used three weeks, the head of the country’s Independent Election Commission said on July 13 after the two rival candidates agreed to the vote- Jets and artillery began hitting rebel tar- against Pakistan,” the foreign ministry said checking. — AFP gets on June 15 to try to regain full control in a statement. —AFP The 48-hour dash to save Afghanistan’s election Kerry meets one-on-one with each candidate KABUL: He was only on the ground for 48 hours, a deal was closing rapidly. “It wasn’t until the “When Dr Ghani walked in, the two but America’s top diplomat John Kerry may well 11th hour... that we had a full agreement,” a sen- approached each other and immediately have helped prevent Afghanistan from sliding ior US official who took part in the negotiations embraced and there was clearly a degree of into another bloody ethnic war. told journalists. affection between the two,” the first US official The helicopters were waiting for the US The talks had focused on the best mechanism said. Secretary of State when he arrived in Kabul from for auditing the poll results. A second track “For those of us who had sat through these Beijing early Friday on a last-minute mission to sought to persuade the feuding rivals to meet to meetings over 48 hours it was a welcome sign, a broker an end to a tense political impasse. Some discuss their differences and clear the way signal that actually here is something that may 48 hours later they flew him back over the dark- towards a national unity government. stick because it’s going to require the personali- ened city streets from the fortress-like US ties involved to be committed to it.” embassy compound to his plane-a deal tri- ‘Pact prevented chaos’ The dispute had raised fears of an ethnic split, umphantly in his hand. Afghan analyst Younus Fakour said the agree- as Abdullah draws support from Tajiks and other NEW DELHI: Indian protestors hold placards as they take part in a rally against Israeli Few had believed it possible that Kerry could ment had “prevented a disaster in Afghanistan, it northern groups while Ghani is backed by attacks on Gaza in New Delhi yesterday. Israeli strikes on Gaza killed a teenage boy bring together two presidential rivals bitterly at prevented the creation of a parallel government, Pashtun tribes of the south and east. and a woman, medics said, raising the overall death toll to 165 as the punishing air odds over disputed elections, and help avert it prevented chaos”-and the national unity gov- campaign entered its sixth day yesterday. —AFP fears of ethnic violence in a country ravaged by ernment element was crucial. ‘You deliver miracles’ decades of war. “Before, the candidates were afraid that if one Both US officials praised the role of the But the indefatigable 70-year-old dropped a wins, the other will be left out. But with this they United Nations which has been working inten- Retired teacher goes on political bombshell when he announced that are sure they will be part of the next govern- sively for weeks to break the deadlock, and rivals Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani had ment,” he told AFP. By midday Saturday it which flew in its chief electoral official for the agreed that every one of the eight million votes became clear that given doubts over a UN pro- negotiations. trial in wife’s cliff push cast in their June run-off poll would be audited. posal to audit votes from around 35 percent of The US will now support calls from the head CAMDEN: Charles and Lisa Black moved records and should have subpoenaed Just days earlier the two men were barely polling stations, it made more sense to work of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Jan to Maine after careers as teachers in them instead. McKee lost the bid for dis- speaking, as Abdullah vehemently accused towards an unprecedented review of all ballots Kubis, for additional resources and manpower to Kansas, pursuing an idyllic retirement missal in April. Ghani of stealing victory by stuffing the ballots. cast. help audit all ballots in coming weeks. that prosecutors say was destroyed by McKee said he expects the trial to take But standing next to each other with Kerry “While it’s more resource-intensive, while it’s “You deliver miracles,” Kubis told Kerry, as arguments over money and infidelity two weeks. He said the recent accusation late on Saturday before the world’s cameras, time-intensive, a full audit stands to more signifi- they got the final seal of approval from outgoing before both plummeted off a cliff. of poisoning is “bizarre” and the state can they clasped hands, smiling, and raised them in cantly improve the credibility of the outcome President Hamid Karzai. Prosecutors say 71-year-old Charles expect “a vigorous challenge.” the air. With that single dramatic show of unity, just because it’s more extensive,” a second US “Because what we witnessed today was not Black hit his wife on the head with a rock Calls to Lisa Black and Charles Black Kerry may well have helped guide Afghanistan’s official said. just a topmost diplomatic achievement, it was before pushing her off the 800-foot were not returned. Police said the couple young democracy away from a return to the As reporters awaiting a press conference at close to a miracle.” Maiden Cliff in April 2011 in in Camden was hiking on Mount Megunticook when bloody ethnic civil war of the 1990s. UN mission headquarters broke the Ramadan Kate Clark of the Afghan Analysts’ Network Hills State Park. Lisa Black, 55, says she the fall occurred. The announcement followed two days of fast with a hastily arranged “iftar” of take-away hailed the US role and said the deal’s “strong believed Charles was chasing her when Lisa Black fell a short distance down marathon meetings, with Kerry and his staff lamb, rice, bread and dates, Kerry persuaded the international underpinning” gave cause for opti- he, too, tumbled down the mountain, the mountain, stood up and ran to seek shuttling between the two candidates and their two men to meet face-to-face. mism. While it still remains unclear how the according to a police report. help. Charles Black also fell down the teams in the embassy. Ghani, a former World Bank economist, was agreement will play out, one Afghan official His trial is set to begin today in mountain - a police report said Lisa He also met for hours one-on-one with each asked to join talks with Abdullah as they also emailed a member of Kerry’s team voicing heart- Rockland with jury selection. Law believed he was chasing her - and both candidate. With Kerry due in Austria for talks on hammered out a structure for a national unity felt thanks and adding that “most Afghans will enforcement officials have said Lisa Black suffered serious injuries. a Iran nuclear agreement, Saturday’s window for government. sleep more peacefully tonight”. — AFP received a $4 million inheritance from He told police he fainted, fell forward her father, and she and Charles Black had and hit the back of Lisa Black’s head with a dispute over how he spent some of the his own head, but he had no memory of money without her permission. Lisa has pushing her off the cliff. They divorced in Malala in Nigeria for abducted girls also accused Charles Black of having an 2013 after nine years of marriage. online affair. The Blacks are former Johnson ABUJA: Pakistani schoogirl Malala one day we will see all of you going ment to meet President Goodluck girls. “If you don’t focus on the Charles Black now lives in Salt Lake County, Kansas, teachers who had moved Yousafzai, who survived being shot to school, getting your education,” Jonathan 11 am (1000 GMT) tomor- future generation it means you are City and faces numerous charges, includ- to Maine about a year earlier. Lisa Black in the head by the Taliban, held she added. row,” her aide told an AFP corre- destroying your country. Think ing attempted murder, which carries a had taught fourth grade while Charles meetings yesterday in the Nigerian The Nigerian government has spondent after the meetings. about these girls.” maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Black was a social studies teacher. capital Abuja with some parents of been under intense international Malala urged the Nigerian gov- She urged Nigerian authorities The prosecution has also asked the court A judge banned Charles Black from the over 200 girls abducted in pressure since the abduction of 276 ernment to take the girls’ plight to ensure the safe release of the for permission to introduce evidence that staying in Camden during the trial. northern Nigeria and leaders of a girls on April 14. Fifty-seven of the seriously for the sake of the coun- remaining girls being held hostage he had earlier tried to poison Lisa Black. Prosecutors have said Lisa Black is con- group campaigning for their girls escaped within days of the try’s future. by the Islamists. Black’s attorney, Walter McKee, cerned about her safety if Charles is release. She is scheduled to meet night-time raid on the school in “My request to the government Parents and local leaders have attempted to have the charges dismissed allowed in town. President Goodluck Jonathan today Borno state. Local officials have said is that they should take you serious. accused the military of doing over the way prosecutors obtained hun- In addition to attempted murder, in the Nigeria capital, exactly three that 219 are still being held. They should definitely take you almost nothing to secure the dreds of pages of Black’s medical records. Black is charged with two counts of ele- months after 276 girls were abduct- “She (Malala) has an appoint- serious,” she told the five escapee release of the hostages. — AFP He has said prosecutors used “secret vated aggravated assault and three ed by Boko Haram Islamists from search warrants” to get Black’s the counts of aggravated assault. — AP their school in Chibok, in northeast Borno state, a member of her entourage told AFP. The Pakistani activist fighting for girls’ education rights met sepa- rately with leaders of the BringBackOurGirls campaign group and some 15 parents of the abduct- ed girls, along with five of the girls who escaped from their abductors. “The situation at Chibok is the same with the situation in Swat where some extremists stopped more than 400 girls from going to school,” Malala told the escapees after listening to their stories. Swat is her birthplace in Pakistan where she was shot in the head in 2012 on her way from school. “And I believe your voices are more powerful than any other weapon. So believe in yourself and go and continue your journey. SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri boy sit alongside an Indian policeman on alert during a cere- Continue learning and you will suc- mony to mark the 83rd anniversary of Kashmiris slain by the army of a Hindu king, at ceed because we did succeed in ABUJA: Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai who survived being shot by the Taleban because she advocated the Mazar-e-Shohda (Martyr’s Graveyard) in Srinagar yesterday. Authorities imposed our journey. There is peace in Swat. education for girls, holds a picture of kidnapped schoolgirl Sarah Samuel with her mother Rebecca strict restrictions in the old part of Srinagar city to prevent a separatist march on Every girl is going to school. Samuel, during a visit to Abuja, Nigeria, yesterday. Malala Yousafzai traveled to Abuja in Nigeria to meet Martyrs’ day in the region while separatist groups had called for a strike. — AFP “The same way, we will be here the relatives of schoolgirls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram three months ago. —AP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Gunman attack diving resort on Malaysia’s Borneo island Kidnapping of policeman is fourth incident KUALA LUMPUR: A policeman was killed Tourist visits drop 10% and a second kidnapped after heavily Tourism is a major source of foreign armed gunmen opened fire at a Malaysian exchange income for Malaysia-and Sabah diving resort off Borneo island, a fresh esca- state in particular-and the industry is a lation of violence in the tourist hotspot, a leading sector for employment. security official said yesterday. Expressing his condolences to the secu- The shooting on Mabul island is the lat- rity forces, Tan said there had already been est in a spate of abductions in Malaysia’s a 10 percent drop in tourist arrivals in the remote Sabah state, home to some of the second quarter compared with the first world’s top diving sites, with travel agents three months of the year. saying the violence has already hurt visits Sabah receives about 3.5 million tourist to the area. arrivals annually, including those from A major hunt has been launched to China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, the United track down the criminals believed to have Kingdom and the rest of Europe. come “from a neighbouring country”, Abdul The kidnapping of the policeman is the Rashid Harun, head of Sabah state eastern fourth incident of its kind in Sabah since security zone, told AFP. April. In June a 32-year-old Malaysian fish One security official said on condition of breeder and his Filipino worker were seized anonymity that the criminals are believed by Filipino gunmen from their farm. They to be gunmen from the Sulu islands in the have not yet been freed. Philippines. In May a Chinese fish farm manager was Describing the deadly incident that hap- abducted from his farm, while in April a pened late Saturday, Abdul Rashid said a female Chinese tourist and a Filipino resort police outpost guarding a resort in Mabul worker were abducted. All three have been island was ambushed by at least six to released. Malaysia this week revamped eight masked gunmen wearing black t- security measures in the region after the shirts and military trousers. spate of abductions in Sabah state. “The group of heavily armed gunmen Abdul Rashid said the attack on the shot and killed a 32-year-old policeman policemen could have been in retaliation and kidnapped another personnel mem- for the ongoing security clampdown ber. They escaped in a boat into neighbour- against criminal activity in Sabah. ing waters. We have launched a security The area is notorious for human traffick- operation to track down the criminals,” he ing and the smuggling of drugs and sub- said. sidised diesel oil. A security zone was set up Tan Kok Liang, vice president of the last year after Islamic guerillas of Sulu ori- Malaysian Association of Tour & Travel gin from the southern Philippines staged a Agents for inbound tourism, told AFP the bloody assault in the area to stake a histori- latest incident was a “blatant challenge” to cal claim, leaving dozens dead including Malaysia’s security. security forces. The Philippine-based mili- “I urge the government to take firm tant group Abu Sayyaf, which is believed to measures to upgrade security. Of course be affiliated with Al-Qaeda, was blamed for JAKARTA: This combo shows photos of Indonesian presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto (L) taken on July 11, 2014 and Joko Widodo (R) such bold intrusions and the blatant chal- the abduction of 21 people-including sev- taken on July 10, 2014 in Jakarta. Indonesia faces a long period of uncertainty after last week’s disputed presidential election, analysts warn — lenge to our security will hurt especially eral foreign tourists-from a Sabah diving raising fears for Southeast Asia’s top economy as growth sits at four-year lows, foreign investment slows and corruption remains rife. — AFP diving-related tourism business,” he said. resort in 2000. —AFP Uncertainty for Indonesia North Korea launches missiles in latest test-fire after disputed vote SEOUL: North Korea launched two bal- the entire Korean Peninsula. “ JAKARTA: Indonesia faces a long period of Fears of violence ital Jakarta during rioting and looting. listic missiles into the sea yesterday, North Korea regularly conducts test- uncertainty after last week’s disputed presiden- The election commission is expected to The country has enjoyed a decade of relative South Korea said, the latest in a series of firings, but this year has seen an unusual- tial election, analysts warn-raising fears for announce the official results on July 22 but the peace and stability under the presidency of test-firings seen as expressions of anger ly large number of launches. South Southeast Asia’s top economy as growth sits at loser may contest them in the Constitutional Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, helping to trans- over the North’s failure to win talks on Korean officials have confirmed about 90 four-year lows, foreign investment slows and Court, which has until the end of August to form it into one of the world’s fastest-growing receiving outside aid, and over US-South test-firings of missiles, artillery and rock- corruption remains rife. make a ruling. It is not a good time for Indonesia economies and a major investment destination. Korean military drills. ets by the North since Feb. 21. More than After a bitterly-fought campaign, Jakarta gov- to be hit by uncertainty that could scare off But fears are growing that the rising political The missiles, believed to be of Scud 10 of them have been ballistic launches. ernor Joko Widodo and his rival, ex-general investors, as it undergoes a painful transition tensions could spark fresh unrest, and variations, were fired from the North North Korea recently has pushed Prabowo Subianto, both used different unofficial from a decade of rapid growth fuelled by high Yudhoyono has called on both sides to restrain Korean city of Kaesong near the border South Korea to accept a set of proposals tallies to claim they had won on Wednesday. global prices for its abundant commodities. their supporters. with the South and had a range of about that it said would reduce bilateral ten- Most credible counts showed Widodo in the Falling commodity prices, as well as a series Analysts warn that the uncertainty could also 500 kilometers (311 miles), said a South sions, including the cancellation of regu- lead, sparking a rally in stocks and the rupiah of protectionist policies, have hit the economy, hit domestic demand in the rapidly growing Korean military official who spoke on lar military drills between Seoul and Thursday on the expectation that he will be which expanded at 5.21 percent in the first quar- middle class, a key driver of growth in recent condition of anonymity because of Washington that Pyongyang insists are declared the winner when official results are ter-its slowest pace since late 2009. years. “A disputed result will not just have market department rules. preparation for a northward invasion. announced later this month. Foreign investment has also slowed steeply, implications, but also likely a dampening impact North Korea experts said it was highly Pyongyang’s National Defense But the initial euphoria quickly wore off. The with investors wary of the uncertain business on sentiment,” said Australia’s ANZ Bank in a unusual for Pyongyang to fire missiles Commission released a statement Jakarta stock market slumped as much as two environment. Corruption, seen as a major obsta- note. “A Jokowi presidency is likely to be aligned from a city just 20 kilometers (12 miles) Saturday strongly criticizing the U.S.- percent the following day, and was 1.3 percent cle to operating in Indonesia, remains rampant. with more optimistic consumers whereas a from the heavily fortified border separat- South Korean joint naval drills that are down at the close as investors grew nervous The political uncertainty caused by the elec- Prabowo challenge could dampen sentiment ing the two Koreas. The North usually reportedly to take place in Korean waters about the potential for a prolonged deadlock. tion deadlock can only add to the gloomy pic- and spending.” test-fires missiles launched from its east- beginning Wednesday. The NDC also said “Given the conspicuous absence of a conces- ture, observers warn. The Jakarta Post newspa- Investors are hopeful for a quick end to the ern port city of Wonsan, about 130 kilo- the landing of the United States’ George sion, the market still cannot rid itself of the spec- per, which has backed Widodo, warned in an stalemate, with Widodo being declared the offi- meters (80 miles) from the border. Washington Carrier Strike Group in South tre of draggy uncertainty for a while more,” said editorial that taking the battle all the way to the cial winner later this month and Prabowo gra- “It is remarkable that missiles were Korea’s port city of Busan was a part of economist Wellian Wiranto, from Singapore’s Constitutional Court “would prolong the political ciously conceding defeat. fired from Kaesong, a symbol of North- America’s “reckless nuclear blackmail and OCBC Bank. stalemate and uncertainty until late August”. But it is still far from clear how the crisis will South cooperation,” said professor threat.” Investors favour Widodo, known by his nick- “The prospect of violence would dramatically play out, and most analysts think it is likely that Yang Moo-jin of Seoul’s University of “Whenever there was a sign of name Jokowi, as he is seen as a potential increase unless leaders of political parties work Prabowo-who has been seeking the presidency North Korean Studies. The jointly-run improving the North-South relations and reformer and a clean leader in one of the world’s to control their bases of support. The market for the past decade-will challenge the result in Kaesong Industrial Complex brings detente on the peninsula, the US resort- most corrupt countries. would roil in response to these destabilising court if he loses. “As much as the market is together South Korean-owned compa- ed to sinister interference and obstruc- Prabowo, a top military figure in the era of developments,” it said. hopeful that the political drama has ended, we nies with North Korean labor. “Such tions,” said the statement, which was dictator Suharto, has struck a fiercely nationalis- Indonesia was rocked by violence before the note that there are still alternative final episode action can mount tensions as it sug- released by the North’s official Korean tic tone on the campaign trail, and is looked at downfall of Suharto in 1998 following his three- scripts that cannot be totally ruled out,” said gests that these missiles ... can target Central News Agency. —AP warily by markets. decade dictatorship, with many killed in the cap- OCBC’s Wiranto.—AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Stuart Grudgings eepa Subramaniam would not let go of her son, clinging to five-year-old Mithran’s leg even as the car into which he had Dbeen bundled began to accelerate. The 30-year-old, a Hindu in Muslim-majority Malaysia, says she was dragged along the stone- strewn road outside her house until she dropped to the ground, scratched and sobbing, as her ex-husband drove off. The alleged abduction on April 9, detailed by Subramaniam in a police report and witnessed by a neighbour, was a painful loss for the mother-of-two, who has not seen Mithran since and fears her ex-spouse’s conversion to Islam will win him custody. The case has become a focal point of tensions over the widening role of Islam, which critics say is threatening Malaysia’s secular core and exacerbating fraught relations between ethnic Malays, who are Muslims, and minority Chinese and Indians. Subramaniam’s Killings pose insurgency risk for Kenyatta estranged spouse converted from Hinduism to Islam in 2012, after their nine-year marriage broke down, taking the name Izwan By Edmund Blair the failure to stop the attacks built on a munications director, said security forces left many Kikuyus among the dead, may Abdullah. He then converted Mithran and their now eight-year-old growing list of unfulfilled promises from the would have the problem wrapped up in the have aimed to touch a nerve in State House daughter to Islam, giving him a strong case under Islamic law, or shari- enya may face a full-blown insurgency government that range from handing out “next few days and weeks”. He said long- in Nairobi. Mpeketoni was known as a most- ah, to take over their custody - which a shariah court granted him five on its coast unless President Uhuru laptops to school kids to sacking officials standing complaints had to be addressed ly Kikuyu town. “They seem to be deter- months later. Kenyatta can douse a combustible mix who fail in their jobs. but said they could not be blamed for the mined to break down the president emo- “In five minutes, the children read some verses and were con- K of ethnic rivalries, land rows and Islamist mil- Kenyatta, 52, son of Kenya’s first presi- violence by “terrorists and criminals”. tionally, by taking the war right to his verted,” said Subramaniam. “In 10 years, he never gave us money, itancy. Gunmen have killed about 100 peo- dent, has already had a challenging time in Opponents, however, said the comments by doorstep,” said one police source, who asked he enjoyed his life and abandoned me countless times. Under ple since mid-June, exposing festering prob- office, and faces trial in October in the Kenyatta, an ethnic Kikuyu, were political not to be named. what characteristic are they giving my children to him?” lems that could test Kenyatta’s ability to reas- International Criminal Court on allegations point-scoring against Odinga, a Luo who has Police tactics may also have helped pro- Subramaniam fought back, last year obtaining a court protection sure a nation fretting about wider security a he orchestrated ethnic violence after the dis- been whipping up crowds with anti-govern- vide fertile ground for militants. Security order based on her accounts of domestic violence and in April win- little more than a year into his first term. puted 2007 election. “I think he needs to ment rallies. forces have rounded up hundreds of people, ning a high court ruling that dissolved their marriage and gave her Despite dozens of arrests, the government take a deep breath, stop talking too much, It is a high-stakes row in a nation where often Kenyans of Somali origin, after attacks custody of the children. has yet to identify the culprits. “We have a and be seen to take action,” said Munene. politics and ethnic loyalties are intertwined, in past months. Most were released without Two days later Izwan took Mithran from outside her home in serious radicalisation threat,” said Rashid The president’s initial public response to the a toxic brew that has erupted in violence in charge. Three leading radical Islamist preach- the town of Seremban, 60 km south of Kuala Lumpur. Reuters Abdi, a specialist on Kenya and the Horn of first attacks last month, when gunmen killed the past. “(Kenyatta) should have cooled his ers have been killed on the coast in the past attempted to contact Izwan through his lawyers but did not Africa, who sees the “beginning of a coastal 65 people in an area around Mpeketoni in heels and acted like a statesman,” said one two years by gunmen, sparking protests. receive a response. In April, he told The Star newspaper that he had insurgency” supported by regional Islamists Lamu County, which lies near the Somali diplomat. Singling out politicians also runs Many Muslims call them extra-judicial taken the boy because he feared his ex-wife would turn the chil- and other groups playing on local griev- border, baffled and angered many Kenyans the risk of ignoring the grievances that can killings, which police deny but they have so dren away from Islam. ances. in equal measure. be exploited by Islamist advocates of mili- far not found the attackers. Investors have so far been unperturbed, tancy or secessionists like the Mombasa Sheikh Juma Ngao, chairman of the Kenya Secular or Islamic? piling into Kenya’s debut Eurobond last Like Second-Class Citizens Republican Movement. Muslim National Advisory Council, said police In Subramaniam’s custody battle, and another similar case, month even as bodies were counted on the Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamists said they Traditional coastal people have long com- action built resentment. “All these (issues) Malaysia’s national police chief, Khalid Abu Bakar, has declined to act coast. But if the government fails to stop were behind the attacks, a group Kenya has plained of neglect by central government angered many of the radical Muslims, and on judges’ orders for children to be returned to their mothers, citing those driving the attacks and address local routinely blamed for a spate of violence on and favouritism towards more recent arrivals what we are seeing in Lamu could be competing orders from the civil courts and state shariah courts. His grievances, Kenyatta’s promise to lift already the coast and in Nairobi in recent months. Al to the region, including Kikuyus who origi- revenge,” he said. “Combined with the histori- stance has been backed by the home minister. Legal experts say that stuttering growth may start to look empty. Shabaab says such attacks are revenge for nally come from uplands in the centre of the cal issues about resources, then you have a is an unprecedented challenge to the secular courts’ authority. The chilling message scrawled on a wall in Kenya’s deployment of troops against its east African country. “We are here like sec- full-blown problem.” While the public frets, Politicians and activists pushing for Islam to play a bigger role in socie- Lamu town, an old Arab trading port near forces in neighbouring Somalia. But ond-class citizens even though we are the government can take solace that ty have been on the advance since a May 2013 election that further where attacks erupted, reads “Boko Haram Kenyatta swiftly dismissed the claim this indigenous to the area,” 62-year-old Muslim investors have so far taken security worries in polarised the nation and left the government more reliant on Malay ndio njia” in Swahili, or “Boko Haram is the time and blamed local political networks preacher Mahmoud Abdulkadir told Reuters their stride. The tourist industry may have and Islamic conservatives. way”, referring to an Islamist insurgency that instead in what his critics say was an attempt in Lamu after the June attacks, saying such taken a beating but Kenya has a diversified Prime Minister Najib Razak, who casts himself globally as a leader is the scourge of northeastern Nigeria. to implicate his presidential rival Raila complaints were driving some youths to economy, which reassures investors. Kenya’s of Islamic moderation, is accused by critics of failing to take a stand Kenyatta’s administration, already facing Odinga. Officials have echoed the line as Islamist militancy. first Eurobond worth $2 billion closed over- against emboldened Islamic officials and courts as he seeks to shore criticism for mishandling an Islamist attack more attacks followed. Experts, diplomats subscribed in mid-June just after the first up his party’s core Malay vote. “After the elections last year, somebody on a Nairobi shopping mall last year that left and police suggest a confluence of factors at War On Kenyatta’s ‘Doorstep’ raids. But they may not remain sanguine. seems to have stepped on the gas pedal and we are moving much 67 dead, says it is chasing down the culprits work, which did not preclude Somali-linked Land ownership is a major grumble. Analysts say handing out title deeds more headlong to a situation where Islam is enforced through all of recent assaults and has security under Islamists with help from disgruntled local Coastal people say they are treated as squat- needs to move faster, and the government these institutions of state,” said Andrew Khoo, a prominent lawyer. control. Political opponents accuse the gov- players. One Western diplomat said senior ters on ancestral land with no formal docu- must deal with other complaints such as Shariah courts operate at the state level and have been limited to ernment of relying on heavy-handed police officials privately noted Al Shabaab ments where newcomers have been given unemployment, made more difficult with Muslim family matters. Law experts say they had been recognised as tactics and playing politics instead of appeared to have had a role. But he said he title deeds. The government denies bias. hotels struggling or closing as tourists flee subordinate to civil courts, but the legal lines have become blurred as addressing the real causes. “The situation on was “not sure the government of Kenya Buku said 60,000 deeds had been handed the coastal region. “If you had an insurgency, shariah courts have expanded their powers in recent years to areas security is worrying and that adds to the knows how to react”. out, with one 1 million more planned. it would probably change investors’ percep- such as homosexuality and gambling. “The civil courts have totally impression that he may not be in charge, in Aides insist Kenyatta has intelligence Experts say the complaints run back decades tions of Kenya and the risks associated with abdicated whenever there is a whiff of an Islamic issue,” said Shad control of the whole thing,” said Macharia backing his assertion that politicians are to to when Kenyatta’s father was president after investing here markedly,” said Phumelele Faruqi, a law professor at Malaysian university UiTM. “We are witness- Munene, a professor at Nairobi’s United blame and say he has the issue in hand. independence in 1963, and even to British Mbiyo, regional economist at CFC Stanbic ing a situation where a silent re-writing of the constitution is taking States International University. Munene said Munyori Buku, the presidency’s senior com- colonial times. But the coastal killings, which Bank in Nairobi. —Reuters place.” Police chief Khalid and the attorney-general, the country’s chief public prosecutor, have applied to the Court of Appeal to intervene to determine the jurisdiction of the courts. Khalid and the attorney gen- eral’s office did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. For Hamas, conflict holds promise of gains

Peace and Harmony By Sara Hussein and Mai Yaghi conflict could be something of a boon for position financially due to a growing eco- the political map after more than a year of Islam’s special role in the former British colony is enshrined in the the group, said Akram Attallah, an independ- nomic crisis, rendering it unable to pay more marginalisation following the ouster of constitution, which defines it as the religion of the federation. But the ired in economic crisis and sidelined ent analyst in Gaza. “What Hamas wants from than half of its 50,000 employees. But the Morsi,” Abu Saada said. “Anything that same article goes on to say that other religions may be practised in by former allies, the Palestinian this war is to show it is still able to defend its high-profile conflict could now see an influx Hamas can win from this war will be an “peace and harmony”, a provision that has been challenged by recent MHamas movement has little to lose people,” he told AFP, saying the conflict could of aid that would enable Hamas to once achievement for it and will be presented as a events. In January, state Islamic authorities raided the office of a and much to gain in its latest conflict with leave it “both more popular and better off again return to its traditional role of provider victory.” Christian group and seized more then 300 copies of Malay language Israel, analysts say. The flare-up in violence financially”. “Whatever the outcome of the for Gaza’s 1.7 million residents. And it could Bibles because they contain the word “Allah”, which Christians here has exacted a heavy human toll in Gaza, with Hamas Wins, Abbas Loses say they have used for centuries. more than 1,300 Israeli strikes having killed And it could also boost the Islamist move- The use of the word has become a touchstone issue for conserva- 166 people as the operation entered its sixth ment’s standing among Palestinians. “Hamas tive Muslim groups, who declared victory in a protracted legal battle day on Sunday. Hamas has seen its leaders feels that whatever losses and bloodshed the last month when the nation’s top court ruled that a Catholic newspa- and military capabilities targeted, but ana- war might bring, it will return to it a position per cannot use the word to refer to God. The Islamic body has not lysts say it was in a position of such weakness of importance,” said Adnan Abu Amer, a pro- returned the Bibles and has said it will seize other publications, defy- before the war that it only stands to gain fessor of political science at Gaza’s Umma ing the attorney general’s position that they are not illegal. “Najib is a from this round of fighting. University. “The biggest loser in all of this is moderate but I think he is under tremendous pressure from certain Its one-time key ally Egypt has largely Abu Mazen,” he said, referring to Palestinian quarters in the party,” said Saifuddin Abdullah, a former member of turned against the Islamist movement fol- president Mahmud Abbas. “If the war ends the Supreme Council of the ruling United Malays National lowing the ouster of president Mohamed with political achievements for Hamas it will Organisation (UMNO) who now heads the Global Movement of Morsi last year and a subsequent crackdown give them greater power,” he said, showing Moderates Foundation set up by Najib. “We are not the only ones on his Muslim Brotherhood, which had they are able to negotiate concessions from who counsel him.” The minister for Islamic Affairs, Jamil Khir Baharom, backed Hamas. Since then, ties between Israel and the international community, said in June that Malaysia was not a secular state and that the govern- Hamas and the Cairo government, now unlike Abbas. ment was working to expand shariah. —Reuters headed by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, The conflict could also force a reset of have deteriorated significantly. Egypt has relations between Hamas and Egypt, which systematically destroyed the tunnels running is being reluctantly pushed into its tradition- between Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, while al role of negotiating an end to hostilities in All articles appearing on these keeping the official Rafah crossing mostly Gaza. “Hamas is hoping that the war and the closed, contributing to a disastrous drop in bloodshed in Gaza will embarrass Egypt, and pages are the personal opinion of Hamas’s revenues from smuggling. lead to the opening of a high-level channel the writers. Kuwait Times takes no On the domestic front, Hamas - which has of communication with Cairo,” Abu Saada responsibility for views expressed governed Gaza for the past seven years - The father of three-year-old Palestinian child Mouid Al-Araj, carries his son’s body said. But analysts were dismissive of the therein. Kuwait Times invites read- recently signed a reconciliation deal with its during his funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. —AFP effect of Israel’s punishing strikes on Hamas’s Palestinian rivals in the West Bank. The agree- long-term military capabilities, saying the ers to voice their opinions. Please ment effectively loosened Hamas’s grip on war, Hamas has nothing to lose,” added even offer an opportunity - by means of a group would be able to eventually replenish send submissions via email to: opin- power in Gaza, with the Islamist movement Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a professor of politi- truce agreement - for Hamas to secure an its stock of domestically produced rockets. [email protected] or via snail dissolving its government in favour of a con- cal science at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University. easing of Israel’s eight-year blockade, which And any discontent among Palestinians sensus government of independents that is “They’re not in government any more, so has contributed to the economic crisis. over the conflict was more likely to be direct- mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. largely based in Ramallah. they can’t lose that, and they have no money Although talk of a truce seems far off for ed at Israel than Hamas, they said. “If Hamas The editor reserves the right to edit coming in from either the tunnels or taxes.” now, past arrangements have involved is able to achieve any political gains from the any submission as necessary. ‘Nothing to Lose’ Towards the end of its time in govern- promises of greater aid and an easing of war... people will consider it to have won a Under such circumstances, the current ment, Hamas had been in a very difficult Israel’s siege. “Hamas wants to return itself to victory,” Abu Saada said. —AFP NEWS MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014

German players dance around the trophy as they celebrate after winning the World Cup final match between Germany and Argentina ta the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. — AP Interior minister: No need for martial law Gazans flee as Israel cranks up crackdown

Continued from Page 1 ing the reality of what happened to the people. He said Continued from Page 1 off. Pope Francis appealed to world leaders for both prayer and that Kuwait cannot bear what is happening, especially Overnight, Israeli naval commandos staged a brief ground diplomacy to halt the bloodshed, while the German and Italian The minister said that the meeting discussed both since “there are some who are trying to demolish the assault in northern Gaza on a mission to destroy longer-range foreign ministers were both poised to head to the region to join external and internal developments and both sides authorities, particularly the judiciary”, adding that the rockets, with the army warning residents to leave the area truce efforts, their offices said. With Palestinian civilians bearing agreed to hold further meetings in the future. MP situation in the country is catastrophic. ahead of a major assault on the sector. Speaking on condition the brunt of the violence, clashes erupted in central Paris as Jamal Al-Omar said that domestic situation does not MP Saud Al-Huraiji said the government provided of anonymity, a senior Israeli military official said the area was thousands of people protested against Israel and in support of require declaring martial law or a state of emergency sufficient assurances to the lawmakers and according- rife with rocket launchers and would be targeted in an opera- Gazans. Demonstrators hurled projectiles onto a cordon of and “what we need is to strengthen the domestic ly there is no need for extraordinary measures. He tion which would begin during the evening. police who responded with tear gas. Earlier, protesters rallied front”. Omar blamed the information ministry for fail- however said there is an urgent need to apply the law Meanwhile in northern Gaza, even before the army’s warn- across Asia to condemn the Israeli offensive, with 3,000 gather- ing to run awareness programs targeting the youth, ings went out, thousands of residents of the blockaded coastal ing and hundreds more in Hong Kong, New Delhi and Jakarta. against violators. He said that the government insist- strip were fleeing after a night of traumatic violence, an AFP Israel has warned that preparations are under way for a possi- and he also blamed some provocative reactions from ed it will not allow any unlicensed processions, a number of MPs and the government that called for correspondent reported. “It was the middle of the night, and I ble ground incursion, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman adding that he believes that the protests violate the gathered the children, they were so afraid,” said Samari Al-Atar, saying a decision was expected later yesterday, at a meeting of withdrawing the citizenship of protesters. He said sharia and have crossed the limit of freedom of breaking down in tears as she described how her family fled the security cabinet. But commentators said Israel was not in a such calls have worsened the situation. expression. MP Yacoub Al-Sane said MPs called on the barefoot with shooting all around. Saturday’s death toll was the rush to begin a ground operation. “Despite the convoy of tanks Deputy speaker Khurainej said “there is a difference government that Kuwait should play an important highest yet with 56 people killed, including 18 people who died heading south and the infantry brigades massing near the bor- between peaceful protests and sabotage and what in a single strike on a house in Gaza City, medics said. The blast der with Gaza, it is obvious that Israel is in no hurry for the opera- happened is sabotage that cannot be accepted by any- role towards events in Gaza, and the conflicts in Iraq, levelled the building and sheared the facade off a neighbouring tion’s ground phase,” Amos Harel wrote in Haaretz newspaper, one”. But he blamed the government too for not relay- Syria and Yemen. structure, exposing a kitchen and a fridge with its door ripped saying the aim was to “first exhaust diplomatic options”. — AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 SPORTS

Robben rules out Utd move Phelps wins backstroke Lindsay in Hall of Fame BRAZIL: Netherlands striker Arjen Robben will stay with Bayern Munich rather than tak- GEORGIA: Michael Phelps notched another NEWPORT: Three-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Lindsay ing the opportunity to follow national coach Louis van Gaal to Manchester United, he impressive performance in his comeback when Davenport was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, saying she fell has told Dutch television station NOS. he won the 100 metres backstroke and beat in love with the sport the first time she picked up a racquet. The Dutch dream of winning the World Cup for the first time ended with a semi-final American rival Ryan Lochte for the second suc- “I was five years old when I first hit a tennis ball and a racquet was put in my hand,” the defeat on penalties to Argentina in Sao Paulo. They defeated hosts Brazil 3-0 on Saturday cessive night in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday. American said at her enshrinement along with legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, five in a playoff for third place. Van Gaal will now take over as manager of United while for- Phelps clocked 53.88 seconds, less than a sec- time Paralympic medallist Chantal Vandierendonck, tennis executive Jane Brown Grimes and mer Real Madrid and South Korea coach Guus Hiddink will take over the Dutch team for ond outside his personal best, while Lochte was a British broadcaster John Barrett in ceremonies at Newport, Rhode Island. the second time ahead of the Euro 2016 qualification campaign. “I have a special bond “It was the third sport that my parents tried with me to get me out of the house clearly at a with him,” Robben, one of the stars of the Dutch campaign in Brazil, said of the veteran distant runnerup in 54.40. On Friday, Phelps won the 100m butterfly in 51.67 seconds, the third young age after school. I never wanted to learn another sport and I still don’t. coach. “He is the most important coach in my career. “Hitting the ball and making contact was always something that came very natural to me. fastest time in the world this year. After the match he did ask me to come to Manchester.” It was not clear Everything else about the game took work and was a struggle. But that was the reason why I The winner of a record 18 Olympic gold how serious the offer was, but Robben, who could be seen laughing while fell in love with it.” Davenport, now 38, said it took her 20 years of practice and speaking about it, added: “It is not an option. I will stay at Bayern medals, Phelps announced a comeback in April competition to reach her peak. Munich.” Robben, who scored three goals in the World Cup, was in after retiring following the 2012 London The Californian was rewarded with Grand Slam victories at the 1998 U.S. superb form in Brazil and is on the short list for the “Golden Ball” award Olympics. Open, 1999 Wimbledon and 2000 Australian Open. She also won an presented to the tournament’s best player. United were on the verge of The ‘Bulldog Grand Slam’ finishes on Sunday, Olympic gold medal in 1996 during a career stretching from 1991 signing him from PSV Eindhoven in 2004, when he met then manager when Phelps is scheduled to swim the 100m through 2011. She was ranked number one in the world for 98 Alex Ferguson, but the Dutch club said the offer was too low and freestyle as he tunes up for the Aug. 6-10 US weeks. Second-seed Ivo Karlovic and third-seed Lleyton Hewitt, Robben joined Chelsea. He later joined Spanish giants Real Championships in Irvine, California ahead of the meanwhile, will meet in Sunday’s final after semi-final victories Madrid before moving to Bayern, for whom he scored the Pan Pacific Championships on the Gold Coast in winning goal in the 2013 Champions League final against on Saturday. Tall Croatian Karlovic has bounced back in emphat- Borussia Dortmund. — Reuters Australia. — Reuters ic fashion from his first round loss at Wimbledon. —Reuters Cardinals see off Brewers

MILWAUKEE: Adam Wainwright pitched seven Chicago White Sox over the Cleveland Indians ond base in 7 1-3 innings. David Robertson, strong innings and the St. Louis Cardinals sent and ended a three-game losing streak. the third New York reliever, worked a perfect Milwaukee to its seventh straight loss, 10-2 on Abreu, picked for the AL All-Star team in his ninth for his 23rd save. Saturday as the Brewers mourned the death of rookie season, broke a scoreless tie in the It was only the third loss in 12 games for shortstop Jean Segura’s young son. fourth inning with his drive off Zach McAllister the Orioles, who finished with five hits. Chris Segura left the team and traveled home to (3-5). The homer cleared the fence in right field Tillman (7-5) gave up three runs, seven hits the Dominican Republic, a day after his 9- and landed in the White Sox’s bullpen for and three walks in 6 2-3 innings. month-old son died. The Brewers observed a Chicago’s first hit. moment of silence for Janniel Segura, and the Scott Carroll (4-5) held Cleveland to two hits BRAVES 11, CUBS 6 clubhouse was closed before the game. in five shutout innings before being pulled Chris Johnson homered twice and pitcher Manager Ron Roenicke said the boy had been with a stiff lower back. The rookie right-hander Mike Minor hit his second career home run, ill. Tony Cruz drove in a career-high three runs has won two straight starts, in which he hasn’t leading the Atlanta Braves over the Chicago and Kolten Wong homered as the Cardinals allowed a run over 11 2-3 innings. Cubs. Johnson and Justin Upton each drove in pulled into a first-place tie with Milwaukee, four runs for the Braves. Johnson and Minor which has lost 11 of 12, in the NL Central. St. YANKEES 3, ORIOLES 0 homered and Upton hit a three-run double as Louis trailed by 6 1/2 games on July 1. Rookie Shane Greene pitched four-hit ball Atlanta scored six times in the fourth inning Wainwright (12-4) gave up two runs and five into the eighth inning of his second major for a 9-3 lead. Minor (3-5) allowed six runs and hits, tying Cincinnati’s Alfredo Simon and the league start, Derek Jeter had two hits and an 11 hits in six innings. He improved to 6-0 in his Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka for the most wins in RBI and the New York Yankees beat the career against the Cubs as the Braves won for the majors. Jimmy Nelson (1-1) took the loss. Baltimore Orioles. the second time in seven games. Greene (2-0) struck out nine and walked Chris Coghlan hit two doubles and drove in WHITE SOX 6, INDIANS 2 two in his third big league appearance. The three runs for the Cubs, who have lost seven Jose Abreu hit his major league-leading right-hander didn’t give up a hit until the fifth of nine. Edwin Jackson (5-10) lasted just 3 2-3 29th homer, a two-run shot that sent the inning and allowed only two runners past sec- innings after giving nine runs, seven hits and three home runs.

DIAMONDBACKS 2, GIANTS 0 Aaron Hill homered, doubled and scored twice, Wade Miley pitched seven shutout innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat MILWAUKEE: Sam Freeman No. 71of the St. Louis Cardinals pitches during the bottom of the San Francisco Giants. the ninth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. — AFP David Peralta and Gerardo Parra each over his last five starts. Drew Hutchison (6-8) score on Jay Bruce’s single. Jeanmar Gomez added two hits for the Diamondbacks, who took the loss, the seventh in nine games for the pitched the 11th for his first career save. won their fourth in six games. Marco Scutaro second-place Blue Jays, who remained three went hitless in two at-bats with a walk in his games behind division-leading Baltimore in the NATIONALS 5, PHILLIES 3 season debut for the Giants, who were shut AL East. Ryan Zimmerman singled in the go-ahead out for the fifth time in 13 games. run with two outs in the 10th inning, and Miley (5-6) allowed four hits and won his TIGERS 5, ROYALS 1 Jayson Werth homered and had three RBIs to second straight start for the first time since Rick Porcello outdueled James Shields and lead the Washington Nationals to a victory over early April. Brad Ziegler worked the eighth the Detroit Tigers won their fifth in a row, beat- the Philadelphia Phillies. Ross Detwiler (1-2), and Addison Reed pitched the ninth for his ing the Kansas City Royals. Porcello (12-5) one of six Washington pitchers, tossed a score- 21st save. Ryan Vogelsong (5-7) gave up two raised his career record against Kansas City to less ninth to earn the victory. Philadelphia’s sea- runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings. 8-3 while yielding six hits and one run through son-best, five-game winning streak was seven innings. The Royals have lost six of their snapped. Rafael Soriano struck out the side in METS 5, MARLINS 4 last eight. They are 0-6 at home against Detroit the 10th for his 22nd save. Washington’s Chris Young and rookie Eric Campbell this year. Shields (9-5) went seven innings and Stephen Strasburg struck out nine in 5 2/3 delivered big hits off the bench in the late allowed two runs and seven hits. He struck out innings and was in line for the victory before GERMANY: (Left to right) Second placed Honda rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain, winner Honda innings to rally the surging New York Mets eight and walked none while throwing 121 Ben Revere’s RBI single with two outs in the rider Marc Marquez of Spain and third placed Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain on the past the Miami Marlins. pitches. eighth tied it 3-3. The Nationals went ahead in podium as they celebrate after the MotoGP race of the Grand Prix of Germany. — AFP Young’s pinch-hit, two-run homer off Bryan the 10th against Jake Diekman (3-3). Morris tied it at 4 in the seventh, and ANGELS 5, RANGERS 2 Marquez bags German GP Campbell came through with a pinch-hit sin- Howie Kendrick celebrated his 31st birthday MARINERS 6, ATHLETICS 2 gle in the eighth to put the Mets ahead. with three hits, including an RBI single during a Hisashi Iwakuma pitched a career-high 8 2-3 Daisuke Matsuzaka struck out 10 in six innings four-run sixth inning as the Los Angeles Angels innings, and Kyle Seager and Robinson Cano SACHSENRING: MotoGP world champion Marc distance by a bunch of backmarkers. Marquez, and New York executed a perfect suicide sent the Texas Rangers to their seventh straight homered to lift the Seattle Mariners over the Marquez chalked up his ninth victory in a row at who last year became the youngest ever MotoGP squeeze, improving to 7-2 on a 10-game loss. Oakland Athletics. the Sachsenring on Sunday despite starting the champion, had qualified on pole but had to fight homestand that leads into the All-Star break. Kendrick’s third single tied it at 2 in the Iwakuma (8-4) fanned five of the first six bat- German Grand Prix from the pitlane after pre- through from 10th before taking the lead after Vic Black (2-2) worked a scoreless inning for sixth. The Angels chased Texas starter Miles ters he retired en route to eight strikeouts over- race rain. six laps and then pulling away comfortably. The the win, and Jenrry Mejia got three quick outs Mikolas (0-2) and pulled away for their ninth all. The right-hander allowed five hits and faced The 21-year-old Honda rider became the first Spaniard has now won in Germany for the last for his 10th save. Christian Yelich homered for win in 10 games. The Rangers have dropped 21 the minimum in all but three innings. In his last since Italian Giacomo Agostini in 1970 to win the five years in 125cc in 2010, Moto2 in 2011 and the Marlins, who have lost four of five. Mike of 24. They have the worst winning percentage three starts, Iwakuma is 3-0 with a 0.42 ERA (3 first nine races of a season. Agostini won the 2012 and then the top category. Dunn (7-5) took the loss. in the majors, .404 with their 38-56 record. earned runs in 21 2-3 innings), 25 strikeouts opening 10 races that year. Marquez’s Repsol Honda team mate and com- Jered Weaver (10-6) went seven innings, giving and no walks. Brandon Moss’ two-out, two-run In an unusual start, more than half of the field patriot Dani Pedrosa finished second, 1.466 sec- TWINS 9, ROCKIES 3 up two runs and four hits. Joe Smith earned his home run off Iwakuma in the ninth snapped lined up at the pitlane exit after leaving it late to onds behind, with double world champion Jorge Kevin Correia pitched six innings of one- 14th save. his 20-inning scoreless streak. Oakland starter switch from wet tyres to slicks. That left Lorenzo completing an all-Spanish podium with run ball, Eduardo Escobar homered, and the Jesse Chavez (7-6) allowed three runs on a Germany’s Stefan Bradl, who had put on the dry third for Yamaha. Marquez now has 225 points to Minnesota Twins pulled away late to beat the PIRATES 6, REDS 5 career-high 10 hits. weather tyres before the formation lap, alone on Pedrosa’s 148. Italian Valentino Rossi finished Colorado Rockies. Andrew McCutchen tied the game with a the front row of the grid and followed at some fourth on the other works Yamaha. — Reuters Correia (5-11) scattered seven hits and solo homer in the ninth inning, then connected DODGERS 1, PADRES 0 cooled off the power-hitting Rockies, who again in the 11th, rallying the struggling AJ Ellis hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the stranded 10 baserunners and were kept in the Pittsburgh Pirates to a victory over the ninth inning, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers yard after slugging eight home runs in their Cincinnati Reds. past the San Diego Padres. Adrian Gonzalez previous two games. He walked one and He tied it 5 in the ninth off Jonathan greeted Kevin Quackenbush (1-2) with a lead- struck out one in snapping a hard-luck three- Broxton, filling in the closer’s role because off double before Matt Kemp struck out and game losing streak during which he had Aroldis Chapman had pitched four days in a Andre Ethier was intentionally walked. Juan received no run support. row. He hit his 17th homer with two outs in the Uribe then worked out a seven-pitch walk that The Twins were shut out in the last two 11th off J.J. Hoover (1-7) for his ninth career included two checked swings that were upheld losses for Correia, who helped the Twins multihomer game. on appeal by first base umpire Jim Wolf. Padres offense with a run-scoring double for his first Left-hander Justin Wilson (3-1) escaped a manager Bud Black then employed a drawn-in hit of the season and first RBI in three years. bases-loaded threat in the 10th with the help five-man infield, but Ellis was able to lift a 1-2 Tyler Matzek (1-4) allowed four runs and seven of right fielder Gregory Polanco, who threw pitch to right field. Kenley Jansen (1-3) pitched hits in six innings in the loss. 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MULHOUSE: Tony Martin continued 8.5 percent gradient. Germany’s stunning sporting month by Gallopin knows it will be tough to keep winning the ninth stage of the Tour de the jersey.”I think I’ll really enjoy it tomor- France yesterday as Frenchman Tony row (Monday). It won’t be an easy day, the Gallopin claimed the race leader’s yellow guys (going for overall victory) will try to do jersey. battle. “I have just 1:30 to Nibali. I will do Martin’s stage success was the fifth by my best.” The stage saw significant move- Germans already this Tour after sprinters ment in the leading pack as Portugal’s Marcel Kittel, three, and Andre Greipel had Tiago Machado moved up from 20th to previously triumphed. third overall at 1:40 after finishing in And it came on a day when Germany Gallopin’s group. will play Argentina in the World Cup final, Frenchman Pierre Rolland also jumped just five days after their incredible 7-1 semi- 15 places to eighth at 4:07. But Australian final victory over Brazil. Richie Porte dropped from third to fifth at If Joachim Loew’s team are looking for 3:32 while two-time former winner Alberto any omens, a German won the day of their Contador is down three places to ninth at semi-final victory when Kittel triumphed in 4:08. Martin attacked early on alongside Lille and the last time West Germany won Italian Alessandro De Marchi and the pair the World Cup in 1990, German Olaf worked well together to build up a lead of Ludwig won the Tour stage that day as well. almost three minutes over a chasing pack “It’s a good sign,” said Martin, 29, who of 28 riders, with the peloton gradually admitted he wasn’t sure he’d be able to drifting out to more than eight minutes watch the game. But he was feeling confi- behind. Martin attacked De Marchi on the dent nonetheless, adding: “Of course I say first category Le Markstein climb 60km Germany will win. I was already in good from home and rode away from his escape spirits today so let’s say 3-0.” companion. A group of 20 chasers, including On the long 10.8km climb with a 5.4 Gallopin, came home 2min 45sec later with percent average gradient, the specialist the peloton a further five minutes further time-trialler remarkably not only distanced back. One-day Classics’ specialists Fabian De Marchi but kept increasing his advan- Cancellara and Greg Van Avermaet took tage over the chasers as well. second and third respectively on the stage. By the time he’d crested the final third NOTTINGHAM: India’s Ravindra Jadeja (right) makes his ground to avoid a run out by England’s Matt Prior (left) on the final dayof the first crick- Gallopin, whose girlfriend Marion category climb, there remained 40km of et Test match between England and India at Trent Bridge. — AFP Rousse is also a cyclist and planted a kiss downhill and then flat racing to come, on his lips after he crossed the line, will roads much more in keeping with Martin’s now wear the yellow jersey on Bastille Day. capabilities. De Marchi was caught and a “It’s incredible. It will be a very proud chase group of 20 riders formed but just as Binny bats India to moment to wear the yellow jersey on the had been the cased on the climb, their co- national day. I would never have imagined operation was minimal. Having realised he it,” said the 26-year-old. was in with a great chance of taking yellow, Gallopin leads by 1:34 having started Gallopin drove on the peloton, with several the day 11th overall, 3:27 behind previous French riders helping, despite not being in draw with England race leader Vincenzo Nibali, who drops to his team. Behind the peloton the grupetto second. But Monday’s 10th stage includes came home 21:38 behind Martin, just seven category climbs, amongst which four inside the time cut-off point, meaning the NOTTINGHAM: India debutant Stuart Binny’s reversing in and flicking the front pad before played down the wrong line and was given out are first category ones, and an intimidating likes of Kittel and Greipel will live for anoth- maiden fifty made sure of a draw with England in crashing into the stumps. lbw by Sri Lanka umpire Kumar Dharmasena. final 5.9km climb to the finish at an average er day. — AFP the first Test at Trent Bridge yesterday. After lunch, England took the new ball as soon Replays suggested the ball would have missed On a docile pitch, a draw had always seemed as they could, with India 244 for six off 80 overs. leg stump but, with no Decision Review System the most likely outcome and so it proved as the Three overs later, Anderson had Ravindra Jadeja this series because of Indian objections, it was the first of this five-match series ended in stalemate (31) caught behind to leave India 249 for seven. end of Binny’s near three-hour innings. ahead of Thursday’s second Test at Lord’s. Binny, who before lunch had cover-driven With India more than 300 runs in ahead at tea, This result extended England’s winless run to Plunkett for four, was briefly unsettled by a couple Cook gave his frontline bowlers a rest in the final nine Tests-their worst sequence since they went 10 of well pitched-up Anderson deliveries. session. Kumar, 31 not out at tea, struck Root’s without victory from 1992 to 1993 — and meant But having made just one in India’s first innings, occasional off-spin over mid-wicket and through India had now gone 15 Tests without an away win. he quickly regained his composure, and a single extra-cover for four before a single off the The match was an all-round triumph for 24- off Plunkett saw the 30-year-old all-rounder to an Yorkshireman saw him to a 114-ball fifty with eight year-old India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar who, in 86-ball fifty, including six boundaries. boundaries. his seventh match at this level, posted three Test- An increasingly assured Binny, the son of 1983 Cook, in a sure sign the match was over as a best performances in making 58 and 63 not out India World Cup-winner Roger, went down the contest, then brought himself on and, while per- separated by a return of five for 82. pitch to drive part-time off-spinner Moeen Ali over forming impersonations of several ex-England However, a draw had all but been assured after extra-cover for six. bowlers, had Ishant Sharma caught down the leg- England’s Joe Root (154 not out) and James Ali, though, had his revenge when Binny, on 78, side by Prior to claim his first Test wicket. — AFP Anderson (81) shared a Test record tenth-wicket stand of 198, eclipsing the 111 put on earlier in the match by India’s last-wicket pair of Kumar and SCOREBOARD Mohammed Shami (51 not out). But after India resumed on 167 for three in NOTTINGHAM: Final scoreboard on the fifth day of the first Test between England and India at overcast conditions on Sunday, they lost three Trent Bridge yesterday: wickets for 16 runs to give England a glimmer of hope. India 1st Innings 457 (M Vijay 146, MS Dhoni I. Sharma c Prior b Cook 13 FRANCE: Germany’s TonyMartin (left) and Italy’s Alessandro De Marchi ride in a Stuart Broad, on his Nottinghamshire home 82, B Kumar 58, Mohammed Shami 51 no; J Mohammed Shami not out 4 breakaway during the 170 km ninth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France ground, sparked the slump by taking two for none Anderson 3-123) Extras (b9, lb7, nb7) 23 cycling race. — AFP in five balls. Broad, who had been severely critical Total (9 wkts dec, 123 overs, 505 mins) 391 England 1st Innings 496 (J Root 154 no, J of the sluggish wicket, had Virat Kohli, aiming Fall of wickets: 1-49 (Dhawan), 2-140 (Vijay), across the line, plumb lbw for his overnight eight. Anderson 81, G Ballance 71, S Robson 59; B Kumar 5-82, I Sharma 3-150) 3-140 (Pujara), 4-168 (Kohli), 5-173 (Rahane), 6- Emotional Thorpe comes The fast-medium bowler then induced Ajinkya 184 (Dhoni), 7-249 (Jadeja), 8-340 (Binny), 9- Rahane (24) to edge straight to wicketkeeper Matt 387 (Sharma) Prior. India 2nd Innings (overnight: 167-3) out in TV interview Broad then found Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s out- M. Vijay c Prior b Ali 52 Bowling: Anderson 21-8-47-1; Broad 21-7-50- side edge only for England captain Alastair Cook S. Dhawan c and b Ali 29 2; Plunkett 20-1-85-2 (3nb); Ali 28-4-105-3; MELBOURNE: Ian Thorpe, Australia’s most boys school... so if you’re accused of being to drop the routine slip catch with his opposing C. Pujara c Stokes b Plunkett 55 Stokes 18-3-60-0 (4nb); Root 12-4-22-0; Cook decorated Olympian, revealed he was gay in gay, the first answer is no and you get ready skipper on five. V. Kohli lbw b Broad 8 2-0-6-1; Ballance 1-1-0-0 an emotional television interview on Sunday, for a fight,” he said. Being called a “faggot” and It was a miss that added to the woes of Cook, A. Rahane c Prior b Broad 24 England: Alastair Cook (capt), Sam Robson, ending years of speculation about the cham- other homophobic taunts by members of the struggling for runs and under fire for his tactics. M. S. Dhoni b Plunkett 11 Gary Ballance, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Moeen Ali, pion swimmer’s sexuality. The five-times public had also not helped. However, he Fortunately for England, however, it was not an R. Jadeja c Prior b Anderson 31 Matt Prior (wkt), Ben Stokes, Stuart Broad, Olympic gold medallist made the admission admitted a big part of his reticence was that expensive error as Dhoni had only made 11 when, S. Binny lbw b Ali 78 Liam Plunkett, James Anderson to British journalist Michael Parkinson in a pre- he worried that being gay would not fit into aiming towards mid-on, he was bowled by Liam B. Kumar not out 63 Result: Match drawn recorded interview on Australia’s Channel 10 his image as “Australia’s champion”. Plunkett’s first delivery Sunday, with the ball in which he shared his relief in freeing himself “Now it’ll be something that I work on with from living “a lie”. a doctor,” he said. “This trying to live a lie “I’ve thought about this for a long time. I’m which I was doing. But I was already living Mo clinches Women’s British Open not straight,” the 31-year-old said, struggling somewhat of a lie in my life because I was try- to hold tears back. “And this is only something ing to be what I thought was the right athlete SOUTHPORT: Mo Martin arrived at the Women’s that very recently, we’re talking the past two by other people’s standards. “I wanted to British Open at Royal Birkdale as a little-known weeks, I’ve been comfortable telling the clos- make my family proud, I wanted to make my American but left yesterday as golf’s newest est people around me, exactly that. “I’ve want- nation proud. Part of me didn’t know if major champion after a one-shot triumph. ed to (come out) for some time but I couldn’t, I Australia wanted it’s champion to be gay. The 31-year-old from Pasadena in California didn’t feel as though I could. “What happened “People will criticise me, some people produced the shot of a blustery final round-a was I felt the lie had become so big that I won’t like the idea other people may applaud three wood second at the 472-yard 18th that hit didn’t want people to question my integrity.” me for it, but it’s me.” Thorpe’s revelations the pin and spun six feet away. sparked a wave of support from fellow ath- She holed the putt for an eagle three, posted letes, celebrities and gay activists on social a round of 72 and her one under par 287 total media. “I can totally understand how difficult was good enough for a one shot victory over this whole process has been for him,” China’s Feng Shanshan and Norway’s Suzann Australian Olympian Matthew Mitcham, who Pettersen. Martin had led by three shots at came out before winning a diving gold at the halfway but was three behind four-time major 2008 Beijing Games told Sydney newspaper, winner, South Korea’s Park Inbee, going into the the Telegraph. “I really hope this process gives final round after a disappointing third round 77. him some peace and that the media and the “The 18th was the greatest shot of my life,” public give him the same respect and the said the delighted new champion, who has won same overwhelming support I received in three time on the Futures Tour but never higher 2008.” Singer Ricky Martin tweeted: “Congrats than third in three seasons on the LPGA circuit. @IanThorpe! Brave man! Happy for you! “I fell in love with Royal Birkdale from the first Millions appreciate what you’ve done! Proud time I saw it.” Accuracy is 5’2” Martin’s most SOUTHPORT: US player Mo Martin poses with the trophy after winning the Women’s British of you! #SelfLove.” potent weapon and it proved to be the key to her Open at Royal Birkdale’golf course in Southport. — AFP After shooting to fame when he won the victory over a tight course with brutal rough. 400 metres freestyle at the 1998 World With winds gusting to 25mph, it was even harder better,” said the player who holed the winning years. Stacy Lewis, the American defending Championships in Perth, Thorpe won three on the last day. One ahead at the start of the final put for the US to win the Curtis Cup in June. But champion, shot 77 in the final round and was gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics but round, Park, who won the 2007 US Women’s she won’t be turning professional for at least two tied for 12th on five over par. — AFP was soon taking medication and binge drink- Open, the first three majors last season and spent ing in a long battle with depression. over a year as the world No.1, was two in front by Thorpe’s revelations come only months the time she reached the turn in level par 36. Sauers outplays rival SYDNEY: This file photo taken on after checking in to rehab after being found But a double-bogey at the tenth halted her October 31, 2012 shows Australia’s five- disoriented in Sydney, later attributed by his march to a possible fifth major and another OKLAHOMA: Diminutive Gene Sauers shrugged serious health issue. He spent seven weeks in time Olympic swimming gold medallist manager to a cocktail of anti-depressants and dropped shot at the 11th caused further grief off a fever to outplay his better-known rivals and hospital in 2011 after what he says was a drug Ian Thorpe at the launch of his autobiog- medication to treat an injured shoulder. and she fell behind Feng. vault to a three-stroke lead after the third round interaction that went wrong. The medication was raphy ‘This is me’ in Sydney. — AFP The man nicknamed “Thorpedo” was It then looked as though it would be a battle at the US Senior Open in steamy Edmond, meant to treat suspected arthritis. rushed to hospital in April after contracting an between the two Asians before Martin produced Oklahoma on Saturday. Three years after surviv- “They (were) treating me with all these drugs, One of Australia’s favourite sons, Thorpe infection following shoulder surgery and is her miracle shot and moved one clear. ing a mysterious health scare that could have and the next thing you know after taking them had long denied he was gay and wrote in his unlikely to swim competitively again. Feng, the 2012 LPGA champion, came to the been fatal, Sauers is on the verge of arguably the for six or eight months, the drug interaction 2012 autobiography ‘This Is Me’ that he was Thorpe won two golds at the 2004 Athens 18th needing a birdie to tie but hit her second biggest victory of his career after carding a three- burned me from inside out, both my arms and heterosexual. “For the record, I am not gay and Olympics but shocked by quitting the pool in into a bunker and failed to get up and down. under-par 68 in oppressive heat at Oak Tree legs,” he told reporters. all my sexual experiences have been straight,” 2006 at the age of 24, saying he was fed up Park was in the same situation but drove into National. “I think they told me I had like a 25 per cent Thorpe wrote in the book. “I’m attracted to with being a “performing seal”. deep rough and ran up a six so had to settle for a The American was at seven-under 206, while chance of surviving. After skin grafts and all that, I women, I love children and aspire to have a He later revealed he had pondered ways to fourth place on one over par. Pettersen birdied German Bernhard Langer missed several short don’t have any more arthritis, thank God. I’m liv- family one day.” Smartly dressed in a navy blue kill himself during the depths of his depres- the final two holes to earn a share of second with putts down the stretch to card 71 and fall into a ing and playing golf with my friends again, which coat and sporting a face of stubble, Thorpe sion. He returned to the pool in 2011 in a bid Feng on level par. tie for second place with American Scott Dunlap is awesome. “I’m more relaxed out there ... I was said he had long battled to accept his sexuali- to qualify for the London Games but failed at American Emma Talley won the Smyth Salver (72) at four-under. Halfway leader Colin pretty hard on myself when I was on the regular ty, and might have come out earlier if he had national trials the following year. Thorpe told for the top amateur. The Kentucky 20-year-old Montgomerie could not sustain his hot start and tour.” Sauers, 51, struck precise approach shots at not been constantly questioned about it from Parkinson he regretted pulling the pin early in closed with a great 73 for six over par and three struggled to a 74, falling four strokes off the pace. the 16th and 18th holes to pick up two late the age of 16. his career. “Now I wish that I hadn’t but it’s shots better than her British rival, Georgia Hall, Sauers, who won three times on the PGA Tour, birdies, while Langer bogeyed the 17th after “The problem was I was asked at such a what I needed to do,” he said. “I could have who shot a final round 74. “Making the cut was has a new outlook on life after dealing with a very missing a short putt. —Reuters young age about my sexuality. I went to an all (won more medals).” — Reuters great and winning the amateur prize was even MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014

FAN FERVOR Superstitious hopefuls stage giant party

BUENOS AIRES: Anxious, excited and immersed in super- the headline “I only ask one thing of God.” Argentina treats that measured 66 square meters (710 square feet). stition, Argentines prepared a massive party yesterday for football with the reverence of a religion, but the national If Argentina wins, millions of people are expected to what the media described as “the game of their lives,” hop- team has not been to the World Cup final since 1990, and descend on the capital’s iconic Obelisk in celebration, rain ing to claim their third World Cup title. has not won it since 1986. or not. Police said they would reinforce the city’s hotspots National hero Lionel Messi and team are playing one of Winning the final would be a huge boost for national in the event of a victory. the most important matches in the football-mad nation’s self-esteem at a time when the country is mired in eco- “Wherever there are jumbo screens, there will be more history, and Argentines could speak of little else as they nomic troubles and struggling to pay its defaulted debt. police, with special attention on Plaza San Martin and loaded up on food and drink and went through pre-game “I’m living these final hours in a state of extreme anxiety, Centenary Park,” a federal police spokesman told AFP. rituals. nerves, hope, emotion and anguish. For Argentina, it’s the In residential neighborhoods, Argentine flags sprouted “Out of superstition, I’m going to wear a shirt that I greatest thing that could possibly happen, not just on the on balconies in abundance, while stores, bars and restau- haven’t washed since the World Cup started and that I’ve level of football but as a country,” said German Vazquez, a rants posted signs saying they would close early or stay worn for every match since we kicked off against Bosnia,” 33-year-old real estate broker. shut altogether. said Martin Gonzalez, a 35-year-old engineer, as he stocked An estimated 100,000 Argentines are expected in Rio on Across the country, communities were planning day- up on beer in Buenos Aires’s upscale Palermo neighbor- Sunday, taking charter jets or driving in convoys of cars. long festivals building up to the match. From Guaymallen hood. Many made the six-hour trip from Sao Paulo, where in the west to Gualeguaychu in the east, cities and towns Media reports speculated that President Cristina Argentina beat the Netherlands in the semi-final on organized children’s activities, theater festivals, concerts, Kirchner, who declined host Brazil’s invitation to attend the Wednesday. Back home, their compatriots are decking the football tournaments and fairs. game in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium, was staying country out in sky blue and white and plotting the best Foreign journalists have descended on the country away because she was afraid of being branded a jinx if the spot to watch on TV. seeking the best spots to chronicle the excitement. team lost. The heart of the party is Plaza San Martin in Buenos Hotels around the Obelisk and Plaza San Martin are The local press had room for little else Sunday, and TV Aires, where 50,000 people gathered for the semi-final and charging $500 to $800 a night for the rooms with the best stations displayed a running countdown to kick-off at 4:00 many more are expected to watch the final-if the morning views of the festivities. pm local time (1900 GMT). sunshine defies the rainy forecast for later in the day. Messi and his teammates are expected to arrive back in “Glory is there, within arm’s reach,” wrote daily La The city put up additional jumbo TV screens for the Buenos Aires today morning-either to a massive party and Nacion. Rival paper Ole carried a front-page picture of fans, including one in the plaza that measured 26 square parade to the city center, or to the heartbreak of 40 million Messi beside Rio’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue with meters (280 square feet) and another in Centenary Park disappointed fans. — AFP

RIO DE JANEIRO: Colombian singer Shakira (second left) performs during the closing ceremony prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup final football match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium. — AFP Another ‘knockout’ for Brazil

BRASILIA: Brazil manager Luiz Felipe tell the president what happened and history I know that but we have to see the need to look at what we did wrong so we Scolari said his future had yet to be decid- allow him to analyse this and life goes on.” positive things. “This generation is also don’t make the same mistakes again. ed and urged optimism after the hosts The president-elect of the CBF, Marco Polo going to be seen as the generation that “You need to be calm at moments like crashed to another heavy defeat in their Del Nero, said on Friday that Scolari should started preparations for 2018 as one of the this. We know that not everything we do is final match of the World Cup on Saturday. keep his job because of the good work he top four teams in the world. wrong. We were knocked out and that Brazil were soundly beaten 3-0 by the did during his 19 months in charge. “What am I feeling? I am feeling sad but leaves us frustrated and sad but I think that Netherlands to finish a disappointing Scolari said he had no reason to criticise I tell the fans that any leader ,or any person life goes on.” fourth and Scolari said he would file a his players after Saturday’s performance in leading a group or nation, if they don’t However, midfielder Oscar appeared report to the Brazilian Football the third-place playoff match and there convey optimism then there’s nothing we totally deflated. “What can you say. We Confederation (CBF) as planned and leave was no need for them to be mentally can do. “We have to push the team forward came here hoping to win third place but it up to them to decide his fate. scarred by their experiences over the past we have to be optimistic That’s what we we didn’t, it wasn’t our day,” he said. “That has to be decided by the presi- week. Anything other than a sixth World have to do if we want to make it.” “We lost, there’s nothing to say. We lost dent of the confederation,” Scolari told a Cup crown, and a first on home soil, was After another poor display, the Brazil a goal in two, three minutes and we were news conference when asked about his always going to be a failure but the way players again had to say sorry to the home chasing the game. “We are all very sad, the future. “When we started we had a dead- Brazil capitulated to the Germans in the supporters. “We need to apologise to the people are very sad, but we tried and we line to make our jobs available at the end semi-final was truly shocking and their fans, they booed us at the end, which is tried till the end.” Robin van Persie got the of the World Cup regardless of the result,” defence again performed woefully on normal, they have feelings too. It’s very first Dutch goal from the penalty spot in added the 65-year-old. Saturday. tough,” captain Thiago Silva said in a televi- the third minute, Daley Blind added a sec- “And that is exactly what we’re going to “Losing 7-1 (to Germany) we have sion interview. ond 13 minutes later and Georginio do with a final report for the president. already spoken about this many times,” “After the 7-1 today’s game was very Wijnaldum wrapped up the victory with a “Now we have to prepare our report and Scolari told reporters. “It was the worst in difficult psychologically,” he added. “But we third in stoppage time. — Reuters

Bangladesh farmer unfurls 3.5 km German flag

DHAKA: Germany has honoured a Bangladesh farmer and diehard fan for making a 3.5-kilometre-long (2.2 mile) flag of the country in support of Philipp Lahm’s World Cup team, officials said yesterday. The massive flag was on display Saturday at a stadium in the western town of Magura, which the German charge d’affaires, Ferdinand von Weyhe, visited to pay tribute to the farmer. “The 3.5-kilometre-long German flag circled the stadium four times and hundreds of peo- ple have turned up to see this amazing sight,” said Ishrat Hossain, a German embassy spokeswoman. She said Von Weyhe handed the farmer, 65-year-old Amjad Hossain, a life membership of the official fan club of the German national team, a football, a team jersey and a certificate of appreciation. The farmer told AFP he became a German fan out of gratitude after he recovered from a gallbladder stone by taking homeopathic medicine made in Germany.“I start- ed making the flag after the 2006 World Cup in Germany. It was extended in the 2010 World Cup and in this World Cup I added more cloth. It’s now 3.5 kilometre long,” Hossain said. Hossain, an impoverished farmer, said he sold a piece of farmland to help pay for the flag which cost 240,000 taka ($3,000). “The flag will be a success if Germany win the World Cup,” he said. Most Bangladeshis are fervent supporters of South American giants Brazil and Argentina and the flags of the two nations fly over many houses. MAGURA: In this photograph taken on July 12, 2014 and released by the German Embassy in Dhaka, The South Asian nation got hooked on them in 1982 Bangladeshi residents stand alongside a large German flag displayed at a stadium in Magura. Germany has when television began broadcasting World Cup matches honored a Bangladesh farmer and diehard fan for making a 3.5-kilometre-long (2.2 mile) flag of the country in live nationwide. — AFP support of Philipp Lahm’s World Cup team, officials said. — AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014

Goalkeepers shine brightest in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO: Despite being a tournament labelled as FAN FERVOR the return of attack-minded football after the caution shown in South Africa four years ago, Brazil 2014 has been a platform for the world’s best goalkeepers to shine. Yesterday’s final featured the widely regarded best stop- per in the world in Germany’s Manuel Neuer, whose sweeper-keeper ability to rush from his goal could lead to a revolution in how the position is played. However, even those less widely recognised at club level have shone in the bright lights of Brazil over the past five weeks. Argentina’s Sergio Romero made just one league start for Monaco last season, but became a national hero when he saved penalties from Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder to send his side into their first World Cup final in 24 years. With more teams committed to attack the wide-open nature of the tournament certainly gave those in the last line of defence more chance to shine. However, they have also been aided by a reliable ball in the Brazuca which hasn’t dipped and swerved to leave ‘keepers bewildered like the Jabulani did four years ago. North American federation CONCACAF enjoyed their best ever showing at a final with three teams reaching the last 16 in large part thanks to their goalkeepers. Mexico’s Guillermo Ochoa somehow kept Brazil at bay in a 0-0 draw in Fortaleza and almost certainly earned him- self a lucrative contract in the process. Ochoa is a free agent having left French club Ajaccio and has been linked with a move to Spanish champions Atletico Madrid amongst others. Another man on Atletico’s radar is Costa Rica’s Keylor Navas who is the only player along with Lionel Messi to have won three man-of-the- match awards in Brazil. Navas conceded just once from open play in 510 min- BRAZIL: Argentina’s forward Gonzalo Higuain (left) and Germany’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer vie for the ball dur- utes and also guided his side into the last eight for the first ing the final football match. — AFP time in their history with a stunning penalty save from for- President Barack Obama. Even goalkeepers that played just ons crashed out in the first round. It was a similar story for mer Levante teammate Theofanis Gekas to eliminate one minute of action were decisive as the Netherlands’ Tim Russia’s Ivan Akinfeev as having already dropped a clanger Greece. The single most impressive goalkeeping display of Krul became one of the most important substitutes of the to allow South Korea to open the scoring in his side’s first all, though, may have come from America’s Tim Howard tournament when he was brought on in the last minute of match, he was at fault again when Fabio Capello’s men against Belgium in the last 16. extra time for side’s penalty shootout with Costa Rica. seemed on course for the last 16 against Algeria. Howard made 16 saves, a record for any goalkeeper in a Despite having a far from stellar penalty saving record Capello claimed Akinfeev had been blinded by a laser World Cup match stretching back to 1966. The Everton with club side Newcastle United, Krul made two fine stops pen as he got caught under Yacine Brahimi’s cross allowing goalkeeper became an overnight sensation back in the to end the Central Americans’ fairytale ride to the last eight. Islam Slimani to equalise. States with the hashtag “ThingsTimHowardCouldSave” Just as every keeper can be a hero, though, they can Unfortunately for the 2018 hosts that was to be the only becoming a tending topic on social media site Twitter, also be a villain as Spanish captain Iker Casillas found to his bright light on Russia’s campaign as they were sent pack- whilst he also received a personal call of thanks from US cost, making a series of blunders as the defending champi- ing with just two points to their name. — AFP

RIO DE JANEIRO: (From back left-right) President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach, Russian President Vladimir Putin, FIFA President Joseph Blatter, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein (center-left), Ali Bongo Ondimba (center-row second right), Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (center row right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend the closing ceremony ahead of the final football match between Germany and Argentina for the FIFA World Cup. — AFP Brazil look to future

BRASILIA: Amid the calls for swingeing tional level for goalkeeper Julio Cesar, changes at all levels of Brazilian football, while right-back Daniel Alves and much- the reality is that Neymar and other mem- maligned striker Fred, as well as fringe How World Cup cash is bers of the squad that failed so spectacu- players including Maxwell and Jo, will be larly at the World Cup will still have an pushed out too. But the Brazilian Football paid to teams, players international future. Confederation must make changes at RIO DE JANEIRO: The most valuable and And Brazil will not have long to wait for grassroots level while also ensuring that $500,000 from the 2010 tournament expensive World Cup ever will earn billions That should have helped pay for training a shot at redemption, with the Copa the full national team remains competi- of dollars for FIFA, millions for the competing camps before arriving in Brazil and settle America in Chile to come next year and tive going into the Copa America in Chile countries and thousands for the more than some player bonus issues which have tradi- the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 in June next year. 700 players selected. tionally dogged World Cup teams, especially before the next World Cup in Russia in Winning Olympic gold, something From its near $4.5 billion in revenue from from Africa. 2018. Brazil has never done, at home in 2016 broadcasters, sponsors, hospitality and Since last Tuesday’s record-breaking 7- would go some small way towards exor- licensing deals, FIFA distributes just over PAY TO PLAY 1 semi-final defeat to Germany in Belo cising the ghost of this year’s disaster. $400 million to the 32 national federations As usual, problems over paying bonuses Horizonte, the country’s President Dilma However, that is an under-23 tourna- taking part in the tournament. exposed the financial problems of African Rousseff and Minister of Sport Aldo ment with room for just three overage Here is how some of that money breaks federations and a fundamental distrust Rebelo have led the calls for major struc- players and captain Silva believes it would down: many players have for elected football offi- tural changes to avoid a repeat in future. be dangerous to use the Copa America as cials. Three of the five African teams - Romario, in the 1994 World Cup win- a warm-up for Rio 2016. FIRST PRIZE Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria - were dis- ning Brazil side and now a politician, has “The competition is important. There The winner between Germany and tracted by payment issues. Cameroon’s called for an inquest into what went will be Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina in the final will get $35 million in squad arrived a day late after refusing to prize money paid to its national federation, board a plane, forcing their federation to wrong while also insisting that most of Ecuador, Brazil and Chile, who will be at which can spend the money as it chooses. take out a loan to ensure players got paid. the players involved against Germany home,” he said. “That shows how big the That’s $5 million more than the $30 mil- Ghana’s government flew in $3 million in should never represent their country competition is and how much it has lion Spain took home from South Africa four cash - after Brazil’s government waived laws again. grown. years ago. The runner up gets $25 million (up on moving currency - to avert a threatened “From a group of players that lose 7-1 “It depends on your point of view, and from $24 million in 2010), while the third- strike by players who were reportedly prom- and suffer such embarrassment, normally that of the coach, whether he wants to and fourth-place teams get $22 million and ised between $75,000 and $100,000. 80 percent of them should never wear the put out a team thinking about the $20 million, respectively. Nigeria players canceled a training ses- national team shirt again,” he said. Olympics. But if that happened, a lot of sion before its round of 16 loss against “Although they are not the only guilty people would say he went into it knowing PLAYERS’ SHARE France to ensure its bonus payments were ones, they can’t pull on the shirt again. he was going to lose.” As Brazil look to FIFA lets national federations choose how upheld. They were promised $10,000 each They will forever be scarred.” In contrast, bolster their squad in the short-term, to reward the 23 players on their squads. The for every group stage win, and could have coach Luiz Felipe Scolari claims that “12, experienced defenders Joao Miranda and German federation last year promised all 23 earned $102,500 in total for winning the 13 or 14” members of what he calls a Filipe Luis, who helped Atletico Madrid players a 300,000-euro ($408,000) bonus for title. young squad this year will still be around reach this year’s Champions League final, winning a fourth World Cup title. That is the equivalent of a few weeks’ FIFA PROMISE when Brazil make a new attempt to win a could come back into the reckoning. And basic wage for the German players who are FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said sixth World Cup in Russia. With an aver- younger names such as Paris Saint- employed by wealthy European clubs like it was “sad” that bonus issues distracted from age age of almost 28, this Brazil squad Germain duo Marquinhos and Lucas Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. the football. He pledged that, in the future, can hardly be considered young but, nev- Moura and Liverpool attacking midfielder FIFA will seek written agreements from fed- ertheless, Scolari is probably not too far Philippe Coutinho may give the squad a PRIZE POOL erations that players are contracted to off the mark. much-needed boost. Prize money for the other 28 federations receive their money before arriving in Russia Indeed, the spine of the current side Either way, Brazil need look no further who are eliminated before the semifinals in 2018. may well remain unchanged, with than the Germans for inspiration as they stayed at the same level as in 2010. Neymar, who will be 26 in four years time, turn to the future. After all, Germany’s Quarterfinalists get $14 million, round of 16 CLUBS’ SHARE leading the attack while captain Thiago superb team of today was born at the losers get $9 million and those which failed Clubs who released the 736 players tak- Silva, who will be 33, could have another 2006 World Cup. Then, as hosts, they also to advance from the group get $8 million. ing part in the World Cup will also get their World Cup in him. suffered an agonising defeat in the semi- How do they spend it? Four years ago, share of FIFA’s revenues. FIFA has set aside The likes of David Luiz, Luiz Gustavo finals, against Italy, before finishing third FIFA acknowledged it did not know if the $8 $70 million to distribute at a rate of $2,800 and Oscar should survive too, and the ini- by beating Scolari’s Portugal side. Since million paid to North Korea would stay with- per player per day that each was on World in football there. Cup duty. The money is shared between then, they have been runners-up at Euro tial changes to the playing squad will In addition, FIFA paid $1.5 million in each player’s current club and any other he probably be gradual, regardless of who is 2008, and semi-finalists at the 2010 World advance to each of the 32 federations to pre- played for in the two previous years during in charge. Cup and Euro 2012, before reaching the pare for the tournament - an increase of qualification matches. — AP This is the end of the road at interna- final in Brazil. — AFP Neuer wins Golden Glove Messi bags Golden Ball RIO DE JANEIRO: Germany’s Manuel Neuer won the World RIO DE JANEIRO: Lionel Messi, who lost out on the World Cup Cup Golden Glove award for the tournament’s best goal- title after Argentina’s 1-0 loss to Germany in yesterday’s final, was keeper after helping his side to a 1-0 victory over Argentina named the Golden Ball player of the tournament. The Barcelona in yesterday’s final. legend and four time Player of the Year was a key part in The 28-year-old Bayern Munich player was presented Argentina’s march to the Maracana stadium, picking up four with the award at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium man of the match performances. moments after the triumph. “It is unbelievable, and an awe- He scored four goals at the tournament, but failed to pick up some experience,” said Neuer of his side’s victory, which the one honor eluding him after Germany substitute Mario gave Germany their fourth world title. “We have had incredi- Goetze’s 113th minute goal dashed the South Americans’ dream ble cohesion since the start of our preparations. We have of a third title. had our share of setbacks, including losing players like Lars While the 27-year-old has won everything there is to win- and broken every record there is to break-with Barcelona, the and Sven Bender, as well as Marco Reus, who all deserve to final offered him the opportunity to definitively seal his legacy in be world champions. “Germany are world champions. I don’t know how long we the sport. Pele, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo all scored decisive goals in finals, while will celebrate, but we will go about it with big grins.” Neuer beat off competition Diego Maradona created the goal that settled the 1986 tournament, but Messi found from Argentine opposite number Sergio Romero and Keylor Navas of surprise himself upstaged by Mario Goetze’s sensational extra-time winner for Germany. —AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 package Costa Rica to win the award. — AFP

RIO DE JANEIRO: Germany’s team holds the World Cup trophy as they celebrate after winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup final football match against Argentina 1-0 following extra-time at the Maracana Stadium. — AFP 4orce germany!

First European team to win World Cup in South America

RIO DE JANEIRO: Mario Goetze scored a superb lievable feeling. “The team stayed calm and enced Christoph Kramer replacing Sami Khedira Moments later, Higuain had the ball in the net for often threatening on the break. extra-time winner as Germany beat Argentina 1-0 patient, we knew that we had something left at after the Real Madrid star injured a calf in the warm Argentina only to see the goal disallowed for off- Messi squandered another golden Argentinian to become the first European team to win a World the end.” The decisive moment of a World Cup up. With Bastian Schweinsteiger running midfield side. chance shortly after the restart, latching onto a Cup held in South America yesterday. brimming with wonderful goals came with penal- the Germans laid siege to Argentinian territory, Germany’s personnel problems deepened pass from Lucas Biglia but scuffing his shot wide of Bayern Munich star Goetze struck in the 113th ties looming in front of 74,738 fans at Rio de passing smoothly and denying Messi a route into when Kramer himself went off, prompting the Neuer. minute to finally break Argentina’s resistance as Janeiro’s famous Maracana Stadium. the game. introduction of Schuerrle. The hard-fought nature of the contest led to a Lionel Messi’s dream of emulating Diego Andre Schuerrle burst clear down the left flank Yet for all Germany’s early dominance they cre- The Germans remained unfazed by the setback flurry of cards from referee Nicola Rizzoli, who cau- Maradona ended in defeat. and crossed for Goetze. The 22-year-old took the ated little in the way of clear chances. And it was however, and quickly set about reimposing their tioned Javier Mascherano and Sergio Aguero in Germany has now won four World Cups, put- ball on his chest and then volleyed past Sergio Argentina who were presented with a glorious control of the game. Schuerrle drew a fine near- quick succession for fouls on Miroslav Klose and ting the European powerhouses just one behind Romero to spark delirium amongst the largely chance to open the scoring. Toni Kroos misdirect- post save from Romero on 37 minutes with a rasp- Schweinsteiger. Brazil’s record tally of five. pro-German crowd. ed a header back to Manuel Neuer to send ing shot after Mueller’s cutback. The remainder of the half saw neither side able “It’s unbelievable what we have achieved. Messi was largely anonymous for most of the Gonzalo Higuain racing through on goal. But with But the latent threat of Messi meant Germany to get on top. Germany controlled possession Whether we have the best individual player evening and his miserable evening was summed only Neuer to beat the Napoli striker dragged his could never entirely relax. Messi burst away down without really testing Romero, while Argentina doesn’t matter at all, you just need to have the best up when a late free-kick to equalise sailed over the shot wide to disbelief from fans and team-mates. the right and raced into the box, toe-poked past were unable to pass a German defence superbly team,” said delighted Germany captain Philipp bar. The victory was celebrated raucously by Germany continued to probe for openings, and Neuer only for Jerome Boateng to clear. marshalled by Mats Hummels and Boateng. Lahm. Brazilians in the crowd, who had dreaded the a Lahm pass almost put Thomas Mueller clear. The On the stroke of half-time Benedikt Hoewedes Schuerrle came closest to breaking the dead- “We improved throughout the tournament and prospect of sworn South American rivals Argentina pace of Argentina on the counter-attack continued came within inches of scoring, crashing a header lock in the first period of extra-time, forcing didn’t get down when things didn’t always go our lifting the title in their backyard. to unsettle Germany however. Schweinsteiger from a Kroos corner against the post. Romero into a desperate block. Penalties looked to way, we just stuck to our path and at the end we’re An absorbing first half saw Germany forced into picked up a yellow card for bringing down The second half followed a similar pattern, be the likeliest outcome, but Goetze had other standing here as world champions. It’s an unbe- a reshuffle moments before kick-off with inexperi- Ezequiel Lavezzi just after the half hour mark. Germany controlling possession but Argentina ideas. — AFP

Heroes and villains Either side of Gaza border,

PARIS: Like any good drama or pantomime the World Cup threw up its fair share Sunday he delivered a notable knockout blow to four-time world footballer of the fans cheer World Cup teams of heroes and villains over the five weeks of competition. year Lionel Messi and his Argentinian team-mates. Here AFP selects five in each category though heroism or villainy can be differ- MEFALSIM KIBBUTZ: A cry of despair think about it.” ent in the eye of the beholder: James Rodriguez (COL) emanates from Mefalsim kibbutz, a few He made the absence of talismanic Colombian striker Radamel miles from the Gaza border. But it’s ACROSS THE BORDER IN GAZA Villains Falcao irrelevant as the angelic-faced 23-year-old scored six goals and nothing to do with rocket fire - But Gazans cannot afford to forget Arjen Robben (NED) set up two goals to boot. Showed great maturity in not losing his cool Germany have just denied Argentina the Israeli operation that has claimed The flying or diving Dutchman enjoys a roving role in the two categories. under intense provocation from the robust tactics adopted by the the World Cup. at least 170 lives and injured more than When on his feet he had a largely outstanding World Cup but when his country Brazilians in their quarter-final. The irony was that he ended up being Dozens of residents of the kibbutz 1,000 people in the Strip, as air strikes needed him most he went into hiding in the semi-final. The 30-year-old forward booked for an innocuous foul. Tears at the end but he brought much joy. gathered late Sunday to support continue to rain down. Argentina, their country of origin, as Nowhere is open in Gaza for people Israel waged an aerial campaign to watch the match in public. The against next door Gaza, and rockets streets are empty and people stay continued to rain into the Jewish state. indoors, watching if they can with The Schwartzberg family have erect- friends and family and praying for ed a big screen in their garden to show delivery from bombing raids. “We will always dazzle with some of his trickery, the other side of it - tricking refer- Yohan Cabaye (FRA) the football match, and neighbours decided to organise a get-together ees - will always infuriate people. Performed well on the pitch for tuck into grilled chorizo sausage and under the staircase in our building so France but his intervention after a couple of French enjoy beers as cries of “Vamos that we don’t have to leave if a bomb- Luis Suarez (URU) players namely Morgan Schneiderlin and Bacary Sagna Argentina!” ring out in Spanish. Air raid ing starts suddenly,” says Mohammed Or ‘Chewy Luis and the News’ as some have titled him could have said they should win the World Cup after topping their sirens intermittently sound, as rockets Akila, 26, in Gaza City. been in the heroes column if he continued in the same vein as his group otherwise it would be a failure earns him special are fired from the Gaza Strip some 10 “We want to watch the final - it startling two goals against England less than a month after under- praise. “The fact we showed our quality in the group stage kilometres (6 miles) away, but residents would be a shame to miss the World going knee surgery. However, his bad habit of being attracted to obviously should make us more confident but not arro- human flesh returned as Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder attested to. gant, otherwise we are going to have major problems,” who are normally ready to scramble to Cup fun,” he says. Akila will at least Denied it, then apologised though it appears it stemmed from a said the 28-year-old displaying the sort of down to earth shelters remain glued to the screen. have some cause for celebration, hav- request by Barcelona who he subsequently joined. common sense that would have stood the cursed team of Chacho Schwartzberg, 64, has been an ing declared before the match that he 2010 in good stead. Israeli since 1986, the year Argentina was supporting Germany, who went on Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng (GHA) last won the World Cup, but proudly to win 1-0 in extra time. Heroes four years ago but sent home in disgrace prior to their cru- Guillermo Ochoa (MEX) declares “tonight I am Argentinian.” Akila sits with a group of around 10 cial group game with Portugal in these finals. Muntari, a renowned Arrived at the finals without a club having left relegat- “Football runs through my veins and young men, with a table of nuts and badboy with previous form, physically attacked a Ghanaian federation ed French championship side Ajaccio but he departed official while Boateng verbally abused coach Kwesi Appiah. “If you having done his future employment prospects the world tonight I want victory,” he says, as the other snacks laid out in front of them. want to build a team and instil discipline it’s always important that you of good. Mop haired headband wearing surfer look younger generation cheers on with “If it weren’t for the war we’d have set things right so that it doesn’t affect the team in the future,” Appiah maybe bedazzled some of his opponents but his star- their parents in Spanish. “Tonight we’re gone to watch at a cafe by the sea. said after Portugal beat them 2-1 to send them home. tling performances in the 0-0 draw with Brazil and in the not thinking about rockets, we’re par- “But we know Israel is bombing last 16 game with the Netherlands amongst others will tying,” 23-year-old Gilad says excitedly, everywhere, like what happened in Benoit Assou-Ekotto (CMR) surely see him snapped up soon. sporting an Argentine football shirt. Khan Yunis,” he says, referring to an air His headbutting of his Cameroon team-mate Benjamin Moukandjo “It was incredible (one save he made from Neymar in A short distance away, air strikes strike on a beachfront cafe that killed towards the end of the 4-0 drubbing by Croatia summed up in the the Brazil game). Maybe people don’t know him very well worst possible way the depths to which the once proud ‘Indomitable because he was playing in a little club, but for those who light up the sky in Gaza as Israel pum- nine people watching the Argentina- Lions’ had plummeted to. Volker Finke described the defender’s behav- work with him every day, it really wasn’t a surprise,” said mels the Strip for a seventh straight Netherlands semi-final on Tuesday. iour as ‘disgusting’. The 30-year-old later explained his gesture was centre-back Hector Moreno. day in an operation to stamp out rock- Fadi Zayd, 36, a resident of Beit borne out of frustration at Moukandjo failing to heed his advice to pass et fire. Lahiya in northern Gaza, says he is to him both in the first game against Mexico and then the Croatian Cesare Prandelli (ITA) Militants have fired hundreds of ignoring Israeli warnings to locals in match. “When I told him again (to pass to me), he replied: ‘Get off my He has always set different standards as a man and a rockets into Israel, including as far as the north of the Strip that if they don’t back!’ I could not accept his reaction. There was so much frustration in coach, stepping down from a top role when his wife Tel Aviv, setting off air raid sirens in evacuate their homes they risk becom- that match,” Assou-Ekotto told L’Equipe. became seriously ill-she later died-and penalising his play- ers if they misbehaved off the pitch as well as on it. Thus he Israeli towns, but the rocket fire has ing victims of intensive air raids there. HEROES didn’t hesitate once Italy failed to go through to the sec- caused no deaths. “We’re used to living “I couldn’t not watch the World Cup Mario Goetze ond round to accept the blame and resign announcing it under the threat from rockets,” says final!” he declared over the phone. “I’m His talent and good looks make him the envy of many but he will in the post match press conference. “I take all responsibili- Chacho, more interested right now in going to watch the match at my house forever be a hero in Germany after his stunning volley secured them ty for our failure. It’s useless for me to sit here and say I the match than the conflict. even though the Israelis ordered us to their fourth World Cup title and first since the two Germany’s were could have done it differently. This is why I’m resigning,” “It’s a tragedy, what is happening in leave our houses. Our fate is in God’s unified. The 22-year-old equates being a footballer to a boxer and on said the 56-year-old. — AFP Gaza, but tonight we don’t want to hands,” said the father of six. —AFP Foreign banks bend to US rules Page 22

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KUWAIT: Traders are seen at the Kuwait Stock Exchange in this file photo. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Kuwait posts biggest daily gain in 8 months Analysts expect strong Q2 profits at Kuwaiti banks

DUBAI: Kuwait’s bourse stood out in an otherwise sluggish Investment and COAST Investment and Development. pulled back 1.4 percent after jumping 3.8 percent in the last main supports, jumping 3.8 percent after its second-quarter region yesterday as investors were encouraged by govern- According to a report in Kuwait’s Argaam newspaper, listed session; it offset gains made by smaller stocks. The market profit surged 41 percent and was 39 percent higher than ment spending plans, a positive outlook for the banking Kuwaiti companies have settled a total of 139.6 million index edged up just 0.1 percent to 4,580 points after meet- analysts’ average estimate. Shares in top petrochemical pro- sector and a string of debt settlement deals. The Kuwaiti dinars ($495 million) in debts with creditors this year. ing resistance around the 4,600-point level, which is close ducer Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) rose 1.0 percent. SABIC index climbed 1.5 percent to a one-month closing high of Also, Kuwait’s banks are expected to perform much bet- to the lows seen in May and early June. has yet to report its second-quarter earnings; analysts sur- 7,179 points, its biggest daily gain since October. Trading ter than last year. Analysts surveyed by Reuters forecast on Shares in Abu Dhabi’s Dana Gas jumped 4.3 percent after veyed by Reuters expect them to rise 6.3 percent. volume picked up to its highest level since mid-May, a posi- average that the profit of the country’s largest lender, the company said an arbitration tribunal in London had Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Maaden) also rose 1.0 percent tive technical sign. National Bank of Kuwait, will surge 59 percent in the second awarded it the right to receive some outstanding payments after the company and Canada’s Barrick Gold said they Fouad Darwish, head of brokerage services at Global quarter. The quarterly profit of smaller Burgan Bank is from the government of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. But shares would jointly run its Jabal Sayid copper asset in the king- Investment House in Kuwait, said investors’ optimism was expected to jump 43 percent. Earlier this month, Kuwait’s in another local firm with assets in Iraq, Abu Dhabi National dom, a move that could see the long-delayed mine finally fuelled by expectations for higher state investment in long- market was weakened by public protests, dispersed by Energy Company, dropped 3.4 percent as heavy fighting begin production in late 2015. Al Rajhi Bank was the main delayed infrastructure projects, as well as signs of recovery police, in support of opposition politician Musallam al- took place less than 50 miles (80 km) from Baghdad and drag on the index, falling 1.9 percent, after the lender post- in the corporate and banking sectors. The stock benchmark Barrak, who had been detained for questioning after Iraq’s parliament failed to move towards forming a new ed a fourth successive quarterly profit decline. The bank has been declining for most of this year and is still down 5 allegedly insulting Kuwait’s judiciary. But his release on bail government. Qatar’s benchmark was down 0.3 percent as said it made 1.95 billion riyals ($520 million) in the second percent year-to-date because of political tensions within last week eased tensions, at least temporarily. its four-day rally lost steam and trading volumes fell. quarter, in line with analysts’ average forecast of 1.97 billion the ruling elite as well as financial trouble at a number of Industries Qatar was the main drag, falling 1.6 percent. riyals. In Egypt, shares in Bisco Misr jumped their 10 percent local companies. Uae, Qatar daily limit after the snack maker said Abraaj Investment But over the last two months, a number of companies Markets in Dubai and Abu Dhabi moved very little as Saudi, Egypt Management had made an approach to buy at least a 51 have announced deals with creditors to settle their debts, trading volumes fell on both bourses in a typical Ramadan Saudi Arabia’s main index edged up 0.1 percent. Saudi percent stake in it. However, the Egyptian index slipped 0.7 including Al-Madina for Finance and Investment Co, Al Mal lull. Dubai’s largest listed developer, Emaar Properties , International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) was among the percent on broad-based profit-taking. — Reuters India’s Modi goes slow on BNP, tax evasion: US still dictates its economic law ‘big bang’ budget reform WASHINGTON: Although its diplomatic Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), but the clout is compromised on several fronts, the tax evasion offensive has also been criticized United States still dictates its economic law for unilateralism.”It’s not fabulous, unilateral- NEW DELHI: The maiden budget from India’s new right-wing government has struggling through a weak monsoon was not an option in this budget, said around the globe and has even expanded its ism,” admitted Pascal Saint-Amans, a staunch promised a return to high growth-but disappointed some who hoped premier Bodke. The government already delivered some bitter pre-budget medicine in reach, at the risk of raising hackles. The case supporter of FATCA who heads the unit Narendra Modi might use his thumping mandate to unleash radical change. The the form of a double-digit hike in rail fares. of BNP Paribas is the most spectacular evi- fighting tax havens at the Organization for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government opted for small steps in last week’s “Nothing can be done overnight-things take time in India-but Mr Modi is a dence of the trend. After lengthy negotia- Economic Cooperation and Development. budget, in what it called “the beginning of a journey” after winning in May the free-enterprise person, and so we could have a different India in five years,” said tions, France’s largest bank agreed to pay $8.9 “Lex Americana” also has extended its biggest electoral majority in 30 years. DH Pai Panandiker, who heads the RPG Foundation think-tank. “If he’s in power billion and pleaded guilty to moving billions gavel into Argentina’s crucial legal battle While some economists felt Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should have been for 10, we may really become a progressive, middle-income nation,” he told AFP. of dollars through the US financial system on over government debt payments. Deciding a bolder, Deepak Lalwani, head of financial consultancy Lalcap, told AFP it was not Still, Jaitley’s decision to stick to the last government’s goal of cutting the fis- behalf of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar and Sudan, all case linked to Argentina’s debt default in “realistic to have ‘big bang’ reforms so quickly”. Jaitley pledged faster economic cal deficit to a seven-year low of 4.1 percent of GDP has raised eyebrows. He blacklisted by US economic sanctions. 2001, a US judge recently ordered Buenos growth, tighter fiscal discipline, greater openness to foreign investment and plans to meet the target through higher tax revenues and quadrupling privati- The use of the dollar alone allowed US Aires to suspend payment to its creditors revamped infrastructure. But he left intact $43 billion worth of anti-poverty sub- zation proceeds. But with India mired in its deepest slowdown in a quarter-cen- authorities the right to order a criminal guilty unless it pays up on debt held by bond-hold- sidies-raising questions about how he will meet ambitious targets to cut govern- tury-last year’s growth of just under five percent is half the rate seen a few years plea and the record penalty on a foreign ers who refused to join others in the 2005- ment overspending. Jaitley’s predecessor P. Chidambaram noted acerbically that ago Jaitley might “regret abiding by his predecessor’s target”, said Capital bank, a source of friction with French officials. 2010 restructuring of the country’s defaulted after criticizing the previous left-leaning Congress government’s subsidies as Economics analyst Mark Williams. Former French prime minister Michel Rocard debt. This order, which is limited to “mindless populism”, the new man in the job did not touch them. The government says growth could hit nearly six percent this year and railed against “abuse of power” in an op-ed Argentina’s bonds issued in New York, could “Welcome to the real world,” Chidambaram remarked. India’s hundreds of mil- rebound to seven-to-eight percent by 2018, but cautions that the weak mon- article in Le Monde newspaper, accusing the be extended to bonds issued under British lions of poor are a vital vote bank, and the BJP and allies have their eyes on state soon could hit farm output, undermining expansion. Jaitley’s budget plucked US of a kind of economic “occupation” based law, denominated in euros and with no link elections this year. They control just eight out of 29 local governments, and anti- some lower-hanging fruit. To draw more outside money, he hiked defense and on the extraterritoriality of its laws. to the US. populist moves could alienate voters. Economists have long argued that India’s insurance foreign investment caps to 49 percent from 26 percent and promised “The sanctions regulations have been Worrying about that possibility, invest- economic potential will only be unleashed when it curbs subsidies and ends suf- to make the corruption-plagued subsidy system “more targeted”. enforced more and more aggressively in the ment funds have asked for a clarification from focating regulation. They also advocate relaxing rigid labor protection laws that He announced plans for private-public partnerships to build more roads, rail past 10 years and their use has been broad- the judge. “This court should clarify that the discourage manufacturers from hiring, and easing complex land acquisition laws and other infrastructure to emulate rival China’s economic miracle, though ana- ened from a response to 9/11 to a larger tool injunctions do not apply to the foreign third to boost industry. lysts fretted about how many investors India will attract. But change may not of foreign policy,” Farhad Alavi, a parties that process payments on the euro The budget left all these issues off the to-do list, although Jaitley said he just come through budgetary measures, analysts say. Since defeating the scan- Washington-based lawyer specialized in bonds,” they said in a motion to the court. hoped a long-awaited national goods and services tax (GST) to increase inter- dal-tainted Congress, Modi-known as ruthlessly efficient when chief minister of sanctions, said in an interview. Across these three issues, the Americans are sending a “very clear” message, said for- state commerce would be ready by December. Brokerage Nomura called the fail- the prosperous Gujarat state-has been working to change how India’s sprawl- Unilateralism mer New York Stock Exchange vice president ure to tackle subsidies a “disappointment”. But others said rather than missing the ing, inefficient bureaucracy does business. He has pursued his “Modinomics” Another issue has eyebrows furled. Since George Ugeux: “Don’t mess with us.” reform boat, Jaitley is playing a longer game to build consensus in a fractious campaign agenda of “maximum governance, minimum government”, consoli- the beginning of July, when a sweeping US According to this expert, the world’s leading democracy of 1.25 billion people in which competing business, social and politi- dating ministries to streamline administration and speed up decision-making. law against tax evasion took effect, economic power still wields “considerable cal interests abound. At the same time, keeping all bases covered, he has been sounding as res- Washington has the right to demand the leverage” thanks to the dollar, the world’s olutely populist as the Congress government, saying his greatest goal is to data of tens of thousands of accounts held reserve currency. Stung by the BNP Paribas Low-hanging fruit meet the aspirations of the “weakest, poorest” Indians. The BJP’s landslide vic- by Americans in foreign banks. Some 70 affair, French authorities have called on “Mr Jaitley has presented an admirable budget and he’s extended hope of tory has seen India’s shares soar to record highs. But if growth remains in the countries have signed treaties or agreed to Europe to make progress in advancing the many more reforms,” Ajay Bodke, investment strategy head at brokerage doldrums and the government misses its deficit targets, the honeymoon could cooperate with the US on the Foreign use of the euro. — AFP Prabhudas Lilladher, told AFP. Reducing subsidies at a time when farmers are be over. — AFP BUSINESS MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014

Saudi’s Al-Rajhi Bank posts fourth quarterly profit dip DUBAI: Al-Rajhi Bank posted a fourth suc- later. The last three quarters saw earnings continue for the coming quarters,” he forecasts with a 7 percent year-on-year Loans and advances at the end of June cessive quarterly profit decline as its sec- dragged down by higher provisioning added. gain in net profit. stood at 200.9 billion riyals, gaining 8.7 ond-quarter earnings fell 8.2 percent year- and higher operating expenses in this Some firms in the kingdom, especially Despite the decline, Al-Rajhi’s net prof- percent on the same point of 2013, while on-year, with Saudi Arabia’s largest listed quarter has been interpreted to mean ris- construction companies, have reported it figure was in line with analyst forecasts, deposits climbed 7.9 percent to 245.4 bil- lender hit again by higher provisioning. ing impairments. their earnings have been adversely affect- with a poll conducted by Reuters expect- lion riyals over the same period. The bank said it made 1.95 billion riyals “It seems there is a one off charge but ed since a crackdown in late 2013 on ille- ing an average profit of 1.97 billion riyals Chiradeep Ghosh, banking analyst at ($520 million) in the three months ending overall Al-Rajhi will always have a higher gal foreign workers and new laws aimed for the quarter. The higher provisioning Bahraini investment bank SICO, said the June 30, compared with 2.12 billion riyals cost of risk due to its retail focus,” said Ali at employing more Saudis - who usually overshadowed growth in other areas of market would react negatively to the sec- in the same period a year earlier, citing an Adou, fund manager at Abu Dhabi-based command higher salaries than expatri- the business. Operating income for the ond-quarter numbers but expected it to increase in total operating expenses for The National Investor. “For corporate ates. Al-Rajhi’s quarterly profit decline quarter rose by 6.6 percent on the corre- be the final period of declining profits. the drop without elaborating. clients, the only risky exposure is to the stands against the positive earnings per- sponding period of 2013 to 3.66 billion “We expect to see earnings picking up Saudi companies issue brief earnings contracting industry where banks have formance reported by most other Saudi riyals, while profits from special commis- from third quarter 2014, owing to lower statements early in the reporting period high lending. The impact from labor lenders - yesterday, Samba Financial sions increased 4.9 percent over the same base, sustained balance sheet growth and before publishing more detailed results shortage on the contracting sector will Group became the latest bank to beat timeframe to 2.51 billion riyals. tapering provisioning charges.” —Reuters

UAE’s Dana Gas wins right to payments from Iraqi Kurdistan

DUBAI: Dana Gas, one of the largest oil payments to resume, the Tribunal has and gas investors in Iraq’s semi- also confirmed its jurisdiction to decide autonomous Kurdish region, said yester- the case,” Dana said. To date the Pearl day that an arbitration tribunal had consortium, which consists of Dana, awarded it the right to receive some out- Crescent Petroleum of the United Arab standing payments from the Kurdish Emirates, Austria’s OMV, and Hungarian government. The Abu Dhabi-listed firm, oil and gas group MOL, has invested over which leads a consortium of investors, $1.1 billion in Iraqi Kurdistan, according had filed an arbitration case in London to the statement. last October against the Kurdistan Dana, which holds 40 percent of the Regional Government (KRG), seeking to consortium, has said it collected $69 mil- confirm its contract rights and to obtain lion from the KRG in early 2013 but the payments for products which it had flow of funds then dried up, leaving a delivered. trade receivables balance owed to Dana “The companies have been successful alone of $515 million at the end of last in their application to the Tribunal for year - up from $354 million at the end of interim measures,” Dana Gas said in a 2012. statement yesterday. “The Tribunal has Previous earnings statements for made an order dated 10th July 2014 for Dana Gas suggest regular payments to the KRG to restore the previous regular the consortium as a whole, if they are payments to the companies as of 21st resumed, could total roughly $30 million March 2014, the date of the application, per month. The Kurdish region’s and until the case is concluded.” It was untapped oil reserves, lucrative produc- not immediately possible to obtain com- tion-sharing contracts and safe environ- ment from the KRG. ment compared with the rest of Iraq Dana Gas said in February that it had have prompted international oil compa- not received any significant payments nies to commit to investing billions of from the KRG since July 2013, and was dollars in blocks there. ExxonMobil Corp, pushing for payments to resume as soon Chevron Corp and Total SA have entered NAIROBI: People walk past footballs displayed in Gikomba Market, East Africa’s biggest second-hand clothing market in Nairobi. as possible. A tribunal at the London Kurdistan even at the risk of losing con- Court of International Arbitration was set tracts in the south. Baghdad deems con- Locally known as “Mitumba”, second-hand clothes trade has developed from mainly international charitable donations to up to hear the case. tracts between foreign oil companies become a bustling business sector. —AFP “In addition to the Tribunal’s order for and the KRG to be illegal. —Reuters Foreign banks bend to US rules Banks pulling out of some countries, business lines

LONDON/HONG KONG: Financiers may grum- means that banks have little choice but to termi- whom the US attitude rankles. Many - privately - said Kaufmann, a former prosecutor involved in to pay out another $75 billion in the next three ble that the United States is acting like an impe- nate relationships or risk eye-watering, balance sympathize with the senior British banker who numerous sanctions violations cases. Despite years, on top of $210 billon already paid. But rial power in punishing foreign banks for deal- sheet altering fines,” said Anthony Browne, chief was quoted in US legal papers when his bank grumbling from European players, US banks estimates are hard to pin down. As recently as ings far beyond US territory, but in the end they executive of the British Bankers’ Association was fined in 2012 for breaching sanctions on have also suffered. JP Morgan was fined a record February, BNP Paribas was setting aside just $1.1 are more likely to bow to Washington than kick (BBA). The BBA estimates Western banks have Iran. In an expletive-charged broadside, the $13 billion this year for misleading investors billion to cover its US sanctions settlement. That against its dollar muscle. Last week, French cut hundreds of relationships with correspon- executive was quoted as saying: “You ... during the housing crisis. In Russia, where was $8 billion off target. Uncertainty is putting politicians and business leaders demanded an dent banks in emerging markets, hurting busi- Americans! Who are you to tell us, the rest of the Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over off investors and causing headaches for regula- end to the global dominance of the US currency nesses, governments and people in poorer world, that we’re not going to deal with this year’s Ukraine crisis have prompted tens of tors. A senior official at the Bank of England said - and hence of the US banking system - after a countries. Large commodity traders such as Iranians?” billions of dollars in capital flight, the BNP fine this week that potential fines were making it New York court fined French bank BNP Paribas Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura and Mercuria are step- Nowadays, bankers are loath to object in may make international banks even more wary harder to work out how much capital regulators $9 billion for doing business in Sudan, Iran and ping in to plug the gap in trade finance. public to US requirements, even though private- of doing business with Russian customers. Brian should tell lenders to hold. Cuba. Yet despite irritation at the long reach of Glencore was chosen last month by the govern- ly many believe Washington is using its financial Zimbler, managing partner of US law firm “We have to be very clear that actions are US sanctions, most bankers see that as wishful ment of Chad to finance its purchase of $1.3 bil- dominance to push its foreign policy agenda Morgan Lewis’s Moscow office called BNP’s taken which do not undermine the stability of thinking. lion of assets being sold by US oil company and give its own banks the edge over foreign penalty a “wake-up call”: “Banks around the the financial system,” said the central bank’s Instead, major lenders in Europe and Asia are Chevron. Meanwhile, far from turning their rivals. “It’s the US that people worry about,” said world are very scared of the US authorities,” he deputy governor Andrew Bailey. Britain’s finan- reacting to the steady flow of punishments from backs on the United States as a result of the the chief executive of a bank in the United Arab said. “They are less likely to want to do deals cial watchdog levied total fines last year equiva- the United States by doing ever more to comply demands of regulators and judges, foreign Emirates, the Gulf state that has long been with any counterparty in Russia unless they lent to just 8 percent of the BNP fine alone, with US laws and by cutting business ties in banks who have fallen foul of US rules are doing forum for business with sanctions-hit Iran. know them well.” British banks Lloyds and HSBC, according to figures compiled by regulatory countries Washington dislikes rather than risk its everything they can to ensure they can still tap “If the US says you must clamp down, you both of which have been punished by the think tank JWG Group. wrath and, in the worst scenario, risk exclusion the world’s financial epicentre. BNP has set up a have to do it.” New York attorney Adam United States in the past for sanctions violations, In a bid to try and iron out differences in the from the dollar system. Official regulators out- financial security unit in New York to ensure its Kaufmann dismissed the idea that the United last month pulled out of a financing deal involv- way different countries punish corporate side the United States are starting to look at staff comply with all US sanctions and all of its States was engaging in “financial imperialism” ing Russian state-run oil company Rosneft over wrongdoing, international regulators are carry- ways to prevent their own banks and markets US dollar flows will ultimately be processed and overseas or targeting foreign banks for econom- concerns it could become embroiled in the ing out a review of the different penalties to from being damaged by the scale of US penal- controlled via its branch in New York, centraliz- ic gain. US courts were simply applying laws in diplomatic conflict. show which ones are the most effective. “I think ties. But for now, each bank on its own has little ing activities that used to be spread across vari- respect of the domestic banking system - where people are beginning to realize that it’s not choice but to toe Washington’s line. ous international offices. foreign banks need some presence if they are to Foreign regulators’ irked healthy to have different approaches,” said “The demands placed on banks to know clear payments in dollars, wherever in the world Banks’ shareholders remain more troubled by David Wright, secretary general of regulators their customer’s customer, even in countries Russia “wake-up call” they are made. “If you’re going to use US finan- the legacy of past failures to follow US policies. association the International Organization of where such records are not routinely kept, For all that, there are plenty of bankers with cial institutions, you have to play by US rules,” Analysts at Morgan Stanley expect major banks Securities Commissions (IOSCO). —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.885 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 Nepalese Rupees 3.925 Singapore Dollar 0.224581 0.230581 Malaysian Ringgit 89.560 South African Rand 0.020399 0.028899 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001871 0.002451 Japanese Yen 2.791 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.980 Australian Dollar 253.66 250.66 Taiwan 0.009338 0.009518 Indian Rupees 4.709 Thai Bhat 9.780 Canadian Dollar 267.58 268.58 Turkish Lira 133.500 Thai Baht 0.008440 0.008990 Pakistani Rupees 2.865 Swiss Franc 321.92 319.92 Srilankan Rupees 2.168 Euro 387.91 388.91 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.954 US Dollar 282.30 285.30 Singapore Dollar 229.360 Bahraini Dinar 0.743942 0.751942 Sterling Pound 487.08 490.08 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 36.491 Egyptian Pound 0.036594 0.039694 Japanese Yen 2.83 2.85 Bangladesh Taka 3.636 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000080 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.501 Bangladesh Taka 3.638 3.908 Iraqi Dinar 0.000179 0.000239 Thai Baht 8.811 Indian Rupee 4.711 5.011 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.394793 0.402293 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.168 2.603 Belgian Franc 0.007353 0.008353 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.951 3.486 British Pound 0.477973 0.486973 Lebanese Pound 0.000138 0.000238 Pakistani Rupee 2.865 2.790 Czech Korune 0.006013 0.018013 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022206 0.046206 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 76.93 77.39 Danish Krone 0.047581 0.052581 Nigerian Naira 0.001196 0.001831 Saudi Riyal 75.444 Bahraini Dinar 751.37 753.44 Euro 0.379780 0.387780 Omani Riyal 0.728773 0.734453 Qatari Riyal 77.735 Egyptian Pound 39.47 40.07 Norwegian Krone 0.041893 0.047093 Qatar Riyal 0.076996 0.078209 Omani Riyal 734.930 Jordanian Dinar 401.78 407.43 Romanian Leu 0.081630 0.081630 Saudi Riyal 0.074803 0.075503 Bahraini Dinar 751.430 Omani Riyal 734.16 741.46 Slovakia 0.008101 0.018101 Syrian Pound 0.001754 0.001974 UAE Dirham 77.074 Qatari Riyal 77.96 78.51 Swedish Krona 0.037741 0.042741 Tunisian Dinar 0.163478 0.171476 Saudi Riyal 75.41 75.81 Swiss Franc 0.311079 0.321279 Turkish Lira 0.134490 0.141490 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.134490 0.141490 UAE Dirhams 0.076041 0.077190 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.850 Yemeni Riyal 0.001276 0.001356 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.467 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.320 Australian Dollar 0.257691 0.269191 Tunisian Dinar 167.540 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.243465 0.252965 Jordanian Dinar 399.520 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 282.650 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.898 Canadian Dollar 266.305 Canadian Dollar 0.258615 0.267115 Syrian Lira 2.016 US Dollars 0.278800 0.283150 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.699 Sterling Pound 484.605 Euro 386.070 US Dollars Mint 0.279300 0.283150 US Dollar 282.250 Swiss Frank 317.465 Euro 387.050 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Asia Bahrain Dinar 752.300 Pound Sterlng 485.750 US Dollar Transfer 282.800 Bangladesh Taka 0.003296 0.003896 UAE Dirhams 76.930 Euro 387.290 Chinese Yuan 0.044200 0.047700 Canadian Dollar 265.450 Qatari Riyals 78.515 Sterling Pound 486.560 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034413 0.037163 Indian Rupee 4.705 Saudi Riyals 75.645 Canadian dollar 267.680 Indian Rupee 0.004469 0.004870 Egyptian Pound 39.465 Jordanian Dinar 399.240 Turkish lira 133.020 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.167 Egyptian Pound 39.477 Swiss Franc 319.910 Japanese Yen 0.002709 0.002889 Bangladesh Taka 3.634 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.171 Australian Dollar 267.810 Kenyan Shilling 0.003304 0.003304 Philippines Peso 6.500 US Dollar Buying 281.600 Indian Rupees 4.702 Korean Won 0.000267 0.000282 Pakistan Rupee 2.864 Pakistani Rupees 2.865 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085022 0.091022 Bahraini Dinar 751.800 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.639 Nepalese Rupee 0.002967 0.003137 20 Gram 245.000 UAE Dirham 76.900 Philippines Pesso 6.495 Pakistan Rupee 0.002663 0.002943 10 Gram 124.000 Saudi Riyal 75.400 Cyprus pound 694.245 Philippine Peso 0.006418 0.006698 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.785 *Rates are subject to change MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 BUSINESS United States QE program to end in October

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KUWAIT: Last week global events took center tial ON RRP facility and discussed options for the in June and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 cent to 74.1 billion euros, marking the largest stage for investors, as weak industrial production committee’s policy of rolling over maturing treas- percent near a six year low. month-on-month decrease in imports since data emerged across Europe also fears over ury securities at auction and reinvesting principal November 2012. The German trade balance Portugal’s banking sector further added uncertain- payments on all agency debt and agency mort- European economy showed a surplus of 17.8 billion euros in May ty on the euro-zones economic recovery. As a gage-backed securities. However, there was no ECB president urges for closer EU integration 2014. result, risk-off sentiment drove the US 10 year specific indication concerning when the US Last week, the European Central Bank Treasury yields down by 12 basis points to 2.51 Central Bank plans to raise interest rates, current- President Mario Draghi dedicated most of a United Kingdom economy percent. Minutes of the FOMC meeting held on ly expected in the middle of next year. speech in London, pressing for closer European UK’s factory output unexpectedly dropped in June 17-18 acknowledged the improvements in On the tapering side, the Federal Reserve is integration to improve growth and jobs. The ECB May, raising questions about the pace of the the US labor market despite the fact that wage preparing to end the quantitative easing after president advised euro -zone states to respect country’s recovery. Factory output fell by 1.3 per- growth remains subdued, the minutes also the FOMC’s October meeting, given the economy their joint fiscal rules and extend their coopera- cent in May, its biggest fall since January 2013 revealed a broad agreement that QE would come continues to improve as the central bank tion to economic reforms, telling governments and well below market expectation of 0.4 per- to an end in October. While, there were no new sig- expects. Since the Fed began unwinding its QE they must “learn to govern together”. Draghi also cent rise the Office for National Statistics said. nals on the timing of the first rate hike, in preparing The decline comes after the sector recorded its for it, the Fed began to outline broad plan for the strongest growth in nearly four years .The Bank path toward normalization of monetary policy. of England expects in May that Britain’s econom- In the euro-zone, the euro currency held ic growth would start to slow in the second half steady against its dollar counterpart on Friday, of this year, though more recently Governor Mark after Portugal’s largest bank sought to reassure Carney said he had seen little sign that this was investors about its financial stability. The euro about to happen. currency traded all last week in tight range of 1.3574-1.3650. The pound fell slightly against the UK leave official bank rate unchanged dollar on Friday, after weak UK construction num- Last week, the Bank of England left its interest bers added to signs that UK’s recovery may be rates at their record low and asset purchase target losing momentum; the Sterling fell against the unchanged. The Monetary Policy Committee dollar to 1.7082 before recovering and closing for agreed to hold off on adding to the 375 billion the week at 1.7122, just shy of its 6 year high of pounds of asset purchases and left its benchmark 1.7180 it marked earlier this month. interest rate at an ultra-low level of 0.5 percent. The Bank of England is broadly expected to raise US job market continues rates either at the end of this year or in early 2015, to strengthen probably before the US Federal Reserve, which Last month’s JOLTS report indicated that the last week detailed how it plans to make its own US job market continues to strengthen. The US exit from the era of ultra-loose monetary policy. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 4.6 million job openings on the last busi- UK trade deficit widens ness day of May, little changed from 4.5 million in United Kingdom trade deficit widened in May, April. The hires rate was up by 3.4 percent reach- pushed up by imports of aircraft. The Office for ing 4.7 million hires in May and the separations National Statistics said last week that the UK rate rose by 3.2 percent to 4.5 Million total sepa- program, it has cut the pace of purchases by $10 said the European Union would benefit from an trade deficit grew to just over 9.2 billion Pounds rations in May. The Job Openings and Labor billion with each meeting, meaning that the final authority that could push governments to from 8.8 billion pounds in April, well above mar- Turnover Survey was considered by Ex-Fed Chair reduction would come with a single $15 billion strengthen their economies, “This is because the ket expectation of 8.75 billion pound increase. Ben Bernanke as a wider measure of unemploy- cut. Fed policy makers expressed confidence that outcome of structural reforms and continuously Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, has ment, also the current Fed Chair Janet Yellen moderate economic expansion will continue, high level of productivity and competitiveness is mentioned that the economy is still facing some highlighted its importance. while unemployment and inflation will gradually not merely in a country’s own interest. It is in the challenges as he sees household debt high and move towards the Fed’s targets. interest of the union as a whole.” Draghi has expects exports to weaken due to the uncertain- Minutes of the Federal repeatedly said the ECB’s ultra-loose monetary ty of the euro-zone economic recovery. open market committee US jobless claims improve policy is not sufficient to sustain the euro area’s According to the minutes of the Federal open Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fragile recovery. China’s trade balance Market meeting held on July 17-18. The Federal dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted China’s exports improved in June from a year Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease 304,000 for the week ended July 5. The four-week Germany’s trade surplus widens earlier and imports rose after dropping in May. the US economy out of an ultra-loose monetary moving average for new claims, considered a German exports and imports dropped much Overseas exports gained 7.2 percent while policy, appearing near agreement on a strategy better measure of underlying labor market con- more than expected in May. The Federal imports rose 5.5 percent, leaving a $31.6 billion to manage interest rates in the future. Most par- ditions, declined by 3,500 to 311,500 last week. Statistical Office said that exports fell 1.1 percent surplus. The strength of trade will help determine ticipants agreed that adjustments in the rate of That was the second-lowest reading for the mov- to 92.8 million euros from the previous month whether Premier expands stimulus after he interest on excess reserves should play a central ing average since August 2007. However, the and well below the 0.4 percent decline econo- increased spending on infrastructure and out- role during the normalization process. A staff labor market is still not fully healed, although mists expected. On the other hand, the imports lined tax cuts following slower than expected presentation outlined design features of a poten- companies added 288,000 jobs to their payrolls dropped faster than exports, dropping 3.4 per- first quarter growth. BUSINESS MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 Dark pool scrutiny no slam-dunk for traditional exchanges More volume seen increasing fees, data revenue LONDON: The regulatory noose is tightening trading, has alerted investors to the risks of trading market structure for financial-compliance compa- the past decade been promoted by regula- bring down the cost of trading, but now we around dark pools, private share-trading venues in the murkier areas of the market. The risks range ny NICE Actimize. “The dark pools are not going to tors as a way to lower trading costs for have seen the dark side of fragmentation as that promise anonymity for specialist investors, from concern over a lack of disclosure about how give up market share easily.” investors, whose market bets are now fed to well,” said Peter Lenardos, analyst at RBC. “It’s offering a chance for rival exchanges in the United the pools operate and price trades to fears that When contacted by Reuters, several exchanges multiple venues. The proliferation of dark hard not to see how volumes don’t to some States and Europe to take back market share. But some give an unseen advantage to high-speed highlighted the growing momentum behind pools, which today account for around 12 extent reconsolidate onto exchanges.” Even traditional stock-exchange operators such as LSE traders using sophisticated technology and com- increased market transparency and said they percent of US trading volumes and 10 per- for large exchanges that have diverse rev- Group , NASDAQ-OMX and Euronext can’t just puter algorithms. would work closely with regulators. “Clearly dark cent of Europe’s, according to consultancy enue streams, a 3 or 4 percent increase in vol- expect business to drop back into their laps after But in a tough environment where overall trad- pools are increasingly on the radar of regulators,” GreySpark, help match buyers and sellers of ume would bring in greater trading fees and years of seeing market share slip away to more ing volumes have yet to return to pre-crisis peaks, said Spanish exchange BME. “Operators of regulat- big blocks of shares who might otherwise potentially grow market data revenue, opaque platforms that offer privacy or to upstart it will be no mean feat to persuade professional ed market platforms (are) well positioned to take have triggered big price swings on a tradi- according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst venues with slick technology. investors drawn to the lower costs and price stabili- advantage of these changes and turn them into tional “lit” stock market. Niamh Alexander. A recent batch of enforcement actions against ty of dark pools to change their habits and concen- opportunities.” The excesses of this fragmented system dark pools run by big global banks, coupled with trate more trades on a smaller number of venues. became apparent in the wake of the financial Investor doubts incoming rules in Europe that aim to make markets “It is going to be a fight for the public exchanges,” Fragmented markets crisis, when the combination of depressed It will, however, take effort to put the frag- more transparent by putting a cap on dark-pool said Matthew Coupe, director of regulation and Competition in the exchange business has over market activity and investment in high-speed mentation genie back into the bottle and for electronic trading opened the door to a exchanges to capture more volume. Big asset sophisticated breed of tech-savvy investors managers remain the most mindful of the able to exploit venues’ inefficiencies. risks of shutting off avenues for big block Market watchdogs are now flexing their trading, with one trader warning that it muscles; Europe’s incoming package of pro- would hike costs, even as he acknowledged posed rules, known as “Mifid II”, is due to be that investors needed to do more due dili- implemented by 2017 under regulator ESMA gence on trading venues. and aims to cap the amount of dark-pool UK fund-management body IMA highlight- trading in any given stock at 4 percent per ed the positive reasons for dark pools’ exis- venue and 8 percent across all venues. “The tence, saying: “Investors choose these pools as overarching aim is indeed to move the major- they are able to get more stable prices for their ity of trading more into the light,” a clients by interacting with other long-term spokesman for ESMA said. focused investors.” Skeptics caution that the In the United States, which has seen even time alone needed to get Mifid II finalized and more fragmentation than Europe, regulators up and running - the consultation process is have popular bank-run dark pools in their only just underway - might diminish its impact sights. The New York Attorney General recent- and give time to existing venues to adapt to ly filed a lawsuit against UK bank Barclays’ additional proposed oversight. pool LX, alleging it lied to investors by giving And even taking into account the shifting high-speed traders unfair advantages. regulatory sands in the United States, few Barclays is fighting the lawsuit. Rival Goldman believe the dark pools will be fully drained. Sachs was also fined earlier this month by “What I think is that these dark pools may Wall Street’s self-funded regulator over pric- gravitate away from investment banks,” said ing rule violations stemming from its dark Edmund Shing, portfolio manager at BCS pool. Asset Management. “It may be big asset man- “The regulators at first were very keen for agers that ask: ‘Why don’t we just set up our fragmentation to increase competition and own trading system ourselves?’” — Reuters China students top financial knowhow WASHINGTON: China leads the pack cult asked students to analyze more com- when it comes to the financial knowledge plicated scenarios, such as reviewing two and skills of 15-year-old boys and girls, loan proposals with differing rates and according to an international study terms and choosing the better offer. released Wednesday. Shanghai had the Shanghai notched the top average score highest average score for teens in 18 of 603 points. The US, by comparison, had countries who participated in the testing an average score of 492, and Colombia, at for the Paris-based Organization for the bottom, scored 379. So what is Economic Cooperation and Development. Shanghai doing right? The Chinese city was followed by the Michael Davidson, head of schools for Flemish Community of Belgium, Estonia, the OECD, says Shanghai schools identify Australia, New Zealand, the Czech students who are struggling and provide Republic, Poland, Latvia, the US, Russia the support they need. Successful sys- and France. At the bottom of the list: tems, he said, don’t let students fall Croatia, Israel, the Slovak Republic, Italy behind. The financial literacy study was and Colombia. The testing is part of administered in 2012 to approximately OECD’s Program for International Student 29,000 15-year-old students in 13 OECD Assessment, which aims to evaluate edu- countries and economies and five partner cation systems worldwide. This is the pro- countries and economies. The OECD’s gram’s first assessment of financial literacy Davidson said grounding in financial liter- of teens. acy is crucial to teens preparing to decide The questions on the two-hour paper whether to enter the job market or test ranged from simple to complex. The embark on college and university educa- easiest questions asked students to dis- tions. Many, he said, already use financial play basic financial literacy skills, such as products. In the US, for example, about 50 recognizing the purpose of an invoice or percent of the 15-year-olds said they have comparing prices per unit to determine a bank account. About 15 percent said which had a better value. The most diffi- they have a prepaid debit card. — AP Ugandan gorillas under threat but tourist dollars protect

BWINDI: Powerfully pushing through thick free wild game meat,” Seith Byarugaba said, a jungle, the mountain gorilla is fearless in the tourist operator organizing gorilla trips and face of strangers on his territory, but the running a lodge.”People are now happy endangered ape is unaware the family group because there is some revenue that comes he guards survives by the thinnest of threads. from gorilla tracking.” Conflict remains, such The gorillas here in Uganda’s lush forests are as the destruction of crops and property, and protected by the economic lifeline they cre- competition for natural resources. Habitat ate for remote communities from the tourist destruction and human population growth dollars they generate, providing a key incen- increasingly bring locals into contact with the tive for humans to protect the giant animals. gorillas, resulting in the transmission of The forest in Uganda’s far southwest is human diseases and occasional animal home to an estimated 400 mountain gorillas- attacks. roughly half of the world’s population-includ- Ape experts this week warned that accel- ing several families which have been habitu- erated and unsustainable exploitation of the ated to human presence. But it is the income earth’s primary natural resources has become from tourism that is helping protect the ani- a major threat to apes in Africa and Asia, with mals, which in the past were regularly hunted extraction of natural resources-including tim- for their meat, and by farmers to protect their ber, minerals, oil and gas-devastating their crops. “In order to protect this endangered prime habitat. Experts at major United specie we needed to show the economic Nations environment conference in Kenya benefit of these gorillas,” said Charles predicted that at the current rate, human Tumwesigye, deputy head of conservation development will have impacted 90 percent for the government’s Ugandan Wildlife of the apes’ habitat in Africa and 99 percent in Authority. Asia by 2030. “Tourism started as a way of showing the A joint UN and Interpol report released people that gorillas can be economically this week warned that while the greatest important, that we can earn revenue which threat to apes is habitat loss, the illegal trade can improve your livelihood”. Uganda, in the animals is “widespread”, with over Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo 22,000 great apes estimated to have been are the only countries in the world where you taken between 2005-2011. Gorillas were can see the giant primates. But the privilege reportedly sold to a zoo in Malaysia for comes at a high price , costing some $600 400,000 dollars (295,000 euros) each, the (450 euros) for a single, brief visit. report added.But here in Uganda, income from tourists provides an incentive to protect No silver bullet the gorillas. Knowing the cash supports the gorillas “helps to swallow the pill”, said Blaise Peccia- ‘Improved my life’ Galleto, a French tourist. “We are willing to “Communities have been living with these pay that kind of money because we know gorillas for ages before conservation started, that a big part of those resources are reinvest- some of them still look at those forest as ed in the preservation of the species,” he said. places where they use to access resources, like “We also feel like we’ve experienced some- firewood, medicine,” Tumwesigye added. “So thing very exclusive.” Threats to the mountain we thought it was very important that we gorilla-including war, habitat destruction and worked with these communities, show them disease-were once thought to be so severe that this is still their resource, these gorillas are that the species could become extinct by the still for your benefit.” Armed rangers patrol the end of the 20th century, but the population park: both to protect tourists after Rwandan has increased significantly in the last 30 years, rebels murdered eight tourists in 1999, as well largely due to improved conservation efforts. as to guard the animals themselves. But get- “People were stopped from entering into ting the local communities onside to support the forest, where they used to get all their the gorillas is also key. — AFP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 BUSINESS Greece battles to defuse ticking debt time bomb ATHENS: Dimitris Pikrodimitris took out a recommendations to banks on how to deal mortgage four years ago when he was with the issue that included partial debt drawing an annual income of 27,000 euros writedowns, extended loan terms and the ($36,720). But the economy quickly sank acceptance of additional forms of collater- into a debt crisis, forcing Greeks to tighten al. their belts and driving the insurance But those are only recommendations, agent’s wages down to just 6,500 euros last and banks have until December to apply year. “I have difficulty even making basic them if they agree to. In the meantime, expenses. I haven’t paid the loan for the last hard-pressed debtors like 39-year-old two years,” Pikrodimitris told AFP. Pikrodimitris have received little relief. The number of defaulting debtors like When he asked his bank to reschedule his Pikrodimitris is growing in Greece, and mortgage, he was asked to pay 3,600 euros experts are warning that the situation just to secure a settlement-a sum that is could blow up and smash hopes the coun- now more than half his annual income. try can finally emerge from a crippling six- “I’m trying to avoid foreclosure,” he told year recession this year. Greece’s central AFP. “When I took the loan, I took a risk and bank said that non-performing loans-loans the bank took a risk. Eventually I will lose for which debtors have failed to make pay- my home (while) the bank will never lose,” ments for more than 90 days-are currently he said. Tsiafoutis, the consumer group worth 77 billion euros. lawyer, said Greeks were “manipulated” by “Managing non-performing loans is a the banks before the crisis to take out loans key challenge for banks,” Yannis Stournaras, and over-consume. A key example, a former finance minister who is now the Tsiafoutis said, was mortgages denominat- Bank of Greece chief, told parliament last ed in Swiss francs, which cost some 70,000 month. Repayment has stalled on around consumers in Greece dearly when the save 30 percent of mortgages and business haven currency surged against the euro. loans, and around 50 percent of consumer The euro traded at around 1.49 Swiss loans, says Victor Tsiafoutis, a lawyer offer- francs before the crisis, but now stands at ing guidance to debtors at Athens-based just 1.2 francs. “If a consumer borrowed consumer group Ekpizo.”This is a bomb 100,000 euros, today they might owe that is going to blow (and cause) a break- 130,000 euros even after paying interest all down in the bank system,” Tsiafoutis said. this period,” the lawyer explained. “Banks “Imagine a default of 70 billion euros. Who played a very dark role in promoting these is going to pay this money?” type of loans... to people unable to under- Greece’s central bank said the rate of stand what they were signing up to,” he non-performing loans has risen to 33.5 per- adds. Even now, commercial lending rates cent at the end of March from 32 percent remain exorbitant even though the ATHENS: Private sector employees who called for a 24-hour strike to protest the opening of shops on Sundays, shout to demand last year. These so-called ‘red’ loans were European Central Bank’s benchmark rate is the closing of an open store in Athens central shopping district yesterday. —AFP mostly responsible for some 600 million at a record low of 0.15 percent. The ECB’s euros in combined bank losses in the first reference rate has an indirect impact on quarter of the year, it added. “The large consumer rates charged by commercial number of non-performing loans is sup- banks. “(Banks charge) almost 20 percent Berlin’s economy looks up pressing the process of economic recovery for credit cards and an average of 15 per- (and) represents a significant risk for banks,” cent on consumer loans. This should be added George Pagoulatos, a professor of lowered to 5.0-7.0 percent,” the lawyer European politics and economy at the argued. IT sector grows as Merkel targets innovation Athens university of economics. “Private sector balance sheets have become very Banks say problem ‘manageable’ BERLIN: It has taken a quarter of a century the universities and R&D, plus the “proximity to Mittelstand” - the small to medium-sized firms strained,” Rishi Goyal, head of the IMF’s Greek bankers insist they see no imme- longer than hoped but Berlin is now glimpsing the political decision-making”. central to the German economy. Speaking at the Greece unit, told an Economist conference diate threat to the credit system from bad the prosperity that was supposed to land in its Verlag’s headquarters near Alexanderplatz with a this week. “Unless the problem is resolved, loans. “This is an exceptionally serious lap after the Wall came down in 1989 and it was Jobs wanted revolving logo on the roof, he regretted that “the resources will remain trapped... and this issue, but I think it is manageable,” Michalis restored as the jubilant capital of Germany. There is optimism in the air: shopping centers image has stuck” of Berlin as the work-shy capital. will have negative consequences on Sallas, head of Piraeus Bank, one of the four Twenty five years after reunification, Berlin are going up on the former ‘no-mans land’ by Episodes like the attempt to build an airport growth.” main lenders, said after a top-level govern- remains a work in progress: with higher unem- the Wall to cater to the boom in tourism, the more befitting Berlin’s status than the ageing ment meeting on Wednesday. Sallas ployment and lower income than the likes of public transport network has made its first profit Tegel and Schoenefeld don’t help - the “BER” ‘The bank will never lose’ stressed that “banks have provisions Frankfurt and Hamburg, it will take years to and the population is growing fast, though at project is running five years behind schedule, at To protect homeowners from total ruin, (against bad loans) of over 50 percent, and catch up. 3.4 million it is still less than in the city’s early twice the original budget, and has become a Greece has restricted forced auctions of a assets and collateral exceed the remaining But its economy is growing faster than the 20th century heyday. “Berliners are benefiting national joke. “The city is growing economically, debtor’s primary residence.But a related amount. So there is no threat to the bank- German average and there are signs that Berlin from the persistently good economic situation, lots of international business people are coming backlog of court appeals for bankruptcy ing system.” Greek banks were recapitalized is no longer a basket-case whose welfare higher employment in the city and the rise in to Berlin and they all have to go via Frankfurt,” protection — 100,000 according to some last year with funds from an EU-IMF bailout, dependency, lack of industry, poor infrastruc- real wages,” said Frank Bach at the Berliner said Yzer. “It’s a disaster, no doubt about that.” estimates-could take a decade to resolve. after they were forced to cancel over 100 ture, high debts and pride at being “poor but Sparkasse savings bank, reporting a rise in sum- The Bank of Greece recently issued a set of billion euros in state debt in 2012. —AFP sexy” - as the current mayor once said - make mer-holiday spending plans. Old habits other Germans roll their eyes in despair. Berlin “We are definitely not as poor as we were in The city also finds it difficult to bring its debt does not dominate decentralised, federal the past,” said Yzer, predicting 2 percent eco- below 60 billion euros, its debt per capita is twice Germany the way London or Paris do in their nomic growth this year, after 1.7 percent in 2013 the national average and GDP per capita and own countries. Generating just 4 percent of out- - when Germany overall grew 0.4 percent - and productivity are way under par. It has reined in put, it cannot rival Bavaria or Baden- above-average growth repeatedly since 2005. It spending but will remain a net recipient of inter- Wuerttemburg in manufacturing or Frankfurt for has been a long road to recovery. Economic state transfers “for quite some time”, city officials finance. Nor is Berlin’s start-up scene likely to activity that survived Allied bombing or Soviet say. For economist Karl Brenke at the DIW insti- challenge Silicon Valley; but it can join the digital expropriation was subsidized during the Cold tute, Berlin has grown accustomed to receiving dots. War on both sides of the Wall, to prop up the handouts “today and all the time since World War That chimes with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s divided and isolated city for strategic reasons. Two” and needs to change that mentality. vision of the German economy keeping ahead of When the Wall fell, many companies col- Nearly 17 percent of Berliners rely on welfare - competitors in future by what she calls a “fusion lapsed in the face of competition or were more than twice the national average - which of classic industry with the digital world”. “We bought out by westerners. “Half of the jobs in can make it hard to find youngsters who want to won’t be making cars like Stuttgart or Wolfsburg industry were destroyed,” said Yzer. learn a trade, local businesses say. “Young people - but the bases of the technology,” said the city’s Unemployment in Berlin soared to 19 percent by nowadays are no longer interested in learning a economy minister, Cornelia Yzer, referring to the 2005; at 11 percent, it is still way above the trade,” said Detlef Knop, who runs a small glazing headquarters of the German auto giants Daimler national rate of 6.7 percent. IT and biotech are firm. “It’s difficult to convince them to do voca- and Volkswagen. no quick fix, employing graduates rather than tional training because of the pay levels com- Berlin is not devoid of manufacturing: the long-term unemployed. But the boom in pared with welfare.” Siemens makes gas turbines here and BMW population and tourism may help some of the But according to a study by Ernst & Young, makes motorbikes. But it has no DAX-30 blue- 200,000 unemployed find work. R&D will be the growth driver in Europe in com- chip of its own and industry makes up just a Commercial real estate group CBRE’s ing years, so Berlin may be wise to focus on this tenth of economic activity - half the national lev- Alexander Torwegge says he expects to see “lots area. It has ranked Berlin as Europe’s third most el. The real business buzz is around its universi- of jobs created” by new retail outlets like the attractive city for investors after London and ties, whose scientific alumni include Albert Mall of Berlin, which is about to open on a for- Paris. But it also points out a lag in real invest- FARNBOROUGH: In this file photograph, people wander around a life-size Einstein and Max Planck. Deutsche Telekom’s mer bomb site on Leipziger Platz. Development ments, with just 34 foreign direct investment model of US planemaker Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Innovation Laboratories set up at Berlin’s does meet resistance. A referendum has defeat- projects in Berlin in 2013 versus 84 in Fighter II, during the Farnborough aerospace show, in Farnborough, Technical University in 2005 now have offshoots ed plans to build on the disused Tempelhof air- Duesseldorf and 81 in Stuttgart. Berlin’s start-ups England. —AP in Silicon Valley and Israel. CEO Tim Hoettges, field, venerated for its role in the 1948 Berlin have only a 5 percent chance of creating “the visiting the labs, called them “sensors” keeping Airlift and now popular for skateboarding and next Google”, it says. Telekom up with new developments. picnics. On the other hand, consulting firm McKinsey Aviation sector flies Since Berlin began focusing on the digital Paradoxically, Berlin’s hipster chic and cheap estimates the start-up scene, centered around economy in 2005 its information and communi- rents are a big part of its appeal to young profes- the brand-new “Factory” campus in the Mitte dis- cation sector has grown 58 percent in gross sionals working for start-ups, which feed talent trict, could generate up to 100,000 jobs by 2020. at cruising speed added value, said Hertmut Mertens, chief econo- into the R&D outfits of major companies. Some Either way, economy minister Yzer says Berlin has mist at the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB), which people believe the city should focus on manu- to grow faster than the rest of Germany “for FARNBOROUGH: Aircraft makers gathering for the chance of an announcement is on the industry’s finances local business. In the pharmaceuticals facturing instead to attract more sustainable many years” to catch up. How long is uncertain, Farnborough airshow this week look to build on radar at Farnborough. sector, Berlin-Chemie which is owned by Italy’s sources of employment. but Brenke at DIW pours cold water on talk of already robust passenger plane sales, and Airbus In service since 1993, Airbus has sold about Menarini, cites the scientific talent for its latest Stefan Hilscher, head of the local newspaper anything but a very slow recovery, saying: “Berlin may use the event to launch an upgrade of its A330 1,300 A330s, of which the vast majority are still in expansion plans; General Electric, breaking group Berliner Verlag, says it is essential to lure will be an economically weak region for the next jet. “Manufacturers are showing particularly high service. It is thought that the A330neo could poten- ground on a new Berlin site last year, also cited companies which are “firmly located in the 20 to 30 years.” —Reuters order books,” equal to more than eight years of tially sell more than 1,000 units, according to Bregier. plane production, noted Alain Guillot, an aerospace Addison Schonland of US consultants AirInsights analyst at consultants AlixPartners. believes the launch of the A330neo would be a But the biennial Farnborough International Air good response to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. “Airbus ECB under pressure to get Show, south-west of London, could see a slowdown can price the A330neo far below the 787 and keep in orders compared with previous record years, even its customers happy,” he told AFP. “For instance we though the industry is far from threatened. The US think the A330neo could provide about 75 percent group Boeing, which typically goes head-to-head of the performance of the 787 at 50 percent of the growth-sapping euro down with its European rival Airbus at Farnborough, fore- price. Of course this makes it attractive, plus it’s low- cast Thursday that global passenger numbers would er risk because it has a lot less high technology.” Even LONDON: The European Central Bank is ing new money into the economy by buy- grow by 5.0 percent annually over the next 20 years. without the neo model, Airbus can count on its coming under increasing pressure to do ing large amounts of bonds and other Boeing said airlines would need almost 37,000 new A350, due to enter service at the end of the year, and more to stem the strength of the euro cur- financial assets. planes over the same period to meet the rising expected to make flypasts at Farnborough. Using rency, which is hurting exporters and Few economists think Draghi and the demand-suggesting that some spectacular orders composite materials, the A350 is another rival for the keeping a lid on the region’s recovery from ECB want to go down that route, partly could be unveiled between now and 2034. Dreamliner. Qatar Airways, launch-customer of the recession. ECB President Mario Draghi is because of technical problems such as According to Guillot, the sector is at a mature stage A350, plans to unveil its plane’s interior at the show. likely to face questions on what can be how to buy assets - and which ones - regarding aircraft development programs. In the done to reduce the value of the euro across a currency bloc comprising 18 absence of truly new technologies or revolutionary F-35 appearance? when he faces lawmakers at the European countries. However, Draghi has said such a materials-such as light-weight carbon composites While Farnborough focuses mainly on civilian Parliament today. At around $1.36, the program, called quantitative easing, or QE, used in new fuel-efficient planes-the launch of a aircraft, there is also room for the military sector to euro has come down from its 2014 high of is within the bank’s mandate and could be brand new passenger jet is not envisaged before showcase latest plane models. But Farnborough just below the $1.40 mark in May. Even so, used if needed. And therein lie potential five to seven years. This has left Airbus and Boeing to might miss out on the US F-35 fighter jet-which the currency remains well above its his- problems for Draghi and the ECB, accord- modernize current models, which they are doing would be a blow to organizers. The first international toric average. That’s a problem for the ing to Gary Jenkins, chief credit strategist with their respective medium-haul A320 and 737 appearance of the furtive F-35, set for Britain last region’s exporters as they try to drum up at LNG Capital. planes. Brazil’s Embraer has meanwhile launched Friday, was cancelled as the plane remains ground- business in the growing global economy. Having been told that QE is a possibili- the E2, a new version of its regional E-jets series, ed in the United States, in an embarrassing setback Carmakers from Germany to Greek ty, Europe’s politicians may get increasing- which could see new orders this week. for the costly program. yoghurt makers find it more difficult to sell ly exercised by the failure of the ECB to use It had been due to take part in a British military their wares when the euro is so strong. such a program to help the economy, Airbus engine upgrade aviation display, the Royal International Air Tattoo, With the economy barely growing and not LISBON: People shout slogans outside the Portuguese parlia- especially if growth remains anemic and Regarding modernisation of long-haul planes, ahead of its formal presentation at Farnborough. creating many jobs, politicians are piling ment during a protest by Portugal’s main union CGTP, General inflation, at 0.5 percent, stays below the Boeing launched in November the 777X, a new ver- Lorraine Martin, general manager of the F-35 pro- on the pressure on the central bank. Confederation of the Portuguese Workers, against cuts in ECB’s target of just below 2 percent. sion of its jumbo that seats between 350 and 450 gram at US defense firm Lockheed Martin, said she On Thursday, French Economy Minister “Unless growth returns, I expect that passengers. Sector watchers are now looking to see still hoped the planes would make it to the airshow. Arnaud Montebourg said the ECB should salaries and pensions and other austerity measures taken by European politicians will start to put him if Airbus will proceed with the A330neo, providing Both the US Air Force and Navy have ordered a halt do more to weaken the euro to boost the government. —AP under more pressure to implement the long-standing A330 with a more fuel-efficient to all F-35 flight following a June 23 engine fire on growth, which would help bring down the not want investors to doubt that it is able interest rate cuts or launch a monetary unconventional policy measures such as engine. Airbus chief executive Fabrice Bregier last one of the planes, which at $400 billion (300 billion sky-high unemployment rate, particularly to set its policies independently of govern- stimulus similar to those undertaken by QE,” said Jenkins. “These wolves will huff week said a decision to re-engine the A330 would euros) is most expensive weapons project in US his- among the young. The ECB frowns upon ment pressure. If needed, the ECB could the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of and puff until they blow the ECB’s defens- be made “before the end of the year”, and the tory. —AFP such interventions by politicians as it does further loosen its monetary policy through England. Those programs involve inject- es down.” —AP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 BUSINESS

Canon enhances IT skills of UAE youth at ICDL summer camps

DUBAI: Canon Middle East, a world leader secutive year to mark an ongoing commit- The ICDL Summer Camps is taking place Vocational Education - KHDA. have received for this year’s ICDL Summer in imaging solutions, is supporting the ment with the organization to enhancing IT from June 29 to August 28 at universities Anurag Agrawal, Managing Director, Camp. Now on its 13th year, ICDL returns International Computer Driving License pro- skills and social responsibility amongst across the UAE are being supported or Canon Middle East, said: “As a company that with its strategic aim to empower GCC gram (ICDL) Summer Camp for the fifth con- youth in the UAE and across the region. organized by the ICDL GCC Foundation to encourages creativity and technological youth with essential skill to enable them to spread digital competency and cyber safety innovation, Canon Middle East looks for- use social media and the Internet safely and through recreational activities hosted by ward to contributing to the ICDL Summer responsibly. We extend our thanks to our Canon and other partners. ICDL GCC Camp every year to help strengthen IT skills sponsors, partners and stakeholders for Foundation works under the umbrella of of youth in the UAE. While this generation of their strong show of support for this year’s ICDL Arabia, the governing body and the students has a high level of digital compe- initiative. “ certification authority of the International tency, it is crucial to share tips and tricks to He added: “We would like to particularly Computer Driving License program in the ensure cyber safety from a young age. acknowledge Canon, which is known the GCC, Iraq and Egypt. “At Canon we implement the philosophy world over to be not only an industry leader About 1,700 students aged 14 to 18 of Kyosei, which encourages our employees in imaging and optical products, but also a across all seven emirates of the UAE will and partners to live and work together for responsible corporate citizen evidenced by have the opportunity to attend interactive the common good. Encouraging the its generous contributions towards good workshops on topics related to Wi-Fi and responsible use of technology and the cause initiatives such as ours. We look for- connectivity showcased in Canon cameras Internet as a lifelong skill will help enhance ward to continue working closely with the and printers and photography booths will the user experiences of the local communi- Canon group in meeting our commitment feature the technologically advanced ty and boost the opportunities for high-tech towards today’s youth and preparing them Powershot N100. Participating universities innovations from the region.” for a digitally-enhanced future.” Canon include Abu Dhabi University, Higher At the summer camps, high achieving Middle East serves as an active partner in Colleges of Technology CERT and UAE students will have the opportunity to win the communities it operates in, by working University in both Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain, cameras in recognition of their work and all with governments, scientific, academic, the National Academy for Research and participants will receive vouchers for use on humanitarian, and arts and culture organi- Development in Dubai, camp locations in Canon consumer products. Jamil Ezzo, zations, to integrate corporate social Sharjah and all northern emirates which will Director General, ICDL GCC Foundation, responsibility across all elements of the be operated by the National Institute for said: “We are thrilled by the response we business. Joyalukkas jewellery growth drive continues

BELGAUM: Globally renowned jewellery retailer one of the world’s largest retail chains and is showroom features dazzling collections and Joyalukkas, has continued its rapid growth plans present in 10 countries which include Singapore, exquisite designs in gold, diamond, precious for the year 2014 successfully. The world’s London, UAE, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, stones, platinum and pearl. The collections have favourite jeweller has ventured into the dynamic Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and India. The jewellery a mix of traditional, ethno contemporary and city of Belgaum from July 11, 2014 onwards. The retailer currently has a customer base of over 10 international designs that have won the hearts signature Joyalukkas showroom in Belgaum was million customers worldwide and offers over 1 and following of customers around the world. inaugurated by superstar Kiccha Sudeep in the million choices in all types of jewellery at each of Kiccha Sudeep, the brand ambassador for presence of various dignitaries and VIP’s at a its showroom. Joyalukkas, said, “I would like to extend my grand celebration during the opening. Every Said Joy Alukkas (Chairman & MD, Joyalukkas hearty congratulations and best wishes to resident of Belgaum was personally invited for Group), “Our plan for 2014 includes strengthen- Joyalukkas for their foray into Belgaum. I am the celebration, which showcased the world’s ing our jewellery retail presence across various delighted for the residents of Belgaum because they are soon going to experience the best in jewellery shopping.” ‘Trust’ is an integral part of the Joyalukkas offer which is managed through ensuring assur- ance and peace of mind to customers on their jewellery purchase. The retail chain manages this through strict adherence to quality and interna- Weak global economy keeps tionally accepted standards eg. 100 percent IGI certified diamonds, BIS Hallmark gold jewellery inflation abnormally low and PGI certified platinum jewellery etc. Joyalukkas, is also the first and only ISO 14001- Where did inflation go? 2006 & ISO 9001-2008 certified jewellery retail chain, “My vision for our jewellery business is to KCIC WEEKLY ANALYSIS ON ASIA ‘ornament the world’ by offering customers the best mix of price, choice, convenience and serv- The past five years have been marked by stubbornly high in Europe at more than 11 ice and me and my team work every single day the near-total absence of inflation in the percent. In the United States, the participa- to ensure this at all times. I’m sure Belgaum resi- global economy. This is the result of two fac- tion rate remains at historical lows and the dents will love our dazzling jewellery collections tors: a weak economy and luck. Since the credit tightening in China is making many and designs and the great experience we plan to beginning of the crisis in 2008, central banks factories operate below potential. This trend offer them” added Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD in the four largest economies of the world shows in core inflation, the part of inflation Joyalukkas group. (United States, China, Europe and Japan) that is directly related to the domestic activi- BELGAUM, India: Joyalukkas inaugurated another showroom in Karnataka in Belgaum by brand ambas- Other unique feature of Joyalukkas jewellery have almost tripled the amount of money ty in each country. Core prices rose 0.8 per- sador stylish star Kiccha Sudeep in the presence of dignitaries like Feroz Sait (MLA Belgaum North), Joy includes consumer friendly value added into the economy. Economic theory says that cent in Europe and 1.9 percent in the United Alukkas (Chairman & MD Joyalukkas Group), PD Jose (DGM-Gold Joyalukkas Group), PD Francis (DGM - schemes like ‘Easy gold schemes, Joyalukkas such a large amount of fresh money should States. China, which as an emerging econo- Retail Joyalukkas Group), and Joseph Kunjappu (Regional Manager - Karnataka and Delhi). Golden Rewards Card, 100 percent buy back have created high prices across the world. my is supposed to experience higher infla- guarantee and more. However, inflation remains weak. China tion, had a core inflation rate of only 1.7 per- favourite jewellery shopping experience. parts of India and opening our showrooms in This international jewellery retail chain is also released last week its June inflation data, cent. The output gap is still large in these Joyalukkas Jewellery is a retail chain with 95 cities and towns that we feel is ready for the one of few retail chains to be recognised with revealing further deceleration. Prices rose 2.3 economies and there are large pools of showrooms spread across 10 countries around Joyalukkas experience. For the sugar bowl of many awards and accolades for its exceptional percent year-on-year (YoY), a deceleration resources (labor, factories, machinery, capi- the world and today is a part of the multi-billion Karnataka i.e. Belgaum we have planned the standards in jewellery retailing. It’s popular from May’s 2.5 percent. The level of inflation tal) that are not being used. dollar global conglomerate, which has various sweetest and best experience in jewellery shop- Chennai showroom has been recognised by the considered “adequate” by Chinese authori- The second factor explaining these low business interests. The Joyalukkas Group busi- ping.” Limca Book of records for being the largest jew- ties is 3.5 percent, but on average, prices rose prices is pure luck. Even in an environment of ness interests today include jewellery, money The Joyalukkas Belgaum showroom is locat- ellery showroom in the world. Joyalukkas has only 2.5 percent in the last 12 months. weak economic activity, food and energy exchange, fashion and silks, luxury air charter, ed at Khade Bazar, and offers ample parking also been awarded the prestigious ‘Superbrand’ India, which saw inflation levels above 10 prices can create an inflationary spiral. malls and real estate. Joyalukkas Jewellery is space and a very extensive shopping area. The status five years in a row in the UAE. percent in 2011, had only 5.5 percent in 2014 Natural disasters such as droughts or floods so far. A similar situation is taking place in in food producing countries can spark infla- Europe. In June, prices rose only 0.5 percent tion across the world, particularly in emerg- in the 18 countries of the euro zone, the ing countries where food represents a larger same rate than a month earlier and a four- share of the inflation basket. However, good year low. The official task of the European yields and the absence of weather-related Central Bank is to ensure that inflation does disasters have produced abundant food in not go beyond the 2 percent threshold for a international markets, keeping prices low. sustained period of time, but over the last Over the last 12 months, rice prices declined year, with inflation averaging 0.9 percent, the 5.3 percent, soybean prices fell 16.5 percent, bank is facing the unexpected threat of wheat decreased by 11 percent and corn deflation. The GCC is not an exception. May prices declined 43 percent. These are the data show that growth in prices in the last most important global crops and are a key year has been weak, mostly in the 2 to 3 per- factor in explaining the current level of low cent range (United Arab Emirates 2.1 per- prices particularly in countries like the GCC cent, Saudi Arabia 2.7 percent and Kuwait 2.9 which are heavily dependent on food percent) imports. Central banks want inflation back, The first driving factor of low inflation is but not all of it, only the “good” inflation the persistent weakness in the global econo- resulting of a healthy level of economic activ- my. In spite of the many analyses announc- ity. Unfortunately, macro indicators suggest ing the pickup in global growth over the last that good inflation is unlikely to appear any few years, recovery has not occurred and it’s time soon. In the meantime let’s keep our unlikely to take place any time soon. Signs of fingers crossed hoping that “bad” inflation slack are abundant: unemployment remains will remain low.

Air India joins Star Alliance

Air India has scripted a new chapter in India’s Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa existing member carriers. This will provide pas- aviation history by becoming the first airline from Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian sengers with more options in earning and India to be inducted into the world’s leading Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, redeeming, upgrading and obtaining Star global airline consortium, Star Alliance. On June Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Alliance Gold status. 23, 2014, the Star Alliance Central Executive Board Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, Passengers holding Star Alliance Gold status MSRY Behbehani excels at Isuzu voted in favor of Air India to become its 27th TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI and United. have access to more than 1,000 lounges across member airline. Air India will start offering the Overall, the Star Alliance network presently offers the global network, can check-in at specially des- Service ME Grand Prix Competition alliance benefits and privileges to customers from more than 18,000 daily flights to 1,269 airports in ignated counters, have an increased baggage July 11, 2014. 193 countries. allowance and receive priority boarding and bag- KUWAIT: Mohammad Saleh & Reza Yousuf Behbehani Isuzu Service Team is delighted to Air India operates to a network of 50 destina- Some of the benefits and privileges that will gage delivery. All these benefits will also be pro- Behbehani Company, the authorized distributor receive these significant awards, thanks to the tions in India and 33 international, covering 23 be available to passengers flying Air India from vided by Air India. of Isuzu vehicles for the State of Kuwait, has out- excellent support from our Ideal Partner Isuzu, countries. Presently, with a total of 387 daily July 11, 2014: A seamless travel experience across Besides this, member airlines of Star Alliance shone again bagging several awards at the Isuzu Japan, Thailand and the Middle East departures which include 289 domestic and 89 a vast global network, besides premium customer will now have an improved access to a region Service Middle East Grand Prix Skill Competition Operations, said Talal Behbehani, Director. international, out of its primary hub Delhi and recognition and benefits across member airlines. which includes the world’s fifth largest aviation 2014, held in Dubai last month. Out of 11 team “These honors will further strengthen and secondary hub Mumbai, Air India offers the best By coordinating arrival and departure times, market. Membership to the Alliance will bring Air participated from the Middle East Dealers, the encourage us to deliver continuously the high- of connectivity and frequency. A mixed fleet of 95 Star Alliance member airlines have optimized India value in terms of revenue generation and Behbehani Isuzu Service Team won the follow- est level of customer enthusiasm that exceeds aircraft, including the state-of-the art Dreamliner connections within the network and considerably cost reduction. Member carriers work on joint ing prestigious accolades in the tough competi- customer expectation” Behbehani added. B787, ensure a comfortable flying experience. reduced waiting times for passengers. Through purchasing initiatives like fuel and fleet coordina- tion: Top Rank Team in “Academic Test”; Top Rank Mohammad Saleh & Reza Yousuf Behbehani The Star Alliance network was established in check-in, joint ticketing, check-in and baggage tion and collocation of information technology - Academic Test Individual; Best Performance Company the Sole Distributor of Isuzu since 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to facilities, collocation and connection teams at key projects. Air India will have the benefit of adopt- Award; and Second Place in the ME1 -Grand Prix. 1973, have a full-fledged service center at Al- offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless airports will all help offer a smooth travel experi- ing the global best practices, branding and global In addition, the Isuzu Service Team was suc- Rai, equipped with modern technologies, sup- service to the international traveller. The member ence. visibility. We wish our passengers a pleasant flying cessful in winning second position in the ported by factory trained technical and non- airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Reciprocal frequent flyer benefits between Air experience on Air India, a member of Star Middle East Isuzu Service Dealer of the Year technical staff to provide the best services in Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana India’s Flying Returns program and those of the Alliance. Award 2014, a remarkable achievement. “The town to its valued customers. MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 technology

Apple iPhone ‘threat to national security’: Chinese media

BEIJING: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV information about the areas a user visits on iOS 7, the operating system used by over patent rights to voice recognition distrust between the US and China after has accused US technology giant Apple most often, partly to improve travel the current generation of iPhones software such as the iPhone’s “Siri” just a series of allegations from both sides on of threatening national security through advice. released in September 2013. this week. the extent of cyber-espionage. Leaks by its iPhone’s ability to track and time- In an interview broadcast Friday, Ma “CCTV has only just discovered this?” In March 2013 the Californian compa- former US government contractor stamp a user’s location. The “frequent gave the example of a journalist being said one incredulous Chinese microblog- ny was notably the target of criticism Edward Snowden have alleged wide- locations” function, which can be tracked by the software as a demonstra- ger. The dispute is not the first time orchestrated by the Chinese media on spread US snooping on China, and this switched on or off by users, could be tion of her fears over privacy. “One can Apple has been embroiled in controversy behalf of consumers, who were critical of month it was reported Chinese hackers used to gather “extremely sensitive data”, deduce places he visited, the sites where in China, where its products are growing poor after-sales service. And in 2012 the had penetrated computer networks con- and even state secrets, said Ma Ding, he conducted interviews, and you can in popularity in a marketplace dominat- US firm paid $60 million to settle a dis- taining personal information on US fed- director of the Institute for Security of even see the topics which he is working ed by smartphones running Google’s pute with another Chinese firm over the eral employees. Apple did not immedi- the Internet at People’s Public Security on: political and economic,” she said. The Android operating system. Apple lost a iPad trademark. ately respond when contacted by AFP for University in Beijing. The tool gathers frequent locations function is available lawsuit against a Chinese state regulator The privacy scare also reflects mutual comment.—AFP

Technology and data: The trends changing the world

he global scale of the contradictions are “always looking at screens”, with Britons people feel about technology, the not far behind on 71 per cent. Most surpris- Teconomy, big corporations and popu- ing, perhaps is the global average of 60 per lation change are revealed for the first time cent. Only the Spanish, at 39 per cent, say in an in-depth study of 20 countries. they don’t spend most of their time staring Conducted by Ipsos Mori, the poll asked at screens. 16,000 people more than 200 questions According to Tom Cross, Ipsos Mori’s covering a host of major topics, and discov- research manager for media and consumer ered that the ever-hastening pace of technology, the net effect of this could be change was among those that unsettled to crush our attention spans, even though most. more fascinating information than ever is But while globally 82 per cent said they available. “If patience is a virtue, then felt the world was changing too fast ad 45 nobody has told today’s consumer. The per cent said they felt overwhelmed by smartphone has encouraged more imme- choice, 42 per cent of those in the devel- diacy and spontaneity in communication oped world do not want their country to be and consumption of news, music, films and “the way it used to be”. The figure rises to other media than ever before. People now 47 per cent in the developing world. expect to be able to access almost any Identifying six ‘megatrends’, with tech- information with a swipe of a smartphone nology explicitly just one of them, on closer screen. Households have multiple devices analysis it’s clear that economic growth, that all connect to the internet. Using sev- globalisation, political and individual eral screens simultaneously is normal.” change could not take place on their cur- It is in the emerging markets where rent scale without technology. Population technology is viewed most positively, how- and climate change too are not without a ever: “We need modern technology technological component. As Ben Page, the because only this can solve our future researcher’s chief executive put it, “creating problems” was a sentiment for four in five and fostering collaborative communities of Chinese, 62 per cent of Britons - and fewer citizens and customers is a global trend”. than half of the French. “There is a growing That means the ever-growing influence of middle class,” says Cross, “who have far the web. more options than their parents did, and Indeed, it’s no doubt technology, and in they are more excited about technology part the sense of greater independence it than their counterparts in more established can give individuals, that means the British economies who have spent the last few Amazon live: New Fire and Americans are most in favor of deci- years growing used to life in a recession.” sions about public services being made What does that all mean in practice, locally rather than nationally. Centralization however? Cross says “For governments is, on balance, favored only by around the world, there is an ongoing revo- Phone at Seattle event Argentineans, Swedes and South Koreans. lution in transparency online, self-service And such technological advancements and DIY solutions for citizens (appealing to surely also provide the self-awareness that the many governments with big deficits) SEATTLE: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled a search for the object on Amazon and buy it branded smartphone is to get customers to buy means the Chinese are most likely to agree and in theory at least, empowered citizens, new smartphone called Fire Phone. It’s smaller online. more things from the nation’s largest e-com- “we are heading for environmental disaster with a re-cast state. However progress is than leading Android phone, but larger than Amazon’s Kindle tablets run a highly modified merce company. The device might include an unless we change our habits quickly”. But slow. The challenge for middle-aged civil Apple’s iPhone. Bezos calls the screen, measur- version of Google’s Android system, and it’s like- Amazon shopping app or other features tied to then the Americans are least likely to agree servants is to fully embrace digital channels ing 4.7 inches diagonally, ideal for one-handed ly an Amazon phone would do the same. That the company’s products and services. with that sentiment. In all, across the 20 like Twitter - to be where more and more use. Bezos opened the event by talking about its means apps for the phone would be limited to Competing won’t be easy. Amazon is arriving countries more agree than disagree. citizens are.” $99-a-year Prime membership. It began with what’s available through Amazon’s own app late to a tightly contested marketplace. All of this, however, is not going to be free shipping but has expanded to include free store. The store has grown to include more than Samsung and Apple dominate worldwide smart- ‘The Culture of Now’ simple As Cross’s Ipsos colleage Bobby video streaming, e-book lending and more. 240,000 apps, but there’s much more for phone sales with a combined 46 percent share, Specifically, however, the report identi- Duffy observes: “We shouldn’t kid ourselves Viewing Prime content is expected to be a com- Android and Apple devices. according to IDC. And in the US, Apple leads fies “The Culture of Now” as its leading indi- that openness will automatically lead to ponent in the new phone. with more than 37 percent, with Samsung at vidual trend, followed by the big data trust. Technological capabilities have raced Bezos then talked about advances in Availability: nearly 29 percent. debate that centers around individual pri- so far ahead of public knowledge that the Amazon’s hardware. He says early devices got The Wall Street Journal has reported that Amazon has tried to chip away at Apple’s top vacy. Tradition, health and the growing implications of greater transparency are mixed reviews, but the gadgets have improved AT&T will be the exclusive carrier for the new position in the tablet market with its Kindle Fire desire for simplicity are all also key trends unpredictable - many consumers get more since then. He says research has shown phone. If that’s true, it would be a similar HDX tablet, which beats the iPad Air’s screen res- heavily influenced by technology. Almost worried as they find out more.” Amazon’s brand to be strong. Here’s what’s com- approach to what Apple took when it unveiled olution and is lighter and cheaper. Still, the iPad four out five Chinese (78 per cent) say they —www.telegraph.co.uk ing out of the event at Seattle’s Fremont Studios, its first iPhone in 2007. AT&T had exclusive rights dominates the category while Amazon has seen about a 10-minute drive north of the company’s to the iPhone in the US until 2011, when Verizon its market share shrink from 7 percent in 2012 to headquarters: and eventually others got it, too. 2 percent in the first quarter of this year. Analysts say the phone might come with a Specs and features: data plan that could let owners use Amazon Past forays into gadgets: The phone has a screen that measures 4.7 services without using up any data. Amazon’s first gadget was a Kindle e-reader, inches diagonally. That’s larger than current released in 2007. Although there are plenty of iPhones, but smaller than leading Android Not a first: devices that do more, many people still prefer phones. Bezos says the size was chosen to be Facebook once tried to release a phone tied stand-alone e-book readers because they typi- ideal for one-handed use. to its services. The HTC First, released in April cally have better screens for reading in direct Bezos touts the camera on the new phone. 2013, came with Facebook’s Home software, sunlight and don’t have distractions such as He says it has image stabilization to counteract which takes over the phone’s front screen to Facebook and email. shaking as people take shots. Amazon is offering present status updates, messages and other The company started making Kindle Fire unlimited free storage on its Cloud Drive service. content. Both the phone and the software tablets in 2011. The latest models, HDX, are The phone will come with earbuds that have flopped. notable for a Mayday help button that accesses flat cords and magnets to clasp them together, Google also has its own phones under the live tech support 24 hours a day, seven days a so tangled cords will be history. Nexus brand, mostly to showcase its Android week. You see the representatives in a video box, Media reports point to a smartphone that operating system. Google makes Android avail- but they can only hear you and see what’s on might have multiple cameras to produce 3-D able for free for any phone manufacturer to use your screen. They can also help guide you by images. It wouldn’t be the first 3-D phone, but it and modify. That makes it difficult to know placing orange markers on your screen or taking would set it apart from leading phones such as what’s really Android and what’s a modification. control of your device completely. Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy S5. In April, Amazon released its Fire TV stream- Some analysts speculate that the 3-D feature The backdrop: ing devices. What sets it apart from rival gadgets might tie into an Amazon shopping app. Amazon.com Inc. got its start in books and is a voice search feature that lets you speak the Shoppers might be able to use the phone to soon moved into music, video, devices and title, actor, director or genre into your remote to YouTube weighs funding take a 3-D picture of a product in a store, then more. Analysts believe the goal of an Amazon- get matching content on the TV.—AP efforts to boost premium content - sources Heads up! Supermoon is here LOS ANGELES: YouTube has embarked on Most popular location a new round of discussions with Hollywood The latest round of discussions is in its NEW YORK: Look! Up in the sky! It’s super- varies because the moon follows an elliptical Saturday may seem huge, but it’s just an illu- and independent producers to fund premi- initial phases and actual measures may moon! Because our celestial neighbor is rela- orbit. When it’s close and full, it appears bigger sion caused by its position in the sky. Two other um content, two sources with knowledge never materialize, the sources said. tively close to Earth, these full moons will and brighter than normal, although the differ- supermoons will come later this summer on of the talks told Reuters, a move that could YouTube is by far the world’s most popular appear to be unusually large. That distance ence can be hard to detect. The full moon Aug 10 and Sept 9.—AP bolster a three-year-old multimillion-dollar location for video streaming, with more effort that has had mixed success so far. than 1 billion unique visitors a month, far The talks underscore Google Inc’s desire to surpassing Netflix Inc and Amazon. But it is complete YouTube’s transition from a trying to lure more marketers for premium repository for grainy home videos to a site video advertising, boosting margins as sporting the more polished content crucial overall prices for Google’s advertising to securing higher-priced advertising. declines. YouTube set aside an estimated Over the past two months, YouTube $100 million in late 2011 to bankroll some executives have begun making the rounds, 100 channels, though it never confirmed talking to Hollywood producers to explore amounts spent or other details. Beneficiaries of that largesse included the kinds of support it could offer its con- Madonna and ESPN, as well as lesser- tent creators and produce more must-see known creators. Reuters was one of the programming, according to the two peo- companies that received funds for a chan- ple. Executives did not lay out exactly how nel. But few of those have garnered much a program would be structured. One of the mainstream attention. “Over 115 of the two people said the site may offer between channels launched as part of that initiative $1 million and $3 million to produce a are now in the top 2 percent most-sub- series of programs, and might contribute scribed to channels on the platform,” a marketing funds as well. company representative said in an email. The second person said the site was YouTube has continued to provide back- interested in videos shorter than the 30- ing for its content creators. It provides pro- minute, TV network-quality Web shows duction facilities for creators, offers tips on that Amazon.com Inc and other online sites how best to create content, and provides have recently funded. “We are always small amounts of funds for creators to test exploring various content and marketing ideas. The site also provides marketing sup- ideas to support and accelerate our cre- port for online celebrities, including paying ators,” a YouTube representative said in an for billboards and TV ads for the likes of NEW YORK: A perigee moon, also known as a supermoon, rises over the Queens bor- email. The site declined to comment on the beauty blogger Michelle Phan and baker CALIFORNIA: A supermoon is viewed from Whittier, ough of New York.—AP photos meetings. Rosanna Pansino.—Reuters California. MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Water everywhere for DR Congo city yet scarcely a drop to drink GOMA: Goma, a city in eastern trips to the lake each day, the carriers the centre of Goma, an old woman Change) protest movement. A short- #GomaNeedsWater. Paluku did not Democratic Republic of Congo, sits by can expect to earn up to $10 (seven washed herself in a puddle next to a age of water, electricity and opportuni- respond to repeated requests for com- one of the world’s largest freshwater euros) between dawn and dusk. pump where lorries fill up with water ties for work shows “a problem of gov- ment from AFP. reservoirs and has some of Africa’s heavi- But by the end of one morning it before transporting it to other neigh- ernance” and “a lack of seriousness”, Deogratias Kizibisha, the North Kivu est annual rainfall, yet it is a thirsty place. started to rain and water collector bourhoods. according to Micheline Mwendike, a director of public water distribution Most of the city’s one million resi- Lambert Biriko decided to call it a day. Fiston Mugisho, 20, is unemployed member of the apolitical body. firm Regideso, said that 45 percent of dents, living close to the shores of Lake “Today is ruined,” he said, adding that and spends the day washing the few Alongside other organisations, she Goma residents are connected to the Kivu, have to struggle every day to fetch residents would gather run-off rain motor-taxis that want to stop. He has to said, Lucha gathered 3,500 signatures central supply. Lucha claims the real water home. From daybreak, an endless water instead and “won’t buy anything buy water from the cyclists each day or at the end of May for a petition rate is closer to 20 percent. stream of cyclists heads to the lake and from us”. walk to another neighbourhood where demanding that provincial governor Jean-Pierre Kambere is a nurse in back, filling battered containers with as Located on the border with Rwanda, houses hooked up to the main grid sell Julien Paluku commit to connecting Birere, Goma’s poorest slum. “Adding much water as they can carry. Goma is the capital of DR Congo’s North what comes out of their taps. Goma to the water supply and publish chlorine is not enough” to make water In a makeshift shelter, health worker Kivu province, which has been wracked “But you don’t always find water,” “a plan to bring water to the entire gathered from Lake Kivu safe to drink, Fedeline Kabuhu tries to ensure that no by bloody unrest for more than 20 years, Mugisho said. Even for those properties city”. Backed by regional segments of he said. “Every week patients come to container leaves without a dose of chlo- displacing scores of thousands of peo- that do enjoy running water, the supply the political opposition, Lucha is gain- us with diarrhoea or fever” caused by rine, which she injects with a syringe to ple. In those two decades, the city’s pop- is frequently cut. ing momentum as it accuses authori- drinking polluted water, Kambere make sure the water residents collect is ulation has exploded, swelled by an As in many other parts of DR Congo- ties of using the insecurity as an excuse added. Not far from the health centre, potable. influx of refugees from neighbouring the world’s least developed country for inaction. Joelle, a frail woman of 20, crouched “The people drink this water. They do Rwanda and Burundi as well as local according to the United Nations-the at a public tap, bent double under the everything with it,” the 46-year-old Congolese seeking shelter from maraud- people of Goma have learned to fend for ‘Not normal’ weight of the container strapped to French charity worker said. ing armed bands. themselves after decades of govern- The movement stages regular her back with a scarf. “It’s not normal A single cyclist can transport up to ment neglect. protests and has harnessed the power to live like this,” she said. “The authori- 120 litres (about 250 pints) to be sold on ‘A lack of seriousness’ The lack of basic infrastructure has of social media, using Facebook and ties need to provide water to every to private water stores. At a rate of 10 At the Sports Circle roundabout in given rise to the Lucha (Fight for the Twitter hashtag home.” — AFP US govt lab reveals series of dangerous mix-ups WASHINGTON: The United States’ top tories,” Frieden said. public health agency revealed Friday a The CDC said it learned of the flu mix- series of alarming incidents in which up while it was finalizing a report about a dangerous biological agents including separate incident involving anthrax on anthrax, influenza and botulism were June 5, which it concluded was very mishandled over the past decade. unlikely to have exposed people to dan- The latest revelation involved a mis- gers, though some 80 workers were ini- taken contamination of a mild flu strain tially considered vulnerable. with a deadly type of H5N1 bird flu, The H5N1 bird flu is highly contagious which was then shipped from the and has killed about 60 percent of Centers for Disease Control and humans who catch it. It first infected Prevention (CDC) in Georgia to a sepa- humans in 1997 during a poultry out- rate government lab, authorities said. break in Hong Kong, and became wide- The flu incident came in the same spread in 2003 and 2004. week as the discovery of forgotten small- Frieden said the type of H5N1 shipped pox vials at a separate US government was not the exact same as the one that lab near the US capital, and followed spread in China, but “it is one of the ones admissions of mishandled anthrax at a that does concern us because it can be CDC lab in Atlanta last month. quite deadly both for poultry and for Though no one was taken ill by the people.” events, they have raised new concerns The other type of flu involved was about the safety of dangerous agents H9N2, he said. The incidents will raise fur- which could be used as bioterror ther concerns among opponents of stud- weapons. In addition to the three inci- ies known as “gain of function,” in which dents so far this year, the CDC acknowl- scientists manipulate flu strains to find edged three more in the past decade in out how they can more easily spread, as which biological materials were shipped well as how to better vaccinate against without being properly inactivated, them. including anthrax and Clostridium botu- In 2011 and 2012, worldwide scien- lism in 2006, and in 2009 a contagious tists self-imposed a moratorium on such strain of Brucella, which causes an infec- research after concerns were raised tious disease known as brucellosis. about research that made a potent flu CDC director Tom Frieden said he was strain jump easily between mammals. “astonished” that protocols could have The full details of those experiments SAN DIEGO: Approximately 400 people participate in a yoga session on the flight deck aboard the USS Midway Museum in downtown San been violated in that way, and described were eventually published in leading sci- Diego on Saturday. The free class was provided as part of the “Healthy Living in the City” wellness initiative sponsored by Scripps Health and the Downtown San Diego Partnership. — AP the latest flu incident as the “most dis- entific journals. tressing.” The CDC said the cross-contam- ination was unintentional, but the lab ‘More control’ that shipped it is closed until better safe- “It’s disturbing. It’s a little scary,” said ty measures can be put in place. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist and Polar vortex? Nope, just “Everything we have looked at strong- internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New ly suggests that there was no exposure York, regarding the latest CDC revela- of anyone to influenza,” said Frieden at a tions. cooler Midwestern weather press briefing. “The CDC has to have more control of He told reporters he had lost sleep its labs. More oversight is needed.” The CHICAGO: Unseasonably cool weather will from the arctic, plus the polar vortex is not near- people from suburban Chicago. since learning of the flu mix-up on CDC has also completed initial testing on arrive next week in the Midwest and as far south ly as strong in the summer - and sometimes Wednesday, six weeks after it occurred the six apparently forgotten vials of as Arkansas and Oklahoma. It is not, however, breaks down completely. What Does It Mean? on May 23. “These events should never smallpox that were found in a Food and the second coming of a polar vortex, a phrase That sound you hear coming from Oklahoma have happened,” he said. “I am disap- Drug Administration lab at the National the National Weather Service’s Chicago office How Cold Will It Get? might be thousands or people turning off their pointed and frankly, I’m angry about it.” Institutes of Health earlier this week, and tweeted earlier this week to describe the Between today and tomorrow, temperatures money-gobbling air conditioners. It could also two had viable smallpox in them, Frieden upcoming sweater weather. The office quickly in the Midwest will be as much as 15 degrees be the cheers of those who make their living Moratorium said. learned that wasn’t such a good idea, said Amy lower than normal, with the biggest drops seen working outside, such as the employees at a Frieden said he has issued a moratori- After scientists complete their tests, Seeley, a weather service meteorologist who close to the Great Lakes, though people in Tulsa nursery, whose job entails hauling trees um on the transfer of any biological sam- they will destroy the samples in view of spent a good chunk of Friday morning fielding a Oklahoma and Arkansas will need to break out and shrubs around town. ples, including infectious agents, within World Health Organization officials, he flood of telephone calls from the media. “I think pants, too. “We love it,” Paul James, marketing manager people are pretty sensitive to those words,” she Meanwhile, the usually temperate Pacific for Southwood Landscape & Garden Center, said said. “That is what should have been or outside the CDC until an investigation said. Northwest should get ready to sweat. Places of the forecast for temperatures running about is complete. done a couple of decades ago,” Frieden such as Seattle could reach 90 or higher next 15 degrees lower than the typical 93- or 94- He also called for appropriate discipli- admitted. What’s To Blame? week, Masters said. degree July days. “Any day you don’t get above nary action for any staff who knowingly “Whoever created these vials did not Though Typhoon Neoguri has weakened Chicago would normally see highs in the 80s 100 degrees.” violated protocol or failed to report a lab do so out of malice,” he said, adding that since hitting Japan, it altered the path of the and lows in the mid-60s, but the weather service Further north, the forecast is more bad news incident. they were dated February 10, 1954. North Pacific jet stream, allowing polar air says highs early next week will climb no higher at the Maple Lane Resort in the western “It tells me we need to look at our cul- Smallpox was not eradicated worldwide behind a trough of low pressure to spill out of than the mid-60s - maybe 70 degrees- and lows Michigan community of Empire, along Glen ture of safety throughout all our labora- until the late 1970s. — AFP Canada and into the Midwest, says Weather could dip into the upper 40s. The cool spell is Lake, near Lake Michigan. This summer’s gener- Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters. coming at the wrong time for some athletes ally cooler weather already has affected busi- It’s similar to the polar vortex pattern from who are preparing for a triathlon in Wisconsin ness. “We are fully booked for weekends here the winter that turned much of the U.S. into a next weekend. If Lake Michigan is too cold, the this summer, but we are seeing less families Newly release 911 tapes depict freezer for weeks at a time, breaking low tem- swimming portion won’t happen. spend a week up here,” office manager Amanda perature records in numerous states. But there “It’s disappointing because you’ve done all Rennie said. “Last year, the stays were longer, response to collapse of vet are key differences, Masters says. This air mass is the preparations for it,” said Elizabeth (and) I think this may have something to do with coming from western Canada and not directly Waterstraat, who has been coaching several the weather.” — AP ALBUQUERQUE: Newly released emer- teria. “Regardless of who was sitting at gency dispatch tapes reveal further details nearby tables, VA staff along with Kirtland about efforts to revive a Vietnam veteran AFB personnel immediately responded in who collapsed with a heart attack in a providing basic life support to this veteran,” Veterans Affairs hospital in Albuquerque. an email from Anderson said Friday. “The Two calls were made while 71-year-old staff were heroic in their attempts to save Jim Napoleon Garcia lay on the floor as an the life of this veteran.” ambulance was called to take him to an VA spokeswoman Sonja Brown said the emergency room 500 yards away, accord- response to the emergency remains under ing to the tapes released Thursday to the investigation. Hospital emergency experts Albuquerque Journal. have said it’s standard for hospitals to In the first, a female caller described require staff to call 911, even when patients how the man was unresponsive and bleed- are near an emergency room. ing from his mouth and nose. She also The death of Garcia on June 30 prompt- expressed her frustration that doctors at a ed new outrage against the VA as it faces cafeteria table weren’t doing more to help. allegations that veterans have endured “We called our rapid response here at long wait times and died waiting to see a the hospital but unfortunately they won’t doctor around the country. The revelations respond to him because he’s out of the have led to a major shake-up of VA opera- main medical building,” said the caller, tions. The 911 records indicate an ambu- whose name was not provided. She added lance arrived to aid Garcia 10.5 minutes that the man was being hooked up to an after the emergency call. Hospital officials emergency defibrillator. said it is VA policy to call 911, although the “Paramedics are already on their way emergency response team will be called to out there,” the dispatcher told her. “There’s nonresponsive patients in clinics and five a table of doctors sitting right next to him other buildings on the campus, not includ- and none of them are doing s_,” the woman ing the cafeteria. continued. Brown said its rapid response policy is “OK, I’m sorry about that,” the dispatcher under review. Carol Garcia, the widow of responded. Neither the caller nor the dis- Jim Garcia, has declined to comment on his patcher elaborated. death until she consults with the attorney In a second call minutes later, a male she said the family has retained. caller said nurses were performing CPR but On Thursday, New Mexico’s congression- CHICAGO: In this July 3, 2014 photo, Michael Mayes, CEO of Chicago-based Quantum 9 Inc., a medical cannabis consulting company, poses for a the man didn’t appear to be breathing. al delegation sent a letter to the acting VA photo in his Chicago office. The prospect of adding jobs, even as few as 30, has led officials in many shrinking Illinois’ communities to set aside Hospital spokesman Bill Anderson said director saying they have serious concerns any qualms about the state’s legalization of medical marijuana and to get friendly with would-be growers. Quantum 9 has helped win permits he could not confirm who was in the cafe- about the handling of Garcia’s death. —AP for marijuana producers in four other states. — AP MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Nivea’s new, refreshing protect & refresh range

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ahad Al-Matouq celebrated Gergee’an and collected sweets in his new outfit. Kuwait Economic Society (KES) recently held its ghabqa. It was well attended by KES officials and their families apart from other dignitaries. F MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 WHAT’S ON

Sheikh Nasser organizes Ramadan ‘ghabqa’ HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Muhammad organized a Ramadan ‘ghabqa’ at his palace in Shuwaikh. The event was attended by various members of the society who came to congratulate Sheikh Nasser on the holy month. TV PROGRAMS MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014

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Garvin 23:30 How The Universe Works 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 07:55 Bargain Hunt 09:30 Dads 20:20 Chopped 18:40 Little People, Big World 08:40 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 10:00 Melissa & Joey 21:10 Chopped 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 09:30 Simply Italian 10:30 Seinfeld 22:00 Guy’s Big Bite 20:05 Extreme Couponing 09:55 Come Dine With Me: South 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 22:50 Jenny Morris Cooks The 20:30 Cake Boss Africa Jimmy Fallon Riviera 21:00 The Face UK 10:45 Come Dine With Me 12:00 The War At Home 21:55 Breaking Amish: Brave New 11:35 Come Dine With Me 12:30 My Boys 00:00 Wild Case Files World 12:30 Bargain Hunt 13:00 Back In The Game 01:00 Ancient Secrets: Cathedrals NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM ON OSN MOVIES HD 22:50 Long Island Medium 13:15 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent Decoded 13:30 The Mindy Project 12:30 Coronation Street 21:00 Beautiful Creatures-PG15 23:15 The Face UK 14:05 Simply Italian 02:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 14:00 New Girl 09:30 Counting Cars 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 23:00 The Cold Light Of Day-PG15 14:30 Come Dine With Me: South 03:00 Wild Australia 14:30 Dads 10:00 Pawn Stars 00:00 The Soup 14:00 Necessary Roughness Africa 04:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 15:00 Melissa & Joey 10:30 Pawn Stars 00:30 Chelsea Lately 15:00 Perception 15:20 Come Dine With Me 05:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 11:00 Storage Wars 00:55 Chelsea Lately 16:10 Come Dine With Me 16:00 Emmerdale 11:30 Storage Wars 06:00 Dangerous Encounters Stewart 01:00 A Very Fairy Christmas 01:25 Style Star 17:05 The Good Cook 16:30 Coronation Street 12:00 American Pickers 07:00 Ape Man 16:00 The Colbert Report 02:45 The Legend Of Secret Pass 01:50 Style Star 17:30 Bargain Hunt 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:00 Futbol Mundial 13:00 Mountain Men 08:00 Wild Case Files 16:30 The War At Home 04:30 Quest For A Heart 02:20 Keeping Up With The 18:15 Homes Under The Hammer 18:00 Necessary Roughness 01:30 Super Rugby 14:00 Storage Wars 09:00 Ancient Secrets: Cathedrals 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 06:00 Three Investigators And The Kardashians 19:10 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 19:00 Twisted 03:30 Super Rugby 14:30 Storage Wars Decoded 18:00 Community Secret Of Terror... 03:15 Extreme Close-Up Notebook: London 20:00 Royal Pains 05:30 Trans World 15:00 American Pickers 10:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 18:30 New Girl 08:00 Jelly T 03:40 Extreme Close-Up 19:35 Come Dine With Me 21:00 Dracula 06:30 Icc Cricket 360 16:00 American Pickers 11:00 Wild Australia 19:00 Dads 09:45 Scooby-Doo! 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The announcement came 16:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 04:20 Jungle Junction just days after he sued Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal- Highlights 04:35 Jungle Junction 01:00 Switchback-PG15 Mart Stores Inc in a New Jersey federal court, alleging 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 04:50 Jungle Junction 03:00 Seven Pounds-PG15 the retailer knew or should have known its truck driver, 17:30 IPL Highlights 05:00 Art Attack 05:00 Hide Away-PG15 Kevin Roper, was not in compliance with federal regula- 18:30 IPL Highlights 05:25 Art Attack 07:00 Of Two Minds-PG15 tions designed to combat driver fatigue. 19:30 ICC Cricket 360 05:50 Mouk 09:00 Radio-PG 20:00 England v Sri Lanka T20I 06:00 Austin & Ally “He asked me to pass along his sincerest gratitude to 11:00 Regarding Henry-PG15 Highlights 06:25 Austin & Ally everyone who has helped him get to this point. He 13:00 Katy Perry The Movie: Part Of 23:00 ICC Cricket 360 06:45 Mako Mermaids would also appreciate some privacy during this crucial Me-PG 23:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 07:10 Mako Mermaids point in his recovery,” spokesman Lewis Kay said in a 15:00 You Got Served: Beat The Highlights 07:35 Jessie statement. The statement added that Morgan, best World-PG15 07:55 Jessie known for starring in NBC’s “30 Rock” and “Saturday 17:00 Regarding Henry-PG15 08:20 Win, Lose Or Draw Night Live,” will undergo a rigorous outpatient regimen 19:00 Moonrise Kingdom-PG15 08:45 Good Luck Charlie to complete his recovery. 21:00 Ed Wood-PG15 09:05 Dog With A Blog 23:15 Year Of The Dog-PG15 On Thursday, the actor filed a lawsuit claiming that 09:30 Phineas And Ferb Wal-Mart truck driver Roper commuted more than 700 00:00 American Restoration 09:55 Phineas And Ferb miles (1,130 km) from his Georgia home to a company 00:30 American Restoration 10:15 Liv And Maddie distribution facility in Delaware before beginning his 01:00 Ancient Aliens 10:40 Lemonade Mouth work shift, and that he had been awake for over 24 01:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 02:00 Storage Wars 12:25 Disney Mickey Mouse Shorts hours prior to the crash. 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He pleaded not guilty. 13:00 The Company You Keep- 06:00 American Pickers Fairies Morgan was riding along the New Jersey Turnpike PG15 07:00 American Pickers 14:35 Dog With A Blog with several people including his assistant Jeffrey Millea 15:00 Iron Man 3-PG15 08:00 American Restoration 15:00 Dog With A Blog and comedian Ardley Fuqua Jr, who were also injured in 17:15 Mirror Mirror-PG15 08:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 15:25 Liv And Maddie the crash and are co-plaintiffs in the suit. —Reuters TERMINAL VELOCITY ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 19:00 Hope Springs-PG15 09:00 Storage Wars Texas 15:50 Liv And Maddie Classifieds

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) The work you do and the way you take care of your health as well as other You have insight into your emotions and drive today and if need be, you can obligations to yourself are important keys for your best potential now. There talk about your feelings with great insight. This is a time when you can put your practical is a need for focus and careful analysis in these areas of your life. Set up systems and sched- insights into words and convey them to others. You communicate mystical and mythologi- ules and stick to them! Since you are lucky by nature, others like to be with you. Your gener- cal ideas very well. You are at home in these realms and can always manage to bring other- al outlook on life is attractive-people seek you out to help them with their problems. You worldly ideas into the practical realms. You would make an excellent teacher of philosophy are a natural guide and counselor. Making a good impression and putting your best foot or religion. You cannot help but communicate these subjects and enchant all who come to forward takes on greater importance this afternoon when you find yourself in a good net- know you. Your understanding of the unity behind appearances, along with the ability to working situation. Appearances and style may count for more than substance. Romance, put these thoughts into words, is a rare and valuable gift. You would make a good director, the arts and others of life’s pleasures seem to take center stage this evening. for you like working with mental images.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) You could be most persuasive with others in most any situation. A co-worker You understand how to handle authorities and have a natural gift for solving may have difficulty with a client, but you are available to help. Personal ties to other people problems. You will be solving the problems now that may have come up yes- are a focal point for you-marriage and other partnerships could be a key arena for this. You terday. You have a lot of energy for improving your surroundings or life situations. You are may be able to enjoy and value your own life situation today. You may discover something very motivated. There is an ability to understand and communicate emotional situations to new about love or you could adopt a different and unconventional value system for a time. others. You have a strong drive to unify and simplify. You want something more imaginative Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying-and the lack of them can be emotionally unset- and less ordinary. A yearning for other worlds and for a more cosmic form of love exists-not tling. A visitor in your home today may compliment you on your tastes. You may find this too unlike some of the television shows today. Helping others is what makes you happy. visitor quite delightful. This visitor may even have a remedy to some quandary you have Consider a volunteer service that reaches other countries-you could blossom. You could be been having. a successful news reporter.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) A round-table discussion may ensue after a family breakfast this morning. You could find yourself getting overemotional and flying off the handle this New plans are in the works for several short trips. In-depth discussions find morning. There is an urge to please others that is strong enough to make it you at your mental best. This may be a good time for your imagination to kick in when it hard to decide or act for fear of offending someone. You will quickly balance this out, or you comes to ideas and thinking. You find it easy to be compassionate and others can see that will discover that there is no peace in compromise. The trick is to find the win-win solution ACROSS 3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco you care. You also understand and have a natural appreciation for your elders, whom you to the no-win situation-and if anyone is ever up to it, you are now. Friends and perhaps 1. A preparation (usually made of sweetened or its people. will take great care to include into your plans now. Helping them with a few chores takes lit- neighbors will give you an opportunity to laugh and enjoy upbeat conversations. General chicle) for chewing. 4. Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of tle of your time. The arts, philosophy and great ideas in general are what you enjoy now. good feelings and a sense of support can make for a lively afternoon. There is the possibility of new visions or sudden insights into your self-image or into your ideals and dreams. There 4. An ambitious and aspiring young person. Future-oriented, you have a sense of your own destiny and you look forward to seeing your Manitoba. are breakthroughs in any communication difficulties today. 12. Any of various units of capacity. 5. Second brightest star in Perseus. ambitions realized. Romance is indicated tonight. 15. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic infor- 6. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth mation from DNA to the cytoplasm. of a meter. 16. A weakly magnetic black mineral found in 7. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs Capricorn (December 22-January 19) metamorphic and plutonic rocks. who were daughters of the sea god Nereus. Cancer (June 21-July 22) You may feel left out or passed over just now. Your own requirements may 17. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular 8. Black tropical American cuckoo. A little glue here or a little tape there is not a permanent solution. Take a sec- band of foliage or flowers for ornamental pur- appear to limit and separate you from where the rest of the gang is headed. 9. The capital of Kyrgystan (known as Frunze ond look and do what you know how to do best: analyze and solve problems. You know Perhaps there is a sense of challenge or blockage just now. You may not find support at this poses. 1926-1991). just how to use your time and resources. Someone else’s agenda may have impeded your time; however, this is of short duration. Knowing that you will get your turn at whatever you 18. The opening of a subject to public discus- 10. Continuing forever or indefinitely. progress for today but it is only temporary. You might also consider some rescheduling. want to learn, accomplish or just participate in, will give you patience. Easy does it today- sion and debate. 11. Suggestive of the supernatural. When it is time for you to return to your project or chore, someone could help you with the plenty of fresh air and a healthy attitude will see you successfully through. Lightning fast 20. A person who rises (especially from bed). 12. (informal usage) A general feeling of bore- lifting, stretching or whatever is difficult for one person to do; don’t be afraid to ask for assis- when it comes to a family decision this afternoon, you seem to have direct insight into what 21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs dom and dissatisfaction. tance. Reading about medical and/or mechanical progress and discoveries in neuroelectri- is worth everyone’s comfort and enjoyment. You have new and unconventional ways to cut northeast into the Rhine. 13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the cal interface technology may be of interest to you and spurs your curiosity to learn further. through any confusion-others are listening to you. 22. A note placed below the text on a printed family Leguminosae. You celebrate tonight. Happy birthday! page. 14. The basic unit of money on Malta. 24. 8th and most important avatar of Vishnu. 19. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi. 26. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of spe- 23. A soft gray malleable metallic element that Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) cial pungency. resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air. Before the day even begins, you may feel that it is time for you to change 27. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian 25. Any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely You may feel that you lack depth and feeling and the ability to move or your image. This may mean a new hairdo or some other way you want to communicate with others. This could result in having your mind elsewhere-perhaps some people. related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage alter your appearance, and you make plans. Catching up on personal projects, preparing for upcoming vacation plans are in the works. Anything other than the regular day’s routine 28. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare and white or purplish flowers. the workweek or working in a garden or flower bed seems to be the routine for the day. You earth group. may take some real concentration efforts. Keep ongoing notes about your future plans might consider a little time out of your busy day to enjoy a picnic in your very own back- 29. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair nearby so that you can devote your thinking to the present. You may have a lot to learn 30. Being or moving higher in position or of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held yard. Interested in serving others, you worry about their welfare. You like to take care of regarding what is and what is not essential in life. This evening, lovers, children and other everything and are always redeeming, salvaging and restoring. You could gain insight from greater in some value. between the thumb and fingers) that are made people or things dear to your heart are emphasized. Being appreciated and admired for 31. African tree with edible yellow fruit resem- a young person this afternoon. You and a friend or loved one may enjoy a good movie later to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in your gifts and talents is appreciated deeply. Taking chances in your relationships can bring today. This is a time to enjoy and appreciate your ties to others. bling mangos. rhythm with the dance. big rewards this evening. Sing a happy tune! 35. Gained or acquired. 32. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting 38. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the (especially in cases of drug overdose or poison- stomach) by flushing with water. ing). Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian 33. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces. palm trees. 34. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the Quick answers, great wit and a surplus of insights and solutions are easy to Fundamental religious or philosophical beliefs cry out for reexamination in 44. Move unobtrusively or furtively. keel of a ship. find. This is a good time to write and communicate with real originality. the light of new information and influences. Educational projects require Inventions and breakthroughs are possible. Deadlines are not a problem. Tonight there is 45. Committee formed by a special-interest 36. Reconnaissance (by shortening). much study and may also involve travel to a library or museum. Fresh insight comes to you an urge to try new things, perhaps purchasing furniture or new-color paint for a bedroom. group to raise money for their favorite political 37. An informal term for a father. through mass media news reports such as broadcasting, publishing and advertising-giving In this case, your tendency to rebel may result in a negative response. It is time to present you a whole new prospective with particular subjects. There is a need to see both sides of candidates. 39. The residue that remains when something is the facts and remove the emotional viewpoints. A no-win situation could result if you do an issue and strike a fair balance in several basic ideas. In-depth conversations find you at 46. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws pre- burned. scribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th not think things through first. You value independence, as well as anything unusual or dif- your mental best. You may find yourself lecturing, helping others to study or enjoying a 40. Mix up or confuse. ferent. You might consider a shopping trip with a loved one today. Once out among new century BC). new creative technique, etc. Your analytical abilities are at a high. You have just enough time 42. The capital of Morocco. styles and prices, you may find your ideas win approval. to play with your own creative hobby this evening. 47. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean 43. Meat from a domestic hog or pig. (below 6000 meters). 49. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of 48. English scholastic philosopher and assumed the Old World. author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349). 50. Egyptian statesman who became president Word Search Yesterday Solution 51. 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And apart from cannabis”. The ‘Tammy’ actress that, just practice moderation Ssays her number one secret for because too much of anything takes looking fabulous aged 67 is never its toll. Not too much sun, not too smoking cigarettes, and she thinks much alcohol, not too much food.” tobacco is worse for people than Susan claims alcohol isn’t one of her narcotics. She said: “Theses days vices, however, because it makes her there’s a lot of women who don’t feels sluggish and she prefers to get look like you through 67 was going some fresh air and power walk when to look so I’m not so unusual. A lot of she’s stressed out. She told Britain’s it is down to being happy and stay- HELLO! magazine: “Alcohol doesn’t ing curious and keeping a sense of really help me. I find the next morn- Angelina humor. But my main advice would ing I’m in worse shape than before. be, first of all, don’t smoke - or rather, What I’ve had in my time is a lot of don’t smoke cigarettes. “I’m down midnight walks down the West Side with cannabis but tobacco is the Highway of New York City.” Jolie’s Drake and Chris Brown 15k facials

have professional friendship ngelina Jolie spends £15,000 a year on whole body - we usually treat the arms and legs, ‘raindrop’ facials. The ‘Maleficent’ actress the bits that will be on show. “Most of our stars Avisits Dr David Colbert every month for a will have it before a big event - the Emmys or ‘triad facial’ laser treatment to help maintain her Oscars. People who are regularly in the media will glowing complexion and youthful appearance. come in monthly or every other month.” Dr The doctor - whose clients also include Naomi Colbert first worked with Angelina, 39, on 2009 Watts and Jennifer Lawrence - said: “People call it movie ‘Salt’, where he helped created a special a facial but it is actually a non-invasive laser treat- face cream for her. He told Britain’s Grazia maga- ment “First we prep skin with microdermabrasion zine: “I’ve worked with her on several movies as a Rodriguez’s so the laser penetrates better. Then we use a consultant where there has been prosthetic laser, which feels like warm raindrops on the skin. make-up. For ‘Salt’ we developed a skin cream movie-making hobby After that. we do a lavender acid exfoliation, then that was really gentle, with shea nut butter. “It’s apply gentle wave lights. “The treatment takes called Heal and Soothe, £120, and helps keep skin about 35 minutes for the face or an hour for the looking calm and dewy.” Eminem welcomed Dr Dre on stage at Wembley gig

rake and Chris Brown’s new friendship is strictly professional. The long-time rivals, who have both had on-again, off-again relation- Dships with Rihanna, sparked rumors they had buried the hatchet this week after a photograph of them in a recording studio together appeared on Instagram. But a source told gossip website TMZ.com that the duo made a business decision to put their differences aside, as they believe they can make millions by teaming up together. The insider revealed that Drake, 27, has signed on to produce Chris’ upcoming album, and is collaborating with him on several tracks. They believe the album will be a huge hit because fans will want to pick apart the lyrics and com- pare their vocal abilities. Another source told HollywoodLife.com: “[Drake] will work with anyone in the biz if he thinks the collab has the potential to be epic.” When asked about the image of them together on Friday Drake hinted things are still frosty between him and Chris by saying he would “rather not comment.” Tension between the pair erupted into a violent fight in New York City nightclub W.I.P. in 2012, leaving several people injured. The ‘Started From The Bottom’ hitmaker also claimed last year that he would never be able to talk to Chris. During an interview, he said: obert Rodriguez became a hands-on filmmaker so “I wish we could sit down, just like you and me are right now, and talk it he could keep his “favorite hobbies”. The ‘Sin City: A out man-to-man. But that’s not going to happen.” RDame to Kill’ director - who also took on the roles of producer, composer, editor and cinematographer on the project - likes to get very involved in making a movie because it allows him to embrace his creativity. He said: “My favorite hobbies growing up were photography, draw- minem was joined by Dr Dre for a rare angry.” There was plenty of swearing through- ing, music, making movies. I chose filmmaking because I performance during an explosive gig at out the concert and some fans complained could still keep all my favorite hobbies under the project of EWembley Stadium. The ‘Berzerk’ rapper about the speaker system as they struggled to a film. “So on all my early films, I did everything. And then took to the stage after being banned from hear a lot of what Eminem was saying in as I got into the Hollywood system, I thought, ‘I don’t know Hyde Park because of the “explicit lyrics” in his between songs. But he still proved that at 41, why I should give up these things. They’re still some of my songs and became the first rapper to headline he’s one of the world’s best live performers. favorite jobs.’ “ Rodriguez has always tried to make movies a gig at the venue in north London connected Eminem stood against a backdrop of a boom- on a tight budget - his debut film ‘El Mariachi’ cost only by EE- playing to 80,000 fans - who went wild box and fans lapped up hit after hit with the $7,000 before Columbia Pictures spent $1 million to market when he collaborated with mega star Dre. The set list including ‘The Way I Am’, ‘Rap God’, ‘My it, earning double that when it was released. He explained rappers performed a number of hits including Name Is’, ‘The Real Slim Shady’ and ‘Without to Red Bulletin magazine: “I was the one who made movies Forgot About Dre and the 90-minute set was Me’. Despite rumors, Rihanna and Dido were very inexpensively, so they would always turn a profit. I crammed full of fan favorites, with a medley of absent for duets of Love The Way You Lie and made ‘El Mariachi’ out of my apartment. “I thought, ‘I don’t ‘Love The Way You Lie’ and ‘Stan’ being one of Stan but Eminem showed he didn’t need any have to be in Hollywood, they don’t care. As long as it the highlights on the night. Wearing a t-shirt help to entertain the crowd. “God damn, we shows up on their desk and they can distribute it and make with a giant Union Jack mask emblazoned on missed you,” he told them, as he ran about the some money off it, they don’t care where you make it or the front, Eminem was glad to be back in stage backed by a full band. There were plenty how you make it’. “I think formality went out of the window London, headlining a gig in the UK for the first of explosions, gun shot sound effects and the really quickly when I sold that movie.” time in 13 years. He told the audience: “Hold encore, Lose Yourself, sent the audience into a on, let me take a minute to look at this God frenzy. The rapper performed another sold out Johnson to star in damn crowd! This is why I love London. Y’all so concert at the venue on Saturday. Forever, Interrupted

akota Johnson is to star in ‘Forever, Interrupted’. The 24-year-old actress has been offered the lead- Ding role in the upcoming film adaptation of the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel ‘Forever, Interrupted: A Novel’, Variety reports. The film will tell the story of a young woman (Johnson) who elopes after a whirlwind romance but when her adoring husband dies a sudden death she will be forced to come to terms with his loss and forms an unlikely relationship with his mother. Amy Baer will pro- duce the romantic drama through Gidden Media while Johnson will also take on the role of executive producer alongside Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake of Good Universe, John Middleton and Roy Lee. She said of the novel: “[It’s] exquisitely written and heart-wrenchingly honest ... and Dakota will be exquisite as Elsie, who has to deal with the sudden loss of a great love. She is a deeply thoughtful, sen- Knightley sitive and smart woman and actress.” Johnson recently Gerard Way explains MCR split wrapped on the untitled Whitey Bulger biopic, formerly titled ‘Black Mass’, opposite Johnny Depp and will next be erard Way was too depressed to continue with My Chemical seen in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. Romance. The ‘Black Parade’ rockers split in March 2013, and the front-

Gman admits he knew it was time to call it a day because the band was upset by criticism making him ill and affecting his personal life. He said: “It was one of those things that actually was painful and slow, a sequence of breaks. But it comes down to me just being really depressed. “It’s hard to go into too much detail eira Knightley is “stupidly sensitive”. added in an interview with Britain’s OK! maga- about the mechanics of it, but one day I just said, ‘You know, we can’t do this.’ The 29-year-old actress still feels hurt zine: “Film is such a strange magical thing that It was really hard. Nobody was happy. I wasn’t happy. “I felt like I was in this Kwhen she receives criticism, but has sometimes things don’t come together. You thing that I couldn’t get out of, because I was partially responsible for other learned to pick herself up and move on from have to go, ‘It’s out of my hands.’ If it doesn’t people’s lives. And then it started to make me physically sick, and it started to upsetting incidents. She said: “I’m stupidly work, I’m proud because that day I felt like not affect my personal life.” Gerard feels he has been able to move forward since sensitive. It’s ridiculous to have got 10 years good, I still managed to play this incredibly leaving the band, and though he didn’t plan a solo career, he has been work- on in my career and find that some things still important scene and I don’t feel I completely ing hard on a new album. He told NME magazine: “Being in a band holds you hurt as much. I don’t know if it’s ego. “I do damage it up. “You give months of your time in stasis. There’s a refusal to grow past a certain point and I personally tend to get back up quite quickly after I’ve to make a movie and you don’t have a life out- stopped growing. “I guess I thought I was going to have a ‘normal’ life after been hit down and then I try to forge ahead as side it. So if you only think it’s worth it if it’s My Chemical Romance, but then all of a sudden I started to plan out what a much as possible.” However, the ‘Begin Again’ critically well received, then you’ll end up solo career would be like. “I thought of the artists I love, like Nick Cave and star is no longer affected by bad reviews as spending an awful amount of time incredibly Morrissey, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, PJ Harvey, Bjork, and I was like, she knows she has always done her best. She disappointed.” that’s where I want my art to be.” lifestyle MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 GOSSIP Miley Cyrus’ matchmaker dad

iley Cyrus’s dad wants to set her up on a date. Billy Ray Cyrus is eager for his 21-year- Mold daughter - who split from supportive” guy and already has some “level-headed” older guys in mind. A source told America’s OK! magazine: “Billy Ray is convinced that a strong, supportive guy will help keep Miley grounded. “Billy Ray is looking for someone successful who won’t take advantage of Miley. “He’d love to get her together with country singers like Kip Moore or Chris Young, who are warm and level-headed.” However, the ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ hitmaker may have acted too late as it has been claimed the ‘Wrecking Ball’ singer has been in a Williams and his secret relationship with producer Mike WiLL Made It for the last nine months. A source said recently: “Everybody in her circle knows they’ve been togeth- wife to have a son er this whole time.” Another insider said that the 25- year-old producer, who worked on Miley’s latest he ‘Candy’ hitmaker’s partner Ayda Field is pregnant album ‘Bangerz,’ has also formed a close bond with with their second child, and it is said the couple are Miley’s mother, Tish Cyrus, adding: “Tish says he’s part now expecting to give daughter Theodora Rose, two, of the family.” Miley, 21, is currently on a break from T her ‘Bangerz World Tour’ and will kick off the North a brother. A source told the Daily Star Sunday newspaper: “Robbie is expecting a boy and is over the moon. “They American leg on August 1, but she and Mike - real went for scans recently when they were in LA and once name Michael Williams - make sure to “talk and text again got the doctor to put the sex of their baby in an all day, every day” when they’re apart. envelope so they could take it away and open it later. “They went out for dinner and opened it after dessert.” The singer has admitted in the past he wanted a baby boy, and it is said both he and Ayda are “thrilled” at the news. The insider added: “Both Robbie and Ayda are thrilled. Robbie wasn’t lands work shy about telling the world he wanted a son and now they Brooklyn Scherzinger are expecting one.” Robbie first announces the happy news he and his wife were expecting their second child back in April. Taking to Twitter, he wrote at the time: “Ayda and I are experience gig with Guy inspired by Sam Smith delighted to announce that Theodora Rose Williams is going to be a big sister. RW xxx” rooklyn Beckham has been hand. His work experience comes doing work experience with after recent reports he had found a BGuy Ritchie. The 15-year-old job in a coffee shop. He had been son of David and Victoria Beckham doing weekend shifts at his local has made the most of his family’s cafe, where he was apparently The connections after spending four days Beckham children - who also include at the filmmaker’s office in London. Romeo, 12, Cruz, nine, and two-year- According to The Sun on Sunday old Harper - are being raised well by newspaper, Brooklyn was dropped their superstar parents, and UK chat off each morning by the retired soc- show host Jonathan Ross has cer star, who drove him to Guy’s claimed he doesn’t feel sorry for house in a brand new Jaguar. After them because they’re being brought arriving at the ‘Snatch’ director’s up the right way. Grade I listed home, he was then He previously said: “No, I don’t, walked to the office, where he was because Victoria and David are such spent five hours before being picked cool people and such good parents. up by a member of the Beckham’s “I met them out years ago with their housekeeping staff. It is said kids and you couldn’t have met a Brooklyn dressed casually, carrying a more polite, sweet-natured bunch of backpack, but did have notepad in children.” Tisci: Designing for Beyonce is like party preparation

iccardo Tisci says dressing Beyonce for her ‘On the Run’ tour is like “help- Ring a friend get ready for a party”. The Givenchy designer was thrilled to be Turner dating asked to design his pal’s costumes for her co-headlining shows with husband Jay Z while he was fitting her for her Met Gala outfit - for which he was her guest for the guitarist McVey third year in a row - and has had a lot of fun creating the outfits. Explaining how ophie Turner is dating The Vamps guitarist James she first showed him the short film announcing the tour, he said: “I saw that McVey. The ‘Game of Thrones’ actress has reportedly icole Scherzinger is inspired by Sam Smith’s video and was like, ‘Wow’. we started talk- Sstarted to get close to the musician, and while album. The 36-year-old singer has revealed lis- ing about hat she might wear. “I said they’re taking it slow in the early stages, it is said they tening to the ‘Stay With Me’ hitmaker stimulated straight away, ‘OK, it should all be black, N “really like each other”. An insider told The Sun on Sunday her to get emotionally raw on her upcoming album American, sexy but luxe, couture...’ It was newspaper: “It’s still early days. She has just broken into because she was incredibly moved by his heartbreak- exciting, from the gut, like when you’re the big time through ‘Game of Thrones’ and James and his ing lyrics and emotive voice on his hit record ‘In the helping a friend getting ready for a party.” band are constantly travelling to gigs. “So they’re taking it Lonely Hour’. She said: “He did a spectacular job of cut- Riccardo first met Beyonce in 2011 and pretty slowly but they do really like each other.” The two ting straight to the heartstrings. I had many dates with was pleased the superstar wasn’t how he stars started chatting on Twitter, before meeting up on a the album on and a glass of wine. There’s this unbeliev- expected her to be. He explained: “When I number of occasions, including meals out and a trip to able cry but strength at the same time. That’s what I’m met her, she wasn’t how I expected her to the beach. However, James’ bandmates have recently aiming for.” The ‘Your Love’ singer’s new album will fea- be.”She’s very powerful and one of the admitted their touring lifestyle makes it difficult to date “a ture plenty of songs about love and heartbreak, which great icons of our time, but also so sweet, normal girl”, meaning romances with other celebrities she thinks her female fans will find relatable. She so feminine, very gentle and never vulgar.” have a better chance of working out. Singer Bradley explained: “This album is about the women I am, the Jay - who has been wearing a custom- Simpson previously said: “I think you see a lot of celebs women I’m not and the woman I want to be. There’s a made Givenchy tuxedo on the tour - was dating other celebs, because both sides can deal with the lot of stuff on my album girls can relate to. You gotta be “very happy” with his wife’s costumes, but nature of the job. “If you’re in a band and you’re trying to in the slums and have a broken heart, that’s when has had little input into them. Riccardo date a normal girl at university, it will be harder because music transports you and heals.” But Nicole insists her told Grazia magazine: “He came and said of the difference in lifestyle.” songs about heartbreak aren’t a reflection on her rela- hello to me during fittings and seemed tionship with Lewis Hamilton. She told the Daily Star very happy with everything, but I mean, newspaper: “I’m an artist, he doesn’t come into it. I’m she knows what she wants, she has a pret- sure if he heard some of the music he would be able to ty strong point of view.” Sia wrote hit in relate to it as anybody would.” less than an hour ia wrote her most La Roux ‘wanted to run away’ after tour popular single in less Sthan an hour. The 38- year-old star has claimed a Roux’s Elly Jackson “wanted to run away” after she penned ‘Chandelier’ - touring in 2009. The ‘In For The Kill’ hitmaker the lead release from her Ladmits she struggled to deal with her overnight album ‘1000 Forms of Fear ‘ fame four years ago and needed to take herself on a - in little over half an hour. long vacation once the tour of North America had She told NPR: “I mean, wrapped up. Speaking to The Sun newspaper, she ‘Chandelier’ took like four explained: “I wanted to run away. I didn’t want it to start minutes to write the again and I did run away for a bit-I went on holiday. A chords, then like 12-15 min- very long holiday. The pressure was too much. I’m not utes to write the lyrics. very good at being this shiny, showy person. I see music “Probably 10 or 15 minutes and performing as an art form but only when I want it to cut the vocals.” She also to be an art form. The rest of the time I want to be left discussed the way many alone.” The 26-year-old star also began to suffer from pop songs follow a set formula, which largely centre panic attacks at the height of her success, which often on “victim to victory” tracks or “party time” hits. She affected her vocals when she was on stage. She said: “It explained: “The ‘victim to victory’ theory is that, if you was a problem for about three years, it stopped me listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are ... doing things in 2011. But after that I tried to work about victim to victory, like ‘I’m having a terrible time.’ through it. I’d breathe and meditate and sometimes I’d “And then the pre-chorus is ‘I don’t know what’s gonna take medication. I’d have therapy too.” La Roux - which happen next.’ And the chorus is, ‘Now I’m brilliant, and initially included producer Ben Langmaid until recently - everything is great, because something happened to is preparing to release her new album ‘Trouble in make it great’ ... Then,” she says, “there are songs like, Paradise’ later this month and she insists she’s come a ‘Live like tomorrow doesn’t exist.’ “About 50 percent of long way in the last five years. She explained: “I’ve really the songs on the radio are like, ‘Live like tomorrow grown up and learned about myself. I know when to say doesn’t exist. Like it’s my birthday. Like it’s the last day no and when I need a break. “And getting to that point of my life’ ... Such a large percentage of pop music is has helped shape this album.” ‘Trouble in Paradise’ is set really about party time.” —Bang Showbiz for release on July 21. lifestyle MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Mixed-race ‘Rola’ changing the DNA of Japanese pop culture

n celebrity-obsessed Japan with its conveyor belt of 15-minute stars, fashion icon ‘Rola’ is blazing a mete- Ioric trail at the forefront of a galaxy of mixed-race stars changing the DNA of Japanese pop culture. Turn on the TV and there’s no escaping the bubbly 24-year-old of Bengali, Japanese and Russian descent-she even domi- nates the commercial breaks. A marketing gold mine, Rola smiles down celestially from giant billboards, her wide eyes and girlie pout grace magazine covers and she even greets you at vending machines. But Rola, who set- tled in Japan when she was nine, has done it by turning the entertainment industry on its head, her child-like bluntness slicing through the strict convention that gov- erns Japanese society. “Whenever people told me to speak politely, I never worried about it,” she told AFP in an interview. “I’m not talking down to anyone. I’m not a comedian, it’s just how I am. It’s just being open-hearted and trying to make people open theirs.” But it is not just her quirky charm that is breaking down barriers. Japan’s largely mono-ethnic society-a culture where skin whitening creams are still huge business-has long been mirrored by its entertainment industry. Rola and host of others are beginning to change that.

Evolving attitudes to race Madonna was, but closer and easier to relate to.” Exotic looks Half-British singer and actress Becky is another super- Rola’s trademark puffing of the cheeks, ditzy catch- In a culture that once might have passed over her star with model looks and a huge fan base in Japan, phrases, infectious giggle and carefree charm have darker tone, Rola’s exotic looks have clearly helped-she while half-French newscaster Christel Takigawa helped helped make Japan’s most famous ‘It Girl’ a smash hit was scouted by a modeling agency on the streets of Tokyo win the 2020 Olympic vote as the city’s ambassa- with legions of adoring fans. She believes the shifting Tokyo when she was in high school. Following in the dor for “cool”. Their rise to fame mirrors a shift in attitudes landscape has had a positive effect on Japan. footsteps of mixed-race glamour girls such as Jun in Japan, which only opened its doors to the outside “Nationality isn’t important,” she said, dressed in tight Hasegawa and racing driver Jenson Button’s fiancee world in the middle of the 19th century and where for- blue jeans under a floral one-piece. “I used to think Jessica Michibata, Rola has also taken peak-time televi- eigners-those without Japanese nationality, even if they Japanese people weren’t open and should lighten up. sion by storm. Japan can take its celebrity worship to were born here-make up less than two percent of a pop- But Japan has become brighter. extremes, David Beckham once having a giant chocolate ulation of 127 million. “People copying me is cool,” she added in her helium statue dedicated to him in Tokyo while his mohican hair- “Being of mixed race was once looked down upon,” voice. “If I can do one thing to help bring a tiny improve- style triggered a personal grooming craze among local said sociologist Takashi Miyajima. “Now foreign enter- ment to Japan, that’s great.” women during the 2002 World Cup. “I don’t get stressed tainers are admired in Japan as something untouchable. Born of a Bangladeshi father and a half-Japanese, (by fame),” said Rola. “People come up to me on the street You could even say they benefit from positive discrimi- half-Russian mother, Rola’s eccentricities helped over- and go ‘Hi, Rola!’ as if I’m their friend.” When not shooting nation.” Rarely now do you see TV shows without at least come the language barrier when young, once turning commercials for everything from cosmetics or beer to one “haafu” (the Japanese pronunciation of “half”, mean- up at elementary school in pyjamas she mistook for her headache pills or battered octopus balls, Rola is at the ing “mixed race”), such has been the shift. new uniform. gym-or fishing. “When the next trends hit, the ‘half’ “Young Japanese women want to be like Rola,” said “Normally if you can’t communicate it’s frustrating (mixed race) boom will calm down a bit,” sachid Haruka. psychologist Yoko Haruka, a regular on Japanese TV. but I only have fun memories of childhood,” she said. “But that might take a while.” For now, Rola’s girl-next- “They buy the same clothes, bag. “When I was small I’d play with Barbie dolls and the next door innocence continues to bewitch. Asked to sum her- Japanese fashion model and TV personality Rola is reflected in a mir- It’s like a cartoon world, the baby-face effect. “She has day I’d jump in the river with boys catching crayfish or self up in one word, she closes her eyes and offers: “A ror as she poses for photographs during an interview with AFP in the foreign look: long legs, small face, but because she is playing with turtles. Maybe that’s why I use a lot of hand salmon, maybe. They’re not just tasty, they swim hard up Tokyo. — AFP photos ‘half’, she’s not an object of envy at all. She’s an idol like gestures. I naturally just made friends.” rivers, so they’re tough little critters.” — AFP Review: Jazz masters evoke Ke$ha blames eating disorder on music joy, sadness on duet CD industry’s body image

here’s a sense of both joy and sadness to “Last Dance,” which surprisingly is the first album in Tpianist Keith Jarrett’s illustrious nearly 50-year career to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional jazz chart. “Last Dance” is drawn from the same informal 2007 ses- sions at Jarrett’s home studio that reunited the pianist with bassist Charlie Haden for the first time in more than three decades and yielded the Grammy-nominat- ed 2010 CD, “Jasmine.” The joy comes from hearing these two jazz masters in a relaxed, intimate setting, comple- menting, supporting and listening intensely to each other without wasting any notes. The sadness comes from the realization that the album is this masterful duet’s “last dance” together. Shortly after the release of “Jasmine,” Haden suffered an onset of post-polio syndrome, which led to a hiatus from touring and recording; he died Friday from the prolonged illness. That gives an added poignancy to the three closing lads as Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin’s “My Ship” and tracks, “Where Can I Go Without You,” “Every time We Say Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “It Might As Well Be Spring.” Goodbye” and “Goodbye”- two of which are alternate They also change pace by lightly swinging through versions of takes heard on “Jasmine.” “‘Round Midnight” at a slightly faster tempo than Jarrett and Haden each pushed jazz in new direc- Thelonious Monk’s original version, and quicken the This 2010 photo released by Decca shows tions and shared a deep-rooted love of standards. On tempo even more on Bud Powell’s bebop burner “Dance Jazz bassist Charlie Haden. “Last Dance,” they tenderly embrace such melodic bal- of the Infidels.” — AP

Ana Ortiz is proud of her TV’s ‘Cake Boss’ helped from fogged-in TV show, ‘Devious Maids’ boat in NYC

summer sunset boat trip turned out to be no cake walk for reality TV’s “Cake Boss,” who’s thanking Apolice and firefighters for getting his boat and pas- sengers to safety after they were enveloped in fog in New York Harbor. Buddy Valastro was bringing the boat back Friday evening to Jersey City, New Jersey, after a dinner excursion with friends and family, when a clear day sud- Ke$ha denly changed. “All of a sudden - boom! - we were in a really deep fog where you ising Star” panelist and platinum pop star Ke$ha has opened couldn’t see anything,” up about her stint in rehab earlier this year for an eating dis- even 5 feet ahead, he order she says she developed due to the music industry’s recalled by phone “R “unrealistic expectations for what a body is supposed to look like.” “I’ve Saturday. About 12 people were always tried to be a crusader for loving yourself, but I’d been finding it aboard, including about harder and harder to do personally,” the 27-year-old singer wrote for eight children, said Elle UK. “I felt like part of my job was to be as skinny as possible, and to Valastro, who stars in make it happen, I had been abusing my body.” TLC’s “Cake Boss” and The piece pulls back the curtain on her two-month stay in a rehabili- “Next Great Baker.” His tation clinic that she feared would lead many to assume she’s addicted Carlo’s Bakery has four to drugs. Ke$ha, however, spends most of the page space talking about This undated publicity photo shows, from left, Roselyn Sanchez, Edy Ganem, Ana Ortiz, Dania locations in New Jersey. A the dark side of fame, including the music industry’s obsession with Ramirez and Judy Reyes from the Lifetime series ‘Devious Maids.’ — AP longtime fisherman, image, the judgmental media and public, as well as the “paranoia” it Valastro said he used the In this Oct 26, 2010 file can cause on an artist. na Ortiz was skeptical. Yes, the project came from nated for Imagen Awards, to be presented Aug. 1 in 32-foot Boston Whaler’s photo, ‘Cake Boss’ Buddy “The music industry has set unrealistic expectations for what a body two classy Hollywood acts: “Desperate Housewives” Beverly Hills, which “recognize and reward positive por- radar and GPS to keep Valastro arrives at is supposed to look like, and I started becoming overly critical of my creator Marc Cherry and, serving as a producer, trayals of Latinos in all forms of media.” A going, slowly, for a time. Women’s Conference in own body because of that,” she wrote. “Housewives” star Eva Longoria. And, yes, the show would “And so, to have these nominations from the Imagens, But he was concerned Long Beach, Calif.—AP “I felt like people were always lurking, trying to take pictures of me be a lavishly filmed English-language production for an it is such a beautiful full-circle moment,” Ortiz said. “I’m so that other boats might American TV studio starring five Hispanic women. Ortiz proud for all the girls. And I’m really proud of the show.” with the intention of putting them up opine or printing them in maga- not see his. And with children aboard, “we weren’t going zines and making me look terrible.” said her initial reaction to the first script was: “Maids? It’s Ortiz, 43, said Longoria has kept an eye on the scripts, to take a chance,” the father of four said. They called for got to be maids?” assuring the five women are portrayed as three-dimen- While she wrote positive power anthems “We R Who We R,” “Warrior” help, and police and firefighters found them in the fog and “Love into the Light” to vent her frustrations, she realized last So Ortiz, who had appeared on ABC’s “Ugly Betty” sional characters and not Latino stereotypes. within 10 minutes, he said. December that she needed more help than music could give. “I felt like (2006-2010), understood when some of the harshest ini- She said Sunday’s show is “a beautiful finale, actually.” The Fire Department of New York says authorities were tial criticism of “Devious Maids” came from the Latino “What can I say? There will be a wedding, a gorgeous wed- called to help the fogged-in boat around 9:30 pm. The a liar, telling people to love themselves as they are, while I was being community. “The Latino community was the first out of ding. But the happiness of the wedding will be short- New York Police Department ultimately towed the boat to hateful to myself and really hurting my body,” the piece continues. “I the gate being really hard on us,” the New York-born Ortiz, lived.” Ortiz said she’s proud of the way Latinas are por- Jersey City. No one was hurt, though Valastro said some of wanted to control things that weren’t in my power, but I was control- who is of Puerto Rican and Irish descent, said in a recent trayed on “Devious Maids.” But, she added, “Eva made a the children were a bit seasick. “We were just a little shak- ling the wrong things. I convinced myself that being sick, being skinny interview. Now the soapy dramedy, which concludes its really good point about it. She said, ‘I’ll really be happy for en up, a little scared,” he said. But not rattled enough to was part of my job. It felt safer somehow.” Since leaving rehab, Ke$ha second season on Sunday (10 pm EDT), is among the day when it’s just: Here’s a new show. It doesn’t have stay on dry land for long. “Actually, believe it or not, we says she has been feeling “stronger,” even if she is not “fully fixed” just Lifetime’s highest-rated shows. And the series is riding to be a new show with five women in the leads, or five went fishing” Saturday, he said. — AP yet. “I am a person in progress,” Ke$ha wrote. — Reuters high on a recent acknowledgment: All five leads are nomi- Latinas in the leads. It’s just a new show.’” — AP lifestyle MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 FEATURES

Pictures shows Iranian models presenting outfits bearing the national flag’s colors, the logo of the national football team (featuring an Asiatic cheetah) and the design of the WC2014 Brazuca balls during a fashion show organized by the House of Fashion and the ‘Violet Models’ agency in the capital Tehran. — AFP photos Iran bans fashion show organizer over flag designs

fashion show organizer in Iran has been banned show... it will be unable to continue its activities until fur- House of Fashion president Javad Shirazi sought to play “until further notice” for staging a catwalk at which ther notice,” Culture and Islamic guidance ministry official down the incident. Amodels wore variations of the national flag, media Hamid Ghobadi was quoted by the Shargh newspaper as “We did not use the flag with the word Allah. We simply reports said yesterday. The House of Fashion hosted the saying. The designs, which appear to have left out the cal- used the colors of the flag,” Shirazi was quoted by Shargh World Cup-themed show in late June to a mixed audience, ligraphy of Allah on the flag, were the work of the Violet as saying, adding that the clothes were meant to be worn sending female models down the runway draped in attire agency. Violet-which calls itself the “first Iranian modeling in stadiums. However, Iran has banned female sports fans based on flag designs, the emblem of the national team agency”-has also been banned, according to reports. With from games in stadiums, ostensibly for their own protec- and the Asian Cheetah. conservative critics having taken offence to the designs, as tion against what authorities call a “vulgar” atmosphere The company “did not have the authorization for this well as to the presence of unrelated men at the show, created by an all-male audience. — AFP Blake Lively to launch lifestyle London Film and Comic Con 2014 site on July 23

lake Lively will launch her lifestyle and e-com- merce site on July 23. The ‘Gossip Girl’ actress Bhas revealed her long-awaited project will go Fans dressed live at the end of the month, according to The New as Jedi Knights York Post. The star is yet to announce the name of the from the Star website, which is set to feature “fashionable items” and Wars universe. handpicked products. Although further details of the site and its web address are yet to be released, it is expected to be similar to Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘GOOP.com’ and help buyers achieve a “curated” and “one-of-a-kind” life experience. Blake previously told Vogue: “The main element of it is that it’s about story- telling, and it’s about living a very one-of-a-kind, curat- ed life, and how to achieve that.” “I have so many passions outside of acting and things that I grew up being good at and that I don’t utilize when acting. “Acting was something that my family did so I just kind of got into it by default, but there was so much that I cultivated, thinking that I wouldn’t be an actor.” Blake, 26 - who is married to hunky actor Ryan Reynolds - also told The Cut it will include “a little bit of everything”, including food. She teased: “It will be a site. But not necessarily lifestyle. You cannot be around me without talking about food.” —Bang Showbiz Lucy Tanner dressed as the character ‘Sailor Moon’ from the Japanese Manga comic. Cara Delevingne is the new face of Chanel he 21-year-old model shared a Tphotograph from the new campaign on her Instagram account A person last night which sees dressed as her posing up against a “Chewbacca” mirror with a pastel A woman dressed as the character Black Cat A man dressed as ‘Batman’ waits outside the from the Star pink coat hooked from The Amazing Spider-Man comics. toilets. Wars films. across her shoulders. She accompanied the snap with the caption: “New @chanelofficial campaign! Thank you @karllagerfeld.” The blonde beauty is no stranger to working with the luxurious brand as she closed the Haute Couture show and the Autumn/Winter 14 show earlier this year. Karl, 80, had nothing but praise for the stunning star, who first worked with his brand in 2012, in a recent interview when he described her as the “modern It Girl.” He said: “Cara is different. She’s full of life, full of pep. I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautiful- ly brought up and very funny.” This is the first time Cara has fronted a mainline Chanel col- lection, although she did take part in the brand’s Resort 2013 Collection alongside Saskia de Brauw. Meanwhile, Cara is as busy as ever and doing well on the campaign trail - she is back for a third season as the face of Mulberry, as well as Burberry, and is A stallholder holds up a copy of the first comicbook to feature Spiderman, priced at People dressed as barbarians from the video game Diablo 3. also said to be the new face of Topshop. — Bang Showbiz 5,000 GBP (8,500 USD), at the London Film and Comic Con 2014. Mixed-race ‘Rola’ changing the DNA of Japanese pop culture

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Visitors climb a World Cup Trophy shaped rock at Pa Hin Ngam national park in Chaiyaphum province, northeastern Thailand, Saturday, July 12, 2014.—AP

A photo shows one of the first Rome’s graffiti, ‘The donkey flying’, dated 1976 and restored. A woman walking by a mural by Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione in Rome. cribbling emotions on walls has been a tradition in ators or boasts of supposed sexual exploits like the ones expressing myself and getting a reaction as a person and an 700,000 square meters of walls, or twice the surface area of Rome going back thousands of years and even the found on the walls of brothels,” Donati told AFP. artist. The street offers this type of judgment every time the Vatican. Sword “graffiti” was first used for markings found in the “Unfortunately the examples of inscriptions discovered on pedestrians walk by,” he said. “If you include the number of people and vehicles ruins of Pompeii. The modern version could be the scrawls ancient Roman walls are rare but we can suppose that what A work of street art entitled “superpope” captured the deployed and the cleaning products used to wash off the seen in maternity wards in the Italian capital: “Get a move was true for Pompeii was true for Rome as well,” she said. imagination of Romans earlier this year-a picture of popular graffiti, the annual cost for cleaning is between 1.2 and 1.5 on, auntie’s waiting!”, “Chiara is born!”, “Welcome little Donati said that contrary to modern conceptions about Pope Francis in his white cassock as superman. The artist, million euros,” said Anselmo Ricci, head of the municipal Mattia!”. From wealthy neighborhoods in the city’s north to Romans, the graffiti “reveal the high literacy at the time”. MauPal, said he sees street art as social. “Urban art does not police corps in charge of preserving Rome’s historic centre. working class suburbs in the south, Romans are not shy talk about itself or about the artist but about people, what It is a heavy cost for a city administration that in February about scrawling on walls-often with phrases in local dialect. ‘Graffiti that make me smile’ surrounds it, what’s in the news and what is aesthetic,” he announced a budget deficit of 816 million euros. Anti-government satire, celebrations of football success Modern-day graffiti can range from spray tags in the said. That view is shared by the “Poeti der Trullo”-a collective “It’s not enough,” said Massimiliano Tonelli, founder of and declarations of love-poetic or crude-can all be found Prati neighborhood to the veritable frescoes on Tiburtina of young poets based in a poor suburb of the city who write the website Romafaschifo.com (Romeisdisgusting.com). alongside racist insults and fascist imagery. And that kind of Street and local residents are divided between some who their verses on the walls. “The dirtier the walls, the more people are inclined to dirty variety is nothing new, according to epigraphist Angela see acts of vandalism and others who appreciate them as “Our aim is to respect Rome by giving it something them. It’s the scratched car theory,” he said. Ricci is critical Donati, an expert in ancient Roman inscriptions who teach- raw art. Agostino Iacurci, a young street artist, said he went more, without disfiguring it. Maybe we can get a smile or a too but his reaction is more tempered. “It is a serious viola- es at the University of Bologna. through a “tag” phase but now does “murals”-often as part tear from a passer-by,” they said in a statement. Rome’s tion but it’s true that sometimes I see graffiti that make me “Most of the messages on the streets of ancient Rome of the renovation of working class neighborhoods. “Before I waste collection agency AMA said it is forced to clean up smile. They show up the jolly character of Romans.”—AFP were adverts. But there were also odes to the glory of gladi- couldn’t care less about what people thought but now I like the mess with hundreds of interventions on a total of

Italian street artist ‘Blu’ climbs the facade of a former military barrack as A man walks past a graffiti by Italian artist Agostino Iacurci covering the A mural entitled ‘Black and White Power’ by Italian artists Sten & Lex. he works on a graffiti piece in Rome on April 24, 2014.—AFP photos facade of the Pescheria Ostiense in Rome.