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Israel kills 55 Palestinians as US opens Jerusalem embassy

Kuwait requests UNSC meet • Turkey: US shares blame • Arab League: US move ‘immoral’

JERUSALEM: US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin claps as US President Donald GAZA: Palestinians run for cover from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip east of Jabaliya Trump’s daughter Ivanka unveils an inauguration plaque during the opening of the US yesterday. — AFP embassy yesterday. — AFP

JERUSALEM: Israeli forces killed 55 It was the bloodiest day in the Israeli- United Nations Mansour Al-Otaibi told had gathered near the border in protest and a plaque and seal were unveiled before the Palestinians on the Gaza border in the con- Palestinian conflict since a 2014 Gaza war. journalists. Kuwait is a non-permanent while smaller numbers of stone-throwing 800 guests at the ceremony. Kushner said it flict’s bloodiest day in years yesterday as The dead included eight children under the council member. Palestinians approached the fence and was possible for both sides in the Israeli- clashes and protests coincided with the age of 16, according to the Palestinian The White House said yesterday that sought to break through, with Israeli Palestinian conflict to gain more than give in deeply controversial opening of the US envoy to the United Nations. The Gazan Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas were to blame. snipers positioned on the other side. any peace deal. “Jerusalem must remain a city embassy in Jerusalem. The clashes, which health ministry provided the overall death “The responsibility for these tragic deaths The embassy inauguration nonetheless that brings people of all faiths together,” he left more than 2,700 Palestinians wounded, and injury toll. Kuwait has requested an rests squarely with Hamas,” White House went on as planned, attended by a Washington said in a speech. Trump addressed the cere- erupted before a White House delegation emergency meeting of the UN Security spokesman Raj Shah told reporters. “Hamas delegation that included US President Donald mony by video. “Our greatest hope is for and Israeli officials opened the embassy at Council today, the country’s mission to the is intentionally and cynically provoking this Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband peace,” he said despite the Palestinian anger an inauguration ceremony in Jerusalem and UN said yesterday. “We condemned what response,” he said, adding: “Israel has the Jared Kushner, both White House aides. Ivanka the move has provoked. continued throughout the day. has happened,” Kuwaiti ambassador to the right to defend itself.” Tens of thousands Trump helped declare the new embassy open Continued on Page 11

News in brief No new medical fees for expats; Qatar vows support for Somalia conflicting reports on levying VAT DOHA: Qatar’s Emir held talks yesterday with the Somali president in Doha and pledged support for the By B Izzak triates or the charges at hospitals and East African country, amid tensions between the two medical centers. countries and the UAE. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al- KUWAIT: The health ministry has The health ministry last October Thani said that the relationship between Qatar and instructed its medical centers and hospi- introduced major fee hikes for medical Somalia was one of “brotherhood and mutual tals that it has not raised medical fees for services offered to expatriates, but kept respect”. “Qatar will continue to support the unity, expatriates recently, after the increase the services free for nationals. The stability, sovereignty and well-being of the people of which was implemented in October last increases included big hikes in several Somalia,” he wrote on Twitter. African countries have year. The ministry insisted in a circular to key medical services that include radiol- found themselves in the fallout over the bitter Gulf senior officials that only doctors have the ogy, visits to hospitals and medical cen- crisis, with several breaking off ties with Qatar in sup- absolute right of prescribing medicines ters and admissions in public hospitals. port for countries which oppose Doha. Somalia has and their quantities to expatriate All expatriates in the country are also refused to take sides, although in recent weeks it has patients and that no changes had been required to pay a medical insurance fee had its own disagreements with UAE rulers. — AFP made to these rules. The circular also when they stamp their residence permits KUWAIT: The GCC Secretary General and finance ministers pose for a group photo ahead insisted that the ministry had not or renew them. of their meeting yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat increased the prices of drugs for expa- Continued on Page 11 Houthis fail to hit Aramco facility

RIYADH: Yemen’s armed Houthi movement launched struck parts of north, east and southern a ballistic missile at a Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan province yesterday, the Violent storms India late Sunday, uprooting trees, elec- Comeback cleric Sadr group’s Al-Masirah TV reported, but a Saudi-led tricity pylons and damaging houses, offi- coalition said the rocket fell in the open desert. The in India kill 86 cials from federal and state disaster Houthis, an Iran-allied group that holds much of management agencies said. set to win Iraq elections Yemen including the capital Sanaa, have fired a series NEW DELHI: Indian authorities said The fatalities came just 10 days after of missiles into the kingdom in recent months, part of yesterday at least 86 people have been a sandstorm left more than 134 dead - BAGHDAD: Nationalist cleric Moqtada the few Shiite leaders to distance him- a three-year-old conflict in Yemen widely seen as a killed and over 100 injured in a fresh most of them in Agra, the city of the Taj Al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the self from Iran. proxy battle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Coalition wave of violent sandstorms and thunder- Mahal. Hail, wind and thunderstorms United States, led in Iraq’s parliamen- Despite the election setback, Abadi spokesman Turki Al-Malki said Saudi air defense storms that battered vast swathes of the brought down walls, trees and power tary election with more than half the might still be granted a second term in forces had tracked the rocket but that it landed in an country. Winds of over 100 km per hour Continued on Page 11 votes counted yesterday, the electoral office by parliament and yesterday he uninhabited area, according to a report from the offi- commission said, in a surprise turn of called on all political blocs to respect cial Saudi Press Agency. — Reuters fortune for the Shiite leader. In the first the results, suggesting he was willing election since Islamic State was defeat- to work with Sadr to form a govern- ed in the country, Shiite militia chief ment. “We are ready to work and Row over Socotra resolved Hadi Al-Ameri’s bloc, which is backed cooperate in forming the strongest by Iran, was in second place, while government for Iraq, free of corrup- ADEN: Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, once tion,” Abadi said in a live televised announced yesterday that a dispute over the island of seen as the frontrunner, trailed in address. Corruption has been the top Socotra sparked after the deployment of UAE troops third position. of Sadr’s agenda for several years. has been resolved. “The crisis on the island is over,” The preliminary results were based Projecting himself as a Iraqi nationalist, Bin Dagher wrote on Facebook, adding that the crisis on a count of more than 95 percent of Sadr has a zealous following among had “almost divided” the Saudi-led Arab coalition the votes cast in 10 of Iraq’s 18 the young, poor and dispossessed, but fighting the Houthi rebels. The announcement came a provinces. Unlike Abadi, a rare ally of he had been sidelined by influential day after Saudi troops were deployed to the strategic both the United States and Iran, Sadr Iranian-backed figures. island following tensions between Yemen’s internation- is an opponent of both of the coun- He cannot become prime minister as ally recognized government and the UAE, a key mem- tries which have wielded influence in he did not run in the election, though ber of the coalition. Dagher’s comments come after an Iraq since a US-led invasion toppled his apparent victory puts him in a agreement was signed on Sunday evening with the Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in position to pick someone for the job. UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to the Yemeni state 2003 and ushered the Shiite majority But even then his bloc might not nec- news agency Saba. Under the deal the two countries’ AJMER: Commuters drive along a road during a heavy dust storm in this city in the to power. Sadr has led two uprisings essarily form the next government troops will withdraw from Socotra. — AFP Indian state of Rajasthan yesterday. — AFP against US forces in Iraq and is one of Continued on Page 11 2 Established 1961 Local Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Crown Prince, Premier meet ministers taking part in GCC economic meeting Amir offers condolences to Indonesian president

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Minister of Finance Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf and Gulf His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with First Deputy Cooperation Council (GCC) ministers of finance and economy. — KUNA photos Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Defense Minister Sheikh Nasser also received Profumo, Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and he affirmed the strong bilateral ties between the two received yesterday at Sief Palace First Deputy Prime friendly countries, and mutual willingness to strengthen Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah and reinforce them, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense said Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, as well as Minister of Oil and in a press statement. In addition, Kuwait’s Army Chief of Minister of Electricity and Water Bakheet Al-Rashidi. General Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khuder His Highness also received received Profumo, and the Minister of Finance Dr Nayef two sides discussed impor- Al-Hajraf accompanied by Gulf tant and common matters, Cooperation Council (GCC) especially promoting and fur- ministers of finance and econo- Crown Prince ther developing bilateral rela- my, who are taking part in the tions, said the Defense 107th meeting of the GCC meets new Ministry in a statement. The Financial and Economic meeting was attended by sev- Cooperation Committee, held in Saudi envoy eral high-ranking Kuwaiti Kuwait. His Highness also army officers, along with the received newly-appointed Italian Military Attache. Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to In other news, His Kuwait Sultan Bin Saad Bin Highness the Amir Sheikh Khaled Al Saud, as well as Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Chief of the National Security Apparatus Sheikh Thamer Sabah sent yesterday a cable of condolences to the His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Kuwaiti Minister of Finance Dr Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. President of Indonesia Joko Widodo. His Highness the Nayef Al-Hajraf, accompanied by GCC ministers of finance. Meanwhile, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Amir expressed sincere condolences and sorrow to the Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received the vis- Indonesian President and people over victims of the iting GCC ministers of finance and economy, as well as terrorist blasts that targeted three churches in the city doctrines and values. He also affirmed Kuwait’s sup- and wished a speedy recovery for the wounded. He also the newly-appointed Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to of Surabaya, and led to killing and wounding scores of port to all measures taken by the Indonesian authorities prayed for patience and solace for the victims’ families. Kuwait. Furthermore, he met with the Chief Executive people. His Highness affirmed Kuwait’s strong condem- to face terrorist acts and preserve the country’s securi- His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Officer of Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company Alessandro nation and denouncement of such terrorist acts that ty and stability. Prime Minister also sent similar cables to the Indonesian Profumo, who is in an official visit to the country. target innocent lives and contradict all humanitarian His Highness the Amir prayed mercy for the victims president. —KUNA

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with the His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Chief Executive Officer of newly-appointed Ambassador of Saudi Arabia Sultan Bin Saad Bin Khaled Al Saud. newly-appointed Saudi Ambassador to the country Sultan Bin Saad Bin Khaled Al Saud. Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company Alessandro Profumo.

Bakr stressed Kuwait’s keenness on cementing joint Arab action. Kuwait appreciates Kuwait under His Highness the Amir deeply believed that strengthening Arab unity is the best guarantor of the stability of the Arab region in a turbulent world, he said. Arab League’s “This belief was translated into an unlimited political and financial support to the Arab League and effective contribution to empowering it Amir honoring to have its aspired standing in the world stage,” he argued. He boasted that Kuwait stands in support of its Arab brethren and defending their fair Arab in all international and regional forums. CAIRO: Kuwait has expressed appreciation of the Arab League’s hon- Kuwait through its non-permanent membership in the Security oring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Council is doing all in power to defend Arab issues, mainly the Sabah. “We are deeply grateful to the Arab League for sponsoring and Palestinian cause as the unrest in Syria, Libya, Yemen and other areas of hosting the honoring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad conflicts and tension, he pointed out. He added that Kuwait had also Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,” Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the Arab been champion of dialogue to iron out Arab differences. Kuwait beliefs League Ambassador and Representative of His Highness the Amir, that a transparent and constructive dialogue is the best way to resolve Ahmad Al-Bakr, said in his speech at the Arab function to honor His these differences and avoid any undesired escalations, he said. Highness the Amir. Ambassador Bakr noted that Kuwait sought to spread the culture of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah The Arab honoring to His Highness was held Sunday in Cairo under dialogue and peace and creating relations based on mutual respect for meets with Chief Executive Officer of Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company Alessandro Profumo. the rubric, ‘Honoring of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs and common interests. Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ... Man of Peace ... Humanitarian Leader,’ in “Kuwait had made several attempts to persuade some Arab neigh- the presence of Arab, Kuwaiti, regional and international figures. bors to adopt these principles in their relations with other Arab coun- The event featured a documentary and a seminar on the experience tries,” he said. He suggested that humanitarian action under the leader- of Kuwait and His Highness the Amir in supporting world peace. This ship of His Highness the Amir had become a main character of Kuwait’s event “aims to shed light on the march of an Arab leader works relent- foreign policy. “Kuwait has been trying to guarantee a decent life for lessly and sincerely to raise the standing of his country and defend Arab those affected by crises,” he said, adding that Kuwait had dealt with and Muslim interests and causes,” Ambassador Bakr said. many of the Arab crises through this particular angle. He noted that His Highness the Amir “has engaged with the world in a “Through this approach, Kuwait has been able to build an interna- wise and balanced policy that focused on spreading values of dialogue, tional reputation which resulted in the UN proclamation of His Highness peace, moderation and humanitarian action until he was deservedly the Amir as Humanitarian Leader and the State of Kuwait as a proclaimed a ‘Man of Peace’ and a ‘Humanitarian leader’.” He described Humanitarian Center,” he explained. The ambassador recalled Kuwait’s Kuwait’s diplomacy as moderate and balanced throughout history. continuing support to Arab economies and development aspirations “This approach had been instilled by His Highness the Amir since he “through its development and economic arms, as well as the adoption was the foreign minister of Kuwait and the dean of diplomacy in the by His Highness the Amir of the idea of holding a specialized Arab sum- world,” he said. He went on to say that His Highness the Amir has based mit to boost economic, developmental and social cooperation among the foreign policy of Kuwait on solid foundations, mainly balanced rela- Arab countries.” The Arab Summit in Kuwait in 2009 was the first to tions with all parties which paved the way for Kuwait to has an influen- focus on social and economic development issues away from political tial role on the world stage, thanks to the wisdom of His Highness and ones, he argued. —KUNA Army Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khuder meets with Chief world’s respect of him. Executive Officer of Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company Alessandro Profumo. Established 1961 3 Local Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Amir’s envoy hands letters to Qatari Emir, Omani Sultan, UAE President Latest regional and international developments discussed

MUSCAT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah hands a letter from His ABU DHABI: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh DOHA: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- Highness the Amir to Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed, received by Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah speaks with UAE Vice President and Prime Hamad Al-Sabah hands a letter from His Highness the Amir to Qatari Emir Sheikh Deputy Prime Minister for Relations and International Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum after he handed him a letter Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. — KUNA photos Cooperation Affairs Sayyid Asa’ad bin Tariq Al Said. from His Highness the Amir to UAE President Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

KUWAIT: Envoy of His Highness the Amir Sheikh al relations and latest regional and international International Cooperation Affairs Sayyid Asa’ad bin Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime developments. Tariq Al Said. Sabah Al-Khaled had headed to Saudi Arabia and Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled headed afterwards to After that, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled headed to the Bahrain on Sunday where he handed similar letters Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah handed a letter Oman where he handed a similar letter from His UAE where he handed another letter from His from His Highness the Amir to King Salman bin from His Highness to Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Highness to Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed, received by Highness the Amir to President Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Abdulaziz and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Hamad Al Thani. The letter concerned strong bilater- Deputy Prime Minister for Relations and Nahyan, received by UAE Vice President and Prime respectively. — KUNA

PACI, MoI sign online licenses agreement

KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) and Ministry of Interior (MoI) signed an agreement to enable using the e-signature for verifi- cation in issuing driver’s licenses online for citizens and expatriates. The sign- ing of the agreement, which took place during a press conference yesterday, comes as part of MoI’s steps to issue driver’s licenses online, similar to civil IDs, in the near future. — KUNA

election, said Al-Saleh. Municipal elections Govt appoints were held two days ago and 10 members were elected, representing 10 constituencies. Hassan Kamal won 2,099 votes out of six Municipal 17,997 eligible voters in the first constituen- cy. Abdullah Al-Mehri won 3,550 votes out Council members of 24,537 eligible voters in the second con- stituency. Abdulaziz Al-Mejel won 1,985 KUWAIT: The government of Kuwait votes out of 30,651 eligible voters in the third appointed yesterday six members in the constituency. Hamad Al-Medlej got 4,108 Municipal Council following the election of votes out of 75,560 eligible voters in the 10 members last Saturday. The Cabinet, in its fourth constituency. Abdullah Al-Roumi won weekly session chaired by His Highness the 5,336 votes out of 36,722 eligible voters in Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- the fifth constituency. Fheid Al-Rashidi won Hamad Al-Sabah, approved appointment of 7,329 votes out of 50,247 eligible voters in Osama Al-Otaibi, Humoud Al-Enezi, the sixth constituency. Mohammad Al- Abdulsalam Al-Randi, Abdulwahhab Burusly, Mutairi won 8,480 votes out of 58,479 eligi- Mishal Al-Hamdhan and Maha Al-Baghli. The ble voters in the seventh constituency. Cabinet approved the appointment decree Ahmad Al-Enezi won 8,109 votes out of and referred it to His Highness the Amir 77,614 eligible voters in the eighth con- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, stituency. Ali Al-Azmi won 8,702 votes out of Deputy Premier and Minister of State for 70,277 eligible voters in the ninth con- Cabinet Anas Al-Saleh said in a statement. stituency. Hamdi Al-Azmi got 10,755 votes The Cabinet commended judges, and offi- out of 78,552 eligible voters in the 10th con- cials in ministries of interior, education, infor- stituency. A total of 73 candidates, including mation and health as well as Kuwait Fire one female, stood for the elections that ran Services Directorate and Kuwait smoothly and orderly at 102 polling stations Municipality for their efforts throughout the countrywide. — KUNA

US Embassy advises travel agencies for better visa experience KUWAIT: The US Embassy’s Consular form and list the individual’s name and Section and the Foreign Commercial organization. Service held a seminar for travel agents on The Deputy Consular Chief, Robin May 9, 2018, at the Radisson Blu Hotel Busse, noted: “Many Kuwaitis and expa- entitled, ‘Helping Your Clients Apply for a triates use travel agencies to schedule US Visa The Right Way.’ The objective of their visa appointment as part of their the workshop was to raise awareness for decision to visit the United States. Given travel agency staff who work directly with the prominent role of travel agencies in clients on how to apply for US visas. The the visa application process, the Consular highlights of the presentation were practi- Section and Foreign Commercial Service cal tips on how to fill out the US visa appli- consider travel agents important multipli- cation form properly, to avoid common ers in providing accurate information on mistakes that can delay applications. US visas.” Embassy tips include: The event included a presentation by • Forms must be completed correctly the Foreign Commercial Service on the and in full, including all travel to other services it offers to promote the United countries in the past five years and all prior States as a tourist destination. Some fifty US travel. travel agents in attendance participated in • Forms must list the visa applicant’s a lively question-and-answer session after personal phone number, e-mail address, the presentation. US Embassy staff dis- and current home address, not the contact pelled myths about the visa process and information of the travel agency. advised attendees on a range of practical • Agencies must indicate that a third issues to improve the visa application party helped the applicant to complete the experience for travelers. 4 Established 1961 Local Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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KUWAIT: Lanterns in many shapes and colors are displayed at a market in Kuwait in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan. — KUNA photo Kuwait affirms commitment to minorities’ protection worldwide Kuwait participates in conference on victims of violence in the Middle East

BRUSSELS: Kuwait underlined yesterday its full belief in taken and the urgent steps to be taken within the frame- the importance of joint international efforts in protecting work of the Paris Executive Plan, adopted in this regard minorities and ensuring their security around the globe. on September 8, 2015, added Budaiwi. The one-day con- Kuwait’s hosting of the International Conference for the ference was co-chaired by Belgian Minister of Foreign Reconstruction of Iraq (KICRI) last February, in addition to Affairs Didier Reynders and his Lebanese counterpart an international donors conference for the Rohingya in Gebran Bassil. October 2017, is a reflection of its various efforts and In his opening address, Reynders said the conference important contributions towards ensuring protection for was aimed at safeguarding the cultural, religious, and eth- minorities around the world, nic heritage in the Middle East, Kuwaiti Ambassador to particularly in Iraq and Syria, Belgium, EU, and NATO Ethnic, adding priority must be given Jasem Al-Budaiwi said. The to stabilization efforts. He Kuwaiti diplomat made his religious underlined the importance of remarks on the sidelines of working towards reconciliation the third International diversity are and harmonious coexistence Conference on the Victims of between different communi- Ethnic and Religious Violence region’s true ties in order to rebuild a in the Middle East, which was resilient society based on sol- held in Brussels yesterday. identity id foundations. It is also The Belgian Conference important to fight impunity is an extension of the Paris and bring to justice those Conference, held in responsible of the atrocities September 2015, and the Madrid Conference in 2017, he that have been perpetrated against minorities around the noted, adding both conferences were significant and came world, Reynders said. The Belgian minister also said out with needed recommendations to help those minori- work is currently in progress to bring the perpetrators ties. “Ethnic and religious diversity represent the true of the atrocities to justice in Iraq or in the International identity of the Middle East region, and preserving it is Criminal Court at The Hague. essential for ensuring a future where peace, stability, and Meanwhile, Lebanese Foreign Minister Bassil stressed freedom prevail in the region,” he said. the importance of restoring stability in the region in order During the post-conflict reconstruction phase, special for refugees and displaced people to be able to return to protection should be provided to religious and ethnic their homes. Bassil urged the international community to BRUSSELS: Kuwait participates in third International Conference on the Victims of Ethnic and Religious Violence in the minorities and necessary measures should be taken to exert further efforts toward dealing with extremism and Middle East in Brussels, Belgium. — KUNA ensure a safe and lasting return that preserves the dignity fanaticism in the Middle East region, noting his country of the displaced, said Budaiwi. The international communi- hosts a large number of Syrian refugees that make up now keynote speakers to express our admiration and gratitude investigating team to deal with the horrendous crimes com- ty’s efforts must be combined to ensure the protection of nearly half of Lebanon’s population. to the Sate of Kuwait for facilitating a very important recon- mitted by the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. A large minorities and bring those who commit crimes against Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the UN Secretary struction and rehabilitation conference and for the countries number of ministers, heads of international organizations, them to international justice, he said. General for Iraq, meanwhile praised Kuwait for its recon- of the region that pledged massive support,” said the UN and representatives of a number of ethnic and religious Yesterday’s conference was aimed to address the steps ciliation efforts in the region. “I would like to join our official in his speech. He said the UN has created special communities took part in the conference. — KUNA Zain Platinum Partner of NEST’s educational campaign KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunica- efit of building three new schools set to serve tarian contributions was its Strategic tions company in Kuwait, announced its 820 students in the Republic of Chad. The Sponsorship of “One Roof” campaign to Platinum Partnership of Nurture and Educate campaign’s idea centers around using raise awareness on domestic workers and Students Today (NEST)’s educational cam- advanced technology solutions to attract and employers rights in partnership with the paign, entitled #Rock_Paper_Pen held at the aware potential donors in the campaign’s Human Line Organization and the Social Avenues mall from 10 - 24 May in partner- booth at the Avenues mall. Work Society in partnership with the ship with the Kuwait Red Crescent Society The booth was designed to mimic the Ministry of Interior. The company’s support (KRCS) and Direct Aid. The campaign’s harsh living environment that faces Chad’s came as part of its Corporate Sustainability launch event witnessed the attendance of children, where potential donors can wear and Social Responsibility Strategy, through Zain Kuwait Chief Executive Officer Eaman Virtual Reality (VR) headsets and see up- which it aims at supporting such humanitari- Al-Roudhan. close the hardships children face to get edu- an initiatives that achieve equality between Zain’s Platinum Partnership to this cam- cation, which adds a human value and all members of the society. Zain will always paign came as part of its Corporate encourages visitors to donate and contribute stay committed to building a better future Sustainability and Social Responsibly to building a better future for those who are for everyone. Strategy that closely focuses on supporting in need of help. Nurture and Educate Students Today humanitarian and educational initiatives and Zain is proud of its long list of programs (NEST) is a non-profit group dedicated aims at continuingly developing the educa- and contributions that serve noble causes to helping underprivileged students inter- tion sector and further contributing to through strategically partnering with entities nationally and locally. It aims to provide KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait Chief Executive Officer Eaman Al-Roudhan is seen with NEST’s offi- resolve the challenges it faces locally and that adopt humanitarian work, including proper educative resources for those who cials and the campaign’s partners. globally. Zain considers supporting education Nurture and Educate Students Today cannot provide for themselves. Founded a top priority, as it plays a crucial role in (NEST) and the Kuwait Red Crescent in 2013, NEST is a rapidly growing building the future. Society (KRCS), as well as other non-profit organization with many goals and impas- active members of society based in Kuwait all over the world. NEST proudly works NEST’s #Rock_Paper_Pen campaign organizations, governmental institutions, and sioned volunteers. It is a diverse group of all unified by the singular desire to bring under the patronage of the Kuwait Red mainly aims at raising donations for the ben- global entities. One of Zain’s latest humani- students, teachers, doctors, and other proper education and resources to schools Crescent Society. Established 1961 5 Local Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Domestic helpers’ department halts procedures in preparation for transfer Health Ministry, Kuwait Medical Association to address doctors’ concerns

By Meshaal Al-Enezi and A Saleh to cooperate with the Ministry of Health (MoH) with In other news, Chairman of the Kuwait Nursing companies is 20, and that each of them is paid an aver- regards to doctors’ benefit, provide a healthy working Association (KNA) Bandar Nashmi Al-Enezi said that age of KD 4,000 monthly, plus other incentives such as KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior’s (MoI) domestic environment in the medical sector as well as develop in collaboration with relevant bodies, KNA has set a free annual tickets for the employee and their family helpers’ department stopped processing all domestic medical services provided to patients. “KMA will not timetable to put an end to nursing-related problems, members, life insurance, tuition allowances for up to labor-related procedures as well as receiving related be lenient in achieving doctors’ demands, especially namely financial matters. He added that KNA will con- four children, free vehicle and free fuel cards. complaints and grievances, in implementation of the after detecting general tinue working on getting The sources added that these 20 employees annually Cabinet’s decision number 614/2018 pertaining with despair and frustration nurses’ rights despite some cost KD 820,000, elaborating that six of them work for transferring its liabilities to the Public Authority for amongst them,” he under- attempts to stop such efforts KPC for a total of KD 22,000 a month, five work for Manpower. Such measures will be the first steps lined. Enezi said KMA dis- Oil advisors using ‘fake excuses.’ Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) and receive KD 16,200, four towards completing the transfer process, although no cussed giving new qualified Speaking on the sidelines of work for Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) official statements have been made so far, said informed doctors opportunities to receive celebrating the International and receive KD 10,500, one works for Kuwait Oil Tanker sources, noting that Minister of Social Affairs and head various departments in Nursing Day at the Islamic Company (KOTC) and receives KD 5,200, and four work Labor and Minister of State for Economic Development hospitals. KD 820,000 Medical Center, during which for Kuwait Petroleum International Company (KPI) and Hind Al-Sabeeh had mentioned that the transfer KMA Secretary General Dr annually 95 nurses were honored, receives a total of KD 14,900 per month. process would need some time. Salem Al-Kandari said the dis- Enezi stressed that nursing cussion included problems requires many sacrifices that Control center Doctors’ concerns related to the Afia project and nurses are willing to give. The cost of connecting the Ministry of Electricity Health Minister Sheikh Dr Bassel Al-Sabah yester- that the company sometimes and Water’s (MEW) control centers to the national day received Kuwait Medical Association’s (KMA) rejects cases referred by doctors to undergo certain KD 820,000 annual cost control center might reach KD 368,000, said informed board of directors to discuss doctors’ concerns and diagnostic radiology tests without mentioning the caus- Well-informed sources said the total number of sources, noting that MEW had contacted the finance problems and possible solutions. KMA Chairman Dr es. KMA Treasurer Dr Mohammed Al-Obaidan said doc- expatriate legal and financial advisors working for ministry requesting its approval and that of other moni- Ahmed Thuwaini Al-Enezi stressed that KMA is ready tors’ allowances were also discussed with the minister. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and its subsidiary toring bodies to offer the project for bidding.

KFSD officials inspect projects’construction sites Jahra murder suspect denies charges

KUWAIT: A bedoon man accused of killing a middle-aged Kuwaiti national in Jahra and attempting to kill his son denied any connection with the murder and told the public prosecution he did not kill his friend’s father. He said he was afraid of detectives during questioning following his arrest on Saturday, and told them that he committed the murder. The suspect confessed to attempting to kill the son due to previous dis- putes, Al-Anbaa daily reported. A security source said the denial was expected, adding that efforts are ongoing to find the knife used in the father’s killing, which the suspect said he threw in the sea off Anjafa beach. Records show the suspect had been in jail and was released in April, and was charged with beating his parents. He admitted to using drugs, including shabu (methamphetamine).

By Hanan Al-Saadoun Legalese KUWAIT: As part of preventive measures to prevent fires in buildings currently under construction during Ramadan the summer, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KSFD) Director Lt Gen Khaled Al-Mekrad yesterday inspect- ed two major projects along with his deputy for pre- vention affairs Maj Gen Khaled Abdullah Fahd, KFSD By Attorney Fajer Ahmed public relations and media manager Col Khalil Al-Amir, Capital prevention department manager Solafa Al- Yaseen and Mubarak Al-Kabeer acting prevention department manager Lt Col Abdul Aziz Al-Bannai. Speaking to reporters during the tour, Mekrad stressed that KSFD measures and plans to prevent possible fires at buildings under-construction includes three main elements and that the plan was launched in September. Mekrad stressed that the first element of amadan Mubarak everyone! The Muslim holy month the plan involves cooperation with contracting compa- of fasting is coming upon us this week. Ramadan is nies and major consultancy houses operating at various Rsupposed to be a time of discipline, family bonds project sites to make sure KFSD safety and security and forgiveness. It is also a time for us to reflect personally measures are followed. and also hopefully to reflect as a society together on how The second element involves cooperation with vari- we can connect with each other in a more positive environ- ous state bodies like Kuwait Municipality, the Ministry ment. I just wanted to wish you all a happy Ramadan, and of Public Works (MPW) and other relevant bodies to here are a couple of common questions by my readers: work on preventing any violation as one team. Mekrad Working hours in Ramadan said the third and most important element involves 24/7 Question: Is it true that working hours are reduced in inspection tours at all construction sites to make sure Ramadan, and if so by how many hours? Also, are the no violations are committed. Finally, Mekrad urged all reduced hours and employment benefits only for Muslims contracting companies to accordingly cooperate with under Kuwaiti law? KFSD to avoid suspending any project and the losses Fajer: Yes, the hours are reduced to six hours according and delays this might lead to. to the Kuwait labor law article 64, which states: “It is for- bidden to allow workers to work for more than 48 hours per week or eight hours a day, except in such events as are specified in this law. Working hours during the month of Ramadan shall be equal to 36 hours per week” for employ- ees working six days a week, ie six hours per day. This is for both Muslim and non-Muslim workers.

Laws to follow in Ramadan Question: I am confused on whether I can eat in public or not, and I am not sure what the punishment is. Is it only a fine or do I go to jail until Eid? Also, can I get deported? Fajer: Law no 44 of 1968 dictates punishments under the law for eating or drinking in public in Ramadan. The law states the following punishment: Punishment up to KD100 and/or jail for up to one month i) for anyone that eats/drinks in public in during daytime in Ramadan Bootleggers ii) for anyone that assists anyone to eat/drink in daytime during Ramadan The punishment is up to one month in jail. So theoreti- held with 171 cally speaking, someone may be punished on the first day of Ramadan until Eid, but I would think that from a realistic point of view, for first-time offenders, only a fine will be alcohol cartons imposed. By Hanan Al-Saadoun As to answer your question on whether or not you can get deported for eating or drinking in public, under Kuwaiti KUWAIT: The interior ministry’s relations and securi- law, you can get deported for committing any criminal ty media department announced that drugs control offense - eating in public during daytime in Ramadan is a detectives arrested three Asians with 171 cartons of criminal offense. As for commercial businesses that are caught serving various brands of alcohol. Case details indicate that food/beverages to the public during daytime in Ramadan, DCGD’s enforcement department was tipped off about they will be punished by having their business sites shut an expat trafficking in alcohol. An undercover agent down for two months. was assigned to purchase 171 cartons from the suspect, If you have a concern, please email us at info@ftl- who was arrested red-handed along with two other legal.com accomplices. A case was filed and further investiga- tions are in progress. InternationalEstablished 1961 Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Pakistan’s Ex-PM ignites firestorm ‘The clock is ticking’, EU tells Brexit UK Page 8 Page 9

SURABAYA: Photo shows police at the site of a blast outside the Gereja Pantekosta Pusat Surabaya (Surabaya Centre Pentecostal Church) in Surabaya. —AFP Two families stage suicide bombings Spate of bombings rock Indonesia

SURABAYA: A family of five, including a child, carried attack and was taken to hospital, while her mother, father Abdurrahman has been connected to several deadly was not identified. The woman’s husband-a confidante of out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in and two brothers died in the blast, he said. The children incidents, including a 2016 gun and suicide attack in the the husband behind the church bombings, Dita Oepriyanto- Indonesia’s second city Surabaya yesterday, police said, a were likely led to their deaths without a full awareness of capital Jakarta that left four attackers and four civilians was badly injured in the explosion. Police said they arrived day after a deadly wave of attacks on churches staged by their fate, said Ade Banani, of the University of Indonesia’s dead. Despite their apparent allegiance to IS, the church- after the explosion and shot dead the injured man, Anton another family. The spate of bombings has rocked research centre of police science and terrorism studies. If bombing family were not returnees from Syria, police Febrianto, as he held a bomb detonator in his hand. Indonesia, with the Islamic State group claiming the a family believed in traditional said yesterday, correcting their “When we searched the flat we found pipe bombs, church attacks and raising fears about its influence in roles, the father “has the power, earlier statements. However, similar to pipe bombs we found near the churches,” said Southeast Asia as its dreams of a Middle Eastern so everyone has to obey”, hundreds of Indonesians have Karnavian. Police said they also shot dead four suspects, caliphate fade. Banani said. IS eyes Indonesia flocked in recent years to fight including the second-ranking member of the JAD cell in Indonesia, which is set to host the Asian Games in just “The children probably don’t alongside IS there. Its ambi- Surabaya, in raids on houses and offices yesterday while three months, has long struggled with Islamist militancy, know what’s going on or don’t as its dreams of a tions have been reined in after nine others were arrested. Indonesian police have foiled including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed over 200 understand.” The father of the losing most of the land it once numerous terror plots, but the coordinated nature of people-mostly foreign tourists-in the country’s worst-ever church suicide bombers was a Middle Eastern occupied in Iraq and Syria, Sunday’s church bombings and the subsequent blasts terror attack. Security forces have arrested hundreds of local leader in extremist net- caliphate fade and there are concerns that point to more sophisticated planning than in the past, militants during a sustained crackdown that smashed some work Jamaah Ansharut Daulah jihadists will now turn their analysts said. networks, and most recent attacks have been low-level (JAD) which supports IS, and focus on establishing a base in “There is definitely a growing technical proficiency,” and targeted domestic security forces. But that changed the second family was also Southeast Asia. said Zachary Abuza, Southeast Asian security expert at Sunday as a family of six-including girls aged nine and 12 - linked to JAD. “It ordered and the National War College in Washington. “To pull off staged suicide bombings of three churches during morning gave instructions for its cells to make a move,” Karnavian ‘Increasingly proficient’ three near-simultaneous bombings is the hallmark of a services in Surabaya, killing 18 including the bombers. said of the Islamic State’s role in the church attacks. He On Sunday evening, just hours after the church bomb- group that is thinking.” Abuza questioned the police sug- Yesterday members of another family blew themselves added that the bombings may have also been motivated by ings, a further three people in another family were killed gestion that the attacks were ordered by the IS leader- up at a police station in the city, wounding 10. “There were the arrest of JAD leaders, including jailed radical Aman and two wounded when another bomb exploded at an ship abroad, but said it would likely boost its presence in five people on two motorbikes. One of them was a little Abdurrahman, and were linked to a deadly prison riot apartment complex about 30 kilometers from Surabaya. Southeast Asia as it fades elsewhere. “(They’re) going to kid,” national police chief Tito Karnavian said. “This is one staged by Islamist prisoners at a high-security jail near That explosion appeared to have been an accidental deto- continue to benefit from operating transnationally in family.” An eight-year-old girl from the family survived the Jakarta last week. nation that killed a mother and her 17-year-old child who Southeast Asia,” he said. —AFP Jamaah Ansharut series of explosions, that left most of them Indonesia dead. Taken together they reveal a shocking Daulah: Network new terror modus operandi in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country: suicide behind bombings ‘terror families’ bombing parents who take their own chil- dren’s lives in an attack. JAKARTA: A wave of deadly suicide bombings that have behind attacks, rocked Indonesia’s second biggest city Surabaya are linked ‘Tactical benefits’ to local extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), That is a shift from when radical group which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group bombings Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) - behind attacks includ- (IS). Here are some questions and answers about JAD: ing the 2002 Bali bombing that killed over SURABAYA: Their middle-class life, with talk 200 - was synonymous with terrorism in What is JAD? of holidays and a love of pets, held no clues to Indonesia. “The involvement of women is new, Formed in 2015, JAD gained notoriety in January 2016 the dark plan Dita Oepriyanto and his wife especially with children,” said Nava for a gun and suicide attack in the capital Jakarta that left put in motion as they led their four children to Nuraniyah, an analyst at the Jakarta-based four attackers and four civilians dead. It is made up of SURABAYA: Police take a man (2nd right) in for questioning as they patrol around the Surabaya police head- their deaths. Oepriyanto, 48, spouse Puji Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict. almost two dozen Indonesian extremist groups that have quarters following a suicide attack in Surabaya yesterday. —AFP Kuswati and the kids - including two girls “During the JI (Jemaah Islamiyah) era it was pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, aged nine and 12 - all died on Sunday in coor- forbidden to use women” in attacks. IS by according to the US State Department, which last year dinated strikes on churches in the country’s contrast has welcomed female fighters into its designated it as an extremist network. The group’s spiritu- targeted churches, a police headquarters and a low-cost any supporter of ISIS” and functions more as an umbrella second-biggest city Surabaya. To neighbors, fold, and the attraction of using women, al leader is Aman Abdurrahman, a jailed Indonesian radical apartment complex were the deadliest in years. The six organization than a coherent group. Abdurrahman, how- the family was devoutly religious with an including young girls, in attacks is obvious, who authorized the Jakarta attack and is considered the church bombers-a mother and father, their two daughters, ever, has recruited militants to join IS, is thought to have upstanding father who sold herbal medicine. Nuraniyah added. “Women are always seen de facto leader of all IS supporters in Indonesia. aged nine and 12, and two teenage sons-have been linked been in communication with leaders of the jihadist group, “He was once the head of the neighbor- as peaceful, so security guards are also more by police to JAD. In addition to themselves, 12 people died. and is the main translator for IS propaganda in Indonesia, hood unit. I met him almost everyday at a relaxed towards women as well,” she said. Attacks they carried out The father of the church suicide bombers was a local according to analysts and authorities. mosque near his house,” Taufik Gani, 60, told Apart from the 2016 Jakarta attack-the first claimed by leader in the network, police have said. Another family of newspaper Koran Tempo. Online photos ‘There are tactical benefits’ IS in Southeast Asia-JAD carried out suicide attacks the five including a child, which carried out the suicide bomb- Groups behind previous attacks bearing 43-year-old Kuswati’s name show On Sunday morning, Kuswati and her two following year which killed three policemen and injured a ing of a police headquarters yesterday, were also part of For years, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) was synonymous what appears to be the family smiling back at daughters, who were wearing niqab face dozen others at a busy bus station in Jakarta. IS said it was the group. Four of the bombers died. Police say a third with terrorism in Indonesia. The group was responsible the camera, the two youngest girls in matching veils and had bombs strapped to their waists, also responsible for ordering that attack. JAD has been family, three of whom were killed in the apartment explo- for the country’s worst-ever attack, the 2002 Bali bomb- red hijab head scarves and holding flowers. walked onto the grounds of the Kristen linked to a series of other plots in Indonesia, including a sion outside the city, were also JAD members. That explo- ings that killed 202 people. In subsequent years the Kuswati had over 250 friends on a Indonesia Diponegoro Church, where their firebomb attack on a church that killed a toddler and a sion may have been a premature detonation of a bomb. group carried out a string of deadly attacks, including a Facebook account packed with pictures of explosives were detonated. They had been plan to launch a Christmas-time suicide bombing. This was 2003 car bombing at the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta nature, river rafting and the family cats. She dropped off by Oepriyanto who then drove foiled when the militants planning the attack were killed. What is the connection to IS? that killed a dozen and a suicide car bomb the following also said she was a fan of a local heavy metal a bomb-laden car into the Surabaya Centre IS has claimed responsibility for several recent attacks year outside the Australian embassy that killed 10. band. Her last Facebook post was made in Pentecostal Church. Indonesian authorities How was JAD involved? in Indonesia, most of which have been carried out by JAD. Attacks in 2005 at tourist spots in Bali killed 20. A splin- 2014. Kuswati is now Indonesia’s first known have named Oepriyanto as the local cell Indonesia is reeling from a series of deadly blasts that Although considered Indonesia’s largest pro-IS coalition, ter group, led by Malaysian Noordin Top, was responsi- female suicide bomber. Two other families leader of extremist network Jamaah have rocked the city of Surabaya and the surrounding JAD’s structure and links to the international terror net- ble for blasts in 2009 at the Ritz-Carlton and JW connected to the family and a local extremist Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which has pledged region in the past two days, killing 25 people including work are murky. The Institute for Policy Analysis of Marriott hotels in Jakarta, which killed nine and injured network have been implicated in another allegiance to IS. —AFP bombers and injuring scores more. The explosions which Conflict has said JAD is “in fact a generic term used for more than 40. —AFP Established 1961 7 International Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Jews and Muslims celebrate an unusual coexistence in Djerba Jewish population in Tunisia dwindled due to fear, poverty

DJERBA: Cyrine Ben Said, a Tunisian Muslim, carried can- The event is a powerful sign of mutual tolerance in ‘No difference’ Jewish resident Georgina, who gave only her first name. dles and wrote her hopes for the future on an egg in reli- Djerba, where the two communities have long coexisted. Each year, Muslim religious leaders and politicians from “We are good neighbors, some of them we visit all the gious ceremony at a synagogue on the southern island of “The Jews and the Muslims of Djerba are all Tunisian citi- the Mufti to the head of the government take the chance to time. They offer us food, and we give them food, too.” Djerba. She wanted to share the rituals with her Jewish zens, so there is no difference between us,” said Perez go to Ghriba to promote the message of interreligious tol- Despite the peaceful atmosphere, security is still tight. friends because, for her, Tunisia is a country of tolerance, erance. “This is a peaceful island that embraces its Jews This year, during protests against government austerity coexistence and freedom of belief. “I’m here to share ritu- and Muslims in harmony, giving a message to the world measures in January, assailants threw petrol bombs at a als with my Jewish friends in new Tunisia of tolerance, that we must abandon hatred and hostility,” said Tunisian small synagogue in Djerba, causing shock but no casual- coexistence and freedom of belief ... Every one has his Muslims, Jews Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, as he shook hands with one of ties. In Djerba’s old medina, Jewish tailor Mgissis Chabeh religion, but we have many common points; the flag, love the rabbis. Ghriba synagogue was hit by an al Qaeda truck has worked for four decades sewing “jebba”, a traditional and peace,” Ben Said said. join in annual bombing in 2002 that killed 21 people, most of them Muslim dress. Tunisia is home to one of North Africa’s largest Jewish German visitors. “All my customers are Muslims and they love my work,” communities. Jews have lived in Tunisia since Roman times, celebration in At the entrance to the synagogue, a young Muslim, 70-year-old Chabeh said from behind his sewing machine, and the community once numbered 100,000. But fear, Makrem Gaagaa, welcomes visitors with a broad smile and in between jokes with a Muslim gold trader friend. The old poverty and discrimination prompted several waves of the synagogue presents headscarves to those who need one. “It’s my job medina in Djerba is full of jewelry shops, most of which are emigration after the creation of Israel in 1948. Many left and my livelihood,” he said. “My relationship with every- run by Jews who have controlled the trade in Djerba for after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, most going to France or one who visits this place is good, they have their religion decades. Nearby, a popular Jewish restaurant has a sign Israel. They now number about 2,000, with more than and I have my religion,” added the guard, who has worked written in Arabic and Hebrew. “In the old city there are 1,200 in Djerba. Ben Said is one of dozens of Muslims who in the synagogue since seven years. many Jews,” said Jewish chef Gabriel Yahich. “We cook participated in the Jewish religious ceremonies in the old- Trabelsi, a Jewish community leader. He added that despite Most Jews in Djerba live in Hara Kbira neighborhood, meals for them that are compatible with the Jewish reli- est synagogue in Africa, Ghriba, during an annual celebra- their small number Jewish people have a strong presence their homes next to Muslim homes, where they exchange gion, but we also offer traditional meals accepted by the tion held this month. The eggs, covered in people’s ambi- in economic life, including tourism, restaurants and the visits and gifts at religious events and weddings. “Here, Muslims.” “For me the important thing is that trade is good, tions for love and prosperity, are stored in a cellar. jewelry trade. there is no difference between Jews and a Muslims,” says the rest is details.” — Reuters

US not the first nor the last embassy to Net closes on open in Jerusalem toppled Malaysia’s PM Najib JERUSALEM: The United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem yesterday in a most high-profile diplomatic inauguration in the holy city, but not the first nor the last. KUALA LUMPUR: The net tightened on toppled Several countries, mainly African and Latin American, have Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak as the new gov- previously had their ambassadors based in Jerusalem and ernment yesterday placed on leave a controversial fig- some are expected to return. After the 1973 Yom Kippur ure seen as his protector war, Ivory Coast, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of in a multi-billion-dollar Congo) and Kenya severed relations with Israel in protest graft scandal. Najib’s and closed the doors of their embassies in Jerusalem. Barisan Nasional (BN) They later renewed relations but moved their mis- coalition last week suf- sions to Tel Aviv. In 1980 Israel enacted a law declaring fered a shock defeat to an Jerusalem, including the mainly Palestinian eastern zone, alliance of parties headed its “complete and united” capital. The United Nations by the elderly Mahathir Security Council branded the move illegal and adopted Mohamad, ending the cor- a resolution calling on “those states that have estab- ruption-mired regime’s six lished diplomatic missions at Jerusalem to withdraw decades in power. Voters Former Malaysian prime such missions”. turned out en masse to minister Najib Razak The Netherlands, Haiti and several Latin American oust Najib, angered at ris- countries complied. Costa Rica and El Salvador returned GAZA: A Palestinian woman holding her national flag looks at clashes with Israeli forces near the border ing living costs, divisive racial politics in the Muslim- to Jerusalem in 1984, but left again in 2006. In the wake of between the Gaza strip and Israel yesterday, as Palestinians protest over the inauguration of the US embassy majority country and allegations of endemic graft Trump’s announcement on December 6, some at least are following its controversial move to Jerusalem. — AFP among the country’s ruling elite. The 92-year-old heading back-and Israel is hoping for more. Guatemalan Mahathir—who ruled Malaysia for two decades until President Jimmy Morales has said his country’s embassy 2003, and came out of retirement to take on Najib—is will move to Jerusalem on May 16, and Paraguay’s foreign and has called for Prime Minister Viorica Dancila’s resigna- The EU is sticking firmly to the international community’s now the world’s oldest state leader. ministry said on Wednesday it would follow suit. The tion. On a visit to Jerusalem last month, Dancila acknowl- decades-long position that sovereignty in Jerusalem can He officially got down to work as prime minister Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement that Paraguayan edged that at this stage she did not have “support of all par- only be decided by negotiations between Israel and the Monday, holding meetings with top civil servants and President Horacio Cartes would attend the opening cere- ties as we would wish” to carry out the embassy move. Palestinians. Shortly after the Trump announcement, Israeli receiving his first official visitor, Brunei’s Sultan mony, which would take place “by the end of the month”. Czech President Milos Zeman has said he too would like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Brussels Hassanal Bolkiah. Najib became a hugely unpopular to see his country’s embassy transferred to Jerusalem. He for talks with EU foreign ministers. “I believe that all or figure over his alleged involvement in plundering huge East Europe weighs move did not reveal any firm plan, however, and the government most of the European countries will move their embassies sums from Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB in a Romania’s government, supported by the speaker of its has only announced the reopening of its honorary con- to Jerusalem,” he told them, earning a chilly response from sophisticated fraud that is now being investigated in parliament, has adopted a draft proposal to move its sulate in Jerusalem and the establishment of a Czech cultur- the bloc’s foreign policy head Federica Mogherini. “He can several countries. The US State Department alleges embassy, which would make it the first European Union al centre in the city.On the other side of coin, Japanese keep his expectations for others, because from the that at least $4.5 billion dollars were looted from the member to do so. But Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Palestinian president European Union member states’ side this move will not fund, and funneled to the United States where it was who has frequently clashed with the government, opposes Mahmud Abbas his country would not move its Tel Aviv come,” she said.— AFP used to buy everything from artwork to high-end real the move in the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement, embassy to Jerusalem, official Palestinian media reported. estate and a luxury yacht. Both Najib and 1MDB deny any wrongdoing. A total of $681 million also mysteriously appeared in Najib’s personal bank accounts in 2013 just ahead State John Sullivan, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, of a hotly-contested election. He was later cleared by New US embassy in Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, senior White Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali, who said the House aide Jared Kushner. North Korea will money was a personal donation from the Saudi royal Jerusalem - humble The foreign diplomatic corps has not been invited as family, and ordered the closure of domestic probes the event is considered a bilateral one, the embassy never fully give up into the scandal. Mahathir, however, said in a press spokeswoman said. Trump’s unilateral decision delighted conference that the attorney-general was taking but high-profile Israelis and enraged Palestinians, who want to make the leave. “There have been lots of complaints against the eastern, mainly Palestinian, part of the city the capital of nukes: Top defector attorney-general. On that basis we gave him a holi- their future state and say that Trump’s decision ignores day,” he said. “When he is on leave, the solicitor-gen- JERUSALEM: Washington’s contentious new embassy in their demands. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat says the city SEOUL: North Korea will never completely give up Jerusalem is high-profile, but it’s no gleaming new building its nuclear weapons, a top defector said ahead of eral will cover his job as the attorney general.” He will name a small roundabout adjacent to the embassy as added that once an investigation had been carried changing the ancient city’s skyline. Instead, Ambassador “Trump Square”. “Naming this square in honor of the leader Kim Jong Un’s landmark summit with US David Friedman will set up shop in existing consular President Donald Trump next month. The current out, Apandi could be suspended and banned from president is our way of showing our love and respect for leaving the country. offices in the leafy middle-class Arnona neighborhood on the president and the American people,” he said in a state- whirlwind of diplomacy and negotiations will not end with “a sincere and complete disarmament” but with the city’s southern edge for the near to mid-term. ment. The question of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest “a reduced North Korean nuclear threat”, said Thae Markets shrug off result Eventually, a purpose-designed embassy will be planned issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yong-ho, who fled his post as the North’s deputy Apandi-who has ties to the United Malays National and built, according to the US State Department. “Initially, Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat has called for ambassador to Britain in August 2016. Organization (UMNO), the main party in the BN the interim embassy in Arnona will contain office space for diplomats, “civil society organizations, and religious “In the end, North Korea will remain ‘a nuclear coalition-came to office after Najib sacked the previ- the ambassador and a small staff,” a US official said, authorities to boycott the inauguration.” “Those who declining to give further details. power packaged as a non-nuclear state’,” Thae told ous attorney general, who was believed to be aggres- attend the ceremony will be sending an ominous message, the South’s Newsis news agency. His remarks come sively investigating the matter. Mahathir has vowed “The ambassador will continue to divide his time a message that they encourage flagrant violations of inter- between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during the initial phases of ahead of an unprecedented summit between Kim and that “heads must fall” in government bodies suspected national law and (of) the inalienable rights of the Trump in Singapore on June 12, at which North of colluding in corruption, and on Monday the head of the embassy move, as this is a multi-year process.”So far Palestinian people,” he said. The building, which opened to around $400,000 has been spent on upgrades to the Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are expected to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission-which the public in 2010, houses consular operations including dominate the agenda. North and South Korea had targeted critics of Najib-resigned. A former intel- building, a US embassy spokeswoman said. US President American citizen and visa services. Those functions “will Donald Trump will not attend the inaugural event, but affirmed their commitment to the goal of denu- ligence and investigations director from the commis- continue at the Arnona facility without interruption, as part clearization of the peninsula at a summit last month, Washington will be represented by Deputy Secretary of sion also lodged a report with the body, accusing of the embassy,” the US official said. —AFP and Pyongyang announced at the weekend it would Najib of seeking to prevent investigations into 1MDB. destroy its only known nuclear test site next week. Markets opened yesterday for the first time since last South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday week’s polls but did not fall as heavily as had been welcomed the announcement, calling it an “initial step anticipated after Mahathir sought in a weekend in the complete denuclearization of North Korea”. But speech to calm investors. Stocks initially lost 2.7 per- North Korea has not made public what concessions it cent but quickly won back ground and closed 0.2 per- is offering, and the South’s JoongAng Ilbo daily point- cent higher. Local currency the ringgit was steady ed out that it had only invited journalists to witness against the dollar. the operation at the Punggye-ri site. “It is regrettable that North Korea did not invite nuclear experts to the Travel ban destruction of the test site,” it said in an editorial. “If But it has not been all smooth sailing since the his- North Korea has really decided to denuclearize, it has toric win, with concerns over the slow formation of the no reason not to invite them.” cabinet as different parties in the winning alliance jos- Pyongyang has said it does not need nuclear tle for positions. Mahathir appointed three ministers at weapons if the security of its regime is guaranteed. the weekend despite previously having said he would US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has met name 10 cabinet members. Jailed politician Anwar Kim twice, said he was “convinced” the North Korean Ibrahim, Mahathir’s nemesis-turned-ally, issued a leader shared US goals, and promised security assur- statement Sunday insisting his People’s Justice Party ances and bountiful American investment in the isolat- (PKR) still supported the new premier after a senior ed nation. “Those are the kind of things that, if we get figure from the group said the cabinet appointments what it is the President has demanded-the complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of were made without their consultation. Anwar, in jail on North Korea-that the American people will offer in sodomy charges his supporters say are trumped up, spades,” Pompeo said on Fox News Sunday. But veri- had been widely expected to be freed today, paving fication will be key. And Thae, one of the highest- the way for him to eventually become premier. But his ranking officials to have defected in recent years, said: party said that the prime minister’s office had informed “North Korea will argue that the process of nuclear them an official committee that issues pardons-and disarmament will lead to the collapse of North Korea would sign off on his release-would now be meeting WASHINGTON: Demonstrators take part in a protest outside of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, tomorrow, without explaining why. —AFP against the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem yesterday. — AFP and oppose CVID.” —AFP 8 Established 1961 International Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Jumping ship: Brexit-hit EU staff ditch UK’s passports Britons lose EU citizenship, right to jobs

BRUSSELS: About one in 10 British civil servants at the ple have roots, as well as to France. In a tweet sent on European Commission has taken another EU nationality the day after the Brexit vote devastated his colleagues, since the Brexit vote, but are nonetheless resigned to one British EU official with dual nationality posted a scant prospects of future promotion. Figures from photo of a bottle of Irish whiskey. He wrote: “Time to European Union data provided to Reuters and inter- connect with my Irishness to numb my wounded views reflect a pessimistic view of the future in Brussels Britishness.” for nearly 900 remaining British staff on the EU execu- Britain allows dual nationality, so those switching in tive once Britain leaves the bloc in March next year fol- the EU are not obliged to renounce their private UK lowing its June 2016 referendum. They also highlight the citizenship. Conversations with EU officials-none would role of nationality in EU career advancement despite a speak on the record about personal choices-shows formal taboo on discrimination according to passport- some Britons already had dual citizenship and have as some Britons have already found to their cost. merely switched to the “first nationality” recorded in “As Brits, our careers here are already finished,” said Commission records. Some raced to acquire new pass- one mid-ranking official with over 20 years service at ports after the referendum. Others also have another the Commission who, like many of those switching, has citizenship but have yet to formally switch to it, while now acquired an Irish passport through descent. “But many are thinking of or are applying to other countries. no one will see me as Irish. This is basically just an Among these, notably, is Belgium. It has resisted insurance policy for now.” President Jean-Claude granting citizenship to some EU officials, despite many Juncker gave British staff a formal undertaking in late having spent decades living in Brussels, on the grounds March that the Commission they have not been in the local would not exercise its right to tax system. Juncker appealed dismiss them after March 29, personally to the Belgian prime 2019, when they lose the EU minister this month to show citizenship that is a normal them compassion. The issue of requirement for employment. Ireland, other nationality in EU careers is a But despite such sympathy states, wary of delicate one. Formally, officials at the top for their plight, “leave their passports at the Britons have already been ‘re-badged Brits’ door”, though officials also voting with their feet. Public expect teams to reflect the LONDON: Britain’s Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Claire data shows that on Jan. 1 this bloc’s diversity. A Commission Perry, strokes Larry the 10 Downing Street cat in Downing Street in central London. —AFP year there were 894 spokeswoman told Reuters: Commission employees whose “We can’t see how changing Even those switching passports see little hope-cer- are today just 3 percent of Commission, albeit better rep- officially recorded first nationality was British. That was first nationality ... could result in any sort of advantage. tainly not in senior positions, where national govern- resented in the senior ranks, reflecting longer EU mem- down 135, or 13 percent, from a year earlier and 240, or Promotions of EU officials are based on merit only.” ments are unlikely to lobby for what one Irish official bership than most states and more effort to see “national 21 percent, fewer than at the start of 2016. Internal data described as “re-badged Brits”. Like other capitals, balance” across the top jobs. Some British staffers speak cited by an EU official showed that since May 2016 Stiff upper lip Dublin wants jobs for its own. The number of of serving out time till their pension; others are sticking “slightly above 150” Britons retired, resigned or left at Even before Brexit, that view is contested by some Commission officials recording Irish first nationality to EU ambitions, knowing that the Commission does hire the end of the kind of temporary contract given to a who say privately that British colleagues have been rose by 37 to 520 in the two years to January. An Irish some non-EU nationals with special skills. quarter of the Commission’s 32,000 staff; some 65 passed over for expected promotions or removed from EU embassy spokesman said the issue of British EU Rather than linger in roles of diminishing responsibil- British citizens were hired, but all but four of these were work that superiors feared could cause a conflict of loy- officials taking Irish nationality was “complex” and that ity, some are looking to follow colleagues into the pri- on short-term contracts. alties between Brussels and London. Some British EU the government was “continuing to monitor matters”. vate sector. A few are tempted to move to a London staff say that has offended them, arguing that, if any- Even without Brexit, Euro-Brits have been a vanishing civil service that may grow thanks to Brexit; others see New passports thing, they feel the Brexit vote has strengthened their breed, reflecting what many of them see as long grow- little welcome from a British establishment they feel has Strikingly, compared to that net decline of 85, commitment to a project people back home have aban- ing indifference to the EU among British voters and done little for them. Amid anger, grief and uncertainty, “slightly above 100” more Britons also switched their doned. “It’s been painful,” said one veteran staffer. successive London governments. there is deal of British stiff upper lip: “It’s not the end of “first nationality” to another of the 27 EU states, “Since the referendum, I feel much less British-but the While they once made up closer to the 13 percent of the world,” said one. “No one’s going to be helicoptered notably to Ireland, where many millions of British peo- world sees me as much less European,” the current EU population that Britain accounts for, they off the embassy roof, Saigon-style.” —Reuters

News in brief ‘The clock is ticking’, Explosive device in mosque EU tells Brexit UK JOHANNESBURG: A device discovered in a mosque near the South African port city of Durban where worshippers were BRUSSELS: The European Union yesterday warned Britain attacked by armed men last week has been confirmed as explo- time was running out to seal a Brexit deal this autumn and sive, police said yesterday. The device was discovered three ensure London does not crash out of the bloc next March days after the attack at the mosque by three men armed with adding to pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May. But May’s guns and knives. One person was killed after his throat was slit, spokesman said the “focus is on getting this right” rather than and two others were injured. “We had a meeting with the explo- meeting a deadline. Diplomats and officials in Brussels note little sive unit members who briefed us on the device they had taken progress in Brexit negotiations since the EU leaders last met, away yesterday. They confirmed that its mechanism is explo- raising doubt about whether the bloc and London would be sive,” Simphiwe Mhlongo, a spokesman for the Directorate for able to mark another milestone at the next top-level summit on Priority Crime Investigation told eNCA television. —Reuters June 28-29. “We are concerned that there is no clear stance, no clear position from the British. The clock is ticking,” German EU Minister Michael Roth told his EU peers meeting in Brussels. NZ PM maternity leave “We need now to be making substantial progress, but that is not happening. What is worrying us in particular is the WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s (NZ) pregnant Prime Minister Northern Ireland question where we expect a substantial Jacinda Ardern yesterday revealed her government’s plans for run- accommodation from the British side.” At home, May is stuck ning the country after she gives birth and takes six weeks materni- between a rock and a hard place with staunch Brexit sup- ty leave. Ardern, 37, said she will continue working as close as pos- porters pushing to sever ties with the EU and others advo- sible to her due date of June 17 and then hand over power to her cating keeping close customs cooperation with the bloc to deputy Winston Peters. As acting prime minister Peters will look reduce frictions in future trade. May’s spokesman said after the day-to-day running of government, although Ardern said London was working on two options for post-Brexit customs she will be consulted on significant issues. “I’ll still be receiving cooperation. cabinet papers so I imagine it will be dialogue both ways,” she told Under a customs partnership, Britain could collect tariffs on goods entering the country on the EU’s behalf. Under a Brussels : Polish European Affairs Minister Konrad Szymanski (left) and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok reporters. “I may from time to time call the acting prime minister (center) listen to Chief EU negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier prior to a General Affairs council on article 50 at the and he may at times chose to call me.” —AFP second idea, for a streamlined customs arrangement, traders on an approved list would be able to cross borders freely European Council in Brussels yesterday. —AFP with the aid of automated technology. But the EU has said Bodies of beheaded Christians London must come up with a solution for the Irish border 2020. “From the European side, we can say that we have at home in recent weeks to make a decision on customs. The conundrum and highlights that has not happened. Both sides made clear our position and we hope that the British govern- Brexit schedule is tightening, sources said, which helps the MISRATA: Libya will return to Egypt the bodies of 20 Egyptian worry that reinstating a physical border between EU-mem- ment will enter negotiations also in a full way,” said Austria’s EU negotiating strategy to pile pressure on London before Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan strong- ber Ireland and Britain’s province of Northern Ireland - Gernot Blumel, echoing a long-standing EU complaint that the June summit but mostly is due to lack of substantial hold of Sirte, a Libyan security official said. The bodies were recov- including to manage customs - could revive violence there. Britain has not made its position clear in detail on parts of headway in the talks. Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said it ered in October after the area where they were buried was recap- Other outstanding issues include guarantees for expatri- the negotiations. was too early to discuss an extension of the timeline, but tured from the jihadist group. The Coptic Christians were beheaded ate rights, agreeing on security cooperation and trade rules With May’s cabinet, her ruling Conservative party and the added: “The aim is now to conclude a deal in the time sched- on a beach in February 2015 wearing orange jumpsuits, according to after Brexit, to ensure a deal is in place when Britain leaves in British split on the matter, that has proven difficult to achieve ule that has been agreed on ... I very much hope we will a video posted by Islamic State. Their bodies will be flown from the March 2019, and an adaptation period ends at the end of and the prime minister has come under increasing pressure agree but there are no guarantees, unfortunately.” —Reuters western city of Misrata to Egypt, a Libyan official said, adding that there was an additional victim from Ghana. — Reuters New Armenian Royal Wedding: Will Indian minister ‘stable’

NEW DELHI: Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was stable PM seeks closer raucous US in-laws yesterday after undergoing a kidney transplant, his hospital said in a statement. Jaitley, who had largely worked from home over the past month, was admitted to the All India Institutes of ties with Russia out-sparkle Markle? Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the Indian capital on Saturday. SOCHI: Armenia’s new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who LOS ANGELES: As Meghan Markle’s gown undergoes final “The surgery has been successful. Both the recipient and donor came to power last week after a peaceful revolution, told adjustments for her wedding to Prince Harry, her gaffe-prone are stable and recovering well,” the hospital said. Jaitley could be President Vladimir Putin yesterday he favored closer political and American family has been sending royal courtiers into a spin by out of action for about a month following surgery, a finance min- military ties with Russia. The meeting, in the Black Sea resort of airing its dirty laundry in public. The bride-to-be remains close istry official said. Jaitley, 65, is a prominent member of Prime Sochi, was the first time the two men had met and followed with divorced parents Tom Markle and Doria Ragland but other Minister Narendra Modi’s government. —Reuters Pashinyan’s election last week after weeks of street protests. STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol relatives have been barred from the May 19 nuptials amid unwel- Some Western media had questioned whether Pashinyan, a Pashinyan kisses a girl as he meets with locals in come stories of bust-ups, heavy drinking-and even an arrest. Hawaii volcanic eruption former journalist who won power by channeling public discon- Stepanakert, the capital of Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorny Markle, who grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland tent over perceived political cronyism, would keep his country, a Karabakh region. — AFP Hills, will be walked up the aisle by Tom, 73, an Emmy-winning landlocked ex-Soviet state, closely aligned with Russia, which Hollywood lighting director of Dutch-Irish descent who is enjoy- PAHOA: A massive new fissure opened on Hawaii’s Kilauea vol- has a military base in Armenia and a long history of selling it ing retired life in Mexico. cano, hurling bursts of rock and magma with an ear-piercing weapons. Pashinyan, who had previously reassured Russian Around the turn of the century, the future Duchess of Sussex screech on Sunday as it threatened nearby homes and prompted diplomats he did not plan to break with Moscow, was unequivo- strategic nature of Armenian-Russian relations.” Pashinyan said was filmed as an aspiring teen actress by childhood friend Ninaki authorities to order new evacuations. The fissure, a vivid gouge cal yesterday, telling Putin he wanted the two countries to he wanted to inject new energy into developing already close Priddy discussing her relationship with her father as they drove of magma with smoke pouring out both ends, was the 17th to remain firm allies, for Armenia to buy more Russian weapons ties between Moscow and Yerevan and thanked Putin for the across LA.”We aren’t going to go there,” she says on the video- open on the volcano since it began erupting on May 3. Some 37 and for them to forge closer political and trade ties. “We have way the Russian leader had handled the Armenian street posted to YouTube last year-as they near Tom’s Los Angeles buildings have been destroyed and nearly 2,000 people ordered things to discuss, but there are also things that do not need any protests. Russia did not intervene militarily, but was in close home, before adding: “We aren’t on the best of terms.” There has to evacuate in the past 10 days. Seen from a helicopter, the crack discussion,” said Pashinyan. contact with Armenian politicians during the protests. “...We been a detente in the intervening years, however, with Markle appeared to be about 1,000 feet long and among the largest of “That is the strategic relationship of allies between Armenia really appreciate the balanced position which Russia adopted publicly expressing her love for her father in an Instagram mes- those fracturing the side of Kilauea, a 4,000-foot-high volcano and Russia. ... I can assure you that in Armenia there is a con- during our domestic crisis,” said Pashinyan. “I think it was a very sage in 2016 and declaring, “Your hugs are still the very best in with a lake of lava at its summit. —Reuters sensus and nobody has ever doubted the importance of the constructive position.” —Reuters the whole wide world.” —AFP Established 1961 9 International Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Pakistan ex-PM ignites firestorm with Mumbai attacks interview

Pakistan’s top civil and military leaders blast Sharif

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top civil and military leaders unreported sources of monthly income of less than yesterday condemned a suggestion by ousted Prime $3,000 from a United Arab Emirates company, a Minister Nawaz Sharif that Islamist militants who salary he denied ever receiving. killed 166 people in India in 2008 had crossed the The military, which has ruled Pakistan for about half border from Pakistan. The comments - in which Sharif its history, denies any interference in civilian politics. implied he was removed from office by the Supreme India blamed the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar- Court last year for trying to end military support for e-Taiba (LeT) for the 2008 attack on the city of anti-India militants - led to an uproar in Pakistan, Mumbai. Ten gunmen spent three days spraying bullets where criticizing the military is increasingly consid- and throwing grenades around landmarks. India said the ered a “red line” that cannot be crossed. gunmen were Pakistani and had arrived on the Mumbai The National Security Council (NSC), in a special waterfront by rubber boat after crossing the Arabian sea meeting yesterday called by the military, rejected from the Pakistani city of Karachi in a trawler. Sharif’s comments in an interview with Pakistan’s India blamed Pakistan for failing to act against Dawn newspaper as “incorrect and misleading”, the those behind the raids. Pakistan admitted the attacks prime minister’s office were planned on its soil but said in a statement. “The denied any official involvement, participants unanimously and did not confirm the gunmen rejected the allegations had set sail from Karachi. Some and condemned the falla- Western powers and India have cious assertions,” the A rare rebuke of accused the military of support- office said, referring to Sharif by a govt ing Islamist groups for use as military and civilian lead- tools in achieving foreign policy ers. “(NSC) observed run by his party objectives, but the military that it was very unfortu- denies that. nate that the opinion arising out of either mis- ‘Explain it’ conceptions or griev- Sharif, in the Dawn interview, ISLAMABAD: Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gestures prior to a press conference in ances was being presented in disregard of concrete obliquely criticized the military by denouncing “paral- Islamabad. Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court over graft allegations last year. —AFP facts and realities.” lel governments”. He said there should only be one The statement was a rare rebuke of Sharif by a constitutional government. The United States also government run by his own party, highlighting politi- blames LeT for the Mumbai attacks and has offered Sharif, asked about his ouster, brought up issues of Despite giving sacrifices, our narrative is not being cal tension in the run-up to a general election expect- $10 million for information leading to the arrest and security and foreign policy - which the military con- accepted,” Sharif said. Sharif yesterday morning told ed in July. Sharif’s criticism of the military has caused conviction of Hafiz Saeed, who heads Muslim charity trols. “Militant organizations are active. Call them reporters that he stood by his comments, according divisions within his party, analysts say, with some Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which Washington says is a non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the to Daily Pakistan and Geo TV. But after the NSC members unhappy about his confrontational front for LeT. Efforts by Pakistan to put on trial those border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to meeting, Prime Minister Abbasi said he had met approach. The Supreme Court disqualified three-time India says are responsible for the Mumbai attack have me. Why can’t we complete the trial?,” Sharif said, Sharif and the former leader told him he was “mis- prime minister Sharif from office in July last year over stalled, while Saeed operates largely freely in Pakistan. according to Dawn. “We have isolated ourselves. quoted”. —Reuters Peace talks ignite land buying frenzy Indian college cuts along South Korea’s off women’s sleeves fortified border to prevent cheating SEOUL: Forget Seoul’s posh Gangnam district. With North Korea NEW DELHI: An Indian college has been banned pledging to reduce tensions and renew ties with its southern from conducting examinations after it cut off the neighbor, South Korea’s hottest property market is now along the sleeves of women candidates for nursing tests to pre- heavily fortified border between the two countries. Demand for vent cheating, officials said yesterday. Video shown property in small towns and sparsely populated rural areas on Indian TV showed staff at the school using scis- around the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is surging on expectations sors and razor blades to slash the women’s sleeves of an influx of people and investment. Kang Sung-wook, a 37- before allowing them into the exam building on year old dentist in the South Korean border city of Paju, has Sunday. Many of the women can be seen carrying the bought eight separate lots of land in and around the DMZ since ripped-off sleeves into the exam hall as dozens of mid-March. police stand guard outside in the Muzaffarpur dis- Five were purchased without ever setting foot on them, using trict of Bihar state. only Google Earth satellite photos and maps, as areas inside the The act sparked protests outside other exam centers DMZ cannot not be accessed by the public. Kang said buying and a torrent of complaints on social media. District interest jumped so sharply as relations between the former foes DALIAN: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to Chinese officials from the airplane before departing education officer Lalan Prasad Singh said the sleeves improved that he needed to move fast. “I was out looking since the Chinese city of Dalian. —AFP were cut to protect the candidates but added that a North Korea-US summit news was announced in March, and it probe has been launched to find who was responsible. “The school has been barred from holding exams,” he looked like all the good ones were gone already,” said Kang. “I up just 9 percent. In the settlement of Jangdan-myun, home to firms such as Hyundai Rotem and Seoam Machinery Industry Co realized then that the market was on fire.” His investment along told reporters when confronted over the outcry. The Dorasan Station - the last railway stop south of the border - have soared on hopes of such projects. eastern state is notorious for exam trickery and reports the border now totals 3 billion won ($2.8 million) for 49 acres (20 transaction volumes surged four-fold from a year earlier. Land hectares) of land. of mass cheating regularly make headlines. Nearly prices there rose 17 percent over the same period. Kim Yoon-sik, False dawn? 1,000 students were expelled by the Bihar state gov- a realtor with 25 years experience in Paju, says owners of the land But South Korea has seen this kind of excitement before. ernment in February for cheating in school exams. In Razor wire and restrictions in the DMZ include those who inherited farmland from ancestors Border property prices spiked when former President Roh Moo- For decades, the DMZ has been a different kind of hot spot, February 2016 army candidates sat in their underwear in pre-Korean war days and some long term investors. “With bids hyun met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il in 2007. Prices then to take a written exam during a recruitment day in the scene of sometimes deadly military provocations and daring outnumbering offers, I often see sellers cancelling on preliminary plummeted as ties deteriorated when the right-wing government defections from the North. The zone, dotted with guard posts and Muzaffarpur. contracts, it’s that hot,” Kim said. of Lee Myung-bak took power a year later. “For the past seven Authorities have already barred students from strung with razor wire, was established after the 1950-1953 decades, the two Koreas have taken radically different paths,” Korean War. The two Koreas still don’t officially recognize each wearing shoes in exams, to make it more difficult to Railways and construction said Jhe Seong-ho, a law school professor at Seoul’s Chung Ang smuggle in paper. In the past hundreds of parents other and remain in a technical state of war because the conflict The surge of activity along the border is not limited to South University. “Deregulating of the border zones won’t be a quick ended in a truce, not a peace agreement. Over a million landmines have been arrested for helping their offspring. Some Korea or just real estate. In the northeastern Chinese border city and smooth process even if there is an economic opening up of used ladders to pass notes with answers to questions were laid in border areas including the DMZ and the Civilian of Dandong, property investors are pushing up prices and even North Korea.” Control Zone in the South, said Jeong In-cheol, a landmine expert into exam halls. In 2016 three top high school students spurring buying interest inside North Korea. At last month’s his- Much of the land within the DMZ is likely to remain restricted were arrested after they failed on television to answer at National Park Conservation Network. But while public access toric inter-Korean summit at Panmunjom, North Korean leader from any development for conservation purposes, a huge risk for is restricted, land within the 2km (1.2 mile) wide South Korean simple questions in a subject which they had already Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in pledged investors, he added. Hopes are high, however, with Kim set to passed. An investigation found they had paid bribes to side of the DMZ and other border areas can still be purchased to reconnect railways and roads along the border, and transform meet US President Donald Trump in Singapore next month after and registered. cheat in the exams. Other states also have a problem. the DMZ into a “peace zone”. China and South Korea have also his recent summit with Moon and two trips to China to meet One woman candidate for a medical college exam in Land transactions in Paju, gateway to the United Nations agreed that if North Korea undertakes complete denucleariza- President Xi Jinping. “I have a firm belief that this time North truce village of Panmunjom, more than doubled in March to 4,628 Kerala claimed last year she was forced to take off her tion, it should be guaranteed economic aid. That could start with Korea would pursue an open economy like Vietnam,” Kang said. bra before entering an exam hall. —AFP from February, government data shows. That far outstripped bet- railway projects connecting China and South Korea through “Kim Jong Un wouldn’t go everywhere and visit China twice if he ter known markets such as trendy Gangnam, where volumes were North Korea. Shares of South Korea’s construction and railway was bluffing.” —Reuters

and social media, which have labeled her an Punjab National Bank, India’s second- Hong Kong student independence activist. India police charge largest state-run bank, of 2.8 billion “My family are worried about me,” she said. “I rupees ($43.8 million). This figure is said leader draws fury in feel under pressure”. The city is obliged to intro- billionaire jeweler to be just a part of the total losses. The duce its own version of the mainland’s anthem law Punjab National Bank (PNB) said in China over anthem which was fine-tuned last year and upped punish- over bank fraud February that Modi and Choksi had ment to three years’ imprisonment. Football fans defrauded it by raising credit with inter- HONG KONG: A Hong Kong student leader has have regularly booed and turned their backs MUMBAI: Indian investigators filed the national branches of other Indian banks, been declared an “enemy of the people” by when it is played at Hong Kong team matches. first charges yesterday in a huge fraud using illegal guarantees provided by Chinese state media for speaking out over a new After Cheung’s original comments she was later case involving billionaire jeweler Nirav rogue PNB employees. law against disrespecting the national anthem, in told by the pro-Beijing committee chairman that Modi and the state-run Punjab National The federal investigation agency has what critics say is another attack on freedom of she could not speak again, but did so anyway Bank, officials and reports said. A arrested 19 people for enabling the speech in the city. The vilification of the 21-year- saying others had been given more time to put spokesman for the Central Bureau of defrauding of the bank with forged old comes as concern grows there is no longer their views forward. She was surrounded by Investigation (CBI) confirmed to AFP documents. Modi and Choksi are still on room for open political debate in Hong Kong security and voluntarily left the room with the that a charge sheet had been filed in a the run and believed to be abroad. under pressure from Beijing. chairman accusing her of causing “chaos”. Mumbai court over the alleged $1.8 bil- Modi, the third generation of his family Alice Cheung, head of the Hong Kong lion scam, which has shaken India’s cor- to go into the diamond trade, is worth Federation of Students, was surrounded by ‘Enemy of Chinese people’ porate world. Charges were laid against $1.73 billion according to Forbes, plac- security officers during a meeting at the city’s Her comments were widely shared on the HONG KONG: This undated handout photo shows Modi and several senior bank officials ing him 85th on India’s rich list. The 47- legislative council last week seeking citizens’ mainland. A commentator on the website of state Alice Cheung, head of the Hong Kong Federation of over the alleged fraud, according to year-old’s high-end eponymous Nirav views on the controversial new law, which oppo- broadcaster CCTV said such acts must be met Students, posing in Hong Kong. —AFP officials cited by the Press Trust of Modi brand has stores in several of the nents say could pave the way for political prose- with a “resolute crackdown”. “The separatism India (PTI). world’s major cities. India’s government cutions. Cheung told the committee meeting she advocated by the ‘Hong Kong independence The news agency said those charged is trying to reduce the crippling debts wanted “to vomit” every time she heard the camp’ is unpopular and they will certainly everyone in China hates you?’ Or, ‘Do you know included Punjab National Bank’s former of the country’s embattled state banks, national anthem. Hong Kong does not have its become the enemy of the Chinese people and people in the mainland all want to attack you?’ chief Usha Ananthasubramanian, who is including the Punjab National Bank. It own anthem so China’s is played to represent it the laughing stock of history,” the article read. she recounted. “(A public hearing) shouldn’t be now CEO of Allahabad Bank. The CBI is recently announced a $32-billion at events. “It is proof that this murderous regime Cheung told AFP she had received dozens of a high-pressure venue where after you’ve spo- investigating allegations that Modi and recapitalization plan to help them clean still exists and holds power,” she added. Since hostile messages on Facebook in the last few ken you will be framed as the enemy of the peo- his uncle and business partner Mehul up their books ahead of the general then she has felt the full force of Chinese state days. “A few randomly asked me: ‘Do you know ple,” she added. —AFP Choksi, a diamond merchant, defrauded election in 2019. —AFP 10 Established 1961 Analysis Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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Will Mexico’s economy tank if leftist wins vote? he fiery leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looks increasingly hard to beat in Mexico’s Tupcoming presidential election - drawing dire warnings from some in the business community that he would wreck Latin America’s second-largest economy. The trillion-dollar question facing Mexicans as they prepare to cast their ballots on July 1 is: Would he? The sharp-tongued, silver-haired former Mexico City mayor, who has a double-digit lead in most recent opinion polls, is locked in an escalating clash with the business world. After Lopez Obrador said top tycoons do not want him to win because they “don’t want to stop stealing” and “think they own Mexico”, two promi- nent business groups took out full-page newspaper Sadr, Ameri set to play key roles ads painting the candidate as a divisive autocrat and threat to the economy. Other detractors warn Lopez Obrador would turn Mexico into the next Venezuela, raqi political firebrands, nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr and Hussein in a war in the 1980s. A self-described friend of key whose socialist “revolution” has unravelled into eco- pro-Iranian Hadi Al-Ameri, are two former militia chieftains Iranian commanders, he has long enjoyed support from Tehran nomic catastrophe. Ipitching themselves as outsiders ready to fight graft and for his Badr organization. The Badr became the best trained Swansea loses Lopez Obrador - widely known by his initials, boost services. Both look set to play key roles in determining the fighting force in the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation AMLO - is trying hard to downplay such fears. But next leader of their war-scarred nation after their rival political Units) that emerged to fight IS alongside Iraq’s regular troops. he is also accused of sending mixed messages, alliances appeared to surge at national polls. Sadr, 44, comes While he has lambasted Washington in the past, it remains identity, spirals depending on who his audience is. The same Lopez from a long line of Shiite holy men, and is well known to to be seen how strongly Ameri could push for US forces who Obrador who fires up crowds with talk of fighting the Washington after his fighters battled US troops in Iraq following helped topple IS to now get out of Iraq. US firepower ended “mafia of power” and overhauling the country’s eco- the 2003 invasion. up aiding his fighters and the battlefield entente downward nomic model reassuringly tells business leaders he Sidelined for years since his Mahdi Army militia might have softened his stance. The victory was officially dismantled, he has reinvented him- over the militants - announced five months uried deep in a morose statement from will respect private investment and run a fiscally Swansea City’s American owners before the responsible government. self as an anti-corruption crusader - linking ago - came at a bloody price for the up in an unlikely union with Iraq’s commu- Hashed. But it gave Ameri the prestige Bdust settled on their Premier League relegation The two-time presidential runner-up says his eco- nists. Ameri, 63, heads the rival Conquest and platform to make a pitch to take was one damning admission. “Perhaps the club has nomic policy would be based on Mexico’s economic Alliance made up of former members of the helm in the country. lost its unique identity, the special essence that made model of the 1950s to 1970s, known as “stabilizing the mainly Shiite paramilitary units he led Since their weapons fell silent Swansea City different - better,” wrote Stephen development”. That strategy coincided with a period in the fight against the Islamic State after the defeat of IS, the group’s Kaplan and Jason Levien who took over two years of rapid economic growth often called the “Mexican group. How the two men shape up as resources have been turned to ago. “In many ways we need to rediscover that iden- miracle”. But critics say its principles of state-led kingmakers is yet to be seen - with bitter more constructive ends - mending tity both on the pitch and off it if we are to make the development are antiquated and discredited. Not that foes the US and Iran sparring for influ- infrastructure and offering basic community proud of this football club again.” things are going so well for Mexico in its current ence as international tensions spiral. services. After 15 violence-wracked Two points from their last seven matches, includ- free-market economy. Sadr, viewed as a populist and national- years of chaos since the fall of ing five straight defeats, condemned Swansea to rel- So far this century, Mexico’s gross domestic prod- ist, has hit out at both Washington and Saddam both Sadr and Ameri have egation just when it appeared they had gained a uct (GDP) has grown an underwhelming two percent Tehran - with his jubilant supporters benefited from widespread discon- stay of execution. A 2-1 defeat by Stoke City sealed per year, on average. There are some bright spots: chanting “Iran out” in videos circulated tent at an Iraqi elite seen as mired in the Welsh side’s fate but the rot set in several years ago when they lost the blueprint that made them a since Mexico entered the North American Free Trade online. In an eye-catching move the graft and sectarianism. While both are model club. Promoted under manager Brendan Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and black-robed cleric visited Iran’s fierce veterans well-known to Iraqis, their rival, Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, last promise of change appeared to res- Rodgers in 2011, Swansea finished 11th in their first Canada in 1994, the country has become a major season back in the top flight. The passing game exporter with a thriving manufacturing sector. But the year in a bid to bolster ties with Riyadh as it onate with the 44.5 percent of voters looks to get more involved in Iraq. who bothered to head to the polls. “This installed by Roberto Martinez remained and the boom has been isolated, and 53.4 million Mexicans - didn’t happen by chance, this came for the scouting network kept finding gems. 44 percent of the population - live in poverty. ‘Didn’t happen by chance’ sake of proving the rejection of the policy Rogers moved to Liverpool but Swansea hired Frustrated at being left behind, and fed up with Running counter is former transport of corruption and the corrupt,” said Jabra Michael Laudrup and the Danish great took them crime and corruption scandals under President minister Ameri, who at one stage fought for Al-Tai, a candidate for Sadr’s Marching into Europe after they won the 2012-13 League Cup. Enrique Pena Nieto, many Mexicans are looking for Iran against Iraq’s ex-dictator Saddam towards Reform. —AFP When things went sour for Laudrup and he was change. In a country governed for the past 89 years sacked early in 2014, club stalwart Garry Monk took by the parties of his two main rivals - Ricardo Anaya over, first as caretaker manager, then on a full-time of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and basis. Monk steered Swansea away from trouble in Jose Antonio Meade of the ruling Institutional 2013-14 and the season after took them to eighth Revolutionary Party (PRI) - many see Lopez Obrador Calif coastline place - their highest finish in the Premier League. as the best bet to do things differently. Then, the wheels fell off. stripped of plants Revolving door AMLOnomics Monk was sacked just before Christmas in 2015 Lopez Obrador says he has a simple solution to prized in Asia with Swansea 15th in the table and while Francesco kick-start the economy: wipe out the corruption Guidolin kept Swansea safe the revolving door was plaguing Mexico, which he estimates sucks up 500 he tip came from a woman standing in line at a post spinning out of control. The Italian was fired after billion pesos (more than $25 billion) a year, and use office in a small town in northern California. A customer a poor start to the following season and replaced that money to fund public investment and social pro- Twas shipping dozens of boxes to China, and the caller by American Bob Bradley who lasted 85 days. Paul grams. Many economists say it is not so simple. “Even suspected they were filled with abalone, a highly-prized shell- Clement turned the ship around and delivered a if you add up everything that’s lost to corruption and fish listed as an endangered species. But fish and wildlife offi- seventh successive top-flight campaign but was embezzlement, you don’t get to 500 billion pesos,” cers who responded to the call instead uncovered an interna- replaced by Carlos Carvalhal in December last said Marco Oviedo, an economist at British bank tional smuggling ring that has been stripping the bluffs along year with the club bottom. Barclays, who puts the real figure closer to 90 billion the northern California coastline of Dudleya succulent plants Fans groups are so disenchanted they have pesos. “The numbers don’t add up,” he said. and shipping them to countries in Asia where they are used called on long-standing chairman Huw Jenkins to The candidate’s controversial proposals to review for decoration. resign - blaming him for his part in the 2016 the contracts from Pena Nieto’s landmark privatiza- “The poachers literally fly into the US just to get these takeover and a botched recruitment policy. There tion of the energy sector and halt public funding for a plants so they can ship them to Korea, China or Japan,” said were protests during the game on Sunday. “As a new $13-billion airport for Mexico City have also Captain Patrick Foy, of the California Department of Fish and football club we have lost our footballing way and raised investors’ eyebrows. Raymundo Tenorio, head Wildlife. “They are ripping them out of the ground and selling our footballing identity, making poor, usually reac- tionary, decisions time and time again,” a statement of the economics department at the Monterrey them between $40 and $50 dollars apiece.” The plant, which grows in bud-like circles and resembles an artichoke, is called from the Swansea Supporters trust said last week. Institute of Technology and Higher Education, “The Swansea Way, for so long a source of consid- warned that Lopez Obrador’s policies would lead to Dudleya farinosa and is native to the rugged coastlines of In this photo, two unidentified men stand beside a load of Oregon and northern California. erable pride, has not existed for some time.” “financial disorder” that would hurt Mexico’s credit. dudleya succulent plants, allegedly stolen by international Compared to the dire straits the club was in in “If this guy becomes president, I’m just hoping he Foy said several suspects from Asia have been arrested poachers from remote cliffside locations along the northern in recent months in connection with the heists, including 2003 when they retained their Football League won’t follow through on his promises,” he said. California coast. —AFP status in the last game of the season, Swansea are The respected economist Lopez Obrador has two Koreans and one Chinese national who were nabbed on April 4. The trio had entered the country as tourists and still in good shape. They have a modern stadium, tapped to be his finance minister, Carlos Urzua, dis- was detained as they were about to ship 1,334 of the plants and the financial blow of relegation will be misses such doomsayers. He has been repeating a plant that they can find and they are shipping them by the overseas. An additional 1,000 Dudleya were later found in hundreds of boxes at a time.” soothed by Premier League parachute payments soothing mantra in meetings with investors in New their hotel room. Authorities said they fear the plant, also known as “bluff let- totalling around £100 million ($136 million) over York, London and Mexico City: a Lopez Obrador tuce”, could end up on the endangered species list if the three seasons. presidency will be one of macroeconomic stability, ‘They favor remote locations’ poaching continues and are warning of the detrimental effect The problem is that unless they find the central bank autonomy, low inflation, a free-floating The three men - Tae Hun Kim, 52, and Tae Hyun Kim, 46, on the environment. “They are ripping the plants out of their instruction manual on running a club that seems to exchange rate and sensible spending. “We may both of North Korea, and Liu Fengxia, 37, of China - are sched- habitats and they are trampling other plants while they are have been thrown out with the dirty laundry, they change some things, but as far as basic economic uled to appear in a California court on May 16, charged with doing it,” said botanist Stephen McCabe, emeritus director of could find themselves in the sort of downward spi- policy we are even more cautious than the other par- several felony and misdemeanor counts. If convicted, they face research at the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum. ral that has swallowed up the likes of Sunderland. ties,” he said at a recent forum. up to nine years in prison and steep fines. At least two other “It’s just disgusting that they are going into the wild and strip- “We know this club has not been truly unified off The business world’s warnings appear to be doing similar cases are pending. Foy said he believes poachers in the ping whole cliffs.” the pitch for a while even though the supporters little to stop Lopez Obrador in the polls. In fact, for last year have quietly been slipping into the country, targeting The Dudleya, which can continue to grow for years once who come to the matches home and away have some voters, they may have the opposite effect. remote areas along the coast and digging up “thousands and potted, is said to be highly prized in China because of its been magnificent,” the owners said. “There have “Proposing a change in direction - that is, to not do thousands” of Dudleya before stuffing them into boxes with resemblance to the lotus flower. Foy said that while he under- certainly been mistakes along the way and it is the same things we’ve been doing for the past 30 crumpled up newspaper and putting them in the mail. stands the attraction, he was baffled as to why collectors were down to the owners to shoulder much of the years - is (Lopez Obrador’s) biggest success,” said “They go in at night or during the day... and seem to favor not simply buying similar-looking plants. “Why these ones are responsibility.” Carvalhal is expected to leave as Cesar Salazar, an economist at the National locations that are not well traveled - places where you can so much extra special, frankly I have no idea,” he said. “There the club begin the process of rediscovering their Autonomous University of Mexico. —AFP park your car and walk half a mile and not be seen by a lot of are perfectly other nice succulent plants out there that can be lost identity. —Reuters people,” he added. “These are people who are taking every purchased for five dollars at a nursery.” —AFP Established 1961 11 News Tuesday, May 15, 2018

committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad said strong winds. Gupta said 80 people were dren as thunderstorms separately ravaged No new medical yesterday that the panel was informed by Violent storms injured by the gusts that flattened nearly 40 several localities. the finance ministry that it has delayed houses across India’s most populous state. Lightning bolts killed 12 people in the plans to impose VAT till 2021. He howev- The country has been gripped by a freak southern state of Andhra Pradesh, while two fees for expats... er said the ministry called for speeding in India kill 86... weather system since the beginning of May, people died in both Bihar state and the up plans to impose selective excise duty Continued from Page 1 with many parts of the country experienc- Indian capital New Delhi. Indira Gandhi Continued from Page 1 on cigarettes and power and soft drinks, ing extreme conditions. Similar storms hit International Airport was closed for more whose prices were raised by 50 to 100 pylons in Uttar Pradesh state, killing 48 the region every year but this year has been than two hours because of the winds, with In a related development, head of the percent by GCC states. The lawmaker people, T P Gupta of the state disaster man- the deadliest in decades. In the eastern 70 flights diverted. Andhra Pradesh had also National Assembly committee for the said the ministry believes that introduc- agement department told AFP. Eight people state of West Bengal 14 people were killed been hit by more than 40,000 lightning replacement of expatriates MP Khalil Al- ing these selective taxes will earn state also drowned in the state’s Barabanki district Sunday after lightning struck a house in the bolts on May 1, killing 14 people in a matter Saleh yesterday said that reducing the coffers some KD 200 million a year. after their boat capsized in a river due to state capital Kolkata, including four chil- of hours. — AFP number of expatriates in the country, Abdusamad said that the ministry’s who have topped three million, has projections for taxes and charges in the become a “popular and government budget of 2018/2019 are KD 551 million, demand”. He said that this goal should be an increase of 11 percent from the previ- million votes, translating into 47 seats, and affairs”. “Everybody is welcome to provide sup- fulfilled by dismissing expatriate workers ous year. He said total revenues are pro- Comeback cleric Abadi with more than 1 million votes and 42 port to Iraq, but not at the expense of its sover- who are not qualified, especially those in jected at KD 15 billion including KD 13 seats, according to calculations made by eignty and independence,” he added. government jobs, because they constitute billion in oil revenues, adding that Sadr set to win... Reuters based on the document. Ex-Prime During the campaign, frustrated Iraqis of all a burden on the country. although oil prices have rebounded, there Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, a close ally of Iran like shades complained about their political elite’s Saleh however said the panel does not are fears they may drop again. Continued from Page 1 Ameri, came in fourth with 25 seats. Winning the systematic patronage, bad governance and support sacking highly-skilled expatriate Hajraf also said it is important for largest number of seats does not automatically corruption, saying they didn’t receive any ben- workers and those with long experiences, GCC countries to keep abreast of swift since whoever wins the most seats must guarantee that Sadr will be able to hand-pick a efits of their country’s oil wealth. “The impor- especially in fields where there are not global economic development through negotiate a coalition government in order to prime minister. The other winning blocs would tance of this vote is that it is a clear message sufficient Kuwaitis. The lawmaker said uniform economic visions. Addressing a have a majority in parliament. The govern- have to agree on the nomination. that the people wants to change the system of any decision on foreign workers should one-day meeting of the GCC Financial ment should be formed within 90 days of the In a 2010 election, Vice President Ayad governance which has produced corruption Allawi’s group won the largest number of seats, and weakened state institutions,” said Fahmy. exclude people with rare expertise even and Economic Cooperation Committee official results. albeit with a narrow margin, but he was “It is a message to provide services to the if they reach the age of 65. The commit- held in Kuwait yesterday, Hajraf called Saturday’s election is the first since the defeat blocked from becoming prime minister for people, health and education, and to reduce on GCC countries to harness all capabil- of Islamic State, with the capture of its de facto tee was set up by the Assembly to press which he blamed Tehran. And a similar fate social disparities.” ities and potentials to fulfill the objec- capital Mosul, last year. The group overran a the government to speed up measures to could befall Sadr. Iran has publicly stated it Iraq has been ranked among the world’s most replace expatriate employees in the gov- tives of GCC leaders by creating a third of Iraq in 2014. Turnout was 44.52 percent with 92 percent of votes counted, the would not allow his bloc to govern and may try corrupt countries, with high unemployment, rife ernment with Kuwaiti graduates. strong economic bloc able to vie with to form a governing coalition between its allies, poverty, weak public institutions and bad services In another development, conflicting other global economic groups. This Independent High Electoral Commission said - that was significantly lower than in previous Ameri and Maliki. “We will not allow liberals despite high oil revenues for many years. Endemic reports emerged yesterday over plans to meeting is considered a means and tool and communists to govern in Iraq,” Ali Akbar corruption has eaten at the government’s financial impose value added tax (VAT) decided for attaining Gulf economic cooperation elections. Full results were due to be officially announced later yesterday. Velayati, top adviser to the Islamic Republic’s resources. Fahmy told his party’s website that by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and translating GCC directives into Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Abadi was “closer” to Sadr’s bloc than the other which has asked the six member states to action programs and turning ambitions Sadr and Ameri both came in first in four of the 10 provinces where votes were counted, in February. main contenders. Sadr derives much of his author- apply the five-percent tax any time this into tangible reality, he said. His statement, which sparked criticism by ity from his family. Sadr’s father, highly respected year. Saudi Arabia and UAE already GCC Secretary General Abdullatif but the cleric’s bloc won significantly more votes in the capital, Baghdad, which has the Iraqi figures, was referring to the electoral Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq Al-Sadr, was began imposing it from January. Finance Al-Zayani lauded Kuwait’s sincere highest number of seats. A document provided alliance between Sadr, the Iraqi Communist murdered in 1999 for defying Saddam Hussein. Minister Nayef Al-Hajraf told reporters efforts to cement and consolidate Gulf to Reuters by a candidate in Baghdad that was Party and other secular groups who joined His father’s cousin, Mohammed Baqir, was killed integration and cooperation among that he expects the Assembly to approve also circulating among journalists and analysts protests organized by Sadr in 2016 to press the by Saddam in 1980. GCC member states in various fields. He the VAT draft law at the start of the next showed results from all 18 provinces. Reuters government to see through a move to stem Celebrations erupted on the streets of term in October. The minister said that pointed out the never-ending and fruit- could not independently verify the document’s endemic corruption. Iraqi Communist Party Baghdad after the commission’s announce- although the draft law was sent to the ful efforts of the GCC ministers of authenticity but the results in it showed Sadr Secretary General Raed Fahmy told Reuters the ment, with thousands of Sadr’s supporters Assembly with urgency, he said he does finance in line with the GCC leaders’ had won the nationwide popular vote with vote in favor of the Sadrist list, backed by his singing, chanting, dancing and setting off fire- not believe it will be approved in this directives, with a view to promoting more than 1.3 million votes and gained 54 of group, “is a clear message that we must have works while carrying his picture and waving term, which ends next month. inter-Gulf cooperation and establishing parliament’s 329 seats. balanced relations with all (foreign countries) Iraqi flags. Many of his supporters chanted But head of the Assembly budgets the basics of the Gulf economy. He was followed by Ameri with more than 1.2 based on non-interference in Iraq’s internal “Iran out”. — Reuters

Israel kills 55 Palestinians as...

Continued from Page 1 defended the use of force, saying “every country has than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled urged Turkey to close Israeli missions in the country, the obligation to defend its borders.” Israeli military from their homes in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s yelling: “Shut down the Zionist embassy.” “The world’s “The United States remains fully committed to facili- spokesman Jonathan Conricus alleged “we have seen creation. Palestinian protests are also planned for today. Muslims are up in arms against Israel’s actions which tating a lasting peace agreement.” Israeli Prime three different squads, fully equipped terrorist squads The US has lost its role as mediator in the Middle are backed by the Americans,” said Istanbul protester Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump in his address with weapons, trying to plant IEDs at the technical East by moving its embassy, Turkish President Recep Sidika Aydin. Omer Faruk, a pensioner, added: “We that “by recognizing history you have made history”, fence in three different locations”. Tayyip Erdogan said in London yesterday. “With its want the Turkish government to cancel and suspend all Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, in a state- A senior Hamas leader, Khalil Al-Hayya, said at a bor- latest step, America has chosen to be a part of the the agreements with Israel. We also expect the govern- ment yesterday, accused the United States of “blatant der encampment that yesterday’s protest was timed to problem, not a solution, and lost its mediator role in the ment to be more careful in its future ties with Israel.” violations of international law”. “Choosing a tragic day coincide with the “deplorable crime of moving the US Middle East peace process,” Erdogan told the The head of the Arab League said yesterday in Palestinian history (to open the Jerusalem embassy) Embassy to Jerusalem”. He said: “Our people went out Chatham House international affairs think-tank. Palestinian deaths associated with the US moving its shows great insensibility and disrespect for the core today to respond to this new Zionist-American aggres- Moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was embassy to Jerusalem should be a warning to others principles of the peace process,” Hamdallah wrote. sion, and to draw by their blood the map of their return.” “very, very unfortunate”, he said, warning it would considering a similar move. The Arab League will hold Along the Gaza border, crowds built throughout the The inauguration followed Trump’s Dec 6 recogni- “increase tensions and ignite an even greater fire an extraordinary meeting to discuss the “illegal” day in the Palestinian enclave less than 100 km away tion of the disputed city as Israel’s capital. The ceremo- between communities”. embassy move, Egypt’s news agency MENA reported from Jerusalem and sealed off from Israel by a block- ny took place at what until now had been a US con- Erdogan urged the international community to “take earlier yesterday, citing an Arab diplomat. Arab League ade. Israel’s military said 40,000 Palestinians had taken sulate building in Jerusalem. Abbas said the new swift action to put an end to Israel’s increasing aggres- Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit called the move a “clear vio- part in the protests and clashes. “The rioters are hurling embassy was tantamount to “a new American settler sion”, denouncing the embassy move as violating inter- lation of international law”, MENA said. “The fall of firebombs and explosive devices at the security fence outpost” in Jerusalem and that the United States “is no national law and United Nations resolutions. “The Palestinian martyrs by the bullets of the Israeli occupa- and at (Israeli) troops and are burning tyres, throwing longer a mediator in the Middle East”. Police and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with tion must ring an alarm ... bell to any state that does not rocks and launching flaming objects with the intention Israeli military deployed massively. Around 1,000 Jerusalem as its capital is the only way for lasting peace find anything wrong with the immoral and illegal stance of igniting fires in Israeli territory and harming (Israeli) police officers were positioned around the embassy, and stability,” the Turkish leader said. that we are watching,” he said. troops.” The military also said one of its fighter jets had while Israel’s army said it almost doubled the number of “The United States, unfortunately, took its place “It is shameful to see countries participating with the struck five targets at a Hamas training facility in Gaza. troops surrounding Gaza and in the occupied West without complaint alongside the Israeli government in US and Israel in celebrating the former’s embassy move Earlier, a military plane and tank targeted two other Bank. Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said this massacre of civilians and became a party to this to occupied Jerusalem in a clear and grave violation of Hamas posts in response to what it said was fire toward in a message to Gazans “we will protect our civilians crime against humanity,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim international law and (UN) Security Council resolu- its forces by Hamas. with all our means and not enable the fence to be told reporters in Ankara. “This is a vile massacre and tions,” said Aboul Gheit. “The opening of the American Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas accused crossed”. we condemn it strongly,” he added. Yildirim said the embassy in occupied Jerusalem represents a step of Israel of “massacres”, while Amnesty International Israel occupied the West Bank and east Jerusalem in events were “incompatible” with the US acting as a utmost gravity which I do not think the US administra- called the violence an “abhorrent violation” of human 1967 and later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never mediator or protector of world peace. tion realizes its real consequences in both the short and rights. Human Rights Watch denounced a “bloodbath”. recognized by the international community. Beyond the Thousands of protesters in Istanbul marched down long term,” he added. The Arab league is expected to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said “we disputed nature of Jerusalem, the date of the embassy Istiklal Street shouting slogans including “Israel’s capi- hold a meeting tomorrow at the level of permanent rep- expect all to act with utmost restraint to avoid further move was also key. May 14 marks the 70th anniversary tal is the White House”, responding to a call to protest resentatives “to counter the illegal decision taken by loss of life,” while British Prime Minister Theresa May’s of the founding of Israel. Today, Palestinians mark the from pro-government aid group IHH. Others yelled the United States of America to transfer its embassy to spokesman urged “calm and restraint”. Netanyahu “Nakba”, or catastrophe, commemorating the more “Down with America, down with Israel” and some Jerusalem”, MENA reported. — Agencies 12 Established 1961 Sports Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Nick Williams blast lifts Phillies past NY Mets 4-2

Phillies win for the fifth time in six games

NEW YORK: Nick Williams hit a go-ahead three-run, and added a tiebreaking, two-run homer with one out pinch-hit homer in the sixth inning Sunday afternoon as in the eighth off Archie Bradley (0-1). He also singled in the Philadelphia Phillies came back to defeat the visit- his first game since his contract was purchased from ing New York Mets 4-2. The Phillies won for the fifth Triple-A Syracuse on Saturday when Ryan Zimmerman time in six games to earn a split of the series shortened was placed on the disabled list. The Nationals won for to two games by rain. The Mets have lost 17 of 25 since the 13th time in 15 games. A.J. Pollock and Ketel Marte an 11-1 start. Yoenis Cespedes homered in the top of had two hits, Jarrod Dyson had a two-run single, and the sixth to put the Mets in position to overcome an David Peralta and Daniel Descalso knocked in runs for abbreviated start by Jacob deGrom, who was lifted the Diamondbacks. Arizona has lost a season-high five after throwing 45 pitches in a scoreless first tinning. in a row and eight of 11. The New York ace as a precaution due to the pitch count in his first outing back from the disabled list. In TIGERS 5, MARINERS 4 the bottom of the sixth, Mets reliever Paul Sewald (0-3) Jose Iglesias smacked a game-winning single, Niko gave up a leadoff double to Carlos Santana and issued Goodrum homered and scored twice, and Detroit a one-out walk to Scott Kingery. With two outs, edged visiting Seattle. The Mariners lost second base- Williams stepped to the plate for starting pitcher Aaron man Robinson Cano for an indefinite period with a Nola (6-1) and crushed a 2-1 pitch deep into the right fractured fifth metacarpal on his right hand after being field seats for his second career pinch-hit homer. hit by a pitch in the third inning. Mariners left-hander James Paxton got a no-decision in his first start since ANGELS 2, TWINS 1 his no-hitter at Toronto on Tuesday. He gave up three Zack Cozart’s single in the bottom of the ninth inning runs on six hits with four strikeouts in six innings. scored Chris Young from second base to lift Los JaCoby Jones led off the ninth against Juan Nicasio (1- Angeles past visiting Minnesota in Anaheim, Calif. 2) with an infield single. Goodrum advanced him to Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani had another third with another single, and Iglesias then slapped an impressive performance on the mound despite a no- opposite-field single against the drawn-in infield. decision. Ohtani gave up just one run on three hits and two walks in 6 1/3 innings, striking out 11. Twins reliever RED SOX 5, BLUE JAYS 3 PHILADELPHIA: Asdrubal Cabrera #13 of the New York Mets hits an RBI double against the Philadelphia Phillies Zach Duke (2-2) hit Young with a pitch to start the ninth J.D. Martinez hit a two-run homer and added an in the seventh inning of a game at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. — AFP inning. Martin Maldonado followed with a sacrifice RBI single as visiting Boston defeated Toronto in the bunt, moving the runner to second and bringing up rubber match of a three-game series. The win went to Cozart, who swung at Duke’s first pitch and lined it into reliever Hector Velazquez (5-0), who allowed two hits man Adrian Beltre aggravated a left hamstring injury INDIANS 11, ROYALS 2 left field, Young scoring without a throw. and struck out two in two innings. Joe Kelly pitched a in the seventh. Jose Ramirez, Yan Gomes and Michael Brantley perfect ninth to earn his second save of the season. hit home runs to back the strong pitching of Corey WHITE SOX 5, CUBS 3 Toronto’s Joe Biagini (0-2), recalled from Triple-A REDS 5, DODGERS 3 Kluber, lifting the Cleveland to a victory over visit- Matt Davidson homered and knocked in two runs, Buffalo for the start, allowed four runs, four hits and Luis Castillo pitched effectively into the seventh ing Kansas City. The Indians took two of three in the including the tiebreaker, as three walks in 4 2/3 innings. inning, and Eugenio Suarez and Joey Votto supported series. Staked to a 5-0 lead in the second inning, the visiting Chicago White The right-hander struck out him with two-run home runs, helping visiting Cincinnati Kluber (6-2) became the American League’s first Sox avoided a series sweep at three. complete a stunning four-game sweep of Los Angeles. six-game winner, allowing just two runs, both of the hands of their cross-town The Reds, who began the series with the worst record which were unearned, in seven innings. He gave up rival. Lucas Giolito (2-4) sur- Host New BREWERS 7, ROCKIES 3 in the National League, limited the Dodgers to nine eight hits and did not walk a batter, striking out four. vived seven walks and five Freddy Peralta struck out runs in four games, extending their winning streak to The Indians took advantage of the Royals’ inability stolen bases in his 5 2/3 York beat 13 in his major league debut six straight. Castillo (3-4) allowed solo home runs to to turn a double play on either of two fielder’s innings to pick up the win. as Milwaukee beat Colorado Yasiel Puig in the third inning and Yasmani Grandal in choice ground balls to score five times in the second Giolito allowed only two hits Oakland to win three of four in a the seventh but otherwise limited the Dodgers to just inning, with Ramirez capping the uprising with a and three runs, recording weekend series at Denver. two other hits and one unearned run in six-plus innings. three-run homer off Kansas City starter Danny three strikeouts. Three reliev- Peralta (1-0), whose parents He struck out eight and did not walk a batter. Duffy (1-5). ers notched the last 10 outs, watched him pitch as a pro- with Bruce Rondon working fessional for the first time, BRAVES 4, MARLINS 3 GIANTS 5, PIRATES 0 the ninth inning for his first save. Kyle Hendricks (3-3) took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before allowing a Sean Newcomb pitched six scoreless innings, and Derek Holland pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings, and was tagged with the loss for the Cubs, yielding six hits one-out single to David Dahl. He then struck out Ender Inciarte slugged a two-run homer as Atlanta San Francisco scored five runs in the sixth, including and four runs, three earned, over six innings. The Cubs’ Charlie Blackmon and left after throwing 98 pitches. held on to win at Miami. Miami had just one hit-a dou- two homers, to break a season-worst, six-game losing five-game winning streak ended. Travis Shaw and Jesus Aguilar homered and Domingo ble by Brian Anderson-entering the ninth. However, streak with a win at Pittsburgh. Holland (1-3) collected Santana had three hits for Milwaukee. Dahl and Tony after singles by Starlin Castro and J.B. Shuck, Justin his first road win since last May 21, going 0-9 in 12 YANKEES 6, A’S 2 Wolters homered, and Jon Gray (4-5) allowed six runs Bour hit his third pinch-hit homer of the season. Braves outings away from home in the interim. He allowed Giancarlo Stanton homered and had four hits as on 10 hits and fanned 10 for the Rockies. reliever Jesse Biddle allowed the two singles before four hits, struck out seven and walked five. Relievers host New York beat Oakland following a rain delay of making way for Arodys Vizcaino, who gave up the Reyes Moronta, Will Smith and Hunter Strickland pre- two hours, 45 minutes. Stanton helped the Yankees ASTROS 6, RANGERS 1 upper-deck homer by Bour. Vizcaino recovered to served the shutout and Gorkys Hernandez and Nick win for the 19th time in 22 games by producing his Dallas Keuchel worked seven shutout innings while retire Miami’s final three batters to pick up his seventh Hundley hit homers in the sixth-inning outburst. second four-hit game of the season, with the first Evan Gattis and Carlos Correa both homered for a save of the season. Pittsburgh had its five-game winning streak halted three hits off left-hander Brett Anderson (0-2). After second consecutive game as Houston claimed the and missed a chance to sweep the series. his big day, Stanton is batting .429 (15-for-35) with rubber match of its three-game series against visiting PADRES 5, CARDINALS 3 seven homers and 15 RBIs off left-handed pitching. Texas. Keuchel (3-5) continued what has been a Clayton Richard yielded two runs on five hits over ORIOLES 17, RAYS 1 Luis Severino (6-1) allowed one run and five hits in six bounce-back month of May, allowing just three hits eight innings, and San Diego ruined Adam Wainwright’s Joey Rickard made his return to the major leagues innings. He struck out seven, won his fourth straight and one walk while recording a season-high eight return from the disabled list, holding on to gain a split of in style, hitting two homers and driving in five runs decision and allowed one run or none for the 21st time strikeouts. After surrendering six earned runs in his the four-game series against visiting St. Louis. Richard as Baltimore ripped Tampa Bay to win for the fifth since the start of last season. final start of April, Keuchel has allowed four runs on (2-5) picked up the win to snap a four-decision losing time in six games. Rickard hit a solo homer in the 14 hits and three walks with 17 strikeouts over 22 streak. He walked one while equaling his career high of second inning and got the big hit in a seven-run NATIONALS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 4 innings this month, posting back-to-back wins for the 10 strikeouts. Wainwright, 36, came off the disabled list fourth inning, a three-run blast to give Baltimore an Mark Reynolds hit two homers in his season debut, first time this season. Carlos Perez smacked a solo to make his first start since April 23. He had missed four 11-0 lead. Danny Valencia and Rickard hit back-to- and Bryce Harper and Trea Turner also homered as home run, his first, off Hector Rondon to get the starts due to inflammation in his right elbow. He allowed back homers off starter Blake Snell (4-3) in the sec- Washington completed a four-game sweep of Arizona Rangers on the board in the eighth inning. Texas two runs on three hits and issued a career-high six ond for a 2-0 lead. Later in the inning, Trey Mancini in Phoenix. Reynolds hit a solo shot in the sixth inning totaled three runs in the series. Rangers third base- walks with three strikeouts in 2 1/3 innings. banged a third solo homer. — Reuters

driver and team clear at the top of their Hamilton ‘close’ respective championships, he said: “If I keep this feeling then I’m going to be racing for a long time!” to Mercedes Team boss Toto Wolff was also more eSailing can help positive - not only about their perform- contract ance, but also securing Hamilton for the long-term future. “It’s almost all sort- conquer high seas ed,” he said. “We don’t want to lose him and l don’t think he wants to go any- BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton says he LONDON: Chinese Olympic gold medallist Xu where else... Everything is going fine. is close to signing a new Mercedes con- Lijia says eSailing can sharpen decision-making We have had other priorities in the last tract after winning Sunday’s Spanish on the water and open up the sport to a new audi- few weeks. Grand Prix watched by several members ence as gamers battle it out to be the first world “We weren’t happy with the per- of the all-conquering German construc- champion. formance of the cars and we needed to tor’s board. Virtual Regatta’s free Inshore game offers mil- sort things out. Finalising a contract In the aftermath of his dominant tri- lions of armchair sailors the opportunity to pit takes time and we both decided to park umph ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas their wits against the forces of nature-all without it.” Hamilton, like team-mate Bottas, has the defending four-time world champion the need to get wet. The inaugural eSailing World less than year remaining on his current indicated he will soon be inking a long- Championship, which comprises a series of week- contract and has been elusive on mak- awaited new deal with the champions. An ly challenges and playoffs, with the boat types and ing any firm commitments to both announcement before or during the venues changing on a regular basis, runs from Mercedes and Formula One at various Monaco Grand Prix later this month is May until October. times in recent months. now expected. The playoffs, involving 1,000 competitors, will But his emphatic win on Sunday, “All the bosses have been here and l be an online regatta and will last up to 14 days in when he and Mercedes appeared to don’t think there is anyone in the hierar- BARCELONA: Mercedes’ British driver and first place winner Lewis Hamilton (L) September. The top four ranked women and top have rediscovered the form of past tri- chy who has any concerns,” said celebrates on the podium with Mercedes’ second-placed Finnish driver Valtteri four men from the playoffs will qualify for the umphant seasons, may be seen as a Hamilton. “We do talk about it and we are Bottas (R) and engineer Peter Bonnington after the Spanish Formula One Grand eSailing World Championship Final in Florida. major turning point for all concerned. not far away from finishing things. It will Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo in the outskirts of Barcelona on Xu, who won gold at London 2012 in the Laser While Ferrari faltered, with four-time happen - hopefully in the near future.” Sunday. -—AFP Radial class, is in no doubt the online game can former champion Sebastian Vettel finish- The 33-year-old Englishman was so help professionals hone their skills. “Because it is ing fourth and Kimi Raikkonen retiring thrilled by both his own personal return so fast-changing it can help us become faster in with power problems, Hamilton did not car works so I think it all came together Wolff added that Hamilton’s triumph to form and the team’s work on improving reactions and decision-making and we can apply put a wheel wrong on his way to confi- this weekend. “We definitely go to would repair some of the damage done his car’s performance at the Circuit de that on the water,” she said at last week’s world dence-boosting victory. Monaco on a high note, but we know that by his recent loss of form and confi- Catalunya that he suggested, after the championship launch in London. race, that he may sign a long-term deal. we still have a lot of work to do. That dence. “The best ones are very sensitive ‘HIGH NOTE’ said, I will sleep like a baby tonight.” and fragile and that is something we “This is a few minutes and we have to react It had been rumoured that he was quickly, otherwise we get left far behind.” Xu, an “I would like to hope that this race Hamilton will hope also that Ferrari know and he knows,” he explained. reluctant to sign a new contract because Olympic bronze medalist on home waters in 2008, could be part of a turning point,” said fail to repeat the form that brought them “He was solidly in the lead in he feared losing enjoyment of the racing is also confident the game can open up the sport Hamilton. “I said that I wanted to come a one-two finish in the Mediterranean Melbourne and suddenly he was behind and had reservations about the sport’s to a whole new audience. “I think almost all kids in here and win the way that I won and principality last year where Vettel won. the Ferrari. It is difficult to cope with and future direction under new American China are brought up with technology,” said the when I came across the line I was just On Sunday, the German admitted: “No in the following races we struggled. “But owners Liberty Media. 30-year-old. “But I hope they can still go out and happy that I did as I planned. excuses - they were faster than us and having such a good weekend here and But after securing his 64th career win enjoy the real sport, see the sun shine, experience “The team have been working very beat us fair and square this time, but we winning by a solid margin is very impor- in majestic fashion in a crushing the fresh air and the water. — AFP Mercedes one-two that hoisted both hard to understand the tyres and how the can bounce back.” tant for his confidence.” — AFP Established 1961 13 Sports Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Road warrior Capitals grab control of Eastern final Capitals were given a powerplay with 10 seconds left

LOS ANGELES: Evgeny Kuznetsov scored off a want to play in front of them, but overall I really like lucky bounce late in the second period as the to be on the road.” Washington Capitals seized command of the Eastern The Capitals are also winning without their top Conference final with a lopsided 6-2 win over the two-way player Nicklas Backstrom who is out with a Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday. hand injury. His place in the lineup has been taken by Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy misplayed a Eller who has stepped out of the shadows to give the Kuznetsov centring pass that deflected into the net at Capitals the extra punch they need. the end of the second period to make it 4-2, helping Eller was instrumental on both plays when the the Capitals take a two games to none playoff series turning point came in the final minute of the second lead. “We played hard and we played smart,” said period. He scored the eventual winner with 62 sec- Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin. onds left and then assisted on Kuznetsov’s powerplay “All four lines did their job. We waited for our goal. The Capitals were given a powerplay with 10 opportunities.” The series now shifts from Florida to seconds left after netminder Vasilevskiy tripped Washington tonight where the Capitals will try to Washington’s Andre Burakovsky, sending the Swedish take a 3-0 stranglehold. forward hard into the end Kuznetsov also had two boards. assists, Lars Eller finished with a goal and two assists TURNING POINT and Braden Holtby made 33 Vasilevskiy then attempt- saves for the Capitals, who ed to intercept Kuznetsov’s are in the semi-finals for the All four centring pass to Eller but first time in two decades. the puck hit his blocker and They are playing for a lines did went in just before the spot in the National Hockey buzzer to give the Capitals a League’s Stanley Cup finals their job two-goal lead heading into against either the Las Vegas the intermission. Golden Knights or Tampa tried to battle Winnipeg. The Jets have a back in the third but the 1-0 series lead. Russian forward Kuznetsov said he Capitals did a good job of slowing them down and TAMPA: Braden Holtby #70 of the Washington Capitals tends goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game Two doesn’t know how to explain it but he performs better not allowing them to utilize their speed and skill of the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Amalie Arena on Sunday in Tampa, in road games like Sunday’s contest at Tampa’s around the net. Holtby also made clutch saves when Florida. — AFP Amalie Arena. He loves the idea of sweeping the he had to. He had back-to-back stops from in close series with two wins at home but can’t wait to get on Tampa forward Brayden Point on the powerplay back to Florida if the series goes that far. halfway through the third. Washington forward Brett the scoring. Steven Stamkos scored goals for Tampa, who may “I don’t know man. The last couple of years I just Connolly scored at 12:57 after taking a pass on his Russia’s Ovechkin, with his team-leading 10th have dug a hole too deep to climb out of by losing been dreaming to play all games on the road. I don’t stick blade and then, like a lacrosse player, whipping goal of the postseason, Tom Wilson and Devante the first two games on home ice. Vasilevskiy finished know why,” Kuznetsov said. “I feel bad for our fans. I the puck into the upper half of the net to round out Smith-Pelly also scored for the Capitals. Point and with 31 saves. — AFP

O’Brien the hero as Ireland avoid Buttler smashes innings defeat fifth IPL 50 to match in debut Test Sehwag record

DUBLIN: Kevin O’Brien became the first Ireland batsman MUMBAI: Jos Buttler said he was revelling in his run to score a fifty in men’s Test cricket as the debutants of form after cracking a fifth consecutive half-century avoided an innings defeat by Pakistan yesterday. Ireland, to equal Virender Sehwag’s Indian Premier League made to follow-on, were 212 for six at tea on the fourth record. day at Malahide - a lead of 32 runs. The England wicketkeeper-batsman’s unbeaten 94 O’Brien was 67 not out, having top-scored with 40 in off 53 balls against the Mumbai Indians kept his Ireland’s meagre first innings 130 all out, with Stuart Rajasthan Royals the IPL playoff race and matched Thompson (22 not out) providing good support in an Sehwag’s mark set in 2012. Butler hit nine fours and unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 55. five sixes as the Royals romped home by seven wick- Earlier, Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir took his 100th Test ets in the cash-rich Twenty20 league. wicket and for all O’Brien’s defiance the tourists remained “I’m really enjoying it, found some good form, it’s a well-placed to win this one-off match Ireland started the do-or-die situation and I’m full of confidence so want day on their highly creditable overnight 64 without loss. to keep it going,” said Buttler, who cost the Royals But they lost four wickets in Monday’s first session, with $653,840 at auction. “I’m in a good head-space and left-arm quick Amir-who had both openers dropped dur- DUBLIN: Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed (R) watches as Ireland’s Niall O’Brien plays a shot during play on day four of looking forward to the next game,” he added after ing a brief spell on Sunday before going off with a knee Ireland’s inaugural Test match against Pakistan at Malahide cricket club, in Dublin yesterday. —AFP Sunday’s win. problem-enjoying a burst of two wickets for no runs in six Buttler, 27, will get the chance to break the record balls. It was a heartening sign for Pakistan ahead of their against Kolkata Knight Riders today with his 94 com- upcoming two-Test series in England that will feature Fear that as soon as Ireland lost one wicket, another tence and banned from cricket for five years as a result of ing just days after notching his highest Twenty20 back-to-back fixtures at Lord’s (May 24-28) and might follow quickly were proved correct as 69 for one his involvement in a spot-fixing scandal during the 2010 score of 95 not out against Chennai Super Kings last Headingley (June 1-5). Amir, however, repeatedly limped became 69 for two, with Andrew Balbirnie lbw to Lord’s Test, took his 100th wicket in 31 matches at this lev- week. That followed knocks of 67 off 26 balls, 51 (off around the field yesterday when he was not bowling. Mohammad Abbas for nought for the second time in the el when Gary Wilson was held in the slips by Haris Sohail. 39) and 82 (off 58) and means Buttler has amassed Ireland resumed with veteran opener Ed Joyce, arguably match as he completed a pair. But Thompson’s single off all-rounder Faheem meant 509 runs in 12 games in 2018 at an average of 56.55 their greatest batsman of all time, 39 not out and captain Amir struck with his 29th ball Monday when Niall Pakistan would have to bat again, while Kevin O’Brien was and a strike-rate of 153.77. William Porterfield unbeaten on 23. At that stage they O’Brien, Kevin’s brother, had his stumps uprooted for a looking increasingly assured. Best known for hitting the “He has been in great form. He didn’t give us any were still 116 runs behind. wicket greeted with the bowler’s familiar arms out- fastest-ever World Cup hundred, off 50 balls, against chances,” conceded Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma. The last thing Ireland needed was to gift Pakistan a stretched celebration. And 94 for three became 95 for four England at Bangalore in 2011, Kevin O’Brien reversed The Royals’ win also ensured a final-four place for wicket via a run out and yet that is exactly how an opening when Amir had Porterfield (32) edging to wicket-keeper those figures to complete a Test fifty off 100 balls with a the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Super Kings, who stand eventually worth 69 runs ended when Joyce set off Sarfraz Ahmed, the Pakistan captain. single against Shadab. stand behind table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad in for a needlessly tight single before failing to beat Faheem At lunch, Amir had innings figures of two for 12 in 10.2 Pakistan took the new ball with Ireland 193 for six but the eight-team table. Ashraf’s direct hit from midwicket. The 39-year-old left- overs, with Ireland 123 for four-still 57 behind. An innings Kevin O’Brien’s response was to clip Abbas for a legside The Royals lies fifth with two matches remaining hander was out for 43, including six well-struck fours. defeat was still a possibility when Amir, given a jail sen- boundary. — AFP with the top four moving into the playoffs. This year’s seven week tournament has $8 million in prize money, including $4m for the team crowned champions at the best ever round at TPC Sawgrass with a 65 on Saturday, May 27 final in Mumbai. —AFP Simpson marches and was 14-under through 12 and sharing second place thanks to six birdies. It would, however, be the highwater mark of Woods’s challenge. He dropped a shot at 14 then to four-stroke took a double bogey at the 17th where he was in the water surrounding the famed island green. His three-under 69 Nishikori back Players triumph left him with a share of 11th place on 11-under par. “I didn’t play particularly well in the first couple days, winning in Rome, but I turned it around this weekend and I got it rolling,” Woods said. “I hit the ball well, I controlled it and I made PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Former US Open champion some putts. I knew my putting was right around the cor- Vinci bows out Webb Simpson finished a four-stroke, wire-to-wire tri- ner, I knew I was close because I hit good putts that just umph at the Players Championship on Sunday to end a didn’t go in. “It was just a matter of time, and this weekend ROME: Japan’s Kei Nishikori eased into the second round four-year victory drought. A double-bogey at the final was it.” Joining Woods in the group on 11-under was Justin of the ATP Italian Open in Rome yesterday as Italy’s hole was just a blip for the 32-year-old Simpson, who Thomas-whose final-round 66 for 277 was good enough Roberta Vinci bowed out of her final WTA tournament signed for a final-round 73 and an 18-under par total of to dethrone Dustin Johnson atop the world rankings. 270 at TPC Sawgrass. with a first round defeat. Former US Open finalist Vinci fell Thomas, who came into the week ranked second, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 to Serbian qualifier Aleksandra Krunic on the “Man, it means everything to me,” Simpson, who won becomes the 21st different player to hold the top spot, red clay of the Foro Italico. the US Open in 2012, said. “I feel like it’s my first win. I feel ending Johnson’s 64-week reign. so similar to how I felt in Greensboro back in 2011. “To win The 35-year-old reached the US Open final in 2010 and a major championship and a few other Tour events and ‘LITTLE BEACON OF LIGHT’ won ten singles title in her career spanning nearly two then go-I guess it’s over four years without a win, I never Simpson finished four shots in front of a trio of players: decades. Nishikori-who had lost his two matches on clay doubted myself, but at the same time, that’s a long time.” South African Charl Schwartzel and Americans Jimmy in Spain in the previous two weeks-needed 1hr 48min to The North Carolina native was never headed since Walker and Xander Schauffele who all fired final-round hand Spaniard Feliciano Lopez his sixth defeat in seven sharing the lead on day one and then storming five shots 67s to finish on 14-under 274. trips to the Italian capital 7-6 (7/5), 6-4. clear of his rivals on day two in shooting a course record- Simpson’s lead was down to four shots when he “It wasn’t easy match. It was windy so conditions were equalling 63. Simpson took a tournament-record seven- bogeyed the 10th, but he moved to 20-under for the tour- tough for both of us,” said 24th-ranked Nishikori, who hit shot lead into the final round and marched to the victory nament with birdies at the two par-fives on the back nine, 18 winners to counter the seven aces fired down by Lopez. as would-be challengers, including 14-time major champi- the 11th and 16th. Having holed a par putt from the fringe Nishikori arrived in Rome after losing his two matches on on Tiger Woods fell by the wayside. at the treacherous 17th he arrived at the last leading by six clay in Spain-retiring in Barcelona due to a recurring wrist Playing partner Danny Lee of New Zealand quickly cut shots-only to find the water with his approach en route to injury problem before losing his opening-round in Madrid Simpson’s lead to five with birdies at the second and third. a double-bogey six. The late stumble couldn’t dim his joy to Novak Djokovic. Simpson stalled with six straight pars before a first birdie in the victory, his fifth on the US PGA Tour and his first PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Webb Simpson of the United “He used a lot of slice and great serves, but I think I of his round at the par-four seventh that took him to 20- since 2013. “There’s been some tough moments along the States celebrates with his wife Taylor Dowd after handled his slice well,” continued Nishikori who won his under. Simpson gave the shot straight back in finding a way,” said Simpson, whose father died in November. “It’s winning during the final round of THE PLAYERS last title in Memphis in February 2016. “The first set could greenside bunker at the par-three eighth, and as he head- been a tough few months for my mom, my brothers and Championship on the Stadium Course at TPC have gone both ways, luckily I got it and after that, I was ed to his final nine holes his biggest threat wasn’t Lee but sisters. This is a little beacon of light for my mom, to get Sawgrass on Sunday in Vedra Beach, Florida.—AFP more confident and I was playing better tennis.”—AFP two-time Players winner Woods. Woods had produced his this done on Mother’s Day.” —AFP 14 Established 1961 Sports Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Mohamed Salah breaks record and Boateng leaves Barca heartbroken

Boateng hit his first professional hat-trick

PARIS: Egyptian Mohamed Salah broke a record and Levante stunned Barcelona by ending the La Liga Ghanaian Emmanuel Boateng left Barcelona heartbro- champions’ hopes of an unbeaten season with a sensa- ken as they became the top African performers in the tional 5-4 victory. Boateng scored twice in the first half elite European leagues at the weekend. Salah scored an hour and his third shortly after the interval. He is the his 32nd English Premier league goal of the season for first player to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in a Liverpool on the final day to better a record he shared league game since Diego Forlan in 2005. with Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez. A Boateng hat-trick enabled lowly Levante to stun ACHRAF HAKIMI (Real Madrid) Barcelona 5-4 and shatter the La Liga champions The Madrid-born Morocco defender scored the dream of an unbeaten league season after going 36 fourth goal soon after half-time as Champions League matches without losing. finalists Real Madrid romped to a 6-0 triumph over Celta Vigo in their final home match of the La Liga ENGLAND season. MOHAMED SALAH (Liverpool) The winger scored a record-breaking 32nd goal of ITALY the Premier League season as he set a new mark for the SIMY (Crotone) most goals in a 38-game campaign. Salah went into the Nigerian Simy pulled relegation-threatened last day of the season at Anfield sharing the record, but Crotone level after going behind to an early goal to needed only 26 minutes to Lazio in a 2-2 draw. The tow- make it his personal property ering 26-year-old nodded in as he produced a clinical left- after half an hour in their foot finish from inside the home match in Calabria. It Brighton penalty area, setting On-loan was the seventh goal this sea- Liverpool on the way to a 4-0 son for Simy. win that secured a Champions Diabate scores League place next season. FRANCK KESSIE Salah, who was voted the a late winner (AC Milan) Premier League Player of the Ivorian Kessie was in Year earlier in the day, has impressive form as he gave now scored 44 goals in 51 AC Milan the lead after an appearances in all competi- hour in Atalanta only for a LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring during the English tions for Liverpool this season. goalkeeping error to allow Premier League football match between Liverpool and Brighton and Hove Albion at Anfield in Liverpool, the Bergamo side to grab a late 1-1 draw. The result north west England on Sunday. — AFP WILFRIED ZAHA (Crystal Palace) secured Europa League football for both clubs next The Ivory Coast winger netted his ninth goal of the season. season as Palace rounded off their campaign with a 2- Berlin after a blow to the back. the Congolese headed back across into the corner. 0 win over relegated West Bromwich Albion. Zaha CHEICK DIABATE (Benevento) fired home from Patrick van Aanholt’s cross in the 70th On-loan Malian Diabate scored a late winner as SALOMON KALOU (Hertha Berlin) FRANCE minute to put Palace ahead. It was Zaha’s fifth goal in already-relegated Benevento gave their fans a lift with The Ivory Coast veteran netted his 12th league goal LEBO MOTHIBA (Lille) his last six appearances, capping a superb season. a 1-0 win over Genoa in their final home Serie A match. of the season on the final day when he timed his run The young South African continued good form by Goalkeeper Christian Puggioni saved mid-table Genoa into the box perfectly and powered home a header in scoring twice in the first half as Lille came from behind PIERRE-EMERICK AUBAMEYANG (Arsenal) from conceding until four minutes to go when Diabate Hertha’s heavy home defeat to Leipzig. When Marvin at home to defeat Dijon 2-1 and guarantee another The Gabon striker marked Arsene Wenger’s farewell finished off a cross.It was his seventh goal in nine Plattenhardt swung in a corner, Kalou sprinted season of Ligue 1 football. with the winning goal in the Gunners’ 1-0 victory at games since switching from Turkish club Osmanlispor. between two defenders and drove home his header to Huddersfield. Aubameyang scored in the 38th minute make it 5-2 on 64 minutes. STEPHANE BAHOKEN (Strasbourg) with a close-range finish at the end of a flowing GERMANY Cameroonian Bahoken struck the first goal of the Arsenal attack. Aubameyang’s 10th goal since moving NABY KEITA (RB Leipzig) CHADRAC AKOLO (VfB Stuttgart) match as Strasbourg upset third-place Lyon 3-2 to from Borussia Dortmund in January provided Wenger The Liverpool-bound Guinea midfielder signed off Stuttgart picked up their first win at Bayern Munich ensure they remain in the top flight next season. with an uplifting exit as the Arsenal manager steps after two seasons with Leipzig by helping them romp at the 17th attempt with a shock 4-1 victory over the down after 22 years in charge. to a 6-2 win at Hertha Berlin. He combined with Bundesliga champions and Democratic Republic of the JEAN-MICHAEL SERI (Nice) Germany striker Timo Werner to set up the second Congo midfielder Akolo was among their scorers. Ivorian Seri netted the last Nice goal as they tri- SPAIN goal for England junior international Ademola Stutgart, who repeatedly punished Bayern on the umphed 4-1 at home against relegation-threatened EMMANUEL BOATENG (Levante) Lookman, who drilled home a superb shot on 22 min- break, made it 3-1 on 52 minutes when Emiliano Insua Caen, whose lone goal came from compatriot Christian Boateng hit his first professional hat-trick as utes. Keita went off 14 minutes from the final whistle in picked out Akolo perfectly in the centre of the box and Kouakou. — AFP

Costa looking for Cannavaro on closure in Europa back foot in League final battle for ‘toxic’ BARCELONA: Diego Costa’s return to Atletico Madrid has not been plain sailing, but it rarely is China top spot with the former Chelsea striker who has helped his Spanish club within reach of their third Europa League trophy. SHANGHAI: Guangzhou Evergrande’s seven-year Since rejoining his former side in September, and domination of Chinese football could be under threat after sitting out three months because of Atletico in what is shaping up to be the most fiercely con- Madrid’s ban on registering players, Costa has only tested title race in recent memory. Shanghai SIPG three league goals in 14 appearances. One of them stand top of the Chinese Super League (CSL) on MOSCOW: Moscow’s Chertanovo club female footballers take part in a training session in Moscow.— AFP came on his return to La Liga action, netting in a 2- goal difference from Shandong Luneng after a third 0 win against Getafe on Jan. 6 before earning him- of the campaign with Beijing Guoan, Jiangsu Suning self a red card for celebrating too wildly. and Guangzhou Evergrande all lined up closely and looks away when discussing how others react to her devotion to the beautiful game. However, he also scored in the 1-0 victory in the behind them. Once taboo, Russian second leg of the Europa League semi-final against Just two points separate the top five but “Some of my friends say it’s completely normal and others say no, this is not feminine,” the national junior team Arsenal, earning Atletico a place in Wednesday’s Guangzhou Evergrande coach Fabio Cannavaro is final and ending Arsene Wenger’s last hopes of pleading for patience from fans who grown used to women’s football regular says. “I tell people that I like it, that I don’t care what the others say. The most important thing is that I like European glory with the Gunners. seeing their side lift the CSL title-they have done it Now the striker is looking to fire Atletico to vic- in each of the past seven years. “We respect our it and this is mine.” Sports historians have spun various eyes World Cup boost theories about why women failed to make an impact on tory against Olympique de Marseille in Lyon, with a supporters and are very thankful to them, but we Russian pitches while the sport blossomed in places such personal score to settle, too. His previous appear- also hope that they can be more understanding MOSCOW: The sniggering kids kept pointing and staring as Germany and the United States. ance in a European final was abruptly ended by sometimes,” said the Italian World Cup-winner after at Margarita Chernomyrdina when she was small because One popular legend says that great goalkeepers such injury as Atletico lost 4-1 to Real Madrid in the some fans made their anger clear in the 2-2 home she played football with the boys. as Lev Yashin and Rinat Dasayev were associated in Soviet 2014 Champions League final. draw with mid-table Hebei China Fortune on She was the first girl brave enough to try and make the folklore with defenders of the former superpower’s sover- Costa went into that derby clash in Lisbon car- Saturday. junior league. Now rapt crowds watch the 22-year-old eignty. This confluence of masculinity and patriotism made rying a hamstring injury and even used horse pla- Cannavaro, who took over from the Brazilian lead the women’s national team in its quest to win accept- football into a tool of political propaganda and left no centa as part of his treatment before the game, but coach Luiz Felipe Scolari in the close season, admit- ance and respect in Vladimir Putin’s socially conservative room for women in the game. Former national team coach it didn’t work and he was substituted after nine ted his side were fortunate to get a point against a Russia. The technically-gifted midfielder with the firm Sergei Lavrentyev has little time for such talk as he leads minutes. Hebei team containing former Barcelona star Javier gaze and soft smile knows the men’s World Cup kicking off Chertanovo’s afternoon training session. After helping to eliminate Arsenal, Costa was Mascherano and coached by former Manchester in Moscow in a month could work miracles for the Russian “In some respects, I think it is more interesting than hailed by coach Diego Simeone, who said these men’s football,” he says after shouting out encouragement City and Real Madrid boss Manuel Pellegrini. women’s game. performances were the reason Atletico shelled out and instructions in a gruff but amiable style. “It is more Cannavaro’s position will come under scrutiny if “I think I gave women’s football a certain push,” 57 million euros ($68.3 million) to bring the com- Chernomyrdina says after a spirited practice with her emotional, more charged up. The girls, they wear their two-time Asian champions Guangzhou fail to see off bative player back from Stamford Bridge. domestic side Chertanovo. “Girls saw that they could play hearts on their sleeves. I think the girls are even tougher.” fellow Chinese side Tianjin Quanjian, who were man- “Costa came back here for nights like this; to be aged by the Italian last season, in the last 16 of the football, that it was allowed, that nothing was banned, and that parents should not be afraid,” she says. “Of course I ‘EVERYBODY JUST PLAYS’ important, to lead from the front,” said Simeone. AFC Champions League on Tuesday. “This side needs an aggressive striker, a striker The tie is poised at 0-0 after last week’s first leg think the World Cup will only help.” The Russian team are making some strides. They have reached three consecutive European Championships and with anger and that’s exactly what he is.” Even in Tianjin. Shandong would have gone top of the though Costa’s form has varied over the past four CSL with victory at mid-table Tianjin, but instead SOVIET BAN beat highly fancied Italy for the first time last year. Chernomyrdina hopes to avenge a 6-0 beating by England months, he forms an undeniably dangerous attack- they needed a 96th-minute equaliser from former Chernomyrdina has spent her life breaking taboos set in in a 2019 World Cup qualifier last year when the teams ing partnership with Antoine Griezmann, who set Southampton striker Graziano Pelle to rescue a point the Soviet era and cemented by modern Russia’s rigid- some would say regressive-view of women’s role in the meet in Russia’s next match on June 8. up Costa’s goal against Arsenal. after Alexandre Pato put the home side in front. world. The Communist Party brushed aside its stated But the professional Russian league has shrunk from 15 Costa might be able to return the favour by The Guangzhou Daily said top spot appeared to equality goal and banned women’s football outright in teams in 1992 to just eight. Average club match attendance helping the Frenchman to win his first major trophy be “toxic”. “After drawing with Hebei, Guangzhou 1972 because it was a “men’s sport”. A brief revival in for- is 200. Chertanovo are full of national team talent but still at Atletico before a potential summer move to have not tasted victory in four matches. Maybe the mer Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberal pere- play in a stadium with one stand that might seat 100 or so. Barcelona. Rumours have been swirling for some top spot is toxic,” the newspaper said. “Shandong stroika era stalled under the weight of catastrophic eco- Coach Lavrentyev says the main obstacle to growth is time that Griezmann will sign for Barca. also ‘refused’ the summit with a draw, even though nomic woes. And Putin’s Russia has had a hard time simple: society’s apprehension about letting girls kick a “I love working with him and with the team.” they are level on points with Shanghai. embracing the progress made by women in other parts of ball means they have almost no academies in which to said Costa. “He’s thinking about winning the trophy. “For other top teams, Beijing Guoan also ‘aban- the world some generations ago. Many aspiring girl foot- train. “That is why a huge event like the World Cup will All the forwards have won something with this club doned’ the chance to go top after drawing (2-2 at ballers still have to brace themselves against cultural help. Millions will see it and there will be a large flow of over the past few seasons and he wants to leave his children to football schools,” says Lavrentyev. “It is a real a home) with Guangzhou R&F.”—AFP stereotypes if they want to play their chosen sport. mark here, too.” — Reuters That is why 17-year-old Olga Belousova giggles shyly gift, the World Cup.” Viktoria Dubova is not so sure.—AFP Established 1961 15 Sports Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Juventus reign in Italy but European success eludes Allegri Farewell ceremony expected to honour retiring Buffon

ROME: Juventus were crowned Serie A champions for But the Turin giants failed to reach their main goal of the seventh year in a row on Sunday maintaining their winning a third Champions League title and first since dominance in Italian football while European success 1996. Allegri had led them to two finals in three seasons continues to elude the Turin giants. It was a double but this time their challenge ended in the quarter-finals Roman celebration five days after Massimiliano Allegri’s to Real Madrid. side won the Italian Cup title with a 4-0 win over AC And despite speculation linking Allegri with the Milan in the Stadio Olimpico. vacant Arsenal manager’s job, club CEO Giuseppe “Maximo Masterpiece” headlined the Gazzetta dello Marotta said he was confident he would remain to tar- Sport of Allegri who has won the league and Cup dou- get the elusive European title. “There is a lot of opti- ble in all four seasons since he arrived from AC Milan in mism. I believe that this relationship can continue,” said 2014. “Allegri is the prophet of Marotta. “The Champions a team that writes history, the League is something impon- Turin triumph was expected, derable that we always see but it is still impressive, what Seventh close but never manage to else can one say about the grasp. extraordinariness of this Juve straight “In the Champions League epoch and its incredible pro- the difficulties are higher than tagonists? Adjectives are no Serie A title those in the championship, longer enough, the numbers but we have this goal ahead speak for themselves.” of us and we will definitely go Hundreds of fans gathered for it again next season.” at the Piazza San Carlo in Meanwhile, Maurizio Sarri’s Turin waving flags with the Napoli won 2-0 in Sampdoria number 7 after Sunday’s goalless draw with AS Roma to give them the meagre consolation of a new club sealed another triumph with one game to go after a record of 88 points. gripping battle with Napoli. “We’re looking forward to “It goes without saying Juve are more powerful in celebrating with our fans on Saturday,” said Allegri of every way,” said Sarri, who lamented that Napoli the final game against Verona followed by an open-top played many games after the champions. ROME: Juventus players celebrate at the end of the Italian Serie A football match AS Roma vs Juventus at the bus parade through the city. Juventus’s last-gasp 3-2 comeback victory over Olympic stadium on Sunday in Rome. Juventus won a seventh straight Serie A title after a goalless draw The trophy will be awarded then and a farewell cer- Inter Milan two weeks ago delivered the killer blow to against ten-man Roma. —AFP emony expected to honour retiring skipper Gianluigi Napoli’s bid for a first title since the days of Argentina Buffon. “Four years like these don’t come along often,” legend Diego Maradona back in 1990. said Allegri. “Credit goes to the lads for keeping their “We needed to go to bed early on that Saturday not on the pitch. “The team suffered a psychological 16 rounds and seeing as Juve pretty much always win, cool, taking things one step at a time towards our final night in Florence,” said Sarri. “The only regret I have blow and felt it for the timing and the way that result that badly damaged us. “This sport has become a busi- objective.” this season is that we lost the Scudetto in the hotel and came about. “We played after Juve 14 times in the last ness for everyone.” —AFP No crisis for Panini stickers Barcelona’s as World Cup unbeaten season fever builds ended by

MODENA: Between eight and ten million packets a five-star Levante day, each with five cards, perhaps including the coveted ones of Lionel Messi, Neymar or Cristiano Ronaldo-as World Cup fever builds the Panini sticker factory in MADRID: Philippe Coutinho hit a hat-trick but could Italy is working flat out. not save Barcelona’s unbeaten season as the Catalans With Panini, Italy are guaranteed not to miss out on were left stunned by an extraordinary 5-4 defeat to the World Cup in Russia even if their team will not be Levante on Sunday. Ernesto Valverde rested Lionel competing. Created in 1960 by the four Panini brothers, Messi for his team’s penultimate match of the cam- the business has an exclusive contract with world foot- FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 Panini sticker collection. paign but it was a defensive horror-show that allowed ball’s governing body FIFA and its first World Cup Emmanuel Boateng to score three times and Enis album dates back to 1970. Bardhi twice at the City of Valencia Stadium. The La Over the past 50 years the principle has never Since last January the machines which have tional paper album. “We’re going forward with on-line. Liga and Copa del Rey champions trailed 5-1 after an changed-you open, stick and exchange cards. “It’s the remained unchanged since the 1960s, cut, mix and But it’s a bit like books, some move to e-books, others hour and still came within a whisker of a sensational simplicity that pays. Panini has never been in crisis package at a faster rate than normal with the number of will always prefer paper and that’s the same for our col- comeback as Coutinho’s second and third goals, and a because it’s a simple game enjoyed by parents and chil- factory employees having jumped from 130 to 240 to lectors.” Fans will be searching avidly for stars includ- Luis Suarez penalty, set up a grandstand finish. But dren,” Simona Spiaggia, head of production at the fac- keep pace with demand. “We have production peaks ing Neymar, Messi and Ronaldo, stickers which may Levante held on for a thrilling victory, which ends tory in Modena in central Italy told AFP. Even four- every two years with the European championships and seem rarer but which are in fact not. “If they’re rare it’s their opponents’ hopes of becoming the first ever club time champions’ Italy’s absence from the World Cup for the World Cup. But that of the World Cup is a little because they are more sought after,” explained to finish a 38-game La Liga season as invincibles. the first time in 60 years has not dented booming sales. higher,” said Spiaggia. And despite other partnership Spiaggia. “There are fewer in circulation because After drawing at home to Real Madrid last week- “No, it’s marginal,” continues Spiaggia. “We produce deals, notably with Disney, and inroads into cycling and they’re not being exchanged, but not at the start.” end, despite playing the second half with 10 men, and for the entire world, apart from a part of Latin basketball, football “still represents the largest part of In the end it’s all down to chance and the shuffle of thrashing Villarreal, Barcelona sat just two games American because we have another factory in Brazil. our business,” she said. the machines. That is one thing that has changed from away from the historical feat. “But for the rest of the world, everything is done here. Even competition from internet collections has not the early days when the mix was done with a shovel by It was 1932 when the last side, Real Madrid, went So Italy represents just a small part.” yet threatened or diminished the appeal of the tradi- throwing the stickers against the wall. — AFP unbeaten in the top-flight but even that was across only 18 matches, in a 10-team division. This was Barcelona’s first league loss since slipping up against Malaga on April 8 last year and while it has minimal Resurgent Marseille impact on the table, Valverde will have questions to answer, not least with regards to leaving out Messi. “We are angry not to have come through this game flying the flag and not to have the opportunity to finish unbeaten,” Valverde said. “But in a season some matches go your way and for France again some don’t. I think this result was harsh in all respects but at other times this season, like in Seville, we could PARIS: Twenty-five years have passed since Marseille’s also have lost.” crowning moment, but the only French club ever to have This defensive collapse was reminiscent of their been European champions are finally dreaming of more Champions League meltdown against Roma, which glory on the continental stage. After a Europa League has soured an otherwise successful campaign. The campaign that began in late July, Rudi Garcia’s side now unbeaten record was supposed to help atone for the find themselves up against Atletico Madrid in tomorrow’s European failure. “Obviously we wanted to finish the final in Lyon, at the home of one of their great rivals. league undefeated,” Sergio Busquets told beIN Sport. OM will not be the favourites against Diego Simeone’s “But this does not take away everything we have formidable team, and indeed anybody brave enough at the done otherwise this season - everything we have start of the season to tip a French side to go all the way in achieved in league, the run we managed across two Europe would probably not have said Marseille. But Paris seasons - but, it is a shame.” Saint-Germain again came up short in the Champions League, despite the world-record signing of Neymar, and For Levante, this is their eighth win in 10 matches Lyon failed to reach the Europa League final in their own under new coach Paco Lopez, who took charge with stadium, leaving Marseille to fly the flag. They have done the club in danger of relegation but has overseen a that with distinction before-Basile Boli’s headed winner remarkable transformation. They move up to 15th. against AC Milan in the 1993 Champions League final in Paco’s players exploded out of the blocks and pulled Munich allowed them to become European champions for GUINGAMP: File photo shows Guingamp’s French Clement Grenier (L) vies with Marseille’s Argentinian for- ahead in the ninth minute when Boateng nipped in at the first time. No French side has repeated that feat, with ward Lucas Ocampos (C) and Marseille’s French midfielder Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa during the French the near post after Jose Luis Morales’ weaving run PSG’s victory in the now defunct Cup Winners’ Cup in L1 football match Guingamp against Olympique of Marseille (OM) on May 11, 2018 in Guingamp. — AFP down the left. Bardhi hit the woodwork with a lifted 1996 the only other European trophy success for the finish over Marc-Andre ter Stegen but Barca failed to country’s clubs. Marseille have had their moments though- heed the warnings and Boateng made it two after half already beaten in the 1991 European Cup final, on penal- after the semi-final win over Salzburg. planet under Qatari ownership. PSG’s budget is around an hour, latching on to Sasa Lukic’s threaded ball ties by Red Star Belgrade, they lost the UEFA Cup finals of “When you are a player and you live in Marseille, you four times that of Marseille, and the capital side have just through. Coutinho pulled one back with a rasping 1999 to Parma and 2004 to Valencia. understand right away,” Boli, now 51, said in an interview won a fifth Ligue 1 crown in six years. But they have con- shot before half-time but three Levante goals in 10 Still France’s best supported side, they are preparing with France Televisions. “You go to the butcher, the baker, sistently fallen short in the Champions League. minutes after the interval sent the home fans into for their fifth European final altogether, looking to give you go to pick up your daughter, the city is like that, you Marseille will certainly settle for victory in Europe’s less delirium. their notoriously passionate fans a night to remember. “It’s don’t need to be told that you represent something prestigious competition, as they look to cap their first full Bardhi’s blistering shot restored the two-goal fantastic. I’d really love to write history with OM. We have extraordinary. You experience it every day.” season since American tycoon Frank McCourt took over at advantage before Boateng completed his hat-trick as had a great run and given ourselves this chance,” said the Stade Velodrome. Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Barca’s defence was ripped apart again on the break. Florian Thauvin, their outstanding player this season. MCCOURT’S ‘ROAD TO GLORY’ McCourt bought the club from Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Another counter just before the hour ended with Those fans will travel the three hours by road to Lyon The 1993 success of Boli’s side ended up closing a in October 2016 and immediately launched his ‘Champions another crisp Bardhi finish, as Barca were now staring in big numbers, relishing the prospect of lifting that trophy golden period in the club’s history-a match-fixing scandal Project’, insisting: “We’re going to put our club back on at a four-goal deficit. The game looked dead but in their rivals’ own backyard, even if only around 11,000 erupted at the same time, and finished with Marseille being the road to glory.” Coutinho scored twice in six minutes, the first a close- tickets have been allocated to them. In a Mediterranean consigned to the second division a year later. OM have After spending significant money to bring in experience city that lives and breathes for its football team, there have been French champions only once since, under Didier and quality in the likes of Dimtri Payet, Luiz Gustavo and range finish after Ousmane Dembele’s shot spilled been more downs than ups in the last quarter of a century, Deschamps in 2010, and since then have seen their great- Adil Rami, Marseille are well down that road now, and it loose, the second an instinctive shot from the edge of and fans descended on the Old Port to celebrate in style est enemies, PSG, become one of the richest clubs on the leads to Lyon this week. — AFP the area. —AFP Established 1961 Sport

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BOSTON: Jayson Tatum #0 of the Boston Celtics attempts a shot against the Cleveland Cavaliers during the fourth quarter in Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2018 NBA Playoffs at TD Garden on Sunday in Boston, Massachusetts. — AFP Celtics humble Cavaliers in NBA opener

‘Our guys played with good aggression’

NEW YORK: Jaylen Brown scored 23 points and Al rebounds and 9.0 assists in the first two rounds of the snowballed from there.” Talented 20-something players rebounds. Tristan Thompson had a game-high 11 Horford added 20 to power the Boston Celtics over playoffs but the superstar playmaker, seeking an eighth Tatum, Rozier and Brown have filled the void left by rebounds off the Cavs’ bench. Boston seized a 63-35 Cleveland 108-83 Sunday, humbling LeBron James and consecutive NBA Finals berth, was shut down by an injured stars Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, com- lead early in the second half but the Cavs halved their his Cavaliers teammates in their NBA playoff series aggressive, hustling Celtics squad. bining with Horford — who has been eliminated by deficit, Jeff Green’s jumper at the third-quarter buzzer opener. The Celtics seized the lead in the best-of-seven “We just have to make it hard for him,” Celtics coach James four times in the playoffs-to become a formida- pulling Cleveland within 78-64 entering the fourth. Eastern Conference finals, with the winner to face Brad Stevens said of James. “Our guys played with ble force that out-hustled the more experienced Boston answered with a 7-0 run to start the fourth. either season wins leader Houston or defending cham- good aggression. They will have to do that again Cavaliers and dominated defensively. A Morris dunk, Marcus Smart 3-pointer and Tatum pion Golden State in the NBA Finals. tomorrow.” James finished with 15 points on 5-of-16 layup stretched the Celtics’ lead to 85-64 as part of an The Celtics, who host game two tomorrow, jumped shooting with seven rebounds and nine assists. He CELTICS DOMINATE EARLY 18-4 run that would put Boston ahead 96-68 and end ahead 36-18 after the first quarter and never looked blocked two shots but also made seven turnovers. “They are just embracing this opportunity,” Horford Cleveland’s hopes. Boston surged ahead 61-35 at half- back, the Cavaliers coming no closer than 14 points in “They showed two bodies (guarding James) all said. “We have a great opportunity in front of us and time, paced by Brown’s 18 points and seven rebounds the second half. “We were great,” Horford said. “We night,” Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said. “When he we’re enjoying it game by game. I try to lead them the and Horford’s 14 points and five assists. James shot only came out with a lot of energy. We fed off the crowd and thought he had driving lanes, they made him kick it out best way I can, lead by example.” Morris, who boasted 3-for-8 in the first half and the Cavaliers missed their we kept it going throughout the game. We’re just out to other shooters.” The Celtics forced James to work he was the best defender to guard James, started and first 14 3-point attempts of the game. here playing hard and doing the best we can.” harder defensively and rotated several players on the contained the Cleveland superstar, who has more The Celtics opened an early 29-9 lead and a 25-2 Marcus Morris had 18 points and 11 rebounds for four-time NBA Most Valuable Player to contain him career playoff appearances than the entire Celtics ros- run helped carry Boston to a 36-18 edge after the first Boston and Jayson Tatum added 16 while Brown had offensively. “We lost,” Lue said. “We didn’t play well. ter combined. “He’s a tough player,” Horford said. “He quarter. Brown scored 13 points in the first quarter eight rebounds and Terry Rozier contributed eight We know we have to play better. They attacked us ear- knows how to defend. He has a great feel for that.” while Horford added 11 and the Celtics owned a 14-6 points and seven assists. James averaged 34 points, 9.4 ly on. We had some great shots we couldn’t make and it Kevin Love led Cleveland with 17 points and eight rebounding edge. — AFP

Thomas Tuchel Saturday night, refused to discuss his future after collect- named new Neymar wins French ing his award. “We talk about these things every time the transfer window comes around. I don’t want to talk about anything at the moment,” he said. “Everyone knows why coach of PSG player of the year, I came here, what my objectives are. Right now, my objective is the World Cup, not talking about transfers. “I PARIS: Thomas Tuchel has been appointed as the new rejects transfer talk spend my whole life, every transfer window, talking about coach of Paris Saint-Germain on a two-year deal, the it. It’s a bit annoying.” Neymar beat two of his PSG teammates to the prize, French champions confirmed yesterday. The 44-year-old PARIS: Neymar was named as France’s player of the year German has agreed to succeed Unai Emery, who will voted for by his fellow players-Edinson Cavani, Ligue 1’s at an awards ceremony in Paris on Sunday, and later leading scorer this season with 28 goals, and Kylian leave after the final game of the French season this week- Thomas Tuchel brushed away questions over his future. The Paris Saint- end. “It is with much joy, pride and ambition that I am Mbappe were also nominees, along with Marseille Germain superstar took the prize despite missing the last winger Florian Thauvin. Neymar was signed from joining this big club, Paris Saint-Germain,” said Tuchel in three months of the season due to injury. an English-language statement released by PSG. meant there was no chance of Emery’s two-year contract Barcelona for a world-record 222 million euros ($264 The world’s most expensive player scored 19 goals in million) last August, and helped PSG on their way to a “I can’t wait to start working with all these great play- being renewed at the end of this campaign. Tuchel was a just 20 league games for PSG before suffering a foot ers who are all amongst the best in the world. “Paris free agent after leaving Borussia Dortmund a year ago, clean sweep of the domestic trophies. injury in February that required surgery in his native However, his injury appeared to cost Unai Emery’s Saint-Germain has enormous potential and it is by far the despite leading the team to victory in last season’s Brazil. He has not played since, and only returned to most exciting proposition in football.” German Cup. “Thomas is one of the best and most com- team dear in their Champions League last-16 tie against France from his homeland at the start of this month, Real Madrid-he was unable to play in the second leg, and It was an open secret that Tuchel had been lined up as petitive European coaches to have emerged over the last fuelling speculation that he could seek to leave the club the next coach of the ambitious club from the French cap- few seasons,” declared PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi. PSG lost 5-2 on aggregate. He is hoping to be back to after just one season. full fitness in time to lead Brazil at the World Cup in ital. They had been on the look-out for a replacement for “He abides by very strong principles of playing spectacu- “I am very touched and very happy with our season. Emery ever since being beaten 5-2 on aggregate by Real lar and clinical football that has always been the founda- Russia, which starts in a month’s time. It is an honour. Without my teammates, I would never Club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi insisted on Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League in early tion of German football, especially on the international have received this award,” said the 26-year-old, who col- March. scene. “His competitive spirit, his preference for attacking Saturday that there was no chance Neymar would be lected the prize from his illustrious compatriot Ronaldo. leaving. “I am 2000 percent sure he will stay,” Al-Khelaifi That disappointment in Europe, following a humiliating football and his strong character are in line with what we Neymar, who joined in PSG’s Ligue 1 title celebrations on loss against Barcelona at the same stage a year ago, have always wanted for Paris Saint-Germain.” —AFP said, rejecting talk of a transfer to Real Madrid.— AFP Established 1961

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SHANGHAI: The ZTE logo on an office building in Shanghai. US President Donald Trump said yesterday he was working with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to prevent telecom giant ZTE from going out of business after it was hit by an American technology sales ban. — AFP Trump will help ZTE ‘get back into business’ A job-saving concession to Beijing ahead of high-stakes

WASHINGTON/BEIJING: US President Donald Trump breaking a 2017 agreement after it was caught illegally Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a second source told Reuters. ZTE, whose shares remain pledged on Sunday to help ZTE Corp “get back into busi- shipping US goods to Iran and North Korea, an investiga- regularly scheduled news briefing yesterday that China suspended, did not have immediate comment. The US ness, fast” after a US ban crippled the Chinese technology tion dating to the Obama administration. “greatly appreciates the positive US position on the ZTE Commerce Department and China’s Ministry of Commerce company, offering a job-saving concession to Beijing The penalty cut off ZTE’s access to key components issue”. He said that Liu would travel to Washington from did not have immediate comment. White House spokes- ahead of high-stakes trade talks this week. such as semiconductors, prompting China’s second-largest today to Saturday to continue trade talks. woman Lindsay Walters confirmed that US officials were Trump’s unexpected announcement was a stunning maker of telecommunications equipment to say last week in contact with Beijing about ZTE. She said Trump’s tweet reversal, given Washington’s tough stance on Chinese that it had suspended its main operations. During trade Linked to the trade row underscored the importance of “free, fair, balanced and trade practices that have put the world’s two largest talks in Beijing earlier this month, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Within the Commerce Department, and in US business mutually beneficial” relations between the United States economies on course for a possible trade war. Sources He told US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that China circles, the US penalty against ZTE was widely seen as and China on issues involving the economy, trade and briefed on the matter said Beijing had demanded the ZTE would not continue talks on broader bilateral trade dis- based on clear evidence of a company knowingly flouting investment. issue be resolved as a prerequisite for broader trade putes unless Washington agreed to ease the crushing sanc- US regulations - separate from the highly politicized trade Trump expects Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “to negotiations. tions on ZTE, two people briefed on those meetings said. row, the sources said. But Trump’s reversal surprised and exercise his independent judgment, consistent with appli- “Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department “The message was, ‘we have to deal with ZTE before we frustrated many US officials, who had viewed the penalty cable laws and regulations, to resolve the regulatory has been instructed to get it done!” Trump wrote on continue talks’,” one of the people said. Both sources, who on ZTE as final and not open to appeal, the sources said. action involving ZTE based on its facts,” Walters said. Twitter, saying he and Chinese President Xi Jinping were declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter, “Everyone has been explicitly saying this is not part of Washington and Beijing have proposed tens of billions of working together on a solution for ZTE. The US Commerce said China was willing in principle to import more US agri- the trade conflict. And now the President has overtly dollars in tariffs in recent weeks, fanning worries of a full- Department last month banned American companies from culture products in return for Washington smoothing out linked it to the trade dispute for better or worse, and that blown trade war that could hurt global supply chains and selling to the firm for seven years as punishment for ZTE penalties against ZTE, but they did not offer details. is not good if you’re trying to maintain credibility,” the dent business investment plans. —Reuters Al-Safat Investment awarded ‘Guinness World Record’

KUWAIT: Al-Safat Investment Company broke the that he’s happy that there’s a trend of young entrepre- improve, like using information and communication tech- record on Thursday (10th May 2018) for designing and neurs in Kuwait, creating businesses and jobs for them- nologies to make it easier and faster to process applica- executing the world’s ‘Largest Vinyl-Decal Sticker in the selves, adding that it’s a sign of high economic awareness tions and provide better services. He added that the ‘New World’ on Safat Tower in Hawally district. The sticker and that it is the private sector’s role to support them. Kuwait 2035’ vision aims to transform Kuwait, into a com- itself named “Sabah Al-Ezz” translates to “Sabah of Al-Terkait added Al-Safat Investment is studying the mercial and financial hub to bring foreign investment, to Pride” and has His Highness the Amir Sabah Al-Ahmed establishment of, or participating in an investment fund the country where the private sector would be the eco- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s portrait. that supports young entrepreneurs and captures oppor- nomic leader, assuring that competition between different Furthermore, an adjudicator from Guinness World tunities in mainly, the “tech field”. He described this par- sectors would improve productivity in an institutionally Records visited Kuwait to check the measurements of the ticular field as having returns that sync with the compa- governed country. Furthermore, Chairman Al-Terkait not- sticker, along with an independent team of surveyors and ny’s medium-long term investment strategy, saying that ed that HH the Amir’s efforts to modernize the economy, engineers validating the record, thereafter announcing the group’s subsidiary and affiliate companies can sup- paved the way for the National Program for Economics that Al-Safat Investment Company broke the world port these opportunities and provide service packages and Financial Sustainability, which leads the way to record of 830 square meters, as the sticker that Al-Safat that lower their operational costs, thus increasing prof- improve the business sphere. He also added that increased put up was 937 square meters, an increase of 107 from itability. Referring to the business environment, he added competition in the private sector will not happen unless, the previously held record. that amending regulations to improve the business the economy is diversified away from oil. Additionally, Al- It should be noted that Al-Safat Investment created sphere, is an urgent matter specifying the law governing Terkait stated that, the program can increase employment the aforementioned sticker in February 2018 to celebrate the SME Fund, insolvency and bankruptcy laws, commer- by 70,000-100,000 Kuwaitis by the end of 2021, if com- the National and Liberation days and that His Highness cial registrar and auditors law, pointing to the importance petent planning and efficient employment is implemented the Amir’s portrait was chosen for the occasion to appre- of supporting the industrial sector and national industries, and supplementing it with good governance, in addition to ciate his efforts in all aspects, especially modernizing the to compete regionally as that sector is essential for eco- categorizing jobs to fit the needs of the economy. economy and developing it. nomic development. Al-Terkait also stressed the need to boost foreign Chairman of the Board of Directors for Al-Safat direct investment, to promote and finance small-medium Investment Company, Abdullah Hamad Al-Terkait said New Kuwait businesses before motivating public-private partnerships that the company worked diligently for several months to Moreover, Al-Terkait stated that some government and finally to set clear deadlines to privatization, restruc- document this achievement, which is presented to His mechanisms relating to business, need to substantially turing and reorganizing production sectors. Highness the Amir, as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility plan to support society in general and youth particularly. Al-Terkait highlighted that Al-Safat Investment is working towards supporting student organizations in higher education institutions, to raise awareness regard- ing economic development and the importance of invest- ment institutions, as the backbone of the nation’s econo- my as Kuwait is experiencing fast-paced development, originating from His Highness the Amir’s 2035 vision (New Kuwait) that both the private and public sector partner together to implement. In terms of youth empow- erment, Al-Terkait said that youth make up more than 70 percent of Kuwait’s population and empowering them is the responsibility of everyone, especially institutions that deal with them directly such as the SME Fund, Ministry of Youth Affairs and the Public Authority for Youth, noting 18 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, May 15, 2018 ABK wins ‘Bank of the Year’ award from Arabian Business Magazine

ABK Group demonstrates strength across the region

KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) was deployed across its UAE operations and Kuwait named ‘Bank of the Year’ by Arabian Business with Egypt following in the near future. Magazine, highlighting the bank’s series of mile- A number of other products and services stones and achievements that have been recorded were introduced including cardless cash with- throughout the past year. Abdullah Al-Sumait - drawals, a service that enables customers to Deputy Chief General Manager of ABK and Fawzy withdraw cash from ABK Branch ATMs using the Al-Thunayan - General Manager of Board Affairs, Mobile App or Online Banking without the need received the award on of a debit card. The behalf of the bank during Bank’s salary offering an awards ceremony held has also been enhanced at Jumeirah Messilah Recognition greatly to better serve Hotel - Kuwait, on 6th the needs of key sectors, May, 2018. for third particularly Kuwait. The ‘Bank of the Year’ ABK continues to be award recognizes ABK’s consecutive recognized internation- series of achievements ally and locally and across various areas in year received a number of line with its simpler awards including: ‘Best banking strategy, grow- Commercial Bank by ing the Bank’s opera- Banker ME 2018‘, tions, and demonstrating the Bank’s strength ‘Employer of the Year 2018 by Naseba’, ‘Best across the region. ABK recently launched a new Retail Bank by Asian Banker 2018, Best Retail core banking system; a powerful infrastructure Bank 2018 by the European, as well as being framework that has transformed the Bank’s exist- recognized by Global Finance as one of the ‘Top ing IT infrastructure and operating systems 10 Safest Banks in the region and 29th in entirely. This has already been successfully Emerging Markets’.

KT: What modules in your curriculum are more Demand for IT, popular? What does that say about the on-demand Boursa Kuwait announces skills in the region? computer science Richardson: Oracle, through its flagship Oracle trading hours for Ramadan Academy program, advances computer science skills on the education and makes it accessible to students glob- ally to drive knowledge, innovation, skills develop- KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait ment, and diversity in technology fields. Oracle would like to congratulate rise: Oracle exec Academy leverages Oracle’s technology leadership its customers and clients on to deliver comprehensive programs to secondary the occasion of the holy KUWAIT: With the emergence and growth of new schools, vocational schools, two- and four-year col- month of Ramadan and technologies like big data, Artificial Intelligence, leges, and universities. Oracle Academy partners inform them that trading machine learning and cloud computing, the demand with educational institutions to provide a variety of Jane Richardson hours during this month will for IT and computer science skills has consistently resources, including technology, curriculum and be from 10:30 am until 1:45 risen and will continue to rise for the foreseeable courseware, student virtual conferences, educator pm. Regular hours will future globally, said Jane Richardson, Senior Director, training, and Oracle industry certification and exam In the UAE specifically, Oracle Academy now has resume following the Eid Oracle Academy, EMEA in an interview. Excerpts: preparation materials. members across 28 Higher Education institutions Al-Fitr holiday. With Oracle Academy, students develop IT and supporting over 75 University faculty members and Kuwait Times: What is the level of skills in IT in business skills using software that is used widely 11, 000+ students. We encourage students to con- the region, especially in Cloud? across hundreds of industries. We see varying inter- sider developing foundational programming like Richardson: A recent report from the World ests across the wide range of Oracle Academy cours- those mentioned in our Oracle Academy and Burning Economic Forum shows that some of the most com- es in database design, SQL, PL/SQL, Java program- Glass Technologies report, since these skills are much mon high-skilled jobs in the MENA region include ming and application development across different more in demand outside of the IT sector itself. commercial bankers, corporate finance specialists, countries. Interest in cloud computing is however accountants, schoolteachers, academics, engineers, ubiquitous. Before students can write applications in KT: Are there certifications tied to the training? quality assurance professionals and information the cloud, they have to master foundational comput- Are they open-based industry certifications or pro- technology consultants. The report also states that ing - including SQL and PL/SQL skills and object- prietary Oracle? the STEM talent pool is mainly dominated by a spe- oriented programming. Data is at the core of so many Richardson: Oracle Academy curriculum is devel- cialization in Engineering, Manufacturing and modern innovations - big data, data science, machine oped specifically as academic courseware; our goal Construction (29 percent), with a smaller set of pro- learning and artificial intelligence among them - so is to help provide students with the skills they need fessionals specialized in Information and developing SQL and PL/SQL skills are the basis for to thrive in the modern global economy. Our curricu- Communication Technologies (13 percent), Natural future growth and success. lum is modular, making it easy for educators to Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics (8 percent). In fact, the practice environments Oracle embed it in entirety or in part in degree and diploma Therefore with the emergence and growth of new Academy offers in its SQL, PL/SQL, and Application granting programs. technologies like big data, Artificial Intelligence, Development courses are cloud based. With Oracle The curriculum is also aligned to national and machine learning and cloud computing, the demand Application Express (APEX), users design, develop international standards, like those developed by the for IT and computer science skills has consistently and deploy database-driven applications using only Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and risen and will continue to rise for the foreseeable a web browser. Through full academic curriculum, the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). Both future globally.This report also states that across the Oracle Academy students and faculty gain hands-on are recognized in the MENA region. Additionally, our MENA region, substantial opportunity exists for cre- cloud-based computing experience by using APEX. Java courses can be used to prepare the students for ating high value, formal jobs in the IT sector. the AP Computer Science A exam. Students who Changing technologies mean that employers are KT: How many students and IT professionals do complete Oracle Academy exams included with the seeking different skills. you target annually? Who is the ideal candidate? curriculum receive certificates of learning. This trend is reflected globally. Recent studies Richardson: Each year, Oracle Academy reaches Additionally, Oracle Academy’s Database from Oracle Academy and Burning Glass more than 3.5 million students in 120 countries. The Foundations and Java Foundation courses are aligned Technologies found that in the US, roughly two-thirds program is open to accredited, degree and diploma- with Oracle Junior Certified Associate certifications, CBK bonds and of the highest-paying and fastest-growing jobs in the granting institutions. Once an institution is a member, offered through Oracle University. Students who fields of design, marketing, engineering and data any of its teachers and students can benefit from undertake Oracle Academy courses and then suc- analysis demand computer science skills. In both Oracle Academy. Additionally, educators, education- cessfully complete these challenging exams can related Tawarruq Singapore and the US, the studies indicated a trend al administrators, and students can join Oracle demonstrate their database and Java knowledge and towards “hybrid jobs,” or roles that combine skill sets Academy as individual members and gain direct skills with a distinction recognized by IT industry KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) announced the from different fields, including computing. An exam- access to Oracle Academy benefits. professionals. This qualification can help the stu- most recent issues of CBK bonds and related Tawarruq at a ple of a “hybrid job” would be a mobile app develop- From the MENA region, in the 2016 - 2017 aca- dents show differentiation; whether they are prepar- total value of KD 160 million for three months with a rate of er demanding skills in programming, design, market- demic year, Oracle Academy has members in the ing for college, applying to a graduate program, or return of 2.250 percent. ing, and User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX). UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and Egypt. competing for a first job or internship.

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Experience the power and driving pleasure with Toyota’s all-new Camry hybrid electric vehicle

KUWAIT: Mohamed Naser Al-Sayer & Sons EST CO., electric vehicles in the past two decades, leading to a a subsidiary of Al-Sayer Holding launched all-new 2018 steady rise in the adoption of its environment-friendly Camry Hybrid Electric Vehicle unveiling a new era of cars and pushing its cumulative sales of electrified vehi- technology. The launch event was attended by Al-Sayer cles to 11.47 million. This enormous sales record repre- Board of Directors Faisal Bader Al-Sayer Chairman, sents a reduction of more than 90 million tons of CO2 Mubarak Naser Al-Sayer, CEO along with Bengt Schultz compared to the sales of equivalent conventional vehi- COO, Johan Heislitz Senior Business Director, Scott cles and underscores the tremendous support received McNicol General Manager Toyota Retail, distinguished from customers. guests from partner organizations, valued clients, repre- sentatives of the press and media and employees from Combined power Toyota retail and fleet sales. Combining two power sources consisting of a petrol Speaking about the Camry Heritage Faisal Bader Al- engine and two electric motors, the hybrid electric drive- Sayer, “I remember when Camry was introduced two train on the all-new Toyota Camry HEV produces 176 hp decades ago in the Middle East. Since then several gen- and 118 hp and delivers 22.5 kg-m and 20.6 kg-m of erations of Camry were launched, undergoing stages of torque, respectively. The combined power of the two transformation till the newest 2018 model. But one of the power sources (petrol engine and two electric motors) is things has not changed a fraction - our CUSTOMER’S 215 hp. The drivetrain is mated to an electronically con- TRUST! Business or personal, customers across differ- trolled Continuously Variable Transmission (e-CVT) that ent age profile are proud and happy users of Camry. executes smooth yet quick gear shifts, simulating a six- Now Toyota is bringing a Camry powered with new era speed sequential shift transmission to deliver a new level of technology to the Middle East - the Hybrid Electric of driving pleasure. Vehicle. Going forward our focus is aligning with Toyota With an exciting interior featuring a distinctive design to keep pace with the fast transformation of automotive and offering convenience and comfort with a layer of technology, to drive positive changes and to set new luxury, the new car’s bold cabin is accentuated with a trends in the region.” range of advanced features. This includes a wireless Taking ownership experience to a whole new level, charging system for smartphones, dual-zone automatic the launch of the all-new Camry Hybrid Electric Vehicle air conditioning system, six-speaker sound system, mul- (HEV) in the Middle East, exemplifying its continuous ti-adjustable power front seats, and 60/40 split and commitment to providing environmentally friendly vehi- reclining rear seats, among many others. cles, while offering customers the opportunity to experi- Further enhancing the driving experience, the all-new ence the power and pleasure of sustainable mobility Camry HEV model introduces the latest in-vehicle infor- through cutting-edge technology and an engaging driv- mation technology displays, offering a unique level of ing experience. integrated information with minimal distraction. It relays information through three available interlinked displays; Trend-setter a 10-inch colored head-up display (HUD), a seven-inch According to Scott McNicol “two decades ago multi-information display within the instrument cluster, Toyota set a new trend in industry with the introduction of Prius world’s first mass produced hybrid - and since and an eight-inch audio/navigation control panel that is then there was no looking back. With several hybrid seamlessly integrated into the center console in a mod- models currently available Toyota Hybrid sales has sur- ern, flush-surface design. passed 10 million units worldwide. This is a testimony that customers have started embracing this exceptional Safety top priority As with any other Toyota model, safety remains a top technology.” petrol stations will be significantly reduced. Miyamoto added: “Toyota has been pioneering hybrid priority for the all-new Camry HEV and employs the lat- The all-new Camry HEV provides a comfortable and electric technology for more than 20 years and delivers est safety technologies including the brand’s innovative stable ride with superior handling characteristics, thanks Stirring driving performance not only great fuel efficiency and low carbon emissions Toyota Safety Sense (TSS) safety package, which fea- to Toyota’s New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform, Yugo Miyamoto, Chief Representative, Middle East but also provides a smooth, comfortable, and engaging which represents an entirely new strategy to the way the and North Africa Representative Office, Toyota Motor driving experience, leading to higher customer satisfac- tures Pre-Crash Safety (PCS), Dynamic Radar Cruise company designs, engineers, and packages its vehicles. Corporation, said: “We are tion rates. We extend our deepest Control (DRCC), Automatic High Beam (AHB), and Lane TNGA retains all of Toyota’s traditional values of excited to launch the all- gratitude to our customers in the Departure Alert (LDA). In addition, a comprehensive superlative build quality and safety while injecting a fun new Toyota Camry hybrid region for their continued support, array of safety features has been added to protect vehi- driving experience that plays on all the senses. electric vehicle to build on which inspires us to excel and cle occupants, including six SRS airbags, Vehicle The class-leading model can be driven entirely by the success the Camry Stylish exterior develop cars that exceed their Stability Control (VSC), Anti-lock Braking System either electrical power with zero-fuel consumption and already enjoys in the expectations.” (ABS), Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD), Brake carbon emissions, or with a combination of a petrol region. With its stirring with aggressive Toyota continues to play a Assist (BA), Hill-start Assist Control (HAC), as well as an engine and two electric motors depending on the vehicle driving performance and character lines leading role in constantly innovat- enhanced body structure and platform structure, among speed and customer’s driving behavior. The batteries in state-of-the-art electrified ing and developing technologies many others. the hybrid electric drivetrain are automatically charged technology, the all-new that protect the environment, Available in nine distinctive exterior colors, the all- by either the petrol engine or when braking and deceler- Camry HEV creates a which is also a strategic imperative new Camry HEV lets customers express their individual- ating, eliminating the need to plug in a power cord. whole new value proposi- that forms the cornerstone of the ity. On the other hand, the interior is available with two Furthermore, the all-new Camry HEV does not require a tion, while ensuring seam- company’s business. Electrification types of wood ornament. Furthermore, the all-new special fuel yet drives like any other conventional car. In less fun and excitement for driver and passengers alike of vehicles has been an indispensable focus for Toyota Camry HEV has been rearmed with a 17-inch alloy wheel addition, thanks to its top-class fuel efficiency, visits to without compromising on its environmental credentials.” since 1997 and the company has launched several hybrid and an 18-inch alloy wheel. 20 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, May 15, 2018 In DR Congo, home-grown digital entrepreneurs defy odds Curious investors gather in Kinshasa for launch of ‘Ingenious City’

KINSHASA: Being a digital entrepreneur in the Democratic Fighting for funding launched a special unit to help young entrepreneurs. “We’re said Strouvens. “Entrepreneurs need a bit more support from republic of Congo comes with many challenges, not least that Access to high speed internet is not the only problem- going to tell the banks-here are those you should give funds the state and from the private sector, but we really don’t have internet access is very limited in a vast country of more than 80 many investors are wary of the political and security risks in to,” said Serge Nawej, president of the National Commission anything to envy from our neighbors.” million people. Overcoming the odds, a small vibrant tech scene DRC. The banks can provide some funding but entrepreneurs for Young Entrepreneurs (CNJE). “We’ll give our members is emerging in the sprawling capital, backed by funding from find it difficult to convince them legal advice and encourage rev- ‘Useful to my country’ the DRC diaspora. that they are a safe bet. enue sharing,” said Nawej, who Jonathan Kiloso, who spent several years in France, recent- Dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs and curious investors “Being an entrepreneur in hopes to reach 55,000 members ly co-founded an incubator called Start It Congo. His aim is to recently gathered in Kinshasa for the launch of “Ingenious Kinshasa is a bit like being thrown by 2020. Thomas Strouvens, a support six Congolese start-ups this year. “I want to be useful City,” a dual-use meeting and office space with high speed in the middle of a boxing ring and Internet access Belgian citizen with Congolese to my country,” he said, “but it’s also a business venture. In a internet for Congolese start-ups. you have to fight against someone roots, moved to Kinshasa five market that isn’t very competitive, the digital space presents WapiMED, an online map where users can book and pay who is stronger than you”, said very limited in years ago, deciding to leave his an opportunity but you have to have an idea”. Kiloso backs for medical consultations, was founded by two Congolese, Baya Ciamala, known as Narsix job in advertising and launch a Baziks, which aims to promote Congolese and African musi- Jose Zefu Kimpalou and Steve Nkashama. Their startup is self- and founder of Baziks, a music a vast country start-up last year with his co- cians. “Music in the DRC is like football in Brazil”, said financed for now. streaming app. “We need working of over 80 million founder Jean-Louis Mbaka. Ciamala. “We could have started our company in France but I “As entrepreneurs, we don’t think about the risks; we think capital. We need to invest in The pair created Youdee, a think it’s important to start in the country of origin”. Baziks about how we can initiate change and bring about a solution research and development for our real-estate website that connects connects African musicians with listeners through a system of to a problem,” said company country manager, Daddy projects, because it’s really a new owners, renters, buyers and sell- “followers”. The application offers a pay-by-song service as Kabeyal. industry that requires flexibility ers. Since launching in 2017, they well as a premium subscription service. Ciamala’s goal is to Kabeyal, who studied in Europe before returning to and funds to be able to move forward and operate, and that is have been attracting 5,000 views per month. Strouvens and reach two percent of the connected population in the DRC. Kinshasa, joined the team last year after a career in marketing. really not easy in Kinshasa”, he added. Mbaka were able to raise funds and hire eight employees in “It’s a bit philosophical but it’s also to prove that we can do Using their online platform, a Congolese living abroad can pay There are signs of change however. The country’s national Kinshasa. “We are better organized and have a stronger tech things here, that we can export internationally, instead of the for medical treatment for relatives back home. trade union (Federation des Enterprises du Congo) recently community than people think. There’s a real potential here,” other way around”. — AFP

Mercedes-Benz to offer complimentary check-ups this Ramadan KUWAIT: With Ramadan around the corner, A R Albisher & Z Alkazemi Company - the authorized General Distributor of Mercedes- Benz in Kuwait - has announced a complimen- tary brake and suspension check-up campaign for Mercedes-Benz cars owners throughout the holy month while highlighting the impor- tance and safety of a well maintained and fine- tuned vehicle all year around. The campaign aims to provide the highest levels of safety and comfort to Mercedes-Benz cars owners, pre- venting them from any hassle or inconvenience during this period of the year. Valid from the first day of Ramadan, this items range from cars mats, hub caps, alloy Mercedes-Benz customers can sit back special offer applies on the full range of wheels, polo shirts, watches, caps, sun glasses, and relax, while their car is being checked for Mercedes-Benz sedans, SUVs, cabriolets, pens, key chains, wallets, model cars and brake and suspensions by trained technicians roadsters and coupes at all three authorized Mercedes-Benz perfumes. The generous dis- using the latest tools and equipment and also Mercedes-Benz Service Centers - Shuwaikh browse through the available lifestyle and Service Centre, Al-Rai Service Centre, and accessory collections. Ahmadi Service Centre. Ramadan timings for A R Albisher & Z The customers can enjoy complimentary Alkazemi’s Service centers are as follows: visual brake and suspension checks of their Shuwaikh Service Centre / Express Mercedes-Benz vehicles and also avail 35 per- Service (8:00 am to 2:00 pm); Shuwaikh cent discount on related genuine Parts for the Quick Lube Centre (8:00 am to 2:00 pm and jobs done at any one of the service centres. counts on these selected items is only avail- 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm); Ahmadi Service Centre Also, A R Albisher & Z Alkazemi Company able during the month of Ramadan while / Express Service (8:00 am to 2:00 pm); Al- will be offering a special discount of up to 55 stocks last. The items are available at all the Rai Service Centre (8:00 am to 2:00 pm); & percent on selected items from Mercedes- boutique and accessory shops in the service Al-Rai Express Service (8:00 am to 2:00pm Benz boutique and accessory collection. The centers. and 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm).

China had resumed its review of chipmaker numbered decliners by a 2.39-to-1 ratio on the Wall St climbs on Qualcomm’s proposed $44 billion takeover of NXP NYSE. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by Semiconductors. NXP surged 10.3 percent and a 2.04-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P index Qualcomm 3.3 percent. The Philadelphia semicon- recorded 21 new 52-week highs and two new lows, easing US-China ductor index was up 1.9 percent. At 9:55 am ET, the while the Nasdaq recorded 73 new highs and 15 Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 120.76 new lows. Stocks in Asia were also upbeat. MSCI’s points, or 0.49 percent, at 24,951.93, the S&P 500 broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan trade tensions was up 12.45 points, or 0.46 percent, at 2,740.17 rose 0.5 percent, while Japan’s Nikkei also tacked and the Nasdaq Composite was up 43.40 points, or on 0.5 percent. 0.59 percent, at 7,446.28. Chinese shares came off the day’s highs but still NEW YORK: Wall Street indexes rose yesterday, The indexes posted solid gains last week, ended in positive territory after Trump’s comments helped by gains in technology stocks after helped by a surge in oil prices, easing inflation on ZTE Corp ,, which JPMorgan analysts said was President Donald Trump softened his stance on fears and Apple’s rally that took the iPhone maker “a significant positive”. Shanghai’s SSE Composite Chinese technology company ZTE Corp, signaling close to $1 trillion in market capitalization. index rose 0.3 percent while the blue-chip rallied easing US-China trade tensions. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial 0.9 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index climbed Trump on Sunday pledged to help ZTE “get Average were trading above their 100-day moving 1.4 percent. back into business, fast” nearly a month after the averages, a key technical level that many traders Elsewhere in Asia, the Malaysian ringgit recov- US Commerce Department banned American com- believe is a sign that markets could gain further. “It ered losses after sliding 1 percent to a four-month panies from selling to the firm for violating an looks like the markets want to move up, and there trough against the dollar in the first onshore trade agreement. Trump’s comments came ahead of trade seems to be a rosier outlook for geopolitics espe- since a shock election upset last week. Malaysian talks between Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and US cially North Korea,” Cardillo said. US Secretary of stocks sank as much as 2.7 percent at one point but officials this week to resolve escalating trade dis- State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that ended 0.2 percent higher. Veteran Mahathir putes and drove big gains in the shares of US sup- Washington would agree to lift sanctions on North Mohamad, 92, came out of political retirement to pliers to ZTE. Korea if the country agrees to completely disman- lead the opposition Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Optical components maker Acacia tle its nuclear weapons program. Nine of the 11 Hope) to a stunning victory, defeating prime minis- Communications jumped 16.1 percent, while Oclaro major S&P sectors were higher, with technology ter Najib Razak, a former protege whom he had and Lumentum Holdings rose 5.8 percent and 3.6 and energy sectors leading the gains. accused of corruption. percent, respectively. “Some of the headlines point Exxon rose 1.1 percent after Citigroup raised its Some investors were concerned that populist to signs that Trump might be watering down his price target on the stock. The biggest decliner was promises such as repealing an unpopular goods tough talks on trade,” said Peter Cardillo, chief Xerox, which tumbled 7.9 percent after the US and services tax and restoring a petrol subsidy market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in photocopier giant scrapped a planned $6.1 billion could undermine the country’s finances. New York. Also helping the mood was news that deal with Fujifilm Holdings. Advancing issues out- But some analysts believe Mahathir’s proposals could be positive for the economy. “The repeal of GST, while only marginally negative for the fiscal deficit, will be a boon for consumers, who have ceeded in pushing up prices in recent months, been upset that they bear the burden of poor fiscal US oil output to rising crude prices have at the same time made management and came out to vote against the it more attractive for shale producers-whose establishment,” said Trinh Nguyen, senior econo- overheads are lower than the oil majors-to ramp mist at Natixis. grow again this up output. OPEC has repeatedly warned that booming US shale production could jeopardize Oil and Iran year: OPEC the delicate balance that the overall market has While tensions in the Korean peninsula have managed to reach. In its latest monthly oil mar- eased, US plans to reintroduce sanctions against PARIS: Booming oil output in the United ket report, OPEC upgraded its forecast for non- Iran have stoked anxiety in the Middle East. Iran States-which has threatened to derail other OPEC output and said that the US would pumps about 4 percent of the world’s oil, and the producers’ efforts to drive up crude prices- account for the largest share of the projected latest development has sent oil prices to near multi- looks set to expand strongly again this year, increase. Following a contraction in 2016, “non- year highs. Citi analyst Mark Schofield said rising oil OPEC said yesterday. But rising inflation and OPEC oil supply has seen a recovery in 2017 prices risk causing ‘stagflation’, which could create possible trade restrictions could throw a span- and 2018... This has been on the back of a particularly “hostile environment” for risk assets. ner in the works for US producers in the longer improving oil market conditions and rising oil Yesterday, US crude traded flat at $70.71 a bar- term, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting prices,” the report said. rel and Brent was up at $77.23, clawing back previ- Countries said in a report. The US is not a Nevertheless, it was “evident that uncertain- ous losses after a relentless rise in US drilling activ- member of OPEC which accounts for more than ties remain as to the forecast pace of growth of ity pointed to increased output. The United States 40 percent of the global oil market. non-OPEC supply for the remainder of the year,” threatened on Sunday to impose sanctions on But booming output of US shale producers- the cartel cautioned. The performance of non- European companies that do business with Iran, as eager to cash in on a rally in oil prices since late OPEC supply in 2018 would depend on many the remaining participants in the Iran nuclear last year-has proven a headache for combined factors, it said. “The continued strong develop- accord stiffened their resolve to keep that agree- efforts by both OPEC members and non-mem- ment of the world economy could lead to rising ment operational. In currencies, the dollar dipped bers to cut back production to combat a global inflation, and, along with potential trade restric- 0.2 percent to 92.33 against a basket of major cur- oil glut. While those efforts have indeed suc- tions, would impact oil production costs.” — AFP rencies and was set for its fourth straight day of losses. — Reuters Established 1961 21 Business Tuesday, May 15, 2018 NBK, Mastercard make GCC debut of pioneering biometric solutions Identity check offers authentication solution for online transactions

KUWAIT: Answering the market’s growing demand for increased convenience and security associated with biometric technology, National Bank of Kuwait and Mastercard announced two pioneering biometric solutions designed to improve online and in-store shopping at a press conference held at NBK headquarters. Isam J. Al-Sager, Group Chief Executive Officer, National Bank of Kuwait, and Mohammed Al-Othman, General Manager of Consumer Banking Group, National Bank of Kuwait attended the event. Khalid Elgibali, Division President - Middle East and North Africa represented Mastercard at the event which started with the announcement of the new biometric solutions and was followed by a showcase at NBK museum. Journalists were invited to test drive the Identity Check online authentication solution along with other inno- KUWAIT: Isam J Al-Sager (second left), Mohammed Al-Othman and Khalid Elgibali during KUWAIT: Officials of National Bank of Kuwait and Mastercard during the launch of two vative banking technologies NBK has intro- the press conference pioneering biometric solutions designed to improve online and in-store shopping. duced including Video Chat, Quick Pay, Ask Me and the advanced Online Banking and Mobile Banking app services. rience Mastercard’s Identity Check online cation through the app prompting them to transaction can then be approved with the technology available today. The adoption of Isam Al-Sager, NBK’s Group Chief authentication solution, while a pilot program authenticate their identity using their pre- card never leaving the consumer’s hand. this technology is also fully aligned with our Executive Officer, said: “Our long-standing for an innovative biometric card with an ferred choice of biometrics to complete the The biometric card works with existing ‘mobile-first strategy’, which outlines a partnership with Mastercard enables us today embedded fingerprint sensor will be a first for transaction when making online purchases. EMV card terminals globally, so cardholders roadmap to a more convenient future for our to introduce the most advanced and first of its the GCC. National Bank of Kuwait and MasterCard can use it wherever cards are accepted, with- customers.” kind service in the Middle East, allowing cus- Mastercard Identity Check is an advanced also announced the out any new hard- “We are excited to build on our long- tomers to use the Selfie Pay service as well as authentication solution that uses biometric GCC region’s first ware or software standing partnership with NBK as we debut biometric cards. These new services come in identifiers such as fingerprint, facial and voice pilot program for a upgrades required groundbreaking biometric technology in the line with NBK’s endeavors to offer the latest recognition to verify users’ identity through biometric card to from merchants. region for the very first time. Our joint technologies in the banking sector as demand their mobile devices when shopping and bank- conveniently and Biometric card Dimitrios research with the University of Oxford has for easier and safer banking services continue ing online. The solution works across multiple safely verify the features an Kokosioulis, Head proven that 93 percent of consumers prefer to increase.” devices and platforms, simplifying consumers’ cardholder’s identi- of IT & Operations using biometrics to remembering passwords. Al-Sager added: “We continue to focus on lives by eliminating the need to enter a pass- ty for in-store pur- embedded Group, National These next-generation authentication solu- bringing innovative and unique services to our word or answer security questions. chases. When shop- Bank of Kuwait tions are no longer based on what you remem- NBK customers through our partnerships with Following the official launch, the ping and paying in- fingerprint sensor commented: “NBK ber, but who you are - a fundamental differ- leading and internationally renowned compa- Mastercard and NBK co-branded app, store, the biometric endeavors to deliv- ence that brings new levels of convenience to nies such Mastercard. Leading the way with ‘Mastercard Identity Check for NBK, ‘ will card works like any er innovative, pow- consumers, while further enhancing security. technologically advanced services is a strate- be available from the Apple App Store and other chip card. The erful and distinctive The development of these innovative solutions gy that falls in line with our long-term strategy Google Play Store. Consumers can download cardholder simply dips the card into a retail- value propositions to our consumers. marks an important step in our ongoing quest to improving mobile services that satisfy the the application and register their biometrics er’s point-of-sale terminal while placing their Working with Mastercard, we are introduc- to fulfill the needs of consumers and drive needs of our customers.” - whether fingerprint or face - securely on finger on the embedded sensor. The fingerprint ing solutions in the region for the very first change across the region’s constantly evolving NBK customers will be the first in the the smartphone. is verified against the template stored on the time, meaning our customers can experience payments ecosystem,” said Khalid Elgibali, Middle East and Africa (MEA) region to expe- Once registered, users will receive a notifi- card and - if the biometrics matches - the the latest and most advanced authentication Division President, MENA, Mastercard. Ramadan deals are shining Gulf Bank announces winners of bright at Honda Al-Danah weekly draw KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al-Danah weekly the new ePay (Self-Pay) service, which is draw on 13 May 2018 announcing the names available on Gulf Bank’s Online and Mobile Alghanim of its winners for the week of 6 - 10 May 2018. Banking. From April 15th onwards, the daily draws were Al-Danah also offers a number of unique KUWAIT: On the occasion of the Holy month of replaced with weekly draws, in which five win- services including the Al-Danah Deposit Only Ramadan, Honda Alghanim, the exclusive dis- ners will receive KD 1,000 each, every week. ATM card, which helps account holders tributor of Honda cars, motorcycles and marine The winners this week are: deposit their money at their convenience, as equipment in Kuwait, is extending its warm * Perin Ibrahim Al-Hajal well as the Al-Danah calculator to help cus- wishes to its customers with an unprecedented * Mohammad Saleh Khalil Al-Temimi tomers calculate their chances of becoming an offer that gives them the freedom to choose * Waleed Hamad Mohammed Al-Sumait Al-Danah winner. between 0 percent interest, free golden insur- * Mohammad Ibraheem Mohammad Al- Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah account is open to ance or cash back up to KD 800, or free serv- count on the Odyssey or Odyssey-J being the qualities along a unique interior and exterior Khabaz Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti residents of Kuwait. ice up to 3 years along free third party insur- best in their class in terms of spaciousness, features, this four-wheel-drive modern SUV has * Hamad Abdullah Saad Al-Maayouf Customers require a minimum of KD 200 to ance and car registration when buying the 2018 high-performance, and fuel efficiency. Known sold nearly 1.4 million vehicles since first Gulf Bank Al-Danah’s first quarterly draw open an account and the same amount should Civic, Odyssey, Odyssey-J, or Pilot vehicles. as the absolute vehicle for families, the released, making this stylish, practical, and com- for KD 200,000 prize was held on 28 March, be maintained for customers to be eligible for This Ramadan is the perfect time to own one Odyssey series provides safe performance and fortable car the perfect choice for families look- and the second Al-Danah quarterly draw, for the upcoming Al-Danah draws. If the cus- of Honda’s renowned cars at unmatched prices. enjoys state-of-the-art technology owing to ing to embark on fun-filled journeys. the prize of KD 250,000 will be held on 27 tomer’s account balance falls below KD 200 at Honda Alghanim’s campaign brings exclusive the rear-seat DVD entertainment system. Alghanim Motors, the exclusive distributor June while the 3rd quarterly draw for the prize any given time, a KD 2 fee will be charged to offers on latest models, including the all-new Furthermore, a child safety car seat can be eas- of Honda automobiles, motorcycles, power of KD 500,000 will be held on 26 September. their account monthly until the minimum bal- Civic, acclaimed as the city’s ideal car, and set- ily placed in the Odyssey and Odyssey-J, mak- products, and marine products in Kuwait, is The final Al-Danah draw for KD 1 million will ance is met. Customers who open an account ting new standards with its superior performance ing of it the ultimate car for children’s daily trip committed to providing customers with flexi- be held on 10 January 2019, where the Al- and/ or deposit more will enter the daily draw and sporty design. Equipped with a 1.5, 1.6 or 2.0 to school, housewives’ daily shopping routine, ble payment solutions and efficient and cost- Danah millionaire will be announced. within two days. To take part in the Al-Danah liters engine, the Honda Civic 2018 displays and weekend trips. effective services. Customers can take advan- Gulf Bank encourages you to increase your 2018 upcoming quarterly and yearly draws, automatic side mirrors, a 7-inch touch screen, as Ramadan’s offer includes as well the Pilot, the tage of this offer by visiting any of Honda chances of winning with Al-Danah by deposit- customers must meet the required hold period well as a luxurious cabin for maximum comfort. largest car in Honda’s fleet with seating for as Alghanim showrooms located in Al-Rai, ing more into your Gulf Bank account using for each draw. Customers looking for a family vehicle can many as eight persons. Promoting sophisticated Shuwaikh, and Al-Ahmadi.

with food. Almost all Android systems represent something delicious. Android 5.0 is called lollipop, Huawei Y7 Prime 6.0 marshmallow, 7.0 Nougat, and 8.0 Oreo. Huawei adopts Android 8.0 for its budget 2018, an entry phones much faster than Samsung, OPPO. The new arrival HUAWEI Y7 Prime 2017 is no exception. It represents another move ahead to delight cus- level phone that tomers. By building on Android 6 and 7, Android 8.0 is getting a stronger grip on apps running in the backend. This prolongs battery life to some extent, delivers smooth because apps go to sleep if not in use and they wake up once called. The idea is to cut back on experience backend power consumption without removing high-end market segments owning to its strong apps or changing user behaviors. And the phone KUWAIT: Have ever wished your phone to function R&D and the outstanding experience the phone runs faster on Android 8.0. as good as a blockbuster, whether you are playing delivers. And its mid- and low-end handsets “bor- games, streaming videos, or taking photos? row” some elements of such experience. The Optimized EMUI 8.0 Is your handset too old to run a bunch of apps? HUAWEI Y7 Prime (2018) crams in an octa-core Apart from stronger hardware and new version Is the memory too tiny? Does your phone freeze all processor and 3G RAM +32G ROM, which are of OS, another key element for smooth experience the time? Is the Android version too outdated? strong engines for the phone. The EMUI 8.0 based is further optimization of the system. This depends Why can’t you enjoy smooth experience? Where on Android 8.0 takes another step ahead by lever- on the phone maker’s R&D. As a key player in can you get a good device? aging both the hardware and software, delivering Android smartphones, Huawei is well positioned to Topkap Palace Smooth experience depends on hardware and smooth experience easily. improve Android systems. As a result, HUAWEI software. Robust hardware is the key to spectacular Mate 9 and other premium handsets that come after experience. In other words, the more cores the Stronger chipset it are born fast and stay fast, delivering stunning sengers and going beyond expectations with chipset has, the stronger the phone is. The bigger the Apps are evolving constantly, and their func- experience even after 18 months. Enjoy Istanbul with its array of unique products and services. The memory, the faster the phone runs. On the flip side, a tions are getting more complicated these days. Huawei’s EMUI 8.0 is based on Android 8.0. But national flag-carrier offers the complementary Even if the system stays the same, it requires more mature, optimized software system means better it is better after deep customization. It integrates touristanbul service including transfers, access from chipsets and memory. The fierce competition with an octa-core chipset to bring consumers the backend management, CPU allocation, and fragment to historical sights of interest as well as a sam- management, allowing you to enjoy the device more. has taken the Android hardware to a new level - best advantages of software and hardware integra- Turkish Airlines pling of Turkey’s famed cuisine. Passengers Indeed, a growing number of budget phones now Octa-core processors are seen everywhere; memo- tion as well as the superior performance of CPU. have octa-core processors, thanks to the fierce com- ry is getting bigger. These are the foundation for Furthermore, leveraging machine learning algo- can catch a glimpse of the varied history and petition. But not all processors are as good as you delightful experience on Android. rithms, the device learns users’ behaviors and habits and touristanbul cultural fusion which has made Istanbul such a vibrant and charming city. think. On memory, for example, 3G RAM +32G ROM The HUAWEI Y7 Prime 2018 is equipped with to ensure better mobile performance. EMUI 8.0 DUBAI: Turkish Airlines, flying to more coun- an energy-saving octa-core chipset called To enjoy the benefits of touristanbul, pas- prevails. However, Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) fea- features the next generation file enhancement sys- tries and international destinations than any tures 3G RAM+16G ROM. Of course, different hard- MSM8937. Combined with leading techniques, it tem to reduce file fragmentation, which means the sengers must have an international transit other airline, offers a free layover service to all flight through Istanbul with Turkish Airlines ware means different experience. gives users better experience with less energy con- HUAWEI Y7 Prime 2018 preserves their speed and sumption. The phone also features a more common international transit Turkish Airlines passen- and layover of 6-24 hours. Tours depart daily Software is pivotal. But most entry-level phones responsiveness overtime. With EMUI 8.0, the from the Hotel Desk at Istanbul Ataturk don’t have the latest Android OS. For example, 3G RAM +32G ROM, making multitasking possible HUAWEI Y7 Prime 2018 will bring users a gers who fly through Istanbul with a 6-24 hour layover. Since its launch in 2009, touris- Airport, with a daily schedule taking place Samsung Galaxy J7 2017 runs on Android 7.0 while and easier. The more robust chipset and more gen- smoother and much better experience. Unlike other 8:30 to 11:00, from 09:00 to 15:00, from OPPO A83 on Android 7.1. Some are even worse. In erous memory are the recipe for remarkable expe- phone makers, Huawei has introduced better hard- tanbul has already benefitted almost a quarter of a million passengers who were able to 09:00 to 18:00, from 12:00 to 18:00 and from a word, these hardware and software leave much to rience including streaming music, videos, surfing, ware and software to entry-level phones, delivering 16:00 to 21:00. The tour program includes a be desired for better user experience. and games. premium experience to wider audience as soon as enjoy a taste of Istanbul. combination of some Istanbul’s highlights such Huawei is changing that. The company is a lead- possible. When HUAWEI Y7 Prime 2018 comes, With its customary Turkish hospitality, as Topkap Palace, Sultan Ahmet Mosque, ing player in smartphones, and a great success in Latest Android 8.0 smooth experience - games, videos, and web Turkish Airlines takes pride in curating a Hagia Sophia, Grand Bazaar, Galata Tower, Google usually associates its latest Android OS browsing - is finally within your reach. delightfully different experience for its pas- Dolmabahce Palace and many more. 22 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, May 15, 2018 KFH unveils Ramadan program ‘increase good deeds in Ramadan 4’ Al-Ruwaieh: Bank CSR achievements key milestone in sustainable development

Distributing iftar meals

KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has unveiled concerned parties. its comprehensive Ramadan program themed “Increase KFH voluntary team Good Deeds in Ramadan 4” that includes various social will be present at differ- and humanitarian events and activities stemming from — Distributing over 20000 iftar meals in Ramadan ent places to meet the the bank’s endeavors to solidify its commitment public directly and dis- towards the society, while supporting all social and tribute Ramadan pres- humanitarian initiatives. — Strategic partnership with Ministry of Interior ents and confectionaries “Increase Good Deeds in Ramadan 4” program aims (Qerqe’an) at Discovery at strengthening KFH’s social role, while reinforcing ties — Daily field visits mall, The Kuwait Society with various segments of society. This program is the for the Handicapped, launchpad of comprehensive program full of activities, Kuwait Down Syndrome events, visits and voluntary work. Al Mubarakeya, and Alshamlan mosque. The bank has commitment towards the youth initiatives and the Society and Dasman Executive Manager Group Public Relations and signed an agreement with Nahtam voluntary team to environment. Diabetes Institute. KFH Media at KFH, Yousef Abdullah Al-Ruwaieh said that launch “Ramadan Aman” campaign to distribute ‘Agrivage’ won coveted INJAZ-Kuwait award, will organize a number Yousef Al-Ruwaieh KFH will continue its efforts to support all activities of 100000 meals. INJAZ AlArab award in addition to the honoring by His of visits to health cen- interest to the society in line with the bank’s strategy KFH organizes breakfast feasts to workers on duties Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber ters, hospitals and nursing and social responsibility message, especially in the Holy during Iftar time in recognition of their efforts and Al-Sabah. homes to congratulate patients on the Holy month of month of Ramadan. responsibilities. KFH has signed a cooperation agree- ‘Agrivate’ initiative is considered as highly important Ramadan while distributing gifts. He added in a press release, that KFH has prepared a ment with ‘Agrivage’; a startup business created by a especially in the holy month of Ramadan. KFH support Al-Ruwaieh concluded that KFH voluntary team will comprehensive program in Ramadan that encompasses group of Kuwaiti students, with the purpose of pre- to ‘Agrivage’ and the signing of the cooperation agree- provide voluntary services to the public and will assist different activities that encompass all social segments, serving the environment by recycling food waste and ment as the first institution in the private sector con- civil defense and security men and distribute food and indicating KFH will distribute over 20000 breakfast converting it into usable rich soil. firms the great interest KFH attaches in the activities of beverages to worshipers. KFH is keen on reinforcing meals at different places including Nayef Palace, Souq This comes as part of KFH social responsibility and interest to the environment in collaboration with the the human values among society individuals. Established 1961 23 Health Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Workshop and conference held on Damon’s philosophy, clinical practice The workshop highlights the development of the Damon System

(From left to right) Professor David Bearn, Dr Faraj Behbehani, and Dr Richard Cure.

By Faten Omar have contracted exclusively with is the American registered, about 80 percent of whom specialized in and wires, it’s a whole new way of treating patients. ‘Ormco’ company.” He added that Ormco is specialized orthodontics in Kuwait.” Traditional treatment often requires removal of healthy KUWAIT: The Quality Source Company held Damon in the materials used in orthodontics. “They have a The first day session was titled ‘Understanding teeth and the use of palatal expanders to make space. Introductory and Damon Advance sessions by Dr strategic product that was famous in the world of Damon: Where Biology meets Mechanics’ and was pre- This approach is often uncomfortable, takes longer, and Richard Cure and Dr David Bearn on Thursday at the orthodontics, called Damon system, which has the self- sented by the two professors from UK. Bearn who is a can leave a narrower arch and a flat profile. Damon Crowne Plaza Hotel in Farwaniya. The course was held linking feature”. professor of Orthodontics at the University of Dundee, smiles are full, natural 10-tooth smiles achieved with for two days and explored Damon’s philosophy, clinical Behbehani explained “When we move the teeth we examiner for intercollegiate membership in orthodon- light biologically-sensible forces, and are specifically practice and evidence. slide it in the wire. If the amount of friction between tics and lead researcher on Ormco Clinical Trial. designed to improve the overall facial result of each Dr Faraj Behbehani, CEO of Quality Source and an orthodontics and the teeth was less, then the movement Alongside him was Dr Cure, head of dentistry studies, patient where Damon braces use a slide mechanism to orthodontist consultant at Basma Dental Center, told will be easier and the pain less. This system has existed director of orthodontics at the university of Warwick. hold the wire, which allows teeth to move more freely, Kuwait Times that the workshop highlights the devel- for a long time and has been developed. I used it per- The Damon System is a consumer branding quickly and comfortably. Damon braces are designed to opment of the Damon System. “I founded Quality sonally in Kuwait in 2007. The common name for this approach to help you better connect with patients and be discreet, comfortable and easy to keep clean. Source Medical Services in 2007 before establishing system is the quick orthodontic because it is easier capitalize on their growing demand for faster, aestheti- Without the elastic ties which attract and collect my clinic in 2009. The company is interested in taking than the regular one and saves approximately 6 months cally-pleasing orthodontic treatment that delivers plaque, Damon braces make dental hygiene easy during international agencies with scientific importance in the of treatment.” He noted “The sessions will cover the remarkable results and a new, beautiful smile. treatment. Plus the Damon System is available in clear field of dental products. One of the companies that we scientific side of Damon system where 85 people were The system is not just about revolutionary braces brackets for those image conscious patients. 24 Established 1961 What’s On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Fann Way Art holds ‘Al Mashreq’ art exhibition at Al Hamra Center

Nasser Sharaf, founder of Fann Way with Sheikh Duaij Al Sabah. — Photos by Joseph Shagra

By Faten Omar focuses on the exhibition of art and formwork for art lovers and exhibitions in the field of ann Way Art and Events Co in collabo- art. The company is dedicated to take a big- ration with Al Hamra Luxury Center ger role in bridging art and Kuwaiti Society Forganized the “Al Mashreq” art exhibi- through offered services where its mission is tion to display paintings inspired by the spirit to maintain the younger generations love for of Arab and Islamic civilization yesterday at creating art. Fann Way is also taking part in ‘The Gallery’. “The exhibition is a collective social responsibility through community of 45 artworks created by 29 artists from the services such as volunteering in culture and State of Kuwait, Middle East and Europe” social activities, arranging charity art exhibi- Nasser Sharaf, founder of Fann Way said. tion and introducing Kuwaiti art to public. He added that the Al Mashreq exhibition ‘The Gallery’ in Al Hamra Luxury Center introduces people to art of calligraphy, pat- was officially opened in July 2017. There terns, gilding, portraits, horses and architec- have been more than seven art exhibitions ture where the participating works are domi- held here. Each exhibition has varied nated by plastic creativity in all aspects. between showcasing international and local Along with this, is the use of constructive artists and also includes space to host art interdependence with the latest modern courses and lectures for those who are techniques in the concept of formation, using interested in this matter, especially in the them in all classical and modern art styles. fields of portraiture, painting, photography, Fann Way was established in 2017 and and calligraphy.

With great privilege and pleasure, Celebrate the Holy ICSK charity ICSK presented the monetary aid to the six special guests in an assembly con- ducted on May 10, 2018. Ragi Month of Ramadan fund a big Manemma, Jainaph Shek, Sita Maya Gole, Devananda Kumar Kollu, Jackeline with Marina Hotel success Ababon, and Leonila Himantog were the lucky ones and each received KD 150.000. n celebration of the holy month of Ramadan, Marina Hotel will be As Aristotle once rightfully said, “To reviving the traditions of this occasion by offering many cuisines for all 0th May 2018 proved to be another give away money is an easy matter in guests to share iftar and ghabka meals with families and friends. blessed day for ICSK (Senior) as I joy gripped the hearts of six special any man’s power. But to decide to whom Facing the beautiful views of the Arabian Sea, the Atlantis restaurant 1 offers tasty food in a perfect ambiance. The wide variety of the buffet people. Through the kind hearts of the to give it, and how large and when, and includes Arabic and International dishes and allows guests to gather with students, staff and able leadership of Dr for what purpose and how, is neither in their families and friends during the sunset which makes it the perfect V. Binumon, the Principal, a substantial every man’s power nor an easy matter”. place to break their fast. The Atlantis will serve iftar till 08:30 pm amount of money was collected during The guests received the aid with grati- Kamar Al Marina tent features traditional Arabic decorations and warm the month of March as charity and tude and joy filling their hearts. Each one colors to reflect the spiritual meaning of Ramadan. To allow our guests to birthday funds, in order to provide of them left the school with a smile from enjoy this atmosphere, Marina Hotel chefs have prepared a special ghabka monetary aid to people who were most their hearts and in turn the ICSK family buffet which includes exceptional oriental desserts as well as seasonal in need of it. felt fortunate enough to be able to help. drinks complemented by a selection of tea flavors and Arabic coffee. The tent is located inside the Six Palms and can accommodate up to 200 guests for ghabka and suhour from 21:00 to 02:00 am. It will be spon- sored by KLM Airlines for the entire period of the month. For private functions and corporate events, Salwa Sabah Al Ahmed Theatre and Hall is the perfect venue. This exquisite hall can accommodate up to 500 guests at a time and the staff provides special personalized attention to all details. It also offers a selection of different menus for iftar and suhour at exclusive prices and is fully equipped to cater for groups and organizations. Nabil Hammoud, General Manager, said: “As the month of Ramadan comes, we would like to wish our guests and their families a Ramadan Mubarak and invite them to our hotel to enjoy the Arabic hospi- tality and the wide selection of local and international food especially Marina Hotel is located right in the heart of one of the most prominent made for this occasion. places in Kuwait. Guests can visit Marina Mall, which is among the best Apart from the amazing iftar, ghabka and suhour offerings, guests are shopping malls in Kuwait and is only walking distance from the hotel. invited to avail a special room rate throughout the month for 2 persons They can also go to Marina Crescent which houses a variety of interna- where they can relax and enjoy their stay in the luxurious rooms that are tional restaurants and coffee shops. Make this Ramadan a truly memo- specially designed and have all the requisite facilities and luxurious rable one by sharing special moments with family and friends at The amenities. They can also use the state of the art fitness centre. Marina Hotel Kuwait. Malabar Gold & Diamonds celebrated International Nurse’s Day

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alabar Gold & Diamonds, one among training, and scope of practice. ting ceremony along with some fun games has the BIG 5 global jewelry retailer cele- Malabar Gold & Diamonds has taken the ini- been arranged as a part of the event. Mbrated the International Nurses Day in tiative to celebrate the International Nurses Day ‘We thank Malabar Gold & Diamonds for their association with Al Adan Hospital on 12th May, as a token appreciation to the Nurses for their gesture towards us & also celebrating 2018 at the Al Adan Hospital. International selfless contribution. Commenting on the celebra- ‘International Nurses Day’ with us and it was Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on tion, Mr Lukman Alavi, Deputy Branch Head, indeed a new experience for all of us here’, said every May 12th, which is the anniversary of Malabar Gold & Diamonds said, ‘We thank Al Mr Sadiq Abdul Hadi Al Feeli, Nursing Director, Florence Nightingale’s birth. Adan Hospital for associating with us to celebrate Al Adan Hospital said during the event. The event Nursing is a profession within the health care the International Nurses Day. As we celebrate a also marked the importance of ‘World Hygiene sector focused on the care of individuals, families, very special day, the day of the nurses, and we Day’ which falls on May 05th. The day is ongratulations Cia on your graduation and best wishes for your next and communities so they may attain, maintain, or appreciate to all those who serve in nursing’. declared by the ‘World Health Organization’ and adventure! With love and pride from daddy, mommy, Aliya, Sean, family recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses Malabar Gold & Diamonds has also honored 62 encourages patients and their family members to and friends. may be differentiated from other health care Nurses by giving certificate & memento as a join health workers in their efforts to practice C providers by their approach to patient care, token of appreciation for their service. Cake cut- good hand hygiene. Established 1961 25 TV Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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Stars Tuesday, May 15, 2018

CROSSWORD 1909 STAR TRACK

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

The week opens with good energy for you. Your performance in an early Your mind isn’t on the work of the day, but instead lingers upon your hopes meeting brings confidence and positive attitudes regarding a new project and wishes and if-onlies. Important tasks await your attention and you make progress or plan. You gain support for the suggestions you make regarding new methods of oper- quickly as you re the best at what you do! You have worked hard to get where you are, but ating. Later in the morning you discover a helpful hint about the working of new software personal circumstances threaten to dominate your time and energy. You insist on the sex or perhaps this is a new security system. The day drags as you long for the end of it to life you need and could reconsider your current source if those needs aren’t met; this could come; time sometimes drags when we are anxious. Someone turns to you for help con- also indicate an emotional need not being filled. Be mindful your current phase can create cerning a very personal situation; think about this as you don’t want to get caught in a lie. an energy of wanting to control things; beware the tendency to become a control freak. A The heavens are aligned to bring you insight to what the cause is for this problem. Enjoy daring challenge later this evening just might unnerve you and possibly cause a deep rift your evening knowing you have come to the aid of someone dear. between friends depending on how you handle it.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Your passions run high and demand fulfillment. This energy could be direct- You long to find enjoyment and relief from daily pressure. The fun and ed at political, religious, social or emotional/sexual matters. Your mental and emotional entertaining activities in life hold a strong appeal; a chance to get away may present itself considerations undergo transformation down to the cellular level; you refuse to deal with from a surprising source. This is a good period to share time with loved ones or those who hurt feelings or anyone who attempts to make you feel guilty. You choose to address things know you very well; the outside world can wait for a bit, no worries. Your thoughts are directly and honestly for this is the only true path to peace and productivity; the stars are your own as you review some past activities you’d rather not share with anyone; these are aligned for organization and things being put right on every level. A new customer or client your cherished memories, and you re entitled to them. Your support system is valuable represents a prosperous project or association. Your ability to take care of business in a now as you realize exactly who’s on your side and who’s not. Tonight an unexpected visi- timely manner is well known and much appreciated. Pay attention to the vibrations of in- tor delivers dinner and a movie; you’re due to take some time for yourself and let others born intuition regarding choices. do for you what you normally do for them.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Gemini (May 21-June 20) The urge to nourish and care for others could lead you to adopt a pet or Your good qualities are well known by many; someone who cares for and perhaps even take in a foster child. You desire to share your many blessings respects you lends a kind ear and agrees with your opinion. You may feel with others. Your ways are not those of tradition, you prefer to work smarter not harder. ACROSS 3. Any of many long-legged birds that prickly and not in the mood to be with those who irritate you; remember it s not a bad You might receive criticism from someone older! You re invited to a quick lunch by some- 1. A loft for storing hay. wade in water in search of food. thing to do what s best for you. Working through inner turmoil is called for and positive one who respects you. You get your message across perfectly at a meeting you dreaded 4. A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or 4. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). vibrations are available to help with this. Your good taste and quirky ways are strong and and receive respect for your input. You figure out what causes a problem between gas. 5. A strategically located monarchy on the influence your ideas. This is a good time to create new ways of doing something most coworkers; you know how to repair this without causing any problems. Going with the 12. Having undesirable or negative quali- southern and eastern coasts of the people have to do; a successful invention could be indicated. Being outdoors brings good flow is effortless for you during the new cycle you have entered; you eagerly join in a fun ties. Arabian Peninsula. energy. Your evening goes smoothly as you find that you’re ahead of schedule on some- hobby with several nice new friends you have become fond of. 15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 6. A shape that sags. thing important around the house. Relax and be happy this evening. 2.75 pounds. 7. Any plant of the genus Erica. 16. A city in the northern panhandle of 8. Peruvian shrub with small pink to laven- Texas. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) der tubular flowers. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic 9. A Greek epic poem (attributed to information from DNA to the cyto- Your intuitive side indicates that something worrisome could be on the hori- Homer) describing the siege of Troy. The feelings of others take precedence today as your sensitivities are in zon. Tap into this and create positive energy in its place for a more accept- plasm. 10. A defeat of the Persian army by the tune with those around you. Communication to large numbers of people is 18. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin able outcome. Visually appealing things are available for purchase today; you find one item Greeks in 479 BC. done with ease and clarity today; many look to you for leadership. Remain honest with you’ll treasure forever. Congratulations! Time seems to slip away as you rush to complete a nicotinic acid. 11. The longest division of geological time. yourself as you learn more about cosmic or mystic questions you may have regarding 19. Someone who performs magic tricks to project on deadline; focus and don t allow frustration or panic to rule you. You can over- 12. (informal) Exceptionally good. oracles such as tarot cards or rune stones. Just because you have never tried something come whatever restrictions you encounter. Friends need your help on a tricky domestic amuse an audience. doesn’t mean it’s not worth taking a look at. Someone could object to your style or opin- 20. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning. 13. A blue dye obtained from plants or project that could end up requiring quite a bit of time but end in total success. You sit back 21. An organization of countries formed in made synthetically. ions. Avoid arguments with those who reject change and/or growth; they’re usually afraid and watch someone. You’re unfulfilled in the romance department; you can definitely do 1961 to agree on a common policy for 14. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989). of new ways of thinking such as you now actively seek. Your inner workings become something about this if you truly wish. the sale of petroleum. 22. A rotating disk shaped to convert cir- clearer as you continue educating yourself about new thoughts and theories. 23. An informal conversation. cular into linear motion. 25. English theoretical physicist who 24. A feeling of anger caused by being Aquarius (January 20- February 18) applied relativity theory to quantum offended. Leo (July 23-August 22) mechanics and predicted the exis- 26. A compartment in front of a motor This is not the time for giving advice; you could feel the strong desire to tence of antimatter and the positron vehicle where driver sits. You are able to influence others with ease. Words flow as you express your stay near home and hearth sharing time with loved ones. There could be a problem with (1902-1984). 27. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday thoughts and ideas to others who are looking for answers. An in-depth someone you care for; do you feel like a beautiful bird in a gilded cage, longing for free- 28. A Chadic language spoken south of commemorating the rededication of conversation with loved ones relays encouraging news. Something you say could reveal dom only you can change your circumstances; take a few moments and listen to your Lake Chad. the Temple of Jerusalem. your plans to the wrong person; take care. Some members of your circle disagree with a heart. If you need encouragement, accept it from a kind person who has your best inter- 30. Special design or visual object repre- 29. The United Nations agency concerned life choice you make; perhaps they can’t break away from old ways and ideas but they re ests at heart today. You could realize that someone has been avoiding you, figure out the senting a quality, type, group, etc.. with the international organization of also worth listening to! An argument you could avoid but choose not to could result in role you have played in this. Someone could be offended by something new you re trying. 35. A person active in party politics. food and agriculture. long lasting emotional wounds. Tread lightly around a sensitive situation at home that you You could have a deep conversation with someone you respect. Perhaps a movie or deli- 38. A financial institution that accepts 31. The imperial dynasty of China from have instigated and made worse; it’s okay to be wrong once in a while. Take a yen yoga cious dinner out with someone who thinks as you do tonight. deposits and channels the money into 1368 to 1644. class this evening for the most optimum sleep you have had in a long time. lending activities. 32. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone 41. An organic compound that contains a or mineral). hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon 33. A member of the people inhabiting an Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) atom which in turn is doubly bonded area of northern Mongolia and eastern to another carbon atom. Siberia. Your new attitudes and goals don’t fit with your current work situation. You 43. A board with the alphabet on it. Cleansing is an empowering, positive event you should enjoy and welcome; 34. The boundary line or the area immedi- there could, however, be some parts that are difficult. People who aren’t good for them- may experience thoughts of changing the field you work in: if you’re in retail 44. A person who gives a name or names. ately inside the boundary. you may want to change to food, for example, but whatever the change is, it s near! You 45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked selves ask to join you for a celebration; while you have learned a powerful lesson, and 36. Lake in northwestern Russia near the choose to stay away from them, so have they, if they re capable and if they have not could have to use other, primitive methods of communicating. Confrontation with younger on a skewer usually with vegetables. border with Finland. people could prove very unpleasant; this is a result of children growing into adulthood. 46. Unknown god. learned, you can send them off to teach someone else! The areas affected by shedding 37. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe. outmoded energy are: finances, associations, physical well-being and attitudes. Your focus There could be some strong disagreements but remember who’s in charge and who’s not; 47. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks. 39. Deciduous South African tree having if this isn’t with children, elders are indicated. Someone comments on your excellent taste 49. Any culture medium that uses agar as on a positive future won t be distracted or knocked off-track. Hold tightly to your logic as large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse you fight the urge to daydream and wish the day away. Friends pull you out of your daze or attitude. Pulling things together in an organized way helps reach your goals of rearrang- the gelling agent. ing and creating perfect fung shuai. 50. A member of a Muslim Turkic people fragrant orange-yellow flowers. by insisting on a visit to the theater to take in a newly released movie. of western Asia (especially in 40. A small cake leavened with yeast. Kazakstan). 42. A supply of food especially for a 52. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wis- household. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution dom. 48. A state in northwestern North America. 53. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity. 51. Of or relating to or characteristic of 56. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified Zaire or its people. person (especially yourself). 54. Date used in reckoning dates before 57. (used of count nouns) Every one con- the supposed year Christ was born. sidered individually. 55. A ductile gray metallic element of the 59. Overgrown with ivy. lanthanide series. 63. Green algae common in freshwater 58. American professional baseball player lakes of limestone districts. who hit more home runs than Babe 67. Marked by or showing unaffected sim- Ruth (born in 1934). plicity and lack of guile or worldly 60. Left-hand page. experience. 61. That is to say. 71. A river in north central Switzerland that 62. A nucleic acid consisting of large mole- runs northeast into the Rhine. cules shaped like a double helix. 72. A mountain peak in central 64. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger Washington. than a rabbit having a divided upper 76. An undergarment worn by women to lip and long hind legs. support their breasts. 65. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 77. Having or showing excessive or com- Arabia or North Africa. pulsive concern with something. 66. A relative position or degree of value in 79. The rate at which red blood cells settle a graded group. out in a tube of blood under standard- 68. Type genus of the Aceraceae. ized conditions. 69. A gonadotropic hormone that is 80. God of the earth. secreted by the anterior pituitary. 81. Consisting of or resembling mother-of- 70. A card game in which players bet pearl. 82. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box. DOWN 73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 1. French biochemist who (with Francois from aba cloth. Jacob) explained how genes are acti- 74. A committee in the executive branch of vated and suggested the existence of government that advises the president messenger RNA (1910-1976). on foreign and military and national 2. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with security. much shorter neck and stripe on the 75. A doctor's degree in dental surgery. legs. 78. A bivalent and trivalent metallic ele- ment of the rare earth group.

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, epburn and Tracy, Bogart and Bacall, Joel write, proved to be more of a bonding experi- Coen and Frances McDormand: movie ence than they bargained for. The two survived Hmagic often has real-life love stories a “really terrifying” shakedown by amateur behind it, but star couples at Cannes say you security guards, byzantine bureaucracy and the must tread carefully when mixing work and vagaries of crowd funding a complex project romance. Spanish Oscar winners Penelope Cruz that surprised everyone-particularly the film- and Javier Bardem, who have replaced Angelina makers themselves-by getting into Cannes’ Jolie and Brad Pitt as the smouldering A-list vaunted competition. “It was a grueling shoot, I pair on the Cannes red carpet, have already can’t sugarcoat it,” said Shawky, at 32 the teamed up on nine movies. After the premiere youngest director in the Cannes competition. of their new thriller, “Everybody Knows”, which Emam agreed: “There’s no amount of plan- opened the festival, Cruz said dryly that while ning that could have prevented the things that she enjoyed working with her husband, she happened on this shoot-I think maybe we were wouldn’t want to do it all the time. a little cursed.” But after their baptism of fire, “It’s not something that we plan on doing Shawky and Emam decided they were ready to every two years.” Cruz said she and Bardem, take the next step. “As soon as we were done who have two children, were paid equally for with the film we decided ‘I think we’ve gone the film and have strict ground rules about through the hardest thing we’ll ever go through Chinese actor Liao Fan (left) and Chinese actress leaving the push-and-pull of their personal in our lives-I think marriage will be a piece of Zhao Tao during a photocall for the film “Ash is relationship far from the set. “It would not cake’,” she quipped. — AFP Purest White (Jiang hu er nv)”. make your life better, I think, if you used certain things from your private life (on a film),” said Cruz. “So the fact that we know each other and trust each other so much only helps.” Asked by a waggish reporter what was like to be the “only man in the world who likes working with his wife”, Bardem responded sternly: “That’s a Spanish actor Javier Bardem (left) and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz pose as they arrive for the question in very poor taste.” screening of the film “Todos Lo Saben (Everybody Knows)” and the opening ceremony of the 71st edi- China’s Zhao Tao, who influential movie tion of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. — AFP photos website IndieWire last week called “one of the dialogue about the characters-how I want year was Spanish director-producer pair Raul greatest actresses in the world”, has made a from a female perspective to make a character de la Fuente and Amaia Ramirez, who present- half dozen films with her spouse, director Jia come alive. I think he’s very responsive to my ed their animated docudrama “Another Day of Zhangke, including “Touch of Sin” and opinions and suggestions.” Jia, who won the Life” after a few cinematic kisses for the cam- “Mountains May Depart”. Their latest is anoth- Golden Lion top prize at Venice in 2006 for eras. Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego also er Cannes contender, “Ash is Purest White”. “Still Life”, told AFP their sometimes hard- managed to co-direct their critically- She calls her husband “Director Jia” while fought consensus covered even ostensibly acclaimed Colombian narcodrama, “Birds of shooting, just like the rest of the cast-keeping trivial details like costumes. Passage”, despite the recent end of their their shop talk and pillow talk sharply separate. He said their shared love of Quentin romantic relationship. “When I come home and we get back to our Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” movies led the couple to own family we have nicknames for each other- occasionally borrow some of the eye-watering ‘Really terrifying’ but that is something that just belongs to both colors of its costumes. They revived the look in It’s often a cinema passion project that of us privately,” she said. “Ash is Purest White”, whose first chapter set in brings lovers together in the first place, as with Zhao said their relationship had grown the 2000s recalls Tarantino and the Hong Kong A.B. Shawky and the producer of his debut fea- more “dynamic” and collaborative since they action movies that inspired him with their ultra- ture “Yomeddine”, Dina Emam. “We didn’t start made their first picture together, “Platform”, in stylish violence. dating until maybe right before production,” 2000. “Back then, if the director thought a “We were just on the same page,” Jia said Emam told reporters in Cannes. The film, set in scene was good, I tended to think ‘Yeah, it’s of his wife. Another on-screen, off-screen an Egyptian leper colony using non-profes- Egyptian director A.B Shawky (left) and producer Dina Emam pose during a photocall for the film good enough’,” she said. “Now it’s more of a partnership that made a splash at Cannes this sional actors who were not able to read or “Yomeddine” at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. — AFP

Beyond Mandela: Comrades take spotlight in Cannes documentary

(From left) French producer David Rosier, German director Wim Wenders and his wife Donata Wenders, Swiss producer Samanta Gandolfi Branca, Italian producer Ignazio Oliva and Italian producer Stefano Bugliosi pose as they arrive for the screening of the film “Pope Francis - A Man of His Word” at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern (From left) French distributor Raphaelle Delauche, French co-director and screenwriter Gilles Porte, France.— AFP photos French-Russian producer Nadia Turincev, South African author, political communist activist Sylvia Neame, South African anti-Apartheid campaigner and former political prisoner Andrew Mlangeni, French director Nicolas Champeaux, French actress and producer Julie Gayet and French producer Film shows ‘fearless’ pope taking on church William Jehannin pose during a photocall for the film “The State Against Mandela” at the 71st edi- tion of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. — AFP here is a killer moment in the new film people”. And Wenders, the maker of such clas- alf a century after the historic trial at “semi-barbarous blacks” as they were “Pope Francis-A Man of His Word” when sics as “Wings of Desire”, “Paris, Texas” and which Nelson Mandela escaped the described by the state. Powerful testimony Tyou realize what he is up against. The “The Buena Vista Social Club”, believes this Hgallows, one of his fellow prisoners will from Mlangeni, who watched his parents Argentine is dressing down the cardinals and pontiff has the steeliness to do it. walk Cannes’ red carpet Monday for the pre- work for whites “for peanuts”, and Mandela’s bejeweled princes of the Curia who run the miere of a documentary about those who mentor Walter Sisulu, who complained of Catholic Church, lacerating them for their Enemies digging in stood with him in the dock. Andrew Mlangeni constant harassment of his family by the greed, back-stabbing and lust for power. The Many in the Curia “think he is going too fast is one of the last two surviving defendants of police, moved the world-and the judge. At scandal-hit, Italian-dominated body is full of and too far,” according to Wenders, and have the 1963-1964 Rivonia trial of Mandela and the end of the eight-month trial, which was people leading immoral double lives who “pos- been digging in with traditionalists to resist nine others who faced a death sentence on condemned by the UN Security Council, the sess a heart of stone and a stiff neck”, he tells him. “But I think the opposite,” said the film- charges of plotting guerrilla warfare and car- judge decided to spare the men the noose. them in German director Wim Wenders’ maker. “I think Francis is stepping on the brakes rying out acts of sabotage against South Mandela, Kathrada, Mlangeni, Goldberg remarkable insight into the leader of the world’s in order to take them all along. “Yet also he is Africa’s apartheid regime. and four others were sentenced to life in 1.2 billion Catholics. “Pay a visit to the cemeter- fearless. He knows what has to be done and he Mandela’s impassioned three-hour prison, a verdict 85-year-old Goldberg ies” and look at those “who thought they were wants to push it as far as he can knowing that German director Wim Wenders poses address to the court, during which he greeted with immense relief. “It’s life! And life immortal, immune and indispensable,” Francis he is not young anymore.” For Wenders, a during a photocall for the film “Pope declared that a democratic South Africa was is wonderful!,” he recalls shouting across the urges them in the feature, which premiered late lapsed Catholic who rediscovered his faith in a Francis - A Man of His Word. an ideal “for which I am prepared to die” was courtroom to his mother. But Mandela’s ex- Sunday at the Cannes film festival. “friendly God” after the death of his doctor to go back to early Christianity... when the the most significant of his career, conferring wife Winnie was already steeling herself for “You see the sharp faces of some of these father, the 81-year-old is a revolutionary. church was an organisation of poor people.” on him a demi-god status that overshadowed the long road ahead, with two young children cardinals who are rich and ambitious,” said “When you look him in the eye you see this is a “St Francis of Assisi was also the first ecolo- the sacrifices of his co-accused. “The State in tow. “That’s when my ‘Amandla’ (Power) Wenders, who interviewed the reforming pon- very loving man who really likes people. He is gist,” said Wenders, who was “amazed” by the Against Mandela and the Others”, a French- started,” she says in one of her last interviews tiff over several months for the portrait. “But as honest as a man can be and you see the depth of the pope’s understanding of climate produced documentary based on the recently before her death last month, uttering the ral- you can also see other archbishops thinking, courage in his eyes. change and his warning that the global “mania released audio recordings of the proceedings, lying cry of the anti-apartheid movement with ‘Yes, this is why we elected you.’ “His message-that we are equal and we have for growth” is threatening mankind. “That attempts to redress the balance by giving a clenched-fist salute. As Francis said, you cannot combat the dis- to treat each other as equals is why people say growth is coming at the expense of the poor center stage to his fellow travellers. eases of the world without examining yourself he is a communist. We cannot leave people majority... who are suffering first and worst Using animation, interviews and archival Poetry in animation first.” The picture that emerges of Francis from behind in the dust. It is a tough message and he from climate change,” said Wenders. The direc- footage it shows how the defendants turned a For Champeaux, a former South Africa Wenders’ unprecedented access is of a man doesn’t hesitate with it.” Francis is a radical just tor said the Vatican contacted him out of the trial aimed at dealing a knockout blow to the correspondent who gained access to the 256 determined to radically transform the vast like the medieval saint from whom he took his blue asking whether he would be interested in anti-apartheid movement into a searing hours of digitized recordings, the trial had the wealthy institution into “a poor church for poor name, Wenders argued, “who like him wanted talking to the pope. — AFP indictment of white supremacist rule. “We makings of an epic tale that needed to be decided we had to conduct this not as a crimi- shared with an international audience. nal trial but a political trial,” says Ahmed “There’s the bad guy, the traitor, the love sto- Kathrada, one of three former prisoners-one ry, the suspense, the inscrutable judge, the Real’s Navas more scared of black (Mlangeni), one white (Denis Goldberg) families trembling in the gallery,” he told AFP. and one of Asian origin (Kathrada) — inter- But it is also a reminder, he said, “that when Cannes red carpet than Salah viewed for the feature. Kathrada, who died you are wedded to a cause, those close to last year, is one of the heroes of the documen- you suffer.” Explaining the decision to use 45 eal Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas has quering Madrid side that won the European title tary by former Radio France Internationale minutes of animation-about a third of the revealed that he was more scared of walk- in 2016 and 2017, and will face the English team journalist Nicolas Champeaux and filmmaker film-Porte said the drawings allowed a film Ring the red carpet at the Cannes film festi- in two weeks’ time in this year’s decider. A day Gilles Porte, which uses stark black-and-white bursting with historical information “to val than facing Liverpool’s lethal striker after Madrid beat Celta Vigo 6-0 in La Liga, animation to recreate the courtroom clashes. breathe a bit”. “Animation also lends a bit of Mohamed Salah. The Costa Rican-known as Navas flew to Cannes to promote the film, which Born into a family of Indian Muslim immi- poetry,” the co-director of the award-win- “God’s Goalkeeper” for his strong Christian also features Real’s legendary trainer Zinedine grants, he refused, like his comrades, to appeal ning 2004 French-Belgian comedy “When the faith-said he found showing a film about his life Zidane playing himself and a dressing room his sabotage conviction to avoid the indignity Sea Rises” said. Above all, the documentary at the festival more stressful than a Champions scene involving other members of the side. of being seen to beg for clemency. shows that South Africa’s tortured path to League final. “It’s a delicate question,” he told Navas said the idea of the film was not to grand- democratic elections in 1994, four years after reporters at Cannes Sunday where he was stand him but to “show people that with faith ‘It’s life!’ Mandela’s release from prison, was the work screening “Man of Faith”, which recounts his rise and God’s help” you can realize your dreams. A video grab shows Real Madrid’s Costa Rican The film also shows how the preening of a single-minded, multi-racial group, not a from humble origins to become one of Real’s Liverpool’s free-scoring Egyptian marks- goalkeeper Keylor Navas (left) and his wife prosecutor, depicted by Franco-Dutch artist single superhero. For Porte, it is a reminder millionaire galacticos. man is a devout Muslim whose 44 goals so far Andrea Salas arriving on the red carpet after the Oerd van Cuijlenborg as a vulture figure in “that all great things that happen in this world “The Champions League final I know. The this season have inspired Reds’ fans to chant screening of their film “Hombre de fe (Man of flapping black robes, underestimated the are achieved collectively.” — AFP red carpet is new... it’s a bit stressful,” he admit- that they might consider converting to Islam Faith)” at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film ted. The 31-year-old was part of the all-con- themselves. — AFP Festival in Cannes, southern France. — AFP Established 1961 T 29 Tuesday, May 15, 2018 L i f e s t y l e G o s s i p Childish Gambino video targeting gun violence gets 100 million hits

graphic music video by Childish in my area.” Later in the video, Glover Gambino has racked up more guns down an all-black church choir in Athan 100 million views in just a sequence some commentators have over a week on YouTube with its pow- interpreted as a reference to the 2015 erful takes on gun violence and racism. murders of nine black churchgoers by a “This Is America”-by actor and record- white supremacist in Charleston, South ing artist Donald Glover’s edgy alter Carolina. At several points, children in ego-is a raw take on racism, gun vio- school uniforms join Glover in his hyp- lence and consumer society hit the notic dance as violence occurs in the nine-figure-mark in a week, just behind background. The video, directed by Hiro of global hits such as Adele’s “Hello” Murai, ends with a terror-stricken (four days) and “Wrecking Ball” by Glover fleeing as from a lynch mob. One Miley Cyrus (in six days). The four- of the clips producers, Ibra Ake, told minute video begins with a shirtless NPR: “there’s a communality there and Glover dancing to soothing rhythms in people can relate to a lot of that stuff. I an empty warehouse and singing “We don’t think we are as cerebral or as cal- just wanna party” and “We just want culated as people think. Our goal is to the money.” Glover suddenly pulls out a normalize blackness.” Glover’s video handgun from the back of his pants and follows an appearance over the week- executes a hooded man sitting in a end on the hit comedy show “Saturday chair. A heavier, more foreboding beat Night Live.” The 34-year-old actor and drops, and Glover raps “This is musician is to appear as Lando America-don’t catch you slipping up.” Calrissian in “Solo” A Star Wars Story” “Yeah, this is America,” he says. “Guns being released on May 25.

Shinoda performs Portman set to make an appearance Prince album Bennington tribute in Avengers 4? to be streamed on TIDAL ‘Hybrid Theory’ and ‘In the End’ in Chester’s honor. IDAL are releasing a never-heard-before Prince album next ‘Place To Start’ on Mike’s three-track EP helped year. Jay-Z’s streaming service has been given the seal of him cope with the grief of losing his best friend and Tapproval of the late ‘Purple Rain’ hitmaker’s estate - putting an bandmate, so it was no doubt an emotional per- end to their legal battle - to put out the material for 14 days exclusive- formance. Speaking previously about the R&B ly, before it’s made available in physical form. The ‘Encore’ rapper, track, he said: “I wanted to put this out as soon as who has promised to “honor Prince’s enduring legacy”, said: “Our only possible because I’m living it. “And a lot of other goal is to share Prince’s music with his fans as he wanted. “After people are living it, too.” His set was his first proper thoughtful and honest conversation with him, he chose TIDAL as his performance since the band’s frontman took his partner for ‘HITnRUN Phase One’ and ‘HITnRUN Phase Two’, and we own life last July, aged just 41. Mike, also 41, recent- will continue to respect and honor Prince’s enduring legacy and wish- ly admitted he has no idea what the future holds for es with this new collection.” Troy Carter, the entertainment adviser of the ‘Numb’ hitmakers. He previously insisted the Prince’s estate, added: “I’m very pleased this is resolved, and we get group - completed by Brad Delson, Dave Farrell, to honor the relationship between Prince and Tidal with this album. Joe Hahn and Rob Bourdon - would continue We look forward to fans hearing the new music and experiencing the together following the tragic death of Chester, but genius of Prince.” It’s a surprise move, as Prince’s record label sued he since revealed he doesn’t have an “answer” to Jay’s Roc Nation in 2016. NPG Records claimed at the time that the fans asking about what comes next. He confessed: Jay Z-owned company did not have the rights to the late music leg- “I’m unable to say what will happen with the band. end’s digital catalogue and therefore should not have shared his songs There’s really just no answer, and it’s funny because on paid-for service TIDAL. The ‘Kiss’ singer’s estate agreed to sell his ike Shinoda paid tribute to his late band- if I even say anything about the band’s future, that songwriting rights to Universal - meaning his music could become mate Chester Bennington at his first solo becomes the headline, which is stupid because the more widely available to stream - but Jay’s company insisted they had Mconcert since the singer’s death. The answer is there is no answer. “Fans think they want exclusive rights to the work. According to the New York Post news- Linkin Park musician performed songs from his to know what the future is: Believe me, I want to paper, TIDAL - who put out Prince’s final albums, ‘Hit n Run Phase forthcoming EP, ‘Post Traumatic’, at KROQ’s Weenie know what the answer is. But there just isn’t one.” One’ and ‘Hit n Run Phase Two’ - began lobbying a Minnesota court Roast festival at the StubHub Center in California, Mike will be performing songs from ‘Post before the Universal deal was struck, claiming the ‘1999’ singer had on Saturday (12.05.18), where he also played a Traumatic’ when he appears at Reading and Leeds granted them exclusive rights to his catalogue of master recordings. piano-led version of the band’s seminal songs Festivals this August in the UK. TIDAL submitted a legal letter to probate court Judge Kevin Eide and claimed they would seek injunctive relief if any deals struck by Prince’s estate - which still has ownership of his songs - violated the agreement they made with the star. According to TIDAL, Prince had agreed to grant them streaming rights to a ‘Hit n Run’ remix album, Salma Hayek offers a another new LP and the rights to his back catalogue. However, a source claimed the streaming service only had a one-year deal to stream Prince’s music and were not entitled to rights in the long term. solution to the gender pay gap In 2015, the singer - who died from an overdose in April 2016 - pulled all his music from other streaming apps such as Spotify. An official alma Hayek says actors release date for the record is yet to be announced. must take pay cuts if they’re Sserious about gender equality. The 51-year-old actress has spoken about Hollywood’s gender pay gap during a Women in Motion talk at the Cannes Film Festival, where she called on her male co-stars to take a proactive reveals approach towards the problem. Spielberg Salma - who has been a vocal atalie Portman could make a surprise appear- supporter of the Time’s Up and ance in the fourth ‘Avengers’ movie. The The Post came together #MeToo campaigns - explained: Academy Award-winning actress played the “It is not just the producers. It is N part of Jane Foster in the ‘Thor’ franchise, and direc- ‘instantaneously’ actors too. “Time’s up. You had a tor Anthony Russo - who is helming the project good run but it is time now to be alongside his brother Joe - has hinted at Natalie generous with the actresses.” returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Asked The Mexican-born star subse- whether the character of Jane was still alive, Anthony quently claimed that one way to and his brother became coy and refused to commit to achieve equality would be for an answer because it might’ve given fans an insight actors to spurn “inflated fees”. into their plans. He told HuffPost: “When we say She said: “If actors ask such spoiler, [we mean] potential spoiler.” Jane last inflated fees it will leave nothing appeared in a Marvel movie in 2013’s ‘Thor: The Dark for actresses. If the movie’s World’, but Natalie has previously admitted to being budget is $10 million, the (male) open to a return to the franchise. The 36-year-old actor has to understand that if he actress shared: “It is really an incredible thing to get is making $9.7 million, it is going to be part of. As an actor it is like a completely differ- to be hard for equality. ent scale. “Because when you are making those “Otherwise they will kill the movies, you are working with so much blue screen movie. I will be hated for saying and so much fantasy. Your imagination has to be so this. I hope I can get another much larger.” By contrast, Natalie said in 2016 that job...” Earlier this month, she was “done” with Marvel films. She explained: “As Benedict Cumberbatch called on far as I know, I’m done. I don’t know if, maybe one male stars to reject work if their day, they’ll ask for an ‘Avengers 7’ or whatever. I have female counterparts are being being paid in a bid to tackle the feminism. Look at your quotas. no idea! But as far as I know I’m done. But it was a paid less than them. He suggest- inequality. Benedict explained: “Ask what women are paid, and great thing to be a part of.” ed, too, that actors ought to ask “Equal pay and a place at the say, ‘If she’s not paid the same as their female co-stars what they’re table are the central tenets of the men, I’m not doing it.’”

teven Spielberg says ‘The Post’ came together “instantaneously”. The 71-year-old director is a veteran of the movie business, and SSpielberg has revealed that the drama film - which focuses on Shawn Mendes The Washington Post newspaper’s attempts to publish the Pentagon Papers, a report into the US’ military involvement in Vietnam - was the hadn’t been to many gigs easiest film to make of his entire career. He shared: “There is only one category ‘The Post’ falls into, which is that it happened instantaneous- before finding fame ly. “A lot of my movies take a long time to develop, I buy books, I do hawn Mendes hadn’t been to many see him one day.” The ‘In My Blood’ hitmak- all the scripts, years go by, I make other movies instead. It percolates concerts before starting a career in er - who releases his third self-titled studio and comes back into my life and I finally get around to making them. Smusic. The 19-year-old Canadian LP on May 25 - also revealed that his dream “In my entire span of 49 years professionally directing, I’ve never had singer/songwriter - who became prominent collaboration would be Alicia Keys, after he a film come together this quickly.” Spielberg also denied the sugges- in 2013, after posting his covers on the helped mentor the ‘No One’ hitmaker’s team tion that Donald Trump’s shock win in the 2016 US election convinced video-sharing app Vines - has revealed he on ‘The Voice’ in the US, earlier this year. He him to make the movie, which stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. In resorted to watching his favorite acts’ live said: “My dream music collaboration would fact, Spielberg claimed he was primarily motivated to tell the story of performances on YouTube, and claims to probably be Alicia Keys. “I got to do a thing Katharine Graham, who led The Washington Post’s coverage of the have watched every live video of Ed Sheeran with her in America, and then when I was Watergate scandal. He told The Hollywood News: “I think the issues on the site, because he’s not had the chance hanging out with her after already loving her are much bigger than one administration. Had the election gone a dif- to see his idol yet. He said: “It’s funny I didn’t because of her music and her style, she also ferent way, I would have still felt a real urge to tell this story. “The first get to see a lot of shows growing up when I on top of that is one of the best people in thing that attracted me to do ‘The Post’ was Katharine Graham, her was as a kid, and then all of a sudden when I the entire world. If I got to collaborate with story. Her evolution as a real person of real potential power that did started doing music I started watching a lot her it would be a dream.” Shawn Mendes not really have the facility to exercise that power because she hadn’t more shows. “One in particular, I’ve has teamed up with O2 to offer O2 cus- quite found her center of gravity, she hadn’t been able to find how to watched every single Ed Sheeran live video tomers Priority Tickets to the singer’s 2019 use her own voice.” — Bang Showbiz that is on YouTube, but I’ve never seen him UK arena tour, available to purchase from perform live at an actual gig. I’m hoping I May 16 at 10am. 30 Established 1961 Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Lifestyle Features

These pictures show an Installation view of the exhibition “Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..,” at the Jewish Museum in New York. — AP photos Is it art or is it decor? A British artist’s playful work

he furniture, drapes, wall coverings, ceramics, ‘Artist’s books’ ment without having to repaint the walls each time,” textiles and other works by London-based artist The Library features an entire gallery devoted to she says. “They allow for a great deal of flexibility.” TMarc Camille Chaimowicz are as cross-discipli- decorative “artist’s books” made by Chaimowicz. The Because his work is so site-specific, the exhibit nary as they are distinct. They reflect and draw inspi- books somehow straddle the artistic, poetic and polit- draws on the building’s ornate interior and views onto ration from the home, but are closer to sculpture or ical realms. This section also features two lampshades Central Park. One piece, “A New Curtain for KT” performance art than home goods. Tending toward designed for this exhibit. Starting in 1975, Chamowicz (2018), features sheer woven and embroidered curtain muted pastel pinks, lavenders and greens, shifted his focus primarily toward home interiors as an fabric in pale greens and pinks near a soaring gallery Chaimowicz’ pieces are better known in Europe than inspiration and starting point for his pieces. “His window overlooking the park. “End Game,” also from in the United States. Until now, that is. “Marc Camille apartment itself was a work of art,” says Taxter. this year, has a pair of panels of mirrored glass, each Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine.,” billed as the first The small gallery called Here and There features a about the size of a door, inset with diamond shapes exhibit in the US devoted solely to him, opened at The combination of self-portraiture and staged images and featuring chrome knobs where one might place Jewish Museum in New York in March and remains on showing partial views of interiors, in which door knobs. The work is set against a wall at the end view through Aug 5. Chaimowicz is always looking elsewhere. Enormous of the exhibit and is not meant to be opened, but the “We gave the show a playful and ambiguous title panels covered in patterns made using a roller brush - panels are so inviting - and so resemble real doors - to reflect the playfulness and ambiguous nature of the “much like families in Poland might have painted an that some visitors have mistakenly tried to go through work, and as a nod to the fact that this museum itself apartment,” says Taxter - are propped up as sort of them, Taxter says. — AP was once a home,” says associate curator Kelly movable wall coverings, to be rearranged and over- Taxter, who organized the exhibit at the Fifth Avenue lapped on a whim. “The beauty of these large panels museum, in a mansion built in 1908. Chaimowicz is that he could arrange them differently in his apart- doesn’t delineate between fine arts, crafts and design, she says. “His work is very abstract and, at the same time, it’s utterly approachable. Everyone recognizes a chair and understands wallpaper. So there’s an imme- diate understanding, and there are also multiple layers of poetry behind it.” The show includes works made between 1978 and 2018, including some never-before-exhibited pieces and three new commissions. Born in post-war Paris to a Polish Jewish father and a French Catholic mother, Chaimowicz was 8 when his family moved to Britain. He has lived and created in three London apartments over the past 40 years, and these apartments served as both subjects and sources of his work, says Taxter. The show is arranged thematically into five main sections: The Entrance, The Library, Here and There., The Salon and The Public Garden. In The Entrance, a row of coat hooks display jackets and trousers deco- rated with Chaimowicz’ silk-screened patterns, which resemble wallpaper patterns. It’s a hint of the work throughout the exhibit that emphasizes decoration. And it’s of course an image of something one might see in a home.

Belgium’s new ‘frites’ stands more than just a chip off the old block

n Belgium, where hot, salty chips smeared with mayon- He said that the fritkot is “part of Belgian culture, placed at another popular historic landmark, Mont des designed stalls will help put Belgium’s frites on the map. naise are a national institution, tampering with tradition- Brussels culture, and replacing them is something sensi- Arts, in the city center. “What is good I think, is to unify all the designs of Belgium, Ial “frites” sounds like a recipe for trouble. But the capital tive, so we really had (to keep) in mind we couldn’t put of all fritkots in Brussels,” Kemal said. “So the tourists, the Brussels is giving a futuristic makeover to some of the offi- something standardized.” While all the stands will have Chocolate and chips foreigners who come, they can discover it easily.” cial stalls where the famous potato delicacies are sold to the mirrored facade and lighting effect, each revamped Along with chocolate, “frites” are a rare unifying factor The designers said they were working with the indi- eager locals and tourists. Eight nondescript “fritkots” fritkot is to have two colors unique to the location. One in a young country, founded only in 1830, that has through- vidual operators to make sure they work as well in prac- owned by city authorities will be decked out with dazzling color will be used for the sign on top of the fritkot, and out its short history been deeply divided between French- tice as in theory. “We are not trying to reinvent anything mirrored facades and special lighting. City planners and the other will be for the interior tiling. Brussels has dozens and Dutch-speaking communities. They also play into in particular,” Hick said. “We are trying to go back to the operators alike say the upgrade will make the stalls-which of privately owned and operated fritkots too, but only Belgium’s inferiority complex about France. Belgium claims basics as much as possible.” They will include special are due to reopen in late 2019 — as memorably Belgian as locations owned by the city of Brussels are set for remod- frites were invented in the southern French-speaking city low-flammability timber and solar panels on the roof to the food they sell. eling, including the fritkot outside the Atomium museum, a of Namur. But France of course lays a rival claim to the reduce their environmental footprint. “I see this as a pos- “Without frites Belgium doesn’t exist,” said fritkot oper- key tourist draw, as well as Place de la Chapelle, near the invention of what has become known in the United States itive sign of renewal for the city.”— AFP ator Vuistema Kemal, whose stall in central Brussels is one city’s famed antiques market. The city will also finance the in particular as the French fry. Kemal, who has operated his of those being upgraded. He said that chips “represent creation of two new fritkot locations, one of which will be stall at Place de la Chapelle for 34 years, said the newly Belgium around the world”. Brussels planners launched a competition last year to find a new design for what they call the “Fritkots of the Future”. “We thought ‘and what if we give a model?’-a model that is identifiable just like the telephone booths of London,” said Marion Lemesre, a sen- ior economic affairs official for the city of Brussels.

‘Part of Belgian culture’ The issue is a serious one in Belgium, whose claim of inventing “frites” is disputed by its bigger neighbor France. Belgium’s “fritkots” even hit the international headlines when German Chancellor Angela Merkel nipped out to one in the middle of an EU summit in Brussels after Brexit talks went on for too long. The competition was won in January by Studio Moto, an architecture firm based in Ghent, a city in the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Studio Moto co-owners Mo Vandenberghe and Thomas Hick said their main goal during the design process was to maintain Josiane Devlaeminck serves Belgian fries to customers at Josiane Devlaeminck prepares Belgian fries at the Atomium ‘fritkot’, the Flemish word for fries stand, in Brussels. — AFP the identity of each individual chip shop. “People are a bit the Atomium ‘fritkot’, the Flemish word for fries stand, in photos particular about their fritkots,” Hick told AFP. Brussels. Established 1961 31 Lifestyle Features Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Shouting into the void’ Miscarriages color mom-to-be’s art

rtist Ashley MacLure’s world is filled with year during an episode of “Dancing with the Stars” to Milford, Massachusetts, after earning a degree fairies, young girls riding giant moths - and that she had six miscarriages during an eight-year in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design. Aanguished, bleeding women. A grimacing span. Now a mother of three, she told ABC’s “Good “It’s very surreal. You’re mentally in a different young woman rendered in black and white is curled Morning America” the losses were rough on her space, starting to think about the future. And then, in a fetal position, splashes of crimson staining her marriage. “We don’t talk about it as fluidly as we suddenly, you’re not.” bottom. Here she is again, leaning against a blood- should,” says Dr Jessica Zucker, a Los Angeles psy- ied wall, her abdomen nothing but a large oval hole. chologist and mother of two who lost a baby and Make audiences uncomfortable There’s a self-portrait in charcoal pencil - a close- launched a social media campaign - MacLure, who teaches at Blackstone Valley Technical Regional Vocational High School in Upton, Massachusetts, sought solace in her paints and brushes. She began somewhat jarringly by painting diseased ovaries and uteruses - a cathartic escape as she battled feelings of failure and fears that she might never be a mother. She’s since done a series of paintings on clear glass dinner plates - a Artist Ashley MacLure sits for a photo with a self- fragile domestic item that seemed like the perfect portrait she created with ink, charcoal, gesso, medium for capturing maternal anguish. MacLure’s wood, and recycled materials, at her home in more whimsical work has been showcased in juried Milford, Mass. exhibitions, and some has won critical acclaim. Not these paintings. Galleries don’t know what to do tersweet. Six years ago, she lost her own mom. “I’m with a likeness of her husband holding her as blood so grateful that I get to be a mom - to pass on all flows beneath them, or a plate depicting her naked the positive things my mom taught me, and teach and curled in a fetal position with a bright red the strength and resilience I’ve learned along the blotch on her belly. “They don’t want to make audi- way,” she says. “I’m also excited to know this whole ences uncomfortable,” she says. “People want to new person.”— AP see flowers and sailboats and landscapes and pret- ty things. I’m all about making people uncomfort- able.” Even so, MacLure is gaining a following. Women she’s never met who have experienced the pain of miscarriage have been connecting with her, posting comments and sharing their own stories of loss and healing. Among them is Lauren Lowen, a fellow illustrator who miscarried. Like MacLure, she’s now expecting her firstborn this summer. “I saw her art flash up on my feed, and I found it Artist Ashley MacLure sits up of a face pinched by sorrow. In her artist’s mind, #IHadAMiscarriage - to get people talking openly. poetic and beautiful,” says Lowen, of Nashville, for a photo with one of her this is what miscarriage looks like. And while “The unfortunate consequences are that a Tennessee. “Her work really moved me. paintings at her home in MacLure’s story seems destined for a happy end- majority of women are reporting shame, self- Miscarriage is a unique form of heartbreak.” Men, Milford, Mass. — AP photos ing - she and her husband are expecting their first blame and guilt,” she says. “Loss is devastating, too, have sought out MacLure. Cambridge entre- child this summer - the high school visual arts but the women who live these losses are strong. preneur Chris Tolles reached out after his wife teacher hopes her provocative works will help take What they have to share is deeply important.” twice miscarried. away the enduring stigma of pregnancy loss. “It’s MacLure, 30, who’s had two miscarriages, says The couple now has a 2-year-old daughter, but my way of shouting into the void,” she says. other women’s stories can make her feel like an Tolles still feels a “profound connection” to her art. As many as one in four pregnancies ends pre- impostor. But her grief and pain - both physical “Suffering is a real thing, and it’s best shared,” he maturely in miscarriage, the American Society for and psychological - are no less real. That’s cap- says. “People talk about miscarriage as though a Reproductive Medicine says. With miscarriage so tured in her art, which is honest and edgy - some baby just disappears, but the reality can be really commonplace, women increasingly are pressing for might say brutally so. “One moment, you’re elated. gory and awful. Her work embodies that attitude of, Artist Ashley MacLure holds her painting ‘The society to stop treating it as taboo. Among them is And then it’s just over,” says MacLure, who grew ‘Here’s real life - take it or leave it.’” For MacLure, Dream’ created from acrylic paint and color mark- figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, who revealed last up in North Providence, Rhode Island, and moved an only child, fast-approaching motherhood is bit- er on a glass plate, at her home in Milford, Mass.

Jumeirah: Most favored Decorated graduation caps hotels amongst Kuwaitis reflect joy, angst of students he black letters contrast sharply with have taken more significance as they the graduation cap’s red fabric. They move into this mode of public display.” Tspell: “Vuela tan alto como puedas Bock has been tracking what students put By Faten Omar sin olvidar de donde vienes.” “Fly as high on their caps through social media posts, as you can without forgetting where you as well as by attending commencements, uwaiti travelers to Jumeirah Carlton Towers recorded an increase of 8 percent in occupancy rates in Q1 of come from.” That’s the message that photographing mortarboards and inter- 2018 compared to the same period last year. Room revenues from Kuwaiti travelers doubled in European Brenda Romero, who crossed the border viewing dozens of students. Khotels in general in Q1, including London, Frankfurt and Mallorca, with the increase accounting for 220 per- from Mexico with her mother when she Romero, who is earning a degree in cent. The most favored hotels amongst Kuwaitis are Jumeirah Frankfurt and Grosvenor House Suites by was 2, wants to spread as she graduates human services, has been shielded from Jumeirah Living. Kuwait Times spoke to Luc Delafosse, Regional Vice President of Jumeirah Europe and Saturday from the University of Nevada, deportation and granted a work permit General Manager of Jumeirah Carlton Tower, to learn more about Jumeirah’s operations in Europe. Las Vegas. Her decorated mortarboard is through the Deferred Action for part of an emerging trend in which stu- Childhood Arrivals program. She was able dents are pushing against the formality of to attend community college and later graduation ceremonies and choosing to UNLV because the federal program was Luc Delafosse, Regional Vice President of Jumeirah stand out in a sea of monochromatic caps authorized shortly after she graduated Europe and General Manager of Jumeirah Carlton Tower. and gowns by expressing joy, angst or, from high school, allowing her to work — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat increasingly, political opinions. sometimes up to three jobs to pay por- Photos shared on social media show tions of tuition and fees not covered by mortarboards adorned with expressions scholarships. She said she looked up Kuwait Times: Tell us more about Jumeirah’s Kuwaiti market is that Jumeirah is maintaining a Jumeirah has become an iconic brand in the of gratitude toward family members and quotes to put on her cap for about a overall operations in Europe. great relationship with the people, and this is region. The focus now is to develop it outside hope for the future, with phrases like “The semester. She chose to also include Delafosse: The operations of Jumeirah in what matters. the region, and we have strong values for that. best is yet to come” and “On to my new marigolds - the flowers used to decorate Europe are composed of five properties cur- Our focus is on services, where we want to dream.” Plenty also highlight the cost of altars for the Day of the Dead - to honor rently in operation. Three are in London, where KT: In Europe, Jumeirah manages a diverse develop them for our guests. Also, we want to higher education. “This hat was $95,990,” her grandfather, who died last year. “This we have the famous Jumeirah Carlton Tower, portfolio. What is Jumeirah’s competitive advan- have the best products and would like to be one cap reads. Another states: “Game of quote really resonated with me just Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel and Grosvenor House tage as a luxury operator? recognized as one of the best hotel companies Loans. Interest is coming.” And caps pro- because of my parents’ struggles and Suites. We operate Jumeirah Frankfurt in Delafosse: Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts is for the food and beverage experience. claiming that “Nevertheless, she persist- everything that they had to overcome so Germany, and it has an ideal location in the city known for its luxury portfolio. Our properties ed” abound. The informal practice, which that I could graduate,” said Romero, who center. We also have a nice resort in Mallorca in are all unique and elegant modern business KT: What is Jumeirah’s plan to attract is not necessarily encouraged by institu- now works at a law firm and plans to Spain. hotels in the heart of Europe’s financial capitals. Kuwaitis and the GCC nationals during Eid and tions, has been around for years and is apply to law school. “It pays tribute not summer? used by students to express their individ- just to what I’m doing, but to where I KT: How did Jumeirah’s European hotels per- Delafosse: Our three properties in London uality. But over the past couple of years, it come from and everything that has made form in 2017? Have you seen any particular sig- have the best locations. Summer is a low season has taken a more political tone, said me who I am.” Previous UNLV cere- nificant movements in terms of source markets? in GCC countries and high season in Europe. Sheila Bock, a folklorist and professor at monies have featured caps with messages Delafosse: In the last few years, Jumeirah’s Our special offer is to book for five nights and UNLV. like “Si Se Puede, Here To Stay” and “1 ex, European hotels witnessed a great performance, pay for four. We always have special offers for “That desire of wanting to make 2 kids, 9 jobs, 1 husband, 1 addiction, 13 where we recorded a good growth in the mar- the summer. aspects of one’s self visible that are other- years, 127 credits, 66K loans = 1 college ket. Also, our Jumeirah hotel in Dubai has always wise invisible has always been there,” said grad!!!” Last May, a student placed a enjoyed a very positive performance. We are KT: What are your greatest challenges in the Bock, who is researching how and why photo of President Donald Trump next to aiming in 2018 to remain up in summer in role of marketing, particularly in this digital age students decorate their mortarboards. the question “What does my political sci- “But within the last couple of years, those ence degree mean now?” Some students Europe. where consumers are constantly changing? types of assertions - particularly as they leave politics and finances aside, and Delafosse: The greatest challenge in the digi- relate to citizenship, places of origin, race, instead include Bible verses or show their KT: What trends are you noticing within the tal age is to be able to communicate. The mar- ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation - love for each other. —AP tourism industry in Europe? How have these keting team is working on choosing the right trends affected Jumeirah, especially to attract channel to reach the right people, and this is not Kuwaiti tourists? easy. We are considering digital marketing to Delafosse: Jumeirah is always very active in reach out. the region. For example, we frequently visit Kuwait along with our partners. I will stay in KT: Are there key markets that offer greater Kuwait for a week, and I’m visiting 15 to 20 opportunities for expansion, and what are your travel agencies every day. We have a global plans to introduce new properties? sales management team traveling the world Delafosse: Next year, we will open the fourth including GCC countries. We have strong ties Jumeirah’s property in London, and are looking with Kuwait and GCC and I’m very pleased to for big cities and big hits in Europe to be our see Jumeirah is doing extremely good in these target. markets. We notice that Kuwaitis are very good trav- elers. Kuwaitis love to travel on weekends; peo- ple are increasing the number of trips they make yearly. They want to increase the number of UNLV student Brenda Romero decorates her graduation cap at her home in Las nights that they are staying and they want good Vegas. — AP value for their money. What I noticed about the Established 1961 Lifestyle

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This photo shows an aerial view of the Yellow Sea National Forest Park in Dongtai, eastern China’s Jiangsu province. — AFP Sleeping in a tent: A lifelong love affair

By Molly Sprayregen

don’t remember the first time I slept in a tent. It feels that doing so was always part of me. I remember when I Iwas very young, curling up beside my siblings on family camping trips, falling asleep to the sound of our crackling campfire mingling with our dad’s voice telling us stories. At summer camp, I would lie in my tent with my best friends, telling jokes, playing games, and huddling together in the middle when it rained and water seeped through the sides. There was the time when my friend Sally woke me up in the middle of the night, telling me to peek outside because the stars were shining so brightly and she didn’t want me to miss it. When I was a counselor, I would sing my campers to sleep outside their tents before crawling into my own, breathing in the crisp, mountain air as I drifted off to the lullaby of a rushing river.

In this file photo provided by Molly Sprayregen, Molly, left, National Outdoor Leadership School students’ tents are setup while on a backpacking course in India as a rainbow can and her co-counselor smile beside their favorite tent while be seen from their tents while they explore India’s Pindari region. — AP photos leading a backpacking trip for teens in Mt Robson Provincial Park in the Canadian Rockies.

because you don’t have all of these things blinking around schoolwork or bills or even knowing what’s going on in the and sleeping in a tent along the way. There is nothing like you. You probably don’t have your phone next to you. You rest of world,” he says, lets us focus “in a much more con- waking up beside a mountain or glacier or river or valley don’t have a TV. It’s probably one of the only times you nected way” with the people and world around us. that you worked so hard to get to, nothing like the hum- can really be alone with yourself,” Brofman says. Sleeping in a tent helps his students consider their priori- bling feeling of being one tiny point within a vast wilder- ties, he says: “They come back from having lived in a tent, ness. “Sure, sleeping in a tent is awesome,” Johnson says. Mountain or glacier or river or valley realizing, ‘Oh, I can live a lot more simply than I thought I “But open the door and stick your head out. Sleep with Another camp friend, Ellie Levitt, says that when she could.’” your head out and look around.”— AP sleeps in a tent, “The promise of tomorrow - the guaran- For me, one of the best parts of sleeping in a tent is the tee that when you wake up, you have at least a few more places it allows me to go. Some of the most beautiful loca- A tent glows in the light of a headlamp as students on a miles to hike, maybe days - always helps me sleep better tions in the world are accessible only by hiking trail, only Spring Semester in the Rockies get ready to sleep after a at night.” Those who have dedicated their professional to those willing to spend days or weeks trekking to them long day of ski touring in Wyoming’s Absaroka Mountains. lives to the wilderness and to instilling a love of the out- doors in others swear by the tent. “The relationships our Sleeping in a tent has brought me closer to the people I students build when they are forced to interact really love and to nature. It has taught me I don’t need as much intimately and personally with folks they may not have as I think I do to be happy. It has trained me to be tough otherwise interacted with is really special,” says Bix Firer, and resourceful. There are so many benefits to sleeping in director of programs at Big City Mountaineers, a a tent, so many reasons people love it. Grace Brofman Colorado-based organization that guides disadvantaged Her way: 3 new lifestyle books grew up with me at summer camp and went on to become youth on wilderness trips. “There’s something so unifying a wilderness trip leader. As a child, she loved tents’ com- about those experiences.” munal aspect. “We’d all cuddle up together and squeeze Marco Johnson has been an instructor with the five people into a four-person tent when it was raining,” National Outdoor Leadership School, known as NOLS, coming from Martha Stewart she remembers, “and we loved being together.” Now, her since 1985. “Getting away from the things we focus on in tent is her refuge, a place to reflect. “It’s a lot calmer town, be it our job or the responsibilities of family or artha Stewart’s next three lifestyle books Mwill be showcases for “the Martha way.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt told The Associated Press yesterday that Stewart’s new series would feature her take on everything from entertaining to decorating. The first release, “The Martha Manual,” is scheduled for January 2019. In a statement issued through her publisher, Stewart said the book would be a “go-to resource” for mastering “the Martha way.” The magazine publisher and television host has released dozens of books, with recent works including “Martha’s Flowers: A Practical Guide to Growing, Gathering, and Enjoying” and “Martha Stewart’s Newlywed Kitchen: Recipes for Weeknight Dinners and Easy, Casual Gatherings.”—AP Martha Stewart A National Outdoor Leadership School student spends time Students cook meals in their camp between a glacier and relaxing by their tent in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. alpine lake in the Pacific Northwest of the US.