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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 MUHARRAM 16, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Ghanem hails Trump pledges Modi brands Icardi misses Assembly for strong US ties Pak ‘terrorism penalty as maintaining with India if mothership’ at Cagliari political3 stability elected10 president BRICS10 meet stun19 Inter Stage set for snap elections Min 18º after Assembly dissolved Max 37º High Tide 12:44 Amir cites ‘security challenges’ in dissolution decree Low Tide 06:33 & 18:53 40 PAGES NO: 17022 150 FILS By B Izzak

Minimum salary KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah yesterday issued a decree dissolving the National for visit visas Assembly, setting the stage for fresh elections within two months, citing the escalation of regional conflicts raised to KD 200 and the need to go back to the people to choose new representatives. The surprising decision was issued KUWAIT: The interior ministry has increased the mini- hours after Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said mum wage required for a foreigner to issue visit visas he informed the political leadership that the country for relatives, only a few days after the state approved was passing through a delicate phase that needed a new a decision to raise the salary required for expatriate government and going back to the ballot boxes. workers to sponsor their wives and children, in a The decree to dissolve the Assembly, which has only move said to help curb an increase in the country’s several months left of its four-year term, was issued fol- expat population. lowing an emergency meeting of the Cabinet, which An expat must now have a minimum salary of KD recommended to the Amir to dissolve the Assembly. The 200 to apply for a visit visa for his wife or children, decree said that due to the serious security challenges said Maj Gen Talal Maarafi, director general of the from regional conflicts, it was necessary to go back to interior ministry’s residency affairs department. The the people to allow them to elect their representatives previous minimum wage was KD 150. Meanwhile, to contribute to confronting those challenges. the minimum salary must be KD 300 for an expat The dissolution was based on article 107 of the con- applying for a visa for a sibling or any other relative, stitution, which stipulates that new elections must be except for parents, whose age must not exceed 50 held within two months. No date was however set for years, Maarafi explained. the fresh polls. A new decree will be issued within the The interior ministry last year set the duration of a next few days to set the date. Parliamentary sources visit visa issued for a wife or child to three months, expected the new election to be held at a closer date, while visit visas for relatives were restricted to one around the middle of November, rather than towards month. Last Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister and the end of the two-month period. The dissolution, the Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- seventh since 2006, also came after lawmakers last Sabah issued a decision amending the foreign week filed three requests to grill the finance and the jus- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (left) receives a decree to dissolve the National Continued on Page 13 tice ministers over a hike in petrol prices and alleged Assembly from HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday. — Amiri Diwan Continued on Page 13 Rebels seize emblematic IS stronghold

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels dealt a major symbolic tle between Christian forces and Muslims. outskirts - the lesser Dabiq battle - will end in blow to the Islamic State group yesterday by The Observatory, a Britain-based monitor- the greater Dabiq epic,” the group said in a capturing the town of Dabiq where the mili- ing group, said rebel forces “captured Dabiq pamphlet published online Thursday. tants had promised an apocalyptic battle. The after IS members withdrew from the area”. The IS, which seized control of large parts of Turkish-backed opposition forces seized con- Fastaqim Union, an Ankara-backed rebel fac- Syria and Iraq in mid-2014 and declared an trol of Dabiq and several nearby towns, in the tion involved in the battle, said Dabiq had fall- Islamic “caliphate”, has been dealt a series of latest in a series of territorial losses suffered en “after fierce clashes”. Fastaqim said rebels military defeats this year and is bracing for an by IS in Syria and Iraq. The defeat for IS came then went on to seize several nearby towns, assault on its key Iraqi stronghold Mosul. as US Secretary of State John Kerry was to including Sawran, Ihtimaylat, and Salihiyah. Turkey launched an unprecedented operation meet European allies in London as part of a Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency also inside Syria on August 24, helping Syrian new diplomatic push to end Syria’s conflict, said the rebels captured Dabiq and Sawran rebels to rid its frontier of IS jihadists and which has left more than 300,000 people and were working to dismantle explosives laid Syrian Kurdish militia. dead since 2011. by retreating IS fighters. It said nine rebels President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, were killed and 28 wounded during clashes Saturday said Turkey would push further Turkish state media and a rebel faction said on Saturday. south to create a 5,000-sq-km safe zone in opposition fighters backed by Turkish war- Dabiq has become a byword among IS Syria. The border area has become deeply planes and artillery seized control of Dabiq. supporters for a struggle against the West, unstable, and on Sunday three Turkish police The town, in Syria’s northern province of with Washington and its allies bombing mili- officers were killed when suspected IS suicide Aleppo, is of little strategic value. But Dabiq tants portrayed as modern-day Crusaders. But bombers blew themselves up during a raid on holds crucial ideological importance for IS earlier this week, IS downplayed the impor- their sleeper cell in the southeastern city of DABIQ, Syria: Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces, one carrying a Turkish flag, and its followers because of a prophecy that tance of the rebel advance on the town. Gaziantep. patrol in this symbolically significant town yesterday. — AP states it will be the site of an end-of-times bat- “These hit-and-run battles in Dabiq and its Continued on Page 13 Hijabi cadet settles in at US college

NORTHFIELD, Vermont: Despite being official members of the Corps of Cadets the first woman allowed to wear a and the rook restrictions end. Muslim headscarf beneath her military But the uniform for the 18-year-old At Guantanamo, uniform at the nation’s oldest private mil- student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is itary college, Sana Hamze says she does- a little different. Unlike other female wheels of justice n’t feel like a pioneer. Her focus is on members of the corps, Hamze wears her learning details of life as a “rook” at Muslim hijab, or head covering, beneath. barely turning Vermont’s Norwich University, in the As part of her effort to fulfill her life- WASHINGTON: War crimes trials at Guantanamo school’s Corps of Cadets and not running long dream of continuing her family’s Bay for suspects accused of attacks against the afoul of the many rules and customs new legacy of military and public service United States have ground to a near halt a decade students are required to master. As do all while staying true to her devout religious after the military courts’ creation, with lawyers aspiring members of the corps, she’s beliefs, she asked for a uniform accom- warning that some detainees could spend many learned to walk at the side of the path- modation to wear the hijab when she more years waiting to be tried. Despite President ways, make square corners when turn- was applying to colleges earlier this year. Barack Obama’s early vows to close the facility in ing, line up before eating and sleep Norwich, one of the nation’s six senior eastern Cuba amid charges that suspects had been when she is told. Like her freshman class- military colleges, agreed to make the tortured, the United States continues to spend mates, she yearns for the time when her accommodation. some $91 million a year on military trials at the class is “recognized” and they become Continued on Page 13 base, which has 61 remaining inmates. An artist’s impression depicts the separation of the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent “The military commissions in their current state are and landing demonstrator module (center) from the Trace Gas Orbiter (left) and a farce,” Marine Brigadier General John Baker, the chief heading for Mars. — AP defense counsel, said last month at a Washington legal conference, of the tribunals that prosecute detainees. “The Guantanamo Bay military commis- European lander starts sions have been characterized by delay, government misconduct and incompetence, and more delay.” James Connell, a defense lawyer for Ammar Al- descent to Mars surface Baluchi, one of five suspects on trial for their alleged PARIS: A European lander started a three- neighbouring planet’s hostile surface, this roles in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said that trial was day, million-kilometre descent to Mars time working with Russia. not likely until maybe 2020, almost two decades after yesterday, quitting its mothership to test As planned, the 600-kg, paddling pool- airline hijackers killed nearly 3,000 people. Because technology for a daring mission to scout sized lander separated from an the court and much of the evidence lies outside the the Red Planet for signs of life. Flight unmanned craft called the Trace Gas United States, the trial “is 100 times more complex director Michel Denis confirmed the lan- Orbiter (TGO) after a seven-month, 496- than even a complex ordinary death penalty case,” der Schiaparelli had separated, to loud million-km trek from Earth. Schiaparelli’s said Connell. applause at mission control in Darmstadt, main goal is to test entry and landing In contrast with Guantanamo, federal prosecutors Germany some 175 million km from gear and technology for a subsequent operating in US courts have secured more than 340 where the maneuver was executed. rover which will mark the second phase terrorism convictions over the last decade, a Justice Confirmation of the milestone separation and highlight of the ExoMars mission. Department spokesman said. Tanzanian Ahmed was webcast live. Thirteen years after its After a two-year funding delay, the rover Khalfan Ghailani was transferred from Guantanamo NORTHFIELD, Vermont: Freshman student Sana Hamze poses during an interview first, failed, attempt to place a rover on is due for launch in 2020, arriving about to New York in 2009, and 17 months later a civilian Mars, the high-stakes test is a key ele- six months later to explore the Red Planet about her time as a first-year student in Norwich University’s Corps of Cadets on Continued on Page 13 Oct 12, 2016. — AP ment in Europe’s latest bid to reach our Continued on Page 13 LOCAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received yesterday Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met yesterday with Tunisian Minister of Foreign Islamic Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane, who presented to him the next five-year strate- Affairs Khamis Al-Jehinawi. — Amiri Diwan photo gic plan of the Ministry of Justice. — KUNA Five businesses qualify for final judging round in 2nd KIPCO Tmkeen Award for Young Entrepreneurs

KUWAIT: Five young entrepreneurs running retail and service businesses in Kuwait have qualified for the final judging round of the 2nd KIPCO Tmkeen Award for Young Entrepreneurs. The award is a collaboration between the Youth Empowerment Organization and KIPCO - Kuwait Projects Company (Holding). Eligible applicants gave a 5-7 minute pres- entation about their businesses in the prelimi- nary judging round. Business professionals from the KIPCO Group - including Burgan Bank, OSN, Gulf Insurance Group, KAMCO Investment Company, United Real Estate, Qurain Petrochemical Industries, AUK, AUS, United Networks and Marina FM - sat on the judging panels. Eman Al Awadhi, KIPCO’s Group Communications Director, said: “This prelimi- nary round of judging is not just for the pur- Empowerment Organization, said: “When we judging round will take place on October 26, Entrepreneurs make their presentations to judges. pose of elimination; it is a learning experience launched the KIPCO Tmkeen Award for Young during the Youth Empowerment Symposium. for the entrepreneurs on how to successfully Entrepreneurs last year, it took our efforts to The panel includes the Head of Global pitch their businesses to potential investors. empower youth to a whole new level. Through Recruitment at Booking.com, Jennifer Given their diverse business backgrounds, our sharing their life-changing stories, the Boulanger; CEO of KAMCO, Faisal Sarkhou; Defense Minister receives KIPCO Group professionals had the opportuni- renowned international and local speakers we General Manager of Ghaliah online communi- ty to interact with the young entrepreneurs host have been an inspiration for young peo- cations agency, Abdulrazag Al Mutawa; and German, Bosnian envoys and gave them feedback and comments to ple to establish their own businesses. This year, Founder and CEO of Saveco, Nour Al Qatami. help strengthen their case. We hope that, like we celebrate five years of educating, informing KIPCO Group is offering the winner a bun- KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry’s moral guidance and public rela- last year, the entrepreneurs will continue to and inspiring the youth. Our partnership with dle of services valued at US$100,000. The serv- Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al- tions directorate said in a statement. seek the guidance of our team as they expand KIPCO and its Group companies means that we ices include a wide range of financial, strategic Jarrah Al-Sabah received yesterday the Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah also met with their businesses. We wish the top five finalists can further support these people in realizing and operational consultation sessions, market newly appointed German Ambassador to Bosnian Ambassador to Kuwait all the best in the final judging round, and we their aspirations.” studies, insurance coverage and advertising Kuwait Karlfried Bergner. During the meet- Mohammad Halilovic on several issues of hope that all the other entrepreneurs will con- The five finalists are Easy Shippings, services. The winner of the grand prize will be ing, Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah discussed with mutual interest. The Deputy Prime Minister tinue to engage in a dialogue with us.” Moqawalat.com, Label KW, Fix It Home announced at the closing of the Youth the German Ambassador a number of hailed the bilateral relation, noting that Ali Al Ibrahim, CEO of the Youth Services and Seyaaha Travel Guide. The final Empowerment Symposium on October 26. issues of mutual interests, wishing him best both sides are willing to strengthen and of luck in his new post, the Defense enhance this relation. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah meets with German Ambassador to Kuwait Karlfried Bergner. — KUNA KIPCO judges with Tmkeen representatives. Minister stresses govt keenness on caring for youth

KUWAIT: The government is keen to take support for this energy and how to invest it. ceed, indicating that this activity is the first care of Kuwaiti youth and their capabilities, He stressed that this support is in line with of its kind on both ministerial and govern- as they are the best investment and real the directives of His Highness the Amir mental levels. wealth of the country, stressed Minister of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, He said such groups affirmed that Kuwaiti Electricity and Water Ahmad Al-Jassar. calling for supporting youth. youth are able to take part in all fields, Speaking at a festival on activities of the Jassar extolled pioneering youth efforts adding that the youth formed their volun- youth groups at the ministry, Jassar said the which go in line with a voluntary mechanism tary team works around the clock in different formation of such groups contributes to and a common national thought so as to areas across the country in the fields of elec- developing youth energy mixed with hard achieve sustainable development. tronics and programming. During the festi- work that aims to achieve innovation and Meanwhile, Undersecretary Mohammad val, Zainab Qurashi, groups’ coordinator, creativity. Bushehri commended efforts of workers at made a presentation on teams and their The minister referred to the ministry’s the ministry aimed to help the groups suc- efforts exerted to produce projects. — KUNA

Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Al-Jassar speaks at the festival.

Undersecretary at the Minister of The groups’ coordinator Zainab Qurashi KUWAIT: A view of the audience at a Ministry of Electricity and Water’s festival to celebrate activities of youth groups. — KUNA Electricity and Water Mohammad Bushehri LOCAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 Kuwait parliament contributes to political stability: Speaker Dissolved parliament passed 113 laws

KUWAIT: Former Speaker of Kuwait’s National SAB representatives attend the parliament Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem said Saturday the sessions and raise questions directly to minis- parliament contributed to “imposing a state of ters, he pointed out. “The SAB reports used to political stability” in Kuwait amidst exceptional have no role in previous parliaments except in domestic and regional circumstances. case of grilling. The ministers used to pay no The wise leadership of His Highness the Amir attention to such reports. But, due to activation Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and of these reports, the ministers set up teams in His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- their respective ministries to review the SAB Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah following the terrorist observations. “As a result, the number such attack on Al-Sadeq Mosque and during capture observations went down by 52 percent, which of what is known as Al-Abdali cell, helped parlia- means that we are on the right track,” Ghanem ment contribute to achieve political stability, went on. said Ghanem. This political stability “transformed the sedition (caused by the two incidents) into a 113 laws national epic,” Ghanem said in an interview with Regarding the legislative role of the parlia- Chronology of the Al-Rai TV channel on the eve of the parliament’s ment, he said the MPs passed a total of 113 laws, dissolution. including the one on the right of an individual to A suicide bombing targeted Al-Sadeq take lawsuits to the Constitutional Court. He not- Kuwaiti Parliament Mosque in downtown Kuwait in June 2015 ed that this right has been a national issue over killing some 28 people and injuring 227 others. the last four decades. KUWAIT: Since it was established 53 to abuse of using constitutional tools. The attack brought condemnations from around The recently-adopted legislations also include years ago, the Kuwaiti National • 1999: Though this legislative term the world. In September 2015, the public prose- amendments to the law on commercial franchis- Assembly (parliament) has seen major witnessed many grilling motions, yet it cutor lodged criminal charges against the terror- es, the retirement benefits law, the law on munic- events, some of which led to dissolution was completed. ist cell known as the “Al-Abdali Cell,” in which 26 ipal reforms, and the law on pensioners’ medical or resignation of MPs. The following is a • 2003: The 2003 parliament swore defendants were put on trial over possession of insurance, he said, noting that the medical insur- Marzouq Al-Ghanem chronology of such significant events in allegiance to His Highness the Amir huge caches of weapons and ammunition, as ance system covers a total of 800 diseases. The each legislative term since the first one Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- well as espionage for Iran and Hezbollah. new tendering law put an end to foul play and in 1963: Sabah after he was nominated by the helped attract foreign investors without need of Fuel prices • 1963: A major event of the 1963 cabinet. Also, it granted suffrage to Elections local agent, Ghanem pointed out. Dealing with the controversy over the gov- parliament was the resignation of eight Kuwaiti women. It was dissolved, consti- Asked about the upcoming parliamentary The amended law on housemaids cut to a ernment decision to hike the fuel prices, he said MPs in protest of approving freedom tutionally, in 2006. elections, Ghanem said dissolving the parlia- quarter the cost of employing foreign maids and the issue is a technical, rather than political, one. restriction laws. • 2006: This was the first time for ment was “a decision solely adopted by His ended foul play in this field, thus benefiting the “The government made this decision during the • 1967: Seven MPs resigned protest- Kuwaiti women to take part in parlia- Highness the Amir, for he is the person with Kuwaiti families. The law on the national human interval between the legislative terms, which ing poll rigging. mentary elections. The parliament was authority over this issue.” Ghanem further stated rights diwan and the law on the rights of dis- prompted me to call for a joint meeting by the • 1971: A motion of no confidence constitutionally dissolved in 2008. that the number of interpellations of ministers abled schoolchildren and slow learning show government and the parliament’s office. was submitted against Minister of • 2008: It was the first parliament by members of the now dissolved parliament is that the lawmakers pay attention to care for per- “The decision was part of the government Commerce and Trade Khalid Al-Adsani, elected in line with the five-constituency the biggest in the history of parliamentary life in sons with special needs, he noted. efforts to preserve the sovereign credit rating but it was rejected by 20-13 votes. system. It was dissolved in 2009 for lack Kuwait. “As a result of such grillings, six cabinet On the controversial genetic fingerprinting of the country after Moody’s cautioned that it • 1975: The 1975 parliament was dis- of cooperation between the two powers. members resigned.” law, he said it is based on a legal opinion from would revise down Kuwait’s rating unless the solved by an Amiri decree in 1976, after • 2009: This term saw the first ever “However, I don’t consider this a criterion for the Fatwa and Legislation Dept. following the government adopts urgent measures to the government resigned over the accu- grilling motion of the prime minister, assessing the performance of the parliament. terrorist attack on Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque. “An address the economic challenges,” he noted. mulation of several draft bills at the and the storming of parliament. It was The true criterion is specified in the provisions of understanding has been reached with His “Nevertheless, we were able to find smart solu- assembly for a long period. dissolved in 2011. the constitution that set the parameters of effec- Highness the Prime Minister on the need to tions that do not affect the standard of living • The 1981 legislative term saw re- • 2012 (Feb): Only few months had tive supervision on the performances of govern- amend the law so that fingerprints would be tak- of citizens through redirecting the subsidy dividing electoral constituencies to 25, passed before the Constitutional Court ment bodies through the reports of the State en from suspected persons instead of all per- from the commodity (fuel) to citizens,” he instead of 10. annulled the parliament, reinstating the Audit Bureau (SAB),” he said. sons,” Ghanem disclosed. added. — KUNA • 1985: The parliament of 1985 was previous one of 2009. dissolved by an Amiri decree in 1986 • 2012 (Dec): This was the first parlia- against the backdrop of what was ment elected according to the one-vote known as “climate crisis” and the many system. It was dissolved in 2013 after the Kuwait’s Snap Polls: What you need to know grilling motions that followed impacting Constitutional Court annulled the leg- cooperation between the legislative and islative elections. the executive Powers. • 2013: It was the first parliament KUWAIT: Kuwait operates under a unicameral To qualify to run as a candidate for the leg- • Ability to read and write in Arabic • 1992: This was the first national after the Constitutional Court immu- legal system with an executive and legislative islature: The Amir, cabinet ministers, judges and mem- assembly after a six-year standstill, fol- nized the one-vote system. It saw several branch. The legislature, the Majlis Al-Ommah • Candidates must be at least 30 years old bers of the armed forces and police are not lowing the Iraqi Invasion and the grilling motions against ministers, before (National Assembly) was established in 1962 and • Citizens of Kuwait with Kuwaiti father allowed to run for political office. Liberation war. it was dissolved Sunday, October 16, has 50 directly elected officials from five con- • Residence in the country at the time of election • 1996: This parliament was dissolved 2016, for lack of cooperation between stituencies in Kuwait. in 1999. It was the first time the parlia- the executive and the legislative authori- Each constituency elects 10 officials in a one ment was constitutionally dissolved due ties. — KUNA man = one vote system with the 10 candidates who receive the most votes winning the seats. If two candidates receive an equal number of valid votes, the polling committee draws lots and the winner is declared elected. There is no threshold to win a seat. There are no reserved seats or quo- tas for tribal, women, minorities or other cate- gories. Political parties are not allowed in Kuwait though ‘groups’ and alliances often form for short-term goals. The upcoming snap polls, like- ly to be held in December (so as to be in compli- ance with the 60 days from dissolution require- ment under the Kuwait Constitution) will be the seventh parliamentary polls since 2006.

Voting is not compulsory but all voters must meet the following requirements: • Must be 21 years of age • Citizens of Kuwait with Kuwaiti father • Residence in the country at the time of elec- tion • Citizens overseas cannot vote • Disqualifications: Any imprisonment, per- sons naturalized within the last 20 years, military personnel and policemen, unrehabilitated per- sons convicted of a felony or dishonorable crime. In the last elections in 2013, there were 439,911 registered voters with turnout of 228,314 (51.9%). MoH not yet involved in Jaber Hospital delivery

KUWAIT: The handing over the Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital project will be Ahmad Hospital directly from the contractor when completed, Shatti between the project’s contractor and the public works ministry, the health explained, reiterating his ministry’s non-involvement in the handing over ministry said. The health ministry has no link or relation to the project yet process. The process will be subject to checking procedures, including until it is fully completed along with all its facilities, Dr Ahmad Al-Shatti, engineering, technical, and observatory by the public works ministry, par- the ministry’s spokesman, said. ticularly the buildings, electricity, air-conditioning, sewers, lightning, park- KUWAIT: The Public Relations and Media Department at Kuwait Fire Services The public works ministry is the official authority to receive Jaber Al- ing, elevators, and other services, he noted. — KUNA Directorate (KFSD) recently concluded its tenth ‘A fireman in each house’ training course that aims at boosting public awareness about safety proce- dures related to fires. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun

US State Department approves $194 million radar sale to Kuwait

WASHINGTON: The US State tems, site surveys, installation and Department has approved a proposed checkout, site acceptance testing, inter- $194 million radar sale to Kuwait, the im contractor support, construction, Defense Security Cooperation Agency contractor logistics support, spares, sup- announced Thursday. The sale would port equipment and training. involve radar field systems and related Kuwait seeks the sale to improve ear- equipment, training and support, the ly warning, enhance internal and exter- agency said in a statement. nal security and protect national sover- Included in the deal would be six eignty. The systems would provide situa- short-range radars, also known as gap tional awareness for Kuwaiti security filler radars, one long-range radar with forces to detect and interdict fixed- and primary and secondary surveillance rotary-wing aircraft while providing cov- radar arrays, upgrades to the existing erage for the country’s northern and AN/FPS 117 (V) 3 long-range radar, eastern borders. The prime contractor upgrades to airfield radome and com- will be determined by competition munications systems, an upgrade to between Lockheed Martin, Northrop secure identification friend or foe sys- Grumman, and Raytheon. — UPI The Jaber Hospital MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Scenes from the event organized by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Dubai and Middle East office. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Thai Medical Tourism showcased in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) tourism industry in Kuwait to further boost the Tanes Petsuwan, the newly appointed known to provide quality medical experiences. Beauty and Beyond and Bangkok International Dubai and Middle East office hosted its first medical tourism and trade partnership Deputy Governor for TAT Dubai and Middle TAT also aims to build and strengthen the Hospital. ever medical tourism roadshow in Kuwait to between the two countries in providing quali- East Office, said: “The Medical Tourism road- business ties and network within the region Thailand is considered as a premier destina- proactively position Thailand as the ultimate ty medical services. show is an important series of event for us to between private sectors from Thailand and tion for medical tourism due to its quality health and wellness destination for Kuwaiti The recent initiative is part of TAT’s first ever build a positive image of Thailand for medical local partners across Kuwait. The Thailand del- medical practices and innovative technology. locals and residents. The medical tourism roadshow dedicated specifically to medical tourism in the GCC. We have just wrapped up egation consisted of 10 leading medical, Availability of Muslim friendly accommoda- roadshow Kuwait will be part of TAT’s two-city tourism to complement TAT’s broader tourism a successful show during IMTEC 2016 and are health and wellness providers from hospitals, tions and Halal cuisine options also makes it a post-IMTEC roadshow that took place at JW campaign “Quality Leisure Destination looking forward to further bolster our efforts wellness hotels and aesthetic clinics. top destination choice. In 2015, visitors from Marriott Hotel, Kuwait. through Thainess”. TAT has also recently con- by showcasing our various products and pack- Confirmed participants are: Bangkok Pattaya the Middle Eastern remained an important The delegation was led by Tanes Petsuwan, cluded a successful participation in ages to the residents of Kuwait.” Hospital, Landmark Lancaster Hotel, HMC source for Thailand with an increase in total the newly appointed Deputy Governor for TAT International Medical Travel Exhibition and The Thai delegation met several travel Clinic, IS Family Group, Thanyapura Integrative number of arrival by 33.74 percent in 2015. Dubai and Middle East Office to proactively Conference 2016 held in Dubai, U.A.E from Oct agents and industry partners from Kuwait to Health Center, Panacee Medical Center, Thailand expects a record 29.5 million tourists meet with key people from the travel and 9-10, 2016. highlight Thailand’s destinations that are Phyatai 2 Hospital, Vitalife Corporation, BB this year, up 19 percent from 2014.

KUWAIT: The Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea So Chang Sik presenting a copy of the report of the 7th Congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea to Javaid Ahmad of Kuwait Times. The ambassador thanked Kuwait Times’ management and staff for their continued support for KUWAIT: The Ambassador his country. — Photos by Joseph Shagra of Spain Carlos Saenz De Tejada hosted a reception recently on the occasion of his country’s National Day at Symphony Style Hotel. Top officials, diplo- mats, media persons, and members of the Spanish community in Kuwait attended the event.— Photos by Joseph Shagra LOCAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

Legalese Kuwait needs more expat teachers: ministry Small and Medium Lawyer challenges family court law Enterprises By Meshaal Al-Enezi and A Saleh Family court TV improvement measures. He added that in order to facili- Lawyer Howra Al-Habib yesterday con- The information ministry stressed its tate the process for campers, applicants KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education (MoE) tested the constitutionality of the family intention to launch several development pitching camps over a maximum area of By Attorney Fajer Ahmed needs to appoint 550 new expatriate teach- court law, noting that articles 5, 6, 7, 11, 13 projects including building an integrated 2,000 sq m would have to sign an online ers for certain subjects due to a lack of and 14 of the law are unconstitutional. center for editing all Kuwait TV and Kuwait affidavit at the municipality’s website with- am very thankful that I get to answer queries Kuwaitis teaching these subjects, assistant Radio programs, at a total cost of KD 2.6 out checking with KFSD, while those apply- publicly and interact with people in Kuwait, undersecretary for administrative affairs Honoring Sawwagh million. The ministry also announced that ing for camps of 5,000 plus sq m should get Iwhether local or foreign. Even though I write a Fahd Al-Ghaiss said. Meanwhile, MoE’s Kuwait Municipality’s Deputy Chairman two new live coverage vehicles fully KFSD’s approval. Sefak added that the safe- assistant undersecretary for financial affairs equipped with the latest technologies at a ty conditions include having concealed lot for the public, I have never really explained Meshaal Al-Jowaisri suggested naming a Yousef Al-Najjar announced that expat total cost of KD 4 million would arrive by electrical wiring, not using heat sources what I do to the public. I feel very grateful that as street in Fintas after the late former MP teachers’ October salaries would be paid in January. inside tents, not using wooden floors inside a lawyer, I am able to make a difference in peo- Falah Al-Sawwagh. ple’s lives. full including the KD 150 rent allowance tents, to have a gap of at least five meters because the ministry has not yet received Camping season between tents, while kitchens should be at Today though, I want to talk to you more about any instructions from the Civil Services Brand finance As the spring camping season nears, least 10 meters away from tents, not to what I do and what I want to focus on in the Commission on putting a decision to In the Brand Finance Global 2016 report head of the spring camps committee at burn garbage, keep the place clean, use future in my career. I aim to make the law accessi- reduce the allowance to KD 60 in effect. issued by Brand Finance, Kuwait is ranked Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) non-thermal lighting systems and provide ble and understandable to everyone. I draft con- “We will carry out the reduction as soon as 49th worldwide and fourth amongst Arab Colonel Yousef Al-Sefak announced two four-kilo fire extinguishers per 1,000 sq tracts in simple terms and avoid legal jargon. I we get the letter,” he stressed. countries. approving this year’s safety and preventive m of the camp. provide consultations for commercial, media and employment matters, and although I don’t per- sonally deal with family- or crime-related law, I translate for my clients and facilitate between them and other lawyers. I don’t believe in going to court and wasting my time and my clients’ time and I like to come up with amicable solutions for my clients. I am also very grateful that I work with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) - I cannot empha- size how important to me SMEs are. Actually not just to me, but to our economy. Kuwait is finally moving away (slower than we should) from oil and gas and coming up with creative solutions by our generation. I look around me and I see musi- cians, dancers, financial analysts, artists, writers, chefs, accountants, fashion designers, social media activists - outspoken, generous, exuberant, lovely people that not only want to make a living, but want to make a difference with their products and services. Therefore, today I want to focus more on questions that I get from SMEs.

New website Question: I have heard there is a new website that allows you to obtain a commercial license online with just a few simple steps/procedures. Is KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry this true? I know it’s true for other GCC countries yesterday reveals two suspects arrested for practicing and if this is true, I think it will be great. medicine illegally. Some medications stolen from a public hospital. Fajer: Yes, it is true that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has opened a business center, and from my experience, it will take you Duo arrested for practicing medicine illegally only one visit and four days. Check it out and please send me your experience at By Hanan Al-Saadoun Bootleggers in custody preparation for the upcoming parliamen- Inspection campaign [email protected]. Five Asians were arrested yesterday in tary elections. Security sources noted that Ahamadi security launched inspection Question: Can I run my business from home or KUWAIT: Farwniya detectives arrested Sabah Al-Salem for brewing liquor, the by-elections are incriminated by law, campaigns in Mahboula, Dahr, Mangaf, from a residential area? two Asians for illegally practicing medi- Interior Ministry announced yesterday. which penalizes both participants and Fintas, Fahd Al-Ahmad, Hadiya, Zour and Fajer: This depends on the business. Usually, cine in Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh, said security The arrest came during an operation that organizers with a maximum of five years in Khairan. Security sources said the inspec- businesses that rely on craftsmen, lawyers, engi- sources, noting that one of the suspects followed investigations which started prison and/or a fine of KD 2,000-5,000. tions resulted in arresting 87 people neers, interior designers, recording musicians, etc claimed to be a doctor and the other based on information received about the including 12 absconders, 20 wanted for suspect’s illegal activity. The five men were Arsonists caught civil cases, four wanted for criminal cas- can run their business from residential or non- claimed to be a pharmacist. The suspects taken to the proper authorities to face Kuwait Interpol arrested three es, two reckless drivers, one for dual citi- commercial places. Otherwise, you can check the were arrested with Ministry of Health charges. Egyptians wanted in Egypt for arson, mur- zenship, three for driving ATVs along Ministry of Commerce’s executive bylaws that has (MoH) medicines they confessed to der and bullying others, said security main streets and two for not holding any more details about which business can be run obtaining through a third suspect who By-elections sources, noting that the suspects were ID, in addition to impounding seven from where. The Free Trade Zone has its own worked as a cleaner in a public hospital, Criminal investigators arrested partici- respectively sentenced to life, 25 years vehicles and 10 ATVs and filing 24 traffic bylaws, so does Shuwaikh Industrial Area, so it’s from where he stole them. pants in a by-election held in Jahra in and 10 years in prison. tickets. best to check.

License Question: Can I run my business online with- out a commercial license? Like from the Web. Fajer: No, unfortunately in Kuwait, you still need a commercial license to run a business. You have to have a commercial entity that is licensed. Question: Where can I find laws and legisla- tions that can help me with my business? Fajer: For general laws, you can check www.GCC-Legal.com, where you will find the majority of GCC laws in Arabic. They usually take time to update their website though. You can also check the official Kuwaiti gazette for Kuwaiti legis- lations in print and online. You can also check the Ministry of Commerce website, which is updated regularly. For any legal questions or queries, email [email protected].

KBR wins US Army project contract in Kuwait

HOUSTON: KBR, a major engineering, procurement and construction company, said its joint venture with top private security firm Triple Canopy, has been awarded a major contract by the US Army for its Kuwait base operations. It is a firm fixed-price contract for one year with four option years. The total contract for the first year is valued at over $115 million and the full contract is expected to exceed $800 million over the five year life of the contract, said a statement from KBR. As per the deal, KBR-Triple Canopy JV will pro- vide logistics, engineering services and installation support services including morale, welfare and recreation (MWR); information management; forms and publications, official mail, and reproduction services; postal operations; healthcare support serv- ices; operations, security, fire and emergency servic- es, it stated. The Kuwait Base Operations and Security Support Services (K-BOSSS 2.0) contract will cover the Kuwait Area of Responsibility including: Camp Arifjan, Camp Buehring, Udairi Range Complex, Camp Patriot on the Kuwait Naval Base (KNB), the Aerial Port of Debarkation (APOD) located at the Kuwait City International Airport (KCIA), and Sea Port of Debarkation (SPOD) located at the Kuwait Port of Shuaiba, it added. KBR has earlier provided services support solu- tions for the US joint Armed Services spanning the military operational continuum from contingencies to critical forward locations across the globe and at home, said the statement. The company provides Base Operations Support Services for the US Navy in Djibouti and Bahrain while simultaneously providing immediate response services support solutions for the US Army in Kuwait, Iraq and much of Europe through the Army’s Logistics Civil Augmentation IV contract, it added.—Trade Arabia News Service MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS Crime Report Al-Anbaa

Man arrested for Education: Facts and ambitions kidnapping minor KUWAIT: A citizen wanted for kidnapping a minor was Grants By Dr Adel Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim arrested in Salhiya. He was taken to the proper authori- ties for further action. Meanwhile, weapons police ducation has been the main topic of arrested nine people wanted for various civil cases in debates, conferences and strategies for long Jahra, in addition to two citizens possessing drugs and a Enow, while the recommendations made third for drinking and possessing alcohol in Bneid Al- have never been put into practice. This has made Gar. Separately, a citizen was arrested in Sharq with 66 education so deteriorated that a former Ministry illicit pills. of Education (MoE) official described it as an inverted pyramid! It has been upside down ever since and never been set straight. Successive ministers have taken Traffic violations responsibility of the education portfolio, but their Capital police arrested 149 people wanted for vari- views towards education remained the same, which has been having negative impact on stu- ous cases and issued 172 tickets for traffic viola- dents according to occasional international statis- tions. In a separate case, a male citizen was arrested tics and ranking that show our students at the tail for driving recklessly in Wafra, dressing in women’s Increases end of the list. clothing and wearing makeup. We have the right to wonder about the reasons leading to such a situation. Do not the minister and MoE officials know those reasons? A simple ATM stolen answer to this is that unless the minister and min- istry officials have true intentions to reform An Arab expat filed a complaint accusing someone he things, education will keep deteriorating in our knows of stealing his ATM card and withdrawing KD 60 Al-Jarida beloved country. The last nail in our educational from his bank account. A case was filed and investiga- system’s coffin might probably be the decision to tions went underway. Separately, Jahra detectives decrease expat teachers’ rent allowance. How on earth can such a decision involving the most arrested a drunken man who did not hold any identifi- Al-Anbaa cation trying to stop passersby to rob them. sacred profession in any society be made?! Teachers must be actually and not just nominally distinguished. The debauched and Najat Al-Sagheera Education problems in Kuwait mainly result Fights from the educational environment and selecting teachers and school curriculums. To solve these An Asian and an Arab were arrested for fighting in problems, selected teachers must at least hold a Nugra over an old unpaid debt. Separately, a fight By Saad Al-Motesh master’s degree and have enough experience in broke out amongst a number of women in a Jahra the subjects they teach. These conditions are fol- park, after one of them hit the other’s maid with a ince I have no trade or business to keep me what they write, but still write it because they found busy or use to pass my time, I absolutely have some audience that enjoys reading their words and lowed in Finland, which has the best educational stick and the maid’s sponsor used a knife to defend system worldwide. Teachers must also be paid as nothing to do. So, I started exploring social wishes to become as famous. Some people found her. —Al-Rai, Al-Anbaa, Al-Qabas S much as doctors, engineers and lawyers, or even media networks to kill time instead of gossiping Twitter as the perfect platform to get famous with- more. about others. However, I found out that that these out showing any respect to rules and regulations. In this regard, I recall a WhatsApp post that sites included much more bad things than I expect- While some users only tend to spreading lies, fraud, argues that if doctors can operate on a child’s ed. Well, I am not the first one to be so disappointed, blackmail and saying what they do not actually do, heart to save his life, teachers have access to chil- News because long before me and before Twitter, the vet- others are so honest that one would ask to use their dren minds and can enrich them with knowledge in brief eran singer Najat Al-Sagheera sang: “Does he think old ghutras as blessed prayer mats. and science. Yes, indeed. This is what we need for he can toy with me?” The Holy Quran described poets as people tread- our kids to have a proper learning environment to I thought Twitter was a place to pass time usefully, ing all paths. Almighty Allah meant that they talk help them be creative and independent. So we but eventually found it was a place for robberies and about everything, which absolutely applies to some need highly qualified, skilled and experienced Comoros ‘willing’ to lies and a place full of debauched people who follow bloggers who talk about all topics and concerns. teaching staffs, modern curriculums suitable for naturalize bedoons poets without thinking, as described in the Holy Therefore, I only follow those I know to avoid joining this age that encourage children to think logically. Quran. The only difference now is that they follow the debauched. I only follow accounts with real Will our educationists realize such recommen- KUWAIT: Ambassador of the Comoros to Kuwait Al- bloggers, though they both say things they do not names to avoid being toyed with. After all, Najat Al- dations? We actually lack a real will to develop do! Sagheera might be prettier than me and has a nice education and this is what got us so far, ending Aref Saied Hassan said that his country is ready to give up with many improvised and random decisions its nationality to bedoons (stateless) in Kuwait, and Many poets wrote poems about chivalry, gallantry voice, but I am taller and handsomer than the ugly and good manners without having any of these bloggers you follow! such as decreasing expat teachers’ rent even welcome them to its lands, should the two Arab Translated by Kuwait Times virtues themselves. They do not even think about —Translated by Kuwait Times allowances. — states reach an agreement on that regard. The envoy denied however that any agreement has been signed to naturalize bedoons, but confirmed that “the idea is there.” —Annahar KIB sponsors Mandala Art Workshop

Driver’s licenses KUWAIT: Under the umbrella of its strategic partnership with Al-Sidra Association for the Psychological Care of KUWAIT: The newly-established Public Authority Cancer Patients, Kuwait International Bank (KIB) recently for Roads Transportation will soon take over the sponsored the Mandala Art Therapy and Healing duties of issuing and renewing driver’s licenses, as Workshop. Organized by Al-Sidra in partnership with well as car registrations, license plates and inspec- ArtspaceQ8, the workshop aimed to help female cancer tion. Coordination is currently ongoing with the patients achieve the maximum levels of healing, by pro- Interior Ministry’s Traffic General Department to moting relaxation through painting and drawing. complete the transition as soon as possible, an offi- As part of its leading social responsibility program, KIB cial at the authority said. —Al-Anbaa offers strategic support to Al Sidra throughout the year, sponsoring the Association’s different activities and initia- tives. KIB also provides support to Al Sidra in its mission to provide patients and their families with comprehensive Expats run SMEs services, focusing on healthcare, treatment and awareness KUWAIT: Around 98 percent of small and medium across all stages of the disease. enterprises in Kuwait are managed by expatriates who “This strategic sponsorship is the latest in a long line of are hired by Kuwaiti owners who receive substantial initiatives that we have carried out under the umbrella of our broad and expansive social responsibility program. In support from the government to run their businesses, this particular case, our partnership with Al Sidra came as a political and economic analyst Fawaz Al-Shaibani said, result of our strong belief in the importance of their mis- adding that his conclusions were based on statistics sion and cause, which focuses on creating a positive envi- obtained from the Manpower and Government ronment for cancer patients to help them better adapt to Restructuring Program (MGRP). —Al-Qabas their conditions and ultimately enhance their response to treatment,” said Nawaf Najia, Manager of the Corporate Communications Unit at KIB. Seismic surveys Najia further added: “Our partnership with Al-Sidra reflects KIB’s commitment towards the community in KUWAIT: Small tremors felt by residents near areas Kuwait, especially in terms of enhancing health conscious- where seismic surveys for oil exploration are carried ness across the country. As this is Breast Cancer Awareness out near Kuwait Bay and Kuwait City have no Month, we wanted to do our part to help raise awareness impact on residential buildings, said Jamal Jaafar, about this serious disease, and educate the public about its CEO of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Homeowners most important facets; starting from the importance of will be notified beforehand with the surveys’ times, early detection, all the way to how to support patients Jaafar said, adding that works will be scheduled through their difficult journey battling the disease.” away from evening and dawn to prevent inconven- ience. —Al-Rai

Labor violations KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower referred 1,058 employers’ files for investigations this year on labor-related violations, Acting Director Abdullah Al- Mutawtah said. Those include 78 files suspended per- manently, 264 files for occupational safety and 368 files for companies with violations detected during labor inspections, Mutawtah explained. —Al-Anbaa CBK sponsors Disabled Recreational Day KFH participates in program to train KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) recently graduates to work in banking sector sponsored the Disabled Recreational Day carnival organized by Signature Company and Kuwait Society for Parents of the Disabled. This sponsorship comes as Organized by IBS in collaboration with MGRP part of CBK’s activities in community service designed to provide constant care and support to all segments of KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) participated in MGRP Assistant Secretary General for Manpower ance and contributes in achieving the comprehensive society, especially the disabled and those with special the graduation ceremony for IBS graduates to work in Affairs Bandar Al-Rashed praised KFH’s role in development in the country. He expressed his apprecia- needs, the bank announced. the banking and financial sectors. The training program Kuwaitization while contributing in achieving the goals tion to KFH’s support to the institute, indicating that KFH Commenting on the event, Amani Al-Wer’a, CBK’s was held for 12 weeks in collaboration with the of the IBS program in investing in the national human has hired eight of the 30 male and female Kuwaiti gradu- Assistant General Manager for Public Relations and Manpower and Government Restructuring Program - resources, honing their skills and offering them all means ates of the program which constitutes the largest share. Advertising, stressed that CBK always builds bridges to MGRP, KFH and the Kuwaiti banks in general within the possible to educate them on all developments of bank- KFH allocates advanced training programs and spe- communicate with various society sects all year long, framework of achieving the common national goals of ing industry. cialized workshops for its employees in order to optimal- not only on the disabled day. “This category of people supporting the youth and offering them suitable job Meanwhile, Professor Yaqoub S Y Alrefaei, the Director ly equip them and arm them with all what they need, needs our aid and assistance to overcome their disabili- opportunities to empower them and enable them to General of IBS applauded, in his speech at the graduation which confirms its keenness to hone the skills of its ties and integrate in communal activities,” she stressed. take part in the economic and development process in ceremony, KFH’s significant role in improving the nation- human resources and raise their qualifications for the the country. al human capital which reflects the outstanding perform- benefit of the bank and clients. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 Canada’s liberal champion PM Trudeau Late Thai king’s confidant confirmed temp regent celebrates one year Page 12 Page 9

PORTSMOUTH: A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wears a shirt that reads ‘Hillary for Prison’ as Trump speaks at an event. —AFP Trump challenges Clinton to drug test ‘I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate’

PORTSMOUTH: Donald Trump has challenged his rival Hillary ments, keeping a low profile as her rival battles the incendiary Republican, House speaker Paul Ryan, who last week declared the real estate mogul would even acknowledge a defeat, and Clinton to a drug test before their next debate, suggesting the allegations, triggered by the release last week of a video of him that he would no longer “defend” the party’s nominee, rebuked how his legions of supporters would react should he lose. Democrat was “pumped up” on performance-enhancing drugs in bragging about groping women. But the Clinton camp issued a Trump over his comments questioning the validity of the elec- President Barack Obama-who along with First Lady Michelle a stunning new twist to the brutal White House race. The unsub- swift response to Trump’s latest comments on the election, accus- tion process. Obama stepped up this week as a heavy-hitting surrogate for stantiated attack from the Republican nominee came as a new ing him of seeking to erode public faith in the vote. “Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and Clinton-echoed those concerns at a rally Friday, warning democ- poll out yesterday shows Clinton with a four-point lead over her “This election will have record turnout, because voters see the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this elec- racy itself was at stake in next month’s vote. “In a democracy, you Republican rival, suggesting that Trump still holds a solid core of through Donald Trump’s shameful attempts to undermine an tion with integrity,” said a statement issued late Saturday by have a contest, but if you lose then you say congratulations and voters despite a week of snowballing claims of sexual miscon- election weeks before it happens,” her campaign manager Ryan’s spokeswoman AshLee Strong. The virulence of Trump’s you move on,” said the US leader, whose second term ends duct that have thrown his presidential campaign into chaos. Robby Mook said in a statement. The nation’s top elected attacks on the Clinton camp has raised concerns about whether January 20. —AFP Trump has trampled all conventions in his treatment of his opponent, vowing if elected to jail her over her email practices as secretary of state-and making “Lock Her Up” a rallying cry for his fired-up supporters. His campaign has actively fueled right-wing conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health, seizing on her bout of pneumonia last month to suggest she is concealing a major health problem, and is unfit for office. In the latest attack, leveled without proof, Trump suggested she had taken drugs during their last debate, and called for testing ahead of their final duel Wednesday in Las Vegas. “At the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning. At the end, it was like, ‘Take me down,’ she could barely reach her car,” the 70-year-old told a rally Saturday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “Athletes, they make them take a drug test. I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate. Why don’t we do that?” Trump said.

‘Steal the election’ The Manhattan billionaire has spent the week claiming the media and a “global elite” are working against him. “The election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false alle- gations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president,” he charged in New Hampshire. Ten women have now come forward to say they were the victim of unwanted advances by the real estate mogul. Trump’s latest accuser, 63-year-old Cathy Heller, told The Guardian that he had grabbed and kissed her against her wishes during their first and only meeting 20 years ago. Trump denies the allegations, insisting in one of a barrage of tweets to his 12 million followers: “Nothing ever happened with any of these women. Totally made up nonsense to steal the election. Nobody has more respect for women than me!” The controversy apparently has had little effect on Trump’s support: an ABC News/Washington Post poll out Sunday shows Clinton leading Trump 47-43 percent among likely voters-a small change from 46-44 in a survey taken ahead of the first presiden- tial debate. The poll was taken after the October 7 release of audio from 2005 in which Trump bragged that he could get away with grabbing women’s crotches because he’s famous.

Clinton appears confident However enthusiasm for Trump among his supporters has decreased, while the percentage of Clinton supporters who said they could change their minds has dropped, the poll said. One diehard Trump supporter, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, is donating $1.25 million to help elect the Republican candidate, the New York Times reported, citing a person close to the investor. A confident Clinton has scaled back her campaign commit- INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 In Calais’ refugee slum, teens dream of Britain

CALAIS: Inside the Kids Cafe, a ram- to have family ties in the UK and don’t teenagers can relax and enjoy a free bored of wandering around the camp shackle refuge in a sprawling migrant even consider building their future in meal, Wasaal and a dozen of other boys ‘Danger of being exploited’ without a plan. At night, he sleeps in slum in Calais, a mobile phone rings. France. Jonny Willis, a volunteer from the are listening to music while playing pool. Aid groups agree the Calais slum Container No. 51, one of the heated Afghan teenager Wasaal takes the call. A French refugee and youth service, says The sofas are worn out, but a poster of a must be shut down, but are urging white containers holding up to 1,500 friend of his has managed to hide inside the camp’s appalling living conditions red British double-decker bus reminds authorities to take their time. The people. Mahmud is also wary of the fre- a truck and hopes he will soon be on the and poor hygiene have been a strong everyone that London is just a few miles refugee youth service has handed quent violence in the camp. “There are other side of the English Channel. “The deterrent. “They went through a terrible away. After a perilous three-month jour- mobile phones to hundreds of children too many fighting here. I really don’t like problem is that he does not have GPS on experience here,” said Willis. “They have ney across countries including Syria, and collected information to make sure that,” said the diminutive boy, wearing his mobile. He does not know if the truck been treated so badly by police. This Turkey, and Serbia, Wasaal can’t wait for they won’t go missing when the camp is only a pair of flip flops on a cold after- is moving in the right direction,” the 14- camp lacks basic services, in addition his British dream to come true. dismantled. When the southern part of noon. Tensions have been growing amid year-old said. there is no security.” Wasaal himself has “Here I’m just wasting my time,” the the camp was destroyed in April, 129 the looming uncertainty. It’s only a mat- In fact, few in this muddy, violent stopped trying to sneak onto trucks to teenager said in fluent English. “We are children vanished. “We should do every- ter of weeks before all the Calais camp in the northern French city know Britain. Instead he’s had his fingerprints too busy dealing with daily life prob- thing to ensure that minors don’t disap- migrants will be deported, transferred to where they are going, but dreams taken as part of his request for asylum. lems. We can’t think properly.” “I left pear,” Genevieve Avenard, the French England or relocated to more than 160 abound of a life in Britain, just 21 miles “I tried it more than 10 times over the because my family was in danger,” said government’s children rights watchdog, centers around France. One British chari- across the sea. The French government past seven months,” he said. “But I’m not the boy, who fled Kunduz province in said during a recent visit. “They are in ty has warned of possible suicide has announced plans to shut down the doing it anymore. I’m in the process of northern Afghanistan where Taliban are danger of being exploited. We also need attempts from desperate migrants. But camp that has become a demoralizing being reunited with my uncle and conducting repeated raids. Wasaal has time to give these children their confi- new migrants are still arriving. symbol of Europe’s migrant crisis by the cousins. I don’t how long it will take, it’s lost touch with his parents, who also fled dence back, so they can set up a project On Thursday at the Calais-Frethun end of the year. That means 6,000 to for the Home Office to decide.” Britain’s the violence. His hopes are simple: for their future life.” train station, a young boy in jeans and 10,000 migrants will need to be relocat- Home Office says small groups of receiving a proper education in a safe Mahmud, 16, already knows what he sneakers stepped out of the express train ed, including up to 1,300 minors, accord- refugee children have been coming in a environment. “I just dream to be in a wants to be - a business accountant. The from Paris. He was immediately arrested ing to different estimates from charities weekly basis for the last few months and place where there will be no one to harm Afghan teenager, whose parents were by two French police officers. “We operating in the camp. hundreds are now expected to cross the me. Back in Afghanistan, I had very good killed when he was a boy, hopes he will checked his ID, he’s a 17-year-old from Channel legally before the Calais camp is results in two different subjects, physics be transferred to Birmingham, where his Somalia,” one police officer said, speak- Terrible experience destroyed. and mathematics. I want to be an engi- uncle has already been in touch with ing on customary condition of anonymi- Many refugee children in Calais claim Inside the Kids Cafe, a place where neer,” he said. British authorities. In the meantime, he’s ty. “He wants to go to England. — AP 3 Turkish police killed by suicide bomb near border Another ‘bomb cell’ explosive detonated but no causalities

ISTANBUL: A suspected Islamic State suicide the road where the suspected jihadists were was believed to be supplying logistical support bomber blew himself up during an anti-terror holed up in a house, the state-run news agency to the organisation, according to the governor. raid in the Turkish city of Gaziantep yesterday, Anadolu reported. Witnesses told private NTV He said the second bombing caused no further killing three police officers, officials said. A few television they heard sound of gunfire and casualties, adding that the suspect’s wife and hours later, a second suicide bomber-identified clashes in the area, which is mostly populated children who were in the apartment building at as the chief of IS group “bomb cells” in the city by university students. the time did not suffer any injuries. Turkish near the Syrian border-detonated his explo- police have detained 19 suspects for alleged sives, killing himself but without causing any ‘Suspected sleeper cells’ links to IS group, the governor said. Gaziantep, a further fatalities. Video footage released by the private major city lying just 60 kilometres (37 miles) The blasts took place shortly after Turkish- Dogan news agency showed several suspects north of the Syrian border, has become a hub backed rebels captured the northern Syrian with their hands tied behind their backs as they for Syrians fleeing the civil war. town of Dabiq from the IS group, dealing a were taken to a police car. Yerlikaya said the BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces and policemen inspect the site of a bombing which major symbolic blow to the jihadists. In the first raid took place after Turkish authorities gath- ‘Continue anti-terror fight’ targeted a tent where Shiites distribute food as part of annual religious commemo- attack in Gaziantep, the bomber set off his ered intelligence about a possible suicide bomb Since the summer of 2015, Turkey has suf- rations. — AFP fered a string of attacks in Gaziantep and else- where blamed on IS jihadists and Kurdish mili- tants. In August, a suicide bombing at a Kurdish IS bomber hits Shiite wedding in the city killed 57 people, 34 of them children. The attack was blamed on IS jihadists. In September, the United States warned of the mourners in Baghdad risk of a terror attack in Gaziantep on businesses frequented by Westerners, including the popu- BAGHDAD A suicide bomber struck a gath- towns in the country’s north and west. Iraq lar coffee chain Starbucks. ering of Shiite mourners in Baghdad yester- is now gearing up for a major battle with IS At the time, the US embassy in Ankara day, killing at least four people and wound- for Mosul, an operation that is expected to warned its citizens that Turkish police were ing another 12, Iraqi officials said, as gov- be the most complex yet for Iraq’s military, investigating a possible “terror cell” in ernment troops prepared for a decisive bat- which is still rebuilding from its humiliating Gaziantep. Turkish authorities acknowledge that tle to drive the Islamic State extremist 2014 defeat. IS jihadists have built up a presence in the group from the major northern city of The “operation to liberate Mosul will southeastern city with the aim of staging Mosul. The attack took place in Baghdad’s start very soon in the coming few days,” attacks, and yesterday’s raid was part of a wider Shiite-dominated Jadriyah neighborhood Brig Gen Haider Fadhil told The Associated crackdown on sleeper cells across the country. on the Tigris River, where the explosive- Press in an interview. Fadhil said more than Yerlikaya said Turkey “will continue its fight laden bomber approached Shiites com- 25,000 troops, including paramilitary forces against all terror groups including Daesh”, using memorating the 7th century death of made up of Sunni tribal fighters and Shiite an Arabic acronym for IS. Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet militias, will take part in the offensive that Turkey launched an unprecedented opera- Muhammad, a police officer said. will be launched from five directions tion inside Syria on August 24, backing up A medical official confirmed the toll. around the city. In addition to carrying out opposition fighters, with the ultimate goal of Both officials spoke on condition of airstrikes, the US-led international coalition cleansing its border of IS jihadists and stopping anonymity as they were not authorized to will also offer artillery fire, he added. the advance of Syrian Kurdish militia forces release information to the press. The IS mili- According to UN estimates, up to 1 mil- which Ankara vehemently opposes. President tants claimed responsibility for the bomb- lion people could be displaced from Mosul Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also voiced Turkey’s ing in a statement carried by the IS-linked during the operation, exacerbating the GAZIANTEP: Ambulances and security members attend the scene, near an explosion site after willingness to become involved in a coalition Aamaq news agency. The claim could not humanitarian situation in the country. The suicide bombers blew themselves up Sunday during a police raid against suspected Islamic operation to recapture the northern Iraqi city of be independently verified. The group conflict in Iraq has forced 3.3 million people State militants near the Syrian border. — AP Mosul from IS. swept through a swath of Iraq in June 2014 to flee their homes, with most of them liv- Turkey is still reeling from an attempted July and took control of significant areas in the ing in camps or informal settlements. explosives to avoid being captured by Turkish attack by a suspected IS sleeper cell in 15 coup blamed on US-based Islamic preacher north and west. Fadhil voiced concern about potential police, local governor Ali Yerlikaya said in tele- Gaziantep against an Alevi cultural association. Fethullah Gulen that has been followed by a Along with parts of Syria, it declared an action from Turkish troops based in the vised comments. Turkish media had initially Police confiscated computers and hard disks relentless purge of his supporters from all state Islamic caliphate that covers nearly a third region of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul. spoken of more than one attacker but the gov- from the house. institutions. Kurdish militants have also staged a of each country. But since late last year, the Turkey sent troops to the area late last year ernor and the local prosecutor’s office said the A second suicide bomber blew himself up as number of attacks. Adherents of the Alevi militants have suffered battlefields loses to train anti-IS fighters there. But Baghdad body of just one bomber was found at the police hunted for suspects who fled after the branch of Islam are known for their hardline and their power has shrunk to the northern has seen the Turkish presence as a “blatant scene. The governor said five police and four first blast, Yelikaya said. He was identified as opposition to the Islamic-rooted ruling Justice city of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city violation” of Iraqi sovereignty and has Syrians were also injured. Acting on a tip-off, Mehmet Kadir Cabael, chief of the IS group’s and Development Party (AKP) co-founded by located about 360 kilometers (225 miles) demanded the Turkish troops withdraw, a special police used armored vehicles to block “bomb cells” in the Gaziantep region and who Erdogan. — AFP northwest of Baghdad, along with small call Ankara has ignored. — AP Iran MPs call for release Iraqi army drops leaflets of death penalty activist TEHRAN: A group of Iranian lawmakers highlight Mohammadi’s medical problems In Mosul in preparation has written an open letter to the head of including “muscular paralysis”. the judiciary calling for the release of Among the signatories were parlia- Narges Mohammadi, an activist sentenced mentary vice president Ali Motahari and BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army dropped tens of The assault on Mosul, the last city still under on Mosul. Reflecting the authorities’ concerns to 10 years in prison. Mohammadi, 44, has several female MPs. Mohammadi, who thousands of leaflets over Mosul before dawn control of the ultra-hardline Islamic State in Iraq, over a mass exodus that would complicate the campaigned against the death penalty was also spokeswoman for Iran’s Centre yesterday, warning residents an offensive to could begin this month with the support of a offensive, the leaflets told residents “to stay at and was awarded the City of Paris medal for Human Rights Defenders, went on recapture the city from Islamic State was in its US-led coalition, according to Iraqi government home and not to believe rumours spread by earlier this year for her work on women’s hunger strike in June after being denied final stages of preparation, according to a mili- and military officials. Islamic State fighters are Daesh” to cause panic, referring to Islamic State rights. phone contact with her children, who live tary statement in Baghdad. The leaflets carried dug in and are expected to fight hard. They have by its Arabic acronym. With a pre-war population Arrested in May last year, the mother- with their father in France. The authorities several messages, one of them assuring the pop- forced civilians to stay in harm’s way during pre- of around 2 million, Mosul is around 4-5 times of-two was sentenced in April to a total of relented after 20 days of the hunger strike. ulation that advancing army units and air strikes vious battles to defend territory. Russian the size of any other city recaptured so far from 16 years in prison on various charges, Under a law passed last year, she should “will not target civilians” and another telling President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he the militants, who swept through northern Iraq including “forming and managing an ille- only serve the sentence linked to the most them to avoid known locations of Islamic State hoped the United States and its allies would do in 2014 and also hold a swathe of Syria. gal group”. In the letter published by important charge-in this case 10 years for militants. their best to avoid civilian casualties in an attack The UN last week said it was bracing for the Iranian media yesterday, the lawmakers forming the “illegal group” Legam which world’s biggest and most complex humanitarian call on Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, the head pressed for an end to capital punishment. effort in the battle for the city, which could make of the judiciary, “to apply the clemency Amnesty International says Iran executed up to 1 million people homeless and see civil- and mercy of the Islamic republic” and 977 people last year, mostly on drug traf- ians used as human shields or even gassed. reunite her with her children. They also ficking charges. —AFP “Keep calm and tell your children that it is only a game or thunder before the rain,” a leaflet said. “Women should not scream or shout, to pre- serve the children’s spirit.” “If you see an army Jordanians charged with unit, stay at least 25 meters away and avoid any sudden movements,” another said. killing sisters for ‘honor’ Iraq earlier this month launched a radio sta- tion to help Mosul residents stay safe during AMMAN: Two Jordanian brothers were ily.” They shot the younger sister twice and the the offensive. The radio is broadcasting from charged with murdering their two sisters in older one five times, including once to the Qayyara, a town 60 kilometers south of Mosul, apparent “honor killings”, a court official said head, the official said. The younger sister’s where the army is massing forces ahead of the yesterday. The men, aged 22 and 24, were husband, who informed the brothers where offensive. Qayyara has also an airfield that will charged with murdering their sisters on the women were, was also arrested. “The pub- be used as a hub by the US-led coalition to Thursday evening in Naur, 20 kilometers lic prosecutor charged all three of the arrested support the offensive in which Kurdish southwest of Jordan’s capital Amman. The men with murder,” said the official. Another Peshmerga and Sunni tribal fighters are official, who asked to remain anonymous, source familiar with the investigation said the expected to take part. said the brothers claimed they had killed the two brothers had “claimed during questioning Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has not women, aged 20 and 34, “to defend the fami- that they had carried out the crime for honor”. yet made it clear whether Iranian-backed Shi’ite ly’s honor”. Murder is punishable by death by hanging in paramilitary units will participate in the offen- “The two brothers were looking for their Jordan, but courts usually commute or reduce sive on the mainly Sunni city. Local Sunni politi- older sister, who had been away from the sentences in so-called cases of “honor killings,” cians and regional Sunni-majority states includ- family home,” he said. “They found her in the particularly if the victim’s family urges lenien- ing Turkey and Saudi Arabia have cautioned that house of the younger sister, who had married cy. Jordan sees around 15-20 cases of so- BAGHDAD: Iraqi policemen inspect their weapons at the Qayyarah military base, about 60 letting Shi’ite militias take part in assault could without the knowledge or consent of the fam- called honor killings a year. — AFP kilometres (35 miles) south of Mosul. — AFP lead to sectarian bloodletting. — Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Stars rally for diversity in US-Mexico border show

SAN DIEGO: Top stars in Latin music reggaeton group Calle 13 appealed for a reference to the US seizure of Mexican The veteran Panamanian-born singer 2004 biopic in which Garcia Bernal stars pleaded Saturday for tolerance in a con- US voters to pick the “least worst” candi- land in the 1840s. While mostly consist- Miguel Bose encouraged viewers to vote as revolutionary Che Guevara. “I don’t cert from the US-Mexico border, taking date, in a clear reference to Democrat ing of Latin artists, the concert also on November 8. “We’re going to decide know where I’m from / My house is on a stand weeks ahead of a divisive US Hillary Clinton, and closed the concert drew Andra Day, the rising San Diego- if we want progress and dignity or if we the border / And borders move like presidential election. Thousands of peo- with the song “Latinoamerica” in a pow- born soul singer and protegee of Stevie want regression and chaos,” Bose said. flags,” the song goes in Spanish. ple turned out in the walkway between erful duet with the Mexican singer Lila Wonder. “For me as a Latino, I’m very worried and Surveys have shown Clinton enjoying San Diego and Tijuana for the show put Downs. I’ve come to tell you that you have a a major edge over Trump among together by Univision, the US Spanish- Downs, one of the most energetic ‘Why humanity has survived’ weapon, and that is your vote and our Hispanics, who make up 17 percent of language network with a strong follow- performers of the evening, appealed to Outside the music world, stars who voice,” he said. Other major acts includ- the US population and-unless turnout ing among Hispanics, and its English- Latinos to prove that the community is appeared included the Mexican actor ed Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro spikes this year-around 12 percent of language, youth-oriented unit Fusion. “stronger than hate.” Los Tigres del Gael Garcia Bernal, whose films include Sanz, Colombian stars Carlos Vives and the electorate. Wilmer Valderrama, the Called “RiseUp As One,” the concert Norte, a top act from the folksy “Babel” and the TV series “Mozart in the Juanes, and Mexican pop singer Natalia Miami-born actor of Colombian and was officially non-partisan but came Mexican-rooted genre of norteno Jungle.” “Migration is the reason that Lafourcade, who triumphed at last year’s Venezuelan descent best known for amid the heated rhetoric of Republican music, opened the concert poignantly we’re here on this planet and the reason Latin Grammys with five awards. “That ‘70s Show,” said that the United nominee Donald Trump, who has with the song “Somos Mas Americanos,” why humanity has survived,” Garcia And Uruguayan star Jorge Drexler States was defined by immigrants. described Mexican immigrants as or “We Are More American.” “I didn’t Bernal told interviewer Jorge Ramos, the sang “Al Otro Lado del Rio” (“The Other “My family and I are the living proof rapists and vowed to build a wall on the cross the border / The border crossed Univision anchor who has entered tense Side of the River”), his Oscar-winning that the American dream can come border. Rene Perez of the Puerto Rican me,” runs one of song’s lyrics in Spanish, exchanges in covering Trump. song from “The Motorcycle Diaries,” the true,” he said. — AFP Canada’s liberal champion PM Trudeau celebrates one year ‘People are connecting with his government and style’ OTTAWA: The phenomenon that is Justin Calgary. “His value set is also very much what “Canada is back!” Trudeau continues to soar one year after his people want of politicians at the moment,” he This has meant a shift toward multilateralism, landslide election. On the eve of this anniver- said, adding that Trudeau also has “what I call including more peacekeeping missions and sary, the Canadian prime minister’s approval rat- ‘the Hollywood factor.’ After a few minutes the increased foreign aid. “He is the lone liberal on ing reached 65 percent (compared with the pre- whole room revolves around him.” The downside the global stage,” said Conacher, citing Trudeau’s vious Tory administration, which peaked at 42 of celebrity culture in politics, observers agreed, promotion of “tolerance” and the challenge of percent), while his celebrity and policies have is that style trumps substance. “The more we talk growing anti-immigration and anti-globalization molded him into the new liberal standard-bearer about the way they look and their personal in Europe and the United States. Notably on the world stage. habits, the less we talk about public policy,” said Trudeau has reversed many of his predecessor’s Early on in his mandate, the son of former Alex Marland, a politics professor at policies. “So when he goes out and speaks on prime minister and liberal lion Pierre Trudeau Newfoundland’s Memorial University. the international scene, it has greater resonance staked out deficit spending and open border and newsworthiness because it comes after 10 policies, rejecting the divisive politics of his ‘Canada is back’ years of policies that are the complete opposite predecessor Stephen Harper. The former teacher The opposition is rudderless with both the (of those) under the Conservatives,” Conacher SAN FRANCISCO: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after and amateur boxer has earned praise for moves Tories and New Democrats due to pick new lead- said. speaking at a fundraiser at the Civic Center Auditorium. — AP like budgeting billions in spending to bolster a ers next year. As the government makes good Some argue that the current competition to fragile economy, promoting feminism and hand- Emails show a concern over ing out parkas to Syrian refugees-bucking the rise globally of the ultra-right. Clinton’s Wall Street speech His fans include United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, US President Barack Obama and IMF Managing Director Christine WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton’s campaign day Americans,’ scoring twice as high as the Lagarde. Trudeau’s impressive rise-defeating a asked former President Bill Clinton to can- general election electorate. ... This is a very sitting government with a third-placed party-is cel a speech to a Wall Street investment big deal in my view.” largely attributed to his outreach to Millennials. firm last year because of concerns that the He has tapped into a generational shift in values Clintons might appear to be too cozy with ‘A cool down period’ and the way people increasingly use social Wall Street just as the former secretary of Clinton’s longtime aide, Huma Abedin, media to communicate, while using his famous state was about to announce her White assured Mook the next day that Clinton name to his advantage. House bid, newly released emails show. was fine with canceling the speech, espe- “He has very strategically promoted his and Clinton aides say in hacked emails released cially if Bill Clinton agreed. The candidate his spouse’s celebrity, knowing that you reach a Friday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks “just needed a cool down period,” Abedin broader number of voters when you do that,” that Hillary Clinton did not want her hus- wrote. The emails were among thousands said Duff Conacher, co-founder of advocacy band to cancel the speech, but after a “cool published this week by WikiLeaks, which group Democracy Watch. “And they will contin- down period” was eventually convinced has been releasing a series of emails ue to do that because people who don’t pay a that canceling was the right step. hacked from the accounts of Clinton cam- lot of attention to politics, if they do vote, will Campaign manager Robby Mook said paign chairman John Podesta. make decisions based on who they like.” he realized canceling the lucrative speech US intelligence officials last week would disappoint both Clintons but “it’s a blamed the Russian government for a Born to be liberal very consequential unforced error and series of breaches intended to influence Trudeau grew up in the spotlight under the could plague us in stories for months.” The the presidential election. The Russians deny wing of his father, who is considered the father Clintons’ paid speeches have been an issue involvement. Podesta’s hacked messages of modern Canada. He is comfortable jumping throughout the campaign, particularly offer insight into the various strategies and OTTAWA: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (L) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into crowds to glad-hand and pose for selfies. Hillary Clinton’s private speeches to Wall responses considered by those close to walk down the hall of honor on Parliament Hill. — AFP Using social media, he reaches out directly to Street firms. Hillary Clinton earned about Clinton as they grappled with pitfalls in her citizens at home and abroad. Meanwhile, the on more of its 300-plus campaign promises, be the world’s leading liberal voice is lackluster. $1.5 million in speaking fees before launch- bid for the Democratic presidential nomi- good looks of Trudeau and his family-wife which may require compromises, some backers “It’s difficult to find Francois Hollande very ing her presidential campaign, while Bill nation, including the 2009 decision to use a Sophie, a former TV host, and their three young will inevitably be disappointed by the outcomes. inspiring, or (Mariano) Rajoy Brey in Spain, or Clinton reaped more than $5 million from private email server while serving as secre- children-have been splashed across the pages So far, Trudeau has championed the landmark Theresa May or even Hillary Clinton. Obama is banking, tech and other corporate inter- tary of state. In a separate email, Clinton of fashion magazines and newspapers, and Paris climate accord, aboriginal reconciliation, on his way out and people soon won’t be able to ests, according to financial documents filed aides discussed how to explain her 2001 even a comic book. feminism, and is expected to make Canada the name an inspiring leader on the world scene at by Hillary Clinton. support for an overhaul of the nation’s “People are connecting with this government first G7 nation to legalize marijuana in 2017. He this moment,” said Forest. “So the world needs The campaign has never released tran- bankruptcy system. Sanders was citing past and its style,” said PG Forest, director of the also exploded on the world stage, following the Trudeau to be a strong liberal voice and a coun- scripts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches, but the criticism by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., School of Public Policy at the University of previous administration’s retreat, declaring: terbalance to the rising right.” — AFP hacked emails did reveal excerpts flagged as evidence of Clinton’s favoritism to Wall by her advisers as potentially concerning. Street. Clinton defended the vote in a TV In the excerpts, Clinton talked about interview earlier this year, saying she pur- dreaming of “open trade and open borders” sued language to ensure women received UN chief urges against ‘aid in the Western Hemisphere. She also says child support if a spouse went into bank- politicians sometimes need to have “both a ruptcy. In a Feb. 7 email, adviser Ann public and a private position” on issues. Bill O’Leary noted that Clinton had overstated Clinton was scheduled to speak to Morgan her case: “She said women groups were all fatigue’ in disaster hit Haiti Stanley executives in April 2015, a few days pressuring her to vote for it. Evidence does after his wife was set to launch her bid for not support that statement.” PORT-AU-PRINCE: UN Secretary General Ban Ki- said during a joint press conference with interim need concrete actions to mitigate the damage president. Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri moon voiced distress Saturday at the “absolute president Jocelerme Privert. from the next hurricanes that have not hit yet,” “That’s begging for a bad rollout,” Mook said Friday that the campaign has taken devastation” caused by a deadly hurricane in At least 546 people were killed, and more Privert said. Earlier, Ban visited Les Cayes, one of wrote in a March 11, 2015, email. In a later unspecified precautions to secure its Haiti, and disappointment at scant emergency than 175,000 people have lost their homes. Ban the worst affected by Hurricane Matthew when email, Mook says he feels “very strongly emails. Asked whether officials were con- aid reaching the struggling nation. “I am disap- said Monday that a “massive response” was it crashed ashore on October 4, packing winds of that doing the speech is a mistake” with sidering releasing all of Podesta’s emails at pointed by the response of the international needed to cope with the destruction, with 1.4 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour. serious potential consequences for Hillary once, Palmieri said, “That is what the community. I sincerely hope and I urge the million people in need of urgent assistance after “I was very, very sad when we saw the com- Clinton’s campaign. “People would (right- Russians would like us to do and we are not major donors to lend their helpful hand,” Ban towns and villages were almost wiped off the plete devastation. But people the world over fully) ask how we let it happen.” Hillary going to do that.” Emails released Friday said at Port-au-Prince airport following a heli- map. The United Nations has launched a flash stand with you,” the UN chief said, speaking in Clinton was scheduled to campaign in also show that Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, copter overflight of the hard-hit southern appeal for $120 million to help Haiti, the poorest French. “The United Nations stands by your side. Iowa, “where caucus goers have a sharply used a second alias to communicate with regions. country in the Western Hemisphere, cope with We will mobilize all resources to help you.” The more negative view of Wall Street than the her mother’s campaign: Anna James. Haiti is only just emerging from the devastat- its worst humanitarian crisis since a devastating streets have been cleaned. The branches and rest of the electorate,” Mook wrote. “Wall Chelsea Clinton also used the alias Diane ing aftermath of a January 2010 earthquake that 2010 earthquake. But so far, only about 12 per- tree trunks form massive heaps on the side- Street ranks first for Iowans among a list of Reynolds, according to emails previously killed more than 200,000 people. The interna- cent of the needed funds has been raised to walks. Businesses have reopened. institutions that ‘take advantage of every made public. —AP tional aid that poured in at the time, poorly coor- help stave off famine and serious health crises, Ban was warmly received at Philippe Guerrier dinated, became a major fiasco, with only a frac- including cholera. high school, where more than 500 people are tion of the funds reaching the victims of the still huddled. He spoke with a young man who catastrophe. “I know there is some fatigue from ‘Very, very sad’ was wounded, before telling the displaced: Koch brothers are focusing certain countries, but the current situation, the Privert, the interim leader, called for long- “kembe fem” in Creole (“hang in there”). “We current disaster that hit this country through term support from allies. “There will always be have been told to leave because school has to on GOP senate, not trump Hurricane Matthew is beyond description,” Ban hurricanes, there will always be catastrophes. We start again, but we don’t have anywhere to go,” FAIRLESS HILLS: To the Republicans in spend about $250 million on policy and said Aivi Jean-Bar. “They bring us a bit to eat and the red “Can’t Afford Katie” T-shirts, it’s as if politics in the two years leading to drink, but that’s not what we need. What we Donald Trump doesn’t even exist. These Election Day. The brothers and many of want to know is where we can go to sleep,” the activists have been sprinting through their wealthy donor friends who fund the 36-year-old woman sheltering at the school with Pennsylvania neighborhoods, talking to political and policy groups known as the her four children told AFP. people about how bad Democrat Katie Koch network have no interest in backing McGinty would be as a U.S. senator. Here Trump. In a television interview in April, Cholera on the rise to help save Republican Sen. Pat Toomey - Charles Koch called Clinton and Trump In addition to the destruction of countless and, more broadly, the party’s control of “terrible role models” and trashed Trump’s homes and farms, Haitians in the worst-affected the Senate - are employees and volun- “monstrous” proposal for a temporary ban areas are dealing with a lack of potable water, teers for Americans for Prosperity, the of foreign Muslims entering the US. which is contributing to the spread of disease. best-known group financed by conserva- In the months since, while many Haiti has been plagued for half a dozen years by tive billionaires Charles and David Koch. Republicans flipped back and forth as to cholera, which has claimed close to 10,000 lives, Similar scenes are playing out in North whether to support their nominee, the despite extensive efforts to combat it Carolina, Florida and Ohio. Kochs never considered engaging in a The malady was brought to Haiti by UN In addition to having nail-biting Senate Trump-Clinton match, even when some peacekeepers from Nepal, who were helping in races this year, those four states are some donors pressed them at a conference in the aftermath of the earthquake. Officials have of the most important battlegrounds in August. Instead, Koch groups have spent seen evidence of a new spike in cholera cases, the presidential race. Yet the Koch activists about $42 million on TV, radio and digital which prompted the World Health Organization interacting with millions of people who advertising in Senate races. As of this last week to announce it was sending an addi- could be Trump’s most crucial voters aren’t month, they have abandoned paid media tional one million doses of vaccine to Haiti. The supposed to utter a word about him or altogether, preserving their money for UN Security Council, meanwhile, agreed earlier Hillary Clinton, a Democrat they’d been what is a much more critical hole to plug: this week to extend MINUSTAH’s stay until April preparing for years to attack. Four years door-to-door advocacy. Trump’s campaign of next year to help combat the myriad crises in after spending heavily in a futile effort to has eschewed traditional political grunt the aftermath of Matthew. The hurricane also prevent President Barack Obama’s second work, leaving that to overworked national prompted election officials to push back already term, the Kochs have pushed all of their and state Republican parties, which must delayed presidential and legislative elections resources down ballot. And their advocate for GOP candidates from Trump until November 20. The elections are a do-over resources are ample: They’re on track to down to the local council members. — AFP LES CAYES: Members of an evangelic church attend church damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in after an earlier vote had to be annulled because the commune of Roche-a-Bateaux. — AFP of violence and massive fraud. — AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

The West and Russia clash in election in tiny Montenegro

PODGORICA: Montenegrins voted yesterday in a region. The scenic country of 650,000 people, expectation is that after this election Montenegro Djukanovic of corruption, nepotism and economic parliamentary election that could determine squeezed between the Adriatic Sea and towering will steadily and dynamically move toward its mismanagement and say he is trying to scare voters whether the small Balkan state continues on its mountains, is deeply divided among those who European and Euro-Atlantic goals,” he said. by suggesting that chaos will prevail if he loses. Western course or turns back to traditional ally favor and those who oppose Western integration. Predominantly Orthodox Christian like Russia, “The only chaos will be within Djukanovic’s cabinet,” Russia. The vote pitted the long-ruling Democratic Pre-election polls have predicted the closest race Montenegro was Moscow’s historical ally. But after opposition Democratic Front leader Andrija Mandic Party of Socialists, led by Prime Minister Milo since Montenegro gained independence from splitting with Serbia in a 2006 referendum, said after he voted yesterday. “I have no doubt that Djukanovic, against a cluster of pro-Russian and much larger Serbia a decade ago. Montenegro took a strong turn toward Western the opposition will show its strength and that the pro-Serbian opposition groups that staunchly Before the vote, Djukanovic said the ballot for integrations. Russia strongly opposes the expansion Democratic Front will become future framework of oppose the government’s pro-Western policies, the 81-seat parliament will decide whether of NATO in European ex-communist countries it the Montenegro government,” he said. “Today is the especially its NATO bid. Montenegro continues on a Western course or considers part of its “strategic interests.” Wary of last day of Djukanovic’s 27-year rule.” There are fears The outcome could jeopardize NATO and becomes “a Russian colony.” He is facing the tough- Russian influence in the still-volatile region, which that violence could erupt on the streets of European Union enlargement in southeastern est challenge yet to his quarter-century rule. was engulfed in bloody civil wars in the 1990s, the Podgorica, the capital, between opposition and Europe and could prove decisive in the Kremlin’s Yesterday, Djukanovic said he expects to win and West wants Montenegro in NATO which invited the government supporters after the results are attempts to regain influence in the strategic Balkans hold talks on a new coalition government. “My state to join. Opposition leaders have accused announced. — AP

Hungary’s embattled journalists reeling after paper shut down BUDAPEST: Hungarian journalist Gabor mandatory migrant relocation plan. Bordas thought he had seen it all. Over the The 53-year-old premier’s crusade to past two years he had walked away from restrict critical voices in the media began two top online news sites in protest over soon after he won a supermajority at the political interference. But with no advance 2010 election. A media regulator was set warning given to its staff of 90, Bordas up to monitor the “balance” of the report- called the sudden shutdown last week of ing, while state television and radio were Hungary’s top-selling political daily overhauled and exhibit a pro-government Nepszabadsag the most “brutal” of all his bias, for example 95 percent of their airtime experiences. “It was humiliating and on the recent referendum endorsed the aggressive,” he told AFP in a Budapest cafe, government’s position according to the still shaken by the closure. research group Democracy Reporting It treated “the readers and the public as International. if they were stupid,” he added. His travails in Advertising by state-owned companies three different news outlets reflect the has been syphoned from outlets not toeing upheaval in Hungarian media since Prime the government line like Nepszabadsag Minister Viktor Orban began a strongarm and the broadcaster Klubradio. Then in realignment of the sector since taking pow- 2015, Orban was forced, partly due to EU er in 2010. Nepszabadsag’s publisher since criticism, to withdraw a tough tax on adver- 2014 Mediaworks, owned by Austrian mag- tisements seen as targeting German media nate Heinrich Pecina, has said the paper’s giant Bertelsmann’s RTL television channel financial losses over the last decade were whose popular news programs were often behind the drastic move. And in extracts of critical of the Hungarian leader. an interview published online on Saturday Pecina defended the decision saying it had ‘Constant fear in newsrooms’ been governed by economics not politics. As independent media have gradually “There is a mutual respect between me been bought by government-friendly oli- and Viktor Orban, but no form of depend- garchs, a fate widely expected for ence,” he told the Austrian weekly Profil. Nepszabadsag too, American journalist and But for Borbas and others the explanation longtime Budapest resident Tom Popper doesn’t fit. “If you want to improve a news- calls the internet “the last free frontier”. “But GOA: (From left) Brazilian President Michel Temer, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi paper why shut it down, damage the the government has more and more con- Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma pose for a group photo during the BRICS Summit. — AFP brand, delete the online archive, and lose trol there too, look at Origo now,” Popper your subscribers,” he told AFP. told AFP, citing the portal which now strict- On October 8, the 38-year-old editor in ly follows a pro-Orban editorial line. Modi calls Pakistan ‘mother-ship charge of the paper’s website, noticed that Until last month Popper was editor-in- the site was down but presumed it was a chief at the English-language Budapest technical fault. Answering the doorbell Business Journal but resigned after he said minutes later, he was handed a letter from he was “ordered” by the publishers to avoid of terrorism’ at BRCIS summit Mediaworks informing him of the paper’s politics. “Fidesz can now expect criticism of suspension. It also stated that all email its government to drop by about 1,200 PM escalates diplomatic drive to isolate Pakistan accounts had been blocked and that staff words a month,” Popper wrote afterwards were not permitted to enter the premises. on a media watchdog website, accusing GOA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi comments were not, however, reflected in a ture from India’s tradition of strategic restraint, Bordas only joined Nepszabadsag in July the party of “bullying tactics and intimida- branded Pakistan a “mother-ship of terrorism” at closing statement he read out to reporters. and New Delhi has won expressions of support after quitting up-and-coming news site tion”. “There is a constant fear in news- a summit of the BRICS nations yesterday, testing “We were unanimous in recognizing the from both the West and Russia over the army VS.hu when it emerged that it was financed rooms that if you tick someone off there the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight threat that terrorism, extremism and radicaliza- base attack. Yet China, a longstanding ally of by a foundation close to a key Orban ally. will be trouble,” he told AFP. member China is a close ally of India’s arch-rival. tion presents, not just to the regional and global Pakistan that plans to build a $46 billion export “How could I send journalists to press con- Although Nepszabadsag-meaning Modi’s remarks to a meeting of leaders from the peace, stability and prosperity,” he said. “But, also corridor to the Arabian Sea coast, has been cau- ferences to hold a minister to account “Freedom of the People”-was set up by the BRICS- which include Brazil, Russia, China and to our society, our way of life and humanity as a tious in its comments. Modi and President Xi knowing how we were funded,” he said. In Communist Party in the aftermath of South Africa- escalated his diplomatic drive to whole.” No immediate reaction was available Jinping held a bilateral meeting on Saturday 2014, at the leading news portal Origo.hu, Hungary’s failed anti-Soviet uprising in isolate Pakistan, which India accuses of sponsor- from Pakistan’s foreign ministry. Modi’s postur- evening and accounts of their conversation Bordas had joined a staff walkout when 1956, in recent years it had gained a repu- ing cross-border terrorism. ing overshadowed the gathering of a group that emerging from both sides pointed to clear dif- their editor was sacked soon after it pub- tation for quality reporting. Expressions of Tensions between the nuclear-armed neigh- was set up to boost economic cooperation, and ferences of opinion. lished articles investigating a senior minis- solidarity for the paper even came from bors have been running high since a Sept. 18 made it possible for the nationalist leader to In one remark reported by the state Xinhua ter’s travel expenses. moderate rightwing media outlets, rare attack on an army base in Kashmir, near the dis- present himself at home as tough on national news agency, Xi said that China and India should non-partisan gestures in Hungary’s bitterly puted frontier with Pakistan, killed 19 Indian sol- security. “support each other in participating in regional ‘Political challenge’ to Orban divided political landscape. diers in the worst such assault in 14 years. India “Modi is aware that such language wouldn’t affairs and enhance cooperation within multilat- Orban’s ruling right-wing Fidesz party While its staff frantically seek ways to later said it had carried out retaliatory “surgical get the consensus necessary to make it into the eral frameworks”. The dispatch went on to refer to called the Mediaworks move “a rational continue publishing, even visiting Vienna strikes” across the de facto border that inflicted final communiquÈ. Including it in his speech the South Asian Association for Regional economic decision”, but many were uncon- on Friday to demand answers at the head- significant casualties. Pakistan denied any role in ensures it gets wide circulation anyway,” said Cooperation (SAARC). This grouping includes vinced. “Nepszabadsag is a political chal- quarters of Pecina’s firm, there’s a press the attack on the Uri army base, and said the South Asia expert Shashank Joshi. The summit Pakistan, which was to have hosted a summit in lenge to the power of Orban and everyone release still on the Mediaworks website. Indian operation had not even happened, dis- achievements were incremental, and included November that collapsed after India and other knows that,” its deputy editor-in-chief Dated July 5 it announces the arrival of missing it as typical cross-border firing. establishing an agricultural research institute members pulled out. The final summit declaration Marton Gergely told foreign reporters last Gabor Bordas as part of Nepszabadsag’s “In our own region, terrorism poses a grave and speeding up work on creating a joint credit repeated earlier condemnations of “terrorism in week. As the leading opposition paper, “innovation strategy leading up to 2020”. By threat to peace, security and development,” ratings agency. Also on yesterday’s program was all its forms” and devoted several paragraphs to Nepszabadsag had several news scoops now though Bordas says he has learned a Modi said in remarks to BRICS leaders who met an outreach session with leaders from a little- joint effort to fight terrorism. It did not, however, that embarrassed officials before the recent hard lesson: “You cannot plan for the long- at a resort hotel in the western state of Goa. known group of countries from the Bay of level any blame over the tensions between India referendum that Orban called to “send a No term in Hungarian media, anything can “Tragically, the mother-ship of terrorism is a Bengal region whose key attribute, from India’s and Pakistan. “So far, we haven’t seen any indica- message” to the European Union over its happen at anytime”. — AFP country in India’s neighborhood,” the 66-year-old point of view, is that Pakistan is not a member. tion at all that China is softening its public sup- prime minister said, without directly naming port for Pakistan. India did not expect differently,” Pakistan, in a series of tweets of his remarks Lack of strategic restraint said Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal issued by the foreign ministry. Modi’s hostile Modi’s hard line on Pakistan marks a depar- United Services Institute in London. — Reuters Afghanistan’s Helmand a quicksand of instability

LASHKAR GAH: Bruised and fright- flee to besieged capital Lashkar Gah, killed, everyone was running for how a few hundred Taleban fighters ened, three-year-old Fatima flinches sparking a humanitarian crisis as the their lives,” he told AFP at Lashkar took swathes of Helmand from tens as the thunderous boom of Taleban city-one of the last government- Gah’s Italian-run Emergency hospi- of thousands of Western-trained rockets rolls across the capital of held enclaves-risks falling to the tal, as bursts of rocket fire echo out- army and police still beggars belief, Helmand, an opium-ravaged Taleban’s repeated ferocious side. The packed surgical centre last highlighting the failures of the US province that epitomizes the assaults. Bearing the brunt of the month received 216 war-wounded invasion of October 7, 2001, biggest failure of the 15-year US-led Taleban upsurge are ordinary civil- over a two-week period, the highest observers say. “Helmand most of all war in Afghanistan. For years ians such as Bismillah, who lost number ever. “Bullet, mine, shrapnel, epitomises not a military failure but Helmand was the centerpiece of the everything when an artillery shell bullet, amputation,” said Vesna a political failure,” said Stephen Grey, Western military intervention in landed on his house in the volatile Nestorovic, Emergency’s medical author of “Operation Snakebite”, a Afghanistan only for it to slip deeper district of Nad Ali. coordinator, pointing out injuries book about Western military into a quagmire of instability, with “My house was on the frontline,” from bed to bed. “And there are lots deployment in Helmand. “By failing EDISON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lights a diya before deliv- almost the entire southern province said the father-of-eight, holding his of children.” Some 5,000 war-dis- to understand the province’s tribal ering remarks to the Republican Hindu Coalition. — AP teetering on the verge of collapse. daughter Fatima in his arms, a plas- placed families have streamed into dynamics, we consistently ended up Intensified fighting has killed ter cast on her tiny leg. “Cattle were Lashkar Gah in recent months, fleeing fighting with the wrong side, allying hundreds and forced thousands to getting shot, humans were getting in pickup trucks with jerry cans, mat- ourselves with interests regarded Trump promises a close tresses, firewood and farm animals. with contempt by many ordinary “My children have not eaten bread for Helmandis.” relationship with India two months,” said one woman in a The rapid fall of districts has sky-blue burqa begging for assistance raised concerns about the capacity EDISON, New Jersey: Donald Trump says crowd after participating in a traditional outside a relief agency’s office. The of Afghan forces, beset by unprece- that, if he’s elected to the White House, Diya oil lamp lighting for good luck. desperate new arrivals, many uproot- dented casualties and blamed for there won’t be any relationship more Trump said that if he’s elected, the ed from once-peaceful districts, are corruption, desertion and “ghost sol- important to the US than its relationship Indian and Hindu communities will have “a sheltering in the mud-walled homes diers” who do not exist on the pay- with India. Trump says at a Republican true friend” in the White House. He also of locals-often dozens to a house. roll but whose salaries are usurped Hindu Coalition fundraiser Saturday night talked about several projects his company Lashkar Gah’s burial sites also are ever by fraudulent commanders. Fears that “under a Trump admiration we are has been involved with in the country. expanding, with graves now that ammunition is being sold to the going to become even better friends.” He Trump, who usually portrays himself as an encroaching onto thoroughfares. Taleban has prompted the govern- adds: “In fact, I’ll take the word ‘even’ out “American First” candidate, also spoke ment to issue a new edict: new because we are going to be best friends. about the two countries’ shared goals ‘Political failure’ ammunition will be issued only There won’t be any relationship more when it comes to fighting terrorism and Helmand, a mosaic of moun- upon receipt of expended bullets. important to us.” mentioned the 2008 bombings in Mumbai. tain-fringed flatlands criss-crossed Helmand Governor Hayatullah Trump also praises Indian Prime Minister He called Mumbai “a place that l love” and by the Helmand river, is the heart of Hayat has sought to downplay fears Narendra Modi as a “great man” and says he “a place that I understand.” the multi-billion dollar opium trade of the fall of Lashkar Gah. He has looks forward to deepening diplomatic and Trump did not, however, mention a top and long a coveted prize by the pulled hundreds of troops from far- military ties with India. The event features issue for the Indian community: H-1B visas Taleban. The province, Afghanistan’s flung districts in a controversial colorful performances by popular for skilled foreign workers. He has sent HELMAND PROVINCE: In this photograph taken on October 6, 2016, largest, also offers safe exit routes to “strategic retreat”, redeploying them Bollywood singers and dancers. “I am a big mixed messages on the program, which Afghan patients wait for a medical consultation in a waiting room at the insurgents across the border to to bolster Lashkar Gah as the US fan of Hindu and I am a big fan of India. Big, critics complain takes jobs away from US Emergency hospital in Lashkar Gah. —AFP Pakistan or to neighboring Iran. But steps up air support. — AFP big fan,” Trump declared to the cheering citizens. — AP

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Typhoon kills 2, strands thousands in Philippines

MANILA: A powerful but fast-moving typhoon electricity poles, causing power outages and floods blew out of the northern Philippines yesterday after in the five provinces. “We have yet to receive the leaving at least two people dead and displacing complete details, but I think the situation is man- more than 15,000, though the region was spared a ageable,” said Ricardo Jalad, who heads the Office major disaster due in part to the storm’s speed. of Civil Defense. “Roofs of some houses were ripped Typhoon Sarika blew into Aurora province early off, there were fallen trees. Those are the damages yesterday and exited around midday after barreling we received so far, so it’s is not that serious.” rapidly through heavily populated agricultural Mayor Nelianto Bihasa of Baler, a popular surfing provinces, including landslide-prone mountainous town in Aurora, said strong winds ripped tin roofs regions, government forecasters said. off many houses and knocked down trees and elec- At 4 p.m., the storm was over the South China tricity posts, causing power outages and blocking Sea, about 260 kilometers off the Philippine coast, access roads to some villages. Coastal villagers were moving northwestward at 24 kilometers per hour. It warned early to move to safer areas, preventing had sustained winds of 130 kph and gusts of up to widespread casualties, he said. In the eastern 200 kph, according to the Philippines’ weather province of Catanduanes, a man drowned after agency. Despite its strength, the typhoon did not being swept by strong river currents and a farmer linger long enough to wreak havoc in regions along died after his head hit the ground amid fierce its path and the weather started to improve in winds, provincial safety officer provinces that it had struck, including Aurora. Still, Gerry Beo said, adding that three fishermen had the typhoon forced more than 15,700 villagers to not returned home from a fishing expedition and flee their homes in five northern provinces and take were reported missing. A month’s worth of rain fell refuge in 132 emergency shelters, according to dis- Friday as the typhoon approached from the Pacific, aster-response agencies. swelling rivers and creeks and flooding low-lying farming villages, Beo said, adding that most towns ‘Situation is manageable’ in the island province of about 260,000 people have Strong winds and rain knocked down trees and no electricity and spotty communications. — AP MANILA: A boy plays in a swollen creek under a bridge. — AFP

Duterte acknowledges he can’t concede sea claims to China

MANILA: The Philippine president before assuming the presidency in June, acknowledged Sunday that he can be has walked a tightrope in trying to mend impeached if he concedes his country’s ter- damaged relations with China and ritorial claims in the South China Sea in defending his country’s claims in the dis- talks with President Xi Jinping and other puted South China Sea. In July, an inter- Chinese leaders this week in Beijing. national arbitration tribunal ruled that President Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech China’s massive claims to the sea on his- before leaving for Brunei and China that torical grounds were not valid under a while he will not bargain the Philippines’ 1982 U.N. treaty, handing a landmark vic- territorial claims, “there will be no hard tory to the Philippines, which had filed a impositions” as he tries to renew his complaint against Beijing under Duterte’s nation’s strained friendship with China and predecessor. intensify two-way trade and investment. The tribunal in The Hague specifically Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice ruled that China has violated the rights of Antonio Carpio, who has done extensive Filipino fishermen, who have been blocked studies on the territorial conflict, warned by the Chinese coast guard from fishing in last week that conceding the Philippines’ the disputed Scarborough Shoal, off the sovereign rights in the disputed waters is a northwest Philippines. “The international ground for the president’s impeachment. decision will be taken up,” Duterte said. But Carpio said that China may ask the Duterte he added without elaborating that “there administration to acknowledge Chinese will be no hard impositions.” When the tri- sovereignty in contested South China Sea bunal’s July 12 decision was announced, territories before agreeing to any business Duterte did not make any celebratory deals or joint exploration of potential sea remarks that he said could offend China, resources. Asked to react to Carpio’s warn- which has ignored the decision as a sham ing, Duterte said he agreed with him. and campaigned to discourage govern- “He is correct. I would be impeached,” ments from recognizing the ruling. Duterte the president said at a news conference at has not pressed the Chinese government the international airport in the southern to comply with the decision. BANGKOK: A Buddhist monk walks past a large crowd clad in black gathered to pray for the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej outside the city of Davao before embarking on his two- Labeling himself a left-wing politician, Grand Palace. — AFP nation trip. “I said we cannot barter which is Duterte has announced step to scale back not ours (or what) belongs to the Filipino the Philippines’ military engagements with people,” said Duterte, who is a lawyer and the US, including his opposition to joint Late Thai king’s confidant once served as a government prosecutor. “I patrols with the US Navy in the South cannot be the sole authorized agent, for China Sea and joint combat exercises with that is not allowed under the constitution.” American forces. He has lashed out at President Barack Obama for criticizing his confirmed temp regent Damaged relations deadly anti-drug campaign, but has Duterte, who was Davao’s mayor reached out to China and Russia. — AP No date has been set for cremation

BANGKOK: A 96-year-old confidant of late King implores everyone to help each other get which to unite the country’s factionalized pop- Bhumibol Adulyadej has been formally con- through the grief first before thinking of his ulation,” said Tom Pepinsky, a Southeast Asia firmed as the regent to manage the throne in ascension to the throne, Prayuth said. “Once expert at Cornell University. For ordinary Thais, the place of the crown prince and heir apparent, merit-making and the cremation has passed succession was not particularly top on their but it wasn’t clear how long the caretaker ...then it should be the right time to proceed. minds for now as they were consumed by grief arrangement would last. In a speech late This procedure should not impact the work at the loss of a man many saw as their father Saturday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said plan or any steps,” he said. and a demigod. Tens of thousands of people that Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn invited are thronging at the palace complex to pay him and regent Prem Tinsulanonda for an audi- The unifying glue their last respects to a beloved monarch who ence to discuss the situation “as his royal high- No date has been set for the cremation, dominated the memories of generations of ness was deeply concerned for the Thai people which in royal families is usually months if not Thais. Authorities have allowed people to enter during this time of national bereavement.” years later. Officials have suggested it would be the complex for a limited time, and only to sign Prem heads the Privy Council, a body of at least a year. Buddhist funeral ceremonies have condolence books in another hall. advisers to the monarchy, and was the closest already begun at the Grand Palace complex in Bhumibol’s death after 70 years on the adviser of Bhumibol. He is also known to be Bangkok’s historic center where Bhumibol’s throne was a momentous event in Thailand, close to Bhumibol’s highly popular daughter body is kept in an ornate hall for the royal family where the monarch has been glorified as an Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Vajiralongkorn, who members to pay respects. The hall will be anchor for a fractious society that for decades should have ascended the throne, has asked for opened to the public on Oct 28. Analysts say the has been turned on its head by frequent coups. more time to grieve along with the nation question of succession is important because the Over the past 10 years, Thailand has suffered before taking over the monarchy. The constitu- late king had been the unifying glue that had particularly intense political turmoil pitting tion dictates that the Privy Council head be the held Thailand’s often fractious politics together, arch-royalists against those seeking a redistribu- PASAY CITY: In this Thursday, Oct 13, 2016, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo regent in such a situation. and diffused tensions during crises when the tion of economic and political power, allied with Duterte gestures during his address to a Filipino business sector. — AP “His Highness’s only wish is to not let the dominant military was pitted against the civil Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist prime minister people experience confusion or worry about society. While the institution of monarchy is gen- ousted in a 2006 coup. But in recent years, the service of the land or even the ascension to erally revered and respected in Thailand, it is Bhumibol had suffered from a variety of illness- the throne because this issue has the constitu- more so because of Bhumibol’s popularity that es and seemed far removed from the upheavals Woman charged tion, the royal laws and royal traditions to dic- no other royal member commands. of Thai politics, including the 2014 coup that tate it,” Prayuth said in his message broadcast “His death means that the Thai political sys- brought current prime minister, an army gener- on television. The 64-year-old crown prince tem must find an alternative focal point around al, to power. — AP with royal slur

BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday 88 — prompting a wave of grief across charged a woman with royal defamation the nation. US military detects failed after a mob demanded action over a Two other similar cases since the Facebook post allegedly smearing the king’s death-in which angry crowds “heir and regent”, as the country mourns urged punishment for alleged royal King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thailand has defamation on social media-have raised N Korean missile launch one of the world’s harshest lese majeste fears of mob action. Domestic and for- laws, with jail terms of up to 15 years for eign media outlets based in the country WASHINGTON: The US military said Saturday it as the UN Security Council is debating fresh sanc- much-hyped Musudan missile which North Korea each count of defaming or insulting the routinely self-censor to avoid falling foul had detected an unsuccessful launch by North tions on Pyongyang following its fifth nuclear test has now test-fired seven times-with one partial king, queen, heir or regent. The woman, of the broadly worded law, while social Korea of a powerful medium-range missile capa- in September. success. Pentagon spokesman Gary Ross con- who has not been named, was accused of opprobrium follows those perceived to ble of hitting US bases as far away as Guam. UN The US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) demned what he called a clear violation of UN posting a derogatory statement on have overstepped the mark. resolutions prohibit North Korea from using bal- said the launch, detected just after midday resolutions and urged Pyongyang to refrain from Facebook on Friday, according to Thewes Critics say the law-known as ‘112’ after listic missile technology, and this latest test came Saturday Korea time, was believed to be of a any further actions that might raise already ele- Pleumsud of Bo Pud police in the south- its criminal code-has encouraged witch vated tensions on the Korean peninsula. eastern island of Koh Samui. hunts by the public, with police and Seoul’s defense ministry also confirmed the “She did not post against the late courts obliged to investigate all accusa- failed launch, held near an air base in the north- King-it involved the heir and the regent,” tions. The law prevents all but the most western city of Kusong in North Korea at 1203 he said, referring to Crown Prince Maha cursory public discussion of Thailand’s Pyongyang time (0333 GMT). “This provocation Vajiralongkorn, and the 96-year-old Prem monarchy, or reporting or debate on the only serves to increase the international com- Tinsulanonda who in a surprise move issue. Cases have surged since royalist munity’s resolve to counter (North Korea’s) pro- became temporary regent on Friday. He generals ousted a civilian government hibited activities,” said Pentagon spokesman declined to give further details since from power in 2014. Gary Ross. “We remain prepared to defend our- doing so could violate the catch-all law. selves and our allies from any attack or provoca- Prem, a former prime minister and Reporting insults tion,” Ross added. Bhumibol’s Privy Council head, will act as Thailand’s main mobile telecoms oper- regent until the Crown Prince formally ators instructed customers yesterday to Pacific threat ascends the throne. report “inappropriate content about the Such launches are usually reported within An angry mob descended on Bo Pud royal institution”, as the government hours or even minutes by the South Korean and US police station yesterday demanding the steps up scrutiny for material deemed militaries, but Seoul’s defense ministry refused to woman be charged. The crowd hurled insulting to the monarchy. King Bhumibol say why the announcement came so long after the insults at the woman, according to videos Adulyadej died on Thursday after seven event. First unveiled as an indigenous missile at a widely shared on Facebook. Police said decades on the throne. His son, Crown military parade in Pyongyang in October 2010, the she was charged and then publicly pros- Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, is due to The US Navy’s USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier (CVN-76) arrives at the southeastern port city of Musudan has a theoretical range of anywhere trated herself in apology before a portrait become the next king after a period of Busan on October 16, 2016 after finishing a joint naval exercise with South Korean forces. — AFP between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometers. — AFP of the king, who died on Thursday aged mourning. — Agencies NEWS MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

At Guantanamo, wheels of justice barely... Continued from Page 1 vowed to close the prison. He approved legislation that included barring the use of evidence obtained under tor- jury convicted him for his role in Al-Qaeda bombings ture. The effort to close Guantanamo stalled amid opposi- in East Africa. He is serving a life sentence. tion from Congress, with Republicans saying many of the Just six Guantanamo cases have resulted in convictions prisoners are too dangerous to release. so far, with two guilty verdicts being appealed, according John Yoo, who helped draft the Bush administration’s to the military commissions’ website. In one appeals case, legal strategy after 9/11, said the Guantanamo courts a federal court overturned two of the three convictions of were designed for plea bargaining to get suspects to Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, the suspected publicist for slain Al- cooperate with government intelligence agencies. The Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. An appeal decision is Supreme Court ruling “slowed the whole thing down, and pending on the third charge. it has become a risk-averse system that doesn’t want to Pentagon officials defended the pace of proceedings, make another mistake,” said Yoo, now a law professor at saying that it takes time to resolve many of the classified the University of California, Berkeley. documents submitted as evidence. “The Department of Government interference is also an issue. Sept 11 Defense is committed to fairness and transparency in the defense lawyers have found their meeting rooms bugged, military commissions proceedings,” Pentagon spokes- had mail with clients seized, and contend that the Federal woman Lieutenant Colonel Valerie Henderson said in an Bureau of Investigation has tried to infiltrate a defense email. team. Last year, a Sept 11 suspect at Guantanamo recog- President George W Bush signed the law creating the nized that a court interpreter had also worked at a Central tribunals on Oct 17, 2006, after the US Supreme Court Intelligence Agency prison where he was held. “Every struck down previous tribunals set up to try Al-Qaeda sus- issue that comes up is a new and novel issue that can take pects, ruling that they violated US military law and the days” to resolve, said Morris Davis, a former Air Force A Persian cat is seen during a cat show contest organized by the World Cat Federation (WCF) yesterday in Geneva Conventions. Obama took office in 2009 and colonel and the first Guantanamo prosecutor. — Reuters Istanbul.— AFP Rebels seize emblematic IS stronghold European lander starts descent to Mars... Continued from Page 1 ing on Saturday included key rebel backers Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, as well as regime supporters Iran Continued from Page 1 2003. The mini-lab - a disc about the size of a dustbin lid - Fighting continued meanwhile in the city of Aleppo, and Russia. But it did not produce a concrete plan to was finally spotted in Jan 2015 in a NASA image. Getting a where government troops have been waging a fierce restore the truce that collapsed amid bitter recrimina- and drill into it, in search of extraterrestrial life - past or lander on Mars “is a complex mission,” said Thierry Russian-backed offensive on rebels in the eastern quar- tions between Washington and Moscow. present. While any life is unlikely to be found on the barren, Blancquaert, Schiaparelli’s manager. ters. Clashes took place in Aleppo’s northern and south- Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said his radiation-blasted surface, scientists say traces of methane Craft must be built to survive a long trip from Earth, ern outskirts yesterday, as well as in the city center, country was “always ready to talk with everyone” on in Mars’ thin atmosphere may indicate something living then a high-speed, ultra-hot journey through Mars’ tenu- according to the Observatory. AFP’s correspondent in ways to end the conflict, and took a jab at France who underground - likely to be single-celled microbes, if that is ous, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. They require protec- Aleppo said there had been nearly non-stop air raids on he said was “not so involved” in peace efforts. Putin had the case. Mars has become a graveyard for many a mission tion against a heat of several thousand degrees Celsius the opposition-held half of the city since midnight. accused France of pushing for a UN proposal on Syria seeking to probe a planet that has captured the human heat generated by atmospheric friction, extreme braking The Observatory said at least four people were killed knowing Russia would veto it. Kerry is expected to meet imagination for millennia. Since the 1960s, more than half just above the surface, and a soft touchdown in terrain in raids on the city’s east yesterday. Rebel fire on gov- yesterday with his counterparts from Britain and France, of US, Russian and European attempts to land and operate where any jagged rocks or craters could spell doom. So ernment-controlled districts meanwhile left three peo- but hopes for a breakthrough have been dim. craft on the Martian surface have failed. far, only the United States has successfully operated ple dead and more than two dozen wounded according British foreign minister Boris Johnson is expected to The last time the European Space Agency (ESA) tried, rovers on Mars. After releasing its precious charge on to state news agency SANA. Fighting has surged in propose “no-bombing zones” for Syria - including the British-built Beagle 2 disappeared without a trace Sunday, the TGO was programmed to change course to Aleppo following the collapse last month of a ceasefire Aleppo - during the meeting, the Sunday Times report- after separating from the Mars Express mothership in Dec avoid crashing into Mars. — AFP brokered by the United States and Russia, raising deep ed. Quoting a source close to Johnson, the report said international concern. he would seek backing from Washington and others for Kerry flew to London yesterday to brief Washington’s a proposal to threaten strikes on Syrian military sites in Stage set for snap elections after Assembly... European allies after “brainstorming” talks in Lausanne retaliation for bombings of certain areas or facilities Continued from Page 1 for insulting HH the Amir and is due to complete his jail term with the main players in Syria’s conflict. The Swiss meet- such as hospitals. — AFP in April next year. The activists said that even the mere pres- financial and administrative violations. Other lawmakers ence of Barrak outside jail is threatening to the government had vowed to file more grillings against a number of other and members of the Assembly. Minimum salary for visit visas raised... ministers, which intensified political tension. The decision to The activists said on Twitter that the main achievements of raise petrol prices subjected lawmakers to tremendous popu- the Assembly were soaring prices, hiking petrol prices, failure Continued from Page 1 negative effects that might happen as a result. “[Rushing the lar anger that endangered MPs losing their credibility in the of development, raising electricity charges and other negative decision] could create confusion in the state’s economic and eyes of voters in any future election. issues. Activist and university professor Ahmad Al-Thayedi residency law to raise the salary requirement for depend- labor market fields, in addition to the effect a drastic reduc- After the election date is set, the interior ministry will invite said the dissolution is evidence that “Kuwait is experiencing a ent visas from KD 250 to KD 450, a move expected to cut the tion could have on Kuwait’s relations with other countries,” candidates to register for the polls. After yesterday’s dissolu- real political dilemma and the solution should be through dia- number of foreign families in the country. said the sources. tion, the only assemblies that completed their full four-year logue and reforming the political system and not through dis- The two most recent steps come as Kuwait scrambles for The Egyptian government last week urged Kuwait to retract terms since 1985 were the ones elected in 1992 and 1999. All solving the National Assembly”. solutions to address a demographic imbalance problem that is a decision it recently made to reduce the monthly rent the rest were dissolved prematurely either by HH the Amir or MP Saleh Ashour congratulated the people for the dissolu- widely blamed for the country’s deteriorating public services allowance paid to expat teachers in public schools from KD the constitutional court. tion and hoped that the voters will elect lawmakers who will and infrastructure and unemployment among other issues. 150 to KD 60, which affects nearly 13,000 Egyptian teachers A majority of the opposition groups that boycotted the achieve their aspirations. A majority of the outgoing lawmak- “We have 2,670,000 expats, and if we do not take such meas- working in the state. Egyptian Minister of Manpower last election after the government changed the voting system ers appear to be prepared to seek reelection, with only a few ures, this number will double in a few years, creating a bigger Mohammad Saafan was even quoted in the Kuwaiti press as appear to be set to take part in the next polls, with some pre- of them opting out. The three lawmakers who are Cabinet problem,” Maarafi told Al-Rai daily. saying that the ‘crisis’ resulting from this decision will be pre- dicting a good show for them. Opposition activists who have ministers - Yaqoub Al-Sane, Ali Al-Omair and Issa Al-Kandari - “How can a person whose monthly salary is KD 250 deal sented for discussion during the Arab Labor Organization’s been very critical of the Assembly since it was elected in July said they will resign from the Cabinet to be able to contest the with the high cost of living and meet all the demands of his meeting late next week in Qatar. 2013, saw the reasons behind the dissolution as unconvinc- elections. family?” Maarafi said in defense of the interior ministry’s deci- Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for ing. Some said that the agreement between the government The new voting system introduced in Dec 2012 allows sion. “It is illogical, and keeping it unchanged means costing Planning and Development Hind Al-Subaih reiterated as well and the speaker to hold snap polls was to prevent jailed each voter to elect only one candidate. Each of the five elec- the state money and commitment towards unproductive that rectifying Kuwait’s demographic imbalance remains part opposition leader and former MP Musallam Al-Barrak from toral districts elects 10 lawmakers to make up the 50-elected manpower.” Maarafi reassured that the decision will not be of the government’s plans, yet its implementation needs “pro- running in the election. Barrak is serving a two-year jail term members of the Assembly. enforced retroactively, and will only affect dependent visa longed periods of time”. applications submitted after the decision became effective. In other news, Maarafi announced that the interior ministry Dependent visas issued before the decision can still be will implement the interior minister’s decision pertaining with Hijabi cadet settles in at US college renewed based on the old salary, and the same goes for issu- rectifying the situation of Palestinians in Kuwait who carry trav- ing visas for newborns, he added. el documents issued by Arab countries. Nearly 8,000 Continued from Page 1 actually protect the country. I’m joining the task force that Only male expatriates are allowed to sponsor a family, Palestinians have been dealing with a dilemma for the past protects this country.” according to Kuwait’s residency laws. The average salary of a few months after Egyptian authorities stopped renewing their “I don’t really see it as me changing the world or Hamze’s college plans made headlines this spring male expat in the private sector is only KD 247, according to travel documents issued by the Egyptian government on changing the US, even,” she said during an interview on when The Citadel - the Charleston, South Carolina, mili- the latest statistics. In case the husband dies, a working mother grounds that they already carry Palestinian passports. the Norwich parade ground. “I just kind of see it as the tary college she had hoped to attend - refused to change can sponsor her children, provided that her monthly salary However, those Palestinians could not renew their visas in school allowing an American student to practice her faith its uniform policy to accommodate her hijab. Norwich meets the KD 450 minimum requirement, Maarafi explained. Kuwait because Kuwaiti authorities were yet to recognize their while also training to be an officer in the Navy.” Hamze’s was quick to agree to make the accommodation, which Some exceptions will also be made on humanitarian grounds passports as official documents. But this changes this week as great-grandmother was in the Air Force and two of her will also apply to Jewish men who wish to wear a yarmul- regarding spouses and children, he added. the systems at all immigration departments around Kuwait will grandparents met while serving in the Navy in Puerto ke along with their uniforms. The interior ministry’s recent measures are directly linked be updated to accept Palestinian passports, Maarafi said, Rico. Her father is a police officer in Florida. Norwich, located in the town of Northfield, about 10 to the government’s plan to readjust Kuwait’s population, adding that Palestinians with expired visas would then be which is currently dominated by expats at nearly 70 percent, required to obtain a certificate from the Palestinian Embassy to Hamze said that she has been subject to hostile stares miles south of the Vermont capital of Montpelier, is the according to sources familiar with the issue. Meanwhile, the confirm that their passports are valid, before their new visas and comments while wearing her hijab in public, but nev- nation’s oldest private military college. Last spring, it host- same sources who spoke to Al-Rai on the condition of are printed on the passport. er at Norwich, where she is not the first Muslim to attend ed a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Reserve anonymity admitted that a proposal to reduce or set a quota Separately, Maarafi expressed hope that the foreign min- the school, or in Vermont. The hostility to her faith hasn’t Officers Training Program. Of its total on-campus student for the number of expat communities in Kuwait will take time istry would begin searching for new markets to recruit domes- made her bitter or curbed her dream of serving her coun- body of about 2,250, about two-thirds of students are in to implement, adding that any step in this regard would be tic helpers before a national domestic labor recruitment com- try. “It doesn’t scare me because I know what I’m doing is the Corps of Cadets, its military program, while the rest are taken on a gradual basis in order to minimize any potential pany that was established earlier this year begins its work. not to harm anyone,” she said. “I know what I’m doing is to civilians who don’t participate in military training. — AP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 ANALYSIS

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Focus Looming threat of new arms race in space

By Laurent Barthelemy

iller satellites, blinding lasers, sophisticated jammers: The world’s military powers are quiet- Kly readying for a war in outer space - at the risk of fueling a dangerous new arms race. US military officials have in recent years sounded growing alarm about the potential vulnerabilities of their satellites, which underpin US military power. Initially, the reserve of the United States and the Soviet Union, space has now become accessible to an ever-expand- ing multitude of nations and private firms. And Moscow and Beijing are keen to show off their space-attack capabilities, a deep worry for US strate- Rigged election claims may leave lasting damage gists. “We are changing the culture in our space enter- prise because we need to get our heads around... By Julie Pace his opponent shouldn’t have even been During a campaign event Tuesday with facing more than the usual political what happens if a conflict on Earth extends to space. allowed to seek the White House. “Hillary Trump running mate Mike Pence, a voter divides. “Damage is being done that we’re How will we defend our assets?” Air Force Secretary onald Trump keeps peddling the Clinton should have been prosecuted and said she was deeply concerned about voter going to have to repair,” she said during a Deborah Lee James said at an event last month. notion the vote may be rigged. It’s should be in jail,” Trump wrote Saturday fraud and vowed to be “ready for a revolu- recent campaign stop. But that task would- In 2015, the mysterious behavior of a Russian not clear if he does not understand morning on Twitter. “Instead she is running tion” if Clinton wins. “Don’t say that,” Pence n’t be Clinton’s alone. The majority of satellite fueled speculation about Moscow develop- D the potential damage of his words - or he for president in what looks like a rigged said, waving away the woman’s rallying cry. Trump’s supporters are Republicans. If he ing possible attack satellites, capable of maneuvering simply does not care. Trump’s claim - made election.” There is no evidence voter fraud is a wide- loses, party leaders will have to reckon through space and approaching a target. Without without evidence - undercuts the essence Trump is referring to Clinton’s use of a spread problem in the United States. A with how much credence they give to warning or explanation, the craft positioned itself for of American democracy, the idea that US private email system while serving as secre- study by a Loyola Law School professor claims the election was rigged and how several months between two Intelsat satellites in geo- elections are both free and fair, with the tary of state. Republicans (and some found that out of 1 billion votes cast in all closely they can work with a president who stationary orbit, coming to within 10 kilometers of vanquished peacefully stepping aside for Democrats) have harshly criticized her deci- American elections between 2000 and at least some of their backers will likely one, before eventually moving away again. the victor. His repeated assertions are sow- sion to do so, but the FBI did not recom- 2014, there were only 31 known cases of view as illegitimate. “Our satellites are crucial for our national security ing suspicion among his most ardent sup- mend anyone face criminal charges for her impersonation fraud. Senate Majority Leader Mitch infrastructure,” said Victoria Samson of the Secure porters, raising the possibility that millions use of a private email address run on a per- Trump’s motivations for stoking these McConnell’s office wouldn’t say Saturday World Foundation, which works to develop the safe of people may not accept the results on sonal server. Trump has offered only broad sentiments seem clear. One of his last whether he agreed with Trump’s asser- and sustainable use of space “The fact that another Nov 8 if Trump does not win. assertions about the potential for voter hopes of winning the election is to sup- tions the election is being rigged. A entity can come close to them and interfere with their The responsibilities for the New York bil- fraud and the complaints that the several press turnout by making these final weeks spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul work is very unsettling to US national security,” she lionaire in such a scenario are minimal. women who have recently alleged he sexu- so repulsive to voters that some simply Ryan said the Wisconsin lawmaker is “fully added. Trump holds no public office and has said ally accosted them are part of an effort to stay home. Trump advisers privately say confident the states will carry out this he’ll simply go back to his “very good way smear his campaign. they hope to turn off young people in par- election with integrity”. Republicans have A ‘Militarized’ Space of life” if he loses. Instead, it would be “It’s one big ugly lie, it’s one big fix,” ticular. They lean Democratic but don’t already experienced the paralyzing effect China, too, has demonstrated its ability to send a Democrat Hillary Clinton and congressional Trump said at a Friday rally in North have a long history of voting and are of Trump stirring up questions about a small, low-orbit satellite capable of maneuvering Republicans, should they win, who would Carolina, adding later: “And the only thing I already skeptical of Clinton. Trump is also president’s legitimacy. He spent years toward another craft. Teresa Hitchens, senior research be left trying to govern in a country divid- say is hopefully, hopefully, our patriotic likely considering how he would spin a loss challenging President Barack Obama’s cit- scholar at the Center for International and Security ed not just by ideology, but also the legiti- movement will overcome this terrible to Clinton, given that he’s spent decades izenship, deepening some GOP voters’ Studies at the University of Maryland, said that China macy of the presidency. deception.” Trump’s supporters appear to cultivating a brand that’s based on success insistence that the party block the in 2013 launched three small satellites into orbit, one As Trump’s campaign careens from crisis be taking his grievances seriously. Only and winning. His years in public life offer Democrat at every turn. of which had a robotic grappling arm. For the to crisis, he’s broadened his unfounded about a third of Republicans said they have few examples where he’s owned up to his Jim Manley, a former adviser to Senate Pentagon and many US experts, it is clear America allegations that Clinton, her backers and a great deal or quite a bit of confidence own failings and plenty where he’s tried to Minority Leader Harry Reid, recalled the should speed up military efforts in space, and prevent the media are conspiring to steal the elec- that votes on Election Day will be counted pass the blame on to others, as he’s now skepticism some Republicans had about its communications network from becoming the tion. He’s accused Clinton of meeting with fairly, according to recent poll from the suggesting he would do if he’s defeated. Obama. “I’m afraid a President Clinton is armed forces’ Achilles heel. global financial powers to “plot the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Clinton appears increasingly aware that going to start off with far too many people “The Department of Defense has aggressively destruction of US sovereignty” and argued Affairs Research. if she wins, she’d arrive at the White House raising similar questions,” he said. —AP moved out to develop responses that we see coming from China and Russia. I believe it’s essential that we go faster in our responses,” General John Hyten, head of the Air Force’s Space Command, told lawmakers in Trump’s tough talk on crime leaves blacks cold September. Elbridge Colby, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security said the United By Nova Safo never seen it as bad as it is right now. You have whole com- profile police shootings of black citizens. A series of graphic States must develop the ability to defend its own munities held hostage by fear.” videos of police shootings this summer inflamed racial ten- space assets. “As human beings and more states are aw and order” has been a central theme in Donald So what to make, then, of the fact that just four percent of sions. Officers were killed by gunmen in Dallas, Texas and able to operate in space, it will just become a reality Trump’s presidential campaign. But the term has African Americans nationally support Trump, according to a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in apparent retribution. Donald that it will become more militarized,” he told AFP. “The “Ldeep-rooted racial connotations in the United Los Angeles Times/USC tracking poll. Trump even polls high- Trump has blamed Black Lives Matter activists - mostly young United States should develop effective but limitable States that give many African Americans pause. In pledging er among Latinos - currently around 20 percent - despite his people who have protested in marches and rallies - for ham- forms of space attack, particularly non-kinetic ones to get tough on crime, the Republican nominee has invoked anti-immigrant rhetoric. pering law enforcement. He has described the movement as that do not result in space debris.” Chicago, the third largest US city, which is blighted by a Khalil Muhammad of Harvard University said that to a “threat” and said its rhetoric may have instigated violence But other experts say the United States should seemingly out-of-control epidemic of gun violence. There understand Trump’s lack of support among African against police. show restraint, noting the Pentagon may already have been 579 murders in the city so far this year - more than Americans, look no further than his use of the term “law and But failure to address the issues raised by Black Lives have some of the offensive capabilities that China New York and Los Angeles combined - and 3,413 shooting order”. The phrase carries echoes of the late-1960s backlash Matter activists is a losing strategy for Trump, said Michael and Russia are hoping to acquire. “I think it’s being victims, according to the Chicago Tribune newspaper. against the American civil rights movement, he said. “Much Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University and hyped somewhat by those in the US national security Trump’s tough-on-crime stance includes employing the community that have never felt comfortable with the controversial “stop and frisk” tactic in Chicago, in which police US losing its role as the dominant space power,” officers can stop anyone and search them, whether or not Samson said. they are suspected of committing a crime or infraction. “You have to do something. It can’t continue the way it’s going,” The United States has since 2004 possessed a Trump argued last month in support of the practice. mobile jamming station which, from the ground, can But those comments have been met with sharp rebukes block satellite communications. America has already in Chicago, where “stop and frisk” has been tried before - and tested using a missile to blow up a satellite, and has was found to disproportionately target black people. “We are recently acquired four satellites that can maneuver in not interested in any strategy that involves compromising orbit and inspect or monitor other space objects. the civil rights of citizens,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a statement. “It’s also not very effec- International Code of Conduct tive,” added Robin Robinson, a community relations advisor Hitchens, the Maryland researcher, said Russia and to the police department. “It would effectively drive black China are quickly catching up to where the people and people of law enforcement further apart,” said Americans are. “What you have is a brewing,” she said. Robinson, who is black. It’s a lead up “to a potential arms race in space, where Jedidiah Brown, a Chicago community activist also people start developing things for real.” Space war believes the strategy would be counterproductive. “In order could be devastating for humans, as a single explod- for you to solve crimes,” Brown said, “You have to have rela- ed satellite would leave a trail of debris that in turn tionships, people willing to talk to you, trust you, and tell you could damage other satellites in a chain reaction of who the perpetrators are.” Trump has credited “stop and frisk” destruction. “We are at a very dangerous place right with reducing crime in New York. But a federal judge ruled now: if we actually ever fought a war that would that New York’s policy was unconstitutional and a new may- involve anti-satellite weapon, we would damage the or, Bill de Blasio, ended it. space environment to such an extent that it would In Chicago, as recently as 2014, police stopped 250,000 make it very difficult to have the benefits that satel- people who were not charged with any crime or given a tick- lites provide to society,” Hitchens said. —AFP et, according to Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. A vast majority of them were black. The ACLU reached agreement last year with Chicago police to end the practice. US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at an event on Saturday in Portsmouth, New “The notion that to go back to the old system that you simply Hampshire. —AFP All articles appearing on these pages are stop people for being present in their neighborhoods, is the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait going backwards,” said Ed Yohnka, an ACLU spokesman. of the civil rights activism that took place in the 1950s... the author of “America Divided,” a book examining 1960s US his- southern criminal justice system used the rhetoric of ‘law and tory. He said the movement is taking up unresolved griev- Times takes no responsibility for views ‘Chiraq’ order’ to delegitimize activism on the ground,” Muhammad ances from the civil rights era, when the Black Panthers expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites Still, many African-Americans in Chicago want improved said. Richard Nixon successfully took up that mantra to win employed armed citizen patrols to monitor police interac- readers to voice their opinions. Please send policing to combat rising crime. While some Chicagoans the 1968 presidential race. Trump has reportedly studied tions with black citizens. submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- have criticized Trump for comparing the city’s violence to Nixon’s campaign as a lesson for his own. African Americans today want reform in the criminal jus- that of war-torn countries, its own youth have dubbed it tice system - such as changes to drug sentencing laws - times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 “Chiraq,” an amalgamation of Chicago and Iraq. “Whole com- Black Lives Matter where they make up a third of the prison population but only Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right munities are like third-world countries,” said Michael Pfleger, On top of that, Trump has been critical of the nascent 12 percent of the total US population. Trump, he said, “is not to edit any submission as necessary. a longtime pastor of a church in one of the most violence- Black Lives Matter movement, which sprung up to demand trying to talk to African Americans in a way that could con- plagued areas of Chicago. “The despair and the anger, I’ve change in policing across the country, after a string of high- ceivably win their votes.” —AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 SPORTS

Svindal and Veith to Ansari stakes Test Mourinho promises Rooney skip season-opener claim in warm-up will get ‘respect he deserves’

CHITTAGONG: England’s left-arm spinner Zafar Ansari grabbed LONDON: Wayne Rooney will get the “respect he deserves” when the 30- PARIS: Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal and Austrian Anna Veith will both skip this four wickets to stake his claim for a Test berth on the first day of year-old forward returns to Manchester United, manager Jose Mourinho has season’s opener in Soelden next weekend in a bid to regain full fitness. Svindal, their two-day warm-up match against a Bangladesh Cricket insisted. The dropped England captain returned to Old Trafford earlier in the who ruptured knee ligaments in the famed Kitzbuehel downhill in January, Board XI in Chittagong yesterday. The BCB XI were all out for 294 week following an international break when he was booed by home fans dur- said: “Next Sunday it’s racetime for the boys!!! I will not be ready to compete. My thanks to a century by opener Abdul Mazid, who made 106 off ing a 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Malta at Wembley. Days later Rooney, rehab needs more time,” said the 2007 and 2009 World Cup overall champion, a 95 balls and shared two useful partnerships with Nazmul England’s all-time record scorer, was left out of the subsequent goalless draw five-time world gold medallist and 2010 Olympic super-G champion. Veith, for- Hossain (72) and Mosaddek Hossain (47). England were two away to Slovenia by interim national manager Gareth Southgate. Rooney merly Fenninger, is also in full rehabilitation, having missed the without loss at stumps in what could be their final innings could well be left on the bench again by Portuguese boss Mourinho when 2016 season because of a knee injury. “The season’s starting before the first Test starts in the same city on October 20. Chris United face bitter rivals Liverpool at Anfield on Monday. And but I’ve realised that I need more time,” Veith said on her Woakes removed Soumya Sarkar early on but Mazid carried the while Rooney could well receive a rough reception in Facebook page. “Racing as I imagine it is still not possible. local side with fluent batting before Ansari put the brakes on Liverpool, Mourinho has assured the striker, who launched “Therefore I won’t be at the starting gate in Soelden next their innings with three quick strikes. After going wicketless in his career with Liverpool’s city rivals Everton, of a warm wel- week. I promise you I’ll do everything to be back for the the previous warm-up game that ended on Saturday, Ansari fin- come back at Old Trafford. “He was not booed by Man World Cup as soon as possible.” The expected icy conditions ished with 4-68 as the visitors made a late comeback. Stuart United fans,” Mourinho said. “To be honest, the last match and steep pitch on the Rettenbach glacier in Soelden are too Broad bowled Mazid to end his blistering innings, which includ- when he went to the warm-up I was feeling Old Trafford tough for an early return, the Austrian ski federation added. The ed 16 fours and a six, before finishing with 2-43 while spinner was behind him and immediately supporting him during women will race a giant slalom on October 22, with the men tak- Gareth Batty claimed 2-55. England rested leg-spinner Adil the warm-up before he came on against Stoke. “I think at ing to the piste the following day of the traditional season opener Rashid and seamer Jake Ball while captain Alastair Cook flew Man United he feels at home, at Man United he feels of the FIS World Cup.—AFP back home to attend the birth of his second child. —AFP the respect he deserves. —AFP Australia’s track queen Meares retires

MELBOURNE: Australia’s track cycling Her reputation for toughness was queen Anna Meares announced her retire- forged four years later, however, when she ment yesterday, two months after grab- broke her neck, dislocated her shoulder bing her sixth Olympic medal to cap a and tore ligaments in a sickening crash at a career defined by courage and sacrifice. World Cup event seven months before the The twice Olympic champion, who won 11 Beijing Olympics. Wheelchair-bound and world titles and bore her nation’s flag at with her neck in a brace, Meares told a Rio, mulled bowing out at the 2018 stunned media conference she intended to Commonwealth Games in her home state compete at Beijing. Less than two weeks of Queensland but said the physical toll later, she was back on her bike, starting an extracted by 22 years of competition had intensive rehabilitation that would culmi- helped make up her mind. nate in a sprint silver behind Victoria Meares revealed she had taken six corti- Pendleton. sone injections in her spine just to get to Her enthralling rivalry with the British Rio where she struggled in the defence of great raised the profile of track cycling, her sprint title but took the keirin bronze. offering a rare narrative of clean competi- “Having had to change tack for six tion, even as a seemingly endless string of months leading into it and to achieve the doping scandals on the men’s pro tour things I have, I feel satisfied and happy to blighted the sport overall. Meares won step aside from the sport and try some- their dramatic replay of the sprint final at thing new and different,” the 33-year-old London, the pair’s teary embrace after the told local broadcaster Channel Nine. duel one of the Games’ most memorable “I have been able to achieve so many moments. wonderful things, more than most. I am the A new generation of riders emerged to most successful for women in my sport in challenge Meares in the next Olympic the field.” A coal miner’s daughter raised in cycle, but she remained at the pinnacle in a remote Queensland town, Meares spent her thirties, clinching her third keirin world much of her childhood in the back seat of title at Yvelines last year. She said she her parents’ car, driving some 250 km to would remain involved in Australian reach the nearest velodrome for training. cycling in mentoring roles, as the national She emerged as a 20-year-old sensation team strives to regroup for Tokyo after a in 2004, storming to the 500 metres time disappointing campaign in Rio. “It is hard to trial gold in world record time at the close this chapter, because it is a bloody Athens Games, months after winning the big one,” she said. “But I am really excited DOHA: Slovakia’s Peter Sagan celebrates after winning the men’s elite road race event as part of the 2016 UCI Road World Championships yes- world title at her home championships in about the doors opening in to the next terday, in the Qatari capital Doha. — AFP Melbourne. chapter of my life.” — Reuters Classy Sagan retains world road race title

DOHA: Peter Sagan retained his world road race throughout and was able to squeeze an opening group completed seven laps of the Pearl Qatar, title in an exciting sprint finish in Doha yester- as the sprinters bunched towards the finish line. where the race finished after 257km with a day, edging Britain’s Mark Cavendish into sec- Many had predicted that the race, the final sprinters’ shoot-out. ond. Slovakian Sagan, who also won in competition of the Road World Championships, Cavendish, who appeared to be checked Richmond, USA, last year, said the result was would come down to a shootout between Sagan behind Australia’s Michael Matthews as he made “unbelievable”. and Cavendish, and so it proved. his final push towards the line, said he was “frus- “I am still in total shock, I am very, very hap- Sagan said he was fortunate at the finishing trated” by his second place. py,” said the 26-year-old. He is the first rider to line as he was not boxed in by any other riders. “I “When I am not good enough, that’s one retain the road race world title since Italy’s Paolo was very lucky,” he said. “You never know what is thing, but today tactically I made a mistake,” said Bettini in Germany in 2007. going to happen in sprints like this.” He and the Briton. Belgium’s Tom Boonen finished third, which Cavendish were part of a group of more than 20 “I feel like, I know that I lost gold not won sil- meant for the first time in the history of the riders which split from the peloton some 170km ver.” Boonen seemed irked when asked if Sagan event all three cyclists on the podium were for- from the finish line, as the race passed through was beatable. “Of course,” he said. “He’s won a mer champions-Cavendish won in 2011 and desert north of the capital Doha. few titles but he hasn’t won everything. Boonen in 2005. This group were able to keep the peloton at Everybody is beatable.” It caps a remarkable season for Sagan, who bay, meaning favoured sprinters such as France’s The race brought the curtain down on a con- won the points classification at the Tour de Nacer Bouhanni and German pair Marcel Kittel, troversial world championships dogged by criti- France for the fifth consecutive year and the who visibly suffered in temperatures of around cism of the lack of spectators watching events European Road Race championships only last 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), and Andre and the fierce temperatures which confronted month. Sagan, who prepared for the hot condi- Greipel were never in with a shout of winning. cyclists throughout the week. Next year’s event Anna Meares tions by training in Oman, rode a masterful race There were no further attacks as the leading will be held in Bergen, Norway. —AFP

Toyota GAZOO racing team earns podium finish in sixth round 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship

AUSTIN: Toyota GAZOO Racing earned anoth- combining to keep it out of the podium fight, ture forced an unplanned pit stop for Corporation, “It was a commendable perform- the job done by everyone in the team, espe- er podium finish after a strong performance finishing in fifth. Sebastien. Stephane took over from Kamui for ance by the Toyota GAZOO Racing team in a cially considering how difficult it has been in recently in a closely-fought 6 Hours of Circuit The race had started promisingly for the #5, the final stint in third place. Stephane had competitive race backed by the solid perform- this heat. Our quick pit stops and effective of the Americas, the sixth round of the 2016 when Sebastien moved from sixth on the grid fresh tyres and pushed to close the gap, with ance of the TS050 Hybrid. It also demonstrates strategy helped to achieve a strong result. This FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) to fourth place during a charging first stint the race leader also not far away. A fighting the performance capabilities of our hybrid has been a good step towards our home race held in Austin, Texas, USA. under blazing sunshine and with air tempera- performance in the final laps saw the gap cars in global racing. At Toyota, we hold a at Fuji Speedway, where we want to give our The #6 TS050 Hybrid of Stephane Sarrazin, tures over 35C. Mike took the start in the #6 close, but second place was just out of reach, shared belief that participating in motorsports Japanese fans and colleagues a result to Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi finished and ran sixth during the opening stint before with Stephane taking the chequered flag only is the key to developing people and making enjoy.” third for their fourth podium of 2016, finishing handing over to Kamui at the first pit stops. At 2.455 seconds behind the second-placed car ever-better cars. We sincerely appreciate our The Toyota GAZOO Racing team will now just 26.096 seconds behind the winner after the same time, great pit work on the #5 and 26.096 seconds behind the winning car. customers for supporting our racing initiatives travel with optimism to its home race, the 6 an exciting victory battle between all three allowed Anthony to emerge in third. As dark- Sebastien brought the #5 home two laps over the years.” Hours of Fuji on 16 October, which takes place LMP1 hybrid manufacturers. ness fell and the race reached half distance, down in fifth. Toshio Sato, Team President, said: “I am just a few kilometres from the Higashi-Fuji Anthony Davidson, Sebastien Buemi and the #5 lost more time when a damaged front According to Takayuki Yoshitsugu, Chief pleased with our strong performance here in Technical Centre where the 1,000hp Toyota Kazuki Nakajima in the #5 suffered another end was changed after Kazuki’s stint, then suf- Representative, Middle East and North Africa Austin. We have focused all week on race pace Hybrid System-Racing (THS-R) technology is unfortunate race, with several minor issues fered again soon after when a rear left punc- Representative Office, Toyota Motor and it paid off today. I am particularly proud of developed and built. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 SPORTS

Swimmer dies in Hong Kong harbour race: Reports

HONG KONG: A swimmer drowned yes- water and is reported to be in intensive racing and recreational groups-both the South China Morning Post cited Ronnie fears over pollution levels in the water. terday in Hong Kong and another was care in hospital. The 1,500-metre race dead man and the hospitalised woman Wong as saying. RTHK said Wong had Although water quality is said to have left in critical condition as they took part saw around 3,000 people swim between were taking part in the leisure category, confirmed the man’s death and the improved, there are still environmental in the city’s annual cross-harbour swim, two piers on opposite sides of Hong which is for slower swimmers, according woman’s hospitalisation. The weather concerns over the harbour, where rub- which attracts world-class international Kong’s famous harbour — 500 up from to reports. was warm and sunny, with air tempera- bish is frequently seen floating in the competitors. the previous year according to reports. Local media cited the president of the tures reaching around 30 degrees Celsius water. American swimmer Charles Local media said the man who died Some local media questioned why only Hong Kong Amateur Swimming (86 degrees Fahrenheit). However, some Peterson won the men’s title in just 16 was rushed to hospital after being pulled 10 extra lifeguards had been added Association defending the number of swimmers had complained of strong cur- minutes 44 seconds this year. Rio unconscious from the water by a rescue when the field had expanded so much. lifeguards as sufficient for the event. rents, the Post said. It is the first death in Olympics 10-kilometre open water gold boat. He was reported to be in his forties. There was a total of 120 lifeguards at the “We are very saddened by the news the race since it was resumed in 2011 after medallist Sharon van Rouwendaal from A woman thought to be in her 60s was event, local broadcaster RTHK reported and will do whatever possible to help his a 30-year break, local media reported. the Netherlands took the women’s separately pulled unconscious from the on its website. Swimmers are split into family get through this difficult time,” the The decades-long hiatus was due to crown. —AFP Munster coach Foley dies, tributes pour in

PARIS: Munster head coach and former Irish international Anthony Foley died suddenly in a Paris hotel yesterday at the age of 42, triggering a flood of tributes from stunned former team- mates, opponents and admirers of the rugby hardman. Foley, a married father of two boys, was one of Irish rugby’s most prominent figures whose father was also capped for his country. In a tribute, the president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, dubbed Foley “one of the great figures of Irish sport in the modern era”. “It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to our coach, former captain, colleague and friend today, rest in peace Anthony Foley,” Munster Rugby tweeted. The Irish province’s European Champions Cup match against Racing 92, scheduled for Sunday in Paris, was postponed to a later date. Munster fans who had travelled to Paris for the Racing match gathered outside the Stade Yves-du- Manoir in northwestern Paris, laying flowers on flags and breaking into spontaneous renditions of Munster’s adopted hymn, ‘The Fields of Athenry’. As a robust backrow forward, Foley led Munster to European Cup victory in 2006 with INCHEON: Carlota Ciganda of Spain poses with her trophy after winning the LPGA KEB victory over Biarritz in Cardiff and went on to HanaBank Championship at Sky72 Golf Club in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday. — AP win 62 caps for Ireland, captaining the national side on three occasions, his last appearance coming in 2005 after debuting 10 years earlier. Ciganda beats Lee in He played 86 European matches for Munster, including a record 71 consecutive games, and retired in 2008 as the club’s most-capped player LPGA Tour playoff with 194 appearances for the provincial side. He was named head coach of the Irish INCHEON: Carlota Ciganda beat Alison bogey there, dropped another stroke on province in 2014 after having also coached the Lee with a birdie on the first hole of a the par-4 16th and three-putted 18. Munster ‘A’ team, the Ireland Wolfhounds and playoff yesterday in the rainy LPGA KEB Needing a par on 18 for her first victo- the Irish forwards on a temporary basis in 2012. French police in the western suburb of HanaBank Championship after each ry, Lee hit a wedge that smacked into Suresnes have opened an enquiry to confirm the player lost big leads. The 26-year-old the front bank and bounced into the cause of death of the forward affectionally Spaniard won with a 6-foot putt after water. She was able to drop a few feet known as ‘Axel’ after Eddie Murphy’s character Lee’s birdie chip from the rough off the off the right edge of the green, chipped from the film Beverly Hills Cop. back edge of the green missed a half- past and made a 5-footer to force the “The IRFU (Ireland rugby union) and Munster inch to the right. Ciganda overcame a playoff. Rugby pass on our deepest sympathies to all of five-stroke deficit to Lee on the front Lee had four birdies in a five-hole Anthony’s family and friends and ask for privacy nine, then blew a five-stroke lead on the stretch in the middle of the round to for the family at this sad time,” a joint statement final five holes - getting into the playoff seemingly fall out of contention. But said. Organisers of the European Champions when Lee bogeyed the par-5 18th after while Ciganda faltered in the group Cup confirmed the postponement of Munster’s hitting her third shot into the water. ahead, the American made a 5-foot opener against Racing in Paris. “Due to the tragic CARDIFF: This file photo taken on May 20, 2006 shows Anthony Foley (C-bottom), then Ciganda played the final five holes in birdie putt on the par-4 15th and a 12- passing in Paris of Munster Rugby head coach Munster captain holding the Heineken Cup European final trophy at the Millennium Stadium 4 over - making a double bogey on 14 footer on the par-3 17th. China’s and former captain, Anthony Foley, today’s in Cardiff. Munster head coach Anthony Foley died suddenly in Paris on October 10, 2016, at and bogeys on 16 and 18 - for a 2-over Shanshan Feng (70) and South Korea’s European Rugby Champions Cup Round 1 the age of 42, causing the Irish province’s European Champions Cup match against Racing 92 70 at Sky 72 in the event that had an Min-Sun Kim (71) tied for third at 8 match between Racing 92 and Munster Rugby to be postponed. — AFP emotional start with Se Ri Pak ending under. Feng had her third straight top- has been postponed and will be rescheduled,” her Hall of Fame career Thursday in front four finish in Asia after tying for fourth in organisers European Professional Club Rugby successes of Munster and Ireland, in both his “Everybody’s just been taken by shock.” of her home fans. China and finishing second last week in (EPCR) said. playing and coaching careers.” Foley’s sudden death brought a welter of Three-strokes ahead of US Women’s Taiwan. The tour will return to China EPCR chairman Simon Halliday said: “On Frankie Sheahan, the former Ireland and reaction from the wider rugby family. World Open champion Brittany Lang entering next week for the Blue Bay LPGA on behalf of EPCR, I would like to extend my deep- Munster hooker, posted a recent photo of him Rugby chief executive Brett Gosper tweeted: est sympathies to Anthony’s family and to every- and others celebrating ex-Ireland international “Shocked by the tragic news of Anthony Foley. the day, Lee had a 75 to match Ciganda Hainan Island, then make stops in one associated with Munster and Irish rugby. Mick Galwey’s birthday. “All at World Rugby send our heart-felt con- Malaysia and Japan. Lang had three at 10-under 278 on the Ocean Course. “He was a magnificent player and a superb “Distraught at the tragic news of Anthony dolences and thoughts to family, friends and The 21-year-old American, still a student bogeys in a 75 to tie for third at 7 under. coach and he will be sorely missed.” Racing Foley, great friend, teammate & legend. Super Munster.” at UCLA, is in her second season on the Lexi Thompson, the winner last year, had released a statement saying it accepted without form last weekend at Mick Galwey’s 50th. “Unbelievably sad news. Thoughts and tour. Ciganda won her first LPGA Tour a 73 to tie for 13th at 4 under. Second- reservation the postponement of the game. Incomprehensible,” he said. prayers with all Anthony’s family, friends and col- title and became the third European ranked Ariya Jutanugarn (69) and No. 3 Donal Lenihan, who made his debuts for both leagues. RIP,” added the Welsh Rugby Union. winner this year, joining Sweden’s Anna Gee Chun (71) also were 4 under. TRIBUTES POUR IN Munster and Ireland caps alongside Foley’s Glasgow Warriors coach and former Scotland Nordqvist and Germany’s Caroline Top-ranked Lydia Ko closed with a 74 Ireland President Higgins, a patron of the father Brendan-a member of the Munster side international Gregor Townsend said it was a “sad Masson. Ciganda birdied five of the first to tie for 51st at 3 over. She has four vic- IRFU, praised Foley’s “huge contribution to the that beat the All Blacks in 1978, said: day for rugby”. —AFP eight holes, taking a one-stroke lead tories this year, one behind Jutanugarn with a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-3 for the tour lead. Fourth-ranked Brooke eighth. The two-time European Solheim Henderson also struggled, shooting 78- Former NFL player Dennis Byrd killed in accident Cup player added a 20-footer on the par- 72 on the weekend to finish at 5 over. 4 10th and was five strokes ahead enter- The Canadian teen plans to play all six TULSA: Dennis Byrd, the former NFL defensive walking with some difficulty and going through of the NFL’s promising young defensive ends at ing the par-4 14th. She made a double weeks in Asia. —AP lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, continuous rehabilitation during the years since. the time of his injury, registering 28 sacks in his was killed Saturday in a car accident. He was 50. But Byrd, a devout Christian, wrote a book in four seasons. —AP The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Byrd was 1993 called “Rise and Walk,” which detailed how killed in a two-vehicle collision on Oklahoma 88 he relied on his faith and family to push through north of Claremore. The Tulsa World first report- his injury to recover and serve an inspiration to Langer takes PGA ed Byrd’s death. He starred at Tulsa before play- others who went through similar situations. ing for the New York Jets. Byrd’s story was later made into a made-for- Tour Champions lead “We extend our sincere condolences to TV movie, with actor-director Peter Berg playing Dennis’ wife, Angela, their children and the him. During the 2010 season, Byrd sent then-Jets entire Byrd family,” said Dr. Derrick Gragg, Tulsa’s coach Rex Ryan the No. 90 jersey that had been CARY: Bernhard Langer birdied the final Doug Garwood were tied for second at 8 athletic director. “Dennis exemplified true deter- torn from his torso after the collision as an inspi- four holes for his second straight 5-under under. Mize had a 69, and Garwood fol- mination, tremendous heart and humility rational gift. As a guest of the team, Byrd deliv- 67 and a two-stroke lead Saturday in the lowed his opening 65 with a 72. Jeff throughout his life. He had a tremendous play- ered a moving speech to the Jets at their hotel PGA Tour Champions’ SAS Championship. Sluman (67) and Senior British Open win- ing career at TU and professionally with the New the night before a 28-21 playoff victory over the Langer had a bogey-free round at ner Paul Broadhurst (69) were 7 under. York Jets. He overcame great personal adversity New England Patriots - during which the Jets Prestonwood in the regular-season The top 72 players on the money list after a life-altering injury on the football field. had hung Byrd’s jersey in their locker room. finale. The 59-year-old German star leads after the tournament - and one player in We know that Dennis touched numerous lives Running back LaDainian Tomlinson and safe- the tour with four victories and earnings the top 10 in the event but outside the and will be missed by many.” ty James Ihedigbo also carried out a green and of $2,512,659. He won the 2012 event top 72 for the season - will get spots in The highway patrol said the crash happened white No. 90 jersey to midfield for the coin toss and tied for third the last two years. the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs opener about 11:15 a.m. between Oologah and before the game. “I played pretty steady golf through- - the PowerShares QQQ Championship at Claremore. It said a 17-year-old Claremore youth No Jets player has worn No. 90 since Byrd, out the whole day,” Langer said. “Had to Sherwood in California on Oct. 28-30. driving a 2000 Ford Explorer northbound on and on Oct. 28, 2012, the team honored him at be very patient in the middle of my Langer began the late with a 12-foot- Oklahoma 88 veered into the oncoming lane, halftime of its game against Miami by making round because just the putts didn’t go in. er on the par-4 15th, and got up-and- striking the 2004 Hummer H2 that Byrd was driv- him the fifth player in franchise history to have I didn’t hit my irons really close, had a down for birdie from over the green on ing. Byrd was pronounced dead at the scene, his number retired. few chances here and there, but just did- the par-5 16th. and the 17-year-old driver and a 12-year-old Mersereau introduced Byrd to the crowd, say- n’t make anything. Then toward the end I “Driver, 3-wood straight at the pin and passenger in Byrd’s vehicle were taken in critical ing the most touching moment of his life came hit the ball really well. Hitting irons a lit- rolled through the green into the rough condition to Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa. when he visited Byrd in the hospital and his tle closer and finally made some good and had a very tough pitch because it Byrd was midway through his fourth NFL sea- teammate - unable to walk at that time - told son when he was briefly paralyzed during a him: “Angie and I have been worried about you.” putts coming in.” was straight downhill,” Langer said. game on Nov. 29, 1992, against Kansas City. He Flanked by wife Angela and their four chil- Langer is tied for second with Lee “Played it pretty decent, got it to about 5 broke his neck after slamming headfirst into the dren, along with several of his former team- Trevino with 29 career victories on the feet.” He added 14-footers on par-3 17th chest of teammate Scott Mersereau as Chiefs mates, Byrd fought back tears while he was giv- 50-and-over tour. Hale Irwin is the leader par par-4 18th. “That was nice because I quarterback David Krieg stepped forward to en a standing ovation by the fans at MetLife with 45. “Two shots is nothing,” Langer hit a good putt, but it didn’t turn until avoid a sack. Stadium. said. “You can lose two shots in one hole. the very, very end and just snuck in on The impact broke the C-5 vertebra in Byrd’s “I learned to be a man in Oklahoma,” Byrd You make a bogey and the other guy the high side,” Langer said about 17. neck, leaving him unable to walk for a few said, “and I grew to be a man in New York.” Every makes a birdie and it’s gone. You still “That was nice to see that one turn in. weeks. After a vigorous rehabilitation, Byrd year, a Jets player is selected to receive the have to have the mindset of going out And then 18 was a perfect putt, went returned to the Meadowlands for the Jets’ open- Dennis Byrd Most Inspirational Player award by and playing hopefully the best round or right in the middle.” Defending champi- ing game the following season and walked to his teammates. one of the best rounds of the day.” on Tom Lehman was tied for 10th at 4 midfield as an honorary captain. Byrd was a second-round draft pick of the Larry Mize and first-round leader under after a 68. — AP He never fully recovered from the injury, Jets in 1989 out of Tulsa. He was considered one Dennis Byrd MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 SPORTS

Bellew calls out Haye after retaining cruiserweight title

LONDON: Britain’s Tony Bellew retained and he’s trying to fulfil a childhood “You see him? He’s been conning the weights. “His performance was first-class. of Ilunga Makabu at the club’s Goodison his World Boxing Council cruiserweight dream,” Bellew told Sky Sports. British public since his pathetic come- He beat BJ Flores, a good friend of mine,” Park ground in May. title with a third-round stoppage of BJ “I’ve pummelled him. I could have back started,” Bellew said of Haye. “The said Haye. “Bellew has dynamite in his But the 33-year-old Bellew, in his first Flores on Saturday and then promptly been clinical. I’m not called the ‘Bomber’ last two guys you fought are working on fists but would that work on me? I don’t title defence, finished the opening charged out of the ring at Liverpool’s for nothing.” Bellew then turned his nightclub doors, or they’re putting the think so. “He was taken big shots in the round the stronger. He dropped Flores in Echo Arena to confront David Haye. attention to one-time sparring partner bins out.” He added: “You see you? You’re process, his defence was leaky. Against the second round, although the Liverpool boxer Bellew floored Flores Haye, a former cruiserweight and heavy- gonna get smashed too. “With ten ounce me, that’d take one shot. American complained of a low blow, and three times in the second round before weight world champion. gloves on, I’ll put you and your pathetic “I am a heavyweight for eight or nine then capitalised on his opponent’s loss seeing off his American challenger in the Haye, competing as a heavyweight, haircut to sleep. “Brother, I’m the biggest years. If he wants to come up, it’s an easy of concentration to floor him once more. next. After the fight was stopped, an returned to the ring aged of 35 in payday you’ve got right now.” night’s work. I’ll probably knock him out Just before the bell, Flores was down emotional Bellew had to be restrained January after three-and-a-half years with with a jab. “I could win the fight with one again but he beat the count. by security staff from confronting British a first round knockout win over Mark de ‘WITH ONE HAND’ hand, just my left hand, I wouldn’t even Nevertheless, the finish was in sight and rival Haye, a friend of Flores’s, who was Mori. But Bellew made it clear on Haye accepted Bellew had done a need my right hand.” a flurry of punches from Bellew in the watching at ringside. Saturday that he thought Haye’s return fine job of work in seeing off Flores but Flores traded punches with Bellew, a third round ended with a left hook that “I’m ruthless when I get going. BJ was nothing more than a money-grab- insisted he would have no trouble fan of Liverpool’s Everton football team knocked Flores to the canvas before the Flores is an old-school, respected fighter bing publicity stunt defeating him if they met as heavy- who won the world title with a knockout referee stopped the contest. — AFP

NHL results/standings

Minnesota 4, Winnipeg 3; Toronto 4, Boston 1; Ottawa 4, Montreal 3 (SO); Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 2; Florida 4, Detroit 1; Pittsburgh 3, Anaheim 2; Washington 2, NY Islanders 1; San Jose 3, Columbus 2; St. Louis 3, NY Rangers 2; Chicago 5, Nashville 3; Arizona 4, Philadelphia 3 (OT); Colorado 6, Dallas 5; Vancouver 2, Calgary 1 (SO). Western Conference Tampa Bay 2 0 0 9 6 4 Central Division Ottawa 2 0 0 9 7 4 WLOTLGFGAPTS Montreal 1 0 1 7 5 3 St. Louis 3 0 0 11 6 6 Toronto 1 0 1 8 6 3 Colorado 1 0 0 6 5 2 Boston 1 1 0 7 7 2 Dallas 1 1 0 9 8 2 Buffalo 0 1 0 1 4 0 Minnesota 1 1 0 6 6 2 Winnipeg 1 1 0 8 8 2 Detroit 0 2 0 5 10 0 Nashville 1 1 0 6 7 2 Metropolitan Division Chicago 1 2 0 9 11 2 Pittsburgh 2 0 0 6 4 4 Pacific Division Philadelphia 1 0 1 7 6 3 Edmonton 2 0 0 12 7 4 Washington 1 0 1 4 4 3 San Jose 2 0 0 5 3 4 NY Rangers 1 1 0 7 6 2 Arizona 1 0 0 4 3 2 Carolina 0 0 1 4 5 1 Vancouver 1 0 0 2 1 2 New Jersey 0 1 1 3 5 1 Calgary 0 2 1 8 14 1 NY Islanders 0 2 0 4 7 0 Anaheim 0 2 0 4 7 0 Los Angeles 0 2 0 3 6 0 Columbus 0 2 0 5 9 0 Eastern Conference Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point Atlantic Division in the standings and are not included in the loss Florida 2 0 0 6 2 4 column (L).

Miguel Montero’s grand slam powers Cubs over Dodgers

CHICAGO: Miguel Montero’s eighth- get. “Sure enough, today, I helped the GLENDALE: Andrew MacDonald #47 of the Philadelphia Flyers skates with the puck during the third period of the NHL game against Arizona inning grand slam powered the Chicago team.” Dexter Fowler followed with a solo Coyotes at Gila River Arena on Saturday in Glendale, Arizona. The Coyotes defeated the Flyers 4-3 in overtime. —AFP Cubs to an 8-4 victory over the Los home run. Although Chapman blew the Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in game save, he earned the victory. Cubs starting one of their Major League Baseball play- pitcher Jon Lester received a no-decision Penguins down Ducks on off series. after allowing just one run in six innings. Montero’s blast off Dodgers relief He retired 12 of the last 13 batters he pitcher Joe Blanton-after the Dodgers faced, surrendering four hits with one had knotted the score at 3-3 with two walk and three strike outs. The Cubs will Kessel power-play goal runs in the top of the eighth-was just the try to stretch their series lead when they third pinch-hit grand slam in post-season host game two on Sunday. history and boosted the Cubs to a 1-0 PITTSBURGH: Phil Kessel’s power-play goal an early lead and Patrick Marleau had a pow- David Pastrnak scored his third goal in two lead in the best-of-seven National INDIANS CAUTIOUSLY CONFIDENT in the second period stood as the winner in er-play goal, leading San Jose over Columbus. games this season. One of six rookies in League Championship Series. The winner In Cleveland, Carlos Santana homered the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 3-2 victory over the Martin Jones made 26 saves for San Jose, Toronto’s lineup, Brown opened the scoring of the series advances to the World Series and Francisco Lindor drove in the win- Anaheim Ducks in their NHL match on which beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 in its with his second career goal just over 2 min- to face either the Cleveland Indians or ning run to spark the Indians to a 2-1 vic- Saturday night. Ian Cole and Conor Sheary season opener Wednesday. Zach Werenski utes into the first. The 22-year-old Toronto and Josh Anderson each got his first goal for native pounced on Matt Hunwick’s point shot Toronto Blue Jays. Cleveland took a 2-0 tory over the Blue Jays. also scored for the Penguins, who have won four straight home games against Anaheim Columbus, which has lost its first two games that caromed off a pile of bodies in front of lead in the American League While the Cubs have endured the and are 6-1 in their last seven games overall this season. Boedker scored 9:22 into the first Khudobin, shooting it high for the 1-0 lead. Championship Series on Saturday with a grand-daddy of US sporting title against the Ducks. Marc-Andre Fleury made period when a dump-in play by Logan 2-1 triumph over Toronto. droughts, the Indians have weathered 33 saves. Chris Kunitz got his 200th assist with Couture led to a tricky rebound off goaltender LIGHTNING 3, DEVILS 2 The Cubs, who had the best record in their own epic stretch of futility since last the Penguins in his 500th game with the Sergei Bobrovsky. The puck was deflected to Valtteri Filppula scored the go-ahead goal winning the World Series in 1948. Since the major leagues this season, are vying team. Kunitz, who was acquired from Boedker, who buried it over Bobrovsky’s left on a nifty redirection early in the third period to end the longest title drought in North then the Indians have lost the World Anaheim in 2009, became the 18th player and shoulder. to lift Tampa Bay over New Jersey. Steven American sport, with their last World Series in 1954, 1995 and 1997. fifth active to play 500 games with Pittsburgh. Stamkos and Alex Killorn also scored for the Series triumph coming in 1908. “We’re confident,” Santana said after Corey Perry scored his first of the season and BLUES 3, RANGERS 2 Lightning, who have opened the season with The Cubs were up 3-1 heading into the Indians’ second home win against 13th goal in 14 games against Pittsburgh. Vladimir Tarasenko had a goal and an assist two comeback wins after trailing by two early the eighth, but Los Angeles loaded the the Blue Jays, but he added that Cam Fowler scored on the power play for the and Carter Hutton stopped 33 shots as St. in both games. The Devils got goals from Kyle bases with none out against Chicago Cleveland would remain vigilant as the Ducks, who haven’t won in Pittsburgh in more Louis beat New York. Tarasenko has three Palmieri and Travis Zajac. New Jersey lost its relief pitchers Mike Montgomery and series shifts to Toronto today. “We have than four years. Jonathan Bernier stopped 42 goals in three games for the undefeated Blues season opener 2-1 in overtime Thursday night Pedro Strop. to keep it up,” Santana said. “Toronto has shots in his debut with the Ducks. after netting 40 last season. Hutton got his at Florida. Filppula was positioned in the slot The Cubs sent closer Aroldis Chapman a very good team. They can come back.” first win and made several tough saves in his and had his thigh-high deflection of Jason to the mound, and he struck out two Santana smashed a solo homer off COYOTES 4, FLYERS 3, OT first game with St. Louis. He signed to a two- Garrison’s shot elude Cory Schneider at 5:43. before giving up a two-out single to Toronto starter J.A. Happ over the left- Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored at 1:48 of year, $2.25 million free agent contract on July Rookie Brayden Point also assisted on the Adrian Gonzalez that scored Andrew field wall in the second inning to open overtime as Arizona kicked off its 20th season 1 to back up Jake Allen. The Rangers outshot goal to get his first NHL point. Toles and Chase Utley to tie the game. the scoring. The Blue Jays answered in in the desert with a win over Philadelphia. The St. Louis 35-18, with New York’s Henrik Chicago’s Ben Zobrist opened the bot- the third as Darwin Barney singled, Flyers dominated the early part of overtime, Lundqvist making 15 saves. Chris Kreider and WILD 4, JETS 3 tom of the eighth with a double and advanced to second on a ground out and but Mike Smith made a sprawling save on Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers. Paul Eric Staal and Chris Stewart each got their Jason Heyward and pinch-hitter Chris scored on a Josh Donaldson double to Matt Read and the Coyotes were able to clear. Statsny and Alex Pietrangelo also had goals first goal with Minnesota since being acquired Coghlan were intentionally walked by pull Toronto level 1-1. The Coyotes used quick passing to get the for St. Louis. in the offseason, helping the Wild overcome a Blanton, setting the stage for Montero to But the Indians pushed home the win- puck to Ekman-Larsson, who gathered the two-goal deficit. Stewart scored to start the send an 0-2 pitch over the right field wall. ning run when they came to the plate in feed from Martin Hanzal and lifted it over a PANTHERS 4, RED WINGS 1 comeback and assisted on Matt Dumba’s “This is what I’m playing for right now,” the third as Rajai Davis reached first base diving Steve Mason on a delayed penalty. Colton Sceviour scored his first goal for power-play goal that tied it, then Staal made said Montero, who had just 52 hits in the on a fielder’s choice, stole second, took Hanzal also had a goal, along with Shane Florida and Aleksander Barkov added his sec- it 3-2 as the Wild erased the 2-0 deficit with a regular season and batted .216. “I’m try- third on a wild pitch by Happ and scored Doan and Brad Richardson for the Coyotes. ond of the season. Sceviour signed with the three-goal second period. Devan Dubnyk ing to take full advantage of the at-bats I on a Lindor single to make it 2-1. —AFP Smith stopped 27 shots. Read, Michael Raffl Panthers as a free agent in July. Vincent made 14 saves for Minnesota, which is now and Wayne Simmonds scored for the Flyers. Trocheck and Jonathan Marchessault also 14-0-2 in its home openers at the Xcel Energy Mason stopped 31 shots. scored goals for Florida and Marchessault Center. Jonas Brodin added a goal for the recorded two assists. Jaromir Jagr also had an Wild. Nikolaj Ehlers, Blake Wheeler and Mark BLACKHAWKS 5, PREDATORS 3 assist. Barkov’s goal made it 3-1 with 2:22 left Schiefele scored for Winnipeg. Michael Richard Panik scored his first NHL hat trick and Marchessault added an empty-netter Hutchinson stopped 27 shots for the Jets. and Scott Darling was sharp in making 33 about a minute later. The Panthers won their saves as Chicago earned its first victory of the second straight and the Red Wings fall to 0-2. SENATORS 4, CANADIENS 3 season. Nick Schmaltz, one of four rookies in Darren Helm scored for Detroit while Petr Erik Karlsson scored the winner in the Chicago’s lineup, scored his first NHL goal and Mrazek stopped 34 shots for the Red Wings. shootout to lift Ottawa over Montreal. Tom Brent Seabrook added a power-play score and Roberto Luongo had 21 saves for the Pyatt, Ryan Dzingel and Zack Smith scored in an assist as the Blackhawks rebounded from a Panthers. regulation for the Senators, who have won 3-2 loss at Nashville on Friday. Patrick Kane two straight to open the season. Craig and Duncan Keith each had two assists. Colin AVALANCHE 6, STARS 5 Anderson made 21 saves. Jeff Petry scored Wilson, Craig Smith and Viktor Arvidsson Joe Colborne scored his first NHL hat trick twice and Artturi Lehkonen got his first NHL scored for the Predators. Nashville trailed 3-0 and Colorado withstood a 6-on-4 opportunity goal for the Canadiens. Al Montoya stopped after Schmaltz, Seabrook and Panik scored in over the final 46 seconds to hold off Dallas. 35 shots. Pyatt tied the score 3-3 off a great a 3:43 span in the first period, and could never Trailing 2-0 early, Colborne scored three of pass from Dzingel to beat Montoya stick side pull even in this one. The Predators outshot Colorado’s next five goals to build a 5-2 lead. with 2:33 remaining in the third period. Chicago 36-27 and dominated in stretches, Carl Soderberg and Nathan MacKinnon also Dzingel and Smith scored in the first period to but were stymied by Darling in the backup scored during the stretch, and Tyson Barrie put the Senators up 2-0. Petry’s power-play goalie’s first start this season. Nashville back- added an insurance goal in the third period goal late in the second got the Canadiens on up Marek Mazanec had 22 saves. to kick off the Jared Bednar Era in winning the scoreboard. Lehkonen tied it early in the fashion. Bednar took over for Patrick Roy third and Petry’s second put Montreal at the CAPITALS 2, ISLANDERS 1 after the Hall of Fame goaltender-turned- 9-minute mark. Fourth-line grinder Daniel Winnik scored coach surprisingly stepped away two two goals and Vezina Trophy winner Braden months ago. Tyler Seguin had two goals for CANUCKS 2, FLAMES 1, OT Holtby made 21 saves as Washington beat the Stars, while Devin Shore, Jamie Benn Brandon Sutter scored the only goal of the New York in its home opener. Winnik’s fifth and Brett Ritchie also scored. Dallas pulled shootout to give Vancouver a victory over career multi-goal game helped the defending starter Antti Niemi at 7:05 of the second Calgary. Sutter beat Chad Johnson through Presidents’ Trophy winners bounce back from period after allowing five goals. Kari the five-hole on the winner in the fourth a season-opening loss at Pittsburgh and earn Lehtonen slowed the Avalanche’s potent round of the tiebreaker after Ryan Miller their first victory. Two of those have come offensive attack so the Stars could work their stopped the Flames’ shooters at the other with the Capitals, a good sign as they hope to way back into the game. end. Daniel Sedin scored in regulation for the get more depth scoring. Ryan Strome scored a Canucks, who got 24 saves from Miller in their power-play goal for the Islanders, who have MAPLE LEAFS 4, BRUINS 1 season opener. Troy Brouwer was credited no points through two games after losing to Rookies Mitch Marner and Connor Brown with the game’s first goal in the opening peri- the New York Rangers on Thursday. Backup scored, helping Toronto roll over Boston for its od after Canucks forward Loui Eriksson, who goaltender Thomas Greiss stopped 26 of the first win of the season. James van Riemsdyk was making his Vancouver debut, put the 28 shots he faced in his first start. and Milan Michalek also scored for the Maple puck into his own net on a delayed Calgary CHICAGO: Miguel Montero #47 of the Chicago Cubs hits a grand slam home run in Leafs, while Frederik Andersen made 24 saves penalty. Johnson made 30 stops in his first the eighth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers during game one of the National SHARKS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2 for his first win with Toronto. Anton Khudobin start for the Flames, who have started the sea- League Championship Series at Wrigley Field on Saturday in Chicago, Illinois. — AFP Mikkel Boedker and Joel Ward scored for allowed four goals on 20 shots for Boston. son with three losses (0-2-1). — AP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 SPORTS

Pink ball pioneers target competitive Test cricket

DUBAI: Top officials of the World Cricket match by three wickets. Stephenson, another in New Zealand a year later. Committee insisted yesterday that inno- who played one Test for England in 1989, India and Bangladesh have also shown vations such as the pink ball day-night said that following experiments, the pink interest in the idea. Stephenson said the matches are aimed to make Test cricket ball case was presented to the ICC meet- Adelaide Test was a big success. “The competitive and fan-friendly. ing in 2011. “We took the evidence (on Adelaide Test was a different occasion, a Mike Brearley, the former England the pink ball) to the ICC cricket commit- social calendar thing as a huge party captain and current chairman of the tee in 2011 and it was in that meeting was going on. An Australia-New Zealand committee, and member John that the ICC allowed the member Test would usually attract 40,000 people Stephenson were speaking in Dubai at nations to get together and play a day- in three days-it attracted 123,000.” the Test between Pakistan and the West night Test if they want to,” said Brearley said the sub-continent could Indies-only the second ever day-night Stephenson. “It took some years to be suitable for day-night Tests. “I think Test match. come to fruition in November 2015.” The the sub-continent is ideal for it but you “We started experimenting with the committee under the Marylebone have to pick the right venue where peo- pink ball in 2008, brought the pink ball Cricket Club (MCC), regarded as the cus- ple can walk in, no dew and good lights. matches to Abu Dhabi and all the efforts todians of the rules of cricket, works as a You have to tick a few boxes to make were aimed at making the five-day Test complementary body to the sure it works,” said Brearley, who led more competitive and to attract more International Cricket Council (ICC) and England to 18 wins in 31 Tests as captain. crowds,” Brearley told reporters. it’s member nations. Australia will host “The day-night Test give a chance to DUBAI: Top officials from the world cricket committee Mike Brearley (R) and Australia and New Zealand featured two more day-night Tests-against South people to come after work and it’s a John Stephenson look at the pink ball at the Dubai International Cricket in the first ever day-night Test in Africa in November followed by one good spectacle and I am happy that Stadium in the Gulf Emirate on Saturday. Top officials of the World Cricket Adelaide in November last year. It against Pakistan a month later. people are trying it. I have seen how Committee insisted that innovations such as the pink ball day-night matches are increased the crowds threefold over the England have announced they will things changed in one-day, so it’s a new aimed to make Test cricket competitive and fan-friendly. — AFP three days of action as Australia won the host a day-night Test in 2017 and play innovation.” —AFP Bishoo sparks Pakistan collapse in first Test

DUBAI: Leg-spinner Devendar Bishoo Aslam (44), Misbah-ul-Haq (15), took a career best six wicket haul but Mohammad Nawaz (nought) and Wahab Pakistan still swelled their lead over West Riaz (five) in the space of 40 balls for 21 Indies on the fourth day of the first Test runs. Bishoo’s previous best bowling was in Dubai yesterday. Bishoo returned with 6-80 against Australia at Dominica last figures of 6-47 in 13 overs as Pakistan year. Ali, who scored a career best 302 in stuttered to 121-8 at dinner-having an the first innings, was lucky to avoid a overall lead of 343 with two wickets in caught behind decision off Gabriel but hand as the Dubai stadium pitch took was trapped leg-before the very next sharp turn on the penultimate day of the ball. The day also belonged to Shah who day-nighter. wrapped up the West Indies innings in Earlier it was Pakistani leg-spinner quick time and also reached a milestone. Shah who became the second joint- England’s right-arm medium-pacer fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in Test George Lohmann reached 100 Test wick- cricket during his 5-121 which bundled ets in just 16 Test matches in 1896, which West Indies out for 357 in their first still is a world record in Test cricket’s 140- innings. Pakistan, who scored 579-3 year history. declared in their first innings, did not Australia’s Charlie Turner and Clarrie enforce the follow-on despite West Grimmett, and England’s Sydney Barnes Indies coming up 23 runs short of the fol- each got to the milestone in their 17th low-on target of 380. Test. Shah, who made his debut at the At tea Sarfraz Ahmed was not out on same venue in October 2014, bettered 15 while Yasir Shah was dismissed for off-spinner Saeed Ajmal who held the two as Pakistan collapsed in search of Pakistani record of fastest to 100 Tests quick runs to effect a 1-0 lead in the wickets in 19 matches. West Indies’s three-match series. overnight batsmen Shane Dorwich (32) With the rough marks on the pitch and Jason Holder (20) both fell to Shah helping spinners, Bishoo triggered a mid- while Bishoo (17) fell to Nawaz as West dle-order collapse after Pakistan had lost Indies failed to delay the inevitable. opener Azhar Ali (two) and Asad Shafiq Nawaz finished with 2-30 on debut (five) just before tea. and Riaz took 2-65. The remaining two Bishoo, who had trapped Shafiq leg- Tests will be played in Abu Dhabi DHARAMSALA: Indian batsman Virat Kohli raises his bat after completing a half century (50 runs) during the first one day international match before ahead of tea, then came into his (October 21-25) and Sharjah (October between India and New Zealand at The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium (HPCA) in Dharamsala yesterday. — AFP own, dismissing Babar Azam (21), Sami 30-November 3). —AFP SCOREBOARD Kohli anchors India to

DUBAI: Scores after Pakistan’s second innings on the fourth day of the first Test, a day-nighter, against West Indies at Dubai stadium yesterday: Pakistan, first innings 579-3 declared (Azhar Ali Shah 43-15-121-5, Riaz 23.3-3-65-2 (8nb, 1w), six-wicket win over NZ 302 not out, Sami Aslam 90, Babar Azam 69, Asad Nawaz 16.5-5-38-2 (1nb), Ali 2.3-1-6-0 Shafiq 67) Pakistan 2nd innings DHARAMSALA: Bowlers set up India’s com- West Indies 1st innings (overnight 315-6) Sami Aslam c Blackwood b Bishoo 44 prehensive six-wicket win over New Zealand SCOREBOARD K. Brathwaite lbw b Shah 32 Azhar Ali lbw b Gabriel 2 in the first one-day international as batting L. Johnson lbw b Shah 15 Asad Shafiq lbw b Bishoo 5 mainstay Virat Kohli anchored the hosts’ chase DHARAMSALA, India: Scoreboard yesterday of the first one-day international between India and New Zealand at D. Bravo c Ali b Nawaz 87 Babar Azam b Bishoo 21 in the low-scoring encounter in Dharamsala HPCA Stadium: M. Samuels lbw b Sohail 76 Misbah-ul-Haq b Bishoo 15 yesterday. The hosts, who were chasing a J. Blackwood c Ahmed b Riaz 37 Sarfraz Ahmed st Dowrich b Bishoo 15 New Zealand 6-2, Axar Patel 9-1-41-0 (3w), Amit Mishra 8.5-0-49-3. Martin Guptill c Sharma b Pandya 12 R. Chase c Azam b Riaz 6 Mohammad Nawaz b Bishoo 0 modest 191 for victory, rode on the 60-run Tom Latham not out 79 India S. Dowrich lbw b Shah 32 Wahab Riaz c Brathwaite b Bishoo 5 partnership between Kohli (85 not out) and Kane Williamson c Mishra b Yadav 3 Rohit Sharma lbw b Bracewell 14 J. Holder b Shah 20 Yasir Shah c and b Holder 2 skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to canter home in 33.1 overs. Ross Taylor c Dhoni b Yadav 0 Ajinkya Rahane c Ronchi b Neesham 33 D. Bishoo b Nawaz 17 Sohail Khan not out 1 Corey Anderson c Yadav b Pandya 4 Virat Kohli not out 85 M. Cummins b Shah 0 Mohammad Amir b Bishoo 1 But it was the bowling led by debutant Luke Ronchi c Yadav b Pandya 0 Manish Pandey c Williamson b Sodhi 17 S. Gabriel not out 6 Extras: (b10, nb2) 12 medium-pacer Hardik Pandya (3-31) and Amit James Neesham c & b Jadhav 10 MS Dhoni run out Guptill/Ronchi 21 Extras: (b9, lb8, nb11, w1) 29 Total: (all out; 31.5 overs) 123 Mishra (3-49) that helped topple New Zealand Mitchell Santner c Dhoni b Jadhav 0 Kedar Jadhav not out 10 Total: (all out; 123.5 overs) 357 Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Ali), 2-20 (Shafiq), 3-77 for a lowly 190 and set the platform for the Doug Bracewell c Rahane b Mishra 15 Extras: (1lb, 13w) 14 Fall of wickets: 1-42 (Johnson), 2-69 (Brathwaite), (Azam), 4-93 (Aslam), 5-112 (Misbah), 6-112 big win. Tim Southee c Pandey b Mishra 55 TOTAL: (for 4 wickets) 194 3-182 (Samuels), 4-259 (Nawaz), 7-118 (Riaz), 8-121 (Shah), 9-121 Pace spearhead Umesh Yadav and off-spin- Ish Sodhi lbw b Mishra 1 Overs: 33.1 (Blackwood), 5-266 (Chase), 6-300 (Bravo), 7-325 (Ahmed) Bowling: Gabriel 7-1-23-1 (1nb), Extras: (2b, 1lb, 8w) 11 Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-62, 3-102, 4-162. ner Kedar Jadhav also took two wickets each TOTAL: (all out) 190 Did not bat: Hardik Pandya, Amit Mishra, Axar Patel, (Dowrich), 8-346 (Holder), 9-351 (Cummins) Cummins 7-0-29-0 (1nb), Bishoo 13.5-1-49-8, after the hosts elected to bowl first at the pic- Bowling: Amir 22-6-54-0 (2nb), Sohail 16-2-56-1, Holder 4-0-12-1. Overs: 43.5 Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah. turesque Dharamsala ground. Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-29, 3-33, 4-43, 5-48, 6-65, 7-65, 8- Bowling: Tim Southee 9-0-57-0 (2w), Doug Bracewell 8- “Fantastic performance from the fast 106, 9-177, 10-190. 2-44-1 (1w), James Neesham 6-0-40-1 (6w), Ish Sodhi bowlers. We had no clue it (the pitch) would Bowling: Umesh Yadav 8-0-31-2 (3w), Hardik Pandya 7- 4.1-0-34-1, Mitchell Santner 6-0-18-0. help the fast bowlers,” Dhoni said after the 0-31-3, Jasprit Bumrah 8-1-29-0 (2w), Kedar Jadhav 3-0- Result: India won by 6 wickets. win. “Hardik exploited the good length. Umesh is somebody who has been quite to stick together and have to play our best duck on the first delivery of his very next over quick consistently, he has gone from fit to one cricket to beat India.” to be on a hat-trick, only to be thwarted by of the fittest. “Hardik is deceptive, you think Earlier the visitors managed to eke out Latham who went on to record his fifth ODI he’d bowl 132, but he crosses 135 consistent- some gains thanks to a 71-run stand between half century. ly,” Dhoni said in praise of the 23-year-old pac- opener Tom Latham (79 not out) and Southee, Pandya kept making inroads from the oth- er who was named man of the match. but their total proved far from competitive. er end with the key wickets of the destructive New Zealand pacer Doug Bracewell Latham batted with purpose and defiance Corey Anderson (4) and Luke Ronchi (0) as checked India’s brisk start after getting Rohit during his 98-ball knock while Southee New Zealand slipped to 48 for five. Sharma lbw for 14 after the batsman missed a attacked the Indian bowling with more aban- “We had to weather the storm a little bit, fuller delivery while trying to flick it on the leg don as he made 55 off 45 deliveries. the first 10 overs they bowled really well and side. Pandya, who was at the receiving end of some soft dismissals. Disappointing with the Ajinkya Rahane did not last long after los- three boundaries by Martin Guptill in his bat,” said Williamson. ing his opening partner as he was caught opening over, got his revenge by having the Southee, who returned after missing the behind off James Neesham for 33, his knock opener caught at second slip for 12. Test series with an ankle injury, took the laced with 4 fours and 2 sixes. Yadav had star batsman Kane Williamson attack to the opposition during his blitz as he Kohli then put on 40 runs with Manish caught at third man after the Black Caps’ skip- hit 6 fours and 3 sixes. India lead the five- Pandey (17) as the duo looked to stabilise the per slashed at a wide delivery. He was on match series 1-0 with the next game in Delhi chase. Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi had Pandey three. Yadav then bowled Ross Taylor for a on October 20. — AFP walking back to the pavilion as the visitors made a valiant attempt to make inroads into the Indian middle order. But Kohli stayed firm Yasir becomes joint second to record his 37th ODI fifty in 172 games as the prolific scorer hit 9 fours and a winning six during his 81-ball stay at the crease. fastest to take 100 wickets

ROAD TO VICTORY DUBAI: Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah cricket’s 140-year-old history. Australia’s Returning paceman Tim Southee gave became the second joint-fastest bowler Charlie Turner and Clarrie Grimmett and Kohli a reprieve on 60 after he dropped a to take 100 wickets in all Test cricket on England’s Sydney Barnes each got to the caught and bowled chance, but the hosts the fourth day of the first day-night milestone in their 17th Test. were in the driving seat by then. A mix-up match against West Indies in Dubai yes- Shah, who made his debut at the between the two onfield batsmen resulted in terday. The 30-year-old dismissed West same venue in October 2014, bettered Dhoni being run out for 21 but the wicket Indian tail-ender Miguel Cummins to off-spinner Saeed Ajmal who held the proved to be a mere hiccup in India’s road to complete 100 wickets in his 17th Test Pakistani record of fastest to 100 Tests victory. “India were too good, very good chas- match, the fastest Pakistani to the mile- wickets in 19 matches.Shah finished ing side and they showed it today,” said stone. England’s right-arm medium- with 5-121 in the first Test as West Indies DUBAI: Pakistani batsman Mohammad Amir (L) is bowled out by West Indies spin- Williamson. pacer George Lohmann reached 100 were dismissed for 357 in their first ner Devendra Bishoo on the fourth day of the first day-night Test between Pakistan “We were below par in all areas, we need to Test wickets in just 16 Test matches in innings in reply to Pakistan’s big 579-3 and the West Indies at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the Gulf Emirate step that up. We’re a tough unit, so we need 1896 which still is a world record in Test declared. — AFP yesterday. — AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 SPORTS Icardi risks captaincy over fan slurs: Zanetti

MILAN: Inter Milan striker Mauro Icardi ‘Sempre Avanti, la mia storia segreta’ threw them back in his face. Italian media yesterday morning. “Why New Inter coach Frank De Boer recently could be stripped of the club captaincy (Forever onwards, my secret story) Icardi said he was “hailed a hero” in the such wretched fiction? We are shocked, reacted to Marcelo Brozovic’s social media after incensing the club’s hardline fan base prompted the ‘ultra’ fans who usually occu- dressing room after the incident, claiming this book is ridiculous and with regard to gaffe by sidelining the Croatia midfielder with comments in a recently published py the Curva Nord (North End) of the club’s he had reminded the irate fans that he had that incident it’s all lies,” said the statement. for several games. And Icardi could soon autobiography. shared San Siro ground to demand he be “grown up in one of the areas of South “No more excuses. We considered him follow suit, according to Zanetti, a former “We will take measures,” Inter’s vice- stripped of the captaincy. America with the biggest crime rates”. young, a bit daft (like many players), but Argentina international who played over president and legendary former captain It followed Icardi’s description in his Icardi added: “How many are there deep down a decent lad. Instead, we have 600 games for Inter. From 1999 to his Javier Zanetti said amid a growing row autobiography of a post-match altercation (fans)? Fifty? One hundred? Two hundred? someone who should not be allowed to retirement in 2014, Zanetti wore the black surrounding the Argentina international with ‘ultra’ supporters following a 3-1 Ok, I will bring over 100 criminals from wear the Inter armband. armband and came to be known as ‘Il yesterday. defeat at Sassuolo in February 2015. Argentina and they will kill them on the “Inter simply don’t deserve this. For us, Capitano’. Zanetti added: “We cannot “The fans are crucial for us and every- Icardi claims in the account he openly spot. Then we’ll see.” you are finished. TAKE THE ARMBAND OFF, accept this kind of behaviour from an one should respect them.” Icardi may be challenged ultra supporters after they Curva Nord fans dismissed Icardi’s YOU CLOWN.” employee of our club. After this match we Inter’s main source of goals, but com- snatched the shirt and shorts he had account of the events and were so Despite being Inter’s star man, the Serie will talk things over and see what hap- ments in his recently-published biography offered to a young Inter supporter and incensed they issued a statement to the A giants could give in to fans’ demands. pens.” — AFP

Athletic produce stirring comeback to win Basque derby

BARCELONA: Athletic Bilbao came from a minute. A well-worked set piece saw goal down at halftime to produce a stirring Sociedad defender Inigo Martinez head fightback in the Basque derby and beat home in the 83rd minute to set up an excit- their old rivals Real Sociedad 3-2 yesterday. ing finish, but Athletic held firm to move up David Zurutuza crashed in a volley from to fifth in La Liga. Earlier, Alaves were inside the area following a corner to put denied a third win of the season as a late the visitors ahead in the 16th minute but missile from Roberto Rosales saw them Athletic responded superby. draw 1-1 at home to Malaga in a feisty Only four inspired saves from Geronimo game that ended with each side having a Rulli prevented an equaliser before half- player sent off. time but a wonderful individual goal from Brazilian striker Deyverson had put Iker Muniain deservedly pulled Athletic lev- Alaves in front in the eighth minute and el in the 51st minute. had a goal ruled out for offside, correctly, in The forward cut inside from the left to the 89th minute. hook the ball into the far corner and within Alaves defender Theo Hernandez was 10 minutes, Aritz Aduriz had put Athletic in given a straight red card a minute later for a charge with a cool chip over the stranded dangerous challenge, while Malaga substi- Rulli after a mix-up between the goalkeep- tute Juanpi was shown a second yellow er and defender Raul Navas. Then the vet- card for dissent in the 93rd. Valencia visit eran striker Aduriz pounced on more woe- Sporting Gijon later yesterday in new coach ful defending to lay on the pass for Inaki Cesare Prandelli’s first game in charge and Williams to knock in the third in the 72nd Villarreal host Celta Vigo. —Reuters Austin double takes Saints into top eight

their lead courtesy of a fine goal from Redmond. Following another corner, he Southampton 3 waited for the ball to arrive before striking a low finish beyond the reach of Heaton and into the bottom right corner. Minutes later, Austin put the result Burnley 1 beyond doubt with a penalty awarded after Burnley’s Johann Berg Gudmundsson brought down Sam McQueen. The goal MILAN: Inter Milan’s Cristian Ansaldi, left, challenges for the ball with Cagliari’s Nicolo’ Barella during a Serie A soccer match between Inter was the forward’s seventh in six games. Milan and Cagliari, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, yesterday. — AP SOUTHAMPTON: Charlie Austin scored twice as Southampton beat Burnley 3-1 at Burnley managed a consolation goal 18 St Mary’s yesterday to climb into the top minutes from time when referee Mike Dean eight of the Premier League. pointed to the penalty spot for a foul by Tadic on Ben Mee and Vokes scored as the Icardi misses penalty as The south coast club were in dominant form, with Nathan Redmond also on target Saints finally conceded for the first time in before Sam Vokes pulled a goal back for the over 10 hours. visitors late on. It was a fine way for the The Clarets’ loss was their third in four Saints to start a run of seven fixtures in 22 games and left them just a point above the Inter loses to Cagliari days, with their next game a Europa League bottom three. —AFP clash against Italian giants Inter Milan. Burnley kept the game goalless until the MILAN: Inter Milan captain Mauro Icardi can do second half before the Saints scored three no right, it seems, and yesterday added a goals in 14 minutes after the break. Matches on TV missed a penalty to his woes as his side was beaten 2-1 by Cagliari. Mahrez favourite They might have been ahead earlier in (Local Timings) the match but Austin’s fifth-minute header Icardi had had a fantastic start to the season, with six goals in seven matches, but angered the was well-saved by Burnley goalkeeper Tom ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Heaton. Southampton’s Dusan Tadic was Inter ultras with comments in his autobiography, for African award also denied by Heaton when one-on-one Liverpool v Man United 22:00 which the fans called “lies” in a lengthy state- ment. The Argentina forward attempted to pla- with the keeper in the 31st minute. beIN SPORTS 2 HD JOHANNESBURG: Hot favourite Riyad time in 23 years, ending a decade of under- Redmond and Austin also had chances cate the fans with a statement of his own on Mahrez of Algeria was among 30 nominees achievement by a self-styled ‘golden gener- in the first half but poor finishing kept the social media but he was jeered as he walked out named Saturday for the 2016 African Player ation’. Toure has been sidelined amid a war SPANISH LEAGUE ahead of the match, and was greeted by insult- game goalless. Southampton’s pressure, of the Year football award. of words between his agent and new however, told in the second period with a SD Eibar v Osasuna 21:45 ing banners about him in the San Siro. Inter fans even cheered after Icardi sent his The winger, who is equally efficient at Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola quickfire three-goal burst. beIN SPORTS 3 HD scoring and creating goals, was a key figure and was not nominated. Three Ivorians In the 52nd minute, Tadic’s corner was penalty woefully wide of the right post in the 26th minute after he had been pushed over by for sensational 2015-2016 English Premier made the list-veteran winger Gervinho, headed across goal by Virgil van Dijk and ITALIAN CALCIO LEAGUE League (EPL) title winners Leicester City. centre-back Eric Bailly and controversial Austin, at the second attempt and amid Bruno Alves. Joao Mario gave Inter the lead 10 Citta di Palermo v Torino 21:45 minutes after halftime, finding Ivan Perisic and His efforts were acknowledged by fellow Paris Saint-Germain right-back Serge some poor defending by the Clarets, scored professionals in the most watched domes- Aurier. The defender is being investigated from in front of goal. beIN SPORTS 4 HD then racing into the box to collect the return tic football league in the world when they by world body FIFA for making a throat-slit- On the hour, Southampton doubled pass. Cagliari goalkeeper Marco Storari saved his initial effort but Joao Mario tapped in the voted him EPL Players’ Player of the Year. ting gesture after creating a goal for Ivory rebound. However, Federico Melchiorri leveled Mahrez has been equally impressive for Coast in a World Cup victory over Mali last in the 71st and had a hand in the second, five Algeria, who have been consistently weekend. But Mali coach Alain Giresse has minutes from time, as his deflected cross was among the top ranked African football hailed Aurier, saying he “saved the life” of turned in by Inter goalkeeper Samir nations for several years. So good has opponent Moussa Doumbia by preventing Handanovic.Melchiorri has now scored two been his form on the right side of midfield him swallowing his tongue after being goals in his only two Serie A matches after a dif- that long-time Algerian football icon knocked unconscious. ficult few years that saw him undergo brain sur- Sofiane Feghouli cannot always made the Tanzania striker Mbwana Samatta, win- gery and also return from a serious knee injury. starting line-up for the Desert Foxes. It ner of the 2015 Africa-based Player of the Cagliari, which won the second division last sea- would be a shock if Mahrez, who joined Year award, is not among the nominees for son, moved above Inter into seventh spot. Leicester two years ago from French outfit that category as he now plays in Belgium. Le Havre, is not named African Player of the Among those who could succeed him are LAZIO 1 BOLOGNA 1 Year in Abuja on January 5. Uganda goalkeeper Dennis Onyango and Lazio could have moved second in Serie A, instead it needed a controversial last-gasp The Algerian is one of three Leicester Zimbabwe striker Khama Billiat from CAF penalty to rescue a point against stars in the running for the top African Champions League finalists Mamelodi Bologna.Bologna took the lead in the 10th football individual award-the others are Sundowns of South Africa. — AFP minute when Simone Verdi whipped in a free compatriot and striker Islam Slimani and kick from the right flank and Filip Helander Nigeria winger Ahmed Musa. EPL foot- stretched out a leg to poke it past Federico ballers dominate the 30-star list with 12 Marchetti at the far post. included, three come from the Italian Serie Lazio, which also hit the woodwork, thought A, two each from the Spanish La Liga and it had leveled in the 69th but goalline technolo- French Ligue 1 and one from the German gy showed the ball had not crossed the line - Bundesliga. sparing the blushes of Erick Pulgar, whose back- CAF media, development and technical pass set up the chance.The capital club did level committee members, journalists and TV in the sixth minute of stoppage time when Ciro consultants and national coaches or Immobile converted from the spot with the last national technical directors are involved in kick of the game. However, television replays the selection process. The lone nominee showed it was a harsh decision against Bologna from the Bundesliga, Gabon and Borussia defender Marios Oikonomou because Lazio Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick defender Wallace appeared to dive. Aubameyang, was a controversial 2015 Lazio moved third, above Napoli on goal dif- winner. Ivory Coast and Manchester City ference, but could be overtaken by AC Milan or midfielder Yaya Toure, who was seeking a Chievo Verona, which play later. record-extending fifth consecutive award, publicly criticised the choice of the Gabon OTHER MATCHES Bottom club Crotone appeared to be heading goal-poacher. Toure dismissed the out- for its first ever Serie A win after on-loan forward standing form of Aubameyang for Diego Falcinelli gave it a second-minute lead Dortmund in the Bundesliga and the against his parent club Sassuolo. However, sub- Europa League, saying 2015 Africa Cup of stitutes Stefano Sensi and Pietro Iemmello Nations performances should have been scored in the final seven minutes to pull out a 2- prioritised. SOUTHAMPTON: Southampton’s Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk (R) heads the ball 1 win. Both teams also hit the woodwork twice. He was part of the Ivory Coast team that during the English Premier League football match between Southampton and Elsewhere, 10-man Genoa drew 0-0 against won the African showpiece for the first Riyad Mahrez Burnley at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, southern England yesterday. — AFP Empoli, as did Fiorentina against Atalanta. — AP Classy Sagan Icardi misses retains penalty as Inter world 15road race title loses19 to Cagliari MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

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MIDDLESBROUGH: Watford’s French midfielder Etienne Capoue vies with Middlesbrough’s Uruguayan midfielder Gaston Ramirez (R) during the English Premier League football match between Middlesbrough and Watford at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, north east England yesterday. — AFP Holebas sees Watford to Boro win

varying merit at the Riverside Stadium. couldn’t play. “Had we scored the chances we created from point-blank range before firing the rebound wide “I’m very satisfied because we won an away game in at the beginning of the game maybe we’d have won of goal. Boro defender Ben Gibson tried his luck with a Middlesbrough 0 such a difficult stadium,” Watford manager Walter the game. “When they scored it was impossible to play. 35-yard shot but the match was still goalless come half- Mazzari told the BBC. “I’m mainly (satisfied) with the They’re really experienced players. We need to learn and time. The home side appealed unsuccessfully for a character of the team but I’m less satisfied on the over- keep going. The only way we know how to play is the penalty early in the second half when Negredo went to all performance.” way we played the first 35 minutes.” ground following a challenge by Holebas. Watford 1 He added: “In the first half we were allowing too Middlesbrough had the greater share of possession At the other end of the pitch, Holebas gave Watford much on the right side and in the second half we man- in the first half but rarely threatened the Hornets’ goal. the lead in some style when, having latched onto MIDDLESBROUGH: Jose Holebas’s powerful strike saw aged to make some modifications and stopped them Stewart Downing fired a third-minute half-volley over Marten de Roon’s clearance, he smashed a fierce shot Watford to a 1-0 win away to Middlesbrough in the attacking on the right side and we’re happy about this. the crossbar and Gaston Ramirez dragged a shot wide. high into the top corner and beyond stunned goalkeep- Premier League yesterday. “I’m happy. It’s going very well. We could’ve had one Middlesbrough’s Alvaro Negredo had a penalty er Victor Valdes. Victory saw Watford climb to ninth in the table but or two points more at this stage. We’ve been playing all appeal rejected as he went down under the combined Ramirez had another penalty appeal turned down the result condemned northeast side Middlesbrough to the games well with the exception of Burnley away.” challenge of Younes Kaboul and Nordin Amrabat, who after falling to the turf following a clash with Miguel a fourth defeat in five league matches. Disappointed Boro boss Aitor Karanka added: “We was fortunate to escape sanction for grabbing his Britos eight minutes later, and in the closing stages it Greece international Holebas’s goal was a rare high- played the first 35 minutes really good and I told them opponent’s shirt. was Watford who almost grabbed the game’s second light in a largely uninspiring contest where referee at half-time we couldn’t play the way they were play- Moments later, Boro had a far less convincing penal- goal when a shot from Isaac Success was saved by Roger East turned down several penalty appeals of ing in the last 10-15 minutes. The second half we ty shout when Downing headed against Amrabat’s arm Valdes. — AFP Wozniacki back in top Shanghai knight Murray 20 with HK Open win gallops to top ranking HONG KONG: Former world number one had been a mental battle, as it was SHANGHAI: Andy Murray demolished three set points and got in a tangle on a Caroline Wozniacki beat unseeded French unclear to her how badly Mladenovic was Roberto Bautista to win the Shanghai drop shot to hand Bautista his first break challenger Kristina Mladenovic to take hurt. “It wasn’t easy mentally because Masters without dropping a set as he point, which he converted with a strong the Hong Kong Open yesterday after a sometimes she would look like she could- edged closer to Novak Djokovic’s world forehand. The Briton slammed three con- battle of wills that lasted almost three n’t play, and then she would run like number one ranking yesterday. The secutive aces for 6-6 and he dominated hours. Wozniacki of Denmark, seeded Speedy Gonzalez-clearly it’s not that bad Wimbledon and Olympic champion won the tie-break, reeling off seven points in a fifth in the competition, stormed the first if you can run side to side. There was defi- seven points in a row in the first-set tie- row and taking the set with a sizzling set 6-1 with Mladenovic visibly despon- nitely a mental game. I just happened to break and he broke Bautista three times in backhand return. dent and limping slightly. The 23-year-old win it,” she said. the second to win his third Shanghai title A string of Bautista errors put Murray a Frenchwoman emerged in the second set Wozniacki herself has battled back 7-6 (7/1), 6-1. break up at the start of set two, but to his with her right leg bandaged and with a from injury and has had a resurgent run The rampant Murray is now on a 10- obvious frustration he gave it straight renewed focus, forcing Wozniacki to dive of form in the past two months, reaching match winning streak in which he has back with a miscued forehand. But around the court with a combination of the semi-finals of the US Open and win- won 20 straight sets, including last week’s Bautista twice double-faulted to go a drop shots and powerful drives. The set ning the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. similarly impressive victory at the China break down before handing over yet went to 6-6, with Mladenovic sealing the She is still without a Grand Slam title Open in Beijing. But most importantly, the another break, making victory a formality tie-break 7-4 to go even. Spectators to her name and said it was her ambition world number two slashes the gap to just for Murray who tucked away his first around the packed stadium waved paper to win one. 915 points from the out-of-sorts Djokovic, championship point. fans constantly on a hot and humid after- “It’s the only thing missing from my who was shocked by Spain’s Bautista in With his 41st tournament victory and noon, with temperatures at 30 degrees CV,” she said. Wozniacki had downed sev- the semis. sixth this year, Murray joins Stefan Edberg Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). enth seed Jelena Jankovic, also a former “I believe I can get there. I definitely in joint 15th place on the list of Open-era Dressed all in green, a determined world number one, to book her finals believe I can get there. These last few title winners. Of greater concern will be Wozniacki, 26, finally sealed victory in the place. months have proved that to me,” Murray his place in the rankings as he draws ever third set. A tired Mladenovic was ulti- Mladenovic had been aiming for her said of the top ranking. “I may never get closer to the imploding Djokovic, who has mately unable to match the Dane’s power first WTA title-it was the third time she another chance to be number one, so I’ll hit a rocky patch after a period of sus- and consistency. Frequently bending to had made a singles competition final only give it my best shot to do that while I have tained dominance. lean on her racquet between points, the to lose. She told reporters she had strug- the opportunity.” “I will try and finish this year as strong Frenchwoman was in tears as she desper- gled with exhaustion and a hamstring Nineteenth-ranked Bautista, who was as I can. And next year if the opportunity ately tried to fight back after Wozniacki injury during the final after a week of playing his first Masters final, said it was is there to reach number one, then I want took a 5-0 lead. long matches, as well as suffering in the clear how much Murray wanted to secure to try and take it,” Murray said. Wozniacki eventually took the final set heat and humidity. the top spot. “I think I can see it in his “But it’s not going to be easy because 6-2. “I’m really pleased with my week this “I was not coming out fresh and when eyes. He’s really focused on getting num- Novak plays great tennis indoors, and also week-there was some good tennis and you play someone like Caroline, who is ber one,” the Spaniard said. his record at the beginning of the year is long battles,” Wozniacki told reporters. running down every point, you have to Murray’s first serve of the match was a phenomenal in Australia and Indian Wells, The 26-year-old Wozniacki, who will fight,” she said, adding that she was sad SHANGHAI: Andy Murray of Britain holds his trophy after thumping ace and he took a grip on the Miami. “It’s going to be a tough thing to now move back into the world’s top 20, and frustrated during the match. winning his men’s singles finals match against Roberto opening set at 3-3 when Bautista netted a achieve that. I’m aware of that. I’m close- has been in fine form, winning 19 of her “It was very difficult. I have no idea Bautista Agut of Spain at the Shanghai Masters tennis backhand to lose the first break point of ish right now, but it’s going to be really last 22 matches. The Dane said the final how I made it to three sets.” — AFP tournament in Shanghai yesterday. — AFP the match. But Murray, serving at 5-4, lost tough still.” — AFP ECB rate meeting, Chinese GDP in focus Page 24

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BENAULIM, India: (Left to right) South African President Jacob Zuma, Chinese President Xi Jingping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Brazilian President Michel Temer pose during the BRICS summit in Goa yesterday. — AFP BRICS vows to speed up global recovery Xi warns of globalization backlash as Modi urges deeper bonds

BENAULIM, India: The leaders of five of the The BRICs leaders stressed the need to green and sustainable infrastructure as its pri- of the year. Brazil is only just emerging from to leave the European Union has been inter- world’s rising powers ended a two-day summit strike a balance between economic develop- ority,” Modi said. Bank president KV Kamath, a months of the worst economic recession it has preted partly as a backlash against globaliza- yesterday with a pledge to speed global eco- ment and environmental protection, and former Indian private banker, has said in recent seen since the 1930s, a situation that was fur- tion. While China’s economy has been running nomic recovery as well as fight terrorism and hailed the early entry into force of the Paris cli- days that a new ratings agency would be able ther worsened by recent political turmoil. out of steam of late-although it is still the extremism, forces that they said pose a threat mate agreement. to help developing nations, according to the India, although the fastest-growing country world’s second largest-India is now the fastest- to regional and international peace and stabil- Press Trust of India news agency. in the world at 7.5 percent annually, is grap- growing major economy and its GDP is expect- ity. Meeting in the beach resort state of Goa in Credit rating agency BRICS was formed in 2011 with the aim of pling with widespread poverty and the chal- ed to increase 7.6 percent in 2016-17. southwestern India, the five countries known The BRICS nations agreed to fast-track the using members’ growing economic and politi- lenge of strikes against militants in Kashmir. collectively as BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, setting up of their own credit-rating agency to cal influence to challenge Western hegemony. Deeper bonds’ China and South Africa - adopted a final decla- better cater to developing economies, rivalling The nations, with a joint estimated GDP of $16 Xi warning Modi said it was vital the BRICS nations ration endorsing their commitment to act existing ones based in Western countries. trillion, set up their own bank in parallel to the Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday increased cooperation by dismantling trade against the financing of terror groups and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said they agreed Washington-based International Monetary a rising tide of protectionism and anti-global- barriers and developing infrastructure. “I think their supplies of weapons and other equip- to move ahead on the ratings agency, Fund and World Bank and hold summits ization was endangering the world economy’s I speak for all when I say that through a com- ment. Presidents Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir although there was no timetable announced rivalling the G7 forum. But the countries, still fragile recovery as BRICS leaders vowed to mon vision and collective action, we will create Putin of Russia, Michel Temer of Brazil and for its formation. accounting for 53 percent of world population, forge closer business and trade ties. and sustain deeper bonds among BRICS Jacob Zuma of South Africa, and their host, “To further bridge the gap in the global have been hit by falling global demand and Both Xi and Modi said the group must stick nations, develop our economies and secure Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also financial architecture, we agreed to fast-track lower commodity prices, while several have together, insisting there was much to remain our societies,” he said. “While our achievements vowed in the declaration to tackle the global the setting up of the BRICS credit rating also been mired in corruption scandals. positive about even though its members have have been substantial, we need to sustain the economic slowdown and reform the world’s agency,” Modi said. “In the past year, BRICS have “In a world of new security challenges and been beset by domestic woes and problems positive direction and strong momentum of financial architecture. played an active role in shaping the global continuing economic uncertainties, BRICS sparked by the 2008 financial crisis. intra-BRICS engagement.” The group, which represents nearly half of agenda for change and development,” he said. stands as a beacon of peace, potential and “At present the deep-seated impact of the Xi said BRICS countries had much to be the world’s population and a quarter of its The agency comes amid accusations from promise,” Modi said. The thrust of the declara- international financial crisis is still unfolding. proud of and had contributed to more than 50 economy, with a combined annual GDP of within the bloc that the three traditional ones- tion reflected the flagging economic fortunes The global economy is still going through a percent of global growth in the last decade. $16.6 trillion, renewed its commitment to Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings- of the BRICS countries in recent years due to treacherous recovery and deep adjustments,” “The past decade has seen BRICS partnership speed global recovery by investing in infra- are all Western-based and favor those the global slowdown. Xi said. The Chinese president said “deep-seat- expanding with win-win results,” he said. “We structure projects and the manufacturing sec- economies. Plans for the agency follow the In Russia, the decline in global oil and com- ed imbalances that triggered the financial cri- need to deepen our partnership: we BRICS tor. The BRICS leaders adopted three agree- establishment of a BRICS bank 12 months ago modity prices coupled with biting Western sis” were far from being resolved. “Some coun- countries are good friends, brothers and part- ments, including two to set up separate with an initial capital of $100 billion, which has sanctions have dealt a blow to the economy. tries are getting more inward-looking in their ners that treat each other with sincerity.” research networks for developing agriculture been seen as a challenge to Western-based The Chinese economy has slowed to its slowest policies. Protectionism is rising and forces Russian President Vladimir Putin meanwhile and railways. They agreed to crack down on institutions. pace in 25 years, although its 7 percent growth against globalization are posing an emerging called for closer cooperation in areas such as e- economic crime by fighting tax evasion, mon- The “New Development Bank” has so far rate still places it among the fastest-growing risk,” he added. commerce and space exploration. “We look for- ey laundering and corruption. granted total loans of $900 million focused on global economies. While Xi did not single anyone out, ward to translating into reality the idea of a “We have agreed to make the BRICS a renewable energy projects to the BRICS mem- South Africa remains caught in severe eco- Republican candidate Donald Trump has BRICS Credit Rating Agency,” he said, without strong voice on emerging regional and global ber nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and nomic turmoil, with the country’s credit rating threatened to erect trade barriers to Chinese giving details of the much-trailed agency or issues,” Modi told reporters. South Africa. “NDB has kept clean energy and at risk of being downgraded to junk by the end products if elected US president. Britain’s vote timeline for its establishment. — Agencies Boursa Kuwait needs major Saudi Oger seeking buyers deals to restore confidence for $1bn Arab Bank stake

KUWAIT: The Boursa Kuwait, formerly Kuwait Stock externally, he added. Earlier in the day, benchmark of DUBAI: Saudi Oger has begun talks with potential buyers finance and investments through its FAS Capital arm. Exchange, is in a dire need for big deals to restore confi- Boursa Kuwait ended trading in the red zone. The price for its 20.93 percent stake in Arab Bank in a deal that could Managing Director Abdulmagid Al-Hokair did not dence to the market amid eroding confidence, two index was down 18.85 points to stand at 5,309 points, raise about $1 billion for the embattled construction giant, respond immediately to calls and a text message. One pos- Kuwaiti economists said yesterday.Speaking to KUNA, the weighted index was also down 1.42 points and the sources aware of the matter told Reuters. Oger was one of sible buyer has contacted banks about raising between they said that the bourse faced several problems that KSX 15 index fell by 1.22 points. Value of trade was at KD two large Saudi contractors charged with implementing $700 million and $1 billion to finance a bid, said one of the lead to a reluctance of market makers. This affected neg- 5 million while the volume was 53.9 million shares done the kingdom’s grand infrastructure plans before the fall in Gulf sources and two other sources. They declined to name atively the confidence of dealers and the deals do not through 1,582 deals. oil prices and consequent state spending cuts left the com- the potential bidder. A spokesman for Arab Bank, which return the needed incentives to the market, they added. pany facing a multibillion-dollar debt restructuring to stave has operations across the Middle East and a total of 600 The Boursa Kuwait has been facing a continued Stocks fall off collapse. branches on five continents, did not respond immediately retreat in terms of value and deals since the beginning of Meanwhile, the performance of banking shares A small number of potential buyers from Saudi Arabia to a request for comment. this year, Salah Al-Sultan, adviser at Arzak Capital weighed on Saudi Arabia’s market index yesterday after and the wider Middle East have started negotiations, five Investment Company, said. He added that transactions of the largest listed bank reported profits below analysts’ sources said on condition of anonymity because the infor- DISTRESSED SELLER Kuwait Food Company (Americana) helped the market expectations, while indexes for other markets in the mation had not been made public. A spokesman for Saudi Oger’s stake is the largest single holding and would be regain some confidence. The bourse depends mainly on region also fell. Riyadh’s index fell 1.1 percent as National Oger, which is owned by the family of former Lebanese worth about 815.4 million dinars ($1.15 billion) at Thursday’s individuals not on institutional investment, he noted. He Commercial Bank (NCB) tumbled 5.6 percent after report- Prime Minister Saad Hariri, did not respond to requests for closing price, Reuters calculations show, though the second called on the concerned bodies to discuss and address ing a third-quarter net profit of 1.96 billion riyals ($523 comment. Hariri’s political offices in Beirut said it was a Gulf-based source said the final price is expected to be lower the causes leading to the drop in general performance in million), down 1.6 percent from the same period of 2015. matter on which only Saudi Oger could comment. because of Oger’s status as a distressed seller. The proceeds order to revive the economy. Three analysts had on average forecast a quarterly profit Among the interested parties vying for the Arab Bank would be a “drop in the ocean” in relation to Oger’s debts, Meanwhile, Chairman and CEO of Al-Riyada Finance of 2.31 billion riyals. NCB, like most other Saudi banks stake is Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hokair family, two Gulf-based the fifth source said, though they could cover a $1.03 billion and Investment Co Mohannad Al-Sanea said the bourse that have already reported quarterly results, cited higher sources said. The family is best known for its Fawaz Al- loan with regional and international banks that is due to is thirsty for such bargains to give confidence to dealers. costs, including a rise in impairments on financings and Hokair fashion retail business, the Middle Eastern fran- mature in February. Oger owes about 15 billion riyals ($4 bil- There are a number of operating companies which have investments. The bank is a key lender to Saudi Arabia’s chisee for brands including Zara and Banana Republic, but lion) to banks, plus billions more to contractors, suppliers many attractive investment activities internally and troubled construction sector. — Agencies also has interests in real estate and hospitality, as well as and employees, sources told Reuters last month. — Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 BUSINESS Al-Babtain launches high-end 2017 Renault Talisman

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Accounting shake-up presents News in brief

Bank Dhofar ends talks challenge for Saudi companies on Bank Sohar merger DUBAI: Oman’s Bank Dhofar has ended merger negotia- tions with smaller rival Bank Sohar after the two sides were Listed Saudi firms to adopt IFRS by 2017 unable to reach agreement on certain issues related to the tie-up, it said in a bourse filing yesterday. “The board of DUBAI: Saudi Arabian companies already clarity on how this will impact earnings per er Dar Al-Arkan, which had a 3.7 billion riyal plex companies, such as petrochemicals Bank Dhofar has decided, after much deliberation, that it is grappling with the effects of low oil prices share, especially for companies with more ($987 million) investment property valua- and metals conglomerate Saudi Basic in the best interests of shareholders to discontinue the and government austerity measures face a complex structures and international affili- tion on its books at the end of last year. Industries (SABIC). negotiations on the proposed merger with Bank Sohar,” fresh challenge from new accounting stan- ates.” It is clear, however, that IFRS could be However, the situation is complicated by an “SABIC has a more complicated corpo- the statement said, without elaborating. Oman’s second- dards that could provide windfall gains for a boon for some businesses, allowing them impending tax on undeveloped urban rate structure than other listed shares, so largest lender by assets and Bank Sohar have been explor- some but saddle others with higher to revalue assets that have been on their land, which could make it more expensive we believe the IFRS changes are a short- ing a possible merger for more than three years. In June, charges. As part of efforts to bring the books for years. SOCPA requires assets to to hold large land banks. Furthermore, the term concern,” NCB Capital’s Iyad Ghulam Bank Sohar said the duo had agreed on the share-swap Saudi stock market into the global invest- be valued at cost when they are acquired revaluation process itself could prove said. Only banks and insurers currently fol- ratio for the merger, following the completion of financial ing mainstream, the Capital Market with no subsequent revaluation. IFRS, how- unpredictable, owing to a lack of liquid low IFRS in Saudi Arabia, while a small and legal due diligence in April. Authority has told the nation’s 175 listed ever, requires impairments to be assessed markets and of valuation expertise in some number of listed companies-including tele- companies to adopt International Financial quarterly, with an annual valuation on the areas. Meanwhile, IFRS could be negative coms group Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) — have Saudi’s Alinma Bank Q3 Reporting Standards (IFRS) from the start of residual value of fixed assets. for some industrial companies that have to partially converted. net profit falls 16.8% 2017. Most Saudi companies have used “Revaluation could increase asset values record higher depreciation charges for Some companies are making the DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Alinma Bank , the kingdom’s local accounting standards, known as SOC- of most companies because of their current assets. For example, analysts think that change early. SABIC, for instance, has ninth-largest bank by assets, reported a 16.8 percent fall PA, for decades and a shift to IFRS, which cost-based treatment,” Al Rajhi Capital said cement companies with decades-old kilns said it expects to publish earnings in in third-quarter net profit yesterday, according to a has been replacing national standards in a research note. Values of some assets could face higher depreciation expenses. the IFRS format by the fourth quarter of bourse statement. Net profit in the three months to around the world with the exception of the could increase significantly, serving to Commodities-linked companies such as this year. Others could miss the dead- Sept. 30 was 312 million riyals ($83.2 million), compared United States, is a complex task and a reduce companies’ reported leverage National Industrialization (Tasnee) could line for conversion as they contend with with 375 million riyals in the same period last year. source of uncertainty for investors. ratios, analysts have said. also be hurt. NCB Capital said the titanium issues such as revenue recognition, cost Average forecast of four analysts: 409.1 million riyals. “It seems like there will be a lot of work dioxide producer could incur one-off structures and identification of employ- to be done, both by the companies and the WINNERS AND LOSERS charges because of the commodity’s weak- ee benefit schemes, though the CMA auditors,” said Riyad Capital equity analyst Major beneficiaries could include real er prices this year. Most difficult to predict has not said how it will deal with any Iran to start bidding Santhosh Balakrishnan. “There is a lack of estate-related businesses such as develop- is the impact on the biggest and most com- stragglers. — Reuters for oil, gas projects DUBAI: Iran will begin taking applications today for an unspecified number of energy projects, the oil ministry’s Etisalat Misr, Vodafone news agency SHANA reported yesterday, as the country moves to launch exploration and production contracts Egypt sign 4G deals after the lifting of sanctions. State-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said “reputable and eligible companies” CAIRO: Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Misr have signed license should fill the applications for upstream oil and gas proj- deals allowing them to operate fourth-generation (4G) ects which will be made available on its website nioc.ir, mobile services in Egypt, the country’s telecoms regulator SHANA said. NIOC signed the first oil output contract said yesterday. Egypt is selling four 4G licenses as part of a under the new, less restrictive Iran Petroleum Contract long-awaited plan to reform the telecoms sector and to raise (IPC) model earlier in October with a firm identified by the money for stretched government finances. The country’s United States as part of a conglomerate controlled by three existing mobile phone operators - Orange, Vodafone Iran’s supreme leader. and Etisalat - initially all turned down the 4G licenses saying the amount of spectrum on offer was not sufficient to allow them to offer the service efficiently. Aluminium Bahrain closes The regulator then announced that operators that paid for $1.5bn loan for expansion a license entirely in dollars would be given priority in buying DUBAI: Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) said yesterday it additional spectrum. US dollars are scarce in Egypt due to a closed a $1.5 billion loan with regional and interna- long-running economic crisis. Orange was first to sign the deal tional banks that will fund its Line 6 expansion project. last week, paying $484 million for the license. Vodafone Egypt Alba will become the world’s largest single aluminium agreed to pay $335 million in a deal signed late on Saturday, smelter complex, boosting its annual output by the regulator said. Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian unit of Etisalat, 540,000 tons to 1.5 million tons per year by adding a also signed a deal late on Saturday, and will pay $535.5 million. sixth “potline”, used in producing the metal from raw An official from Etisalat Misr said his firm would also receive 10 materials such as bauxite. The loan has a lifespan of Megahertz of additional spectrum after the deal. Both Etisalat seven years, although repayments will start after three Misr and Vodafone also agreed on fixed line phone service years to allow for construction work to take place, and licenses for $11.26 million each, the regulator said. Telecom carries pricing of 325 basis points over the London Egypt, the state’s fixed-line monopoly, was the only company Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), according to a bourse statement. The loan is split between a $882 million to take up the original offer, buying a 4G license in August for AHMEDABAD: In this photograph taken on October 14, 2016, Indian shopkeepers arrange Indian made fire crack- 7.08 billion Egyptian pounds ($797 million) to enter the mobile senior unsecured conventional facility and a senior ers ahead of Diwali “The Festival Of Lights” in Ahmedabad. Gujarat Chief minister, Vijay Rupani appealed to the sharia-compliant facility worth $618 million, it added. market directly for the first time. — Reuters people to adopt ‘swadeshi’ (Indian) and to avoid foreign products to help the country. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES Oil majors experiment with technology to weather crisis Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Swiss Franc 309.160 Australian Dollar 233.770 LONDON/OSLO: Oil majors including according to the Britain-based firm’s companies’ had little incentive to US Dollar Buying 302.400 Statoil, Shell and Chevron are experi- founder Malcolm Connolly, who said it develop fields efficiently. For example, ASIAN COUNTRIES menting with various technologies, had also worked with ExxonMobil, simply finding a more efficient route Japanese Yen 2.914 GOLD Indian Rupees 4.556 20 Gram 253.940 from drones and drill design to data Shell, ConocoPhillips and BP. for the oil pipeline that would carry Pakistani Rupees 2.902 10 Gram 129.890 management, to drive down costs Total declined to comment on how the crude from the Sverdrup field to Srilankan Rupees 2.073 5 Gram 65.790 and weather a deep downturn. long the manned or drone inspec- the onshore refinery cut 1 billion Nepali Rupees 2.849 Singapore Dollar 219.440 Crude prices have more than tions took, or specify how much mon- crowns, Statoil said. Hongkong Dollar 39.129 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd halved since mid-2014, forcing com- ey was saved. Statoil’s giant Johan Bangladesh Taka 3.871 panies to cut billions of dollars in Sverdrup field, the largest North Sea ROBOTS, FOAM Philippine Peso 6.285 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate costs. Determined to shield dividends oil find in three decades which is due Statoil has also developed a drilling Thai Baht 8.631 US Dollar 303.650 and preserve the infrastructure that to start production in 2019, is a lead- “template” that is acting as a guide for GCC COUNTRIES Canadian Dollar 229.850 will allow them to compete and grow ing industry case study for cutting the first eight wells to be drilled at the Saudi Riyal 80.003 Sterling Pound 373.960 if the market recovers, they are costs in the era of cheap oil. field. It said it had reduced the overall Qatari Riyal 83.441 Euro 336.130 increasingly looking to smarter tech The Norwegian company has cut drilling time by more than 50 days, Swiss Frank 299.445 ani Riyal 788.981 and design to make savings. French its development costs for the first saving about 150 million crowns per Bahraini Dinar 806.700 Bahrain Dinar 802.725 UAE Dirham 82.702 UAE Dirhams 82.900 oil and gas major Total said it was now stage of the project by a fifth com- production well compared with what Qatari Riyals 84.115 using drones to carry out detailed pared with estimates given in early it would have cost with 2013 tech- ARAB COUNTRIES Saudi Riyals 81.695 inspections on some of its oil fields 2015, to 99 billion crowns ($12.2 bil- niques. “By far the biggest driver (of Egyptian Pound - Cash 26.300 Jordanian Dinar 427.870 following a trial at one of its lion). The savings have largely been savings) has been simplification,” said Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.577 Egyptian Pound 34.098 Elgin/Franklin platforms in the North made by focusing on the most effi- Oevrum. “To think much simpler and Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.219 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.069 Tunisian Dinar 136.760 Indian Rupees 4.548 Sea. Cyberhawk, the drone company cient technology and designs from start from the bottom, or the bare Jordanian Dinar 428.360 Pakistani Rupees 2.898 that led the trial, said this kind of work the beginning, Statoil’s head of tech- bone, and then rather add to that, Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.024 Bangladesh Taka 3.862 was previously carried out by engi- nology Margareth Oevrum told instead of starting very big.” The com- Syrian Lira 2.0165 Philippines Pesso 6.240 neers who suspended themselves Reuters in an interview. pany could not give a figure for its Morocco Dirham 31.396 Cyprus pound 160.040 from ropes at dizzying heights. It said Executives say the growing atten- group savings made from improved Japanese Yen 3.920 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Syrian Pound 2.421 the manned inspection used to take tion on technologies that have been technology and design. But it said US Dollar Transfer 303.600 Nepalese Rupees 3.842 seven separate two-week trips with a around for some time shows how that, partly because of such innova- Euro 335.480 Malaysian Ringgit 73.928 12-man team that had to be flown in wasteful the global industry had been tions, projects set to start production Sterling Pound 372.210 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.540 and accommodated on site. in the years before the downturn by 2022 would be able to make a prof- Canadian dollar 232.470 Thai Bhat 9.605 Turkish lira 99.050 The drones do the work in two when - with crude at above $100 a it with an oil price at $41 a barrel, Turkish Lira 99.731 days and at about a tenth of the cost, barrel delivering bumper profits - oil down from $70 in 2013. — Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 BUSINESS

Mohammed Al Houssami, Regional Sales Director, Ford Middle East and Tim Zimmerman, Vice President, Alghanim Auto with the All-New Ford Edge Crowd during the event Ford Middle East and Alghanim Auto introduce the all-new Ford Edge

New model features a new sophisticated design, more technologies and safety features he All-New Ford Edge was officially introduced in New level of technology for better, safer driving Kuwait, marking an important milestone in the newly The All-New Edge will be a technology leader for Ford, Tfounded partnership between Ford Middle East and with a suite of standard and available technologies Alghanim Auto. Available now at the new Alghanim Auto designed to improve the driving experience and the level Ford showroom in Shuwaikh across from SIRBB Circuit, the of occupant comfort. Technologies being offered for the All-New Ford Edge demonstrates what happens when a first time include Ford’s first ever application of adaptive proven leader gets even better. In its 3rd generation, the steering, adaptive cruise control and collision warning with new model features an impressive lineup of powertrains, brake support, enhanced active park assist, front, rear, and class-leading technologies, higher levels of craftsmanship side parking sensors and a 180-degree split front camera. and greatly improved vehicle dynamics, guaranteed to Other key technology features include a hand-free lift gate, impress drivers at first sight and test drive. lane-keeping system, Blind Spot Information System BLIS®, In the presence of the local media, social influencers, and SYNC® with MyFord Touch®. The all-new Edge is also and an audience of evening goers, the launch event was loaded with safety technologies, including active glove held at Murouj and commenced with welcome speeches box knee airbag, AdvanceTrac® with Roll Stability Control™ by Tim Zimmerman, Vice President, Alghanim Auto, and and Curve Control, and inflatable rear safety belts. Mohammed Al Houssami, Regional Sales Director, Ford “The new Edge is a rolling showcase of Ford’s commit- Middle East. ment to developing and offering the latest, most “Being with you tonight and introducing this new vehi- advanced technology in the business,” said Tim cle is part of Alghanim’s ongoing commitment to bring to Zimmerman, Vice President, Alghanim Auto. “We know our our customers the best vehicles with the best service the customers have embraced technology – from smart- market has to offer. We are excited to bring our decades of phones to wearable devices that track their health. experience in the automotive sector to our relationship Technology is part of their lives. We want to make it part of with the Ford Motor Company,” said Tim Zimmerman, Vice their driving experience as well.” President, Alghanim Auto. In his opening remarks, Mohammed Al Houssami, Regional Sales Director, Ford Higher standards for quality and craftsmanship Middle East, added: “I would like to thank everyone at Overall, the Edge represents a significant move forward Alghanim Auto for their serious commitment towards mak- in both material and visual quality. Throughout the vehi- ing all Ford products and services available for customers cle, seams are tighter and more consistent, and the design in Kuwait. As previously announced, Alghanim Auto is the has been executed in a way that reduces visual cut lines. only importer in Kuwait authorized by Ford Motor The dashboard and center console have also been careful- Company to sell new Ford vehicles and spare parts and ly designed and shaped to look like one thin, streamlined provide aftersales services.” Tim Zimmerman, Vice President, Alghanim Auto deliver- Mohammed Al Houssami, Regional Sales Director, Ford piece. A central 8-inch LCD touch screen supporting SYNC When launched in 2007, Edge helped to define the ing his welcome speech to the audience. Middle East presenting the All-New Edge. with MyFord Touch is now available on even more models. crossover sport utility vehicle segment. With a car-based standard twin-scroll 2.0-liter EcoBoost® four-cylinder with The available all-wheel-drive system for the new Edge is Thanks in part to smart design work and next-genera- design, Edge delivered better on-road comfort, fuel effi- 253 PS and 378 Nm of torque, and the advanced 2.7-liter full-time, on-demand and seamless – there are no knobs or tion seats that are thinner and more supportive, the interi- ciency and overall driving dynamics than any truck-based EcoBoost V6 on Sport models, delivering 340 PS and 542 switches to activate. An electronically controlled clutch, or of the new Edge is larger and more spacious. Adding SUV. It was proof a utility vehicle could meet the demand- Nm of torque. A normally aspirated 3.5-liter V6 engine is which can engage faster than a human can blink, transfers further to the feeling of openness, Edge will continue to ing needs of an everyday commuter. The Edge is All-New also available. All are equipped with a dual exhaust and a power between the front and rear axles, sending up to 100 offer one of the largest sunroofs in the business – Ford’s from wheels to roof, designed to reset the standard in the SelectShift® six-speed automatic transmission with paddle percent of the power front or back. 5-passenger utility vehicle market. Based on Ford’s success- shifters. Panoramic Vista Roof, measuring 121cm front to back. ful, global midsize vehicle platform, Edge has been reimag- Legroom in the first and second row of the new Edge ined with a stronger, more athletic shape. It has been has increased by 4.8cm and 2.54cm, respectively. retooled to meet higher expectations for quality, and Headroom increases by 2.54cm throughout. Cargo capaci- reengineered to add more features and technologies for a ty increases, with 39.2 cubic feet of space behind the sec- more rewarding driving experience. ond row of seats – 7.0 cubic feet more than the previous “The original Edge was our first entry into the world of model. With the second row folded, space has increased crossover utilities – a technologically advanced vehicle that by 4.5 cubic feet, to 73.4 cubic feet. was the perfect blend of sedan comfort and efficiency with The new Edge is slightly longer and taller than its prede- SUV functionality,” said Mohammed Al Houssami, Regional cessor, and the wheelbase increases by 2.54cm, to 285cm. Sales Director, Ford Middle East. “With the all-new model joining our popular SUV lineup, Quieter than ever we are building on that success and on the emotional The All-New Edge is not only more luxurious and com- appeal of the vehicle by offering more of the technology fortable, but also quieter. our customers want in a package that meets the highest In wind tunnel tests, Edge proved to be more than 1 expectations for quality and craftsmanship. We are confi- dent the design, sophistication and technologies of the sone quieter than its predecessor (a sone is a unit used to new model will reinforce its leadership in this segment,” Al measure how loud a sound is perceived). This enhanced Houssami added. quietness is due to better sealing of the body, sound insu- With the new Edge, Ford is also building on its utility lation improvements, and powertrains that are better iso- vehicle leadership around the world. Last year, the compa- lated from the cabin and operate in a quieter manner. ny sold a record 1.2 million utility vehicles in markets Acoustic windshield glass is standard on every model. across the globe – up 38 percent from 2012. Ford Middle East encourages all customers interested in the All-New Edge to visit the Alghanim Auto New Vehicle A host of powertrain choices Showroom in Shuwaikh Industrial Area, opposite from the The All-New Edge is available in four trim levels. These Classical Car Museum and Sirbb Circuit. The showroom is include SE, SEL, Sport and – for the first time – a top-of-the- open from 9 am to 8 pm every day except Fridays. For more line Titanium series to meet market demand for more pre- information, customers can call the customer care center at mium offerings. In terms of powertrains, there are three 1898900; visit www.fordalghanim.com or directly on social engine options, two of which are new power plants – a The winners media channels at the handle @FordAlghanim. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 BUSINESS ECB rate meeting, Chinese GDP in focus

GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD FRANKFURT: European Central Bank low inflation, which means Draghi will have to easing. But a decision is seen as premature as rise to ECB’s target of close to 2 percent and ballooning debt. Although growth President Mario Draghi will have a tricky task persuade investors that the ECB is ready to the euro zone economy is humming along, by late 2018 or early 2019, an unusually has appeared to stabilize, economists next Thursday: give just enough clues about pull the trigger on more stimulus at the same giving Draghi sometime refine options. upbeat projection. Yet the bank has warn that it has become too reliant on the bank’s next move but not fuel undue time that he preserves an escape route since A Reuter poll on Thursday found econo- warned that underlying price pressures government spending and a housing expectations that could perturb markets. the bank has already done unprecedented mists expecting no change in the coming still lacked a convincing upward trend market that is showing signs of over- China will also be in spotlight in the coming easing and its room to manoeuvre is limited. week’s meeting but a tweak of policy in and its projections were predicated on heating. week, reporting third quarter GDP figures on The question to decide is whether to December. On the macro front, industrial pro- “very substantial” monetary support, sig- “The stabilization in industrial produc- Wednesday, with data likely showing steady extend an 80-billion euro per month asset duction is rebounding, confidence is holding nals analysts said pointed to an exten- tion growth, the upturn in the real estate growth at 6.7 percent, as increased budget purchase program, due to run out in March, or up, government budgets may provide a touch sion of asset buys. market and monetary loosening could spending and a property boom offset stub- start dialling back stimulus. It will be tough more stimulus next year and oil prices are Technical constrains, such as low help reduce pressures on corporates and bornly weak exports. call as the hawks, including Germany, the nudging higher, lifting up inflation prospects. bond yields and asset scarcity, have also local governments,” Christine Peltier at The ECB is facing weak growth and super- bloc’s biggest economy, oppose any further Draghi has already said that inflation could eased in recent weeks, giving the ECB BNP Paribas said. “However, their solven- time to adjust the asset buying scheme’s cy is not improving, their debt levels parameters. have become even more excessive over “Macro developments since the the last year and their capacity to service September meeting have not put the their debt remains weak,” Peltier said. “In ECB in a hurry to present additional mon- this context, credit risks in the financial etary actions,” ING economist Carsten sector continue to increase and the per- Brzeski said. “The possible lack of suffi- formance of commercial banks deterio- cient supply for bond purchases would rates gradually.” only be a pressing issue at the beginning Debt is around 250 percent of gross of next year,” Brzeski said. “This means domestic product and excessive credit that addressing the scarcity problem will, growth is signalling an increasing risk of strictly speaking, only be required if and a banking crisis in the next three years, when the ECB is definitely determined to the Bank of International Settlements extend quantitative easing beyond warned recently. Growth, falling to a 25- March 2017.” year low last year, is also expected to Still, markets expect asset buys to be ease further as foreign trade shrinks and extended by 6 months by and see even the excessive reliance on debt is bound more cheap funding for the bank sector, to ease. decisions most likely to come in The Canadian economy meanwhile December. rebounded in the quarter, giving the Bank of Canada some space to hold poli- CHINA, CANADA cy steady on Wednesday. Still, with ener- The Chinese government has been gy prices persistently low, global trade battling to get its economy back on generally weak, and US demand rela- steadier footing while gently pressing tively soft, Canadian rates are likely to with painful and politically sensitive stay low for even longer than earlier reforms to cut industrial overcapacity thought. —Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 BUSINESS Is a December hike possible?

NBK MONEY MARKETS REPORT he US Federal Reserve officials held off since the referendum however, hard Brexit to 1.1058 throughout the week. farm payrolls, confirmed that the labor market The core sales figure, used to calculate gross raising interest rates in September even fears have recently been reignited hitting hard In Asia, demand for the safe-haven yen is slowing and not as strong as it had been domestic product, rose a smaller-than-project- Tthough they said there was a reasonable the currency. European Council President weakened after data earlier showed that recently. While the JOLTS report is never a mar- ed 0.1 percent. argument for moving, according to the meet- Donald Tusk warned that the EU would not China’s consumer price index rose 0.7 percent ket-moving report, it is often closely watched ing minutes released October 12. compromise on its insistence that freedom of in September, beating expectations for an by the Fed and is a key barometer of economic Producer prices At their September 20 meeting, the movement will be a condition for Britain’s uptick of 0.3 percent. Year-on-year, consumer conditions, measuring job postings in different Wholesale prices in the US rose by more Federal Open Market Committee voted 7-3 to access to the single market and that UK cannot prices increased 1.9 percent last month, com- sectors, and the number of hires and layoffs. than projected in September, helped by high- leave interest rates unchanged. The minutes reap benefits of EU membership while barring pared to expectations for a 1.6 percent gain. er costs for energy and food and indicating showed that several of those who supported European immigrants and rejecting EU courts’ The positive report eased concerns over global Unemployment claims unchanged inflation may be picking up. The producer- the decision to wait on tightening policy, said authority. In his words, Tusk said “the brutal economic growth after data on Thursday In the week ending October 8, unemploy- price index increased 0.3 percent, the first gain the decision was a “close call” and several also truth is that Brexit will be a loss for all of us. showed that China’s trade surplus narrowed to ment claims went unchanged from the previ- in three months, after being little changed in indicated it would be appropriate to raise There will be no cakes on the table for anyone. $41.99 billion in September from $52.05 billion ous week’s revised level at 246,000. The previ- August. The median forecast of economists rates “relatively soon.” surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 0.2 per- The wording emphasized that the case for cent gain. an interest-rate hike had strengthened, but that the Fed policy committee had decided, Europe & UK for now, to wait for “further evidence” of con- German sentiment tinued progress toward full employment and The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment faster inflation. for Germany increased in October 2016. The Following the minutes’ release, investors index gained 5.7 points compared to the previ- continued to see about 60% chance of a rate ous month, now standing at a level of 6.2 increase in December, based on prices in feder- points (long-term average: 24.1 points). “The al funds futures contracts. As for November’s improved economic sentiment is a sign of a rel- meeting scheduled a week before the US presi- atively robust economic activity in Germany. dential election, markets are pricing about 9 However, positive impulses from industry and percent chance of a move. It seems the market exports should not distract from existing politi- believes the Fed is passing on November and cal and economic risks. In particular, the risks concentrating on their December meeting for concerning the German banking sector are their last shot at hiking rates in 2016. currently a burden to the economic outlook,” Following the release, the President of the commented ZEW President Professor Achim New York Fed, William Dudley advocated for a Wambach. The assessment of the current situa- hike saying “I think we’re at a point where the tion in Germany has also increased. Gaining 4.4 economic expansion has plenty of room to points, the index now stands at 59.5 points. run,” and that “the best thing that could hap- pen for the US economy is to grow at a mod- Japan trade surplus erate rate for the next five to ten years and Japan’s current-account had a surplus of the unemployment rate to stay around 5 per- 2.0 trillion yen for August, supported by a cent or lower.” That is the Fed’s aim according pickup in trade in goods. The numbers come to his statement. as the yen has appreciated 16 percent this On the currency side, the US dollar contin- year. Its strength has put pressure on ued to be broadly supported against most Japanese exporters and threatened to under- currencies due to a variety of issues. Renewed mine the nation’s trade surplus. However, Brexit fears, rate hike hopes and markets cheap energy imports have generally kept the volatility pushed the Dollar Index to a seven- trade balance positive, supporting the cur- month high at 98.129. There will be only salt and vinegar.” The the previous month. The USD/JPY pair opened ous week’s level was revised down by 3,000 rent-account surplus. Furthermore political instabilities in vari- GBP/USD continued its downward trend trad- the week at 103.00 and moved up to close the from 249,000 to 246,000. The four week mov- According to the General Administration of ous emerging markets have also seen the USD ing in tight ranges for most of the week but week at 104.18. ing average was 249,250, a decrease of 3,500 Customs, China’s trade balance weakened reach highs against many currencies. South managed to move down to 1.2213 after start- from the previous week’s revised average. This more than expected in September. Chinese African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was ing the week off at 1.2430. Job openings fall is the lowest level for this average since trade surplus slipped to 278.4 billion yuan in summoned to appear in court on fraud In the Eurozone, the EUR/USD moved lower The number of job openings decreased to November 3, 1973 when it was 244,000. The September, comparing to 346 billion in August. charges on November 2 leading the market to amid the USD continued strength. While 5.4 million in August, the US Bureau of Labor previous week’s average was revised down by Meanwhile, economists forecasted a fall to 300 re-price the probability of sovereign rating renewed rate hike prospects are not extreme at Statistics reported. July’s total job openings fig- 750 from 253,500 to 252,750. billion yuan. Overall, China’s September downgrade. 60 percent they still helped the currency. The ure was revised lower, from 5.871 million to exports lost 10 percent from a year earlier, far In Turkey, the USD reached a high at 3.1128 real focus will be on the European Central Bank 5.831 million. On a net basis, that means that Retail sales rebound worse than expected, while imports unexpect- TRY with weakness driven by political uncer- next week and market participants will want to there were 6.65 percent fewer job openings at Retail sales climbed in September by the edly plunged after accelerating in August, hint- tainties after the attempted coup on the 15 of know whether policymakers have started dis- the end of summer than in the mid-summer most in three months, showing American ing that signs of steadying in the world’s sec- July. However, the real domestic driving force is cussing the prospects of tapering ECB’s QE. If report. Furthermore, hiring had previously shoppers began to spend freely again after ond-largest economy may be short-lived. the market’s fear that the Turkish central bank Mario Draghi again denies this and delivers a been on the rise, but it slowed by almost 1 per- shying away from merchants earlier in the Kuwait may cut rates too aggressively as the economy dovish message, we are likely to see further cent in August. Hires were 5.2 million and sepa- quarter. The 0.6 percent advance followed a Kuwaiti dinar at 0.30280 continues to slow down. losses for the currency. The EUR/USD pair rations were 5.0 million. The report, combined revised 0.2 percent decline in August, The USDKWD opened at 0.30280 yesterday In the UK, economic data has held up well opened the week at 1.1200 and moved down with last week’s weaker than expected non- Commerce Department figures showed Friday. morning. Why global bonds are getting sold off

By Hayder Tawfik the driving force behind the rise of bond prices and drop in yields. This can be related to the massive scale ver the past few weeks, of bond purchases by central banks. Bonds buying most bond markets operations has been going on for a quite while particu- Ohave been sold off larly in Japan, the Eurozone and the UK. The Bank of aggressively. The UK, Japan, Japan and the Bank of England have recently indicated the USA and some members that their Quantitative policies are under review. They of the eurozone have experi- are assessing the impact of the massive expansion in enced a selloff in between 2 the money supply and its impact on the real economy. percent to 3 percent. The Like other central banks, they are no realizing that the range of the selloff in prices big drop in bond yields in UK bonds and negative might not seem big but in val- yields in Japanese bonds have led to increases in costs ue terms the loss might be quite big to bear for bond to banks and financial institutions and causing distor- investors. The selloff might extend into the year end. tions with negative benefits on economic activity. There are some reasons for the sudden sell off but Global bond investors should expect the European the main ones are: bond valuations are far from being Central Bank to follow the Bank of Japan and the bank realistic and have ignored all the fundamentals. of England in announcing some change in its Quantitative measures introduced by some central Quantitative Easing guidelines when they meet in banks are no longer adding any benefits to their December. I think for the time being the ECB is moni- economies and they are actually hurting the banks. toring Japan and the UK to assess and decide how to Finally, investors have become aware of the above and change it’s or amend its Quantitative Easing policy. The also aware that governments must use fiscal policies to selloff in global bond prices might not be a good sign reflate their economies and generate economic growth. for them. For the time being bond investors should be We should always remember that loose fiscal policy and very careful not to get into the selloff trap that might reflation are the real enemies of the bond market. go on for a long time. Although global economic activity is still slow and If the stock market can be any good guide for there is no sign of picking up and inflation is not a future expectation of interest rates, then the recent threat but bond valuations have stretched too much outperformance of cyclical stocks might tell us that fis- for the comfort of investors. Negative yields are no cal policy might be upcoming. There is at least expec- longer the solution to stronger economic growth. The tation in the US that with a new president, Treasuries deterioration in the future global economic outlook could adopt new policies that create stronger eco- has not been enough reason to justify the massive nomic growth and reflate prices. The talks in the US is drop in bond yields throughout the year. If future eco- about the possibility of tax cuts measures are linked to nomic growth in the developed economies reaches the result of the presidential election in November. historical trend levels with inflation picking up slightly Investors are more convinced that change in fiscal then bond prices could drop further to accommodate policies are more effective in increasing domestic realistic valuations. demands than Quantitative Measures that have Central Banks’s Quantitative Measures have been become a burden than benefits. @Rasameel Belgian PM defends budget ahead of confidence vote

BRUSSELS: Belgian Prime Minister first when the economy falters,” he and put to a confidence vote on Charles Michel yesterday defended his said, arguing that Belgium was lead- Tuesday-when he also faces a poten- budget and vision for the future after ing the way in changing how people tially embarrassing problem over tensions within the fractious coalition work and employers manage their Belgium’s role in endorsing a land- government nearly sank his program business. Labor market reforms mark free trade deal between the earlier in the week. include greater flexibility in working European Union and Canada. On Michel had been due to deliver his hours sought by management but Friday, lawmakers in the small region annual state of the union address they are opposed by many as leaving of Wallonia on Friday voted to block today but spending cuts, notably in workers more vulnerable. Michel what is known as the CETA agree- health, plus a controversial capital insisted that change was imperative ment, due to be approved on Tuesday gains tax exposed sharp differences to modernize the economy and make by all EU trade ministers and then which the premier only papered over it more competitive. signed by leaders the following week. after “intense” crisis talks. In the budget accord reached after Paul Magnette, socialist head of He told parliament, summoned lengthy talks late Friday, the govern- the Wallonia regional administra- especially for a very unusual Sunday ment agreed overall savings of three tion, said the vote was not meant to session, that he was determined to billion euros ($3.4 billion) but left the sink the accord but it was a demand press ahead with economic and social capital gains tax to be considered fur- to reopen negotiations so as to reforms to promote jobs and growth. ther. ensure local interests were not “It is always the weakest who pay Michel’s address will be debated harmed. — AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 business

The new Mercedes-AMG GT Roadster and Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Open-top driving performance as a twin pack

KUWAIT: Mercedes-AMG is blowing even The new Roadsters make hallmark AMG l/100 km; CO2 emissions, combined: 259 - more fresh air into the AMG GT family. Shortly driving performance an even more intensive 219 g/km. after the world premiere of the AMG GT R, the experience. “The AMG portfolio is fast expand- The AMG GT C Roadster not only delivers sports car and performance brand from ing to become one of the most exciting and more output and torque, it also impresses with Affalterbach is presenting two exciting road- high-performing collections around. The new numerous technical highlights from the ster variants of the two-seater sports car. Roadster variants not only deliver more output Mercedes-AMG GT R for even more dynamic Alongside the AMG GT Roadster, the AMG GT and torque, but the AMG GT C Roadster also performance. Like the AMG GT R, the AMG GT C Roadster enhances the portfolio with a com- impresses with numerous technical highlights C Roadster is recognizable by its wide, muscu- pletely new model variant. With an output of from the Mercedes-AMG GT R, for enhanced lar rear end and large wheels. Other technical 410 kW (557 hp) and peak torque of 680 Nm, performance,” said Michael Ruehle, Chief measures include the wider rear track and the AMG GT C is the most powerful new Executive Officer, A R Albisher & Z Alkazemi active rear axle steering. Roadster variant and uses some of the techni- Company, the authorized general distributor The AMG GT C Roadster is also equipped cal refinements of the AMG GT R. These of Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait. with a lithium-ion battery, and has more exclu- include active rear axle steering and the elec- With the two Roadster variants, the sive appointments. Standard features include tronically controlled rear axle locking differen- Mercedes-AMG GT family has now increased a nappa leather interior, the AMG performance tial. In combination with the AMG RIDE CON- to five members. The two new sports cars with steering wheel in nappa leather/DINAMICA TROL sports suspension, the AMG GT C fabric soft tops likewise have the technical microfibre and the additional transmission Roadster guarantees dynamic performance at genes for which AMG is famous. These include mode RACE.

Fully automatic: The weight-optimised fabric soft top Both Roadsters are quickly transformed from coupÈs to open-top sports cars. The fab- ric roof opens and closes in around eleven sec- onds, and can do this at speeds of up to 50 high do the louvres open to allow the maxi- stability - handling characteristics that are nor- km/h. The three soft top colours black, red and mum cooling airflow to the heat exchangers. mally in direct conflict. beige can be chosen to suit the eleven exterior Up to a speed of 100 km/h, the rear wheels and ten interior colours. The three-layered fab- Muscular with an emphasis on width are turned in the opposite direction to the ric soft top is supported by a The rear end also features numerous, con- front wheels, the Mercedes-AMG GT C magnesium/steel/aluminium structure of low spicuous innovations. The new aluminium side Roadster turns into corners with significantly weight, which helps to keep the centre of walls of the AMG GT C Roadster widen the higher agility as a result, delivering even more gravity low. Additional rollover protection is open-top two-seater by 57 millimetres com- driving pleasure and requiring less steering provided by an integrated aluminium cross- pared to the AMG GT Roadster. This is exactly input. In day-to-day driving the driver also member with rollover bars. the width of the AMG GT R. Compared to the benefits from a reduced turning circle, for AMG GT Roadster, the muscular form also cre- example when turning off or parking. Also for the Roadster models ates space for the larger wheels and a wider The two AMG Roadster variants have track. Both measures make for traction while Impressive sound in the interior adopted a special technical highlight from the allowing higher cornering speeds. The likewise The Burmester surround sound system and AMG GT R: the active air management system. wider contours of the AMG GT C Roadster’s the Burmester high-end surround sound sys- Vertical louvres located in the lower area rear apron also improve the airflow at the rear tem ensure a very special musical experience directly behind the front fascia can be opened with their large outer air vents. Both Roadster in the AMG GT Roadster. Both systems benefit and closed by an electric motor in around one variants feature an aerofoil integrated into the from an innovation developed jointly by AMG second. This ensures that the cooling perform- boot lid. This is electrically extended and and Burmester: the External Coupled the highest level. The top Roadster also takes e.g. the lightweight and torsionally rigid alu- ance is according to need. Always achieving retracted at defined speds, depending on the Subwoofer (ECS). This new bass sound repro- its lead from the top AMG GT R sports car minium bodyshell plus powerful and efficient the optimum position requires highly intelli- selected transmission mode. duction system with an extremely low bass where muscular proportions are concerned: V8 biturbo engines. The entry level into the gent and fast control. range turns the open two-seater into a mobile the wider rear wings create space for a wider Roadster world is the AMG GT with an output During normal driving with no increased Even more agility concert stage. Instead of a subwoofer box of track and wider wheels at the rear axle, allow- of 350 kW (476 hp). The GT C Roadster adds a cooling requirement, the louvres are closed to As standard the new Mercedes-AMG GT C limited dimensions, ECS uses the entire interi- ing even higher cornering speeds and best completely new output level. With 410 kW reduce aerodynamic drag and specifically con- Roadster responds even more sensitively or as a bass box. traction. The variable performance exhaust (557 hp) it is the more powerful of the two duct the air to the underbody. Only when cer- thanks to the active rear axle steering that had The AMG GT Roadster and AMG GT C system also ensures an authentic V8 sound new open-top sports cars. tain components reach predefined tempera- its debut in the Mercedes-AMG GT R. The sys- Roadster will be available at Abdul Rahman from the AMG Roadster. Fuel consumption, combined: 11.4 - 9.4 tures and the air requirement is particularly tem offers an ideal combination of agility and Albisher & Zaid Alkazemi Co in Kuwait in 2017.

Burgan Bank announces winners of Yawmi account

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the names of the lucky winners of its Yawmi account draw, each taking home a prize of KD 5,000. The lucky winners for the daily draws took home a cash-prize of KD 5,000 each, and they are: 1. Abeer Ali Ahmad Al-Ghanim 2. Ghesnah Musallam Ali Al-Marri 3. Kamel Othman Abdullah 4. Hamad Haneef Jaber Haneef 5. Sulaiman Dawoud Sulaiman Al Houti ABK announces winners of 24th In addition to the daily draw, Burgan Bank also offers a quarterly draw with more chances to win high- ‘Double Your Salary’ draws er rewards, entitling one lucky customer to win KD 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi Account offers KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) held its 24th daily and quarterly draws, the quarterly draw requires ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draw on 10th October, 2016 at customers to maintain a minimum amount of KD 500 the Bank’s Head Office in the presence of a representative MITEF Pan Arab, Zain and Community in their account for 2 months prior to draw date. from the Ministry of Commerce, announcing the names of Additionally, every KD 10 in the account, will entitle the winners for this week. The promotion includes weekly customers to one chance of winning. If the account draws, with two winners per draw. Given the success of Jameel launch Arab startup competition balance is KD 500 and above, the account holder will the campaign it has been decided to extend it until 27th be qualified for both the quarterly and daily draws. BEIRUT/ JEDDAH/ KUWAIT: The MIT Qatar and the UAE, and 79 semi-final- For Zain, the reasons for continued June, 2017. Burgan Bank encourages everyone to open a Yawmi Enterprise Forum (MITEF) for the Pan ist teams will be announced on involvement are simple - this competi- account and/or increase their deposit to maximize Arab Region, in partnership with February 10, 2017. tion supports young aspiring entre- The winners of this week are: their chances to becoming a winner. The more cus- Community Jameel, a social enter- The semi-finalists will be invited to preneurs to achieve their dreams and 1) Mariam Daasan Rfaid Al-Enezi, Hadiya Branch tomers deposit, the higher the chances they receive of prise organization that operates a attend pre-bootcamp activities appeals to a number of our core con- 2) Nandana Dhanushka Perera, Farwaniya Branch winning. wide range of initiatives to promote a scheduled for February and March, stituents, aligning with our outlook New customers who transfer their salary to ABK receive For more information on opening a Yawmi account positive society and economic sus- 2017 in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and values perfectly. Again we look KD 100 and will automatically be entered into the weekly or about the new quarterly draw, customers are urged tainability, and Zain Group, a leading Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The com- forward to seeing the face of innova- draws to double their salaries. Existing customers who are to visit their nearest Burgan Bank branch and receive mobile telecom innovator across the petition will culminate in a four-day tion being revealed throughout the already transferring their salary to ABK are entered into a all the details, or simply call the bank’s Call Center at Middle East and Africa, announces the event from April 24 to April 27, 2017, course of the competition and shall separate draw. The next ‘Double Your Salary’ draw will be 1804080 where customer service representatives will launch of the tenth edition of the MIT with the announcement of the com- take the opportunity to capitalize on held on 17th October, 2016 where two new lucky winners be delighted to assist with any questions on the Yawmi Enterprise Forum Arab Startup petition winners set to take place the most promising ideas, supporting will be announced. All winners will be contacted personal- account or any of the bank’s products and services. Competition. during the final award ceremony on our evolution in becoming a digital ly and a weekly announcement will be made through the Similar to the proceedings in previ- April 27, 2017. lifestyle operator.” media with the winners’ names. ous years, this year’s competition Hala Fadel, Chair of the board of “This is the tenth consecutive year includes three different tracks: Ideas, MITEF Pan Arab, said, “This year, we that Community Jameel has support- VIVA launches draws with daily, monthly cash prizes Startups, and Social Entrepreneurship, are celebrating 10 years of entrepre- ed the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan with total prize money on offer total- neurial success in the region by bring- Arab,” said Fady Jameel, President of KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most ing $160,000. Each of the three tracks ing together our biggest edition to Community Jameel International. developed telecom operator, launched a draws’ will award the first three ranked win- date. For this 10th edition, we are “The continuation of our support for campaign that allows postpaid customers to win ners with cash prizes in addition to expecting more and more technology this project underscores our commit- valuable daily and monthly cash prizes during the many other benefits including: top innovations from the MENA region ment to helping the next generation months of October, November and December. tier training, mentorship, coaching, and we aim to take the most innova- of young entrepreneurs realise their VIVA gives the customers a wonderful oppor- media exposure, and great network- tive entrepreneurs from the region to hopes and aspirations.” Stressing the tunity to win amazing cash prizes, KD 100 daily ing opportunities. new heights.” importance of competitions like this and KD 1000 at the end of each month, once they The competition’s website Commenting on Zain Group’s sup- and their growing popularity, Jameel pay their VIVA bills through Direct Debit, VIVA www.mitefarab.org opens for applica- port of the latest MITEF Arab Startup also noted: “We have witnessed the website, VIVA’s Kiosks, VIVA App or by calling 102. tions on October 17, 2016 with the Competition, CEO Scott Gegenheimer tremendous success stories that Customers earn one chance for each KD 1. deadline for receipt of applications said, “We are excited to support the MITEF Pan Arab has brought about in To find out more about VIVA’s new campaign, being January 4, 2017. Informative competition again this year, and con- our region over the past nine years visit one of the 70 VIVA branches, or the VIVA web- roadshows promoting the competi- gratulate the MIT Enterprise Forum and anticipate even greater achieve- site at www.viva.com.kw, or call VIVA’s 24-hour call tion are planned for Bahrain, Egypt, Arab for the milestone 10th year of ments for the upcoming tenth edition center on 102. Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, running this important regional event. and in the future.” technology MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

Capture the beauty of marine life with some easy photography tips DUBAI: Canon Middle East, the leader in imaging products and solutions, announced their partnership with Discovery Channel ‘Shark Week’ exhibition at Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo as the ‘Imaging Partner’ of the exhibition. In its role as an imaging partner, Canon Middle East has supported Discovery Channel and Emaar Entertainment, which manages Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, by providing them with EOS 5D Mark III and Legria mini X cameras. The highly powerful cameras have been used to shoot a documentary that Discovery Consumer Products and Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo have produced, highlight- ing shark conservation in the Arab world and the Shark Week exhibition project, titled ‘Arabia’s Sharks - A Journey of Discovery’. Jonathan Ali Khan from Wild Planet Productions and director of the documen- tary shares some key photography tips on shooting images underwater with marine life, especially with sharks: under and above water. The more experi- you are about to shoot. Go online and which has evolved to blend in with the balance of your image at all times. Use this 1. The advantages of digital: ence you have with your camera, the easier research the subject, read books and water. function constantly as it is the first real Digital is incredibly advantageous. it becomes to plan your images. spend time observing the animal and its means (other than exposure and focus), to Viewing your results straightaway under- setting, trying to anticipate moments of 6. Capturing The Moment: manipulate the true colors of the scene water is essential in getting to perfecting 3. Perfect your skills: behavior or action that best characterize During shark dives, your mind needs to and enable you to craft your edges. your image, and you are no longer limited Whilst essential for ALL divers to perfect the subject. Be prepared to spend hours be ready and the fingers of your hands to 36-exposures like the old days of film on your buoyancy and other diving skills, min- and repetitive dives in order to get a single should act if they playing an instrument: 8. Build your story: each dive. The ability to the delete the bad imizing your impact on the environment - shot! metering the background water, getting Take time to build a story around the frames means that the greatest limitation it is more so for photographers and video- the right exposure with f-stop corrections, images, including use of top-side is either when the battery runs out; you fill graphers. 5. Close To Your Subject: finding the best composition - everything ‘moments’ that help to complete your col- your card; or your dive time ends. The use of autofocus, auto exposure Being alone in the water is the best way should become almost automatic lection. controls, and the ability to take a white bal- to let animals come close. This is especially If lucky, groups of sharks are more likely 2. Choosing the right system: ance and change the ISO during the dive, important for underwater photography. than single animals to stay around for a 9. Be Bold but Sensible: Choose a camera system according to all help to free up the photographer to Less water between the subject and the while, providing a number of chances. Remain calm around sharks and learn your skill levels and intentions for the focus on finding the subject, composing camera means better visibility, fewer sus- After the first approach, find the best set- to detect their body language. Most sharks future. Start how you intend to continue and lighting the shots, while being careful pended particles, fewer micro-bubbles ting and concentrate on the composition exhibit swimming patterns that demon- for years to come with a system that allows not to damage the precious aquatic life reflecting the light and better sharpness. to get a wider choice and keep shooting. strate their state of mind; dorsal fins down you to upgrade as you grow your skill-set around you. In the right situation, marine creatures and arched back provides ample warning and interest levels. Become self-sufficient as you will need are often curious rather than elusive. they 7. Crafting the image: as they are letting you know you should If you decide on a compact solution, to conduct solo-dives for best results. will choose the direction, the speed, the In open water, depending on depth, move away. push your budget to include the best you angle- — and most of the time they will be light penetrates the water in a way that fil- Failing to recognize these signs may can afford, with lens adaptors and diopters, 4. Learn about your choice of subject: in the ters out the color spectrum. Good camera result in unpleasant consequences - and strobes, etc. If you decide on a DSLR, Study up and get as much information back-light in order to take advantage of models provide excellent white-balance you will only have yourself to blame if choose a camera that suits you equally as possible about the animal or subject using the natural light to hide their body, features so that you can control the color things go wrong! New messaging apps gain traction in workplace No more messy emails

WASHINGTON: Looking to break als” have different ways of working. ness productivity,” he said. email and Skype, aiming for a broad out of a “messy” email situation, the “They want to work when they want Slack and rivals like Atlassian’s set of business tools under its nonprofit group dosomething.org to, they want chat sessions that bet- HipChat and Microsoft’s Yammer umbrella. “Microsoft hasn’t made a recently switched over to a new way ter integrate with their social media offer social media-style interfaces for lot of noise, but they have been of communicating among its far- lives,” Le Clair said. Le Clair said many messages, and some integrate with aggressive in remaining the domi- flung teams. workplaces are facing “information business applications to enable nant place in productivity applica- Moving most internal communi- overload” due to the volume of voice calls, video and other services. tions,” Castanon-Martinez said. cations to the messaging application emails that need to be sorted and Slack recently teamed with cloud Aggressive pricing is also being Slack with its “channels” for various prioritized. “The goal is to get out of computing group Salesforce to used as a way to woo businesses teams made it easier to coordinate email hell,” he said. broaden its offerings in services such away from Slack. Microsoft offers its CHINA: Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, left, and Chen Dong, right, chat the group’s social change projects as customer relations management. suite of services for $2 to $4 per user, behind a glass enclosure during a presser at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch across 131 countries, said software ‘Just sign up’ Slack also allows organizations to and Facebook $1 to $3 per user engineer Joe Kent. “All the teams Small- and medium-sized busi- create channels for communicating compared with Slack’s standard Center in northwest China yesterday. —AP have their channels and anyone can $6.67 per user. jump in and see what the others are doing,” Kent told AFP. “You can follow The Facebook model China to blast 2 the conversation a lot more quickly.” Facebook meanwhile is seeking Slack, created in 2013, has to use its advantage as “the social become a leader in a crowded field media world that millennials grew into space today of new applications aimed at help- up with,” Le Clair said. But the analyst ing workplaces move away from said it is not clear if companies and email. Facebook this month jumped network managers will move to the BEIJING: Chinese officials unveiled plans sion for two years and docking with three headlong into this segment with its Facebook platform. “Most of the for today’s launch of the country’s latest visiting spacecraft. The Tiangong, or Workplace application, aiming to employers and managers didn’t space mission in which two astronauts will “Heavenly Palace,” stations are considered leverage the popularity of the lead- grow up in that world,” he said. “They be blasted into space and will dock with an stepping stones to a mission to Mars by ing social network used by some 1.7 associate Facebook with something orbiting space lab. the end of the decade. billion people. nesses find Slack especially appeal- outside the enterprise, powered by their kids are doing, it’s not associat- The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft will be Wu identified the astronauts flying the Facebook is among an array of ing because of its ease of use on artificial intelligence “bots.” “Slack is ed with productivity and getting launched at 7:30 a.m., said Wu Ping, mission as 49-year-old Jing Haipeng and competitors vying for a slice of this both mobile and desktop devices, moving away from just being a mes- work done. Some companies even deputy director of China’s manned space 37-year-old Chen Dong. It will be Jing’s market, including several startups says Mark Beccue, an analyst who saging tool, they want to be the restrict the use of Facebook in the engineering office, in a televised news con- third flight into space following missions in and Microsoft. researched the market for Compass home base for enterprise applica- workplace.” ference. The Shenzhou mission will take off 2008 and 2012. “It is any astronaut’s dream San Francisco-based Slack has Intelligence. “There’s no friction. tions, and that’s a different ball- Analysts point out that Slack and aboard a Long March-2F carrier rocket and pursuit to be able to perform many raised some $500 million at a report- Companies don’t have to go through game,” said Raul Castanon-Martinez, similar platforms may increase the from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center space missions,” Jing said at a separate ed valuation of some $4 billion, mak- a major software license process, you an analyst at 451 Research. burden on employees, becoming an on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northern briefing. ing it one of the most prominent just sign up,” Beccue said. “It’s the Castanon-Martinez said that additional “feed” to manage, and China. The state-run China Youth Daily news- venture-funded tech “unicorns” consumerization of an enterprise “Slack’s success took a lot of people that email is still necessary for exter- The spacecraft will dock with the paper said Jing would celebrate his 50th worth over $1 billion. With some product.” by surprise” but that it may be diffi- nal contacts and other functions. Tiangong 2 space station within two days birthday in space. China conducted its first three million active users, including The global enterprise chat and cult to sustain momentum in the Le Clair said artificial intelligence and the astronauts will stay there for 30 crewed space mission in 2003, becoming nearly one million paying for “premi- messaging market is set to reach face of deep-pocketed rivals like may be the tool that helps sift days to test the complex’s ability to sup- only the third country after Russia and the um” service, Slack has become one $1.9 billion by 2019, according to Facebook and Microsoft. through messages to stay on track. port their life. They will also conduct med- US to do so, and has since staged a space- of the fastest-growing business Beccue’s report. Slack came at the Microsoft earlier this year “You’re going to need emerging ana- ical and scientific experiments, Wu said. walk and landed its Yutu rover on the applications. right time for companies seeking announced that its Yammer messag- lytics to go through those streams,” An earlier Tiangong 1 experimental moon. Administrators suggest a manned Craig Le Clair of Forrester new ways to improve workplace effi- ing platform would integrate with its he said. “Facebook has done a lot of space station launched in 2011 went out of landing on the moon may also be in the Research said these services are ciency, Beccue said. “I think they are Office 365 groups, while also offer- investment in AI so they could be service in March after extending its mis- program’s future. —AP growing because younger “millenni- major driver of innovation for busi- ing easy connections to Outlook well-placed to do that.” —AFP Obama shakes mind-controlled robot hand wired to sense touch

WASHINGTON: A paralyzed man shared a hand- left paralyzed after a car accident. When a get,” said Robert Gaunt, a Pittsburgh assistant pro- shake with President Barack Obama on Thursday researcher touched two fingers at the same time, “I fessor of rehabilitation who led the new study. by using a mind-controlled robotic arm that, in a just laughed and I said, ‘Are you trying to be tricky “People have an incredibly difficult time interact- first for medical research, is helping to restore his or something?” ing with objects, picking objects up, manipulating sense of touch. Preparing to show the president how the cut- them, doing fairly basic things with the hand if Obama fist-bumped Nathan Copeland’s robotic ting-edge research worked, Copeland said he was they don’t have a very basic sense of touch.” hand, and tiny chips implanted in Copeland’s brain “circling between excited and nervous every half- Step one is placing sensors in prosthetics. The let him use his thoughts to move the Star Trek- hour.” next hurdle is how to allow feedback to and from looking metal arm attached to his wheelchair - and Harnessing brain waves to power prosthetics is those sensors. For amputees, some scientists are also let him feel subtle pressure in his own fingers a hot field, with a goal of giving the disabled more attempting to wire nerves left in the remaining when the artificial ones were touched. independence and improving artificial limbs for part of the person’s natural limb directly to the He had “pretty impressive precision,” Obama amputees as well. Headlines in recent years have robotic arm. said. “When I’m moving the hand, it is also sending reported experiments that let paralyzed people That’s not possible if a spinal cord injury has signals to Nathan so he is feeling me touching or move a robotic arm to touch a loved one or take a interrupted the messages that normally flash moving his arm.” The president congratulated the drink simply by imagining the motion. Their between the hand and the brain. But previous University of Pittsburgh researchers who are devel- thoughts activate brain implants that relay electri- monkey research had suggested brain implants oping the technology, saying, “what a story.” cal signals needed to command movement. The could bridge that gap. So surgeons at the The research is part of a quest to make artificial signals are transmitted through a computer to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center implanted limbs that can feel. On Thursday, the Pittsburgh robotic limb. electrodes in the part of Copeland’s brain that con- team reported important early findings: When What’s new is recreating sensation using this trols what his hands feel. they blindfolded Copeland, he could correctly brain-controlled technology. After all, proper Electrically stimulating those cells worked even identify which robotic finger they touched 84 per- motion depends on more than muscle movement. though the car wreck that left Copeland mostly cent of the time. Reach for something and that sense of touch helps paralyzed happened over a decade ago, Gaunt PITTSBURGH: President Barack Obama holds a robotic arm being controlled “The majority of them, it felt like a pressure or a you naturally grasp with just enough force to hang noted. “This shows you can get natural sensation” by the mind of the man in the wheel chair at right as he makes a stop at the tingling” in his own corresponding finger, said on while not either dropping something or crush- through the brain implant, added Pittsburgh neu- exhibition hall of the White House Frontiers Conference on Thursday, Oct. 13, Copeland, 30, of Dunbar, Pennsylvania, who was ing it. “It’s not only that emotional connection we robiologist Andrew Schwartz. 2016. —AP MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE Blue Bell: Testing helps create safe treats post-2015 recall HOUSTON: In the wake of another recall it said in an email. Aspen Hills has said its encouraged by the various actions Blue of its ice cream products, Blue Bell has lab results have been negative for listeria Bell says it’s taken. stood firm in its belief that a “robust” but it recalled its product because it “The reality for Blue Bell is they are testing program it implemented follow- found lapses in its food safety system. going to have to perform above and ing last year’s listeria contamination is Blue Bell expanded its recall this week beyond at least for the next several years helping the company create safe treats. after Aspen Hills recalled additional sup- where they don’t have incidents or But while the new recall - again linked plies of its product. recalls and are trusted again by con- to listeria and involving a third-party Listeria can cause serious illness, sumers and the federal government,” supplier - is likely to result in more regu- especially in older adults, pregnant Henning said, adding that ultimately it is latory and public scrutiny for Blue Bell, women and people with weakened Blue Bell’s responsibility to ensure that experts say it probably won’t mean a immune systems. Blue Bell said that if its suppliers provide it with safe prod- substantial loss of customers. testing shows the presence of listeria, it ucts. In 2014, before the listeria out- Blue Bell had to shut down its flag- shuts down production lines and steam- break, Blue Bell had about $680 million ship creamery in Brenham, Texas, about treats equipment. in revenues, said Evan Danckwerth, an 70 miles from Houston, for a few months The state’s inspection records show analyst with research firm PrivCo. That to fully clean after last year’s recall, which that suspected sources of listeria from fell to about $288 million last year, and is was linked to 10 listeria cases in four November through July in the Brenham projected to be around $340 million this states, including three deaths in Kansas. plant included a room where employees year. He noted that sales figures seem to After it restarted production, state leave or cover their shoes before enter- indicate Blue Bell has retained customer inspection records show increased pre- ing production areas, a break room, a loyalty. liminary tests from December 2015 floor drain near an ice cream filling Texas Department of State Health through July indicated the presence of machine and a doorway near a ware- Services spokeswoman Christine Mann listeria on some non-food contact areas. Logo of the Blue Bell Creameries an American food company. —AFP house/distribution area. The preliminary said Blue Bell has worked with its inspec- This led Blue Bell to do additional clean- findings of listeria prompted Blue Bell to tors “to correct any deficiencies.” ing and repairs to things like a break Aspen Hills Inc. - that was potentially take various actions, such as repairs, tak- US Food and Drug Administration room and a floor drain. contaminated with listeria. Testing program gets credit ing apart equipment for additional spokesman Lauren Kotwicki declined to The company has regained some of Tests by Blue Bell and the Texas Blue Bell credited its testing program cleaning and adding sanitizing crystals comment on Blue Bell or its latest recall. its market share, but the efforts took a Department of State Health Services with discovering the problem. “Because in affected areas. None of these incidents In the wake of the current recall, Blue hit last month after it announced it was found the presence of listeria in listeria is common in the natural environ- resulted in a shutdown of the plant. Bell said it continues to “refine our proce- recalling some ice cream products after unopened boxes of the dough. It was ment, our robust environmental testing Brandon Henning, who works for a dures, make additional physical finding chocolate chip cookie dough first discovered Sept. 9; Blue Bell began program actively searches for and sani- New Jersey-based company that creates enhancements in our facilities, and rein- from a third-party supplier - Iowa-based buying the cookie dough in January. tizes areas where listeria may be present,” quality control software, said he is force our employee training.” —AP Heroin crime immunity yields mixed results, AP review finds Blanket immunity granted CINCINNATI: Reeling from a surge in heroin adopt Gloucester’s approach have seen similarly cent of participants have relapsed at least once. overdoses, authorities in the Cincinnati area low numbers of drug drop-offs. Seattle’s 5-year-old LEAD program - which made an offer: Hand in potentially deadly drugs connects low-level drug offenders and prosti- and you won’t be charged. But the blanket 200 addicts placed into treatment tutes with support including housing and men- immunity granted by a judge there over a In Scarborough, Maine, roughly a dozen of tal health counseling instead of jail - hasn’t been month ago hasn’t brought in any heroin so far. the over 200 addicts placed into treatment have compiling drug use statistics but will going for- Results from similar efforts elsewhere have turned in small quantities of drugs and para- ward, said Lisa Daugaard, who helps manage the also yielded few drugs, according to a review by phernalia. In Dixon, Illinois, two of the more than program. It is being replicated in Santa Fe, New The Associated Press. Still, that hasn’t dissuaded 100 addicts so far placed into treatment have Mexico; Albany, New York; Baltimore; Portland, supporters who, along with officials nationwide, willingly handed over drugs. Oregon, and other cities. feel like their backs are against the wall as they The efforts are more focused on getting peo- Authorities around Ohio, meanwhile, are try to fight the opiate crisis. “Turn it in, get it off ple into treatment than rounding up drugs, said watching Cincinnati’s immunity approach with the streets; get it out of your homes, out of your John Rosenthal, director of a Massachusetts hope and skepticism. “You’re asking the addicts families,” Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco, the Hamilton organization supporting Gloucester’s and some and the sellers to give up their drugs. And that’s County coroner, pleaded last month. 160 similar efforts nationwide. tough,” said Cmdr. John Burke, who leads a drug BANGKOK: A mourner is attended after passing out while waiting for the motorcade She and other county leaders had hoped “Just to be 100 percent clear, we don’t view task force in nearby Brown County. “They get it carrying the body of King Bhumibol Adulyadej outside the Grand Palace. —AFP people would willingly come forward with dead- our programs as offering ‘immunity’ for people and they shoot it up. That’s what it’s all about.” ly drugs when a judge granted their request for in possession of illegal drugs,” he said. “We are Sheriff Richard Jones, from neighboring US diabetics declined blanket immunity on Sept. 7. But as of Tuesday, offering access to treatment without arrest, Butler County, questioned whether dealers the prosecutor’s office had yet to hear about any shame or judgment, and if participants happen caught with drugs during a traffic stop could drugs being turned in to any local law enforce- to bring in drugs, police will gladly receive and claim they were on their way to turn it in. to blood sugar levels ment agency in the county. “We weren’t expect- destroy them.” Dixon Police Chief Dan Langloss The Hamilton County prosecutor’s office ing a lot of drugs,” said Julie Wilson, a spokes- agreed: “It’s an important part of the program, responded that people would have to walk into NEW YORK: The number of US diabetics glycemic control occurred, but it’s possible woman. “It was something out of the box to try but it’s not the focus. It sends a message to peo- the station to be granted immunity; leaders with healthy blood sugar levels has at least some patients were using less whatever we can to deal with this problem.” ple struggling that we’re not here to arrest you. have said a relative would likely be the one to declined in recent years, a study suggests. effective medicines by the end of the study, Addicts who have gone through similar We’re here to help you.” Simply offering immuni- turn in drugs. Jones remains unconvinced. “This Researchers analyzed data on 1.6 million Lipska said by email. efforts in other parts of the country say they ty for turning in drugs isn’t enough; programs will be challenged in court, believe me. And it adults with diabetes from 2006 to 2013. “Many of the newer medications have aren’t surprised Cincinnati’s effort hasn’t borne need to offer ways of ending the cycle of drug will be something else we have to fight,” he said. During this period, the proportion with the advantages of not causing weight gain fruit. “The tangible drug is just the surface, and abuse, arrest and incarceration, addiction “It’s not the answer.” HbA1c below 7% declined from 56 percent or hypoglycemia, however, some are not as with no available access to treatment you’re experts say. But the ultimate impact of programs Michael Haislop, 27, who went through to 54 percent, and the share with HbA1c at potent in lowering blood sugar levels as essentially yelling to a drowning person ‘Just like Gloucester’s remains to be seen. Scarborough’s addiction program in December, or above 9% rose from 10 percent to 12 many of the older medications,” Lipska said. keep swimming!’ without actually throwing a life countered that doing nothing isn’t an option. percent. “Clearly, there is a sizeable propor- “In addition, just because medications are preserver,” said Steve Lesnikoski, 31, the first to Decline in other crimes Haislop quickly fell back into old drug habits tion of patients with poor glycemic control available and put into use doesn’t mean go through a pioneering heroin treatment pro- Advocates cite lower rates of drug-related after being released from prison this year; then - and many of them are young,” said lead that they are necessarily applied in ways gram in Gloucester, Massachusetts. crimes like shoplifting and burglary and fewer he learned about the community’s treatment study author Kasia Lipska of Yale University that improve care,” Lipska added. Launched in June 2015, the ANGEL program fatal overdoses, but independent analysts cau- offer. He has been clean ever since, he said, in New Haven, Connecticut. “We need to do One limitation of the study is its focus lets addicts turn in their heroin to police without tion there are likely other factors contributing to working and attending community college in better for them.” on people with private insurance or fear of arrest. But officials say fewer than 20 per- those declines. And no published data yet show Portland. “Who knows what would have hap- The researchers examined data on pre- Medicare who may be more likely to take cent of the over 500 addicts placed into treat- how addicts fare after treatment. pened if I hadn’t found them?” he said. “But I do scriptions and blood sugar test results to expensive newer medicines than uninsured ment have taken them up on that offer. Two Officials in Gloucester, Scarborough and know the program was a driving force to getting see how changes in medication utilization patients, the authors note in Diabetes Care, communities that were among the earliest to Dixon say informal surveys suggest 10 to 35 per- me to where I am now.” —AP might relate to shifts in the proportion of online September 22. diabetics with healthy blood sugar. Another drawback is that researchers Use of thiazolidinediones plummeted only had blood sugar data for about 25 per- Intercept’s liver drug from 2006 to 2013 when one drug in this cent of the people in the study, noted Dr. class (rosiglitazone) was linked to an David Nathan, director of the gets conditional increased risk of heart attack, stroke and Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes congestive heart failure. Thiazolidinedione Center in Boston. “Other data have suggest- backing of EMA panel prescriptions accounted for less than 6 per- ed a major improvement in diabetes con- cent of the market share for diabetes drugs trol over the past 20 years,” Nathan, who NEW YORK: Drugmaker Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc’s by the end of the study period, down from wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. drug to treat a rare liver condition was conditionally 29 percent at the start. Recently, however, despite the introduc- approved an advisory committee to the European tion of new drugs, improvement in blood Medicines Agency on Friday. Prescriptions fell sugar control has leveled out, Nathan said. The company’s obeticholic acid, or Ocaliva, is aimed at Prescriptions also fell for sulfonylureas. “The new medicines are substantially more patients with primary biliary cholangitis, a condition in These medicines accounted for 31 percent expensive without obvious benefits.” which the body mistakes the bile ducts in the liver for for- of prescriptions at the end of the study, With so many drugs to choose from, it’s eign objects and tries to destroy their lining. The US Food down from 39 percent. Meanwhile, DPP-4 also possible people are overlooking the and Drug Administration approved the drug in May to inhibitors, introduced around the start of role of diet and exercise in managing the treat the disease. the study period, accounted for 15 percent disease, said Dr. William Herman, a The EMA grants conditional approval for drugs that fill of prescriptions by 2013. (These drugs researcher at the University of Michigan in an unmet medical need for serious conditions and show include sitagliptin, saxagliptin and Ann Arbor who wasn’t involved in the early evidence of clinical benefits outweighing the risks. vildagliptin, for example.) study. “Obesity and lack of focus on diet Intercept is also testing obeticholic acid to treat nonalco- Prescriptions for metformin rose from 48 and physical activity may certainly be con- holic steatohepatitis, another serious liver disease with no percent to 54 percent over the course of tributing to the lack of improvement in approved treatments and a much bigger opportunity for the study. The study didn’t explore why blood sugar control,” Herman said by the company. The company’s shares were up 1.3 percent at shifts in drug utilization or changes in email. —Reuters $146 in premarket trade. Benefits of greenhouse gas pact Doctors successfully may fall short of high hopes separate twin boys NEW YORK: A screen displays the share price for pharmaceutical maker AbbVie on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. —AFP OSLO: A pact by almost 200 nations to around 0.2 degree Celsius (0.36F) by 2100” joined at the head slash greenhouse gases used in refrigera- of avoided warming, he said. Climate tors and air conditioners will likely fall Analytics is one of four European research NEW YORK: Forty medical experts at a New York hospital EMA committee short of governments’ hopes of averting a groups working together to project tem- Friday successfully separated conjoined twins attached at full half-degree Celsius (0.9 Fahrenheit) of peratures based on government pledges. the head after a 20-hour procedure. conditionally approves warming this century, scientists say. Their Climate Action Tracker indicates Officials at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx said Saturday’s agreement in Kigali, that government promises for cutting the 13-month-old boys, Jadon and Anias McDonald, were Rwanda, is the biggest single step to limit greenhouse gases - if all carried out and recovering from the marathon surgery that ended about 2 AbbVie leukemia drug climate change since governments before accounting for the HFC agreement a.m., hospital officials said. The twins have “a long road of reached a global agreement in Paris last - would raise average temperatures by recovery and rehabilitation ahead of them,” they said. bbVie Inc won the conditional back- weighing the risks. Venclyxto, developed by year to shift the world economy from fos- 2.7C (4.9F) over pre-industrial times by Their mother, Nicole McDonald, posted a picture of the ing of an advisory committee of the AbbVie and Roche Holding AG, was sil fuels this century. 2100. Half a degree would be a gigantic first twin on Facebook while the second was still undergo- AEuropean Medicines Agency (EMA) approved by the US Food and Drug Amid celebrations of the legally bind- saving. Last year’s Paris Agreement set an ing surgery. She said the atmosphere at the hospital was on Friday for a drug to treat a form of blood Administration in April to treat the disease. ing Kigali pact to phase down use of fac- over-riding goal of limiting a rise in aver- “one of celebration mixed with uncertainty.” cancer. AbbVie will market the drug outside the tory-made hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), age temperatures to “well below” 2C She said Jadon did better than Anias during the proce- The tablet, venclyxto, or venetoclax, is United States, while both companies will many governments and environmental- (3.6F), ideally just 1.5C (2.7F), to avert dure, adding that doctors predict he may not be able to aimed at chronic lymphocytic leukemia sell it in the country under the brand name ists said it could avert 0.5C of warming more droughts, floods, rising sea levels move part of his body at first. The medical team included (CLL) patients with either 17p gene dele- Venclexta. this century, citing a 2013 scientific study. and food and water shortages. experts in the fields of nursing, anesthesiology, neuroradi- tion or TP53 mutation, which are markers Cancer has been a focus area for AbbVie But some leading researchers expect it US Secretary of State John Kerry, ology, neurosurgery, and plastic surgery, led by pediatric for a particularly aggressive form of the dis- as it looks to reduce dependence on its will be less. Eager to declare a victory, whose government hopes to leave a neurosurgeon Dr. James Goodrich and plastic and recon- ease. arthritis treatment Humira, the world’s top- governments glossed over many uncer- strong legacy in fighting global warming, structive surgeon Dr. Oren Tepper. In 2004, Goodrich also AbbVie said patients with these markers selling drug. As part of the strategy, tainties about HFCs. Some more recent hailed the Kigali agreement as a “monu- successfully separated Carl and Clarence Aguirre and a half have a median life expectancy of less than Chicago-based AbbVie bought privately research indicates HFCs may be less pow- mental” step forward. “It will give us the dozen other sets of twins from around the world. “The two to three years. The EMA grants condi- held Stemcentrx and its experimental treat- erful in trapping heat than once feared, opportunity to reduce the warming of the entire Montefiore community is grateful for the trust the tional approval for drugs that fill an unmet ment for small-cell lung cancer in April for said Michiel Schaeffer of Climate planet by an entire half a degree centi- family has put in our dedicated and pioneering team,” the medical need for serious conditions and $5.8 billion. Shares in Abbvie were untrad- Analytics. “My guesstimate would be grade,” he said. — Reuters hospital said in a statement. —AP show early evidence of clinical benefits out- ed premarket at 1300 GMT. —Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Prostate cancer and dementia: Do hormone blockers boost risks? CHICAGO: Hormone-blocking drugs for who don’t receive surgery or radiation or prostate cancer may increase men’s whose cancer has spread to other parts of chances for developing dementia, a large the body. It’s typically given in pills and study suggests, but researchers say the injections for a few months up to a few results aren’t conclusive enough to recom- years although some men with advanced mend avoiding a treatment that can disease stay on the treatment indefinitely, improve survival. said Dr. Kevin Nead, the lead author and a Cancer patients who used the drugs cancer doctor at the University of faced about double the chances of being Pennsylvania. diagnosed with dementia over five years, Some men who can’t tolerate the harsh compared with nonusers. The actual risk of treatment because of older age or other dementia, though, was quite low for all the health problems are sometimes put on hor- men. The researchers analyzed 20 years of mone blockers. Nead said the researchers electronic health records for almost 9,300 took into account other ailments that may prostate cancer patients treated at Stanford also increase risks for dementia. But he said University’s health system. About 20 per- some conditions may have been missed cent of the men were given hormone and he stressed that more research is need- blockers, which lower levels of testosterone ed. Some but not all previous studies that and other hormones that can fuel cancer also reviewed medical records have also growth. suggested the treatment may increase risks After five years of follow-up, about 8 for dementia. Men in the current study percent of men on hormone blockers were were part of a larger study that included diagnosed with dementia versus almost 4 University of Pennsylvania patients and percent of nonusers. The results were pub- that found an increased risk for Alzheimer’s lished Thursday in the journal JAMA disease, one type of dementia. That study, Oncology . The researchers and others say co-authored by Nead, was published last rigorous studies are needed to prove December in the Journal of Clinical whether the widely used treatment is risky. Oncology. Such studies typically use diagnosis and Half receive treatment billing codes in medical records to gauge About half of all prostate cancer treatment risks or disease trends. Nead and patients in developed countries receive the colleagues used a newer computerized treatment, including about 500,000 US method that scans electronic records men currently on the drugs. How the medi- including doctors’ and nurses’ written cines might increase dementia risks is notes, to find the same kind of information. uncertain. One possible explanation is their A JAMA Oncology editorial by effect on testosterone levels. That hormone Vanderbilt University physicians says the can drive cancer cell growth, but low levels results suggest a link, not a cause. “The have also been linked with heart and blood authors rightly frame their conclusions as vessel problems that can also contribute to associations in need of further study,” Drs. WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: This file photo taken on May 1, 2016 shows a Coca-Cola logo in a restaurant.—AFP dementia. Colin Walsh and Kevin Johnson said in the The treatment is often used for men editorial. —AP Coke, Pepsi fund health For Thais overcome groups... but fight them too by the king’s death, medics and a hotline quietly fighting anti-obesity measures NEW YORK: Coca-Cola and Pepsi, the two major Sweetening their image Organization to fight obesity and diabetes. BANGKOK: King Bhumibol Adulyadej longest-reigning monarch after 70 years US soda giants, have given millions of dollars to By supporting health organizations, the Contacted by AFP, the organization refused to was so revered that many Thai people on the throne has left many uncertain health organizations while quietly fighting anti- companies are trying to improve their goodwill say whether it was still taking money from both around the country fainted or felt unwell about the future. One of those being obesity measures such as taxes on soft drinks, a image with the public to distract from their lob- companies. when they learnt this week that he had treated at the palace, Suchin Yamatad, new study shows. bying efforts. “By being able to say they partner The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics died after 70 years on the throne. 64, said he felt dizzy at the news of the The Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo, from 2011 to with so many health organizations, they are (AND) and the NAACP, the nation’s leading Two days on, the government says it king’s death. “It’s just that I’m old. I’ve 2015, sponsored 96 national health organiza- able to create this image that they are actually African American civil rights organization, has provided medical treatment to seen His Majesty for a long time,” he tions battling public health problems such as contributing to public health,” Siegel said in a opposed a proposal by former New York mayor scores of people overcome by grief and added. obesity, diabetes and heart disease, said the phone interview. Michael Bloomberg to reduce the size of soda has told mourners they can call a hotline There was a government web page to research published in the American Journal of That diverts attention away from the fact cans in 2012, after they received money from to help them through the trauma. “There advise people how to cope with grief, Preventive Medicine. During the same period, that “their products are contributing to what is the two drinks companies. The AND, which are people who hyperventilate and we besides a counseling hotline, the the two soda companies lobbied against 29 a terrible obesity epidemic,” he said. About 35 broke off its ties to the two, told AFP it had try to calm them down by talking to Ministry of Public Health said. “Those public health bills intended to reduce soda con- percent of American adults are obese, and 69 accepted the money “to enable the Academy to them,” Boonruang Triruangworawat, who are overcome with emotion can call sumption or improve nutrition. “These compa- percent are overweight, according to 2012 offi- reach a wider consumer audience with healthy director general of the Department of it,” said ministry spokesman nies lobbied against public health intervention cial data. Spending on treatments linked to eating messages.” Mental Health told Reuters on Saturday. Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai. in 97 percent of cases, calling into question a sin- obesity accounted for a fifth of the country’s The NAACP did not respond to AFP requests “Others we have to send to hospital.” Most of Thailand is hushed in digni- cere commitment to improving the public’s health care spending. for comment. Rhona Applebaum, Coca-Cola’s He was speaking outside the Grand fied mourning, but in some areas news health,” said the study’s authors Daniel Aaron For Keith-Thomas Ayoob, a dietician and chief science and health officer, was forced out Palace, a glittering complex of halls, of the death fueled tension. About 400 and Michael Siegel of Boston University. “By professor at Yeshiva University, the source of in late 2015 after reports that she helped set up pavilions and gardens where the remains people gathered outside the home of a accepting funding from these companies, health the funding is not as important as what is done the nonprofit the Global Energy Balance of the king will lie for months before a soya milk vendor in the southern organizations are inadvertently participating in with it. “I think there is a place for proper fund- Network, which downplayed the role of sugary royal cremation. Thousands of black-clad province of Phuket on Friday to protest drinks in obesity and emphasized exercise. “We mourners gathered there on Saturday, against a Facebook post by the vendor’s their marketing plans,” they warned. ing from industries,” he said. “I am only con- some holding umbrellas against the sun, son that they saw as insulting to the Most of the recipients of the companies’ cerned that the fundings go towards the efforts may disagree with some in the public health and others fanning themselves, visibly king, police said. Some shouted threats. largesse were private organizations, while some that benefit consumers,” he said, giving as an community on discriminatory and regressive overcome with grief. “The messages aren’t necessarily were part of the US federal government, such as example helping people better manage dia- taxes and policies on our products,” said the Dotted around the riverside palace aggressive, but they hurt the feelings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention betes. American Beverage Association (ABA). were dozens of ambulances and medical Thai people who are grieving,” said (CDC). The donations have become larger in “But, we believe our actions in communities tents. Teams handed out cotton wool Teerapon Tipcharoen, the Phuket provin- recent years, alongside mounting public health Big Soda lobbying and the marketplace are contributing to soaked in ammonia solution to help cial police commander in charge of the campaigns linking soft drinks to the country’s But Coca-Cola and PepsiCo engage in addressing the complex challenge of obesity,” revive people close to fainting, said a case. The vendor’s son could be charged rising obesity levels-related to a growing preva- intense lobbying to kill any legislation against said the industry lobby, whose members Reuters reporter at the scene. Boonruang with breaking Thailand’s royal defama- lence of diabetes. soft drinks, the study points out, putting the include Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. said around 200 people had been treat- tion and computer crimes law, he added. Coca-Cola recently revealed it had spent sponsored health organizations in a position of Contacted by AFP, Coca-Cola referred ques- ed by medics since the king died, some Thailand’s strict lese-majeste laws more than $120 million since 2010, financing sci- conflict of interest. tions to the ABA, while PepsiCo did not for hyperventilation due to anxiety. protect the most senior royals from entific studies, partnerships with groups fighting That is the case of Save the Children, to respond. The ABA has vowed to spend millions insult. A junta that took power after a obesity and lobbying. According to The Center which Coca-Cola and PepsiCo gave more than of dollars in advertising campaigns in northern Father figure May 2014 coup has used the law to hand for Responsive Politics-an independent, non- $5 million in 2009. A year later, the nonprofit California, notably in San Francisco and Thais loved King Bhumibol as a father down stiff sentences to critics of the profit organization-PepsiCo on average has withdrew its support of a tax for soft drinks, a Oakland, to defeat soda tax proposals in figure, and the death of the world’s monarchy. —Reuters spent $3 million a year on lobbying since 2011. key measure backed by the World Health November votes. —AFP WHAT’S ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

‘Back to Business and Networking Night with US Embassy Staff’

he American Business Council (ABCK) chairperson, Dr Julie Dinkha welcomed guests Meeting, Discover America week, Director of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, Government. This was followed by a Question held its first General Meeting on the 27th and members who included members of US Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner parties, annual addressed the guests. Mr. Silverman expressed and Answer session which focused on the Tof September 2016. The meeting which and Kuwait Industry, US embassy staff and gala, golf tournament, raffles and Special his gratitude to the American Business Council opportunities and procedures for American coincided with the end of the Summer break prospective members of ABCK. In her opening Breakfast events. of Kuwait and commended the organization businesses in Kuwait. was held at the Millennium Hotel Hotel’s speech, the Chairperson emphasized ABCK’s The guest of honor Mr. Lawrence R for its hard work. The Ambassador stressed the The meeting concluded with a raffle where Konoz Ballroom. More than 100 ABCK mem- commitment to the promotion and develop- Silverman, the United States Ambassador importance of the initiative which not only winners scooped a dinner for two at La Mar bers and guests attended this event. The ment of American business interests, increas- Designate to Kuwait, Senior Foreign Service promoted business but generated employ- restaurant and weekend getaways. guests were treated to a dinner and a net- ing awareness of American products and serv- and recently Deputy Assistant Secretary of ment, facilitated organization development Dr Juliet the thanked the Ambassador and working platform. ices in the State of Kuwait. ABCK would do this State for Near Eastern Affairs responsible for and created potential collaboration opportuni- presented him with a copy of the Kuwait Guide The American Business Council of Kuwait’s through networking forums like the General Syria, Jordan and Lebanon as well as the ties for the Kuwait Authority and American book as a token of the forum’s appreciation.

GUST announces Dr. Bob Nelson, Outstanding High School Student Scholarships ‘The Thank You’ Guru From The University of California & ulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) announced for the 1st time in Kuwait yesterday the names of the five students who have been award- fter the opening of the 2nd season of the Ged the Outstanding High School Student Scholarship by the uni- Knowledge Club(tm) 2016 with a Seminar and versity to pursue their undergraduate degrees at GUST. This scholar- AWorkshops focused on The Leadership ship is the only one of its kind offered by a private university in Kuwait. Challenge(r). Vigor Events brings Dr. Bob Nelson - the The names of the five recipients are Dana El Ostaz, Reem Rafe best-selling author and expert on employee recogni- Zaabalawi, Raghda Abdelsalam, Fathima Shaheema Fahmey, and tion, awarding, and retention; all the way from the Raghad Abdelrahman. University of California and for the first time in Kuwait. Professor Donald Bates, GUST President, said: “Our University Attracting, developing and retaining the best believes in bringing out the best in everyone, and we always have an employees has become a top priority of business eye out for those with a leaders today. In “People Don’t Succeed, People Do!” record of excellence and Seminar on the 23rd of October 2016, Dr. Bob Nelson ambition. The aim of reveals his research and experience from having the scholarship is to worked with over 1000 organizations on the topic extend an opportunity focusing on the skill set needed to truly creating a to Kuwait’s best stu- work culture in which employees perform at their dents to continue their best and want to continue to stay with the organiza- education at GUST - tion. Kuwait’s number one In addition, the seminar will provide attendees private university. I am ADAK celebrates Onam and Eid with the enrichment of the Five Trends Shaping the extremely proud of the Future of Work, Strategies for a More Engaged ladies, who will make a Workforce, Creating a Culture of Recognition, valuable addition to our lappuzha District Association (ADAK) celebrat- Onam, Thalappoli, Chendamelam, Songs depicting Inspiring Teamwork & Collaboration at Work. university.” ed Onam and Eid on October 7 at the Onam, Cinematic dance, above all the musical It is also worth noting that Dr. Bob Nelson, PhD, is In order to qualify for ACommunity Hall, Abbassiya from 10 am to 5 orchestra by DAS Band were the main attractions of one of the world’s leading authorities on managing the scholarship, appli- pm in its full spirit and fervor. the day. and motivating today’s employees. He is president of cants can be of any After the national anthems of both Kuwait and In between, a sumptuous Ona Sadya was served Nelson Motivation Inc., a management training and nationality, and have a India, the entire audience paid respect to the Indian to all attendees. Chrisopher Daniel, K C Krishnakumar, consulting company located in San Diego, California; high school overall Jawans who lost their lives while protecting the Shibu Cherian, Binu Chempalayam, Zakir co-founder of Recognition Professionals International; grade percentage of 95 country by lighting candles and observing silence. Puthenpalam, Sunil SS, Saiju, KG Sreekumar, Hari and a leading international advocate for employee or above. The scholar- Thereafter, the Chief Guest, the Indian Embassy Soman, Manoj John, Ganesh were the pillars for the recognition and engagement for more than 15 years. ship covers tuition for Second Secretary A K Srivastava inaugurated the cele- success of the program. He has worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 the entire four years, bration by the traditional lamp lighting. President BS Sradha Binu brilliantly compeered the program. companies to help improve strategies, systems and and can be used Pillai chaired the meeting, while Patron Chacko George Vipin Mangattu, General Secretary welcomed the programs and has presented on six continents. towards any major GUST Kutty, Advisor M S Nair felicitated the occasion. audience, while Program Convener Thomas Mathew Nelson is a multi-million copy best-selling author of Dr Kameleddine Benameur offers. Floral decoration, Mahabali, Pulikkali, Thiruvathira, proposed vote of thanks. multiple books, which have been translated into 37 Also commenting on languages. 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In addition to this scholarship, GUST also offers a number of other This seminar is part of the Knowledge Club(tm) scholarships, including the regular GUST Scholarship, which can cover 2016 series which is organized by Vigor Events and tuition up to 100% for students of all nationalities on a semester basis ; Co-Organized by ALGAS Events Company. Members the Mission Scholarship, whereby Kuwaiti GUST graduates can go on of the Knowledge Club(tm) this year include Hadi to earn their Master’s and PhD’s in the United States; the GUST Clinic as Gold Sponsor, Gulf Bank & Warba Insurance Summer Scholarship program, which was specifically established and as Silver sponsors, Platinum Gym, Dar Alshifa funded to reward outstanding GUST students with opportunities for Hospital, Warba Bank, and Beyout Investment personal and academic growth by enriching their academic experi- Company as Event Sponsors, Corporate Sponsor ence through international study; the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Kuwait Oil Company, Success Partner Equate, Scholarship for Kuwaiti Students, which can cover a percentage of Strategic Partner Ahli Bank of Kuwait, Executive tuition for Kuwaiti students on a semester basis; and the Abdulrahman Education Partner IE Business School and media sup- Al Bader Scholarship, which covers the entire four years (maximum port from the International Advertising Association 120 credits) for high school graduates at the College of Business Kuwait Chapter. Administration. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 Ford’s Warriors in Pink Dedicated to fuelling the spirit of breast cancer survivors

adiating with positivity, breast can- Kuwait what could have been, rather just stay positive cer survivors selected by Ford “Everyone said I was so strong and coped and move on.” R Middle East and North Africa for this very well emotionally. I’m not sure I always felt The 2016 edition of Warriors in Pink was a year’s edition of Warriors in Pink have that strong inside when I was at my weakest relaxing event held at the Baraka Wellness come together to reflect on their battles with the chemotherapy treatment”, says Model Centre at the Costa Del Sol hotel, Kuwait. Two with the disease and to share their heart- of Courage Sheila Lilley. She continues: “But my breast cancer survivors- Sheila and Jane Chacko felt stories. view was that, as long as my children and hus- -modelled the new apparel and accessories col- By continuously asking, “What more can band were healthy, I could cope emotionally lection, and shared their powerful message of we do?” Ford’s long-standing programme and physically. My main concern was making hope. Warriors in Pink continues to support, sure I survived as I was not ready to say good- Sue Nigoghossian, general manager, inspire and empower patients, survivors bye to my beautiful children.” Communications, Ford Middle East and North and co-survivors of the disease year after In a similar context, Model of Courage Jane Africa, said: “We are thrilled to welcome these year. The objective is to drive conversation Chacko advises women: “It is very important to courageous and inspiring women to the on breast cancer awareness as a leading take the necessary precautions. I went for a Models of Courage programme, and we are health concern, to spread a message of baseline mammogram when I was 40 years old, proud to have them represent Warriors in Pink hope to current patients and to encourage but then I never went back. Had I gone for reg- in the region. This campaign has flourished into women and men to get regular check-ups. ular mammograms, I would not have been able a long-standing programme in the Middle East Following the remarkable success of to prevent cancer, but my cancer would have and North Africa, and we continue to be com- previous years’ activities, Ford recently been detected earlier, which would have made mitted to raising greater awareness of breast organised several photo sessions for sur- my treatment easier. In fact, if my cancer had cancer and the importance of early detection as vivors - “Models of Courage” - across the been diagnosed in time, I could have avoided it can help save lives.” “Through the Warriors in Middle East and North Africa region, in the going through chemotherapy. So go for a Pink campaign, we aim to further raise aware- hope that these courageous ladies’ actions mammogram!” Chacko explains: “If a woman is ness in the UAE and across the MENA region, to can inspire current and future patients in diagnosed with cancer, it is not necessarily the encourage, inspire and empower breast cancer their own battles. The 2016 collection of end of the world. Cancer can be treated and patients, as well as their families.” the “Warriors in Pink” clothing and acces- many women are breast cancer survivors and Ford Warriors in Pink hopes to raise the sories line, which includes a wide range of are leading normal lives. The important thing is needed awareness about this topic and looks items from scarves to shirts, was also to accept the situation - it is what it is - don’t forward to valuable engagement in the fight introduced during these photo sessions. think about what you should have done or against breast cancer.

Southern American Barbeque at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa For the first time in Kuwait, experience the traditional taste of American BBQ

umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, in the Southern states from North Carolina ing stations featuring burgers and chili dogs. guests to new and memorable dining experi- caramelized bananas to pecan pie and peach Kuwait’s idyllic resort, has ushered in the all the way to Texas. Set in a unique outdoor Daniel Irvine, the new chef at Pepper ences.” cobbler. Jcooler evenings with the launch of its experience by the pool and beach area, the Steakhouse behind the Barbeque flame- In addition, the buffet also offers delicious To complete the evening, guests can relax Southern American Barbeque nights every Southern theme is reflected in the ambiance grilled mastery, said: “We are excited to pres- barbeque accompaniments such as by the beach around the resort’s tranquil sur- Wednesday. and the scents of hickory-smoked meats, fea- ent to guests a one-of-a-kind barbeque tast- Southern-style coleslaw, Cajun jambalaya roundings with live country music. The The special themed-night, which is the turing an array of sumptuous premium slow- ing experience that stays true to the authen- and creamy corn hush puppies. Those with a Southern American Barbeque nights will first of its kind in Kuwait, offers an unforget- cooked beef brisket, baby back ribs smoked tic flavors known in the Southern states. We sweet craving will enjoy a selection of take place every Wednesday from 7pm to table taste of classic American grills popular over Logwood, wings, salads and live cook- are delighted to continuously introduce desserts, ranging from Mississippi Mud cake, 11:30pm. American Ambassador Designate visits Millennium Hotel

illennium Hotel & Convention Centre Kuwait host- wishes for a successful start of a new business year in business magnates and dignitaries from all countries address the season of “Back to Business” issues ahead and ed H.E. Larry Silverman, the US Ambassador Kuwait. “We consider it an honour and our privilege to wel- worldwide” Saleh continued, “and, in this perspective, we to further discuss the opportunities on how to augment MDesignate to Kuwait during an American Business come Your Excellency Larry Silverman to Millennium Hotel strive continuously to ensure exceptionally high standards stronger ties in the upcoming business year. Council event “Back to Business” held on September 27th. Kuwait” said Saleh. and flawless services to our distinguished guests.” The guests were highly impressed by the invigorating Dani Saleh, Area General Manager of Millennium & “As a leading hotel chain with 120 hotels in all across The ambassador was escorted by the embassy officials, ambience in and around the hotel, the conference hall and Copthorne Hotels Kuwait, was present on the auspicious the globe, we are well aware of the crucial role we play in while Kuwait’s community leaders and the representatives also the excellent service provided by the dedicated and occasion to greet H.E. in person and to extend his best upholding Kuwait’s image not only in front of VIPs but also of many reputed American companies were present to expert team of the hotel. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

12:25 Misfit Garage 14:02 How Do They Do It? 13:15 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 14:26 Food Factory 14:30 Storage Hunters 14:50 Superhuman Showdown 14:55 Garage Gold 15:38 Bigger, Better, Faster, 15:20 Gold Divers Stronger 04:00 Nat Geo AD HD 05:00 Marvelʼs Agent Carter 04:25 Super Predator 16:35 How Do They Do It? 16:02 Bigger, Better, Faster, 10:00 Nat Geo AD HD 06:00 Good Morning America - 05:15 Man-Eating Super Snake 17:00 Deadliest Catch Stronger Nat Geo People HD Weekend 06:02 Lair Of The Killer Crocs 17:50 Fast Nʼ Loud 16:26 Prototype This 04:30 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 07:00 Containment 06:49 Killer Hornets From Hell 18:40 For The Love Of Cars 17:14 How The Universe Works Australia 08:00 Suits 07:36 The Wild Life Of Tim 19:30 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 18:02 Superhuman Showdown 05:20 Charlie Luxtonʼs Homes By 09:00 Rosewood Faulkner 19:55 How Do They Do It? 18:50 Prototype This The Med 11:00 Containment 08:00 The Wild Life Of Tim 20:20 Gold Divers: Under The Ice 19:40 How The Universe Works 06:10 The Food Files 12:00 Suits Faulkner 21:10 Storage Hunters 20:30 NASAʼs Unexplained Files 06:35 Poh & Co 13:00 Rosewood 08:25 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 21:35 Garage Gold 21:20 How Do They Do It? 07:25 Food Loverʼs Guide To The 14:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 09:15 Predators Up Close With 22:00 Gold Divers 21:45 Food Factory Planet 15:00 Live Good Morning America Joel Lambert 22:50 Deadliest Catch 22:10 Through The Wormhole With 07:50 Glamour Puds 17:00 This Is Us 10:10 Mermaids: The New 23:40 Railroad Australia Morgan Freeman 08:15 Croatiaʼs Finest 18:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Evidence 00:30 Fast Nʼ Loud 23:00 NASAʼs Unexplained Files 09:05 Eat Street 19:00 Rosewood 11:05 Tanked 01:20 For The Love Of Cars 23:50 How The Universe Works 09:30 Bangkok Airport 20:00 Royal Pains 12:00 Cats 101 02:10 Gold Divers 00:40 Prototype This 10:20 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 21:00 The Fosters 12:55 Bondi Vet 03:00 Deadliest Catch 01:30 How Do They Do It? Australia 22:00 Quantico 13:50 Predators Up Close With 03:50 Railroad Australia 01:55 Food Factory 10:45 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 23:00 Roadies Joel Lambert 02:20 NASAʼs Unexplained Files Australia 00:00 Sleepy Hollow 14:45 Gator Boys 03:10 How The Universe Works 11:10 Charlie Luxtonʼs Homes By 01:00 Prison Break 15:40 Mermaids: The New Discovery World The Med Evidence 04:00 Discovery World 12:00 The Food Files 16:35 Tanked 10:00 Discovery World 12:25 Poh & Co 17:30 Wildest Africa 12:50 Poh & Co 18:25 River Monsters 04:00 Storm Chasers 13:15 Food Loverʼs Guide To The 19:20 My Cat From Hell 04:50 Ultimate Survival Planet 05:00 Airplane vs. Volcano 20:15 Tanked 05:40 Ultimate Survival 13:40 American Food Battle 07:00 The Berlin File 21:10 Wildest Africa 06:30 Ultimate Survival 14:05 Croatiaʼs Finest 09:15 Robot Overlords 22:05 My Cat From Hell 07:20 How Itʼs Made 15:00 Eat Street 11:00 S.W.A.T. 23:00 Beasts Of The Bayou 07:40 How Itʼs Made 15:30 Bangkok Airport 13:00 Apocalypse Pompeii 23:55 Gator Boys 08:00 Kenny The Shark 04:15 The Hive 16:25 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 14:45 The Berlin File 08:25 Dick ʻnʼ Dom Go Wild 04:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A Australia 17:00 Hercules Reborn 08:50 Too Cute! Pint-Sized Teenage Witch 16:50 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 19:00 Robot Overlords 09:40 How Itʼs Made 04:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A Australia 21:00 The Taking Of Pelham 123 10:05 How Itʼs Made Teenage Witch 17:20 Fearless Chef 23:00 Into The Grizzly Maze 10:30 What Could Possibly Go 05:10 Hank Zipzer 18:15 Tales From The Bush Larder 01:00 Bullet Wrong? 05:35 Binny And The Ghost 18:40 Food School 03:00 Attila 04:00 Orphan Black 11:20 Mythbusters 06:00 Violetta 19:10 Poh & Co 04:45 Doctors 12:10 K9 Cops 06:45 The Hive 19:35 Poh & Co 05:15 Eastenders 13:00 Too Cute! Pint-Sized 06:50 Mouk 20:05 American Food Battle 05:45 Eastenders 13:50 Ultimate Survival 07:00 Jessie 20:30 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 06:15 Stella 14:40 How Itʼs Made 07:25 Jessie Australia 07:00 Doctors 15:05 How Itʼs Made 07:50 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 21:00 Lyndey Milan - Taste Of 05:00 Caveman 07:30 Doctors 15:30 Storm Chasers And Cat Noir Australia 07:00 Passed Away 08:00 Eastenders 16:20 Mythbusters 08:15 Tsum Tsum Shorts 21:25 Fearless Chef 09:00 Sister Act 08:30 Casualty 17:10 Kenny The Shark 08:20 Liv And Maddie 22:15 Tales From The Bush Larder 11:00 Caveman 09:25 New Tricks 17:35 Dick ʻnʼ Dom Go Wild 08:45 Bunkʼd 22:40 Food School 13:00 Ghostbusters II 10:20 Doctor Who 18:00 Kids Do The Craziest Things 09:10 Austin & Ally 15:00 Bill & Tedʼs Bogus Journey 11:10 Stella 18:25 Kids Do The Craziest Things 09:35 Shake It Up 17:00 Sister Act 11:55 Doctors 18:50 Baby Animals 10:00 A.N.T. Farm 19:00 How Do You Know 12:25 Eastenders 19:15 Baby Animals 10:25 A.N.T. Farm 21:00 The Foot Fist Way 13:00 New Tricks 19:40 What Could Possibly Go 10:50 Thatʼs So Raven 23:00 Cyrus 13:55 Doctor Who Wrong? 11:15 Thatʼs So Raven 01:00 The Wedding Ringer 03:00 How Do You Know 14:45 Stella 20:30 How Itʼs Made 11:40 Good Luck Charlie 04:45 Animal Storm Squad 15:35 Doctors 20:55 How Itʼs Made 12:05 Good Luck Charlie 05:40 The Lady With 700 Cats 16:05 Eastenders 21:20 Mythbusters 12:30 Jessie 06:35 Worldʼs Deadliest Animals 16:40 New Tricks 22:10 Kids Do The Craziest Things 12:55 Disney Mickey Mouse 07:30 Caught In The Act 17:35 Doctor Who 22:35 Kids Do The Craziest Things 13:00 The 7D 08:25 Animal Storm Squad 18:25 Stella 23:00 Baby Animals 13:15 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 09:20 The Lady With 700 Cats 19:15 Casualty 23:25 Baby Animals And Cat Noir 10:15 Worldʼs Weirdest Animal 04:00 Calendar Girls 20:05 New Tricks 23:50 What Happened Next? 13:40 Hank Zipzer Faces 06:00 Half Of A Yellow Sun 21:00 The Kettering Incident 00:15 What Happened Next? 14:05 Star Darlings ROBOT OVERLORDS ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 11:10 Bearhood 08:00 The Railway Man 22:00 Thirteen 00:40 Ultimate Survival 14:10 Austin & Ally 12:05 Secret Life Of Predators 10:00 The Education Of Little Tree 22:55 Silent Witness 01:30 What Could Possibly Go 14:35 Austin & Ally 13:00 I, Predator 12:15 Love & Mercy 11:00 Sofia The First 12:20 Annedroids 00:00 Orphan Black Wrong? 15:00 Liv And Maddie 02:35 Storage Wars 13:55 Worldʼs Deadliest Animals 14:30 Gridiron Gang 11:25 The Lion Guard 12:45 Annedroids 00:50 Casualty 15:25 Liv And Maddie 03:00 Storage Wars: Best Of 14:50 Caught In The Act 17:00 The Horse Whisperer 11:55 Jake And The Never Land 13:10 Counterfeit Cat 01:45 The Kettering Incident 15:50 Dog With A Blog 03:25 Storage Wars Texas 15:45 Animal Storm Squad 20:00 Escobar: Paradise Lost Pirates 13:35 K.C. Undercover 02:35 Thirteen 16:15 Jessie 03:50 Car Hunters 16:40 Badass Animals 22:00 Rio, I Love You 12:25 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 14:00 K.C. Undercover 03:30 Silent Witness 16:40 Bunkʼd 17:35 Worldʼs Weirdest Animal 00:00 The Hi-Lo Country 12:50 The Hive 14:30 Gravity Falls 17:05 Star Darlings Faces 02:00 The Education Of Little Tree 13:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 14:55 Lab Rats 17:10 Gravity Falls 18:30 Bear Nomad 13:30 Doc McStuffins 15:20 Lab Rats 17:35 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 19:25 Restless Planet 14:00 Jake And The Neverland 15:45 Phineas And Ferb And Cat Noir 20:20 Animal Storm Squad Pirates 16:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 04:00 Betrayed 18:00 Backstage 21:10 Badass Animals 04:00 Workaholics 14:15 Sofia The First 16:15 Supa Strikas 04:25 Paul Oʼgradyʼs Animal 04:48 Deadly Affairs 18:25 Descendants Wicked World 22:00 Worldʼs Weirdest Animal 04:25 Catch A Contractor 14:45 Goldie & Bear 16:40 Supa Strikas Orphans 05:36 Deadly Affairs 18:30 Alex & Co. Faces 05:45 90 Minutes In Heaven 04:50 Ridiculousness 15:15 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 17:05 Lab Rats 06:24 Deadly Affairs 18:55 Disney Mickey Mouse 05:20 The Jonathan Ross Show 22:50 Bear Nomad 08:00 With This Ring 05:15 Key And Peele 15:45 Doc McStuffins 17:30 Danger Mouse 07:12 Deadly Affairs 19:00 Girl Meets World 06:15 Murdoch Mysteries 23:40 Restless Planet 10:00 Everest 05:40 Ridiculousness 16:15 Minnieʼs Bow-Toons 17:55 Kirby Buckets 08:00 Nightmare Next Door 19:25 Star Darlings 07:10 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 00:30 I, Predator 12:15 Star Wars: The Force 06:05 Ridiculousness 16:20 The Adventures Of The 18:25 K.C. Undercover 08:50 I Almost Got Away With It 19:30 Dog With A Blog 08:05 The Chase 01:20 Worldʼs Deadliest Animals Awakens 06:30 Impractical Jokers Disney Fairies 18:50 Annedroids 09:40 On The Case With Paula 19:55 Descendants Wicked World 09:00 Paul Oʼgradyʼs Animal 14:45 Stonehearst Asylum 06:55 Impractical Jokers 16:50 Miles From Tomorrow 19:15 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty Zahn 20:00 Best Friends Whenever 16:45 Step Up All In 07:20 Tosh.0 17:15 Sofia The First Much Everything Orphans 10:30 Deadly Affairs 20:25 Tsum Tsum Shorts 18:45 Hotel Transylvania 2 07:50 Tosh.0 17:45 Jake And The Neverland 19:40 K.C. Undercover 10:00 The Jonathan Ross Show 11:20 Iʼd Kill For You 20:30 Jessie 20:45 Ant-Man 08:15 Tattoo Disasters Pirates 20:05 Future Worm 11:00 Murdoch Mysteries 12:10 California Investigator 20:55 Liv And Maddie 23:00 Electricity 08:40 Tattoo Disasters 18:00 The Lion Guard 20:10 Gravity Falls 12:35 California Investigator 21:20 Austin & Ally 11:55 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 01:00 Entourage 09:05 Ridiculousness 18:30 Goldie & Bear 20:35 Counterfeit Cat 13:00 Nightmare Next Door 21:45 Backstage 12:50 The Chase 02:45 Kidnapping Mr. Heineken 21:00 Lab Rats 13:45 Emmerdale 04:50 Wicked Tuna: North vs. 21:25 Supa Strikas 14:15 Coronation Street South 21:55 K.C. Undercover 05:45 Dead End Express 14:45 Coronation Street 22:20 Gamerʼs Guide To Pretty 06:40 Perilous Journeys Much Everything 15:15 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 07:35 Mega Factories 22:45 Guardians Of The Galaxy 16:10 The Chase 08:30 Worldʼs Most Extreme 23:10 Marvel Avengers Assemble 17:00 Paul Oʼgradyʼs Animal 09:25 Nazi Megastructures 23:40 Disney Mickey Mouse Orphans 10:20 Dead End Express 04:00 Marvelʼs Thor: Tales Of 00:00 Programmes Start At 6:00am 17:55 5 Star Family Reunion 11:15 Airport Security: Colombia Asgaard KSA 18:50 Murdoch Mysteries 12:10 Yukon Gold 05:30 Bolts And Blip 07:00 The Heart Of The Oak 19:45 Emmerdale 13:05 The Yard 14:00 Nazi Megastructures 08:45 Marco Macaco 20:15 Coronation Street 15:00 Worldʼs Most Extreme 10:30 The Flintstones & WWE: 20:45 Coronation Street 16:00 Mega Factories Stone Age Smackdown 21:10 The Chase 17:00 Airport Security: Colombia 12:00 The Olsen Gang In Deep 04:40 Botched 22:00 Paul Oʼgradyʼs Animal 18:00 Yukon Gold Trouble 05:35 Botched Orphans 19:00 The Yard 13:45 Marco Macaco 06:30 Celebrity Style Story 22:55 5 Star Family Reunion 20:00 Mega Factories 15:15 Mamma Moo And Crow 07:00 LA Clippers Dance Squad 23:50 Emmerdale 21:00 Airport Security: Colombia 17:00 The Three Dogateers 07:55 E! News 19:00 The Flintstones & WWE: 00:15 Coronation Street 21:50 Yukon Gold 08:25 LA Clippers Dance Squad Stone Age Smackdown 00:40 Coronation Street 22:40 The Yard 09:20 LA Clippers Dance Squad 23:30 Mega Factories 20:00 Marco Macaco 10:15 LA Clippers Dance Squad 01:10 Whoʼs Doing The Dishes? 00:20 Perilous Journeys 21:30 Miffy The Movie 11:10 E! News 02:00 Emmerdale 01:10 Airport Security: Colombia 23:15 Mamma Moo And Crow 11:40 Fashion Bloggers 02:30 Coronation Street 02:00 Yukon Gold 00:45 The Three Dogateers 12:10 Catching Kelce 03:00 Coronation Street 03:00 The Yard 02:30 Marco Macaco 12:40 Catching Kelce 14:10 WAGs 15:05 WAGs 16:00 E! News 16:30 Fashion Bloggers 17:00 WAGs 18:00 WAGs 19:00 WAGs 20:00 WAGs 21:00 WAGs Miami 22:00 WAGs Miami 23:00 Catching Kelce 00:00 E! News 00:15 WAGs Miami STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS ON OSN MOVIES HD 01:05 WAGs Miami 01:55 Catching Kelce 09:30 Ridiculousness 13:50 I Almost Got Away With It 22:10 H2O: Just Add Water 18:55 Unbungalievable 02:50 Dash Dolls 09:55 Impractical Jokers 14:40 On The Case With Paula 23:00 Binny And The Ghost 19:00 The Lion Guard 03:50 Dash Dolls 10:20 Impractical Jokers Zahn 23:25 Sabrina Secrets Of A 19:30 The Lion Guard 10:45 Workaholics 15:30 Deadly Affairs Teenage Witch 20:00 Jake And The Never Land 11:10 Workaholics 16:20 Iʼd Kill For You 23:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A Pirates 11:35 Ridiculousness 17:10 Web Of Lies Teenage Witch 20:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 12:00 Catch A Contractor 18:00 Disappeared 00:10 Hank Zipzer 21:00 PJ Masks 12:25 Tattoo Disasters 18:50 I Almost Got Away With It 00:35 Binny And The Ghost 21:30 The Adventures Of The 12:50 Tattoo Disasters 04:40 Counting Cars 19:40 True Crime With Aphrodite 01:00 Violetta Disney Fairies 05:05 Counting Cars 13:15 Nathan For You Jones 01:45 The Hive 22:00 PJ Masks 13:40 Nathan For You 05:30 Pawn Stars 20:30 Deadly Affairs 01:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 22:30 PJ Masks 06:00 Mankind The Story Of All Of 14:05 Impractical Jokers 21:20 Impostors Teenage Witch 23:00 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 14:30 Impractical Jokers Us 22:10 I Almost Got Away With It 02:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A 23:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 07:00 Shipping Wars 14:55 Ridiculousness 23:00 Deadline: Crime With Tamron Teenage Witch 00:00 Minnieʼs Bow-Toons 15:20 Ridiculousness 07:25 Shipping Wars Hall 00:05 Henry Hugglemonster 07:50 American Pickers 15:45 Tattoo Disasters 23:50 Jonbenet: An American 00:20 Calimero 16:35 Tosh.0 08:40 Pawn Stars Murder Mystery 00:35 Zou 09:05 Pawn Stars 17:00 Tosh.0 00:40 Murder Book 00:50 Loopdidoo 17:30 Workaholics 09:30 American Restoration 01:30 Deadly Sins 01:05 Art Attack 09:55 Counting Cars 17:55 Workaholics 02:20 Deadline: Crime With Tamron 01:30 Henry Hugglemonster 18:25 Workaholics 10:20 Counting Cars Hall 04:10 Henry Hugglemonster 01:45 Calimero 10:45 Car Hunters 18:50 Hungry Investors 03:10 Jonbenet: An American 04:20 Calimero 02:00 Zou 19:39 Ridiculousness 11:10 Car Hunters Murder Mystery 04:35 Zou 02:15 Loopdidoo 11:35 American Restoration 20:03 Ridiculousness 04:45 Loopdidoo 02:30 Art Attack 20:27 Impractical Jokers 12:25 Mankind The Story Of All Of 05:00 Art Attack 03:00 Calimero Us 20:50 Impractical Jokers 05:25 Henry Hugglemonster 03:15 Zou 21:13 Catch A Contractor 13:15 Mountain Men 05:35 Calimero 03:30 Loopdidoo 14:05 The Curse Of Oak Island 22:00 The Daily Show - Global 05:50 Zou 03:45 Art Attack Edition 14:55 Pawn Stars 04:00 Close Encounters 06:00 Loopdidoo 15:20 Pawn Stars 04:24 Close Encounters 06:15 Art Attack 15:45 Pawn Stars South Africa 04:48 Close Encounters 06:35 Henry Hugglemonster 16:10 Pawn Stars South Africa 05:12 Close Encounters 06:50 Calimero 16:35 Shipping Wars 05:36 Close Encounters 07:00 Zou 17:00 American Pickers 06:00 Close Encounters 07:20 Loopdidoo 07:00 Boyster 17:50 Storage Wars: Best Of 06:24 How The Universe Works 07:35 Art Attack 07:10 Super Matrak 18:15 Storage Wars Texas 07:12 How The Universe Works 08:00 The Hive 07:35 Super Matrak 18:40 The Curse Of Oak Island 04:40 Fast Nʼ Loud 08:00 How Do They Do It? 08:10 Zou 19:30 Mankind The Story Of All Of 05:30 Garage Gold 08:00 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 08:26 Prototype This 08:25 Loopdidoo 08:25 K.C. Undercover Us 06:00 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 09:14 How The Universe Works 08:40 Sheriff Callieʼs Wild West 20:20 American Pickers 06:30 How Do They Do It? 08:50 The 7D 10:02 Superhuman Showdown 09:05 Sofia The First 09:00 Phineas And Ferb 21:10 Pawn Stars 07:00 Deadliest Catch 10:50 How Do They Do It? 09:30 PJ Masks 21:35 Pawn Stars 07:50 For The Love Of Cars 09:15 Danger Mouse 11:14 Food Factory 09:40 Goldie & Bear 09:40 Counterfeit Cat 22:00 Ozzy & Jackʼs World Detour 08:40 Fast Nʼ Loud 11:38 Bigger, Better, Faster, 09:55 Doc McStuffins 22:50 Aussie Pickers 09:30 Gold Divers 10:05 Future Worm Stronger 10:10 Jake And The Neverland 10:10 Gravity Falls 23:40 Gold Hunters: Legend Of 10:20 Garage Gold 12:02 Bigger, Better, Faster, Pirates The Superstition... 10:45 How Itʼs Made: Dream Cars 10:35 Lab Rats Stronger 10:20 PJ Masks 11:00 Supa Strikas 00:30 Ozzy & Jackʼs World Detour 11:10 How Do They Do It? 12:26 Prototype This 10:35 Miles From Tomorrow 01:20 Aussie Pickers 11:35 Wheeler Dealers 11:25 Supa Strikas 13:14 How The Universe Works 10:45 Doc McStuffins 11:50 Danger Mouse 02:10 Storage Wars HALF OF A YELLOW SUN ON OSN MOVIES FESTIVAL Classifieds

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY

SHARQIA-1 FANAR-2 DEEPWATER HORIZON 12:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 11:45 AM AVENUES-1 DEEPWATER HORIZON 2:45 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 2:00 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 5:00 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 4:15 PM SULLY 4:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 7:30 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 7:00 PM OPPAM - Malayalam 6:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 10:00 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 9:45 PM ASHAN KHARGEN 9:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 12:15 AM DEEPWATER HORIZON 12:05 AM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 11:45 PM

SHARQIA-2 FANAR-3 AVENUES-2 LAF WA DAWARAN 11:30 AM TANK 432 11:30 AM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D- 4DX 12:00 PM STORKS 11:30 AM TANK 432 1:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON-2D- 4DX 2:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 1:45 PM MIRZYA - HINDI 3:30 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D- 4DX 5:15 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 4:00 PM PREMAM - Telugu 3:30 PM HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1- 2D 4DX 8:00 PM CHANGE OF NAME LAF WA DAWARAN 6:15 PM MIRZYA - HINDI 6:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON-2D- 4DX 11:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 8:30 PM NO FRI+MON I Zahra holding Indian LAF WA DAWARAN 10:45 PM PREMAM - Telugu 6:30 PM AVENUES-3 Passport No. Z3218479 LAF WA DAWARAN 1:00 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 11:30 AM TANK 432 9:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 1:45 PM issued at Kuwait on SHARQIA-3 PREMAM - Telugu 9:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 4:00 PM 29/11/2015, would like USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 11:30 AM TANK 432 12:15 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 6:15 PM change my name to USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 2:15 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 8:30 PM Albertina Fernandes. STORKS 5:00 PM FANAR-4 LAF WA DAWARAN 10:45 PM (C 5219) 17-10-2016 USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 7:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 1:15 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 1:00 AM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 9:45 PM STORKS 1:30 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 12:30 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 3:30 PM 360º- 1 LAF WA DAWARAN 5:45 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 12:30 PM MUHALAB-1 LAF WA DAWARAN 8:00 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 3:15 PM Automated LAF WA DAWARAN 11:30 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 10:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 6:00 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 1:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:30 AM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 8:45 PM enquiry about the STORKS 4:15 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN -3D 11:30 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 6:15 PM FANAR-5 Civil ID card is USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 9:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 11:30 AM 360º- 2 USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 11:45 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 1:45 PM THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM 12:00 PM 1889988 USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 4:15 PM THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM 2:00 PM MUHALAB-2 USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 7:00 PM THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM 4:00 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 11:30 AM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 9:45 PM SULLY 6:15 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 1:45 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 12:30 AM SULLY 8:30 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 4:00 PM THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM 10:45 PM PREMAM - Telugu 4:00 PM MARINA-1 THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM 1:00 AM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 6:45 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 1:15 PM PREMAM - Telugu 6:45 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 1:30 PM 360º- 3 DEEPWATER HORIZON 9:30 PM MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 4:00 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1:00 PM NO FRI MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 6:45 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 3:45 PM PREMAM - Telugu 9:30 PM USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 9:30 PM NO FRI+SAT FRI USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE 12:15 AM OPPAM - Malayalam 3:45 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 12:15 AM FRI+SAT MARINA-2 OPPAM - Malayalam 6:45 PM MUHALAB-3 LAF WA DAWARAN 12:45 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 9:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 3:00 PM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 12:30 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 3:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 5:15 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 5:15 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 7:30 PM AL-KOUT.1 PRAYER TIMINGS LAF WA DAWARAN 7:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 9:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:30 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 9:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:05 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 2:45 PM Fajr: 04:31 LAF WA DAWARAN 12:15 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 5:15 PM MARINA-3 LAF WA DAWARAN 7:30 PM Shorook 05:50 FANAR-1 DEEPWATER HORIZON 11:45 AM LAF WA DAWARAN 9:45 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:15 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 2:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 12:05 AM Duhr: 11:33 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 2:30 PM STORKS 4:15 PM STORKS 5:15 PM STORKS 6:15 PM AL-KOUT.2 Asr: 14:49 STORKS 7:15 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 8:15 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 11:45 AM Maghrib: 17:16 LAF WA DAWARAN 9:15 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 10:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 2:00 PM LAF WA DAWARAN 11:30 PM DEEPWATER HORIZON 12:45 AM STORKS 4:15 PM Isha: 18:33

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CROSSWORD 1402 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) Ideas for the best steps to take in order to reach your personal goals are available to you now. Questions or problems you have pondered will have easy answers. Relationship insecurity could sap your vitality today as you exert your need for inde- There are matters of self-discovery at hand. Some new clothing that you have selected is pendence. The feelings of a significant other can be a major source of concern as the perfect for work. Plans at the end of this month may find you putting together decorations Full Moon in your impulsive sign opposes the Sun in your 7th House of Partnerships. for your home. Some amount of cooking will also be needed. A family member may be Hopefully, you’ve already made significant decisions that are positively affecting helping you. You may be asked to work with your loved one on some community project your personal life. Now it’s time to take things to the next level. If you’re bogged later today. You love most community projects and group work and you are quite popular down in an emotional funk, shift your thinking. If you can’t change the situation, with those that see you often in these circumstances. This evening there are surprises and change your attitude. lots of pictures to share.

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

Your happiest times all month are the days, like this day, when you There are motivating energies available to help you gain more vigor and to spend time with friends in group activities. Spiritual practices and some charity work generally improve your physical wellbeing. Health goals take on a greater may be involved in making this a rewarding time. You may find yourself being put to importance. Do an inventory, seek advice and enjoy busying yourself with new ideas for good use by your friends. You usually have quick answers, great wit and a surplus of better health. New changes in security issues bring about that feeling of comfort. You are insight. This is a good time to write and communicate with real originality. Inventions a stickler on being prepared for the winter and you may have discovered a few things that and breakthroughs are possible. Everything conspires to value and to bring out your are in need of repair, updating and securing. You also plan on taking care of personal busi- ness, saving only a few necessary trips for business interaction during next week. You unique and unusual qualities. You find that someone close to you understands and is crave organization and may want to change the way you run your home. You aim to have supportive of your ideas or your work; they encourage you. Tonight you show family a place for everything and everything in its place. and friends your appreciation of them-some meal or entertainment is in order.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) After a busy week, you may decide to take some time to relax and enjoy In-depth discussions and probing conversations find you at your mental your environment. You may decide to check out a new bookstore or visit best. Your analytical abilities are at a high point. Ideals and a sense of the park. An old friend may reenter your life today and you two may find yourselves belonging to something bigger than the merely personal become greater focuses in your ACROSS abdomen. life. You attach more importance to friendships and taking part in group activities that 1. (music) The pace of music measured by 80. A barrier constructed to contain the flow lost in much conversation. This is a time of coming to grips with the past or getting in touch with the mystical and the spiritual: these things give a sense of satisfaction. center on idealistic goals. Meeting yourself in another person is the keynote of a new cycle the number of beats occurring in 60 sec- or water or to keep out the sea. Rewarding days make up for all the stress that comes with those challenging days. It is that begins for you now. Relationships-romantic, business and social-are the arenas where life is enjoyed and adventures are thrilling. In coming to know the other person, you come onds. 81. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis your turn to grab the attention. There are emotional beginnings, a fresh start, perhaps to a better understanding of yourself. It’s easy in theory, but it’s only in practice that it 4. A mountain peak in south central Sri caused by the measles virus and occurring the establishment of new habit patterns. Relationships with all sorts of people and comes to mean anything real-so practice, practice, practice. Lanka (7,360 feet high). primarily in children and young adults. family events are very important during this time. You are a very positive person. 12. A master's degree in library science. 82. Board a plane. 15. American prizefighter who won the 83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made world heavyweight championship three from aba cloth. times (born in 1942). Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. Trees or shrubs of the families DOWN Being more practical and budgeting your income take on a special impor- As this day progresses, romance and social interaction take on a greater Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or 1. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind tance this morning. Sometimes we all get to take giant steps forward importance for you. Pleasant ties to others are what you crave for; refine- Symplocaceae. and raisins and almonds. toward our goals but sometimes we get to take a few steps backward. This backward ment and elegance are what you seek. The ideal partnership, the perfect balance, the 17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) 2. Someone who plies a trade. stepping is actually a blessing . . . Sorting things out and becoming better organized has highest standards of truth and beauty are some of the things that quicken your pulse. You that was responsible for research into atom- 3. Read or interpret wrongly. its own reward. You and a mate or family member may chuckle over the mistakes of late will recognize the opportunities coming that will help you achieve your desires. This is a ic energy and its peacetime uses in the 4. The seat within a bishop's diocese where and realize that everything serves a purpose. This evening, you may encourage each oth- practical and materialistic kind of focus, one that emphasizes the making and spending of United States. his cathedral is located adv. er. You will find the evening a good time to catch up on your letter writing, phone calls money. Learning what really counts is an important lesson that may be learned the hard 18. The capital of Kyrgystan (known as 5. A member of the Circassian people living and bill writing. Communicating with loved ones and tending to unpaid bills or forgotten way. A mentor would be a good thing. A friend may need your help this evening, which Frunze 1926-1991). east of the Black Sea. correspondence brings about a good feeling of having accomplished important tasks. may be the diversion you need. Laughter is great medicine. 20. A cloth covering (a legging) that pro- 6. A state in New England. vides covering for the instep and ankles. 7. The part of the nervous system of verte- 21. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic brates that controls involuntary actions of Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) information from DNA to the cytoplasm. the smooth muscles and heart and glands. Take a little trip today. Enjoy getting away from your regular routine. This is There is an interest in broadening your intellectual and spiritual horizons. A 22. A Chadic language spoken in Chad. 8. Greek mythology. a very nice day, perhaps filled with some renewed appreciation for all that friend of your family may have invited all of you to a special event at his or her church. 23. A hemoprotein composed of globin and 9. A state in northwestern North America. is beautiful and fine. There is a sense of value and valuing that may find you lavishing This time is favorable for involvement in advanced ideas in information, communications heme that gives red blood cells their charac- affection on those near you. You might feel sensitivity toward an older person. You have a 10. The literary culture. and transportation. There have been several questions that you wanted to ask someone teristic color. natural sense for communicating with others, especially those younger than yourself. 11. Consisting of a haphazard assortment of knowledgeable and you will be happy to have your questions answered. Being in touch Clear thoughts about the past may also be flowing in as you update a photo album or 24. Of or relating to or characteristic of different kinds (even to the point of incon- with ideas on a grand scale keeps your mind busy. You may learn how to figure out reso- write to a relative. You may be able to enjoy and value your own life situation and com- Estonia or its people or language. gruity). lutions to opposing views and encourage better relations between people. You are cer- munication opportunities are open between you and a friend or loved one. Your advice to 26. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian 12. A member of a rural Finnish people liv- tainly excited to try out what you have learned today. You may have insight into helping a young person is timed perfectly. You make a positive difference. palm trees. ing in eastern Russia. create world peace. Keep a log of your thoughts. 29. Type genus of the Anatidae. 13. A Russian river. 30. Type genus of the Artamidae. 14. The act of scanning. 34. Relating to the deepest parts of the 19. A Dravidian language spoken in south- Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) ocean (below 6000 meters). ern India. 37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the moon 25. City in Sudan. Start to plan now for a vacation in the next few weeks. This will be the time Lovers, children and other people or things dear to your heart are empha- in ancient mythology. 27. Small genus of Eurasian herbs. when energies work in your favor and will also comply with the idea of a change in activi- sized at this time. Being appreciated and admired for your gifts and talent is a powerful 38. Angular distance above the horizon 28. A swindle in which you cheat at gam- ties. The vacation you take may lead you into a new type of job market-if that is what you need. Taking chances can bring big rewards. Friends, group projects and community con- (especially of a celestial object). bling or persuade a person to buy worthless are seeking. Whatever the case, you are open to new and better opportunities. This new cerns play a key role that influences your future goals. This sunday may be a good time to 39. Leave a camp. property. job may require travel and if you have no children, this would be a good time for the have a group meeting with family, neighbors or friends and decide on the wonderful dec- orations that are available for parties or preparations for the wonderful upcoming fall 42. The capital and largest city of 31. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi change. Being a travel guide or survivor teacher is a position you have looked forward to for a long time. Music is likely to play an important role for you and it is highly likely that events. Instead of decorating your house all by yourself, why not work as a team on each Bangladesh. Arabia. 43. A member of an agricultural people of friends or family will enjoy the music you produce. You will probably not be alone with other’s houses traditions are the glue that help deepen relationships; now may be a good 32. Unwind or untwist. your music as others enjoy singing or playing an instrument with you. time to start a new tradition. southern India. 33. A meeting of spiritualists. 45. A notable achievement. 35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. 48. An argument opposed to a proposal. 36. A soft silvery metallic element of the 49. A period marked by distinctive character alkali earth group. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution or reckoned from a fixed point or event. 40. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and 50. Before noon. brown and black and tan. 51. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) 41. Of a period of maximal use or demand or issues from volcanos. activity. 53. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB 44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake gun. Chad. 55. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka 46. Reprehensible acquisitiveness. Bay. 47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element 57. A white metallic element that burns with that is highly corrosion-resistant. a brilliant light. 52. Any of numerous local fertility and 58. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease nature deities worshipped by ancient affecting connective tissue (skin or joints). Semitic peoples. 59. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue. 54. Jutting or overhanging. 61. A unit of luminous flux equal to the 56. A downhill race over a winding course amount of light given out through a solid defined by upright poles. angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 60. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who candela intensity radiating uniformly in all was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus. directions. 62. An intensely radioactive metallic ele- 63. Relating to or having the characteristics ment that occurs in minute amounts in ura- of bees. nium ores. 65. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De 64. A public promotion of some product or Danann. service. 68. Small European freshwater fish with a 66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. slender bluish-green body. 67. Tropical starchy tuberous root. 69. An interior passage or corridor onto 73. Channel into a new direction. which rooms open. 75. A region of northeastern France famous 70. The front of the head from the forehead for its wines. to the chin and ear to ear. 77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which 71. Someone who works (or provides work- the pilot is talked down by ground control ers) during a strike. using precision approach radar. 72. God of love and erotic desire. 78. Consisting of or involving two parts or 74. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed. components usually in pairs. 76. The month following August and pre- 79. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the ceding October.

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A source told the Mail on Sunday that the couple have been looking at homes in Hampstead and added: “Jenna has been telling everyone she has fallen madly in love. She and Tom are looking for a place to buy together. “They have been keen to keep their relationship under wraps. “Their whole courtship has been a bit cloak-and-dagger, This image released by Turner Classic Movies shows FilmStruck, a new subscription and they have been careful not to be pho- streaming service displayed on multiple devices. — AP tographed together.” And their chemistry has been praised by Daisy Goodwin, who wrote the ‘Victoria’ series. She said: “Tom and Jenna being so close makes it easier for them to FilmStruck aims work together. They are very private about their relationship.” Jenna and Tom reportedly began dating after Jenna was linked to Prince to bring the art house Harry last year. A source said: “They’ve been together for months, on and off since last summer. “She chose to be with him even “Ironically Harry is largely responsible for into your living room though Prince Harry was very keen on her. them getting together. Jenna caught Harry’s oes this sound familiar? You want to Nov. 11, Criterion will debut its own chan- “The reason the chemistry is so tangible is eye at the polo last year. They flirted and stream a movie and end up spend- nel on FilmStruck featuring all of its films, because they are dating in real life. The spent the evening together and Harry took ing most of your time clicking about 1,200 titles that encompass a large her number and they saw each other a couple D scenes are very real. They are completely through a disorganized sea of options, most swath of film’s acknowledged master- hooked on one another.” And it has been of times. “Tom was also on the scene and of which aren’t especially good, anyhow. pieces. That will run $10.99 monthly or $99 claimed that Prince Harry unwittingly played made it very clear that he wasn’t happy about FilmStruck, a new subscription streaming for a year. What distinguishes FilmStruck, matchmaker as his interest in Jenna made Harry making a move on Jenna. They got service to launch Wednesday by Turner though, isn’t just the quality of its films but Tom ask his co-star out. The insider explained: together shortly afterwards.” Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection its expansive, rethought streaming experi- hopes to fill what’s been a giant void in the ence. There’s a long list of searchable titles, supposedly glorious age of streaming. The but FilmStruck and the Criterion Channel plentiful options on Netflix, Amazon and are first and foremost curated experiences. Mel C: ‘Geri’s pregnancy Hulu (where Criterion was previously Films are organized into series, retrospec- housed) have been terrific for all kinds of tives and essentials. watching, just not great cinema. FilmStuck “This is what art-house theaters have healed Spice Girls rift’ doesn’t hope to compete with those giants, been doing around the country for the last which are busy building their own original fifty years,” says Becker. “Why would we not el C says Geri Horner’s pregnan- series and films while concentrating less on build on all the curatorial energy and ideas cy healed the Spice Girls rift. offering robust libraries. Instead, TCM and that has been expended over all this time?” MThe band was split into two Criterion want to bring the art house, and There will be a Friday night double feature. camps after Mel and Victoria Beckham all the passion of movie love, into the 21st Another weekly night will match a short refused to join Mel B, Geri and Emma century and your living room. with a feature. Filmmakers will be profiled Bunton for a reunion to celebrate the “We feel like it’s a vacuum that needs a in documentaries, as will art house theaters Cheryl Fernandez-Versini group’s 20th anniversary but Mel C says caretaker who cares,” says Jennifer Dorian, across the country. Cinephiles may also finding out Geri and her husband general manager of TCM and FilmStruck. drool over the array of special features - the and Liam Payne ‘so in love’ Christian Horner are expecting a baby “There’s a real need out there in the mar- sort that populate Criterion Blu-rays - that made them come to their senses. She ketplace for film fans.” Executives for both dot the service. You can listen to Martin told the Daily Star Sunday: “Thank God TCM and Criterion call their union “a love- Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola heryl Fernandez-Versini and Liam Payne have Geri is pregnant because it’s made us go, fest,” and the match is indeed a fitting one. expound on “The Thief of Bagdad” or watch been tipped to last. The couple have been dating for ‘Oh my god, this is what’s really impor- TCM, the 22-year-old cable network of the Coen brothers with Barry Sonnenfeld Cless than a year but Louis Walsh, who starred with tant’. “Let’s face it, we are all in our 40s, commercial-less Hollywood classics, and deconstruct their “Blood Simple” with the Cheryl on ‘The X Factor’, believes the One Direction singer we are all mothers, we all have partners, Criterion, the 32-year-old purveyor of pris- kind of telestrators usually wielded by NFL is the best thing that ever happened to her and says he we all have careers. “Of course it’s been tine, supplement-stuffed DVD sets, have commentators. Victoria Beckham “bitches” for not join- makes her much happier than her estranged husband awkward - relationships have their ups both weathered continued change in ing the reunion, against her. She said: “I Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini did. He told Event maga- and downs. “I haven’t spoken to Melanie media and emerged all the stronger for Agile and nimble love Melanie but she is a little bit of a law zine: “Can I be honest with you about Cheryl? I think Liam for a while though. It’s not that I’m not their steadfast dedication to movies. While “We find that this is a very satisfying unto herself. “She has her reasons but and Cheryl are going to work... He’s a nice guy and he’s in speaking to her but I haven’t spoken to networks like AMC (“American Movie night at the movies,” says Becker. The whatever they are, I don’t know. I read love with her. He’ll make her happy. I think she was in a her for a long time. “Some of my relation- Classics”) and IFC (“Independent Film streaming landscape is increasingly crowd- about the bitches comment. “I’ve done it bad place over the last two years. And she brought her mis- ships with some of the girls in the band Channel”) have turned their focus to TV ed, not just by Amazon and Netflix but by myself when you say something for ery to ‘The X Factor’.” Louis also believes Cheryl, 33, should have been difficult at times but I will nev- series, TCM and Criterion have kept the the likes of Fandor, Mubi, IndieFlix and comedic value and it backfires. Or maybe work with Liam, 23, on new music, hailing the One er not love them.” Mel C also insisted she faith, and earned devoted followings Warner Archive. Standing out - and con- she does mean it. But I’ve nothing Direction singer as a “great songwriter”. He said: “I think she doesn’t hold Mel B’s recent comments, because of it. The partnership came togeth- vincing viewers to add another monthly bill against her. Whatever. It’s fine.” could have a hit if she wants but she has to choose the where she jokingly called her and er because of their already close ties and - will be FilmStruck’s biggest challenge. right song. She’s no Mariah Carey or Celine Dion but I’d put mutual respect. When word got to Turner Dorian says their research suggests 15 mil- her voice in there along with Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears Classic that Criterion would be exiting its lion could be willing to pay for FilmStruck. or Katy Perry. She just needs the right songs. Maybe Liam home at Hulu, talks about creating a new It’s a bold gambit for Turner Classic, which can write her some. He’s a good songwriter.” Although he streaming platform began. has been, as Dorian says with a knowing was full of praise for Liam’s songwriting skills, Louis smile, “very judicious in its changes over slammed the star and his bandmates as “monsters”, claim- Movie lovers the years.” “We get to try new stuff that we ing none of them will find solo success except for Harry “We had a great set-up at Hulu, especial- haven’t tried in decades,” says Dorian. “I Styles. He said: “Too much money, too much success too ly given the time we started there,” says hope we’re agile and nimble. Working in quickly. Simon Cowell created monsters and that was it. Peter Becker, president of Criterion software has been a total education.” They all think they’re going to be solo stars. They’re not. Collection. “But that service was never built It’s a leap for Criterion, too, which will for Only Harry. That’s it. Then they’ll be sorry they broke up from the ground up to be for movie lovers, the first time have its own digital play- and it’ll be too late because there’s another boy band. to highlight special editions, to be curated, ground. The DVDs, Becker says, remain the That’s what always happens in boy bands.” to highlight all kinds of stuff. There was best image quality for their films, “but very little opportunity to speak to our audi- there’s now a whole generation of people ence in our own voice.” FilmStruck will be who haven’t ever bought a disc.” available for $6.99 a month via The entire enterprise has the spirit of a Johansson: Women filmstruck.com , the Amazon Fire, Apple TV mission: Show the digital world what’s so and iOS and Android devices. It features great about movies. At the FilmStruck films from the vaults of major studios but launch party in Manhattan, scenes from should take more risks the focus of its about 500 rotating films is classic films like Ingmar Bergman’s “The more independent, international and con- Seventh Seal” were set up. Director George temporary. It’s more Kubrick and Kurosawa Romero could be seen playing chess with than Doris Day and John Wayne. Death. “There’s never been a better time for TCM’s head of programming Charles art-house film culture, with apologies to Tabesh will program FilmStruck, including a the ‘60s,” says Becker. “It’s a crazy time to be rotating selection of Criterion titles. But on a film lover.” — AP Turkish filmmakers dazzle on the international stage espite the turbulence and terror sur- in love with his master’s 20-year-old daugh- rounding the July 15 attempted ter. “Rauf” premiered in the Berlin Film Dcoup in Turkey, the country’s film- Festival’s Generation Kplus section to posi- makers rose to new heights on the interna- tive response, with critics noting it was tional fest circuit. And even after the failed more suitable for adult audiences. carlett Johansson wants women to take more coup, Turks have continued to win acco- ‘Album’ This impressive debut by risks. The 31-year-old actress has accomplished a lades-most recently at the Venice Film Mehmet Can Mertoglu is a social satire Slot in her two-decade-long career in the enter- Festival, where Reha Erdem won the about a couple who conceal an adoption by tainment industry, and she has now said wants other Horizon section’s Special Jury nod with his staging a fake pregnancy with a phony pho- women to start to “take risks”, without worrying about P!nk’s daughter fable-like “Big Big World.” As prominent film to album, fearing the social stigma still asso- failing. Asked what advice she would give to young industry multihyphenate Ahmet ciated with infertility in Turkey. After making women, the ‘Lucy’ star said: “I think I would say take Boyacioglu puts it, these titles “are all very a splash when it premiered in May in the risks. Take risks and don’t be afraid to fail because the in BMX race critical of Turkish society,” but “they are still Cannes Critics’ Week, winning the section’s upside of that is just so rewarding ... I’ve really built a being made,” the film fest programmer, pro- Visionary Award, “Album” has gone on to career on taking risks and sometimes it doesn’t pan out ducer, and promoter notes. scoop the Heart of Sarajevo award for fea- but like I said, the upside has been hugely rewarding.” !nk’s daughter has taken part in her girl’s early steps into racing come after the first BMX race. Willow Sage Hart, five, beauty - who penned the track ‘Just Like They were until recently, at least. Now ture film at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival. And the ‘Captain America: Civil War’ actress also spoke the hope is that the Turkish government’s out about how having her two-year-old daughter Rose Phas been taking after her father and Fire’ for ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ - current crackdown against writers and aca- ‘Dust Cloth’ - whom she shares with husband and journalist Romain retired motorcycle racer Carey Hart, and her revealed earlier in the year that she accept- 37-year-old mother - real name Alecia ed the song writing role on the movie demics who don’t toe its line won’t also Another praiseworthy debut, Ahu Ozturk’s Dauriac - has been “transformative” for her, and she is mean a muzzle on filmmakers and the top- “Dust Cloth” is an unsentimental drama about no longer “critical” of herself. She told reporters at Moore - took to Instagram on Saturday to because Alice is an “awesome” role model. praise the tot on her “intensity”. Alongside a She said: “What’s awesome about Alice is ics they depict such as the Turkish-Kurdish two Kurdish women who work as cleaning Variety’s Power of Women Luncheon: “I think turning conflict, which has always been a cinematic ladies and struggle to survive in contempo- 30, having a child and coming into my own in the kind picture of her daughter on her bike, the ‘So the whole theme, from the start of the What’ hitmaker wrote: “Willows first race. I movie, is: Girls can do it, too. She’s the cap- hot potato. Variety looks at recent Turkish rary Istanbul where their ethnic origins are a of creative space has been really transformative for me arthouse standouts, all of which are playing huge hindrance. After premiering in Berlin’s in a lot of ways. I think just learning to be more accept- like her intensity. She reminds me of some- tain of her own ship, but it takes her one. This might have been Carey Harts’ Best femaleness to be that fierce, so that’s in Antalya’s national competition. Forum section in February, “Cloth” went on to ing of myself and be less harsh, less critical.” For Scarlett, win kudos for local film, actress, and screen- the idea of women progressing into positions of power Day Ever. #stoked #thirdplace #podium another great [message] for our house. I try #proudpapa (sic)” Carey, 41, also shared his to keep Willow as empowered as possible.” ‘Rauf’ play at the Istanbul festival. is something that she says happened naturally for her, This melancholy coming-of-ager shows as she claims her 20 years in the field makes her one of thoughts on his daughter’s efforts, express- Meanwhile, the ‘Just Like a Pill’ hitmaker ing his feelings as a “proud papa” on a photo gushed about her love for Willow and con- from first-time directorial duo Baris Kaya ‘My Father’s Wings’ the most “experienced people in any given production”. and Soner Caner, spotlights the Turkish- Yet another first work getting notice on She said: “I think for me it’s been, it’s kind of a natural of Willow taking her place on the winner’s fessed that she has also become her little podium as she secured a third place trophy. muse. She said: “She is my inspiration for Kurdish conflict through a child’s perspec- the fest circuit after bowing at Karlovy Vary, progression. I’ve been working as an actor for over 20 tive. Set in a Kurdish village in northeastern this drama by Kivanc Sezer is set against years and I think I find at this stage in my career I often He wrote: “Willz first race and got on the everything. I think of little girls like her when box. I’m such a proud papa. The cycle resets I’m doing something like this because I want Turkey, it’s about a 9-year-old who gets the backdrop of the current construction am probably one of the more experienced people in kicked out of a school where the nationalist frenzy in Istanbul, where workers of the lux- any given production that I’m working on. I don’t mean its self. I had a blast watching my little girl it to be fun. I think of that spirit Willow has, enjoy what I did for so many years. Thank where she’s totally uninhibited and wants to propaganda is part of the program. He ury high-rises have to contend with irregu- to toot my own horn, but it just comes with working for becomes a carpenter’s apprentice and falls lar wages and other hardships. — Reuters such a long time.” you Willow for the amazing feeling. I love dance around naked, and that’s how I go you. @foxracing (sic)” The news of the young into the song.” — Bang Showbiz lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 FEATURES

Indian Hindu widows applaud as they stand on stage during a fashion show in New Delhi, India, Saturday. — AP photos Fashion show highlights progress for India widows

n most of India, millions of Hindu wid- ows are expected to live out their days Iin quiet worship, dressed only in white. They are typically barred from all religious festivities because their very presence is considered inauspicious. Until recently, Indian widows were expected to follow the sociocultural codes of a patriarchal Hindu society that demands a woman lead a life of asceticism after a husband’s death. But slowly, widows are moving toward modernity. The holy city of Vrindavan, in India’s An Indian Hindu widow gets dressed backstage before northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is known as participating in a fashion show in New Delhi. the City of Widows because it has given shelter to thousands of poor women. Their lives appear to be changing for the better, with women’s groups and Indian aid organi- An Indian Hindu zations taking interest in their welfare. The widow helps widows are breaking age-old traditions of another just staying aloof by actively participating in before stepping Hindu festivals like Holi and Diwali. They onto the ramp went a step further recently, participating in during a a fashion show. — AP fashion show.

An Indian Hindu widow laughs as she wears a Sari backstage before participating in a fashion show.

An Indian Hindu widow practices to walk on the runway before a fashion show in New Delhi. A makeup artist gets an Indian Hindu widow ready for a fashion show. Carpisa unveils its exquisite Autumn/Winter 2016 collection arpisa, the Italian brand of hand- tan prints to ethnic inspiration, but also bags and luggage welcomes the printed or monochrome eco-friendly Cnew season by presenting a colour leather styles. palette that captures the essence of the Customizable products are real must- season, such as mustard, intense red haves of the collection: beyond the metal brick, light grey and green in all its tonali- letters, Carpisa has also created new fash- ties. Concerning the styles, Carpisa gives ion accessories such as lock-charms with wide space to the Boston bags and to the initials and letter pins to create original mini bags reproduced in the classic and unique handbags. shapes of the brand. The highlights of the Moreover, Carpisa continues its impor- collection are trendy shopping bags, tant collaboration with Penelope and briefcases, cross body bags, clutch bags Monica Cruz, who for this new season and purses that are perfect for evening. have designed two new elegant lines fol- The range also includes multi-shape bags, lowing the trends of the moment. The reversible and custom-assembled bags first line has a soft structure and will be ideal for all occasions; the proposals are available in different colours: blue, taupe endless, to fit every taste and need. and grey. The line is characterized by a structure with a lizard leather print effect. The backpack is an essential accessory geometric print made on Nabuk effect So get on the fashion trends for this sea- for Carpisa’s new season: with multifunc- fabric and by metallic accessorizes real- son and add a cult piece to your tional and unisex designs. For the Back to ized with old brass treatment. mini bag version), each one in four differ- wardrobe with Carpisa’s fab Autumn School collection, the styles are younger The second line will be available in ent colours: black, blue, green and taupe. Winter 2016 collection available at Samal and cooler and the patterns go from tar- three different dimensions (including a The line is characterized by a semi-rigid Mall- Fintas. lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 MUSIC & MOVIES Indian guru stars in films to spread message to the masses

Indian spiritual guru, who calls himself Saint Dr Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, arrives for a press conference ahead of the release of his new film ‘MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart,’ in New Delhi, India. — AP photos

e claims to have 50 million followers and serve as propaganda for his followers, which said Insan, whose surname means “human” in twirled moustache and an assortment of swords dialogue writer, choreographer, props, stunts, runs a spiritual empire that promotes Insan doesn’t dispute. Speaking recently with Hindi and is adopted by all in his sect, which to fight the aliens and UFOs. “In my first two film editor and makeup artist. Hvegetarianism and campaigns against reporters, the flamboyant spiritual guru said he describes itself as a nonprofit spiritual and wel- films, I appeared as a guru. In this film, I am play- He dismissed detractors who say his out- drug addiction. But the self-styled God-man was not trying to become a movie star but fare organization. With a guaranteed audience ing a character,” he said. landish costumes and self-glorifying antics on from the north Indian state of Haryana has instead wanted to spread Indian culture along among his followers, Insan said he’s had little “I play a warrior who is also India’s top secret screen run counter to his spiritual mission. “I another passion: Bollywood. The leader of a qua- with his message of humanity to the masses. trouble getting his films released commercially agent. If you see his background, he is a warrior have researched the scriptures, the religious si-religious sect - who calls himself Saint Dr “You will see in this film that our culture was in cinemas. Two earlier films featured Insan as a who fights with aliens to save the honor of our texts - there is no dress code given for holy men,” Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan - has so powerful that the technology that the aliens gravity-defying superhero fighting drug addic- mothers and sisters, and the honor of our Insan said. “Nowhere does it say that the saints launched a film franchise in which he stars as a are bringing, it had already been used by our tion and gender issues. In his third film, released Mother Earth.” Insan maintains complete control have to wear anything specific. If your thoughts Messenger of God, or MSG for short, with divine ancestors. That is why the scenes appear larger last week and titled “MSG - The Warrior Lion over his film productions. In the latest, he is are pure, you can be one with God even in a powers to save the world. Critics say the films than life. We should also show India’s greatness,” Heart,” Insan plays a secret agent armed with a credited in 30 categories of the film, including trouser and shirt.” — AP

Saint Dr Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, center, greets followers as he Devotees of Indian spiritual guru stands near a poster of his new film ‘MSG, Devotees greet Indian spiritual guru, as he leaves after a press conference arrives for a press conference ahead of the release of his new movie ‘MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart,’ in New Delhi, India. ahead of the release of his film ‘MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart.’ The Warrior Lion Heart.’ Ang Lee unveils his hyper-real ‘Billy Lynn’ to mixed reviews ixed reviews greeted Ang Lee’s long Jane Lin and Ang Lee anticipated “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime attend the world MWalk” at the New York Film Festival on premiere of ‘Billy Lynn’s Friday night, casting further doubts over the Long Halftime Walk’, promise of Hollywood’s latest technological sav- during the 54th New ior: high-frame rate filming. The premiere was York Film Festival, at one of the fall movie season’s most closely AMC Loews Lincoln watched events because Lee’s drama, an adapta- Square in tion of Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, was made with New York. —AP photos a faster frame rate than any previous wide release. Aside from being in 3-D and 4K resolu- he will use it in “Avatar” sequels. But the technol- “The Life of Pi,” became a global blockbuster tion, Lee shot the film - about an Iraq War hero ogy is nascent. Lee’s film, which Sony Pictures ($609 million worldwide at the box office) that on a victory tour at an NFL game - at 120 frames- will release Nov 11, is so new that there are only left audiences marveling at his use of 3-D. “Billy per-second, five times the traditional 24 frames two North American theaters (one in New York, Lynn” is also unusual in that it’s part war film, part per second. one in Los Angeles) that will be able to project it character study - not the kind of movie usually It’s a gambit Peter Jackson tried at a mere 48 as crafted. Other theaters will screen different outfitted with digital wizardry. Instead, Lee frames per second with “The Hobbit” trilogy, Steve Martin attends the world premiere of versions. For the film’s New York Film Festival employs the technology in pursuit of an immer- earning bad reviews in the process. James ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’. debut, festivalgoers were transferred across the sive first person-like point-of-view, contrasting Cameron has hailed it as the future, and has said street from Lincoln Center to a multiplex that Lynn’s travels through a football stadium with was specifically outfitted for the premiere. Lee flashbacks to battle. It’s a satirical commentary didn’t try to hide his nerves. on the divide between real warfare and hollow patriotism at home. It’s a big bet for Sony, Without makeup although the film’s budget of $40 million is rela- “I’ve done this a lot but you can see I’m nerv- tively small by studio standards. ous,” Lee said before the screening. “I feel like I’m exposed to the high-frame rate, 3-D, high-resolu- Pleaded for patience tion camera. I can sort of feel for our actors.” The Though Lee (“The Ice Storm,” “Crouching effect of the format is a hyper-realness that can Tiger Hidden Dragon”) is one of the most look, despite its clarity, like video. Backgrounds respected and lauded filmmakers in Hollywood, are so visible that they can appear artificial, while initial reactions to his latest work weren’t espe- the closeness with the actors can create an unfil- cially positive. Critics in the crowd were decisive- tered intimacy. The cast (led by British newcomer ly against the high frame rate. In a brief Q&A fol- Joe Alwyn as the title character, along with lowing the film, the cast (which was seeing the Vin Diesel Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Steve Martin, film for the first time) also appeared unsure of attends the Chris Tucker and Vin Diesel) performs largely how to react to the new format. “After the movie world premiere without makeup. stopped, after we saw the credits, everyone was of ‘Billy “There’s nothing more we’re craving for than just kind of like a deer in headlights, just Kristen Stewart attends the world premiere Lynn’s Long studying each other’s faces,” Lee said. “They shocked by the experience the technology of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’. Halftime Walk’. deserve this kind of look.” Lynn’s previous film, allows you,” said Diesel. — AP lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 MUSIC & MOVIES

Actress Monica Bellucci poses for pho- Actress Nina Podolska poses for photog- tographers upon arrival for the premiere raphers upon arrival at the premiere of of the film ‘On The Milk Road’. the film ‘Snowden’.

Actors Bill Nighy, from left, Gemma Arterton, director Lone Sherfig and actor Sam Claflin pose for photographers during a photo call to promote the film ‘Their Finest’. ‘Certain Women’ wins, McQueen honored at London Film Fest

Director Kelly Reichardt attends a spe- Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photog- Director Fisher Stevens poses for pho- cial screening of ‘Certain Women’ dur- raphers during a photo call to pro- tographers during a photo call to pro- ing the 54th New York Film Festival at mote the film ‘Before the Flood’. mote the film ‘Before the Flood’. Alice Tully Hall, in New York. riter-director Kelly Reichardt’s spare and subtle Montana dra- Wma “Certain Women” has won the best-picture prize at the London Film Festival, while “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen received a Actors Lyndsey Marshal, left, and Michael Fassbender major career award. The festival wraped pose for photographers. up yesterday with “Free Fire,” a 1970s-set comic thriller by British director Ben Wheatley. McQueen, a filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning video artist, was De Niro to receive presented with the British Film Institute Fellowship - the organization’s highest honor - by Michael Fassbender. The Irish Film Society of Lincoln actor has appeared in all three of the director’s feature films - “Hunger,” Center’s Chaplin award “Shame” and “12 Years a Slave.” Fassbender called McQueen, whose movies have tackled subjects including Actor Rhys Ifans and director Oliver Stone, right, pose for photographers starvation, addiction and slavery, “a rari- upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Snowden’. Director Steve McQueen, left, the winner of the BFI ty - both a sensitive and a dangerous Fellowship Award, poses for photographers with presen- man.” McQueen, 47, said “there’s only two things I’m sure about: One, I’m Kingdom.” A tale of interracial love and ter Michael Fassbender, in the press room during the black ... Two, I’m a Londoner.” He credit- politics inspired by real events, it London Film Festival Awards, in London. —AP photos ed Britain’s previous system of free high- marked the first time that a black female er education for giving him the freedom director has held the prestigious open- to “explore, experiment and make mis- ing slot at the festival. takes.” Students now face thousands of As well as hosting premieres and pounds a year in tuition fees. “It seems red-carpet galas, the festival gathered that freedom is being slowly eroded,” performers, producers and filmmakers McQueen said. The 60-year-old London to discuss why black actors remain festival has sought this year to encour- underrepresented onscreen in Britain age diversity in the film industry, open- and the United States. During the festi- Robert De Niro ing with Amma Asante’s “A United val’s black-tie awards ceremony Saturday at London’s 17th-century he Film Society of Lincoln Center has named Banqueting House, a jury headed by Robert De Niro the recipient of its 44th annual Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari TChaplin Award, which honors major industry tal- praised the masterful imagery and quiet ents. De Niro will take home the 2017 trophy for a modesty of Reichardt’s film about three four-decade acting career that stretches from early women - played by Kristen Stewart, work including “Mean Streets,” “Raging Bull” and “The Michelle Williams and Laura Dern - Godfather Part II” to more recent projects such as struggling with life in a chilly small “Silver Linings Playbook.” He’s also the high-profile co- town. The director is known for moving, founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, launched in the minimalist dramas including “Wendy wake of 9/11 in an effort to boost the economic and Lucy” and “Meek’s Cutoff.” “Certain prospects of lower Manhattan. Women” beat other nominees including Related New York Film Festival Review: ‘Billy Lynn’s Paul Verhoeven’s provocative revenge Long Halftime Walk’ The actor-producer will be hon- thriller “Elle;” Barry Jenkins’ Miami com- ored by the Film Society at a springtime gala featuring ing-of-age drama “Moonlight;” and notable guests and presenters as well as movie and Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s poet interview footage drawn from De Niro’s career. He biopic “Neruda.” joins a list of previous Chaplin recipients that includes French director Julia Ducournau’s Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor, Meryl Streep, Billy horror story “Raw” was named best first Wilder and last year’s honoree, Morgan Freeman. feature. Jurors praised the “outrageous- De Niro’s Chaplin Award was announced on the ness” of the film, which Ducournau closing night of the New York Film Festival, presented called a crossover “between comedy, every year by the Film Society. The 2016 edition of drama and body horror.” Iranian director NYFF closes Oct 15 with James Gray’s “The Lost City of Mehrdad Oskouei’s portrait of teenage Z,” one of a handful of world premieres at the festival inmates, “Starless Dreams,” was named that also included Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long best documentary, and Syrian photog- Halftime Walk,” Mike Mills’ “20th Century Women” and Actress Olga Kurylenko poses for rapher Issa Touma’s unflinching “9 Days - Ava DuVernay’s “13th.” The 44th annual Chaplin Award photographers upon arrival at the From My Window in Aleppo” won the gala is set for May 8. Prior to that, De Niro’s latest proj- Actors Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams pose premiere of the film ‘Snowden’. Actress Joely Richardson poses for short-film prize. The 12-day festival ect, the Broadway musical adaptation of “A Bronx Tale,” for photographers during a photo call to promote the photographers upon arrival at the screened some 250 documentary and which he co-directs, opens in December. — Reuters film ‘Arrival’. premiere of the film ‘Snowden’. fiction features across London. — AP ‘Certain Women’ wins, McQueen honored at London39 Film Fest MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

Two Scottish shorthair cats dressed with red hats are pictured during a cat exhibition in Bishkek, yesterday. Cat lovers from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan took part in the exhibition. — AFP Putting on your own opera, in Vienna, aged 11

ith help from her skipping rope, Alma Deutscher has written an opera that’s Wbeing staged this Christmas in Vienna, the capital of classical music. Not bad when you’re aged 11 and three-quarters. “I sometimes think that if I had a beard and I was old and fat then people might take me a bit more seriously,” the English “wunderkind” told AFP as she played on the piano excerpts of the work. But this attitude, she adds, has changed since preparations began in this hallowed for- mer stamping ground of Mozart and Schubert for the December 29 premiere of “Cinderella”.

11 year-old Alma Deutscher performs in The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna. — AFP photos Alma Deutscher performs in The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna. patron, is much longer and will be a proper Special skipping rope bursting with enthusiasm. opera. She has won praise from renowned Alma gets her ideas when she’s about to go “You see it has to be just this kind of skip- conductors like Daniel Barenboim and a to sleep or when she’s waking up, when she’s ping rope, with shining tassels and sparkles. “bowled over” Simon Rattle. Last year she messing around on the piano-or by her own Other ropes don’t work at all.” But she plays appeared at a Google Zeitgeist conference special method, as she explains. “Another way down the inevitable comparisons with Mozart, with the likes of Stephen Hawking. But, her of getting my melodies is by skipping with this who was also just 11 when his first opera, or dad says, Alma also has a very normal life. “She skipping rope,” she says, proudly and earnestly sacred drama to be precise, was first per- loves climbing trees and running around like showing off her prized possession. “I don’t formed back in 1767. “I prefer not to be com- every other child,” he said. Modern music actually skip but I wave it round like this and I pared to anyone, to write my own music, just though is “too loud” and not her thing, she tell stories in my mind. Very often a melody to be a little Alma... Because if I just wrote says-not even Justin Bieber or The Beatles. “Oh just springs into my head. And then I run back everything that Mozart had already written it Alma Deutscher poses for a photographer no, I don’t know any of them!” and write it down in my notebook,” she says, would be rather boring!” — AFP in The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna.

She started writing the two-hour opera when she was eight, and as well as composing the music she has given the traditional folk tale her own twist, setting it in an opera house. Thus the eponymous heroine writes a tune that perfectly fits the handsome prince’s poem, while the evil stepsisters are “pompous prima donnas,” the young composer explains. It takes place in an imaginary country she calls Transylvanian, populated by imaginary com- posers. Her favorite, Antonin Yellowsink, wrote one Alma Deutscher poses for a picture with a of the more melancholy melodies-”and I stole placard of the opera “Cinderella” in the hall- it”, she joked. But according to Anna Voshege, way of The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna. an Australian singer who plays one of the so beautiful?’,” he recalled. “When she was stepsisters, what Alma composes is anything about four, when she started inventing her but childish. “I heard the music before I knew own melodies, I think that’s when we noticed she was 11, I was really quite shocked. Some of there was really something special,” he told the nuances in that music are really very spe- AFP in Vienna where the family from southern cial, very intricate,” Voshege told AFP. “It’s very England has been spending time ahead of the beautiful music and she is far beyond her premiere. At six she composed her first full years,” she said. piano sonata, at seven a mini-opera called “The Sweeper of Dreams”, and at nine a con- Alma Deutscher ‘Something special’ at four certo for violin and orchestra. A chamber performs in The Alma’s father Guy Deutscher first realized music rendition of “Cinderella” was performed Wiener his daughter was out of the ordinary when she in Israel last year, but the Vienna version, with Musikverein in asked, aged two or three, “‘How can music be Indian conductor maestro Zubin Mehta as Vienna.