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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 THULQADA 1, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Head of CMA In Iran, love Emmys exalt Di Maria joins replaced rarely a many old favorites Man United after political splendored over TV’s shiny for British backlash21 thing 8 newcomers38 record20 £59.7m US confirms UAE bombed Max 47º Min 31º Libya from Egypt bases High Tide 01:18 & 12:37 Raids herald bolder Arab action Iran arms Iraq Kurds Low Tide • 06:59 & 19:35 40 PAGES NO: 16267 150 FILS TRIPOLI/ARBIL: UAE warplanes secretly bombed Islamist militia targets in Libya, apparently catching Washington off guard, as turmoil in the North African country deep- Long-term Gaza truce takes effect ened with the Islamists naming a rival premier. US offi- cials said on Monday that the United Arab Emirates jets GAZA CITY: Celebrations erupted in Gaza yesterday launched two attacks in seven days on the Islamists in as a long-term ceasefire agreed by Israel and the Tripoli using bases in Egypt. An Emirati official told AFP Palestinians went into effect, ending 50 days of the only that his country had “no reaction” to the report, deadliest violence in a decade. The agreement, while Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri yester- which came into effect at 1600 GMT, involves an day denied any “direct” role by his country. immediate halt to the violence in Gaza, which began The air strikes signalled a step towards direct action by on July 8 and has claimed the lives of 2,143 regional Arab states that previously have fought proxy Palestinians and 69 on the Israeli side. The number wars in Libya, Syria and Iraq in a struggle for power and includes an Israeli who was killed by a mortar round influence. Arab responsibility for the attacks would also in the last hour before the fighting stopped. add to a picture of the West’s regional allies acting The Palestinians said it was a “permanent” truce, increasingly independently in the absence of decisive US while a senior Israeli official described it as “uncondi- involvement, seeking security goals with which tional and unlimited in time”. As the ceasefire took Washington may not agree. The bombing raids were first hold, thousands of Palestinians flooded on to the reported by The New York Times, and Islamist forces in streets of Gaza City, some firing joyfully into the air, Libya had also charged that Egypt and the UAE - two of among them gunmen from Hamas, AFP correspon- the region’s main anti-Islamist powers - were behind dents said. Mosques used their loudspeakers to them. “The UAE carried out those strikes,” one US official broadcast celebratory chants of “God is greatest” as told AFP on condition of anonymity. Asked about the the war-torn enclave hailed the apparent end to sev- account, a senior US official said “the report is accurate”. en weeks of violence that has seen a quarter of the The United States did not take part or provide any territory’s 1.8 million people flee their homes. assistance in the bombing raids, said the two officials, “Thank God the war is ended. I can’t believe I’m who could not confirm that Egypt and the UAE had left still alive with my kids!” 32-year-old Maha Khaled told Washington totally in the dark about the attacks. One US AFP. “It was a very harsh war. I never thought that we official said the two countries and Saudi Arabia have would see peace at the end.” Others in the territory been supporting for months a renegade general’s cam- where the Islamist Hamas movement is the domi- paign against Libyan militant groups, but that the Saudis nant power, hailed the truce as a victory for the don’t appear to have played a role in recent strikes. Palestinian resistance over Israel. “Thank God! The GAZA: Children sit atop a car as Palestinians gather in the streets of Gaza City to celebrate after a deal Another official said Washington knew about Egyptian resistance won!” said Tamer Al-Madqa, 23. was reached between Hamas and Israel for a long-term end to seven weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip and UAE plans for a possible operation and warned them Continued on Page 13 yesterday. — AFP against going through with the effort. Continued on Page 13 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 LOCAL ‘Kuwait cooperation vital in alleviating suffering’ Speaker, ICRC official discuss Gaza situation GENEVA: Vice President of Parties. In general terms, the ICRC International Committee of the welcomes any diplomatic process Red Cross (ICRC) Chistine Beerli undertaken by High Contracting thanked Kuwait’s parliamentary Parties driven by genuine humani- delegation, led by Speaker tarian interest and with the aim to Marzouq Al-Ghanim, for their enhance respect for the country’s continuous support to International humanitarian law the ICRC as one of the organiza- (IHL) all parties.” tion’s biggest donors. The ICRC believes that a sustain- Beerli said in a statement to able solution of the crisis is only KUNA that this cooperation was possible through meaningful polit- extremely useful in alleviating the ical effort, she added. suffering of people. Beerli said that the ICRC contin- The ICRC greatly values its rela- ues to work for the missing per- tionship with Kuwait, and looks sons since the Iraq-Kuwait War and forward to increased cooperation the Iran-Iraq War. At present, the on issues of mutual concern. Beerli ICRC is doing all it can to help the assured that the ICRC has been victims of violence in the north as extremely vocal to highlight the well as elsewhere in the country. civilians’ suffering in the Gaza Strip as well as in the West Bank. Dire situation Chistine Beerli “The organization has stepped The ongoing humanitarian crisis over 2,000 people and the injury of up its bilateral and confidential brought upon the Gaza Strip by around 10,000 others. dialogue with all the concerned the Israeli aggression was the main Ghanim briefed the ICRC official LONDON: Jassem Al-Kharafi bids farewell to His Highness the Amir yesterday. — KUNA parties to discuss all the issues topic of discussion between on the daily challenges facing the related to international humanitar- Ghanim and Beerli yesterday. In a Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, call- ian law”, she explained. press statement to Kuwait televi- ing for efforts to help Palestinians Amir departs UK, proceeds to the US With regard to the request by sion and KUNA, Ghanim said that there to overcome the crisis. the State of Palestine, addressed to talks touched on the dire situation The Israelis are taking advan- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- His Highness the Amir was seen off upon depar- the Swiss Government as the in which the Gazans are living in tage of the situation in the region, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has wrapped up his visit to ture at the airport by the former National Assembly depository of the 1949 Geneva due to the Israeli assault. thinking that they were beyond the United Kingdom and proceeded to the United Speaker, Jassem Mohammad Al-Kharafi, Sheikh Conventions, to convene a meet- The Kuwaiti parliament Speaker the international community’s States on a private visit. Shamlan Abdulaziz Al-Sabah, the State of Kuwait’s ing of High Contracting Parties, said that the ICRC and other inter- reach, said Ghanim who called for His Highness the Amir was accompanied by Ambassador to the UK Khaled Abdulaziz Al- Beerli explained that “it is the role national organizations were doing efforts to prevent Israel from con- Deputy Chief of the National Guards Sheikh Mishaal Duwaisan, and the heads of Kuwaiti offices in the of Switzerland to conduct consul- their best towards the crisis in tinuing its aggression on the Gaza Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. nation. — KUNA tations with High Contracting Gaza which caused the death of Strip. — KUNA Amir condoles Kuwait main donor to UNHCR efforts: Speaker Japan Emperor over landslides Calls for hosting 3rd Syria donors conference KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- GENEVA: Kuwait is a major donor to the UN Refugee Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable to Emperor Agency (UNHCR) activities, especially in Syria, Parliament Akihito of Japan, to offer condolences over the tor- Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said. rential rains that caused deadly landslides in the city Speaking after a meeting between visiting Kuwaiti par- of Hiroshima. liamentary delegation and Deputy UN High Commissioner His Highness the Amir also expressed sympathy for Refugees Alexander Aleinkoff on Monday, Ghanim with the families of the victims of the tragedy. He stressed the distinguished ties between his country and the also wished those injured speedy recovery. UNHCR. He added that Kuwait had hosted two sessions of the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Syria in 2013 and 2014. Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Ghanim described as “positive and fruitful” the talks with Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Aleinkoff, especially regarding the latest developments of Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables to Emperor the situations of the Syrian and Iraqi refugees and internal- Akihito. — KUNA ly-displaced people. The meeting was attended by the UNHCR bureau direc- tor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Amin Minister discuss Awadh. The UNHCR expressed appreciation to Kuwait’s humani- media cooperation tarian role in the Syrian refugees issue under auspices of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State Sabah, Ghanim said. for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- “Events in the region are adding more burden to Humoud Al-Sabah held talks yesterday with ambassa- Kuwait’s responsibilities as the head of the current Arab dors of Bangladesh and Burkina Faso to Kuwait over Summit and the present session of the Arab Inter- expanding media cooperation. Parliamentary Union (AIPU),” he noted. GENEVA: The Kuwaiti parliamentary delegation during the meeting with Aleinkoff and the UNHCR In a press statement, the Ministry of Information said During the meeting, the UNHCR officials reviewed team. — KUNA that Sheikh Salman Al-Hamoud affirmed during a meet- reports on the Syrian crisis and the obstacles facing the human file of the Syrian refugees, MP Mohammad Al-Barrak 2013 and 2014, made outstanding achievements in mobi- ing with Bangladeshi ambassador, Major General Commission there, besides “the tragic situation in Iraq” after said. He added that during the meeting the delegation lizing donors for Syria, Aleinkoff told KUNA after receiving Mohammad Ashab Uddin, the ministry’s readiness to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control stressed the necessity of the UNHCR practicing pressure on Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim at the UNHCR allocate hours for radio broadcast in Bangladesh lan- over vast areas northwest of the country, displacing dozens governments to exert more efforts to lessen sufferings of headquarter.. guage to raise Bangladeshi residents’ awareness about of thousands, Ghanim said, noting that this situation has a the Syrian people. “The two conferences brought all UN organizations and the state laws, health, customs systems as well as tradi- direct effect on Kuwait as a neighboring country. “Naming Kuwait as a global humanitarian center and His non-governmental organizations dealing with the Syrian tions. According to the Kuwaiti chief parliamentarian, the Highness the Amir as a humanitarian leader highlights for crisis together, which was very necessary in order keep the For his part, Bangladeshi Ambassador praised UNHCR reports on the developments in Iraq showed that certain the country’s effective role,” supporting the Syrian Syrian tragedy on the world scene,” he affirmed. Ministry of Information’s efforts to help Bangladeshis the ISIL had also taken many of the refugee camps, raising refugees,” MP Mohammad Al-Anzi said. The UN official praised “the role of humanitarian tradi- living in Kuwait. He also spoke highly about Kuwait’s the displaced figure to 1.3 million people over the last six Other MPs in the delegation are Ahmad Lari, Humoud tion of Kuwait, which is well recognized for long time and support of Bangladesh in different domains and levels. weeks. “This is literally a disastrous fact,” he said. Al-Hamdan, Abdullah Al-Ma’youf and Yousuf Al-Zalzaleh. was particularly very active during the crisis of Syrians He added that his country is looking forward to enhanc- Other data to be taken seriously in that respect is what The meeting was attended by the Kuwaiti Ambassador refugees and displaced Syrians, not only through the call to ing bilateral cooperation and with Kuwait. the UNHCR revealed about the ISIL controlling six banks in to Switzerland Bader Al-Tanib and the country’s Kuwait’s the donors’ conference, but also through the generous sup- Sheikh Salman’s meeting with Burkina Faso’s ambas- Mosul and other Iraqi cities, which led the insurgent group permanent UN delegate Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghuneim. port of the United Nations organizations dealing with sador, Aboubakar Kote, focused on means to strength- to have a stock of cash and gold worth USD 100 billion, thus Syrian affairs.” en bilateral relations especially in the field of media and funding will not trouble the militants over the coming peri- Syria donor conference He added that the financial support offered by the State cross-cultural joint ventures. For his part, Burkina Faso od. Earlier during the day, Aleinkoff expressed hope that of Kuwait has had a profound impact on the financing of ambassador lauded Kuwait’s support to African coun- MPs in the Kuwaiti delegation stressed to KUNA the Kuwait will host a third session of the International the UNHCR projects for about three million Syrians who fled tries, particularly its finance of many infrastructure proj- importance of the meeting with the UNHCR officials. Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria next year. to neighboring countries as well as at least seven million ects. — KUNA The meeting was part of Kuwait’s role regarding the The two previous two conferences, hosted by Kuwait in people are classified as internally-displaced.” —KUNA Iraqi speaker invited Journey of Hope sets sail for Greece to Kuwait PALERMO: Kuwait’s “Journey of Hope” boat left the port of Palermo on Monday after a By A Saleh current minister to the stock exchange. successful visit to Sicily Island, its second leg Dashti also inquired about alienating in Italy. KUWAIT: With the aim of cementing both competent and efficient employees in his The boat is heading to Greece in an inter- countries’ bilateral relations Iraqi Speaker ministry and the complaints filed by citi- national tour to deliver a message to world Salim Al-Jubouri recently received an offi- zens about not receiving their KD 30,000 for benefit of persons with intellectual dis- cial invitation from his Kuwaiti counter- construction subsidies. ability. part Marzouq Al-Ghanem to visit Kuwait. Meanwhile, MP Saleh Ashour stressed Representatives of Mayor of Palermo and Separately, MP Abdulhameed Dashti that the recent appointments of senior Kuwait Embassy in Rome were on hand to see again demanded Deputy PM and Minster officials in governmental bodies were not off the team of the boat who tour 39 coun- of Commerce and Industry Abdulmohsen objective and did not appoint the right tries all over the world. Media in Italy highly Al-Mudej resignation because he has people in the right positions, noting that paid attention to the team since their arrival “reached a dead end in violations he the NDA and ICM had the lion’s share in here on August 16. committed in terms of violation public winning these positions for favoritism The team, accompanied by officials of the funds through favoritism and exchanged reasons regardless of competence and mentally disabled people campaign in Kuwait interests” as forms of corruption. “We efficiency. In the meantime, MP Abdullah Khaled Al-Dosari and Meshaal Al-Badr, made have nothing personal against the minis- Al-Adwani urged relevant authorities wok a number of meetings organized by Kuwait’s ter who recently denied accusations of on banning ads of unlicensed health- Embassy with Italy’s competent associations appointing a number current MPs’ sib- related items and demanded that MoH and bodies, and the government of the lings and relatives as advisors with hand- immediately report classifieds papers autonomous region of Sicily. some bonuses,” he said, adding that that do not comply with license regula- Participants exchanged views and visited Mudej also appointed the brother of a tions to prosecution. specialized centers that provided them with successful experiments on rehabilitation of PALERMO: Ambassador Sheikh Ali Khaled Al-Sabah with the Journey of Hope team. — KUN the mentally disabled people. Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for his During the meeting held at the Palace of He stressed the pioneering role of the kind patronage for this humanitarian mission. Humidity continues through Sept the Normans, Mayor of Palermo Leoluca State of Kuwaiti through establishing a parlia- The ambassador hosted a banquet on Orlando expressed Sicily’s pride to receive mentary and constitutional state four KUWAIT: Kuwait recorded 80 percent way to the Red Sea, Mohammed Karam, Sunday in honor of representatives of the “Journey of Hope” and his appreciation for decades ago, thus enjoying political and humidity earlier this week before it Meteorological Department Director at societies concerned with the mentally dis- Kuwait for its initiative to support the mental- social democracy, freedom of speech and cul- dropped yesterday, and it is likely to pick the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, abled people and the delegation of the ly disabled people. tural enlightenment in the regional sphere. up again sporadically until the end of said. He further noted that temperatures Journey of Hope; the event and the sidelines Orlando affirmed that such successful ini- Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Ali September, a leading Kuwaiti meteorolo- usually drop in high humidity to as low as meetings were covered by the local media. tiative shows meanings of humanitarian val- Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who participated gist said. 44 degrees, while the shifting of winds to in, and followed up, the events of the trip, He presented a film screening on the idea of The humid weather is attributed to southwestern on Tuesday helped drop ues and Arab civilization, especially in Kuwait thanked Italian authorities for their hospitali- the Journey of Hope, the message it convoys the vapor-saturated southeastern winds humidity and increase temperature to 47 which launched such important project with ty and support offered to the team. and objectives of the project, saying that Italy dominating the Arabian peninsula all the C degrees. — Al-Watan political, cultural and social aspects. He extolled His Highness the Amir Sheikh desires to take part in such initiatives in the LOCAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 GCC plans to Small businesses still feel fight Ebola impact of financial crisis KUWAIT: The Health Ministry recently Kiosks, booths replace stores passed a special plan to fight the Ebola virus that was based on recommendations By Nawara Fattahova made during the GCC health ministers’ coordination meeting, said health sources, KUWAIT: Although over six years have passed noting that the plan includes activating since the world economic crisis hit, it seems readiness plans, early warning systems, that its repercussions persist, and some small- integrated and urgent contagious diseases’ er businesses find it hard to survive. Many detection systems and developing GCC stores have been forced to close during the health manpower skills to train them on last few years at various shopping malls in detecting and dealing with the Ebola virus. Ali Al-Obaidi Kuwait. The crisis continues to impact some The sources added that the GCC plan needs and citizen’s demands. Obaidi said small companies, which are either closing also includes reinforcing hospitals’ readi- there is continued follow up with health down completely or are shrinking and looking ness and response on fighting the disease offices over problems and deal with com- for ways to survive. as well as increase coordination and plaints, and quickly solve all obstacles and At one shopping mall in Salmiya, all the exchange of information and experiences meet citizens’ needs abroad. stores in the basement level have closed. amongst GCC states and boosting public About opening additional offices in Some of them have been given kiosks or awareness around various residential com- European and American countries, Obaidi booths on the ground floor instead. This munities in terms of early and immediate said that every beneficial action is being wasn’t due to financial problems but because reporting of any suspected case in any GCC studied, especially in areas that may appear a company rented the whole floor to launch a state. “GCC states will also ban the issue of new on the map of treatment abroad. He new project there. “The interest of companies to rent spaces at the mall is still high. The clos- various types of visas for GCC citizens to vis- said the study will concentrate on appoint- ing of shops in the basement is due to new it plagued countries and urge Saudi Arabia ing those who are competent, while at the project coming to the mall and will attract to have its senior scholars issue a fatwa on same time comply with the laws and pro- more people to come and visit the mall. One dealing with dying patients and during cedures. Obaidi said that among the standards of our benefits is that we didn’t increase the funerals of people who die with a danger- rent since our launch in March 2011,” said a ously infectious disease such as Ebola”, the of studying treatment abroad is the forma- tion of committees to follow patients’ con- member of the mall’s administration staff. KUWAIT: Financial problems have forced many stores in Kuwait to close. — Photo by Joseph Shagra sources concluded. Some companies replaced the brands ditions and the means of their treatment Another store selling bags and suitcases items in other shops. In this way we are pres- and the extent of health office follow-up of they were importing with other new and Treatment Abroad cheaper ones. “Two of the Italian brands that closed one of its branches in a mall in Zahra ent at more places and stores,” Marylyn added. their conditions and provide them with In other news, Health Minister Ali Al- we used to sell have increased their prices, due to increasing rent. “The company had to Many international brands are also facing their requirements. He said this action will Obaidi has announced a study to organize and not many customers were buying it, so close the branch in 360 Mall as they increased financial woes. Some local agents replaced be a main source for the health ministry treatment abroad. He said this new policy we had to stop importing them and find the rent and we didn’t have customers. We the brands they dealt with because they were plan to enhance the services extended to was dictated by the strategy that the cheaper ones. Also, to avoid closing some of kept this branch in Salmiya, as this mall didn’t no longer manufacturing, signifying the inter- Health Ministry is seeking to achieve, and citizens, to go parallel with cooperation our branches, the management let out our increase the rent. We also occasionally display national impact of the crisis. One of the com- announced some parts of it, especially the with the private sector and benefit from its branch in Kout Mall for thousands of dinars our products in an exhibition held at another panies which was the local agent of a intention to build several hospitals with experience and facilities. — Al-Rai, Al- and rented a cheaper one in a mall in Fintas,” mall in Salmiya,” said saleslady Marylyn. This European brand closed down two of its various specialties to be able to meet all Watan Mahmoud, a salesman at one of the stores, store has found an alternative way to sell branches while the remaining one serves as told Kuwait Times. some of its items. “We display some of our an outlet to sell leftover items. KAC seeks to finance planes acquisition

KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways’ management met representa- tives from local and regional banks to discuss plans to finance the national carrier’s deal with Airbus. Kuwait Airways (KAC) inked a deal with Airbus last February, with an estimated value of $4.4 billion, to buy 25 new aircraft. A consortium of banks is expected to be selected to finance the deal, said unnamed sources quoted by Al Jarida. KAC plans to appoint a consultant to coordinate with banks selected for the financing process, and handle negotiations with KAC officials. KAC’s board of directors has already contacted five international banks and con- sultation companies to play the role of a consultant and ‘architect’ for financing the deal. “A contract with such volume requires hiring highly experienced consultants to implement the deal in the best way possible,” the sources explained. KAC officials are also scheduled to meet other banks which previously expressed interest to finance the deal. The sources said that the final financing amount for the deal is likely to exceed KD 1.2 billion. They added that an exact number could not be released because the loss making airline signed a confidentially agreement with Airbus. KAC’s deal with Airbus includes the purchase of 10 A350-900 long-haul jets and 15 A320 neo aircraft, along with 12 more leased planes - seven A320s and five A330s. The purchases are part of KAC’s fleet renewal program - the first since 1990. The new planes are to be delivered in 2019 and 2020. Reports last week also suggested that KAC was in negotiations to buy 10 Boeing 777 jetliners, with the pos- sibility of a deal signed in the first quarter of next year. Minister asked about oil pollution rumors By A Saleh

KUWAIT: MPs demanded action from the government concerning recent reports suggesting oil waste being dumped in Kuwait’s territorial waters, despite authorities’ assurances that these reports are inaccurate. The Environment Public Authority confirmed in a statement carried by the local press yesterday that no fish kill inci- dents were discovered. Their statement came in response to rumors sparked by video footage that went viral on social media that showed what was rumored to be oil waste being dumped near Shuwaikh Port. Kuwait Oil Company reportedly issued a similar statement, denying that oil waste was pumped into Kuwaiti waters. Meanwhile, the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources, as well as the Kuwaiti Fishermen Association, released state- ments calling the fish kill Dr Ali Al-Omair rumors ‘baseless’. MP Abdullah Al-Tamimi said yesterday that video footage showing ‘huge amounts’ of dead fish allegedly in Kuwaiti waters “is proof that these waters have been contaminated by poisonous sub- stances”. He held Minister of Oil Ali Al-Omair, who is also the chairman of the Supreme Council of Environment, responsible for verifying the information and protecting the marine environment. MP Kamel Al-Awadhi had stated earlier that the sup- posed oil leak “reflects irresponsibility and indifference towards environmental issues that ought to be on top of the oil ministry’s priorities”. “The 181-article pollution standards law, which was passed by parliament in May, was not enforced to be locked up in drawers or for media use without being put into practice,” he argued. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 LOCAL Kuwaiti-French meeting ahead of military exercise Naval drills today, tomorrow Crime Crime Report Report Royal rumble: ‘Sheikhs’ charged with battery Driver questioned in company theft KUWAIT: A couple of ruling family members face charges of using excessive force to end unsettled busi- ness. A case was filed by two managers of companies in By Hanan Al-Saadoun the private sector who accused the two royals of beat- ing them. However, the report does not specify the KUWAIT: The legal representative of a chemical compa- nature of the old dispute which prompted the alleged ny told Mina Abdullah police that copper was stolen attack. The plaintiffs filed the case at the Mubarak Al- from the company, and an Indian driver was arrested in Kabeer police station. Investigations are ongoing. relation to the theft.

Home robbery Girl flees domestic abuse In Mangaf, a citizen said that an unknown person Sabah Al-Salem police reunited a girl with her fami- climbed the fence of his house and stole KD 450 ly after being missing for five days. The girl was stay- and jewelry valued at KD 1,000. A case was filed an ing with her friends, saying that she escaped investigations are ongoing to identify and arrest because of her family’s harsh treatment. She was the suspect. made to sign an undertaking not to flee again.

Missing vehicle Drunk man in police custody A citizen went to Jahra police and told them that his Jahra police arrested a bedoon in his thirties for being mentally challenged brother stole his car. Officers drunk. He had scars and bruises on his body because of approached his brother, and he led them to where he involvement in a fight. The arrest was made after an had abandoned the car in Sulaibiya. attempt by the bedoon to escape. The man was referred KUWAIT: Kuwaiti and French military officials during the meeting. —KUNA to the proper authorities to face charges. Jewelry thief busted KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Army’s General Chief Live ammunition The locations in question will be Salhiya detectives arrested an ex-convict for steal- of Staff headquarters announced the Meanwhile, the armed forces 16.5 nautical miles east of Al-Jelaia’a Delivery man mugged start of the joint Kuwaiti-French meet- announced that the Kuwaiti navy will extending to Qarouh island and six ing a diamond-studded watch from a Salhiya shop. An Egyptian man told Jahra police that he was He also confessed to stealing jewellery from a store ings ahead of conducting their joint undertake drills using live ammuni- nautical miles east of Al-Zoar extend- military exercise, known as Pearl of the tion today and tomorrow from 6:00 ing to Um Al-Maradem Island. The robbed at knifepoint. The man works as a delivery in Mubarakiya. The identity of the suspect was driver for a restaurant. The attacker took KD 120 and determined through security cameras. West (2014), next November 15 am to 9:00 am in certain locations in statement warns sea-goers to stay through 27, a press statement by the the sea, a statement by the Kuwaiti clear of this area for their safety. fled, according to his statements. Investigations are Kuwaiti armed forces said yesterday. armed forces said yesterday. The Kuwait Naval Force had carried ongoing. Neighbor threat The joint exercise involves contri- out a drill Monday with live ammuni- butions from the land, sea, and air tion scoring direct hits as a result of Jahra police arrested an ex-convict citizen for storming forces of both armies and is taking the naval forces’ hard work and devo- Search for harasser his neighbor’s diwaniya and threatening to kill him with place in implementation of an tion and rigorous training. a knife. He was referred to the proper authorities for fur- agreement signed previously by Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Al- A citizen accused a man in sports attire on a motorcy- ther action. both nations, said the statement. Othman, General Chief-of-Staff of the cle of urging her to have sex with him. She gave police It added that the Kuwaiti armed Armed Forces, urged troops and officers the motorcycle plate number. A case was filed for forces favored such joint exercises in following the drill to continue to excel investigations. ID forgery its drive to upgrade and streamline for sake of upgrading the Kuwaiti Army its fighting capabilities. readiness and performance for protec- An Asian expat told police that someone used his ID Yesterday’s joint meeting was tion of the homeland, with guidance of Property damage and got several phone lines in his name. A security chaired by director of joint opera- His Highness the Amir’s sagacious lead- source said the Asian was shocked when he In Maidan Hawally, the manager of a VIP property tions and chairman of the commit- ership. He conveyed to the navy men received an invoice from a phone company, and dis- A map provided by the Kuwait told police that a female citizen damaged the lift of a tee charting out the exercise greetings of the Deputy Prime and covered that several lines were in his name, and Armed Forces showing the location tower where she rents a flat. A case was filed, and Colonel Mohammad Abdullah Al- Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al- claimed he did not buy them. —Al-Rai of the naval drill in the red area. the woman is being summoned for questioning. Kanderi, noted the statement. Jarrah Al-Sabah. —KUNA Meanwhile an Egyptian accused an unidentified per- son of damaging the window of the vehicle of a food company where he works as a mandoub.

Domestic violence A citizen in Bayan accused her husband of beating and threatening her following a dispute. The man is being summoned for questioning on domestic violence charges.

Natural death The Hawally prosecutor ordered to register the KUWAIT: The specialized training center at the death of a citizen in Salmiya as natural, after it was Interior Ministry’s General Traffic Department suspected of being a murder at the beginning. conducted training sessions on the new electron- ic practical test system. Officers from the Hawally, Farwaniya and Mubarak Al-Kabeer driving test Arson report divisions attended the sessions. An Egyptian man told police in Nugra that his car was deliberately set on fire. Incidentally, the same person Dozens arrested in complained about the theft of a car a few days earlier. Hawally campaigns Investigations are ongoing.

KUWAIT: One hundred and seventy six people were arrest- ed during crackdowns carried out last week in Hawally gov- Physical assault ernorate, under instructions and supervision of Maj Gen A citizen in her fifties said that a woman and her Abdulfattah Al-Ali, the Interior Ministry’s Assistant daughter attacked and beat her, but the two Undersecretary for General Security. The detainees include claimed the opposite. A case was filed and investiga- 82 people reported missing by their employers, 24 violators tions are ongoing to reveal the circumstances of labor laws and 7 drug offenders, said Brig Gen Abdullah Al-Ajmi, General Director of the Hawally Security behind the incident. Department. The campaign comes amid preparations in the Interior Ministry to launch a nationwide security campaign that will include patrols, checkpoints, investigations and other activi- Workers protest ties aimed at reducing the number of wanted persons and illegal residents in the country. The campaign, which has unpaid salaries begun with stepped up numbers of checkpoints, will focus on weapons seizures, drug possession and related crimes. KUWAIT: Dozens of workers of a cleaning company Drug seizures have taken place in recent days at check- gathered in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh near the company points in Mahboula, Riggae, Jabriya, Salwa and Jahra. Instances of arrests for drug possession including possession of residence in protest against mistreatment by the methamphetamines, known locally as shabu and smuggling company, saying that they haven’t received their of tramadol and other illicit substances have been on the rise. salaries for the past two months. They also claimed the company deprived them of leaves to go home, for over eight or nine years in some cases. The workers told Al-Qabas that the company deprives them of their basic rights, then forces any- one who is given permission to go on leave to pay KD 120 to get a one-month leave and KD 240 for two months. When the worker returns, he is forced to sign a paper stating that he received all his dues from the company before he is allowed to resume his work, and this means that he will be deprived of his indemnity for the previous years. A worker identified as Lutfi in the report said that he has been working for the company for 19 years, and could not travel for the past four years. He said company officials refused to allow him to travel, KUWAIT: Police issued 80 traffic tickets and adding that he and his colleagues haven’t received impounded seven cars during a recent campaign their salaries for the past two months. Another work- in Shuwaikh Port and the Free Trade Zone. er, Mohammad Noor, said he has not got leave for Officers also removed vehicles that were stopped the past nine years, adding that every time he asked at no parking zones and obstructed traffic. The for one, officials told him to be patient. They then campaign was carried out by the Asima (capital) traffic division at the Interior Ministry’s General asked him to submit a new application, and when he Traffic Department. asked about it later, he was kicked out. —Al-Qabas LOCAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 Three more companies bid for airport project Plan to improve non-oil revenues by 2020

KUWAIT: A senior official at the Ministry of Public 2020 Budget Works disclosed that three new multinational Separately, the government set a plan for companies have joined the terminal project at the state’s financial policy for the coming five Kuwait International Airport, in addition to 16 years, in an attempt to handle the two main nominated companies, bringing the number of imbalances in the state budget - revenues qualified companies to 19, in collaboration with and expenditure. The plan targets reducing local consulting companies. The source added the domination of oil revenues over non-oil that the technical committee of the project, MPW, ones as current figures show that oil revenues the Central Tenders Committee, Fatwa and are 15.7 times more than non-oil ones. Legislation Department, Civil Aviation A recent report said that taxation and Department as well as representatives of the more service fees would be two of the ways qualified companies held a meeting yesterday to used to achieve such increases and noted determine the closing deadline for the project that taxes on net income and profits would and the future agenda. The source revealed that increase by 243 percent to jump from KD 74 the project is currently at the Central Tenders million by the end of 2013 to 254 million by Committee until the proclamation of the winners. the end of the five-year plan in 2020. Earlier this week, sources at the Ministry of “However, this increase will only make an 0.8 Public Works (MPW) said that the ministry is due percent difference compared to the total rev- to offer 9 roads, maintenance and construction enues by the end of 2013 that was KD 32 bil- projects for biding in September. The sources lion and would hopefully reach KD 33 billion noted that the new projects would include by 2020 with a slight increase of 0.3 per cent,” regional and alternative roads for border exits, the report suggested. buildings for ministries and government bodies The report also suggested that tax rev- and parts of Mubarak Port project of a total cost enues would increase from KD 351 million in of KD 103 million. The sources highlighted that all 2013 to KD 662 million, an 88.6 percent projects have been approved by the CTC, the increase. Nevertheless, the report stressed Audit Bureau and the Finance Ministry, and that that this increase would form only 2 percent 11 international companies would execute the of total revenues, which refutes rumors that projects in collaboration with local companies the government would impose very high tax- and consultancy offices. es or fees. — Al-Anbaa Kuwait finalizes hajj preparations Black market for bedoons’ visas

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has finalized hajj visa prices for bedoons, informed sources revealed that all preparations for the upcoming pilgrimage for sake of securing all efforts in this regard have so far failed to control rising prices. With needed services for the pilgrims. the countdown for this year’s hajj season, prices of visas for Khelaif Al-Ethaina, the ministry assistant undersecretary, said in bedoons have reached KD 700 on the black market instead of the a statement yesterday that the ministry had contacted the relevant usual rate of KD 150, the sources told Al-Jarida recently. Saudi authorities to organize the best possible services for the The sources noted that the ministry has set the limit for the Kuwaiti pilgrims. Electronic data networks of the ministry of Civil number of bedoon pilgrims at 350, or seven pilgrims for each of Service Commission and the ministry have been linked up, he said, the 50 hajj convoys it approved this year. They added that the total indicating that this measure secured tighter control over civil ser- number of bedoon pilgrims from Kuwait in previous years reached vants’ vacations and unlicensed hajj campaigns. 1,250, before it was reduced upon request from Saudi authorities The Ministry of Awqaf has organized a workshop, training staff due to expansion underway in Makkah. This created an opportuni- of more than 40 public departments on how to use the integrated ty for manipulating the value of the visa fee for bedoons, especially electronic system, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported. by owners who do not wish to take bedoon pilgrims in their con- Moreover, Al-Ethaina added that the ministry coordinates with voys. “This made convoy owners greedier to take advantage of the Ministry of Health with respect of pilgrims’ medical records and bedoon pilgrims,” the source explained. “Some convoys have educating the faithful planning to travel to the holy lands about already started buying hajj visas from each other for KD 600 to sell possible diseases’ infections. them for higher prices to bedoons,” The sources explained that this year’s hajj prices vary between Bedoons visas KD 1,800-2,400 for citizens and the same amount plus visa fees for Separately, earlier reports suggested that despite the Awqaf bedoons. They urged the Awqaf minister to intervene immediately KUWAIT: Concept art for the new terminal project. — KUNA Ministry’s efforts to prevent some hajj convoys from manipulating to stop the price manipulation. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest kuwait digest Terrorism The black hole combating efforts and Arab future

By Dr Shamlan Al-Essa By Sami Al-Nisf

he Security Council unanimously adopted the British his year, the world celebrates the 100th resolution to sanction six extremists from Al-Qaeda, IS anniversary of the First World War. If we just Tand Nusra, who were condemned by the resolution in Tlook closely at Europe’s past, we would easily both Iraq and Syria because of their violent and extremist find out great similarity with Arabs present and ideology and their flagrant violation of human rights and dis- even future. The old continent was full of civil and regard to international humanitarian laws. overseas wars, assassinations and terrorist opera- What interests us in the Security Council resolution is that tions during which WMDs such as poisonous gases it included names of four Gulf persons, two of whom are Kuwaitis and two Saudis. The question is, will the Arab Gulf were used to kill millions before they were univer- states be satisfied with issuing statements that condemn ter- sally banned. Nevertheless, they were later on used rorism and promise to comply with the Security Council reso- by the Spaniards in their war against Prince Abdul lution by implementing all items of resolutions that bans Kareem Al-Khatabi, by Nasser in the Yemen war and travel and freezes finances? Or will the Gulf states review all by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds and the their previous policies which relied on the security element in Iranians. fighting terrorism? The Gulf youth’s involvement in jihadist Naturally enough, such wars in Europe were action continues, and financing and moral support continue accompanied by migrations, refugees, hunger and with it from Islamic organizations that are active in the Gulf, despite assurances from Gulf leaders during their summits severe poverty to the extent that many Europeans Moving the economy Al-Anbaa that they intend to fight terrorists and arrest them. left their countries to work in Arab and African There are many reasons that led to the laxity of Gulf countries. In the diary of British Field Marshal regimes, Kuwait in particular and Saudi Arabia in uprooting Kitchener, he asks his wife to remain and keep on the extremism and terrorism phenomenon in their countries, working in Egypt in case he is killed because she and among the reasons is the presence of a conservative reli- would have no future in Britain. There is also a pho- gious environment that harbors terrorists and support them. to of the Palestinian doctor Hisham Sharabi pub- The reason for this is the social upbringing, education curric- lished in his autobiography titled ‘Embers and ula, use of religion for political purposes and appeasement kuwait digest and alliance by the regimes of these groups, thinking that Ashes’ where he is surrounded in his family house in they can contain them, and that it can use the groups to limit Palestine with Swiss and German nannies and the liberal, democratic and civil influence in the society. Development plan - what’s new? housekeepers, which was a phenomenon that Now, after the Security Council’s historic resolution, and remained common till the 1960s. the unification of international efforts to fight terrorists in The killing, madness and destruction we are wit- Iraq, and the US strong intervention with air power, and By Dr Bader Al-Daihani nessing extends from Somalia to Sudan, Yemen, France and Britain’s undertaking to support international Syria, Iraq and Libya and possibly to other parts like humanitarian efforts to fight IS, we began seeing a clear s I said in many previous articles, the so-called 2010 The report also highlighted that the major reasons for change in the stands of Gulf countries headed by Saudi development plan that was promoted by a huge failing to achieve such goals was lack in achieving legisla- what happened in Arsal, Lebanon (that would have Arabia, because Gulf countries began realizing that the secu- Amedia campaign promising that Kuwait would wit- tive and institutional requirements and the presence of flared and extended to other parts of it if it were rity dimension, despite its importance, cannot stop the ness unprecedented development leaps turned out to be administrative and institutional obstacles that posed the not for the wise intervention of the Custodian of the spread of terrorism alone. nothing more than loose unreal general goals, a series of biggest hindrances towards executing major projects in Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz). The statement that was issued by Saudi Mufti Abdulaziz infrastructure-related constructions and listing of all min- preliminary stages, which negatively affects achieving the This might become a permanent state turning the istries’ and governmental bodies routine works in one file state’s strategic goals of turning Kuwait into a regional com- Al-Sheikh confirms that the extremist ideology and terrorist use of the nations’ finite natural resources - oil - actions adopted by the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda makes deemed as the ‘Development Plan’! mercial and financial hub by 2035. The report also noted A number of experts and activists actually predicted that that economic wise, the failure to diversify income from construction and development to war and them enemies number one of Islam, and considered that destruction for the sake of sharing such resources. these groups are not part of Islam. US President Barack plan’s failure because it was wrongly set, as the previous resources to depend more on non-oil revenues, expand the Obama’s affirmation that he will continue a long term strate- finance minister pointed. Moreover, we lack the potentials role played by the private sector, the continuation of pres- More Arab countries will then enter this vastly gy, considering that IS does not pose a danger to Iraq only, and requirements of setting a true development plan and sure on the budget and the fact that all major and support- widening ‘black hole’ and civil wars that have start- rather it threatens Iraq’s neighboring countries and global put it into practice including building a modern state, lack ing projects made below par expenditure rates lead to the ed in the past few years and might last for long security. British Prime Minister Cameron confirmed that political will to execute a sustainable development plan, failure. decades, turning regional peace into temporary Britain will participate in international efforts, “because if we fight corruption and to carry out fundamental political and Though the government confessed that the previous truces before we witness a massive Balkanization do not fight terrorists in their bases in Syria and Iraq, then administrative reforms that would result in the presence of development plan failed, it did nothing to undo the reason developed administrative bodies led by highly qualified leading to such failure. None of the senior officials was held that is fiercer than that in Europe which ended by they will bring harm and destruction to London”. Even Islamic the mid 1990s. Iran expressed readiness to cooperate with international manpower selected according to potentials and efficiency accountable either. Because the same political and adminis- How on earth did we turn our religious, doctrinal efforts to fight terrorism. rather than relation to decision makers and loyalty to them. trative circumstances accompanying setting the previous All indicators point to starting the war against terrorism, And now, the fourth annual report made by the Supreme plan and its execution still exist, and there is no scientific and racial diversity, that was once considered a as political leaderships in Saudi Arabia, America and Britain Council for Planning and Development’s secretariat general, reason to make us expect the new 2015-2016/2019-2020 blessing in the Arab world, into a curse at the hands and statements of clergymen of Al-Azhar and the Saudi published in Al-Qabas on Aug 18, confirms the government’s plan (which excluded 2014-2015) to be any different from of extremists? For those attributing the current mufti confirms the start of a new strategy to uproot terrorism confession that the so-called development plan has failed. the previous one, be it in terms of content or expected regional wars to such diversity, I say: Just name a The report pointed out that the plan failed in achieving many results, which means more waste of time, effort and public from its sources and stop its finances. The international single country in this world that has only one reli- of its human development-related goals in terms of the pop- funds on going through the same experiences that had efforts began today to remove terrorists after the failure of gion, sect and race! Arab regimes to fight it or limit its spread. ulation, tendency towards applying practical studies in high- already proved to be total failure! Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan er education and the targets of scientific research. —

in my view Palestinian, Israeli children suffer from trauma

By Linda Gradstein ohammed, who asked that his last name cho-social first aid.” not be used, says his two young sons are In addition, the UN report says that 460,000 peo- Mshowing clear signs of trauma after almost ple, more than a quarter of the total population of 50 days of constant bombardment of the Gaza Gaza, have been forced to leave their homes. Strip. Two weeks ago, their apartment in Gaza City Almost 300,000 are staying in UN schools which was damaged by an Israeli tank shell and they had have been turned into shelters. to temporarily flee. Several NGO’s are working to provide psycholog- “It was 1 am and we had to run downstairs to the ical assistance to Palestinian children in Gaza. bottom of the building,” Mohammed said by phone. “It is difficult to do a lot while the war is going “For five hours we stayed outside listening to the on,” Rasha Qandeel, a project manager at the Israel bombing. The children saw first-hand what Palestine Trauma Center in Gaza said. “We try to do the war was like.” some workshops for parents on what to say to their On the other side of the border, Ifat Glili from children about the situation and organize some Kibbutz Nirim has also seen the current fighting activities to keep the children busy at the shelter.” between Israel and Gaza up close. The kibbutz is The real test, she says, will come several months just over a mile from the border with Gaza, and after the fighting ends, when it will become clearer rocket and mortar fire has become a daily event. how many children are suffering from post traumat- Residents have 15 seconds to reach a safe room if a ic stress disorder (PTSD). Studies show that an esti- rocket is fired, and there is no warning system for mated ten percent of anyone exposed to trauma mortars. She and her two younger children who are will suffer from PTSD. 14 and 11, left the kibbutz at the beginning of the “I worry all the time about long-term damage to fighting for another kibbutz in northern Israel. They my kids,” Mohammed said about what his children came back two weeks ago are witnessing in Gaza. after a cease-fire was “After the fighting ends, I declared, and have now left Parents and professionals on plan to take them for a psy- again. chological assessment and Parents and professionals both sides of the border describe see what is going on with on both sides of the border them.” describe similar symptoms similar symptoms of trauma He says that the fear is of trauma among children. among children. Younger children intensified by having to stay Younger children have in the house all day. His increased bedwetting, have increased bedwetting, children used to attend a nightmares, and fear sepa- full-day pre-school, which rating from their parents. nightmares, and fear separating also offered a summer Older children also speak of camp. Neither he nor his fear and many exhibit from their parents. Older children wife has been able to work regressive behavior. much since the fighting “My youngest son who is also speak of fear and many began, and taking care of 11, was in nursery school exhibit regressive behavior. two small children all day is during the last real war with difficult. Gaza in 2008,” Glili, a nursery On the Israeli side of the school teacher, said. “Then he talked about bombs border, Chana Tal of the Resilience Center says that and rockets but he didn’t really understand. Now he while most children were taken out of the range of is much more aware, and when I came back to start fire, the lack of routine is difficult. getting my nursery school classroom ready for the “Having a routine gives me a feeling of control of upcoming school year, he begged me not to leave, my environment,” Tal told said. “These people have and said he doesn’t want me to die.” no routine and that is very difficult and frustrating Mohammed says his wife is even more affected for them.” than his children, and has become fearful every On both sides of the border it does not look like time she hears an Israeli air strike. They are stuck there will be a return to routine soon. School was inside all day with the children, who fight and are supposed to have started in Gaza last weekend, but more clingy than they were in the past. He said he the beginning of the school year has been pushed- tries to do some kind of physical activity with them off indefinitely. In Israel, the school year is set to each day, even inside the house, and encourage start next week, and is expected to do so in most of them to talk about their fears. the country. In the communities near the Gaza bor- According to the United Nations Children’s Fund der, however, it is not clear when it will start. (UNICEF), at least 470 Palestinian children have “On one hand, pushing off the school year is a been killed, and more than 3,000 have been victory for Hamas and we shouldn’t let them wounded since the start of the latest round of fight- win,” Glili said. “But I want the government to do ing with Israel. They also estimate that more than whatever is needed to make sure the children are 370,000 children in Gaza require “immediate psy- safe.” —The Media Line WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

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ALEPPO: Rebel fighters walk in front of damaged buildings in the Karam Al-Jabal neighbourhood of Aleppo yesterday. — AFP US sends spy planes over Syria Washington rules out coordination with regime

DAMASCUS: The United States has begun community, including the United States and at least once for a failed mission to rescue reconnaissance flights over Syria to track Britain, to tackle IS and Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affili- hostages including Foley. Islamic State jihadists but insisted yesterday it ate Al-Nusra Front. But Foreign Minister Walid has “no plans” to coordinate with Syria on tar- Muallem also made it clear that Syria would Syria Planes Hit Jihadists geting the militants. Numerous sources said not accept unilateral military strikes by the Foley’s murder and advances by IS in both foreign drones have been seen over Syria, with United States or any other country. “Any viola- Syria and Iraq have heightened fears about the the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights tion of Syria’s sovereignty would be an act of group, which emerged from Al-Qaeda’s one- reporting that “non-Syrian spy planes” had on aggression,” he said. time Iraqi affiliate but has since parted ways. Monday carried out surveillance of IS positions On Sunday, IS cemented its control over an in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. The sur- Damascus Seeks Cooperation entire province in Syria for the first time, seiz- veillance is seen as a precursor to possible US There have been few signs that the interna- ing the Tabqa military airport in a bloody bat- air strikes on positions of the jihadists, similar tional community is willing to work publicly tle that killed hundreds of people. The air base to those being carried out in neighbouring with Assad’s regime, which has been engaged was the last outpost controlled by the Syrian Iraq. in a brutal effort to put down an uprising that military in Raqa province, which has now It comes after Syrian President Bashar al- began in March 2011. Washington has accused become an IS stronghold. The group has also Assad’s regime said on Monday it was willing the regime of using chemical weapons against advanced in recent days in northern Aleppo to work with the international community, his own people and carrying out other wide- province and controls territory in the oil-rich including Washington, to tackle extremist spread abuses. However, sources in Damascus eastern province of Deir Ezzor. fighters. But American officials said they did told AFP on Tuesday that the US is sharing Syrian war planes launched at least 12 raids not plan to coordinate with Damascus on tar- intelligence garnered through its reconnais- using precision rockets against IS positions in geting IS militants in Syria, despite Syrian insis- sance with Damascus through Iraqi and Deir Ezzor on Tuesday, according to the Britain- tence that any military action on its soil must Russian channels. “The cooperation has based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights be coordinated in advance. “There are no already begun and the United States is giving NGO. In Iraq, the group has seen its momen- plans to coordinate with the Assad regime as Damascus information via Baghdad and tum curbed in some areas by Kurdish forces we consider this terror threat,” White House Moscow,” one source close to the issue said on backed by American air strikes, but it still holds spokesman Josh Earnest said in Washington condition of anonymity. significant areas that federal troops are strug- yesterday. The US began air strikes against IS in neigh- gling to regain. Yesterday, Iraq’s air force carried International concern about IS has been ris- bouring Iraq on Aug 8, in a bid to roll back its out strikes against IS jihadists who have for ing after a lightning offensive by the group advances. But US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs months besieged the town of Amerli, where through parts of Iraq and a string of brutal of Staff General Martin Dempsey has acknowl- residents are short on food and water and face abuses, including the murder of US journalist edged that the group cannot be defeated a “possible massacre”. “The people are still James Foley. The United Nations has accused “without addressing that part of the organisa- besieged and stranded there,” said Eliana IS and affiliated groups in Iraq of acts that tion that resides in Syria”. The White House says Nabaa, spokeswoman for the UN mission in could amount to crimes against humanity. On no decision has been taken on whether to car- Iraq. There is “no possibility of evacuating them Monday, Damascus said for the first time that ry out air strikes in Syria, although US aircraft so far,” and only limited humanitarian assis- it was willing to work with the international have already entered Syrian airspace covertly tance is reaching the town, she said. — AFP US wants life in prison for Abu Ghaith

NEW YORK: Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law should be sentenced to life in prison for his role as Al-Qaeda’s spokesman after the Sept 11 attacks, when he made “bone-chilling threats” against America, prosecutors said in court papers filed Monday. The government said a life sentence for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, whose words were “inciting, murderous, and hateful”, would send an important deterrent message to would-be terrorists. “Terrorism is a crime with high recidivism rates and rehabilitation is notori- ously difficult,” prosecutors said. The papers were filed in US District Court in Manhattan a month before a sentencing scheduled for Sept 23. Abu Ghaith’s defense lawyer, Stanley Cohen, had urged Judge Lewis A Kaplan earlier this month to sentence his client to 15 years in prison, saying it was sufficient. Abu Ghaith was convicted in March of charges that included conspiracy to kill Americans and provid- ing support to Al-Qaeda. Abu Ghaith is a Kuwaiti-born imam who married bin Laden’s eldest daughter about five years ago. He is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure brought to trial on US soil since the 2001 attacks. In their papers, prosecutors said Abu Ghaith “proudly sat at bin Laden’s right hand” after the Sept 11 attacks, repeatedly par- ticipating in videos aimed at recruiting more people to Al- Qaeda. “Abu Ghayth repeatedly made unambiguous and bone- chilling threats that al Qaeda would continue to conduct terror- ist attacks using airplanes,” prosecutors wrote. “Simply put, the defendant eagerly supported al Qaeda and its mass murder of Americans,” they said. “The significance of Abu Ghaith’s spoken words is unmistakable. Inspirational and charismatic speakers like Abu Ghaith allow Al-Qaeda to refill its ranks of suicide opera- tives by driving more future terrorists to al Qaeda’s murderous mission.” In his trial’s most dramatic testimony, Abu Ghaith described being summoned to a dark Afghanistan cave within hours of the destruction of the World Trade Center to confer with bin Laden, who told him: “We are the ones who did it.” Abu Ghaith testified that a worried bin Laden asked him how America would respond. “America, if it was proven that you were the one who did this, will not settle until it accomplishes two things: to kill you and topple the state of the Taleban,” Abu Ghaith said he replied.—AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Turkey ‘lone gatekeeper’ against IS recruitment Airline security a focus of cooperation with EU

ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: As Islamic State insurgents and barred more than 4,000 people from entering holding 49 hostages seized from the Turkish con- threaten the Turkish border from Syria, Turkey is the country last year alone as a result. Only three of sulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul in June, including struggling to staunch the flow of foreign jihadists to 13 border gates between Syria and Turkey were the consul general, special forces’ soldiers, diplo- the militant group, having not so long ago allowed now fully open, the official said, with foreign mats and children. They also refer to video footage free access to those who would join its neighbour’s nationals only allowed to pass through two of filmed in Raqqa and broadcast this month by Vice civil war. Thousands of foreign fighters from coun- them. Close to 70 people were detained in Turkey News in which an Islamic State activist said the tries including Turkey, Britain, parts of Europe and last year on suspicion of links with extremist groups group would “liberate” Istanbul if Turkey did not the United States are believed to have joined the in Syria. “Security measures were increased a while reopen a dam on the Euphrates river, prompting a Islamist militants in their self-proclaimed caliphate, ago as a result of the latest developments ... The government minister to respond that it would not carved out of eastern Syria and western Iraq, Turkish armed forces believe the current precau- surrender to such threats. “The Islamic State is here according to diplomats and Turkish officials. tions are sufficient,” a second senior government to establish the law of God ... Turkey is not being The militants, who seized an air base in north- official told Reuters. ruled based on God’s law but as a secular state,” one ANKARA: A picture taken on Aug 10, 2014 at a polling station shows Turkish east Syria on Sunday as they surge northwards, are Islamic State fighter in Syria told Reuters. “Right President Abdullah Gul, flanked by his wife Hayrunnisa, giving a press point trying to secure control of the area bordering Security Failings now the priority is Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine Turkey above the city of Raqqa, their major strong- The presence of foreign fighters among Islamic and Saudi Arabia, then Turkey,” he said. after voting in Turkey’s presidential election. —AFP hold, in a bid to further ease the passage of foreign State’s ranks was made brutally apparent this fighters and supplies, sources close to Islamic State month by the beheading of American journalist ‘Lone Gatekeeper’ said. Some of the foreign fighters in their midst James Foley, his killer’s London accent apparently Sources close to Islamic State in Syria say the Turkey’s president reached Syria via Turkey, entering the region on identifying him as one of an estimated 500 Britons group wants to take control of the border crossing flights to Istanbul or Turkey’s Mediterranean resorts, believed to have joined the jihadists in Iraq and at Jarablus, northwest of Raqqa. Earlier this year, it their Western passports giving them cover among Syria. Highlighting security failures on the Turkish pushed out rival Sunni Islamist militants from the bows out - for now the millions of tourists arriving each month in one border, a Syrian source close to Islamic State told village to try to do so, but the Turkish authorities of the world’s most visited countries. Reuters that the militants had been tipped off to a closed the passage. Islamic State also controls the From Turkey, crossing the 900 km frontier into planned US operation to rescue Foley when area around the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfa- ANKARA: Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul moves said he had always maintained “neutrality” as northern Syria was long relatively straightforward, Americans were seen asking about the hostages in ther of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, in out of the presidential palace in Ankara on president, in carefully-worded remarks some saw as the Turkish authorities maintained an open bor- the Turkish city of Antakya, about 20 km from the northern Syria. The group has destroyed several Thursday an isolated figure, frozen out of the new as a veiled dig at Erdogan’s plans for a more politi- der policy in the early stages of the Syrian uprising Syrian border. shrines and tombs sacred to Shiites and other sects, government, with his wife Hayrunnisa complain- cally engaged presidency. “I stressed the impor- to allow refugees out and support to the moderate Foley and other US hostages were moved as a stirring fears in Turkey that their next target might ing bitterly of smears against her husband. But tance of separation of powers and of a checks and Syrian opposition in. That policy now appears to result, the source said, speaking on condition of be Suleyman Shah. few believe he will go quietly into the political balances system for our democracy,” Gul said, have been a miscalculation and has drawn accusa- anonymity. “If Turkey had not opened its border Ankara regards the tomb as sovereign Turkish wilderness, never to return. Gul’s undoubted polit- insisting that a head of state needed to “show tions, strongly denied by the Turkish government, with Syria ... to Islamic State (IS), if so many fighters territory under a treaty signed with France in 1921, ical stature means that he will remain a potential utmost care to the requirements of being a demo- that it has supported militant Islamists, inadvertent- had not crossed the border into Syria with their when Syria was under French rule, and has said it force should the ruling Justice and Development cratic, secular and social state”. ly or otherwise, in its enthusiasm to help Syrian guns and equipment, and if this group had not will defend the mausoleum. But Turkey, along with Party (AKP) suffer splits and lose popularity in the rebels topple President Bashar al-Assad. used Turkey as a base, IS could not have amassed its its Western allies, could also face the threat of mili- future. Gul, 63, co-founded the AKP with Prime ‘2015 Polls Critical Test’ The rapid and brutal advance of Islamic State, current strength in Syria,” wrote columnist Kadri tant attacks on its own soil. “I think they’re waking Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his successor as Gul had the door slammed shut on his bent on establishing a hub of jihadism in the centre Gursel on Al-Monitor, a news website focused on up to the severity of the situation, particularly as the head of state and for much of the last decade his chances of becoming premier after the party of the Arab world and on Turkey’s southern fringe, the Middle East. internal threat is getting higher and higher,” said a political blood brother. decided to hold a congress to arrange the succes- has alarmed Ankara and its Western allies, forcing One non-Syrian Islamist fighter who joined the second European diplomat, adding coastal resorts But in recent months the growing split sion today - the day before Erdogan is set to be them to step up intelligence sharing and tighten Syrian rebel ranks in 2012 said he had crossed the popular with European holidaymakers could between Turkey’s two best known political figures inaugurated, meaning Gul will not be able to take security cooperation. “Thousands of Europeans have border several times in the early stages of the con- become a soft target. “It’s a danger for Turkey has become all too apparent, with Gul becoming part. “There is no doubt that the decision to have entered Turkey en route to Syria, and a large number flict, though he said it had since become much because if Islamic State decide that Turkey is an a focus for those tired of Erdogan’s authoritarian a congress on August 27 was made with the goal of them we believe have joined extremist groups,” more difficult. “The borders were wide open. We enemy (and launch an attack) then Turkey becomes streak. Gul had broken ranks with Erdogan, of keeping Gul from a powerful position in the said one European diplomat in Ankara, describing used to get in and out of Turkey very easily. No like Egypt ... That’s the end of tourism,” he said. notably by criticising the policing of mass protests party,” said Soli Ozel, professor of international Turkey as a “top security priority” for the EU. questions were asked. Arms shipments were smug- Turkey’s experience with a range of security in 2013 that rocked the government. He has also relations at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University. “I “In recent months especially we’ve seen a real gled easily into Syria,” he told Reuters from outside threats, from Kurdish militants who fought a three- promoted better ties with the West and did not believe Gul will continue his struggle within the hardening in Turkey’s attitude, a recognition that Syria. decade insurgency in its southeast to leftist share Erdogan’s disappointment over the ousting party,” he told AFP. this is a potential threat to their national security Syria’s rebels at the time enjoyed Western back- extremist groups behind urban bombings, has left of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Egypt. But analysts said Gul would likely sit on the and a desire to take more practical steps through ing despite concerns about Islamist militants in it with a formidable domestic intelligence agency. But a day after Erdogan won an outright victo- sidelines for now and would re-emerge only if the intelligence channels, police channels,” the diplo- their ranks, with Washington providing non-lethal But officials in Ankara estimate there are foreigners ry in the August 10 presidential vote, Gul brushed AKP starts to show weakness and Erdogan loses mat said, declining to be named so as to speak aid and European states including Britain and from more than 80 nations fighting in Syria and aside speculation that he might join a new politi- popularity in his project to build a “new Turkey”. more freely. That cooperation includes tighter France pressuring the EU to allow its arms embargo Iraq and say it is unreasonable for Turkey to act as cal movement and said it was “only natural for me “Gul is unlikely to go into a war which he cannot screening of passengers on flights into Turkey in to expire. Turkey has repeatedly denied harbouring “lone gatekeeper”, stopping individuals who have to return to my party”. In line with Turkish law win,” said Deniz Zeyrek, Ankara bureau chief of collaboration with European Union member states, or arming militants or turning a blind eye to their travelled freely from their countries of residence which states the president should be politically mass-circulation Hurriyet daily. “I don’t think he will and the beefing up of border patrols on the frontier presence. Officials say it designated Islamic State’s after being radicalised at home. “I don’t think any- neutral, Gul severed all his ties with the AKP while come into play as long as the AKP remains suc- with Syria, the diplomat and other officials said. precursor a terrorist group as long ago as 2005 and one has to worry about capabilities, but it’s the in office. The question is whether Gul will use his cessful,” he told AFP. Gul has himself hinted that he Turkey already kept a “no-entry” list of thou- that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed “zero tol- scale of the threat and the speed it’s evolving that influence to press for change within the AKP after does not intend to return to frontline politics, say- sands of people suspected of seeking to join erance” for Al-Qaeda-linked groups last November. any country would struggle with,” said the first what many see as the deliberate humiliations he ing: “I will move to Istanbul. I will continue to work “extremists in Syria” based on information from for- But they recognise a growing threat to their own European diplomat. “And Turkey finds itself right was subjected to at the end of his term. for Turkey’s success. I will behave how someone eign intelligence agencies, a Turkish official said, security, particularly with Islamic State fighters still on the frontline.” —Reuters In a farewell address broadcast Monday, Gul who served as president behaves.” —AFP In Iran, love is rarely a many-splendored thing

TEHRAN: Like an increasing number of the family is core; most singles live at ing his marriage proposal early in their Iranians, Mahnaz divorced after marry- home. relationship. She also does not want ing young because of the pressures of a This leaves many dating couples des- children. Mina and Pedram keep their conservative society that she feels often perate for a place to meet away from own apartments but regularly cohabit, a ignores a relationship’s most important prying eyes. In something of a throw- practice that is becoming more com- ingredient: love. Now single, she looks back to more genteel times, public mon despite being looked down upon back with sadness on the collapse of her parks are one of the most popular by many neighbours and landlords. marriage, but bears no anger towards places to talk one-on-one. Such quaint “Our borders of freedom are these four her parents who made the arrange- courtship, however, has competition. walls,” says Mina, noting her own moth- ments seven years ago. She was only 21 Even though online dating sites are er’s disapproval of her decision to at the time, and her feelings barely banned, the Internet plays a role. remain single. “Living alone is seen as entered the equation; marriage was Fereshteh met Amir after sending him a no big deal for an Iranian man, but for a what her mother and father expected. “I friend request on Facebook. When woman it is very difficult,” she said. was far too young. I didn’t know what I asked if she was what he had expected Tradition is seen as the foundation of was doing. From the first meeting with when they first met after two days of Iranian society, but the issue of sex out- my husband’s family I had a bad feeling online chatting, Amir cheekily replies: side marriage has become the elephant about it,” she says. There was no emo- “No, she was better.” in the room for the authorities, who tional bond with her husband at the Despite being six years older than acknowledge a problem. The best way start and it failed to grow. the average Iranian bride, Fereshteh is “to resolve the sexual issues of young Mahnaz’s experience is becoming not yet prepared to commit. “I need Iranians” is to make temporary marriage more common. Iran’s average divorce more time. There are so many other easier, say parliament’s researchers, rate peaked at 21 percent last year, with things I want to do,” she says. The finan- even though the practice is often seen big cities showing far higher rates. One cial costs - Iranian weddings are often as shabby. Such arrangements under in three marriages fails in the capital lavish affairs - are also an important fac- Shiism, known as “sigheh” in Persian, can Tehran; in its northern quarter, home to tor. Hardship caused by crippling sanc- address “the sexual ills” of illicit inter- the more affluent Western-leaning met- tions in recent years has led many cou- course, the researchers argued in con- ropolitan elite, the figure is more than 40 ples to delay tying the knot in Iran. And troversial recommendations that may percent. The official reasons for splitting the Mehrieh, a dowry that is traditionally fall on deaf ears. up are a lack of affection between cou- paid in gold coins, is also daunting. “It For Mahnaz, who married young ples, family interference, domestic vio- can be ridiculously expensive,” Amir says. only to regret it, cohabiting is the lence and drug addiction. answer, especially given the segrega- But many young people cite strict Wedlock not for Everyone tion of the sexes throughout school social mores as a heavy burden. On the Average ages for marriage are rising years, which can increase the risk of other side, devout families blame a despite a government appeal for more picking the wrong partner. “It is Western cultural invasion that they say unions and more children. And some unhealthy to keep boys and girls apart has eroded traditional Islamic values. couples want neither. “It’s not for me,” for so long, so if there was the opportu- The signs of youthful rebellion are indis- says Mina, 32, who has been with her nity to live with someone first I would putable: 80 percent of female high boyfriend Pedram for nine years, refus- take it,” she says. —AFP school students have boyfriends and “even sexual contact”, according to a par- liamentary research report published in June. For those of marrying age, the pressure to conform can be suffocating. “I sometimes feel I am thinking about my parents more than myself,” says Fereshteh, 28, who has been going out with her boyfriend, Amir, for two years. “They first asked me if I was going to marry him after one year,” she says, admitting to doubts even over touching her suitor’s hand, as such affectionate contact is forbidden outside marriage.

Prying Eyes For young Iranians, at first glance, finding love appears no harder than anywhere else: people go on dates at coffee shops, cinemas or restaurants and meet at parties. And just like every- where else, many men and women struggle to connect with someone, despite their best efforts. But getting to know each other is merely one part of a complex ritual. What lies beneath is usu- ally deep parental involvement in a TEHRAN: An Iranian couple walks in the northwestern Shahran country where even for young adults neighbourhood overlooking the capital on June 7, 2014. —AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 IS reshapes war politics, US at ‘tipping point’

WASHINGTON: Signs the United States may strike strikes to punish the use of chemical weapons. and the top military officer Martin Dempsey said low with the American Task Force on Palestine, a Islamic State militants in their Syrian stronghold He also set a narrow mandate for new US air the United States could only defeat the group by close observer of US Middle East policy, said reveal a shift in the politics of foreign war in strikes targeting IS in Iraq - to protect American hitting it in Syria. A former senior administration Washington had little choice. “The US is in fact (at) Washington, after the trauma of the post-Iraq era. A diplomats and prevent a genocide of ethnic Yazidis. official said the rhetorical shift may signal a White war with (IS). It’s going to escalate, there’s no way year ago, President Barack Obama was set to bomb Yet the killing of Foley, highlighting a direct threat House “tipping point”. “It does seem to me, they out. It cannot but escalate,” he said. Syria - but balked at the last minute after sizing up to Americans, may make military action in Syria an have stepped up a gear - from second, to fourth, on beckoning political isolation in his war-weary easier sell this time around. how to deal with (IS).” 2016 nation. Now, he is stepping to the brink again - but The sudden potency of IS is also grading the the political winds may have changed. The execu- emerging terrain of the 2016 presidential race. US tion of captive US journalist James Foley and the elections usually turn on domestic issues, but given fear an IS caliphate could become a terror haven global turmoil, a row over America’s place in the have challenged an administration foreign policy world is certain to rage through the campaign to built on the conceit that the “tide of war is reced- find Obama’s successor. ing”. IS has also set off a national security debate in Democrat Hillary Clinton noted that Obama had the nascent 2016 presidential campaign, which will not taken her advice to arm moderate rebels in culminate only when the next US leader decides Syria - a step advocates say would have stemmed how he, or she, will wield US might abroad. the rise of IS. In an interview with The Atlantic mag- azine the former secretary of state appeared to Antipathy advocate an “overarching framework” of US foreign Obama has made no effort to hide his antipathy policy based partly on combating extremism in the to open-ended engagements in the Middle East, Middle East modeled on the US struggle against despite potent but limited campaigns against Al- communism. Qaeda in Pakistan and in Libya. But Foley’s horrific Obama has by contrast resisted foreign policy death was a direct challenge to the Obama govern- doctrines, and shied away from the “war on terror” ment - and for political reasons alone, it is unthink- framing of his predecessor George W Bush. IS has able he will not respond. The prospect that Western also complicated life for Senator Rand Paul, the lib- IS recruits could bring terror to America simply by JALAWLA, Iraq: Peshmerga fighters stand next to a trench as they hold a position near this strategic ertarian Republican, who warned in June that US buying a plane ticket also lands Obama with a new area in Diyala province as battles with Islamic State (IS) jihadists continued on Monday. — AFP meddling had already created a “jihadist wonder- war abroad that he did not seek but may have to land”. Paul warned Sunday that “gung ho” Clinton, a wage. But a serious attempt to crush IS, across the Tipping Point Drums of war are beating anew on Capitol Hill. potential general election foe, could start a new dissolved borders of Iraq and Syria, threatens to Stiffened administration rhetoric has heightened “This administration has thus far only dealt with Middle East war. evolve into the kind of open-ended commitment in expectations Obama could soon launch a new containment,” Michael McCaul, chairman of the Other Republicans blame Obama’s supposed the Middle East that Obama’s presidency was built Syrian front against a group he last week branded a House Homeland Security Committee told ABC weak leadership for the chaos in the Middle East. on avoiding. Nevertheless, the Pentagon is prepar- “cancer”. A top advisor, Ben Rhodes, called Foley’s News. “We need to expand these air strikes so that But none has gone as far as Rick Perry, seeking ing options for possible US action on the group’s execution a terrorist attack, warning, “if you come we can ultimately defeat and eliminate (IS).” White redemption after the mockery of his 2012 run. The strongholds in Syria. Obama has long resisted the after Americans, we’re going to come after you.” House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama had so Republican governor of Texas suggested temptation to get sucked into the vicious civil war, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned IS was far made no decision on whether to turn US fire on Washington should be ready to send combat troops and last year ordered a last-minute halt to US air “beyond” any terror group Washington had seen IS strongholds in Syria. But Hussein Ibish, senior fel- back to Iraq to fight IS. — AFP Calif quake US hypersonic weapon losses destroyed after launch in billions

NAPA, California: A strong earthquake that jolted resi- Launch site damaged • Setback for program dents of California’s Napa Valley wine country from their beds on Sunday caused insured property damage likely in WASHINGTON: A hypersonic weapon against smaller, less-developed countries the hundreds of millions of dollars, but the region’s total being developed by the US military was with missiles. economic losses will be several times that, experts said on destroyed four seconds after its launch “The United States has never assumed Monday. The magnitude 6.0 quake, the biggest to hit from a test range in Alaska early on that these ... are going to be systems that California’s Bay Area in 25 years, struck before dawn on Monday after controllers detected a prob- you can use against a power like China by Sunday near Napa, injuring more than 200 people and lem with the system, the Pentagon said. themselves,” he said. “For a country like Iran damaging dozens of buildings in the picturesque commu- The weapon is part of a program to create or North Korea, they could be a very signif- nity northeast of San Francisco. a missile that will destroy targets anywhere icant deterrent.” James Acton, a defense At least 49 buildings in Napa, a town of 77,000 resi- on Earth within an hour of getting data analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for dents, were “red-tagged” as unsafe to enter, including the and permission to launch. The mission was International Peace, said the Pentagon had Napa Senior Center and the local courthouse, and that fig- aborted to ensure public safety, and no never been clear about the mission for the ure was expected to rise as additional structures were one was injured in the incident, which weapon, with some viewing it as an effec- inspected, officials said. The quake struck just as the grape- occurred shortly after 4 am EDT (0800 tive tool against terrorists and others see- harvesting season was getting under way in Napa County, GMT) at the Kodiak Launch Complex in ing it as a counter to China or Iran and a significant wine-producing area that generates thou- Alaska, said Maureen Schumann, a spokes- North Korea. While hypersonic weapons sands of jobs in a region famed for its Cabernet Sauvignon, woman for the US Defense Department. are unlikely to be fielded for a decade, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. “We had to terminate,” Schumann said. Acton said the fact that Washington and The full extent of industry damage had yet to be “The weapon exploded during takeoff and Beijing were both testing the weapons assessed, but one Napa winery spokesman said the quake fell back down in the range complex,” she indicated there was a real potential for an NEW YORK: A couple look out from the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday. — AFP would do little to harm what was otherwise expected to be added. The incident caused an undeter- arms race. “I believe the US program is sig- a superb 2014 vintage. In Napa, a number of building mined amount of damage to the launch nificantly more sophisticated than the Russian tourist held for facades crumbled in the historic district, and numerous facility, Schumann said. It was a setback for Chinese program,” he said. wine shops were strewn with broken bottles. Most of the the US program, which some analysts see The weapon, known as the Advanced scaling Brooklyn Bridge red-tagged buildings were damaged despite having been as countering the growing development of Hypersonic Weapon, was developed by retrofitted to better withstand quakes, officials told a news ballistic missiles by Iran and North Korea Sandia National Laboratory and the US NEW YORK: A Russian tourist has been arrested according to a police statement. Following his conference. Disaster modeling firm CoreLogic estimated but others say is part of an arms race with Army. Schumann said it included a glide and charged after scaling New York’s iconic arraignment in Brooklyn Monday, he was held that total insured economic losses could range from $500 China, which tested a hypersonic system in body mounted on a three-stage, solid-pro- Brooklyn Bridge to take pictures with his cell on a $5,000 bond. His next hearing is scheduled million to $1 billion, though it acknowledged “a fair January. pellant booster system known as STARS, phone, authorities said yesterday. Yaroslav for Friday. Police said Kolchin - who came to the amount of uncertainty” around those numbers. Roughly a Riki Ellison, founder of the nonprofit for Strategic Target System. In a previous Kolchin, sporting a backpack, shorts and base- United States with a tour group - did not cause quarter to half of that projection could come from residen- Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, said he test in November 2011, the craft had suc- ball cap, was spotted climbing to the top of one any damage or attempt to remove anything tial losses, CoreLogic said, noting that $1.8 billion in did not think Monday’s failure would lead cessfully flown from Hawaii to the of the towers supporting the mighty structure from the famous landmark, adding that no insured claims were paid to policyholders after the magni- to the program’s termination. “This is such Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, she shortly after midday on Sunday. Once there, the injuries were reported. The incident marks the tude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake struck San Francisco in an important mission and there is promise said. On Monday, it was supposed to fly 24-year-old walked around and took photos second time in weeks that security at the 1989. The Insurance Information Institute in New York like- in this technology,” he said. He said officials from Alaska to the Kwajalein Atoll. with his iPhone before safely descending back Brooklyn Bridge has been breached. Earlier this wise estimated that insured quake damage would proba- aborted the mission after detecting a fault Acton said no conclusions could be down a cable support beam as a police aviation month, two German artists - Mischa Leinkauf bly measure in the hundreds of millions of dollars, in the computers. Anthony Cordesman, a drawn about the weapon based on unit hovered nearby. and Matthias Wermke - claimed responsibility although overall economic losses will likely run several defense analyst at the Center for Strategic Monday’s accident because the launcher He was subsequently taken into custody, for a pair of big white flags that turned up atop times higher. That is because only about 6 percent of Napa with charges against him including criminal the bridge in place of the US stars and stripes and International Studies think tank, said detonated before the glide vehicle could area homes are covered by earthquake insurance, said trespassing and reckless endangerment, one night in July. —AFP the technology was best suited for use be deployed.— Reuters Robert Hartwig, president and economist at the institute.

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LAGOS: Boko Haram’s declaration of a caliphate in professor at Rice University in Houston who studies and holding areas in the remote northeast. whose targets have included schools teaching a Nigeria may have been prompted by the attention Boko Haram. His statement was largely about “trying Establishing which parts of northeast Nigeria have “Western” curriculum and Christian churches. But for heaped on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, experts to get more media attention” after global focus shift- fallen into rebels hands is difficult, however, with Murray Last, professor emeritus of anthropology at said, but the pronouncement may have deeper roots. ed from its widely condemned abduction of more travel dangerous and prolonged fighting hitting University College London and author of “The Sokoto The Nigerian group announced in a video obtained than 200 schoolgirls in April to the territorial ambi- mobile phone networks. The military maintains that Caliphate”, a direct comparison between the 19th by AFP on Sunday that the captured town of Gwoza tions of Islamic State, he added. Nigeria’s sovereignty is intact but its claim stands at century state and Boko Haram is flawed. Anyone who in northeastern Borno state was under an Islamic odds with multiple reports indicating that Boko argued that Boko Haram is fighting to revive the caliphate, drawing comparisons with a similar decla- Seeking attention Haram controls several towns in Borno and at least Sokoto Caliphate is “talking nonsense”, Last said, in ration by IS in June. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shehu Sani, an expert on religious violence in one in neighboring Yobe state. part because the Kanuri tribe, which is dominant in Shekau, who has previously expressed support for IS northern Nigeria who has brokered peace talks with the northeast and in Boko Haram, were Dan Fodio’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did not give further Boko Haram, agreed that Shekau’s recent moves Pre-colonial caliphate rivals. details, leading to debate about exactly what he appear to have been shaped by the IS example. Boko In tracing the historical origins of Boko Haram, But he said Nigeria’s modern-day jihadis may well meant. Analysts suggested that IS may have inspired Haram, blamed for more than 10,000 deaths since some academics have pointed to the Sokoto be using Dan Fodio’s struggle as a symbolic example, his statement after grabbing international headlines 2009, has long voiced a desire to create a strict Caliphate, an 19th century Islamic state established referencing him within their own ranks. “Almost in recent months by seizing parts of Iraq and Syria in Islamic state within mainly Muslim northern Nigeria, by Usman Dan Fodio. The caliphate-which was entire- everyone who even has some primary school educa- a brutal onslaught. The United States has described which has an existing network of emirs whom ly independent from other Islamic kingdoms such as tion is aware of” the Sokoto Caliphate, said Last. the group as the strongest-ever Islamist threat with Shekau has denounced, and a parallel system of the Ottoman Empire-stretched across much of north- “Usman dan Fodio is a (figure) of authority, blessing its “apocalyptic end of days” ideology. Islamic law. But, Sani added, Boko Haram did not ern Nigeria and parts of other states. It was one of (and) charisma,” he added. Boko Haram in comparison is thought to be a have a plan to achieve its goal before now. “What is the largest states in west Africa before it fell to the The professor also rejected notions that Shekau modestly-funded local uprising made up of poor happening in Iraq has given them direction,” Sani British in 1903. Dan Fodio launched his jihad or holy was trying to position Boko Haram within the youths with little tactical training. By evoking a said. Previously, the militants thought they should war in 1804 to eliminate what he said were the devia- caliphate declared by IS. The notion of Nigerian Nigerian caliphate, experts suggested Shekau was “overrun the whole country before they declare their tions from true Islam being practiced by Muslim jihadists submitting to the authority of Arabs is trying to raise his own profile rather than submit to (jihadist) republic” but after watching IS “they have elites across the region. highly unlikely, he argued. Instead, Last suggested like-minded extremists in the Middle East. “I think taken a more gradualist approach,” he added. He had defeated most of his rivals by 1808. that with his proclamation on Gwoza, Shekau may right now Shekau’s moves are coming from a desire Boko Haram’s tactics have seen a dramatic shift in Experts said the use of force to establish so-called have been saying: “If (IS) can be a caliphate, then so to emulate IS,” said David Cook, a religious studies recent months from hit-and-run strikes to attacking religious purity clearly has relevance to Boko Haram, can we.” — AFP Hollande fine-tunes pro-reform Cabinet Rebel ministers ousted

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande fine- tuned his third government team in two years yesterday, seeking to reconcile pro-growth measures with deficit-reduction after ousting rebel ministers opposed to budgetary rigor. He and Prime Minister Manuel Valls were due later to unveil a new cabinet which will make its debut just a few weeks ahead of tough negotia- tions at home and with EU peers on a 2015 budget widely seen breaking promises to Brussels over deficit cuts. MINSK: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (left) and Ukraine’s President Petro The reshuffle is the latest episode in a debate Poroshenko shake hands during a summit in Belarus’ capital yesterday. — AFP in Europe about how much budgets can be cut to reduce debt while the region’s economies are Russian soldiers’ capture clouds still recovering from financial crises. Valls handed in his government’s resignation on Monday after Putin-Poroshenko talks in Minsk Hollande judged outspoken Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg had gone too far by attack- MINSK: Ukraine released a video of captured video provided the strongest evidence yet to ing his economic recovery plan and crucial euro- PARIS: A combination of pictures shows (from left) outgoing French Minister of the Economy, Russian soldiers yesterday, sharply escalating a back up Kiev’s claims of direct Russian military zone partner Germany’s “obsession” with austeri- Production Recovery and the Digital Sector Arnaud Montebourg; outgoing French Education dispute over Moscow’s alleged backing for sepa- involvement, which Moscow has always disput- ty. While Montebourg’s appeals for fiscal loosen- Minister Benoit Hamon and outgoing French Minister for Culture and Communication Aurelie ratist rebels in the east of the former Soviet ed. It came a day after Ukraine’s state security ing aimed at boosting growth have started to Filippetti. — AFP republic. The footage was released only hours service said it had detained 10 Russian para- gain traction in some quarters outside France, including Montebourg who will exit the govern- which budgetary rigour can be pursued while before the two countries’ presidents were due to troopers who had crossed the border in a col- others insist trimming welfare systems and state ment, played down speculation that the group the region’s economies are still recovering from meet for the first time since June to discuss the umn of several dozen armed infantry vehicles. In spending are needed to make economies more would seek to lure away leftist deputies from the the financial crisis sparked in 2008/09. Ironically, conflict, which has killed more than 2,000 peo- footage posted on the official Facebook page of competitive. government camp and so undermine Hollande’s Montebourg’s appeals against “austerity” have ple and provoked Western sanctions against the Ukrainian government’s “anti-terrorist opera- Hollande, who in January took a more pro- fragile majority. “It’s not our aim to provoke a started to gain support elsewhere, with Russia. In Moscow, a military source told Russian tion”, the men were shown dressed in camou- business turn, has based his recovery plan news agencies that a group of soldiers had sur- flage fatigues. One of them, who identified him- government crisis. I will support the new gov- European Central bank chief Mario Draghi rendered to Ukrainian forces after crossing the self as Ivan Milchakov, listed his personal details, around 50 billion euros of spending savings up ernment,” the ex-culture minister told BFM-TV, weighing in last week with a call for govern- border by accident. including the name of his paratroop regiment, to the end of his mandate in 2017, while offering saying she planned to focus her work on the ments to do more to push demand. Ukraine rejected that explanation. “This was- which he said was based in the Russian town of companies 40 billion euros in tax cuts to help depressed region of northeastern France where While Germany’s Angela Merkel and her con- n’t a mistake, but a special mission they were Kostroma. “I did not see where we crossed the them hire more. “The president and the prime she is a Socialist deputy. The European debate servatives have yet to comment directly on the carrying out,” military spokesman Andriy border. They just told us we were going on a 70 minister want to get it wrapped up quickly about how to kickstart growth while not under- French reshuffle, some voices in the German Lysenko said in a televised briefing. He also said km (45-mile) march over three days,” he said. because the government needs to get down to mining public finances is not just felt in France. media raised concern that excess rigor would separatists were attacking the southeastern bor- “Everything is different here, not like they show work,” said one source close to Hollande. “That Austria’s finance minister Michael Spindelegger help the rise of the far-right National Front in der town of Novoazovsk “at this very minute” it on television. We’ve come as cannon fodder,” said, forming a government is never easy.” At resigned yesterday after drawing fire for his France. “The goal in Europe must be: Save and Ukrainian forces had destroyed 12 armored he said in the video. stake is the slender majority of Hollande’s refusal to cut taxes unless that can be financed Private Hollande. If the President and his new infantry vehicles in the area. Twelve Ukrainian Another man in the footage, who gave his Socialists in the lower house of parliament which without new levies. government press ahead with their reform service personnel had been killed in fighting in name as Sergeant Aleksei Generalov, said: “Stop is due to examine the budget bill and other course, then Berlin and Brussels should meet the past 24 hours, he said, including four border sending in our boys. Why? This is not our war.” reforms - such as a liberalization of France’s high- ‘Saving private Hollande’ him half way,” left-leaning Sueddeutsche guards who died when Russian Mi-24 helicop- Social media accounts belonging to several of ly regulated service sector - in coming weeks. While other European economies begin to Zeitung wrote in an editorial, citing flexibility on ters attacked a frontier post in Luhansk region the men showed them in camouflage or para- If around 40 leftist Socialist deputies feel emerge from a years-long slow-down, France, public deficit limits. on Monday. troop uniform. Russian news agencies quoted a under-represented by the new cabinet, they the euro zone’s second-largest economy, is flat Economists gave a guarded welcome to Russia has always denied assertions by defense ministry source as confirming that could abstain or oppose the forthcoming and the government has acknowledged it will Montebourg’s eviction, hoping it would bring a Ukraine, backed by the United States and the Russian servicemen had crossed into Ukraine reforms. The downside for them is that, given not meet this year’s fiscal targets. Most econo- sharper focus to government. “This represents a European Union, that it has been sending arms but saying they did so inadvertently. “The sol- the unpopularity of the ruling majority, they mists doubt a pledge to bring the deficit within welcome clarification of the economic strategy and troops across the border to support the pro- diers really did participate in a patrol of a section would likely lose their constituencies if a rebel- but it increases the risk of a political crisis,” Moscow separatists. The latest dispute cast a fur- of the Russian-Ukrainian border, crossed it by EU-endorsed limits in 2015 will be met. The lat- ther pall over talks in the Belarusian capital accident on an unmarked section, and as far as lion triggered new elections. Luc Chatel, caretak- est sign of weakness came from France’s Barclays economist Philippe Gudin said. He said Minsk, where presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia we understand showed no resistance to the er leader of the main UMP opposition party, depressed real estate sector on Monday, where the most likely scenario would be for self-pro- and Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine were meeting armed forces of Ukraine when they were called for a vote of confidence on the new gov- new housing starts in July registered a 10.8 per- claimed rebel lawmakers in the ruling Socialist for the first time since a tense encounter in detained,” the source said. ernment but stopped short of demanding cent year-on-year fall to hit their lowest level party to keep criticizing Hollande’s policies but France on June 6. Hollande dissolve parliament. since November 1998. Euro-zone officials have without forcing snap elections-if only for fear of “I hope the result of today’s meeting will be Rebels encircled Aurelie Filippetti, one of three ministers often exchanged fierce words over the extent to losing their own seats. — Reuters the achievement of an agreement that will bring The Russian servicemen were detained, with peace to Ukrainian soil,” Poroshenko told their personal documents and weapons, near reporters. He held separate talks with EU foreign the small town of Amvrosiyivka in Donetsk policy chief Catherine Ashton and Belarusian region, the Ukrainian state security service said. Scotland posts referendum President Alexander Lukashenko, the summit “Officially they are on military exercises in vari- host. ous corners of Russia. In reality they are involved in military aggression against Ukraine,” Defense ballots after debate clash Crossed by accident Minister Valeriy Heletey said in a Facebook post. Fighting in eastern Ukraine broke out in Since Putin and Poroshenko last met, Ukraine April, a month after Russia annexed Ukraine’s has turned the tide of the conflict and largely LONDON: Scotland’s first postal ballots for a referen- point for the “Yes Scotland” campaign in the past. But stored in a Scottish naval base. Salmond said an inde- Crimea peninsula in response to the toppling of encircled pro-Russian rebels holding out in two dum on independence headed to voters yesterday Salmond said a vote for independence would give him pendent Scotland would reject nuclear weapons, a pro-Moscow president in Kiev. Yesterday’s eastern cities. —Reuters after the leader of the campaign to break away from a mandate to demand a currency union with the rest which he called a “waste of money as well as being Britain scored victory in a final TV debate. One-sixth of of the United Kingdom, an idea that the three main morally wrong”-but was criticized by an audience the Scottish electorate-some 700,000 people-could parties in Westminster have rejected. member concerned about the risk to jobs. The debate Mayor of ‘poor but sexy’ receive their polling papers as early as Wednesday, and Darling then accused Salmond of talking “non- later turned to discussion of the NHS, when Salmond begin answering the question: “Should Scotland be an sense” over estimates of revenues from North Sea oil, argued that a split with the rest of Britain would pro- Berlin Wowi steps down independent country?” The rest of voters will have to which would be the lifeblood of an independent tect Scotland from cuts to health spending, while wait until September 18 for the historic referendum Scotland. Darling argued that staying in Britain would Darling insisted that funding for the service was due to that could end a union dating back to 1707. guarantee jobs, but appeared to falter as Salmond rise. Summing up the case for unity, Darling said: “We BERLIN: Berlin’s mayor Klaus Wowereit is tographed hobnobbing with celebrities A “Yes” victory would create Europe’s first inde- doggedly questioned him on what powers Scotland do not need to divide these islands into separate states stepping down after 13 years running the and enjoying a party lifestyle. Seen by pendent state since the disintegration of Yugoslavia would be granted to create jobs in the future. Both in order to assert our Scottish identity.” But Salmond city he once described as “poor but sexy”, some as a possible SPD candidate for chan- and leave both sides of the split in uncharted political were challenged by members of a lively audience of said that independence could guarantee that “at each his reputation tarnished in recent years by cellor, he was ultimately passed over due and economic waters. British politicians have promised 200. The debate also touched on the fate of the British and every election in an independent Scotland we will embarrassing delays and cost overruns to to party concerns that what made him Scotland will be given greater autonomy in particular nuclear program Trident, under which missiles are get the government that we vote for”. — AFP the German capital’s new airport. popular in Berlin might not play so well with increased taxation powers for its government- Wowereit, who became a national celebrity with voters nationwide and because of a even if the “No” camp wins. The independence cam- by coming out as gay during his first may- perceived lack of gravitas. Tagesspiegel paign has lagged in the polls despite recent advances, oral election campaign just as a newspaper newspaper said Jan Stoess, head of the and was hoping for a boost from Monday’s strong was planning to expose his sexuality, is SPD in Berlin, would take over from debate performance by Scottish First Minister Alex leaving two years before the end of his Wowereit, who had won a third term as Salmond. In a snap Guardian/ICM poll following the ill- term. Facing the media yesterday with a mayor in September 2011, governing in tempered exchange, 71 percent of respondents said typically broad grin, the 60-year-old mayor coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s that Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party said: “I announced to the Senate today that Christian Democrats (CDU). (SNP), had bested his opponent, former British finance I will not stand again for the next legisla- minister Alistair Darling. But experts questioned ture period and that I will vacate my posi- ‘Poor but sexy’ whether a debate performance would influence voting tion on Dec 11.” Wowereit’s phrase “poor but sexy” was a intentions. “Whether [Salmond] has done enough to After much speculation about how long marketing stroke of genius for the city, move the numbers, I think, may be another question,” he would continue Wowereit said he had which has transformed into one of Europe’s John Curtice from Scotland’s University of Srathclyde wanted to give some clarity. “This was not hippest and most popular tourist destina- told BBC News. As of last week, 57 of respondents in a an easy decision. I have been in politics in tions on his watch. “Berlin is the place to be YouGov poll for The Times said they would vote for this city for more than 40 years... it is some- for people from all around the world,” Scotland to remain part of Britain, against 43 percent times difficult to find the right time to go. Wowereit said. who would say “Yes” to the split-a 14-point spread. For me the time has come now. I’m going “Together we can be proud of this in of my own free will and I’m proud of having the last years we have taken a huge leap Currency question played my part in the positive develop- forward.” Berlin is finally starting to glimpse The two rivals clashed on topics that ranged from ment of this city.” Dubbed “Wowi” in the the prosperity that was supposed to land what currency an independent Scotland would use to media, the Berlin-born politician’s candor, in its lap after the Berlin Wall came down in oil reserves, from defense to the fate of the National smile and down-to-earth manner made 1989 and it was restored as the jubilant Health Service (NHS). Darling was quick to bring him one of Germany’s most popular politi- capital of Germany after decades of Cold Monday’s debate to the question of what currency an GLASGOW: Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond takes a break during the second live televi- cians, and he was frequently pho- War division.—Rueters independent Scotland would use-perceived as a weak sion debate on Scottish independence in Glasgow. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Floods leave thousands homeless in Bangladesh

DHAKA: Heavy flooding across Bangladesh has forced thousands engineer at the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center in the capi- districts, most in the north of the country. More than 300 of people from their homes and caused severe damage to crops, tal. People in low-lying areas next to the rivers in Dhaka would schools in flood-hit districts have been shut. The government with officials yesterday warning the situation could worsen as likely be affected, he added. has allocated 8,000 tons of rice and announced a relief package floodwaters poured into the capital, Dhaka. Heavy monsoon rain An official at the disaster management control room said the of 30 million taka ($385,000) for those affected. Monsoon rains in recent days has aggravated the situation in the low-lying and floods have affected more than 74,000 people and the number have also caused havoc in neighboring India this month, with densely populated country, with the wet season due to run into of homeless ran into several thousands, but she gave no official floods triggered by heavy rains in the Himalayas inundating September. “Over the next couple of days the flood situation figure. The floods have also affected crops, with more than nearly 1,500 villages and killing at least 28 people in the north- around Dhaka ... might further deteriorate,” said Sazzad Hussain, an 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) of farmland submerged in 20 ern state of Uttar Pradesh. — Reuters Pakistan leader meets army chief amid crisis Army’s role ‘key’ to how crisis pans out

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met the country’s powerful army chief yesterday as a political deadlock over mass protests to demand the government’s resigna- tion showed no signs of resolution. Pakistan has been gripped by peaceful anti-government protests demanding Sharif’s resignation this month, with thousands of demonstrators camped outside parliament in a country that has experienced a succession of military coups. Sharif’s press office said army chief Raheel Sharif and the prime minister discussed the MUMBAI: A rabbi carries the sacred Torah scrolls after the dedication ceremony of protests and agreed to resolve the issue “expedi- Nariman (Chabad) House in Mumbai yesterday. — AFP tiously in the best national interest”. The meeting was one of many the two leaders have held in recent weeks over the impasse, said a senior Jewish centre stormed source at army headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi. “They are discussing solu- tions,” said the official, who asked not to be in 2008 attacks reopens named as he was not authorized to talk to MUMBAI: A Jewish centre in Mumbai and killed by the gunmen, their son, then reporters. “This situation is very alarming for the reopened yesterday, nearly six years after aged two, was plucked to safety by his army. We are dealing with mobs. What if things heavily armed militants stormed the nanny. Local jeweller Chintan Sakariya, get violent?” The army’s media wing declined official com- building and killed six people inside dur- who witnessed the militants “showering ment. Protesters led by cricketer-turned-politi- ing the 2008 attacks on the city. One of bullets everywhere” in bloody scenes in cian Imran Khan and firebrand cleric Tahir ul- several high-profile targets assaulted by 2008 said he had a “mixed reaction” to the Qadri have vowed to occupy the capital, the gunmen, Chabad House in south reopening. “They’re coming back strongly Islamabad, until Sharif resigns - a demand the Mumbai was left bullet-ridden and bereft and we support that,” said Sakariya, who premier has firmly rejected. Thousands of pro- of its directors Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg lives with his family close to the centre. testers are now camped out in the heart of and his pregnant wife Rivky, who were “But there’s going to be a lot of inconven- Islamabad - the so-called “Red Zone” - but the both slain in the siege. They were among ience for local residents, a lot of security, a gathering has a festival-like atmosphere. 166 people killed in the three-day lot of blockades.” Security forces protecting nearby installations onslaught in November 2008, which also Sakariya also wondered if the centre have not used force to disperse the crowds. targeted luxury hotels, a popular cafe and might be a target again given recent Whether the protests fizzle out or take a more a train station. The refurbished five-storey events in Gaza. “Just pray nothing hap- violent course ultimately depends on the stance building includes a synagogue, a cafeteria pens this time around,” he said. The $2.5 taken by the military in a country ruled by gen- and a function room for the Jewish com- million museum is set to include a recon- erals for half of its history. “No one wants to take munity. On the top two floors, due to be struction of the Holtzbergs’ apartment in any steps that would make the situation worse,” turned into a museum, damage from the its original place on the top floor, where the military source said. bullets and grenades has been kept as people will be able to learn about Jewish On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered reminders of the tragedy. ways of life. The rooftop, which has views protest leaders and the government to find a In the synagogue, candles mark the of the militants’ other targets in south compromise solution so that the “Red Zone” - spot where Rabbi Holtzberg was shot Mumbai, will be turned into the city’s first home to parliament, the prime minister’s home, dead, and pictures of him, his wife and memorial for all those killed in the attacks. embassies and government offices - could be their surviving young child adorn the Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, new co-director of cleared by the following day. But protesters stairwells. The rabbi’s father, Nachman the centre with his wife, Chaya, said he defied the court’s orders and stayed put for the Holtzberg, described the opening as a was “truly humbled” to take up the job, 13th day yesterday, scattering the area with “very special day” for him and his relatives, describing the Holtzbergs as “role models garbage as a putrid smell of human waste and who were joined by rabbis from across for us and an exceptional couple”. rubbish hung in the air. Police at the site said ISLAMABAD: Pakistani supporters of Canada-based preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri hold sticks as they Asia belonging to their orthodox Chabad- “Although they are not with us physi- some of their colleagues had fallen ill. “It is shout anti-government slogans during a protest in front of the Parliament in Islamabad yes- Lubavitch movement. “Everybody remem- cally today I’m sure they are in spirit with impossible to be here sometimes, the smell is so terday. — AFP bers the very terrifying day when there us and they are very proud,” he said. The bad,” said constable Ahmed Ali. “If the revolution Sharif also opposed a military offensive to find a peaceful solution to the crisis but Khan was the tragedy and everything stopped,” 10 young gunmen who carried out the is coming, let it come already. Everybody wants crush Taleban insurgents and, crucially, sought has refused to back down unless Sharif quits he told reporters. “This is the day that we attacks, blamed on Pakistan-based to go home.” reconciliation with neighbor India - a perceived over accusations that he rigged last year’s gener- can celebrate their lives and the message Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, came to threat the army uses to justify its huge budget al election. On Monday, Qadri too gave the gov- of light that they spread.” the shore of south Mumbai after hijacking Extreme possibilities and national importance. Some officials have ernment another deadline to quit by the middle an Indian trawler at sea. In 2012, India Sharif has a difficult relationship with the accused elements within the military of orches- of this week, saying otherwise circumstances ‘Mixed reaction’ executed the sole surviving gunman, army: his last term in office ended in 1999 when trating the recent protests to weaken the civilian might be “uncontrollable”. Government sources Chabad House, tucked away down a Mohammed Ajmal Kasab. The luxury Taj then army chief General Pervez Musharraf government. The military insists it does not fear that if the agitation turns violent, the army narrow lane in the bustling area of Colaba Mahal Palace hotel, the most high-profile launched a coup to usher in a decade of military meddle in politics. Few believe the military could exploit the situation to seize power. “It is market, was established as an open house target, reopened in 2010 after a 1.75-bil- rule. Ties with the military soured further when wants to seize power this time, but there is a unlikely,” said the military source, referring to the for visiting Jews and the local community lion rupee ($37.3 million) restoration. The the government prosecuted Musharraf for trea- widespread perception it is using the protests as chances of Sharif stepping down or the army by the Holtzbergs after they arrived in seafront heritage building was badly son last year, angering officers who see the army an opportunity to weaken Sharif. forcing him to quit. “But if events overtake ... Mumbai in 2003. While they were among damaged by fire, smoke and explosions in as Pakistan’s savior and despise politicians as Government officials and protest leaders one can’t say,” he said. “We should all work to six people taken hostage in the centre the 60-hour siege. — AFP corrupt and inefficient. have been in sporadic talks since last week to avoid extreme possibilities.” — Reuters

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JAKARTA: A closed-door trial began yesterday for also said the evidence was weak, with medical ment alleged he had been sodomized up to 13 simply because of public opinion, or just to please the first of five janitors accused of raping a kinder- reports finding the boy had no major injuries or times. the public,” Mardanus said. “We hope the judge can gartner in a bathroom at a prestigious international abnormalities even though the prosecutor’s indict- “We don’t want the court to punish the innocent see this case fairly, proportionately and humanely.” school in Indonesia that is facing a storm of contro- The family’s lawyer, Andi M. Asrun, questioned the versy following more abuse allegations. An American defense attorney’s claim. “How could they know the who taught at the Jakarta International School for 10 results of the medical reports, which are concealed years killed himself earlier this year as the FBI was and only for investigation purposes?” he said. The investigating evidence that he sexually abused American teacher, William Vahey, taught at the scores of teen boys while working at 10 schools Jakarta school until 2002. He killed himself in across four continents. Minnesota in March. Since the custodians’ case sur- The custodians contracted to work at the school faced, two other families of young male students were arrested in April and included five men and a have come forward, and two school staff members woman. Police said one man committed suicide have been detained without charges. while in custody after drinking bathroom cleanser. A A campaign on social media has called for the media horde surrounded Agun Iskandar, 25, as he release of Canadian school administrator Neil entered the courtroom. The remaining four suspects Bantleman and Indonesia teaching assistant were expected to appear in court Wednesday, and Ferdinant Tjiong, who were arrested in July and are they could face up to 15 years in jail if found guilty. not part of this trial. Both have denied the allega- The 6-year-old boy’s parents have sued the school, tions. “We have zero doubt in the allegations against seeking $125 million in compensation. those teachers - that the allegations are false and All of the male defendants signed confessions, they are innocent - and we are confident in the jus- but one defense attorney, Mada Mardanus, argued tice system that with time, they will be let free,” said they did so only because they were being tortured Steve Druggan, deputy head of school for learning. by police. He said the suspects deny the accusations. The school is attended by the children of foreign Jakarta police spokesman Col Rikwanto, who uses diplomats, businesspeople and Indonesia’s elite. It one name, strongly denied that any of the suspects JAKARTA: Child sexual abuse suspect Agun Iskandar sits on the defendant’s chair during his trial at has 2,400 students aged 3 to 18 from about 60 differ- were tortured during police questioning. Mardanus district court in Jakarta yesterday. — AP ent countries. — AP Japanese court rules against News in brief

Former FBI director nuke operator in suicide suit injured in car crash BARNARD: Former FBI director Louis Freeh sustained serious injuries in a single-car crash in Vermont, authorities said. State police said Freeh was taken by helicopter to a New Tepco ordered to pay $472,000 compensation Hampshire hospital following the crash Monday in Barnard, a small town about 90 miles northwest of Boston. Information FUKUSHIMA: The operator of Japanese about Freeh’s condition was not made public. His name was nuclear reactors that melted down in 2011 not on a list for which patient information was available, is responsible for the suicide of a woman according to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Freeh who became depressed after the accident apparently drove his SUV off the road shortly after noon and and it must pay $472,000 in compensation, struck a mailbox and a row of shrubs before coming to a stop on the side of a tree, state police said. He was wearing his a court ruled yesterday. The surprise ruling seatbelt. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, could set a precedent for more claims for police said. No one else was hurt. “The thoughts and prayers compensation in connection with the triple of the entire FBI remain with former Director Freeh and his nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi family tonight,” FBI Director James Comey said in a statement. power plant north of Tokyo, which forced Freeh, 64, was a federal judge in New York before serving as more than 150,000 people from their FBI director from 1993 to 2001. He previously served six years homes. About a third of them are still in as a special agent. He founded his consulting firm, Freeh temporary housing. Group International Solutions LLC, in 2007. The lawsuit by Mikio Watanabe blamed Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc (Tepco) for the 4 dead in suspected July 2011 death of his wife, Hamako, 58, who doused herself in kerosene and set US murder-suicide herself on fire after falling into depression. TULSA: Four people, including two young children, have been shot to death in an Oklahoma apartment and The couple was forced to flee from their authorities say they’re investigating the case as a triple home in the town of Yamakiya, 50 km (30 murder-suicide. A 2-year-old child was discovered miles) from the plant as it spewed radiation unharmed. Tulsa police say a 35-year-old man fatally shot into the air after it was hit by an earthquake his estranged wife, their 5-year-old daughter and 3-year- and tsunami in March 2011. The ruling is the old son before shooting himself. Police say the shootings latest blow for Tepco, which was bailed out happened after the wife, who was 22-years-old, dropped with taxpayer funds in 2012 and had off their children at his apartment Monday. She returned already expected to spend more than $48 later that day with her roommate’s 2-year-old daughter. billion in compensation for the disaster at Authorities say the 2-year-old girl, who wasn’t related to its plant, on top of tens of billions or more in the alleged gunman, was in the apartment during the cleanup and decommissioning costs. shooting but was not hurt. The bodies were discovered “This was an unqualified victory,” the yesterday. No names have been released, but Tulsa police plaintiffs’ lawyers said in a statement after said in a press release that the victims were from the verdict. “It will have huge implications Guatemala. for the compensation issue on nuclear pow- er in the future.” The district court in Fighting between rival Fukushima ordered Tepco to pay 49 million FUKUSHIMA: Plaintiff Mikio Watanabe (center) and his supportersenter the Fukushima district court in Fukushima yesterday to yen ($472,000) in compensation to hear the courtís decision on Watanabeís lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO). — AFP factions kills 17 in CAR BANGUI: At least 17 people were killed in fighting Watanabe, who had sought about 91 mil- force the prosecutors to take up the case. the past 20 years for work-related suicides were settled through the resolution system between rival factions of the former rebel movement lion yen in damages. “We would like to or deaths linked to overwork. Six such cas- through last mont, some for more than 16 Seleka in the Central African Republic, an officer in the deeply apologize again for the disruption Fight with Tepco es produced a median award of 36 million million yen. Causes of death were not African peacekeeping force there said yesterday. The dead and concern that the Fukushima Daiichi Watanabe, who had declined to settle yen, according to T-pec Corp, an occupa- always specified, and include those due to were all ex-rebels who battled on Monday in the heart of accident caused to many people, first and out of court, quietly wiped his eyes with a tional health consultancy. Takeda said the natural causes. the central town of Bambari, where the Seleka forces set foremost the people of Fukushima,” Tepco plaid handkerchief as a court official read legal battle, however, was one of principle, Suicides in Fukushima had been up their headquarters in May, said the officer in the MISCA said in a statement, although it did not say out the verdict. “I am satisfied with the deci- to ensure that Tepco was held responsible decreasing in the years before the disaster, force deployed by the African Union, asking not to be whether it would appeal against the verdict. sion,” he told Reuters, adding that he for the hardships that followed the but rose in the past two years even as named. “One side was the group of General Joseph “We will study the verdict and respond in a believed his wife would be satisfied, too. Fukushima disaster, rather than for financial nationwide suicides declined 11 percent Zoundeko, head of the Seleka general staff in Bambari, sincere way,” it said. “We pray that Hamako Toru Takeda, 73, a retired high school compensation. “When I think of the chil- between 2011 and 2013. Since April 2011, and the other is that of General Ali Djarras, made up of Watanabe has found peace.” The national- teacher from another radiation-affected dren, I have to fight - with the country, with there have been more than 1,500 suicides in armed ethnic Peuls (Fulani)” active in the region,” he ized utility has settled a number of suicide- town, travelled from his temporary home in Tepco,” he said. The court in yesterday’s ver- the prefecture, more than 50 of which were added. The death toll was provisional, the officer said, “in related claims through a government dis- Yamagata, in north Japan, to hear the court dict accepted Watanabe’s contention that determined to be “disaster related”. Tepco’s light of the heaviness of the fighting and the weapons pute-resolution system, but it has declined decision. Takeda is suing Tepco over his the nuclear disaster contributed to his wife’s shares and debt, which were battered in the used. Some used rocket-launchers.” The Seleka coalition, to say how many or give details of how inability to return to his home. “Our verdict suicide. “The despair of the life of an evac- wake of the Fukushima crisis and prolonged drawn mainly from the Muslim minority, took power in much it has paid. A citizens’ judicial panel will come next month from the same court, uee with no prospects in sight and the psy- cleanup, have held largely steady in recent the poor and highly unstable country for 10 months in ruled last month that three former Tepco so, of course, we welcome this outcome,” he chological distress in choosing to die in the weeks and showed little reaction to the ver- March 2013 after a coup, but its forces were driven out of executives should face criminal charges told Reuters. The compensation was rough- place where she was born and raised were dict. Tepco shares ended down 0.3 percent the capital Bangui last January by French military inter- over the disaster. Prosecutors have until ly comparable to sums awarded by district extremely great,” it said. Japan has made at 384 yen yesterday in a broadly weaker vention alongside MISCA troops. A transitional president, October to respond to the panel, which can and high courts in several key cases over public 25 disaster-related death cases that Tokyo market. — Reuters Catherine Samba Panza, took office that same month, and she has overseen the signing of a ceasefire pact between Seleka forces and the largely Christian “anti-balaka” mili- 2 Tajiks killed in Vietnam jails activists tias that emerged to wreak vengeance against Muslims for atrocities by ex-rebels. border skirmish for up to three years DUSHANBE: Two Tajiks were killed in a border shootout between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the bloodiest clash so far this year on the HANOI: A Vietnamese court has jailed three ously been detained at a “re-education centre” frontier between the former Soviet neighbors, officials said yesterday. activists for up to three years, a lawyer said for two years in 2011. Minh and Quynh were Tajik police said gun fire from Kyrgyzstan on Monday evening had yesterday, after a one-day trial marked by not well-known in Vietnam. The trial comes as killed a border guard and one civilian and wounded four other civil- strict security including the detention of a senior politburo member, Le Hong Anh, is in ians. The Kyrgyz border force blamed the incident on Tajikistan, saying scores of supporters. Bui Thi Minh Hang, a Beijing for high-level talks aimed at easing Tajik servicemen had tried to erect a border post “on an undelimited high-profile anti-China activist and the most tensions following violent anti-China riots in part of the border” and started to destroy a bridge across a river used prominent of the three, was given a three- Vietnam in May. by Kyrgyz citizens. “The calls of the Kyrgyz border guards not to year jail term by the court in the southern Hanoi is locked in a bitter maritime territo- destroy the bridge and to remove the border post were met with Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap. She rial conflict with Beijing over disputed waters stones thrown by Tajik nationals. Then Tajik border guards were the was found guilty of “causing public disorder”, and island chains in the South China Sea. In first to open fire,” the Kyrgyz border guards said in a statement. her lawyer Tran Thu Nam said. May Beijing moved a deep-sea oil rig into BANGUI: French soldiers from the European Union’s There were no reports of any casualties on the Kyrgyz side during Hang, 50, was arrested alongside the two waters that Hanoi claims, triggering waves of Eufor mission patrol in a street of the PK5, the last the half-hour shootout. The incident, in a remote part of the fertile but other activists in February when they were on protests across Vietnam in which at least three remaining Muslim district in Bangui. — AFP overpopulated and impoverished Ferghana Valley, was only the latest their way to visit a former political prisoner Chinese citizens died and scores of foreign- to show border tensions between Central Asia’s two poorest nations. who lives in Dong Thap province. Rights invested businesses were destroyed. Quake shakes simmering Along with Uzbekistan, also located in the Ferghana Valley which lies activist Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh, 28, was jailed Diplomats say there have seemingly been Icelandic largest volcano on a drug trafficking route out of Afghanistan, the three mainly Muslim for two years. Nguyen Van Minh, 34, who is an fewer high-profile convictions of activists this REYKJAVIK: A 5.7 magnitude earthquake yesterday struck countries are due to take part in a summit of the Shanghai independent Hoa Hao Buddhist practitioner, year as Hanoi has sought support in the terri- Iceland’s largest volcanic system, which is on orange alert Cooperation Organization, a security and economic cooperation pact received a two-and a-half year jail term. All torial dispute from the international commu- for increased potential of eruption. A major explosion at led by Beijing and Moscow. faced the same charges. “All the defendants nity. the Bardarbunga volcano, located under a glacier, could Oil-rich neighbor Kazakhstan will be the sixth participant at the denied the charges against them and pleaded Former wartime foe Washington has sug- stage a replay of the global travel chaos that followed when another Icelandic peak erupted four years ago, cre- summit, to be held in the Tajik capital Dushanbe next month. Tajik not guilty,” lawyer Nam added. Scores of peo- gested it could lift a ban on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam, introduced due to ating a massive ash cloud across Europe. The tremor, regis- Deputy Prime Minister Murodali Alimardon was due to travel to the ple trying to attend the trial were detained, tered on the Icelandic Met Office’s website, was the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek yesterday to try and defuse the tension, Tajik according to activists and online reports. human rights concerns, pointing to purported strongest recorded in the volanic system since the vol- police said. The Kyrgyz foreign ministry said it had handed a note of “About 60 or 70 people-they arrested them improvements in Hanoi’s rights record. A cano became active a week and a half ago. It was also the protest to Tajikistan about the incident. Kyrgyzstan says it has regis- and beat them at the police station,” activist number of activists, including Cu Huy Ha Vu, most powerful earthquake to hit the area since 1996. The tered a total of 31 incidents on its 970-km (600-mile) border with Nguyen Lan Thang told AFP by phone from one of the country’s most high-profile dissi- alert level for Bardarbunga was downgraded to orange on Tajikistan since the beginning of this year, including three when Dong Thap province. dents, have recently been released. Vu now Sunday after one day at the highest level, which led to the firearms were used. As borders remain largely unmarked after the New York-based Human Rights Watch has lives in the US. Vietnam, a one-party state, is closure of airspace in the affected area. However, all air- Soviet Union’s collapse, villagers often clash over land, water and pas- slammed the trial. Vietnam was “resorting to regularly denounced by rights groups and ports in the country have remained opened since the tures, confrontations that sometimes involve the use of weapons by bogus traffic offences to criminally prosecute Western governments for its intolerance of tremors began. Seismic activity remains high in the area, activists,” Phil Robertson, HRW’s deputy Asia political dissent and systematic violations of with earthquakes shaking the volcanic system more than border guards. — Reuters 20 times per hour yesterday morning. director, said in a statement. Hang had previ- freedom of religion. — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

A riot policeman is set on fire by a molotov cocktail thrown by a small group of anti-government protesters during clashes in San Cristobal, Venezuela on Monday. — AFP

US confirms UAE bombed Libya from Egypt bases Long-term Gaza truce takes... Continued from Page 1 rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al- For most Gulf Arabs, the Brotherhood is Assad. “So these states will now take it upon anathema because its ideology challenges the Continued from Page 1 two sides agreed to the “simultaneous The first strikes, on Monday last week, themselves to act. Ironically this is, in broad principle of conservative dynastic rule long fol- opening of the border crossings between focused on militia targets in Tripoli, including a terms, what Washington has been asking them lowed in the Gulf. Gulf Arab states take Egypt’s “Today Gaza showed the world that it is Israel and Gaza to enable the rapid entry of small weapons depot, according to the Times. A to do - solve their own problems. The important stability seriously, regarding the Arab world’s resisting and that it is stronger than Israel.” humanitarian aid and relief and reconstruc- second round south of the city early Saturday point here is that regional forces are taking their most populous nation as their chief regional News of the agreement first emerged tion supplies,” a statement said. The targeted rocket launchers, military vehicles and own path to supporting proxies,” said Karasik. ally in their confrontation with Shiite Iran. from the West Bank city of Ramallah where Egyptian-brokered deal also provides for a warehouse, it said. Those strikes may have “This is the result of the region wanting to Riyadh sees the Iranian administration as an a Palestinian official told AFP an elusive the immediate extension to six nautical been a bid to prevent the capture of the airport, police itself without waiting for extra-regional expansionist power bent on exporting revolu- deal had been reached over a “durable” halt miles of the area open to Gaza’s fisherman but the Islamist militia forces eventually pre- decisions.” tion to the Arab world and interfering in the to more than seven weeks of bloodshed working the seas off the coastal enclave. It vailed anyway. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, political science pro- affairs of neighbouring Gulf states. Tehran The UAE - which has spent billions on US- fessor at Emirates University, said: “The lesson of denies any such interference. and violence in and around Gaza. Hamas also refers to the “continuation of indirect made warplanes and advanced weaponry - Syria still resonates... that you cannot depend hailed the deal as a “victory for the resist- negotiations between the two sides on provided the military aircraft, aerial refuelling on America or the West... America is no longer Kurds Get Weapons from Iran ance”. The official told AFP the agreement other matters within one month of the planes and crews to bomb Libya, while Cairo reliable.” Abdulla said that if the UAE had taken Separately, Iran was the first country to pro- involved “a permanent ceasefire, a (deal to) ceasefire taking effect.” offered access to its air bases, the Times said. part in the raid, it must have had “very com- vide Iraq’s embattled autonomous Kurdish end the blockade and a guarantee that News of the reported deal came after Egypt’s Shoukri said: “We have no direct tie to pelling reasons to do so”. If Libya became a region with weapons to fight off jihadist-led Gaza’s demands and needs will be met,” weeks of Egyptian-led efforts to end the any military operation in Libya.” However, he failed state and an exporter of extremists then militants, president Massud Barzani said yester- but gave few other details. violence. There have been several short- told journalists in Cairo: “We help the Libyan the stability of neighbouring Egypt would be at day. “The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first Ending Israel’s crippling eight-year term ceasefires between the two sides, armed forces by supplying their requirements risk, he added. The world was busy with many state to help us... and it provided us with blockade of Gaza had been a key which brought relief to millions of civilians, for training.” other crises, and so action may have been weapons and equipment,” Barzani said at a joint Palestinian demand in earlier, abortive but they all broke down in the absence of In an indication of the sensitivity of the issue, needed to prevent extremists taking over, he news conference with Iranian Foreign Minister truce talks in Cairo. The formal announce- any agreement on a longer-term truce. The the publication of the assertions was followed said. Mohammad Javad Zarif. Militants led by the within hours by a joint statement by the United Whoever carried out the raids, they were in Islamic State (IS) jihadist group launched a ment came from Palestinian president latest collapsed on August 19 as hostilities States and European allies cautioning against tune with wider efforts by Egypt and conserva- major offensive in June that overran large areas Mahmoud Abbas in a live speech at his resumed, killing more than 120 foreign interference. Outside involvement tive Sunni Muslim allies to roll back the influ- of Iraq, and began a renewed push earlier this headquarters in the West Bank city of Palestinians and two Israelis, one a four- would worsen divisions in Libya and slow ence of the Muslim Brotherhood - a regional month that saw Kurdish forces pushed back Ramallah. Shortly afterwards, Israel con- year-old child. progress in its political transition, it said. Islamist movement - and its sponsor, Qatar. towards their regional capital of Arbil. firmed its acceptance of the deal, saying There had been no sign of any letup in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE view While policy differences between Washington The Kurdish setbacks sparked a campaign of the negotiating teams would return to the fighting earlier yesterday, with 12 Islamist militants in the region as a serious and its Arab allies are nothing new, the propen- US air strikes in northern Iraq and an interna- Cairo “within a month” but without saying Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes and threat and have cooperated against what they sity of some to go it alone in pursuing their tional effort to provide them with arms and when. “We have accepted, once again, an tank shelling, among them two children. see as a shared danger. “I think this strike is the aims is novel. Egypt provides a clear example. ammunition, and they have since managed to Egyptian proposal for an unconditional And on the other side of the border, an unsurprising result of a momentum we’ve seen Saudi Arabia was furious when veteran ruler claw back some territory from the militants. Iran and unlimited-in-time ceasefire,” a senior Israeli was killed and two others seriously building in Libya... and within the region Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011 and the has a direct interest in bolstering Kurdish forces, amongst Egypt and these Gulf states,” said Muslim Brotherhood, long mistrusted by as a large section of its border with Iraq is made official said. wounded when a mortar round struck next Frederic Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment Riyadh, later won power. Qatar helped to fund up of Kurdish-controlled areas. “The framework includes an immediate to a swimming pool in a kibbutz close to for International Peace. “I believe there was no the elected Brotherhood government of Zarif, who arrived in Iraq on Sunday, reiterat- and unconditional ceasefire and then, the frontier. Israel also bombed two high- consultation with the West,” said Wehrey, a spe- President Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted by ed his assertion that while Iran is supporting its inside a month, both delegations will be in rises in Gaza City, wounding 40 people. cialist on the Gulf, Libya and US policy in the the army last year. neighbour to the west, it is not doing so with Cairo raising issues with the Egyptians,” he One was a 16-storey complex in which Middle East. Riyadh and the UAE have since provided forces on the ground. “The Iraqi people require said. “We will be raising our concerns about there were 60 flats and a shopping centre, money to support Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who as a assistance, including defence assistance, but demilitarisation and preventing Hamas while the second was a 14-storey residen- Inter-Arab Relations general led the takeover and has since been not soldiers... We do not have any soldiers in from rearming and they will be raising their tial block. The army said they had housed If the raids were indeed carried out by Egypt elected president after suppressing the Iraq, we don’t intend to send soldiers to Iraq,” concerns. This is the framework that has “Hamas command and control centres” but and the UAE, it would open a new chapter in Brotherhood. US officials have looked askance Zarif said. There have been reports of Iranian been on the table for weeks now.” Hamas denounced the move as a “war inter-Arab relations, said Theodore Karasik, at the heavy-handed political and security tac- forces fighting in Iraq, and despite Zarif’s In a statement, the Egyptian foreign crime aimed at terrorising the people”. The research director at Dubai think tank INEGMA. tics of Sisi’s authorities, which they believe have denial, evidence points to a more direct mili- “The feeling is that America hasn’t stood up for helped to polarise Egyptian society. Sisi’s men tary role by Tehran. State media reported that ministry said there would be an immediate military also confirmed striking two its values and policies in the region,” he said, now fear that Islamists, if left to flourish in an Iranian pilot was killed fighting in Iraq, and opening of Israeli border crossings to allow schools in central and northern Gaza from referring to a common Arab view that the US Libya’s disorder, could lay the foundations for several Iranian Su-25 warplanes are also in the in both aid and reconstruction supplies. which “low-trajectory fire” had been direct- administration has been hesitant in supporting the return of the Brotherhood in Egypt one day. country. — Agencies Alongside a comprehensive ceasefire, the ed at Israel. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 ANALYSIS

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Issues Mozambique truce beginning, not the end

ozambique rebel movement Renamo’s agreement to a ceasefire is seen as aimed Mat keeping its political aspirations alive ahead of national and presidential elections on Oct 15. Analysts say many questions remain after Sunday’s deal that will see Renamo guerrillas inte- grated into government forces as well as the han- dover of the rebel movement’s weapons. Renamo waged a 16-year guerrilla campaign against the then Marxist government of Frelimo in a cold-war era conflict that killed close to a million people before a peace deal was signed in 1992. Renamo became the main opposition in the coun- Qat chewers savour low-price after UK ban try’s parliament, but support for its leader, Afonso Dhlakama, waned in presidential elections from a By Abdi Sheikh gal drug. This prohibition jolted the qat sales,” said 55-year-old wholesale seller shares part of the blame for the violent peak of 48 percent in 1999 to 17 percent in 2009. market, creating a supply glut in Somalia Seinab Ali in Mogadishu, distributing bun- and destructive chaos suffered by Somalia Dhlakama returned to the bush and launched a he president has arrived, the and pushing down prices, to the delight of dles of wrapped leaves to local traders. But for the last 20 years. Somalia’s cash- low-level insurgency in 2012, accusing his political president has arrived,” chant the many connoisseurs of its ampheta- qat exporters in Kenya, a former British strapped government seldom collects rivals of monopolising power and excluding the “Tyouths in Mogadishu’s Beerta mine-like high. “Those who exported to colony where the cash crop bolsters the health statistics. The spike in use is a con- opposition from participating in the country’s Khaatka market, as armed men in trucks London have now made Mogadishu their local economy, say the UK ban has slashed cern but officials are too busy battling mounted with machine guns escort lorries qat hub,” said Dahir Kassim, an accountant their profits from sales to Somalia. “Britain Islamist al Shabaab rebels and rebuilding growing economy. While the state-run daily with horns blaring through the throng. The for a wholesale qat trader in Somalia’s rub- has made our qat business useless,” said Somalia’s state institutions to dedicate Noticias declared Sunday’s ceasefire “Peace re- joking salutation is not for Somalia’s presi- ble-strewn capital where women under Nur Elmi, a qat trader in Kenyan capital much attention to it, said the Mogadishu conquered”, Mozambican historian and political dent, but hails a national institution umbrella stands sell qat bundles wrapped Nairobi from where shipments to Somalia mayor’s spokesman Ali Mohamud. “Somali analyst Egidio Vaz said the deal was “only the nonetheless: white sacks brimming with in banana leaves. have almost doubled after Britain’s ban. people are wasting money, time and ener- beginning”. “For Renamo to become a totally civil leafy sprouts of qat, the narcotic shrub The price of the cheap Laari qat popular “They cannot afford to buy it all (in gy on qat,” he said. “Qat has only advan- and not an armed political organisation will take chewed across the Horn of Africa and in the impoverished country has halved to Somalia), so we sell it at throwaway prices,” taged those who grow it.” time,” he told AFP, estimating putting the deal in Yemen in a tradition dating back centuries. about $10 per kilogram since Britain out- he said. A 2006 World Health Organisation The ubiquitous sight of young men lawed the stimulant. A kilogram of The British decision to classify qat an report on qat said it can increase blood place would take up to a year. with rifles slung over their shoulders and “Special” or “London” qat has also gone illegal class-C drug was surrounded by pressure, insomnia, anorexia, constipation, Apart from granting amnesty for crimes com- green stalks of qat dangling from their down to about $18 from $30. Before the heated debate, with critics saying it would irritability, migraines and also impair sexual mitted in the latest conflict, the deal also allows mouths is emblematic of the Somalia of UK ban, 27-year-old mason’s assistant create a lucrative clandestine market and potency in men. Even many of those who for the integration of Renamo guerrillas into the recent decades, where marauding Islamist Mohamed Khalif could only afford to chew even alienate immigrant youths, driving make a living from the qat trade recognise police and army, a process that is to be overseen rebels and warlords bent on carving out once a week. “Now I chew daily and my them into crime or Islamist extremism. that its consumption can be harmful. “Qat by an “international force” whose composition is personal fiefdoms have fomented a culture problems are over,” said Khalif, blissfully. Home Secretary Theresa May had argued is good for mothers who sell it but for yet to be announced. Renamo has agreed to hand of guns and violence. Grown on planta- The daily arrival of the qat trucks galvanis- in backing the ban that it would help pre- those who consume it is a disaster. Day and tions in the highlands of Kenya and es markets, sending female traders scram- vent Britain from becoming a hub for the night I pray to God so that my children do over its weapons only once the integration Ethiopia, tonnes of qat, or khat, dubbed bling for the sacks of stems and leaves, trade, which was already banned in the not chew qat,” said wholesaler Ali. process has begun. “The fact that Dhlakama’s “the flower of paradise” by its users, are whose potency wanes within a few days of United States and several European coun- Many Somali women point to wrecked armed people are not surrendering arms before flown daily into Mogadishu airport, to be plucking. Other street vendors take advan- tries. She also cited evidence that qat had marriages and abandoned children as testi- the elections means that, yes, they may go back to distributed from there in convoys of lorries tage of the hubub to try to sell soft drinks been linked to “low attainment and family mony to the dangers of excessive use of the bush if the elections are not regarded as free to markets across Somalia. and cigarettes. breakdowns”. qat. “Men who chew are not good,” said and fair,” says Vaz. Britain, whose large ethnic Somali com- While defenders of qat-chewing hail it Maryan Mohamed, who said she had been munity sustained a lucrative demand for Time-Old Tradition or Harmful Vice? as a time-honoured social tradition com- married 13 times. “They chew alongside the leaves, banned qat from July as an ille- “I bought my own houses from qat parable to drinking coffee, detractors say it their hungry children.” —Reuters ‘I Don’t Trust it’ Others are sceptical of the value of the accord itself, pointing out that Dhlakama failed to come out of hiding to sign it and is expected to hold a meet- How Sharif stumbled into protests crisis ing with President Armando Guebuza to rubber stamp the ceasefire at a later date. “I don’t trust it. By Katharine Houreld no foreign minister. Defence and the water and power min- for the places that they have occupied.” The fact that Dhlakama did not accept to come istries share a single minister, as do the information and Some complain, however, that the family network shows they do not trust each other,” Mozambique’s s thousands of protesters blockaded Pakistan’s par- law ministries. A spokesman for Sharif, responding to ques- means Sharif bypasses formal institutions. He has attended Institute for Social and Economic Studies researcher liament last week, the spirits of the lawmakers tions for this report, said these posts were being filled less than a dozen parliamentary sessions since he took Antonio Francisco told AFP. “They (Renamo) proba- Ainside were briefly lifted by a rare appearance from gradually as the government sought capable candidates. office, said Ahmed Bilal Mehboob of PILDAT, a think-tank bly reached a compromise to get into the process of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. But Sharif only listened in that tracks legislative issues. That means Sharif was in par- elections,” he said. “Probably Dhlakama and those in silence as legislator after legislator denounced the protest- ‘Resentment’ liament for about 10 percent of sittings, while his predeces- the bush with him are tired. The problem is that the ers seeking his government’s resignation. He then stood The government can point to some macroeconomic sor attended more than 80 percent. Sharif’s office says he is up, and left through a back door. Toppled in a 1999 coup, wins: Stabilising the currency, rebuilding foreign reserves too busy overseeing security and energy policy to attend motivations for the conflict are still there,” he said. jailed and then exiled, Sharif made a triumphant comeback and cutting inflation by a couple of points to around eight parliament all the time, and is represented by his cabinet Negotiations are set to continue over economic as prime minister for a third time in last year’s general elec- percent. But these have not won Sharif much applause at a ministers. questions, including discussion on how the country’s tion. time when populist opponents are promising subsidised new-found natural resource wealth is to be shared so Voters had hoped he would prove better than a long food, free housing and a crackdown on corruption. “The ... Rein in the Military? that the opposition will no longer feel excluded. “What line of prime ministers widely seen as feckless, and would government’s failure to gauge the growing resentment at All Sharif’s problems - from accusations of nepotism to will happen is that they (the government) will have to shore up a sagging economy by tackling the chronic power the common-man level enabled Imran Khan and Tahir ul- grumbling lawmakers and protesters - would go away if he negotiate some leading positions for Renamo - for cuts and crumbling infrastructure that bedevil the country Qadri to mobilise the alienated populace,” national daily just delivered reforms faster, said Senator Leghari. “First of 180 million. But critics say that his slow pace of reforms, the Express Tribune said in a commentary on Monday. you have to deliver progress,” he said. “Then, when you are example the chair of the board of a leading company,” apparent detachment and poor relations with the military Sharif’s habit of surrounding himself popular, you can even rein in the military.” But Sharif may Vaz believes. The government will look to the ceasefire emboldened his challengers and encouraged the with a small coterie of advisers, many now be too weak to fend off the military, which may not agreement to reassure international investors. Italian anti-government protests. “This is a symptom of whom are also relatives, led rule directly anymore but still consumes nearly half of the and US Petroleum companies are mulling the building of arrogance and bad governance,” said protest leader Khan to jeer that government budget and considers foreign and security of a multibillion-dollar gas liquefaction platform in the independent senator Mohsin Leghari. the prime minister was a policy its domain. far north in order to exploit vast gas finds. “When issues are not discussed in par- “monarch”. The jibe res- Western allies worry that elements of Pakistan’s military “The government has increased its understanding liament they spill out into the onates with protesters like are destabilising the region by supporting Islamist mili- streets.” 20-year-old Atique ur- tants who are active in Afghanistan and target arch-foe that security uncertainty around the Renamo insur- That is what happened this Rehman, a student who India. Sharif angered the military after returning to power gency is creating issues for investors,” Eurasia political month when opposition leader says his degree cannot by attempting to mend fences with India and insisting on risk consultancy analyst Mark Rosenberg told AFP. Imran Khan and firebrand cleric get him a job without months of - ultimately fruitless - peace talks before agree- “They are obviously now moving ahead in the extrac- Tahir ul-Qadri led tens of thousands family connections. ing to launch an offensive against Pakistan’s Taleban. He tive sector legislation...so they want this wrapped up of supporters to the capital, “It’s only one family also sided with a media house that enraged the army by before ENI and Anadarko make final investment deci- Islamabad, to demand that he step holding all the publicly accusing it of shooting a prominent journalist. sions and get moving on the gas project.” Dhlakama down. If the army referees a resolu- power in Pakistan,” The treason trial of Pervez Musharraf, the army chief tion of the standoff, as many he complained. who overthrew Sharif in 1999 and later became president, has registered to run for the presidency in the October expect, it will emerge strength- “They think it is was the final straw. A court granted Musharraf permission elections. He will face Frelimo’s candidate, former ened at the expense of the prime only their country to leave the country during the lengthy trial, but the gov- defence minister Felipe Nyusi and Daviz Simango of the minister. That would deal a blow and they want to ernment refused. A political analyst said Sharif wanted to Mozambique Democratic Movement, a Renamo break- to civilian rule, a year after an stop the poor peo- humiliate Musharraf in revenge for Sharif’s own imprison- away. —AFP election that marked the first ple from standing ment. Now, however, he may depend on the army to fend democratic transfer of power in up.” off the protesters and stay in office. Sharif’s office said the Pakistan’s coup-blighted history. Sharif’s brother is military, as part of the government, is always consulted in Many believe that Sharif, a chief minister of the decision-making process and reports of differences All articles appearing on these wealthy steel magnate from Punjab. The son of his between Sharif and the generals are “more fiction than pages are the personal opinion of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most old friend, the finance reality”. the writers. Kuwait Times takes no populous province, has only him- minister, is married to But, recalling that the military played a key role in self to blame for his current crisis. Sharif’s daughter. His removing Sharif’s government in 1999, the Express responsibility for views expressed Ordinary Pakistanis have not seen nephews and wife’s Tribune said history seemed to be repeating itself 15 therein. Kuwait Times invites read- many improvements since he took relations are also power- years later. “The military can use its political clout to facil- ers to voice their opinions. Please office. Apart from the annual ful political figures. Sharif’s itate, if not impose, a solution,” it said. Indeed, Sharif’s budget, not a single law was passed office said that being related tone has already changed. As protesters marched on send submissions via email to: opin- in his first year, a legislative watchdog did not make his family mem- Islamabad on Aug. 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day, he [email protected] or via snail said. Draft legislation to tackle corruption and bers unfit for public office. “The gave a speech notable only for its fulsome praise of the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. electoral reform - central demands of the protest- Sharif family is involved in politics army. Sharif met army chief Raheel Sharif yesterday for ers - has languished. Fourteen months after since last four decades. It is an talks on the political situation, said an administration The editor reserves the right to edit Sharif’s election, key posts remain unfilled, and extended family,” the spokesman source who declined to elaborate. The army could not be any submission as necessary. government regulators lack heads. There is still said. “They are talented and qualify reached for comment. —Reuters ACCESS over 10,000 top jobs daily NETWORK with professional peers SHARE leading career content

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Promes aiming for Platini to announce Everton and Cameroon stardom in Russia FIFA’s election plan striker Eto’o near deal GENEVA: Michel Platini is set to announce tomorrow if he will chal- LONDON: Everton are moving closer to signing Cameroon striker Samuel lenge former mentor Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency. The UEFA MOSCOW: Spartak Moscow’s Dutch international midfielder Quincy Promes is aim- Eto’o before the end of the current transfer window, several British media ing to become a big star in Russia. Promes, who joined Russia’s most successful club president will meet the leaders of his 54 member federations at the Champions League draw in Monaco before holding a news conference organizations, including the BBC, reported yesterday. The 33-year-old for- earlier this month on a four-year deal, told Soviet Sport daily: “After my third match ward became a free agent at the end of last season following his release by with Spartak I feel I that I have begun to adapt to my new team’s style and to my life to explain his decision. “He will present his plan and they will give him their feedback,” UEFA spokesman Pedro Pinto said yesterday. “It is Chelsea. Everton were reported to have held talks with the former in Russia as well. “Probably I will manage to become a big star here in Russia some Barcelona and Inter Milan forward last week. It was thought those discus- day.” The 22-year-old, signed by Spartak for 10 million euros ($13 m) from Dutch club always his policy to consult the national associations before making a big decision.” Platini is the long-time favorite to succeed Blatter, but sions had broken down but the Liverpool Echo newspaper said discussions Twente Enschede, added that after a dreadful debut in Krasnodar, had re-started, with the Merseyside club prepared to offer where Spartak suffered a 4-0 defeat, he considered his next two would have a daunting task to unseat a rival who turns 79 before elec- tion day next May. Blatter has led FIFA since 1998 and a successful, prof- Eto’o a two-year deal should he complete a medical yes- games a success. “My debut was just a disaster. For me it was itable World Cup only boosted his standing with football officials who terday. If Eto’o does join Everton, he will become the especially difficult to perform at my best being Spartak’s new- show little desire for change. Five of FIFA’s six continental bodies club’s fifth signing of the transfer window period follow- comer,” Promes said. “But the two following matches, including already supported Blatter’s expected candidacy at pre-tournament ing Mohamed Besic, Brendan Galloway, Christian Atsu the derby with CSKA, both of which Spartak won, have turned meetings in Brazil. Europe alone publicly opposed him. Platini said then and £28m man Romelu Lukaku. Eto’o scored nine goals out well for me. “Now I’m set to make a small step forward in that FIFA “needs a breath of fresh air.” “In the future I won’t support in 21 Premier League appearances for Chelsea last sea- every match.” Promes also said that he was impressed by Blatter anymore. I’ve told him that,” Platini said on the eve of the World son and has bagged more than 300 in his career. His Spartak fans and their passionate support in Russian Premiership Cup in Sao Paulo. Still, Blatter appeared confident and relishing a con- arrival at Goodison Park would be timely for matches. “Spartak supporters are just amazing,” he said. “And it test this month when he called out critics he did not identify. “Don’t Everton manager Roberto Martinez, still without was really surprising to discover that Spartak fans live through- speak - go out and fight,” Blatter said at an annual event for his charity the sidelined Arouna Kone, who remains out of out Russia, almost in every city. It’s the red-white army. I’m foundation in Switzerland. “And I am happy to fight. But if you take the action with a knee injury. —AFP absolutely delighted. — AFP risk (to be in the election) you also have the chance to lose.”— AP

MLB CAPSULES Orioles cruise past Tampa Bay Rays 9-1

BALTIMORE: Delmon Young, JJ Hardy and Chris Holliday followed with a sharp single to left off Davis homered in succession during a six-run fifth Hughes (6-4) to score Jay and Matt Carpenter. John inning, and the Baltimore Orioles cruised past the Lackey (13-8) worked out of trouble early to work Tampa Bay Rays 9-1 Monday night to end a three- seven innings and pick up his second victory with game losing streak. Baltimore hit five homers in all, the Cardinals after arriving in a trade from Boston four off rookie Jake Odorizzi (9-11). Nick Markakis on July 31. Trevor Rosenthal gave up a leadoff and Steve Pearce delivered back-to-back shots in home run in the ninth to Andrew McCutchen but the third to spark the Orioles to their ninth win in held on to earn his 39th save. Pedro Alvarez hit his 13 games against Tampa Bay this season. After 18th homer in the second off Lackey, but the totaling four runs and 13 hits in three road losses to Pirates managed little after that to fall further the Chicago Cubs, the Orioles got 14 hits against a behind St. Louis and first-place Milwaukee in the NL Tampa Bay staff that had a major league-best 2.28 Central race. ERA since the All-Star break. Baltimore’s Chris Tillman (11-5) yielded an unearned run and three MARLINS 7, ANGELS 1 hits in seven innings. Giancarlo Stanton upstaged Mike Trout with a three-run homer in the first regular-season show- YANKEES 6, ROYALS 1 down between two of baseball’s brightest young Derek Jeter drove in two runs in his final sched- stars, leading Miami to a comfortable victory over uled trip to Kauffman Stadium, backing a sharp Los Angeles. Jarred Cosart (2-1) allowed a run and outing from Michael Pineda and helping the seven hits over 7 2-3 innings. He struck out four in Yankees beat the Royals for their fifth straight win. his fourth outing since he was acquired from Jacoby Ellsbury drove in a run in the seventh inning Houston at the July 31 trade deadline. The right- with the 1,000th hit of his career, then added a two- hander, who was 9-7 with the Astros, lost his run homer in the ninth. Stephen Drew and Martin shutout bid in the eighth on an RBI double by Kole Prado also homered for New York. Pineda (3-2) gave Calhoun. Wade LeBlanc (0-1) was charged with six up a solo shot to Mike Moustakas leading off the runs and seven hits in 3 1-3 innings as a replace- third inning, but that was about it in his third game ment for Garrett Richards, out for the season back from the disabled list. Pineda struck out five because of a knee injury that occurred last week in without a walk in 6 1-3 innings to win for the first Boston. It was LeBlanc’s first big league start since time since beating the Cubs on April 16. James May 6, 2013, for the Marlins. The Angels slipped Shields (12-7) allowed six runs over 6 2-3 innings for back into a tie for the AL West lead with Oakland. Kansas City. ATHLETICS 8, ASTROS 2 CARDINALS 3, PIRATES 2 Jeff Samardzija pitched eight solid innings SEATTLE: Second baseman Rougned Odor #12 of the Texas Rangers is spiked by Logan Morrison #20 of the Seattle Mariners on a double Matt Holliday’s two-run single in the seventh and Josh Donaldson drove in three runs to lead play in the eighth inning at Safeco Field on August 25, 2014 in Seattle. — AFP inning off Jared Hughes capped a late rally, and the Oakland over Houston. Samardzija (4-3) allowed in which he yielded 11 runs combined. The right- BREWERS 10, PADRES 1 RANGERS 2, MARINERS 0 Cardinals beat the Pirates. Jon Jay’s pinch-hit single six hits, two runs and tied a season high with 10 tied the game with two outs in the seventh and hander was 2-7 with the Chicago Cubs before an Ryan Braun and Aramis Ramirez homered to Miles Mikolas allowed three hits in eight strikeouts to bounce back from a two-game skid early July trade. Josh Reddick hit a two-run back Kyle Lohse’s six effective innings as innings, JP Arencibia singled home the go-ahead homer and Donaldson had three hits after sitting Milwaukee routed San Diego for its fifth straight run in the fourth and Texas blanked Seattle in out Sunday with a knee injury. Donaldson dou- road win. Lohse (12-7) allowed a run and four the opener of a three-game set. Mikolas (2-5) MLB results/standings bled twice for his first extra-base hits and RBIs in hits in his first start since spraining his right ankle faced two batters more than the minimum, eras- his last nine games. Chris Carter hit a two-run on Aug 13. He beat the Padres for the fourth ing two of the three hits he allowed with double homer in the eighth to pull the Astros within straight time. Eric Stults (6-14) was charged with plays. The right-hander struck out five and Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay 1; Philadelphia 3, Washington 2; St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2; Boston 4, one, but the A’s added five runs in the ninth after four runs and nine hits in five innings, snapping walked one. It was the first time Mikolas did not Toronto 3 (10 Innings); NY Yankees 8, Kansas City 1; Oakland 8, Houston 2; Miami 7, LA reliever Tony Sipp walked all four batters he his three-game winning streak. Ramirez and permit a run in 10 career starts. Neftali Feliz Angels 1; Texas 2, Seattle 0; Milwaukee 10, San Diego 1; Colorado 3, San Francisco 2. faced. Scott Feldman (7-10) allowed seven hits Gerardo Parra had three RBIs apiece. Braun, worked a one-hit ninth for his seventh save. American League National League and three runs in seven innings. Ramirez and Carlos Gomez each had three hits Mariners starter Roenis Elias (9-11) walked four Eastern Division Eastern Division to help the first-place Brewers remain 1 1/2 but limited the Rangers to one run in five W L PCT GB Washington 75 55 .577 - PHILLIES 3, NATIONALS 2 games ahead of St. Louis in the NL Central. innings. — AP Baltimore 74 55 .574 - Atlanta 68 63 .519 7.5 AJ Burnett struck out 12 in seven innings and NY Yankees 68 61 .527 6 Miami 65 65 .500 10 Cody Asche and Carlos Ruiz homered to lead the Toronto 66 65 .504 9 NY Mets 61 70 .466 14.5 Phillies to a victory over the Nationals. Domonic Tampa Bay 64 67 .489 11 Philadelphia 59 72 .450 16.5 Brown had two hits and an RBI for Philadelphia, Boston 57 74 .435 18 Central Division which won for the fourth time in five games. Central Division Milwaukee 73 58 .557 - Wilson Ramos and Anthony Rendon homered Kansas City 72 58 .554 - for NL East-leading Washington, which lost for St. Louis 71 59 .546 1.5 Detroit 70 59 .543 1.5 just the second time in 14 games. Burnett (7-14) Pittsburgh 67 64 .511 6 Cleveland 66 63 .512 5.5 won for the first time since the All-Star break, Cincinnati 63 68 .481 10 Chicago White Sox 59 71 .454 13 allowing one run on three hits with just one Minnesota 58 72 .446 14 Chicago Cubs 58 72 .446 14.5 walk. The right-hander entered leading the Western Division Western Division majors in walks with 76. Tanner Roark (12-8) gave LA Angels 77 53 .592 - LA Dodgers 74 58 .561 - up two runs on five hits in six innings and lost for Oakland 77 53 .592 - San Francisco 68 62 .523 5 just the second time in his last nine starts. Roark Seattle 71 59 .546 6 San Diego 60 70 .462 13 has a 2.25 ERA over that stretch. Houston 55 77 .417 23 Arizona 55 76 .420 18.5 Texas 51 79 .392 26 Colorado 53 77 .408 20 RED SOX 4, BLUE JAYS 3, 10 innings Yoenis Cespedes singled home the go-ahead run in the 10th inning and the Red Sox survived a ninth-inning collapse to beat the Blue Jays 4-3, MOTOR RACING snapping their losing streak at eight games. Cespedes has 19 RBIs in 22 games since being Rosberg questions Hamilton’s traded to Boston on July 31. Seven of those 19 RBIs have given the Red Sox a lead. Brock Holt hit version of events on collision a one-out single off Aaron Sanchez (2-1) in the 10th and stole second as Dustin Pedroia struck LONDON: Nico Rosberg has questioned the Italian Grand Prix at Monza next week. out, with the steal confirmed by video review. Lewis Hamilton’s version of events after the “Now we need to look forward. There will be Holt stole third before Cespedes drove him in Mercedes team mates collided while con- another discussion for sure because we with a single up the middle. Boston won for the testing the lead on the second lap of the need to see if we need to change our first time since August 16 against Houston and Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday. Hamilton approach in the future, as we did in snapped a six-game skid against the stumbling told reporters at Spa on Sunday that the Hungary. And we will do that,” said the driv- Blue Jays, who dropped to 6-15 in August. Koji Formula One championship leader had told er. “I’m confident that as always we are Uehara (6-4) got the win despite blowing his a team meeting after the race that he did it going to find back to our way. And then on purpose ‘to make a point’. Rosberg, who keep fighting in Monza and on we go.” fourth save in 30 chances, and Craig Breslow fin- has dismissed the collision as a racing inci- Rosberg was blamed by team bosses after ished for his first save in two chances. dent, said on a video blog from Hamburg the race for causing what was an avoidable that he saw it differently. “Definitely one of collision, although stewards took no action ROCKIES 3, GIANTS 2 the more difficult video blogs today,” said and the governing body is unlikely to take it Tyler Matzek struck out seven in seven the German. “I’ve been told what Lewis said further. innings to end a five-start losing streak, and in the press and the way he has stated his Jenson Button, the 2009 world champion Colorado capitalized on San Francisco’s mistakes. version of the events. All I can say is that my and Hamilton’s former team mate at The Rockies have won four straight in San view of the events are very different. McLaren, was also critical of Rosberg. “I Francisco for the first time in club history. In his “The thing is it’s just better that I don’t think any driver would look at it (the inci- 14th major league start and first against the now give all the details of my opinion and dent) now, and I’m sure Nico will look at it, Giants, Matzek (3-9) won for the first time since things like that. I hope you respect that,” and say ‘I don’t know what I was thinking’,” beating Pittsburgh on July 26. The rookie left- added the German. “I prefer to just keep it the Briton told reporters. “You should be hander also won for the first time in eight road internal.” Rosberg left Spa with a 29 point able to judge situations like that a bit better. appearances and seven starts after beginning 0- lead over Hamilton, who retired from the Button said he sympathized for Hamilton 5. Matzek outdueled Jake Peavy (2-4), who won race with a damaged floor to his car after and felt the incident had robbed the fans of his previous two starts following three straight picking up a puncture as a result of his team a great battle between the two. “It is a losses after he was acquired in a trade with mate’s front wing hitting his rear tyre. shame it’s not a cleaner fight,” said Button. Boston on July 26. Justin Morneau and Corey Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff said “I’ve always said the person who wins the Dickerson hit sacrifice flies for the Rockies, who on Sunday the post-race meeting with driv- world championship this year is the person earned their fourth road win in 27 games since ers had been heated and explained that who does the best job on the circuit, but Rosberg had wanted to show he was not that does not seem the way it is at the sweeping a three-game series at AT&T Park from going to back off but had not intended to moment. “They (Mercedes) will still win the June 13-15. San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy collide. championships but what has happened def- was ejected in the eighth by plate umpire Doug PITTSBURGH: St Louis Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams (right) and second baseman Rosberg said there had been an “impor- initely adds spice to what is already a pretty Eddings for arguing a called third strike on Kolten Wong collide as they chase a fly ball by Pittsburgh Pirates’ Josh Harrison in the fifth tant discussion” with more to come before spicy relationship.” — Reuters Buster Posey. LaTroy Hawkins finished for his inning of a baseball game on Monday, Aug 25, 2014, in Pittsburgh. Adams fell on the play, 21st save in 22 opportunities. but stayed in the game. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 SPORTS Cook’s one-day recipe all right with Root

CARDIFF: Joe Root insisted yesterday that Match Special: “England are looking too much at Wednesday’s second one-day international in a five- of years, and we all back him,” said Root. “He’s a fan- England had both the right captain and the right these new white balls. The other teams have gone match series with the world champions in Cardiff, tastic player and has got all of our support.” approach to win their one-day series with India power at the top and all the way through. “India was having none of it. The middle-order batsman said contrasting and succeed at the World Cup. Former England have got power strikers all the way down. South “We’ve got guys like (Eoin) Morgan and (Jos) approaches from the openers would serve England spinner Graeme Swann said that the side “do not Africa, Australia are all exactly the same. “It’s a com- Buttler down the order who, as you’ve seen, can win well. “His style complements players like Alex Hales, have a cat in hell’s chance” of winning next year’s pletely different era because of Twenty20.” games on their own,” said Root. “We’re in a good and we hope that can be shown in this series. Hales World Cup in Australia and New Zealand unless England have yet to win the World Cup in nearly place, and this series will be a good judge of that,” scored England’s first Twenty20 century when he they add more firepower to their top-order bat- 40 years of trying since staging the first of the tour- the Yorkshireman added. made 116 not out from 64 balls against Sri Lanka at ting. He also urged England captain Alastair Cook nament’s 10 editions in 1975. Both Swann and Cook resisted calls from Vaughan and others to the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh in March. “Alex is to give up playing one-day cricket, arguing the Vaughan feared the addition of dynamic opener quit as England Test captain earlier in the season an explosive player, very exciting to watch-and we’re opener’s style was ill-suited to the modern limited Alex Hales-who would have made his debut in the and was vindicated by a 3-1 series win over India in all looking forward to seeing him do stuff,” said Root. overs game were big-hitting at the top of the India series opener in Bristol on Monday had the the longer format. And Root said the team were as “I think guys have been picked because they’re very order is considered essential. match not been a total washout-had come too late much behind Cook when it came to 50-over fixtures capable of making big scores in one-day series. I It was a view backed up by former England cap- to bolster England’s World Cup chances. But as they were in Tests. “He’s our leader in one-day don’t think there’s much of a problem with the bat- tain Michael Vaughan, who also told BBC Radio’s Test England batsman Root, speaking ahead of cricket as well as Tests; he’s done well over a number ting.” — AFP

BOXING Pacquiao: We can’t waste time waiting for Mayweather

MACAU: Manny Pacquiao and Chris with rival pay-per-view networks HBO and Algieri are on a two-week, globe-trotting Showtime, respectively. tour to promote their welterweight title Arum admitted on Monday that HBO fight in November, but the match the and Showtime had to “find a way to pro- world truly wants to see looks further mote and satisfy both sides from a legal away than ever. When Pacquiao met the basis”, before the biggest money-spinning press in Macau on Monday, questions fight in the sport’s history could be about his elusive megafight with the agreed. He added the TV rivals had undefeated American Floyd Mayweather expressed a desire to achieve a deal, but met with a sharp response. “Who’s that?” conceded that the final decision lay with Pacquiao joked, when Mayweather was Mayweather and Golden Boy who have mentioned by reporters. Pacquiao’s hall- shown no intent of late to get around the of-fame trainer Freddie Roach was less table. “With Showtime and HBO wanting jovial, conceding bluntly that the two the fight and Manny wanting the fight, boxing legends, both in the twilight of there is one little step to take and that’s to their glittering careers, may never be seen see where Floyd stands,” Arum said. Even if in the same ring. “We can’t waste our time there were to be a sudden thawing of waiting for him,” Roach told AFP. “We’ve relations between the two camps, the ear- done everything we could to make that liest a fight could take place is late 2015. fight happen. It’s like, we’re available if he’s interested in it, but again we can’t sit Fitting end? BASSETERRE: The West Indies team poses with the Dhaka Bank Cup after winning the One Day International series between the West Indies and around waiting for him.” Mayweather has a rematch against Bangladesh three to nil at the Warner Park cricket ground in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis on August 25, 2014. — AFP Eight-division world champion Marcos Maidana next month and Pacquiao’s next date is a World Boxing Pacquiao faces Algieri in November Organization welterweight title defense before a likely fifth blockbuster fight Record-breaking Ramdin and against the undefeated WBO junior wel- against Juan Manuel Marquez, who terweight title-holder Algieri on knocked out Pacquiao in 2012. “Hopefully November 23 in Macau’s Cotai Arena. we can put Marquez in with Pacquiao Bravo lead Windies to sweep The pair were in Macau on Monday next year,” said the 82-year-old Arum. But and Shanghai on Tuesday, and they will the reality is that Mayweather-Pacquiao move on to promotional events in San may never come to fruition. Pacquiao is BASSETERRE: Denesh Ramdin and Darren Bravo ner Mahmudullah brought about his demise to a the dangerous but out-of-form Chris Gayle to a Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and due to retire at the end of his current deal hit centuries in a record partnership as the West catch at backward-point. Yet Bangladesh were catch at the wicket early on and then returned to New York in the next 12 days. In 2010, with Top Rank in 2016, when the con- Indies completed a clean sweep of the three- left to rue what could have been for Mushfiqur add the key wicket of Darren Sammy in the 48th match one-day international series against Pacquiao and Mayweather were close to gressman from Sarangani will be 37. missed a straightforward stumping chance off over. He was even more impressive in the final Bangladesh with a 91-run victory on Monday. Abdur Razzak when Bravo was just on ten. over, conceding just two runs and dismissing agreeing a fight between the two greatest Mayweather, who is already 37, has a per- Ramdin blazed 169 and dominated a 258-run Razzak himself was subsequently at fault in the Ramdin and Jason Holder off successive deliver- boxers of their generation, which could fect 46-0 record. Assuming Mayweather, third-wicket partnership with Bravo (124) to field as he moved lethargically at mid-on ies to finish with the deserved figures of four for potentially have generated a record $300 who is also tipped to fight Britain’s Amir pace the West Indies to 338 for seven batting towards a miscued swing by Ramdin, then on 49, lifting his tally of wickets in the series to ten. million dollars in pay-per-view revenue. Khan early next year, remains unbeaten, first. It was the highest partnership for any wick- 35, off Mashrafe Mortaza. “Our bowlers bowled “We’re really happy to win 3-0. It’s always better he is unlikely to want to risk his dream of et for the Caribbean side in ODIs while the total really well up front but we couldn’t capitalise than 2-1 and keeps the winning momentum ‘We are willing to fight’ equaling Rocky Marciano’s career mark of was their fifth-highest. because of some mistakes, including my own,” going for the rest of the matches to come,” said But it fell through because Mayweather 49-0 against ‘Pacman’ this time next year. Needing a monumental effort to even be said Mushfiqur in reflecting on his team’s effort West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo, mindful of was unhappy with Pacquiao’s drug-testing That just leaves one, extremely remote, competitive after their capitulation for just 70 in in the field. the line T20 International at the same venue in procedures in training. That issue receded possibility for the two to appear in the the second one-dayer in Grenada three days ear- As in the first two ODIs in Grenada, Al-Amin two days’ time and the two Tests that follow in after Pacquiao agreed to Olympic-style same ring. Should both remain unbeaten lier, Bangladesh were boosted by a 99-run third- Hossain impressed with the ball. He removed September. — AFP testing, and the Filipino icon expressed his until the end of 2015, they could provide wicket stand between Tamim Iqbal (55) and frustration that a Mayweather clash has still a fitting end to their careers in early 2016 skipper Mushfiqur Rahim but were never really moved no closer after getting his career by settling the argument once and for all. in the hunt and could only manage 247 for eight SCOREBOARD back on track with comprehensive victo- A victory for Mayweather would take him in reply. Recognizing that his team’s chances of ries in the past nine months over Brandon to the magical 50-0 mark, a win for challenging such a formidable total were effec- BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis: Scoreboard in the third and final one-day international Rios and Timothy Bradley. “The possibility Pacquiao would cement his place as one tively gone when Tamim was bowled by Sunil between West Indies and Bangladesh at Warner Park in St Kitts Monday: Narine in the 22nd over, the tourists’ captain set- of the greatest boxers not just of his own West Indies Anamul Haque c Sammy b Holder 0 to fight with him, you know, the question is tled on determined occupation of the crease L. Simmons c Mahmudullah b M Mortaza 6 not for us,” Pacquiao said. “It’s for them generation, but of all time. The world rather than gambling on rampant aggression to Imrul Kayes c Roach b Rampaul 1 C. Gayle c M Rahim b Al-Amin Hossain 6 because any time we are willing to fight, wants it, Pacquiao wants it and, according topscore with 72. Mushfiqur Rahim c Sammy b Rampaul 72 any time. I think that question belongs to to Arum, HBO and Showtime want it. Ravi Rampaul was the pick of the West Indies D.M. Bravo c Imrul Kayes b Mahmudullah 124 Mominul Haque c Sammy b D.J. Bravo 5 them, their camp.” The biggest hurdle that The lucrative pay-day would dwarf bowlers in finishing with four for 29. Ramdin’s D. Ramdin c Nasir Hossain b Al-Amin Hossain 169 Mahmudullah c Ramdin b Roach 27 remains-and it is a huge one-is the animos- anything the sport has seen before. It’s a effort, highlighted by 11 sixes and eight fours off K. Pollard c Tamim Iqbal b Abdur Razzak 10 Nasir Hossain c Roach b Rampaul 26 ity between Pacquiao’s promoter Bob quarter-of-a-billion-dollar question. Only 121 balls, equaled batting legend Brian Lara for D. Sammy c Abdur Razzak b Al-Amin Hossain 10 Sohag Gazi b Rampaul 24 Arum of Top Rank and Mayweather’s ‘Money’ Mayweather knows if he can be the third-highest individual innings by a West D.J. Bravo not out 3 Mashrafe Mortaza not out 15 Golden Boy promotions, who have deals tempted give the right answer. — AFP Indian in one-dayers. Only Vivian Richards, J. Holder c Nasir Hossain b Al-Amin Hossain 0 Abdur Razzak not out 5 arguably the greatest of the many batting mas- S. Narine not out 0 Extras (lb2, w13, nb2) 17 ters from the Caribbean, has higher individual Extras (lb4, w6) 10 Total (50 overs, 8 wickets) 247 scores - 189 not out against England in Total (50 overs, 7 wickets) 338 Did not bat: Al-Amin Hossain Did not bat: K. Roach, R. Rampaul. Manchester in 1984 and 181 against Sri Lanka at Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Anamul Haque), 2-2 (Imrul Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Simmons), 2-12 (Gayle), 3-270 the 1987 World Cup in Karachi. “Darren (Bravo) Kayes), 3-101 (Tamim Iqbal), 4-108 (Mominul (DM Bravo), 4-302 (Pollard), 5-320 (Sammy), 6- said someone had to bat through the innings Haque), 5-163 (Mushfiqur Rahim), 6-178 and I put my hand up to do it today,” said 338 (Ramdin), 7-338 (Holder). Bowling: Sohag Gazi 9-0-63-0, Mashrafe Mortaza (Mahmudullah), 7-215 (Nasir Hossain), 8-230 Ramdin, who also took both the man of the (Sohag Gazi). match and man of the series honours. 10-0-69-1, Al-Amin Hossain 10-1-59-4 (1w), Abdur Razzak 10-0-76-1 (4w), Mahmudullah 10- Bowling: J. Holder 8-0-47-1 (1nb), R. Rampaul 10- Bravo may have been overshadowed by the 2-29-4 (3w), D.J. Bravo 5-1-32-1 (1w, 1nb), K. wicketkeeper-batsman’s big hitting, but he 1-48-1 (1w), Mominul Haque 1-0-19-0. Roach 9-0-48-1 (1w), S. Narine 10-0-31-1, C. Gayle eventually unfurled his most fluent and power- 8-0-58-0 (4w). ful shots, hammering eight sixes and seven fours Bangladesh Result: West Indies won by 91 runs off 127 deliveries before a tired swing at off-spin- Tamim Iqbal b Narine 55 SA spinners to tackle hard-hitting Aussies

HARARE: South Africa (SA) will look to extract However, fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne an advantage from their superior spin stocks Morkel have returned to the South African Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao when they take on a hard-hitting Australian squad after they were rested for the bilateral side in the second match of a triangular series series against Zimbabwe, setting up the tanta- in Harare today. Number 1 ranked Australia lizing spectacle of the world’s two fastest bowl- issued a statement of intent on Monday when ing attacks going head-to-head. “The great Pakistan cancels they crushed Zimbabwe by 198 runs in the thing about our seam attack is that they can series opener, exhibiting a greater degree of adapt to all conditions so it will be a good chal- ruthlessness than South Africa did in winning a lenge for us,” Duminy said. “This is the pinnacle three-match one-day series against the hosts in of cricket, you want to play against the best in Twenty20 league Bulawayo last week. Australia showed the world, so we are looking forward to it. They Zimbabwe no respect in hammering 147 runs in have a lot of match-winners and we will need to the final 10 overs to rack up 350 for six on a find a way to curb them.” KARACHI: Pakistan cricket authorities were next year’s World Cup-in Australia and New slow wicket, proving that their big-hitting mid- With Michael Clarke set to sit out the game forced to cancel their ambitious Twenty20 Zealand in February-March-forced the deci- dle order can be particularly difficult to contain. as he awaits a full recovery from a hamstring league project yesterday due a lack of time sion. “The PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan However with the dry, late winter pitches in injury, George Bailey will continue to lead the to schedule the tournament ahead of the met the bidders of the PSL and explained Harare suiting the spinners more than the fast side in his absence. One of the Australians who World Cup, leaving question marks over its them as to why it had become extremely bowlers, the Proteas could have an advantage. found form on Monday was Mitchell Marsh, future. Pakistan Cricket Board had planned difficult to organize the PSL and among the Legspinner Imran Tahir and left-arm spinner who was entrusted with the No 3 berth and to hold the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in reasons behind taking this decision was the Aaron Phangiso both picked up regular wickets paced his innings perfectly to score 89 from 83 the United Arab Emirates in January next paucity of lead time,” said a PCB release. against Zimbabwe while conceding less than deliveries. year based on the lines of the lucrative Khan said the board was committed to four runs per over, and also have the support of The all-rounder also picked up 1 for 15 in five Indian Premier League and Australia’s Big holding the event in the future, it added. JP Duminy, whose off spin has become a regu- overs, and believes Australia’s seamers have Bash in an attempt to recoup huge finan- The PCB last year said it had expected to lar feature for the Proteas. adapted to the conditions sufficiently to make cial losses. The losses were incurred after raise $100 million from the T20 league. By contrast, Australia brought just one spe- up for any deficiency they may have in the spin cialist spinner in Nathan Lyon, and although he department. “The way all the bowlers bowled HARARE: Australian batsman BJ Haddin looks back as Pakistan failed to stage any international Former players had also criticized the ambi- the ball hits the stumps on the first day of the ODI cricket following a terrorist attack on the Sri tious project, saying it was not possible for picked up a couple of wickets on Monday, he (against Zimbabwe), they took pace off the ball was also hit for 42 runs in seven overs by a at the right time and I think that’s going to be series against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club in Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009. the PCB to stage such an event with top struggling Zimbabwean line-up. key on this wicket,” Marsh said. “There’s a lot of Harare on Monday, Aug 25, 2014. The International The PSL was also cancelled last year due to players busy in international cricket and “The wicket in Harare is a lot slower so it experience in our changing room, they’ve played Cricket Council top ranked One Day International Team logistical problems. would demand a huge amount of money might be a strategy that we might try and use,” on these sorts of wickets all around the world, so (ODI) is in Zimbabwe for a triangular ODI series with The PCB said time constraints ahead of from the PCB. —AFP Duminy said of the spin factor. I don’t think it’s anything too new.” — AFP Zimbabwe and South Africa. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 SPORTS

Accurate Swedish golfers and Photo of the day Korean archer take Youth gold

NANJING: Swedish golfers Marcus Kinhult and Linnea Strom forced the extra holes after a birdie on the 18th left the two prevailed in a playoff to take the mixed team Youth Olympic teams tied at 16-under following three rounds of competition, gold medal yesterday, with their accuracy on the greens only with both players score counting on the final day’s play. But bettered by South Korean archer Lee Woo-seok. The bespecta- the birdies dried up in the playoff and the Swede’s par-par cled 17-year-old archer amassed a huge 704 out of 720 in the effort on the second extra hole proved too much for the par- ranking round of the men’s competition on Friday and the bogey of the Koreans allowing Kinhult to add gold to the sil- bullseyes continued to flow yesterday as he beat Brazilian ver he won in the boy’s individual event. Boxers Chang Yuan Marcus Carvalho Lopes D’Almeida 7-3. Lee fired 13 out of 15 and Jajaira Gonzalez made sure their gold medal bouts were 10s in the final, including four perfect sets, as he clearly nowhere near as close as the golf final with some brilliant dis- enjoyed shooting from 60 meters for the first time instead of plays as they easily won women’s titles. the 70m the seniors normally take aim from. Chinese Chang was a class above Italian Irma Testa as she D’Almeida was full of praise for the victor, who he called won the 51 kilogram title 3-0, while American Gonzalez amazing, but was hopeful he could translate his silver medal chopped through Ireland’s Ciara Ginty by the same score in success to his home Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Lee, the 60kg category. “It is really an American dream come true. meanwhile, was just grateful to give his callous-filled hands a All my hard work paid off today,” the 17-year-old Californian breather after his stunning feats in China. “These fingers show. said. “I just got under my opponent to open her up to attack There is a lot of pain,” the Korean said. “It’s due to my training. as she was taller.” Elsewhere, North Korean wrestler Kim Son- Before the YOG I had domestic competitions, so I prepared for hyang beat Mongolia’s Dulguun Bolormaar to take gold in the that. Korean domestic competition is world-class. It is very 46 kg category, while China’s Yang Hao easily secured gold in stressful.” The success for the Koreans made up for the disap- the men’s 10m diving competition. Today is the final full day of pointment in the mixed golf where Kinhult and Strom edged competition at the second Youth Games, featuring over 3,800 Lee So-young and Youm Eun-ho in the playoff to take gold at athletes aged 14-18 from almost 200 countries, with gold the Zhongshan International Golf Club. medals up for grabs in boxing, gymnastics, wrestling, canoe- Lee, who won the girl’s individual gold last week, had ing and beach volleyball. — Reuters Kelmendi, Ebinuma reign Sebastien Loeb prepares to race during the FIA World Touring Car Championship 2014 at the Autodromo Termas de supreme at Judo worlds Rio Hondo, Argentina. — www.redbull.com Djokovic, Sharapova CHELYABINSK: Japan’s Masashi claimed a third consecutive gold in Ebinuma dominated the second day Ebinuma and Kosovar Majlinda the -66kg category as the Olympic of competition, spoiling Mikhail Kelmendi both successfully defended bronze medallist added to his tro- Pulyaev’s bid to give the hosts their their world titles at the World Judo phies from Paris in 2011 and Rio de first gold of the championships. sparkle as others toil Championships yesterday. Ebinuma Janeiro in 2013. The 24-year-old As a result Japan lead the medals table after the second day of competi- tion in Siberia with two gold-Ebinuma Murray overcomes cramping, Venus wins veteran showdown (-66 kg) and Ami Kondo (-48 kg). Russia’s Kamal Khan-Magomedov and NEW YORK: Former champions Georgia’s Georgii Zantaraia won Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova bronze. Earlier Kelmendi defied the sparkled under the Arthur Ashe odds to hold her -52kg crown by beat- Stadium lights to end a steamy first ing Romania’s Andreea Chitu with day that proved more than a little Russia’s Natalia Kuziutina and Brazilian stressful for several of the US Open Erika Miranda taking bronze. favorites on Monday. Djokovic, who But despite the victory Kosovo will had won only two matches in the not appear on the medals table. hard court run-up to the season’s final Kelmendi entered the country on an grand slam after getting married just Albanian passport as Russia do not days after his Wimbledon triumph, give visas to residents of the break- was back to his best once the center away Balkan state. The 23-year-old court spotlight shone on him at could not wear the colors of Kosovo Flushing Meadows. The 2011 champi- and was represented under the initials on treated his first-round match of the International Judo Federaion against unseeded 22-year-old (IJF). Overwhelemed by emotion she Argentine Diego Schwartzman like a fell to the ground on sealing her victo- breezy workout, dominating in all ry, remaining motionless with her phases with 24 winners including sev- hands over her face as she savored en aces in a 6-1 6-2 6-4 rout. the moment. Kelmendi, who has His fast work followed a scintillat- become a symbol of hope for her ing finish by French Open champion country after winning their first world and 2006 winner Sharapova, as the NEW YORK: Maria Sharapova of Russia returns to Maria Kirilenko of Russia CHELYABINSK: Russia’s judoka Natalia Kuziutina (blue) competes with medal last year and travels to compe- fifth seed won 10 straight games to during their US Open 2014 women’s singles match at the USTA Billie Jean Majlinda Kelmendi of IJF (International Judo Federation) during the under titions in a mobile home, has prevail 6-4 6-0 after falling 2-4 behind King National Center on August 25, 2014. — AFP 52 kg category semi-final at the IJF World Judo Championship in impressed all season winning a first against her Russian compatriot and Chelyabinsk yesterday. — AFP European title last April. —AFP old friend Maria Kirilenko. Despite the Early upset um court before overtaking Collins 6- night program starting one hour later In an upset on the men’s side, 7 (2) 6-1 6-2. The 22-year-old than scheduled due to ceremonies twice US Open semi-finalist Mikhail Romanian, a French Open finalist, featuring bands, speeches and fire- Youzhny of Russia, the 21st seed, fell admitted to a bout of nerves in being England’s Lampard works, Djokovic enabled the New to big-serving Australian teenager thrust onto the big stage as the open- York night crowd to head to the exits Nick Kyrgios 7-5 7-6 (4) 2-6 7-6 (1). The ing act of the season’s last grand slam. shortly before the stroke of midnight. 19-year-old Kyrgios, who made a “She played a tough match, I want “I’m very pleased,” the Serbian world Wimbledon splash by ousting Rafa to congratulate her,” Halep said of her quits internationals number one said in a courtside inter- Nadal in the fourth round to reach the 20-year-old opponent, who was given view after his 97-minute win. “It’s nev- quarter-finals, blasted 26 aces. The a wild card into her first tour-level er easy to start a US Open smoothly.” 60th-ranked Kyrgios moved on to a event for winning the US collegiate LONDON: England midfielder Frank be playing in the United States. “Also, wrongly disallowed in a second-round second-round match against Italy’s championship. “The first set I was a lit- Lampard has retired from international to concentrate on how I can perform clash with Germany, a match England Several of the favorites at Flushing Meadows could attest to his opinion. Andreas Seppi. Advancing with rela- tle bit nervous. This court is huge. “I football after winning 106 caps. The consistently to the best of my abilities went on to lose 4-1. Hodgson paid tive ease in straight sets were have to enjoy it, but it’s not easy. 36-year-old was released by Chelsea in over my next few years in club foot- tribute to Lampard, telling the Football Busy bees made life difficult for two grizzled veterans and a pair of Australian Open champion Stan Everybody is telling me I have chances May after 13 years at the London club ball,” he added. “It is now the time to Association website that he was a Wawrinka of Switzerland and fifth- to win this title.” She moves on to face and he signed for New York City before move forward and I feel very confident superb representative both on and off favorites were forced to work over- time on a hot, steamy day at the US seeded Canadian Milos Raonic, a Slovakian Jana Cepelova, a 2-6 7-5 6-1 agreeing to move to Manchester City that with Roy Hodgson in charge, the the pitch. Wimbledon semi-finalist. The Swiss winner over Spain’s Maria-Teresa on a six-month loan deal. Lampard young players that we have coming “To reach in excess of 100 interna- National Tennis Center that drew a combined 57,000 fans to the day and third seed beat Jiri Vesely of the Czech Torro-Flor, in the second round of the scored 29 goals for England and cap- through, and the changes that are tional caps is something very few pro- Republic to set up a second-round season’s last grand slam. Also advanc- tained the team in their last group being made throughout the develop- fessionals achieve and he is in exalted night sessions. Eighth-seeded 2012 champion Andy Murray fought off test against Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, ing on the women’s side were fourth match against Costa Rica at this year’s ment of the youth system in this coun- company,” Hodgson said. “He has while big-serving Raonic defeated seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, World Cup in Brazil. “I have taken the try, that we will have success in the served the national team quite bril- cramps to beat Dutchman Robin Haase in four painful sets, while Japan’s Taro Daniel to get to the next sixth seed Angelique Kerber of decision to retire from international future and a team that this country liantly during his 15-year international round against Peter Gojowczyk of Germany, and former world number football,” he said in a statement yester- deserves.” career.” Hodgson had spoken with women’s second seed Simona Halep lost an early tiebreak to US debutant Germany. Halep survived a scare in one Jelena Jankovic of Serbia, the day. “It has been a very tough decision Lampard about his intentions after he the tournament’s first match on stadi- ninth seed. — Reuters for me to make which is why I have Belgium debut joined City, adding that he would not Danielle Collins before claiming victo- given it so much thought since the England captain Steven Gerrard try and change his mind. “It is with ry. And in an intriguing match-up of World Cup. I have always been excep- ended his long international career regret that I accept and understand 19th seed Venus Williams and Kimiko tionally proud and honored to repre- last month. Lampard made his interna- the decision he’s made. “I wish him the Date-Krumm of Japan, the oldest sent my country and have to say look- tional debut against Belgium in 1999, best of luck with Manchester City and players in the women’s draw, some ing back I have enjoyed every minute going on to play at three World Cups New York City and I’d like to thank him pesky bees joined in and refused to of wearing the England shirt.” and two European Championships. He for all the help he’s provided for me leave them alone. Lampard said it was time put his make headlines at the 2010 World Cup during my time as England manag- family first given that he was soon to in South Africa when he had a goal er.”— Reuters Major cramping Murray appeared on course for an easy victory before he fell victim to cramps that left him stretching and straining to get comfortable before clinching a 6-3 7-6 (6) 1-6 7-5 victory over Haase. “I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tourna- ment,” said Murray, one of the fittest players on the ATP Tour. “My quads were cramping, then it started to get to my lats, then my forearms,” he added. “I just tried to hang around and at the end I was trying to play without moving my legs much and managed to get through.” Murray said he might consult with a nutritionist before meeting his second-round opponent, Germany’s Matthias Bachinger. A less serious intrusion hit the irre- sistible women’s clash between sev- en-times grand slam singles winner Williams and Japan’s remarkable Date-Krumm, who were beset by bees. First the 43-year-old Japanese player and later 34-year-old Williams dipped, ducked and danced away before ballgirls helped usher the stubborn swarm away from the base- line. When finally left to play tennis on a sun-bathed Arthur Ashe Stadium court, Williams stung her opponent 2- 6 6-3 6-3 to advance. Asked about who presented the peskier test in the BELO HORIZONTE: In this file photo, England’s Frank Lampard applauds England fans after the group D World Cup two-hour match, two-time US Open soccer match between Costa Rica and England at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Since making his winner Williams said: “The bee was a NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after defeating Diego England debut in 1999, the 36-year-old Lampard has scored 29 goals in 106 appearances, with his last appearance challenge but easily the answer is Schwartzman of Argentina during their men’s singles first round match on coming at the World Cup in June. — AP Kimiko.” Day One of the 2014 US Open. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 SPORTS Wilshere expects Arsenal to finish off Besiktas

LONDON:Jack Wilshere is confident the years that Arsenal are going to battle Arsenal’s dramatic late fightback at Everton like mad right until the end. “There have will provide the perfect springboard to see been a few games where we have been off Besiktas in today’s crucial Champions behind right until the end but have kept League showdown. Arsene Wenger’s side going.” Arsenal’s late revival on Merseyside head into the second leg of their play-off couldn’t disguise the underwhelming encounter against the Turkish side with the nature of a performance that followed hot tie delicately poised after a goalless draw in on the heels of another tepid effort in the Istanbul last week. It was the first time in 13 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace on the open- matches Arsenal had failed to win a ing day of the season. Champions League play-off fixture. But the Wales midfielder Ramsey, who bagged Gunners are feeling good about them- the late winner against Palace, was key to selves after rescuing a 2-2 draw from an Arsenal’s recovery on both occasions, but unpromising situation in their Premier he will be missing against Besiktas after League match against Everton on Saturday. being sent off in Turkey. Ramsey’s absence Trailing 2-0 with only seven minutes is a blow as Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta remaining, Arsenal looked destined for is out with a sprained ankle, left-back another dispiriting defeat against one of Kieran Gibbs has a hamstring problem and their rivals for a top four finish. Yet French striker Giroud left Goodison with his Wenger’s men ignored the memories of left foot in a protective boot after injuring last season’s capitulations at Manchester his ankle. Alexis Sanchez started ahead of City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Everton and hit Giroud on Saturday, but struggled before back to equalize thanks to Aaron Ramsey’s coming off at half-time and Wenger must strike and Olivier Giroud’s last minute decide whether to keep the Chile forward header. It was the ideal morale booster in the central striker’s role. ahead of Besiktas’s visit to the Emirates Regardless of who starts up front, Stadium and England international Wenger expects Arsenal to finish the job. Wilshere believes the fightback should “The task is clear. We are at home, we want inspire Arsenal to get the win they need to to qualify for the Champions League group reach the group stages of Europe’s elite stage and the target is to win the game. No club competition for the 17th consecutive matter what happens, I think we have the season. potential to win the game,” he said. LONDON: Arsenal’s French manager Arsene Wenger (right) speaks to his players during a training session at London Colney yesterday, on the “This was a fantastic point and now we Arsenal’s goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny eve of his team’s UEFA Champions League second-leg play-off match against Besiktas. — AFP have a big game today and this will give us agrees and sees no reason to fear an exit great confidence going into that,” Wilshere from Europe, given the Gunners have said. “We have got great character, great become specialists at emerging unscathed Liverpool new boy Mario togetherness and some leaders out there from these qualifiers in recent years. “It is that keep us going. important that we move on quickly now We also have great players to go with and prepare for today’s night. It is certainly that. “We never give up and at this level an important one for us, so hopefully we Balotelli glad to be back that is massive. We have always shown over will get a result,” Szczesny added. — AFP MANCHESTER: Mario Balotelli said he was glad Champions League ambition expectation in people. They’re very happy and to be back in the Premier League after the con- Having won the Champions League with that makes me very happy at the same time. troversial Italy striker completed his £16 million Inter Milan in 2010, Balotelli said he wanted to “Liverpool are one of the best teams here in ($26.5 million, 20.1 million euros) move to repeat the feat with Liverpool on the Reds’ England. The football is very good here. It’s a Liverpool on Monday. Balotelli left England in return to Europe’s elite club competition this great team with young players, and that’s why I January 2013 when Manchester City sold him to season. “I want to win another Champions came here.” AC Milan, but the 24-year-old endured a difficult League for sure, because the Champions League In light of Balotelli’s reputation as a trouble- time in Milan, where he was subjected to racial wasn’t all mine-I was in a team,” he added. “I maker, Rodgers is believed to have asked for the abuse by opposing fans. After completing his always start a competition wanting to win it. I player’s contract to include strict clauses about switch to Anfield on a three-year contract worth want to take this team to the Champions his behavior on and off the pitch. But the desire a reported £90,000 a week, which includes an option for a further year, Balotelli conceded he had been wrong to ever leave England. “I’m happy to be back because I left England and it was a mistake. I wanted to go to Italy, but I realized it was a mistake,” Balotelli told Liverpool’s website. “English football is generally better. English football is beautiful.” Liverpool did not complete the transfer in time for Balotelli to play in their 3-1 loss at City on Monday, but he attended the match and sat in the directors’ box wearing a dark top and a beanie hat. He had ear- lier completed a one-on-one training session Massimiliano Allegri with Liverpool’s head of conditioning and fit- ness, Ryland Morgans, at the club’s Melwood ITALIAN LEAGUE PREVIEW base. Balotelli earned a reputation as a trouble- maker during his three-year stint at City, where his antics included setting fireworks off in his Changes in Serie A as own house and brawling with then-coach Roberto Mancini. Speaking before his side’s defeat at the Etihad Allegri replaces Conte Stadium, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers MILAN: There is plenty of change in Serie A this him, the club and the players. At Juve I have admitted that Balotelli’s signing represented season after a difficult and tumultuous period for found this. At Milan it was there for three years.” something of a gamble. “Mario is at a stage in his Italian football. The pain in Italy began with the With the uncertainty of how Juventus will per- career where this might be his last chance,” the Italian Cup final in May, which was overshadowed form under Allegri, Roma is among many peo- Northern Irishman told Sky Sports. Mario Balotelli by the shooting and later death of Napoli fan Ciro ple’s favorites to end the Bianconeri’s hold on the “He needs to settle down and show maturity, Esposito. It was hoped a good World Cup cam- title. Last season’s runners-up faded after a fantas- but I have worked with loads of players like that. League.” Balotelli received a hostile reception to land a top-class replacement for Luis Suarez, paign would serve as a timely boost to a crisis-rid- tic start under coach Rudi Garcia but are likely to “He has huge potential, but he needs to come from Liverpool fans during his visits to Anfield who was sold to Barcelona, persuaded Rodgers den country, but Italy was knocked out in the first cope better after a year of experience and follow- here and be consistent and if he can do that while with City, but he was given a warm wel- to sanction the deal for Balotelli, who won the round in Brazil, prompting the resignation of ing more shrewd moves in the transfer market - if then we have one hell of a player. come by supporters who gathered outside the Premier League and FA Cup during his time at national team coach Cesare Prandelli and the the squad manages to deal with the dual chal- “We have strong family values and behavior club’s training ground to catch a glimpse of the City and also lifted the Italian title three times president of the Italian football federation. lenges of the Champions League and Serie A. is very important here. We believe we can striker. “I didn’t expect it because whenever I with Inter. “This transfer represents outstanding Giancarlo Abete’s replacement is Carlo In previous offseasons, Allegri’s old club has improve his game and consistency in his game.” played against Liverpool, the fans weren’t nice value for the club and I think we have done a Tavecchio, who is now under investigation by been seen as the team most likely to challenge Asked what he expected from Balotelli, Rodgers with me, but that’s normal-it’s football!” Balotelli really smart piece of business here,” Rodgers told UEFA following alleged racist remarks during his Juventus. But Milan fans are set for another sea- joked: “Trouble!” said. “Now that I play for Liverpool, I can see the the club website. — AFP electoral campaign. The one positive note is that son of mediocrity after an eighth-place finish. Antonio Conte was chosen to replace Prandelli - Milan - which fired Allegri in January - dismissed but that move sees Serie A lose one of its finest coach Clarence Seedorf at the end of the season coaches. Conte left Juventus fans reeling when and replaced him with another club great, he announced his departure, shortly after steer- Filippo Inzaghi. ‘Bitter-sweet day’ for ing the Bianconeri to its third straight league title The preseason has not gone to plan with a in his three years in charge. He was replaced by number of embarrassing performances and the Massimiliano Allegri, a man who was subject to sale of striker Mario Balotelli to Liverpool. City constant criticism from the media and fans dur- rival Inter Milan is unlikely to fare much better, ing his time at AC Milan, despite leading the but could emerge as surprise title contenders if Brazil club Palmeiras Rossoneri to the league title during his first sea- new signings Nemanja Vidic, Pablo Osvaldo and son in charge. Gary Medel stay away from controversy. Allegri has admitted it will be tough to emu- If the Milan crisis - which saw both of the city’s SAO PAULO: Palmeiras celebrated their cente- But Palmeiras’ fortunes waned in the new less than 13,000 so far this season - and some late Conte’s record-breaking last season in teams flounder - repeats itself, Napoli and nary yesterday but it was a bitter-sweet occa- millennium, suffering relegation in 2002 and fans have had enough. “So many of the direc- charge. “To collect 102 points is impossible,” Fiorentina are likely to once again challenge for sion for one of Brazil’s most successful clubs again in 2012 and although they bounced tors just suck the life out the club, they are like Allegri said. “The average you need to win is usu- the top three. Napoli impressed under coach with seemingly endless turmoil off the field straight back on both occasions they have politicians who are only in it for their own ally 84-85 points. I just want to have one more Rafa Benitez last season but showed the previous rarely looked healthy. They have struggled this gain,” said Carlos Eduardo Poccia, a 34-year old than second place. “When you change coach, year that it struggles domestically when involved adding to relegation fears for a third time in 12 new things are normal. Each approaches the in the Champions League. Fiorentina is sweating years. The club, formed on Aug 26, 1914 by season since losing manager Gilson Kleina and salesman who attended a commemorative team based on their character. The coach is very again on the fitness of striker Giuseppe Rossi, Italian immigrants in Sao Paulo, have won top striker Alan Kardec in the third week of the event in the Sao Paulo city centre on Saturday. important, but you need togetherness between who is sidelined with another knee injury. —AP almost every title up for grabs, including eight campaign. Gareca was hired from abroad, “I think the only answer is to panic them. Get Brazilian league flags, more than any other becoming just the second Argentine coach in in there, take over the club by force and elect team. almost a decade to lead a Brazilian Serie A someone who is qualified. It needs to be dis- Maccabi’s coach Garcia But as the championship approaches its team, but he has so far failed to turn the sea- infected. We need a root-and-branch over- halfway point Palmeiras sit fifth from bottom, son around. “It is very worrying and it won’t haul.” — Reuters only edging out the relegation places on end soon,” Mauro Beting, author of a book on quits over Gaza conflict Saturday after Argentine coach Ricardo Gareca the club’s centenary, told Reuters at a signing JERUSALEM: Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Spanish tions I heard from Oscar were more personal picked up three points for the first time since event attended by hundreds of fans on coach Oscar Garcia has left the club because than anything else,” Cruyff added. Garcia part- taking over eight league games ago. “We’re a Monday. “There’s no money, no team and no MATCHES ON TV of the conflict between Israel and Islamist mil- ed with the players earlier yesterday and has little more relaxed thanks to the victory,” leadership.” “We didn’t expect that our present itants in the Gaza Strip and compatriot Pako left the country. Israeli sport has been greatly defender Tobio said after a 1-0 win over would be about our past but we have to cele- Ayestaran will replace him, the club said yes- affected by the conflict in Gaza which Israel Coritiba. “It was a victory that we had hoped brate it and at the same time keep the flame UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE terday. Maccabi general manager Jordi Cruyff launched on July 8 with the declared aim of for and we needed it to boost our confidence. alight for the future,” he added. Fans are pray- Ludogorets Razgrad v Steaua 21:45 said Garcia’s decision to leave was personal. ending the rocket salvoes which Islamist mili- It allows us to work this week in a more tran- ing for new signings to ease their woes and “We have a change of coach, Oscar decided to tants have fired into the Jewish state. quil atmosphere.” reports say the club is negotiating with former beIN SPORTS 7 HD leave the job, to leave Israel ... and we have Palestinian health officials say 2,125 peo- The atmosphere around Palmeiras has Barcelona star Ronaldinho. Arsenal v Besikta 21:45 announced the arrival of a new coach ... and ple, most of them civilians, including more rarely been tranquil in recent years, in spite of beIN SPORTS 1 HD we hope the transition is a very smooth one,” than 490 children, have been killed in the sev- their grand history. The club - which changed New stadium beIN SPORTS 11 HD Cruyff said. en-week long conflict. Sixty-four Israeli sol- beIN SPORTS 13 HD Garcia was starting a second stint in diers and four civilians in Israel have been its name from Palestra Italia in 1942 as anti- An arguably more important development charge at Maccabi. His previous two-season killed. The scheduled start of the domestic Axis feeling grew in Brazil - became known as will come with the inauguration of an impres- Malmo v Red Bull Salzburg 21:45 term ended in 2013 with the league champi- league season on Aug 8 has been delayed and the Academy for producing large numbers of sive 45,000-seat stadium before the year is out. beIN SPORTS 5 HD onship. He then took charge of Championship many international sporting events in Israel talented young players in the 1960s and The Allianz Parque is the 14th new arena to be Bayer 04 v Copenhagen 21:45 side Brighton and Hove Albion from English have been called off. Teams involved in 1970s. They were also strong in the 1990s, built in Brazil over the last 18 months (12 for beIN SPORTS 2 HD soccer’s second tier. Ayestaran was assistant European club soccer competitions have been when investment from Italy’s Parmalat group the World Cup plus Gremio’s new stadium in Athletic de Bilbao v Napoli 21:45 to Napoli coach Rafa Benitez at Tenerife, forced to host opponents in Cyprus, and ten- boosted their coffers. Players like Rivaldo, Porto Alegre) and fans hope it will offer a fresh Valencia and Liverpool. He moves to Maccabi nis, basketball, swimming events have been Roberto Carlos, Cesar Sampaio and Zinho won start. But like Beting, few are optimistic the ASIAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE from Mexican side Estudiantes Tecos and will affected. Israel will host Argentina in their them back to back league titles in 1993 and glory days will return any time soon. Seoul v Pohang Steelers 13:30 join them in Cyprus where they host Greek Davis Cup World Group playoff in Sunrise, 1994 and then with Alex, Marcos and The boardroom remains riven with infight- beIN SPORTS 4 HD side Asteras Tripolis in a Europa League fix- Florida next month after the International Edmundo in the squad Luiz Felipe Scolari took ing that makes mockery of the club’s motto, ture. “Some things happen in life and we have Tennis Federation ruled out Tel Aviv as a ven- them to the Brazilian Cup and Libertadores “Vincit qui se vincit”, or “He conquers, who Guangzhou v Western Sydney 15:00 to accept personal decisions... the explana- ue due to security concerns. — Reuters titles in 1998 and 1999. conquers himself.” Crowds are low - averaging beIN SPORTS 6 HD Sharapova and Liverpool new Djokovic sparkle boy Balotelli as others toil glad to be back

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MANCHESTER: Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart (2nd left) saves from a corner kick during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on Monday, Aug 25, 2014. — AP City ominous after cruising past Liverpool Aguero scores after 23 seconds; Jovetic’s double lift City

MANCHESTER: A Stevan Jovetic double and a third to statement,” midfielder Nasri told Sky Sports. England, but after impressing in pre-season has been Sergio Aguero helped Manchester City send out an “It’s important. Last year Jovetic was injured and given the chance to partner Edin Dzeko in attack with ominous warning to those with designs on their we saw in pre-season he was on fire and today was a Aguero still working his way back to fitness. The home Premier League crown, routing Liverpool 3-1 in the big start for him for this season.” The pre-match inter- fans only had to wait 10 minutes after the restart for a first heavyweight clash of the new season on Monday. est surrounded the return of the controversial Balotelli second, a scuffed effort from Jovetic finding the back With new signing Mario Balotelli watching from the to the Premier League after a season and a half at AC of the net after fine lead-up work between himself stands, last season’s runners-up Liverpool looked lively Milan, having previous quit City after falling out with and Nasri, the Frenchman finding his team mate with in miserable conditions at Etihad Stadium, but an error then manager Roberto Mancini. a low ball through the box. Aguero made it three, hav- from debutant Alberto Moreno allowed the The 24-year-old Italian appeared at ease in his old ing been on the pitch for 23 seconds, getting in Montenegro international to smash the ball home on stomping ground, warmly greeting some of his old behind the Liverpool defence and finishing off Jesus 41 minutes. He grabbed his second 10 minutes after team mates before taking a seat in the stand. On the Navas’ searching pass. the restart, putting away Samir Nasri’s low cross, while pitch both sides looked dangerous on the break, with The Argentina striker has now scored in both City Aguero scored 23 seconds after coming on as a substi- 19-year-old Raheem Sterling particularly lively on matches, despite playing less than 45 minutes in total. tute as Manuel Pellegrini’s side put down an early-sea- Liverpool’s right and giving Gael Clichy plenty of Liverpool pulled one back when Zabaleta, under son statement of intent. defensive work. pressure from Rickie Lambert, put the ball in his own After going agonizingly close to winning their first goal, but hopes of a comeback were curtailed when league title in 24 years last season, Liverpool are des- Moreno error Glen Johnson hobbled off, leaving the Reds to finish perate to mount another creditable challenge, but Spaniard Moreno, an off-season arrival from Sevilla, with 10 men and with a early dent to their title hopes. despite nine new arrivals they are still looking to offered some decent balls from out wide but was cul- “Up until they scored we were the better side,” adjust to life without Luis Suarez. The Merseysiders pable for City taking the lead. Dejan Lovren, under Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers told Sky Sports. failed to seriously trouble Joe Hart despite having pressure from David Silva, was unable to get any pow- “We switched off just before half time and we gave plenty of ball and earned a consolation through a er on a clearing header, but Moreno was caught on his away two poor goals really. They worked the ball well Pablo Zabaleta own goal when the result was already heels, allowing Jovetic to beat him to the ball and for the second one but the third was poor from our sealed. “Every game we play at home against the big smash it past Simon Mignolet. The Montenegro inter- point of view. We just need to refocus and look to the four teams it’s like six points and you have to make a national struggled with injury in his first season in weekend now.” — Reuters Man United agree to a ‘record’ Di Maria deal

LONDON: Manchester United have agreed United had yet to table a bid to sign his a British record transfer fee of 59.7 million client. The Ajax utility player has been pounds ($99 million) to secure Angel di reported as a target for Louis van Gaal, who Maria from Real Madrid and are set to knows Blind from his time in charge of the announce his transfer officially on Tuesday, Dutch national side that finished third at British media reported. The Argentina this year’s World Cup in Brazil.But Rob winger arrived in Manchester on Monday Jansen, Blind’s agent, told Britain’s and would have a medical test later, British talkSPORT radio that United had yet to newspapers said. The transfer fee outstrips make an approach to bring Blind to Old the 50 million pounds English Premier Trafford. “At this moment Manchester League rivals Chelsea paid Liverpool for United have not been in touch with me or Spain striker Fernando Torres in 2011. Ajax about Daley and I’m not sitting here MANCHESTER: Liverpool's English defender Glen Johnson (L) vies with Manchester City's United declined comment. Di Maria cost waiting for the call,” Jansen said. French defender Gael Clichy during the English Premier League football match between Real 20 million pounds from Benfica in Blind, 24, the son of former Dutch star Manchester City and Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north-west England on 2010 and he was a key part of the team Danny Blind, can play at left-back or central August 25, 2014. — AFP that won the club’s 10th European Cup last midfield, an area where United would term but he was omitted from the squad appear to need strengthening if they are to for the Spanish Super Cup last week. The re-emerge as title contenders following last English Premier League table 26-year-old turned down a new deal at the season’s shock seventh-place finish in the Bernabeu and Real coach Carlo Ancelotti LONDON: English Premier League table after Monday’s match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, Premier League. United are on the brink of said on Sunday he had bade farewell to goals against, points): completing a British record £59.7 million players and staff. Di Maria’s signing would Tottenham 2 2 0 0 5 0 6 Sunderland 2 0 2 0 3 3 2 provide a boost for Louis van Gaal-coached ($98 million, 75 million euros) to sign Chelsea 2 2 0 0 5 1 6 West Brom 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 Argentina midfielder Angel Di Maria from Man City 2 2 0 0 5 1 6 Man Utd 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 United, who have taken only one point Swansea 2 2 0 0 3 1 6 Southampton 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 from their opening two games of the Real Madrid, according to British media LISBON: In this file picture, Real Madrid’s Argentinean mid- Arsenal 2 1 1 0 4 3 4 Stoke 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 Premier League season. reports. United, 20-times English champi- fielder Angel di Maria controls the ball during the UEFA Hull 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Leicester 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 ons, have been linked with a move for Champions League Final against Atletico de Madrid at Luz Aston Villa 2 1 1 0 1 0 4 Newcastle 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 stadium in Lisbon. Manchester United have agreed a British Blind’s Dutch team-mate Nigel de Jong, the West Ham 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 Crystal Palace 2 0 0 2 2 5 0 United bid for Blind record transfer fee of £59.7 million ($98 million, 75 million Liverpool 2 1 0 1 3 4 3 Burnley 2 0 0 2 1 4 0 In another development, Daley Blind’s former Manchester City midfielder who is euros) to sign Argentina midfielder Angel Di Maria from Real Everton 2 0 2 0 4 4 2 QPR 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 agent said yesterday that Manchester now at Italian giants AC Milan. — Agencies Madrid according to British media reports. — AFP Kuwait Energy keen to invest more in Iraq

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DENPASAR: Indonesian motorists queue up at the pumps at a petrol station in Denpasar on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali yesterday as major cities across the country are hit with a shortage of subsidized fuel forcing long lines and the closure of service stations. Economists say Indonesia must phase out the huge fuel subsidies that make petrol prices in Indonesian among the cheapest in Asia but gobble up about 20 percent of the state budget. The subsi- dies are historically a tense political issue in Indonesia, where fuel price hikes to reduce the payouts have been met with massive protests and caused divisions between coalition partners in government. — AFP Kuwait replaces head of market regulator Moves in parliament to reduce CMA’s independence KUWAIT: Kuwait is replacing the head of its securities reg- The difficulty of reforming the stock market has held Kuwait’s stock market is up just 6 percent from the end market’s small-cap shares as speculators ran for cover, ulator after a stormy four years during which he drew criti- Kuwait back while Middle East peers Qatar and the United of 2010, against 65 percent for Saudi Arabia and 205 per- prompting sharp criticism of Falah by some investors. cism from some investors for his attempts to clean up the Arab Emirates were upgraded to emerging market status cent for Dubai. Protests at CMA policies prompted it to delay imple- bourse and for the stock market’s weak performance. by international index compiler MSCI in May. The standard One reason is persistent conflict between parliament mentation of some, including the deadline for the corpo- Kuwait’s freewheeling stock market has one of the of a country’s regulatory framework and consistent and the cabinet, which is chosen by a prime minister, rate governance reforms which was pushed back by 18 worst reputations in the region for patchy corporate disclo- enforcement of rules are among its criteria for gaining that appointed by the emir. months to June 2016. sure and illicit trade. Wealthy individual investors dominate status. Another reason, foreign fund managers say, is Kuwait’s Investors’ complaints made their way into parliament. A the $113 billion market, and some resented Saleh al-Falah’s Hajraf will face a challenge balancing the public and reputation as an opaque market dominated by speculators. parliamentary committee has been discussing proposed efforts, as chairman of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), political pressures on the CMA with Kuwait’s desire to A Reuters survey of a dozen international funds in February amendments to the law governing the CMA, in an appar- to crack down on improper speculation. Longstanding ten- develop its financial industry. found Kuwait ranked bottom among five major Middle ent effort to bring the authority partially under the control sions between Kuwait’s parliament and the cabinet made Hajraf once served briefly as finance minister and was Eastern markets in its reputation for corporate information of parliament. the dispute a political issue. also education minister. He became a board member of the disclosure and enforcing rules against illicit trading. “Any change in the law to make the CMA less independ- Falah, who has held the post since the CMA began oper- CMA upon its creation; in his 40s, he has a reputation as an Falah set out to change this by tightening regulation. In ent will prevent the Kuwaiti stock exchange from reaching ating in early 2011, will be replaced next month by former effective policymaker. June 2013, the CMA issued new corporate governance the level of an emerging market,” said Fouad Abdulrahman finance minister Nayef al-Hajraf, state news agency KUNA rules for listed companies. Alhadlaq, deputy general manager at Al Dar Asset quoted a cabinet decision as saying yesterday. Underperform In March this year, a complaint by the CMA led to a Management. Falah was originally slated to have a five-year term, but Falah and Hajraf could not be contacted for comment Kuwaiti court fining the chairman of Al Ahli Bank 1.5 mil- He added that the CMA needed to be strict in enforcing rules were changed this year to reduce a CMA chairman’s yesterday and a CMA spokesman was not available to com- lion dinars ($5.3 million) over alleged insider trading in the market rules, although that would not please traders. “Any tenure to four years, bringing his time in office to an end in ment on the reasons for Falah’s departure and the authori- bank’s shares. The chairman denied wrongdoing. leniency that the CMA can show will not be as much as the September, local media reported. ty’s plans. Such crackdowns triggered occasional tumbles by the traders want.” — Reuters Aircraft demand spurs record gain in US durable goods orders

WASHINGTON: Orders for long-lasting US second half of the year,” said John Ryding, for business spending plans, slipped 0.5 manufactured goods posted their biggest chief economist at RDQ Economics in New percent in July. gain on record in July on strong international York. The decline, however, followed an upward- demand for aircraft, but the underlying trend US stocks traded higher, with the S&P 500 ly revised 5.4 percent advance in June. Core remained consistent with a steady pace of index near an all-time high. Boeing was little capital goods orders were previously reported economic growth. changed. Prices for US Treasury debt were up, to have increased 3.3 percent in June. Durable goods orders, items ranging from while the dollar was flat against a basket of Core capital goods shipments increased 1.5 toasters to aircraft that are meant to last three currencies. percent last month. Shipments of core capital years or more, jumped 22.6 percent last Separately, the Conference Board said con- goods are used to calculate equipment month after an upwardly revised 2.7 percent sumer confidence hit its highest level in near- spending in the government’s GDP measure- increase in June, the Commerce Department ly seven years in August. A gauge of house- ment. said yesterday. holds’ perceptions of the labor market “That suggests that capital spending end- Transportation orders rose a record 74.2 touched its best level since July 2008. ed the second quarter on solid footing, with percent as bookings for civilian aircraft more That also boosted views that the economy that positive momentum carrying over to than tripled. Boeing had said earlier it remains on a solid growth path, even though received a record 324 aircraft orders in July. another report showed a deceleration in start the third quarter,” said Omair Sharif, sen- Many of the orders, including 150 planes house price growth in June. ior economist at RBS in Stamford, by the Dubai-based airline Emirates, were for The S&P/Case Shiller’s broader house price Connecticut. expensive models, some still under develop- index rose 6.2 percent in the 12 months to Other details of the report also favor manu- ment. It will take at least 10 years for the June, the smallest gain since November 2012, facturing in the months ahead. resulting increase in production to filter compared to a 7 percent rise in May. Unfilled orders for core capital goods through to U.S. gross domestic product. increased 1.1 percent last month after rising Outside of transportation, demand was STRONG AUTO ORDERS 1.7 percent in June, showing a steady pipeline decidedly softer. Still, upward revisions to the While the outsized order increase from of work that will keep the nation’s factories data for June as well as rising shipments and Boeing dominated the surge in durable busy for a while. orders backlogs showed the factory sector goods orders last month, orders for autos Durable goods inventories rose 0.5 percent remained on firm ground. increased 10.2 percent after declining 1.3 in July, matching the gain in the prior month, HIALEAH: In this photo taken Aug. 21, 2014, Orestes Perez, right, and his niece “This report reinforces the message that percent in June. suggesting inventory accumulation could add Yanuska Perez, check a 2013 Ford Fusion SE at a local dealership in Hialeah, Fla. The manufacturing growth is picking up and is Non-defense capital goods orders to third-quarter growth after helping to boost Commerce Department reports on business orders for durable goods in July yester- likely to support stronger GDP growth in the excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy output in the second quarter. — Reuters day. — AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 Kuwait Energy keen to invest more in Iraq

STAVANGER: The recent flare-up of vio- approached Arbil, the region’s capital, where most of the international oil com- fighters in recent weeks but some firms Akbar said she was not deterred lence in Iraq is past its worst and Kuwait threatening its vast oil infrastructure. panies are still working, with field devel- have not returned to the country. by the violence, arguing that it was Energy is keen to invest more in the “I think we’ve been through the opments and exports going normal,” Oil producer DNO, which operates temporary and could not overshadow country because of its potential, Chief worst and things will stabilise,” Akbar said Akbar, whose firm operates in the the Tawke field near the Turkish border, the country’s vast potential for rela- Executive Sara Akbar said yesterday. told Reuters on the sidelines of an oil southern part of the country and has recently said that some of its contractors tively easy oil. When asked it she Several oil companies in Iraq’s conference in Norway. been mostly unaffected. had left the country and it would have would invest more, she said: “If we Kurdistan region withdrew staff earlier “Most of the developments in Iraq Kurdish forces, assisted by US air to rely on local suppliers for future work, could get into more projects, yes, I’d this month after Islamic State militants are on plan, especially in the south, strikes, have pushed back Islamic State potentially slowing developments. love to.” — Reuters Standard Chartered to sell part of UAE business

DUBAI: Standard Chartered is aiming to sell part response to questions from Reuters. of its business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) It is not yet clear how much interest Standard after it agreed to close some accounts there in an Chartered’s sale will draw, but cash-rich local banks anti-money laundering settlement with US author- could see it as a way to expand quickly-provided ities, two sources familiar with the plan said. they do not feel handling the accounts would Under the settlement announced last week, increase their risk of getting into trouble with U.S. the bank agreed to pay a $300 million fine, end regulatory authorities. high-risk relationships with small-and medium- In April, another British bank, Barclays, agreed sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UAE, and suspend to sell its retail banking operations in the UAE to processing of dollar-denominated payments for Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) for an expected some clients at its Hong Kong unit. price of 650 million dirhams ($177 million), ADIB One source, who declined to be named as the said. The UAE bank said it aimed to acquire matter is not yet public, said the British bank 110,000 customers via the deal. intended to retain a limited number of larger SME After its U.S. settlement was announced last accounts in the UAE which provided higher rev- week, Standard Chartered said it had in any case enues and low risk of violating money laundering been seeking to leave the bulk of its SME business rules. in the UAE as part of a broader effort to sharpen its These accounts would go through a re-qualifi- strategic focus. cation process, which could mean requiring the “The UAE remains one of Standard Chartered’s holders to submit additional documents. The rest leading franchises globally and the move does not of the SME accounts would be offered for sale as a reflect a decreased focus on the country,” it said. business. Another banking industry source told Reuters The UAE central bank said last week that that Standard Chartered was reassuring its clients between 1,400 and 8,000 Standard Chartered in the UAE there would be no immediate impact TOKYO: A woman takes pictures of Japanese automaker Daihatsu Motor’s new small car, the Mira Cocoa, during a press conference in Tokyo accounts in the country were expected to be on their accounts from the settlement and that yesterday. Daihatsu put the new car, with a 660cc-gasoline engine that gets 29.0 kms per litre, on the Japan market yesterday. —AFP affected by the U.S. settlement. It said the bank business would continue as usual. would be liable to legal action by account owners The terms of the settlement give Standard because of “material and moral damage” to them. Chartered 90 days to exit SME accounts in the UAE. “Reviewing portfolios is a normal part of busi- If that process is not completed by the deadline, Saudi uptrend resumes ness activities and we will not be commenting the bank must suspend dollar clearing for them at specifically on the statement from the UAE Central its New York branch, unless it obtains an extension as most markets gain Bank,” Standard Chartered said on Tuesday in from regulators in New York. —Reuters UAE markets rise but volumes decline

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s bourse, encouraged by appeared set for a second straight monthly Capital Markets Authority, which regulates the the prospect of opening up to direct foreign decline in August. Shares in Saudi International stock market. investment, resumed its uptrend yesterday on Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) rose 6.1 percent Hajraf replaces Saleh al-Falah, who had held the back of banks and petrochemicals, while and Saudi Basic Industries added 0.7 percent. the post since the CMA began operating in early most markets in the region also rose modestly. The oil price “is not a major variable right now and 2011. KUNA did not specify why Falah was leav- The main Saudi index climbed 0.9 percent to that’s why the market is ignoring it,” Sarwar said. ing, beyond saying that his appointment had a fresh six-year closing high of 10,940 points. ended, but he has drawn criticism from some Alinma Bank and Samba Financial Group were UAE, EGYPT investors for his efforts to crack down on illicit the main supports, jumping 4.5 and 3.3 percent Markets in the United Arab Emirates also speculation and enforce corporate governance respectively. edged up, but trading volumes remained low rules. Saudi banks have been the leaders of a wider and declined from the last session. Dubai added upswing triggered by regulators’ announcement 0.1 percent, largely thanks to developer Emaar YESTERDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS DHAKA: Bangladeshi shoppers browse for clothing at a holiday market in on July 22 that the kingdom will open its stock Properties which was up 0.5 percent. SAUDI ARABIA market to direct foreign investment in the first Abu Dhabi’s bourse gained 0.7 percent on the The index rose 0.9 percent to 10,940 points. Dhaka yesterday. With a view to rehabilitating hawkers and making shopping half of next year. back of lenders such as National Bank of Abu easier for the people belonging to lower and middle income groups, the gov- “The Saudi banking sector has done very well Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, which added EGYPT ernment established holiday hawker markets in the capital Dhaka. —AFP in the last two months, but we have to remem- 1.8 and 5.1 percent respectively. The index slid 0.5 percent to 9,359 points. ber that between 2009 and 2011 it was a huge Shares in Islamic insurer National Takaful Co laggard,” said Shakeel Sarwar, head of asset man- (Watania) surged 9.3 percent to 1.18 dirhams DUBAI Kuwait’s crude oil exports agement at Securities & Investment Co (SICO) in after the UAE stock market regulator approved The index climbed 0.1 percent to 4,975 Bahrain. the takeover of Watania by MB UAE Investments points. to China hits 4-month high Banks lagged both the wider Saudi market in and its affiliate Al Madina Insurance Co. its recovery from the 2008-2009 stock price Al Madina Insurance indicated in a separate ABU DHABI BEIJING: Kuwait’s crude oil exports to China imports from the country surging 32.1 percent to crash, and their regional peers in metrics such as statement to Oman’s bourse that it would buy The index rose 0.7 percent to 5,116 points. jumped 16.9 percent in July from a year earlier to a 590,000 bpd. Russia ranked fourth and Iran fifth, price to book value, which is often applied to 14.3 million Watania shares for 17.88 million four-month high of 1.11 million tons, equivalent to respectively. lenders. dirhams ($4.87 million), implying it would pay KUWAIT around 262,000 barrels per day (bpd), latest gov- China is the world’s No. 2 oil consumer after the “I think that convergence is happening now,” 1.25 dirhams per share. Shares in Al Madina The index edged up 0.3 percent to 7,409 ernment data showed. US. On Aug. 22, state-run Kuwait Petroleum Sarwar said. added 2.5 percent while Oman’s index slipped points. Volume of Kuwaiti crude oil shipments to Corporation (KPC) and China’s top energy trader According to Thomson Reuters data, Alinma 0.3 percent. China marked the highest level since March, when Unipec signed a landmark deal that will signifi- Bank and Samba Financial Group, whose shares Egypt’s main index fell 0.5 percent as OMAN it hit 1.25 million tons (295,000 bpd), according to cantly boost crude oil deliveries over the 10 years, have gained more than 30 percent each since investors continued to sell stocks that had The index fell 0.3 percent to 7,322 points. the General Administration of Customs. the biggest-ever sales contract in KPC’s history by July 21, trade at 1.8 and 1.4 times book value, recently posted strong gains, such as developer China’s overall imports of crude oil last month volume and revenues in all regions. based on estimates for the next 12 months. Talaat Moustafa, which slid 2.3 percent after ris- QATAR fell 9.0 percent from a year earlier to 23.76 million Under the agreement, KPC will supply In comparison, National Bank of Abu Dhabi ing 26 percent in the last two months. The index rose 0.3 percent to 13,907 points. tons (5.62 million bpd). Unipec 300,000 bpd of crude oil starting from trades at 1.9 book, Qatar National Bank at 2.2 Kuwait’s benchmark added 0.3 percent and Saudi Arabia remained the country’s top sup- this summer, with a strong possibility of and National Bank of Kuwait at 1.8. closed above 7,400 points for the first time since BAHRAIN plier, but its shipments plunged 28.9 percent to increasing the volume to 400,000 bpd, KPC told Saudi petrochemicals were also strong on May after the caibinet appointed former finance The index added 0.1 percent to 1,476 points. 886,000 bpd, followed by Angola with 666,000 Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) after the signing Tuesday even as the price of Brent crude oil minister Nayef al-Hajraf as chairman of the —Reuters bpd, down 18.3 percent. Iraq became third, with ceremony. —KUNA EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.860 Sierra Leone 0.000070 0.000066 Nepalese Rupees 3.895 Singapore Dollar 0.224585 0.230585 South African Rand 0.020584 0.029084 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 91.005 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.750 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001901 0.002481 Japanese Yen 2.747 Australian Dollar 243.50 240.50 Thai Bhat 9.910 Taiwan 0.009394 0.009574 Indian Rupees 4.717 Canadian Dollar 264.38 265.38 Turkish Lira 131.285 Thai Baht 0.008606 0.009156 Pakistani Rupees 2.790 Swiss Franc 316.69 314.69 Srilankan Rupees 2.188 Euro 380.47 381.47 Nepali Rupees 2.954 Arab US Dollar 284.45 287.45 Singapore Dollar 228.570 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.750174 0.758174 Hongkong Dollar 36.806 Sterling Pound 475.36 478.36 Egyptian Pound 0.037487 0.040587 Bangladesh Taka 3.678 Japanese Yen 2.78 2.80 Iranian Riyal 0.000079 0.000080 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.520 Bangladesh Taka 3.671 3.941 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Europe Thai Baht 8.944 Indian Rupee 4.711 5.011 Jordanian Dinar 0.398207 0.405707 Belgian Franc 0.007417 0.008417 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.186 2.621 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 British Pound 0.465983 0.474983 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.946 3.481 Lebanese Pound 0.000138 0.000238 Pakistani Rupee 2.827 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005497 0.017497 Danish Krone 0.046390 0.051390 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023043 0.047043 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 77.51 77.98 Nigerian Naira 0.001160 .001795 Saudi Riyal 76.097 Bahraini Dinar 757.08 759.15 Euro 0.370691 0.378691 Norwegian Krone 0.042118 0.047318 Omani Riyal 0.734879 0.740559 Qatari Riyal 78.408 Egyptian Pound 39.78 40.38 Qatar Riyal 0.077641 0.078854 Omani Riyal 741.290 Romanian Leu 0.085420 0.085420 Jordanian Dinar 404.84 410.49 Saudi Riyal 0.075430 0.076130 Bahraini Dinar 757.940 Omani Riyal 739.75 747.05 Slovakia 0.008201 0.018201 Syrian Pound 0.001770 0.001990 UAE Dirham 77.714 Qatari Riyal 78.55 78.10 Swedish Krona 0.037046 0.042046 Tunisian Dinar 0.161404 0.169404 Saudi Riyal 75.98 76.38 Swiss Franc 0.305086 0.315286 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.131722 0.138722 Turkish Lira 0.131722 0.138722 Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.430 UAE Dirhams 0.076681 0.077830 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.810 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemeni Riyal 0.001287 0.001367 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.332 Australian Dollar 0.256375 0.267875 New Zealand Dollar 0.231258 0.240758 Tunisian Dinar 165.460 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Jordanian Dinar 402.980 America Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 285.000 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.914 Canadian Dollar 0.254295 0.262795 Canadian Dollar 263.455 Syrian Lira 2.034 US Dollars 0.281150 0.285850 Sterling Pound 473.415 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.162 US Dollars Mint 0.281650 0.285850 Euro 379.460 US Dollar 284.700 Swiss Frank 312.305 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Asia Euro 378.650 Bahrain Dinar 758.565 US Dollar Transfer 285.250 Bangladesh Taka 0.003306 0.003906 Pound Sterlng 474.650 UAE Dirhams 78.020 Euro 377.960 Chinese Yuan 0.044919 0.048419 Canadian Dollar 261.750 Qatari Riyals 79.160 Sterling Pound 474.510 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034714 0.037464 Indian Rupee 4.712 Saudi Riyals 76.265 Canadian dollar 260.860 Indian Rupee 0.004509 0.004910 Egyptian Pound 39.795 Jordanian Dinar 402.555 Turkish lira 131.120 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.185 Egyptian Pound 39.805 Swiss Franc 313.120 Japanese Yen 0.002659 0.002839 Bangladesh Taka 3.671 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.190 Australian Dollar 266.280 Kenyan Shilling 0.003210 0.003210 Indian Rupees 4.718 Philippines Peso 6.498 US Dollar Buying 284.050 Korean Won 0.000270 0.000285 Pakistani Rupees 2.815 Pakistan Rupee 2.785 Malaysian Ringgit 0.086477 0.092477 Bangladesh Taka 3.678 Bahraini Dinar 758.000 GOLD Nepalese Rupee 0.002942 0.003112 Philippines Pesso 6.511 UAE Dirham 77.550 20 Gram 245.000 Pakistan Rupee 0.002715 0.002995 Cyprus pound 700.020 Saudi Riyal 75.050 10 Gram 124.000 Philippine Peso 0.006416 0.006696 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.740 *Rates are subject to change WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 BUSINESS Hungary’s central bank leaves rates unchanged

BUDAPEST: Hungary’s central bank left etary tightening in the United States Investors will examine the bank’s forced to raise interest rates earlier,” ana- Monetary Council was likely to tolerate its benchmark interest rate on hold at a could disrupt the Hungarian bank’s plans, statement closely for guidance on how lysts at brokerage Buda-Cash said in a further forint weakness. record low 2.1 percent yesterday in line and it may have to raise rates earlier, pos- long its base rate might remain on hold. note. “We believe the positive growth sur- with its guidance announced last month, sibly late this year, some analysts said. The statement was due yesterday at 1300 Nervousness over the Ukraine-Russia prise (in Q2) should not impact the when it ended its two-year easing cycle. In an Aug. 19-21 Reuters poll, 15 out GMT. conflict has boosted the forint’s volatility (Monetary Council’s) stance of keeping The central bank, which had steadily of 16 analysts said that the bank would After its July rate cut, the bank said since July, and in early August the curren- monetary conditions loose and tolerating cut borrowing costs from a 7 percent hold fire on Tuesday. Only Danske Bank the macroeconomic outlook “pointed in cy slipped to its weakest against the euro further FX weakness amid slowing export peak in 2012, now aims to keep rates at a forecast that it would cut rates, by 10 the direction of persistently loose mone- since early 2012 at 317.30. It has regained growth and a narrowing trade surplus as record low for a long period to help eco- basis points. tary conditions.” Governor Gyorgy some ground since then. domestic demand picks up,” Citigroup nomic growth. At an annual rate of 3.9 Most analysts in the poll also project- Matolcsy said the bank would keep rates However, a law passed in June that is analyst Eszter Gargyan said in a note ear- percent in the second quarter, Hungary ed a flat base rate through December. unchanged until the end of next year expected to cause losses of up to 900 bil- lier this month. outperformed other economies in central But some saw a risk that rates would start unless inflation jumps. lion forints (3.8 billion US dollar) for The government also plans to convert eastern Europe. to rise late this year. The median projec- “The external environment has been Hungary’s banks may weigh on the cur- foreign-currency loans into forints by the However, conflict in neighbouring tion was for the base rate to rise to 2.9 volatile in the past weeks so the question rency in the rest of the year, analysts said. end of 2014, which could increase market Ukraine and expectations for earlier mon- percent by the end of next year. arises whether the central bank could be But some said the central bank’s risks. —Reuters

Top Swiss private banks release first-ever results

GENEVA: The elite of Swiss private banks In other words, if the bank got into trou- yesterday begin lifting the veil on their ble, the partners could lose all their assets, books after a radical shift in their business not just those they had invested in the model, amid tougher international regula- operation. tions and crackdowns on tax dodgers. But the increasingly complex nature of Geneva’s Bank Pictet broke with a 209- global finance made it hard for private year-old tradition of keeping its accounts bankers to feel safe with a traditional under wraps, announcing a six-month prof- approach that put all their assets on the it of 203 million Swiss francs (168 million line as they expanded their operations. euros, $222 million). The tougher regulatory environment Operating income was 975 million seen since the global financial crisis, and francs, operating profit 247.2 million, and scandals such as the Madoff fraud case in assets under management 404 billion the United States which rippled across the francs. Pictet said that tier one capital ratio- world’s banking sector, were also wake-up a measure of a bank’s own top-notch funds, calls. and a benchmark of stability — was 21.7 Switzerland’s cherished tradition of percent. banking secrecy has meanwhile been bat- Under global rules, banks must have a ratio tered as governments-notably the United of at least 4.5 percent, while Switzerland’s reg- States and European Union-crack down on ulator requires 7.8 percent. tax cheats who stash cash abroad. “Our financial solidity, along with the As a result, the four private banks shift- ability to set our own business strategy ed from their near-unique status and trans- without pressure from external sharehold- formed themselves into businesses almost ers or creditors, go hand in hand with inde- like any other. pendence of mind, exacting risk manage- They have recast themselves a “corpo- ment and freedom from the temptations of rate partnership”, a hybrid status that short term fashion,” said Pictet senior man- makes it easier to compare them with fully- aging partner Jacques de Saussure in a listed players such as Credit Suisse and statement. UBS. It is similar to the “limited company” Pictet’s results release will be followed structure in the British Isles, with its well- tomorrow by Lombard Odier, while known “Ltd.” label. Mirabaud and LaRoche are also poised to The partners now only risk the funds issue their results. “All the figures published they have invested in the bank, rather than will be important, even if these banks are putting all their personal assets on the line. WHITTIER: This Aug 14, 2014 photo shows a sign in front of a home for sales in Whittier, Calif. Standard & Poor’s released the not listed,” Andreas Venditti, an analyst at Not being listed on the stock exchange, pri- S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for July yesterday. —AP Zurich’s Vontobel Bank, told AFP. vate banks do not have to publish as The revolution in the secretive world of detailed results as mainstream banks. private banking-which caters for the For Luc Thevenoz, a law professor at the globe’s super-wealthy-began in January University of Geneva, the changed business US home prices increased when Pictet and Lombard Odier ditched model offers greater protection.”But the their two-century-old statutes. price of that is more transparency,” he said. Previously, their handful of wealthy Seven lower-profile private banks have opt- managing partners were personally ed to stick to their traditional operating at a slower pace in June responsible for their clients’ money. model, however. —AFP ‘Rising mortgage rates to dampen price gains’

WASHINGTON: US home prices increased at a rates to rise from relative lows and make it more owners are willing to list their homes for sale. slower pace in June - a cooldown that could con- expensive to borrow. The impact is disproportionately been felt tinue for several more months. The Standard & “Rising mortgage rates won’t send housing among Generation X. More than 42 percent of Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose into a tailspin, but will further dampen price this generation - 35- to 49-year olds- owe more 8.1 percent in June from 12 months earlier, gains,” said David Blitzer, chairman of the index on their mortgages than their homes are worth. according to yesterday’s report. That’s down from committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Even hot Nearly a third of baby boomers between the 9.4 percent a month earlier and the smallest markets such as San Francisco —where a two- ages of 50 and 64 are in the same predicament. annual gain since December 2012. bedroom condominium can cost more than $1 That in turn makes it harder for the younger Yearly price growth weakened in all 20 cities. million — are finding that price growth has millennial generation to afford homes, said Home values in Cleveland nudged up just 0.8 slowed. Prices in that city rose 12.9 percent in Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries. percent. Las Vegas led with a 15.2 percent gain. June, compared with an annual growth rate of “Because so many homes are stuck in nega- But prices in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Miami and 18.4 percent in April. tive equity or are effectively underwater, the Tampa, Florida, are still at least 33 percent below The sharp price gains of the past few years inventory of homes for sale is severely con- their housing bubble peaks of almost a decade had been part of a natural snap back in response strained, leading to more competition for those ago. to the devastating housing bust, which triggered that are available,” Humphries said. “And millenni- The deceleration should help ease some of the recession at the end of 2007. Still, the fallout als likely don’t have the resources to compete the price pressures on would-be buyers. After from that downturn continues to cast a shadow with cash offers or engage in bidding wars.” slumping at the start of 2014, existing-home over the real estate market. New construction is increasingly catering sales have picked up as price gains have slowed. Nearly 35 percent of homeowners are “effec- toward apartment rentals and high-end homes, But buying remains 4.3 percent below the July tively underwater” on their mortgages, meaning pricing out many other would-be buyers. 2013 level, according to the National Realtors that they either have less than 20 percent equity The Commerce Department said Monday Association. in their homes or could not sell their properties that new-home sales fell 2.4 percent in July to a Price growth should continue to slow now and have enough money left over for a down seasonally adjusted annual rate of 412,000. New- that the recovery from the Great Recession has payment on another home, the online real estate home sales lost much of their upward trajectory entered its sixth year. Many economists project firm Zillow said yesterday. toward the end of last year, hurt by modest GENEVA: A sign of Swiss private Bank Pictet is seen at their headquarters yes- that the Federal Reserve will begin to raise short- wage growth and a bump in mortgage rates terday in Geneva. The elite of Swiss private banks will begin lifting the veil on term interest rates in 2015 because the economy New construction increasing after the Fed initially signaled a shift in its poli- has strengthened, which could cause mortgage The consequence of this is that fewer home- cies. —AP their books after a radical shift in business model, amid tougher international regulations and crackdowns on tax dodgers. —AFP Burger King confirms deal to buy Tim Hortons IMF chief grilled in MIAMI: Burger King says it struck a deal mean the loss of revenue for the US and Starbucks and reflects a desire by Back in the US, breakfast and coffee to buy Tim Hortons Inc. for about $11 government. both companies to expand internation- have been hot growth areas in the fast- French corruption case billion, a move that creates the world’s ally. Burger King, which has nearly food industry. Between 2007 and 2012, third-largest fast-food company and Slashing costs 14,000 locations, has been striking breakfast grew faster than any other PARIS: The head of the International Lagarde referred the dispute to a could accelerate the international After the deal, which is expected to deals to open more locations in devel- segment in the restaurant industry at Monetary Fund faced a fourth round three-member arbitration panel that expansion of the Canadian coffee and close by early next year, the new com- oping markets. The company sees plen- about 5 percent a year, according to of questioning yesterday over a multi- ruled in favour of Tapie, who is sus- doughnut chain. pany would have about $23 billion in ty of room for growth internationally, market researcher Technomic. But it has The corporate headquarters of the sales and more than 18,000 locations. given the more than 35,000 locations long remained a weak spot for Burger million-euro corruption case relating pected of receiving favourable treat- new company will be in Canada. The The tie-up could help Burger King and McDonald’s has around the world. Tim King. to her time as French finance minister ment in return for supporting ex-pres- two brands will continue to be run as Tim Hortons pose a greater challenge Hortons has more than 4,500 locations, 3G Capital will own about 51 per- in 2008. ident Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 stand-alone chains, with Burger King to market leaders such as McDonald’s mostly in Canada. cent of the new company. The firm, Christine Lagarde made no com- election. still operating out of Miami. which has offices in Brazil and New ment to reporters as she entered the The IMF chief, one of the world’s Some analysts have suggested that York, has been slashing costs at Burger Canada’s lower tax rates stand to bene- King since buying it in 2010. Last year, Court of Justice of the Republic, a spe- most powerful women, said in March fit Burger King over time. But Burger 3G teamed up with Warren Buffett’s cial court that probes cases of minis- after she faced a third grilling that she King said that’s the not main motiva- Berkshire Hathaway to buy ketchup terial misconduct, but has previously had “always acted in the interest of tion for the deal. During a conference maker Heinz as well. denied any wrongdoing. the country and in accordance with call with analysts and investors, Burger Berkshire Hathaway is also helping The case relates to her handling of the law.” King Executive Chairman Alex Behring finance the Tim Hortons deal with $3 stressed that international growth pos- billion of preferred equity financing, a 400-million-euro ($527-million) She avoided formal charges last sibilities are driving the deal. He noted but will not have a role in managing state payout to disgraced French year that could have forced her to that 3G Capital, the investment firm operations. tycoon Bernard Tapie in 2008. quit as head of the International that owns a majority stake in Burger Under the deal, Burger King will pay The payout was connected to a Monetary Fund. King, has turned the hamburger com- $65.50 Canadian ($59.74) in cash and dispute between the businessman Instead, she was placed under a pany into one of the fastest-growing 0.8025 common shares of the new com- chains since buying it in 2010. He said pany for each Tim Hortons share. This and partly state-owned bank Credit special witness status that forces her that experience will be applied to Tim represents total value per Tim Hortons Lyonnais over his 1993 sale of sports- to come back for questioning when Hortons. share of $94.05 Canadian (US$85.79), wear group Adidas. Tapie claimed asked by the court-and leaves the “It’s not being driven by tax rates,” based on Burger King’s Monday closing Credit Lyonnais had defrauded him door open for charges at a later date. Behring said. In recent years, more US stock price. Alternatively, Tim Hortons by intentionally undervaluing Adidas Five people have been charged in companies have acquired businesses shareholders may choose either all-cash in countries with lower tax rates, then OTTAWA: A Burger King sign and a Tim Hortons sign are displayed or all stock in the new company. at the time of the sale and that the the case, including Stephane Richard, moved their headquarters there. Such on St. Laurent Boulevard in Ottawa, Canada, yesterday. Canada’s Tim Hortons stock rose more than state, as the bank’s principal share- then Lagarde’s chief of staff, now boss tax inversions have become the sub- iconic coffee chain, Tim Hortons, and Miami-based Burger King say 10 percent in yesterday premarket holder, should compensate him. of telecoms giant Orange. —AFP ject of criticism by President Barack they will join forces, but will operate as independent brands to form trading. Burger King’s shares fell Obama and Congress because they the world’s third-largest quick service restaurant company. —AP slightly. —AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 Regus to open 450 new centres in 2014

LONDON: Office provider Regus Plc said it expected However, analysts have warned that an accelerat- Regus’ first-half revenue by 8.1 percent to 804.7 mil- pied workstation - a key metric - jumped 2.3 percent to open at least 450 business centres this year, up ed opening of new centres would inflate costs and lion pounds ($1.3 billion). Excluding the adverse to 3,523 pounds at constant currency during the half from its previous estimate of at least 300 new cen- rapidly increase net debt, depressing earnings in the effect of a rising British pound, revenue grew by 16.9 year. Occupancy increased to 82 percent from 81.1 tres. short term. The new centres take 16 to 18 months to percent. Pretax profit fell marginally to 31 million percent. Regus, which rents out meeting rooms, business break even and about two years to be fully estab- pounds in the six months ended June 30. With ‘on-the-go’ working options gaining popular- lounges and offices, said the expansion would push lished, said Regus, which leases to clients such as Regus said the strength of the pound would hurt ity, Regus has begun to offer offices set up inside up costs, cutting its full-year results. Google Inc and Toshiba Corp. its reported results for the full year. cars and cubicle-sized workboxes at railway stations Shares in the company fell as much as 4.6 percent, Investec analyst Andrew Gibb lowered his forecast The pound rose more than 3.3 percent against the and libraries. making the stock one of the top percentage losers for full-year 2014 earnings per share by 34.3 percent dollar in the first six months of the year. United The company, founded by billionaire Mark Dixon, on the FTSE-250 Mid Cap Index on the London Stock to 6.9 pence, citing costs associated with new open- Kingdom and Ireland accounted for only 14 percent raised its interim dividend to 1.25 pence per share Exchange. The company has been rapidly expanding ings, higher interest charge and the impact of cur- of the revenue the company made from established from 1.1 pence a year-ago. Luxembourg-based its properties to meet increased demand from tech- rency fluctuations. centres last year. Regus’ shares were down 2.3 percent at 192 pence at nology clients. Strong demand at its established centres drove up At Regus’ established centres, revenue per occu- 0725 GMT. — Reuters

SEOUL: This February 2014 photo shows a cook at a food stall in Seoul’s Gwangjang Market preparing freshly-made dumplings that are served in a piping-hot soup. Seoul’s hyper-efficient capital draws visitors with its exquisite restaurants, historic palaces and ultramodern infrastructure. — AP Seoul: Trains, fast cell service, palaces and food

SEOUL: South Korea’s hyper-efficient capital National Treasures of Korea. The building doesn’t immediately spring to mind when design utilizes natural light in many galleries, you think of exotic Asian destinations. But which makes it easy to explore for hours this mega-city offers much to tempt travelers without that feeling you get in big museums beyond a layover from the ultra-modern that you’re stuck in a vault all day. Highlights international airport in nearby Incheon. You include Buddhist bells on the third floor (one can explore Korea’s rich historic heritage, vis- each from Korea, China and Japan) and, the iting temples and palaces; wander around piece-de-resistance, the Ten-Story Pagoda, a the enormous National Museum of Korea, unique marble structure built in the 14th and savor the delights of its surprisingly var- century, looming over the ground floor. It ied cuisine. was taken to Japan before World War II As in Tokyo and Hong Kong, Seoul’s trans- (Japan occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945), portation network puts most European and but was returned to Korea in 1960, disassem- North American cities to shame. Invest in a bled. It’s been painstakingly restored and is Seoul City Pass Plus card, which can be used an enduring symbol of an architecture style not only on the trains, which run both under little-known outside their country. and above ground, but also on buses and even taxis. It’s also accepted for payment at Brand name-stores many tourist sites and convenience shops, Koreans love to shop and there’s offering discounts on some tours and muse- nowhere better for it than the pedestrian um admissions. shopping district of Myeong-dong, where I High on your list will be one or two of stayed. Streets are lined with brand name- Seoul’s five palaces. Most guidebooks recom- stores (both Korean and Western) open late mend Gyeongbok-gung, the grandest of all into the night. It also has countless restau- of them. But I headed to Changdeok-gung, a rants and cafes. On my first night there, I UNESCO World Heritage Site, instead. The ventured out to find a restaurant near my sprawling palace grounds can only be visited hotel and had a near-panic attack. There on guided tours; check the schedule to make were so many choices, but none familiar to sure you catch a tour in the right language. me, though I’d gone to many Korean restau- There’s one tour of the famous gardens and rants in New York. I ended up in a brightly-lit another of palace buildings. place that was almost ready to close. I point- Strategically and culturally, Korea is ed out a few menu items and a hot barbe- wedged between East Asia’s superpowers, cue top was Japan and China. As you travel around Seoul, turned on at my table, ingredients metic- you’ll understand the intricate connections ulously lined up to cook. I tried to stir them among the three countries. Many links are together but the waitress, half-amused but evident in the collection at the National also stern about my culinary ineptitude, Museum of Korea, a must for those seeking took the ladle from my hand and set it aside. to go beneath Seoul’s veneer of technology “Needs to cook more,” she mumbled. Every and learn about the country’s history. time I tried to touch the food with my chop- The museum, the largest in area in Asia sticks, other diners looked on with amuse- and sixth-largest in the world, is suitably ment. Clearly, I had no idea what I was impressive from the outside, with a futuristic doing. Mercifully, the waitress ultimately architectural design that pays tribute to came over and stirred up a delightful chick- Korea’s modernization. Inside, many of the en and vegetable dish with rice. I added more than 300,000 pieces are designated kimchi from the buffet. — AP Brent inches up towards $103, supply glut caps gains LONDON: Brent crude climbed towards at energy consultancy Inenco. $103 a barrel yesterday, rising for a second Libya’s oil production has been increas- session, although persistent supply pres- ing in the last few weeks despite a split sure and weak economic data in major con- between an Islamist faction in Tripoli and sumer countries curbed gains. the newly elected parliament, following air The benchmark is set for a second strikes attributed to Egypt and the United straight monthly decline in August as slow Arab Emirates. growth in China and Europe has curbed oil “Libya is still a key input for prices. As it demand and led to a supply glut in the stands in the spot market, if we seen more Atlantic Basin, offsetting the impact on out of Es Sider that will put more pressure prices from world political tensions. on prices,” Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix Brent crude rose 16 cents to $102.81 a Consultancy in Switzerland said. barrel by 1024 GMT, after closing up 36 Libya’s ambassador to Egypt, Mohamed cents. U.S. crude, or West Texas Jibril, called on Monday for foreign assis- Intermediate (WTI), gained 20 cents to tance to protect its institutions, airports $93.55 a barrel after settling down for the and natural resources. third straight session on Monday. Adding to rising supplies Iraqi Kurdistan Investors have unwound a global politi- has already managed to deliver four large cal risk premium in Brent, discounting the cargoes since May, despite Baghdad’s possibility of supply disruption despite efforts to block sales even as violence wors- conflicts in Iraq, Libya and Ukraine. ens in Iraq. Barclays analysts said in a note that oil Brent’s premium to U.S. crude hit the widest in more than two face supply bottlenecks such as Iran, Libya, months on Monday following a pipeline oil Iraq and Nigeria was instead picking up. flow switch that will send more crude to Disrupted supply from these countries WTI’s delivery point in Cushing, Oklahoma. totalled less than 400,000 barrels per day in Investors will scour weekly U.S. oil inven- July, down from 1.6 million bpd in tory data due yesterday and Wednesday September last year, they said. “Brent crude that could shed more light on supply and has ticked up away from 14-month lows, demand in the world’s largest oil consumer. deriving support from hawkish develop- U.S. commercial crude oil inventories are ments in both geopolitical crises in Ukraine forecast to have increased 1.8 million bar- and Libya, despite abundance in supply rels in the week to Aug. 22, while refined and forecasted waning demand on sub- product stockpiles fell, a preliminary dued economic data from Europe and the Reuters survey of four analysts showed on United States,” said Dorian Lucas, an analyst Monday. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

NBK ECONOMIC REPORT Oil prices retreat in July as supply concerns ease

KUWAIT: The price of Kuwait Export Crude (KEC) fell Brent futures moved from backwardation to con- numbers for Germany and Italy. On the whole, a fell by 186,000 b/d compared to the previous by almost $5, from $108.2 per barrel (bbl) at the tango on 27 June, reflecting an excess supply of more modest pace of global economic growth than month, to 30.6 mb/d, according to OPEC data start of the month to $103.4/bbl by the end of the crude in the North Sea and Atlantic basin caused by previously anticipated is now being envisaged for obtained through direct communication. (Chart 4.) month. The international benchmark crude, Brent, a drop in demand from European refineries. In con- 2014; the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has This comes despite an increase in output from declined by $6.9/bbl from $110/bbl to $103.2/bbl, trast, the WTI futures curve, having spent six years hinted that its forecast for world GDP growth of swing producer Saudi Arabia, which ramped up while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropped by in contango, switched into backwardation. 3.6% in 2014 will likely be revised (again) down- production by 75,000 b/d to approximately 9.8 $6.6/bbl from $104.5/bbl to below $98/bbl-its low- wards slightly. mb/d in June ahead of the summer peak electricity est level in 6 months. Underpinning these down- World oil demand Compared to last year, global demand is there- demand season and in response to extra refinery ward movements was an easing of geopolitical anx- The forecast for world oil demand growth in fore forecast to expand in 2014 by 1.2 mb/d (or demand. This is the largest production increase ieties over Iraq and Libya especially. since February and the third consecutive month In Iraq, despite the territorial gains made by ISIS that Saudi Arabia has increased its output. in the north and northwest of the country, the Production gains were also observed in Angola, insurgent advance southwards was eventually held Libya and Qatar. In Libya, production restarted at in check by Kurdish Peshmerga forces around the 130,000 b/d El-Feel field and at the 340,000 b/d Kirkuk and by the Iraqi military based in the vicinity Al-Sharara field, Libya’s largest. of Baghdad. The bulk of Iraq’s key oil infrastructure, In contrast, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq experienced production and export channels is situated in the production declines. Kuwait’s oil output, at 2.8 south, away from conflict areas. In Libya, mean- mb/d, is at its lowest level since March 2013. In Iraq, while, news that exports were finally resuming in meanwhile, production declined by 70,000 b/d as spite of the heavy fighting that was taking place skirmishes between ISIS insurgents and the Iraqi between militias and government units in Tripoli army forced the closure of the 300,000 b/d Baiji oil and Benghazi provided some measure of relief for refinery and a cut in the supply of crude oil feed the oil markets. from Kirkuk fields. Kirkuk crude has effectively been In the US, the fall in WTI is also reflective of a grounded since March when its main export chan- buildup of crude oil stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma, nel, the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, was sabotaged. the main storage hub and pricing point for WTI. This Non-OPEC supplies are projected to increase by came about as a result of a series of outages at key 1.4 mb/d to 56.3 mb/d in 2014 and by 1.2 mb/d to refineries which have cut refinery runs ahead of the 57.5 mb/d in 2015. OECD Americas is to continue main refinery maintenance period that begins in driving non-OPEC supply growth thanks to bur- late August and continues through to October. geoning production from unconventional sources Crude oil futures prices similarly declined during such as tight oil and sand. the month, influenced by a combination of slower 2014 has been revised downwards by the 1.4%). And in 2015, global oil demand is projected From the projected increase in non-OPEC sup- demand, weak refining margins and an easing of International Energy Agency (IEA) by 90,000 b/d to to expand by 1.4mb/d (1.5%) on 2014 to 94.1 mb/d, plies this year and in 2015, 6.4 mb/d and 6.7 mb/d, concerns about Iraqi and Libyan oil supplies. ICE 92.7 mb/d. Weaker-than-expected crude deliveries with emerging market economies leading the way. respectively, are expected to come from OPEC natu- Brent futures for December 2014 delivery retreated in Germany and Italy in 2Q14 as well as in China, (Chart 3.) Demand from OECD economies, in con- ral gas liquids (NGLs, not subject to quotas). by $4.1/bbl during the month, closing at $106.9 where heavy rainfall adversely affected industrial trast, is forecast to decline. Therefore, in order to balance the market, the ‘call (Chart 2.) For the first time in three years, the price use, were the main reasons cited by the IEA for their on OPEC crude and stock change’ would need to be of a Brent futures contract moved higher than the outlook revision. We now have 2Q14 GDP data, World oil supply in the region of 29.9 mb/d in 2014 and 29.8 mb/d in spot price, a price structure known as contango. showing no real growth in the EU, and negative Total OPEC crude output (including Iraq) in June 2015, according to the IEA. Asian markets mixed, Nikkei hit by strong yen

HONG KONG: Asian markets were mixed month high against the yen. In Japanese yesterday with a record close on Wall Street trade the greenback fetched 103.88 yen, offset by profit-taking, while Japan’s Nikkei compared with 104.01 yen late in New York succumbed to a stronger yen. Tokyo fell and well off the 104.18 yen in Tokyo earlier 0.59 percent, or 92.03 points, to 15,521.22 Monday. and Hong Kong shed 0.37 percent, or 92.41 The euro bought $1.3191 and 137.10 points, to end at 25,074.50 after hitting a yen Tuesday against $1.3193 and 137.23 six-year high on Monday. yen in US trade. Shanghai sank 0.99 percent, or 22.17 The single currency was also under pres- points, to 2,207.11 on lingering concerns sure after European Central Bank chief about the economy while expectations of Mario Draghi hinted that he could embark fresh measures to kickstart it fade. on fresh monetary easing measures to kick- Sydney ended flat, adding 2.7 points to start the eurozone, while an index of 5,637.6 and Seoul was 0.35 percent higher, German business confidence hit a 13- putting on 7.16 points to 2,068.05. US month low. traders reacted positively to weekend com- On oil markets US benchmark West ments from Federal Reserve head Janet Texas Intermediate for October delivery Yellen on the bank’s monetary policy. rose 27 cents to $93.62 while Brent crude Yellen told the Fed’s annual symposium for October gained 11 cents $102.76 in in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that despite a afternoon trade. Gold traded at $1,289.25 sharp fall in joblessness there was “consid- an ounce at 0800 GMT compared to erable uncertainty about the level of $1,277.98 an ounce late Monday. employment” in the economy. That was taken as signalling her commitment to In other markets: raise rates late next year, rather than earlier Taipei was marginally higher, edging up as some analysts and policymakers would 3.34 points to 9,393.96. Taiwan like. The prospect of the Fed continuing its Semiconductor Manufacturing Co was 0.4 accommodative policy cheered US percent lower at Tw$124.5 while Hon Hai investors, who sent the S&P 500 to a record Precision was 0.45 percent off at Tw$110.0. level. The S&P 500 rose 0.48 percent but Wellington added 0.25 percent, or 12.89 BEIJING: A construction worker walks down a staircase to get his dinner near a commercial complex in Beijing yesterday. Foreign direct invest- ended a tad below the 2,000 level after points, to 5,195.63. Contact Energy was up ment (FDI) into China dropped by more than a sixth year-on-year in July, the government said on August 18. — AFP breaching it for the first time earlier in the 0.36 percent at NZ$5.55 and Air New day. The Dow added 0.44 percent and the Zealand slipped 0.46 percent to NZ$2.15. Nasdaq jumped 0.41 percent to its best Manila put on 0.19 percent, or 13.26 Austrian finance minister close since the dot-com crash 14 years ago. points, to 7,146.35. Philippine Long Asian markets were unable to extend their Distance Telephone Co. gained 2.73 per- gains from Monday, however, and the dol- cent to 3,390 pesos while Alliance Global lar lost its momentum after hitting a seven- Group was unchanged at 25 pesos. —AFP quits in tax reform row

VIENNA: Austrian Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner is also mentioned have to jump on the populist bandwagon are win- Minister Michael Spindelegger unexpectedly as a potential OVP leader. ning the upper hand,” he said. resigned from all his posts yesterday, citing lack of Spindelegger was foreign minister before tak- Wolfgang Bachmayer, managing director of support from his conservative People’s Party (OVP) ing over the finance ministry portfolio. Regional market research institute OGM, said Spindelegger in a row over tax reform. OVP leaders have been grumbling aloud about threw in the towel when party bigwigs failed to But Social Democrat Chancellor Werner Spindelegger’s leadership for weeks, and the rebel- back him publicly. Faymann said he expected his coalition with the lion broke into the open on Tuesday when OVP “The attacks from his own party got on his OVP to last until the next national elections in member and Tyrol Chamber of Labour head Erwin nerves. He said he didn’t need it. I don’t see a politi- 2018. The OVP has been at loggerheads with its Zangerl called for Spindelegger to go. cal calculation there. The intervention (for him to senior coalition partner over how to finance “The OVP needs someone who represents the resign) was from someone no one knows and isn’t income tax cuts to boost the flagging economy. people, not the lobbyists,” Zangerl told the in the media, but the Chamber of Labour is impor- Spindelegger, who became finance minister last Oesterreich tabloid. “He has given enough proof tant,” Bachmayer said. year after the coalition partners barely maintained that he no longer understands the people. He is He thought prospects for a deal on stimulus a majority in elections, has also faced an internal deaf in both ears.” Spindelegger to the last refused measures had improved with the departure of revolt over his refusal to cut taxes unless that can to go along with calls for immediate tax cuts at a Spindelegger. “Faymann will have a few fewer be financed without new levies. time of record high state debt. problems now. The governing coalition will be “There has to be cohesion in a party. If the cohe- “Now a situation has arisen where a clear signal strengthened because consensus will be found on sion is no longer there, then the moment has come is coming from my own party. People who say we these issues,” he said. — Reuters to hand over the tiller,” he told a snap news confer- HONG KONG: Tourists, residents and vendors participate in the Temple Street night ence to announce his resignation, showing no market as the popular destination is illuminated in the evening in Hong Kong yester- emotion and taking no questions from reporters. India anti-trust watchdog day. The famous night market in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district is a popular street Clashes over economic policy also forced a govern- bazaar, selling everything from electronics to trinkets and antiques, clothes, and ment reshuffle in France this week as a political fines carmakers $420mn watches. — AFP battle raged in Europe over whether belt-tighten- ing had gone too far at the expense of economic growth. NEW DELHI: India’s anti-trust watchdog has India’s right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Indian Snapdeal teams with “What is surprising is the timing,” political ana- fined 14 automakers a total of $420 million for Modi came to power in May on a platform of lyst Peter Filzmaier said. “No one could imagine restricting competition in the spare parts market wiping out corruption. The competition commis- Tata to sell homes online that he would be the top candidate in the next par- and driving up prices, a official said yesterday, a sion opened its investigation two years ago after liamentary elections with chances to become few days after Chinese regulators took similar it was informed about a spare parts shortage in NEW DELHI: Indian e-commerce site Now we intend to change the way they buy chancellor. But...you don’t do this at the start of action. The Competition Commission of India India, the world’s sixth-largest auto market. Snapdeal said yesterday it would sell real- their homes,” said Snapdeal founder Kunal provincial elections in Vorarlberg in four weeks.” found domestic automakers and local units of “The 14 car companies were found to be estate online, partnering with the Tata con- Bahl. “This is the first time an e-commerce site The OVP may lose its absolute majority in that global vehicle manufacturers guilty of “anti-com- indulging in practices resulting in denial of mar- glomerate to supply “affordable housing” in has got real estate as one of its categories in western province, with four more state elections petitive conduct” by restricting the number of ket access to independent repairers as the latter what it says is the first such venture in the India,” Bahl told reporters. due next year. Spindelegger, a 54-year-old lawyer spare parts. The commission said their actions were not provided access to branded spare country. Buying real estate in India is fraught with from Lower Austria, filled an OVP leadership vacu- had made parts costlier than necessary for some parts,” the commission said in its order. E-Bay-backed Snapdeal and Tata Value red-tape, concerns about building standards, um in 2011 when his predecessor had to step 20 million Indian consumers, with some markups “The fines total 25.5 billion rupees ($420 mil- Homes, part of the tea-to-steel Tata Group, authenticity of title deeds and other down for health reasons. Now the party, whose as high as 4,800 percent. lion),” said the commission official, who asked not will initially offer 1,000 units in seven projects headaches. “We’ll take the worry out of this,” popularity has fallen below 20 percent in opinion Among the global companies fined were to be named. The Indian fine levied on each spread over five cities-Mumbai, Bangalore, Bahl said. Snapdeal, whose other investors polls as the far-right Freedom Party gains, faces Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Volkswagen, BMW, automaker represents two percent of the affect- Chennai, Pune and Ahmedabad. Average include Singapore state-owned investment another leadership contest. Mercedes-Benz, Ford and General Motors. Local ed company’s three-year revenue average and costs for the apartments will range from 3.1 company Temasek and asset management companies fined included Maruti Suzuki, must be paid within 60 days. Hindustan Motors and Tata Motors. “The parties are hereby directed to immedi- million rupees ($51,000) to 7.0 million rupees firm BlackRock, calls itself India’s largest WHO’S NEXT? Last week China fined 10 Japanese auto parts ately cease and desist from indulging in conduct ($115,000), targeting India’s burgeoning and online marketplace with five million products Chancellor Faymann, responding to questions firms a total of more than $201 million for price- which has been found to be in contravention of increasingly affluent middle-class. in 500 categories. at a news conference about the durability of the fixing, reportedly the biggest-ever such penal- the provisions of the Competition Act,” the The prices are still considered moderate as Tata Value Homes, set up three years ago, government coalition after Spindelegger’s resigna- ties, as part of the country’s anti-monopoly drive. watchdog said in its 215-page order. real estate prices have been soaring in Indian is one of India’s fastest-growing real estate tion, said: “I expect it will hold until 2018.” The Indian fines come as other market regula- The report contained statements by the car- cities. Purchasers will be able to reserve apart- developers. The OVP’s most popular member by far is tors increase their scrutiny and crack down on makers that they “considered their service net- ments for a non-refundable down payment of “We strongly believe India is ready to buy Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, but analysts say he suspect practices amid public anger over what is work adequate to handle all after-market service may be too inexperienced - he turns 28 on 30,000 rupees ($500). “We’ve changed the homes online,” said Brotin Banerjee chief seen to be widespread corruption. and spare parts of car owners”. — AFP way consumers shop (through e-commerce). executive of Tata Value Homes. —AFP Wednesday - to take the party helm. Economy BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

Jazeera Airways reports July 2014 operational performance

KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways released its July 2014 Airways serves six cities in Egypt. Flown passengers on Operational Performance Report yesterday, which the route serving Cairo increased by 12% from July shows an increase in flown passengers on routes serv- 2013, and increased by 19% on the route serving Sharm ing Istanbul, Cairo, Jeddah, Sharm El Sheikh and Sohag. El Sheikh and by 71% on the route serving Sohag. Jazeera Airways issues its Operational Performance The airline led on the route serving Luxor with a 61% Report on both a monthly and annual basis. The Report market share, and grabbed a 24% market share on the is based on official figures and statistics from Kuwait’s Kuwait-Cairo route, a 19% market share on the Kuwait- Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGCA). Alexandria route, a 45% market share on the Kuwait- The airline’s report also showed an on-time perform- Sohag route and a 54% market share on the Kuwait- ance of 94%, reported based on results by independent Sharm El Sheikh. US-based OTP tracker, Flight Stats. On routes serving the Levant, Jazeera Airways Jazeera Airways saw a 129% increase in flown pas- grabbed a 34% market share on the Kuwait-Amman sengers on the Kuwait-Istanbul route from July 2013, route, and a 29% market share on the Kuwait-Beirut and grabbed a 3% market share on the route. The airline route. The July 2014 report also shows that Jazeera serves the city’s primary airport, Istanbul Atat¸rk Airport Airways grabbed a 9% market share on the Kuwait- (IST) with five flights a week. Flown passengers on the Dubai route, a 6% market share on the Kuwait-Bahrain Kuwait-Jeddah route increased in July 2014 by 5% from route, a 7% market share on the Kuwait-Riyadh route, a July 2013. The airline grabbed a 20% market share on 20% market share on the Kuwait-Mashhad route. the route. The airline also saw an increase of flown pas- Flights to Al Najaf did not operate during the month sengers on three of the routes serving Egypt. Jazeera of July for security reasons. Canon celebrates production of 250 million digital cameras

DUBAI: Canon has announced that it has tal cameras. maintained the No 1 volume share of sales Since production of the company’s first worldwide within the interchangeable-lens digital camera in the mid-1990s, Canon has digital camera market for the 11th year run- leveraged its heritage and expertise in ning - as well as achieving a new manufac- order to stay on the forefront of technolog- turing milestone, with the production of ical development and become a world the company’s compact and interchange- leader in imaging solutions. With a power- able-lens digital cameras surpassing 250 ful product line-up, recently bolstered by million units. the company’s new flagship digital com- Amongst the products that contributed pact camera, the PowerShot G1 X Mark II, to these latest achievements is the EOS Canon continues to deliver the richest and 70D, which includes Canon’s unique Dual most innovative products and services that Pixel CMOS AF technology, as well as support and empower people, from profes- Canon’s iconic IXUS range, featuring sional photographers to everyday snap- ground-breaking compact, stylish body pers, to express their creative passion and designs that set the trend for compact digi- make a visual record of their lives. From wooden box to curve Innovative Curved TV from Samsung

DUBAI: Decades after it burst into the main- viewing experience, Samsung has dedicated Considering the era of dazzling content this stream, the television is still the most-used elec- considerable resources to fine tune the revolu- sweeping expansion in technology is guaran- tronic medium - despite stiff competition from tionary curve that we have incorporated in the teed to usher in, the only question you should smartphones, tablets and computers. A far cry design of our latest TV. We are confident the be asking yourself is, “What size should my from the original wooden sets with postcard- immersive viewing experience it delivers will Curved UHD TV be?” sized screens, or the metal beasts of the 80s and mesmerize,” commented Vinod Nair, general Samsung’s Curved UHD TV line-up is avail- 90s, the curved design of the newest flat-screen manager of TVs at Samsung Gulf Electronics. able in 105-, 78-, 65- and 55-inches, and for televisions will continue to ensure television’s The UHD Curved Television is the newest mem- those looking for more traditional TV-based dominance in household entertainment. ber of the Samsung Smart TV family. This range is entertainment, Samsung Apps, the world’s first The advent of color television in the 1960s tailored to fit the needs of viewers who want the TV app store, opens up a world of possibilities. 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Who needs an s850 smartphone? Samsung’s newly launched 105-inch screen is Signal your sense of style with a stun- the world’s biggest UHD curved TV. The team ning all-glass exterior in a choice of pink behind the creation carried out exhaustive and white with a remarkably slim profile. research on consumers’ living conditions and Capture amazing images with the 13MP even studied the human eye. The design team rear camera with flash, and 5MP wide- concluded that the ergonomic curve of a angle front camera for the coolest selfies 4200mm radius would present the perfect view- and video chats. The 5” wide-view HD dis- ing condition. This subtle curve puts every cor- play, and responsive quad-core processor ner of the screen at the same distance from the makes the S850 high in both style and per- eye, providing a more immersive optical experi- formance. ence to the viewer. The stunning all-glass exterior (in a “Samsung is proud to have delivered the choice of blue, pink and white) not only looks good, but keeps the phone’s weight curved UHD TV, an industry first, to customers in check at a slim 140 grams (0.31 lbs). The across the region. Designed to optimize the

Top 14 French National Rugby League appoints Tissot as official timekeeper

PARIS: Tissot, one of the most famous Swiss Commenting on the new partnership, guished one. The + in the Tissot logo is the watch brands, has been named Official FranÁois ThiÈbaud, President of Tissot, said: same as the Swiss flag, symbolising the Timekeeper of the TOP 14, a tournament “Tissot is very proud to be the Official quality and the reliability that watchmakers that sees the best rugby teams in France Timekeeper of the TOP 14, which gathers have proudly demonstrated since 1853. The compete. The TOP 14 is one of the most the best rugby players in the World. These innovative brand remains in its home in Le watched annual rugby competitions, Championships are the perfect platform for Locle in the Swiss Jura Mountains, keeping attracting top players from all over the rug- us to be showcasing our timing expertise in its Swiss identity at its core. Tissot watches by-playing world. a highly intense environment, which at the are authentic and accessible, using special Tissot, who has been the Official same time represents the brand perfectly. materials, advanced functionality and Timekeeper of a number of rugby events in Many of the core values of rugby, such as meticulous design detail to create pieces the past, was chosen for its expertise. teamwork, respect, discipline and of course that are both precise and stylish. The high Bringing its innovative spirit to the TOP 14, a love for sports, are shared at Tissot.” calibre of the brand has been repeatedly as it did to the RBS 6 Nations by synchonis- Paul Goze, President of the French recognised, as in its illustrious history Tissot ing the in-broadcast and in-stadium timing, National Rugby League stated “The LNR is has been named Official Timekeeper and Tissot will now develop new timing solu- delighted to welcome Tissot to the TOP 14 Partner of MotoGPTM, FIM World Superbike, tions for the TOP 14. As well as displaying team for an exclusive partnership in French FIBA, AFL, RBS 6 Nations Rugby and the the match time alongside the pitch at all rugby. Tissot will bring added technological World Championships of cycling, fencing TOP 14 games, new rules from the 2014/15 value to all the matches, in which every sec- and ice hockey. Tissot, which sells its time- season mean that the goal-kicker only has ond counts. It was only natural for the pieces in more than 160 countries round one minute of preparation time before they championship that is considered to be the the world, is a member of the Swatch must kick for goal. In order for the referee to world’s most attractive, to partner with a Group, the world’s largest watch producer validate this, Tissot will also provide a clock brand that is a leader on the international and distributor of Swiss watches. As it con- at the pitch side for this purpose. Tissot will front.” tinues to create pioneering creations, Tissot also provide live on-screen match timing It’s the Swissness at the very heart of stands by its signature, “Innovators by that will be broadcast in 170 countries. Tissot that makes the brand such a distin- Tradition.” www.tissot.ch technology WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

Tom Hanks’ new app a homage to manual typewriters

TORONTO: A new app for the iPad aims to recreate clanking keys as each character appears on the was actively involved throughout the creative While the app was the top downloaded iPad app the nostalgic sense of typing on a manual type- page beneath the type hammer. process and often came up with solutions to chal- in the United States last week, some question its writer, but ramped up to meet the demands of digi- Users can also “insert” new pages or pull pages lenges. “He wanted to create a product that gave staying power. Toronto-based journalist David tal-age word processing. The brainchild of Oscar- up or down to adjust where text appears - just as the nostalgia of a typewriter, but also composed Hayes, a typewriter collector and aficionado, is winning actor and collector of vintage typewriters they would with an old-school manual. After text is well,” said Mills, adding that Hanks “didn’t want it to skeptical about the app’s staying power. “I grew up Tom Hanks, the app, perhaps aptly called Hanx written, it can be emailed, printed, and shared from be gimmicky.” The actor uses typewriters daily and learning how to type on a typewriter. I still have the Writer, replicates the aural and visual sensations of the app. The free app includes one style of type- has even written several screenplays with vintage one I learned to type on, a Remington No. 2 from old-fashioned typing. “In the late 70s’s I bought a writer with two more on offer featuring different devices, Mills said. The company plans to continue 1921, so I’ve experienced the romantic clickety- typewriter - portable enough for world travel and sounds, visuals, ribbon colors and other features, at developing the app and will add more keyboards to clack of the keys, ringing of bells and wonderful sturdy enough to survive decades of 10-fingered $2.99 each. the three now available. feeling of the keys as you type, called ‘action,’” he beatings,” Hanks stated in a note shared in the app. According to Clinton Mills, co-founder and chief Several other typewriter apps such as TypeWriter explained. It is that action that cannot be replicated “I’ve since acquired many more - each different executive officer of Hitcents, the Bowling Green, for Android devices and miTypewriter for Apple via a touchscreen or keyboard, Hayes said. He also in design, action and sound. Each one stamps into Kentucky-based creative agency that developed Inc’s iPhone and iPad replicate the sound and visu- noted that while he appreciates the typewriter’s paper a permanent trail of imagination through the app, the appeal lies in hearing the rhythm of als of a typewriter. They cost between $0.99 and iconography and history, the ones he collects are keys, hammers, cloth and dye,” he wrote. The app one’s work. “Whenever you type, the sounds the $1.99. The free Electratype for iPad is a virtual type- mainly decor. “As soon as computers came along, I allows users to type emails, letters and stories on a typewriter makes you feel like you’re composing writer app for creating greetings that can be shared didn’t see the point,” Hayes said. “I consider them virtual typewriter, accompanied by the sound of something special,” he said. Mills said that Hanks via email or social media. ‘objets d’art.’” — Reuters Reading tablets decent, but needed?

By Anick Jesdanun tablets didn’t. One disappointment: Although you can create separate profiles for members of NEW YORK: E-book readers are great for reading the family, including limited-use ones for kids, books, but they can’t be used get directions or you need to use the same Barnes & Noble watch videos of people dumping ice over their account across the various profiles. heads. Tablets can. In partnership with Samsung, Barnes & Noble released a reading-centric tablet KINDLE FIRE HDX last week, the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. Amazon, Although the Kindle Fire uses Android, meanwhile, has the Kindle Fire tablets. Of course, Amazon has modified it so much that it has little you can simply install Nook and Kindle reading resemblance to other Android tablets. And apps on an iPad or a non-Nook Galaxy. The iPad there’s no Google Play store to be found. even comes with iBooks installed. Are reading- Everything gets bought through Amazon. While centric tablets really a better way to experience you can install a Kindle app on the Nook tablet, the printed word? Let’s take a closer look. you can’t get Nook on the Kindle because Amazon’s store doesn’t have it. The Kindle read- GALAXY TAB 4 NOOK ing app is good and comparable to what’s found Turn it on, and you’re greeted with a banner on the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader and the that takes up roughly the top third of your Kindle apps for other devices. You get not just screen. This is your library, where you’ll find nov- the page number, but also the estimated time els, comic books, magazines and newspapers left based on your reading speed. that you’ve recently read or purchased, along And Amazon has packed its devices with with non-reading content that Barnes & Noble reading extras, such as quick access to character sells - namely, movies, TV shows and games. This summaries, details about places mentioned and SAN FRANCISCO: This file photo shows the Microsoft logo seen in San Francisco, California. — AFP library banner isn’t available on other devices, other information culled from Wikipedia and though Amazon tablets have a similar feature other sources. The Kindle Fire is less reading-cen- called Carousel. If there’s a book or newspaper tric than the Nook. A tab up top offers quick Chinese antitrust regulator targets you read regularly, you can pin it to the home access to shopping, for instance. The Kindle is screen. Usually, you can do that only with apps. also too big to grip comfortably with one hand. A book icon on the lower left corner of the The 7-inch version of the Kindle Fire has the Microsoft’s browser, media player home screen takes you to where you left off in same screen dimensions as the Nook, but the the Nook reading app. If you stop reading to Kindle has a larger frame. The width is more like Microsoft cooperates with investigation send an email, you can click the book icon to that of a CD case than a paperback. relaunch the Nook app and resume reading. This That said, the Kindle’s screen resolution is feature is also found only on the Nook tablet. better than the Nook’s, so text looks sharper. BEIJING: Microsoft Corp’s internet browser and In 2004, the European Union ordered Microsoft The SAIC said earlier this month that Microsoft Unfortunately, you have to go back to the home There’s also a Quiet Time button to block notifi- media player are being targeted in a Chinese to pay a 497 million euro ($656 million) fine and had been suspected of violating China’s anti- page first. It would be better to have that book cations. It’s easily accessible by swiping from the antitrust probe, raising the prospect of China revis- produce a version of Windows without the monopoly law since June last year in relation to icon wherever you are, whether that’s email or top, whereas the feature to hide the status bar iting the software bundling issue at the heart of Windows Media Player bundled. The fine was later problems with compatibility, bundling and docu- Tinder’s dating app. The tablet’s reading app on the Nook is buried in the settings. You can past antitrust complaints against the firm in the increased to nearly 1.4 billion euros. China’s focus ment authentication for its Windows operating works much like the one on other devices. You turn Quiet Time on and off manually, enable it West. Microsoft has not been fully transparent with on two products previously litigated elsewhere system and Microsoft Office software. The SAIC, see what page you’re on and the number of during certain hours every day or have it turn on information about its Windows and Office sales, appears to form the basis of its investigation, but one of China’s three anti-monopoly regulators, pages left, but not the estimated time left to fin- automatically when you’re doing a specific task, but has expressed willingness to cooperate with the probe could extend beyond the media player formally announced its investigation into ish. The app on the Nook tablet and other such as reading a book or watching a movie. The ongoing investigations, Zhang Mao, the head of and browser bundling issue, said You Youting, a Microsoft’s activities this month after officials Android devices also lets you hide the device’s Kindle also comes in several flavors. There’s a the State Administration for Industry and partner at Shanghai Debund Law Offices. raided Microsoft offices in several major cities and status bar, so you’re not distracted by notifica- larger one, with an 8.9 inch screen. There are also Commerce (SAIC), told reporters at a briefing in “It’s possible the government hasn’t been suc- met Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Mary tions at the top. That way, you’re not tempted to versions with cellular capabilities. The only Beijing yesterday. cessful in finding what they’re looking for,” You said. Snapp for questioning in Beijing. “The investiga- set aside your book to check Facebook. choice you get with the Nook tablet is the color As Windows became the world’s dominant “But by starting with these two products, it gives tion is presently ongoing, and we will disclose the Unfortunately, the iPhone and iPad version of the frame. Only the 8.9-inch Kindles have rear operating system in the 1990s and 2000s, the issue them time.” A Microsoft spokesman declined to results to the public in a timely fashion,” Zhang doesn’t offer that option. At roughly the size of a cameras, though - at 8 megapixels. Although of how Microsoft bundled its web browser and comment when contacted by telephone. The said, adding that the probe is one of nine opened paperback, the Samsung Nook tablet also feels you can’t set up separate profiles for others in media player became the focus of respective Microsoft investigation comes amid a spate of this year which include the software, tobacco, nice in my hands. The Nook GlowLight e-reader, your family, you can enable a kids mode with antitrust cases brought by US and European antitrust probes against foreign firms in China, telecommunications, insurance, tourism and utili- which Barnes & Noble designed on its own, has restrictions on use. authorities. Microsoft settled in 2001 with the US including mobile chipset maker Qualcomm Inc and ties sectors. The companies involved in the nine a larger frame surrounding the display. That Department of Justice a long-running case center- German car maker Daimler AG’s luxury auto unit investigations comprise domestic, foreign, state- makes it bulky, even though its screen is just 6 AND THE REST ing around whether it could bundle its flagship Mercedes-Benz. The probes have renewed fears of owned enterprises and trade associations, Zhang inches diagonally, compared with 7 inches on I still believe dedicated e-readers are better Internet Explorer browser with Windows. Chinese protectionism. said. — Reuters the Nook tablet. for reading. Hiding the status bar and turning on Beyond that, the new Nook tablet works just Quiet Time can help block distractions, but with like any other Android device. It doesn’t out- e-readers, you don’t have distractions to begin Mobile use bad for shine rivals, but it works well at the basics. You with. The Kindle Paperwhite is the best of the e- can buy e-books, movies and other content readers I’ve tried. A tablet is good if you want to school test scores through Barnes & Noble. Or you can use do more than reading and don’t want to carry Google’s online Play store - though you’ll need multiple devices. I don’t think you’ll want to buy Google’s apps to read or watch what you buy either the Nook or the Kindle Fire simply TOKYO: Children who spend more than four hours there. Pictures taken with the 3 megapixel rear because it’s a reading-centric tablet. You’d want a day on their mobile phone perform significantly camera aren’t as sharp as what other tablets them because they are good tablets. But they worse on school tests than those who are limited offer, but at least it has one. Previous Nook are not the only good tablets out there. — AP to just 30 minutes, a Japanese government survey has found. Among the nearly one-in-nine 14 and 15-year-olds who use their handheld device for at least four hours daily, grade scores suffer an aver- age 14 percentage points across all subjects. The deficit rises to more than 18 points in mathematics, figures from Japan’s education min- istry showed. Nearly half of all third-year junior high school students questioned spend more than an hour a day on their phones, browsing websites, sending e-mails and playing games. Less than a quarter of those in the age group do not have a mobile. Smartphone use is also prevalent among 11- year-olds, the survey found, with 54 percent of those in their final year of elementary school hav- ing a phone of their own. Fifteen percent of them spend at least one hour on their device every day. The results of the survey, which is the first of its kind by the education ministry, have sparked fears that schoolchildren are neglecting their books for the allure of the small screen. Kazuo Takeuchi, who has studied the way youngsters use mobiles, This photo shows the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2). The US military had told Jiji Press that children with the devices tend to detonate a hypersonic weapon seconds after lift-off due to a technical problem, cutting short a flight test for the experimental project, officials said. The weapon is part of the This combination of file photos shows the 7-inch Amazon Kindle HDX tablet (left) to lack confidence in their academic ability, and Pentagon’s “prompt global strike” program designed to build conventional weapons that and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. — AP urged parents to set limits on their usage. — AFP could take out targets anywhere on the planet within an hour’s notice. — AFP Legal questions arise for fantasy day game biz

Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot panies such as FanDuel, which is expecting to triple its base to group’s rules also are protected by the 2006 law, and that the NFL fantasy sites have games that “look very much like prop bets or more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strat- 500,000 fans this season. and Major League Baseball “have fully embraced fantasy sports in parlay cards,” Cabot says, with some games as simple as paying an egy games. Since 2011, the billion-dollar fantasy market has been all forms, both free and pay.” “If a game operator doesn’t follow the “entry” fee, and then choosing who, between two players, will fin- infused with dozens of daily and weekly games. Those games Internet poker UIEGA, the FSTA doesn’t consider the contest to be a true ‘fantasy ish a certain day with more receiving yards. allow players to win huge prizes quickly, sometimes in one week, “We have the most popular fantasy football game going,” said sports’ contest,” Schoenke said. “It depends on how you run your game,” Cabot said. “If you sometimes in just one night. With players betting thousands or Kevin Ota of ESPN, which boasts an estimated 14 million fantasy Las Vegas-based attorney Tony Cabot, who has practiced gam- said, ‘We’re going to do fantasy, quick pick, random drafts,’ I say, even tens of thousands a night, legal experts believe it’s time to players. “It’s been incredibly successful, and we’re focused on bling law for three decades, said it’s easy to argue that season- ‘How can that be skill based?’ But if it’s a daily game where you’re review the section of the 2006 federal law that was written specifi- improving our game every year. We always keep our eye on long games are skill based “because you exercise a great deal of doing a draft, have the ability to change players halfway through cally to protect fantasy sports from being banned the way online opportunities to serve sports fans better.” ESPN officials say they skill in operating a team.” “You have to figure out who to draft, the game and make all these decisions, then it’s much closer to a poker was. “There’s importance in clarifying the law,” says Marc have no immediate plans for weekly cash games. Traditional play, trade and all those things to have a successful season,” Cabot traditional model.” In 2007, Cabot co-authored a legal paper titled Edelman, a professor at Fordham Law School who studies the law leagues at ESPN and elsewhere received their legal clearance from said. “And because you’re doing all that, you’re betting on an out- “Fantasy Sports: One Form of Mainstream Wagering in the United as it applies to fantasy sports. “As long as there’s uncertainty about the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which come you can control.” States.” It offers a point-by-point deconstruction of the federal law the legality of these games, some potential businesses that might was designed mainly to stop Internet poker. It included an impor- that essentially legalized a growing industry that, to some, looks enter the marketplace stay out.” Seasonal leagues are largely the tant “carve out” for fantasy football. Meanwhile, most state laws Key points very much like gambling. One of Cabot’s key points is that the domain of billion-dollar companies such as CBS and ESPN, with define fantasy football as skill-based propositions, which keeps The day-game world can be much different and the skill level NFL, seeing the revenue and viewership possibilities of fantasy close ties to the NFL. For now, they have remained on the sidelines them legal. Peter Schoenke, chairman of the Fantasy Sports Trade needed to “run” a team that exists for only one week is far lower football, hired a well-paid lobbyist who helped smooth the way of the short-term business, leaving it largely in the hands of com- Association, says daily and weekly games that adhere to the than that for a season-long enterprise. And a growing number of for an imperfect bill to become law.—AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Cooking, pollution linked to high blood pressure in China WASHINGTON: Women in China who are exposed to pollution from cookstoves and highways face a greater risk of high blood pressure, researchers said Monday. The study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focused on the role of black carbon, which after carbon dioxide is the second leading human-caused emission driving climate change. Black carbon comes from burning wood, coal and fossil fuels. About half of all Chinese households cook with coal and wood, the researchers said. The study involved 280 women living in a rural area of north- western Yunnan province, with an average age of 52. Eighteen percent were overweight and four percent were obese at the start of the survey. The women wore portable air samplers that collected air particulate matter (PM) smaller than 2.5 micrometers, a size com- monly associated with adverse health effects. Black carbon exposure was linked to higher blood pressure, a leading risk factor for heart disease. “We found that exposure to black carbon pollutants had the largest impact on women’s blood pressure, which directly impacts cardiovascular risk,” said lead author Jill Baumgartner, an assistant professor at McGill University. “In fact, black carbon’s effect was twice that of particulate matter, the pollutant measured most often in health studies or evaluating cleaner cook- stoves.” Furthermore, living within about 200 meters (yards) of a highway was associated with a threefold higher systolic blood pressure-the greater of the two numbers that measure blood pressure-than women who lived further from a highway. “We found an indication that the cardiovascular effect of black carbon from biomass smoke may be stronger if there is co-exposure to motor vehicle emis- MONROVIA: People gather around a man suspected of dying from the Ebola virus, in one of the main streets on the outskirts of the city center of Monrovia, sions,” said the study. Reducing such exposure “should Liberia yesterday. —AP lead to a reduction in the adverse health and climate impacts of air pollution.” Previous studies in Latin America have shown that when older women switched from traditional open fire cookstoves to less- Ebola has ‘upper hand’ polluting chimney stoves, their blood pressure decreased. “We found that black carbon from wood smoke negatively affects cardiovascular health, and that the Ebola ‘easier to avoid than malaria’: USAID health effects of wood smoke are exacerbated by co- exposure to motor vehicle emissions,” said Baumgartner. “Policies that decrease combustion pol- MONROVIA: The Ebola virus has the “upper stringent measures to control the disease, The outbreak also desperately needs ple on how to protect themselves was the lution by replacing inefficient wood stoves and reduc- hand” in an outbreak that has killed more including sealing off an entire slum neigh- more workers to trace the people that the best way to beat Ebola. “Compared to some- ing traffic pollution will likely benefit both climate and than 1,400 people in West Africa, a top borhood in the capital. Sirleaf has also sick have come into contact with and more thing like malaria, it is much harder a disease public health.” —AFP American health official said, adding that declared a state of emergency and ordered centers where patients can be screened for to get. experts have the tools to stop it. Dr. Tom all her ministers and top government offi- the disease in a safe way that contains any But obviously must worse when you do Frieden, director of the US Centers for cials to remain in the country or return from Ebola infections, said Castilla, who recently get it,” he said. “So helping people to better Disease Control and Prevention, is visiting any trips. returned from a trip to Guinea, Liberia and understand how they can protect them- Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three Late Monday, her office said in a state- Sierra Leone. selves, how they can avoid Ebola, is a critical hardest hit countries, this week. Nigeria has ment that any official who defied that order A separate Ebola outbreak emerged over piece of controlling this outbreak.” The epi- also recorded cases, but officials have had been fired. The order was issued a few the weekend in Congo, though experts say it demic has sent shockwaves throughout the expressed optimism that its spread there weeks ago and officials had been given a is not related to the West African epidemic. world since it emerged in southern Guinea at can be controlled. Yesterday, Frieden contin- week to return. The statement did not say Doctors Without Borders, which is running the start of the year, grounding flights to the ued his visit in Liberia, which has the most how many or who had been fired. many of the treatment centers in the West afflicted countries and damaging African cases and deaths. According to the latest World Health Africa outbreak, said it was also sending economies. “Lots of hard work is happening, lots of Organization tally, the Ebola outbreak has experts and supplies to Equateur, a north- But the death toll since it was discovered good things are happening,” Frieden told a killed 1,427 people of the 2,615 sickened. western province of Congo. But the medical in 1976 is under 3,000 while, at conservative meeting attended by President Ellen The UN health agency says that 240 health charity has already warned that the West estimates, malaria is estimated to kill that Johnson Sirleaf on Monday. “But the virus care workers have been infected with Ebola, African outbreak has stretched its resources. many people every two days, the vast majori- still has the upper hand.” The current out- calling that an unprecedented number. Half ty of them African children aged under five. break is the largest ever and experts have of those infected have died. Educating people Ebola transmission can be prevented by struggled to contain it for a host of reasons: “In normal times, we’re able to mobilize avoiding contact with an infected person’s doctors took a long time to identify it, it is Severe shortage of equipment teams specializing in hemorrhagic fevers, but bodily fluids. happening in a region where people are The agency said that the high number of currently we are facing an enormous epidem- highly mobile, it has spread to densely pop- infections among health workers is due to a ic in West Africa, limiting our capacity to Misinformation or poor understanding ulated areas and many people have resisted shortage of protective gear and its improper respond to the outbreak in Equateur Malaria, spread through the bite of the or hid from treatment. The disease has over- use and a shortage of staff to treat the province,” said Jeroen Beijnberger, the group’s Anopheles mosquito, often while the whelmed already struggling health systems tremendous influx of patients. In the current medical coordinator in Congo. “We need oth- human host is asleep, is more difficult to in some of the world’s poorest countries. outbreak as many as 90,000 protective suits er actors to rapidly mobilize with us to help avoid. “One of the biggest challenges that will be needed every month, according to the (Congolese) Ministry of Health: We won’t we are faced with in this outbreak is misin- Attention to detail Jorge Castilla, an epidemiologist with the succeed alone.” formation or poor understanding. You know NAGPUR: In this photograph, the re-arranged But Frieden expressed optimism that the European Union Commission’s Department Meanwhile, the head of the US Agency for Ebola is not a hard disease to avoid, if you outbreak can be contained. “Ebola doesn’t for Humanitarian Aid. That estimate takes into International Development said yesterday know how to avoid it,” Konyndyk said. skeleton of a fetus believed to have been inside a spread by mysterious means, we know how account a recent increase in the number of poor understanding of Ebola was undermin- Konyndyk is due to hold talks with the woman for 36 years is pictured at the hospital in it spreads,” he said in his remarks, which beds available for treating Ebola patients and ing the fight against the epidemic, pointing affected communities in Liberia, where 624 Nagpur, India. —AFP were broadcast on Liberian TV. “So we have more stringent standards to protect health out that the fever is harder to get than malar- people have died, as well as health authori- the means to stop it from spreading, but it workers. There has been a severe shortage of ia. USAID director Jeremy Konyndyk, in ties in the field and the government. USAID India doctors requires tremendous attention to every that equipment that is only now beginning to Liberia to support the fight against an epi- is a government agency working in more detail.” be resolved, he said. He did not say exactly demic which has claimed the lives of almost than 100 countries with a mission to end Liberia has resorted to some of the most how many suits were lacking. 1,500 west Africans, told AFP educating peo- extreme global poverty. —Agencies remove fetus left inside for 36 years

Water-starved S Asia fills buckets with rice, not ice NEW DELHI: Doctors in India have removed the skele- ton of a fetus that had been inside a woman for 36 years KATHMANDU: Water-starved South Asian nations have lenged others to do the same or pledge a donation. bowl of rice to someone in need. “The idea occurred in what is believed to be the world’s longest ectopic devised their own answer to the Ice Bucket Challenge The “Ice Bucket Challenge” aims to raise awareness to me when I saw the Ice Bucket Challenge on pregnancy, a doctor has said. The 60-year-old woman taking the social media world by storm, instead filling about ALS, a condition of the nervous system also Facebook,” said Manju Latha Kalanidhi, who works for became pregnant at the age of 24 but suffered a miscar- buckets with rice and other supplies for the needy. known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. However, in India, a oryza.com, a website focused on rice research. riage because the fetus had been growing outside of Since June, thousands of people worldwide have 38-year-old woman decided to transform the “You feed someone hungry and you aren’t wasting doused themselves with a bucket of icy water, then #IceBucketChallenge into the #RiceBucketChallenge, water,” Kalanidhi, whose campaign has attracted her uterus, the doctor told AFP on Monday. The woman, posted a video recording of the stunt online and chal- encouraging social media users to donate a bucket or 138,000 contributors since it launched last Friday, told from a poor rural area of central India, was “terrified” of AFP. In neighboring Nepal, a #FillTheBucket challenge having surgery at the time to remove the remains of the has launched asking people to load up plastic buckets fetus, and instead sought medication for the pain at a with food and medical supplies to help families dis- local clinic. placed by deadly flooding and landslides this month Although the pain gradually subsided, it returned in the Himalayan nation. years later, forcing the woman to seek medical help at a “We received about 25 buckets today and a local hospital in western India, Murtaza Akhtar said. “She school is bringing 100 tomorrow,” said Sunny came to us complaining of pain in the abdomen,” said Manandhar, whose Kathmandu clothing store Curves Akhtar, head of surgery at the NKP Salve Institute of is serving as a collection centre. At least 250 people Medical Sciences in the city of Nagpur. Doctors felt a have died and over 14,000 families have been dis- lump on her lower right abdomen and feared it could placed in Nepal after torrential monsoon rains trig- gered landslides and flooding, devastating entire vil- be cancer-but further tests and scans revealed a calci- lages and leaving thousands homeless. Contributor fied mass. Binayak Basnyat, 24, told AFP that although “the ALS “Once we saw the scans, our first reaction was ‘what challenge is viral worldwide...this makes more sense are we dealing with’? It was actually a matured skeleton for Nepal”. encapsulated in a calcified sac,” Akhtar said. “A 60-year- The original social media campaign has attracted old woman with a fetus lying in her abdomen for 36 criticism in the region over water wastage. Sri Lankan years is a medical marvel. It’s something we had never politician Malsha Kumaratunga staged an ice bucket heard about.” The doctors searched medical literature event to raise money for a local animal welfare trust and discovered a woman in Belgium who had retained but saw her donation declined. “Wasting water like this the remains of a fetus for 18 years following an ectopic in a tropical country is an insult to thousands who are pregnancy, the longest they could find on record. suffering because of the drought,” said former foreign minister and opposition spokesman Mangala An ectopic pregnancy occurs when the egg implants Samaraweera, referring to the parched southern outside the uterus, usually in the fallopian tubes. A regions of the island nation. team of doctors in Nagpur successfully performed sur- In Mumbai some Bollywood stars have also turned gery to remove the mass that was lodged between the down the ice bucket challenge, citing similar concerns. woman’s uterus, intestines and bladder. “She was KATHMANDU: A Nepalese girl participates in the #FilltheBucket challenge which was launched asking “..already made a donation !! Not dumping water :-( shocked when she first got to know what had hap- people to load up plastic buckets with food and medical supplies to help families displaced by deadly waste of resources!,” tweeted Bollywood actress Sonam pened. But she is fine now and is recuperating,” Akhtar flooding and landslides yesterday. —AFP Kapoor when asked to take part. —AFP said. —AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

ADHD study flags pre-natal usage of antidepressants PARIS: Children born to women who took antidepres- sants during pregnancy are statistically likelier to develop the mental disorder called ADHD, researchers said yesterday. ADHD is a condition blamed for severe and frequent bouts of inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity, often leading to problems in socializing and education. Children and young adolescents are most frequently diagnosed with it. But, the researchers stressed, the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity dis- order (ADHD) is low in real terms and it may yet be explained by a statistical quirk. Reporting in the jour- nal Molecular Psychiatry, a team led by Roy Perlis at the Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the medical background of 1,377 children in New England who had been diagnosed with autism and 2,243 who had been diagnosed with ADHD. PARIS: A person smokes an electronic cigarette in Paris. —AFP LONDON: A selection of “Nicotine Containing Products”, or “NCP”s are dis- These two groups were matched against three played during “The E-Cigarette Summit”. —AFP times as many healthy counterparts, who had neither of these disorders. Taking antidepressants during preg- nancy was associated with the risk of autism in the off- spring, the study found, although this link faded away WHO urges regulatory once a maternal history of severe depression was tak- en into account. A similar association emerged between ADHD and antidepressants in pregnancy. However, the risk remained even when the severity of maternal depression was considered.”This risk, modest curbs on e-cigarettes in absolute terms, may still be a result of residual con- founding,” the investigators said, referring to a linger- ing possibility of statistical error. And, they warned, any risk “must be balanced Seeks ban on indoor use, advertising, sales to minors against the substantial consequences of untreated maternal depression”. Previous research has found that GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) stepped habit, it said. While evidence indicates that they are likely deaths caused by smoking. Opposing experts argued a depression is a major danger for both mother-to-be up its war on “Big Tobacco” yesterday, calling for stiff regu- to be less toxic than conventional cigarettes, the use of e- month later that the WHO should hold firm to its plan for and her baby, and the risk of a depressive relapse is lation of electronic cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, cigarettes poses a threat to adolescents and the fetuses of strict regulations. multiplied fivefold if medication for it is discontinued advertising and sales to minors. In a long-awaited report pregnant women using them, it said. Major tobacco companies including Imperial Tobacco, during pregnancy. Independent experts were cau- that will be debated by member states at a meeting in Altria Group, Philip Morris International and British tious about the study, pointing to a long-running October in Moscow, the United Nations health agency also “Not merely water vapor” American Tobacco are increasingly launching their own e- debate about the mix of genetic and environmental voiced concern at the concentration of the $3 billion mar- E-cigarettes also increase the exposure of bystanders and cigarette brands as sales of conventional products stall in causes for ADHD. Guy Goodwin, a professor of psychi- ket in the hands of transnational tobacco companies. non-smokers to nicotine and other toxicants, it said regard- Western markets. A Wells Fargo analyst report in July pro- atry at Britain’s University of Oxford, said the level of The WHO launched a public health campaign against ing Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems that it calls ENDS. jected that US sales of e-cigarettes would outpace conven- exposure to antidepressant drugs in the womb among tobacco a decade ago, clinching the WHO Framework “In summary, existing evidence shows that ENDS aerosol is tional ones by 2020. children in the study was “quite low”. Convention on Tobacco Control. Since entering into force not merely ‘water vapor’ as is often claimed in the marketing Uptake of electronic cigarettes, which use battery-pow- This made it “possible, even likely” that ADHD in the in 2005, it has been ratified by 179 states but the United for these products,” the WHO said in the 13-page report. ered cartridges to produce a nicotine-laced inhalable offspring had a genetic cause and did not come from States has not joined it. The treaty recommends price and E-cigarettes should be regulated to “minimize content vapor, has rocketed in the last two years and analysts esti- the medication, he told the Science Media Centre in and emissions of toxicants”, and those solutions with fruit, mate the industry had worldwide sales of some $3 billion tax measures to curb demand as well as bans on tobacco London. The fierce debate over ADHD includes opposi- advertising and illicit trade in tobacco products. Prior to candy-like and alcohol-drinks flavors should be banned in 2013. But the devices are controversial. Because they are tion from some doctors who contest the very exis- yesterday’s report the WHO had indicated it would favor until proven they are not attractive to children and adoles- so new there is a lack of long-term scientific evidence to tence of the purported condition. They fear the term applying similar restrictions to all nicotine-containing cents, it said. Adolescents are increasingly experimenting support their safety and some fear they could be “gateway” “medicalises” problems that are really rooted in a products including smokeless ones. with e-cigarettes, with their use in this age group doubling products to nicotine addiction and tobacco smoking. child’s personality or maturity, dud parenting or other In the report, the WHO said there are 466 brands of e- between 2008 and 2012, it said. Vending machines should The American Heart Association said in a report on social issues. According to a 2013 report by the US cigarettes and the industry represents “an evolving frontier be removed in almost all locations, it added. Scientists are Monday that it considered e-cigarettes that contain nico- filled with promise and threat for tobacco control”. It urged divided on the risks and potential benefits of e-cigarettes, tine to be tobacco products and therefore supports their Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 6.8 a range of regulatory options, including banning e-ciga- which are widely considered to be a lot less harmful than regulation under existing laws on the use and marketing of percent of American children and teenagers have rette makers from making health claims such as that they conventional cigarettes. tobacco products. “Although the levels of toxic con- ADHD. Doctors often prescribe powerful psychostimu- help people quit smoking, until they provide convincing One group of researchers warned the WHO in May not stituents in e-cigarette aerosol are much lower than those lants such as Ritalin, sales of which have boomed in supporting scientific evidence. Smokers should use a com- to classify them as tobacco products, arguing that doing so in cigarette smoke, there is still some level of passive expo- recent years. —AFP bination of already-approved treatments for kicking the would jeopardize an opportunity to slash disease and sure,” the AHA said. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 WHAT’S ON

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GUST and OXadventure launch internship trip To India

n a first-of-its-kind move, the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) and the Kuwait-based, non-profit organiza- Ition OXadventure launched a special trip for outstanding stu- dents through the University’s internship programs. In collaboration with GUST’s Mass Communications and Media Department, the College of Business Administration and the division of Student Affairs, a group of GUST students and staff conducted aid work in rural Bangalore, India, helping to build a dormitory for underprivi- leged children and orphans between June 15 and July 1. The ten-person team worked hand-in-hand with locals to chal- lenge themselves in a foreign environment and learn the value of helping others. By enduring very basic living conditions, performing demanding physical labor and establishing teamwork, the group came together to accomplish a common goal and in the process, forged lasting friendships and bonds amongst each other. The partic- ipants included Hazel Joseph, Khaled Bahrami, Ahmed Al-Refai, Mohammed Qabazard, Suad Al-Baqsami, Sara Al-Shehab, Muneera Al-Mulla, Maisam Al-Mufarrej, Lujain Al-Hassawi, and Shaimaa Taha, as well as volunteers form OXadventure. Following their activities in rural Bangalore, the group travelled to Kerala for four days to experi- ence and explore a different facet of Indian culture. “We are really excited about this new program,” commented Dr. Fahed Al-Sumait who runs the internship program for the Mass Communications and Media Department at GUST. “Our students and volunteers worked extremely hard in the short time they were in India and they came back with fresh perspectives on the world. They even continued to do charity work as soon as they returned to Kuwait and we hope they will do even more in the future. They are certainly worthy ambassadors of our university, our country and their generation.” The Gulf University for Science and Technology began operation in 2002 as the first private university in Kuwait. It is based on an American-style model of higher education and aims to serve the increasing educational demands of Kuwait and the Gulf region. It currently hosts approximately 3,000 full-time students.

Qur’an and Tafseer class GUST joins the elite

fter reading Qur’anic verses aloud covers important Islamic guidelines in all Men are invited to come and enjoy a institutions in the World and explaining them very briefly, aspects of life. Students will also learn traditional Arab style lunch, which will be AHassan will illustrate the various and improve Quran recitation with followed by a meaningful talk. Meet new ulf University for Science & quality students and quality ping them with robust problem- connotations of some words and phrases tajweed of short chapters essential for and old friends. Gentlemen only. Technology joins the elite processes.” He continued “It is solving skills to build computing to show the literary beauty and miracle prayer. Friday, September 5 and 19 @ 1pm Ginstitutions in the world only through the vision, leader- systems of varying levels of com- of the Qur’an. The class will involve an Every Thursday in September @ 5pm Learn Arabic to Read the Quran with the announcement that its ship and support of the GUST plexity to meet market needs in open discussion in a casual, relaxed set- Islam 101 A special course for Non-Arab speak- four year BS in Computer Science Board Trustees that this presti- local, regional or global markets. ing Muslims who wish to learn Arabic with ting with the aim of reflecting and pon- By Hassan Bwambale degree received accreditation by gious award could be achieved!” 2. Updating the Computer dering verses from the Noble Qur’an. In If you are interested to know more the purpose of reading and reciting the addition to that, participants will get about Islam, join the TIES Center for infor- Holy Quran. ABET’s Computing Accreditation Professor Aouad Ghassan, Vice Science curriculum to incorporate some insight into the Quranic Arabic. mation, discussion, and a chance to ask Mondays and Wednesdays, September Commission. ABET is recognized President of Academic Affairs said innovations in this ever-changing Every Monday in September @ 7pm. any question about Islam regarding 8 to October 22 @ 10am - 11:30am as the worldwide leader in assur- “The University is very proud of discipline. It will be conducted by Hassan Muslims’ beliefs, acts of worship, Quranic The TIES Center is the social and edu- ing quality and stimulating inno- attaining ABET accreditation for its 3. Preparing students for life- Bwambale Basics of Islam for New verses, and the Prophet Muhammad’s cational hub for English Speaking Muslims vation in applied science, comput- computer science program. long learning in the discipline. Reverts (Ladies Only) (PBUH) life. in Kuwait. For more information, please ing, engineering, and engineering Achieving international profes- 4. Seeking and maintaining By Sharaf Al-Nisaa Thursday, September 4, 11 and 18 @ call 25231015 or e-mail technology education. international accreditation for the Educate yourself about important life 7pm [email protected] or visit www.tiescen- Only 285 four year computing undergraduate program. issues. This weekly class for new reverts Gents’ Lunch (Gentlemen only) ter.net. science programs worldwide have 5. Developing and maintaining received the prestigious ABET high-quality computing-related Computing Science Commission graduate programs. accreditation. GUST is now the 6. Attracting, nurturing, and only professionally accredited four retaining outstanding faculty who year Computer Science degree produce high-quality fundamental offered in Kuwait and only one of and applied research. 20 such programs outside the 7. Building and maintaining United States. long-lasting collaborative relation- The GUST’s Computer Science ships with other universities and program accreditation journey industries locally and internation- started in 2010 and required sig- ally. nificant effort, teamwork, and a 8. Providing services to the commitment at all levels of GUST industry, professional societies, to improve the curricula and pro- sional accreditation for our aca- community, and the state of gram requirements to attain this demic programs is a top priority Kuwait. world class recognition. and a competitive advantage for 9. Identifying and implement- Prof. Donald Bates, GUST GUST.” ing best practices and benchmark- President, stated, “This is the pre- The GUST Computer Science ing to continuously improve the mier seal of quality in computer Department goal is to maintain a effectiveness of the department’s science education and this young program of excellence in teaching, operation. university can be proud of achiev- research, and service by achieving Accreditation is an on-going hmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khalid Al-Sabah held a working meeting with Interior Ministry ing this accreditation in record the following core objectives: process which the GUST team has Assistant Undersecretary for General Security Major General Abdelfattah Al-Ali, accompanied time. This is a direct reflection of 1. Preparing students for pro- gladly undertaken to ensure the Aby Ahmadi Security Director Brig Ali Al-Merri. Al-Ali congratulated Al-Khalid for his appointment GUST’s continuous emphasis on ductive careers in a broad range of continuous development and as governor. quality faculty, quality programs, computer science areas by equip- progress of its programs. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

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THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 3:30 PM 12.06.1979 holder of Indian MUHALAB-1 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 3:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 6:15 PM Passport No. G6678041 Mumbai 400053. (C 4838) Kuwait. Email: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 1:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 6:15 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 9:00 PM hereby change, residing at [email protected] / BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 4:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 8:15 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 11:45 PM No. 3/57 Millath Nagar I, Nagineni Manjula [email protected] BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 6:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:45 PM Mangalam Pet (Post) Veni@Nagineni Manjula (C 4841) LUCY (DIG) 8:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:45 AM 360º- 1 Vridhachalm Taluk) W/o. N. Sudharshana R/o. 27-8-2014 BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 10:00 PM HERCULES (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM Cuddalore Dt. 606104 shall D.No. 7/69-A Chennaihgari DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:05 AM MARINA-1 HERCULES (DIG) 4:00 PM henceforth be known as palli (Vill) Dondlopalli (Post) THE 7th DWARF (DIG) 2:00 PM HERCULES (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM Mohamed Riyaz Ahamed Pullampet (mandal) Kadapa FOR SALE MUHALAB-2 THE 7th DWARF (DIG) 4:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 8:30 PM S/O Abdul Bari. M/O (dist) A.P. hereby state that Mukthar Begum. (C 4836) my names Nagineni Two single bed sets, two THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:30 PM BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 6:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 10:45 PM Manjula and Nagineni GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 3:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:15 PM HERCULES (DIG) 1:00 AM side tables and one dress- I, Gohar Sajid, holder of Manjula veni pertain to ing table KD 90. Six-chair SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 5:45 PM BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 10:15 PM myself only. (C 4837) Indian Passport No. dining set KD 25. Television THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 7:45 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 12:30 AM 360º- 2 26-8-2014 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 10:15 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 2:00 PM Z2690203, hereby change 42” and 32”. One side board my name to Gohar Sajid THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:45 AM MARINA-2 POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 4:00 PM KD 20. Cooker, five burner, Syed. Address: L3/A, 503, MATRIMONIAL KD 35. Good condition. THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:30 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 6:00 PM Oakland Park, near Yamuna MUHALAB-3 LUCY (DIG) 3:00 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 8:00 PM Contact: 66055084, Nagar, Andheri (west), Alliance invited for 28 HERCULES (DIG) 1:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 5:00 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:15 PM Mumbai 400053. (C 4840) 99832084. (C 4842) THE 7th DWARF (DIG) 3:30 PM LUCY (DIG) 7:45 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 12:30 AM years old Keralite 27-8-2014 Marthoma boy with M.Sc THE 7th DWARF (DIG) 5:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 9:45 PM I, Farheen Naz, holder of nursing degree, currently HERCULES (DIG) 7:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:15 AM 360º- 3 Indian Passport No. 1996 Grand Cherokee, HERCULES (DIG) 9:30 PM THE 7th DWARF (DIG-3D) 2:15 PM Z2238135, hereby change working in MOH, seeking good condition with A/C. alliance from parents of HERCULES (DIG) 11:30 PM MARINA-3 THE 7th DWARF (DIG) 4:15 PM my name to Farheen Naz KD 300. Please call God-fearing working girls in HERCULES (DIG) 1:00 PM THE 7th DWARF (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM Syed. Address: L/3A, 503, 66329575. (C 4835) FANAR-1 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 3:00 PM THE 7th DWARF (DIG) 8:15 PM Oakland Park, near Yamuna BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 1:30 PM HERCULES (DIG-3D) 5:30 PM Nagar, Andheri (west), BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 3:30 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 7:30 PM AL-KOUT.1 Mumbai 400053. (C 4839) Prayer timings BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 5:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 10:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 2:00 PM Fajr: 04:04 BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 7:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 12:05 AM LUCY (DIG) 4:00 PM I, Ather Majid, holder of Indian Passport No. BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 9:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 6:00 PM Shorook 05:22 F4932887, hereby change Duhr: 11:50 BEGIN AGAIN (DIG) 11:30 PM AVENUES-1 HERCULES (DIG) 8:00 PM my name to Athar Majid POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 12:30 PM LUCY (DIG) 10:00 PM Syed. Address: L3/A, 503, Asr: 15:24 FANAR-2 POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 2:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 12:05 AM Oakland Park, near Yamuna Maghrib: 18:16 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 2:00 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 4:30 PM Nagar, Andheri (west), Isha: 19:36

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

It will be hard for you to do wrong, for all the energies are working in your Other people’s tensions are high, so perhaps just relaxing and waiting this favor. This is also a time when you may marry or take on a new role in the one out might be in order. It might be interesting to observe and take notes of the process. community or with other people. You will be in demand and recognition will be soon-go You could be seen by others as just the person to be put in charge of some project requir- for it. Everything seems to be working together and you may find yourself expressive and ing a conservative mind. Make sure you know the desired end result, plus the time limit, so able to communicate well. If more education is desired or deemed necessary, sign up soon. there is no problem when you reach the end result. Your positivism lets you get right to the You have a real appreciation for ideas, thoughts and knowledge. All life seems linked point and you have little patience with those who fool around. You are an aggressive prime together and connected. There is spiritual growth and imagination. There are many ways of mover, a starter, able to initiate and get things moving. You are not always hot on the fol- seeing through the separateness in the world-to the unity behind it. Friends and a social life low-up-you may tend to get the ball rolling and get out to move on to other things. It is are in order this evening. important that you delegate as much as possible-relax.

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

You have a lot of energy today and may be feeling better than you have in a This may not be the best time to make important decisions that affect your long time. A new healing, herbs, exercises, whatever the cause-you can take the credit. You living situation or life circumstances. Others may challenge your authority or the direction are discovering that a positive attitude is everything! You are happy to be available for you are taking. For a little while today you will have a chance to work on becoming better friends that need you. Your sense of responsibility will be what guides you and proves suc- organized around your workstation. A conference this afternoon will answer many ques- cessful. Your career could assume a much more determined and solid form-a firm founda- tions to make work easier in the workplace. Some people just create business out of thin air tion. There are opportunities to make good decisions and clear choices are available now. and that is what you will experience today-a creative business person presenting exciting Your enthusiasm can burn out quickly if you do not pace yourself. Rest early and keep up propositions to improve business. Later this evening your charm and abilities to enchant the good work with regard to healthy food and exercise. A quiet evening may be in order others will return to you in the form of much laughter. There is a chance to have a special this evening. Music fills the air. time with someone you love this evening.

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

You can show regard for your talents and skills at this time. Do not weaken You demonstrate a great deal of understanding toward others. You are in a your position. The next seven years will be good to you and you have a sense good position to take control of certain circumstances as well-basically, of this as you go about your responsibilities. Being more involved with co-workers is gratify- because you are familiar with the territory. There may be an opportunity to reach new goals ing and frustrating at the same time but you know just what to do or say to make things in sales or customer service. Law, politics, education and travel are some of the areas where ACROSS such symptoms as guilt about surviving or work in positive ways. Obtaining and exchanging information takes on more emotional sig- a great deal of progress is made. This is a perfect time to move forward with your personal 1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness nificance at this time. Duties are carried out with no difficulty. There is a real transformation plans. You have all the drive and energy you need. It is easy to channel your energy into and Pipturus albidus. and lack of involvement with reality or recur- in the way you respond to others and in relationships. You may be passionate about cutting positive end results. A career in one of the service or health occupations is possible-you 5. A worker in charge of a lock (on a canal). rent thoughts and images. through conventions and all that is superficial to get to the real essentials. A social event may find yourself automatically taking care of the needs of others. Your occupation may 12. (slang) A gangster's pistol. 4. In a state of sleep. this evening will provide many fun surprises. involve health, food and all attempts to restore, salvage and heal. 15. A book of the New Testament. 5. Infectious disease caused by a species of 16. A city in southeastern Spain. chlamydia bacterium. 17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike 6. A state in northwestern United States on Capricorn (December 22-January 19) part of an organism. the Pacific. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 18. The third month of the civil year. 7. (law) A comprehensive term for any pro- You possess a powerful, persistent drive and are a hard, steady worker. Others 20. A man who is a respected leader in ceeding in a court of law whereby an individ- Others may disagree with what you say or think, but now that you have stat- may find you deep, with a sense of mission and mystery. You are willing to do national or international affairs. ual seeks a legal remedy. ed your opinion, let it go. Not everyone sees things the same way and you can express to work others would not go near, quietly bending things to your will-having it your own way. 21. One of the most common of the five 8. A rounded projection or protuberance. others that you respect their opinion. Bide your time and smile through the differences- Your drive to discover, invent and find new ways to use things is well coordinated and major classes of immunoglobulins. 9. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern others will be accepting soon enough. All things come to those who wait. You prove your intense. You are moved to review your budget and plan for improvements. Family and job 22. Combined or joined to increase in size or Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. ability to solve problems this afternoon as you work to improve and speed work along. Your are your main focus now. There is a need for security and a sense of roots. You may find quantity or scope. 10. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegeta- directional abilities are in high focus. Others find you especially witty and a little eccentric. much talk about owning a home or buying a house to rent out to others. Real estate plays a 25. A member of an Iroquoian people for- bles and meat or fish. This evening you may find yourself in a stay-at-home mood-a time to spend with loved big part in your life. You want to belong on a private, intimate, personal level and to extend ones and family. You may decide to sit with a friend’s child this afternoon to be helpful. a welcome to others. merly living on the south shore of Lake Erie 11. (British) Your grandmother. Friends, family and home play a big part in your life. in northern Ohio and northwest 12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth Pennsylvania and western New York. and mother of Cronus and the Titans in 27. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. ancient mythology. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 29. United States filmmaker (born in 1939). 13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly Leo (July 23-August 22) 33. Relatively nontoxic South African herb aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true You may be especially dynamic and assertive just now. There is a lot of ener- Put your mind to work and take care of any details that you may have- smoked like tobacco. stems and roots and leaves. gy and drive available for you to accomplish just about anything you set out to do. Being an mental discipline is easy for you now. Difficulties of the past that have been confounding 37. Relating to or containing the azo radical. 14. An official language of the Republic of extrovert, you may have difficulty understanding reclusive types. You may have to realize should find easy explanations under your keen examination. You may have to exercise 38. A colorless odorless gaseous element South Africa. that some people will not ever match your speed or schedule. Patience may be the order of some control over your tongue, for you are quick to say things and everything you commu- that give a red glow in a vacuum tube. 19. An antidepressant drug that blocks the this day. Your concern for everything makes you invaluable when anything needs doing nicate packs a wallop today. Things you say mean a lot to others and can guide them in 39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent reuptake of norepinephrine. and, if left unoccupied, you have been known to worry for worry’s sake. Given only a few positive ways. You have a great mental drive. Ideas, words, books and the like are pursued metallic element. 23. Large brownish-green New Zealand par- facts, you are able to take in a situation and come up with a feeling of what is happening. with great gusto. Your analytical powers are superb and you enjoy finding new avenues of You are never happier than when fully engaged in some project-particularly betterment of 41. Antelope with white markings like a har- rot. inner growth. This evening you may find yourself weeding through what is unessential worldly concerns. Take time to laugh! ness and twisted horns. 24. God of wealth and love. around your living area in order to create order. 42. An ax used to slaughter cattle. 26. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees 45. Title for a civil or military leader (especial- and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that ly in Turkey). have small flowers and berries (including hol- 47. Of or being the lowest female voice. lies). Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 48. Cause to feel relaxed. 28. A doctor's degree in religion. 49. Wild sheep of northern Africa. 30. A colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and You may find yourself changing your mind often today. A list may be in You have an instinctive imperative to be powerful and in control today. This order. This would be a list with columns that are simply a pro list and a con may lead to greater interest or experience in healing and investing and in the 51. A river in north central Switzerland that cold water. list. This will help you eliminate the negative and create a more positive outcome: some- runs northeast into the Rhine. 31. The place where people vote. great mysteries of life and death. Careful, there could be some disturbance if you pry into thing you would enjoy making permanent. A project in the workplace creates an opportu- someone who is not interested in your questions or does not care to answer your ques- 52. Of the nature of or undergoing an experi- 32. A small ball with a hole through the mid- nity to work with a team of people you do not know. All of you have fun working together ment. dle. tions. This afternoon you may be entertained by someone who appreciates your company. and find that you progress quickly. There is talk of continuing education and you may find You are at your most elegant today, particularly in social situations. You will have a grasp for 53. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent 34. 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Gossip Miley Cyrus retires from twerking

he 21-year-old singer - who hit the headlines last year homeless friend Jesse collect the gong on her behalf. Speaking to E! after she provocatively danced up against Robin Thicke News, she said: “Last year [at the VMAs] was so stressful that this T at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) - has decided to year, I’m so happy.” Miley, who works with My Friends Place to give up the bottom shaking dance move. Speaking to help homeless youths, later gorged on a meaty feast from MTV, she said: “I’ve retired [from twerking], yeah. I’m popular fast food chain In-N-Out Burger with making some music right now with The Flaming Lips. It’s different. Jesse. It’s a little psychedelic.” The ‘Wrecking Ball’ hitmaker’s decision to quit the raunchy move comes after she watched Nicki Minaj twerk during her performance of ‘Anaconda’ at the VMAs in Inglewood, California. Meanwhile, Miley was awarded the Video of the Year prize for the catchy hit she pulled on people’s heartstrings when she let her

Hayden Panettiere expecting a baby girl Kelly Rowland’s he ‘Nashville’ star - who showed call their new child in order to respect both of off her growing baby bump at the their cultures. She explained: “We have to T Emmy awards in Los Angeles make sure that it is American and Ukrainian all pregnancy is a ‘beautiful ride’ revealed that she and fiancÈ at the same time. “That’s a little rough... We’re Wladimir Klitschko are going to still working on it.” Meanwhile, Hayden - who be welcoming a little girl into the world when admits her pregnancy has “accentuated” her he ‘Motivation’ hitmaker and her enjoying her pregnancy, one thing Kelly has she gives birth. Speaking to E! on the red car- craving for chicken noodle soup - has been husband Tim Witherspoon are struggled with is her changing figure. She pet, Hayden said: “I can’t wait for her to come doing lots of planning for the arrival of her first T expecting a baby boy together said previously: “The most shocking thing out, this little one.” When asked if “It’s a girl?” child and daughter. She added: “I like to shop... and she admits the experience about pregnancy to me is probably the way Hayden added: “I think I just said that, didn’t I? I want to go shopping for my girl. I want to has been really pleasant. She told your body changes-nobody can prepare you Yes, it’s a little girl.” The 25-year-old actress also paint the room appropriately.” ‘Access Hollywood’ at the MTV Video Music for that. Not a book, not anything. You just go confessed she and her Ukrainian heavyweight Awards (VMAs) she’d experienced a few preg- through it.” However, the brunette beauty boxer fiance have been thinking about what to nancy shockers, adding: “Some stuff I can’t admits she has been giving in to her pregnan- mention on camera! I cannot mention it on cy cravings recently, but she’s glad her camera but it’s definitely been a beautiful desired food at the moment is healthy. She ride.” The 33-year-old singer’s friends - includ- added: “I love sandwiches right now. “I’m ing her former bandmate BeyoncÈ - are look- reading these different books and they’re ing forward to Kelly’s new arrival as their chil- telling me what food is really great for the dren will have a little playmate. She baby, to grow their nervous system, and their explained: “All of my friends are over the brain food and all that, so I’ve been trying to moon. They are so excited and of course stay on that.” some of them have kids, and some of them don’t, but for the most part they are like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t wait!’ “ Meanwhile, despite

Taylor Swift cries ‘every Ashton Kutcher highest time’ she sees Blue Ivy Carter paid TV actor for third year he ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ hit- he ‘Two and a Half Men’ star scooped the title yet again after top- maker has admitted she can’t ping Forbes’ annual list with his estimated $26 million earnings in T hold back the tears whenever she the past 12 months. Ashton - who is expected to welcome his sees Beyonce and Jay Z’s adorable T first child with fiancÈe Mila Kunis next month - beat off competi- two-year-old daughter. Taking to tion from the likes of Jon Cryer and Mark Harmon, who came in Twitter to sum up her MTV Video Music joint second place after they pulled in $19 million between June 2013 to June Awards experience, she wrote: “Thoughts: I’m 2014. Neil Patrick Harris was narrowly them behind in third with an estimated Sofia Vergara glad everyone’s discovering Jessie J! “Met Iggy $18 million - $3 million more than last year - thanks to his endorsement con- in an elevator and she was super nice. Every tract with American Airlines and lead role in the Broadway production time I see Blue Ivy, I cry. #VMAs” The 24-year- ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch.’ Kevin Spacey, 55 and Patrick Dempsey, 48, slams criticism old singer was at the annual award show last secured fourth position on the list with an impressive annual earning of $16 night to perform her new single ‘Shake It Up’ million, while the top five was completed by Tim Allen, 61, with his $15 mil- ofia Vergara has hit back at criticism following her live for the first time ever. She also tweeted to lion earnings. Australian hunk Simon Baker, 45, came in sixth place with $13 so-called “sexist” skit at the Emmy Awards. The share her excitement at seeing good friends million thanks to his work on ‘The Mentalist’ and endorsement deals with S ‘Modern Family’ star was slammed for posing on a Ed Sheeran and Lorde pick up their first VMAs. Givenchy and Longines. ‘Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons, 41, followed closely rotating platform while the Academy of Television The ‘Sing’ hitmaker’s collaboration with behind in seventh position with $12 million, while Jason Segel, 34, and Arts & Sciences president Bruce Rosenblum gave Pharrell Williams earned him the Best Male Johnny Galecki, 31, secured joint eighth place with $11 million. Jon Hamm, his annual speech at the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Nokia Video, while the 17-year-old singer earned the 43, Charlie Sheen, 48, and Josh Radnor, 39, had a three-way tie with $10 mil- Theatre but she insists she was innocently poking fun at her- Best Rock Video for her track ‘Royals’. Taylor lion earnings, while Bryan Cranston, 58, finished the list with $8 million. self. Speaking to reporters backstage at the event, the star hit wrote: “So basically I’m LOSING MY LITTLE Forbes’ Top 10 Highest-earning TV Actors for 2014: back: “I think it’s absolutely the opposite. It means that some- MIND because tonight I got to see my friends body can be hot and also be funny and make fun of herself.” @edsheeran and @lordemusic with their first 1. Ashton Kutcher ($26 million) Sofia slammed the “sexist” claims as “ridiculous” and pointed #VMAs.” Elsewhere, Beyonce swept the board 2. Jon Cryer ($19 million) out she was aware who started the barrage of abuse, but did with four prizes, while Miley Cyrus’ Video of the 2. Mark Harmon ($19 million) not name names. The brunette beauty added: “I think it’s Year gong was accepted by her homeless 3. Neil Patrick Harris ($18 million) ridiculous that somebody started this - I know who she was- friend Jesse. 4. Patrick Dempsey ($16 million) who has no sense of humor [and should] lighten up a little bit.” 4. Kevin Spacey ($16 million) Sofia wore a strapless white gown while she was posing on 5. Tim Allen ($15 million) the rotating platform and was criticized by several social net- Iggy Azalea blames 6. Simon Baker ($13 million) working users. One angry viewer wrote on Twitter: “aaaand 7. Jim Parsons ($12 million) with that sexist Sophia Vergara bit, my TV is now off. Didn’t last 8. Jason Segel ($11 million) long. (sic)” Another sarcastically wrote: “Sophia Vergara was lit- JLo for her fall 8. Johnny Galecki ($11 million) erally just used as a prop, because women are props. Cool 9. Jon Hamm ($10 million) #Emmys (sic)” But there was some joy for Sofia at the ceremo- ggy Azalea has joked Jennifer 9. Charlie Shenn ($10 million) ny as ‘Modern Family’ picked up the Outstanding Comedy Lopez was to blame for her fall at 9. Josh Radnor ($10 million) award. I the MTV Video Music Awards 10. Bryan Cranston ($ 8 million) (VMAs) benefit concert on Friday night. The 23-year-old rapper believes the 45-year-old singer caused her to dramatically stumble off the stage whilst she was performing ‘Fancy’ at the Avalon in Los Angeles because she had brought her “bad luck.” The blonde beauty recalled the moment her microphone was switched off when she and Jennifer performed a show together in Chicago a while ago, saying: “I said, ‘At least I didn’t fall over,’ and she said ‘It’ll happen to you one day.’ “She added to ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “And then I invited her to watch that show [the benefit concert] and I fell off the stage! I was like, ‘You’re bad luck!’ “ Iggy appeared to deal with tumble very well as she was pushed back on the stage by security guards, before she continued to sing the catchy track with Charli XCX. After she finished her set, the stunning star told the audience she felt “blessed” to have not broken her legs during the fall. Sam Smith and Tori Kelly also performed at the event ben- efiting Lifebeat - Music Fights HIV/AIDS, which is a national non-profit organization focused on educating youths about HIV and AIDS preven- tion. — Bangshowbiz lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

This file picture shows Jeremy Carter of the US performing an acrobatic stunt with his motorbike during the Asian X Games V in A file picture shows Austrian extremist parachuter Felix Baumgartner during a practice flight above Kuala Lumpur. — AFP photos England. More risk the ultimate price for the ultimate thrill

eaping, running and flying into the unknown are attracting a Dan Vicary and Ludovic Woerth, in April. The three leaped from a hel- suit jumper leaps from a plane or off a mountain in a suit that adds months. Martha, a specialist on risk-taking in sport, said that nearly growing band of followers around the world ready to risk life icopter thinking they were jumping into a gorge, but fell onto an surface area to the body, enabling the jumper to glide like a bird all are males “who feel the need for powerful, higher than average Land limb for the ultimate adrenaline rush. From base jumping- Alpine pasture before they could open their parachutes. before opening a parachute to complete the jump safely. sensations.” “They are not impulsive, however,” the researcher added. where devotees jump off a cliff or tower with a parachute-to wing- Once limited to a small club, extreme sports have taken off as A wingsuit can be bought for as little as $500 (375 euros), and a “They go about it in a very meticulous way, and those who have the suit divers who fly in a birdman jumpsuit, to highlining-walking technology develops and restrictions or security constraints in every- beginner’s course for $1,950. It can take years to master the art safely, most accidents are the impulsive ones.” across a rope at high altitude-the sky has become the limit for day life become ever tighter. Bungee jumping and delta plane glid- however. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner went up 39 kilome- Cazenove also said that base jumpers and wingsuit flyers “do not extreme sports. The death toll has also taken off. About 20 people a ing were the frontiers until the 2000s when the rise of social media ters (24 miles) into space to jump to Earth in a pressurized wingsuit, get enough highs from daily life.” “More than seeking a confrontation year are now killed base jumping or in wing suits. The United States brought the really extreme sports out of the shadows. “Today a lot of making global headlines in October 2012. One year later, Alexander with death, they have a desire to feel extremely alive,” the psycholo- and Switzerland have had the highest casualties, with each record- the people in these sports put themselves in videos, and that Polli, an Italian-Norwegian daredevil, leaped from a helicopter and gist said. Experts note a big difference between extreme sports and ing more than 50 deaths since specialist groups started keeping sta- changes everything,” said Nicolas Cazenove, a specialist in clinical reached speeds of up to 250 kilometers (155 miles) an hour as he those like Formula One and motorcycle racing which have long tistics in the 1990s. psychology and health at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures in hurtled toward and through a cave opening in Spain barely wider been considered dangerous. “There are mortal risks in horse jump- In France, four jumpers have lost their lives since the start of France. Now videos of wingsuit jumps down mountainsides are all than he is tall. “There is an unbridled inventiveness,” Cazenove said. ing, skiing, gymnastics, Formula One, sailing, motorcycling,” said Jean August. Numbers have gone up along with the popularity of the over the Internet. “Also our society is imposing more and more physical protection and Griffet, a sociologist and specialist in water extreme sports such as daredevil pursuits. And both followers and victims have become speed limits on everyday life and in sport. Extreme sport followers apnea deep sea diving. But the risk is reduced by crash barriers, ever more high-profile. In August 2013, British stuntman Mark Risk seekers are looking for niches” in the rules, he said. padding and other measures and the sport is progressively learned, Sutton, who parachuted into the London Olympics opening cere- “There is a narcissistic side that did not exist in the past when the said Griffet. “Extreme sport does not have this apprenticeship. When mony dressed as James Bond, died in a wingsuit accident in practices were more closed,” Cazenove added. “The risks are being Overwhelmingly male you base jump for the first time it is already a lethal activity, ruled by Switzerland after jumping from a helicopter. increased because once everyone has done something spectacular, Cecile Martha, a researcher in social psychology at the Institute the law of all or nothing.” — AFP American Brian Drake, one of the leading international wingsuit you have to move on to something even riskier.” The technology and of Movement Sciences, Aix-Marseille University, monitored about 40 fliers, died along with well known French and New Zealand jumpers, the equipment for extreme sports are now widely available. A wing- base jump followers-out of about 200 registered in France-for 18 LAKME FASHION WEEK

Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor presents a creation by design- Juhi Chawla Celina Jaitley Priyanka Chopra Esha Gupta er Manish Malhotra during the grand finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festival 2014 in Mumbai. — AFP photos

Super price of $3.2m for first Superman comic book

near-flawless edition of the first book independent comic book grader Certified featuring cartoon hero Superman from Guaranty Company. AJune 1938 has fetched $3.2 million at In 2011, another 9.0-grade copy of the auction, according to e-Bay, surging past the comic bookówith faded white pages instead An Indonesian previous record for a single comic book. After of the pristine white pages of the latest saleó- performer the 10-day online auction concluded Sunday, sold for a then-record $2.1 million. The Action dressed in a cos- the hammer came down for Action Comics Comics debut was purchased by marketplace tume parades No. 1 with a price of $3,207,852, according to firm ComicConnect, whose director Stephen during the the online commerce site. The vintage workís Fishler has not ruled out putting it back up for Jember Fashion seller Darren Adams, a collector in sale. While Superman may well be the worldís Carnival Washington state, described it as possibly the most famous superhero, he is not the subject in eastern Java ìbest copy in existence,î the ìHoly Grailî of of the worldís most expensive cartoon art. In island. — AFP comic books that deserves its status as most May, a 1937 two-page spread by Belgian valuable in the world. artist Herge depicting his character Tintin on The cover features the red-caped man of various adventures with his faithful dog steel hoisting an automobile over his head. Snowy sold for 2.65 million euros ($3.58 mil- The character is widely credited with starting lion), a record for cartoon art in a market the multi-billion-dollar worldwide comic where some prices have skyrocketed tenfold book superhero phenomenon. Only 50 to 100 in the past dozen years. — AFP copies of the comic book are believed to still exist, most of them in considerably poorer condition than that owned by Adams. It received a 9.0 out of 10 grade, according to lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

Awards

Show creator Vince Gilligan (center) with cast and crew accept Outstanding Drama Series for ‘Breaking Bad’ onstage at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre LA Live on August 25, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. —AP/AFP photos ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Modern Family’ win Emmy Awards

odern Family” and “Breaking Bad” triumphed at Monday’s Emmy Awards, proving that established “Mbroadcast and cable fare retains the power to fend off challenges from upstart online series such as “Orange Is the New Black.” The ceremony’s emotional high point came with Billy Crystal’s restrained and graceful remembrance of Robin Williams, who was found dead Aug 11, an apparent suicide. “He made us laugh. Hard. Every time you saw him,” Crystal said of Williams at the conclusion of a tribute to industry members who died within the past 12 months. “Robin Williams, what a concept.” ABC’s “Modern Family” won a fifth best comedy series Emmy, tying the record set by “Frasier,” while the final season of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” captured the top drama award and a trio of act- ing honors for its stars. Netflix’s freshman “Orange Is the New Black,” which competed for best comedy series despite its dark prison setting, failed to sway Emmy voters, as did Netflix’s soph- omore series “House of Cards.” Bryan Cranston was honored as best actor in a drama for “Breaking Bad,” proving that “True Detective” nominee Matthew McConaughey’s movie-star appeal couldn’t conquer all. “I have gratitude for everything that has happened,” Cranston said. His victory ties him with four-time best drama actor champ Dennis Franz. Cranston’s co-stars Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn were hon- ored in categories for best drama supporting acting - he for the third time and she for the second straight year - and the series Actors Jim Parsons (left) and Debra Messing speak won its second consecutive best drama award. onstage. Better gags “Thank you for this wonderful farewell to our show,” “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan said of the series about a Aaron Paul (left) and RJ Mitte teacher-turned-drug kingpin that ended with a bang. A broad- cast win was scored by ABC’s “The Good Wife” star Julianna top nominees by “Weird Al” Yankovic. Musical numbers usually conflict with Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, he said that Margulies, honored as best lead actress in a drama series. “What look out of place at the Emmys, and this one was no different. MTV doesn’t really specialize in videos anymore. “That’s like a wonderful time for women on television,” Margulies said. Other scripted banter fell flat, although host Seth Meyers kept network TV holding an awards show and giving all the trophies McConaughey was the object of too-handsome jokes by pre- soldiering on. CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons was to cable and Netflix. That would be crazy,” Meyers joked - but senter Jimmy Kimmel and adoration by winner Gail Mancuso, crowned as best comedy series actor, giving him his fourth the outcome proved him wrong. Besides “Orange Is the New honored as best director for an episode of “Modern Family.” It Emmy and putting him in company with all-time sitcom win- Black,” other shows that didn’t benefit from tactical category was one of the better gags of the night. ners Carroll O’Connor, Kelsey Grammer and Michael J Fox. choices included “Shameless,” which moved from drama to “If you don’t mind, Matthew McConaughey, I’m gonna make “Modern Family” also captured a best comedy supporting comedy consideration, and “True Detective,” with its close-end- eye contact with you right now,” she said from the stage, mak- actor trophy for Ty Burrell. Allison Janney was honored as best ed story that smacked of a miniseries. The ceremony’s tradi- ing good by holding the actor’s gaze for much of her speech. supporting comedy actress for CBS’ “Mom,” adding to the tro- tional “in memoriam” tribute to industry members who have The ceremony honoring the best of TV wasn’t shy about playing phy she’d already picked up as guest actress on “Masters of Sex.” died in the past year flashed images of stars including James the movie-star card. “Six minutes to Woody Harrelson” flashed Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who received her third consecutive best Garner, Ruby Dee, Sid Caesar, Carmen Zapata and Elaine Stritch on screen during Colin Bucksey’s acceptance speech for best comedy actress Emmy for the political comedy “Veep,” drew big as singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles sang “Smile.” It concluded miniseries direction for “Fargo.” laughs as she stopped to exchange faux heated kisses with with the tribute to Williams. Another touching moment Harrelson and his “True Detective” co-star were given time to Cranston, who earlier was her co-presenter and who appeared Monday: Director-producer Ryan Murphy dedicating the out- banter before announcing that Benedict Cumberbatch of with her on “Seinfeld.” “The Colbert Report” was honored as best standing TV movie Emmy won by “The Normal Heart” to the “Sherlock: His Last Vow” was the winner of the best miniseries variety series for its farewell season, with its star departing to many artists felled by the HIV virus and AIDS. — AP actor award. “So you won Oscar, (People magazine’s) Sexiest take over for David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show.” Meyers Man Alive and now you want an Emmy, too. Isn’t that a little bit kicked off the ceremony by tweaking his home network, NBC, greedy?” Harrelson teased his fellow nominee. “Fargo” was and other broadcasters for being eclipsed in the awards by named best miniseries, and the award for best miniseries cable series and online newcomers like “Orange Is the New actress went to Jessica Lange of “American Horror Story: Coven.” Black.”

Actresses Zooey Deschanel (left) and Allison Williams Faux heated kisses Tribute to Williams speak onstage. Buffering the miniseries awards was a parody routine about Noting that the Emmys moved to Monday night to avoid a

Padma Lakshmi (from left), Gail Simmons, Tom Colicchio and Hugh Acheson Kate Walsh (left), Allison Janney and Octavia Spencer pose in the green room. Weird Al Yankovic (center) and Andy Samberg perform onstage. arrive. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014

Awards Winners Drama Series: “Breaking Bad,” AMC. Actor, Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad,” AMC. Actress, Drama Series: Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife,” CBS. Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Aaron Paul, “Breaking Bad,” AMC. Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Anna Gunn, “Breaking Bad,” AMC. Directing, Drama Series: Cary Joji Fukunaga, “True Detective,” HBO. Writing, Drama Series: Moira Walley-Beckett, “Breaking Bad,” AMC. Comedy Series:“Modern Family,” ABC. Actor, Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS. Actress, Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep,” HBO. Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Ty Burrell, “Modern Family,” ABC. Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Allison Janney, “Mom,” CBS. Directing, Comedy Series: Gail Mancuso, “Modern Family,” ABC. Writing, Comedy Series: Louis CK, “Louie,” FX. Miniseries:“Fargo,” FX. Movie:“The Normal Heart,” HBO. Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Benedict Cumberbatch, “Sherlock: His Last Vow,” PBS. Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Coven,” FX. Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kathy Bates, “American Horror Story: Coven,” FX. Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Martin Freeman, “Sherlock: His Last Vow,” PBS. Directing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Adam Bernstein, “Fargo,” FX. Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Stephen Moffat, “Sherlock: His Last Vow,” PBS. Variety Series:“The Colbert Report,” Comedy Central. Writing, Variety Special: Sarah Silverman, “Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles,” HBO. Directing, Variety Special: Glenn Weiss, “67th Annual Tony Awards,” CBS. Reality-Competition Program: “The Amazing Race,” CBS.

Actress Katherine Heigl speaks onstage. Actress Kerry Washington Actress Halle Berry speaks onstage.

Uzo Aduba (left) presents the award for outstanding directing for a comedy series to Gail Show creator Steven Levitan (center) with cast and crew accept Outstanding Comedy Series for ‘Modern Family’ onstage. Mancuso for her work on ‘Modern Family’.

Actress Jessica Lange accepts Outstanding Actor Ty Burrell accepts Outstanding Phil Keoghan celebrates winning the Actress/writer Sarah Silverman poses with her Kathy Bates accepts the award for outstand- Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Outstanding Reality - Competition Program Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for ing supporting actres in a miniseries or a ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ onstage. ‘Modern Family’ onstage. Award for ‘The Amazing Race’. ‘Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles’ award in movie for their work on ‘American Horror the press room. Story: Coven’.

TV personality Stephen Colbert (center), producers and writers accept Outstanding Variety Series for ‘The Colbert Report’ onstage.

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts Outstanding Actress Anna Gunn accepts Outstanding Ben Falcone (left) and Melissa McCarthy (From left to right) TV personalities Drew Scott, JD Scott and Jonathan Silver Scott are Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for ‘Veep’ from Supporting Actress in a Drama Series seen. TV personality Jimmy Fallon onstage. for ‘Breaking Bad’ onstage. More risk the ultimate price for the ultimate thrill

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Emmy Awards red carpet

he gowns came in all shapes at an otherwise mostly lackluster carpet. She made Monday’s Emmy Awards, domi- a statement in a dark blue Elie Saab Haute Tnated by reds, blues and whites. Couture with balls of beading, long sleeves and And then there was “House of Cards” a flouncy, mid-thigh skirt. The neckline plunged, actress Robin Wright, dazzling in a but the look was classic and fun. “It’s nerve- cream Ralph Lauren jumpsuit with a wracking to wear long,” she told E! News. “There’s plunging tuxedo jacket front and virtu- the tripping factor.” The frock, with a peplum frill ally no back at all. “Of all the stars wearing that showed off her narrow waist and curves, head-to-toe white, Robin Wright stole the got a nod from King. Roberts was refreshing in show,” said Eric Wilson, fashionnews direc- navy and “boasting legs for days,” King said. tor for InStyle magazine. “It was the ultimate power look from the front with a sexy backless LENA DUNHAM surprise.” Wilson, a fan of on-trend crisp, mono- Lena is Lena. And she never fails to surprise chromatic looks, called it “anything but boring,” on red carpets. This time around, she wore a proving once again that a clean approach can bulky tulle skirt in ombre - pink-to-red. It was still pack a lot of drama. A look at a few highs awkwardly high waisted and paired with a but- and lows from the red carpet: ton-down, cap-sleeved blouse in a lighter shade of pink. And she had new hair: a platinum bob. LIZZY CAPLAN — AP Wilson wasn’t alone in loving the “Masters of Sex” star’s Donna Karan Atelier - backless, black, and with a long white train. Quite a difference, he said, from her days playing the shaggy haired, frumpily dressed Janis Ian in his favorite movie, “Mean Girls.” The gown balanced a traditional full skirt with a skintight swimsuit-inspired bodice. Julia Roberts Wilson called it the best example of a major trend on the red carpet: halter necklines. Others offering interesting takes on the halter were Julie Bowen wearing a blue-and-white pat- terned Peter Som, Laverne Cox looking like a goddess in white Marc Bouwer and Julia Louis- Dreyfus in a fitted Carolina Herrera in raspberry red. Joyann King, digital director for Harper’s Bazaar, was also a fan, granting Caplan the “award for best graphic glamour of the night.”

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS Who can go wrong in Marchesa? Christina Hendricks, that’s who. The “Mad Men” star’s gown, a one-shoulder in red satin, had a gaudy gold floral design embroidered above the waist on one side, an abundance of draped fabric and a strange seam that tightened the full skirt above the knees. And there was a train some- where in there.

JULIA ROBERTS Christina Hendricks arrives at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Roberts was a pop of something different on Theatre LA Live on Monday, Aug 25, 2014, in Los Angeles. — AP/AFP photos January Jones

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