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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 MUHARRAM 19, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait Hospital Philippine Azalea the Messi treble in Gaza helps police van smoking chimp gives Guardiola patients amid runs over new star at nightmares on Israeli blockade4 protesters12 Pyongyang40 zoo Barca20 return Amir instructs premier to Min 18º re-examine DNA test law Max 38º High Tide 01:31 & 15:18 Royal files to contest election • Candidates blast dissolved Assembly Low Tide 08:31 & 20:55 40 PAGES NO: 17025 150 FILS By B Izzak

Kuwait inches KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah yesterday ordered HH the Prime Minister Sheikh closer to expat Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to review the controversial DNA law that was passed by the National Assembly earlier this only hospitals year that required all citizens, expats and visitors to undergo mandatory DNA tests. The Amir said the By Ahmad Jabr revision must safeguard people’s privacy. HH the Amir also instructed the premier KUWAIT: Kuwait’s plan to achieve complete nationali- that the re-examination of the law should ty-based segregation at its medical facilities is on track, be in a manner that would serve public with the first steps set to take place early next year interests, social security and the objective when clinics run by a medical insurance company will that had been set for drafting it. begin offering services exclusively for expatriates. Meanwhile, in a rare event of its kind, a In addition to the 15 clinics that will be spread member of the ruling Al-Sabah family was across Kuwait, the Health Insurance Hospitals among 71 candidates who filed nomina- Company, a public shareholding firm for health insur- tion papers to stand for the 50-seat ance established in accordance with a decision by the Assembly elections on the first day of candidate registra- Cabinet, will provide medical care for expatriates tions. Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Sabah criticized the out- through three hospitals to be officially opened by late going Assembly for failing to protect the interests of Kuwaiti 2019, CEO Dr Ahmad Al-Saleh said during a confer- people and said he has decided to run as an ordinary ence sponsored by the health ministry. Kuwaiti citizen to defend the interests of the people. He said When those hospitals become operational, the he had given up his special passport for a regular one and plan is to prohibit expats from receiving medical that he does not mind losing other benefits. attention at public hospitals and clinics, making access Sheikh Malek said that the constitution does not bar rul- to those facilities - where services are mostly offered ing family members from contesting parliamentary polls free of charge - exclusive to Kuwaiti citizens. This step and they are considered similar to other Kuwaiti citizens. also comes at an additional cost for foreigners. Once Only a handful of ruling family members have filed to run in the new company takes over the duties of offering health services to expats from the health ministry, elections during Kuwait’s 54 years of parliamentary democ- expats’ annual health insurance fees will increase to racy. However, all of them dropped out of the race before KD 130, Saleh confirmed, without giving an exact date the elections were held. The last royal to register his candi- for its implementation. dacy was Sheikh Fahd Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, who withdrew KUWAIT: Candidates register for the upcoming parliamentary elections yesterday. (Inset) Ruling family member Continued on Page 13 before the 2006 election. Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Sabah files to run in the polls. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Malala urges Muslims to unite SHARJAH: Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize children in Mosul right now under a winner Malala Yousafzai, giving a speech threat to be used as human shields,” she Spending cuts a yesterday in the Emirates, urged Muslims said of the Iraqi city where an offensive to respect the “true message of Islam” has been launched to retake it from the must despite oil and unite against wars in their countries. Islamic State group. The 19-year-old, who was shot in the She called for empowering the recovery: IMF head by the Taleban in 2012 after she younger generation, especially women, had publicly advocated education for with the education needed “to bring DUBAI: A modest recovery in oil prices falls short of girls, urged the world’s Muslims to “come peace and prosperity to their countries”. filling budgetary gaps in crude-exporting Gulf coun- together... and follow the true message The youngest-ever Nobel recipient tries, the International Monetary Fund said, stressing of Islam as they join hands in the strug- stressed the need for men to support the need to cut spending. The price of the region’s gle for peace”. women in their attempt to receive “quali- main commodity has partially rebounded and is hov- “We cannot talk about investing in our ty education”. Malala, who moved to ering around $50 per barrel having hit a 10-year low future in this region without calling for England where she received medical of less than $30 in January, an end to these bombings and these treatment after the shooting, is both from a peak of more than attacks,” she told a conference in the admired and hated in her native DOHA: Iraqi artist Dia Al-Azzawi poses for a picture with his work titled ‘Mission of $100 in mid-2014. The southern Gulf emirate of Sharjah on the Pakistan, where some conservatives view Destruction’ at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in the Qatari capital yesterday. — AFP recovery “will definitely future of women in the Middle East. “We her as a Western agent on a mission to help in terms of the finan- must not forget that the majority of shame her country. She was awarded the Top Iraqi artist warns of cial numbers for this year” those suffering because of these conflicts Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 jointly with for the countries of the Gulf and wars are Muslims,” said Malala, refer- India’s Kailash Satyarthi, a fellow educa- ‘scenario of destruction’ Cooperation Council, said ring to conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. tion activist who made similar calls at the Masood Ahmed, the IMF’s “I cannot stop thinking of those 500,000 Sharjah conference yesterday. — AFP Masood Ahmed DOHA: Acclaimed Iraqi artist Dia Al- interest in Iraqi folk figures and legends. director for the Middle East. Azzawi, who exhibits almost 550 of his The second half, in the Al Riwaq gallery, “But it doesn’t really change the fundamental out- works in Qatar this week, says his country charts the 77-year-old’s more politicized look for GCC countries or the challenges that face faces a bleak future and the assault on work from the late 1960s onwards. One them,” he told AFP in an interview Tuesday. Oil was Mosul is “a scenario of destruction”. “I am major theme is the momentous political expected to stabilize at around $60 per barrel in the the cry, who will give voice to me?” show- events which have engulfed the Middle medium term, he said, a rate lower than the budget- cases paintings, sculptures and drawings East over the past few decades as well as ary breakeven point for some of the six nations. In its for the next six months across two Doha the fate of his own nation, about which regional economic outlook report released museums. It is potentially the largest ever Baghdad-born Azzawi is steadfastly pes- Wednesday, the IMF cited a breakeven price for Saudi solo exhibition by an Arab artist and is the simistic. “We have destruction, we have Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates at $79.7, first major retrospective of Al-Azzawi’s tragedy, sectarian mentality, faith mentali- $62.1 and $58.6 respectively. work. The exhibition charts a career span- ty,” he says of Iraq. The level drops to $47.8 per barrel in the case of ning more than 50 years by a politically “All that is created by the interests of Kuwait, but it shoots to $77.5 and $93.8 in the case of conscious artist, and the division of work the West, I have no problem with that, but Oman and Bahrain respectively. “(This) means that across two museums neatly represents to support parties, Islamic parties, the GCC countries as a group still have to try and balance two distinct phases of his career. mentality of Daesh (the Islamic State their budgets,” said Ahmed. The exhibition at Doha’s the Mathaf: group), the mentality of ethnic Continued on Page 13 SHARJAH: Pakistani activist for female education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Arab Museum of Modern Art highlights his Continued on Page 13 Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech during a conference yesterday. — AFP ‘Cat-eyed’ tea seller sparks soul searching

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani tea seller with velvet eyes Javeria Ali took the fateful shot was swarmed by cation of working class men,” tweeted @nidkirm, saw his life changed this week when his portrait dozens eager to gawk at the young worker. who described himself as a sociologist based in spread around the Internet, sparking ardent debates But in a country where women have long fought Lahore. on class, objectification, and the place of ethnic for rights and rarely express their feelings publicly, And in a column in the Express Tribune Farahnaz Pashtuns in society. Arshad Khan had no idea he had that fervor soon morphed into an intense debate on Zahidi mocked the “surprise” that someone poor set the Internet alight from Pakistan to India and what it meant to reduce a poor man to a beautiful could be good-looking. “(T)he upper tier bourgeois beyond: He has no phone, and cannot read. “It was a object. “We are more used to seeing this happen to of Pakistan have come to believe that even looks and real surprise,” the young “chaiwala”, or tea seller, told women, it is still creepy whan it happens to a boy,” God-gifted attributes are co-dependent on money AFP. “I was aware that I am handsome but you can’t feminist columnist Bina Shah told AFP. “Just because and affluence?” she wrote. Indeed, in his first appear- do anything when you are poor,” he said, adding that people are bored does not mean you can play with ance on television, viewers laughed at Khan’s awk- the image has “changed the way I think.” someone’s life.” ward speech and the Western suit in which he In the candid photograph, snapped by a passing Columnist Maria Amir concluded that “reverse appeared uncomfortable. “No girl would agree to photographer and posted on Instagram, Khan pre- sexism is still a form of sexism” on the website of marry him,” wrote Twitter user @ItsMahah. pares Pakistan’s ubiquitous milk tea, his blue green Pakistan’s biggest-selling English language newspa- Even the color of Khan’s cool gaze provoked dis- eyes looking frankly into the camera. It set social per, Dawn. But she also echoed many in noting that comfort in some like columnist Amir, who wrote media users swooning, with the 18-year-old’s image the true “ick factor” was in social class rather than “apparently there is no expiry date on our colonial ISLAMABAD: Pakistani tea seller Arshad Khan is seen in this image shared tens of thousands of times since Oct 14. By gender. “The elite getting excited over a hot baggage”. posted on Instagram by Javeria Ali. Tuesday, the Islamabad market where photographer #ChaiWala reeks of class privilege and the objectifi- Continued on Page 13 LOCAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

Franco-GCC forum urges closer trade, other links PARIS: Meeting for wide-reaching discussions on trade and investment relations between France and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), participants in a forum held in Paris yesterday urged closer ties in many areas, although it was recognized that there have been some noteworthy improvements in the recent past. Scores of representatives of the French and GCC business communities gathered for the 3rd France- Gulf Countries Economic Forum to discuss, in particu- lar, ways to boost mutual investment and trade links, a meeting that was held under the aegis of the Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce. Opening the event, the Chamber’s Secretary- General Dr Saleh Al-Tayar told participants that he was optimistic about the future and that he was sure the meeting would enhance contacts and foster clos- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah er cooperation on both sides. “The road is open,” he meets with the outgoing Mongolian ambassador Sondom Enkhbat. meets with Executive Secretary of the Regional Organization for the said. “There are no limits.” Chamber of Commerce —Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) Dr Abdul Rahman Al-Awadi. President Vincent Reina also stressed the importance of the GCC for France and he underlined the Gulf region is “essential on a geostrategic plane.” Amir meets outgoing Mongolian ambassador The Gulf region and its stability, from a political view point, “conditions a large part of the equilibrium in the world and in our societies,” Reina said. He point- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah and the Deputy Prime Minister and Defense ed out that it was not just the fact that 40 percent of Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday the outgoing Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. His Highness world oil reserves were located in the GCC, but the Mongolian ambassador Sondom Enkhbat. The audience Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, His the Crown Prince also received the Executive Secretary of post-oil era will be of huge importance to countries was attended by the Deputy Amiri Diwan Affairs Minister, Highness the Crown Prince received His Highness Sheikh the Regional Organization for the Protection of the like France because of the economic policies now Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah. Jaber Al-Mubarak, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Marine Environment (ROPME) Dr Abdul Rahman Al- being implemented in the Gulf. Earlier, His Highness the Amir received His Highness Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Awadi. —KUNA This is an opportunity for French enterprise and investors who should capitalize on the emerging con- ditions to work with Gulf countries he added, and he underlined the attractiveness for investment there. “The Gulf countries are today among the most advanced in the world in matters of financial regula- tion,” he said, noting some differences between the pace of change in some countries but stressing “a lot of progress has already been accomplished.”

Diversification Speaking specifically on Kuwait, the Chamber President said ongoing economic diversification plans indicated that projects were now envisaged to move out of a solely oil-based economy and France was active in several sectors. In line with the 2015- 2019 development plan, he identified these sectors as “energy, water treatment, health, transport, infra- structure and security-defense. Reina also noted the Kuwaiti role in favor of the environment and said “sustainable development” would be getting particular attention as “Kuwait actively participated in the UN Conference on Climate Change” which got an important global agreement at the Paris Conference in December 2015. Speaking on behalf of the Gulf Countries, GCC Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs and KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah presided over the 112th meeting of the Supreme Petroleum Council Negotiations, Dr Abdulaziz Al-Auwaisheg said (SPC), held at Bayan Palace yesterday. —KUNA “France has been a very important partner in 2014” for trade but volumes have dropped off by about 6 percent in 2015 because of the drop in oil prices. He also stressed “very modest” investment levels Kuwait sports to be improved between the partners and he said “we have to con- centrate on this.” drastically: Sheikh Salman Auwaisheg also underlined the need for coopera- tion in several other areas, among them on political KUWAIT: Sports in Kuwait will be drasti- tion to the great appreciation given to issues like Syria and Yemen, where there are very cally improved regionally and interna- them, he added. close views. He praised the high level of security tionally in the foreseeable future, Head of Kuwait Banking Association cooperation which he said was “very close,” including Minister of Information and Minister of Majid Al-Ajil, whose association organized in the fight against terrorism and efforts to combat State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman the participation of Kuwaiti athletes to the the propaganda discourse of terrorist groups. Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said yesterday. Olympics, said that supporting sports is But he urged more security for maritime traffic Sheikh Salman made this remark to the social responsibility. Double trap which he said was vulnerable to attack. “We need to the press during a ceremony to honor shooter Fahad Al-Dihani, skeet shooter tighten up this security, especially on maritime Kuwaiti athletes who participated in the Abduallah Al-Rashidi and 100-meter routes,” he cautioned. The GCC official also encour- Rio 2016 Olympics. He added that wheelchair racer Ahmad Al-Mutairi all aged more should be done on education coopera- despite the challenges imposed on were present at the ceremony and they all tion and communications and media to better high- Kuwait, athletes have been able to excel expressed their appreciation to be part of KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs light the positive sides of the Gulf region. —KUNA in many sporting events. Honoring those these international sporting events where Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah is pictured with Kuwaiti athletes sportsmen by the leadership is an indica- they scored high records. —KUNA who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Heli Pelaez Castro, Ambassador of the Republic of Peru to Kuwait hosted a reception Tuesday night to celebrate his country’s national day. State officials, diplomats and other dignitaries attended the event. —Photos by Joseph Shagra Peru backs Kuwait’s bid for UNSC non-permanent seat

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s acting assistant foreign minister for the two Americas’ affairs Fadhel Al-Hassan said Tuesday that Peru is supportive of Kuwait’s candidacy for a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council for 2018-19. During a reception hosted by the Peruvian Embassy in Kuwait to mark the 195th national day of Peru, the Kuwaiti diplomat appreciated the longstanding friend- ship between the two countries, recalling the support offered by Peru to Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion in 1990. “Peru plays a distinguished role in its region and is an active member of the regional and international organizations notably the United Nations,” he said. On the bilateral ties, Hassan said they have been growing since the two countries established their diplomatic relations in 1975. The political and econom- ic relations gained momentum after Peru founded its embassy in Kuwait in 1989, he said, commending the role of Ambassador Heli Adelfo Pelaez Castro in strengthening the friendly ties. Hassan expressed hope for even greater trade exchanges and more joint investments, and invited the Peruvian businesspeople to visit Kuwait in order to explore the investment opportunities. —KUNA LOCAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis wait in front of the election affairs department yesterday Former MP and minister Roudhan Al- Former MP and minister Ahmad Al- Former MP Dr Yousuf Al-Zalzalah registers as asKuwaiti candidates arrive to register for the upcoming parliamentary Roudhan registers as a candidate in the Mulaifi registers as a candidate in a candidate in the first constituency. elections. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat third constituency. the first constituency.

Former MP Abdullah Al-Tamimi’s information are Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahad is pic- Interior Ministry’s spokesman Brigadier Former MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan registers as a can- seen on the monitor as he registers as a candidate tured with former MPs Abdullah Mayouf (right) and Abdullah Al-Turaiji after Adel Al-Hashash addresses reporters didate in the first constituency. in the fifth constituency. they registered as candidates in the third and first constituencies respectively. outside the elections affairs department. 71 candidates register on first day

KUWAIT: A total of 71 candidates regis- 6- Abdullah Al-Turaiji 8- Adel Al-Kharafi 10- Abdulwahab Al-Rushaid 5- Amash Al-Shemmari 3- Bader Al-Khurainej tered to run for parliamentary elections 7- Ali Al-Aradi 9- Adnan Al-Mutawa 11- Adnan Al-Salem 6- Ghaleb Al-Mutairi 4- Barrak Al-Azmi yesterday. The third constituency saw 8- Ali Mohammad Al-Ali 10- Fahad Al-Khanna 12- Ali Al-Omair 7- Faraz Al-Daihani 5- Hussein Al-Rashidi the largest number of candidates in the 9- Essa Al-Kandari 11- Mohammad Al-Hajeri 13- Faris Al-Otaibi 8- Falah Al-Muaseb 6- Seif Al-Azmi first day of registration with 18, followed 10- Faisal Al-Duwaisan 14- Mohammad Al-Yousuf 9- Fahad Al-Harbi 7- Daifullah Al-Otaibi by the fifth with 16, the fourth with 15, 11- Yousuf Al-Zalzalah Third Constituency 15- Muhalhal Al-Mudhaf 10- Fuhaid Al-Ajmi 8- Abdullah Al-Tamimi and then the first and second with 11 1- Jamal Al-Omar 16- Hesham Al-Saleh 11- Marzouq Al-Khalifa 9- Ali Nasser Ali each. The list of candidates include: Second Constituency 2- Hamad Al-Tuwaijri 17- Yaqoub Al-Sane 12- Mefreh Al-Mutairi 10- Faisal Al-Kandari 1- Ahmad Bughaith 3- Roudhan Al-Roudhan 18- Yousuf Al-Fadhalah 13- Nayef Al-Mutairi 11- Malek Al-Sabah First Constituency 2- Ahmad Al-Hamad 4- Saadoun Al-Otaibi 14- Nayef Al-Harbi 12- Marzoqu Al-Azmi 1- Ahmad Al-Mulaifi 3- Bader Al-Mullah 5- Sanad Al-Otaibi Fourth Constituency 15- Hashem Al-Sulaili 2- Bader Al-Shuqaihi 4- Jaleel Ali 6- Abdulkareem Al-Kandari 1- Khalil Al-Shemmari 13- Meshari Abdullah 3- Hussein Al-Huraiti 5- Khaled Al-Enezi 7- Abdullah Al-Kandari 2- Saad Al-Enezi Fifth Constituency 14- Meshari Al-Dousari 4- Khaled Al-Khamees 6- Rakan Al-Nisf 8- Abdullah Al-Maayouf 3- Abdullah Al-Mutairi 1- Ahmad Al-Azmi 15- Mahdi Al-Ajmi 5- Salman Al-Attar 7- Salem Al-Shuwaiker 9- Abdulmohsen Al-Saied 4- Ujail Al-Shemmari 2- Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie 16- Nouri Al-Qallaf —KUNA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 LOCAL

In Brief Minister, US Congressmen Jordanian official Ambassador meets discuss military issues concludes visit UANI representative Kuwaiti Deputy Premier and Defense Minister KUWAIT: KUWAIT: Jordanian Senate President Faisal Al-Fayez and Kuwait’s Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Ali Khaled Sheikh Khaled Jarrah Al-Sabah held talks yesterday with vis- ROME: his accompanying delegation left Kuwait yesterday after Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and representative of United Against iting US Congressmen, especially in the military aspect. concluding an official visit. Fayez was seen off by Secretary Nuclear Iran (UANI) and Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sheikh Khaled Jarrah conversed on a number of related General of the National Assembly Allam Al-Kandari and Sant’Agata discussed yesterday the risk of proliferation of issues with the US Congressmen Mike Conaway, Ralph Kuwaiti Ambassador to Jordan Mohammad Al-Kayed. nuclear weapons in the world. Terzi called on the Kuwait Abraham and Gwen Graham and their accompanying dele- Fayez started his visit last Sunday, where he met with His embassy and GCC diplomatic delegations to take part in gation. The meeting was attended by Kuwaiti Army’s Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- the international conferences and forums held by UANI Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Abdullah Nawaf Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber to work on halting weapons proliferation. — KUNA Al-Sabah, and several other senior military officers. —KUNA Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. —KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Traditional musical instrument used in Kuwait in the past, showcased at a local museum. —Photo by Joseph Shagra

The Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza. Medics operating on a Palestinian child at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Gaza. Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza: A destination for patients in light of Israeli blockade

GAZA: Over the past ten years the despite limited resources and equipment. transporting emergency service free of Dahoudi said despite what the hospital Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza The hospital was established in March charges to Palestinian citizens. It also offers offers to patients of the Gaza Strip, it still Strip, healed wounds and soothed pain of 2007 with support by Al Rahma low costs for medical treatment to suffers from lack of the capability of receiv- many Palestinians, thanks to efforts by Association for Relief and Development- Palestinian citizens due to the difficult liv- ing more patients and needs an additional dedicated staff serving at multiple Palestine Branch. Annual reports said that ing conditions, high levels of poverty and building along with more medical devices. departments, where the hospital receives the hospital receives about 2,000 to 2,300 unemployment because of the ongoing The hospital is also suffering from a thousands of cases per month, amid poor emergency cases and 100 births monthly, Israeli siege for more than ten years. And shortage in the number of beds and power health conditions in the enclave due to in addition to conducting 130 to 140 sur- during a meeting with a number of outages, and needs maintenance for its the Israeli blockade. geries per month along with hosting 1,200 patients, they expressed their happiness for departments, along with the monthly oper- The Kuwaiti hospital was the first to 2,000 patients monthly for regular presence of the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah, in ational requirements and the payments of defense line in Rafah, which experienced checkup and nearly 1, 400 patients at the time where the town suffers from lack mini- about 84 employees’ salaries. The Kuwaiti like the rest of Gaza cities and towns, three dental clinic. mum levels of health care. hospital opened in March a solar energy Israeli wars in five years. During the wars, it The hospital operates 24 hours a day Meanwhile, Director General of the project to alleviate suffering of patients as a admitted hundreds of injured people, and provides 24 beds and two ambulances Kuwaiti hospital, Dr Abdullrahman Al- result of frequent power outages. —KUNA

Medics treating a Palestinian infant at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Gaza. Young patients treated at the Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza. The Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza has three ambulances to transport patients. LOCAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 Special panel examines candidates’ papers

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has recently dis- Sabah ordered yesterday forming a special solved the parliament citing various chal- panel to examine nomination papers of the lenges and regional critical conditions. At candidates vying for seats in the upcoming least three Cabinet members desiring to take 50-member National Assembly (Parliament). part in parliamentary elections have already The commission, to be presided by the first resigned from their executive posts. public attorney, justice Sultan Majed Law number 35/1962, which deals with Boujarwa, will check the candidacy papers to parliamentary elections, permits candidates ensure all the required terms and specifica- to file their candidacies to contest elections, a tions for the nominees are met and available, statement issued by the Ministry of Interior the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a state- said. Moreover, all eligible candidates should ment. The panel, which will hold its sessions be Kuwaiti citizens below 30 years of age and at the headquarters of the election depart- are required to be fluent in written and spo- ment, is entitled to seek any information or ken Arabic, the statement added. documents from any authority, and will report On further prerequisites, the statement to the Ministry of Interior. pointed out that all candidates should have The MoI statement came as the electoral no criminal history, as those found with crimi- process kicked off early today, when candi- nal records are prohibited from contesting the Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled dates started submitting their registration elections. Furthermore, all candidates should papers at the set centers across Kuwait. register at the elections affairs office in required to register, the statement noted. Candidates’ papers’ submission will proceed Shuwaikh Residential area from 7:30 am to Parliamentary life in Kuwait saw the light in till October 28, pending the balloting due on 1:30 pm, with their citizenship certificates and the early 60s, thus putting the State of Kuwait November 26th. two recent photos in hand. A KD 50 fee is also on the world’s democracy map. —KUNA

Opposition ‘on verge’ of ending boycott: Sources

By A Saleh The sources added that a discussion was said that the opposition MPs who attended held about how to take part in the elections the meeting decided to take part in the KUWAIT: Opposition representatives met at and that it was agreed to run in the elections elections except for Tabtabaei, who decid- Ammar Al-Ajmi’s diwaniya in Kaifan without provided that Barrak issues a written state- ed to consult his voters, and Merdas, who the attendance of former MPs Ahmed Al- ment urging the opposition to do so. has not made up his mind yet. Ajmi added Saadoun and Khaled Al-Sultan, well-informed “Harbash called Barrak and he promised to that six of the majority bloc members, sources said. The sources explained that 11 make the statement,” said the sources, adding including Saadoun, Sultan, Abdullatif Al- former MPs including Mohammad Al-Dallal, that former MP Faisal Al-Mislem said that he Ameeri, Mohammed Al-Kandari, Faisal Al- Badr Al-Dahoum, Jamaan Al-Harbash, Waleed was embarrassed to declare his intentions to Yahya and Obaid Al-Wasmi, will not take Al-Tabtabaei, Hamad Al-Mutar, Osama Al- take part because he had just urged people part in the upcoming elections. Ajmi added Menawer, Adel Al-Damkhi, Osama Al- to boycott the elections two days earlier. “Let that another meeting would be held at his Shaheen, Mohammad Hayef, Nayef Al-Merdas me be the last to announce my participation,” diwaniya tomorrow. In addition, Ajmi noted and Ajmi attended the meeting and dis- the sources claimed he said, as if yielding to that the Islamic Constitutional Movement cussed taking part in the upcoming parlia- public pressure. (ICM) general assembly had selected mentary elections. The meeting’s host and former MP Ajmi Harbash to take part. The sources quoted Harbash urging his Evacuation drill at colleagues to be realistic and note that peo- ple have been avoiding their seminars and rejecting their calls to go to Irada Square. “My Petroleum college overcrowded Residency Department brothers and myself have been affected very much by the boycott,” he said, pointing out By A Saleh has been holding up maintenance opera- By Hanan Al-Saadoun Jassar said the drill was successful. that he had received a call from former MP tions, although studies are highly depend- In other news, the road occupancy Musallam Al-Barrak urging them to take part KUWAIT: Dean of the College of ent on lab apparatuses. Khlaifi added that KUWAIT: The Medical Emergencies department at the Jahra Municipality in the elections, because having opposition Petroleum and Engineering at Kuwait the total number of students at the col- Department held a mock evacuation drill in branch carried out a campaign in MPs in parliament would be a golden oppor- University Prof Abdullatif Al-Khlaifi said lege is 5,000, which is beyond its capacity cooperation with the Fire Department at Mutlaa, Naeem, Taima, Industrial Jahra, tunity for Barrak to run in the following elec- that the college’s labs need periodic main- of 3,600. “This means that some sections the Farwaniya Residency Department in Kabd and Salmy, resulting in the tions that will be held when the opposition tenance according to a special contract include 45 students though the ideal Dajeej. The exercise simulated a fire in an removal of 577 abandoned cars and 14 wins seats and manages to create a crisis in and that the delay in the college’s budget number should be 18,” he underlined. office that injured a person. Dr Abdullah Al- truckloads from Kabd. the new parliament and have it dissolved. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS Crime Report Al-Jarida Let’s not get Trio sold phone lost in details lines to inmates KUWAIT: Acting Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary By Hassan Al-Essa for Criminal Evidence Major General Shihab Al-Shimmari ordered two women and a man be sent to the public pros- long with the accelerated tensions due to ecution after they registered phones in the names of citi- the nearness of parliamentary elections, zens and expats, then sold them to central prison inmates, Athe government is expected to open its leaving innocent people to bear the charges. A security arms wide for a large number of lawmakers to source said a citizen told Khaitan police that she was sur- renew their affiliations, and the best channel to do prised to find there were two phone lines in her name, and so is through overseas medical treatment. For the company was demanding payment. The source said example, the health minister will not mind being a investigations led to discovering that a bedoon and two link between current and new lawmakers and women, both citizens, were behind this scam. decision makers amongst ministers and sheikhs regardless of the government’s promises to block Cabby mugged the financial drainage caused by treatment abroad, with a few exceptions, according to the A roaming taxi driver was stabbed by three unidenti- government’s wishes. fied persons after he resisted them. They robbed him Dissolved parliament In a recent article, my colleague Kamel Harmi of his money and other belongings. The taxi driver said: “The growth in touristic medical treatment picked up the three from Industrial Shuwaikh, and as patients, according to statistics recorded in soon as they got in, one pulled out a knife, and when August, from 2,500 to 6,000, means sending 120 he resisted, he was stabbed in the shoulder. The sus- patients for treatment abroad per lawmaker at a pects then escaped. Detectives are investigating. monthly cost of KD 70 million. So, tell me about the silly talk about saving expenses, increasing Fight fuel prices and cutting expat teachers’ rent allowances!” After a fight broke out between a Filipino and a Al-Jarida Bangladeshi, friends of the former rushed to help him Political bribes, such as treatment abroad, is and caused injuries to the Bangladeshi, who was taken to not the point. Neither are the other forms of gifts hospital. The fight was over a taxi fare. The Bangladeshi and corruption facilitators. So much has been written in the local press and so many people cabbie took the Filipino from Salmiya to Fintas, but he Al-Anbaa refused to pay what the driver demanded, so a fight have talked about corruption and favoritism and broke out and residents rushed to help their compatriot. about how the authority sometimes legalizes it or turns a blind eye to it. What matters now is Sane’s filters whether there is any use of our debates and dis- Driver ‘punished’ cussion about how the country is being run. In An unidentified person ‘punished’ an Egyptian by other words, have we noticed any change and By Saad Al-Motesh damaging his car after he blocked the road in intentions to reform despite the oil price disaster? Salmiya. A security source said the Egyptian lodged Was there any reaction on the government’s or the n building a new house, those close to ter there. Sane used the idea at his ministry, parliament’s part towards this drainage of public a complaint. He said that he parked his car behind the owner start offering free advice to where he formed four committees to decide who another vehicle in front of a Salmiya building, and funds other than worthless lawmakers’ talk about O help him avoid mistakes they had made, deserves to be appointed in leading positions. strong rejection of overburdening citizens and when he returned, he found his car was damaged. such as taking care of the quality of electrical The first committee Sane formed is responsi- protecting public funds?! wiring because of its significance to safety. ble for listing candidates who match the condi- We all know that you cannot get blood out of Drug users caught However, the most important piece of advice tions set for the position. The second committee stones, and our political administration is made of Special missions men arrested a citizen and an Emirati they offer is about installing a central water filter. is responsible for checking the first committee’s stone. All what is being said and written by the woman after stiff resistance and insults. Both were under Nevertheless, regardless of the quality of that work. The third committee interviews candidate so-called reformists, politicians and former MPs the influence of drugs and had 20 illicit tablets on them. central filter, one will still have to install smaller and finally the fourth committee endorses the are only media tranquilizers meant to act as tools Both were sent to the Drugs Control General Department. ones in the kitchen or for water coolers to get final selectees. These four committees act as a to cool our tensions. the purest drinking and cooking water and to four-process filter to make sure only the best get It is mandatory not to get overwhelmed by too ensure the safety of family members. Therefore, through. many details about the coming elections; about Suicide attempt we see many houses install more than one filter Four-layer water filters at home ensure that who is for and who is against, because eventually, Police rescued a citizen in his 40s who flung himself next to each other. drinking water will be purer than spring water on the elections are only a tool of political amuse- into the sea in an attempt to commit suicide, and The idea of using multilayered filters was the top of Everest and Tibet. Similarly, Sane’s four fil- ment in a state full of political emptiness and rushed him to Mubarak Hospital. They found his sui- same used by former Minister of Awqaf and ters are the main reason behind severe criticisms boredom, as long as the political administration cide bid was due to divorce and accumulated debts. Islamic Affairs Yaaqoub Al-Sane, with a slight dif- and accusations pointed at Sane, questioning has no visions about the future or a real project The incident took place near Balajat Street, and the ference that he did not use it in his house - it is the committees’ decisions! that would save it from the unknown future. man was charged and will be questioned after he up to him if he does not even install a single fil- —Translated by Kuwait Times —Translated by Kuwait Times recovers. —Al-Rai and Al-Anbaa

News in brief

Teachers to receive reduced pay in Nov KUWAIT: Arab public school teachers will receive their salaries in full this month, including their rent allowance intact, as the Ministry of Education is yet to officially receive the decision to cut the allowance from KD 150 to KD 60, despite the fact it became effective on October 13, 016. As a result, not only will teachers receive reduced rent allowances next month, but the ministry will also deduct KD 55 from each teacher’s pay for applying the decision retroactively. —Al-Qabas Celebrating collaboration in plastic food packaging No decrees KUWAIT: The Kuwait Foundation for the KUWAIT: The Cabinet is not expected to issue Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), EQUATE emergency decrees concerning issues that go in Petrochemical Company, Americana - contradiction with the state’s budget for Meat Cluster and Plastic Industries 2016/2017, high ranking government sources said. Company (PIC) celebrated their collabora- They made their remarks in response to specula- tion for an advanced solution in plastic tions that the Cabinet might restructure the public food packaging. sector’s payroll or reduce subsidies through emer- The collaboration involved a partner- gency decrees issued before a new parliament is ship among KFAS, EQUATE, Americana - elected. —Al-Anbaa Meat Cluster and PIC (a local plastic manu- facturer) to devise an optimal solution in plastic food packaging. The solution was Oil sector’s budgets developed based on plastic raw material Americana Meat Cluster CEO production, film conversion and food Mohamed Mahrous Awad KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation’s (KPC) Board packaging. The results included develop- of Directors starts discussions next Sunday to adopt the ing and enhancing the food packaging knowledge economy. KFAS established oil sector’s budgets for the fiscal year 217/2018. plastic properties through EQUATE’s programs to help companies achieve such Meanwhile, sources revealed that KPC demanded Research and Development (R&D) Center. capacities. We have been utilizing our con- excluding the Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) from KFAS Director-General Dr Adnan Shihab- tacts with local, regional and international the budget in an attempt to avoid losses resulting from Eldin said, “KFAS believes that innovation entities to find the best technology and halting production at the divided zone, adding that and R&D are essential for the growth of the knowledge providers that can assist the production is not expected to resume before a year private sector’s scientific and technical companies in identifying the technology introduced both EQUATE and Americana to Americana - Meat Cluster CEO from today. —Al-Anbaa capacities that are needed to build a suitable for their businesses. Last year we the German Institutes in hope that they Mohamed Mahrous Awad said, “Americana find new technologies that can be of value being the Regional leading food brand for to both companies individually. the last 6 decades, through understanding Furthermore we co-funded feasibility stud- the market needs and using the state-of-art Airport security ies for both companies. . KFAS is pleased to technology, has achieved various mile- be the catalyst that activated the coopera- stones through product innovation, offer- KUWAIT: G4S started operation at Kuwait tion between EQUATE, Americana and PIC. ing the market different products and solu- International Airport as part of a deal with the We are honored to be part of this celebra- tions that makes life of our consumers bet- Interior Ministry to offer security services there. The tion and will continue to be a partner in the ter. Our collaboration with the technical company has already provided 97 inspectors success with companies.” and industrial experts like EQUATE and PIC, assigned at the entrance and before the passports’ On his part, EQUATE President and CEO through the scientific platform of KFAS, counter. The remaining 303 inspectors, who will be Mohammad Husain said, “Diversification is merging their solid scientific and technical assigned to all gates at Kuwait International Airport, critical for our economy and we consider it experience with our practical and technical the Saad Al-Abdullah Airport and the new terminal a real opportunity for success. In order to industrial environment would only lead to (under construction) are set to arrive to Kuwait achieve success, we need very robust col- the best quality solutions benefitting the within two months, sources said. —Al-Rai laboration within a framework of innova- industry, environment and the society.” tion-based partnership. This collaboration PIC General Manager Hassan Jaber said, is a milestone for us as it promotes the “PIC is excited to announce the successful Kuwaiti fighters overall sense of ownership. We really completion of the Americana collaboration appreciate KFAS for being the catalyst that with KFAS and EQUATE for the plastic food KUWAIT: The number of Kuwaiti fighters is increas- enabled all participating entities to packaging application. This significant ing among the ‘Jund Al-Aqsa’ group fighting in Syria, achieve their final goal. Today, this collab- achievement was made possible on a foun- at a time in which their numbers are dwindling with- oration should not stop as it is an embodi- dation of trust and a strong commitment to in the Islamic State (IS) and Nusra Front, Al-Rai daily ment of our slogan ‘Partners in Success.’ the project’s success, as well as the techni- reported yesterday quoting ‘jihadi sources.’ “Jund Al- This is in line with EQUATE’s constant drive cal and processing guidance from all sides. Aqsa has become the favorite destination for to develop differentiated products and We would like to thank KFAS, Americana - Kuwaitis travelling to Syria for jihad,” the sources KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lieutenant General solutions to advance the local industry Meat Cluster and EQUATE for the opportu- said, adding that four Kuwaiti members of the radical Suleiman Al-Fahad recently welcomed Lieutenant Colonel Dr Tariq Al-Doub and support its growth. Our real story is to nity to be part of this project. PIC’s mission group were killed in fighting during the past couple from the ministry’s Research and Studies Center, who presented to him be told and used as a power for more is to provide our customers responsive and of years. —Al-Rai copies of his publications on security information and statistics. achievements.” innovative execution of their projects.” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 The children of Albania’s Obama: We saved the best for last brutal blood feuds Page 9 Page 10

COLUMBUS: In this Oct 10, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles while speaking at a rally at The Ohio State University. —AP Clinton campaign took shape in secret Hacked emails show a campaign that was years in the making

WASHINGTON: Back in early 2014, a media leak revealed further research,” he wrote. One suggestion was: “I’m run- The press strategy also had begun to take shape. “We are hoped for,” wrote pollster Joel Benenson. A week before the Robby Mook was being considered to run a possible presi- ning for president to restore America’s fundamental bargain all in agreement that the time is right to place a story with a campaign launch, daily calls were being held to coordinate dential campaign by Hillary Clinton. In fact, the 36-year-old with the middle class and get government working for friendly journalist in the coming days that positions us a little strategy. Emails piled up in Podesta’s mailbox as the April 12, was already on the job-almost three years before the vote. everyone again, not just a wealthy few.” more transparently while achieving the above goals,” wrote 2015 launch date loomed. Just one day before, Podesta and “You are right abt a long term press strategy. Need a different Another was “I’m running for President to renew the Nick Merrill, formerly at State, in a memo. Focus groups were others spoke on condition of anonymity to at least one influ- voice responding to this stuff,” Mook wrote to Cheryl Mills, American Dream.” And “That’s why we need a fighter in the set up in New Hampshire in January 2015 to start fleshing out ential journalist. Then, on the big day, Clinton sent this mes- Clinton’s longtime aide, in February 2014. Mook’s message White House.” Then the pace of hiring picked up. “Madame the campaign messages, but Clinton’s pollsters found a prob- sage on Twitter: “I’m running for president. Everyday was among the thousands of gmail messages hacked from Secretary, Congratulations-you have a very enthusiastic lem after one messaging test. Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion. the account of John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, Communications Director and Deputy Communications “For an audience of core supporters, the enthusiasm is -H”. The “H” was intended to mean that the tweet was from her and released in recent days by WikiLeaks. Director,” Mook messaged Clinton in January 2015, referring somewhat muted and we don’t appear to be generating the personally. But it was pre-written, and pre-approved at the The Clinton campaign say the hack was carried out by to Jennifer Palmieri and Kristina Schake. excitement or a sense of a fresh, new candidacy we had highest level, at least a week before. —AFP Russian cyber spies bent on tilting the race in favor of the Republican candidate. But the emails offer a fascinating win- dow into the development of a presidential campaign that has been years in the making, with a tiny group of insiders working in secret to prepare Clinton’s bid to become the first woman president of the United States. The emails show that the candidate and her closest col- laborators were determined not to repeat the errors of Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential bid in 2008, when she lost to a charismatic newcomer, Barack Obama. The former secretary of state let speculation build about her possible run for the White House, coyly deflecting questions about her future plans by saying she was enjoying time with her granddaughter.

Obama and Hilary differences Nevertheless, the press was already alert to signs of a Clinton candidacy. Mook’s message about press strategy was prompted by a news story that examined growing differences between Clinton’s camp and Obama’s inner circle. By March 22, 2014, Mook was starting to work on a campaign strategy, the emails show. He urged Clinton not to run for the presiden- cy, as she had in 2008, as a woman seeking to make history, warning that would be a “mistake.” Instead, Mook argued, Clinton should run as a champion of the middle class-a line she would embrace about a year later. At the time, Clinton was busy shuttling from paid speaking engagement to paid speaking engagement, and readying a promotional tour for her memoir as secretary of state-nothing that would suggest any direct political agenda. But in April 2014, Mook already was thinking about how Clinton’s cam- paign should be set up and where. “I anticipate that about two dozen staff will need to be in place and working six to eight weeks prior to an official cam- paign announcement,” he wrote. But he said they should not act before November 4, 2014 midterm elections. In May 2014, Hillary Clinton was summoning her closest advisers. Even they were unaware that Mook was hard at work behind the scenes. “The only person in this group that knows about you besides me is John,” Mills wrote Mook, presumably refer- ring to Podesta.

Influencing the media In late 2014, as Clinton campaigned for fellow Democrats in congressional elections, her speechwriter Dan Schwerin worked up a 20-page document on possible “nar- ratives” for her campaign strategy. “The goal is for you to begin crystalizing the ideas and motivations that are most important and compelling to you, which will then provide direction for policy development, midterms messaging, and INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 Lebanon’s Hariri backs Aoun for president

BEIRUT: Former Lebanese Prime Aoun’s candidacy would enjoy enough standing as Lebanon’s most influential Movement, confirmed Hariri had then, he spent most of his time abroad. Minister Saad Al-Hariri intends to support among other politicians to Sunni politician has been shaken by a expressed this intention, but members Last year, he nominated Hezbollah ally endorse Michel Aoun for the vacant secure the necessary two-thirds quorum financial crisis at his Saudi-based con- of his own parliamentary bloc opposed Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency, presidency, senior political sources said, for the vote in the 128-seat parliament. struction business. The troubles at it. Fouad Siniora, a former prime minis- but Hezbollah stuck by Aoun. and the Hezbollah ally could be elected The next scheduled parliamentary ses- Saudi Oger, which has been hit by ter and head of the Future Movement’s Aoun, a former army commander, head of state later this month. Long an sion to elect a president is set for Oct. falling oil prices and cuts in Saudi parliamentary bloc, told the newspaper heads the largest Christian bloc in par- opponent of the Iran-backed Shiite 31. Opponents of Aoun’s candidacy state spending, have led to a cash Daily Star that Hariri had told his MPs on liament and has a large following in the group Hezbollah, Hariri would become include Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, crunch in Hariri’s Future Movement. Tuesday that he had decided to support divided Christian community. He has prime minister again under the plan head of the Shiite Amal Movement and Diplomats say Hariri has fallen from Aoun’s candidacy, but added that there been a political ally of Hezbollah since that could reshape Lebanese politics. It a close ally of Hezbollah, which itself has favor in Saudi Arabia, which these was “no final decision yet on this mat- 2006. A significant figure in Lebanon’s has drawn opposition in his party and a yet to comment. Hariri, 46, led the days cares far more about confronting ter”. One of the senior sources said Hariri 1975-90 civil war, Aoun led one of two final decision has not yet been taken, “March 14” alliance against Hezbollah Iranian influence in the Gulf and Syria would announce his support for Aoun rival governments during the final years allies said. and its allies, after the 2005 assassina- than about Lebanon. “within the coming few days”. of the conflict. In 1990, the Syrian army The presidency, which is reserved for tion of his father Rafik Al-Hariri. He The current government of Prime forced him into exile. He returned in a Maronite Christian in the country’s remains a fierce critic of Hezbollah, Opposition from within Minister Tammam Salam has been 2005 after Syrian forces withdrew under sectarian power-sharing arrangements, which is fighting in Syria in support of Two senior politicians told Reuters paralysed by rivalries exacerbated by international pressure following the has been vacant for 2 1/2 years due to President Bashar Al-Assad. that Hariri had expressed his intention regional conflict. Hariri became prime Hariri assassination. Aoun’s main political conflicts. Aoun, a veteran politi- The proposal, unthinkable until to nominate Aoun for the presidency as minister for the first time in 2009, but Christian rival, wartime enemy Samir cian in his 80s, has long coveted the recently, casts new light on the part of the power-sharing deal. A third his cabinet was toppled in 2011 when Geagea, earlier this year also endorsed post. It was not immediately clear if predicament facing Hariri, whose source, a member of Hariri’s Future Hezbollah and its allies resigned. Since Aoun’s candidacy. — Reuters Deadly clashes before latest Yemen ceasefire

ADEN: Heavy fighting rocked Yemen hours launches against a US warship and other before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to vessels. Yemen’s Houthi rebels are allied begin yesterday, as warring parties come with members of the security forces loyal to under mounting pressure to end a conflict ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. that has raged for more than two years. The truce will be the sixth attempt to end the ‘More optimistic’ bloodshed since a Saudi-led Arab coalition They control the capital Sanaa and other intervened in March 2015 to support the territory but coalition-backed forces earlier government of President Abedrabbo pushed them back from the southern port Mansour Hadi after rebels overran much of of Aden and adjacent areas. Both the rebels Yemen. Civilians have paid the highest and pro-government forces have come price in a country that was already the under increased international pressure to Arabian peninsula’s poorest. silence their guns. On Tuesday, US Almost 6,900 have been killed-more Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the than half of them civilians-while another announcement of the new truce and three million are displaced and millions echoed an urgent plea from the UN envoy more need food aid. A United Nations for unfettered humanitarian access report said air strikes by the coalition were throughout Yemen. “We ask the parties to suspected of causing around half of all take all steps necessary to advance the civilian deaths, while rebel-affiliated groups implementation of this cessation, call on were responsible for about a quarter. The them to sustain it, and strongly encourage UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould its unconditional renewal,” Kerry said. Cheikh Ahmed, on Sunday announced the Hadi’s government said it would agree truce from 23:59 (2059 GMT) for an initial to the truce if rebels also adhered to it, and three days, subject to renewal. But clashes also called for the insurgents to monitor An Iraqi forces M109 self-propelled howitzer fires towards the village of Tall Al-Tibah, some 30 kilometers south of Mosul, involving heavy artillery and air raids killed the ceasefire and end their siege of Yemen’s during an operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists to retake the main hub city. — AFP at least five people across the country yes- third city, Taez. The rebels, in a statement terday, including fighting near the Saudi on Tuesday night, expressed readiness for a border and around the capital Sanaa, mili- “lasting ceasefire, comprehensive and with- Iraqi forces poised for tary sources said. out conditions”. Military sources however The last ceasefire attempt began in April said rebel positions in the northern Saada alongside UN-brokered peace talks in province were struck by coalition raids yes- Kuwait but both the rebels and the coalition terday. At least three strikes also hit a con- accused each other of breaches. After peace voy of rebel reinforcements in Omran assaults around Mosul talks collapsed in August, fighting escalated province, north of Sanaa. until an October 8 coalition air strike which At least two loyalists were killed and 15 the UN said killed more than 140 people wounded in fighting near the Red Sea, in Noose tightens on IS stronghold and wounded at least 525 at a funeral in Hajja province, the sources said. And in Sanaa. The United States announced an Taez, at least two rebels and a pro-govern- QAYYARAH: Iraqi forces prepared yesterday to Qayyarah, referring to the district that includes be a major setback for IS, all but ending its “immediate review” of its intelligence and ment fighter were killed during overnight retake several key areas around Mosul, including Qaraqosh. “There are some pockets (of resist- experiment in statehood. “IS simply has too refueling assistance to the coalition, whose fighting, according to witnesses and mili- the country’s largest Christian town, to tighten ance), some clashes, they send car bombs but it many enemies with the world arrayed against it,” investigative team then released unusually tary sources. In spite of yesterday’s vio- the noose on the Islamic State group’s strong- will not help them,” he said. said Aymenn Al-Tamimi, a jihadism expert at the quick findings from a probe of the incident. lence, Mustafa Alani, a senior adviser to the hold. Kurdish and federal troops have made Qaraqosh was the largest of many Christian Middle East Forum. It said a coalition aircraft “wrongly targeted” Gulf Research Centre, said the prospects for quick progress since the offensive was launched towns and villages seized by the jihadists who the funeral based on “incorrect information”. peace were growing. “I am more optimistic, on Monday but officials have cautioned that swept across the Nineveh Plain east of Mosul in No safe exit In another major development, the US Navy actually, because the environment is com- Iraq’s largest military operation in years could August 2014. The mass exodus it sparked dis- Tens of thousands of personnel are involved for the first time targeted Huthi rebels pletely different from the previous one,” he last months. Hundreds of thousands of civilians placed a large proportion of Iraq’s already dwin- in the operation to retake Mosul, where the directly. On October 13 it hit radar sites told AFP. “At the same time, both parties in were still trapped in the city with dwindling sup- dling Christian minority, sending most into the jihadists have an estimated 3,000 to 4,500 fight- which, the US said, were involved in missile the conflict are getting tired. — AFP plies, many sheltering in basements as air strikes neighboring Kurdish region. ers. World leaders and military commanders intensified on IS targets. warned that-despite signs that early progress in “We couldn’t sleep last night because of the Displaced families the Mosul offensive was faster than predicted- air strikes. The explosions were huge but I’m not Qaraqosh was home to around 50,000 people the battle could be long and difficult. “Mosul will Imam risks jail for ‘insulting’ sure what the targets were,” said Abu Saif, a 47- in 2014 and has at least seven churches, making be a difficult fight. There will be advances and year-old resident contacted by AFP. “Many fami- it a key hub for the more than 300,000 Christians there will be setbacks,” Obama said on Tuesday. Senegal Muslim brotherhood lies are starting to run out of some basic food still in Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga forces prepared After clearing towns and villages on the out- goods, there is no commercial activity in Mosul- to attack IS positions on several fronts north of skirts of Mosul with air support from a US-led DAKAR: Senegalese prosecutors Sakho was not present at the hearing in the city is cut off from the world,” he said. East of Mosul while federal forces worked their way up coalition, Iraqi forces are expected to besiege the requested a six-month sentence yester- Dakar for security reasons after threats Mosul, forces were poised for an assault on the Tigris Valley. Some families recovering their city before entering it. Iraqi forces may allow flee- day for an imam accused of insulting the of lynching by Mouride members. His Qaraqosh, which lies about 15 kilometers and freedom from IS for the first time in more than ing IS fighters an exit to the west in a bid to mini- country’s most powerful Muslim broth- case will be decided on October 26. The was once Iraq’s largest Christian town. two years cautiously approached security forces mize human and material losses from the fight- erhood, in a case that has underlined the Mourides are highly entrepreneurial News of the move to recapture Qaraqosh waving white flags. ing inside the city. But the chief of Russia’s group’s outsized influence. The Mourides and best known outside Senegal for sparked jubilation among Christians who had In one village in the Al-Shura district south of General Staff Valery Gerasimov argued it was are one of four important Sufi brother- selling trinkets and counterfeit goods fled the town, with many dancing and singing in Mosul, the men were promptly isolated and “necessary not to drive terrorists from one coun- hoods followed by Senegal’s Muslims, on the streets of New York, Paris and the city of Arbil on Tuesday night. Units from herded into a handful of buildings for screening. try to the other but to destroy them on the spot”. who overwhelmingly practice a moder- Rome, where they have built up signifi- Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism service, which has The families were being dispatched to various Russia, he said, was focusing on “possible ate version of Islam while following the cant networks. done the heavy lifting in most recent operations temporary camps, including near Qayyarah. The attempts by fighters to break out of Mosul” and teachings of local spiritual guides. In Senegal they are highly influential against IS, were poised to flush jihadists out of “caliphate” that IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi “freely leave the city in the direction of Syria”. The case relates to a video posted in in government and business. Former the town yesterday, officers said. “We are sur- proclaimed in Mosul’s Great Mosque in June Many civilians have been able to flee the wider September by imam Cheikh Mbacke president Abdoulaye Wade is among the rounding Hamdaniya now,” Lieutenant General 2014 once covered more than a third of Iraq and Mosul region to safer areas, with some desper- Sakho in which he accused Mouride country’s most high-profile Mourides. Riyadh Tawfiq, commander of Iraq’s ground parts of Syria. But it has been shrinking steadily ate enough to seek refuge over the border in elders of taking money from Muslims to Many Senegalese looked to the brother- forces, told AFP at the main staging base of for more than a year and retaking Mosul would war-torn Syria. — AFP further their own business interests, hood for leadership in the fight against and of “swindling” followers. Now in French colonial authorities in the late “fear of his life”, according to a close 19th century. The Mourides’ holy city of friend contacted by AFP, Sakho could Touba, created by founder Ahmadou Aleppo bombing pause holds into second day face a six-month suspended jail sen- Bamba Mbacke in 1888, has grown to be tence and a fine of a million FCFA Senegal’s second-largest after Dakar, with ALEPPO: A pause in Russian and Syrian strikes on Clashes continue in air strikes extended into late afternoon. The ($1,673) for abusing a religious group some 1.5 million inhabitants. Senegal’s Aleppo was holding for a second day yesterday, AFP’s correspondent in east Aleppo said yes- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain- on a digital platform, prosecutors said. Sufi movements have no relation to the ahead of a brief ceasefire aimed at allowing civil- terday that although clashes between rebels and based monitoring group, said pro-regime fight- They added this would be the mini- Sunni Islamist Muslim Brotherhood popu- ians and rebels to quit the devastated city. Moscow pro-government forces involving heavy artillery ers were pressing their ground assault in the Old mum sentence possible “taking into lar across the Middle East and Africa and announced it would extend an eight-hour truce continued in several neighborhoods, the pause City as they vied to shift the front line. —AFP account the apologies” the imam had currently considered a terror organization planned for Thursday to 11 hours and said Syrian already offered in another online video. in several nations. — AFP and Russian warplanes were giving Aleppo a wide berth. French President Francois Hollande said he would work with Germany to persuade Russia to adopt a long-lasting truce around Syria’s second Iran rejects US demand for city. But Russia’s ceasefire plan was met with skep- ticism and the United Nations said it would be release of dual nationals insufficient to allow humanitarian aid to reach encircled Aleppo inhabitants. TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday it would revolution of 1979. Both were jailed for 10 Moscow is backing President Bashar Al- accept no US “interference” after years for “espionage and collaboration with Assad’s regime in its war with a wide range of Washington demanded the release of a the American government”, Tehran prose- rebel groups, including with air strikes in the dual national and his 80-year-old father cutor Abbas Jafari Dolat-Abadi announced divided northern city. Under growing interna- given 10 year sentences for espionage. The on Tuesday. Three other Iranian-American tional pressure over the devastation and civilian State Department demanded the immedi- dual nationals-Farhad Abd-Saleh, Kamran deaths caused by strikes, Moscow announced ate release of Siamak and Baqher Namazi, Ghaderi and Alireza Omidvar-were also early Tuesday that Russian and Syrian warplanes both Iranian-American dual nationals, after sentenced to 10 years on the same charges, would stop bombing rebel-held parts of the city their sentences were announced on along with a US resident from Lebanon, to pave the way for a “humanitarian pause”. Tuesday. But foreign ministry spokesman Nezar Zaka. That window, starting at 0500 GMT on Bahram Qassemi told Iranian media: Siamak Namazi, a well-connected busi- Thursday, was initially meant to last eight hours “The government and the Iranian peo- ness consultant who has supported Iranian and is expected to see all fighting stop to allow ple give no importance to the statements reformists and sought to promote ties civilians and rebels to exit opposition-held dis- and interference of American officials and between Iran and the United States, was tricts via six corridors. Senior Russian military offi- their efforts to divide the ranks of the arrested as he arrived in Tehran a year ago. cial Sergei Rudskoi said yesterday that the cease- Iranian people. “The American threats only His father was detained in February when fire had been extended “by three hours until 7:00 add to the wall of mistrust Iranians have he came to Iran to seek his son’s release. pm (1600 GMT)”. He also said Russian and Syrian regarding the United States.” Washington Conservatives in Iran have criticized planes were keeping 10 kilometers from Aleppo. expressed concern over the health of the attempts by the moderate government of An estimated 250,000 people live in Aleppo’s elder Namazi, a former UN Children’s Fund President Hassan Rouhani to improve ties BERLIN: An activist wearing a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin knees inmid eastern districts and have been under near-con- employee who also served as the governor with the West following a nuclear deal with colour smeared teddy bears during a protest on October 19, 2016 in front of the chancellery in tinuous government siege since July. of an Iranian province before the Islamic world powers last year. — AFP Berlin ahead of a meeting of leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany. — AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Argentine girl’s brutal rape, murder sparks new demos

BUENOS AIRES: The brutal killing of a 16-year-old girl Argentina, which has seen more than a year of mass more difficult to overcome domestic violence,” said judge deny bail for the alleged killers. who was allegedly raped and impaled on a spike by marches to protest brutality against women. Cartabia, a lawyer for an advocacy group called the drug dealers has sparked outrage in Argentina, where Last year in June, protests broke out nationwide Women’s Network. Every 36 hours protesters plan a “women’s strike” yesterday. Lucia over a trio of gruesome killings: a kindergarten Despite the protest-and a long string of others in Perez, a high school student in the resort city of Mar teacher whose estranged husband slit her throat in ‘Barbarity’ recent months-at least four other women in del Plata, died on October 8 after being brought to front of her class; A 14-year-old girl whose boyfriend Perez met her alleged killers a day before her Argentina have been killed by their husbands or the hospital by two men who said she had overdosed allegedly beat her to death because she got pregnant; death, when she and a friend approached them to exes since Perez’s death. Nationally, domestic vio- on drugs. But after doctors noticed signs of violent and a woman whose ex-boyfriend stabbed her to buy a marijuana joint, prosecutors say. The men- lence kills one woman every 36 hours on average. sexual penetration, investigators pieced together a death in broad daylight at a Buenos Aires cafe. In the Matias Farias, 23, and Juan Pablo Offidiani, 41 — Argentina is one of 16 Latin American countries different story. latest protest, 50 activist groups have called on were known for selling drugs near her school and that have written the crime of “femicide” into their Prosecutors say the two men drugged, raped and women across the country to go on “strike” at 1:00 pm had prior convictions. Investigators say they forced penal codes, setting down harsher punishments for impaled her through the anus, causing pain so excru- (1400 GMT), taking to the streets dressed in black. Perez to consume a large amount of cocaine to inca- the killing of a woman by a man when gender plays ciating that she went into cardiac arrest and died. The One organizer, Sabrina Cartabia, said the goal pacitate her, then had a violent orgy with her. “Her a part in the crime. But the authorities are not doing lead prosecutor, Maria Isabel Sanchez, could barely was to protest not only Perez’s killing, but a culture nose was purple from all the cocaine they made her enough, argued Cartabia, who says Argentine soci- hide her disgust. “I know it’s not very professional to that values women less than men. That is visible in take,” said her father, Guillermo. ety needs a wake-up call on women’s vulnerable say it, but I’m a mother and a woman, and I’ve seen a statistics such as the unemployment rate, she said: “We can’t understand such barbarity. It’s impossi- place within it. A decade ago, the activist said, thousand things in my career, but nothing equal to 9.3 percent nationally, but 12 percent for women. “In ble to understand,” said her mother, Marta Montero. women who suffered domestic abuse took six years this litany of abhorrent acts,” she said. The killing is just a context of social insecurity, with children to care Together, the couple led a protest Saturday in Mar to report it on average. “Today, that average has the latest incident of horrific gender violence in for and no access to economic autonomy, it’s much del Plata that drew 1,000 people demanding the gone down-by one year,” she said. — AFP

‘Rigging’ election easier said than done: Experts

WASHINGTON: Republican candidate someone shows up and pretends to be Donald Trump has made the insistent claim someone else-is incredibly rare, almost nev- that the US presidential elections are being er happens and there is no evidence that it “rigged,” but experts say massive voter fraud happens in numbers that are anywhere is highly unlikely in a system as decentral- close to having an effect, even in a close ized as the United States. “There are a lot of election,” said Cornell Law School professor safeguards in place that would preclude Zachary Clopton. that from happening, from federal laws to local and state laws as well,” said Jo-Renee Evidence lacking Formicola, a political scientist at Seton Hall Trump’s charges of impending voter University. fraud have escalated as he has sunk below The US election system is far from per- Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, in the fect, as illustrated by the imbroglio over the polls. While providing no evidence to back vote count in Florida during the 2000 presi- his claims, the New York billionaire has cast dential election between George W Bush suspicion on voting in urban areas where and Al Gore. A conservative-majority Clinton enjoys strong backing from black Supreme Court finally ruled in favor of Bush, and Hispanic voters. but the sense of a “stolen” election lingered “Mr Trump, for example, has called out on among some Democrats-who never fully Philadelphia as a place where he thinks there accepted the Republican president as legiti- might be fraud,” said Clopton. “I think there is mate. But 16 years later, the chances of virtually no evidence of in-person voter fraud mass fraud marring the contest between at all, but I guess the idea would be that it Trump and his Democrat rival Hillary would happen in a few places.” President Clinton are remote, experts say. Barack Obama on Tuesday derided Trump’s Even national elections like the one on attacks. “I have never seen in my lifetime or in November 8 are organized not by the feder- modern political history any presidential can- al government but by US states, and they didate trying to discredit the elections and WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama pose for a photo as they greet Italian Prime Minister tend to delegate the task to a welter of local the election process before votes have even Matteo Renzi and his wife Agnese Landini on the North Portico for a State Dinner at the White House. — AP authorities. “The fact that every single vot- taken place. It’s unprecedented,” Obama said. ing district would be involved in a fraud is “If, whenever things are going badly for you virtually impossible because there are so and you lose, you start blaming somebody Obama: ‘We saved the best many different kinds of districts,” Formicola else? Then you don’t have what it takes to be said. A mosaic of voting systems-some in this job,” he said. using electronic voting machines, others While the risk of in-person fraud is seen for last’ at final state dinner paper ballots, and still others both-add a as minimal, there are more serious con- level of complexity that would tend to cerns that hackers could pose a threat on thwart any attempt at wholesale voter Election Day-fuelled by recent intrusions Final gala meant everything was big or bigger fraud, the experts say. attributed to Russian hackers in voter regis- Besides, Republican election officials tration databases in Illinois and Arizona. WASHINGTON: “Bittersweet” was the word of the couple spends a lot of time traveling in Italy ber by Italian designer Versace, the White House oversee the vote in most of the key battle- Those incidents have spurred federal the night, the one often used to describe “and we almost exclusively go out for Italian said. Other female guests also went Italian in grounds of the 2016 presidential elections, authorities to offer local authorities their President Barack Obama’s final State Dinner. food, but that’s as far as I can figure.” After trip- their choice of attire, clothing themselves in states like Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and expertise in protecting their systems “We saved the best for last,” he said Tuesday as ping while climbing stairs and then cutting out Valentino, Roberto Cavalli and others. Batali Arizona. “In person voter fraud-that’s when against hackers. — AFP he welcomed Italian Prime Minister Matteo the lining of her dress, celebrity chef Rachael helped the White House kitchen crew prepare Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini, to the Ray joked that “I should only come here in the meal, and Grammy-winning pop singer White House. He wasn’t joking. The final gala sneakers.” Ray has done numerous events with Gwen Stefani opened the after-dinner segment meant everything was big or bigger, from the Mrs. Obama to support the first lady’s “Let’s with her hit, “The Sweet Escape,” as her personality of the guest chef (Mario Batali) Move” anti-childhood obesity initiative. boyfriend, country superstar Blake Shelton, who collaborated on the menu to the size of Obama has had one dinner bigger than looked on from the audience. After that song, the white tent (huge) on the South Lawn Tuesday’s - a 2014 event for African heads of she talked about her dad being Italian American where the soiree was held, to the guest list state to which more than 400 people were invit- and said “I’m trying to, like, figure this out, how I (nearly 400 people). ed. Tuesday’s guest list included a touch of got here,” referring to the dinner. Rep Gerald Connolly, D-Va, said it’s “a little everything: celebrities, lawmakers, senior admin- A few guests, including fellow cook Sandra sad” that it’s Obama’s last State Dinner. But to istration officials, White House staff, a larger- Lee, Cuomo’s partner, said they were mostly make the occasion even more memorable, he than-usual contingent of journalists and others, looking forward to eating Batali’s food. In his said: “For tonight only, I pronounce my name and it had the feeling of having been designed pre-dinner toast, Obama said American democ- ‘Canoli,’ not ‘Connolly.” Michelle Obama’s hair- as one big final “thank you” to all. In fact, Mrs racy had been graced by a touch of Italy. He not- stylist, Johnny Wright, also described the Obama was overheard thanking her guests “for ed that the Lincoln Memorial and the interior of moment as “bittersweet,” but he was still excit- eight magnificent years.” “This has truly been a the U.S. Capitol dome were done by Italians, and ed to have been invited. The first lady also invit- successful final State Dinner,” she said between raised a glass to the “enduring alliance” between ed her makeup artist, Carl Ray; her trainer, dinner and the entertainment. the U.S. and Italy. Cornell McClellan; and Meredith Koop, who Guests of Italian descent included House Renzi alluded during his toast to a speech the helps Mrs. Obama with her wardrobe. “I’m excit- Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, the high- first lady gave last week in New Hampshire in ed that it’s the last State Dinner, so it’s a bitter- est-ranking Italian-American in US politics; for- which she criticized Republican presidential sweet thing,” said actress-comedian Alexandra mer race car driver Mario Andretti, who sported nominee Donald Trump for boasting on a 2005 Wentworth. “I love the Obamas.” socks designed like a checkered racing flag; video about being sexually aggressive toward Others, meanwhile, sought to inject some fashion designer Giorgio Armani; actor John women. “Michelle, your tomatoes are great. But levity into the evening. “We’re Jews, but we Turturro; New York Gov Andrew Cuomo; and after the last weeks, let me be very frank, your identify as Italian,” joked Jerry Seinfeld. By way actor-director Roberto Benigni. speeches are better than your tomatoes,” Renzi COLORADO: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives to speak of explaining why the Obamas may have invited Once again, the first lady dazzled - literally - in said, thanking her as the father of a young at a rally at the Norris-Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs. — AFP the comedian and his wife, Jessica, Seinfeld said her evening gown, a rose gold chainmail num- daughter. — AP Campus assaults stir debate on when to alert students

SAN FRANCISCO: When a student athlete at Monday to the university’s 35,000 students and “timely warnings” of situations seen as a threat San Jose State University in California was 5,000 faculty and staff. “I am determined to do to the campus, said Toni Molle, spokeswoman accused of sexually assaulting two women at everything possible to ensure that SJSU is a for the California State University system. The an off-campus party over Labor Day weekend, safe, caring, inclusive community,” she said. decision of when to issue warnings is up to school officials acted decisively. The student “We will look comprehensively at how to each campus. The Stanford case did not was ordered to stay away from the women improve communication.” become public until Turner was charged, said involved and was moved from his dorm into a Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, who staff housing facility. He was also temporarily Notification policies favors some public disclosure early on after suspended from campus and team events The school has said the male student was assaults are reported. pending the result of an investigation. immediately interviewed by police and school “As long as student privacy is protected, University officials also acted quietly, officials. Since no arrests have been made and schools should err on the side of greater trans- prompting many students to ask why they the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s parency and issue the timely warnings,” said were kept in the dark about the alleged Office is still reviewing the case for possible Dauber, a friend of the woman Turner assault- assaults. Fueling the criticism, the suspect - charges, the school felt there was no imminent ed who has been outspoken against the identified as an international student - left the safety threat to the campus community. Still, judge’s sentencing. Families Advocating for country as authorities investigated. The case given the student concerns, the university will Campus Equality, which works on behalf of stu- has renewed focus on the problem of sexual review the way it responds in sexual assault dents accused of assault, says it’s important assaults involving college students and raises cases. “I believe it is time to re-examine and not to name names prematurely. “I think it’s OK questions about what obligations a university consider changes to notification policies,” for a campus to notify in the abstract. Take has to inform students and when it’s time to go Papazian said. The case follows the high-profile more precautions, say there’s been a report,” public about an alleged assault. trial of former Stanford University athlete Brock said Cynthia Garrett, a co-president at the University officials and legal experts say it’s Turner, who was convicted of attacking a group. “But to put somebody’s name and face a delicate issue. On one hand, students have an woman while she was passed out near a trash out there, you need to be pretty sure some- interest in knowing immediately if a perpetra- bin on campus in January 2015. Turner’s six- thing has happened. Imagine if you’re inno- tor is on their campus. But schools also need to month prison sentence sparked national out- cent. Just imagine, how that could ruin a life.” protect students’ privacy before an arrest is rage and ignited a debate about campus rape Most universities will wait until there is a made or charges filed. One proposed solution and the criminal justice system. clear public safety issue to sound an alarm. But is for schools to notify students of suspected The California State University system, publicizing an assault could lead more victims assaults in police-blotter style, without which includes San Jose State and 22 other to step forward, says Fatima Goss Graves, an divulging details that could identify suspects campuses, has no systemwide policy on notify- attorney at the Washington DC-based national or victims. ing the campus community about alleged Women’s Law Center. In San Jose, one of the San Jose campus president Mary Papazian assaults. But the schools adhere to the federal women came forward immediately, and the addressed student concerns in an email sent Clery Act, which requires universities to issue second woman waited two weeks. — AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

Russia opens new cathedral complex in Paris sans Putin

PARIS: Russia unveiled a new state-financed river Seine and is a striking illustration of Kremlin arch Kirill at the ceremony. Only the cultural centre aligned with Moscow but has since refused to Orthodox cathedral complex in a prime position support for its national church. It has raised eye- was officially opened yesterday, but journalists return, seeing the Russian church as more socially near the Eiffel Tower in Paris yesterday without brows not only because its five giant cupolas cov- were allowed inside the cathedral for the first time conservative and politicised. the intended guest of honor, President Vladimir ered with 90,000 sheets of gold leaf rise up in front ahead of its consecration on December 4. “You could link this project to pastoral needs, Putin. He cancelled his trip last week after French of the Eiffel Tower when viewed from the surround- but it also likely a desire by Russia to open a cultur- President Francois Hollande said Russia’s bomb- ing area. The project has also reportedly sparked Politics and religion al and religious showpiece in Paris beyond its ing of the Syrian city of Aleppo could amount to concerns among France’s intelligence agencies The growing Orthodox community in France, embassy,” writer and Orthodox priest Christophe war crimes. because of its proximity to nearby government swelled by immigration from Russia as well as the Levalois told AFP. As well as opening at a difficult In a statement from Moscow, Putin said the buildings, including the foreign ministry just a Middle East and the Balkans, is not united behind time in Franco-Russian relations, the striking new more than 100-million euro ($110 million) com- short walk along the Seine. the new cathedral, which will only be fully complet- place of worship was unveiled as France engages plex, built around the cathedral which has five Putin has given it strong political and financial ed in 2017. Antoine Arjakovsky, an Orthodox histo- in a feverish debate about the role of religion in golden domes, was a “visible testament to the cul- backing, acknowledging it was “very difficult” to rian in Paris, commented on the “strange and prob- public life after a string of attacks by Islamic tural and human ties between France and Russia”. realise but thanking France for its “continuous sup- lematic ambiguity” of the project, financed by a extremists. Last week, Hollande was quoted in a The theme was taken up by speakers at the low- port”. The Russian president has developed close theoretically secular Russian state. book as saying there was a “problem with Islam” in key event yesterday, where Russian Culture bonds with the powerful Russian Orthodox church, Speaking to AFP, he said it “mixes religion and France because it required holy sites and recogni- Minister Vladimir Medinsky overlooked current whose patriarch Kirill has backed him personally politics a stone’s throw from the Elysee (presiden- tion. “It’s not Islam that poses a problem in the tensions to say the project was “testament to the and his policies such as military intervention in tial palace) and the foreign ministry”. Paris already sense of its being a religion that is dangerous in solidity of our bilateral relations.” Syria. “We thank President Putin in particular. has an Orthodox cathedral, the Saint Alexandre itself, but because it wants to assert itself as a reli- The Saint-Trinite cathedral, which will be conse- Without his personal commitment, it would never Nevsky built by the Russian community in 1861, gion in the republic,” he was quoted as saying in: crated by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox have happened,” said bishop Antoine from the but it is aligned with a different branch of “Un president ne devrait pas dire ca” (“A president church in December, sits on a prime location by the town of Bogorodsk, who was representing patri- Orthodoxy based in Istanbul. Until 1931, it was shouldn’t say this”). — AFP

Bataclan survivors confront fears on return to Paris attack scene

PARIS: Some survivors froze and some team of psychiatrists who have been wept when they returned to the Bataclan working with survivors, said going back music hall in Paris this month, nearly a to the Bataclan had had a “calming effect” year since they witnessed jihadist gun- on many of them, despite the terrible men slay dozens of concertgoers. But all memories it re-awakened. “It allowed were determined to face their fears at the them to relive the event and feel those place where 90 people were shot dead on sensations again-the noises, the smells, November 13 in the culmination of the what it looked like, the fear,” she said. Islamic State group’s slaughter of 130 “Some froze while others were walking people across Paris. around, re-tracing the route they had tak- “When I left the Bataclan, I imagined it en that night.” The visit also gave sur- as a bloodthirsty monster which wanted vivors a chance to talk to other survivors. to consume me,” said Caroline Langlade, “In many cases, that was the Bataclan of the victims’ association Life for Paris. “In security staff, who replied to their ques- fact it’s just a room with walls where tions,” the psychiatrist said. Such experi- something tragic happened. It’s not the ences “help them to feel less powerless building itself which is tragic,” she said. and to ease the trauma of experiencing When the trio of jihadists brandishing death,” she added. Kalashnikovs burst into a concert by The survivors filed into the concert hall Californian group the Eagles of Death in groups of five or six and led to a spe- Metal, Langlade and around 40 other cially reserved area. Psychiatrists were on people among the crowd of 1,500 barri- hand to assist them. Some of the sur- caded themselves in a room upstairs. vivors stayed there for as long as an hour. Returning for the first time 11 months A few people lit candles or left notes and later, she was astonished to find that the flowers. The Bataclan will defiantly re- staircase she had charged up in a terrified open for concerts in November, but state was not wooden and spiral as she despite the building work the venue’s In this Friday, Oct 7, 2016 photo, Albanian teacher Liljana Luani teaches her student who asked not be identified, isolated in het family house had recalled. “In fact, it was as it has management said it had “tried to respect fearing a blood feud vendetta in northern Albania. — AFP always been-made of concrete and dead the various requests from victims and to straight,” she said. Another survivor, 28- respond to them wherever possible”. year-old Maureen, who did not want to Maureen said the visit had helped her. Fearless teacher helps children give her full name, had a similar sensa- “When you do something like that, you tion: “The hall was not as I left it. The don’t know what good it is going to do. emergency exit was only seven meters “When I came out, I felt calmer. It might of Albania’s brutal blood feuds away, but in my memory the distance sound morbid to say so, but I felt it seemed infinite. “I went back there-I helped in my rehabilitation.” didn’t have to, but it feels like a sort of Other survivors, like 37-year-old Helping families marked for murder victory over what we lived through that Anthony, who also did not want to give day.” AFP spoke to survivors after a group his full name, said he only wanted to SHKODRA: Where most people and even Cycle of reciprocal killings antee to the families,” she said, noting that she of 260 visited the Bataclan earlier this return to the Bataclan under happier police fear to set foot, Liljana Luani takes books, Police don’t report figures on the motives of traveled with her son on some visits to families month. A smaller group of nearly 130 vis- circumstances. “I want to go back for household supplies, and a lifetime of experi- murders, but revenge killings are blamed for in hiding. “The school was a miracle, but it closed ited in March. concerts and definitely not when I am ence on how to help families marked for mur- dozens of deaths every year. A cycle of recipro- after three years due to corruption in public surrounded by victims,” he said. der. The 56-year-old school teacher from cal killings may be started from a number of administration.” She fought in court to have it Re-living the fear “Everyone has their own way of dealing Shkodra in northern Albania uses her spare causes, including murder, causing accidental reopened, insisting that private donations was Florence Deloche-Gaudez, part of the with it.” — AFP time to travel to remote hillside villages where death, land disputes, and making a grave false squandered through mismanagement by children are trapped in a centuries-old tradition accusation. Women are generally exempt from regional authorities. Despite winning the case, of blood feuds and hidden by their families. The vendettas, allowing Luani to travel without no action was taken. guard dogs recognize her and villagers barely being targeted or followed. But post-commu- react as she opens the metal gate and steps nist revenge killings have occasionally strayed ‘They miss freedom’ into a protected house. But the sense of danger from traditional rules and the male blood-line Groups from civil society estimate that sever- is constant. to include women, minors, multiple killings and al thousand people, including young children, “I am aware that my job is like walking the use of assassins. live in isolation due to the feuds. Treated by through land mines. If I slip somewhere my fami- Luani says she is still haunted by the memory many as outcasts, they often only venture out at ly will pay for it,” Luani told The Associated Press, of a teenage boy who insisted on attending night to get firewood, food and other supplies. speaking in the home of a young boy hidden school and was shot dead in an ambush. For that “Confined children do not grow up the way nor- away to protect him from a vendetta after giving reason, she doesn’t give specifics about the vic- mal children do,” Luani said. “They miss every- him a lesson in math, grammar and the ancient tims she visits or why they are embroiled in thing. They miss freedom. They grow up fearing Greek tale of “The Odyssey.” “I am a teacher and blood feuds, because she’s scared that they will they will be killed or are focused on how to kill ... teaching is not a profession for me. It’s a mission.” be identified. AP journalists also met with some Imagine that life.” While often related to criminal rivalry, gener- blood feud targets who asked not to be identi- On one recent visit, she called in on a rundown ation-spanning feuds in Albania stem from an fied for fear they would be found and killed. On house where a 40-year-old woman stays with her ancient code of conduct known as the Kanun, a a typical weekday, she finishes classes, cooks at three teenage sons, aged 14 to 19. They use a detailed but primitive form of self-administra- home for her family, and then sets off into what small yard to grow vegetables, and keep chickens tion. Typically only men are targeted or tasked to locals call the “Accursed Mountains,” steep and and a cow. Neighbors and relatives provided take revenge. But blood feuds, largely sup- inhospitable, traveling by taxi van for up to an some assistance, while Luani persuaded the pow- pressed during Communism, have been revived hour to reach the stranded children. er company to offer electricity at a discount. The mainly in remote areas where the rule of law is Several years ago, she helped start and sup- woman’s husband is in jail for murder and the perceived as weak. Victims are typically pursued port a pioneer shelter school in southern family is unaccustomed to visitors. The mother over years and eventually ambushed, gunned Albania, in some cases taking additional risks to cried frequently, while the two older boys disap- PARIS: This file photo taken on November 14, 2015 shows People being evacuat- down in the street, in a country awash with unli- persuade parents to let their kids travel. “On pear into another room, apparently ashamed to ed through rue Oberkampf near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early censed weapons. three or four occasions, I used my son as a guar- admit they never leave the house. — AP on November 14, 2015. — AFP

Buhari’s row with wife signals Nigerian inertia frustrations Ex-Congo VP, aides guilty of LAGOS: A row between the Nigerian omy away from exporting crude, prices bribery in war crimes trial President Muhammadu Buhari and his of which have halved since 2014. wife has brought cracks in the ruling Already the naira is down 35 percent party right into the open, as frustration this year, making it one of the worst THE HAGUE: International judges yesterday his landmark war crimes trial. The case was judge Bertram Schmitt told the International grows over government inertia in try- performing currencies in the world, and found former Congolese vice president Jean- “about the clear, and downright criminal behav- Criminal Court while handing down the verdict. ing to drag the country out of its first the National Bureau of Statistics fore- Pierre Bemba and four close aides guilty of brib- ior of the five accused... that resulted in serious “No legal system in the world can accept the recession in 25 years. Aisha Buhari pub- casts the economy will shrink by 1.3 ing and corrupting witnesses in a bid to derail offences against the administration of justice,” bribing of witnesses, the inducement of witness- licly criticized her husband’s record in percent in 2016. But criticism of the es to lie or the coaching of witnesses,” he told office, saying she might not support government goes beyond an apparent the five men, who were all present in the court him if he seeks re-election in 2019 lack of urgency in tackling the econom- in The Hague. unless he shakes up his administration, ic crisis. A belief is growing that power Each of the men stood in turn and remained which she said had been hijacked by a is concentrated among Buhari’s chief of impassive as Schmitt pronounced them guilty of “few people”. staff and an inner circle at the presiden- most charges, although there were acquittals on The president tried to laugh off the tial villa, making it difficult for ministers some of the lesser charges against two of the rebuke from his wife of 27 years, saying to get the attention of the president. defendants. “Today’s judgment sends a clear “she belongs in the kitchen” - but with- The First Lady is not alone in her message that the court is not willing to allow its out addressing the substance of her views. Senate President Bukola Saraki, proceedings to be hampered or destroyed,” remarks, made last week in an interview the third most senior politician in Schmitt said. And he further warned that those with the BBC. The 73-year-old won last Nigeria, took to Twitter to express his who sought to undermine the court would “not year’s election promising a new era in concerns. “It has become clear that go unpunished”. the West African nation, where graft has there is govt within govt of @MBuhari Prosecutors charged that from his prison cell, enriched an elite while most of the 180 who’ve seized apparatus of Executive the ex-rebel leader Bemba masterminded a net- million Nigerians live in poverty despite powers to pursue their nefarious agen- work to bribe and manipulate at least 14 the OPEC member’s oil wealth. da,” he tweeted in June. Buhari’s defense witnesses to lie during his trial at ICC Buhari came to power backed by his spokesmen declined to comment based in The Hague. Bemba was sentenced in All Progressives Congress (APC) party, a while the president himself has June to 18 years in jail on five charges of war broad coalition of politicians who united defended his economic record in gen- crimes and crimes against humanity committed to remove his predecessor, Goodluck eral terms. “I believe that this recession by his militia in Central African Republic. Once Jonathan, without having a joint plan on will not last,” he said this month. “We the powerful leader of the Congolese Liberation how to run the country. Now, 17 months have identified the country’s salient Movement (MLC) and a wealthy businessman into office, there are few signs of Buhari’s problems and we are working hard at KINSHASA: A policeman walks in front of a police truck as the Congolese capital Kinshasa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bemba, promised reforms to diversify the econ- lasting solutions.” — Reuters gripped by a strike called ‘Villes mortes’ (Dead cities) in a protest over plans by the president 53, remains behind bars in The Netherlands and to stay in power beyond the end of his term in December. — AFP is appealing his sentence. — AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

Myanmar ferry disaster Death toll nears 50

YANGON: The death toll from a ferry said two thirds of the dead were disaster on a river in central Myanmar women. At least 23 people — 17 of four days ago has risen to nearly 50, whom are women-are still missing, officials said yesterday, with most of the official said, requesting the deceased identified as women anonymity. and at least two dozen others still One end of the brightly-painted missing. The overloaded vessel, ferry has been raised above the river’s whose passengers included scores of surface, with bloated bodies found teachers and university students, trapped inside, but most of the vessel went down early Saturday while it remains submerged. Yesterday res- was travelling on the Chindwin River cuers continued efforts to raise the in Sagaing region. Some 150 people rest of the ship using cranes. “The were rescued alive on that day but boat still can’t be lifted out (com- officials believe the ship was carrying pletely),” Sa Willy Frient, the director up to 250 passengers when it sank on of the relief department, told yester- its way to Monywa, a city around 72 day morning. At least four of the kilometers south. boat’s staff have been arrested and “We have found altogether 48 will face legal action, according to dead bodies so far,” said local MP Tun local authorities. Shipwrecks are com- Tun Win, a jump up from the 32 peo- mon in Myanmar, a mostly rural and ple pronounced dead on Monday. poor country with rudimentary trans- “Many more could be dead,” he said, portation infrastructure. Many living adding that local monks have begun along the nation’s flood-prone river leading memorial services for the systems rely heavily on ferries, which DOHA: This June 18, 2013 file photo, shows a general view of the Taleban office before the official opening. — AP deceased. An official from the local are often overcrowded and poorly relief and resettlement department maintained. — AFP Afghan government, Taleban officials hold talks in Qatar Aimed at restarting peace negotiations

KARACHI: Taleban officials and the Afghan gov- Emirate of Afghanistan” derailed earlier peace regarding the Doha talks. Qatar’s government, ernment have held new secret talks in Qatar talks in 2013. which also helped mediate the 2014 Taleban aimed at restarting peace negotiations to end prisoner swap that freed US Army Sgt Bowe the country’s long war, three officials say, though Long relationship Bergdahl, did not respond to a request for com- questions remain over which faction of the A senior Pakistani intelligence official, who ment. The US Embassy in Qatar declined to com- insurgency is doing the talking. Talks between spoke to The Associated Press on condition of ment. Mark Toner, a deputy spokesman at the the US-backed government in Kabul and the anonymity as he wasn’t authorized to release the State Department in Washington, declined to militants fell apart in July 2015 after Afghan offi- information, said he was aware of recent meet- answer questions about the talks or identify the cials announced the death years earlier of the ings in Doha between “mid-level Taleban and American official who took part. insurgency’s longtime leader, the Taleban’s one- Afghan officials.” He said a US official also attend- “We are committed to promoting a negotiat- eyed founder Mullah Mohammed Omar. In the ed the meetings, though he did not know ed settlement to end the Afghan conflict,” Toner time since, a leadership struggle within its ranks specifics of what was discussed as Pakistan did said in a statement. News of the talks apparently broke into the open and Omar’s successor was not take part. sparked confusion among the ranks of the killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan. “We wish them a success in bringing peace in Taleban. Zabihullah Mujahid, the insurgency’s Now, the Taleban itself is denying the new Afghanistan as peace in our neighbor is good for spokesman, described reports of talks taking talks while its fighters continue to battle gov- all,” the official said. Pakistan long has been place as “baseless news” as the Qatar office’s ernment forces, suggesting another break with- viewed with suspicion in neighboring chief did not take part. Another Taleban official, in the insurgency. How much power that splin- Afghanistan over its intelligence services’ long speaking on condition of anonymity as he ter group wields may prove to be the crucial relationship with the Taleban. An Afghan gov- wasn’t authorized to talk to journalists, con- question in how far this new effort goes. The ernment official, who spoke to the AP on condi- firmed the talks took place and said that office Guardian newspaper of Britain first reported on tion of anonymity as the talks were supposed to chief’s absence from them reflected a continu- the talks Tuesday, saying the first happened in remain secret, also confirmed the meetings took ing power struggle within the movement over September and second this month in Doha, the place, without elaborating. who should run the Qatar office. That likely capital of Qatar. The small, natural-gas-rich Mohammad Haroon Chakhansuri, a comes as part of larger questions about the country on the Arabian Peninsula hosts a spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, group’s direction, years after the Sept 11, 2001, Taleban political office, whose earlier insistence said in a statement that “despite the continued attacks and the subsequent US-led invasion of In this photograph taken on October 18, 2016 rescue workers are seen on the to fly the white flag of Taleban-ruled fighting, we pursue different channels for peace Afghanistan over the Taleban harboring Al- sunken ferry partially lifted from the water near the river bank. — AFP Afghanistan and use the term the “Islamic talks.” He declined to answer any questions Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. — AP India offers Myanmar’s Suu Kyi help in energy and agriculture

NEW DELHI: Myanmar is struggling to establish Rohingya have spent the past four years and looked to neighboring India for help in full democracy after 50 years of military rule, de trapped in bleak displacement camps with lim- developing as a democracy. Modi said India, facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday ited access to health care and other basic servic- which strongly supported Suu Kyi during her following a deadly military lockdown in restive es. Suu Kyi said her country had suffered from a time in opposition, stood “shoulder to shoulder” Rakhine state. State media say security forces lack of peace and stability for many decades with Myanmar. — AFP have killed at least 29 people in a military crack- down after raids on guard posts along the Bangladesh border which the government blamed on Islamist insurgents. The area is home to many Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minori- ty in the overwhelmingly Buddhist country. “We as a nation are struggling to make the democratic culture take root,” Suu Kyi told reporters after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on her first official visit to New Delhi. “We too have many challenges to face, but we are confident that these challenges can be overcome because our people are deter- mined to overcome them.” Suu Kyi won a his- toric election victory last year and her adminis- tration is managing a difficult transition from a military-run pariah nation to full-fledged democracy. After spending much of the last few decades under arrest, she is now officially foreign minis- ter and self-appointed state counsellor-a role akin to prime minister. But her country remains riven with ethnic and religious violence and she has disappointed some of her supporters by refusing publicly to recognize the Rohingya as NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hand with Myanmar State legal citizens. Tens of thousands of stateless Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi before a meeting. — AFP Pakistan arrests two for S Lanka exhumes body of spreading IS propaganda former spy over murder

PESHAWAR: Police arrested two men suspected of distributing COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police yesterday exhumed the body of a retired pamphlets for Islamic State (IS) following a raid in the northwestern army spy whose supposed suicide note claimed responsibility for the 2009 city of Peshawar, officials said yesterday, amid lingering fears that murder of a prominent anti-establishment newspaper editor, a police offi- the Middle East militant group was making inroads in Pakistan. Last cer said. The 52-year-old former military intelligence officer was found month, the military said that it had stemmed Islamic State’s hanging at his home in central Sri Lanka five days ago and was buried attempts to expand in the country, having arrested more than 300 shortly afterwards, the senior police source said. But police now suspect people suspected of plotting attacks against government, diplo- the suicide note found in his pocket at the time of his death may not be matic and civilian targets. genuine and want to determine his link to any criminal activity that could Following Tuesday’s raid, however, police in the capital of Khyber have led to his murder. Pakhtunkhwa province said militants were operating in parts of “There had been lapses in the first autopsy and the body is exhumed to Peshawar, including some from Islamic State. “Some of areas in the carry out fresh forensic tests,” the officer told AFP on condition of anonymi- provincial capital including Tehskal, Palosai, Charsadda Road and Regi ty. “We are looking at his fingerprints to see if he had been involved in any are known for activities of militant groups such as IS,” police official criminal activity.” Investigators have begun checking his phone records Ishtiaq Ahmed told Reuters. Another police official, speaking on con- and bank accounts since his retirement nine years ago. Last month author- dition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media, ities reopened the investigation into the January 2009 killing of Editor said two other suspects managed to escape during the raid. Lasantha Wickrematunga, a fierce critic of the then-strongman president There are fears that some of Pakistan’s home-grown Sunni mili- Mahinda Rajapakse. tants could be drawn to Islamic State, as already seen in neighbor- A serving military intelligence officer is already in custody in connection ing Afghanistan. Pakistan has long suffered from sectarian violence, with Wickrematunga’s death, which sparked an international outcry and with Sunni militants targeting the country’s minority Shiites, as well shone a spotlight on violence against the media. Last month authorities as non-Muslim religious minorities. In August, the official Islamic also exhumed Wickrematunga’s body to conduct a fresh autopsy after State news service claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a fears that forensic evidence may have been tampered with or falsified to hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta that killed 74 mislead the investigation. people. The attack, however, was also claimed by a breakaway fac- Wickrematunga was the chief editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper tion of the Pakistani Taleban, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, which at one time which had accused Rajapakse’s then-powerful defense secretary brother had declared support for Islamic State’s Middle East leadership, but Gotabhaya of kickbacks in arms purchases, including an aircraft deal. Last later switched back to the Taleban. — Reuters year a former minister in Rajapakse’s government accused Gotabhaya of running a death squad and ordering the hit against the editor. — AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 INTERNATIONAL HK independence lawmakers blocked from taking oath

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s legislature another was surrounded by security Beijing walkout left an insufficient num- 50 years, but there are concerns those court bid Tuesday by city leader Leung again descended into chaos yesterday as after turning China and Hong Kong flags ber of legislators in the chamber. “If they liberties are being eroded. Leung and Chun-ying and justice secretary Rimsky pro-Beijing politicians blocked the displayed on pro-Beijing lawmakers’ want people to respect their oaths, they Yau are part of a new wave of lawmak- Yuen to block Yau and Baggio Leung swearing in of two new lawmakers who desks upside-down. have to express regret over their behav- ers advocating independence and self- from taking up their seats. want a split from China, in an increasing- Meanwhile, pro-Beijing lawmakers ior last week and to apologize to all determination who won seats in the That went directly against a decision ly divided parliament. It comes as fears chanted “Apologise!”, demanding Yau Chinese around the world,” pro-Beijing Legislative Council (Legco) — Hong by the pro-Beijing president of Legco, grow in the semi-autonomous city that and Leung say sorry for their failure to lawmaker Priscilla Leung told reporters. Kong’s lawmaking body-in citywide who had already given the green light Beijing is tightening its grip, fuelling an take the oath properly at last week’s Hundreds of pro-Beijing supporters polls last month. Five legislators, includ- for them to have a second chance at the independence movement in Hong Kong. swearing-in ceremony. The pair had waved Chinese flags and stamped on ing the pair, had their oaths rejected at oath. The court refused to grant an Yesterday saw rival lawmakers clash in a their oaths rejected last Wednesday pictures of the two outspoken lawmak- last week’s swearing in. injunction against Wednesday’s oath- heated shouting match after the pro- after they draped themselves in “Hong ers outside the legislative council build- Of those five, one pro-Beijing law- taking, but gave permission for a judicial Beijing camp walked out of the swear- Kong is not China” flags. The oath states ing. The pair said they wanted to com- maker and one pro-democracy lawmak- review into whether the pair should be ing-in session. Hong Kong is a special administrative plete their oaths, but would not apolo- er, whose oaths were declared invalid disqualified, putting their future as law- The walkout led to the meeting being region of China. gize for last week’s behavior. “We are the first time round, were allowed to makers into question. In a separate case cancelled, preventing pro-independence Both refused to pronounce China empowered by the people to enter the retake them Wednesday morning. The Wednesday, former pro-democracy law- lawmakers Yau Wai-ching and Baggio properly, and Yau was heard to replace Legco,” Baggio Leung said. Beijing camp then walked out, forcing maker Raymond Wong was convicted of Leung from taking the oath that would the words “the People’s Republic of the session to be abandoned before Yau, throwing a glass at city leader Leung allow them to take up their seats. In the China” with “the People’s ref*****g of Court challenge Leung and pro-democracy teacher Lau Chun-ying inside the Legco in 2014. ensuing confrontations one veteran pro- Zeena”. They were given permission to The former British colony was hand- Siu-lai, who read her oath at a snail’s Wong, 64, was convicted of common democracy legislator threw slices of retake their oaths Wednesday, but the ed back to China in 1997 under an pace last week, took the stand. The assault and will be sentenced on luncheon meat at his opponents while session was abandoned after the pro- agreement protecting its freedoms for chaotic scenes came after a late-night Tuesday, local media reported. —AFP Duterte praises China ‘Criticism all propaganda produced by the West’

BEIJING: Visiting Philippine tilt away from Washington and “The arbitral award gives us the Rising tensions President Rodrigo Duterte had towards Beijing’s sphere of influ- right. China has the historical right. Tensions have risen between the praise for China yesterday, setting ence. Foreign policy under Duterte And they’re insisting. In this situa- US and China over Washington’s so- aside a maritime dispute as the has dramatically shifted from that tion, do we argue, or do we just called “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific, a combative leader reconfigures his pursued under predecessor talk? I would say, let us put it (off) to move that Beijing says is intended to country’s diplomatic alliances. The Benigno Aquino, who took Beijing some other day.” contain it. Duterte will meet top lead- Asian giant was “good”, he said. “It to an international tribunal over its As Duterte has cozied up to ers including President Xi Jinping has never invaded a piece of my extensive territorial claims in the Beijing, he has repeatedly and Premier Li Keqiang during his country all these generations,” South China Sea and won a denounced the United States and stay. Hours before he spoke, Chinese Duterte added in an apparent com- resounding victory. President Barack Obama for criticiz- foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua parison to the Philippines’ former The move infuriated Beijing. But ing his deadly war on crime. He has Chunying told a regular briefing that colonial ruler the United States. Duterte, who took office in June also suspended joint US-Philippine Beijing was pleased to move towards “During the Cold War, China was shortly before the tribunal ruling, patrols in the South China Sea, and resolving the territorial dispute portrayed as the bad guy,” he added. has made a point of not flaunting has threatened an end to joint mili- “through consultation and dialogue”. “And all of these years, what we the outcome, even though China tary exercises. The South China Sea “This is how two friendly neigh- have read in our books in school seized Scarborough Shoal-a fishing is of intense interest to Washington bors should treat each other,” she were all propaganda produced by ground within the Philippines’ and it has repeatedly spoken out on added. “Anyone who truly wishes for MANILA: Protesters lie on the ground after being hit by a police van during a the West.” exclusive economic zone-in 2012. the various territorial disputes peace, stability, development and rally in front of the US embassy. —AFP Duterte is in China for a four-day The judgment, Duterte said, was “a between China and its neighbors prosperity in the Asia Pacific” should trip that is expected to confirm his piece of paper with four corners”. over the strategically vital waters. welcome Duterte’s visit. In an editori- al yesterday, China’s nationalist Philippine police van rams Global Times newspaper said Washington had treated Manila “as a protesters at US Embassy pawn”, adding Duterte was now “redesigning Philippine foreign poli- cy based on Philippine interests”. MANILA: A Philippine police van rammed but they took hold of the water hose and Duterte has said his China trip will into protesters, leaving several bloodied, confronted the outnumbered police with focus on promoting economic ties. as an anti-US rally turned violent yesterday rocks and red paint. After breaking The Philippines is hoping, among at the American Embassy in Manila. At through the police corridor, they scribbled other things, that Beijing will repeal least three student activists were taken to “US troops out now” and other slogans at a ban on imports of its bananas-an a hospital after they were run over by the the embassy’s tall fence with red paint. economic sanction intended to pun- van driven by a police officer, protest The protesters, consisting of students, ish Manila for its South China Sea leader Renato Reyes said. workers and tribespeople, were demand- stance. Hua said Wednesday Associated Press TV footage showed the ing an end to the presence of visiting US announcements on infrastructure van repeatedly ramming the protesters as troops in the Philippines and to support a cooperation and economic develop- it drove wildly back and forth after activists call by President Rodrigo Duterte for a for- ment projects could be expected surrounded and started hitting the vehicle eign policy not dependent on the US, the during the Philippine leader’s visit. with wooden batons they seized from country’s longtime treaty ally. The activists Beijing has also enthusiastically police. In front of horrified crowds, includ- came from the largest left-wing umbrella endorsed Duterte’s war on drugs, ing video journalists and photographers, group called Bayan (Nation), which has which has seen more than 3,700 the van suddenly charged backward then organized regular anti-US protests in front people killed and led the sprinted forward twice over a space of of the embassy for decades, most of which International Criminal Court to warn about 20 meters (60 feet), barreling are peaceful. that those responsible could face through the scattered protesters and Duterte was on a state visit to China, charges. Hua praised Duterte yester- hurtling some to the side like bowling where he is seeking to repair relations day for “rolling out policies to ensure pins. A few were run over but somehow strained under his predecessor over terri- social order and public security”, managed to stand. torial conflicts in the South China Sea. He is adding that the two sides were Some screamed in surprise, others also seeking to expand two-way trade and already in close communication hurled stones at the van and yelled invec- investments and financing for badly need- about cooperating on drug control tives. A speaker called the police “puppies ed infrastructure projects. Amid an uneasy BEIJING: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addresses members of the Philippine community. —AP and anti-crime issues. —AFP of imperialists” on a loudspeaker. “There relationship with the US, Duterte has tried was absolutely no justification for it,” Reyes to reach out to China and Russia, bringing said of the violent police dispersal of about uncertainty to his country’s long alliance 1,000 protesters. “Even as the president with America. vowed an independent foreign policy, But the protesters also opposed the Millions in Philippines on Philippine police forces still act as running president’s effort to lean toward China. dogs of the US.” “The Philippines will not be dictated on, whether by the US or China,” they said in a ‘US troops out now’ statement. The Philippine National Police alert for super typhoon Police lobbed tear gas and arrested at did not comment immediately yesterday. least 23 protesters who broke through a The violence happened as the police and line of riot police and hurled red paint at Duterte are under increased international MANILA: Millions of people in the The most powerful and deadly was makeshift evacuation centers as authori- the officers and a US government seal at scrutiny for their alleged role in the killings Philippines were on high alert yesterday for Haiyan, which destroyed entire towns in ties raised the highest typhoon alert of the start of the rally at the seaside embassy of thousands of drug suspects and pushers one of the strongest typhoons to ever hit heavily populated areas of the central “signal five”. Flights to the north were also compound. A firetruck doused the rowdy as part of the president’s war on illegal the disaster-battered country, with authori- Philippines. “We are possibly dealing with a suspended and schools were closed. The protesters with water to push them back, drugs. —AP ties warning of giant storm surges and typhoon that is even stronger than Typhoon Philippine capital of Manila is about 450 destructive winds. Super Typhoon Haima Yolanda (as Haiyan was known in the kilometers south of where Haima is fore- was forecast to hit remote communities in Philippines) in 2013. We must therefore cast to make landfall. Authorities said the the far north of the country about 11:00 pm brace ourselves for the possible effects of a city, with about 12 million people, was not Thailand steps up (1500 GMT) yesterday, bringing winds almost on a par with catastrophic Super its web surveillance Typhoon Haiyan that claimed more than 7,350 lives in 2013. “It’s not just heavy rain and strong winds BANGKOK: Thai “cyber-scouts” have flagged website, they should inform authorities and that we are expecting. It’s also floods, land- scores of websites for alleged royal defamation do not like or share them,” Prajin said, adding slides and storm surges in coastal areas. since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej some of the sites were hosted outside the Those in these areas, you are in danger. Find and are monitoring all communication chan- country. Prosecutions for lese majeste have safer ground,” Allan Tabel, chief of the interi- nels, a junta official said yesterday. A crack- surged under the military which seized power down on perceived royal insults has been two years ago, with record-breaking sen- or ministry’s disaster and information coor- enforced following the king’s death last tences handed down in some cases. Critics dinating centre, told a nationally televised Thursday, which has plunged the nation into say the junta has largely targeted its political briefing. With Haima having a weather band mourning for a beloved monarch. opponents. of 800 kilometers more than 10 million peo- Thailand’s monarchy is protected by a dra- ple across the northern parts of the conian lese majeste law that outlaws criticism Witch-hunt Philippines’ main island of Luzon will be and muzzles detailed discussion on the Thais have been overwhelmingly dignified affected, according to the government’s dis- monarchy-including by all media based in in grief following the king’s death, with people aster risk management agency. Haima was Thailand. Surveillance by authorities is routine donning black and so far abiding by an order approaching the Philippines with sustained but appears to have been stepped up. There to “tone down” the country’s nightlife and winds of 225 kilometers an hour and gusts have also been vigilante actions by pockets of entertainment. But concerns about a lese of 315 kilometers an hour, according to the royalist hardliners. Police say they have opened majeste witch-hunt have grown since the state weather bureau. Authorities warned a dozen cases under Section 112 — the broad- king’s death. Five videos have emerged of ly worded royal defamation law that carries up angry mobs beating people alleged to have coastal communities to expect storm surges to 15 years in jail for each infringement-since insulted the monarchy. In the latest example of of five meters or higher. the king died aged 88. But the number may mob justice, a live broadcast on Facebook on “It’s already started. The wind is strong, rise as authorities scour the internet for Tuesday morning showed a man dragged, the waves are big,” said Julie Hermano, man- infringements of the law. kicked and forced to prostrate himself in front ager of a small resort in Santa Ana, a coastal BAGUIO CITY: A resident holding his pet cats sits in a temporary shelter, after local “During this time we have centers to moni- of a portrait of the king for allegedly insulting town of about 30,000 people that is in the authorities ordered a pre-emptive evacuation of affected residents hours before tor 24 hours a day,” Prajin Jantong, a deputy the monarchy in a social media post. typhoon’s direct path. “Some residents have Super Typhoon Haima is forecast to hit. —AFP prime minister, told reporters. “We are moni- The same day Justice Minister Paiboon been panic-buying food in markets because toring all channels, websites, all communica- Koomchaya urged Thais to “socially sanction” we were told it’s going to be a super typhoon of this magnitude,” government expected to be badly hit although it tion channels including LINE,” he added, refer- those who defame the monarchy, pledging to typhoon. We’ve already tied down our water executive secretary Salvador Medialdea said would be hit with some rain. Haima was ring to the messaging app widely used by track down “those people who violate the law”. tank and prepared our (power) generator in a statement. “We call on all government forecast to exit the Philippines Friday, Thais. On October 14 officials found 52 web- But on Wednesday the junta sent a more con- set.” The Philippine islands are often the first agencies to be on highest level of prepared- then track towards southern China. Haima sites deemed to have broken the law and the ciliatory message. “The Prime Minister (Prayut major landmass to be hit by storms that gen- ness and to take all necessary precautions.” is the second typhoon to hit the northern following day 61 websites were flagged, he Chan-O-Cha) is upset over attacking clips,” jun- said, adding “some were closed” using special ta spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd told erate over the Pacific Ocean. The Southeast In the northern regions expected to be Philippines in a week, after Sarika claimed powers granted to the junta. reporters. “By attacking people it damages our Asian archipelago endures about 20 major worst hit, tens of thousands of people at least one life and left three people “When (the public) sees these kinds of image in the eyes of foreigners,” he said. —AFP storms each year, many of them deadly. sought refuge in schools and other missing. —AFP NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 Mars lander makes risky touchdown on red planet

FRANKFURT: The search for life on Mars took a giant leap yesterday has not detracted from its allure, with US President Barack Obama when a space lander touched down on the red planet in Europe’s first recently highlighting his pledge to send people to the planet by the attempt to land a craft there since the Beagle 2’s “heroic failure” more 2030s. Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX is developing a massive rocket than a decade ago. The disc-shaped 577-kg Schiaparelli lander, which is and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars testing technologies for a rover due to follow in 2020, landed on Mars with the ultimate goal of colonising the planet, with Musk saying he after a risky descent, but scientists are still waiting to find out what would like to launch the first crew as early as 2024. shape it is in. During the six minutes descent to the surface, it used a parachute Life on Mars and thrusters to slow from a speed of nearly 21,000 km per hour. “We The primary goal of ExoMars is to find out whether life has ever exist- have to wait a little bit to see what happens with the test lander. But this ed on Mars. The spacecraft on which the Schiaparelli lander travelled to (mission) is already a success so far,” European Space Agency (ESA) Mars, Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), carries an atmospheric probe to study Director General Jan Woerner said at ESA’s Space Operations Centre in trace gases such as methane around the planet. Scientists believe that Darmstadt, Germany. methane, a chemical that on Earth is strongly tied to life, could stem from The lander is named for Giovanni Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer micro-organisms that either became extinct millions of years ago and left who in 1877 began mapping the topography of Mars, extending study gas frozen below the planet’s surface, or that some methane-producing of what are now known as the planet’s canals, a mistranslation of the organisms still survive. “If there is life in our solar system beyond Earth, Italian word canali, or channels. “Mars has already inspired people for then Mars is the most interesting planet,” ESA’s Woerner said. centuries,” ESA’s Woerner told Reuters TV. The second part of the ExoMars mission, delayed to 2020 from 2018, will Schiaparelli is part of the European-Russian ExoMars programme, deliver a European rover to the surface of Mars. It will be the first with the which will search for signs of past and present life on Mars and repre- ability to both move across the planet’s surface and drill into the ground to sents only the second European attempt to land a craft on the red plan- collect and analyze samples. The ExoMars 2016 mission is led by the et. Britain’s Beagle 2 was ejected from the Mars Express spacecraft in European Space Agency (ESA), with Russia’s Roscosmos supplying the 2003 but never made contact after failing to deploy its solar panels upon launcher and two of the four scientific instruments on the trace gas orbiter. landing. At the time it was dubbed “a heroic failure”. The prime contractor is Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales Landing on Mars, Earth’s neighbor some 56 million km away, is a and Finmeccanica. The cost of the ExoMars mission to ESA, including the notoriously difficult task that has bedevilled most Russian efforts and second part due in 2020, is expected to be about 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 bil- given NASA trouble as well. A seemingly hostile environment on Mars lion). Russia’s contribution comes on top of that. — Reuters An artist’s impression yesterday shows the Schiaparelli module on the surface of Mars. — AP

Kuwait inches closer to expat only... ‘Cat-eyed’ tea seller sparks soul searching Continued from Page 1 KD 255 according to official statistics, while the mini- Continued from Page 1 said he hoped his newfound fame would allow him to “move mum average cost for private health insurance in forward”. Vegetable seller Saeed Ahmed worked in the market At present, expatriates must pay KD 50 per year for Kuwait reaches KD 140 a year, and goes up the older the Light skin and eyes are the attribute of many Pashtuns, tribal alongside Khan. “His eyes were so beautiful that we used to health insurance before they can renew their residen- buyer is. inhabitants of northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, make fun of him and call him ‘cat eyes’,” he told AFP. “But we nev- cies. This allows them basic services in the public The idea to establish expat-exclusive hospitals came romanticized as warriors by the British. Others expressed con- er even thought that he would one day become famous like healthcare system including polyclinics and govern- after the government decided it was the best solution cern about the risk of exploitation of a young man so little this.” Indian newspapers were the first to seize on the “Cinderella ment hospitals. Expatriates are also required to pay to the problem of its heavily overcrowded public med- armed for success. A local brand was quick to publish pictures story”, bringing frivolity to recent tensions between the rival additional fees for a variety of medical procedures, ical facilities. The current health sector’s capacity is of him, but Khan said he has not signed any modelling contract. neighbors with tweets calling Khan a “nuclear bomb”. “I send a especially surgeries, hospital stays and radiology exami- 7,000 beds in public hospitals and 1,000 in private hos- The third of 17 children, Khan has never been to school. He message of peace to my Indian fans,” Khan said. -— AFP nations. Expatriates also pay KD 1 for each visit to public pitals, with an average of three beds for every 10,000 in clinics and KD 2 to casualty sections at hospitals. Kuwait, Dr Mohammad Al-Khashti, the ministry of Under the ministry of health’s law No. 1/1999 per- health’s assistant undersecretary for private medical Top Iraqi artist warns of ‘scenario... taining with health insurance for foreigners, obtaining services, said during the launch of the 2nd Kuwait medical insurance is obligatory in order to issue or Conference for Insurance and Investment in the Health Continued from Page 1 not accept.” He adds: “I am not saying Saddam (Hussein) was renew a resident’s visa. Therefore, the KD 130 insurance Sector on Tuesday. The ministry hopes to increase the fantastic, no. But we have now 100 Saddams.” fee will become mandatory according to the same law. capacity to 15,000 by 2020, he added. The ministry is cleansing - it cannot be accepted.” Speaking on the eve of The exhibition is curated by Catherine David of Paris’ There has been debate in the past that the government also expected later this year to open the Jaber Hospital - the launch of the battle for second city Mosul, Azzawi, asked Pompidou Centre and runs until April 2017. Azzawi says it is should give expats the choice of buying health insur- a nearly 1,200-bed public hospital billed as the largest if there is any reason for hope in Iraq, responds simply: “No, “a privilege” to see much of his work once again. “I haven’t ance plans from private insurance companies. hospital in the Middle East - which will be exclusively for none at all. This is the scenario, the scenario of destruction.” seen some of them for 30 or 40 years, certainly I can see my The Health Insurance Hospitals Company was estab- Kuwaitis. A former officer in the Iraqi army, he left his homeland in life in a way. It gives me a little bit of help to ask some ques- lished according to the public-private-partnership (PPP) Meanwhile, the three planned hospitals for expatri- 1976. Now living in London, he has not been back to Iraq tions whether I am right or not.” Azzawi said he with the model with a KD 230 million capital, and the govern- ates will have a bed capacity of 700 each, and will be since 1980 and says he refuses to visit. “It is two hours from growing global stature of Arab artists, he would like to hold a ment owns 24 percent of its shares, while 26 percent is built in Ahmadi, Jahra and Farwaniya governorates. here,” he says. “I go back and I accept what’s going on. I can- similar exhibition in London. — AFP owned by strategic investor Arabi Holding Group. The They will serve only around two million expatriates remaining 50 percent will be offered in an initial public working in the private sector, while non-Kuwaiti public offering at a later date. sector employees and domestic helpers (nearly one Spending cuts a must despite oil recovery... Furthermore, most expats are likely not going to find million) are either going to continue to be treated at the option of buying insurance policies from private public hospitals or through an alternative health plan, Continued from Page 1 civil servants. Its measures represent one of the ways for companies financially feasible as well. The average likely at private medical facilities via a mechanism to GCC countries “to address this issue of how to bring their monthly salary for expat workers in the private sector is be decided later. GCC countries had to cut back their spending “one way budgets into balance,” said Ahmed. “We think these are not or another” over the next five years and find ways of raising going to be easy measures to implement but they are nec- non-oil revenues, he said. essary and they have to be undertaken to try and get to a Amir instructs premier to re-examine DNA... The IMF regional chief said economic growth in the GCC more sustainable budget,” he said. as a whole was expected to be at just under two percent in In the longer term, GCC countries should aim to cut Continued from Page 1 Assembly will be a “tough” one. Former MP Roudhan Al- 2016. Next year would see a “modest improvement,” rising their wage bills through encouraging nationals to seek Roudhan acknowledged that the people were upset by to between two and 2.5 percent. Saudi Arabia would grow jobs in the private sector “rather than automatically think- Sheikh Malek said he is determined to fight the election the Assembly and expected an up to 70 percent turnover. 1.2 percent this year, down from 3.5 percent in 2015, while ing that their future lies in the public sector,” Ahmed said. battle until the end and is ready for any outcome. Many candidates expected economic issues to top the Kuwait and Qatar’s economies would expand by 2.5 per- The private sector in most GCC countries is run by expatri- The first day of registration did not see the return of election campaigns, which will start next week. Former cent and 2.6 percent respectively. The UAE, which has been ates, who represent the majority of the population in some opposition groups that had boycotted polls since Dec MP Faisal Al-Kandari said any economic reform must not ahead of its Gulf peers in diversifying its economy, would of these states, while nationals opt for cushy, well-paid 2012, but at least two former opposition MPs - Marzouq be at the expense of the Kuwaiti people, “not now and see growth of 2.3 percent this year. public sector jobs. Al-Hubaini and Fahd Al-Khanna - registered as candidates. not any time in the future”. Former liberal MP Rakan Al- Record-high oil prices in the past few years have “Over two million young people are going to come At least 14 of the 50 members of the dissolved Assembly Nasef said the Assembly needs political groups to defend allowed GCC economies to expand rapidly, and govern- into the labor market over the next couple of years in filed yesterday for re-election. They include the three out- the interests of the people. Former MP and minister ments were able to invest heavily on infrastructure proj- the GCC,” said Ahmed, highlighting the need for a “com- going Cabinet ministers Ali Al-Omair, Yaqoub Al-Sane and Ahmad Al-Mulaifi said the country is experiencing a situ- ects. But the drop in oil revenues pushed these govern- petitive private sector” that could create jobs. As for Essa Al-Kandari. They also include Jamal Al-Omar, Saadoun ation that pleases no one, especially after corruption ments to shelve many of them. GCC countries also took the diversifying revenues, the IMF official praised GCC coun- Hammad, Faisal Al-Duwaisan, Yousef Al-Zalzalah and reached the Assembly, after it was limited to the govern- previously unthinkable measure of cutting energy subsi- tries’ collective agreement to levy a value-added tax of Abdullah Al-Turaiji. ment in the past. dies. “Now we’re getting into some of the more difficult around five percent in 2018, arguing that VAT would not A large number of candidates blasted the outgoing Deputy director of the election department Col Salah areas, such as looking at the public sector wage bill,” said turn away expatriate workers now lured by the tax-free Assembly as weak and for having passed several unconsti- Al-Shatti said there are 483,186 eligible voters, of whom Ahmed, pointing out that it amounts to a large part of environment. “My own view is that a five-percent value- expenditure in some GCC countries. added tax is not going to be the reason why people tutional legislations like the DNA law. Candidate Hamad Al- 252,756 or 52.3 percent are women and 230,430 voters or Saudi Arabia announced last month new drastic austeri- decide or not to stay or work in those countries,” said Tuwaijri said the outgoing Assembly failed to protect the 47.7 percent are men. Candidate registration will end on ty measures, cutting salaries of cabinet ministers by 20 per- Ahmed. “It is really a much bigger package they are interests of the Kuwaiti people. Former MP Emad Al- Oct 28 and the coming few days are expected to witness cent, slashing perks for the 160 members of the consulta- looking at,” he said, citing lifestyle and professional Mutawa said the coming election is crucial and the next the return of a large number of leading opposition figures. tive council and limiting overtime pay and allowances for opportunities. — AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 ANALYSIS

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Issues With coup defeated, Erdogan eyes vote on revamped powers

ust three months after seeing off a failed coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has put Jright back at the top of the agenda a plan to increase his powers through constitutional change. The plan to create a presidential system means Turkey is likely to be heading to a referendum in the first half of next year, analysts say. This may create more instability for Turkey’s fragile economy and exacerbate already simmering tensions in society, after Erdogan defeated the biggest challenge to his 13-year rule. But it will also allow the leader to settle for once and for all the question of his powers. Only a month after becoming prime minister in March 2003 Erdogan told an interviewer that his “desire” was for a presidential system in Turkey, similar to the one in the Online sharing treasure trove for snoops United States. After being elected president in August 2014 and defeating the coup bid in July, Erdogan is more determined than ever to fulfill his hey show what we like, reveal who of an unarmed African-American man. for parties interested in monitoring oppo- by studying Twitter posts. In Los Angeles, desire and push forward with his plans. we’ve been with and flag where we The ACLU documents showed that nents of regimes in Libya or Syria. Internet the Department of Justice funded research Government officials argue a fully presidential sys- Tare going. Social networks offer win- Geofeedia claimed to have access to the pioneer Yahoo was recently accused of to see if the police could prevent racist dows into people’s lives, and exploiting Twitter “firehose” or full stream of data scanning messages at its email service for a crimes by figuring out where hateful com- tem is needed to legalize what has become a de-fac- those insights is big business - with some which can be analyzed and interpreted by snippet being sought by US authorities. ments on social networks were originating to situation, with Erdogan Turkey’s undisputed num- sounding the alarm over the ever-growing location and other factors. Geofeedia is one Social networks, however, differ in that the to determine at-risk neighborhoods. ber one after transforming the office of head of state. intrusion from corporations and govern- of an array of companies built on the ability data being perused is typically on public Analysis of social media data can also be To change the constitution the ruling Justice and ments alike. “There is a thin line of differ- to mine insights from the massive amount display and not private. abused, Cope cautioned. For her, any kind Development Party (AKP) co-founded by Erdogan ence between surveillance of individuals of information freely shared on social net- The US government has employees who of monitoring is problematic but govern- needs a super-majority of 367 votes. The AKP only and monitoring for research purposes,” works. Twitter had previously barred US monitor social networks, but the time and ment keeping tabs on people comes with has 316 seats (excluding the speaker Ismail Gartner analyst Jenny Sussin told AFP. intelligence from using the Dataminr ana- effort involved has created business oppor- the added offense of violating constitu- Kahraman) in the 550-seat national assembly. Even when espionage is not the original lytical tool to scan missives sent via the tunity for companies such as Geofeedia. tional rights. But to put forward the changes to the public in a goal, nothing prevents someone from cre- one-to-many messaging service. Analytics firms often have the advantage of referendum, the party needs only 330 votes, which ating streams of Twitter posts based on The ACLU, however, wants online social being directly connected, usually for a fee, Think Before Posting could happen if the 40-seat Nationalist Movement where information is shared or who is networks to ramp up efforts with moves to streams of data at social networks. This Facebook, Twitter and other online ven- Party (MHP) of Devlet Bahceli gives its support. The doing the sharing. Twitter and Facebook that include the blocking of applications lets the process of drawing out details, ues use terms of service that set limits on two other opposition parties are likely to be against. last week revoked data access for an analyt- used as tools for spying or police surveil- insights or patterns be done automatically what those tapping into data are permitted Bahceli has not indicated whether his party’s MPs will ics firm which, according to a civil liberties lance. Companies processing people’s per- with software that promises to only get to do with the information. Sussin would give the government their support but on Tuesday group, helped law enforcement track peo- sonal data have a responsibility to find out smarter due to improvements in artificial like to see Internet firms do more to make gave his firmest indication yet it could be prepared to ple protesting the police shooting of black who the end user is going to be, Sophia intelligence. people mindful of moments when they are allow the referendum to go ahead. men in several US cities. Cope, a lawyer specializing in civil liberties at Use of the data can range from benign sharing their locations. “You voluntarily par- The American Civil Liberties Union the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). She to troubling. Data mined by firms can help ticipate in your own monitoring,” said ‘Increase Polarization’ reported that Geofeedia had been market- encourages firms to ask specific questions to target ads, meaning that people see mar- Endpoint Technologies Analyst Roger Kay. Fadi Hakura, Turkey expert at Chatham House ing its services to US police agencies to find out what use the data will be put to. keting messages that might spark interest “Many people live their lives quite publicly,” think tank in London, said that so far the Bahceli’s help track activists using their social media instead of annoyance. Researchers can allowing spies, or criminals to track them, statements indicate “willingness to collaborate” with posts and location data. According to inter- Privacy vs Security seek clues to causes or spreads of illness, the analyst maintained. In one dramatic the AKP to bring about a referendum. He added nal documents published by the ACLU, The degree to which internet firms or measure public sentiment during politi- illustration: Images shared by social media there was a “real possibility” the system would be Geofeedia boasted that it “covered should cooperate with police or intelli- cal campaigns. IBM announced this sum- queen Kim Kardashian were believed to approved in a referendum but warned that the cur- Ferguson/Mike Brown nationally with great gence services is a long-running debate. In mer a collaboration with a Brazilian have played a role in her being robbed in rent polarization in Turkey would worsen. “The presi- success,” referring to the wave of protests in France, there were concerns that data-min- research center to track the spread of dis- Paris recently. She has since become much dential system will further intensify the ideological the Missouri community after the shooting ing companies put their software to work eases such as Zika, dengue or chikungunya more discreet. — AFP polarization and entrenched conservatism. “(It) will further intensify the existing political, ideological and sectarian divisions bedevilling Turkish politics and society,” he said. From Mosul to Raqqa? A complex, risky battle The uncertainty since the issue rose back to the top of the agenda has also hurt the Turkish lira, which has lost over four percent in value against the US dol- imultaneous attacks on the Islamic State-held cities Even if IS were to be driven out of Raqqa, finding some- Mosul, even if roads are harder to access, said Jennifer lar over the last month. Some experts suggest the of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa, the de facto capital of the one to administer the city would be problematic, said Cafarella of the Washington-based Institute for the Study president could even be tempted to call early legisla- Smilitant group’s self-proclaimed caliphate across the Noah Bonsey, a Syria expert with the International Crisis of War. Retreating fighters could also hide among fleeing tive elections in 2017 although the government has border in Syria, would make military sense: such assaults Group think tank. Mosul is the largest city under IS control, civilians, or travel in small groups to evade coalition air- denied having any such idea. would make it harder for the extremists to move reinforce- with an estimated population of up to one million and no craft, she said. Others could withdraw to desert areas Michael Harris, global head of research at invest- ments and deny them a safe haven. When preparing for more than 10,000 fighters. Oil-rich Raqqa is home to near- between Syria and Iraq for staging future attacks. ment bank Renaissance Capital, warned in a note that the Mosul operations this summer, US officials said a push ly 200,000 people, most Sunni Arabs, and an estimated Since the summer’s discussions in Washington about a the Turkish economy was “on hold” until Erdogan against IS in Raqqa could be almost simultaneous, putting 5,000 militants. possible double-strike against IS, Turkey has entered the achieved his objectives. According to Harris, if Erdogan additional pressure on the group by stretching its ability to Bonsey said retaking Raqqa is key to defeating IS mili- fray. Starting in August, Ankara has backed Syrian opposi- tries to win a super-majority through an early election, defend two strongholds at once. tarily, a US priority, but that among the warring factions in tion fighters with tanks and aircraft. This has complicated it would be the “crux of why we continue to recom- While the long-awaited Mosul offensive began earlier Syria “everybody else has other geostrategic interests that planning for a possible Raqqa campaign and threatened mend investors take money out of the country”. But if this week, there’s no sign of an imminent campaign take higher priority.” In recent weeks, US-led coalition America’s main ally on the ground, the Kurds. The rivalries Erdogan is able to achieve the executive presidency in against Raqqa. Perhaps that’s because Syria is proving to airstrikes targeted half a dozen bridges in Syria’s largely IS- are dangerous because IS is deft at exploiting divisions an accelerated and smoother process, Turkey could be a more daunting terrain than Iraq. Going after IS-held controlled Deir el-Zour province between Raqqa and the among its enemies, said Cafarella. Raqqa would mean moving deeper into an explosive mix Iraqi border. The strikes were aimed at cutting the road Kurdish fighters, mostly the well-trained and highly find “political equilibrium in 2017”, he said. of regional and international rivalries, including a proxy between Iraq and Syria for fleeing militants. organized People’s Protection Units, or YPG, have been the war that has pitted the United States against Russia and Activist Hussam Eesa reported increased IS activity in US partner in the anti-IS fight in Syria since 2015 when they ‘People Support Erdogan’ its allies. Raqqa, including more night-time checkpoints, and said freed the town of Kobani. In return for leading the battle Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday said it The fight against IS in northeastern Syria also under- some wounded and IS families arrived from Mosul before for Raqqa, the Kurds demand to be armed by the US and to would be brought to parliament “very soon” because lines a US reliance on its one effective partner there - the start of the offensive. He said there was no sign of pan- win political recognition of their right to self-rule. the changes were needed to “eliminate confusion Syria’s Kurds. Such an alliance for a Raqqa campaign ic in Raqqa. Most fortifications in Raqqa, such as trenches, That would enrage Ankara, which considers the Syrian from the system”. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag sug- threatens to ignite a new conflict, with another US part- were built long ago, said Eesa, who is not in the city and Kurdish forces as an offshoot of its domestic rebels it gested last week a referendum on a presidential sys- ner, NATO member Turkey, and its allied Syrian rebels. In whose group, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, relies on deems a terrorist group. Cafarella said directly arming the tem could come as early as spring 2017. The authori- Iraq, the US offers logistical and other support for the mil- leaked reports from residents. Kurdish forces would simplify logistics during planning for ties are confident of winning a symbolic and convinc- itary in its fight against IS. In Syria, Washington views a major offensive. But the potential for direct confrontation ing victory, which would be Turkey’s fourth major President Bashar Assad’s government as illegitimate and Refuge between the Kurds and Turkish and Ankara-backed Syrian national poll in as many years. cannot partner with him. Raqqa could serve as a refuge for IS fighters fleeing forces “would cause a huge ripple in the strategy” and Polls after the coup showed that its defeat had would be difficult for the US to mitigate while conducting substantially bolstered Erdogan’s ratings while a poll a major operation on the Iraqi side, she said. published on Tuesday in the pro-government Daily Ilham Ahmed, a senior Syrian Kurdish official who was in Sabah newspaper said 63 percent supported the Washington last month, claimed that preparations by presidential system. “In Turkey people see a close Kurdish-led forces for such an offensive are in their final relationship between Erdogan and the presidential phase, suggesting US recognition and arming are a matter system,” said Mehmet Ali Kulat, the head of the MAK of time. She did not provide details. Fighting elsewhere in research company which conducted face-to-face Syria has further complicated the situation, including a interviews with 5,400 people between Oct 10 and 15. Turkish push in the northern Aleppo province and a bid for “What they support more is Erdogan rather than a Al-Bab, an IS-run town in the area. The Kurds are also vying presidential system,” he said. — AFP for control of Al-Bab, in hopes of connecting separate can- tons they hold along the Syrian border with Turkey.

‘Terror-Free Zone’ All articles appearing on these pages are Meanwhile, Turkish troops and Syrian rebels argue that by advancing on Al-Bab, they can break the Syrian govern- the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait ment’s hold on the rebel-held besieged city of Aleppo city, Times takes no responsibility for views 30 km to the west, while also denying the Kurds their con- expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites tinuous territory. “Both actors want to grab more territory readers to voice their opinions. Please send to prevent the other from grabbing more territory and both want to improve the depth and breadth of coordina- submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- tion with the US against the interest of the other,” Bonsey times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 said. Since August, Turkey-backed efforts have driven IS Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right militants and Kurdish rebels from a large swath along the to edit any submission as necessary. border. The aim, Ankara said, is to set up an even larger Iraqi forces deploy in Bajwaniyah village, about 30 km south of Mosul, on Tuesday after they liberated it from “terror-free zone” of as much as 5,000 sq km inside Syria, Islamic State (IS) group. — AFP trampling on the Kurdish aspirations. — AP

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 SPORTS As All Blacks soar, scandal-hit NZ rugby reels

WELLINGTON: While the All Blacks are exacerbated by NZR’s poor handling of after the Chiefs incident was around victim another was charged with intent to com- Saturday’s blockbuster match against reaching new heights, recent off-field various crises. “They have been accused of blaming and shaming,” Human Rights mit rape. Australia where his teammates are chasing scandals have left New Zealand Rugby being lenient and guilty of condoning Commissioner David Rutherford said at the record win. In response to its recent struggling to maintain the sport’s image, abusive behaviour by doing so little to the time. The NZR soon found itself in the ‘SERIOUS MISCONDUCT’ woes, the NZR is setting up an independent particularly with women. punish it,” he wrote this week. spotlight again over its response to a In such a heated atmosphere, the tim- panel to review “respect and responsibility” The NZR admits the game needs to “They have had their failings pointed teenage star’s violent rampage on a ing of an indiscretion by All Blacks half- in the game. Politician Louisa Wall, a former change its macho culture after a series of out by just about everyone, but most Wellington street. back Aaron Smith could not have been rugby international once named New player incidents involving strippers, street tellingly by some of the most influential The player, Losi Filipo, savagely worse. The 54-Test veteran was seen enter- Zealand women’s player of the year, said violence and casual sex. Pundits have women in the country.” attacked four people, including two ing a disabled toilet cubicle with a mystery cultural change needed to begin at the top. dubbed it “the season from hell”, distract- The problems began in August, when a women, but escaped conviction because a woman at Christchurch Airport while he She said the NZR needed to include women ing attention from the All Blacks’ bid this stripper known as Scarlette said she was judge said it might harm his rugby career. was travelling with the national team the at board level and take their contribution to weekend to set a new record of 18 consec- abused and demeaned at a Waikato Chiefs Officials at first stood by Filipo, only to day after a recent Test against South Africa. the game seriously. “The way that women utive Test victories. It is an uncomfortable end-of-season “Mad Monday” party. perform an embarrassing U-turn and While there was no hint of criminal have traditionally been viewed, they’re in position for rugby administrators, who are The Chiefs initially suggested her word agree to terminate his Wellington Rugby wrongdoing, Smith’s actions was deemed the kitchen preparing the food, they wash used to New Zealanders backing the sport could not be trusted because of her occu- contract as public outrage grew. “serious misconduct” that damaged the the uniforms,” she told Wellington’s with an almost religious fervour. pation, then an internal NZR review dis- There were further blows to the game’s reputation of the All Blacks and its sponsors. Dominion Post newspaper. New Zealand Herald rugby writer missed her claims and cleared the players. image when one provincial player was He was suspended for one Test and volun- “We’re not seen as the administrators, Gregor Paul said the backlash had been “A lot of the language immediately jailed for masturbating in public and tarily stood down from another-this the coaches, the umpires.” — AFP Nordic champion Johaug suspended over doping

OSLO: Norway’s cross country skier Therese Bendiksen has taken responsibility and Johaug, a former Olympic gold medallist, resigned last week from his post. has been suspended for two months after Hjort said Johaug respected the deci- failing a drug test, the Norwegian anti-dop- sion to impose a temporary ban. “We will ing agency said yesterday. The seven-time now focus on the main case which is to world champion tested positive for traces prove her innocence,” he said. The suspen- of the banned anabolic steroid clostebol sion of 28-year-old Johaug will last until during an out-of-competition control on December 18, ruling her out of the first race September 16. The steroid was contained of the World Cup in Ruka, Finland, on in a lip cream called Trofodermin, which November 26 and 27, a race she won in she used to treat burns during a training 2015. The skier has won seven world titles, session at altitude in Italy late August. The including three last winter (skiathlon 2x7,5 temporary suspension is pending a final km, 30 km classic and relay 4x5 km). She verdict, Norway’s anti-doping committee, also has three Olympic medals, including in a statement. The use of anabolic steroids one gold unhooked with the relay at the is punishable by a four-year ban. Vancouver Games in 2010. Johaug’s attorney Christian Hjort told It is the second doping incident to shake TV2 this week that the Trofodermin tube the Norwegian federation recently after had been provided in its original package, cross country skier Martin Sundby was sus- which includes a warning showing that the pended for two months and stripped of his product is on the list of substances prohib- 2015 overall World Cup and Tour de Ski ited by the World Anti-doping Agency. titles for unauthorised use of medication to National skiing team doctor Fredrik treat asthma. — AFP

TOKYO: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (L) answers questions beside President of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee (Tokyo 2020) Yoshiro Mori (C) and IOC Vice President John Coates (R) during a press conference at the Tokyo 2020 head- quarters after their meeting in Tokyo yesterday. Bach is in Tokyo to look at preparations ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. — AFP IOC boss ducks S Korea row in Tokyo 2020 visit

TOKYO: International Olympic Committee presi- major humiliation for Tokyo organisers, although moving the events to northeast Japan, several dent Thomas Bach yesterday dodged questions a Seoul sports ministry official told AFP the hundreds of miles away, instead of building a over reports some Tokyo 2020 events could be reports came as a “surprise” to them. new venue in Tokyo Bay. held in South Korea, a move which would fur- Bach and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on The panel also called for existing venues in ther embarrass beleaguered Games organisers. Tuesday agreed to set up a four-party working Tokyo to be renovated to stage volleyball and The IOC is considering staging rowing and group comprising Tokyo’s metropolitan govern- swimming to help cut costs further, as it predict- canoeing in the South Korean city of Chungju, ment, the IOC, Games organisers and the ed the total cost for the 2020 Games would hit Shooters seen during practise. according to Japanese media, as they try to slash Japanese government to try to rein in snow- nearly $30 billion, almost three times higher a Tokyo 2020 budget which has skyrocketed to balling costs. Koike, who became Tokyo’s first than the 2012 London Olympics. an estimated $28 billion-four times that of the female governor in July after promising to slash Tokyo organisers have lurched from one crisis Otaibi thanks Crown Prince for initial bid. But Bach was hurriedly ushered out of wasteful spending, then proposed national and to another since beating Madrid and Istanbul in a scheduled press briefing in the Japanese capi- international sports federations be added to that the race to host the Games, with Abe forced to his support and care of shooting tal after answering prepared questions from working group, but Bach clearly felt otherwise. rip up initial plans for the Olympic stadium amid Tokyo Olympic officials that hinted at further fric- “There was an agreement on a four-party public anger at its $2 billion price tag. By Abdellatif Sharaa evident in preparations that were being tion between local organisers and city politicians. working group,” insisted Bach.“This was very well The Tokyo Olympic logo was then scrapped made for the start of the season, with one With the Korean bombshell-which cited received by the Tokyo metropolitan government after accusations of plagiarism before French KUWAIT: The higher organizing committee of the most important events which is the unnamed sources-making headlines, a media and the governor, and of course this happened prosecutors launched an investigation into $2 of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- CP tournament, who sponsors this major gathering was quickly shut down as nervous in agreement with the organising committee. million in payments which they suspect were Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Shooting tournament in which all Kuwaiti shooters Tokyo organisers refused to allow more than 100 Therefore we will follow this agreement.” The made to help Tokyo secure the Games. Tournament, which starts today at Sheikh participate including shooters of Saad Al- journalists to question Bach about the reports. option of moving rowing and canoeing to South Japanese Olympic officials have denied any Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Abdallah Shooting Academy in the various Stripping Japan of events would be seen a Korea comes after a panel of experts proposed wrongdoing. — AFP Olympic skeet, trap, double trap, rifle, pistol and archery. He said Kuwait shooters are known for making significant achievements in most of Munster to return to action their participations at the Gulf, continental and international events. Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi, on behalf of Kuwait after coach Foley’s death Shooting Sport Club Board members and all those involved in the shooting sport, thanked HH the Crown Prince for his con- tinued support and care for shooters, and for this very important tournament which declares the start of the 2016/2017 season. He also thanked the representative of HH the Crown Prince, Information Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- Sabah, for his keen interest in developing Duaij Al-Otaibi Kuwait sport in general and shooting in particular, and shooters are always happy Complex, inspected facilities and ranges to to see Sheikh Salman among them. make sure all is set and ready. Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi thanked Public President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Authority for Sports and its Director Federations, Chairman of HOC Eng Duaij General Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Otaibi said efforts of all committees are Al-Sabah and his deputies for their support.

File photo shows Keith Earls of Munster takes on Seremaia Bai during a match. Munster will play its first rugby game since the sudden death of coach Anthony Foley. LIMERICK: Munster will play its first rugby game game, no matter the time, the opposition or the club. “He was a man that wanted a Munster jer- since the sudden death of coach Anthony Foley venue, we have an opportunity to play there this sey win,” O’Mahony said. “I’m not going to do when the Irish province takes on Glasgow in the Saturday,” Munster director of rugby Rassie him justice here. It’s all the words I can say, to be European Champions Cup on Saturday. Erasmus said yesterday. “That’s something that’s honest.” Foley was a Munster great who repre- Foley, who was 42, was found dead in the ear- hugely important to all of us. sented Ireland 62 times. ly hours of Sunday in a Paris hotel, ahead of a “He would never want us to say that the Glasgow coach Gregor Townsend said match against Racing 92 in the French capital game is secondary - it’s just not the man he was - Saturday’s match “is an occasion to remember that day. The match was canceled. but it will be. It’s all about Anthony, now, and Anthony ... a chance for everyone to show The prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, a suburb this weekend, and will be for a long time.” respect for what a great man he was.” The of Paris, told The Associated Press yesterday that Erasmus said Munster’s players “had so much Nanterre prosecutor said further toxicological post-mortem tests on Foley showed “a heartbeat respect for him that they are trying to get on analysis has been ordered, in accordance with disorder probably led to fluid buildup in his with it,” adding: “That’s what drives us and makes classic procedures, and that there was no sign of lungs.” Foley’s funeral will be on Friday in his us committed to get a proper performance out a break-in at his hotel room or of any lesions on hometown of Killaloe, and Munster will return to there.” Ireland and Munster flanker Peter his body. Foley’s remains were being flown back action the following day at its Thomond Park O’Mahony broke down as he tried to put into to Ireland and taken to the family home in Shooter seen in action ground. “As difficult as it will be to play the next words what the late coach meant to him and the Killaloe. — AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 SPORTS Blue Jays keep hopes alive as Dodgers ease ahead of Cubs

LOS ANGELES: The Toronto Blue Jays kept understand that and we’re just going to their hopes of reaching Major League continue to go out there and handle and Baseball’s World Series alive on Tuesday control the things that we can.” with a 5-1 home victory over the Cleveland Indians. DODGERS ROUGH UP ARRIETA The Blue Jays denied the Indians a four- In Los Angeles, Yasmani Grandal and game sweep of the best-of-seven American Justin Turner homered off Cubs ace Jake League Championship Series, which will Arrieta to help the Dodgers to a 2-1 series send the winners into a title showdown lead with games four and five coming up in with either the Chicago Cubs or Los Los Angeles on Wednesday and Thursday. Angeles Dodgers. Los Angeles starting pitcher Rich Hill The Cubs, trying to end a World Series allowed just two hits with six strikeouts drought that stretches back to 1908, over six scoreless innings as the Cubs were slipped 2-1 down in the National League shut out in back-to-back games for the first Championship Series with a 6-0 game- time since May of 2014. three defeat in Los Angeles. Hill, who just 14 months ago was with In Toronto, Josh Donaldson homered, an independent league team having Edwin Encarnacion drove in two runs and bounced around and out of the major Aaron Sanchez pitched six strong innings leagues, called it the biggest game of his for the Blue Jays, who handed Cleveland career, although he said he couldn’t afford their first defeat of the post-season. to think about that during the contest. Ezequiel Carrera singled in a run in the ”It’s all about staying in the moment and fourth to put Toronto up 2-0. executing when you’re in that moment and Robert Perez doubled in a run for that’s all you can think about,” Hill said. Cleveland to trim the deficit, but with the Cy Young Award-winner Arrieta, who bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh pitched a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium in Encarnacion smacked a single to center August of last year, gave up six hits in five- that scored two runs to stretch Toronto’s plus innings, including Grandal’s two-run lead to 4-1, and they tacked on another run blast in the fourth and Turner’s solo shot in in the bottom of the eighth. to lead off the sixth that spelled the end of “They hit better than us, they pitched Arrieta’s night. better than us, they played defense better Corey Seager had opened the Dodgers’ than us today, so they deserved to win,” account with a run-scoring single in the NEWARK: Andrew Cogliano #7 of the Anaheim Ducks and Ben Lovejoy #12 of the New Jersey Devils battle for position during the third period at Cleveland shortstop Francisco Lindor said. third, and the Dodgers added two more the Prudential Center on Tuesday in Newark, New Jersey. The Devils defeated the Ducks 2-1. — AFP “Their hitters looked a lot better today, a lot runs in the eighth. more comfortable.” Dodgers relief pitchers Joe Blanton and Toronto host game five on Wednesday, Grant Dayton combined to throw 1 2/3 Taylor Hall scores twice with the Indians again aiming to secure scoreless innings before closer Kenley their first World Series appearance since Jansen recorded the final four outs. 1997, when they were beaten by the “More than anything, I think we need Florida Marlins in a seven-game thriller. to get a couple runs and hits and runs in home debut for Devils Cleveland last won it all back in 1948. early to try to get that kind of feeling Down 3-1 in the series, the Blue Jays still back,” said Cubs manager Joe Maddon, face a formidable task. whose team haven’t scored since the The only baseball team to overcome a 3- eighth inning of game one of the series in NEWARK: Taylor Hall made his new fans in New 0 post-season series deficit was the 2004 Chicago on Saturday. Despite the Cubs’ Jersey very happy with two power-play goals in NHL results/standings Boston Red Sox, who rallied past the New offensive struggles, Grandal said the a 4:11 span in the second period and the Devils York Yankees in the ALCS. “It’s an uphill bat- Dodgers couldn’t take anything for grant- posted their first win, a 2-1 decision over the tle,” said Donaldson, who belted his first ed against the team that posted the best road-weary and penalty-plagued Anaheim New Jersey 2, Anaheim 1; San Jose 3, NY Islanders 2; Washington 3, Colorado 0; Montreal 4, homer of the playoffs off Cleveland starter regular-season record in baseball. “You Ducks on Tuesday night. Cory Schneider had 23 Pittsburgh 0; Ottawa 7, Arizona 4; Tampa Bay 4, Florida 3 (SO); Dallas 2, Nashville 1; Minnesota 6, Los Corey Kluber in the third inning. “We’re still can’t look ahead,” Grandal said. “These saves and forced the Ducks’ Chris Wagner to lose Angeles 3; Chicago 7, Philadelphia 4; Calgary 4, Buffalo 3 (OT); Edmonton 3, Carolina 2; Vancouver 2, down three games to one. It’s a must win guys won 100-some games. They’ve got control of the puck on a second-period penalty St. Louis 1 (OT). each and every game. the talent. When you think ahead, that’s shot as New Jersey snapped a five-game losing Western Conference Eastern Conference “They have a good team over there, we when bad things happen.” — AFP streak against Anaheim in its home opener. Sami Central Division Atlantic Division Vatanen scored on a power play for Anaheim, WLOTLGFGAPTS Tampa Bay 3 0 0 13 9 6 which is 0-3-1 in its five-game trip to start the St. Louis 3 0 1 12 8 7 Ottawa 3 1 0 17 16 6 season. John Gibson made 26 saves for Ducks, Minnesota 2 1 0 12 9 4 Montreal 2 0 1 11 5 5 who played shorthanded seven times. Hall, the Dallas 2 1 0 11 9 4 Florida 2 0 1 9 6 5 former No. 1 overall draft pick who was acquired Colorado 2 1 0 10 11 4 Boston 2 1 0 11 8 4 in a major trade with Edmonton in late June, tied Chicago 2 2 0 16 15 4 Toronto 1 0 1 8 6 3 the game at 1-all, putting the rebound of a shot Nashville 1 2 0 7 9 2 Buffalo 1 1 1 10 10 3 Detroit 1 2 0 10 11 2 by Mike Cammalleri into an open net at 12:35. Winnipeg 1 2 0 9 12 2 Metropolitan Division Pacific Division Washington 2 0 1 7 4 5 SHARKS 3, ISLANDERS 2 Vancouver 3 0 0 8 5 6 Pittsburgh 2 1 1 9 12 5 Joe Pavelski scored with 2:11 left to lift the Edmonton 3 1 0 17 15 6 NY Rangers 2 1 0 14 10 4 Sharks to a victory over the Islanders. Melker San Jose 3 1 0 12 12 6 New Jersey 1 1 1 5 6 3 Karlsson and Tomas Hertl also scored to help the Calgary 1 2 1 12 17 3 Philadelphia 1 1 1 11 13 3 Sharks win for the third time in four games. Joe Arizona 1 1 0 8 10 2 Carolina 0 1 2 9 12 2 Thornton and Brent Burns had two assists each, Anaheim 0 3 1 7 12 1 NY Islanders 1 3 0 9 12 2 giving both five on the season. Aaron Dell Los Angeles 0 3 0 6 12 0 Columbus 0 2 0 5 9 0 stopped 21 shots to win his NHL debut. On the Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the standings tiebreaking goal, Thornton sent a pass into the and are not included in the loss column (L). slot and Pavelski deflected it in. It gave Pavelski his fifth point in two games after he had a goal and three assists in the Sharks’ 7-4 loss to the Lightning beat the Panthers. Point’s goal came their home opener, over the Penguins. Off-sea- New York Rangers on Monday. The Islanders three rounds after it seemed Tampa Bay had son signing Alexander Radulov got his first goal trailed 1-0 after getting outplayed in the first won the shootout 1-0. After Jonathan Drouin as a Canadien - with Montoya picking up an period, but picked it up in the second and took scored for the Lightning in the third round, assist - while Max Pacioretty also scored for the lead with two goals 2:10 apart in the middle Vincent Trocheck appeared to fan on his initial Montreal, which has started the season 2-0 -1. of the period. shot before sending the puck into the net. It was Montoya, signed from the Florida Panthers this called no goal on the ice but the ruling was over- summer, picked up his sixth career shutout. The CAPITALS 3, AVALANCHE 0 turned after a video review, tying the shootout Penguins, coming off an overtime loss at home at 1. Lightning star Steven Stamkos forced over- Monday night, played their first road game of TORONTO: Toronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion celebrates after his two-RBI double T.J. Oshie scored twice and Alex Ovechkin picked up his first goal of the season, helping time when he lifted a shot from along the goal the season. While the ailing Carey Price got a against the Cleveland Indians during the seventh inning in Game 4 of baseball’s line over James Reimer with 5.5 seconds left in huge ovation from the Bell Centre crowd in pre- American League Championship Series in Toronto, Tuesday. — AP the Capitals beat the Avalanche. Ovechkin and Oshie each scored on the power play to end the third period. Michael Matheson scored his game introductions, his replacement Montoya Washington’s man-advantage scoring drought, first NHL goal at 15:52 of the third to give Florida was spectacular in goal as Pittsburgh outshot NZ struggle for answers and the Avalanche lost for the first time under a 3-2 advantage. the Canadiens 36-32. new coach Jared Bednar. Goaltender Semyon against Indian bowlers: Boult Varlamov was sharp in stopping 37 of 40 shots WILD 6, KINGS 3 BLACKHAWKS 7, FLYERS 4 behind Colorado teammates who were notice- Erik Haula and Jason Pominville scored for Marian Hossa scored his 500th career goal, ably tired playing the second half of a back-to- Minnesota and assisted on the other’s first-peri- Artem Anisimov snapped a third-period tie with NEW DELHI: New Zealand’s batsmen are an inspired bowling attack on Sunday, rat- od goal, fueling the Wild for a victory over Los his first score of the season and the Blackhawks struggling for answers against India’s bowl- tling New Zealand who slipped to 48 for back and their third game in four days. Washington backup Philipp Grubauer only Angeles that triggered an early exit for Kings beat the Flyers. Hossa’s power-play goal chased ing attack, Black Caps pace spearhead Trent five and 106 for eight before Tom Latham goalie Jeff Zatkoff. After Charlie Coyle, Mikko Michal Neuvirth and gave Chicago a 4-0 lead, Boult conceded yesterday, before the sec- and Tim Southee gave some respectability needed 18 saves for his first career shutout because Washington had the puck for most of Koivu and Teemu Pulkkinen tacked on scores for but Philadelphia responded with four goals in a ond one-day international in New Delhi. to the visitors’ total. the Wild, Kings coach Darryl Sutter pulled 5 1/2-minute span overlapping the second and The Kane Williamson-led side mustered just “There are still four matches up for the game. The Capitals entered the game 0 for 8 on the power play and lacking production from Zatkoff for Peter Budaj during the second inter- third periods. 190 runs in the opening match in grabs. An opportunity (is there) for us to mission. Zatkoff stopped 11 shots, taking his Wayne Simmonds, who hit the left post on Dharamsala earlier this week, a total which right a few wrongs and put in a good per- the first line, but those problems went away in quick succession. third straight loss since replacing star Jonathan two different shots, tied it at 4 on the power play India chased down in just 33.1 overs. formance,” said Boult, who expects to play Quick just 20 minutes into the season opener at 3:49 of the third. The Flyers had all the “We are looking to get more runs, as at Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla stadium after last week. Tanner Pearson had two goals, both momentum before Artemi Panarin stepped up basic as it sounds. If we could put more being rested for the first game. STARS 2, PREDATORS 1 Jason Spezza scored midway through the assisted by Jeff Carter, and Anze Kopitar also for the Blackhawks in his best game so far this runs on (the) board we could offer more India’s coach Anil Kumble said Pandya’s scored in the third period for the Kings, but season. The Calder Trophy winner found a wide- scoreboard pressure on a good Indian side,” inclusion had given the starting eleven the third period to give the Stars a win over the Predators. Adam Cracknell added his second Jared Spurgeon’s end-to-end empty-net fling open Anisimov for the tiebreaking goal at 10:24, Boult told reporters on the eve of “right balance”. The 23-year-old, who has from the far corner put the bow on a banner and then finished off a 2-on-1 with Patrick Kane, Thursday’s game. “They are a quality side played 16 Twenty20 internationals for goal of the season for Dallas, and Kari Lehtonen made 27 saves. Mike Fisher scored for Nashville night for the Wild. beating Steve Mason for a 6 -4 lead with 3:57 to and they are putting a lot of pressure on us India, impressed with match figures of 3-31 go. Panarin also scored on the power play during at the moment and at the moment we in seven overs in the first ODI. early in the second period to tie it 1-1. The Predators have lost two straight. Spezza’s CANADIENS 4, PENGUINS 0 Chicago’s three-goal first. The Russian winger don’t have the answers for their questions,” “I think he is someone who gives us the was kept off the scoresheet during the tiebreaking goal came 9:15 into the third. David Desharnais scored twice and Al said Boult, whose team-mates were white- right balance, because he cannot only bowl Montoya made 36 saves as the Canadiens won Blackhawks’ first three games. — AP washed by their hosts in the Test series. but he bowls at a pretty decent pace,” said Antoine Roussel had the puck in the right corner Debutant medium-pacer Hardik Pandya led Kumble. — AFP and sent it out front, where Spezza was able get his stick on it and tip it past goaltender Pekka Rinne. Rinne made 35 saves. Cook hopeful Anderson SENATORS 7, COYOTES 4 Tom Pyatt, Mark Stone and Chris Kelly had a will play role in India goal and an assist each as the Senators defeated the Coyotes in front of a sparse crowd of 11,061 DHAKA: England bowler James Anderson at Lord’s with a shoulder injury before it flared at Canadian Tire Centre. Bobby Ryan, Zack Smith, should play some part in the tour of India but up again at the end of the domestic season. Kyle Turris and Erik Karlsson, into an empty net, will definitely miss the first test, captain The first of five tests against India starts on also scored for the Senators, who have won Alastair Cook said yesterday. Nov. 9. Cook will overtake Alec Stewart to three of four. Mike Hoffman had three assists Paceman Anderson is still recovering from become the most-capped England test player and Craig Anderson made 31 saves. Jordan the shoulder injury that ruled him out of the when he steps out for the first of two tests Martincook scored twice, including his second at trip to Bangladesh. “He might come out to do against Bangladesh today. “I started however 18:43 just 30 seconds after Turris gave the some training but he will not be ready to play many years ago and you never thought you’d Senators a 6-3 lead. Tobias Rieder and Oliver in the first test,” Cook said. get anywhere near, so to break the record like Eckman-Larson had the other goals for the “I spoke to him last night. He has been that is very special,” he told the England and Coyotes Arizona lost the services of starting doing a lot of training and is in good shape Wales Cricket Board website ahead of his 134th goalie Mike Smith seven minutes into the third physically. The decision is going to be made test. “A lot of luck, I suppose, is needed with period when he suffered an injury to his left leg over the next week on that (when he goes to injuries and all that stuff and to score just during a scramble in front of the net. India). “The test for his body is when he starts enough runs at the right time to keep yourself bowling, but he is making some strides.” in the team,” said Cook who rejoined the squad LIGHTNING 4, PANTHERS 3, SO Anderson, 34, has struggled with injury this in Chittagong after returning home for the NEW DELHI: New Zealand’s Ross Taylor kicks a ball during a practice session ahead of sec- Brayden Point scored the game-winning goal year and missed the first test against Pakistan birth of his second daughter. — Reuters ond one-day international cricket match against India in New Delhi, India, yesterday. — AP in the sixth round of a shootout, and the THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 SPORTS Marcello Lippi set for China post: Report

MILAN: Former World Cup-winning coach selection process for a new coach was ings, China have claimed just one point Guardiola’s world-beating 17.7m euro the event and to one day win it. Marcello Lippi is being tipped to take over continuing. from four games and dropped to bottom (£15m) annual salary at Manchester City China have qualified only once for the as coach of China after being offered the “Only 2 things I can tell you now. place in a Group A which includes Iran, in the shade. World Cup, quietly departing the 2002 job following the resignation of Gao Firstly, we have accepted Gao Hongbo’s Uzbekistan, South Korea, Syria and Qatar. But the Chinese football federation edition without scoring a goal. Last year Hongbo, reports said yesterday. “Lippi, resignation. Lippi, who steered Italy to their fourth may be about to capture Lippi at a time officials declared football a compulsory coach of China,” ran the headline on the Secondly, for the coach candidate of and most recent World Cup triumph in when they are looking to make huge part of the national curriculum, with front page of Italy’s second most popular the national football team, we are doing 2006, is not new to working in China. strides forward in the game. pledges to open 20,000 football-themed sports daily Corriere dello Sport. relevant selection work and our selection The 68-year-old coached Chinese top Often a source of national embarrass- schools by 2017 with the aim of produc- It claimed the Italian maestro was has not been finished,” he said. flight side Guangzhou Evergrande to ment, improving the level of football at ing more than 100,000 players. There has “inclined to accept the offer” and added: Former China coach Gao resigned on three consecutive Super League titles club and national level has been one of also been a splurge of Chinese invest- “In the coming days, the former Italy October 11 following a 2-0 World Cup between 2012 and 2014. the priorities of China President Xi ment in some of Europe’s top clubs-Inter coach will travel to Beijing to pore over qualifying defeat to Uzbekistan. The Corriere dello Sport said last month Jinping. Milan, Manchester City, Aston Villa, the details of the Chinese football associa- result left China’s chances of qualifying for Lippi was set to return to the club on a Even before taking office, Xi under- Espanyol and Atletico Madrid to name but tion’s offer.” However, the China Football the 2018 World Cup in Russia looking three-year deal worth 20m euros net per lined his ambitions for Chinese football in a few-and some of the sport’s top stars Association’s Huang Shiwei told AFP the slim. Sitting a lowly 78th in FIFA’s rank- season-a salary that would have put Pep 2011: to qualify for the World Cup, to host have been lured to China. — AFP Family lobbying brings hope for autistic fans

LONDON: Peter and Kate Shippey’s suc- Peter. “However, the first game with the cessful lobbying of Sunderland to install a music and other noise we had to leave ear- room dedicated to largely autistic football ly. “Then it struck us why couldn’t the club fans could see more Premier League clubs put in a sensory room like he had at his follow suit. school where children go when they’re Alex White, Premier League Charitable having a meltdown and it helps to calm Fund Executive, said the Shippeys had them down.” served as an example and funding has Thus the campaign started, including been made available to other clubs to set talks with Sunderland and also garnering up similar rooms for home and away fans. support from the community, including a “Their success has been inspirational,” petition signed by 3,000 backers including White said at the Beyond Sport Summit, schools dealing with similar problems. the leading movement for sport for social “That told the club that we weren’t just change. “With BT (the telecom company acting for ourselves...,” he said. He told the who provide the specialist equipment) we club the flood of cash flowing into the want to extend it into other clubs in the league would allow them to set aside a cor- Premier League, “ he said. “We have made porate box costing about £30,000. Instead funding available to them for both home the club opted for a purpose-built room in and away teams.” one of the lounges for the 2015-16 season. The Shippeys decided to take action “I think its the first one ever built,” he after two abortive trips to Sunderland said Sunderland’s example-the room can fit home matches with Nathan, one of their three people with sensory illnesses along three boys-all of whom are autistic. with a parent and a carer and for which “Two years ago I took Nathan to a home there was a waiting list at the end of last game even though we knew it would be a season-has been followed Shippey says by problem with all the noise,” said Peter fourth tier Notts County. “It has trans- Shippey. “We gave him ear defences to try formed his (Nathan) life, although it got and see if they worked. However, it was a interesting when there was a Newcastle fan big game which we won and so ensured in the room for the derby last season!” said we stayed up. Thus the noise was louder Shippey. Kate Shippey says the room has than ever and he couldn’t cope.” The revolutionised life for other parents. BANGALORE: Bengaluru’s captain Sunil Chhetri (2nd R) heads a ball during the 2016 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup semi-final second Shippeys thought that the experiment was “It’s had a massive and positive impact,” leg football match between Bengaluru FC and Johor Darul Ta’zim at the Shree Kanteerava stadium in Bangalore, yesterday. — AFP over, but Nathan’s passion for football grew she said. “One father brought his 24-year- after he watched the World Cup through old son to a game for the first time because the summer of 2014. before it had not been worth the risk. “So I bought season tickets for the “There was not a dry eye in the room, Saints chase famous win at 2014/15 campaign which aren’t cheap,” said the boy was awe-struck.” — AFP San Siro, Van Persie returns

PARIS: Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster Manchester United entertain Fenerbahce in drawn away to AZ Alkmaar and beaten Maccabi is looking for the Premier League club to make “a Group A at Old Trafford. Tel Aviv in Group D to stay in touch with leaders massive statement” by beating Italian giants United have four points from two games Zenit. But as they close in on another Irish Inter Milan in the Europa League today. before a rematch with the Turkish giants, with league title, boss Stephen Kenny admits the The Saints travel to the San Siro-and as many whom they have a bit of history. number of games they have faced is beginning as seven thousand of their fans are expected to Fenerbahce inflicted a first ever European to take its toll. “Hopefully we can be energised follow them-knowing a win at the home of the home defeat on United back in 1996, while eight by the crowd. I think it will be a full house and three-time European champions would be a big years later Wayne Rooney hit a hat-trick against we will need that because on Sunday we have step towards progressing to the knockout phase the same team on his European debut. an opportunity to win the league against from Group K. It would also be another memorable result for a club who were in the third tier of English football just five years ago. “If we go and do that (win) it will be a massive statement. You look where the club was just a few years ago and even in the time since I’ve joined the club-you meet the owner and you meet the chairman, and when we came to the club that’s what they said, that they wanted to move the club forward SUNDERLAND: This file photo taken on April 2, 2013 shows the gates of the Stadium and get into Europe, and every summer they’ve of Light, home of Sunderland Association Football Club, in Sunderland, northeast backed us,” goalkeeper Forster told the club’s England. Peter and Kate Shippey’s successful and historic lobbying of Sunderland to website. “They’ve bought players, and step by instal a room dedicated to largely autistic football fans could see many more Premier step we’re achieving those goals and hopefully League clubs follow suit. — AFP we can do ourselves proud in the game, and if we can come out of it with three points that will be a massive achievement.” Korea’s Motors roar Southampton, who are fresh from beating Burnley 3-1 in the Premier League at the week- end, have so far beaten Sparta Prague 3-0 and into Asian final drawn 0-0 away in Israel to Hapoel Beer-Sheva. In contrast, Inter are struggling. SEOUL: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors stormed and fined after one of their scouts was con- Frank de Boer was only appointed in the sum- into the AFC Champions League final with a victed of bribing referees. mer but the Dutchman’s side have lost two out 5-3 aggregate victory over FC Seoul despite “We fought hard and were looking good of two in the Europa League and are in the bot- tom half of the Serie A table after a 2-1 home losing the all-Korean semi-final’s second leg in the first half,” said FC Seoul’s coach Hwang MILAN: Southampton’s Dutch defender Virgil Van Dijk takes part in training session at the San defeat to Cagliari at the weekend. 2-1 yesterday. After Jeonbuk had dominated Sun-Hong. “The second goal was important Siro Stadium in Milan yesterday, on the eve of the UEFA Europa League football match against Meanwhile, star striker and captain Mauro the first leg 4-1, Brazilian marksman Adriano and we were pushing for that. Inter Milan. — AFP gave the home side hope when he slotted a “So I am sorry for the fans who came out Icardi’s future at the club is in the air after Inter record-equalling 13th goal of the tournament to support us in good numbers. We had a supporters reacted furiously to comments he The Istanbul side are not in good form as they Bohemians,” Kenny told RTE. in the first half. good campaign and the players did their made about them in a recently-published auto- travel to England with former United striker “It is great to be involved in these games but But Jeonbuk’s Ricardo Lopes doused any best... we have learned from this experience biography. Robin van Persie, now 33, in their baggage. the players are on their knees. They are exhaust- hopes of a comeback by equalising on 59 and we will come back stronger.” In Dublin, Irish surprise package Dundalk ed.” In other action French league leaders Nice minutes, before Seoul’s Ko Kwang-Min FC Seoul’s Adriano was in the thick of it DUNDALK ‘ON THEIR KNEES’ must try to shake off fatigue as they host 2008 are looking for their first win in Group I when grabbed a consolation goal for Seoul in injury during an electric first half in front of a noisy It is all a far cry from the days under Jose UEFA Cup winners Zenit St Petersburg. they visit Salzburg but will be missing star striker time. Jeonbuk, the 2006 champions, now go crowd as the hosts pressed for the goals they Mourinho when Inter won the Champions After falling just short of reaching the Mario Balotelli in Austria due to an adductor into a blockbuster two-legged final next needed to overturn their first-leg deficit. League in 2010. Mourinho’s current side Champions League group stage, Dundalk have problem. — AFP month against fellow former winners Al Ain The Brazilian shot just wide on 16 minutes and their feted playmaker Omar and headed off-target eight minutes later. Abdulrahman. The K-League leaders also Elsewhere, Jeonbuk midfielder Kim Bo-Kyung reach their third Asian final despite a domes- was bloodied by a flailing elbow before play- Mourinho issues Rashford with tic scandal. They were deducted nine points ing on with a bandaged head. — AFP England Under-21 warning MANCHESTER: Jose Mourinho does not want post as England Under-21 boss to be the manag- Wayne Rooney and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to fea- Marcus Rashford to be selected for next year’s er of the senior England team on an interim basis, ture in the starting side as Mourinho juggles his European Under-21 Championships if the with the FA still to announce if the former squad ahead of Sunday’s trip to Chelsea. Manchester United striker is a regular in the sen- England defender will succeed Sam Allardyce on Rooney has not started the last four United ior England squad. a permanent basis after the veteran coach was games and has also seen his place in the England The United manager was responding to sto- forced out after just one game following indis- run-on XI disappear under new manager ries that England’s governing Football Association creet comments made to undercover reporters. “If Southgate. were keen to include Premier League stars, such he’s an Under-21 player in the national team, then “Wayne is working well, he is one of those as Rashford, in their Under-21 squad for the tour- he is an Under-21 player and there is no discus- responsible for the atmosphere for the players,” nament in Poland in June. sion about that,” said Mourinho of Rashford. insisted Mourinho. “He is positive, he is a good Mourinho has no problem with Rashford, who “But if he becomes a regular choice for Gareth example. We count on him to start or be on the turns 19 on the last day of this month, being a Southgate in the first team, then we have to bench. He will be there tomorrow (Thursday).” part of that squad - but only if he has not estab- speak because we don’t want him going.” As for Mkhitaryan, a £26 million ($34.5 million, lished himself in the senior set-up. “We are in mid- Rashford has five England caps to his name, four 30.7 million euros) pre-season signing from October, the Championships will be in the sum- of them as a substitute in competitive interna- Borussia Dortmund, the Armenian has not been mer,” United manager Mourinho said Wednesday. tionals. involved since defeat in the Manchester derby in “I think we have to wait and see what happens early-September as he struggles to recover from a until then. Because if the player becomes a regu- ROONEY ‘WORKING WELL’ thigh injury. “He was injured and was injured for lar in the ‘A’ national team, if you want to call it Mourinho was speaking as he put the finish- quite a long time,” said Mourinho. “Now he is not SEOUL: Go Yo-han, right, of South Korea’s FC Seoul fights for the ball against Jang that, then to say it is important for his develop- ing touches to plans for the Europa League group injured anymore. He has been training with the Yun-ho of South Korea’s Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors during the second leg of AFC ment (to be) with the Under-21s, makes no sense.” game with Fenerbahce at Old Trafford on team without any limitation. “I cannot confirm if Champions League semifinal soccer match at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, yes- Gareth Southgate has been promoted from his Thursday. The game could be the opportunity for he plays tomorrow.” — AFP terday. — AP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 SPORTS Besiktas beat Napoli for first CL win in 7 years

NAPLES: Vincent Aboubakar scored twice competition since 2009. Adriano scored on Besiktas’s first opportu- er, Besiktas took the lead again through Fullback Caner Erkin was booked for tug- and Besiktas beat Napoli 3-2 in the If Napoli had won, it would have nity 12 minutes in, redirecting a low cross Aboubakar, who took advantage of a ging Mertens’ shirt in the area. Champions League on Wednesday to become the first team in Champions from Ricardo Quaresma that found its way dreadful back pass by Napoli midfielder Aboubakar’s second came with a header deny the Italian club a chance at advanc- League history to advance from its group through a crowded area. Jorginho. Besiktas goalkeeper Fabri made following a free kick from Quaresma, ing from the group stage in record time. after just three matches. Now, Napoli has Dries Mertens equalized for Napoli on a diving save to stop a penalty from although the striker may have been off- Aboubakar, a Cameroon international just a one-point lead over Besiktas, with the half-hour mark, finishing off a beauti- Lorenzo Insigne early in the second half side. It was Napoli’s first home loss in the on loan from Porto, scored the winner Benfica two points back after its 2-0 win at ful exchange that began with captain and preserve the lead. competition, having won eight and drawn four minutes from time after having also Dynamo Kiev. While Napoli missed injured Marek Hamsik and ended with Jose Napoli substitute Manolo Gabbiadini four games stretching back to the old restored Besiktas’ lead late in the first half. center forward Arkadiusz Milik, the Callejon cutting the ball the back for converted a penalty to make it 2-2 five European Cup. Napoli has also lost two It was the Turkish side’s first win in the Partenopei were most lacking on defense. Mertens to prod home. Eight minutes lat- minutes after he replaced Insigne. straight in Serie A. — AP Celtic’s CL hopes in tatters after Kolo Toure blunders

GLASGOW: Celtic’s Champion League long to be tested. hopes were in tatters yesterday as Borussia Ibrahima Traore’s effort had the Hoops Monchengladbach produced a clinical per- stopper at full-stretch to make a fingertip formance to inflict a 2-0 home defeat on save before he smothered the danger as the Scottish champions. Hahn looked to pounce on the loose ball. The Germans arrived in Glasgow with a The Bundesliga side seemed to cut horrendous injury list and struggling for through Celtic with ease and Jonas form following defeats by Manchester City Hoffman was next to try his luck but his ris- and Barcelona in their opening Group C fix- ing shot failed to trouble Gordon. tures. However, the Bundesliga side domi- The Hoops looked to be in trouble as nated the match from the start as they Stindl latched on to a poor backward head- played with the kind of intensity that had er by Bitton, but the Foals’ captain over hit helped Celtic claim a thrilling 3-3 draw with his pass to Hahn whose shot from a tight Manchester City on match day two. angle was tipped over by Gordon. Following a goalless first half, captain The Celtic fans, who seemed to drive Lars Stindl rifled his side into a deserved their side forward against Man City with lead in the 57th minute after a mistake their raucous support, were silenced as from veteran defender Kolo Toure. their side struggled to cope with the relent- The former Liverpool defender was less pressure from the Germans. caught out again 20 minutes later as Andre However, they came alive again just Hahn pounced to grab the second and before the break as Rogic’s clever pass inflict only Celtic’s fourth home defeat in 26 behind the Borussia defence played in Champions League games. Sinclair but the English forward sent his Monchengladbach move to within one effort sailing over the bar. point of Manchester City in second, who The home support tried their best to lost 3-0 to Group C leaders Barcelona rouse their side at the start of the second thanks to a Lionel Messi hat-trick on Pep half but the Germans’ slick one-touch pass- Guardiola’s return to the Nou Camp, while ing play stifled their opponents. Celtic are rooted to the bottom on one The visitors took a deserved lead in point. The Hoops flew out of the traps bizarre circumstances. Toure was caught against City but any hopes for a similar trying to usher the ball out inside the six- start were thwarted by the yard box but Hahn’s perseverance allowed Monchengladbach players who seemed to him to dig the ball back into ball for the have the measure of their opponents. advancing Stindl who lashed the ball Much was made of the visitors’ injury through the legs of Gordon. problems with key forwards Raffael, Another costly mistake from Toure Thorgan Hazard and Josip Drmic missing, allowed the visitors to increase their LONDON: Ludogorets’ Madagascan midfielder Anicet Abel (C) tackles Arsenal’s Spanish defender Hector Bellerin during the UEFA Champions but their replacements were impressive as advantage. The experienced defender was League Group A football match between Arsenal and Ludogorets Razgrad at The Emirates Stadium in London yesterday. — AFP twice within the opening minutes the caught dithering on the ball by Hahn who Celtic defence was torn apart. robbed him of possession near the Only a last-ditch block from Toure pre- halfway line and raced away to blast a strike into the top right-hand corner of Ozil treble, Sanchez gem vented a Hahn shot from reaching Craig Gordon, but the ‘keeper didn’t have to wait Gordon’s net. — AFP inspire rampant Arsenal

LONDON: Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez that beat Swansea on Saturday, Wenger called saved by Ospina, who raced off his line and showed why their value to Arsenal is priceless as for his players to keep their foot on the gas after barely got to the ball before colliding with Virgil the peerless duo inspired a 6-0 thrashing of building some impressive momentum in recent Misidjan, who appealed in vain for a penalty. Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets in the weeks and the response was emphatic. Ospina also had to be alert to block on the Champions League yesterday. After scoring twice against Swansea, Walcott edge of the area before Wanderson fired against Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has urged Ozil had a golden opportunity to extend his hot the woodwork from the rebound. Walcott mis- and Sanchez not to get greedy after reports they streak when Sanchez picked him out unmarked fired again when he blasted straight at Stoyanov both plan to demand Arsenal increase their inside the penalty area. from close-range, but he made amends in the wages to £250,000-per-week ($307,000, 279,000 With only Ludogorets goalkeeper Vladislav 42nd minute. Given time to size up his shooting euros) when contract talks are reopened later Stoyanov to beat, Walcott strangely opted for a chances 25 yards from goal, Walcott punished this month. Sanchez and Ozil’s current deals cross and his scuffed delivery was easily cleared. Ludogorets’ slack marking with a superb shot expire in 2018, but Arsenal want their prize Walcott’s faux pas was never likely to derail that flashed past the slow-to-react Stoyanov. assets to commit their long-term futures to the Arsenal for long as they cut through the With their chances of taking even a point club and on the evidence of their swaggering Ludogorets defence time and again before tak- looking forlorn, Ludogorets faded in the second displays at the Emirates Stadium, they should ing the lead in the 12th minute. half and Oxlade-Chamberlain pounced on pay them whatever they want. Sanchez was the Kieran Gibbs’ half-cleared cross to score Arsenal’s catalyst for Arsenal’s romp as the former PRIME FORM third goal from 10 yards in the 46th minute. Barcelona star netted his sixth goal of the season Taking possession on the left edge of the Wenger’s men weren’t finished yet and Ozil with a quite brilliant first half chip, while German Ludogorets penalty area after beating the made it four when he raced onto Santi Cazorla’s midfielder Ozil smashed a second half hat-trick. Bulgarians’ attempted offside trap, Sanchez superb long pass and drilled a low strike past Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looked up and lofted a majestic chip that arched Stoyanov in the 56th minute. were also on the scoresheet for rampant Arsenal, over Stoyanov before nestling into the far cor- There was still time for Ozil to improve his who are top of Champions League Group A after ner. While Arsenal were in prime form going for- own bid for a bumper new deal as he struck three matches and well on course for the last 16. ward, they were less convincing at the back and again with a cool finish in the 83rd minute. Unbeaten in Europe this season, Arsenal have Wanderson threatened with a stinging drive that Ozil completed his hat-trick in the 87th now won seven successive matches in all com- forced David Ospina into action. minute when he blasted home with a fierce petitions. Making four changes from the team Breached again moments later, Arsenal were close-range volley. — AFP Di Maria points the way for PSG GLASGOW: Celtic’s Erik Sviatchenko, right, jumps for the ball ahead of Moenchengladbach’s Lars Stindl during the Champions League group C soccer match between Celtic and Borussia Moenchengladbach at Celtic Park, Glasgow, PARIS: Angel Di Maria’s first goal of the season later but Paris were poor, and yet they went in low into the net after Basel failed to cut out a Scotland, yesterday. — AP set Paris Saint-Germain on their way to a 3-0 front five minutes before the interval. Serge Aurier centre. Champions League victory against an unlucky Cavani tried to convert a low ball in by Blaise It was not Basel’s evening, and they hit the Basel side at the Parc des Princes yesterday. Matuidi but his touch turned into an assist for Di frame of the goal for the third time in the 66th ‘Benfica beat Dynamo Kiev Di Maria grabbed the opener late in the first Maria, who finished emphatically. minute. Marek Suchy’s header following a free- half and Lucas doubled PSG’s lead just after the Cavani saw a header graze the near post on kick struck an upright and then rebounded off hour mark before Edinson Cavani’s late penalty its way past as he connected with a Di Maria an unwitting Areola on the line. KIEV: Eduardo Salvio converted a penalty rhythm and the hosts fell further behind in sealed the victory as the French giants moved free-kick at the start of the second half. Cavani then added gloss to the score-line by and Franco Servi also scored as Benfica the 55th, when Servi scored at the second closer to qualifying for the last 16 from Group A. He then robbed Eder Balanta and bore down converting a stoppage-time penalty for his 17th beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 yesterday for a first attempt after his first effort struck his own They remain level on seven points at the top on goal but could not beat Vaclik. Instead, it was goal this season for club and country after he win in the Champions League this season. player, Kostas Mitroglou. of the group with Arsenal, who crushed Lucas who made it 2-0 moments later, slotting had been fouled in the box. — AFP GonÁalo Guedes was brought down by Benfica moved up to third in Group C, a Ludogorets 6-0 in London, with Basel and the Antunes, allowing Salvio the chance to point behind Besiktas and two behind Bulgarians both six points behind. A draw when score from the spot in the ninth minute. Napoli after three games. Dynamo has one they play Basel away in their next outing will Conceding early disrupted Dynamo’s point. — AP likely secure their progress to the next round, and yet the outcome of this game could have been very different, with the Swiss side hitting the woodwork three times. The home side were without the injured Thiago Motta, and while the elegant Adrien Rabiot started in his place, they missed his abili- ty to dictate the tempo of a game and keep pos- session. Indeed, a side that had appeared so accomplished in previous seasons under Laurent Blanc again looked a shadow of their former selves for much of this game. Paris have not yet convinced under Unai Emery and they could not afford to underesti- mate a Basel outfit utterly dominant in their domestic league and who have pulled off some impressive results in Europe. The visitors were the better team in the first half but missed several chances, first when Birkir Bjarnason kept alive a corner at the back post and Michael Lang headed against the bar. Ivory Coast striker Seydou Doumbia then out- muscled Thiago Silva before releasing Renato Steffen, but Alphonse Areola came out to deny the winger before Doumbia fired over the loose ball. Di MarÌa did flash a volley just past after being teed up by Lucas on a quick breakaway but Basel hit the woodwork again in the 36th PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Argentinian forward Angel Di Maria (2nd-L) and Paris Saint- KIEV: Benfica goalkeeper Ederson makes a save in front of Kiev’s Andriy Yarmolenko minute, this time from a Doumbia header after a Germain’s Uruguayan forward Edinson Cavani (2nd-R) control the ball moments before scoring during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Dynamo Kiev and Matias Delgado cross. during the UEFA Champions League group A football match between Paris Saint-Germain Benfica at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. — AP Rabiot was denied by Tomas Vaclik seconds (PSG) and Basel at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris yesterday. — AFP IOC boss ducks Ozil treble, Sanchez S Korea row in gem inspire Tokyo 162020 visit rampant19 Arsenal THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

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BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi kicks the ball during a Champions League, Group C soccer match between Barcelona and Manchester City, at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, yesterday. — AP Messi hat-trick punishes Man City

BARCELONA: Manchester City’s Claudio Bravo and Pep once again come under the spotlight as the Chilean’s Yet, City could easily have been level as Marc-Andre er end as he produced another stunning save to turn Guardiola endured a nightmare return to Barcelona as difficult start to life at City cost the visitors dearly. ter Stegen turned Nolito’s angled drive behind before Kevin de Bruyne’s low effort to safety. Lionel Messi’s hat-trick spearheaded a 4-0 Champions However, early on it looked as if Guardiola was to get the German made a stunning stop from international Messi completed his second hat-trick in as many League rout for the Spanish champions yesterday. one over on his former teammate, Barca coach Luis teammate Ilkay Gundogan. Champions League games this season 21 minutes from Guardiola led Barca to 14 trophies in a glorious four- Enrique, as City hemmed the hosts inside their own half John Stones then headed a golden chance wide, but time thanks to another City gift. Gundogan this time year reign between 2008 and 2012, but his homecom- and enjoyed the vast majority of possession. City were grateful to Bravo again when his outstretched presented the ball to Suarez, who unselfishly squared ing was undone by a series of shocking defensive errors The course of the game changed with one huge leg denied Suarez before he reacted in time to turn the for Messi to slot home. and Messi’s clinical touch on his return from injury. error on 17 minutes, though, as Fernandinho’s untimely rebound over his crossbar just before half-time. Mathieu picked up two yellow cards in three minutes Messi pounced on Fernandinho’s slip to give Barca a slip left Messi free inside the area and he calmly round- There was no reprieve for Bravo eight minutes into to balance up the numbers on each side. half-time lead before goalkeeper Bravo was sent off for ed Bravo to slot home on his first start for a month after the second half when he gifted possession to Suarez But by then the damage had already been done as handling Luis Suarez’s shot outside the area. a groin injury. and then saved the Uruguayan’s effort whilst outside his after winning his first 10 games in charge, Guardiola’s Two more sumptuous Messi finishes soon followed Barca’s injury problems continued as Jordi Alba and box to prompt an obvious red card. men have now gone four matches without a win. and Neymar made amends for missing a penalty with a Gerard Pique limped off before the break due to ham- City were still reeling from that blow when Messi Willy Caballero looked to have saved City from fur- brilliant individual run and finish for Barca’s fourth after string and ankle problems respectively. curled home at the near post-a finish reminiscent of his ther embarrassment as he stopped Neymar’s penalty Jeremy Mathieu’s red card left both sides with 10 men. Bravo rushed from his line to deny Neymar latching opening goal when Guardiola also suffered a 3-0 drub- three minutes from time. City now trail Barca by five points at the top of Group C. onto Samuel Umtiti’s brilliant ball over the City defence, bing on his only previous return to the Camp Nou as a But the Brazilian responded in style by dancing past Guardiola’s decision to jettison England number one whilst Ivan Rakitic headed wastefully wide from a Messi visiting coach with Bayern Munich two seasons ago. a series of tired City defenders before slotting into the Joe Hart to bring in Bravo at the start of the season will free-kick as Barca threatened a second. By contrast, Ter Stegen continued to shine at the oth- far corner. — AFP Bayern thump Eindhoven to break winless streak

MUNICH: Bayern Munich broke their three- After talk from the German media of a ‘mini- performance chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge game winless streak with an emphatic 4-1 win at crisis’, following three games without a win in all had branded “unacceptable”. home to PSV Eindhoven yesterday in the competitions, this was the result and perform- Lewandowski was the only change to the Champions League with winger Arjen Robben ance Bayern needed. starting line-up in a 4-3-3 formation as Mueller outstanding. But the German league leaders were aided switched to the wing and Kingsley Coman drop- Thomas Mueller and Joshua Kimmich put and abetted by an Eindhoven defence which left ping to the bench. Bayern ahead at the Allianz Arena before acres of space to exploit, especially early on, Eindhoven coach Phillip Cocu made two Luciano Narsingh netted for Eindhoven before allowing Bayern 28 shots on goal, while the changes from their 1-1 Dutch league draw with the break, but Robert Lewandowski made it 3-1 Dutch managed only eight in reply. Bayern Heracles Almelo as Netherlands striker Narsingh on the hour mark. remain second in Group D, three points behind and Mexico winger Andres Guardado returned. Robben, who created two goals, capped an leaders Atletico, who won 1-0 at Rostov, while Bayern needed just 12 minutes to take the eye-catching display with a fourth goal as Eindhoven are third with a single point. lead thanks to quick thinking from Mueller and Bayern got their Group D campaign back on Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti had hinted at Robben, who fired in a short pass from a corner. track after their 1-0 defeat at Atletico Madrid changes from the side which drew 2-2 at Eindhoven goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet parried three weeks ago. Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, a Bundesliga Mueller’s shot, but the Germany international ROSTOV-ON-DON: Atletico Madrid’s Argentinian midfielder Angel Correa (L) and snapped up the rebound and slotted home off Rostov’s Ecuadorian midfielder Christian Noboa vie for the ball during the UEFA his right foot. Champions League football match between FC Rostov and Club Atletico de Madrid Bayern exploited the space Eindhoven gener- in Rostov-on-Don yesterday. — AFP ously gave them at the back. David Alaba’s cross clipped a defender, but Kimmich tracked the looping ball to header Carrasco fires Atletico over the line on 21 minutes for his seventh goal in eight games. Eindhoven then tightened their defence and started to attack. to win over Rostov 1-0 Uruguay winger Gaston Pereiro had the ball in the Munich net on their first meaningful ROSTOV-ON-DON: Top of La Liga and now Angel Correa. Against a tenacious Rostov attack on 39 minutes, but the goal was incorrect- with three wins from three in the team which had not lost at home for 26 ly ruled off side. Champions League, Atletico Madrid’s sea- games, the breakthrough came in the 62nd The Dutch clawed one back two minutes later son so far is going to plan after beating FC minute when Carrasco met Juanfran’s cross when Narsingh’s superb shot from outside the Rostov 1-0 yesterday. with a fierce shot on the bounce after area crashed in off the post to the annoyance of Yannick Ferreira Carrasco fired in the Fernando Torres had failed to convert from Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to make it 2-1 winner on a cold night in Russia on close range. at the break. Wednesday, and at the halfway point in Atletico’s star attacking midfielder Lewandowski fired wide in the first two min- Group D Atletico is all but assured of quali- Antoine Griezmann started the game slow- utes after the break, but only Neuer’s reflex save fying for the knockout stages with an ly but played an increasingly valuable role denied Pereiro at the other end. eight-point lead over third place. in the second half and could have scored Just as PSV were gaining momentum, Bayern Carrasco now boasts five goals from his Atletico’s second in the 83rd, but Dzhanaev extended their lead. Robben beat two defenders last four games for Atletico after having made the save. before Zoet parried his shot before failed to score in his first seven outings of Defensively minded Rostov has one Lewandowski headed in the rebound on 59 min- the season. Against Rostov, the Belgium point from three games in its Champions utes. Zoet’s saves, to deny Alaba and Mueller, winger was all action from the start, forcing League debut campaign and rarely threat- MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Dutch midfielder Arjen Robben (L) and Eindhoven’s Mexican kept the score respectable before Thiago a save from Rostov goalkeeper Soslan ened to score against Atletico, barring a defender Hector Moreno vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League group D foot- Alcantara’s chip saw Robben nudge the ball over Dzhanaev early on and twice helping to set couple of late efforts easily dealt with by ball match FC Bayern Munich vs PSV Eindhoven in Munich, yesterday.— AFP the Eindhoven keeper on 84 minutes. — AFP up good chances that were missed by goalkeeper Jan Oblak. — AP Dollar recedes from a seven-month peak Page 24

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TRIPOLI: Libyans ride a horse-pulled-cart on Martyrs’ Square in the capital Tripoli. When the 2011 uprising toppled the regime of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libyans dreamt of transforming their country into another Dubai, but the political stalemate and the conflict rocking Libya are preventing the North African country from taking advantage of its vast oil resources and pushing the economy towards collapse, experts say. —AFP Chaos-ridden Libya’s economy on the brink Libyan economy nears collapse amid low oil prices

TRIPOLI: Political stalemate and the conflict police or army, crime is rife in the capital. Car the National Oil Company (NOC). erupted around key export terminals in east- alternative sources of income need to be rocking Libya are preventing the North African theft, kidnapping for ransom and vendettas Coupled with low global oil prices, this has ern Libya’s so-called Oil Crescent. In found,” she said. “The reliance on oil has had a country from taking advantage of its vast oil between armed groups are common. After 42 left the economy “mired in recession since September, the four terminals were seized by severe impact on the economy and put pres- resources and pushing the economy towards years in power, Gaddafi left behind a dilapi- 2013”, with record high deficits, the World forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, sure on (capital) reserves.” To bridge the rev- collapse, experts say. When the 2011 uprising dated infrastructure, an economy totally Bank said. Libya has lost more than $100 bil- who is allied to an authority in the east that enue gap, the authorities have drawn on toppled the regime of dictator Muammar dependent on oil revenues and a poorly lion (91 billion euros) in oil revenues since opposes the internationally recognized unity dwindling currency reserves which the World Gaddafi, Libyans dreamt of transforming their skilled workforce. In the five years since he 2013, according to NOC chairman Mustafa government based in Tripoli. Bank says have fallen from $107.6 billion (97.7 country into another Dubai. Today, they have was killed, most foreign investors have fled. Sanalla. Oil income has fallen to record lows, billion euros) in 2013 to $43 billion (39.0 bil- somewhat lower expectations. “To live in secu- hitting just $2.25 billion (2.05 billion euros) in Damaged infrastructure lion euros) in 2016. rity, have electricity, fuel and a salary, and send ‘Mired in recession’ the first seven months of 2016, according to After Haftar’s takeover, exports quickly Currency exchange restrictions and specu- our children to school. We’re not asking for “The Libyan economy is near collapse as the World Bank. That is far from the $50 billion resumed-a development welcomed by the lation are pushing the economy into a vicious anything more than that,” said Mahmoud, a political stalemate and civil conflict prevent it (45 billion euros) per year oil revenues NOC which has sought to remain neutral cycle and boosting a flourishing black market. 35-year-old Tripoli resident. from fully exploiting its sole natural resource: brought Libya under Gaddafi. despite the two governments’ intense rivalry. Most Libyans no longer trust the banks and Long queues form every morning at oil,” the World Bank warned. Libya may have The sector, which used to bring in 95 per- But repairing infrastructure damaged by fight- almost all transactions happen on the black banks, which do not have enough cash to Africa’s largest oil reserves, estimated at 48 bil- cent of state revenues, has fallen victim to ing will take time, and the World Bank does market. Supermarket shelves are empty as meet customers’ needs, and the people face lion barrels, but production and exports have feuding between militias and rival govern- not expect production to return to capacity traders cut imports for fear of losses in a wildly unprecedented high prices. The World Bank slumped dramatically through years of crisis. ments that have torn the country apart. Oil until 2020. Even as exports resume, the crisis is fluctuating market. One of the few business reports a “substantial loss in real purchasing Libya pumped around 1.6 million barrels of production fell to near zero during the 2011 likely to continue as revenues struggle to leaders still in Tripoli warned that things could power of the population”, with basic food crude a day before Gaddafi’s overthrow, but uprising. In the following months it came match vast public spending, Karima Munir, an deteriorate further. “The situation could get prices leaping 31 percent in the first quarter the ensuing chaos hit production which fell as close to pre-revolution levels, but in 2013 independent Libyan expert said. even worse if a quick solution isn’t found to of the year. Meanwhile, in the absence of low as 290,000 in recent months, according to tumbled again as protests and violence “The country is a massive welfare state and the problem of liquidity,” he said.—AFP Indian police fear the US tax SABIC profit boosts Saudi as scam spread across country

MUMBAI: A multi-million-dollar racket that was detained this week as police try to close Qatar hit by weak earnings used fake Indian call centers to trick US citi- in on the 23-year-old alleged mastermind. zens into paying bogus tax bills may be the It is claimed the accused would berate vic- tip of the iceberg, with police warning simi- tims for falsely failing to pay taxes and then MIDEAST STOCKS lar scams could be operating across the threaten them with jail if they did not cough country. School leavers or college dropouts up immediately. The con artists would use an DUBAI: Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) helped petrochemical producers have now reported First Gulf Bank added 1.8 percent, trimming its would be trained to speak with an altered caller ID number that made it look like lift Riyadh’s stock market yesterday after it third-quarter earnings, with generally weak losses to 1.3 percent since Sunday. American accent, posing as US Internal they were ringing from the United States and reported a third-quarter net profit at the top results. Nama Chemicals, a mid-sized producer, Revenue Service officials and scare people often quoted IRS badge numbers to make end of forecasts, but a loss at Qatar’s third- said yesterday it made a loss of 32.6 million Qatar, Egypt Underperform into believing they owed the government them appear legitimate. The fraudsters would largest bank dragged that market lower. Egypt riyals versus a loss of 24.0 million in the same In Qatar, the index closed down 0.3 percent as cash, detectives said. The scheme, which trick the victim into sending money, often slid for a fourth straight session. Riyadh’s stock period of 2015; its shares closed flat. Commercial Bank of Qatar dropped 4.8 percent. had been operating for over a year, netted through pre-paid debit cards that can be pur- index rebounded 1.1 percent, ending three Middle East Healthcare jumped 7.8 per- The bank made a net attributable loss of 1.04 mil- more than 10 million rupees ($150,000) a chased at stores like Walmart, or even by buy- days of declines and trimming its loss since cent after its quarterly net income rose 1.4 lion riyals ($285,612) in the third quarter versus a day, they added. ing Apple iTunes gift cards. In both instances Sunday to 3.0 percent. SABIC, the Gulf’s largest percent to 92 million riyals. The positive profit of 275.9 million riyals a year earlier; analysts More than 70 people have been arrested transfers are made by the victim handing over petrochemical producer, climbed 1.8 percent to mood spilled into some shares that were hit polled by Reuters had forecast a profit of 281.7 after police this month swooped on call cen- the card’s registration number. 84.00 riyals after posting a net profit of 5.22 bil- earlier this week by disappointing results. million riyals. The bank cited provisions for non- ters in western India, from Mumbai to the The iTunes scam has even led Apple to lion riyals ($1.39 billion) in the three months to Lender Saudi Hollandi rebounded 2.4 per- performing loans, after former Australia and New Gujarat capital of Ahmedabad, but they sus- issue a global warning on its website urging Sept. 30, down 6.8 percent from a year ago. cent. But Emaar the Economic City, developer Zealand Banking Group banker Joseph Abraham pect the network could stretch even further. people not to give the number to someone Analysts polled by Reuters had on average pre- of an industrial city near Jeddah, dropped 1.6 was appointed chief executive in July. Medicare “We believe that the racket is spread across they do not know. The IRS has been warning dicted 5.05 billion riyals. percent after reporting a third-quarter net Group sank 2.9 percent after reporting an 85 per- India, including in the north,” Parambir about identical scams for a few years with Riyad Capital said in a note that although loss of 81 million riyals versus a profit of 8 cent drop in third-quarter net profit to 4.8 million Singh, commissioner of police in the reports in US media that such schemes might SABIC’s sales dipped on a quarterly and yearly million riyals a year ago. riyals. Qatar Insurance fell 0.7 percent on a 6 per- Mumbai suburb of Thane said. Police from have been operating out of India. In January, basis, margins expanded to offset some of that In Dubai, the index built positive momen- cent drop in third-quarter profit to 108.8 million Thane, on the outskirts of India’s financial the US Treasury Inspector General for Tax negative impact. It raised its target price for tum in the last hour of trade to close up 0.1 riyals, considerably below EFG Hermes’ forecast of capital, rounded up at least 770 employees Administration said it was aware of more than SABIC to 86.00 riyals from 80.00 riyals but main- percent. No major companies posted fresh 312 million riyals. In Cairo, the index of the 30 of bogus call centers on October 4. Most 5,000 victims who had paid a total of more tained a “neutral” rating. “We have increased results; DXB Entertainments climbed 3.3 per- most valuable shares pulled back 0.7 percent in were let go pending further investigations than $26.5 million in such scams since gross margin assumptions for the full year and cent ahead of opening its theme parks at the modest volume. Heliopolis Co for Housing lost 0.6 but 72 were arrested while another suspect October 2013. —AFP beyond as global petrochemical spreads have end of this month. Gains in blue chips helped percent after reporting a 47.9 percent drop in been healthy.” Roughly two-thirds of Saudi boost Abu Dhabi’s stock index 0.9 percent. quarterly net profit. —Reuters THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 BUSINESS Falih says oil market at end of downturn Non-OPEC not only willing to freeze but cut output

LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s energy minister gave an 2014 when prices began to slide due to over- back,” he said, adding that unconventional oil upbeat message to an audience of industry exec- supply. The downturn deepened after OPEC in production was important for helping to meet utives yesterday, saying the oil market was at the November 2014 dropped its traditional role of global demand growth. end of a downturn and producer action to limit cutting its supply to support prices. Appointed A challenge for OPEC is to work out how to supply would help it improve further. Khalid Al- as energy minister for the top OPEC oil producer manage the aspiration of members whose out- Falih also told the annual Oil and Money confer- and world’s biggest exporter earlier this year, put has been cut involuntarily to pump more. ence in London that non-OPEC countries were Falih has overseen a return by the group to Output levels are not known in some countries showing a willingness to freeze and even cut managing supply. that have disruptions, Libya, Nigeria and supplies alongside the Organization of the OPEC agreed in Algiers on Sept. 28 to reduce Venezuela, Falih said. “We want some clarity on Petroleum Exporting Countries. “Market forces production to a range of 32.50 million to 33.0 where those producers are as we approach the are clearly working after a testing period of sub- million barrels per day, which would be its first meeting in November,” he said. OPEC wants $30 prices. The fundamentals are improving and output cut since 2008. Another meeting on Nov. non-member producers such as Russia to con- the market is clearly balancing the supply and 30 is set to firm up details of the accord. Falih said tribute to the supply limiting effort and Falih demand equation,” Falih said. that by freezing production or slightly reducing was optimistic that they would deliver. “Non- “With this contribution of improving funda- it, OPEC wanted to signal to the market that it OPEC is showing willingness to join, I won’t mentals, rebalancing and the joint action by wanted to lower inventories and encourage mention names, to not only freeze but cut pro- OPEC and non-OPEC alike, I fully expect market investment. Spending has fallen due to the price duction,” he said. “Their contribution to stabi- conditions to continue improving.” Oil is trading drop, raising concern about supply in the medi- lization could be as significant as those made by near $52 a barrel, less than half its level in mid- um term. “I am happy to see more rigs coming OPEC members.” — Reuters

ACCRA: Photo shows the Agility Distribution Park near Ghana’s main port - the first of a network of logistics parks it intends ot build across Africa, bringing world-class warehousing and logistics capabilities. Agility opens world-class logistics park in Ghana

ACCRA: Agility, a leading global logistics and tion, Agility develops “Build-to-Suit” options for energy-saving bulbs; and solar-powered street infrastructure provider, has opened a distribu- customers to meet their specific requirements. lights. The site will recycle paper, plastic, metal, tion park near Ghana’s main port, the first of a “Agility is a world leader in developing logis- and carton waste. It provides eco-friendly waste network of logistics parks it intends to build tics parks around the globe. We are committed management services and carbon footprint across Africa, bringing world-class warehousing to using this in-depth experience to establish a reporting. The 2016 Agility Emerging Markets and logistics capabilities. Tenants at the 45-acre network of quality facilities in Africa,” White said. Logistics Index ranked Ghana as one of the most Ghana Agility Distribution Park in the Tema Port “By developing and leasing much-needed ware- promising markets in Africa. Africa’s growing mid- Free Trade Zone Enclave include multinationals housing, the Agility Distribution Parks help com- dle class and consumer spending were identified entering the West African market and small and panies operate in Africa with the reliable, mod- as the most significant drivers for Africa’s growth medium-size Ghanaian companies using the ern and secure infrastructure they need to grow in the Index, an annual ranking of the world’s park to expand their operations in light manu- their business, allowing them to access new most attractive emerging markets countries. facturing and export and import. markets without committing large amounts of To provide training in management and Agility is developing distribution parks in capital.” To meet demand, Agility is building sev- logistics-related skills, Agility has developed Cote D’Ivoire, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mozambique en more warehouses at the Ghana park in a sec- leadership programs for Africa that are available and Angola. It has additional sites available in ond phase of development. It is also finalizing to local employees and university graduates. Senegal, Mauritius and Cameroon. “One of the proposals for several large Build-to-Suit facilities Trainees will have the opportunity to gain expe- biggest constraints to companies starting to do at the Ghana park, each tailored to specific cus- rience working with Agility in Ghana and around business in Africa is the lack of quality logistics tomer requirements with sizes ranging from the world. “Agility is investing in the future of and infrastructure,” said Geoffrey White, CEO of 5,000 sqm to 25,000 sqm. Africa by funding and developing projects that Agility Africa. “This is inhibiting the growth of Agility Distribution Parks meet international build long-term sustainable businesses. The trade, imports, exports and manufacturing.” The environmental standards and use eco-friendly Ghana distribution park is just the first step,” Agility parks provide 24-hour security, reliable construction materials. Agility used energy effi- White said. “We are proud to be supporting power and connectivity, and international-stan- cient roof and side insulated panels; wind-driven Ghana’s economic growth, and the economic dard warehousing and logistics services. In addi- roof fans; skylights for natural lighting; LED and growth of Africa as a whole.” Marassi Al Bahrain to be showcased in Kuwait Vibrant waterfront lifestyle destination on display

MANAMA: Eagle Hills Diyar, a private real estate tional waterfront destinations with its lush green gar- dens, and shaded walkways. Eagle Hills Diyar investment and development company based in dens, ocean-facing residences, and two world-class recently announced the award of its contract for Bahrain yesterday announced that it will show- hotels. Its location in Bahrain is an added attraction major piling works on Marassi Galleria to German case one of Bahrain’s key real estate develop- because the Kingdom remains a quick and popular ground-engineering firm Keller Grundbau GmbH. ments, Marassi Al Bahrain, at the Jumeirah getaway for visitors from Kuwait, Qatar and the The piling contract milestone marks the begin- Messilah Beach Hotel in Kuwait from 17 to 19 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This master-planned ning of construction on the Marassi Al Bahrain October. The exclusive exhibit, located in the waterfront development is especially appealing to site as planned, with the project on track for deliv- Dewan 2 private meeting room, will give Kuwaiti families due to its unique mix of outdoor activities, ering a unique master-planned urban develop- nationals and visitors a preview of the exquisite shopping, dining, and entertainment.” ment, offering unique waterfront residential, hos- residential opportunities available within Marassi The Marassi Al Bahrain master plan includes pitality, retail and entertainment space. Marassi Residences and Marassi Shores Residences, at the several residential projects, such as the Galleria also incorporates two first-to-market hos- 875,000 square meter waterfront destination, announced Marassi Residences and Marassi pitality brands, introducing to the Kingdom the which is located on the northern shores of the Shores Residences, as well as the iconic Marassi 110-room The Address Hotel and 160-room VIDA master-development Diyar Al Muharraq. Galleria, a 178,000sqm high-end lifestyle and Hotel, both of which have been successful smart Dr Maher Al Shaer, Managing Director of Eagle shopping destination, which will feature a range lifestyle concepts operated by Emaar Hospitality Hills Diyar, said: “Marassi Al Bahrain will rival interna- of entertainment and dining options, lush gar- Group across the UAE.

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Bahraini Dinar 806.830 Swiss Franc 308.740 UAE Dirhams 82.970 UAE Dirham 82.716 Australian Dollar 234.720 Qatari Riyals 84.185 Saudi Riyals 81.760 ASIAN COUNTRIES US Dollar Buying 302.450 ARAB COUNTRIES Jordanian Dinar 428.225 Japanese Yen 2.927 Egyptian Pound - Cash 25.100 GOLD Egyptian Pound 34.126 Indian Rupees 4.560 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.583 Pakistani Rupees 2.901 20 Gram 255.960 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.069 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.220 10 Gram 130.900 Indian Rupees 4.547 Srilankan Rupees 2.070 Tunisian Dinar 136.290 Nepali Rupees 2.848 5 Gram 66.300 Pakistani Rupees 2.899 Jordanian Dinar 428.430 Bangladesh Taka 3.866 Singapore Dollar 220.040 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.024 Hongkong Dollar 39.140 Philippines Pesso 6.289 Syrian Lira 2.0165 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Cyprus pound 160.170 Bangladesh Taka 3.871 Morocco Dirham 31.369 Philippine Peso 6.306 Japanese Yen 3.920 Thai Baht 8.719 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Syrian Pound 2.420 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES US Dollar 303.900 Nepalese Rupees 3.835 US Dollar Transfer 303.650 Canadian Dollar 231.960 Malaysian Ringgit 72.950 GCC COUNTRIES Euro 335.530 Sterling Pound 373.965 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.510 Saudi Riyal 80.017 Sterling Pound 374.860 Euro 334.585 Thai Bhat 9.595 Qatari Riyal 83.455 Canadian dollar 232.680 ani Riyal 789.111 Swiss Frank 301.755 Turkish Lira 98.530 Turkish lira 98.590 Bahrain Dinar 803.385 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 BUSINESS Property, credit booms stabilize China growth News In brief

GDP grows 6.7 percent as expected Qatargas signs 5-year LNG sale, purchase agreement BEIJING: China’s economy expanded at a DOHA: Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, steady 6.7 percent in the third quarter and signed a five-year sales and purchase agreement with looks set to hit Beijing’s full-year target, Petronas LNG UK yesterday, expanding a strategic fueled by stronger government spending, import deal to Europe in the face of a looming global record bank lending and a red-hot proper- glut of gas supplies. Under the agreement Qatargas will ty market that are adding to its growing deliver 1.1 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) pile of debt. Yesterday’s data painted a pic- per year to the UK-based venture until Dec 31 2023, ture of an economy that is slowly stabiliz- extending a current five-year contract that was due to ing but increasingly dependent on govern- expire on Dec 31 2018. Qatargas is looking to Britain ment spending and a housing boom for and the Netherlands in an effort to weather an impend- growth, as private investment and exports ing global gas glut through expanding import deals remain stubbornly weak. Some economists believe Beijing has into Europe’s most liquid markets, industry sources told had to “double down” on stimulus this year Reuters in March. Qatar must lock in buyers for its to meet its official growth range of 6.5 to 7 unsold supply just as new Australian and US producers percent, and say the government’s obses- muscle into its prized Asian markets. Petronas UK is a sion with meeting hard targets may hurt subsidiary of Petronas, the national oil and gas compa- both planned reforms and the long-term ny of Malaysia. The LNG will be supplied from Qatargas health of the world’s second-largest econo- 4, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Shell my. “So far this year they have clearly cho- and will be delivered to Dragon LNG terminal at Milford sen to do everything they can to meet the Haven in the United Kingdom. growth targets, and now there is a little bit of an upward surprise from the housing market which actually will help them with Doha Bank net profit GDP growth this year,” said Louis Kuijs, head misses expectations Of Asia economics at Oxford Economics in DUBAI: Doha Bank, Qatar’s fifth-largest lender by Hong Kong. assets, yesterday reported a 8.9 percent fall in third- “The question really is, is the leadership quarter net profit, missing analysts’ expectations. willing to move to somewhat lower growth ZHENGZHOU: People ride electric bikes as they pass next to property condominiums (back) in Zhengzhou yesterday. China’s The bank earned a net profit of 310.6 million riyals targets in order to put growth on a more ($85.3 million) in the three months to Sept 30 sustainable footing, or will it feel obliged to growth slipped to a seven-year low of 6.6 percent in the third quarter, according to an AFP survey, despite ample stimulus and a red-hot property market in the world’s second-largest economy. — AFP against 340.9 million riyals in the same period a year continue to hang on to those very high earlier, according to its full financial statement. growth targets.” The economy grew at the A wave of restrictions imposed on buy- mist Zhou Hao in Hong Kong said in a note. record lows in recent months, but still sig- Reuters had earlier calculated a third-quarter figure same clip in the third quarter year-on-year ers in major cities since early October has But statistics bureau spokesman Sheng nificantly lags investment by state-owned from a preliminary statement from the bank yester- as in the first and second quarters, as ana- resulted in a sharp drop in sales and author- Laiyun said “the impact (of property adjust- firms. For the first nine months, private day, which gave results for the nine months to Sept. lysts polled by Reuters had expected. ities are stepping up pressure on specula- ment measures) on the economy will not investment rose just 2.5 percent. Retail 30 and did not break out the third quarter. Four Government infrastructure projects and tors. Shanghai said on Tuesday it had pun- be very big” in the short-term. sales rose 10.7 percent in September on- the property boom have spurred prices analysts polled by Reuters had forecast on average ished some property agencies for falsifying year, beating expectations of 10.6 percent the bank would make a quarterly net profit of 354.1 and demand for raw materials and goods contracts and had launched probes into Modest improvement as home buyers bought appliances and million riyals. Banks in Qatar are battling against the from cement and steel to furniture. On a some developers suspected of raising prices Consumption contributed 71 percent of decorated, while subsidies fueled strong quarterly basis, it grew 1.8 percent, again in without authorization. Most economists do GDP growth in the first three quarters of sales of new cars. China’s economy expand- fallout from a prolonged weakness in energy prices, line with expectations but easing slightly not expect house prices to collapse, arguing the year, compared with 66.4 percent for ed 6.9 percent in 2015, the slowest pace in which has dented growth in lending and con- from the previous period. the market is supported by steady migra- 2015. The increase is partly due to contract- a quarter of a century. strained liquidity. Loans at the end of September tion to bigger cities, but memories are still ing net exports but also indicates some While analysts expect China to meet its stood at 55.6 billion riyals, gaining 2.1 percent on Biggest risk fresh of authorities’ heavy-handed attempt success in Beijing’s attempts to rebalance growth target this year, as usual, many the same point in 2015, while deposits fell 6.6 per- Economists believe the greatest near- to cool surging stock markets last year, the economy from an over reliance on remain skeptical of the official numbers, cent to 48.6 billion riyals over the same period. term risk for China is a possible correction which triggered a crash and an unprece- investment-led growth. September indica- especially as growth has remain in the high-flying property market, which dented government rescue. tors were mostly in line with expectations unchanged for three straight quarters even accounts for about 15 percent of GDP. Real The property craze has also heightened and improved slightly from August, but as the country attempts a major economic S Korea’s troubled estate investment accelerated in concerns about China’s growing debt and industrial output growth unexpectedly transition. “The official GDP figures remain STX put up for sale September and home sales soared, high- the risks to its financial system, as much of cooled to 6.1 percent from a year earlier, too stable to tell us much about the per- SEOUL: South Korea’s troubled STX Offshore and lighting persistent investor demand even the record loan growth has been driven by versus expectations for 6.4 percent. Fixed- formance of China’s economy. Our own Shipbuilding Co was put up for sale by public tender as more cities tighten measures to curb mortgages. China’s debt has soared to 250 asset investment rose 8.2 percent in measure of economic activity suggests that Wednesday along with its profitable French shipyard prices. Property investment growth ticked percent of GDP and the Bank for January-September from a year earlier, as growth actually picked up last quarter, unit, with buyers offered the choice of buying the com- up to 7.8 percent in September on-year, International Settlements (BIS) warned in expected, as the government cranked up though the improvement clearly won’t last,” panies separately or as a package. STX France, which and property sales surged 34 percent, September that a banking crisis was loom- infrastructure spending to support the Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at specializes in building cruise ships, is the only profitable though new construction starts fell 19.4 ing in the next three years. “We think that economy. Fiscal spending in the nine- Capital Economics in Singapore wrote in a unit of STX Offshore, which filed for receivership in May. percent, suggesting sentiment among the cooling measures in property market month period climbed 12.5 percent. note. Capital Economics’ calculations sug- On the orders of the Seoul Central District’s bankruptcy builders may be shifting as the government will weigh on China’s economy over the Private investment growth picked up to gest the economy is growing at around 5 court, the tender notice was published in a local news- looks to cool the buying frenzy. coming quarters,” Commerzbank econo- 4.5 percent in September after falling to percent.— Reuters paper, inviting potential bidders to send letters of intent by November 4. “Bidders can tender for either one of the two companies or both of them,” the notice The Commercial Bank reports read. A bankruptcy court spokesman had earlier sug- gested a preference for a package sale. In 2008 STX net profit of QAR 491 million bought a 66.6 percent stake in a huge naval shipyard in the western French port of Saint-Nazaire, later named DOHA: The Commercial Bank QSC compared with 3.6% at the end of September STX France. The French state holds a 33.3 percent share (Commercial Bank or The Bank), its sub- 2015 and the coverage ratio was 78.8% as at and is extremely concerned about the future of the sidiaries and associates yesterday announced 30 September 2016 compared to 81.3% as at shipyard, which is a major local employer with a healthy its financial results for the nine month period 30 September 2015. Impairment provisions order book for large cruise liners. ended 30 September 2016. The Bank report- on the Bank’s investment portfolio increased ed a net profit of QAR 491 million as com- to QAR 68 million for the nine months ended Saudi Arabia targets $17.5 pared to QAR 1,341 million for the same peri- 30 September 2016 compared with QAR 25 billion in first bond issue od in 2015, a decrease of 63%. Key financial million for the same period in 2015. RIYADH: Saudi Arabia plans to raise up to $17.5 bil- highlights compared to the same period in Commercial Bank delivered balance sheet lion from its first international bond issue, 2015; Net operating income down 11% to growth of 4% at the end of September 2016 Bloomberg News reported yesterday, citing two QAR 2,733 million; Net profit of QAR 491 mil- with total assets at QAR 123.9 billion, com- people familiar with the offering. It would make the lion; Total assets up 4% to QAR 123.9 billion; pared to QAR 119.2 billion at the end of Customer loans and advances up by 4% to September 2015. Total asset growth was driv- Saudi issue the largest ever from an emerging-mar- QAR 76 billion; Customers’ deposits up 4% to en mainly by an increase of QAR 2.6 billion in ket nation, said Bloomberg News, whose sources QAR 66.7 billion and Earnings per share of loans and advances and QAR 3.6 billion in were not identified. The figure exceeds the $15 bil- QAR 1.04. due from banks and offset by lower invest- lion which an analyst had previously said could be His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali bin ment in securities by QAR 2 billion. Loans the value of the issue. The kingdom, the world’s Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of the Board of and advances to customers were up by 4% largest oil exporter, projected a deficit of $87 bil- Directors of Commercial Bank, said, to QAR 75.9 billion at 30 September 2016 lion this year after a fall in oil revenues, which still “Commercial Bank has proudly served the compared with QAR 73.4 billion at the end of accounts for most of its income. To cover the short- ZHENGZHOU: A vendor sells clothes as she stands on a ladder at a shopping mall financial needs of its customers for over 40 September 2015. The growth in lending has fall, Saudi Arabia has imposed unprecedented sub- complex area in Zhengzhou yesterday. —AFP years by always looking forward to the future. been generated, mainly in Services and sidy cuts, slowed government projects, and last I, together with my fellow Board members, Commercial Sectors. month cut cabinet ministers’ salaries, among other are resolved to maintain the development of Investment securities was down 12% to measures. Saudi Arabia has already issued domes- Commercial Bank. Through our new execu- QAR 16.2 billion as at 30 September 2016 Chinese firms ramp up tic bonds. tive leadership, and under the guidance of compared with QAR 18.4 billion at the end of the Board, we are taking necessary decisions September 2015. The decrease is mainly in now to reshape a strong Commercial Bank for Treasury bills issued by the Central Bank. investment; costs rise the future. Commercial Bank continues to Customers’ deposits increased by 4% to QAR have great potential to generate long term 66.7 billion at 30 September 2016, compared HONG KONG: Official investment figures Chinese growth slowed to a 25-year low Gulf Bank announces value for our customers and investors. Our with QAR 64.1 billion as at 30 September may be feeble, but exporters at China’s of 6.9 percent last year, and third-quarter winners of ‘Win Cash decisions now will ensure that we unlock the 2015. The increase was mainly in time largest trade fair say they are ploughing figures released yesterday put it on track for Bank’s full potential.” deposits. Joseph Abraham, Commercial more money into robotics, industrial about 6.7 percent this year. Economists say This Summer Season’ Bank’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, automation and new product development the country’s mid-sized private companies Financial performance “Since joining Commercial Bank in July, we to offset rising costs. At the Canton Fair, are the primary source of investment, inno- KUWAIT: Gulf Bank recently announced the names Hussain Al Fardan, Commercial Bank’s Vice are completing a review of the Bank’s strate- which kicked off this weekend for compa- vation and productivity growth. Heavy of the 20 lucky winners of its exciting summer pro- Chairman and Managing Director, added, gy, performance and future direction and we nies in the household electronics, decora- machinery manufacturers at the fair said motion “Win Cash this Summer Season”, whereby “Commercial Bank reported an operating will update the market with the results of our tive materials and building sectors - other they spend over 30 percent of their invest- credit and debit cardholders were offered the chance profit of QAR 1.4 billion for the nine months review later this year. sectors follow later in the month - more ment capital upgrading production lines to win Cash during the summer season, by entering a ended 30 September 2016. During this peri- However, one clear action became evident than 80 percent of companies quizzed by each year, while many building materials raffle draw upon using their cards locally or abroad. od, we aligned our local market strategies to early in the process, which was the need for Reuters said they would be spending more and household equipment makers said they The draw was held on Sunday 16 October 2016 in the the current challenging realities, pursuing us to recognize a number of non-performing next year. were pumping money into automation. presence of a representative from the Ministry of only those opportunities which meet our loans. The decision we have taken to provide That would represent a significant shift China is achieving average annual Commerce and Industry. returns criteria. Our discipline will be main- for an additional QAR 505 million of loans if matched throughout China’s economy. growth of 18 percent in research and devel- Gulf Bank would like to congratulate Nawaf tained as we continue to serve our cus- in the third quarter has consequently Official data yesterday showed private sec- opment (R&D) spending, compared with Abdullah Abdullah Abdulkarim, who won the grand tomers.” Net operating income decreased impacted our financials. Both the Board and tor investment in fixed assets in the first just 1.4 percent across the rest of the prize, which is KD 15,000, in addition to the four by 11% to QAR 2,733 million for the nine the Bank’s leadership team view this as the nine months grew just 2.5 percent, picking world’s upper-middle-income countries, lucky winners who won KD 3,000 each: Khaled up from a record low of 2.1 percent in the according to the UNESCO Institute for months ended 30 September 2016, down necessary first step in aligning the business Ahmad Abdullah Dashti, Yousef Jassem Essa Alsaraf, first eight months. Kison Van said his com- Statistics. While most exporters surveyed from QAR 3,058 million achieved in the same for the current and future economic environ- Mohammed Ebrahim Ebrahim Majd, Shaker Edan pany, Ningbo Cixi Import and Export aim to boost spending, around 20 percent period in 2015. ment and ensuring Commercial Bank builds Mohammed Alkhaleefa. Holdings, which makes fans and heaters, said they planned to cut investment. Other Net interest income was QAR 1,800 million sustainable earnings and is well positioned The bank also announced other 15 lucky winners needs to develop three to four new prod- sectors that may be under pressure as for the nine months ended 30 September for the future.” He added, “During the period, who won KD 1,000 each: Mohammed H S Moftah, 2016, 5% lower than the same period of 2015, we continued to manage the business con- ucts every year to stay competitive. “It’s global growth slows, such as textiles and important to continuously invest in R&D apparel, will feature later at the fair, which Tariq Mohammad Ayham Alshawa, Bader Ali Hassan mainly due to an increase in cost of deposits. servatively, reflecting both the challenges Ibrahim, Fawzi Dawoud Humoud Ibrahim Al Mutawa, Net interest margin decreased to 2.3% as and opportunities of the current market. because once a new product comes out, runs until Nov 4. Dalal Salah Khalefa Aljeri, Jaber Ghuloum Abulmalak, compared to 2.5% in the same period in 2015. Qatar generated a solid financial performance you see it everywhere at the Canton Fair,” Amal Ibrahim Mahmoud Hayat, Faraj Hathal Mesfer Non-interest income was down by 19% to excluding provisioning with QAR 431 million said Van, one of tens of thousands of sales- Rise of the robots Al Mufrah, Haya Jasem Mohammed Alghanem, QAR 933 million for the nine months ended operating profit for the third quarter. Our man at a fair that sprawls over 1.2 million China is increasingly moving to modern- Jumana Ahmed Bahbahani, Khalil Michel Amiouni, 30 September 2016 compared with QAR Turkish subsidiary, ABank, has been aligned square metres, almost twice the size of the ize its manufacturing industry with robotics Ahmad Jassem Mohammad Khalaf, Bader Hussain 1,155 million. The overall decrease in non- more closely in its working with Commercial world’s largest mall. and automation, driven in part by a short- interest income was due to lower net fee and Bank and with the injection of new equity More than 65 percent of the 103 age of skilled workers and rapidly rising Abdulrahem Alsafar, Hattab Dwaih Woqayan commission income. Total operating expens- and a Tier 2 issuance raised in the first half of exhibitors polled by Reuters in China’s wages that threaten to erode its appeal as a Alshammari, Azizah Baqar Abdullah B Almousawi. es were up by 2% at QAR 1,235 million for the the year, we had the funds to pursue loans in southern city of Guangzhou expect to low-cost workshop to the world. “Robots Gulf Bank is committed to providing its customers nine months ended 30 September 2016 com- the corporate mid-market. However loan boost spending by up to 20 percent in do a better job than workers; the quality is with exceptional value and exciting offers that meet pared with QAR 1,256 million for the same growth was limited as we remained highly 2017, while 16.5 percent expect to raise more stable,” said Zhejiang Momali Sanitary their needs, in addition to presenting them with one period in 2015. selective of opportunities. Most importantly, spending by more than 20 percent. That Utensils Co general manager Selina Song. of the widest ranges of financial products and bank- The Bank’s net provisions for loans and we brought operational costs down by 5% at will be welcome news to leaders in Beijing, Song said, however, that a drop in sales was ing services currently available in Kuwait. To find out advances were QAR 1,108 million for the nine ABank during the period. UAB continues to as China’s private companies, which make slowing the company’s push to boost more about Gulf Bank’s promotions and offers, you months ended 30 September 2016, up 104% successfully recover as its management team up the bulk of exhibitors at the fair, are a automation. Some economists said new can visit one of Gulf Bank’s 56 branches; contact the from QAR 544 million for the same period in execute upon the realignment of the busi- crucial engine of growth for the economy, and emerging sectors such as high-end Customer Contact Center on 1805805, or go on to 2015. The non- performing loan (NPL) ratio ness to the UAE’s corporate market, whilst unlike the largely inefficient and indebted manufacturing equipment would see more the bank’s bilingual website at www.e-gulfbank.com. has increased to 5.3% at 30 September 2016 NBO in Oman has performed well.” state-owned sector. room for development. —Reuters THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 BUSINESS

Oil rises as China output drops; US inventories shrink

LONDON: Oil rose by around 1 percent yesterday, improving and supply and demand were rebalanc- level, which makes parts of production unprofitable. official crude and fuel storage data later. boosted by evidence of declining production in ing. He called on non-OPEC producers to help stabi- This makes it all the harder to understand why OPEC If the figures show another drop, this will be the China and falling US inventories, while an upbeat lize the market saying their role was as critical as is talking prices up with its current debate about pro- sixth fall in inventories in seven weeks. Mohammed OPEC statement on its planned output cut also sup- the role of OPEC members. “Market forces are clear- duction cuts, and is thus helping precisely those oil Barkindo, secretary general of the Organization of ported the market. A slightly weaker dollar rein- ly working after a testing period of sub-$30 oil producers it would ideally like to force out of the the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), gave forced the strength in oil as well, traders said, as it prices... Oil demand is expanding at a healthy rate market,” Commerzbank analysts. the market a boost by saying he is confident about makes fuel purchases cheaper for countries using despite slower global growth,” he said. Adding to the support to crude prices from low- the prospects of a planned production cut follow- other currencies, potentially spurring demand. As the world’s largest exporters prepare to discuss er output, refining rates in the world’s largest com- ing an OPEC meeting on Nov 30. “I am optimistic Benchmark Brent crude futures were at $52.42 a the first cut in output in eight years next month, the modities consumer rose last month. China we will have a decision,” he said. In its first output barrel, up 74 cents on the day by 0922 GMT, while pressure of persistently low oil prices on higher-cost processed 43.8 million tons (10.7 million bpd) of cut agreement since 2008, OPEC said it plans to US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures producers is becoming apparent. China’s crude out- crude oil in September, up 2.4 percent from a year reduce production to 32.50 million to 33.0 million were up 73 cents at $51.02 a barrel. put fell 9.8 percent to 3.89 million bpd, to near its ago. US crude stockpiles fell 3.8 million barrels in barrels per day (bpd), compared with record out- Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih lowest in six years in the second-biggest year-on- the week to Oct 14, to 467.1 million barrels, the API put of 33.6 million bpd in September. The group said yesterday that oil markets were at the end of a year decline on record. “The fall in Chinese crude oil reported late on Tuesday. The US Energy also hopes non-OPEC producers, especially Russia, considerable downturn as fundamentals were production is probably attributable to the low price Information Administration (EIA) is due to release will cooperate in a cut. — Reuters

GUIZHOU: Chinese farmers carry crops from their paddy fields in a village in Congjiang county, southwest China’s Guizhou province. — AFP Dollar recedes from a seven-month peak Euro zone stocks bruised by weak earnings

LONDON: The US dollar fell from a seven- ond straight day after data showing month peak yesterday, combining with Chinese gross domestic product expanded signs of an easing supply glut to help lift oil 6.7 percent in the year to September, exact- prices back towards a one-year high. A ly as forecast. Other data showed retail sales weaker dollar boosts crude prices, which rising 10.7 percent and urban investment gained over 1 percent to top $52 a barrel, 8.2 percent. Industrial output disappointed since it makes fuel cheaper for countries by growing only 6.1 percent. using other currencies. The bounce in oil “The upshot from today’s data is that pushed a key market gauge of long-term economic activity seems to be holding up euro zone inflation expectations to a multi- reasonably well, with few signs that a month high, keeping bond yields elevated renewed slowdown is just around the cor- above record lows seen in the wake of ner,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, China econ- Britain’s vote in June to leave the European omist at Capital Economics. “Nonetheless, Union. Wall Street was set to open a touch the recent recovery is ultimately on bor- higher but neither the rise in commodity rowed time given that it has been driven in prices nor a barrage of data confirming large part by faster credit growth and a China’s economy, the world’s second property market boom, both of which poli- largest, was stabilizing could prevent a dip cymakers are now working to rein in.” MSCI’s in euro zone stocks after a series of poor broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares out- earnings results. side Japan added 0.4 percent on top of “Oil is a good indicator of expectations Tuesday’s 1.4 percent jump. for growth next year,” said Frederik The recent bounce in oil prices has Ducrozet, a senior European economist at helped lift a key market gauge of long-term Swiss wealth manager Pictet. “It is comfort- euro zone inflation - the five-year, five-year ing for markets that oil is above $50 a bar- forward rate - above 1.44 percent, its high- rel and looking stable at those levels.” est level since early June. That remains well Against a basket of major currencies, the below the European Central Bank’s inflation US dollar fell 0.2 percent to 97.665, off target of just below 2 percent, but it has tak- Monday’s seven-month high of 98.169, en the heat off the bloc’s policymakers - after consumer price data showed underly- who meet on Thursday - to introduce more ing inflation had moderated. That prompt- easing measures. Worries that they may ed markets to trim bets on a Federal eventually scale back their stimulus has Reserve rate hike later this year. seen German 30-year bond yields climb Traders said that had helped lift oil, more than 20 basis points in the last fort- which was also supported by a report of a night, already on track for their biggest drop in U.S. inventories and declining pro- monthly rise in fourteen months. duction in China. An upbeat OPEC state- ment on its planned output cut also sup- Dollar retreat ported the market. International Brent The retreat in the dollar came after a crude futures were at $52.35 a barrel at report on US consumer prices showed 1040GMT, up 67 cents, or 1.3 percent, and underlying inflation - stripping out food heading back towards a one-year high of and energy - moderated slightly in $53.73 seen earlier this month. US West September to 2.2 percent, leading the mar- Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures ket to slightly pare back bets on a were trading at $50.96 per barrel, also up December rate hike. Fed fund futures imply 1.3 percent, having been below $40 a barrel around a 65 percent probability of a move, at the start of August. down from 70 percent. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said last week the US cen- Disappointing earnings tral bank could allow inflation to run above European shares fell early yesterday after its target. The euro was slightly higher a slew of weak updates weighed on British against the weakening dollar at $1.0985. companies Travis Perkins and Reckitt Sterling, which plunged to a record low on Benckiser. Akzo Nobel’s results were hit by a a trade-weighted basis last week, continued weak pound. The pan-European STOXX 600 to recover and hit an eight-day high yester- index edged down 0.1 percent, following a day after a UK government lawyer said that 1.5 percent rise in the previous session. parliament would have to ratify any deal to Earlier, Asian shares edged up for the sec- take Britain out of the EU. — Reuters Gold rises as US dollar weakens

LONDON: Gold rose yesterday as the dol- rate hike in December, which we don’t lar weakened and Treasury yields ticked expect because once we get close to the lower amid uncertainty around the tim- meeting, the Fed will see that key figures ing of a US interest rate increase. Spot are not doing well enough to justify gold gained 0.6 percent to $1,270.20 an another rate hike and there will be some ounce at 1153 GMT. US gold futures rose support for gold,” said Danske Bank sen- $8.70 to $1,271.50 an ounce. Spot prices ior analyst Jens Pedersen. had shed about 7 percent over the past A European Central Bank’s policy three weeks, as markets re-priced the meeting today will also be monitored likelihood of a Federal Reserve’s rate hike by markets, Pedersen said. The metal in December. The metal is highly sensitive was also benefiting from lower to rising rates, which lift the opportunity European shares, indicating waning cost of holding non-yielding assets. investor appetite for risk. “We remain However, a retreat in the dollar, which relatively negative on gold short term fell 0.3 percent against a basket of six despite a stronger start to the week,” main currencies after US consumer prices INTL FCStone said in a note. “We expect showed a moderation in underlying infla- further dollar strengthening going into tion, prompted markets to trim bets on a Q4 on account of an election victory for December Federal Reserve rate hike. Fed Hillary Clinton along with the likelihood fund futures imply around a 65 percent of a Fed rate hike.” Spot silver rose 1 per- probability of the Federal Reserve raising cent to a one-week high of $17.77 an interest rates by December, down from ounce. Platinum rose 1 percent to $950 70 percent before the CPI data. “The mar- an ounce and palladium gained 0.6 per- ket is keeping an eye on the potential cent to $642.22 an ounce. — Reuters THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 BUSINESS Rosneft enters India with $13 billion Essar deal

MOSCOW: In a spectacularly costly gam- has alternative market opportunities ble aimed at boosting Russia’s strategic despite sanctions” imposed over Russia’s position, state-controlled giant Rosneft is actions in Ukraine, she wrote in a note. “It investing in India’s Essar Oil to muscle into also provides a much-needed opportunity a promising market with outlets through- for export diversification as European out Asia. Russian President Vladimir Putin demand flattens and Chinese growth returned from last week’s BRICS summit in becomes more unpredictable.” Goa with one of the largest deals the oil sector has seen in the last two years of Allied nations falling prices: 98 percent of Essar Oil at a With its 1.2 billion inhabitants, India is valuation of $12.9 billion. Rosneft-Russia’s the world’s fourth largest consumer of biggest oil company led by Putin’s close hydrocarbons, with demand constantly ally Igor Sechin-will buy 49 percent of Essar growing. It is increasingly dependent on Oil, which owns the Vadinar refinery in crude imports, despite authorities taking western India. steps to encourage foreign investment and Vadinar is one of the country’s largest seeking to diversify its suppliers, currently refineries and one of the world’s most mainly in the Middle East. Indian compa- modern, with access to a port navigable by nies in turn this year bought almost half of the largest vessels. Essar Oil operates 2,700 Vankor, one of Rosneft’s most promising oil petrol stations and was controlled until fields in Siberia. now by billionaire brothers Shashi and Ravi “Rosneft has the ambition to develop Ruia. A further 49 percent will be acquired itself into a global energy group... but the by a group of investors led by Trafigura oil opportunities to develop business abroad traders, one of Rosneft’s partners. “Rosneft are limited, especially in Western countries,” is entering one of the most promising and said Valery Nesterov, an analyst at fast-growing world markets,” Sechin said, Sberbank CIB. “The markets that are prom- according to a statement. Rosneft said the ising are in Asia,” he said, while Rosneft Vadinar refinery will allow it to process its “acts in the interests of the state and devel- crude oil produced in Venezuela, which is ops cooperation with countries that are heavy and more difficult to refine. friends with Russia.” The Russian group has VADINAR: Photo shows an Indian Oil Refinery of Essar Oil at Vadinar village, near Jamnagar, some 380 km It could also serve as a base for export- already grown considerably in recent years. from Ahmedabad. In a spectacularly costly gamble aimed at boosting Russia’s strategic position, state-con- ing to the Asia-Pacific region, including It took over the ruins of oil magnate trolled giant Rosneft is investing in India’s Essar Oil to muscle into a promising market with outlets through- Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s group after his jail- out Asia. —AFP Australia. While the deal represents an ing and has since increased its acquisitions, unprecedented foreign acquisition from notably TNK-BP in 2013 for $55 billion. tant government to allow it to buy a major- partnerships with Western giants such as his skepticism over Essar, saying he could the Indian perspective, for Russia it is “an Due to the weak ruble, it is sitting on ity stake in Russia’s number six oil company BP, Exxonmobil and Statoil hence the need not remember a single “example of an out- important strategic victory,” said Emily large cash reserves that soften the effect of Bashneft, which the state wanted to priva- to invest in emerging markets that are not right successful acquisition or investment Stromquist, an analyst at Eurasia Group. “It oil prices falling in dollars. It has just tize. Internationally the Ukrainian crisis has affected by sanctions. Pavel Kushnir, an that a Russian energy company made sends a signal to the EU and US that Russia proved its influence by pushing the reluc- struck a blow to Rosneft’s policy of forming analyst at Deutsche Bank, did not conceal abroad.” —AFP UK jobless rate holds at 4.9% despite Brexit British building firm says 600 jobs at risk

LONDON: Britain’s jobless rate held at 4.9 per- “We suspect both the economy and the labor es, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), cent in the three months to the end of August, market will be increasingly pressurized by would be below market expectations of £415 official data showed yesterday, signaling little mounting uncertainties over the coming million ($509 million, 462 million euros) — and impact thus far from the shock Brexit vote. The months-particularly once the government trig- blamed weak plumbing and heating results. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the June- gers Article 50,” said IHS Markit economist news sent the group’s share price sliding almost August rate-a low for 11 years-matched the 4.9- Howard Archer. “We also expect growth to slow seven percent in morning deals on the London percent figure for the three month period that as consumer purchasing power is increasingly stock market, topping the fallers’ board on the ended in July. The nation’s jobless total mean- squeezed. “Consequently, we see the unemploy- FTSE 100 index. while stood at 1.66 million people over the same ment rate starting to trend up before too long “Given that levels of future demand remain period. That was 118,000 fewer than a year earli- and suspect that it could reach 5.0 percent by difficult to predict, the group has chosen to er. “All in all this (data) suggests that Brexit has the end of 2016.” implement a number efficiency programs and hardly had any measurable impact on the UK Meanwhile, British building materials supplier branch closures to further optimize the net- labor market yet,” noted economist Kay Daniel Travis Perkins said yesterday that up to 600 jobs work,” Travis Perkins said in a statement. “This Neufeld, at the Centre for Economics and were at risk from the uncertain economic out- work includes the closure of ten smaller distri- SEOUL: A couple looks at their mobile phones as they sit before the Han riv- Business Research think tank. look arising from Brexit. The company which bution and fabrication centers, the write off of er in central in Seoul. Samsung Electronics slashed its latest quarterly profit “Unemployment has been low throughout the serves professionals and consumers employs a certain IT legacy equipment and over 30 estimate by one third in the wake of a highly damaging recall crisis that end- year and wages continue to grow at a subdued total of 28,000 people at 2,060 stores that branch closures in our trade businesses. “All of ed with the scrapping of its latest flagship smartphone. —AFP but steady rate.” British Prime Minister Theresa include Tile Giant, Tool Station and Wickes. A the 600 affected employees are aware of the May has already stated that she will trigger the company spokeswoman said that the Brexit was changes.” British Prime Minister Theresa May two-year process to exit the European Union by one of the major factors behind the gloomy out- declared last month that she would trigger the At crisis-hit Samsung, nerves the end of March 2017, after the surprise approval look, adding that affected jobs were at trade-fac- two-year process to exit the European Union of the Brexit referendum on June 23. ing businesses. by the end of March 2017, after the surprise Commentators also warn that the jobless rate Travis Perkins also warned annual underlying Brexit referendum that was held earlier this jangle; annual review looms could head higher before the end of this year. profit, or adjusted earnings before interest, tax- year. —Agencies

SEOUL: The next few weeks are tradition- has been in the job for less than a year - ally a tense time at Samsung Electronics wrote of the “big wound” the scrapping of Ahli United Bank $200 million Co as executives wait to see if their work the Note 7 would be for executives and over the year is rewarded with promotion employees. Samsung confirmed Koh wrote Perpetual Additional Tier at the South Korean firm’s annual perform- to staff, but did not comment on what he ance review. This year, that tension has said. Some Samsung workers said there 1 Sukuk oversub scribed been ramped up several notches as the were already rumours circulating internally year-end ritual comes on the heels of the about which executives might be ousted. KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank KSCP (AUB) has suc- geted amount. This was achieved in less than debacle over Samsung’s flagship Galaxy Some investors and analysts have said top cessfully concluded the subscription of its issue one week from the date of the announcement Note 7 smartphone. The world’s top executives including Koh may be held of a $200 Million Perpetual Additional Tier 1 of the transaction both locally and internation- smartphone maker this month pulled the responsible at the year-end review. Sukuk. The Bank’s Chairman, Dr Anwar Al ally, with a roadshow covering meetings in plug on the near-$900 device after phones Others said they felt ashamed when Mudhaf, commented “We are very proud of this Asia, the Middle East and Europe.” Groves overheated and caught fire. With some people they know ditched the Note 7 for a achievement as it represents a major success for added: “The Perpetual Additional Tier 1 capital replacement phones suffering the same rival product or when they heard news the Bank, and for Islamic Banking in general, issue Sukuk is issued in compliance with the problem, Samsung has forecast a $5.4 bil- announcements about the phones being ABK ‘Double Your notwithstanding the prevailing economic chal- requirements of Basel III, the regulations of the lion hit to its operating profits. Some ana- banned from aeroplanes. Koh and other lenges. Furthermore, it reconfirms that the State Central Bank of Kuwait as well as in compli- lysts predict the smartphone business Samsung executives have been active on Salary’ winners of Kuwait enjoys the necessary components to ance with the regulations of the Capital may post a first quarterly loss for July- internal messaging boards, discussing attract international investors to enter the Markets Authority. September. with employees how to deal with the Note Kuwait market.” To enable the secondary market trading sub- KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) held its 25th Dr Al Mudhaf went on to say: “I would like to sequent to the issuance, the Sukuk will be listed “Everyone’s afraid to be heard even 7 crisis, insiders said. About 70 percent of ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draw on 17th October, 2016 at breathing,” said one Samsung employee. Samsung’s more than 325,000 employees express my appreciation for the continued sup- on both the Irish Stock Exchange and NASDAQ the Bank’s Head Office in the presence of a representative port extended to the Bank Dubai. The Sukuk adds a “There will be punitive measures; some- work outside South Korea. It is not clear from the Ministry of Commerce, announcing the names of one will have to take responsibility for how overseas jobs or those at subsidiaries by our regulators, the new source of cost effec- the winners for this week. The promotion includes weekly Central Bank of Kuwait and tive funding for AUB’s cap- this.” None of the Samsung employees might be affected by the Note 7 storm; draws, with two winners per draw. Given the success of Reuters talked to for this article wanted to Samsung said it has no plans to cut jobs the Capital Markets ital which will further the campaign it has been decided to extend it until Authority, in the process of diversify its capital and be named as they were not authorized to this year in Vietnam, a major smartphone 27thJune, 2017. speak to the media. Samsung’s annual manufacturing base. the Sukuk issue, to our funding base. The strong The winners this week were: (1) Abdulsadeq Jumaah many investors both in demand generated for personnel decisions - a common practice Mahdi Abdulsadeq - Salmiya Branch and (2) Mohammed in South Korea around December - is a Taking it slow Kuwait and abroad and to AUB’s Sukuk is a clear indi- Ali Abdul Samat - Jleeb Al Shyoukh Branch. New customers the Bank’s team whose cation of the confidence secret more closely guarded than even Internally, the mobile business was crit- who transfer their salary to ABK receive KD 100 and will details of its new products. Executives are icized by some for changing product spec- efforts were rewarded by of both local and global automatically be entered into the weekly draws to double our achieving this excellent investors in the Bank’s told about any changes only at the last ifications without delaying launch sched- their salaries. Existing customers who are already transfer- minute. ules, putting staff and suppliers under result within a record time”. diversified business mod- ring their salary to ABK are entered into a separate draw. Richard Groves, the el, its robust financial per- Samsung insiders say there is more pressure to deliver fast. “Some people who The next ‘Double Your Salary’ draw will be held on 24th Bank’s Chief Executive formance, and overall nervousness this year than normal, and work in other business divisions feel October, 2016 where two new lucky winners will be Officer said: “The success- credit worthiness. The talk internally of sweeping changes, with a something like this was bound to happen,” announced. All winners will be contacted personally and a ful issuance of AUB’s Sukuk successful closure of this cull both in the executive suite and on the said a Samsung employee at the con- weekly announcement will be made through the media has been demonstrated issue will assist AUB in ground level. “There’s a lot of talk there sumer electronics division, noting mount- with the winners’ names. For more information about ABK through being oversub- both sustaining its growth could be major turnover in the executive ing pressure on the mobile business to please visit eahli.com or contact an ABK customer service scribed by over three momentum and optimiz- ranks on the hardware side,” said an insid- overcome slowing growth amid strong agent via ‘Ahlan Ahli’ at 1899899. times more than the tar- ing its capital resources.” er at the mobile division. “There’s also a lot competition from rivals including Apple of concern among the working-level Inc and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. A employees about a major restructuring.” person familiar with the development of Ahli United’s ‘Al Hassad Islamic Saving’ winners Samsung said it was not considering any the next Galaxy S smartphone, expected management changes or restructuring in to launch early next year, said the process KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank held its weekly draw of Al- opened by the lowest amount to open an account, from Ahli United Bank offers a weekly grand prize response to the Note 7 crisis. has now slowed as Samsung is anxious to Hassad Islamic Saving program on October12 2016. which is KD 100. worth KD 25,000/-in addition to 25 weekly prizes avoid any repeat of the Note 7 problems This program offers the biggest prize amount to the The winner of the weekly grand prize in the worth a total of KD 25,000 distributed to 25 prizes, Frustration in its future premium handsets. largest number of winners. The prize program suc- amount of KD 25,000/- is: Ibrahim Ahmad Almull. The KD 1,000 for each winner. In addition, prizes of Al The sense of frustration among “Depending on the cause (of the Note 7 ceeded in becoming the first prize account in Kuwait winners of the Kd 1,000 Prize Each are; Khaled Awadh Hassad Islamic saving program from Ahli United Samsung staff has been heightened by problem), certain configurations may compliant with the Islamic Sharia principles. The pro- Mlaihan, Ahmad Awadh Almutairi, Abduallah Yousef Bank offer 4 quarterly grand prizes announced in the company’s inability to find the cause need to be altered,” the person said. “So gram has been developed to fulfill the needs of the Alsaif, Awatef Hamad Alsubeeh, Husain Abbas quarterly draws. Each is a “Salary for Life” prize which of the fires in replacement Note 7s that the specifics for the (next) phone have not Bank customers and increase their opportunities in Alsaffar, Salem Eid Alenezi, Mohd Hanif Shamsuddin, is worth KD 250,000/-. began shipping last month with what been finalized.” Samsung is not likely to winning sizeable and attractive prizes in addition to Taleen Karkoz Karkosian, Abdullah Murshed Al In general, Ahli United Bank continues to offer Samsung said were safe batteries, insiders bring forward the launch of the next enjoying the latest banking advantages that Ahli Murshed, Tharwat Hasan Ali, Khaled Mohammad innovative tools and means to meet the needs of its said. “We are working around the clock to Galaxy S smartphone to make up for lost United Bank provides. Alsaqoubi, Fawziah Yousef Alkandari, Sami Khalid customers to match the Bank’s long history of dis- analyse the causes of the reported cases,” Note 7 sales, the person added. Samsung On this occasion, the bank issued the following Aljasmi, Ali Jdaie Alajmi, Mortada Ali Mohamed, tinctive services which extend over 74 years during Samsung said in a statement to Reuters, told Reuters it will take “any and all neces- press release: Al Hassad Islamic Saving program Omar Lafi, Rawan Ali Ibrahim, Abdul Hadi Mirza Khalil, which the Bank managed to take the lead among adding it is premature to speculate on sary steps” to ensure product safety, but offers the highest amounts of prizes which amount Ahmed A Ridha Yusuf, Mohd Salman A Hussain, Salah local banks. For further information about “Al Hassad what went wrong. did not comment on whether the Note 7 to KD 3.4 Million per year. This Program also offers 26 Abdulla Hassan, Batsco, Badriya Ebrahim Abdulla, Islamic Saving” account, customers may call at any In an internal Oct 11 email apologizing fallout was affecting the next Galaxy S weekly prizes, with the highest number of weekly Fatima Ahmed Ali, Abbas Abdulla Isa. Ahli United Bank branch, or call: “Hayakom” service to staff, mobile chief Koh Dong-jin - who phone’s development. —Reuters winners. The Islamic Hassad Saving Account may be The Prize program of “Al Hassad Islamic Saving” at Tel: 181 2000. BUSINESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 Euronext faces a bind over LSE Clearnet sale Rivals like CME Group seen as possible bidders

LONDON: The London Stock Exchange’s move whether the company is currently in talks with Euronext could take its time and wait until to sell off its French clearing business has left LSE. “We are a natural buyer but not at any price, there’s more clarity on whether the LSE- France’s stock market operator Euronext facing especially since our clients represent approxi- Deutsche Boerse deal will go through - last a dilemma. The Paris-based exchange has mately half of the revenues of the company,” it month the European competition regulator begun talks with LSE to buy LCH Clearnet SA added. raised a series of concerns about the proposed according to sources familiar with the negotia- merger. But LSE is unlikely to offload the asset if tions. The British bourse has put the platform Politics at play the deal with Deutsche Boerse is rejected, so up for sale to help get its $28 billion merger A decision by Euronext, which also oper- there is only a limited time to decide. It would with Deutsche Boerse approved by European ates exchanges in Belgium, Netherlands, and also be easier for Euronext to secure a deal now KFH announces winners of competition authorities, and Euronext is seen as Portugal, to buy Clearnet would be watched as its clearing contract with LCH Clearnet the faraway favorite to buy it. not just by the London and German expires in December 2018, which in market ‘Banking Cards Campaign’ The deal would strengthen Euronext’s posi- exchanges - politicians in France also have an structure time scale is a very short time frame tion in the competitive European clearing mar- interest. The French government wants critical given all the tests and authorizations required if KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) the second car Mercedes Benz GLE 450 ket following its acquisition of a 20 percent market infrastructure to be locally owned, and it is to find an alternative clearing house. announced the 8 winners of the last draw Coupe, and will be held after 100 days of stake in Netherlands-based clearing house President Francois Hollande and other Britain’s decision to leave the European of the new banking cards campaign the launch for purchasing conducted from EuroCCP. It would also give it control of a plat- European policymakers say euro-denominated Union has also made LCH’s French arm more themed “Use KFH Cards and You May Win day 51 to day 100 of the campaign. KFH form that it provides much of the revenue for derivatives contracts should be cleared in the attractive to non-EU players as it would allow up to 2 Mercedes-Benz SUV’s and Cash strives to continuously offer its clients new and would allow it to avoid relying on a com- single currency area. them to operate in the continent without hav- Prizes up to KD 60000 aiming at encourag- promotions and offers that differentiate petitor’s clearing house for an essential service. The bulk of euro-denominated swaps are ing a so-called “passporting” deal in place. ing its customers to use KFH credit, prepaid them among peers, whilst also bolstering Clearing forms a critical part of the financial currently cleared by the London half of LCH Chicago-based CME Group, which was touted as and debit cards while making purchases in the bank’s pioneering position in the field system’s plumbing, guaranteeing a trade is Clearnet. But Euronext buying up Clearnet in a possible rival bidder for Deutsche Boerse, Kuwait and overseas. of banking cards. KFH marketing cam- completed even if one side of the transaction France could help drive euro clearing to Paris might want to bid, sector bankers said. CME The winners are: Husain Alkindari, paigns play a significant role in underlining goes bust. Clearing is becoming a growth sector and a French-owned exchange. But like declined to comment. The cash-rich exchange Nawaf Alotaibi, Mohammad Alqattan, Saud KFH’s principles that include boosting sales, in trading as new rules intended to apply les- Euronext the French government - as well as has been slowly building up a presence in Shoaib, Ayad Alhoud, Mubarak Alhajri, while benefitting clients and merchants. sons from the financial crisis mean far more those in Portugal and Belgium - have also spo- London, where it already has a clearing house. Khaled Alahmad and Saleh Alkindari. For This new campaign is part of KFH’s derivatives will have to pass through a clearing ken out against LSE and Deutsche Boerse com- Industry officials say Asian exchanges might every KD 10 spent on their KFH cards, efforts to reward its clients and grant them house, ensuring their volumes will swell in com- bining, saying a deal would create an exchange also be interested in Clearnet as a gateway into clients will gain a chance to enter a draw additional value; thus achieving higher cus- ing years. But there’s a catch. If Euronext buys so large it could make it more expensive for the EU. and win up to 2 Mercedes-Benz cars and a tomer satisfaction. The campaign also aims Clearnet SA, the chances of LSE getting the nod some companies in Europe raise money on the That leaves Euronext with limited bargaining chance to win the value of their purchases at enhancing the bank’s presence, especial- from competition regulators to merge with capital markets. power and time with LSE, as others might seize up to $2000 daily for 100 days. It is worth ly that it dominates the largest market Deutsche Boerse increase as it would ease con- Buying Clearnet would not be enough to the opportunity if they fail to agree a deal. noting that KFH Credit and Prepaid cards share in the field of banking cards in cerns about a concentration in the clearing mar- instantly transform Euronext’s footprint in the Analysts at KBW say Euronext is under-lever- used in domestic and international pur- Kuwait. KFH has won several awards in the ket. But the deal would still leave Euronext a industry though - and the merger of the London aged compared to other exchanges, so has the chases and KFH Debit cards used in inter- field of banking cards which reinforces its minnow compared with a combined Anglo- and Frankfurt exchanges would be a ready firepower to ensure a deal goes through. The national purchases are eligible for the daily success and efficiency in banking cards German exchange. made channel for shifting euro-denominated whole of LCH-Clearnet is estimated to be worth draw. market. KFH enjoys high confidence and “Of course Euronext is keen to acquire clearing from London to Deutsche Boerse’s around 600 million euros ($650 million) based Moreover, clients will gain the chance to leadership in the market in addition to high Clearnet,” said a source directly involved in the Eurex clearing unit in any case. People familiar on what LSE paid for its controlling stake in enter 2 draws to win 2 Mercedes-Benz cars. quality products which have enabled it to talks. “But Euronext is probably even more keen with Euronext’s thinking say the exchange’s 2012, with Clearnet expected to sell for less The first draw will be for the first car achieve growth in cards market and to see the LSE-Deutsche Boerse merger fail.” management does not feel under obligation to than that. One banker in the exchange industry Mercedes Benz GLE 400. This draw will be increase the number of customers. KFH Euronext said in a statement that it is “obvi- buy Clearnet and has “alternative options”, estimated it could be worth 400 million euros. held after 50 days of the launch for pur- occupies the leading position as the issuer ously considering this situation (LCH.Clearnet pointing to the EuroCPP deal as an example, The question is whether they see the platform chasing transactions conducted from day 1 of banking cards and one of leading banks SA), because this asset belonged to Euronext though the latter clears shares and has no as a good enough consolation prize for an LSE- to day 50, while the second draw will be for at the GCC level. until 2003.” But it declined to comment on immediate plans to move into derivatives. Deutsche Boerse merger.— Reuters KAMCO acquires GE Global Operation Center in US

KUWAIT: KAMCO Investment Company, a lead- ing investment company with one of the largest AUMs in the GCC region, successfully acquired General Electric’s (GE) Global Operation Center building located in the United States of America. KAMCO, established in the heart of Kuwait City with an internation- al office in the UAE, announced that the 12-sto- ry office tower housing GE’s Global Operation Center, located within The Banks “Work, Live, Play” mixed-use development area in down- town Cincinnati, Ohio is categorized as a Class A trophy property. The strategic location provides returns expected to deliver a 6.5% per annum net yield to investors and a projected net IRR of 7.1% after a total investment period of 5 years. The Fitch affirmed NBK Long Term newly built-to-suit state of the art facility is equipped with the latest building techniques ratings at AA-,Outlook Stable and necessary infrastructure to accommodate KUWAIT: Fitch Ratings, the international agency’s expectation of support from the a large number of offices, and consists of KAMCO’s CEO Faisal Sarkhou Chief Investment Officer at credit rating agency (Fitch), once again authorities and Kuwait’s strong ability to 339,678 sq feet of usable commercial space. KAMCO Khaled Fouad The property, leased to GE on a triple net 15- ing on behalf of Carter and 90 North Real affirmed National Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) provide support to its banks, combined Ohio called “The Banks”. The Banks is vibrant, Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at with Fitch’s belief that there would be a year lease, started from October 2016 until Estate Partners acting on behalf of KAMCO. JLL mixed-use development on the banks of the ‘AA-’, the highest in the Middle East and strong willingness to do so, in addition to 2031 with five additional terms of 5 years with Capital Markets Debt & Equity team, based in North Africa, with a Stable Outlook. Fitch the authorities’ record of support for the each option extended. Chicago, coordinated the financing, on behalf Ohio River. The ideal location consists a combi- highlighted the strength of NBK’s regulato- domestic banking system in case of need. Commenting on the acquisition, Chief of KAMCO, with Des Moines, Iowa based nation of residential real estate, entertainment ry capital achieved through a rights issue Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) also played Executive Officer of KAMCO, Faisal Mansour Principal Real Estate Investors. The local venues, retail stores, offices and national parks. and by issuing additional tier 1 securities a vital role as per the report, with its strict Sarkhou, said that the acquisition was yet Cincinnati office of CBRE, led by Steven It is also situated between the Cincinnati Reds’ and subordinated bonds, noting that NBK’s regime and hands-on monitoring another landmark in KAMCO’s expansion plan Thornton, will provide property management baseball stadium, the Great American Ball Park regulatory capital ratios and Fitch Core approach, leading to the continued that the Firm implemented during the begin- on the asset. and the Paul Brown Stadium. The development Capital (FCC) have improved. improvement of the asset quality in the ning of 2016. He also affirmed KAMCO’s strate- Assisting KAMCO in completing the transac- has also transformed downtown Cincinnati’s Moreover, the agency added that NBK’s banking sector. Additionally, reserves for gic focus on the regional and international real tion, Ice Miller LLP acted as legal advisors for all riverfront to a true live-work-play environment. Viability Rating (VR) is underpinned by its NPLs continue to be extremely high due to estate investments across the identified core practices in the United States.. Ernest and When fully completed, The Banks will fea- flagship status and dominant franchise, the prudent actions of CBK’s requiring the markets that provide sustainable returns to the young provided tax advisory services for the ture 1,800 residential units, 400 hotel rooms, 1 which supports it revenue generation build-up of precautionary general provi- Firm’s shareholders. acquisition, while BDO USA LLP, Centrum million square feet of office space and capacity and ability to finance better quali- sions. Finally, in its reflection on the eco- Also commenting on the acquisition, Chief Investment Group, and Jones Lang LaSalle 400,000 square feet of retail space. The 592 ty assets than its peers. The rating also fac- nomic scene in Kuwait, Fitch concluded Investment Officer of KAMCO, Khaled Fouad, financial and professional services firm special- residential units have been completed to tors in the bank’s strong management, con- that despite the impact of lower oil prices, said, “This investment opportunity emphasizes izing in commercial real estate services, assist- date, along with over 100,000 square feet of sistent strategy and solid funding profile Kuwaiti banks in general continue to bene- KAMCO’s ongoing determination in providing ed in completing the transaction. GE is a global retail. The location has multiple bus and shut- The report confirmed that the Stable fit from a fairly stable operating environ- digital industrial company that is ranked 8th in tle services and a new bike-sharing program, outlook on the bank’s Long-term IDR ment, thanks to the government’s continu- new diverse and innovative income generating the Fortune 500 with investment grade ratings Cincy Red Bike, with recently installed sta- reflects the outlook on the Kuwaiti sover- ing capital spending plans which managed asset streams, and we believe that this prime from Standard and Poor’s (AA+) and Moody’s tions across the downtown Cincinnati area eign rating at (AA/Stable), due to the to partially offset the pressures. asset offers long-term value in combination with attractive current yields.” Fouad also added (A1). The company’s diversified stream of providing over 260 bicycles for public use. that the Alternative Investments Department at income from its clients in over 180 countries The new $112 million, 3.6-mile streetcar track Egypt allocates $1.8 billion to KAMCO is keen to resume developing and has led GE to reach a market cap of approxi- will link The Banks to Downtown and eventu- expanding its renowned track-record of experi- mately USD 296.5 billion. ally to the University of Cincinnati. The ameni- build up strategic goods stock ence in different alternative asset classes on a ties The Banks has to offer allows GE to access local, regional and global basis. Strategic Location a broader and wider pool of quality staff, in a LONDON: Egypt’s central bank has allocated wheat on paper than was found in silos. The investment transaction was orchestrat- The real estate property acquired by KAM- modern working environment while encour- $1.8 billion to ensure six months of reserves The public prosecutor has charged sever- ed by the Atlanta office of Eastdil Secured, act- CO is located in the vital area of Cincinnati, aging a work- life balance. in all strategic goods, Supply Minister al private silo owners and others with profi- Mohamed Ali El-Sheikh said yesterday, after teering, forgery and enabling embezzle- widespread sugar shortages prompted talk ment. Parliamentarians who formed a fact- of an impending food crisis. Egypt already finding commission to investigate the sus- has five months worth of wheat and veg- pected fraud have said upwards of 2 million Qatar bank CBQ swings to loss etable oil reserves and would ensure that tons, or 40 percent of the locally procured Egyptians receive a steady supply of essen- crop, may be unaccounted for. Sheikh said a tial foods, Sheikh said at a news conference. committee composed of officials from the Bad loan provisions almost triple The $1.8 billion has already been allocated supply, agriculture and finance ministries and the supply effort would be made in had been established to determine the DOHA: Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) profit of 281.7 million riyals. Reuters had earli- review of the bank since he joined had identi- coordination with the armed forces, said proper price for local wheat to be procured swung to a third-quarter net loss, it reported er calculated the earnings based on a sepa- fied a need to recognize a number of non-per- Sheikh, a military major general who took next year. late on Tuesday, as the Gulf Arab state’s third- rate statement which did not provide a quar- forming loans. charge in September of a ministry rocked by However, he said Egypt had yet to decide largest lender by assets was forced to set terly breakdown. Weighing on the bank’s “Both the board and the bank’s leadership a wheat corruption scandal. if it will shift to a system where it pays farm- aside more cash to cover bad loans. The earnings was a near-tripling of net impair- team view this as the necessary first step in Sheikh said his ministry would seek to ers the global wheat price plus the govern- results, the first since the appointment of for- ment charges against bad loans, which aligning the business for the current and end procurement of wheat to open air ment subsidy. The plan was mooted earlier mer Australia and New Zealand Banking jumped to 504.9 million riyals in the third future economic environment and ensuring silos by next year’s buying season and this year as part of efforts to minimize Group banker Joseph Abraham as chief exec- quarter from 167.6 million a year earlier. Commercial Bank builds sustainable earnings move to more sophisticated climate-con- opportunities for corruption along the sup- utive, continue the bank’s dismal earnings Provision levels in the Gulf are being care- and is well positioned for the future,” Abraham trolled silos that are designed to minimize ply chain but was never implemented. Egypt run, having posted falling profits in the pre- fully watched as the region’s banks feel the said. The bank will update the market with waste and prevent fraud. The move comes was also reviewing eligibility for a smart card ceding four quarters. fallout of lower oil prices on the wider econo- other aspects of the review later in the year, as Egypt, the world’s largest wheat system through which low income importer, tries to clamp down on alleged Egyptians access state-subsidized food, The bank made a net attributable loss of my, which has forced cutbacks in state and Abraham said. Quarterly net interest income corruption in its strategic wheat supply Sheikh said. He said the ministry would cut 1.04 million riyals ($285,612) in the three consumer spending, as well as layoffs in a fell by 13.5 percent to 563.2 million riyals and chain that has wasted billions of pounds waste by cancelling cards allocated to peo- months to Sept. 30, the bank said in a finan- number of industries. Saudi banks have been net fee and commission income fell by 30.7 in public funds. Egyptian prosecutors are ple who have since died or emigrated and cial statement. That compared with a net hit hard by third-quarter impairments, percent to 170.7 million. Loans and deposits investigating allegations that millions of would review eligibility criteria for everyone attributable profit of 275.9 million riyals a year although other Qatari lenders which have so levels both increased by 4 percent to 75.9 bil- dollars intended to subsidize local wheat else. He did not elaborate on what the new earlier, while the average forecast of four ana- far reported earnings have not registered sig- lion riyals and 66.7 billion riyals as of Sept farmers were used to purchase more criteria may involve. — Reuters lysts polled by Reuters was for a quarterly nificant jumps. In a statement, Abraham said a 30.—Reuters THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 TECHNOLOGY In fume-choked Kochi, a solar rickshaw glides to the rescue New item rolling onto the streets

KOCHI, INDIA: The inventor of an innovative helpful in my daily life,” said Biji, one driver in sive. He believes his invention could be sold for solar chick incubator, solar milking machine and Kochi, asked about whether he’d consider a 125,000 rupees (about $1,875), compared to solar-powered boat now has his newest item solar vehicle. about 200,000 to 250,000 for a traditional new rolling onto the streets in this southern Indian Like most rickshaw drivers in Kochi, Biju does- auto rickshaw. city: A solar rickshaw taxi. n’t own his vehicle, but instead rents one for 12 Even with drivers saving $3.75 a day in fuel Georgekutty Kariyanappally, the founder of hours a day for 250 rupees ($3.75). He spends costs, that’s still a steep upfront cost, but emerg- Lifeway Solar Devices Private Ltd., so far has just another 250 rupees a day on diesel while driving ing green policies in India could lead to the gov- one prototype operating on the streets, but has his vehicle 80 to 100 kilometers, he said, and ernment providing cheaper loans or subsidies supplied another 20 to a nearby tourist resort. takes home about 500 rupees ($7.50) a day for for clean transport such as solar auto rickshaws, In a city where traffic fumes are a worsening his work. he believes. problem, the solar rickshaw, Kariyanappally said, Ditching diesel costs would be great, he said, For now, Kariyanappally’s invention faces a is a way of ensuring people don’t have to choose but not if it means paying a higher daily rent for few barriers - including that his prototype vehi- between effective transport and environmental a solar taxi. “I am ready to shift from a traditional cle is technically on the streets illegally, as the protection. Usually “you have to choose between auto to a solar one. But I should not have to pay Kerala Motor Vehicle Department has not yet development or the environment,” he said. “But I more,” he said. recognised solar as a legal vehicle fuel. “We are have an answer.” Still, he can see other benefits of making the treating the solar auto service as a trial,” said Solar vehicles are not entirely new in Asia. switch. In a city suffering what the National Sadiq Ali, a Kochi road transport officer. Solar rickshaws are on the road in a number of Environmental Engineering Research Institute Whether solar taxis will take hold in Kochi countries, particularly Thailand; in Cambodia, a calls “severe” air pollution, even his own 5-year- remains to be seen, residents say. But for now solar-adapted auto rickshaw has even become a old son is struggling with bronchitis, he said. they’ve driven another innovation: researchers, mobile coffee cart. Earlier this year another Kariyanappally, the solar vehicle’s inventor, environmentalists and investors coming to Kochi Dell EMC and neXgen Indian engineer drove a solar rickshaw he’d con- says solar rickshaws need not be more expen- to have a look, Kariyanappally said.—Reuters structed from Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) to the UK. But Kariyanappally, known in Kochi as Group Join Forces to Drive “Solar Man”, has come up with his own version - just the latest creation in more than 14 years of Yahoo rakes in profits as it Regional Smart Agenda work on renewable energy innovations, some of DUBAI: Dell EMC today announced a tecture, in addition to Dell EMC it backed financially by the National Bank for prepares for Verizon deal strategic alliance with neXgen Group, Isilon(tm) scale out storage, to provision Agriculture and Rural Development. the need for a robust and elastic stor- The fledging solar rickshaw - a three-wheeled, the region’s leading Smart Cities adviso- SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo’s quarterly profits to refocus failed to help it catch up to Google ry and managed services organization age architecture. The platform is com- five-seater motorized rickshaw with a solar panel on the roof - has gained a particular public fol- shot up by more than double to $163 million and Facebook in key segments of online aimed to drive the region’s advancing pleted with Dell EMC Data Domain(tm) even as it prepares for a takeover by Verizon. advertising. innovation agenda. in addition to Dell EMC Avamar(tm) to lowing in Kochi since its launch in August because it is quiet and non-polluting. The faded internet pioneer skipped its usual The deal would separate the Yahoo inter- neXgen Group specializes in extend- create a performance backed data pro- quarterly earnings call with analysts due to net assets from its more valuable stake in the ing smart city technology solutions as a tection and availability environment. the pending takeover by the US telecommu- Chinese online giant Alibaba. However, ‘Breathing fresh air’ service to governments, real estate and In addition, neXgen Group has nication company, for which chief executive Verizon said last week that a recently revealed enterprise customers across the region selected Pivotal Cloud Foundry(r), open In a country where more than half a billion people don’t own motorized vehicles and rely Marissa Mayer said Yahoo is busy preparing hack affecting 500 million Yahoo customers and has been actively involved in flag- source cloud native platform to extend despite recent revelations about a major data worldwide could have a “material” effect on ship projects such as Smart Dubai and a production-ready application plat- instead on hailing taxis - usually auto rickshaws - the invention could have a big impact on air breach that may affect the deal. the deal. Smart Riyadh, contributing its regional form that enables the development and “We launched several new products and The comments from Verizon general coun- consulting expertise and in-country delivery of faster composable services quality, noise, health and climate change, back- ers say. showed solid financial performance across sel Craig Silliman suggest the telecom com- Smart City managed services. The com- designed for independent deployment, the board,” she said in an earnings release, pany could seek to reduce the purchase price pany offers an integrated portfolio of scaling and recovery Altogether more than five million auto rick- which beat expectations despite only a slight or walk away from the deal. Although the technology, intelligence and insights to shaws - favored because they are cheap, ubiqui- rise in revenue. hack took place in late 2014, Yahoo help some of the region’s most promi- tous and able to get through narrow lanes - ply Customer Quote Shares were up 1.49 percent to $42.30 in announced it only last month, dealing the nent government entities, telcos and India’s roads, according to the Indian Ministry of Ghazi Atallah, CEO ,neXgen Group after-market trades following the earnings company a fresh blow. public sector organizations conceptual- “At neXgen Group we are commit- Surface Transport. Kochi has about 15,000, report release, reflecting confidence the The attack was probably “state sponsored,” ize, execute, monitor and deliver smart ted to helping governments and devel- according to the road transport office in the city. breach is not prompting a significant number it said, although some analysts have ques- applications, services and infrastructure. opers across the region build cities “It’s quite similar to an ordinary auto (rick- of users to abandon Yahoo. tioned the source. “We’re working hard to According to a recent report by Frost that are powered by innovative smart shaw) journey except that I am breathing fresh Revenue for the quarter that ended on retain their trust,” Mayer said of Yahoo’s users, & Sullivan, Smart Cities will represent a services. Our strategic partnership with air instead of polluted air. This gives me Sept. 30 came to $1.3 billion, up from the $1.2 “and are heartened by their continued loyalty market value of USD 1.5 Trillion by 2020 Dell EMC allows us to bring govern- immense pleasure,” said Vijayakumari, who billion in the same period a year earlier. as seen in our user engagement trends.” driven by investments in sectors such as ments and city authorities closer to recently took a ride in Kariyanappally’s prototype. Yahoo’s image took another hit recently Smart Districts, Utilities, Healthcare, realizing their digital agenda and The solar rickshaw can run up to 80 kilometers Mobile revenue during the quarter reached Security and Governance. The GCC is strengthening their concerted efforts a day with six hours of charging, with the range $396 million, up from $271 million the previ- from allegations of mass email surveillance already witnessing the innovation-pow- to create not only smart, but sustain- extending to 120 kilometers on a sunny day, ous year. The boost in profits came from cut- that triggered an outcry from privacy ered transformation of cities across the able cities with higher quality of life. Kariyanappally said. Solar rickshaws could poten- ting workers and costs, not from the strength activists. Yahoo has denied doing any such region to improve the quality of life for tially find a home in cities such as Mumbai and of its core business. They hit the mark never- thing, rejecting as “misleading” a report that it theless, according to independent Silicon secretly scanned hundreds of millions of their citizens, stimulate business and Dell EMC Quote Kolkata, where their more polluting cousins have Valley analyst Rob Enderle. “For the most part, email accounts to help US intelligence. drive economic growth in the future. Habib Mahakian, Vice President, been banned, replaced with battery-operated people were expecting a burning crater “We narrowly interpret every government As part of its Smart City managed Gulf and Pakistan, Dell EMC electric rickshaws, backers say. services offering, neXgen Group aims to “As the digital era brings about “Think how much carbon would be reduced if where Yahoo used to be,” he said. “This is the request for user data to minimize disclosure,” introduce a first of its kind Application- unprecedented changes in customer all the autos in the city were remodeled as solar kind of financial report they needed to not the company said in a statement to AFP. “The As-A-Service offering to empower inno- and business expectations, the Middle autos,” Kariyanappally said. He noted that a increase the probability that Verizon runs mail scanning described in the article does vation agenda’s across the GCC region East is making headway in building switch to solar transport potentially could also away screaming from the deal.” not exist on our systems.” and has announced Dell EMC as an future-forward cities powered by inno- net the country carbon credits. Some activists described the allegation as infrastructure partner to empower its vation. We are excited to be working Hacks and scans a “bombshell” that if proven true could reveal in-country Managed Smart-City and together with neXgen Group and have Cost for drivers? The beleaguered internet company a new level of surveillance by the National Smart-District Services for the opportunity to create “smart soci- Some auto rickshaw drivers in Kochi say agreed in July to sell its core assets to Verizon Security Agency, already roiled by disclosures Governments. neXgen Group’s unique eties” that foster innovation, collabora- they’re interested in the solar models - but only for $4.8 billion, ending a 20-year run as an in 2013 by former contractor Edward offering extends the essential ICT tion and open engagement between if they’re affordable and improve incomes for independent company after several attempts Snowden.—AFP framework and foundation to new serv- governments and citizens, visitors and drivers. “Tell me in simple language how could it ices in a number of areas including businesses alike.” smart security, smart real estate, smart education and healthcare verticals in Dell EMC addition to smart metering and energy Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, management. enables organizations to modernize, With this alliance, neXgen Group and automate and transform their data cen- Dell EMC commit to enabling govern- ter using industry-leading converged ments and cities across the region infrastructure, servers, storage and data establish the instrumental ICT pillars to protection technologies. This provides accelerate innovation adoption; deliver a trusted foundation for businesses to superior, fast and personalized services transform IT, through the creation of a for citizens and businesses while hybrid cloud, and transform their busi- enabling agility and sustainability. ness through the creation of cloud- To that end, neXgen Group has struc- native applications and big data solu- tured its platform deployments around tions. Dell EMC services customers Dell EMC VxRack(tm), hyper-converged across 180 countries - including 98% of rack-scale engineered systems purpose the Fortune 500 - with the industry’s built to enable customers quickly most comprehensive and innovative deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service archi- portfolio from edge to core to cloud.

Underwater drone to investigate sonar contacts in MH370 hunt SYDNEY: A ship involved with the deep- sonar contacts of interest throughout the sea sonar search for missing Malaysia two-year hunt. The contacts are grouped Airlines Flight 370 is being fitted with a into three classification levels based on drone that will examine several sonar their likelihood of being linked to the contacts of interest on the remote plane. Contacts dubbed “classification 1” seabed west of Australia, officials said are considered the most likely to have yesterday. come from the aircraft. None of the None of the sonar contacts exhibit the recent sonar contacts that the drone will characteristics of a typical aircraft debris investigate are classification 1. There field, said the Australian Transport Safety have only been two contacts that fit into Bureau, which is heading up the hunt for that category thus far; one turned out to Alex Bender, SVP of Global Marketing, Mimecast the Boeing 777 in a desolate stretch of be an old shipwreck, and the other was a the Indian Ocean. But some of the con- rock field. tacts do exhibit man-made properties Search crews have so far come up Mimecast Hosted a Human and therefore must be investigated empty in their attempt to find the main before they can be eliminated as having underwater wreckage of the plane, come from the plane, the agency said in which vanished on March 8, 2014, during Firewall Event at GITEX 2016 a statement. a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Officials have previously said that with 239 people on board. The ships more than 20 sonar contacts that crews have less than 10,000 square kilometers have picked up in recent months require (3,900 square miles) left to scour of the Hacking email accounts demonstrated closer examination by a sonar-equipped 120,000-square kilometer (46,000-square underwater drone. They are between mile) search zone. DUBAI: As part of its GITEX Technology Week start with an email. Companies are being forming a task, running an attachment or 2,700 kilometers (1,700 miles) and 1,900 Officials previously said the search 2016 plans, Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: attacked by malicious cyber criminals with clicking a link, that they can drive a behavior kilometers (1,200 miles) from the would be finished by December. On MIME), a leading email and data security com- more frequency and sophistication than ever change in them. With the Human Firewall Australian port of Fremantle where the Wednesday, the transport bureau said it pany, held a Human Firewall breakfast event before. The threat of spear-phishing, whaling event, we want to educate our customers on search ships are based. is now likely to take until January or on October 19 at the Dubai World Trade and socially-engineered email attacks is real the threats, encourage a behavior change Poor weather during the southern February to complete, due to the long Centre from 8am to 11am. The event targeted and could happen to any company and hence towards security and invoke a human firewall hemisphere winter has, until now, pre- stretch of poor winter weather that has organizations with email users covering the making people aware of the latest threats, to help protect their business and de-fang the vented the ships from deploying the hampered search efforts. latest threat trends, how users can prepare and how they could prepare these attacks is threats that target them,” Mr. Bekker added. drone. With the weather improving, the Malaysia, China and Australia agreed their email defences and the newest solutions important.” Mimecast is showcasing its full-range of Chinese vessel Dong Hai Jiu 101 is being in July that the hunt would be suspend- available to prevent these attack. “We know that routine security training email and data security solutions and services, fitted with a video camera-equipped ed after the crews finish scouring the Speaking on the necessity of educating doesn’t work and technology is less effective at GITEX Technology Week 2016, being held remotely operated vehicle that will scru- current search zone, unless credible new people on the importance of email security, without proper training. Only when organiza- from October 16-20, 2016 at the Dubai World tinize the sonar contacts. evidence emerges that identifies the Brandon Bekker, Managing Director at tions start to get users to think for a fraction Trade Centre. Mimecast is exhibiting at stand Crews have picked up hundreds of plane’s location.—AP Mimecast MEA said, “91% of cyber-attacks of a second longer than normal before per- C1-20, Hall 1. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

California capital could reap billions from legalized pot, study says

SACRAMENTO: California’s state capital terms of both a center of innovation as lous US state are likely to legalize marijua- vigorate the slightly faded feel of of the Sacramento Region Business region could reap 20,000 jobs and gener- well as production,” said Daniel Conway, na on Nov. 8, instantly creating a massive Sacramento area, where empty store- Association. “With this many jobs, you ate $4.2 billion in business if it becomes a who left his job as chief of staff to marketplace and making California the fronts mar numerous shopping centers can’t ignore it.” hub for a legalized marijuana industry, a Sacramento Mayor and former NBA star fifth US state to permit recreational pot and abandoned houses sport boarded-up The University of the Pacific report study released on Monday showed, weeks Kevin Johnson to become Truth use. windows despite nearly a decade of slow offers the first hard look at the potential before voters decide whether to allow Enterprises’ managing partner. “This Centering some of that business in the recovery from the Great Recession. economic impact of the marijuana busi- recreational use of the drug. region has the ability to be to cannabis Sacramento region would take advantage Downtown is undergoing a massive ness on the Sacramento region, Woods The report from the University of the what Sonoma and Napa are to wine.” of the area’s proximity to farmland and facelift around a new arena for the NBA said. But that does not mean his group - Pacific in Stockton was commissioned by If local leaders choose to limit the agricultural processing facilities as well as Kings, with dozens of new shops and or other business and political leaders - is the cannabis investment company Truth number and type of marijuana business- such population hubs such as the San restaurants planned. The city is close to ready to make the area a hub. Enterprises, one of hundreds of business- es, the study showed, legalization would Francisco Bay Area and tourist destina- winning a major league soccer franchise, For that to happen, policymakers es counting on voters to legalize pot next bring as few as 1,600 jobs and generate tions like Lake Tahoe and the Napa Valley, and its restaurant scene is growing. “The would need to be persuaded that a busy month. about $322 million in revenues, wages the study said. entire Sacramento business community is marijuana growing and processing indus- “The Sacramento region should be to and other economic impacts. Local business and political leaders looking at this with different eyes today,” try would not also be a magnet for crime, cannabis what Detroit is to automobiles in Polls indicate voters in the most popu- have for years searched for ways to rein- said Joshua Woods, chief executive officer addiction and other problems.—Reuters Humans eating wild mammals into extinction

PARIS: Some 300 wild mammal species Cascading effects in Asia, Africa and Latin America are All 301 species identified are found being driven to extinction by humanity’s exclusively in developing countries, with voracious appetite for bushmeat, accord- the highest concentration in southeast Asia ing to a world-first assessment released (113), followed by Africa (91), the rest of yesterday. Asia (61) and Latin America (38). The coun- The species at risk range from rats to rhi- tries with the most native species under noceros, and include docile, ant-eating siege from hunting were Madagascar (46), pangolins as well as flesh-ripping big cats. Indonesia (37), the Philippines (14) and The findings, published in the journal Brazil (10). Royal Society Open Science, are evidence The scale of the problem is daunting: of a “global crisis” for warm-blooded land some 89,000 tonnes of wild meat-with a animals, 15 top conservation scientists con- market value of about $200 million (180 cluded. “Terrestrial mammals are experi- million euros) — is butchered every year encing a massive collapse in their popula- tion sizes and geographical ranges around from the Brazilian Amazon alone, the study the world,” the study warned. found. This decline, it said, was part of a larger On current trends, the prospects for trend known as a “mass extinction event,” these and other mammals is not bright, the only the sixth time in half a billion years authors said. “Forty of these species were that Earth’s species are dying out at more already classed as critically endangered by than 1,000 times the usual rate. 1996, indicating that there has been little Besides eating them, humans are rob- or no conservation progress in reversing bing mammals of their natural habitats their fate,” they note. through agriculture and urbanization, and This, despite dozens of major conserva- decimating them through pollution, dis- tion conferences and summits, and the ease and climate change. According to the expansion of protected areas. The impact Union for the Conservation of Nature’s of extinction may be felt well beyond the (IUCN) Red List of endangered species, a loss of individual species, the scientists cau- quarter of 4,556 land mammals assessed tioned. “Through cascading effects, the loss are on the road to annihilation. of these mammals is altering the structure For 301 of these threatened species, and function of the environments in which “hunting by humans”-mainly for food, but they occur,” the study notes. also as purported health and virility boost- The result could be a loss of food securi- ers, and trophies such as horns or pelts-is ty for humans. The research echoed a SANTA CRUZ DO CAPIBARIBE, PERNAMBUCO STATE, BRAZIL: In this Dec 23, 2015 file photo, Angelica Pereira, left, holds her daughterLuiza, who the main threat, according to the compre- recent study which showed that more than was born with microcephaly because of the Zika virus, as she sits with her husband Dejailson Arruda, at their home.—AP hensive review of scientific literature. two-thirds of 9,000 threatened species- The likelihood of extinction, the team including plants, birds and insects-faced found, depends on body size: the bigger over-exploitation from commerce, recre- the animals, the greater the danger. ation or subsistence. Where Zika struck hardest, Brazil More than 100 primates, including goril- las and snub-nosed monkeys, and dozens Ripple and colleagues call for increased of hooved animals from oxen to antelope, legal protection of threatened mammals, moms say more help needed are at dire risk from hunting. “These species better education and family planning, and will continue to decline unless there is the provision of alternative foods to local major global action to save them,” Bill populations. Giving local communities Finding and affording drugs main Zika problem Ripple, a professor at Oregon State stronger land rights-so that they have a University and lead author of the study, more direct interest in conservation-is also key, they said.—AFP RECIFE, BRAZIL: As the sun dyes the early they needed. horrible because I feel that the longer I wait for told AFP. morning sky a reddish hue, Angelica Pereira car- While the government has provided therapy these exams, the worse it can get, and I won’t be ries her 1-year-old daughter out of the tiny white and some financial assistance, mothers such as able to take care of her,” said Silva. house sitting on a dirt road where piles of Pereira say it doesn’t come close to meeting Many mothers end up borrowing money garbage float in puddles. their overwhelming needs caring for children from relatives to pay for private hospitals and Sharks are beautiful, diver The driver sent to fetch her and other moth- with severe development delays. doctors for specialized treatment. Silva says that ers with babies disabled by the Zika virus is two Some families plan to sue the government to isn’t an option for her; just trying to buy baby says despite narrow escape hours late, which could mean less time with the get more families with disabled children the formula is a struggle. She and her five children therapists who help her daughter move rigid $275 a month now currently provided to house- live on the $250 her husband earns each month SHANGHAI: A diver whose near miss nizing 20 seconds pass before Chan, who limbs and a floppy back. holds earning less than $70 a month. They also working at a warehouse. with a great white shark became a viral is from Hong Kong but lives in Shanghai, While battling these logistical challenges, want the government to pay for medication for The health secretary for Recife state, Jailson video sensation, viewed more than 15 emerges safely. Pereira also struggles to find and afford expen- babies with epilepsy, increasingly common in Correia, says the city has yet to receive funds million times on Youtube, says the The harrowing incident did little to sive drugs that families must pay for because children whose mothers were infected with Zika from the state or federal government for a spe- ocean’s apex predator is “beautiful”. Chan diminish Chan’s fondness for the great government health plans don’t cover them. “We during pregnancy. cial child development division. The plan is to Ming was on a shark-watching excursion white and he went back into the water are always chasing something. We have to drop “These are women in need of financial aid, create a group of pediatricians, child neurolo- off the Mexican coast when the animal the next day. “You know in Chinese we everything else, all our chores, our homes,” said who are from remote towns and are finding new gists, social workers and physical, speech and broke into the metal cage protecting say that ‘Where you fell down, (is) where the 21-year-old. “There are so many of us with problems every day with their children,” said occupational therapists who treat children with him. you need to stand up’,” said the 51-year- children with special needs. (The government) is attorney Viviane Guimaraes, who is helping sev- congenital Zika syndrome. Despite their fearsome reputation, old. “I still think the shark, the great forgetting about that.” eral families enroll in a program for the disabled. Correia says the city has offered epilepsy State-run health care in Brazil is woefully drugs on a case-by-case basis because they are sharks do not normally feed on humans, white, is so beautiful, they’re very beauti- Initial reaction underfunded, and patients often wait months not provided through the public health plan, but and have to be drawn in with bait. The ful and cute.” Zika initially was known only to cause flu-like for treatment. People who can afford get care that help won’t last forever. “The city’s financial shark seized the bait and crashed into In a company statement posted on symptoms in some people. But a surge late last through private health plans. Jusikelly da Silva resources are already strained,” Correia told The the cage, breaking part of it. Unable to Facebook, operator Solmar V Luxury year in cases of babies born with small heads in says she is desperate to get a brain scan for her Associated Press. “We need the state and federal swim backwards, it carried on inside, Live-Aboard said the shark did not suffer northeast Brazil set off worldwide alarm about 10-month-old Luhandra, who was sitting up and levels to take a more active role.” where Chan was alone. The advertising any serious injuries. “Shark breaches of the virus, which was later linked to a birth defect eating solid foods before a seizure several executive and part-time diving instructor this magnitude are a one in a million known as microcephaly. When the connection months ago left her virtually motionless. Silva No response from officials told AFP on Monday that he tried hard to occurrence,” it said. “As unfortunate as it was made, then-President Dilma Rousseff prom- has tried for three months to get the radiology Federal officials didn’t respond to repeated stay calm, “because if I get panicked it was, it was still an accident.” The compa- ised that affected families would get the help test and an appointment with a specialist. “It’s requests for additional information about how will be very horrible in there”. “When the ny-whose priority is to offer “unique life they are responding to the crisis. The Zika crisis great white shark was breaking into the experiences”-said comes as Latin America’s largest nation weathers cage, the inside of its mouth was getting its cages have been reinforced follow- a two-year recession that has pushed inflation jammed in the cage, and at that moment ing the breach, and bait would be 62-year-old woman in Spain and unemployment to over 10 percent. A pro- I was thinking ‘Hey, don’t think about thrown further away from them in future. posal under consideration by Congress would coming in here’,” he said. After his October 4 brush with the great gives birth to third child cap public spending, raising fears about cuts for The video shows the shark apparently white Chan wrote on his Facebook page health and education. bleeding as it thrashes its way out that he had been “reborn” and was savor- MADRID: A 62-year-old Spanish woman has pound) Lina was born by cesarean section. Treating children with neurological problems through a gap on top of the cage, which ing Cantonese noodle soup and beer, given birth to a healthy girl and encourages Alvarez’s first child, now 27, was born with is not cheap. Researchers exploring the health was opened by a crew member. An ago- adding: “Everyday are good days.” —AFP women in their later years to imitate her if cerebral palsy. Her second child is now 10. Her burden for governments fighting Zika conclude they want to. second and third pregnancies were through that each child with microcephaly in Brazil Lina Alvarez left the Lucus Augusti Hospital in-vitro fertilization treatment. Alvarez, a doc- would cost about $95,000 in lifetime medical in the northwestern city of Lugo on Tuesday tor, said that women who are well enough to expenses, a little more than half the $180,000 it with her third child in her arms, saying she felt have a baby in their later years shouldn’t be would cost in the United States. wonderful. She said baby Lina, born Oct. 10, afraid to do so, adding that they should let Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, a researcher at the was in perfect health. The 2.4-kilogram (5.3- nature, not gynecologists decide.—AP Yale School of Public Health, said the estimates are based on cases of mental disability, adding that microcephaly is a more severe condition. He said total costs, including special education and income loss, can add up to much more. Brazil has confirmed more than 2,000 cases of microcephaly so far, and Health Minister Ricardo Barros says almost all of these babies are enrolled in rehabilitation centers to stimulate development. More than half of the children are from poor households with a monthly income of less than $70. Ana Carla Maria Bernardo, 24, says she had to close her beauty salon when a test taken shortly after her daughter Carla Elisabethe was born showed the child had brain damage caused by a Zika infection while still in the womb. Carla’s father was recently fired from his job as a door- man, but Bernardo says the government won’t provide financial aid because his former salary was over minimum wage. Meanwhile, Bernardo says it takes her nearly two hours each way on buses to get from her Recife suburb to the rehabilitation center. “I wish the government would help us,” said Bernardo. SHANGHAI: This picture taken on October 18, 2016 shows Chan Ming, who survived MADRID: In this screen grab taken from video on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, Lina Alvarez “They have the resources. It’s just a matter of a close encounter with a great white shark while cage diving off Guadalupe Island, leaves Lucas Augusti Hospital with her new born baby.—AP them taking some interest in us.”—AP Mexico, watching the viral video of the great white shark on his computer.—AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE Robotic scan for horses could hold promise for human health Detailed anatomical views in normal state now possible

KENNETT SQUARE: Veterinarians hope an inno- vative type of CT scan can advance medical care for horses and possibly be adapted for humans, eliminating the need for people to lie still inside a tube. Robotic CT at the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school allows a horse to remain awake and standing as scanners on two mechanical arms move around it. The result- ing high-quality images, including some in 3D, for the first time offer detailed anatomical views of the animal in its normal, upright state. That’s a huge difference from the standard CT for a horse, which requires administering anes- thesia, placing the animal on its side and maneuvering a scanning unit around the affect- ed area. Not all body parts fit in the machines. Robotic CT “is much less stressful,” said Dr. UTRECHT, PROVINCE DE UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS: Professor of Earth Sciences at Barbara Dallap Schaer, medical director of Penn Utrecht University and former director of Rotterdam’s Museum of Natural History Vet’s New Bolton Center. “It’s a pretty athletic biologist Jelle Reumer poses on August 10, 2016.—AFP event for horses to recover from general anes- thesia.” The New York-based company 4DDI cre- ated the Equimagine system with components Out of the countryside, wildlife from robot manufacturer ABB. First unveiled at KENNETT SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA: In this Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, photo, Medical Director Penn last spring, 4DDI now has orders for more Dr. Barbara Dallap Schaer, right, and Radiologist Dr. Kathryn Wulster hold a horse as a comput- returning to Amsterdam than a dozen units at equine facilities around the erized tomography scan is conducted at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center world, according to CEO Yiorgos Papaioannou. Hospital for Large Animals.—AP AMSTERDAM: Seals peep from should allow things to evolve naturally. “The word is spreading,” Papaioannou said. Amsterdam’s famous canals, while rare bats “Extinction is normal. More species have strophic injury if they stumble. tomers are getting the equipment in exchange huddle in the eaves of houses, next to nest- become extinct throughout geological his- Procedure “So the whole beauty of this technology, we for a per-scan fee. The company plans to make ing birds. Wildlife-of the animal kind-is on tory than are alive today,” Reumer, a profes- At Penn, the large white robotic arms are hope, is that we’re going to be able to scan another version of the system for smaller ani- the rise in the teeming Dutch capital. sor in Earth Sciences at Utrecht university, installed at a barn at New Bolton Center, the vet much greater numbers of patients much, much mals, he said. More than 10,000 different animal told AFP. It is Amsterdam’s leafier, wetter school’s hospital for large animals in the earlier in the process of things like stress-related Penn’s system was made possible through a species roam the city’s nooks and crannies, outskirts which have proved the most fer- Philadelphia exurb of Kennett Square. Horses are injuries in a racehorse,” Richardson said. For donor, said Dallap Schaer, noting the cost was sharing space already packed with around tile ground for animals looking to set up given a mild sedative and walked into the facility humans, the technology could be helpful when comparable to standard CT scanners. Overall 800,000 Amsterdamers and millions of home. Here natterjack toads, red squirrels, for a scan that lasts less than a minute. dealing with squirming children or claustropho- cost for the images will be less than CT scans annual tourists, according to a new study. foxes and voles along with the blue- CT, or computed tomography, gives pictures bic adults. Doctors could also get clearer views that require anesthesia, she said. And it appears to be an exodus out of the winged grasshopper can be spotted trying of soft tissues that X-rays can’t. While traditional of, say, spinal problems in a standing patient Dennis Charles, of Allentown, brought his countryside, providing a potent illustration to keep out of the clutches of birds of prey CT requires the subject to be still, this new sys- instead of relying on CT performed while the horse Bert to Penn Vet for an MRI earlier this of the natural world’s extraordinary like hawks and peregrines. A soprano pip- tem compensates for slight movement. person is lying down. Penn’s translational year, before robotic CT was available. The proce- resilience, experts and scientists say. istrelle bat was spotted in Amsterdam for Eventually, vets hope they’ll be able to capture research team has partnered with other hospi- dure required anesthesia, and Charles said he Since 2012 small grey or brown furred the first time last year, while there is “a cau- CT images of a horse running on a treadmill. tals to look at the possibilities. was incredibly nervous watching a wobbly Bert harbor seals have occasionally been known tious recovery” of the swift and sparrow The ease of imaging means more horses can “This is an interesting concept - the ability to regain consciousness afterward. to travel down from the North Sea coast, population which had gone into decline. get preventive scans, said Dr. Dean Richardson, image in your natural state,” said Dr. Raul Uppot, Last month, the horse again needed imaging arriving in Amsterdam after slipping In cities, where several different micro- chief of surgery at New Bolton. As it stands, he an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard but was able to have robotic CT. Charles, who through locks at the town of IJmuiden and climates can exist, buildings have replaced said, many owners are reluctant to have their Medical School who is not involved in the described the robotic system as looking like swimming down the North Sea Canal to cliffs as homes for the pigeons. While the horses anesthetized for a diagnostic procedure research. “It does offer something that doesn’t something out of “Star Wars,” said the scans the city. warmer temperatures-sometimes 10 because recovery can be treacherous. As the ani- currently exist in the market (for humans).” assured him Bert’s leg injury had healed. “They And on a rare occasions a lucky few spot degrees C higher than in the countryside- mals emerge from unconsciousness and woozily Equimagine’s base cost is $545,000, according get really precise images,” he said. “I think it’s a the bigger grey seals, a protected European have caused fig trees to flourish in Utrecht struggle to find their footing, they risk cata- to Papaioannou, though he said some new cus- tremendous piece of equipment.”—AP species with their distinctive mottled coat, and attracted an Italian grasshopper to The or even the occasional porpoise. Netherlands. But other experts argue the “Biodiversity in Amsterdam has increased situation is much more complex and it is in the last decades, which has not been the hard to compare ecosystems. “There is less trend nationally or even internationally,” biodiversity in the Arctic compared to trop- In fume-choked Kochi, a solar said Geert Timmermans, head of the city’s ical rainforests. But it is just as unique,” ecology and landscape architecture proj- stressed Martin Poot, a researcher with the ect. The new study of Amsterdam’s biodi- Dutch statistics office. “That is the same for rickshaw glides to the rescue versity shows more than a quarter of all the town or the country.” animal species living in The Netherlands, including some 300 protected kinds, are The Exterminator KOCHI, India: The inventor of an innovative work on renewable energy innovations, some of recently took a ride in Kariyanappally’s proto- found in the densely populated city. But in the countryside, the large-scale solar chick incubator, solar milking machine and it backed financially by the National Bank for type. The solar rickshaw can run up to 80 kilome- Part of the recovery of biodiversity is industrialisation of agriculture has led to solar-powered boat now has his newest item Agriculture and Rural Development. ters a day with six hours of charging, with the attributed to a ban on using pesticides to the disappearance of two-thirds of the wild rolling onto the streets in this southern Indian The fledging solar rickshaw - a three- range extending to 120 kilometers on a sunny control weeds, as well as on farmland birds since the 1960s. Sightings of cranes, city: A solar rickshaw taxi. wheeled, five-seater motorized rickshaw with a day, Kariyanappally said. beyond the city limits. And according to oystercatchers, redshanks and larks are Georgekutty Kariyanappally, the founder of solar panel on the roof - has gained a particular Solar rickshaws could potentially find a home WWF Netherlands, the damage caused by increasingly rare. It is mankind turning the Lifeway Solar Devices Private Ltd., so far has just public following in Kochi since its launch in in cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata, where humans appears to be more limited in countryside into an “agricultural desert of one prototype operating on the streets, but has August because it is quiet and non-polluting. their more polluting cousins have been banned, Dutch cities where animal populations cornfields, and cows and only one kind of supplied another 20 to a nearby tourist resort. replaced with battery-operated electric rick- have only fallen by 30 percent since 1990, grass,” said Reumer In a city where traffic fumes are a worsening ‘Breathing fresh air’ shaws, backers say. “Think how much carbon compared to the hedgerows and dunes Still, as time passes, species will evolve, problem, the solar rickshaw, Kariyanappally said, In a country where more than half a billion would be reduced if all the autos in the city were which have seen a drop of 50 percent and he insisted, adding that “cities are very is a way of ensuring people don’t have to choose people don’t own motorised vehicles and rely remodeled as solar autos,” Kariyanappally said. 40 percent in the countryside. Urban plan- young in geological time. Evolution takes between effective transport and environmental instead on hailing taxis - usually auto rickshaws - He noted that a switch to solar transport poten- ners meanwhile have also increased their thousands, if not millions of years.” protection. the invention could have a big impact on air tially could also net the country carbon credits. focus on maintaining so-called “ecological The Earth is now facing “its sixth wave of Usually “you have to choose between devel- quality, noise, health and climate change, back- corridors” or green spaces. mass extinction,” said Reumer, but it is not opment or the environment,” he said. “But I have ers say. Altogether more than five million auto Cost for drivers? caused by a meteorite such as wiped out an answer.” Solar vehicles are not entirely new in rickshaws - favoured because they are cheap, Some auto rickshaw drivers in Kochi say Natural evolution 40 to 60 percent of living species at the end Asia. Solar rickshaws are on the road in a number ubiquitous and able to get through narrow lanes they’re interested in the solar models - but “Nature always exists. It adapts, it uses of the Cretaceous period, or a volcanic of countries, particularly Thailand; in Cambodia, - ply India’s roads, according to the Indian only if they’re affordable and improve incomes new situations to ensure that it can install eruption which killed off 90 percent of a solar-adapted auto rickshaw has even become Ministry of Surface Transport. Kochi has about for drivers “Tell me in simple language how itself,” said biologist Jelle Reumer, the for- species in the Permian period some 252 a mobile coffee cart. Earlier this year another 15,000, according to the road transport office in could it helpful in my daily life,” said Biji, one mer director of Rotterdam’s museum of million years ago. Today’s exterminator-in- Indian engineer drove a solar rickshaw he’d con- the city. driver in Kochi, asked about whether he’d con- natural history. He created waves earlier chief is mankind. The International Union structed from Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) to “It’s quite similar to an ordinary auto (rick- sider a solar vehicle. Like most rickshaw drivers this year by suggesting that people should for Conservation of Nature estimates some the UK. But Kariyanappally, known in Kochi as shaw) journey except that I am breathing fresh in Kochi, Biju doesn’t own his vehicle, but not try to intervene to save endangered 28 percent of mammal species are current- “Solar Man”, has come up with his own version - air instead of polluted air. This gives me instead rents one for 12 hours a day for 250 animals like the panda or rhinoceros, but ly facing extinction.—AFP just the latest creation in more than 14 years of immense pleasure,” said Vijayakumari, who rupees ($3.75). —Reuters WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

Unmatched meals launched in Kuwait ... To suit all tastes and occasions

hrimpy”, a leading local Kuwaiti fast food chain new side dishes. Of these items, a delicious “Shrimp The head of Marketing at Al Thiqa Co., Mr. Hussein Homeidan, clarified “We have been able to facilitate a serving seafood, launched its all new menu, Cocktail” salad, “Mix Berry Cheese Cake”, “Creamy Oreo Elsayed, said “The new menu launch, with our strategic change for the brand “Shrimpy” through evolving the “Srevealing a new variety of delicious cuisine, Cake”, “Lotus Cheese Cake”, as well as drinks such as a marketing campaign, aims at promoting Shrimpy as well look and brand as well as introduce new social media drinks and desserts as well as healthy meals providing refreshing “Mojito” or “Cherry Cola” are served. The as welcoming back our beloved customers and seafood tools to reach a vast majority of customers. In addition to different options to please all appetites. restaurant also offers new side dishes created by the enthusiasts.” that, the amount of information regarding our products Shrimpy announced the launch of a variety of new expert chefs such as “Dynamite Shrimp”, “Shrimp The Manager of Operations, Mr. George Nassar, spread through the use of either social media or through sandwiches such as “Shrimpino”, the latest twist on fried Tempura”, and “Buffalo Shrimp”. added saying “We push ourselves to be able to provide printed flyers has helped us in the introduction of the all butterfly shrimp combined with Pico de gallo sauce, The General Manager for Al Thiqa Co., Mr. the necessary possibilities and ideas from which has new menu to the vast majority.” crunchy red cabbage, as well as the “Mix Sub” that com- Mohammed Farraj, has declared that the Executive allowed us to yield such delicious seafood cuisine, priced Last but not least, Shrimpy released new children’s bines fried shrimp, fish, and calamari with lettuce and Management is working hard to be able to meet the cus- competitively in the market, was a challenge we characters called “Shumy, Bubly, and Crush” to have fun tasty tartar sauce, in addition to the “Black Burger”, “Po tomers’ needs and exceed their expectations in provid- imposed on ourselves to please our customers as well as and share happy times together which show a strong Boy”, and “Shrimp Roll”. ing a cuisine that is able to compete in such a market, as to increase our sales and market share belonging to our sense of caring towards children as well as the willing- Not only that, but the new menu included new we have proven worthy for years by providing our local chain.” ness to cater to the whole family showing a sense of items such as a variety of salads, sweets, drinks, and infamous shrimp based meals for the past years. In the end, the Senior Brand manager, Mr. Basel goodwill.”

American University of Kuwait, Country Partner for Challenge 22 for the 2nd Consecutive Cycle

or the 2nd consecutive cycle, the American success stories from the cycle in early 2015. In its and dialogue with the attendees and encourage University of Kuwait (AUK) will be the Country role as Country Partner for Challenge 22, AUK will them to pursue their ideas, no matter how small or FPartner in Challenge 22, a Qatar-led initiative, promote the initiative locally, and encourage local large they seemed. We look forward to seeing the launched by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & innovators to participate and represent Kuwait. The submissions coming from Kuwait.” Legacy (SC). Challenge 22 promotes innovation event was open to members of the AUK community The second cycle of Challenge 22, which runs through awarding generous research and develop- and the public. from 27 September, 2016 to 11 May, 2017, aims to ment grants to participants with the best ideas. “The American University of Kuwait under its inspire innovative solutions in four key areas: sus- Challenge 22 is in association with country ambassa- mission is committed to fostering a culture of inno- tainability, health & safety, the internet of things, dors in each of the ten participating countries and vation and accordingly we are very proud to be a and tourism experience. For this cycle, Challenge 22 strategic partners including the Qatar National country partner for Challenge 22. We believe that has also expanded its reach beyond the six Gulf Research Fund (QNRF), Wamda and the Challenge 22 offer excellent opportunities to stu- countries to include Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) dents at AUK and Kuwait not only to showcase their Tunisia. The submission deadline for the first phase Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab. The innovation award ideas and talents but to connect to other talented is December 12th, 2016. provides entrepreneurs, scientists and pioneers from students in the region,” said Professor Nizar Hamzeh, The SC, with its partners that will host the inno- across the Arab world with the tools and resources AUK President. vation award, have always believed that young peo- they need to turn their ideas into a lasting positive “Engaging with the participants from Kuwait was ple in the Arab world have great creativity and legacy. an inspiring and encouraging experience and fur- potential. Challenge 22 will ensure that when the AUK hosted an information session on October ther supports Challenge 22’s belief in the potential world is watching the Middle East in 2022, Arab 17th, where representatives from Challenge 22 the Arab world has to offer in the field of innovation,” innovation is in the spotlight. introduced the initiative to the public and provided said Fatma Al Nuaimi, Legacy Senior Manager at the For more information and how to apply, please an overview of the application process and criteria SC, “Thanks to our collaboration with AUK and its visit the award’s official website at: www.chal- for participation. The representatives also shared support, we were able to spark exciting discussion lenge22.qa WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

JW Marriott Kuwait opens ‘Crossroads’ Restaurant

W Marriott Kuwait has officially opened its new and much cooked foods. A la carte menu is also available offering dishes awaited restaurant “Crossroads”, adding a whole new like latin churrasco, five-spice rosemary bbqued ribs, Sicilian Jdimension to Kuwait dining scene. style seabass, pan-roasted salmon and cilantro prawns. The ribbon cutting ceremony was held on October 17, and In addition, the menu features decadent desserts, includ- was attended by Mr. Ghazi Al Nafisi, the Chairman and ing bitter chocolate mousse cake, exotic fruit platters, crËme Managing Director of Salhia Real Estate along with a huge br˚lÈe and the famous New York cheese cake. And for bever- number of invitees from different companies in Kuwait and ages, the menu provides an array of exotic fruit and veg- media representatives. etable drinks. Crossroads Restaurant features a wide range of distinctive Furthermore, the different food stations at Crossroads are cuisines, including Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and seamlessly fused within the large and elegant dining space, to Mediterranean. The culinary delicacies of these cuisines have allow guests to enjoy an exciting and fun experience. dominated the world for many centuries and still proving to be Cluster General Manager of Marriott Hotels in Kuwait, Mr. the most popular. The restaurant also offers an open kitchen to George Aoun said ‘with this new addition, we are looking to enable guests to see and smell their food choices while chefs move away from the traditional dining concept and provide are preparing them. This concept is the first of its kind in guests with a more enjoyable dining experience.’ ‘Crossroads’ Kuwait, offering a world of authentic cuisines under one roof. open kitchen will allow guests to enjoy the cooking process of The menu includes regional and global flavors with a uni- their dishes from start to finish, and see for themselves how versal appeal, and a special emphasis is placed on freshly fresh and delicious our food is.’

ASSE Kuwait Chapter Conducted Technical Meet on ‘Dynamic Barrier Management’

merican Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Kuwait committee introduced the speaker for the evening Mr. Dynamic barrier management uses the full suite of Chapter is a premier voluntary, Non-profit Health, Mark Fisher. information available, including direct and indirect indica- ASafety and Environmental organization, which Mr. Mark Fisher has been working in the upstream and tors of barrier performance to infer barrier status in near strives to provide professional guidance, training, consul- downstream oil & gas industries since July 1992. He has real-time. Higher Importance barriers (i.e. risk affecting) tancy and resources to the industrial and social sectors in held many posts in the areas of facilities integrity man- would be assigned higher priority than other barriers. This the region. agement, operational safety, project management and can achieve better safety at lower cost than current barrier As a part of continuous efforts in its professional jour- consultancy. As an employee of M/s DNVGL, he has spent management processes. ney, ASSE-Kuwait Chapter organized its 213th Technical much of his career seconded to senior operational super- The presentation followed with a question and answer Meet (3rd in the term 2016-17) on” “Dynamic Barrier visory and management roles within client organizations. session. As an Honor of Appreciation, ASSE Kuwait Management” in Kohinoor Banquet hall, Fahaheel Kuwait He held major project roles, from leading the conception, President CH. Rama Krushna Chary honored the speaker on 13th October 2016. development and implementation of safety, health and Mr. Mark Fisher with a Memento for his excellent presenta- The Technical Meet began with the Opening address environmental, process safety and enterprise risk man- tion Technical Meet concluded with close out speech of by Mr. Sunil N Sadanandan, Chapter Acting Secretary, agement systems with major energy companies in Mr. Muhammad Alamgir, Vice-President of ASSE Kuwait who also briefed about recently held and upcoming Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Chapter who thanked Mr. Mark Fisher for giving an insight events of ASSE Kuwait Chapter. Mr. CH. Rama Krushna Mr. Mark in his presentation explained the concept of on the topic Dynamic barrier Management and M/s Chary, President ASSE Kuwait Chapter in his welcome Safety barrier management which is an important activity DNVGL for organizing the same. He thanked the Technical address emphasized the importance of attending such to maintain or reduce process safety risk of an operating Events committee for the arrangements and all the par- technical events to enhance knowledge of ASSE facility. Barriers can be hardware, human or organization- ticipants, who attended the technical meet. Members. Mr. Adnan Yousaf, Head of Technical Events al, or some combination of these. For more detail visit www.assekuwait.org THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

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Arrival Flights on Thursday 20/10/2016 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 Departure Flights on Thursday 20/10/2016 AAG 147 Baghdad 14:00 Airlines Flt Route Time FDB 057 Dubai 14:20 Airlines Flt Route Time MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 MSC 415 Sohag 00:10 JZR 779 Jeddah 14:25 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 THY 772 Istanbul 00:10 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 BBC 044 Dhaka 00:10 PAL 669 Dubai/Manila 14:45 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 KAC 742 Dammam 14:55 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:10 AXB 394 Kozhikode 14:45 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 MSC 404 Asyut 00:10 KNE 382 Taif 14:55 DLH 635 Doha 01:00 KNE 529 Jeddah 15:05 FDB 072 Dubai 00:30 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:00 QTR 1086 Doha 01:15 KNE 535 Jeddah 15:10 KLM 411 Amsterdam 01:05 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 JZR 539 Cairo 01:20 OMA 645 Muscat 15:10 MSC 416 Sohag 01:05 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 SAI 441 Lahore 01:30 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 15:10 JZR 502 Luxor 01:15 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:45 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 THY 773 Istanbul 01:40 QTR 1079 Doha 15:15 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 DLH 635 Frankfurt 02:00 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 JZR 553 Alexandria 01:50 NIA 251 Alexandria 15:50 SAI 442 Lahore 02:30 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 AXB 395 Kozhikode 01:50 RJA 640 Amman 16:00 THY 765 Istanbul 02:45 KNE 530 Jeddah 15:55 THY 1464 Istanbul 01:50 FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 KNE 536 Jeddah 15:55 KKK 6506 Istanbul 02:00 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 AXB 396 Kozhikode 02:50 SVA 505 Jeddah 16:00 KAC 418 Manila 02:15 JZR 535 Cairo 16:20 KAC 177 Vienna 02:55 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:00 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:15 KNE 531 Jeddah 16:35 KKK 6505 Istanbul 02:55 OMA 646 Muscat 16:10 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:45 KAC 783 Jeddah 03:30 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 KAC 562 Amman 16:55 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 16:20 OMA 643 Muscat 03:05 KAC 118 New York 17:00 OMA 644 Muscat 04:05 NIA 252 Alexandria 16:50 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 FDB 068 Dubai 04:05 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 FDB 067 Dubai 03:15 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 FDB 052 Dubai 17:00 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 KAC 675 Dubai 17:00 KAC 544 Cairo 03:40 FDB 8053 Dubai 17:45 QTR 1077 Doha 04:35 JZR 266 Beirut 17:10 LMU 510 Cairo 04:00 KAC 678 Muscat/Abu Dhabi 17:50 RBG 552 Alexandria 04:45 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 RBG 551 Alexandria 04:05 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 LMU 511 Cairo 05:00 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 AVV 653 Alexandria 04:30 QTR 1080 Doha 17:55 JZR 560 Sohag 05:00 KNE 532 Jeddah 17:25 DHX 170 Bahrain 04:35 JZR 483 Istanbul 18:20 AVV 654 Sohag 05:30 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 THY 770 Istanbul 05:15 KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 18:20 THY 1465 Istanbul 06:00 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JZR 529 Asyut 06:00 MSR 620 Cairo 18:30 RJA 643 Amman 06:25 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 PAL 668 Manila/Dubai 06:25 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:35 QTR 1087 Doha 06:30 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:30 KAC 502 Beirut 18:35 THY 771 Istanbul 06:45 JZR 538 Cairo 18:30 QTR 8511 Doha 06:35 KAC 774 Riyadh 18:35 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 FDB 8054 Dubai 18:40 BAW 157 London 06:40 KAC 542 Cairo 18:55 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 KAC 563 Amman 19:00 FDB 5061 Dubai 07:15 KAC 618 Doha 18:55 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 QTR 1081 Doha 19:05 JZR 503 Luxor 07:25 KAC 104 London 19:00 FDB 5062 Dubai 07:55 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 BAW 156 London 08:25 JZR 238 Amman 19:15 KAC 346 Ahmedabad 07:35 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 JZR 124 Bahrain 19:20 KAC 204 Lahore 07:40 FDB 063 Dubai 19:10 QTR 8512 Doha 08:35 MSR 621 Cairo 19:30 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:40 KAC 614 Bahrain 19:10 KAC 173 Munich 08:35 KAC 285 Dhaka 19:40 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 ABY 123 Sharjah 19:15 JZR 778 Jeddah 08:50 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:50 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:50 KAC 674 Dubai 19:45 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:30 ABY 124 Sharjah 19:55 KAC 344 Chennai 08:15 KAC 154 Istanbul 19:45 KAC 619 Doha 09:30 FDB 060 Dubai 20:30 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:15 FDB 059 Dubai 19:50 KAC 671 Dubai 09:30 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 KAC 352 Kochi 08:20 DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:05 JZR 534 Cairo 09:30 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 KAC 362 Colombo 08:20 KNE 381 Taif 20:10 IRA 672 Ahwaz 09:35 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:45 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:45 DLH 634 Doha 20:50 IRA 673 Ahwaz 08:35 OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:45 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 KAC 784 Jeddah 08:50 JZR 189 Dubai 20:25 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 KAC 353 BLR 20:55 KAC 284 Dhaka 09:00 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:30 KAC 101 London/New York 10:00 KAC 351 Kochi 21:00 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:00 QTR 1088 Doha 20:35 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:05 KAC 543 Cairo 21:00 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:05 FDB 5053 Dubai 20:55 IRA 668 Mashhad 10:05 KNE 232 Riyadh 21:10 IRA 667 Esfahan 09:05 KAC 174 Munich 20:55 QTR 1071 Doha 10:35 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 QTR 1070 Doha 09:20 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:05 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 OMA 648 Muscat 21:15 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 KAC 677 Abu Dhabi/Muscat 10:50 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 SYR 341 Damascus 10:05 ALK 229 Colombo 21:20 KAC 153 Istanbul 11:00 MSR 619 Cairo 21:30 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 KLM 417 Amsterdam 21:25 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 QTR 1089 Doha 21:45 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 KAC 676 Dubai 21:35 SYR 342 Damascus 11:05 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 MEA 404 Beirut 11:00 QTR 1082 Doha 21:55 KAC 561 Amman 11:20 FDB 5054 Dubai 21:55 JZR 561 Sohag 11:25 GFA 219 Bahrain 22:00 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:25 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 21:55 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:30 NIA 151 Cairo 22:10 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 FDK 801 Damascus 11:45 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 KAC 741 Dammam 11:35 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:15 MEA 405 Beirut 12:00 KLM 417 Dammam/Amsterdam 22:25 AVV 651 Alexandria 12:05 AIC 981 Chennai/Ahmedabad 22:25 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 KAC 381 Delhi 22:25 FDB 075 Dubai 12:25 MSC 501 Alexandria 22:30 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 THY 764 Istanbul 22:55 RBG 554 Alexandria 12:10 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:30 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 GFA 220 Bahrain 23:00 KAC 620 Doha 13:10 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:05 FDK 802 Damascus 12:45 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:00 AXB 393 Kozhikode 13:55 MSC 403 Asyut 23:10 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:05 KNE 231 Riyadh 14:00 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 AVV 652 Asyut 13:05 NIA 152 Cairo 23:10 KAC 672 Dubai 14:05 JZR 513 Sharm el-Sheikh 23:30 FDB 076 Dubai 13:10 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:25 KAC 178 Vienna 14:15 JAD 301 Amman 23:45 JZR 786 Riyadh 13:20 MSC 502 Alexandria 23:30 stars34 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

CROSSWORD 1405 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) There is a feeling that time is slipping away this afternoon and you may This morning seems to lean in the direction of production, and lots of it. want to accomplish more than there is time for this day. Make a list and leave some of Whether you are on an assembly line, granting loans, planting seeds or studying for a test the projects for another day. Relax! A drive to the outskirts of town with a friend or or a class, you will find time passes very quickly and production or results are positive. loved one may find some foliage that you can take home with you for decorations rep- Your management and directional abilities are in high focus. Learning the psychology of resenting the fall season. If you can treat this foliage with a spray of sorts, it will remain people is fascinating. It seems to give you an inside track into the understanding of peo- beautiful for some time. Make a fun project out of your day. This may also include ple. Your instinctive orientation at this time is in getting down to the facts and eliminat- painting or repair of some sort. There will still be time to set aside later for a different ing the emotional, thereby destroying the roots of a disturbance. Real insight into your sort of relaxation. You find yourself quick-witted. There is a chance to give attention to own inner workings could surface today as well-and in a manageable form. Enjoy your your family through games or time around the dinner table. This is a special time. beautiful friends this evening.

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

You are favored today. Good luck and positive results are in the forecast. Intense emotional drama is available-if that is what you need. Your emo- This is one of your best overall days. Much can be accomplished in the workplace and tions are not in tune with the more sensitive and private areas of your life. Push on now if you need any help, just ask. There is a feeling that anything is possible if you set your and you risk some very turbulent emotional scenes. Obtaining professional advice is a sights high enough. You are encouraged to go the extra mile for a boss that would do move in the right direction at this time. The impressions you make on the outside world the same for any employee. There is a sort of exploring your feelings, a kind of restless- may bring attention to your professional life as well-keep your activities positive. This is a ness for new emotional experience. You may find yourself looking for a little romance great time to consider involving yourself and perhaps a loved one in a class of some sort- this evening or at least enjoying some emotional release. You can appreciate feelings something fun! This can be something that will bring you both toward a closer relation- and movement. Perhaps dancing is your specialty. You may want to just get out and ship. If you are dating and find yourself in several relationships, it may be time to begin to walk or exercise. Enjoy the sunset. This is a good day for love. focus your attention on one particular person.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You are at your mental best with sharp ideas and clear thoughts. You get all Communicating with others is at a high today. You manifest your ideals the important work out of the way as quickly as possible. This is an excellent and dreams in an organized and clear-headed manner. You would be time to make decisions and take care of any mental work. You have a clear-minded insight great at giving the public a sense of the ideal via films, advertising, spiritual work. There is ACROSS DOWN into your own plans and methods and can express a “take-charge” manner whenever a tendency to be too strict with yourself and to insist that whatever does not contribute 1. (used especially of persons) Having lived for 1. English scholastic philosopher and needed. There are plenty of opportunities to communicate your goals and put them into to security and other long-term goals is trivial. Your ambition is intensified. Your practical a relatively long time or attained a specific assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285- words-a good time for decisions. Appointments, meetings or social events can be inserted skills are linked to your almost mystical inner vision. Have fun shopping for a few diet age. 1349). throughout the day. Your emotions are clear and it is easy for you to understand and work meals this evening. Choices that include pretty colors, fruits, lots of different sorts of 4. Pasta in the form of slender tubes. 2. Wild or domesticated South American cud- with those around you. Music plays a big part in your life this evening-perhaps you are greenery will have the whole family wanting to join you in this venture. You may all be 12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac chewing animal related to camels but smaller scheduled to perform soon or attend a performance. A nice time. very pleased with the weighing in process toward year’s end. insects. and lacking a hump. 15. A user interface in which you type com- 3. English theoretical physicist who applied mands instead of choosing them from a relativity theory to quantum mechanics and ) menu or selecting an icon. predicted the existence of antimatter and the Cancer (June 21-July 22 Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. Type genus of Agaricaceae. positron (1902-1984). There are many more rewarding days ahead of you. You will be reaping 17. The residue that remains when something You could have difficulty getting outer recognition for your efforts or 4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rub- the rewards of your hard work, even though it may only be the good feel- accomplishments. This does not mean they are worthless; it does mean you is burned. berized fabric. ing that comes when you do your best. You may wish there were more days like today. should throw your efforts into work or ventures you really love doing, not necessarily for 18. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. 5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of There is an opportunity to advance your career now-look before you leap. This is also the others. You will prosper by pursuing your ideals and most deep-seated dreams of how 19. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradi- the Old World. best time to join that club, group or activity. If you have become involved in a communi- life could be. Don’t be afraid to show off your talents-someone will support or encourage tionally secret. 6. Alternatively, a member of the family ty effort, now is a good time to plot your activity or involvement. Leave yourself time for your growth in this respect. Group cooperation could further your career at this time. 20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to Nymphaeaceae. some personal freedom, however. You do not have to say yes to everything surrounding Opportunities appear all around you but may seem to challenge your status quo. You drink the blood of the living. this activity-that is what a task force or committee involves. You could be most persua- 7. Any of various strong liquors distilled from must decide whether the risk is worth the change it will bring about in your situation. A 22. A woman hired to suckle a child of some- sive with others today. The energies available at this time lean in your direction. new romantic relationship is practically within your grasp! the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fer- one else. 24. British informal. mented molasses. 8. Aroused to impatience or anger. 25. Intelligence derived from non-communi- Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) cations electromagnetic radiations from for- 9. South American wood sorrel cultivated for eign sources (other than radioactive sources). its edible tubers. This day could be a bit frustrating. You will find yourself constructing prob- Everything may be pouring in at once, and it’s all good news. Your career 26. Covered with paving material. 10. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. lem-solving bridges to successful results over and over this day. Good things happen direction gets some encouragement and life’s problems should find easy solutions. You may benefit from an older person or one in authority. Life could assume a 11. A small island. with patience. Perhaps with the challenges you muster up the energy and the knowl- 28. A doctor's degree in dental surgery. dreamlike stance. You are a solid supporter, always gravitating to the heart of things. You 12. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or edge to rise above any difficulty. You may find plenty of support flowing to you-perhaps 31. Half the width of an em. may have trouble getting moving, but once rolling, others had better step aside. You have mineral). even too much at times. Keep notes of your ideas and visions-they may be appropriate 32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the an amazing strength that finds you lending a hand and working through all types of situa- for use again. A little question of whether to make a loan to a friend may come up this alkali metal group. 13. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar. tions. Good fortune is near and things open up in a very natural way for you. Driving home afternoon-you might think about the history of the relationship before you decide. An 33. Crowd or pack to capacity. 14. An informal conversation. this evening, some view or activity or animal stirs your attention for a short while. This may animal gains your attention this evening; perhaps it is your animal. Now is the time for 37. Any of a number of fishes of the family 21. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet. be the instigator that pushes you in the direction of some fun decisions. training and the exercise is good for the both of you-enjoy. Carangidae. 23. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior 42. 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rench label Koche made its Japan models that included what Vogue called a Fashion Week debut yesterday, trans- “girl handpicked off the street” and one of her Fforming part of Tokyo’s famed Harajuku neighbors. district into a catwalk-stopping traffic to Tokyo yesterday saw net leggings, jogging unveil street cool with a French twist. Paris- bottoms reimagined as lace flares, patchwork based designer Christelle Kocher brought her dresses cut on the bias and textured cream two-year old fashion house to the heart of silk trousers for men and women, described Japanese youth culture, taking over a street by Kocher as a unisex look. There were deli- lined with boutiques, which until shortly cate negligee-style slip dresses and vest tops, before the show had been bustling with paired with denim or sportswear, fabrics with teenage girls dressed in Japan’s distinctive sequins and feathers, and crepe ruffled shirts- school uniforms. Lanterns lined the open-air again for both men and women. “The idea runway and a sound system blasted out a was to bring the energy of Paris together in techno beat, but otherwise there was no Tokyo,” Kocher explained to reporters back- adornment to the display of street wear-part stage after the show. “We wanted to have this locker room, part French boudoir. really powerful, symbolic connection Kocher cast real people to personify the between the two countries and show that we concept of street fashion, including a can be altogether.” Kocher started the label in Japanese DJ, a photographer and a designer, 2015 after working for fashion giants Emporio in a high-energy show presenting more than Armani, Chloe, Bottega Veneta and Dries Van 40 looks for summer and winter. Her casting Noten. — AFP Designer Christelle Kocher (front third right) poses with models during her KOCHE AW16 and SS17 mix collection show presented by H was similar to her 2015 Paris debut, when she BEAUTY&YOUTH at Amazon Fashion Week in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP photos turned part of Les Halles into a runway, using

Models display creations by designer Christelle Kocher during the KOCHE AW16 and SS17. Belgian author creates stir with tale of ice-cold revenge

he’s a literary sensation whose debut novel has sold over of creeping dread fills the pages until the shocking climax. McEwan and the late Hugo Claus who wrote the Flemish clas- 100,000 copies, yet unless you speak Dutch you’ve proba- sic “The Sorrow of Belgium”. Wary of being written off as hype, Sbly never heard of writer Lize Spit. But all that’s about to ‘Unprecedented’ Spit stresses the hard work that went into “The Melting”, noting change as publishers line up to translate her dark tale of friend- Since it was first published in January, the book has sold that she read the entire book out loud three times before set- ship and betrayal. Why would a traumatized young woman over 100,000 copies-a remarkable achievement for any debut tling on a final version. Much has been made in local media return to her home town with a block of ice in her car? It is this author. But it’s an astronomical figure in a country where most about the graphic nature of some of the scenes, and Spit her- question at the heart of “The Melting” that has gripped readers novels have a print run of 2,000 and any book that sells over self admits parts of the book are “quite intense”. “But you need and caused a stir unlike any other Dutch-language debut in 10,000 copies is considered a hit. “After more than nine months something like that, at the end, where everything goes horri- recent years. Reviewers in Belgium and the Netherlands have it’s still the best-selling novel in Flanders,” said Spit’s publisher bly wrong.” hailed Spit as the voice of her generation, while international Daniel van der Meer of the Dutch publishing house Das Mag. Questions have inevitably been raised about how much of publishers have jostled to snap up the translation rights to the The film rights were sold three days after “The Melting” the story is based on true events, but Spit has resisted talking haunting coming-of-age story. appeared in stores, and nine countries have since bought the about her own past. “I think it’s very important to keep that dis- The 27-year-old author attributes her success partly to the translation rights-including France, Spain and England. tance,” she said, expressing disbelief at fans of the book who book’s universal themes of small-town life and growing up in a In Germany, interest was so strong that the book went to tour her childhood village of Viersel in northern Belgium dysfunctional family, but says the Flemish literary world “was auction. “The extremely fast foreign sales, including to the very expecting to see all the same places as on the page. With her also waiting for someone new, a young new voice”. “I’m a bit difficult English-language market, are unprecedented for a frequent media appearances and a weekly newspaper column, stunned by it all,” she told AFP in a phone interview ahead of Flemish debut,” said Michiel Scharpe of the Flemish Literature Spit-who is invariably pictured wearing her hair in a messy this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where Flanders and the Fund, which will be showcasing Dutch-language works in bun-has become a celebrity at home, but says she tries to keep Netherlands are the guests of honor and where “The Melting” Frankfurt. Van der Meer expects to add more countries to the “a cool head” about fame. “I know that it won’t last. People for- will get its first big outing on the international stage. list at the fair, where Spit will appear in a documentary that get quickly.” She is already planning her second novel. “The The story opens with the main character, twenty-some- takes her back to her home town to visit some of the locations idea is already bubbling. This time it won’t be about a small vil- thing Eva, driving back to her home village, determined to set- that inspired the book. lage, but about something else completely. I think I have said tle the score over childhood wrongs. Weaving between the everything there is to be said about that village.” — AFP past and the present, Spit takes the reader back to the swelter- ‘The Melting’ tourists British artist David Hockney poses with his book “SUMO - A ing summer of 2002, when Eva’s only two friends-both teenage Critics have been unanimous in their praise for Spit’s vivid Bigger Book” during the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt boys-embark on a chilling game of sexual exploration. A sense prose and keen observations, drawing comparisons with Ian am Main, western Germany, yesterday. — AFP THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 lifestyle

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Cyrus Zaveih, also known as Cido the Clown, poses for a photo. — AP photos Cyrus Zaveih, also known as Cido the Clown, applies his make-up. Cyrus Zaveih, also known as Cido the Clown, poses for a photo. Crying inside? Creepy craze no joke for real clowns

end in the frowns. This year’s nationwide creepy clown and I hate you.’” The World Clown Association - comprised of been charged with making clown-related threats to school Those high-profile cases notwithstanding, experts say it’s craze has become a nightmare before Halloween for more than 2,000 members in 30 countries - has been flooded classmates. A New York City teen told police a clown threat- relatively common for people to feel creeped out by clowns. “It Sactual, working clowns, who say their bookings at par- with calls from scared performers. It’s been sending out safety ened him with a knife in the subway. primarily has to do with the exaggerated makeup and features. ties and other events have dropped sharply, even after many tips, suggesting clowns consider changing into their costumes We recognize it, but there is something abnormal,” says Dr of the social media-fueled scary clown sightings have turned when they arrive at a party or go with a handler. Clown sightings Kristie Golden, associate director of operations for psychiatry out to be hoaxes. Some fear going out with their greasepaint Association president Randy Christensen says clowns are “They aren’t clowns. They are clown impersonators,” said and neurosciences at Stony Brook University Hospital. “We can makeup and red noses will make them a target of police, or also increasingly getting requests for “modified performances” Wendy Pincus, who has performed in New York City for the be drawn in by that or we can be repelled.” World Clown even marauding mobs who take to the streets on so-called in which they entertain without makeup and traditional clown last 20 years. “We’re here to make people happy. We don’t Association’s Christensen says this year’s clown scares seems to “clown hunts.” “It’s definitely a scary feeling leaving your house attire. This week, retail giant Target took the step of pulling threaten people. We bring joy.” Pincus, whose clown alter ego be reaching new heights, and suggests working clowns repel and you fear you are going to get jumped because you’re scary clown masks from its shelves. And McDonald’s says its is “Crazy Daisy,” says she’s seen a 30 percent to 40 percent them the same way they always have, by spreading a message dressed as a clown,” says Cyrus Zavieh, a New York City hospi- signature clown character, Ronald McDonald, will be keeping decrease in just the past few weeks. Clown sightings, hoaxes of happiness and boundless. “Go out and clown and show peo- tal administrator who also performs professionally as “Cido a lower profile. All of the fallout follows a phenomenon in the and pranks - especially around Halloween - aren’t new. In fact, ple what this is,” he says. “Show them what good entertain- the Clown.” US involving dozens of stories, many fabricated, about clowns they’ve become a recurring staple of crime blotters since seri- ment is - show them what a caring clown does.” — AP “You’re there to make them happy, to make them have fun, stalking or attacking people. In multiple states, people have al killer and working clown John Wayne Gacy was convicted in and now they are saying, ‘Aaaagghh!’” Zavieh says. “All of a called police to report being menaced by people in clown cos- 1980 of killing 33 people. In 2012, James Holmes dyed his hair sudden these stories are putting fear into kids. ... Before they’d tumes. In Kentucky, a man dressed as a clown was arrested red as Batman’s Joker when he opened fire at a Colorado just look the other way, but now it’s like, ‘You’re a scary clown after lurking in the woods. Children in Ohio and Texas have movie theater, killing 12 people.

Kickstarter campaign aims to save Dorothy’s fading ruby slippers ishful thinking and three heel- sequined netting. The slippers became one clicks whisked Dorothy back home of the film’s most iconic props, on near-con- Win “The Wizard of Oz,” but it will stant display at the museum since they were take hard cash to restore her ruby red slip- anonymously donated in 1979. Millions of pers. The sparkling shoes dazzled audi- visitors view them each year, and they are ences of the 1939 film classic as Dorothy, slated to be part of a new 2018 exhibition played by Judy Garland, danced down the on American innovation in music, sports yellow brick road. Now the US and entertainment. The Kickstarter cam- Smithsonian’s Museum of American paign is the Smithsonian’s second, after it History in Washington-where they are on raised $719,779 last year through crowd- French chef Alexandre Couillon poses in his restaurant La Marine in French chef Alexandre Couillon blows on a barbecue using pine cones in public display-has launched a crowdfund- funding to conserve Neil Armstrong’s space- Noirmoutier-en-l’Ile, western France. — AFP photos the kitchen of his restaurant. ing Kickstarter campaign to raise $300,000 suit. The museum issued its appeal with the for restoring their pizzazz. words of the Wicked Witch of the West: The shoes, made nearly 80 years ago, are “These things must be done delicately-or in dire need of repair as well as a new dis- you hurt the spell.” — AFP play case to protect them from environ- ‘Monsieur Idiot’ named mental harm, the museum said. The Smithsonian Institution-which oversees museums and research centers in and near Washington-receives federal funding to support its core operations, but that money France’s chef of the year will not cover repairing the shoes, it added. hef Alexandre Couillon has a name that he ing port of L’Herbaudiere his eatery overlooks. benchmark after the Michelin guide. Couillon, who The institution often solicits corporate and himself admits “is not easy to carry”. But the The first year he and his wife Celine took over the has two Michelin stars, said the couple started with private donations to pay for projects Cman whose surname translates as “Idiot” was then seasonal La Marine restaurant “we didn’t have a nothing. “We had pink tablecloths, old rush seat beyond its budget. Conservators say the named yesterday as France’s cook of the year, having single customer one night in July”, Couillon told AFP. chairs and the cutlery came from a self-service place,” shoes’ sequins are flaking, leaving them turned his family’s humble “moules frites” joint into “You don’t come here by accident. Now we have he recalled. And he insisted success had not changed more of a washed-out auburn than the glit- one of the country’s best seafood restaurants. His tri- people coming 800 kilometers (500 miles) for dinner. him. He would still be keeping things simple with “no tery ruby color for which they’re known. umph is all the more remarkable because the restau- “It’s amazing... we have five or six emails from abroad snobbishness, no truffles nor caviar”. “Nothing is The Smithsonian had raised just over $85,000 as of Tuesday afternoon, with rant is at the farthest end of the unpretentious island every day to book tables next year,” the fisherman’s going to change. I remain an artisan. I just want to ‘The Wizard of Oz’ ruby red slippers of Noirmoutier off France’s west coast, a favorite for son added. Dishes like black oyster poached in get up every morning and keep that same pleasure slightly under a month left in the fundrais- ing campaign. MGM Studios’ prop depart- became one of the film’s most iconic bucket and spade family holidays. The 40-year-old Colonnata lard with squid, sardine crackers and cauli- of going to work,” said the father of two. — AFP props, on near-constant display at the chef, who featured on the Emmy-winning Neflix flower ice cream and equally creative deserts using ment created the low-heeled shoes by dying commercially manufactured low- museum since they were anonymously show “Chef’s Table” last month, has built a worldwide local seaweed won over the judges from the Gault donated in 1979. — AFP reputation for the simple but ingenious way he and Millau guide who named him best chef. heeled slippers red and attaching red cooks ingredients from his garden and the little fish- The guide is France’s most trusted gastronomic Splash at the Avenues gets a new look plash, the Middle East’s largest high-street Speaking about the new collection Saibal form an integral part of the range. fashion retailer hosted an event at its recently added: “This Autumn Winter, we want to provide Moving on to men’s collection, Splash’s Srefurbished and renovated Avenues store the fashion savvy consumer complete unmatched menswear range is dominated by the fall trends of which saw attendance from the local media and fashion solutions with an experience that entices Bespoke Tech with unstructured blazers and techni- management from Landmark Group. Attendees them to come back to our store. With the launch of cal joggers being the key pieces followed by Future were treated to an exclusive preview of Splash’s lat- our new collection, we are certain that our cus- Folklore which combines a mix of traditional coun- est autumn/winter collection which offers an amal- tomers will keep stylishly warm and comfortable” try influences and modern workwear. The Grunge gamation of the latest fashion trends with an Splash’s Autumn Winter collection for women Core trend is all about the muted tones with torn updated look in menswear, ladies wear, children’s are filled with silhouettes and textures for the sea- elements, androgynous cardigans and Parkas being wear, footwear, accessories and other products. son and are reflective of the free- spirited gypsy- the core pieces. For the ultimate masculine appeal During the launch, Saibal Basu, Chief Operating vibe of the 70s influenced by artisanal craftsman- the Minimal Military makes a strong comeback Officer, Landmark Group Kuwait said :”We are ship using spice shades of cinnamon, saffron and which promotes clean lines, understated military delighted to unveil the new look of Splash at the mustard blend. Midseason the colour palette elements and boxier silhouettes. Key pieces you can Avenues. We have been constantly adapting and becomes much richer using the jewel tones of deep own are Cargo Joggers, aviator bomber Jacket and expanding to meet the demand and recognize the burgundy, bright crimson, emerald, teal and celes- slim biker pants. The colour palette comprises the burgeoning fashion interests of our patrons. Our tial blue. Moving into peak winter the colour palette trusted olives, tans, rusty reds, greys and black. aim to achieve proximity to our customers pushed is offset by pale parfait pink, subdued grey and soft The renovated new store highlights Splash’s us to revamp the store which in turn will provide winter white. Taking inspiration from the season’s exceptional service in Kuwait. This autumn/winter shoppers with an easy access and better under- runways, the brand’s womenswear offers knitted Splash is the definitive destination for the family’s standing of our collections. The refurbished facilities capes, pleated skirts with cold shoulder detailing. fashion and lifestyle needs. will only add to a customer’s enhanced shopping Fringe details, eyelets and ruffled sleeves make its The entire collection is available at all Splash experience. We look forward to welcoming our cus- way in to the collection giving it a romantic stores in Centrepoint , Splash -The Avenues, Phase tomers to this newly renovated store.” Victorian vibe. Our glamorous evening wear dresses II and at Splash - Salam Mall. lifestyle THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

MUSIC & MOVIES Hundreds mourn top filmmaker Andrzej Wajda in Poland

undreds of people mourning for Poland’s leading film- maker Andrzej Wajda are paying their respect by pass- Hing in silence before an urn with Wajda’s ashes at a church in southern Poland ahead of his funeral. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, foreign diplomats, actors and intel- lectuals attended the funeral Mass at the Dominican friars’ church in Krakow. Later Wajda will be laid to rest at the city’s historic Salwator Cemetery, where the movie director’s moth- er is buried. Wajda died in a Warsaw hospital Oct 9 at the age of 90, just months after finishing “Afterimage,” Poland’s entry for a for- eign language Academy Award. In 2000 he received an hon- orary lifetime achievement Oscar. On Tuesday, hundreds of people in Warsaw, where he lived, bid Wajda farewell in a spe- cial Mass. — AP

The urn with the ashes of Poland People pay their respects to late Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda attend a mourning filmmaker Andrzej Wajda is set out Mass, in Krakow, Poland yesterday. — AP photos during a farewell ceremony.

Michael Jordan’s ‘Space Jam’ Review returning to theaters ‘The Joneses’ is another ichael Jordan, Bugs Bunny Fathom Events and Warner Bros. and friends are returning to say the screenings will take place on Mthe court, and theaters, to Sunday, Nov 13, and Wednesday, Nov mark the 20th anniversary of “Space 16. Basketball greats Larry Bird, studio comedy misfire Jam.” The 1996 basketball-themed Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing adventure, which combined the real also appear in the film, as does Bill life Jordan with animated Looney Murray, who joins with Jordan to he modern studio comedy increas- But what makes the Joneses most jeal- Tunes characters, will be back on defeat a team of aliens. — AP ingly feels limp, suffocated by the ous of them is their easy affection with one screens in select theaters for two Tfinancial imperatives of high-concept another. Though its name is taken from the days next month. plots and desperately in search of signs of status-obsessed phrase first made famous life. Greg Mottola’s “Keeping Up With the by a 1913 comic strip and coopted by the Joneses” is, like many before it, fine Kardashians, this “Keeping Up With the enough. But it mostly goes down as anoth- Joneses” is a comedy about marital passion er collection of funny people stuck in too rekindled. That the Joneses are putting up narrowly clichÈd roles in an overly familiar a facade is evident from the start, but the File photo shows Michael Moore attends the 20th Annual Webby story. It’s now been more than 10 years movie cleverly subverts the nature of their Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. — AP since “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” and five since secret identities. They are elite government “Bridesmaids.” (Feel old yet?) There have, spies of some sort, but not as far removed undoubtedly, been good comedies since, from the normal squabbles and challenges Moore debuts film on namely things with Melissa McCarthy in of marriage as you might think. them, Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha” and The collision of international espionage anything Wes Anderson is putting out. But thrills and quiet suburban life has become Trump weeks before vote there has been perhaps no greater casualty familiar by now thanks to the likes of “The to the constrictions of blockbuster-centric Matador,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “The Hollywood than comedy. The freedom nec- Americans.” When the bullets start flying, ichael Moore has premiered a surprise film discussing the essary for comedy to thrive is mostly found “Keeping Up With the Jones” has some presidential election just three weeks before Americans on television; the action is with “Broad City,” moves of its own, thanks to the talents of Mhead to the polls. Moore debuted “Michael Moore in “Atlanta,” “Inside Amy Schumer” and others. Galifianakis (here playing a naive, aw- TrumpLand” in New York on Tuesday night in front of an audience of Mottola, the director of “Adventureland” shucks character that limits him) and the his fans. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film features Moore speaking about both Republican nominee Donald Trump and and “Superbad,” has been at the center of always game Fisher. Only Hamm manages Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on stage earlier this month in comedy on both the big screen and on TV to create a three-dimensional character: a Wilmington, Ohio, a hotbed of Trump support. (“Arrested Development,” the underrated James Bond secretly yearning to be a regu- The liberal documentarian urged the crowd at Tuesday’s premiere “Clear History”), but “Keeping Up With the lar guy. But whatever is cramping the style to vote for Clinton next month. The Hollywood Reporter says the film Joneses,” written by Michael LeSieur (“You, of “Keeping Up With Joneses” - whether it’s will screen for one week at the IFC Center in Manhattan beginning Me and Dupree”) doesn’t have much of the the PG-13 rating, the stock characters or a today. It will also be shown at a theater in Encino, California. Moore naturalism that has distinguished his best. thin script - the feeling never leaves that says he hopes more theaters will be announced soon. — AP Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher play Jeff everyone here could do better if they were and Karen Gaffney, a regular suburbanite really let loose. Alas, it’s going to take more couple experiencing an empty nest for the than Wonder Woman to save the studio first time with their kids away at summer comedy. camp. An impossibly stylish and accom- “Keeping Up With the Joneses,” a 20th plished couple moves in next door, the Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 by the Joneses (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot, tak- Motion Picture Association of America for Leonardo DiCaprio ing a break from her Wonder Woman “sexual content, action/violence and brief duties). He’s a travel writer who can blow strong language.” Running time: 101 min- his own glass; she writes a cooking blog utes. Two stars out of four. — AP cooperating in 1MDB probe and wears cocktail dresses to neighbor- hood barbeques. eonardo DiCaprio is aiding the investi- Razak-family members, and close associates gation into a Malaysian embezzlement diverted billions from the now-stricken fund. Lscam that involved his hit film about Najib launched the fund, 1Malaysia financial market fraud, “The Wolf of Wall Development Berhad in 2009 and closely Street,” according to his spokesperson oversaw it. Both he and 1MDB deny any Tuesday. The Hollywood star contacted the wrongdoing. The money allegedly siphoned US Justice Department in July just after it filed from 1MDB was used to buy hundreds of mil- a lawsuit to seize more than $1 billion in lions of dollars worth of assets around the allegedly ill-gotten assets tied to Malaysian world, and allegedly financed the production state investment fund 1MDB, including rights of “The Wolf of Wall Street.” DiCaprio’s 2013 to the film, DiCaprio’s spokesperson said. film about Wall Street corruption and greed Allegations of a vast international scheme was financed by Red Granite Pictures, co- of embezzlement and money-laundering founded by Riza Aziz, stepson of the involving billions of dollars of 1MDB money Malaysian prime minister. DiCaprio reportedly began to emerge two years ago, rocking was friends with Aziz associate Jho Low, also In file photo, Garth Brooks sings ‘Ain’t Going Down’ during Malaysia’s political establishment. In a July named in the lawsuit. a concert at Yankee Stadium in New York. — AP lawsuit, the US Justice Department detailed The Justice Department wants to seize how “Malaysian Official 1”-later identified by royalties from the film, as well as real estate in officials as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Beverly Hills, New York and London, artworks Garth Brooks by Monet and Van Gogh, and a Bombardier jet. A Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation spokesperson said that after hearing about the lawsuit, DiCaprio’s had his representatives joins Amazon’s contact the Justice Department “to determine whether he or his foundation ... ever received This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows, from left, Jon Hamm, Zach any gifts or charitable donations directly or streaming service Galifianakis, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot in ‘Keeping Up With The Joneses.’ — AP indirectly related to these parties, and if so, to return those gifts or donations as soon as week after launching its paid streaming music service, possible.” Amazon announced a deal with one of streaming The move to seize the funds, which is sub- Amusic’s biggest holdouts: country superstar Garth ject to what could be lengthy legal proceed- Brooks. Brooks, the best-selling solo artist in US history with Khloe Kardashian calls sister ings, emerges from a 2010 Justice 138 million albums sold, has kept his music off streaming serv- Department anti-kleptocracy initiative ices. Yesterday, select albums and songs will be available on Kim’s robbery ‘a wake up call’ intended to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of Amazon Music Unlimited. His albums, previously available world leaders which pass through the US only through his GhostTunes service, will be sold digitally via banking system. The Bruno Manser Fund, a Amazon Music. hloe Kardashian is calling her sister’s Kardashian West, 35, would make another Swiss NGO campaigning against corruption Brooks said he waited until the right partner came along robbery in Paris “a wake up call for public appearance, but she batted down in Malaysia, said Tuesday it welcomed before he was ready to dive into streaming. “I love retail to Keverybody” but is pushing back rumors that her sister would be leaving the DiCaprio’s announcement but called on the death, but retail will never tell me what my stuff is worth and against criticism that Kim Kardashian West family’s reality series “Keeping Up With the actor to fully disclose his financial ties to Low, will never tell me how to sell it,” Brooks said in a telephone had been too public in displaying her Kardashians.” Aziz and Red Granite Pictures. interview from Los Angeles. “That’s the tail wagging the dog wealth. “Pulling back on social media I Kardashian made the comments while “DiCaprio’s public statement leaves key for me.” “This is a landmark moment for both Amazon Music think is a personal choice. ... No matter promoting her new fall denim line Good questions open,” said Lukas Straumann, the and Garth Brooks,” said Steve Boom, vice president of Amazon what you post or don’t post. ... That should- American with co-designer Emma Grede. executive director of the Bruno Manser Fund. Music, in a statement. “Garth Brooks is a legendary country n’t give someone a reason to feel like they She said she agreed to partner up with “How much money did Leonardo DiCaprio music superstar who continues to shatter industry records could do anything like that to you,” she said Grede to design the brand for the curvy and his foundation get from Politically and amaze fans three decades into his career. We are honored in an interview Tuesday. “But we definitely woman. The jeans range in size from zero Exposed Persons (PEPs) from Malaysia and to make his music available for streaming for the first time are just being more aware and I think just to 24. “I was always body shamed, and that why didn’t he conduct due diligence upon ever, exclusively on Amazon Music.” making changes to our lives.” was something that was super important receiving these funds?” The organization also Brooks entered semi-retirement in 2000 near the height of Armed robbers forced their way into to me to really teach girls to love them- questioned whether DiCaprio would pay back his popularity to spend more time with his children and wife, West’s hotel room, tied her up and locked selves and love their bodies,” said the estimated $25 million he received for his Trisha Yearwood. In 2014, he returned with a major tour and a her in a bathroom before making off with Kardashian, who has publicly chronicled role in The Wolf of Wall Street. “While we new album, “Man Against Machine.” His upcoming albums, more than $10 million worth of jewelry. her issues with weight. “I was always kind appreciate the statement and his cooperation “Gunslinger” and “Christmas Together” with Yearwood, will be Khloe Kardashian, 32, said the Oct. 3 rob- of told I couldn’t wear certain jeans with the Department of Justice, there is clear- added to the streaming service later this year. Two of his best- bery was “an incredibly traumatic experi- because I was too fat to be trendy, which In this file photo, actor Leonardo DiCaprio ly more DiCaprio could do to end this dis- poses for photographers during a photo selling albums, “Ultimate Hits” and “Double Live,” will be avail- ence for Kim and she’s definitely taking was always really hard on me.” — AP graceful chapter in Hollywood history,” the able for streaming. They include his popular hits “Friends in some well needed and much deserved call to promote the film ‘Before the Flood’, statement said. — AFP showing as part of the London Film Low Places,” “The Dance” and “The Thunder Rolls.” His current time off.” She said she isn’t sure when Festival in London. — AP single, “Baby, Let’s Lay Down and Dance,” will also be available on streaming. —AP lifestyle THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016

MUSIC & MOVIES

This picture shows people walking by the Thwin cinema in downtown area of People waiting for tickets at Thwin cinema in the downtown area of Yangon. People queue for tickets at Thwin cinema in downtown area of Yangon. Yangon. — AFP photos Myanmar’s storied film industry gears up for a sequel

ith turquoise columns propping up a Myanmar,” he told AFP, sitting next to a model of A second act? pink and yellow portico, Myanmar’s art the low-cost, one-screen theatres with 300 seats, Censorship has eased since the end of junta Wdeco style Thwin cinema is a rare relic where tickets will go for around a dollar each. rule in 2011 and horror flicks are now a box from a golden age of movie-making that daz- office favorite. But many say that despite grow- zled audiences more than half a century ago. Losing the plot ing freedoms and improved technologies, main- Myanmar’s film industry, once the most vibrant While they will not rival the grand movie stream production houses have yet to veer off and prolific in the region, shriveled under a mili- houses built during the industry’s peak, the script and grapple with political issues or other tary regime that smothered the arts and ravaged hope is that a rapid increase in theatres will sensitive topics. A class of Burmese students at the economy during its ruthless 50-year reign. inject cash into an industry where the majority the Yangon Film School responded with an Now as the fledgling democracy emerges from of movies now go straight to DVD. Myanmar’s emphatic “no!” when asked by AFP if they liked the doldrums of junta rule, the stage is set for a motion picture industry reached its acme in the contemporary Myanmar movies during a break film industry renaissance. 1950s-a time when optimism was flowing after from analyzing scenes of ‘Taxi Driver’, the 1976 People walk past movie posters at the downtown area of Yangon. But the first step is repopulating the poor independence from Britain and before the army American classic starring Robert De Niro. “They country with cinemas. In its heyday Myanmar seized power and clung on for five decades. (Myanmar films) are somehow good in technical had nearly 400 theatres spread across its hilly Stylish stand-alone cinemas like the Thwin skills, like color grading, and sound design,” said terrain. Today only some 50 remain, mostly in cropped up in towns across the country, with student Myat Minn Khant. urban Yangon. “That is not enough for 53 mil- crowds filling their teak wood chairs to watch “What annoys me are the stories and casting. lion people,” said Tin Maung Win, a garrulous romances, thrillers and foreign flics. The keep making the same cheesy stories”. businessman trying to bring movies back to the In the country’s inaugural Academy Awards Myanmar’s leading man Lu Min, who looks to masses with a plan to build 100 new cinemas in ceremony in 1952, the first best picture award Tom Hanks an idol, concedes that many direc- two years. The Thwin is the only theatre still sell- went to ‘Chit Thet Wai’, a tale of love between a tors still rely on tired story tropes and cost-cut- ing tickets on what used to be known as city boy and a country girl who must contend ting shortcuts. But he says the desire is there to Yangon’s “cinema row”-a major city artery that with a jealous sister. But after its 1962 power raise the bar. “Some people are trying hard to once boasted six movie houses. grab, the junta increasingly leaned on the indus- improve our industry,” he told AFP during a The others have been knocked down to make try to crank out socialist propaganda. Scripts break from filming his latest action thriller. room for more lucrative development, while one were vetted by censors, who issued stringent He and hundreds of other actors, producers stately cinema dating back to the 1920s has and often bizarre bans on everything from ghost and directors recently gathered to discuss indus- been boarded up for years. The dearth is even stories to blue jeans in a bid to ward off foreign try reforms at a three-day forum called “Time to more pronounced in the rural and impoverished influence. Change”. Many are pushing to see the govern- provinces, where theatres have all but vanished “The quality kept decreasing,” said Mighty, a ment’s censorship board revamped as a ratings after they were sold off by the former military director who has been in the business since the committee that only warns viewers of racy or regime. Tin Maung Win and his business part- 1980s and feels his generation was robbed of violent content. Lu Min is also hoping that ners were inspired to take up the “100 cinema the chance to reach their creative potential. rebuilding the country’s network of cinemas will project” after hearing about a 2012 film shot “They intentionally made it so we did not be the launchpad. “Our film industry depends near the border with Thailand, where local become educated people,” the 51-year-old, who on the quantity of theatres,” he added. — AP actors were unable to see their work because only goes by one name, said of the country’s mil- A couple standing next to movie posters at the Naypyidaw cinema in downtown area of there was no screen for miles. “We got this idea itary oppressors. “Now there is no one who Yangon. that we needed to create cinemas all over knows about the art of film perfectly,” he added. TV makers forced to rethink ‘damaging’ princess shows for girls he Disney princess may not be dead yet, but chil- see as unjust. They are right to be upset. On average dren’s television makers are under pressure to cre- three-quarters of cartoon heroes are male, industry Tate more adventurous female characters as fears insiders say. Yet there is a huge hunger for better and grow over the damage gender stereotyping may be more gender fluid stories among children, Worrollo St Louis County Police officers, outfitted in tactical equipment, monitor the situation in Ferguson, Missouri on August doing to girls. Last week Disney tried to tackle head on insisted. 10, 2015. — AFP fears that its relentless merchandising was fuelling a “Generation Z children (who are now aged 10 to 16) damaging “princess culture” that limits even very young tell us that boys can now be girls and girls boys, but ‘we girls’ horizons and contributes to “body esteem” issues. don’t see that on TV’,” she added. Some channels, how- ‘Do Not Resist’ highlights It launched a 10-point guide for would-be princesses ever, are determined to force change. France Televisions in posters which urged girls to “Right wrongs” and put out a formal call to producers for series revolving “Believe in yourself”. But analysts and program makers around female heroes after realizing its output-”like gathered at the world’s biggest entertainment market in everyone else’s”-was completely imbalanced. Its head of crisis of police militarization Cannes on the French Riviera this week warned that children’s programs Tiphaine de Raguenel told AFP that young girls and their parents were impatient for more “we are trying not just to have princesses, fairies and fficers with assault rifles, backed by a huge armored York-based filmmaker explains. “In his time, his team inter- fundamental change. Several warned that if there tomboys”. grenade launcher, square up to a crowd furiously vened 29 times in 13 years. Now they are taking part in 200 weren’t given better role models, girls would simply Even new “girlie” cartoon series are trying to up their Odenouncing the killing of a young black neighbor. It is a raids a year,” Atkinson tells AFP. Faced with a growing backlash turn off. empowerment message. “SpacePop” an American car- scene which could have been taken from archive footage of against police killings, particularly in black communities, Emma Worrollo of London-based strategy company toon series about an intergalatic girl band is marketing Mogadishu in 1990s Somalia or countless other battles, but this Terrence Cunningham, the president of the International Pineapple Lounge said her detailed research conducted itself at the MIPCOM TV industry meeting as a “not your conflict is closer to home-the streets of small-town America. Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), has admitted that law with thousands of children across the globe showed average princesses” show. Its heroines may be into The images, captured in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, open enforcement officers have been “the face of oppression to far girls’ frustration. “Their idea of gender is much more flu- “fashion, music and friendship” but they are also out to “Do Not Resist”-a disturbing documentary charting the trans- too many of our fellow citizens.” He told a conference in San id (than previous generations). They don’t want gender save the universe. formation of police across the US into forces that look like mili- Diego on Monday that police needed to apologize for “the to be a factor at all,” she said. tary units. The explosive film is set to fuel an already bitter actions of the past and the role that our profession has played Self-image problems debate raging in America over heavy-handed law enforcement, in society’s historical mistreatment of communities of color.” ‘Gender fluid’ The problem can start very early, experts say. A US following a litany of police killings of black men that have Both older girls and boys idolize the crusading char- study of pre-school children published this year said sparked protests from Ferguson and Charlotte to Chicago. ‘Warrior culture’ acter of Katniss Everdeen from the “Hunger Games” princess merchandise can begin affecting children’s Director Craig Atkinson, whose movie is opening across the US Campaigners against police militarization accept that SWAT films, she told AFP. But girls search in vain to find similar behavior as young as three. “Girls who strongly adhere having won best documentary feature at the Tribeca Film teams and their heavy-duty hardware have a vital role in com- figures they can identify with on television, which they to female gender stereotypes feel like they can’t do Festival, says the American law enforcement ethos has changed batting the rare instances of terrorism in the US. But they point some things,” researcher Sarah M. Coyne said. Lisa “from a mentality of peacekeepers to that of an occupying out that, due to prolonged mission creep, this is no longer how Henson, head of the Jim Henson Company, said produc- army.” these resources are used. Peter Kraska, a criminology professor ers had to address the issue. Another eye-opening scene shows officers in black fatigues at the University of Eastern Kentucky, says there are now at least She said their new animated undersea series “Splash firing volley after volley of automatic rounds at cardboard tar- 50,000 SWAT raids a year, up from 3,000 in the 1980s. Most of and Bubbles” was picking up her father Jim Henson’s gets, as if they were preparing for war rather than to “protect the activities of these highly specialized units have little to do work for diversity on such legendary shows as “The and serve.” A khaki-clad instructor explains that security forces with the reasons for their inception, such as dealing with Muppets” and “Sesame Street”. “We have an equal num- must prepare for all kinds of attacks, “including the Islamic hostage situations, terrorist attacks and drug cartels. ber of boy and girl characters and each of them have State.” MRAPs, the armored trucks that protect troops from According to Atkinson, one of the architects of the “warrior characteristics which cross genders, so it is quite gender roadside bombs planted along the dusty roads of Iraq and culture” is a hugely successful police trainer named Dave neutral in that way. Splash as his name suggests is a boy Afghanistan, are now ubiquitous across the US. Grossman, head of a consulting firm called the Killology and Bubbles is a girl but she is equally as adventurous,” Research Group. “We are at war and you are the frontline troops she added. Growing backlash in this war. What do you fight violence with? Superior violence,” She said the Henson company took its mission to They are provided by the Pentagon through a program of Grossman hollers at an audience of mesmerized police in one pass on “good values” to children in a fun way very seri- surplus giveaways that has amounted to $5 billion since former session filmed for the documentary. ously. “You would not believe how diverse the ocean president Bill Clinton signed it off in 1996. In another shocking The retired army lieutenant colonel has lectured throughout floor is... There are seahorse single dads with 499 chil- scene, a SWAT team arrives in an MRAP at a tree-lined street in the US, according to his website, and Atkinson believes his dren,” she joked. “And it is the seahorse dads who give Columbia, South Carolina, to execute a search warrant in a drug influence has spread to every American law enforcement birth. There is so much weird stuff there.” — AFP case. The officers, whose equipment looks barely distinguish- agency. “There are 63 million police interactions with citizens able from that of an infantry division, end up badly damaging a each year in the United States, and if we take that kind of men- family home in a raid that nets a small amount of loose tality during a routine traffic stop, that’s how there are people cannabis. getting killed,” he said. — AFP Atkinson’s father, a retired policeman from Detroit, Michigan, spent over a decade in one such SWAT team, the New Myanmar’s storied film industry gears up for a sequel

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Azalea, whose Korean name is ‘Dalle’, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, lights a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea yesterday. — AP Meet Azalea the smoking chimp, new star at Pyongyang zoo

yongyang’s newly opened zoo has a new star: Though such a sight would be cringe-worthy in many of life on Earth. Another of the most popular attractions to create more modern and impressive structures and Azalea, the smoking chimpanzee. According to offi- other locales, it seemed to delight visitors who roared with that might come as a surprise to foreign visitors is the dog leisure centers around the capital. The zoo actually dates Pcials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become laughter yesterday as the chimpanzee, one of two at the pavilion, which has everything from German shepherds to back to 1959, when Kim Il Sung, the nation’s first leader a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it zoo, sat puffing away as her trainer egged her on. The Shih Tsus. The zoo also has performances featuring other and the grandfather of Kim Jong Un, ordered it built on the re-opened in July, the 19-year-old female chimpanzee, trainer also prompted her to touch her nose, bow thank animals trained to do tricks, including a monkey that slam outskirts of the city. According to its official history, the zoo whose name in Korean is “Dalle,” smokes about a pack a you and do a simple dance. The zoo is pulling in thousands dunks basketballs, dogs trained to appear as though they started off with only 50 badgers. — AP day. Dalle is short for azalea. They insist, however, she of visitors a day with a slew of attractions ranging from can do addition on subtraction on an abacus and doesn’t inhale. Thrown a lighter by a zoo trainer, the chim- such typical fare as elephants, giraffes, penguins and mon- doves that fly around and land on a woman skating on panzee lights her own cigarettes. If a lighter isn’t available, keys to a high-tech natural history museum with displays an indoor stage. Renovations for the new zoo began in she can light up from lit cigarette if one is tossed her way. showing the origins of the solar system and the evolution 2014, as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s efforts What a purr-formance! Cellist creates album for cats

avid Teie plays a few high-pitched notes on his cello album and make her listen to some music. It would be great, it before passing to the low ones, stopping Lizzy, a small sounds pretty cool,” she said. Dblack cat with white paws, in her tracks. Donnie, a white “Music for Cats” was released on October 14. “We’re thrilled and ginger tomcat, abandons his favorite plaything-a toy to be part of this world-first project and break into the mas- mouse bouncing on a piece of string-to approach the American sive untapped market of non-human music fans,” said a musician. Curious, he raises up on his back legs and puts his spokesperson for Universal Music. Cats are big business in paws on Teie’s knees during an unusual performance in Lady Britain, with £4 billion pounds (4.5 billion euros, $5 billion) Dinah’s cat cafe in Shoreditch, east London. spent by owners on the country’s seven million cats every Despite an allergy to cats, Teie has created the world’s first year, according to one report. For Teie, the animal music mar- album entirely for felines and is distributed by a major label, ket need not be limited to cats. “I have designed music for Universal Music. Though initially cautious, the 13 furry visitors horses and I’m ready to start recording... I’m doing research for to “Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium” appeared satisfied at this week’s dogs. “They are next but it’s going to be a challenge because, premiere. The purring and murmuring sounds which make up for example, chihuahua music and labrador music are very dif- David Teie, a US composer and cellist, drinks a cup of tea during an interview to promote “Music for Cats” take inspiration from the noises kittens hear like ferent,” said the composer. — AFP his new album “Music for Cats”. birds chirping or their mother’s purr. “I have something like 26 different purr instruments,” Teie, a music teacher based at the University of Maryland who has per- formed with the US National Symphony Orchestra, told AFP. The 60-year-old, dressed in a tie and with his wavy grey hair neatly combed, picked a cat paradise to unveil his work. The cat retreat includes an enormous artificial climbing tree. The residents are kept entertained with walkways, hiding places, baskets, scratch- ing boats and a vast array of toys. ‘Chihuahua music and labrador music are very different’ “I use ten acoustic instruments but nearly all of the sounds have to be modified in electronics and software to make animal sounds,” he said. “I thought if I write music that cats like but cat owners think is irritating, they just won’t put it on. So I put a lay- er of human music to make it hearable and in fact calming for people as well.” Lauren Pears, owner of Lady Dinah’s, said Teie’s music is not dissimilar to the music she would usually play in the cafe. At first she had her doubts about how the animals would respond to the music, but she found the felines curious and engaged. “All morning they have been sort of watching him and they seem really, really interested in it,” said Pears, who opened the cafe after taking inspiration from similar cat venues in Asia. Poppy Childs, a 21-year-old nursery nurse, said she is always David Teie, a US composer and cellist, looks on during an interview to promote his new looking for new purchases to keep her elderly cat entertained. David Teie, a US composer and cellist, looks on during an interview to promote his new album “Music for Cats”. “I try to find things to keep her going so I would love to buy the album ‘Music for Cats’ at Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium in London. — AFP photos