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BAGHDAD: President Barack Obama said yesterday US airstrikes had destroyed arms that Islamic State mili- tants could have used against Iraqi Kurds, but warned there was no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to tear Iraq apart. Speaking the day after US warplanes hit militants in Iraq, Obama said it would take more than bombs to restore stability, and criticised Prime Minister Nouri Al- Maliki’s Shiite-led government for failing to empower Sunnis. “I don’t think we’re going to solve this problem in weeks. This is going to take some time,” Obama told a news conference in Washington. Islamic State has captured wide swathes of northern Iraq since June, executing non-Sunni Muslim captives, displacing tens of thou- sands of people and drawing the first US air strikes in the region since Washington withdrew troops in 2011. After routing Kurdish forces this week, the militants are just 30 minutes’ drive from Arbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capi- tal, which up to now has been spared the sectarian bloodshed that has scarred other parts of Iraq for a decade. The US president said Washington would continue to provide military assistance and advice to Baghdad and Kurdish forces, but stressed repeatedly the importance of Iraq, which is a major oil exporter, forming its own inclusive government. Maliki has been widely criticised for authoritarian and sectarian policies that have alien- ated Sunnis and prompted some to support the insur- gency. “I think this a wake-up call for a lot of Iraqis inside of Baghdad recognizing that we’re going to have to rethink how we do business if we’re going to hold our country together,” Obama said, before departing on a two-week vacation. Employees of foreign oil firms in Arbil have been leaving, and Kurds have snapped up AK-47 assault rifles in arms markets for fear of imminent attack, although Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters look on as smoke billows from the town Makhmur, about 280 km north of the capital Baghdad, during clashes with Islamic State these had been ineffective against the superior firepow- (IS) militants yesterday. Makhmur, is one of the areas that had been attacked by jihadist fighters in recent days. (Inset) US President Barack Obama delivers a state- er of the Islamic State fighters. ment before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House yesterday in Washington. — AFP Continued on Page 15 Interior Ministry to Israel pounds Gaza, destroys mosques GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes pummelled mosque was attacked. “I couldn’t tell all my grenades. issue teachers visas Gaza with 50 air strikes that killed seven neighbours, so I evacuated myself and my The 72-hour truce collapsed after mediators Palestinians yesterday as militants slammed 23 neighbour and after five minutes an F-16 fired in Cairo failed to extend a ceasefire when it By A Saleh tion channels between the two min- rockets into Israel, defying international efforts one rocket and after that a bigger rocket expired on Friday morning as Israel accused istries, said sources familiar with the to find a fresh ceasefire. Britain, France and destroyed the mosque,” he said. Hamas of breaching the quiet with predawn KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and decision. Germany yesterday called in a joint statement The army said 23 rockets rained on Israel, rocket attacks. The conflict has now killed at Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- Meanwhile, the sources who spoke for Israel and Hamas to agree a truce “immedi- bringing to 61 the number of projectiles least 1,913 Palestinians and 67 people on the Khalid Al-Sabah gave orders to issue on the condition of anonymity denied ately”. Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian launched at the Jewish state since a 72-hour Israeli side, almost all soldiers, since July 8. The visas for teachers recruited by the reports that the Interior Ministry had demonstrators marched through central truce ended on Friday. One Israeli civilian and United Nations says at least 1,354 of the Ministry of Education for the upcoming rejected visa applications of at least 350 London and Cape Town, condemning Israel’s a soldier were wounded on Friday. Israel said it Palestinian dead were civilians, including 447 school year. Sheikh Mohammad teachers. The Interior Ministry had one-month military assault into Gaza. had carried out more than 100 strikes in Gaza children. demanded measures to prevent stalling merely returned the documents to the Gaza emergency services said seven men since Friday morning, 49 of them yesterday, In London, up to 150,000 protesters packed applications that meet all legal require- Education Ministry to complete some were killed in Israeli raids - two in a car driving targeting those responsible for the rocket fire. Oxford Street, marching to the US embassy ments, and speed up the visa issuance missing information before issuing the in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, two trav- In the occupied West Bank, 15 Palestinian and on to Hyde Park, many of them chanting process through the normal coopera- visas, the sources explained. elling by motorcycle through Al-Maghazi youths were injured in clashes with Israeli “Free, Free Palestine” and holding up banners refugee camp and three pulled from the rub- troops, who used rubber bullets and live fire to saying “UK - Stop Arming Israel”. Tens of thou- ble of Al-Qassam mosque in the middle of the disperse stone throwers in the town of sands of demonstrators also marched through enclave. The Palestinian interior ministry said Hebron, medics told AFP. The trouble broke Cape Town to protest the Israeli military opera- Egypt court dissolves Israeli jets destroyed three mosques. At least out after the funeral of a Palestinian man shot tion, one of the biggest rallies in the city since two of them were considered close to Hamas. dead by Israeli troops during protests against the end of apartheid. Demonstrators carried Gazan Ibrahim Taweel said the Israeli military the Gaza operation on Friday, witnesses said. placards stating “Israel is an apartheid state” Brotherhood party telephoned him at 3 am, warning him to evac- Similar clashes also erupted in Ramallah. Israeli and “Stop Israeli murder”. Library books burned uate his nearby home five minutes before the troops responded with tear gas and stun Continued on Page 15 CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday appeal. “The legal reasons given do not ordered the dissolution of the Freedom justify this ruling but this is a political and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing decision to get rid, not just of the of the already banned Muslim Freedom and Justice Party, but of all the Brotherhood movement. The decision parties that were established after the follows the designation of the revolution of January 25, 2011,” lawyer Brotherhood as a “terrorist organisation” Mahmoud Abou Al-Aynayn told Reuters. in December, after the military over- “I expect other parties to be dissolved threw Islamist president Mohamed too.” In a statement, the FPJ said the dis- Morsi. The FJP came out on top in every solution won’t succeed in uprooting the election in Egypt between its creation in group’s ideals. “We affirm that while the the wake of the country’s Arab Spring military coup, the counterrevolution uprising in 2011 and Morsi’s removal in judiciary may be able to dissolve the July 2013. party, they will not be able to dissolve its The Supreme Administrative Court, in principals or besiege its civilized peace- its ruling yesterday, ordered “the dissolu- ful thought,” it said. tion of the Freedom and Justice Party The court, headed by Judge Fareed because it broke the law regarding polit- Tanaghu, said the party’s affiliation with ical parties”. “The party and the Muslim a supra-national group - the Muslim Brotherhood are the same thing” and “its Brotherhood and its international members have committed deeds of vio- branch undermined “national unity, lence and acts of terror against the social peace, the democratic system and nation,” state news agency MENA quot- threatened Egypt’s national security”. ed the prosecution case as stating. The court also said that by calling the According to media reports, the decision military overthrow of Morsi a “coup” is final and not open to appeal. rather than a popular revolution, the The FJP’s lawyer called the ruling party was breaking with national unity political and said it was unconstitutional and worked to destabilize the country. Protesters march against Israel’s military operations in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people yesterday in Marseille, southern to deprive the defence of the right to Continued on Page 15 France (left) and London (right) yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 LOCAL Speaker pays tribute to the late Mohammad Al-Bahar

KUWAIT: Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al- The deceased, born in 1919, was the Ghanim paid tribute to the late Chairman of the National Bank of Kuwait Mohammad Abdulrahman Al-Bahar, who (NBK). He was also the founder of Al-Bahar passed away Thursday after living a long Group, a well-known chain of companies in life of philanthropic work and patriotic Kuwait and the GCC countries. devotion. Al-Bahar, who was appointed as With the passing away of Chairman of the Board of NBK in Al-Bahar, who passed away at 1993, also played a role in estab- the age of 95, Kuwait has lost lishing companies the likes of one of its first generation of Al-Ahleia Insurance Company, men, who helped building Kuwait Pipe Industries and Oil Kuwait as he was also a promi- Services Company (KPIOS) and nent figure in charity work, Al- Kuwait National Cinema Ghanim said in a press state- Company (KNCC). ment yesterday. He prayed to Furthermore, he was a found- the Almighty Allah to bestow ing member of Kuwait Chamber his mercy upon the deceased of Commerce and Industry, and grant his family patience where he became the Deputy and solace. Marzouq Al-Ghanim Chairman in 1996. —KUNA Minister Al-Subaih with the investors during the meeting. — KUNA Photo Minister meets group of SMEs entrepreneurs UK grants 115 seats for

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor national economy. Kuwaiti entrepreneurs, particularly young ones. Kuwaiti medical students Hind Al-Subaih met a group of small and medi- Al-Subaih, also Minister of State for Planning The press statement noted that the minister um-sized enterprises (SMEs) initiators to yester- and Development, underlined the importance of has ordered the formation of a special commit- LONDON: Britain has granted Kuwaiti medical “Out of 450 seats allocated for foreign stu- day listen to their demands and complaints. such meetings in removing barriers and enhanc- tee to receive and speed up the procedures of students an additional 45 seats for the next dents, Kuwaitis have got 115,” he said. In a press statement following the meeting, ing constructive cooperation between state offi- entrepreneurs’ requests to register and get academic year, taking the total number of He advised aspirant students to go to the Social Affairs and Labor Ministry said cials and private sector entrepreneurs. She licenses for their new businesses. For their part, seats up to 115, Kuwait Cultural the website of the Kuwaiti Subaih vowed to offer all assistance to entre- added that His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah the entrepreneurs expressed gratitude for the Office in London announced yes- Cultural Office in London to see preneurs to overcome hindrances facing them Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has clearly ordered support they receive from the Ministry and terday. the conditions to choose their and to increase their contribution to the all state bodies to offer unlimited support to Minister Al-Subaih. —KUNA “The seats are for students major. seeking to study medicine and He noted that students must dentistry,” Head of Cultural pass ILETS tests with appropri- MPs reiterate concern over demographic imbalance Office Mohammad Al-Hajiri told ate grades to be accepted by KUNA. each university. KUWAIT: Several members of parliament regarding referring some violating companies taking advantage of simple people’s needs, He pointed out that Kuwait For further information and believe that bogus companies that violate to the prosecution, but iqama (visa) traders and things must be corrected.” Hamdan said “it has received the biggest num- counseling, Al-Hajiri asked stu- laws have caused an imbalance in the demo- find ways to go around the law”. is possible to stop the ways companies cheat ber of seats for medical stu- dents to access the Kuwaiti graphic structure, and demanded that manip- MP Humoud Al-Hamdan said “we support the law through seriousness in implementing dents at British universities. Mohammad Al-Hajiri Cultural Office website. —KUNA ulation of the law be stopped. The MPs told Al- the procedures of Minister Subaih to send the law”. Rai that Social Affairs and Labor Minister Hind bogus companies to the prosecution, especial- MP Khalil Al-Saleh demanded that legal Al-Subaih began implementation of the law ly since they distorted Kuwait’s reputation by action be taken to confront bogus companies Govt rents buildings by referring some violating compa- who are in violation of the labor nies to the prosecution, but “she law, while at the same time laud- should be careful towards trickery ing Subaih’s decision to sent for KD 35.5m annually hatched by companies”. They blamed companies to the public prose- arbitrariness of some officials in using cution. Saleh called for issuing a KUWAIT: Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh Department for contracts worth KD their authorities and rejecting some decision for new rules to deter- said the cost of rented buildings by the 75,000 and above, and the Audit Bureau transactions although they are legal. mine the need of each business government for official use is KD 35.5 mil- for those KD 100,000 and above. MP Dr Oudah Al-Ruwaei said the separately, instead of leaving demographic structure was not dealt things as they are because this lion per year, adding that the number of He said the rented real estate must with well previously, particularly after contributed to the increase of these buildings is 314 in all governorates. meet conditions of the construction law, liberation when the opportunity was marginal labor and in turn affect- Saleh said the rent value of and the Finance Ministry is there, though “we feel good about ed security and social condi- any building is determined by keen on receiving the licenses Humoud Al-Hamdan Khalil Al-Saleh Dr Oudah Al-Ruwaei the statement of Minister Subaih tions. —Al-Rai the real estate renting com- of their property and will not mittee at the ministry accord- inspect the offered buildings ing to the approved price list. until making sure that power Kuwait to host GCC health meeting The landlord will be informed is connected to them, which of the committee’s decision in means that the building has KUWAIT: Under the auspices of Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi, Kuwait is Initiatives and measures are scheduled to be taken through the commit- to host the second Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Committee of tee, as well as exchange of expertise and views for the benefit of GCC citizens, order to sign a contract after received approval of all con- Undersecretaries of Health Ministries on the 7th and 8th of forthcoming accelerating the pace of development goals at Gulf states, Undersecretary of receiving the approval of the cerned authorities that there September. Ministry of Health Dr. Khaled Al-Sahlawi said in a press statement. Fatwa and Legislation Anas Al-Saleh are no violations. —Al-Jarida

Kuwait delivers urgent medical aid to Gaza Strip

CAIRO: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) delivered medical aid to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) yesterday, to distribute them to hospi- tals that lack medical materials due to Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip. A KRCS team of volunteers has delivered tons of medical aid to its Palestinian counter- part to hand them to hospitals in Gaza, Khaled Al-Zaid, head of KRCS mission for the relief of the Palestinian people in Gaza, stated to KUNA. Medical aid will continue, whether through purchasing from the Palestinian market or the Kuwaiti airlift for transportation of medications and medical supplies, Al-Zaid said. He point- ed out that an aircraft loaded with other tons of medications will arrive next Sunday and will be delivered to the Palestinians. Meanwhile, Al-Zaid praised the efforts exerted by the Egyptian authori- ties and Egyptian Red Crescent Society in facilitating the Kuwaiti team’s mission of delivering medical and food aid to Gaza residents, noting the role taken by the Kuwaiti Embassy in Cairo, in coordi- nation with the Egyptian authorities, in enabling the Kuwaiti mission to enter Rafah. Kuwait has pledged to implement the directions of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah, following the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, he added, indicating that the country completed its prepara- tions by following KRCS’ implementation of the humanitarian program, as well as aiding those affected in Gaza. —KUNA SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 LOCAL Stand of Saudi Arabia on Gaza

he Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was keen on humanity without any humanitarian or moral expressing its stand towards the Israeli deterrent, to a point where terrorism has taken Taggression on Gaza, rather it appealed on various shapes, be it by groups or organizations or June 30, 2014, ahead of the aggression, to the countries, which is the most dangerous with their international community through the Security facilities, intentions and conspiracies. Council to move fast to stop the abusive measures All this is taking place under the watchful eye and mass punishment by Israeli authorities of the international community with all its estab- against the Palestinian people using the claim of lishments and organizations including human the disappearance of three Israeli citizens in the rights. This community that remained silent, Palestinian territories, as in the council of minis- watching events in the entire region, not caring ters’ statement. The Kingdom’s stand towards the about what is going on, as if it does not concern it. Israeli aggression on Gaza was as follows: This silence has no justification, and not realizing On Aug 1, 2014, the Custodian of the Two Holy that this will lead to the emergence of a genera- Mosques addressed the Arab and Muslim nation tion that only believes in violence, rejects peace as well as the international community: With the and believes in the conflicts of civilizations, not belief in Almighty Allah who said in His book: And their dialogue. I remind from my place here that fear a trial which will not strike those who have we called for the establishment of the wronged among you exclusively, and know that “International Center for Fighting Terrorism” 10 Allah is severe in penalty, and His saying: And fit- years ago during the Riyadh conference, and the nah is worse than killing. proposal was supported by the entire world in This fitnah found a fertile land in our Arab and order to have the ideal coordination between Muslim worlds, and those conspiring against our countries, but we were disappointed after that nation facilitated everything for it, until it believed because of the lack of seriousness by the interna- that it became strong and began to spread terror tional community with this idea. We say today, to and corruption on earth. It went far into false- all those did not or are not meeting their historic hood, ignoring the sayings of Almighty Allah: responsibilities towards terrorism, as if they have Rather, we dash the truth upon falsehood, and it not benefitted from the experience of the near destroys it. It is a shame that those terrorists are past, which no one was spared from. committing all that in the name of religion, and expresses the message of the Prophet of Mercy to the world as a religion of extremism, hatred and On July 21, 2014, the council of ministers kill those who Allah forbade killing, mutilate it, (PBUH), who Almighty Allah said about: And we terror, and say the right word and not fear any warned against the growing Israeli brutal aggres- then they show they are proud of it, all in the have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a blame for that. Our nation is going through a criti- sion against the Palestinians, after condemning name of religion, while religion is totally innocent mercy to the worlds. cal historic stage, and history will stand witness on this aggression on July 14, 2014, and asked the from them. They distorted the pure, clear and I, from the land of revelation and cradle of those who were the tool used by enemies to shred United Nations to carry out its duties to stop the humane image of Islam, and attached all bad Muhammad (PBUH) message, call upon leaders the nation and distort the pure image of Islam. Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. attributes to it by their actions, tyranny and crimi- and scholars of the Muslim nation to carry out Besides all that, we see the blood of our broth- On July 13, 2014, the Custodian of the Two Holy nal acts, so all those who do not know true Islam their duties towards Almighty Allah and confront ers in Palestine being shed in mass massacres that Mosques donated SR 200,000 to the Palestinian started to think that what those traitors do those who attempt to kidnap Islam and present it did not exclude anyone, and war crimes against Red Crescent. Ministry serious about ‘revocation plans’

KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji quoted Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah as saying “we are serious about and are continuing to revoke citizenship from all those who received them undeservedly, and from all those who received them through forgery”. Turaiji said he received a call from Sheikh Mohammad about a statement he gave to Al-Rai about some individuals who received Kuwait citizenship by forgery and false information, and others who do not meet the conditions due to criminal and court verdicts that keeps them from getting citizen- ship. “The interior minister told me that he extends a hand of coop- eration over the information I gave, and promised to deal with them with transparency through the reform window, and those who are proven to have got citizenship falsely will have their nationalities revoked,” Turaiji said. — Al-Rai Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah

Kuwaiti envoy welcomes ‘Journey of Hope’ crew

LONDON: Kuwait’s Ambassador in London Khaled Al- gotten underway in Kuwait in early May, crossing 1,400 Duwaisan held a reception for crew of “Journey of Hope” nautical miles, passing through 20 countries and 39 boat which arrived there yesterday on its way back to ports. Over 22 celebratory events are held at intervals in the homeland. all ports en route with a view to unifying people of all “The Journey of Hope is a unique initiative for show- cultures and religions towards a collective effort to care ing solidarity with people with special needs and to for and benefit those with intellectual disability every- highlight their abilities and talents,” Al-Duwaisan said. where. He pointed out that the around-the-world marine The idea of the worldwide journey was the brain- excursion reflects Kuwaiti government’s interest in sup- child of a number of Kuwaiti parents with children porting all nativities aiming to improve the skills and having mental disabilities including the Down integrate this important segment into the whole society. Syndrome and Autism. The parents wanted to bring The Journey of Hope boat is expected to return back awareness to the plight of these children and life’s to Kuwait on August 15. The Kuwaiti sea expedition had restrictions on them. — KUNA Kuwait Rally schedule revealed, leaders praise youth involvement

KUWAIT: The Rallies Committee of Kuwait Quarter remarks to KUNA that the club “has taken steady Mile Auto and Motorcycle Club publicized schedule steps forward in the realm of the rallies’ sports, where of the Kuwait rally for the current season, 2014-2015, the number of the participants has gradually in November and February. increased and the aspired goals have been achieved, The committee chairman, Sheikh Athbi Nayef Al- such as luring a large number of contesters and Jaber Al-Sabah, told KUNA the club, having succeed- encouraging the youth to refrain from risky acts on ed in organizing the championships of the previous the roads.” seasons, 2012, 2013, 2014, “have managed to breathe He praised Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Sabah, life again into the rallies’ championship at the aspired the director of the Public Authority for Youth and level from all parties, namely the fans and the racers.” Sports, the club board members and the chairman, These rallies aim at creating an arena for the Sheikh Ali Al-Fawaz Al-Sabah, for ensuring success of Kuwaiti youth to practice their hobby and abstain the rallies. The past rally, 2013-2014, was won by the from wrong usage of their cars on the roads and “we racer, Salah Bin Eidan, who narrowly beat Meshari Al- have succeeded in attaining this objective,” Sheikh Dhafiri. Al-Sabti indicated that up to 20 racers from Athabi said. Kuwait would take part in the new competitions. — Meshari Al-Sabti, the rally organizer, said in KUNA SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 LOCAL Shooting at MP house revives weapon gathering debate ‘Crime must not be tolerated’

By Nawara Fattahova MPs support urged authorities to identify and arrest Crime Meanwhile, lawmakers expressed the culprits as soon as possible. The Crime Report KUWAIT: Gunmen at the weekend support for their colleague after shots incident highlights the spread of unli- Report fired at the house of MP Majid were fired at his house Friday morning. censed firearms that has become a real Mousa Al-Mutairi, and seven bullets MP Mutairi, who cut a visit to Saudi problem in Kuwait, according to MP penetrated the walls and some win- Arabia short and returned to Kuwait Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran. “The spread of ‘Fowl’ play: Man escapes dows of the house. Many other cas- after learning about the incident, filed a weapons, lack of security as well as with untested birds es of crimes using weapons have case at Ardiya police station but rejection of dialogue and accepting dif- been reported earlier, of which the refused to link between the incident ferent opinions has led to dire circum- KUWAIT: Detectives are hunting for a citizen who escaped killing of two security guards during and a robbery reported at his farm last stances,” he said. Jeeran revived an old from the air cargo terminal at Kuwait airport with a very a heist at the vegetable market in demand for a security campaign to col- expensive consignment of birds without going through Sulaibiya was the most serious. lect unlicensed firearms in Kuwait, say- health procedures. A security source said after the birds In Feb 2005, the government ing that the state’s democratic status as arrived from a neighboring country, the owner came to issued the law number 4/2005 well as citizens’ level of awareness receive them, and employees were surprised by him plac- regarding inspecting and seizing negates justifications to carry weapons. ing them in the car and speeding off. He knocked down unlicensed weapons. Illegal MP Hmoud Al-Hamdan also agreed the gate when he realized detectives were after him. weapons spread in Kuwait after the with calls to collect weapons in liberation in 1991, when people Kuwait, in addition to efforts to kept some weapons of the war, so improve the culture of dialogue in Woman questioned for law number 94/1992 was issued. handling disputes. MP Faris Al-Otaibi tearing up passport This law was active for two years. called meanwhile for giving top priori- But incidents and crimes using ty to collecting weapons. And while Criminal detectives are questioning a citizen of Syrian weapons continued, so law 4/2005 MP Mohammad Al-Jabri described the origin after she tore her passport in front of the pass- was issued. incident as a “crime that cannot be tol- port officer at Nuwaiseeb land port following a dispute Major Nasser Buslaib, Head of the erated”, MP Nabeel Al-Fadl suggested with her husband, and did not want to travel with him Security Media Department at the that the crime could be politically The suspects pictured in a photo made available to Saudi Arabia. A security source said the woman who Ministry of Interior, noted that the motivated. by the Interior Ministry yesterday. was very nervous, told officers that she wanted to go ministry formed a committee six —Translated material from Al-Watan to Syria because of differences with her husband and months ago with a special team MP Majid Mousa daily were used in this report Syrian men arrested did not want to return to him, but he forced her. responsible for collecting weapons Al-Mutairi Detectives are questioning her. and arresting wanted persons. “This for illegal procession is not an easy issue and can’t be month. Criminal investigators exam- CORRECTION: done in a week or month. It needs ined the scene and found empty bullet Alcohol possession time to find all the illegal weapons cases fired from an AK-47. Some of the In its coverage of the story in By Hanan Al-Saadoun in the country and collect them. The shots targeted Mutairi’s bedroom yesterday’s issue (Saturday, Aug 9, Southern roads police patrols arrested a citizen in posses- ministry will publish statistics on directly, according to investigations. 2014), Kuwait Times mistakenly KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Kabeer police arrested five Syrian sion of four imported liquor bottles following a chase, the number of seized weapons it in Deputy Speaker Mubarak Al- referred to MP Majid Mousa Al- men on charges of organizing an unlicensed march in pub- which was initiated when he refused to stop. He was sent the press,” Buslaib told Kuwait Khrainej called the attack “an incident Mutairi as a former lawmaker. We lic. The suspects reportedly took advantage of a wedding to concerned authorities. Times. alien to the tolerant Kuwaiti society”. He regret this error. procession to organize the march on the Fahaheel Road, opposite to the Sabah Al-Salem bridge. The men raised banners relating to the troubled situations in their home Man steals roommate’s life savings Search for ‘suspicious’ vehicle with UAE plates country and obstructed traffic on the main road. The five were taken to the Sabah Al-Salem police station where Mubarak Al-Kabeer police arrested a Bangladeshi man, KUWAIT: Security sources said that they admitted committing actions that go against the law 35, for stealing KD 720 from his roommate. A security orders were given to concerned Man compensated and public system, the Interior Ministry said in a statement source said a Bangladeshi national told police that his departments to look out for a suspi- yesterday. The suspects were taken to the Criminal life savings disappeared and his roommate went miss- cious vehicle with stolen UAE plates, Investigations General Department for further action. Local ing. Detectives took over the case and arrested the adding that it asked the vehicle should for café closure regulations ban foreigners from organizing public rallies in suspect, who justified his action by claiming he had the country, while violators of the law face immediate be dealt with caution, and Interior KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man won KD 65,000 niture and decoration at his café and financial difficulties. deportation. Ministry officials must be informed if in damages for the closure of a restau- restaurant, as well as compensation for the vehicle is located. Sources said that rant and café at the Free Trade Zone. the values of rent, insurance and rent the central operations department told Senior citizen caught with drugs, firearm The Court of Appeal made its ver- lease commission. Kabad road campaign other departments about the theft of dict Thursday on the lawsuit filed by Banwan argued that his client was A citizen in his sixties was sent to the Drugs Control General the Dubai license plates that may be lawyer Abdulaziz Al-Banwan on behalf defrauded, saying that the company that Ahmadi Traffic Department conducted an unsched- Department after he was arrested with shabu (meth), used on another vehicle for suspicious of his client against a local company. had invested in the FTZ failed to renew uled campaign on the Kabad Road yesterday morning, hashish and illicit tablets in addition to a firearm and 19 acts. During the hearing, Banwan was sur- the license based on which it entered into under directions of Major General Abdullah Al- rounds. The arrest was made near Messila. Meanwhile, police The departments include the state prised by a Ministry of Commerce and a subcontract with the plaintiff. According Muhanna, the Interior Ministry’s Assistant arrested a wanted citizen in Sabah Al-Salem. The arrest was security, general security, criminal Industry decision to close his property to the financial examiner’s report, the Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs. An unspecified num- made when police noticed he was nervous when he saw the detectives, airport security, traffic under the pretext that it was unli- total amount owed to the plaintiff based ber of people were arrested while 14 vehicles were patrol car. When police asked for his ID, an envelope fell out department, coastguard and land, sea censed. The plaintiff demanded dam- on documents that Banwan provided impounded during the campaign. of his pocket containing drugs. The suspect was found want- and airports’ security, as well as border ages for the cost of the equipment, fur- reached KD 65,300. —Al-Watan ed and sent to concerned authorities. —Al-Rai security —Al-Qabas Gamblers in police net Blacklisted activists Jahra police closed down a gambling den run by a number of Bangladeshi nationals, and arrested those running it. back on Twitter The suspects were handed over to criminal detectives. KUWAIT: Hajjaj Al-Ajmi and Dr Shafi Al-Ajmi resumed their tweets using two new accounts after their original Husband threatened for accounts were banned when their names were placed on second marriage plans the list of terrorism financiers by the US. In his first tweet, A man told officers at Mubarak Al-Kabeer police station Hajjaj Al-Ajmi said: “Will continue supporting Islam and its that his wife threatened to kick him out of his house if people, and praise will be to Allah always. And only believ- he goes on with his plan to marry for a second time. The ers believe all what happens to them is for their own good”. Kuwaiti national explained that his wife did not show He also quoted Safar Al-Hawali, who said “America is like objections to his decision at first, but lately went into a the ignorant human being - it created figures called free- frenzy as the wedding date approached. The woman dom, democracy and humanity, then when it felt hungry, it reportedly told her husband that she would throw him ate them”. out of the house and prevent him from seeing his chil- As for Dr Shafi Al-Ajmi, he said: “We convey the good dren again, according to the man’s statements. The news to our brothers in Sham (Syria) that we will always be woman was summoned for questioning; during which at their rescue, even if the infidels hate this. I tell American she confirmed of making the threats, and vowed that David Cohen (Deputy Treasury Secretary) that if Jesus she would file for divorce should he not drop his plans. (PBUH) the son of Mary was amongst you, you would label An investigation is ongoing. —Al-Anba him a terrorist”. —Al-Watan

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS) organized a lecture for young men who are set to take part in the 26th annual Pearl Diving Trip which kicks off this Thursday. Researcher Yousuf Abdulrahman lectured about the dangers facing Kuwait’s marine environment including overfishing. The pearl diving trip is organized by the Kuwait Sea Sports Club. —Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh LOCAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

In Brief Blood shortage KU’s mismanagement Chronic diseases

r Rana Al-Abdulrazzaq, blood transfusion r Mohammad Al-Khedr, faculty staff presi- r Abeer Al-Bahwa, Director of the Health transmitted diseases specialist at the Kuwait dent at Kuwait University, called for an Promotion Department at the Ministry of DCentral Blood Bank, announced a ‘huge academic committee to be formed in DHealth, said that chronic diseases are behind 60 deficit’ with only 200 blood bags available out of D percent of deaths in Kuwait, with heart diseases com- order to select a replacement for outgoing rector 1,000 required to cover demand at public medical ing in first place followed by cancer. The senior official Dr Abdullatif Al-Bader. Khedr said in a recent facilities. Dr Abdulrazzaq appealed to individuals to quoted a 2009 survey which stated that smoking donate blood, and to establishments to carry out interview that KU is going through the ‘worst among Kuwaitis increased by 24 percent, while obesity donation campaigns in order to compensate for the period’ in its nearly 50-year history due to mis- improved to 37 percent. Dr Bahwa added that the shortage in donations during Ramadan and the Eid management. — Al-Rai. annual average healthcare cost per capita increased Al-Fitr holiday. — Al-Rai from KD 172 in 2008 to KD 258 in 2012. — Al-Rai Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Summer vegetables put for display at a department store in Kuwait. A survey conducted early this month revealed an estimated 30 percent increase in vegetables’ prices in the past five months. — Photo by Joseph Shagra NBK launches the last session of 2014 Summer Internship Program

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait Summer Internship Program is spe- ties to experience firsthand how the (NBK) launched recently the fourth cially designed for high school and actual professional banking issues and last session of the 2014 Summer college students as an extension of and transaction are handled and Internship Program. The program is NBK’s education outreach services. processed.” “NBK regularly organizes custom-made for high school and col- The program demonstrates NBK’s and designs events and packages for lege students aged between 15 and long-standing social involvement as the youth of the country to familiarize 20 years. well as its national commitment them with the world of banking and Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid, NBK towards providing the young genera- make them responsible citizens,” Public Relations Manager said, “NBK tions with the appropriate opportuni- Rushaid added.

Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid The 5-hour daily sessions of two- week internship featured a mixture of theoretical and practical training ded- icated to providing the interns with invaluable knowledge on a variety of subjects such as; the team work, cre- ative thinking, means of self-expres- BEIJING: Kuwait’s embassy in China received a delegation from Kuwait University’s sion and modern banking work pro- Faculty of Engineering and Petroleum, where they were met by consultant Azzam Al- cedure, in addition to helping interns Asfour and third secretary Abdullah Al-Reesh. The team consists of 10 students who to have greater exposure to daily were invited by Huawei Technologies Company for training. Group picture of the Summer Internship Program students banking work procedures. Gulf Bank Ranked number 1 For Ramadan Commercial YouTube Views KUWAIT: Gulf Bank’s special commercials for Ramadan this year proved to be highly popular with YouTube viewers, ranking num- ber 1 in viewership with more than 700 thousand views through- out the Holy Month. These great results demonstrate just how successful Gulf Bank has been in capturing the generosity of the Ramadan spirit in its creative work, and relating this to viewers. For 2014, the Bank produced three different commercials, each portraying the excitement and traditions associated with Ramadan. The first commercial captured the enthusiasm of a Kuwaiti housewife making traditional preparations for Ramadan. In the sketch, the wife redecorates the home with festive lights and the husband comes home to find it has been completely transformed with a festive glow. The second commercial featured a group of five young boys in traditional Kuwaiti clothing, knocking on the door of a neigh- bor to collect Girgai’an. The boys sing the traditional Girgai’an song uniquely by synchronizing it with a Hip Hop rap dance and break dancing, through which they wish everyone a blessed Girgai’an. The third commercial touched on the Eid holiday and the ‘Eidiya’ tradition. The grand- father hands out ‘Eidiya’ to his Ebtihaj Al-Roumi grandchildren, but runs out of money. The grandchildren then show him the different ways in which he can share the Eidiya, from a cheque to an online transfer, and even through a POS machine. Commenting on Gulf Bank’s high ranking, Ebtihaj Al-Roumi, Assistant General Manager - Marketing at Gulf Bank said, “It’s very rewarding to know that we were able to touch the hearts of so many people, and entertain them with the excitement families and young children experience during this special month. It couldn’t have been done without the efforts of the Gulf Bank team, and to them I am very grateful”. Every year Gulf Bank shares the Ramadan spirit with the com- munity through a series of specially prepared TV commercials, which are aired on TV channels and social media sites from the first day of the Holy Month. Those who wish to view Gulf Bank’s Ramadan commercials can still do so by logging on to: www.e- gulfbank.com/youtube. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 LOCAL

Local spotlight In my view The citizenship file in Kuwait Shrimp for Show of power sure

Qousi By Muna Al-Fuzai By Labeed Abdal

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mnesty International condemned the Kuwaiti govern- he Council of the European Union adopted a decision to ment’s decision to withdraw citizenship from some citi- impose more sanctions against Russia in light of measures zens, out of concern that such an act is used as a taken by Moscow to “destabilize the situation in East

A Al-Anbaa T weapon to intimidate the opposition from expressing their Ukraine”. The decision includes denying Russia access to EU capi- views, and called upon the government to cancel the decision. tal markets by banning EU nationals and companies from buying So far, the Cabinet has revoked the citizenship of a former MP or selling new bonds, equities or similar financial instruments and the owner of a newspaper and their families. Both have with a maturity exceeding 90 days issued by major state-owned the right to oppose against this decision in court. Russian banks, development banks, their subsidiaries outside the I can understand Amnesty’s concern in this regard as free- EU and those acting on their behalf. dom of expression can be threatened, bearing in mind that In my opinion, this is a form of Cold War against a country the the withdrawal of the citizenship extends to the whole family Season’s start size of Russia. This reminds me of a statement made by Pope including their wives and children. To the public, this decision Francis during his recent visit to Palestine that there is a new seems cruel, unjustified and of course a punishment. But this is World War that countries practice on others’ lands. naive and lacks a proper understanding of the system of citi- An embargo was also imposed on the import and export of zenship, how is it implemented and its various articles. arms and related material from/to Russia, while exports of certain Kuwaiti citizenship law is one the most complicated in the kuwait digest world. It has eight categorizes for citizenship. All are Kuwaitis, but do not enjoy the same benefits. Citizenship is gained in The government’s ill intentions two ways - the right of blood or the right of territory. Gaining Everyone can see interven- citizenship in the first category entitles its holder to run for election. Withdrawing citizenship from this category is not By Abdullatif Al-Duaij tions, either militarily or through possible unless they take foreign citizenship. The only case we have witnessed so far was against alleged Al-Qaeda he government must stop harming people by selec- farms), chalets, agricultural units and others that were dis- intelligence, and providing spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith who took an Asian passport tively applying its strange citizenship verification on tributed without proper control. Even marriage loans and weapons to reckless youth who and Kuwaiti government withdrew his Kuwaiti citizenship. Was Tcertain people. The government’s allegations of pro- housing applications are subjected to forgery, trickery this a punishment? I don’t think he cares even if it was. tecting national unity, enforcing security and achieving and circumvention by people to obtain them ahead of lost hope as a result of corruption Another way for those who were not born to a Kuwaiti stability cannot cover its clear selective and biased other more deserving citizens. And I do not think that I father or their families were not in Kuwait before 1920 can approach when it comes to need to mention overseas treat- and unemployment, in places submit a request to the Interior Minister to be granted the inspecting the citizenships of ment trips, which apparently like Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. Kuwaiti citizenship, and the application can be accepted or those who express a different have become a ‘right’ for every rejected. It can also be given a gift by the state to individuals opinion. Even if we suppose All services and subsidization one with connections. for special services, and they have all the rights except to that the government adopts The government has forgiv- stand for elections. justice, equality and integrity in privileges given in Kuwait are en all frauds and liars who energy-related equipment and technology to Russia will be sub- Some former MPs managed to commit forgery to change verifying citizenships files, it affected by forgery, tampering, obtained state services or prop- ject to prior authorization by competent authorities of member and switch their category from the seventh category to the should adopt the same erties unlawfully. The govern- states. I believe that this is a strategy away from war to put more first in order to be able to run for election. So in the govern- approach in addressing all files or in the best case scenario, ment has never sought to pun- pressure on Russia. Furthermore, export licenses will be denied if ment’s eye, those people committed a crime? Let’s call this act that were affected by forgery. ish anyone or verify - honestly products are destined for deepwater oil exploration and produc- a correction of a mistake. Those who helped them to commit Let us be honest and clear. concealing information which and with integrity - the applica- tion, arctic oil exploration or production and shale oil projects in this crime are partners and should be sent to court too. But I All services and subsidization proves that an applicant is not tions based on which those Russia. This puts further pressure on a country that needs those doubt the issue will go far. The citizenship file in Kuwait is a privileges given in Kuwait are individuals obtained privileges projects for heating. sensitive one and involves many names that want to be kept affected by forgery, tampering, entitled to a certain service or that the state presents. And I do Everyone can see interventions, either militarily or through in the twilight zone. or in the best case scenario, not believe that the govern- intelligence, and providing weapons to reckless youth who lost The withdrawal of citizenship was like hitting two birds concealing information which benefit he or she receives. ment has any plans to do that hope as a result of corruption and unemployment, in places like with one stone. If it was a plan, it has gone well so far. I doubt proves that an applicant is not either. Those ‘privileges’ were in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. These individuals become weapons of it will go further to more people. Nevertheless, the govern- entitled to a certain service or the first place dedicated to ‘buy’ destruction in the hands of those who seek devastation and end ment should review all laws relating to nationality in order to benefit he or she receives. and supply government supporters. Today, the ill-inten- to peace and security everywhere. We still have hope that self- ensure consistency with international standards and to ensure Based on that fact, the hardworking government - if it tions have expanded to reach intimidation by using the control prevails, and that countries avoid spending billions of dol- that freedom of expression is not touched or used as a was indeed serious about uncovering the manipulations - citizenship file. lars on shows of force while they could use those resources to weapon. must open files of industrial units, jakhors (livestock —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas fund internal projects.

in my view Abbas’ political power seen as Gaza war casualty

By Abdullah Erakat rior to the outbreak of the 29-day war between Gaza invasion occurred, Abbas had one foot in the presi- Israel and Hamas and despite the failure of US dency and one foot out.” PSecretary of State John Kerry’s peace initiative, What followed was the brutal and devastating 29-day Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas report- war between Israel and Hamas that was fought in the edly was a happy camper having survived unscathed in streets of the Gaza Strip at a cost of 1,800 dead; more the blame-game. Arguably, and fortunately for Abbas, in than 9,000 wounded; and an estimated $6 billion in dam- the eyes of most, the Kerry mission imploded when Israeli age on the Palestinian side. Abbas’s prestige is presum- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reneged on his ably a casualty as well, as respect, if not support, for agreement to release the final group of 104 Palestinian Hamas grew measurably by the time the eighth ceasefire prisoners being held in Israeli jails. - the one Hamas finally decided to observe after breach- “Netanyahu’s sole aim was for the blame to fall on the ing seven others —- was enacted. El-Salameen says Palestinians, which he failed to do,” said Dan Goldenblatt, “Abbas is only going down from here.” Israeli Co-Director of Israel-Palestine Creative Regional For Hamas, its ability to fire more than 100 rockets Initiatives (IPCRI), a bi-national think tank. Indeed, despite into Israel in the 28th day of the conflict was nothing Israeli pleas and admonitions, it appeared that Abbas had short of a major victory. That the Islamist group killed at least outwardly ended the bifurcation between the more than 60 Israeli soldiers is further proof of its Fatah-held West Bank and Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, achievements. Military analyst Wasef Uraqait, a retired putting an interim unity government in place and begin- major general, argued that Hamas and Islamic Jihad ning the trek toward long overdue elections. “His public “shook Israel both militarily and politically.” He told The rating improved after he ended the nine month negotia- Media Line that, “Each side is blaming the other. The tions with Israel,” said political analyst Ghassan Khatib, political leadership is accusing the army of not imple- who asserted that Abbas’s popularity also received a menting its goals, while the military leadership is blam- boost from his “in your face” gesture to Israel and the ing the politicians for not taking appropriate, timely deci- United States of joining fifteen United Nations agencies sions.” and treaties. According to Khatib, although Abbas and the As well, Abbas’s esteem seemed strengthened by Palestinian leadership engaged in diplomacy to get Israel Washington’s tacit approval of the unity government to end its assault on Gaza, the people in the street rather than, as feared, the Americans balking over the fact viewed him as not being able to do anything, marginaliz- that Hamas is named on the State Department list of ter- ing Abbas and his leadership, politically. rorist organizations which, according to many, should “This war had the effect of shifting the balance of have been an absolute legal impediment to any US-PA powers in the internal Palestinian politics to the favor of contact. Once the American position was clear, Hamas against the favor of Fatah and the PLO,” said Netanyahu’s campaign to rally world opinion against Khatib. But, he says, the bump in political power and Abbas for “choosing Hamas over peace” fell flat. popularity Hamas received from the war will not last. Meanwhile, Egypt’s new president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, “Soon after this war, the public in Gaza will realize there remained adamant in his treatment of Hamas as an exten- were no achievements and the popularity Hamas gained sion of his nemesis Muslim Brotherhood, forcing the new- during the war, part of it at least, will be lost.” Khatib says found cooperation by Hamas with the PA and encourag- that looking at the big picture, “Hamas does not stand a ing the growing belief that Hamas was losing popular chance against Israel due to their poor relations with support and predictably, the elections slated for Egypt. Hamas thought that by fighting they would be December as well. able to change the balance of power with Israel, but I What President Abbas could not have known was that don’t think that happened... [Hamas] became more sig- his newfound support would be undermined by the kid- nificant in terms of internal Palestinian politics, but as far napping and subsequent killing of three Israeli teens who as their relations with Israel, I don’t think there will be any were snatched while hitchhiking in the West Bank. As the fundamental changes.” saga of the weeks-long massive search for the boys As for the truce reached after 28 days, Khatib says he played out, Abbas was being accused by his critics of col- is happy that a cease-fire has been reached although it’s laborating with the Israeli military rather than praising the “justifiably late.” Like the sentiment on the Israeli street, kidnappers Prime Minister Netanyahu was insisting were one has to be aware that it can still go either way once members of Hamas. Anti-Abbas sentiment grew as Israel the indirect negotiations brokered by Egypt get under- arrested almost 500 Palestinians in the course of the man- way. But Khatib’s strong belief is that there will be no dra- hunt. The fervor reached a peak when Abbas failed to cut matic changes: “the Israeli siege will continue and Hamas off all cooperation with Israel after a Palestinian teen was will remain in charge of Gaza.” tortured and murdered by Jewish extremists in a revenge El Salameen agrees, opining that “the only way this killing after the bodies of the three kidnap victims were war can truly end is by lifting the siege and opening the discovered. This time the result was violent rallies in the borders.” He told The Media Line that, “Only a political streets of Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank. solution could end this fight. There is no military solu- Khatib agrees. “Because of the way Israel handled the tion.” kidnapping, it exposed [Abbas] and the security coordina- As for prospects of peace between two sides, he says tion to a great deal of criticism,” Khatib said. Fadi El- he still believes there exists several channels of communi- Salameen, a senior adjunct fellow with the American cation between the Palestinians and Israelis, but that’s not Security Project, goes further, telling The Media Line that the issue. “It’s not a lack of communication between the Palestinian people use terms like “absent,” “abhorred,” them; it’s a lack of political will to move forward toward a and “ineffective,” to describe Abbas because “before the Palestinian state.” —The Media Line SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

Japan issues alert Iraq MP pleads for help to save Yazidis as typhoon barrels towards southwest Page 8 Page 12

AT SEA: Photo shows F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Valions of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 15 as it prepares to land on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN 77) in the Gulf. — AFP Obama’s Iraq aim: Contain, not destroy extremists US State Department warns citizens in Iraq

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s new military strategy be stopped,” the senators said. “The longer we wait to act, the in Iraq amounts to trying to contain, not destroy, the Islamic mili- worse this threat will become.” Beyond airstrikes, the administra- tant group that now controls much of the country’s northern tion has been asked to provide arms directly to the Kurdish region. That leaves open the questions of how deeply the US will forces defending Irbil. Until now, the US has been willing to do be drawn into the sectarian conflict, and whether airstrikes that only through the central government in Baghdad, which alone can stop the militants’ momentum. Obama insists he will has long feuded with the semi-autonomous Kurdish govern- not send American ground troops back to Iraq after having with- ment in Iraq’s north. drawn them in 2011, fulfilling a campaign promise. Still, even the limited airstrikes show the president’s convic- Covert operation tion that the US military cannot remain dormant after fighting Michael Barbero, a retired Army general who ran the US train- an eight-year war that temporarily neutralized Sunni extremists ing mission in Iraq from 2009 to 2011, said Baghdad never deliv- but failed to produce lasting peace. US military jets launched ered about $200 million worth of American weapons that were several airstrikes Friday on isolated targets, including two mortar designated for the Kurds. Pentagon officials maintain they can positions and a vehicle convoy in northeastern Iraq, near the provide arms only to the Iraqi government, although Harf said country’s Kurdish capital of Irbil. US officials also announced the Friday the Kurdish forces play a critical role in the crisis. “We second airdrop of food and water in as many days for imperiled understand their need for additional arms and equipment and refugees in northwestern Iraq. are working to provide those as well so they are reinforced,” she said. IS well organized The CIA could supply the Kurds under a covert operation. An The next move may be up to the Islamic State group, the Al- agency spokesman declined comment when asked whether Qaeda inspired extremists. About three dozen US military train- that was happening. In announcing his decision to intervene ers and a US consulate are in Irbil, where Kurdish forces are fight- militarily, Obama said he would not allow the US “to be dragged ing off a militant advance. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said into fighting another war in Iraq.” The extremists control an of the Islamic State group, “They are well organized and they’re impressive stretch of territory from the outskirts of the Syrian armed, and they are a significant threat to the stability of Iraq.” city of Aleppo to most Sunni-dominated areas of northern and State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said the western Iraq, up to the edges of Baghdad. They frequently Islamic State group must at least halt its advance on Irbil to pre- launch bombings and other attacks in Baghdad, mostly target- vent further strikes. ing Shiites and government officials, often within sight and Iraq has been pleading for months, if not years, for additional hearing of the US Embassy, which is located in the capital’s heav- US military help to combat the extremists, but the US pulled out ily fortified Green Zone. of Iraq in part because it couldn’t reach an agreement with the The State Department on Friday warned US citizens against government on legal immunity for US troops. Harf said the all but essential travel to Iraq and said those in the country were Obama administration acted now out of concern that “there was at high risk for kidnapping and terrorist violence. “I think the a crisis that had the potential to get much worse.” US officials administration realizes that we’re dealing with that rarest of said the Islamic State extremists in recent days have shown mili- things in President Obama’s world, which is a military situation tary skill, including using artillery in sophisticated synchroniza- that has to be resolved militarily,” said James F Jeffrey, who was tion with other heavy weapons. Their force had overwhelmed the US ambassador in Baghdad when American troops with- not only Iraqi government troops but also the outgunned drew from Iraq in 2011. The basic problem, Jeffrey said, is “these Kurdish militia. guys have to be stopped. And it’s not a matter of whether the US should stop them - it’s a matter of when.” Airstrikes and airdrops Across the Mideast, the US has deployed considerable mili- The Obama administration insists the airstrikes and humani- tary power, including warplanes and an air operations center in tarian airdrops are not the start of an open-ended campaign to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The aircraft carrier USS George defeat the militants. The president’s critics say his approach is HW Bush currently is located in the Persian Gulf and was the too narrow. “A policy of containment will not work,” Sens John launching site for Friday’s airstrikes. The crisis appears to be McCain and Lindsey Graham, both Republicans, said in a joint falling to Washington to deal with - despite Obama’s consulta- statement. They are among the chief critics of Obama’s foreign tions with other nations and the UN - as the US struggles with policy in general, beginning with his decision to stick to the the parallel challenge of Islamic extremists’ gains in neighboring 2011 timetable set by President George W Bush for a full with- Syria. Vice President Joe Biden, in a call Friday to Iraqi President drawal of US troops. Fuad Masum, emphasized the threat the extremists present to The Islamic militants are “inherently expansionist and must all Iraqis and affirmed US support, the White House said. — AP

IRBIL: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on their way to the front line with militants from the extremist Islamic State group, at the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq. — AP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

Iraq MP pleads for help to rescue Yazidis

BAGHDAD: Displaced Iraqis, many from the Yazidi Temperatures in Iraq can often reach 50 degrees minority, have been stranded in a jihadist-hemmed Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) in the summer, and some mountain for a week and will die en masse if not res- displaced people have ventured out of the ragged cued urgently, an MP said yesterday. “We have one or Sinjar hills, realizing they would not survive. two days left to help these people. After that they will According to some of those contacted by AFP over start dying en masse,” Yazidi parliamentarian Vian the past few days, they have experienced mixed for- Dakhil said. “If we cannot give them hope now-the tunes. (Kurdish) peshmerga, the United Nations, the govern- ment, anybody-their morale will collapse completely Sunstroke, dehydration, trauma and they will die,” she warned. Some have made their own way to neighboring Thousands of Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority Syria and Turkey, others were caught and killed by IS following an ancient faith rooted in Zoroastrianism, fighters and others backtracked to the mountain. fled their homes a week ago when Islamic State (IS) Kurdish fighters from Syria and Turkey have opened militants attacked the town of Sinjar. Many have since safe passages to evacuate some of them, but tens of been stranded in the nearby mountain range, with no thousands are still thought to be stranded in the food and water in searing temperatures. The Yazidis, Sinjar Mountain’s lunar landscapes. The International dubbed “devil worshippers” by IS militants because of Rescue Committee (IRC) is providing emergency care their unorthodox blend of beliefs and practices, are a to around 4,000 of them who crossed safely into small and closed community, one of Iraq’s most vul- northeastern Syria. “They suffer from dehydration, nerable minorities. sunstroke and some of them are seriously trauma- US President Barack Obama sent warplanes back tized,” the IRC’s Suzanna Tkalec told AFP, adding that over Iraq for the first time in three years this week many of them had walked all day for several days. She in part to avert what he said was a possible said previous air drops by the government “had not impending genocide. American cargo planes have always been successful... some water bags just been dropping supplies on the Sinjar Mountain to exploded” on impact. help the displaced, who have survived by hiding in There have also been several reports over the past old cave dwellings, seeking out natural springs and week alleging that hundreds of Yazidi girls and hunting small animals. “The thousands-perhaps women were abducted by IS fighters, to be used as tens of thousands-of Iraqi men, women and chil- DOHUK, Iraq: Iraqi Yazidi families who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar are servants, sex slaves or human shields. “There are now dren who fled to that mountain were starving and being given food at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq’s 520 or 530 women held at Badush prison in Mosul,” dying of thirst. The food and water we airdropped autonomous Kurdistan region. — AFP Dakhil claimed. “Daash (Islamic State) militants come will help them survive,” Obama said Saturday in his every day to select a few and take them away. The weekly address. everyone die,” she said. “Government helicopters have earth” triggered an outpouring of sympathy. militants say they are taking them to ‘paradise’. We been evacuating some people but the process is too Dakhil told AFP of one Yazidi woman she spoke to don’t know what they do with them,” she said. The ‘US should bomb Sinjar’ slow-we need a faster solution.” Dakhil broke down in yesterday who had found herself trapped in the group had very limited means of communicating However Dakhil said the aid could not reach all of tears during a parliament session earlier this week mountain with her five children. “One child has with the outside world, she said. AFP could not the people scattered across Mount Sinjar, a barren when she described the plight of Yazidis and other already died. Another was dying so she decided to immediately verify information concerning the fate of range stretching for around 60 kilometers near the religious minorities displaced by the jihadist leave them behind and walk across the mountain to missing Yazidi women allegedly held in Mosul and border with Syria. “The US should strike Sinjar, even if onslaught on Sinjar. Her appeal for international help look for a helicopter. She could try to save three of other IS-held areas where independent reporting is there are civilian casualties. It’s better than letting to save a religion “being wiped off the face of the her children or watch all five die,” she said. impossible. — AFP 18 die as troops, Al Shebab clash

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s hardline Islamists said backed government. The latest fighting comes they fought intense battles yesterday with gov- amid growing warnings of a humanitarian crisis ernment and African Union troops in the central in the war-torn country, three years after more Hiran region that left 18 people dead on both than 250,000 people, half of them children, died sides. Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab in a devastating famine. The United Nations has told AFP the deaths occurred after the group’s warned that Somalia is sliding back into an acute fighters attacked a base of the AU force in hunger crisis, with more than 350,000 people in Buloburde town, some 200 kilometers north of Mogadishu in need of food aid and parts of the the capital Mogadishu. The casualties could not city facing emergency levels just short of famine. be immediately confirmed, but the Al-Qaeda- The Shebab, who once controlled most of linked extremists said the dead included five of southern and central Somalia, have been driven their own men. out of positions in Mogadishu and Somalia’s The government said six Shebab had been major towns by the AU force. The UN-mandated killed, but gave no figures of any casualties on force is widely expected to launch a fresh push their side. “Nine soldiers with the African Union, in coming weeks to seize the last few major set- four of their Somali counterparts, and five muja- tlements still in Shebab hands in southern hedeen from our Shebab were killed in the Somalia, especially the port of Barawe. Also yes- fight,” Musab said. Fighting began around mid- terday, Somalia’s government said that a journal- night Friday, lasting about four hours into yester- ist accused of killing colleagues and working for day morning, he said. “Our fighters went into the the Shebab has been arrested in Kenya, and camp, that is where the killing took place,” would be extradited to Mogadishu. Musab added. Troops from the 22,000-strong AU Several journalists have been killed in recent force captured Buloburde from the Shebab earli- years in Somalia, one of the most dangerous er in the year, but the Islamists control large countries in the world to work as a reporter. “As a AMMAN: Jordanian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood set fire to a mock Israeli tank during a protest to celebrate the “Gaza victory” in the parts of the rural area surrounding the town. result of surveillance by the Somali security war against Israel, in the capital Amman. — AFP Somalia’s Information Minister Mustafa Duhulow apparatus, the Kenyan security forces captured praised the security forces for repelling waves of Hassan Hanafi Haji, wanted for the killing of a attacks by Shebab fighters. “Al-Shebab tried to number of Somali journalists and other citizens,” Israel’s offensive in Gaza come back several times in order to take their Information Minister Duhulow said in a state- dead bodies, but they were defeated on all ment. “It is also alleged that he was also deeply attempts,” he said. involved in Al-Shebab’s propaganda machine,” Duhulow added, claiming that Hanafi was a raises tensions in Jordan Journalist ‘killer’ arrested “senior” member of the Islamist group. The The Shebab continue to launch attacks in the Shebab, who operate their own radio station heart of Mogadishu-including recent brazen and regularly release propaganda videos, were Brotherhood stages massive pro-Hamas rally commando raids on the presidential palace and previously active on Twitter before their parliament-in a bid to topple the internationally accounts were shut down.—AFP AMMAN: More than 15,000 Muslim Brotherhood support- ers gathered at a pro-Hamas rally in Jordan’s capital, with many chanting “death to Israel” and urging the militant Palestinian group to step up rocket salvos against Israeli towns and cities. The evening rally, the largest such protest in Amman in years, saw scores of masked youths dressed in the uniform of Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stage a mock military parade to the cheers of a flag-waving crowd. The Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological counterpart to Hamas and Jordan’s largest political group, is seeking to take advantage of a rise in anti-Israeli sentiment arising from the Jewish state’s month-long offensive in the Gaza Strip. Gaza officials say at least 1,880 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have died in the offensive, which Israel says is aimed at ending Hamas rocket strikes on Israeli territory SANAA: A Yemeni soldier checks a vehicle at a checkpoint amid fears of attacks and rooting out the tunnels the Islamist militant group by terrorist organizations yesterday in the Yemeni capital. — AFP uses to funnel supplies and launch raids. Most of the more than 7 million people in Jordan, a Militants slay 14 Yemeni staunch US ally, are of Palestinian origin - they or their par- ents having been expelled or fled to Jordan in the fighting MOGADISHU: Somali women mourn outside Medina Hospital following a bomb blast in that accompanied the 1948 establishment of Israel. soldiers; US drone kills 3 Mogadishu. — AFP Politicians and analysts say Hamas’s popularity also has ADEN: An Al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Yemen soldiers in civilian clothes surrounded by mili- soared among non-Palestinian Jordanians as a result of the said it killed 14 soldiers in an eastern province tants concealing their faces with traditional Iran policeman sentenced group’s determined fight against the much-superior Israeli as revenge for an army offensive against its head dresses. army. On Friday, Muslim Brotherhood speakers prodded members, while a US drone attack killed three Yesterday, three suspected Al-Qaeda mili- Hamas to step up its attacks against Israel to avenge suspected militants in central Yemen yester- tants in the central province of Maareb were to 3 years in jail, 74 lashes Palestinian deaths. “In the coming phase, after negotia- day, an official said. The Yemeni army has sent killed in a US drone, a local official saidters. tions failed, the only thing left is the flag of resistance extra troops to the Wadi Hadramout region in “The air raid was conducted by a US drone TEHRAN: An Iranian policeman has been sen- its interpretation of sharia law in force since which was behind the victory in Gaza,” said Zaki Bani northeastern Yemen to counter attempts by plane which targeted a house in the Maareb tenced to three years in jail, 74 lashes and two the 1979 Islamic revolution. After Beheshti’s Rusheid, deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood in militant group Ansar Al Sharia to declare an province, killing three people inside who are years’ internal exile for the unpremeditated death, influential MP Aladin Borujerdi took Jordan. Islamic emirate in the city of Seiyoun. In the suspected to be members of Al-Qaeda,” he killing of a blogger in 2012, media reported issue with claims by pathologists that he had In contrast to other Arab states, where the Muslim past week, Yemeni security forces have killed said. The United States considers al Qaeda in yesterday. Sattar Beheshti, 35, arrested on died of shock and fear, saying he had “very Brotherhood has been banned and its followers persecut- at least 25 suspected militants in clashes in Yemen one of the most dangerous wings of October 12 that year for criticizing Iran’s clearly” been beaten in custody. ed, Jordan has tolerated the group’s presence. It enjoys a Wadi Hadramout, including seven who were the militant network founded by Osama bin regime on the Internet, was found dead in his Borujerdi heads Iran’s parliamentary for- large following in major Jordanian cities that are Islamist killed on Thursday when they tried to attack Laden. In recent years it has made several cell at Iran’s notorious Kahrizak prison on eign affairs committee. Beheshti’s death also strongholds, while Hamas has large grassroots support in an army facility. Residents and officials said attempts to carry out international attacks. To November 3. Opposition groups alleged at led to the dismissal of the head of Iran’s cyber- Palestinian refugee camps in the country. Jordan is home people in the area found the bodies of the 14 counter the group, Washington lends financial the time that he had been tortured to death. crime unit, launched in January 2011 to con- soldiers riddled with bullets on a road near and logistical support to the Yemen’s govern- The Tehran prosecutor ruled that Beheshti’s front anti-regime activity on the Internet. to the largest number of Palestinian refugees. Private and public institutions have rushed to raise donations for the Seiyoun, three hours after they were abduct- ment and military, including regular drone death was “probably caused by shock after Reports said the cybercrime chief was fired for ed from a public bus. strikes. several blows to sensitive parts of his body, or “negligence, weakness and not controlling his Palestinians in Gaza, and Jordan’s King Abdullah donated blood on Tuesday. Prayers have been held in mosques to The soldiers were on their way to Sanaa, Stability in Yemen, one of the poorest by extreme psychological pressure”, the media staff properly”. A number of investigations on leave after serving in the area. Ansar Al- countries in the Arab World, is of internation- commemorate those killed in Gaza. reports said. were launched after UN experts and some Sharia, in an internet posting late on Friday, al concern because it borders major interna- The court decided that his killing was “not Western states condemned Beheshti’s death Jordan, which along with Egypt has a peace treaty confirmed its militants had ambushed and tional shipping lanes and lies next to Saudi premeditated”, a ruling which the lawyer for and demanded that Iran investigate it, with with Israel, this week rejected calls by demonstrators, killed the soldiers for taking part in military Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter. Taking the blogger’s family contested. “When journal- Amnesty International saying the blogger opposition parties and some mainstream politicians to operations against the group. “...The captive advantage of a power vacuum that arose ists are jailed for six years, a sentence of three may have died from torture. Hundreds of expel Israel’s ambassador and severe ties, saying it would soldiers participated in the latest campaign during a 2011 uprising against the then years for murder is surprising,” Giti Pourfazl opposition figures-politicians, journalists, be a counter-productive move. Prime Minister Abdullah against Sunni Muslims in Wadi Hadramout, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, militants took was reported as saying. The convicted officer bloggers, lawyers, rights activists, union fig- Ensour said Jordan was using its diplomatic leverage and thus the mujahideen decided to kill them over several southern towns and districts but from the police cybercrime unit was not iden- ures and media workers-are in Iranian prisons, with Israel to facilitate the flow of large supplies of as a punishment for their crimes,” the state- were later repelled by a US backed military tified. Premeditated murder is among the according to international human rights humanitarian aid, turning it into the main aid conduit to ment said. The group posted pictures of the offensive. —Reuters crimes punishable by death in Iran, based on groups. — AFP Gaza via Israel.— Reuters INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 Drought lessons: Water wasters attend Water School

SANTA CRUZ: Some overindulged their zucchini state’s worst drought in recent history. Farmland is hotline to tattle on water wasters and mandatory Brown’s request in January that everyone cut back 20 patch. Others didn’t bother with that dripping going fallow. Lakes are turning to mud. Golf courses, household limits, allowing just 249 gallons per day percent had the opposite effect statewide. Some dis- kitchen sink. But now every Monday night in this cemeteries and parks are browning. Earlier in the for a family of four, were set. A typical dishwasher tricts - Southern California coastal communities and drought-stricken beach town, dozens of residents year when winter storms didn’t blow in and the fore- load is 20 gallons, a load of laundry can be 25 gallons, the far northeastern slice of the state - actually used who violated their strict rations take a seat at Water cast was grim, most communities took the “ask nice- a toilet flush can be 3 gallons. It adds up. Nationally, a more, prompting a 1 percent increase in water use School, hoping to get hundreds of thousands of dol- ly,” approach, suggesting residents cut water use by family of four averages 400 gallons a day. Most Santa statewide. lars in distressing penalties waived. Nik Martinelli, a 20 percent. Cruz residents, 94 percent of them, cut back as So starting in August, authorities are imposing Santa Cruz water-conservation specialist who is up But Santa Cruz, a coastal town about 60 miles required, some with zeal. Energy consultant Joel statewide rationing with fines of up to $500 a day before dawn patrolling for overwatered lawns, south of San Francisco, couldn’t afford to wait. Unlike Kauffman has his household of three adults and a for residents who waste water on lawns, landscap- launched a recent lesson. “We all know why you’re most cities that have either groundwater, a connec- toddler using just over 100 gallons a day. “We don’t ing and washing cars. Water cops are being hired here. You all went over your allotment and got a big tion to state water canals, or vast reservoirs, Santa use the shower as a place to hang out. That’s for the and fines imposed. Water Education Foundation penalty,” he said. Cruz is among those worst hit by the drought living room or the beach,” Kauffman said. Kauffman Deputy Director Sue McClurg said they haven’t Margaret Hughes nodded grimly. Her $210 water because what makes it special - the town is sur- has installed low-flow toilets and shower heads. They heard about schooling repeat offenders, “but if it bill came with a $775 fine last month. She drove rounded by ocean and mountains - also means it don’t always flush urine, they water their fruit trees can educate customers on water conservation, it from her home four hours north of town to face the relies almost exclusively on storm runoff into a river, with laundry runoff and a shower bucket gets could be helpful.” “Most people just turn on the tap scolding, even though she had no idea the toilet in a creeks and an aging reservoir. “We’re completely dumped in the toilet tank or in the garden. and don’t think about where their water comes vacant house she inherited had been leaking. Two dependent on Mother Nature, so we’re vulnerable” from,” she said. “The more people learn about their hours later, everyone was ready to ace their Water Santa Cruz Water Director Rosemary Menard said. Some not so ardent source of drinking water, the more they learn about School quiz, identifying the community’s sparse “There really is no carrot in the situation that we’re In June, the first month of rationing rules, 1,635 its management.” University of California, Davis, pro- water sources, listing ways to conserve water, facing. We had to ration.” Santa Cruz household accounts faced $341,000 in fessor Jay Lund, who directs the Center for describing how to use their water meters to check The city cracked down in May, deploying “drought fines. In July, 2,121 accounts had penalties applied, Watershed Sciences, laughed when he heard about for leaks. “They’re turning this into something posi- busters,” whom locals call “water cops,” to warn - and totaling $175,725. So far $202,340 in fines have been Santa Cruz’s approach, but he said it might catch tive,” said Hughes, adding that she might take then penalize - anyone openly watering between 10 suspended for Water School graduates. And there’s a on. “It makes sense, like traffic school,” he said. “It advantage of a $150 rip-out-your-lawn rebate she am and 5 pm, washing down pavement or refilling a waiting list for weeks to come. While Santa Cruz has has an educational purpose, but also a punishment learned about. California is in the third year of the spa. A logo, “Surf City Saves,” was launched, and a cut back 25 percent of its water use, Gov Jerry aspect to it.”— AP Argentines question its past after stolen grandson found

BUENOS AIRES: The story of the Argentine ter-in-law. He is now serving a life prison activist who found her grandson 36 years sentence for crimes committed at the after he was taken by the military regime prison where Donda was born. “The has revived deep emotions for many, and process of rebuilding is something that caused others to question their identity. lasts the rest of your life,” Donda said. The scenes of 83-year-old Estela Carlotto “There’s a lot of pain, but the overriding hugging her long-lost grandson for the first feeling is that you’re free to choose.” time warmed hearts across Argentina this week, but also prompted new soul search- ‘Lived a giant lie’ ing in a country still looking for nearly 400 Unlike Donda, Pedro Sandoval did not other babies taken from political prisoners learn his true identity by choice. Born in during the brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship. late 1977 in a Buenos Aires prison camp, he The rights group Carlotto leads, the was taken from his mother and registered Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, says it as the child of a military policeman and his has received such a large influx of calls that wife at three months old. His DNA test was phone lines at its offices around the coun- ordered by a court after the man he knew try have been clogged. Calls from people as his father became the target of a govern- seeking information on DNA testing or ment investigation that ultimately saw him reporting suspicious cases have increased convicted of kidnapping in 2008. from an average of 15 a day to 300 since “That verdict was very liberating.... They Carlotto learned Tuesday that a man raised removed the final blindfold,” said Sandoval, under the name Ignacio Hurban was the who was raised as Alejandro Rei. “The baby her daughter gave birth to in a secret unknown always causes fear, but it was regime prison 36 years ago. worth it to open that door and reconstruct “The number of calls shot up in an my story and my parents’ story. I discovered extraordinary way,” secretary Marisa Salton I had a family that was searching for me,” he said. Hurban, whose mother named him told AFP. “For 26 years, everything I lived Guido Montoya Carlotto, according to sur- was a giant lie.” Scores of missing children vivors who were jailed with her, is the have been found since the first reunions in 114th of the estimated 500 missing babies the 1980s. But no two cases are alike, said to be found. As he began sorting through psychologist Alicia Stolkiner, who coordi- the complicated aftermath of the discov- nates a support team for the National ery, others who have gone through the Commission for the Right to Identity. experience described the long and diffi- “Some people had a difficult childhood cult-but also liberating-process of recon- and were mistreated. Others were zealously structing their identity. “I had conflicting overprotected,” she said. “The process is NEW YORK: A pair of New York City police officers stand at their post as mourners arrive for the funeral service of Eric Garnert a Bethel Baptist emotions when I got the results of the much easier when they were raised in good Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York. — AP genetic testing in 2004,” said 37-year-old faith by people who weren’t guilty of hid- Victoria Donda, who is today a member of ing their origins.” That appears to be the Congress. case for Hurban. But other children taken Donda was raised by a military family from political prisoners were raised by mili- Tensions mount over after her mother, a leftist activist “disap- tary and police officials. Others were even peared” by the regime, gave birth to her in taken in by their parents’ killers. No matter a secret detention center. The fallout for the circumstances, whenever a missing both the family that raised her and her bio- child is found, there is much difficult emo- logical family has been enormous. In a trag- tional work to do, said Stolkiner. NY chokehold death ic twist, her biological uncle, a former navy “Reconstructing one’s identity is a process officer, is suspected of ordering the kidnap- that takes years. It’s like a line of dominoes ping and killing of his own brother and sis- that keeps falling,” she said. — AFP Police becoming increasingly at odds with Mayor

NEW YORK: Police have become increasingly at yells, “I can’t breathe!” as several officers take him death has forced Bratton to defend his devotion odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the appear- down. A city medical examiner found that the to the policing tactic called broken windows - the ance he is taking sides against them after the 43-year-old Garner was killed by neck compres- idea that going after smaller crimes such as sell- chokehold death of a black suspect last month - sion from the chokehold along with “the com- ing loose cigarettes or public drinking helps stop a conflict that has prompted the city’s top law pression of his chest and prone positioning dur- greater ones such as assault and murder. Some enforcement official to do damage control by ing physical restraint by police.” Asthma, heart lawmakers and experts say the decades-old the- calling the mayor “very pro-cop.” What angered disease and obesity were contributing factors. ory no longer applies to a city with far less crime, many was a recent forum in which the Rev Al The finding increased the likelihood that the unnecessarily puts nonviolent people at risk and Sharpton, one of the biggest critics of the New case will be presented to a grand jury to deter- fuels tensions in the city’s minority communities. York Police Department, was seated alongside mine whether any of the arresting officers will “Serious crime has decreased dramatically in the mayor, a liberal Democrat, and the police face criminal charges. It also has fueled the New York City in the two decades that broken commissioner as he lambasted law enforcement biggest crisis yet for de Blasio, who took office windows policing has been in force, yet the and suggested the mayor’s mixed-race son this year vowing to achieve two goals that, at causal connection between that drop and huge would be a “candidate for a chokehold” if he were times, can be contradictory: He said he would numbers of arrests for minor transgressions is an ordinary New Yorker. drive down crime and repair strained relations unproven to this day,” Steve Zeidman, a law pro- The image was seized on by critics of the between police and the community. “Every law fessor at City University of New York, wrote in a administration and plastered on the cover of the enforcement official, every officer has to serve recent op-ed piece. Bratton has insisted that the New York Post with the headline “Who’s the the people in this city,” the mayor said. “The vast NYPD will stick with the tactic. He also has Boss!” “It is outrageously insulting to all police majority of people in the NYPD take that very, defended the powwow with Sharpton. “Whether officers to say that we go out on our streets to very seriously. If some individuals don’t, that’s a you like Al Sharpton or not, he clearly is a choke all people of color as Al Sharpton stated problem for us because we need people to go spokesperson, particularly for African- while seated at the table right next to our mayor out there and do our jobs and do them well.” Americans, and that is reality,” Bratton said in the at City Hall,” said Patrick Lynch, head of the pow- Along with rank-and-file discord, Garner’s AP interview. — AP BUENOS AIRES: Estela de Carlotto (right) the president of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo erful Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo), an association that seeks to reunite babies stolen Another union official, Ed Mullins of the during the military regime (1976-1983) with their biological parents or relatives, Sergeants Benevolent Association, hinted at a UN mulls resolution to hugs her grandson Guido, the son of her daughter Laura missing in 1976 and the work slowdown at the nation’s largest police 114th person identified by the group. — AFP department. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani even weighed tackle Iraq’s militants in, saying in a radio interview that de Blasio made Hawaii Dems face tough a “big mistake .... setting up a press conference UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council is month, but accelerated its plan after Islamic like that and putting a police commissioner in negotiating a draft resolution to tackle Islamic State fighters surged toward the capital of the that situation. That’s extremely damaging to the State militants by financially weakening the jiha- Kurdish region in Iraq. battles for Gov, Senate police commissioner, to keep up the morale of di Islamist group, stopping a flow of foreign UN diplomats, speaking on condition of the police.” In recent days, emails have circulated fighters, and threatening sanctions on those anonymity, said the council appeared unified in HONOLULU: As the final days of campaign- dates in the November general election, but among police officers showing a mock identifica- who recruit and help the group. Islamic State the face of the biggest threat to Iraq, a major oil ing drew to a close in Hawaii’s dramatic pri- such campaigns are longshots in heavily militants control a third of Syria’s territory and exporter, since Saddam Hussein was toppled by mary races, a pair of hurricanes thrashed Democratic Hawaii. tion card with a picture of Sharpton and the title “Police Commissioner.” The activist has shot back have captured wide swathes of northern Iraq a U.S.-led invasion in 2003. toward the islands. The storms posed consid- Schatz has outspent Hanabusa by more since June, declaring a caliphate. The Islamic State group, previously known as erable risk, but for Gov Neil Abercrombie, than $1 million, and his ads dominated the by claiming he has the ear of federal officials who have the authority to bring civil rights charges in The group has executed non-Sunni Muslim the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), they also represented an opportunity to cast airwaves. But Hanabusa has attracted many captives, displacing tens of thousands of people has long been blacklisted by the UN Security himself as a steady leader with a strong emo- of Inouye’s supporters, who felt it was disre- the death of Eric Garner. “It is time to have a mature conversation and drawing the first US airstrikes in the region Council - subjecting it to an asset freeze and tional connection to people in the state. He spectful for Abercrombie to disregard the since Washington withdrew troops in 2011. In a arms embargo - while Nusra Front was added hugged military response personnel, empha- political icon’s dying wish. Before his death, about policing rather than immature name call- ing and childish attempts to scapegoat,” boost to funding their operations they have this year. The draft resolution “calls upon all sized his national network of contacts and, Inouye told Abercrombie to appoint seized hundreds of millions of dollars from banks Member States to take national measures to even as forecasters predicted the storms Hanabusa as his successor. Abercrombie, Sharpton said in a statement. Bratton responded to the uproar by giving a series of interviews and captured five oil fields. suppress the flow of foreign terrorist fighters to would weaken and veer away, Abercrombie however, chose Schatz, his lieutenant gover- The British-drafted Security Council resolu- ISIL, ANF (Nusra Front) and all other individuals, reminded everyone to remain vigilant. “The nor. Hanabusa evoked Inouye’s name Friday defending his department’s record on race and de Blasio’s attitude toward the department. tion, obtained by Reuters, would condemn direct groups, undertakings and entities associated full brunt of the storm is still to come,” he said throughout the campaign, aligning herself or indirect trade with Islamic State and al Qaeda’s with al Qaeda.” Friday morning. with the traditional Hawaii political establish- “We are not a racist organization,” Bratton told The Associated Press. “And I will challenge any- Syrian wing Nusra Front and warns sanctions The council resolution would ask UN experts - Whether this final image will be decisive ment, while Schatz touted his endorsement could be imposed on those who do, urging charged with monitoring violations of the coun- body despite their perceptions of police on that for voters casting ballots remains to be seen. from President Barack Obama. “I feel as states to submit names of individuals and enti- cil’s al Qaeda sanctions regime - to report “within issue. This is a department that goes where the The incumbent governor faces a surprisingly though both candidates are equally qualified,” ties believed to support the groups. 90 days on the threat posed by ISIL, its sources of problems are - whether it’s crime or disorder.” De strong challenge from a fellow Democrat and said voter Paul Pollock, 60, who works in the The initial draft text, which the 15 council arms and funding, and recommendations for Blasio, he added, “is very pro-cop. ... This is not an early voting was heavily encouraged. It’s not maritime industry and voted for Schatz. “But members first discussed on Friday, names Islamic additional action to address the threat.” The draft the only race splitting the Democratic Party I’d like to shed the old guard, as it were, and anti-police mayor.” The rift stems from Eric State leaders to be sanctioned with an interna- resolution is under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, establishment. Rep Colleen Hanabusa is chal- give someone who wasn’t an Inouye desig- Garner’s arrest on suspicion of selling loose, tional asset freeze and travel ban. The resolution which gives the council authority to enforce lenging US Sen Brian Schatz to determine nate a chance.” As the storm winds died down untaxed cigarettes in Staten Island. Amateur could be voted on later this week, said Britain’s decisions with economic sanctions or military who will fill the shoes of the beloved Sen Friday, election officials assessed the impact video appears to show an officer putting the UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant. Britain initially force. However it does not mandate the use of Daniel Inouye. The winners of each race will and decided to press on with the scheduled asthmatic, 350-pound father of six in a banned aimed to adopt the resolution by the end of the military force to tackle the militants. — Reuters face Republicans and independent candi- primary. —AP chokehold after he refused to be handcuffed. He SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL ‘Kurdish Obama’ challenges perceptions, eyes presidency

ISTANBUL: Unthinkable just a few years violence. The United States, Turkey and the ago, Selahattin Demirtas’ bid for Turkey’s EU list the PKK as a terror group, and most highest office underscores how Kurdish poli- precursors to Demirtas’ People’s Democracy tics has entered the mainstream even as Party (HDP) have been outlawed for PKK Kurds in neighboring Syria and Iraq push for links. more autonomy. Peace talks between Turkey “That we have an outwardly Kurdish can- and Kurdish rebels, overseen by Prime didate from a Kurdish nationalist party is an Minister Tayyip Erdogan to try to end a incredible change,” said Aliza Marcus, author three-decade war, have brought two years of “Blood and Belief,” a book about the PKK. of calm and paved the way for Demirtas to “His campaign allows Turks to see Kurds in a run as Turkey’s first openly Kurdish presiden- different light ... beyond the image of terror- tial candidate. ists.” Thousands of Kurdish politicians and “My candidacy is merely the most visible activists spent up to five years in jail without aspect of how much Turkey has changed as conviction until most were released this year racism and extreme nationalist sentiment under a law linked to the peace process. In weaken,” Demirtas, 41, said in an interview. 1994, four Kurdish lawmakers were jailed for Though other Kurds have figured promi- a decade after taking the oath of office in nently in Turkish political history, some sup- Kurdish, a language banned outright until porters liken his candidacy to Barack 1991. Called “Mountain Turks,” Kurds’ ethnici- Obama’s run to become the first African- ty was denied. Politicians in the 1980s American US president. A big difference is claimed the name came from “kart kurt,” the that Demirtas is unlikely to win. Erdogan, a crunching sound made while treading in devout conservative credited with oversee- snow. ing a tripling of Turks’ wealth over the past Demirtas’ parents spoke Turkish and not decade, is the clear front runner to become their native Zaza dialect with their seven Turkey’s first popularly elected president in children. “They tried to assimilate us today’s election. because they knew the burden of being Two surveys last month put his support Kurdish,” he said. He was largely unaware of at upwards of 55 percent, despite a corrup- the Kurdish identity until he attended the tion scandal earlier this year, anti-govern- 1991 funeral of a prominent politician ment protests last summer and charges that believed murdered by security forces in he has polarized society along secular and Diyarbakir, the biggest Kurdish city. Eight religious lines. Main opposition candidate people died when gunmen opened fire on ANKARA: Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan wave flags of Turkey and others Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was 20 points mourners. “That event ... was the catalyst for bearing a picture of Erdogan from a balcony during an election rally in Ankara, ahead of today’s elections. —AFP behind, with Demirtas in a distant third with me to begin questioning politics,” said under 10 percent. Demirtas’ candidacy bur- Demirtas, who became a human-rights nishes Erdogan’s credentials as peacemaker activist. When violence between the PKK after he took a considerable political risk to and security forces peaked in the 1990s, Erdogan poised to win Turkish begin talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed Demirtas briefly contemplated joining the leader of the armed Kurdistan Workers Party group. “Every Kurdish youth thought of it (PKK) who in 1984 launched the uprising then,” he said. “But I chose to study at univer- first popular presidential vote that has claimed more than 40,000 lives. sity and become a human rights lawyer.” Erdogan attracts about half the votes of Kurds, who make up a fifth of Turkey’s 76 Broader platform Turks choosing president by direct vote for first time million people. But Demirtas rejects the idea Demirtas seeks to expand his base that his candidacy is Erdogan’s “gift to Kurds”. beyond the Kurdish vote. His party has ANKARA: Tayyip Erdogan is set to secure his place semi-presidential system,” said a senior official from Twitter or comments in recent weeks likening “Turkey is changing but this is due to our brought to parliament Turkey’s first Christian in history as Turkey’s first popularly-elected presi- his ruling AK Party. “Starting this Sunday, there will Israel’s offensive in Gaza to the actions of Hitler, efforts. If it were up to Tayyip Erdogan, he MP in 50 years and he champions broader dent today, but his tightening grip on power has be a new system.” Erdogan has drawn growing criticism in Western would have blocked my candidacy.” rights for gays. His aim, senior party officials polarized the nation, worried Western allies and Ihsanoglu, a diplomat and academic who was capitals and looked isolated internationally. Ihsanoglu’s supporters say Demirtas is divid- say, is to achieve at least 10 percent, the lev- raised fears of creeping authoritarianism. Erdogan’s ran the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for “His heart and his tongue are very closely con- ing the opposition, helping deliver victory to el his party would need to enter parliament core supporters, religious conservatives, see his like- nine years, is campaigning for a different style of nected. That has its costs sometimes, but nobody Erdogan, who, for his part, accuses Demirtas in next year’s general election. But for most ly rise to the presidency as the crowning achieve- presidency, avoiding the kind of bombastic podium can accuse him of not saying what he believes,” said of stoking Kurdish nationalist passions. As Turks, Demirtas is seen as too close to fig- ment of his drive to reshape Turkey. In a decade as speeches that Erdogan has been delivering at mass one official in Ankara. Turkey ranked second to US officials look to Kurds in Iraq, who want ures like Ocalan to ever be a palatable candi- prime minister, he has broken the hold of a secular rallies around the country. “The people are fed up Russia last year in the number of judgments against independence, to check Islamist militants, date, said Dogu Ergil, political science pro- elite that had dominated since Mustafa Kemal with this divisive rhetoric and mistakes. They are it at the European Court of Human Rights. More Kurds like Demirtas see their future within fessor at Fatih University. At a rally last week- Ataturk founded the modern republic on the ruins looking for a calm, dignified way of ruling,” than a quarter of the 108 rulings concerned viola- Turkey. end in Istanbul, Demirtas drew mainly of an Ottoman theocracy in 1923. Ihsanoglu said in an interview. “Supremacy of law tions of the right to liberty and security. “An Kurdish crowds. Turkish union members, Opponents see him as a modern-day sultan and justice have taken a big blow in Turkey. The almighty presidency implies polarizing discourse, New Kurdish image environmentalists and leftists came in small- whose roots in Islamist politics and intolerance of new president should work very hard to help implies keeping the rule of law back ... All of this is “Kurds and American blacks have had to er numbers. As Demirtas addressed the dissent are taking Turkey, a member of the NATO restore the independence and impartiality of the not EU-compatible,” Pierini said in a telephone brief- fight racism,” Demirtas said of comparisons crowd, youths with masked faces waved military alliance and European Union candidate, judiciary,” he said. ing with journalists. “Despite all this, you have a with Obama. “Our candidacies are important large banners with Ocalan’s smiling face, an ever further from Ataturk’s secular ideals. Erdogan Turkey which is heavily reliant on NATO for its secu- in the fight to make equality more of a reali- image not often seen outside of the mainly could, aides have said, serve two presidential terms Impulsive rity. It’s going to be a very difficult relationship.” ty.” Witty and with a toothy grin, Demirtas’ Kurdish southeast. “I feel very emotional and rule to 2023, the 100th anniversary of the secu- A strong Erdogan victory would mark an handsome image appears widely with his about being in this square with our flags fly- lar republic. Such symbolism is not lost on a leader extraordinary recovery from one of his most diffi- Turbulence ahead schoolteacher wife and two daughters, ing,” said Haydar, 55, a garbage man who whose passionate speeches are frequently laced cult years in office. He has bounced back from anti- In the weeks following his likely victory, Erdogan adjusting the image of Kurdish politicians didn’t give his surname. “I always hid that I with references to Ottoman history. “On the government demonstrations last summer, a cor- will chair AK Party meetings for the last time and among Turks with long memories of PKK was Kurdish. Now I feel pride.” —Reuters assumption that Erdogan wins, what we’re going to ruption scandal months later and a power struggle oversee selection of a new party leader, likely to be have is the beginning of a new era,” said Marc with his former ally, US-based cleric Fethullah his future prime minister. Under the constitution, Pierini, a former EU ambassador to Turkey and visit- Gulen. Erdogan accuses Gulen, whose network of Erdogan would have to break with the party once he ing scholar at the Carnegie Europe think tank. followers wield influence in the police and judiciary, is inaugurated on Aug 28. It is therefore vital for him Until now, Turkish presidents have been chosen of unleashing the graft scandal in a plot to oust him that a staunch loyalist heads the party he founded. by parliament but under a new law, the three candi- and has responded by purging institutions of those Should his influence over the party wane, Erdogan dates will face the national electorate as they com- thought to be loyal to the cleric. could struggle to force through the constitutional pete for a five-year term. Electoral rules ban the It is a battle he has vowed to pursue as presi- changes he wants to create an executive presidency, publication of opinion polls in the immediate run- dent. Timothy Ash, head of emerging markets a reform which requires either a two thirds majority up to the vote, but two surveys last month put research at Standard Bank in London, compares his in parliament or a popular vote. “Removing Erdogan Erdogan’s support on 55-56 percent. This is 20 tactical skills with those of past US and British lead- from the post of prime minister and putting him in points ahead of the main opposition candidate, ers. “Never bet against Erdogan, as he is simply a the position of president with a constitution he is Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, and enough to secure the brilliant political operator - a Turkish version of Bill unhappy with seems to be a recipe for instability,” simple majority needed to win in the first round. Clinton or Tony Blair in terms of their ability to feel said Sinan Ulgen, head of the Istanbul-based Centre Selahattin Demirtas, head of the pro-Kurdish left- and shape the mood of a majority of the nation,” for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies. wing People’s Democratic Party, was running a dis- Ash said in a recent note. Turkish financial markets Senior AK officials say foreign minister Ahmet tant third. would, he said, welcome a first round win as a sign Davutoglu, who has strong support within the party Erdogan has made no secret of his ambition to of continuity. Since founding the AK Party in 2001, bureaucracy and has been Erdogan’s right-hand man change the constitution and establish an executive Erdogan has overseen unprecedented growth and internationally, is the top choice to succeed him, presidency; he has also made clear that in the stability after a long period of economic chaos and although former transport minister Binali Yildirim is meantime he will exercise the full powers of the political drift. also trying to position himself for the job. Davutoglu post under Turkey’s existing laws. They give him the But there are longer-term concerns about too has declined to be drawn on his future but dismisses authority to convene cabinet meetings, as well as sharp a concentration of power in the hands of a any concerns about Turkey’s stability. appoint the prime minister and members of man whose views on the economy can be unortho- “Democracy is the backbone of our success,” he Turkey’s top judicial bodies, including the constitu- dox - such as his conviction that high interest rates told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday. “A popu- tional court and supreme council of judges. “When cause high inflation. Erdogan’s reactions when larly-elected president, a strong base of support for a man like Erdogan becomes the first popularly- threatened can appear impulsive and autocratic. our party and a strong prime ministry, all these will elected president, even if the constitution remains From a heavy-handed police crackdown on the motivate us ... There shouldn’t be any worry about DONETSK: Servicemen are in the WWII Soviet tank IS-3 captured from pro- unchanged, it will mean Turkey has switched to a protests last summer, to bans on YouTube and the future of Turkey.” —Reuters Russia militants at the position of the Ukrainian troops in Donetsk region yesterday. Fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine has left 13 troops dead in the last 24 hours, Ukraine’s military said yesterday. —AFP Third mass protest for Gaza in a month in UK Ukrainian soldiers LONDON: Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian Palestine” and holding up banners saying “UK - Stop bombardment and a ground incursion in Gaza has demonstrators marched through central London Arming Israel”. killed thousands. “We are calling for an end to the yesterday, demanding Britain take a tougher line The first two protests attracted at least 10,000 massacre and the recall of the UK parliament. Our surround Donetsk against Israel over its military assault on Gaza. The people each, according to police, although organiz- government must be forced to end its support for Palestinian Solidarity Campaign said 150,000 peo- ers said it was more like 50,000 each time. Police Israel’s siege of Gaza.” ple attended the march, the third major demon- declined to give a number for yesterday’s event. There were also fresh protests in Paris, which has DONETSK: Ukrainian forces have seized a The city, whose population was nearly 1 stration for Gaza in London in the past four weeks. Lindsey German, convenor of Stop the War seen several demonstrations related to the war in key town and are surrounding Donetsk, the million before the fighting but has seen Protesters packed the main shopping artery of Coalition, an umbrella group of NGOs, said: “The recent weeks. Several thousand people took part in largest insurgent-held city in eastern hundreds of thousands flee, has increasing- Oxford Street, marching to the US embassy and on level of anger is unprecedented. “The British gov- the march, calling for the end of “Israeli aggression”, Ukraine, a top rebel commander said yester- ly come under fire over the past weeks. to Hyde Park, many of them chanting “Free, Free ernment has remained silent whilst Israeli aerial with a heavy police presence in place to prevent day. The statement by Igor Girkin, a former Ukrainian officials deny that they are the violence seen at earlier protests. In Britain, the Russian special services officer, appeared to shelling civilians, as rebels claim, and say chairman of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, be a significant admission by the rebels that the rebels are putting rocket launchers in Hugh Lanning, told AFP recent turnouts had been Ukrainian government forces are gaining populated areas. “amazing”. “That level of support we have never the upper hand in the four-month-old fight. Explosions were also heard yesterday on seen before... The world supports Palestine,” he said. He said the town of Krasnyi Luch, which lies the northern outskirts near Donetsk’s airport. Sayeeda Warsi, a Foreign Office minister and the on one of two main roads between Donetsk Concerns are rising about a looming human- first Muslim to sit in the British cabinet, dramatically and the other rebel-held city of Luhansk, itarian catastrophe in Luhansk, where fight- resigned on Tuesday over what she said was the “has been taken by the enemy.” ing has been heavier and more prolonged. A government’s “morally indefensible” policy on Gaza. “The Donetsk-Horlivka group of the map released by the Ukrainian military Prime Minister David Cameron said he regretted fighters of Novorossiya is completely sur- shows Ukrainian forces near the outskirts of her decision, and said his government had rounded,” he said on a rebel social media Luhansk on three sides, with an opening to expressed grave concern over the civilian casualties page. Novosrossiya, or “New Russia,” is a other rebel-held territory only at the south. of the war and consistently called for a ceasefire. term widely used by the rebels for the east- Russian news agencies quoted Luhansk Yesterday, Cameron announced that medical ern area that seeks independence from the authorities as saying that the city has been experts from the state-run National Health Service government in Kiev. Horlivka, where rebels without water and electricity for a week and and Ukrainian forces are also fighting, is 30 most of its stores are closed. (NHS) would be deployed to the region within 48 kilometers north of Donetsk. Seizing Russia has been pushing for a humanitari- hours. “The conflict in Gaza has taken a terrible toll. Krasnyi Luch would cut off many routes to an mission into Luhansk, but the Ukrainian The UK has been at the forefront of humanitarian other parts of the rebel-held east. government in Kiev and Western countries efforts to help those affected and it is right that we A spokesman for the Ukrainian military suspect that could be a pretext for sending see what more we can do,” he said. Meanwhile a operation, Andriy Lysenko, told reporters in troops. Western countries say Russia has public appeal for aid for Gaza by the Disasters yesterday that he could not confirm that assembled some 20,000 troops just across Emergency Committee (DEC), on behalf of a num- the town was under government control. In the border. The International Committee of ber of British charities, had raised £4.5 million ($7.5 Donetsk, a city spokesman said at least one the Red Cross said it is stepping up work to million, 5.6 million euros) since its launch on Friday. person was killed and several injured yester- alleviate the crisis in eastern Ukraine but Israeli warplanes pummeled Gaza with 40 air strikes day in shelling of the city’s southern area. warned that any Red Cross aid convoy “will LONDON: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march along Oxford Street ahead of a mass yesterday as militants hit back with 14 rocket Spokesman Maxim Rovninsky also told The be taken in strict adherence to our funda- rally in support of the embattled Gaza Strip in London yesterday. —AFP attacks, leaving international mediators scrambling Associated Press that about 30 apartment mental working principles of neutrality, to rescue ceasefire talks. —AFP blocks came under fire during the night. impartiality, and independence.” —AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Ruff justice: India stray dogs to form security squad

NEW DELHI: Stray canines roaming the scare dogs away. “This initiative is meant to Indian capital may soon find themselves address two issues: take the strays off the attending police training school with civic streets, thereby tackling the dog menace, and authorities planning to turn the animals into make the city safer for residents,” added security dogs, reports said yesterday. New Shrivastava. There are no recent figures on Delhi residents have long informally adopted the number of dogs in Delhi but a 2009 city some strays as watchdogs for their homes survey put them at more than 260,000. and shops and fed them, but this marks the The reports did not say how many dogs first formal plan to turn them into municipal would be used in the security scheme or security dogs. City authorities said they when their training would start. Dogs will be would enlist police animal trainers to work fed and vaccinated under the plan, welcomed with the strays and press the canines into by animal rights activists. “This will engage service as guard dogs alongside a newly the street dogs with society and also benefit formed “May I Help You?” city security force people,” Radha Unnikrishnan, an animal rights which aims to assist the public and bolster activist, said. A 2001 law forbids killing roam- safety. ing dogs and the stray population has since “If these dogs are going to roam the soared, feeding off India’s infamous moun- NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Corp) area, they tains of street garbage as well as on kitchen might as well work,” the civic body’s chairman scraps given to them by residents. Hindus Jalaj Shrivastava told The Hindu newspaper. object to the killing of many types of animals. “Our plan is to adopt these strays and train But the stray population in cities across the them as guard dogs” to work with the public country has risen to such a level-estimates are security force - 40 officers have already been in the millions-that many officials are worried. deployed with the city planning to engage as many as 700, he said. But “we do not expect Many rabies victims street dogs to perform high-end security Cities across India already run sterilization activities” such as sniffing for dangerous sub- and vaccination programs but an estimated stances such as explosives, Shrivastava told 20,000 people die each year from rabies the Hindustan Times newspaper. infections in India, some 36 percent of the global annual total of 55,000, according to Stray dogs a menace World Health Organization figures. Many of While some stray dogs are friendly and the Indian rabies victims are children. A num- docile, others are more menacing, barking ber of India’s growing affluent class have dogs ferociously at strangers who wander down as pets. But most prefer pedigreed dogs, see- New Delhi streets, and there is a high inci- ing them as status symbols, and scorn so- dence of dog bites. Night watchmen doing called “Indian” mixed-breed mutts, known as their rounds often take a bamboo stick to “desi dogs”. — AFP AHMEDABAD: An Indian homeless man rests along with a stray dog on a footpath in Ahmedabad. — AFP Taleban command US urges India to step system ‘crippled’ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday said it neighbors. Both Kabul and Islamabad up as regional power has crippled the command and control accuse each other of not doing enough system of local Taleban militants adding to tackle cross border militancy while that the likelihood of a backlash to the Pakistan has long had frosty relationship ongoing military offensive in the trou- with India. “We need to have cordial rela- Washington, New Delhi share concerns over China bled northwest would be “minimal”. tions with our neighbors if we want to Addressing a national security confer- progress, Pakistan cannot live in isola- NEW DELHI: The United States urged India yes- of technology.” India’s cabinet has just cleared a ence in Islamabad, Prime Minister Nawaz tion. We don’t have relations with a single terday to bolster its role as a global power and proposal to allow 49 percent foreign participa- Sharif said the ongoing strikes against neighbor to be proud of,” he said. He force for regional stability, ahead of Prime tion in the defense industry, up from a current the militants were inevitable because added: “We want good relations with Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to cap of 26 percent, in a bid to boost local manu- peace talks had failed to proceed. But he India.” After sweeping to a landslide elec- Washington since his election in May. In a facturing and end its chronic dependence on played down the likelihood of militants tion victory last month, India’s Hindu speech wrapping up two days of talks, Defense arms imports. Some Western manufacturers being able to hit back. “If there is a reac- nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi Secretary Chuck Hagel also played up deepen- have been lukewarm about the raising of the tion to the operation Zarb-e-Azb it would invited Sharif to his inauguration in a sur- ing defense industry cooperation but did not cap on defense investment, saying it did not go be very minimal,” Sharif said in an address prise move seen as a significant olive have any major new arms export deals to far enough for them to transfer technology to broadcast live on television. branch to India’s Muslim neighbor. announce. “The United States strongly supports India. Pakistan began an offensive in the Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal India’s growing global influence and military northwest following a brazen attack on areas on the Afghan border have for capabilities including its potential as a security Laying the ground the country’s busiest airport in Karachi years been a hideout for Islamist mili- provider from the Indian Ocean to the greater Hagel’s visit, which followed Secretary of which killed dozens and left a nascent tants of all stripes-including Al-Qaeda Pacific,” Hagel told an invited audience. State John Kerry’s a week earlier, seeks to lay the peace process in tatters. More than 500 and the homegrown TTP as well as for- Both Washington and New Delhi share con- ground for Modi’s first trip to the United States, militants and 27 soldiers have been killed eign fighters such as Uzbeks and Uighurs. cerns about the increasing geopolitical where he will meet President Barack Obama at in the assault so far, according to the mili- Washington pressed Islamabad for years assertiveness of China, which from economic the end of September. The Hindu nationalist was tary, though their death toll for insur- to take action to wipe out sanctuaries in parity with India in 1980 now has an economy denied a US visa in 2005 over communal rioting gents cannot be independently con- North Waziristan, which militants have that is four times as large. India, which has in Gujarat three years earlier where, as state pre- firmed. In a statement issued to the used to launch attacks on NATO forces in embraced non-alignment since independence in mier, he faced criticism for failing to prevent the media after conference, military officials neighboring Afghanistan. More than 1947, long relied on the Soviet Union to equip killing of more than 1,000 people, mainly said they were confident that the com- 800,000 people have been forced to flee its armed forces. But, in recent years, it has Muslims. mand and control system of the Pakistani from North Waziristan by the assault, become the largest buyer of US weaponry. He has denied wrongdoing and was exoner- Taleban (TTP) had been “crippled”. The with most ending up in the nearby town Before Hagel’s visit, Indian officials played up ated in an investigation later ordered by the statement added that “all political and of Bannu. There have been fears that chances that orders for US Apache and Chinook Supreme Court. Modi has, in less than three religious parties agreed that state has to many top militants also fled, including helicopters, both made by Boeing, might months in power, practiced a ‘neighborhood fight and eliminate militancy”. fighters from the feared Haqqani net- advance. No announcement was made on those first’ foreign policy, inviting regional leaders to Sharif added that his nation needed work which is blamed for numerous deals but officials have said the two sides would his inauguration and making brief trips to to do more to improve relations with its bloody attacks in Afghanistan. — AFP deepen cooperation on missile systems. Bhutan and Nepal. In the weeks ahead, he will Hagel, in a speech at the Observer Research engage with India’s most important counter- Foundation, a privately funded think-tank, noted parts - first travelling to Japan, receiving Chinese that India had spent $9 billion on US defense President Xi Jinping and then heading to India’s ruling party gears equipment since 2008 - compared to half a bil- Washington. “Just as America need not choose up for next electoral test lion dollars before then. “But we can do more to between its Asian alliances and its constructive NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra forge a defense industrial partnership,” he said, relationship with China, India need not choose Modi looks on during a Bharatiya Janata calling to “transform our nations’ defense coop- between closer partnership with America and NEW DELHI: Leaders of India’s ruling the BJP’s election win, particularly its Party (BJP) National Council meeting at eration from simply buying and selling to co- improved ties with China,” said Hagel, who was Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi yes- Bharatiya Janata Party called on followers strong showing in Uttar Pradesh, India’s production, co-development and freer exchange due next to visit Australia. — Reuters yesterday to gear up for key state elections most populous state. But Shah, a trusted terday. — AFP in order to extend the Hindu nationalist loyalist of Modi and known as his political movement’s grip on the country. New trouble-shooter, is also seen as a controver- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who swept sial figure.His appointment has been criti- Pakistan police and protesters to power in May, promised to “fulfil the cised by BJP opponents who have voiced aspirations of the people”. Modi was elect- concern over inflammatory comments he ed on a platform of reviving sharply slow- made after anti-Muslim riots and also mur- ing economic growth and ending a string der and extortion charges he faces dating clash; four dead, 500 arrested of corruption scandals which marked the back to his time as home minister in Congress party’s decade-long rule. Gujarat state. LAHORE: Violence flared in several towns and hundred of their supporters were also injured and between Qadri supporters and police in the Both Modi and BJP president Amit Shah Shah has denied criminal charges cities in Pakistan yesterday between police and denied they had attacked the police. town of Bhakkar, 320 km southwest of the capi- paid tribute to the hard work of members against him, including allegedly ordering supporters of an anti-government cleric, killing at In several parts of Punjab, police tried to tal, said a doctor. Police said a police station had responsible for the party’s landslide nation- extrajudicial killings carried out by police least four people and injuring scores, police and block Qadri’s supporters from travelling to been burnt down and dozens of weapons seized al election win. Shah lauded the “unstinted and running an extortion racket with police witnesses said. Activist cleric Tahir ul-Qadri called Lahore, sparking confrontations and violence, in the central town of Qaidabad. sweat and hard work of these (party) foot in Gujarat. Like Modi, Shah rose through off a large protest rally planned in Lahore today. police and witnesses said. Two men and a In Lahore, Qadri’s supporters on Friday tried to soldiers”. But he said the right-wing party the ranks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Following a police crack down, he urged support- woman were killed in the district of Gujranwala, remove barricades that authorities put up around still had work to do with elections coming Sangh (RSS), a grassroots organisation seen ers to hold smaller protests in their home towns about 220 km southeast of Islamabad, said Qadri’s house, sparking clashes. The supporters up in key states. “If we work together with as the ideological fountainhead of the BJP, instead. “Pick up the bodies of the martyred and deputy inspector general of police Saad brought a crane to move shipping containers all our strength, we will have victory,” Shah committed to defending India’s Hindu cul- keep the bodies of the injured before you - but Bahrwana. Shopkeeper Muhammad Hussain blocking off the residence and threw stones at told the meeting of the party’s national ture. “The work of strengthening the BJP is protest peacefully,” Qadri said in a televised said those clashes began when police tried to police who tried to stop them by firing teargas. council, which includes parliamentarians, still left. We cannot rule for long if the par- address. “The government wants a massacre in stop Qadri supporters from travelling to Lahore. Police withdrew and women activists armed with chief ministers and legislators of all states ty’s reach does not expand,” Shah told the the name of a crackdown.” The violence, which Another man was shot dead during clashes batons surrounded Qadri’s house. — Reuters as well as party office bearers. party faithful. The BJP is gearing up for started on Friday, exacerbated tensions ahead of His speech came after the national elections in four states, including western the Lahore demonstration. Qadri had planned to council ratified his appointment as party Maharashtra and tense Jammu and protest against deadly clashes between his sup- president. Shah, a 50-year-old shrewd party Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majori- porters and police in June. strategist, is credited with helping engineer ty state. — AFP He has also condemned the government as corrupt and called for the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. A separate protest, led by opposition politician Imran Khan, is planned for the capital on Thursday to protest alleged elec- tion irregularities. He has also called for the gov- ernment to go. The planned demonstrations have unnerved Sharif’s fledgling civilian government. The nuclear-armed nation of 180 million has a his- tory of coups and street protests. Some members of the ruling party fear the protesters may be get- ting support from elements in the powerful mili- tary, which has had a series of disagreements with the government. The military denies med- dling in politics. Security was tight in Lahore yesterday with police manning checkpoints throughout the east- ern city, the home town of both Qadri and the prime minister, and the capital of Punjab, the country’s richest province. Around 500 Qadri sup- ALLAHABAD: A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, climbs his stilt-raised hut on the flooded porters had been arrested, said Nabeela banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India yesterday. The annual monsoon sea- Ghazanfar, the provincial police spokeswoman, LAHORE: Pakistani supporters of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) political party leader, son, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian and more than 100 police injured. The paramili- Canadian-based cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, shout slogans during a protest following clashes with economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill tary Rangers force patrolled the streets. Rahiq police in Lahore yesterday. — AFP thousands and submerge hundreds of villages. — AP Abbassi, a spokesman for Qadri, said more than a INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 Malaysia party ousts figure at heart of opposition row

KUALA LUMPUR: One of Malaysiaís main opposition old ruling regime. Khalidís refusal to budge has been bly is dissolved, or he is ordered to step down by due by 2018, but has met PAS resistance. parties yesterday expelled a top parliamentarian whose supported by key figures in the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Malaysiaís royalty. UMNO has overseen decades of solid economic refusal to vacate a key post threatens to break apart the Party (PAS) - a conservative Muslim party and Pakatan A former corporate executive, Khalid, 67, is respected progress but is accused of persistent corruption, rights countryís rising three-party opposition alliance. memberólaying bare deep inter-party rivalries in the by some for his running of the state, first won by the abuses and stirring racial and religious divisions in the Khalid Ibrahim was stripped of his membership in coalition. ìWe have sacked him for the open defiance of hard-charging opposition in 2008 and held in elections multi-ethnic country. The unwieldy Pakatan features the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (Peopleís Justice Party, PKR) over party decisions and Pakatan coalition decisions,î said last year. National power was retained by the long-ruling Muslim ethnic Malay PAS, the multi-racial PKR, and the his refusal to vacate the post of chief minister of PKR secretary general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. coalition dominated by the United Malays National Democratic Action Party dominated by ethnic Chinese. Selangor, Muslim-majority Malaysiaís richest and most The move is likely to anger Khalid supporters within Organization (UMNO), which has governed Malaysia Pakatan members have so far largely been able to paper populous state. PAS. PASís senior leadership was due to meet on August since independence in 1957. Opposition leader Anwar over their deep religious and social differences thanks to The affair is the worst crisis in the six-year history of 17 to decide a final stand by the party on Khalidís posi- Ibrahim has been angling to have his widely respected their recent electoral successes. But the Selangor the tripartite Pakatan Rakyat (Peopleís Pact) opposition tion. PAS leaders could not immediately be reached for wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, appointed Selangor boss, impasse is widely expected to do long-term harm to the coalition, which has made historic electoral gains by comment. Saifuddin said Khalid remains chief minister of nudging Khalid aside. The move is apparently part of coalitionís togetherness and its claim to be a stable, offering itself as an alternative to the countryís decades- Selangor until ousted by the state assembly, the assem- opposition positioning in advance of the next elections, viable alternative to the current regime. — AFP News in brief

14 Maoist insurgents killed in eastern India PATNA: Fourteen Maoist insurgents were killed yester- day in a pre-dawn gun battle between two rebel groups in eastern India, police said. It was the latest clash between factions of the ultra-leftist group. “We strongly feel that it was a revenge attack to prove supremacy,” Anurag Gupta, a senior officer of Jharkhand police said. Police said Maoists gunned down members of a rival group in Palamu district of the mineral rich state of Jharkhand. The police said the rebel group behind the killings left pamphlets at the site of killings. Separatist and Maoist insurgencies affect large swathes of India’s northeast, northwest and central regions. The rebels say they are fighting author- ities for land, jobs and other rights for poor tribal groups. The Maoist insurgency has cost thousands of lives. The rebels are believed to be present in at least 20 Indian states but are most active in forested, resource-rich areas in the states of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra.

Tunisia coastguard rescues 90 illegals NAPYIDAW: US Secretary of State John Kerry (3rd left) speaks to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (2nd right) during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 47th ZARZIS: Tunisian coastguards yesterday intercepted Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) in Naypyidaw yesterday. — AFP 90 African migrants whose makeshift boat heading from Libya for the Italian island of Lampedusa broke down off Zarzis, the Red Crescent said. “At 0500 GMT Sea row overshadows US, the Tunisian coastguard rescued 90 African illegal migrants from a makeshift vessel after it broke down off Zarzis” in southern Tunisia, Red Crescent official Mongi Slim said. The illegal migrants, who China, Southeast Asia talks included four women and a child, two days ago left the Libyan port of Zwara some 60 kilometers from the border with Tunisia, bound for Italy. Slim said those rescued were 31 Sudanese, 19 Somalis, 18 Eritreans, 10 Nigerians, 6 Moroccans and 6 Chadians. China vows ‘firm reactions’ to defend its interests He said the 90 were now being cared for at Zarzis where they will be housed temporarily by UNHCR NAYPYIDAW: China yesterday vowed other countries. The reach of its claims has voluntarily agree to step back from any Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh. refugee agency pending a decision on their fate. In “clear and firm reactions” to defend its stirred years of diplomatic protest from actions that could “complicate or escalate The top US diplomat, who fought in the early June, more than 200 African migrants trying to interests in the South China Sea but reject- ASEAN states Brunei, Malaysia, the disputes”. Vietnam War, hailed “progress” in relations, make an illegal crossing to Europe aboard a large ed suggestions of aggression, as America’s Philippines and Vietnam, which also claim In May relations between China and adding that issues such as communist fishing boat were also intercepted off Zarzis. Rickety top diplomat urged restraint from all parts of the sea, while Taiwan is a sixth Vietnam sank to their lowest point in Vietnam’s rights record would continue to boats carrying would-be immigrants often depart claimants to the bitterly contested waters. claimant. While China always acted with decades after Beijing moved a deep-sea oil be discussed as part of efforts “to really from Tunisia and Libya for Lampedusa, an Italian A series of incidents between Beijing and “self restraint”, Wang warned “for those rig into disputed waters near the Paracel bring this relationship to its full blossom”. island off the Tunisian coast. Hundreds of people several other nations with territorial claims groundless provocative activities, the Islands, triggering deadly anti-China riots But his discussions with ASEAN members lost their lives off Lampedusa last October 2013, and to the sea has sent tensions soaring across Chinese side is bound to make clear and in Vietnam. Beijing has since removed the appear set to be pegged to the South in late February, the Tunisian navy had to rescue Southeast Asia and spurred Washington to firm reactions.” rig, in a move that analysts say was aimed China Sea issue with increasing disquiet some 100 migrants whose boat started taking on call for a halt to any activities that could at deflecting accusations of aggression. among some member states over China’s water off Tunisia. worsen regional maritime relations. ‘Common responsibility’ The 2002 declaration is non-binding, a regional ambitions. Washington had said Animosity over the South China Sea, a US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is sticking point for ASEAN nations. The discussions of the South China Sea at the crucial maritime route that is also believed in Naypyidaw for the regional meet, called Philippines is at the forefront of a push for ASEAN Regional Forum today are expected Lebanon death to hold huge oil and gas deposits, is domi- on all parties to refrain from actions that a legally watertight code of conduct for to be robust, but a State Department offi- toll reaches 18 nating Association of Southeast Asian could deepen maritime hostilities. the seas-something China rejects, prefer- cial insisted the US was not looking for a BEIRUT: A Lebanese army soldier died yesterday of Nations (ASEAN) talks in Myanmar, which Speaking ahead of bilateral talks with the ring to negotiate on a bilateral basis with “showdown” with China. wounds sustained in clashes with jihadists near the began Friday and are broadening to 10-member ASEAN, Kerry said the US its rivals. While insisting Beijing was ready A draft statement from ASEAN foreign Syrian border, raising the number of troops killed in include key world powers ahead of securi- shared a “common responsibility” with the to listen to “well-intentioned proposals”, ministers, who met Friday, said the bloc the fighting to 18, the army said. The fighting broke ty discussions today. “The position of bloc to “ensure the maritime security of Wang urged Manila to drop a legal chal- had “serious concern” over recent develop- out on August 2 when jihadists from Syria attacked China to safeguard its own sovereignty, critical global seas lanes and ports”. “What lenge it has filed with the United Nations ments in the disputed sea. It also called for army and police posts in the eastern Lebanese town of maritime rights and interests is firm and happens here matters, not just in this over China’s claims to the most of the sea. an end to “destabilizing actions” in wording Arsal after the arrest of a militant accused of belong to unshakeable,” Chinese Foreign Minister region and to the United States, but it mat- that is likely to have proved contentious for Syrian Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front. During the Wang Yi told reporters following a meeting ters to everybody in the world to see a US charm offensive China’s supporters within ASEAN-no final fighting, 19 soldiers and 17 policemen were seized by with ASEAN counterparts in the Myanmar Southeast Asia that continues to grow Kerry’s trip is seen as part of a wider US statement had been released. Today’s ARF the militants and are still being held hostage. The capital Naypyidaw. based on rules-based international law,” he foreign policy pivot to reinvigorate will bring together ASEAN foreign ministers Lebanese army began deploying into Arsal on Friday, Beijing claims sovereignty over almost added. Quoting a 2002 declaration of con- alliances in the Asia-Pacific. He kicked off and key partners, including the US, after a group of Sunni clerics negotiated a truce that the entire sea including waters, islands, duct for the disputed region-also signed his Southeast Asian diplomatic charm Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, saw jihadists withdraw. — AFP reefs, shoals and rocky outcrops nearer to by China-Kerry urged claimant states to offensive with a meeting with his Russia and the European Union. — AFP Japan issues alert; Halong barrels towards southwest

TOKYO: Japan’s weather agency yesterday against a rise of rivers, floods as well as dam- issued evacuation instructions-stricter than issued its highest alert as Typhoon Halong age from landslides in Mie prefecture,” the advisories but still not compulsory-to some barreled towards the southwest of the coun- agency said on its website. 512,000 residents in total, city officials and try, warning of heavy rain and strong winds Satoshi Ebihara, the Japanese weather local media said. from a storm that has grounded more than agency’s chief forecaster, also told a televised “We are strongly urging our residents to 470 flights. The warning means that the storm news conference that the levels of torrential evacuate, while we are hurriedly setting up poses a threat to life and could inflict massive rain monitored in Mie were already “unprece- temporary shelters across the city,” a Yokkaichi damage, the meteorological agency said. The dented”. “We are in an abnormal situation official said. Typhoon Halong, packing winds alert was issued for Mie prefecture, some 300 where serious danger is imminent,” Ebihara of up to 180 kilometers per hour, could make kilometers west of Tokyo, as the outer bands said. “Please follow evacuation advisories from landfall in southwest Japan today, according of the storm were already lashing the region your local communities without any delay,” he to the agency. Television footage showed and other areas of southwestern Japan, the added. “Please do your best to protect your high waves triggered by the typhoon splash- agency said. “Please remain on the alert lives.” Yokkaichi and Suzuka, in northern Mie, ing over breakwaters and muddy torrents roaring down a swollen river. Storms and tor- KABUL: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah arrives for an interview rential rain earlier this week have left one with AFP at his residence in Kabul yesterday. — AFP dead and seven injured, public broadcaster NHK said. At least 473 flights were cancelled due to Abdullah: Afghanistan the typhoon, which came as Japan had just begun its annual “Obon” summer holiday, entering ‘a new phase’ NHK said. Most ferry and train services on the southwest island of Shikoku were cancelled, KABUL: Afghan presidential candidate audit of all 8.1 million votes cast during the while highways were closed at several points. Abdullah Abdullah said yesterday that his second round of voting under a previous deal Over the next 24 hours, the storm was expect- country was entering “a new phase” in an overseen by Kerry but it soon frayed due to ed to dump 70 centimeters of rain on Shikoku, interview with AFP, raising hopes that a bitter disagreements. which had already been lashed by downpours dispute over fraud-tainted elections might Under the terms of the new agreement, a from another typhoon last weekend, the soon be resolved. Abdullah and his bitter national unity government will undertake a national weather agency said. The agency rival Ashraf Ghani vowed Friday to work comprehensive political reform program. A together whoever becomes president in a new position-”government chief executive also warned of major landslides and floods in unity government deal that was overseen by officer”-will be created by presidential decree. other areas of southwestern Japan, while local US Secretary of State John Kerry during a vis- Within two years, after constitutional authorities in Tokushima in Shikoku issued an it to Kabul to mediate an end to the impasse. changes, the position of “executive prime evacuation advisory to some 44,100 residents, The feud threatens to revive ethnic con- minister” will also be created, raising the pos- officials said. flict in the war-weary nation as US-led NATO sibility of the two men’s camps working in The typhoon, which was about 120 kilome- troops withdraw after more than a decade in tandem whoever is declared the winner. ters off Shikoku’s southern tip at 0900 GMT, the country. “I’m hopeful but I’m not saying Abdullah stressed that the vote audit was moving northeast at 15 kilometers per that we are at the end of the road. We are at must be completed in time to have a new hour, the agency said. Halong comes a month the beginning of a new phase,” Abdullah said. president before a NATO summit in Britain on after Typhoon Neoguri killed several people Abdullah had refused to accept preliminary September 4-5 - a key demand of the US. The and left a trail of destruction in southern results from the second round of voting that summit is scheduled to endorse a US-led Japan. Last weekend, a man drowned in a rag- put Ghani ahead, a reversal of the first round NATO “training and advisory” mission in ing river while more than half a million people where he came out strongly in the lead. Both Afghanistan next year after all foreign com- were advised to evacuate as heavy rain from candidates accused each other of trying to bat troops withdraw by December. “The TSU, MIE: Vehicles drive down a flooded road in the city of Tsu, Mie prefecture as Typhoon Typhoon Nakri lashed the country. — AFP steal the election by massive ballot-box stuff- timeline is a concern for everybody including Halong brings rain yesterday. — AFP ing. The feuding opponents agreed to an our friends. —AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Rare diary gives details of life under Khmer Rouge

PHNOM PENH: It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was starved ... and this story is rarely told.” was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood- Diary fills 100 pages and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Written in Khmer, the diary fills about 100 pages and is Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary divided into two sections. The first summarizes Younly’s family vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, history, an era spanning French colonial rule, the Japanese the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in occupation during World War II, and his arranged marriage to social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians his then 15-year-old wife. The rest, written as a letter from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution. addressed to his children, describes life under the Khmer Rouge and is dated only at the start and the end - Feb 9 and Question haunts Cambodia July 29, 1976, with a final post-script entered a few days later. Acutely aware that he could be killed if discovered, Younly When Khmer Rouge forces seized Phnom Penh on April 17, hid the diary inside a clay vase. In those dark days, when reli- 1975, the couple was living with eight of their children in a gion and schools were banned and anyone deemed educated rural town called Kampong Chhnang. Three days later, the was a threat, he had no right to own so much as a pen and guerrillas arrived and residents - including Younly - cheered, paper. “Why is it that I have to die here like a cat or a dog ... relieved the war was finally over, his 86-year-old widow Som without any reason, without any meaning?” he wrote in the Seng Eath recalled. spiral-bound notebook’s last pages. Four decades later, that But within hours, everything changed. Every soul was question still haunts Cambodia. ordered to leave on foot. The Khmer Rouge were emptying Younly did not survive that era. But his diary did. It was Cambodia’s cities, marching millions of people into the coun- part of the vast case file which this week helped convict the tryside to work as manual laborers. Their aim was to create an only two surviving Khmer Rouge leaders still facing justice - agrarian communist utopia, but they were turning the 83-year-old former president Khieu Samphan and 88-year-old Southeast Asian nation into a slave state. Younly “didn’t Nuon Chea, right-hand man of the group’s infamous late believe what was happening. He kept saying, ‘Don’t worry, leader, Pol Pot. On Thursday, a U.N.-backed tribunal sentenced we’ll be back soon, don’t pack much,’” his widow said. She both men to life in prison for crimes against humanity - a ver- ignored his advice, and took as much as she could - including dict that many believe was too little, and far too late. five of her husband’s school notebooks, and several blue ink PHNOM PENH: In this photo taken, writings from Younly’s diary book are permanently displayed at the Made public for the first time last year, the diary is aston- pens. Documentation Center of Cambodia’s office, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. — AP ishingly rare - one of just four known firsthand accounts As gunshots rang, they joined the departing hordes, ging canals, building roads and dikes, planting vegetables and Aug 1, 1976, he wrote a postscript on the final page, asking his penned by victims and survivors while the Khmer Rouge were cradling their young children and whatever they could carry. digging ponds,” Younly wrote. “We worked 10 to 13 hours a family to take care of the diary. Hours later, he was taken away in power, compared to 453 such documents written by com- As they walked into the night, people wept. Younly recounts day.” Food supplies dwindled, and Younly and his wife grew so by the regime to help lift a palm tree that had fallen in a pad- munist cadres at the time. It is “the story of all of us who sur- marching through forests and mountains for nearly two desperate they traded clothes and a treasured family locket dy field. In fact, authorities had come to arrest him because vived,” said Youk Chhang, who runs the Documentation Center weeks. Along the way, most of their possessions were confis- for salt, sugar and medicine. one of his sons had attempted to exchange an Omega watch of Cambodia, which has amassed millions of documents, pho- cated, including four of the notebooks and a prized camera The following month, Younly fell ill. He could not work, but Younly had bought in America 15 years earlier for fermented tographs, films and verbal testimonies from the Khmer Rouge Younly had bought during a government visit to inspect he had the privacy to write. Months later, he began sensing fish. era. When the Khmer Rouge were in charge, everything schools in the United States in 1961. Ominously, they began his end was near. “By now, my body resembles a corpse, thin Private property was illegal; hiding it was worse. “I never belonged to the revolution, he said. “You owned nothing. Not hearing talk of execution sites ahead - what would later with only skin and bones,” he wrote. “I have no energy, and my saw him again,” Som Seng Eath said, tears streaming down her even your life story.” become known as Cambodia’s “killing fields.” hands and legs tremble. No power, no strength. I cannot walk wrinkled cheeks 38 years later. Younly died several weeks later, Younly’s account is vital because people like Khieu far or do heavy work. Everyone works like animals, like in a nearby prison where he was kept chained to the ground. Samphan and Nuon Chea have tried to cast doubt over atroci- The Organization machines, without any value, without hope for the future.”At Som Seng Eath says the diary is too painful to read now. She ties committed during their rule. The majority of Cambodians On May 1, they reached the village of Chumteav Chreng one point, Younly writes of his regret at not being able to see says she didn’t understand its importance at the time. But she living today were born after the Khmer Rouge were ousted in and settled. The new authorities, known as “Angkar” - “The all of his children. His two oldest sons were elsewhere in the can never forget what he said about it. “He once looked up at 1979, and even those who survived can forget how bad it was. Organization” - soon “ordered all of our clothes to be dyed country. The rest were forced to live in other parts of the vil- me and said, ‘Protect this no matter what, even if I die.’” His “People forget how hungry we were,” said Youk Chhang, who black,” Younly wrote. The evacuees were organized into work lage, working in mobile children’s work units. widow kept the diary safe for two decades, then passed it on still has dark scars on his legs from shackles he was held in by units. Children were separated from their parents, and put to “Let me die,” he continued. “Let my destiny take me wher- to one of her daughters. It was the daughter’s husband who Khmer Rouge soldiers for two months. “It’s hard to describe to work in special units of their own. “We worked day and night ever it goes ... My children, I miss you; I love you.” Younly wrote suggested giving the notebook to the documentation center young people what starvation felt like. But the whole nation clearing wood to make arable land, uprooting the trees, dig- until there were no pages left to write on, his wife said. On to protect the fragile, yellowed pages of history. — AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Jesse Washington

t was supposed to be over, America’s war in Iraq. So all the old emotions boiled up anew as Americans absorbed the Inews that US bombs were again striking targets in the nation where the United States led an invasion in 2003, lost almost 4,500 troops in the fight to stabilize and liberate it and then left nearly three years ago. In interviews across the coun- try, from the 9/11 memorial in New York to the Iowa State Fair and an Arizona war monument, Americans voiced conflicted feelings as airstrikes began Friday, ordered by President Barack Obama who had fulfilled a campaign promise when he with- drew the last US forces from Iraq in 2011. Many supporting the decision to bomb now did so for con- trasting reasons. Those opposed said the US never should A test of Obama’s use of force doctrine have invaded Iraq in the first place, but they also struggled with America’s obligation to the ravaged, upended nation, which has endured violence between rival Islamic sects and, By Julie Pace shift from a theoretical argument about using force to Obama has used military force on humanitarian recently, the ruthless onslaught of the militant group calling actually doing just that will test the scope and applica- grounds once before. When the US joined NATO allies in itself the Islamic State. n making the case for US airstrikes in Iraq, President tion of Obama’s policy. Already Obama is facing the a bombing campaign over Libya in 2010, Obama cited the There was one constant across Americans’ opinions: Barack Obama is drawing on the doctrine involving question of why Iraq’s besieged religious minorities are risk of an imminent massacre of civilians in Benghazi as Nobody could envision a concrete solution to Iraq’s problems. Ithe use of American force that he outlined less than worthy of US military support, but not those in the civil the rationale. Critics of the White House foreign policy say Neil McCanon, who was deployed to Iraq for four months as an three months ago, when it seemed he was trying to war in Syria, where 170,000 people have died. The same that if Obama had applied a similar doctrine to Syria, he armored crewman in the Army, said the US should not have avoid potential US military action anywhere. In a late question could apply to the violence in the Central could have averted the current crisis in Iraq. The Islamic African Republic or the Congo. State group that’s pressing through Iraq has its roots in gone into Iraq in 2003. “I felt like it was not really justified, and May speech at the US Military Academy, Obama said he would use military force under two scenarios: a direct Frederic Hof, a senior fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center Syria. It strengthened amid the instability of the Syrian it was proven to be unjustified after we got there,” he said, threat against Americans or US interests, and a humani- for the Middle East, said that even though he welcomed civil war before advancing across the border into Iraq. referring to the never-found Iraqi weapons of mass destruc- tarian crisis on a scale that he said would “stir the con- Obama’s decision in Iraq, it was inevitable that “those There has been little overt criticism of the president’s tion, the alleged threat cited to justify the war. science.” who have called for a similar humanitarian intervention decision to launch attacks aimed at protecting Americans. But he thought Friday’s airstrikes, which targeted Islamic On Thursday night, when Obama announced that he in Syria will wonder why Iraq and why not Syria”. Obama’s But there are questions about the scope of the mission, State militants who have conquered swaths of Iraq and Syria, had authorized airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops in advisers say there are important differences between which appears focused on containing the Islamic State, were the right thing to do. “These are bad guys, there’s no Iraq, he argued that both conditions were being met. Iraq and Syria. Officials note that Obama is undertaking but not wiping out the militant group all together. “A poli- question about that. The only question is where do we use “When the lives of American citizens are at risk, we will military action in Iraq at the invitation of that country’s cy of containment will not work,” Republican senators force and how much, I guess,” said McCanon, who now is co- take action,” Obama declared Thursday. “And when many government, while in Syria, US intervention would aim to John McCain and Lindsey Graham said in a joint state- owner of the Virginia Beach-based Young Veterans Brewing thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger oust Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. ment. The lawmakers, who have been among Obama’s Company. of being wiped out and we have the capacity to do Officials also say that the ties built between the US and chief foreign policy critics, called the Islamic State “inher- One of the main reasons McCanon voted for Obama was something about it, we will take action.” Iraq during nearly a decade of war have left the military ently expansionist” and warned that “the longer we wait because he promised to end the war. He trusts Obama’s US military jets have conducted several airstrikes on with significant intelligence and surveillance resources to act, the worse this threat will become.” pledge not to send ground troops, but where exactly to draw militant targets near Iraq’s Kurdish capital of Irbil, home that provide keen insight into the situation there. Such The White House says it would not launch a broader the line about the use of force remains an open question for to a US consulate and about three dozen American mili- resources, officials say, do not exist in Syria. “While there campaign to help Iraq push back the militants unless the him. “That’s something I’m just conflicted on as a soldier and tary trainers. The US military also has undertaken two air- are lessons that can be drawn from our involvement in country addresses a fractured political system that US someone who spent time there. I don’t want the place to fall drops of food and water for Iraqis under siege from the other places, there is no direct correlation between action officials say created the space for the Sunni extremists to into chaos,” McCanon said. Islamic State group, and Obama has authorized strikes if in one place and action in another in terms of guiding the take hold. Even if Iraq can mend its politics, Obama insists Tom Lord, a 60-year-old retired firefighter from Fort needed to protect the civilians. decisions that are made solely by the consequences for he would not put American combat troops on the ground Lauderdale, Florida, who was visiting Manhattan’s 9/11 memo- The deteriorating situation appears to fall within the American national security,” White House spokesman Josh in Iraq, nor would he allow the country to be “dragged rial Friday, said he supports the new bombing, even though he parameters for military action Obama outlined. Yet the Earnest said. back” into a lengthy war there yet again. —AP disagrees with most of Obama’s other decisions. “I would hope they send troops, but I don’t believe Obama will. We need to go over there and establish peace again, or at least try to,” he said. Hamas plays dangerous poker game in Cairo Lord supported the original 2003 invasion. He thought the latest problems were a result of Obama pulling troops out too soon: “They needed to train up the Iraqis more than they did. By Guillaume Lavallee, Jonah Mandel looking for some kind of compromise that “Egypt has no problem seeing Gazans the moment Israel has hit back only with air They pulled out way too soon and now look what happened.” would give it “an honourable exit”. The buckle under the burden,” he told AFP. “In strikes. It recalled all ground troops from “There’s a direct connection to that and what is happening imited skirmishes or a new round of Islamist movement may have inflicted that aspect, Israel might have even disap- Gaza earlier this week and there is no immi- now,” Lord said, speaking near the South Tower reflecting pool, killing? Friday’s resumption of hostil- greater losses on Israel in the battlefield pointed Egypt a bit for not doing to nent sign of tanks rolling back across the with the sound of rushing waterfalls in the background. “When Lities may see Hamas overplay its than it expected to, but it has been forced Hamas what Egypt would have done to border. “If they want to stop the rocket fire you have a void, terrorists are going to fill it in. The US needs to hand in a dangerous poker game that into a corner and lost an ally in Egypt. The them if it were up to them,” he added. you have to go with ground forces, you play mother over everybody else to lead them and guide them could plunge Gaza back into chaos, ana- overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi, have to occupy the Gaza Strip. But nobody and take care of them,” he added. lysts said. Palestinian militants fired two whose Muslim Brotherhood movement is Ground Offensive? has said that,” she said. Does that mean America is still responsible for protecting rockets at Israel in the final hours of a 72- close to Hamas, has seen Cairo lash out Its battlefield achievements have given “Israel did not want to go in, to conquer Iraq, years after handing the country control of its own future? hour truce and followed it up with dozens Timothy Broxson in downtown Pensacola, Florida, answered more as Israel hit back with unrelenting this way: “I don’t know if it is our responsibility, but I believe it is air strikes. At least 1,898 Palestinians have the right thing to do.” Broxson, 57, whose father and brother been now killed, including around 450 are military veterans, said, “I believe we should help.” “It is a children, thousands of homes have been slaughter,” he said of the militants’ advance, “and we need to do something about it.” reduced to rubble and around a quarter Pausing at the Iowa State Fair, Doyle Ellis of New Virginia, of the 1.8 million people in Gaza dis- Iowa, said he thinks the airstrikes are the right move but will placed. draw America back into Iraq for several more years. Yet the 61- Israel endured its worst military losses - year-old post office employee is conflicted: “Sometimes I feel 64 soldiers - since its 2006 war against like we shouldn’t be over there.” “I don’t think that we should Hezbollah in Lebanon - and three civilians be running their country,” echoed Kevin Meyers, 42, an unem- - one of them a Thai agricultural worker - ployed roofer who was pausing near the World War II memorial were killed on the home front. Indirect in Phoenix. However, he added, “Being the United States of talks between the Israelis and America, we’ve always stepped in when people are not being Palestinians, whose delegation includes treated fairly. I think we do have a responsibility, especially Hamas, have stretched for days in Cairo since the Christian minority is being target by the extremists.” but Egyptian mediators have struggled to Chris Turpen of Chandler, Arizona, a 45-year-old architec- reconcile conflicting demands. Hamas tural project manager, also sees a US responsibility to Iraq. That wants Israel to lift the blockade it troubles him. “Once you break it, you own it. But it’s a war that imposed on Gaza in 2006 before it will will never be won,” Turpen said. The Islamic State fighters are stop rocket attacks. Israel has conditioned fanatics who “will never go away,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, reconstruction on the demilitarisation of we should kill every one of them, but we’ll never get there. Gaza. These are people that just hate America.” He thinks that Obama “had to go back in.” The president has promised not to send Easing the Blockade ground troops, but Turpen would not mind if that happened. Hamas sees lifting the blockade, which “It’s a classic example of choosing the wrong that’s more right,” Egypt has also partially imposed with the he said. —AP closure of the Rafah border crossing, as the minimum it can take home to a war- battered Gaza Strip. “Clearly they are not going to get it. Question is how much All articles appearing on these easing will they get?” says Nathan Thrall, pages are the personal opinion of from the International Crisis Group. The the writers. Kuwait Times takes no armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine Al- responsibility for views expressed Qassam Brigades, has insisted on a sea A man cleans the inside of a room in his home (top right) as Palestinian emergency workers try to retrieve the body therein. Kuwait Times invites read- port and the building of an international of a man that was killed when the Al-Qassam mosque was targeted by an Israeli air strike in the early morning hours airport in Gaza. Israel will not counte- in Nuseirat in Gaza City yesterday. —AFP ers to voice their opinions. Please nance it. “Any boat would be able to send submissions via email to: opin- enter without being checked and Israel hard against Hamas, destroying its tun- Hamas at least a temporary boost in popu- Gaza, to progress too deep,” said Yoram [email protected] or via snail will never accept that,” warned Thrall, nels on the Egyptian side of the border larity in Gaza, but it is under huge pressure Schweitzer, a former counter-terrorism chief pointing out that a port would simply and freezing out the movement. to prove to people at home that the mas- in the Israeli military. But if the conflict gets mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. give Hamas a new means to smuggle in Kobi Michael, a political scientist at sive Palestinian losses were worth some- bogged down and the sides can’t reach an The editor reserves the right to edit rockets. Ariel University in the occupied West thing. Former Israeli government spokes- acceptable agreement, “Israel would have to any submission as necessary. Naji Charab, a political affairs expert at Bank, said Israel’s most important alliance woman Miri Eisin told AFP that Hamas decide if it changes its policy and enters Al-Azhar University in Gaza, says Hamas is in the Middle East had become Cairo. wanted to see how Israel will respond. For Gaza for a wider operation,” he said. —AFP NEWS SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

Surfers and body boarders wait for waves at Sandy Beach Park in Honolulu on Friday. — AP White students no longer a majority at US schools

KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania: The cheerful sign out- Issues of race and ethnicity in schools also can be more out the district’s diverse schools “because they realize it’s not who on average enter kindergarten academically behind side Jane Cornell’s summer school classroom in subtle. In Pennsylvania’s Kennett Consolidated School a homogenous world out there”. The changes in the district their white and Asian peers. They are more likely to attend Pennsylvania’s wealthiest county reads “Welcome” and District, Superintendent Barry Tomasetti described parents from mostly middle-to-upper class white to about 40 per- failing schools and face harsher school discipline. Later, they “Bienvenidos” in polished handwriting. Inside, giggling who opt to send their kids to private schools in Delaware cent Hispanic was in part driven by workers migrating from have lower standardized test scores, on average, fewer grade-schoolers who mostly come from homes where after touring diverse classrooms. Other families, he said, seek Mexico and other countries to work the mushroom farms. opportunities to take advanced classes, and are less likely to Spanish is the primary language worked on storytelling with “We like our diversity,” Tomasetti said, even as he acknowl- graduate. As the school age population has become more a tale about a crocodile going to the dentist. This poster and edged the cost. He has had to hire English language instruc- nonwhite, it’s also become poorer, said Patricia Gandara, co- classroom at the Mary D Lang Kindergarten Center are a tors and translators for parent-teacher conferences. He has director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA who serves on subtle representation of America’s changing school demo- cobbled money together to provide summer school for President Barack Obama’s advisory Commission on graphics. many young English language learners who need extra Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Roughly one-quarter of For the first time, US public schools are projected to have reading and math support. “Our expectation is all of our kids Hispanics and African-Americans live below the poverty line more minority students than non-Hispanic whites, a shift succeed,” he said. - meaning a family of four has nearly $24,000 in annual largely fueled by growth in the number of Hispanic children. The new majority-minority status of America’s schools income - and some of the poorest of Hispanic children are Non-Hispanic white students are still expected to be the mirrors a change that is coming for the nation as a whole. dealing with the instability of being in the country illegally or largest racial group in the public schools this year at 49.8 The Census Bureau estimates that the country’s population with a parent who is, Gandara said. percent. But according to the National Center for Education also will have more minorities than whites for the first time Focusing on teacher preparation and stronger curriculum Statistics, minority students, when added together, will now in 2043, a result of higher birth rates among Hispanics and a is “not going to get us anywhere unless we pay attention to make up the majority. About one-quarter of the minority stagnating or declining birth rate among blacks, whites and the really basic needs of these children, things like nutrition students are Hispanic, 15 percent are black and 5 percent are Asians. Even as the population becomes more diverse, and health and safety, and the instability of the homes,” she Asian and Pacific Islanders. Biracial students and Native schools are becoming more racially divided, reflecting US said. This transformation in school goes beyond just educat- Americans make up an even smaller share of the minority housing patterns. The disparities are evident even in the ing the children. Educators said their parents also must feel student population. youngest of black, Hispanic and Native American children, comfortable and accepted in schools — AP The shift brings new academic realities, such as the need for more English language instruction, and cultural ones, such as changing school lunch menus to reflect students’ Egypt court dissolves Brotherhood party tastes. But it also brings up some complex societal questions that often fall to school systems to address, including issues Continued from Page 1 omy, which had nosedived after Mubarak’s exit, with of immigration, poverty, diversity and inequity. The result, at investment and tourist revenues tumbling. Sisi has said times, is racial tension. In Louisiana in July, Jefferson Parish The court said the group’s assets are to be liquidated his priority is to return Egypt to stability and help public school administrators reached an agreement with the and handed over to the state, calling on the Cabinet to recover the shattered economy rather than encourage federal government to end an investigation into discrimina- form a committee to oversee the process. democratic reforms. He has ruled the country with an tion against English language learners. In May, police had to The military toppled Morsi, Egypt’s first democrati- iron rod, frequently vowing to wipe the Brotherhood be called to help break up a fight between Hispanic and cally elected president, after massive protests calling from the political map. The December declaration of black students in at a school in Streamwood, Illinois, a for his removal following a single year of turbulent rule. the Brotherhood as a “terrorist organisation” came amid Chicago suburb, after a racially-based lunchroom brawl got Since then, a crackdown by the military-installed a slew of attacks on police and military targets claimed out of control. authorities on his supporters has killed 1,400 people in by jihadist movements with allegiance to Al-Qaeda. street clashes, and some 16,000 Islamists and protest- Then in April, a court barred Freedom and Justice or ers have been jailed. anyone linked to the Brotherhood from standing in At least 200 people have been sentenced to death in national and local elections scheduled for the autumn. Obama says tackling Iraq insurgency will... speedy mass trials, including Brotherhood leader Meanwhile, Egypt extended its crackdown on the Continued from Page 1 sands of Christians and members of other religious Mohamed Badie, although none of the sentences has Muslim Brotherhood to include burning books it says minorities at risk. been carried out so far. The United Nations has con- promote violence and ideas linked to the banned Given the Islamic State threat, a source in the US military aircraft dropped relief supplies to mem- demned the crackdown as “unprecedented in the Islamist group, a local official and a security source said Kurdistan Regional Government said it had received bers of the ancient Yazidi sect, tens of thousands of recent history” of the world. Morsi himself is on trial on yesterday. Samia Mehrez, an official in the Red Sea extra supplies of heavy weaponry from the Baghdad whom have collected on a desert mountaintop seeking various charges, and the army chief who ousted him, province, told Reuters that local authorities and the federal government “and other governments” in the shelter from insurgents who had ordered them to con- Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, replaced him after winning a presi- security forces had burned “a number of Brotherhood past few days, but declined to elaborate. vert to Islam or die. Islamic State militants have threat- dential election in May. books and literature” located at a public library in the In their latest advance through northern Iraq, the ened to kill more than 300 Yazidi families in the villages Sisi promised in his election campaign to wipe out resort town of Hurghada. She said the 36 books had Islamic State seized a fifth oilfield, several towns and of Koja, Hatimiya and Qaboshi unless they change reli- the Muslim Brotherhood, a process that was already been donated to the library during the one-year presi- Iraq’s biggest dam, sending tens of thousands fleeing gion, witnesses and a Yazidi lawmaker told Reuters yes- well underway by that time. The retired general won dency of Morsi. for their lives. An engineer at the Mosul dam told terday. the contest with 96.9 percent of the vote after having A security source said the destroyed materials Reuters that Islamic State fighters had brought in engi- British aircraft would also drop humanitarian sup- sidelined all major opposition, not just the Islamists but included books on bomb making and others that neers to repair an emergency power line to the city, plies “imminently” to help the Yazidi, said Foreign also the youth movements which led the 2011 uprising compared Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna to Iraq’s biggest in the north, that had been cut off four Secretary Philip Hammond. “We expect that to go on for against dictator Hosni Mubarak. Morsi’s style of govern- the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and praised Turkish days ago, causing power outages and water shortages. the foreseeable future, dropping supplies to people, in ment was certainly very different to Mubarak’s but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. Relations between “They are gathering people to work at the dam,” he said. particular to the people who are trapped on the moun- many Egyptians quickly lost confidence in the new Egypt and Turkey have soured since Morsi’s ousting. A dam administrator said militants were putting up the tain Sinjar,” he told the BBC in London. “We are more leader, accusing him of seeking to forcibly impose Egypt has summoned the Turkish charge d’affaires trademark Islamic State black flags and patrolling with widely looking at how to support this group of people Islamist rules on the political system and society as a twice in the past month to complain about comments flatbed trucks mounted with machineguns to protect and get them off that mountain.” The Islamic State’s whole. by Erdogan deemed insulting to the leadership in the facility they seized from Kurdish forces earlier this campaign has returned Iraq to levels of violence not Morsi also sparked ire for failing to restore the econ- Cairo. — Agencies week. seen since a civil war peaked in 2006-2007 during the The Islamic State, comprised mainly of Arabs and for- US occupation. eign fighters who want to reshape the map of the The territorial gains of Islamic State, who also control Israel pounds Gaza, destroys mosques Middle East, pose the biggest threat to Iraq since a third of Syria and have fought this past week inside Saddam Hussein was toppled by a US-led invasion in Lebanon, has unnerved the Middle East and threatens Continued from Page 1 destroy Hamas’s arsenal of rockets and its network of attack 2003. The Sunni militants, who have beheaded and cru- to shatter Iraq, a country split between mostly Shiites, tunnels. cified captives in their drive to eradicate unbelievers, Sunnis and Kurds. Attention has focused on the plight In Gaza, Hamas, which Israel brands a terror organisa- But combat has not resumed at the same fierce intensi- first arrived in northern Iraq in June from Syria where of Yazidis, Christians and other minority groups in tion, vowed no concessions. “The occupier’s intransigence ty, feeding hopes of a new truce bring agreed. “Our hope is they have captured wide tracts of territory in that coun- northern Iraq, one of the most demographically diverse will get it nowhere and we will make no concessions on the that the parties will agree to an extension of the ceasefire in try’s civil war. Almost unopposed by US-trained Iraqi parts of the Middle East for centuries. The semi- demands of our people,” spokesman Fawzy Barhum said in the coming hours,” US State Department spokeswoman government forces who fled by the thousands, the autonomous Kurdish region has until now been the a statement. The lifting of Israel’s land and sea blockade, Marie Harf said. Chris Gunness, spokesman for the UN insurgents swept through the region and have threat- only part of Iraq to survive the past decade of civil war imposed in 2006 after Hamas captured an Israeli soldier, agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), called for the ened to march on Baghdad with Iraqi military tanks, without a serious security threat. has been a key demand of Hamas and the Palestinian Gaza blockade to end so reconstruction can begin. “Huge armoured personnel carriers and machineguns they Its vaunted “peshmerga” fighters - those who “con- Authority in Cairo talks. A Palestinian official said on condi- swathes of Gaza have been levelled. We cannot rebuild it seized. front death” - also controlled wide stretches of territory tion of anonymity Egypt and the Palestinians had reached a with our hands tied behind our backs,” he said. “The block- The US Defense Department said two F/A-18 war- outside the autonomous zone, which served as sanctu- draft agreement for submission to Israel yesterday. ade must end.” planes from an aircraft carrier in the Gulf had dropped ary for fleeing Christians and other minorities when It would see Egypt and the Palestinian Authority take At least 65,000 people have had their homes laser-guided 500-pound bombs on Islamic State Islamic State fighters stormed into the region last control of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, essentially destroyed, and UNRWA said 222,000 people are still artillery batteries. Other air strikes targeted mortar posi- month. But the past week saw the peshmerga crumble activating part a unity accord Hamas signed with the PA in sheltering in 89 UN schools. US-based Human Rights tions and an Islamic State convoy. Obama has said the in the face of Islamic State fighters, who have heavy April. Negotiations on the sea port, demanded by Hamas, Watch said the knocking out of Gaza’s only electrical action was needed to halt the Islamist advance, protect weapons seized from fleeing Iraqi troops and are flush would then be delayed and entrusted to the PA, with power plant, by apparent Israeli shellfire, has worsened Americans in the region as well as hundreds of thou- with cash looted from banks. — Reuters whom Israel is prepared to deal. Israel waged the conflict to the humanitarian crisis. — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 SPORTS

Lopez to join Milan Villa sign French fullback Blatter challenges critics MILAN: AC Milan have agreed to sign Spanish goalkeeper Diego Lopez ULRICHEN: FIFA President Sepp Blatter has challenged his critics to “take a risk” LONDON: Aston Villa have signed left back Aly Cissokho from Valencia on a and stand for election against him next year. “Don’t speak - go out and fight, from Real Madrid, the Italian Serie A club’s coach Filippo Inzaghi said four-year deal subject to international clearance, the Premier League club yesterday. “Diego Lopez is very important,” Inzaghi, who was celebrat- then you will see,” Blatter told reporters Saturday at his annual charity football announced on Friday. tournament. “People, they say I should not be a candidate or I should not be ing his 41st birthday, said on Milan’s website (www.acmilan.com). The 26-year-old French international made 19 appearances on loan at elected - they can take the risk to be in the election.” “He is an experienced goalkeeper and will improve our squad,” Liverpool last season, helping them finish second in the Premier League. The FIFA leader did not identify potential rivals in the ballot scheduled in added the former Milan and Italy striker. Inzaghi did not provide details “Destiny has made it so that Villa Park was where I played my first game (for May, though he appeared to target UEFA President Michel Platini. of the deal but Italian media reported Lopez was set to sign a Liverpool) and now one year later I am wearing the shirt,” he told AVTV. Platini, the long-time favorite to succeed his FIFA mentor Blatter, publicly four-year contract. “I remember everything about the game because it was my first here in withdrew his backing ahead of the World Cup in June. The 32-year-old is surplus to requirements at Real England - the pitch, the stadium, the fans, everything was incredible.” “In the future I won’t support Blatter anymore. I’ve told after the European champions signed Costa Rica keeper Cissokho, whose one cap came in a friendly against Norway in August 2010, him that,” Platini told reporters from his native France Keylor Navas from Levante this month. is Paul Lambert’s fourth signing of the transfer window after Joe Cole, Philippe after the FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo. “I think that FIFA Lopez, who played for Real as a teenager, was Senderos and Kieran Richardson. needs a breath of fresh air.” Platini spoke out then brought in as cover for injured captain Iker Casillas in He started out in with FC Gueugnon in Ligue 2 before moving to Portugal after some European football leaders urged Blatter to January last year following stints at Villarreal and Sevilla. with Vitoria and then Porto, who won the Portuguese title in 2009 after going stand aside at a hostile UEFA meeting in Brazil. They He remained first choice at Real in La Liga last season, unbeaten in the league. reminded Blatter of a 2011 promise to leave FIFA in In July that year he joined Olympique Lyonnais for 15 million euros ($20.11 with Casillas playing in the Champions League and the 2015. Platini has a scheduled news conference on Aug. million), playing 137 games and scoring twice. He won the French Cup in 2011- 28 in Monaco where he could address his King’s Cup as part of an awkward rotation policy. 12. In August 2012 Cissokho joined Valencia before moving to Liverpool in A former reserve keeper for Spain, Lopez made one FIFA plans ahead of the Champions August 2013 on a season-long loan. “After I finished my loan with Liverpool I League draw. Blatter plans to confirm substitute appearance for the European champions in was keen to come back to play football in England. I knew that Aston Villa was August 2009 in a friendly against Macedonia. — Reuters he is a candidate for a fifth term interested and I was very excited to come here,” he said. — Reuters before the January deadline. —AP Mets see off Phillies

PHILADELPHIA: Bartolo Colon pitched eight Janssen (3-1) was replaced by Aaron Loup innings for his 200th career victory, Travis after a two-out double by Ian Kinsler. The blown d’Arnaud homered, and the New York Mets held save was Janssen’s third in 21 chances. on for a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Al Alburquerque (3-1) worked 1 2-3 innings on Friday night. Daniel Murphy recorded his fifth for the win. Joe Nathan finished for his 24th save straight multihit game with two singles for the in 29 chances, getting Josh Thole to foul out with Mets, who have won 10 of 11 in Philadelphia. the bases loaded. Marlon Byrd homered, Grady Sizemore drove Tigers right-hander Anibal Sanchez left in the in two runs, and Ben Revere had two of the fifth inning with a strained muscle in his right Phillies’ nine hits. Revere is batting a major side. Left-hander Blaine Hardy took over for league-best .388 since June 26. Sanchez, who allowed four runs and 10 hits in 4 The 41-year-old Colon (11-9) joined Pedro 2-3 innings. Martinez and Juan Marichal as the only Dominican-born pitchers to reach 200 victories. MARLINS 2, REDS 1 He gave up one run and six hits, struck out six Nathan Eovaldi gave his second straight shut- and walked none. down performance, holding Cincinnati to five AJ Burnett (6-12) surrendered 11 hits, tying a hits over eight shutout innings, and Giancarlo season high, and gave up five runs in his third Stanton hit his NL-leading 28th homer, powering consecutive loss. He struck out eight but fell to 0- Miami to a victory. The Reds fell to 8-13 since the 4 with a 6.66 ERA in his last five starts. All-Star break. Eovaldi (6-6) got his first victory since June 23, ORIOLES 12, CARDINALS 2 ending a streak of three losses and four no-deci- JJ Hardy hit two of Baltimore’s season-high sions. He walked one and struck out six while six home runs, and the Orioles cruised past St. going eight innings for the second time this sea- Louis to move a season-high 17 games over .500. son. Hardy hit a solo shot and a three-run drive for his Devin Mesoraco doubled home a run in the 11th multihomer game. Manny Machado, Adam ninth off Steve Cishek, who then fanned Zack Jones, Chris Davis and Ryan Flaherty also con- Cozart with two runners aboard to get his 28th nected as Baltimore (66-49) reached double fig- save in 31 chances. Todd Frazier had three of ures in runs for the first time since April 24. Cincinnati’s seven hits. Jarrod Saltalamacchia had Baltimore’s Chris Tillman (9-5) gave up two a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the sixth inning off runs and four hits in 6 2-3 innings. He was pulled Mike Leake (9-10), and Stanton hit a solo shot in after a two-run drive to A.J. Pierzynski made it the seventh. 12-2. It was the Orioles’ first win over the Cardinals YANKEES 10, INDIANS 6 in 11 years. A three-run drive by Machado and Carlos Beltran hit a grand slam and drove in Hardy’s first home run helped Baltimore go up 5- five runs as the New York Yankees broke out to 0 against Justin Masterson (1-1) in the third. That support fill-in starter Esmil Rogers and beat slop- propelled the AL East-leaders to their ninth win py Cleveland for their sixth win in seven games. in 12 games. Derek Jeter tied Honus Wagner with his 3,430th PHILADELPHIA: Third baseman David Wright No. 5 of the New York Mets is caught stealing and gets tagged out by third baseman Cody hit in a five-run first inning against Trevor Bauer Asche No. 25 of the Philadelphia Phillies in the top of the ninth inning. — AFP RAYS 4, CUBS 3 (4-7), and Beltran’s 11th career slam highlighted a Kevin Kiermaier, who entered the game in the five-run sixth. The Indians, who have the majors’ and right fielder Nori Aoki threw out two runners first inning of the matchup between the NL beat the Chicago White Sox for its fourth eighth inning, drove in the winning run with a worst fielding percentage, prolonged both in the same inning as Kansas City beat San West’s two worst teams. Peralta flashed his straight victory. Zunino moved into a tie for single in the 10th to give Tampa Bay a victory innings with errors in their fourth straight loss Francisco for its fifth straight victory. The Royals, speed in the seventh. the major league lead in home runs by a over the Chicago Cubs. and seventh consecutive defeat in the Bronx. who haven’t been in the playoffs since winning The rookie hit a run-scoring triple off Rex catcher with his 18th. Iwakuma (10-6) Desmond Jennings went 2 for 5 with a homer, The Yankees walked seven times in moving the 1985 World Series, hold a half game lead for Brothers then raced home when catcher Michael became the third Seattle pitcher with double- and Ben Zobrist went 3 for 5 as Tampa Bay won seven games above .500 for the first time this the second AL wild card. Butler, who is hitting .423 McKenry lobbed the ball back to the mound. digit victories this season. The Japanese its second straight. Brad Boxberger (3-1) blew the season (61-54). Picked up off waivers July 31 after in the past seven games, homered with two out in Peralta is the sixth Arizona player to steal home, right-hander allowed one run and five hits, save in the ninth, but pitched a perfect 10th to the Toronto Blue Jays cut him for the second time the first off Madison Bumgarner (13-9). Bumgarner first since Chris Young in 2007. Chase Anderson struck out three and walked none. Iwakuma get the win. Hector Rondon (3-4) took the loss. In this season, Rogers (2-0) became the 12th player went the distance, allowing four runs on seven (7-4) pitched five solid innings, giving up a lead- improved to 5-2 with a 2.04 ERA in his last hits. He walked none and struck out five, but his off homer to McKenry in the fifth inning and lit- eight starts. He has pitched at least seven road scoreless streak was snapped at 17 innings. tle else. Corey Dickerson and DJ LeMahieu had innings in his last seven outings. The Giants outhit the Royals 12-7, but self-destruc- run-scoring singles in the ninth inning for the Fernando Rodney earned his 32nd save in 35 ted with three errors and base running blunders. Rockies, who have lost 10 of 12. opportunities. Dayan Viciedo continued his suc- Jason Frasor (3-1), the second of five Royals pitch- cess against Seattle with an opposite — field ers, threw a spotless sixth. Greg Holland pitched a ATHLETICS 6, TWINS 5 solo homer on the first pitch he saw from flawless ninth for his American League-leading Scott Kazmir faced the minimum through six Iwakuma in the fourth, but that accounted for all 33rd save in 35 opportunities. It was Holland’s innings before running into trouble, Coco Crisp of Chicago’s offense. The White Sox have lost 100th career save. hit a bases-loaded triple, and Oakland held off four straight and six of seven. Chicago’s Jose Minnesota for its 11th straight win in the series. Quintana (6-8) retired 12 of his first 14 batters BREWERS 9, DODGERS 3 The Twins last victory over the Athletics was at before falling apart in the fifth. Rickie Weeks hit a three-run homer, and Minnesota on Sept. 10, 2013. The A’s are 5-0 this Gerardo Parra had two hits and two RBIs to lead year. Kazmir (13-4) tossed just eight balls among RED SOX 4, ANGELS 2 Milwaukee over the Los Angeles Dodgers. his first 42 pitches through four perfect innings Mike Napoli homered against former battery- The Dodgers went ahead 3-2 in the top of the before Kennys Vargas broke up the bid with a mate Jered Weaver, and Yoenis Cespedes hit a seventh, then Milwaukee capitalized on two single off shortstop Jed Lowrie’s glove. two-run double, leading Boston over the Los errors by reserve shortstop Justin Turner and Sean Doolittle retired former A’s slugger Josh Angeles Angels. scored four runs in their half of the inning. Willingham on a called third strike to end it for Allen Webster (2-1) allowed two runs and four The first run in the seventh came on Martin his 18th save in 21 opportunities. The A’s bullpen hits over 6 2-3 innings in his third start since get- Maldonado’s squeeze bunt that scored Weeks. He set an Oakland record with 28 2-3 scoreless ting recalled from Triple-A. Koji Uehara got three bunted the ball toward Brandon League (2-3) innings. Kyle Gibson (10-9) allowed six runs - five outs during a shaky ninth to earn his 24th save. who tried to flip it with his glove to catcher Drew earned - and five hits, struck out three and Weaver (12-7) lost for the first time since June Butera, but was late. Pinch-hitter Khris Davis walked a season-high five in five-plus innings 16, allowing four runs and seven hits through six reached on Turner’s fielding error to load the while facing the A’s for the first time. innings after going 5-0 in his previous nine bases. Carlos Gomez then reached on Turner’s starts. The Angels’ fourth straight loss matched throwing error that allowed Mark Reynolds to MARINERS 4, WHITE SOX 1 their longest skid of the season and dropped score. Parra followed with a two-run single that Mike Zunino hit a three-run homer, Hisashi them four games behind AL West-leading ATLANTA: Denard Span no. 2 of the Washington Nationals is safe at first as Freddie Freeman gave Milwaukee a 6-3 lead. Iwakuma pitched seven innings, and Seattle Oakland. — AP No. 5 of the Atlanta Braves tags him during the fifth inning at Turner Field. — AFP Dodgers starting pitcher Roberto Hernandez, acquired from Philadelphia on Thursday, was in his Wrigley Field debut, touted Cubs prospect to make a start for New York. line for the win when he needed just 65 pitches MLB results/standings Javier Baez went 1 for 5 with a run scored and Pitching in place of David Phelps (elbow to get through six innings, retiring 17 straight. He four strikeouts. inflammation), he allowed one run and four hits struck out five and allowed three hits in the first over five innings in his first start since Sept. 25 for inning. Jeremy Jeffress (1-1) earned the win in Tampa Bay 4, Chicago Cubs 3 (10 Innings); Baltimore 12, St. Louis 2; NY Yankees 10, PIRATES 2, PADRES 1 Toronto. Bauer allowed five runs and six hits in 3 relief. Cleveland 6; NY Mets 5, Philadelphia 4; Pittsburgh 2, San Diego 1; Detroit 5, Toronto 4; Gregory Polanco and Josh Harrison had three 1-3 innings. Miami 2, Cincinnati 1; Atlanta 7, Washington 6; Kansas City 4, San Francisco 2; Milwaukee 9, hits each, and Vance Worley outdueled Ian ASTROS 4, RANGERS 3 LA Dodgers 3; Houston 4, Texas 3; Arizona 5, Colorado 3; Boston 4, LA Angels 2; Oakland 6, Kennedy as Pittsburgh edged San Diego. BRAVES 7, NATIONALS 6 Robbie Grossman’s two-run homer put Minnesota 5; Seattle 4, Chicago White Sox 1. Houston ahead in the eighth inning and the The Pirates (62-53) moved a season-high nine Justin Upton and Freddie Freeman hit two of American League National League games over .500. Worley (5-1) struck a season- Atlanta’s four homers off Stephen Strasburg, and Astros held on to top Texas. Chris Carter hit his 25th home run for Houston, which trailed 2-1 Eastern Division Eastern Division high seven in seven innings and gave up one the Braves snapped an eight-game losing streak W L PCT GB Washington 62 52 .544 - run, five hits and a walk. with a win over Washington. entering the eighth. Baltimore 66 49 .574 - Atlanta 59 56 .513 3.5 Kennedy (8-10) was pulled after six innings Atlanta, which nearly blew a 7-0 lead, moved Grossman, who finished with three hits, NY Yankees 61 54 .530 5 and allowed two runs — one earned — and sev- within 31/2 games of the NL East-leading homered off of Neal Cotts (2-6) to put the Astros Miami 56 59 .487 6.5 en hits. Tony Watson preserved the one-run lead Nationals. Washington, which had won two on top. Gregorio Petit’s double with two outs Toronto 61 56 .521 6 NY Mets 55 61 .474 8 with a perfect eighth, and Mark Melancon straight and four of six, has dropped 21 of 30 to added an insurance run. Jose Veras (2-1) threw a Tampa Bay 56 59 .487 10 Philadelphia 52 64 .448 11 earned his career-high 21st save by striking out the Braves. perfect eighth for the win. Boston 51 64 .443 15 Central Division the side in the ninth. Strasburg (8-10) gave up two more homers Chad Qualls allowed a run in the ninth and Central Division Milwaukee 64 52 .552 - there were runners at first and second with one than his previous career high. He allowed seven Detroit 63 50 .558 - Pittsburgh 62 53 .539 1.5 out when Daniel Robertson grounded into a Kansas City 61 53 .535 2.5 TIGERS 5, BLUE JAYS 4 runs, seven hits and two walks with nine strike- St. Louis 61 53 .535 2 outs in five innings, dropping to 1-3 with a 6.99 double play to end the game and give Qualls his Cleveland 57 59 .491 7.5 Nick Castellanos tied the game with a two-run Cincinnati 59 57 .509 5 homer in the ninth inning, and Eugenio Suarez ERA in seven starts at Turner Field. Ervin Santana 13th save. Houston has won six straight against Chicago White Sox55 62 .470 10 Chicago Cubs 49 65 .430 14 followed with a go-ahead shot as Detroit rallied (11-6) held the Nationals scoreless until the sixth, the Rangers. JP Arencibia hit a two-run homer in Minnesota 51 63 .447 12.5 to beat Toronto. when Asdrubal Cabrera had an RBI single and the first for Texas. Western Division Western Division The Tigers trailed 4-2 entering the ninth Anthony Rendon hit his 15th homer to make it 7- Oakland 71 44 .617 - LA Dodgers 66 51 .564 - DIAMONDBACKS 5, ROCKIES 3 against closer Casey Janssen. J.D. Martinez start- 4. Craig Kimbrel earned his 33rd save in 37 LA Angels 67 48 .583 4 San Francisco 62 54 .534 3.5 ed the inning with a double. After an out, chances. David Peralta had two extra-base hits and San Diego 52 62 .456 12.5 stole home, Miguel Montero hit a three-run Seattle 61 54 .530 10 Castellanos homered on the first pitch. Two Arizona 50 66 .431 15.5 homer, and Arizona beat listless Colorado. Houston 48 68 .414 23.5 pitches later, Suarez gave the Tigers their first ROYALS 4, GIANTS 2 Texas 45 70 .391 26 Colorado 45 70 .391 20 lead with a drive to center. Billy Butler homered and drove in three runs, Montero homered off Tyler Matzek (2-7) in the SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 SPORTS Cassel, Vikings Photo of the day beat Raiders

MINNEAPOLIS: Matt Cassel was crisp from come out sharper than that,” Allen said. the start, giving Teddy Bridgewater a mod- The acquisition of Schaub from Houston el touchdown drive to watch. Bridgewater was just one of many moves during a busy showed his age, aside from a few flashes of offseason for the Raiders, and he’s coming brilliance, and that’s the early snapshot of off a rough year. With three seasons of at the starting quarterback competition. least 4,000 passing yards for the Texans, Cassel went 5 for 6 for 62 yards, and the though, Schaub has the potential to stabi- Vikings broke in their temporary new home lize this long-unsettled position. stadium for the next two years by beating Since Rich Gannon won the NFL MVP the Oakland Raiders 10-6 in the exhibition award and guided the Raiders to the Super opener on Friday night. Bowl after that career year in 2002, the “Any time you can come down and Raiders have had 17 different quarterbacks score on your first drive, that’s what you’re start at least one regular season game. trying to accomplish,” Cassel said. Schaub will be the 18th in September, bar- Bridgewater relieved Cassel at quarterback ring injury for the 33-year-old. after one series, and the rookie’s first name Both teams escaped without significant was rhythmically chanted during his first injuries, which is always the primary goal of two snaps by a crowd eager to see the first- these preseason contests. Raiders backup round draft pick in action. Playing into the defensive tackle Justin Ellis walked slowly third quarter, Bridgewater’s debut was off the field with a head injury. The Vikings mixed at best: 6 for 13 for 49 yards, two also announced backup safety Mistral sacks and one fumble the Vikings recov- Raymond was being evaluated for a head ered. He said he didn’t notice the fuss from injury. the fans. “I felt pretty good. There were Not only was this game in purple for some missed opportunities, but I’ll be able Zimmer, but it marked the start of a two- to come back next week and play more year stay at TCF Bank Stadium at the aggressive,” Bridgewater said. Coach Mike University of Minnesota for the Vikings Zimmer agreed. while their new fixed-roof facility is being “There were a couple times in the game built to replace the Metrodome downtown. where he just didn’t act like a veteran,” The Vikings played here once before, on Zimmer said. “Things happened that he Dec. 20, 2010, eight days after the hadn’t seen before. So those are all great Metrodome’s roof was ripped open and experiences for him. But he made some toppled by a snowstorm. That game great throws.” Matt Schaub’s first time in sil- against Chicago was moved into the winter ver and black wasn’t exactly smooth, either. weather. The cold could wait for another The latest attempt by the Raiders to stop day, though, on this picturesque summer the quarterback carousel from spinning, night with a kickoff temperature of 81 Competitor performs at Red Bull Street Style in Brescia Italy. — www.redbull.com Schaub finished 3 for 7 for 21 yards. Schaub degrees and a hazy sunset distracting from played three series, all three-and-outs. the penalties, punts and dropped passes “We were pretty sloppy,” Schaub said. once the second and third stringers took Derek Carr, the second-round draft pick over for good. from Fresno State, took over in the second The Raiders were penalized 13 times for McIlroy leads pack quarter and was only slightly more produc- 94 yards. With Adrian Peterson resting, tive with and against the backups. Carr Matt Asiata capped the opening drive with went 10 for 16 for 74 yards, but his high a 1-yard touchdown run. Bridgewater took throw on the run to Jamize Olawale slipped the Vikings another 10 plays on his first through the fullback’s hands and was inter- turn, setting up a 30-yard field goal by Blair Woods misses cut cepted by Kurt Coleman. Walsh. The Vikings were concerned “He’s a young QB, and he’ll learn to keep enough about the safety spot next to LOUISVILLE: Rory McIlroy, helped by composed the ball low because if he drops it, it goes Harrison Smith that they signed veteran shot-making and a stunning eagle on his ninth to the ground,” Coleman said. Third-string Chris Crocker this week. With Jamarca hole of the day, soared one stroke clear in the quarterback Matt McGloin had a late 10- Sanford, Robert Blanton and Andrew weather-hit second round of the PGA yard touchdown scramble. Darren Sendejo all sitting out with injuries, Championship at Valhalla Golf Club on Friday. McFadden had a 23-yard run, the only real Coleman got a chance for extended action The British Open champion, in pursuit of a third highlight by a Raiders starter, leaving coach at that position, another entry in that consecutive victory on the PGA Tour, fired a four- Dennis Allen disappointed. “I thought we’d crowded field. — AP under-par 67 on a wet, ultra-long Valhalla layout where play was suspended for 45 minutes earlier in the day due to water-logged conditions. McIlroy, the pre-tournament favorite heading into the year’s final major, holed an uphill 30-foot putt from just off the green to eagle the par-five 18th and also recorded four birdies and two bogeys to post a nine-under total of 133. Four-times winner Tiger Woods, however, ended a miserable week prematurely when he missed the cut at a major for only the fourth time as a profes- sional, looking tournament rusty in both rounds as he carded successive 74s. McIlroy squandered a golden opportunity to add another eagle at the par-five seventh, where he hit a brilliant second shot from 243 yards to eight feet before missing the putt, but signed off with a birdie at the ninth where he drained a 16- footer. “I played well for the most part,” world num- ber one McIlroy told reporters after moving a step closer to winning the fourth major title of his LOUISVILLE: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits his tee shot on the eighth hole during the career. “Scored really well. Some key up-and-downs second round of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. — AFP to keep the momentum going in the round. “I’m very pleased. I’m in a great position going into the weekend in another major championship. ABK felicitates ‘Best Player’ Can’t ask for much more. I’m confident, and I’m just on a good run. “You’ve seen before when I got on good runs at Fencing Championship like this, I can sort of keep it going for a little while,” said the Northern Irishman, who won last month’s KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait is keenly Team. Ali Al Baghli, Assistant Manager, Public British Open before clinching the WGC-Bridgestone involved in lending support to the youth of Relations stated, “We congratulate Hussain Invitational last Sunday in his next start. Kuwait, and has always taken an enthusiastic Murtada, whose display of talent and sports- McIlroy ended his round one ahead of interest especially in their sport programs. In manship is exemplary!” Australian Jason Day, who fired a best-of-the-day line with this ABK has, in several tournaments He added, “ABK is eager to participate in 65, and veteran American Jim Furyk (68). Americans instated the ‘Best Player’ prize, in order to several youth activities, with an emphasis on Rickie Fowler (66) and Ryan Palmer (70), and felicitate the best player of the tournament. sport, under the Bank’s CSR banner “Our BELMONT: Suzann Pettersen of Norway hits from the sand on the eighth hole during Finland’s Mikko Ilonen (68) were a further stroke Recently, ABK presented a cash prize to the Society...Our Responsibility.” Activities under the second round of the Meijer LPGA Classic golf tournament. — AP back. best player at the Kuwait Fencing Federation this are designed to engage in and support Five-times major winner Phil Mickelson (67) was cup for under-17 category, Hussain Murtada social initiatives at various levels and for dif- next best on a high-quality leaderboard, level at six from Sulaibekhat Club and Kuwait National ferent segments of society. Park leads Meijer Classic under with Austrian Bernd Wiesberger (68). England’s former world number one Lee Westwood BELMONT: Inbee Park found a new put- old New Zealand player coming off a vic- (72), fourth-ranked Swede Henrik Stenson (71) and ter - and her old touch. The South Korean tory in the Marathon Classic in Sylvania, American Steve Stricker (68) were among a group player took the second-round lead Friday Ohio, was tied for fifth at 5 under after a of seven players knotted at five under. in the Meijer LPGA Classic, birdieing her 68. Germany’s Sandra Gal, the first-round first three holes en route to her second leader, also was in the group at 5 under, CONSUMMATE DISPLAY straight 5-under 66. following her opening 65 with a 72. Top- McIlroy, however, commanded the spotlight as The third-ranked Park finished on the ranked Stacy Lewis, a three-time winner he lived up to his pre-tournament billing with front nine, adding birdies on the par-5 this year, was even-par after a 72. another consummate display in the more difficult fifth and eighth holes in her bogey-free Pettersen, who won the last of her 14 playing conditions of the morning. Initially struggling for accuracy off the tee, he round at Blythefield Country Club. She LPGA Tour titles last year, is coming off a dropped a shot at the par-four 12th where he won six times last year and took the three-week break from competition, but found a bunker with his approach, but swiftly Manulife Financial in June in Canada for free from back pain that hampered her responded by sinking a 12-footer at the 13th and a her 10th LPGA Tour title. earlier this year and eager to play again. 16-footer at the 15th to get to six under. “My putting feels like I’m back to last She said it was nice to go low. Though the 25-year-old Northern Irishman year,” Park said. “Hopefully, I can hole “It’s not like the easiest course if you squandered another birdie chance at the 16th, some more putts the next two days.” miss the fairways,” she said. “I just tried to where he missed an eight-foot putt, he reached the After using a mallet putter since 2008, play to my strength, hit fairways, hit turn in sizzling style with his eagle on 18. Park tried a friend’s blade putter Tuesday greens and I made a couple of putts.” McIlroy dropped another shot at the par-four and started making putts. She hasn’t Lee said she hit the fairways and second, where his tee shot ended up in the rough stopped since with 27 putts in each made long putts. She was clearly elated and his second in a bunker, but maintained his grip round after having TaylorMade quickly with her play. “Best round,” she said. Ko on the tournament with two birdies in his last three make her an identical version. seemed surprised to be in the hunt and holes. Day, among the late starters on Friday, “I just never used that style of putter admitted she isn’t hitting the ball well. surged into contention for his first major title with for a long, long time and I just wanted to “I had to make an up-and-down a lot birdies on his last two holes, having earlier eagled have a change because I tried everything of times,” she said. “I mean, I was kind of the par-five seventh. else and it didn’t really work,” she said. struggling with my long game but luckily “I think we got a little lucky on the draw, teeing “This was pretty much my last option.” my chipping and short game worked off in the afternoon,” said the 26-year-old from She said the improved putting was really well.” Pettersen, who played in the Queensland. “We didn’t get as much rain. I played especially obvious in the second round. same group, called Ko the chipping great. “A little disappointed that I had one bogey on the back nine but I came home strong with birdies “Yesterday I hit a lot of the shots closer, queen on the tour. “It’s just phenomenal on 17 and 18.” The cut fell at one-over par, leaving but today I made 15 to 20-footers, at to see such a great touch around the Woods well out of the picture after he finished at least a couple of them,” she said. greens,” she said. Women’s British Open six over. Tournament rusty after having surgery in Fourth-ranked Suzann Pettersen was a winner Mo Martin withdrew Friday late March to treat a pinched nerve in his back, stroke back. The Norwegian player morning because of a thumb injury. It Woods struggled to an opening 74 on Thursday matched the course record with a 64. was unclear if she will play next week in and he tumbled further backwards by dropping South Korea’s Mirim Lee also shot 64 to the LPGA Championship. US Women’s four shots in his first seven holes on Friday. Also reach 8 under, and South Korea’s Amy Open champion Michelle Wie withdrew missing the cut were US Open champion Martin Yang was fourth at 7 under after a 67. after nine holes Thursday because of a Kaymer of Germany and triple major winner Second-ranked Lydia Ko, the 17-year- wrist injury. — AP Padraig Harrington of Ireland. — Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 SPORTS Shields triumphs as Phelps loses 100m butterfly

IRVINE: Two events, two losses for Michael Phelps. Tom Shields upset where he got out-touched. “It just cut all of my momentum,” he said. shape or this kind of feeling going into a meet.” the three-time Olympic champion by a hundredth of a second to win Bob Bowman, Phelps’ coach, said, “It was pretty terrible.” Phelps didn’t Bowman suggested Phelps was nervous, which may strike some as the 100-meter butterfly at the US national championships Friday feel like his usual self walking on deck, while Shields confidently odd because he’s the most decorated Olympian, with 22 medals. night. Shields touched in 51.29 seconds, tying for the second-fastest looked at the stands and then at his California teammates, who “It’s not fitness, but it’s the knowledge that he’s getting up here time in the world this year. Phelps was second in 51.30 - still third- cheered him on during introductions. against these guys who are on fire,” the coach said. “He knows what quickest in the world - but he lost for the second time in two events in “Normally I’m very relaxed and very ready,” Phelps said. “Like Bob he’s done to get here and it ain’t what he used to do to get here.” the biggest meet since he launched a comeback in April after 1 1/2 said, it’s probably just because I’m not used to being in this kind of Phelps knows it, too. “If I want to go 50-point then I need more - I need years in retirement. more training, I need more endurance, I need to feel more comfort “I’m somebody who can’t stand to lose,” Phelps said. “I don’t care if with my stroke,” he said. “There are just a lot of things that need to it’s by a hundredth or by five seconds. This will definitely motivate me.” happen. I understand that.” Four of the seven quickest times in the world were recorded in the Elizabeth Beisel bounced back from some earlier bad luck to win morning preliminaries, led by Phelps’ 51.17. But he couldn’t keep it her fourth national title in the 400 individual medley and earn a place together in the final against Shields, who won the 200 fly earlier in the on the Pan Pacs team. She was under American-record pace for much meet. “I knew I could make it a race, so I decided to go with confi- of the race before winning in 4:32.98 - fourth-quickest in the world. dence,” said Shields, who was cheered on by family and friends from She won a silver medal in the event two years ago in London. his hometown of Huntington Beach. Beisel slipped at the start of the 200 backstroke on Thursday and Phelps is still likely to earn a spot on the U.S. team for the Pan ended up sixth. Maya DiRado finished second in the IM in 4:35.75. Pacific Championships this month, but he could have guaranteed him- In the men’s 400 IM, Olympian Tyler Clary pulled away down the self a trip to Australia with a win in the event that he calls “my baby.” He stretch to win with the world’s second-fastest time of 4:09.51. He built finished next-to-last in the 100 freestyle Wednesday. a big lead during his specialty backstroke leg before defending cham- The 18-time Olympic gold medalist has two events remaining this pion Chase Kalisz drastically cut into it. weekend. Tim Phillips was third in 51.54. Ryan Lochte finished fifth in Clary regained his momentum on the final freestyle leg and Kalisz 52.21. Phillips led after one lap, when Phelps was seventh. Known as a settled for second in 4:11.52. “Chase was reeling me in like a cowboy,” devastating closer, Phelps roared down the stretch, battling Shields Clary said. “Just to be able to bring it home, I’m excited. He’s someone every inch of the way as they swam next to each other. who’s obviously very valuable to swim against.” Kendyl Stewart upset “I knew in the last 15 (meters) it was going to be close,” Shields said. IRVINE: Michael Phelps swims in the men’s 100 meter butterfly Olympian Claire Donahue to win the 100 fly in 57.98 and book a trip to “I took one look. Phelps swims with these ridiculously high elbows.” final at the US nationals of swimming. Phelps took second spot in her first major international meet. Stewart overtook Donahue in the Phelps failed to take a final stroke and instead glided to the wall, the event. — AP final 10 meters. Donahue touched in 58.03. — AP

GALLE: Pakistani wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed successfully dislodges the wickets to dismiss Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara during the fourth day of the first Test match. — AP Sangakkara’s double ton lights up Test

GALLE: Veteran Kumar Sangakkara hit a 200-plus figure knock in his last 14 Tests. score for the 10th time to light up the fourth day’s Only the retired trio of India’s Sachin Tendulkar, SCOREBOARD play in the first Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan with 51 centuries, Jacques Kallis of South Africa, in Galle yesterday. who had 45, and Ricky Ponting of Australia on 41, The prolific left-hander made 221 as the hosts have scored more hundreds. Skipper Angelo HARARE: Scoreboard at stumps on the first day of the one-off Test between Zimbabwe and South Africa at Harare Sports Club yesterday: declared their first innings at 533-9 shortly before Mathews hit 91 during a fourth-wicket stand of 181 Zimbabwe first innings J. Nyumbu not out 0 stumps, a lead of 82 runs over Pakistan’s total of 451. with Sangakkara before he was caught in the slips V. Sibanda c Petersen b Steyn 0 Extras (lb4, w2, nb2) 8 Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath then had open- off Ajmal just before tea. The Sri Lankan captain has H. Masakadza b Piedt 45 Total (9 wkts, 89 overs, 388 mins) 248 er Khurram Manzoor caught behind for three to been dismissed in the 90s on five occasions- thrice M. Vermeulen lbw b Piedt 14 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Sibanda), 2-33 (Vermeulen), 3-90 (Masakadza), 4-90 reduce the tourists to 4-1 in six overs before the on 91 against Pakistan since last December. The sec- B. Taylor c Duminy b Piedt 93 (Chakabva), 5-120 (Williams), 6-179 (Mutumbami), 7-204 (Panyangara), close. Ahmed Shehzad was on one and nightwatch- ond and final Test will be played on Jayawardene’s R. Chakabva c Amla b Piedt 0 8-220 (Taylor), 9-246 (Chatara). man Saeed Ajmal had yet to score when stumps home ground at the Sinhalese Sports Club in S. Williams c de Kock b Steyn 24 Bowling: Steyn 21-10-45-4, Philander 16-5-44-1, Morkel 19-3-39-0, were drawn, leaving Pakistan the task of batting out Colombo from August 14. — AFP R. Mutumbami lbw b Steyn 21 Piedt 24-1-90-4, Duminy 9-0-26-0. the final day to draw the opening encounter of the T. Panyangara c de Kock b Philander 12 South Africa: Hashim Amla (capt), Dean Elgar, Alviro Petersen, Faf du two-match series. Sangakkara, second only behind D. Tiripano not out 9 Plessis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Quinton de Kock, Vernon Philander, Australian legend Don Bradman’s tally of 12 scores SCOREBOARD T. Chatara c de Kock b Steyn 22 Dale Steyn, Dane Piedt, Morne Morkel. of more than 200, took advantage of the easy-paced wicket to toy with the Pakistan attack for nearly 12 GALLE: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day Battling Zimbabwe hours. He fell in the post-tea session, stumped off of the first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka spinner Abdur Rehman trying to pick up the scoring in Galle yesterday: survive Steyn and rate in the company of tailenders. Pakistan 1st innings: 451 (Younis Khan 177, “I think everyone is second to the Don,” he said. “I Asad Shafiq 75, Sarfraz Ahmed 55, Abdur am pretty happy that I am two double-hundreds Rehman 50, Dilruwan Perera 5-137, Rangana Piedt onslaught behind him because that is probably the only way I Herath 3-116) can even get close to reaching him. HARARE: Dale Steyn and Dane Piedt claimed four wickets apiece for “It was quite a bit of hard work out there, and Sri Lanka 1st innings (overnight 252-2): South Africa, but Zimbabwe defied the odds as they batted out the also a little bit of luck. But this game is not over yet. U. Tharanga lbw b Junaid 19 first day of the one-off Test to reach stumps on 248 for 9. Top-ranked We need to get nine wickets. Our responsibility will K. Silva c Sarfraz b Talha 64 South Africa had been expected to rifle through ninth-ranked be to make the batsman play as much as we can.” K. Sangakkara st Sarfraz b Rehman 221 Zimbabwe after the hosts had won the toss and elected to bat, but Pakistan’s frontline off-spinner Ajmal, who went M. Jayawardene lbw b Junaid 59 came up against a determined side that was marshalled by captain wicketless for 46 overs, grabbed five on either side A. Mathews c Younis b Ajmal 91 Brendan Taylor’s 93. of tea to finish with expensive figures of five for 166 K. Vithanage c Shafiq b Ajmal 5 It was just the fourth time in eight attempts that Zimbabwe had from 59.1 overs. “Sangakkara played very well, but N. Dickwella c Shafiq b Ajmal 5 passed 200 in their first innings of a Test against the Proteas-an the story would have been different if some catches D. Perera c Junaid b Ajmal 5 achievement that looked highly unlikely as Steyn and Piedt pounced had been taken or some decisions had favoured us,” D. Prasad st Sarfraz b Ajmal 31 in the first two sessions. Fast bowler Steyn eased past West Indian said Ajmal. “We are confident that we will not lose R. Herath not out 6 great Malcolm Marshall on the list of Test cricket’s leading wicket-tak- this match, but we have to see how the first session Extras: (b5, lb11, w7, nb4) 27 ers, taking 4 for 45 to end the day on 379 scalps. goes tomorrow.” Total (for nine wkts declared, 163.1 overs) 533 Meanwhile debutant Piedt became the 19th Test cricketer-and just Fall of wickets: 1-24 (Tharanga), 2-144 (Silva), 3- the first South African since Bert Vogler in 1906 — to pick up a wicket SANGAKKARA DROPPED 257 (Jayawardene), 4-438 (Mathews), 5-450 with his very first delivery, which spun sharply to trap Mark Vermeulen Pakistan paid heavily for letting Sangakkara (Vithanage), 6-458 (Dickwella), 7-475 (Perera), 8- lbw for 14. “I wasn’t expecting it to spin so much, but I did put a lot on 511 (Sangakkara), 9-533 (Prasad). escape off the first ball of the day when Rehman it,” Piedt said. “I’ve spoken to ‘Hendo’ (spin consultant Claude Bowling: Junaid 33-9-104-2 (w2), Talha 27-4- Henderson) over the years and we say that you should try to make a spilled a chance at point off left-arm seamer Junaid 104-1 (nb4, w5), Ajmal 59.1-8-166-5, Rehman statement with your first delivery. I think I did that.” Khan. Junaid struck three deliveries later as Mahela 39-2-123-1, Shehzad 5-0-20-0. Vermeulen’s remarkable return to the Zimbabwe side had earlier Jayawardene was adjudged leg-before through the HARARE: Zimbabwean batsman Richmond Mutumbami been confirmed as he made a Test comeback almost eight years after Decision Review System (DRS). Pakistan 2nd innings: avoids the ball during the Test match against South Africa burning down his country’s cricket academy. Umpire Ian Gould turned down a loud shout Khurram Manzoor c Dickwella b Herath 3 Off-spinner Piedt went on to claim two wickets in three balls dur- at Harare Sports Club. — AP from the bowler, but Pakistan earned a positive ver- Ahmed Shehzad not out 1 ing the afternoon session, dismissing Hamilton Masakadza for 45 and year-old threw away his chance of scoring a Test century against the dict after appealing for a review from the TV official. Saeed Ajmal not out 0 Regis Chakabva for a duck, on his way to figures of 4 for 90. world’s best attack when he took Piedt on and was caught on the mid- Replays showed the ball hitting the top of the off- Extras: 0 Sean Williams responded to that double blow with a counter- wicket boundary. That left Zimbabwe 220 for eight with more than 13 stump. Jaywardene, who is due to quit Test cricket Total (for one wicket, six overs) 4 attacking 24 before he became Steyn’s second wicket, which saw overs left in the day, but Tendai Chatara slapped a quick 22 before after the series ends in Colombo later this month, Fall of wicket: 1-3 (Manzoor). Zimbabwe slip to 120 for five. However Taylor continued to prove debutants Donald Tiripano and John Nyumbu saw the hosts to made 59 in a third-wicket stand of 113 with Bowling: Herath 3-2-3-1, Eranga 1-1-0-0, Perera equal to anything that South Africa’s attack could throw at him, and stumps. “We’ve shown a lot of character today against the top attack in Sangakkara. The 36-year-old Sangakkara had on 2-1-1-0 found support from wicketkeeper-batsman Richmond Mutumbami the world, and we can come back tomorrow and start again,” Taylor Friday risen to fourth place in the list of century- Pakistan trail by 78 runs with nine wickets in and then the lower order as he scored freely either side of tea. The 28- said. — AFP makers with his 37th hundred, the seventh three- hand. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 SPORTS No playoff hangover as Derby make winning start

LONDON: Derby County showed no signs sales. Former Manchester City manager of a hangover from their agonising play-off Pearce was soon celebrating the first goal final defeat as the Championship promo- of his tenure as Antonio swept home in the tion contenders started the second tier 25th minute after Andy Reid’s shot hit a campaign with a 1-0 victory over post. Five minutes later it was 2-0 when Rotherham yesterday. Chris Burke cut in from the right side to hit Steve McClaren’s team saw their dreams a left-footed strike into the top corner. After of reaching the Premier League dashed in a turbulent pre-season, fallen giants Leeds heartbreaking fashion when Bobby Zamora suffered a nightmare start to the season punished a defensive blunder to score a with a 2-0 defeat at Millwall. last-minute winner for 10-man QPR at Eccentric Italian owner Massimo Cellino Wembley in May. But the Rams are among has infuriated the club’s long-suffering fans the bookmakers’ favorites to go up this with a series of bizarre decisions, including term, having kept the nucleus of their play- sacking highly-regarded manager Brian off team together. McDermott and replacing him with David And they made the perfect start to their Hockaday an unknown with no experience bid for redemption thanks to Republic of of Football League management. Ireland midfielder Jeff Hendrick, whose The highly superstitious Cellino has also cool finish eight minutes from full-time reportedly banned the number 17 and the finally broke the stubborn resistence of colour purple from Elland Road, but his newly-promoted Rotherham at the iPro team were still out of luck in south London Stadium. Derby’s local rivals Nottingham as Millwall cruised to victory thanks to Mark Forest also made a winning start, beating Beevers’ eighth minute strike and an 88th Blackpool 2-0, on the opening weekend of minute penalty from Shaun Williams. the new English season. Wigan, beaten in the play-off semi-finals Forest’s new manager Stuart Pearce was by QPR, are fancied to push for promotion afforded a rapturous reception on his again, but had to rely on a James McArthur return to the City Ground for his first game strike three minutes into stoppage-time to as permanent manager of the club where secure a 2-2 draw at home to Reading. Troy he earned legendary status as a tough- Deeney showed why a number of Premier tackling left-back. League clubs are keen to sign him with a Pearce, who had a brief spell as Forest’s clinical finish as Watford beat Bolton 3-0, caretaker manager in 1996, endured a diffi- with Matej Vydra and Fernando Forestieri LONDON: Arsenal’s Chilean forward Alexis Sanchez (left) almost collides with teammate Welsh midfielder Aaron Ramsey as they warm up dur- cult build-up to the opener when the club’s also getting on the scoresheet at Vicarage ing the first team training session at the Emirates Stadium. — AFP Kuwaiti owners sold promising youngsters Road. Middlesbrough began in fine style as Jamaal Lascelles and Karl Darlow to Spanish striker Kike, a £3.5 million signing Newcastle this week against his advice. from Real Murcia, scored on his debut in a Arsenal take on City with But Pearce was handed the majority of 2-0 defeat of Birmingham, with Daniel that cash to sign striker Britt Assombalonga Ayala also netting. Elsewhere, and winger Michail Antonio and both Bournemouth won 4-0 at Huddersfield, impressed on their debuts against a Sheffield Wednesday beat 10-man Brighton an eye on bigger prizes Blackpool team also under new manage- 1-0 and Brentford, playing in the second ment in Jose Riga, who could only name tier for the first time in 21 years, drew 1-1 at four substitutes due to a series of player home to Charlton. — AFP Community Shield face-off

LONDON: Vindicated by their FA Cup triumph, expecting to go far.” Caballero, the Argentine goalkeeper, and Arsenal approach today’s Community Shield Today’s encounter in the traditional curtain- Fernando, the Brazilian holding midfielder, could face-off with Manchester City buoyed by the raiser to the English season has been given an feature. Arsenal’s trio of German World Cup win- belief that they are now credible challengers for edge by Wenger’s decision to publicly query ners-Per Mertesacker, Mesut Ozil and Lukas the Premier League title. May’s 3-2 win over Hull City’s conduct during the close-season transfer Podolski-will not feature as they are also some City ended a long and painful nine-year trophy window. The Arsenal manager wondered aloud way short of fitness. Theo Walcott remains side- drought for the North London club, and as they if Frank Lampard’s arrival on loan from City’s sis- lined by a knee problem, but new signings return to Wembley Stadium, Arsenal are setting ter club New York City was an attempt by the Mathieu Debuchy, Calum Chambers and Alexis their sights on even bigger prizes. Premier League champions to contravene UEFA’s Sanchez could all play a part after making their Manchester City’s 6-3 win over Arsenal last Financial Fair Play rules. He then appeared to debuts in last weekend’s Emirates Cup pre-sea- term exposed the big-game frailties that were to suggest that City had illegally opened talks with son tournament. City face an exacting start to fatally undermine Arsene Wenger’s side’s title new signing Bacary Sagna, the French right- the season, with games against Liverpool, pursuit, but with a trophy under their belts at back, while he was still an Arsenal player. Arsenal and Chelsea in the campaign’s early last, there is renewed belief at the Emirates His comments were dismissed by City man- weeks, and midfielder Yaya Toure says that Stadium this season. ager Manuel Pellegrini, who said: “I think as man- Sunday’s game will provide a timely gauge of “There’s been a little bit of negative media agers, we have enough problems with our own their preparedness. “It’s a really interesting way (coverage) regarding Arsenal not winning things teams to be talking about other teams.” to start the season, the Community Shield, Emad Meteb over the years, but the whole way through that, against a top team like Arsenal at Wembley,” the since I’ve been at the club, we’ve always SANCHEZ IN CONTENTION Ivorian powerhouse told City’s official website. Goal-shy Ahly eye semis believed that it will happen soon,” midfielder In any case, neither Lampard nor Sagna will “Even though we have only just started to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain told journalists this be involved on Sunday, as they are among eight train together as a full squad, we will be ready. JOHANNESBURG: Veteran striker Emad with Ahly managing just three in three games week. “So the fact it did happen (winning the FA City players who are still working their way back “It’s not just the Community Shield either-our Meteb is ready to help goal-shy Egyptians Al- and relying heavily on a tight defence to keep Cup), I don’t know if it was a relief, but it was just to full fitness ahead of the start of the league first five or six games are looking really difficult Ahly reach the CAF Confederation Cup semi- them top of the table. Ahly have eight points a really nice reward for the hard work and the season on August 16. Sergio Aguero, Pablo for us, but that makes it exciting and it means finals this weekend. from four matches, former African champions togetherness that we’ve had to show for a little Zabaleta, Martin Demichelis, Fernandinho and that we have to hit the ground running and have The Cairo ‘Red Devils’ are away to Zambians Etoile five, Nkana four and win-less Ivorians while. “It does start winning momentum and captain Vincent Kompany are unavailable due to a strong start.” The game will see vanishing Nkana late yesterday and a draw will secure a Sewe San Pedro three. once you know you can win a competition like their involvement in the latter stages of the spray-deployed by referees to keep the defen- last-four place for the winners of a record 18 While former Villarreal and Real Betis boss that, it gives you confidence to go into games World Cup. Spanish striker Alvaro Negredo is sive wall 10 yards back at free-kicks-used in CAF titles. Ahly officials confirmed injury- Garrido marked his CAF debut with a 1-0 and into competitions thinking you can win and sidelined with an injury, but new arrivals Willy English football for the first time. — AFP plagued Meteb has recovered from a thigh home win over Sewe two weeks ago, Beston injury and available for the Group B matchday Chambeshi achieved a similar feat at Nkana. 5 clash in central city Kitwe. Chambeshi has replaced Masauso Mwale, Meteb is the last link with the all-conquer- killed in a car accident as he was preparing for Ibrahimovic brace earns ing Ahly teams of a decade ago that won three a home fixture against Sewe three months CAF Champions League finals in four seasons ago. And his CAF debut was memorable with and were runners-up in the other. Midfielder Nkana defeating Etoile 4-3 in a thriller to Hossam Ashour, another experienced African avenge a loss by the same score in Tunisia. campaigner, has overcome stomach soreness Both coaches displayed public confidence PSG 2-2 draw at Reims and is also available to recently appointed ahead of the match at the 5,000-seat Nkana Spanish coach Juan Carlos Garrido. Ahly tri- Stadium in the heart of the Zambian copper- umphed 2-0 at home against Nkana in match- producing region. “Nkana impressed against REIMS: Paris St Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic struck the night, proved too strong for a Reims side ham- million) transfer fee in June. day 1 last May through goals from Amr Gamal Etoile, but I have total faith in the ability of my twice and missed a penalty in an enthralling 2-2 pered by losing last term’s top performer Gregorz Most of the Ligue 1 programme is scheduled for and Mohamed ‘Gedo’ Nagy. team to qualify for the semi-finals,” said draw at Stade de Reims as the French champions Krychowiak to Sevilla in the close season. Saturday, including Bastia hosting Olympique de ‘Gedo’ sprang to international prominence Garrido. Chambeshi said: “Spirits are high, we avoided an embarrassing defeat when the Ligue 1 PSG began their bid for a Ligue 1 title hat-trick Marseille (1900 GMT), while last season’s runners- by repeatedly coming off the bench to claim are a resilient team, and the players have season got underway on Friday. without the world’s most expensive defender, Luiz, up AS Monaco welcome FC Lorient on Sunday five goals and finish leading scorer in the 2010 worked hard to rectify defensive mistakes that PSG, without newly-signed Brazil defender who was unveiled to the media on Friday after when Olympique Lyonnais are at home to Stade Africa Cup of Nations won by Egypt. But he cost 10 goals in four CAF matches.” David Luiz, are favourites for a third straight title signing from Chelsea for a 50 million euros ($67.05 Rennes. — Reuters was seriously injured away to Tunisians Etoile Serb Dragan Cvetkovic, appointed Etoile but will be disappointed at not holding on to an Sahel and did not travel to Zambia. His coach when French veteran Roger Lemerre did early lead and allowing a physical but technically absence partly explains the paucity of goals not extend his contract, is hoping for a first weaker Reims to get in front before halftime. Confederation Cup victory when they host PSG’s Argentina midfielder Javier Pastore found Sewe Saturday. Wins for Ahly and Etoile would Ibrahimovic just inside the area in the seventh assure both of semi-finals places in the sec- minute, allowing the Sweden striker to slide the MATCH ond-tier competition offering a $660,000 ON TV ball through Reims keeper Johnny Placide’s legs for (500,l000 euros) first prize. Cameroonians his first goal of the season. Coton Sport hold a five-point Group A lead PSG then missed three easy chances to kill the over Congolese visitors AC Leopards before a FA Community Shield game in the first 20 minutes, with Ibrahimovic hit- Saturday clash in Garoua and a draw will assure the hosts of first place. Bottom-of-the- ting the post and then having a penalty saved by Arsenal v Man City 17:00 Placide. “It’s a waste. We gave away the game our- beIN SPORTS 1 HD table Ivorians ASEC Mimosas have home advantage over Malians Real Bamako Sunday selves, when we should have won it,” PSG coach beIN SPORTS 11 HD and each side needs maximum points to have Laurent Blanc was quoted as saying by French beIN SPORTS 13 HD a realistic chance of overtaking second-place media. “We gave Reims a stick to beat us with and Leopards. — AFP they took advantage and used it.” After looking overwhelmed, Reims capitalised on some sloppy defending when midfielder Prince Oniangue got on the end of a freekick to score in the 22nd before Antoine Devaux linked up with striker Gaetan Charbonnier to beat keeper Salvatore Sirigu. However, PSG regrouped at half- time and found their rhythm with Ibrahimovic’s chip from near the goalline in the 63rd slipping through Placide’s hands for his second of the game.

CAVANI FRUSTRATED PSG’s Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani, who has been linked with a move to the English Premier League, was denied his wish to play up front instead of on the wing and looked frustrated throughout the game as Blanc kept Ibrahimovic, Ligue 1 top scorer for the past two seasons, in the number nine position. His counterpart at Reims, Jean-Luc Vasseur, in his first coaching job in France’s top division, nearly pulled off an astonish- ing display of lese-majeste as the reigning champi- ons were briefly humbled in the coronation place of French kings. His side, which finished 11th last season under Hubert Fournier, showed glimpses of what could be a promising season by exploiting gaps left by PSG’s attack-minded fullbacks. “Before the match we would have taken a draw, so we are not disappointed. It’s a not a bad start to LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s German midfielder Lewis Holtby (right) vies with the season,” said Reims’ second goalscorer Devaux. FRANCE: Paris Saint-Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (left) celebrates next to his Schalke’s Turkish defender Kaan Ayhan (left) during the pre-season friendly football PSG’s midfield trio of Thiago Motta, Marco teammate Uruguayan forward Edinson Cavani after scoring during the French League football match. — AFP Verratti and, Pastore, who gave the best display of match against Reims. — AFP Park leads Phelps loses Meijer Classic 100m butterfly

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OLD TRAFFORD: England’s Moeen Ali (center right) celebrates after taking the wicket of India’s Cheteshwar Pujara (lower second left) for 17 on the third day of the fourth Test match of their five match series at Old Trafford cricket ground yesterday. — AP England rout India at Old Trafford

MANCHESTER: Moeen Ali starred in a dramatic “Even in the first innings, we weren’t up to the Jadeja was caught at slip by Chris Jordan off Ali. England victory for the second time in as many mark. We have to improve before the next Test. So India were now 66 for six with England, who matches as they crushed India by an innings and far in this series, our batting has not clicked.” had been 1-0 down in the series after a 95-run SCOREBOARD 54 runs to win the fourth Test at Old Trafford yester- At tea, India were 33 for one in their second defeat in the second Test at Lord’s, on the brink of day with more than two days to spare. innings-with all-rounder Chris Woakes having tak- going 2-1 up. MANCHESTER: Final scoreboard on the third day of the fourth Test between England and India suffered their second spectacular collapse en his first wicket of the series to dismiss Murali Dhoni had defied England with 71 in the first India at Old Trafford yesterday: of the match in losing nine wickets after tea on the Vijay. innings. But trying to attack Ali he was brilliantly India 1st Innings 152 (MS Dhoni 71; S India 2nd Innings third day-including five for 13 in 21 balls-as But this was quickly transformed into 66 for six. caught for 27 by Gary Ballance, diving to his right Broad 6-25, J Anderson 3-46) M. Vijay lbw b Woakes 18 England went 2-1 up in the five-match series ahead The collapse started when left-handed opener at midwicket. India were now 105 for seven, with G. Gambhir c Buttler b Anderson 18 of next week’s finale at The Oval. Gautam Gambhir gloved a short ball from James all-rounder Ali having taken four for 13 in 27 balls. England 1st Innings (overnight: 237-6) C. Pujara lbw b Ali 17 Ali, whose Test-best six for 67 sealed England’s Anderson to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, ‘caught’ off a Jordan no- A. Cook c Pankaj Singh b Aaron 17 V. Kohli c Bell b Anderson 7 266-run win in the third Test at Southampton-their Next ball, the start of a new over, saw 53 for two ball on nine, did not make the most of his reprieve S. Robson b Kumar 6 A. Rahane c and b Ali 1 first victory in 11 Tests-took four for 13 in 37 balls become 53 for three when Cheteshwar Pujara was when run out for 10 by Ali’s throw to Buttler. G. Ballance lbw b Aaron 37 M. S. Dhoni c Ballance b Ali 27 on the way to innings figures of four for 39 in 13 given out lbw to Ali as he pushed forward. Jordan got in on the act by taking the last two I. Bell c Dhoni b Kumar 58 R. Jadeja c Jordan b Ali 4 overs. What made this slump all the more extraor- Pujara looked unhappy but, with India objec- wickets in as many balls, with Aaron caught behind C. Jordan c Aaron b Kumar 13 R. Ashwin not out 46 J. Root c Dhoni b Pankaj Singh 77 B. Kumar run out (Ali/Buttler) 10 dinary was England fast-medium bowler Stuart tions meaning the Decision Review System was not and Pankaj Singh yorked for a duck as India were M. Ali b Aaron 13 V. Aaron c Buttler b Jordan 9 Broad, named man-of-the-match for his six for 25 in use this series, he had to go. dismissed for 161 in 43 overs. J. Buttler c Pujara b Pankaj Singh 70 Pankaj Singh b Jordan 0 in India’s first innings 152 all out-where they had Ravichandran Ashwin top-scored with 46 not C. Woakes not out 26 Extras (b1, lb1, w1, nb1) 4 been eight for four early on-was off the field after KOHLI FAILS AGAIN out. England resumed yesterday on 237 for six. S. Broad ret hurt 12 Total (all out, 43 overs, 201 mins) 161 being hit on the nose by a Varun Aaron bouncer But there was no doubt at all when Ajinkya Pankaj Singh’s long wait for a first Test wicket-after J. Anderson lbw b Jadeja 9 Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Vijay), 2-53 (Gambhir), when trying to hook the fast bowler for a third six Rahane (one) chipped a tame return catch to Ali. a debut record worst wicketless return of none for Extras (b5, lb12, w6, nb6) 29 3-53 (Pujara), 4-61 (Rahane), 5-61 (Kohli), 6- in as many balls. And then 61 for four became 61 for five when Virat 179 at Southampton-eventually ended when the Total (all out, 105.3 overs, 479 mins) 367 66 (Jadeja), 7-105 (Dhoni), 8-133 (Kumar), 9- “You don’t often get nine wickets in a session,” Kohli’s miserable tour continued as, on seven, he 6ft 6in paceman took two for four in 15 balls with Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Robson), 2-36 (Cook), 161 (Aaron), 10-161 (Singh) said England captain Alastair Cook at the presenta- edged Anderson, on his Lancashire home ground, the new ball. He dismissed both Joe Root (77) and 3-113 (Ballance), 4-136 (Jordan), 5-140 (Bell), Bowling: Anderson 9-4-18-2; Woakes 9-2- tion ceremony. to Ian Bell at second slip. Buttler (70) after the pair had put on 134 for the 6-170 (Ali), 7-304 (Root), 8-325 (Buttler), 9- 37-1; Jordan 12-1-65-2 (1nb, 1w); Ali 13-3- “Moeen was terrific-I’ve never seen a bloke work That left the talented batsman with a tally of seventh wicket. 367 39-4 so hard and improve so much in international just 108 runs in eight innings this series at an aver- But England still compiled a total of 367 that (Anderson) Result: England won by an innings and 54 cricket,” Cook added. India skipper Mahendra Singh age of 13.50. Then a crowd drenched in sunshine-a gave them a first-innings lead of 215 — more than Bowling: Kumar 24-7-75-3 (2w); Singh 28-5- runs Dhoni admitted that poor batting had been his marked contrast to the rain which had cut short enough runs as it proved to withstand Broad’s 113-2 (2w); Aaron 26-4-97-3 (5nb, 2w); Man-of-the-match: Stuart Broad (ENG) side’s Achilles heel. Friday’s play-had more to cheer when Ravindra absence. — AFP Ashwin 14-1-29-0; Jadeja 13.3-1-36-1 (1nb). Series: England lead five-match series 2-1. Federer sends Ferrer packing

TORONTO: Roger Federer celebrated his 33rd end the big-hitting Canadian said it was a lack of birthday with a 6-3 4-6 6-3 win over Spaniard courage, not muscle, that cost him the win. David Ferrer on Friday to move into the semi-finals “He (Lopez) stepped up and played well on the of the Rogers Cup and a step closer to a landmark important moments, especially on his service 80th career title. Federer will next face another game,” said Raonic. “I just need to show in a few sit- Spaniard, Feliciano Lopez, who ended the last uations more courage and go for a little bit more. hope for a homegrown winner in sixth seed Milos “Not just that third set but all throughout the Raonic 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3. match. I just felt like I never let it go through or The other semi-final will see rising star Grigor impose myself, and I think that’s what cost me over Dimitrov take on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who has time.” reached the last four by knocking off world num- A confident Tsonga heads into Saturday having ber one Novak Djokovic and twice-champion and already taken out Djokovic and Murray, who eighth seed Andy Murray in Friday’s quarter-final. between them had won five of the last seven With Ferrer 14-0 against the Swiss maestro there Canadian hard-court titles. After ending an 11- was little concern the fifth seed might spoil the match losing run against Djokovic in the third party as the capacity crowd serenaded 17-time round, Tsonga brought another barren stretch to grand slam winner Federer with a chorus of an end against Murray with a 7-6(5) 4-6 6-4 win. “Happy Birthday” between games during the sec- The Scotsman had dominated their head-to-head ond set. encounters, winning nine of 10 contests, with the But there would be no gifts from Ferrer, who Frenchman’s only victory in that stretch coming in made Federer work a little longer and little harder 2008 at the Australian Open. than he wanted. “It’s a dream come true to still be “It’s going better and better every day,” said playing tennis at this age,” Federer told the cheer- Tsonga. “These last couple of months I practiced a ing crowd. “I love tennis but it is a whole lot more lot because I didn’t win many matches and I also fun when you do win and play against guys like made the choice to practice than play tourna- David who leave it all out there. TORONTO: Roger Federer of Switzerland cele- ments because I was not really ready after the “Stay injury free and go out on my terms, brates his win over Spaniard David Ferrer, during knee problem I had last year. maybe try and win tournaments, I have two this a Rogers Cup tennis match. -—AP “Now I feel like I’m ready to play. I’m sure I’m year and hopefully we will have a few more. playing better than before.” Tsonga has found suc- “It starts here tomorrow again on the court.” His first ATP Tour Masters 1000 final. cess over the years on the Canadian hardcourts, next opponent Lopez excels on grass and reached Lopez’s victory deflated the capacity crowd and reaching the semi-finals in three of his four visits thefinal at Queen’s before clinching his fourth was a crushing loss for Raonic, who came into his and with a win over Dimitrov will advance to his career title at Eastbourne a week later, but he has home tournament with huge expectations, sitting third ATP Masters final. looked at home on the Canadian hardcourts. a career high number six in the world and riding Dimitrov needed to dig deep to avoid having After knocking off fourth seed Tomas Berdych the momentum from a win last Sunday in his name added to the upset list, the seventh seed in the third round he will now have to record Washington. battling back to beat South African Kevin another big upset in Federer if he is to reach his Raonic blasted 18 aces past Lopez but in the Anderson 5-7 7-5 7-6(6). — Reuters Air Arabia reports $47m in net profits for Q2 2014

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GAZA: A Palestinian boy carries a mattress as he makes his way through the rubble of a house hit by an Israeli military strike in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. — AFP Gazans grapple with prices as bombs fall Economy in ruins as Israeli offensive destroys agriculture

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli bombardment ground operation in mid-July, pushing troops, tanks and Israeli blockade. will significantly increase. has left parts of Gaza in ruins, and the enclave’s already shat- artillery across the border into the narrow enclave. “It is difficult to people because they don’t have money “This is a heavy burden,” he said. In addition to this, the tered economy is also feeling the pinch as prices for staple or work, and there’s no economy,” Badawi said angrily. The destruction of “350 industrial sites, including more than 50 foods have started to climb. The market in Gaza City’s Shati Grown in Gaza fruits on his stall have not changed in price-he said they large, strategic factories” would set unemployment climb- refugee camp was bustling yesterday, but many of the A few stalls away, under a colored canvas awning, Abu were imported from Israel at the Kerem Shalom crossing. ing. The “unemployment level will be around 50 percent camp’s hard-up residents are buying less. Ahmed Badawi sits next to tables stacked with peppers, “This is the Israelis’ strategy-they strike us, then they after the war, an average of 200,000 people out of work... Israel’s offensive on the enclave has hit agricultural areas onions, tomatoes and potatoes. Few people stop to ask open the border” to let their produce in, he said bitterly. the level was 41 percent before the conflict,” he said. One badly, pushing up prices. Khaled Ighrad, 48, who was buying about his wares, grown in Gaza, since he has had to raise his sector still doing a lively trade is tobacco. In the market at food with his wife and one of his six children, has had to cut prices. Not only are farmers unwilling to tend their crops 50 factories razed Shati, Abu Salim sits by his small stall, where he sells ciga- back on some key items for his family. The price of eggs has because of the risk of air strikes or shelling, or Hamas rocket Mahir Al-Tabaa, head of the Gaza chamber of commerce rettes. doubled from 10 shekels (two euros, $3) to 20 since Israel attacks falling short, but drivers are wary of travelling to and industry, agreed the conflict had caused “huge and Although his prices have increased, he is doing brisk launched a campaign of air strikes on July 8. these areas to bring them to the city’s markets. long term indirect losses” for the economy. “The direct loss- business, and shoppers constantly stop by to pick up a pack “I’m not buying a whole box of eggs, I’m buying half. I’ll “If they go, they’re worried, they’re taking their life in es when (Israel) destroyed the economic and industrial of Royals, the brand favored by many Gazans. A packet of buy this and it lasts us for two days,” he said, wistfully looking their hands, they might die-or they might live. So the price establishments and residential buildings is around $3 bil- 20 Royals costs eight shekels, one more than before July 8, at the trays of eggs on the stall in front of him. of goods has increased. Not only because of the sellers, but lion,” he told AFP. although Abu Salim has seen no decline in demand. “Prices have gone up because things like meat and eggs the people who transport their goods.” Before the conflict, He said while the price of petrol, which is also imported “In the truce people smoked a pack a day,” he said, refer- are produced on the border area. We don’t go to the border he sold a kilo of potatoes or tomatoes for one shekel. This from Israel and the price of which is controlled by the gov- ring to the three-day ceasefire that ended on Friday. “After it area anymore, so the people only went during the ceasefire.” has climbed to three shekels, a further pinch for Gazans ernment, has not changed in the conflict, “the prices of all ended, they smoked two a day, because of the situation in Israel expanded its offensive against Hamas into a whose economy has been strangled by seven years of goods and agricultural produce like vegetables and meat the country,” he said. — AFP China inflation up 2.3% y-o-y in July

BEIJING: China’s annual inflation rose 2.3 per- al, China’s inflation outlook remains mild,” a similar 7.4 percent expansion in July- cent in July, official data showed yesterday, ANZ Bank economists Liu Li-Gang and Zhou September 2012. remaining stable and allowing authorities Hao said in a research note published after The government in March set its annual space to further stimulate growth in the the data. GDP growth target for 2014 at about 7.5 per- world’s second-largest economy if needed. “However, the deflation risks may even rise cent, the same objective as last year. China’s The country’s consumer price index (CPI) — in the foreseeable future if the growth momen- economy grew 7.7 percent in 2013, matching a main gauge of inflation-also rose by 2.3 per- tum weakens again,” they added, cautioning 2012’s result, which was the worst since 1999. cent in the first seven months of the year from that the threat of falling costs remains, citing a Overall food prices drove inflation in July, the same period in 2013, the National Bureau gauge of online consumer prices that has been rising 3.6 percent from the same month last of Statistics said in a statement. The CPI had negative on a year-on-year basis for more than year, according to the NBS data. Fresh fruit risen 2.3 percent in June, marking a slowdown two years.“Against this backdrop, the central prices surged 20.1 percent. from a four-month high of 2.5 percent in May. bank should maintain an accommodative bias China’s producer price index (PPI) — a July’s result matched the median forecast of in the monetary policy stance,” they added. measure of costs for goods at the factory gate 2.3 percent in a Wall Street Journal survey of 15 and a leading indicator of the trend for CPI- economists and remained well below the 3.5 Focus on consumer spending improved to a decline of 0.9 percent in July, the percent annual target set by the government China’s leaders want to change the coun- NBS said in a separate statement. The result in March. try’s economic model, hoping spending by compared with a decrease of 1.1 percent in The stable inflation figures came as China’s increasingly affluent consumers will play a big- June and remained the highest since a 0.7 per- economic growth has accelerated since ger role in driving growth instead of the large, cent decline in April 2012, according to previ- authorities introduced measures to boost state-supported investments that have tradi- ously published data. The last PPI increase was activity after gross domestic product (GDP) tionally propelled expansion. Authorities have in January 2012, when it rose 0.7 percent. slowed at the beginning of the year. Moderate since April introduced steps to bolster the The inflation data followed the govern- inflation can be a boon to consumption as it economy, such as tax breaks for small enter- ment’s announcement Friday that China’s encourages shoppers to buy before prices go prises, targeted infrastructure outlays and monthly trade surplus leaped to a record up, while falling prices encourage them to incentives to encourage lending in rural areas $47.3 billion in July, nearly tripling year-on- delay purchases and companies to put off and to small companies, measures dubbed year as export growth accelerated while investment, both of which can weigh on “mini-stimulus” by some economists. In imports recorded an unexpected decline. The growth. Authorities must tread carefully, how- response, China’s GDP picked up to a higher- surplus, which compared with one of $17.8 BEIJING: A man walks with his watermelon past a vendor feeding a child near a stall ever, as too much stimulus can cause eco- than-expected 7.5 percent in the second quar- billion during the same month last year, beat selling eggs in Beijing yesterday. China’s consumer price index rose 2.3 percent in nomic growth to heat up to the point where ter from 7.4 percent during the first three China’s previous record of $40.1 billion in July from a year earlier, well below the ruling Communist Party’s 3.5 percent target rising inflation becomes a problem. “In gener- months of the year, which was the worst since November 2008. — AFP for the year. — AP BUSINESS SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

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Know your success stories said an IMF team would be in Ghana early sary to reassure investors over the stability You must have many success stories from your next month to open talks. of the currency. previous work experience. Pick out three where you “Today, IMF Management received a for- Foreign Minister Hannah Tetteh told shine the most. Look for cues to share these stories mal request from the Ghanaian authorities Reuters on Friday the government was seek- during the interview. Those cues can be anything to initiate discussions on an economic pro- ing talks with the Fund to win endorsement SINGAPORE: A building under-construction is reflected from a mirror along from “Tell me about yourself” to “How was your expe- gram that could be supported by the IMF. for its own fiscal reforms program rather the street in the financial district in Singapore. —AFP rience in this company?” Everyone loves a good story. The Fund stands ready to help Ghana than because it needs a bailout. —Reuters 7. Get feedback and follow up Singapore economy with a ‘thank you’ letter KSE indices rise amid After the interview is over, it’s better not to be left hanging. Closure is necessary. Ask the interviewer expands 3.5% in H1 when they’ll let you know their decision. Also find out hefty stocks buying if it’s okay for you to send them a follow up. If there is KUWAIT: Main indices of Kuwait Stock and prevailing positive sentiments SINGAPORE: Singapore’s trade-sensitive percent on-quarter in the three months to no response after a week or two, send them the fol- Exchange (KSE) settled in the green zone among traders. However, the noticeable economy grew 3.5 percent in the first half June due to a fall in the output for electronic low up with a ‘thank you’ letter. The thank you letter is in the past week, buoyed by noticeable upbeat atmosphere at the KSE did not and was on track for 2.5-3.5 percent expan- goods, a main export for the country of 5.4 essential to reiterate your interest in and suitability for blue-chips’ activity amid some substan- lead to hike of the traded stocks’ value, sion this year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien million people. the role and to remain top of mind with the employer tial stock gatherings. in shadow of activity slack in internation- Loong said yesterday. Lee said the tiny island republic had in a favorable way. Al-Oula brokerage company said in a al markets and absence of corporate’ “Our economy grew 3.5 percent in the thrived due to globalization but remained report, issued yesterday, the price index positive reports about the year’s second first half of 2014, and is forecast to grow 2.5- vulnerable to external shocks. “Events over- 8. Move on rose 13.97 points to level of 7,186.42 quarter, thus trades’ volume remained 3.5 percent for the year,” he said in a mes- seas affect us quickly and unpredictably, It’s easier said than done, but after an interview is points, while the weighted index “modest” in the post-Eid period. The past sage on the eve of National Day. The forecast such as political changes in Southeast Asia, over you should move on with your life. You aren’t climbed 3.15 points and Kuwait 15, 11.86 week operations remained steady for is within previous official estimates of 2.0-4.0 maritime disputes in the South China Sea, or going to know the hiring manager’s decision the points. four successive sessions, however the percent growth this year even as the city- armed conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine,” he same day (unless you are very lucky), so let go of all Trades were largely jittery, amid Kuwait 15 index dropped due to fall of state grapples with increasing uncertainties said. The 62-year-old premier said the gov- your worries and trepidations and start preparing for selective purchases, including those by the operating stocks and speculations around the world. ernment was continuing to strengthen the next interview. Keep up a positive attitude and the banks, amid selloffs of blue chips on cheap chips. —KUNA The government on July 14 said gross social safety nets, especially for the country’s success is sure to follow! domestic product shrank an annualized 0.8 growing ranks of elderly citizens. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.905 Sierra Leone 0.000062 0.000068 Nepalese Rupees 3.870 Singapore Dollar 0.223434 0.229434 South African Rand 0.020568 0.029086 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.290 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001892 0.002472 Japanese Yen 2.765 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.430 Australian Dollar 245.06 242.06 Taiwan 0.009342 0.009522 Indian Rupees 4.660 Thai Bhat 9.820 Canadian Dollar 263.63 264.63 Turkish Lira 131.325 Thai Baht 0.008557 0.009107 Pakistani Rupees 2.873 Swiss Franc 317.88 315.88 Srilankan Rupees 2.178 Euro 384.02 385.02 Nepali Rupees 2.918 Arab US Dollar 283.35 286.35 Singapore Dollar 228.350 Bahraini Dinar 0.747257 0.755257 Sterling Pound 480.31 483.31 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 36.639 Egyptian Pound 0.038750 0.041850 Japanese Yen 2.81 2.83 Bangladesh Taka 3.656 Iranian Riyal 0.000079 0.000080 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.505 Bangladesh Taka 3.653 3.923 Iraqi Dinar 0.000180 0.000240 Thai Baht 8.853 Indian Rupee 4.654 4.954 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.397357 0.404857 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.179 2.614 Belgian Franc 0.007387 0.008387 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.910 3.445 British Pound 0.469516 0.478516 Lebanese Pound 0.000137 0.000237 Pakistani Rupee 2.876 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005646 0.017646 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022358 0.046358 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 77.21 77.68 Danish Krone 0.047009 0.052009 Nigerian Naira 0.001142 0.001777 Saudi Riyal 75.750 Bahraini Dinar 754.16 756.23 Euro 0.375333 0.383333 Omani Riyal 0.732021 0.737701 Qatari Riyal 78.051 Egyptian Pound 39.62 40.22 Norwegian Krone 0.041444 0.046644 Qatar Riyal 0.077339 0.078552 Omani Riyal 737.920 Jordanian Dinar 403.27 408.92 Romanian Leu 0.085456 0.085456 Saudi Riyal 0.075137 0.075837 Bahraini Dinar 754.480 Omani Riyal 736.89 744.19 Slovakia 0.008159 0.018159 Syrian Pound 0.001763 0.001983 UAE Dirham 77.360 Qatari Riyal 78.25 78.80 Swedish Krona 0.037141 0.042141 Tunisian Dinar 0.162722 0.170722 Saudi Riyal 75.69 76.09 Swiss Franc 0.307204 0.317404 Turkish Lira 0.134102 0.141102 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.134102 0.141102 UAE Dirhams 0.076382 0.077531 Egyptian Pound - Cash 44.500 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001281 0.001361 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.628 Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.326 Australian Dollar 0.255013 0.266513 Tunisian Dinar 176.530 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.233799 0.243299 Jordanian Dinar 401.140 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 283.900 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.906 Canadian Dollar 261.720 Canadian Dollar 0.253292 0.261792 Syrian Lira 2.025 US Dollars 0.280550 0.284600 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.502 Sterling Pound 478.675 Euro 381.540 US Dollars Mint 0.280550 0.284600 US Dollar 283.500 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 313.990 Euro 380.450 Asia US Dollar Transfer 283.950 Bahrain Dinar 755.635 Pound Sterlng 478.650 Bangladesh Taka 0.003305 0.003905 Euro 382.620 UAE Dirhams 77.275 Canadian Dollar 260.000 Sterling Pound 479.170 Qatari Riyals 78.860 Chinese Yuan 0.044665 0.048165 Indian Rupee 4.627 Canadian dollar 260.980 Saudi Riyals 75.975 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034566 0.037316 Egyptian Pound 39.645 Turkish lira 133.180 Jordanian Dinar 401.000 Indian Rupee 0.004519 0.004920 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.176 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000021 0.000027 Swiss Franc 314.800 Egyptian Pound 39.651 Bangladesh Taka 3.657 Japanese Yen 0.002697 0.002877 Australian Dollar 265.780 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.181 Philippines Peso 6.490 Kenyan Shilling 0.003222 0.003222 US Dollar Buying 282.750 Indian Rupees 4.642 Pakistan Rupee 2.875 Pakistani Rupees 2.874 Korean Won 0.000263 0.000278 Bahraini Dinar 755.100 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.659 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085699 0.091699 UAE Dirham 77.250 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.442 Nepalese Rupee 0.002945 0.003115 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 697.315 Pakistan Rupee 0.002775 0.003055 Saudi Riyal 75.750 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.770 Philippine Peso 0.006489 0.006769 *Rates are subject to change BUSINESS SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 China says local, foreign firms treated same in probes

BEIJING: China said yesterday that its Anti-Monopoly law,” he said in a statement, the official Xinhua news received unfavorable coverage in state media over issues tions it systematically offered bribes to doctors and hos- Law does not discriminate between foreign and domes- agency reported. regarding service and pricing. On Wednesday China pitals and passed the cost on to consumers through high tic companies, as big name overseas enterprises have The statement appeared intended to reassure foreign vowed to punish German luxury brand Audi and Chrysler prices. come under a series of high-profile investigations. The businesses as Shen also made a point of stressing the of the United States for “monopoly behavior”. Two days China, which is frequently hit by food safety scandals, Ministry of Commerce issued a statement noting that for- positive and important role they have played in China’s earlier anti-monopoly investigators raided a Shanghai is currently experiencing one over expired meat that has eign firms such as Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz have economic and social development for more than 30 office of Mercedes-Benz. engulfed a local unit of US food supplier OSI Group. OSI been probed as has the Chinese unit of a US food suppli- years. “The Chinese government has always been dedi- A total of 12 Japanese companies were under investi- subsidiary Shanghai Husi Food Co. operated a factory er. Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said that anti- cated to creating an equitable business environment for gation for monopoly pricing of auto components and shut down by authorities for mixing out-of-date meat monopoly probes were meant to promote fair competi- companies and safeguarding the order of market compe- bearings, though their names have not yet been with fresh product and selling it to fast food chains in tion and protect consumer rights. tition,” he said, according to Xinhua. announced. China. Its clients included McDonald’s and KFC. He said such investigations were also common prac- Foreign pharmaceutical companies including Britain’s A Chinese government agency said earlier that it was Regarding the Shanghai Husi Food issue, Shen said tice internationally. “Looking back at the past six years GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have also been the targets of investigating Microsoft for allegedly operating a monop- the ministry had urged companies to stop selling the after the Anti-Monopoly Law took effect, both domestic wide-ranging investigations. Others businesses, such as oly after raiding four of its offices around the country. affected products and to cooperate with authorities in and foreign firms have been probed according to the Apple and Starbucks, meanwhile, have sometimes Chinese authorities investigated GSK following allega- their probe. — AFP Poland asks US to import apples banned by Russia WARSAW: Poland has asked the United States The United States severely restricts imports of to open its market quickly to Polish apples fresh fruit and vegetables from the European banned by Russia in a sanctions war over the Union, including EU member Poland, PAP crisis in Ukraine. Poland’s ambassador to said. However, there are exceptions and Washington, Ryszard Schnepf, said he had Poland exports peppers and broccoli to the met Michael Scuse, a senior official in the US US market while Italy exports apples and Department of Agriculture, about the steps pears, PAP said. Poland is by far the leading needed to open up the US market, the Polish exporter of apples in Europe, ahead of Italy press agency PAP reported. and France. Moscow announced on Thursday “We are interested in a quick decision it was introducing an embargo on most food because the situation is extraordinary,” imports from Western countries that have Schnepf was quoted as saying. “He told us to imposed punishing sanctions against Russia begin the procedure. We have a new meeting over its annexation of Crimea and alleged planned for August 18 with the heads of the support for rebels in eastern Ukraine. Imports agency that allows for the entry of agriculture of beef, meat, fruit and vegetable produce, products to the United States,” he said. poultry, fish, cheese, milk and dairy products “There is a greater understanding on from the European Union, United States, account of the fact that the United States has Australia, Canada and Norway have been also been hit by Russian sanctions,” he added. immediately banned. — AFP Argentina threatened with contempt order by US judge

NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s econ- contempt order.” Blackman also complained omy ministry once again defiantly asserted the of being attacked and lampooned by the lob- country has made a required debt payment on by group American Task Force Argentina, restructured sovereign bonds on Friday night, which is partly funded by holdout investors. just hours after a US judge threatened a con- Shortly after the hearing, Economy tempt-of-court order if Argentina did not stop Minister Axel Kicillof said on public television issuing such statements. in Argentina, “We will continue to work tire- US District Judge Thomas Griesa, who has lessly to defend the rights of Argentina,” and SMOLENSK: A Belarus local seller travels by train from the Belarus city of Orsha to the Russian city of Smolensk with boxes of vegetables, milk overseen the nation’s long-running debt bat- added that “Judge Griesa did not resolve any- and sausages, yesterday. Russia’s embargo against food from the European Union will affect 10 percent of the EU’s food exports nda may cause tle with hedge funds, railed at Argentina’s thing” in court. “He created this confusing and a crisis of glut in Europe, industry experts said. — AFP lawyers at a hearing in New York a day after extraordinary situation,” said Kicillof, who also the publication of another so-called legal played down concerns the case would cripple notice insisting the government has met its investment in Argentina. US productivity rebound payment requirements and was therefore not in default. Holding a newspaper copy of the No settlement in sight notice, Griesa said if the false statements did Argentina missed a coupon payment after not stop, a contempt of court order will a grace period ended on July 30, pushing it keeps wage pressure tame become necessary. into default on restructured debt from a pre- Later on Friday, however, Argentina’s vious default in 2002 on roughly $100 billion economy ministry issued a statement accus- in sovereign bonds. The government settled ing Griesa of “clear partiality in favor of the with nearly 93 percent of its bondholders in Wholesale inventories rose 0.3% in June vulture funds.” two restructurings but two deep-pocketed “Judge Griesa continues contradicting distressed debt investors held out and did WASHINGTON: Productivity at US nonfarm busi- next year. With productivity stepping up, there is It is unlikely that productivity will continue to himself and the facts by saying that not participate in the exchanges in 2005 and nesses rebounded strongly in the second quarter, more room for workers to win wage hikes with- advance at the second quarter’s pace. Over the Argentina did not pay,” the statement said. 2010. They are by far not the only holdouts, putting a lid on wage pressures and giving the out pressuring inflation or profits. Compared to past three years, it has never topped 1 percent Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the US State but have been the most prominent in their Federal Reserve room to keep interest rates low the second quarter of last year, unit labor costs on an annual basis. “Unless productivity growth Department said the United States would fight for full repayment on debt they bought for a while. The Labor Department said on Friday were up just 1.9 percent, below the central shows signs of accelerating in the near future, not permit the International Justice Court in at pennies on the dollar in a case that essen- productivity increased at a 2.5 percent annual bank’s 2 percent inflation target. labor costs could begin to put some pressure on The Hague to hear Argentina’s claims that US tially comes down to a contract dispute. In rate after contracting at a revised 4.5 percent Even so, pay is accelerating. The report profit margins,” said Alan MacEachin, an econo- court decisions had violated its sovereignty. 2012, Griesa ruled in favor of the holdout pace in the first quarter. The first quarter’s drop showed compensation per hour increased at a mist at Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, “We do not view the ICJ as an appropriate investors, led by NML Capital Ltd, an affiliate was the sharpest since the fourth quarter of 1981. 3.1 percent rate in the second quarter, and was Virginia. venue for addressing Argentina’s debt issues, of the $24.8 billion hedge fund Elliott The bounce back kept labor-related produc- up by the same amount from a year earlier. In The second-quarter rebound reflected a and we continue to urge Argentina to Management Corp, and Aurelius Capital tion costs in check. They had surged at the start comparison, hourly compensation advanced sharp step up in gross domestic product in the engage with its creditors to resolve remain- Management, who won a $1.33 billion judg- of the year as an unusually cold winter only 1.1 percent last year. second quarter. The government said last week ing issues with bondholders,” the spokes- ment. Argentina insists it is not in default depressed output. Unit labor costs, the price of that the economy grew at a 4.0 percent rate woman said in an email. Argentina peti- because it deposited a $539 million coupon labor for any given unit of production, rose at a Compensation rising after shrinking at a 2.1 percent pace in the first tioned the International Court of Justice on payment on exchanged bonds before a June 0.6 percent rate, braking sharply from an Other gauges, such as the government’s quarter. The second-quarter growth estimate, Thursday, but the lawsuit could only move 30 deadline. Griesa has called the deposit upwardly revised 11.8 percent pace in the first measure of personal income and its employ- however, is likely to be trimmed when the fig- forward if the United States submitted volun- with trustee Bank of New York Mellon illegal quarter. “The key message here is that labor ment cost index, a broad gauge that is one of ures are revised later this month, with a report tarily to the court’s jurisdiction. and reiterated on Friday that “there has been costs remain subdued and unlikely to represent Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s favorites, have also on Friday from the Commerce Department no payment.” a source of rising production costs and or infla- pointed to some firming of wage pressures. showing only a moderate gain in wholesale Contempt warning Payments to exchange bondholders have tionary pressures any time soon,” said Anthony “Today’s report doesn’t say that labor costs are a inventories in May and June. At the hearing, Griesa said he was not not been made because of Greisa’s order, Karydakis, chief economic strategist at Miller problem yet, but it hints at some improvement Economists said slow wholesale restocking going to go further than a warning for now. which stipulated the nation must concurrent- Tabak in New York. The Fed is keeping a close in pay,” said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff could lower the second-quarter GDP estimate He repeated that the two sides must continue ly pay the holdouts their award plus accrued eye on wage growth as it ponders when to raise Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania. by as much as three-tenths of a percentage negotiating with the aid of mediator Daniel interest. Argentina has published legal benchmark interest rates, which it has kept near “Fed members, at least the inflation hawks, will point, although data earlier this week showing Pollack. Griesa did not specify whether he notices in recent weeks disparaging Griesa zero since December 2008. Investors do not likely look at the report as supporting their view a smaller trade gap should help offset that a might seek to sanction Argentina or its and Pollack, who succeeded in getting the expect a rate increase until around the middle of that it is time to change direction.” bit. — Reuters lawyers, though he said he was “glad” to hear two sides to meet face-to-face for the first Jonathan Blackman, Argentina’s lead lawyer, time in nearly 13 years but could not get say his firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton them to an agreement by July 30. Pollack did not aid in preparing the government’s lat- issued a statement after the hearing saying it ExxonMobil starts drilling est legal notices. was his intention to “convene and conduct In rare circumstances, US judges have held further negotiations until a solution is foreign governments in contempt and reached, however long that may take.” for oil in Russia’s Arctic imposed monetary penalties. But such sanc- Argentina insists it cannot meet the demands tions can be difficult to enforce, and federal of the court order, nor make a deal with the appeals courts have split on whether foreign holdouts that is better than the terms offered governments can be held in contempt at all. in its two restructurings based upon a clause Putin hails move as ‘model of cooperation’ Federal law largely protects the assets of for- in its agreement known as the Rights Upon eign governments held in the United States, Future Offers (RUFO). The RUFO clause expires said Michael Ramsey, a professor of interna- on Dec 31, 2014. Reuters IFR has reported SOCHI: US oil giant ExxonMobil began drilling in benefits here and are ready to work here with Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis. tional law at the University of San Diego. that private banks are trying to reach an Russia’s Arctic yesterday, despite Western sanc- your agreement.” The United States and the Moscow has responded by banning food “You can’t put Argentina in jail, so I’m not agreement with the holdouts that would pay tions imposed on its Russian partner Rosneft, European Union have introduced sanctions, imports from the United States, European Union, sure what he’d have in mind besides mone- them 80 cents on the dollar for their and was hailed by Russia’s president as a model from asset freezes and visa bans for business- Australia, Canada and Norway, with Prime tary sanctions,” Ramsey said. “Argentina has Argentine bonds in hopes of getting the of “cooperation”. men and officials thought close to Putin, to lim- Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatening further refused to pay a valid judgment and I don’t frozen coupon payment sitting at BNY Mellon Although US sanctions over the crisis in its on access to Western capital for Russian state counter-sanctions if the West presses ahead with see why it wouldn’t also refuse to pay a valid released as soon as possible. — Reuters Ukraine are not designed to halt joint projects banks over what Western powers say is more penalties. — Reuters by Russian and US companies, they nevertheless aim to starve Rosneft of dollar financing and ban access to modern technology. “Today, commercial success is driven by effi- cient international cooperation,” Vladimir Putin told Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin and Glenn Waller, ExxonMobil’s lead manager in Russia, on a videoconference call from his Black Sea resi- dence in Sochi. “Businesses, including Russian and foreign companies, perfectly realise that and despite certain current political difficulties, pragmatism and common sense prevail, and we are pleased to hear that,” he said. Exxon brought a rig from Norway to drill Russia’s first well in the Kara Sea and its move will be seen as a vote of confidence in Rosneft, run by a close ally of Putin’s, Igor Sechin, who has also had sanctions imposed on him by Washington. “We of course welcome this approach (to cooperate) and are from our side are open to expand our cooperation,” Putin said. “I am convinced that the joint projects between Rosneft, Exxon Mobil and other com- panies will benefit our national economies, will contribute to strengthening the global energy situation,” he said. NEW YORK: Lawyer Robert A Cohen (left) of the law firm Dechert, representing NML Waller, who spoke Russian, said the company MAZAR-I-SHARIF: An Afghan farmer works in his field on the outskirts of Mazar-I-Sharif. Capital, a unit of Elliott Management, one of the Argentina bond holder holdouts, leaves was keen to keep working in Russia. “Our coop- Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001 the US Federal Courthouse in New York after a hearing into the Argentinian debt. — AFP eration is a long-term one,” he said. “We see big largely because of the infusion of international assistance. —AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 BUSINESS

KSE stocks rally despite profit-booking

BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week disclosures to its first half financial results. in the green zone. The Price Index closed at 7,186.42 For the annual performance, the price index ended points, up by 0.78 percent from the week before clos- last week recording 4.81 percent annual loss compared ing, the Weighted Index increased by 1.19 percent after to its closing in 2013, while the weighted index closing at 487.52 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index increased by 7.65 percent, and the KSX-15 12.41 percent closed 1,200.97 points up by 2.07 percent. Furthermore, growth. last week’s average daily turnover increased by 18.91 Sectors’ indices percent, compared to the preceding week, reaching KD Eight of KSE’s sectors ended last week in the green 14.58 million, whereas trading volume average was zone, while the other four recorded declines. Last 114.26 million shares, recording an increase of 3.11 per- week’s highest gainer was the Consumer Goods sector, cent. achieving 2.22 percent growth rate as its index closed at In light of a fluctuated and mixed trading activity, 1,323.44 points. whereas in the second place, the and despite the profit collection operations that were Banking sector’s index closed at 1,116.36 points, record- present in many occasions; the three stock indicators ing 1.79 percent increase. The Oil & Gas sector came in were able to realize gains for the second consecutive third as its index achieved 1.62 percent growth, ending week, affected by the purchase and collection opera- the week at 1,185.03 points. tions executed mostly on the large-cap stocks, which On the other hand, the Telecommunications sector was reflected on the Weighted Index and KSX-15 Index headed the losers list as its index declined by 1.54 per- performances, the most realized gains during the week cent to end the week’s activity at 757.46 points. The when compared to the Price Index that benefited from Technology sector was second on the losers’ list, which the random purchasing operations that included some index declined by 0.50 percent, closing at 943.91 points, small-cap listed stocks. followed by the Insurance sector, as its index closed at In addition, last week’s trading activity concentrated 1,168.48 points at a loss of 0.45 percent. on the companies’ stocks of which disclosed positive Sectors’ activity semi-annual financial results for the current year, espe- The Financial services sector dominated total trade cially stocks of the leading Banking sector, whereas volume during last week with 260.26 million shares most of the listed banks were able to realize growth in changing hands, representing 45.55 percent of the total profits when compared to the same period of year 2013, market trading volume. The Banking sector was second as the total realized profits of the sector for the first half in terms of trading volume as the sector’s traded shares period of the current year reached KD 327.51 Million, were 16.27 percent of last week’s total trading volume, while it reached KD278.78 Million for the same period of with a total of 92.93 million shares. last year, with a growth of 17.48 percent. On the other hand, the Banking sector’s stocks were Moreover, the stock market gains of last week came the highest traded in terms of value; with a turnover of in parallel with the increase in the trading activity, espe- KD 27.09 million or 37.17 percent of last week’s total cially the trading value that grew by 18.91 percent, market trading value. The Financial Services sector took among a trading concentration on the Banking sector the second place as the sector’s last week turnover was stocks that received the most percentage from the mar- KD 16.59 million represented 22.76 percent of the total ket liquidity, and came despite the continued state of market trading value. — Prepared by the Studies & watch by many traders, waiting for the listed companies Research Department, Bayan Investment Co.

Dividend payers attractive again as bond yields fall

WALL STREET WEEKLY OUTLOOK NEW YORK: Investors once again are snap- Communications, have both gained roughly has driven up demand for safe-haven ping up high-dividend-paying US stocks as 40 percent. bonds, also supported by the Federal Treasury yields fall, which should keep utili- Utilities hit a bout of profit-taking after Reserve’s continued purchase of Treasuries ties and telecom stocks near the top of the ending the first half of the year in the No. 1 while it gradually pares back its bond-buy- buying list for the near future. spot. The sector had risen 16.4 percent as of ing program. The S&P 500 utility sector shot The S&P 500 utility sector, whose dividend June 30, bolstered in part by the shares’ up 2 percent on Friday, its biggest daily per- yield at 3.9 percent is more than 100 basis high yields and the appeal of a safer sector centage gain since June. Earlier this week, points above the 10-year Treasury yield, led at a time when investors were still a bit wor- the index flirted with correction territory as the S&P 500’s advance on Friday after concern ried about economic growth. it lost nearly 10 percent from a high set June about the launch of US air strikes on Iraq Analysts say the attractiveness of high 30. drove the benchmark bond yield to 14- dividend-paying sectors such as utilities is Also benefiting from the drop in bond month lows. The equity market recovered not likely to end soon, especially with valua- yields are exchange-traded funds tied to from early losses, in part due to news that tions still below the benchmark’s level. The dividend payers, including the Powershares Russia’s Defense Ministry said military exercis- forward price-to-earnings ratio for S&P utili- Dividend Achiever exchange-traded fund, es near the Ukraine border had ended. Any ties is at 14.9, below the S&P 500’s p/e of which rose 1.3 percent on Friday and is up global worries that keep a bid in government 15.2, Thomson Reuters data showed. 3.2 percent for the year. debt, meanwhile, will motivate investors to “The US 10-year is an attractive yield giv- The First Trust Morningstar Dividend NEW YORK: A Wall Street sign near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. -— AP go after stocks with fat dividend yields. en the backdrop of very weak yields around Leaders Index Fund has performed better, Verizon. percent. They have gained 40 percent and The utility sector is up 8.8 percent since the world. Therefore, that does make the gaining 1.2 percent on Friday and up 6 per- However, network communications com- 37 percent this year, respectively. “Where Dec 31, the third best-performing sector for dividend-paying sectors increasingly attrac- cent for the year so far. The S&P telecommu- pany Windstream Holdings has a dividend yield lies is where investors are continuing the year, following technology and health tive. That’s been the footprint for this mar- nications index has an even higher dividend yield of 9 percent, the highest in the S&P to go because there continues to be no care. Telecom hasn’t been as strong - gain- ket,” said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at yield than utilities, at 4.7 percent, though a 500, while Frontier Communications is third alternative from other income-producing ing just 0.8 percent in the same period - but Prudential Financial, based in Newark, New smaller pool of stocks. The sector has been highest, with a yield of 6.2 percent, accord- securities,” said Mark Luschini, chief invest- two of that sector’s constituents, Jersey. weak this year because of a lackluster per- ing to Thomson Reuters data. Those com- ment strategist at Janney Montgomery Windstream Holdings and Frontier Overseas turmoil, particularly in Ukraine, formance by its biggest names, AT&T and pare with the S&P 500’s dividend yield of 2.4 Scott in Philadelphia. — Reuters BUSINESS SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 Emirates taxies into world’s shortest A380 ride

By Eiad Abdulahad

mirates launched a new A380 service to New A380 service to Kuwait Kuwait, the world’s shortest scheduled EA380 flight. The arrival of the upgraded marks 25 years of service EK857 service, which touched down at Kuwait International Airport on July 16, marked 25 years of Emirates’ flights to the country. “This is a proud moment for the airline,” said Sheikh Majid Al-Mualla, Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Centre, who was aboard the inau- gural flight from Dubai. “We have gradually built up our services to Kuwait since 1989 and we now offer five daily flights, soon to become six. After experiencing the airline’s award winning products and services over the years, travellers to and from Kuwait can now enjoy our flagship aircraft, the most popular commercial aircraft flying today.” “This is no surprise when you look at the superb product offering on board,” added Sheikh Majid. “All of our A380s are equipped Sheikh Majid Al-Mualla with Wifi, up to 1,800 channels of inflight entertainment on the award winning ice sys- in Kuwait at 1645hrs local time. EK858 departs tem, an Onboard Lounge and Onboard Kuwait at 1825hrs and lands in Dubai at Shower Spas - all supported by 25 friendly 2110hrs. and multi-national cabin crew.” Over the 25 years of service, around 7.8 million passengers have been carried on the Elegant services would like to express our special thanks to the board the A380 aircraft. The in-flight services Kuwait route. In the past five years alone, Emirates hosted a suhoor event for the State of Kuwait, the Aviation Authorities and and on board facilities took the delegation Emirates SkyCargo, has moved over 140 mil- Kuwaiti media delegation that covered the Kuwait International Airport for their contin- members by surprise. The surprisingly quiet lion kilograms of commodities, further sup- maiden A380 flight between Kuwait and ued support over the past 25 years and for aircraft offers 14 First Class Private Suites, 76 porting the Kuwait economy. Dubai. It was on 16 July 1989 when Emirates allowing us to bring the A380 into their coun- mini-pods in Business Class and 399 seats in Imports have included meat, fruits, vegeta- began flights between Dubai and Kuwait, and try. This is a tremendous opportunity for cus- Economy Class. The Emirates’ A380 flight to bles, clothing, pharmaceuticals and construc- the airline now serves the route five times dai- tomers travelling to and from Kuwait to enjoy Kuwait is just one hour and 45 minutes, the tion equipment, while mobile phones, watch- ly with a combination of Boeing and Airbus the pride of the Emirates fleet,” said Sheikh shortest A380 service in operation today. es, drilling equipment and tyres have featured aircraft. The event was attended by Emirates Majid Al-Mualla. Since 2008, the airline has carried 27.5 million amongst the exports. First Deputy CEO for Commercial Operations, “We have 47 A380s which we deploy all travellers on its now 50 A380s. With a fleet of 224 aircraft, Emirates oper- Sheikh Majid Al-Mualla, along with public over the world from LA to Auckland, but the ates to 143 destinations in 81 countries across relations employees. experience continues to generate excitement Second market six continents. Sheikh Majid held talks with the members and fascination amongst our passengers and Kuwait is only the second market in the Some of the new routes passengers from of the delegation on a variety of topics relat- those who come to airports just to catch a Middle East to be served by the airline’s flag- Kuwait can connect to via Dubai include ing to the airline’s future vision, its new pro- glimpse of this magnificent aircraft,” he added ship aircraft after the Kingdom of Saudi Taipei and Boston, and in the months to come grams and readiness with a view to reaching Sheikh Majid Al-Mualla accompanied the Arabia. Abuja in Nigeria, Chicago, Oslo, Brussels and newer heights in the world of aviation. “We Kuwait media delegation the next day on EK857 leaves Dubai at 1600hrs and arrives First Kuwaiti pilot with a UAE airline Budapest.

Sheikh Majid Al-Mualla, Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, talking to the media delegation. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 BUSINESS

Mini unveils new home in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Providing further excitement to the last four years than to launch a dedicat- the tremendously positive response of the ed new showroom for our MINI brand,” said Kuwaiti market to the MINI brand, Ali Yousuf Al Qatami, General Manager. “Its eye- Alghanim & Sons has opened an all-new catching, colourful and everything MINI MINI showroom that delivers a best-in-class, theme is a perfect match to the strong action-packed and fun experience to cus- enthusiasm of a growing number of MINI tomers when purchasing the MINI model of lovers from all ages in Kuwait. their choice in Kuwait. “More importantly, this new showroom Located at the Ali Alghanim & Sons enables us to provide customers with all the Automotive facility along Airport Road 55 in fun and convenience in choosing and buy- Shuwaikh, the all-new MINI showroom ing the MINI they desire,” he added. exudes with contemporary and attractive The MINI showroom working hours will colors that go along with the iconic and be from 8:00 am until 12:30 pm, and then dynamic profiles of MINI cars on display. from 4:30 pm until 8:00 pm. The service Spread over a 315-square meter area, the working hours will be from 7:00 am until all-new MINI showroom has the capacity to 4:00pm. display six cars that include the latest mod- The all-new MINI Hatch launched a few els of the MINI Hatch, MINI Paceman, MINI months ago, is on display at the new show- Countryman, MINI Coupe, MINI Roadster, room and continues on with the global suc- and MINI Cabrio. cess story of the first ever premium automo- In addition, its totally new environment bile in the small car segment. The premium includes an area to display the fun cool small car with a big personality boasts a new range of MINI lifestyle merchandise, a deliv- design, new generation engines, improved ery area, a John Cooper Works (MINI’s per- driving comfort and a vast range of new formance subbrand) area, and a MINI Hub quality materials and colours. In addition, it where customers can relax and interact with comes, for the first time, in both three-cylin- the MINI brand . der and four-cylinder engines with six-speed The new showroom also has a dedicated automatic gearbox and MINI TwinPower color and trim sampling space where cus- Turbo technology in Cooper and Cooper S tomers are given the opportunity to view variants. The Cooper is powered by a 1.5-litre several options in customizing their MINI’s. three-cylinder engine, with outputs of With sales of the MINI have recorded 225 136hp, while the Cooper S 2.0 litre 4-cylinder percent growth from 2010 to 2013, this unit outputs 192 hp with maximum torque paved the way for the opening of the all- of 280 Nm reaching 0-100 in 6.7 seconds. new MINI showroom. Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive “What better way to celebrate a con- Company is the exclusive importer for MINI stantly increasing number of units sold in & BMW Group in Kuwait. Rasameel receives Award of Excellence Gulf Bank First in Kuwait to for best Islamic finance house in GCC obtain PCI-DSS 3.0 Certification KUWAIT: Gulf Bank yesterday and last but not least, maintaining an KUWAIT: Rasameel Structured Finance announced that it has officially information security policy. Company, a leading Kuwait-based Islamic obtained the Payment Card Industry Dharshan Shanthamurthy CEO of structured finance firm, received on June (PCI)-Data Security Standards (DSS) 3.0 SISA said: “Congratulations to the Gulf 18th, 2014 the Award of Excellence for Best certification, making it the first certified Bank team on achieving PCI-DSS Bank in Kuwait, and one of the few certi- Compliance for the third time in a row. Islamic Structured Finance House in the fied banks across the region. PCI-DSS is The PCI Data Security Standard, with its GCC by ICG Events during the Gala Dinner the global industry standard for compli- 200+ requirements is one of the most Awards Ceremony at the 8th annual ance and security for personal payment stringent security standards and the London Sukuk Summit at the Jumeirah card data, to which vendors and busi- only global standard dedicated to Carlton Hotel. nesses must conform to in order to pro- secure cardholder’s data. During our The award was presented by Mushtak tect cardholders’ personal data and pre- partnership for the last 3 years, we were Parker, Editor of Islamic Banker Magazine, vention from credit card fraud. one of the foremost journals in the industry The Bank’s PCI-DSS 3.0 compliance with a global circulation in the major was validated on 20May, 2014, after an Islamic Financial institutions. The keynote extensive audit conducted by SISA,a speaker at the summit was, the Rt Hon qualified security assessor from PCI Baroness Warsi, PC, Senior Minister of State Security Standards Council. Vendors and businesses were given a deadline of 1 at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. January, 2015 to apply the newest stan- Other respective speakers were,Jaseem dards. Gulf Bank was the first bank in Ahmed, Secretary General of IFSB, Dr Abdel Kuwait to take that step; further solidify- Rahman TayebTaha, CEO of ICIEC, Wan ing its position in the forefront. Abdul Rahim Kamil, Senior Consultant of Commenting on this announcement, Securities Commission Malaysia, Badlisyah Himanshu Tewari, Head of ISS and PIO at Abdul Ghani, CEO of CIMB Islamic Bank, Gulf Bank, said: “The Bank’s accomplish- Issam Al-Tawari, Chairman & Managing ment reinforces its commitment to delighted to work with Gulf Bank for Director of Rasameel Structured Finance. internationally recognized security stan- their pledge for maximum security and Commenting on the awards, Issam Z Al- dards that enhance the protection of achieving PCI Compliance. This year is Tawari, Chairman & Managing Director of customers’ card information. Gulf Bank’s also very important as Gulf Bank joins attainment of PCI - DSS 3.0 compliance the elite group of Banks in the Middle Rasameel Structured Finance Company, is in line with its client centric approach. East region to be compliant with the lat- said, “We are extremely honored to be the For Gulf Bank getting PCI DSS certifica- est version of PCI-DSS standard (version recipient of Award of Excellence for Best tion is more than checking a box on an 3.0) and is also the first bank in Kuwait. Islamic Structured Finance House in the annual audit, it reflects the bank’s val- We appreciate the commitment and GCC; another milestone to our record.” ues to constantly operate with its dedication from Gulf Bank to secure The Sukuk Summit Awards, the event of clients’ best interest at heart, and pro- their customer’s data and going the year for outstanding achievements in The Sukuk Summit Award panel of ble institutions and the general public are tect and avoid misuse of customer data”. through the stringent audit process of the Sukuk market and more generally in judges are made up of respected industry also entitled to submit nominations for Gulf Bank met the six different securi- SISA.” the Islamic Finance industry are set to take experts from across the GCC, Europe and those entities and individuals that they feel ty pillars required to achieve the PCI- This achievement is a direct result of place at the Gala Dinner Awards Ceremony. the South East Asia are responsible for deserve recognition. All of the factors DSS 3.0 compliance. These requirements Gulf Bank’s strategy and commitment to are namely; building and maintaining a offering its customers the best services These much respected and valued industry nominating those institutions and individu- above are taken into consideration during accolades were established to help raise secure network, protecting cardholder possible, underlined by safety and secu- als that they deem to have attained out- the selection of winners in the various cate- data, maintaining a vulnerability man- rity and delivered by the Bank’s team the standards in the Sukuk sector and to standing achievement, success and excel- gories and we encourage all interested par- agement program, implementing that spares no efforts in managing and set the highest benchmarks for the indus- lence over the past 12 months. In order to ties to participate in the nomination strong access control measures, regular- improving its information security sys- try globally. make the process as transparent as possi- process. ly monitoring and testing of networks tems.

GCC Supreme Council workshop to spotlight health of region’s youth

DUBAI: In line with its continued commitment to nurture the youth of the Gulf Cooperation Council; Their Excellencies ministers and initiatives which support GCC youths and activate their role in build- of the GCC region, the Secretariat General of the Cooperation senior officials from the UAE; and a number of undersecretaries of ing society. Council for the Arab States of the Gulf has organized a workshop for the concerned ministries from all the GCC countries; in addition to The workshop aims to present the current health situation of young people titled: “Health, Sport and Entertainment Industry”. The the young delegates. young population in the GCC countries and discuss all possible two-day workshop, which will take place at the Conrad Hilton Hotel The workshop is the most recent in a series of workshops being means to facilitate its improvement. During the workshop important in Dubai today (August 10) and tomorrow (August 11), will give 200 held by the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the topics such as the role of sport and entertainment channels in this young men and women from the member states the opportunity to Arab States in the member states, following a decision made by the regard as well as how to encourage studies and research in the interact and engage with top level officials from across the GCC and GCC Supreme Council during its 34th summit in Kuwait in December fields of youth and sport will be discussed. Furthermore, the work- give their input and recommendations on how to improve and 2013, which affirmed the necessity of nurturing young people. In shop’s high level delegates will also be exploring ways to cooperate encourage healthy lifestyle habits among the region’s youth, accordance to this decision the GCC Supreme Council has commit- with related regional and international organizations and groups, The workshop will take place in the presence of Sheikh Nahyan ted itself to undertake every possible effort to develop the capacity and work to develop common frameworks in the fields of youth and bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community and skills of the GCC’s youth in a diverse range areas, by providing a sport, the standardization of names, and structures and functions in Development, and Chairman of the General Authority of Youth and platform that brings together young people, experts, and the con- the youth and sport departments, agencies and organizations in the Sports Welfare; Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Secretary-General cerned organizations to propose recommendations and strategic council states. technology SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 Facial recognition to find lost dogs

LOS ANGELES: Any worried pet owner that their pets have ID tags with updated who has spent days hanging posters, mak- information,” said Dr Emily Weiss, vice presi- ing phone calls and knocking on neigh- dent of ASPCA shelter research and devel- bors’ doors hopes there’s a more scientific opment. way to find a lost dog. That became a reali- Facial recognition worked for the Cox ty when facial recognition technology suc- family after Roxy bolted during a thunder- cessfully reunited a pet at San Diego storm in late July. Five days after the dog County Animal Services with its owners. disappeared, the family’s 10-year-old Joanne Cox’s family in San Diego turned to daughter created a free Finding Rover FindingRover.com, a website and app that account and the technology matched her uses technology built by university uploaded photo to one taken at the shelter. researchers, to reconnect with their dog “Within four hours of her arrival to the shel- Roxy, a Shiba inu. ter, we were there to pick her up,” Joanna The website keeps a database of photos Cox said in an email. from the three county shelters and tries to Every dog entering San Diego County’s match eight distinctive facial markers on three shelters is added to the photo data- dogs with images uploaded by users base. Daniel deSousa, the system’s deputy searching for lost pets. Eyes and noses are director, says the program can work two important areas that differentiate pooches, ways: Someone finds a dog, takes its pic- including eye size and their position near ture and sends it to the database, where a the snout. FindingRover.com founder John match generates a notice to the owner. The Polimeno wants to expand the photo data- owner then can call the good Samaritan base to improve the odds of more happy and arrange a pickup. endings, with shelters elsewhere set to sign Dogs coming in to the shelters have on. He’s also showing it to rescues, veteri- their photos run against the database. If narians and dog groups and is visiting oth- there’s a match, the owner gets a call. The er countries. technology powering Finding Rover was The website is unique in using facial built by Steven Callahan and John recognition but stands among many online Schreiner of the University of Utah’s soft- tools people increasingly use to find lost ware development center. They found the pets. There are alarm systems, social media eight markers on dogs are far fewer than alerts and apps that post rewards or call the 128 points on the human facial recog- people in neighborhoods.Plus, the nition program. American Society for the Prevention of “People are sort of uniform, the shape of Cruelty to Animals, the largest and oldest their faces, skin tones, all their eyes, noses humane society in the US, has its own and mouths are in the same general loca- mobile app for recovering missing pets. It tion,” Callahan said. But dogs’ eyes and TORONTO: This photo shows creators Dr Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University and Dr David Harris Smith of McMaster University with offers tips on the best ways to search and snouts are in different places. It’s difficult to allows users to create a digital flier to share measure accuracy, Callahan said, but if there hitchBOT. —AFP on social media. are 100 dogs in a database, a top-three “Through research, the ASPCA has match would be hit 98 percent of the time. found that the best method for pet owners “It worked surprisingly well, better than I to find their lost pet is to get out the door, thought it would. I had low expectations,” Robots to up-end search their neighborhood, post flyers, Callahan said. “It would take off if you had all check their local shelters and make sure the shelters in an area” included. —AP the world of work

What are people for in a world that does not need their labor?

WASHINGTON: Robots and artificially intelligent and socially beneficial way.” But Rainie said many Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet devices will take over many jobs now done by see this as leading to “a shrinking of the middle & Society, said, robots and artificial intelligence people, and experts are divided as to whether class and expansion of the ranks of the unem- “will increasingly replace routine kinds of work- their spread will do human society more good ployed.” even the complex routines performed by arti- than harm. The Pew Research Center said experts sans, factory workers, lawyers, and accountants.” see a growing role for self-driving cars, delivery ‘Automation is Voldemort’ Others were optimistic such as JP drones, robotic workers, smartphone-based “Automation is (the ‘Harry Potter’ villain) Rangaswami, chief scientist for Salesforce.com. assistants and even algorithmic journalism by Voldemort: the terrifying force nobody is willing “The very nature of work will have changed radi- 2025. But they are divided on whether these to name,” said Jerry Michalski, founder of cally by 2025, but only in economies that have technological advances will be helpful, with 48 Relationship Economy eXpedition, a think tank of chosen to invest in education, technology and percent of respondents to Pew’s survey saying corporate executives. “The race between related infrastructure,” he said. “Some classes of TORONTO: This photo shows creators Dr Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University they will destroy jobs and increase income automation and human work is won by automa- jobs will be handed over to the ‘immigrants’ of AI and Dr David Harris Smith of McMaster University with hitchBOT. —AFP inequality. Nevertheless, a slim majority said the tion, and as long as we need fiat currency to pay and robotics, but more will have been generated technology will take over undesirable tasks and the rent/mortgage humans will fall out of the in creative and curating activities as demand for generate new kinds of human employment. The system in droves as this shift takes place.” their services grows exponentially.” report is not based on a randomized poll sample, Stowe Boyd, lead researcher at GigaOM Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist for Google, Smokey Bear turns 70 but instead on an opt-in survey of people Research, said the growing use of autonomous said: “Historically, technology has created more deemed experts or affiliated with certain organi- vehicles will take away important jobs for men jobs than it destroys and there is no reason to zations, taken between November 2013 and such as truck and taxi drivers. “An increasing pro- think otherwise in this case. Someone has to LOS ANGELES: Smokey Bear turned 70 yes- A QUIET BEAR: Smokey traditionally January 2014. portion of the world’s population will be outside make and service all these advanced devices.” terday - but don’t bring any candles to the never spoke in his public service messages Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research of the world of work-either living on the dole, or The report is based on views from nearly 1,900 party, please. As the friendly, huggable bear except for his signature line (Only You Can Internet Project, said experts see “the accelerat- benefiting from the dramatically decreased costs respondents selected by Pew because of their with the brimmed hat and shovel enters his Prevent Forest Fires). Now, social media has ing displacement of work that can be done more of goods to eke out a subsistence lifestyle,” he background. They were affiliated to think tanks; golden years, he’s burning up Twitter. But his given him a new outlet - and he’s chatty. “It efficiently and cost-effectively” by robots. This said. companies including Cisco Systems, British message of fire prevention through personal turns out he does have a voice and it’s very means “a transformation of labor, especially in “The central question of 2025 will be: What Telecom and Microsoft; universities such as the responsibility hasn’t changed much. Here clever,” said Peggy Conlon, president and the fields of transportation, fast food and medi- are people for in a world that does not need their Massachusetts Institute of Technology; news cine; freedom from day-to-day drudgery that labor, and where only a minority are needed to organizations and activist groups such as the are some little-known facts about Smokey CEO of the Ad Council. Still, Smokey’s mes- allows people to define work in a more positive guide the ‘bot-based economy?’” Justin Reich at Electronic Privacy Information Center. —AFP Bear on his big day. sage is sometimes best relayed through STAYING POWER: Smokey Bear was cre- silence. A series of YouTube videos created ated in 1944 because of fears that America’s around his 70th birthday show Smokey giv- 7 ways to create better passwords enemies would set forest fires while most US ing silent bear hugs (#SmokeyBearHug) to firefighters were in battle overseas. When campers who properly build and extinguish NEW YORK: With the recent news as you can. “PaSsWoRd!43” is far bet- dictionary. You shouldn’t use your to read the full story. It’s OK to use the war ended, Smokey stuck around - and camp fires and safely dispose of used bar- that a Russian hacker ring has ter than “password43.” Avoid words name, company name or hometown, simple passwords and repeat them in he’s now at the center of the longest-run- beque charcoal, among other things. amassed some 1.2 billion username that are in dictionaries, even if you for instance. Avoid pets and relatives’ those types of situations, as long as WHAT’S IN A NAME: Most people know and password combinations, it’s a add numbers and symbols. There are names, too. Likewise, avoid things the password isn’t unlocking features the finger-pointing fire-safety fanatic as good time to review ways to protect programs that can crack passwords that can be looked up, such as your that involve credit cards or posting yourself online. The hacking mis- by going through databases of birthday or ZIP code. But you might on a message board. That will let you Smokey THE Bear, but in fact there is no deeds were described in a New York known words. One trick is to add use that as part of a complex pass- focus on keeping passwords to the “the” in the original name. In 1952, Steve Times story based on the findings of numbers in the middle of a word - as word. Try reversing your ZIP code or more essential accounts strong. Nelson and Jack Rollins wrote a song in his Hold Security, a Milwaukee firm that in “pas123swor456d” instead of “pass- phone number and insert that into a The other exception is to log in honor and added a “the” between “Smokey” has a history of uncovering online using a centralized sign-on service and “Bear” to keep the rhythm flowing. security breaches. Hold Security told such as Facebook Connect. Hulu, for A BEAR IN THE CITY: In 2001, Smokey’s the Times that the data was pilfered instance, gives you the option of public relations team changed his classic from some 420,000 websites and is using your Facebook username and “the largest known collection of password instead of creating a sepa- ning public service announcement cam- line to the more updated phrase, Only You stolen Internet credentials.” Hold’s rate one for the video site. This tech- paign in US history. Research shows he is Can Prevent Wildfires and revamped the researchers did not identify the ori- nically isn’t reusing your password, known by 96 percent of American adults campaign to address the growing threat of gins of the data or name the victim but a matter of Hulu borrowing the and ranks near Mickey Mouse and Santa devastating wildfires in suburban and websites, citing nondisclosure agree- log-in system Facebook already has Claus for name recognition. His creation was urban areas. Smokey hit the cities with a ments. The company also said it in place. The account information a collaboration of the US Forest Service, the three-year “refreshed” campaign targeting didn’t want to name companies isn’t stored with Hulu. Facebook National Association of State Foresters and casual adult hikers, bikers and campers and whose websites are still vulnerable to merely tells Hulu’s computers that it’s hacking, according to the Times you. Of course, if you do this, it’s even the Ad Council. those living in urban areas adjacent to for- report. more important to keep your A SOCIAL ANIMAL: Smokey’s image has est land. If there’s reason to believe your Facebook password secure. evolved over the decades to fit the latest THE ‘REAL’ SMOKEY: Smokey Bear’s information might have been com- Some services such as Gmail even media technology. When he first debuted, nascent ad campaign got a boost in 1950 promised, change your passwords give you the option of using two TV was in its infancy and posters were hand- when a real bear cub that had been res- immediately. One of the best things passwords when you use a particular drawn. Now, Smokey is a social media con- cued from a New Mexico wildfire was you can do is to make sure your new FUYANG: In this file photo, people use computers at an computer or device for the first time. passwords are strong. Here are seven If you have that feature turned on, the noisseur and prolific blogger, with accounts Internet cafe in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province. —AP nursed back to health and sent to the ways to fortify them: Make your pass- service will send a text message with on Facebook, Twitter (@Smokey_Bear), National Zoo in Washington, DC, as the liv- word long. The recommended mini- word123456.” Another is to think of a string of letters. As a reminder, you a six-digit code to your phone when Instagram, YouTube and Flickr. He has more ing Smokey. mum is eight characters, but 14 is sentence and use just the first letter should also avoid “password” as the you try to use Gmail from an unrecog- than 300,000 friends on Facebook and THE VOICE: Actor Sam Elliott, known for better and 25 is even better than of each word - as in “tqbfjotld” for password, or consecutive keys on the nized device. You’ll need to enter that 24,000 people follow him on Twitter. Fans playing the bowling alley-narrator in “The that. Some services have character “the quick brown fox jumps over the keyboard, such as “1234” or “qwerty.” for access, and then the code expires. can sign a virtual card and upload photos at Big Lebowski” and supporting roles in limits on passwords, though. lazy dog.” Never reuse passwords on other It’s optional, and it’s a pain - but it www.smokeybear.com. People still like to movies like “Up in the Air” and “Mask,” has Use combinations of letters and Substitute characters. For accounts - with two exceptions. Over could save you from grief later on. numbers, upper and lower case and instance, use the number zero the years, I’ve managed to create Hackers won’t be able to access the write to Smokey the old-fashioned way, too. served as the latest voice for Smokey. Both symbols such as the exclamation instead of the letter O, or replace the hundreds of accounts. Many are for account without possessing your The imaginary bear got his own ZIP code share the same “birthday.” Elliott, the son of mark. Some services won’t let you do S with a dollar sign. Avoid easy-to- one-time use, such as when a news- phone. Turn it on by going to the (20252) in 1952 as his popularity soared and a Fish and Wildlife official, also turned 70 all of that, but try to vary it as much guess words, even if they aren’t in the paper website requires me to register account’s security settings. —AP it was reactivated this summer. yesterday. —AP Japan creates fuel-cell powered underwater vehicle

TOKYO: Japan’s defense ministry on Friday said it unmanned, 10-metre (33-feet) long sub could run “unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV)”. It supplied does or other weaponry. “The UUV is purely for was developing a fuel-cell powered “unmanned for a month under the sea on a single charge an artist’s rendering of a yellow, submarine- patrolling-it’s not a military weapon,” the official underwater vehicle” but disputed a report that it before returning to home base. shaped vehicle cruising the ocean depths. added. Japan is a leader in fuel cells which gener- was working with Washington on a submarine However, the defense ministry later told AFP A ministry official said the department had ear- ate emissions-free energy through a chemical using the environmentally-friendly technology. that it had not agreed to joint development plans marked 2.6 billion yen ($25 million) over five years reaction of hydrogen and oxygen, and are most The report in the top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun, cit- with Washington, but confirmed that it was work- to develop a fuel-cell system for the vehicle, commonly associated with environmentally ing unnamed ministry officials, said the ing independently on what it called an adding that it would not be equipped with torpe- friendly vehicles. —AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

HIV infections rise, thwart Brazil’s AIDS efforts

SAO PAULO: The devastating news didn’t make nosed in 2004. He didn’t understand the difference and I felt immune.” While Brazil has long been seen as The pace of deaths fell and mother-to-child transmis- sense to Brazilian Pierre Freitaz. How was it possible between the infection and the disease it caused: a global model in the fight against AIDS, activists and sion was cut sharply. that, at age 17, he was infected with HIV if his only AIDS. He was confused by the lack of obvious symp- officials say more and more youths share Freitaz’s Officials say the persistent rise in cases could be boyfriend seemed fit and healthy? Freitaz confesses toms. unawareness of HIV risks, or are unconcerned about partly the result of better systems for tracking the he knew little about the virus when he was diag- “It’s like I was living in a different part of the world, them. Even as HIV infection rates have begun declin- virus. Others blame religious opposition to sex-edu- ing in many other places, cases have been slowly ris- cation campaigns, or say some youths mistakenly ing in Brazil - with the sharpest jump among youths believe that progress in treating AIDS means it’s a 15 to 24. problem of the past. Brazil’s dominant Catholic “The numbers are going up. It’s a paradox, a church frowns on the use of condoms, but the chief shame. After all the money spent on treatment and resistance to sex education campaigns has come implementing a policy for everyone to receive it, we from evangelical Christians, whose share of Brazil’s have these disastrous results,” said Dr Caio Rosenthal, population has jumped from 5 percent to 22 percent a Sao Paulo-based specialist at the Emilio Ribas between 1970 and 2010, making them an increasing- Institute of Infectious Diseases. UN statistics show ly influential political force. 44,000 new infections detected last year in Brazil, up Dr Dirceu Greco, the former head of the from fewer than 40,000 in 2005 - a rate outpacing Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, AIDS population growth. The national Health Ministry says and Viral Hepatitis at the health ministry, said opposi- overall numbers of HIV infections has reached nearly tion by evangelical leaders “caused notorious back- 800,000. That’s half of all the HIV cases in all of Latin tracking” in AIDS policy. Another former leader of the America. program, Dr Pedro Chequer, complained that the By comparison, in the United States, the rate of restrictions have hurt campaigns targeting vulnera- new HIV cases has dropped by a third over the past ble populations such as gays and sex workers. “There decade, according to a study published last month in was a very clear setback. Brazil used to be at the fore- the Journal of the American Medical Association. front, but now it’s just like any other country,” said About 1.1 million Americans are estimated to be Chequer, who is widely seen as Brazil’s leading anti- SAO PAULO: A sex worker talks to a potential client in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr Dirceu Greco, the infected with HIV. When the global AIDS epidemic AIDS crusader. In the past two years, for example, the erupted in the 1980s, officials here reacted quickly. federal government ordered schools to stop handing former head of the Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, AIDS and Viral Hepatitis at Brazil carried out widespread sex-education cam- out comic books and other materials aimed at youth the health ministry, said opposition by evangelical leaders ‘caused notorious backtracking’ in paigns and became the first developing nation to with stories encouraging the use of condoms to pre- AIDS policy. — AP offer free antiretroviral treatment on a large scale. vent HIV and teenage pregnancies.—AP FDA lifts hold on experimental drug

WASHINGTON: US health authorities have according to the World Health Organization. eased safety restrictions on an experimental Currently, there are no licensed drugs or vac- drug to treat Ebola, a move that could clear cines for the deadly disease. Several are in the way for its use in patients infected with various stages of development, but none the deadly virus. Canadian drugmaker have been rigorously tested in humans. Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp said the US The FDA in March granted Tekmira “fast Food and Drug Administration modified a track” status for its Ebola drug, a designation hold recently placed on the company’s drug designed to speed up approval of high-pri- after safety issues emerged in human test- ority drugs by granting companies extra ing. The company has a $140 million con- meetings with FDA scientists. Early studies of tract with the US government to develop its TKM-Ebola in monkeys suggested it could drug, TKM Ebola, which targets the genetic block high doses of the Ebola virus. But on material of Ebola. But last month the FDA July 21, the company based in Vancouver, halted a small study of the injection in British Columbia, announced the FDA had adults to request additional safety informa- halted a small dosing study of the drug in 28 tion. healthy adults. The company said regulators Tekmira said Thursday the agency “verbal- had questions about a type of drug reaction ly confirmed” changes to the hold that may that can cause nausea, chills, low blood pres- MONROVIA: The image of Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (left) appears on a public information banner warning people about the Ebola allow the company to make the drug avail- sure and shortness of breath. Tekmira’s CEO virus in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide to donate money and resources to stop the able, although it has yet to be proven as safe Mark Murray praised the FDA for modifying spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency. — AP and effective. Two Americans diagnosed the restriction on Thursday. “We have been with Ebola recently received a different closely watching the Ebola virus outbreak experimental drug called ZMapp, made by and its consequences, and we are willing to What’s scary about Ebola Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego. It assist with any responsible use of TKM- is aimed at boosting the immune system’s Ebola,” Murray said. “The foresight shown by efforts to fight off Ebola and is made from the FDA removes one potential roadblock to antibodies produced by lab animals exposed doing so.” Ebola a ‘painful, dreadful, merciless virus’ to parts of the virus. FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Yao said The US aid workers were first treated in she could not confirm the company’s Liberia. And while the FDA must grant per- announcement since FDA regulations bar WASHINGTON: The United States’ top disease kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April. This West Africa to help fight the disease, while more mission to use experimental treatments in the agency from disclosing information detective calls Ebola a “painful, dreadful, merciless outbreak has proved more difficult to control than than 200 work on the problem from the agency’s the United States, it does not have authority about experimental drugs. She did note that virus.” The World Health Organization has declared previous ones because the disease is crossing headquarters in Atlanta. The WHO is urging nations over the use of such a drugs in other coun- the agency places clinical holds on studies the outbreak in West Africa an international emer- national borders, and is spreading in more urban worldwide to send money and resources to help. tries. The FDA’s move Thursday comes amid based on the risks and benefits to patients. gency, killing more than 900 people and spreading. areas. Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for It’s true that Ebola could be carried into the United an Ebola outbreak in West Africa that health Patients in the Tekmira study were healthy That’s scary and serious. But it also cries out for con- Disease Control and Prevention, predicts that with- States by a traveler, possibly putting family mem- officials warn could sicken more people than volunteers. Tekmira’s US-traded shares text. AIDS alone takes more than a million lives per in a few weeks, Ebola will sicken more people than bers or health care workers at risk. It’s never hap- all previous outbreaks of the disease com- jumped 89 cents, or 6.7 percent, to close at year in Africa - a thousand times the toll of this all previous occurrences combined. Already more pened before. But if the disease does show up in bined. More than 1,700 people have been $14.27 in regular trading. They climbed Ebola outbreak so far. than 1,700 cases have been reported. Global health the US, Frieden said, doctors and hospitals know sickened in the current outbreak, which another $1.18 cents, or 8.3 percent, to $15.45 Lung infections such as pneumonia are close officials say it will take months to fully contain the how to contain it quickly. “We are confident that a began in March. Nearly 1,000 have died, in afterhours trading. — AP behind as the No 2 killer. Malaria and diarrhea claim outbreak, even if all goes as well as can be hoped. large Ebola outbreak in the United States will not hundreds of thousands of African children each occur,” Frieden told a congressional hearing year. In the United States, where heart attacks and Reasons not to be afraid Thursday. cancer are the biggest killers, the risk of contracting Ebola is devastating for those it affects. But most the Ebola virus is close to zero. Americans fretting people don’t need to fear it. Why? Ebola doesn’t Other things to worry about their own health would be better off focus- spread easily, the way a cold virus or the flu does. It Ebola’s toll is minuscule compared with other ing on getting a flu shot this fall. Flu is blamed for is only spread by direct contact with bodily fluids diseases that killing millions of people. “The differ- about 24,000 US deaths per year. To put the Ebola such as blood, saliva, sweat and urine. Family mem- ence is the diseases that do kill a lot of people - threat in perspective, here are some reasons to be bers have contracted it by caring for their relatives malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia - they cause their concerned about the outbreak, and reasons not to or handling an infected body as part of burial prac- problems over time,” Black said. “They’re not gener- fear it: tices. People aren’t contagious until they show ally epidemic. They’re not the kind of sudden burst symptoms, Frieden said. Symptoms may not of disease and death that creates fear like this.” Why it’s scary appear until 21 days after exposure. The common diseases have far lower mortality There is no cure for Ebola hemorrhagic fever. “People should not be afraid of casual exposure rates. They kill so many people because such More than half of people infected in this outbreak on a subway or an airplane,” said Dr Robert Black, huge numbers are infected. In comparison, Ebola have died. Death rates in some past outbreaks professor of international health at Johns Hopkins is manageable. “The order of magnitude of the reached 90 percent. It’s a cruel end that comes University. Health officials around the developed resources to control Ebola in small communities within days. Patients grow feverish and weak, suf- world know how to stop Ebola. Frieden described in three or four countries is very small compared fering through body aches, vomiting, diarrhea and tried-and-true measures: find and isolate all possi- to controlling malaria in all of Asia and Africa,” internal bleeding, sometimes bleeding from the ble patients, track down people they may have Black said. “I don’t at all think we should hold back nose and ears. The damage can spiral far beyond exposed, and ensure strict infection-control proce- on the resources to control Ebola, but we need the patients themselves. dures while caring for patients. Every past outbreak more resources to control these major killers of This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Because it’s spread through direct contact with of Ebola has been brought under control. children and adults that we’re making too little Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. — AP the bodily fluids of sick patients, Ebola takes an The CDC is sending at least 50 staff members to effort against.”— AP especially harsh toll on doctors and nurses, already in short supply in areas of Africa hit by the disease. Nigeria megacity Lagos asks Outbreaks spark fear and panic. Health workers and clinics have come under attack from residents, who Canada quarantines patient for volunteers to fight Ebola sometimes blame foreign doctors for the deaths. People with from Ebola or other illnesses may fear with Ebola-like symptoms LAGOS: Authorities in Nigeria’s megacity Lagos the spread of Ebola, which has claimed nearly going to a hospital, or may be shunned by friends appealed yesterday for volunteers to help fight 1,000 lives in four west Africa nations: Guinea, and neighbors. Two of the worst-hit countries - MONTREAL: A patient back from Nigeria Pollett, the province’s Interim Chief Medical an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus after Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. World Health Liberia and Sierra Leone - sent troops to quarantine who showed symptoms of fever and flu-possi- Officer of Health. admitting they lacked medical personnel. “We Organization chief Margaret Chan, declaring the areas with Ebola cases. The aim was to stop the dis- ble signs of Ebola-was put in isolation in a He also said that Ontario’s health care sys- have a shortage of personnel. I won’t lie about epidemic a global health emergency, said ease’s spread but the action also created hardship Toronto-area hospital, Canadian health offi- tem “is prepared to respond should an indi- that. And that is why we are asking for volun- Friday it was the worst of its kind in four for many residents. cials said late Friday. Nigeria is one of several vidual arrive with symptoms that could sug- teers,” Lagos state health commissioner, Jide decades. countries in West Africa that has had con- gest a disease, such as Ebola.” He cautioned Idris, said on television. Lagos, home to some 20 Chan urged the international community to Where it is firmed cases of Ebola, in the world’s largest that initial Ebola symptoms “are similar to million people, has recorded nine confirmed step in and assist countries struggling to deal The outbreak began in Guinea in March before ever outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic many more common diseases,” adding that cases of Ebola, including two deaths. with the outbreak. Jonathan has urged people spreading to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. fever that has seen 961 deaths and nearly health care providers “have been advised to In its fight against the spread of the virus, to avoid large gatherings to help prevent the A traveler recently carried it farther, to Nigeria, lead- 1,800 people infected since the beginning of be on heightened alert for Ebola cases.” the Lagos state government is offering incen- spread of the virus, which causes severe fever ing to a few cases in the giant city of Lagos. Ebola tives such as life insurance to medical volun- and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding. the year. The unnamed male patient was Another senior Ontario health official, Eric emerged in 1976. It has been confirmed in 10 being treated at the William Osler Health Hoskins, said in a statement that with the teers, Idris said. Public sector doctors suspended Spread by close contact with an infected African nations, but never before in the region of a pay strike on Thursday, but it was unclear person through bodily fluids such as sweat, System’s Brampton Civic Hospital in a suburb “experience and lessons learned from the West Africa. Lack of experience with the disease whether they had resumed work across the blood and tissue, Ebola can fell victims within of Toronto. SARS epidemic, our hospitals have sophisti- country. In the capital Abuja on Friday, days. The president also warned against spread- there has contributed to its spread. So has a short- “As a precautionary measure, Osler put in cated infection control systems and proce- President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared ing false information about Ebola “which can age of medical personnel and supplies, widespread heightened infection control measures in the dures ... and are fully equipped to deal with the Ebola crisis a national emergency and lead to mass hysteria, panic and misdirection, poverty, and political instability. Sierra Leone still is emergency department including isolating any potential cases of Ebola.” approved the immediate release of 1.9 billion including unverified suggestions about preven- recovering from a decade of civil war in which chil- the patient,” the hospital said in a statement. The worst affected countries so far have naira ($11.6 million, 8.7 million euros) to fund tion, treatment, cure and spread of the virus.” dren were forced into fighting. Liberia, originally Hospital doctors “are working closely” with been Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, but efforts to contain the spread of the virus. The Local media reported yesterday that two peo- founded by freed American slaves, also endured public health officials “to confirm a diagnosis.” Nigeria has also had nine confirmed cases of money will finance additional centers to isolate ple had died in Nigeria’s central Plateau state civil war in the 1990s. Guinea is trying to establish a In addition to quarantining the patient, the Ebola so far. Nigerian President Goodluck Ebola patients, screening at borders, tracing and about 20 have been hospitalized after they young and fragile democracy. hospital said it enacted other strict precau- Jonathan on Friday declared a national emer- those exposed to the virus, and boosting public ingested an excessive amount salt which they Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, boasts tionary measures. “To date, there are no con- gency several hours after the World Health awareness. believed could prevent Ebola. Federal Health great oil wealth but most of its people are poor. The firmed cases of Ebola in Ontario and the risk Organization called the epidemic a global A meeting of stakeholders will be held in Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu dismissed the salt government is battling Islamic militants in the to Ontarians remains very low,” said Graham health crisis. — AFP Abuja on Monday to discuss strategies to curb and water solution as “total rubbish”. — AFP north who have killed thousands of people and HEALTH & SCIENCE SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 Oracle sues US Oregon over health insurance exchange

SALEM: Oracle Corp has sued the state of September: “If the road is going to be Oregon in a fight over the state’s health bumpy, let me at least be driving a good insurance exchange, saying government looking car.” The lawsuit also faults the officials are using the technology compa- state’s decision not to hire a systems inte- ny’s software despite $23 million in disput- grator, which works as a sort of general con- ed bills. Oracle’s breach-of-contract lawsuit tractor to coordinate and direct the work of against Cover Oregon was filed Friday in multiple technology vendors. With the state federal court in Portland. It alleges that acting in that capacity, the lawsuit says, state officials repeatedly promised to pay Oracle programmers were at the whims of the company but have not done so. The indecisive and warring state managers. lawsuit seeks payment of the disputed $23 The website’s problems became a politi- million plus interest, along with other cal liability for Kitzhaber, a Democrat who unspecified damages. has built a national reputation as a health Oregon’s health-insurance enrollment care reformer. His Republican rival, state website was never launched to the general Rep. Dennis Richardson, has used the Cover public. State officials have blamed Oracle, Oregon fiasco to argue that Kitzhaber is an but the company says the state’s bad man- ineffective manager and a poor steward of agement is responsible. Gov John Kitzhaber public funds. Kitzhaber responded by firing has called for the state to sue Oracle and several state managers, in some cases with recover some of the $134 million it has a hefty severance, and blaming Oracle for already paid to the Redwood City, work he’s called subpar. Oracle’s lawsuit California, company. In June, Oregon issued repeatedly refers to Kitzhaber’s statements legal demands for documents that could as “slander.” Even as Kitzhaber was publicly become evidence in a possible lawsuit scolding the technology giant, Cover against Oracle under the state’s False Claims Oregon managers continued seeking assis- Act. tance from Oracle programmers. “The governor is aware of the lawsuit “Oracle gave that help for many months, and isn’t surprised by it,” Melissa Navas, a in spite of the public excoriation, because it BEVERWIJK: Greenpeace’s ice breaker ‘Arctic Sunrise’ docks in the harbor of Beverwijk, The Netherlands yesterday, after returning from spokeswoman for Kitzhaber, said in a state- was committed to helping Cover Oregon Murmansk. — AFP ment. “The state fully expected to end up in complete the project and because Cover litigation over Oracle’s failure to deliver. The Oregon repeatedly promised to pay Oracle attorney general’s office will review the for its services,” the lawsuit says. “In the end, Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise complaint filed by Oracle and continue to though, Cover Oregon reneged on its pursue legal remedies on behalf of the promises, thus prompting this lawsuit.” state.” Officials at the state Department of Instead of signing up for health insurance in Justice did not respond to a request for one sitting, Oregonians had to use a hybrid returns to warm welcome comment. Oracle declined to comment. paper-online process that was costly and The lawsuit lays out Oracle’s side of the slow, and the state had to hire more than Cover Oregon fiasco in the most detailed 400 workers to help them. Altogether, Russia seized the Dutch-flagged Arctic Sunrise terms yet. The company says the project about $250 million in federal funds has became a victim of bureaucratic infighting been spent on Oregon’s exchange, includ- AMSTERDAM: Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship including navigation and communication aids meanwhile was towed to the Arctic port of between two state agencies responsible for ing technology development, salaries, arrived home to a warm welcome in The “disappeared or had been severely damaged.” The Murmansk in northwestern Russia where it was both the Cover Oregon website and a sepa- advertising and rent. Netherlands yesterday, almost a year after it was activists, including four Russians, were arrested detained. rate effort to modernize a complex state Despite the exchange’s technology seized by Russia during a protest against Arctic oil after two campaigners attempted to scale the The Arctic Sunrise finally left Murmansk just computer system. It says state officials were woes, about 454,500 Oregonians have drilling. “It’s great to have her back,” veteran giant Prirazlomnaya offshore platform, which over a week ago after a Greenpeace crew worked unable to define requirements for the enrolled in coverage through Cover Oregon Greenpeace skipper Pete Willcox, who captained environmentalists warned poses a threat to the around the clock to repair some of the damage. Cover Oregon system, an essential early using the hybrid process. An estimated the Arctic Sunrise at the time of the seizure, told pristine Arctic ecology. “Once welcomed in Amsterdam, the Arctic step, and even went on a 60-day “retreat” to 97,000 of those enrolled in private health AFP by telephone. “We were missing a big mem- Originally facing a charge of piracy, the so- Sunrise will head straight for the shipyard for develop them but “returned empty-hand- plans, while about 357,500 enrolled in the ber of our family for many months,” he said. called “Arctic 30” were later targeted with less much-needed repairs,” Greenpeace said in a state- ed.” State officials continued making Oregon Health Plan, the state’s version of Russian commandoes seized the Dutch- severe hooliganism accusations. They were ment. “The idea is to re-install the electronics and requests for changes in the crucial final Medicaid. Earlier this year, the state decided flagged Arctic Sunrise in September 2013 and detained for around two months before being get her going again,” said Willcox, who was also in weeks before the website was supposed to to stop building the Oracle website and detained 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists bailed and then benefitting from a Kremlin- charge of the environmental group’s Rainbow launch in October 2013, the lawsuit alleges. transition to the federally run enrollment after a protest at an offshore oil rig owned by backed amnesty. Greenpeace is suing Russia Warrior ship when French agents sank it in Then-executive director Rocky King was website. The FBI and the federal Russian state oil giant Gazprom. Russia released before the European Court of Human Rights for Auckland harbor in 1985 as it prepared to lead more concerned about the website’s look Government Accountability Office are also the ship in June, but it then took two months to what it says was the illegal detention of its protests around Mururoa atoll. “I think she’ll be than its function, the lawsuit alleges. It investigating Oregon’s exchange prob- prepare it for the voyage back to The activists, arguing that it breached their right to back out campaigning in about a month, maybe quotes from an email he sent in late lems.— AP Netherlands, with Greenpeace saying equipment freedom of expression. The Arctic Sunrise six weeks,” Willcox said. — AFP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

Grand Tour: High summer collection 2014

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Reinforce the ability to cope. Children absorb their py returns of National Association of School Psychologists activities. parent’s anxiety, so model optimism and confidence for Mday (August 9) your child. Let your child know that it is natural to be a little to our Ammukuttan etting a new school year off to a good start can The First Week nervous anytime you start something new but that your (Kripa Mariam Laku). influence children’s attitude, confidence, and per- Clear your own schedule. To the extent possible, post- child will be just fine once he or she becomes familiar with May the Lord Almighty Gformance both socially and academically. The transi- pone business trips, volunteer meetings, and extra proj- classmates, the teacher, and school routine. shower His blessings tion from August to September can be difficult for both ects. You want to be free to help your child acclimate to the Do not overreact. If the first few days are a little rough, with happiness, health children and parents. Even children who are eager to school routine and overcome the confusion or anxiety that try not to over react. Young children in particular may and loving life. return to class must adjust to the greater levels of activity, many children experience at the start of a new school year. experience separation anxiety or shyness initially but Greetings from structure, and, for some, pressures associated with school Make lunches the night before school. Older children teachers are trained to help them adjust. If you drop them Chackochan (Rohan), life. should help or make their own. Give them the option to off, try not to linger. Reassure them that you love them, will Kunjunju (Ryan), Appa, The degree of adjustment depends on the child, but buy lunch in school if they prefer and finances permit. think of them during the day, and will be back. Amma, Linupa, Thottathil and Areekal family. parents can help their children (and the rest of the family) Set alarm clocks. Have school-age children set their own manage the increased pace of life by planning ahead, alarm clocks to get up in the morning. Praise them for Extracurricular Activities being realistic, and maintaining a positive attitude. Here prompt response to morning schedules and bus pickups. Go for quality, not quantity. Your child will benefit most appy birthday are a few suggestions to help ease the transition and pro- from one or two activities that are fun, reinforce social mote a successful school experience. After school development, and teach new skills. Too much scheduled to Shreya Review with your child what to do if he or she gets time can be stressful, especially for young children, and HSajeev who cel- Before School Starts home after school and you are not there. Be very specific, may make it harder to concentrate on schoolwork. When ebrates her birthday Good physical and mental health. Be sure your child is particularly with young children. Put a note card in their evaluating extracurricular activities, consider your family today! Best wishes and in good physical and mental health. Schedule doctor and backpack with the name(s) and number(s) of a neighbor schedule and personal energy level. Multiple activities per prayers from Papa, dental checkups early. Discuss any concerns you have over who is home during the day as well as a number where you child may be too much to manage, particularly if the activi- Mommy, sister Shilpa, your child’s emotional or psychological development with can be reached. If you have not already done so, have your ties have overlapping times, disparate locations, require Appa, Uncle and your pediatrician. Your doctor can help determine if your child meet neighbor contacts to reaffirm the backup sup- your attendance, or disrupt the dinner hour. Aunty. concerns are normal, age-appropriate issues or require fur- port personally. Select activities where you have someone with whom ther assessment. Your child will benefit if you can identify Review your child’s schoolbooks. Talk about what your you can carpool. Even if you are available to drive most and begin addressing a potential issue before school starts. child will be learning during the year. Share your enthusi- days, you will need backup sometimes. Choosing activities Schools appreciate the efforts of parents to remedy prob- asm for the subjects and your confidence in your child’s that occur on-site after school will also minimize driving. lems as soon as they are recognized. ability to master the content. Reinforce the natural pro- Find out from the school or teacher which days will be KALA Kuwait Review all of the information. Review the material sent gression of the learning process that occurs over the heavy homework or test study days and schedule extracur- by the school as soon as it arrives. These packets include school year. Learning skills take time and repetition. ricular activities accordingly. If your child does not want to Malayalam important information about your child’s teacher, room Encourage your child to be patient, attentive, and positive. participate in regular, organized extracurricular activities, you number, school supply requirements, sign-ups for after- Send a brief note to your child’s teacher. Let the teach- may want to consider other options to help build interests program concludes school sports and activities, school calendar dates, bus ers know that you are interested in getting regular feed- and social skills. For example, check out the local library for transportation, health and emergency forms, and volun- back on how and what your child is doing in school. Be monthly reading programs, find out if your local recreation or teer opportunities. sure to attend back-to-school night and introduce yourself community center offers drop-in activities, or talk to other erala Art Lovers Association, KALA- Kuwait concludes Mark your calendar. Make a note of important dates, to the teachers. Find out how they like to communicate parents and schedule regular play dates with their children. the free Malayalam education programme-2014 dur- especially back-to-school nights. This is especially impor- with parents (e.g., through notes, e-mail, or phone calls). King a function scheduled on 15 August 2014, along tant if you have children in more than one school and need Convey a sincere desire to be a partner with your children’s When Problems Arise with Indian Independence Day celebrations. Indian to juggle obligations. Arrange for a babysitter now, if nec- teachers to enhance their learning experience. These recommendations can contribute to a positive Parliament member P K Biju will participate as chief guest. essary. Make copies. Make copies of all your child’s health Familiarize yourself with the other school professionals. and productive school experience for most children. Some In the same function, Biju will present the first ‘Ramesh and emergency information for reference. Health forms are Make an effort to find out who it is in the school or district children may exhibit more extreme opposition to or fear of Memorial Diaspora Award’ to leading Social worker and typically good for more than a year and can be used again who can be a resource for you and your child. Learn their school or may be coping with more specific learning or humanist from Sultanate of Oman P M Jaber constituted by for camps, extracurricular activities, and the following school roles and how best to access their help if you need them. psychological difficulties. KALA-Kuwait in memoriam to R Ramesh who expired in year. This can include the principal and front office personnel; If your child demonstrates problems that seem extreme 2013. Turn off the TV. Encourage your child to play quiet school psychologist, counselor, and social worker; the read- in nature or go on for an extended period, you may want to In the cultural function, teachers, Individuals and well games, do puzzles, flash cards, color, or read as early morn- ing specialist, speech therapist, and school nurse; and the contact the school to set up an appointment to meet with ing activities instead of watching television. This will help after-school activities coordinator. your child’s teachers and school psychologist. They may be wishers who supported this mission of free Malayalam edu- ease your child into the learning process and school rou- able to offer direct or indirect support that will help identi- cation all over Kuwait will be honored. The prgram will tine. If possible, maintain this practice throughout the Overcoming Anxiety fy and reduce the presenting problem. They may also sug- begin with patriotic songs competitions starting from 1.00 school year. Television is distracting for many children, and Let your children know you care. If your child is anxious gest other resources within the school and the community pm at Indian Central School, Abbassiya for which the prizes your child will arrive at school better prepared to learn about school, send personal notes in the lunch box or book to help you address the situation. for the winners also will be distributed. Leading personali- ties and well wishers of the Malayalam from Kuwait will par- IMAX film program ticipate in the function.

Effective from: 3rd August 2014 Tuesday: Thursday: Saturday: India’s 68th Sunday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D Independence Day Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D 10:30am, 6:30pm, 8:30pm 10:30am, 5:30pm, 8:30pm 10:30am, 8:30pm 10:30am, 5:30pm, 9:30pm Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D Great White Shark 3D 11:30am Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D n the occasion of Great White Shark 3D 11:30am, 9:30pm 11:30am, 2:30pm, 11:30am, 8:30pm Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm the Great White Shark 3D 12:30pm 12:30pm, 6:30pm Independence Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D Flight of Butterflies 3D 12:30pm O Penguins 3D Fly Me to the Moon 3D 7:30pm Day of India, a flag hoist- 12:30pm, 7:30pm 5:30pm Penguins 3D 1:30pm Fly Me to the Moon 3D 6:30pm Penguins 3D 9:30pm Great White Shark 3D 3:30pm ing ceremony will take Fly Me to the Moon 3D 7:30pm place at the Embassy of Journey to Mecca 4:30pm India premises at Monday: Friday: Fly Me to the Moon 3D 6:30pm ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Wednesday: Diplomatic Enclave, Arabian Gulf Street on Friday, 15 ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Fires of Kuwait 2:30pm August 2014, at 0800 hours. Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D3:30pm, Notes: 10:30am, 8:30pm Great White Shark 3D - All films are in Arabic, except “Fires of Kuwait 2. After the flag hoisting, Ambassador will read 10:30am, 8:30pm 6:30pm, 8:30pm out the message of Hon’ble President of India, fol- Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D 2D” and “Fly Me to the Moon 3D” Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D Fly Me to the Moon 3D 4:30pm lowed by a short cultural function/singing of patriot- 11:30am, 7:30pm, 9:30pm - For English, headsets are available upon 11:30am, 7:30pm, 9:30pm Great White Shark 3D 5:30pm ic songs. Penguins 3D request. Penguins 3D 7:30pm 3. All Indian nationals are most cordially invited to 12:30pm Penguins 3D 12:30pm - Film schedule is subject to changes without attend the function. Refreshment/tea/juice etc. will Flight of Butterflies 3D 5:30pm Journey to Mecca 5:30pm Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D notice. For information call 1 848 888 be served. Great White Shark 3D 6:30pm Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D6:30pm 9:30pm or visit www.tsck.org.kw WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

EQUATE continues community partnership with Ramadan initiatives

ontinuing its sustainability-based manifestation of EQUATE were presented with Suhoor meals during the nity awareness about children receiving medical care in Implemented Environmental Program of the Year; Middle the tagline “Partners in Success,” EQUATE whole blessed month. hospitals. PS included an art exhibition that included sell- East Chemical Week (MECW) Plant of the Year Award; as CPetrochemical Company, Kuwait’s first private sector Maintaining its focus on health and awareness, EQUATE ing paintings by those children and Kuwaiti artists with all well as Kuwait’s CSR Award in the Industrial and Oil Sector. petrochemical company, launched a number of initiatives sponsored the Rijeemy Walkathon organized by Rijeemy proceeds being for the benefit of KACCH. In addition, EQUATE has received the Highly Commended during the holy month of Ramadan. Center to promote a lifestyle of fitness and wellbeing In addition, as part of sharing with children to bring Best Community Program Award during the First Middle The initiatives, reflecting elements in EQUATE Corporate through regular exercise, healthy eating habits and other smiles to their hearts, EQUATE presented giveaways to East CSR Award Summit. Social Responsibility (CSR) Program, were in partnership relevant matters. Sharing the spirit of giving, EQUATE par- members of Children Home which includes orphans under Established in 1995, EQUATE is an international joint with relevant organizations in Kuwait for the benefit of all ticipated “Weight of Love” campaign launched by Kuwait the care of the Ministry of Social Affairs & Labor. venture between Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC), members of the society, nationals and expats alike. Red Crescent Society (KRCS), where EQUATE employees In recognition of its sustainability achievements, The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), Boubyan In cooperation with Zakat House, EQUATE hosted with their families and friends donated toys that will be EQUATE has earned several prestigious honors, including Petrochemical Company (BPC) and Qurain Petrochemical Ramadan Iftar meals throughout that entire month for sev- gifted to children in need through the society. His Highness the Amir Award for the Best Plant in Kuwait; Industries Company (QPIC). Commencing production in eral members of the Kuwaiti society as part of humanitari- Along those lines, EQUATE contributed to the efforts of American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Gold Award in 1997, EQUATE is the single operator of a fully integrated an contribution. Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) for Gulf private sec- world-scale manufacturing facility producing over 5 million Also, with human resources being the main elements of (KACCH) with a number of giveaways to bring joy to the tor companies; The Award for Best Gulf Company in tons annually of high-quality petrochemical products its success, contractors from diverse nationalities and rep- society’s children. During 2012, EQUATE and KACCH Recruiting Nationals; Arabian Business Best CSR Company which are marketed throughout the Middle East, Asia, resenting different companies that have business ties with launched Painting Smiles (PS) campaign to create commu- Award; Oil & Gas (O&G) Middle East CSR Award; O&G Best Africa and Europe.

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What’s On - Submission Guidelines Indian Embassy ‘Open House’ t has been the endeavor of the Indian (b) “Open House” by Ambassador on every community, following officers of the disputes. All photos submitted for What’s On Embassy to make its services prompt, Wednesday from 1500-1600 hrs. During Embassy will also be available from (d) Arvind Srivastava, Assistant(Visa), Icourteous and easily accessible to all this “Open House”, any member of the 1000hrs-1200 hrs to all members of Mobile No. 65127918 for visa related should be minimum 200dpi. Indian nationals in Kuwait. As part of these Indian community can interact with Indian community without prior issues. Articles must be in plain text and ongoing efforts, the embassy has already in Ambassador without prior appointment. appointment. Their areas of responsibil- (e) B K Sinha, Assistant (Community place the following mechanisms: (c) Mobile numbers of all officers are given ities are mentioned below: Welfare), Mobile No.97164067 for jail & should include name and phone (a) “Open House” for consular services (pass- on the Embassy’s website. All Indian (a) J S Dangi, Second Secretary (Consular), detention cases and Emergency numbers. Articles and photos that port, visa and attestation) held every nationals may use this facility to call the Mobile No 97229947 for Consular mat- Certificates. fail to meet these requirements will working day, once in the morning from concerned officer as per the need. ters, including passport issues, attesta- (f) Deepak Seth, Local Clerk, Mobile No. 1000-1100 hrs and again in the after- (d) An emergency contact number tion, family disputes. 66565703 and ShriShakeel Ahmad, Local not be published. noon from 1430-1530 hrs. During the 22530600 is available on 24/7 basis for all (b) Ashok Kumar, Attache (Labor-I), Mobile Clerk, Mobile No. 99793382 for death “Open House”, any member of the Indian Indian community members residing in No 97229946 for individual labor issues cases. Please send them to community can interact with the officer Kuwait. apart from company labourdiputes. 3. Comments, suggestions etc. from Indian on duty in the Meeting Room without 2. In order to provide even greater (c) Sunila Krishnan, Attache (Labor-II), community in Kuwait are most welcome [email protected] prior appointment. avenues for interaction with the Indian Mobile No. 97264247 for company labor to further improve the embassy services. TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

16:10 Car vs Wild 19:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 17:00 Fast N’ Loud 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 17:50 How Machines Work Jimmy Fallon 18:15 How Do They Do It? 00:45 I Was Bitten 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 00:10 How To Cook Like Heston 18:40 Gold Rush - Season 3 00:15 The Guilt Trip-PG15 01:35 Untamed & Uncut Stewart 00:35 Extreme Makeover: Home Specials 02:00 Lovestruck: The Musical- 02:25 Animal Kingdom 21:30 The Colbert Report Edition 19:30 Sons Of Guns PG15 02:50 Animal Kingdom 22:00 Family Guy 01:20 Extreme Makeover: Home 20:20 Sons Of Guns 04:00 The Cold Light Of Day-PG15 03:15 Wildest Islands 22:30 2 Broke Girls Edition 21:10 Auction Hunters 06:00 The Expatriate-PG15 04:05 My Wild Affair: The Ape Who 23:00 Two And A Half Men 02:05 Extreme Makeover: Home 21:35 Thrift Hunters 08:00 Phantom-PG15 Went To College 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers Edition 22:00 Everest Avalanche Tragedy 10:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 04:55 Animal Cops Houston 02:50 Bargain Hunt 22:50 Bear Grylls: Man vs Everest 12:00 The Cold Light Of Day-PG15 05:45 ER Vets 03:35 Marbella Mansions 23:40 Bear’s Mission Everest 13:45 Lincoln-PG15 06:10 ER Vets 04:20 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 00:00 Drop Dead Diva 16:15 Phantom-PG15 06:35 Call Of The Wildman Taylor 01:00 Chicago Fire 18:00 Madea’s Witness Protection- 07:00 Meerkat Manor 04:45 How To Cook Like Heston 02:00 The Assets PG15 07:25 Wild Things With Dominic 05:10 A Taste Of My Life 03:00 House Of Cards 20:00 The Big Wedding-PG15 Monaghan 05:35 Extreme Makeover: Home 04:00 The Night Shift 22:00 Paranormal Activity 4-PG15 08:15 Dogs 101 Edition 00:20 How Tech Works 05:00 Once Upon A Time 09:10 Must Love Cats 06:15 Extreme Makeover: Home 00:45 How Stuff’s Made 10:05 Meet The Sloths 06:00 Drop Dead Diva Edition 01:10 Mars: The Quest For Life 10:35 Meet The Sloths 07:00 Unforgettable 07:00 Extreme Makeover: Home 02:00 Primal Connections 00:00 NRL Premiership 11:00 Animal Precinct 08:00 Once Upon A Time In Edition 02:45 Mythbusters 02:00 European Tour weekly 11:55 Meerkat Manor Wonderland 07:40 Bargain Hunt 03:35 What’s That About? 02:30 Inside The PGA Tour 12:20 Call Of The Wildman 09:00 Chicago Fire 08:25 Marbella Mansions 03:00 Trans World Sport 12:50 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 04:30 NASA’s Greatest Missions 10:00 Once Upon A Time 09:10 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 04:00 European Challenge Tour 13:20 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 05:20 Rocket City Rednecks 11:00 The Night Shift Taylor 05:00 Womens Rugby World cup 13:45 Gator Boys 05:45 Rocket City Rednecks 12:00 Emmerdale 09:35 How To Cook Like Heston 07:00 Golfing World 14:40 Animal Kingdom 06:10 Meteorite Men 12:30 Coronation Street 10:00 Out Of The Frying Pan 08:00 European Challenge Tour 15:05 Animal Kingdom 07:00 Prototype This 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:55 Extreme Makeover: Home highlights 15:30 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 07:55 Sport Science 14:00 Once Upon A Time In Edition 09:00 NRL Premiership 16:00 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 08:45 What’s That About? Wonderland 11:40 Extreme Makeover: Home 11:00 NRL Premiership 16:30 Dogs 101 09:40 Meteorite Men 15:00 Drop Dead Diva Edition 13:00 European Challenge Tour 17:25 Animal Planet’s Most 10:30 X-Machines 16:00 Emmerdale 12:25 Extreme Makeover: Home highlights Outrageous 11:20 NASA’s Greatest Missions 16:30 Coronation Street Edition 14:00 Champion Tour highlights 18:20 Penguin Safari 12:10 Rocket City Rednecks 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 13:05 Bargain Hunt 15:00 Super Rugby 19:15 Alaskan Bush People 18:00 Once Upon A Time In 13:50 Marbella Mansions 12:35 Rocket City Rednecks 17:00 European Challenge Tour 20:10 The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner Wonderland 14:35 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 13:00 How Stuff’s Made highlights 20:40 The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner 19:00 Switched At Birth Taylor 13:30 What’s That About? 18:00 European tour weekly 21:05 Animal Kingdom 20:00 C.S.I. 15:05 How To Cook Like Heston 14:20 Mythbusters 18:30 Inside The PGA Tour 21:35 Animal Kingdom 21:00 Chicago Fire 15:30 Extreme Makeover: Home 15:10 Rocket City Rednecks 19:00 Golfing World 22:00 Alaskan Bush People 22:00 Intelligence Edition 15:35 Rocket City Rednecks 20:00 Live The PGA Championship 22:55 The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner 23:00 House Of Cards 16:10 Extreme Makeover: Home 16:00 X-Machines 23:25 The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner Edition 16:50 Meteorite Men 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 16:55 Extreme Makeover: Home 17:40 Mars: The Quest For Life Edition 18:30 Primal Connections 00:00 PGA European Tour Weekly 00:30 Inside The PGA 17:35 Bargain Hunt 19:20 How Tech Works 18:20 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 00:00 Inside Man-PG15 01:00 European Challeng Tour 19:45 How Stuff’s Made 19:10 Nigellissima 02:15 Absolute Fear-PG15 Highlights 20:10 Mythbusters 00:20 Eastenders 19:35 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 04:00 The Saint-PG15 02:00 European LE Mans 21:00 Sci-Fi Saved My Life 00:50 Doctors Taylor 06:00 Daylight-PG15 06:00 NRL Full Time 21:50 Superhuman Showdown 01:20 Emma 20:00 Cash In The Attic 08:00 Abandoned-PG15 06:30 PGA European Tour Weekly 22:40 What’s That About? 02:10 Starlings 20:45 Cash In The Attic THE RUNWAY ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 10:00 Absolute Fear-PG15 07:00 Indycar Highlights 02:55 Dara O Briain Live From The 21:30 Cash In The Attic 23:30 NASA’s Greatest Missions 12:00 Chain Reaction-PG15 08:00 Super Rugby Theatre Royal 22:15 Bargain Hunt 13:35 E!ES 12:55 The Chase 14:00 Daylight-PG15 10:00 World Golf Championship 03:45 Little Britain 23:00 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 14:30 Style Star 13:50 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of 16:00 Inside Man-PG15 Highlights 04:15 The Weakest Link 23:50 Nigellissima 15:00 Keeping Up With The Here! 18:15 Abandoned-PG15 11:00 PGA Tour Highlights 05:00 Show Me Show Me 00:30 Fatal Encounters Kardashians 15:10 Brendan’s Magical Mystery 20:00 Vehicle 19-PG15 12:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 05:25 3rd & Bird 01:20 True CSI 16:00 Keeping Up With The Tour 21:45 Transformers-PG15 13:00 Total Rugby 05:35 Teletubbies 02:10 Disappeared 00:00 Violetta Kardashians 15:35 Brendan’s Magical Mystery 13:30 NRL Full Time 06:00 Nina And The Neurons: In 03:00 Most Evil 00:45 The Hive 17:00 Giuliana & Bill Tour 14:00 V8 Supercars The Lab 03:45 Killer Kids 00:50 Art Attack 18:00 E! News 16:00 Come Dine With Me Ireland 15:00 V8 Supercars 06:15 Show Me Show Me 00:00 Stephen Merchant: Hello 00:30 Treehouse Masters 04:30 I Almost Got Away With It 01:15 Art Attack 19:00 E!ES 16:30 Paddock To Plate 16:00 Indycar Highlights 06:40 3rd & Bird 01:40 Jungle Junction Ladies Live-PG15 01:20 Deadly Dilemmas 05:20 Forensic Detectives 20:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 17:25 Tales From Northumberland 17:00 WWE Vintage 06:50 Teletubbies 01:55 Jungle Junction 02:00 Charlie And The Chocolate 01:45 Deadly Dilemmas 06:10 Dr G: Medical Examiner 20:30 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills With Robson Green 18:00 WWE Bottom Line 07:15 The Weakest Link 02:05 Jungle Junction Factory-PG 02:10 Dynamo: Magician 07:00 Finding Bigfoot 21:00 Fashion Police 18:20 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of 19:00 WWE NXT 08:00 Absolutely Fabulous 02:20 Jungle Junction 04:00 Fred 2: Night Of The Living 20:00 WWE Main Event Impossible 07:50 Forensic Detectives 21:30 Escape Club Here! 08:30 Come Fly With Me 02:30 Violetta Fred-PG 21:00 Super League 03:00 Fast N’ Loud 08:40 Murder Shift 22:30 E! 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With Bobby Flay 13:40 Doctors 14:30 Disappeared 05:25 Art Attack 18:00 Ghostbusters-PG Highlights 07:50 Car vs Wild 01:20 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 00:00 Mega Breakdown 14:10 Emma 15:20 I Was Murdered 05:50 Mouk 20:00 Clear History-PG15 01:30 Bangladesh v India ODI 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 01:45 Guy’s Big Bite 01:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 15:05 Starlings 15:45 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 06:00 Jessie 22:00 Me, Myself And Irene-18 Highlights 09:30 Storage Hunters 02:10 Guy’s Big Bite 02:00 Sea Patrol 15:55 Absolutely Fabulous 16:10 Dr G: Medical Examiner 06:25 Good Luck Charlie 02:30 ICC Cricket 360 09:55 Auction Hunters 02:35 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 03:00 Lords of War 16:25 The Weakest Link 17:00 Finding Bigfoot 06:45 Good Luck Charlie 03:00 IPL Highlights 10:20 Thrift Hunters 03:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 03:30 The Best Job In The World 17:10 Eastenders 17:50 Forensic Detectives 07:10 Good Luck Charlie 04:00 IPL Highlights 10:45 How Machines Work 03:25 Guy’s Big Bite 04:00 Hunter Hunted 17:40 Doctors 18:40 Murder Shift 05:00 IPL Highlights 11:10 How Do They Do It? 07:35 Good Luck Charlie 03:50 Iron Chef America 19:30 Disappeared 05:00 Showdown of The 06:00 IPL Highlights 18:10 Emma 11:35 Treehouse Masters 07:55 Good Luck Charlie 04:40 All You Can Meat Unbeatables 01:00 Dark Tide-PG15 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 19:05 Silk 12:25 Deadly Dilemmas 20:20 I Was Murdered 08:20 Win, Lose Or Draw 05:30 Unwrapped 06:00 Banged Up Abroad 03:00 96 Minutes-PG15 07:30 ICC World T20 Highlights 20:00 Waking The Dead 12:50 Deadly Dilemmas 20:45 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 08:45 Dog With A Blog 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 07:00 Light At The Edge of The 05:00 Old Stock-PG15 08:30 ICC World T20 Highlights 20:50 Absolutely Fabulous 13:15 Dynamo: Magician 21:10 Dr G: Medical Examiner 09:05 Dog With A Blog 06:15 Chopped World 07:00 Oh Christmas Tree-PG 09:30 ICC World T20 Highlights 21:20 Absolutely Fabulous Impossible 22:00 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 09:30 Good Luck Charlie 07:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 08:00 Mega Breakdown 09:00 Faces In The Crowd-PG15 10:30 IPL Highlights 21:50 The Office 14:05 Storage Hunters 22:25 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 09:55 Good Luck Charlie 07:25 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 09:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 11:00 Old Stock-PG15 11:30 IPL Highlights 22:20 The Office 14:30 Auction Hunters 22:50 Dates From Hell 10:15 Suite Life On Deck 07:50 Guy’s Big Bite 10:00 Sea Patrol 13:00 96 Minutes-PG15 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 22:50 Live At The Apollo 14:55 Thrift Hunters 23:15 Dates From Hell 10:40 Suite Life On Deck 08:15 Iron Chef America 11:00 Fight Science 15:00 Kathmandu Lullaby-PG15 13:00 Live England v India 23:35 The Stephen K Amos Show 15:20 Dual Survival 23:40 I Almost Got Away With It 11:05 That’s So Raven 09:05 Barefoot Contessa 12:00 What Would Happen If 17:00 Faces In The Crowd-PG15 11:25 That’s So Raven International Test Series 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 12:30 What Would Happen If 19:00 Promised Land-PG15 11:50 A.N.T. Farm 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 10:20 Easy Chinese: San Francisco 13:00 Crime Lab 21:00 The Bling Ring-18 12:15 A.N.T. Farm 21:30 IPL Highlights 10:45 All You Can Meat 14:00 Megastructures 12:35 Good Luck Charlie 22:30 Best of ICC WT20 11:35 Grill It! With Bobby Flay 15:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 13:00 Good Luck Charlie 23:00 Live Caribbean Premier 12:00 Reza, Spice Prince Of India 16:00 Car SOS 13:25 Jessie Leaue 12:25 Charly’s Cake Angels 17:00 Inside 01:00 The Daughter-18 13:45 Jessie 12:50 Siba’s Table 18:00 Nordic Wild 03:00 Deadly Spa-PG15 14:10 Austin & Ally 13:15 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 19:00 World’s Toughest Fixes 05:00 Seven Pounds-PG15 14:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 13:40 Guy’s Big Bite 20:00 Car SOS 07:15 Teenage Paparazzo-PG15 15:00 Gravity Falls 14:05 The Next Food Network Star 21:00 Inside 09:00 I Am-PG15 15:25 Gravity Falls 14:55 Roadtrip With G. 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KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 9:15 PM CHANGE OF NAME (C4822) 7-8-2014 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 11:30 PM MARINA-2 NO SUN+TUE+WED SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:15 PM Mani son of Nasir Sultan, SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 3:30 PM Passport No. BC 0793311 SITUATION WANTED MUHALAB-2 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 5:45 PM Pakistan, date of birth TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 12:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:00 PM 05/04/2009 Kuwait, chang- Driver seeking LUCY (DIG) 3:45 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:15 PM ing name to Abdul job/employment, Indian THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 5:45 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:30 AM Rehman. (C 4827) driver from Kerala, speaks LUCY (DIG) 7:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED Arabic well, looking for a FORCIVIL INFORMATION Automated enquiry aboutthe Civil ID card is TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 9:30 PM I, Yesu Rethinan holder of suitable job and can join MARINA-3 NO WED Indian Passport No. & immediately. Sponsor GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 9:30 PM BARBIE AND THE SECRET DOOR (DIG) 1:00 PM 1889988 2698359, would like to release letter available. WED TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG-3D) 3:00 PM Sponsor contact number: LUCY (DIG) 12:45 AM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 6:15 PM change my wife name from Manonmani to 99123411. (C 4825) NO SUN+TUE+WED TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG-3D) 9:00 PM 9-8-2014 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG-3D) 9:00 PM Mershelinthaya holder of 112 MUHALAB-3 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:15 AM Passport No. F4934849, SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:00 PM both Manonmani and SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 3:15 PM AVENUES-1 Mershelinthaya are one SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 5:30 PM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 2:00 PM and the same person. SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 7:45 PM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 4:15 PM Chunkankada Post Kangya ACCOMMODATION Prayer timings SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:00 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 6:30 PM Kumari Dist. T.N., India. SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:15 AM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 8:45 PM (C 4824) Required one single room Fajr: 03:46 NO SUN+TUE+WED KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 11:00 PM 9-8-2014 with attached bath with KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 1:15 AM decent family preferably Shorook 05:13 FANAR-1 Muslim in Sharq area or Duhr: 11:53 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 1:15 PM AVENUES-2 FOR SALE nearest Kuwait City on rea- DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 3:45 PM TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 2:15 PM sonable rent. I am an Indian Asr: 15:29 KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 6:30 PM TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 5:30 PM Nissan Altima, excellent Muslim executive bachelor Maghrib: 18:33 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 8:45 PM TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 8:45 PM condition, 2005 model, new from Bombay. Please call NO WED GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 8:45 PM insurance. Price KD 1,350. 66825635. 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CROSSWORD 632 STAR TRACK

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

Your support system-family, home and those who give you nourishment- Obtaining and exchanging information takes on more emotional signifi- becomes more secure now. You are able to dispense with some of the cance. Being more involved with neighbors or siblings satisfies a deep unessential clutter and develop what is most basic and true in your environment. You emotional need. You may find yourself being put to good use by your friends today. encourage better support. This is a time when your feelings, emotions and basic life urges Saying and writing things with style counts for a lot and this tends to bring out the social undergo change and possibly transformation. You feel more personal and direct and find butterfly in all of us. Neighbors or brothers and sisters will likely bring all kinds of good that you waste less time with hurt feelings than before. This may be a good time to set experiences your way. You may be able to enjoy and value your own life situation today. A aside some space for art-yours or your loved one’s art. You could display your art to visitor enjoys the feelings that come with being around you and your surroundings and encourage others to try their hand at some creative activity. When was the last time you may compliment you on your tastes or belongings. It is time to do some serious thinking had pictures taken, framed and mounted. It may be time for a family picture. about letting someone or something go. It may be time for him or her to stand alone.

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

If you are working today, you should make a great deal of progress. Your You may want to help someone through a difficult time this day. Emotional creative mind is open and ideas as well as quick answers are easy to find. A friend may needs of another call for an act of patience before trying to speak your have ideas on new ways for you to invest. You will probably feel better if you got further words of wisdom. There could be some form of opposition to your ideas if you are not information. Beating the odds through cleverness is appealing and this may lead to an patient. You may even find this person impractical, aimless, indiscreet and even bitter interest in all kinds of financial speculation. A lover or child who is bright and articulate when the outcome is not what he or she wants-careful. This afternoon could prove to be plays a big role in your life this evening. There is attention around this person, possibly a an action-filled day as you and a friend work off some stress through some form of exer- party, but your support is important and appreciated. Travel may be necessary-go and cise or at the least, a fun activity that takes concentration. A new love interest deepens enjoy. today. You can expect an open and honest relationship with no secrets. There are indica- tions that this may be the person with whom you can enjoy a lifetime.

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

Lovers, children and other people or things dear to your heart are empha- The energies of this day indicate a tendency to move too quickly. Your drive sized at this time. Being appreciated and admired for your talents are pow- and efforts toward the completion of any project should be thought out erful needs. Taking chances can bring big rewards. Quick answers, great wit and a surplus very carefully. The method then will become clear to you and the discipline will then be ACROSS DOWN of insights and solutions are obtainable. You may have ideas about teaching children available to complete a project successfully. You can sometimes push against the way 1. The month following September and pre- 1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 character issues in the school system and how to implement your ideas throughout the things are, the laws of nature . . . Which is fruitless-careful. Some sort of temporary obstacle ceding November. to agree on a common policy for the sale of country. This is a good time to write and communicate with real originality. Inventions and may appear. You could receive unexpected help or support from those around you. You 4. Cook too long. petroleum. breakthrough ideas are possible. Romance and other things that tug at the heart strings will become involved in some fun-loving as well as some deep-searching conversations 12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm 2. The ball-and-socket joint between the head come your way. This could be through a child. This is a creative period for you, a time to with relatives today. You may enjoy activities with your friends this evening and someone used in India for writing paper. of the femur and the acetabulum. take a chance and a time to be appreciated and admired. has in mind the perfect thing to do. 15. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a 3. Brief episode in which the brain gets insuffi- paste and often allowed to ferment. cient blood supply. 16. A Spanish courtesy title for a girl or unmar- 4. Inflammation of a bone as a consequence of ried woman. infection or trauma or degeneration. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nick- 5. Meat from a calf. name for Confederate soldiers by the Federal 6. Half the width of an em. You may go through a lot of changes that affect your idea of security this The mind and all that is mental are the source of change and adjustment. soldiers in the American Civil War. 7. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive year. Your home and family situation could be a focus for growth and real Letters, writing, speaking and all things having to do with communication learning. Events may conspire to make it difficult for you to fulfill your plans for the day-be 18. A bet that you can pick the first and second odor. and cognitive activity are the mode of the day. Your mind tends to be occupied with flexible. You could turn your energy into control issues-however, this leaves very little thoughts, ideas and concepts and remains in almost a constant flux. This is a time to finishers in the right order. 8. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice. attention to answering questions properly. Egos can clash in any situation, but the spirit 20. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of 9. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas. absorb and take in new impressions and information. In summary, here is a natural break- cannot clash at all. Learn to associate misery with ego and joy with spirit. This makes it ing point in life, a time to let go of what has been occupying you for the last years and to prey. 10. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting much easier to go with the flow of events. Choose the positive path by explaining what 21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to assume a new attitude. You are feeling good and your mood is high. Learning new things the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in you want to accomplish today and perhaps there can be an adjustment. Understand that gives you power. You may even have some fun with your family or friends in a fun game 10 liters. Nebraska. delays are possible, but positive results happen with a steady eye on the goal. of charades, scrabble or chess this evening. Enjoy good food and good friends. 22. A white metallic element that burns with a 11. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now brilliant light. widespread in cultivation. 23. Goddess of the dead and queen of the 12. A severe or trying experience. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) underworld. 13. British artist and writer of nonsense verse Leo (July 23-August 22) 25. Waves breaking on the shore. (1812-1888). There could be blocked emotions today along with the feeling of being cut Film making, uncovering mysteries, photography, cave discoveries, finding 27. The branch of computer science that deal 14. 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Christina Ricci gives birth to a baby boy

he 34-year-old actress, who confirmed in May she was who was previously linked to Chris Evans and Adam Goldberg, expecting her first child with husband James met camera technician James on the set of her short-lived TV THeerdegen, recently welcomed their son into the world, drama ‘Pan Am’ in 2011. The couple’s engagement was first according to UsMagazine.com. A spokesperson for the ‘Casper’ speculated in October 2012 when Christina was seen sporting star only confirmed she was pregnant after the brunette beau- a diamond ring on her left ring finger and the actress finally ty sent rumors into overdrive when she was spotted strolling confirmed the news several months later. Christina previously through Los Angeles International Airport with a noticeable revealed that she enjoyed being able to call James her ‘fiancÈ’. baby bump three months ago. A friend close to the couple When asked what she enjoyed most about being engaged, previously revealed they couldn’t wait to be parents, adding: she said: “Getting to say ‘fiancÈ’ instead of ‘boyfriend’. People “They are thrilled and ready for a change of pace.” The couple take you so much more seriously once you start throwing tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at Harold Pratt House around that word.” And Peterson Hall in New York City last October. Christina,

Kate Moss made £5 million last year

he 40-year-old model mainly secured the hefty sum through brand deals. The figures - which are for the year Tending October 31, 2013 - show she cashed in from deals with Rimmel, Topshop and most recently, biker brand Matchless. Kate also collected money from her two firms, which have assets of £16.7 million. A source revealed to ‘The Sun’ newspaper: “In the accounts for 2012 the two firms were worth £11.7 million but by the end of 2013 that had risen to almost £17 million. “It shows Kate’s earnings aren’t slowing as she gets older and that she’s still being handed big sums by clothing brands who are desperate to get her in their gear.” Meanwhile, Arcadia mogul Philip Green has slammed reports that Kate’s Topshop collection isn’t selling well, after eager eyes spotted pieces from her collection being discounted. Philip told ‘The Daily Mail’ newspaper: “The range was very, very successful and we waited until the end of the season to clear whatever was left. No more complicated than that. “There’s nothing untoward, whether it’s got Kate Moss in it, or any other brand, what we’ve got left at the end of the season around the globe, we sell. There’s nothing that sells 100 per- cent, whatever it is - it doesn’t exist in any business.”

Jesse Eisenberg is guarded Kate Upton doesn’t about his personal life think she he 30-year-old actor - who starred in been cast in the role of Lex Luther in the ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Zombieland’ - eagerly-awaited ‘Batman v Superman’ film - can do it all Thas seen his profile rise markedly in and he admits to avoiding fan reaction online ‘ ’ recent years, but admits he’s no more com- because the views are typically negative and fortable talking about himself in interviews. he knows the most positive feedback comes he 22-year-old model, who is dating baseball player Justin Asked whether it becomes easier talking to from personal interactions. He added to Verlander, is still very ambitious, but claims she struggles to find reporters, he said: “No, it becomes increasing- ShortList magazine: “Of course I don’t look for Ttime in her busy schedule to do everything she wants to do. The ly harder because I try not to say anything anything like that, because people are there ‘Other Woman’ actress told Details magazine: “My career is moving at personal about myself that I don’t want to to say mean things. “If somebody wants to say such a rapid pace. I want to hit all the top things. I want Italian Vogue say. “But maybe if that gets out in an article something nice they’ll do it in person or for- with Steven Meisel, but I can’t do all of the other things because I also then I forget it comes out, or it doesn’t occur get about it. You learn very early on not to want to shoot a movie. You think you can do it all. I’m travelling every- to me it comes out, and I meet you and you look. Unless you’re some kind of masochist.” where and I’m trying to do everything and I can’t. But I feel like the reference it I think, ‘Oh goodness, this is what fashion world has welcomed me and nobody is scared of me.” The people think?’ It’s so strange.” Eisenberg has Sports Illustrated beauty would also love to pose naked for a tasteful photoshoot, but thinks she would attract a lot of criticism for it. She said: “Your body is art, your body is beautiful, and to be photographed in that way is amazing and it’s received in a very positive way. “But with social media and the internet and not-so-great blogs and the attention like that, I don’t think that my pictures would be received in the way that I’d want them to be received.” She added: “That’s why I’ve stayed away from them. I really appreciate those photos and I think those women are beautiful, but I think social media and the Internet has pre- vented me from putting myself out there like that.”

Julia Roberts thought she was prettier than Halle Berry

he ‘August: Osage County’ star admits she used to be very competitive with other Tactresses, but believes it was a “godsend” that Jaime Pressly almost she was never won accolades or titles for her appearance because it helped her to stay ground- had a full mastectomy ed. The 46-year-old star told the September issue of InStyle magazine: “I think I’ve always sort of he ‘Jennifer Falls’ actress revealed she noticed lumps been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For forming in her breasts four years after she was first example, I’ve never been chosen as ‘one of the top- Tdiagnosed with Mastitis - an inflammation in the five hottest actresses in a bikini.’ And honestly, it’s a mammary glad that often results from a bacterial infec- godsend. When I was younger, I’d think, ‘Oh, I’m the tion related to breastfeeding. She developed a severe prettiest one. It’s not Halle Berry. It’s not!’ But it is, form of the benign disorder after welcoming her seven- you know?” The Oscar-winning actress, who has year-old son, Dezi, with former fiancÈ Eric Cubiche into nine-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinneaus, and sev- the world in 2007, and initially assumed she was suffering en-year-old son Henry with husband Danny from “regular breastfeeding pain.” The 37-year-old star Moder, insists that her life isn’t glamorous away told ‘The Talk’: “I had something that happened to me from the spotlight and she still struggles to juggle years ago-when I had my son I got mastitis, but I didn’t everything. Explaining why she hates being asked, know because I thought it was just regular breastfeeding “How do you do it all?” she said: “Because, (a) I’m pain.” After having scar tissue removed from one breast, not nearly as busy as people think, (b) half of the blonde beauty’s doctors informed her that the disor- everything just doesn’t get done-as long as no one der had spread and she was forced to remove tissue from is in tears, nobody smells bad and everyone’s her other breast. The former ‘My Name Is Earl’ star said: “[I sleeping peacefully, I’ve done my job and I have a had] almost [a] full mastectomy. I still have some breast supportive group of girlfriends, a great husband tissue left, just from the mastitis because it mutated into and an understanding family. The rest gets done something else because it sat dormant for a while. But it with grit, spit and a whole lot of duct tape.” was the craziest thing. Thank God it wasn’t [cancer].” lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

Gossip Cher hasn’t looked in a mirror in years he ‘Believe’ hitmaker admits she is “not a confident per- dead because we’re a certain age.’ “Meanwhile, the ‘Strong son” and hates getting older. The 68-year-old star told Enough’ singer says she initially struggled when her 45-year- Tthe August/September issue of AARP The Magazine: old son Chaz Bono - formerly Chastity Bono - first began tran- “Every once in a while I think, ‘Jesus, you’re so old! How did this sitioning from a woman into a man in 2008. She said: “He’d for- happen?’ I haven’t looked in the mirror in years. The only time I gotten to erase his old outgoing message, I thought, ‘I’m never was happy with the way I looked was when I was, like, 40 to going to hear my daughter’s voice [in person] again.” Asked if 45. “Older men rarely liked me. If it wasn’t for younger men, I she had any advice for other parents going through similar would never have a date.” She added: “I’m not a confident per- experiences, she said: “Have faith and hold on. It’s scary son, and I’m really not a Cher fan. But I want to make sure I’ll because you don’t know how you’re going to feel.” do a great job, so I go and try to do every single thing I can.” But Cher has no plans to step back from the spotlight and retire. She said: “I don’t intend to step aside. This is the first generation that’s said, ‘We’re not going to roll over and play

Nina Dobrev was paranoid about getting arrested

he ‘Let’s Be Cops’ star, who split from Ian Somerhalder in May 2013 after three years together, admitted she once Tfreaked out when she discovered a former blind date’s powerful occupation. The 26-year-old actress told E! News: “I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And when I found out that he was a police officer... I wasn’t so into it. I got paranoid that I would illegally cross the street and get a ticket for jay walking. I thought he was gonna arrest me every five seconds, so it obviously didn’t go anywhere after that.” The ‘Vampire Diaries’ star still gets very nervous around members of law enforce- ment. She said: “Even when I’m not doing something wrong, when there’s a police officer [around], I suddenly feel guilty for nothing.” Nina was recently linked to a number of Hollywood heartthrobs, including Orlando Bloom, Ben McKenzie, David Anders and Derek Theler, and is annoyed many of her friends believe the rumors. She said: “If all of my personal friends that Adam Sandler wins legal dispute against nanny know me so well are texting me and asking me and calling me, if they’re believing it, then I couldn’t imagine what every- eanne McDonald - who was awarded $80,000 in dam- Sandler, Adam’s brother who co-runs the company, for more one else in the world is believing.” She jokingly added: “I had a ages in 2010 after she accused the ‘50 First Dates’ star money. Adam, who has two daughters, Sadie, eight, and busy weekend at Comic-Con! I was linked to like 10, 15 guys Dof treating her like a slave and criminal activity - has Sunny, six, with wife Jackie Sandler, and his company claimed apparently.” been ordered to repay the money she received for breaching the new lawsuit violated a clause in the previous settlement, their confidentiality agreement. The 47-year-old actor’s pro- by repudiating it, disclosing confidential information and duction company HP Productions hired Deanne in 2009, but threatening to sue. She has been ordered to return the money she successfully took them to court after her employment and restrained from filing another lawsuit, according to the ended the next year. She secured $48,000 in damages and Los Angeles Times newspaper. $32,000 for legal fees before agreeing to never speak about the case again. But last year, Deanne attempted to terminate and rescind the settlement agreement by suing HP and Scott

Lindsay Lohan wants to be on ‘The Only Way is Essex’ he ‘Canyons’ actress - who was recently romantically linked with former ‘TOWIE’ star Tom Kilbey - is said to be Tkeen to land a cameo on the British reality show because Zoe Saldana she is a huge fan and watches every episode on YouTube. A didn’t rush into marriage source said: “Lindsay’s obsessed with all things Essex and she’s watched every episode of ‘TOWIE’ on YouTube. “It’s like her he 36-year-old actress, who is reportedly expecting they were the most parents and the most amazing and happy new fix. She’s been telling anyone who’ll listen that she’d love twins with husband Marco Perego, married the artist in people apart.” She added: “Sometimes people get married for to guest star in a few episodes and has even asked her man- June 2013 after just a few months of dating, but she all the wrong reasons. I say wait if you want to believe in mar- agement to set up a meeting with the producers.” This comes T insists they did what was right for them. While discussing the riage and do it right. Be happy and try to make it work and if after Lindsay - who is said to be keen to move to the English number of unmarried stars with or expecting children in it’s not, have kids. It’s great!” Zoe previously admitted she capital - has been spotted holding hands outside the Club Hollywood, including Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson, on “knew” straight away Marco was the right man for her. She Room at the Miabella Club in London with ‘TOWIE’ newcomer ‘The Talk,’ the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star said: “I think it’s said: “I don’t do the ABCs. I do what my heart says, what my Vas J Morgan. A show source told Now magazine: “We always important to remember that God gave us a will, or the uni- heart feels. So from the moment I met my husband, we were ensure that everyone on the show has a genuine connection verse gave us the right to choose what is right for us. “I’ve together. We knew.” to Essex. As a friend of Vas, Lindsay might fit the bill, but there been a witness and I was also a product of a very painful mar- are no plans as yet.” riage of people that loved each other but just couldn’t make things work between them. Once they decided to separate Megan Fox’s son throws toys at his baby brother

he ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ star admits her 23-month-old son Noah has taken a while to warm to his six-month-old sibling Bodhi and still occasionally pelts objects at Tthe little one’s face. Speaking to PEOPLE.com, she explained: “Half the time he is [excit- ed], he wants to stroke his head and help feed him - then the other half of the time he tries to smother him. “He’s good most of the time, but then every once in a while, when we’re not looking and we hear the baby cry, we realize he’s thrown a toy at his face.” Despite Noah and Bodhi’s lack of brotherly love at the moment, Megan, 28, captured the first sweet moment between them when they dozed off together. She gushed: “There’s not a whole lot of bonding going on, but they took their first nap together today! They were sleeping in the same posi- tion.” The brunette beauty is besotted with her sons, whom she has with her husband Brian Austin Green, and enjoys watching them achieve new milestones but recently admitted she feels guilty about being a working mother. She previously said: “As a mum it’s hard because I don’t feel like I’m ever giving either one of them 100 percent of my attention or 100 percent of myself, so I carry a lot of guilt.” lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

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Beryl Lipton (left) douses Matt Lee during the ice bucket challenge at Boston’s Copley Square, Thursday, Aug 7, 2014 to Two women get doused during the ice bucket challenge at Boston’s Copley Square. raise funds and awareness for ALS. — AP photos Soaked for charity: Ice bucket challenges get cool

he idea is simple: Take a bucket of ice water, dump it with the neurodegenerative disease, also known as ALS, in cer causes and cold-water plunges for kids’ camps. some states, police warned parents and kids to avoid jumping over your head, record it and post the video on social 2012. Frates, 29, is now paralyzed, eats through a feeding tube Lauer got soaked with ice water last month after Norman into frigid or fast-moving waters. For those who work to raise Tmedia. It’s cold, it’s fun and it’s contagious. But these ice and cannot talk. On Thursday, his parents, Nancy and John challenged him and ended up kicking in some cash for the awareness of ALS, the ice bucket challenge has been a wind- bucket challenges and similar social media-powered stunts Frates, joined 200 people who doused themselves in Copley Hospice of Palm Beach County, in Florida. Operation 300 is a fall. The ALS Association’s national president, Barbara also are raising awareness and money for causes such as Lou Square. The couple said the ice bucket challenge has done foundation in Stewart, Florida, that hosts a camp for kids who Newhouse, said donations to the national office surged dur- Gehrig’s disease, breast cancer and a camp for kids who have more to increase understanding about ALS than anything lost their fathers to war. Founded by the family of Navy SEAL ing the 10-day period that ended Thursday, to about lost their fathers to war. Martha Stewart has been doused. So they’ve done over the past two years. “Who knew all it would Aaron Vaughn, who was killed in a helicopter crash three years $160,000, from $14,480 during the same period a year ago. has Matt Lauer. And pro golfer Greg Norman. take was a bag of ice and a bucket?” John Frates told the ago, the foundation gets support from local firefighters, one That’s not counting donations to chapter offices around the The fundraising phenomenon asks those willing to douse crowd, just before participants simultaneously poured 9-quart of whom decided to put his money where his mouth was: Pay country, Newhouse said. “It’s just been wonderful visibility for themselves to challenge others to do the same within 24 buckets of ice water over their heads. While most were wear- $50 and avoid the icy dousing or get wet and pay $20. “He the ALS community,” Newhouse said. “It is absolutely awe- hours. If they don’t, they must make a donation to a certain ing T-shirts or other casual summer attire, City Councilor Tito just happened to call out five other local firemen,” said Tara some. It’s crazy, but it’s awesome, and it’s working.” — AP charity. Each person who participates nominates more friends, Jackson stood out in a suit and tie, which promptly got Baldwin, Vaughn’s sister. who nominate more friends, who nominate still more friends, soaked. “When one of them called the others out, they all sort of which explains why the trend has exploded. “This is a little bit of discomfort for a second, but it’s a life- naturally said they wanted to get involved.” Since the spring, The months-old movement has taken the Boston area by time of challenges for people with ALS,” Jackson said. Similar the foundation has raised about $15,000 from the ice water storm over the last 10 days, since friends and relatives of for- challenges have attracted athletes, politicians, doctors, challenge. There can be dangers. Authorities in Camden mer Boston College baseball player Pete Frates used it to raise accountants and construction workers. They can take all sorts Township, Minnesota, said 16-year-old Davis Colley drowned awareness about Lou Gehrig’s disease. Frates was diagnosed of forms: There are no-makeup selfies to raise money for can- in May when he jumped in a lake as part of a challenge, and in 8 questions with ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ star Andre Braugher

rooklyn Nine-Nine” burst onto the a season of “Chicago Code,” I saw a couple scene in its freshman season, upset- episodes of “Terriers.” So that was my last binge, “Bting the more-established Golden but we’re talking about two years ago. Globe competition in 2013 and winning a Best TV Series - Comedy or Musical trophy. Star Andy Do you think we’re currently in the Samberg also stole the award for lead actor in a “Golden Age” of TV? comedy. Both were deserved victories. But just I’d have to say it’s the Golden Age. It’s the when TV critics thought the Fox comedy might Golden Age and there is a lot of TV. There is so storm the Emmys, it wasn’t even nominated and much content out there today that you would neither was Samberg. However, Andre Braugher think it’s just an endless sea of content, but in was, making the short list for Outstanding fact the shows that are on television - I’m talking Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. about cable and broadcast - represent an incred- Braugher, who already has two Emmys ible outburst of creativity and imagination. (“Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Thief”) - all My mind goes to the drama world. A show but gave away his potential third to Fred like “Breaking Bad” or “Sons of Anarchy,” these are Armisen in the below interview with TheWrap. shows - you just couldn’t do shows like this 10- As much as we love the “Portlandia” star, howev- 15 years ago. Breaking rules was just not possi- er, we’re not so sure he’s a shoe-in, especially ble 25 years ago. Now the expectation of rule- with Braugher, Tony Hale and Ty Burrell clutter- breaking is built into the show. Everybody wants ing the category, among others. We’ll see whose to know basically how the next show is going to name is in the envelope on Aug 25. Until then, push the envelope. If it’s a “Blacklist” or a here are eight questions with the man behind “Breaking Bad” kind of show, there is a lot going “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s” Captain Holt: on and the rule-breaking and the envelope- pushing is astounding today compared to what TheWrap: What was the toughest thing it was 25 years ago. you had to do this season? Braugher: Like stunts? Is that what you mean? Sure, if you do your own stunts, or if it’s simply not breaking character while crazy shit is going on around you? Oh, that is the hardest thing about the whole season. I pride myself on being a stoic, but it’s a really good crew - and when I say crew I mean everybody in front of the camera and behind - and the spirit is good. We have a lot of fun. One of the hardest things is now that I’m out of the very serious roles that I’ve inhabited before is, these guys are funny. They say a lot of crazy stuff and the hardest part really is keeping a straight face. I guess we are three or four episodes in [to Season 2] and I’ve only broken once. So I’m a little bit behind my pace. I only broke three times last year out of 22 episodes, so I’ve got about twice as many episodes to go before I am back on pace, but I’m doing pretty well.

Can you tell us what made you break that one time? We were in a bar... Oh no! It’s twice I’ve bro- ken! Wow, I’m really behind pace. So the first time was in a bar. They all had to guess what Holt had written on a sign but he had written it so poorly that they came up with guesses. Because they used this one, I’m not going to tell you what Stephanie Beatriz [Detective Rosa Diaz] says, but she is an excellent comedian with a great imagination and she broke me up in the Let’s say you’re an Emmy voter. You can’t bar. [Guest actress] Kyra Sedgwick broke me up vote for yourself you can’t vote for anyone on a week ago because she came in with this really “Brooklyn.” Who would be at the top of your intense scene ... She was tossing a baseball back ballot, show-wise or actor-wise? Who do you and forth and popping her gum while doing the like this year? scene. It just cracked me up because in my mind I am going to vote for my gal Kerry Models present creations by Indian designer Tarun Tahiliani during the first day of the Indian Bridal Fashion Week in New she was still “The Closer.” You are going to see an Washington. For comedy actor it would have to

Bridal Week Fashion Delhi. — AFP photos astounding universe of lovable goofballs who be Fred Armisen of “Portlandia” because he’s a figure it out on a weekly basis. funny comedian, but he is such a nice guy.

Which episode did you pick as your Emmy What can you tell us about Season two? episode and why? Peralta (Samberg) finishes his undercover I picked the episode called “Christmas” investigation, so the squad is reunited. My arch because I’m kind of crazy about the character rival appears, played by Kyra Sedgwick. Amy they call Young Holt, the detective from the ‘80s Santiago (Melissa Fumero) and Jake Peralta con- who is such a bad ass, and Young Holt makes a tinue their love affair, however stop and start it couple of appearances in that episode. is. Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) and Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti) continue their love affair - their Are you a binge watcher? What was the secret, shameful love affair. We get a new com- last TV show that you binge watched? missioner, so there’s a lot of reorganization and I’m not a binge watcher. The last TV show I rule-changing inside the NYPD. As far as I know, binge-watched was “The Chicago Code,” but I Peralta is resisting this change and Holt is mean this is ancient history. I binge-watched embracing it. — Reuters that because I’m working with Shawn Ryan on that submarine epic and I needed to be up on what he had done recently. So I binge-watched lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

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A woman with her face painted takes part in the Mermaid Festival in city of Braslav, some 270 km from Minsk on August 8, 2014. — AFP ‘Mad Men’ star Christina Hendricks does her best for Emmy

hristina Hendricks is “thrilled” about her Emmy nomina- about in that group. What can I say? Five times is a pretty nice been living under a rock these past 7 seasons and might be tun- tion for “Mad Men,” but you won’t catch the 39-year-old thing. ing in for the first time right now. Cactress holding her breath. Hendricks’ masterful portrayal It’s a very adult, intelligent drama about an advertising of the racy and resilient Joan Harris Holloway in AMC’s critically Do you think this is your year? agency in the 1960s that really focuses on the characters and acclaimed period drama has earned her five straight, but so far I never think it’s my year. We joke we’ve got the “Mad Men” their relationships. none of those nominations has netted her a trophy. In fact, curse - none of us has ever won. One of us has to break it at despite the show winning an unprecedented four Outstanding some point, right? How has it evolved since Season 1? Drama Series Emmys in a row, the actors and actresses on “Mad We really stick to a chronological experience. We’ve done a Men” are batting an unfathomable zero for 28 when it comes to Did you prepare a speech? beautiful job of remaining accurate to the times and also staying individual accolades - not a single one of them has emerged vic- I’ve never had a speech prepared. Of course you think of accurate to the show. It’s not just about what’s going on around torious. When TheWrap spoke with Hendricks Wednesday she things in your head. You know last year, when I didn’t win again? you; it’s not just about the 1960s all the time. You’re very aware admitted the cast had joked about the “‘Mad Men’ curse” before, I called Matt Weiner and I said ‘You know what, I had all these of where you are politically and socially, yet you’re watching but the charming actress also figures the streak has to end. wonderful things I wanted to say to you, so why don’t I just say these characters we’ve known from the beginning have chil- Eventually. Unfortunately, the series wrapped three weeks ago them to you right now on the phone? I don’t have to wait to tell dren, get divorces, get married, have affairs, rise in the ranks of and time is running out. you how thankful I am and all the great things you’ve done,’ so I the work place. It has progressed in a very natural way. But with co-star Jon Hamm (Don Draper) and guest star just called him and told him. Robert Morse (Bertram Cooper) also nominated this year and a How about your character Joan? Are there huge differences whole mini-season still set to run in 2015, the future and present If you had to cast a vote for another actress in your category, between who she was when the show started and who she’s both hold promise. Especially considering how far Hendricks’ who would it go to? become? character has come since the series began. She started off as the That sounds like a loaded question! I think there are huge differences. [Series creator, executive office’s head of secretaries, but has since maneuvered herself It was. If you can’t pick, you can’t pick. But maybe you prefer producer and frequent writer, director] Matt writes these charac- into being named a junior partner at the Sterling Cooper Draper one of those shows... ters that aren’t stereotypes or the epitome of something, they Pryce advertising firm. Will her skillful ascent up the corporate I was just talking to my friend about the extraordinary per- seem real because they seem to learn from their mistakes, or ladder finally help her win the award for Outstanding formance Anna Gunn [of “Breaking Bad”] gave this season - I got make the same mistakes, or grow. It seems like they have an Supporting Actress? With the countdown to this year’s show goosebumps talking about it. She’s just amazing. They all are. actual life. Joan is certainly one of them. I think she’s grown the winding down, she spoke to us about her character’s growth as They all are. most, next to Peggy [Olsen, played by Elisabeth Moss.] She’s the series has evolved and, in doing so, made an excellent case learned a lot from her life experiences. for why “Mad Men” deserves to win. Are you a huge “Breaking Bad” fan? Yes, of course. I just love that show so much. I think they’re all Is this the Golden Age of television? TheWrap: You’re nominated for Outstanding Supporting phenomenal. It’s a really special time, I think the projects out there are Actress in a Drama Series for the fifth year in a row. You haven’t super exciting, More exciting than they were 10 years ago when won yet. What’s up with that? You should be winning. Why aren’t Did you watch it every week or binge watch it on Netflix? I started “Mad Men.” It’s encouraging to finish a show and think you winning? With “Breaking Bad” it was a weekly basis. I was always like, “Is about all of the shows I love watching and think, “these are great Christina Hendricks: Gosh, there are so many amazing people it on yet? Is it on yet?” I was pretty addicted to that show. shows, this would be exciting to work on.” — Reuters and so many amazing performances each year. What do you do? You do your best, and you’re thrilled to be talked about, thought How would you describe “Mad Men” to someone who has

Beatles’ Abbey Road crossing could get traffic warden

he pedestrian crossing on London’s Abbey Road immortal- Fans often block traffic as they stand on the black and white ance of parking regulations, “causing total chaos to traffic and at the crossing, but stressed that no decisions had yet been tak- ized by The Beatles could soon have its own dedicated traf- zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios to recreate the Fab causing danger to people trying to get their photograph”. en. Stars of the Beatles musical “Let It Be” posed on the crossing Tfic warden to ensure the safety of the fans who flock there, Four’s famous pose on the cover of the 1969 album “Abbey “Obviously we don’t want to be spoilsports, we are really on Friday to mark 45 years since the iconic album cover was media reported yesterday. The local authority is considering Road”. “It’s a residential area and it’s not geared to receiving proud of our musical heritage,” Hall said. “I’ve set things in shot. — AFP employing a “lollipop lady”-a warden holding a “Stop” sign that thousands and thousands of people,” Lindsey Hall, an elected motion to have a lollipop lady or man there.... It would be good resembles a sweet on the end of a stick-to help regulate the flow member of Westminster Council, told The Daily Mirror newspa- to have somebody there permanently.”A spokesman for the of cars past the landmark. per. She said large buses often parked near the crossing in defi- council confirmed that a discussion was underway about safety

The cast of the musical “Let It Be” perform near famous Abbey Road zebra crossing in London. — AFP photos A man holds a copy of the Beatles album “Abbey Road”. Beatles’ Abbey Road crossing could get traffic warden

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Volunteers lead a play session with displaced Palestinian children.

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aza’s fragile ceasefire is allowing children to play, and overcome some of the trauma of four weeks of war. GVolunteers arranged a special therapy session Thursday on the playground of the Al Renal Preparatory School for Boys in Gaza City. They sang with the children, organized games and listened to their stories. “The war has left them in a shock. We want to take that away, ease their shock. We want to bring back hope to their hearts,” said one of the volunteers, 25-year-old Nisreen Shawa. So far the vol- unteers have visited 10 schools, where many children and their families took shelter during the bombardment. Here’s a collection of images of the children at play. — AP

Displaced Palestinian Volunteer Nisreen Shawa, Ahmed Al-Attar (right) 25 (centre) uses her participates in a play ses- mobile phone to take a sion with other children. ‘selfie’ as she leads a play session with displaced Palestinian children.

Displaced Palestinian Gazal Ahmed Sehda, 5, participates in a play session. Volunteer Nisreen Shawa, 25 (centre) leads a play session with displaced Palestinian children.