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By B Izzak No plans to impose KUWAIT: The public prosecutor yesterday said he has taxes on individuals pressed charges against 26 people in a cell linked to Iran and Hezbollah, and accused 24 of them of plotting to carry out KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance attacks against Kuwait. The cell was busted on Aug 13 and Anas Al-Saleh said there are no government plans to authorities seized large quantities of explosives, arms and impose taxes on individuals. The government is only con- ammunition in a farm in Abdali near the border with Iraq. sidering imposing taxes on national and foreign compa- Three Kuwaitis were arrested then and following investiga- nies, Saleh told Al-Rai newspaper yesterday. tions, dozens of others have been arrested. The minister also noted Public Prosecutor Dherar Al- that value added tax would Asousi said 25 of the suspects not be applied in Kuwait are Kuwaitis and one is Iranian. until an agreement was Three of them are still at large. reached among GCC coun- Asousi said in the statement tries to apply in all GCC that he has charged 24 men “of member states as per the spying for the Islamic republic recommendations of the of Iran and the Hezbollah group International Monetary to carry out aggressive acts Fund (IMF). against the State of Kuwait Meanwhile, the official through smuggling, assembling said that any tax law must Anas Al-Saleh and possessing explosives, Dherar Al-Asousi be passed by the National machineguns, firearms and Assembly. Moreover, he stated that government subsi- ammunition in addition to eavesdropping devices”. dies on items and services need reforms, adding that it should only be provided to those in need to reduce gov- Twenty-two of the men have been charged with “receiv- ernment spending. As for following in the UAE’s foot- ing training on the use of explosives, firearms and ammuni- steps in lifting subsidy on fuel, Saleh said that the min- tion with the intention to use them in achieving illegal goals”. istry is awaiting the results of a study conducted by a They were also charged with the illegal possession of consultative body on the consequences of lifting fuel, firearms. The prosecutor said that a number of the suspects electricity and water subsidies. — KUNA KUWAIT: This image released by the Interior Ministry on Aug 13, 2015 shows a cache of weapons, explosives have been charged with joining Hezbollah, whose purpose is and ammunition found at a farm in Abdaly. Continued on Page 13 MP to grill health minister over medical errors, graft

By A Saleh budget had tripled over the past years, jumping from KD 641 million in 2008 to Verdict in Sadiq KUWAIT: MP Hamdan Al-Azmi yesterday KD 1.6 billion this year. Azmi added that said he has decided to file a request to poor health services at public hospitals Mosque bombing grill the health minister at the start of the had been forcing citizens to seek those next parliamentary term in late October services at private ones, some of whom set for Sept 15 over medical errors and mis- have been taking advan- By Meshaal Al-Enezi management. Azmi said the tage of citizens’ need for grilling against Dr Ali Al- medical treatment. KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday set Sept 15 for Obaidi will focus on two main Meanwhile, MP Saud Al- issuing the verdict in the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque issues: Fatal errors by doctors Turaiji blamed Jahra bombing case. The June 26 suicide bombing at the and financial as well as Medical Zone director for BEIRUT: Lebanese anti-government activists shout slogans as they leave the mosque, the first ever in Kuwait, rocked the country, administrative corruption Azmi’s death due to a med- environment ministry where they were staging a sit-in yesterday. — AP killing 26 and injuring 227 others. Yesterday, the court, prevailing in all ministry ical error because he had chaired by Judge Mohammad Al-Duaij, heard the final departments, especially neglected developing statement of defense attorneys. In the previous session, under Obaidi. health services and focused Lebanon activists “The health minister tried more on abusing his pow- the attorneys presented the defense for 10 out of the Hamdan Al-Azmi 29 defendants in case number 40/2015. to calm down the Kuwaiti ers against MoH employees In yesterday’s session, the defense began final argu- people after citizen Saud Al- in Jahra. Turaiji also urged occupy ministry Azmi’s tragic death because the health minister to form ments and will present closing statements today. The of a medical error. He claimed a committee to investigate BEIRUT: Lebanese police moved to eject The sit-in was an unexpected escala- defense team wants the first defendant, Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan, to be examined by a psychiatrist to deter- the matter is being investi- Azmi’s death and hold who- protesters who occupied part of the tion of a campaign that began over a gated, but the next thing we ever is responsible account- environment ministry yesterday, in an trash crisis but has evolved into a broad- mine whether he is sane or not, because the lawyers knew was that the doctor able in order to prevent a escalation of a campaign against the based movement against government claim Eidan suffers from a psychological and mental responsible for the error had repetition of the same mis- country’s trash crisis and a stagnant impotence and corruption. As night fell, anti-social disorder. fled the country,” he said, takes. political class. The forcible evacuation several hundred protesters demonstrat- During the hearing, an argument took place began some six hours after several dozen ed outside the ministry in support of the between Duaij and lawyer Thamer Al-Jed’ee who adding that citizens had not On the other hand, MP protesters entered the ministry to last activists who remained inside, occa- accused the court of defending the public prosecution felt any change in the quality Khalil Al-Saleh defended of health services although Obaidi, noting that he had demand the resignation of Environment sionally skirmishing with security forces. and was then ordered to stick to the case without ques- Ali Al-Obaidi Minister Mohamed Mashnuq. Activists “We will continue! Revolution!” they tioning and abusing the public prosecution. Jed’ee the ministry’s budget is KD immediately referred the from the “You Stink” campaign said chanted. requested that his client be acquitted based upon arti- 1.6 billion. issue to the public prosecution and con- police had beaten protesters, and a Red A security source confirmed that the cle 81 of Kuwait’s penal law which recommends mercy “Public hospitals are full of medical tacted Interpol to arrest and bring the Cross official said medics treated several evacuation of protesters had begun, with for any defendant who is his family’s only breadwinner. errors, long waiting lists, lost files, unusu- fugitive doctor to justice. “Such measures people for wounds sustained in scuffles police removing a group gradually from Continued on Page 13 al crowding and lack of hospital beds,” he are institutional,” he stressed. with security forces. Continued on Page 13 underlined, noting that the ministry’s Continued on Page 13 US still Iran’s Kuwait, GCC to also ‘No. 1 enemy’ scrap fuel subsidies

TEHRAN: The United States remains Iran’s “number one KUWAIT: Gulf Cooperation Council states, It said that the country’s decision to lift fuel enemy” despite a recent nuclear deal with world powers, Kuwait in particular, are expected to follow in subsidies, especially on diesel in 2013, had led the chief of Tehran’s top clerical committee said yesterday, the UAE’s footsteps and liberalize fuel prices, the consumption rate to go down by 7 per- Iranian media reported. The Assembly of Experts is among Kuwait’s Diplomatic Center for Strategic cent compared to 2011, with 85,000 barrels of Iran’s most influential institutions, comprising 86 elected Studies (DCSS) said in an exclusive report to oil daily. Saudi Arabia continues to sell diesel KUNA yesterday. This comes at a time when at the world’s lowest of SAR 0.25 ($0.066). clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country’s leading world institutions lay the blame on Consumption of diesel in the kingdom supreme leader. It is led by the ultraconservative Ayatollah Google refines logo OPEC states for climate change due to rising rose from 650,000 barrels daily in 2011 to Mohammad Yazdi. energy consumption. According to the report, 750,000 barrels in 2014, almost amounting to The nuclear agreement should not “change our foreign Qatar tops the world list of giving fuel subsi- the quantity used by all other Arab states. The SAN FRANCISCO: Google is refining meant to resemble the simple printing policy” of opposition to America, “our number one enemy, dies, with a $5,995 per capita share of govern- report noted that the cost of fuel subsidy in whose crimes are uncountable”, Yazdi said in a speech its famous logo as it prepares to in a grade-school book. It will replace ment spending, followed by Luxembourg, Saudi Arabia hits $107 billion annually. opening the annual two-day assembly meeting. “The US become a part of a new holding com- a serif typeface that Google has been then Kuwait in third place with $3,430. Petroleum exporting countries provided and Israel are the source of the situation in the region and pany called Alphabet. The revised using in its logo for more than 16 Citing an IMF study on fuel subsidies, the about 75 percent of the fuel subsidy in 2012, it (their) goal is to protect the Zionist regime in the Middle design unveiled yesterday features the years. The “e” in the company’s name DCSS said that Saudi Arabia ranked third on said. East,” he was quoted as saying, blaming the two countries same mix of blue, red, yellow and will remain slightly tilted to reflect the Arab level and the world’s fourth in 2015, The OPEC member states offer 50 percent for the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. green that Google has been using Google’s sometimes off-kilter thinking. with per capita subsidies of $3,395, followed of the world’s fuel subsidies. Citing local Echoing Yazdi’s remarks, the leader of the Islamic repub- throughout its nearly 17-year history, Although this will be the sixth time by Bahrain with $3,224 and the UAE with studies, the DCSS said that it is almost certain lic’s top military force, the Revolutionary Guards, said the though the hues are slightly different that Google has changed its logo $3,022. The DCSS report noted that the UAE that Kuwait will lift subsidies on petrol by the US would always be “the Great Satan”. “Do not be fooled by shades. Google also invented a new since Larry Page and Sergey Brin has been leading in taking serious steps to end of the year, in line with a government the new American language,” General Mohammad Ali typeface called “Product Sans” that is Continued on Page 13 curb the use of fossil fuels, gradually shifting plan for gradually scrapping all subsidized Continued on Page 13 to clean and renewable energy. goods. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 LOCAL Speaker Ghanem urges UN to boost democracy values ‘Conflicts displaced more people than any time since World War II’

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. —KUNA FM receives new ambassador, United Nations official

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Ajran attended the meeting. UN chief Ban Ki-moon meets National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and members of the Kuwaiti delegation attend Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Separately, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem. the opening session of the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament. Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received the creden- received the UN Resident Coordinator and tials of the new Sri Lankan ambassador to Resident Representative of the United Kuwait yesterday. Deputy Foreign Minister Nations Development Programme NEW YORK: National Assembly Speaker many parts of the world are facing a crisis of humanist and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace Khalid Sulaiman Al-Jarallah, the First Mubashar Riaz Sheikh in the occasion of Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem urged the United legitimacy, representation and participation,” he and Reconciliation, who was keynote speaker as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign ending his tenure as UN representative to Nations yesterday to continue its ethical role for added. The UN Chief commended the parlia- well as parliamentarians of more than 100 coun- Minister’s Office Director Ambassador Kuwait. Jarallah, Sheikh Dr Ahmad Al-Nasser enhancing values of democracy, as a culture and mentarians of the world, their organization, as tries. Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohamamd Al- and Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for in practice. Once the international community well as the IPU for the valuable role played in The Kuwaiti delegation is led by Ghanem and Sabah and Director of Protocols International Organizations Nasser Al-Heen instills such noble values in world countries, shaping the SDGs’ 17 goals. The parliamentari- includes MPs Dr Yousef Al-Zalzalah, Saif Al-Azmi, Department Ambassador Dhari Ajran Al- attended the meeting. —KUNA there will be no fears over the ballot box, what- ans’ contribution, he added, to the implementa- Abdullah Al-Mayouf, and Secretary General of ever adventurers do to drive democracy out of tion will be “equally critical” in ensuring that the the National Assembly Allam Al-Kandari, in addi- its sound track, Ghanem said in his address to agenda is translated from the global to the tion to Kuwait Permanent Representative to the the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of national level. “People will look to you to hold UN Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi. Parliament that kicked off in New York. your governments accountable for achieving the Ghanem stressed how democracy is vital for goals, and to write the laws and invest in the Ban meets Ghanem consolidating concepts of co-existence and tol- programs that will make them a reality,” he Separately, UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed erance in different communities. He referred to stressed. appreciation for Kuwait’s global humanitarian Kuwait’s relevant experience which helped the Ban valued deepening cooperation between efforts, particularly those of His Highness the country overcome the hardest conditions. the UN and the parliamentarians, and with the Amir. He made his statements during a meeting Thanks to its long history of Shura, democra- IPU in specific, affirming the task of implement- with Ghanem on the sidelines of the conference. cy and values of coexistence and religious toler- Ban shed light on His Highness the Amir’s honor- ance, Kuwait has managed to counter ‘heinous ing as a UN ‘Humanitarian Leader’ last year, in sedition’ on all levels, starting from His Highness appreciation of the Kuwaiti leader’s support of the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- global efforts to provide relief and assistance to Sabah to each and every citizen. Kuwaitis have millions of disaster and conflict-stricken peoples been keen at several points in history to achieve around the world. a balance for guaranteeing a true democratic system that would not turn into an abuse to the Kuwait’s participation concept of democracy itself, he stressed. In the meantime, Zalzalah said that the atten- Ghanem warned against those who abused dance of Kuwaiti lawmakers at the World democracy and use ballot boxes to tarnish the Conference of Speakers of Parliament provides a democratic process. He called on the UN to play large platform for the exchange of opinions on KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- a “moral role” to boost values, culture and prac- crucial global affairs. Speaking to KUNA and Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives the credentials of the new Sri Lankan tice of democracy, as well as promoting equality, Kuwait TV after attending the opening session, ambassador to Kuwait. —KUNA good governance, rule of law, political, cultural Zalzalah hailed the directions of Ban Ki-moon on and social tolerance, in addition to co-existence. the importance of global humanitarian work. He Ghanem said there would always be genuine also agreed that this is a necessity, particularly in democratic people who would abort all bids to light of the large number of current global con- create chaos. “When I speak about tolerance and flicts which are leading to many deaths among co-existence, I recalled the terrorist attack civilians, including children, women and the eld- against one of the mosques in my country in a erly. bid to drag the country to sectarian sedition,” he On this, he underlined the important role of said. NEW YORK: National Assembly Speaker parliaments in initiating humanitarian efforts However, he underlined, Kuwait demonstrat- Marzouq Al-Ghanem makes his address at and tackling racial and gender discrimination. ed an example of religious and sectarian harmo- the Fourth World Conference of Speakers The conference’s aim to shed light on many cru- ny which aborted the sedition. “We believe that of Parliament yesterday. —KUNA cial global issues is important, he added, and democracy is not just an option... It is our destiny parliaments in turn should put forward all of and we are determined to continue with this ing and monitoring these goals being “huge.” their resources in order to resolve these matters. path for the sake of the next generations,” he The implementation requires States to work in Kuwaiti lawmaker Abdullah Al-Mayouf reiter- said. strong and close partnership with civil society of ated the session’s emphasis on the youth, which all stripes, he said. he described as being the future of any given Multiple crises nation. “We should focus on them,” he said. “By The Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Important juncture this we will reap positive results for national Parliament had kicked off Monday to focus on Meanwhile, the General Assembly President development and this will also lead to discour- peace, democracy, and development seen Sam Kutesa told the attendees that the aging them from joining terrorist organizations through the parliamentary lens, with UN chief Conference is taking place at an important junc- and conductions acts that are inhumane or that Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled receives a memento from the UN Resident highlighting how the world was gripped by mul- ture during this momentous year. Gathering in counter human rights.” Another lawmaker, Saif Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Mubashar Riaz Sheikh. tiple crises. the General Assembly Hall, just one day before Al-Azmi, pointed out the role of the Kuwaiti gov- The three-day Conference is part of the series Member States are due to take action on a draft ernment on humanitarian initiatives and His of high-level meetings leading up to the UN resolution to transmit the agreed outcome doc- Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Summit in late September 2015, at which the ument entitled “Transforming Our World: The Jaber Al-Sabah as a leading global humanitarian ‘Kuwait, Bahrain to new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” to figure. be launched. The conference is convened by the the Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in cooperation development agenda, he confirmed. Better representation defeat terrorism’ with the UN. Kutesa said the contributions and input of Separately, Ghanem held a dinner banquet Speaking at the opening session, Ban Ki- parliamentarians, local authorities, civil society in the honor of speakers of Arab and Gulf par- MANAMA: Bahrain and Kuwait will win the tions have had their underpinnings laid by moon affirmed that the parliamentarians came and academia, among other stakeholders, were liaments and legislative councils, taking part in war against terrorism, chief of staff of the visionary leadership in both countries. together for the first time in five years, at a all instrumental in formulating this transforma- the conference. They stressed on their keenness Bahrain’s defense force Sheikh Khalifa Bin Sheikh Azzam said meanwhile that the moment when the world is gripped by multiple tive agenda that will guide our development on cooperating to better represent their Ahmad Al-Khalifa Said yesterday. Following mutual coordination is a strategic necessity crises, more people have been displaced by con- efforts for the next 15 years. nations in this international event. They also a meeting with Kuwaiti ambassador Sheikh due to the complex developments being flict than at any time since the Second World Moreover, he stressed that Parliamentarians discussed coordinating their stances and Azzam Mubark Al-Sabah, Sheikh Khalifa experienced in the region, stressing that War, and “climate change increasingly threatens should continue to ensure that the voices of the visions in the conference which is held every praised bilateral efforts which ensure safety Gulf countries are seeking to safeguard thi- our well-being.” In such situations, he said, “we people are heard and included in the develop- five years by the UN. and security between the two countries, er security in order to develop their soci- are being challenged to strengthen collective ment process, which will result in the enhance- They praised the initiative of Ghanem, also adding that Bahraini-Kuwaiti strong rela- eties. —KUNA resolve to promote peace and security, sustain- ment of ownership of the new agenda and its President of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union able development and human rights around the implementation on the ground, which will be (AIPU), for organizing such meeting in order to world. vital for its success. promote parliamentary cooperation in the Arab “Perhaps most important given your role, this The opening ceremony also attended by IPU region and serve the region’s issues in the inter- is also a period when Governance structures in President Saber Chowdhury, Forest Whitaker, national events. —KUNA Syrian crisis enters 5th year with 7.6m refugees: O’Brien

KUWAIT: As the Syrian crisis enters Best efforts its fifth year with 7.6 million people Meanwhile, Deputy Foreign forced to be displaced and more Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said that than four million have taken refuge UN reports indicated that more in neighboring countries, humani- than 220,000 Syrians were killed MANAMA: Chief of Staff of Bahrain’s Defense Force Sheikh Khalifa Bin tarian needs are greater than ever, a and more than one million were Ahmad Al-Khalifa meets Kuwaiti ambassador Sheikh Azzam Mubark Al- UN official stressed yesterday. wounded due to war. He expressed Sabah. —KUNA United Nations’ Under- his appreciation to NGO’s and aid Secretary-General for Humanitarian agencies who strive to exert their Affairs and Emergency Relief best efforts to help the Syrians Coordinator Stephen O’Brien made since the start of their civil war. He these remarks at the opening of the added that Kuwait will always sup- Fifth Syria top donors group meet- port all forms of humanitarian ing. O’Brien pointed out that “UN assistance, hence, hosting three agencies were able to significantly donors’ conferences consecutively. scale up cross-border operations KUWAIT: (From left) Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al- Kuwait’s government sector under Security Council resolution Jarallah, UN Secretary General Envoy Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq donated $1.1 billion while its pri- 2165 and 2191.” He thanked the and UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and vate sector gave $290 million, he generous support that was deliv- Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien attend the Fifth added. Kuwait also extended a ered to 5.9 million people per Syria top donors group meeting. —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh helping hand to the Iraqis by month and medical treatments and donating $200 million and to the supplies were provided to nine mil- tinue to stay and deliver to millions Plan. The combined plans call for Yemenis who received $100 million. lion people. of people in need,” he added. $7.42 billion, of which only $2.38 Jarallah expressed hope that “Operating in Syria is difficult The UN official said that aid billion has been received. “Of the Istanbul’s world humanitarian sum- and dangerous: 79 humanitarian agencies have received just one $2.65 billion pledged for 2015 mit, to be held in May 2016, would aid workers have been killed since third of the funding needed for Kuwait III conference, $1.77 bil- gather support for the international KUWAIT: Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Dr Fawaz Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah March 2011. But despite the dan- the Syrian Response Plan and the lion has been disbursed,” he clari- community to find solutions to all honours with a memento to Romanian traveler Dr Mohammad Stephan, an gers, humanitarian agencies con- Regional Refugee and Resilience fied. world crises. —KUNA activist who preaches Islam around the world. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 LOCAL Driving license woes for most expat wives

By Faten Omar l Sports trainers “At first, they approved and my papers were A husband must hold one of these job titles all in order,” explained Ghada Salah, “They set KUWAIT: Obtaining a driving license has to allow a housewife seeking drivers licenses to me a reservation for the driving test. I went and become increasingly difficult in Kuwait and now be exempt from the other residency and salary I passed. That was way back in January 2015. with the start of the new school year, the situa- conditions necessary for obtaining a driving But now, they refuse to give me my driving tion is hitting expatriate housewives especially license. license, because as the officer told me, I am no hard. Before expatriate housewives with school- Layan Nouaymeh said that two months prior longer allowed to have one due to the new age children were eligible to obtain driving licenses provided their husbands were eligible. But now, housewives cannot hold a Kuwaiti driv- ing license unless their husbands have the required job title on their work permit. The Traffic Department has set new regula- tions that limit who can be granted a driving KUWAIT: This file photo shows a vendor selling Kuwaiti fish waiting for cus- license and even women who meet all the tomers at the Sharq fish market. —Photo by Joseph Shagra requirements are not always granted a license. Colonel Nawaf Al-Hayyan, head of public rela- tions and awareness at the general traffic Boycott campaign played department noted that housewives cannot hold a Kuwaiti driving license if their husbands does part in falling fish prices not have the required job title on their work per- mit. By Nawara Fattahova seabream) was priced between KD 5 and 5.500, and the Iranian one for KD 4. The required job titles are as follows: KUWAIT: Fish prices have fallen, although l Members of diplomatic corps most salesmen at the Sharq fish market do ‘Meid’ fishing l Professional sports club players not want to admit it. The boycott campaign Yesterday was also the first day of meid l Drivers and general representatives (man- ‘Let it Spoil’ seems to have played a part (mullet) fishing after a ban that lasted for doubs) to being disapproved, she went to Hawally law,” she said. since it started about two weeks ago, lead- two months, according to a fishmonger. l Passport and Ministry of Social Affairs and Traffic Department and they accepted her, but Rania Al-Hagry went through the same ing to prices of some types of fish to drop The price of the fish was between 750 fils Labor representatives who already hold valid they told her that she has to go to the Traffic experience where she was at first granted by half. The low prices are still holding, and and KD 1 for a kg, while in the past it used driving licenses from their respective countries Department in Capital Governorate to check the approval to receive a driving license, but after rumors of any increases are not true. to be sold for KD 2. “The prices are very l Judges and members of the public prosecu- final approval. passing the driving test, was rejected and told At 4:30 pm yesterday, the market was good, and people are buying. The prices tion “But when I went there, the employee, even to re-apply. active with people roaming around, yet it dropped because 100 boats that were not l Chancellors, experts, university and PAAET before seeing my papers, said I am not allowed The same goes for Marwa Salem. Last was not crowded. But not all visitors were allowed to fish re-launched their activities teaching staff members to have a driving license because my husband month, her husband went to the traffic depart- buying - some had only come to check the yesterday,” Akbar told Kuwait Times. l Journalists and members of the media is a marketing manager not a general manager. ment but they refused to give her a driving prices. The price of Kuwaiti zubaidi (silver Costumers had varying opinions. While l Doctors and pharmacists Then he threw my papers.” license because of the new law. “I have four pomfret) was between KD 9 and 10 per Saleem Al-Rashidi complained that prices l Engineers children in school. Their father goes to work kilogram, while Iranian zubaidi was being are still high and agreed to continue the l Teachers Still not granted early and no one can get them to school but sold for KD 7 to 7.500. The price before the boycott, saying he won’t buy today, Abbas l Social workers Even meeting all the requirements of salary, me. I already have a driving license from Egypt, boycott was KD 15 per kilo of local zubaidi. Ghanim noted that he is not boycotting l Researchers, translators and librarians job title and residency, some expat women are but I cannot drive here unless I have a Kuwaiti A kilogram of medium-sized shrimps anything as he can’t live without eating l Imams working for the government still unable to get their driving license. driving license,” she told Kuwait Times. was being sold for KD 2.750-2.500, while a fish. “Fish is much healthier than chicken, kilo of small-sized shrimps was priced at KD and I would buy it whatever the price. I 1.500. The salesmen were also offering dis- don’t believe in this boycott,” he stated. counts for larger quantities, so 5 kg of small Abu Mohammed, another fishmonger, shrimps were being sold for only KD 7. denied that the boycott campaign had Previously, the price was about KD 3.500 affected the prices. “The price of fish is set by per kilogram. supply and demand, which depends on the Kuwaiti hammour (greasy grouper) was quantity received, and it does not matter if priced KD 6.500 per kilo, while Iranian ham- customers buy or boycott. So if we receive a mour was sold for KD 4.500. The price bigger quantity, the prices will automatically before the boycott was KD 10 for the local drop. Fish will always be sold at the auction fish. The price of Kuwaiti balul (small greasy and there will always be a buyer. In fact, I grouper) was KD 7 and KD 4.500 for the only make between 250 and 500 fils for a Iranian fish. Kuwaiti subaiti (black kilo of most fish,” he pointed out. Criticism over Egyptian doctor’s ‘extradition’

By Meshaal Al-Enezi ing visibility to less than 1,000 meters in some open areas, Kuwait Metrological Drugs that an Asian man tried to smuggle through the airport The smoke bomb found in Farwaniya. KUWAIT: Commenting on the statement Department yesterday warned. yesterday. recently made by Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi concerning asking the Interpol to Video arrest and return the Egyptian doctor The Ministry of Commerce and Industry responsible for the death of citizen, Soud Al- strongly denied the validity of a video Azmi, lawyer, Humoud Al-Hajri ridiculed the recently broadcasted of a government statement and described it as ‘a dodge’ employee being issued commercial licenses because the Egyptian Constitution bans noting that this would be a severe violation extradition of Egyptian citizens. Hajri of rules and regulations. explained that the only possible thing to do is to send the whole case to Egypt and pros- Martyr officers ecute the doctor there. Ahmadi Security Director Brigadier Abdullah Saffah and Lieutenant Colonel Dust storms Mohammed Abalkhail recently offered con- North westerly wind would rise up to 50 dolences to the families of an officer and a kilometers per hour raising dust and that National Guard soldier who were killed in a some scattered clouds would appear reduc- suspects’ pursuit in Sabah Al-Salem. Drugs found with a Kuwaiti man arrested by Hawally police. The four-member gang pictured in this handout photo. ‘Smoke’ bomb found in Farwaniya By Hanan Al-Saadoun that two air conditioners and a refrigerator were noticed a car on the side of the road with a per- stolen. Investigations led to a half lorry and a son inside. Policemen went to see if he needed KUWAIT: A bomb with a timer was thrown by an pick-up truck, where the four thieves, a Kuwaiti help, but was found to be in an abnormal condi- unknown person in Farwaniya yesterday, said a citizen, a bedoon (stateless) and two tion. The man then attempted to escape on foot, security source. He noted that the bomb was lat- Bangladeshis were arrested. The suspects and but was caught and drugs were found on him. er discovered to be a smoke bomb and did not the stolen material were sent to Surra police sta- have any explosives. Explosives department offi- tion. Harassment cers dealt with the bomb. A harassment of a woman revealed the Marijuana smuggling harasser is a drugs user and may be involved in Severely burned An Asian man was caught with possession of robberies. The woman called police and told A horrific car accident took place between a one kilogram of marijuana he was trying to them a man was harassing her at Rumaithiya co- sports-utility-vehicle (SUV) and truck that was smuggle into Kuwait, airport customs supervisor op parking lot. A patrol went there and caught parked on the side of the road on King Fahad Suleiman Al-Fahad said. He was taken to the him with drugs, five mobile phones, a wireless Road, killing the SUV driver. The victim’s body proper authorities for further action. router and a night stick flashlight. KUWAIT: General Director of the Coordinative Leadership Operations for was burned beyond recognition. National Security Protection, Major General Dr Mohammad Al-Daihani Drug arrest Bootlegger arrested Four-member gang nabbed A citizen was sent to Drugs Control General Farwaniya police arrested an Asian man with chaired a meeting yesterday with representatives from the Interior Ministry, Capital police arrested four thieves who are Department (DCGD) by Director of Hawally possession of 37 liquor bottles in Jleeb Al- Defense Ministry and Kuwait National Guard to discuss cooperation in field used to stealing from homes. A citizen reported Security Major General Shihab Al-Shimmari for Shuyoukh yesterday. The man was sent to the operations as part of a joint security plan between the three departments. that her father’s house was broken into and said using drugs. A security source said police proper authorities to face charges.

KUWAIT: The Public Relations Department at Kuwait Municipality said that inspection teams carried out a crackdown in Fahaheel industrial area yester- day, during which 34 abandoned cars and five containers were removed, while 12 warning tickets were issued. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief Illegal diwaniyas Citizens called to Kuwait donates $15m removed in Jahra avoid Beirut crowds to UNRWA schools CAIRO: The Arab League thanked Kuwait for its By Hanan Al-Saadoun BEIRUT: Kuwait’s embassy in Beirut, Lebanon $15 million contribution to the United Nations warned its citizens to steer clear of demonstra- Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality’s Public tions and large crowds, for the time being, until (UNRWA) on Monday. The aid is intended to Relations said the Jahra emergency the ongoing waste-crisis dissipates. In a state- support cash-strapped schools for Palestinian team carried out several field cam- ment to KUNA, the embassy urged Kuwaitis to students. Assistant Undersecretary for Palestine paigns against diwaniyas built illegally practice caution and contact the embassy in case and Occupied Arab Territories Mohammad on state property in Jahra and Na’eem. Nineteen diwaniyas were removed and of emergency. It also advised them to leave the Subaih urged Arab League member countries to honor their financial obligations towards 30 warnings were issued during the country for their own safety. — KUNA UNRWA. — KUNA campaign. Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A lesser whitethroat (left) and a barred warbler; two migratory birds that make regular stops in Kuwait. — KUNA Kuwait’s development initiatives have great impacts on Africa: Envoy Fund prepares development projects financing study

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Assistant Foreign Minister for Africa Affairs to investment guarantees in Africa in the following years, in key areas, is expected to have great impacts on socio-eco- Assembly session under the co-chairmanship of Egypt and briefed a meeting of coordination committee of Arab- Ambassador Mashaan said Kuwait Investment Authority nomic development in Africa,” Ambassador Mashaan Zimbabwe. African partnership on outcomes of initiatives by His (KIA) has been investing the funds in infrastructure projects affirmed. The senior-level meeting of the Arab-African com- Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- in collaboration with the World Bank and other partners in mittee approved basic system and the set-up of board of Projects financing Sabah during the 3rd Arab-African Summit, hosted by Africa. trustees of the Award which will be dedicated to the health Separately, a Kuwaiti official said Monday that the Arab Kuwait in November 2013. sector and the educational sectors in the first and second Fund for Economic and Social Development was preparing a The senior-level committee meeting, held in Addis China-Africa years respectively. study regarding the financing of development projects in a Ababa, Ethiopia, reviewed the initiatives, notably the one During the visit of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh number of Arab countries. The implementation of these stipulating that Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to China on June 3, Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah has been chosen as chair- projects is in harmony with the initiatives of His Highness Development Fund (KFAED) offers $one billion in soft loans 2014, KIA and the China-Africa Development Fund man of the board of trustees of the Award. Other board the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to sup- to the least developing countries in Africa in the following (CADFund) inked a memorandum of understanding on members are the Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic porting development ventures in Arab and African coun- five years, Ambassador Hamad Al-Mashaan said Monday. investing $200 million in Africa, he recalled. and Social Development (AFESD) Abdulateef Al-Hamad, tries, as well as small and medium-sized enterprizes (SMEs), “A team of experts, led by Deputy Prime Minister and KIA also signed deals with the World Bank and partner board member of the National Committee for the Support said Sami Al-Saqabi, Finance Assistant Undersecretary for Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh, had been set up to follow agencies for launching a fund for African infrastructure of Education Tareq Al-Motawwa, co-founder of Microsoft Bill Economic Affairs. He was speaking on the sidelines of up the implementation of the initiative,” Ambassador Al- development with a capital of $200 million; the five-year Gates who is one of the top givers for Africa, and President preparatory meetings for the Arab Economic and Social Mashaan said, noting that the funds are being channeled in fund is run by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the African Development Bank (ADB) Dr. Donald Council. installments of $200 million a year. Ambassador Mashaan went on. Kaberuka. Saqabi said Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic “In FY 2013-14, KFAED offered 10 loans amounting to Another fund with a capital ranging between $500 mil- “The board of trustees will convene its first meeting on Development (KFAED) was responsible for the implementa- $140 million to 10 African countries and in the following fis- lion and 700 million was launched by KIA and the IFC to sup- December 7 in Kuwait where a prize-giving ceremony will tion of development projects in cooperation with the World cal year the figure rose to $154 million in eight loans to eight port the developing sectors in Africa, he said, noting that KIA be held for winner of the 2015 award. The 2016 prize will be Bank and financial institutes in Africa. He said the preparato- countries besides other agreements on financing for devel- contributes 20 percent of the funds. given on the sidelines of the fourth Arab-African summit, ry meetings touched upon implementation of resolutions of opment projects in FY 2015-16. Since the launching of the A third initiative by His Highness the Amir was to launch due in Equatorial Guinea in November of next year,” previous Arab economic summits, and the Arab-African initiative, KFAED has offered $493 million in soft loans for a $million award of Abdulrahman Al Sumait for African Ambassador Mashaan revealed. summit that was held in Kuwait in November 2013 during African countries, which means that the pledges are 49 per- development researches; its implementation is supervised He added that the meeting of the committee approved which His Highness the Amir announced a multibillion-dol- cent accomplished,” he pointed out. by Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). “The the agenda of the Arab-African ministerial meeting to be lar initiative to support development and investment in On His Highness the Amir’s initiative to commit $1 billion initiative, meant to promote scientific researches and studies held in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Africa. — KUNA Kuwait donates 100,000 TB vaccines to Sudan

KHARTOUM: Kuwait delivered an initial humanitarian aid erous contributions in the field of healthcare granted by package of some 100,000 tuberculosis (TB) vaccines to Sudan Kuwaiti hospitals, clinics, medical funds and charities,” he as part of a total one million vaccines set to be delivered over added. the coming period. The initiative is being carried out through Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti ambassador said that the initial cooperation between Kuwait’s state Patients’ Helping Fund delivery will be followed another 900,000 vaccines - complet- Society (PHFS) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The ing a total of one million - intended to “tackle this dangerous occasion was marked by a ceremony on Monday that was epidemic.” The assistance will “benefit the people of Sudan as attended by Sudan’s Health Minister Bahar Idriss Abu Garda, well as expatriates from neighboring countries, who have the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Sudan Talal Al-Hajeri, WHO been forced to seek refuge in Sudan due to circumstances,” he Representative in Sudan Dr Naeema Al-Gasseer and PHFS added. The ambassador also expressed appreciation for “the staff. efforts of the bodies which carried out and supported the Commenting on the initiative in a speech, Minister Abu completion of this noble humanitarian task.” In the meantime, Garda expressed his country’s appreciation. He described the WHO representative valued highly Kuwait’s role in the Kuwait as “the nation of humanitarianism and generosity” in field of humanitarian work and its healthcare contributions to regards to its reoccurring stances in supporting the people of Sudan, in addition to the high quality of the vaccines handed KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Health Minister Bahar Abu Garda, Kuwaiti Ambassador Talal Al-Hajeri, WHO Representative Dr Sudan. The assistance package is “the latest in a record of gen- out. — KUNA Naeema Al-Gasseer and PHFS staff are pictured at the ceremony. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 LOCAL

Voluntary work standard to gauge societal progress: Sheikha Entisar

KUWAIT: Voluntary work is one of the main methods to improve a society’s status, and the stan- dard by which societal progress is measured, a Kuwaiti activist said. Voluntary work is also a way by which people can feel conven- ience, pride and self confidence, Sheikha Entisar Salem Al-Ali Al- Sabah, Chairperson of the Nowair Positivity Initiative, said yesterday in a lecture during the ongoing Decision 2015 Conference. Voluntary work also helps indi- viduals attain life experiences and hone their skills, including time management. Furthermore, it gives people a sense of positivity, and can provide hope for a new life to people suffering from depression, Sheikh Entisar said. “Humanitarian work gives a sense of extreme happiness and an Sheikha Entisar Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah receives a memento from extra motivation to continue phil- Engineers Without Borders. anthropic work,” she said, speak- simple way based on scientific by Engineers Without Borders ing about the motives behind researches and studies,” she said. (EWB), kicked off last Sunday launching the Nowair initiative in “Our aim is to make positivity a under the patronage of His 2013. “The initiative’s goal is to lifestyle and a way to achieve Highness the Prime Minister spread awareness about positivi- happiness and contentment.” Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- ty in society in an innovative and The Decision 2015, organized Sabah.

Book sale helps children in Kuwait

By Athoob Alshuaibi

KUWAIT: For the last three days, ReadershipQ8 Book Club have been raising funds by trading used books in collabo- ration with Masaha13 creative hub in Shuwaikh where the book fair was held. Books in different languages were sold to help raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Kuwait. Mohammed Malallah, cofounder of ReadershipQ8 said that the response had been more than expected. The idea aims to help encourage support for the child’s society but also to encourage everyone to take part in serving society, recycling books and disseminating knowledge to help the less fortunate. ReadershipQ8 book club was first founded in 2014 by Shereen Bushehri and a group of intellectuals who sup- ported her project. The book club holds monthly meet-ups and will be conducting similar campaigns in the future. More information about book donations can be found on KUWAIT: Sheikha Entisar Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah is pictured in a group photo with Decision 2015 organizers. their Facebook and Instagram pages. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KPC diamond sponsor of industrialists’ conference

KUWAIT: The Gulf Organization for Industrial sponsorship of the 15th Industrialists’ Conference: suggestions to improve the investment environment Consulting (GOIC) announced that Kuwait Petroleum “Over the years, KPC has been able to prove its position and overcome obstacles hindering foreign investments Corporation and its subsidiary companies has joined at the global level and accomplish several remarkable and directing foreign investments in accordance with the list of sponsors of the 15th Industrialists’ achievements that have positively impacted the indus- GCC strategic plans to achieve their development goals Conference ‘Foreign Direct Investment in GCC and its trial sector in Kuwait and the Gulf”, he said. and maximise the benefit from these investments. In Impact on Industry’ as a Diamond Sponsor. The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is an establishment addition to that, they will work on determining key pil- Conference will be hosted by the State of Kuwait on of economic nature that is fully owned by the State of lars of GCC investment plans in the industrial sector. the 25th and 26th of November, 2015. Kuwait and managed on a commercial basis. It is one of The Gulf Industrialists’ Conference hosted by GOIC The 15th Industrialists’ Conference is held under the the most important oil and gas companies in the member states in rotation every other year is one of patronage of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- world. Its activities include discovering new reservoirs, GOIC’s most important achievements since its founda- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. It is organized by Kuwait’s producing, refining, marketing and manufacturing tion in 1976. Since the first conference held in Doha in Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Public petrochemical products and transport. 1985, they have been contributing in developing pri- Authority for Industry (PAI) and the Gulf Organization KPC’s mission is to manage and operate these inte- vate and public industrial sectors in GCC countries. for Industrial Consulting (GOIC), in collaboration with grated activities all over the world through the most Each conference tackles a specific topic influencing the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA), efficient and effective means and to maximise the val- development of industries in the region through a Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the ue and financial benefits of stakeholders and optimize series of papers delivered by international experts and Industrial Bank of Kuwait and Kuwait Industries Union. the use of Kuwait’s hydrocarbon resources. specialists. In fact, previous conferences resulted in rec- The conference is organized in coordination with the Furthermore, the Corporation plays a key role in ommendations that helped in developing industrial Secretariat-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, supporting and stimulating the local economy, devel- GOIC Secretary General Abdulaziz Al-Ageel plans in GCC countries, notably in the area of the indus- and the Federation of GCC Chambers (FGCCC). oping national labour force, preserving experienced promote the industrial sector in order to attract more trial development strategy. commercial and technical cadre and efficiently manag- foreign investments. Furthermore, it aims at enacting Decision makers, officials, businessmen and indus- Economic development ing issues related to health, safety and environment. In legislations and laws and offering facilitations and trialists are all interested in this conference. In its 14th Nizar Al-Adsani, CEO of Kuwait Petroleum order to carry out its mission, KPC has developed incentives to foreign investors in order to create a version “Industrial Exports: Opportunities and Corporation stated that sponsoring the 15th strategic directions for the next phase towards continu- promising investment environment. The conference Challenges”, the recommendations were to actively Industrialists’ Conference reflects KPC’s keenness to ous success through all of KPC’s activities. will seek to strengthen the level of competitiveness of work on adopting policies and procedures aiming at contribute in any activity aiming at promoting the It is noteworthy that the 15th Industrialists’ GCC countries by attracting foreign investments to pro- facilitating the flow of Gulf exports to strengthen industrial sector and achieving GCC economic develop- Conference to identify clear policies to stimulate devel- mote Gulf economies. trade activities between Gulf countries and to benefit ment. opment plans in GCC countries based on a comprehen- from GCC and Yemen seaports in addition to the exist- GOIC Secretary General Abdulaziz Bin Hamad Al- sive set of elements drawing foreign investors. It also Investment environment ing land border points in support of Gulf industrial Ageel praised “KPC and its subsidiary companies” for its seeks to create an ambitious strategy to develop and The conference will develop recommendations and exports. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Al-Watan Al-Qabas The secret corner at Danger bells the health ministry By Ahmad Al-Sarraf By Hassan Ali Karam believe that all those who feel concern towards t the health ministry, and at the main adminis- Kuwait were happy by the decision by British Airways, if what was said through the media is true, tration, there is an isolated corner which can be I that it will stop its flights to Kuwait by the end of called the secret apparatus or the brain of A September because of the weak security measures at health ministry and more precisely, the minister. In our lone airport and out of fear that terrorist groups other words, it is the ‘kitchen’ where decisions and may use the security loopholes here to hijack its air- rules are made for the minister and health ministry craft. This decision was not a surprise for the commu- leaders, bearing in mind that all those in that off-limits nication ministry and airport authorities, because it corner starting with the security guard who stands at had asked before, many times, to carry out inspec- the door, secretaries, clerks, all the way to advisors and tions by itself, but the “national pride” rejected that. experts are expats, and more precisely from one The old security systems used at the airport constitute nationality. They are like the mafia that controls, leads a great danger to security. The company added that and forms the steel wall that is difficult to penetrate no Kuwait airport does not object to any passenger car- matter how strong influence, faith or physical strength rying whatever liquids he wants onboard, which is in you may have! violation of international laws. There is no doubt that I may feel sorry for the health minister and current other international carriers may follow suit and stop health ministry leaders, as well as all former ministers their flights to Kuwait in case this company does so, and leaders who did not do anything without consult- and this is highly expected, especially since the British ing and approval of that secret apparatus behind the airports demands cannot be met easily under the steel wall. So whoever wants to hold the health minis- government bureaucracy during the remaining time, ter to account and reveal secrets and truths that are and the matter requires an administrative miracle. buried under the floor of health ministry, must storm Al-Anbaa The condition of Kuwait airport, which its security the steel gate of that terrible corner and expose those penetrated, corroded technology and administrative faces that work as a secret mafia. KIB organizes ‘Islamic Banking’ program corruption, is similar in danger to the condition of This is what is going on inside the health ministry, other sea and land ports, because many events and this is how things are being run at the leaders’ KUWAIT: Kuwait International Bank proved that some wanted and dangerous criminals offices, and is reflecting on the ministry’s performance recently organized the ‘Professional were able to leave Kuwait and escape easily with the and its dealing with health issues, employment mat- Banker of Islamic Banking’ training help of citizens who may belong to their tribes or ters, promotions, assignments, purchases, tenders and course for a selected group of sects! bringing doctors and technicians from abroad. employees. The happiness with BA’s decision is not out of If we leave the steel wall and secret apparatus alone “The program focused on Islamic gloating, but hope that the decision of this company and look at the other side, we find the magic paper in banking principles and the bases of is a warning bell that we have rung so many times the minister’s pocket with which he charms the managing and using funds, in com- but no one listened. Kuwait’s seaports are suffering strongest of eyes and the loudest voices in the parison with the conventional bank- from dangerous lawlessness and insecurity, not at its National Assembly which immunizes him from ing. In addition, types of finance, entrances, as its director attempted to convince us grillings and criticism, which is the paper of sending investment and professional market- reaches the point of zero - many dangerous accidents the malingerers among voters, family and friends to ing skills were also addressed,” said Dr occur inside because of the lack of interest in security go on tourism at the expense of the state in Europe Hisham Abdul Hai, KIB Shariah issues. with the cover of treatment abroad, and this is where Observer, speaking on this occasion. The concerned authority with sound security the issue lies, because whoever grills the minister will “The program was marked by vari- measures inside and around the ports’ piers is almost lose his popular base. ous seminars and workshops. It has absent. This lax security situation at the border cross- So who is courageous enough to grill the minister achieved remarkable results on high ings is not because of dereliction of a certain depart- without being worried about losing the elections? And performance in accordance with ment, rather it is part of a damage that is creeping to who is courageous to penetrate the steel wall and Islamic banking perspective. Whereas, state institutions one after the other, even if calmly reveal what is inside that suspicious corner? Who is the 20 participants interacted posi- but continually, and there will be many catastrophes courageous enough to stop the “no objection signa- tively in the program and successfully an integrated series of programs to be development of the Islamic banking before someone wakes up and sounds the danger tures” to send malingerers abroad at the expense of completed its assigned 20 hours,” he considered according to a systematic industry marked by the growing bell, and this, with great regret, will not take place approach, in line with KIB strategic demand for Islamic banking services overnight. public funds? continued. — Translated by Kuwait Times We want a legendary hero that storms that secret KIB Shariah Observer pointed out plan based on a continuous training on both regional and international wall and exposes the mafia network that runs the saying: “This training course is part of for the staff to cope with the steady levels.” health ministry from behind it! —Translated by Kuwait Times NBK offers customers Crime Report Al-Qabas waterfront dream land Swindlers arrested, Iran, what’s next? ‘Biggest prize this summer’ house burglars caught

KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) continues its campaign is not eligible to own a real estate in Kuwait or KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Security By Qais Al-Osta annual summer campaign offering its customers the chance unwilling to own a property. Affairs Major General Abdelhameed Al-Awadhi sent a to win a waterfront dream land in Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City NBK’s summer campaign gave away exclusive grand prizes female citizen to the public prosecution for alleged when using NBK cards in Kuwait and abroad. This exclusive every year as the prestigious Rolls-Royce Phantom, the Azimut involvement in swindling, along with an Arab lawyer, as e are fed up with demanding the best rela- offer is the first of its kind in Kuwait and will run until yacht and the exceptional Mc Laren MP4-12C. This year, NBK is well as four border customs employees, following an inves- tions with the dear Muslim neighbor, Iran, September 26th, 2015. giving away a dream prize of owning a unique plot of water- tigation. The woman was able to leave and return several Wsince those demands are normally answered All NBK cardholders can participate in the promotion and front land in Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City times although she is on Interior Ministry travel ban list. by the Iranian side in very negative fashion. earn unlimited chances into the draw to win this grand prize NBK pioneered many firsts in both the local and regional She said she was able to leave for KD 8,000 each time, and Iran announced a tender to search for oil and gas by using their NBK cards, both in Kuwait and while traveling markets by offering innovative products and value added an Arab lawyer facilitated that for her by telling her which in Al-Durra oil field, without regard to years of talks overseas. For every KD 1 spent in Kuwait with NBK Credit or services. NBK Cards provide an array of benefits that cater to counter she should go to, and she did the same when she where it was agreed with Iran not to start any search Prepaid Cards, cardholders will earn a chance to enter the your lifestyle needs, as well as offering special services locally returned. while waiting for the final decision on the field draw. Cardholders will triple their chances by using their NBK and globally, so that customers can enjoy convenience and because its size is large and expands in various territo- Credit, Prepaid and Debit Card abroad or by shopping on the peace of mind whether they’re in Kuwait or abroad. NBK Cards Hunting weapons confiscated rial waters. internet through international websites. are the safest, most convenient and rewarding way to pay for Jahra police confiscated a large quantity of hunting The behavior coincides with Iran’s instigation of NBK Cardholders increase their chances of winning every your purchases. For more information log onto nbk.com or weapons on Salmi road in addition to 8,000 rounds of other problems that are not less dangerous in several time they use their cards during the promotional period. NBK contact NBK Call Center on 1801801, or follow NBK on Twitter ammunitions. Seven citizens were found to be in pos- Gulf countries, and the question is, what does Iran will offer a cash prize as an alternative if the winner of this and on Instagram @NBKPage. session of eight shotguns. The citizens were arrested. want in the coming period? Meanwhile, Abdallah Al-Mubarak police responded to Iran’s euphoria is understood especially after the a call from a citizen who said there was a safe full of agreement with the US, the enemy of yesterday and Inflation rate at 0.44 percent ammunition in the yard of his house. ally of today, over Iran’s nuclear reactor. But Iran must rebuild its relations with the region’s countries, espe- Co-op union denies involvement in price increases cially with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the rest Citizen arrested over threat of the Gulf Cooperating Countries (GCC). KUWAIT: The inflation rate rose by 0.44 percent during June 2015 a misunderstanding in regards to the latest price increases that will Ardhiya detectives arrested an ex-convict citizen following Iran must realize that a clam Gulf will help all coun- and rose by 3.54 percent in June 2015 compared with June 2014, a be corrected, and asked Dr Shabu to withdraw the union’s resigna- a complaint from another citizen that he threatened to kid- tries in the region, as Iran builds its economy and pays report sent to the cabinet on changes of prices of 11 main prod- tion from the prices committee. — Al-Anbaa nap and harm her. He was found wanted on three cases attention to the needs of their societies, but a flaming ucts for citizens and expats said. and sentenced to serve jail time. He was arrested following and congested Gulf will have Iran as its major victim, According to the report, prices of ‘fresh, frozen and dried veg- fierce resistance and attempts to escape. even if it sees the opposite. etables’ rose by 3.11 percent during June 2015, while fish and sea PAYS wants KFA to food prices showed a rise of 1.99 percent. Meanwhile, ‘food and Iran’s creation of many problems, especially with drinks’ rose by 0.74 percent, while poultry and meat rose by 0.34 host Kuwait matches Illegal shops closed Kuwait lately, means that it is going ahead with esca- percent. lation, because everybody knows that Kuwait and Farwaniya police closed nearly 35 shops, and arrested KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Youth and Sports (PAYS) 20 violating persons in Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh and Hasawi. Oman are the countries who understand Iran’s prob- Co-op prices made a request to the Kuwait Football Association (KFA) to lems, so if the Kuwait-Iran relations reach this level, Meanwhile, Head of Cooperation Union Dr Saad al-Shabu said The shops were closed for selling spoiled food, fish, host the upcoming 2018 World Cup qualifiers’ matches for the then how about the rest of Gulf countries, especially the union resigned from the prices supervision and follow up com- vegetables, canned food and tools and in some cases national team in Kuwait. Kuwait hosts South Korea and the big sister, Saudi Arabia? And how are we to agree mittee and added that the union is innocent from all the increase operating without the proper licenses. Lebanon on October 8th and 13th respectively, but the Asian on the prices of nearly 342 food products supplied by 10 compa- over what is going on in Yemen and the rest of the Football Confederation (AFC) had granted the KFA its request nies, in what he described as a scandal, of which the union was region’s countries? to move the matches to Qatar. accused though it is completely innocent as proven by the lack of Qat smuggler busted I sincerely ask the regime in Tehran to be rational KFA had earlier complained that entry visas for Myanmar meeting minutes on the increases. “The current board of the union Customs officers at Kuwait International Airport arrested and not to be hasty, as recent history confirmed to us, national team members were not issued, so it wrote to the is unanimous in rejecting those increases and will continue its mis- an Ethiopian woman with two kilograms of qat hidden in without a shadow of a doubt, that aggression on AFC to transfer Kuwait national team’s matches for the World sion to protect consumers and not increase any product without bags within her luggage. The qat was placed in a glass jar Kuwait will return to the aggressor. So will the regime Cup 2018 and Asian Cup 2019 qualifiers to another country, certain rules and standards and transparency,” Dr Shabu told the full of honey. She was sent to the Drug Control General and AFC approved that Myanmar match will be held Thursday there think or will it commit reckless actions that will Kuwaiti people. Dr Shabu warned against the continued increase in Qatar. PAYS asked KFA to write to AFC again, and request a Department (DCGD). destroy the region and send it 100 years backwards? which he said will hit everything, its ‘infection’ spreading between cancelation of the decision of moving the matches outside A question... just a question. So was the message companies, if the committee does not stop this trend. He said the Kuwait, stressing that the team should play in its home and in delivered? I hope so. elected union did not sign on any price increase from May 20 until front of its fans. — Al-Jarida House burglars caught — Translated by Kuwait Times now, adding that he met Dr Matar Al-Mutairi who said that there is Surra police caught several burglars for robbing hous- es after arresting them in Qortuba. A police patrol saw a vehicle loaded with various household items and when it asked the car to stop, the driver sped off. The Criticisms over new E-media law, police patrol gave chase and eventually stopped the vehicle. Four men were arrested and they confessed to possible liberties’ violation noted robbing houses in the area.

KUWAIT: The e-media law that was recently of the Constitution. More liberties needed positive as well as negative outcomes,” she Soldier caught with drugs approved by the cabinet aroused severe criti- Meanwhile, the National Alliance (NA) Also commenting on the law, vice president remarked noting that this calls for regulating Police patrols sent a uniformed youth to the Drugs Control cism among political, cultural and legal groups Secretary General Bashar Al-Sayegh stressed of the Arab Human Rights Organization and things through a clearly defined law that fully General Department after arresting him with drugs and who refused the law and described it as ‘muz- that NA would strongly reject the law if it was head of Kuwait’s Human Line Organization, observes freedom of expression. liquor. Police stopped him as he drove erratically, so he was zling,’ especially since the cabinet had been passed without amending the articles pertain- Maha Al-Barjas stressed that local laws must In the meantime, editor-in-chief of Derwaza stopped and found to be a bedoon soldier. In another case keeping a lid on the law’s details. ing to the strict penalties, namely on imprison- match international treaties and agreements News Website, Salah Al-Allaj rejected the pow- Jahra police sent a bedoon with hashish and rolling papers Kuwait Democratic Platform (KDP)’s ment. “We will strongly oppose the law in Kuwait had signed. She also noted that Kuwaiti ers and control given to the Information to the DCGD. Secretary General Ali Al-Awadhi said that KDP Parliament,” he promised noting that he had laws must offer more liberties, especially since Ministry through the new e-media law. “This was still waiting to study the law’s draft to suggested so many amendments over the the world has become ‘an open village’ in view of dominance might force the owners of e- Amorous couple arrested judge it. “Previous experiences have taught us three days during which the Parliamentary the internet, social media networks and the papers to change them into blogs so that they Several citizens told police that an Asian female and an not to trust government projects because Educational Affairs Committee discussed the development of e-media. could protected by the international commu- Western man were acting indecently so police went to they usually tend to set stricter penalties and law after consulting NGOs, local dailies and the Kuwait University e-media professor Dr nity,” he said. Alaan’s deputy editor-in-chief, the area and took the two to the police station. The restrictions that would destroy freedom of owner of news websites. “Merging the e-media Bashayer Al-Sayegh said that the conserva- Ahmed Salem, criticized the new e-media law incident happened in a well known shopping mall in expression and of publishing information,” he and the publication laws seems to be the gov- tions made on the law were normal in Kuwait because it stipulates penalties of up to KD Hawally, as one of the callers described the woman’s said, noting that by passing the new law, the ernment’s first step towards reviving the ‘uni- where people are used to freedom of expres- 10,000 fines and prison. “This is completely clothes as revealing. Both were sent to concerned government was only after another attempt to fied media law’ which had been frozen for sion, which also increased with the use of e- against the current technological break- authorities. — Al-Anbaa, Al-Rai kill public freedoms, which violates Article 36 long,” he said. media. “However, this outbreak has had its through,” he said. — Al-Qabas WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Thailand arrests second Satellite images show Temple of Bel in Syria ‘destroyed’ foreign suspect in Bangkok blast probe Page 8 Page 11 Budapest main train station closed to migrants Chaos as figures show gravity of Europe migrant crisis

BUDAPEST: Hungarian police evacuated Budapest’s main international rail station yesterday after hundreds of migrants tried to board trains to western Europe, as new figures showed more than 350,000 have risked their lives so far this year cross- ing the Mediterranean. With tensions high as hundreds of police, some in riot gear, moved people out of Keleti station, statistics from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) revealed the gravity of the crisis facing the continent with the biggest movement of people since World War II. Over 234,770 migrants have landed in Greece alone this year, the IOM said, more than the whole Europe-wide figure of 219,000 for all of 2014. At least 2,600 died on the hazardous journey, drowned or suffocated in dangerous or unseaworthy boats, it added. Another 114,276 made it to Italy, with most of the other arrivals split between Spain and the island of Malta. Although there were no clashes between migrants and police in Budapest, several hundred refugees staged an angry demonstration outside the station, an AFP correspondent said. “Germany! Germany! We want to leave!” chanted the crowd, with some holding their babies up in the air. The station later re- opened but only for non-migrants.

Greatest challege for Europe The move came just 24 hours after the EU’s border control procedures were thrown into chaos when police allowed peo- ple stuck for days in makeshift refugee camps to leave the Hungarian capital on trains bound for Germany and Austria, Migrants sit on a Norwegian Coast Guard boat after being transferred from the Italian Navy Ship Fulgosi during a migrant search and rescue mission off the Libyan Coasts, yesterday. despite many not having EU visas. The decision led the highest Four dead bodies and hundreds of migrants were transferred on the Norwegian Siem Pilot ship from an Italian Navy ship and a Doctor Without Borders vessels after being rescued in number of migrants entering Austria in a single day this year, different operation in the Mediterranean Sea. (See Page 10). — AP police confirmed, with 3,650 arriving in Vienna by train on Monday. Many of the migrants slept at Vienna’s Westbahnhof in an abandoned truck on an Austrian motorway near the leaders have repeatedly called for greater efforts to help the asylum seekers. She also made veiled criticism of countries like station, hoping to continue on their journey to Germany, which Hungarian border. So far, police in Hungary and Bulgaria have new arrivals, as countries on its eastern and southern borders Slovakia which said it would reject migrants from majority last week eased asylum restrictions for Syrian refugees. German arrested seven people in connection with the truck tragedy, warned they were struggling to cope. Muslim countries. “If we start saying ‘I do not want Muslims’... police said 2,200 asylum-seekers had turned up in Bavaria by among them four Bulgarians and one Afghan. The nationalities Italy yesterday said it had rescued 221 migrants crammed that cannot be good,” Merkel stressed on Monday. yesterday morning, many having managed to switch trains in of the other two were not known. into two inflatable boats off the Libyan coast. But the crisis is At heart of the crisis lies the question over how to distribute Vienna. The southern German state’s Interior Minister, Joachim The grim discovery led to a security crackdown in Austria rapidly spreading across the continent, with an unprecedented the migrants across the EU and help relieve pressure on so- Herrmman, said they would not be returned to Hungary. The with huge tailbacks forming along the border on Monday and influx of migrants also arriving in Belgium. A makeshift camp called “frontline” nations where migrants arrive by sea or land. wave of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty in the Tuesday, as officers inspected vehicles in search of people- has sprung up near the main refugee processing centre in Much-flouted EU rules stipulate that refugees should be Middle East and Africa “is the greatest challenge for Europe in smugglers and migrants. Brussels, where as many as 1,000 queued outside on Monday to processed in the first country they reach. the coming years”, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said apply for asylum. But bloc member Hungary-like Austria, a country of transit yesterday on a visit to Berlin. ‘Don’t want Muslims’ German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier warned that the for migrants heading to northern Europe-says it cannot host The migrants’ plight was brought sharply into focus last The escalating situation has divided the 28-member bloc refugee crisis was testing the core ideals of universal rights at record numbers of newcomers, as 50,000 migrants arrived in week after 71 people, including four children, were found dead ahead of emergency talks on September 14. Western European the heart of the EU, urging all states to take their fair share of August.—AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Dispute with Israel govt keeps Christian schools shut

JERUSALEM: Christian schools in for an open-ended strike,” said the vened, even the Vatican,” said received 65 percent of their budg- equality,” according to Father Israel stayed shut yesterday, delay- spokesman for Christian schools in Mansour. ets from the state, with parents pay- Abdelmassih Fahim, director of ing the start of the new academic Israel, Botrus Mansour. “A week ago, President Reuven ing the balance. But that figure was schools for the Catholic church’s year, in a funding dispute with Christian schools and Israeli Rivlin and Education Minister cut to 34 percent two years ago, Custody of the Holy Land. authorities in the Jewish state. authorities have been in tough Naftali Bennett made very positive sharply increasing the amount par- “A Jewish Israeli child has the The strike action affects around talks over state funding for them comments ... But we still haven’t ents had to come up with. right to 100 percent (of school 33,000 pupils, mostly Muslim Israeli and their 3,000 employees. “For a seen any serious proposal. Current state financing covers costs covered by the state) while Arabs, at 47 schools run primarily year and a half, we have been hold- “We’ve tried everything and have only “29 percent of the overall cost our schools don’t, while our by the Roman Catholic church. “All ing talks with the Israeli authorities no option left but to go on strike,” of a primary school,” the schools teaching is among the best in the schools are closed after a call and several figures have inter- he said. Traditionally, the schools said in a statement. “It is a matter of Israel.” — AFP

Cultural heritage a casualty of war Satellite images show Temple

DAMASCUS: Islamic State militants have destroyed two of the most important temples in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Bel in Syria ‘destroyed’ of Palmyra, as they press their campaign to wipe out some of the Middle East’s most important heritage sites. The United Nations released satellite images Monday UN: Destruction of Temple of Bel sparks outrage confirming the ancient city’s most famed shrine, the 2,000- year-old Temple of Bel, had been blown up a week after the BEIRUT: Satellite images show the main tem- terrorise it,” Abdulkarim said. “It’s the last destruction of the temple of Baal Shamin. The jihadists have ple in Syria’s Palmyra has been flattened, con- warning before the complete destruction of become notorious for demolishing archaeological treasures firming the worst fears for the ancient ruins Palmyra.” Cheikhmous Ali of the Association since declaring a “caliphate” last year straddling Iraq and held by the Islamic State group. The destruc- for the Protection of Syrian Archeology Syria. The following are examples of world cultural heritage tion of the Temple of Bel sparked outrage and (APSA) described the razing of the ruins as “a targeted by Islamist extremists elsewhere: international headlines, precisely the reaction way to pressure and torture the local popula- the jihadist group may have been seeking, tion-to suppress their history and their collec- Iraq experts said. tive memory.” IS has carried out a campaign of “cultural cleansing”, razing Dozens of relics remain at risk in the ruins It was also an attempt to “remain in the part of ancient Mesopotamia’s relics and looting others to sell of Palmyra, which IS jihadists seized from headlines”, he said, warning: “The more we valued artefacts on the black market. regime forces in May as they pursued their give IS’s savage actions media attention, the In a video released by IS on February 26, militants were campaign for territory in Syria and Iraq. The more they will repeat this.” shown using sledgehammers to smash statues in the coun- extremist group’s harsh philosophy con- try’s second city Mosul, sparking global outrage. demns pre-Islamic religious sites and consid- ‘Symbolic power’ in destruction According to antiquities officials, around 90 objects were ers statues and grave markers to be idola- Gruesome violence and the destruction of destroyed or damaged, most of them originals. Thousands of trous, but it has also been accused of destroy- priceless artefacts have become hallmarks of books and rare manuscripts were also burned in February in ing heritage to loot items for the black mar- IS as it expands its so-called “caliphate” across Mosul’s library. In July 2014, IS rigged the Nabi Yunus shrine in ket and to gain publicity. swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. the northern city of Mosul revered by both Muslims and Satellite images taken before and after an In addition to damaging sites in Syria, IS Christians as the tomb of the Prophet Jonah-with explosives explosion at Palmyra on Sunday “confirm the has destroyed statues, shrines, and manu- and blew it up. According to the Iraqi government, IS mili- destruction of the main Temple of Bel as well scripts in the Iraqi city of Mosul, and demol- tants on March 5 bulldozed and blew up Nimrud, an ancient as a row of columns in its immediate vicinity,” ished the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud fur- Assyrian city south of Mosul. UN training and research agency UNITAR said ther south. late Monday. Charlie Winter, an analyst with the Libya The 2,000-year-old temple was the centre- London-based Quilliam Foundation, said the Several mausoleums have been destroyed by Islamist piece of Palmyra’s famed ruins and one of the destruction of artefacts in Palmyra and else- extremists, who believe they go against their interpretation most important relics at the UNESCO-listed where “makes sense with the jihadist world- of Islam. In August 2012, Islamist hardliners bulldozed part of heritage site. “The Temple of Bel was the most view, because these temples are symbols of the mausoleum of Al-Shaab Al-Dahman, close to the centre beautiful symbol of all of Syria. It was the polytheism.” “They are pre-Islamic and are of the Libyan capital. The demolition came a day after hard- most beautiful place to visit,” Syrian antiqui- considered by IS not to be worthy of exis- liners blew up the mausoleum of Sheikh Abdessalem al- ties director Maamoun Abdulkarim told AFP tence,” Winter said. Asmar in the western city of Zliten. by telephone from Damascus. He agreed that IS may be seeking to reclaim headlines at a time when its grue- Mali “And we have lost it forever.” some killings no longer receive the same The fabled desert city of Timbuktu, named as the “City of IS fighters seized Palmyra from Syrian media attention as before. The militants 333 saints” and listed by UNESCO, was for months attacked by regime forces on May 21, immediately spark- have used sophisticated media techniques to jihadists following a brutal version of Islamic law. ing fears for the city’s ruins and historic sites. gain publicity and lure thousands of foreign In June 2012, Al-Qaeda-linked militants destroyed 15 of While antiquities staff evacuated most of the fighters to join their ranks. the northern city’s mausoleums, important buildings that city’s museum before IS arrived, the group “The videos IS publishes of people being date back to the golden age of Timbuktu as an economic, This combination of two satellite images provided by UNITAR-UNOSAT destroyed an ornate lion statue outside the burned alive don’t grab headlines anywhere intellectual and spiritual centre in the 15th and 16th cen- shows damage to the main building of the ancient Temple of Bel in Palmyra, building and also mined Palmyra’s ruins. near as much as headlines about Palmyra do,” turies, UNESCO reported. Reconstruction started in 2014. Syria on Monday, top, and before the damage on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Last month the jihadists beheaded the 82- The main building has been destroyed, a United Nations agency said on Winter said. IS “has recognised the symbolic year old former antiquities chief in Palmyra power of destroying these ruins. “If there’s Afghanistan Monday. The imagery was taken before and after a massive explosion was and destroyed the ancient shrine of Baal anything IS revels in, it’s condemnation” of its In March 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Omar-now Shamin. set off near the 2,000-year-old temple in the city occupied by Islamic State actions, he said. deceased-ordered the destruction of two 1,500-year-old militants. — AP Regime forces have launched an offensive Buddha statues in the eastern town of Bamiyan, because ‘They have killed Palmyra’ to retake the ancient city and as they edge they were judged to be anti-Islamic. Hundreds of members On Sunday, activists and a monitor report- markers, the amphitheatre and the Temple of But it was the scene of a gruesome mas- closer the jihadist group may be looking to of the Taliban from across the country spent more than ed a large explosion at the site had destroyed Nabu, which only has its foundations.” The sacre shortly after IS seized Palmyra, with child sow as much destruction as it can. “The more three weeks demolishing the gigantic statues carved into the Temple of Bel. Abdulkarim said Palmyra’s city’s grand Roman amphitheatre, which dates members of the group executing 25 Syrian sol- likely it looks that IS will end up losing the side of a cliff. — AFP remaining ruins, which lie in the southwest of from between the second and third century, is diers in the amphitheatre. Palmyra, the more likely it will destroy what’s the city, include “dozens of the greatest grave not believed to have been damaged. “They have killed Palmyra. Now, they will left there,” Winter said. — AFP News Obama offended by attacks in brief on Jews who back Iran deal

Five hurt in West Bank raid WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said the Holocaust. Earnest added: “It’s certainly not people who attack Jews who support the Iran the only example of the kind of political rheto- JERUSALEM: Five Palestinians and an Israeli border policeman nuclear deal are like African-Americans who ric that certainly the president and others find were wounded in a raid in the occupied West Bank to arrest a differ with him on policy and then conclude objectionable.” Obama’s Treasury Secretary Hamas militant, the Israeli army and local medical officials said he’s “not black enough.” Jacob Lew, who is Jewish, was heckled this yesterday. The fate of the wanted man was not immediately clear. Obama, in an interview with the Jewish summer at a Jewish-themed conference in The army said soldiers demolished a house, in the city of Jenin, in newspaper “Forward,” was asked whether it New York when he defended the nuclear deal which he was suspected of hiding, after they were shot at. A hurt him personally when people say he’s anti- and spoke of the administration’s support for Hamas source in Jenin said the suspect was Bassam al-Saadi, a Semitic. “Oh, of course,” Obama said. “And Israel. member of the Islamic Jihad group. The source said two Hamas there’s not a smidgeon of evidence for it, other Obama, in the “Forward” interview, said activists were detained by the Israeli forces. In a statement, the than the fact that there have been times when that while those who care about Israel have an army said hundreds of Palestinians had gathered at the scene dur- I’ve disagreed with a particular Israeli govern- obligation to be honest about what they think, ing the operation late on Monday and that the crowd threw rocks ment’s position on a particular issue.” “you don’t win the debate by suggesting that and petrol bombs at the soldiers. Palestinian medical officials said The president added, though, that he’s the other person has bad motives. That’s, I five Palestinians were wounded by rubber bullets. Israeli Defence “probably more offended when I hear mem- think, not just consistent with fair play; I think Minister Moshe Yaalon, in speech on security issues in Tel Aviv, bers of my administration who themselves are it’s consistent with the best of the Jewish tradi- said a member of an Israeli special forces unit was shot and Jewish being attacked. You saw this historically tion.” Secretary of State John Kerry, the chief wounded, apparently by friendly fire. sometimes in the African-American communi- US diplomat in the negotiations with Iran, is to Israeli troops frequently enter Palestinian-controlled territory ty, where there’s a difference on policy and make a speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday to detain people suspected of militant activity. somebody starts talking about, ‘Well, you’re on the importance of the agreement to US Palestinian officials condemn this practice as an encroachment not black enough,’ or ‘You’re selling out.’ And national security, State Department SANAA: Yemeni supporters of the Shiite Huthi rebel movement chant slogans and on the limited self-rule they hold in parts of the West Bank. that, I think, is always a dangerous place to go.” spokesman Mark Toner said Monday. hold banners during a rally protesting against a military offensive by the Saudi-led Obama didn’t mention any specific critics On a lighter note, Obama was asked about coalition, in front of main gate of the old city of the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday. The coalition, which began its air campaign against Iran-backed rebels in late March Abbas won’t seek PLO posts or targets by name. Asked to whom the presi- his bagel of choice. He described himself as dent was referring, White House Press “always a big poppy seed guy.” As for toppings, in support of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, has backed government Secretary Josh Earnest on Monday mentioned he added: “lox and capers OK, but generally loyalists with both weapons and troops. — AFP RAMALLAH: Two officials say Palestinian President former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s charge just your basic schmear,” referring to a smear of Mahmoud Abbas has told confidants he won’t seek re-elec- that the nuclear deal was like “marching the cream cheese. The interview was conducted tion to the top posts in the Palestine Liberation Organization Israelis to the door of the oven,” a reference to Friday, and released Monday. — AP Gunmen kill two Yemeni or his Fatah movement in upcoming elections. Abbas would retain his most important post, as president of the Palestinian self-rule government. Rumors had been swirling that the 80- militia leaders in Aden year-old plans to step down as president because all roads to Palestinian statehood appear blocked. The planned election ADEN: Unidentified gunmen on motor- the streets and that despite the victory of a new PLO Executive Committee in mid-September would bikes shot dead two leaders of the loyal- against the Houthis, Hadi’s government create a pool of potential Abbas successors and give him a ist militia controlling the southern has yet to return from Saudi Arabia. say when the time comes. Critics cast his latest moves as an Yemeni port of Aden in separate attacks Plans to set up a temporary administra- attempt to sideline opponents. The officials said yesterday on Monday, officials said. Rasheed tion in Aden have been dogged by the that Abbas told the PLO leadership a day earlier about plans Khaled Saif and Hamdi al-Shutairi were chaos. to sit out PLO and Fatah elections. military leaders of the Popular Southern “We finished the war and the Houthis, Resistance, a loose alliance which fought but this series of assassinations is really Kurds suspect chemical attack the siege of the city by Houthi militia worrying us. There’s a security vacuum, forces with support from Gulf Arab the people hope some kind of authority ERBIL: Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they suspected a rock- states. can be established and the police will be et fired by Islamic State at their peshmerga forces in northern Iraq No group immediately claimed deployed so we can be put at ease,” said contained chemical substances. The Kurdistan Region’s Security responsibility for the killings, which fol- local construction worker Mohammed Council (KRSC) said the attack had taken place along the front line lowed the shooting of a senior security Ahmed Salem. The northern-based north of Mosul on Aug. 31, and one peshmerga fighter was receiv- official in Aden on Sunday. Militias loyal Houtis seized the capital Sanaa in ing treatment. A ‘considerable amount’ of yellow smoke was pro- to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour September 2014 then took control of duced, it said. Samples taken from the site of another attack earlier Hadi, who is currently based in Saudi much of the country. Loyalist forces, this year tested positive for chlorine, and two other incidents are Arabia, recaptured Aden in July. supported by air strikes from a Saudi-led currently being investigated. “This is one of an increasing number Since then, a power vacuum has coalition, have made significant of attacks in recent months suspected of carrying chemical sub- grown, with Al Qaeda militants moving advances since July however. Gulf states stances,” the KRSC said in a statement. “We remain deeply con- JENIN: A Palestinian sits on the rubble of a house which was destroyed by Israeli into a main neighbourhood and see the Houthis as a proxy of their archri- cerned with the escalation and delivery method of these attacks, troops during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin early yesterday. An Israeli raid to unknown assailants blowing up the intel- val Iran, while the group says it is fight- and urgently call on the International Coalition to provide protec- arrest a senior Hamas operative in the West Bank turned into a gunbattle Monday ligence headquarters. Residents have ing a revolution against corrupt officials tive equipment to peshmerga forces”. night, leaving several wounded in the clashes. — AP complained that police have largely quit beholden to the West. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Trial set for officer charged with abusing Indian

HUNTSVILLE: An Alabama police offi- slammed Patel to the ground face-first that Parker’s actions violated depart- cer went on trial yesterday on a feder- as another officer stood by. ment procedures. Muncey publicly al charge of using excessive force “He don’t speak a lick of English,” apologized to Patel after the incident against an Indian man who was one of the officers said afterward. and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley thrown down and partially paralyzed Patel is expected to testify through a called Patel’s treatment a case of during a confrontation in a suburban translator but will need a walker to “excessive force” in an apologetic let- neighborhood. get to the stand, said his lawyer, Hank ter to the Indian government. Madison police officer Eric Sloan Sherrod. Parker is being fired by the city of Parker, 26 is charged with violating the “He’s not fully recovered and isn’t Madison, but he appealed and the ter- civil rights of 57-year-old Sureshbhai expected to fully recover,” said mination process is on hold until crimi- Patel, who was staying with his son Sherrod. “His improvement is very, nal charges are resolved. Parker also near Huntsville in February and was very slow right now.”Parker is free on faces a state assault charge, and Patel walking in the neighborhood when bond. Court documents indicate the filed a federal lawsuit seeking an police received a call about a suspi- defense will present testimony to unspecified amount of money for his cious person walking in the area. show Parker’s actions were justified injuries. Police video showed an officer and that he didn’t mean to harm Patel has been joined in Alabama by HUNTSVILLE: Chirag Patel helps his father, Sureshbhai Patel out of the car as struggling to communicate with the Patel. Court documents show his wife and now lives with his son they arrive outside the federal courthouse before start of a trial against man because of language differences. Madison Police Chief Larry Muncey is while undergoing physical rehabilita- Madison, Ala., police officer Eric Sloan Parker, yesterday, in Huntsville, Ala. — AP After a few moments, an officer expected to testify for prosecutors tion, Sherrod said. — AP Australian, Thai journalists Clinton, aides stressed acquitted of defaming navy

PHUKET: An Australian journalist and his for Amnesty International. “Thai authorities protecting State Dept info Thai colleague were acquitted yesterday in have again shown their disregard for free- a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by dom of expression by pursuing this case.” Thailand’s navy over an online news report The case came to trial following the dis- Email appears to focus on civil unrest in Iran about the trafficking of refugees from covery in May of dozens of bodies buried Myanmar. at several jungle camps on the Thai- WASHINGTON: Hillary Rodham Clinton and her aides Human rights groups immediately wel- Malaysian border where traffickers held at the State Department were acutely aware of the comed the acquittal but said the case migrants as prisoners. Many of the need to protect sensitive information when discussing should never have been brought in the migrants are ethnic Rohingya from international affairs over email and other forms of first place. Alan Morison and Chutima Myanmar who face persecution at home. unsecure electronic communication, according to the Sidasathian were facing up to seven years In many cases, the migrants pay to be latest batch of messages released by the agency from in prison over a report on their online smuggled by ship, but are then detained Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. news website Phuketwan saying military by traffickers in Thailand who hold them The State Department made public roughly 7,121 forces accepted money to assist or turn a until their families pay ransoms. pages of Clinton’s emails late Monday night, including blind eye to the trafficking of refugees Human rights activists and foreign gov- 125 emails that were censored prior to their release from Myanmar by sea. ernments have long accused Thai authori- because they contain information now deemed classi- They were charged with criminal ties of collusion in the trafficking industry, fied. The vast majority concerned mundane matters of defamation and offences under the dra- but police, military and government offi- daily life at any workplace: phone messages, relays of conian Computer Crimes Act. “This is a fan- cials denied the allegations. schedules and forwards of news articles. tastic day for us, to be free of the weight of However, the recent publicity about the But in a few of the emails, Clinton and her aides this charge,” Morison said outside the court camps prompted a Thai government crack- noted the constraints of discussing sensitive subjects on the island of Phuket. “I think it’s an down on trafficking, and several dozen when working outside of the government’s secure important result for Thai media and for the people were arrested, including a Thai messaging systems - and the need to protect such media in general.” army general and local officials. information. Senior adviser Alec Ross, in a February The report on the Phuketwan website The US State Department in July said it 2010 email intended for Clinton, cited frustration with was excerpted from an extensive story was keeping Thailand on its human traf- “the boundaries of unclassified email” in a message published by the Reuters news agency in ficking blacklist and retained Thailand’s about an unspecified country, which Ross referred to July 2013. The Reuters story was part of a Tier 3 ranking, the lowest level in its annual as “the country we discussed.” The email appears to series that won the news agency the 2014 Trafficking in Persons report. The ranking focus on civil unrest in Iran during the period preced- Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. designates Thailand as a country that has ing the Green Movement, when Iranian protesters The case drew widespread criticism not made sufficient progress in tackling used social media and the Internet to unsuccessfully MINNEAPOLIS: In this Aug 28, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary from human rights and press freedom human trafficking. It cited persistent challenge the re-election of then-President Mahmoud Rodham Clinton, addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee in groups around the world. “The acquittal of forced labor and sex trafficking and recom- Ahmadinejad. Minneapolis. The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Clinton’s emails late these two journalists is a positive decision, mended that Thailand stop bringing crimi- In an exchange from Feb. 6, 2010, Clinton asks aide Monday night, including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because they but the fact is that they should never have nal defamation cases against researchers Huma Abedin for talking points for a call she’s about to contain information now deemed classified. — AP had to stand trial in the first place,” said or journalists who report on human traf- have with the newly appointed foreign minister of Josef Benedict, the regional representative ficking. — AP Ecuador. “You are congratulating him on becoming for- eign minister, and purpose is to establish a personal Government employees are instructed not to par- zled by basic technology. In a July 2010 exchange, relationship with him,” Abedin replied. “Trying to get u aphrase or repeat in any form any classified material Clinton quizzed former staffer Philippe Reines on how call sheet, its classified....” via unsecured email, which includes both the official to charge the Apple tablet and update an application. In another email from January 2010, Clinton aide state.gov email system and the account Clinton ran Reines asks Clinton if she has a wireless Internet Cheryl Mills responds angrily to a New York Times story on her private server. State Department spokesman connection, and she replies: “I don’t know if I have wi-fi. based on leaked classified cables sent by Karl Mark Toner said Monday none of the information How do I find out?” A few of the messages released Eikenberry, the US ambassador to Afghanistan. “The censored in Monday’s release was identified as classi- Monday hint at the ways Clinton’s family was involved leaking of classified material is a breach not only of fied when the emails were sent or received by in her work at the agency. Following the devastating trust, it is also a breach of the law,” Mills wrote. Clinton, noting the redactions were made subse- Haiti earthquake in January 2010, Clinton wrote about Clinton also expressed frustration with the State quently and only prior to the release of the emails her efforts to involve Bill Clinton in the disaster Department’s treatment of certain ordinary docu- under the Freedom of Information Act. response. After an unnamed party assumed that for- ments as classified. After an aide noted the draft of In total, the State Department has now released mer President Clinton’s preexisting role as a United innocuous remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian con- 13,269 pages of Clinton’s emails, more than 25 per- Nations envoy to Haiti would sideline him from the flict was on the State Department’s classified messag- cent of the total that she turned over from her private reconstruction effort, Hillary stepped in. ing system, she responded, “It’s a public statement! server, Toner said. Clinton provided the department “I just spent an extra hour explaining the architec- Just email it.” some 30,000 pages of emails she classified as work- ture” of the relief organizations, Clinton wrote. “Will fill Sent a moment later, the statement merely said related late last year, while deleting a similar amount wjc in on the plane.” Bill Clinton, who is often referred that U.S. and British officials would work together to from her server because she said they were solely to by his initials “WJC,” ended up as co-chairman of the promote peace. “Well that is certainly worthy of being personal in nature. Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, a body with signif- top secret,” Clinton responded sarcastically. Clinton’s use of a private email may have created icant power over reconstruction funds. All those email conversations with Clinton took logistical problems communicating with State An email from Chelsea Clinton, addressed to “Dad, place via her private email account, highlighting the Department aides. “Well its clearly a state vs outside Mom,” offers a densely-written, seven-page assess- challenge the front-runner for the Democratic presi- email issue,” wrote Abedin in August 2010, after anoth- ment of conditions on the ground in Haiti based on dential nomination faces as she struggles to explain er aide reported missing some messages from Clinton. her “data set and its clear limitations” after she took a PHUKET: Alan Morison, center, Australian editor of the website Phuketwan, and his her decision to set up a private email server at her “State has been trying to figure it out. So lj is getting all four-day trip to the devastated island. “Please do not colleague Chutima Sidasathian, second left, speak to reporters in Phuket, Thailand, New York home. She now says her decision to use a your emazils cause she’s on her personal account too.” forward this in whole or in part attributed to me with- yesterday. Morison and Chutima have been cleared of charges of defaming the Thai personal email account to conduct government Despite approving the creation of a relatively com- out asking me first,” she writes to her parents, saying navy by a court on the island of Phuket. — AP business was a mistake. plex email system in her home, Clinton seemed puz- she’s “happy to be an invisible soldier.” — AP Europe’s passport free travel area explained

BRUSSELS: Desperate to halt the flow of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty, some European countries have begun erecting fences and tightening border controls. But the crack- down, as people leave Greece and Italy to move deeper into the European Union, has raised questions about whether Europe’s passport-free area is viable. The no-checks zone, known as the Schengen area, does not only allow individuals to travel freely across borders. It also permits the smooth flow of goods, services and business expertise - in a vital boost to the European economy. Here are a few things about it to bear in mind:

EUROPEAN, NOT EU Schengen is named for the Luxembourg village where the border treaty was signed 30 years ago. It has 26 members; 22 of the 28 EU nations plus Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland. EU states Cyprus, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, Britain and Ireland are not in, although some want to join. Border controls between members have been coming down for about 20 years. Schengen is likely to grow and its rules, which were last modified in 2013, will evolve as well.

HOW IT WORKS Anyone entering the Schengen area must undergo an ID check against a customs and criminal database. That can be on borders around Europe’s perimeter, or at a Schengen member’s airport, say for Americans flying in to Paris. But once inside, no ID checks with any database are allowed. The EU’s executive Commission supervises application of the Schengen agreement and can intervene if countries start to take action that might substitute for border controls.

INTRA-EUROPEAN FLIGHTS Passport checks at European airports are done by air carri- ers for commercial reasons, not by customs and borders offi- cers. They want to make sure the traveler is the same person named on the ticket. These kinds of checks are allowed as long as the ID is not swiped into a database reader. In the wake of the high-speed international train attack late last month, the EU is considering printing people’s names on their tickets. — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Indignity, corruption, fear on Balkan migrant route Hundreds crammed into old trains and scores on buses

BELGRADE: After the cruelty of smugglers, Children, pregnant women and the eld- their own expenses. The complexities of long waits in the sun, short nights in cold erly can be seen walking long distances on their paths give rise to a web of extortion camps and interminable train and bus dirt tracks to cross makeshift frontier posts and petty corruption along the way. rides, migrants and refugees taking the from Greece to Macedonia and then Serbia- At the gates of southern Serbia’s Presevo Balkans route into Europe feel their dignity separate from the international crossings camp, a hustler offers the migrants two dif- has been stripped away. “It starts on the for people with the right passports or visas. ferent prices for bus tickets to Belgrade. (inflatable) boat from Turkey to Greece. Hundreds are crammed into old trains and “You pay 50 euros ($55) if you don’t have Nobody cares if we live or die. And the scores on buses, with children sleeping and the paper, 25 if you do,” he says, referring to extortion, fear and exhaustion stay with us women breastfeeding their babies in the the permission to stay in Serbia for 72 until we reach our destination,” said aisles. “We are like ghosts here,” said Ahmad, hours, which allows the migrants to move Mohammad, a 25-year-old from the devas- a 27-year-old Iraqi father of a four-month- towards their next destination, Hungary. A tated Syrian city of Homs. old baby who sold his garments store in man in his 20s from Damascus who identi- “We leave our countries to flee oppres- Baghdad before he and his wife Alia set off fied himself by his nickname Aswad said he sion, but we find on the way that our digni- on the journey. too was offered a fake permit at a super- ty and humanity are totally lost,” the former “We see so many countries, but we are market near Serbia’s Miratovic camp for 40 student said as he got off a bus in Belgrade. hidden from everyone’s sight. It’s like they euros “to avoid the wait in the camp,” he Every step along the way from Turkey’s just want us out, they don’t want us to told AFP. shores to Greece, through Macedonia and exist,” he told AFP on board a train packed “If we had the money we might have Serbia and then Hungary, tens of thou- with about 1,000 refugees and migrants en taken the offer but we decided to spend sands like Mohammad must face obstacle route from Macedonia to Serbia. the night in the camp until our permits MUNICH: Volunteers distribute food for migrants coming from Budapest at after obstacle. They wait to register with were processed,” said Aswad, who is travel- the main station in Munich, Germany, yesterday. Hundreds of migrants are local authorities under the burning sun in a Petty corruption ling with six of his friends. When a police arriving every day, after making perilous journeys through Europe. — AP string of border crossings and grim recep- While humanitarian organisations and checkpoint stops two buses near Vranje in tion camps such as the Presevo reception volunteers try to fill in for a remarkable southern Serbia with 150 people on board and a chaos of miscommunication begins. paid for fake permits own up and are taken centre near Serbia’s border with Macedonia, dearth in governmental assistance along from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan on Sunday The buses are halted and all the passen- to the police station to give a statement, with precious little food or water to be had. the Balkan route, the travellers mostly cover afternoon, seven fake permits are detected gers’ documents held until six of those who along with the driver. — AFP Death toll from protest in Ukraine rises to three

KIEV: The death toll from violent protests grenades. The decentralization of power in Ukraine rose to three yesterday when was a condition demanded by Russia for a two more National Guard officers died from truce signed in Belarus in February aimed injuries suffered in a grenade explosion, at ending the fighting between Ukrainian officials said. In the worst outburst of vio- government troops and Russia-backed sep- lence in Kiev since the new government aratists that has left more than 6,800 peo- took power in 2014, nationalist protesters ple dead since April 2014. clashed with police and National Guard But Ukrainian nationalists strongly troops outside Ukraine’s parliament on oppose the constitutional changes, saying Monday as lawmakers took up a measure they would threaten the country’s sover- to give greater powers to Russia-backed eignty and independence. Poroshenko and separatists in eastern Ukraine. his supporters insist that the constitutional About 140 people were hospitalized, amendment would devolve powers to local most of them law enforcement officers, the communities in all of Ukraine, from east to Interior Ministry said. One National Guard west, while making sure that Ukraine stays officer died on Monday, and a second died a unitary state. early on Tuesday, both as a result of injuries While Ukrainian nationalists think the caused by the grenade, Interior Minister amendment gives too much power to the Arsen Avakov said. The National Guard regions including the east, Russia-backed reported another death in the early after- rebels there say this is not enough. noon, saying that the third man died after a Speaking to Russian news agencies in day in coma. Donetsk, rebel leader Alexander Most of the 100 violent protesters were Zakharchenko criticized Poroshenko for members of Svoboda, a nationalist party taking out a clause that could offer sover- that holds only a handful of seats in parlia- eignty to the east and make it a part of a ment. Wielding truncheons, pipes and loose confederation within Ukraine. sticks with nails, they faced off against Now that 265 lawmakers have given it police carrying shields and truncheons. preliminary approval, the bill comes up for About 30 protesters were detained, of the final vote where Poroshenko will need whom 18 remained in custody on Tuesday, to get at least 300 votes. ANKARA: People protest as police search the premises of Koza Ipek Holding and media group close to a US-based moderate Islamic cleric including the man suspected of throwing A truce in eastern Ukraine brokered by Fethullah Gulen whom the government accuses of trying to destabilize it, in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. Critics denounced the action as a gov- the grenade. Avakov said he was a Svoboda Western powers in February helped to sub- ernment crackdown on opposition voices ahead of an election on Nov 1. — AP member who fought in the east in one of due the fighting but did not stop it com- the volunteer battalions, which are loosely pletely. Government troops and separatists controlled by the government. agreed last month to stop fighting by Turkish police raid conglomerate President Petro Poroshenko, on a hospi- Tuesday which is the first day of school in tal visit to see the injured officers, pledged Ukraine. Both sides said on Tuesday that to find the organizers of the clashes who the cease-fire is holding despite sporadic with close links to cleric Gulen were handing out sticks and weapons like exchange of rifle fire. — AP Raids staged two months before snap election

ISTANBUL: Turkish police raided the offices of a con- Shares in Koza Ipek companies, including energy tions”. Late last year, police detained dozens of people glomerate with close links to US-based Muslim cleric firm Ipek Dogal Enerji and miner Koza Madencilik, fell in raids on media outlets with ties to Gulen. Some of Fethullah Gulen, an ally-turned-foe of President Tayyip 10 percent. Shares in other media firms not affiliated those journalists have been charged with terrorism- Erdogan, company officials said yesterday. with Gulen also declined. Anadolu Agency said the related crimes. The operation against the Koza-Ipek Erdogan, who wants to win back a majority for the raids did not target the group’s media companies. group added to the worries of investors already rattled ruling AK Party in a snap Nov. 1 election, accuses Gulen Bugun newspaper editor Erhan Basyurt said media by political uncertainty and a surge in fighting between of seeking to overthrow him by means of a “parallel firms appeared on the list of companies covered by the Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants. structure” of supporters in the judiciary, police, the search warrant but that their premises had not yet “There is a risk that this sort of thing can intensify media and other institutions. been searched. into the election and it really is underscoring the weak The state-run Anadolu Agency said 23 companies Opposition party leaders voiced concern about the investment climate within Turkey,” said Manik Narain, within the mining-to-media Koza Ipek group were police raids, while Turkey’s new European Union EM strategist at UBS. The cleric Gulen, who has lived in being searched on suspicion of providing financial sup- Minister Ali Haydar Konca warned against any raids tar- self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has port for the “Gulenist Terrorist Group”. There was no geting the media. “I am worried that operations target- denied in the past any ambition to overthrow Erdogan. immediate comment from the police. Interior ministry ing the media will create great concern across the Gulen has also been charged for alleged “terrorist” officials declined comment. world about whether Turkey is a democratic country,” activities. The battle between Erdogan and Gulen Erkan Akkus, news editor at Kanalturk and Bugun TV the pro-Kurdish HDP’s Konca, part of the new power- became public in December 2013 when a corruption which are part of Koza Ipek’s media business, said the sharing interim cabinet, told a news conference. investigation targeting Erdogan’s inner circle came to holding company’s headquarters and the chairman’s light. Related court cases were subsequently dismissed home were being searched. “The aim here is to silence Investor concerns following a large-scale reorganisation within the police the opposition media ahead of an election,” Akkus told The operation came after a whistleblower account and judiciary. Reuters. “It is wrong to see this as aimed just at our named “Fuat Avni”, which has previously correctly fore- Erdogan blamed the cleric’s supporters for the cor- KIEV: Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, left, and parliament speaker Volodymyr group. They are starting with us to test the waters, and if cast police raids, said last week that Erdogan planned a ruption allegations and purged thousands of police Groisman lay flowers by the photo of a police officer who was killed in a Monday it doesn’t spark an outcry, it could then spread to other crackdown on media critical of the government ahead and members of the judiciary he deemed loyal to clash, in front of Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. Ukrainian police say 141 media groups.” Koza Ipek Chairman Akin Ipek said in a of the November election. Gulen. In his early years in power, Erdogan drew on people remain hospitalized after a nationalist protest in Kiev turned violent, with 10 written statement published by his media outlets that Last week mainstream newspaper Milliyet dis- Gulen’s influence in the judiciary to help tame the of the injured in serious condition. — AP his group was not guilty of any wrongdoing and that missed five prominent journalists, in a move described Turkish army, which had toppled four governments the state had already thoroughly investigated “slanders” by the Turkish Journalists’ Association as “unacceptable since 1960, including the country’s first Islamist-led cab- targeting his companies. at a time when the country is tense with war and elec- inet, through a series of coup plot trials. — Reuters Georgia PM sacks foreign Pope tells priests to pardon minister in surprise move TBILISI: Georgian Prime Minister Irakli my minister by Dimitry Kumsishvili, women who have abortions Garibashvili on Monday fired his for- who is deputy mayor of Tbilisi, the pre- eign minister and replaced her with the mier said. Analysts attributed the economy minister in a surprise move change of lineup to former prime min- VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will give all priests discre- In Church teaching, abortion is such a grave sin that Holy Year or “Jubilee” on the theme of mercy announced that fuelled concerns about govern- ister and billionaire tycoon Bidzina tion to formally forgive women who have had abortions those who procure or perform it incur an automatic by Pope Francis in March, all priests will be able to do so, ment transparency. Analysts and Ivanishvili, saying that decision-making during the Roman Catholic Church’s upcoming Holy excommunication. Usually only designated clergy and he said in a letter published on Tuesday by the Vatican. opposition politicians said the demo- in politics ultimately rested with him. Year, in the Argentine pontiff’s latest move towards a missionaries can formally forgive abortions. In the letter, Francis described the “existential and tion of the country’s top diplomat high- “Decisions in Georgia are being more open and inclusive church. But from Dec.8 to Nov. 26, during an extraordinary moral ordeal” faced by women who have terminated lighted the lack of openness in political made by an informal cabinet-former pregnancies and said he had “met so many women who decision-making in Georgia. premier Bidzina Ivanishvili and his inner bear in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful “Tamar Beruchashvili will be circle,” independent political analyst decision”. Francis is the first non-European pope in 1,300 replaced as foreign minister by the Helen Khoshtaria told AFP. A leader of years and has also marked himself out for his tolerance economy minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili,” the opposition United National regarding taboo topics. In a remark that has become Garibashvili told a news conference. Movement (UNM) party, Giga Bokeria, emblematic of his papacy, he asked “who am I to The prime minister did not explain the told AFP it was of “little importance” judge?” with regard to a gay person who seeks God. motives behind the sacking of who held a ministerial post in Georgia. He has shown no intention of retracting the Church’s Beruchashvili, who was appointed for- “The country is ruled single-handed- opposition to abortion, but has alarmed conservatives eign minister less than a year ago, in ly by an unaccountable person,” Bokeria by taking a less forceful tone on the issue than his pred- November 2014. Her replacement is a said. The cabinet has remained almost ecessors. “This is by no means an attempt to minimize technocrat with no experience in diplo- unchanged since Ivanishvili came to the gravity of this sin but to widen the possibility of macy. “The government’s focus is on power in 2012 with his Georgian Dream showing mercy,” Vatican chief spokesman Father economic development and job cre- coalition. He stepped down in 2013 and Federico Lombardi told reporters. ation and this goal determines our for- chose his protege Garibashvili to take Deputy Vatican spokesman Father Ciro Benedettini eign policy and internal economic over as premier, but it is widely said that “for now” the change would apply only during agenda,” the premier said. believed that the tycoon continues to the Holy Year. Usually only a bishop, missionary or the He thanked Beruchashvili for “the wield power behind the scenes over chief confessor of a diocese, known by the Italian term successful work she has done”. the tiny Caucasus nation of 3.7 million VATICAN: This handout picture released by the Vatican press office (Osservatore Romano) “penitenziere”, can formally forgive an abortion, Kvirikashvili will be replaced as econo- people. — AFP shows Pope Francis celebrating mass in Santa Marta at the Vatican yesterday. — AFP Benedettini said. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh charges five Islamists over blogger murder

DHAKA: Bangladesh police yesterday against five people for the murder of Facebook against religious fundamental- wielding attackers. he said, adding three of the alleged charged five suspected Islamist militants blogger Washiqur Rahman. The five were ism-especially Islam and Islamist radicals- “The organiser of ABT, Hasibur killers were arrested by police, while with murder over the killing of an atheist charged with murder,” Dhaka police was killed near his home in Dhaka in Rahman, also known as Abdullah, Abdullah had absconded and the fifth blogger, one of four secular writers spokesman Muntashirul Islam told AFP. March. Two of the suspects, students of a recruited the other four and trained was still at large. hacked to death this year for writing “They include an organiser of the madrassa, were tackled by local trans- them for nearly three months for the The government of Prime Minister against fundamentalists. Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) and four genders-known as hijras in the sub-conti- specific purpose of murdering Washiqur,” Sheikh Hasina has come under fire for Police brought the charges-the first in others who are its supporters,” he said, nent-as they tried to flee the scene. They said additional deputy police commis- not doing enough to protect atheist and any of the four murders this year-in a referring to a banned local Islamist mili- held them until police made arrests. sioner Saiful Islam. rationalist writers. In August police Dhaka magistrates court, which will now tant group which police have blamed in Rahman’s death came just weeks “They rented a room in Dhaka’s arrested seven suspected Islamists decide whether to open a trial or order all four murders. after a Bangladesh-born American Jatrabari neighbourhood for this pur- including a British citizen of Bangladeshi further investigations. Washiqur Rahman, 27, an atheist blog- atheist blogger was murdered in the pose and carried out reconnaissance on origin for the murder of two other athe- “We’ve submitted a charge sheet ger who wrote under a pen name on Bangladeshi capital by machete- Rahman for two days before the murder,” ist bloggers. —AFP Thai PM says main suspect in shrine bombing arrested Police looking into a possible Turkish connection

BANGKOK: Thailand’s prime minis- interrogating him. He has been The woman, has contacted suspect might be part of a group ter said yesterday that authorities linked to the shrine bombing, but authorities and would meet police, seeking to avenge Thailand’s forced have arrested a man they believe is the authorities have not yet Somyot said yesterday. He gave no repatriation of ethnic Uighurs to the main suspect in a bombing at a released his name or nationality. details. China in July. Prayuth on Monday shrine in central Bangkok two Thai police chief Somyot Her family told police on linked the two theories, suggesting weeks ago that killed 20 people. Pumpanmuang said he transferred Monday she travelled to Turkey to the bombers might have been Prime Minister Prayuth Chan- the immigration officers because work with her partner and child two involved in smuggling Uighurs out ocha said the man is a foreigner and foreigners had been able to enter to three months ago. of China. was arrested in eastern Thailand Thailand illegally in Sa Kaeo. Police have been looking into a Uighurs are related to Turks, and near the Cambodian border. He “That was my decision,” he said. “I possible Turkish connection. Fake Turkey is home to a large Uighur described him as the main person think that when a foreigner is able Turkish passports were seized and community. The Erawan Shrine is in the bombing but did not directly to illegally enter Thailand without police requested a Turkish translator especially popular with Chinese say he is suspected of actually proper scrutiny... I think those offi- to assist in questioning the 28-year- tourists, feeding the idea that it COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena looks on during his planting the bomb. cers should be transferred.” old man they arrested on Saturday. could be a target for people who speech at the parliament in Colombo yesterday. Former Sri Lankan presi- Prayuth said officials knew from The authorities have not con- believe the Uighurs are oppressed dent and Member of Parliament Mahinda Rajapakse failed to stage a come- their investigation that people Fake passports firmed his identity or nationality. He by China’s government. Beijing says involved in the bombing were Arrest warrants were issued is charged with possessing illegal some Uighurs are Islamist terrorists, back as prime minister at August 17 elections after losing the January 8, about to flee the country and had Monday for two more suspects, a explosives. and among them is a group that 2015 presidential election after a decade in power. — AFP traced the man to Aranyaprathet Thai woman and a man of No one has publicly claimed has been smuggled out of China to district in Sa Kaeo, a major crossing unknown nationality, after a raid responsibility for the attack, spark- join Islamic State fighters in Syria. Sri Lanka president urges point to Cambodia. The prime min- Sunday on a second apartment ing an array of theories about who The suspect arrested Saturday ister described the man as a piece in found more bomb-making materi- might be behind it. Police have had a Turkish passport, though Thai lawmakers on reconciliation a jigsaw puzzle that would connect als. Relatives of the woman who suggested that the suspects were authorities say it was fake. At his various parts of the case, which had rented the second apartment part of a people-smuggling group apartment, they seized at least 11 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president urged the new lawmakers were sworn into the 225-seat parlia- included a bomb that exploded told authorities that she is innocent who held a grudge against Thai passports that appeared to be parliament yesterday to take “difficult political ment, marking the start of the new session. The harmlessly in a river next to a busy and is now in Turkey, married to a authorities. Turkish, among more than 200 decisions” to bring about ethnic reconciliation UNP and Rajapakse’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party pier in Bangkok the day after the Turkish man. Speculation has grown that the passports in all. —AP six years after the end of a decades-long sepa- (SLFP) agreed last month to enter a broad- shrine blast. ratist war. based coalition government, in a remarkable It was not immediately known if Maithripala Sirisena called on lawmakers to turnaround for a country that had until recently the arrested man is the person who take the lead in healing the wounds of the war appeared firmly in Rajapakse’s grip. was seen in a security video wear- that ended in 2009, hours after they were Rajapakse, who refused to join the coalition, ing a yellow T-shirt and leaving a sworn into parliament following last month’s took his seat on the opposition benches on backpack at the shrine shortly general election. Tuesday along with a group of his supporters. before the blast there. Prayuth “Even at this late stage, we should take the Sirisena’s speech comes ahead of the release warned against speculating about difficult political decisions to ensure ethnic har- later this month of an UN Human Rights the arrested man until more infor- mony and bring about reconciliation,” Sirisena Council report on Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes mation is learned. said in an address to parliament outlining the during Rajapakse’s time in command. A new He said it would be great if the new government’s agenda. cabinet is expected to be sworn in later this suspect is the man they are seeking, “I will give leadership to that new political week and will include members of Rajapakse’s “So we will know who they are, journey you should begin from this house,” he SLFP. But official sources said key portfolios will where they came from, who’s said in a speech broadcast live on television. remain with Wickremesinghe’s UNP. behind this.” “Don’t say just yet it’s Sirisena came to power in January promising Lawmakers from the main Tamil National about this and that. It could affect reconciliation and accountability for alleged Alliance (TNA) party, which emerged as the third international affairs,” he said. “We war crimes committed by troops under the largest at the August election, called for a new have to do a lot of tests, finger- command of then-president Mahinda constitution to “restore democracy and justice”. prints. If he is the guy, he is the guy.” Rajapakse. TNA leader R. Sampanthan said Tuesday his The blast at the Erawan Shrine Sirisena, who defeated his former mentor party would push for justice and greater auton- was unprecedented in the Thai cap- Rajapakse in January’s election, has also prom- omy for the ethnic minority, who say they suffer ital, where smaller bombs have ised to cede many of the presidential powers widespread discrimination on the Sinhalese- been employed in domestic politi- amassed by his predecessor during his decade- majority island. cal violence over the past decade, long rule. “Among several issues that this parliament but not in an effort to cause large- BANGKOK: In this image provided by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Thai Sirisena strengthened his mandate at the must deal with, is the framing of a new consti- scale casualties. August 17 general election after voters backed tution so as to restore democracy, pluralism... Security officials on Saturday authorities arrest a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a deadly bombing at a his ally Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, equality and justice,” Sampanthan said. The 82- arrested a man during a raid on a shrine in central Bangkok. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters yesterday, that the whose United National Party (UNP) won the year-old is tipped to be named by parliament as Bangkok apartment that contained man is a foreigner and was detained in eastern Thailand near the Cambodian border, one of sev- biggest number of seats. leader of the official opposition, a position some bomb-making materials, and eral border crossings where authorities set up checkpoints after the bombing which killed 20 The president’s speech came hours after Tamils held for six years until 1983. —AFP Thai military authorities have been people, many of them foreign tourists and injured more than 120. —AP

Press group urges Philippines to stop attacks on journalists MANILA: The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Philippine President Benigno Aquino III yesterday to act to stop attacks against the press in the country after three jour- nalists were killed recently. Shawn Crispin, the group’s Southeast Asia representative, said in a statement the killings show “how the lack of progress in ending impunity has emboldened those bent on silencing the press in the Philippines.” Over the past two weeks, unidentified gunmen killed radio broadcasters Cosme Maestrado and Teodoro Escanilla and columnist and publisher Gregorio Ybanez. The Philippine media watchdog Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility says if all three murders were determined to be work-related, the number of journalists killed in the country would rise to 150 since democracy was restored following the ouster of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. “We call on President Benigno Aquino to give top priority to swiftly resolving these egregious cases,” Crispin said. “Until Aquino demonstrates his government is serious about ending the onslaught, the killings will inevitably continue.” Presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma has condemned the attacks and said the police have been tasked to find the killers. Maestrado, who tackled corruption and abuse of power in his radio program in DXOC station in southern Ozamiz City, was shot multiple times outside a shopping center about two hours after closing his morning program on Aug. 27. Maestrado, who had the word “corruption” prominently tat- tooed on one of his arms, was popular for his hard hitting commentaries, radio station manager Remegio Bonustro said. “He was a good man, kind-hearted and helped many peo- ple. His cry is for change,” Bonustro said. On Aug. 19, Escanilla, who is also a spokesman of the human rights group Karapatan in Sorsogon province and has been critical of alleged abuses by the military in his radio commentaries, was shot at the door of his home. A day earlier, newspaper columnist and publisher Ybanez, who was also a board member of an electric cooperative in Davao province, was gunned down as he was about to enter his home in southern Tagum City. Police also are looking into a dispute among board members of the electric cooperative board as a motive in the killing. Philippine National Police Director General Ricardo Marquez has said the police are giving “priority concern” to the attacks and formed separate special investigation groups to handle each of the cases. The Philippines has one of the world’s highest rates of unsolved media killings. The CPJ says the Philippines is the third most deadly place for journalists in the world after Iraq and Syria. —AP

NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 MP to grill health minister over medical... Boy arrest video latest Continued from Page 1 expressed trust that Obaidi is capable of meeting such demands to protect citizens’ health, especially at casualty Saleh expressed hopes that health services would departments. Finally, Saleh called for automatically linking in war of perception develop further, namely in terms of avoiding medical patients’ databases in all hospitals and clinics so that doc- errors, through setting a package of technical and adminis- tors in charge of treating any case have access to full med- trative monitoring and preventive measures that match ical and health background of patients and provide best NABI SALEH: A soldier pins a boy those internationally adopted in similar cases. He also needed healthcare. down and is assaulted by his family: The scene might have gone unno- ticed if not for footage that has Lebanon activists occupy ministry turned it into another weapon in the Israel-Palestinian war of perception. Continued from Page 1 announced later. “It will depend on the response of the Palestinians see it as proof of Israel’s government.” Fellow organiser Marwan Maalouf laid the abuses in the occupied West Bank, the seventh floor of the building in central Beirut. A blame directly on Mashnuq, who has been criticised for while many Israelis say the soldier fell source at the interior ministry said some 14 demonstra- failing to draw up a solution to the trash crisis. “The trash into a media trap laid by activists. The tors remained inside and were insisting police would have is piling up in homes everywhere, and who is responsible incident played out on Friday in the to handcuff and remove them by force. The “You Stink” for this situation? It’s the minister of environment,” Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh and campaign said several activists had been beaten by Maalouf said. footage of it has since gone viral, police. “(Activist) Lucien Bourjeily and a group of people The closure of the country’s landfill was announced generating a bitter debate both participating in the sit-in were beaten and cannot be last year, but despite the lead time, the government found online and off. reached,” the campaign said on its Facebook page. no alternative. As an interim solution, municipalities have As is often the case when it comes A Red Cross official said 14 people were treated at the been dumping trash in empty lots, river beds and even to the conflict between Israelis and scene for light wounds sustained in confrontations with valleys. Mashnuq has said he will not resign as minister, Palestinians, there has been little police. A 15th person was treated for respiratory problems, but he withdrew on Monday from the cabinet committee room for middle ground. The video and one activist was taken to hospital for treatment, the dealing with the trash crisis. A source close to Prime and pictures, including those taken official said. The “You Stink” campaign began in response Minister Tammam Salam called on demonstrators “to wait by AFP, show a masked Israeli soldier to a crisis that erupted with the closure of Lebanon’s for two or three days” to hear the proposals of an ad hoc trying to arrest an 11-year-old boy NABI SALEH: A Palestinian girl and women fight to free a Palestinian who has a cast on his left arm. largest landfill in mid-July. But it has evolved into an outlet committee set up on Monday and headed by Culture boy (bottom) held by an Israeli soldier during clashes between Israeli According to the Israeli military, the for deep-seated frustrations over Lebanon’s crumbling Minister Akram Chehayeb. boy was suspected of having thrown security forces and Palestinian protesters on August 28, 2015 in this infrastructure and stagnant, confessional political system. Earlier, “You Stink” urged supporters “to join us at the stones during a protest. As the sol- West Bank village near Ramallah. — AFP Last week, the campaign set out four key demands and ministry of environment... to demand the resignation of dier holds him against a rock, his soldier had put the boy in, lamented his wrist while fleeing an Israeli tank set a deadline, which coincided with the start of the police the minister for failing to solve the trash crisis”. automatic rifle at his side, members evacuation: Mashnuq’s resignation, new parliamentary Throughout the sit-in, a crowd of supporters demonstrat- the situation in which the military has in his village, which was why he was of the boy’s family, including his found itself in the West Bank. “It’s a wearing a cast. “I wasn’t afraid,” the elections, the devolution of trash collection to municipali- ed outside the ministry. “We don’t want the parliament of mother and sister, along with other national headlock in which an entire boy told AFP, “but I cried to call my ties and accountability for violence against protesters. On trash, or the parliament of extension,” they sang, referring activists rush over and try to pull him army, and behind it a nation, remains family to come get me away from the Saturday, the campaign scored its biggest turnout yet, to the Lebanese legislature which has extended its own off the child. in a state of denial that there are mili- soldier.” His mother Nariman said she with tens of thousands of people converging on a square term twice since 2009. A wrestling match ensues, with tary solutions to the conflict,” it said. thought “only one thing: free my son in downtown Beirut for a virtually unprecedented protest. Parliament has been unable to elect a president the soldier’s ski mask pulled off and Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, has for from the soldier’s hands.” The Tamimi At the end of that demonstration, the activists gave the since the post was vacated in May 2014, and deep polit- the boy’s sister biting the soldier on years been a flashpoint in the Israeli- family has been at the forefront of the government 72 hours to respond to their demands, ical rifts have left the cabinet too divided to function. the hand. The soldier yells for help, Palestinian conflict. Each Friday, protests in Nabi Saleh. The father, though they began their sit-in in the ministry several Parliament speaker Nabih Berri has called for a dialogue and eventually a superior officer Palestinians, foreigners and even Bassem, said he has been arrested hours before the deadline expired. “(We began early) for among various political leaders to begin Sept 9, but arrives and orders him to let the boy Israelis protest against the expansion nine times. the element of surprise,” activist Bourjeily told AFP as the activists called the plan a bid to divert attention from go. While walking away, visibly frus- of the nearby Halamish settlement. Ahed, the boy’s teenage sister sit-in began. He said additional measures could be their demands. — AFP trated, the soldier throws down a Stones are typically thrown by the wearing a Tweety Bird shirt in the stun grenade. The images quickly protesters, while tear gas and rubber video, is known to some for older made the rounds. Palestinian papers bullets are fired by the security forces. photos showing her raising her fist at Google refines logo reproduced a cartoon showing the In the past three years, two people Israeli soldiers. It resulted in her being soldier with a dog’s head, while some have died and 375 been injured, with received by then Turkish prime minis- Continued from Page 1 Alphabet, whose CEO will be the Google co-founder in Israel saw the decision not to nearly half of them minors, according ter Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2012. Page. Alphabet hasn’t revealed what its logo will be yet, arrest the boy as a sign of weakness. to protesters. Some Israelis have accused the family formed the company, this marks the most noticeable but the holding company isn’t expected to be officially Left-leaning Israeli newspaper According to his father, the child in of being agitators who put their chil- redesign since it dropped an exclamation point that operating for a few more months. Haaretz, referring to the headlock the the video, Mohammed Tamimi, broke dren in danger. —AFP appeared after its name until May 1999. Google is don- Google believes its new logo will provide a more ver- ning the different look as it embarks on a new era. The satile identity suited “for a world of seamless computing Mountain View, California, company is pouring so much across an endless number of devices,” the company said money into so many far-flung projects that have little or in a blog post yesterday. The overhaul also will change US still Iran’s ‘No. 1 enemy’ no connection to its main business of online search and the appearance of the letter “g” that Google uses as its Continued from Page 1 Meanwhile yesterday, the state news agency IRNA quot- advertising that it’s getting ready to place everything shorthand logo on the smaller screens of smartphones ed Tehran’s police chief Gen Hossein Sajedinia as saying his under the Alphabet umbrella. and other mobile devices. The “g” will now be capital- Jafari told reporters. “The hostility of the United States officers detained several people for distributing apparel Under this setup, Google will retain search, YouTube ized and displayed in color instead of being kept lower- towards the Iranian people has not diminished, but actually bearing the flags of the US, Israel and Britain, as well as and most of the biggest divisions while smaller opera- case and white. A swirl of dots in Google’s colors will increased... they use other methods,” he added, according items bearing Satanic symbols. Such crackdowns on tions such as Nest home appliances, life sciences, drone also appear when a spoken command for information is to the Guards website Sepah News. Western items are common in Iran. Sajedinia said reports deliveries and venture capital investments will operate being processed or one of the company’s other services President Hassan Rouhani, who as a cleric is also a mem- about the activity had been received in the past two weeks, as individual companies. All will be overseen by is performing a task. — AP ber of the Assembly of Experts, took office in 2013 and has leading to surveillance and detentions. “This morning we since reached out to the West for better relations. The took these clothes off leading distributors,” he said, noting nuclear agreement reached on July 14 with six world pow- that any stores that sell such items “will be closed”. Verdict in Sadiq Mosque bombing set... ers - Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and The leader of the Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Continued from Page 1 was charged with using explosives with intention of Germany - has helped revive Iran’s political standing with Ruhollah Khomeini, dubbed the United States the “Great killing, spreading terror, blowing up the mosque, com- the European countries. Several high-level European dele- Satan” on account of its policies and support for Shah gations have visited Tehran since the deal. But despite the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last royal ruler before the The lawyer added that he was denied the right to mitting premeditated murder, joining a banned group nuclear talks and the intricate role US Secretary of State Islamic republic was founded. Britain also has a troubled accompany his client to the evening interrogations at the that advocates toppling the ruling system with illegiti- John Kerry played in getting the deal across the line, there history in Iran. Along with the United States, it orchestrat- public prosecution. Jed’ee also denied that his client’s mate means, namely terrorism, thus threatening the is currently little prospect of normal relations. The two ed a coup that toppled Iranian prime minister brother had fought with the Islamic State group. “He only country’s unity. The charges against others include advance knowledge of the planned murder, helping the countries severed ties in 1980 after the hostage taking of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 after he had nationalized works in the SFA (Syrian Free Army) administration and American diplomats by Islamist students. the oil industry. — Agencies took pictures of some decapitated heads,” he explained. “first defendant” Eidan - the driver of the car that ferried Lawyer Khalid Al-Bedaiwi denied that the first defen- the suicide bomber - to flee, as well as concealing evi- dant’s brother knew he was violating the law when he host- dence. The public prosecution has demanded extreme ed the suicide bomber, Saudi national Fahd Al-Qabba, at his sentences against the defendants. In a previous session, 26 indicted over arms cache, Iran, Hezb links apartment in Salmiya. He also said that it was illogical to the prosecution’s representative had presented thor- question the suspect’s entire family for something he alone ough details on case number 40/2015. They also provid- Continued from Page 1 lic prosecutor’s statement concluded. The case has been had done. ed visual evidence on the role of the 29 defendants in referred to the criminal court to set a date for the trial of the “The only fault of the suspect’s brother is that he was the blast, including hiding vital evidence and helping to spread principles that aim at destroying the (country’s) suspects who were remanded into custody pending the start married to the so-called IS leader,” he said, noting that Eidan to escape. foundations through illegal manners. Asousi also said that 11 of trial. Commenting on the prosecutor’s measure, head of the he was unlawfully arrested. Bedaiwi also requested the The court had held its first session on the case on suspects have been charged with the possession of eaves- National Assembly’s foreign relations committee MP Hamad court to acquit suspect Eidan’s mother on the grounds Aug 4 to look into the cases presented against seven dropping devices without proper authorization from the com- Al-Harashani said that Iran aims at destabilizing the Gulf that she is elderly, has nothing to do with IS and had Kuwaiti defendants, five Saudis, three Pakistanis, 13 ille- munications ministry. region. On Sunday, Harashani described Iran as the Gulf’s true never covered up for her son. gal residents and one fugitive with unidentified nation- One suspect was charged with illegal possession of enemy. But Shiite MP Abdulhameed Dashti said the govern- The court decided to alter the charges already regis- ality. This hearing was the eighth held by the criminal machineguns, other firearms and ammunition, and hiding ment should issue a detailed statement to explain the main tered in the case, namely complicity in the forms of court prosecuting the suspects accused of the Imam Al- them. One other was accused of failing to report to the con- targets of the so-called Iranian cell and called for all parties cerned authorities that a suspect possessed explosives, not to rush with conclusions. (Material from KUNA contributed incitement, consensus and providing aid to the prime Sadiq Mosque bombing. (Material from KUNA con- firearms and ammunition, which he intended to use, the pub- to this report) suspect Qabaa, the bomber who died in the attack. He tributed to this report) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Stuart Williams

ess than five months after the last legislative elec- tions, Turks on Nov 1 will vote again in one of the Lbiggest gambles of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political career. But the outcome of the snap election, analysts say, risks being exactly the same as in the last polls on June 7. This would be bad news for Erdogan, who wants the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) he co-founded to win back the overall majority it held since first coming to power in 2002, but lost at the last polls. “In the last few weeks there has been no fundamen- tal change, no change that would enable the AKP to gain to become a single-party government,” said Nigar Goksel, senior Turkey analyst with the International Crisis French Socialists head for election rout Group (ICG) in Istanbul. “We could still be in the same stalemate as before. But a lot could still change,” she By Ingrid Melander It rules over all but one of mainland What Message? discontent over the pro-business direction added. France’s 22 regions, often together with the Predictions of the end result are hard to Hollande has taken. “The Socialists are schiz- Ever since the June 7 election dealt the biggest-ever rench President Francois Hollande’s Greens. But the Greens, themselves deeply make because regions have been merged ophrenic,” said Gilles Savary. He is among blow at the ballot box to Erdogan and the Islamic-rooted Socialists, hit by internal divisions, splits divided, have said they will go it alone this and only 13 will be contested this time, but those lawmakers who want the party to veer AKP, the pugnacious Turkish strongman appears to have Fwith other left-leaning parties and his time or strike alliances with more hard-left pollsters say the left may only hold on to a to the center as Labour did in Britain under had his heart set on repeat polls. He belittled the idea of own deep unpopularity, face defeat in parties, even in regions like the southeast handful. Party leaders, including Prime Tony Blair in the late 1990s and as other a coalition, promptly called the repeat election once regional elections in December that bodes ill Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur where the split Minister Manuel Valls, insist they will keep European Socialist parties have in the past coalition talks broke down and has left Turkish voters in for their chances in the 2017 presidential would likely hand victory to the far-right working on striking alliances with the two decades. “They’re schizophrenic little doubt over who they should back on Nov 1. race. Meeting in La Rochelle on the west National Front. “We are worried because the Greens and other left-wing parties to up because on one hand they make speeches Erdogan has his eyes not just on a simple majority, but coast for its annual end-of-summer gather- National Front is strong in the region and our their chances, and said they were confident to party activists that are aimed at warming on a three-fifths majority that would allow the AKP to call ing last weekend under the motto “Act as candidates are not very well known. And the they could still win. But the problem for the the heart with an ‘impossible to be more a referendum on his dream of changing the constitution one”, the Socialist Party appeared everything rest of the left is going there against us, it’s a Socialist party is that it is not just about los- leftwing than me’ line, while on the other to create a presidential system that he would head. but. The leadership had hoped to pull all the real handicap,” Antibes city councillor ing in December. The presidential ballot is in hand, in government, the Socialist party is The AKP polled just under 41 percent on June 7, well Socialists together before the election and Michele Muratore said. 2017, and Hollande’s party remains unclear actually facing reality in a more credible down on its 2011 result of just under 50 percent, with start patching things up with its estranged The PS is seen coming in in third place in about what message to send to voters. way,” he said. any chance of winning a majority stymied by the strong Green allies, but the meeting was shaken by the election in that region, far behind the FN, Socialist party members backed On top of all these troubles, while performance of the fourth-placed pro-Kurdish Peoples’ a row over economics and marked by pes- but also behind former conservative presi- Hollande’s policies in a party vote in May Hollande is likely to be his party’s candidate Democratic Party (HDP). Critics have accused Erdogan of simism over the ballot. dent Nicolas Sarkozy’s Republican party, an that helped silence rebel backbenchers, but as is the tradition in France for the incum- launching a cross-border military operation against the “The question is not whether the regional Ifop Fiducial poll showed earlier this month. the scars of that right-ward shift looked raw bent, opinion polls consistently show that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) with the aim of discredit- elections will be a defeat for the Socialists In the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region in in La Rochelle, where delegates reacted bad- he would lose. For Perrineau, a veteran ana- ing the HDP, which he accuses of being a front for the but how large the defeat will be,” political northern France, where FN leader Marine Le ly to Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron’s lyst of French elections at the Cevipof outlawed Kurdish militants. analyst Pascal Perrineau said. “Opinion polls, Pen will be a candidate, the Socialists are also criticism of the PS’s treasured 35-hour work- research center and political science profes- But even as government media claim 943 PKK mili- the current atmosphere within the left and seen coming in third, an OpinionWay poll week. Introduced by a previous Socialist sor: “It will be very hard for the left in 2017, tants have been killed in a relentless air campaign, polls the divisions within the Socialist party all showed last month. For Yann Galut, one of government in 2000 in a bid to redistribute not the least because it’s hard to see what its are so far not showing any radical change in voters’ point to tough elections with a heavy defeat.” the Socialist lawmakers who is critical of the work and create jobs, the 35-hour limit is message will be.” “Will it be the old-style intentions. According to the latest survey by the respect- The Socialist Party (PS) has lost in every pro-business switch Hollande took last year fiercely protected by the French left despite union of the Left with the Communists ... or ed Metropoll group, the AKP would win 41.7 percent of major election - local or European - since with tax cuts for employers, there is fear in pressure from big business to relax it. a new Left, a more Blairite Left on the Valls- the vote and the HDP increase its share to 14.7 percent. Hollande came to power in 2012. the party about how bad the defeat will be. The issue has become a rallying point for Macron line?” —Reuters “As of today, it seems that the snap elections will not produce a very different political picture from June 7,” said Metropoll’s chairman Ozer Sencar. But with Erdogan - who has made no-holds-barred political combat his trademark - showing no sign of Refugee crisis Merkel’s biggest challenge compromise, Turkey risks being stuck in a prolonged impasse. The president has made clear his distaste for By Noah Barkin it will likely require the kind of proactive rally-the-people ‘Out of Control’ coalitions and wants the AKP to return to power alone to leadership that Merkel has not always been comfortable Then there are the concerns about how to handle carry out a transformation of the country’s infrastructure eturning from her summer break in mid-August, with in the past. the far-right backlash against refugees, which has been ahead of the 100th anniversary in 2023 of the founda- German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised some She waited nearly three days to speak out against the centred in the former communist east of the country, tion of modern Turkey. Meanwhile the AKP’s most natu- eyebrows by describing Europe’s refugee problem violence in Heidenau, drawing sharp criticism and show- but also led to almost daily arson attacks in western ral partner - the third-placed Nationalist Movement R as a bigger challenge than the Greece crisis, which had ing that she is still finding her feet in this crisis. “A lot will states like Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemburg and North Party (MHP) - is out of the picture as its stubborn leader overshadowed all else in the first half of 2015. No one in be asked of the politicians,” Die Zeit said. “They must Rhine Westphalia. Most of these attacks have been on Devlet Bahceli refuses to countenance a coalition. Germany is questioning her assessment any longer. In recognise that we are in a new world and find the appro- empty buildings slated to become shelters but politi- ‘Risk of Political Chaos’ the past two weeks, the country has been shaken by a priate words for it.” In Germany, the problems start with cians admit that it is only a matter of time before Erdogan, who served as premier for 11 years, became perfect storm of headlines that have elevated the towns and cities that have found themselves over- refugees are injured or killed. “Very quickly you could president a year ago on Aug 28, 2014 in the first ever refugee issue, long seen in Germany as primarily a whelmed by a flood of asylum seekers who need to be have a situation like we had in the early 1990s where direct election for a Turkish head of state, and has sought southern European problem, to the very top of the pub- housed, fed and treated for health problems. shelters full of refugees are being attacked,” said one to revamp the office since. For the first time, Turkey now lic and political agenda. Last week, Merkel’s cabinet agreed to raise the level senior official in Berlin who requested anonymity has two democratically-elected centres of power - the First, Merkel’s interior minister announced that he of federal support for local communities to 1 billion because of the sensitivity of the issue. “Something like president and the parliament-and this lies at the heart of expected 800,000 people to seek asylum in Germany euros. And there is talk that this sum could be tripled at this can quickly get out of the control of the politi- the current standoff. “The prospects after November 1 this year, nearly double the amount that had been fore- a “refugee summit” that the government will hold on cians.” may just amount to more of the same: a democratically- cast only a few months before and almost four times last Sept 24. But experts say this would still fall far short of For much of the post-war period, German politicians elected president confronted with a democratically- year’s total. Next came the far-right protests against what is required. Colouring the debate over resources referred to immigrants as “Gastarbeiter”, or guest work- expressed ‘No’ to his executive presidency ambition,” said refugees in the eastern town of Heidenau that left over are concerns that if Germany does too much - one idea ers, as if they would return to their home countries Marc Pierini, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. 30 police injured and revived the spectre of racist vio- is to provide refugees with special cards so they can visit once the work was done. That illusion persisted until “Accepting, or not, this dead-end will define the political lence that Germany experienced in the early 1990s, the doctors without first obtaining health insur- quite recently when the realisation began to set in that climate in Turkey for the months to come. There is indeed last time asylum numbers surged. ance - it will only encourage more to Germany desperately needed immigrants to cope a real risk of political chaos.” Then last Thursday, an abandoned truck with 71 make the trek north to Germany. with a looming demographic crisis caused Analysts caution that a lot could still change, with the dead migrants was found on a highway in Austria, just Too much government sup- by its low birth rate. Still, the main focus Turkish authorities stepping up the pressure on the HDP as Merkel arrived in Vienna for a conference on the port could also deepen resent- was on bringing in skilled labour to fill and arresting several of its mayors on charges of support- western Balkans. She had been jeered as a “traitor” by ment among average the needs of the German ing “self-rule” in the southeast. Prime Minister Ahmet locals in Heidenau the day before for showing solidarity Germans who are strug- “Mittelstand”, or small business Davutoglu has now, in line with the constitution, formed an interim government to rule the country ahead of the with refugees there and appeared visibly shaken in gling to make ends meet, community. elections, including two representatives of the HDP. But Vienna as she spoke to reporters about the gruesome boosting support for Many of the Syrians, the AKP scored a major coup as MHP MP Tugrul Turkes - new discovery. right-wing parties like Kosovars, Eritreans and Iraqis the son of the party’s founder - defied the usually cast-iron All of a sudden it seems, the depth of the refugee cri- the Alternative for that are coming to Germany party line to take part in the caretaker cabinet, leaving the sis is beginning to register in Germany. Merkel is no Germany (AfD) at now do not fit that bill. The nationalist leader Bahceli apoplectic with rage. “We don’t stranger to crises. Her ten years in power have been the expense of the biggest challenge of all for have to wait long - in two months time we will see if dominated by the global financial meltdown, turmoil in ruling parties. Merkel may be to lead Davutoglu and Erdogan’s tactics have proved successful,” the euro zone and the conflict with Russia over Ukraine. Already, politicians Europe towards a common wrote commentator Murat Yetkin for the Radikal online But those crises were distant for most Germans. Now she in Berlin are worry- asylum policy. German newspaper. —AFP must wrestle with a problem that is having a profound ing about how the politicians express exasper- effect on communities across Germany. “During the euro crisis might affect ation these days at the crisis people had the impression that it was other coun- important state refusal of some EU partners tries that had a problem and Germany was in good elections next March to accept their “fair share” of All articles appearing on these shape. Now the burden is very much at home,” German and the federal vote refugees. Unless this is weekly Die Zeit wrote this week. “For the first time since in 2017, when Merkel resolved soon, they fear, then pages are the personal opinion of Merkel came to power, Germany could begin to look like is widely expected to run the openness of ordinary Germans the writers. Kuwait Times takes no a problem country.” for a fourth term. Senior could vanish quickly. responsibility for views expressed Social Democrats (SPD) are think- The optimists in Berlin point to the therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Political Fallout ing about ways to prevent the euro zone and Ukraine crises as examples of Merkel remains hugely popular after a decade as flood of refugees from showing where Europe has defied the odds and ers to voice their opinions. Please chancellor that has coincided with Germany’s re-emer- up in the unemployment statis- remained united. It will fall primarily to Merkel send submissions via email to: opin- gence as an economic power and influential player in tics ahead of those votes. People to deliver the same consensus on [email protected] or via snail foreign affairs. During the Ukraine and euro zone crises, in Merkel’s entourage describe refugees. “The asylum issue could mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Europe has looked to her to lead and she has in her own the crisis as having “explosive” be the next big project where we cautious step-by-step way. But the refugee crisis is a potential for her party, which show whether we’re capable of The editor reserves the right to edit challenge of an entirely different dimension and com- remains far ahead in opinion working together,” Merkel said in any submission as necessary. plexity. It is a local, national and European problem. And polls for now. mid-August. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 SPORTS

Ozil nursing knee injury Redskins overlook Griffin Scotland axe Barclay, Cowan LONDON: Back-row forwards John Barclay and Blair Cowan were the two most high-profile omissions when WASHINGTON: The Washington Redskins on Monday BERLIN: Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil is nursing a knee injury but should be Scotland coach Vern Cotter named his 31-man squad for this month’s World Cup yesterday. But fellow back-row named Kirk Cousins as their starting quarterback for the 2015 fit for their Euro 2016 qualifiers against Poland on Friday and Scotland next John Hardie-who only arrived in Scotland five weeks ago from New Zealand and has played just 57 minutes of National Football League season, the latest signal that former international rugby after making his debut in Turin this month-was included by Kiwi coach Cotter. Cowan’s week, Germany assistant coach Thomas Schneider said yesterday. standout Robert Griffin III could be on his way out. absence was a particular surprise as the New Zealand-born forward, who plays his club rugby for London Irish, The Arsenal midfielder will not be training with the team on Griffin, a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, has strug- started all five of Scotland’s Six Nations matches this season. Barclay, meanwhile ended a near two-year spell in Tuesday and will be treating “a minor knee inflammation” gled for the Redskins since injuring his knee in a January 2013 but said he would be back in training on Wednesday. the international wilderness when he was recalled for this month’s wwarm-up matches with Ireland and Italy. playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks that required surgery and But despite scoring in 48-7 rout of Italy at Murrayfield on Saturday, the Scarlets openside flanker has also been “Mesut has knee problems,” Schneider told extensive rehabilitation. There has been growing speculation left out of the 31-man squad who will cross the border into England for the World Cup. reporters. “A minor inflammation. He will not be train- that Griffin is no longer wanted by the Redskins front office Gloucester scrum-half Greig Laidlaw will continue to captain the side. ing today but will exclusively be treated for the injury.” but coach Jay Gruden said on Monday that the team still had Squad: Full-back: Stuart Hogg (Glasgow) Wings: Sean Lamont (Glasgow), Sean “But tomorrow he will be undergoing an individual belief in the quarterback. Maitland (London Irish/ENG), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow), Tim Visser “I like Robert as a quarterback,” Gruden said during a news training session and we will see until the game. There is (Harlequins/ENG) Centres: Mark Bennett (Glasgow), Peter Horne (Glasgow), Matt conference. “His future with the Washington Redskins is what Scott (Edinburgh), Richie Vernon (Glasgow) Fly-halves: Finn Russell (Glasgow), no prognosis yet from me but we have the best medical it is. There have been no discussions of letting him go or any department and I am confident we will get him ready. Duncan Weir (Glasgow) Scrum-halves: Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh); Greig of that stuff. “Kirk has done an outstanding job, Robert’s done Laidlaw (Gloucester/ENG, capt), Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow) Forwards Back-rows: Germany take on Poland in Frankfurt before travelling to some great things, no question we have total faith in all three David Denton (Edinburgh), John Hardie (Unattached), Josh Strauss (Glasgow), Glasgow to face Scotland three days later. The World Cup of them,” Gruden added, referring to quarterbacks Cousins, Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan/FRA), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow) Locks: Grant winners are second in their Group D on 13 points from Griffin III and Colt McCoy. Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Jonny Gray (Glasgow), Richie Gray (Castres/FRA), Tim six matches, one point behind Poland, who Griffin, who played for Baylor University where he won the Swinson (Glasgow) Hookers: Fraser Brown (Glasgow), Ross Ford beat them 2-0 in October last year. 2011 Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding college foot- (Edinburgh), Stuart McInally (Edinburgh) Props: Alasdair Dickinson Scotland are third on 11. —Reuters ball player, was named the team’s starter at quarterback in (Edinburgh), Ryan Grant (Glasgow), Gordon Reid (Glasgow), Willem Nel February. —Reuters (Edinburgh), Jon Welsh (Newcastle/ENG) —AFP Gonzalez lifts Dodgers over Giants

LOS ANGELES: Adrian Gonzalez singled in the winning run with INDIANS 4, BLUE JAYS 2 MARLINS 4, BRAVES 0 METS 3, PHILLIES 1 the bases loaded in the 14th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Jerry Sands singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh Martin Prado and Justin Bour each had an RBI double in Bartolo Colon breezed through eight snappy innings and New Dodgers to a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday inning, Danny Salazar struck out 10 and Cleveland won its sixth the eighth inning and Miami extended Shelby Miller’s win- York got homers from Curtis Granderson and Michael Conforto, night in the opener of a series between the NL West’s top two straight game, beating Toronto. less streak to 19 starts with a victory over Atlanta. extending its dominant run against Philadelphia. teams. Salazar (12-7) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. Miller, an All-Star with a sparkling 2.56 ERA, began the After throwing seven shutout innings last Wednesday at The first-place Dodgers’ lead increased to 4 1/2 games over He reached double digits in strikeouts for the fifth time this night with the worst support in the majors, and the Braves, Philadelphia during New York’s four-game sweep, the 42-year-old their second-place rivals after the longest game by innings for season and the first time since fanning 10 against Baltimore on losers in six straight and 13 of 14, stayed true to form. Colon (12-11) was one better this time. He struck out nine, walked both teams this season. June 6. Beginning the night with the worst average (.227) in the one and yielded four harmless singles, pushing his scoreless streak Giants reliever Mike Broadway (0-1) started his first inning of Bryan Shaw got two outs in the eighth and Cody Allen fin- NL with runners in scoring position since the All-Star break, to 16 innings. relief by walking A.J. Ellis and then gave up consecutive singles to ished for his 28th save. Ryan Raburn doubled home the tying run Atlanta has scored two runs or less in 20 of Miller’s 27 starts. The beefy right-hander tossed an inning Saturday against Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley to load the bases. Giants reliever as the Indians matched their longest winning streak of the sea- Miller (5-12) gave up six hits and struck out seven in sev- Boston on his regular throw day to spare a tired bullpen, his first Yusmeiro Petit came on and Gonzalez hit his first pitch to deep left son and halted Toronto’s run at four. en innings. After getting blown out by an aggregate 38-11 relief appearance since April 2011 with the Yankees. And he even field, ending the 5-hour, 29-minute game. Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion, who was named AL player of score in a three-game series sweep by the New York Yankees, helped himself at the plate Monday, hitting a two-out single in front Chris Hatcher (2-5) pitched three innings for the win. The the week after batting .391 (9 for 23) with six home runs and 17 the Braves’ offense was no match for journeyman Chris of Granderson’s 23rd homer. Dodgers won for just the fourth time in 13 games against the RBIs, extended his hitting streak to 26 games with a leadoff sin- Narveson (2-1), a journeyman making his second start since New York improved to 13-1 against the last-place Phillies this Giants this season, a day after getting no-hit by Jake Arrieta of the gle in the sixth. 2012. season (7-0 at home) with its 10th consecutive win over its division Chicago Cubs, the second time it happened in 10 days. rival. The NL East leaders have won 24 of 29 versus Philadelphia. Marlon Byrd of the Giants tied the game 4-all in the eighth with an RBI double in the right-field corner off Juan Nicasio. The PADRES 7, RANGERS 0 Giants have lost six of their last nine. Tyson Ross held Texas to three hits in seven innings and hit an RBI single, and San Diego handed Texas just its third loss in 10 ATHLETICS 11, ANGELS 5 games. Mark Canha hit a three-run homer and Jake Smolinski’s three- The Rangers dropped four games behind first-place Houston in run double highlighted a decisive third inning for Oakland on the AL West and remained in the second AL wild-card spot. another quirky night at the Coliseum when part of the outfield The dominating performance by Ross (10-9) allowed him to wall fell down and delayed the game. reach double digits in victories for the second straight season. He Danny Valencia added a two-run double in the third and struck out seven and walked two in his second victory over Texas another RBI double in the fifth to back Felix Doubront (2-1) in his this season, the other one coming on July 12. It was his fourth win in first win for Oakland. five decisions. A piece of the outfield wall came loose after Los Angeles left With two runs already in during the sixth, the Rangers intention- fielder Shane Victorino crashed into it trying to chase down ally walked rookie catcher Austin Hedges to get to Ross, who was Valencia’s double in the fifth, causing a 10-minute delay as players batting eighth. Ross hit a sharp single to center to bring in Cory briefly returned to their dugouts. Erick Aybar hit an RBI single and Spangenberg, aboard on an RBI double, and chase Lewis. Jedd a sacrifice fly in his first two plate appearances for the Angels, Gyorko hit a sacrifice fly and Yangervis Solarte added an RBI single while Albert Pujols singled in a run. that inning. Angels starter Hector Santiago (7-9) went 2 2-3 innings as the A’s earned their first three-game winning streak since Aug. 7-9, REDS 13, CUBS 6 against Houston. Doubront allowed four runs and seven hits in six- Eugenio Suarez and Adam Duvall hit two-run homers in a four- plus innings in his first win since July 7. run sixth inning and Cincinnati took advantage of two late Chicago errors. RED SOX 4, YANKEES 3 Duvall, who was called up from Triple-A earlier Monday, snapped David Ortiz hit his 495th home run and Jackie Bradley Jr. had a 5-5 tie with his pinch-hit homer off Cubs reliever Justin Grimm (2- three hits and threw out a runner at the plate to lift Boston. 4), who surrendered all four runs in one-third of an inning. Grimm Mookie Betts hit a two-run homer for the Red Sox. It was their started the inning by walking Ivan DeJesus Jr. and then gave up the ninth win in 13 games. Didi Gregorius had four singles for New home run to Suarez that tied it. York, which had scored 20 runs on Sunday to complete a three- The Reds, who entered Monday having lost five of their last six, game sweep over Atlanta. He flied out to the warning track with used the rally to erase a two-run deficit. Cincinnati tackled on six the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the ninth. The Yankees unearned runs in the ninth off Chicago relievers Travis Wood and remained 1 1/2 games behind AL East-leading Toronto, which lost James Russell after second baseman Starlin Castro committed two 4-2 to Cleveland on Monday. of his three errors in the inning.

ASTROS 8, MARINERS 3 ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4 Dallas Keuchel allowed one run and struck out eight in seven Ben Paulsen hit a two-out, two-run single and Colorado rallied innings to become the American League’s first 16-game winner for four runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Arizona. Charlie and lead Houston to a win over Seattle. Rookie Carlos Correa, who Blackmon had three hits and finished a home run short of the cycle returned after missing four games with a hamstring injury, hit a for the Rockies, who snapped a three-game home losing streak. two-run homer and Jed Lowrie and Hank Conger added solo shots The Rockies were held in check by Arizona starter Robbie Ray to help the AL West-leading Astros to the victory. Keuchel (16-6), and two relievers before rallying in the ninth off closer Brad Ziegler who gave up six hits, improved to 12-0 at home this season and (0-3). has won 13 straight in Houston dating back to last year to tie a Nolan Arenado hit a two-run double off the top of the fence in franchise record set by Danny Darwin in 1989-90. Lowrie and left to pull the Rockies within a run. One out later Ziegler’s errant Conger homered in the fourth to put Houston up 3-1, before throw to first on DJ LeMahieu’s comebacker put the winning run at Correa’s shot broke it open in the fifth. Vidal Nuno (0-3) yielded second. seven hits, five runs and tied a career-high with three homers, in Nick Hundley walked to load the bases, finishing Ziegler. Matt six innings. Reynolds came on and Paulsen sent an 0-2 pitch up the middle to give Colorado the win. It was his second walk-off hit of the season. RAYS 6, ORIOLES 3 Chris Archer pitched six shutout innings, and Tampa Bay hit CARDINALS 8, NATIONALS 5 three home runs in a victory over fading Baltimore. Asdrubal Jason Heyward hit a two-run, tie-breaking double in the seventh Cabrera and Evan Longoria connected off Wei-Yin Chen (8-7), and inning to key a five-run rally, and St. Louis beat Washington. St. Louis Tim Beckham added a solo shot against Brad Brach. Logan won for the eighth time in nine games and moved five games Forsythe had three hits for the Rays, coming within a home run of ahead of the idle Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Central. the cycle. Washington, which had won six of its previous eight, fell 6 1/2 Archer (12-10) gave up four hits, walked three and struck out games behind the New York Mets in the NL East. New York beat six to earn his first win against Baltimore in seven starts since June Philadelphia 3-1 on Monday. The Cardinals sent 10 batters to the 7, 2013. The right-hander finished the month with 50 strikeouts, plate in the seventh and erased a 5-3 deficit with five two-out runs. tying the club record for August held by Scott Kazmir (2007). Kolten Wong followed Heyward’s hit with a run-scoring single to Archer left after throwing 113 pitches and with Tampa Bay push the lead to 8-5. Stephen Piscotty and Jhonny Peralta had RBI ahead 6-0. Brad Boxberger, the third Rays reliever, worked the LOS ANGELES: Dodgers shortstop Jimmy Rollins (top) forces San Francisco Giants’ Kelby Tomlinson out hits off Casey Janssen (1-3) to tie the game. Felipe Rivero gave up ninth for his 33rd save. The defeat was the 11th in 12 games for the double to Heyward. Kevin Siegrist (6-1) picked up the win the Orioles. at second after trying to advance on a ball hit by Gregor Blanco during the fourth inning. —AP despite allowing three runs in the seventh. —AP

MLB results/standings

Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 3; Cleveland 4, Toronto 2; Boston 4, NY Yankees 3; Miami 4, Atlanta 0; NY Mets 3, Philadelphia 1; Cincinnati 13, Chicago Cubs 6; Houston 8, Seattle 3; St. Louis 8, Washington 5; Colorado 5, Arizona 4; Oakland 11, LA Angels 5; LA Dodgers 5, San Francisco 4 (14 innings); San Diego 7, Texas 0.

American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB NY Mets 73 58 .557 - Toronto 74 57 .565 - Washington 66 64 .508 6.5 NY Yankees 72 58 .554 1.5 Atlanta 54 77 .412 19 Tampa Bay 65 66 .496 9 Miami 53 79 .402 20.5 Baltimore 63 68 .481 11 Philadelphia 52 80 .394 21.5 Boston 61 70 .466 13 Central Division Central Division St. Louis 85 46 .649 - Kansas City 80 50 .615 - Pittsburgh 79 50 .612 5 Minnesota 67 63 .515 13 Chicago Cubs 74 56 .569 10.5 Cleveland 64 66 .492 16 Milwaukee 55 75 .423 29.5 Chicago White Sox 61 68 .473 18.5 Cincinnati 54 76 .415 30.5 Detroit 60 70 .462 20

Western Division Western Division Houston 73 59 .553 - LA Dodgers 73 57 .562 - Texas 68 62 .523 4 San Francisco 69 62 .527 4.5 LA Angels 65 66 .496 7.5 San Diego 64 67 .489 9.5 Arizona 63 68 .481 10.5 Seattle 61 71 .462 12 HOUSTON: Astros Carlos Correa celebrates his two-run home run against the Seattle Mariners with teammate Jose Altuve as Oakland 58 74 .439 15 Colorado 53 76 .411 19.5 on-deck batter Evan Gattis looks on in the fifth inning. —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 SPORTS

COLOMBO: Indian cricketers pose with the trophy after they won the Test cricket series against Sri Lanka. — AP India end 22-year series drought in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: India overcame a gallant centu- Lanka came under Mohammad after scoring 102 in the second Test, before cial. We needed to get close to 300. end.” India next host South Africa for a full ry by Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews to Azharuddin’s captaincy in 1993 when they he was trapped leg-before to Sharma in the “If Kusal and I had stayed a bit longer at tour in October, while Sri Lanka play a home win the final Test by 117 runs yesterday and won 1-0. first over after tea with the second new ball. the crease today, it could have been a dif- series against the West Indies at the same end a 22-year wait for a series win on the Virat Kohli, enjoying a series win for the Left-handed Perera followed his 55 in the ferent story. But India bowled well in the time. — AFP island. first time as Indian Test captain, said he was first innings with 70, becoming only the The hosts, set a victory target of 386, delighted to see the team bounce back second Sri Lankan after Dinesh Chandimal were bowled out for 268 after tea on the after losing the first match. to score two half-centuries in his debut Test. SCOREBOARD fifth day at the Sinhalese Sports Club in “Being 0-1 down was never easy,” he said. Perera looked set for a bigger score Colombo to hand the tourists a 2-1 series “I was told it had never been done before when he was dismissed shortly before tea, COLOMBO: Final scoreboard on the fifth day of the third and final Test between Sri Lanka scoreline. by us abroad, so we managed to create a bit playing a reverse sweep off Ashwin straight and India at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo yesterday: Sri Lanka were revived by a 135-run of history. to Rohit Sharma at point. stand for the sixth wicket between Mathews “It feels nice, especially with such a India grabbed the last five wickets for 26 India 1st innings: 312 (C. Pujara 145 not K. Perera c R. Sharma b Ashwin 70 and debutant Kusal Perera, but the dis- young team early in our careers, to achieve runs after Sri Lanka were sailing at a com- out, A. Mishra 59, D. Prasad 4-100, R. Herath R. Herath lbw b Ashwin 11 missal of both batsmen on either side of tea a magnificent milestone and win a series fortable 242-5 before Perera’s dismissal. Sri 3-84) T. Kaushal not out 1 sealed their fate. here for the first time in 22 years. Lanka began the final session with a reason- Sri Lanka 1st innings: 201 (K. Perera 55, R. D. Prasad c Binny b Ashwin 6 Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin fin- “The attitude has been brilliant. That is able hope of surpassing the difficult target- Herath 49, I. Sharma 5-54, S. Binny 2-24, A. N. Pradeep lbw b Mishra 0 ished with four for 69 and was named man why we are playing the kind of cricket we needing 137 runs more with a possible 36 Mishra 2-25) Extras: (b4, lb2, nb7) 13 of the series for taking 21 wickets in the are playing. There are areas we want to overs remaining-but India tightened the India 2nd innings: 274 (R. Sharma 50, S. Total (all out, 85 overs) 268 three Tests. improve on, but the number of bad sessions screws after tea to emerge victorious. Binny 49, R. Ashwin 58, D. Prasad 4-69, N. Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Tharanga), 2-2 Pradeep 4-62) Seamer Ishant Sharma took three wickets we had in the series were few. I am really Mathews said he was disappointed after (Karunaratne), 3-21 (Chandimal), 4-74 in the innings, including the vital scalp of proud of the boys.” gaining the advantage of winning the toss (Silva), 5-107 (Thirimanne), 6-242 (Perera), Mathews after tea, to take his tally to 200 Sri Lanka had slipped to a shaky 107-5 and asking India to bat first on a seaming Sri Lanka 2nd innings (overnight 67-3): U. Tharanga c Ojha b I. Sharma 0 7-249 (Mathews), 8-257 (Herath), 9-263 wickets in his 65th Test. India had fought before lunch when Mathews and Perera wicket. “We got them to bat in demanding (Prasad), 10-268 (Pradeep). back after losing the opening Test in Galle joined hands to bat out a major part of the conditions, that is why we are very disap- K. Silva c Pujara b Yadav 27 D. Karunaratne c Ojha b Yadav 0 Bowling: I. Sharma 19-5-32-3 (nb4), Yadav by 63 runs to win the second at the P. Sara afternoon session and lift the hosts to 249-6 pointed at losing,” he said. 15-3-65-2, Binny 13-3-49-0, Mishra 18-1-47- Oval in Colombo by 278 runs and then took by tea. “Our batting flopped again although the D. Chandimal c Kohli b I. Sharma 18 1 (nb3), Ashwin 20-2-69-4. the enthralling final Test in the last session Mathews made 110, his seventh Test cen- bowlers were outstanding. India batted well A. Mathews lbw b I. Sharma 110 India won by 117 runs; clinch series 2-1. of play. India’s last series success in Sri tury and the second in successive matches but our batting in the first innings was cru- L. Thirimanne c Rahul b Ashwin 12 Sharma and Chandimal banned for misconduct

COLOMBO: India’s Ishant Sharma was yester- shoulder and Thirimanne also joined in the said. “These experienced cricketers forgot day suspended by the International Cricket verbal spat forcing umpires Nigel Llong and their fundamental responsibilities of respect- Council for one Test match and Dinesh Rod Tucker to step in to calm down the play- ing their opponents as well as the umpires, Chandimal of Sri Lanka banned from a one- ers. As Sharma hurried off the field after the and got involved in incidents which were day international for misconduct during the Indian innings ended, Prasad sprinted clearly against the spirit of the game,” final Test in Colombo. behind him and television pictures showed Pycroft was quoted as saying in the ICC Two other Sri Lankan players, Dhammika the two players speaking to each other out- statement. Prasad and Lahiru Thirimanne, were fined 50 side the dressing rooms. “Their actions cannot be condoned and percent of their undisclosed match fees for Sharma, who had been fined 65 percent must be discouraged.” All four players admit- similar offences during the match, the ICC of his match fees for misconduct during the ted the offences and accepted the proposed said in a statement. second Test at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo, sanctions, the statement added. All four players were involved in a heated was penalised again for taunting opener Indian captain Virat Kohli said the inci- flare-up during the fourth day’s play on Upul Tharanga after he dismissed him. The dents had benefitted his team because it Monday, prompting match referee Andy lanky fast bowler will miss India’s first Test fired up Sharma in Sri Lanka’s second Alastair Cook Pycroft to charge the players under the ICC’s against South Africa in Mohali from innings. “An angry fast bowler is a captain’s code of conduct. November 5, the ICC said. delight,” Kohli said after his team’s series- Tempers rose in the final session as Chandimal will sit out the one-day inter- clinching 117-run victory at the Sinhalese Cook in search of Sharma and the Sri Lankan fielders had a national between Sri Lanka and the West Sports Club yesterday. “It happened at the heated exchange after Prasad bowled three Indies in Colombo on November 1. right time because we had to bowl after that. consecutive bouncers to the Indian tailender. “Monday’s incidents were not good adver- I was very happy that he has an aggressive opening partner Chandimal nudged Sharma with his tisements for international cricket,” Pycroft mindset.” — AFP

LONDON: It is Test cricket’s equivalent of a lonely that would allow England to play two spinners on hearts advert: experienced opener seeks partner for pitches known to aid turn. Cummins grateful for Starc support meaningful relationship. Yet for England captain Ali, however, has struggled against out-and-out Alastair Cook it is no joke. quick bowling in Test cricket, suggesting he may not Since former skipper and first-wicket colleague be suited to opening in South Africa. CARDIFF: Australia fast bowler Pat have already blighted his career. “I guess metre in front of someone and down the Andrew Strauss retired in 2012, left-hander Cook has With no stand-out candidate to bat alongside him Cummins said Monday he was glad to be when you’re the No.1 bowler in the world other end it would be a metre behind. had six partners at the top of the order. This season at the top of the order, Cook told BBC Radio Five on able to call on team-mate Mitchell Starc for you automatically become a leader and “Now I’ve got the ruler and measuring tape saw Adam Lyth join a list that includes Nick Compton, Monday: “That is a really interesting decision the advice as he re-establishes himself as an someone that people try and speak to,” out it’s a bit more consistent. I’m trying to Joe Root, Michael Carberry, Sam Robson and selectors have to make. international cricketer. Cummins said of Starc. get as many things consistent (as possible), Jonathan Trott, who has since retired from Test duty “I think there’s a selection meeting in the next 10 At the age of 25, left-arm quick Starc is “He’s great...His yorkers are probably so hopefully by the time I release the ball I Compton’s nine appearances and 17 innings are days,” added the 30-year-old Cook, whose 9,330 runs hardly a veteran but, nevertheless, he is one of the best in the world, so I talk to don’t have to worry about all those things the most any of the sextet have so far managed and 27 hundreds are both England Test records. “The the world’s number one ranked bowler and him a little bit about that.” There was evi- that came before and it’s pretty similar alongside Cook, although Root has flourished at four conditions in Abu Dhabi will be different to what we was named player of the tournament for dence of Starc’s influence in the way every ball.” and five. Yorkshire’s Lyth made a Test hundred have just played in here where it nipped all over. I’d his starring role during Australia’s World Cummins, beset by injury problems during And Cummins said a clear head was against New Zealand at his Headingley home ground love someone to jump out and nail that slot. “Adam Cup triumph on home soil earlier this year. the past five years, bowled Alex Hales with helping him do what he does his best- but struggled during the Ashes, averaging a mere didn’t quite score the amount of runs he’d liked to Australia are now set to face England in a full toss after the England opener bowl fast. 12.77 in England’s 3-2 series win over Australia. have done (this season) but he played a major part in a five-match one-day series starting in appeared to struggle with his sheer speed. “When you’re feeling quick and the ball Lyth’s place is now under threat ahead of the side-he was a brilliant catcher. “He’s obviously Southampton on Thursday after Monday’s Cummins said a simple adjustment to is coming out quick it’s certainly tough for England’s departure to the United Arab Emirates in scored a lot of runs for Yorkshire over the last couple lone Twenty20 in Cardiff saw the tourists his run-up had also played a role in his batsmen starting ... especially in Twenty20. October for three Tests against Pakistan. Before the of years and he’s gone in his first seven Test matches go down to a five-run defeat. But in his ability to top the 90mph mark. “I’ve started “In the first couple of overs if you can year is out, England also head to South Africa-where and found it tough against two very good attacks, four-over spell in Cardiff the 22-year-old measuring it for once - I used to step it bowl quick and make it hard for them to fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel will be and yet he’s scored a hundred in one of them. “The Cummins bowled at sharp pace, an out,” Cummins said. get off to good starts the better (for the waiting for Cook’s men. Moeen Ali has been touted as selectors have tough calls. They have made some big encouraging sign given the injuries that “Some games, from one end it’d be a team). “I just try and bowl quick.” — AFP a possible replacement for Lyth in the UAE, a move calls in the summer and were proved right.” — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 SPORTS Dixon a fitting champ as IndyCar grieves

SONOMA: With a dominating drive on a day worth double points, Scott Dixon once again proved he is one of the greatest IndyCar drivers in open-wheel his- tory. The New Zealander overcame long odds to grab his fourth championship by winning the season finale at Sonoma Raceway. The victory pulled him from third in the standings into a tie with Juan Pablo Montoya, with the title going to Dixon on a tiebreaker. In many ways, it was a fitting win for the driver known as “The Iceman.” Unfazed by his 47-point deficit to Montoya, he focused on the fact that his Chip Ganassi Racing team at least had a shot should he win the race. If anybody doubted he could do it, shame on them. Dixon’s 38 wins are fifth on the career list, and he is only the fifth driver to win at least four titles. His first championship came in 2003 when he was 23. The longest employed driver for Ganassi, Dixon added his fourth crown Sunday at the age of 35. “He’s arguably ‘the’ driver of our generation, ‘the’ IndyCar driver of our generation, for sure,” Ganassi said. “All around, on the track, off the track, he’s the com- plete package.” Dixon’s win at Sonoma earned him a $1 million bonus for the IndyCar title, and an additional $75,000 from Sunoco for most victories (three) this season. Off the track, he is one of IndyCar’s greatest ambas- sadors. It was Dixon who moved his wife and two young daughters to Florida for several months follow- SONOMA: Scott Dixon of New Zealand races during the IndyCar Grand Prix in this file photo. — AP ing driver Dan Wheldon’s death in 2011 to support uled opener in Brazil. So the season instead opened in his only real challenge seemed to be from Graham it’s IndyCar, the race is not without its own controversy. Wheldon’s family. It was Dixon who stayed behind in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the introduction of the Rahal, the lone Honda driver who could keep pace Montoya was clearly frustrated all weekend knowing Pennsylvania last week and was with fellow driver new bodykits quickly showed they were too brittle. with all the big-time Chevrolet teams. that the race would be worth double points, and the Justin Wilson’s family when he died Monday night fol- Any contact left a scattering of debris, and one piece Rahal sliced Montoya’s lead in the standings to just IndyCar gimmick cost him the title. lowing the accident at Pocono a day earlier. Then it even flew over the grandstands and stuck a bystander. nine points with two races remaining, but an accident In fairness, Montoya also won the only other race was on to Sacramento and San Francisco and Sonoma The inaugural race in New Orleans was a rainy a week ago at Pocono effectively sunk his chances. this season worth double points - the Indy 500 - but he for a whirlwind tour of California promoting IndyCar’s mess, and the series couldn’t get to Indianapolis Motor Still, the turnaround of single-car team Rahal was annoyed that six drivers remained in contention finale. On Friday, the first day back at the track for a Speedway fast enough in May to begin preparing for Letterman Lanigan from barely competitive last year for the title headed into Sunday. paddock in mourning, he was quiet, maybe a little dis- its biggest event of the year. Instead, the buildup was to championship contender was one of the highlights “Is it fair for a normal championship? No,” he said. tracted. Asked if being back at the track and in a rou- marred by three cars going airborne, leading to a last- of the IndyCar season. “But it’s the rules they want to play with, and if you tine helped the drivers grieve, Dixon simply nodded. minute rules change the morning of qualifying. One Rahal is quietly helping to raise money for Wilson’s don’t like the rules, don’t race.” And after Dixon and “It’s been a very tough week,” he conceded, day later, James Hinchcliffe suffered a life-threatening family, just as he did in 2011 when he organized an Ganassi crowd-surfed in celebration, he hardly sound- acknowledging the field was full of “heavy hearts.” “But injury when a broken part from his crashed race car auction that raised $627,203 for Wheldon’s family. On ed like a driver who believes IndyCar is in trouble. as Justin would have wanted, he would have wanted pierced one of his legs. The Indianapolis 500 did go off Sunday, all the drivers posed in a group photo with a “The Verizon IndyCar Series is one of the best series us to go out and race,” he said. That’s exactly what without a hitch and was won by Montoya, who drank race-worn helmet they had committed to a Wilson in the world,” he said. “We put on amazing races, and the IndyCar does, time and time again, crisis after crisis. the celebratory milk 15 years after his first 500 victory. auction. talent that we have here, the depth is fantastic. I feel It has been a season seemingly full of rough patch- From there, it was Montoya’s championship to lose. It was one of many Wilson tributes that made it a blessed and love waking up being an IndyCar racer as a es, beginning with the late cancellation of the sched- He had led the standings from the season opener and somber day leading into a popular win. But because champion and hope for many more years.”— AP Brunel slams Italy after Scotland thrashing

EDINBURGH: Italy coach Jacques Brunel “I don’t understand how we can change so ing his first international start for two years, and accused his players of taking to the field “with much, one week to the other,” he added. “One centre Mark Bennett. However, Scotland coach low physicality” as they slumped to their heavi- week ago we built up long playing sequences Cotter was reluctant to shower praise on his est-ever defeat against Scotland, 48-7, in their and today we could barely keep the ball for two.” side, saying: “Three tries came from intercep- penultimate World Cup warm-up match at Asked whether the performance could be tions, so we’ll have to face the reality on that. We Murrayfield on Saturday. dismissed as a just a bad day at the office or a weren’t particularly accurate at times. An ashen-faced Brunel was at a loss to sign of deeper problems, Brunel replied: “I have “I’m not entirely happy with everything. We’re explain how his side played so badly on a no doubt we will sort out the issues we saw improving but there’s certainly a lot more to be ground where they beat the Scots 22-19 in last today. I think it’s been a very bad day. “We will done. We need to step it up again,” added the season’s Six Nations Championship. need to go into the next week with a positive New Zealander, due to name his World Cup But the Frenchman promised to correct the approach, otherwise the Rugby World Cup will squad late yesterday. worrying deficiencies as the Azzurri prepare to be tough. The first goal for us will be getting our Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw-who kicked face Wales in Cardiff on September 5, a fortnight confidence back.” two conversions and four penalties-was more ahead of their World Cup opener against France Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italy’s captain in the fulsome in his praise. “We’re delighted that we at Twickenham. The heavy defeat surpassed a absence of Sergio Parisse, was equally at a loss put them under pressure for such long periods 47-15 loss in a 2003 World Cup warm up at to explain an abject display in which the visitors of the game,” said the Gloucester scrum-half. Murrayfield as Italy’s record reverse against shipped six tries and managed just one of their Laidlaw singled out his half-back partner, Scotland. own, courtesy of centre Michele Campagnaro. Finn Russell, who had an outstanding game It came just seven days after they had been “It’s difficult to understand because we had the orchestrating Scotland’s attack with perception beaten just 16-12 by Vern Cotter’s side on home same approach as last week,” said the Leicester and precision. ground in Turin and Brunel said: “I really don’t hooker. “We gave away too many penalties from “Finn’s a wonderful talent,” said Laidlaw. “I Waisake Naholo understand what happened today (Saturday). the scrum in the first-half, something we cannot thought he had a wonderful performance You should probably ask the players because accept.” today. Hopefully that can continue next week today they joined the field with low physicality. Scotland controlled the match from the start and into the World Cup.” Scotland play their Rivals plot All “We performed pretty well one week ago and in front of a record crowd for a World Cup warm- final warm-up match against France in Paris today we gave away three interception tries and up at Murrayfield of 43,831. Wings Sean Lamont next Saturday and open their World Cup cam- had a huge lack of possession. This is what and Tim Visser each scored two tries, the others paign against Japan at Kingsholm in Gloucester Blacks downfall scares me the most. coming from flanker John Barclay, who was mak- on September 23. —AFP

CARDIFF: That New Zealand have been the pions Ireland in a warm-up match in Dublin team to beat ahead of every World Cup has last weekend, chose not to goad the long been accepted by the rest of the inter- Wallabies-who’ve won their last 10 Tests national rugby union community. against the Welsh — when asked to com- But that the All Blacks have managed, ment Monday on his pool rivals. for the time being at least, to defy conven- “I am looking forward to the (warm-up) tional medicine by including wing Waisake game this weekend between England and Naholo in their squad might be a bit too Ireland, because whoever loses is going to much for rivals trying to plot the downfall lose two in a row which puts them under a of the defending champions, with the 2015 little bit of pressure,” said Gatland, with edition in England just 17 days away. England beaten 25-20 by France in Paris in The Fijian healer who treated Naholo’s their last warm-up encounter. rapid recovery from a broken leg put his France, yet to win a World Cup, looked, success down to belief in God and a cura- at long last, to have found a measure of tive leaf. Fortunately for fans of other cohesion in beating England-a point not teams, history is against New Zealand. lost on Gatland. “I’ve been impressed by No side have ever won successive World France. They looked a lot fitter and stronger Cups, while the All Blacks have yet to lift than they have for recent campaigns.” the Webb Ellis trophy on foreign soil-with In leaving out Danny Cipriani, while both their 1987 and 2011 triumphs being including rugby league convert Sam sealed with wins over France in finals at Burgess-with just 70 minutes of Test rugby Auckland’s Eden Park. union behind him-England coach Stuart The way Australia defeated New Lancaster has been accused of favouring Zealand 27-19 in a Rugby Championship brawn over game-breaking brain. decider in Sydney earlier this month ought “I wouldn’t describe it as a gamble,” said to have inspired the rest of the world. New Lancaster of Burgess’s selection. “I under- Zealand hit back with a 41-13, five-tries-to- stand the size of this decision, but I under- one, win over the Wallabies in Auckland. stand the size of every decision when But the joy and pain of knockout rugby you’re in a World Cup year.” is that one defeat can prove fatal to a England, who open the World Cup team’s hopes-something New Zealand against Fiji at Twickenham on September coach Steve Hansen knows only too well 18, will now depend greatly on fly-half from his time as assistant to Graham Henry, George Ford to orchestrate their attack. when the All Blacks suffered a shock quar- Fiji knocked Wales out of the 2007 World ter-final defeat by France in Cardiff at the Cup and Gatland said: “If we go in there just 2007 World Cup. “The difference with the thinking about the supposedly ‘big three’ World Cup is you get four games guaran- teams (England, Australia and Wales) and teed and if you’re good enough to run first under-estimate Fiji, someone is going to or second in your pool you get one more,” get caught with their pants down.” Jordan Rally set to be a thriller said Hansen. South Africa, World Cup champions on “We learnt a massive lesson in 2007. If home soil in 1995 and in France 12 years AMMAN: Jordan is putting the finishing touches Nassif, CEO of Jordan Motorsport. “We select The 2015 field will be led by Qatari star you don’t win that one you come home.” later, are always worth keeping an eye on. to hosting one of the leading events on its social stages in and around the Jordan Valley that Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah who has won the rally on No wonder then that Hansen said when Yet a reminder of the unique challenges and sporting calendar when the world-famous showcase the stunning scenery we have as well multiple occasions. He will be joined by the best naming his squad: “We are not defenders; they face came Monday when a minor Jordan Rally is held from October 15-17. as several world famous tourism spots like Arab talent there is along with Jordan’s speed- like everyone else, we are contenders.” political party went to court in an attempt Featuring the region’s top drivers, the 2015 Mount Nebo, the Dead Sea and the Baptism Site. sters including 2014 National Champion, Maruf Australia’s win over New Zealand cer- to block the Springboks travelling to Jordan Rally is set to become one of the most “The 2015 Jordan Rally will be no different. Abu Samrah. It all gets underway tomorrow, tainly made the rest of the world take England, arguing there were too many thrilling events in a history which stretches back We want to provide a tough challenge for the October 15, with a high octane evening of thrills notice. Doubts remain about the Wallaby white players in the squad. Post-apartheid more than three decades. region’s very best drivers whilst at the same time and spills on the outskirts of Amman. The ‘Super scrum and they have been drawn in a ‘transformation’ remains a sensitive issue The event is firmly positioned as one of the hold a world class event that is thrilling to watch Special Stage’ is tailor made for spectators with a tough pool featuring both Wales and hosts across all South African sport. Agency for a world’s great rallies and is a crucial marketing for the spectator.” patch of land being transformed into a rally cir- England that also includes dangerous out- New Agenda party leader Edward tool for the Kingdom with television coverage The event, which is the sixth round of the FIA cuit where drivers will race against the clock. siders Fiji. At least one of rugby’s major Mokhoanatse, speaking ahead of beamed into millions of homes across the Arab Middle East Rally Championship, has become a Then first thing on the Friday morning nations will bow out out from the ‘group of Wednesday’s court hearing, said Springbok World and beyond. national initiative with incredible support from a (October 16), the action will begin in earnest death’, with only the top two going coach Heyneke Meyer’s squad, which “The rally shows that we (Jordan) are open for number of Government Ministries who work with 19 timed stages to be held over 250kms through to the quarter-finals. includes a record nine black players, was business and despite what may be happening alongside the likes of Amman Municipality and through to late Saturday afternoon when the Significantly, Wales coach Warren “built on racially-exclusionary and racially- around us Jordan continues to be a safe and the various Security Services to deliver a top winner will be crowned on the banks of the Gatland, whose side beat Six Nations cham- biased criteria”. — AFP secure country to visit,” explained Othman event year after year. Dead Sea. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 SPORTS Hulkenberg signs two-year extension at Force India LONDON: German Formula One driver Mercedes-powered Force India for four Brazil 2010, to his credit. This season, the ward and I want to continue growing continue delivering a car to match his Nico Hulkenberg has signed a two-year seasons in total after joining them from German finished sixth in Austria but did with this team as we move even further talent.” Hulkenberg’s decision to stay contract extension to stay with Force Williams in 2011 and then spending a not start the most recent race in Spa last up the grid.” Team principal Vijay Mallya removes another big name from a driv- India until the end of the 2017 season, year at Sauber in 2013 before returning. month due to a loss of power on the said he was a big fan of the driver. “He has er merry-go-round that has yet to the Silverstone-based team said yester- The German had been seen as a possi- parade lap. “The progress the team has spent almost four years with us already acquire any momentum as the sport day. “I know this team inside out and I feel ble candidate for Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari shown over the last two years has really and in that time we’ve seen him develop enters the second half of the season. at home here so it made perfect sense to seat but that possibility disappeared impressed me and gives me confidence into one of the best racing drivers in the With Raikkonen and Hulkenberg stay- make a long-term commitment,” the Le when they confirmed the 2007 world for the future,” he said yesterday. world,” he said. ing put, the focus will turn to Valtteri Mans 24 Hours winner said in a team champion was staying. “It’s a great group of people who are “Nico has the speed, the technical Bottas at Williams-with the Finn expect- statement ahead of this week’s Italian He has yet to appear on the podium, hungry for success and want to keep knowledge and the maturity to help us ed to stay put-and continuing specula- Grand Prix at Monza. with fourth his best result so far. He also improving year-on-year. I think we have achieve some great results in the years tion about Jenson Button’s future at Hulkenberg, 28, has been with has one pole position, with Williams in the important things in place going for- ahead. We will do everything we can to McLaren. — Reuters

BRAZIL: Fish carcasses litter the Jacarepagua lagoon shore in front of Olympic Park, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thousands of tilapia, sea bass and mullets started washing up Friday. — AP Rio head vows to introduce viral testing in Olympic waters

LONDON: Olympic organizers promised yes- tee head Carlos Arthur Nuzman told the AP test,” he said. Nuzman’s comments came as a Rio organizers now face a challenge of find- University in southern Brazil. terday to introduce viral testing in the pol- that his team was still studying how best to German sailor who fell ill after competing in a ing a lab with the equipment and trained pro- The AP’s testing includes measuring the luted waters in Rio de Janeiro where about carry out the analysis and what pathogens to pre-Olympic test event in the filthy waters off fessionals who can carry out viral testing of levels of human adenovirus types 2, 5 and 41 - 1,400 athletes will compete in next year’s search for. Rio said he was recovering from his skin infec- water. Fewer than five such labs exist in Brazil, which are considered “markers” for human games. “The viral tests, we will do and we will tions. Erik Heil believes he was infected while including just one in Rio de Janeiro at the fed- sewage pollution of water in Brazil because The IOC and Brazilian organizers had repeat this because the most important competing in a regatta in Marina da Gloria, eral Health Ministry’s Oswald Cruz Foundation they’re the types most typically found in repeatedly insisted that only bacterial testing (thing) for us is the health of the athletes,” where he says untreated sewage is allowed to research center. wastewater in the tropical nation. was required despite an independent five- Nuzman said in an interview in London. “We flow into the water. The AP’s viral testing was carefully The AP is also testing for rotavirus - global- month analysis by The Associated Press show- are working with our medical department and Heil needed daily hospital treatment for designed and is being carried out by scientist ly, the biggest cause of gastroenteritis - and ing dangerously high levels of viruses from looking for this.” multiple infections on his legs and hip. The Fernando Spilki, a board member of the enterovirus, the most common cause of upper human sewage at all Rio Olympic water ven- Nuzman said he did not know when organ- Berlin hospital where he was treated said he Brazilian Society for Virology and editor of its respiratory infections globally. Additionally, ues. Acknowledging that viral water testing izers would be ready to start the testing. “We had contracted MRSA, a type of bacteria resist- scientific journal, who is the coordinator of the the AP tests include bacterial testing for fecal was now necessary, local organizing commit- are working daily, on a daily basis to create the ant to many antibiotics. environmental quality program at Feevale coliforms. — AP Tokyo 2020 scraps logo in latest blow to reputation

TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers yesterday scrapped the Games logo over accusations of plagiarism, maintaining that it was not copied but saying too many doubts had been raised for it to be usable. The unusual decision is the latest embar- rassment for Japan as it prepares to hold the Games for the second time and follows its scrapping of plans for the new Olympic stadium, further blackening its self-pro- claimed reputation as a “safe pair of hands” to host the sports extravaganza. Questions about the 2020 logo arose immediately after its July unveiling when BEIJING: Kenya’s Asbel Kiprop celebrates in this file photo after winning the gold medal in Belgian designer Olivier Debie said it was the men’s 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships. — AP too similar to his logo for the Theatre de Liege and demanded its use be halted. He Kenya celebrates athletes, and the theatre subsequently filed a lawsuit in a local court. more doping probe on track Toshiro Muto, Tokyo 2020 CEO, said designer Kenjiro Sano continued to deny NAIROBI: Some of Kenya’s newly crowned track and is still on top of the world,” Kiplagat said. “These two copying the emblem, but that he felt the field world champions returned home yesterday and girls have given their story and I don’t want to com- were ferried to a celebratory breakfast in a convoy of ment on that because they have recorded their public doubts about it were in danger of limousines bearing the logo “Hotbed of Champions.” statements. Investigations are on.” damaging the reputation of the Olympics, Javelin gold medalist Julius Yego, 400-meter hurdles The federation had asked Kenya’s new national so he requested that it be withdrawn. champion Nicholas Bett and steeplechase winner anti-doping agency to take charge of the investiga- “We decided that to honour Sano’s judg- Ezekiel Kemboi were among those met at an airport tions, Kiplagat said, even though the body was only ment and start working on a new logo was in Nairobi by Deputy President William Ruto, who set up at the beginning of the year and isn’t official- the most appropriate choice for resolving danced with them on a red carpet. ly operating yet. “(The) IAAF is on top of things. We this situation,” Muto told a packed news They will also meet with Kenyan President have asked ADAK to be on top of things too conference broadcast live on almost all tele- TOKYO: A worker prepares to remove the poster with a logo of Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday, Ruto said. Kenya sur- because indications are that we may have leads, vision stations. from the wall during an event staged for photographers at the Tokyo Metropolitan prisingly topped the medal table at the worlds in and this time if they lead us somewhere, there will Government building. — AP Beijing ahead of Jamaica and the United States after be severe punishment,” he said. Kenyan athletes He apologised to the people of Japan, winning seven golds and 16 medals overall. were tested three times around the world champi- the International Olympic Committee (IOC) bility for that lies with Mr. Sano,” Tokyo gov- A second competition for the stadium Middle-distance champions David Rudisha and onships, Kiplagat said, before during and after. He and to sponsors for “causing trouble”, ernor Yoichi Masuzoe told reporters before design is set to be held this year, with con- Asbel Kiprop didn’t return home, instead traveling said all the other Kenyan athletes were “clear.” adding that a new logo would be decided the decision was made. struction set to start early next year. to Europe for the continuation of the Diamond Team manager Joseph Kinyua didn’t comment as soon as possible and in open competi- “I feel betrayed,” he added. Muto said Completion was set for early in 2020, a year League series. in detail on the two doping cases when he returned tion. Sano said from the start that accusa- design experts said the logo was not later than planned. But while the East African nation celebrates, with the athletes. “Yes there were doping claims but tions he had plagiarised the logo copied,citing numerous details. “But we also The decision, virtually unheard of this Kenya’s track federation head has announced that that’s a story for another day,” he said. “We sorted announced on July 24 — a stylised “T” with are concerned that ordinary citizens will not late in the planning process, prompted con- investigations are underway into the failed doping that thing out and sent the girls back home so it did tests of two team members, who were sent home not affect our performance.” a red circle symbolic of Japan’s flag-were understand this,” he added. The fuss over cern from the IOC, which said it would over- early from the championships. The 29-year-old Zakary broke Kenya’s national ‘groundless’, and Japanese officials backed the logo, which from the start received see the new tender and warned that the Joyce Zakary, a 400-meter runner, and hurdler record in the 400 meters in Beijing, but didn’t run in him up, saying thorough checks had raised mixed reviews from the public, is just the stadium must be completed no later than Koki Manunga tested positive for banned sub- the semifinals as news of the failed tests broke. The no legal issues. latest mishap to befall Japan almost two January 2020 in order for tests and stances in Beijing, further denting Kenya’s reputa- two women had accepted provisional suspensions, But public concern grew last month after years after it won hosting rights for the rehearsals. tion with the country already the subject of allega- the IAAF said, but the world body has not identified Sano’s office asked a beer company to with- 2020 Games over Madrid and Istanbul Last week officials said they would slash tions of widespread doping and ineffective controls. the substances or said if the athletes have request- draw some designs for promotional goods, largely on its can-do reputation. construction costs by a third from previous On Monday, Athletics Kenya President Isaiah ed their backup “B” samples to be tested. admitting that they had been copied. A sur- Japan in July scrapped plans for its new estimates of $2.1 billion and meet the IOC’s Kiplagat said investigations were underway in Having previously denied they had problems vey by TBS television found that 85 percent Kenya after Zakary and Manunga were provisionally with doping, authorities in Kenya were shaken into national stadium, set to be the centrepiece schedule. Tokyo has also reneged on a suspended by the IAAF for failing the targeted dop- action when leading marathon runner Rita Jeptoo of respondents felt the logo should be of the Games, due to anger over ballooning pledge to keep most venues within eight ing tests performed at their hotel just before the tested positive late last year for the blood booster changed. costs, vowing to come up with a new, effi- kilometres of the Olympic Village in order to competition. EPO, a substance undercover media investigations “Nobody can deny that the reputation of cient design and build the facility as cheap- cut costs. Some are so far away athletes will “In spite of being accused of using drugs, Kenya have claimed is easily available in Kenya. — AP the logo has been tarnished. The responsi- ly as possible. have to stay in separate quarters. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 SPORTS English giants impose Martial law on Europe

LONDON: In betting the house on 19-year-old for the period 2016 to 2019, English clubs have spent Sheffield Hallam University, told AFP. the rewards of slick commercial operations. United’s Monaco forward Anthony Martial, Manchester United more lavishly than ever before. “What they’re finding is the players that they might new kit deal with German sportswear firm Adidas is have emphasised the English Premier League’s stand- And with a new global TV rights package set to be have gone for, these ‘marquee’ signings, the values for worth £750 million, on top of several commercial con- ing as the financial ogre of European football. announced early in 2016, experts expect total rights- those are so wildly inflated that they’re beginning to tracts including a £330 million sponsorship agreement United’s decision to gamble a reported £36 million related income to exceed £8 billion. look elsewhere.” with American car giant Chevrolet. “We’ve seen in ($55.1 million, 49 million euros) on a player with only “Today it’s the English clubs, and no-one else, who He added: “The headlines make it sound like a recent years tremendous commercial growth from the 52 league games to his name has sparked incredulity make the market,” says French football agent huge, huge deal, but in the context of Manchester largest clubs and that’s helping fuel some of this trans- on both sides of the Channel. Christophe Mongai, whose client Jordan Amavi joined United it’s not wildly outside what they might normal- fer spending,” Alex Thorpe from Deloitte’s Sports British tabloid The Sun rechristened the 20-time Aston Villa from Nice last month. ly expect to play for emerging talent. Business Group told AFP. European governing body English champions “MADchester United”, while The “No-one can compete, except for the top five or six “Go back to Wayne Rooney: 10 years ago now, they UEFA’s financial fair play (FFP) rules have clipped Times said the deal-a world-record for a teenage play- clubs in Europe.” Including the arrival of Martial, Louis paid around £27 million. Comparably, Wayne Rooney English clubs’ wings in recent years, with City’s spend- er-was “the latest sign of panic buying at Old Trafford”. van Gaal has now overseen a quarter of a billion cost much more than Martial will cost, because it was ing in 2014 having notably been restricted. In France the focus has centred on reports that the pounds in transfer spending since succeeding David 10 years ago and we have price inflation and you have But with UEFA indicating that it will soften its eventual fee could rise to a staggering 80 million Moyes as United manager last year. a much smaller TV deal and much smaller revenues at stance regarding FFP and with revenues in English euros, which would make Martial, in the words of Manchester City, meanwhile, have spent around all these clubs.” football continuing to soar, the Premier League looks L’Equipe’s front-page headline, “More expensive than £140 million in the current window alone, including While big-money arrivals at United, City and set to boss the transfer market for years to come. Zidane”. According to financial consultants Deloitte, eye-watering deals for Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Chelsea have long been the norm, it is the sight of “As it stands, it’s likely that this is a trend that will the deal took the gross spending of England’s top- Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi. Yohan Cabaye in Crystal Palace’s colours or Xherdan continue,” adds Thorpe. “The objective (of FFP) is to flight clubs beyond the record for a single transfer win- “What we’re seeing with the likes of Manchester Shaqiri lining up for Stoke City that hammer home balance revenues with costs and if the revenues in the dow of £835 million, which was set last year. United, and to a lesser extent Chelsea, is they’re buy- England’s financial might. The structure of the Premier Premier League continue to increase as they are, that Buoyed by the announcement earlier this year of a ing talent with a view to maximising its potential in League’s TV deals means that money is shared evenly is going to give clubs greater scope to invest in their new domestic television rights deal worth £5.14 billion the future,” Rob Wilson, a football finance expert from across the division and English clubs are also reaping playing squads.” — AFP Iceland and Wales close to a place in Euro 2016

LONDON: Iceland could qualify for their first There is no comparable excitement about major finals and be joined in next year’s Euro the Euros across the border in England, 2016 championship by Wales, England, Italy, although Roy Hodgson’s team are all but Sweden and Austria, among others, if results assured of a place among the 24 after winning go to form in qualifiers over the next week. their opening six Group E matches. When the Iceland have never made it to either the qualifying-round draw was made early last World Cup or the European championship, but year, it was considered a foregone conclusion if they beat the Netherlands in Amsterdam that England would qualify after being tomorrow and Kazakhstan in Reykjavik on grouped with Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Sunday, their long wait will be over. The expan- Lithuania and San Marino and results have sion of the tournament from 16 to 24 teams borne out that optimism. has opened the door to many of Europe’s mid- The main talking point about England’s vis- dle-ranking teams who have responded to the it to San Marino on Thursday is that it gives opportunity to qualify for the tournament in skipper Wayne Rooney the ideal opportunity France with improved performances and some to overtake Bobby Charlton’s all-time scoring unexpected results. record of 49 goals for England. Rooney is level In 2013 Iceland came close to reaching the with Gary Lineker on 48 and could well World Cup for the first time before losing to become the first England player to hit 50 inter- Croatia in the playoffs, but they overcame that national goals when he plays against San disappointment and have continued to Marino this week and Switzerland at Wembley improve, rising from 49th to 24th in FIFA’s next week. world rankings in less than two years. At the For once, world champions Germany are end of 2010, they were 112th. not leading the way into the finals and sit sec- Wales are also on the verge of making a ond in Group D, a point behind unbeaten major breakthrough by reaching their first Poland, Euro 2012 co-hosts with Ukraine. finals since their one-and only-World Cup Poland (14 points), Germany (13), Scotland (11) appearance in 1958. If Iceland are the unfamil- and Ireland (nine) are all in contention in a iar pace-setters in Group A, Wales are the tightly bunched group which is likely to be equally unexpected unbeaten leaders in stretched after Germany meet Poland in Group B. Wales has produced some of the Frankfurt on Friday before travelling to game’s great players down the years but since Scotland on Monday. Germany coach Juergen John Charles led the team in Sweden nearly 60 Loew told a media conference on Tuesday: “We years ago, outstanding performers such as Ian are a bit under pressure after a not-so World- Rush, Mark Hughes and Ryan Giggs have all Cup quality year. missed out on a major championship. “We know full well that we have to win Now it seems Gareth Bale, the world’s most both games and that we need to invest a lot in expensive player, can lead the current side them. But we have the quality to beat both over the qualifying finish line in either first or teams. We want to end up as group winners.” CHICAGO: This is a Wednesday, July 29, 2015 file photo of Manchester United’s goalkeeper David de Gea as he warms up before an nternationalI second place to secure an automatic berth in Like England, Slovakia have a 100 percent Champions Cup soccer match. — AP the finals. record after six straight wins and would clinch Wales travel to Cyprus on Thursday and their place in the finals with victories over play Israel at home on Sunday and if Wales are reigning champions Spain and Ukraine. Real pin blame on United seeking omens Israel were the team they beat Austria, top of Group G, are also on the in a playoff to secure their World Cup place in verge of qualifying for the first time, having 1958. Wales coach Chris Coleman spoke of the secured a place automatically in 2008 when wave of excitement sweeping the country they were co-hosts with Switzerland. for De Gea deal collapse when he named his squad last week. Depending on how results go in Group G both “This is the biggest period of my career,” he Austria and Sweden could be through by next said. “But I know what the dangers are. “You Tuesday. Croatia and Italy, runners-up to Spain MADRID: Real Madrid have blamed Manchester Madrid said in a lengthy statement posted on their next year if the transfer doesn’t go through now. can feel it around the country. The belief is in 2012, could also both qualify from Group H, United for the collapse of goalkeeper David de website yesterday. The Spanish press slammed Madrid’s failure to there, the excitement is there but so is the anx- with Italy facing home matches against Malta Gea’s move to the Spanish giants, claiming the “Madrid, facing the possibility of a contentious deliver their prized target in the transfer market this iety. The pressure is massive but this is what and Bulgaria and Croatia travelling to English side sent the documents needed to com- situation in the transfer of the player, decided to summer with the front pages of sports newspapers we have always wanted.” Azerbaijan and Norway. — Reuters plete the deal after the Spanish transfer deadline send the contracts to the Spanish Professional Marca and Sport describing the situation as “ridicu- had passed. League, even knowing the deadline had already lous.” The Spanish international hasn’t featured in Madrid seemed set to conclude the long-run- passed. “In conclusion, Real Madrid did everything any of United’s six games so far this season with ning transfer saga with a deal that would see the necessary in every moment to try to finalise these manager Louis van Gaal claiming the 24-year-old Spanish giants pay a significant transfer fee for De two transfers.” Despite Madrid’s prolonged interest wasn’t focused at the English giants due to Madrid’s Gea and send Costa Rican international goalkeeper in De Gea, they claim negotiations between the two interest. Madrid were in the market for a goalkeeper Keylor Navas to United as part of the deal. clubs for the player didn’t begin until Monday after Spain captain Iker Casillas ended his 25-year However, Spanish league sources confirmed that morning. association with the club by moving to Porto in July. the player hadn’t been registered and Madrid Real Madrid haven’t indicated whether they De Gea joined United from Real’s city rivals admitted they had sent the required documenta- intend to appeal to football’s governing body FIFA Atletico Madrid in 2011 and, despite a shaky start tion to the league after the window closed at mid- in an attempt to force the transfer through. FIFA went on to shine, winning the club’s fans’ and play- night local time (2200GMT) on Monday. refused to comment on the specific details of the ers’ player of the year awards for the past two sea- “Manchester United introduced into the Transfer case when contacted by AFP yesterday, but con- sons. However, he refused to sign a new deal with Matching System (TMS) the details for the transfer firmed that no appeal had been lodged by any of United due to his desire to return to Spain with of David de Gea, not those for Keylor Navas, at 00:00 the parties involved. “Up until now, we do not Real. A standoff between the two clubs ensued with Spanish time, sending simultaneously to Real appear to have been contacted by either of the par- United also expressing their interest in Real captain Madrid the signed transfer contracts. Real Madrid ties in this matter,” said a FIFA spokesperson. Sergio Ramos over the summer before he ended received the complete documentation at 00:02 and De Gea has just one year left on his contract at speculation over his future by signing a new five- tried to access the TMS but this was already closed,” Old Trafford meaning he could join Madrid for free year deal with Los Blancos. — AFP West Ham sign Song and Moses SPAIN: Gareth Bale celebrates after scoring in this file photo. — AP LONDON: Former Cameroon international Alex Guam, Hong Kong face Song and Nigeria winger Victor Moses have joined West Ham United on season-long loan deals, the Premier League club announced yester- stern WCup road trips day. Former Arsenal midfielder Song, who announced his international retirement earlier HONG KONG: Surprise early Asian pace- The fixture is likely to be a tense affair this year, spent last season on loan at West Ham setters Guam and Hong Kong face daunt- after Hong Kong fans booed the Chinese from Barcelona, making 31 appearances in all ing World Cup qualifying road trips to Iran anthem, adopted by the territory in 1997, competitions. and China on Thursday that will better before they beat Bhutan 7-0 and Maldives “It has just been confirmed. Alex Song has gauge the progress the two minnows claim 2-0 in June to top the group with FIFA signed a season-long loan deal to join West Ham,” to have made. warning of punishments if there is a repeat. West Ham co-owner David Gold wrote on Twitter. Guam, a tiny US territory in the Pacific The tie has seen Hong Kong fans remi- “Welcome back Alex.” Ocean, travel to Tehran talking of a possible nisce over one of their rare successes Song, 27, told the West Ham website: “I am upset against a side that thrashed them 19- against China when they won a World Cup very happy. When I left, I didn’t know I would 0 in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup. qualifier in Beijing 30 years ago, but China come back here. It was not easy, but at the end of Buoyed by their first ever wins at this boss Alain Perrin is not expecting an upset the day, the most important thing is I’m here now level in June — 1-0 over Turkmenistan and nor five days later when they host Maldives. and I’m very happy. “I feel at home, everything 2-1 against India-English coach Gary White “Our target is to collect six points in the feels at home, for my family too, they’re set up believes his side, who top Group D, are two matches and to score as many goals as very well here. My kids are playing for West Ham ready to take on the three-times Asian possible against the weaker teams,” the academy.” Moses, 24, arrives on loan from Premier champions. “We know the size of the chal- Frenchman was quoted as saying by the League champions Chelsea. The powerful wide lenge we are faced with, up against a team South China Morning Post. player joined Chelsea from Wigan Athletic in that has won several Asian Cups and which They are two of 15 matches taking place August 2012, but has spent the last two seasons has been a regular qualifier for World Cups,” on Thursday in the joint 2019 Asian Cup out on loan at Liverpool and Stoke City. Soon Alex Song he told Pacific Daily News. “(But) that’s the qualifying campaign that has minnows and after announcing the Song and Moses loan national team and he is a great manager and a when I was younger. “I’ve worked my way from position that we want to put ourselves in.” giants clashing but only the eight group swoops, West Ham confirmed the signing of great man,” he told West Ham TV. non-league and finally got to the Premier League The fixture was in doubt at one point winners guaranteed a spot in the second Croatia striker Nikica Jelavic from Championship “I am really happy and delighted to be work- to show what I can do.” Hammers boss Bilic, who after Guam complained that Iran were round of Asian qualifying for Russia 2018. side Hull for an undisclosed fee. The 30-year-old ing with him and all his staff again.” A busy trans- took over from Sam Allardyce in the close-season, delaying visa applications, requiring the Four-times Asian champions Japan host agreed a two-year contract with the east fer deadline day at Upton Park also saw has carried out a major overhaul of his squad and Asian Football Confederation to step in and lowly Cambodia, perennial World Cup qual- Londoners and will link up again with his former Nottingham Forest winger Michail Antonio, 24, his four deadline day deals took the number of mediate. Some in Hong Kong have also ifiers South Korea welcome Laos, Saudi Croatia manager Slaven Bilic. sign a four-year contract for a fee reported to be new signings since his arrival to 11. His seven ear- been angered ahead of their Group C fix- Arabia, under the guidance of Dutch coach Former Everton star Jelavic returns to the top around £7 million ($10 million). lier recruits were goalkeeper Darren Randolph, ture in China, with complaints that tickets Bert van Marwijk for the first time, take on tier after scoring eight goals in Hull’s relegation “I’m buzzing to be at a massive club,” Antonio defenders Angelo Ogbonna and Carl Jenkinson for the Shenzhen clash have been made East Timor, while Asian champions Australia from the Premier League last season. told West Ham TV. “I’ve always been around and midfielders Pedro Obiang, Dimitri Payet, unnecessarily difficult to buy. host Bangladesh. — Reuters “I’ve played for Slaven before for the Croatia London and I came to a couple of games here Manuel Lanzini and George Dobson. — AFP Tokyo 2020 Real pin blame scraps logo in on United latest blow to for De Gea 18reputation deal collapse WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 19 English giants impose Martial law on Europe Page 19

NEW YORK: Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, returns a shot to Lucie†Safarova of the Czech Republic, during the first round of the US Open tennis tournament. — AP Safarova joins US Open casualty list

NEW YORK: Lucie Safarova joined the US Open 10th seed, in failing to get out of the first round. 32. “I had a good start. I was aggressive and other meeting in Shanghai last year but had to Vekic, the girlfriend of Wawrinka. The Australian seeds casualty list yesterday when the Czech left- With world number three Maria Sharapova played my best tennis today,” said Halep who has save five match points in the process. was widely condemned for the outburst but hander became the fourth top-10 player to lose having pulled out of the tournament through yet to get beyond the fourth round in New York. Federer has not been back to a US Open final Murray has pleaded for patience. in the first round. injury, Safarova’s defeat also served to ease “I know I can play my best tennis here. I have since losing the 2009 title match to Juan Martin “He’s a young guy. He made a mistake. All the Sixth-seeded Safarova slipped to a 6-4, 6-1 Serena Williams’s path to a calender Grand Slam. no expectations. Serena is there. I just want to del Potro and was a semi-final loser in 2014. guys here when they were 19 or 20 made mis- defeat to Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko, the woman The world number one reached the second play my best tennis.” Another early winner But he made the Wimbledon final again in takes. His was seen by millions. It’s unfortunate it she defeated in the semi-finals in New Haven just round on Monday when Vitalia Diatchenko Tuesday was German 11th seed Angelique July and a victory over Novak Djokovic in the happened. It was wrong,” said Murray of his 20- last week. retired with a foot injury after just 30 minutes. Kerber, a 2011 semi-finalist, who saw off Cincinnati Masters final last month served to year-old opponent who he has defeated three “I talked with my coach about what to World number two Simona Halep avoided the Romania’s Alexandra Dulgheru 6-3, 6-1. boost his belief that he can add to his 17 majors, times in three meetings. change. I changed the serve a little bit, made it a upsets when she reached the second round Later yesterday, five-time champion Roger the last of which came at the All England Club in Wawrinka, the fifth seed who made the semi- more active movement,” said the 26-year-old thanks to New Zealand opponent Marina Federer gets his bid to become the oldest US 2012. Murray, the 2012 champion, begins his finals in 2013, starts against Spain’s Albert Tsurenko of the tweaks she made from last Erakovic retiring with a knee injury. Open winner in 45 years underway. But he is like- campaign against controversial Australian Ramos-Vinolas. Also in action are former week’s clash with the Czech, who had also beat- Halep was leading 6-2, 3-0 when her 99th- ly to be overshadowed by Andy Murray’s clash Kyrgios, the world number 37. Kyrgios is playing women’s runners-up Caroline Wozniacki and en her in New York in 2013. “I received pretty bad ranked rival called it quits, having received a with enfant terrible Nick Kyrgios. Federer, the under the shadow of a suspension following his Victoria Azarenka. because she was a lefty. This time I was playing at medical timeout for treatment on her right knee second seed who won five years in succession at now-infamous, lurid tirade against Stan Fourth seed Wozniacki faces US college the back more.” at the end of the first set. Flushing Meadows from 2004-2008, starts Wawrinka in Montreal. champion Jamie Loeb while Azarenka tackles Safarova, the French Open runner-up, joins Romanian 23-year-old Halep goes on to face against Leonardo Mayer, the 34th-ranked Kyrgios was picked up by courtside micro- Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic. Two-time seventh seed Ana Ivanovic, eighth-ranked either Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine or Yulia Argentine. phones claiming that compatriot Thanasi Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, seeded Karolina Pliskova and Carla Suarez Navarro, the Putintseva of Kazakhstan for a place in the last The 34-year-old Federer won the pair’s only Kokkinakis had slept with WTA player Donna fifth, plays Germany’s Laura Siegemund. —AFP Martial completes Los Angeles votes to shock United transfer back 2024 Olympics LONDON: Manchester United have adjust to his new environment and LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles leaders yesterday gave unani- signed 19-year-old French striker the rhythm of the Premier League.” mous backing to the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics, paving Anthony Martial from Monaco on a Martial, who will wear the num- the way for it to enter the race for the Games. four-year contract with an option ber nine shirt at Old Trafford, joined The Los Angeles City Council voted 15-0 in favor of a for a further year, the two clubs Monaco from Lyon for around five “joinder agreement” designed to demonstrate to the United announced yesterday. United did million euros in 2013 and broke States Olympic Committee (USOC) that the city was commit- not disclose the transfer fee, but into the first team only last season, ted to staging the Games.” The USOC is expected to forward British media reports said it was £36 scoring 12 goals in 46 appearances. Los Angeles-who have hosted the Games on two previous million ($55.1 million, 49 million He was handed his first France occasions in 1932 and 1984 — as a candidate for the 2024 euros) — a world record for a call-up for the forthcoming friend- race imminently. “We are telling the world that we are Los teenager-and reports in France said lies with Portugal and Serbia and Angeles and we are here to compete,” Los Angeles City it could rise to 80 million euros. was allowed to leave their Council President Herb Wesson told members during “I am so excited to be joining Clairefontaine training base on Tuesday’s hearing. Manchester United,” Martial told the Monday in order to sign his con- Los Angeles re-entered the running to be the US candi- United website. “I have enjoyed my tract and undergo a medical. “I have date for 2024 after original choice Boston withdrew amid time at AS Monaco and I would like always wanted to play in the fears of taxpayers being left on the hook for cost overruns. to thank them and the fans for Premier League and to join the LA24, the nonprofit set up to pursue the Los Angeles bid, everything they have done for me.” biggest club in the world is what last week issued a detailed 200-page draft bid book which News of United’s move for every young footballer dreams of,” bullishly projected the games could deliver a surplus despite Martial sent shock waves across added Martial, who has represented a $4.6 billion price tag. Local businessman and philanthro- European football, with the former France at every youth level from pist Casey Wasserman, the chair of LA24, said an Olympics in Lyon youngster having played just under-16 to under-21. Los Angeles “can be and will be the most responsible Games 72 games and scored 15 goals in his “I am looking forward to meet- possible.” LA24 said the Games could generate $4.8 billion, fledgling career. ing my new team-mates and work- resulting in a profit of around $161 million. But despite United having strug- ing with Louis van Gaal, who has Los Angeles city analysts however sounded a note of gled for goals in the season to date, achieved so much in his career.” caution last week, stating it was “difficult to determine the manager Louis van Gaal suggested Should the transfer fee exceed fiscal impact and risk to the city of hosting the 2024 Games that the quick, sure-footed attacker 75 million euros, Martial would sur- at this time.” A review of the budget detailed in the bid book would be given a gentle introduc- pass Zinedine Zidane as the most warned that costs for one of the key construction projects, tion to English football. “Anthony is expensive French player of all time. the Olympic Village, may “significantly exceed” the projected a naturally talented, young, multi- Martial can play on the flanks, FRANCE: This is a Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 file photo of Monaco’s Anthony Martial of France as he reacts during his $1 billion it was expected to cost. Yesterday’s revised joinder functional forward with great but his preferred position is at cen- French League One soccer match. — AP agreement contains wording which allows Los Angeles City ongoing scrutiny of possible bid costs. potential,” Van Gaal said. “We have tre-forward and his arrival could see Falcao both left the club earlier in Manchester United made an incred- also sold Yannick Ferreira Carrasco, “This is the engagement not the wedding-and now we’re been watching him for a while now Wayne Rooney retreat to a number the transfer window. Martial follows ible offer that neither Anthony, nor Geoffrey Kondogbia, Layvin in the prenup stages,” council leader Wesson said in yester- and he has developed immensely 10 role, having started the season Memphis Depay, Matteo Darmian, AS Monaco, could refuse. “Though Kurzawa, Lucas Ocampos and day’s hearing. during his time at AS Monaco. as United’s lone striker. Bastian Schweinsteiger, Morgan this move was not planned, it Aymen Abdennour in this transfer Los Angeles faces fierce competition from other cities “I am delighted he has joined United remain light on numbers Schneiderlin and Sergio Romero in shows the quality of the work window, raising funds of around which have already entered the race for the 2024 Games, Manchester United as I believe this in attack, however, with Javier joining United and takes Van Gaal’s undertaken by the technical staff, 170 million euros. including Paris, Rome, Hamburg and Budapest. The decision is the right club for him to continue Hernandez leaving for Bayer spending since his appointment but also that we were right to Lyon president Jean-Michel to award the Games will be taken in 2017. The Los Angeles his development as a young player. Leverkusen on Monday and Adnan last year above £250 million. recruit him two years ago. We wish Aulas has revealed that his club bid relies heavily on existing venues such as the downtown “He has all the attributes to Januzaj joining Borussia Dortmund Monaco vice-president Vadim Anthony the best for the next chap- stand to make 10 million euros as Staples Center, home of the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers and become a top football player; how- on loan. Vasilyev told his club’s website: “We ter in his career.” part of a sell-on clause agreed when Clippers, which would host gymnastics. —AFP ever we need to give him time to Robin van Persie and Radamel wished to keep him this season, but As well as Martial, Monaco have Martial joined Monaco. —AFP Kuwait bourse ends month on bearish note Page 22

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NEW YORK: Trader Anthony Riccio works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. More signs of weakness in China’s conomye are sending global stock markets sharply lower. — AP World markets plunge further as China falters Falling oil prices a matter of concern: OPEC

LONDON: Global stock markets plunged fur- Starting September in red interest rates. before a closely watched jobs market is unlikely to pick up any time soon.” cies said late Monday. ther yesterday as more gloomy evidence “Equity markets (are) starting the new report due on Friday. A US Federal Reserve rate Volatility in China and other emerging mar- emerged of China’s economic slowdown, lead- month in the red after yet more disappointing hike could further jolt global confidence, which Shift to safety kets has pushed up the price of investments ing to heavy sell-offs in Asia and Europe. China manufacturing data increases concerns has already been buffeted by China’s slow- China’s stock markets have slumped 40 per- considered safe, including the yen and bullion. Downbeat data showed factory activity in about (the) slowing of the world’s number two down. “Investors are concerned about the cent since hitting a June 12 peak, with Yesterday the dollar fell to 119.88 yen from China hit a three-year low, fuelling concern economy,” said analyst Mike van Dulken at strength of the global economy, which is why investors concerned about high valuations and 121.24 yen in New York trade late on Monday. over the health of the world’s number two Accendo Markets. Frankfurt, London and Paris you’re seeing a sell-off in various stock mar- the underlying strength of the economy. The The European single currency advanced to economy. Tokyo stocks tumbled almost four were also pulled sharply lower on Tuesday by kets,” said strategist Ayako Sera at Sumitomo seeming inability of Communist Party leaders $1.1276, up from $1.1213. Oil prices meanwhile percent as China woes spread, sending major declining domestic manufacturing figures. Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd. in Tokyo. to stem the crisis-five interest rate cuts since fell in Asia after recording gains of more than European bourses sliding by around two per- “Another set of disappointing Chinese man- The Shanghai stock market ended down November have not staunched the sell-off-has 25 percent over the previous three sessions. cent in late morning deals. ufacturing data has prompted (losses) for UK 1.23 percent yesterday, having tumbled by raised wider fears about their ability to effec- The commodity had surged Monday after the China’s statistics bureau said its Purchasing and European stocks on Tuesday with a slow- more than four percent at one point — after tively manage China’s transition from low- to US Department of Energy said domestic out- Managers’ Index of manufacturing activity down in Europe’s own manufacturing sector the downbeat data. Tokyo dived 3.84, with a middle-income economy. put in June was much lower than first stated, came in at 49.7 last month, its lowest since exacerbating the declines,” added CMC stronger yen hitting exporters, while Sydney In the latest bid to avert further losses, while monthly estimates for January-May were August 2012. A reading below the 50-point Markets analyst Jasper Lawler. fell 2.12 percent and Hong Kong finished 2.24 Beijing urged listed companies to merge and revised lower. Also, a statement from OPEC-to mark indicates contraction. The key indexes are Global equities-hammered last week on percent lower. “The manufacturing index still restructure. Authorities will strongly encourage the effect that the continuing downward pres- seen as barometers of the economic health of worries that the flagging Chinese economy shows that the economy is in the process of tie-ups to help push reform of state companies sure on prices “remains a cause for concern”- Asian giant, which has been a major engine of would spark a new global recession-also fell on seeking a bottom,” said Wu Kan, a Shanghai- and inject vitality into the economy, a joint fanned hopes that the oil cartel could cut out- global growth. Monday over the uncertain outlook for US based fund manager at JK Life Insurance. “The statement released by four government agen- put levels. — AFP Lagarde sees weaker than Gulf markets join expected economic growth global equity slide

JAKARTA: Global economic growth is likely to be MIDDLE EAST STOCK MARKETS weaker than earlier expected, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday, due DUBAI: Stock markets across the Middle East Al Rajhi fell 1.0 and 1.7 percent respectively to a slower recovery in advanced economies and a fell yesterday alongside steep drops in global after credit rating agency Fitch revised its out- further slowdown in emerging nations. IMF stock prices because of renewed uncertainty look on their ratings to negative from stable, Managing Director Christine Lagarde also warned about the state of China’s economy. Stock mar- following a similar revision for the sovereign’s emerging economies like Indonesia to “be vigilant kets fell after data showed China’s manufactur- outlook last month. for spillovers” from China’s slowdown, tighter ing activity had contracted in August at its global financial conditions, and the prospects of a fastest pace in three years, reinforcing fears of a UAE, EGYPT US interest rate hike. “Overall, we expect global slowdown in the world’s second-largest econo- Dubai’s benchmark dropped 2.1 percent in growth to remain moderate and likely weaker my despite a flurry of government support another broad sell-off which affected all sectors. than we anticipated last July,” Lagarde told univer- measures. Abu Dhabi’s bourse fell 2.6 percent. Qatar’s sity students at the start of a two-day visit to Oil fell more than 4 percent after the index was down 1.3 percent. Ezdan Holding Indonesia’s capital. Chinese data, giving up some of the gains and Commercial Bank of Qatar dropped 2.6 per- The IMF in July forecast global growth at 3.3 per- made on Monday, when both Brent and US cent each on profit-taking after surging in the cent this year, slightly below last year’s 3.4 percent. crude futures had surged more than 8 percent. run-up to the rebalancing of MSCI’s emerging Lagarde said China’s economy was slowing, This rise was fuelled by an OPEC commentary markets index, which increased the two stocks’ although not sharply or unexpectedly, as it adjusts saying the group was ready to talk to other pro- weightings at the end of Monday. to a new growth model. “The transition to a more ducers to achieve reasonable oil prices. A down- Egyptian stocks were down 0.7 percent after market-based economy and the unwinding of risks ward revision of US output data by the US a 2.8 percent jump the previous day triggered built up in recent years is complex and could well Energy Information Administration also provid- by the discovery of a potentially huge gas field be somewhat bumpy,” she said. ed support. Saudi Arabia’s main stock index fell off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Ezz Steel, “That said, the authorities have the policy tools 1.1 percent with all sectors in the red. China is which analysts say could be one of the biggest and financial buffers to manage this transition.” the second-biggest market for the kingdom’s beneficiaries if new gas supplies boost domes- Lagarde, who is visiting Indonesia for the first time exports and a hard landing for its economy tic power generation, continued to rise, adding in three years, said Southeast Asia’s largest econo- would have a big impact on Saudi Arabia. 3.7 percent on top of Monday’s 10 percent gain. my had the “right tools to actually react” to the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals, which uses natural global volatility. “You have very sound public (Bahri), which is the exclusive oil shipper for gas as feedstock, jumped 3.4 percent and car- finances with overall government debt in the range Saudi Aramco and also handles oil products pet maker Oriental Weavers, whose main input of twenty-ish percent relative to GDP, you have a and petrochemicals, tumbled 4.4 percent. is also sourced from hydrocarbons, climbed 3.0 relatively small deficit,” she said before meeting JAKARTA: International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde delivers her Large banks National Commercial Bank and percent. — Reuters with Indonesian President Joko Widodo. — Reuters general lecture in front of Indonesian university’s students in Jakarta yesterday. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 BUSINESS Kuwait bourse ends month on bearish note

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended August in Sectors’ Activity the red zone. The Price Index closed at 5,820.56 points, BAYAN MONTHLY MARKET REPORT The Real Estate sector dominated total trade volume down by 6.93 percent compared to the closings of the during last month with 1.14 billion shares changing hands, month before, the Weighted Index decreased by 8.01 per- representing 37.04 percent of the total Market trading vol- cent after closing at 385.34 points, whereas the KSX-15 ume. The Financial Services sector was second in terms of Index closed at 919.16 points decreasing by 9.44 percent. trading volume as the sector’s traded shares were 31.25 Furthermore, last month’s average turnover increased by percent of last month’s total trading volume, with a total of 24.85 percent, compared to the preceding month, reach- 960.45 million shares. ing KD 13.64 million, whereas trading volume average was On the other hand, the Banks sector’s stocks where the 139.70 million shares, recording increase of 25.40 percent. highest traded in terms of value; with a turnover of KD The three stock market indicators ended the month’s 80.33 million or 26.77 percent of last month’s total market trading in the red zone, under the effect of the random trading value. The Real Estate sector took the second place selling operations which were strongly present during as the sector’s last month turnover of KD 57.91 million rep- most of the daily sessions of the month, whereas it includ- resented 19.30 percent of the total market trading value. ed many stocks of different sectors, especially the leading — Prepared by the Studies & Research Department, Bayan stocks which received the biggest part of the selling opera- Investment Co. tions witnessed by the market during August, and pushed News in brief

KPC announces LNG prices for September

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) announced yesterday the new prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas products (propane or butane) for this September. Porpane will be sold at $315 per metric for the same period, as it reached then KD 902 million. On the other hand, the Consumer Services sector was ton, down $50 compared with that of August when it Moreover, the market cap reached by the end of August last week only gainer, which index grew by 2.11 percent, was sold at $365, KPC added in a press release. Butane KD 25.78 billion, declining by 7.58 percent compared to its closing at 1,095.19 points. will be sold at $345 per metric ton, down $55 com- the three market indicators to lose many points, especially level in July, where it reached then KD 27.90 billion; howev- pared to last month as it recorded $400 by then. the Price Index that exceeded level 6,000 point down for er on the annual level, the market cap for the listed compa- Propane and butane prices are affected by the price the first time since January 2013. Also, the market was nies in KSE recorded 7.86 percent loss from its value at end of crude oil, and the value of the US dollar, along with affected by the quick speculation operations that were of 2014, where it was KD 27.98 billion. present and also affected the trading behavior during the geopolitical factors and natural disasters. The two substances are used in the petrochemical industry, month. In addition, the purchasing operations were not Sectors’ indices cooking, heating and other areas. absent from affecting the market performance during the All of KSE’s sectors ended last month in the red zone month of August, as some daily sessions witnessed ran- except for one sector. The Financial Services sector headed dom purchasing operations executed on some operational the losers list as its index declined by 11.16 percent to end stocks, which limited the market losses somehow. the month’s activity at 657.17 points. The US dollar at KD 0.302 On the other hand, the month of August witnessed the Telecommunications sector was second on the losers’ list, against Kuwaiti dinar end of the legal disclosure period given for the listed com- which index declined by 10.42 percent, closing at 551.03 panies to disclose its first half financial results, and the points, followed by the Basic Materials sector, as its index KUWAIT: The exchange rate of the US dollar against the number of the disclosed companies reached 180 company closed at 937.61 points at a loss of 10.06 percent. The Kuwaiti dinar was stable at KD 0.302, while the euro rose to by the end of the month out of 192 listed companies in the Health Care sector was the least declining as its index KD 0.340 yesterday, compared to Monday’s rates. official market, realizing about KD 973 million net profit, closed at 1,087.15 points with a 0.77 percent decrease. with an increase of 7.88 percent from its last year’s results According to the daily bulletin of the Central Bank of Kuwait, the sterling dropped to KD 0.464, the Swiss franc was stable at KD 0.314 and the Japanese yen was Iranian investment in unchanged at KD 0.002. As for the US economy, hopes are Australia interest rates high on raising the profit rate by the US Federal Reserve Dubai property to rise during the meeting of the monetary policy committee on September 16. Meanwhile, the euro continued to slightly if sanctions ease rise after the release of reports on a drop in inflation rates left at historic low in the euro-zone in August. DUBAI: Iranians are likely to become major buyers of Dubai property again if sanctions against the Islamic SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank left interest rates at the said in a statement. Stevens said the global economy was Republic are lifted, providing a much-needed fillip to the historic low of 2.0 percent yesterday, saying the economy also expanding at a moderate pace, assisted by stronger Egyptian pound steady emirate’s real estate sector, consultants Cluttons said. was expanding moderately while inflation was contained. US growth, despite recent softening in China and East Asia. Dubai property prices have fallen slightly this year, end- The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), which last lowered “In Australia, most of the available information suggests at official auction ing a sustained rebound from 2008-9 crash after tougher rates 25 basis points to 2.0 percent in May, added that the that moderate expansion in the economy continues,” he regulations to deter speculators, a slump in oil prices and Australian dollar was also adjusting to lower commodity said. CAIRO: Egypt’s central bank kept the pound steady at weakening confidence in the global economy dampened prices as a decade-long mining boom unwinds. “The board The Australian dollar, which has reached historic highs 7.73 per dollar at a foreign exchange auction yester- sentiment. Property consultants Cluttons estimates resi- today judged that leaving the cash rate unchanged was in recent years, was largely unmoved by the decision and day, and the currency was weaker at exchange dential prices, including both houses and apartments, are appropriate at this meeting,” RBA governor Glenn Stevens trading at 71.36 US cents. — AFP bureaus. The central bank said it had offered $40 mil- 3.1 percent lower than this time last year, according to its lion and sold $37.8 million at a cut-off price of 7.7301 report on Dubai published yesterday. But that could pounds per dollar , unchanged from the rate at the change should a nuclear agreement between Tehran and last auction on Sunday. The central bank kept the world powers concluded in July result in the relaxation of pound at 7.5301 for five months until July, when it several years of sanctions on Iran, Cluttons said. allowed it to weaken to 7.6301. On July 5, the bank let Local and global businesses previously used Dubai as it slide a further 0.10 pounds. Letting the pound hub for their Iranian operations, the consultants said, pre- weaken in a controlled way could boost exports and dicting this would again become common practice. “It is attract further investment, but also raises Egypt’s our view that Iranian nationals will seize the opportunity already large bill for imported fuel and food staples. A to make significant real estate investments in Dubai,” trader at an exchange bureau said the pound was Cluttons wrote. “This is expected to be amongst the first changing hands at 8.025 pounds per dollar, weaker lead indicators of the benefits to the UAE from the lifting than the 8.015/8.02 rate quoted Sunday. The central of Iranian trade sanctions.” bank gave banks permission in January to trade dol- In 2010, Iranians were the fourth largest foreign buyers lars up to 0.10 pounds above or below the official of Dubai property, behind India, Britain and Pakistan, and rate, with currency exchange bureaus allowed to accounted for 12 percent of real estate transactions, trade at 0.15 pounds above or below the official rate. Cluttons said, citing Dubai government data. This had slumped to 3 percent as of the first quarter of 2015. Yet Iran was the United Arab Emirates’ fourth largest Kuwait oil price up $2.26 trade partner in 2014, despite the sanctions, with the two to reach $46.64 pb countries conducting an estimated 62.4 billion dirhams ($16.99 billion) in cross-border trade, up 8.3 percent year- KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went up by $2.26 to reach on-year, Cluttons wrote, attributing the figures to Tehran. $46.64 per barrel on Monday compared with $44.38 pb on Dubai house prices fell 5.1 percent and apartment Friday, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yesterday. prices 0.6 percent in first half of 2015. “Any weakening in In the global markets, the price for future contracts for the regional demand for Dubai residential assets as a result of SYDNEY: A woman walks past an advertisement for financial services in a bank window in Sydney yesterday. Brent went up by $4.10 to reach $54.15 pb, or up 8.2 per- continuing oil price declines is expected to be countered Australia’s central bank left interest rates at the historic low of 2.0 percent yesterday saying the economy was cent. The American crude also climbed by $3.98 or 8.8 per- to an extent by Iranian funds,” Cluttons said. — Reuters expanding moderately while inflation was contained. — AFP cent to reach $49.20. EXCHANGE RATES

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WASHINGTON: US factory activity hit a July. Manufacturing, which accounts for 12 rounded off a month of solid data that sug- more than two-year low in August as manu- percent of the US economy, has been under gested the economy had retained much of facturers struggled with a strong dollar, pressure from the strength of the dollar, its strength from the second quarter, when weak global demand and the lingering which has gained 16.8 percent against the it expanded at a 3.7 percent annual pace. effects of deep spending cuts in the energy currencies of the United States’ main trad- July data for consumer spending, industrial sector. ing partners since June 2014. A more than production, business spending, housing Other data yesterday, however, suggest- 60 percent plunge in crude oil prices since and employment painted a fairly upbeat ed the economy appeared to be on solid June last year has led to deep spending cuts picture of the economy. footing, with construction spending rising in the energy sector. Construction spending in July was in July to its highest level since 2008. The US dollar fell against a basket of cur- buoyed by a 1.3 percent jump in private The Institute for Supply Management rencies after the data, while US stocks were construction spending to the highest level (ISM) said its national factory activity index trading sharply lower. Prices for shorter- since April 2008. Spending on private non- fell to 51.1 last month, the lowest reading maturity US government debt rose. residential construction projects surged 1.5 since May 2013, from 52.7 in July. A reading But apart from manufacturing, the econ- percent to the highest level since October above 50 indicates expansion in the manu- omy is thriving. In a separate report, the 2008. Spending on private residential con- facturing sector. The decline in the index Commerce Department said construction struction increased 1.1 percent in July to a also likely reflected the recent global equi- spending increased 0.7 percent to $1.08 tril- near 7-1/2-year high, reflecting gains in ties sell-off, which was triggered by con- lion, the highest level since May 2008, after home building. Public construction outlays, cerns over China’s slowing economy. The a similar gain in June. Construction spend- however, fell 1.0 percent. Spending on state ISM’s new orders subindex fell to 51.7, also ing has increased for eight straight months and local government projects, which is the the lowest level since May 2013, from 56.5 and was as up 13.7 percent compared to A worker inspects a new 2015 aluminum-alloy body Ford F-150 truck at the largest portion of the public sector seg- in July. The employment index slipped to July of last year. company’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo. Ford’s US sales jumped 5 ment, dropped 1.1 percent. Federal govern- 51.2 last month from a reading of 52.7 in The construction spending report percent in August 2015 as sales of its new F-150 pickup gained steam. — AP ment outlays rose 0.9 percent. — Reuters Street stalls show shifting face of North Korean economy

PYONGYANG, North Korea: Street stalls North Koreans to sell whatever they could that offer North Koreans a place to spend - on the black market, either for cash or food, or make - money on everything from snow just to survive. Kiosks and the growth of cones to DVDs are flourishing in private enterprise in general since then is Pyongyang and other North Korean cities, seen by North Korea watchers as evidence modest but growing forms of private com- of how the lean years changed people’s merce in a country where capitalism is offi- attitudes toward relying on the state, cially anathema. spurring a kind of grassroots entrepre- In sharp contrast to the common but neurism. semi-clandestine activities of old women Officials still frown on market-style capi- hawking loose cigarettes on city back- talism, which they see as an anomaly and a streets or farmers selling their produce in potential threat to their old-style central- makeshift fruit stands along highways, the ized, state-run economy. Without their tacit kiosks appear to have the support of some approval, however, the stalls and larger important backers and are both conspicu- quasi-official marketplaces that have also ous and spreading fast. become a fixture in most cities would not Near Pyongyang’s main train station, for be allowed to operate as openly as they do. example, a hamburger stand is doing good It is widely believed by outside observers business. A few blocks away is a kiosk that that bribes and corruption play a role. stocks buns and bakery goods. Other In the larger markets, most of which are kiosks sell flowers, soft drinks and junk kept from the prying eyes of foreigners, food. Since it’s summer now, the big items stalls are leased to individual sellers who are snow cones and ice cream, affordably are then allowed to hawk their wares and priced at less than $1. haggle with customers over prices, creating In the winter, it’s roasted chestnuts, an atmosphere that is very similar to public sweet potatoes and hot drinks. Most of the markets in other countries. kiosks are decidedly small-time. But fancy Though state-issue coupons are still in ones associated with well-established use, most transactions at the kiosks are restaurants or state-approved enterprises done in cash local currency for the most are also multiplying, which could suggest part. Cash transactions sidestep the the Pyongyang status quo may be trying to rationing system, are harder for the state to tap into, or even develop, the nascent monitor and control and could also widen domestic consumer market. the already growing gap between the A bridge linking up two apartment buildings in China’s southwest Chongqing municipality. New house prices in China rose in August from a The first street stalls appeared about a haves and the have-nots, particularly in the year ago for the first time in 11 months, a survey showed yesterday, as government monetary easing policies boosted demand. —AFP decade ago in the capital, organized by the capital. Andray Abrahamian of Choson state on holidays to provide citizens with Exchange, a Singapore-based nonprofit subsidized treats - often in exchange for group that works with North Koreans on a Disappointing China factory government-issued coupons - as a show of wide-range of business and entrepreneur- the leadership’s largesse. But following a ial projects, said it’s not clear whether the broader experiment with allowing the stalls spread of the kiosks is due more to individ- to grow in 2012, the 100th anniversary of ual initiative or to the involvement of state- numbers add to global gloom the birth of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il owned enterprises. Sung, they have mushroomed in number Either way, he said, the kiosks are a posi- and variety. tive sign of innovation. He said that if they Beijing urges listed companies to merge and restructure Pyongyang’s acceptance of their spread work in a manner similar to state-sanc- may have been inevitable. North Korea’s tioned markets, where sellers give the state BEIJING: Further signs of slowing in the world’s in 2010. It grew 7.4 percent in 2014, its weakest The statistics bureau said separately yester- nanny-state system was severely damaged a cut but are basically able to run their own second-biggest economy sent shudders through since 1990, but has slowed further this year, to day that efforts to control pollution in Beijing, by the country’s economic crisis and show, they are “a great opportunity for the global markets yesterday, adding to the world- 7.0 percent for each of the first two quarters. Tianjin and neighboring Hebei province had famine in the 1990s, prompting many entrepreneurially minded.” — AP wide sense of crisis over China’s financial man- weighed on factory activity. That has been par- agement. Blue skies but grey outlook ticularly marked over recent weeks around European stock markets plunged at the The Chinese economy-which accounts for Beijing, where authorities have ordered heavy- opening, taking their lead from Asia, where one dollar in every eight of global GDP-has been polluting plants to shutter in a bid to help clear bourses lost ground after the worst figures in a lone bright spot since a global slowdown the air in the Chinese capital ahead of a military three years from Chinese factory managers. began in 2008. Its strength has largely been parade on Thursday. Markets in Frankfurt and Paris dropped more fuelled by massive state spending and huge Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at than three percent, with London not much bet- monetary stimulus, but analysts agree it needs Capital Economics, noted that similar dips were ter off. That came after Tokyo shed nearly four to switch more towards consumer spending. recorded ahead of other important events in the percent, leading losses across most of the Investors worry that a failure to manage that Chinese capital, such as the 2008 Olympics, region. The Chinese government’s Purchasing re-tooling properly could provide a nasty bump when “efforts were made to ensure blue skies”. Managers’ Index (PMI), which measures activity for the Chinese economy-and much of the rest But as disruption from the pollution meas- in the country’s vast manufacturing sector, of the world. ures fades and credit growth and fiscal spending showed a slight contraction in August at 49.7. A But recent months have offered little comfort. pick up “a sustained rebound in economic activi- number above 50 indicates expansion, while China’s central bank last week cut its benchmark ty over the coming quarters seems likely”, he below it shows it is shrinking. Analysts say offi- interest rates for the fifth time since November wrote. cial figures in China frequently underplay the and also further reduced the amount of cash In one positive sign however, a private survey severity of the situation. banks must keep on hand. Since peaking on released yesterday showed signs of life in China’s The data, which come after global markets June 12, Shanghai stocks have plunged nearly long-suffering property market, an important have been rocked by increasing fears over the 40 percent, prompting broad government inter- sector for the economy. New house prices health of the Chinese economy, highlight the ventions to try to shore up domestic exchanges. recorded their first year-on-year rise in 11 task Beijing faces as it battles to keep a lid on a In the latest move, Beijing late Monday urged months in August, the China Index Academy growing sense of crisis. listed companies to merge and restructure, pay said, as government monetary easing policies They also cast further doubt on the ability of cash dividends, and buy back their own shares- boosted demand. the communist leadership to manage China’s which should see prices rise-in an effort to However, ANZ economists Liu Li-Gang and adjustment from the high-growth, investment- encourage investors to hold stock for the long Louis Lam said in a research note that despite led model of the last three decades, towards a term. The central People’s Bank of China has the central bank’s monetary easing actions more more sustainable approach. China’s economy pumped 290 billion yuan ($45.5 billion) into the stimulus measures were needed, calling for PYONGYANG: People queue up and have their meals at a food kiosk in Pyongyang, has been steadily slowing since the double-digit money market over the past two days, according “proactive fiscal policy” and “more financial liber- North Korea. — AP expansions of years past, the last of which came to a statement, to shore up confidence. alization”. — AFP S Korea president urges labor Saudi Telecom spending to cooperate on labor reforms billions to cope with SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye year. South Korea has relatively low unemploy- groups issued a joint statement on Monday data traffic: CEO yesterday called for a stronger push to revamp ment of around 3.5 percent. But, there is a large welcoming the government’s push for labor the country’s rigid labor structure, urging the wage divide between regular and temporary reforms and vowing to cooperate with its eco- DUBAI: Saudi Telecom Co (STC) expects to one of the highest penetration levels globally. country’s politically powerful trade unions not workers, and between those working in the big nomic revival efforts. spend another $1 billion in the second half of STC, which own stakes in operators in the to stand in the way of reform. conglomerates that dominate the economy, But unions are resisting proposals to revise 2015 on enhancing its networks as it tries to Gulf, Turkey, South Africa and Asia, has Last month, Park called for “major surgery” and smaller companies. labor legislation saying they are too harsh on meet surging demand for web-based services, switched its focus to the domestic market in on Asia’s fourth-largest economy, citing labor However, youth unemployment hit a 16- workers and that any reform measures should its chief executive said yesterday. The 3.9 bil- recent years, a decision that helped revive the practices as a key area in need of sweeping year high of 10.3 percent in the first quarter, be adopted after full discussion with labor and lion-riyal outlay repeats STC’s capital expendi- company’s fortunes. It sold an 80 percent reforms along with the public, education and edging down to 9.9 percent in the second quar- in exchange for more sacrifice from employers. ture in the first six months of 2015 and lifts stake in Indonesian operator PT Axis Telekom financial services sectors. The government ter. “We are in a situation where failure to One of South Korea’s two nationwide labor this year’s spend to a four-year peak. last year. STC’s annual profits slumped to a 10- wants to make wages more dependent on reform would be self-destructive,” a presidential groups has boycotted reform negotiations with “STC is continuing to invest in both mobile year low in 2012 but hit a six-year peak in function and performance than seniority, make statement quoted Park as saying during a regu- the government and business, while the other and fixed (networks) and modernising our IT 2014. First-half net profits this year were down it easier to hire and fire workers, and to shorten lar cabinet meeting. this week returned to the table with a list of systems - we want to ensure our network is 2.5 percent at 5.06 billion riyals from a year working hours that are among the world’s “There is no future in our nation if our young conditions. Unions represent just 10 percent of second to none,” STC chief executive Khaled al- earlier as costs rose. longest. It plans to submit amendments to people lose hope and give up dreaming,” she workers in South Korea but are politically pow- Biyari told Reuters. Biyari attributed higher costs to a bonus of labor laws for parliament’s approval later this said. The country’s five main business lobby erful. — Reuters “The growth in data traffic we’re experienc- two months’ salary paid to state employees to ing is unmatched ... which is putting stress on mark King Salman’s accession to the throne in the network.” STC, the Gulf’s largest telecom January. STC is 70 percent owned by the gov- Japan’s Aso says will discuss China economy at G20 operator by market value, is the dominant ernment. Biyari also confirmed that Oger force in the kingdom’s telecoms market. Rival Telecom, in which STC owns a 35 percent TOKYO: Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso nomic slowdown rattles investors. Aso, speak- tain China’s structural issues behind them,” Aso operators Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and Zain stake, was seeking to sell its majority holding said yesterday it would be beneficial for this ing to reporters after a cabinet meeting, did not said. “I think it’s beneficial to hold a frank debate Saudi are both loss-making. in South African mobile operator Cell C. week’s meeting of the Group of 20 major specify what he wanted to discuss about China, at G20 on what is happening in Chinese econo- Biyari, who became CEO in April, predicted “Optimising the portfolio is something economies to discuss what is going on in but said any talks should be frank. The minister my.” Aso said Japan’s economy was unlikely to services for corporate clients would be “the that’s at the top of my agenda,” said Biyari. “We China’s economy. and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda suffer any immediate shock from China’s eco- engine of growth” for STC because Saudi’s con- want to ensure our investment portfolio China is Japan’s biggest trading partner. will attend the Sept. 4-5 gathering in Ankara. nomic slowdown, but rather the possibility is sumer telecoms market is saturated. There are brings in value.” STC has no immediate plans China’s stock markets have lost nearly 40 per- “Rather than being swayed just by superficial “becoming extremely high” that Europe would 1.8 mobile phone subscriptions per resident, to raise debt, Biyari added. — Reuters cent of their value since mid-June as an eco- market moves, I believe it’s important to ascer- be more affected. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 BUSINESS Oil prices to recover into 2016: Poll

LONDON: Oil prices have fallen too far, too fast and value a year ago thanks to a huge oversupply of fuel Hans van Cleef, at ABN Amro in Amsterdam, Of the 27 analysts who participated in both Brent. Credit Suisse had the highest 2015 and should recover gradually over the next year as sup- and sluggish demand. Worries over China’s economy agreed: the latest poll and that for July, 18 cut their 2016 forecasts for Brent at $62.90 and $76 a ply growth slows and demand recovers, a Reuters have compounded the falls in recent weeks. But ana- “The market will start to realise soon that it may 2015 forecasts, while nine kept them barrel, respectively. Natixis had the lowest poll showed yesterday. Benchmark North Sea Brent lysts say much lower oil prices over the last few have pushed oil prices too low too fast. An upward unchanged. None raised their forecasts for Brent 2015 view at $51.90. — Reuters crude is likely to average $62.30 a barrel in 2016, up months have stimulated more demand for fuel in correction could therefore be seen soon,” Van Cleef from an average so far this year of around $57.60, the many parts of the world, particularly in the United said. “Oil prices could start to pick up at a moderate monthly survey of 30 analysts said. US crude is seen States and the Middle East, and oil production growth pace.” For 2015, the Reuters poll forecast an aver- averaging $57.00 a barrel next year, the poll showed. has also started to fall. This will help balance the mar- age Brent price of $57.40 a barrel. For that to be Oil drops on weak That is a big cut in forecasts since the last oil price ket and should feed through to higher prices in the realized, Brent will have to rebound sharply over poll conducted at the end of July, which projected coming months, they say. “We see oil prices gaining the next four months, something many analysts China factory data Brent would average $69.00 next year and US crude momentum next year, especially by the second half, see as possible. Oil prices hit 6-1/2-year lows last would average $63.80. Global oil markets have fallen ending up 2016 roughly 10 percent higher than 2015,” week but rallied towards the weekend, taking by a third since May and are still well under half their Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov said. Brent to $50 a barrel. LONDON: Oil prices fell sharply yesterday Revised EIA data published on Monday after official data showed China’s giant manu- showed US domestic oil output peaked at just facturing sector, one of the main engines above 9.6 million barrels per day (bpd) in April powering the world’s biggest energy con- before falling by more than 300,000 bpd over sumer, contracted at its fastest pace in three the following two months. But, despite the years. China’s official Purchasing Managers’ lower US production, the global market is still Index (PMI) dropped to 49.7 in August from heavily oversupplied. 50.0 in July, reinforcing concerns over the Oil producers in the Organization of the world’s second-largest economy. Petroleum Exporting Countries are pumping The figures helped spur a retreat in oil 2-3 million bpd more than required, forecast- prices after three days of hefty gains. Investors ers say, and oil stockpiles are filling. Bank of took profits after Brent and US crude both America Merrill Lynch said it was lowering its soared more than 8 percent on Monday, 2016 and 2017 crude oil projections because traders said. “It was primarily the China fear balances looked soft and oil production costs factor,” Carsten Fritsch at Commerzbank in were falling: “Growth concerns around China, Frankfurt told Reuters Global Oil Forum. coupled with the expectation of increased Benchmark Brent crude dropped $2.45 to Iranian output in 2016, have temporarily driv- a low of $51.70 a barrel before bouncing to en oil prices even lower than we anticipated,” trade around $53.10 by 1040 GMT. On Merrill Lynch said. Monday, Brent climbed $4.10, or 8.2 percent, Global demand is also faltering in some extending a rally from a 6-1/2-year low at just regions. Monthly surveys show manufacturing above $42 on Aug 26. US crude was down 75 struggling across Asia: an 11th successive con- cents at $48.45 a barrel. It settled up $3.98, or traction in Indonesia, a sixth contraction in 8.8 percent, in the previous session. Oil prices South Korea and the weakest reading in near- rallied from their lowest levels since the global ly three years in Taiwan. Activity in India also financial crisis after figures from the Energy slowed from July. Investors awaited US data, Information Administration (EIA) pointed to including oil stocks, manufacturing and vehi- lower-than-expected US oil production. cle sales, due later yesterday. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 BUSINESS

Supervisors should not tell whole truth about bank health: Economist

FRANKFURT: Banking supervisors itor behaviour and warns against giving Free University of Bozen, and Thilo maintaining a degree of uncertainty problems, or make it harder for policy- should withhold some information too much away. If depositors know from Pausch, an economist with the about the health of banks, the paper makers to deal with wider issues like when they publish stress test results to the watchdog that banks are in trouble, Bundesbank, wrote. concludes. “By introducing a fully-reveal- sluggish growth. prevent both bank runs and excessive they will withdraw their cash, threaten- “As we find, the higher the latter ing stress test mechanism, a supervisor “It’s an age-old problem for regula- risk taking by banks, according to a ing lenders’ survival and causing the probability, the less informative the would induce extreme volatility con- tors, how much transparency there paper co-authored by a Bundesbank panic the supervisor is trying to avoid, optimal disclosure mechanism should cerning depositor behavior in the bank- should be,” Reid said. “There is an argu- economist. European banking authori- the paper said. be designed.” ing system ... which is clearly not opti- ment of ‘let’s flush it out,’ but in the cur- ties are due to carry out a fresh round of For this reason, the authors say, the But giving banks a clean bill of health mal,” Gick and Pausch wrote. rent situation the weak upturn is a key stress tests next year as they try to amount of information disclosed by also carries risks, according to Gick and “The optimal stress-testing mecha- concern to central bankers, and if you restore investor and depositor confi- supervisors should decrease the more Pausch, by encouraging depositors to nism will leave depositors with some spook markets about banks, then it dence in the continent’s banks after the vulnerable the banking sector is expect- leave their money in banks. That would amount of residual uncertainty.” Richard might further complicate the provision financial crisis. ed to be. undermine market discipline and lead Reid, a research fellow in finance and of credit to the economy.” The paper, presented at a conference “The optimal level of ‘informative- lenders to take excessive risks, they regulation at the University of Dundee, The European Central Bank declined in Mannheim last week but yet to be ness’ ... depends on the objective proba- wrote. agreed that giving extensive details to comment on the paper. The published in its current form, says stress bility that the banking sector is vulnera- For that reason, supervisors should could lead to even bigger problems and Bundesbank could not immediately be tests should be used to influence depos- ble,” authors Wolfgang Gick, from the always keep depositors on their toes by rob regulators of a window to rectify reached for comment. —Reuters Wobbly euro economy may get bigger push from ECB Draghi to underline bank’s willingness for more stimulus

FRANKFURT: When is a trillion 4.7 percent while Greece’s is sion of the stimulus program out against the dollar and help euros not enough? Could be soon, around 25 percent. to March 2017, Nomura analysts exports, one of the most impor- in Europe’s shaky economy. Economic growth was a modest Nick Matthews and Norbert Aul tant effects of bond-buying pro- Analysts are already talking about 0.3 percent in the second quarter. wrote. They said the ECB could grams. when and how the European Draghi made it clear at the time also make smaller tweaks, such as One guide to the ECB’s future Central Bank might extend its 1.1 the stimulus program was reviewing technical limits on its stance could be the new inflation trillion-euro ($1.2 trillion) stimulus announced in January that it bond purchase that would open projections published Thursday. program that has been running for could be extended beyond the way for expanding them. Analysts expect them to be low- the past six months in an attempt to boost the modest recovery in the 19 countries that use the euro. They say ECB President Mario Draghi will likely use his news con- BERLIN: German Labor and Social Affairs Minister Andrea Nahles waits for ference tomorrow to underline the the beginning of the German government’s weekly cabinet meeting at the bank’s willingness to increase its chancellery in Berlin yesterday. —AP efforts, if needed, to push up stub- bornly weak inflation or limit any damage from the economic trou- German unemployment bles in China. The stimulus program is slated at record lows as to run through September 2016, in monthly purchases of 60 billion euros of government and corpo- economy recovers rate bonds. The effort, called quan- titative easing, or QE, pumps new- FRANKFURT: German unemployment But unemployment tends to rise in the ly printed money into the econo- remained at historically low levels in August summer months as school leavers sign on my. It is aimed at raising a rate of as the recovery in Europe’s biggest econo- for the summer holidays. Growth of German inflation that is so low as to pro- my continued on track, data showed yester- domestic product (GDP) picked up in the voke fears about the health of the day. second quarter, the labour office said. “The economy. The number of people registered as moderately positive upwards trend is con- Yet the impact of the ECB’s unemployed in Germany fell by a seasonal- tinuing... (and) the labor market continues program remains unclear. Despite ly-adjusted 7,000 to 2.79 million, the lowest to develop favorably,” it said. major tail winds from low oil level since December 1991, the Federal “The labor market remains an important prices, a weak euro and massive Labor Office said. anchor of stability in Germany. Employment central bank stimulus, the euro- That was slightly more than expected, as is rising,” said Labor Minister Andrea Nahles. zone’s economic recovery remains tepid. On the upside, banks are FRANKFURT: Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, stands next to a facsimile of analysts had been pencilling in a decline of BayernLB economist Stefan Kipar said the the new 20 euro banknote in Frankfurt, Germany. —AP around 5,000. situation on the labor market “remains posi- lending a bit more to companies. The unemployment rate-which meas- tive.” But on the negative side: ures the jobless total against the working Uncertainties remained, however, with Inflation is stuck at a low 0.2 per- September 2016 if inflation Pushing newly printed money ered from the June expectations for population as a whole-stood at 6.4 percent fears that Greece might be forced out of the cent, a sign demand is too weak to doesn’t convincingly head higher. into an economy can raise infla- 0.3 percent this year and 1.5 per- in August, unchanged from July and the euro being overtaken by worries about the drive up prices. The latest survey He may stress that willingness tion, make credit more available cent next year. lowest level since west and east Germany Chinese economy, he said. “But, so far, the of euro-zone business and con- again when he speaks after a and in theory support growth and The June inflation projections reunited in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin direct effects on companies’ hiring plans sumer confidence ticked up in Thursday meeting of the bank’s jobs. It has been tried by the U.S. were based on oil prices of $63.80 Wall the previous year. In raw or unadjusted have remained limited,” Kipar said. With August. But it increased in only 11 governing council. Some, howev- Federal Reserve, the Bank of per barrel this year and $71 next terms, the jobless total increased by 22,900 business sentiment still positive and the of the 19 euro countries. In seven er, aren’t ruling out more concrete England and the Bank of Japan. year measured by the international to 2.796 million and the unemployment number of unfilled vacancies still high, “the of them, it fell, including the action at the meeting. The Fed has already finished its Brent benchmark price. That’s clear- rate edged up to 6.4 percent in August from labor market could continue to gain biggest, Germany. One country, Analysts at financial services bond-purchase stimulus and is ly out of date: Brent crude traded 6.3 percent in July, the labor office noted. momentum,” he concluded. —AFP Ireland, did not report data. group Nomura said they expected weighing whether to start tighten- around $49 this week. No change is Unemployment, at 10.9 per- the ECB to take no new steps. But ing monetary policy with an inter- expected in the bank’s benchmark cent in July, is edging down only they added that “the risk of further est rate increase in September. interest rate, held at a record low of slowly. And huge disparities ECB action has clearly increased.” More ECB stimulus - or the 0.05 percent since Sept. 10, 2014. remain between countries - ECB action, now or at coming expectation of it - could help keep The bank has said that’s as close to Canada officially Germany has a record low rate of meetings, could mean an exten- the euro’s exchange rate down zero as it can go. —AP falls into recession Brokers fume as US looks to guard OTTAWA: Canada fell into recession in the first economic retreat. Harper has insisted that, oil half of the year, posting its weakest results since aside, the rest of the economy is doing well, the 2008 global financial crisis, government although the figures point to broad declines. investors from expensive duds data confirmed yesterday. The figures add to He will also be buoyed by recent figures that escalating fears about the health of the global showed an uptick in the economy in June. But economy, with world stock markets plunging opposition leaders say Harper’s economic poli- NEW YORK: For most people sav- commission. Instead, the DOL if their best interests are not met. needs better than their advisers. farther yesterday as more gloomy evidence cies are a dismal failure and insist the country ing for retirement, buying a non- would restrict a broker’s compen- The prohibition on commis- Brokers say the DOL rule will emerged of China’s economic slowdown-China must change course. According to Statistics tradeable real estate investment sation to a fee based on a financial sions is particularly acute for the deprive the middle- and lower- has been a major engine of global growth. The Canada, lower business investment was the trust that charges fees and com- adviser’s hours or a flat percentage independents because they income investors served by most grim numbers were also bad news for main contributor to the decline, with outlays missions of 11 percent or more of the value of a retirement monopolize sale of nontraded independent brokers of the oppor- Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, falling in machinery and equipment, communi- doesn’t sound like a good deal. account. The goal is to curb an products. Fearing lawsuits and tunity to invest in potentially high- just weeks before elections. cations and audio and video equipment, furni- But for a growing number of adviser’s temptation to sell prod- revenue restrictions that they say yielding products that are given to The Canadian economy contracted 0.5 per- ture, fixtures and prefabricated structures, and stockbrokers in a corner of the ucts with the highest commissions will put some small broker-dealers wealthy people who can afford cent in the second quarter after retreating 0.8 intellectual property products. securities industry known as “inde- rather than those that serve the out of business, they are lobbying hedge funds and other pricey percent in the previous three months, according The mining, quarrying and oil and gas pendent” broker-dealers, such best interests of customers saving Congress in a last-minute cam- “alternative” investments. to Statistics Canada. extraction sector posted a “notable decrease,” products are a big part of their for retirement. paign to pressure the Labor “It’s the first time the DOL is lim- By comparison, the US economy grew 3.7 for a second consecutive quarter, said the gov- income and their firms’ revenue. The DOL would allow commis- Department to modify the rules. iting what type of investments can percent in the first quarter. Canada, the world’s ernment statistical agency. Many brokers are fuming over a sions for easily valued investments It’s not up to the government to be in an IRA,” said Lisa Bleier, a fifth-largest oil producer, has been hit hard by New housing construction also fell, but this proposed US Department of Labor including exchange-traded stocks tell investors where they can put managing director at the Securities the plunge in world oil prices from above $100 was mitigated by an increase in renovations and rule that would block them from and bonds, but only if brokers sign their money or how brokers Industry and Financial Markets last year to about $52 now. On the political cam- strong resale activity. Household consumption selling any investment into a contracts giving customers the should be paid, they argue, and no Association, the industry’s main paign trail, where economic management has also rose. Canadians bought more cars and retirement account in return for a right to bring class-action lawsuits one understands their clients’ lobbying group. “There is no good become a defining issue, the figures were trucks, insurance and financial services, as well explanation for why they did it.” expected to put Harper on the defensive, while as food, beverages and accommodation servic- The independent brokerage bolstering opposition calls for a change of es. Overall, exports edged up 0.1 percent after community includes more than administration. This is Canada’s second reces- decreasing 0.3 percent in the first quarter. 900 firms and about 290,000 bro- sion in six years and it is the only G7 nation in Imports declined 0.4 percent. —AFP kers who act as their sales force but are not their employees. Independent investment advisers and brokers, many affiliated with Dutch CB gives pension insurance companies, are the fastest-growing sector of the bro- funds 12 years to recover kerage industry. The two biggest firms as measured by their sales groups are LPL Financial Holdings AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands’ Central percent. An analysis by Aon Hewitt pub- and RCS Capital Corp. Shares of Bank yesterday gave Dutch pension funds, lished last month found that the coverage LPL are off 15.2 percent over the which include some of the largest in the ratio of the average Dutch fund was 104 last year as of Aug. 31, RCS Capital world, 12 years to rectify low funding ratios. percent at the end of July. is down 91 percent and In the past, funds had been required to The largest Dutch fund, ABP, with more Ameriprise Financial , which sells repair their funding ratios - their current than 300 billion euros of assets under man- primarily through independent estimated assets compared with their esti- agement, reported a coverage ratio of brokers but also has an employee mated future obligations - within three 100.9 percent as of July 31. The DNB sales force, is off 8.8 percent. years by cutting pension payouts and announcement comes seven years since increasing premiums. But the central bank the onset of the financial crisis, after the NONTRADED REITS said neither would be necessary. The central bank completed a review of recov- In addition to selling conven- longer recovery plans will allow 154 trou- ery plans for funds that needed to restore tional stocks, bonds, mutual funds bled funds to restore their solvency gradu- their funding ratios. Roughly two-thirds of and exchange-traded funds, inde- ally and “almost entirely from expected Dutch pensions are under stress, in a sys- pendent brokers are the primary returns on investments.” It did not name tem considered one of the most robust in sellers of nontraded REITs that the funds. the world. invest in real estate and mortgage Dutch funds are considered under stress In July, the central bank announced it securities, of nontraded business when their coverage ratio falls below 104 would measure pension liabilities more MUMBAI: An Indian sits on a pavement as he watches stock prices on a digital broadcast on the development companies that percent; they are only allowed to increase strictly than required by European rules, by make loans to small and midsized pension payments to match inflation once assuming that interest rates will remain low facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai yesterday. The Sensex ended 587 points down at 25,696 on close of trading yesterday. —AFP companies and of oil-and-gas part- their coverage rate returns to above 110 into the distant future. —Reuters nerships.—Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 BUSINESS

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CAIRO: Qalaa Holdings, an African leader in infra- trade. “East Africa offers potentially lucrative oppor- of Uganda. For the past four years, Qalaa Holdings structure and industry, will hold a one-day confer- tunities for Egyptian exporters. By taking advantage has been working with RVR’s management and its ence “Rift Valley Railways: An Integrated Logistics of rail transport, we can significantly increase the local partners to implement a turnaround program Solution in East Africa,” that will be attended by lead- volume of trade between Egypt and East Africa,” said that includes investing in modern rail-operating ing members of the Egyptian business community Karim Sadek, Managing Director and Head of technology, rebuilding infrastructure and expand- on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, at the Transportation and Logistics at Qalaa Holdings. ing haulage capacity, as well as developing the skills Federation of Egyptian Industries. “At Qalaa Holdings, we have been committed to of its 2,000-strong workforce through management The conference will highlight Qalaa Holdings’ developing a fully integrated transportation and and skills-training programs. RVR has just been strategy to increase the presence of Egyptian busi- logistics platform through RVR to offer high-quality awarded the prestigious IOSH Railway Group’s nesses in Africa, with a particular focus on East and affordable services that can help exporters International Award for health and safety after see- African nations. The event will also highlight the overcome the major obstacles associated with the ing on-the-job injuries at its Nairobi workshops competitive advantages of using rail as the most transport of goods in the region such as customs decline drastically by c. 90 percent. efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly clearance, logistics and security concerns,” added The one-day event organized by Qalaa Holdings mode of transporting goods in East Africa and will Sadek. and Rift Valley Railways in cooperation with the introduce Rift Valley Railways (RVR) as a unique RVR is Qalaa Holdings’ primary investment in the African Commercial Bureau will include valuable door-to-door transportation and customs-clearance African transportation sector, with a 25-year conces- insight and ideas from our team of seasoned service provider that can help local exporters from sion to operate 2,352 km of track linking the Indian experts in the field of transportation and logistics on Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan tap into Ocean Port of Mombasa to the interiors of Kenya, the East African market and the challenges and new markets and grow the volume of intra-regional the Ugandan capital Kampala and the northern part opportunities that it presents. Oil market displays its irrational side: Expert

LONDON: US crude prices jumped more than 27 With so many hedge funds so heavily committed stopped falling and started rising there was likely to percent in three trading days between Thursday and to a strategy which relied on a further decline in be a rush for the exits as everyone tried to buy back Monday, which should convince even the most die- prices, any factor that caused the market to start ris- short positions before everyone else (“Predatory hard believers the oil futures market is neither effi- ing, however insignificant, had the potential to start trading and crowded exits”, Clunie, 2010). In some cient nor rational. The rally has left traders, analysts a race to cover short positions. sense, the precise trigger for the short-covering rally and journalists struggling to make sense of the sud- is irrelevant. It was bound to happen at some point, African Development Bank chief den change in direction after prices had fallen BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS whether sparked by reported revisions to U.S. oil steadily for two months, hitting their lowest level The oil futures market is a voting machine in production, Nigerian pipelines or any other factors to focus on powering Africa since 2009. which countless individuals register their views (“What might prompt a short-covering rally in U.S. Possible explanations range from a bounce in about the future of prices based partly on reason oil price?”, Aug. 17). ABIDJAN: The African Development former Nigerian agriculture minister, who global stock markets, pipeline problems in Nigeria, and partly on emotion. It is not a weighing machine There is no need for a big cause to explain a large Bank (AfDB) will focus in coming years on was sworn in as the AfDB’s eighth presi- new data showing US oil production falling, and an in which supply-and-demand fundamentals are movement in prices such as happened over the last tackling Africa’s chronic power shortages dent yesterday. “Energy poverty on the editorial published in OPEC’s monthly bulletin inter- recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism few days. In a complex system, a small trigger can to try to unlock its economic potential continent has to be solved as a matter of preted by some analysts as a call for a coordinated (“Security Analysis”, Graham and Dodd, 1934). result in an outsized movement in prices through and end its vulnerability to fluctuations in urgency, as a matter of scale. This is going approach to cutting output (“Cooperation holds the New data about supply and demand is filtered positive feedback and a cascade effect. commodity prices, its new president said. to be my most important priority,” he told key to oil’s future”, August 2015). through the minds and decisions of buyers and sell- Though it boasts nearly a billion people, Reuters in an interview last week. A But it should be obvious none of these factors, ers ensuring psychological factors play a decisive TELLING STORIES sub-Saharan Africa consumes about as development economist with a doctorate singly or in combination, is sufficient to explain an role in price formation. Traders’ expectations are Many market fundamentalists find this hard to much power as Spain, with less than five from Purdue University in the United increase in the price of US crude from $38 to $49 in based partly on their own evaluation of supply and accept. They are constantly searching for a logical percent that number, due to poor gener- States, the 55-year-old was elected in the space of less than a week. demand, and partly influenced by talking to col- and tidy explanation for price movements. The need ating capacity and limited transmission May to head the Ivory Coast-based insti- Far more important was the unusually large con- leagues, customers and counterparties (“Why stock to answer the question “why?” and as a prelude to networks. Two-thirds of Africans have no tution for a five-year term. centration of short derivatives positions in US crude markets crash”, Sornette, 2003). asking “what happens next?” are among the oldest access to electricity. “Africa has to industrialise,” he said. still held by hedge funds betting prices would fall The oil market is a community, subject to the and most basic human instincts. The lack of reliable power grids is a “We have to add value ... so that (Africa) even further. Large concentrations of hedge fund same fads and fashions as any other community, For thousands of years, humans have told stories major obstacle to industrializing the con- does not expose itself to the continued long or short positions have often preceded a sharp rather than a mechanical system governed by the to make sense of the world around them. tinent’s economies at a time when Africa volatility ... of global prices for commodi- reversal in prices, as happened in March this year, laws of physics. Fundamentals always reassert them- Five thousand years ago it was stories told hopes to make a transition from com- ties.” Africa needs to mimic China and when an unusual concentration of short positions selves eventually, but psychological factors are more around a fire about gods and heroes. Now it is more modities producer to a manufacturing other Asian countries’ use of an abundant preceded a sharp $18 rally. important in the short term, and the short term can likely to be about asset prices and feature complicat- hub and challenge Asia where labor costs supply of cheap labour to take advantage Hedge funds and other money managers held last for a surprisingly long time, stretching from days ed mathematics. are rising. According to the International of globalization and attract investment, short futures and options positions in the main US into weeks and months. In the most satisfying stories, causes and conse- Energy Agency, Africa requires an addi- Adesina said. And as wages rise in China crude equivalent to 157 million barrels of oil at the Between the middle of June and end of August, quences are usually proportional and proceed logi- tional $450 billion in power sector invest- and elsewhere in Asia, Africa can offer a end of trading on Tuesday, Aug. 25, two days before hedge funds applied an increasingly bearish filter to cally according to a predestined plan. Randomness, ment to halve blackouts and achieve competitive edge with its cheaper work- the rally began. Hedge fund short positions had market news, emphasizing bearish developments in chaos and accidents are unsettling and have no electricity access for all in urban areas by force. barely been scaled back from a peak of 163 million supply and demand while minimising bullish ones. place in a good narrative. But because the oil mar- 2040. Wages in China have increased by barrels two weeks earlier and were almost three As more and more hedge funds established larger ket, like other financial markets, is a community As of 2013, the bank - founded in 1964 over 10 percent annually over the past times greater than they had been two months previ- and larger short positions, prices fell, seeming to val- made up of human traders it doesn’t have to behave and funded by African nations and share- decade, according to China’s National ously, when they stood at just 56 million barrels. idate their bearish expectations, a classic example of rationally and logically. There are all sorts of price holder countries outside the continent - Bureau of Statistics. The number of hedge funds with reportable what billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros spikes and crashes which are only very loosely if it all had lent a total of 67.22 billion Units of “There’s a lot of opportunity in Africa short positions stood at 61 (down by just four from calls reflexive trading (“The Alchemy of Finance”, connected with fundamentals. Account or about $94 billion. today to take advantage of these wage the peak) and the average position was 2.575 mil- 1987). This chaotic behavior is what makes markets so “Africa could easily be growing at dou- differentials, especially in terms of light lion barrels (down by just 287,000 barrels from the But this strategy depended on the news flow interesting and unpredictable. The most successful ble-digit GDP rates if we solve this prob- manufacturing, textiles, footwear and peak) (http://link.reuters.com/ryk55w and getting progressively more bearish and all the traders embrace it, even if it horrifies the tidy minds lem of energy,” said Akinwumi Adesina, a others,” he said. — Reuters http://link.reuters.com/tyk55w). hedge funds remaining short. As soon as prices of the fundamentalists. — Reuters technology WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says expecting twin girls

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc Chief Executive supported her plans and approach. Marissa Mayer announced she is pregnant (http://bit.ly/1PI0liP) with identical twin girls, likely due in Mayer, who has been married to start-up December. Not that it’s going to slow her investor Zachary Bogue since 2009, was an down much. executive at Google Inc before taking the “Since this is a unique time in Yahoo’s helm at Yahoo in 2012. Since then she has transformation, I plan to approach the preg- sought to boost morale at the nearly two- nancy and delivery as I did with my son three decade-old Internet company, including by years ago, taking limited time away and increasing the amount of paid leave offered working throughout,” Mayer wrote in a blog to new parents, bringing Yahoo closer to the post yesterday. Mayer’s pregnancy comes at policies of some of its Silicon Valley peers. a critical time for Yahoo, which is preparing to The changes in 2013 allow new mothers to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce take up to 16 weeks of paid leave and fathers giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and consid- eight. Previously, mothers could take eight ers the future of its holding in Yahoo Japan weeks, while no paid leave was offered to Corp. Yahoo shares were down 2.4 percent at fathers. $31.48 in premarket trading, in line with However, Mayer’s ban on employees stock index futures. Mayer, 40, was pregnant working from home in the same year when she joined Yahoo as CEO in July 2012 sparked nationwide outrage, with critics say- and she gave birth to a baby boy in ing the policy would make life difficult for September that year. working parents. She worked from home after the birth Media reports that Mayer paid to have a and came back to the office just two weeks nursery built next to her office further fanned later. (http://reut.rs/1PI2jjh) Her approach to the controversy. Mayer has a net worth of motherhood stoked a debate about whether about $380 million, according to Forbes. Her her example would help or hurt the cause of pay package jumped 69 percent to $42 mil- women in the workplace. lion in 2014, mostly due to gains in Yahoo’s In this file photo dated January 7, 2014 shows Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaking during her keynote Yahoo said in its corporate blog yesterday stock price despite concerns about the address at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada.—AFP that it was “extremely happy” for Mayer and health of its business. —Reuters Apple eyes move Into original programming Preliminary discussions held in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES: The moment the media and showdown with other streaming juggernauts petitive marketplace, though it’s conceivable technology industries have been expecting for including Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Apple’s there wouldn’t necessarily be a price if Apple years may finally be arriving: Apple is exploring entry would sharpen a double-edged sword chose to go the ad supported route, a path it getting into the original programming business. those companies are already swinging at has contemplated in various iterations of its Sources indicate the Cupertino, California, Hollywood: a powerful new competitor that Apple TV strategy. That device, which is expect- colossus has held preliminary conversations in could steer eyeballs away from the traditional ed after years of languishing to get a significant recent weeks with executives in Hollywood to pay-TV world but also possibly a new buyer for upgrade at a press event suss out their interest in spearheading efforts to content from existing studios. Apple is hosting next week, could be central produce entertainment content. The unit put- For Apple itself, getting into original pro- to the company’s content plans. With long-devel- NOORDWIJK: An interactive robot is presented to journalists at the ting out the feelers reports into Eddy Cue, who gramming would be significant, but not neces- oping plans for Apple to employ a virtual-MSO European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The is Apple’s point man on all content-related mat- sarily earth-shattering. While financing its own strategy akin to Sling TV or Sony PlayStation Vue Netherlands, yesterday. The interactive robot will be controlled by ESA ters, from its negotiations with programmers for exclusive content would be an interesting still in limbo as content owners drive a hard bar- astronaut Andreas Mogensen after its arrival at the International Space Apple TV to its recent faceoff with Taylor Swift. strategic shift that could better arm Apple in its gain, it’s possible the company is willing to take Station (ISS). —AFP An Apple representative declined comment. global war against other tech giants like on filling the content pipeline itself to at least The scale of Apple’s ambitions vary depending Amazon, Google and Facebook to be the supplement the service. But it’s highly doubtful on whom is asked, but one high-level executive ecosystem where users spend the most time, the programming piece would be in place by Egypt’s ANRPC to use UOP who talked with the company said the goal is to the hundreds of millions-perhaps billions-of next week, let alone any time this year. create development and production divisions dollars necessary to get into TV and movies is Apple has also shown it’s not averse to pivot- technology for expansion that would churn out long-form content to chump change to CEO Tim Cook, who has over ing content strategy in the streaming music stream in a bid to compete with Netflix. Apple is $200 billion in cash on the corporation’s balance business, where the recent launch of Apple DUBAI: UOP LLC, a Honeywell company Mike Millard, vice president and general hoping to put a headhunting firm on those sheet at his disposal. Music was clearly a response to the success sub- (NYSE: HON) announced today that Egypt’s manager of Honeywell UOP’s Process hires in the coming months, according to scriptions have achieved with rivals like Spotify. Alexandria National Refining & Technology and Equipment business. source, with the goal of being in operation next Content Apple Music is also where the company has Petrochemicals Company (ANRPC) will use “Since commercializing the technology, year. Unknown is whether the focus is on TV Given how early Apple is in the process, dipped a toe into original content production UOP technology and equipment as part of UOP has brought more than 250 CCR series, movies-or both. details are sketchy. It is unclear, for instance, if for both audio, the format of its celebrity-stud- a $300 million, multi-year project to Platforming units on stream worldwide, Other sources described the company’s the company intends to structure itself like ded Beats 1 radio program, and video, where expand an existing, state-of-the-art gaso- with a combined capacity of more than 6 exploration as more of a flirtation, though one Netflix and work with outside production enti- some chart-toppers have created music videos line production facility to meet growing million barrels per day.” pointed to a recent sign that an escalation of ties or attempt Microsoft’s ill-fated Xbox model, with Apple’s backing. Some sources say that the domestic demand for high-octane gaso- UOP modular equipment is often ideal interest is clear: Apple is said to have made an which entailed setting up an internal studio. original content efforts could end up being an line. for remote locations, short project time- unprecedented bid to secure the stars of “Top Another area where Apple can organically extension of that strategy. ANRPC will add a second UOP CCR lines and regions with limited resources. Gear” when they exited their BBC series earlier grow its content efforts is in independent film, Episodic video content would be a signifi- Platforming process unit, including a mod- The modules are built under controlled this year. But Amazon ended up winning the where the company has quietly been snapping cantly bigger outlay, though how big will be ular CCR section, at the facility in conditions in fabrication shops and fully bidding war for Jeremy Clarkson, James May up content on the festival circuit for distribution determined by whether Apple puts an empha- Alexandria to produce high-quality refor- inspected prior to shipment. UOP modular and Richard Hammond in July. The prospect of on iTunes for years. One source familiar with sis on long-form scripted fare or hedges its bet mate, which is used to produce high- equipment is designed to reduce installa- Apple going Hollywood has been bandied Apple’s efforts in that business says Apple reps with more unscripted content, where YouTube octane, low-sulfur gasoline. ANRPC tion time and can result in earlier start up, about for at least as long as the decade that has have mentioned expanding into original con- in particular has made a more modest invest- installed the first UOP CCR unit at the site further improving project economics. UOP passed since Steve Jobs joined hands with the tent as a possibility. Another big question mark ment betting on digital-native talent. in 2001. offers a full suite of modular refining studios to make TV shows and movies available is what shape Apple’s content play would take; YouTube recently raised eyebrows by lur- Egypt became a net importer of gaso- equipment for a wide range of applica- on iTunes. Given the often fractious relationship the company has been criticized for leaving the ing MTV programming chief Susanne Daniels line in 2008, as domestic supply has not tions. between the media and technology sectors, door open for Netflix’s a la carte model to flour- to head its original content efforts. Regardless kept up with demand, which has grown by Honeywell UOP has worked with refin- there’s often been curiosity as to why Apple ish by opting for a transactional business of what strategic direction Apple goes in on an average of 3 percent annually over the ing companies throughout the Middle East doesn’t just build its own content capabilities, if instead of the subscription VOD route that has the same front, it’s a sure thing that a compa- past 10 years. for more than 80 years. Today, there are not acquire a studio outright. proven to get more traction with consumers. ny as well capitalized and impeccably brand- “This expansion is critical as it will sig- nearly 400 UOP-designed process units Such a move would have huge implications Monthly price-if that’s even the model ed as Apple will attract top-shelf executive nificantly reduce the amount of high- operating in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United octane gasoline imported by Egypt,” said Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, in the content world, potentially setting up a Apple chooses-would be key given the com- talent. —Reuters ANRPC Chairman Ahmed Abo El-Rooh. “We Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Pakistan. selected a second continuous catalytic Alexandria National Refining and reforming unit from Honeywell UOP, which Petrochemicals Company establishes, India regulator accuses Google of online search abuse will be delivered in modular form, to help manages and operates refining, manufac- ensure reliable operations and the shortest turing and petrochemical plants to pro- NEW DELHI: India’s competition es of competition law. the regulator, which declined to with Indian competition law. possible project schedule.” duce high-octane gasoline, LPG, propane, investigators have accused Google “The conduct of Google is comment yesterday, has the pow- “Regulators and courts around “A second CCR Platforming process unit hydrogen, heavy naphtha and light refor- of abusing its market dominance in found to be unfair and discrimina- er to impose multi-million dollar the world, including in the US, will help Egypt meet its own growing mate, among others. Founded in 1999, online searches in the country, tory,” the commission’s 714-page fines on companies found guilty Germany, Taiwan, Egypt and demand for fuel and provide cleaner-burn- ANRPC is based in Alexandria, Egypt and deepening the US Internet giant’s report seen by AFP said. “Google of violating competition law. Brazil, have looked into and found ing, high-octane fuels to address air quali- sells products domestically and interna- woes with governments around the steers users to its own products Google said it was reviewing no concerns on many of the ty issues in large cities such as Cairo,” said tionally. world. Three years after starting and services, and produces biased the report and cooperating with issues raised in this report,” a its investigation, the Competition results,” according to the report. the commission’s ongoing investi- Google spokesman said in a state- Commission of India’s prelimi- The commission, which has gation. But the company, which ment. nary report said Google favoured received but not publicly released dominates searches of India’s 300 The report comes as Google US weighs sanctioning Russia its own services when customers the report, is yet to make a final million Internet users, said it faces an antitrust case in Europe ran searches, suggesting breach- ruling on the Internet giant. But remained confident it complied where regulators are investigating as well as China in cyber attacks allegations it cheated its rivals by distorting Internet search results WASHINGTON: The United States is consid- The Russian Embassy did not respond to in favor of its shopping service. ering sanctions against both Russian and Reuters requests for comment. The US gov- Google, which has denied the Chinese individuals and companies for cyber ernment has suffered a series of embarrass- attacks against US commercial targets, sever- ing cyber attacks in recent months, including allegations, faces a billion-euro al US officials said on Monday. The officials, one on the White House Office of Personnel fine if found at fault under EU who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Management (OPM) that potentially provid- antitrust rules. no final decision had been made on impos- ed a treasure trove of data about govern- Google has for years been the ing sanctions, which could strain relations ment employees to foreign spies. US officials leader in Internet search and has with Russia further and, if they came soon, suspect that attack was linked to China, turned advertising linked to those cast a pall over a state visit by Chinese which has denied any involvement in hack- searches into a highly lucrative President Xi Jinping in September. ing US databases and says it too has been a business. US regulators concluded The Washington Post first reported the victim of cyber attacks. in 2013 there was not enough evi- Obama administration was considering sanc- The sanctions Washington is currently dence to show the brand manipu- tioning Chinese targets, possibly within the considering would not target suspected lated its search results to the next few weeks, and said that individuals and hackers of government data, but rather for- detriment of competitors. firms from other nations could also be tar- eign citizens and firms believed responsible Complaints in India were geted. It did not mention Russia. for cyber attacks on commercial enterprises, lodged against Google in 2012 A move against Chinese entities or indi- one official said. including by Bharat Matrimony, viduals before Xi’s trip, the officials said, is If taken, the action would be the adminis- an online matrimonial site, and possible but unlikely because of the strain it tration’s first use of an executive order the nonprofit consumer protec- could put on the top-level diplomatic visit, signed by Obama in April to crack down on tion group Consumer Unity and which will include a black-tie state dinner at foreign hackers accused of penetrating U.S. Trust Society. the White House hosted by President Barack computer systems. Society director Udai Mehta Obama. The officials declined to name any poten- “The Chinese government staunchly tial targets, concerned that advance warning said its complaint was aimed at upholds cyber security, firmly opposes and would allow them to hide assets. One US offi- trying to ensure online compa- combats all forms of cyber attacks in accor- cial said that sanctions imposed on individuals nies adhere to “competition prin- dance with law,” Chinese Embassy or companies would effectively cut them off ciples” for the benefit of con- spokesman Zhu Haiquan said in a statement. from using the US financial system, which sumers. “One hopes that they will This photo illustration shows the search page of Google on a computer in an office in New Delhi He said China wants enhanced dialogue and could be a death-sentence for a serious busi- amend their ways to promote cooperation with the United States and that ness venture. The official also said that entities yesterday. India’s competition investigators have accused Google of abusing its market domi- healthy practices after being nance in online searches in the country, deepening the US Internet giant’s woes with govern- “groundless speculation, hyping up or accu- or individuals from countries other than Russia hammered across the world,” sation is not helpful to solve the problem.” or China could face sanctions. —Reuters ments around the world. —AFP Mehta told AFP. —AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

(Left) A picture taken on July 23, 2015 shows a view of the Kronebreen Glacier on Spitsbergen island in the archipelago of Svalbard in northern Norway. (Right) A picture taken on July 19, 2015 shows a view of the Nordenskiold Glacier on Spitsbergen island. — AFP photos Arctic animals cope with climate change

NY-ALESUND, Norway: When it comes to coping mate change, not because of it: Their growing num- reserve,” said Loonen. Svalbard reindeer, which eat they have been exploring new territories and have with climate change in the Arctic region, which is bers, they suspect, are mainly due to strict European lichen and moss, have hoofs designed by evolution been coming closer to Ny-Alesund,” said Norwegian warming at three times the global average, some ani- conservation laws. The Arctic has warmed more than to clear the snow off their food supply in winter. But scientist Sebastian Barrault, referring to a remote set- mals are more equal than others. Migrating Barnacle any other region on Earth, an amplifying effect linked against ice, they are useless. For now, reindeer, fox tlement that hosts 150 scientists and staff during the geese that fly north to lay eggs amid the Norwegian to sea ice loss and changes in atmospheric and and geese populations in the Arctic are all stable, Arctic summer. Thirty years ago, leaving the com- Arctic’s craggy peaks and melting glaciers are adapt- ocean circulation. according to the International Union of Nature, pound without a gun was not a problem. Today, it’s a ing very well, thank you, at least for now. Reindeer, In December, 195 nations will gather in Paris with which tracks at-risk species. But scientists are track- no-no. foxes and polar bears, however, are having a harder a mandate to forge a planet-saving climate pact. ing them carefully for signs of trouble. Warmer temperatures have also wrought havoc time of it. Their goal: prevent average global temperatures on the glaciers of Spitsbergen, the archipelago’s Just finding enough to eat can be a struggle. The from rising more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 ‘Melting Very Fast’ biggest island. One of the biggest among them, 30- geese - which leave Scotland each year by the thou- degree Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. On The travails of polar bears, which no longer have km long Kronenbreen, is going fast. “Kronenbreen sands - have come like clockwork since time imme- Svalbard, temperatures shot up an average of 2.5 as many floating ocean perches from which to hunt has shrunk by a kilometre in three years. It’s unbeliev- morial in the spring to Spitsbergen and other islands degrees Celsius over the last century, far exceeding seals, has been well documented. This shrinking able,” said Heidi Sevestre, a doctoral student studying in the Svalbard archipelago to nest. Until, that is, a the global increase of 0.8 C since the pre-industrial hunting ground may be one reason they have taken glaciers at the University Centre in Svalbard. Marine few years ago. “In 2007 they suddenly pushed for- era. to scarfing down the ready supply of goose eggs, a maps of glacier positions in local fjords are often out ward their 3,000-kilometre trip by two weeks and it’s Other animals have not managed to adapt as well high-protein snack for the lumbering carnivores. of date within a few years of being drawn. been that way ever since,” said Maarten Loonen, a as the geese to these rapid changes. The freezing Their new foraging habits have also brought polar And the pace is picking up. “Changes in the ocean Dutch ornithologist who studies the archipelago. rain that often falls now instead of snow, for example, bears into closer contact with humans, who they levels are going to arrive faster than they did during The revised travel schedule does not seem to is making it harder for foxes and reindeer in Svalbard slightly outnumber here. [the end of] the last Ice Age,” said Florian Tolle, a pose a problem. Indeed, the number of goslings that to get a meal. The animals cannot break through the Svalbard - one-and-a-half times the size of glaciologist who’s been working on Svalbard for a hatch each season has more than doubled in two frozen rain to reach their food supplies. “During win- Switzerland - is home to some 3,000 polar bears and decade. The UN’s climate science panel says melting decades, from 15,000 to some 35,000. But experts ter the foxes sometimes have trouble accessing their 2,500 homo sapiens. “Most of the Svalbard bears live glaciers will account for a quarter of total sea level caution that the geese may be thriving in spite of cli- stockpiles of gosling cadavers that they buried in in the archipelago’s east, but over the past few years rise, which is pegged at 26 to 98 cm by 2100. — AFP Scientists, tribe study shrinking US glacier

MOUNT BAKER, Washington: Mauri Pelto Way of Life at Risk digs his crampons into the steep icy slope For the Nooksack Indian Tribe, which on Mount Baker in Washington state and has relied for hundreds of years on salmon watches as streams of water cascade off the runs in the glacier-fed Nooksack River, a thick mass of bare, bluish ice. Every 20 yards, way of life is at risk. Without that glacial the water carves vertical channels in the runoff, rivers will dry up more quickly and face of the glacier as it rushes downstream. warm up faster, making it harder for What little snow from last winter is already salmon to spawn or migrate to the ocean. gone, so ice is melting off the glacier at a “Climate change will impact the ability of rate of nearly three inches a day this sum- tribal members to harvest fish in the mer, he said. “At the rate it’s losing mass, it future,” said Oliver Grah, water resources won’t make it 50 years,” said Pelto, a glaciolo- manager for the tribe, which has teamed gist who returned this month for the 32nd up with Pelto. They want to know how gla- year to study glaciers in the North Cascades cier runoff will affect the river’s hydrology range. “This is a dying glacier,” he said. and ultimately fish habitat and restoration Glaciers on Mount Baker and other planning. mountains in the North Cascades are thin- On a recent day in August, Grah and col- ning and retreating. Seven have disap- league Jezra Beaulieu hiked 5 miles into peared over the past three decades, and gla- the Sholes Glacier to study how climate ciers in the range have lost about one-fifth change will influence the timing and mag- of their overall volume. The shrinking gla- nitude of stream flow in the river. It’s their ciers here mirror what is happening around fifth field trip to the glacier this summer, the US and worldwide: As the planet warms, and each time they’re amazed at how rap- ANCHORAGE, Alaska: US President Barack Obama speaks at the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and glaciers are losing volume, some faster than idly the snow and ice are melting. Grah Resilience (GLACIER) Conference in the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center on Monday. — AFP others. Two of the largest glaciers in strings a measuring tape across the stream, Yosemite National Park in California have wades in shin-deep in the fast-moving, retreated over the past century, losing about brownish water and measures the depth of Obama paints doomsday two-thirds of their surface areas. In Alaska, a the water streaming from the toe of the recent study of 116 glaciers estimated they glacier. He calls out numbers that Beaulieu have lost about 75 billion metric tons of ice records in a yellow notebook. They’re try- every year from 1994 to 2013. In Montana, ing to calculate how much flow and sedi- scene of global warming scientists are already seeing the impacts in ment is coming from the glacier. increased stream temperature and changes “This is a frozen reservoir that yields to high-elevation ecosystems. In 1850, there water all summer long,” said Pelto, a profes- US president says world must speed climate change fight were 150 glaciers at Glacier National Park; sor of environmental sciences at Nichols now there are 25. College in Dudley, Massachusetts. “So you ANCHORAGE: US President Barack Obama warned episode of “Running Wild With Bear Grylls.” The president has just imposed, much to the cha- “These glaciers are, from a geological take this away and what are you going to Monday that climate change is no longer a problem Grylls, a former special air service trooper, boasts grin of his Republican opponents in Congress, strict standpoint, rapidly disappearing from the replace it with?” The tribe also is collaborat- of the future, but rather a challenge for now and one that he pushes celebrities like New Orleans Saints standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from landscape,” said Dan Fagre, a research ecolo- ing with Western Washington University, that will define the next century. Describing the quarterback Drew Brees and Oscar-winning actress power plants. He again angered Republicans on the gist with US Geological Survey stationed in which is using data collected in the field to “urgent and growing” threat that was not being Kate Winslet “beyond their limits”. Tasks they have eve of his trip to Alaska, announcing a decision to Glacier National Park. “They’re so small and model what the streamflow will be like in addressed quick enough, Obama sketched the prob- been given include eating mice, jumping out of rename Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in vulnerable that they could be gone in a mat- the future. “The late summer flows con- lems already facing people living in one of America’s planes and crossing desert canyons -activities that North America, with local name Denali. last wilderness frontiers. The challenge “will define the Secret Service would not normally allow the The mountain had been named in 1896 for ter of decades.” Glaciers -thick masses of trolled by melting glaciers are predicted to the contours of this century more dramatically than president to tackle. William McKinley, who later became the nation’s 25th accumulated snow that compress into ice decrease as the glaciers get smaller and any other,” he told a conference in Anchorage, before president. But local authorities had worked on the and move - are important indicators of cli- smaller,” said Robert Mitchell, a geology a scheduled visit to a glacier. Solving the Problem change for years, restoring an Alaska Native name mate change because they are driven by professor at Western Washington University. “Human activity is disrupting the climate, in many America is the second-largest emitter of green- with deep cultural significance. The move was met precipitation and temperature. The glaciers This year, a record low snowpack in ways faster than we thought,” he said, with one eye house gases behind China and has committed to a with anger by McKinley’s fellow Ohio Republican, on Mount Baker, a volcanic peak about 125 Washington state and warmer tempera- on Republicans who reject humans’ role in heating reduction of 26-28 percent of greenhouse gas emis- John Boehner, the speaker of the House of miles northeast of Seattle, provide a critical tures have made it one of the worst Pelto the planet. “The deniers are increasingly alone, on sions by 2025 compared to 2005. Obama admitted Representatives. “There is a reason president water source for agriculture, cities and tribes has seen in over three decades. “They’re their own shrinking island. The science is stark, it is the US part in causing climate change. “America rec- McKinley’s name has served atop the highest peak in during the late summer. The icy glacial melt losing volume at a faster rate than ever sharpening, and it proves that this once-distant ognizes our role in creating this problem, and North America for more than 100 years, and that is keeps streams cool for fish and replenishes before,” Pelto said. “If you can’t sustain a threat is now very much in the present.” Obama also embraces our responsibility to help solve it,” he said. because it is a testament to his great legacy,” Boehner rivers during a time of year when they typi- glacier at a place like this in the Lower 48 stressed that climate change “is happening here. It is “And I believe we can solve it.” said. “I’m deeply disappointed in this decision.” — AFP cally run low. states, there’s no hope.” — AP happening now.” He listed a thawing permafrost; warmer, more acidic oceans and rivers; species migration; shoreline erosion and longer bush fire seasons among a litany of problems. UK rolls out world’s first ‘Not Moving Fast Enough’ meningitis B jab program “We are not moving fast enough,” Obama insisted, as he tries to build support for an international pact to curb warming. In December, representatives from LONDON: Britain yesterday became the first Meningitis Research Foundation. Sue Davie, chief around the world will gather in Paris to agree to cap country to implement a vaccination programme executive of the charity Meningitis Now, called global temperature increases by two degrees Celsius for all newborn babies against meningitis B, the move a “massive step forward”. (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels. which is fatal in one in 10 cases. Campaigners Group B is the most common meningitis in “This year, in Paris, must be the year that the world hope the vaccine, which will be given to babies at Britain, with around 1,700 cases diagnosed each finally reaches an agreement to protect the one plan- two, four and 12 months old, will prevent up to year. Babies already receive a meningitis C vacci- et we’ve got while we still can,” Obama said. 4,000 cases by 2025. It is billed as the world’s first nation. The National Health Service warns that Earlier, ministers from the United States, nationwide publicly-funded program against the the vaccine can cause side effects, “but studies European nations, Japan, Singapore and South Korea infection. Trials found that the vaccine was effec- suggest they are generally mild and don’t last issued a joint statement at the conference, vowing tive against 88 percent of the hundreds of strains long.” “Since the vaccine was licensed, almost a “strong determination” to reach an “ambitious out- of meningococcal group B bacteria. million doses have been given, with no safety come” at the December meeting. While in Alaska, “Over the next decade this vaccine could concerns identified,” it said. Bacterial Meningitis, Obama will try to take his message to a broader audi- potentially prevent up to 4,000 cases of meningo- which includes Meningitis B, accounts for 170,000 ence by getting a “crash course in survival tech- coccal disease in children younger than five years deaths globally every year, according to the World MOUNT BAKER, Washington: In this Aug 7, 2015 photo, a team of scientists climb the niques” from insect-eating British adventurer Bear in the UK,” said Christopher Head, from the Health Organization (WHO). — AFP Sholes Glacier. — AP Grylls. The footage will be used for an upcoming WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Midlife obesity may speed up Alzheimer’s

PARIS: Being overweight at the age of 50 may speed the lion people worldwide - some 7.7 million new cases per year. examine after they died, that every unit of increase in midlife, it might have long-lasting protective effects onset of Alzheimer’s disease in old age, said a study yesterday Being obese or overweight in middle age was known to body mass index was associated with more neurofibrillary towards delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. A statistical comparison increase the risk for Alzheimer’s later, but it was not clear tangles in the brain, which is one of the key pathological decades later.” showed that every extra unit in body mass index (BMI, a whether it affected the age of disease onset. The WHO esti- hallmarks of Alzheimer’s.” People with a BMI of 25 and If one could delay Alzheimer’s onset by just two height-to-weight ratio) in middle age corresponded to earlier mated more than 1.9 billion adults, of the world’s total popu- higher are generally classified as overweight, and 30 and years, the worldwide prevalence of disease would drop by onset of Alzheimer’s by about 6.5 months - what the authors lation of seven billion, were overweight in 2014. Thirteen per- over obese. In metric terms, it is calculated as your weight about 22.8 million cases in 2050, said the study paper. The termed a “robust” correlation. “A healthy BMI at midlife may cent were obese. “We found that for every unit increase in in kilogrammes divided by the square of your height in study speculated on a possible role for chronic inflamma- delay the onset of AD,” the study paper said, referring to body mass index when these individuals were 50 years of meters. tion associated with obesity. “Our findings raise the possi- Alzheimer’s disease. age, they developed Alzheimer’s disease on average 6.5 The average BMI of the study participants at 50 years bility that inexpensive, non-invasive interventions target- Researchers used the recorded BMI of more than 1,300 months earlier,” study lead author Madhav Thambisetty of the was 25.8, said the authors. A “unit” increase would be one ing midlife obesity and over-weight could substantially Americans, all of whom were monitored for an average of 14 National Institute on Aging of the US health department’s point, say from a BMI of 25 to 26. “I think these findings alter the trajectory of (Alzheimer’s), reducing its global years after signing up to be studied. Of the group, 142 devel- National Institutes of Health, said in a video recording. are important because they add to a substantial amount public health and economic impact,” said the paper. A oped Alzheimer’s at an average age of 83. The debilitating of knowledge about how obesity affects Alzheimer’s,” said drawback of the study was that most of the trial subjects disorder is the most common form of dementia, which the Alzheimer’s Shield? Thambisetty. “But more importantly, it indicates that if we were white, highly-educated and healthy individuals, the World Health Organization (WHO) says affects nearly 50 mil- “We also found in individuals whose brains we could can maintain a healthy body mass index even as early as team said, and more research was needed. — AFP

Japan arrests activist as dolphin hunt starts

TOKYO: Japanese police said Tuesday held longer than two days or face fresh they had arrested US animal rights activist charges. Police have dispatched more offi- Ric O’Barry, who trained dolphins for the cers to the town for the hunt in anticipa- TV show “Flipper”, near the town of Taiji as tion of possible clashes between locals it kicked off its controversial dolphin hunt. and anti-hunt activists. Immigration Bad weather pushed back the first dol- authorities have denied entry to anti- phin-killing of the six-month season whaling demonstrators at airports, which opens on September 1 every year, a according to conservation group Sea local fisheries association official said. Shepherd. O’Barry, 75, was arrested Monday for In the annual catch, people from the allegedly failing to carry his passport after southwestern town corral hundreds of being stopped by police. “We had a report dolphins into a secluded bay and butcher that he was drinking alcohol and driving, them, a scene thrust into the global spot- so officers were dispatched to find him light in “The Cove”. Environmental cam- and check his breath,” a local police paigners visit the town every year now to spokesman told AFP. “He smelled like alco- watch the hunt. Increasing the pressure hol, but the reading on the (breathalyzer) on Japan, the World Association of Zoos was not high.” and Aquariums (WAZA) suspended its Police took him into custody for not Japanese chapter (JAZA) in April for using having a passport in his possession, the dolphins caught in Taiji. JAZA later voted spokesman said. O’Barry, who appeared in to stop using them. the Oscar-winning documentary “The Defenders of the hunt say it is a tradi- Cove” which drew worldwide attention to tion and point out that the animals are the small town of Taiji, has frequently visit- not endangered, a position echoed by the ed the community to protest against the Japanese government. They say Western dolphin hunt. O’Barry, who found fame objections are hypocritical and ignore the WISE, Virginia: This July 20, 2012 image shows a woman as she smokes a cigarette. — AFP first in the 1960s for catching and training vastly larger number of cows, pigs and five dolphins for the well-known TV series sheep butchered to satisfy demand else- “Flipper”, has latterly fought against keep- where. But critics of the practice say there ing the mammals in captivity. is insufficient demand for the animals’ Smoking rate among He will likely have to pay a fine of up to meat, which in any case contains danger- 100,000 yen ($830) and could be detained ous levels of mercury. They say the hunt is for up to 48 hours before police decide only profitable because of the high prices how to proceed, the spokesman said. But live dolphins can fetch when sold to US adults drops to 15% he added it was unlikely O’Barry would be aquariums and dolphin shows. — AFP Pot more a habit for college students than cigarettes

MIAMI: The number of cigarette According to the US surgeon general, heavy cigarette smokers, a steep study states. Twenty-one percent of smokers in the United States has smoking is known to cause “a host of decline from the 19 percent who said the college students surveyed said dropped to about 15 percent of the cancers and other illnesses and is still they smoked daily in 1999. they had used marijuana at least once population, its lowest in decades, US the leading preventable cause of The findings suggest that during the previous month, and 34 health authorities said yesterday. death in the United States, killing teenagers and young adults have percent said they had used it in the About 36.7 million adults are current 480,000 people each year.” Smokers absorbed public health warnings past year. smokers, said the Centers for Disease made up 42 percent of the US popula- about the dangers of cigarettes but The survey also showed that fewer Control and Prevention (CDC). “The tion in 1965, but that has dropped increasingly regard marijuana as students are abusing alcohol. Just 5 prevalence of current cigarette smok- steadily over the years, according to benign or carrying few risks, lead percent of respondents said they had ing among US adults declined from the CDC, noting that the latest figures investigator Lloyd Johnston said. “It’s engaged in extreme binge drinking - 24.7 percent in 1997 to 15.2 percent in include civilians only, and not those clear that for the past seven or eight defined by the researchers as having January-March 2015,” said a report by who are in prisons or other institu- years there has been an increase in had 15 or more drinks in a row at least the CDC’s National Center for Health tions. marijuana use among the nation’s col- once in the previous two weeks. The Statistics. “The prevalence of current Separately, more US college stu- lege students,” Johnston said. “And this number of students reporting they cigarette smoking among US adults dents are making a habit of using mar- largely parallels an increase we have had used cocaine in the previous year declined from 24.7 percent in 1997 to ijuana, which has supplanted ciga- been seeing among high school sen- increased from 2.7 percent in 2013 to 15.2 percent in January-March 2015,” rettes as the smoke-able substance of iors.” The University of Michigan’s 4.4 percent in 2014. Johnston called said the report. choice among undergraduates who Institute for Social Research has sur- the increase statistically significant, Smoking continues to be more light up regularly, a study released veyed a nationally representative sam- but said it was too soon to know if the common among men (17.4 percent) yesterday found. Just under 6 percent ple of full-time college students about drug was actually making a come- than women (13.0 percent), the report of the full-time students surveyed by their drug and alcohol use every year back on college campuses. Parents found. Smoking is most common University of Michigan researchers for since 1980. The percentage of daily sending their children to college this TAIJI, Japan: This file photo taken on Nov 2, 2010 shows US dolphin activist Ric among African Americans (18.1 per- the annual “Monitoring the Future” and near-daily pot users from the fall can take comfort in another of the O’Barry, the central figure in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove”, cent), followed by whites (17.1 per- study reported using pot either every 2014 survey was the highest ever survey’s findings, Johnston said: Half protesting against dolphin hunting at a public hall in this city in Wakayama pre- cent) and Hispanics (10.4 percent). The day or at least 20 times in the previous recorded and marked the first time of the survey respondents said they fecture. — AFP figures will be updated once the 30 days. By contrast, 5 percent of that regular weed consumption out- had not used any illicit drugs in the entire year’s data is available. respondents identified themselves as paced habitual cigarette use, the past year. — Agencies WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

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Swiss Belhotel Plaza Kuwait offers best deals on wedding halls, meeting rooms

he Swiss Belhotel Plaza Kuwaitis the perfect place to and coordination of such a special and important occasion. up to 300 guests during the wedding, and can be divided There are also smaller meeting rooms 50 people capaci- set up meetings and conferences where the best and The banquet coordinator can respond to your needs wed- into smaller tasks private party halls decorated with an ele- ty equipped with the latest audio-visual technology to Tthe latest promotional offers along with compact dings ceremony to make sure that this special day will be gant style, classic, and the most advanced technology to process, the ideal location of the hotel in the center of the equipment and the necessary luxury to leave an impres- the fact an unforgettable experience. allow your wedding to achieve the ambiance is perfect - capital, making us the ideal destination for meetings, train- sion where the hotel provides you with everything you right up to the lights to match your colors even tissue sec- ing courses and seminars due to its proximity to the Kuwait need for your event. Meeting rooms tions. We have an amazing high ceilings can be lit impact All commercial facilities, ministries and companies The wedding Services Department in the hotel will take Swiss Belhotel Plaza Kuwait can make any dream wed- amazingly, and audio-visual systems developed are avail- For more information, please visit the hotel from 11:00 care of your details (such as roses, music, photography ding to be a reality, with unique dining and luxurious able to ensure that the day passes exactly as planned for am until 21:00 pm in Fahad Al-Salem Street behind the coordination, etc) accompanies the process of planning rooms and a ballroom, Plaza Hall stunning accommodate the happy couple. Muthanna complex. Public Announcement Dasmanite summer camp promotes from the Embassy of healthy living amongst children Indonesia in Kuwait he Embassy of Indonesia in Kuwait encourages anyone he Fitness and Dasmanite focused on encourag- who needs the consular service from the Embassy to log on Rehabilitation Center in col- ing children to engage in regular Tinto: https://ekonsuler.kbrikuwait.com/ Tlaboration with the physical activities. The Embassy would also like to remind that 30 foreign national Nutrition Department at Dasman The camp ran over the course including Kuwaiti passport holder is exempted from obtaining visa Diabetes Institute (established by of 3 weeks, where the children for entering Indonesia. According to Article 3 and 4 of the Kuwait Foundation for the learned about a new nutrition Presidential Decree No: 69 Year 2015 dated 9 June 2015 concerning Advancement of Sciences), is topic each day as well as engaged the visa exemption for the 30 foreign nationals, this visa exemption pleased to announce the success- in at least 1 hour of physical activ- is valid only for the touristic purpose for the period of stay of thirty (30) days and it is not extendable nor exchangeable to other type of ful completion of the Dasmanite ity daily. The children also learned immigration stay permission status. In order to get this facility, the summer camp from August 2 - about various medical conditions tourists must enter Indonesia through nine (9) designated immigra- August 20, 2015. Dasmanite sum- as well as basic first aid and CPR tion check-points as follows: Soekarno Hatta airport in Jakarta, mer camp aims at promoting techniques. The program was Ngurah Rai airport in Bali, Kuala Namu airport in Medan, Juanda air- healthy eating and physical activi- delivered by fitness instructors, a port in Surabaya, Hang Nadim airport in Batam, Sri Bintan seaport in nutritionist, and medical nurses. Tanjung Pinang, Batam Center seaport in Batam, Sekupang seaport Program goals were success- in Batam and Tanjung Uban seaport in Riau. fully met. The organizing team To get update, please check: http://www.kemlu.go.id/kuwait- indicated that the children were city, twitter: @KBRI_Kuwait; instagram: @KBRI_Kuwait; Facebook well informed about the benefits page: https://www.facebook.com/KBRI.Kuwait and YouTube of healthy eating and exercise at Channel: KBRI Kuwait. the end of the 3 weeks as seen by For further information, please contact the Information the assessments conducted pre Section of the Embassy at 22531021, 22531025 ext 122. and post-program. The camp ended with a sports day followed KSNA grand art festival, by a Talent Show to showcase the ty among children ages 10 to 15. children’s many talents and abili- awards ceremony The collaborative team approach ties. between the Fitness Center and The Fitness Center at Dasman uwait Chapter of Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi (KSNA) ‘a cul- the Nutrition Department empha- Diabetes Institute plans to make tural and art body of government of Kerala’ is planning to hold a sized the significance of deliver- this summer camp an annual Kgrand art festival with an award distribution ceremony on ing a powerful message to the event in order to reach the largest Thursday 3rd September, 2015 at Indian Community School, Senior children regarding leading a possible number of children to Branch auditorium, Salmiya at 6.30 pm. All art lovers are cordially invited. healthy lifestyle. instill these healthy behaviors and The aim of the summer camp encourage better lifestyle choices. Kids’ Club was to increase awareness among To find out more information fun place for your child to learn life skills with different activi- children and parents on the about this summer camp or other ties such as games, crafts, videos, Quran memorization and harms of childhood obesity, as programs held at the center, you Amuch more. Snacks will be served. This club is designed for well as to educate children on may visit the Dasman Diabetes boys aged 5-8 and girls 5-12. Registration fee: KD 30 (includes all proper nutrition and healthy eat- Institute or contact us on tele- days) - KD 5 discount for siblings. Sundays, September 13 to ing habits. In addition to that, phone number 2224 2989. December 27 at 5 - 7:30 pm. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 Movenpick rewards charitable guests with free ice cream ‘A Kilo of Kindness for a treat of ice cream’

ovenpick Hotels and Resorts one week from September 5 to 12, 2015, with Operations, Middle East and South Asia. launched its ‘Kilo of Kindness’ cam- charities supported ranging from special “We hope our ‘Kilo of Kindness’ campaign Mpaign to coincide with the United needs schools to organizations that help will inspire our visitors to contribute to the Nations International Day of Charity, which is orphaned children. The properties participat- worthy causes our hotels support, with the observed annually on September 5. ing in the initiative are located in Jordan, promise of free ice cream serving as a small The hospitality firm’s ‘A Kilo of Kindness for Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab gesture of appreciation.” a treat of ice cream’ campaign invites guests or Emirates, Kuwait and Thailand. The ‘Kilo of Kindness’ activity is part of residents visiting the 16 participating hotels to “The United Nations International Day of Movenpick Hotels and Resorts’ global sustain- giveaway at least a kilo of goods required by Charity reminds us all to consider the plight of ability program Shine, which aims to give back the worthy causes they support in their the less fortunate and under privileged and in to the communities where the company oper- respective communities. Each person who our own small way, Movenpick Hotels and ates properties. Shine focuses on three pillars - makes a donation will get a delicious ice Resorts can help by calling on the goodwill of Environment, Employer and Sustainability - cream as a ‘thank you.’ our guests to make a small donation of goods,” with Education the most important thread, The philanthropic initiative will run from said Gerard Hotelier, Vice President common to each.

he 10th Summer Cultural Festival concluded Monday night with a performance from the Ukrainian National Chorus Band performed at the Abdulhussein Abdulredha Theater in Salmiya. The festival was Torganized by the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. —Photos by Joseph Shagra WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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Joe: The Rise Of Cobra 05:00 What Happened Next? 12:05 The Grace Helbig Show Vegas! 18:00 Clockstoppers 05:30 How Do They Do It? 12:35 The Comment Section 20:50 Hacking The System 20:00 A Common Man 06:00 Gold Divers 13:05 Fashion Bloggers 21:15 Hacking The System 22:00 Bloodsport 06:50 Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up 13:35 Fashion Bloggers 21:40 Innovation Nation 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 14:05 Stewarts And Hamiltons 22:05 Innovation Nation 08:30 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 15:00 Keeping Up With The 22:30 Wicked Tuna Edition Kardashians 23:20 Africa’s Lost Eden 08:55 Storage Wars Canada 16:00 Kourtney And Khloe Take 09:20 Savage Family Diggers The Hamptons 09:45 What Happened Next? 17:00 Hollywood Cycle 00:00 Turkey Shoot-18 10:10 How Do They Do It? 18:00 E! 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Jimmy Fallon 17:40 Mythbusters 05:30 Til Death 18:30 The Carbonaro Effect 06:00 My Name Is Earl 18:55 Magic Of Science 00:00 Chopped 06:30 Wilfred 01:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:20 Outback Truckers 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 00:00 Not Another Teen Movie 01:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:10 Storage Wars Canada 08:00 My Boys 02:00 Problem Child 02:00 Man Fire Food 08:30 Til Death 20:35 Savage Family Diggers 04:00 Napoleon Dynamite 21:00 Man vs Expert 02:30 Man Fire Food 09:00 The Simpsons 06:00 Mousehunt 21:50 Deadly Dilemmas 03:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 09:30 Your Family Or Mine 22:15 Deadly Dilemmas 03:30 Roadtrip With G. 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Garvin 13:00 Til Death 20:00 Drinking Buddies 08:00 Chopped 13:30 Wilfred 09:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 22:00 Ass Backwards 00:00 Violetta 14:00 Fresh Off The Boat 10:00 The Kitchen 14:30 Your Family Or Mine 00:45 The Hive 11:00 Easy Chinese: San 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 15:00 Your Family Or Mine Francisco 15:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Teenage Witch 11:30 Easy Chinese: San 01:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry Francisco Wilmore Teenage Witch 12:00 Chopped 01:00 See Girl Run-PG15 01:40 Wolfblood 16:30 My Name Is Earl 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 03:00 The Bag Man-PG15 02:05 Wolfblood 13:30 Guy’s Big Bite 02:30 Violetta 18:00 The Simpsons 05:00 God Help The Girl-PG15 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 18:30 Last Man Standing 07:00 Heaven’s Door-PG 03:15 The Hive 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:00 Black-Ish 09:00 My Last Day Without You 03:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 15:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin Teenage Witch 19:30 Black-Ish 11:00 God Help The Girl-PG15 15:30 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 03:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:00 Chopped 13:00 The Bag Man-PG15 Teenage Witch Jimmy Fallon 17:00 The Kitchen 21:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 15:00 Middle Of Nowhere-PG15 04:10 Wolfblood 18:00 Easy Chinese: San 17:00 My Last Day Without You 04:35 Wolfblood 21:30 The Nightly Show With Larry Francisco Wilmore 19:00 Shadow Witness-PG15 05:00 Violetta 18:30 Easy Chinese: San 05:45 The Hive 22:00 Jonah From Tonga 21:00 A Secret Promise-PG15 Francisco 22:30 The League 23:00 Love Is All You Need-18 05:50 Mouk 19:00 Chopped 06:00 Lolirock 23:00 South Park 20:00 Food Network Challenge 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 06:25 Hank Zipzer 21:00 Chopped 06:50 Girl Meets World 22:00 Kitchen Inferno 07:15 H2O: Just Add Water 23:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 07:40 Jessie 23:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:05 Wizards Of Waverly Place 01:30 The Way We Were 08:30 Wizards Of Waverly Place 00:00 Grimm 04:00 Collaborator 08:55 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 01:00 The Flash Teenage Witch 02:00 White Collar 06:00 Far And Away 09:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 03:00 Salem 08:30 Safe Haven Teenage Witch 04:00 Odyssey 10:30 My Piece Of The Pie 09:45 Austin & Ally 00:10 The Chase 05:00 Switched At Birth 12:30 Rushmore 10:10 Austin & Ally 01:05 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 06:00 Once Upon A Time 14:30 For Greater Glory 07:00 Franklin & Bash A COMMON MAN ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 10:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 02:00 Emmerdale 17:00 Safe Haven 08:00 Castle 11:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 02:25 Come Dine With Me Ireland 19:00 Till Human Voices Wake Us 11:25 Jessie 09:00 Odyssey 05:00 According To Jim 07:45 Matt Hatter New 12:15 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 02:55 Coronation Street 21:00 The Factory 11:50 Jessie 03:25 Doc Martin 10:00 Once Upon A Time 05:30 According To Jim 08:10 Teen Titans Go! 12:35 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 12:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 04:20 The Trials Of Jimmy Rose 11:00 The Flash 23:00 Das Boot: Director’s Cut 06:00 The Simpsons 08:55 The Amazing World Of 13:00 The Little Mermaid 3: Teenage Witch 05:15 Murdoch Mysteries 12:00 Emmerdale 06:30 The Simpsons Gumball Ariel’s New Beginning 12:40 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 06:10 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 12:30 Coronation Street 00:00 Stretch-18 07:00 Lost 09:06 The Amazing World Of 14:20 Miles From Tomorrow Teenage Witch 07:05 Coronation Street 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:45 Mud-PG15 08:00 American Idol Gumball 14:50 Doc McStuffins 13:05 Good Luck Charlie 07:30 Doc Martin 14:00 Castle 04:00 40 Days And Nights-PG15 09:00 MasterChef - The 09:15 Johnny Test 15:15 Sofia The First 13:30 Good Luck Charlie 08:25 The Trials Of Jimmy Rose 15:00 Once Upon A Time 06:00 Labor Day-PG15 Professionals 10:00 Adventure Time 15:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 13:55 Dog With A Blog 09:20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 16:00 Emmerdale 01:00 Escapee-PG15 08:00 Billy Elliot The Musical-PG15 10:00 Switched At Birth 10:45 Steven Universe 16:05 Nina Needs To Go 14:20 H2O: Just Add Water 10:15 Come Dine With Me Ireland 16:30 Coronation Street 03:00 The Signal-PG15 11:00 Searching For Sugar Man 11:00 Switched At Birth 11:10 Regular Show 16:10 The Little Mermaid 3: 14:50 Lolirock 10:40 The Chase 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 05:00 The Signal-PG15 13:15 American Warships-PG15 12:00 Bones 11:55 Uncle Grandpa Ariel’s New Beginning 13:00 According To Jim 12:06 Uncle Grandpa 17:35 Miles From Tomorrow 15:15 Liv And Maddie 11:35 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 18:00 Castle 07:00 The Trouble With Bliss-PG15 15:30 Tales Of The Night-PG 19:00 Parenthood 13:30 According To Jim 12:17 Uncle Grandpa 17:50 Jake And The Neverland 15:40 Jessie 12:30 Murdoch Mysteries 09:00 Paranoia-PG15 17:30 Baggage Claim-PG15 20:00 Royal Pains 19:45 The Art Of The Steal-PG15 14:00 The Simpsons 12:28 Uncle Grandpa Pirates 16:10 I Didn’t Do It 13:25 Emmerdale 11:00 The Butler-PG15 16:35 Austin & Ally 21:00 The Flash 21:45 Thanks For Sharing-18 14:30 The Simpsons 12:40 Ninjago Master Of 18:25 Messages From Miles 13:50 Emmerdale 13:15 Escape From Planet Earth 17:00 The Next Step 14:15 Coronation Street 22:00 Backstrom 15:00 Lost Spinjitzu New 18:45 Miles From Tomorrow 17:25 Liv And Maddie 14:40 The Chase 15:00 United Passions-PG15 16:00 American Idol 13:00 Ninjago: Masters Of 19:00 Jake And The Never Land 17:50 Jessie 15:35 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 17:00 Paranoia-PG15 17:00 MasterChef - The Spinjitzu Pirates 18:15 I Didn’t Do It 16:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 19:00 St. Vincent-PG15 Professionals 13:25 Transformers: Robots In 19:30 Loopdidoo 18:40 Gravity Falls 18:20 Murdoch Mysteries 21:00 Men, Women & Children-18 18:00 The Bridge Disguise 19:45 Doc McStuffins 19:05 H2O: Just Add Water 19:00 Desperate Housewives 13:45 Matt Hatter New 20:00 Adventures Of The 19:10 Coronation Street 23:00 Sin City: A Dame To Kill For 01:00 Scream 4 19:30 Lolirock 20:00 Desperate Housewives 14:10 Teen Titans Go! Gummi Bears 19:35 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 03:00 In The Dark 19:55 Hank Zipzer 00:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 21:00 The Great State Of Georgia 14:30 Ben 10 20:30 Sofia The First 20:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 04:30 Dawn Of The Dead 20:20 The Next Step 01:00 Good Morning America 21:30 The Great State Of Georgia 14:55 Ben 10 20:55 Cars Toons 22:20 Coronation Street 06:15 Manic 20:45 Good Luck Charlie 03:00 The Strain 22:00 The Simpsons 15:15 Adventure Time 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 22:50 Emmerdale 08:00 The Eagle 21:10 Good Luck Charlie 04:00 Outlander 22:30 The Simpsons 15:40 The Amazing World Of Rangers 23:15 Emmerdale 10:00 In The Dark 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 05:00 Good Morning America 23:00 Lost Gumball 21:25 Ducktales 23:45 Murdoch Mysteries 11:30 Speak 22:00 Binny And The Ghost 07:00 Emmerdale 01:00 Hatching 16:25 Clarence 21:50 Lilo & Stitch 13:00 Love And Other Impossible 22:25 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 07:30 Coronation Street 02:45 Justin And The Knights Of 17:10 Steven Universe 22:15 Zou Pursuits Teenage Witch 08:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 17:22 Steven Universe 22:30 Art Attack The Valour 14:45 33 Postcards 22:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 09:00 Chicago Fire 17:30 Ninjago Master Of 22:55 Limon And Oli 04:30 Santa’s Magic Crystal 16:30 Scream 4 Teenage Witch 10:00 Emmerdale Spinjitzu New 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 06:00 The 7th Dwarf 18:15 The Entitled 23:10 Wolfblood 00:10 Taiwan: Island Of Fish 10:30 Coronation Street 00:00 Storage Wars 17:55 Teen Titans Go! 23:20 Calimero 07:45 Khumba 20:00 The Nines 23:35 Wolfblood 01:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 00:30 Storage Wars 18:40 The Amazing World Of 23:35 Zou 02:00 Dead End Express 12:00 24 09:15 Kikoriki: Team Invincible 21:45 Biutiful 01:00 Storage Wars: Texas Gumball 23:50 Loopdidoo 02:55 Locked Up Abroad 13:00 Revenge 11:00 Happy Feet 01:30 Storage Wars: Texas 19:25 Adventure Time 00:05 Art Attack 03:50 Taiwan: Island Of Fish 14:00 Live Good Morning America 12:45 Justin And The Knights Of 02:00 Storage Wars: New York 20:10 Regular Show 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 04:45 Die Trying 16:00 Chicago Fire The Valour 02:30 Storage Wars: New York 20:55 Teen Titans Go! 00:45 Calimero 05:40 Africa’s Lost Eden 17:00 24 14:30 Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy 03:00 The World Wars 21:15 Transformers: Robots In 01:00 Zou 06:35 Cesar To The Rescue 04:00 Duck Dynasty Disguise 01:15 Loopdidoo 00:00 Stewarts And Hamiltons 18:00 Revenge 16:00 The Little Rascals Save The 00:55 The Grace Helbig Show 07:30 Storm Worlds 04:30 Duck Dynasty 21:40 Adventure Time 01:30 Art Attack 19:00 Chicago Fire Day 00:00 American Idol 01:25 Keeping Up With The 08:25 Plastiki 20:00 How To Get Away With 05:00 American Pickers 21:51 Adventure Time 01:55 Henry Hugglemonster 18:00 Kikoriki: Team Invincible 01:00 MasterChef - The Kardashians 09:20 Die Trying Murder Professionals 06:00 American Restoration 22:02 Adventure Time 02:05 Calimero 02:20 Giuliana & Bill 10:15 Cesar To The Rescue 21:00 Revenge 20:00 Postman Pat: The Movie 02:00 Switched At Birth 06:30 American Restoration 22:13 Adventure Time 02:20 Zou 03:15 Christina Milian Turned Up 11:10 Hacking The System 22:00 The Strain 22:00 Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy 03:00 Switched At Birth 07:00 Ice Road Truckers 22:25 Johnny Test 02:30 Loopdidoo 04:10 Ryan Seacrest With The 11:35 Hacking The System 23:00 Outlander 23:30 Marvel’s Doctor Strange 04:00 Bones 08:00 Swamp People 23:10 Regular Show 02:45 Art Attack 09:00 Shark Wranglers 23:55 Total Drama: Revenge Of 10:00 American Restoration The Island 10:30 American Restoration 00:20 Total Drama: Revenge Of 11:00 Counting Cars The Island 11:30 Counting Cars 00:40 Grojband 12:00 American Pickers 01:05 Grojband 13:00 Storage Wars 01:25 Teen Titans Go! = 13:30 Storage Wars 01:50 Regular Show 06:00 The 7D 14:00 Pawn Stars 02:35 Johnny Test 06:10 Randy Cunningham: 9th 14:30 Pawn Stars Grade Ninja 15:00 Shipping Wars 06:35 Mini Ninjas 15:30 Shipping Wars 07:00 Phineas And Ferb 16:00 Storage Wars: Texas 07:25 Boyster 16:30 Storage Wars: Texas 07:50 Supa Strikas 17:00 Storage Wars: New York 08:15 Supa Strikas 17:30 Storage Wars: New York 08:40 Lab Rats 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 18:00 American Pickers 09:05 Kickin’ It 03:20 Calimero 19:00 Storage Wars 09:30 The 7D 03:35 Zou 19:30 Storage Wars 10:00 Phineas And Ferb 03:45 Loopdidoo 20:00 Ax Men 10:25 Supa Strikas 04:00 Art Attack 21:00 Pawn Stars 10:50 Lab Rats 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 21:30 Pawn Stars 11:15 Kickin’ It 04:35 Calimero 22:00 Swamp People 11:45 Mighty Med 04:50 Zou 23:00 Gold Hunters: Legend Of 12:10 Kirby Buckets 05:00 Loopdidoo The Superstition... 12:35 The 7D 05:15 Art Attack 13:00 Avalon High 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 14:25 Phineas And Ferb 05:50 Calimero 14:50 Phineas And Ferb 06:00 Zou 15:15 Mighty Med 06:15 Loopdidoo 15:40 Marvel Avengers 06:25 Limon And Oli Assemble 03:20 Total Drama: Pahkitew 06:35 Art Attack 16:10 Lab Rats: Bionic Island Island 07:00 Calimero 16:35 Hulk And The Agents Of 03:42 Total Drama: Pahkitew 07:10 Zou S.M.A.S.H. Island 07:25 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 17:00 Randy Cunningham: 9th 04:05 Ninjago: Masters Of 07:30 Jake And The Never Land Grade Ninja Spinjitzu Pirates 17:25 Up Up And Away 04:28 Ninjago: Masters Of 07:55 Sofia The First 18:45 Supa Strikas Spinjitzu 08:20 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 19:10 Phineas And Ferb 04:50 Teen Titans Go! 08:45 Loopdidoo 19:40 The 7D 05:00 Teen Titans Go! 08:55 Limon And Oli 20:05 Ultimate Spider-Man: 05:10 Grojband 09:10 Doc McStuffins Web Warriors 05:35 Grojband 09:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 20:35 Pair Of Kings 06:00 Clarence 10:00 Sofia The First 21:00 Lab Rats 06:20 Ben 10: Omniverse 10:25 Nina Needs To Go 21:25 Kickin’ It 06:40 Ben 10: Omniverse 10:30 Jake And The Neverland 21:50 Mighty Med 07:00 Ninjago Master Of Pirates 22:10 Phineas And Ferb Spinjitzu New 11:20 Doc McStuffins 22:20 Boyster 07:25 Transformers: Robots In 11:45 Henry Hugglemonster 23:00 Programmes Start At DAWN OF THE DEAD ON STAR MOVIES Disguise 12:00 Henry Hugglemonster 6:00am KSA Classifieds

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (27/08/2015 TO 02/09/2015)

SHARQIA-1 FANAR-3 SOUTHPAW 12:45 PM WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 11:30 AM SOUTHPAW 3:15 PM WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 2:00 PM ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY 5:45 PM WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 4:15 PM SHAD AGZAA 7:45 PM BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN -Hindi 6:30 PM SOUTHPAW 10:00 PM BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN -Hindi 9:30 PM SOUTHPAW 12:30 AM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 12:30 AM

SHARQIA-2 MARINA-1 HITMAN: AGENT 47 11:30 AM THE GAMES MAKER 1:15 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 1:45 PM THE GAMES MAKER 3:30 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 4:00 PM THE GAMES MAKER 5:45 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 6:15 PM THE GAMES MAKER 8:15 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 8:30 PM SHAD AGZAA 10:45 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 10:45 PM THE GAMES MAKER 1:00 AM HITMAN: AGENT 47 1:00 AM MARINA-2 SHARQIA-3 HITMAN: AGENT 47 12:15 PM WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 1:15 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 2:45 PM THE GAMES MAKER 3:30 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 5:00 PM BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN -Hindi 6:00 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 7:15 PM THE GAMES MAKER 9:00 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 9:30 PM THE GAMES MAKER 11:30 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 11:45 PM

MUHALAB-1 MARINA-3 THE GAMES MAKER 11:45 AM SOUTHPAW 12:45 PM MATRIMONIAL CHANGE OF NAME MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 2:15 PM WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 3:15 PM THE GAMES MAKER 5:00 PM ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY 5:30 PM THE GAMES MAKER 7:45 PM SOUTHPAW 7:30 PM Inviting marriage propos- I, Rikshit Anand, holder of THE GAMES MAKER 10:15 PM SOUTHPAW 10:00 PM als for Orthodox Christian Indian Passport No. THE GAMES MAKER 12:30 AM SOUTHPAW 12:30 AM girl 24 years / 157 cm / BCA K7306685 bld. No. 53, Issa / MTA from central Al Qatami Street, Salmiya, MUHALAB-2 AVENUES-1 Travancore, now in Kuwait. Kuwait, have changed my SOUTHPAW 11:30 AM NO ESCAPE 1:15 PM If interested please contact name to Yash Anand. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 2:00 PM NO ESCAPE 3:30 PM with full details, eapen- (C 5029) WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 4:30 PM OPERATOR 5:45 PM [email protected] SOUTHPAW 6:45 PM NO ESCAPE 8:00 PM (C 5031) 31-8-2015 SHAD AGZAA 9:15 PM NO ESCAPE 10:15 PM 2-9-2015 SOUTHPAW 11:30 PM NO ESCAPE 12:30 AM Kuwait based Orthodox par- MUHALAB-3 AVENUES-2 ents invite proposals for HITMAN: AGENT 47 12:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 12:15 PM HITMAN: AGENT 47 3:00 PM INSIDE OUT 2:30 PM their son 29 / 177 cm BTech, No: 16628 HITMAN: AGENT 47 5:15 PM SHAD AGZAA 4:45 PM MBA, working in Kuwait HITMAN: AGENT 47 7:30 PM SHAD AGZAA 7:00 PM from professionally qualified HITMAN: AGENT 47 9:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 9:15 PM Christian girls. Please contact HITMAN: AGENT 47 12:05 AM SHAD AGZAA 11:30 PM at: [email protected] (C 5030) FANAR-1 AVENUES-3 1-9-2015 THE GAMES MAKER 12:15 PM THE GAMES MAKER -3D 12:30 PM THE GAMES MAKER 2:30 PM THE GAMES MAKER 3:00 PM THE GAMES MAKER 5:00 PM THE GAMES MAKER -3D 5:30 PM Prayer timings SHAD AGZAA 7:30 PM THE GAMES MAKER 8:00 PM THE GAMES MAKER 9:45 PM THE GAMES MAKER 10:30 PM THE GAMES MAKER 12:15 AM THE GAMES MAKER 1:00 AM Fajr: 04:03 Shorook 05:25 FANAR-2 360º- 1 NO ESCAPE 1:15 PM SOUTHPAW 12:30 PM Duhr: 11:48 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 3:30 PM SOUTHPAW 3:00 PM ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY 6:15 PM SOUTHPAW 5:30 PM Asr: 15:22 NO ESCAPE 8:15 PM SOUTHPAW 8:00 PM THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E 10:30 PM SOUTHPAW 10:30 PM Maghrib: 18:11 NO ESCAPE 12:45 AM SOUTHPAW 1:00 AM Isha: 19:41

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Arrival Flights on Wednesday 2/9/2015 CLX 792 Luxembourg 13:15 Departure Flights on Wednesday 2/9/2015 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 Airlines Flt Route Time IRC 526 Mashhad 13:50 Airlines Flt Route Time JZR 786 Riyadh 13:20 QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 KAC 672 Dubai 13:55 AIC 988 Hyderabad/Chennai 00:05 IZG 4168 Mashhad 13:30 THY 772 Istanbul 00:15 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 13:55 BBC 044 Dhaka 00:10 SAW 702 Damascus 13:35 JZR 239 Amman 00:20 QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 JZR 562 Sohag 00:20 IRC 6512 ABD 13:40 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 KNE 460 Riyadh 14:10 UAL 981 IAD 00:25 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:25 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 JAD 301 Amman 00:45 FDB 057 Dubai 14:20 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 FDB 072 Dubai 00:45 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:40 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:20 KAC 742 Dammam 14:50 JZR 502 Luxor 01:10 ETD 920 Dubai 14:45 JZR 539 Cairo 01:30 KAC 540 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:50 JAD 302 Amman 01:30 CLX 792 Hanoi 14:45 JAI 574 Mumbai 01:30 JZR 257 Beirut 14:55 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 IRC 527 Mashhad 14:50 CLX 784 Luxembourg 01:30 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:55 THY 773 Istanbul 02:05 KAC 545 Alexandria 15:00 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:50 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:50 RJD 135 Abu Dhabi 15:00 CLX 784 GYD 02:55 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 OMA 643 Muscat 02:05 KNE 462 Madinah 15:05 JAI 525 Abu Dhabi/Chennai 02:55 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:15 OMA 645 Muscat 15:05 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 KNE 481 Taif 15:10 KKK 6507 Istanbul 02:15 KAC 1802 Cairo 15:35 KKK 6508 Istanbul 03:10 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 MSC 404 Sohag 03:30 KAC 673 Dubai 15:20 MSC 403 Sohag 02:30 UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 OMA 644 Muscat 03:35 SVA 503 Jeddah 15:45 THY 768 Istanbul 02:50 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 THY 769 Istanbul 03:40 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 QTR 1076 Doha 02:55 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:00 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:55 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 RJA 645 Amman 03:55 KNE 473 Jeddah 16:00 RJA 644 Amman 03:10 FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 FDB 068 Dubai 04:00 KNE 463 Madinah 16:00 CEB 7694 Manila 03:10 KAC 512 Mashhad 16:10 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:05 KAC 791 Madinah 16:00 FDB 067 Dubai 03:15 QTR 1072 Doha 16:20 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 OMA 646 Muscat 16:05 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 NIA 263 Luxor 16:30 SYR 342 Damascus 04:25 RJD 136 Abu Dhabi 16:10 SYR 341 Latakia/KAC 03:25 IRM 1180 Mashhad 16:35 CEB 7695 Manila 04:40 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 KAC 1544 Cairo 03:35 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:45 PGT 861 Istanbul 04:45 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 16:45 THY 1464 Istanbul 03:55 KAC 562 Amman 17:00 THY 765 Istanbul 04:55 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 PGT 860 Istanbul 04:05 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 JZR 560 Sohag 05:00 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:15 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 QTR 1077 Doha 05:05 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 THY 770 Istanbul 04:40 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 NIA 264 Alexandria 17:30 THY 5582 Bursa 05:05 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 THY 1465 Istanbul 05:55 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 SYR 343 Damascus 17:55 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:50 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 JZR 483 Istanbul 18:20 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 BAW 157 London 06:35 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:35 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 JZR 1541 Cairo 06:40 KAC 502 Beirut 18:35 JZR 240 Amman 06:55 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 JZR 563 Sohag 06:45 KAC 618 Doha 18:55 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 KAC 563 Amman 18:30 KAC 288 Dhaka 06:55 QTR 1080 Doha 18:55 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 JZR 538 Cairo 18:40 JZR 503 Luxor 07:20 KAC 542 Cairo 18:55 JZR 256 Beirut 07:30 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 KAC 166 Paris/Rome 19:00 BAW 156 London 08:30 JZR 124 Bahrain 18:50 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:45 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 SYR 344 Damascus 18:55 KAC 204 Lahore 07:50 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 KAC 539 Sharm el-Sheikh 08:50 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 FDB 063 Dubai 19:10 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:55 ABY 123 Sharjah 19:20 KAC 117 New York 08:55 QTR 1081 Doha 19:55 KAC 352 Kochi 07:55 MSR 606 Luxor 19:30 KAC 1801 Cairo 09:00 ABY 124 Sharjah 20:00 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:40 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 KAC 361 Colombo 20:00 KAC 154 Istanbul 08:10 FDB 061 Dubai 19:50 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 MSR 619 Alexandria 20:30 KAC 344 Chennai 08:15 AGY 684 Sohag 19:50 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:30 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 KAC 102 New York/London 19:55 KAC 619 Doha 09:30 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 KAC 362 Colombo 08:30 OMA 647 Muscat 20:00 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:40 FDB 062 Dubai 20:35 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:05 KAC 674 Dubai 20:00 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:45 KAC 283 Dhaka 20:40 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:10 KNE 480 Taif 20:10 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 AGY 681 Alexandria 20:50 NIA 261 Alexandria 09:10 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:00 KAC 1543 Cairo 20:55 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:15 DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:20 GBB 4762 Sarajevo 10:05 OMA 648 Muscat 21:00 QTR 1070 Doha 09:25 JZR 189 Dubai 20:25 NIA 262 Luxor 10:10 DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 IRA 665 Shiraz 09:25 KAC 792 Madinah 20:55 KAC 511 Mashhad 10:20 KAC 331 Trivandrum 21:00 KAC 350 Kochi 09:40 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:25 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:15 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:25 KNE 461 Riyadh 21:10 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 QTR 1071 Doha 10:40 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 KAC 8166 TLS 21:30 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 FDB 073 Dubai 21:30 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 JZR 1542 Cairo 21:45 AXB 889 Mangalore/Bahrain 11:15 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 11:15 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:05 JZR 561 Sohag 11:25 JZR 125 Bahrain 21:45 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 FDB 074 Dubai 22:10 AGY 680 Alexandria 11:40 KAC 546 Alexandria 22:05 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:45 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 KAC 741 Dammam 11:50 KAC 381 Delhi 22:20 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 THY 764 Istanbul 22:10 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 IAW 157 Al Najaf 12:00 AIC 975 Chennai 22:25 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 KAC 349 Kochi 22:30 JZR 241 Amman 12:30 RBG 551 Alexandria 22:30 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:30 IZG 4167 Mashhad 12:30 BBC 044 Dhaka/Dammam 22:40 KAC 103 London 12:10 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 SAW 701 Damascus 12:35 FDB 059 Dubai 22:50 AXB 890 Mangalore 12:15 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 IRC 6511 ABD 12:40 JAI 526 Chennai/Abu Dhabi 23:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 THY 5579 TZX 23:00 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 JZR 185 Dubai 23:00 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 ETD 919 Abu Dhabi 12:45 RBG 555 Alexandria 23:25 AGY 685 Sohag 12:40 KAC 153 Istanbul 23:00 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 IAW 158 Al Najaf 13:00 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:05 KAC 620 Doha 13:10 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 RBG 552 Alexandria 23:10 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 KLM 411 Amsterdam/Dammam 23:40 IRM 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You’ve got the Midas touch today, Aries. Aim that goldfinger Today’s strong alignment between the moon and keen Jupiter towards a worthwhile goal. There are many things you could do to make makes you the office oracle. Keep the French press full and your door wide money, but why not opt something that is in line with your soul’s calling? open—you’ll be surprised who steps in or phones you for words of wis- Even if this starts out as a side business, it’s worth giving it a go. Maybe the dom. Embrace this role, Libra. You’re totally tuned in and your advice could answer lines in being more “intrapreneurial” at your current gig, initiating save someone from a costly misstep. One caveat: you must wait until they independent ventures from within the company’s ranks. Regardless of come to you. Foisting your ideas on people, no matter how much they where you collect your paycheck, you’re in full mover-and-shaker form “need” to hear them, will only cause a rebellion. In some cases, you might today, so knuckle down and focus on sealing some deals! have to save the day quietly, anonymously, and behind the scenes.

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

Today’s expressive Taurus moon connects with glamorous Friends become lovers, lovers become friends: this is one of those Jupiter, nudging you straight to center stage. Dialing down your enthusi- days where lines could really blur, Scorpio. The trouble is, a kiss is never just a asm and dimming your lights? NOT an option today. Err on the side of kiss in your analytical world. Don’t open the door to romance if it the status has being “too much” or over the top. Got a nervy request to make? Today “It’s Complicated” written all over it. There are better ways to bide your time brings the magic moment for your big ask. The stars are spelling a than trying to win over a commitment-phobe. However, someone truly promis- resounding “yes!” Some spring/summer style upgrades are in order too. ing could be hanging out in the friend zone. Today’s capricious cosmos could Add more color to your wardrobe with a printed sundress, a bright back- finally give you the nerve to explore. Attached? Turn your table for two into a pack, or statement heels. party of four or six. The company of other couples is refreshing today.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Give the world service with a smile. Today, your heart soars Warm fuzzies, anyone? Devote time to your nearest and dearest when you pay it forward, Sagittarius. Without going into mar- ACROSS DOWN today, as they could use a heaping helping of Gemini time. Think: Dinner tyr mode or getting tangled up in drama, look for opportunities to lend a 1. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- 1. The biblical name for ancient Syria. with your inner circle, Vinyasa in the park with your BFFs, an evening read- hand throughout the day. In addition to a feel-good buzz, this positions cially in Turkey). 2. Offering fun and gaiety. ing stories to the kids in your family. Bonding with the people closest to you you as a priceless force in people’s lives. Don’t forget that charity begins in 4. Providing no shelter or sustenance. 3. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian is what brings you joy today. If you’re the new kid on the block, push your- the home. Make sure you’re treating your inner circle with the same care 12. The capital and largest city of Japan. mythology. self to attend a Meetup group or community event where you’re sure to you’re offering the random strangers of the world. 15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation 4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity. make at least one new friend. equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated 5. The membrane in the ear that vibrates to material. sound. 16. Genus of North American plants with 6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat showy pealike flowers and an inflated pod. trimmed off. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A close friend who accompanies his 7. A member of the Algonquian people of Take off those spy goggles and step forward, Capricorn. You’re the clear Go Team Cancer! Today’s fortuitous connection between the buddies in their activities. southern Ontario. leader of the pack today, which also means publicly vocalizing your keen observa- moon and Jupiter brings success to collaborative efforts. One caveat: you must 18. By bad luck. 8. Being one more than fifty. tions. A bold alignment between the moon and showy Jupiter also gives you a start join forces with the winning team. No nepotism allowed here. Pick people sole- 20. Any of various long-tailed rodents simi- 9. Pertaining to or characteristic of an asce- quality. Don’t dim your lights so that others can shine—or because you’re feeling a ly based on merit now, not for their coolness factor. You might need to break lar to but larger than a mouse. tic. little uncomfortable with all the attention. Your teammates are looking for a strong, free from your clique in the name of making the progress you personally need. 21. Relating to or resembling deer. 10. Having or arranged in tiers. guiding hand to steer them in the right direction. With your razor sharp judgment Still haven’t found your tribe? An evening of social exploration could turn up a 23. Black honeycreepers with yellow feath- 11. The sense organ for hearing and equi- calls, there’s no better candidate for chief or spokesperson than you. ers around the tail. librium. promising activity that could become your summer obsession. 24. A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials 12. Surpassing the ordinary especially in (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods). size or scale. 25. The United Nations agency concerned 13. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) with civil aviation. 14. A spread made chiefly from vegetable 26. English Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry oils and used as a substitute for butter. You silver tongued devil, you! A harmonious angle between the As you’ve fluttered about, making friends with the world, your was favored by Charles I (1595-1639). 19. Land tenure by agricultural service or moon and inspiring Jupiter makes you one smooth operator today. Shake hands, inner circle has been feeling cheated of your time and attention. Fold up 28. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early payment of rent. kiss babies, network like your life depended on it. You could sail right into the VIP those social butterfly wings today, Aquarius. You’ve scattered your energy 14th century and who was renowned for 22. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877- section, charming some impressive people in your midst. Since it really is all in a thousand directions but today is meant for focusing on the people clos- his skill as an archer. 1923). about who you know, aim high. You’re positioned to make some amazing career est to home. Give close friends and family the same love that you would a 30. A fast-growing tropical American ever- 27. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes. connections today. Just don’t underestimate the influence of the people Malcolm new acquaintance that you’re trying to woo, charm and impress. Cook din- green having white flowers and white 29. English writer noted for his elaborate Gladwell dubbed “outliers,” a modern-day equivalent of advisers to the king. One ner for the family or visit your best friend in her neighborhood tonight. fleshy edible fruit. style (1554-1606). degree of separation can be just as powerful as going straight to the source. 33. Excellent and delightful in all respects. 31. A particular environment or walk of life. 37. The Japanese art of folding paper into 32. Of or relating to the ancient Latins or shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers the Latin language. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) or birds). 34. (of language) Transparently clear. 38. The sound of laughing. 35. Any of a group of heavenly spirits Take a gamble on one of your dreams. With the moon and lucky Flirt alert! Your sign can be somber and serious, so lighten up 39. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having under the god Anu. Jupiter forming a heavenly connection in your sign, your risks will bring your communication style today, Pisces. Some gentle teasing can break the small white flowers. 36. A series of things depending on each rewards. That doesn’t mean you should leap without looking though. Just ice with a new love interest or evaporate the tension with your long-term 42. An independent agency of the United other as if linked together. aim farther than you think you can reach. You’re better off overshooting the mate. Use your wry sense of humor if you need to warm things up. Laughter States government responsible for collect- 40. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan. mark than underestimating your own powers. This may involve traveling or is the best medicine when it comes to dissolving tension or resolving con- ing and coordinating intelligence and 41. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind connecting with someone from a different part of the world. Close to home, flicts. It’s hard to be stressed or upset when you’re smiling. Who knows? You counterintelligence activities abroad in the and raisins and almonds. cross-cultural connections sizzle with promise. Make a point of talking to might just wind up rolling on the floor getting frisky. national interest. 45. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent someone from a different background or lifestyle today. 43. Black tropical American cuckoo. heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid 44. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element belonging to the halogens. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution element. 46. The presence of a virus in the blood 49. (formerly) A cavalryman armed with a stream. lance. 47. Embroidery consisting of ornamental 51. A metrical unit with unstressed- needlework on a garment that is made by stressed syllables. gathering the cloth tightly in stitches. 52. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir. 48. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century 53. A colorless and odorless inert gas. BC). 55. Give qualities or abilities to. 50. Any taillike structure. 58. A white soft metallic element that tar- 54. Being five more than one hundred fifty. nishes readily. 56. A water wheel with buckets attached to 59. A white metallic element that burns the rim. with a brilliant light. 57. Any of various hard resins from trees of 60. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the effort. genus Agathis. 64. Taking place over public roads. 61. A theatrical performer. 68. A large fleet. 62. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over 70. A member of a North American Indian anticipated events. people living east of the Sacramento river 63. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of in California. pages) from having corners turned down. 72. Any of various dark heavy viscid sub- 65. Situated in or facing or moving toward stances obtained as a residue. the east. 73. Brief episode in which the brain gets 66. Medium-sized tree having glossy lance- insufficient blood supply. olate leaves. 74. (law) The party who makes an assign- 67. English psychologist whose studies of ment. twins were later said to have used fabricat- 76. A metal-bearing mineral valuable ed data (1883-1971). enough to be mined. 69. Any of several small ungulate mammals 77. An implement used to propel or steer a of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors boat. and feet with hooflike toes. 78. Successive (without a break). 71. The syllable naming the first (tonic) 79. Having any of numerous bright or note of any major scale in solmization. strong colors reminiscent of the color of 75. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies. element of the alkali metal group.

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Gossip Daniel Craig: James Bond is sexist, a misogynist and sad

aniel Craig thinks James Bond is a lonely, “sexist be a nice fantasy, that’s debatable, but the reality, after a “You know, it sounds awful but I’ve been left a wealthy and misogynistic” man. The 47-year-old actor - couple of months...” Daniel - who’s married to actress man by doing this. I can afford to live very comfortably... Dwho is about to return to the big screen for the Rachel Weisz, 45 - thinks the handsome agent isn’t some- I’m incredibly fortunate. But the day I can walk into a pub new Bond movie ‘Spectre’ - hopes his version of the one he could be friends with in real life. He said: “I don’t and someone goes, ‘Oh, there’s Daniel Craig’ and then just British spy is not the worst, but believes the womanizer know if I’d like to spend too much time with him. Maybe leaves me alone, that’ll be great.” has always discriminated against women and ended up a an evening but it would have to be early doors. What “sad” and unhappy character because of it. He said: goes on after hours I’m not so sure about.” Meanwhile, “Hopefully my Bond is not as sexist and misogynistic as the star revealed he’s set to pack away his revolver and (earlier incarnations). The world has changed. “I am cer- hang up his dinner suit because he wants to get on with tainly not that person. But he is ... There’s a great sadness. life after James Bond. When asked if he’s staying with the He’s got these beautiful women but then they leave. It’s franchise, he told Esquire magazine: “At this moment, no. I sad. And as a man gets older it’s not a good look. It might have a life and I’ve got to get on with it a bit. But we’ll see. Murray gives blessing to Ghostbusters reboot

ill Murray filmed a cameo in the disapproval [on my part]. “I like those girls a ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot because he lot. I mean, I really do. They are tough to say Bwanted to give it his blessing. The 64- no to. And Paul is a real nice fellow.” Bill year-old actor - who played Peter Venkman won’t reprise the role of Peter in the new in ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Ghostbusters II’ - movie and is instead believed to be playing admitted he thought long and hard about a medium who tries to discredit the work of working on director Paul Feig’s new movie the ghostbusters. He added: “They were and took on a small role so that everyone incredibly nice to ask me, and I really would know he approved of it. Speaking enjoyed being there. They have such a jolly about the film, which stars Kristen Wiig, group, and they are going to have great Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and success with this project. I didn’t want to Leslie Jones, he explained to Vulture: “I overshadow [them] or anything, and I feel thought about it for a very long time. Like, really good about it.” many, many months. No, that’s not right. I was seriously thinking about this for years, really. “It kept eating at me, and I really respect those girls. And then I started to feel like if I didn’t do this movie, maybe somebody would write a bad review or something, thinking there was some sort of Hoult to star as JD Hetfield thanks loyal ‘Metallica Salinger in biopic icholas Hoult is to play acclaimed this enigmatic role.” Earlier this year, mean- writer JD Salinger in the biopic while, Nicholas revealed he’d like to family’ after Leeds set N‘Rebel in the Rye’. The 25-year-old become the next James Bond - but said Brit - who starred alongside Tom Hardy and he’s too young for the part. Although ames Hetfield thanked the “Metallica But they’re a bit heavy. Do you like it heavy? Charlize Theron in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Nicholas is a self-confessed Bond fan and family” at the Reading and Leeds Festival. Do you want Metallica heavy?” The band then earlier this year - will appear as the would relish the opportunity, he doesn’t JThe ‘Whiskey In The Jar’ hitmakers brought 50 fans on to the stage and lead gui- American writer best known for his contro- think it’s likely. He shared: “I think I’m too returned to the two location event after a sev- tarist Kirk Hammett helped one play along to versial novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ in the young! He’s (Daniel Craig’s) got this film en-year-break over the weekend and during songs ‘Fade To Black’ and Seek To Destroy’. Danny Strong-directed movie, Variety and then one more to go, hasn’t he? So their 18-song setlist, which including massive They brought the festival to a close ending on reports. Alex Walton of Bloom, which is cur- that’s another five years? I’ll only be 30, and hits ‘One’, ‘The Unforgiven’ and ‘Nothing Else an encore of ‘Whiskey In The Jar’ dedicated to rently looking for a foreign buyer for the I think I’d need another few years behind Matters’, the frontman admitted the metal “fallen soldier” Cliff Burton, their late bassist movie, said: “‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is a me to play Bond. Maybe a little further legends were “truly blessed” to have such loy- who died in a bus crash in 1986. James classic coming-of-age story which contin- down the road, who knows? I mean, I grew al fans. Speaking during their closing set at declared: “This is going to make you bounce.” Dappy has three ues to make a significant impression six up loving James Bond.” Leeds, Hetfield told the crowd: “We are truly And ended with an explosive ‘Enter Sandman’ generations later.”The world has long been blessed. Thank you Metallica family.” Hetfield followed by a fireworks display. fascinated with J.D. Salinger, whom the tal- addressed the crowd asking who their N-Dubz albums ready ented Nicholas Hoult will bring to life in favorite act of the weekend had been and answered his own question with “Metallica”. appy has three new N-Dubz albums ready to release He said: “Has it been a good weekend? What when the band reforms to make them bigger than the Cyrus’ new album ‘happened naturally’ are some of your favorites? Metallica? Me too. D“Black Eyed Peas”. The hip-hop group went on indefinite hiatus from November 2011 just a few months after parting iley Cyrus’ new album “happened company with Def Jam Records but reunion rumors have per- naturally”. The 22-year-old singer sisted for the past two years. Now Dappy has admitted he has a Mshocked fans when she released her host of songs ready to record with his bandmates Tulisa and new record, ‘Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz’, Fazer and is desperate to reunite N-Dubz so the band can “fin- for free online on Sunday night and the singer ish what we started” because he is unhappy about the circum- admits the more organic-sounding record is a stances surrounding their split. Speaking to BANG Showbiz at big departure from 2013’s ‘Bangerz’, but feels Fusion Festival, he said: “I’m going to bring back the dynamite true to the way she feels at the moment. She trio that is N-Dubz and finish what we started. We’ll be bigger explained: “When I made ‘Bangerz,’ it was as than the Black Eyed Peas I reckon. I’ve got three massive true to me then as this record is now. It just records that I wrote for me and the group, so I’m just waiting happened naturally in my head. It’s like any- for the right time.” While N-Dubz have been apart, Dappy has thing-styles just change.” The album cost released one solo album ‘Bad Intentions’ and is due to bring Miley just $50,000 to make and was produced out his second LP ‘Miracles’ later this year, but he only after he alongside The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne. Her has topped the charts with a succession of singles. The 28- record label, RCA Records, didn’t have any year-old pop star is confident he will have several hits because input in the process and the album won’t be he’s recorded some amazing “raunchy club music”. Dappy considered part of her discography with explained: “I’m not releasing the album just yet. All I want is them. Speaking about her transformation three or four consecutive hits for people to say, ‘Wow, he’s between her two albums, Miley said: “It’s real- killing it at the moment.’ Once I get that response, then the ly scary. If one of my friends doesn’t see me demand will be massive for my album and I’ll do it ... I’ve got for two or three weeks, you have to re-get to about eight massive, great records, and they’re not just emo- know me in a way. My soul will still be the tional, connecting records with the crowds, there’s also a lot of same, but everything around me can be dif- sexual, raunchy type of club type music. They’ll be thinking, ‘He ferent, and I won’t dress the same and maybe looks good, he’s killing it right now!’ I’m going to be huge this different kinds of people will be around.” year. This year or the next year, I’m going to be massive.” Dappy Miley’s long-time producer pal Mike WILL was joined on the bill at Fusion Festival - which raises money Made It compared the young star to for youth charity the Prince’s Trust and is held in Birmingham’s Madonna, who is also known for constantly Cofton Park - by Rudimental, Labrinth, MNEK and Grammy evolving. He told the New York Times newspa- Award winners Clean Bandit among others. To catch up on all per: Why would she drop another ‘Bangerz’? the highlights from Fusion Festival 2015, tune into 4Music Miley is the new Madonna.” (Freeview 18, Sky 360 and Virgin 330) on Saturday from 3pm to watch ‘Fusion Festival 2015: The Best Bits’.

The Row moves to Crawford reunites Paris Fashion Week with fellow Supermodels ary-Kate and Ashley Olsen will display The Row at Paris Fashion Week. The 29-year-old designers indy Crawford has reunited with some of her fellow Mhave removed their label from New York’s upcom- supermodels for a new project. The 49-year-old ing fashion week and will instead put on a show in the Cbeauty joined forces with Tatjana Patitz, Nadja French capital, according to WWD. This switch has only Auermann, Karen Alexander and Helena Christensen for a happened once before, for their spring 2011 season, when shoot with photographer Peter Lindbergh and couldn’t they switched from New York to Paris because of sample resist taking to Instagram to share a sneak peek. She cap- delays. The former actresses started The Row in 2006 and tioned the image: “The reunion! #BTS with @therealpeter- have gone on to become respected designers. In June they lindbergh. Director’s cut video up on @nowness were awarded the coveted Womenswear Designers of the today...More to come.” The picture shows everyone in Year at the 2015 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York City. white robes with Helena’s open to reveal a glimpse of her The Row label beat off stiff competition from designers black bathing suit. Both Helena, 46, and Cindy can be seen including Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors and Joseph Altuzarra clutching coffee cups. Lindbergh also shared his own pic- for Altuzarra to take home the prize at the prestigious ture, a black-and-white shot of all of the models posing in Council of Fashion Designers of America awards ceremony oversized knit sweaters. And the behind the scenes clip on held at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and hosted by the online video channel Nowness shows the models talk- ‘The Late, Late Show’ star James Corden. Meanwhile, the ing about their photographer. “The thing that makes work- twins recently announced to bring their Elizabeth and ing with Peter memorable is his energy,” Cindy said. “He James label in-house for the first time since it was launched loves women and that really comes across; he really sees in 2007. Their first collection following the change will be the beauty in a mature woman.”— Bang Showbiz the pre-fall/fall 2016 apparel. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Music & Movies Fall Movie Preview

This photo provided by Disney shows stormtroopers in a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” This photo provided by Disney shows a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”— AP photos Abrams on keeping ‘Star Wars’ grounded

magine for a moment the peculiar experience of finding the other hand, it’s something that I would never complain wish we had done differently,” says Abrams. “Wherever possi- approach was a way to keep the fantasy grounded, and it typi- yourself in the Arabian desert, telling C3PO what to do. about or look at as a negative because it is excitement and ble, whenever possible, we tried to do things as much in cam- fies the entire production: a melding of new and old, fantasti- ISuch was the case for JJ Abrams, who - despite his own anticipation and passion for this world that got me excited era as we could. And that meant that a lot of artists on that cal and authentic. Yet as much as Abrams tried to keep his trepidation - stepped into George Lucas’ space opera with the not just to be involved with this movie but be involved with side of things were building things not with pixels but with inner fanboy at bay, he did grant one “marvel”: seeing Fisher, monumental task of meeting the Death Star-sized expecta- moviemaking.” wood and paint and foam and actually constructing sets that Hamill and Ford slide back into their iconic characters. tions that await “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” For the 49- year-old Abrams, who grew up a “Star Wars” fan, part of the challenge was coming face to face with a fantasy world he knew and loved. “That was a constant in the production of the movie: moments where we would all look around and realize what we were doing and gasp a little bit and then dive back in,” Abrams said in a recent interview before ducking back into editing. “When you’re on the set of the Millennium Falcon or staring into the eyes of C3PO giving direction, it’s pretty easy to have that fanatic part of you bubble up. But our job was to be there to tell this story, not to be a fanboy.” Thanks to those fanboys and girls (many of whom are now men and women), there’s no more anticipated movie this fall than “The Force Awakens” (due out Dec 18). The rollout began months ago, whetting the rabid appetites of “Star Wars” fans with an IV drip of footage, still pictures and trailers. Enthusiasm, which might have waned after the disappoint- This photo provided by Disney shows Daisey Ridley as Rey, left, and John Boyega as Finn, This photo provided by Disney shows, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren with his Lightsaber in a ment of the last trilogy, is again reaching lightspeed, thanks to in a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” directed by J.J. Abrams. scene from the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” promising new elements (like the rolling droid BB-8), the return of original cast members and Abrams, himself, already the trusted hero of another galaxy: “Star Trek.”

Original material Abrams is the New Hope of a franchise (now a Walt Disney Co property) already preparing to fire out a meteor storm of sequels and spinoffs. Billions are at stake, but the Force, they say, is strong. “Star Wars” Episode Seven is expected to surpass $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend alone. It almost wasn’t to be. Intending to focus on original material, Abrams initially balked at inheriting “Star Wars,” but was per- suaded by producer Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “She and I were talking about what this world would be, this universe, nearly 40 years after Episode Six and the idea that these characters would have lived on. And yet there would have been this new generation that may not know at all who these characters were, or had heard of them but not necessarily believed that they were real,” says Abrams. “It felt like such fertile ground.” That means a mix of familiar, if now This photo provided by Disney shows, Domhnall Gleeson This photo provided by Disney shows, Domhnall Gleeson Producer and director JJ Abrams arrives at the 2013 older, faces (Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter as General Hux, in a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: as General Hux, in a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: International Emmy Awards Gala at the New York Hilton, Mayhew as Chewbacca) and new ones (among them Oscar The Force Awakens”. The Force Awakens”. in New York. Isaac, Adam Driver, Max von Sydow) that will tether “The Force Awakens” to the original films. Actual sunlight we could have done in post. It gave the actors the actual loca- “What was incredible from my point of view was how It was made with extreme secrecy, always under the threat The Force is a mystical, invisible power, but the stuff of “Star tion, the actual sunlight or stage light something to bounce apparently easily they flipped back into these roles,” says of leaks, and under the watchful eyes of “Star Wars” devotees. Wars” - the matter of its galaxy - is tactile: the melancholy hori- off of, and the movie a feeling of being in an actual location Abrams. “I knew for a fact, for example, that Harrison Ford was Fans have dissected every frame, analyzing everything from zon of Tatooine; the lush forest of the Ewok planet Endor; the and not an artificial one.” going to be in this movie, but I couldn’t be certain that Han the physics of a briefly glimpsed lightsaber to the interior spilled innards of a Tauntuan. These are the tangible qualities Though that meant some hot days in the Abu Dhabi sun Solo would be. Meaning, I hadn’t seen Han Solo return after design of a TIE fighter. Working in the midst of that extreme that lent Lucas’ films an exotic, hand-crafted realism. Realizing and the occasional studio set difficulties (production was shut nearly 40 years, either. And it wasn’t until we got on set that I passion, Abrams says, was more incentive than pressure cook- this, Abrams endeavored to marry modern CGI tools with old- down when a hydraulic door fell on Ford, fracturing his leg), it got my answer. It was a remarkable thing to see how effort- er. “It is on the one hand incredibly and understandably stress- school effects and real sets. That strategy, he says, paid off in was worth it to Abrams. “It was really nice to not have to also lessly Harrison Ford became Han Solo again.”— AP ful because you’ve got the anticipation and expectation that capturing the spirit of “Star Wars.” “I can’t think of something worry about: Will that ship look good on camera? Because we comes with this world that George created,” he says. “And on that we did that doesn’t look and feel more authentic that I actually had it. We were actually filming it,” he says. Such an

This photo provided by Twentieth Century Fox shows, Jennifer Lawrence, from This photo provided by Lionsgate, shows, Liam Hemsworth, front left, as Gale This photo provided by Sony shows, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as Philippe Petit, left, Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez, in a scene from the film, “Joy.” Hawthorne, Sam Claflin, back left, as Finnick Odair, Evan Ross, back right, as and Charolette Le Bon as Annie, in TriStar Pictures’ “The Walk.” Messalla and Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.” Highlights from September-December

hough the fall movie season is traditional- Wire,” gets Robert Zemeckis’ 3-D treatment, with Pixar returns with its second film of the year, a ly the time of year when Hollywood gets Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring. dino-and-boy tale that imagines Earth had the Tserious, this fall is stuffed with spectacles. asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs never Alongside the seasonal biopics, true-life tales October struck. and period dramas that will surely contend for “Steve Jobs” (Oct 9) - Danny Boyle directs Oscars, some of the biggest franchises around Aaron Sorkin’s script of the Apple co-founder, December are set to add a whiff of popcorn to awards sea- played by Michael Fassbender. “Truth” (Oct 16) - “Joy” (Dec 25) - David O. Russell’s latest is a son. James Bond returns in “Spectre” (Nov 6), A starry cast of Cate Blanchett and Robert family drama across generations that reteams “The Hunger Games” comes to a close with Redford dive back into the CBS News scandal him with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper “Mockingjay, Part 2” (Nov 20) and a little movie over the network’s report on President George and Robert De Niro. “The Hateful Eight” (Dec 25) called “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” lands W Bush’s Vietnam service. “Bridge of Spies” (Oct - Quentin Tarantino initially bagged this wintery Dec18. Here’s a monthly rundown of a few high- 16) - Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks reunite Western after his script leaked online. He even- lights to the upcoming movie season: for their fourth film together in a Cold War spy tually capitulated and will release the movie thriller about the negotiated release of a US first only in theaters projecting it in 70mm film. September pilot shot down in the Soviet Union. “The Revenant” (Dec 25) - A year after his Oscar “Sicario” (Sept. 18) - Emily Blunt stars in Denis triumph, Alejandro G Inarritu is back with this Villeneuve’s grim and muscular drug war thriller November gritty frontier Western starring Leonardo on the US-Mexican border. “Black Mass” (Sept “Spotlight” (Nov 6) - Thomas McCarthy dram- DiCaprio. — AP 18) - Johnny Depp takes on the role of Whitey atizes the reporting of the Boston Globe’s Bulger, the Boston mobster who inspired Jack “Spotlight” investigative reporting team and Nicholson’s gangster in “The Departed,” in an their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the engrossing true-life crime story. “The Walk” Catholic sex abuse scandal. “By the Sea” (Nov 13) This photo provided by Sony shows Daniel Craig as James Bond in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Sept 30) - The French high-wire artist Philippe - Angelina Jolie Pitt stars with husband Brad Pitt Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions’ action adventure, “Spectre.” Petit, whose walk between the Twin Towers in in her third directorial effort, a marital drama set 1974 inspired the 2008 documentary “Man on in 1970s France. “The Good Dinosaur” (Nov 25) - lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Awards Rihanna excited to celebrate 10 years in music industry

ihanna says she’s thrilled to have had a decade-long Awards. This year she’s dropped three singles, including loud and I like that. They’re going to turn up in here career in music and she plans on celebrating the the Top 5 hit “FourFiveSeconds,” and says she’s busy work- today.” Rfeat at some point this year. “Definitely a very big ing on her eighth album. “New album is going really, really The singer said Ri Ri is the first of a new trilogy of fra- deal for me. You know, I can’t believe it’s 10 years already, great. We have recorded a lot of songs and I can’t wait to grances. She’s had more than a half dozen other fragrances but we definitely have to celebrate this year,” the singer finish and put it out. That’s my next step,” she said. in the past. “I intentionally wanted to do something fun, said during an interview Monday. “There are a few things I Rihanna made the comments at Macy’s in downtown something that made you feel young, flirty, you know, have in mind, so you’ll have wait on that, but don’t think Brooklyn at the launch of her new fragrance called Ri Ri. cute,” she said with a smile. “It’s like a brand new pair of I’m forgetting because this means a lot to me that I made Feverish fans screamed inside the packed store, singing shoes.”— AP it to 10 years.” her lyrics to past hits and dancing wildly as one of her Rihanna released her debut album, “Music of the Sun,” songs blasted from speakers. “I know I made a great deci- in 2005. The 27-year-old has released seven albums, sion coming to Brooklyn because Brooklyn fans are on launched multiple Top 10 hits and won eight Grammy another level,” she said. “They are full of energy and they’re

From ‘Everest’ to Depp, highlights of the Venice Film fest

t’s a sure sign that summer’s over and the awards season Global giants is around the corner - the feast of fall film festivals. The Venice is offering up meaty fare from heavyweight I72nd Venice Film Festival opens today, followed later in global auteurs among the 21 films that Mexican director September by movie extravaganzas in Toronto, Telluride Alfonso Cuaron and his jury will consider for the festival’s and New York. As well as celebrating the best of global cin- top prize, the Golden Lion. Israel’s Amos Gitai depicts the ema, the festivals battle one another to snag the biggest traumatic 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak stars and hottest awards prospects. Venice, the oldest and Rabin in “Rabin, The Last Day,” while Russia’s Aleksandr stateliest of the bunch, brings 11 days of red carpets, flash- Sokurov - a previous Golden Lion winner - tells the story of bulbs, parties and premieres to the canal-crossed Italian the Louvre museum - and of Europe - in “Francofonia” and city. Here are five highlights, trends and themes to look out Italy’s Marco Bellocchio bites into the vampire-themed for: “Blood of My Blood.” Among the quirkier-sounding offer- ings are Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s animated High-altitude opener feature “Anomalisa” and musician Laurie Anderson’s Venice’s opening slot has developed a formidable hit- canine-themed feature debut “Heart of a Dog.” making reputation. In 2013, it sent the space saga “Gravity” into orbit, and on to seven Academy Awards. Last year’s Real-life drama opener, the midlife crisis comedy “Birdman,” scooped up Tragic and transformative real-life events loom large in four Oscars, including best picture, and revived Michael the festival’s strong slate of documentaries. Zhao Liang’s Keaton’s career. This year’s festival opens with Baltasar Golden Lion contender “Behemoth” shows giant mines Kormakur’s thriller “Everest,” which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, gouging the Chinese steppe, while Evgeny Afineevsky’s Robin Wright, Emily Watson and Jason Clarke in the fact- “Winter On Fire” charts the mass demonstrations that top- based story of peril on the world’s highest peak. Producers’ pled Ukraine’s government in 2014. Amy Berg’s “Janis” Host Miley Cyrus speaks in the press room while smoking Video Music Award is seen in the press room at the 2015 hopes are as high as a Himalayan summit. traces the short, sensational life of singer Janis Joplin, while at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA). — AFP photos MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Festival director Alberta Barbera said Tuesday that the aerial-photography master Yann Arthus-Bertrand cele- Angeles, California. opening film had to strike a balance between artistry and brates humanity in the kaleidoscopic “Human,” which has audience-pleasing. “We need to find a film which is at the premieres in Venice and at the United Nations in New York same time spectacular, with a lot of emotion (and) good on Sept 12. characters the audience can relate to,” he said. “So it’s not MTV’s Video Music Awards easy. “I think ‘Everest’ is more or less in the same vein as the Cinema controversy previous two.” No festival would be complete without a soul-searching debate over the future of cinema. This year’s comes cour- Hollywood heavyweights tesy of streaming service Netflix, which is moving into fic- set Nielsen Twitter record Some of Hollywood’s biggest names will be walking the tion films with “Beasts of No Nation.” Netflix plans to release red carpet on Venice’s Lido island - and hoping it’s a the African child-soldier drama simultaneously on-demand atings for MTV’s Video Music Awards won’t be released The most tweeted minute occurred at 10:49 pm ET with rehearsal for Oscar night. Among potential prize con- and in cinemas in October, a development that has until later today or tomorrow, but last night’s event has 247,525 tweets following Kanye West’s announcement that he tenders are Johnny Depp, all but unrecognizable as a alarmed distributors and movie theater owners. Barbera is already set a Twitter record. According to Nielsen, the would be running for President of the United States in 2020. Boston mobster in Scott Cooper’s “Black Mass;” Eddie philosophical. “We cannot avoid that the Internet and the R “2015 MTV Video Music Awards” is the most-tweeted non- Sunday’s show, which was dominated by Swift, Miley Cyrus’ Redmayne transformed into a transgender woman in Tom new digital platforms are there, and they are competitors sports program since Nielsen Social began tracking Twitter TV antics and Justin Bieber’s comeback, also generated 39 million Hooper’s “The Danish Girl;” and Idris Elba as an African war- with the traditional theatrical circuit,” he said. “It doesn’t activity in October 2011. In the US, 2.2 million people sent Facebook interactions (posts, comments and likes) from an lord in Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation.” make any sense trying just to fight this trend. We have to 21.4 million tweets about the event and almost 11.8 million estimated 16 million users. — Reuters The combination of Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson and find a way to collaborate.”— AP people saw those tweets a total of 676 million times. This is an Ralph Fiennes could make waves in Luca Guadagnino’s dra- increase of 64% from 2014, when there were 12.6 million ma “A Bigger Splash,” while Kristen Stewart and Nicholas tweets. Hoult find love in a dangerous time in Drake Doremus’ futuristic feature “Equals.” And last year’s Venice hero, Keaten, returns alongside Mark Ruffalo and Stanley Tucci in Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,” about Boston Globe journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Film based on real-life horror breaks records in Argentina rquimides Puccio seemed to neighbors like a pious, sentenced to prison, as were a former colonel, a bodyguard conservative and obsessively tidy man. Several times a and another accomplice. Alejandro tried to kill himself four Aday, he’d sweep the sidewalk in front of his home in an times while imprisoned and died of pneumonia shortly after upper-class Buenos Aires neighborhood. Cleanliness was not being released from prison in 2007. Daniel escaped in 1988 his only aim. Puccio was making sure that the screams of kid- and never served prison time. Officials never determined what nap victims imprisoned in the basement of his home could happened to the estimated $1 million in ransoms the family not be heard in the street. That mundane mask over horror is a received. The patriarch of the clan was imprisoned, freed on a key theme of “The Clan,” a movie based on a true story that technicality and then put behind bars again. He was released rattled Argentine society in the 1980s. on probation in 2007, moved to a provincial town and died in The well-reviewed film, directed by Argentine Pablo 2013 at the age of 82, without ever acknowledging the crimes. Trapero, has had the most successful launch of any Argentine Neighbors said that almost to the end, Puccio swept the side- film. It’s headed for film festivals in Venice, Toronto and San walk in front of his home. The film is part of a wave of renewed Sebastian, followed by release later in Europe and possibly the attention to the Puccio case on the 30th anniversary of the United States. Over the course of about three years, members police raid that captured the family. of the family killed at least three people they had kidnapped for ransom. A fourth victim was freed after being held in Intelligence services chains in a basement cell of the Puccio home. A local television station is launching a miniseries focused “It’s a story I wanted to tell for a long time. I got hooked on it and books and newspaper articles about the case when I was a kid and the family was arrested,” Trapero told The abound. The interest comes at a time when Argentina is still Associated Press. “What I remember most is that the victims in learning details of the crimes of a 1976-1983 military dictator- the house were friends of the (Puccio) family.” The film shows ship in which thousands of suspected leftists were seized, tor- the seemingly normal, church-going family interacting with tured and secretly killed. After democracy returned, the coun- victims-to-be. One of those killed played in a rugby league try saw a wave of kidnappings blamed on former soldiers and with Puccio’s son Alejandro. “The perversion of that family police who had turned from seizing dissidents for the state to shakes you up,” said Javier Solano, a 27-year-old who had just kidnapping businessmen for ransom. Puccio himself had been Elisa Sednaoui, left, poses for photographers as she arrives at the Venice Lido, Italy, yesterday. — AP seen the film. “They are sitting at the table eating as if nothing an army sergeant who joined a secretive, government-backed was going on while they have a woman locked in the base- far-right death squad in the 1970s. ment who doesn’t stop screaming.” The sense of hidden horrors reverberates with Argentines today, Trapero said. The country has been riveted by the mys- ‘Fifty Shades’ Sequel: A piece of wood terious death of a prosecutor who had accused the president Police investigating the kidnapping of 58-year-old Nelida of covering up a terror bombing. And a scandal over the coun- Bollini finally tracked the family down with the help of tapped try’s spy agency has revealed that some agents from the dicta- James Foley officially telephones. Behind a moveable closet in the closet was a torship era are still linked to the intelligence services. small, filthy, windowless room where prisoners were kept “Something that we talked about in the 1980s has ended up chained. The Puccios used fans to blow a breeze over chunks touching on the present,” Trapero said. — AP offered directing job of wet grass to make prisoners believe they were in the coun- try. A can with a piece of wood functioned as a bathroom. ames Foley has been officially offered the job to direct the Arquimedes Puccio and his sons Alejandro and Daniel were “Fifty Shades of Grey” sequel after news broke two weeks Jago that he was the top choice for the project. Deadline Hollywood first reported that Foley was a front-runner for “Fifty Shades Darker” and sources now tell Variety that negoti- ations are expected to start shortly. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are attached to reprise their roles, with author EL James, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti producing. James’ husband, Niall Leonard, penned the script. Execs had been meeting with directors over the past sever- al months since Sam Taylor-Johnson, who directed the first film in the trilogy, announced that she would not be returning to helm. Production will begin in the first quarter of 2016, with the film set to bow on Feb 14, 2017. Casting should get under- way once Foley’s deal is worked out. Foley directed several stylish dramas in the 1980s and ‘90s, including “After Dark, My Sweet,” “At Close Range,” “Fear” and “Glengarry Glen Ross.” His first film was the 1984 romance “Reckless,” which starred Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn as lovers from opposite back- grounds. He most recently worked on Netflix’s “House of Actors playing the members of Puccio pray before dinner during the film The Clan by Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cards.” Foley is repped by UTA and Agence 3a. — Reuters Trapero. — AP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

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A performer poses for a photograph on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London. — AP/AFP photos A performer poses for a photograph on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival. London’s Notting Hill Carnival shimmies under downpour

olourfully-dressed revelers partied under umbrellas and raincoats on Monday as the grand finale of London’s CNotting Hill Carnival was hit with stormy downpours of rain. The crowds refused to let the weather spoil the party as they drank beer and rum and ate traditional Caribbean food beside a parade of steel bands, colorful floats and processions of exotic dancers. Known as Europe’s street party, the festival celebrating Caribbean culture was expected to draw around one million people. Dancers in elaborate costumes and feathered headdresses shimmied through the streets of west London, some improvis- ing with umbrellas and plastic ponchos as British capital was hit by the equivalent of almost half a month’s average rain. The festival featured 60 bands playing different music styles and dozens of mobile systems pumping out music along a five-kilometer parade route. The Carnival began in the 1960s when Notting Hill had a large population of immigrants from the Caribbean and was notorious for its slums, a far cry from today when it is one of London’s most expensive dis- tricts. But the festival has become known for sporadic gun- related violence and thefts. Police made more than 290 arrests over the festival for offences including theft, drugs, assault and possession of weapons. One 19-year-old man was brought to hospital with stab wounds, and three 18-year-old men were arrested in connec- tion with the incident, police said. Authorities also seized counterfeit and over-proof alcohol, which typically contains more than 50 percent alcohol volume, including spirits, beer and champagne with a street value of over £30,000 at the event ($46,000, 41,000 euros). The London ambulance service, A costumed reveler performs in the Notting Hill Carnival. which treated people for falls and a glass injury, urged rev- ellers to “please drink alcohol sensibly”. — AFP Performers in costume perform in the parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival. ‘Pulikali’ or Tiger Dance procession

An Indian artist with his body painted with the likeness of a tiger dances before a tableau Indian artists with their bodies painted with the likeness of tigers perform during the with a picture of tiger during the ‘Pulikali’ or Tiger Dance procession in Thrissur, Kerala ‘Pulikali’ or Tiger Dance procession. state, India. This folk art festival is held every year in this town to entertain people during the harvest festival ‘Onam’. — AP photos

Volunteers hold a rope to keep away the crowd. A young Indian artist with his body painted with the likeness of a tiger holds a coconut, before offering the same to a Hindu deity during the ‘Pulikali’ or Tiger Dance procession.

An Indian man get his body painted. Indian artists with their bodies painted perform during the ‘Pulikali’ or Tiger Dance procession. Rihanna excited to celebrate 10 years in music industry

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Orangutans in the ring during a Muay Thai kickboxing bout at Safari World.

Orangutans preparing for a Muay Thai kickboxing bout at Safari World, a large zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok. — AFP photos A Thai zoo worker interacting with an orangutan during a Muay Thai kick- boxing bout. Boxing orangutans

oxing gloves raised, two orangutans enter a ring at a “Even in animal fights, there must be rules,” says Acts of cruelty towards animals-especially dogs-often Thai zoo, a spectacle that fascinates locals and for- Chaichan Laohasiripanya, Secretary-General of the Thai receive widespread publicity. In July the arrest of a village Beigners alike but sits increasingly at odds in a nation Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “They headman who killed his neighbor’s pet dog after an argu- slowly embracing animal welfare. Every morning hundreds must consider the health of the animal, the length of the ment was front-page news in Thai media for days. But of tourists visit Safari World, a large zoo on the outskirts of fight,” she said. Suddan Wisudthiluck, an anthropologist at despite recent police crackdowns Thailand is still host to a Bangkok, to see apes perform a show parodying human Bangkok’s Thammasat University, says the shift towards thriving dog meat trade in the northeast to feed both local behaviour-in particular our predilection for violence, sex making the country’s traditions more animal-friendly stems appetites and those in nearby Laos, Vietnam and China An orangutan being hailed as the winner in a Muay Thai kickboxing bout. and alcohol. Female orangutans, decked in bikini tops and in part from people keeping pets, especially in the cities. where canines are a delicacy. miniskirts, pretend to seduce monkey musicians as rowdy “Animals are more and more seen as friends or family mem- ape fans drink beer and throw cans at the two orangutans bers,” he said. All across Bangkok and other urban centers, Law enforcement play-fighting. salons, hospitals and clothes shops for pets are almost as Elephant rides are another popular tourist attraction “It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen,” Aisha, a ubiquitous as 7-Eleven shops and street food hawkers. that causes disquiet among activists, who say Thailand’s 23-year-old tourist from Sri Lanka, tells AFP. “It’s incredible national animals are often overworked and stressed ferry- what they’re capable of.” But others are less enthusiastic. “I ing tourists every day. In late August an elephant in north- don’t like it at all,” says Erwin Newton, 30, from the United ern Thailand went berserk, killing his keeper before running States. “I don’t understand, what is interesting in making off into the jungle with three terrified Chinese tourists still animals behave in this violent, dirty way.” To outsiders, on his back. But the unease over their treatment has also Thailand’s treatment of animals can appear confusingly led to the creation of an increasing number of ethical sanc- contradictory. In this deeply Buddhist country it is not tuaries where visitors are encouraged to view elephants in unusual to see pampered pooches pushed around in their natural surroundings and no rides are permitted. prams or entire temples providing sanctuary to stray cats But laws can only go so far if they are not enforced. Few and dogs. attractions highlight the limitations of Thailand’s ability to Yet dogs might also be on a dinner table in the north- enforce its own legislation more than the controversial east of Thailand while the kingdom-a renowned animal- Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi. Authorities say nearly 150 trafficking hub-retains its long tradition of blood sports tigers have been kept at the temple without proper paper- An orangutan playing the drums. such as cock and bull fighting. But there are signs that pub- work and have vowed to seize them, sparking standoffs in lic attitudes are changing. The first-ever animal welfare law recent months between officials and angry monks blocking was adopted in late 2014 — under the ruling junta-after their way. years of campaigning by a growing bevy of increasingly But the government has been powerless to resolve the vocal animal rights groups. The law now specifically bans issue, partly for fear of being seen to confront the clergy “torture and cruelty towards animals” with exemptions for and also because officials readily admit they have nowhere activities that are part of the country’s traditions. else to put such a large number of tigers. Edwin Wiek, a campaigner from Wildlife Friends of Thailand, says ‘There must be rules’ Thailand’s animal rights journey has been typified by two The country’s animal fighting industry is also trying to steps forward, one step backwards with law enforcement make itself more humane. Unlike in the Philippines, where his “biggest concern”. Some people “just care about money cocks can be seen fighting with blades attached to their and don’t hesitate to use (animals) to make some”, Wiek feet, Thailand’s birds now usually spar with their talons told AFP. — AFP wrapped in fabric. The cocks are judged on their fighting prowess, not their ability to kill their opponent, an event that is much rarer thanks to recent changes. Thailand’s bull- versus-bull fights, especially popular in the south, also rarely lead to deaths, unlike the man-versus-beast version An orangutan celebrating still thriving in Spain-and the bulls themselves are treated a win in a Muay Thai Orangutans performing for an audience at Safari World. with celebrity status. kickboxing bout.

Foreign tourists feeding giraffes at Safari World. A foreign tourist taking a ‘selfie’ as she feeds a giraffe at Safari World.