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MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 RAJAB 6, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net New “plastic” Iraq attacks, Tunisia boosts Norwich leave banknotes due bombings tourism with Chelsea’s title in Ramadan5 kill over8 30 “Star40 Wars” bid20 in tatters No plan to dissolve Max 39º Min 25º High Tide National Assembly 04:38 & 14:48 Low Tide MPs’ resignation part of ‘conspiracy plot’ 10:18 & 22:25 40 PAGES NO: 16156 150 FILS KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah reaffirmed his total support for the National Assembly and insisted that there is no inten- tion to dissolve the house, according to Assembly Speaker Marzouk Al-Ghanem following his weekly pro- tocol meeting with the Amir. The comments came after MPs Ali Al-Rashed and Safa Al-Hashem carried out their threat to quit and officially submitted their resignations from the National Assembly in protest against the Assembly’s decision to scrap a request to grill the Prime Minister. That brings to five the number of MPs who have already quit their seats officially amid reports that other MPs were on their way to resign. Last week, MPs Abdulkarim Al-Kandari, Riyadh Al-Adasani and Hussein Quwaiaan submitted their resignations after their grilling request was rejected. Ghanem told reporters outside the National Assembly that during the meeting, the Amir “reaffirmed his total support and unlimited trust in the role of the National Assembly in legislation and supervision over ministers and holding them accountable in case of any shortcomings”. The Amir added that “there is no intention to dissolve the National Assembly and this issue is ruled out and the talk about it is baseless. The decision to dissolve the Assembly is in the hands of the Amir” Ghanem said. The statements represent a letter of assurance from the Amir to MPs that the ongoing resignations will not impact a decision to dissolve the Assembly prematurely. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah holds talks with the Speaker of National Assembly Marzouk Al-Ghanem yesterday at the Bayan The Assembly was elected in July following the scrap- Palace. (Right) MPs Safa Al-Hashem and Ali Al-Rashed walk out of the National Assembly building after they officially submittedheir t resignations in protest ping of the previous house by the Constitutional Court. against the Assembly’s decision to scrap a request to grill the Prime Minister. — Photos by KUNA, Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 11 Young Bahrain Shiites Kuwait issues MERS alert risk radicalization KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health has set up ministries. She explained that the educa- plans to spread awareness and education tional materials are made in both Arabic MANAMA: Dozens of black-clad, Janabiya. about the MERS Coronavirus disease in an and English, indicating that the ministry masked men parade through Bahrain’s “Many of us have lost a member of attempt to prevent its spread and reduce sought assistance from embassies in Shiite Muslim villages, some holding the family; that has became a norm. But infection. Middle East Respiratory Kuwait to translate these materials into petrol bombs and others denouncing Al we are fighting back and will kill whoev- Syndrome (MERS) is viral respiratory illness many languages to ensure they reach Khalifa, the Sunni Muslim monarchy that er is killing us.” The strategically vital king- first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is everyone. has ruled the Gulf Arab island since the dom, which hosts the US Fifth Fleet, has caused by a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. She said that the Ministry of Education 18th century. A few masked men jump wrestled with low-level but persistent Most people who have been confirmed to has been notified to start an educational through a ring of fire and crawl under civil unrest since a Shiite-led uprising have MERS-CoV infection program about the disease barbed wire in what looks like a desert was put down in 2011, becoming a front developed severe respiratory to students, school workers training zone. Hands work at what looks line in a region-wide tussle for influence illness. They had fever, and staff. She added that the like a home-made bomb. between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite cough, and shortness of Ministry of Awqaf in particu- Scenes like these, broadcast in online Iran across the Gulf. breath. About 30 percent of lar has also been notified to videos in recent months, might once Polarization those infected with the virus work on the dissemination of have been dismissed as a cry for atten- Many of the youth in the videos hold have died. educational materials on tion by groups from Bahrain’s big Shiite the flag of the February 14th Youth Director of the Technical mosques and to Umrah and community seeking to shore up a flag- Coalition, an internet-based group that Department at the Ministry Haj trips. ging cause for democratic reform. But has been organizing anti-government of Health, Dr Magda Al- Photo shows a colorized On May 2, the US Centers they have coincided with a spread in protests since security forces quelled Qattan, said in a statement transmission of the for Disease Control and sometimes lethal home-made bomb mass demonstrations of February-March that the plan aims to reach MERS coronavirus. — AP Prevention (CDC) identified attacks, suggesting a growing radicaliza- 2011, inspired by the “Arab Spring” wave all segments of society in 401 confirmed cases of tion among Shiite youth. To be sure, the of popular revolts against autocracy. order to make them aware of the disease. MERS-CoV infection in 12 countries, with parades do not match either in size or February 14th, named after the launch She explained that the plan was devel- all reported cases originating in the armed might those of paramilitary Shiite date of the 2011 uprising, has been oped during a meeting between Arabian Peninsula. Most patients devel- militias elsewhere in the Middle East declared a terrorist organization by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, oped severe acute respiratory illness, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah or Iraq’s authorities along with two little-known Dr Khalid Al-Sahlawi with heads of primary with fever, cough, and shortness of Mehdi Army. Nor do the bombs disturb groups: Saraya Al-Ashtar (Ashtar Brigade) health care units in the presence of mem- breath, and 93 patients have died. everyday life in most of Bahrain, where and Saraya Al-Muqawama (Resistance bers of the Higher Committee for the Countries with lab-confirmed cases of explosions tend to target security forces Brigade), compounding the atmosphere Coronavirus disease awareness center. MERS includes: Saudi Arabia, the United in the mainly Shiite villages, far away of confrontation. Demonstrators drawn RIYADH: A Saudi man covers his mouth and nose She added that scientific and educa- Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, from the capital. mainly from the Shiite community have while he walks down a main street in the Saudi capi- tional materials about the disease, its Kuwait, UK, France, Tunisia, Italy, Malaysia But there are fears that a deadlock in kept up small protests almost daily, tal as the death toll from the newly emerged and symptoms and how it is transmitted and and the United States. Nearly 400 people political efforts to solve a three-year-old demanding the Sunni ruling family cre- often fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) prevention have been given out to special- in Saudi Arabia have been infected, with standoff is deepening frustration among ate a constitutional monarchy. disease topped 111 in the desert kingdom. — AFP ists prior to their distribution to all state 111 deaths reported. — (See Page 6) young Shiites, with the more hotheaded Some of the protests turn violent, of them seeming beyond the control of with police firing tear gas, stun grenade PAGE PAGE the mainstream Al Wefaq opposition and birdshot at youth burning tyres and 30 firms charged 20 men beat up movement. “We are fighting for our throwing rocks, metal rods and petrol rights and nobody can stop us. The bombs at security forces. The violence is with ‘trafficking’ fake policeman youngsters will continue what their mainly in Shiite villages well away from fathers, brothers and uncles started,” a Manama where businesses and expatri- 21-year-old man who gave his name ates are hardly affected. only as S A said in the Shiite village of Continued on Page 11 37 militants, six Kuwait joins FATCA

Yemen troops die KUWAIT: The Ministry of Finance said that Revenue Service (IRS) website which will Kuwait has joined the list of countries be due today as announced by the ADEN: Yemen said at least 37 Al-Qaeda militants were which have agreed ‘initially in substance’ Treasury Department on December 31st killed in the southern province of Shabwa yesterday as on the FATCA (Foreign Account Tax 2014. the army intensified an offensive to root out foreign and Compliance Act). The Ministry of Finance The Ministry of Finance took a step fur- local Islamist fighters holed up in some of the country’s announced that it has agreed in sub- ther towards maintaining the integrity of most impenetrable areas. The report by state news stance regarding the FATCA Agreement the financial institutions of Kuwait which agency Saba came shortly after a military source said a with the US Treasury Department in accor- could be subject to any financial penalties. suicide bomber killed six soldiers by their outpost in dance with the Intergovernmental As a result, the banks and financial institu- Shabwa, one of two provinces where the army has been Agreement Model 1 IGA and initialed on tions including the Foreign Financial fighting Al-Qaeda and its allies. The source, speaking the 1st of May 2014. Kuwait has been Institution (FFI) have already complied from the battlefront, also told Reuters that 20 soldiers included in the list of 30 countries on the with the FATCA, it said. In this regard, the were wounded in the bombing. The number of attacks US Treasury Department’s website, the Ministry of Finance asked the Cabinet to against the army and security forces in the south has ministry said in a release. issue a decree that will enforce all the risen sharply since Yemen’s US-backed army launched The ministry has completed the first respective governmental institutions its anti-Al-Qaeda offensive last week. stage of initialing the procedures of the which include the Capital Markets Western countries fear further destabilization in Yemen, FATCA Agreement that provides legal cov- Authority, Ministry of Trade and Central which also faces separatists in the south and unrest in the erage for the banks and financial institu- Bank of Kuwait to cooperate with the HAMAD TOWN: Firemen work at the site of a burnt out police jeep in Hamad north, could give more space to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian tions to comply with the requirement of Ministry of Finance to comply and enforce Town, Bahrain. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the jeep was Peninsula (AQAP), the local branch of the global Islamist the FACTA, which has extended the dead- all the necessary procedures which are set attacked by anti-government protesters throwing petrol bombs. — AP militant movement, to plot attacks on international targets. line for the registration of banks and out by the Ministry of Finance to conclude Continued on Page 11 financial institutions on the US Internal the FATCA Agreement, it said. — KUNA MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 LOCAL

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KUWAIT: One of Kuwait’s most notable and beautiful architectural landmarks, the Sawaber complex in Sharq. Questions about the long term viability of the complex remains as it has long fallen into disre- pair and some have called for its demolition to pave the way for new high rise buildings. — Photo by Joseph Shagra More firms charged with visa trafficking Efforts to ‘clean up’ the labor market

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor hundreds of companies prosecuted since the Authority, Al-Qabas reported yesterday quoting Hind Al-Subaih ordered legal action against 30 beginning of the year on accusations of human a ministry insider. Kuwait is home to more than companies on charges of human trafficking. The trafficking. The firms are accused of selling visas 2.5 million expatriates, the majority of whom are firms are part of 2,499 whose files were recently issued illegally to workers who find themselves from other Arab or Asian countries. examined under suspicions of involvement in without a job as soon as they come to Kuwait. According to the US State Department’s 2013 violating workers’ rights. The report does not They include fake companies, or firms that are Trafficking in Persons report, “Many of the specify the number of workers involved in visa not functioning but their licenses are used to migrant workers arriving for work in Kuwait have trafficking scams. It indicates that there are 1,253 issue visas through illegal means. paid exorbitant fees to recruiters in their home expatriate employees registered in the files of The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor has countries or are coerced into paying labor bro- the 30 companies who were referred to the been increasing efforts to ‘clean up’ the labor ker fees in Kuwait that, by Kuwaiti law, should be Public Prosecution on human trafficking market and detect violating companies, as part paid by the employer-a practice that makes charges, which are punishable with up to life in of preparations to move its labor department workers highly vulnerable to forced labor, prison. The recent step follows a trend that saw into the newly established Public Labor including debt bondage, once in Kuwait.” Quite often, Kuwaiti employers bring unskilled workers into Kuwait on commercial vis- it visas but fail to transfer these to work permits or residency permits. This leaves workers unpro- tected under labor regulations and vulnerable to abuse, including conditions of forced labor and servitude. Kuwait’s sponsorship law restricts KUWAIT: Lorenzo Gatto and Yossif Ivanov pose here with Julien de Frainpont, Belgian workers’ movements and penalizes them for Embassy Deputy Head of Mission and Harvey Pincis. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat “running away” (also known as absconding) from abusive workplaces; as a result, domestic work- Belgian Embassy marks 50 years ers are particularly vulnerable to forced labor inside private homes. of diplomatic ties with Kuwait Kuwait is ranked as a Tier 3 country, the low- est possible ranking, by the US State KUWAIT: The Belgian Embassy in Kuwait organ- United Arab Emirates. Yossif on his part has dis- Department over the issue. Tier 3 countries are ized a violin concert at Dar Al-Athar (American played impressive performances which earned considered ones that “do not fully comply with Cultural Center) yesterday night. The concert - him awards and recognition across the globe. At the minimum standards and are not making sig- under the patronage of the Belgian Ambassador the age of 16, he was awarded First Prize at the nificant efforts to do so.” to Kuwait Damien Angelet-was held in conjunc- Montreal International Competition. He also per- In what may be seen as a move to address tion with the National Council for Arts and formed along with Montreal Symphony the issue, at least in part, the Kuwait government Letters to mark Belgium-Kuwait 50th year of Orchestra, London Orchestra, Orchestra plans to set up a Labor Public Authority, that will diplomatic relations. Speaking to Kuwait Times Symphonic, and Vancouver Symphony handle all labor recruitment for companies in just before the concert, Julien de Frainpont, Orchestra. He has also worked with well-known Kuwait. Recent news suggest the authority is Belgian Embassy Deputy Head of Mission said conductors and has visited many countries in nearly ready to begin operating but it’s unclear that he was elated to host the concert for the Europe, Asia and North America. exactly what authority the new government people of Kuwait. “We are happy to showcase “Music is universal. It is understood by peo- body will have or how it will change the kafala the two renowned Belgian violinists to our ple in all walks of life. We just want our audience KUWAIT: A file photo shows some expatriate workers staging a strike in Kuwait. Hundreds of system in Kuwait where by individual businesses Kuwaiti friends and to celebrate our diplomatic to enjoy and feel the rhythm,” Yossif said. The two companies are prosecuted since the beginning of the year on accusations of human trafficking. currently sponsor their employees. ties. We look forward for more fruitful and excit- have been enjoying violin for more than two ing years especially in political and economic decades now. He advised young kids to contin- arena,” he noted. ue honing their talents. “Playing music is quite Lorenzo Gatto and Yossif Ivanov learned vio- simple to those whose hearts are really into it. Diagnostic study on educational system lin at the age of seven. At that young age, they But if you are half-hearted, then it will not sink in. competed with each other, until one fortunate Music needs discipline and dedication. Give time day when they were both presented in a con- to your instrument - at least half hour a day. By Nawara Fattahova the Kuwait Times. “We ensured high credibility in with these developments,” Baba stressed. cert. “When our friend organized the concert, we Music is good for your life, even if you are not this study - bring in reputable professors who have “The aim of the study is not to rank Kuwait’s cur- were both invited as guests. So from there, we going to pursue it as a career,” Yossif advised. KUWAIT: The National Centre For Education no personal interest in the results,” she added. riculum. The good thing is that the government is kicked off,” Lorenzo said. Lorenzo has demon- Also in the concert with Lorenzo and Yossif Development (NCED) has conducted a diagnostic This discussion session reviewed the present situ- interested in educational sector,” she said. The study strated his prowess in violin in front of presi- was a composer and pianist Harriet Bushman, study on Kuwait educational system. The study, ation of education in Kuwait. “The result of the study found some shortages. “We need to apply strict rule dents, kings and queens of countries around the who is a freelance music instructor based in which was conducted in 2013 by a team of profes- is very important to set developmental plans to be for employing teachers. The teachers should be world. He played along with BBC Philharmonic, Kuwait. She has performed internationally and sors from the National Institute for Education in of international standard. I would like to thank all accredited and must be qualified. Unfortunately Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra of has created several musical tunes for movies, tel- Singapore involved both elementary and high those who participated in this study including the there are some unqualified teachers. Also there is a Luxemburg, Sinfonia Varsovia, Moscow Virtuasi, evision and stage play. Harriet Bushman teaches school in all of the public and private schools, reli- Ministry of Education, teachers, and parents,” Dr problem of financing, as the Ministry of Education Romanian National Radio Orchestra. He per- privately and works with the Ahmadi Music gious institutes, and schools for special needs. The Ridha Al-Khayat Director of NCED said. doesn’t allow the schools to receive support from formed in Japan, South Korea, United States and Group in Kuwait. result of the study was revealed during a discussion Commenting on the study, Ahmad Al-Milefi, the community in executing some educational proj- session held at the Ministry of Education yesterday. Minister of Education and Higher Education said ects,” Baba added. The discussion session was attended by Prof Lee that education is the first step for the development Sing Kong, Prof Lee Ong Kim, Dr Goh Chor Boon, of any nation. and Lim Hwei Ming from the National Institute for “The developed countries reached that posi- Education in Singapore. The study was based on tion because they consider education as their New traffic WANTED evaluating the basic pillars of education. “These main priority. We should be able to deal with the include curriculum, teachers, school leadership, poli- fast developing IT revolution to get a competi- detour on cy and human resources, financial management and tive position regionally and internationally,” he technology. The study focused on the desired out- noted. “There is no educational system in this Airport Road come of education in Kuwait. world that doesn’t need development. Even in “The aim of this study is to eradicate illiteracy, the most developed countries, they systematical- KUWAIT: Ministry of Public Works has Editors & Reporters empower the students technologically, and making ly update their curricula. We live in a fast devel- announced the opening of a new traffic them good citizens,” Suhad Baba, Consultant at the oping world with advancement in information detour at dawn today between Gamal NCED and the Executive Consultant of the study told technology, and so our curriculum should evolve Abdel Nasser Street and Jahra Road until the intersection of Airport Road with the Jahra Road. Deputy Engineer of Jahra Road devel- Full time, must be in Kuwait, opment project Hanan Hussein said that the main objective of the new traffic have transferrable 18 visa detour is to create a workspace for the implementation of the airport road proj- and writing experience ect, indicating that the existing road has been diverted to an alternative route while maintaining the number of lanes, entrances and exits. Send CV, letters of reference Hussein added that the General Directorate of Traffic has inspected the site to check the availability of the terms of and 3 writing samples to traffic safety. She called on road users to follow the traffic instructions and comply [email protected] with the speed limit in such detours for safety reasons. —KUNA KUWAIT: Dr Ridha Al-Khayat, Dr Goh Chor Boon and Lim Huei Ming. —Photo by Joseph Shagra Only those who are shortlisted will be contacted

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest In my view The real estate price increase Our safe home

By Suleiman Al-Dilaijan he Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdulmohsen Al- Government Assembly TMedej gave a brief list of reasons in a recent By Labeed Abdal statement behind the increase in property prices in Kuwait. They included lack of legislations, the supply and demand rule, as well as the low bank interest on deposits and loans. When a senior ministry official points out obstacles that the country faces in order to address the main problem of public concern, efforts [email protected] are required to solve the problem as start as soon.

Medej mentioned some proposals to solve these Al-Anbaa he accelerating pace of events between problems, including freeing lands and adopting the Russia and the West with regards to mortgage system. I agree with some of the solutions Ukraine, as well as the situation in Syria and he proposed, and disagree with others. For example, T vertical constructions, or building residential com- Iraq with the emergence of proxy war effects, pounds to distribute apartments to citizens, will not gives an ominous indication about the return of be helpful in my opinion due to lack of free land. The the Cold War. Polarization of superpowers is not government currently owns over 90 percent of lands something new in the world. It culminated dur- in Kuwait. The vertical construction project would be ing the past century, and the competition it fea- a feasible idea if more lands are released. tured resulted in two World Wars that left lessons Medej also mentioned common solutions such as which humanity does not wish to see repeated. improving partnership with the private sector and The responsibility to avoid struggle between reducing speculation on real estate. I agree with the superpowers is greater today, with the advance- minister regarding the need to differentiate between ments in science, industry and technology - where a dealer and a speculator. Development is currently kuwait digest technological supremacy has become a standard not encouraging in Kuwait due to the increase in land prices and labor costs compared to other Gulf states, where a developer enjoys several privileges. Jim Carrey and our Constitution This is where the government probably needs to This responsibility requires play a greater role in finding solutions, especially By Thaar Al-Rasheedi commitment to self-control and after it admitted the reasons for the price increase. I also hope that the government releases some regu- im Carrey, the genius movie star made a movie official talks about economics and politics and limits avoiding muscle-flexing, espe- lations that encourage banks to create real estate titled ‘The Majestic’ in which he, as an upcoming the sources in such topic to only official ones. This is cially since the world has been products such as the mortgage system. There is no Jyoung screenwriter in the 1960s, learns that he has repressive to the freedom of the press and the freedom doubt that the increase in government projects in been accused of being a communist because he attend- to circulate general information. Most importantly, living through economic insta- recent years, and in various fields including the ed an anti-war meeting in college years before. clause 8 grants an illegal immunity to public servants, bility under the repercussions health and education sectors, play a role on increas- Accordingly, he was summoned by the Congressional which is also repressive to the freedom of expression. ing rents. For example, a 1 bedroom apartment in Investigation Committee to discuss the articles of free- The law, in general brought the press back to the of the global economic crisis. Mahboula with a total area of 40 square meters used dom of expression, belief and press in the American days of the observer or the supervisor. Once more, I to be rented for KD150 to KD155 two years ago. The constitution. He improvises his answers in a way that stress that the law was passed by the 2006 parliament average rent has since increased to KD200 (25 per- turns him from an accused person to a hero in the eyes while the government that closes down newspapers cent increase). for countries’ advancement and global influence. of the audience that once wanted him to rot in jail. and refers announcers to prosecution only enforces a Permanent members of the United Nations The average rent for a 3 bedroom apartment in Articles 36 and 37 of the Kuwait’s constitution law tailored by our lawmakers 8 years ago. Security Council share a greater responsibility Jabriya has increased from KD300 (two years ago), to frankly speak about the freedom of the press and the Now, eight years later with this law that is full of con- when it comes to protecting international peace at least KD450 today. Areas like Reggae and Jleeb Al- freedom of expression. However, since 2006 and pre- stitutional shortcomings, it must be amended. It is Shuyoukh were also affected by projects in nearby cisely since the publication and press law was issued, unacceptable that newspapers and TV channels will and security. Sabah Health District, which required building both the freedom of expression and the freedom of the remain subject to the government’s sword whenever This responsibility requires commitment to self- accommodations for workers and engineers. It is a press have been suffering major setbacks on yearly they voice their opinions freely. I do not of course mean control and avoiding muscle-flexing, especially common knowledge that the increase in govern- basis, for which I cannot blame the government alone. changing it into the unified media law the government since the world has been living through economic ment spending has direct effect on the current It did so in partnership with the parliament that passed tried to pass a year ago. A new press and publication instability under the repercussions of the global increase in rents. It is also well-known fact that it is the law - though it included iconic so-called ‘freedom law must guarantee more freedoms to the press, which economic crisis. Reason, composure, prudence hard to achieve a balance between the increase in fighters’. is the fourth power. This law and the unified media draft and imperturbability are the elements needed to government spending and curbing rents in this pres- go through the road of peace. Whether in the west ent time. That objective requires creating investment The first article of the 2006 law states that ‘the free- law make the press, some way or another, subjected to dom of press and publication is guaranteed’ while arti- the government, which is a violation to the simplest or east, we should never forget that we all live in and industrial areas that provide real investment one planet created to provide a safe home for us, opportunities. cle 21 of the third chapter of the very same law -namely press freedom concepts! Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa called Earth. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas clauses 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 impose restrictions on discussing —

kuwait digest ‘United Arab peninsula state’

By Hisham Al-Oumi

ased on the song ‘Our Gulf Is One’, if we unite as l United Arab Peninsula has 170 universities and sev- GCC countries and become “United Arab en stock markets. The oil reserves in the state form BPeninsula state,” we will be a super economic 36% of the world’s oil reserves, and as for gas, we country, and here are the features of the new United have 22% of the world reserves, and both are esti- Arab Peninsula. mated at a value of 4,200 trillion based on today’s l A population of 45 million people - and with Yemen estimates. It is clear that it is qualified to become the we will become 70 million, and manpower is 20 mil- oil capital of the world as oil expert Prof Ahmad Al- lion laborers and employees. Arbeed, wished for Kuwait. l Overlooking five seas including an ocean, the area is * The United Arab Peninsula state houses two Holy 2,610,716 square kilometer, larger than Iran and Iraq Mosques, and its people have the same language and combined, and 10 times larger than Britain, 53 ports, religion. We did not mention all ingredients of the more than 23 airports - half of which are internation- United Arab Peninsula such as the new currency (Arab al, in addition to tens of islands. Dinar), or the number of banks, fish and animal l The budget of United Arab Peninsula for 2014 is resources, plants, growth rate, trade exchange, not nearly $417 billion, larger than Germany’s budget even the other face of the new state such as the num- with $146 billion surplus for one year only, and we ber of prisons, number of military jets, the quantity of can buy a veto seat from one of the five permanent special forces batons. We will be ahead in everything, members at the Security Council. and we, despite all that, will be proud of the state. But it l The gross domestic product is $1.55 trillion, which is is clear that going deep in it will reveal to us that it has three quarter of France GDP! world capability, with which we can understand and l The sovereignty fund for the United Arab Peninsula is explain the efforts to keep it in a light cardboard box 1.7 trillion, which is more than one third of the size of called the cooperation council that includes rich fragile the sovereignty funds around the world totaling 650 countries. funds, and this is the largest sovereignty fund ever. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas

kuwait digest What does Labor Day mean?

By Waleed Al-Rujaib orkers around the world celebrated Labor movement in the country. However, tribalism and sec- Day on Thursday, which symbolizes their tarianism penetrated through unionist work in the mid Wstruggle against injustice and oppression, as 1990s, which led to marginalizing their role. well as their efforts to achieve their rights that include Despite the importance of the working class in Arab forming labor unions. countries, unionist movements have been subjected Following the discovery of oil in Kuwait in the to injustice two times in their history. The first hap- 1930s, large numbers of workers came from the desert pened when they became under governments’ con- to the city in order to work in the oil company. Many trol, and the second when they were neglected by Kuwaiti labor forces were hired to work in excavation, Arab revolutions. construction of exportation port and refinery, and oth- Rebellious people did not raise labor-related slo- er works related to the oil industry. gans. Instead, they demanded that regimes are over- The Kuwaiti working class started to form after- thrown, or replacing one bourgeois regime with wards as a new social class. The demand also required another. Eliminating the head of a ruling system only importing skilled labor forces from India and Iraq. The allows the bourgeois regime to regroup and then first attempt by the new labor class to organize and select another face to represent them. The new leader demand better working conditions came in 1946, will eventually become a tool for capitalism that sides when the ‘Workers Association’ was established. In with the regime against the working class. 1949, oil workers in Wara staged a strike, following by What results has the working class gained from the another work stoppage for transportation workers in revolutions? What are the proposals discussed to end Ahmadi in 1951. problems that labor forces face? Nothing can be help- Those two incidents sent indications that the work- ful if the working class did not have the tools and ing class in Kuwait became aware of its unionist right, methods of production for the benefit of rebelling leading for the creation of many labor unions and asso- people. ciations in the country. Today, there is still a need for The leftwing in the Arab World which celebrated unity between labor forces to press their rightful Labor Day Thursday is required to represent the inter- demands as the capitalist society in Kuwait takes shape. ests of the working class, and work hard to achieving The unionist movement in Kuwait has always the revolutionary demand towards change. played an active role in the national and progressive —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Rai LOCAL MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 MPs vow to move on as NA crisis looms Opportunity for honest debate

By A Saleh MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani, Abdulkareem Al- his resignation. On his colleagues’ decisions to Kandari, Hussein Al-Quwai’an, Safa Al-Hashem resign, Al-Otaibi said that the parliament has no KUWAIT: MPs are putting resignations submit- and Ali Al-Rashid to change their mind will suc- choice but to accept their resignations so that ted by five of their colleagues behind them as ceed. “The next session will be an opportunity by-elections can be held as soon as possible. MP they move on towards addressing the topics for honest debate and reconciliation,” said MP Mohammad Al-Jabri hosted around 20 MPs at scheduled for discussion this week. Abdurrahman Al-Jeeran. He urged fellow law- his diwaniya last Thursday to discuss resigna- Parliamentary committees met yesterday to dis- makers to give concessions “for the country’s tions submitted by three lawmakers earlier. cuss a number of key issues, including amend- common interest.” During the meeting, a majority of lawmakers ments to the Capital Market Authority law which agreed with the option of approving the resig- were approved by the Legislative Committee, ‘Extreme failure’ nations during tomorrow’s session in order to and a proposal approved by the Housing But if those efforts fail, the parliament is shift focus on discussing draft laws as soon as Committee to build 35,000 housing units near ready to move on unaffected by the resignations possible, according to sources quoted by Al- Khairan. according to MP Abdulhameed Dashti. “The gov- Qabas yesterday. Lawmakers seek to finalize as much draft laws ernmental - parliamentary cooperation is at its as possible before the current session expires best currently - something that will reflect posi- Ajmi’s resignation next month, said Faisal Al-Shaya, the head of the tively on the parliament’s performance in the The same daily also reported yesterday that Financial and Economic Committee. Those bills very near future,” Dashti proclaimed yesterday. resignation of Nayef Al-Ajmi, the state’s Minister include amendments to the Build-Operate- He argued that the resignations came as a result of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Transfer (BOT) law, the Public Transportation of the ‘extreme failure’ of some of the MPs, and Affairs, still stands. The Cabinet decided last Authority, and the environment law. “The parlia- speculated that they could be part of a plot that month to postpone making a final decision on ment is going to make sure that the resignations targets the parliament’s dissolution. MP Hamad Ajmi’s resignation, according to parliamentary submitted recently will not hinder its work Al-Harashani also said that the MPs resigned sources quoted in the report. They indicated that KUWAIT: Saad Al-Abdullah Security Academy’s Deputy Director for Education and towards approving these draft laws listed on its after their ‘foreign link and agendas’ were a final decision could be made within two Training Affairs, Maj. General Haroun Al-Omar announced that the academy received schedule,” Faisal Al-Shaya insisted. exposed. weeks, unless a grilling against him is filed, after 951 new cadets including 561 GCC nationals with Kuwaiti mothers in the police Lawmakers also hope that efforts to convince MP Saadoun Al-Otaibi denied rumors about which he would be willing to attend the debate. school to be graduated as lance corporals and policemen. The announcement was made in the presence of MOI’s PR and moral guidance manager and acting manager of security media, Brigadier Adel Al-Hashash and the police school Director, Colonel, Mohammed Bader Al-Roumi. New ‘plastic’ banknotes due in Ramadan KUWAIT: Kuwait plans to unveil the newest edition of the country’s currency on June 29, Electricity which coincides with the beginning of Ramadan. The Central Bank of Kuwait chose consumption on the rise this timing in order to take advantage of the large sales operations that usually happen KUWAIT: Electricity consumption rates saw a production of electricity before summer in during the Ramadan season, said sources significant increase near the end of last the past few years, but still faces a challenge with knowledge of the news. month, signaling another sign of the begin- every summer to keep up with the growing “Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr holiday sea- ning of summer in addition to the notable consumption. Electricity used to power air sons can help a lot in the exchange of the temperature increase. conditioning results in consumption overload new currency around Kuwait,” said the According to a Ministry of Electricity and in parallel with high temperatures that usual- sources who were quoted anonymously by Water official, the total average of electricity ly break the 50 C degrees point multiple Al-Qabas yesterday. The Central Bank consumption reached 9,200 watts on April 30, times during the middle of summer. received the first shipment of banknotes the highest this year. The number is still well There are seven fossil-fuel power plants in from the British currency printing agency, below the ministry’s total daily production Kuwait that produce electricity and desalinat- De La Rue last March, while three more capacity, but it is set to increase gradually in ed water for a total population of 4 million on shipments are still expected. parallel with the rising temperature. a daily basis, with plans to fully operate the Kuwait is switching a ‘plastic’ polymer On the other hand, the ministry managed new power plant in North Zoor next year. material that is resistant to heat, humidity to maintain stable water consumption as it While annual reinforcement and mainte- and dust in the creation of its currency. produced more than 426 million imperial gal- nance operations at power plants, trans- lons on April 30 compared to a total of nearly formers and distribution networks helped Other countries including Australia, Canada, 395 million consumed that day, said the the MEW cope with the yearly increase in Indonesia and Chile have adopted the poly- source who spoke on the condition of demand, senior ministry officials have mer material which are said to be more diffi- bills were manufactured according to top extended media campaign to coincide with anonymity. The current daily production repeatedly indicated that the new power cult to counterfeit. The Central Bank will put quality standards and latest technologies in the release of the sixth series of the Kuwaiti capacity of electricity reaches 14,000 plant is necessary to avoid shortage crises a total value of KD 5 billion of the new ban- security printing, the Central Bank assured. banknotes since the first Dinar was put in megawatts. Kuwait improved the total daily in the future. knotes into circulation at the beginning. The The government is expected to launch an circulation in 1961. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Kuwait Society For Human Rights recently concluded the First GCC Forum on Developing Family and Educational Advisors’ Skills, that was held under the title of ‘Modern Concepts for Family Guidance’. The forum was organized by the Arab Board, KSA Branch and Ittijahat Investment Co. in collaboration with KSHR from May 1 to 3. MERS Coronavirus: FAQs Fake policeman Q: What is MERS? respiratory illness. to help prevent respiratory illnesses: A: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Q: Does MERS-CoV spread from person to l Wash your hands often with soap and water taught a lesson is a viral respiratory illness. MERS is caused by a person? for 20 seconds, and help young children do coronavirus called “Middle East Respiratory A: MERS-CoV has been shown to spread the same. If soap and water are not available, Syndrome Coronavirus” (MERS-CoV). between people who are in close contact. use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. KUWAIT: Twenty men beat up a fake 20s was admitted with stab wounds to his Q: What is MERS-CoV? Transmission from infected patients to health- l Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue policeman who they said tried to steal their chest, along with his 16-year-old brother who A: MERS-CoV is a beta coronavirus. It was care personnel has also been observed. when you cough or sneeze then throw the money, then tied him up and handed him sustained a head wound and neck bruises. first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. MERS- Clusters of cases in several countries are being tissue in the trash. over to officers who arrived at the scene. Preliminary investigations revealed that the CoV used to be called “novel coronavirus,” or investigated. l Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth The incident took place in Jleeb Al- two were forced to pull over at a street in the “nCoV”. It is different from other coronaviruses Q: What is the source of MERS-CoV? with unwashed hands. Shuyoukh when the man reportedly area by five men, who then attacked them that have been found in people before. A: We don’t know for certain where the virus l Avoid close contact, such as kissing, sharing entered a house and started trying to col- with knives. The reason for their attack was Q: Is MERS-CoV the same as the SARS virus? came from. However, it likely came from an ani- cups, or sharing eating utensils, with sick lect the wallets of residents inside. The men, not mentioned in the report, but detectives A: No. MERS-CoV is not the same coron- mal source. In addition to humans, MERS-CoV people. who are of Asian nationalities, suspected have already managed to identify the sus- avirus that caused severe acute respiratory syn- has been found in camels in Qatar, Egypt and l Clean and disinfect frequently touched sur- the man since he was alone, was not pects and are working on their arrest. drome (SARS) in 2003. However, like the SARS Saudi Arabia, and a bat in Saudi Arabia. Camels faces, such as toys and doorknobs. dressed in a police uniform and was not virus, MERS-CoV is most similar to coronavirus- in a few other countries have also tested posi- Q: Is there a vaccine? driving a police car. The man reportedly Suicide attempt es found in bats. CDC is still learning about tive for antibodies to MERS-CoV, indicating they A: No, but CDC is discussing with partners tried to escape when they asked to see his A domestic worker survived a suicide MERS. were previously infected with MERS-CoV or a the possibility of developing one. police ID. His attempt failed, as the men sur- attempt after she was hospitalized in time to Q: What are the symptoms of MERS? closely related virus. However, we don’t know Q: What are the treatments? rounded him, beat him up, tied him and save her life. An ambulance went to a house in A: Most people who got infected with whether camels are the source of the virus. A: There are no specific treatments recom- called police. An identity check revealed Ahmadi where a family reported that their MERS-CoV developed severe acute respirato- More information is needed to identify the pos- mended for illnesses caused by MERS-CoV. that the man has a history of mugging and housemaid collapsed. The Asian woman was ry illness with symptoms of fever, cough, and sible role that camels, bats, and other animals Medical care is supportive and to help relieve drug abuse cases. The men told police that rushed to the Adan Hospital where tests shortness of breath. So far, around 30 percent may play in the transmission of MERS-CoV. symptoms. the suspect stole IDs and cash from their revealed that she suffered severe poisoning after of those who became infected have died. Q: How can I help protect myself? Source: US Centers for Disease Control and wallets before they managed to retrieve consuming detergents. She was admitted inside Some people were reported as having a mild A: CDC advises that people follow these tips Prevention them. The man denied the thefts, but could the intensive care unit, while a case was filed. not justify entering the residence. Guns in hotel Woman beaten Police arrived at a hotel on Friday after the Awqaf issues MERS warning Investigations are ongoing to identify manager reported in an emergency call that MP Hamdan suspects who left a domestic worker two guns were found inside a room. The By A Saleh Jahra hospital director Dr Ghalib Al-Mutairi severely injured in Jahra recently. Police manager explained that the pistols were dis- denied that there is any case of Corona virus in rushed to the Jahra Hospital Friday night covered while the room was being cleaned KUWAIT: Awqaf Ministry plans to ask the elderly the hospital as was rumored about last week. Al- proposes for after being informed that a Nepalese after two persons who had rented it had left. not to perform hajj because of MERS Coronavirus Mutairi said Jahra hospital sent an expat to the woman in her thirties was admitted in a crit- He gave police the identity of the two Gulf disease. The ministry will appeal the elderly, infectious diseases hospital who was diagnosed banning bikini ical condition. A Kuwaiti man had called an nationals who reportedly left Kuwait. The pregnant women, sick and those with special with AIDS. ambulance after finding the woman uncon- guns were taken by police for examination to needs, along with those who already performed Health Ministry undersecretary insisted that KUWAIT: MP Hamdan Al-Azmi had filed the same scious and bleeding near a street in Al-Qasr, determine whether they are real or fake. hajj before to postpone their hajj this year Kuwait is free of this virus, adding that in all cas- proposal that was previously made by former MP according to investigations. The woman because of the disease in Saudi Arabia. es, tests are done at Health Ministry laboratories Mohammed Hayef about banning women from was diagnosed with a broken pelvis and Cable theft Awqaf Ministry did the same few years ago which confirmed that the virus is not in Kuwait. wearing bikinis in swimming pools, which was con- several other injuries, and was admitted Jahra detectives are looking to identify following the spread of the swine flu. The min- Meanwhile, head of the social service at the inside the intensive care unit. Police are and arrest suspects who stole 400 cable rolls istry cannot stop any person who wishes to go Health Ministry, head of the premarital tests cen- troversial and rejected by everybody. waiting for the woman to regain conscious- worth KD 10,000 from a warehouse at the for hajj, unless Saudi Arabia bans some groups. ters Dr Yacoub Al-Kandari said the program regis- The proposal, which was referred to the ness and be cleared to speak in order to Jaber Al-Ahmad area. The case was filed at Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia denied that it will tered eight cases of AIDS during 2013, adding ‘Negative Phenomena Committee’ calls for ‘Banning hear what happened to her. the Na’ayem police station by the legal repre- ban the elderly, pregnant women, the ill or those that other diseases such as hepatitis (B) and (C) stripping in swimming pools and all hotel corridors sentative for a construction company that with special needs from performing hajj this year. were also discovered. in order to safeguard the society from it as well as Brothers assaulted works in the city project. The man explained setting the needed regulations banning co-bathing Saad Al-Abdullah police have identified that company employees discovered that the NA panel discusses amending in swimming pools, indecent actions and severely five men believed to have left two brothers cables have disappeared, and did not identify punishing violating hotels’. seriously wounded at a street in the area any potential suspects. Criminal evidence recently. Police headed to the Jahra Hospital personnel headed to the scene to take fin- Capital Market Authority law after learning that a college students in his gerprints. KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s Legislative to study the economic and financial aspects and Legal Affairs Committee discussed the pro- and impacts of the amendments. posed amendments to the Capital Market On a different issue, Al-Haris unveiled ‘Microsoft Expert Educator’ from Authority law in its session yesterda. The that the committee has approved a bill to Committee Chairman Mubarak Al-Haris told set up a special circuit for administrative reporters following the session, that the com- disputes at the Court of First Instance. The Kuwait attends Global Forum mittee has given priority of discussion for the committee members also voted for medical bill including the proposed amendments to insurance bill and amendments of the cur- CMA due to the importance of the issue. He rent law of the Public Authority for Youth KUWAIT: Microsoft Kuwait has educators had an opportunity to This year, Educators were select- communities. The Global Forum is pointed out that the committee would write its and Sports, he said. The Committee also announced that Dalia Younis, an exchange best practices with their ed through Microsoft’s Innovative the flagship event for Microsoft report and comment on the bill and refer it to approved a demand to lift parliamentary English teacher from Onaysa Bint peers and build a global network of Educator Program and Innovative Partners in Learning and it provides the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee immunity of MP Nabil Al-Fadhel. —KUNA Khubibe Joint School for Girls, is change-makers in learning. Schools Program (applications an opportunity for educators and one of the ‘Expert Educator’ from “Microsoft Expert Educators are through www.pil-network.com). school leaders to collaborate and Kuwait who attended the Global inspiring examples of how individu- Microsoft Expert Educator is an enable students to realise their full Forum in Barcelona. Dalia was given als and schools are using technology exclusive one-year program creat- potential. It celebrates the world’s the platform to share her skills as to prepare their students for the 21st ed to recognise pioneering educa- most innovative educators and one of Microsoft’s 1,100 Expert Century,” said Anthony Salcito, Vice tors globally who are using tech- school leaders for bringing technol- Educators, who learnt from each President, Worldwide Education, nology to transform education. ogy to the classroom and impact- other and discussed ways to trans- Microsoft Corp. “I would like to con- Expert Educators have access to ing millions of students. form education. gratulate Dalia Younis who made it technology and professional devel- The Microsoft forum is for self- Dalia was selected from over this far - she is the gold standard for opment, and an all-expense paid driven educators who are passion- 23,000 educators as her teaching activity encompasses learning and comprehension of serious environ- mental issues, the use of English to mobilise the community on envi- ronmental issues, and the use of various ICT tools to collect, create, and present ideas individually or as a team. Her teaching brings stu- dents the opportunity to learn 21st century skills such as collaboration, skilled communication, knowledge- building, critical-thinking, use of ICT, problem-solving and innova- tion, and instilling self-regulation KUWAIT: Two firemen suffered heat exhaustion while fighting a fire in among students. Hassawi area yesterday. When Jleeb Al-Shyoukh, Ardhiya and Madina fire- At the Global Forum, Dalia and men arrived at the scene, they found out that most of the house was the other Microsoft Expert Educators engulfed in fire because of wooden partitions. Firemen exerted tremendous competed for one of 19 Global efforts to bring the fire under control. —By Hanan Al-Saadoun Forum Educator Awards. The Educators Track is designed to bring KUWAIT: Dalia Younis (second from left) pictured during Global Forum. the most innovative educators in the Gun control teams formed world a forum for professional devel- innovative teaching practises and trip to the Partners in Learning ate about their careers, inspiring opment, collaboration, and some effective use of technology in teach- Global Forum. students with innovative thinking KUWAIT: Security teams were formed to con- ding parties. friendly competition. The event pro- ing and learning. We at Microsoft Microsoft in Education Global and a true collaborative spirit. duct campaigns around Kuwait and collect unli- The meeting came in the aftermath of a vided insight into the changing role proudly support her on that path to Forum is a professional event Resourceful and entrepreneurial, censed firearms under instructions of Deputy recent armed robbery in which two Indian secu- and needs of educators in the class- innovation. She has set an outstand- attended by some of the most they relish the role of change Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh rity guards were gunned down in Sulaibiya, as room through intensive professional ing example for her peers.” innovative educators and school agent, and work to achieve excel- Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah. well as incidents in which fugitives used firearms development. “I am absolutely thrilled to have leaders from over 75 countries lence in education using advanced The teams consist of detectives, security per- to resist arrest, according to sources quoted by The Expert Educators learned been selected as one of Microsoft’s around the world. The event pro- technologies and social media. sonnel and special task forces, and have authori- Al-Rai yesterday. about current research and devel- Expert Educators!” said Dalia Younis. pels the conversation around 21st Microsoft strives to help reach, ties to conduct investigations and raid places The parliament’s interior and defense com- opments in the field for the 21st “I look forward to making the most Century learning to new levels by motivate, and ensure the success suspected of containing weapons. mittee is currently studying a bill that gives century, and also learned about of this learning opportunity, as well bringing together education lead- of every student and educator with The minister met with senior ministry officials police the authority to collect weapons in the tools, products, and approaches for as continuing the engagement ers, including teachers, school lead- education-specific tools, technolo- to discuss the spread of shooting reports which country. The panel is likely to approve the draft innovative classrooms and engag- with like-minded educators I inter- ers, and policy makers, to examine, gies, and programmes that can include use of firearms in armed robberies as law in time for it to be put for voting during the ing lesson design that can enhance acted with at the Microsoft in share and learn best-practices for help them achieve their greatest well as firing celebratory gunshots during wed- parliament’s session on May 13. learning & retention. In addition, Education Global Forum.” transforming education in their potential. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

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ODESSA: Pro-Ukrainian activists rally in southern Ukrainian city of Odessa yesterday. Flowers, candles and photos of the dead pile up outside a charred building in the scenic Ukrainian port city of Odessa where anger simmers a day after brutal clashes claimed 42 lives. Clashes intially broke out between pro-Russian militants and supporters of Ukrainian unity that quickly turned deadly. — AFP Odessa violence flares anew Ukraine PM blames deaths on Russia

ODESSA: Thousands of pro-Russian protesters assaulted Odessa’s police headquarters yesterday, days after deadly clashes and a fire there killed dozens of their comrades in what Kiev charged was a Russian plot to “destroy Ukraine”. The unrest in the southern port city threatened a new front in the Ukrainian government’s battle against pro-Moscow militants, with an expanded military operation under way in the east against gunmen holding more than a dozen towns. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Russia was executing a plan “to destroy Ukraine and its statehood”. He was in Odessa to observe mourning for the 42 people who died there in clashes and the fire on Friday-most of them pro-Russian militants. The unrest shaking the Black Sea city of one million people, he said, aimed “to repeat in Odessa what is happening in the east of the country”. In an effort to head off any retribution on the streets for Friday’s bloodshed, Yatsenyuk sacked Odessa’s police chiefs and ordered an inquiry. The police in the headquarters managed to calm the crowd outside by releasing 67 pro-Russian militants they were holding, nearly half the 150 total who had been arrested in Friday’s clashes. One person, though, was reported wounded by gunshot in the city. Although Moscow has admitted sending troops into Crimea ahead of annexing the strategic peninsula in March, it denies hav- ing a hand in Ukraine’s unrest in the east and in Odessa. Instead it blames the Kiev government and its Western backers for the carnage.

Fighting around rebel bastion Moscow has also demanded a halt to the Ukrainian military offensive in the east, saying it has received “thousands” of calls for help from the population there for it to intervene. Tens of thousands of Russian troops have been parked on Ukraine’s border for two months, ready for an invasion Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has a right to launch-but “hopes” he won’t have to. But Ukrainian officials have pushed on with the operation, determined to crush the pro-Kremlin rebels. Late yesterday, a spokeswoman for rebels in the insurgent- controlled bastion of Slavyansk said “the town is completely sur- rounded”. AFP confirmed that, observing seven armoured vehicles block- ing the last main route out, the road to the regional hub of Donetsk. Ukrainian authorities have already put all armed forces on “combat alert” and brought back conscription as the risk of inva- sion looms. The three-day death toll from the eastern offensive meanwhile stood at 10 at least-half of them servicemen-as soldiers confront- ed gunmen in towns around Slavyansk. AFP reporters near the eastern town of Kostyantynivka saw a pro-Russian checkpoint abandoned and smouldering while barri- cades were hastily erected in the centre. Rebels defending Kostyantynivka told AFP there had been fighting overnight near the town’s television tower. In nearby Kramatorsk, pro-Russians were holed up in the town hall while burned-out trolley buses and minivans blocked off streets in the city centre. But in the centre of besieged Slavyansk-whose outskirts saw fierce gun battles on Saturday-the situation remained relatively calm. Some of its 160,000 citizens reported increasing difficulty obtaining basic foodstuffs. — AFP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 Settlers mob Israel police over probe of racist attacks

JERUSALEM: Israeli police looking for evidence She said police went to the settlement to search A Muslim graveyard was also defaced and two On Saturday, a former chief of Israel’s Shin Bet, linked to a recent attack on a mosque were the house of a couple suspected of involvement in dozen olive trees were chopped down in the West which is responsible for internal security, chal- mobbed overnight by around 100 demonstrators at an April 18 attack on a mosque in Umm al-Fahm in Bank. Earlier Sunday, a car was vandalised in the lenged the agency’s willingness to tackle the mat- a West Bank settlement, a spokeswoman said yes- northern Israel, in which racist graffiti was written northern town of Yokneam and racist graffiti was ter. “In the Shin Bet, the expression ‘we can’t’ does terday. on the walls and the front door was set alight. left near an Arab village outside Jerusalem. not exist, it’s more a case of ‘we don’t want to’,” As concerns grow over the spiralling number of Four Yitzhar settlers, including the couple, were Such attacks were originally carried out by set- Carmi Gillon was quoted as saying by public radio. hate crimes by Jewish extremists against arrested last week in connection with the attack tlers to enact a “price tag” on Israeli moves to dis- On Wednesday, the US State Department for the Palestinians and Arab Israelis-euphemistically after CCTV footage reportedly captured one of their mantle illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank, first time included mention of “price tag” attacks in referred to as “price tag” attacks-the Israeli authori- cars at the scene. Police said the married woman but the phenomenon has grown in recent months its global report on terror, saying such incidents ties are coming under increasing pressure to tackle was released to house arrest on Friday while her to an almost daily occurrence, alarming authorities. were “largely unprosecuted”. the phenomenon. husband was due in court on Sunday. The other two Justice Minister Tzipi Livni told army radio yester- But Israeli police challenged the finding. “There’s “Our forces were attacked by about 100 resi- were released without charge. day that she would meet with Internal Security no comparison whatsoever between criminal inci- dents, some of whom threw stones,” police spokes- Over the past week, vandals sprayed racist graffi- Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and top police and dents with nationalistic motives and terrorist-relat- woman Luba Samri said of the incident at Yitzhar ti over another mosque in northern Israel and also security officials to decide how to tackle the issue, ed incidents,” spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. settlement in the northern West Bank, a bastion of targeted an ancient Christian church on the Sea of with media reports suggesting the meeting would “It is vandalism with nationalistic motives but these hardline settlers. Galilee, damaging crosses and threatening clergy. happen within days. are not nationalistic attacks on Palestinians.” — AFP Islamist-backed businessman named Libyan prime minister

TRIPOLI: An Islamist-backed businessman who was voted out by parliament for fail- later announced that the relatively was named Libya’s new prime minister ing to prevent a rebel oil shipment in unknown businessman had clinched 121 yesterday after winning a vote in parlia- March, had been kidnapped by gunmen votes in the 185-seat interim parliament, ment, days after gunmen stormed the last year and held for several hours before apparently after a recount. General National Congress interrupting an being released. Last month Zeidan’s Some deputies denounced the earlier ballot. defence minister Abdullah al-Thani was recount, which they said took place after Ahmed Miitig, 42, is Libya’s youngest appointed to replace him, but stepped the session had officially closed. “What is and fifth prime minister since veteran dic- down after just five days, saying he and his happening is illegal,” said GNC spokesman tator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled and family had come under attack. State televi- Omar Hmidan. killed in a 2011 uprising. sion broadcast chaotic footage from Since then successive governments in Sunday’s session. Another chaotic vote the oil-rich North African country have At first GNC vice president Ezzedin al- The voting had been broadcast live on struggled to impose order as heavily Awami said Miitig defeated university pro- state television up until Awami closed the armed former rebel brigades have carved fessor Omar al-Hassi by 73-43 votes but session, saying a new one would convene out their own fiefdoms and refused to join mustered only 113 of the 120 votes because Miitig had failed to win a vote of the security forces. required for a vote of confidence. But the confidence. But an hour later Makhzoum The job of prime minister has proven second vice president, Salah al- said Miitig had in fact won and called on challenging and dangerous-Ali Zeidan, Makhzoum, who ranks lower than Awami, him to take the oath. Miitig-who has vowed to rebuild state institutions, namely the army and police- has two weeks to form a government. But liberal lawmaker Sherif al-Wafi said he and other deputies “will take the necessary legal measures” to stop Miitig from head- ing the government, saying the second vote count was unconstitutional. Deputy BAGHDAD: An Iraqi election commission official counts votes at a polling station in Baghdad yesterday, following Fatima Al-Majbari said Makhzoum’s the country’s general elections. The results are not expected for at least two weeks as initial election commission recount included “votes of lawmakers who figures said around 60 percent of 20 million eligible people had voted. — AFP were absent.” It was the second time in a week that the GNC met to decide between the two candidates who were initially Iraq violence kills 30 among a group of seven hopefuls. After an initial meeting last Sunday, parliament gathered again on Tuesday, when Miitig won 67 votes in a first round with Hassi in second place with 34 votes. Bloodshed after parliamentary election A second round of voting on Tuesday was interrupted by gunmen who stormed BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq, including shelling in a militant- bus carrying Shiite pilgrims on Saturday evening, killing 11 into parliament for reasons that are still held city and an attack targeting Shiite pilgrims, has killed people and wounded 21, police and a doctor said. The pil- GAZA CITY: Palestinian women walk past a mural depicting late Hamas unclear, shooting and forcing deputies to more than 30 people in 24 hours, officials said yesterday. grims were returning from Samarra when a roadside bomb spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (L) and late Palestinian leader Yasser evacuate the premises. The bloodshed comes as officials count ballots from the exploded on the outskirts of the town of Balad and gunmen Arafat yesterday in Gaza City. The Hamas movement’s deputy leader Mussa The GNC was elected in July 2012 for April 30 general election, the first since US troops withdrew in opened fire on the bus. The worshippers had been participat- Abu Marzuq said the Islamist movement will never recognise Israel and will an 18-month term, but in February it late 2011, and amid a protracted surge in nationwide unrest ing in commemorations marking the death of Imam Ali al- not accept the conditions laid out by the Middle East peacemaking extended its mandate to December, spark- that has sparked fears of a return to the sectarian killing Hadi, the 10th of 12 imams who are key to the Shiite Muslim ing widespread protests. —AFP Quartet. — AFP sprees of 2006-2007. While officials are quick to blame exter- faith. His body lies in a venerated shrine in Samarra that also nal factors like the civil war in neighbouring Syria for the houses his son Hassan al-Askari, the 11th imam. heightened violence, analysts and diplomats say widespread anger among the Sunni Arab minority is also a key cause. More bodies found In Fallujah, just a short drive west of Baghdad, shelling in Funerals for the victims were held yesterday in southern southern areas of the city killed 11 people and wounded four, Maysan province. Also on Saturday evening, police found the Doctor Ahmed Shami said. It was not immediately clear who bodies of eight family members shot dead inside their home was behind the bombardment, which began on Saturday in a predominantly Sunni area southeast of Baghdad. evening and continued into Sunday. It was unclear why the family had been targeted or who In a sign of both the reach of anti-government militants killed them. And yesterday, a shooting in Baghdad and a and the weakness of security forces, all of Fallujah and shift- magnetic “sticky bomb” on a vehicle west of the capital killed ing parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, farther west, two people, while a suicide bombing in the northern city of have been out of government control since early January. The Mosul left one soldier dead, officials said. crisis in the desert province of Anbar, which shares a long The bloodshed comes just days after a parliamentary elec- border with conflict-hit Syria, erupted in late December when tion, with incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeking a security forces dismantled Iraq’s main Sunni Arab anti-gov- third term despite the dramatic deterioration in security and ernment protest camp just outside Ramadi.Militants subse- widespread political opposition. More than 3,000 people quently seized parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, the first have been killed already this year, according to an AFP tally time anti-government forces have exercised such open con- based on security and medical reports. The unrest is the trol in major cities since the peak of the deadly violence that worst since Iraq emerged from brutal Sunni-Shiite sectarian followed the US-led invasion of 2003. fighting that killed tens of thousands of people in 2006 and North of Baghdad, a bombing and shooting targeted a 2007. — AFP Ultra-Orthodox quietly joining Israeli military

BNEI BRAK: Moshe Prigan starts his day liamentary elections last year. Ultra- have staged large demonstrations against off just like many other men in the ultra Orthodox leaders have vowed to resist the the new law and warn of an uprising if it is Orthodox city of Bnei Brak with his morn- new law. They insist their young men serve carried out. ing prayer. It’s only later that the routine the nation through prayer and study, thus But quietly, ultra-Orthodox soldiers takes an unexpected twist, when he puts preserving Jewish learning and heritage, have been growing in numbers. According on his air force uniform and heads to the and by maintaining a pious way of life that to the military, some 1,860 joined last year, Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv. has kept the Jewish faith alive through up from 288 in 2007. It’s a far cry from the The 30-year-old captain doesn’t just centuries of persecution. They fear integra- high participation rates among secular serve in the military. He also recruits other tion into the secular military will under- and modern Orthodox youth, but ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to enlist, mine their lifestyle, in which older men nonetheless reflects a new openness in something the cloistered community tra- often avoid the workforce and collect wel- the community. Due to its high birthrate ditionally has avoided doing. But with fare stipends while continuing to study full and the relatively low participation in the Israel recently passing a contentious law to time. workforce, the ultra-Orthodox gradually increase ultra-Orthodox enlist- community suffers from high unem- ment, soldiers like Prigan could symbolize Judaism under siege ployment and poverty. There’s been a historic shift among those known in Leaders of the community say their increasing questions over the ultra- Hebrew as “haredim,” or those who fear ancient brand of Judaism is under siege Orthodox education system, which teach- God. “The haredi community is a thinking and their followers would rather sit in jail es students about Judaism but very little community. They realize that what was than join the military. Tens of thousands math, English or science.—AP cannot continue being,” Prigan said. “The Arab Spring is also happening in the Haredi community. There is a Haredi Spring taking place as the Internet and the smartphones develop. You can’t avoid it.” For Israel’s 66 years of existence, the ultra-Orthodox mostly have kept their dis- tance from mainstream society by sticking close to their insular neighborhoods and dedicating their lives to study and prayer. With government acquiescence, they also have skipped military service, which is compulsory for most Jewish men. The issue of military service is at the core of a cultural war over the place of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli society today. Draft exemptions go back to Israel’s establishment in 1948, when the govern- ment allowed several hundred gifted stu- dents to pursue religious studies. The number of exemptions has grown over the years, with thousands of young religious men evading the draft to pursue seminary studies while most other Jewish men are TEL AVIV: In this photo taken Wednesday, April 30, 2014, Jewish ultra- conscripted for three years of mandatory Orthodox military captain Moshe Prigan, 30, lays phylacteries for his morn- service. ing prayer at home in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near The exemptions have caused wide- Tel Aviv, Israel. Prigan doesn’t just serve in the military, he also recruits oth- spread resentment toward the ultra- er ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to enlist, something the cloistered communi- Orthodox and were a central issue in par- ty has traditionally avoided doing. — AP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 South Africa’s ANC in pre-election show of force

SOWETO: South Africa’s ruling ANC swept ised more jobs for black Africans. party activist Nomonde Klaas. “We hope expected low turnout are likely to play to for a second consecutive election. aside a weak economy, fierce criticism of to rule for 100 years, to fully bring free- the ANC’s unparallelled ground operations Meanwhile the opposition Democratic its president and questions about the par- ‘Rule for 100 years’ dom.” The ANC is expected to garner 63 and help mask otherwise disappointing Alliance, which has painted today’s ANC as ty’s future at a massive Soweto rally yester- But this was a day for party not presi- percent of the vote, according to the latest results for the party. unworthy of its storied history, is predict- day, in a pre-election show of force. dent. “Twenty years has not been enough Ipsos poll, just three points less than in Behind the predicted victory, the ANC ed to increase its share of the vote by More than 90,000 jubilant and defiant to achieve all we want,” said 50-year old 2009. The still-weak opposition and is expected to see its share of the vote fall nearly six percentage points to 22 percent. ANC cadres packed the vast Soccer City The Alliance is expected to do well in Stadium to capacity for a final “victory” ral- Gauteng-which includes Johannesburg ly ahead of Wednesday’s vote. The party and Pretoria-and the Northern Cape, in has won every general election by a land- addition to the Western Cape, which it slide since South Africa become a democ- already runs at provincial level. racy in 1994 and is expected to win by a Seventy-two year old president Zuma, wide margin this time round too. with a second five-year term strongly like- Bikers, DJs and marching bands stirred ly, yesterday promised non-whites more up the yellow-clad crowd to cries of “viva, economic power. ANC, viva!”, offering no hint of the turbu- “Economic transformation will be a key lence the party has suffered during priority” in the next administration, he President Jacob Zuma’s nearly five-year said. But under South Africa’s constitution, stewardship. Zuma’s second term would be his last and Corruption scandals, poor public serv- he risks becoming a lame duck as would- ices, a cratering economy and the use of be successors jockey for position ahead of $23 million of taxpayer funds to upgrade a 2017 elective conference. Zuma’s private home have, for many South Win or lose, he will also have to deal Africans, sullied the party’s revolutionary with an estimated 30 demonstrations a zeal. Former stalwarts like Ronnie Kasrils, a day against appalling public services, with leading party veteran, have gone so far as many citizens furious that 20 years of to publicly ask voters not to back the party majority ANC rule have not improved their that delivered them from Apartheid. lot. Although the election outcome is seen But that legacy, for now, still looks set by many as a foregone conclusion, ana- to be enough to hand the ANC another lysts say business-rattled by strikes, a thumping electoral victory. Zuma himself weakened rand and unsustainable levels entered the stadium to the sound of a mil- of unemployment-will hope that the itary drumroll and cheers, avoiding a ANC’s margin of victory is reduced. repeat of the humiliating boos he suffered “A lower-than-expected majority for in the same stadium during Nelson the ANC would probably be regarded pos- Mandela’s memorial service in December. itively by markets, as it may jolt the party His lengthy speech however met a into reforming itself internally over the lukewarm response, with thousands fil- SOWETO: Supporters carrying a mock coffin reading “Rest in Peace DA (Democratic Alliance) “ sing and dance in the coming years,” said Shilan Shah, an econo- ing out of the stadium even as he prom- stands of the FNB Stadium in Soweto filled to capacity at the final ANC campaign rally yesterday. — AFP mist with Capital Economics. — AFP Panamanians vote in close presidential elections Voters to bid farewell to Martinelli

PANAMA CITY: Voters in Panama went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president amid a seeming consensus in favor of the free market policies of out- going President Ricardo Martinelli. The campaign has gone down to the wire, with polls giving any of the three leading contenders a rea- sonable shot at victory. Panamanians will choose among ruling party can- didate Jose Domingo Arias, opposition politician Juan Carlos Navarro and Vice President Juan Carlos Varela-a slate of options that leaves many people here shrug- ging their shoulders. “Whoever wins, I still have to go to work today,” KINSHAHA: US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) speaks to hospital staff after visiting said Manuel Dominguez, a sidewalk merchant who the Fistula Clinic at St Joseph’s Hospital, funded by USAID, in Kinshasa, Democratic makes his living selling batteries and TV remotes in Republic of Congo, yesterday. Kerry is on his first major tour of Africa, which is focus- the heart of Panama City, the capital. Polls opened ing on some of the continent’s most brutal conflicts. — AP across the country at 7:00 am (1300 GMT), with the first returns expected to trickle in about three hours later. The winner of the seven-candidate race will take US offers $30m to Congo office July 1. Voters will bid farewell to Martinelli, who, after two five-year terms, is constitutionally barred for upcoming elections from running for a third. Arias, 50, Panama’s former housing minister, is a businessman who made his for- KINSHASA: The United States is prepared to violence for two decades. Kerry said more tune manufacturing ladies’ undergarments. give Congo $30 million in aid for stability and must be done to combat Congo-based rebels, Representing the Democratic Change party, he is democracy-building - but wants President the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Martinelli’s pick. The president’s wife Marta Linares is Joseph Kabila to agree to step down at the Rwanda, known by its French acronym, FDLR, Arias’ running mate. Navarro, 52, of the center-left Democratic Revolutionary party, was formerly mayor end of his current term in office, US Secretary whose members are accused of perpetrating of Panama City. He has vowed to crack down on crime of State John Kerry said yesterday. the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. and to do more to protect the environment. Kerry said Congo’s government also needs Aside from the upcoming elections, Kerry Trailing the top two by a handful of percentage to schedule elections soon. The vote is tenta- noted continued challenges in Congo’s fight points is Varela, 50, a rum manufacturer who is tively set for 2016, although a firm date has against several rebel groups. He commended Martinelli’s current vice president, but now is seen as PANAMA CITY: Panamanian presidential candidate Jose Domingo Arias of the Cambio not yet been set. In a private Sunday meeting, government and United Nations security his political enemy. The two had a falling out after Democratico (CD) casts his vote at a polling station during presidential elections in Panama Kerry said he urged Kabila to follow Congo’s forces for last year’s defeat and disbanding of Martinelli dismissed Varela as his foreign minister in City yesterday. Voters in Panama went to the polls to elect a new president amid a seeming constitution in the upcoming elections, the M23 rebel group but said efforts to dis- 2011, opening a political wound that has yet to heal. consensus in favor of the free market policies of outgoing President Ricardo Martinelli. — AFP which would prohibit him from running for a arm, demobilize and re-integrate fighters from Some 2.5 million people out of a population of 3.8 third consecutive term as president. other opposition groups into society “are the million are eligible to vote in the election, with voters “Panama has made an extraordinary effort to open great strides these past few years thanks to this gov- It was not clear if Kabila agreed. Kerry also priorities of the moment.” “I need to be clear: across the country also tasked with electing dozens of up its economy, exercise fiscal discipline and none of ernment, and I hope that we will continue on the said he urged Kabila to lift a freeze on inter- Military force alone will not deliver stability to mayors and members of Congress. A victor is guaran- the candidates is going to veer from that path,” Asvat same path.” He said the Martinelli era has been good national adoptions of Congolese orphans. “It the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Kerry said. teed to be declared in the presidential vote, since a said. The massive project to widen the Panama Canal for the country, and plans to vote for the president’s is important to the people to be able to know “Lasting peace will not grow out of the barrel simple majority will win the election. Lawyer and was also undertaken on Martinelli’s watch, and while pick, Arias. what the process is, to have confidence in of a gun.” Most of Congo’s violence has been political analyst Ebrahim Asvat said that whatever the the effort has been bedeviled by delays and cost over- Not everyone is thrilled with the status quo, how- that process,” Kerry told reporters after the limited in recent years to the country’s eastern outcome of the vote, the country’s course for the next runs, in the longrun it is likely to be seen as enhancing ever. Dominguez-the batteries and remote controls meeting. “The sooner the process is borders with Uganda and Rwanda. quarter century already has been laid out. his legacy, and benefiting the country. salesman-grumbled about rising prices, in a country Martinelli leaves office with a 67 percent approval where inflation is a relatively modest four percent. announced, the sooner that the date is set, The FDLR is viewed by analysts as the rating, and Panamanians seem inclined to vote for “Everything is super-expensive,” Dominguez told AFP, the sooner people have an ability to be able greatest remaining menace in eastern Congo. Free market policies Panama will continue to focus, he said, on free mar- whomever of the three candidates is most inclined to adding that he’ll vote for Varela, who has vowed to to participate. And we believe it ought to be The group is led by Rwandan Hutus who ket policies that maximize economic expansion-the stay the course. “We can’t go backward,” Luis Herrera, a curb inflation by imposing price controls, a policy done in keeping with the constitutional helped commit the 1994 genocide and later path forged by Martinelli. Panama City electrician, told AFP. “Panama has made commonly associated with the left. — AFP process of the country.” escaped over the border. The $30 million US pledge would more The presence of the FDLR has prompted than doubles the $12 million in assistance Rwanda to invade Congo twice before to try given to Congo last year linked to elections to wipe out the group. Additionally, Congo’s Protestant leader blasts and stability assistance. Some of the money government is grappling with the Allied could go to non-governmental organizations. Democratic Forces, a group of Islamist Last year, total US aid to Congo totaled about rebels that is led by Ugandan commanders. Sinn Fein over IRA arrest $210 million. Experts believe the group begins military The funding would help further stability training for girls as young as 15 and boys as efforts in Congo, which has been wracked by young as 10. — AP BELFAST: The Protestant leader of Northern Ireland’s nauseated him. “I warn Sinn Fein that they have itants, the police and British Army but not of the IRA, unity government launched a blistering attack yester- crossed the line and should immediately cease this which killed nearly 1,800 people during a failed 1970- day on his Sinn Fein coalition colleagues, accusing destructive behavior,” he said, suggesting that the 1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the them of attempting to intimidate the police into free- future of Northern Ireland’s government was at stake. United Kingdom. South Sudan rebel leader ing Gerry Adams without charge. The 65-year-old Sinn Robinson said McGuinness “seems incapable” of Sinn Fein aides said McGuinness would respond to Fein leader remained in police custody for a fifth day, accepting the police’s right to investigate Adams. He Robinson’s attack later Sunday. Power-sharing was the casts doubt on peace talks under questioning over allegations that he was Belfast accused Sinn Fein of hypocrisy by demanding criminal central goal of the US-brokered Good Friday peace commander of the outlawed Irish Republican Army in investigations of killings committed by Protestant mil- accord of 1998. —AP JUBA: The leader of South Sudan’s rebels Riek Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn acting as 1972 and ordered the killing of a widowed mother of Machar has cast doubt on the prospect of mediator. Kerry also spoke with Machar, who 10. He could be released Sunday night when his legal imminent face-to-face talks with President “expressed openness to participating”, according detention period is set to expire. Police also could Salva Kiir despite pressure from the United to State Department officials. The Sudan Tribune, charge him or seek a judge’s permission to extend his States, a report said yesterday. however, said Machar only signalled he was interrogation, a step previously taken Friday. The independent Sudan Tribune website preparing to meet with the Ethiopian premier for Since Adams’ arrest, the senior Sinn Fein politician said it interviewed Machar in a rebel-held part “consultations”. The war in the world’s youngest in the unity government, Martin McGuinness, has of the country after a visit to the region by US country has left thousands dead-and possibly warned that his party’s continued support for law and Secretary of State John Kerry, who brandished tens of thousands-with at least 1.2 million peo- order -a key condition for participation in Northern the threat of sanctions if either Kiir or Machar ple forced to flee their homes, many living in Ireland’s five-party government - could depend on fail to end the four-month-old civil war. appalling conditions in overstretched UN bases Adams’ treatment. At a public rally Saturday, But the website quoted Machar as saying he and in fear of ethnic violence. McGuinness told supporters that Adams was being was unhappy with Kerry’s calls for direct talks Aid agencies are also warning that South victimized by Protestant hardliners within the police between the two leaders and the formation of a Sudan is on the brink of Africa’s worst famine force “who are against the peace process and hate transitional government in the country, which since the 1980s, while both Kerry and the UN’s Gerry Adams and hate Sinn Fein.” He said Sinn Fein only won independence from Khartoum in 2011. human rights chief have spoken out over their could not support detectives “acting in a politically “I asked him (Kerry) what would be the purpose fears the country could slide towards a genocide. biased and partisan fashion.” First Minister Peter of transitional government? It would not be The conflict erupted on December 15 with Kiir Robinson, whose Democratic Unionist Party agreed to workable without a programme to implement accusing Machar of attempting a coup. Machar share power with Sinn Fein in 2007 on condition that before elections come,” Machar was quoted as then fled to the bush to launch a rebellion, insist- the IRA-linked party accepted police authority, saying. “We need to have a peace agreement first ing the president had attempted to carry out a accused McGuinness of “a despicable, thuggish with a new constitution. Putting transitional gov- bloody purge of his rivals. attempt to blackmail” the police. ernment first is not realistic,” he said, adding that President Barack Obama signed a decree face-to-face talks “may be counter-productive”. last month authorising punitive sanctions, Destructive behavior Kerry visited South Sudan on Friday and secured including the seizure of assets and visa bans, In his harshest verbal attack on McGuinness since ANTRIM: A policeman talks with a loyalist protester as republican party Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly agreement from Kiir to meet with Machar in against anyone in South Sudan deemed to be agreeing to work alongside him, Robinson said Sinn (unpictured) speaks to the media in front of Antrim Police station in Antrim Northern Ireland Addis Ababa in the coming days, with Ethiopian threatening peace efforts. — AFP Fein’s “obscene politicizing of the policing process” yesterday after a meeting with the detained Sinn Feim leader Gerry Adams. — AFP

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SHABWA: Yemeni army soldiers fire rockets at mountainous positions of Al-Qaeda militants in the town of Meyfaa, in the southern province of Shabwa, Yemen yesterday. — AP 37 militants, six Yemen troops die Young Bahrain Shiites risk radicalization Continued from Page 1 sometimes played in the background of other videos. Continued from Page 1 local ally, Ansar Al-Sharia, have been waging an insur- Reuters could not independently verify the videos. gency in southern Yemen for more than three years, Yet, there is a risk of a deadly attack that could Some commentators have pointed out that they could Washington has used drones for several years to kill battling both government forces and local tribal mili- plunge Bahrain into a more brutal cycle of violence. have been made by government loyalists to mobilize members and leaders of the group. In April, air strikes - tias. Hundreds of people have died in bombings, suicide Tension simmers with no solution for the grievances cit- support for the authorities. Yet analysts, security and presumed to have been carried out chiefly by US drones attacks and commando-style raids by Al-Qaeda against ed by the Shiite community, particularly the youth diplomatic sources say the recent spike in the frequency - were launched on central and southern provinces of military and government facilities and foreign nationals. many of whom say they have members of their families and deadliness of bombing attacks, mainly on police- Yemen, which Yemeni authorities said killed some 65 Al- A Twitter account by the name of Ansar Al-Sharia news either shot by police or in jail. men, indicate a greater level of experience and training Qaeda militants. Saba quoted a military source as say- said the group had released eight Yemeni soldiers Bahraini Shiites complain of political and economic by the attackers than two years ago. ing that most of the militants killed in yesterday’s fight- whom they had taken hostage last week in Shabwa, marginalization, an accusation the government denies. Mohammed al-Sayed of Citizens for Bahrain, which ing were Saudis, Afghans, Somalis and Chechens, as after tribal mediation. Justin Gengler, a Bahrain expert at Qatar University, says identifies itself as an online moderate movement, said well as other nationalities. The source also said the army It was not immediately possible to verify the authen- the risk of youth radicalization is “a predictable conse- there is growing concern that radicals from both Sunni destroyed a number of vehicles and weapons belong- ticity of the Twitter account but a tribal source in quence”. “When a large segment of the population feels and Shiite communities are gaining ground. “If it’s ing to the militants. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi Shabwa confirmed the news to Reuters. AQAP’s main that so-called ‘representative’ institutions are stacked policemen today, then it’s civilians tomorrow that said in a speech last week that 70 percent of Al-Qaeda base has been the mountainous Al-Mahfad area in against them, and that no viable avenue of reform would be targeted,” he said. “Another main concern fighters in Yemen were foreigners, although AQAP later Abyan where militants fled in 2012 after the army, with exists, then it is not surprising that they would turn to among Bahrainis is that children are being exploited. denied this. Separately the defense ministry website the help of US drones, ousted them from towns they extra-political means of affecting change,” he said. “The They are blocking roads, burning tyres and even carry- said security forces had destroyed a vehicle carrying had seized during the chaotic uprising against then- unrest is contained, it is managed to a great extent,” said ing bombs in some areas. If this is what we will be fac- several “terrorists”, killing two of them and wounding president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemeni Defense Minister a Western diplomat, who asked for anonymity. “But ing in the future of Bahrain’s youth, what will happen in four in Shabwa. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed was quoted by Kuwaiti there is a sense, I think, that if they don’t come to a 10 or 20 years and how polarized and radicalized would Broken the backbone newspaper Al-Seyassah saying the army’s offensive in political solution, it could be a big event that would set they become?” Late on Saturday, suspected militants in Shabwa Shabwa and Abyan had “broken the backbone of the al it off, and it could develop into sectarian (violence). It is During this year’s Formula One Grand Prix race, a threw hand-grenades at a central bank building, Qaeda terrorist group and destroyed a number of its one of the greatest fears.” home-made bomb exploded in a car in a busy commer- wounding two soldiers, a local official said. AQAP and its strongholds, equipment and weapons”. — Reuters Diplomatic and security sources in Manama cite cial district of Manama. No casualties were reported and increasing evidence of Iranian support for some “vio- the F1 race was unaffected. But the blast took place Syria neighbors raise alarm over refugees lent” anti-government groups in Bahrain. They point to near a government security building, despite tight secu- a foiled attempt to smuggle explosives and arms, some rity around the country because of the race, raising ZAATARI: The four main host countries for Syrian 140,000 of Syria’s roughly 23 million people. Turkey, made in Iran and Syria, into the country by boat last fears of possible high-profile attacks. A meeting refugees said at a meeting yesterday that only the wider deeply hostile to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and year. “The evidence is irrefutable, the Iranians are between Bahrain’s crown prince and opposition leaders distribution of aid inside Syria could curb an exodus that host to 720,000 registered Syrian refugees, wants U.N. is putting huge strains on neighboring states. After talks camps established inside Syria: “The UN system should involved,” said the Western diplomat, who added that in January pulled reconciliation talks back from the at the Zaatari camp in Jordan with the UN high commis- establish camps within Syria for the internally displaced groups behind the attacks were getting better in mak- brink of collapse but mutual mistrust runs deep. Little sioner for refugees, ministers from Turkey, Iraq, Jordan so that the refugee crisis would at least be under control,” ing deadly explosives. Iran has always denied accusa- progress has been made since and the opposition said and Lebanon urged the implementation of a UN resolu- Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said after the meeting tions of fuelling the unrest, yet it champions the cause talks were “frozen”. tion passed in February that demanded rapid unhindered at Zaatari. “But here the barrier is the regime.” of Bahrain’s Shiite opposition. “The political crisis is deep and will not be solved access for aid. Jordan and Iraq, less willing to antagonize Assad, do with superficial talks that aim to waste time and contin- “A crucial aspect of ending this crisis is to improve not share Turkish enthusiasm for internal camps. And Video of attacks ue human rights violations,” opposition groups said in a access for humanitarian aid inside Syria,” High Guterres said violence in the country would make it hard The online videos include footage purportedly of statement last week. Information Minister Samira Rajab Commissioner Antonio Guterres told reporters. Aside to set them up. Davutoglu said humanitarian conditions some of the bomb attacks that have killed or wounded said on April 27 the talks were continuing, according to from some 3 million refugees abroad, a further 6.5 million had worsened since the UN aid resolution. A first convoy policemen in recent months. In one video, masked state news agency BNA. “It is a political game,” said a were displaced inside Syria and 3 million had minimal of 78 trucks that entered Syria in March after repeated UN youths run with petrol bombs which they throw at an Wefaq member who asked not to be named. “They access to essential services, he said. “This is the worst cat- requests to Damascus barely met a single day’s require- armored police vehicle. The car, on fire, drives away and want to pressure the opposition to negotiate and lessen astrophic humanitarian situation we are facing, probably ments, he said. Syria’s government has let some supplies the youth shout “Allah Akbar” (God is great). Parts of their demands. But we worry that the more violent the since the Rwanda genocide,” he added. “We are now clear- through crossings it controls with Lebanon and Jordan. It Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s speeches, or authorities become, the more violent the people will ly above 3 million Syrian refugees.” has traded blame with the rebels for problems getting aid In just over three years, the conflict has killed over to the worst battle zones. — Reuters songs calling to “answer the call of the Coalition”, are also become.” — Reuters No plan... Continued from Page 1

Ahead of yesterday’s developments, Ghanem launched a scathing attack against the resignations describing what is happening in Kuwait as a conspiracy against the country’s institu- tion being plotted by some- one he called “the Godfather” but without naming him. During the interview with Al- Rai television, Ghanem said the lawmakers who resigned are “merely tools” in the hands of the Godfather. He however expected that two more MPs might step down. The Speaker said that some MPs are being subjected to a tremendous pressure to resign. He provided no names. Ghanem said that the con- spiracy will fail and will be shortly exposed, adding that other parts of the conspiracy are the issue of the videotape and allegations made by opposition leader and former MP Mussallam Al-Barrak. MPs Rashed and Hashem went to the Speaker’s office together, submitted their resignations and declined to issue any political statement though they thanked reporters. Rashed said that he has decided to retire from parlia- mentary work but not from politics as he will continue to lead a newly-founded group, Al-Masar. The National Assembly is due to discuss the resignations on May 13 and could appeal to the law- makers to reconsider their decisions. If not, then the Assembly will accept their resignations and announce by-election to fill the seats within 60 days.

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By Olivia Rondonuwu bdul Khalik remembers vividly the moment almost seven decades ago he saw his father being driven Aaway from their remote Indonesian village by Dutch soldiers to be executed. “He said to me, ‘Go home, son’ but I refused,” recalled the 75-year-old, his eyes focused some- where in the distant past, during an interview in Bulukumba district on the central island of Sulawesi. His father was shot dead the next day, one of thousands killed by the Dutch army during the 1940s war of independence as Indonesia fought to shake off colonial rule. This was during a 1946-47 operation by the Dutch to reassert control in Sulawesi after they were almost driven out, one of the darkest episodes of the independence war, Drive to solve old crimes rocks fragile N Ireland peace which saw thousands of suspected rebel fighters killed. After some widows won compensation last year, the By Conor Humphries ‘Political policing’ said it would wait and see if the instability. But he did not offer any a perception of a lack of prosecutions Netherlands apologised for all summary executions carried A number of former members of Adams situation was resolved in a sat- ideas about how the stand-off might against nationalists. out during the independence struggle and said it would ajor cracks are appearing in the Irish Republican Army have said isfactory manner. “If it doesn’t, we will be defused. “Not investigating crime is build- pay out to other surviving partners of those killed. But far the deal that brought peace Adams was a senior IRA figure, but he have to review that situation,” he told ing resentment in Northern Ireland, it from turning the page on a dark chapter, the renewed Mto Northern Ireland, and has always denied it. Before his arrest a news conference on Friday. First Peace and reconciliation is entrenching division,” said Sammy attention on Dutch atrocities committed at the end of a there appears to be no easy fix. Police in connection with the 1972 abduc- Minister Peter Robinson, a Protestant Instead of an amnesty, the 1998 Morrison, a candidate for local elec- more-than three century occupation of the archipelago has investigating an unsolved 1972 mur- tion and murder of mother-of-ten yesterday accused Sinn Fein of a deal created a patchwork of smaller tions with the hard-line Traditional only fuelled calls for more to be done. der on Wednesday arrested Irish Jean McConville, he told Irish state “thuggish attempt to blackmail” measures. The vast majority of people Unionist Voice party, who attended Khalik and others are now demanding that the victims’ nationalist leader Gerry Adams, broadcaster RTE he was “innocent of police by criticizing the arrest of in prison for crimes related to the the flag protests last year. Weeks of children-not just the widows-receive compensation and whose Sinn Fein party was for any part in the abduction, killing or Adams. Troubles saw their sentences sus- rioting led to talks brokered between have taken their case to court in the Netherlands. A hearing decades the political ally of IRA mili- burial of Mrs McConville”. Former IRA pended; many who were on the run Northern Ireland’s parties by Richard on their case is to take place in The Hague in August. “It is tants fighting to end British rule in commander Brendan Hughes was Historic crimes outside Northern Ireland were given Haass, a former adviser to US not fair. The arrests are the same, the imprisonment the Northern Ireland. Reviled by some as quoted in a book by Boston College At the heart of the stand-off is the assurances they would not be prose- President George W Bush, on how to same, the shooting the same, the events the same, so why an apologist for bombers, hailed by researcher Ed Moloney as saying that fact the 1998 deal had neither a blan- cuted if they returned; and people deal with issues of the past, but they do the children get different treatment?” said Khalik, others as a freedom fighter and McConville was killed by an IRA squad ket amnesty nor the kind of exhaus- who gave information on the burial broke up with no agreement. The idea adding he would share any money with his 32 grandchil- peacemaker, Adams led Sinn Fein in “established by and ultimately ... tive Peace and Reconciliation places of missing persons were floated by the Attorney General last dren and one great grandchild. Shafiah Paturusi, an 82- the talks that produced the 1998 responsible to Gerry Adams.” Commission that lifted the threat of assured the evidence from the sites year of a blanket amnesty was shot year-old who lost her father and brother on Sulawesi, Good Friday agreement, which ended Police were due to decide whether prosecution from South Africans who would not be used against them. The down by politicians across the spec- added: “I want justice from the Dutch, because the pain of three decades of sectarian killing in to charge Adams, release him, or seek confessed to apartheid-era crimes. only element of the accord that trum, and lawyers have suggested it losing a father is equal to-if not worse than-losing a hus- Northern Ireland. His arrest raises a further extension in custody. The While nothing in the Good Friday would impact Adams directly, if he might not have been possible under band.” questions about two cornerstones of arrest sparked a furious reaction from accord would prevent a prosecution were to be charged and tried, is a UK law. There has been heavy cover- that deal: the pardoning of militants, his Sinn Fein colleague Martin of Adams or other senior Sinn Fein measure that limits any sentence for age in recent days of the family of Raw memories and the confidence of all sides in the McGuinness, deputy first minister in leaders, there was a widespread Troubles-related crimes to two years. McConville, who disappeared after A notorious Dutch forces captain, Raymond Westerling, neutrality of the police. Northern Ireland’s power-sharing expectation in the nationalist com- “We have a peace process that has being dragged screaming from her 10 masterminded the campaign on Sulawesi, a large island The province now faces an government, in which Protestant and munity that this would not happen, created institutions, but has dealt very children by abductors - a crime the made up of four peninsulas with a rugged, mountainous unpalatable choice between driving Catholic ministers work side by side. said O’Doherty. Yet in the absence of inadequately with the issues in the IRA only admitted to in 1993. One of interior. Dutch forces would surround villages and then forward with prosecutions that have McGuinness blamed “dark forces” and an amnesty, there is no mechanism to past,” said Peter Shirlow, a professor of her sons said in radio interviews that weed out suspected enemy fighters before killing them the potential to bring down its power- a “cabal” within the Police Service of stop investigations into senior figures conflict resolution at Queen’s he recognized some of the men who without trial. There is strong disagreement over the num- sharing government, or telling fami- Northern Ireland (PSNI), saying his col- by police and other authorities University Belfast. “But I don’t think came to snatch her, but would never ber that died during the months-long campaign, with lies that the killers of their loved ones league’s detention was an example of charged with probing crimes from the any one expected it to come back and disclose their identities to police “political policing”. period known as the Troubles. These bite us the way it has,” he said. because of the risk of violence against some in Indonesia claiming that up to 40,000 were killed will never be brought to justice. “This could destabilize the entire process if It was the first time in the decade include an ombudsman body and a him or his family. Among the wider although historical studies have put the figure at 3,000 to this goes further into serious arrests,” since the PSNI was formed to replace historical enquiries team. “These Pro-British anger public, many are eager to close the 4,000. The operation proved hugely controversial and said Malachi O’Doherty, an Belfast- the Royal Ulster Constabulary - widely agencies all compete with each other The first major sign that a decade door on the past in order to extend Westerling was relieved of his duties in 1948, although he based author who has written exten- reviled by Catholics for perceived pro- and arrest people and throw up all of relative peace might be under the calm and relative prosperity that never faced trial for war crimes. For the older generation sively on the violence between mainly British bias - that one of the major kinds of difficulties,” said Brian Feeney, threat came last year, when hundreds Northern Ireland has enjoyed for the on Sulawesi, memories are still raw. Khalik recalled his Catholic Irish nationalists and parties had so directly questioned the a Belfast-based historian and political of pro-British youths staged daily riots past decade. “Most people would like father and others were “piled up in a truck like animals” Protestant pro-British Loyalists that neutrality of the police. McGuinness commentator. “It has brought a dan- over a decision to stop flying the to draw a line in the sand, just finish before being driven away-although the older man still tore Northern Ireland apart. “If it does- stopped short of saying Sinn Fein, the ger to the whole process,” he said. British flag over Belfast city hall. The here and go on,” said Andrew Loker, managed to wave goodbye to his son as the vehicle drove n’t balance at least (with the arrest of largest nationalist party, would with- Justice Minister David Ford said on protests were widely seen to have 62, a bank worker in central Belfast. off. “The next day my father was taken from prison, chained major pro-British figures), this is going draw its support for the PSNI, a move Friday there was no reason that “nor- been fuelled by moves to prosecute “We’re not going to go anywhere still up with eight others and they were all executed,” he said. to be calamitously unsettling,” he said. that would spark a major crisis. But he mal policing” should cause political pro-British Loyalist paramilitaries - and looking backwards.” —Reuters Time running out Liesbeth Zegveld, a Dutch human rights lawyer who has Odessa deaths: a savage collision of hooliganism, politics won compensation for Indonesian widows, is also repre- senting some of the children. She is hopeful of success but By Michel Moutot was wounded in the arm, and when my became enraged when they were shot at the pro-Russian camp,” Petropavlovska warned it might not be easy because time was running out, friends were getting me out I was again and beaten,” she said. Information of the said. “They set about destroying it, setting as many seeking redress were already elderly. “The state he deaths of 42 people in Odessa wounded in the arm and in the leg.” An clash spread nearly instantly by mobile it on fire.” The outnumbered pro-Russians tries to pay out as little as possible by taking time with all that greatly added to the toll of eyewitness, a 40-year-old man who gave telephone and social networks, bringing “could have just left-they knew the angry these claims, asking questions and questions, time and TUkraine’s crisis had its roots not only only his first name, Bogdan, said: “The two more football fans to the scene. “I was crowd was coming, there was two hours time again,” she said. Jeffry Pondaag, from a Dutch-based in the worsening political confrontation groups of fans were marching in the city watching the match and we all noticed between the attack on the march and the foundation run by Indonesians helping those seeking com- but also rampant football hooliganism. The when there was shooting and also some that at half-time the stands were empty- arrival of the supporters and our people,” pensation, said that in addition to money they wanted the clashes that culminated in a horrific infer- homemade grenades thrown. “The police ing,” said one man who was in the stadi- she said. “But instead of that, they chose Dutch be more open about the darker side of colonial rule. no of a trade union building that killed 38 did nothing. But the fans fought back. um. “They had gone to fight.” After the to take cover in the trade union building.” “We will fight for the Dutch government to explain to their people-most of them pro-Russian activists- There were more of them than the attack- street clash subsided, the growing crowd The protest leader admitted that Molotov people that what they did to Indonesia was wrong,” said began Friday with what was meant to be a ers, and they are no strangers to brawls.” of supporters turned to a tent camp the cocktails were then thrown at the impos- Pondaag, who works in a cement plant northwest of peaceful march to a football stadium for a Petropavlovska said that, although the pro-Russian activists had been staying in ing stone building, as many videos posted Amsterdam. However a Dutch government statement 5:00pm match. Supporters of Odessa’s pro-Russians were armed, “they made a since mid-March, on a big square in front online showed. insisted that Jakarta and The Hague had “drawn a line home team, the Chornomorets, joined up big mistake taking on the supporters”. of a trade union building. But the pro-Russians inside were also under this part of their shared history”. “The Dutch govern- with those of the visiting Metalist side, “They were a big crowd and knew how to “It was a furious crowd thirsting for throwing masonry and shooting at the ment has repeatedly expressed its deep regret for the from Ukraine’s northeast city of Kharkiv, to handle themselves. Not only were they vengeance that descended on Kulikove crowd from the roof, she said. Ukraine’s painful way in which the Netherlands and Indonesia sepa- head to the game together. Originally not afraid of the weapons, but they Pole place. They wanted to do away with government confirmed that. It will proba- rated,” the statement said. there were no plans to have the 1,500- bly never be established with certainty Diplomatic relations between Jakarta and The Hague strong march turn into what it became: a which side started the killer blaze that are generally good and the Dutch colonial period belongs rally calling for Ukrainian unity. But that’s gutted the building, trapping the pro- to bygone era as far as most younger Indonesians are con- what happened. Russians in a chaos of flames and choking cerned. But some in the older generation still harbor “It was some of the young supporters- smoke. But many who witnessed the resentment about a period that began when traders from and in this country it’s the young who are tragedy said firemen reacted much too the Netherlands arrived at the end of the 16th century. naturally more in favour of a united slowly to save those inside. “It’s horrible. They seized much of the archipelago, before the Dutch Ukraine than backing Russia,” said Natalia We never wanted that to happen. We are state took over in the early 19th century. It was only after Petropavlovska, a leader of the local pro- sorry these deaths happened,” said Japanese occupation in World War II that Indonesia Maidan movement behind the protests Petropavlovska. “Youths had been manip- declared independence, on August 17, 1945. —AFP that drove out Ukraine’s previous Kremlin- ulated. I myself called the firefighters friendly government. The march, draped many times, and I really can’t understand in the yellow and blue of both Ukraine’s even now why they took so long to national flag and the club colors of respond.” All articles appearing on these Metalist, was set upon by several hundred Ukraine declared two days of mourning pro-Russian thugs obviously prepared for in the wake of the tragedy. Yesterday, pages are the personal opinion of violence, some armed and wearing ski Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk visited the writers. Kuwait Times takes no masks and helmets, witnesses said. In the the grief-stricken Black Sea port city of responsibility for views expressed melee that ensued, at least four people one million inhabitants to show govern- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- died from gunshots and a dozen people ment’s shock and solidarity. In an inter- were wounded. view with the BBC, Yatsenyuk vowed a ers to voice their opinions. Please “full, comprehensive and independent send submissions via email to: opin- A ‘big mistake’ investigation” into the deadly events. He [email protected] or via snail Oleg Konstantinov was among the also said that, while pro-Russian activists injured taken to the city’s Jewish Hospital, provoked the violence, a probe had been mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. where he was treated to bullet wounds to started against every Odessa police officer The editor reserves the right to edit his arm and leg. “When the shooting start- for their service’s “inefficient” response as any submission as necessary. ed, I said that maybe there were guns ODESSA: Policemen stand guard outside the charred trade union build- the rioting got out of hand. “They violated because the police had arrived,” he said. “I ing in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa. —AFP the law,” he said. —AFP p15_Layout 1 5/4/14 8:35 PM Page 1

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Qualifier wins Munich Open Selby sees off Robertson Froome on course for title MUNICH: Martin Klizan became the first qualifier to win the Munich Open LONDON: Mark Selby held his nerve to beat Australia’s Neil Robertson 17-15 in NEUCHATEL: Tour de France champion Chris Froome said he was bang on track yesterday when he overturned a one-set deficit to stun Italian top seed a hard-fought World Championship semi-final on Saturday. to defend his Grand Boucle crown after retaining his Tour of Romandie title by Fabio Fognini 2-6 6-1 6-2. Selby now faces two-time defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, bidding winning yesterday’s final stage time-trial. The left-handed Slovak, ranked nearly 100 places lower than Fognini, for a sixth world title in total, in a best of 35-frame final that gets underway at Froome began the 18.5km individual time-trial around Neuchatel just one produced some thundering forehands and deft dropshots to run Fognini Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre in northern England yesterday. It took Selby, a los- second behind yellow jersey wearer Simon Spilak but the Team Sky rider fin- ragged on his way to a second ATP title. Claycourt specialist Fognini, ranked ing finalist against John Higgins seven years ago, some 12 hours to defeat 2010 ished the course 29sec ahead of the Slovenian. 15 in the world, seemed to be cruising to his second title of the year in the world champion Robertson whereas O’Sullivan had already given himself a day “It’s an important race for me, it was a very different Tour of Romandie from opening set, whipping away baseline winners at will. off by easing past Barry Hawkins 17-7 on Friday. Heading into Saturday’s final last year,” said Froome, who led almost from start to finish a year ago. The tables were turned in the second set, however, with Fognini, who session Selby and Robertson were all square at 12-12. Left-hander Robertson “But I’m really happy with my condition and this is a really crucial time build- has already won the Vina del Mar tournament in Chile this year, feeling the went 13-13 up only for Selby to win four of the next five frames, with breaks of ing up to the Tour de France. “I wouldn’t go so far as to say whoever wins the full force of the 24-year-old Klizan’s powerful forehand. 79, 77 and 54 taking him to within sight of victory. Tour de Romandie will win the Tour de France, but it’s definitely a good sign and Klizan, who beat defending champion Tommy Haas in However, Robertson kept Selby waiting with a break of 108 — his 10th cen- a sign that I’m on track for the Tour de France.” straight sets in the semis despite stomach pains, broke twice in tury of the tournament extending the Melbourne-born cueman’s record of It was a welcome return to form for Froome who was only the second set and continued to dominate in the decider, giv- hundreds in a professional tour season to 103. But thoughts the match might sixth in the Tour of Catalunya, his previous race in late March, ing Fognini the run-a-round with a string of drop shots. go to a deciding frame evaporated soon afterwards when Selby made a break having suffered from a back injury and illness over the past Fognini, renowned for his short temper, vented his frustra- of 74 to set up an all-English final with O’Sullivan. “That’s got to be up there two months. tion in the second game of the third set and was handed a with the standard of any semi-final that’s ever been played here,” Robertson In mid-March he had to pull out of the Tirreno-Adriatico point penalty after smashing his racket. Klizan, whose said after a defeat that saw him relinquish the world number one ranking to stage race, won by main Tour de France rival Alberto Contador, ranking slumped after a wrist injury last year, kept his Ding Junhui, despite the Chinese player’s first round loss in Sheffield. “Mark’s due to his back problem, whilst illness kept him out of last cool and never looked back.—Reuters played the best I’ve seen him play. He played some fantastic stuff.”—AFP Sunday’s Liege-Bastogne-Lieg. —AFP Giants beat slumping Braves

ATLANTA: Brandon Belt, Buster Posey and Michael Morse led off innings with home runs, and the streaking San Francisco Giants beat the slumping Atlanta Braves 3-1 on Saturday night in a matchup of first-place teams. The NL West-leading Giants have won four straight and eight of nine. The Braves, who lead the NL East, have lost five straight for the first time since May 21-28, 2012. San Francisco had only four hits but has home- red in 10 straight games, a feat it previously accomplished from Sept. 23-Oct. 3, 2010. Ryan Vogelsong (1-1) allowed one run, five hits and four walks in six innings, and Sergio Romo pitched a perfect ninth for his ninth save. Julio Teheran (2-2) gave up just four hits with no walks in seven innings, but allowed a season-high three runs.

PIRATES 8, BLUE JAYS 6 Neil Walker hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth against Todd Redmond (0-3), cap- ping a comeback from a 5-0 deficit. A night after wasting a 5-3, ninth-inning lead in a 6-5 loss, Toronto led 6-2 in the seventh but the the Pirates tied the score against Aaron Loup on Josh Harrison’s RBI double, Pedro Alvarez’s run- scoring groundout and pinch-hitter Jordy Mercer’s two-run double. Bryan Morris (3-0) pitched a perfect eighth, and Mark Melancon earned his first save of the ATLANTA: San Francisco Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong works the mound against the Atlanta season in place of injured closer Jason Grilli, retir- Braves during the first inning of a baseball game. —AP ing Colby Ramus on a game-ending groundout offensive team avoided its third shutout in four stole three bases to increase his total to 19, most with two on. Pittsburgh, which overcame four game with three runs in the ninth. in the majors. He’s 8 for 11 in the series to hike his errors, won consecutive games for the first time McCarthy (1-5), who tied his career high with average to .357. Juan Uribe walked to start the since beating St. Louis and the Chicago Cubs on his fifth straight loss in his last start, gave up three 11th against Carlos Marmol (0-2), and with one April 6 and 8. hits, including two doubles to Seth Smith, and out Crawford hit his first homer. Manager Don allowed just one runner to reach third base. He Mattingly held Crawford out of the starting lineup PHILLIES 7, NATIONALS 2 struck out six and walked one. because he was hitting .185. Ryan Howard and Cody Asche homered, and The Diamondbacks, who came into the game NEW YORK: Yankees’ Brett Gardner follows through with an RBI single during the A.J. Burnett (2-1) allowed one run and three hits in with the majors’ highest ERA at 5.03, had their ROCKIES 11, METS 10 eighth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays. —AP six innings. Jimmy Rollins had four hits and scoreless innings string snapped at 24 innings Pinch-hitter Charlie Culberson hit a two-run Marlon Byrd doubled and drove in a pair of runs when J.J. Putz allowed a one-out single to Smith homer in the ninth inning off Kyle Farnsworth, for Philadelphia, which won for just the third time and an RBI double to Yasmani Grandal. Addison and the Rockies, down by six runs early, rallied Yankees rally past Rays in 11 games against the Nationals. Reed then surrendered Jedd Gyroko’s two-run again to beat the Mets in a wild affair. Adam LaRoche and Zach Walters homered for homer. The Mets had weathered an eight-run fifth NEW YORK: Masahiro Tanaka extended of a sprained middle finger and allowed Washington. Tanner Roark (2-1) had the poorest inning by Colorado, that included Nolan his regular-season unbeaten streak to 40 four runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings. start of his two-year big league career, allowing DODGERS 9, MARLINS 7 Arenado’s grand slam, and took a 10-9 lead on starts, and Mark Teixeira homered and Fernando Rodney pitched 1 1-3 innings seven runs and seven hits in four-plus innings. Pinch-hitter Carl Crawford hit a two-run homer Juan Lagares’ RBI single in the ninth inning off in the 11th inning, and the Dodgers escaped sev- LaTroy Hawkins (1-0). drove in three runs to help the Yankees for his seventh save. REDS 6, BREWERS 2 eral late-inning jams to beat the Marlins. The But Troy Tulowitzki, who recorded his 1,000th rally past the Tampa Bay Rays 9-3 Johnny Cueto (3-2) gave up three hits over Marlins lost even though they tied a franchise career hit earlier, singled off Farnsworth (0-2) to Saturday and end a season-high, three- INDIANS 2, WHITE SOX 0 eight innings, including solo homers by by Aramis record at Marlins Park with three home runs. They start the bottom of the ninth. He advanced to sec- game losing streak. Justin Masterson (1-1) held the AL’s Ramirez and Mark Reynolds, and singled in a run. erased a 7-2 sixth-inning deficit but left the bases ond on a deep flyout by Arenado, and Culberson Tanaka (4-0) gave up solo homers to highest-scoring offense in check, allow- Cueto, who walked one and struck out 10, is the loaded in the eighth and ninth, and left two on in followed with a drive that cleared the center field Desmond Jennings and Wil Myers ing four hits and striking out six in 7 1-3 first Reds pitcher to throw at least seven innings the 10th. Yasiel Puig hit a three-run homer and wall. The crowd erupted as he rounded the bases. around an RBI single by Ryan Hanigan, innings to win for the first time in nine in each of his first seven starts in a season since Dee Gordon had a career-high five hits for the As he neared the plate, he tossed his helmet and falling behind 3-0 by the fourth. He is 32- starts since Aug. 21. John Axford pitched Bucky Walters in 1944. Yovani Gallardo (2-1) gave Dodgers. jumped onto home plate as he was mobbed by 0 in the regular season for Japan’s the ninth for his ninth save, sending up four runs and nine hits in six innings. Ryan Gordon drove in two runs, scored twice and his teammates.—AP Rakuten Golden Eagles and the Yankees Chicago to its fourth straight loss. Ludwick singled home a run, and Brayan Pena since losing to Seibu on Aug. 19, 2012. Chicago rookie first baseman Jose drove in two more with a single in a three-run Kelly Johnson hit a tiebreaking solo Abreu, who leads the majors in homers fourth. MLB results/standings homer in the sixth off Josh Lueke (0-2). and RBIs, fielded Lonnie Chisenhall’s Jake Odorizzi retired the first nine sixth-inning grounder and, unable to get CUBS 3, CARDINALS 0 Jake Arrieta struck out seven and allowed four NY Yankees 9, Tampa Bay 3; Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 0; Boston 6, Oakland 3; Minnesota 6, Baltimore 1; Seattle 9, Yankees in order, then allowed New York the ball out of his mitt, flipped the glove Houston 8; Cleveland 2, Chicago White Sox 0; Philadelphia 7, Washington 2; Pittsburgh 8, Toronto 6; Detroit 9, Kansas to go 4 for 8 with two walks before he about 10 feet to pitcher Scott Carroll (1- hits over 5 1-3 innings in his season debut, help- City 2; San Francisco 3, Atlanta 1; Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 2; LA Dodgers 9, Miami 7 (11 innings); Colorado 11, NY Mets was removed. 1) covering the bag for the out. ing the Cubs to their first three-game winning 10; Arizona 4, San Diego 3; LA Angels 5, Texas 3. streak this season. Arrieta, slowed by shoulder Cleveland center fielder Michael American League National League stiffness this spring, walked two and threw 82 RED SOX 6, ATHLETICS 3 Bourn left in the fourth because of tight- Eastern Division Eastern Division Jon Lester (3-4) struck out a career- ness in his left hamstring. Indians desig- pitches. Chicago’s bullpen finished a seven-hitter. W L PCT GB Atlanta 17 12 .586 - Brian Schlitter (1-0) got two outs for the win, and high 15, allowing one hit over eight nated hitter Jason Giambi came out in NY Yankees 16 13 .552 - Washington 17 13 .567 0.5 Hector Rondon worked around a pair of leadoff Baltimore 15 13 .536 0.5 NY Mets 15 14 .517 2 scoreless innings - Craig Gentry’s leadoff the sixth with a cramp in his right calf. singles in the ninth for his third save. Boston 15 16 .484 2 bloop single in the third over the head of Errors by third baseman Marcus Semien Miami 15 15 .500 2.5 Junior Lake hit a two-run homer and Anthony Tampa Bay 14 17 .452 3 Philadelphia 14 14 .500 2.5 second baseman Dustin Pedroia. and catcher Tyler Flowers made both Rizzo had a solo shot for the Cubs, who hadn’t Toronto 13 17 .433 3.5 Central Division Central Division Jonny Gomes hit a grand slam in the runs unearned. won three straight a series sweep at San Francisco Milwaukee 21 10 .677 - Detroit 16 9 .640 - first off Tommy Milone (0-3), and David last July 26-28. Michael Wacha (2-3) allowed two St. Louis 15 16 .484 6 Kansas City 14 15 .483 4 Ortiz and David Ross added solo homers TIGERS 9, ROYALS 2 Cincinnati 14 16 .467 6.5 runs, five hits and three walks in six innings. Minnesota 13 15 .464 4.5 in Boston’s second straight win after los- Drew Smyly (2-1) picked up where fel- Chicago White Sox 14 17 .452 5 Pittsburgh 12 18 .400 8.5 ing a day-night doubleheader to Tampa low Tigers starter Rick Porcello left off, DIAMONDBACKS 4, PADRES 3 Cleveland 13 17 .433 5.5 Chicago Cubs 11 17 .393 8.5 Bay. After Oakland scored three runs in allowing two hits in seven shutout Brandon McCarthy threw seven superb Western Division Western Division the ninth against Chris Capuano, helped innings. Joba Chamberlain hrew a per- innings and Alfredo Marte drove in two runs as Oakland 18 12 .600 - San Francisco 19 11 .633 - by two errors, Koji Uehara got out of a fect eighth and Phil Coke allowed two the Diamondbacks survived a ninth-inning rally Texas 16 14 .533 2 Colorado 19 13 .594 1 one-out, two-on jam for his seventh runs in the ninth. for a win over the Padres. LA Angels 15 14 .517 2.5 LA Dodgers 18 13 .581 1.5 The Diamondbacks handed San Diego its Seattle 13 15 .464 4 San Diego 13 18 .419 6.5 save. Nick Castellanos drove in three runs Houston 10 20 .333 8 Arizona 11 22 .333 9.5 the Tigers, the first off spot starter Danny fourth straight loss as the major-leagues’ worst TWINS 6, ORIOLES 1 Duffy (1-2) and two more off the bullpen. Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier homered, Torri Hunter hit a three-run homer in a Kevin Correia earned his first win of the six-run ninth as Detroit beat Kansas City season and Minnesota ended its four- for the fifth straight time. Marquez wins Spanish GP game losing streak. Mauer had three hits and four RBIs, ANGELES 5, RANGERS 3 JEREZ: MotoGP world champion Marc mark a disappointing 27th birthday for the including a three-run homer off Brad CJ Cron hit an RBI single on the first Marquez continued his breathtaking start former champion in his 200th grand prix. Brach in the seventh that broke open the pitch he saw in the major leagues, dou- to his title defence when he streaked away “I was expecting more of a bunched-up to win his home grand prix in Jerez, Spain race but I saw that I started with a good game. Dozier’s eighth homer, a solo shot bled his second time up and hit a yesterday and make it four wins in four rhythm and I was feeling in good shape,” off Wei-Yin Chen (3-2) in the third, gave tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth inning races this year. Riding in his 100th grand Marquez told reporters. the Twins the lead for good. to lead the Angels to a victory over the prix and starting on pole for the fourth race “Without pushing too hard I saw that I Correia (1-3) gave up one run and five Rangers. in a row, Honda rider Marquez briefly sur- was pulling away and decided to keep hits in seven innings, retiring 13 of his Howie Kendrick capped his first four- rendered first place to Italian Yamaha pilot pushing it because I didn’t know what was final 14 batters. He had been 0-6 in nine hit game of the season with an RBI dou- Valentino Rossi on the opening lap at the going to happen in the final stages,” he starts since winning at Texas on Sept. 1. ble in the ninth and scored two runs. sun-drenched Andalusian circuit. added. “I am very pleased to win here in Right-hander Garrett Richards (3-0) The 21-year-old immediately seized front of all the fans.” MARINERS 9, ASTROS 8 allowed three runs and nine hits over six back the initiative from his boyhood hero, After four of 18 races, Marquez, who Justin Smoak hit a two-run homer off innings with two walks and a career-high however, and opened up a gap of around became the youngest premier class world Raul Valdes that capped an eight-run nine strikeouts after three straight no- five seconds at the front before easing off champion last season, tops the standings seventh inning that built a 9-2 lead. decisions. in the final stages and coasting over the on a perfect 100 points. Pedrosa is second Dallas Keuchel (2-2) left after walking the Kendrick doubled with two outs in the line to delight his home supporters. on 72 points and Rossi third on 61. In the first three batters of the seventh, and sixth against reliever Shawn Tolleson (0- It was his first victory at Jerez and he is Moto2 class, Mika Kallio of Finland came in Jose Cisneros forced in the run that 1) and scored the go-ahead run when the first rider to win the opening four pre- first ahead of Swiss Dominique Aegerter in made it 2-2 when he walked Mike Cron lined a 1-1 pitch to left. Joe Smith mier class races of the year since Mick second and Jonas Folger of Germany in Zunino. followed Fernando Salas and Ernesto Doohan in 1992. third. Italian Romano Fenati won the Moto3 Michael Saunders followed with a Frieri out of the Angels’ bullpen and got Rossi held off a late challenge from race with Efren Vazquez second and fellow two-run double. Hisashi Iwakuma (1-0) three outs for his third save in as many SPAIN: MotoGP raider Marc Marquez of Spain cele- Marquez’s team mate Dani Pedrosa to Spaniard Alex Rins third. Riders and teams made his first appearance after starting chances since replacing Frieri in the clos- brates his victory on the podium of the Spain’s secure second place and another Spaniard, next head to Le Mans for the French grand the season on the disabled list because er’s role. —AP Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Jerez race track. —AP Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha, came in fourth to prix in two weeks.—Reuters MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 SPORTS Testing times ahead for Sharks

SYDNEY: Victory in Melbourne on Friday the pressure on Reds coach Richard kept the Sharks top of the Super Rugby Graham but the manner of them, with the standings but trips to Canberra, attacking brio of three years ago gone and Christchurch and Auckland over the next the team’s two tries coming from the graft three weeks will sorely test the Durban- and cussedness of the pack. based outfit’s title credentials. The Waikato Chiefs, who took the title The 22-16 victory over the Rebels broke from Queensland in 2012 and kept it last a 12-game win drought in Australasia for year, returned to the top of the New South African teams this season but it is Zealand conference with a 38-8 win over quite conceivable that it could turn out to the South Africa’s Lions on Saturday that be the only four-pointer of the tour for Jake ended their two-loss wobble. White’s men. The second of those defeats was to the The good news is that the miserable Brumbies, who will be glancing nervously form of the other South African teams over their shoulders at the New South means the Sharks would have to implode Wales Waratahs ahead of the visit of their spectacularly over the final seven rounds of former coach’s charges next weekend. The the season not to win the conference and Waratahs went into a bye week with a five- march into the playoffs. try 39-30 victory over the Wellington The bad news is that over the next three Hurricanes on Saturday that put them a weeks they play an ACT Brumbies side point behind the Brumbies in the turned into Super Rugby finalists by White Australian conference and well in the hunt last season, a Canterbury Crusaders side for a playoff spot. who have finally hit their intimidating The Hurricanes had won their previous stride and an Auckland Blues side that can- four matches and now share second place not lose at home. in the New Zealand conference with the The Crusaders, with Richie McCaw back Crusaders and Otago Highlanders, who on board, put the Brumbies to the sword went down 29-28 to the Stormers in Cape 40-20 on Saturday for their sixth win of a Town. season that started with two defeats. The Stormers are still propping up the Coach Todd Blackadder thinks they can still table with the Cheetahs, whose 26-21 loss ANAHEIM: Los Angeles Kings right wing Marian Gaborik (12), of the Czech Republic, scores on Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller (1), of get better. to the Bulls allowed the three-times cham- Switzerland and center Ryan Getzlaf (15) during overtime to win 3-2 in Game 1 of an NHL hockey second-round Stanley Cup playoffseries. —AP “We’ve got to tidy up some areas,” he pions to move to the edge of the playoff told Fairfax media. “The defence, especially positions with 24 points. in the last 15 minutes, leaked some easy That is still 11 behind the Sharks, who yards off the inside pass. We’ve got to be will be hoping to be faced with the unchar- better than that.” acteristically ill-disciplined Brumbies team Kings defeat Ducks The Crusaders will warm up for the visit that lost in Christchurch when they get to of the Sharks with a trip to face the strug- Canberra on Saturday. “There are issues we gling Queensland Reds, who looked a have to address,” White’s successor as ANAHEIM: Los Angeles’ Marian Gaborik 11:52 left in the third period when 43-year-old stun Montreal and tie the Eastern Conference shadow of the team that won the 2011 title Brumbies coach, Steve Larkham, told the scored with a tying goal with seven seconds Teemu Selanne beat LA goaltender Jonathan semifinal series. The Bruins trailed 3-1 with when they fell 44-14 to the Blues for their Canberra Times. “We need to review if we’re left to force overtime, and then scored the Quick between the pads for a go-ahead goal. just over nine minutes remaining before fourth successive loss on Friday. making the right decisions and get our dis- winner in the extra period to give the Kings a That looked like giving victory to the Ducks Dougie Hamilton scored, then Patrice It is not just the defeats that have piled cipline right.” —Reuters 3-2 win over neighbor Anaheim on Saturday, but the Kings pulled Quick for a sixth attacker Bergeron tied it with 5:43 remaining. extending the Kings’ stunning playoff run and with 1:22 left and were rewarded when Mike Reilly Smith then scored the go-ahead goal taking the opening game of the second-round Richards took a shot from along the left with 3:22 left, wristing a cross-ice pass from series. boards, and Gaborik wristed the rebound past Torey Krug past Canadiens goalie Carey Price. In the day’s other game, Boston came from Jonas Hiller and into the net. Milan Lucic added an empty-netter with 66 two goals down in the third period to overrun The overtime winner came when Gaborik seconds left. Montreal, winning 5-2 to square their series at redirected Anze Kopitar’s shot. It was L.A.’s Earlier, Thomas Vanek twice tipped PK 1-1. fifth straight win in the playoffs, having recov- Subban’s slap shots into the net, and Mike Los Angeles’ Alec Martinez gave the Kings a ered from 3-0 against San Jose in the opening Weaver also scored for the Canadiens. Games 1-0 lead before Matt Beleskey tied it in the first round to win that series 4-3. 3 and 4 are in Montreal tomorrow and period for Anaheim. That score held until Boston scored four goals in quick time to Thursday.—AP Mickelson trails Holmes

CHARLOTTE: Phil Mickelson shot his best as he attempts to improve on last year’s ever score at Quail Hollow, a nine-under- third-placing here. par 63, to move within two shots of leader JB Holmes after the third round of the Wells NO PUSHOVER Fargo Championship on Saturday. Holmes, however, is unlikely to be a Mickelson picked up seven strokes in a pushover. He spent the corresponding day stunning six-hole stretch before the turn to last year at the Kentucky Derby, because he negotiate the front nine in 29 and move was injured, but hopes to gallop to a victo- ry of his own yesterday. within striking distance of his 43rd PGA “It’s been a big change since last year,” Tour victory. said Holmes, who has been in good form “I’m not worried about winning (but) I recently. He certainly appreciates his would like to win because it’s a course I health, after having major surgery in 2011, dearly love,” the five-time major champion, before suffering two other less serious who is alone in third place, told reporters. problems. “I broke my ankle (before) the Fellow American JB Holmes (66) sank a Derby and a couple of weeks after I ended 20-foot birdie from the fringe at the last to up having arm surgery (for tennis elbow),” OKLAHOMA CITY: Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) drives around Memphis hit the front on 13-under 203, one stroke Grizzlies guard Mike Conley (11) in the second quarter of Game 7 of an opening- he said. round NBA basketball playoff series. —AP ahead of countryman Martin Flores (69). “It was the beginning of a long come- “It was a very meaningful round for me,” back but I worked really hard in the off-sea- added Mickelson, who attracted a huge son and having a chance to win, it’s a great Thunder and Clippers book gallery on a magnificent spring afternoon. feeling. I’m just going to enjoy it.” “I hit the ball well and was able to capitalise Flores has also been in good form and second-round showdown with some good putts, and it feels good he led for most of the back nine after three because I haven’t been able to put it all successive birdies from the 10th, only to OKLAHOMA CITY: The Oklahoma City final period. together this year. bogey the last after pulling his drive into Thunder overpowered the Memphis The Grizzlies had led the series 3-2, but “My game is starting to feel sharp and the creek and taking a penalty stroke. Grizzlies 120-109 on Saturday to line up a missed their chance to advance when they mentally I was much more focused Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, the 2010 clash with the Los Angeles Clippers in the dropped game six in Memphis. Randolph, throughout the entire day.” This week’s champion, shot the second best round of second round of the NBA playoffs. who led the Grizzlies in scoring with 18.9 tournament signals the start of his prepara- the day, a 65, but still trails by seven shots. Russell Westbrook notched his second points per game in the series, was suspend- tion for the US Open at nearby Pinehurst He probably needs a repeat of his clos- triple-double of the series with 27 points, ed for game seven after punching Thunder No. 2 next month. Mickelson finished sec- ing 62 from four years ago to have a chance 16 assists and 10 rebounds, and Kevin rookie Steven Adams late in Thursday’s loss. ond there behind the late Payne Stewart in of winning. Halfway leader Angel Cabrera Durant scored a game-high 33 points for The Thunder will host game one of the sec- 1999 - one of six runner-up finishes in the of Argentina bogeyed the first hole and CHARLOTTE: JB Holmes hits his approach shot on the the Thunder-who won the best-of-seven ond-round series against the Clippers only major he has yet to win. But the Open never recovered as he carded 75 to join 16th hole during the third round of the Wells Fargo Western Conference first-round series four today. will be far from Mickelon’s mind on Sunday McIlroy on six-under.—Reuters Championship golf tournament. —AP games to three. The Clippers advanced with a 126-121 CLIPPERS FIND A WAY game-seven triumph over the Golden State The Clippers kept their post-season Warriors in Los Angeles. Westbrook joined push going despite the controversy sur- Rajon Rondo as the only players in NBA his- rounding owner Donald Sterling. Sterling Lee, Lewis share thirq round lead tory to record triple-doubles in two game was banned for life from NBA activities and sevens. His first also came against Memphis fined $2.5 million by league commissioner DALLAS: World number three Stacy Lewis fired a Granada and American Dori Carter shared third closed the front nine with a bogey. She in 2011. Adam Silver after racially charged remarks two-under par 69 Saturday to match South on 205. “It’s going to be a shoot-out tomorrow,” answered with birdies at the par-5 10th and par- The Grizzlies, missing the suspended he made in a private conversation became Korea’s Meena Lee for the lead after the third said Lewis, who thinks the windy weather fore- 4 12th. Lee birdied the par-5 third and answered Zach Randolph and with Mike Conley nurs- public last weekend. The league is also tak- round of the LPGA North Texas Shootout. cast for Sunday might be to her advantage. a bogey at the fourth hole with birdies at the ing a sore hamstring, gave it all they had, ing steps to force him to sell the club. US star Lewis and Lee, who shot 70 Saturday, Thailand’s Thidapa Suwannapura and South par-3 sixth and par-5 seventh. But a bogey at the taking a 36-27 lead after the first quarter “I just thought this team really needed enter the final round deadlocked atop the Korean Jenny Shin were in a pack on 206 that 14th, her only stumble with 10 pars in the last 11 and leading by as many as 11 in the second the game,” said Clippers coach Glenn “Doc” leaderboard at nine-under 204 after 54 holes in also included Americans Kim Kaufman, Jennifer holes, dropped her back into sharing the lead period before the Thunder inexorably Rivers. “I just thought with all this stuff, this the $1.3 million event. Johnson, Cristie Kerr, Christina Kim and Natalie with Lewis. asserted themselves. team just needed this win. “Our guys Norway’s Suzann Pettersen, Paraguay’s Julieta Gulbis. Lewis birdied the par-5 seventh but Lewis left the course wishing a few more Durant, expected to be named the NBA fought the adversity, they went through it. putts had dropped. “It was a bit frustrating,” she Most Valuable Player next week, was a per- It drained them and they found enough said. “I hit the ball really, really good today and fect five-for-five from three point range and energy to find a way to win the game.” gave myself a lot of chances, but I hit a lot of pulled down eight rebounds in the victory. Blake Griffin scored 24 points and DeAndre good putts. “I was finally able to get out of my own Jordan added 15 with 18 rebounds, the pair “You know, some days they go in and some way tonight,” said Durant, who admitted combining on a string of stirring plays days they don’t.” Lewis is seeking her first victory he’d been stung by critical press after strug- down the stretch to secure the close-run since her triumph at the Women’s British Open gling offensively earlier in the series. “I was victory. last August. But she has plenty of experience thinking too much, worried about what Chris Paul scored 22 points and 14 sleeping on a third-round lead and has won five you guys (the media) were saying about assists for the Clippers, who got 22 from of eight times when she has held or shared the me.” Jamal Crawford and 20 from JJ Redick. 54-hole lead. “I’ve put myself in this position so Marc Gasol led Memphis with 24 points Steph Curry totaled 33 points and nine many times lately, it’s kind of become normal, and six assists and Conley battled through assists, and Draymond Green added 24 which is a good thing,” said Lewis. “It’s a good his injury to score 20 points with nine points for the Warriors, who had stayed problem to have.” assists. alive on Thursday with a 100-99 victory. Lee, on the other hand, has never led after 54 Both added four steals, but the Grizzlies Golden State were quick out of the holes, but she’s delighted to be in the hunt for a just couldn’t stop the Thunder. Leading by blocks, and the Clippers never led in the first LPGA title since the 2006 Fields Open in three points at halftime, the Thunder first half. But Los Angeles out-scored the Hawaii. “My last one was 2006,” she said. “It’s opened the second half with a 17-5 scoring Warriors 31-20 in the third quarter and took been a while. I’m very excited and kind of nerv- run to take control of the contest. The a three-point lead into the fourth, in which ous, but I’m enjoying definitely the moment.” surge included three three-pointers-two the lead changed hands six times as the Lee, who hasn’t needed more than 29 putts from Durant and one from Caron Butler. teams fought for their playoff lives. in a round this week, thinks the title will be Oklahoma City connected on 13 of 17 Saturday’s games were among a record five won on the greens. “It definitely is going to be shots from the field in the third quarter. The game sevens in the opening round of the the putting,” she said. “I didn’t really take Thunder led by as many as 16 before taking playoffs. The total already matches the NBA advantage of a lot of birdie chances today, so I a 93-81 lead into the fourth, and the record for the most seventh games in all IRVING: Stacy Lewis watches her tee shot on the 11th hole during the third round of the North want to make more birdies tomorrow and see depleted Grizzlies never threatened in the rounds in any playoff year.—AFP Texas LPGA Shootout golf tournament. —AP how it goes.”—AFP MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 SPORTS

Pistorius defense enters Photo of the day critical phase at trial

PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial let door. He claims the killing was acciden- enters a critical phase today as his defense tal and he fired four times in quick succes- team attempts to recover from a faltering sion without thinking and while terrified, start and reinforce the disabled athlete’s believing that an intruder had climbed up a claim that he fatally shot girlfriend Reeva ladder and through a bathroom window of Steenkamp by mistake because he was his Pretoria villa in the pre-dawn hours and overwhelmed by a long-held fear of violent was about to come out of the cubicle and crime. attack him. Pistorius’ mindset when he stood on his Prosecutors charge that the story is an stumps in a bathroom and pulled the trig- intricate lie designed to cover up a murder. ger on his 9 mm pistol in the early hours of They say the couple fought, Steenkamp Feb. 14, 2013 remains the crux of the South fled to the toilet screaming and Pistorius African trial that has captured worldwide followed her and shot her through the attention and is about to start its seventh wood door while they were arguing. She week of globally televised proceedings. It was hit in the hip, arm and head. was initially scheduled to run for three Charged with premeditated murder, the weeks. first amputee to run at the Olympics faces Judge Thokozile Masipa will analyze 25 years to life in prison if convicted. He thousands of pages of testimony before was once widely admired for overcoming she reaches a verdict, but ultimately must the amputation of his lower legs as a baby ponder the pivotal question: Did Pistorius to earn the right to run against the world’s fire his gun with the intention to kill or out top able-bodied athletes. of a misplaced belief that his life was in The prosecution’s case appeared to be danger from a perceived intruder? bolstered as holes in Pistorius’ story were South Africa does not have trial by jury, exposed when the athlete was on the meaning Masipa will decide, with the help stand for a fierce five-day cross-examina- of two assessors, if Pistorius’ overall account tion by prosecutor Gerrie Nel. Nel also suc- is believable and whether the apparent ceeded in undermining the evidence given inconsistencies in his testimony count by the defense’s first two expert witnesses, against him or are unimportant in the big- a pathologist and a former police forensic ger picture. scientist. If Pistorius’ defense, which will resume But defense lawyers have only present- calling witnesses today after a two-week ed three of up to 17 witnesses they say trial recess, can show that his story of a they may ask to testify. At the outset of the Mansour Al Safran performs a tailwhip in Kuwait.— www.redbull.com tragic error is a reasonable explanation, defense’s case, lawyer Barry Roux said even the double-amputee runner’s shaky Pistorius’ actions on Valentine’s Day last testimony would be rendered irrelevant year centered on his “disability” and “vul- and the judge should acquit him of murder, nerability” and Pistorius’ team will likely legal experts say. While testifying, Pistorius seek to rebuild the overall argument that Sadler wins at Talladega sometimes contradicted earlier testimony his actions were guided by fear and not and other times said he did not remember anger in a country with a high rate of vio- details. lent home invasions. TALLADEGA: Most of Elliott Sadler’s memories “The test doesn’t end there,” former Roux said he will also show that a cru- of Talladega Superspeedway are unpleasant. state prosecutor Marius du Toit said of cial thread of the prosecution’s case is not They either involve a horrific 2003 crash in which Pistorius’ testimony. “It’s not over. They (the true; that neighbors heard a woman his car flipped several times and slid forever defense) can still show there is another screaming before and during the shots through the grass on its roof, or many different plausible scenario.” fired by Pistorius at around 3.17 a.m. on ways he’d come up empty racing for a win. Du Toit has over 20 years’ experience in the fatal night. The lawyer said neighbors Finally, he has a victory that tops all those South Africa’s criminal justice system and is who live closer to Pistorius’ house in an other disappointments. “I have such a love-hate following the trial closely. He said it must upscale gated community in the suburbs relationship with this race track. We always run be shown that Pistorius had the “sole inten- of South Africa’s capital never heard a good here, but I always doggone flip or wreck or tion” to kill Steenkamp to be convicted of woman scream. Instead, it was Pistorius’ hit hard or something,” Sadler said in Victory murder. high-pitched shrieks for help after realiz- Lane. “Every autograph session, everywhere I go, Pistorius, 27, doesn’t dispute that he ing his terrible mistake, the defense everybody always reminds me of the flip I had shot 29-year-old Steenkamp through a toi- argues. —AP down the backstraighaway here. Now maybe they can ask me about winning here.” Sadler won a three-lap shootout to the checkered flag in the Nationwide Series race. Serena, Sharapova cruise The race Saturday was stopped for a little more than nine minutes to clean the track fol- as Djokovic withdraws lowing a six-car accident that began when Jeremy Clement was turning into an outside wall MADRID: Serena Williams and Maria However she was then unable to cope and his car shot back into traffic. Sadler reflected Sharapova eased through their Madrid with Williams’ powerful groundstrokes as on many of his previous races during the stop- openers yesterday but Novak Djokovic the American raced through the rest of the page. withdrew with the right wrist injury which first set. “Under the red flag, I was playing all these could compromise his French Open dream. Williams was even more relentless as scenarios in my head,” Sadler said. “Really, how World number one Williams began the she moved into a 5-0 lead in the second set many races I’ve lost in the last couple laps not defence of her Madrid Open title with a and, despite some resistance from Bencic making the right decisions.” comfortable 6-2, 6-1 win over Swiss 17- to save match points in the sixth game, the There were three laps remaining on the year-old Belinda Bencic while Sharapova two-time Madrid champion went on to seal restart, and Sadler had to throw several blocks to was equally untroubled in a 6-1, 6-2 victory victory in just under an hour. hold off a charge from the pack of traffic behind over Czech Klara Koukalova. Such was her dominance that Williams him. Djokovic, the world number two who even racked up 21 consecutive points at It was the 10th Nationwide Series victory of had been targeting Rafael Nadal’s number one stage yesterday. Four-time Grand Slam Sadler’s career, first at Talladega, and first win one ranking, was forced to pull out after champion Sharapova made light work of since 2012. “We just stayed to the bottom and failing to recover from his ongoing wrist Czech veteran Koukalova. stuck to our guns,” Sadler said of his strategy. injury. Sharapova claimed her first title of the “We made the right blocks at the right time.” The six-time Grand Slam champion suf- year on clay in Stuttgart two weeks ago “I was disappointed last year we weren’t able to do it. It means a lot to me to get the JGR team fered the injury in losing to Roger Federer and continued her return to form after a TALLADEGA: Elliott Sadler celebrates winning the NASCAR Aaron’s 312 Nationwide series auto to Victory Lane - they work their butts off and we in the semi-final of the Monte Carlo Masters difficult start to the year to take victory in race at Talladega Superspeedway. —AP a fortnight ago. little over an hour. weren’t able to reward them.” “I am sorry for the tournament and the “It was a good start for me,” said eighth- After going winless last season, his first with the championship as strong as you want to, ning streak alive, but there’s a lot of races left,” Spanish fans that I have to pull out of the seeded Sharapova. “Obviously the first Joe Gibbs Racing, finally grabbing a victory was man, it weighed on me heavy,” Sadler said. Smith said. Elliott, who finished 19th, main- Madrid Open,” said the Serb star, the 2011 match at a new event is always challenging a heavy relief for Sadler. He left Richard “To be able to go to Victory Lane, and tained his lead as the Nationwide points leader. champion in the Spanish capital, in a state- because you don’t know what to expect, Childress Racing to join JGR in an attempt to (Gibbs) call me on the phone, was amazing to But Sadler’s victory pulled him to just one point ment. especially coming off the indoor tourna- race for the Nationwide title. Instead, after win- me. That was a feeling that is really hard to put behind Elliott. “I have done everything possible to be ment last week. ning four races in 2012 and finishing second into words, but it feels good.” David Ragan finished fourth and was fol- able to play in Madrid, which is one of the “It’s always an adjustment to get your- that year in the standings, Sadler had just nine Chris Buescher finished second and Regan lowed by Sam Hornish Jr., making his first race most important events of the year, but, self prepared for the first round. I’m happy top-10 finishes and was a distant fourth in the Smith, winner of last year’s race, was third. since losing the Nationwide title by three unfortunately, the injury I have in the right that I won in two good sets today.”Last title race. Sadler’s win ended a three-race winning streak points last season. Hornish has a seven-race wrist has become inflamed again. year’s finalist in Madrid will next face “When you come to a new place and you are for JR Motorsports, which picked up victories deal with JGR and made his debut by winning “I will now take my time to recover from unseeded American Christina McHale. running for such a respectable man and owner, from Chase Elliott at Texas and Darlington and the pole in Friday qualifying. Joe Nemechek the injury with the hope of being ready to It was a more difficult afternoon for fifth and you are not able to give back to them, and Kevin Harvick last week at Richmond. was sixth and followed by J.J. Yeley, Landon play in Rome (from next weekend).” The seed Petra Kvitova as she needed a final set not go to Victory Lane and not able to run for “We couldn’t keep the JR Motorsports win- Cassill, David Starr and Trevor Bayne.—AP injury also means that Djokovic is facing a tie-break to overcome Romania’s Sorana race against time to be fully fit for the Cirstea 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (7/4). French Open, the only major he has yet to The former Wimbledon champion Berlocq stuns Berdych for Portugal title win, which gets under way in three weeks’ looked well on course for the second round time. Williams, a 17-time Grand Slam win- after racing through the opening set, but OEIRAS: Argentina’s Carlos Berlocq 2006) Gaston Gaudio (2005) and ner, was playing for the first time since suf- was then broken four times in the second rallied to overhaul Czech top seed Juan Chela (2004). fering a shock defeat to Jana Cepelova in as the world number 27 levelled the match. Tomas Berdych 0-6, 7-5, 6-1 yester- Berdych came to the court with a Purtell lifts Bulls Charleston over a month ago. But she Both women were more stable on serve in day to win his second career title 3-0 record in his series against the showed no sign of rustiness to set up a sec- the decider as it went to a tie-break after with victory at the Portugal Open. Argentine and had beaten Berlocq ond round meeting with China’s Peng just one break apiece and Kvitova eventual- off the bottom The world number 62 becomes on clay in Dusseldorf and in Davis Shuai. ly had too much to set up a meeting with the sixth tournament winner over Cup. LONDON: Adrian Purtell scored drop goal late on to give the American Varvara Lepchenko. There were the age of 30 this year on the ATP The Czech was bidding for the twice as Bradford Bulls moved off Giants a nail-biting 29-28 win. RELENTLESS WILLIAMS also wins for 11th seed Ana Ivanovic who with his victory in two hours, nine ninth title of his career while Berlocq the bottom of the Super League Michael Shenton, Kirk Dixon With Swiss compatriot Martina Hingis overcame Madison Keys in straight sets 6-1, minutes against the world number added to his other trophy from table with a thrilling 34-28 victory and Daryl Clark also scored for the watching from the stands, Bencic made a 7-6 (7/4) and Sloane Stephens who beat six. Berdych was the South Bastad in Sweden last summer. over Warrington yesterday. Tigers but they are now two bright start and had two break points to Romanian qualifier Monica Niculescu 6-2, American’s second top 10 victim of Berdych was momentarily derailed points behind second-placed St lead 2-1 in the first set. 3-6, 6-2.—AFP Purtell, who joined the Bulls the week after putting out ninth- by a second-set time violation called from Penrith Panthers in 2012, Helens. Wakefield’s remarkable 23- ranked Milos Raonic of Canada in the by umpire Fergus Murphy. helped his side to their third victo- 16 comeback victory against Hull quarter-finals. After regaining his composure ry this season-a result which saw owed much to Jarrod Sammut, “This is truly a dream for me,” said after several games of complaining them move above London who kicked three goals and scored the winner, who found his form just about the call, Berdych found himself Broncos in the process. a try at the KC Stadium. The in time after losing the opening set in trouble-he was broken in the final Bradford were docked six Wildcats were 16-0 down after in 28 minutes. game of the second set and never points after going into administra- Danny Houghton, Jordan Rankin But the South American baseliner, recovered. tion in February, but they battled and Ben Crooks had crossed for whose on-court grunting has irritat- In the third set, Berdych dropped all the way against the Wolves the hosts. ed a string of rivals in recent years, to 0-5 before getting a break-back. A with Jamie Foster, Brett Kearney regained his poise and slowly began double-fault a game later set up a and Tom Olbison also getting in SENSATIONAL TURNAROUND to make inroads against the top seed match point, which Berdych saved on the act. Tries from Anthony But Richard Mathers, Daniel playing on a wild card. before going down to the loss when England, Chris Bridge, Kevin Smith, Matt Ryan and ex-Penrith “To win this title today, I had to his sliding volley hit the net on a sec- Penny, Joel Monaghan and Matty Panther Sammut completed a sen- beat one of the best in the world. It ond Berlocq match point. Russell had Warrington 28-22 up sational turnaround. was an honour to play and to win “This was a tough loss but Carlos with 10 minutes to go but Elliot Meanwhile, Kevin Brown’s hat- this final,” he said. “It was really tough played really well, he opened it up Kear’s late try turned the game in trick was enough for Widnes to see for me at the start, he was playing after the first set. He showed he’s a Bradford’s favor. of Hull K R 34-29. Morgan Escare very aggressive. But I managed to big fighter and that he can do well Elsewhere yesterday, Castleford took his Super League season try slowly lift my game and get into the on his court, on clay,” said Berdych. “It slipped up in the race at the top of tally to 10 after his hat-trick match. was still a good week for me, I’m glad the table despite Justin Carney against Salford helped Catalan “For me, the second set was like I could come and play as a wildcard. and Jake Webster each grabbing Dragons to a 37-24 victory on starting everything all over again. I “Everything went well up until the tries against Huddersfield, Joe Saturday. managed to improve throughout the final. It’s always disappointing to lose Wardle, Leroy Cudjoe, Jermaine New Zealand-born Zeb Taia second and third sets and somehow I a match, but it’s like that one day and McGillvary, Scott Grix and Aaron and Fijian international Daryl got the win.” Berlocq became the different the next.” Berdych suffered Millard also crossed for the French fifth Argentine to win at the venue only his sixth loss of the season while Murphy were on the scoresheet after Juan Martin del Potro (2011, Berlocq improved his season record for Huddersfield but it was Danny outfit but it was full-back Escare Brough who struck the decisive who stole the show.—AFP Maria Sharapova 2012), David Nalbandian (2002, to 9-7.—AFP MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 SPORTS Miss France wins English 1,000 Guineas

NEWMARKET: The aptly-named Miss her to be ridden but it worked,” Fabre told France supplied master French trainer Channel 4 with a smile. “This means a lot,” Andre Fabre with his first English 1,000 continued the Chantilly trainer. Guineas at Newmarket yesterday. “I trained the dam of the filly and I could Ridden by Maxime Guyon, the well-fan- not be more delighted. She will get further, cied 7-1 chance held off Lightning Thunder that is not a problem. She’ll go for the Prix (14-1) by a neck with Godolphin’s Ihtimal de Diane (French Oaks) next, her dam won half a length back in third, and the heavily- over a mile and a half.” supported 9-2 favourite Tapestry plum last. Referring to Miss France’s slip-up in her Fabre, a 25-time champion trainer in warm-up he added: “I got confident in the France, was adding to his success in the last 10 days after her bad (seasonal) debut. other classic run at the home of British rac- “She worked brilliantly, after that I told ing, the 2000 Guineas, which he claimed the owner we’d go to Newmarket. There with Pennekamp in 1995 and Zafonic two was a question mark after her first run this years earlier. Miss France, a winner at year but I knew that race wasn’t to be Newmarket last season, had been beaten believed.” on her Guineas warm-up last month but Lightning Thunder was coming off sec- despite that reverse was given a confident ond best to the winner for the second time, ride by Guyon. Olly Stevens’ filly finishing bridesmaid to Always up with the leaders headed by her in a Group Three last September. 100-1 outsider Manderley she hit the front Lightning Thunder could take on Miss as the ground began to rise towards the France again at Royal Ascot with Stevens post to hold off her pursuers in tenacious saying: “We’re thrilled, it’s wonderful to be style. here with a filly of this quality. We might go The third French-trained winner of the straight to the Coronation (Stakes).” There fillies classic in the past seven years she first was to be no fairytale third 1000 Guineas had to deal with Ihtimal’s challenge and winner for 80-year-old Clive Brittain with then the late surge of the eventual runner- second favourite Rizeena running well up. “It was the opposite of how I wanted without landing a telling blow. —AFP CHURCHILL DOWNS: In this image taken with a fisheye lens, jockey Victor Espinoza rides California Chrome to win in the 140th running of the Khan dominates Collazo Kentucky Derby horse race. —AP LAS VEGAS: Amir Khan knocked Luis bleeding from a cut by his right eye and California Chrome shines Collazo down three times on Saturday on his face was swollen. Two judges scored his way to a lopsided decision win he it 119-104, while the third had it 117-106. needed desperately if he hopes to fight “I had to hang in there,” Collazo said. “You at 140th Kentucky Derby Floyd Mayweather Jr. have to take me out, that’s what it’s all In his first fight in more than a year, about.” and stepping up to welterweight, Khan Khan, who improved to 29-3, thought CHURCHILL DOWNS: California Chrome won became the oldest man to train the winner of two-man syndicate Dumb-Ass Partners after dominated against a former champion. he was going to be fighting Mayweather the 140th Kentucky Derby in brilliant fashion at a the Kentucky Derby. The son of a Brooklyn bar- overhearing a stablehand say they were fools to Khan lost out to Marcos Maidana as instead of Maidana. He gave up a title bright and sunny Churchill Downs on Saturday, ber, Sherman has spent a lifetime in racing but try and breed from Love the Chase, the unwant- Mayweather’s opponent in the lucrative fight in December to wait for adding another fairytale chapter to America’s found little success on the track. ed dam that has given them Californian Chrome. main event, but made the best out of his Mayweather, but didn’t get picked for most famous and revered horse race. He had never even had a runner in the Derby Many thought they were crazy when they spot at the top of the undercard by beat- the fight despite winning an online poll Perfectly ridden by Victor Espinoza, the three- before this year, though he was an exercise rider turned down a $6 million offer to sell a 51 per- ing and bloodying Collazo. conducted by Mayweather. year-old colt pinned back his ears and sprinted for Swaps when he won the race in 1955. cent share of their star colt after he won the “People want to see that fight “It was very hard because Collazo is clear of his rivals to win the $2.2 million classic Sherman slept with Swaps on a bed of straw on Santa Anita Derby but no one doubts their judg- between me and Floyd,” Khan said. Khan really awkward,” Khan said. In another by one and a quarter lengths. a four-day train trip from the California. ment now. Commanding Curve, a 37-1 longshot, This time he’ll fly home on a chartered jet. The flashy chestnut has now won more than was cautious with Collazo, but used his bout, American J’Leon Love beat charged home late to finish second while Danza, “This has to be the sweetest moment of my life,” $2.5 million from 11 starts and will be worth mil- hand speed from the outside to land Mexican Marco Antonio Periban in a named after “Who’s the Boss” actor Tony Danza, Sherman said. “To be my age and have some- lions more as a stallion after winning the Derby. right hands to the head from the first super middleweight bout. Love won a boxed on for third after trying to stick with thing like this happen, what can you say?” And he is not finished yet. Even before the round on. He dropped Collazo with a 10-round decision on all three ringside California Chrome over the mile and a quarter colt had been draped with the traditional win- right hand in the fourth round, then scorecards to remain unbeaten in 19 journey on the Kentucky dirt. GUARDIAN ANGELS ner’s garland of red rose, his owners declared he dropped him twice in the 10th round. fights. Periban fell to 20-2-1.—AP Wicked Strong, the 6-1 second favourite For Mexican-born jockey Espinoza, it was his would go for the Triple Crown, comprising the Collazo finished the fight, but he was named in honor of the Boston marathon victims, second win in the Derby after he saluted on War Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont finished fourth after starting from the widest Emblem in 2002. The 41-year-old showed all his Stakes. Only 11 horses, among them Secretariat, barrier but California Chrome was never truly big race experience with a cool and calculated have pulled off the feat that has become the threatened. ride, keeping his mount out of harm’s way holy grail of American racing. The last horse to Unbeaten this season, California Chrome was before unleashing him in the stretch. do it was Affirmed in 1978. installed as the 5-2 favourite after romping to “I never dreamed I’d win a second Kentucky “I think we’re in a pretty good place now,” victories in each of his four previous races, Derby, but here it is,” Espinoza said. “This was a Coburn said. “Our guardian angels have been including last month’s Santa Anita Derby. typical race for him. He ran like he always does. I pretty good to us.” Dale Romans, who trained When the ‘Run for the Roses’ got underway, don’t mess with him too much. I just stretch his the eighth-places horse Medal Count, said he California Chrome broke quickly and settled in legs a little bit and then let him do his thing.” had become a believer after watching California third place. He made his move as the field of 19 California Chrome became just the fourth Chrome first hand. runners turned for home, taking the lead with a horse from the Golden State, and the first since “I didn’t think he fit the profile to win the breathtaking burst of acceleration before the 1962, to win the Bluegrass state’s crown jewel Derby but I’m very impressed the way he came shadows of the iconic Twin Spires as the crowd with a classic rags to riches tale that has already into it, the way he looked, the way he was pre- of almost 165,000 let out a mighty roar. endeared him to the American racing public. pared and the way he ran,” Romans said. Horse racing has been dubbed the “Sport of He was bred for just $10,000, a pittance in a “Now he has a new fan.” Hall of fame trainer Kings” but it is also a sport full of glorious unpre- sport where regally-bred horses change hands Bob Baffert was also gushing about the winner dictability and heart-tugging tales, and there for millions of dollars, by two blue-collar work- after his own horse, Chitu, faded to finish ninth. have been few to match the unlikely rise of ing men who were new to the race game but “You could tell he was comfortable the whole California Chrome. took a gamble on a mare that no one else want- way. He’s for real,” Baffert said. “It’s going to be a His 77-year-old conditioner Art Sherman ed. Steve Coburn and Perry Martin named their great Triple Crown series.”—Reuters Mayweather stops Maidana

LAS VEGAS: Undefeated welterweight Floyd one judge ruling the fight a 114-114 draw while ensuring the bout was fought on his own terms. Mayweather did all his hard work in the second the other two scored the bout 117-111 and 116- By round six, Mayweather was using his foot- half of the bout to overcome a stiff challenge 112 in his favour, but acknowledged he had work to stay off the ropes and control the centre from the fast-starting Marcos Maidana and unify been in a hard battle. of the ring, where he launched powerful hooks two world titles in Las Vegas on Saturday. “This was a tough, competitive fight, what and right crosses to Maidana’s body and head. At the end of 12 bruising rounds, American the fans want to see,” he told a post-fight inter- Even as Mayweather took over, Maidana kept Mayweather (46-0, 26 KOs) was awarded a viewer in the ring. “Normally I go out there, I coming, continuing to throw punches even as LAS VEGAS: England’s Amir Khan (right) connects with a hard right to the head of majority decision victory, adding the hard-hit- box, I move. Finally, I was in a tough, competi- his workrate and accuracy declined. Luis Collazo in their silver welterweight title boxing fight. —AP ting Argentine’s World Boxing Association belt tive fight. He’s a tough competitor and we gave When the final bell sounded, he and many of to his World Boxing Council title. For the first the fans what they wanted to see.” those in the crowd at the MGM Grand Garden few rounds, however, it looked as if Mayweather Arena felt he had done enough to get the deci- was in serious danger of losing his vaunted FAST START sion. “I definitely feel like I won this fight. Floyd De La Hoya vows to run unbeaten record against a fighter launching a Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) began brightly, back- did not fight like a man, like I expected him to,” blizzard of punches and trapping the American ing Mayweather to the ropes, landing clubbing Maidana protested. The victory sets Mayweather Golden Boy in dispute against the ropes at every turn. punches from all angles and cutting the up for a possible contest against Britain’s Amir Eventually Mayweather was able to assert American above his right eye following an acci- Khan, who outpointed Luis Collazo on the LAS VEGAS: Declaring himself in the fight would never work with Arum no matter control, nullifying Maidana’s assault and launch- dental clash of heads. Supreme in defence, undercard, although the American appeared of his life as he battles addiction issues, what De La Hoya wanted to do. But he said ing vicious counter-attacks of his own, picking Mayweather was able to block many of his willing to consider suggestions that Maidana Oscar De La Hoya said Saturday he was also he was open to talking to De La Hoya up points with his jab as his opponent sought opponent’s punches and launch short counters had done enough to earn a second shot. “If the prepared to fight to keep control of his about his future in the company. to bulldoze his way in close. Mayweather exud- of his own but through four rounds, Maidana fans want to see it again, we’ll do it again,” he boxing promotion company. “Whatever the future holds hopefully ed confidence while awaiting the decision, with was out-working his more celebrated foe and added.—Reuters The former boxer said Golden Boy we can sort this out the next couple of Promotions is still his company, despite his weeks,” Schaefer said. “My door is always fractured relationship with chief executive open and we’ll see where this goes.” officer Richard Schaefer over his ties to De La Hoya, who went into rehab for a Floyd Mayweather Jr. and De La Hoya’s second time last September on the eve of recent efforts to reconcile with rival pro- Mayweather’s fight against Canelo Alvarez, moter Bob Arum. said he plans to be heavily involved in “I have my vision and I have my plans,” Golden Boy again as he continues his De La Hoya said. “Nobody is going to stop recovery. He said he went to Arum’s Los me from doing this. The company isn’t Angeles house earlier this week to try and called Golden Boy for nothing.” settle any feuds with the promoter who De La Hoya spoke publicly for the first guided his career and is open to doing time about problems in his company, one business with him again. of the two major promoters in boxing, in a “I met with Bob Arum to bury the hatch- hastily called press conference a few hours et,” De La Hoya said. “Down the line, why before Mayweather fought Marcos not for the sake of boxing. There’s a lot of Maidana. great fights that can be made.” Golden Boy has promoted Mayweather, Mayweather said earlier in the week that and Schaefer has built a close relationship he wouldn’t work with Golden Boy if with him and Al Haymon, who manages Schaefer was not running the company. He Mayweather and several top fighters. But also said the door was open for Schaefer to Schaefer says he will never work with work with his company, Mayweather Arum’s Top Rank or have fights between Promotions, if he left Golden Boy. Golden Boy and the rival company. De La Hoya hired Schaefer, who had a De La Hoya indicated he and Schaefer career in banking, when he started Golden have been talking through attorneys, Boy. In recent years Schaefer has been the though he said he planned to shake his public face of the company as De La Hoya hand at the fight and maybe even give him had alcohol and drug issues. a hug. De La Hoya made it clear he was the “I have nothing against Richard but I head of the company and the majority have to look out for myself,” De La Hoya shareholder. He said he wasn’t looking to said. “I have to look out for my company replace Schaefer but didn’t rule it out. “The and I have to look out for boxing.” way I found Richard, the way I did that, I Schaefer, who did not attend the press can do it again,” he said. “It’s no problem for LAS VEGAS: Marcos Maidana (left) from Argentina, throws a left at the head of Floyd Mayweather Jr. in their WBC-WBA welterweight title box- conference, said earlier in the week that he me.”—AP ing fight. —AP MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 SPORTS Beckham’s Miami stadium plan hits stormy waters

MIAMI: David Beckham’s dream of on Friday a stadium would be a “poor already slated for commercial develop- as backers of the alliance. Other key although no timetable has been set for a building a futuristic waterfront stadium use of (Miami’s) only port,” arguing it ment by the port’s own master plan, he players have remained silent, including vote. Beckham along with his partners in Miami that would house his own pro- would disrupt cargo and cruise opera- said. Located half a mile (about 1 km) the two other major cruise lines at the Simon Fuller, the founder of American fessional soccer team has turned into a tions by adding at least 6,000 cars and from the port entrance, the stadium port, Carnival Cruise Lines and Idol, and Bolivian-born cellular phone “not in my backyard” clash, pitting the 30,000 people to the downtown area. would cause no problem for cruise ship Norwegian Cruise Line. services company billionaire Marcelo retired English superstar against one of John Fox, president of the Miami or freight cargo operations, Kasdin Claure, unveiled plans in March to build the world’s top cruise lines. Seaport Alliance, who until recently added, noting games would be played MAYOR WITH OPPONENTS the $250 million privately-financed sta- Royal Caribbean Cruises is at the fore- headed government relations for Royal mostly on Saturday evenings. The mayor of Miami Beach, located dium on land leased from the county. front of efforts to block Beckham’s plans Caribbean in Washington, accused “It’s not a place you want to have out near the port, has joined those opposed The plan includes shopping plazas, to build a 25,000 seat open-air stadium Beckham of a “land grab” this week, say- in the suburbs,” said Kasdin. “It’s great for to a stadium near the port. Mayor Philip offices and hotels on the island port with next to the port of Miami. ing he suspected the stadium was a the downtown life of a city.” The port is Levine is chief executive of Royal Media sweeping views of downtown Miami. The cruise line is spearheading a shoehorn for a much larger develop- currently undergoing $2 billion in capital Partners, a media company that handles Claure accused the Seaport Alliance group called the Miami Seaport Alliance, ment plan on real estate close to the improvements including deepening its all publications for Royal Caribbean and of poisoning the stadium debate. “I am which has paid for full-page newspaper port entrance. “We just don’t think they main channel and construction of a port its subsidiaries. personally saddened that they have cho- ads and TV and radio spots opposing (Beckham’s group) are being honest with tunnel and rail link, allowing it to handle Levine told Reuters he saw no conflict sen to substitute constructive dialogue Beckham’s plans. The alliance says a sta- this community,” Fox said on Wednesday a new generation of larger container of interest in his stand. “We love soccer, with attack ads.” dium would threaten the 200,000 jobs during a public debate in which he vessels set to begin using the expanded but this is all about traffic,” he said, He accused Royal Caribbean of being generated by the port, which is owned questioned how Beckham’s team could Panama Canal in 2016. adding the planned site would cause selfish and said the selected site was cur- and operated by Miami-Dade County. make money from soccer alone with While the Seaport Alliance says it is “horrible” congestion on a major cause- rently under-used as it serves mainly as a The port, built on a landfill island close only 25 scheduled games a year. supported by an array of local business way that links downtown Miami to the car park for cruise line employees. If an to downtown, calls itself the “cruise cap- groups and mayors, some of its sup- popular tourist hotel district in the independent traffic study showed the ital of the world,” handling more than 4 WATERFRONT SETTING posed backers told Reuters the alliance southern part of Miami Beach. port stadium could disrupt cruise and million passengers in 2013. Formally Beckham’s group, Beckham Miami misrepresented their position. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos freight operations, Beckham’s group known as PortMiami, it is also a large United, insists the stadium must be An attorney representing two chap- Gimenez, in an opinion piece in the would look at other sites, he said. “Our cargo container facility. located in a waterfront downtown set- ters of the International Longshoreman’s Miami Herald on Friday, urged both goal is not to create chaos, but to create “A soccer stadium at PortMiami is ting, likening it to other franchises in Association in Miami said his members sides to temper their remarks, saying it happiness,” Claure said. downright nutty,” according to one ad by Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, were “neutral” on the stadium proposal, was premature to judge the issue until The sport’s controlling body in the the alliance. “We cannot jeopardize well- Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Neisen Kasdin, contradicting statements by the Seaport county officials review the stadium United States, Major League Soccer, is paying jobs, like crane operators, long- a land use attorney with the Akerman Alliance. The influential Miami impact, including a traffic study. supporting Beckham’s bid to form a shore workers, and mechanics, for low- law firm who represents Beckham’s Association of Realtors and the Florida “We will not jeopardize any of the team in Miami, but has yet to award paying stadium jobs, such as concession group, called the alliance’s attacks “false Customs Brokers and Forwarders jobs our port provides,” he wrote. the franchise. MLS has made a down- sales,” it adds. and misleading.” Association, also said they have yet to Ultimately, the decision will rest with town stadium location a condition of Royal Caribbean said in a statement The proposed stadium site is on land take sides, despite being named by Fox Miami-Dade County commissioners, any deal. —Reuters Juve secure League title as Roma crash at Catania

MILAN: Juventus secured the 2014 Serie A title with three games to spare yesterday after closest challengers Roma were stunned 4-1 away to rel- egation-haunted Catania. It is the Turin giants’ 30th official title in Italy’s top flight and third in succession under coach Antonio Conte. Juventus remain on course to become the first team in Serie A to finish with at least 100 points. After hosting Atalanta on Monday, Juve travel to Roma next week and close out the season at home to Cagliari. Juventus had congregated at a hotel in Turin yesterday to watch Roma’s upset on television and immediately after the final whistle the celebrations began. Several players, among them striker Pablo ITALY: Napoli’s Marek Hamsik (top center) lifts the trophy as he celebrates with his Daniel Osvaldo, posted brief messages on teammates after winning the Italian Cup final match against Fiorentina. —AP Twitter: “Campioni !!!!” “We are the champions, we are the champions,” read another from the Napoli clinch Italian Cup club’s official Twitter feed alongside pictures of the players dressed in identical black t-shirts ROME: The problems caused by Italian authorities how we could ensure the game making reference to the club’s belief they have football fans could drive players out of the would go ahead, as otherwise it would’ve won 32 titles. country, Fiorentina coach Vincenzo been a defeat for all of Italian football,” he Juventus were stripped of two Serie A titles, Montella said on Saturday after three fans said after the match. which they won in 2005 and 2006, following were shot near Rome’s Olympic Stadium, “We resolved the problem also with the their demotion to Serie B for their role in the forcing the Italian Cup final to kick off 45 help of the two ultras groups, who were Calciopoli match-fixing scandal. minutes late. very understanding and co-operative.” De Defender Leonardo Bonucci made reference Napoli beat Fiorentina 3-1 to win their Laurentiis then praised the fans’ display of when he posted a message on Twitter which fifth Italian Cup thanks to a first-half brace “civility” in the face of bad organisation on read: “Champions 32.” “I’m very happy, we’ve won ITALY: Juventus players celebrate after winning the League overall soccer title, in a Turin hotel, from Lorenzo Insigne and a late strike from the part of the authorities. the title and I’m really happy for everyone at the yesterday. Juventus clinched its third straight and 30th title without even playing. —AP Dries Mertens but the match looked in dan- “Why is it that the Ministry of the club,” Juve striker Carlos Tevez told reporters. ger of being cancelled as news of the Interior still hasn’t worked out how to Roma had emerged as Juve’s only real chal- Elsewhere, Torino and Parma boosted their Milan are a point further adrift in 10th place hopes of European football next season with 1-0 but will be back in Europa League contention if shooting filtered through. organise a football match, which should be lengers this season after setting a new Serie A and 2-0 wins over Chievo and Sampdoria respec- they prevail over Inter in the city derby late yes- “It’s not the first time this has happened child’s play, in a proper manner?” he said in record of 10 opening wins under French coach tively. Torino’s win in Verona kept them in sixth terday. to me, I experienced it a Roma,” said the media conference following the match. Rudi Garcia. place, the last possible spot offering a Europa Meanwhile, veteran Udinese striker Antonio Montella, who was playing for Roma in “Fortunately the fans of Napoli and But despite the capital club clinging to Juve’s 2004 when a derby match with Lazio was Fiorentina showed an outstanding civility. League place via the Italian Cup. Di Natale hit a brace in a 5-3 home win over heels in recent weeks and Garcia remaining defi- Torino hold a one-point lead over Parma, who Livorno, who dropped to bottom spot with called off after both sets of fans demanded “The fans give their hearts and passion to ant, the Roma boss on Saturday finally conceded it be suspended following rumours that a the shirt right to the end. So to talk with moved up to seventh thanks to goals from Catania moving the other way. Livorno have 25 defeat to Juventus. Antonio Cassano and Ezequiel Schelotto away to points, one, three and four points fewer, respec- boy had been killed by a police car just out- those groups without the police present “The championship is over. The result at side the stadium. seems to me a sign of responsibility both Samp, and a three-point cushion on Lazio and tively, than fellow-relegation candidates Catania, Catania won’t change a thing, but we’ll still be Verona, who face each other today. Sassuolo and Bologna.—AFP The rumor turned out to be false. on the part of the organisers and the fans. going there looking to win,” said Garcia. “Unfortunately Italian football is like this, “Yes there were some smoke bombs After a testing season trying to keep pace and I think we’ll lose a lot of players thrown, but in this stadium an extremely with the Juve juggernaut, which went on a 22- Italian League results/standings because of it. They’ll choose to play else- civil event took place, because with the match unbeaten run following a shock 4-2 away where,” added Montella. news that was flying around it could have Catania 4 (Izco 26, 34, Bergessio 55, Barrientos 79) Roma 1 (Totti 37); Chievo 0 Torino 1 (Sardo 54); Genoa 0 Bologna defeat to Fiorentina in their eighth match of the “It’s true even for the Italians. It’s a been a riot waiting to happen.”—Reuters 0; Parma 2 (Cassano 8, Schelotto 90) Sampdoria 0; Udinese 5 (Di Natale 19, 45, Badu 21, Pereyra 33, Silva 44) shame because there was everything in season, Garcia’s words appeared to have a sopo- Livorno 3 (Paulinho 13, 29, Mesbah 88). place here tonight to offer people watch- rific effect. Playing later Roma, expected to claim another 10th suc- Milan v Inter ing something better.” Playing today As match organisers and Napoli mid- Matches on TV cessive win to match their positive start to the campaign, were 2-0 down inside 34 minutes Lazio v Verona, Juventus v Atalanta fielder Marek Hamsik moved towards the (Local Timings) Playing tomorrow thanks to a brace from Mariano Izco and despite fans to talk with hardcore ‘ultra’ leaders Fiorentina v Sassuolo, Napoli v Cagliari Francesco Totti reducing the arrears three min- about whether the game should go ahead English Premier League on Saturday, they were pelted with flares utes later the visitors were humiliated in a one- Italian Serie A table ahead of yesterday’s late match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Crystal Palace v Liverpool 22:00 and smoke bombs. sided second half. beIN SPORTS 9 HD Juventus 35 30 3 2 75 23 93 Sampdoria 36 12 8 16 43 54 47 A representative from Napoli’s ultras Roma, who still hold the record for the biggest winning margin in Serie A following a 7- Roma 36 26 7 3 72 23 85 Udinese 36 12 6 18 41 52 42 was seen wearing a “Free Speziale” t-shirt, Italian League Napoli 35 20 9 6 64 36 69 Genoa 36 10 11 15 38 46 41 referring to Antonino Speziale, who was 0 rout of Catania in November 2006 — went 3-1 Juventus v Atalanta 22:00 down in the 55th minute when Gonzalo Fiorentina 35 18 7 10 59 38 61 Cagliari 35 9 12 14 34 46 39 jailed for eight years following the death of Inter Milan 35 14 15 6 57 35 57 Chievo 36 8 6 22 31 53 30 beIN SPORTS 3 Bergessio pounced on the rebound from police officer Filippo Raciti in February beIN SPORTS 3 HD Torino 36 15 10 11 55 45 55 Bologna 36 5 14 17 27 55 29 2007. Sebastian Leto’s shot to beat Morgan De Sanctis Parma 36141210554554 Sassuolo 35 7 7 21 34 65 28 Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis, Spanish League in the Roma net. Lazio 35 14 10 11 49 47 52 Catania 36 6 8 22 30 64 26 Pablo Barrientos sealed the points and Juve’s Verona 35 16 4 15 56 58 52 Livorno 36 6 7 23 39 74 25 however, praised the ultras groups for their Real Sociedad v Granada 23:00 cooperation and understanding in allowing early title celebrations when he sent an angled AC Milan 35 14 9 12 53 46 51 Top three qualify for Champions League. Fourth and beIN SPORTS 2 strike beyond the outstretched De Sanctis on 79 Atalanta 35 14 5 16 40 47 47 fifth for Europa League. Bottom three are relegated. the match to go ahead. beIN SPORTS 2 “I was focused only on verifying with the minutes. Giroud strikes as Arsenal celebrate top-four spot

games to spare. ensured there was sufficient spark to Arsenal’s play “It was a bit subdued, maybe, because we and they quickly forced Albion on to the back foot. Arsenal 1 already knew we were in the top four, but we were GREATER DESIRE serious and wanted to finish with a win,” Wenger Albion couldn’t cope with the speed and preci- said. sion of Arsenal’s attacks and Mesut Ozil slalomed “I believe the mentality of the team was out- into the penalty area before setting up Santi West Brom 0 standing to finish in the top four. “You can be Cazorla for a powerful shot that was deflected over. pleased with the attitude, but frustrated because Arsenal’s pressure was rewarded from the we were top of the league for 128 days then we resulting Cazorla corner in the 14th minute as LONDON: Arsenal celebrated their Champions dropped off.” France striker Giroud, showing greater desire than League qualification as Olivier Giroud secured a 1-0 Albion boss Pepe Mel added: “We did enough to his Albion markers, made a thrusting run to the win against West Bromwich Albion yesterday. get a point, but I was disappointed with the goal. near post where he directed a close-range header Arsene Wenger’s side booked their place in “When you play against the big teams you simply past Ben Foster. Europe’s elite club competition without kicking a cannot concede from set pieces.” Giroud’s 22nd goal of the season should have ball when fifth-placed Everton were beaten 3-2 by The Baggies never threatened to spoil the party, acted as a wake-up call for lethargic Albion, but Manchester City on Saturday. but Mel’s team remain four points above the rele- instead another defensive error, this time from And 24 hours later, Giroud’s first-half header gation zone and their safety will be guaranteed if Diego Lugano, almost led to a second goal. maintained the feelgood factor at the Emirates third-from-bottom Norwich lose either of their final Mathieu Flamini seized on the loose ball and Stadium and capped a stroll in the sunshine for the two matches against Chelsea and Arsenal. with Giroud lurking with a intent in the six-yard Gunners, who were rarely troubled en route to a With influential midfielder Aaron Ramsey side- box it was only Foster’s smart save with his legs fourth successive victory. lined by a thigh injury and Arsenal’s Champions that averted the danger. After looking in severe danger of missing out on League mission already complete, it would have Albion’s tepid efforts to close down the hosts the Champions League for the first time in 17 years been no surprise to see the Gunners go through allowed to Arsenal dominate possession and their following their defeat at Everton last month, there the motions. lone striker, Saido Berahino, had only one sight of LONDON: Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta (right) competes for the ball with West Bromwich was a palpable sense of relief in north London that But the incentive of nailing down places in the goal, a ferocious effort from the edge of the area Albion’s James Morrison during their English Premier League soccer match. —AP Arsenal had wrapped up fourth place with two team for the FA Cup final against Hull on May 17 which fizzed just over.—AFP Mayweather Juve secure League stops Maidana title as Roma crash at Catania

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SPAIN: Atletico de Madrid’s Diego Costa (right) heads the ball with Levante’s David Navarro during a Spanish League soccer match at the Ciutat de Valencia stadium. — AP Atletico title hopes rocked

New racism row hits Spanish League Spanish League results/standings Almeria 3 (Diaz 52, Vidal 67, Azeez 90+4) Real Betis 2 (Rodriguez MADRID: Spanish League leaders However, the Senegalese said he was “This defeat is the best thing that Adrian Lopez, at half-time in a bid to 59, Sevilla 60); Levante 2 (Filipe Luis 7-og, Barral 69) Atletico Atletico Madrid suffered a huge blow to just responding to monkey chants could happen to us. We now have three turn the game around and Atletico laid Madrid 0. their chances of a first title in 18 years aimed towards him as he took a corner weeks of high intensity and emotion seige to the Levante goal early on in the yesterday when they slumped to a 2-0 deep into stoppage time. ahead of us,” said the Argentine. “It is an second-half. Playing later defeat at Levante in a game overshad- “I went to take a corner and some of ideal moment for the players. We have Turan saw a shot blocked when well- Sevilla v Villarreal, Real Madrid v Valencia. owed by racism claims. Filipe Luis’ own the Atletico fans began to make monkey three fantastic weeks to come.” placed inside the area before a header Playing today goal after just seven minutes got the chants. To play it down, I started to Atletico had enjoyed a momentous from the Turkish international looped Real Sociedad v Granada. Champions League finalists off to the dance, but I didn’t insult anyone,” he week as they progressed to the just over the bar. Atletico Madrid 36 28 4 4 75 24 88 worst possible start and they were then said. Champions League final for only the sec- Luis then nearly made amends for his Barcelona 36 27 4 5 99 32 85 denied time and again by the inspired “I don’t have anything against the ond time in their history with a 3-1 win own goal when he saw a shot cleared off Real Madrid 34 26 4 4 98 32 82 Bilbao 36 20 8 8 65 38 68 Keylor Navas in the Levante goal. And in Atletico fans because it was only a sec- over Chelsea on Wednesday. the line before Diego Costa just failed to Sevilla 35 17 8 10 66 50 59 their push for an equaliser, Diego tion that shouted. It is a lack of respect However, they were chasing the convert Diego Ribas’ dangerous free kick Sociedad 35 16 9 10 59 51 57 Simeone’s men were caught on the that happens in all stadiums. I don’t game almost from the off as a corner and Navas produced another wonderful Villarreal 35 15 7 13 54 43 52 counter-attack 21 minutes from time know if you can call it racist, but the from the right struck Luis on the chest save from a deflected Alderweireld Celta Vigo 36 13 7 16 46 52 46 Valencia 35 12 9 14 47 48 45 when David Barral slotted home from monkey chanting has to stop.” and rebounded past the helpless effort. Levante 36 10 12 14 33 42 45 Victor Casadesus’ cross. Atletico will still be crowned champi- Thibaut Courtois. Atletico were then struck with a suck- Vallecano 36 13 4 19 45 74 43 However, the match was overshad- ons if they win their remaining two Navas then produced the first of a er punch as Levante broke upfield and Espanyol 36 11 8 17 39 47 41 owed by more claims of racism in games at home to Malaga and away to string of fine saves as he parried Raul Barral was on hand to turn home Malaga 36 11 8 17 37 45 41 Elche 36 9 12 15 29 47 39 Spanish football as just a week after a Barcelona on the last day of the season, Garcia’s effort from close range and Casadesus’ low ball into the box. Granada 35 11 4 20 30 53 37 banana was thrown at Barcelona full- but any more slip-ups will allow Real David Villa blazed the rebound wasteful- The visitors’ luck in front of goal was Almeria 36 10 6 20 41 71 36 back Dani Alves, Levante midfielder Madrid the chance to take the title ly over. summed up moments later when Getafe 36 9 9 18 32 53 36 Pape Diop said he had been the subject should they win their remaining four The Costa Rican international then Adrian’s curling effort came back off the Osasuna 36 9 8 19 29 60 35 Valladolid 35 7 14 14 34 54 35 of monkey chants from the Atletico fans. games. did well to turn Toby Alderweireld’s low post and rebounded to safety. There was Real Betis 36 5 7 23 31 72 22 Diop provoked outrage among the And, despite the defeat, Simeone effort to safety as Atletico ended the to be no heroic comeback from Atletico — relegated Atletico players by dancing in front of believes they still have much to look for- first-half on top. in the final quarter as their first defeat in Notes: Top four teams qualify for next season’s Champions League; fifth to seventh place teams qualify for Europa the disconsolate travelling fans at the ward to in their remaining three games Simeone introduced two of the 15 games in all competitions left the title League; bottom three teams relegated to Segunda Division final whistle. in all competitions this season. goalscorers in midweek, Arda Turan and race wide open. — AFP

EPL results/standings Preview Chelsea stumble Arsenal 1 (Giroud 14) West Brom 0; Chelsea 0 Norwich 0. Liverpool in crunch clash Playing today LONDON: Having seen Manchester City next season, we are going to have more in EPL title race Crystal Palace v Liverpool seize the initiative in the Premier League games like that. Man City 36 25 5 6 96 37 80 title race, Liverpool have no option but to “That is something we will look to antee a Champions League group-stage place that Liverpool 36 25 5 6 96 46 80 win when they visit Crystal Palace today. improve on, but it is something I believe is played to win,” said Mourinho. Chelsea 37 24 7 6 69 26 79 Liverpool’s title challenge was compro- one of my strengths. I learn fairly quickly Chelsea 0 “I said the title chance had been gone for a few Arsenal 37 23 7 7 66 41 76 mised by their 2-0 loss at home to Chelsea and the great thing about my players is they weeks. Today was a question of pride and trying to Everton 37 20 9 8 59 39 69 last weekend and they were knocked off the are also great learners. Tottenham 37 20 6 11 52 51 66 summit on Saturday when City won 3-2 at “When they reflected, they know we give fans a victory at home.” Chelsea indeed bossed Man Utd 36 18 6 12 60 41 60 the game, with Andre Schurrle and David Luiz each Everton. played well in a lot of the game, but our Southampton 37 15 10 12 53 45 55 City’s success at Goodison Park means patience ran out in the last 20 minutes. But hitting the frame of the goal, while substitute Eden Newcastle 37 15 4 18 42 57 49 Norwich 0 Hazard had a convincing penalty appeal waved away Stoke 37 12 11 14 43 51 47 that they will be practically assured of that is natural when you play against top in the second half. Crystal Palace 36 13 4 19 28 43 43 claiming the title if they win their last two opponents who are in a Champions League The result left Norwich two points from safety, West Ham 37 11 7 19 40 49 40 games, both of which are at home, against semi-final with huge experience and players but they will effectively be relegated if Sunderland Swansea 37 10 9 18 51 53 39 Aston Villa and West Ham United. who are mobile and can cover the ground. Aston Villa 36 10 8 18 39 54 38 LONDON: Norwich City all but ended Chelsea’s avoid defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion in They currently lead Liverpool on goal “We are not perfect, I have always said that, Hull 36 10 7 19 37 48 37 difference alone, however, and although and this will help in our development.” Premier League title challenge and gave themselves mid-week. West Brom 36 7 15 14 42 55 36 a fighting chance of avoiding relegation by recording A draw would take Sunderland three points they have a nine-goal advantage in that Rodgers added: “We had 73 percent pos- Sunderland 36 9 8 19 38 57 35 regard, it is a slender enough margin of session, but the focus for us is on the dan- a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge yesterday. above Norwich and Gus Poyet’s side boast a far supe- Norwich 37 8 9 20 28 60 33 superiority to give Brendan Rodgers’s side gerous possession and in that final third we Chelsea would have provisionally gone top of the rior goal difference. Norwich, who had lost their five Fulham 37 9 4 24 38 83 31 hope. didn’t have enough, and that is something table if they had won, but they will now be eliminat- previous games, host Arsenal on the season’s final — relegated Liverpool were unable to find a way we will work on. ed from the title race if either Manchester City or day. “It was a phenomenal performance,” said through Chelsea’s defence last weekend “We had a good week to analyse and Liverpool win one of their last two games. Norwich interim manager Neil Adams. Schurrle was one of the players drafted into the despite enjoying 73 percent of possession, hopefully we will improve.” Liverpool will Liverpool visit Crystal Palace today, while leaders “We’re watching results now, we’re watching oth- hosts’ starting XI and he had an early sight of goal on but Rodgers has vowed that they will not once again be without their England mid- City play their game in hand at home to Aston Villa er games. What we hope is that we go into the a glorious afternoon at Stamford Bridge, only to abandon their patient approach. fielder Jordan Henderson, who completes a on Wednesday. It was a further blow for Jose Arsenal game with an opportunity, because with shoot straight at visiting goalkeeper John Ruddy. “You are always going to get that criti- three-game ban for his dismissal in last Mourinho’s side after their elimination in the that sort of commitment and sprit we have a Norwich winger Martin Olsson felt that he should cism when you try to play and work and month’s 3-2 win over Manchester City. Champions League semi-finals by Atletico Madrid, chance.” have had a penalty when he appeared to be taken pass the ball. It is something I’ve had since I The visitors are otherwise expected to although they are now assured of an automatic place Chelsea manager Mourinho made five changes to out by John Terry after prodding a shot at goal, but was a young coach,” he said. be at full strength, while Palace’s only injury in next season’s tournament. the team beaten 3-1 by Atletico last Wednesday. referee Neil Swarbrick waved play on. Gradually, “What we did do was run out of patience doubt concerns South African central mid- “We had one team that needed three points to Hazard, who told a French broadcaster after that Chelsea began to make inroads. After Terry had seen in the (Chelsea) game, and going forward, fielder Kagisho Dikgacoi, who has a knee have a chance to survive, but didn’t play to win, and game that Chelsea “aren’t made for playing football”, a header saved by Ruddy, Schurrle went close twice playing games in the Champions League complaint. — AFP a team that needed a point to finish third and guar- found himself on the bench. within the space of three minutes. — AFP Kuwait to back OPEC decisions: Al-Omar

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ABU DHABI: CEO of the United Arab Emirates airline carrier Etihad Airlines James Hogan speaks during a press conference to unveil how the interiors of their new A380 and 787 aircraft will shape up yesterday in Abu Dhabi. Etihad Airways will be targeting premium high-yielding passengers as the company announced that its Airbus A380 will offer hotel-style bedrooms. — AFP (See Page 22) Drive to wean Europe off Russian gas fails Side deals as Austria, Bulgaria ignore Brussels to secure supplies LONDON: While officials in Brussels were call- Germany, as the gas will now be delivered clos- dependency on Russia,” said Frank Umbach, at will get closer to this target.” arm, which wants to build up a European front ing for Europe to reduce its dependency on er to customers. the European Centre for Energy and Resource Gazprom sources said they had been on energy supplies. Bulgaria, which imports Russian natural gas and negotiate with Moscow It shows that when it comes to natural gas Security (EUCERS), a research team at King’s approached during the last four weeks by almost all its gas from Russia, also backed as a bloc, Austria was quietly bypassing the diplomacy, European countries still have their College London. Austria, and a deal was put together as fast as South Stream last month in defiance of European Commission to cut its own bilateral own competing interests which are difficult to possible. Commission calls that member states should deal on building a pipeline. The deal on the unite under an EU flag. The timing of the deal, Past failure motivates deal Gazprom and OMV aim to get the remain- not enter bilateral deals with Gazprom without South Stream pipeline, which will be built which coincided with Europe announcing new Austria was motivated to push for the South ing permits by the end of next year and start its approval. under the Black Sea to Bulgaria and on to cen- sanctions on a list of Russians designed to push Stream deal after it lost out to Italy in a compe- delivering gas by 2017. “For Russia, this project “South Stream is a project of strategic tral Europe, shows the European Union’s diffi- the Kremlin to reduce its support for separatists tition last year over a separate pipeline bring- is a clear signal to Ukraine that it intends to importance. Now they (the European culty in creating a unified energy policy on in Ukraine, could hardly have been more at ing gas to Europe from Azerbaijan. OMV’s avoid any future disputes or supply disrup- Parliament) want to stop South Stream. How Moscow during the Ukraine crisis. odds with official EU policy. Nabucco pipeline project was dropped in favor tions,” said Friedbert Pfl¸ger, director of are we to develop? This crisis at the moment While EU officials are calling for Europe to South Stream’s main purpose, like the of the rival Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to Italy. EUCERS. “The reference to a 2010 bilateral shows that we do not have security of natural wean itself off Russian gas, private and state- German-Russian Nord Stream pipeline under That derailed years of Austrian lobbying, which agreement for regulatory approval demon- gas supplies for Bulgaria,” energy minister owned firms, with the support of politicians, are the Baltic Sea, is to circumvent Ukraine. This the EU had initially backed, for Nabucco to strates Moscow’s intention to circumvent the Dragomir Stoynev said. South Stream’s pro- pushing ahead with projects to buy ever more. would ensure that disputes between Moscow bring the Azeri gas to central Europe. EU’s regulations that would make the realiza- posed 2,500 km (1,500 mile) route would Austrian energy firm OMV agreed last week and Kiev do not interfere with the flow of “Current international developments show tion of the project more difficult.” stretch from Russia under the Black Sea with Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom to bring Russian gas to Europe, much of which crosses once again that in the long-term we don’t only through Bulgaria and Serbia to Hungary and the South Stream pipeline to Austria’s Ukraine in existing pipelines. have to diversify our energy sources, but also Undermining Brussels now Austria. Germany’s BASF, the world’s Baumgarten gas hub, outmanoeuvring Italy “If we agree to South Stream, Europe will sell our routes,” said Austrian economy and energy The Gazprom-OMV agreement continues biggest chemicals company, is a partner in which had wanted it to end there. The deal is the rope with which Russia will hang Ukraine, minister Reinhold Mitterlehner. “Should the Russia’s strategy of making bilateral deals that South Stream through its gas supply subsidiary also likely to please some in neighboring and it will also agree to increase its energy South Stream pipeline end in Baumgarten, we undermine the Commission, the EU’s executive Wintershall. — Reuters Oman 2013 nominal Dubai rises as Emaar economic growth surges to 6-yr high slowest since 2009 DUBAI: Oman’s economic growth plunged political unrest across the Middle East. It to 2.8 percent in nominal terms in 2013, its also created tens of thousands of new MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS slowest pace of expansion since 2009, as government jobs. output in the key oil sector shrank, data As a result, the country, which lacks the showed yesterday. The Gulf Arab sul- vast oil wealth of neighboring Saudi Arabia DUBAI: Dubai’s bourse led gains in the Gulf yes- Dubai Islamic Bank also contributed to the while cement makers rose 2.6 percent and banks tanate’s economy had grown 11.5 percent and the United Arab Emirates, may see its terday as investors launched a fresh rally and uptick, rising 5.5 percent to extend gains that added 1.1 percent. at current prices in 2012. That figure was public finances slip into a deficit of 3.0 per- shares in developer Emaar Properties surged to a started on Thursday when the lender posted a The kingdom’s index has gained 14.3 per- revised upwards from a previously estimat- cent of GDP as soon as next year, deepen- six-year high. Emaar gained 6.3 percent to 10.45 doubling of first-quarter net profit. The bank also cent this year, trailing markets in the UAE, Qatar, ed 10.8 percent after the National Centre ing to as much as 11.4 percent of GDP in dirhams, the level last seen in May 2008, on said it was in talks to buy a 40 percent stake in an Egypt and Bahrain. “Saudi Arabia has fallen for Statistics & Information revisited its 2019, the IMF forecast last month. Oman’s increased volume and helped Dubai’s bench- Indonesian Islamic lender. behind other markets and may be catching up 2011 data. Oman does not regularly central bank chief told Reuters last month mark jump 3.3 percent, also the highest level Other property and banking stocks also rose now,” said Henin from the National Investor. release inflation-adjusted GDP data. In that the economy should grow 4 to 5 per- since 2008. yesterday. Abu Dhabi’s banks, on the other hand, Highlights April, the International Monetary Fund cent this year, underpinned by stable oil Dubai’s largest-listed company launched a were mixed, leaving the index with a marginal estimated in its World Economic Outlook prices and the billions of dollars spent on 66-storey residential tower in Downtown Dubai gain of 0.04 percent. Abu Dhabi Commercial DUBAI that the non-OPEC crude exporter’s econo- major projects in the past two years. Last yesterday, and announced sales for the develop- Bank rose 2.6 percent while another large lender, The index rose 3.3 percent to 5,247 points. my expanded 5.1 percent in 2013 when year’s slowdown in nominal growth was ment would start simultaneously in Dubai, Abu First Gulf Bank, slid 1.2 percent. Wall Street shares ABU DHABI adjusted for inflation, slightly outperform- mainly due to a 1.4 percent fall in the oil Dhabi and Singapore on May 10. “I think the sen- slipped and investors moved into bonds on The index gained 0.04 percent to 5,060 points. ing a 5.0 percent rise in 2012. sector, which accounts for nearly 46 per- timent is very good and people have realized Friday, citing concerns over US economic data Analysts polled by Reuters in January cent of Oman’s $80 billion economy and that the profit-taking we saw last week was and developments in Ukraine. QATAR expected real GDP growth of 4.5 percent in had seen a 10.7 percent jump in nominal short-lived,” said Sebastien Henin, head of asset The index climbed 1.0 percent to 12,854 points. 2013 and 4.0 percent in 2014. If confirmed terms in the previous year. management at The National Investor. Qatar, Saudi by readings of GDP at constant prices, the Oil production rose 2.3 percent to 343.8 “The short term trend remains sideways Doha’s bourse gained 1.0 percent on rising SAUDI ARABIA slowdown would underline the govern- million barrels in 2013, slower than a 4.1 down,” NBAD Securities technical analyst Shiv volume, continuing the rally that started last The index rose 1.0 percent to 9,755 points. ment’s main challenge of creating enough percent rise a year before, while the aver- Prakash said in a note. week. Industries Qatar and Islamic lender Masraf KUWAIT jobs for the country’s growing population age price at which Oman sold its crude “(But) Thursday’s buying from lower support Al-Rayan were the main supports, adding 1.5 The index slipped 0.07 percent to 7,426 points. of nationals, currently 2.2 million. dropped to $105.5 per barrel from $109.6 in select stocks signals a possible bullish break- percent each. Under the leadership of Sultan Qaboos in 2012. Services, the second largest con- out on the sideways pattern.” At 12,854 points, the index remains below BAHRAIN bin Said, Oman has been transformed tributor to GDP, with a 37 percent share, Abu Dhabi’s volume fell slightly as the index its all-time high of 12,962 points which it hit last The index rose 0.9 percent to 1,440 points. since 1970 from an impoverished backwa- also saw growth slow to 10.0 percent from rose 0.3 percent on Thursday. Its main support, month. Saudi Arabia’s main index rose 1.0 per- ter to a modern economy. Oman ramped 15.1 percent in 2012, the data showed. Aldar Properties , could attract further buying cent, lifted, just like in the previous session, by OMAN up state spending by more than 27 per- Growth in industrial output, which after bouncing from a three-week low of 3.97 petrochemicals and cement makers, as well as The index climbed 0.3 percent to 6,764 cent between 2013 and 2011, when it accounts for nearly 18 percent of the econ- dirhams ($1.08). banks. Petrochemical stocks gained 1.3 percent points. — Reuters faced protests demanding jobs and an omy, halved to 2.8 percent last year from end to corruption following social and 5.5 percent in 2012. — Reuters BUSINESS MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

KOC takes crisis response to A big surge in next level as production rises global M&A activity

By Hayder Tawfik dends or a combination of both such as Kuwait hosts crisis & risk conference the case with Apple or come up with staggering number of $ 1trillion deals so to increase shareholders value. KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), one of the and every day around the world in all sectors. and safety preparedness. of M&A deals have been Some of these equity activists are indeed world’s foremost oil producers, is preparing to We are having this discussion in Kuwait because The post-conference workshop on incident announced since the start of the involved in these deals themselves such double production by 2020. Already a top global the oil and gas industry here is seriously com- command systems (ICS) will be led by Dean A year. This number already much bigger as Bill Ackman teaming up with Valeant exporter of crude oil, KOC plans to drive up pro- mitted to worker safety, asset protection and Monterey, Emergency Management Specialist at than the same peri- Pharmaceutical to help launch a hostile duction from 2.1 million barrels per day to 4 mil- environmental stewardship.” Kinder Morgan, Canada, and author of Bahrain od last year and can bid for the rival drug manufacturer lion barrels per day-but greater production Johnson, who will chair the two-day event, National Oil Spill Plan. Monterey advised the only get much big- Allergan. means greater risk, cautions Khaled Al-Mansouri, will also deliver a lecture on how best to involve governments of Bahrain and Qatar during the ger. Finally, the tril- The alarm bills have been raised president of the International Association of senior management, EPC contractors and solu- Gulf War and is a seasoned manager who will lions of cash sitting throughout the financial markets that Emergency Managers (IAEM) and International tion providers in comprehensive response sys- invite managers to see how their plans hold up on the balance companies that do fit the M&A model Center of Business Resilience (ICBR). tems. “It is only through the development of against international best practices. sheet of big global should be aware and management That is why leading figures in the region’s oil, partnerships at all levels that any company or The conference is held under the official multinationals have teams are starting to build this mentality gas and power industries assemble at the 2nd government can succeed in their goals. This is patronage of Kuwait Fire Service Directorate, been put to work. that they’re going to be a buyer or be Annual Crisis & Risk Management Summit in truest in emergency response, where all con- and has been supported by RIMSCO, the Official These mega deals bought. It puts pressure on everybody to Kuwait City. The conference that opened yester- cerned entities need to collaborate in order to Strategic Consulting Partner of the event. are opportunistic and these are born out think about who they could be buying. If day will last until May 7. effectively respond to a disaster, and ensure the According to conference organizers IQPC, the of management confidence. the deal making continues at the rate we Al-Mansouri and other emergency response welfare of people first. When I was at FEMA, we 2013 edition of the event was well received, and are seeing them already then we could experts will exchange knowledge and expertise, interacted with over 70 other federal agencies the series has continued to grow, with the Why now? be in for a mega year for the M&A busi- focusing on critical topics, such as risk manage- and works with contracts in order to respond to Director General of KFSD, Yousef Al Ansari set to Most of the CEOs of these companies ness. This year the pharmaceutical ment, fire safety, computer-aided emergency disasters effectively.” deliver the opening keynote address. argue that the early signs in this year industry has been at the forefront of the dispatch, loss prevention, and PTSD recovery. Khalid Al-Mansouri will speak to the chang- Major General Yousef Al-Ansari, Director 2014 have all the fundamental and sup- M&A activities. The industry is facing “As long we operate in a risky working envi- ing nature of crisis and risk management sys- General of Kuwait Fire Service Directorate, praised portive reasons to do these deals. These pressure from the regulators on the pric- ronment, such as the oil and gas industry, inci- tems in his keynote speech. “Crisis and risk man- the Crisis and Risk Management series, saying, strong reasons such as low interest rates, ing of their drugs to the expiry of most dents will happen, and we will see our share of agement is evolving in Kuwait. Both the govern- “The Summit will present attendees the informa- macroeconomic stability, very high lev- of their patents and the lack of new them. The outcome will depend on how well our ment and private sector entities, such as power tion needed to meet the new challenges that lay els of cash on corporate balance sheets drugs in the pipeline. Also they have emergency responders, employees, and contrac- companies, are invested in it. There is even talk ahead, and it is an excellent opportunity to net- and a banking sector or the hedge fund been facing the Biotech industry that tors respond, manage, and learn from them,” that the government is starting a new emer- work with their peers participating at all levels.” industry those are ready to lend more has been a great challenge to their tradi- said Nasser Al Buhairi, Chief Security Officer & gency management authority. I am happy that IQPC is a global company specialized in creat- than last year could make this year a tional drugmaking business model. Head of the Emergency Coordination Unit, KOC. this conversation is happening in Kuwait.” ing, managing and operating high quality exhi- special one. May be it is a bit early to call There is a real sense of strong feeling “Kuwait has had its own challenges-not the least Notably, Ali Hussain Asad, an emergency bitions, conferences and seminars, since 1973. it a boom year for the M&A business but and order at management level to of which was recovering from the invasion in response consultant with RIMSCO and former Working in partnership with government, pri- the early signs and the good reasons are expand and more so to be value creation 1991-and we have our methodologies for deal- Head of Emergency Coordination at KOC, will vate organizations and corporate bodies, we there already. Announcements of mega and get busy again. ing with them.” detail the construction of a comprehensive crisis pride ourselves on offering world-class exhibi- deals just like Pfizer bid for the giant It is not easy for individual investors to During the conference, Al-Buhairi will present management system that integrates corporate tion and conference solutions. We have received AstraZeneca of $100 billion does not target those potential companies that will a case study that illustrates how managers can health, safety and environment (HSE) plans and accolades for the high quality of our events. mean that the deal will be done. be taken over but they should focus on prioritize emergency response plans according site-specific emergency mechanisms. IQPC now has offices in major cities across six Actually, AstraZeneca has already reject- companies that are generating free cash to the criticality of different equipment. On the margins of the conference are pre- continents including: Doha, Riyadh, Bengaluru, ed the offer even though it is blessed by flow and sitting on mountains of cash. Commenting on the significance of crisis and and post-conference workshops. In the pre-con- Berlin, Dubai, Johannesburg, London, Muscat, the UK government. But the intention is Also, target those companies that are not risk management in Kuwait, Peter Johnson, HSE ference workshop, entitled “Managing health, New York, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, there. If all and future deals go through growing strongly anymore but have exist- Trainer at Chevron, Kuwait, and former Incident safety, rescue and maintenance programs”, Peter Sydney, Tampa and Toronto. Each year IQPC that will be very positive for the financial ing business that are generating piles of Commander of the Federal Emergency Johnson will draw from his 30 years of experi- offers approximately 2,000 worldwide exhibi- markets and in particular the stock mar- cash. This applies to the pharmaceutical Management Authority (FEMA, USA), said, “Risk ence in emergency response to demonstrate tions, conferences, seminars and related learning kets. Huge cash will be returned to industry. Another sector looks good for management is a discussion that occurs each proper planning for the indirect costs of health programs. shareholders who I am sure will have to the M&A is the technology sector. put back in the market. The absence of Investors should focus their intention on equity supply side will make it even those high technology companies that more encouraging for equity investors. are involved in the software and contents I believe that this is not a copycat activ- business rather than hardware or matur- ity or you might call it the animal spirits ing business. Also in the oil and gas sec- but indeed it is the real business and more tor it is those that are involved in the so it is all about competition and survival. downstream and serving the booming The global economic activity is slowing Shale oil and gas. Some big investment down and companies are under tremen- bankers will be winners too. Companies dous pressure to deliver and sitting on such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank mountains of cash does not please share- of America and Deutsche bank will bene- holders at all. Apart the pressure from fit the most from fees generation. The shareholders some of the known equity size and numbers of deals announced activists have been busy in the last few this year may be an indication of much months pushing the chief executive offi- bigger deals on the way. If Merger & cers that are sitting on more than $4 tril- Acquisition continues the way it started lion in cash on company balance sheets to the year then 2014 could be another take action. Either by returning these cash strong year that for sure will propel stock in the form of buy backs, increase in divi- markets to new highs. —Dimah Capital Etihad tight-lipped ABU DHABI: Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair attends the two-day high-level meeting on climate change in Abu Dhabi yesterday. —KUNA on Alitalia offer

ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways chief James Etihad could be imminent. The two airlines Kuwait to back OPEC decisions: Al-Omar Hogan declined to comment yesterday have been in contact since December, and on the progress of talks to acquire a stake in February said they had entered a “final ABU DHABI: Kuwait will support OPEC’s deci- duction was increasing gradually. perature as much as possible in order to avoid in Italy’s debt-laden national carrier phase” in the process. sion to achieve stability in the oil market, said greenhouse gases, said Al-Omair, adding that Alitalia. “I’ve got no comment,” Hogan However, Alitalia is laden with debts Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Global standards every single rise in temperature degree will melt told a news conference in Abu Dhabi and the negotiations have been compli- Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair said here yes- Al-Omair said that Kuwait is keen on support- the ice at the two poles. when asked if the talks were still on. cated. Etihad is reportedly planning to terday. On the sidelines of the two-day high-lev- ing efforts that contribute in implementing All these changes in climate, temperature, Italian media had reported that Alitalia’s acquire a stake of between 40 and 49 per- el meeting on climate change in Abu Dhabi, Al- global environmental standards aimed at reduc- and environment have different dimensions, the chief Gabriele Del Torchio will travel to cent in the Italian carrier-below the 49.9 Omair said that Kuwait will support OPEC’s ing global warming emissions. At the present Kuwaiti minister noted, adding that Kuwait is Abu Dhabi today. percent limit for non-European airlines. efforts to create a comfortable atmosphere for time, there are several industries that helped in one of the countries that contributed in efforts A source close to the negotiations told Alitalia struck a deal with trade unions in both oil suppliers and consumers. He noted that increasing carbon dioxide emissions and other to resolve these environmental subjects as it is AFP last month that it was “optimistic” to February to cut the equivalent of 1,900 his country would back OPEC’s decision to keep greenhouse gases, which negatively affected also highly supportive of countries that imple- think an offer could be imminent, and said jobs, but some reports indicate that the current oil production. global warming and contributed in increasing ment global environmental standards. He also that talks that had taken place between Etihad may want more layoffs. In regards to Kuwait Petroleum ozone layer hole and temperature, Minister Al- said that the two-day meeting aims to generate Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Hogan Etihad is expanding rapidly and has Corporation’s (KPC) strategy to produce four Omair said during a high-level ministerial meet- momentum for the forthcoming September were “a good sign”. Italian Transport bought minor shares in several smaller million barrels per day by 2020, Al-Omair said ing on environment and climate change, hosted Climate Summit 2014, set to take place in New Minister Maurizio Lupi said in April that an carriers including Air Berlin and India’s Jet that the corporation was taking the necessary by UAE. Some of the meeting’s goals include York and to be convened by UN Secretary- assessment of Alitalia’s accounts had been Airways as it competes with larger Gulf steps to realize this goal, noting that oil pro- attempt to finding ways to reduce global tem- General Ban Ki-moon. —KUNA completed and hinted that an offer from rivals Emirates and Qatar Airways. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

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Professional and technical ic passport has never been returned to me since the end of a brutal winter last month, rebounding with incomes could also eventually force the Federal services, which include accounting and engineering the SSS (State Security Services) seized it in the biggest hiring surge in two years and suggesting Reserve to more quickly withdraw its efforts to spur positions, added 25,100 jobs. The number of govern- February,” Sanusi told journalists at Kano airport in that the job market’s gains could endure. Employers borrowing, spending and growth by holding down ment jobs grew 15,000, mostly at the local level. northern Nigeria. added 288,000 jobs across industries from manufactur- interest rates. Economists note that one-third of the The jump in hiring comes after a spate of other Sanusi was suspended on February 20, less ing to construction to accounting. Even local govern- unemployed have been out of work for six months or data showed that the economy is improving. than four months before his term was set to ments hired. The unemployment rate sank to 6.3 per- longer, and recent research suggests that many of Consumers are ramping up spending, businesses are expire, after accusing the powerful state oil firm of cent, its lowest point since 2008, from 6.7 percent. them aren’t being seriously considered by employers. ordering more goods and manufacturers are expand- stealing nearly $20 billion (over 14 billion euros) of But the rate fell that far because many fewer people If so, that would mean employers are competing for a ing. The strengthening numbers show that harsh public funds. His diplomatic passport was then began looking for work in April, thereby reducing the smaller pool of available workers than the unemploy- snowstorms and frigid cold in January and February seized by intelligence agents, but a court later number of unemployed. The proportion of Americans ment rate suggests and might have to raise pay soon. were largely to blame for the economy’s scant growth ruled that they had broken the law and ordered it who either have a job or are looking for one dropped Many of the long-term jobless stopped looking for at the start of the year. to be returned immediately. to a three-decade low. work last month. Their ranks fell 300,000 - the sharpest The economy barely expanded from January Sanusi, 52, said he was told that his personal And the monthly employment report the govern- drop in 21/2 years - to 3.5 million. But many other through March, eking out an annual growth rate of just passport had been seized by the SSS as he was ment released Friday showed that worker pay has yet economists, likely including Fed Chair Janet Yellen, 0.1 percent, down from a 2.6 percent rate in the final LAGOS: Nigeria’s ousted central bank to pick up - evidence that the job market has not fully point to factors suggesting that there are still a huge three months of 2013. waiting in the departure lounge at around mid- chief Mallam Lamido Sanusi speaking night on Saturday. He said he was on his way to recovered. Yet April’s robust hiring gains suggested France for a short course, and had then intended during an interview in Lagos. Sanusi that the economy is returning to the solid pace of to travel to Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage. “I said yesterday that secret police had growth it achieved in the second half of 2013, before it showed the court order to the SSS personnel seized his passport as he tried to was hammered by a harsh winter. Job growth has aver- that seized my passport, but they said they have board a flight to France, despite a aged 203,000 a month in the past six months, similar their orders from the presidency to seize my court ruling that an earlier seizure was to last year’s average of 194,000. passport,” Sanusi said. SSS officials were not illegal. —AFP Analysts said the economy is facing fewer hurdles now. In addition to better weather, growth is no longer available to comment on Sanusi’s claims. learned of his suspension while at a regional held back by steep government spending cuts, which President Goodluck Jonathan had suspended bankers’ meeting in neighboring Niger, has been slowed growth in 2013. Many companies had also the widely respected central bank chief over alle- applauded by an array of economists for cleaning stockpiled too many goods last fall, forcing them to cut gations of misconduct, a move many analysts up a rotten banking sector that teetered on the back in the first quarter to clear their shelves. “The saw as politically motivated. brink of collapse during the global financial crisis. absence of these factors is finally allowing the econo- The top banker and economist has dismissed A vocal critic of entrenched corruption in my’s underlying strength to come to the surface,” said the allegations and said he believed he was Africa’s top oil producer, Sanusi publicly accused Bart Van Ark, chief economist at the Conference Board. removed because of his attacks on the powerful the NNPC of misappropriating $20 billion in pub- “The result is not just a relatively strong gain in jobs in state-run Nigerian National Petroleum lic funds, a charge staunchly denied by the April but probably more of the same in May and June.” Corporation (NNPC). “I will certainly head back to agency, regarded by many as the epicenter of Explorys, a health-care data provider, has ramped court to seek redress,” Sanusi said. Sanusi, who graft in Africa’s most populous nation. —AFP up hiring in the past six months as more hospitals have used its services to limit their costs. Explorys’ software can analyze patient data to predict which ones are Australian government most likely to need follow-up visits at home to prevent any complications. The Cleveland-based company has added about 30 people in the past six months, bring- warns of tough budget ing its staff to about 140. “We need more software SYDNEY: The Australian budget later this month will that everyone shares in that burden of repairing the developers, data analysts and data scientists,” says CEO PHOENIX: Shoppers walk in front of stores at the Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix. The involve “tough decisions” to put the economy back on damage Labor did to the economy and to the budget.” Steve McHale. “The economy’s improvement has American economy shrugged off the end of a brutal winter last month, rebounding track, a senior minister said yesterday as a poll revealed A Galaxy Poll in The Sunday Telegraph found 72 per- served us well.” with the biggest hiring surge in two years and suggesting that the job market’s gains a voter backlash against any new tax to cut debt. cent of voters felt that introducing the levy would could endure. —AP Australia has enjoyed more than 20 years of annual amount to a broken promise by Abbott, who before Market bullish growth, sidestepping the worst of the global financial the election had pledged no new taxes. The poll of the April’s solid job growth wasn’t enough to boost crisis due to a mining boom fuelled by Asian demand. 1,391 voters also found support for Abbott’s coalition stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 48 number of Americans desperate for full-time work. The Other data indicate that the economy was already But the government elected in September has said it had dropped significantly since the election, from 53.5 points in afternoon trading. The unemployment rate is number of people working part-time jobs who would rebounding in March and probably improved further is facing a deficit of Aus$47 billion ($43.6 billion) this to 48 percent, meaning it would lose an election to now at the lowest level in 51/2 years. It’s fallen far prefer full-time positions, for example, rose by 50,000 in April. Consumers bought more cars and spent more fiscal year due to the previous Labor administration, Labor if a poll were held now. Pyne dismissed the poll, enough that economists are anticipating the key next last month to 7.5 million. These economists aren’t as at shopping malls. Overall consumer spending soared and that the debt will only mount in coming years. saying the government had been elected to fix the step in an improving job market: higher pay. In the willing to count out the long-term jobless. They argue in March by the most in 41/2 years. House Leader Christopher Pyne refused to com- budget and Australians understood this was a priority. past, when employers have had to draw from a smaller that faster economic growth would encourage more All told, the positive news has led most economists ment on whether a new tax reportedly under consid- “There’s no easy way out from the debt and pool of unemployed people, they’ve typically been employers to hire them. “It’s amazing what good labor to forecast a strong rebound in economic growth - to a eration to plug the deficit-on workers earning more deficit disaster left for us by the Labor government,” forced to offer higher pay. That hasn’t happened yet. markets can do to pull people out of the woodwork 3.5 percent annual rate in the current April-June quar- than Aus$80,000 a year-would be unveiled as part of he said. “We don’t want to end up in the situation And analysts differ about when pay might pick up. and back into jobs,” said Diane Swonk, an economist at ter. And growth should reach nearly 3 percent for the the budget on May 13. “I think they (Australians) fully that Europe and the United States are in-and we Joseph LaVorgna, chief US economist at Deutsche Mesirow Financial. Average hourly wage growth was full year, up from 1.9 percent in 2013, they expect. understand we have to make the tough decisions nec- don’t have to as long as we have a government that Bank, noted that the unemployment rate is near its flat in April, suggesting that unemployment is still too The increased hiring provided a personal victory for essary... to get the economy back on track again,” he is prepared to take responsibility and make the deci- seven-decade average of 6.1 percent. At that point, high to force pay up. Christopher Dickey, 41, who received a job offer just told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. sions now that will set up the economy and our soci- “you’ve typically seen wage and inflation pressures Hiring last month was broad-based and included this week from Comcast. This month, he’ll begin work “They know it won’t be easy and it is important ety in the years ahead.” —AFP build,” LaVorgna said. “And I see no reason why it won’t some higher-paying jobs: Manufacturing gained as a sales executive in Savannah, Georgia.—AP BUSINESS MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 Croatia’s economy sends troubling signals Investors praise skilled workforce, access to Western Europe

ZAGREB: Ten months after Croatia achieved its dream of trading union. For countries such as Croatia and Serbia, EU start-ups or foreign investors generating viable businesses has struggled to let go of state ownership - showing no ambition to do it,” he said. joining the European Union, its economy is still shrinking, membership was also meant to help the region move on beyond tourism. “Only a few in Croatia seem to understand notably of its debt-laden banks - despite In a marked shift from reliance on major sending a troubling reminder to its ex-Yugoslav neighbors from the wars of the 1990s to shared economic develop- that attracting investors is nothing but a beauty contest all graduating to euro-zone membership in state investments, both the government that the bloc cannot promise prosperity. ment in the new millennium. over Europe. Hence all the failed privatizations here,” said a 2007. Elsewhere in the region, apart from a and the conservative opposition HDZ now EU entry requirements and membership rules are But Croatia, the bloc’s 28th member state, is its worst Western business veteran in Zagreb. Fiat factory in Serbia few new jobs have say they must do more to attract and keep meant to ensure new entrants have strengthened their economic performer this year, along with bailed-out Even Slovenia, the state best-equipped to make its own emerged to replace those lost as state- foreign investors. economies and institutions enough to thrive within the Greece and Cyprus, and there is little sign so far of local way economically when Communist Yugoslavia broke up, owned industry rusted away. Croatia’s “Investors are giving us a wide berth, Communist-era industry, including ship- that must be changed,” HDZ leader building, largely collapsed in the 1990s. Tomislav Karamarko told a business forum Diplomats say it was unprepared for the EU last week. His party is pledging to cut taxes and is reaping no benefits from member- and reform the administration if they came ship. “There are a lot of uncompetitive to power. Deputy Prime Minister Vesna companies, lots of imported goods. EU Pusic promised “radical changes” and a funds are not flowing. There is no planning, new strategy to attract investors in the security, the legal system is not up to EU standards,” said an EU diplomat based in Zagreb. World Bank data shows Croatia to be the only European country, along with Greece, whose economy has been shrink- ing since 2008. Croatia has shed almost 13 percent of gross domestic product in five years. Although industrial output rose for three straight months in the first quarter, for the first time since 2009, analysts expect further decline this year and mar- ginal growth in 2015. “Now that Greece has growth again, we are an increasingly obvious underper- former,” said Velimir Sonje of the ArhivAnalitika consultancy in Zagreb. “Markets see that: our (bond) yields next few months. have barely budged in the past year, while But diplomats point to a poor reform those on Slovenian and Hungarian debt record for both parties, which between have fallen sharply,” he said, referring to them have ruled Croatia since independ- Croatia’s stubbornly high borrowing costs. ence in 1991. In the past year, the govern- The latest European Commission data put ment has failed to find buyers for flag carri- Croatia at the bottom of EU fund benefici- er Croatia Airlines, railway cargo firm HZ, aries, having used just 18 percent of the the last major state bank and fertilizer pro- funds available in 2007-13. ducer Petrokemija. Investors already in Croatia praise its Shift from state to foreign investments skilled workforce and quick access to Despite the poor outlook, the small size Western Europe via roads and its Adriatic of Croatia’s 43 billion euro ($60 billion) ports. But they remain frustrated by slow economy and its relatively sound banking bureaucracy and ever-changing laws. system, controlled by foreign parent banks, “We decided to invest again because will probably keep it from becoming a we were successful. But it took a very long major headache for the bloc. Analysts say time to get the incentives promised for the the European Commission’s monitoring, project and we’re still waiting for some, which has forced Zagreb to rejig the budg- which is very frustrating,” said Mikael Boire, et already twice this year, will help keep manufacturing manager at Saint Jean public debt in check. The bigger problem is Industries, a French car parts manufacturer. how to develop the economy. The company completed a second “Stagnation is our best-case scenario,” investment in Croatia last year, after buying said Andrej Grubisic, a US-educated con- and rebuilding a small plant in 2008. sultant. He said 200,000 people had lost “Slovakia and Romania also have lots of jobs in private firms since 2008 while advantages, incentives for new jobs. They 10,000 have been hired in Croatia’s ineffi- are much more efficient and they realize cient and costly public sector. “Without what they advertise. So Croatia is a location serious cuts in public spending there just to be studied, but it is not the only one,” he won’t be a better life but the government is said. — Reuters

LUANDA: Angola’s goal of pumping two million barrels of oil a day and even upstaging Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer remains a pipedream. Angola’s oil output goals remain elusive LUANDA: Despite colossal investment, and BP about a series of problems that Angola’s goal of pumping two million contributed to the drop. barrels of oil a day and even upstaging Maintenance work, mechanical dam- Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer age and delays in delivering technical remains a pipedream. To be sure, equipment have all taken their toll. Angola’s oil industry is going gang- Foreign operators complain that the busters. State-owned oil firm Sonangol delays often stem from Sonangol’s insis- recently announced an $8-billion invest- tence that it gives final approval to any ment program and began to flog ten on- construction or technical work. Amid the shore concessions. mudslinging, Fitch has downgraded Total is slated to invest $16 billion, Angola’s credit rating outlook from posi- while other global energy companies tive to stable, a move that could make ENI, Statoil and ConocoPhillips also have foreign investors more cautious. plans to put more work boots on the “Expanding the hydrocarbon sector ground. This has led officials to predict, has proved more challenging, compared again, that the country will break the with what was expected,” the ratings symbolic production level of two million agency said. But geology is also a factor barrels a day and that it could even get in the decline. Angola’s expensive-to-drill within striking distance of Nigeria’s 2.5 “ultra-deep” blocks and the “maturing” million a day rate. Angola is keen to shallow-water concessions will limit pro- reach that level of production because, duction, according to Alex Vines of UK- as well as two million being a nice round based think tank Chatham House. number, it would represent a significant Fitch estimates Angola’s output is boost for Africa’s third-largest economy. declining at a rate of around 200,000 bar- The black gold lying off the coast of rels per day, each year. the capital Luanda and the Cabinda “It will be difficult for Angola one day enclave accounts for 30 to 40 percent of to overtake Nigeria, which has much economic output and around 80 percent larger reserves and currently superior of government income. production capacity,” said independent Oil wealth has made many insiders consultant Jose de Oliveira. rich, but has also been used to fund While new discoveries will push reconstruction since a devastating civil Angola’s reserves beyond its current war ended in 2002. And yet, the faster proven reserves of 12.7 billion barrels, Angola pumps, the further it seems from that still lags far behind Nigeria’s 37.2 bil- its target. Industry insiders say a mix of lion. “The new operations launched this technical problems, infrastructure bottle- year and next year won’t push produc- necks and state intervention means any tion to two million barrels because at the attempt to retake the title of Africa’s same time older oil fields are producing largest oil producer, which Angola briefly less,” said de Oliveira. He added there was held in 2008, is likely to end in failure. “no point” in targeting record production when much of the revenue is being lost ‘Difficult to overtake Nigeria’ to corruption, he added. Last year crude production fell 1.1 By some estimates, billions of dollars percent to 1.71 million barrels a day, a have vanished while around two-thirds disappointing showing after a 4.5 per- of the 19 million Angolans wallow in cent jump the previous year. That raised extreme poverty. Facing problems likes the ire of Sonangol’s chief Francisco de these-and the outlook for oil prices is Lemos, who demanded “explanations” weak-less may be better for Angola’s oil from the heads of Chevron, Total, Esso industry. — AFP BUSINESS MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

Rolls-Royce presenting the Phantom Series II ‘Take the best that exists and make it better’

rom launch, the Rolls-Royce Phantom proved itself a instruments that reflect the changing world in which we view down the long sweep of the bonnet and onto the worthy recipient of the famous Spirit of Ecstasy fig- live. Simplicity of design and the use of the very finest Spirit of Ecstasy. A reduction in the number of seat flutes in Furine. From Pantheon grille to long rear overhang, the materials contribute to the timeless architecture of any front and rear, from five to three, gives a more modern Phantom design was clearly a Rolls-Royce. Every angle Phantom, where touch points are exclusively wood, complement to the car’s sumptuous natural grain leather revealed a bold yet elegant car with road presence that chrome and leather and where feet can easily be lost in and flutes are also added to Drophead CoupÈ and CoupÈ was second to none. An essential hallmark of Rolls-Royce is deep, lambswool rugs. seats for Phantom Series II. Bespoke, a program with the ability to personalize the Phantom’s striking and modern front end best encapsu- Phantom’s already sublime drive-train has also been motor car to a level as individual as its owner’s fingerprint. lates the essence of changes that lie beneath, with re- enhanced with Series II. The addition of a new 8-speed Through Bespoke, every Phantom that is hand built at the styled bumpers and rectangular light apertures that frame automatic gearbox and rear differential perfectly comple- Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, England is regarded as full-LED light clusters. These allow the integration of new ment the V12 direct injection engine, improving exemplary a work of art in automotive form, a car built by artisans and technologies like curve light functionality, where head- dynamics, waftability, as well as the famous Rolls-Royce craftspeople rather than robots and computers. The best lamp beams are reflected in the direction of travel to pro- promise of a magic carpet ride. Fuel consumption materials put together the most talented of hands, intri- vide greater illumination of the road ahead when corner- improves by 10 percent on the combined cycle and CO2 cately crafting luxury in its pinnacle. ing. And adaptive headlamps, where light patterns change emissions fall from 385 to 347g/km as a consequence (388 Rolls-Royce is proud to present its esteemed clientele automatically and - of course - effortlessly in response to to 349 for Phantom Extended Wheelbase). with the Phantom Series II, a family of inimitable cars that different driving speeds. Phantom, like any other motor car of the Rolls-Royce lin- have been thoughtfully updated with the introduction of Arguably the best place to experience Phantom’s luxury eage lends itself to superlatives and the use of terms that cutting-edge technology and enhancements to an already is from the rear seat of Phantom Saloon where passengers encapsulate its presence at the pinnacle of the ultra-luxury peerless drive-train as well as today’s essential connectivity - elevated by 18 mm - are presented with an inspirational automotive segment.

NBK MONEY MARKETS REPORT US Q1 GDP data disappoints amid Fed tapering

KUWAIT: Last week, the United States Federal conditions may have slipped a bit, consumers do come way down from its last peak of 5.7 percent Reserve reduced its Quantitative Easing program not foresee the economy, or the labor market, in July 2013. United Kingdom’s economy grew at by 10 Billion Dollars. This marks the fourth cut losing the momentum that has been building up its fastest pace in more than six years, but the since December, reducing the asset purchase over the past several months.” economy is still smaller than its peak before the scheme to 45 Billion Dollars, unlike previous 2008-09 recessions, underscoring why the Bank months the US dollar did not rally against its ISM manufacturing of England has said it will not be raising interest. major counterpartys. The Dollar Index started The Institute for Supply Management said its The Gross domestic product rose a quarterly 0.8 the week at 79.73 only to drift lower to close at index of national factory activity improved to percent slightly missing expectation of a 0.9 per- 79.50 .The drop in the Dollar was attributed to 54.9 in April, up from 53.7 in March, making its cent rise. There were also signs of a broader disappointing US first quarter GDP data that best reading since the begging of the year. recovery as manufacturing sector improved. only grew by 0.1 percent annualized rate from Manufacturing picked up in April after consumer Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was January through March. However upbeat unem- spending surged the prior month, showing the quoted as saying in a newspaper interview pub- BEIJING: A security guard walks through a garden outside a market in Beijing yester- ployment report, consumer spending and indus- US economy is ready to lift off in the second lished last week that the economic recovery is day. China’s manufacturing activity improved in April, the government said, showing trial production that came out later in the week quarter. starting to broaden and there are early signs increased strength for a second straight month as the country’s broader economy suggested that the first quarter’s 0.1 percent that it will be sustainable. slows. — AFP annual growth pace was an aberration and is not US pending home sales a reflection of the economy’s otherwise solid Contracts to buy previously owned US homes UK construction fundamentals. rose in March by the most in almost nine UK’s construction sector grew for the 12th ECB to hold fire on rates On to Europe, the financial markets had months, showing residential real estate was straight month in April, The UK construction PMI mixed views on whether or not the European starting to stabilize entering the spring selling eased slightly to 60.8 in April from 62.5 in March, but could move in June Central bank would implement a quantitative season. The Pending Home Sales Index, based slightly below market expectation of a 62.0- easing program to combat low inflation levels. on contracts signed last month, increased 3.4 point rise .But the index has now been above FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is skewed towards non-core components-is Some economists expect the European Central percent to 97.4 well above market forecast of 1 the 50 threshold representing growth for a full not expected to cut interest rates this week, unlikely to trigger central bank action in May,” Bank to follow other major Central Banks and percent rise. year, with house building the best-performing but could start paving the way for a possible Valli said. implement a Quantitative Easing Program, but construction sector last month. move in June if deflationary dangers persist, Still, action “appears more likely than not” other analyst say it is not clear that the euro- US payrolls British consumer confidence improved fur- analysts said. in June, the expert continued. The ECB is zone has a serious deflation problem that would US job growth improved at its fastest pace ther in April and reached its highest level since The ECB has held euro-zone borrowing scheduled to publish its latest economic fore- prompt a QE program. since 2012 and the unemployment rate reached just before the start of the financial crisis. The costs at their current all-time low of 0.25 per- casts on Thursday and it may be compelled to Early last week, the Euro currency rose to a a 5-1/2 year low of 6.3 percent, suggesting a Consumer Confidence Index rose to minus three cent since November. Last month, the bank’s downgrade its inflation forecasts. “Remaining two-week high of 1.3889 against the dollar, aid- president Mario Draghi insisted that “we do completely inactive in this context may dam- ed by expectations that the inflation in the euro not exclude further monetary policy easing age its credibility,” Valli believed. Jennifer zone will pick up and ease pressure on the and we firmly reiterate that we continue to McKeown at Capital Economics agreed. European Central Bank to implement a QE pro- expect the key ECB interest rates to remain at gram to avoid the risk of deflation. Later in the present or lower levels for an extended peri- Dovish tone expected week and after having lower than expected April od of time”. “We doubt that recent events and data price growth of 0.7 percent, initially sent the Nevertheless, no monetary easing appears releases have been significant enough to euro currency to a three-week low of 1.3775 to be on the cards at the bank’s next meeting ensure more policy action from the ECB at its against the dollar, the Euro later recovered and on Thursday-this time being held in Brussels- May meeting. But developments in the infla- closed for the week at 1.3870. central bank watchers said. At the moment, tion outlook and in money markets suggest The US dollar rallied against the Yen, after a deflation is perceived to be the biggest threat that the bank’s two ‘contingencies’ for further 0.4 percent drop in the unemployment levels, to the euro-zone’s economic recovery. action might soon be met,” McKeown said. which came in at 6.3 percent the lowest level Deflation is a general decline in prices and “We expect a very dovish tone from Draghi to since September 2008. The Dollar reach a high of can be highly damaging if consumers, hint that such action might be taken at the 103.02 against the Japanese Yen ,but later lost expecting prices to fall further, hold off pur- June meeting. This could involve an interest steam and fell back again to 102,18 after the US chases. Last month, area-wide inflation rate cut together with more long-term loans jobs reports showed a drop in the labor partici- picked up slightly, but still fell short of fore- to banks or even a program of asset purchas- pation rate, a reflection of increasing numbers of casts and was way below the ECB’s target of es,” the analyst added. In addition to cutting Americans ending job hunting, and flat wage just below 2.0 percent. Consumer price infla- its interest rates, the ECB could ease mone- increases. tion rose to a 0.7 percent rate in April, up from tary conditions by pumping money into the The sterling pound rallied to 1.6918 marking the 0.5 percent in March, which was the low- system or buy up government bonds to bring a four and a half year high against the dollar, the est since October 2009. down borrowing costs. ECB officials have strength in the pound was due robust GDP and UniCredit analyst Marco Valli said that repeatedly said they see no threat of defla- construction PMI data. inflation had come in below ECB expectations tion, but at the last few meetings president for the past two months. “But the extent of Draghi has always insisted that the central Worse than expected GDP data this weakness and its composition-mostly bank stood ready to act if necessary. —AFP US GDP grew at a 0.1 percent annualized rate sharp improvement in the US economic activity this month, its highest reading since August from January through March, compared with a early in the second quarter. The Nonfarm pay- 2007. The Confidence level came above econo- 2.6 percent gain in the fourth quarter 2013. The rolls increased 288,000 well above market mist expectation of mines four-.The index rose Labor call for inquiry into GDP data came well below market expectation expectation of 216,000, also the unemployment over the last year by 24 points; the managing of a 1.2 percent. The deceleration in real GDP rate dropped sharply by 0.4 percent point, director of social research at GfK said “The cur- growth in the first quarter 2014 reflected down- touching its lowest level since September 2008. rent long-term trend is very strongly positive.” Pfizer’s AstraZeneca bid turns in exports and in nonresidential fixed Euro-zone inflation drops Japanese inflation rate LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labor party well as financial, stakes. investment, a larger decrease in private invento- Euro-zone consumer price inflation rose in Japans inflation rate rose to a 22 year high in called yesterday for an inquiry into a Party leaders want to be seen protect- ry investment, a deceleration in personal con- April, reducing chances the ECB will act soon to April, an early sign that companies are making potential takeover of British firm ing Britain’s interests while avoiding sumption expenditures, and a downturn in state fend off the risk of deflation but the rate of price progress in passing on a new tax increase to cus- AstraZeneca by US drugmaker Pfizer , nationalistic rhetoric that may spook other and local government spending. improvement was below forecast and still within tomers as policy makers seek to pull Japan out accusing the government of “cheerlead- future overseas investment. Ministers from The Federal Open market Committee the ECB’s “danger zone” of under 1 percent. The of years of deflation. Tokyo’s core consumer ing” for a deal. AstraZeneca on Friday the current two-party coalition have been announced they would reduce its bond purchas- CPI improved slightly in April to 0.7 percent from prices rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier. rejected a 63 billion pound ($106 billion) pressing Pfizer over jobs and continued es by another $10 billion. The decision came March’s 0.5 percent, which marked the lowest However, given the gradual pace of the pickup bid from Pfizer, but the US firm is expected investment in research and development despite weaker than expected GDP data. The level since 2009. However, the reading was in the Japanese economy, expectations remain to pursue its efforts to acquire Britain’s facilities in Britain. On Friday, Cameron’s FOMC said in a statement following a meeting in below market forecast of 0.8 percent rise, that the BOJ will have to do more and would second largest pharmaceutical company. office said he was considering assurances Washington, “Household spending appears to despite increased spending over the Easter peri- most likely will ease policy again in June or July. “We need a more substantive assess- from Pfizer Chief Executive Ian Read. be rising more quickly.” The committee pared od, reflecting the poor state of the euro-zone ment of whether this takeover is in the “We are going to have tests which monthly asset buying to $45 billion, its fourth economies. Chinas PMI national economic interest before the UK ensure that this get-together becomes a straight $10 billion cut, and said further reduc- German consumer prices harmonized with China’s Manufacturing PMI rose less than esti- government allows itself to be seen to be great Anglo-American project, or it tions in “measured steps” are likely. other EU countries increased 1.1 percent on the mates in April, adding to signs of slowing eco- supporting it,” Labor leader Ed Miliband doesn’t happen,” Conservative party year in April although they fell 0.3 percent on nomic activity in the world’s second largest said in a letter to Prime Minister David Spokesman Grant Shapps told Sky TV. A slight drop the month .The weaker German inflation raised economy, which may lead to the government Cameron. While the government has Miliband said the government’s approach US consumer confidence dropped slightly in hope that the ECB might be closer to doing failing to achieve the targeted 7.5 percent talked with both AstraZeneca and Pfizer, it so far amounted to cheerleading for April but remained near the 2008 highs, sug- something “accommodation-wise” other than growth rate .The Purchasing Managing Index has said it has no intention of intervening Pfizer’s bid. gesting that the US economy continued to just talk, which in turn could send the euro low- came at 50.4 slightly below market expectation in the deal and considers it a matter for “I have seen the assurances you have regain momentum after the unusually cold and er. Indeed, German CPI for April at 1.3 percent y- of 50.5, however a reading above 50 indicates the companies’ boards and shareholders. received from Pfizer, but this merger would snowy winter that disrupted economic activity o-y did not bounce back as strongly as expected. expansion. But a year away from a national elec- have an impact for decades to come, so it early in the year. The Conference Board said its The bounce-back from March was due to core tion, which polls show Labor would win if is not enough to have a few specific prom- index of consumer attitudes dropped to 82.3, inflation rising back to its February level likely Kuwait the vote were held now, Miliband’s com- ises that only last for the next few years,” the second-highest reading since January 2008. due to holidays and energy. Food inflation on Kuwaiti dinar at 0.28090. The USDKWD ments emphasize the high political, as Miliband said in his letter. —Reuters The director of economic indicators said in a statement, “While sentiment regarding current the other hand slowed further in April and has opened at 0.28090 yesterday morning. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 BUSINESS

Abdulrazzaq Al-Essa, Director of Corporate Communications Abdullah Mubarak Awad winner of the Mercedes SL 63 AMG Abdulrazzaq Al-Essa, Director of Corporate Communications with announcing the name of the winner the winner Abdullah Mubarak Awad Abdullah Mubarak Awad wins a Mercedes Benz SL63 AMG VIVA’s postpaid draw held at Grand Avenue

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- ulate the lucky winner Abdullah ing and most developed telecom Mubarak Awad and thank each and operator, announced Abdullah every customer who made the effort Mubarak Awad as the lucky winner of to enter the draw. VIVA will continue to its postpaid draw who will receive his demonstrate its commitment towards brand new Mercedes Benz SL63 AMG. its customers by delivering unique The announcement was made at a fes- products and services and designing tive event at the Grand Avenue - exciting offers that will allow VIVA to Avenues Mall on 1 May 2014. further engage with them”. The draw was held in the midst of The postpaid draw for the luxurious an exciting ambiance, where audi- Mercedes Benz SL63 AMG com- ences were entertained by the famous menced earlier this year at the TV presenter Omar Al Othman, one of InfoConnect exhibition, starting from the most outstanding presenters in 26 January until 26 April 2014, where Kuwait. postpaid and mobile broadband cus- Commenting on these offers, tomers were granted one point to Abdulrazzaq Al-Essa, Director of enter the draw, for each KD10 paid Abdulrazzaq Al Essa, Director of Corporate Communications Ayman Salem Al-Mutairi, Senior Manager of Corporate Corporate Communications said: “On upon subscribing to one of VIVA’s with the winner, Abdullah Mubarak Awad and presenter Communications handing a prize to audience during the behalf of VIVA, I would like to congrat- many offers. Omar Al-Othman event Burgan Bank announces winners of Yawmi account

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yester- the draw stands at KD 10. day the names of the lucky winners of its The newly designed Yawmi account has Yawmi account draw, each taking home a been launched to provide a highly innova- prize of KD 5,000. tive offering along with a higher frequency The lucky winners for the daily draws and incentive of winning for everyone. took home a cash-prize of KD 5000 each, Today, the Yawmi account is a well under- and they are: stood product, where its popularity can be 1. Ali Safar Ali Allah Nezad Kerani seen from the number of increasing 2. Nawar Rashed Abdulghafour account holders. Mahmoud Burgan Bank encourages everyone to 3. Apas Akbar Dinarbar open a Yawmi account and/or increase 4. Mohammad Abdulkareem their deposit to maximize their chances to Abdulreda Abdulkareem becoming a daily winner. The more cus- 5. Reem Fadel Habib Husain tomers deposit, the higher the chances With its new and enhanced features, they receive of winning the draw. the Yawmi Account has become more Opening a Yawmi account is simple, cus- convenient, easier, and faster for cus- tomers are urged to visit their nearest tomers to benefit from. Now, customers Burgan Bank branch and receive all the will be eligible to enter the draw after 48 details, or simply call the bank’s Call Center hours only from opening the account. at 1804080 where customer service repre- Customers are also required to deposit sentatives will be delighted to assist with KD 100 or equivalent only to enter the any questions on the Yawmi account or any daily draw, and the coupon value to enter of the bank’s products and services.

Al-Zayani: Jaguar MENA dominates automotive awards with 8 accolades Drivers, critics and industry media hail Jaguar

KUWAIT: Jaguar continues to receive automo- minum Jaguar F-TYPE was named “Best awards, Hannah Naji, Marketing Director at tive accolades for its strongest ever line-up by Premium Sports Convertible” and “Car of the Jaguar MENA said: “We are extremely delighted racking up 8 automotive awards in the last year Year” at the prestigious Middle East Motoring and proud of the unmistakable impact our alone. This impressive figure is in addition to Awards and was also bestowed the same title vehicles have made on the media and cus- the numerous global awards already on mantle by Auto Sport, while Automan credited it with tomers alike. The string of regional awards from for the luxury British car brand. the title of “Best Debut 2013”. such respected publications is testament to our Building on its wealth of global accolades, And it’s not just the production line up of historic ability to constantly innovate and pro- Jaguar received an incredible string of regional cars that are sweeping the awards board; the duce vehicles of the highest quality and refine- Jisha Joseph, the first raffle draw winner of the “Summer Surprises” campaign by awards thanks to its highly acclaimed Jaguar F- Jaguar C-X17 concept, which made its regional ment. She continued, “The Jaguar F-TYPE Malabar Gold & Diamonds receives the prize quarter KG gold from Abdul Khader - TYPE which was awarded “Best Convertible” by debut at the Dubai Motor Show last year, Convertible took the region by storm since it General Manager Lulu Hypermarket - Al-Rai, in the presence of Afsal Khan - Zonal Car and Driver ME, EVO ME and Wheels within proved its award worthiness with the coveted was launched and the awards it has achieved Head & other officials of Malabar Gold & Diamonds. The winner has made purchases three consecutive months. “Best Concept” award from EVO Middle East. further strengthens Jaguar’s expertise in the from the Malabar Gold & Diamonds, Al-Rai Lulu outlet. The highly acclaimed two-seater, all-alu- Speaking about the spate of regional sports car segment.” Singapore’s Temasek tweaks global portfolio

SINGAPORE: As it approaches its 40th year, next two decades,” he said. In the financial year ending March 2013, Singapore investment giant Temasek is Kelly Teo, managing director at I.R. Temasek had a net investment of Sg$4.0 bil- stretching its legs, moving away from its Resources, said Temasek’s venture into lion in the energy and resources sector. This finance-based comfort zone into sectors like resources in Africa “shows their willingness to included stakes in Spain’s integrated oil firm retail and African resources to ensure future look beyond the norm”. Repsol, Cheniere Energy, a US firm which is growth, analysts say. building a liquefied natural gas export termi- With worldwide holdings worth Sg$215 bil- Tapping consumer growth nal, and Venari Resources, a US company lion ($171 billion) as of end March 2013, Temasek in March bought almost 25 per- focused on deep-water exploration in the Gulf Temasek is listed as one of the top 10 global cent of A.S. Watson, the retail chain owned by of Mexico. players by the US-based Sovereign Wealth Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka Shing, for Pavilion Energy, a Temasek wholly-owned Fund Institute. HK$44 billion ($5.67 billion). Its flagship brand company, late last year bought a 20 percent Its wide spectrum of interests spans bank- Watsons is a household name as Asia’s largest stake in three natural gas blocks in Tanzania ing, telecoms, transport, life sciences and health and beauty retailer, with over 4,000 per- for $1.3 billion. In April, Temasek invested $150 property, while more than 70 percent of its sonal care stores and 1,000 pharmacies in million in Nigeria’s oil firm Seven Energy. investments are in Asia. But with the global countries including China, Korea and the “African oil and gas developments can play a economy still readjusting five years after a Ukraine. significant role in supplying Asia’s future ener- crippling financial crisis, the firm, established A Temasek-led consortium in March offered gy needs forecast to grow strongly in the next in June 1974, is re-evaluating its portfolio to Sg$2.53 billion to buy out minority sharehold- 20-30 years,” said Biswas. SINGAPORE: An employee of state-linked Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings find new growth areas and minimize its expo- ers of Olam, which supplies products such as Temasek Holdings walks along the corridor of their offices in Singapore. As it approaches sure in the event of another downturn. nuts, coffee, cocoa and sugar to food and bev- Energy demand its 40th year, Singapore investment giant Temasek is stretching its legs, moving away from Analysts say businesses that cater to the erage manufacturers. Olam also sells its own Energy and resources made up 6.0 percent its finance-based comfort zone into sectors like retail and African resources to ensure needs of the growing middle class in emerg- brands of packaged foods in Africa, which its of Temasek’s global portfolio last year, up from future growth, analysts say. — AFP ing markets, as well as energy and resources, website describes as the fastest growing conti- 3.0 percent in 2011. The International Energy es still form the biggest chunk in Temasek’s insurance, acquiring a 2.0 percent stake in AIA are expected to comprise the main areas of nent for consumer products over the next few Agency projects world energy consumption to global portfolio, accounting for 31 percent as Group and 1.0 percent in China’s Ping An interest for the fund. decade. Market research firm Euromonitor rise by 56 percent between 2010 and 2040, of end March 2013, but this is down from 40 Insurance Group. “One of the key investment strategies that projects the global retail market to be worth much of it coming from emerging markets. percent in 2008. “This was a sector that hurt Dutch banking group ING announced on Temasek has been pursuing in recent years $16.12 trillion by 2018, up from $13.92 trillion But there are other drivers why Temasek Temasek which is why they have diversified April 30 that Temasek is investing 425 million has been to diversify its portfolio to tap into in 2013, with the Asia Pacific accounting for would invest in the sector, said Ravi from it,” said Teoh. But Temasek spokesman euros ($590 million) in NN Group, an ING insur- the rapid growth in spending by the middle more than a third. Krishnaswamy, Asia Pacific vice president for Stephen Forshaw said financial services “will ance unit. Forshaw said Temasek does not class in emerging markets,” said Rajiv Biswas, The global beauty and personal care mar- energy and environment practice at business remain a pillar” of the global portfolio. have a fixed target for investments in any sec- chief Asia Pacific economist at IHS Global ket, which includes grooming products and consultancy Frost & Sullivan. “Banks are proxies to the growth of tor. “Over time, we rebalance the portfolio as Insight. fragrances, is forecast to be worth $523.51 bil- He said at least 30 percent of oil and gas economies. Growing companies need access new opportunities emerge. We view trends, “The rise of Asia’s consumer middle classes lion in 2018 from $454.11 billion in 2013. reserves are in remote areas, requiring new to credit, consumers need access to banking such as the rise of the consumer in growth will be one of the key global megatrends driv- Temasek has also ramped up investments in technologies to explore and the necessary services,” Forshaw told AFP. Temasek has economies, changes in technologies, ageing ing change in the global economy over the the energy sector, venturing into Africa. infrastructure to deliver them. Financial servic- broadened its exposure beyond banks to populations and urbanization,” he said. — AFP technology MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 Gift Guide: Solid tech options for upgrading mom ATLANTA: Mom is busy. 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If it’s there, I optical drive, hard disk drive, RAM) are The base model has just 32 gigabytes, slideshow swiping going on. down with the wireless keyboard and missed it. —AP all built in to the housing of the display. typical for Windows tablets. The quad- core Intel Atom processor is strong Asus VivoTab Note 8 enough for any tablet tasks. The display Your mom is probably like a lot of is sharp. There’s a lot for mom to like busy moms who use their smartphones here. for nearly everything to do with staying connected. But occasionally a little Lenovo Flex 15D more screen size would do nicely. The Touch screens on laptops are tricky. Asus VivoTab Note 8 is a solid pick for a Touch them too hard with one finger tablet. The Note 8 has an 8-inch display, and the laptop rocks back, or tips over. measured diagonally, and can quickly It’s not a good experience if the screen go from easy, breezy light-use mode to is teetering back and forth when you professional environment workhorse. interact with it. Lenovo Group’s Flex 15D Popular social media apps such as solves that. The laptop’s hinge is Facebook and Twitter are just a touch designed such that the keyboard half of away. But when it’s time to get produc- the laptop can face down and act as a tive, that’s where having a full version of stand for the touch display. What you the Windows 8 system comes in handy. lose in terms of a physical keyboard in Strong, office-ready apps, such as this configuration, you gain by have a Microsoft Office, deliver the utility mom sturdy and pleasing angle by which to is accustomed to, in a way iPads and view and access the display. It’s a sleek- Android tablets can’t. The Wacom stylus styled laptop, tapered thin near the pen is an attractive bonus. It tucks away touchpad below the keys. The straight in a hole near the base when not in use. lines and minimalist bezel design make But you’ll use it on some Windows this a very eye-appealing addition to applications that have less than finger- the office or household. Underneath all friendly menus, or to doodle some that sleek is enough power to get mom notes in the margins of documents. I through her tasks. The Flex 15D has a tested it out with various drawing apps, quad-core AMD 1.5 GHz processor, four like Pen Sketch. Its sensitivity and ability gigabytes of RAM and a 500 gigabyte to vary the weight and thickness of the hard drive. strokes was really impressive. The touch screen responded well to When I took some notes at a city hall my pinches and swipes, but I found the meeting using Microsoft’s OneNote, it resolution a little soft. It’s sharp enough ATLANTA: Photo shows the ASUS VivoTab Note 8 tablet computer, in Atlanta. The Note 8 runs a full version of looked exactly like smooth pen on for most common tasks, but non jaw- paper. There were no jagged, pixelated dropping sharp. Asus All-in-One PC Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system and comes with a Wacom stylus pen for use with the screen that has edges on my lines, and the stroke ET2322 ($1,099, Windows 8): All-in-one 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. —AP Europe cybersecurity settings under attack ‘Cyber Europe 2014’ worries experts

BRUSSELS: Even as Europe powered up its most mation systems of individuals, organizations or Responsibility with industry ambitious ever cybersecurity exercise this infrastructure are targeted, whether by crimi- However, Amelia Andersdotter, a Swedish month, doubts were being raised over whether nals, terrorists or even states with an interest in member of the European Parliament with the lib- the continent’s patchwork of online police was disrupting computer networks. The EU estimates ertarian Pirate Party, is dismissive of both the right for the job. The exercise, called Cyber that over recent years there has been an exercise and the European online security model. Europe 2014, is the largest and most complex increase in the frequency and magnitude of Andersdotter, along with a number of European ever enacted, involving 200 organizations and cybercrime and that the attacks go beyond experts, is calling for reforms to move responsi- 400 cybersecurity professionals from both the national borders, while the smaller-scale spread- bility for cybersecurity away from law enforce- European Union and beyond. ing of software viruses is also an increasingly ment agencies toward civilian bodies. Their argu- Yet some critics argued that herding together complex problem. ment is that a civilian agency would be better normally secretive national security agencies The EU’s vulnerability has been highlighted placed to coordinate a response with industry, and demanding that they spend the rest of 2014 over recent years by a number of high-profile which Andersdotter argues has not done enough sharing information amounted to wishful think- cyberattacks, including one against Finland’s for- to safeguard cybersecurity. At present, she told ing. Others questioned whether the law enforce- eign ministry in 2013 and a network disruption AFP, industry actors in software or infrastructure ment agencies taking part in the drill should be of the European Parliament and the European simply report cybercrime to authorities without involved in safeguarding online security, in the Commission in 2011. And with Europe’s supply being required to compensate or inform con- wake of American whistleblower Edward of gas from Russia focusing attention on energy sumers. A civilian authority would end what Snowden’s revelations of online spying by west- security, the highly computerized “smart” energy Andersdotter calls the “conspiracy of database ern governments. “The main concern is national grids which transport and manage energy in the manufacturers and law enforcement agencies” by governments’ reluctance to cooperate,” said EU are also seen as vulnerable. Yet the view from placing greater responsibility with industry. What Professor Bart Preneel, an information security Brussels is that the member states’ reluctance to most experts agree on is that European companies expert from the Catholic University of Leuven, in work together on cybersecurity amounts to and consumers are vulnerable to cybersecurity Belgium. “recklessness”, with one EU source saying nation- threats, and that can have an impact on people’s “You can carry out all of the exercises you al governments were “happy to put their citizens willingness to use online services. want, but cybersecurity really comes down to and economy at risk rather than coordinate James Wootton, from British online security your ability to monitor, and for that, national across the EU.” firm IRM, said the ENISA exercises are a step in the agencies need to speak to each other all the ENISA was established in 2001 when it right direction, but are not enough. “The problem time,” Preneel said. The Crete-based office coor- became clear that cybersecurity in the EU would is nation states wanting to fight cybercrime indi- dinating the EU’s cybersecurity, the European require a level of coordination. Unlike other EU vidually, even when cybercrime does not attack at Union Agency for Network and Information agencies, ENISA does not have regulatory powers that level,” Wootton says, arguing that national Security (ENISA), calls itself a “body of expertise” and relies on the goodwill of the national agen- law enforcement agencies often lack the required and cannot force national agencies to share cies it works with. The agency is undaunted by its resources. “So it is good to look at this at the information. As with most aspects of policing task, arguing that the simulations it stages every European level, but what power does ENISA and national security, the EU’s 28 members have two years, taking in up to 29 European countries, have? What can they force countries to do?” TOKYO: Masayuki Katayama, president of Japan’s auto parts maker Katayama traditionally been reluctant to hand over powers are both effective and necessary in preparing a Eurostat figures show that, by January 2012, only to a central organization, even when-as in the response to cyber-attacks. This week’s simulation 26 percent of EU enterprises had a formally Kogyo, unveils the company’s electric motor called the ‘Walking Bicycle’, dur- case of online attacks-national borders are created what ENISA described as “very realistic” defined information technology security plan in ing a press preview in Tokyo. The new style vehicle can travel a maximum almost irrelevant. incidents in which key infrastructure and nation- place. One industry insider said the view in speed of 24 kph (15 mph), assisted with an electric motor when the user steps al interests came under attack, “mimicking unrest Brussels is that EU cybersecurity was “like teenage on the pedals like walking. The company will put it on the market in July with ‘Citizens, economy at risk’ and political crisis” and “disrupting services for sex: everyone says they are doing it but not that a price of $3,000. —AFP Cyberattacks occur when the computer infor- millions of citizens across Europe.” many actually are.” —AFP EMC redefines data protection for a software-defined world

DUBAI: EMC has recently announced new premise and cloud-based backup and admins to protect their own environments products and technologies that address the archive environments as they evolve. The and includes support for Oracle, SAP solu- full continuum of data protection require- Data Protection Suite consists of EMC’s tions, the SAP HANA platform, IBM DB2 and ments facing users, both today and as they Avamar, NetWorker, Data Protection Microsoft SQL Server. address the challenge of transitioning to AdvisorTM, Mozy and SourceOneTM soft- New secure multi-tenancy feature for software-defined data centers. In software- ware offerings. With this significant release cloud deployments enables Data Domain defined data centers, infrastructure is virtual- of the Data Protection Suite, new capabilities systems to deliver secure isolation for large ized and delivered as a service. To maintain include: Snapshot Management for EMC enterprises and service providers and effec- effective protection during the transition to Isilon, EMC VNX and NetApp arrays to tively function as a protection storage plat- next generation environments, data protec- improve protection for NAS-based data. form in data protection as-a-service deploy- tion strategies and technologies must also Deep support for VMware and Microsoft ments. Archive storage enhancements evolve to a service-based delivery model. cloud infrastructures via unique integration include support for 1 billion files, further EMC’s data protection solutions span the full with VMware vCloud Suite and Microsoft broadening Data Domain systems’ support- range of customers’ data protection needs, System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Full ed use cases. from archive to continuous availability for integration between Avamar and Data physical, virtual and cloud environments. Domain provides the best that both plat- New VPLEX and Software With today’s announcement, EMC adds new forms can offer. Enhanced security features Through new software releases from the integrations with primary and protection and new Linux support for Mozypublic EMC VPLEX and EMC RecoverPoint product storage platforms, and with hypervisors and clouds enable greater adoption by enter- lines, EMC accentuates its unique ability to enterprise applications, while extending prise customers. address the full continuum of data protec- support for cloud environments and deliver- tion needs, offering continuous availability, ing new technologies that enable data pro- Storage Capabilities mobility and disaster recovery for more envi- tection-as-a-service delivery. These innova- With the introduction of a new EMC Data ronments and multi-site configurations: tions drive new efficiencies into customer Domain Operating System, EMC continues VPLEX and RecoverPoint now combine to environments today, while laying a founda- to evolve Data Domain’s position as the deliver MetroPoint topology, an industry- tion that helps EMC customers move confi- industry’s de-facto open protection storage unique 3 site business continuity capability dently to software-defined data centers. platform, with capabilities that extend its for mission critical applications. MetroPoint support far beyond just backup to establish topology combines VPLEX Metro continu- Technology Highlights it as a cornerstone for enabling delivery of ous availability with RecoverPoint remote NANJING: A visitor looks at models of an aircraft carrier fleet, including China’s first aircraft carrier Liaoning The EMC Data Protection Suite redefines data protection as-a-service. New capabili- replication and continuous data protection the usage model for data protection soft- ties include: The introduction of Data (CDP) to efficiently deliver comprehensive (center), on display at Defense Park in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu province. As China boosts its military ware by enabling flexible application of inte- Domain DD BoostTM for Enterprise operational and disaster recovery over any spending, rattling neighbors over territorial disputes at sea, records show that European countries have grated products to optimize both on- Applications, which empowers application distance. approved billions in transfers of weapons and military-ready technology to the Asian giant. —AFP MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Cancer care in Britain ‘a national shame’ Patients diagnosed too late

LONDON: Cancer care in Britain has been Lack of compassion diagnosed via emergency admission to hospital, dubbed a national shame, and despite many Macmillan’s report says one in three (32%) rather than through screening or GP referral, ris- people with the disease living longer, patients people with cancer die within a year of diagno- ing to half all cases of pancreatic and nearly two- are being denied a dignified death, according to sis, suggesting for many diagnosis is too late, thirds of brain or central nervous system cancers. a leading charity. Too many people are diag- and lambasts lack of information and support It also says that there is “a shocking postcode nosed too late, are shown a lack of compassion for patients and shortages of specialist cancer lottery” within the UK over survival rates, treat- during their care and feel abandoned after treat- nurses. It says there is lack of compassion ment and care for those with cancer. ment, said Ciarin Devane, chief executive of towards some patients when they are at their The report also points to research on cancer Macmillan Cancer Support. most vulnerable. Significant numbers of those survival published in the Lancet medical journal His damning verdict accompanied the chari- with cancer “experience long-term physical, three years ago, for colorectal, lung, breast and ty’s first state of the nation report which con- emotional, financial and work issues”. ovarian cancer in Australia, Canada, Denmark, INDIANAPOLIS: This file photo provided by the National Institute for Allergy and demns UK governments for lagging behind Calling for a shift in funds from hospitals to Norway, Sweden and Britain. It was persistently Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission of the MERS coronavirus that western European countries and others on can- community care, the charity calls for govern- lower in Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, emerged in 2012. — AP cer survival rates. ment focus on reducing late diagnosis, priority and Wales, particularly in the first year after diag- “Any notions that cancer care in the UK is for patients’ experiences alongside clinical mat- nosis and for patients aged 65 years and older. ‘fixed’ are rubbished by our findings,” said ters and to let patients spend their final days in The proportion of people with lung cancer the place of their choosing and with free social dying within a year of diagnosis in the UK was Indiana MERS Devane. “While the NHS does amazing things care. Macmillan points to the disparity in 70%, compared with 65% in Denmark, 61% in every day, it is a national shame that our cancer patients’ wishes on where they want to die, Norway and 56% in Sweden. The Department of survival rates are among the worst in Europe, patient improving shown in its own online survey in 2010, and Health in England said: “We want the UK to be that patients are being treated with a lack of dig- where they do die, as recorded for England and the best place in the world to survive cancer. We nity, or being denied a ‘good’ death. Wales in 2012 by the Office for National have invested £750m over four years to support INDIANAPOLIS: A man hospitalized in killed hundreds of people, mostly in Asia, in “Cancer patients no longer either simply get Indiana with the first US case of a mysteri- a short-lived outbreak. Statistics. Thus while 73% of those with cancer early diagnosis and improve access to screening cured or die. Many live a long time but struggle ous virus that has sickened hundreds in the Gov. Mike Pence said Friday the Indiana want to die at home, more than a quarter else- and have already seen significant improvements with serious health problems,” said Devane. Middle East is improving, state health offi- Department of Health is working to track where, and less than 1% in hospital, in reality in some cancer survival rates. “With the number of people living with can- cials said yesterday. the MERS case and to assess the risk to the only 30% die at home, 32% elsewhere and 38% “The recent cancer experience survey has cer set to increase, political parties must ask The Indiana Department of Health said public and to prevent the spread of the in hospital, the report says. shown high levels of satisfaction with the care themselves - how will we cope with these grow- in a statement late Saturday that the virus. Pence encouraged those who may and compassion shown to patients. However, ing numbers when we cannot even meet the patient remains at Community Hospital in have been exposed to the virus to report End-of-life care the NHS always works to improve standards. We needs of many people today? ... With a UK can- Munster in good condition and is “improv- symptoms to their medical provider. It cites evidence from the British Journal of are starting a review looking at the issue of cer crisis looming, we must take action now.” ing each day.” Federal and state health officials on Cancer that one in four cancers in England are choice in end-of-life care.” —AFP The statement also said that as of Friday said the man flew from Saudi Arabia Saturday, no other cases of Middle East to the United States on April 24, with a stop Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, have been in London. He landed in Chicago and took identified. Representatives from the a bus to Indiana. He didn’t become sick Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until Sunday, the Centers for Disease arrived at the hospital Saturday morning. Control and Prevention said. The man fell ill with Middle East respira- He went to the emergency room at tory syndrome, or MERS, after flying to the Community Hospital with a fever, cough U.S. late last week from Saudi Arabia, where and shortness of breath. J. Eric Dietz, direc- he was a health care worker. Calls to tor of Purdue Homeland Security Institute Community Hospital in Munster, in north- and the former executive director of the west Indiana, referred the media to the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, Borshoff public relations firm in said the smartest thing people worried Indianapolis, where spokeswoman Andrea about MERS can do is take routine precau- Farmer said the hospital does not plan to tions, such as washing hand regularly and give daily updates. The man was listed in avoiding others who are sick. good condition on Friday. “If you have to provide caregiving for A Purdue University biology professor somebody when they’re sick, then step up said Saturday the illness’s presence in the hand-washing,” he said. “Wipe down Indiana shows why research about the surfaces with anti-bacterial or chlorine coronavirus family that causes everything from the common cold to MERS to SARS is wipes to try to make sure the contact haz- important. ard isn’t quite so severe.” Mesecar said he doesn’t think people Routine precautions should be too concerned about MERS if “We really need to understand the dif- they haven’t been to the Middle East or ferences in these coronaviruses so we can had contact with someone from the have ... therapeutics or know how to make Middle East. MERS can spread from person vaccines, a lot like we do with the flu now,” to person, but officials believe that hap- Andrew Mesecar said. pens only after close contact. Mesecar said Mesecar is part of a team at the West officials haven’t yet been able to define Lafayette university that has been working exactly what close contact means, saying to develop a pill that would help people they do know someone sitting in the front who have been infected with SARS, or of a plane doesn’t have to worry about severe acute respiratory syndrome, recover catching it from someone in the back of and help protect those who know they the plane. “It’s hard to define that right ‘Save Your Eyesight’ with Vision Express have been exposed to it. In 2003, SARS now,” he said. —AP KUWAIT: Vision Express, Kuwait’s leading opti- Vision Express encourages everyone to take The activity will be educational and informative cal retailer and eye health expert, has advantage of this platform and have their eyes as the audience will interact with experts on the announced the launching of its ‘Save Your tested during this event which runs from April subject who will be using state of the art tech- Colorado pot law ‘a fiction’ Eyesight’ campaign at The Avenues. This unique 16 to 24. nology and digital screens. event aims to educate mall patrons about the Vision Express is organising ‘Save Your “Not many people realize that their eye sight MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay: Uruguay has finally homes and open-air locations. As with liquor, importance of eye health and vision care Eyesight’ for the first time in Kuwait, with the might be slowly deteriorating. And this could be released its rules for the legal marijuana mar- motorists will be subject to testing by police through live eye screening while also creating generous support of The Avenues, the country’s affecting the way they drive, their performance ket it is launching this year, detailing how the to make sure they’re not driving under the awareness about the newest and innovative favourite shopping destination. at the office and even the way they see the government plans to get very involved in influence. products available for vision correction. A Vision Express team of licensed opticians world. I am honored to be asked to participate every aspect of the business. But anyone hop- The state will sell five different strains, con- Vision Express is committed to ensuring that and eye care experts will be carrying out free in this pioneering endeavor at the vision booth ing the South American nation will become a taining a maximum level of 15 percent THC, the public understands how crucial it is to have eye checkups and a free contact lens fitting by and I look forward to educating the public pot-smoker’s paradise should probably head the substance that gets consumers high. Each one’s eyesight examined annually. By generous- ACUVUE®. Customers will also be receiving a about personalized eye health and the range of to Colorado instead, President Jose Mujica bag will be bar-coded, radio-frequency ly providing the vision care podium, Vision free ACUVUE® Brand Contact lens upon pur- expert services available at Vision Express,” said suggested on Friday. tagged, and registered in a genetic database Express takes a significant step in raising eye chase of an optical frame from Ray-Ban, Vogue distinguished optometrist Dr Hisham Ahmed “It’s a complete fiction what they do in that will enable authorities to trace its origin care awareness across Kuwait. Eyewear, Burberry, Versace or Emporio Armani. Kamel. Colorado” in terms of controlling the sale and and determine its legality, Canepa said. The use of legal marijuana, Mujica said in an rules limit licensed growers to six plants per Associated Press interview. household - not per person, as some pot Colorado licenses sellers and producers enthusiasts had hoped. And while people School agriculture programs but allows any adult to buy up to 28 grams at who buy in pharmacies will be identified by a time - and then go down the street and buy fingerprint readers to preserve their anonymi- flourish as farms dwindle 28 grams more. In Uruguay, consumers must ty, every user’s pot consumption will be be licensed as well, and each purchase will be tracked in a government database. ST. LOUIS: High school agriculture programs and the only thing that grew out of it were weeds,” ry course. Some of the courses earn the students tracked to ensure they buy no more than 10 Mujica predicted that many will call him sprouting across the nation’s Corn Belt are teaching she admits. Yet Goodman aspires to be a conserva- high school science credits. grams a week, he said. an elderly reactionary once they see this fine teenagers, many of them in urban environments, tion officer, crediting tiny Beech Grove schools’ Mujica and his ministers plan to sign the print, but he says his government never that careers in the field often have nothing to do fledgling agricultural sciences program with steer- State fund regulations on Monday, and they’ll take effect intended to create a mecca for marijuana with cows and plows. ing her that way. Such offerings increasingly have cropped up in on Tuesday. lovers. The curriculums, taking hold as school budgets Beech Grove’s Applied Life Sciences Academy, many states in recent years in the nation’s bread- “No addiction is good,” he said. “We aren’t tighten and the numbers of farms in the US unveiled in November 2012, is billed as a place of basket. Seven Kansas high schools and four in Health risks going to promote smokefests, bohemianism, decline, are rich in science and touted as stepping hands-on, frequently technical exploration of live Nebraska joined the fold in the past school year. In two weeks, the government will take all this stuff they try to pass off as innocuous stones for college-bound students considering plants and animals. Educators say it makes a con- Over the past three years, Missouri has added sev- applications from businesses hoping to when it isn’t. They’ll label us elderly reac- careers in everything from urban forestry to renew- nection, helping students who otherwise may en to bring its statewide total to 331 - up 82 from become one of a handful of growers supply- tionaries. But this isn’t a policy that seeks to able natural resources and genetic engineering of grapple with comprehending concepts and theo- two decades ago - and Illinois added 10. ing marijuana to the state. By early December, expand marijuana consumption. What it aims crops, perhaps for agribusiness giants such as ries in a traditional math or science class. Beech Grove’s program, among 13 the state has a network of pharmacies will be ready to sup- to do is keep it all within reason, and not Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and Pioneer. “We live on the motto that 99 percent of the added since 2010, has two middle school and two ply the weed to registered consumers at less allow it to become an illness.” Ag-minded students are in luck: Tens of thou- population doesn’t have anything to do with (farm) high school teachers for nearly 500 students, a than a dollar a gram, presidential spokesman With bona fide plants registered at the sands of jobs open up each year in the broader production,” said Chris Kaufman, a former state number that helps the program pay for itself Diego Canepa said late Friday. molecular level, police can test for illegal agriculture field, and roughly half are filled by col- education department ag specialist who helped thanks to a state fund that gives districts a per-stu- As with tobacco, the pot will come in weed wherever they encounter it, and arrest lege grads with actual ag-related degrees, set up Beech Grove’s program. dent stipend depending on the class. Those pay- packages warning of health risks, and smok- anyone with pot that lacks the proper genetic observers say. “There’s a shortage of workers in a Classes include animal science, plant and soil outs range from $375 to $450 per student, ing will be prohibited everywhere but private markers, the rules say.— AP number of careers, and the numbers of those jobs science, separate offerings of advanced animal and accounting for what Kaufman says has funneled are staggering,” said Harley Hepner, the Illinois plant science, natural resources, and an introducto- $180,000 into Beech Grove’s coffers.—AP State Board of Education’s chief consultant for ag education. “Schools that understand we can get students in the ag program know they’re going to be taxpaying citizens with good-paying jobs.”

Downward trend Along with school programs, membership in Future Farmers of America is up to about 580,000 - nearly double its ranks of the mid-1980s. That spike dispels the notion the national organization is merely a haven for farm kids, given that the num- ber of US farms are on a long-term downward trend, shrinking another 4 percent between 2007 and 2012, according to the latest federal figures available. Untold numbers of FFA members have scant to do with farms, as Rebecca Goodman illustrates. In Indiana, where corn is king, the 18-year-old junior is her school’s active FFA president but could never be confused for a country girl. Goodman, MONTEVIDEO: Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica drives his Volkswagen Beetle on the who’s lived in Indianapolis since she was 3, had dirt road that leads to his home, with his wife, Sen Lucia Topolansky, on the outskirts never been on a farm, and her experience with ani- of Montevideo yesterday. Mujica says the country’s legal marijuana market will be mals is limited to cats and dogs. INDIANAPOLIS: Rebecca Goodman makes a flower out of clay during a Plant and Soil Science much less permissive with drug users. —AP “The only thing I planted was a small garden, class at Beech Grove High School in Indianapolis. — AP

WHAT’S ON MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

—Photos by Joseph Shagra Sri Lankans share the joy of Sinhala, Tamil New Year with IWG

he wife of the Sri Lankan Ambassador Mrs the contentment of this festive season Mrs Wijeratne ing performances. daughter of the Sri Lankan Ambassador steered this fasci- Jayalakshmi Wijeratne hosted a cultural event at the organised a multitude of events. The lighting of the oil The Radisson Blu Hotel’s culinary department had cour- nating event. The program turned out to be a huge success TInternational Women’s Group monthly meeting lamp at the start of the program by ladies of various eth- teously prepared a range of Sri Lankan dishes in an eye- and Mrs Wijeratne’s wish to promote Sri Lankan tourism which was held on the 4th of May 2014 at the Radisson Blu nicities brought a traditional aura to this event. World pleasing manner. The Embassy of Sri Lanka enriched this was fulfilled when many members of the IWG said “We will Hotel. renowned percussionist Jananath Warakagoda and a event by arranging valuable prizes for raffle winners, be going to Sri Lanka!” This event showcased the age-old Mrs Wijeratne stated that Sri Lanka celebrated the group of dancers from the Channa-Upuli dance troupe through the generous sponsorships of Jetwing Travels, cultural heritage of Sri Lanka, which is what makes Sri Sinhala and Tamil New Year on the 14th of April. To share captivated the hearts of the audience with their mesmeriz- Kuwait Airways, and Crowne Plaza. Amaya Wijeratne, Lanka truly the wonder of Asia. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 AUK library celebrates World Health Day

o commemorate World Health Day, the Library at the American University of TKuwait (AUK) organized an event entitled Tips, Ticks and Talks to promote healthy prac- tices that should be observed to escape avoid- able stress on the mind and body. The event was moderated by the Library Media Intern, Abdulrahman Al Bastaki, and was catered with food provided by Caveboy Grubs, a local health food provider. Professor Maryam Hosseinnia, Associate Professor of Graphic Design at AUK, who also instructs yoga sessions, has spent some time Walid Kanafany Mrs Zeina Ramadan travelling to different places to learn a variety of yoga techniques. She explained that yoga can help the body overcome stress and bring relief to the mind. Yoga can be practiced any- ACK hosts its annual where at any time. Her tip to the attendees was, “Anytime you feel the need to do it [yoga], integrated marketing then just do it.” The Director of the Career Service and communications forum Wellness Center at AUK, Jason Sullivan, shared with the attendees some methods on how to Fadhel Husain, founder Maryam Hosseinnia, Associate Professor deal with and eliminate stress. He offered of Caveboy Grubs of Graphic Design at AUK he School of Business at the Kanafany, President of the IAA, stressed on some tricks to promote restful sleeps and Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) the association’s keen desire to encourage deeper relaxation. Sullivan suggested taking Thosted its first “Annual Marketing all steps for the sake of the development long, hot showers before going to sleep and Communications Forum” under the theme: and growth of media and marketing serv- taking up coloring as a hobby, as it helps the “Integrated Marketing Communications, ices in the market. mind to relax. He also advised students to Challenges & Successes in Kuwait and the Strategy and Innovation Manager at escape stress by avoiding last-minute prepara- Gulf Region”. The forum brought together Habchi & Chalhoub, Zeina Ramadan, stat- tions for their exams and presentations. leaders from a wide range of sectors such ed: “It was a real honor and pleasure being Finally, Fadhel Husain, founder of Caveboy as telecom, hospitality management, retail part of the ACK forum. Collaborating with Grubs, talked about selecting the food items and advertising, as well as entrepreneurs professionals, students and experts will most suitable for the digestive system and the and academics to share expertise, tech- help leverage the marketing & communi- importance of getting checked for any food niques and experiences that influence and cations function in Kuwait and promote allergies. Caveboy Grubs specializes in offering shape the marketing industry. learning within the field. Forums like this a healthier alternative to traditional treats. The forum’s guest panel consisted of equip our youth, who are the leaders of Following the presentations, students and fac- Walid Kanafany from the International tomorrow, with tools & practices indispen- ulty attending the event were invited to sam- Advertising Association (IAA), Fajer S. Al- sable to their success. We hope this forum ple some of Caveboy Grubs items. Mutawa from Gulf University for Science is the first of many to come and a stepping The World Health Day is an annual event ini- Jason Sullivan, Director of the Career Service and Wellness Center at AUK. and Technology (GUST), Mirvat Wehbe stone towards more fruitful cooperation.” tiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) from the Hilton Hotel Group, Zeina ACK’s School of Business would like to in 1950. Traditionally celebrated on April 7 of Ramadan from Habchi & Chalhoub, Ahmed thank the speakers and attendees for each Year, the date WHO was founded, World Naji from Al-Zayani Motors, Farah being an integral part of its inaugural Health Day is seen as an opportunity by the Bahbahani from Pencilvent, Sevan “Annual Integrated Marketing organization to draw worldwide attention to a Vartanian from Blu Lowe and Ibrahim Al- Communications Forum” and looks for- subject of major importance to global health Kandari. ward to conducting the 2ndinstallation in each year. During the opening speech, Walid the near future. The American University of Kuwait (AUK) is an independent, private, equal opportunity, and co-educational liberal arts institution of McDonald’s introduces The higher education. The educational, cultural and administrative structure, methods and Italian as Tastes of the standards of AUK are based on the American model of higher learning. The language of World promotion continues instruction is English. More information on the American University of Kuwait can be found cDonald’s Kuwait launched The recently launched The Brazilian and The atwww.auk.edu.kw A group session Italian, the latest sandwich in the French sandwiches. Sherif Coutry, Marketing Mthird consecutive year of its highly- Director at McDonald’s Kuwait said “The anticipated Tastes of the World promotion, response we have seen so far for the Tastes of which came back this year with a unique the World promotion has been even better JW Marriott launches annual lobster wonders than we ever anticipated. As much as our cus- tomers enjoy and delight in our classic menu festival at Terrace Grill steakhouse offerings, these seasonal promotions contin- or the 8th consecutive year, JW main course dishes showcase the band entertainment from Saturdays freshly sourced and prepared to suit ue to be a huge draw. McDonald’s is always Marriott Hotel Kuwait City cele- lobster in many delicious forms - to Thursdays in the backdrop of a everyone’s gourmet seafood tastes. looking to give its customers original, novel brated the launch of its much- including barbeque spiced lobster, soothing fountain with the signature Our enthusiastic crew looks forward and always delicious choices to enhance their F awaited Lobster Wonders Festival at Thermidor lobster, grilled lobster, Terrace Grill ambience. to serving guests the freshest food in dining experience at our restaurants. As the the famous Terrace Grill steakhouse. Canadian lobster, pan fried lobster Alwin Karkada, Director of a comfortable, relaxing atmosphere.” official sponsors of the 2014 FIFA (tm) World Joseph D’Costa, Executive Chef at medallions and much more, pre- Restaurants at JW Marriott Hotel not- The promotion, which is taking place Cup, which is only a few short months away, the JW Marriott hotel, is working pared in the magnificent “show ed, “Prepared by our team of interna- from May 1st until May 31st, is avail- this promotion came at the perfect time.” with the culinary team to prepare kitchen” - a noteworthy feature that tionally acclaimed chefs, it is our able every day for lunch from 12:30 McDonald’s yesterday also announced the the anticipated dishes for this popu- the restaurant is famous for. Guests pleasure to once again offer the pm to 3 pm and from 7 pm to 11 pm FIFA World Cup theme. The Italian offers a return of the beloved Chicken McBites for a lar annual promotion. A variety of can also enjoy an atmosphere of live finest selection of exotic lobsters for dinner. crispy, Grand Chicken Halal chicken patty, limited time only, available with two options topped with garlic basil sauce, lettuce, toma- of seasoning; Garlic and Pepper or Nacho toes, and Emmental cheese, on a sourdough CheeseMcShakers which once again, invite bun. The Italian will be available in all customers to roll up their sleeves and have a McDonald’s Kuwait restaurants starting April little fun with their food. On the sweeter side 26th for a limited time only. of the menu, the limited time Red Berry The Italian is the third sandwich to launch Sundae featuring pieces of real berries; is now as part of this year’s Tastes of the World pro- available for those who want to end off their motion, and it arrives on the heels of the meal with a special treat.

Buntara Sangha Kuwait celebrates Bunta Ugadi Parba 2014

untara Sangha Kuwait celebrated Bunta Ugadi Parbha at a glittering ceremony at the Indian BEmbassy Auditorium. The event concluded successfully and it was undoubtedly appreciated amongst the Buntara Sangha Kuwait members. The program began with an invocation to the almighty in the form of Satyanarayans Pooja, which was attend- ed by the Indian Ambassador to Kuwait Sunil Jain, followed by a prayer from Laxmi Shetty, and the lightning of the lamp from managing committee with the Indian Ambassador. The welcome speech was delivered by President Guruprasad Hegde who stressed the importance of celebrating festivity with reographed and performed by Laxmi Hegde and brotherhood and the glory it bestows on the Team. The day’s Mega event, a gratitude to 100 years Sangha. Ambassador Sunil Jain mentioned about his of Film Industry showcased Bollywood 50s - 90s visit to Udupi years back and expressed his best Theme. The whole event was performed by over 45 wishes to the Ugadi Parba celebration. plus kids from age group 4 to 14 yrs dance to the The cultural program began with a fancy dress evergreen tunes with grace, passion and elegance competition for age group 0-4 years with cartoon which took the audience back to the nostalgic era character as a theme. Dr Shekhar Shetty and Anitha where both music and dance were considered melo- Adyanthaya were the judges for the competition. dious, sacred and classical. The choreographers The next program Prince and Princess for kids Laxmi Hegde, Sanmathi Menda, Preeti Shetty, Sujaya with two categories 4-7 and 7-10 age group wit- Shetty and Shalini Alva deserve all the praises for nessed beauty as well walking the ramp with pride. working hard with the kids as well encouraging and Lu&Lu cookery competition winners Our Guest judges were Divya Krishna Prasad and portraying those talent on stage. Background narra- CoolPix camera was Pradeep Shetty. Prize distribu- Kaveri Mohan. The event was well organized by tion by Preeti Shetty was delivered with both passion tion for the winners of fancy dress competition and all the participants in various events was done by l Ainul Misriya Ashraf — Italian/Continental l Dandin Rivera — Filipino/Thai Category Preeti Shetty and Sujaya Shetty. and wit. Managing Committee. Vote of thanks was delivered Category l Ainul Misriya Ashraf — Chinese Category Post lunch the current Managing Committee felic- Melodious song sung by Prakash Shetty and by General Secretary Chethan Prakash Adappa. A l Jesny Shameer — Italian/Continental l Safoora Sameer — Chinese Category itated the previous year Managing committee for Kushi Shetty and solo performance by Laxmi Shetty special thanks of gratitude to all our sponsors and Category l Fathimath Zareena B.H — Chinese their excellent work and management. President added the extra flavor to a beautiful program. Two well-wishers. l Maheen Pervez — Italian/Continental Category Guruprasad Hegde had also decided to felicitate short Skit performed by Prashanth Alva, Surendra The program was well anchored by Praveen Category l Sana Abdulhamid N. — Indian Category some of the exceptional members of the Sangha for Shetty & Shodhan Shetty added the spicy and witty Kumar Shankat and Shalini Alva. The background l Dina Abdul Hamid K. — Arabic Category l Fathimath Zareena BH — Indian Category their untiring contribution to the Sangha during the tadka with perfection and timing brought the audi- music was handled by Ratan Rai. The overall event l Rozan Ibrahim — Arabic Category l Kuntal Rakesh — Indian Category year 2013. In his speech, the President sincerely ence to a smile which was well directed by Manoj was well orchestrated by Cultural Secretary Santosh l Noorul Fathima Jameel — Arabic Category l Anitha Somraj — Dessert Category wished such effort may bring in incentives to other Shetty. Rai and team. The program concluded with singing l Marvin L. Pulido — Filipino/Thai Category l Ainul Misriya Ashraf — Dessert Category members and help the sangha to grow more popular. The mega raffle draw of Lenovo Notebook was of the Indian national anthem. l Marivic P. Torres — Filipino/Thai Category l Jesny Shameer — Dessert Category Cultural event began with Invocation dance cho- won by Vijay Alva, the second winner of Nikon TV PROGRAMS MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

09:30 Border Security 09:55 Baggage Battles 10:20 The Liquidator 10:45 How It’s Made Author sues 00:45 Perfect Predators 11:10 How Stuff’s Made 02:25 Best Bites: 25 Greatest Shark 11:35 Fast N’ Loud 00:00 Secret History of UFOs Moments 12:25 Wheeler Dealers 02:00 One Ocean Warner Bros over 03:15 Natural World 13:15 Extreme Car Hoarders 03:00 Alaska Wing Men 04:05 Shamwari: A Wild Life 14:05 Border Security 04:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 04:55 Animal Cops South Africa 14:30 Baggage Battles 05:00 The Known Universe ‘Gravity’ profits 05:45 Treehouse Masters 14:55 The Liquidator 06:00 Alaska Wing Men 06:35 Wildlife SOS 15:20 Flying Wild Alaska 07:00 Brave New World 07:00 Escape To Chimp Eden 16:10 Fast N’ Loud 08:00 Secret History of UFOs 07:25 Bad Dog 17:00 Flying Wild Alaska 10:00 One Ocean 08:15 The Magic Of The Big Blue 17:50 Wheeler Dealers 11:00 Wild Florida 09:10 Too Cute! 18:40 You Have Been Warned 12:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 10:05 Lion Man: One World African 19:30 Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell 13:00 The Known Universe Safari 20:20 How It’s Made 14:00 Alaska Wing Men 11:00 Animal Precinct 20:45 How Stuff’s Made 15:00 Brave New World 11:55 Escape To Chimp Eden 21:10 Baggage Battles 16:00 The Best Job In The World 12:20 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 21:35 The Liquidator 17:00 Predator CSI 12:50 Animal Maternity Ward 22:00 Gold Rush 18:00 Prehistoric Predators 13:45 Austin Stevens Adventures 22:50 Klondike 19:00 Helicopter Wars 14:40 Lion Man: One World African 23:40 Gold Divers 20:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest Safari 21:00 Animal Intervention 15:30 Treehouse Masters 22:00 Mega Breakdown 16:30 The Magic Of The Big Blue 23:00 My Dog Ate What? 17:25 Nature’s Newborns 18:20 Panda Adventures With Nigel Marven 00:00 The Soup 19:15 Too Cute! 00:30 The Dance Scene 20:10 Preposterous Pets 01:25 Style Star 21:05 Lion Man: One World African 01:50 Style Star 00:20 I, Predator Safari 02:20 E!ES 01:10 World’s Weirdest 22:00 Too Cute! 03:15 Extreme Close-Up 02:00 World’s Deadliest Killer Three 22:55 Preposterous Pets 03:40 Extreme Close-Up 02:50 Animal Impact 23:50 Animal Cops Phoenix 04:10 E!ES 03:45 Killer Dragons 05:05 THS 04:40 How Big Can It Get 06:00 THS 05:35 World’s Deadliest Killer Three 07:50 Style Star 06:30 Animal Impact 08:20 E! News 07:25 Killer Dragons 09:15 Opening Act 00:15 Absolutely Fabulous 08:20 Aerial Assasins 10:15 Married To Jonas uthor Tess Gerritsen has sued Warner Bros. 00:40 Doctor Who 09:15 Shear Madness 10:40 Chasing The Saturdays claiming the studio owes her millions in 01:25 Upstairs Downstairs 10:10 World’s Weirdest 11:10 Giuliana & Bill profits from the Oscar-winning hit film 02:15 Silk 11:05 Wild Case Files A 12:05 E! News 03:10 Waking The Dead 12:00 Hooked “Gravity.” But the studio is pointing to her own 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 04:00 Me & Mrs Jones 12:55 World’s Deadliest Animals statements downplaying similarities between the 13:35 E!ES 04:30 Absolutely Fabulous 13:50 Alien Crab blockbuster and one of her novels. Gerritsen sued 14:30 Style Star 05:00 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 14:45 Cougar Vs Wolf Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. in a Los Angeles 15:00 Keeping Up With The 05:20 The Green Balloon Club 15:40 Make Me A Dino Kardashians federal court on Tuesday, alleging the studio vio- 05:45 Poetry Pie 16:35 Shear Madness 17:00 The Drama Queen lated an agreement she had with one of its sub- 05:50 Gigglebiz 17:30 Wild Case Files 18:00 E! News sidiaries to turn her novel “Gravity” into a movie. 06:05 Bobinogs 18:25 In The Womb 19:00 E!ES Gerritsen, whose books include a series that is 06:15 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 19:20 World’s Deadliest Animals 20:00 Keeping Up With The basis for the TNT show “Rizzoli & Isles,” sold the film 06:35 The Green Balloon Club 20:10 Alien Crab Kardashians rights to the “Gravity” novel for $1 million in 1999. 07:00 Poetry Pie 21:00 Cougar Vs Wolf 21:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On BEAUTIFUL CREATURES ON OSN MOVIES KIDS Warner Bros declined comment on the case, but 07:05 Gigglebiz 21:50 Make Me A Dino 21:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 07:20 Bobinogs 22:40 Shear Madness spokesman Paul McGuire noted that in October 22:00 Hello Ross 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 07:30 Me & Mrs Jones Gerritsen told an audience at an Indiana public 22:30 The Fabulist 18:00 Community 09:30 IPL Highlights 08:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 10:30 IPL Highlights library that the film wasn’t based on her book. 23:00 Beyond Candid With Giuliana 19:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 The Vicar Of Dibley 19:30 Trophy Wife 11:30 IPL Highlights “ ‘Yea, ‘Gravity’ is a great film, but it’s not based 09:00 Eastenders 20:00 The Goldbergs 01:00 Firelight-18 12:30 IPL Highlights on my book,” the Greencastle Banner-Graphic 09:30 Doctors 20:30 Parks And Recreation 03:00 Hesher-18 13:30 Live IPL newspaper quoted Gerritsen as telling the audi- 10:00 Casualty 00:00 Parks And Recreation 21:00 Last Week Tonight With John 05:00 L’amour C’est Mieux A Deux- 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 ence. The paper noted the author said she had 10:50 Incredible Journeys With 00:30 The Daily Show Global Oliver PG15 17:30 Live IPL seen the movie, which starred Sandra Bullock, Steve Leonard CHOICE HD Edition 07:00 Saving Grace B. Jones-PG15 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 before her appearance. Gerritson’s lawsuit states 21:30 IPL 11:40 Me & Mrs Jones 00:05 Blandings 01:00 The Colbert Report Global 09:00 Look Again-PG15 she believes “Gravity” director Alfonso Cuaron was 12:10 Last Of The Summer Wine 00:35 The Jonathan Ross Show Edition 11:00 A League Of Their Own-PG15 attached to adapt the book into a screenplay with- 12:40 The Vicar Of Dibley 01:30 Emmerdale 02:30 Weeds 13:00 Lying To Be Perfect-PG15 15:00 Five-PG15 out her knowledge years before the movie was 13:10 Eastenders 02:25 Coronation Street 03:00 Dads 00:00 Almost Human 17:00 A League Of Their Own-PG15 actually made. The author sold the rights to her 13:40 Doctors 02:55 Come Dine With Me Ireland 03:30 The Neighbors 01:00 Top Gear (US) 19:00 Freedom Writers-PG15 novel to a production company that was bought 14:10 Casualty 03:25 Tom Daley Goes Global 04:00 Seinfeld 02:00 Supernatural 21:00 The Whistleblower-18 by Warner Bros in 2008. 15:00 Incredible Journeys With 04:20 The Chase 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 03:00 Nip/Tuck 01:20 Scarecrow-18 23:00 Intolerable Cruelty-PG15 Steve Leonard 05:15 May The Best House Win Jimmy Fallon 04:00 Burn Notice 03:10 Point Blank The novel and film have some similarities, but 15:50 Last Of The Summer Wine Abroad 05:30 My Boys 05:00 Witches Of East End 04:45 The Rounders-PG their stories aren’t identical. The novel features a 16:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 06:10 The Jonathan Ross Show 06:00 The Goodwin Games 06:00 Almost Human 07:00 Tribute To A Bad Man-PG female medical doctor trapped in space after an 17:10 Eastenders 07:05 Come Dine With Me Ireland 06:30 Friends 07:00 Betrayal 08:35 Mogambo-PG organism infects her fellow astronauts and kills 17:40 Doctors 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 10:30 Cimarron-FAM 07:30 Tom Daley Goes Global 08:00 Zero Hour 01:30 Bullet To The Head-18 them. Her husband, who is on Earth, fights efforts 18:10 The Weakest Link 08:25 The Chase 08:00 Seinfeld 09:00 Top Gear (US) 12:55 The Rounders-PG 08:30 My Boys 03:15 Peeples-PG15 to leave his wife in space to die alone. Gerritsen’s 19:00 Only Fools And Horses 09:20 May The Best House Win 10:00 Witches Of East End 14:20 The Time Machine-FAM 09:00 Dads 05:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG lawsuit states the author added elements such as 19:30 Rev. Abroad 11:00 Burn Notice 16:00 April In Paris-PG 09:30 2 Broke Girls 07:00 The Iron Lady-PG15 17:45 The Prize-PG the destruction of the International Space Station 20:00 Waking The Dead 10:15 Doc Martin 12:00 Emmerdale 10:00 Two And A Half Men 09:00 Ice Age: Continental Drift-PG 20:05 Rebel Without A Cause-PG by space debris - a key moment in the film - to a 20:55 Spooks 11:10 Emmerdale 12:30 Coronation Street 11:00 Beautiful Creatures-PG15 21:45 Me & Mrs Jones 10:30 Friends 14:00 Zero Hour 22:00 The Arrangement-PG screenplay she wrote to try to get her book on the 12:00 Coronation Street 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 13:00 Magic Journey To Africa- 22:15 Upstairs Downstairs 15:00 Almost Human big screen.”Gravity” the film does not feature any 12:30 The Jonathan Ross Show Jimmy Fallon PG15 23:10 The Weakest Link 13:25 May The Best House Win 16:00 Emmerdale 15:00 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog outbreak of an organism, and Bullock’s character is 12:00 The Goodwin Games 16:30 Coronation Street cut off from communication with Earth and does Abroad 12:30 Seinfeld Days-PG 14:20 Doc Martin 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 17:00 Ice Age: Continental Drift-PG not receive any aid from people on the ground. 13:00 My Boys 18:00 Zero Hour 15:10 Come Dine With Me Ireland 18:30 Lincoln-PG15 The lawsuit is not alleging any copyright 13:30 Friends 19:00 Drop Dead Diva 00:00 Ultimate Wheels 15:40 Four Weddings UK 21:00 After Earth-PG15 infringement - a claim that would prompt a judge 14:00 The Neighbors 20:00 Revenge 01:00 Pawn Stars 16:40 Blandings 23:00 The Man With The Iron Fists 14:30 2 Broke Girls 21:00 The Blacklist 02:00 Big History to compare the story lines - but rather alleges 00:05 Gold Divers 17:15 Ant And Dec’s Saturday 15:00 Two And A Half Men 02:30 Big History Warner Bros has breached Gerritsen’s contract for 00:55 Fast N’ Loud Night Takeaway 15:30 The Daily Show Global 03:00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans the film rights and profits. “Gravity” won seven 06:00 Mythbusters 18:20 Doc Martin Edition 04:00 Swamp People Academy Awards in March, but its screenplay was 07:00 You Have Been Warned 19:10 Coronation Street 16:00 The Colbert Report Global 05:00 Pawn Stars not nominated for an award. — AP 07:50 Bush Pilots 19:40 Four Weddings UK Edition 05:30 Pawn Stars 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 20:40 Blandings 16:30 The Goodwin Games 00:00 Red State 06:00 Ancient Aliens 00:15 Commando 02:00 Olympus Has Fallen 07:00 Pawn Stars 02:00 Stone’s War: War Of The Dead 04:00 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 07:30 Pawn Stars 03:30 Backdraft 06:00 Standing Ovation 08:00 Pawn Stars 05:45 The Amazing Spider-Man 08:00 Monsters University 08:30 Pawn Stars 08:00 Metal Shifters Hugh Jackman 10:00 What To Expect When You’re 09:00 Pawn Stars 10:00 Howard The Duck Expecting 09:30 Pawn Stars 12:00 Red Eye 12:00 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 10:00 Pawn Stars ‘99.9 percent’ sure 14:00 Vehicle 19 14:00 The Greatest Movie Ever Sold 10:30 Pawn Stars 16:00 Howard The Duck 16:00 Monsters University 11:00 Pawn Stars ‘Wolverine’ sequel will 18:00 Prometheus 18:00 Jack The Giant Slayer 11:30 Pawn Stars 20:15 Vehicle 19 20:00 Take This Waltz 19:00 Storage Wars: New York be his last ‘X-Men’ movie 22:00 Butter 19:30 Storage Wars: New York 20:00 Shipping Wars ugh Jackman has 20:30 Shipping Wars portrayed 21:00 Pawn Stars HWolverine in sev- 00:00 Stone’s War: War Of The 21:30 Storage Wars en “X-Men” films, but he’s Dead-18 01:00 Futbol Mundial 22:00 Pawn Stars “99.9 percent sure” the 01:30 Backdraft-PG15 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 22:30 Pawn Stars sequel to “The Wolverine” 02:00 PGA Tour 03:45 The Amazing Spider-Man- 23:00 Cajun Pawn Stars will be the last time he PG15 07:00 Futbol Mundial 23:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 07:30 International Rugby League pops the Marvel mutant’s 06:00 Metal Shifters-PG15 claws. “I still am very 08:00 Howard The Duck-PG 09:30 Top 14 Highlights TLC HD 10:00 Red Eye-PG15 10:00 Live Champions Tour 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive ambitious for the charac- 12:00 Vehicle 19-PG15 12:30 Golfing World 01:00 Ultimate Shopper ter. And tonally I feel like 14:00 Howard The Duck-PG 13:30 Top 14 Highlights 01:50 Craft Wars we corrected the ship 16:00 Prometheus-PG15 14:00 Super Rugby 02:40 Mob Wives with the last one. But I 18:15 Vehicle 19-PG15 16:00 Live Snooker World 03:30 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant feel we can still go fur- Championship 03:55 Long Island Medium ther, in a way,” Jackman 20:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress told SFX Magazine. “If I 21:00 Live Snooker World 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress did another one I’m Championship 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 99.9% sure it would be the last, so that will inform what it is 00:00 American Cowslip-18 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes for me.” 02:00 Revenge Of The Nerds-18 07:00 What Not To Wear If the sequel even happens, that is. While Jackman is not 03:45 The Holiday-PG15 07:50 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 06:00 Tin Men-PG15 01:00 Trans World Sport 08:40 Jo Frost’s Family SOS shy about working with director James Mangold to devel- 08:00 Down Periscope-PG15 02:00 NHL 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras op a sequel to last summer’s blockbuster, which sent the 09:45 Romy And Michelle’s High 05:00 International Rugby League 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress practically immortal superhero to Japan, the actor empha- School Reunion-PG15 07:00 Golfing World 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress sized “we’re still working it out.” 11:45 The Holiday-PG15 08:00 PGA Tour 11:10 Cake Boss “I’m excited to see what we can come up with, but I 14:00 Toys-PG 13:30 International Rugby League 11:35 Jon & Kate Plus 8 haven’t signed on signed on,” Jackson said. “I’m genuinely 16:00 Romy And Michelle’s High 15:30 Top 14 Highlights 12:00 Little People, Big World at that point where unless it’s better than the last one I’m School Reunion-PG15 16:00 HSBC Sevens World Series 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes not going to do it.” 20th Century Fox announced in 19:00 PGA Tour Highlights 13:15 Ultimate Shopper November that Mangold was coming back to write the 20:00 PGA European Tour 14:05 Craft Wars treatment, but no plot details were revealed. Based on Highlights 14:55 Extreme Couponing Jackman’s answers in this interview, it doesn’t sound like 21:00 Bellator MMA Season 10 15:20 Cake Boss many have been decided yet. 23:00 AFL Highlights 15:45 What Not To Wear 01:00 Darling Companion “I’d probably move it to a different visual palette,” 03:00 50/50 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress Jackman said. “We are looking at a lot of different story- 05:00 The Trial lines. No one has jumped out. You can tell from my answer 07:00 Beastly 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 that we’re still working it out.” “The Wolverine” grossed over 09:00 Darling Companion 02:00 IPL Highlights 18:40 Little People, Big World $414.8 million worldwide last year, so a sequel seems 11:00 Oh Christmas Tree 03:00 ICC Cricket 360 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 13:00 Hold Fast 03:30 IPL Highlights inevitable. But Bryan Singer’s “X-Men: Apocalypse” is 20:05 Extreme Couponing 15:00 Wrecked 04:30 IPL Highlights already lined up for a May, 2016 release date. How much 20:30 Cake Boss 16:45 Les Miserables 05:30 IPL Highlights more “X-Men” can Jackman commit to? Apparently, not 21:00 Iyanla, Fix My Life 19:30 Beasts Of The Southern Wild 06:30 ICC Cricket 360 much. “If the script is as good? Hm. I don’t know if that will 21:55 Breaking Amish 21:15 Drift 07:00 IPL Highlights get me across the line, man,” Jackman said. “I think it has to 22:50 Long Island Medium THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 23:00 Barney’s Version 08:00 IPL Highlights be better.” — Reuters Classifieds

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (01/05/2014 TO 07/05/2014)

SHARQIA-1 NO SUN+TUE+WED SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 1:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 3:00 PM FANAR-3 BRICK MANSIONS (DIG) 3:45 PM BRICK MANSIONS (DIG) 1:00 PM SUN+TUE+WED THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 3:00 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM BRICK MANSIONS (DIG) 5:45 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 8:00 PM THE BAG MAN (DIG) 7:45 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 10:15 PM THE BAG MAN (DIG) 9:45 PM BRICK MANSIONS (DIG) 12:45 AM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 11:45 PM

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CROSSWORD 538 STAR TRACK

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

You should not let finances completely dominate your concerns today. This You will prosper by pursuing your ideals and most deep-seated dreams of is a time when you can expect a little boost, some sort of extra support from how life could be. Don’t be afraid to project that image, create your path and make those a friend or family member. You may feel that you are in touch and in harmony with others; dreams real. You will find that your mind and thoughts will be very intense just now. Keep the lines of communications are open. Religious issues may dominate the morning-topics your focus strong and you will see successful results. You can be very intuitive when it are fun and bring about stimulating conversation for some of the young people around comes to expressing yourself and you will know just what to say. Periods of intense cre- you. Chores and errands take up most of the afternoon but a get-together with friends ativity allow you to go through changes and inner growth and give you time to think and and neighbors for a social gathering in the evening may bring about new business ideas plan. This creative intensity is good for music, poetry, art, etc. Your friends, partners and for next week. Take the opportunity to network-there could be big rewards. Lovers, chil- relationships mean a lot to you. They are a primary source of strength and you look to dren and other people or things dear to your heart are emphasized now. them for encouragement. Enjoy your friends today.

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

You should know there may be a few surprises this morning. The more you This is a good time to initiate a feeling or sense of easy going. The need for go with the flow, the more fun the surprises will become. This is really not the time to security, however, may dominate that easy-going nature you yearn for just now. Finding a object; besides, your friends or family want an excuse to have a little fun with you today. new place to live and becoming comfortable in a professional position will help to allevi- There may be a little time this afternoon for making some desired personal changes . . . ate much of your anxiety. List three things you can do now that will help you feel more Perhaps your hair color, style or diet. You will be able to have your own surprise this secure and work in that direction-do not stagnate. A volunteer service can be most benefi- evening. There is talk of visiting with some friends later today, perhaps taking a drive cial in your life. This can also be a way to express your talents and help others. Some of the through the country or at the least, the outskirts of town. Be sure to stop at a roadside veg- ways in which you could feel quite useful would be in a medical, counseling or clergy type etable stand and purchase some of your favorite vegetables and fruits. You may want to of organization. You may be teaching someone techniques of a sensible diet today. You add plants to your own garden. Happy birthday! will be pleased with the results of your plans.

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

You have a natural aptitude for describing the most sensitive areas of the Don’t let a cranky person rule your morning; there may be more to his or her human psyche, a practical psychologist of the first order. You can manage story than you know. Be attentive in your surroundings so that you catch any touchy issues that others would not go near. Today brings about an opportunity to heal problems before they escalate. Keep your eye focused on new, renewed and better. Your through speech. You may be the first or the last to give a speech that many will remember statistical mind can be used to find better ways to improve, update or plan future goals that ACROSS DOWN and be better for having heard it. You communicate with accomplished skill and others will help keep your family a strong unit. Today will certainly bring new inspiration. It is a 1. Employed in accomplishing something. 1. Take away the weapons from. will find it stimulating just being with you. Your dreams have been quite clear lately-you good time to communicate. A new person will enter your life this afternoon and you may find some common beliefs or ideas that will promote a good friendship. You are warmly 5. The father of your father or mother. 2. A constitutional monarchy on the western may want to start a dream diary. It might be a good idea to write in this diary what you think might have inspired the dream as well as how your health was the day or evening receptive and sympathetic toward particular causes and it may be the time to consider how 12. An orange-brown antelope of southeast part of the islands of Samoa in the South you could help. Perhaps the family could work together as a group. Africa. Pacific. before the dream. You may find some of your dreams are just fun. 15. A language unit by which a person or 3. A government order imposing a trade bar- thing is known. rier. 16. In a mangy manner. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 4. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading Cancer (June 21-July 22) 17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows branches with nodding tips. There is a cornucopia of emotional vulnerabilities available for you to cope you to contribute a limited yearly sum 5. The local time at the 0 meridian passing You are intense, passionate and very personal today. You will find yourself with today. Change is the easiest thing to do now. Acknowledge, create a toward your retirement. through Greenwich, England. rushing past the superficial right to the heart of any matter. Communication is high and new and positive insight and then let the old and perhaps negative become a moth that 18. A platform raised above the surrounding 6. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and you may enjoy some good solid conversation with neighbors this morning. Home, family flies away. Quick answers, great wit and a surplus of insights and solutions are obtainable. level to give prominence to the person on it. supports. and security have been on your mind lately; and you may find yourself teaching young This is a good time to write and communicate with real originality. Insert your good sense 19. Emperor of Rome. 7. The point opposite in direction from the people about fairness, evenhandedness, goals, roots and the importance of family. An of humor as a tool to get through some of the sensitive areas that may have formerly 20. Enthusiastic approval. insight about your support system, your mother or other females may be important. You tripped you. This is a time of new beginnings in your life. There is an urge to strike out on solar apex. have clear-headed and practical insights for most anything you choose to do today. This is 22. A partly sheltered anchorage. 8. A group of southern Bantu languages. your own in a new direction, to take on new challenges no matter what the risks. You can a time of good fortune when things open up in a very natural way. Tonight you may meet be bold-perhaps headstrong; you go where angels fear to tread. 24. A local computer network for communi- 9. God of the underworld. a student that you can help or tutor. cation between computers. 10. A silvery ductile metallic element found 26. A percussion instrument consisting of a primarily in bauxite. pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usual- 11. Any wood from which dye is obtained. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) ly held between the thumb and fingers) that 12. A large oven for firing or burning or dry- are made to click together (as by Spanish ing such things as porcelain or bricks. There are opportunities for success with money now that were not previ- Your personality and your mode of living appear to change at a moment’s dancers) in rhythm with the dance. 13. Toward the mouth or oral region. ously available. Lady luck may smile brightly on you during this time. Moving quickly is the notice. Your attention is divided among numerous people and subjects. Be wise with your 28. Wild and domesticated birds having a secret to securing a tidy sum or gaining the end result of your desire. Perhaps you are tendency to overexert your energies to help someone or to go in too many directions. 14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Others may challenge your authority or the direction you are taking just now. Maintain a heavy body and short legs. Chad. going to a casting call or displaying your creative accomplishments. Whatever the case, you will be successful. Fun, a good sense of humor and the ability to get along with most right mental attitude-the attitude of patience, sincerity and good cheer. To think rightly 29. A metric unit of weight equal to one 21. A small flexible tube inserted into a body contributes to positive results. There is a chance to understand those around you and to thousandth of a kilogram. folks put a smile on everybody’s face. There is a desire to understand a loved one’s psyche cavity for draining off fluid or introducing and there may also be an opportunity for a deep emotional talk this afternoon. Take the have others understand you. The time is right for unexpected changes in the normal rou- 31. Ruffed grouse. medication. tine of family life. This evening there could be some special moments with someone you 35. The United Nations agency concerned time to really listen to the one who needs you. There is an opportunity to take the time to 23. Someone who works (or provides work- show others how much they mean to you. love. A sense of harmony creates a happy time. with the interests of labor. ers) during a strike. 37. Having two axes. 25. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nick- 40. Formerly a gold coin of various European name for Confederate soldiers by the Federal Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) countries. soldiers in the American Civil War. 41. A colorless odorless gaseous element 27. Type genus of the Amiidae. You may find yourself more than a little hungry today. Your current appreci- There may be temptations to overextend your budget as short-distance that give a red glow in a vacuum tube. 30. A city in central Georgia southeast of ation for just about everything may lead you to overspend or indulge too travel is possible with friends today. Perhaps you will need to travel some dis- 43. A radioactive element of the actinide Atlanta. much. However, you will make some good choices as you seek a balance. You can expect tance to a popular entertainment attraction. Take time today to plan future time with your series. 32. Sour or bitter in taste. some sort of major revision of your likes and dislikes, how and what you enjoy or appreci- friends-it has been too long since you have been able to have long conversations and catch 44. The sound made by corvine birds. ate about yourself and life-your value system. You may find that your appreciation for the up on the news. Spending time with close, old friends can be rewarding. An outgoing and 33. The capital and largest city of Yemen. quality of everything is stronger. Reappraisal is in order. Breakthroughs regarding relation- 46. A Russian river. 34. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle very expressive cycle of experience has begun for you. Now more than ever, you want to be ships and the social life in general may be possible now. Unconventional approaches to admired by others, to do and create things that stir their hearts. This is child’s play; this is 47. Small European freshwater fish with a movements. slender bluish-green body. partnerships and lovers are possible. An important relationship, perhaps to a younger per- romance; this is taking a chance. Really enjoy your companion this evening without being 36. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills. son or someone in your near environment, may come into focus tonight. afraid to speak your feelings. Music can be most relaxing. 49. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms. 38. (informal) Of the highest quality. 51. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) 39. A white soft metallic element that tar- used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and nishes readily. Word Search motion sickness. 42. An elaborate party (often outdoors). Yesterday Solution 53. An ester of carbamic acid. 45. A city in east central Texas. 56. A ductile gray metallic element of the lan- 48. A member of a religious order living in thanide series. common. 57. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a 50. No longer having or seeming to have or moderate reddish-brown color n 1. expecting to have life. 58. The cardinal number that is the sum of 52. An analgesic for mild pain. eight and one. 54. By accident. 59. Great coolness and composure under strain. 55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 62. A genus of Ploceidae. 60. An Asian temple. 63. Part of the perianth that is usually bright- 61. Make numb or insensitive. ly colored. 64. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon 67. Humorously vulgar. worn as a headband. 70. Italian violin maker and grandson of 65. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt. Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745). 66. A woody climbing usually tropical plant. 72. In a cold and icy manner. 68. (computer science) A graphic symbol 75. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to (usually a simple picture) that denotes a pro- full independence as Zambia in 1964 and gram or a command or a data file or a con- served as Zambia's first president (born in cept in a graphical user interface. 1924). 69. On or toward the lee. 76. A small shelter for domestic animals (as 71. A Loloish language. sheep or pigeons). 73. The federal agency that insures residen- 79. Dignified manner or conduct. tial mortgages. 80. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting 74. A resource. the tibia and fibula with the femur and pro- 77. A unit of magnetic flux equal to tected in front by the patella. 100,000,000 maxwells. 81. A member of an agricultural people of 78. A soft white precious univalent metallic southern India. element having the highest electrical and 82. A small cake leavened with yeast. thermal conductivity of any metal. Yesterday’s Solution

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Pitt and Jolie to star in new movie together rad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are to star in their first film together in almost a decade. The couple haven’t been seen together in a movie since starring in ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ back in 2005, which sparked their real-life love Baffair, but it is believed they have “an exciting new venture” in the pipeline for the near future. The 38-year- old actress has reportedly penned the script for the upcoming movie, which will be set in Europe. An insider told JustJared.com: “People will not want to miss it!” Angelina is currently working in post-production on her film ‘Unbroken’ after she impressed with her directorial debut in ‘The Land of Blood and Honey’ in 2011. She also voices the title character in Disney’s ‘Maleficent’, which will hit US cinemas on May 30. Brad, 50, has just wrapped up film- ing for the World War II action movie ‘Fury’, which will hit the big screen in the US on November 14. Meanwhile, the loved-up duo first went public with their relationship in April 2005, just four months after Brad’s divorce from Jennifer Aniston was finalized. Brad and Angelina went on to get engaged in 2012 and share six children, Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and twins Vivienne and Knox, five, together.

Selena Gomez sells home for $3.5 million elena Gomez is selling her Tarzana home. The 21-year-old singer purchased the plush property in 2011 for $2.75 mil- lion, but she’s set to make a profit after putting it on the market for $3.495 million. The 6,630 sq-ft ranch-style home, Swhich is located in Los Angeles, is complete with six bedrooms, eight bathrooms and an impressive gym, according to The Agency. The gorgeous mansion boats stunning interiors, as well as a glamorous garden with a heated pool, a bocce ball court and a basketball court accompanied with lights. There’s also potential to build a full-size tennis court. The kitchen has been kitted out with top of the range appliances for entertaining guests and the spa is perfect for some relax- ation after a hard day at work. The home also comes with three separate dog kennels, a BBQ and Firepit lounge area, and a two-car garage. The house has some added glam with stunning French doors, two walk-in wardrobes, a wood-burning fireplace, high ceilings and a separate guest suite, which has its own entrance and a balcony overlooking the posh grounds. The ‘Come & Get It’ hitmaker appears to have upped the security at the property as well by installing secure pri- vate gates after a 19-year-old man was allegedly caught lurking near the premises in January. The brunette beauty, who Heidi Klum has been in an on/off relationship with Justin Bieber for three years, also has another property in nearby Calabasas. having mid-life crisis eidi Klum is reportedly going through a “mid-life crisis”. The 40-year-old Hmodel is reportedly losing some of her Jackman afraid of close friends as they’re struggling to deal with her new-found love of partying and wild behaviour. A source told RadarOnline.com: “Heidi’s drinking and outspoken rude behav- iour is winning her no friends these days. the dark She’s going through a bad mid-life crisis that makes her almost impossible to deal with. ugh Jackman was scared of the dark as a child. The “Heidi spent most of last year partying and ‘Prisoners’ actor has admitted that when he first became she needs to shape up or face consequences.” a parent to his adopted children, 14-year-old Oscar and Her friends are reportedly worried that she’s H eight-year-old Ava, with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness he didn’t not spending enough time with her children, have any idea how to be a father and thinks it’s because he was Leni, nine, Henry, eight, Johan, seven, and an anxious child who had various fears. He said: “I was surprised Lou, four, because she’s too busy with her how little my own parenting instincts kicked in. I was a bit of a new toyboy boyfriend Vito Schnabel, 27, pain at first, insisting he couldn’t have a bottle straight before whom she began dating in February, and try- bed because I’d read up on it. “My own mother finally said, ‘Look, ing to boost her career. The source explained: you may have read a lot of books, but the kid [Oscar] hasn’t, so “Since Vito came on the scene, her kids have put them down.’ But I was quite a fearful kid myself. Heights, the spent a lot more time with their nannies! “More trouble is most certainly ahead for Heidi dark...” The 45-year-old Hollywood star admits he even incorpo- in 2014 as she is not nearly the hot in-demand star she was six years ago and it’s really hit rated a fear into his ‘X-Men’ character Wolverine because he did- her hard.” Meanwhile, Heidi, who was previously married to Ric Pipino before marrying n’t want to play someone who isn’t capable of feeling scared. He Seal in 2005, is already considering introducing Vito to her children. A source said previ- said: “I put a fear of flying into Wolverine that wasn’t in the script. ously: “Heidi’s preparing to introduce him to her children. That’s a strong indication she’s I thought, ‘I can’t like somebody who isn’t scared of anything.’” in this for the long run. Vito has brought some excitement to her life. He has moved in pretty quickly and seems to be providing exactly what Heidi needs at this time. “She’s so happy that it wouldn’t surprise me if Heidi shocked the world and made him husband number three.” Jamie Bell feels ‘enriched’ by fatherhood he ‘Jumper’ actor is a very hands-on dad to his eight-month-old son with his wife Evan Rachel Wood and feels “empowered” by being involved in every aspect of their Tyoung son’s life. He explained: “It’s different for my generation from the way it was in my parents’ day. It’s not even that the father is expected to do so much more; it’s just joins ‘Terminator: Genesis’ cast assumed that he will. “So it’s 50/50 between Evan and me for how we take care of our Matt Smith baby, which is how it should be. And for me, it’s great to be so tactile and loving with my son, to change his diapers and feed him and do all that stuff which my friends’ fathers did- att Smith has joined the cast of ‘Terminator: n’t very much do. It makes me feel good to be involved in the process and I feel both Genesis’. The former ‘Doctor Who’ star is set to enriched and empowered by it.” The couple welcomed their son, whose name they have play a new character, with a strong connection chosen not to make public, in July 2013 and the 28-year-old actor claims becoming a M father has given him a bigger purpose in life and made him feel like a proper adult. Jamie to central character John Connor, in the upcoming reboot, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, ‘Game of told HELLO! magazine: “It’s amazing. When you become a parent everything changes. For Thrones’ star Emilia Clarke and ‘Lawless’ actor Jason such a long time, I thought of myself as a teenager gallivanting around the world taking Clarke. The fifth instalment in the series, which is jobs where I felt like it, but life is totally different now.” being directed by Alan Taylor, went into production last month and will be released in July 2015, accord- ing to Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. The cast also includes Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi and Byung Hun Lee. The 31-year-old Prince adds more arena shows after ticket scramble British actor, who can be seen next on the big screen in ‘Lost River,’ directed by Ryan Gosling, alongside rince has added two more dates to his arena tour in May after tickets sold out in minutes. The Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan and Eva Mendes, ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ hitmaker, who has announced a number of regional gigs following secret con- quit his role as the titular Time Lord on the BBC Pcerts in London and Manchester, will play Manchester’s Phones 4u Arena on Saturday, May 17 sci-fi series at the end of last year, and pre- and Birmingham’s LG Arena on Monday, May 19. These are in addition to two other shows at viously admitted he was eager to Birmingham, LG Arena, Manchester, Phones 4u Arena, Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena and Leeds First explore bigger opportunities. He Direct Arena. Fans were desperate to get their hands on tickets for the already announced shows at said: “I’d always talked about midday today but many were left disappointed. One posted on Twitter: “If anyone I know got Prince leaving after the 50th anniver- tickets and I never, don’t speak to me ever again.” The new shows have reignited speculation that sary. It’s a very intense Prince could be the third headliner at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, despite Michael Eavis’s recent process to play the Doctor. claims it is “one of the biggest-selling bands in the world at the moment”, hinting it could be Metallica. The line learning is really Meanwhile, Prince recently signed a record deal with Warner Bros almost 20 years after he left the label hard, and you have to live amid much controversy. Tickets are on sale now from £65 each. Full dates for Prince’s arena gigs: away from home for nine or May 15 - Birmingham LG Arena 10 months a year. I love the May 16 - Manchester Phones 4u Arena show, and it wasn’t an easy May 17 - Manchester Phones 4u Arena choice to come to, but it’s May 22 - Glasgow The SSE Hydro the right time for both of May 23 - Leeds First Direct Arena us.” lifestyle MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 GOSSIP Carl Barat: Libertines Martin wanted reunion is risky bandmates to arl Barat admits there is a “colossal risk” involved in reforming The Libertines. The co-frontman, who will be reunited with band- Cmates Pete Doherty, Gary Powell and John Hassall for a gig at write more London’s Hyde Park this summer, understands the group reforming isn’t without its risks. He told NME magazine: “For me, the right reasons are, hris Martin was desperate for his bandmates to can we do it? Do people want to do it? Would it be a good thing to do? start writing Coldplay songs. The frontman, who And I don’t know. I’m not saying for a second that it’s without a colossal shares writing credits with the other members of risk, doing this.” Pete let slip in a phone interview to an Israeli journalist C the group - Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will earlier this month that the ‘Can’t Stand Me Now’ hitmakers were coming Champion - was tired of having to come up with the ini- together for the concert and claims his often turbulent relationship with tial ideas and wanted them to step in and contribute to Carl has been fixed. He said: “Don’t listen to what I said before. It’s all the band’s new album ‘Ghost Stories’ from the begin- good with Carl at the minute. He’s grown up a bit. The way he talks to ning of a song. He said: “For a long, long time I’ve been me, I can see it ... his face is evolving somewhat. He’s lost a bit of the crip- begging the band, ‘Please could someone else start a pling darkness and weariness in relation to me. I love him.” The song’. “I’ve been given that gift from the universe or Libertines play Barclaycard British Summer Time in Hyde Park on July 5. from God or whatever you want to believe in that ideas for songs get sent through wherever they get sent from and then I take them to the rest of the band and then we layer it up and that’s how we do it. “For a long time, I’ve been saying, ‘Guy, I know that you write music sometimes, on your own, is there any way that you would give us some of it’. He’s like, ‘No, you won’t like it’.” But the 37-year-old singer was pleasantly sur- prised when Guy approached him last February and told him he’d been experimenting with ideas for a new track, which later became ‘Magic’, a song which features on the new album. Chris explained: “I was so grate- ful. It made me so happy and that was kind of a sim- ple of the album as a whole, ‘We’ll help each oth- er out here’. There were lots of songs but that was the first point where I thought, ‘Everyone is invested in Barrymore hates this, everyone knows what we’re trying to do, go a bit trying on clothes more personal’.” rew Barrymore wants to “kill herself” when trying on clothes. The 39-year-old star recently gave birth to her second child Dwith ‘Intern’ actor Will Kopelman and she’s admitted that while she can easily find clothes that fit her in high street stores, she can’t stand trying on expensive outfits for red carpet appearances. She com- plained in an interview with Red Arnold Schwarzenegger: magazine: “In real life, you can find Miranda Kerr something that suits you and feel great. Then you get to a wardrobe Eddie Murphy is fitting, try on their outfits and you designs tea cup line just want to kill yourself. “You’re like, perfect choice ‘Why do these clothes look so horri- iranda Kerr is designing a line of tea cups. The for- ble on me? What is wrong with me?’ rnold Schwarznegger thinks Eddie Murphy is “perfect” for the mer Victoria Secret’s Angel has teamed up with “ The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ actress is cur- ‘Twins’ sequel. The ‘Sabotage’ actor is set to reprise his role along- MEnglish porcelain brand Royal Albert to create a new rently starring in the comedy Aside Danny Devito as two unlikely twins who were separated at collection of kitchenware, which goes on sale today. The 31- ‘Blended’ alongside her ‘50 First birth in the follow-up to the 1988 comedy action film, but thinks the year-old model announced the collaboration via Instagram, Dates’ co-star Adam Sandler and ‘Nutty Professor’ actor will make a good addition to the cast. He said: writing: “So excited to launch my new collection of Royal admits the wardrobe team were “We have not done any rehearsals for it other than meeting several Albert teaware at an event in Sydney on Friday 16th May! The really helpful. She said: “I just don’t times, and I admire Eddie as an actor and as a talent, with the three of company’s website claims the style was inspired by Miranda’s have the type of body where I can us.” While Schwarzenegger is look- “love of nature” and memories of her enjoying cups of tea at show off every feature. I have short ing forward to working on the her grandmother’s house. They wrote: “Inspired by Miranda’s legs, I’m not keen on my arms, I movie, he knows it will be a love of nature, the color palette of her garden, travels have boobs, I’m short waisted. “I different filmmaking expe- throughout the world and treasured memories of afternoons know I can wear clothes - in real life, rience to the original. He spent sipping tea from her grandmother’s own Royal Albert I don’t even think about it. But added to BANG Showbiz: tea set.” The tea sets come in a variety of pastel shades with when you work in films, you can get “They said, ‘Do you want to butterfly and floral prints and are tailored to “the sophisticat- into wardrobe and they expose do ‘Twins’, and this is some- ed and feminine woman who enjoys to celebrate with friends everything you never reveal. thing that I’ve chased for 20 and take time for herself”. Meanwhile, Miranda was spotted Sooooo awful. “Luckily the costume years.” There is a different stu- in good spirits at Sydney airport this morning accompanied designer on ‘Blended’ really under- dio technique now, it’s a dif- by her three-year-old son Flynn, who she had with her stood how to dress my body.” Drew claims she doesn’t have a personal ferent generation, the old estranged husband Orlando Bloom. stylist and often wears the same outfit for days on end. She added: “I guard is gone, there is some wear stuff over and over again. If I have to go to a work event, then I’ll different people in work with someone to make sure I don’t show up in what I’ve been there..so this is how it wearing all week.” works, I didn’t really think or have a plan, you now some of those ideas work, don’t work, but I believe very strongly in those characters. Richie credits Vera Wang for Leto wants Oscar award inspiring her fashion sense with ‘scuffs and bruises’

icole Richie credits Vera Wang for inspiring her ared Leto likes his Oscar award with “scuffs and bruises”. The love of fashion. The ‘Simple Life’ star insists she ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ star won the Best Supporting Actor prize for Nwas drawn to the world of beauty and style as a Jhis role in the biopic at the glamorous event in March, but he youngster when she was a figure-skater and inclined to doesn’t mind that the trophy has already been damaged because he design her own outfits. She explained in an interview thinks it gives it a better story. Speaking to ‘Access Hollywood’, he with Britain’s InStyle magazine: “My love of fashion said: “I wasn’t shy with it. I let people kind of take pictures with it and kicked off when I was 11. I was competing Sheen’s f iancée have fun and I think that’s what it’s really about. It got some scuffs as a figure-skater, designing all my and bruises, but it’s all the better for it, more personality.” However, it own costumes with my father [Lionel didn’t take the 42-year-old actor long to give the gong its first dent as Richie]’s tour costume designer. “This struggling with he managed to smash it on a bannister just two days after receiving was at the time Vera Wang designed it. He said at the time: “True story, I was letting some of the people Olympic figure-skating costumes and that I work with take a picture with the Oscar, and I was carrying it when I noticed big designers like her, I wedding planning downstairs and boom - I hit the railing on the stairs and I put a little started getting into fashion.” Nicole nick in the back of it.” Meanwhile, the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman used to turn to fashion magazines harlie Sheen’s fiancée is struggling to plan their wed- ding. Brett Rossi and the ‘Anger Management’ star are has decided to stash his award in the kitchen, disguised by some when she was bored on family holi- food, so that he can look at it every time he comes home. He said days and would make collages to Cset to walk down the aisle later this year, but the porn star admits she’s finding the preparation for their big day “con- previously: “The Oscar is sitting in my kitchen guarded by some veg- keep herself occupied. She said: “I an butter and a bag of popcorn.” —Bang Showbiz remember my parents dragging me fusing”. Speaking to Us Magazine, she said: “Wedding planning to Alabama every summer as a is so hard. So confusing ... I’ve never had a wedding. All I want teenager. I hated it, so I would buy is a magical night with my [future] hubby and for everyone to fashion magazines, cut out my have a good time. “I couldn’t care less about the simple little favorite outfits, then make collages to details.” The actor, 48, has been married four times in the past ease the boredom! It sparked a desire and Brett, 24, has been married once before, but she believes to design.” Nicole insists she doesn’t their relationship is stronger than their previous romances. She make spontaneous purchases but explained: “The best thing about our relationship is the com- always browses for an idea of what munication and honesty we share with each other. [I’ve] never she wants first. She added: “I’m not a had a relationship like that before, nor has he. So it’s really big shopper. I’ve never been a ‘let’s do great.” The couple got engaged in February after three months lunch and hit the shops’ girl. I’ll of dating, but their wedding plans were put on hold as Brett browse net-a-porter or see collections was waiting on the divorce from her first husband John Ross on photo shoots. I always have an to be finalized. Meanwhile, the loved-up duo are expected to idea of what I want, then I figure out a get a pre-nup before their big day this autumn due to the way to find it.” Charlie’s estimated $125 million net worth, largely thanks to his stint on sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men’. lifestyle MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 FEATURES LAArt Contemporary Museum’s endowment hits $100 million

he Museum of Contemporary Art, museum, whose collection includes which struggled for years for finan- numerous works by such celebrated Tcial survival, has quadrupled its artists as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes endowment to more than $100 million Oldenburg, Mark Rothko and Robert in the past nine months through a Rauschenberg, has struggled for years fundraising campaign that museum offi- for financial survival. It was in danger of cials say won support from dozens of going under almost six years ago when deep-pocketed Los Angeles arts patrons. billionaire financier Eli Broad bailed it out with $30 million. Last year, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offered MOCA $100 mil- lion if it would merge its two downtown campuses with LACMA’s much larger facilities west of downtown. MOCA, wanting to remain independent, quickly rejected the idea and instead announced Humans interact with art figures at the Museum of Contemporary Art Monday, Jan 6, 2014 in downtown Los Angeles. — AP photos plans in the spring to increase its endow- had never run a museum. ment to $100 million within a year. It A graffiti art exhibition he staged in reached its goal in a little more than nine 2011 featuring the works of Banksy, months. ‘This is an incredible amount of Shepard Fairey and others attracted money to be raised in such a short time record attendance and praise from crit- and it really was broad-based,’ Seferian ics. But some other exhibitions, including said Monday. ‘It was not one donor who one curated by actor James Franco of sweeped in and decided to save the works inspired by the James Dean film ‘Airplane Parts,’ a sculpture by Nancy Rubins made museum. About 30 donors all came ‘Rebel Without a Cause,’ were scorned as of scraps of old airplanes wired together into a mas- together and decided the museum focusing on Hollywood glitz rather than sive junk tree, greets visitors to the Museum of should continue.’ Among the more than serious art. Contemporary Art. two dozen donors that MOCA listed on a After Deitch ousted the museum’s statement to be released Tuesday were popular curator Paul Schimmel in 2012, MOCA, which planned to announce the Broad and his wife, Edythe, and former Ruscha and fellow artists John accomplishment tomorrow, said it MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch. Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara ensures the long-term survival and inde- Kruger resigned from MOCA’s board. pendence of one of the country’s pre- Dean’s inspiration Seferian said the four are again eminent public repositories for contem- Broad is building his own museum actively involved with the museum, porary art. across the street from MOCA’s main cam- helping it search for a permanent direc- ‘What’s special about MOCA is it is the pus. Scheduled to open in November, it tor. She and the board’s co-chairman, only museum in LA that’s dedicated sole- will house the billionaire’s personal col- David Johnson, said an announcement A visitor takes a look at an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. ly to collecting and exhibiting contem- lection of 2,000 works, including pieces should be made soon. Meanwhile, the porary art, and I think our board realized by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Ed to walk across the street and visit MOCA sometimes a lightning rod for criticism museum has exhibitions scheduled for the deep value in having an institution Ruscha and others. He told the AP last as well. during his three years as MOCA’s direc- this year featuring Jacob Hashimoto, like that,’ Maria Seferian, MOCA’s interim year he believes his museum, which will Deitch, who resigned last year to tor. A gallery owner, art dealer and for- Mike Kelley and Magdalena Fernandez, director, told The Associated Press. The offer free admission, will inspire visitors return to his New York art gallery, was mer art critic with deep ties to artists, he among others. — AP Francis Bacon fever flares anew in New York

Sara Friedlander, Post-War and Contemporary Art expert, speaks in front of Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards’, painted in 1984, on display May 2, 2014 during a preview of the Impressionist and Modern Art sale at Christie’s that will take place May 6 in New York. — AFP ype over Francis Bacon, whose work fetched a record price last year, is set to hit fever pitch when a new triptych goes Hunder the hammer next week. Traditional auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s get into gear tomorrow and Thursday with modern and impressionist art expected to fetch a total of $1.9 bil- lion, followed by ever more popular post-war contemporary the fol- lowing week. Christie’s is forecasting total spring season sales of $979 million, while Sotheby’s is forecasting $934.15 million-solid numbers that underscore the current strength of the fine art market today. Fashion Week With greater numbers of buyers interested in works from the post-1945 era, attention once again is turning to Bacon, whose “Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards” (1984) will go on the block at Christie’s May 13 for an estimated $75 million. It is a portrait of Bacon’s close friend and confidant from the mid-1970s until the artist’s death in 1992. Edwards, who died in 2003, was the sole heir to Bacon’s paintings and properties. Another Bacon triptych-composed of three panels or pieces- ”Three Studies of Lucian Freud” sold for $142.4 million in New York last year, smashing the world record for the most expensive piece of art ever auctioned. That outdid the previous high of $119.9 million for Edvard Munch’s iconic “The Scream” set in May 2012. The current Bacon-mania had yet another jaw-dropping day in February when his “Portrait of George Dyer Talking” sold for a dizzy- ing $70 million in London. The triptych about to be on the block in New York was considered among his finest works, by Bacon himself. “This particular work portraits Bacon’s most celebrated subject and really closest and most significant relationship with John Edwards,” said Christie’s postwar and contemporary specialist Sara Friedlander. “We are anticipating wonderful results for this work.” Warhol: more than 15 minutes - Christie’s will have on offer three works by American artists expected to fetch about $50 million each at its postwar and contemporary event: Andy Warhol’s “Race Riot,” “Untitled” by Mark Rothko and “Black fire” by Barnett Newman. Warhol’s monumental “Silver Car Crash” (Double Disaster)” was In these photos taken sold in November for more then $105 million-so his proverbial 15 Thursday, May 1, 2014, models minutes of (extreme) fame apparently are not over yet.On Christie’s display embroidered creations heels, Sotheby’s has some love for Warhol as well: it will sell his “Six by designer Intisar Abdo and Self Portraits” for an estimated $25-35 million. Also coming up on designer Fayzeh Pearl during the Sotheby’s May 14 postwar and contemporary block are the the opening day of the sculpture “Popeye” by American Jeff Koons, at about $25 million, and Palestine Fashion Week 2014, the oil painting “Blau” by German Gerhard Richter. It too is expected in the West Bank city of to fetch $25-35 million. Ramallah. Tamer Halabi, an organizer of the event, said Monet, Picasso and Kandinsky the show in part shows that The New York spring auctions start off on a strong note tomorrow ‘we Palestinians exist,’ and ‘we with the sale of Frenchman Claude Monet’s oils “Nympheas” and are surviving, we have talents, Pablo Picasso’s “Portrait de femme (Dora Maar)”-both expected to we have designers, and we can earn around $35 million. Also expected to fetch top dollar are compete with world fashion Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s “Strandszene” ($16-22 million) houses.’ — AP/AFP photos and the bronze “Femme de Venise IV” by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti ($10-18 million). — AFP lifestyle MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Bruce Springsteen at 2014 Jazz Fest

ruce Springsteen and the E Street Band approval once again. In another instance, he Wetlands Allstars - Tab Benoit, Michael Doucette returned to the New Orleans Jazz & pulled a fan from the crowd to boogie with him and drummer Johnny Vidocovich - for a set that BHeritage Festival on Saturday, giving thou- on stage for “Dancing in the Dark.” included “Louisiana Sunshine.” “Louisiana Sunshine, sands of fans the show they hoped for, but some Former Rage Against the Machine guitarist shine down on me,” Benoit sang, as fans danced, left wanting more. He kicked off his three-hour set Tom Morello, who has been playing gigs with many with arms outstretched to the sun. with “High Hopes,” the title track of his latest Springsteen since last year, sang a duet with him “I’d go anywhere in the world to hear this kind album, before launching into some of his more on “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” and later, rocker John of music,” said Chuck Bachman, of Morristown, New popular songs including “Hungry Heart,” “Mary Fogerty joined him for a couple of songs, includ- Jersey. “It doesn’t get any better than this.” In the Don’t You Weep,” “Wrecking Ball,” “Tenth Avenue ing “Proud Mary.” He closed the show with a hard gospel tent, multi-Grammy winning duo Mary Freeze-Out,” “Pay Me My Money Down,” and a cov- sung rendition of “Thunder Road.” Saturday’s Mary hit the stage a few minutes late but gave a er of the folk song “Jesse James.” He also got a little appearance marked Springsteen’s third at the fes- standing-room-only performance of their hits, help from his wife, Patti Scialfa, for “When The tival, which ends its two-weekend run Sunday. including “Get Up,” “Heaven” “Go Get It,” “Yesterday” Saints Go Marching In.” and “I’m Walking.” Tina Campbell, one half of the The music was upbeat, energetic and passion- Dedication songs duo whose lives have been broadcast on WE TV’s ate but Jazz Fest veteran Alison Michel, of New Earlier, New Orleans pianist Allen Toussaint reality television show “Mary, Mary,” referenced Orleans, noted that he didn’t play “Born in the played and gave the fans an extra treat when recent troubles in her marriage. She told fans about USA” and “Glory Days.” “I wanted to hear more of singer Jimmy Buffet joined him on “Fortune Teller” how her husband’s infidelity had brought her to a his older stuff. I love his older songs,” she said. and “I Wave Bye-Bye,” which he dedicated to singer- very low point in her life. “Does anybody in the Springsteen surprised the crowd on at least three songwriter Jesse Winchester, who died last month audience consider themselves to be blessed?” she occasions with a visit into the mass of people in of cancer at age 69. Winchester had become a sym- asked, getting a rousing “Yeah!” in response. She front of the stage, slapping hands with fans and, bol of the anti-war movement when he moved to went on to say she’d had “several talks with God” at one time, accepting a beer from someone Canada to avoid the draft. Flags blew in the wind about the situation and realized: “I’m not supposed drinking nearby. He chugged the 12-ounce bever- amid a sun-filled sky and balmy temperatures. It Bruce Springsteen performs with guitarist Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to let these trials and tribulations take me out!” age within minutes to rousing applause and then was a day of guest performances as percussionist Nils Lofgren on stage. with special guest John Fogerty perform on Associated Press writer Stacey Plaisance con- threw the empty can back into the crowd to their Cyril Neville took the stage with Voices of the stage. tributed to this report. — AP Fox says Naya Rivera to remain on ‘Glee’

aya Rivera is still a Gleek. FOX Network said in a statement to Nthe AP on Saturday that there’s no truth to rumors that Rivera had been fired from the show. Rivera plays the character Santana Lopez, a glee club member, on the popular musical drama. ‘Glee’ had its fifth-season wrap party Friday night. The season finale is set to air stateside May 20. Show co-creator Ryan Murphy has said the series’ sixth season will be its (From left) Robert last. It’s been a difficult year for the James-Collier, series’ cast and crew. Actor Cory File photo shows Naya Rivera arriving at the Sophie McShera, Monteith, who had been romantically 22nd Annual Women in Entertainment Julian Fellowes, linked to actress Lea Michele, died in Breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Phyllis Logan, July 2013 of a drug overdose. — AP Hills, Calif. — AP Gareth Neame, and Joanne Froggatt pose together at An Afternoon with Amazing Spider-Man 2 ‘Downton Abbey’ presented by the Television Academy aims to spin $95 million opening at Paramount Studios on Saturday as blockbuster season begins in Los Angeles. — AP ony’s big-budget superhero tentpole from writer-director Drew Goddard and a “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” officially “Venom” movie, based on the popular villain. A ‘Skicks-off the summer box office season major part of the strategy is that Spidey appears Friday, with analysts projecting an opening in to be spinning a wider web at the overseas box the $95 million range. If it comes in just a little office, and the studio believes that “The Cannes adds 30 films, makes above that, it will be the year’s biggest opening Amazing Spider-Man 2” will top the $490 million weekend, ahead of another Marvel movie - that 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” brought Disney’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” in internationally. That sequel opened to $95 million in April. That confidence stems in part from the $132 “Amazing Spider-Man 2” will most likely not million the film’s made in its first two weeks of Sophia Loren guest of honor match the $114 million debut of the first release abroad. It will roll out in China and Brazil this “Spider-Man” movie 12 years ago - which was weekend, along with about 40 other foreign mar- he Cannes Film Festival has added more than 14 and runs through May 25. Garcia Bernal Cannes Classics: the first movie to open a $100 million weekend - kets. China in particular could provide a bonanza; 30 films to its lineup, including a new feature Guest of honor: Sophia Loren or the $151 million that “Spider-Man 3” opened “Amazing Spider-Man” took in $48 million there Tby French director André Téchiné, revival The additions: With special screenings of “La Voce Humana” by to in 2007. two years ago - but took a bit of a hit because screenings of “Paris, Texas,” “8 1/2” and “Lost Out of Competition: Edoardo Ponti (2014) and “Marriage Italian Style” And that points to the challenge Sony faces Chinese officials pitted it against “The Dark Knight Horizon” and documentaries about Roger Ebert “L’Homme qu’on aimait trop” by AndrÉ TÉchinÉ (“Matrimonio all’italiana”) by Vittorio De Sica (1964) as it seeks to launch a cinematic universe, much Rises.” This time, a haul in excess of $100 million is and Cannon Films. Six of the films announced on with Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and “Per Un Pugno Di Dollari” (“A Fistful of Dollars”) by like Disney has done with Marvel’s Avengers and likely. Domestically, the notion of a $90 million Wednesday have been added to the Cannes official AdËle Haenel Un Certain Regard: “FehÉr Isten” Sergio Leone (1964) Warner Bros. hopes to do with a “Justice League” opening weekend being seen as anything other selection, though only Kornél MundruczÛ’s “White (“White Dog”) by KornÉl MundruczÛ “Paris, Texas” by Wim Wenders (1984) film headlined by Batman and Superman. than a smashing success is hard to grasp, but that’s Dog” (“Feher Isten”) will screen in competition, as “Regards Sur une Revolution: Comment Yukong While Marvel and DC’s heroes have recently the baggage that comes with opening on this date part of the Un Certain Regard section. The others, Special Screenings: Deplaca les Montagnes” by Marceline Loridan et dominated theaters, the wall-crawler ain’t what - and with a production budget of more than $200 including Téchiné’s “L’homme qu’on aimait trop,” “Of Men and War” (“Des Hommes et de la guerre”) Joris Ivens “(1976) he used to be at the domestic box office. million, even after tax breaks. Tony Gatlif’s “Geromino” and Pablo Fendrik’s “El by Laurent BÉcue-Renard (documentary) “Cruel Story of Youth” (“Seishun Zankoku Franchise fatigue could be setting in; every Ardor” (starring Cannes jury member Gael Garcia “The Owners” by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (1h33) Monogatari”) (by Nagisa Oshima (1960) “Spider-Man” film has made less in the US than Hardcore Marvel fans Bernal) will be presented as special screenings or “GÉronimo” by Tony Gatlif with CÉline Salette, “Wooden Crosses” (“Les Croix de Bois”) by the one that preceded it. But Spider-Man is still Marvel films have opened on the first week- among the most iconic of Marvel’s superheroes, end in May for the past seven years, and two out-of-competition entries. Rachid Yous “El Ardor” by Pablo Fendrik with Gael Raymond Bernard (1931) and while his popularity may ebb and flow - as have posted the biggest openings in history: the The bulk of the additional films will make up “Overlord” by Stuart Cooper (1975) has that of Superman and Batman over the $207 million of “The Avengers” in 2012, and the the Cannes Classics section, which consists of “La Paura” / “Angst” / “La Peur” by Roberto Rossellini years - the character remains one of the most $174 million of “Iron Man 3” last year. “Amazing restored versions of films from more than 80 years (1954) recognizable and beloved comic book heroes in Spider-Man 2” should have no trouble topping of cinema. The selection includes work from Alfred “Blind Chance” (“Przypadek”) by Krzysztof the world. And Sony is betting big, having the opening of the previous film, which debuted Hitchcock (“Jamaica Inn”), Sergio Leone (“A Fistful Kielowski (1981) “The Last Metro” (“Le Dernier already set two more Spidey movies for 2016 with $65 million in July of 2012. That film revital- of Dollars”), Roberto Rossellini (“Angst”), Krzysztof Metro”) by FranÁois Truffaut (1980) and 2018. ized the franchise, which had been dormant for Kieslowski (“Blind Chance”), Francois Truffaut (“The “Dragon Inn” by King Hu (1967) Also, “Amazing Spider-Man 2” is also serving five years. But whether this sequel can top the Last Metro”), Frank Capra (“Lost Horizon”) and Jean “Daybreak” (“Le Jour se Leve”) by Marcel CarnÉ as a launch pad for two spin-off films Sony cur- $262 million domestic haul of the first movie Renoir (“The Bitch”). (1939) “The Color of Pomegranates” (“Sayat Nova”) rently has in development - a “Sinister Six” film remains to be seen. —Reuters Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas,” which won the by Sergei Parajanov (1968) Palme d’Or 30 years ago, will also screen - as will “Leolo” by Jean-Claude Lauzon (1992) Fellini’s “8 1/2,” a still from which graces this year’s “Gacious Living” (“La Vie de Chateau”) by Jean-Paul Cannes poster. Cannes Classics will also include a Rappeneau (1965) screening of an extended cut of Steve James’ docu- “Jamaica Inn” by Alfred Hitchcock (1939) mentary about critic Roger Ebert, “Life Itself,” and “Les Violons du Bal” by Michel Drach (1974) “Blue Hilla Medalia’s “The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Mountains” (“Les Montagnes Bleues”) by Eldar Cannon Films,” which covers the 1980s indie studio Shengelaia (1983) headed by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and “Lost Horizon” by Frank Capra (1937) known for its action films. News of the Ebert doc “The Bitch” (“La Chienne”) by Jean Renoir (1939) broke last week, but this is the first time that the “Tokyo Orinpikku” (“Tokyo Olympiades”) by Kon This image festival has confirmed it. Sophia Loren will serve as Ichikawa (1965) released by guest of honor at Cannes Classics, and her appear- “81/2” by Federico Fellini (1963) Sony Pictures ance will be accompanied by screenings of the shows Dane 1964 film “Marriage Italian Style” and the new “La Classic Cannes Documentaries: DeHaan in ‘The Voce Humana,” which the festival calls “her come- “Life Itself” by Steve James (2014) Amazing back to the movies.” Loren will also give a master- “The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films” Spider-Man 2.’ class at the Salle Bunuel. The festival begins on May by Hilla Medalia (2014)—Reuters Sophia Loren — AP Bruce Springsteen at 2014 Jazz Fest

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TunisiaPeople visit the sculpture of turnsthe great Tunisian poet Abou Kacem to in Tozeur, southern‘Star Tunisia. — AFP photos Wars’ to boost tourism

wo dozen white-clad Imperial Troopers and movie sets that are slowly being covered up by Ali was overthrown in 2011, Tunisia was rocked by other Star Wars characters marched sand in the Tunisian desert. labor unrest, terrorist attacks and political assassi- Italy island marks 200 years TWednesday down a stately, tree-lined avenue He wore the khaki overalls and large helmet of nations. That devastated Tunisia’s key tourism sec- in Tunis - a site where activists once fought riot the two-legged AT-ST machines that battled rebels tor, which contributes 7 percent to the country’s police during the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions. in the forest of Endor in the 1983 film “Return of GDP and employs 400,000 people. So the Tunisian since Napoleon exile The empire was not striking back against the the Jedi.” National Office for Tourism teamed up with the poster child for Arab democracy - just an innova- A huge screen broadcast scenes from the Star country’s new Star Wars fan club to stage the coun- try’s its first Star Wars encounter. Fan clubs from Europe took part in Wednesday’s parade and screenings of the Star Wars films will take place at the desert movie sets over the next few days. “We did this campaign to take advantage of these sets, which are unique in the world - the only sites from the movies remaining,” said Zied Chargui, director of the National Office of Tunisian Tourism. The campaign began with Tunisia’s own video of Pharrell Williams’ popular “Happy” song featuring Star Wars characters dancing around Tunisian tourist sites and the movie sets. The video has been viewed 1.7 million times since it was posted in March - and was tweeted by Williams himself. “It created a global buzz, which makes us very happy,” said Chargui.

Engulfed by a sand dune The original 1977 Star Wars was filmed in Tunisia, with protagonist Luke Skywalker’s home Women dressed as the Napoleonic era pose yesterday, in the garden of the planet borrowing its name of the nearby town of “Villa dei Mulini “ (Mill’s Villa), the oldest French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tatouine. Tourists can even stay in the Sidi Driss residence in Portoferraio on the Italian island Elba. — AFP photos Fans of the movie franchise Star Wars wearing a Stormtrooper costume. hotel in Matmata where Skywalker grew up. New sets were built for the 1999 “Phantom Menace” film as well as its 2002 sequel. The seventh episode in the Star Wars franchise is expected next year but it is not filming in Tunisia, apparently due to concerns about stability. Some scenes are now being shot in Abu Dhabi and the cast was announced to great fanfare tomorrow. The Tunisian tourism industry nearly collapsed in 2011. In the past few months, there has been a return to stability and a renewed effort to bring back tourists, but the 6.2 million arrivals in 2013 are still 9 percent less than 2010. “This event will give a boost that Tunisian tourism really needs - it is something new and a sign of opening up to the outside,” said travel agent Rene Trabelsi, who is involved in the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba. Restrictions were recently eased on Israelis seeking to make the trip. “It’s our first convention and we will see if we can make it annual,” said Ameur Men dressed as Napoleonian soldiers stand next to a statue of Napoleon Abderrahman, director of Tunisia’s year-and-a-half- Bonaparte yesterday, at the “Villa dei Mulini “ (Mill’s Villa) the oldest Napoleon’s old Star Wars fan club. residence in Portoferraio on the Italian island Elba. The campaign also involves an effort to save one of the sets, which is being engulfed by a sand he Italian island where Napoleon closely and last month took part in a re- A picture shows, amidst desert sand, a film set where numerous Star Wars scenes were filmed was sent into exile in 1814 marked enactment of the defeated Napoleon’s in Ong Jmel. dune. A crowd sourcing website seeks to raise $188,000 to clear away the dune and restore the Tthe 200th anniversary of the farewell to the Imperial Guard in tive campaign to encourage tourists to return to Wars films as the thronging crowds snapped pho- fictional settlement of Mos Espa from the 1999 emperor’s arrival yesterday with a re- Fontainebleau, a palace near Paris, when this sunny desert-and-beach nation in North Africa. tos of the costumed Star Wars characters. “It’s the film. Chargui, the head of the tourism office, said enactment by enthusiasts from across he departed for Italy. “We came here to Tunis to help save the Star first time such an even has happened in Tunis, it’s Wednesday’s march was only the first in a series of Europe. “Napoleon” himself was to land The fiery Corsican was exiled to Elba Wars sites in Matmata and Tozeur and convince really impressive,” said Asma Souissi, a 19-year-old new promotions. “There are many young Tunisians on Elba later yesterday, on a sail ship after his forced abdication in 1814 fol- people to return to Tunisia,” said Ingo Kaiser, head student. “It opens up new horizons for Tunisia.” with many ideas - and when we finish with Star modeled on the one that carried the lowing the Treaty of Fontainebleau with of a Star Wars fan club in Europe, referring to the After long-time President Zine El-Abidine Ben Wars, then you will see others,” he said. — AP deposed French leader there, joining 400 the Austrian Empire, Prussia and Russia. re-enactors in elaborate costumes. He was installed as sovereign of the Men in military uniforms of the time Italian island, although it was patrolled with swords and moustaches galore by Britain’s Royal Navy. roamed the island, along with women in Napoleon returned to France in 1815 flowing robes preparing to welcome the but, after his defeat at Waterloo, he was Fans of the hero of the day. Participants in the bicen- exiled again-this time to the far more movie franchise tenary celebrations, which will continue remote island of Saint Helena in the Star Wars on the Tuscan island until the anniver- South Atlantic. During his exile on Elba, wearing sary of Napoleon’s departure next year, Napoleon rested from his battles but was costumes of the came from countries including Britain, also an active local governor of his tiny movie’s Czech Republic, France and Russia. kingdom, building roads, schools, a hos- characters pose “Being here is extremely moving. The pital and a theatre. “The inhabitants of during a parade atmosphere and the emotions are very the island have a very good memory of on the last day strong,” said Jean-Michel Achalle, a 33- Napoleon, even an affectionate memory. of the first year-old Parisian dressed as a horse When he left, the island had entered the international guard who came with some 50 members modern era,” said Gloria Peria, a local his- meeting of the of a French re-enactment society. Achalle torian who also manages the island’s fans of the said he is following the bicentenary archives. — AFP movie in Tozeur.