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By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: The court of cassation, Kuwait’s highest court whose rulings are final, yesterday rejected pleas to And greed goes on release opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak, who is serving a two-year jail term for insulting HH the Amir. In a jam-packed courtroom, the defense team of Barrak pleaded with presiding judge Salem Al-Khader to free the former lawmaker who has been in jail for the past 45 days until the court issues its ruling. By Badrya Darwish Barrak was brought into the courtroom by masked and armed elite troops handcuffed and placed in a cage. As soon as he entered the room, his supporters gave him a loud applause that is rarely allowed in Kuwaiti courts. The defense told the judge that Barrak is [email protected] a well-known figure and he is not going to escape, and accordingly they requested the judge to release him until a verdict is issued. omestic helper visas have been an issue in Following brief deliberations by the judges, news Kuwait for many years, and when at last we came that they had decided to free Barrak on a KD 5,000 Dheard good news that the parliament was bail. Dozens of supporters who were awaiting the deci- supporting a bill to reform the system, we were sion outside the court hall immediately broke into jubi- delighted. The idea was to form a company 25 per- lation. They loudly cheered the decision and began cent owned by the Kuwait Investment Authority, 25 chanting “Oh Musallam, you are the conscience of the percent by the pension fund and the rest by the people” and left the Palace of Justice, only to be disap- public. pointed a few minutes later that the news was incorrect. This would have stopped the greed of the maid Khaled Al-Hajeri, one of several lawyers defending agencies which has reached unacceptable levels. In Barrak, apologized on his Twitter account for the error. A the past, to recruit a domestic servant - be it a driv- large number of politicians and activists welcomed the er, maid, nanny, cook or gardener - it wouldn’t “release” of Barrak before the actual verdict was exceed KD 350 to KD 400. Filipinos would cost more, announced. The court however set April 20 a date for like KD 450 or KD 500. Don’t ask me why that was the next hearing, a very close date. Lawyers will again Saudi soldiers fire artillery shells towards Yemen from a post close to the Saudi-Yemeni border in south- try to get Barrak out of the jail then. the case - I’m not here to discuss this discrimination western Saudi Arabia yesterday. — AFP (See Page 8) at the moment. Continued on Page 13 Now, to recruit a Filipina housemaid you have to pay nearly KD 1,000. And I was told by many helpers that they also have to pay the agent in the Ports chief vows to tackle violations Philippines at least two months’ salary once they get the job, or they will not be selected for jobs in the Gulf. Imagine! What do you call this? Isn’t this Combating corruption, absenteeism and land grabs a priority human trafficking? And if you aren’t happy with the By Nawara Fattahova founded to manage and operate com- worker and return her to the recruitment agency, mercial marine ports including small, big, they will be more than happy because they will sell KUWAIT: In an unusual move, the new fishing and passengers ships,” he noted. her again and take another KD 1,000, and it goes on director of the Kuwait Ports Authority “On the first day when I visited the and on. held a press conference yesterday to Audit Bureau, it provided me with 108 So may I know why the government represented directly address allegations of corruption pages detailing various violations, which by KIA and the Interior Ministry rejected the propos- and mismanagement. Sheikh Yousef Al- was our starting point. One of the most al? Do they have an alternate plan? Or will employ- Abdullah Al-Sabah, who was appointed serious problems that we face is absen- ers and employees keep suffering and be sucked three weeks ago, discussed with the teeism among employees that even dry by the recruiting agencies? press several issues including the illegal reaches 90 percent. We also have decay- The whole system is corrupt and unjust. And occupation of KPA land and the body’s ing utilities and harbors, and mixing of when there was a light, it was snuffed out without efforts to combat corruption and absen- responsibilities with the Ministry of clear reasoning. There are so many other things to teeism. Commerce and the Public Authority for criticize about maid recruitment. I can write a book “We won’t hide any corruption, and Industry. In fact, some of the dilapidated about it. Because the poor soul, even if we choose will let people know about the proce- utilities are not under KPA’s responsibili- her, doesn’t have the right to say yes or no. But this dures we will take to correct past mis- ty, and we will solve this problem and is another issue, and I’m jumping away from the takes. KPA is the first and main gateway return these properties,” stressed Sheikh recruiting greed. KUWAIT: Director of Kuwait Ports Authority Sheikh Yousef Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah to receive imported goods from all over Yousef. holds a press conference yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat the world. It is an independent body Continued on Page 13 German literary lion News Guenter Grass dies in brief Laborers torch cars BERLIN: Germany’s Nobel-winning the rise of Nazism in his city of birth, in rare UAE protest author, Guenter Grass, who acted as a Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland. He DUBAI: Newspapers in the United Arab Emirates said moral compass for many in the postwar pressed Germany for decades to face up migrant laborers set multiple vehicles on fire during a nation but later provoked criticism over to its Nazi past, winning the Nobel Prize weekend protest at a construction site in the north of his own World War II past, died yesterday for Literature in 1999, when the Swedish the country following the death of one of their co-work- aged 87, his publishers said. The writer, Academy said his “frolicsome black fables ers. The National and Khaleej Times dailies were among one of Germany’s most influential if con- portray the forgotten face of history”. the papers that reported the incident yesterday. They troversial intellectual figures, died in a Chancellor Angela Merkel led tributes say the protest happened Saturday in the northern emi- hospital in the northern city of Luebeck, to Grass, who was also a poet, playwright rate of Ras Al-Khaimah after a worker fell to his death the Steidl publishing house said. Grass and sculptor, and was often seen puffing from the fifth floor of a building under construction. achieved world fame with his debut and on his pipe, sporting his trademark wal- Police say the death was an apparent suicide. Electrical best-known novel “The Tin Drum” in rus moustache. Merkel said Grass had generators and fuel tanks were also torched in the 1959, quickly followed by “Cat and “accompanied and shaped Germany’s protest. No injuries were reported. The Emirates is home TEHRAN: An Iranian woman holds up a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Mouse” and “Dog Years”, all dealing with post-war history with his artistic as well to millions of low-paid migrant laborers. A group of Khamenei during a protest against the Saudi-led coalition strikes on Yemen in as his social and political engagement South Asian workers last month staged a rare protest in front of the Saudi Embassy yesterday. — AP like only a few”, according to her Dubai over a pay dispute. spokesman. But Grass also shocked his Iran halts Saudi pilgrimages admirers and provoked an outcry in 2006 Turing notebook sells when he revealed, six decades after for $1m in New York World War II, that he had been called up NEW YORK: A long-lost notebook owned by British Russia lifts ban on Iran missile sales into Hitler’s notorious Waffen SS at the mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan age of 17. TEHRAN/MOSCOW: Iran suspended all been damaged and a public demand has Turing sold at auction in New York yesterday for $1 He put his more than 60-year silence umrah pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia yes- formed,” the minister said. Jannati said million, Bonhams auction house said. The sale of the over his Waffen SS conscription down to terday amid growing diplomatic tensions the Saudi authorities had arrested the recently discovered notebook comes at a time of a sense of “shame” and said he wanted to between the two countries, state televi- two police officers at the centre of the enormous interest in Turing’s life and work generat- use his memoirs to fully explain his past. sion reported. Iran’s Culture Ministry allegations. “We have spoken to Saudi ed by Oscar-winning movie “The Imitation Game”. “What I accepted with pride in my made the decision over alleged abuse officials through diplomatic channels The manuscript, which sold for $1.025 million in two younger years I wanted to keep quiet suffered by two male Iranian pilgrims and they have promised to punish the minutes of bidding, dates back to the mid-1940s about after the war because of my grow- traveling through Saudi’s Jeddah airport persons in custody,” he said. “They even when Turing was working to break the Nazi Enigma ing shame,” he wrote in the 2006 autobi- in March trying to return home, the sta- asserted that they would execute them code at Britain’s Bletchley Park. An original 1944 ography “Peeling the Onion”. In 2012, he tion reported. but nothing has been done in reality so Enigma Machine, still fully operational, sold for courted controversy again - and was “I have ordered the hajj and pilgrim- far.” $269,000 at the same auction, smashing pre-sale declared persona non grata by Israel - age organization to suspend the lesser The alleged abuse, the details of estimates of $140,000-180,000. Both winning bids after publishing a prose-poem, “What pilgrimage until the criminals are tried which have not been publicly disclosed, were in the room, but both buyers wanted to remain Must Be Said”, that painted Israel as the and punished,” Culture Minister Ali sparked unauthorized protests at the anonymous, the auction house said. Middle East’s biggest threat to peace. Jannati told state television. “Considering Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday. Guenter Grass Continued on Page 13 what has happened, Iranians’ dignity has Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 Cabinet reviews message on Arab chiefs of staff meeting

KUWAIT: The cabinet yesterday Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Kuwait’s pavilion at Expo Milano reviewed a message from Secretary- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah who 2015 will highlight the country’s lead- General of the Arab League Nabil Al- chaired the meeting informed the ing humanitarian and development Araby to His Highness the Amir cabinet of the outcome of his talks role, as well as civilized image, under Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- with Djibouti’s Minister of Foreign His Highness the Amir, Sheikh Salman Sabah, including an invitation to the Affairs Mahmoud Ali Yusuf. told the meeting. Later, the meeting first meeting of Arab chiefs of staff. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled and Yusuf approved and referred to HH the Amir The meeting, slated for 22 April at discussed means of bolstering bilater- draft bills for two cooperation agree- the League’s headquarters in Cairo, al ties in all fields, latest developments ments and an MoU, based on recom- will discuss details of a proposed Arab on the regional and international mendations by the Legal Affairs unified force agreed upon by the 26th scenes, and other issues of common Committee. Summit recently held in Egypt’s concern, Sheikh Mohammad These include a maritime transport Sharm El-Sheikh, to counter security Abdullah said. accord with Turkey and arrangements threats to the region. for establishing a logistics support Ministers at yesterday’s cabinet Expo Milano database with Canada in addition to a meeting, held at Seif Palace, were also The cabinet was also briefed on MoU with the UN Development pro- notified of a message from Ethiopian arrangements for Kuwait’s pavilion at gram (UNDP), the Cabinet Affairs Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Expo Milano 2015, to be held in the Minister noted. They will be later to HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Italian city of Milan in May. The referred to the National Assembly. The Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on account was offered by Minister of ministers concluded by reviewing the enhancing bilateral ties in all fields, Information and Minister of State for topics on the agenda of the National Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Assembly, and reports on the current Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah and mem- Arab and international political devel- KUWAIT: Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan Zubaydullo Zubaydov visited Kuwait Times yesterday and dis- Mubarak Al-Sabah said in a press bers of the higher committee super- opments, Sheikh Mohammad cussed matters of mutual concern with Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan. — Photo by Joseph Shagra statement. Acting Prime Minister and vising the pavilion. Abdullah noted. —KUNA Australian minister in Kuwait to explore trade opportunities ‘Kuwait is our biggest market in the Gulf’

By Ben Garcia tion in other parts of the Middle per country. In Kuwait, we have East,” he noted. asked the government if some KUWAIT: Australia is seeking Robb met several CEOs of vari- practices here are acceptable, and greater cooperation with Kuwait ous major companies in Kuwait, they replied yes. They have been over trade and investments and its chairman of several banks and nine very cooperative and agreed to our support for a free trade agreement. companies in particular in Kuwait observations. All of us do not want Australian Minister of Trade and that have interests in Australia. “I to see the animals in distress, Investment Andrew Robb is in met several people with regards to because at the end of the day, it Kuwait and met several officials my objectives of my visit to Kuwait. affects the quality of the meat too. including Anas Al-Saleh, the There is mutual trust between us From the time we informed the Minister of Finance and Acting when it comes to investment and Kuwaiti government about the Minister of Commerce and we are happy about it,” he added. concerns of some animal rights Industry, and Ali Al-Ghanim, societies in Australia, they’ve been KUWAIT: Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh speaks with Australian Minister of Trade Chairman of the Kuwait Chamber Big market very cooperative, and at this and Investment Andrew Robb. —KUNA of Commerce and Industry. “I am But Robb admitted that trade moment the Australian community here for two reasons. One, I relations between Kuwait and is satisfied,” he added. brought with me a significant Australia are underdone. “This is a KUWAIT: Australian Minister of Kuwait eyes free trade number of people from Australia to big market for us, especially for our Continued trust Trade and Investment Andrew explore the opportunities for sheep, and Kuwaitis have helped Robb expressed delight on the Robb speaks to Kuwait Times agreement with Australia greater trade cooperation and us set up this sheep trade,” he men- continuing trust of more and more yesterday. encourage investments from tioned. According to the minister, Kuwaitis in their education system. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Kuwait in Australia,” Robb told Australia exports about 2 million “We currently have more than KUWAIT: Kuwait is seeking to sign a free countries in the automobile industry as infrastructure, commercial build- Kuwait Times in an exclusive inter- live sheep a year worth over $150 1,500 Kuwaiti students in Australia trade agreement with Australia with the well as in the field of infrastructure, stress- ings and resorts, so active partici- view yesterday. million. “Kuwait is our biggest mar- besides a couple of campuses here aim of boosting trade between the two ing the keenness of the Chamber to pation and investments of Kuwaitis “Number two: I have a mission ket in the Gulf. Kuwait in some in Kuwait offering Australian edu- countries, Minister of Finance and acting enhance cooperation in the areas of joint is most welcome,” he reiterated. for a free trade agreement. I want ways has become a distribution cation,” he said. Currently, Australia Minister of Commerce and Industry Anas investments and trade. Robb assured Arab investors to encourage and urge Kuwait to point for our sheep, since I know imports petroleum products from Al-Saleh said yesterday. He added that the current period is a that Australia will continue to pro- speed up negotiations. We have some of exported sheep are dis- Kuwait worth over a billion dollars. Kuwait attaches great importance to good opportunity to do so in light of the vide a safe haven for their invest- struck free trade agreements with tributed in countries like the UAE “If we finalize the FTA and rules will increasing cooperation and trade with existence of a huge financial liquidity to the ments as it is a politically and eco- South Korea, Japan and a very sig- and Oman. Earlier, the biggest sup- be set across the Gulf states, there Australia as the latter possesses great Kuwaiti private sector as well as the nomically stable country with fair nificant one in China last year. The ply of Australian live sheep went to would be a more significant potential elements as well as economic and exploitation of Kuwait as an important legal systems, world class regula- other Gulf states are our next prior- Saudi Arabia, but it was halted due increase and would create certain- technological facilities where Kuwait can trading gate with respect to re-export to tions and the best country in the ity to further develop the already to some regulatory issues,” he said. ty for Australian businesses. You take advantage of, Saleh said after meeting neighboring countries, especially that the world for environmental manage- strong commercial and political Kuwait Times asked Robb if con- will see more Australian business- the visiting Australian Minister of Trade and Kuwaiti investor possesses excellent experi- ment. After arriving in Kuwait from relationships to make sure that this cerns of some animal rights men here more often. There is an Investment Andrew Robb. ences through the establishment of suc- the United Arab Emirates, Robb move is just a stepping stone for activists in Australia have been excess of $11 billion of Kuwaiti He noted an increase in the volume of cessful projects in various countries of the will head to Qatar and Saudi years to come for greater coopera- addressed. “Yes, but the issues vary investment in Australia in hotels, bilateral trade between the two countries world. Arabia. as Kuwait’s exports to Australia in 2013 (without oil exports and its derivatives) Economic relations stood at about 16.6 million Kuwaiti dinars Robb meanwhile said that the main ($50 million), while imports amounted to objective of his visit to Kuwait was to pro- 160 million Kuwaiti dinars ($552 million). mote and strengthen the joint economic relations, reflecting the strength of political Food security ties, indicating that despite the existence of Ali Al-Ghanim, President of Kuwait strategic partnerships with respect to live- Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stock and grain with Kuwait, however, they meanwhile underscored the importance of are not up to the desired level. relations between Kuwait and Australia on He expressed the hope that the ongoing the political and economic levels as the lat- negotiations would result in the signing of ter is an important partner in the field of a free trade agreement between Australia food security. and the Gulf Cooperation Council states at Ghanim said during a meeting with the earliest opportunity, indicating that Robb that they discussed economic coop- such a step would open up new trade and eration between the two countries as investment horizons between the two Australia is among the most important countries. — KUNA Foreign Minister visits Diplomatic Institute NBK discusses youth

KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister, Minister briefed on sample questions from the of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled tests, wishing the applicants success to challenges at GUST Al-Hamad Al-Sabah visited Saud Al- serve the interests of “our country in the Nasser Al-Sabah Kuwaiti Diplomatic international arenas, under the wise Institute yesterday and inspected the leadership of His Highness the Amir KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) challenges, especially in view of today’s flow of examinations of accepting new Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- will always remain supportive to youth, help- demanding labor market conditions, which batch of applicants for the jobs of diplo- Sabah, and His Highness the Crown ing them make their ambitions and aspira- require factors including self-confidence, imi- matic attaches and consular attaches at Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber tions come true, NBK CEO Salah Al-Fulaij said. tativeness, uniqueness, creativity and excel- the Foreign Ministry. Al-Sabah.” The Minister was accompanied Speaking during a seminar held at Gulf lence. The Minister checked on the facilities by a delegation of senior officials at the University of Science and Technology’s (GUST) “Working by those principles and taking offered for the examiners, and he was Foreign Ministry. —KUNA Accounting Club and titled ‘Career into account the best practical experiences Challenges,’ Fulaij reiterated NBK’s commit- and constant investment in human resources, ment to meeting its social responsibilities. NBK has always remained in the lead,” Fulaij Fulaij spoke about NBK’s achievements and underlined. He added that NBK has the high- challenges it faced during the past sixty years. est rate of national employment among local He also urged young people to be more com- banks with 64 percent, adding that NBK pro- NBK CEO Salah Al-Fulaij speaks during the petitive and ambitious in order to face future vides 1,620 training opportunities. seminar. ICRC regional official commends KRCS’ work

KUWAIT/BEIRUT: Head of the International Alibi added. Alibi and Sayer also discussed urgent and assess their needs. He pointed out that the rag- Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) regional delega- relief aid for the Yemeni people, especially medical ing war in Syria for more than four years has caused a tion Yahia Alibi lauded the Kuwait Red Crescent supplies and ambulances, as well as power genera- major humanitarian crisis, especially in terms of peo- Society’s (KRCS) efforts in extending relief aid to tors. ple who flocked to the neighboring countries includ- afflicted people worldwide. ing Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, a matter which Alibi and KRCS’s Chairman Helal Al-Sayer dis- Syrian refugees affected these countries, particularly Lebanon. He cussed yesterday the possibility of the KRCS hosting Separately, Envoy of the Secretary-General of the noted that the visit will include meetings with vari- the coming Council of Delegates, a biennial meeting United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs and ous partner relief organizations, in addition to meet- for the ICRC, the International Federation and the Chairman of the International Islamic Charitable ings with senior officials in Lebanon to discuss the individual national Red Cross and Red Crescent soci- Organization (IICO) Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq arrived issue of refugees. Ross Mountain, the Resident eties, Alibi said. The event provides a forum to dis- in Beirut, Lebanon yesterday, heading a delegation Coordinator of United Nations activities in Lebanon cuss movement strategy and debate global humani- to discuss the situation of Syrian refugees in and Humanitarian Coordinator, meanwhile tarian issues facing the international community. Lebanon. Maatouq, also Adviser at the Amiri Diwan, expressed his happiness for the visit of the envoy of Yesterday’s meeting also discussed the potential said in a statement that his visit with the United the Secretary-General to Lebanon and praised the KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah is seen inside an of nominating members from the KRCS emergency Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio significant role he played in the humanitarian field examination hall at Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Kuwaiti Diplomatic Institute yester- and catastrophe team to join operation centers in Guterres to Lebanon aims to become acquainted especially the tremendous assistance provided to the day. —KUNA disaster areas, in a bid to enhance their capabilities, with the conditions of Syrian refugees in Lebanon Syrian refugees. — KUNA TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 LOCAL

Cabinet appoints new Companies may get 25% undersecretaries By Meshaal Al-Enezi Kuwait University and Adel Al-Menae at of staff from abroad the finance ministry. KUWAIT: The Cabinet recently approved the appointment of three Knife wielding drivers By A Saleh Naqi added that opening borders for tourists Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah about a tender the undersecretaries and four assistant Highway police patrol officers report- coming to the GCC states would open for bene- Foreign Ministry had announced inviting bid- undersecretaries in various ministries ed that on suspecting a vehicle with KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor fiting from over 100 million tourists visiting ders to build 228 housing units, four schools, a and state bodies, said informed sources. Saudi license plates with two men and a Hind Al-Subaih yesterday announced that the GCC annually. mosque, a clinic, a police station, a market and The following have been approved and woman in it, they asked the driver to new demography structure study had been fin- the infrastructure needed to relocate families published in Kuwait Al Yaum: pull over, but he refused and sped off ished and that it would be reviewed by the MP asks about corruption affected by border demarcation between Mohammed Boshehri was appointed until he reached a house in Abdullah Al- Cabinet in its meeting next Monday. She also MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji yesterday filed a par- Kuwait and Iraq at the Iraqi city of Um Qassr. Ministry of Electricity and Water Mubarak, where he was joined by a third noted that opening the issuance of work per- liamentary inquiry seeking answers from the Undersecretary, and Hamed Al-Azmi man who came out from the house mits for all sectors would happen this week and acting Minister of Commerce and Industry Anas Amiri Pardon was appointed at the Ministry of Health brandishing a knife. They insulted the be regulated by allowing companies to bring Al-Saleh about the arrest of a customs inspec- The Interior Ministry is scheduled to release and as the secretary general of the policemen and resisted arrest until they only 25 percent of their staffing needs from tor who was attempting to smuggle in 100 kilos the names included on a list with prisoners to supreme committee for investigating were brought under control. A case was abroad. of hashish and 100,000 pills from Iraq on April be released upon an Amiri pardon at 8:30am Kuwaiti citizenship. Fawaz Al-Fadhl was filed pending further investigations. 7, 2015. In his inquiry, Turaiji accused the cus- this morning, said informed sources. They not- appointed as Cabinet assistant secre- GCC tourist visa soon toms manager of covering up for the suspect ed that a special ceremony would be held at tary general with the position of under- Police car flips Secretary General of GCC Trade Commerce and demanded further information about the the correctional facilities complex in Suliabiya secretary for the remaining period of his Two policemen suffered minor Chambers Union, Abdul Raheem Naqi predict- case and the measures the miniter took with with the attendance of Interior Ministry’s service. Sources added that the assis- injuries after their patrol car flipped ed that the GCC Unified Touristic Visa would be regards to it. Assistant Undersecretary for Correctional tant undersecretaries appointed over and rolled several times, said secu- approved soon and stressed that it was already Turaiji also filed another inquiry seeking Facilities Affairs, Major General Khalid Al- include Nabil Al-Nahham to replace rity sources. According to the police- in effect between UAE-Qatar and UAE-Oman. answers from the Foreign Minister Sheikh Deyyeen. Fadhl, Khalid Abdul Saheb Abdul Ameer men’s testimony, a pickup forced them at the supreme council for planning and off the road, which led to them losing development, Yousif Al-Mazrouei at control. Cross-border organized crime Kuwait in Crime Interpol poses world threat: Minister Report World 2015 DOHA: Kuwaiti Minister of Justice, tance and necessity of activating among countries, whether it be Minister of Awqaf and Islamic and enhancing international coop- through the signing of cooperation SINGAPORE: Kuwait’s Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane said that eration, whether regional or bilater- agreements and mutual legal assis- Ministry of Interior transnational organized crime is a al, in order to achieve more nation- tance in criminal matters or Undersecretary Lieutenant threat against the interests and al and international security and through memorandums of under- General Suleiman Al-Fahad, security of the entire international stability, and then create an appro- standing on extradition and accompanied by a high-lev- community. priate climate for states to devote exchange of criminals as the inter- el delegation, took part yes- During a session held on the to human and economic factors national, regional and bilateral terday in the opening of second day of the 13th UN and make their way towards cooperation among the states was Interpol World venue held Congress on Crime Prevention and progress and development. largely influential in reducing inter- in Singapore, with the par- Criminal Justice, Sane said that He pointed to dangerous and national crime rates and the ticipation of Interior countering such threat would steady rates of organized crimes strengthening of international DOHA: Justice Minister Yaqoub Ministers and senior securi- necessitate unification of interna- and their cross-border effects, a cooperation to undermine the Al-Sane speaks during the ses- ty officials from tional policies. He stressed that in matter that prompted the interna- actions of planning or inciting or sion. — KUNA International Criminal the context of its commitment to tional community to be aware of participating in such crimes. Police Organization the principles of democracy and their implications. He added that He noted that Kuwait has persons, smuggling of migrants, (Interpol) 190 member equality established by the the international community already issued a number of regula- combating money laundering, countries. Constitution and its national legis- believes in the importance of tions for the application of these financing of terrorism, in addition Lt Gen Fahad, accompa- lation in line with tolerant Islamic establishing principles for the con- principles and international trends to passing a law establishing the Airport smuggling nied by senior officials at Sharia, the State of Kuwait is com- trol and prevention of crimes and where in 2013, many laws were Public Authority for Combating the Ministry, participated in pletely convinced with the impor- cooperation in legal proceedings issued on combating trafficking in Corruption in 2012. —KUNA attempt foiled the opening of the INTER- POL Global Complex for By Hanan Al-Saadoun Innovation (IGCI), located in Marina Bay area, said KUWAIT: Customs officers at Kuwait International Ambassador of Kuwait to Airport arrested an Asian man upon arrival with drugs Singapore Yaqoub Al- and 3,000 Tramadol tablets, along with one kilogram of Sanad. marijuana. The Interior Ministry’s delegation headed by Lt Gen Fahad held meetings with the head of the German participating dele- gation to discuss means of activating the previously signed bilateral agree- ments between both countries, including the security cooperation agreement. Interpol Secretary General tackled on his speech in the open- ing of the event various types of electronic crimes and means to face them, besides other vital issues, the diplomat said.—KUNA Generator’s fire Fire broke out in a power generator room that belongs to the Interior Ministry, 40 km from Salmi. KD 1.5bn Salmi and Jahra occupational centers rushed to the scene, where firemen cooled and isolated tenders diesel reservoirs that were nearby. It took 75 min- utes to put out the fire. No injuries were reported. KUWAIT: Some 152 tenders have been awarded during Policemen offended the first three months of Two men were charged with insulting and threaten- the year, with a total of KD ing police officers at the deportation detention yester- 1.5 billion, for both the gov- day. According to police, an Omani man came to visit ernment bodies and the oil his brother at the detention center without permission. sector, the Central Tenders He verbally assaulted officers after being told that he Committee (CTC) has said. needed to bring a written permission to meet the The estimated value of detainee. Shortly after his arrest, a man who was later these tenders is KD 1.3 bil- identified as his brother came to the detention center lion, the CTC added in a and threatened officers of causing them harm, so statement yesterday. police put him under arrest. The two suspects denied It noted that the CTC the allegations, and claimed to have been mistreated had held 26 meetings dur- by police. ing the first quarter of 2015 to discuss issues related to Passenger questioned offering tenders and appli- A citizen was arrested upon his return from cations and other related Saudi Arabia, and charged with leaving the coun- steps. According to the try illegally. His name was discovered to be on the statement, the value of 10 travel ban list after his arrival. An investigation was awarded tenders for proj- opened in the case. ects in the oil sector hit KD 1.2 billion, compared to KD 264 million for 142 tenders for the government bodies. The Ministry of Electricity and Water had the highest number in gov- ernment sector, 24 awarded tenders worth KD 147 mil- lion, followed by the Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR), three ones worth KD12 million. Kuwait University came third with 15 tenders worth KD 10.9 million. In the petroleum sector, the Kuwait Oil Company came first with five tenders worth KD 1.261 billion, followed by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), two ten- ders worth KD 19.5 million. The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) followed in the third place with three tenders valued at KD 728,000. —KUNA TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 LOCAL UNIDO chief in Kuwait today VIENNA: The UNIDO chief is due to begin an official visit to Kuwait today to discuss with senior officials prospects of boosting mutual cooperation and bolstering an existing partnership to serve the Gulf country’s higher development objectives. LI Yong, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), has been invited by the Government of Kuwait to discuss his vision of the Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) as well to explain the key role and contribution that Kuwait could play in the development and implementation of ISID programmes. In an exclusive interview with Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on his planned visit to Kuwait, Li Yong was first asked about his mission’s goals. He replied, “Over the last few months, I have sought to directly engage with governments in the Arab world to explain the benefits of an Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) and to dis- cuss how they can gain from, and contribute to this future Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). “The support and direct involvement of the Arab world in UNIDO’s work is of utmost importance, as the Organization and its partners contribute to creating a shared prosperity and to safeguarding the environment. As such, it is crucial to meet with (His Highness) the Amir and the Government of Kuwait, and in doing so to make this global movement truly inclusive and sustainable. “The State of Kuwait and UNIDO can look back at a successful part- KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) visited Al-Amal School recently as part of its ongoing ‘Ya Zain Turathna’ (our beautiful heritage) cultural nership record, and the forthcoming discussions will seek to expand campaign. this win-win partnership. Kuwait aims at diversifying its economy and at developing its private sector; UNIDO already provides technical assistance through an ongoing project that aims at strengthening export capacities of manufacturing SMEs in Kuwait, which is funded by the Public Authority for Industry. “Immediate results of the project are an increased export competi- tiveness of small and medium-sized Kuwaiti enterprises (SMEs) in the chemicals, rubber and plastic sectors, as well as up-scaled and more sustainable institutional capacity of the Kuwaiti Export Development Centre, which in turn is capacitated to provide improved services to export-oriented SMEs. “The cooperation between the State of Kuwait and UNIDO should be expanded to include new concepts, which will greatly benefit Kuwait and its population.”

Core competencies Li Yong added that in previous discussions between high-level rep- resentatives and UNIDO staff, requests were formulated for additional UNIDO support in its areas of core competencies. At the policy level, Kuwait can benefit from the worldwide experience of UNIDO and can rely on the Organization’s expertise in the development of national frameworks that are conducive to the development of the private sec- tor. “Also, requests were formulated that address key requirements of the country, including entrepreneurship development and youth employment, capacity building on export promotion for the SMEs, and national system of innovation, for which UNIDO will meet with inter alia representatives of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs, the Kuwait Fund and the Kuwait National Fund for SMEs. It is important to mention that all solutions suggested by UNIDO have proven their worth in similar contexts, and that each resulting project will be tailored to the specific needs of our

VIENNA: UNIDO Director General LI Yong speaks to KUNA’s reporter. —KUNA

Kuwaiti partners. “At the same time, it is very important for Kuwait to engage directly with the multilateral system in bringing about Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development. The State of Kuwait is already an important development partner for many African and Arab countries, and a great contributor of Official Development Assistance (ODA). By channeling some of its efforts through the multilateral system, includ- ing through UNIDO, Kuwait could ensure a greater development impact. Through its partnership approach, UNIDO manages to lever- age its strategic partnerships with public and private operators, and to create a virtuous development cycle with enhanced benefits. Such process go well beyond any single institution and require strong part- nerships with all stakeholders; it is therefore of utmost importance to fully engage with the State of Kuwait,” Li Yong said.

ISID initiative UNIDO presented its vision of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) during the most recent UNIDO General Conference in Lima, Peru, held in December 2013. Li Yong was asked to elaborate on how Kuwait can benefit from this initiative, to which he replied: “At different levels, every country has relied on industrial devel- opment to achieve durable and resilient economic growth; industry is thus a core element of any development agenda. At the same time, we must change how industry is deployed to eliminate poverty within the next generation: we therefore need a rapid transition that creates a shared prosperity and that safeguards the environment. “In the case of Kuwait, working with UNIDO has many benefits: on the one hand, the Organization has an extensive track record working with countries that seek to move away from a too strong dependence on one economic sector. This effort is usually coupled with the need to diversify the economy. “On the other hand, the Organization has been able to assist public and private partners in delivering better services to its constituencies, especially in areas related to competitiveness and job creation. For Kuwait, working with UNIDO means that it can access a worldwide network of expertise and experience, and that all of its industrial needs and requirements can be delivered together in synergy, also by opti- mizing the interactions between the different solutions offered by the Organization. “The ISID vision is by nature holistic, and promotes a strong multi- level cooperation between all development actors. There is a strong alignment and correlation between ISID and the development aspira- tion and goals of Kuwait, whether in terms of developing and enhanc- ing its industrial performance or promoting youth entrepreneurship. UNIDO has extensive expertise and experience in assisting its Member States in achieving their development goals. With UNIDO, a stronger partnership between the Government, the private sector and other actors of Kuwait can be forged to work together in order to create the enabling environment for transformative changes. At the same time, Kuwait can help other countries achieve inclusive and sustainable industrial development by funding related UNIDO activities in areas of mutual interest,” Li Yong said.

Kuwait’s role Li Yong was asked about the role Kuwait can play in assisting UNIDO in the development and implementation of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID). He replied: “Kuwait plays an important role in the region and continues to provide considerable support to the Arab and African countries - through continuous contri- butions and development assistance. As an active member of the UNIDO’s Industrial Development Board (IDB), one of the Organization’s main governing body, Kuwait contributes to the strategic develop- ment of UNIDO’s development agenda and of related ISID activities. In the IDB, Kuwait can speak for many countries that it seeks to assist. “As one of the most advanced countries of the Arab world, Kuwait has taken an important leadership role, also through financing devel- opment projects. Kuwait is one of the leading providers of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to developing countries; the country could channel some of its assistance to an impartial, honest broker such as UNIDO to ensure that the benefits of its development aid are spread in an open and transparent manner. —KUNA TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief PM invited to Babtain participates Endocrine conference Dead Sea forum in cultural meeting KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Society of Endocrinology is organizing the 11th endocrine conference titled ‘New Advances in KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign KUWAIT: Head of the Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Endocrine Disorders.’ The event will be held from 26 to 27 of Al-Babtain’s Prize for poetic creativity Abdulaziz Al- received yesterday Jordanian Ambassador to Kuwait April, in cooperation with the Pediatric Endocrine Unit/Children Babtain will head to New York on April 21-22 to par- Mohammad Al-Kayed. The ambassador handed Sheikh Department at Sabah Hospital. The conference is sponsored by Sabah Al-Khaled an official invitation from Jordanian take in a UN cultural event. The UN meeting will the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences King Abdullah II to His Highness the Prime Minister focus on promoting the cultures of forgiveness and (KFAS), chairman of the society Dr Zaidan Al-Mazeedi said yes- Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to attend harmony against extremism, Babtain said. Secretary terday. Experts from the GCC will participate in the event to dis- the World Economic Forum meeting which will be held General Ban Ki-moon and other senior UN official cuss several topics on diabetes, hereditary diseases, hypothy- in the Dead Sea, Jordan, on May 21-23. — KUNA will attend the meeting, he added. —KUNA roidism, vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis. —KUNA

Pamela Olson is seen in a group photo with Kuwaitis for Jerusalem Abdulkarim Al-Shatti addresses the audience. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Committee members. ‘Fast Times in Palestine’ author talks about journey to Holy Land

By Faten Omar ence stumbling into the West Bank on a about what she wrote and how she lived writer and editor for the Palestine post-college backpacking trip. It brims in Palestine, with a presentation of happy Monitor and as foreign press coordinator KUWAIT: Pamela J Olson, author of ‘Fast with tension and tragedy, but also with and sad images. Olson told the audience for Dr Mustafa Barghouthi’s 2005 presi- Times in Palestine’, spoke about her book the humor, warmth, everyday foibles and about the pain that Palestinians face dai- dential campaign. and her experiences in Palestine on irrepressible hopes of a people deter- ly, explaining how she participated with Sunday at the National Library of Kuwait. mined to live free. Palestinian families in the olive harvest The event was organized by the Kuwaitis and partook in the Palestinian food for Jerusalem Committee. The talk was Palestinian life ‘msakhan’ and ‘maqloba.’ moderated by writer and traveler Olson is a small town girl from eastern Abdulkarim Al-Shatti, who backpacked Oklahoma, and like many Westerners, Human nature for 16 years around the world. “Being most of what Olson knew of the Middle Olson focuses in her book not only on from Middle East helped me survive with- East was informed by stereotypes. But violence, terror and politics, but also on out any financial support in other coun- when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, the daily rounds of house parties, con- tries. When people heard that I was from she found herself thrown with dizzying certs, barbecues, weddings, jokes, har- the Middle East, they saw me as a son of a speed into the realities of Palestinian life. vests and romantic drama that happen in pharaoh or a caliph! I wondered how She attended Palestinian president Yasser between. Funny, gorgeous, shocking and they loved the Middle East although they Arafat’s funeral, tour-guided Israeli friends galvanizing, ‘Fast Times in Palestine’ is a hadn’t seen it. But when I started to live around the West Bank, dated a gripping narrative that challenges peo- among them, I realized the values and Palestinian from a conservative village, ple’s ways of thinking, not only about the treasures we have,” he said. was held at gunpoint and injured by a Middle East, but about human nature, ‘Fast Times in Palestine’ is a memoir stun grenade and witnessing the 2005 cultural identity and the Arab and KUWAIT: Pamela Olson speaks dur- set amidst the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian place in the world. She lived in ing the event held at the National Pamela Olson signs a copy of her book. The book is an account of Olson’s experi- Olson started her talk with a summary Ramallah for two years, served as head Library of Kuwait, Sunday.

Burgan Bank hosts ‘Open Day’ for Ministry of Social Affairs Held at Farah Center for Elderly Care

KUWAIT: As part of its commitment various game sessions and competi- constantly seeks new avenues to fulfill to support people with special needs, tions and distributing gifts designed the needs of the less fortunate and the elderly and orphans, Burgan Bank especially for them, while also treating bring about a productive change that hosted an ‘Open Day’ for the Ministry them with packed lunches to add to would revolutionize the meaning of of Social Affairs and Labor on April 9, the momentous occasion and to corporate social responsibility within 2015. express the bank’s sincere feelings of Kuwait. By hosting this open day, which hope and care to each of those at the Burgan Bank has been supporting took place at Farah Specialist Center center. Children were entertained the Kuwaiti community through a for the Care and Rehabilitation of the with the bank’s “BuBa” Kids Account range of educational, health, sport Elderly in Sulaibikhat, Burgan Bank is mascot while enjoying an array of and social programs. The open day for looking to draw a smile on occupants activities. the center is an initiative that stands of the center, engaging with them in Burgan Bank’s commitment to the as one of many that the bank takes to fun and interactive activities and shar- people of Kuwait and the Ministry of enhance and improve the cultural ing joyous moments with people who Social Affairs and Labor throughout perspectives on special needs, are in need of assistance with day to the years has always been one of the orphans and elderly citizens in various day activities and general health and core priorities engraved into the communities while also assisting wellbeing. This was through enjoying bank’s overall principles. The bank them. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Qabas Al-Anbaa

A timely advice Malicious people

By Abdellatif Al-Duaij By Sami Al-Nisf

he parliamentary and political reactions to ack in the 1960s and 1970s, the world was full statements by US President Barak Obama of extreme terrorist groups claiming to be Twere disappointing, and reflect the miserable BMarxists such as ‘The Red Brigades’, ‘Baader political situation in Kuwait since the patriotic pow- Meinhof’ and many others. In addition, Marxist ers gave up leadership and guidance of political regimes in South Yemen and Somalia took the easi- action. The message or comment of the American est ways to the solve problems through bloodshed. president is basically directed to the people of the At that time, the Moroccan doctor and thinker, Al- Gulf region and not only its rulers. But the defeatist Mahdi bin Abboud wrote: “Marxism is not an ideolo- spirit and the mentality of the herd that dominates gy or a philosophy. It is rather a sort of behavior, the sentiments of most of us limited the correspon- manner and hatred and malice repressed within sick- dence and communications in regimes and leader- minded souls seeking revenge and never rests unless ships away from people, the most important side they kill. They find Marxism as a good excuse to do despite the diminishing of its interests. so. Today’s Marxists are the same as yesterday’s The message of the US president is not necessar- Kharijites (Khawarej), and the same as the ily directed to the regimes and rulers, as our politi- Qarmatians who used religion as an excuse for cians and members of parliament have taken it and killing, destruction and sabotage. Therefore, a strongly objected to it as interference in the Gulf’s FREEDOMS Marxist’s soul is a nihilist one, always seeking excuses and Kuwait’s political affairs and an intrusion on the to justify its crimes, and therefore, is never convinced decision makers in it, although we have been miss- by reason, logic or reality”. ing decision makers among the government and Regardless of their different names or tendencies, I believe people with extreme religious beliefs are people for a long time. Al-Jarida part of these ‘malicious people’ who exactly match The duty of our politicians and MPs is to contin- the description mentioned by the Moroccan thinker, ue keeping people in the dark and deceive the real and thence there is no use arguing with them using holders of interest, and this is the reason for their Quranic verses, the hadith or any stories of messen- objection and displeasure towards the statement gers, imams, masters or sound religious references and is not defending privacy and not in respect of Al-Anbaa because the followers of these organizations that Gulf countries’ and people’s rights to run their satanically sprung in various Arab countries are more affairs freely and independently as claimed, but to like demons in seek of disguises through which they maintain the policy of intimidation and scaring GCC protocol can hide the truth about how eager they are for from the Iranian “bugaboo” that regimes use to pre- manslaughter and bloodshed. If not found in current occupy people away from their fate and rights. religious organizations, they can easily be found I am convinced that Iran has ambitions and spe- By Saad Al-Motesh under any other names just in order to satisfy their cial policies for the Gulf and region, and maybe the bloodthirsty desires through misleading the youth world in general, but who says that the rest of the hen blaming someone dear to you for an tional diplomacy protocols. They rather represent a by having them join these organizations that have countries are angels, and that no one on the other attitude he took or a word he uttered, the special GCC protocol that does not depend on inter- nothing to do with Islam except in name. side does not have interests and ambitions that Wnicest thing to say, knowing for sure that he ests. It is rather built on mutual true love and respect, The nation’s enemies know for sure that there are contradict the Iranian interests? would gladly accept it from you, would be: “My heart which calms our hearts because it proves to the many of these malicious, black-hearted and ran- Countries and regimes may fight and struggle leaps out for you”, which would indicate that you are whole world that you, GCC leaders, are much bigger corous people amongst us, and therefore found the but the people remain, and I have a conviction that made for and not with them. The funny thing is that than many people believe you are and at the same perfect way to control them is by implanting agents the human being is peaceful by nature, and the the effect of the very same words can be seen reflect- time burn the hearts of those who hate and do not amongst their leaders - agents who would claim to Iranian human being is not different from the rest ed on the faces of those who hate you or hate those wish you nor your people any good. be dangerously extreme so that they could convince of Allah’s creations, and he is concerned like them who you love, because, naturally enough, when I say other extremists to join them for a while before they all with his prosperity, livelihood and future of his that my heart is ‘burnt’ for something, this will be very get killed off by air strikes while they are happy with children. So, whoever has something good in him cooling, heartening and relaxing to many hearts. stupidity - and my lord, we have so many of these! should expect that in the rest of people, who natu- One of the most famous and heartening things for One of the most famous and Suspicious revolutionary leaderships implanted rally, especially after the violent and devastating most of the GCC peoples is the images of GCC leaders between 1968 and 1970 who led the Arab nation to wars the world witnessed, are looking for peace meeting and greeting each other. The image of heartening things for most atrocities and defeats, destroyed their countries as well as those of others, namely neighbors, spread and stability. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum kissing killing, oppression and mass graves all over the Arab The warnings of the American president are the shoulder of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah of the GCC peoples is the timely. We are in an ‘alleged’ state of war with Israel world, are the ones who lead those sectarian and Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah indicates both love and Islamic militias and organizations regardless of their for over half a century, and we in the Gulf, at least, reverence to the fatherly leader. It is a kiss from a son images of GCC leaders were not harmed or destroyed. Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia, names with no consolation for the so many stupid to his father or older brother. Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani’s followers. Egypt and Syria - some of them do not have bor- kiss to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King meeting and greeting ders with Israel and some have peace treaties with I do hope that nobody would, even for a single Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud is also one from a son second, think that it was those malicious people’s it - yet they were hit by storms and destroyed by each other to his father. young militias, who lack proper mentality, capability strife without Israel making a move! So people, Those images have nothing to do with interna- and experience, who could so quickly and systemati- heed the advice and look into your domestic affairs. cally take over large capitals and cities like Sanaa, Mosul, Tripoli and Benghazi - yet more dangerous threats are still to come unless restricted by so many Crime other ‘Decisiveness Storms.’ Report KU closes morgue Airline steward after union statement caught with shabu KUWAIT: Only three hours after Kuwait University’s student KUWAIT: Airport customs officers caught an airline stew- union issued a statement demanding the closure of the ard with five envelopes of shabu. He was sent to the Drugs Faculty of Medicine’s morgue because of the contamination Control General Department. The suspect, Kuwaiti, arrived and pollution it has been causing, a meeting presided by KU’s from India and told authorities that the drugs were for his acting rector Dr Hayat Al-Hajji that included EPA Chairman own use. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad and a representative from KISR decided closing down the morgue because of its ‘considerable harm to students’. Six year old attacked, robbed Commenting on the decision, chairman of the KU student A thief beat a little child while she was playing and union’s administrative body Musab Al-Mulla said that the clo- stole her necklace before escaping. An Indian expat sure decision was late because lethal carcinogens started told Abu Halaifa police that his six year old girl was spreading over two years earlier although the faculty adminis- beaten and robbed while playing in the building yard tration knew how hazardous it was for both the teaching staff where he lives. Police registered the case as a felony. and students, but kept silent about it. Mulla added that all substances used in the faculty of med- icine ought to be regularly examined and that the carcino- Policeman hurt in crash genic fumes had spread all over the faculty through the AC A policeman escaped death and sustained a broken ducts. He also demanded examining all teaching staff mem- hand, as a reckless driver hit a police patrol at dawn bers, students and those working in the faculty to avoid a Sunday. The incident took place when a policeman was recurrence of what he described as a ‘disaster’ that caused about to investigate an accident between two cars, one of some teaching staff members and students cancer from using the drivers attempted to escape and hit the patrol car and a medically-banned substance inside the morgue. the policeman before escaping. Police are working on Meanwhile, MoH sources said that the infectious diseases arresting the suspect. ward at the psychological diseases hospital (Ward 5), which is already isolated from other hospital wards and dedicated to hospitalizing patients diagnosed with AIDS, chickenpox, Drug users arrested typhoid, German measles and bacterial meningitis, was Policemen arrested three men, Kuwaiti, Syrian and becoming dangerously overcrowded and packed with very Egyptian, in possession of narcotics and hashish. A dangerous patients who could infect others simply by cough- police patrol noticed a car in the middle of an open ing in their faces, despite health officials’ denials. The sources area with three men inside, then when they stressed that the ward only has 20 beds to accommodate approached the one of the men threw a cigarette out. patients that used to be hospitalized in a 200-bed hospital - The police found it to be hashish. The three were very the infectious diseases hospital. inebriated and were placed in the patrol car. A search Commenting on the complaint, the head of the esoteric of the suspects revealed another hashish joint found diseases department at the hospital Dr Mariam Al-Fadhli said with them. They were sent to concerned authorities. that the hospital was awarded by the Canadian Board last year because of its outstanding performance in handling infectious diseases and isolating each category’s patients separately. Policeman attacked Fadhli also stressed that no infections were passed from any Two men attacked a policeman in front of central patients to others because the hospital follows very strict prison. A security source said that a car in violation was hygienic safety procedures. She also stressed that those meas- stopped, and the driver was a bedoon, and his passenger ures were still followed in Ward 5 despite being overcrowded did not have an ID, so he was asked to get into the patrol sometimes. Notably, many complaints had been made about car to take him to the police station and check his identity. overcrowding Ward 5 with patients infected with various con- The two did agree, however, one attacked the policeman tagious diseases as a result of the current repairs at the infec- and insulted him. The two were placed under arrest. tious diseases hospital. —Al-Jarida/Al-Rai

Drug addict wanted Top judge Detectives are searching for a drug addict who fired a gun at Ahmadi police patrols as they attempted to arrest him in front of his house in Jaber Al-Ali area for says ‘enough’ disturbing his family. The family called for police help so police patrols went to the house, and were sur- KUWAIT: Deputy Chairman of the Higher Judiciary Council, Deputy Chairman of the Cassation Court and President of the prised by the suspect shooting at them, so they Constitutional Court Judge Yousuf Al-Mutawa expressed satisfac- backed up to safeguard the lives of his family mem- tion towards the international reports that revealed the truth of bers. those who attempted to obliterate the truth through forgery and spread documents that aimed to sully the reputation of the members of the judiciary. Mutawa lauded the professionalism of Syrian masseuse arrested Kroll, which sought the help of Bradley, which is specialized in The vice department at criminal detectives arrested a criminal evidence. He also lauded the efforts of all those who Syrian expat for offering his services to massage ladies over brought in Kroll, as it has a good reputation in examining infor- social media, they also arrested an Egyptian who runs a mation about what was said in a public gathering in Irada Square. brothel along with two Asian women, and sent them all for “Enough futility. Enough messing with the state’s wealth and we questioning and further action. will not allow them to insult the judiciary,” he said. —Al-Rai TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 Lamborghini, Ferrari in Islamic State attacks embassies in Libya ‘Fast and Furious’ crash

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NAJAF: People visit a cemetery for militiamen killed from fighting with Islamic State group militants in Najaf, Iraq. — AP Shiite cemetery grows with Islamic State war dead

NAJAF: Every chapter of Iraq’s modern history can be Kings, scientists, artists, warriors and millions of Gravediggers shrug off questions about how many backed Hezbollah brigades, which is separate from seen in this great, sprawling city of the dead, its others have a final resting place at Wadi Al-Salam, or people have been buried here since the cemetery’s the Lebanese group of the same name. Three tombs mausoleums stretching across the horizon from one the “Valley of Peace” in Arabic, buried one atop the founding a 1,000 years ago, simply saying millions. belong to an uncle and his two nephews who took of Shiite Islam’s holiest shrines. And now, its sandy other in one of the world’s largest cemeteries. The But in recent months, the growth of areas set aside up arms on their own in June. They died three days expanse grows again yet with the war dead killed by roughly 10-square-kilometer graveyard radiates out for Shiite militias fighting the Islamic State group has later in a bomb blast in Jurf Al-Sakhar, south of the country’s latest adversary, the extremists of the from the tomb of Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law been easy to see. Tens of thousands of Shiite men Baghdad. Jabir Al-Bugharban, a guard at that section Islamic State group. “I expect that these graveyards of the Prophet Muhammad and Shiite Islam’s most answered a nationwide call-to-arms by a top cleric, of the graveyard, said that it was originally built for will be expanded as more fighting against Daesh sacred martyr. In its narrow rows, a visitor can find Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, after the Sunni extrem- Iraqi Shiite fighters killed in Syria’s civil war, but later looms in the horizon,” said Ali Abdul-Aali, the city offi- those killed in Iraq’s long war in the 1980s with Iran ists seized a third of Iraq last year and threatened expanded to take in those killed in battle against the cial in charge of Najaf cemetery, using an Arabic or those slain in the sectarian bloodletting that fol- Shiites and their holy sites. Shiite militias, backed by Islamic State group in Iraq. During heavy fighting in acronym for the group. lowed the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. Iranian advisers, have played a key role in halting the Salahuddin and Anbar provinces, al-Bugharban said extremist’s advance and helped Iraq recently retake his graveyard receives about six bodies a day. the city of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown. In one At a separate section for the Shiite militia Asaib ahl section given to a Shiite militia, Ahmed Hamid al-Haq, or “the People of Righteousness,” militiaman Chinese hackers target washed the grave of his cousin killed three months Ahmed Sabah Hassan washed the grave of his broth- ago while fighting against the militants near the city er, Nouri, with rose water. Hassan said his brother was of Samarra, home to another holy Shiite shrine. killed along with five other fighters when a suicide Southeast Asia, India “Our family is very proud of my fallen cousin who car bomb hit their vehicle in mid-March near Tikrit, sacrificed his life in order to protect Shiite sacred where both fought against the Islamic State group. A shrines,” Hamid said. Iraqi authorities have refused to picture of Hassan’s brother, surrounded by artificial Attackers go for govt, military, commercial targets offer any casualty figures for security forces or the red and yellow flowers, stands on his tomb, along NEW DELHI: Hackers, most likely from China, have been Gomez, a researcher at De La Salle University in the Shiite militias battling the Islamic State group. But on with his inscribed name and the date of his death. spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia Philippines. The problem is not new: Singapore has report- a recent trip to Najaf, an Associated Press reporter Miniature Iraqi flags waved around it in the dusty and India uninterrupted for a decade, researchers at inter- ed sophisticated cyber-espionage attacks on civil servants saw at least two buses carrying coffins wrapped with wind. Before saying goodbye to his dead brother, net security company FireEye Inc said. In a report released in several ministries dating back to 2004. Iraqi flags. Abdul-Aali, the Najaf city official, said Hassan vowed to head to return to Tikrit to continue yesterday, FireEye said the cyber espionage operations authorities have offered six parcels of cemetery land the fight. “The death of my brother has only made me dated back to at least 2005 and “focused on targets - gov- Undetected to the Shiite militias, who must cover construction more determined to fight Daesh,” he said. “We will ernment and commercial - who hold key political, eco- The campaign described by FireEye differs from other and maintenance costs, as a “gesture of gratitude to never quit our struggle to defend our religion and nomic and military information about the region.” “Such a such operations mostly in its scale and longevity, Boland the Shiite fighters who joined the war against Daesh.” sacred places until the terrorists are rooted out from sustained, planned development effort coupled with the said. He said the group appeared to include at least two In the cemetery, one new section is for the Iranian- Iraq.” — AP (hacking) group’s regional targets and mission, lead us to software developers. The report did not offer other indica- believe that this activity is state-sponsored - most likely the tions of the possible size of the group or where it’s based. Chinese government,” the report’s authors said. The group remained undetected for so long it was able to Bryce Boland, Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific re-use methods and malware dating back to 2005, and at FireEye and co-author of the report, said the attack was developed its own system to manage and prioritize still ongoing, noting that the servers the attackers used attacks, even organizing shifts to cope with the workload were still operational, and that FireEye continued to see and different languages of its targets, Boland said. attacks against its customers, who number among the tar- The attackers focused not only on governments, but on gets. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm any of the ASEAN itself, as well as corporations and journalists inter- assertions made in the report. China has always denied ested in China. Other targets included Indian or Southeast accusations that it uses the Internet to spy on govern- Asian-based companies in sectors such as construction, ments, organizations and companies. energy, transport, telecommunications and aviation, Asked about the FireEye report, foreign ministry FireEye says. Mostly they sought to gain access by sending spokesman Hong Lei said: “I want to stress that the Chinese so-called phishing emails to targets purported to come government resolutely bans and cracks down on any hack- from colleagues or trusted sources, and containing docu- ing acts. This position is clear and consistent. Hacking ments relevant to their interests. attacks are a joint problem faced by the international com- Boland said it wasn’t possible to gauge the damage munity and need to be dealt with cooperatively rather done as it had taken place over such a long period, but than via mutual censure.” The Cyberspace Administration he said the impact could be “massive”. “Without being of China, the Internet regulator, didn’t immediately able to detect it, there’s no way these agencies can work respond to written requests for comment. out what the impacts are. They don’t know what has China has been accused before of targeting countries in been stolen.” Pornchai Rujiprapa, Minister of Information South and Southeast Asia. In 2011, researchers from and Communication Technology for ASEAN member McAfee reported a campaign dubbed Shady Rat which Thailand, said the government was proposing a new law attacked Asian governments and institutions, among other to combat cyber attacks as existing legislation was out- targets. Efforts by the 10-member Association of Southeast dated. “So far we haven’t found any attack so big it threat- Asian Nations (ASEAN) to build cyber defenses have been ens national security, but we are concerned if there is any sporadic. While ASEAN has long acknowledged its impor- in the future. That’s why we need a new law to handle it,” tance, “very little has come of this discourse,” said Miguel he said.— Reuters INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Exhibit showcases world of children during Holocaust JERUSALEM: Zeev Portenoy was nine with pictures and testimonies, but also through the war, passing from one ghet- when the Nazis invaded Tuchin, his small sculptures and short animated clips to to the next,” she said. “The bear sur- Ukrainian hometown, in 1941, forcing that illustrate lives where no memento vived better than me and better than his family and the other Jews into a ghet- remained. “The world of the child, the many people. Although he became dis- to while he went on the run. For the next humanity which is expressed through abled in the war. He’s missing an ear and four years, he wandered aimlessly around their creativity, their thoughts, is this for- an arm. He was still a great hero.” the countryside, pretending to be est... a forest of young souls,” said Yad A series of drawings in colored pencil Ukrainian or Polish just to survive. He Vashem chairman Avner Shalev. Yehudit tells the story of Stefan Cohn who was 14 knew he was Jewish but just didn’t Inbar, the exhibition’s curator, said there when he was forced to work at the brick- understand why everyone wanted to kill were very few mementos of the lives of laying factory in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He him, writing down his experiences in a the 1.5 million who perished-about the survived, drawing detailed pictures of his song. same as the number of children living in experience when the camp was liberated “There was this fear that one day they Israel today. “If the adults thought they in 1945. Where there is no memento, would find me so I kept the song on me,” understood what was happening, the small sculptures help tell the stories. A he said. “I put the song inside one of my children didn’t understand the situation tiny white ceramic bookcase illustrates long boots so that if they caught me and at all,” she said. that of a Polish boy called Jakov killed me, somebody would find the Goldstein, who was four when the war song.” Now in his 80s, his voice breaks as Teddy bear hero began, and spent more than two years he sings the words he wrote as a child: “I At the entrance is a long showcase hiding in a tiny cramped attic of a local was still a small lad / when the Nazi beast inside which are dozens of worn teddy family. KFAR HAROEH: Photo shows a display on the wall of the Shem Olam Holocaust / took over my life / And took me away bears and dolls with china faces from the “My only consolation through this institute in Kfar Haroeh, Israel. —AP from / My parents forever.” He survived 1930s and 40s. This is the world’s largest long dark period was books. If it weren’t the genocide. But 1.5 million other Jewish collection of surviving Holocaust-era toys. for my incessant reading there is no tray the camps as model settlements. the sun shone we would try to burn the children did not. Their stories are the “It sounds like a lot but if you think that doubt I would have become ‘brain dead’ “They came in a jeep with a red cross on garbage,” said Weyl, 75. He said the post- focus of a new exhibition at Jerusalem’s each child had a toy-a doll or a teddy, or a or even worse,” says a snippet of his testi- it and I as a child was very impressed by war period was as frightening as the war Yad Vashem Holocaust museum which small wooden toy-and then think that mony. this jeep and made a drawing of it,” he itself. “All the grown-ups were trauma- opened ahead of Israel’s Holocaust there are less than 50, then you realise says, pointing to a yellowed reproduc- tized and that influenced the children.” memorial day which starts at sunset on how many didn’t survive,” Inbar said. One ‘I didn’t understand’ tion of his picture. “I didn’t understand Weyl’s childhood was dominated by Wednesday. of the bears belongs to Inna Rehavia, who Martin Weyl was only four when he anything-I was a child.” World War II and its aftermath, leaving Entitled “Stars Without A Heaven” the was born in Krakow and was saved along was sent to Theresienstadt concentra- Small children were largely left to him with “a constant, existential fear”. exhibit gives expression to the lives of with her mother by two Polish families. “I tion camp in what is now the Czech their own devices, finding whatever they “It’s particularly common to people who children during the Holocaust through a went through the whole war with my ted- Republic. While he was there, the camp could to play with. “I remember playing were in the Holocaust. Existential fear is “symbolic forest” of 33 pillars, with each dy bear. He’s called Mishu and I got him was smartened up for a Red Cross visit as on the garbage dump in the camp. We something which doesn’t ever leave bearing a different personal story along when I was born. He was with me part of a Nazi propaganda effort to por- would take a piece of glass and when me.”— AFP Fighting in Yemen risks stirring sectarian hatred Conflict deepens regional instability

ADEN/DUBAI: Three weeks of fighting across Yemen may be pushing a country where Sunnis and Shiites have prayed in the same mosques for centuries toward a sectarian war. Most com- batants deny they are motivated by religion in the conflict. Iran-allied Shiite Houthi rebels say they are leading a just revolution and Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia contends it has been bombing the Houthis to protect the Yemeni state. Militiamen from the south cite defence of their homeland. But there are signs that the sectarian hatred that has engulfed the Middle East since the TRIPOLI: Officials survey the grounds of the Moroccan Embassy in Tripoli, Libya after Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 is creeping into a bomb left in a garbage bin exploded yesterday. —AP Yemen’s war, fueled by a rivalry between region- al powers Saudi Arabia and Iran. Conflict and power struggles are not new to Yemen, one of the most heavily armed societies in the world. Islamic State attacks But the sectarian trend was captured on a video shared by Yemeni Facebook users. 2 embassies in Libya A teenager sits blindfolded and cries, plead- ing to his captors that he is only 13. He was detained by militiamen while fighting for the TRIPOLI: A bomb exploded at the gate of since a rival faction called Libya Dawn Houthis in the southern city of Aden. “Why did the Moroccan embassy in the Libyan capi- seized Tripoli in August, setting up a rival you come here?” a Sunni gunman shouts. “We’re tal yesterday, causing some damage but administration. here to defend our religion in jihad against the hurting nobody, a security official said, only apostates and Houthis...you’re not people, TEHRAN: Yemeni expatriates and Iranians chant slogans during a protest against the Saudi- hours after gunmen attacked South Korea’s Airport site hacked you’re animals!” After nearly three weeks of led coalition strikes on Yemen in front of the Saudi Embassy yesterday. —AP mission in Tripoli. Militants claiming loyalty In another development, an Australian airstrikes by Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Gulf Islam, but because Southerners felt shut out of In the deadliest religious attack, Sunni sui- to Islamic State said on twitter they were airport website was offline yesterday after neighbours who see the Houthis as Iranian pup- politics and oil resources that benefited north- cide bombers claimed by Islamic State blew responsible for both attacks, the latest being taken over by pro-Islamic State hack- pets, Yemen risks being carved up along reli- erners. “There’s a strong feeling of oppression themselves up at two Houthi mosques in the strikes against foreigners, embassies or oil- ers who published messages supporting gious lines. and humiliation that Northerners are invading. capital Sanaa on March 20, killing 137 worship- fields in Libya. It was not possible to verify the jihadist group. Police said hackers “This scenario is likely if the war goes on. If But since there’s no leadership and no army, the pers. The Houthis began a lightning push the authenticity of the claims. appeared to have targeted the web host young men continue to die, towns are invaded armed groups lack discipline and this anger on toward the southern city of Aden aimed, they Islamic State militants have exploited used by the Hobart International Airport in and homes shelled, the appeal of extremist reli- regional lines could turn sectarian,” Salmi said. said, not just at Saudi-backed president Abed- chaos in the North African country where Tasmania and not the facility itself, and no gious groups will only grow,” Mahmoud al- Rabbu Mansour Hadi but at Sunni militants they two governments allied to a host of armed direct threats were made. “A message Salmi, a history professor at Aden University Al-Qaeda Targets Houthis believe are his allies. “The largest element in the groups fight for control four years after the placed on the site contained a statement said. Houthis have been fighting what they call Deadly attacks have mounted for months (pro-Hadi militias) was Al-Qaeda,” Abdel Malik ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. The bomb supporting ISIS,” Tasmanian police said in a marginalisation by the state for over a decade. after Houthi fighters pushed beyond their tradi- al-Ijri, a member of the Houthi political bureau, damaged the gate and a residential build- statement, using another acronym for the But the militia is now also motivated by a desire tional redoubts in the northern highlands last told Reuters. The group denies receiving mili- ing next to the Moroccan embassy located radical group commonly known as IS. to eliminate the hardline Sunni Al-Qaeda from year and expanded their control. Al-Qaeda, tary support from Iran and says it fights on in the up market Ben Ashour district, a Authorities said identical messages had Yemen. As the chaos spreads, there is a danger which specialised in carrying out bombings behalf of all Yemenis in a war that is more a security official and Reuters reporter at the appeared on websites around the world that all sides will exploit their religious beliefs against Shiites in Iraq designed to foment sec- struggle for the country’s future than a feud scene said. Nobody was hurt by the blast since late 2014. “The group claiming while settling old scores. tarian conflict, has set its sights on Houthis. Al- between sects. Al-Ijri describes Yemen’s conflict yesterday, the official said. On Sunday, gun- responsibility for the hacking appear to The formerly independent and socialist Qaeda gunmen boarded a bus in east Yemen as exclusively political. But he acknowledges men fired shots at the South Korean non-discriminately target organizations South has long felt aggrieved by the North, not last August, shooting and stabbing to death 14 that some parties could exploit the sectarian embassy in Tripoli killing two local security who use web hosts such as the one used by because it is home to the Zaydi sect of Shiite off-duty troops for being “Houthi apostates”. element to push their agenda.—Reuters guards and wounding a third person, South Hobart International Airport,” police said. Korean and Libyan officials said. Officials were notified that the website A South Korean foreign ministry official had been defaced on Sunday morning, in Seoul said there were no Korean casual- with the site remaining down yesterday. ties, adding that the embassy was staffed “Tasmania Police have been monitoring Unchallenged Bashir set to by two foreign service officials and one activity at the airport premises, and there administrative staff member. He said the has been no suggestion of targeted activi- government was considering relocating, ties on-site,” they added. The airport’s oper- extend rule as Sudan votes but did not elaborate. Libyan militants pro- ators said website security was being fessing loyalty to Islamic State have reviewed with the IT service providers. KHARTOUM: Sudan’s President Omar 2011 secession, which saw it lose groups have also accused security ties are standing for the state and claimed several high-profile attacks on for- Australia is involved in the US-led coalition Al-Bashir, wanted for alleged war nearly three quarters of its oil services of stifling dissent in the run- national parliaments in the country of eigners in Libya this year, including an against IS in Iraq and has increasingly been crimes, is expected to extend his rule resources. Conflict has also plagued up to the voting. Police in the eastern nearly 38 million people, the National assault on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli and sounding the alarm over radicalized citi- in elections starting today, boycotted the South Kordofan and Blue Nile coastal city of Port Sudan broke up a Electoral Commission (NEC) said. the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. zens, with about 90 thought to be fighting by the mainstream opposition and areas since 2011, and Darfur since small student demonstration against Voting starts at 0500 GMT and closes They have also claimed several assaults on with the Islamic State group in Iraq and already facing international criticism. 2003. Bashir was indicted by the the elections on Sunday, witnesses 10 hours later over the three days of embassies such as those of Egypt and Syria. All of the country’s main carriers fly With 15 little-known candidates run- International Criminal Court in 2009 said, and residents at the Kalma IDP the election, which will be monitored Algeria in Tripoli, attacking mostly empty into Hobart, the state capital, including ning against him, 71-year-old Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes camp in South Darfur also held a by 15 international organizations, buildings as most countries have pulled Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Jetstar. It faces no real competition in the sec- against humanity in Darfur, and for peaceful protest against the vote at including the Arab League, the African out diplomatic staff because of the security retains the name “international airport” ond contested vote since he seized genocide the following year. Some the headquarters of the peacekeepers Union and east African regional bloc situation. Libya’s internationally recognized despite no longer offering scheduled over- power in 1989. Sudanese will also vote 300,000 people have been killed in who provide their security. IGAD, according to the NEC. The presi- government has been based in the east seas flights.— Agencies for national and state lawmakers in fighting in the western region, the The government has dismissed dential elections could theoretically the three-day election, with Bashir’s United Nations says. Rebels have said such criticism, with presidential assis- go to a second round if no candidate ruling National Congress Party (NCP) they will disrupt elections across the tant Ibrahim Ghandour saying the wins a majority, and the results are Dozens go on trial over expected to dominate. three war-torn areas. Officials say vot- elections are “historic”. Forty-four par- expected in late April.—AFP Preparations were underway at ing will not take place in one district in Turkey’s mining disaster polling stations in the capital, but Darfur and seven in South Kordofan, many on the streets of Khartoum were but will go ahead uninterrupted in AKHISAR: Dozens of suspects go on trial yester- Revolution-era Britain. The tragedy sparked unmoved by the vote. “Everyone 7,100 polling stations nationwide. day over modern Turkey’s worst mining disaster protests that rattled the government a year knows the result of this election,” said that left 301 miners dead in the western town of after the mass anti-government rallies in Mutawakil Babikir, a 43-year-old shop- No ‘credible’ result Soma and tarnished the image of the govern- Istanbul and elsewhere, with an advisor to keeper. Taxi driver Mohammed Saad The European Union has already ment under Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Forty-five Erdogan raising tensions by kicking a protestor Al-Din said he would cast his ballot for said the elections cannot produce a people are to stand trial, including eight former in Soma in an incident caught on camera. Bashir but would not bother with the “credible” result because Bashir’s NCP top managers from the Soma Komur group that The disaster happened when one of the pits legislative election. “I will vote for snubbed a meeting with the opposi- ran the mine who are charged with murder. The of the Soma mine became engulfed by flames Bashir because bringing him back to tion to organize a national dialogue trial, which is expected to be lengthy, is being and carbon monoxide gas, trapping a team of power will bring peace,” the 65-year- last month. Norway, the United States heard around 50 kilometers from Soma in west- some 800 miners working inside. Prosecutors old said. Bashir toppled Sudan’s dem- and Britain also warned “an environ- ern Turkey by a court in the town of Akhisar. It is say that the miners were killed after inhaling ocratically elected government in an ment conducive to participatory and scheduled to get underway at 0630 GMT. gas and toxic smoke from the fire which was Islamist-backed coup and is Sudan’s credible elections does not exist”. The accident on May 13, 2014 raised new caused when an abandoned pile of coal left longest-serving leader since inde- Khartoum released two top political concerns about Turkey’s dire industrial safety next to an electrical transformer caught fire. pendence. detainees on Thursday, a move their record and exposed the lackluster reaction of Many miners died within minutes and only He won 2010 presidential elections lawyer said was aimed at easing inter- the government led by Erdogan, now president those working far from the centre of the fire that were marred by an opposition national pressure before the vote. but then premier. Erdogan had notoriously managed to escape to the surface. The body of boycott and criticized for failing to Amin Makki Madani and Farouk appeared to play down the disaster, saying that the last miner missing was brought to the sur- meet international standards. Under Abu Issa were arrested in December KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir (center) casts his “accidents are in the nature of the business” and face four days later, bringing the final toll to 301 his rule Sudan’s economy has faltered, for signing an agreement aimed at vote in the presidential elections at a polling station in the Saint comparing it to accidents in Industrial dead and 162 wounded.—AFP suffering badly from South Sudan’s uniting opposition to Bashir. Rights Francis school in Khartoum yesterday. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 Achilles heels? Scandals, gaffes could haunt Hillary

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton looks ahead to 2016 with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and the charges of fraud, the McDougals went to jail. The Benghazi as the year Americans may finally elect their first- subsequent December 1998 impeachment of Clinton Clintons were never prosecuted, but the name Perhaps Clinton’s chief failure while top diplomat ever female president, but her past is freighted with by the House of Representatives for perjury and Whitewater could serve as a dog whistle for conser- was the response to the attacks on the US mission in blemishes and gaffes that could compromise if not obstructing a federal investigation. He was acquitted vatives eager to dredge up the 1990s controversies Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Republicans sink her campaign. Clinton intends to draw on her by the Senate, but the episode is a scab that might in Clintonland. hammer her for not doing enough, and accuse the wealth of experience as first lady, US senator and be peeled back over the next 18 months. “It’s not administration of changing the “talking points” issued globe-trotting secretary of state to convince voters Hillary’s fault,” Republican Senator Rand Paul, himself Rich woman, poor woman by the CIA into downplaying the assault. But what she is the best person for the job. But the Republican a likely presidential candidate, said last year about The Clintons are wealthy by any measure, but that might live on through the 2016 campaign is Clinton’s National Committee is already labeling her past as a Bill’s trysts. But Paul said the affair should now be fair has not always been the case. In Arkansas they lived exasperated response when questioned by “decades-long record of secrecy and scandal.” Here’s game, and warned of the damage of sending a phi- in relative modesty. Although that changed in Republicans over what prompted the assault that a look: landerer back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as first Washington, Clinton blurted out to ABC television killed four Americans. “What difference, at this point husband. last year that the Clintons were “dead broke” when does it make?” Clinton boomed in a 2013 Senate hear- The Lewinsky affair they left the White House. They were indeed saddled ing, in comments that quickly went viral. Complicating President Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions have Whitewater with Bill Clinton’s huge legal fees from the Lewinsky the never-ending Benghazi probe, the House commit- long dogged the superstar Democratic couple. Arkansas was a mixed blessing for the Clintons. scandal. But they nonetheless purchased a reported tee investigating the attack learned in March that Arkansas employee Paula Jones sued Clinton for sex- They launched their political dynasty there, but it $1.7-million home in Chappaqua, New York in 1999, Clinton contravened government rules by exclusively ual harassment. The president testified in 1998 that was also scene of a land-development scandal and a seven-bedroom manor in Washington a year using a private email account during her four years at he had intimate relations with former reporter involving the Clintons while Bill was governor. He later for $2.85 million. They both have made millions the State Department. Those emails were kept on her Gennifer Flowers. Years earlier, he had sat next to and Hillary teamed up with Whitewater in speaking fees since, and Hillary quickly clarified private computer server. And while Clinton insisted she Hillary and insisted on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that accu- Development Corporation partners Jim and Susan later that she has had “terrific” opportunities in life. gave all official emails to State, she has refused to turn sations of a Clinton-Flowers affair were false. But the McDougal on a business venture that soured in the But Republicans could still aim to paint her as out of over the server to a neutral party as requested by the truly explosive scandal was the relationship Bill had 1980s. Amid disputes over loans, shady deals and touch. House committee’s chairman. — AFP Hillary kicks off long-awaited second run for White House Republicans launch pre-emptive attacks

NEW YORK: Hillary Clinton cast herself as a favorite to be her party’s presidential nomi- raise alarm among her Wall Street backers. my heart out to earn every single vote, champion for everyday Americans on nee, a crowd of potential candidates are “Families have fought their way back because I know it’s your time,” Clinton said Sunday, kicking off her long-awaited sec- vying for the Republican nomination. from tough economic times. But it’s not in her email to supporters. She mentioned ond run for the White House with a vow to enough - not when the average CEO makes her father’s small business, her mother’s fight for a level playing field for those Video stresses economic issues about 300 times what the average worker “tough childhood” and her baby grand- recovering from tough economic times. Clinton’s campaign will be based around makes,” Clinton said in an email to support- daughter. Clinton, who begins the 2016 presidential her plans to address economic inequality ers. One analyst noted the picture of Opinion polls show Clinton has a huge race as the commanding Democratic front- and will tout the historic nature of her effort Clinton on her launch website, holding a lead over potential Democratic rivals, and runner, entered the fray with a flurry of to become the first woman US president, paper coffee cup and talking to a gray- few are expected to enter the race. A video, email and social media announce- aides said. In announcing her presidential haired man and woman, showed her appre- Reuters-Ipsos tracking poll shows Clinton ments that indicated she had absorbed bid in 2007, Clinton spoke to the camera ciation for one set of voters. “Having your backed by more than 60 percent of some of the lessons of her painful 2008 alone while sitting on a couch and asked maiden voyage launched with senior citi- Democrats. Massachusetts Senator loss and would not take anything for voters to join her later for a series of Web zens may not look like the future but it’s a Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of the party’s granted this time. chats. This time, her video featured a mix of core constituency,” said Linda Fowler, a liberal wing who says she is not running, is When she lost the Democratic nominat- Americans talking about their futures and political scientist at Dartmouth University. a distant second at 18 percent. So far, only ing battle to Barack Obama, her campaign their economic troubles, along with images Aides have said Clinton’s campaign former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia and was heavily criticized for conveying a sense of Clinton in listening mode and only a schedule will feature plenty of smaller former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, of arrogance and entitlement, and for being small snippet of her speaking. Her events where she can listen to voters. Her who both languish in single digits in polls, out of touch with the party’s progressive announcements featured strong words but visit to Iowa, which holds the kickoff con- are the only Democrats to make moves wing. This time, the video launching her no specific policy proposals about the test in the nominating process early in toward a candidacy. campaign portrayed her as a warmer, more struggles of working Americans and the 2016, will be a “listening tour.” It will include empathetic figure and laid the groundwork need for economic equality. That included a a roundtable discussion with students and Pre-emptive strikes for a more populist economic agenda. Eight shot at executive salaries that reflected educators on Tuesday and small-business Even before Clinton entered the race, years ago, her launch message was “I’m in it populist rhetoric to a degree that could owners on Wednesday. “I’m going to work potential Republican opponents took to win.” On Sunday, she shifted the atten- swings at her. Former Florida Governor Jeb BRASILIA: A military police officer sprays tear gas at a tion to voters, declaring on her new web- Bush criticized her guidance of US foreign demonstrator during a protest in Brasilia, Brazil. — AP site, “Everyday Americans need a champion. policy as secretary of state. “We must do I want to be that champion.” better than the Obama-Clinton foreign poli- Angry Brazilians Her roll-out included a sophisticated use cy that has damaged relationships with our of social media, including Twitter, Facebook allies and emboldened our enemies,” Bush and YouTube - a contrast to her last cam- said in a video released by the political march against paign that was seen as less adept than action committee Right to Rise. Many Obama’s at using technology to convey Democrats have been waiting for Clinton to Rousseff’s govt messages. In a tweet on Sunday night, get back into the White House fight since Clinton said: “Road trip! Loaded the van and the day in June 2008 when she pulled out set off for IA.” A campaign aide said Clinton of her primary battle against Obama with BRASILIA: Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to left her home in Chappaqua, New York, for an expression of regret that she could not the streets Sunday, venting anger over government cor- ruption and economic drift a month after larger protests the drive to Iowa, where she will attend her crack “that highest and hardest glass ceiling gathered more than a million people. With cries of “Dilma first campaign events this week. In the this time.” out” and “corrupt government,” marchers-many wearing tweet from a stop in Pennsylvania, Clinton But Clinton still has to convince some the yellow and green jerseys of the national football said: “Met a great family when we stopped liberals that she is the best candidate to team-called for President Dilma Rousseff’s ouster and an this afternoon. Many more to come.” tackle issues like income inequality and the end to impunity for corruption. Police put turnout at But showing a more down-to-earth side power of Wall Street banks. Some liberal 585,000 based on a count from 100 cities, while organiz- while connecting with ordinary voters will groups are pushing Warren, who has vocally ers gave an estimate of 582,000, albeit not including what be a challenge for Clinton, one of the most criticized some Wall Street practices, to appeared to be by far the largest gathering in business famous figures in the United States after challenge Clinton. The Clinton campaign’s center Sao Paulo. Beyond the widening graft scandal at decades as the wife of former President Bill finance chair, Dennis Cheng, emailed state-owned oil giant Petrobras, protesters also expressed Clinton, a US senator and secretary of state. donors and bundlers on Sunday telling displeasure over rising inflation and soaring utility bills. Indeed, her launch drew praise from French them to expect an email message from Those pocketbook issues-as well as the perceived ero- Clinton herself explaining her vision for the and German government ministers. While Hillary Rodham Clinton sion of workers’ rights-have fueled growing opposition to Clinton enters the race as prohibitive campaign and the presidency.— Reuters the leftist president, re-elected in October. Rio hosted two modest protests at the tourist magnet of Copacabana beach, where media put participants at some 10,000. But an afternoon march in business hub Sao History made but US, Cuba Deal or not, US Paulo drew a much larger crowd of some 275,000 accord- ing to police. Organizers of that march gave unofficial states will keep estimates of between 600,000 and 1.2 million, which face a bumpy road ahead would make the national total comparable with that of a sanction grip on Iran month ago. “It is very difficult to draw the masses out onto the streets every month,” political analyst Andre PANAMA CITY: Cuba and the United States just made history. does US foreign policy from Havana. “Let’s not fool ourselves. We WASHINGTON: As the United States and Iran come closer to Cesar told AFP, citing a lack of central leadership to galva- Now comes the hard part. In the first meeting of its kind in nearly have a lot of differences,” said Castro, 83, who has been an enemy a historic nuclear deal, many US states are likely to stick with nize a diffuse protest movement. 60 years, US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro of the United States for most of his life and still railed passionately their own sanctions on Iran that could complicate any warm- Dianara Loubet, a 75-year-old yoga instructor, said “we sat down together for over an hour on Saturday at a regional sum- against its past policies even as he praised Obama as “an honest ing of relations between the long-time foes. In a little known have come to show what is going on in Brazil-this govern- mit in Panama, moving a step closer to restoring diplomatic ties. It man”. “In other words, we’re willing to talk about everything with aspect of Iran’s international isolation, around two dozen ment is doing nothing. The people must show their dis- was the result of nearly two years of secret talks and quiet diploma- patience, with a lot of patience,” added the army general and states have enacted measures punishing companies operat- satisfaction.” Marchers converged on the capital Brasilia, cy and the mood was positive, both inside the room and out, younger brother of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Obama and ing in certain sectors of its economy, directing public pen- where Latin American leaders praised Obama for ending decades Castro announced in December they would work to re-establish where some protesters hung a banner calling for the sion funds with billions of dollars in assets to divest from the of US hostility toward the communist-ruled island. Obama clearly full diplomatic ties severed in 1961, reopen embassies in each oth- army to intervene. Similar protests on March 15 brought firms and sometimes barring them from public contracts. sees Cuba as a possible success story for his policy of engaging US er’s capitals and free up trade and travel. out more than 1.7 million people, according to police, In more than half those states, the restrictions expire only foes. Restoring diplomatic relations is easy enough, requiring little although pollsters Datafolha questioned Sao Paulo fig- if Iran is no longer designated to be supporting terrorism or At a time of multiple risks to his foreign policy record - from more than the presidents’ agreement. But normalizing overall rela- ures seen as inflated. “We want all of Brazil to come out if all US federal sanctions against Iran are lifted - unlikely out- Iran’s nuclear program and the war in Syria to Russian involvement tions could take years. Cuba has shown no signs that it is willing to into the streets (but) we are not here to break records,” comes even in the case of a final nuclear accord. Two states, in Ukraine and the violence of Islamic State - getting on well with allow wider political rights. The government dismisses dissidents as said Rizzia Arreiro, a 35-year-old Rio protester from the Kansas and Mississippi, are even considering new sanctions Cuba looks relatively easy. “The Cold War is over,” Obama said. “I mercenaries, moves quickly to stifle dissent, and Castro has made Vem Pra Rua (“take to the streets”) protest group. targeting the country. The prospect of unwavering sanctions think there is a strong majority both in the United States and in clear he does not intend to allow any relaxation of Communist at the state level, or new ones, just as the federal govern- Cuba that says our ability to engage, to open up commerce and Party rule. And while Cuba is looking to draw in foreign investment, ment reaches a landmark agreement with Iran risks widen- Calls for Rousseff ouster travel and people-to-people exchanges is ultimately going to be any US businesses seeking to set up there need the government’s Public confidence in Brazil’s political class has slumped ing a divide between states and the federal government on good for the Cuban people.” Yet the gulf between the two sides blessing. Castro’s government moves cautiously, as it has shown a crucial foreign policy issue. Though US states have often with the detention or questioning of dozens of lawmak- remains wide, illustrated by the absence of US and Cuban flags at with its own market-style economic reforms in recent years. ers and officials, including the treasurer of the ruling coordinated their measures with federal sanctions on Iran, the carefully orchestrated meeting on Saturday in a sparsely fur- their divestment actions sometimes take a tougher line on Workers Party over an alleged multibillion-dollar kickback nished conference room. Terrorism list scheme at Petrobras. Thomaz Albuquerque, a 38-year-old foreign firms with Iran links than is the case under federal The US economic embargo, which has blocked nearly all trade In the short term, Cuba is still waiting to be removed from the policy. attending a Copacabana rally, pointed to “political and between the two nations for the last five decades, is firmly in place. US State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, a unilater- legal reasons to call for Dilma’s impeachment.” “She was “Our investment sanctions are not tied in any way to Cuba’s human rights record stills draw scorn from Washington, as al designation that Cuba rejects as unjust. Obama is expected to President Obama’s negotiations with the Iranians,” said Don the president of the Petrobras board during the worst inform Congress within a few days he is taking Cuba off the list, phase of the ‘Petrolao’ graft scandal. That is reason Gaetz, a Republican Florida state senator who sponsored which would free the island from some economic sanctions. There legislation in 2007 punishing companies with investments in enough,” Albuquerque said. had been some expectations that Obama would announce his Rousseff is herself not under investigation, despite her Iran’s energy sector. “They would have to change their intention to remove the terrorism designation and move forward behavior dramatically and we would not be necessarily guid- former ties to the company, but the widening probe has on restoring diplomatic relations at the summit. Though there is lit- fingered a swath of her party colleagues and close allies. ed by President Obama or any other president’s opinion tle doubt that Havana will be taken off the blacklist, US officials pri- about the Iranians,” Gaetz said. A final accord, which is still A Datafolha poll out Saturday found that 63 percent of a vately have made clear that they have sought to use the timing of 2,800-strong sample said Rousseff should personally be being negotiated ahead of a June 30 deadline, would likely the move as leverage in broader normalization negotiations. lift US sanctions on Iran’s crude oil sales to other countries investigated but 64 percent said she would still retain A number of unresolved issues have slowed down the process, office even under investigation. Eight in 10 Brazilians said and loosen restrictions on Iran’s financial system. Federal including Washington’s wish that Cuba allow US diplomats to trav- sanctions on Iran tied to issues such as human rights and ter- Rousseff was aware of the dealings at Petrobras, a claim el around the island and relax the police presence around the she vehemently denies. Rousseff’s popularity ratings have rorism would remain in place. Among around a dozen states diplomatic mission in Havana, where visiting Cubans are closely contacted directly by Reuters, legislators in Georgia, Florida, crashed below 20 percent, not just because of the watched. “They’re building a road, and when you’re building a road and Michigan said they had no intention of changing their Petrobras affair but also as a result of a staggering econo- you don’t expect to finish right away,” Brazilian President Dilma Iran policies even in light of a federal deal. State officials in my after four years of anemic growth. Rousseff has PANAMA CITY: US President Barack Obama (right) shakes Rousseff, speaking in Panama, said of the U.S.-Cuba relationship. Connecticut and Illinois said new local legislation would be responded with budget cuts, but promised to protect hands with Cuba’s President Raul Castro on the sidelines Obama wants the Republican-controlled US Congress to dismantle needed to change their divestment policies, even if a deal welfare programs that form the foundation of support for of the Summit of the Americas at the ATLAPA Convention the embargo and some allies believe a coalition of Democrats and were signed. —Reuters her party.— AFP center in Panama City. — AFP Republican free-marketeers may succeed. —Reuters INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 Kenya ‘grass cutter’ gang rapists jailed for 15 years

NAIROBI: A Kenyan court convicted three whom Liz identified were ordered by police men yesterday for the brutal gang rape of a to cut grass around the police station as pun- schoolgirl, boosting their original punish- ishment. Other suspects are on the run, with ment of being made to cut grass to 15 years the public prosecutor ordering they be in jail, her legal team said. “Today’s sentenc- “apprehended and brought to justice with- ing is sure to have a ripple effect across the out further delay”, although it has been a nation, and hopefully the region at large,” more than a year since arrest warrants were said lawyer Kimberly Brown, from the cam- issued. Sentencing had been set for last paign group Equality Now, which supported Friday but was delayed after one of the men the schoolgirl. Worldwide outrage over the skipped bail and failed to turn up, but police punishment prompted more than 1.8 million arrested him over the weekend. people to sign an online petition demanding Rape is a serious problem in Kenya but is justice. The then 16-year-old victim, known seldom taken seriously by the police, rights by the pseudonym Liz, was reportedly groups say. “The sheer scale of sexual vio- attacked, beaten and then raped by six men lence in schools, communities and its gener- as she returned from her grandfather’s funer- al acceptability in society is astounding,” al in western Kenya in June 2013. Brown added. At the time, then police chief The gang dumped her, bleeding and David Kimaiyo cast doubt on Liz’s testimony, unconscious, in a deep sewage ditch. She saying the time between her screams for suffered a broken back, caused either by the help and villagers coming to her rescue was beating or by being hurled down into the pit, “too short for six assailants to have gang as well as serious internal injuries from the raped. rape. “The fact that Liz’s case took so long to One study in 2013 suggested as many as reach this point-and still faced serious obsta- 19 in every 20 rapes are not reported to the cles despite strong national and global sup- police, with victims reluctant to enter a port-illustrates the injustices that are still suf- process many feel will not lead to justice. fered by survivors,” Brown added. “While “Negative cultural attitudes towards women, Kenya boasts one of the most progressive as well as the fear and stigma associated legal and policy frameworks for addressing with such crimes, make reporting of cases a sexual violence, Liz’s case and countless oth- daunting and often impossible task,” Brown ers have revealed significant failures of local added. “If a victim manages to overcome the authorities to adequately address sexual vio- huge initial hurdle and manages to report lence.” what happened, apathy or a lack of knowl- edge of laws, policies and procedures by offi- RIVERS STATE: PDP supporters (People’s Democratic Part) celebrate the victory of their candidate Nyesem Wike in port Harcourt yesterday. The Scale of rape ‘astounding’ cials, and the continued lack of resources, party of Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari has won governorship elections in a majority of Nigeria’s 36 states. — AFP The case made global headlines after it mean that cases are often handled poorly emerged that three of the alleged rapists from the outset.”— AFP Nigerian president-elect’s party Leading Gabon’s opposition figure dies, supporters riot wins majority in state elections

LIBREVILLE: Opposition supporters in these criminal acts, because, according to APC claims at least 21 governor’s seats Gabon rampaged through the streets of initial information, they were committed by the capital, burning cars and setting fire to individuals following orders,” Interior LAGOS: The party of Nigeria’s president-elect Huge defeat in north Flashpoint oil hub the embassy of Benin, following the death Minister Guy Bertrand Mpangou said. Some Muhammadu Buhari has won governorship The PDP was almost wiped out in Nigeria’s So far, the only state the PDP wrestled away on Sunday of a senior opposition leader, a opposition figures have questioned elections in a majority of Nigeria’s 36 states, mainly Muslim north, Buhari’s home region. The from APC control was the southern, oil-produc- Reuters witness said. Andre Mba Obame Bongo’s origins, saying he is Nigerian and building its strength nationwide after a historic governor of northeast Gombe state, Ibrahim ing hub of Rivers, where tension has been high died in Yaounde, capital of neighboring therefore ineligible to be president. The presidential win, official results yesterday Dankwambo, was the only PDP candidate elected throughout the election season. Outgoing Rivers Cameroon, at around noon (1100 GMT), his claim is rejected by his supporters. They showed. The All Progressives Congress (APC) in the region which has been hit hard by Boko governor Rotimi Amaechi was elected on the National Union political party announced. also accuse his chief of staff, Maixent claimed at least 21 governor’s seats following Haram’s Islamist uprising. Jonathan, a southern PDP ticket in 2011 but defected to the APC in He was 57 years old. Mba Obame served as Accrombessi, of being from Benin, which is Saturday’s closely-fought regional polls but Christian, faced significant pressure to stand aside 2013. The move in a state which borders an adviser to longtime President Omar why the embassy was attacked, opposition could add to that tally with results from a hand- before the presidential vote and throw his support Jonathan’s home of Bayelsa proved costly. Bongo, eventually rising to the post of min- supporters said. Mba Obame served as ful of states still pending. President Goodluck behind a PDP northern governor, but he insisted Jonathan won the presidential vote in Rivers ister of the interior. However, he broke with executive secretary of the National Union, Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party had con- on running again, a decision that many experts with more than 95 percent support, while the ruling party to run for the presidency as though the government outlawed the par- trolled the federal and most state governments believe helped fuel the APC’s rise. The PDP lost Amaechi’s hand-picked successor for the gover- an independent following Bongo’s death in ty two years after the disputed polls. since the end of military rule in 1999 but suf- governorship elections in at least seven northern nor’s office, Dakuku Peterside, was trounced by 2009. “I think that the Gabonese people know fered major losses during Nigeria’s gripping states it had previously controlled. In a somewhat the PDP’s Nyesom Wike, who won with 87 per- Though official results handed victory to that they’ve lost the true president elected 2015 election cycle. unexpected development, Jonathan’s party also cent support. There were widespread claims suffered a string of losses in the religiously divided from the APC of PDP irregularities in voting in the late leader’s son, Ali Bongo, Mba in 2009 in unclear conditions,” National Jonathan’s loss to Buhari in the presidential Obame declared himself the winner, lead- Union spokesman FranÁois Ondo Edou Middle Belt region, including in states like conflict- the state at the presidential election, leading to vote two weeks ago was the first ever democrat- ing the authorities to accuse him of trea- said. The ban on the National Union was scarred Plateau where Jonathan had bested demonstrations and calls for a re-run. ic change of power at the federal level since son. No cause of death was given in the lifted in February, clearing the way for the Buhari in the general election. INEC said that Rivers saw the worst unrest Nigeria gained independence from Britain in statement from the National Union, which party to put forward a candidate against The APC victories at the weekend further high- during the regional polls, with 16 separate inci- Mba Obame joined not long after the 2009 Bongo in next year’s election. Mba Obame 1960. The Independent National Electoral lighted widespread frustration after 16 years of dents of violence recorded. The state’s informa- election. A Reuters witness who followed a had been frequently absent from the cen- Commission (INEC) described the regional vote PDP-dominated government, plagued by unrest tion commissioner Ibim Semenitari said of the group of supporters as they burned gov- tral African oil-producing nation for health as “relatively peaceful” while lamenting the 66 and waves of corruption scandals, with much of gubernatorial result: “What happened on ernment service cars and attacked Benin’s reasons, and it had not been clear who separate incidents of violence surrounding the the nation’s vast oil wealth lost through graft. The Saturday was a rape of democracy. There was no embassy, said many accused the govern- would lead the party. Former African Union polls. Governors are influential figures in regional vote also underscored the stunning rise election in Rivers. ment of murdering Mba Obame. “Our head Jean Ping is currently the main oppo- Nigeria, with near-total control of their states of the APC, which was founded just two years ago “The PDP in connivance with INEC (the elec- leader, Andre Mba Obame, was poisoned sition figure although recent torture and collective power at a national level to bol- in a coalition that grouped Buhari’s northern base toral commission) and the security agencies by the regime and one thing is sure, we will charges brought against him have clouded ster or check the presidency. The 72-year-old with opposition parties that had support in the merely wrote figures which they have churned avenge his death,” said Olgan Ebanega, a his political future. Bongo has faced mount- Buhari will be sworn in on May 29 and his south. Taraba state has not yet returned results out to the public,” she said. She added: “We are youth member of the National Union. ing criticism in recent months over a range administration will likely be helped by having a but remains in the spotlight because it could going to challenge the results.” Local PDP The embassy was gutted by the fire, the of grievances and trade union disputes, majority of loyalist governors, including in the return a female governor for the first time in spokesman Emmanuel Okha, however, said: “The witness said. “Everything will be done to leading to violent demonstrations in economic capital Lagos, where the APC was re- Nigeria’s history in the shape of Aisha Jummai Al- people have spoken. We urge the APC to accept find the perpetrators and those behind December.— Reuters elected after a tough PDP challenge. Hassan. the results in good faith.”—AFP Routed Boko Haram fighters hiding on Lake Chad islands

NGOUBOUA: Boko Haram militants driven out Jonathan, often criticised for his failure to have taken up arms for Boko Haram and what of strongholds in Nigeria by a regional military stamp out the insurgency, fighting a close re- is motivating those who have done so. offensive are increasingly taking refuge on election race he ended up losing. Nigerian In the span of a month about 30 suspects remote islands in Lake Chad, terrorizing locals president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, who does were arrested around Ngouboua on suspicion or recruiting others. The lake is where borders not take charge until late May, has already they were informants for the Islamists, police meet for Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger, vowed to be a more effective commander-in- said. Most of those taken into custody were which are leading the fight against the chief than Jonathan, in part by ensuring that motorcycle taxi drivers. Authorities have also Islamists and their bloody six-year insurgency the military is properly funded and equipped. picked up for questioning young men who dis- that has prompted an armed international Authorities in Chad are also worried about appear from their families for days at a time. PARIS: A photo combination shows files pictures of French far right Front National response. “You see those islands, toward signs that locals are being recruited to help “We interviewed a boy who was hardly 16 and (FN) party’ president Marine Le Pen (left), Front National’s honorary president Jean- Nigeria? I used to go there to sell my harvest,” and even fight alongside the Nigerian insur- who has spent two weeks in a camp at the bor- Marie Le Pen (center) and Marion Marechal-Le Pen. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of said Mustapha, a farmer from Ngouboua, a gents. Chadian Boko Haram members were der... He was promised money, but especially France’s National Front, said he was pulling out of regional elections after a fierce Chadian village near the border with Nigeria. blamed for an ambush that left seven civilians Tramol,” the source said, referring to a pain public spat with his daughter Marine Le Pen who now leads the far-right party. —AFP “But with Boko Haram it’s become too danger- dead on Friday, some with their throats cut. medication popular among poor local youths. ous. We don’t move without a military escort,” According to a local official the victims were “The authorities try to deal with the problem France’s Le Pen pulls out he added. killed after rebuffing the Islamists’ recruitment by talking with their parents and making them Though Nigeria’s military-with major help efforts. However, authorities do not have a understand there be any trouble if the boys from its neighbors-has since February retaken clear picture on the number of Chadians who come back,” the source said.—AFP of poll after family feud a series of towns and villages held by the rebels, the insurgency that has left 13,000 PARIS: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of ter. Asked who should stand in his place, he dead has not been crushed. Some of the fight- France’s National Front (FN), pulled out of anointed his granddaughter Marion ers scattered by the government victories have regional elections yesterday after a fierce Marechal-Le Pen, 25, a rising star in the party instead fallen back to the sanctuary of remote public spat with his daughter, who now with views considered more conservative or inhospitable areas around the lake. “Boko leads the far-right party. The move promises than Marine’s. “If she accepts, I think she Haram are under pressure and some of them to ease tensions both within the Le Pen fam- would head a very good list (of candidates). are taking refuge in the middle of the lake,” on ily and the anti-European, anti-immigration She is certainly the best,” he told the maga- islands with swampy forests that are difficult FN, which has enjoyed considerable elec- zine. “If I have to make the sacrifice for the for the army to reach, said a Chadian security toral success in recent years as Marine Le future of the (FN) movement, it will not be source. “Because they are hungry, they are Pen seeks to clean up its racist and anti- me who has caused the damage,” he said, in attacking villagers for food,” the source added. Semitic image. Le Pen senior, 86, incurred his an apparent reference to Marine. In a later The theft of cattle, rice and corn have daughter’s wrath earlier this month by statement, he said he would “not be party” become common on the Chadian islands and repeating an assertion that the Nazi gas to a “serious crisis” that has hit the FN mainland near Nigeria. Boko Haram fighters chambers were a “detail of history”. because of his recent comments. The inter- have been blamed for at least two attacks on a He then followed that up with a defense views “do not justify the racket that has been village near Chadian market town Tchoukou of France’s World War II leader Philippe set off in our ranks which could weaken our Telia. “They stole up to 500 steers,” said Al Hadji Petain, who collaborated with the Nazis. This movement to a dangerous degree,” he said. Mbodou Mai, a shopkeeper in Ngouboua. That appeared to be the last straw for Marine, Jean-Marie had previously said that he town was victim of Boko Haram attacks in who accused her father of committing would not go quietly, accusing his daughter recent months, but now is “secured” by a heavy “political suicide” and said she would not of “shooting herself in the foot”. His anointed military presence, said local police commander support his standing in regional elections in successor Marion has kept a studious silence Saleh Ali. “There are a lot of problems on the December. After days of sniping that have on the squabbles although she did voice surrounding islands,” he added. Fighting the dominated the headlines in France, Le Pen disagreement with her grandfather’s Islamists in the remote, swampy areas is sure to senior appeared to fall on his sword yester- Holocaust comments. Some analysts see a get more difficult when the rainy season day. He told the Le Figaro magazine he deliberate “good cop, bad cop” strategy in arrives in June. Also, experts have warned that would not be standing in the southeast of place-Jean-Marie shocks and Marine slaps hit-and-run attacks by the group could France for the party even though “I think I him down, enabling her to burnish her cre- increase amid the added military pressure. was the best candidate for the National dentials as a relative moderate. While jetti- Front”. soning Jean-Marie is likely to rile the party hardliners, it may also attract those disen- Chadian recruits New ‘dig’ at daughter chanted with the two main parties who had The aggressive campaign against Boko Haram came ahead of elections that saw NGOUBOUA: A boy walks past a burnt house and car in Ngouboua, a Lake Chad village in But in stepping down, the 86-year-old previously seen the veteran provocateur as Chad, which was attacked by Islamist group Boko Haram. — AFP appeared to aim another dig at his daugh- an impassable barrier to voting FN.—AFP incumbent Nigerian President Goodluck TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

News in brief Members of Ahmadi minority murdered

15 killed as Siberian fires sweep through villages Pakistan kills 13 insurgents in restive southwest MOSCOW: Out-of-control agricultural fires have killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds more and destroyed or ISLAMABAD: Eleven Pakistani members of the Ahmadi reli- damaged more than 1,000 homes in Siberia, authorities gious minority were murdered for their faith in 2014 and said yesterday. The fires were started in Khakassia, a region authorities failed to apprehend any of the killers, a report in southeastern Siberia, by farmers burning the grass in said yesterday, highlighting growing intolerance toward the their fields, but spread quickly because of strong winds. sect. The figure represents a rise on seven killings the year “This fire would not have happened if people were not before, with the report blaming growing hate speech in con- playing with matches,” Deputy Emergency Situations ferences and the media. Ahmadis were declared non- Minister Alexander Chupriyan said in a statement. “And it Muslims by the Pakistani government in 1974 because of wasn’t children, but adults.” Chupriyan said dozens of their belief in a prophet after Muhammad. homes burn down in Russia every year because of farmers They are frequent victims of discrimination and violent burning the grass. The local health ministry said yesterday assaults, but it is rare for militants to be convicted for attacks that 15 people including a child have been confirmed dead against them. In the worst case of violence last year, an and 393 people were injured. The fires have left 5,000 peo- angry mob torched an Ahmadi neighborhood in the eastern ple homeless and it will take about 5 billion rubles ($94 city of Gujranwala, killing a woman and two girls after a 17- million) to rebuild housing in the area, the region’s chief, year-old Ahmadi boy allegedly posted a blasphemous pic- Viktor Zimin said in televised comments. By early morning ture on Facebook. the fires in all 38 villages in the area had been put out with The boy remains in custody over the incident, the report the help of aircraft and 6,000 firefighters, Emergency said, though none of the attackers were ever brought to jus- Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov said, adding that res- tice. In May, gunmen shot dead an American heart surgeon, cue workers will remain in the area to clear the debris. Mehdi Ali, who was visiting Pakistan on a charity mission in the southern province of Sindh. The report, drawn up by the main Ahmadi community group, claimed a link between inflammatory media coverage and violence. It noted an 5,600 boat migrants episode of a religious show by broadcaster Aamir Liaquat rescued off N Africa Hussain on the popular Geo News channel which blamed ROME: At least nine people died when an over- “Ahmadis, Jews and the US” for a Taliban massacre at a school crowded migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya in Peshawar. Five days after it was aired, another Ahmadi was and 144 more were rescued, the Italian coast guard murdered. said yesterday, after another heavy weekend for mar- Rabia Mehmood, a researcher on minorities at the Jinnah itime rescue services operating off North Africa. A Institute think tank, said that rising anti-Ahmadi sentiments spokesman for the Italian coastguard said 5,629 peo- were linked to the overall rising levels of religious extremism ple were rescued from 22 different vessels in the in the country, which has been experiencing a homegrown three days between April 10-12. Vessels and aircraft Islamist insurgency for more than a decade. “There has been ISLAMABAD: An internally displaced Pakistani girl from a tribal area attends her daily lesson at a madrassa, a from the Italian coast guard and navy as well as mer- a sharp rise in the number of hate conferences organized school for the study of Islam. — AP chant ships and an Icelandic patrol boat assigned to against Ahmadis, which have helped normalize hatred and the European Triton border protection operation bigotry among the general population,” she said. In 2010, elsewhere in the country, an attack claimed by the Baluch released on “humanitarian grounds”. Friday’s incident were involved. Rescue services were alerted on Taliban gunmen stormed two Ahmadi mosques, killing Liberation Front (BLF) separatist group. Immediately follow- occurred around 1,000 kilometers southwest of Quetta, the Sunday afternoon about the boat that capsized some more than 90 people in the worst ever attack on the com- ing the killings, security forces launched a search operation provincial capital of Baluchistan. 80 miles north of the Libyan coast. Nine bodies were munity. Since that time, many Ahmadis have taken to hiding in the barren mountainous area and have so far killed 13 mil- Resource-rich Baluchistan is the largest of Pakistan’s recovered and were being brought to shore on their identity in public or have fled the country, said Mustafa itants, with the fighting ongoing. “Security forces have killed four provinces, but its roughly seven million inhabitants Italian coast guard and navy vessels. Around 3,500 Qadri, a researcher for Amnesty International. “No group at least 13 militants who killed the laborers,” a spokesman for have long complained they do not receive a fair share of its people are estimated to have drowned and 170,000 faces more persecution, more discrimination, and is more at Pakistan’s paramilitary forces said. gas and mineral wealth. Rebels began their fifth insur- reached Italy as the migrant crisis has intensified with risk than Ahmadis, in law and in practice,” he said. The spokesman said one BLF commander was among gency against the state in 2004, with hundreds of soldiers continuing instability in Libya, the staging point for those killed, and another of the group’s leaders was cap- and militants killed in the fighting. Pakistan accuses neigh- most of the boats trying to cross to Sicily. Restive southwest tured alive. Provincial home secretary Akbar Hussain boring India of funding and arming the rebels-a charge In another development, Pakistani paramilitary forces Durrani confirmed the militant death toll. The group, which some analysts say is payback for Pakistan’s interference in have killed at least 13 members of an insurgent group who claimed Friday’s raid on the labor camp in Turbat district of Kashmir. The desperately poor province is also riven by sec- shot dead 20 construction workers in the restive southwest- Baluchistan, regularly attacks migrant workers and govern- tarian strife and Islamist violence in its northern Pashtun ern province of Baluchistan, officials said yesterday. Gunmen ment installations. The BLF gained greater international belt, with middle-class Baluch increasingly viewing inde- killed 20 laborers at point blank range on Friday evening in recognition after kidnapping American UNHCR worker John pendence as their only hope for a more liberal and secular Baluchistan, after identifying them as migrant workers from Solecki from Quetta on February 2009. Solecki was later state. — Agencies Court suspends ban on diesel vehicles in smoggy New Delhi

NEW DELHI: An Indian court yesterday suspended its Delhi every night, many of them on their way from one ban on diesel vehicles more than 10 years old after state to another because of a lack of bypasses on New Delhi authorities complained they were struggling India’s dilapidated highways. According to local media to comply with the order in the world’s most polluted reports, some 40,000 diesel cars have been effected by capital. The National Green Tribunal last week the court’s ban in the capital and more than 90,000 in announced a slew of measures to try to curb air pollu- adjoining towns. Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier tion in Delhi including ordering older vehicles off the this month launched a new index to monitor air quality roads and cracking down on illegal construction proj- levels in Delhi but environmentalists criticized a lack of ects in the capital and surrounding satellite towns. initiatives to curb the pollution. Citing diesel vehicles as a major source of Delhi’s The government is under intense pressure to act toxic haze, the country’s environment court ordered after the World Health Organization last year declared the city government to implement the ban within 20 New Delhi the world’s most polluted capital. At least hours. But lawyers for the Delhi government appealed 3,000 people die prematurely every year in the city to the tribunal for more time, saying essential services because of air pollution, according to a joint study by such as garbage collection by mostly older trucks have Boston-based Health Effects Institute and Delhi’s been thrown into disarray. “The court agreed and Energy Resources Institute. Yesterday, the tribunal said stayed its order for two weeks. No vehicles will be the ban would be suspended until May 1 while it impounded during this period,” Zubeida Begum, lawyer sought submissions from authorities on ways to ensure for the government said. “Transportation of eatables to the ban was implemented effectively. In November, the the capital has been hit hard, so has the garbage col- tribunal also ordered all petrol vehicles older than 15 lection,” she said. years to be taken off the capital’s roads in a bid to lower NEW DELHI: Indian motorists drive along a highway in Thousands of commercial trucks travel through toxic air levels. — AFP New Delhi. — AFP MIYAZAKI: A pair of mangos is auctioned off at the wholesale market in Miyazaki in Japan’s southern island of Kyushu for 300,000 yen ($2,500). — AFP China releases 3 132nd IPU Assembly; Pair of Japanese mangoes sold for ‘a record’ $2,500 feminist activists Vietnam impression TOKYO: A deep pocketed Japanese department store shelled out an eye-watering 300,000 yen ($2,500) yester- BEIJING: Chinese police yesterday released had to formally charge them by the end of KUWAIT: Under the theme “The prosperity. day for a pair of mangoes, a record price for the second at least three of the five feminist activists today, or police would be obliged to release Sustainable Development Goals: Turning In reaching the Millennium year in a row. After the hammer fell at an auction in far- detained for over a month in a case which them. Their detention prompted condemna- Words into Action”, the 132nd IPU Development Goals (MDGs), Vietnam has southern Miyazaki, the successful bidder airlifted the fruit prompted an international diplomatic outcry, tion from rights groups as well as the United Assembly, hosted by Vietnam’s National also achieved outstanding results which to its luxury shop in Fukuoka, where they went on sale at a one of their lawyers said. Wei Tingting, Wang States and the European Union, which called Assembly from March 28 to April 1 in were hailed internationally, especially in bargain 210,000 yen, according to the Miyazaki Man and Zheng Churan were freed by police, for their release. US Secretary of State John Hanoi, concluded with success and great goals of poverty reduction, gender equali- Agricultural Economic Federation. The mangoes-top-of- said lawyer Liang Xiaojun, with the status of Kerry urged Beijing on Friday immediately to impression. It is the biggest multi-lateral ty and education. Other goals are in good the-range “Taiyo no Tamago” (Egg of the Sun)-brand-were the other two not yet clear. The release indi- free the women, with similar comments diplomatic event with great importance progress. Many medical criteria are now the first to go for auction this year, an occasion that usually cates that the trio are unlikely to face made by Vice President Joe Biden. “Each and Hanoi has ever hosted. Vietnam has had a almost done. Those in environment protec- attracts inflated prices. To qualify as a “Taiyo no Tamago” charges. “I don’t have news yet about Wu every one of us has the right to speak out perfect opportunity to introduce to inter- tion have been better cared and concreted mango, each fruit must weigh at least 350 grams (12 oz) Rongrong and Li Tingting, but the other against sexual harassment and the many oth- national guests an advancing nation with in national programs. Throughout ups and and have a high sugar content. While $2,500 is steep for a three have been released,” said Liang, citing er injustices that millions of women and girls friendly people, and a diversified and downs of its long history, Vietnam now pair of mangoes, fruit is routinely expensive in Japan and it information from family members. He repre- suffer around the world each and every day,” abundant culture. Successful end of 132th presents a mixed beauty of a young and is not unusual for a single apple to cost upwards of $3. This sents Wu. Police detained the activists-all Kerry said in a statement. IPU has made good remarks by interna- developing nation with ancient features. year’s must-have luxury fruit is a particular brand of straw- aged 32 or under-shortly before Prospective presidential candidate Hillary tional attendants on the host Vietnam as a Foreign guests of IPU were surprised of berry, with a single berry currently selling for around $415. International Women’s Day last month as Clinton tweeted last week that the deten- peace-loving, active and responsible quick recovery of the nation from devastat- However, all pale in comparison with the tear-inducing they were preparing to hand out leaflets tions were “inexcusable” and “must end”. nation. It also recognized effective contri- ing wars. $25,000 price tag for a pair of cantaloupe melons auc- about sexual harassment on public transport. China rejected the US calls, and said yester- bution by Vietnam’s NA to IPU’s activities. The “Doi moi” (Innovation) policy from tioned in 2008. The five women had in recent years been day that it had made “representations” to What Vietnam has done to the 132th 1986 enabled Vietnam to achieve an aver- linked to several stunts in different cities aim- Washington on the issue. “We urge the IPU Assembly is remarkable. Many initia- age GDP growth of around 7% percent in ing to highlight issues such as domestic vio- United States to respect China’s judicial sov- tives by Hanoi were highly appreciated and three past decades. In April 2014, the lence and the poor provision of women’s toi- ereignty and stop interfering in China’s put into important resolutions of the 2015 Bloom Berg asserted that Vietnam would Truckers trapped in lets. Police told lawyers the activists were domestic affairs,” foreign ministry spokesman Assembly. Some issues which had been possibly stand among the fastest growing Syria return home suspected of “picking quarrels and provoking Hong Lei told a regular news briefing. Ten of discussed but yet agreed throughout 3 economies from now to 2050. Vietnam BEIRUT: More than a dozen Lebanese truck drivers trouble”, a vague charge increasingly used by the activists’ parents and spouses at the continuous assemblies finally reached con- now has become an alternative production trapped for almost two weeks in a Syria-Jordan bor- authorities under President Xi Jinping to weekend issued an eleventh-hour plea to clusion in Hanoi. The country’s leaders have place with lower cost compared to its der crossing after it was seized by rebels have detain and jail protesters for holding small- authorities for their release. The activists successfully displayed Vietnam’s image as a neighbors like China and Thailand. Vietnam returned home, Lebanese authorities said yesterday. scale demonstrations. But the women were “young, kind-hearted, and full of a responsible member of IPU and other is also attracting big international corpora- Around thirty drivers had become stuck at the Nasib activists’ detentions were seen by rights sense of responsibility to society”, the group international organizations, and that tions and companies, including those from crossing as they tried to cross from Syria to Jordan groups as unusually harsh given the small wrote in a letter to Beijing prosecutors that Vietnamese people have been striking the ME, to invest into the country’s energy when it was seized by rebel fighters from regime scale of their stunts and the fact that they was posted online Saturday. “Supporting alongside international community to pro- industry, real-estate market, and infa-con- forces on April 1. Jordan closed the border crossing had been praised in China’s state-run media. gender equality and the interests of women mote a world of peace, cooperation, and struction. after it was overrun, but agreed to open it to allow Chinese criminal lawyers said prosecutors is no crime!” — AFP the trapped drivers through after Lebanese govern- ment contacts. Just one of the drivers now remains in the crossing, Lebanese Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb said as he greeted eight returning drivers Taleban kills 18 Afghan troops; some beheaded at Beirut airport. “From a humanitarian point of view, KABUL: Taleban fighters swarmed over The attack in Badakhshan’s Jurm district said Afghan troops killed 19 Taleban fight- army officer there. It said the fighters loot- the file is now closed,” he told the media, without Afghan army posts in the country’s north- happened Friday, though officials only ers, eight of them foreigners, and that the ed military equipment and set fire to vehi- specifying what would happen to the driver still in Nasib. Several drivers have already returned to east, killing at least 18 soldiers and behead- offered details about it days later as they insurgents fled after reinforcements arrived cles it couldn’t take. The Taleban claimed Lebanon, while others remain in Jordan or the Gulf, ing some in a major attack to mark the start pledged to investigate the apparent rout. to the area. responsibility for the attack and said they waiting for their trucks to cross the border. Rebel of the country’s summer fighting season, Some 250 Taleban fighters overran the The Defense Ministry said earlier killed 49 soldiers. The Taleban often exag- groups and the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front had authorities said yesterday. The assault posts, said Gul Mohammad Bidar, the Monday that the attack caused 30 soldiers gerates their claims. The major attack seized control of the border post and parts of the marks a grim first summer battle for Afghan province’s deputy governor. Ahmad Nawid to be “killed, wounded or become missing.” comes as Afghanistan enters its summer duty-free zone between the Syrian and Jordanian forces, now fighting largely alone after the Froutan, a spokesman for the provincial The ministry said it was conducting an fighting season, as snow melts in its moun- crossings. US and NATO ended their combat mission governor, said the attack killed 18 soldiers, investigation into the attack, which it said tain passes and extremists launch more in the country at the start of this year. with eight of their bodies beheaded. He came from unspecified “neglect” by an attacks. — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 China, Russia, East Europe boost defense spending

STOCKHOLM: Military spending increased sharply in defense plans. “The Ukraine crisis has fundamentally pendent institute that studies conflict, weapons, against Houthi Shiite rebels who overran Sanaa in 2014 in China and Russia and the Ukraine conflict altered the security situation in Europe, but so far arms control and disarmament. “However, current US September last year. prompted eastern European countries to boost their the impact on military spending is mostly apparent military spending is still 45 percent higher than in In Africa too, military spending has risen by near- defense programs, according to a study by the in countries bordering Russia,” SIPRI’s Sam Perlo- 2001, just before the 11 September terrorist attacks,” ly six percent, led by oil producers Algeria and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Freeman said. it added. Angola, said SIPRI. “While total world military spend- (SIPRI) released yesterday. The United States remains Ukraine’s budget jumped by over 20 percent to The United States boosted its military budget in ing is mostly unchanged, some regions, such as the the world’s biggest spender on defense, but it spent $4 billion, while Russia’s rose by more than eight per- the aftermath of suicide attacks on September 11, Middle East and much of Africa, are continuing to 6.4 percent less year-on-year in 2014, while China, cent to $84.5 billion. The Russian government’s 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people. Within two see rapid build-ups that are placing an increasingly Russia and Saudi Arabia-the world’s next three high- budget foresees an even bigger rise-of 15 percent-in years, it had launched two long and bloody wars in high burden on many economies,” the institute’s est spenders-all increased their expenditures. 2015, but that could be cut due to the economic Afghanistan and Iraq. Saudi Arabia’s 17 percent rise Perlo-Freeman said. “These increases partly reflect China’s spending last year was estimated at $216 troubles linked to the Ukraine conflict. In Western made it “the largest increase of any of the top 15 worsening security situations, but in many cases billion (204 billion euros), a 9.7 percent rise. The con- Europe, as in the United States, budgets were shrink- spenders worldwide”, SIPRI said. The oil-rich state is a they are also the product of corruption, vested inter- flict in Ukraine pitting Kiev against pro-Moscow ing, the report said. While Washington is still the regional powerhouse with a significant role in sever- ests and autocratic governance.” Global military rebels has seen eastern European countries near world’s top military spender, levels have shrunk by a al conflicts in the fraught region. Since March 26, a spending totaled $1.8 trillion in 2014 - a fall of just Russia rack up their spending and revise their fifth since they peaked in 2010, said SIPRI, an inde- Riyadh-headed coalition has carried out air strikes 0.4 percent since 2013, the think tank said.— AFP China limits visits to HK to cool tensions

HONG KONG: Tensions between Hong Kong Monday the policy arose from concerns over residents and visitors from mainland China will “growing pressure” on the city’s border due to not be tolerated, the city’s leader said yester- a surging number of travelers. day as he confirmed a limit on the number of Leung admitted the move would not com- visits which mainlanders can make. An influx pletely end parallel trading, adding the gov- of millions of Chinese visitors to Hong Kong ernment would continue to crack down on has prompted rallies by residents angered by illegal activities. Hong Kong has a separate congested public transport and shop shelves customs jurisdiction from mainland China, emptied of daily necessities that are resold which imposes tariffs on foreign imports. over the border. Concern over how retailers may be affected Critics in the semi-autonomous Chinese dragged some share prices down yesterday. city say mainland visitors also push up prices, Shares in cosmetics retailer Sa Sa International increase delays at border crossings and dropped 6.24 percent to HK$4.06 ($0.52) while behave badly. Mainland authorities have now Chow Tai Fook, which sells jewelry, fell 2.93 stopped allowing residents from the border percent to HK$8.95. Leung warned against fur- city of Shenzhen to make unlimited visits to ther protests targeting mainland visitors, Hong Kong, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying describing them as “unruly” and “counter-pro- said, restricting them to one visit per week. ductive”. “Anything that increases tension between Some recent rallies have led to clashes with Hong Kong and mainland society is not toler- police and several arrests. Some mainland neti- ated,” Leung said. Anxiety over China’s zens expressed dismay at the policy, branding increased influence remains high in the for- it unfair. “One country two systems. Hong mer British colony, months after mass Kong people returning to China should have protests demanding greater democracy from weekly limits to meet the requirements of Beijing ended in December with no conces- equal status,” a netizen wrote. Another wrote: sions. “Hong Kong (people) really are hypocrites The decision to restrict mainlanders’ entry (wanting wealth while not wanting tourists).” was aimed at curbing the practice of “parallel Some Hong Kong residents expressed doubt PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian police gets ready during a protest outside the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya, Malaysia. — AP trading” in which visitors buy up prized goods the policy would be effective against parallel such as baby formula in Hong Kong and resell traders, saying local people instead of main- them in China’s border towns to avoid tariffs. land Chinese would be recruited to transport Leung said the new restrictions were suggest- goods. Hong Kong opened up to Chinese Malaysia govt revives indefinite ed by the Hong Kong government and adopt- tourists in 2003 to try to revive its economy ed by Beijing. He said the policy would affect after an outbreak of the respiratory disease about 4.6 million travelers, or nearly 10 percent SARS, allowing mainland Chinese to visit as jail raising fears of repression of the annual 47 million mainland visitors. individual travelers rather than as part of an China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said organized tour.— AFP ‘Malaysia regressing into a period of dark ages’

KUALA LUMPUR: Lim Kit Siang had just been elect- fight communists. But after independence in 1957, me down mentally and psychologically. My family ed an opposition lawmaker in Malaysia’s Parliament the laws have been largely used against thousands didn’t know where I was and I didn’t know whether three days earlier when racial riots between ethnic of trade unionists, student leaders, political activists, they were safe,” he said. Lim was freed Oct 1, 1970, Chinese and Malays broke out on May 13, 1969. The religious groups and academicians who opposed the after about 17 months in detention. The nightmare government named Lim a suspected instigator and government. Many opposition politicians were recurred in 1987 when then Prime Minister Mahathir arrested him a few days later. No charges were filed. among some 10,000 people detained so far under Mohamad, facing severe political challenges, locked There was no trial, and no guarantee he would ever the ISA. up many political opponents. Also arrested with Lim be freed. The law under which he was arrested - the was his eldest son, Lim Guan Eng, who was then 27. Internal Security Act - ensured that he could be held Moments of despair “For the first few weeks, we were isolated and not indefinitely. For life, if the government so wished. Among them was Lim, who was only 28 when he given any information. They gave us a mix of truth So it was with great relief and euphoria that was arrested after the 1969 race riots. On being told and fake news to try and destabilize us,” Lim said. Malaysia welcomed the abolition of the law by Prime he faced imminent arrest, he fled to Singapore but Just like before, each detainee was kept in a bare Minister Najib Razak in 2012. The joy was short-lived. returned a few days later. On the flight back, Lim said cell comprising a single bed with a thin mattress, a Last week, after hours of debate in Parliament, where he wrote on postcards asking his wife to take care of table and chair. He said most detainees became Najib’s ruling coalition has a majority, the govern- their four children, aged 3 to 8 years, and left them in resigned to their fate but a feeling of outrage and ment passed a new law that critics say is the ISA in the seat pocket. He was detained at the airport and anger often surfaced at being held without any another garb. “Malaysia is regressing into a period of held in solitary confinement for two months, with no recourse in court. Lim and his son were freed 18 dark ages. This is very, very disturbing,” Lim, 74, said access to lawyers or family for the first month. Police months later. Both are now lawmakers and the in a recent interview with the Associated Press. interrogated Lim intensively, up to 24 hours in the younger Lim is the top elected official, the chief min- BEIJING: Photo shows a badly damaged Lamborghini car and debris in a tunnel after a first week with no breaks, to try to make him confess ister, of northern Penang state. “No one should be crash involving a Ferrari in Beijing. — AFP Prevention of Terrorism Act to being one of the master-mind of the riots that had locked up for their political beliefs. People will be The government says the new Prevention of killed nearly 200 people. locked up not because they are terrorists but Lamborghini, Ferrari in ‘Fast Terrorism Act, which also allows detention without “Those were the most excruciating moments. I because they are not in the good books of the trial, is aimed at curbing Islamic militancy amid fears had many moments of despair. They tried to break authority,” Lim said. —AP and Furious’ Beijing crash that the Islamic State group in the Middle East could be spreading its tentacles to Asian countries with BEIJING: Online speculation mounted in China injured. The incident added to public percep- Muslim populations like Malaysia, Indonesia, yesterday as police detained the “unemployed” tions in China of corrupt and high-living offi- Philippines, India and Pakistan to find recruits. Some Top China official drivers of a Lamborghini and Ferrari that cials, and Ling has since been investigated for 92 people have been detained over the past two crashed in Beijing as the seventh stunt-filled graft and dismissed from his post. The latest years for allegedly supporting the Islamic State mili- “Fast and Furious” movie opened. Pictures of the crash happened at about 10pm, police said, tant group, including 17 arrested on April 5 for plan- confesses to graft mangled wreckage of a lime-green during heavy rain. It occurred two hours before ning attacks in Kuala Lumpur, under another law that Lamborghini, a damaged red Ferrari and other “Furious 7” broke the record for midnight does not allow indefinite detention. BEIJING: China’s former state assets chief Jiang ed. They pointed to 14 instances where Jiang high-performance cars in a tunnel in the screenings on its launch in China, according to About 60 percent of Malaysia’s 24 million people Jiemin-one of the highest-profile casualties of the “solicited or illegally accepted money and goods Chinese capital emerged online following the Hollywood Reporter. “Were they in a hurry are Muslims, most of whom have little sympathy for country’s anti-graft drive and an ally of ex-security either directly or through his wife”, it said. Saturday’s crash, which police said left one per- to watch Fast and Furious 7?” one netizen said. Islamic extremism in the Middle East. But critics such chief Zhou Yongkang-confessed to corruption at “Prosecutors pointed out that as of August 31, son injured. Earlier reports said at least one of the luxury as Lim fear that the new law is a sign that authoritari- his trial yesterday. Jiang admitted his offences at 2013, Jiang Jiemin’s personal and family assets and A 20-year-old surnamed Yu from Changchun vehicles’ drivers was a student, and that resi- an politics is returning to Malaysia to crush dissent as the Hanjiang Intermediate People’s Court in the expenses clearly exceeded his and his family’s law- in the northeastern province of Jilin drove the dents had complained about cars racing in the public support for the government erodes rapidly. It central province of Hubei, the court said on its Sina fully-earned income, and Jiang was unable to Ferrari, while a man surnamed Tang, aged 21, tunnel, which is near Beijing’s emblematic Bird’s fared poorly in the 2008 general elections when for Weibo microblog. He is accused of bribery and explain the source of the huge sum accounting for from Beijing, was in the Lamborghini, police Nest stadium. Beijing police earlier drew deri- the first time the ruling National Front coalition could abuse of power, the court said, adding that Jiang the difference,” Xinhua reported. Neither Xinhua said, adding that both were jobless. “Socialism is sion online for referring to the cars involved as not win two-thirds majority in Parliament, coming to allegedly possessed “a huge amount of assets of nor the court immediately provided further details. so good that it allows unemployed people to green and red “small passenger-carrying vehi- power with only a simple majority. In the 2013 elec- unknown origin”. Jiang was tapped in March 2013 to run the State- drive supercars,” one posting said on Sina cles” in a statement released Sunday. “These tion, it won a majority of seats but lost the popular State broadcaster CCTV showed Jiang, with owned Assets Supervision and Administration Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, mocking the sure are valuable vehicles,” said one posting. But vote. deep bags under his eyes, admitting his guilt. “The Commission (SASAC), which oversees China’s country’s authoritarian system of Communist yesterday’s police statement identified the Najib’s own position in the ruling party is threat- facts of my crime are clear, the evidence is true and many powerful state-owned enterprises. rule. “What are their names? Who are their makes of both the Lamborghini, which sells for ened. He is also saddled with allegations of misman- undeniable, and the Hanjiang court’s lawsuit is But less than six months later, the ruling fathers?” another netizen asked. around $800,000 in China, and the Ferrari, agement at a debt-laden state investment company objective,” Jiang said according to the court state- Communist Party’s internal watchdog A high-speed Ferrari crash in the capital in which can cost around $500,000. A 21-year-old and efforts to link him to the death of a Mongolian ment, which added that he appealed for leniency. announced that it was probing him for alleged March 2012 killed the son of Ling Jihua, a close driver crashed his Ferrari at high speed in the woman nine years ago. He also implemented an “I confess to the facts of the crime without conceal- “serious disciplinary violations”, a euphemism for ally of then-president Hu Jintao. Two women Chinese capital in February last year, killing one unpopular new goods and services tax this month to ing anything. I admit my guilt and repent for my official corruption. According to state-run media, passengers, one of them naked, were both passenger and injuring another.— AFP boost government revenue amid a weaker economy. crimes,” he said, adding that he had “damaged the the move marked the first investigation of a “If history is an indicator, then these new laws could image of the Party within the hearts of the people”. member of the party’s powerful Central potentially be very important tools for the regime to “For these errors, I am deeply, deeply repentant.” Committee, which has about 200 members. hang on to power before the next elections due in The hearing was completed yesterday afternoon President Xi Jinping, who took office two years 2018. The new laws can ensure opponents are crip- and the judges “will select a date to announce the ago, has vowed to oust corrupt officials all the pled before they can contest,” political analyst decision after deliberating in accordance with the way from low-level “flies” to high-ranking “tigers” Ibrahim Suffian said. law”, the court said. amid fears graft could threaten the party’s hold Photos posted by the court showed a stern- on power. Zhou and a host of his allies have been Violent extremism faced Jiang standing in the courtroom, clad in a detained and stripped of their party membership Najib, who came to power in 2009, says the new dark blue jacket and with police officers towering since 2013, amid official media allegations of an law is dedicated to fighting “violent extremism” and over him on either side. Chinese courts are closely “oil faction” in the party. Among them is former has promised it won’t be used against political oppo- controlled by the Communist Party, as is reporting CNPC vice president Wang Yongchun, who was nents. During the session to pass the anti-terrorism on sensitive trials, and a guilty verdict is effectively Zhou’s assistant when he worked at the major law, lawmakers also approved amendments to a certainty. Jiang worked for decades in the petro- Chinese oilfield of Daqing. Another top CNPC strengthen the Sedition Act including mandatory jail leum industry and rose to become chairman of executive, general manager Liao Yongyuan, was sentences and longer jail term of up to 20 years. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the coun- placed under investigation last month. But critics Sedition Act has been used extensively in recent try’s biggest oil producer. He has links going back note that China has failed to implement institu- months, with more than 100 activists, politicians, aca- to the 1980s with Zhou Yongkang, himself a former tional safeguards against graft, such as public demicians, journalists and a cartoonist being investi- CNPC chief who went on to become China’s huge- asset disclosure, an independent judiciary and gated or charged in court since last year. ly powerful internal security chief but was charged free media, leaving the anti-graft drive open to Najib went on national television on Thursday to with bribery and abuse of power this month. exploitation for political faction-fighting. The defend the new act. “If we wait for an incident to government has also stifled independent anti- occur ... the implications would be bad. So before ‘Seeking profit’ corruption initiatives, jailing dozens of activists anything happens, we can take action under this Prosecutors accused Jiang of “seeking profit in who had been involved in small-scale protests new act,” he said. The ISA and Sedition Act are han- exchange for approving projects and granting pro- calling for government officials to disclose their HONG KONG: Mainland Chinese tourists carry suitcases as they walk at a shopping dis- dovers from the British colonial days designed to motions”, the official Xinhua news agency report- assets. — AFP trict in Hong Kong. — AP NEWS TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Ports chief vows to tackle violations Continued from Page1 low-up agency, the Anti-Corruption Authority, Ministry of Interior and others by providing all information, data The new management of KPA has set a work plan and documents related to KPA work, contracts and rela- consisting of four angles - internal administrative organ- tions. We will appoint an internal financial auditor and a ization, developing local manpower and using the serv- criminal auditor to do an exact inventory to prevent any ice of international experts, eliminating corruption and corruption. Also, the previous tenders were canceled to developing marine operations and port utilities. The be evaluated. I promise to punish any violator or cor- new management set a year for the development rupt employee and take legal action against them,” he process and formed six committees for this purpose. vowed. Ideal exploitation of the properties of KPA is part of “I asked the employees to give their suggestion and the development plan. “After surveying the storage and complaints regarding the work plan of KPA in order to warehouse properties of KPA, we decide to develop and overcome the obstacles according to the law. KPA is rebuild them according to the business purpose for cooperating with European and American marine acad- which they were built in addition to providing interna- emies, and we are also cooperating with Dubai Ports,” tional logistic services and increasing income. We have Sheikh Yousef said. He is also working on studying and informed violating companies that are still using these evaluating contracts and bids. “We will reorganize the properties although their contracts have expired to procedure of bidding, tenders, practices and purchases return them to KPA so we can rehabilitate them, as they according to Audit Bureau rules by adopting the high- are currently decaying. And we are ready to file a case est levels of transparency and through evaluating the against them in court in if they don’t give the properties needs of each department separately and comparing it back,” he stated. to the real needs of KPA for its work,” he pointed out. “One of the corruption cases published in the press KPA has many future plans. “We will start work on a was about a popular logistics and warehousing compa- mega project which will be the biggest or second ny that was renting some properties for handling works. biggest land port in Shuaiba, which should encourage Although its contract expired in July 2014, the company and increase the commercial activity in this port and is still occupying the place without respecting safety relieve the pressure on Shuwaikh Port. Also, instead of and security measures. This company even illegally took depending on private companies to do the onshore over a much bigger space than what was in the contract work for us, we will employ skilled manpower and train - 477,000 square meters,” added Sheikh Yousef. our employees so they will do it. Since KPA is doing the As part of eliminating corruption, KPA will be cooper- entire offshore work, which is more difficult, we can ating with various authorities. “We will be cooperating definitely do the onshore work as well,” concluded with the Audit Bureau, government performance fol- Sheikh Yousef. Iran halts Saudi pilgrimages Continued from Page1 We believe it’s unhelpful,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren told reporters in Washington. “We are rais- Public anger has grown over the incident, with ing that through the appropriate diplomatic channels,” President Hassan Rouhani ordering an investigation and he added. Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoning a Saudi diplomat for Moscow blocked deliveries of the surface-to-air mis- an explanation. But what actually happened remains siles to Tehran in 2010 after the United Nations slapped A boy reacts as a bucket of water is splashed on him during the Songkran water festival to celebrate Thai unclear. Yesterday, a representative of Iran’s top leader sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program barring hi- New Year in Bangkok yesterday. — AP on hajj affairs downplayed the case, saying the pilgrims tech weapons sales. Iran then filed a $4-billion suit at an weren’t abused, the semi-official Fars news agency arbitration court in Geneva for the cancellation of the reported. “In the incident, no abuse has happened and $800 million order by Russia, which has long been Iran’s Barrak to remain in jail after courtroom... the two policemen who attempted abuse were identi- principal foreign arms supplier. The framework deal fied and detained by Saudi police,” Ali Ghaziasgar was agreed in Lausanne this month marked a crucial Continued from Page 1 and Islamists”. quoted as saying. advance in a 12-year standoff between Iran and the A large number of former opposition MPs, activists and Culture Ministry spokesman Hossein Nooshabadi West, which disputes Tehran’s denial that it is seeking to Barrak was taken to the central prison on March 1 lawyers strongly lashed out at Essa, describing his remarks told state TV that the pilgrimage would be suspended build a nuclear bomb. about two weeks after the court of appeals passed the as “racist” and calling for holding him accountable. Lawyer until the Saudi government “applies a strong attitude” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted the sentence against him for allegedly insulting HH the Amir Mishari Al-Ayada said he will file a lawsuit today against to the case. He also said “capital punishment” should missile deliveries were not covered by the earlier UN and undermining his authority in a speech at a public rally Essa for violating the national unity law. But Essa issued a apply to the case, without offering further details. Some sanctions and that the progress made in Switzerland in Oct 2012. brief statement in which he denied that he had said that 500,000 Iranians visit Saudi Arabia each year for the meant there was no longer any need for Russia to main- Meanwhile, Education Minister Bader Al-Essa yesterday the PAAET was hijacked by tribals and Islamists, adding umrah pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah, Islam’s holi- tain the ban on the missile deliveries. Pentagon came under fire mainly from opposition and Islamist that he has asked the newspaper to publish a correction. est sites. Another 100,000 Iranian pilgrims annually trav- spokesman Warren said it was not immediately clear activists for what they described as “racist” statements, He however said that certain sections of the education el to Saudi Arabia for the hajj - Islam’s main pilgrimage - whether Putin’s decision was in itself a violation of pre- which he later denied. Essa, a liberal academic before he ministry, Kuwait University and the PAAET are dominated which comes after the holy month of Ramadan and is viously agreed international sanctions but added that was appointed minister a few months ago, was quoted by by certain sects and political groups, adding that he will scheduled to take place in September this year. Hajj is a “any sales of advanced technologies is cause of concern Al-Qabas newspaper as saying that the Public Authority not allow this to continue. Not a single MP criticized the ritual required of every able-bodied Muslim at least to us”. for Applied Education and Training is “hijacked by tribals minister. once in a lifetime. While not the most sophisticated of Russia’s missile Saudi officials haven’t commented publicly on the systems, the S-300 would bolster Iran’s defences against dispute. Earlier this month, aviation authorities in the any attack on its nuclear sites. Neither Israel nor the German literary lion Guenter Grass dies kingdom turned away an Iranian plane carrying pil- United States have ruled out air strikes if Tehran pursues grims, saying it did not have permission to use the what Western powers fear is a bid to develop a nuclear Continued from Page 1 “crown” the century. Grass’ works have a strong political country’s airspace, the official Saudi Press Agency bomb. Israel - which strongly opposed the initial missile dimension and are considered part of the postwar reported. Tensions between Shiite power Iran and the deal - lashed out at Russia’s decision, saying it was proof In it, Grass voiced fears that a nuclear-armed Israel German literary movement dealing with “coming to Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia have escalated over that the Iranians were using the nuclear deal to arm would mount a “first strike” against Iran and wipe out its terms with the past”. Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen targeting Shiite rebels themselves. “This is a direct result of the legitimacy that people, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin During World War II, he was wounded and taken pris- known as Houthis. The US, Western countries and Sunni Iran is receiving from the nuclear deal that is being pre- Netanyahu to slam the poem as “shameful”. oner by the Allies. His Danzig Trilogy is set in the ethnical- Arab nations involved in the Saudi-led coalition have pared, and proof that the Iranian economic growth Grass, a longtime leftist activist, said he was particular- ly-mixed region of his childhood. Danzig was handed to accused Iran of supporting the Houthis militarily, some- which follows the lifting of sanctions will be exploited ly stung by the widespread accusations of anti-Semitism Poland after the war, when its ethnic German population thing both the rebels and the Islamic Republic deny. for arming itself and not for the welfare of the Iranian against him in the German media. He also said he regret- fled or were expelled. “The Tin Drum”, his magic realism Yesterday, hundreds of students staged another people,” Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said in ted not specifying his criticism was targeted at the Israeli text about Oskar Matzerath, who decides never to grow demonstration in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, a statement. government and not the country as a whole. President up, was adapted into an Oscar-winning film by Volker protesting the air strike campaign in Yemen. But Lavrov insisted that the missile system was Joachim Gauck said Grass’ works reflected the “great Schloendorff. Grass was also not averse to stirring contro- Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin yester- “exclusively defensive” and said it did not pose a threat hopes and mistakes, the fears and desires of whole gen- versy beyond his nation’s borders, such as when he day lifted a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S- to Iran’s foes. Despite the dispute over the S-300 mis- erations”, while Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier likened the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that 300 air defence missile systems after Tehran’s landmark siles, Moscow and Iran have remained on good terms, said the country had lost one of its greats. “Grass was the appeared in 2005 in a Danish newspaper to Nazi carica- framework deal with the West over its nuclear program. with Russia agreeing to build new nuclear reactors for father figure for the thinking and writing of a Germany tures of Jews. A decree signed by Putin removed a ban on “the ship- Tehran and both sides supporting President Bashar Al- that was coming of age,” he said in a statement. Grass was born on Oct 16, 1927 in the Baltic port city ment from Russia to Iran” of the S-300 missiles and Assad in Syria. During a visit by Russian Defence British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie tweeted that the of Danzig to parents who had a grocery shop. Equally sparked fierce condemnation from Israel of Iran’s per- Minister Sergei Shoigu to Tehran in January, Iranian mili- news of Grass’ death was “very sad”. “A true giant, inspira- critical of 1960s consumerism and the revolutionary vio- ceived newfound “legitimacy” on the international tary officials said the two sides had “decided to settle tion, and friend. Drum for him, little Oskar,” he wrote in a lence that it spawned among some German youth, Grass stage. The move was swiftly criticized by Israel and the the S-300s problem”. Russia’s state arms company said in tweet, referring to the main character in “The Tin Drum”. was a dedicated pacifist, opposing the installation of US military. February that it had offered to supply Iran with Antey- Austrian Nobel literature prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek nuclear missiles on German soil, and a critical supporter The decision to pull the delivery ban comes before 2500 missiles, an upgraded version of the S-300 air stressed the early influence Grass had had on her, in com- of the Social Democratic Party. He was also dubious of any sanctions have been lifted on Iran, with difficult defence system that figured in the previous contract. As ments to the Austria Press Agency. Swedish Academy what he saw as an unseemly rush to unite the two parts technical negotiations still ahead following the break- Russia has been hit by Western sanctions over its member Per Waestberg told AFP that Grass was “the of Germany. The cultural foundation in Luebeck said through April 2 deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, it has stepped up greatest German writer of the second half of the 20th Grass died from a “sudden serious illness” and that his drive. “Our opposition to these sales is long and public. its economic ties with Iran in the past year. — Agencies century” adding that his 1999 Nobel had aimed to family was with him at the time. — AFP TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Stuart Williams

ejecting worldwide pressure, Turkey has drawn a defiant red line in refusing to recognize the Rmass killings of Armenians in World War I as genocide on the 100th anniversary year of the tragedy. Turkey’s tough approach on the issue was shown Sunday by Ankara’s incendiary reaction to the use by Pope Francis of the word “genocide” to describe the killings, summoning the Vatican nuncio and recall- ing the Turkish envoy to the Holy See. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in an unusual attack by a world leader on the pontiff, accused Francis of a “one-sided” and “inappropriate” attitude that he said ignored the suffering of Muslims in World War I. The exchanges have intensified tensions ahead of the 100th the anniversary of the start of the killings on Clinton’s decision: Long road to second campaign April 24. Even before the pope waded into the contro- versy, Armenians accused Turkey of trying to over- shadow what they call their genocide commemora- By Julie Pace Major companies dangled spots on corporate boards. Running Scared tions by staging ceremonies on the same day to mark None of the opportunities felt like the right fit. Some risked compli- By the time the midterms were over, Clinton had traveled to the centenary of the famous World War I battle of round Christmas, Hillary Rodham Clinton set off on her annual cating the potential presidential campaign Clinton was now quietly 18 states and headlined 45 events for 26 candidates. More than Gallipoli. “Mind your own business, Pope,” screamed holiday vacation at Oscar de la Renta’s beachfront estate in the willing to discuss. “Hell no” had turned into a definite maybe. half lost. Clinton had expected the results to be bad, but not this the headline in the pro-government Star daily. “The ADominican Republic. It was a somber and serious time for Throughout the spring, Clinton reconnected with her vast network of bad. Democrats had run scared, she concluded. The party had New Crusade,” fumed the Aydinlik daily. A Turkish gov- Clinton. De la Renta, whose relationship with the former first lady had friends in New York, California and her hometown in Illinois. They done little to defend its accomplishments on the economy and ernment source told AFP that Ankara had been “truly blossomed from dress designer to close friend, had recently died and hadn’t seen much of her while she crossed the globe as a diplomat health care, and done even less to argue what Democrats wanted surprised” by the comments, which were made in a Clinton wanted to be there to support his widow. She was also and now they were telling her to run again. “I said, ‘You don’t need to to do in the future. As her party grappled with the sweeping Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican to mark the wrestling with a final decision on whether to run for president. She do this for you’,” said Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a longtime friend and defeats, Clinton plunged into discussions about her own poten- Ottoman killings of Armenians. arrived at the island compound armed with a binder stuffed with 500 Clinton financial backer. “But, you must do it because the country tial campaign. Part of what she weighed was how to run a mod- pages of policy memos and analysis. needs you.” ern, technologically sophisticated campaign, an implicit acknowl- ‘Risk of Deterioration’ Clinton had spent nearly two years tiptoeing around a decision Clinton had also started to pay more attention to a fledgling politi- edgment of her 2008 operation’s failings. Armenia and Armenians in the diaspora say 1.5 mil- that much of the political world assumed was a done deal, a calculated cal organization encouraging her to run. The Ready for Hillary group Among those she consulted with were veterans of Obama’s lion of their forefathers were killed by Ottoman forces next act in what critics saw as the Clintons’ master plan. Clinton’s had initially been a source of frustration for her advisers, who dis- White House runs: Former campaign manager David Plouffe, in a targeted campaign ordered by the military leader- intensely loyal friends and advisers bristle at the suggestion that a sec- missed it as a JV operation that was putting too much pressure on ground game guru Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, and digital director ship of the Ottoman empire to eradicate the Armenian ond White House run was inevitable. When she left the State Clinton far too quickly. The group had the look of a campaign-in-wait- Teddy Goff. At the same time, Clinton convened long economic dis- people from Anatolia in what is now eastern Turkey, an Department in early 2013 and returned to private life for the first time ing. A bus plastered with Clinton’s picture was rolling through towns in cussions that centered on income inequality and the widening argument backed by several European parliaments. in more than two decades, Clinton told people she just wanted to Iowa and New Hampshire. Democratic senators showed up at events achievement gap. Foreign policy experts gave her their diagnosis of Turkey takes a sharply different view of the tragedy, “walk, sleep and eat.” She was more focused on renting office space to announce endorsements, particularly those who had spurned her pressing problems in the Middle East and with Russia. Clinton took saying that hundreds of thousands of both Turks and and figuring out where to receive her mail than on superPAC fundrais- for Obama during her first campaign. hand-written notes and stockpiled multi-page memos. “She wanted Armenians lost their lives as Ottoman forces battled ing and courting Iowa powerbrokers, allies said. Soon, the Clinton team’s view of Ready for Hillary would shift from to be satisfied that she had a set of policies and ideas that could the Russian Empire for control of eastern Anatolia dur- Her decision to run again would be slow, almost painstakingly annoyance to acceptance. The energy the organization was harness- really make a difference for people and she had a theory of change ing World War I. deliberate, a reflection of Clinton’s methodical and cautious nature. ing reminded them of the kind of grassroots movements they jealous- to get them done,” said John Podesta, her new campaign’s chair- While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the She put off much of the process until last fall, around the midterm ly watched mobilize around Obama in 2008. Even around those clos- man. “She went pretty deep.” Islamic-rooted ruling party has been credited with assist- elections. Only then did she delve deeply into consultations with est to her, Clinton offered few indications of how seriously she was The political data Clinton consumed underscored the demo- ing Turkey’s religious minorities, they have shown no dozens of policy and political experts, analysis of countless memos, considering another run. Friends read the tea leaves much like the graphic advantages the Democratic Party has built up among sign of budging in the genocide controversy. Erdogan and a reexamination of what went wrong in her failed 2008 campaign. public. An announcement that she now supported gay marriage Hispanics, African-Americans and women. Clinton might even be offered an expression of condolences to Armenians in By the time Clinton arrived in the Dominican Republic, she had seemed to indicate she wanted to run. But her decision to accept able pick off one or two percent more of the white vote and women 2014 but this has not been followed by any further largely settled on running a second campaign, but wanted to make speaking fees of more than $200,000 per appearance didn’t look like than Obama. What resonated with Clinton more than the policy steps, with rhetoric sharpening even further. “It is unlike- the final determination with her husband, Bill. When she returned to the mark of a politician who would soon be seeking the votes of finan- papers and the polling were appeals to her sense of duty, a hallmark ly that Turkey will change its position after Pope Francis’ New York in the new year, there was no formal meeting with staff or cially strapped Americans. of her Methodist upbringing in the Midwest. She was by far the statement,” said Marc Pierini, visiting scholar at Carnegie email to friends to announce her candidacy. Clinton simply started Clinton had long ago moved on from her bruising defeat. A former most qualified Democrat to run, supporters argued. If she didn’t run, Europe, pointing to June 7 legislative elections where telling advisers to move forward with hiring and find a campaign aide compared her ability to close the door on professional failures to what other Democrat could win? “If a young Bill Clinton was out nationalist votes will be crucial. He said an “entrenched headquarters. her ability to stay in her marriage amid her husband’s public infideli- there today and she saw that and believed in that person’s ideas, position” by Turkey on the issue “clearly entails the risk of Clinton formally launched her campaign in an online video ties. But her devoted staff still bore the scars of the last go-around and character and competence, I am absolutely convinced she would deterioration of the climate between Turkey and Sunday. That will be followed by a series of small events in early voting some were adamantly opposed to another run. Cheryl Mills, a deeply not run,” de Rothschild said. Western countries” ahead of the April 24 anniversary. states like Iowa and New Hampshire. The announcement cements her loyal adviser to both Hillary and Bill, was among the most vocal and There was plenty that gave Clinton pause. She grimaced at the For many Turks, it is inconceivable to consider that status as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, told anyone who asked that she thought her friend was “crazy” for thought of giving up her privacy again. She worried about putting Ottoman forces were responsible for the gravest of all back within sight of an elusive ambition and a history-making turn as even considering a campaign. Among the fears of Mills and others? Chelsea, husband Marc and their baby in the spotlight. She felt bad that crimes, at a time when they were commanded by fig- the nation’s first female commander in chief. Already one of the world’s Clinton could lose again. “This is it for her,” one former adviser said. her candidacy would crowd out Vice President Joe Biden, a longtime ures credited with laying the foundations for the cre- most analyzed figures, the 67-year-old will be subjected to months “Whatever happens, that’s what she’ll be known for.” friend who was also toying with a White House run. Clinton was also ation of modern Turkey in 1923. They prefer to concen- more scrutiny of her wealth, her appearance and health, and her per- mindful of chatter that she could be challenged from her party’s liberal trate on the anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, where sonal relationships. Initial Foray left flank. She set up a meeting with Sen Elizabeth Warren, whose anti- Ottoman forces resisted attack by the Allied Powers, a This account of how Clinton decided to run for president a second In 2014, Democratic officials told Clinton that if she was even think- Wall Street positions were galvanizing progressives and stoking talk formative moment for Turkey whose anniversary falls on time is based on interviews with nearly 20 people who spent signifi- ing about running for president, she needed to be on the campaign that she could launch her own 2016 campaign. The meeting was as almost exactly the same day as the start of campaigns cant time with her as she recovered from her stunning loss to trail in the midterms. Vulnerable candidates saw Obama as politically much an opportunity for Clinton to gauge the mood of progressives as against Armenians. President Barack Obama in 2008, served as secretary of state, and con- toxic, but were clamoring to appear alongside the woman they want- it was a chance to size up the seriousness of Warren’s repeated denials templated another White House run. Some requested anonymity in ed as the party’s next leader. Clinton’s initial foray back into the political of a White House run. Not Ashamed order to speak candidly about their private conversations with Clinton. arena was bumpy at best. Some of the shine had started to come off A less talked-about concern was health, both hers and her hus- “There is no period of time in Turkey’s history that it Clinton as she promoted the memoir she had written about her State band’s. The former president had undergone quadruple bypass surgery would be ashamed of,” said Europe Affairs Minister Devastating Defeat Department years. She stumbled in an early interview by declaring and had to make drastic lifestyle changes. Hillary Clinton would be 69 Volkan Bozkir, describing the pope’s statements as “null The 2008 defeat was devastating for Clinton, a slow motion train that she and her husband, who quickly amassed millions after his pres- years old on Election Day, tying Ronald Reagan as the oldest American and void”. The 100th anniversary of the start of the wreck she appeared powerless to stop. After finally conceding to idency, were “dead broke” when they left the White House. In a sepa- to be elected president if she won. Clinton had been paying attention tragedy - which Armenians trace back to the arrest of Obama, Clinton fell back into the relatively powerless role of junior rate interview, she appeared to criticize Obama for declaring that his to her health - eating better, working out with a personal trainer, telling the leaders of the Armenian community in Istanbul on senator from New York. In an institution where influence is gained foreign policy doctrine was to avoid doing “stupid stuff”. She friends she would pace herself more if she ran another campaign. But April 24, 1915 - has been a matter of major concern for through seniority, she ranked 70th out of 100. Clinton appeared willing scrambled to apologize to the president. there were sure to be lingering questions about the concussion Turkey with the government seeking to engage in offen- to at least consider carving out a career - and a legacy - in the Senate. Her first campaign appearances were flat. In and blood clot she suffered in her final weeks at the State sive diplomacy. Armenians have expressed outrage that She studied John Kerry’s approach when he returned to Capitol Hill Iowa, the state where she was vanquished Department. By December, most of Clinton’s Turkey is holding its main ceremonies for the anniver- after losing the 2004 presidential election. She and her advisers dis- by Obama in the 2008 primary, she awk- anxieties had been resolved. Her private sary of Gallipoli on April 24 and not the usual date of cussed other senators she admired, including Dianne Feinstein, the wardly declared, “I’m baaack!” before deliberations over the holidays would April 25, leaving world leaders with a dilemma over longtime California Democrat. Feinstein was on the powerful appropri- launching into a pro forma recitation put to rest her internal debate. whose event to attend. ations committee, so they weighed whether Clinton should seek a of Democratic talking points. Turkey’s worst nightmare would be US recognition spot on the committee, too. Clinton and her aides knew it had- Different of the killings as genocide and on March 18, 44 US Clinton escaped the Senate through an unlikely opportunity. n’t gone well. She lacked a clear The oft-repeated mantra of lawmakers introduced a resolution pressing President Obama, her former rival, asked her to join his administration as secre- message, one she could ultimately Clinton’s growing campaign team Barack Obama to acknowledge that interpretation. tary of state. Clinton confidantes view her four years at the helm of the turn into a rationale for her own is that this time will be different. Commentator Murat Yetkin argued in the Hurriyet State Department as her golden era - a chance for one of the country’s candidacy. Two weeks later, her Many of the problematic senior Daily News that the chief strategy of the Armenian most polarizing figures to jump off the political treadmill. She set a daughter, Chelsea, gave birth to a advisers who stoked division and diaspora was to encourage recognition by the United record for international travel and prioritized issues she had long been girl, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. drama in her first campaign have States “not only because of its political and psycho- passionate about, including global health and boosting opportunities It was a jubilant moment for been left behind. She has poached logical effect, but also because of its legal conse- for women and girls. The deeper she delved into policy, the higher her Clinton, who had long hoped for a liberally from the younger genera- quences”. —AFP approval rating went. grandchild. It was also politically tion of operatives who have worked A telltale sign that Clinton was in her comfort zone: She was willing clarifying. Suddenly Clinton saw a for Obama. Despite having no seri- to throw her famously scrutinized hair up in a ponytail in front of the way to tie the policy issues she had ous primary challenge, she is run- cameras. “She was her own person,” said Lisa Caputo, a former senior long worked on with her motiva- ning from the cloak of inevitability All articles appearing on these adviser to Clinton. “It was the pragmatist Hillary, nose to the grindstone.” tion for potentially seeking the that helped drag down her last cam- Talk of another presidential campaign still followed Clinton everywhere White House. Clinton personally paign and is planning to run aggres- pages are the personal opinion of she went, but she repeatedly ruled it out. In 2011, she said her plan was wrote much of the new speech for her sively in places like Iowa and New the writers. Kuwait Times takes no to make secretary of state her “last public position,” then “probably go next public rally, an October event for Hampshire. responsibility for views expressed back to advocacy work, particularly on behalf of women and children, Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatori- But many of the potential pitfalls and and probably around the world”. A former aide described Clinton’s atti- al candidate Tom Wolf. Unlike her stale risks Clinton weighed for months haven’t therein. Kuwait Times invites read- tude at that point more bluntly: “It was not just ‘no,’ but ‘hell no.’” appearance in Iowa, her remarks were gone away. Revelations that she used a personal ers to voice their opinions. Please fiery, both sharply political and person- email and private server throughout her time at the send submissions via email to: opin- Enticing Opportunities al. “You should not have to be the State Department revived questions of secrecy and After Clinton’s long-planned departure from the State Department grandchild of a president to get a good questionable ethics that have long dogged her and [email protected] or via snail in early 2013, enticing opportunities started flowing in. Prominent uni- education, to get good health care,” her husband. Her slow and defensive public mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. versities, including Harvard, Columbia and Yale, offered wide-ranging Clinton said. “Let’s make sure we give response ran counter to aides’ claims that they The editor reserves the right to edit academic and policy posts. The Ford Foundation, which bills itself as a every child in Pennsylvania the same better understood the fast-paced media land- global social change organization, approached her. George Soros, the chance that I’m determined to give my scape and would be less defensive with the any submission as necessary. billionaire liberal philanthropist, wanted Clinton to run his foundation. granddaughter.” press. —AP TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 SPORTS

Mirza No.1 in doubles Australia bemoans flop Lee hoping for mercy NEW DELHI: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi led an outpouring of MELBOURNE: The Australian conference’s struggles in KUALA LUMPUR: Former badminton number one Lee Chong Wei returned home to praise yesterday for Sania Mirza after she became the country’s first ten- Super Rugby has alarm bells ringing Down Under, where Malaysia yesterday and said he faced a three-week wait for the verdict from his doping nis player to be ranked No. 1 in women’s doubles. media pundits have condemned the nation’s lack of playing hearing. “An excellent accomplishment @MirzaSania! Congrats on being World depth in a World Cup year. The twice Olympic silver medallist faced a three-person Badminton World Federation Number 1 in doubles,” Modi wrote on his Twitter page after Mirza won the Four of Australia’s teams, including the reigning champi- (BWF) panel in Amsterdam on Saturday after testing positive for the banned anti-inflamma- Family Circle doubles title in Charleston on Sunday partnering Swiss great on New South Wales Waratahs, are mired in the bottom six tory drug dexamethasone during the world championships in August. Martina Hingis. of the 15-team southern hemisphere competition halfway “I have cooled down a bit since the hearing. I had waited six months for it and now all The 28-year-old Mirza, who decided to focus on doubles in through the season. we have to do is wait another three weeks for the result,” Lee told reporters at the airport on 2012 after a recurring wrist injury, won a third consecu- The fifth, Canberra-based ACT Brumbies, are second but Monday. battling to hold ground against New Zealand and South tive doubles title partnering Hingis and her 25th overall “Obviously, I am hoping for a good result. I am quite happy with our African rivals amid a mounting injury toll. on the WTA Tour. “It’s a dream come true,” Mirza told lawyer as he gave a clear and detailed presentation. “I cannot say more The conference’s solid performance last season, when than that, we will just have to wait for the panel to decide.” India’s NDTV news channel. “For me, my family, and my the Waratahs broke through for their maiden title and the Lee could face a two-year ban if found guilty, which is likely to lead country too. It was a bit nervy toward the end of the Brumbies reached the semi-finals, was hailed as a sign of the to the 32-year-old’s retirement. Malaysian media speculated their second set and we were on match point twice. But increasing depth of Australian rugby. Those achievements favorite sporting son, who has been provisionally suspended by the that’s tennis, you have to win every point to cross the have been quickly forgotten, with the Melbourne Rebels, BWF since November, could be handed a shorter, backdated penalty or finish line, nobody gives it to you.” Cricket great Sachin Queensland Reds and Western Force conjuring a total of five even cleared. Tendulkar said Mirza was an inspiration for upcoming wins between them from the opening nine rounds. “The Lee had originally hoped for an immediate verdict. The world number tennis players. “Congratulations to @MirzaSania on Australian teams are fielding too many players who are well 17 said the three-week delay meant he would likely miss the Sudirman being crowned World No. 1 in Doubles. Terrific short of the required standard, which has led to a drop in Cup and the April 30 ranking cut off for the Aug. 10-16 world achievement and will inspire more to pursue the match quality and crowd interest,” prominent rugby writer championships in Jakarta.—Reuters sport,” Tendulkar tweeted.—AP Greg Growden said in a column for ESPN.—Reuters Tigers maul Indians, Pirates win

CLEVELAND: Miguel Cabrera homered jam in the 10th by striking out Todd twice and drove in four runs as the Frazier. St. Louis took two of three in the Detroit Tigers improved to 6-0 for the first series and has won 13 consecutive three- time in 30 years with an 8-5 win over the game series against Cincinnati. Cleveland Indians on Sunday. Cuban right-hander Raisel Iglesias for Cabrera hit a two-run homer in the the Reds and allowed three runs and five first off T.J. House (0-1), and J.D. Martinez hits in five innings with two walks and added a solo shot in the ninth as the four strikeouts. Signed last July to a $27 Tigers finished off a three-game sweep. million, seven-year contract, he became Cabrera went 4 for 4 with his first two the first Reds player since Mike Leake in homers this season, a double and single. 2010 to reach the majors without playing With Cabrera needing a triple for the a minor league game. cycle, Indians manager Terry Francona intentionally walked him in the eighth BLUE JAYS 10, ORIOLES 7 even though there was a runner on first. Jose Bautista hit the last of Toronto’s Kyle Lobstein (1-0) allowed three runs three home runs, a two-run drive in the and eight hits in five innings, and Joakim eighth off Darren O’Day. Dalton Pompey Soria worked the ninth for his second and Kevin Pillar also connected for the save. Blue Jays, who doubled their home-run total for the season. Toronto scored 23 PIRATES 10, BREWERS 2 runs in the three-game series, twice Andrew McCutchen homered and reaching double figures. drove in four runs in his return to Aaron Loup (1-1) pitched 1 2-3 perfect Pittsburgh’s lineup, and Neil Walker hit a innings after starter Drew Hutchison gave three-run shot. up a career-high tying seven runs and McCutchen took himself out of Friday seven hits in 4 1-3 innings. Miguel Castro night’s game because of soreness in his worked the ninth for his second save. left knee and didn’t play Saturday. Casey Orioles starter Chris Tillman (1-1) allowed Sadler (1-0) earned his first major league seven runs - three earned - and six hits in win, going five innings in his first career 2 2-3 innings. start. Kyle Lohse (0-2) allowed four runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 innings. NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 3 Wilson Ramos drove in the decisive run RAYS 8, MARLINS 5 in the 10th with his second RBI of the day. Nathan Karns (1-1) allowed two runs - Bryce Harper homered and Clint one earned - and two hits in seven Robinson had three hits for the Nationals, innings for his second career victory. The who salvaged a win in the three-game Marlins, who came into the season with series. Yunel Escobar led off the 10th with high hopes, went 1-5 on their opening a double off Jake Diekman (0-1) and homestand. Center fielder Marcell Ozuna scored on Justin De Fratus’ wild pitch for was scratched from the lineup as punish- a 3-2 lead. ment for being late to batting practice. Aaron Barrett (1-0) pitched a scoreless Miami reserve third baseman Don Kelly ninth, and Drew Storen got his second and backup catcher Jeff Mathis suffered save after allowing Odubel Herrera’s run- similar injuries that forced them from the scoring infield single. game. Each broke the ring finger on his CLEVELAND: Indians’ Jason Kipnis reaches first safely on a ground ball as the throw ticks off the glove of Detroit Tigers firstaseman b right hand. David DeJesus hadt a three- METS 4, BRAVES 3 Miguel Cabrera (24) in the ninth inning of a baseball game. —AP run homer off Henderson Alvarez (0-2) Bartolo Colon helped himself with his that helped the Rays build a 7-2 lead. first RBI in a decade, and Daniel Murphy Colon (2-0) allowed three runs and six lead into the ninth before Oakland rallied allowed four runs and four hits in four hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the hits in seven innings. Juan Jaime (0-1) to tie it against closer Fernando Rodney innings. Tyson Ross (1-0) gave up three CARDINALS 7, REDS 5 eighth, dropping the Braves to 5-1. walked Curtis Granderson and Anthony (1-0). Seattle won despite getting outhit runs and five hits in six innings, and Craig Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer off Backed by Michael Cuddyer’s two-run Recker opening the eighth. Jeurys Familia 14-7. Yoervis Medina got three outs his Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his second Kevin Gregg (0-1) in the 11th inning. homer in the first inning, Colon led 3-2 got two outs for his first save. first save in nearly two years. save. Carlos Villanueva (1-0) pitched two before Jonny Gomes’ seventh-inning innings, working out of a bases-loaded homer just inside the left-field pole. WHITE SOX 6, TWINS 2 CUBS 6, ROCKIES 5 DODGERS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 4 Chris Sale (1-0) struck out eight over Former Rockies player Dexter Fowler Alex Guerrero had his first big league six innings in his return from a broken hit a two-run homer on a hanging slider homer, went 3 for 5 and four RBIs to back bone in his right foot, allowing one run from LaTroy Hawkins (1-1) on an 0-2 pitch Zack Greinke (1-0), who allowed five hits and five hits. Adam LaRoche homered for with two outs in the ninth inning. in seven scoreless innings. Los Angeles the second straight day and had a run- Neil Ramirez (1-0) earned the win by avoided a three-game sweep with. scoring single Minnesota dropped to 1-5 getting two outs in the eighth. Hector Yasiel Puig hit his first homer of 2015 under new manager Paul Molitor. Phil Rondon got his second save of the season off Josh Collmenter (0-2). Joc Pederson Hughes gave up three runs and eight hits as the Cubs won for the second time in had his first big league homer and three in six innings, struck out four and walked the three-game series. of Los Angeles’ 16 hits. none. PADRES 6, GIANTS 4 YANKEES 14, RED SOX 4 ASTROS 6, RANGERS 4 Backup catcher Wil Nieves hit his first Alex Rodriguez had a three-run double Hank Conger hit a two-run homer in career grand slam, a drive off former San in a seven-run first-inning outburst, as the 14th inning following George Diego star Jake Peavy, as the Padres won New York won for the second time in six Springer’s leaping catch at the right-field three of four in their series against the games to avoid what would have been its wall on a ball hit by Leonys Martin in the defending World Series champions. worst start since 1989. 10th. Conger homered after Evan Gattis It was the first career slam and just the Chase Headley and Stephen Drew had reached base for the first time this season 10th homer overall for the 37-year-old consecutive homers against Clay - on a walk in his 21st plate appearance Nieves,who was a 47th-round draft pick Buchholz (1-1), who allowed 10 runs - this year. Will Harris (1-0) retired six of the Padres in 1995. He signed as a nine earned - and nine hits in 3 1-3 straight batters. He struck out the side in minor league free agent in January and innings. Rodriguez drove in four runs, the 12th, his 19th consecutive scoreless won the backup job after Tim Federowicz, and New York had 16 hits. Masahiro outing dating to August. obtained from the Dodgers in the Matt Tanaka (1-1) survived one wild stretch to Samuel Deduno loaded the bases with Kemp deal, was sidelined following knee earn his first victory and with five solid two outs in the bottom of the 14th but surgery. innings somewhat put to rest concern got his first big league save when Peavy (0-1), whose first start of the sea- about his right elbow. Brian McCann hit Rougned Odor lined out to right field. son was delayed because of a back injury, his 200th career homer. —AP

ROYALS 9, ANGELS 2 Alcides Escobar and Alex Rios hit two- run doubles, and Salvador Perez homered MLB results/standings as AL champion Kansas City improved to 6-0. The winning streak is the Royals’ sec- Tampa Bay 8, Miami 5; St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 5 (11 Innings); Detroit 8, Cleveland 5; Toronto 10, Baltimore 7; NY Mets 4, Atlanta 3; Washington 4, Philadelphia 3 (10 Innings); Pittsburgh 10, Milwaukee 2; Chicago White Sox 6, ond-longest to open a season after a 9-0 Minnesota 2; Houston 6, Texas 4 (14 Innings); Kansas City 9, LA Angels 2; Seattle 8, Oakland 7 (10 Innings); start in 2003. The Angels’ Albert Pujols hit Chicago Cubs 6, Colorado 5; LA Dodgers 7, Arizona 4; San Diego 6, San Francisco 4; NY Yankees 14, Boston 4. his 522nd home run, moving past Ted American League National League Williams, Willie McCovey and Frank Eastern Division Eastern Division Thomas for sole possession of 18th on W L PCT GB Atlanta 5 1 .833 - the career list. Boston 4 2 .667 - NY Mets 3 3 .500 2 Yordano Ventura (2-0) allowed two Toronto 4 2 .667 - Philadelphia 3 3 .500 2 runs and four hits in 5 2-3 innings to beat Baltimore 3 3 .500 1 Washington 2 4 .333 3 Tampa Bay 3 3 .500 1 Miami 1 5 .167 4 C.J. Wilson (1-1), who gave up seven runs NY Yankees 2 4 .333 2 Central Division - six earned - and nine hits over 5 2-3 Central Division Cincinnati 4 2 .667 - innings. Detroit 6 0 1.000 - Chicago Cubs 3 2 .600 0.5 Kansas City 6 0 1.000 - St. Louis 3 2 .600 0.5 Chicago White Sox 2 4 .333 4 Pittsburgh 2 4 .333 2 MARINERS 8, ATHLETICS 7 Cleveland 2 4 .333 4 Milwaukee 1 5 .167 3 Nelson Cruz homered for the second Minnesota 1 5 .167 5 Western Division Western Division straight day, hitting a solo drive off Tyler Colorado 4 2 .667 - Clippard (0-1) in the 10th inning. Mariners Houston 3 3 .500 - Seattle 3 3 .500 - San Diego 4 3 .571 0.5 ace Felix Hernandez left after five innings Oakland 3 4 .429 0.5 Arizona 3 3 .500 1 as a precaution because of tightness in Texas 3 4 .429 0.5 LA Dodgers 3 3 .500 1 MILWAUKEE: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Vance Worley follows through on a pitch to the Milwaukee San Francisco 3 4 .429 1.5 Brewers during the first inning of a baseball game. —AP his right quadriceps. Seattle took a 7-3 LA Angels 2 4 .333 1 TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 SPORTS

Kuwait Tennis tourney witnesses exciting matches

By Abdellatif Sharaa In the juniors U17 category Hussain Ali In the women singles Hanan Al- Jamal defeated Abdelwahab Sami Al- Awadhi, Latifa Al-Sayyed Omar, Sarah KUWAIT: Kuwait Sixth Open Tennis Sharaf 6-2, 6-1, Essa Qabazard beat Behbehani, Nouf Al-Subaih and Anania Tournament 2015 saw some exciting Abdelhadi Adel 6-1, 6-1, Abdelaziz Tribathi moved into the second round. matches being held under the patronage Maayouf saw off Mohammad Al-Jaafar 6- In the men’s doubles Dawood Hashim of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Abdallah Al- 1, 6-0, Hadi Mansour emerged victorious and Abdelhameed Al-Satti defeated Jaber Al-Sabah, President of Arab and over Hussein Shams 7-5, 6-4. Faisal Marwan and Manar Bouzo 6-0, 6-0, Kuwait Tennis Federations, at Yarmouk Buqrais clinched victory over Ravan Diaz Abdelaziz Maayouf and Ali Al-Sheikh cut Sports Club. 6-4, 6-2, Danial Ghassan defeated Shihab short Waleed Ramadhan and Mohammad This is the largest tournament organ- Ayman 6-0, 6-0, and Hussein Ali Dashti Jamal 6-0, 6-1, Hamid Al-Sulaiteen and ized by KTF as 330 players of various age beat Talal Kamal. In the men’s singles Talal Abdallah Al-Qallaf rolled over Salama categories are competing in 11 cate- Al-Beloushi pounded Ahmad Al- Anbar and Fadi Al-Samrani 6-2, 6-1. gories, those include beginners under 13, Hammadi 6-0, 6-0, Ali Al-Ghareeb sealed The rest of matches were suspended juniors under 17 pioneers singles above win over Abdallah Jawli, 6-4, 6-1, Ahmad due to bad weather. The tournament is 45 years, professional men, men’s singles Dashti stopped Ali Bakhs 6-0, 6-3, and being held under the direction of Faleh and doubles, girls 418 singles, women’s Hussein A Al-Ghareeb halted Ali Al-Rashid Al-Otaibi and his assistant Abbas Al- singles, diplomats singles. 6-0, 6-0. Busairi, and officiated by a Kuwaiti.

Marquez speeds to easy win

AUSTIN: Marc Marquez needed no drama to delay the start for about 35 minutes to be the fastest at the Grand Prix of the because of a large water spill on the track Americas on Sunday. With a sunny sky just before the warm-up lap. That sent above, a dry track and the powerful Repsol crews scrambling to dry the spill and the Honda engine underneath him, the 22- riders back to their garages. year-old Spaniard delivered yet another Once they were racing, Dovizioso easy victory. After giving up an early to lead grabbed the lead out of the first turn, to Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso of Italy, which comes at the top of a 110-foot climb Marquez quickly reeled him back in, then and pushes the riders into a sharp left back pulled away for career win No. 20, his third down the hill. Dovizioso hasn’t won since in a row in Austin and his first of the 2009 and didn’t hold the lead for long. MotoGP season. Once in front, Marquez Marquez stayed close and showed off dominated the field, winning by more than the power of his Honda when he hauled in 2 seconds at the Circuit of the Americas. the leader on the track’s longest straight- The two-time defending world champion away, passing him just as the riders headed needed the win to boost his bid for a third into Turn 12. It was the same spot where consecutive title in motorcycle racing’s pre- Formula One’s Lewis Hamilton twice made miere classification after finishing fifth in passes to win the U.S. Grand Prix in 2012 the season opener in Qatar. “It was time to and 2014. come back on the top and try to recover Once he had the lead, Marquez eased those points. I’m happy because I felt good into the next 17 laps and quickly put dis- with the bike. This race gives to us a good tance on the rest of the field, leaving confidence for the next race,” Marquez said. Dovizioso and Rossi engaged in a tense Dovizioso finished second. Movistar fight for second. Dovizioso earned his 26th Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi of Italy was third. career podium finish. Rossi, who has seven world titles, won in “I was close to hitting him and (I Qatar and leads the championship stand- thought) we both would crash,” Dovizioso ings ahead of Dovizioso and Marquez. said. “He was faster, so he deserved it,” Rossi “The championship is very long,” Rossi said. Marquez captured his sixth straight said. “We’re still at the top.” Marquez’s easy MotoGP victory in the U.S. and his competi- victory was nothing like Saturday’s qualify- tors will likely be glad to get him off ing when he was forced to park his motor- American soil. The series moves to cycle after a warning light came on, Argentina next week before a six-race run in jumped a wall and ran back to the garage Europe. Two of those will be in Marquez’s to grab a backup ride. home country before a return to the US at AVONDALE: Juan Pablo Montoya (2), of Colombia, leads in front of Will Power (1), of Australia, during the IndyCar Grand Prix of Louisiana Even after those gymnastics, Marquez Indianapolis Motor Speedway in August. auto race. —AP turned in a tense, blistering turn of the “USA is a good country for me. Normally, I track to grab pole position on his final lap. feel really good. I don’t know why. Maybe On Sunday, the sun came out for the it’s the left corners that I enjoy more. We will first time all weekend, but officials still had try to keep this way,” Marquez said. —AP Hinchcliffe wins wet Indy GP of Louisiana

AVONDALE: James Hinchcliffe is getting used turn before the front straight, where water involving Simon Pagenaud, Ryan Hunter-Reay to partying in New Orleans. The veteran was flowing across the spot where they want- and Sebastien Bourdais early in the first lap of IndyCar driver was a guest at one of the ed to accelerate. a restart with less than 10 minutes remaining. biggest Mardi Gras parades in February. So, he “Our cars, in those conditions, are very diffi- Hunter-Reay squeezed Pagenaud onto a looked like a natural tossing beads Sunday cult,” Castroneves said. “It was like ice.” More wet spot, which caused the Frenchmen to after winning the inaugural Indy Grand Prix of than half of the race - 25 laps - was run under slide onto grass and then back on track at the Louisiana. yellow. All of the full-course cautions came next turn, where he essentially broadsided The Canadian had a wet track and a fortu- after the first 15 laps, when most drivers Hunter-Reay and collected Bourdais - fright- nate pit strategy to thank for his fourth career began changing from wet-weather tires to eningly close to the cockpit - before all three triumph, and won by leading most of the last slicks. That meant drivers raced under green cars slid back off track and into a tire wall. 14 laps under caution. But he’ll take it. for only seven of the last 32 laps. And it was Pagenaud was out of his car quickly and “The inaugural event at any track is always then that Hinchcliffe, who made his only pit checked on Bourdais, then appeared to chas- special,” said Hinchcliffe, who rode in the stop on Lap 13, cycled out front. tise Hunter-Reay. “I’m not sure what Hunter- Bacchus parade and was among the drivers Under caution on Lap 33, the first eight Reay was thinking,” Pagenaud said. “He just most involved in promoting the race. “To be cars pitted, while Hinchcliffe, who was ninth, drove us off the track and I’m just glad every- able to come out on top in that first race was told by his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports one is OK.” means a lot.” team to remain on track. Among the drivers who finished, Helio Castroneves overcame early front- “I was kind of 50-50 on it when they made Hinchcliffe - a three-time winner in 2013 - was wing damage that put him near the back of the call and I saw nobody else stay out,” the only one to pit just once. Juan Pablo the field to finish second for Team Penske, giv- Hinchcliffe said. “Obviously, that’s why those Montoya, who won the season-opener two ing him a consecutive top-five finishes to start guys do what they do and that’s why I just weeks ago in St. Petersburg, started on pole the season. shut up and drive.” after qualifying was rained out Saturday. He “In normal conditions, it’s extremely diffi- When he first got to the front, Hinchcliffe led the first 13 laps under green until he pit- cult to come back,” Castroneves said. “The way figured he would have to create a gap in front ted for slick tires. He finished fifth after pitting it was playing around with so many yellows during the next green flag stint and make one only twice. and so many variables, amazing that we never more quick pit stop for fuel. Tony Kanaan, who started in third, entered gave up and were able to go back in the “At first, I was cursing the yellows that were the pits on Lap 11 with three other cars for game.” coming out,” Hinchcliffe recalled. “But a one- slicks. The move backfired when he went off James Jakes was third to give Schmidt stop strategy - who would have thought that track in Turn 10 and had to spin through rain- Peterson Motorsports two podium finishers. would play out.” soaked grass to rejoin the track. By then, he The biggest enemy of green-flag racing As it became clear he wouldn’t pit again, was out of the top 20, but managed to work wasn’t so much the rain, which largely Hinchcliffe said he started holding his thumb his way back to sixth, ahead of defending stopped during the race, but tricky wet spots over his fuel gauge “because I didn’t want to series champion Will Power in seventh, that remained after much of track was dry and see how low it was getting. Graham Rahall in eighth, Joseff Newgarden in drivers switched to slick tires. “We were really relying on weather com- ninth and Luca Filippi in 10th. The variable conditions brought out one ing,” he added. “Obviously, that didn’t happen, Scott Dixon, who turned the fastest lap of caution after another as drivers spun or slid so without all the yellows we would have the weekend on the 2.74-mile, 13-turn track in off the track, causing what was scheduled as a come up short.” a dry practice on Saturday, had to start 15th AUSTIN: Marc Marquez, of Spain celebrates with the trophy after winning the Texas 75-lap race to end as a timed race after just 47 The last chance to race under green was based on his St. Petersburg finish and wound MotoGP motorcycle race at the Circuit of the Americas. —AP laps. Several drivers lost control on the final cut short by a spectacular three-car wreck up 11th. —AP TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 SPORTS A special win for a special player at Masters

AUGUSTA: About the only thing miss- difficulties that place her on the autism “When I speak to her she’s going to more proud,” his father, Shawn, said. “But the deal with an 8-footer for par on the ing was a new scoring record. Not to spectrum. On an overcast day at probably tell me to just bring something God-given gift to be able to play the 16th hole even as Justin Rose and Phil worry, because odds are Jordan Spieth Augusta National, Spieth finished off a home, bring a present home to her,” game like that, we’re just probably more Mickelson made late moves. “He’s just will set a bunch of them by the time he wire-to-wire win that was so utterly Spieth said. “I’m sure she was watching proud of him for the kind of person he is fiery,” said caddie Michael Greller, who is done. dominant it never seemed really in and was excited when she saw how hap- and the way he handles himself and was a sixth grade teacher before hook- The odds are equally good that the doubt. That he bogeyed the last hole to py I was there with my family at the end. treats everybody. ... He makes us really, ing up with Spieth. “He’s got that kliller green jacket he put on Sunday night miss setting a scoring record set by Probably a little jealous at that point.” really proud.” instinct. You have to have tunnel vision outside the Augusta National clubhouse another 21-year-old named Tiger Woods If so, she’s not the only one. Who Spieth almost became the youngest when you’re out there, but you have to won’t be his last. in 1997 did nothing to make the day any wouldn’t be jealous of a player who Masters champion ever last year in his really appreciate the roars.” The Masters was the tournament he less sweet. His family and friends gath- refused to yield an inch all week, yet was first go around at Augusta National, only Spieth has a lot to appreciate, even if dreamed about growing up beating ered behind the 18th green hugging so gracious he gave playing partner to lose the two-shot lead he held after he admitted he wasn’t sure just what balls on the range in Texas. The people each other even before Spieth dropped Justin Rose a thumbs up after he made a seven holes of the final round to Bubba winning the Masters would mean. who run the Masters could only dream the short bogey putt to finish off his day. remarkable recovery shot on the sev- Watson. He was determined to come Spieth hasn’t had that much experience of having a new champion who could Everyone important in his life was there, enth hole? back and win the green jacket, and he winning in his short career, though he stare down an all-star field of chal- except the one person who may be Who wouldn’t be jealous of a player seized control of the Masters with a first won once and finished second twice in lengers, then remember to thank every- most important. who kept the same four-shot lead he round 64 and never looked back. his last three tournaments. one from the kitchen staff to the chair- His sister, who is seven years younger, teed off with under the intense pressure “He wanted badly to get back after The last one was in Houston last man for giving him the chance to do just doesn’t come to many tournaments. of a final round at the Masters? last year,” his father said. He’d be a col- week, where after every round he would that. He’s a special talent who yells at his Ellie Spieth likes to yell her brother’s And who wouldn’t be jealous of a lege senior if he stayed at the University go home and Ellie would say, “Jordan, ball and plays with a steely intensity. name and cheer at what should be quiet young man who, after hugging his cad- of Texas, where he played for a year did you win? Did you win?” He’s also a special person, the son of ath- times, and the Masters would not be the die, parents and girlfriend, applauded before taking a chance and playing his “I said, ‘Not yet, not yet, no,’” Spieth letic parents who still dates his high place for that. But Spieth would be call- the fans who came to watch as he took a way onto the PGA Tour. But he looked said, laughing. “I can tell her I won now.” school sweetheart and is a loving broth- ing, and they would talk about him win- victory lap around the 18th green? like a seasoned veteran as he played his Maybe he can bring home a present, er to a younger sister with neurological ning his first major championship. “I don’t know what could make you way around Augusta National, sealing too. A nice green jacket will do. —AP Spieth masters Masters

AUGUSTA: Young gun Jordan Spieth, evoking memories of Tiger Woods at Augusta National 18 years ago, added his name to golf’s record books with a stunning wire-to-wire victory by four shots at the Masters on Sunday. Ice-cool whenever he faced adversity, the 21- year-old American who is known for his brilliant putting closed with a two-under-par 70 to match Woods’ tournament record low of 18- under 270 for 72 holes. Woods achieved the mark when he clinched his maiden major title at the 1997 Masters, also aged 21. “It was very nerve wracking today,” Spieth, the second youngest Masters winner after Woods, said before being helped into the coveted green jacket by last year’s Masters champion, American Bubba Watson. “I thought today might be a little easier than yesterday, having played with the lead, but it wasn’t. I didn’t sleep well last night. “It’s the most incredible week of my life,” added Spieth, who effectively turned the year’s opening major into a one-man show when he fired a 64 in the first round. “This is as great as it HOUSTON: New Orleans Pelicans center Omer Asik (3) dunks as Houston Rockets cen- gets in our sport. This is a dream come true for ter Dwight Howard (12) and forward Terrence Jones (6) looks on during the second me.” half of an NBA basketball game.—AP Spieth’s playing partner Justin Rose of England, the 2013 US Open champion, signed off with a 70 to share second place with three- Indiana fend off late charge times Masters winner Phil Mickelson, who card- ed a 69. as Rockets pound Pelicans “I was really happy with the way I felt today on the golf course, how composed I was and INDIANAPOLIS: Russell Westbrook scored a ond place in the Western Conference and took how in control of my emotions I was,” said Rose, career-high 54 points Sunday, but Indiana a half-game lead over idle Memphis in the who birdied the first two holes to apply early fended off his late charge for a critical 116-104 Southwest Division. The defending champion pressure. victory over Oklahoma City. Spurs have won 21 of 24. Kawhi Leonard had “Jordan is just so comfortable with the lead. CJ Miles matched his season high with 30 18 points and nine rebounds, Marco Belinelli Awesome composure, every time I thought points to lead Indiana (37-43) to its fifth added 13 points and Tony Parker had 10 points maybe there was a chink in the armor, he’d come straight win and into a tie with Brooklyn for and five assists to help San Antonio improve to out and hole an eight-foot putt.” the eighth and final playoff spot in the East. 55-26. Gerald Green had 23 points and Eric GRAND SLAM BID The Nets own the tiebreaker. Bledsoe added 20 points and 10 assists for Northern Ireland’s world number one Rory The Thunder (43-37) lost for the fifth time Phoenix. Eliminated from playoff contention McIlroy, who had been on the brink of missing in six games despite a near triple-double from Wednesday night, the Suns have lost four the cut midway through the second round, fin- Westbrook, who had nine rebounds and eight straight and nine of 10 to drop to 39-42. ished alone in fourth at 12 under after shooting AUGUSTA: Bubba Watson helps Jordan Spieth put on his green jacket for the second time assists. Oklahoma City is tied with New a 66. after winning the Masters golf tournament. —AP Orleans for the No. 8 seed in the West. After WIZARDS 108, HAWKS 99 “I played well,” said McIlroy, who had been posting a triple-double in the first game John Wall had no trouble finding his bidding for a career grand slam of the four never allowed his challengers to get any closer par-five 15th to keep at bay Rose, who reeled off against the Pacers this season, Westbrook rhythm after resting for two games, finishing majors. “Obviously very happy with how the than three shots as he relied on his trusty putter three straight birdies from the 13th. nearly did it again. He was 21 of 43 from the with 24 points and nine assists night to lead weekend went.... and ice-cool composure to rebound from any At that point the first player ever to reach 19 field, 5 of 15 on 3s and 7 of 11 from the free Washington to its highest win total in more “Jordan obviously started off fantastically stumble on the firming, severely contoured under at the Masters, Spieth did well to save par throw line. He had 22 points and four assists than 30 years. Washington improved to 46-34, well, and has just kept his foot down, really greens. at the 16th. After pushing his tee shot right at just in the first quarter. its first time topping 45 victories since 1978- impressive. It’s great for the game, and I’m sure Out in one-under 35 with a five-stroke cush- the par-four last, Spieth hit his second to just he’ll win many more (majors).” 79. The Wizards closed their regular-season ion, he drained a 20-footer for birdie at the 10th short of the green, chipped up to five feet but Four-times champion Woods, on his return to to briefly forge six ahead before he faltered with missed the par putt to slip back to 18 under. ROCKETS 121, PELICANS 114 home schedule at 29-12 after going 22-19 last competition after a two-month absence to James Harden scored 30 points as season. They are fifth in the Eastern a three-putt bogey at the tricky par-three 12th. Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, helped by an retool his game, tied for 17th at five under with a Spieth carded his fifth birdie of the day at the eagle at the par-five 13th, closed with a 66 to fin- Houston used a big run at the beginning of Conference with two games remaining and 73.Spieth, who led by four strokes overnight, par-five 13th and picked up another shot at the ish fifth at 11-under 277. —Reuters the fourth quarter to take the lead against will face Toronto or Chicago to open the play- New Orleans. The Rockets ended a two-game offs. Atlanta already has clinched the East’s No. skid behind the NBA-leading 35th 30-point 1 seed and won a club-record 60 games, so game for Harden, who leads the league in coach Mike Budenholzer rested starters Jeff scoring. Corey Brewer and Dwight Howard Teague, Kyle Korver, Al Horford and DeMarre French railway seeks action carried Houston in the opening minutes of the Carroll. Mike Scott led the Hawks with 19 fourth quarter combining for all of the points. Rockets’ points in a 14-5 run that put them on against Paris-Roubaix riders top 100-91. Howard finished with 19 points MAVERICKS 120, LAKERS 106 and 11 rebounds, and Brewer added 20 Tyson Chandler had 20 points as Dallas PARIS: The French state railway company yester- “This time, that would have been unjust in rying incidents that occurred over the past week points. Anthony Davis had 27 points for the tuned up for the postseason with a victory day demanded police action against “irresponsible” respect of those riders who weren’t identified,” said during the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco (Tour of the Pelicans. over Los Angeles. Richard Jefferson scored 17 Paris-Roubaix cycle race riders who breached a Gouvenou. Christian Prudhomme, the director of Basque Country) and Paris-Roubaix, the Union safety barrier seconds before a high speed train both Paris-Roubaix and the Tour de France, seemed Cycliste Internationale (UCI) would like to reiterate points and Dirk Nowitzki had 16 in the third hurtled by. The SNCF company made an official to side with the SNCF over the incident, suggesting that safety should at all times be the number one BUCKS 96, NETS 73 straight victory for the Mavericks, who will fin- complaint to French prosecutors saying the action the riders should have stopped. priority of all those involved in a cycling race,” it Ersan Ilyasova scored 21 points as ish seventh in the Western Conference. Dallas in Sunday’s prestigious race had risked a deadly “The SNCF are doing their job, their reaction is said. “The UCI is taking both incidents very serious- Milwaukee clinched a playoff spot with its led for the final 44 minutes and completed a tragedy. legitimate,” said the head of the ASO organisation ly and has requested that a comprehensive report blowout victory over Brooklyn. Milwaukee season sweep of the Lakers for the first time in The last of the riders went through the barrier in that runs many of the biggest races in cycling. on each of them be submitted as soon as possible also secured the sixth seed in the Eastern franchise history. northern France about eight seconds before the “We will try to make the riders more sensitive to for review and potential action. It is everyone’s Conference, a year after a franchise-worst 67- Wesley Johnson scored 16 points and hit TGV train arrived at the Waller crossing, 87 kilome- this subject. “There were three policemen and a duty to make sure that our beautiful sport of loss season. O.J. Mayo added 17 points for the four 3-pointers for Los Angeles before sprain- tres (54 miles) from the end of the so called “Hell of gendarme (at the barriers) but several riders didn’t cycling is not tarnished by incidents that appear to Bucks. Bucks coach Jason Kidd led his team to ing his left ankle shortly before halftime. the North” race. One rider from the Belgian Lotto yield to the gendarme’s signal (to stop).” have been avoidable.” In 2006, three riders were the clinching victory over the team he Jordan Clarkson had 26 points for the Lakers. team was clipped by a barrier as it came down. Further down the road, race officials slowed the disqualified for going through a closed railway coached last season. According to STATS, Kidd They extended their team record with their John Degenkolb, winner of the race famed for leading riders so that those held up by the barrier crossing. The three-Leif Hoste and Peter van is the first coach in NBA history to lead two 59th loss. its 27 sections of bone-jarring cobbled roads, was could catch up. World cycling’s governing body, the Petegem of Belgium and Russian Vladimir Guseve- franchises to the playoffs in his first two years among the group who went through the barrier as UCI, released a statement saying safety must were less than 10 kilometers (six miles) from the as a head coach. Brook Lopez had his 17th NUGGETS 122, KINGS 111 it closed. Race organisers said it had not been pos- remain paramount. “Following two extremely wor- finish and had been disputing top places. —AFP double-double of the season with 12 points Kenneth Faried scored a season-high 30 sible for the leaders to stop in time. and 10 rebounds for the Nets. points as Denver spoiled Sacramento coach “Several riders deliberately, and against all safe- George Karl’s return to Denver. Wilson ty rules, crossed a closed safety barrier,” said a SNCF CELTICS 117, CAVALIERS 78 Chandler had 21 points and nine rebounds for statement announcing the complaint to French Isaiah Thomas scored 17 points as Boston the Nuggets in their home finale. At 19-22, prosecutors. moved closer to a playoff berth with a victory Denver had a losing record at Pepsi Center for “Millions of television viewers saw live this extremely grave and irresponsible action which over a Cleveland team without LeBron James the first time since 2002-03. could have been tragic,” the company added. “A That was two years before Karl arrived and and three other starters. few seconds later, a TGV ran on this line and could Coach David Blatt rested James, Kevin turned around the struggling franchise. He have hit the peloton.” When the last rider had gone Love, Kyrie Irving and J.R. Smith because the won 423 games in nine seasons on the Denver through the crossing, a police motorcycle was in Cavaliers already have clinched the No. 2 post- bench, but was fired after losing in the first place to stop more riders going through. season spot in the Eastern Conference. round of the 2013 playoffs. Omri Casspi had Normally riders who go through a closed safety The Celtics magic number for reaching the 22 points for the Kings. crossing are disqualified. But Guy Dobbelaere, postseason dropped to one. They would president of the jury of race commissioners, clinch a berth if Indiana loses to Oklahoma PISTONS 116, HORNETS 77 defended the action of the riders on Sunday. City on Sunday night. If the Celtics remain in Andre Drummond had 15 points and 19 “It wasn’t possible for the leading riders to stop seventh place in the East, they would face the rebounds as Detroit Pistons turned its home sufficiently safely,” said Dobbelaere. “The peloton Cavaliers in the first round. finale into a rout over Charlotte. Greg was 10 metres away when the barrier started to Monroe scored 17 points in what might have close.” Race director Thierry Gouvenou added: “By SPURS 107, SUNS 91 been his final home game at the Palace. neutralising the race for a few moments to not Tim Duncan had 22 points and 10 Monroe is set to become an unrestricted free penalise those who stopped, we respected the rebounds to lead San Antonio to its 11th agent after the season. Noah Vonleh led spirit of the rule. “In theory, those who pass when WALLERS: The pack is stopped at a level crossing during the 113th edition of the Paris-Roubaix straight victory. San Antonio moved into sec- Charlotte with 16 points. —AP the barrier is down are thrown out of the race. one-day classic cycling race. —AFP TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 SPORTS

SPAIN: Atletico’s coach Diego Simeone and team members gather during a training session at the Vicente Calderon stadium. Atletico Madrid play Real Madrid today in a quarter-final first leg Champions League soccer match. —AP Atletico and Real clash with revenge in mind

MADRID: Last season’s Champions League gate victories over two legs in the Spanish “That will be an important component of boost of their own with the news that Mario ahead of the fit again Miguel Angel Moya finalists Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid Supercup and the Copa del Rey. Yet, it was the game, but there will also be others that Mandzukic will be available after overcom- for Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Malaga and in meet for the seventh time this season in their last encounter in La Liga in February we need to utilise.” However, unlike that ing an ankle problem which kept him out of central defence where Jose Maria Gimenez today’s Champions League quarter-final, that was the most embarrassing for Real as most recent meeting at the Vicente their last two games. and Miranda will battle it out to partner first leg with revenge in mind for both. Real Atletico romped to their biggest victory in a Calderon when they were without five first- The Croatian has scored 20 goals since Diego Godin. The draw at Malaga extended took the spoils in Lisbon last May as Sergio Madrid derby for 28 years in a 4-0 rout. “The team regulars, Real are at full strength for signing from Bayern Munich last summer, Atletico’s unbeaten run in all competitions Ramos’s stoppage time header denied last result against Atletico is a motivating the first time in five months. including two in three games against to eight games, albeit with four draws Atletico their first ever European Cup and factor for us,” said Real boss Carlo Ancelotti. James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos return Madrid at the Calderon. Raul Garcia is also along the way. Most encouragingly for sent the game into extra time when Los “It will be a different game, but difficult as it from suspension after missing Saturday’s 3- expected to recover from an elbow problem Simeone’s men is the return to goalscoring Blancos romped to a 4-1 win. always is against Atletico. 0 win over Eibar which moved Real back to meaning Diego Simeone will also have a ful- form of Antoine Griezmann. The However, the tables have been turned “We come into the game in good form, within two points of Barcelona at the top of ly-fit squad to choose from. Frenchman scored twice at La Rosaleda to this season as Atletico have won four and we are motivated and we will give every- La Liga. Meanwhile, Gareth Bale returned to However, the Argentine has a number of take his tally over the last three games to drawn two of the six meetings so far this thing we have. “I don’t have any doubt that training on Sunday and is expected to fit to key decisions to make, most notably in goal four and move one ahead of Mandzukic at season. That run has included two aggre- it will be an intense game. start. Atletico have received a huge injury where the in-form Jan Oblak kept his place Atletico’s top scorer this season. —AFP PSG banking on momentum

PARIS: Buoyant after their strong domestic per- Both teams have been meeting regularly back Gerard Pique’s loss of possession in midfield formance last week, Paris St Germain will look to recently in the Champions League, with PSG led to the Andalusian club’s late equaliser. overcome the absence of key players including beating Barca 3-2 at home in a Group F game this The stalemate in Sevilla meant Barca’s lead striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic in tomorrow’s season before losing 3-1 at the Camp Nou. over second-placed Real Madrid at the top of La Champions League quarter-final first leg against Barca had reached the semi-finals in 2013 by Liga was cut to two points but they remain on Barcelona. eliminating PSG on away goals, drawing 1-1 at course to repeat the 2009 historic treble of PSG beat Ligue 1 bitter rivals Olympique de home after a 2-2 stalemate in Paris. “The quarter- Champions League and Spanish league and Cup. Marseille 3-2, thrashed St Etienne 4-1 in the final tie is going to be very different from the Barca’s Brazil right back Dani Alves is suspend- French Cup semi-finals, and won the League Cup group stage. There is a lot more at stake and in ed for tomorrow’s game, with Adriano or Martin final 4-0 against Bastia on Saturday. football no game is ever the same,” former Barca Montoya likely to replace him in the starting line- Even if they will be without the suspended and PSG winger Ludovic Giuly said. up. Pique, however, is unfazed as Barca would Ibrahimovic and Marco Verratti and the injured Barca’s 2-2 draw at Sevilla in La Liga on once again bank on their formidable attacking David Luiz, PSG believe they are peaking. Saturday, when they threw away a 2-0 lead, trio. “Do I feel a new momentum? It’s been the prompted renewed concerns about their defen- “I’ve never before seen a relationship like case for a while. We worked physically (during sive frailty, with both the concedded goals down the one between Luis (Suarez), Ney the winter break) and today, in money time, to mistakes from the Barca rearguard. (Neymar) and Leo (Messi). We’re talking we’re good,” said coach Laurent Blanc. “We are Goalkeeper Claudio Bravo made an uncharac- about three of the best players in the world,” gaining momentum while last year at the same teristic handling error to let in Ever Banega’s he said. The second leg will be played at the time we were on the way down.” long-range strike before halftime and centre Camp Nou on April 21.—Reuters Drogba dismisses retirement talk

LONDON: Chelsea veteran Didier Drogba insisted yester- day he intended to play for at least one more season. The 37-year-old Ivory Coast forward is out of contract with the ITALY: Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri shouts during a Serie A soccer match in Premier League leaders at the end of the current cam- this file photo. —AP paign, having returned to Stamford Bridge after two sea- sons abroad. Drogba, asked if he had decided on his future, said: “Yes Juve coach wants Monaco I have and it’s not going to be my last season.” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said last week he had still to speak to Drogba regarding his future. focus after Parma shock “We have a lot of talks to do,” Mourinho said. “I don’t know what he wants. “There are people who, during their MILAN: Juventus coach Massimiliano ing Claudio Marchisio with the job of careers, earn the right and the power to make decisions Allegri has called for his team to forget orchestrating play towards lively and not wait for others to make decisions for them. their shock defeat to Parma and turn their Uruguayan front man Roberto Pereyra, like- “What he did at this club for so many years puts him in a focus on beating Monaco in the first leg of ly to play in the ‘hole’ behind Alvaro Morata great position.” Mourinho, then in his first spell as Chelsea their Champions League quarter-final and Tevez. manager, signed Drogba from Marseille in 2004. today. Preparations for what is the Italian Doubts remain over Barzagli, who is The powerful forward scored 157 goals in his initial champions’ most crucial fixture of the sea- nursing a sore calf. Indeed his availability eight-year stint with Chelsea, including the winning penal- son have been far from perfect. At the could determine whether Allegri deploys ty in the 2012 Champions League final shoot-out victory. Enrico Tardini stadium on Saturday a the 3-5-2 formation he has used sparingly However, Drogba has been largely a squad player this Juventus side missing Gianluigi Buffon and this season or the 4-3-1-2 that saw Juve season and made just his fourth league start of the season Carlos Tevez among others failed to con- swipe Borussia Dortmund aside 5-1 on in Sunday’s 1-0 west London derby away to Queens Park vert several scoring chances before con- aggregate in their last 16 tie. Rangers after injuries to Diego Costa and Loic Remy. ceding a 1-0 defeat to a club that entered Either way, Juventus have been impervi- Drogba could start against Manchester United this administration last month after being ous at home in both Serie A and Europe Saturday as Chelsea look to move one step closer to clinch- declared bankrupt. this season and have never lost at home ing the English top-flight title. Although Juve’s title hopes have not against French opposition. In last season’s “It’s difficult when you don’t play and then have to go been affected-they now lead Lazio by 12 Europa League quarter-finals they defeated into these kind of games,” he said. “But I always try to give points with eight games remaining-Allegri Lyon 2-1 in Turin to complete a 3-1 aggre- my best. “I tried to give the best of my physical capacity is confident a different Juventus will gate success. against QPR, so if the manager needs me against United emerge today when they will be under Monaco will be without captain Jeremy and Arsenal, I’m ready.” —AFP pressure to seal a first leg victory before the Toulalan after the defender limped off return leg in the Principality. injured in a 3-0 win over Caen on Friday, a “I hope this setback serves us well, result which nonetheless was crucial to although I’m sure that we will see an alto- Monaco’s confidence before they make the Bayern without gether different Juventus on Tuesday,” short trip across the Franco-Italian border. Allegri said after Saturday’s defeat. Monaco are targeting their first semi- “We’re not used to losing. We were a lit- final appearance since the 2003-2004 sea- Ribery For CL tle listless, we lacked bite and aggression. son when they went all the way to the final But now we have to put this display behind before being humbled by FC Porto. q-final first leg us. It would be stupid to let a defeat like Coach Leonardo Jardim said: “I think the this get in the way of our Champions team played very well and now looking BERLIN: Bayern Munich will be without midfielders Bastian League dream.” ahead to Tuesday the best thing was for the Schweinsteiger and Franck Ribery when they travel to The defeat to Parma, who have entered team was to win, which gives us confidence Porto for tomorrow’s Champions League quarter-final first administration and failed to pay their play- and the desire in regards to our away per- leg. Frenchman Ribery is not yet fully fit following a five- ers all season, was Juve’s second reverse of formances.” —AFP week absence with an ankle injury while Schweinsteiger the league season although Juve seemed has had a virus for the past few days. out of sorts in the absence of Buffon, Tevez “Bastian and Franck will not be with us against Porto. and defender Andrea Barzagli. That is bitter,” sports director Matthias Sammer said on Buffon, who had an infection, and Tevez, Matches on TV Monday as the problems started to pile up for the treble- who spent his rare day off at Lake chasing Bavarians. Maggiore, will return to Allegri’s starting (Local Timings) Medhi Benatia, David Alaba, Javi Martinez and Arjen line-up for Tuesday as Juve look to take a Robben had already been sidelined by injuries. Jerome first step towards securing their first semi- UEFA Champions League Boateng, who was rested for Saturday’s 3-0 win over final appearance since 2003 when they Eintracht Frankfurt due to a minor muscle problem, is back in the squad. beat Barcelona over two legs in the quar- Atletico v Real Madrid 21:45 ters. “Those who are with us have our full trust,” Sammer told While influential Frenchman Paul Pogba beIN SPORTS 1 HD reporters ahead of the team’s departure for Portugal later is still sidelined with injury, midfield maes- Juventus v AS Monaco 21:45 on Monday. “The team is hungry.” Bayern are 10 points tro Andrea Pirlo should start on the bench beIN SPORTS 2 HD clear at the top of the Bundesliga and are also through to having recently recovered from injury, leav- the German Cup semi-finals. —Reuters Didier Drogba TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 SPORTS

Constantine back to wake up ‘sleeping giant’ India

NEW DELHI: Stephen Constantine has the first edition of the franchise-based said. “I had invested three years of my country of 1.2 billion, with a rich soccer to take footballing decisions.” first hand knowledge of how difficult it Indian Super League proved a resound- life in India and had enjoyed the time history to boot, has not featured in Since he took over, India beat Nepal is to wake up India from its soccer slum- ing success last year. The AIFF has and working with the Indian players.” World Cups yet but Constantine has a earlier this month to progress to the ber but the Englishman insists he can brought back Constantine for a second theory. second round of the combined 2018 make a difference at his second attempt stint with the national team after he INDIA RIDDLE “It’s not a riddle for me. The state World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup quali- or he would not have accepted the guided Rwanda to their highest ever Having renewed his Indian ties, associations don’t do enough to devel- fiers. The draw for the second round offer. India rank a dismal 147 in the lat- FIFA ranking of 64. Constantine saw no reasons why he op the game and the clubs don’t do involving 40 teams takes place on est rankings, reflecting soccer’s struggle In an interview with Reuters, the could not repeat his Rwanda success anywhere near what they should be Tuesday and the coach admitted it for growth in the cricket-obsessed Briton explained what prompted him to and guide the world’s second most pop- doing in terms of the development of would not be easy to finish among the nation and prompting FIFA president return as the head coach of a nation he ulous nation back into the top 100 in youth. top 12 who proceed to the next round. Sepp Blatter to term the country a first coached between 2002 and 2005. FIFA rankings. “If I didn’t think I “The club licensing criteria need to “It’s difficult to say before the draw “sleeping giant”. “The belief I could make a difference could...wouldn’t have taken up the job, be implemented to the full. You need to but whoever we get in our group, all the Since then, FIFA has partnered the All and that there was the willingness from 64th in the FIFA ladder is a good place look at the MLS (Major League Soccer) games will be tough, especially after the India Football Federation (AIFF) to the AIFF to give me a free hand and to be.” in the US to see how with discipline and last few years we have had, there are no develop the game in the country and allow me to do what I feel is needed,” he It remains a mystery for many why a a vision you can have success. We need easy games for us.” —Reuters Villarreal held by Getafe

BARCELONA: Villarreal’s slide continued as a Diego Castro header gave Getafe a 1-1 draw in La Liga on Sunday but the match was over- shadowed by a serious injury to Mateo Musacchio. The Villarreal defender was carried off on a stretcher with 13 minutes to go after his ankle buckled when he was running for the ball. He has since been successfully operated on in hos- pital after suffering a dislocation and break. “The game comes second. I didn’t think it was so serious but when I saw the blood I was shocked,” Villarreal coach Marcelino told reporters. “It is a serious injury and we will have to see what happens next. It really is terrible what has happened.” An Ikechukwu Uche penalty, after he himself was fouled by Medhi Lacen with 52 minutes played, was Villarreal’s first goal in five league games but it was not enough to give them their first La Liga away win of the year. In a scrappy game Getafe deservedly drew level with a fine header from Castro after 64 minutes and Pedro Leon had the chance to win the game but his shot following a breakaway was parried by Villarreal keeper Sergio Asenjo. Villarreal have failed to win in seven games in all competitions and are sixth on 51 points. Getafe are 13th on 36 points. “We looked strong after going ahead but then Getafe scored during their best spell. After that we once again looked strong but the injury to Mateo made it more difficult for us as we were left with 10,” added Marcelino. An 18-match unbeaten run up until February saw Villarreal alive on three fronts but in the last couple of months the wheels have Marco Fabian celebrates in this file photo. come off. They were knocked out of the King’s Cup and the Europa League while their dreams of a Guadalajara win over Leon Champions League spot have faded. Injuries have taken their toll with Bruno MEXICO CITY: Guadalajara beat Leon 1-0 championship for which the top eight qual- Soriano and Denis Cheryshev among the key on Sunday to go top of the Mexican league ify. However they still remain two places players that have missed games and now the championship while the threat of relega- from bottom of the relegation table based loss of Musacchio, who also spent a lengthy tion still hangs over their heads. on teams’ average points over three sea- spell in the treatment room earlier in the sea- Mexico forward Marco Fabian scored sons. son, will be a big blow. one minute from time when his volley from A factor in Guadalajara’s improvement Elsewhere, Sergio Garcia gave Espanyol a 1- a sliced clearance by Jonny Magallon went appears to be owner Jorge Vergara’s realisa- 0 home victory over Athletic Bilbao that moved between a defender’s legs and inside the tion his wife Angelica Fuentes, who got them up to eighth and Real Sociedad could bottom corner. through 13 changes of coach in five years only draw 2-2 at home with struggling “You’ve got to try everything and thank as managing director, had not been run- Deportivo la Coruna. God it came off. There’s the Chivas every- ning the club well and sacked her at the Sociedad twice went ahead but the one wants to see,” Fabian told reporters. beginning of April. Galician side fought back with goals from The victory confirms the Chivas’ “We didn’t seek the same objective. I’ve improvement this year under former always said I seek results and not money Lucas Perez and Toche. Enzo Roco and Mario Pasalic scored as Elche won 2-0 at bottom Mexico coach Juan Manuel de la Torre after and she sought money and not results,” Diego Castro in action in this file photo. several seasons struggling for form that has Vergara was quoted as saying by the sports side Cordoba. —Reuters brought them to edge of relegation. daily Record (www.record.com.mx). Guadalajara have 24 points from 13 “I was blind for five years and that matches, a lead of five points over eighth- allowed for many mistakes. Our vocation is placed city rivals Atlas with four matches to to look after our own people and what we River join four-team logjam go to the knockout phase of the Clausura didn’t do was look after them.”—Reuters BUENOS AIRES: Four teams were level on points at the top of the Argentine championship after River Plate’s 2-1 victory at Argentinos Juniors on NZ eye World Cup joint Sunday. River joined San Lorenzo, Boca Juniors and Rosario Central on 21 points from nine host bid with Australia matches almost a third of the way through the season. Veteran striker Fernando Cavenaghi put River ahead when he beat the offside trap to a WELLINGTON: A potential bid from New wait too long and aren’t aspirational then through ball and raced into the box to beat goal- Zealand to co-host the FIFA World Cup in that will dissipate.” keeper Luis Ojeda after half an hour. 2026 or 2030 could prove “a pipe dream” Argentinos equalised with Lautaro Rinaldi’s but the ambitious country are pressing on SURPRISED overhead kick from a throw in the second half, with the bold plans, Martin Snedden told A potential bid had been broached with less than two minutes after he had come on as a Reuters. central government, New Zealand Football substitute. River snatched the points in the 66th The former New Zealand cricketer, who and Sports New Zealand, but they were yet when teenage striker Lucas Boye chested down headed the highly successful 2011 rugby to approach Australia, he added. Camilo Mayada’s cross and scored with a low World Cup in the country, floated the possi- He envisaged if a joint bid went ahead, right-footed shot past Ojeda into the far bottom bility of staging soccer’s global showpiece Australia would host 70 percent of the tour- corner. with Australia yesterday. nament, with two or three of the eight “They are a tough team to play against on an Snedden said the suggestion was still pools in New Zealand, with the four main always difficult, small pitch, I saw some good very much in its embryonic stages, but he centres of Auckland, Wellington, things,” River coach Marcelo Gallardo told Futbol felt it was imperative the country capi- Christchurch and Dunedin earmarked as Para Todos. talised on hosting two highly successful venues. River’s fourth successive league win will world sporting events in the last four years. Football Federation Australia, who lost boost their morale ahead of Wednesday’s crucial “This is a big idea and ultimately it might out to Qatar to stage the 2022 tournament, last Libertadores Cup group match at home to prove to be a pipe dream, but we have declined to comment when contacted by San Jose of Bolivia. Fernando Cavenaghi come so far and these are the types of Reuters. Their only defeat in all competitions this year things we should be prepared to be exam- Snedden had been buoyed by FIFA’s came in their tournament opener away to San ining,” he said via telephone from Auckland. desire to spread the World Cup around its Jose, who they must beat at El Monumental and “Even if ultimately we choose that we confederations, with Oceania, where New hope the other group result goes their way to go Mourinho hails Cech’s can’t do it, these are the sorts of opportuni- Zealand play, having never hosted the through to the knockout phase. “Now we must ties that we are good enough to be looking event. play our (winning) card on Wednesday,” Gallardo at and taking seriously.” New Zealand has, though, hosted FIFA’s said. Boca failed to keep sole command at the exemplary attitude Snedden, who co-helmed the bid for under-17 tournament for men in 1999 and top when they were held 0-0 by Nueva Chicago the recently completed cricket World Cup the inaugural women’s edition in 2008 and at La Bombonera, their first match in all competi- LONDON: Petr Cech may not have been on the victory at Queens Park Rangers on Sunday. in Australia and New Zealand when he was will stage the men’s under-20s from May tions this year without scoring, earlier on field much-he has started only four Premier “His attitude is amazing. Before the game he running New Zealand Cricket, had said in 30-June 20. Sunday. League games this season-but manager Jose told the captain (John Terry) to choose a certain the build-up to the 2011 rugby World Cup He acknowledged that having the tour- San Lorenzo beat Independiente 1-0 at their Mourinho still believes he has made a signifi- end if he won the toss because at 1:30pm it he hoped the legacy of the tournament nament spread across two confederations- Nuevo Gasometro ground and Rosario Central cant contribution to Chelsea’s cause. would be better to play in a certain goal would be the creation of an event manage- Australia are in FIFA’s Asian region-could be won 2-1 at home to San Martin on Saturday. The giant Czech Republic goalkeeper is in his because of the sun. ment industry in the country. a hurdle. Lanus won Sunday’s “Clasico del Sur”, the cap- 11th season at Stamford Bridge having played “And he was not playing, he was thinking of He had pointed to the skills and intellec- While still at this stage just an idea, ital’s southern suburbs derby, 2-1 away to more than 480 times for Chelsea, but for the first Courtois. With this attitude Petr deserves every- tual property in sports management that Snedden said he would look to gauge Banfield in a match with four red cards, two for time, has had to play second fiddle as an under- thing.” Chelsea were a long way short of their Australia had built in their hosting of the interest in New Zealand, before he went to each team. Banfield defender Sergio Vittor was study to young Belgium stopper Thibaut best against relegation-threatened Rangers and 2000 Sydney Olympics, which he felt was Australia to discuss a formal bid. sent off midway through the first half for bring- Courtois. needed Courtois to pull off several fine saves to now replicated in New Zealand, hence the “What I’m trying to say to people is ‘give ing down Lautaro Acosta and fellow midfielder Cech, 32, and with many seasons still ahead keep them in the game before Cesc Fabregas decision to ‘start the conversation’. it a bit of time, don’t make up your mind Nicolas Aguirre converted the 26th-minute of him, gave a clear indication last month that sealed a smash-and-grab victory with a late “I’m thrilled by the way in which New until we have given it some proper consid- penalty to put Lanus ahead. In the final minutes he was unwilling to accept the situation for a goal. “Defensively we were very strong all game Zealand has proved its capability with eration, because you might be surprised of the first half, Banfield’s Ricardo Noir and Oscar second campaign but his commitment to including at set-pieces against big guys who are those two events. We are now on a bit of a when you dig into it’,” he said. “The best Benitez of Lanus were dismissed for kicking each Chelsea’s title charge has not been lost on good in the air,” said Mourinho. “Obviously roll. place for me to start is New Zealand and other at a corner and Acosta was sent off in the Mourinho. Courtois was there for us. I told him during the “We have come a long way in a short just seed the conversation and encourage 66th for a second booking. Lanus ended a run of “Cech is absolutely fantastic,” the Portuguese week...after Charlie Adam... we needed him to time. “We have a lot of capable people over people to participate with an open mind two defeats and Banfield a three-match winning told reporters after his team restored their sev- give us a couple of points with a couple of saves New Zealand and a lot of goodwill. If we and then see where it leads us.” —Reuters streak. —Reuters en-point lead at the top of the table with a 1-0 and he did it.”—Reuters Spieth masters Atletico and Masters Real clash with revenge in mind

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MONACO: Italian Fabio Fognini plays a return to Jerzy Janowicz of Poland during their match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament. — AP Gulbis falls at Monte Carlo Masters

MONACO: Switching to clay did not make him break into the top 20 last season, with him to be ready in Monte Carlo. dence has started to play on.” Janowicz to show his sense of humor on the any difference for Ernests Gulbis. The 13th- titles in Marseille and a first trophy on clay in “Everything is new for me. I think It was Haider-Maurer’s first win in Monte next point when Fognini fired a forehand seeded Latvian was eliminated from the Nice. Despite his poor record, he said he does (Thomas) is a very smart, intelligent guy who Carlo, with the 28-year-old Austrian now set way too long. Janowicz then turned toward Monte Carlo Masters yesterday in the first not need to worry. understands tennis. That’s enough for me,” to face Bernard Tomic in the second round. Fognini and raised one finger high to show round, losing to Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-1, “I was in a great state of mind this week Gulbis said. “I think it’s still a lot to get to Fabio Fognini also advanced, beating big- the ball was obviously out. 6-0 after another miserable display. practicing,” Gulbis said. “Everything was really know each other. It’s just a matter of time.” serving Jerzy Janowicz 6-3, 6-1. Janowicz lost Fognini won five consecutive games in Gulbis, a semifinalist at last year’s French good, except the match. This one last hour Struggling with his big forehand, Gulbis in the first round for the third time in as the second set and served out the match on Open, has lost his way in recent months. He was bad in Monte Carlo. All the rest of the enjoyed a short bright spell in the second many visits to the Country Club. his first occasion when Janowicz sent a fore- has won only one match this year and lost in week was really unbelievable. It was just this game of the second set but failed to convert Fognini, a semifinalist in Monte Carlo two hand long, snapping a five-match losing the opening round in seven of the eight tour- one hour.” three straight break points. years ago, put on a display on the clay, dictat- streak. naments he has played during the early Gulbis may be more perturbed than he Gulbis said his shoulders problems from ing from the baseline and varying his shots Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany also hard-court season. admits it, having recently changed his coach- last year are still preventing him from hitting well to force the lanky Polish player around. progressed alongside French qualifier Benoit Against the 52nd-ranked Haider-Maurer, ing setup with the hiring of former top-five his forehands properly. “Off-season was not The hot-tempered Italian kept his head Paire, David Goffin and Alexander Gulbis hit a flurry of unforced errors and player Thomas Enqvist. They started to work great because of that,” Gulbis said. “Second cool early in the second set when he asked Dolgopolov, who saved 10 break points in a spent less than one hour on the court. Gulbis together one week ago and Gulbis was not thing is that I got sick in the beginning of the the umpire to check a mark that he thought hard-fought 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 win over teenager said he has lost the confidence that helped expecting things to gel quickly enough for year for 10 days. Slowly, this lack of confi- was wrongly called out, giving the chance to Borna Coric. — AP Kerber rallies to win Birthday boy Family Circle Cup Aamer targets

CHARLESTON: Angelique Kerber didn’t points in the next game to break Keys’ steady return really like playing on clay. That’s changed serve a fifth and final time and move in in a big way Sunday when the fifth-seed- front 6-5. Kerber took the final game at KARACHI: Pakistani pacer Mohammad Aamer’s 23rd birth- ed German rallied past American Madison love with Keys hitting into the net and hit- day celebrations were marred by a hamstring injury yester- Keys to win the Family Circle Cup. ting out - Keys finished with 57 unforced day as the former prodigy downplayed hopes of a speedy The 27-year-old Kerber trailed 4-1 in errors nearly triple Kerber’s 21 - to give international recall following a four-year ban for spot-fixing. the final set, yet took six of the last seven Kerber the victory. Currently turning out for Omar Associates in Pakistan’s games to pull out a 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 victory for Kerber fell on her back and covered her Grade-II tournament, Aamer, who has bagged an impres- sive 22 wickets in four matches, was forced to sit out of the her fourth career WTA title and first on the face in celebration when Keys’ final shot final against Karachi Port Trust at the National Sports slow, gunky coating power players love to sailed long. “To win here in Charleston, it Stadium in Karachi. hate. “You know, it was never my favorite feels great,” she said. “I had a great week.” Regarded as one of world cricket’s brightest young surface,” Kerber said. “But it’s changed in Keys, seeded seventh, entered the final prospects when he was banned for pre-arranging deliber- the last year. I knew that I can play also on on a strong run. She had dominated four ate no balls during a Test against England, Aamer said he clay and it’s good also for my (overall) opponents in reaching her first clay-court was focusing on steady progress after four-and-a-half-years game because I’m playing defensive and final. But Kerber was just as relentless at away from the game. being aggressive.” keeping the ball in play and counting on “To be honest I don’t want to talk of international cricket Kerber showed both those qualities Keys’ aggressiveness to lead to mistakes ahead of time. My ban will expire on September 2 this year against the power-hitting Keys, who came on the slow surface. so at the moment my focus is on gradual progress,” he told into the final without dropping a service Kerber broke serve three times in a sur- AFP. game. Kerber broke Keys in the first game prisingly quick opening set. Keys found “Four-and-a-half year is not trivial for a professional play- and five times overall, relentlessly sending her footing in the second set to tie the er but I was strong and survived and now I am playing and 120 mph serves and sizzling ground- match. She moved Kerber from side to using the best facilities for which I am thankful to the ICC strokes back that had gone for winners side and used her powerhouse forehand (International Cricket Council) and Pakistan Cricket Board.” earlier in the week. to gain control. That continued into the The talented left-armer, who was spotted by pace leg- Still, it was a frustrated Kerber in the third set and she built a 4-1 lead. end Wasim Akram and has the ability to swing the ball both ways with speed and control, was allowed to feature in third set who needed a good talking to Keys consistently hit serves topping Pakistani domestic cricket after the ICC revised its code ear- from coach Torben Beltz to refocus and re- 100 mph. Her consistency, though, didn’t lier this year and relaxed the terms of his ban. strategize. He told Kerber to up her match Kerber’s. Keys made only 66 per- Aamer said he will feature in the national Super Eight aggressiveness and take the game to cent of her first serves while Kerber Twenty20 tournament expected to be held next month. “I Keys, something that happened early on proved steady at 83 percent. will play whatever events are available so that I progress but not in the middle part of the match. It was the second straight knockdown steadily,” said Aamer. Kerber listened and pulled off the stun- final for Keys and Kerber. Keys outlasted CHARLESTON: Angelique Kerber, from Germany kisses the trophy after defeat- Pakistan’s battery of left-arm pacers was one of the few ning comeback. “She completely lifted her the German in three sets to win her only bright-spots in their recently-concluded World Cup cam- ing Madison Keys during singles final action at the Family Circle Cup tennis tour- level and it total changed right then,” Keys WTA title, at Eastbourne last June. Keys paign where they fell in the quarter-finals-but Aamer said nament. — AP said. Kerber won 12 of the next 16 points acknowledged she was nervous starting he was confident in his own abilities. “My competition is to tie the decisive set at 4-all. Keys moved out Sunday in trying for her second title. 16th in the world, hopes the Family Circle “‘I worked very hard in the last few only with myself,” he insisted, adding: “I don’t set my goals in front one last time at 5-4 before Kerber She believes she’ll take the lessons win can kick start a big season. It hap- weeks and every single match here I with others in mind, if I achieve my goals then there will be no competition.” dug in one last time to take control and learned in her successful week and apply pened a year ago to her close friend, played very good,” she said. “So I’m look- Aamer became the youngest ever player, at 18, to take fully unnerve the previously steady Keys. them to the rest of the season. Petkovic, who won twice more after her ing forward and I think I have for sure the Kerber tied the set at 5-all on three “If you can’t be first, I guess it’s OK to be 50 Test wickets prior to his 2010 ban. His 51 scalps from 14 title here and went from 39th in the world confidence that the next tournament will matches came at a cost of 29 apiece. — AFP errors by Keys. Kerber held off four game second,” Keys said, smiling. Kerber, ranked to 11th this week. be going good, too.” — AP Saudi trims oil supply to some Asian buyers Page 22

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DAEGU: Top officials prepare to pull a rope connected to a ‘water clock’ as they attend the opening ceremony of the 7th World Water Forum in Daegu. Held every three years the World Water Forum aims to bring together political leaders, business people and activists to discuss water-related issues across 16 themes, including climate change, natural disasters, and energy, and runs until April 17. — AFP Boubyan Bank profits reach KD7.4m in Q1 2015 The year marks beginning of ‘Boubyan 2020’ strategy implementation: Al-Majed KUWAIT: Boubyan Bank’s records profits of KD 7.4 mil- a successful start after the Bank had Perfection”. During this period the currently. Also, 14 percent of Kuwaiti adults maintain lion in Q1 2015, an increase of 30 percent, compared established itself as one of the best insti- phrase “for the first time in Kuwait” was accounts with the bank. to KD 5.7 million in Q1 2014, with an earnings per share tutions in the Kuwaiti private sector in associated with Boubyan Bank based Al-Majed stressed again that the bank had reinforced of 3.58 fils, compared with 2.76 fils for the same quar- the field of customer service which was on the volume of services and prod- its image as a young bank keeping up with the interna- ter last year. evidenced by the three awards that we ucts offered by the bank for the first tional and regional developments via its young Kuwaiti Adel Abdul Wahab Al-Majed, Vice-Chairman& Chief received from Service Hero, the interna- time. management. Executive Officer, mentioned that the positive start in tional consumer-driven customer satis- Al-Majed also emphasized that compared with other 2015 make us feel more optimistic that we would con- faction index. The most prominent of Positive Indicators banks and many other companies, the average age of the tinue to witness in 2015 the achievements that we had these awards was the 1st Place in Al-Majed further added: “The indica- bank’s employees was low and many of them had made made in previous years, that made us one of the promi- Customer Service amongst all institu- tors show that the Bank has witnessed great strides towards leading positions in the bank nent banks in Kuwait. tions in Kuwait. a remarkable growth during Q1 2015as encouraged by the belief of the bank’s management in Al-Majed emphasized that the results for Q1 has He further added: “These awards reit- the total assets increased to KD 2.8 bil- trusting the youths with more distinguished and leading been outstanding, especially that it marked the imple- erate our bank’s competence and its lion, growing by 19 percent compared roles, especially that all training and academic facilities mentation of Boubyan Bank’s new strategy named ability to provide its customers with the to Q1 2014, the operating income and capabilities were available to provide them with an “Boubyan2020”. He added: “We are optimistic that there highest levels of services and the best increased to KD 21 million, growing by unique chance to gain professional and practical expert- are many opportunities for Islamic banks and Islamic products that they seek, whether being 17 percent compared to Q1 2014, in ise that would boost their experiences despite their Boubyan Bank Vice-Chairman& financial institutions, whether in Kuwait or the region, existing or potential customers in the addition to the increase in customers’ young age. Chief Executive Officer Adel as all indicators confirm that there is increased demand Kuwaiti market.” Abdul Wahab Al-Majed deposits to KD 2.3 billion, growing by Furthermore, he stated that Boubyan Bank succeeded, for Islamic financial and banking services and prod- “Customer service has always been 31 percent.” specifically over the past two years, in creating many ucts.” our recipe for success, as we have always taken into “In addition, the Bank’s total equity increased to KD vacancies for ambitious Kuwaiti youths as a result of He went on to add: “The new strategy continues to account that all our customers are special and that they 294 million compared with KD 272 million for the com- expanding the bank’s services provided to retail cus- focus and grow in the Kuwaiti market, while keeping deserve the best because meeting their aspirations and parative period of last year, while the financing portfo- tomers by opening more branches and expanding the the options open to seize international opportunities, if ambitions should be up to the level of their expecta- lio increased to KD 1.9 billion, growing by 21 percent services and products provided by the bank. any. Currently, we have not identified any target mar- tions when they chose us. In other words, by choosing compared to Q1 2014, in addition to the continuous Al-Majed also referred to the increase in the kets; however, we believe that GCC markets, Egypt and us, customers should be rewarded with special care growth in the Bank’s customer base.”, Al-Majed stated. Kuwaitization rate at the bank which reached 72 percent, Turkey are some of the most suitable markets for the and attention,” Al-Majed added. Al-Majed also stated that the market share, in saying that Boubyan Bank earned the award for Bank.” He further stated that all through the past five years, financing portfolio, increased from 2 percent in 2009 to Replacement and Kuwaitization of Manpower in Kuwait Boubyan Bank had been keen to take the lead in approximately 6 percent currently, while Boubyan during the 13thAward Ceremony for Distinguished The 1st Place Award in Customer Service launching unique and new services and products in Bank’s share of the consumer finance significantly Private Sector Entities in the Field of Kuwaitization of Jobs Al-Majed also added that the current year witnessed the Kuwaiti market under the slogan “Towards increased from 1 percent to approximately 9 percent in 2014. Saudi climbs, falling rig demand hurts Qatar Bahrain’s GFH to review London, Kuwait listings MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI/KHOBAR: Bahrain’s Gulf “We have the same disclosures in DUBAI: Gulf stock markets were mixed yesterday as Agricultural Co surged 2.3 and 4.0 percent respec- Emirates-based United Arab Chemical Carriers on a Finance House (GFH)will study Kuwait and Dubai but there have stronger oil supported Saudi Arabia but news of tively after another firm in the sector, Jouf possible combination of their product and chemical whether to continue its stock market always been some reservations from falling demand for drilling rigs dragged down Agricultural Co, posted a 66.1 percent increase in tanker businesses. Qatar Navigation, also known as listings in London and Kuwait, the the regulatory authorities in Kuwait Qatar. Both Brent crude and US oil gained about $1 first-quarter profit on stronger sales and lower Milaha, said that if successful, the move would cre- company said yesterday, after on the level of our disclosures,” he per barrel as news of a slowdown in US drilling con- costs. Jouf itself climbed 2.1 percent. ate a larger business, provide better financial investors raised concerns at the firm’s told the television station. tinued to buoy prices. returns, and strengthen its combined business mar- annual shareholders’ meeting. GFH is “Shareholders requested to look This helped the Saudi stock benchmark climb QATAR, UAE ket position. It provided no details. listed in four places, a potentially into the issue of (whether it is) ... fea- 0.9 percent as most stocks rose, offsetting negative By boosting oil prices, the falling global rig Elsewhere in the Gulf, Dubai’s index dropped costly arrangement: Dubai Financial sible to stay in the Kuwait market. I influence from heavyweight Saudi Basic Industries, count was positive for the Saudi market, which is 0.8 percent, moving back below its 100-day aver- Market, where its shares are often think the board will look into this which dropped 2.9 percent as it went ex-dividend. dominated by petrochemicals. But Qatar’s market age, now at 3,789 points, after closing above the the market’s most heavily traded, issue, but just to be clear there is no Petrochemical firm PetroRabigh jumped 2.6 per- dropped after one of its own drilling rig providers, average on Sunday for the first time since Bahrain, Kuwait, and London in the direct intention to delist from cent after announcing it would ask shareholders to Gulf International Services (GIS) , said it was suffer- October. form of global depository receipts. Kuwait.” GFH lost an appeal in June approve raising its capital via a rights issue worth ing from cheap oil. Qatar’s index lost 1.4 percent as Dubai-listed shares in Bahrain’s Gulf Finance It is also heavily traded in Kuwait, against a decision by the Gulf state’s about 7.04 billion riyals ($1.88 billion). GIS tumbled its daily 10 percent limit to 86.20 riyals, House tumbled 7.7 percent after the company where it is a favourite of retail Capital Market Authority to monitor The company has yet to decide the offer price a two-week low. The company posted an 89 per- said it would study the continuation of its equity investors who view it as a relatively its Kuwaiti listing after it was traded and number of new shares, but such issues in Saudi cent increase in first-quarter profit yesterday but listings in London and Kuwait. The firm also said liquid stock offering a greater chance in high volumes ahead of a company Arabia are usually offered to existing shareholders said a customer of its subsidiary Gulf Drilling its shareholders had approved reducing its capital of generating profitable trades than disclosure in 2013 about merger at a major discount to the market price. Rights can International (GDI) would release a contracted rig in to $598 million from $1.49 billion to eliminate larger blue-chip names. Its Kuwaiti talks involving a subsidiary, which be sold separately, allowing investors to profit with- May because of oil’s decline. accumulated losses. listing closed down 2.6 percent yes- GFH insisted were unrelated events. out committing extra cash. It also said another customer had requested The company’s Kuwait-listed stock dropped 2.6 terday. In a statement, GFH did not The firm, which was crippled by Banks were also strong. Samba Financial Group lower day rates, and warned investors that these percent, contributing to the weakness of the Kuwaiti give details of what its review would the global financial crisis and jumped 3.1 percent ahead of its earnings reductions would hurt GDI’s 2015 financial results. index , which slipped 0.2 percent. Abu Dhabi’s mar- involve or say when it might be com- required several debt restructurings, announcement. After the market closed, the lender GDI was the main breadwinner for GIS last year, ket edged up 0.6 percent on the back of blue chip pleted. However Chief Executive swung to a profit of $11 million for posted a 3.1 percent increase in first-quarter profit, accounting for 46 percent of its total revenue. Most banks; Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, National Bank Hisham Alrayes told Al Arabiya TV 2014 from a loss of $18 million the beating the estimates of analysts who had expect- other stocks in Doha also fell, but shipping firm of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank rose 3.6, 2.2 and shareholders had raised questions year before. It also said it would ed a slight decline. Qatar Navigation bucked the trend. It inched up 0.1 1.0 percent respectively. Egypt’s bourse remained about the company’s treatment by change its name to GFH Financial Tabuk Agricultural Development and Qassim percent after announcing talks with United Arab closed for Easter holidays. — Reuters Kuwait’s market regulator. Group. — Reuters TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 BUSINESS Bahrain fund wants to double assets under management

MANAMA: Bahraini sovereign fund Mumtalakat select pockets in the Far East, across multiple sec- and future transaction would likely follow the Kooheji said the oil price fall had not impacted wants to double its $6.4 billion assets under man- tors including logistics and industrials, Kooheji same route. “You have more than one set of eyes Mumtalakat’s plans or appetite for new invest- agement in the next seven years, preferably said, adding it wanted businesses where the exist- looking at the business, so if we all say yes then it ments, because although it is fully state-owned it through partnerships with global investment ing management would remain. gives us comfort,” Kooheji said.“But the bigger does not receive surplus government money. firms, its chief executive told Reuters. With stakes It would likely borrow to fund transactions, advantage is when we group together, we can do Kooheji would not be drawn on whether the in some of the kingdom’s most high-profile firms although it planned no debt at the company level a bigger size of deal.” fund was still in negotiations with McLaren Chief including Aluminium Bahrain and Batelco as well after raising a loan and a sukuk at the end of 2014 In its most prominent cooperative effort, in late Executive Ron Dennis about selling part of its as international names such as car firm McLaren, to refinance existing obligations. 2013 Mumtalakat made a multi-billion-dollar bid stake to him. “We’re still happy shareholders but the fund currently has assets worth around 2.4 bil- Mumtalakat has been on a spending spree in with CVC Capital Partners for sports rights agency if there is a good opportunity, we could go out. lion dinars ($6.37 billion). recent months, buying US private education com- IMG, although it ultimately lost to a rival bid. But I could never envisage us being completely “Our ambition is to double that size-five to sev- pany Nobel Learning and software and services Joint bids are growing in popularity, as an out,” Kooheji said. When pushed for further clari- en years, we should be able,” Mahmood Al-Kooheji firm PRO Unlimited, as well as a stake in United increasing number of firms chase a finite pool of ty, he added: “I think you should ask Ron about told Reuters in an interview at the state-owned Arab Emirates-based GEMS Education. assets and many Gulf Arab sovereign wealth funds that.” Dennis will be in Bahrain later this week for fund’s offices in Manama. The deals were done in partnership with other scale back capital expenditure due to lower oil the Formula One race due to be held next It is seeking targets in Europe and the US, and firms, including Blackstone Group and Investcorp, prices. Sunday. —Reuters

News in brief

Albaraka secures $268m murabaha syndication ISTANBUL: Turkish Islamic lender Albaraka Turk said yesterday it had secured a $268 million murabaha syn- dication. The bank, a unit of Bahrain-based Al Baraka Banking Group, said in a statement to the Istanbul Stock Exchange that the cost for the 733-day loan was Libor +125 basis points.

Dubai’s Drake & Scull wins $91m hotel contract DUBAI: Dubai’s Drake and Scull has won a contract worth 334 million dirhams ($90.94 million) for mechanical, electri- cal and plumbing works on a hotel being built on the emi- rate’s Palm Jumeirah, the firm said yesterday. The hotel is part of a development that also includes two residential buildings, Drake said in a bourse statement.

Bahrain-based retailer Jawad raises $235m loan DUBAI: Bahrain’s Jawad Business Group, the franchise operator of clothing brand Mango and restaurant chains Papa Johns and Burger King in the Gulf, has raised a $235 million loan to refinance existing debt, two banking sources aware of the matter said. The firm has borrowed $215 million through a term loan in an amortising structure which will last for between five TOKYO: A man watches an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo yesterday. Asian stock markets were mostly higher yesterday after weak and six years, and the rest through a revolving facility, Chinese trade data increased expectations that Beijing will launch new stimulus. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was unchanged at 19,905.46 after briefly the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity as passing 20,000 last week. —AP the information isn’t public. An amortising loan is where the principal is paid down over the life of the facility, as opposed to just servicing the interest payments. The Morocco reduces group has presence in the consumer, retail and hospi- Saudi trims oil supply tality sectors and operates over 600 stores in the Gulf, euro’s weighting according to its website. in currency basket to some Asian buyers Saudi lifts suspension on PetroRabigh shares RABAT: Morocco’s central bank has reduced the euro’s weighting in the currency basket used to set the dirham’s DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s market regulator yesterday lifted a suspension of PetroRabigh shares after the company dis- exchange rate, to reflect a fall in trade with the euro-zone, Saudi exports hit record in March closed it was increasing its capital through a rights issue. it said yesterday. PetroRabigh, Saudi Arabia’s fourth-largest petrochemical It is the first time in a decade that the bank has changed TOKYO/SINGAPORE: Saudi Arabia ance, the sources said. Sharp price cuts for Saudi oil late firm by market value, earlier yesterday said it would ask last year also boosted demand. the basket’s weighting, aiming to make its currency regime has reduced contractual crude sup- Under oil contracts, the seller or shareholders to approve raising its capital by $1.9 billion to more flexible, as recommended by the International plies to some customers in Japan the buyer can adjust loading vol- A glut of global supply has help fund its expansion. Trading in PetroRabigh was sus- Monetary Fund. The dirham is still mostly pegged to the and South Korea since March by umes, depending on demand and caused oil prices to plunge by half pended by the Capital Market Authority on Sunday after euro but the single currency’s weighting falls to 60 percent trimming the volumes of oil loaded, shipping logistics, using operational since June, although top Saudi oil the company did not commit to listing rules related to from 80 percent, while the dollar’s weighting rises to 40 six industry sources familiar with tolerance which ranges from plus to officials have said global oil con- “informing CMA and the public without delay on any percent from 20 percent. the matter said yesterday. minus 10 percent of the contracted sumption is growing. material developments...that can affect (the) stock price,” The North African country has seen an increase in trade The move, which is limited to Saudi volume. “Saudi Arabia has been very the regulator said. with the United States, China and the rest of Africa as it some buyers in North Asia, came Saudi Aramco will supply full vocal about defending market share sought new export markets in the wake of the euro-zone even as output by the world’s top contracted volumes of crude oil to and it looks like that strategy has Qatar’s Gulf International debt crisis, which badly hurt the Moroccan economy. “The crude exporter hit a record in March at least three Asian term buyers in been working,” said Alex Pearce, a Services Q1 profit rises 89% new weighting has not an impact on the dirham’s value,” after it pledged late last year to May, unchanged from April, the senior analyst at Thomson Reuters the central bank said in a statement. keep production unchanged to sources said, but added that the Oil Research and Forecasts. DUBAI: Qatar’s Gulf International Services reported an It is the first step toward adopting more exchange rate defend its market share. producer hadn’t informed them of “We see much of the increase in 89 percent rise in first-quarter profit yesterday. The firm, flexibility to make its economy more competitive and bet- A source with knowledge of the the operational tolerance levels for exports heading to Asia but with which has interests in insurance, aviation, oil and gas and catering, made a profit of 355.7 million riyals ($97.71 ter able to absorb shocks, it added. The IMF, which gave producer’s operations said that the month. robust demand also from Europe Morocco a $5 billion credit line last year to help the coun- million) in the three months to March 31, according to a Saudi Arabia had overallocated Another OPEC producer, the and in particular the Mediterranean.” statement to Doha’s bourse. This is up from 188.6 million try purse economic reforms, has urged Rabat to make its crude in January and February, United Arab Emirates, has also Saudi exports to China increased currency regime more flexible. As part of financial reforms, riyals in the corresponding period of 2014. One analyst adding that requirements for its oil trimmed supplies to Asia as it to 33 percent of the OPEC total in had forecast Gulf International Services would make a the government proposed in February a draft law that had exceeded 10 million barrels per diverts more oil for use at a new March from 24 percent when they gives the central bank much more independence and pre- quarterly profit of 286.8 million riyals. The company did day since the start of the year. refinery. announced production intentions in not give a reason for its profit jump, but said in a sepa- pares it for major financial reforms and a more flexible cur- For the past two months, the State-run Saudi Aramco boosted November, he said. rency system. rate statement yesterday that lower oil prices were start- OPEC producer had informed some supplies to Asia in January and The producer raised the official ing to affect its drilling rig business. It said one of the Morocco is also set to allow the creation of Islamic customers that they would receive February by allowing customers to selling prices for all grades to Asia in customers of its subsidiary Gulf Drilling International banks and enable private firms to issue Islamic debt, after full contracted volumes, only to trim lift up to 10 percent above contrac- May for a second month in a vote of would release a contracted rig in May and another one parliament approved and Islamic finance bill last supply later using a contractual tual volumes to re-fill inventories confidence on demand in the had requested lower day rates. November. —Reuters term known as operational toler- and meet peak winter demand. region. —Reuters

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Jordanian Dinar 424.925 US Dollars Mint 0.299250 0.303450 20 gram 243.970 Egyptian Pound 39.379 10 gram 124.680 Asia Japanese Yen 2.511 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.254 5 gram 63.030 Bangladesh Taka 0.003549 0.004149 Indian Rupees 4.836 Indian Rupees 4.853 Chinese Yuan 0.047392 0.050892 Pakistani Rupees 2.972 Pakistani Rupees 2.955 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036987 0.039737 Srilankan Rupees 2.268 Bangladesh Taka 3.868 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Indian Rupee 0.004670 0.005071 Nepali Rupees 3.040 Philippines Pesso 6.770 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Singapore Dollar 221.710 Cyprus pound 738.965 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 0.002428 0.002608 Hongkong Dollar 39.077 Japanese Yen 3.500 Australian Dollar 229.39 Syrian Pound 2.590 Kenyan Shilling 0.003254 0.003254 Bangladesh Taka 3.890 Canadian Dollar 242.57 Korean Won 0.000265 0.000280 Philippine Peso 6.788 Nepalese Rupees 4.000 Swiss Franc 316.56 Malaysian Ringgit 83.660 Malaysian Ringgit 0.079781 0.084781 Thai Baht 9.299 Euro 327.51 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 49.375 Nepalese Rupee 0.003067 0.003237 US Dollar 301.30 Thai Bhat 10.270 Pakistan Rupee 0.002837 0.003117 GCC COUNTRIES Sterling Pound 449.47 Turkish Lira 117.325 Philippine Peso 0.006749 0.007029 Saudi Riyal 80.792 Japanese Yen 2.56 Sierra Leone 0.000066 0.000072 Qatari Riyal 83.235 Bangladesh Taka 3.868 Singapore Dollar 0.217692 0.223692 Indian Rupee 4.820 Omani Riyal 787.130 South African Rand 0.019028 0.027528 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.251 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 804.700 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001861 0.002441 Nepali Rupee 3.015 UAE Dirham 82.498 Taiwan 0.009556 0.009736 Pakistani Rupee 2.954 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT UAE Dirhams 81.91 Thai Baht 0.008967 0.0009517 ARAB COUNTRIES Europe Bahraini Dinar 799.72 Belgian Franc 0.007801 0.008901 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.435 Arab Egyptian Pound 39.38 British Pound 0.435290 0.444290 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.617 Bahraini Dinar 0.796583 0.804853 Jordanian Dinar 428.11 Czech Korune 0.003698 0.015698 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.414 Egyptian Pound 0.039347 0.042447 Omani Riyal 781.40 Danish Krone 0.038821 0.043821 Tunisian Dinar 153.730 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Qatari Riyal 82.97 Euro 0.314977 0.322977 Jordanian Dinar 427.540 Saudi Riyal 80.26 Norwegian Krone 0.033219 0.038419 Iraqi Dinar 0.000192 0.000252 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.033 Romanian Leu 0.072742 0.072742 Jordanian Dinar 0.423147 0.430647 Syrian Lira 2.159 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Slovakia 0.009027 0.019027 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 30.591 Swedish Krona 0.030196 0.035196 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Swiss Franc 0.302191 0.312391 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021760 0.045760 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.117401 0.124401 Nigerian Naira 0.001249 0.001884 US Dollar Transfer 302.850 US Dollar 301.050 Omani Riyal 0.780611 0.786291 Canadian Dollar 243.535 Euro 321.320 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082474 0.083687 Sterling Pound 449.575 Sterling Pound 443.370 Australian Dollar 0.221302 0.232802 Saudi Riyal 0.080123 0.080823 Euro 328.685 New Zealand Dollar 0.219162 0.228662 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 Canadian dollar 240.830 Swiss Frank 286.250 Tunisian Dinar 0.150547 0.158547 Turkish lira 114.780 Bahrain Dinar 801.720 America Turkish Lira 0.117401 0.124401 Swiss Franc 310.300 UAE Dirhams 82.340 Australian Dollar 231.380 Qatari Riyals 83.515 Canadian Dollar 0.234441 0.242941 UAE Dirhams 0.081474 0.082623 US Dollar Buying 301.650 Saudi Riyals 80.460 US Dollars 0.298750 0.303450 Yemeni Riyal 0.001369 0.001449 TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 BUSINESS Oil prices retreat in March over stock buildup, oversupply fears

NBK ECONOMIC REPORT

KUWAIT: March saw oil prices pare back some of their at $49.2/bbl on 31 March. OPEC production slips gains from February’s rally as concerns over rising com- March was also notable for the return of geopolitics as OPEC output fell to 30.2 mb/d in February, its lowest mercial crude stocks began to weigh on market senti- a factor influencing oil prices, first with Saudi Arabia’s level in two years, according to OPEC data obtained ment. The International benchmark Brent crude (dated) military intervention in Yemen, and second, with the through direct communication with national sources. was down almost $8 per barrel (bbl), or 13 percent, to West’s potential nuclear deal with Iran. The drop of 330,000 b/d compared to January was pri- $53.9/bbl by the end of March. West Texas Intermediate In the former, the price of Brent crude rose almost 6 marily a reflection of outages in Libya and Iraq. Libyan (WTI), the US marker, also retreated, by $2.0/bbl during percent after Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes on rebel output declined further to 341,000 b/d in February as the the month to settle at $47.7/bbl. Similarly, local crude, Houthi positions in Yemen on 25-26 March. Markets conflict between the country’s two rival governments Kuwait Export Crude (KEC), declined by $5.8/bbl to close were initially concerned that the fighting would impact continued to impact oil fields and installations. Since last regional oil supply, both through the loss of Yemeni October’s high of 900,000 b/d, two thirds of the country’s crude and, more importantly, via disruption of the vul- oil production has been taken offline. nerable Bab-el-Mandeb straight between Yemen and In Iraq, meanwhile, storage constraints at the coun- Djibouti. The straight sees almost 4 million barrels of try’s southern tank farms and bad weather in the Shatt mostly Gulf oil pass daily en route to the Suez Canal and Al-Arab saw crude production decline by almost 260,000 western markets. The risk premium narrowed, however, b/d to 2.7 mb/d during the month. This is the second after Saudi-led forces moved to secure the shipping month in a row since December that production has fall- lanes. en. Output had reached a 35-year high of 3.6 mb/d last Meanwhile, as the 31 March deadline approached for December, according to OPEC secondary sources. an agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on the latter’s Saudi Arabian production was also down, by 44,000 nuclear program, oil traders were anxiously contem- b/d to 9.6 mb/d during February. Nevertheless, since plating the prospect, should sanctions be lifted, of OPEC’s Saudi-led decision in November to hold off on increased quantities of Iranian crude coming back onto cutting output below the group’s official target level of already oversupplied markets. Iran’s exports are cur- 30 mb/d, the kingdom has steadfastly stuck to its strate- rently at half their 2011 levels, at around 1.1 million bar- gy of protecting market share and kept its production rels per day (mb/d), and the expectation is that any- relatively steady; even the loss of the 300,000 b/d Khafji where between 500,000 to 750,000b/d of Iranian crude oil field in the Neutral Zone, which Saudi Arabia shares could be back on international markets within a year of 50/50 with Kuwait, was compensated by increasing pro- a permanent agreement being signed in June. duction from other fields. While February saw OPEC output exceed the 30 mb/d Supply glut level for the tenth consecutive month, improving global The buildup in commercial crude inventories contin- oil demand this year should help narrow the OPEC sup- ued through March, depressing both near and long- ply-demand mismatch to 0.7 mb/d if OPEC maintains term oil prices. Brent futures were ranging between production at current levels for the remainder of the $60.8-68.9/bbl for deliveries in December 2015-17 on year. OPEC would thus need to cut output by 0.7 mb/d to 31 March (Chart 2.), down from the $68-74/bbl range 29.5 mb/d (the “call on OPEC crude and stock change) in they were trading in at the end of February. While the order to balance expected demand this year. Often dur- rise in OECD stocks, to 2,791 million barrels in February ing the second half of 2014, OPEC was producing at least (using data from the US Energy Information Agency EIA) 1.2 mb/d in excess of the “call”. continues to be in excess of the seasonal average, the buildup in US commercial inventories has been espe- US crude production cially acute. US stocks hit 471 million barrels on 27 According to the IEA, non-OPEC supply increased by March, an increase of more than 24 percent y/y. Stock 1.4 mb/d to 57.3 mb/d in February and was supported by levels at Cushing, Oklahoma, the storage and pricing surging North American production which continues to point for WTI, are at record highs of above 54.4 million offset supply outages elsewhere. Total US crude produc- barrels. US stocks have soared as a result of a drop in tion reached 9.4 mb/d, an increase of 15 percent y/y, refinery throughputs, strong domestic production according to the EIA. (Chart 7.) Of this, approximately 5.6 growth and continuing US imports. The onset of the mb/d, or 59 percent, is crude from shale/tight oil forma- Spring refinery maintenance season, when crude stocks tions. Output has, on an aggregate monthly level, shown traditionally build up, should see inventory levels and little sign of slowing down in March despitea 49.5 per- downward pressure on oil prices, especially WTI, cent reduction in the number of active oil rigs (from an increase further. all-time high in October, see Chart 4.) and drilling per- mits. The cutback in capital expenditure is expected to Accelerating global growth be in the order of 20-40 percent this year. April may be a The International Energy Agency (IEA) has revised slightly different story, however, as preliminary data upwards its demand growth forecast for 2015 by 75,000 released by the EIA on 2 April pointed to a 36,000 b/d b/d to 1.0 mb/d. This comes after oil demand came in decline in US production from the previous week. The better than expected during 4Q2014 and 1Q2015, which EIA had earlier indicated in its March Drilling Productivity was likely a reflection of improving macroeconomic con- Report that it expected crude output from three key ditions and ‘one off’ factors such as the impact of colder shale/tight oil producing regions, Eagle Ford, Niobrara weather in the northern hemisphere and a base effect and Bakken, to fall during March-April; aggregate pro- boost from 2013. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) duction, however, would remain unchanged in April as expects the global economy to expand further in 2015, these declines would be offset by production gains else- by 3.7 percent, which should help oil demand reach 93.5 where. Overall, the IEA expects non-OPEC supply to mb/d in 2015, an increase of 1 percent on 2014. increase by 800,000 b/d in 2015. Italy pins hopes on Milan News in brief

Dubai’s DGCX set to Expo after graft, delays launch spot gold deal DUBAI: The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) will announce in two weeks the date for launch- MILAN: Three weeks before the Milan Expo opens ing its spot gold contract, a senior executive at the on May 1, the site of the showpiece event is still a exchange said yesterday. “In a couple of weeks we will mass of trucks raising dust and workers in hard be able to announce when we will launch it,” Ian Wright, hats racing to finish building after delays, graft chief business officer at DGCX, said on the sidelines of and cost overruns. Italy has had four different gov- the Dubai Precious Metals Conference. The exchange is ernments in the seven years since Milan was cho- still in talks with a local bank about the contract. “We sen to follow the 2010 Shanghai Expo and has are heading in the right direction. It is moving forward undergone its most severe economic crisis since and the discussions are advanced. I see no bumps in the World War Two. But 40-year-old Prime Minister road,” Wright said. DGCX announced plans for a spot Matteo Renzi is counting on the event to reinforce gold contract early last year as part of its growth as a fragile signs of recovery and help his drive to put a top trading centre for the precious metal. The launch more modern face on Italy after the years of reces- was originally scheduled for last June, but has been sion. delayed. Officials are counting on some 20 million visi- tors to the six month-long exhibition of products Total pulls out of Oman and technologies from around the world. They hope it will bring in 10 billion euros ($10.75 bil- offshore exploration block lion), half of it from foreign visitors. MUSCAT: French oil and gas giant Total has pulled out of a Some 9 million tickets have already been sold, deepwater block in offshore Oman after failing to make a third of them outside Italy, for an event seeking commercially attractive discoveries, a senior Omani official to broaden its appeal with interactive exhibits told reporters yesterday. Nasser Al- Aufi, undersecretary at such as a supermarket of the future, cultural the Ministry of Oil and Gas, did not provide details regard- events and shows at an arena and an artificial ing Total’s decision. The company signed an exploration lake. “Expo will be the litmus test for the great and production-sharing agreement in December 2013 for ambitions which Italy has,” Renzi said in a speech Block 41, which lies off the Omani coast northwest of in Milan last month to promote the event. “With Muscat and covers almost 24,000 square kilometres of the Expo, we’ll be able to see what Italy will be in seabed with depths of up to 3,000 metres. Aufi also said the coming years.” that last year Hungarian oil group MOL had pulled out Intended as a celebration of Milan’s openness from Block 34, and Norwegian oil firm DNO from Block 31. to the world and an exploration of new approach- es to sustainable food, the event has so far stood out for the chronic corruption and waste that Milaha to combine tanker have blighted public works projects in Italy for business with UAE firm decades. DUBAI: Shipping firm Qatar Navigation said yesterday it Several top officials, including the Expo’s for- BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (second right) and German Vice Chancellor, Economy and Energy was initiating talks with United Arab Emirates-based mer public procurement manager, were arrested Minister Sigmar Gabriel (left) take part in a podium discussion during a conference on citizen dialogue called United Arab Chemical Carriers on a possible combina- last year and the whole event was placed under “Living Well in Germany”, in Berlin yesterday. —AFP tion of their product and chemical tanker businesses. the oversight of the national anti-bribery authori- Qatar Navigation, also known as Milaha, said that if suc- ty in a bid to ensure transparency. plete by opening day. ing a spree of acquisitions ranging from luxury pavilion and the futuristic swoop of France’s hall cessful, the move would create a larger business, pro- “I am realistically confident about the work yacht maker Ferretti to tyre maker Pirelli, will be suggest an eye-catching architectural display. vide better financial returns, and strengthen its com- “REALISTICALLY CONFIDENT” we’re doing but I am surprised and sometimes a particularly well represented. As well as a 5,000 Visitors will see exhibits on “feeding the plan- bined business market position. It provided no details. The Italian pavilion, a centrepiece of the event, bit disconcerted by the climate which has devel- square metre official pavilion, there are separate et” with plant samples and technology, while was originally expected to cost 63 million euros oped,” he told reporters in Milan earlier this halls for property developer Vanke and other dozens of restaurants will give a taste of various ($67.69 million) but will end up costing 92 million month, denying press reports that organisers Chinese corporations. A million tickets have national cuisines including Italian specialities from UK gas supply seen tight in Q2 and may not be completed in time. A number of would be forced to hide embarrassing gaps with already been sold in China, adding to a rising flow the upmarket delicatessen chain Eataly. But Expo LONDON: Earlier and longer than usual summer mainte- transport projects planned to accompany Expo camouflage panels. “When has it ever been the of Chinese visitors to Italy. will also have plenty of room for the mass-pro- nance on Norwegian gas infrastructure could tighten will also not be ready. case for a project like an Expo or Olympic Games, “A Milan delegation went to China two duced food industry. Both Coca-Cola and Britain’s gas supply this quarter and reduce exports to con- A defendant who opened fire in a Milan court that all the building work has been finished 30 months ago and was given a rapturous welcome,” McDonald’s are hosting pavilions, fuelling worries tinental Europe. The summer gas season, which runs from last week, killing three people including a judge, days before the opening?” he said. “If we end up said Claudio Artusi, who is coordinating Milan’s that the green-tinged rhetoric of “sustainability” April to October, is typically a period of lower demand due also underlined the potential security problems looking bad, the fault will be mine. The govern- plans for events across the city. will hide a familiar big-money business agenda. to warmer temperatures so many gas infrastructure opera- around a major event of this size. ment and local partners have done everything “Getting visas is a bit of a bottleneck, but the A “No Expo” movement is already planning tors carry out maintenance. This year, however, there is Buffeted by the scandals and facing disputes they should.” Chinese are keen to have the chance of explaining protests for the May 1 opening, and even away more planned maintenance in Norway than usual-an with architects and building contractors, Expo the country to those who don’t know it.” from anti-globalisation groups there has been increase of 1.2 billion cubic metres year-on-year in terms of Commissioner Giuseppe Sala says construction CHINA PRESENCE In the noise and confusion of the building site, criticism about the capacity of a mega-spectacle supply capacity, according to London-based consultancy work at the 110-hectare (272 acre) greenfield site In all, 145 countries are taking part but China, it is still hard to picture how it will all look, like Expo to promote more eco-friendly agricul- Energy Aspects. Norway supplies Britain with around a on the outskirts of Milan will be essentially com- a growing presence in the Italian economy follow- although the intricate woodwork of the Japanese ture. —Reuters third of its natural gas. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 BUSINESS Weak China trade data hammers Aussie; Asia flat

LONDON: A shock fall in Chinese exports Chinese shares hit seven-year highs even at Ava Trade in Dublin. American and Rio Tinto, fell. of currencies, rose 0.6 percent. The dollar hammered the Australian and New Zealand after data showed exports fell 15 percent The Australian dollar fell nearly 1.5 percent The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 was up 0.4 percent against the yen at dollars yesterday, and hit European mining year on year in March while imports contract- after the data from China, the main market share index, which touched its highest 120.63 yen. companies exposed to the world’s second- ed at their fastest rate since May 2009. for its exports of natural resources. The Aussie level since 2000 on Friday, was up less “It’s more a question of dollar strength largest economy. Economists had forecast a 12 percent was last down 1.3 percent at $0.7567, its than 0.1 percent by midday. In Asia, today than anything else,” said Keng Goh, The US dollar gained across the board on increase in exports. “The export-based econ- weakest since April 2. The China-exposed MSCI’s main index of Asia-Pacific shares a currency strategist at RBC Capital expectations of higher interest rates, pushing omy is in a process of structural changes and New Zealand dollar fell 1.4 percent to outside Japan rose 0.6 percent, heading Markets in London. San Francisco Fed the euro down to a four-week low and weigh- most of the efforts are focused on consump- $0.7574. back towards its highest since President John Williams told Reuters that ing on gold. Wall Street looked set to open tion, and given that the numbers released The Chinese data also weighed on senti- September, reached last week. China’s as the US job market improves, the risk of lower, according to stock index futures. Asian today are appalling, you want to ask if the ment in Europe. Britain’s FTSE 100 index CSI300 index closed 1.8 percent higher an unexpected setback derailing the shares, by contrast, rose on expectations of global growth slowdown is casting its shad- slipped from record highs as heavyweight while the Shanghai Composite rose 2.2 recovery once the Fed raises rates is fresh stimulus for the Chinese economy. ow,” said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst miners, including BHP Billiton, Anglo percent. “We continue to expect more receding. Sterling hit a fresh five-year monetary easing for a variety of reasons, low, under pressure from Friday’s weaker- and the trade data offers further support than-expected UK industrial output data for this,” Oliver Barron, analyst at China- and concerns about political uncertainty focused investment bank NSBO said in a after next month’s British general elec- note to clients. tion. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index ended flat in In fixed income markets, Italian yields choppy trade as investors took profit on edged up after the sovereign sold 7.5 bil- gains in major stocks such as Toyota lion euros of bonds, kicking off the Motor Corp after the index hit 20,000 last busiest week of euro-zone debt sales in week. almost a year. Italy’s 10-year yields rose 1.5 basis points to 1.24 percent, but were Euro down still close to a record low of 1.03 percent. The euro was down 0.7 percent at The ECB program has pushed euro- $1.0530, a four-week low. Data on Friday zone government bond yields lower, with from the Commodity Futures Trading German 10-year yields hitting a record Commission showed speculative low of 0.14 percent last week. Germany investors’ short euro positions, or bets will sell 10-year bonds on Wednesday. the single currency will weaken, were Crude oil prices rose as traders bet a only slightly below the previous week’s slowdown in US drilling would con- record high. tribute to higher prices. Brent crude The European Central Bank is one were last up 49 cents at $58.36 a barrel. month into a 19-month asset-purchase The stronger dollar and prospects of program, helping weaken the euro, while higher US interest rates helped push the Federal Reserve is expected to raise gold lower for the fourth session in five. rates this year. The dollar index, which It last traded at $1,199.42 an ounce, measures the greenback against a basket down 0.8 percent. —Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Australian treasurer rules out raising taxes in May budget

CANBERRA: Australia’s treasurer said yesterday that the low iron ore price was shaving billions of dollars off government revenue forecasts, but he would not increase taxes to make up the shortfall. Treasurer Joe Hockey estimates that every $10 fall in the price of a metric ton of iron ore - Australia’s most lucrative export - cuts $2.5 billion in tax revenue a year for the government. The price has fallen from about $100 when Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s conservative government was elected in September 2013 to less than $48 last week HAHOVER: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi HANOVER: Martin Winterkorn (third rock) , CEO of German car maker Volkswagen (VW), due to weakening Chinese industrial demand and visit a booth of India at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hanover, central visits his company’s booth at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hanover yester- increased production. Hockey signaled that plans to Germany yesterday. India is the partner country of this year’s trade fair running until day. return the national budget to surplus would be delayed April 17, 2015. — AFP photos when he announces his economic blueprint on May 12 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. “There’s no doubt it has an impact on our budget because iron ore has been our biggest export,” Hockey told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television. India seeks to woo German “But we are not going to chase the fall in revenue associated with falling iron ore prices. We’re not going to be imposing new taxes in order to try and recover that lost revenue,” he said. The Treasury Department industry at Hanover Fair forecast in December that iron ore would sell for $60 a metric ton in the next few years. Hockey told The Australian Financial Review news- paper in an interview published Monday that the gov- World’s largest industrial trade show opens ernment was now contemplating a price of $35. It is likely that only mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto HANOVER: A giant statue of an Indian elephant dominates the omy after China and Japan, Germany is already the most ger to whet German companies’ appetite for the Indian market. could make a profit at that price. Australia’s central bank stand of German cable maker Lapp at this year’s Hanover Fair, important trading partner in Europe. But for Germany, Europe’s As part of a massive campaign to find new investors, New has set its benchmark interest rate at a record low 2.25 the world’s largest industrial trade show, which opened yester- largest economy, India ranks just 25th on the list of countries it Delhi has come up with the slogan “Make in India”. With other percent in a bid to stimulate an economy that is stalling day. does business with. emerging economies such as China and Brazil already well sat- in the aftermath of a mining boom that saw the iron Stuttgart-based Lapp and a host of other German industrial Following a tour of the fair with Modi on Monday, Merkel urated and dwindling investment opportunities in Russia, India ore price peak at $181 in September 2011. A boom in companies are lining up to tap into the growth potential of acknowledged there was “still potential for German companies is beginning to awaken investors’ interest. Australia’s two larges exports - iron ore and coal - India, Asia’s third-biggest economy, which is the partner coun- to grow in India”. In concrete terms, bilateral trade between DIHK estimates that German exports to India could grow by helped the Australian economy avoid recession follow- try of this year’s fair and is eagerly wooing foreign investors to the two countries amounted to 16 billion euros ($16.9 billion) more than 10 percent after declining in recent years. “One of ing the global financial crisis. help modernize its industry. in 2014, with Germany exporting nearly 9.0 billion euros worth the main stumbling blocks for German companies is the lack of Hockey on Monday ruled out spending cuts that The family-run firm, with a workforce of 3,200, has been of goods to India. infrastructure,” not only in energy, but also in roads, rail and would counter the Reserve Bank of Australia’s efforts to active on the densely populated sub-continent since the mid- The figure “could be increased sharply,” according to the BDI shipping, BDI said. Power supply was frequently unreliable, stimulate the economy. “We are going to have a reason- 1990s, believing that its democratic structures, patent protec- German industry federation. For now, chemicals and machine bureaucracy was heavy and there were also customs barriers, able level of budget tightening, but it’s certainly not tion laws and wide use of English make it an easier market to tools make up the lion’s share of trade between the two coun- said DIHK. going to be in an arm wrestle with what the Reserve crack than, say, China, a company spokesman told AFP. tries. Germany also exports electrical goods to India, and But for Erich Nesselhauf of Daimler Commercial Vehicles Bank is doing on interest rates,” Hockey told ABC from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first official visit imports textiles from the sub-continent. India, it was primarily a question of being able to adapt. “It’s New York where he is attending a G20 finance ministers’ to Germany this week, jointly opened the “Hannover Messe” not any more complicated than in Germany, just different,” he forum. “So we’ve got to get the balance right, but ulti- with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “We will make it easy ‘Massive potential’ said. Daimler chief executive Dieter Zetsche is one of the many mately what we are going to be able to show is that we to make business in India,” Modi told invited politicians, busi- “For German companies, there’s massive potential in sectors business leaders who was set to meet Modi during the PM’s are reducing the deficit despite losing revenue,” he said. ness leaders and exhibiting companies at the opening ceremo- such as energy, environment, medicine, IT and services,” said visit to Germany. Hockey announced plans last May to reduce the deficit ny on Sunday evening. Volker Treier, responsible for foreign trade at Germany’s DIHK And the carmaker has invested 750 million euros in assem- in the current fiscal year to 29.8 billion Australia dollars “The opportunities we offer are huge. For people in India, federation of chambers of commerce. Modi’s promises of eco- bling trucks in India, with primarily India-made parts, since ($27.8 billion), down from AU$49.9 billion the previous Germany is a valued partner and symbol of technology, inno- nomic growth, job creation, regulatory and fiscal reform and 2012 and more recently buses, under the brand name fiscal year. — AP vation, quality,” Modi said. For India, Asia’s number three econ- infrastructure development could provide the necessary trig- “BharatBenz”. — AFP World Bank trims 2015 East Asia growth forecast

SINGAPORE: East Asia’s developing economies led by er than last year’s 6.1 percent expansion. China will grow slightly slower this year, with higher US interest rates and an appreciating dollar posing further risks Indonesia growth to the region, the World Bank said yesterday. For Indonesia, 2015 growth is expected to come in at 5.2 In its latest forecasts for the region, the bank said China’s percent, slower than the bank’s previous estimate of 5.6 per- economy should expand by 7.1 percent in 2015, slower than cent but still stronger than last year’s 5.0 percent expansion. the 7.2 percent rate projected in October and down from Thailand’s economy is likely to mount a strong rebound and last year’s 7.4 percent growth. Developing East Asia should grow at 3.5 percent this year from just 0.70 percent in 2014 grow 6.7 percent, easing from 6.9 percent in 2014, the World as greater political stability perks up consumer spending Bank added in the latest edition of its East Asia Pacific and investments. Economic Update. But the bank said growth for Malaysia-Southeast Asia’s Under the bank’s definition, Developing East Asia largest oil exporter-will slow to 4.7 percent from 6.0 percent includes 14 countries. “Despite slightly slower growth in East last year as the country feels the pinch from depressed Asia, the region will still account for one-third of global crude prices, while a goods and services tax implemented growth, twice the combined contribution of all other devel- this month will affect consumption. oping regions,” Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank East Asia Malaysian growth will pick up to 5.0 percent in 2016, it and Pacific regional vice president, said in a statement. said. “East Asia Pacific has thrived despite an unsteady global Slower growth in China is likely to temper the positive recovery from the financial crisis, but many risks remain for effects of lower oil prices and a recovery in developed coun- the region both in the short and long run,” said the bank’s tries, but the bank said economies should take advantage of chief economist Sudhir Shetty. the oil price fall to push through fiscal reforms aimed at rais- Among the risks is a downturn in the eurozone and ing revenues such as cutting fuel subsidies. Japan, two of the region’s top export markets, the bank said. “In China, engineering a gradual shift to a more sustain- It also warned that higher US interest rates and an appreciat- able growth path will continue to pose challenges for policy- ing dollar “could raise borrowing costs, generate financial makers, given real sector weaknesses and financial system volatility and reduce capital flows” to the region. RIZHAO: A crane moves a container at the sea port in Rizhao in east China’s Shandong province. China’s trade contracted vulnerabilities,” the bank said, adding that reforms “will The Federal Reserve is split on when to raise ultra-low US in March by an expectedly wide margin, adding to expectations Beijing will launch new stimulus to shore up weakening depress activity in the short term”. The bank slashed its fore- interest rates, with timing scenarios ranging from June this growth in the world’s second-largest economy. — AP cast for growth in the Philippines to 6.5 percent this year year to sometime in 2016, according to minutes of its last from its October estimate of 6.7 percent, but this is still high- policy meeting released last week. — AFP China’s March exports shrink 15% in shock fall

BEIJING: China’s export sales contracted 15 percent in DIFFICULTIES FACED March, a shock outcome that deepens concern about Last month’s trade performance left China with a sur- sputtering Chinese economic growth. The tumble in plus of $3.1 billion, much smaller than the poll forecast exports - the worst in about a year - compared with for a $45.4 billion trade gap. On a quarterly basis, exports expectations for a 12 percent rise and could heighten appeared to fare better than imports. Export sales were worries about how a rising yuan has hurt demand for up 4.7 percent in the first quarter compared with a year Chinese goods and services abroad, analysts said. ago, improving from a 3.4 percent fall seen between The yuan’s strength was one factor in March’s 19.1 per- January and March last year. cent on-year decline in exports to the European Union Imports, on the other hand, crumbled 17.6 percent in and 24.8 percent drop to Japan. In a sign that domestic the first three months from a year ago, reversing the 1.6 demand was also tepid, imports into the world’s second- percent increase in 2014’s first quarter. biggest economy shrank 12.7 percent last month from a Yet analysts said a breakdown of the data showed year ago, the General Administration of Customs said exports in March were clearly crimped by a stronger yesterday. By volume, coal imports plunged more than yuan, which is pegged to a rising dollar. Indeed, Huang 40 percent in January-March. The March fall in imports Songping, a spokesman at China’s customs office, was in line with forecasts, unlike the one for exports. “It’s acknowledged the difficulties that exporters faced from a a very bad number that was much worse than expecta- firmer yuan. Costs stemming from labour, financing and tions,” Louis Kuijs, an economist at RBS in Hong Kong, the exchange rate “remain stubbornly high and the com- said about the export data. petitive advantage of the traditional foreign trade has BEIJING: US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker (left) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great “It leads to warning flags both on global demand and been weakened,” Huang said. Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. Pritzker is leading a US business delegation on a presidential trade mission China’s competitiveness.” Buffeted by lukewarm foreign He added that 56.2 percent of exporters surveyed by to China. — AP and domestic demand, China’s trade sector has wobbled the government said their costs had risen in March. in the past year on the back of the country’s cooling Against the euro, the yuan hit a record high of 0.15274 economy, unsettling policymakers. Chinese Vice Premier euros on March 16, up a steep 14 percent against the Wang Yang was quoted by Xinhua state news agency as common currency this year. India’s consumer inflation dips in March saying earlier this month that authorities must arrest That helped to dent Chinese export sales to Europe. China’s export slowdown lest it further dampens eco- Shipments to the European Union had their biggest fall MUMBAI: India’s consumer inflation fell slightly in March, “It is a good sign that consumer inflation is still in the nomic growth. Wang was quoted as saying that local in more than a year, as did those to Japan. “The really the government said yesterday, raising the prospect of a fur- moderation zone. But the worry about food inflation governments should offer “preferential policy support” weak trade surplus has implications for the weakness in ther cut in interest rates. Retail inflation declined to a lower remains,” said Arun Singh, senior economist with Dun & and encourage more private investment in exports. the renminbi,” said Andrew Polk, an economist at the than expected 5.17 percent in March from 5.37 percent in Bradstreet. Anaemic growth in the trade sector could hurt jobs, Conference Board in Beijing. “So we might see more February, when unseasonal rains pushed up food prices. “We need to see the complete pass-through of the which the government wants to protect for fear that weakness going forward.” China expanded grew its trade A dip in global crude oil prices and steady food costs impact of untimely rains on food prices because food prices widespread unemployment could fuel social discontent sector by 3.4 percent in 2014, according to government have helped control inflation to around five percent from have a tendency to spill over and spark inflation worries.” and trigger unrest. So far, China’s labour market appears data, missing the government’s growth target of 7.5 per- double digits in 2013, allowing the central bank to cut inter- Rising food prices are a critical issue in India where even to be holding up well, despite signs that economic cent by more than half. Taking that disappointing out- est rates twice so far this year to spur growth. But Reserve minor increases cause hardship for tens of millions of poor. growth is steadily grinding to its lowest in a quarter of a come into account, the government has lowered its Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan kept rates on hold The RBI has a target of bringing inflation consistently below century of around 7 percent. Data on growth in the first growth target for 2015 combined imports and exports to at a scheduled review last week as he waited for commercial six percent by January, and to four percent for the 2016/17 quarter will be released today. around 6 percent. — Reuters lenders to pass on the two previous cuts to customers. financial year. — AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Shining a laser light on BMW i8’s new cutting edge headlight technology BMW is the first-to-market with laser light headlamps

KUWAIT: As a globally successful premium carmaker, sports car but also as the first production vehicle to which includes sophisticated aerodynamics features four wheels. When united, the dual motors (electric the BMW Group attaches the utmost importance to incorporate the futuristic laser lighting technology. and environmentally friendly materials. It comprises motor at the front and petrol engine at the rear) work advanced technology in all sectors of its automotive Safety is a key consideration for BMW with the BMW LifeDrive architecture, the worlds’ first body in harmony enabling the BMW i8 to accelerate from 0 manufacturing. Exclusive and innovative technology development of laser lighting. Laser diodes are a hun- architecture specifically designed and purpose-built to 100km/h in 4.4 seconds while using just 2.5 litres solutions is what has helped secure the company’s dred times smaller than conventional light diodes, for series production of electric and plug-in hybrid of petrol per 100kms and emitting just 59g/km of leading edge amongst the competition. With the revo- which help save installation space inside the head- cars. The BMW i LifeDrive architecture is made up of emissions. The BMW i8 can be operated solely in all lutionary BMW i8, the world’s most sustainable plug-in lamp, and also weight. These diodes emit a strongly two separate units: the Upper Life module that con- electric drive (zero emissions) for around 37 kilome- hybrid sports car, that encompasses an all-embracing bundled beam via special lenses onto a fluorescent sists mainly of strong and extremely lightweight pas- tres - and the battery of the plug-in hybrid is contin- sustainability concept throughout the entire value phosphorus substance inside the headlamp. The sub- senger cell made from Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic. uously charged by the petrol engine while driving. In chain, it seems only fitting that the BMW i8 is the first stance transforms the beam diodes to an exceptionally The Lower Drive Module consists of a 100 percent alu- addition, it can be charged with a BMW i Wallbox production vehicle in the world to have headlamps fea- bright white light that is ten times more intensive than minium construction that integrates the battery, elec- which can be mounted to the garage wall, and takes turing a completely new laser light concept. conventional light sources. Due to their high intensity tric motor and suspension system. The use of Carbon approximately two and a half hours to charge an Whilst the basic version of the BMW i8 is equipped that is pleasant on the eye, BMW Laser Lights is the Fibre Reinforced Plastic is a first for a volume-produc- empty battery. When charging the i8 from a domes- with high-intensity, energy-efficient full LED head- ideal light source for the main light beam of a vehicle. tion model. It is the lightest available material that can tic power wall socket, the i8 can be fully charged lamps with a range of 300 metres, the optional laser It combines unparalleled performance and road safety be used in the construction of a car body without within three hours. Due to its lightweight of just light feature ensures a high beam range of up to 600 with a high level of efficiency resulting in a more compromising on safety. 1,485 kg, it provides a total drive range of more than metres. This means that the high illumination range of relaxed and comfortable driving experience. Powered by a 1.5-litre, three-cylinder BMW 500 kilometres. The BMW i8 is the future of the the lights is doubled and the energy efficiency is The BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car is a 2+2- TwinPower Turbo petrol engine, the BMW i8’s intelli- sports car, and laser light the future of automotive increased by 30 percent compared to the LED lights. seater embodying a revolutionary take on the Sheer gent hybrid system capitalizes on a potent electric light technology. And the same applies to both: As a result of this laser light technology, the BMW i8 is Driving Pleasure for which BMW is renowned. The motor which sends drive to the front wheels resulting high performance coupled with high levels of effi- making motoring history not only as a plug-in hybrid BMW i8 features a completely new sports car design in a combined power output of 362hp delivered to all ciency.

Futures prices point to more balanced oil market in Q2

LONDON: Professional commodity Reported crude stocks increased by traders watch spreads (differences nearly 11 million barrels last week between the prices for adjacent alone, the largest one-week build for futures contracts) rather than spot 14 years. It was the tenth-largest build prices as the best indicator of the bal- reported since the EIA began publish- ance between supply and demand. In ing weekly information on crude crude, the narrowing spreads for both stocks back in 1982. Brent and West Texas Intermediate Yet the contango spread has con- (WTI) indicate a closer balance tinued to tighten, suggesting physical between supply and demand in the traders are looking past short-term second half of the year than in the oversupply to a tighter supply- first. Periods of excess supply are nor- demand balance in the second six mally characterised in futures prices months of the year. by a “contango” structure, an obscure term that originated in the 19th cen- FALLING SUPPLY, RISING DEMAND tury. The number of rigs drilling for oil In contango, contracts for across the United States has dropped deferred delivery trade at a premium by more than 50 percent in the last to the spot price to compensate the six months, which should cut produc- seller for the costs of financing, stor- tion by several hundred thousand ABK rewards ‘Best of the Best’ ing and insuring the product before barrels per day later in the year. On delivery. By the middle of February, the demand side, motorists are using the futures market for crude was trad- their cars more and the United States employees in retail banking ing in a wide contango, reflecting the is likely to witness the strongest sum- steady rise in US commercial crude mer driving season since 2008, boost- KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) recently held its General Manager of Retail Banking at ABK, said “We are and Debit Card by Banker Middle East, as well as the ‘ Best stockpiles and fears onshore storage ing fuel consumption. annual ‘Best of the Best’ award ceremony on, 23rdMarch honored to have such a committed team at the Bank. use of segmentation 2015 Award” by Visa International. space would run out. Stockpiles of fully refined and 2015 at the Jumeirah Hotel. This event is held each year Their hard work and competence is a key driver of suc- These awards are an endorsement of the efforts of ABK The contango was particularly semi-finished petroleum products are to recognize the tremendous efforts of staff members in cess and it is a pleasure to be able to recognize their out- employees and their diligence to provide the customers pronounced in futures contracts higher than normal but nowhere the Bank’s Retail Division. standing efforts.” with the best banking solutions available. linked to WTI because the rise in near as distended as crude stocks. The ‘Best of the Best’ awards are based on six different Fawzy Al-Thunayan, GM, Board Affairs, praised the For more information on Ahli Bank of Kuwait please stocks has been concentrated in the While US crude stocks are almost 125 reward programs and the award categories are: the A+ outstanding efforts of ABK staff and pointed out that ABK visit www.eahli.com or contact an ABK representative via United States, especially around the million barrels (35 percent) higher ‘Golden Team’, which is dedicated to the customer service has been awarded the ‘’Best Improved Retail Bank in the ‘Ahli Chat’ or by contacting a customer service agent via contract’s delivery point at Cushing, than the previous 10-year median, team members, the ‘Customer Service Champion’ which Middle East Award’ by The Asian Banker, Best Credit Card ‘Ahlan Ahli’ at 1899899. Oklahoma. On Feb. 26, the December product stocks are only 68 million focuses on the best performing branches in customer futures contract was trading at a pre- barrels (10 percent) above average. service and thirdly, the ‘Top Performance’ Award which is mium of $6.21 over WTI futures for To put that in context, the United dedicated to the sales teams in three areas; the best per- delivery in June States consumes around 19 million forming staff in sales, the ‘Best Performing Branch’ in sales On March 18, the Jun-Dec spread barrels of refined products per day, and the ‘Best Supporting Back Office Staff Award ‘. The was still trading at $6.16 per barrel, with slightly more in summer than in fourth category is the ‘Elite Award’, which is dedicated to paying more than $1 per barrel per spring and autumn. US refiners are the ‘Best Operations Office’ staff. The fifth category is ‘ABK month to cover the cost of storing taking advantage of the wide spread Heroes’ which is for the Customer Service staff who serve and financing oil in the second half of between the price of domestic crude the Bank’s customers, internally and externally, and is the year. oil and finished fuels to maximize based on an evaluation conducted by the Service Quality Since then, however, the Jun-Dec production. Throughput is currently Unit for friendliness, positive attitude, task ‘ownership’, spread has tightened to $3.83 per almost 16 million barrels of crude per teamwork and commitment. The sixth category, the barrel, just 64 cents per month, and is day, more than 1.3 million barrels per ‘Complaint Management’ award is dedicated to the best at its narrowest since early January. day above the 10-year average, and performing branch in managing and resolving customers’ Something similar has happened 600,000 barrels per day above the complaints. with the Jun-Dec spread in Brent, level this time last year. Commenting on this award scheme, Stewart Lockie, though in the case of the internation- al oil benchmark, the spread began to MARKETS ARE NOT INFALLIBLE narrow from the middle of February The fact the Jun-Dec contango onwards. has narrowed so sharply despite the India order for two Rafale squadrons continued rise in stocks is probably LOOKING BEYOND INVENTORIES the most unusual feature of the mar- A narrowing of the contango is ket at present. It strongly suggests casts doubt on larger deal usually associated with market traders are expecting the degree of expectations that the degree of over- oversupply to fall over the second supply will fall in future. In the case of half of 2015 with a much closer bal- NEW DELHI: Any future Indian purchase of Rafale jets will went into a “vortex” although he stopped short of saying the said.A decision to abandon commercial talks would mean crude, however, the contango has ance between supply and demand. come through direct talks with the French government, the government had scrapped the negotiation for a contract the end for what had been touted as one of the world’s narrowed even as US commercial The market could be wrong, of defense minister said yesterday, suggesting that commercial with Dassault for 126 planes worth up to $20 billion. biggest defense deals, and could give hope to rival manu- stockpiles have climbed to the high- course. Traders and investors wrong- negotiations for a larger deal with Dassault Aviation have “This had to be done to break the vortex,” he said, adding facturers, experts said. est level in more than 80 years. ly assumed political risk and violence been shelved. that the preferred method was now to talk directly to the “The government has bought time now,” said US commercial crude stocks have in the Middle East would reduce India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday French government, rather than return to commercial nego- Muthumanickam Matheswaran, a former Air Marshal in the risen by almost 97 million barrels, supplies in the second half of 2014. announced a plan to buy 36 planes from Dassault through tiations. Indian Air Force, adding that future purchases “could be that around 25 percent, since the start of When the expected disruptions the government-to-government route, after three years of “Instead of going through the RFP (Request For Proposal aircraft, or it could be another aircraft.” “That is an indication 2015, according to the US Energy failed to materialize, spot prices price negotiations for local assembly of the aircraft pro- bidding process) where there is lot of confusion, chaos, it is that the RFP that has been hanging for more than 3 years, is Information Administration (EIA). plunged.—Reuters duced no results. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said now the situation that 36 will be procured ready to fly. What finished,” said Matheswaran, who advises Hindustan Modi’s decision came after the commercial negotiation is to be done with the rest will have to be discussed,” Parrikar Aeronautics.—Reuters TECHNOLOGY TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

EMC enterprise hybrid cloud takes centre stage at Arab Future Cities summit

DOHA: EMC participates in the Arab Future Cities The announcement comes as EMC continues to movement to establish a sustainable infrastruc- smart technology. At the same time the advan- Summit being held in Doha from the 13th to 14th work with customers and partners in Qatar to ture that fosters health socio economic develop- tage of cloud based IT and Security are major of April. establish smart service infrastructures as part of ment and greater citizen satisfaction. areas of focus for Smart Cities going forward giv- The fourth edition of the Qatar’s National Development Strategy. Through At the event, Sa’di Awienat, Chief Technology ing them the agility and flexibility needed and event is expected to bring its participation, EMC highlight the role of third Officer and Global Services Lead, Gulf and creating the foundation of Trust to protect the together an audience of platform technologies such as cloud, social, Pakistan at EMC Corporation will engage in an data they own. prominent senior digni- mobile and big data to boost information sharing, insightful panel discussion titled, ‘Determining Awienat will lay special emphasis on the EMC taries, ministers and gov- drive security and enhance service delivery to the Significant Role of ICT Innovation in Building Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution as an essential ernment officials in addi- improve the lives of citizens and expats across the Smart Cities’. The Panel will see him highlight the step to help IT organizations enable an agile, on tion to visionary heads of nation. need for scalable innovations that can grow as demand, elastic infrastructure that allows them to enterprise, decision makers Billed as one of the largest government gather- quickly as these cities and rapidly evolve to meet expedite operations and service delivery. The and CEO’s from Qatar as ings in the Arab world, the summit aims to create the challenges of a growing, more connected solution is designed to help both public and pri- well as the wider region to a platform for knowledge sharing as public and population. While Cloud, Big Data and Trust are at vate sector entities leverage the benefits of a pub- share ideas and best prac- private sector entities work to meet the demands the center of EMCs strategy, they are the corner lic and private cloud to successfully create inte- tices to build a sound foun- of a surging urban population. Presentations and stone for Smart Cities. Intelligent modern city grated environments to ensure customers have Sa’di Awienat dation for the advancement workshops at the summit are aimed at placing knows how to leverage the enormous treasure of seamless access to information anytime, any- of smart cities and services. innovation at the very core of the smart cities Big Data at hand into actionable insights with where and within a secure trusted network. Interpol office in Singapore fights against cyber crime

SINGAPORE: Global police organisation Interpol locks and thermostats are interlinked-must be yesterday formally opened a new office in scrutinised for security weaknesses, said Stock, a Singapore that will provide additional support to former high-ranking German law enforcement law enforcers and boost the fight against Internet- official. based criminal activities. The new Interpol Global “As technology development speeds ahead, so Complex for Innovation (IGCI) will ensure that the do the criminals, quite frankly leaving the world’s agency is “best placed to assist police forces governments and their police forces behind,” he around the world address emerging threats,” said. Jurgen Stock, Interpol’s secretary general, said in a “We must embrace developments such as the speech at the centre’s inauguration. Internet of Things ...and the advantages they bring Cybercrime “has been prioritised across the while simultaneously driving dialogue about their world as people, their homes, and national critical security and their safe use,” he added. infrastructure become smarter, or in other words, “If we do not break down the walls of silence, if networked,” Stock said. The Singapore complex, the world does not work together, we could soon located within the Southeast Asian city-state’s leafy see cybercriminals use our homes against us, and diplomatic quarter, will complement the agency’s even our bodies.” headquarters in the French city of Lyon. Interpol A study by the Hewlett-Packard security unit currently has 110 officers from over 50 countries Fortify released last July found 70 percent of the based in Singapore. most commonly used “Internet of Things” devices The state-of-the-art building houses a forensics contain vulnerabilities, including inadequate pass- laboratory to support digital crimes investigations words or encryption. and research on the newest modus operandi of The study said eight of 10 devices tested leaked cyber criminals. It also has a command and coordi- private information that could include the user’s nation centre that can provide support to national name, email address, home address, date of birth, police forces during crises, complementing similar credit card or health information. facilities in Lyon and Buenos Aires. The study followed multiple warnings about Interpol said the Singapore complex played a the hacking of medical devices, cars, televisions crucial role in crippling the “Simda” botnet last and even toilets that have an Internet connection. week which had infected more than 770,000 com- Stock said another priority is a discussion on WASHINGTON: The Apple watch is displayed in Washington, DC. The Apple watch is being presented in stores and will be available on puters worldwide. The botnet-which is a collection “the place of anonymity on the Internet and the April 24. of infected computers that take orders from central need of police to identify and trace cybercriminals servers-was used by cyber criminals to gain remote while nonetheless safeguarding the privacy of access to computers for the theft of personal other users”. Apple likely to boost watch details including banking passwords. Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who is also the interior minister, said the ‘Internet of Things’ IGCI can serve “as a key node in Asia to support production quickly: Analysts At the moment, the “Internet of Things”-where international operations against transnational devices from televisions, to refrigerators, door crime.” — AFP Launch day supply sold out within 10 to 30 minutes

NEW YORK: Apple Inc is likely to quickly ramp production of The company will sell the gadgets in Apple stores and the Apple Watch after strong pre-orders outstripped limited online as well as in trendy fashion boutiques in Paris, London supply in the first weekend following its launch, some Wall and Tokyo as part of a strategy to position the wearable com- Street analysts said. puter as a must-have accessory. Apple is widely expected to disclose weekend pre-order Despite mixed reviews, which praised the watch’s styling numbers today. According to shopping data firm Slice but criticized its less-than-spectacular battery life and slow- Intelligence, Apple booked nearly 1 million pre-orders for the loading apps, people flocked to Apple’s stores to get a close- Apple Watch in the United States on Friday. up look. The Apple Watch, which allows users to check email, listen “We think the Apple Watch will be highly disruptive to the to music and make phone calls when paired with an iPhone, traditional fashion watch market,” Pacific Crest analysts said. goes on sale officially on April 24. “Based on our observations The analysts said their checks showed that Apple appeared and media reports, launch day supply was largely sold out to be ordering components for the watch that would allow it within the first 10 to 30 minutes depending on model,” Piper to build well over 20 million watches this year. Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a client note. Munster, “While this represents just over 5 percent of the company’s who expects Apple to sell 2.3 million watches in the April- iPhone user base, it would be nearly half of the total (more June quarter, expects Apple to ramp production between than) $200 watch market,” they said. The brokerage expects mid-May and June. Apple to likely have about 5 million Apple Watches available BofA Merrill Lynch expects Apple to ship 4 million smart- for delivery by April 24. Analysts widely expect the Apple SINGAPORE: Mireille Ballestrazzi (L), president of Interpol, Teo Chee Hean (C), deputy prime minister and watches in the quarter. The Apple Watch is Chief Executive Watch to outsell similar watches offered by Samsung minister for home affairs and Jurgen Stock (R), secretary general of Interpol prepare for a ribbon-cutting Tim Cook’s first new major product launch and the company’s Electronics Co Ltd, Sony Corp and LG Electronics, which have at Interpol Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) during the inauguration opening ceremony in first foray into the personal luxury-goods market. attracted lukewarm interest from consumers. — Reuters Singapore yesterday. The Interpol Global Centre for Innovation opened its doors with officials hoping it will strengthen global efforts to fight increasingly tech-savvy international criminals. — AFP If not the iPhone, then...? New MacBook brings iPad’s

At Mobile World Congress numerous handset makers Now over to HTC, the vendor might not be compa- showcased their latest handsets last month in rable to Samsung or Apple in terms of its size and minimalism to laptop Barcelona and chief among these was their high-end sales, but that didn’t stop it from releasing one of the flagship devices. In this space, they battled to take a most well-received flagship Android devices of 2014, bite out of an extremely ripe Apple, with the American the HTC One (M8). Encased in aluminum and featur- NEW YORK: From the moment I took it out of the box, There’s also a second sensor now to record the amount giant having already released not one but two new ing an incredibly sharper and slightly larger display Apple’s new MacBook looked and felt like an iPad. of pressure you’re applying. A click followed by a firm press high-end devices to great acclaim back in September from its peer M8, and the same 20-megapixel main The laptop is Apple’s lightest and thinnest yet and bor- activates a number of features. Press on a document icon, 2014. camera but enhanced with the M8’s Duo Camera with rows many of the iPad’s designs, including the lack of a fan. and a preview pops out. Press on an address in an email, Indeed, with the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus as the extra plus 3D effects. The most interesting addi- The result is a 2-pound (0.92 kilogram) laptop that feels and a map opens up. On some video apps, the pressure part of its arsenal, Apple recorded its largest quarterly tion to the new M9 is the finger print reader below almost non-existent on my lap. Yet it packs in a lot of power, determines how quickly you forward or rewind. These ges- profits ever, with its Q1 2015 earnings tipping the scale the screen, which lets you quickly unlock the phone including a high-resolution display and a sturdier keyboard. tures primarily work with Apple apps for now, but other app at $18 billion, yes EIGHTEEN BILLION!!This not only as well as making payments. The new MacBook which went on sale Friday starting at developers can incorporate the functionality. made the first three months of the year Apple’s biggest The new HTC One (M9), codenamed Hima, is $1,299 in silver, gold or gray (the same choices as the iPad). The MacBook does all this magically without the touch- quarter ever, but also the biggest quarter by any com- expected to continue down the same proven path in Its box even resembles the iPad’s. pad actually moving. Apple added a haptic engine to repli- pany in history. While Apple’s portfolio ranges from terms of design language and build quality. The cate the feeling of clicking and pressing. It isn’t needed desktops to laptops to music players, the real stars of biggest improvement will come with the device’s rear NEW KEYBOARD technologically, but will help keep things familiar for users. the show were the two new iPhone mod- camera, with the one area of current criti- To make the MacBook as thin as it is - a half-inch (13.1 Apple also updated its high-resolution, 13-inch version els, with combined sales totaling 74.5 mil- cism being the existing Ultra Pixel shooter lion units and accounting for the vast and finally replaced with a 20MP camera, millimeters) at the thickest point - Apple had to redesign of the MacBook Pro with this new touchpad. I imagine majority of the vendor’s monster revenues. arguably making the One (M9) a no-com- the keyboard. Traditional keys need to be tall to properly future models getting it, too. So with Apple’s offerings already in the promise smartphone. The HTC M9 and E9 strike the mechanism that records the keystroke. Otherwise, retail space, attention shifted to Barcelona, come in two different sizes, mimicking you’d need to strike at the center, which many people don’t MINIMALISM where a host of eagerly anticipated new the approach adopted by Apple for its do. With the redesign, you can strike shorter keys from the Most of the expansion ports have disappeared. In its Android offerings were unveiled, including sixth-generation iPhone. edge. Those shorter keys help keep the laptop thin. place is a single charging port that’s also used for acces- handsets from Samsung and HTC. The for- Aside from the Barcelona unveilings of The new keyboard takes getting used to, even after a sories and video output. It uses a new standard called mer of these has had a tough year; its the Samsung Galaxy S6 and HTC One week of testing. I feel as though I need to press more firmly. USB-C. Galaxy S5 device did not make the waves (M9), it is worth mentioning two new But taller, old-style keys on some keyboards have started to The problem is most gadgets still use older USB ports, so the vendor had hoped for, and its earnings offerings from Sony and LG. The latter’s feel flimsy by comparison, as though about to come off you’ll need a $19 adapter for a single device. It’s likely out- and market share both fell as a result. So G3 handset garnered tremendous Saad Elkhadem their springs. The new keyboard does get more comfortable side parties will soon make adapters to connect multiple it’s fair to say that Samsung’s next move is a reviews in 2014, and we expect its G4 suc- over time- just don’t expect to write a novel on Day One. USB devices simultaneously, but if you use USB regularly, big one. cessor to debut sometime in the second quarter of Although it’s small, the new MacBook retains a full-size you might consider getting an Air or Pro model instead. To this end the Galaxy S6 is being referred to as the year. keyboard. In fact, that’s why the screen is 12 inches - it A $79 adapter gives you video output, with a USB port Project Zero, in essence serving as a complete rethink As for Sony, the company is currently sailing in tur- matches how much space the keyboard needs. (The screen, thrown in. You also might need a $19 extender for the pow- of the phone altogether. Among the most criticized bulent waters as it tries to turn things around for its incidentally, is stunning - compared with MacBook Air’s low- er cord, as the box no longer comes with it. I find the includ- elements of Samsung’s previous flagship devices were ailing handset business. The vendor’s current Z3 er-resolution screen. The fish in “Finding Nemo” look color- ed cord too short. Cord extenders from older MacBooks will the inclusion of bloatware and variables in build quali- device has been well received, but this hasn’t translat- ty. But with the Galaxy S6 the company has started ed into the kind of high sales volumes the vendor was ful and sharp.) work, too. from the ground up. The phone has featured some hoping for. The Z4 was originally slated for a MWC Speaking of power, I got eight to 11 hours of battery life amazing applications along with aluminum materials, 2015 unveiling, but it now look as though consumers NEW TOUCHPAD on a single charge, which is impressive given that the high- and curved edges, which has already gained a lot of will have to wait a little longer to see it. Also contributing to thinness is a new touchpad that resolution screen requires more power than regular screens. public attraction The smartphone market is really heating up as Apple calls Force Touch. On earlier MacBooks, the touchpad Apple saved energy by having individual pixels on the Samsung’s TouchWiz software is anticipated to be the mobile landscape has shifted drastically over acts like a springboard. When you press it, you’re physically screen let through more light. It also squeezed in more bat- incredibly toned down in comparison to previous the last 12 months, with some of the biggest names moving it to activate the sensor. You also have to press tery by shrinking the circuit board and using odd shapes to offerings, and the rumor mill also has an Edge variant in the business coming under intense pressure from harder toward the back, near the springboard’s hinge, than fit into all remaining space. The battery life isn’t as good as in the offing, as is the case with the Galaxy Note 4. QHD their rivals. As such, 2015 will be a critical year for you do in front. In the new MacBook, sensors are embed- what you get on a 13-inch Air, but it should be adequate for Super AMOLED display and 20MP cameras are among vendors looking to hit back and reassert themselves ded, so you can get the same response anywhere. most days. — AP the other goodies offered. in the field. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE EU moves closer to counting calories in drinks

BRUSSELS: Health conscious tipplers may was heavy lobbying from the drinks indus- far less obvious,” Passarani said. “How many to fight the increase in obesity, which is Commission ‘resistance’ be closer to finding out just how many calo- try. This time around, Willmott wants to people know that an average half litre partly fuelled by alcohol consumption. Spirit makers cried foul, saying the brew- ries they are imbibing as consumer advo- make sure there is no mistake and that con- (around one pint) of five percent alcohol The drinks industry is also facing con- ers’ move was misleading and also under- cates push for EU nutritional labelling on sumers get the information they need. beer contains as many calories as a choco- sumers who are increasingly demanding mined messages about responsible drink- alcoholic drinks in the face of strong indus- “Consumers have a right to know that a late bar?” she asked. transparency. Spotting the trend, Carlsberg, ing. try resistance. glass of wine has the same number of calo- Heineken, AB Inbev and SABMiller last “While 100 ml is usually a fraction of the The European Parliament took a first ries as a slice of cake and that drinking while ‘North-south divide’ month all backed a plan to voluntarily list amount of beer a person might consume in step last month when it called on the pregnant can harm your baby,” she said. The committee’s non-binding resolution the calorie count and other nutritional infor- one serving, it can equal three servings of European Commission to draw up legisla- “This isn’t about telling people what to is due to be voted on by the full parliament mation of their beers. The Brewers of spirits: the maximum daily recommenda- tion requiring such labelling by 2016. do but giving them the information they at the end of April. Europe, a trade association representing tion for men and beyond what is recom- Adopted by 63 of the 68 members of the need to make informed choices,” Willmott In spite of “a north-south divide on the more than 5,000 brewers, said the move will mended for women,” industry group parliament’s health committee, the resolu- added. question and the sensitivities of French, show that beer is not as fattening as some SpiritsEurope said. tion also calls for labels that highlight the Ilaria Passarani, an official with the Spanish and Italian winegrowers,” it might people think when compared to wine and When he took up his post last October, EU dangers of alcohol for pregnant women European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) be adopted this time, a parliamentary spirits. The group published a table com- Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis and motorists. advocacy group, said people need to know source said. paring calories in 100 millilitres of various also called for ending the code of silence on It was sweet revenge for Glenis Willmott, alcohol’s effect on their diet. The lines are moving. drinks: 245 calories for whisky, 82 for red the calorie count of alcohol. a Labour MEP from Britain who steered the “Most of us know alcohol must be con- For Britain and the Scandinavian coun- wine and 46 for beer containing 4.5 percent “However, it seems there is resistance proposal through the committee after a first sumed in moderation. However, the scale of tries, it is becoming imperative to curb or 5.5 percent alcohol-the same as for fresh from some parts of the Commission to any attempt failed in 2011 with what she said alcohol’s impact on our weight and health is binge drinking among the young, as well as orange juice. action on alcohol,” Willmott said. —AFP Worst VA health care wait times are in the South Nearly 894,000 appointments completed

FAYETTEVILLE: The chronic delays plaguing the longer than 60 days to complete. Sept. 1 and Feb. 28 involved a wait of more than Veterans Affairs health system are concentrated 60 days. There were more vets experiencing in a fraction of its hospitals and clinics - many of Big headaches extended delays there than in the entire states of them in the South - that have done far worse That has meant big headaches for veterans New York and Pennsylvania combined. than others in delivering prompt care, according like Rosie Noel, a retired Marine gunnery ser- VA officials cite numerous efforts to ramp up to government data reviewed by The Associated geant awarded the Purple Heart in Iraq after capacity by building new health centers and hir- Press. rocket shrapnel slashed open her cheek and ing more staff. Between April and December, the A year after Americans recoiled at revelations broke her jaw. system added 8,000 employees. In Fayetteville, that sick veterans were getting sicker while lan- Noel, 47, said it took 10 months for the VA to the VA is finishing a new 250,000-square-foot guishing on waiting lists, VA statistics show that successfully schedule her for a follow-up exam health center to help alleviate the delays that the number of patients facing long waits has not and biopsy after an abnormal cervical cancer frustrated Rosie Noel. declined, even after Congress gave the depart- screening test. Her first scheduled appointment And they say that in one statistical category, ment an extra $16.3 billion last summer to short- in February of 2014 was postponed due to a the VA has improved: The number of appoint- INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: A file picture taken on September 17, en waits for care. medical provider’s family emergency, she said. ments handled by VA facilities between May and Nearly 894,000 appointments completed at Her make up appointment at the VA hospital in February was up 4.5 percent compared to the 2006, shows the International Space Station over a blue and white Earth VA medical facilities from Aug. 1 to Feb. 28 failed Fayetteville, one of the most backed-up facilities same period a year earlier. Referrals to private shortly after the US Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital out- to meet the health system’s timeliness goal, in the country, was canceled when she was near- sector doctors are rising. post. SpaceX is sending its unmanned Dragon cargo ship on its sixth official which calls for patients to be seen within 30 days. ly two hours into the drive from her home in But they also acknowledge that in some supply mission to the International Space Station on April 13, 2015, should More than a quarter of those appointments Sneads Ferry on the coast. places, the VA is perpetually behind rising the weather behave itself. —AFP involved a delay of longer than 60 days. Noel said she was so enraged, she warned the demand. Since the summer, the number of vets waiting caller she had post-traumatic stress disorder and Total enrollees in the VA system have bal- more than 30 or 60 days for non-emergency care they better have security meet her in the lobby. looned from 6.8 million in 2002 to 8.9 million in SpaceX rocket poised for has largely stayed flat. The number of medical “To say I was livid is being mild,” she said. The 2013. appointments that take longer than 90 days to AP examined six months of appointment data at “I think what we are seeing is that as we launch and a landing complete has nearly doubled. 940 individual VA facilities to gauge changes improve access, more veterans are coming,” Those delays were not spread evenly through- since a scandal over delays led to the resignation Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sloan CAPE CANAVERAL: An unmanned SpaceX breaking apart. out the VA’s vast network of hospitals and clinics. of the VA’s secretary and prompted lawmakers in Gibson said. rocket was poised for launch from Florida to “It looks right now like weather is signifi- Many occurred in a handful of Southern August to give the VA an additional $16.3 billion He also acknowledged that the VA takes too send a cargo ship to the International Space cantly better. We did also upgrade the drone states, often in areas with a strong military pres- to hire doctors, open more clinics and build the long to plan and build new clinics, and hasn’t Station, then turn around and attempt to ship so it can keep position better,” ence, a rural population and patient growth that new Choice program that allows patients facing been flexible about reallocating resources to land on a platform in the ocean, company Koenigsmann said. has outpaced the VA’s sluggish planning process. long delays to get private-sector care. Data for areas experiencing fast growth. officials said. After demonstrating a successful ocean Of the 75 clinics and hospitals with the high- individual facilities were not available for August. “We are doing a whole series of things - the Liftoff of the 208-foot (63-meter) tall landing, SpaceX intends to bring its rockets est percentage of patients waiting more than 30 The analysis reveals stark differences between right things, I believe - to deal with the immedi- Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon capsule, back to a landing pad at the launch site so days for care, 12 are in Tennessee or Kentucky, 11 the haves and have-nots. ate issue,” Gibson said. “But we need an interme- was scheduled for 4:33 p.m. EDT/2033 GMT the boosters can be refurbished and reflown, are in eastern North Carolina and the Hampton In the Northeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast diate term plan that moves us ahead a quantum from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. slashing launch costs. Roads area of Virginia, 11 are in Georgia or south- states, few VA sites reported having significant leap, so that we don’t continue over the next Once the capsule is released, beginning a “It’s a long-term goal,” Koenigsmann said. ern Alabama and six are in north Florida. delays. A little less than half of all VA hospitals three or four years just trying to stay up. We’ve two-day journey to the station, the rocket’s The primary purpose of Monday’s flight is to Seven more were clustered in the region and clinics reported averaging fewer than two got to get ahead of demand.” first stage will flip around, fire engines to deliver more than 4,300 pounds (1,950 kg) of between Albuquerque, New Mexico and appointments per month that involved a wait of He also asked for patience ramping up the steer its descent and deploy landing legs to food, clothing, equipment and science Colorado Springs, Colorado. more than 60 days. Choice program. Between Nov. 5 and March 17, touch down on a customized barge sta- experiments to the station, a $100 billion Those 47 clinics and hospitals represent just a about 46,000 patients had made appointments tioned about 200 miles (322 km) off the research laboratory that flies about 260 miles fraction of the more than 1,000 VA facilities New health center for private-sector care through the new option - coast of Jacksonville, Florida. (418 km) above Earth. nationwide, but they were responsible for more But at the VA’s outpatient clinic in Jacksonville, a drop in the bucket for a system averaging 4.7 At a prelaunch press conference on SpaceX is one of two companies hired by than one in five of the appointments that took Florida, 7,117 appointments completed between million appointments per month. —AP Sunday, SpaceX Vice President Hans NASA to fly cargo to the station following the Koenigsmann put the odds of a successful retirement of the space shuttles. In addition landing at 75 or 80 percent. to a recently extended 15-flight, $2 billion During a previous landing attempt in contract with NASA, SpaceX is working on a January, the rocket ran out of hydraulic fluid passenger version of the Dragon capsule and for its steering fins, causing it to crash into has dozens of contracts to deliver commer- the platform. cial communications satellites into orbit. A second attempt in February was called The company also is working on a heavy- off because of high seas, but the rocket suc- lift version of the Falcon rocket, which uses cessfully ran through its pre-programmed 27 engines, compared to the nine currently landing sequence and hovered vertically flying. The Falcon Heavy is expected to make above the waves before splashing down and its first test flight late this year. —Reuters

Antibiotic use in pregnancy KUWAIT: While the majority of antibiotics pre- prescribed certain types of antibiotics. scribed during pregnancy do not increase the risk of While most recommended antibiotics were term babies being born with epilepsy or cerebral found not to harm fetuses, the researchers found an palsy, a class of antibiotics known as macrolides increase in the number of children who developed may carry a small risk, finds research by teams at the cerebral palsy or epilepsy when mothers were pre- UCL Institute of Child Health, research partner of scribed macrolides instead of penicillin antibiotics - Great Ormond Street Hospital. two antibiotics considered safe during pregnancy. While the finding, published in PLOS ONE, This increased risk is still relatively small though and should provide reassurance to expectant mothers for every 153 women treated with a macrolide that most antibiotic treatment during pregnancy is instead of a penicillin antibiotic, there will be one unlikely to harm their unborn baby, the work high- additional case of cerebral palsy and/or epilepsy. lights that the use of macrolides should be Ruth Gilbert, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology reviewed by the Medicines regulator. at the Institute of Child Health and honorary GOSH Current guidelines for expectant mothers consultant who co-authored the study says, ‘The state that most antibiotics are safe to take but the message for pregnant women is that they should research team wanted to find out whether certain not stop taking antibiotics when they are pre- types of antibiotics were associated with neuro- scribed them for infection. Most antibiotics in preg- logical damage in the fetus. The team studied nancy are not harmful to their child and can be very nearly 196,000 mothers who gave birth to single effective at reducing serious fetal damage due to children born at term (37 weeks onwards) infection. ‘ NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN: This photo taken on December 11, 2005 shows then 55-old Annegret Raunigk (1st row, 2ndL), posing between 1990 and 2010 and who were pre- Our study adds to evidence from several studies with her youngest daugher Lelia (on her knees) and other children and grand-children in Cologne as guest in a German channel scribed antibiotics by their GP during pregnancy. over the last 10 years (see table below) which have RTL show “2005! People, Photos, Emotions”. A 65-year-old Annegret Raunigk, who already has 13 children is pregnant again with Two-thirds of the mothers were prescribed a type reported rare but harmful effects associated with quadruplets, German media reported. —AFP of penicillin, while 7% were prescribed macrolide macrolide antibiotics. We therefore recommend antibiotics. The researchers followed up children that the use of macrolides such as erythromycin German woman pregnant with quadruplets at 65 using GP records to find out whether those who during pregnancy should be reviewed by the medi- developed cerebral palsy or epilepsy were more cines regulator and reconsidered in national guide- likely to have been born to mothers who were lines.’ BERLIN: A 65-year-old Berlin plans to track her through the Bild quoted her as saying, adding Hertwig, was quoted on the RTL woman who already has 13 chil- pregnancy and afterwards. however she had not considered it website ahead of Monday’s broad- dren is pregnant again with It said the pregnancy had so far an option to reduce the number cast as saying that quadruple quadruplets, Germany’s RTL been without any major complica- of embryos. At a time when other pregnancies were always a strain broadcaster reported Sunday. tions and that if everything went women her age are preparing to but that everything was currently The Russian and English well, the babies were due in the slow down and take things easier, going well. teacher’s pregnancy follows sever- summer and that Raunigk would Raunigk indicated she had no The biggest risk for the babies al attempts abroad at artificial be the world’s oldest mother of reservations about the challenges is being born prematurely and insemination over the last year- quadruplets. Mass circulation ahead. doctors are doing all they can to and-a-half, according to the pri- newspaper Bild am Sonntag “I’m not actually afraid. I simply prevent that, the gynaecologist vate TV channel. reported the four-baby pregnancy assume I’ll remain healthy and fit. added. Raunigk made headlines The woman, Annegret Raunigk, on its front-page, quoting the In matters of organisation I have 10 years ago too, when she gave decided to try to have another prospective mother-of-17, whose enough experience, that’s not new birth to her 13th child, Lelia, at the child because her youngest oldest daughter is reportedly 44, for me,” she said. age of 55. daughter, who is nine, wanted a recalling the moment doctors Asked about moral doubts, RTL “At first, I only wanted one little brother or sister, the channel broke the news. “Certainly that quoted her as asking: “How does child,” Bild quoted her as saying said on its website. was a shock for me. one have to be at 65? One must at the time. “Not all were It said it would broadcast an “After the doctor discovered apparently always fit some cliches planned. But then things happen. interview with the expectant there were four, I had to give it which I find rather tiring. I’m not a planner but rather spon- mother, who has seven grandchil- some thought to begin with. “On “I think, one must decide that taneous. And children keep me dren, on Monday evening and the scan it was just clear to see,” for oneself.” Her gynaecologist, Kai young.” —AFP TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE China to surpass US as top cause of modern global warming

OSLO: China is poised to overtake the United China’s cumulative carbon dioxide emissions will the United States and the European Union, accord- World War One landmine in France. States as the main cause of man-made global total 151 billion tonnes for 1990-2016, overtaking ing to the CICERO calculations. All governments are now working out plans for a warming since 1990, the benchmark year for UN-led the U.S. total of 147 billion next year. China surpassed the United States as the top climate summit in Paris in December that will set action, in a historic shift that may raise pressure on The rise of cumulative emissions “obviously does annual emitter of carbon dioxide in around 2006 targets for 2025 or 2030. Beijing set a goal last year Beijing to act. open China up to claims of responsibility from other and now emits more each year than the United of peaking its rising emissions around 2030, per- China’s cumulative greenhouse gas emissions developing countries,” said Daniel Farber, a profes- States and the European Union combined. Per capi- haps before. since 1990, when governments were becoming sor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. ta emissions by its 1.3 billion people are around EU “China is acting. It has acknowledged its position aware of climate change, will outstrip those of the In a U.N. principle laid down in 1992, rich nations levels. as a key polluter,” said Saleemel Huq, of the United States in 2015 or 2016, according to separate are meant to lead in cutting greenhouse gas emis- Beijing says the best yardstick for historical International Institute for Environment and estimates by experts in Norway and the United sions because their wealth is based on burning coal, responsibility is per capita emissions since the 18th Development in London. States. oil and natural gas since the Industrial Revolution century, by which measure its emissions are less And historical responsibility is at the heart of The shift, reflecting China’s stellar economic began in the 18th century. than a tenth those of the United States. talks on solving the problem. growth, raises questions about historical blame for Emerging nations, meanwhile, can burn more But stretching liability so far back is complicated. The UN panel of climate scientists estimated last rising temperatures and more floods, desertifica- fossil fuels to catch up and end poverty. But the rap- Should heat-trapping methane gas emitted by year that humankind had emitted 1.9 trillion tonnes tion, heatwaves and sea level rise. id economic rise of China, India, Brazil and many rice paddies in Asia in the 19th century, now omit- of carbon dioxide since the late 19th century and Almost 200 nations will meet in Paris in other emerging nations is straining the traditional ted, count alongside industrial carbon emissions by can only emit a trillion more before rising tempera- December to work out a global deal to fight climate divide between rich and poor. Europe? Should Britain be responsible for India’s tures breach a U.N. ceiling of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 actions beyond 2020. emissions before independence in 1947? Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. “A few years ago China’s per capita emissions Shared blame Lawyers say it is difficult to blame people living Any fair formula for sharing out that trillion were low, its historical responsibility was low. That’s “All countries now have responsibility. It’s not today for emissions by ancestors who had no tonnes, or roughly 30 years of emissions at current changing fast,” said Glen Peters of the Center for just a story about China-it’s a story about the whole inkling that greenhouse gases might damage the rates, inevitably has to consider what each country International Climate and Environmental Research, world,” said Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam climate. has done in the past, said Myles Allen, a scientist at Oslo (CICERO), who says China will overtake the Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-chair “I feel very uneasy about going back more than a Oxford University. United States this year. of a UN climate report last year. generation in terms of historic responsibility,” said “Until people start thinking about blame and Using slightly different data, the US-based World India will overtake Russia’s cumulative emissions Farber, arguing that Berlin could hardly be blamed if responsibility they are not taking the problem seri- Resources Institute think-tank estimated that since 1990 in the 2020s to rank fourth behind China, someone died by setting off a rusting German ously,” he said. —Reuters Nearly 9 in 10 US adults now have health insurance Increase coverage and improve health

WASHINGTON: Underlining a change ple of years,” said Larry Levitt, a health The survey also found: Hispanics saw across the nation, nearly 9 out of 10 insurance expert with the nonpartisan the biggest coverage gains of any eth- adults now say they have health insur- Kaiser Family Foundation. “To meet nic or racial group. The uninsured rate ance, according to an extensive sur- expectations, enrollment has to con- dropped 8.3 points among Latinos since vey released yesterday. tinue to grow and push the number of the end of 2013. Even so, Hispanics are As recently as 2013, slightly more uninsured down.” still more likely to be uninsured. “At a than 8 out of 10 had coverage. The Gallup-Healthways survey is time when Republicans are very keenly Whether the new number from the closely followed because it combines trying to court the Hispanic vote, a large Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index the depth of government-sponsored chunk of Hispanics are gaining insur- turns out to be a high water mark for research with the timeliness of media ance via the Affordable Care Act,” President Barack Obama’s health care polls. Pollsters interview 500 people a Witters said. law, or a milestone on the path day, nearly every day of the year. One Recent gains in coverage have ben- toward his goal of getting virtually all of the questions they ask is whether efited people up and down the income Real Madrid and Nivea Men combine US residents covered, remains to be people have health insurance. ladder. But the most notable improve- seen. The health care law offers subsi- ment has been among those making their passion for winning The law’s future is still up in the air, dized private insurance for people less than $36,000 a year, a group that and will turn on factors ranging from who don’t have access to job-based traditionally struggled to get and keep DUBAI: Nivea Men, the number one work and the desire to overcome com- Butragueno, Vice-President Public an upcoming Supreme Court decision coverage, combined with an expan- health insurance. Their uninsured rate International Brand in men’s skin care petition and win”, continued Andreas Relations, Real Madrid C.F. on consumer subsidies to actions by sion of Medicaid aimed at low-income dropped 8.7 points since the end of and the Real Madrid Club de Fotbol, the Hornung. “For over 30 years Nivea Men has Republican leaders in states opposed adults in states that accept it. Big 2013. most successful club in the world, are been caring for men’s skin around the to Medicaid expansion. states like Florida and Texas are Although the economic recovery is starting a major sponsorship deal for Caring for the future world. This year we’ll be even closer, The Gallup-Healthways survey among those refusing to expand likely to be contributing to coverage the countries in Middle East & North This agreement also gives the brand because through football we’ll get to found that the share of adults who Medicaid. gains, the uninsured rate is now signifi- Africa region. With this sponsorship Nivea Men the opportunity to work with more men and we’ll create a connection lack insurance dropped to 11.9 per- The law requires nearly all cantly lower than it was in early 2008, Nivea Men, the men’s skin care brand of Real Madrid Foundation in MENA region with our brand Nivea Men, the first brand cent for the first three months of this Americans to have coverage, either before the recession. That suggests Beiersdorf, expands its already success- on various social projects. in the world that has developed men’s year, the lowest level since that survey through an employer, a government that the gains in coverage are due to ful participation in international foot- skincare category”, said Andreas began its tracking in 2008. The latest program, or by purchasing their own more than an improving economy. ball. Hornung, Beiersdorf General Manager for update overlaps with the period when plan. Those remaining uninsured risk Five years after its passage, the With this new agreement, the brand Middle East and North Africa. the health law’s second sign-up sea- fines. It also provides subsidies to help biggest question now for Obama’s Nivea Men will support the prestigious son was winding down. low- to moderate-income people buy health care law is a Supreme Court Spanish football club. Real Madrid C.F. The new era of Nivea Men Coverage gains from 2014-2015 their own insurance. challenge. Opponents of the law argue players will be starring in a number of With Nivea Men, the prestigious translate to about 3.6 million fewer that its literal language only allows the major communication campaigns of Spanish football club not only has a new adults uninsured since the fall, before Supreme Court challenge government to subsidize premiums in Nivea Men for Middle East & North partner in Middle East & North Africa, but open enrollment got under way, Comparing the most recent sign- states that set up their own online Africa countries. a partnership that goes beyond the according to Gallup. “The Affordable up period with the first open enroll- insurance markets. Most have not “It is an honor for me to present the pitch. Care Act had three major objectives: ment season, the survey found that done so, defaulting to the federal sponsorship agreement between Nivea “2015 will be a thrilling year for Nivea increase coverage, slow the rate of the uninsured rate declined at a HealthCare.gov. Men and Real Madrid for the countries Men in MENA: some exciting new increase in costs, and improve health,” slightly slower pace this time around. Supporters say that while some pro- in Middle East & North Africa region,” launches and new ways to connect with said Dan Witters, research director for In the first three months of this year, visions may be confusing when read in said Andreas Hornung, General the Arab men and winning their hearts the poll. “The first one is clearly a win. the uninsured rate fell by 1 percent- isolation, the intent of Congress was to Manager, Beiersdorf Middle East and and minds. We are going to launch a Coverage is increasing; there is no age point. Over the same period last help consumers in every state pay their North Africa. “The Real Madrid Foundation’s main number of campaigns with Real Madrid question about it.” year there was a 1.5 percentage-point premiums. A decision in that case is The role of Football as an emotional goal is to promote values inherent in players. This day marks a new beginning decline. expected by late June. driver for Products and Brands sport, and to use sport as an educational for Nivea Men. And I congratulate Real “In MENA region football is one of tool. The Foundation believes that sport Madrid and Nivea Men on combining Subsidized private insurance From government officials to local The survey results were based on the men¥s greatest passions. That¥s is capable of contributing to the com- their PASSION FOR WINNING and becom- On balance, an estimated 14.75 volunteers, many people involved landline and cellphone interviews con- why we chose football as a platform to plete development of the personality of ing one strong team”, said Andreas million adults have gained coverage with the health care law expected ducted from Jan. 2 to March 31 with a build a stronger bond with Arab men”, those who practice it, and can serve as a Hornung. since the fall of 2013, when the law’s some kind of second-year slowdown. random sample of 43,575 adults ages remarked Andreas Hornung. tool of social integration for those exclud- The agreement with Real Madrid C. F. first open enrollment season was Open enrollment season was shorter, 18 and older. For results based on the “Real Madrid and Nivea Men have a ed from society. It also believes in pro- also marks the launch of Nivea Men about to begin, according to Gallup. and those who had remained unin- total sample, the margin of sampling lot in common. At the heart of this part- moting and spreading cultural aspects CrËme - the first all-purpose cream made “A big outstanding question is sured were seen as more skeptical error is plus or minus 1 percentage nership is our shared passion for team- traditionally linked to sport”, said Emilio especially for men’s skin. what will happen over the next cou- about the value of coverage. point. —AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 MCM organizes second annual cultural industry conference: ‘The Script’

he Mass Communication and Media addition to serving over 30 years as a critic, and The three-day film festival will be moderated by Attendees seeking a hands-on approach to twofold. First, they develop insight and Department (MCM), in conjunction with contest judge, Najiis the founder of the Arab Abdul Sattar Naji, as will several of the public film can pay a small fee to attend workshops hands-on experience of what it’s like to put Tthe student-led Media Club, at the Gulf critics’ Award at the Cannes Film Festival and talks. on documentary filmmaking or sound engi- on such a high-standard event. Second, they University for Science and Technology (GUST) author of three books on cinema. He is current- On The Script’s final day at 12:30, the non- neering for TV and Film. Workshop details and also have unprecedented access to hear from partnered with the Ministry of State for Youth ly developing his fourth book, which features profit NGO, INJAZ-Kuwait, will host a “Business registration, as well as a full schedule of the the icons that have made great strides to ele- Affairs to launch its second Cultural Industry each of the Al Shakoor Award winners and their Leaders Campaign” panel discussion featuring conference events, are available at vate the level of television, theatre, media cul- Conference entitled The Script on Sunday careers. ture in Kuwait.” evening. From April 12th to 16th, the weeklong MCM Department Chair, Dr Fahed Al-Sumait, GUST President, Dr. Donald Bates, said, conference aims to celebrate local cultural said, “We were honored to have such esteemed “What makes this event special, is that it puts icons, emerging talent, and inspire the next guests at the ceremony. It was especially touch- the spotlight on local talent. In an increasing- generation to discover their inner talents and ing to hear them speak about the legacy of the ly globalised world, we sometimes overlook appreciate the achievements of their predeces- late Ahmed Al Saleh, whom they worked with the abundance of talent and creativity around sors. The event launched with considerable for decades. Our heart-felt sympathies go out us. Therefore, I thank the Mass star-power, as actors Abdulhussain Abdulredha, to Al Saheh’s family and friends, as well as Communications Department for putting on Mohammed Al Mansour, Saad A Faraj Hayat Al everyone in society who had the pleasure of this program for our students and the general Fahad, and Souad Abdullah were honored with witnessing his many accomplishments.” public alike and for their contribution in mak- the first ever Al Shakoor Award in recognition of For the reminder of the week, The Script will ing GUST a true learning hub.” their achievements in the theatre and televi- feature a number of lectures, workshops and The MCM Department and its students are sion. The award ceremony was also used to exhibitions, which are all open to the public. organizing the conference as the second in a mark the recent passing of the late Ahmad Al Speakers include filmmaker Abdullah three-year sequence. Each annual conference Saleh, one of Kuwait’s legends in the realms of Boushahri, actor Khaled Ameen, composer Riad is dedicated to an area of emphasis within the radio, television, and theater. Al-Qabandi, Marina FM radio personalities Ali department’s Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Bestowing the award was Shaikha Al-Zain Najem and Eman Najem, theatre and cinema Mass Communication. These include Visual Al-Sabah, Undersecretary of the Ministry of specialists Dr Jamshid Malekpour and Dr. Communication, Radio and TV Broadcasting, State for Youth Affairs, who is also an active Khalefah Al Hajri, Sahar Al Lail TV series writer and Public Relations and Advertising. The pre- filmmaker and social entrepreneur. Al-Zain has Fahad Al-Olaiwa, actor Jassim Al-Nabhan, and Dr Donald Bates, Abdullah Boushehri, Mohammed Al Mansoor, Abdulhusain vious conference, “The Seen”, was held in 2014 produced and directed several award-winning actress Basma Hamada. In addition, the confer- Abdulredha, Saad Al Faraj, Al Zain Al Sabah, and Dr. Fahad Al Sumait. and focused on visual communication in news stories, feature films, short films, and pub- ence will feature a festival of Kuwaiti short films Kuwait. Next year’s conference will be dedi- lic service announcements. Abdul Sattar Naji, organized by the Creative Production film industry experts Zeyad Al Husaini, https://script.gust.edu.kw. cated to public relations and advertising. To renowned film, theater, and drama critic from Department (ADASA) at the Ministry of State for Abdullah Bushahri, Ali Al Ali and Nadia MCM Department Chair, Dr Fahed Al- follow The Script on Facebook visit Annahar Newspaper, presented tribute speech- Youth Affairs, followed by open discussions Ahmed, which will be moderated by “Launch Sumait, said, “The learning experiences our the.script.kw, or on Instagram and Twitter es for each of the lifetime award winners. In with selected actors, producers and directors. on Fire” presenter, Khalid Al Zanki. students have gained from The Script are @thescriptkw.

‘Mentor Teacher & Thinking’ Workshop at Jaber Al-Ali

By Hassan Abdel Bari tor, Khalid Al-Sager, a number of social studies teachers from the various area a ‘mental map’ to set and time various goals while preparing for a certain les- schools and Jaber Al-Ali teaching staff members. son. The workshop highly appealed to participants and occasionally and aber Al-Ali Secondary school for boys’ geography teacher and ‘Life Skills Qandeel focused on the characteristics of a good teacher noting that a actively took part responding to questions and exchanging expertise with & Education Technology’ instructor, Emaduddin Qandeel recently deliv- teacher should act more like a ‘mentor’ to his/her students. He also gave live- the lecturer. Jered a lecture and workshop titled ‘The Mentor Teacher & Drills on ly examples of how to make a lesson more interesting for students and break Notably, teacher Emad Qandeel was selected and honored as ‘Outstanding Thinking’ at the school theatre. The workshop was attended by school direc- the monotony in class. In addition, Qandeel stressed the importance of using Teacher’ in 2010.

ASSE Kuwait commemorates World Health Day 2015

merican Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Kuwait Kuwait and the ASSE Kuwait Chapter Advisory Board mem- acclaimed the support of Dr. Ahmad Al Shatti to ASSE blood sugar, blood pressure, LFT and body mass index. Chapter is a premier voluntary, non-profit making ber, in his address, emphasized on the Theme “How Safe is Kuwait chapter from its inception. The Health Program was followed by a technical session AHealth, Safety and Environmental organization, your Food: from Farm to Plate, Make Food Safe”. He also Jignesh Shah, Head of Occupational Health & on “The Power of Spatial Analysis in Incident Management which strives to provide professional guidance, training, expressed the concern on Obesity amounts in the commu- Environment Committee, briefed on the theme “Food Systems “sponsored by Openware. The Technical Meet consultancy and resources to the industrial and social sec- nity of Kuwait. Safety” and importance of the World Health day 2015. He began with the welcome address by Ritesh Gupta, Head of tors in the region. Later delegates from Occupational Health Department, also introduced the speaker Dr. Mohan Rao, Sr. Physician in Technical Events Committee introduced the speaker Nikhil As a part of continuous efforts in its professional journey, Ministry of Health, announced that Sheikhs Fareieha A— Occupational Health Department of KNPC who has pre- Patki Senior GIS Consultant at Openware. Nikhil in his pres- ASSE-Kuwait Chapter commemorated the world Health day Sabah, Foundation of tolerance and Peace have recognized sented a health awareness session on “Significance of entation emphasized on Geographic information solution, 2015 on 7th April 2015. The event was organized in Safir and honored Dr. Ahmad Al Shatti with ‘The Ambassador of Vitamin D”. its essentiality in the complete lifecycle of incident man- Hotel Fintas where the ASSE Kuwait Chapter Act. Secretary Tolerance and Peace’. This has enthralled the audience and Later, Ali Hassan, Club Manager from KOC Sports Centre agement; from call-routing to the appropriate depart- Dinesh Dutta initiated the proceedings and Sampath Reddy was welcomed as with laud of applause. Dr. Shatti was demonstrated fitness exercise for the audience and was ments, identifying the location of the emergency, ensuring Act President of the chapter gave the welcome address. felicitated with a memento on this occasion by the founda- well appreciated. public safety first responders get to the right incident at The chief guest Dr. Ahmad Al Shatti, Director, tion. Shuaiba Industrial Medical Centre (SIMC) facilitated the right time, to providing valuable incident situational Occupational Health department of Ministry of Health ASSE Advisory committee member Mr. Ashok Garlapati, health checkup facilities for the audience to check their awareness etc. Football tournament Trishna quiz competition on Friday oung Shooters Abbassiya Football Club organizing a one day football tournament on Friday 17th April he 9th edition of Trishna, the annu- The 2nd session exclusively ear- Runner up), Mohsin Mustafa and Rohan 2015 at Public Authority for Youth and Sports al quiz competition organized by marked for the KEF children and family Saji John (2nd Runner up shared) Y the National Institute of Calicut, members consisting of 8 constituent Top three positions (Ladies): Sudha ground Mishref. Where 18 teams will be participating from T Alumni Association, Kuwait (NITCAA alumni associations will start with the Eleswarapu, Lovely Sasidharan and all over Kuwait. Indian Embassy Official & prominent Kuwait) Chapter for the Indian schools in registration of the teams at 1.45 pm. Sabiha Bilgrami. Top three positions Kuwaiti personalities will be attending as guests. As part Kuwait and Kuwait Engineers Forum The entry to the auditorium is free (Schools - 8th standard & above): Mohsin of this mega event we invite all of our Indian community Family members will be conducted on and all the quiz lovers are welcome. Mustafa (FAIPS), R.Vijai Krishnan (FAIPS) to be part of this. 17th April at Cambridge School and Sanjay Samuel Mathew (Gulf Indian Auditorium, Mangaf. The quizzing wizard School). of Karnataka Quiz Association, Bangalore, Top three positions (Schools - up to What’s On - Submission Guidelines India, Arun Hiregange who mesmerized 7th standard): Rohan Saji John (FAIPS), MGM office bearers the quiz enthusiasts last year, will be the Aaron John Thomas (FAIPS) and Jason Quiz Master this time also. The competi- Elijah Miranda (Don Bosco). All photos submitted for What’s On ar Gregorious Memorial Higher Secondary School tion is conducted in 2 sessions. In the Best Participating schools (Based on (Kuwait Chapter Alumni) elected its office bearers: KS should be minimum 200dpi. morning session school level competi- total score of top five participants of each MVarghese (patron), Ajith Jacob (president), Renju Vengal tion will be held which will start at 7.45 school): (1) Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Articles must be in plain text and (Gen secretary), Kavitha Jose, Susheel Chakko (vice presidents), am with the registration of children fol- (Pvt) School (FAIPS), (2) Gulf Indian should include name and phone Manoj Abraham (treasurer), Aipe Puthuppallil (joint secretary), lowed by a preliminary written test for School, and (3) United Indian School. Jose P Joseph (joint treasurer). Mar Gregorious Memorial Higher the participating teams. Youngest participant: Diya Desh (DOB numbers. Articles and photos that Secondary School Foundation stone was laid by Peshkar V. The qualifying teams in junior and 01/01/2005) fail to meet these requirements will Nagamayya in the presence of Saint Mar Gregorios or Parumala senior level have separate competition Shakir Reshamwala The prize distribution for the winners Thirumeni, (Saint & Bishop of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian spanning duration of 1.30 hours each. will be held on Friday, 17th April 2015 not be published. Orthodox Church). The school started functioning with five The winning teams will be presented Maha Quizzer ME Kuwait during Trishna 9, a mega Quiz event for teachers and 78 students. It was established on 14th January with attractive prizes immediately after The following are the winners in dif- the Indian Schools as well as for the KEF Please send them to 1903 and owned by Kodiyattu Jacob Kathanar, Chalakuzhiyil the school level competition. All the ferent categories: Family, at Cambridge English School, [email protected] Mammen Paulose, Kandathil Varghese Mappila, Advocate Eapen major Indian schools in Kuwait have Top three positions - (Open category): Mangaf. The complete rank list and the KM Mammen Mappila. At present, almost 4000 students are enrolled their children for this coveted Shakir Reshamwala (MahaQuizzer ME questions with answer keys are available studying the school. competition. 2015), Debanjan Bhattacharya (1st at www.nitcaakuwait.org. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Movenpick Hotel & Resort Al Bida’a cooks up a World Health Day feast for children

eing healthy isn’t just about staying in children, in cooperation with the British School of In addition, the kids also learned how to create whole-wheat snake-shaped tortillas, pancakes healthy foods,” said Emmanuel Thomas. “It really is shape, it’s also about engaging youngsters Kuwait. This fun and exciting cooking class was delicious, wholesome lunchboxes, snacks and and sandwiches in the form of kitty cats, caterpil- beneficial to expose kids to healthy foods in the Bin fun, interactive initiatives to acquire a conducted by the resort’s executive chef, dishes. lars and birds, as well as other fun and creative most positive way possible. Developing behaviors taste for a healthy lifestyle. Emmanuel Thomas, who demonstrated two “Power Bites” is Movenpick’s special menu for recipes. and habits at this age is very crucial.” The cooking On the occasion of World Health Day on 7 healthy recipes to 10 students from the British kids, featuring nutritious meals that are present- “Teaching children cooking and getting them class took place at the hotel’s breathtaking pri- April, Movenpick Hotel & Resort Al Bida’a Kuwait School of Kuwait. These students came especially ed in a fun and entertaining way. The menu involved in the kitchen from an early age can help vate beach, where the children had a great time has organised the “Power Bites” cooking class for to learn the basics of healthy cooking and living. includes clown pizzas, flavoured organic yoghurt, them make the right choices when it comes to enjoying the amazing spring weather.

It was a glorious moment on Saturday at the Life Abundant International Church in Kuwait City as families, friends and well-wishers gathered to celebrate with Isaac and Grace as they join hands in holy wed- lock. May God guide you (Isaac and Grace) and crown all your efforts with success amen. —Photos by Sherif Ismail

Future Eye Theatre, Kuwait celebrates fifth anniversary

elebrated Indian theatre director about the fifth anniversary celebra- the best actress award in the competi- society in Kerala. As the protagonist and dramaturge Sankar tions. tion. faces off the evil around him, he drifts CVentakeswaran inaugurated the General Convener Govind Santha Future Eye Theatre member Geetha into a world of virtue goodness and fifth anniversary celebration of Future welcomed the gathering and Ladies Nair was presented a farewell memen- fantasy. Eye Theatre, Kuwait at a glittering cer- Wing convener Rajeshwari to as a token of appreciation by The cast includes Govind Santha, emony at the Indian Community Subbaraman proposed a vote of Deepak L B Nair. A video CD compris- Vattiyoorkavu Krishnakumar, Liva School (Senior), Salmiya on Friday thanks. ing her poems was also released on Maria, Remya Ratheesh, Praveen evening. Kerala Sangeetha Nataka General convener A R Subbaraman the occasion. Dr Prathap Unnithan Aduthila, Subbaraman A R, Akademi Kuwait Chapter Chairman honored Babu Chakola with a memen- anchored the event. Aneeshkumar Adoor, Jithesh Nair, Vijay Karayil attended the celebration to for winning Kerala Sangeetha Following the inaugural session, Alma Treesa, Sunil K Cherian and as the guest of honor and briefly Nataka Akademi’s prestigious Kalashri Future Eye Theatre presented its Shreya Sajeev. The drama’s artistic addressed the gathering. Ceasars Award in 2014. Sunil K Cherian was fourth production ‘Puzhayil, Ilayil, Oru director is Shemejkumar K K, assistant Travel Group CEO P N J Kumar joined honored by Praveen Aduthila for win- Urumpu’ which was written by Sunil K director is Dr Prthap Unnithan, chore- the office-bearers in lighting the lamp. ning best script writer award in this Cherian and directed by Sajeev K ographer is Sherly Thomas and music Future Eye Theatre president Sajeev year’s Gulf pravasi theatre competition Peter. director is Deepak L B Nair. The light K Peter presided over the meeting organized by the KSNA. Treesa Wilson The play portrays the existential and sound for the drama was provided while programme Convener and vice was presented a memento by angst of a Gulf returnee and his strug- by Varghese Paul while Paul president Shemej Kumar K K spoke Rajeshwari Subbaraman for bagging gle with a hostile neighbor and the Chamayam did the makeup. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

09:45 How It’s Made 11:25 Jessie 02:55 Coronation Street 10:10 How It’s Made 11:50 Jessie 03:25 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 10:35 Gold Rush 12:15 Austin & Ally 04:20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 11:25 Gold Divers 12:40 Austin & Ally 05:15 The Chase 12:15 Alaska: The Last Frontier 13:05 Good Luck Charlie 06:00 Midsomer Murders 00:25 Watson & Oliver 13:05 Storage Hunters 13:30 Good Luck Charlie 07:30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 00:55 Eastenders 13:30 Dukes Of Haggle 14:00 Gravity Falls 08:25 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 01:25 Doctors 13:55 Storage Wars Canada 14:20 H2O: Just Add Water 09:20 Coach Trip 01:55 DCI Banks: Aftermath 14:20 Alaska: The Last Frontier 14:55 Liv And Maddie 09:45 Coach Trip 02:40 DCI Banks: Aftermath 15:10 Wheeler Dealers 15:20 Binny And The Ghost 10:15 May The Best House Win 03:25 Mistresses 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 15:45 Girl Meets World 11:10 Emmerdale 04:15 The Weakest Link 16:50 How It’s Made 16:10 Violetta 11:35 Emmerdale 05:00 Show Me Show Me 17:15 How It’s Made 17:00 Gravity Falls 12:00 Coronation Street 05:25 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n 17:40 Troy 17:25 Hank Zipzer 12:30 The Chase Roll 18:30 Bear Grylls: Escape From 17:50 Binny And The Ghost 13:15 May The Best House Win 05:45 Boogie Beebies Hell 18:15 Jessie 14:05 Midsomer Murders 06:00 Gigglebiz 19:20 Survive That! 18:40 Gravity Falls 15:35 Coach Trip 06:15 Show Me Show Me 20:10 Dukes Of Haggle 19:05 H2O: Just Add Water 16:00 Coach Trip 06:40 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n 20:35 Storage Wars Canada 19:30 Violetta 16:30 Vera Roll 21:00 Bear Grylls: Breaking Point 20:20 Binny And The Ghost 18:20 The Chase 07:00 Boogie Beebies 21:50 Survive That! 20:45 H2O: Just Add Water 19:10 Coronation Street 07:15 The Weakest Link 22:40 Tethered 21:10 Good Luck Charlie 19:35 Coach Trip 08:00 The Stephen K Amos Show 23:30 Troy 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 20:00 Coach Trip 08:30 2 Point 4 Children 22:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 20:30 Vera 09:00 Eastenders 22:25 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 22:20 Coronation Street 09:30 Doctors Teenage Witch 22:50 Emmerdale 10:00 Drop Zone 22:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 23:15 Emmerdale 10:50 The Weakest Link Teenage Witch 23:45 May The Best House Win 11:35 The Cafe 23:10 Wolfblood 12:00 The Stephen K Amos Show 00:05 How It’s Made 23:35 Wolfblood 12:30 2 Point 4 Children 00:30 Moon Machines 13:00 Eastenders 01:20 How Do They Do It? 13:30 Doctors 01:45 How Do They Do It? 14:00 Drop Zone 02:10 Through The Wormhole With 14:50 Doctor Who Morgan Freeman 00:00 Wild Russia 15:55 The Stephen K Amos Show 00:00 Who Wore It Better? 03:00 Food Factory 01:00 Banged Up Abroad 16:25 The Weakest Link 00:30 Who Wore It Better? 03:24 Food Factory 02:00 Armageddon Outfitters 17:10 Eastenders 00:55 The Soup 03:48 Battle Factory 03:00 Megastructures 17:40 Doctors 01:25 Kourtney And Khloe Take 04:12 Battle Factory 04:00 Money Meltdown 18:10 Drop Zone The Hamptons 04:36 Sport Science 04:30 Money Meltdown 19:00 Hebburn 02:20 E! News 05:24 Moon Machines 05:00 Family Guns 19:30 Jam And Jerusalem 03:15 Escape Club 06:12 How It’s Made 06:00 Years of Living Dangerously 20:00 Pride And Prejudice 04:10 E!ES 06:36 How It’s Made 07:00 Wild Indonesia 20:55 Mistresses 05:05 E!ES 07:00 Prank Science 08:00 Wild Russia 21:45 The Turn Of The Screw 06:00 Kourtney And Kim Take 07:25 Gadget Show - World Tour 09:00 Banged Up Abroad 23:15 The Weakest Link Miami 07:50 Superships 10:00 Armageddon Outfitters 06:55 Kourtney And Kim Take 08:40 Food Factory 11:00 Clash Of The Continents Miami 09:05 Food Factory 12:00 Beyond Magic with DMC 07:50 Style Star 09:30 Battle Factory 13:00 China’s Great Wall 08:20 E! News 09:55 Battle Factory 14:00 America The Wild 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 10:20 Moon Machines 15:00 Apocalypse: The Second 10:15 Giuliana & Bill 11:10 How Do They Do It? World War 00:30 Come Dine With Me 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 11:35 How Do They Do It? 16:00 Crash Science 01:20 Masterchef: The 11:35 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 12:00 Prank Science 17:00 Air Crash Investigation Professionals 12:05 E! News 12:25 Gadget Show - World Tour 18:00 Years of Living Dangerously 01:45 Antiques Roadshow 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 12:50 Superships 19:00 Apocalypse: The Second 02:40 Come Dine With Me 13:35 E!ES 13:40 How It’s Made World War 03:05 Baking Made Easy 14:30 Style Star 14:05 How It’s Made 20:00 Crash Science 03:30 Beat My Build 15:00 Keeping Up With The 14:30 Battle Factory 21:00 Air Crash Investigation 04:20 Food Glorious Food Kardashians 14:55 Battle Factory 22:00 Years of Living Dangerously 05:05 Come Dine With Me 16:00 Keeping Up With The 15:20 Through The Wormhole With 23:00 Clash Of The Continents 05:50 Masterchef: The Morgan Freeman Kardashians Professionals 16:10 How Do They Do It? 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 06:20 Extreme Makeover: Home 16:35 How Do They Do It? 18:00 Christina Milian Turned Up Edition 17:00 Moon Machines 19:00 E!ES 07:00 Antiques Roadshow 17:50 Sport Science 20:00 Fashion Bloggers 07:55 Come Dine With Me 18:40 Food Factory 20:30 Fashion Bloggers 08:20 Beat My Build 19:05 Food Factory 21:00 House Of DVF 00:00 Enlisted 09:05 The Restaurant Inspector 19:30 Superhuman Science 22:00 Fashion Police 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 09:50 Come Dine With Me 19:55 Superhuman Science 23:00 Keeping Up With The Stewart 10:40 Masterchef: The 20:20 The World’s Strangest UFO Kardashians 01:00 Last Week Tonight With John Professionals Stories Oliver 11:05 Baking Made Easy 21:10 How Do They Do It? 01:35 Girls 11:30 Antiques Roadshow 21:35 How Do They Do It? 02:00 Silicon Valley 12:25 Come Dine With Me 22:00 Superhuman Science 02:30 Togetherness 12:50 Beat My Build 22:25 Superhuman Science 03:00 Cristela 04:00 Two And A Half Men 13:40 The Restaurant Inspector 22:50 Through The Wormhole With 00:30 Guy’s Big Bite 14:25 Come Dine With Me Morgan Freeman 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 01:00 Barefoot Contessa - Specials Jimmy Fallon 15:10 Masterchef: The 23:40 How It’s Made 02:00 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco Professionals 06:30 My Boys 02:30 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 15:40 Baking Made Easy 03:00 Guy’s Big Bite 16:05 Antiques Roadshow 08:00 Two And A Half Men 03:30 Guy’s Grocery Games 09:00 Cristela 17:00 Come Dine With Me 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 17:25 Beat My Build 09:30 About A Boy 05:00 Chopped 10:30 My Boys 18:15 Beat My Build 06:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 00:00 Violetta 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 06:00 Heaven Is For Real-PG 21:00 My 600lb Life: Where Are 10:00 Sofia The First 19:00 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 06:30 Siba’s Table 00:45 The Hive Jimmy Fallon 08:00 Summoned-PG15 They Now? 10:25 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West Notebook: Cosmo Cook 07:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 12:30 Two And A Half Men 10:00 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers 21:50 Mormon Half Love 10:55 Calimero 19:30 Bill’s Kitchen: Notting Hill 07:30 Roadtrip With G. Garvin Teenage Witch 13:00 My Boys II-PG 22:40 America’s Worst Tattoos 11:10 Jake And The Never Land 19:55 Baking Made Easy 08:00 Chopped 00:00 S.O.S. Mulheres Ao Mar 01:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 13:30 My Boys 12:00 Safe-PG15 23:05 90 Days To Wed Pirates 20:20 Masterchef: The 09:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 02:00 Freeloaders Teenage Witch 14:30 About A Boy 14:00 High Moon-PG15 23:55 My 600lb Life: Where Are 11:35 Limon And Oli Professionals Basics 04:00 Stand Off 01:40 Wolfblood 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 16:00 Summoned-PG15 They Now? 11:45 Loopdidoo 21:15 Antiques Roadshow 09:30 Farm Kings 06:00 Your Love Never Fails 02:05 Wolfblood Stewart 18:00 Vehicle 19-PG15 12:00 Justin Time 22:05 Come Dine With Me 10:30 The Big Eat... 08:00 Madea’s Witness Protection 02:30 Violetta 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 20:00 Life Of Crime-PG15 12:15 Sofia The First 22:35 Baking Mad With Eric 11:00 Mexican Made Easy 10:00 Surviving Christmas 03:15 The Hive 18:00 Community 22:00 Jackass Presents: Bad 12:45 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Lanlard 11:30 Chopped 12:00 She-Devil 03:20 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 18:30 Til Death Grandpa-18 13:10 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 23:00 Beat My Build 12:30 Siba’s Table 14:00 Syrup Teenage Witch 19:00 The Simpsons 13:35 Zou 23:45 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite 16:00 Madea’s Witness Protection 03:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 19:30 Marry Me 13:50 Jake And The Neverland Notebook: Cosmo Cook 13:30 Guy’s Big Bite 18:00 28 Days 03:00 Extreme Forensics Teenage Witch 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring Pirates 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:00 Bachelorette 03:45 Dates From Hell 04:10 Wolfblood Jimmy Fallon 00:00 Top 14 Highlights 14:15 Doc McStuffins 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:00 The Parole Officer 04:07 Dates From Hell 04:35 Wolfblood 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 07:00 Golfing World 14:45 Limon And Oli 15:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 04:30 I Faked My Own Death 05:00 Violetta Stewart 08:00 The Masters 14:55 Loopdidoo 16:00 Chopped 05:20 True Crime With 05:45 The Hive 21:30 Hot In Cleveland 13:30 Golfing World 15:10 Sofia The First 17:00 Guy’s Big Bite Aphrodite Jones 05:50 Mouk 22:00 The League 14:30 Top 14 Highlights 15:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 17:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 06:10 On The Case With Paula 00:20 Fast N’ Loud 06:00 Dog With A Blog 22:30 Veep 15:00 Super Rugby Highlights 16:00 Cars Toons 18:00 Siba’s Table Zahn 01:10 Gold Rush 06:25 Binny And The Ghost 23:00 Friends With Better Lives 01:00 Playing For Keeps-PG15 18:00 Golfing World 16:05 Lilo & Stitch 18:30 The Big Eat... 07:00 Deadly Affairs 02:00 Gold Divers 06:50 Girl Meets World 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 03:00 Hateship Loveship-PG15 19:00 NRL Full Time 16:30 Adventures Of The 19:00 Chopped 07:50 Fatal Encounters 02:50 Alaska: The Last Frontier 07:15 H2O: Just Add Water 05:00 Lost Christmas-PG15 19:30 Top 14 Highlights Gummi Bears 20:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 08:40 Murder Shift 03:40 Storage Hunters 07:40 Jessie 07:00 Five Thirteen-PG15 22:00 IndyCar Highlights 17:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 21:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:30 I Was Murdered 04:05 Dukes Of Haggle 08:05 Wizards Of Waverly Place 09:00 Upside Down-PG15 Rangers 21:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:55 Stalked: Someone’s 04:30 Storage Wars Canada 08:30 Wizards Of Waverly Place 11:00 Lost Christmas-PG15 17:25 Ducktales 05:00 How It’s Made Watching 18:00 Art Attack 08:55 Austin & Ally 08:00 Rake 13:00 The Good Witch’s Wedding 10:20 Forensic Detectives 05:30 How It’s Made 15:00 Step Up Revolution-PG15 18:30 Sofia The First 09:20 Austin & Ally 12:00 Emmerdale 03:00 Live WWE Raw 11:10 True Crime With 06:00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 17:00 Upside Down-PG15 18:55 Cars Toons 09:45 Gravity Falls 12:30 Coronation Street 07:00 IndyCar Series Aphrodite Jones 06:50 Wheeler Dealers 19:00 The Factory-PG15 19:00 The Adventures Of Disney 10:10 Gravity Falls 14:00 Rake 10:00 AFL Premiership 12:00 Blood Relatives 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 21:00 Capital-PG15 Fairies 10:35 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:00 Emmerdale 11:00 NRL Premiership 12:50 On The Case With Paula 08:30 Storage Hunters 00:35 Midsomer Murders 23:00 The Place Beyond The 19:30 Jake And The Never Land Teenage Witch 16:30 Coronation Street 14:30 WWE This Week Zahn 08:55 Dukes Of Haggle 02:00 Emmerdale Pines-18 Pirates 11:00 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 18:00 Rake 15:00 WWE Raw 13:40 Who On Earth Did I 09:20 Storage Wars Canada Teenage Witch 02:25 Emmerdale 19:45 Doc McStuffins 19:00 Criminal Minds 18:00 WWE Experience Marry? 20:00 Adventures Of The 20:00 Bones 19:00 WWE Afterburn 14:05 Who On Earth Did I Gummi Bears 21:00 The Voice 20:00 WWE Raw Marry? 20:30 Sofia The First 23:00 NRL Full Time 14:30 True Crime With 20:55 Cars Toons 23:30 Top 14 Highlights Aphrodite Jones 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 00:45 The French Connection II 15:20 I Was Murdered 03:00 Beautiful Creatures Rangers 15:45 Stalked: Someone’s 21:30 Ducktales 04:30 The Armstrong Lie Watching 06:45 Up Close And Personal 22:00 Lilo & Stitch 16:10 Murder Shift 22:25 Art Attack 01:00 Good Morning America 09:00 Swing Kids 17:00 Blood Relatives 11:00 The French Connection II 22:55 Limon And Oli 03:00 Grimm 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 17:50 Fatal Encounters 23:05 Zou 05:00 Good Morning America 13:00 Escape From Polygamy 02:00 Indian Premier League H/L : 18:40 Forensic Detectives 14:30 Up Close And Personal 23:20 Mouk 07:00 Emmerdale RCB v SH 19:30 On The Case With Paula 23:35 Jungle Junction 07:30 Coronation Street 16:45 Swing Kids 13:30 Live Indian Premier League : Zahn 18:45 I Am Sam 23:50 Art Attack 09:00 Royal Pains RR v MI 20:20 The Will 00:15 Julius Jr. 10:00 Emmerdale 21:00 Fruitvale Station 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 21:10 Who On Earth Did I 22:30 Cadillac Records 00:30 Calimero 10:30 Coronation Street 17:30 Live Indian Premier League : Marry? 00:45 Henry Hugglemonster 12:00 Covert Affairs KKR v CSK 21:35 Who On Earth Did I 01:00 Zou 13:00 The Fosters 21:00 Indian Premier League H/L : Marry? 01:15 Jungle Junction 14:00 Live Good Morning America KKR v RCB 22:00 Stalked: Someone’s 01:25 Art Attack 16:00 Royal Pains 22:00 Indian Premier League RPT : Watching 01:00 The Love Punch-PG15 01:50 Julius Jr. 17:00 Covert Affairs RR v MI 22:25 Stalked: Someone’s 02:00 Calimero 18:00 The Fosters 03:00 At Middleton-PG15 Watching 05:00 Admission-PG15 02:15 Henry Hugglemonster 19:00 Royal Pains 22:50 Double Cross 02:25 Zou 20:00 Covert Affairs 07:00 Frozen-PG 23:40 Dates From Hell 09:00 Thor: The Dark World-PG15 02:40 Mouk 22:00 Grimm 00:05 Dates From Hell 02:50 Jungle Junction 23:00 The Assets 11:00 47 Ronin-PG15 00:30 Blood Relatives 13:00 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 01:20 Disappeared 15:00 The Last Days On Mars 02:10 Stalked: Someone’s 17:00 Thor: The Dark World-PG15 00:45 Secret Eskimo Escape Watching 19:00 Enough Said-PG15 01:35 America’s Worst Tattoos 21:00 I Give It A Year-PG15 02:00 90 Days To Wed 00:00 Conan The Barbarian 23:00 About Last Night-18 02:50 Say Yes To The Dress 02:00 Dead In Tombstone 03:15 Something Borrowed, 00:20 Built For The Kill 04:00 Mission To Mars Something New 01:10 The Phantom Cat 03:40 Driving Me Crazy 06:00 Judge Dredd 02:00 Africa’s Blood River 04:30 Cake Boss 08:00 R.I.P.D. 02:50 Dangerous Encounters 05:00 Little People, Big World 03:00 Art Attack 10:00 Mission To Mars 03:45 Python Hunters 05:30 Extreme Couponing 03:25 Julius Jr. 12:00 The Package 00:45 Speed Racer 04:40 Caught In The Act 03:00 Barbie In The Nutcracker 06:00 18 Kids And Counting 03:35 Calimero 14:00 Darkman 04:30 Stuart Little 3: Call Of The 06:25 Randy To The Rescue 03:50 Henry Hugglemonster 05:35 Africa’s Blood River 16:00 R.I.P.D. Wild 07:15 The Next Great Baker 04:00 Zou 06:30 Dangerous Encounters 18:00 Stash House 06:00 Shark Bait 08:55 Secrets Of The High Street 04:15 Mouk 07:25 Python Hunters 20:00 Snake Eyes 08:00 The Happy Cricket 09:20 Secrets Of The High Street 04:25 Jungle Junction 08:20 Yukon Vet 09:45 Cake Boss 21:45 Star Trek Into Darkness 09:45 Barbie As The Princess And 04:35 Art Attack 09:15 Outback Wrangler 10:10 Little People, Big World The Pauper 05:00 Julius Jr. 10:10 Killer Shots 10:35 Extreme Couponing 05:10 Calimero 11:15 Justin And The Knights Of 11:05 Wild Survivor 11:00 Toddlers & Tiaras 05:25 Henry Hugglemonster The Valour 12:00 Shark Men 13:00 Barbie In The Nutcracker 11:50 Secrets Of The High Street 05:35 Zou 14:30 Casper’s Scare School 12:15 Secrets Of The High Street 05:50 Mouk 12:55 Dead Or Alive 12:40 Randy To The Rescue 13:50 Dangerous Encounters 00:00 Dead In Tombstone-18 16:00 Hatching 06:00 Jungle Junction 13:30 Oprah’s Lifeclass 06:10 Art Attack 14:45 Python Hunters 02:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 18:00 Barbie As The Princess And The Pauper 14:20 Oprah’s Next Chapter 06:35 Julius Jr. 15:40 Yukon Vet 04:00 Judge Dredd-PG15 15:10 Cake Boss 20:00 Postman Pat: The Movie 06:45 Calimero 16:35 Fish Warrior 06:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 15:35 Little People, Big World 22:00 Casper’s Scare School 07:00 Jungle Junction 17:30 Freaks & Creeps 08:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 16:00 Toddlers & Tiaras 07:15 Zou 23:30 Hatching 18:25 Cameramen Who Dare 10:00 The Package-PG15 16:50 Say Yes To The Dress 07:30 Calimero 19:20 Python Hunters 12:00 Darkman-PG15 17:15 Something Borrowed, 07:45 Loopdidoo Something New 20:10 Yukon Vet 14:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 08:00 Limon And Oli 17:40 18 Kids And Counting 21:00 Fish Warrior 16:00 Stash House-PG15 08:10 Jake And The Never Land 18:05 Extreme Couponing Pirates 21:50 Freaks & Creeps 18:00 Snake Eyes-PG15 00:00 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers I 18:30 What Not To Wear 08:35 Doc McStuffins 22:40 Cameramen Who Dare 19:45 Star Trek Into Darkness 02:00 Last Passenger-PG15 19:20 Kate Plus 8 09:05 Art Attack 23:30 Shark Men DEAD IN TOMBSTONE ON OSN ACTION MOVIES HD 22:00 Shaolin-PG15 04:00 Safe-PG15 20:10 Randy To The Rescue 09:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Classifieds

TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (09/04/2015 TO 15/04/2015)

SHARQIA-1 BROKEN HORSES 12:45 AM SKIN TRADE 2:30 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 7:30 PM CINDERELLA 1:00 PM HOME 4:30 PM A LITTLE CHAOS 10:15 PM THE COBBLER 3:15 PM FANAR-3 HOME 6:30 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 12:45 AM CINDERELLA 5:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:30 AM SKIN TRADE 8:30 PM CINDERELLA 7:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 2:00 PM SKIN TRADE 10:30 PM AVENUES-11 THE COBBLER 9:45 PM HOME 4:30 PM SKIN TRADE 12:30 AM HOME 11:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:45 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 3:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 1:30 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 6:30 PM AVENUES-3 FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:15 PM SHARQIA-2 THU+ FRI+MON CINDERELLA 11:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:45 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 6:45 PM CINDERELLA 2:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 2:15 PM NO THU+ FRI+MON CINDERELLA 4:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:45 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 9:30 PM CINDERELLA 7:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:30 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 9:30 PM 360º- 1 FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:05 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 1:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:45 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 3:45 PM FANAR-4 AVENUES-4 FAST & FURIOUS 7 6:30 PM SHARQIA-3 FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:15 PM SKIN TRADE 12:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 2:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 2:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:05 AM SKIN TRADE 2:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 5:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:45 PM JUNGLE MASTER 2:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:45 PM Special Show “FAST & FURIOUS 7” 5:00 PM 360º- 2 JUNGLE MASTER 4:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:30 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 11:45 AM SKIN TRADE 6:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:45 AM Special Show “CINDERELLA” 7:30 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 2:15 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 8:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:15 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 4:45 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 10:15 PM FANAR-5 FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:45 AM THE LONGEST RIDE 7:15 PM SKIN TRADE 12:30 AM SKIN TRADE 1:00 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 9:45 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 3:00 PM AVENUES-5 THE LONGEST RIDE 12:15 AM MUHALAB-1 SKIN TRADE 5:30 PM CINDERELLA 12:30 PM CINDERELLA 12:30 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 7:30 PM CINDERELLA 3:00 PM 36º- 3 CINDERELLA 2:45 PM KUWAITI SHORT FILMS (Arabic) 10:00 PM CINDERELLA 5:30 PM THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT1:00 PM CINDERELLA 5:00 PM SKIN TRADE 12:05 AM Special Show “CINDERELLA” 5:15 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 3:30 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 7:15 PM CINDERELLA 8:00 PM THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT3:30 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 9:30 PM MARINA-1 ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 10:30 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 6:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:45 PM CINDERELLA 12:15 PM SKIN TRADE 1:00 AM THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT6:30 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 2:45 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 9:30 PM MUHALAB-2 CINDERELLA 5:00 PM AVENUES-6 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT9:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:30 AM CINDERELLA 7:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 PM NO THU+FRI+MON SKIN TRADE 2:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 9:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 3:15 PM THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT12:30 AM HOME 2:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 11:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 6:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 8:45 PM AL-KOUT.1 S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 4:00 PM MARINA-2 FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:30 AM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 7:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 1:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 2:00 PM able visa, looking for a job S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 3:45 PM AVENUES-7 FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:30 PM SITUATION VACANT of an accountant. Can join SKIN TRADE 1:00 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 6:30 PM BROKEN HORSES 11:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:00 PM SKIN TRADE 8:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:15 PM BROKEN HORSES 1:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:45 PM immediately. Contact FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:05 AM BROKEN HORSES 3:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM Driver needed for Kuwaiti 50541464 SKIN TRADE 12:30 AM KUWAITI SHORT FILMS (Arabic) 5:30 PM family, fulltime or part- (C 4966) MARINA-3 KUWAITI SHORT FILMS (Arabic) 8:00 PM AL-KOUT.2 time. Call 60623330. 12-4-2015 MUHALAB-3 THE COBBLER 11:30 AM BROKEN HORSES 10:15 PM BROKEN HORSES 11:45 AM (C 4967) JUNGLE MASTER 11:45 AM THE COBBLER 1:30 PM BROKEN HORSES 12:30 AM CINDERELLA 1:45 PM 13-4-2015 CHANGE OF NAME FAST & FURIOUS 7 1:45 PM THE COBBLER 3:30 PM BROKEN HORSES 4:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:15 PM NO FRI+SAT+MON AVENUES-8 CINDERELLA 6:00 PM Accountant:Young & I, Burhanuddin Ujramama, FAST & FURIOUS 7 6:45 PM JUNGLE MASTER 3:30 PM THE COBBLER 11:45 AM CINDERELLA 8:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:30 PM JUNGLE MASTER 5:30 PM THE COBBLER 1:45 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 10:30 PM dynamic B. Com. Graduate holder of Indian Passport FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:15 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:30 PM THE COBBLER 4:00 PM BROKEN HORSES 12:45 AM (1st Class) of 28 years, hav- No. F6534066, issued in THE COBBLER 10:15 PM THE COBBLER 6:15 PM ing good accounts knowl- Jaipur on 01/03/2006, FANAR-1 THE COBBLER 12:15 AM THEEB (Arabic) 8:30 PM AL-KOUT.3 edge, worked in India and change my name to JUNGLE MASTER 11:30 AM THE COBBLER 10:45 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 12:30 PM last 4 years working in Burhanuddin Mohammedi. THE LONGEST RIDE 1:15 PM AVENUES-1 THE COBBLER 1:00 AM SKIN TRADE 3:00 PM Kuwait, having transfer- 12-4-2015 JUNGLE MASTER 3:45 PM JUNGLE MASTER 12:00 PM THE LONGEST RIDE 5:15 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 5:30 PM JUNGLE MASTER 2:00 PM AVENUES-9 THE LONGEST RIDE 7:45 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 7:45 PM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 4:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 1:00 PM SKIN TRADE 10:15 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 10:00 PM JUNGLE MASTER 4:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 3:15 PM SKIN TRADE 12:15 AM Prayer timings THE LONGEST RIDE 12:15 AM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 7:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 5:30 PM THE CANAL 6:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 7:45 PM AL-KOUT.4 Fajr: 04:01 FANAR-2 THE CANAL 8:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:45 PM CINDERELLA 11:45 AM S/O SATYAMURTHY- Telugu 10:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 12:15 AM JUNGLE MASTER 1:30 PM Shorook 05:24 CINDERELLA 2:00 PM RUN ALL NIGHT 10:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 3:15 PM Duhr: 11:49 BROKEN HORSES 4:15 PM RUN ALL NIGHT 1:00 AM AVENUES-10 JUNGLE MASTER 5:30 PM CINDERELLA 6:15 PM A LITTLE CHAOS 12:00 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 7:30 PM Asr: 15:23 CINDERELLA 8:30 PM AVENUES-2 THE LONGEST RIDE 2:30 PM KUWAITI SHORT FILMS (Arabic) 9:30 PM Maghrib: 18:12 BROKEN HORSES 10:45 PM SKIN TRADE 12:30 PM A LITTLE CHAOS 5:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:45 PM Isha: 19:32

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Arrival Flights on Tuesday 14/4/2015 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 Departure Flights on Tuesday 14/4/2015 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 Airlines Flt Route Time FDB 057 Dubai 14:20 Airlines Flt Route Time IZG 4172 Shiraz 14:30 QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 BBC 143 Dhaka 00:05 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:55 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:25 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 THY 772 Istanbul 00:15 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 FDB 072 Dubai 00:30 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 JZR 239 Amman 00:20 OMA 645 Muscat 15:05 PIA 206 Lahore 00:40 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 KLM 411 Amsterdam 00:55 KAC 673 Dubai 15:20 FDB 068 Dubai 00:55 UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 DLH 635 Frankfurt 01:35 SVA 501 Jeddah 15:45 JZR 539 Cairo 01:30 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 BBC 144 Chittagong/Dhaka 01:35 KAC 741 Dammam 15:55 JAI 574 Mumbai 01:30 FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 THY 773 Istanbul 02:05 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:55 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:40 JZR 325 Al Najaf 16:15 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:50 KNE 473 Jeddah 16:00 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 QTR 1072 Doha 16:20 JAI 525 Abu Dhabi/Chennai 02:55 OMA 646 Muscat 16:05 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:50 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:50 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 GFA 211 Bahrain 02:15 KAC 562 Amman 17:00 KKK 6508 Istanbul 03:10 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 KKK 6507 Istanbul 02:15 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 OMA 644 Muscat 03:35 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 UAL 982 IAD 17:25 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 OMA 643 Muscat 02:35 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 FDB 068 Dubai 04:00 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 QTR 1076 Doha 03:05 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:05 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:40 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 QTR 1077 Doha 04:05 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 FDB 067 Dubai 03:15 FDB 065 Dubai 18:05 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 JZR 554 Alexandria 18:15 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 KAC 502 Beirut 18:35 JZR 560 Sohag 05:00 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 KAC 1544 Cairo 03:35 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:35 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 KAC 542 Cairo 18:55 THY 765 Istanbul 05:05 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:40 THY 770 Istanbul 04:40 KAC 618 Doha 18:55 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 JZR 538 Cairo 18:40 THY 6376 Istanbul 05:05 AXB 393 Kozhikode 18:55 ICV 673 Hong Kong 05:45 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 QTR 1080 Doha 18:55 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 FDB 066 Dubai 18:55 KAC 416 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 06:00 KAC 742 Dammam 19:00 THY 6376 Dubai/Istanbul 06:35 JZR 124 Bahrain 19:20 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 KAC 104 London 19:00 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 BAW 157 London 06:35 KAC 166 Paris/Rome 19:00 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 QTR 1081 Doha 19:55 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:45 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 AXB 394 Kozhikode 19:55 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 FDB 063 Dubai 19:10 BAW 156 London 08:35 ABY 124 Sharjah 20:00 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:50 ABY 123 Sharjah 19:20 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:50 KAC 361 Colombo 20:00 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:55 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 UAE 876 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

A special someone is on your mind today. You may spend a great deal of This may be a time when many projects come to completion, especially large time devising ways in which to express your feelings to this person. Your ability to express ones. However, you should resist selling short just to finish your work. Self-discipline and a this compassion should be quite meaningful. Insights into relationships are positive. Any sense of self-worth become important issues now. There are new and unforeseen opportuni- artistic endeavor today could show the real you and be very impressive. Romance at the ties to meet people and make friends. Now you can solidify existing friendships while gaining drop of a hat is part of the cycle you have just begun. Winning the hearts of others can be a the affections of acquaintances. Life should seem richer, more satisfying and more fun because challenge you are eager to accept. If you are in sales, you should find a multitude of happy you feel a special bond with your friends and loved ones. Go out on a date with your special customers. You will have a heightened appreciation of art, nature and music. This is also a someone or plan your next date. Talk to your friends this evening and formulate the plans for good time for financial dealings. You could try a little bingo this evening . . . A fun way to your next party. You make a positive difference in other people’s lives and enjoy sharing with enjoy your birthday. your friends.

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

Today, you will be able to finish projects, rather than start. You have the men- Sorting things out and getting them organized to the utmost efficiency keep tal concentration and discipline to work out any details. You are buoyed with the confi- you busy. Teaching and lecturing and giving your opinion in group meetings may be the ways dence to succeed at whatever you set out to do today. Make sure both your expectations you can help others move forward to make more money or keep certain problems from reoc- and abilities are realistic before diving into something you may not be able to get out of curring. However, you may find it necessary to voice these new ideas often, in hopes of win- without great effort. You are energized and show a propensity to engage in hard work. ning them over quickly. You may have a nagging feeling that no matter how well you are pro- Consolidating your resources is the best bet for future successes. New ideas and an inde- gressing in the workplace, there is still something missing in your life. It may be time to reassess pendent or pioneering mental orientation take precedence this afternoon. The domestic the balance between your professional and personal goals. There must be a balance that is scene gains new appeal and it is a good time to talk with your parents and family. A young right for you-there are no correct answers-but neither side should monopolize your life at the person needs your attention this evening. expense of the others.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You may achieve a lot more today if it is possible to work by yourself. Dealing You may have a mad desire to do nothing but communicate and exchange with others could be a bit frustrating. Be sure to keep an open mind about all ideas today. You could shoot the breeze with someone for hours-if given the opportunity. ideas or proposals, paying attention to the details involved. If you are the decision maker in your ACROSS Adriatic. There could be a temptation, however, to play devil’s advocate or analyze things to death. office, take all suggestions under consideration. Be especially careful with close associates 1. Acute lung injury characterized by 81. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonder- Just enjoy the exchanges and give the other guy a chance. You could come up with new because there could be problems with communication. Your energy could be a bit low, so take coughing and rales. ment or reverence. solutions or inventions. Your inner resources and emotions are accented all day long. You care of your health and avoid overindulging. There are new opportunities to broaden your 5. A canvas bag that is used to feed an ani- 82. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. can expect a sense of support and goodwill from those around you. This afternoon you may thinking, which may attract good fortune. Try to go home early and greet your loved one with a mal (such as a horse). 83. Situated away from the axis of any body be tempted to spend newfound finances unwisely-care and judicious thought must be giv- kiss. Later, an evening walk will create opportunities to laugh, communicate and exercise en to the practical use of money. You may find yourself being put to good use by your together. 12. (usually followed by `to') Naturally dis- or part. friends this afternoon-perhaps they are moving. posed toward. 84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising 15. Lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a solely the razorbill. sneaky and secretive manner. 16. A vessel that holds water for washing DOWN Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) the hands. 1. Place in a line or arrange so as to be par- 17. (Norse mythology) God of war and allel. This is a feel-good day. You should experience all the benefits of your horoscope Since the answers to life’s mysteries do not seem to be coming to your attention, 2. Father of the storm gods Marut. at this time-you are influenced and encouraged by your surrounding as well. Your enthusiasm is you may wish to seek help from disciplines that dig a little deeper into people and phenomena, strife and son of Odin. such as psychology, astrology, the occult, or perhaps zen or yoga. Try to keep an open mind. If 3. Depressing in character or appearance. high and your creative juices are flowing. Considerable success follows you as you give your best 18. The content of cognition. effort. Today marks a time when clear communication among co-workers is important. You your mind becomes totally preoccupied with one particular thought, try to busy your mind into 19. Relating to or characteristic of people of 4. God of war. should not hesitate in going to great lengths to make yourself clear. Friendships are a source of different subjects. This is a good time to tend to all the little details that others have neglected to Rome. 5. A colorless toxic flammable liquid used great pleasure and you, in turn, should be quite popular. This harmony should be very useful in do. Nobody will bother you while you are scrubbing the sink in the break room, tending to over- 20. The address where a person lives. in the synthesis of nylon. easing past tensions in a relationship or in concluding some difficult financial matters. All due mail or making difficult deliveries, etc. If you are seriously involved with someone in your 22. The father of your father or mother. 6. Become ground down or deteriorate. through this month, there is an open door to the possibilities of new clothes. personal life, you will find that growth as a couple is most positive at this time. 23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secret- 7. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent ed by the anterior pituitary. or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum. 24. Wife of Balder. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 25. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity. 8. Made of fir or pine. Leo (July 23-August 22) 9. A disposition to be friendly and 26. An acute inflammatory disease occur- Today will be an easygoing and peaceful day. Make it a point to remember this approachable (easy to talk to). Today heralds a major transition time in your life, one that is quite beneficial. This ring in the intestines of premature is one of those great days when you will be able to accomplish anything you want to accom- all day long. This is a partnership day and not much is going to happen if you try to work alone. infants. 10. A silvery ductile metallic element found plish. You attract many opportunities and you must choose which opportunity would be best. Your co-workers are compatible and today should produce great results. If any relationship is 28. A doctor's degree in optometry. primarily in bauxite. Faith in yourself is the key. You may be in the mood for deep and penetrating conversations this less than idyllic, this is probably a good time to resolve any difficulties. This afternoon is a good 30. No longer having or seeming to have or 11. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as afternoon. Think through what it is you want to accomplish before beginning a project. You time to get outside and enjoy nature. This evening you may realize how much you appreciate expecting to have life. stock for grafting. may have insights or breakthroughs with regard to your living situation or life circumstances. the family members in your life. You enjoy good relations with family members and the time 31. A public promotion of some product or 12. Make amends for. Others value you for your unique qualities. You reap what you sow, thus working hard now will spent in quiet closeness is rewarding. You may have a young person tending to homework and service. 13. A major victory by the Romans over the most likely pay off in many good times with friends and family. perhaps a housemate that is preparing a meal. It is time to show your appreciation. 33. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensi- Macedonians in 168 BC. bly for security reasons) was made the 14. A step in walking or running. 21. A member of an agricultural people of capital in 1998. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 36. The United Nations agency concerned southern India. Pisces (February 19-March 20) with international maritime activities. 27. Very small northern fish. 29. An uproarious party. Your energy is high! You feel good and you feel in harmony with yourself, the You should be particularly attentive to all work you do this day, for there is a ten- 39. The blood group whose red cells carry entire world and everybody in it. Others can feel this, so they in turn are drawn to you, making dency to gloss over the finer details. Your mental faculties are good, making you receptive to all both the A and B antigens. 32. The longer of the two telegraphic sig- nals used in Morse code. this a successful day for any kind of group endeavor. The circumstances that be, whatever they thoughts that interrupt your train of thought. It is best to rely on facts rather than feelings today. 40. United States architect (born in China in are, empower you with a keen and grasping mind-one that desires stimulating conversations. Otherwise, an expensive mistake might be the outcome. You love people and socializing! Any 1917). 34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked This is an excellent time to talk business or engage in discussions about philosophy, religion or excuse for a get-together to make a new friend is welcomed. You feel especially close to your 41. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions on a skewer usually with vegetables. the arts. You seem to have a new sense of self, a more assertive personal style and a more loved ones as well and your desire to nurture and protect them is strong-just do not overdo it. of the Old World. 35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of dynamic approach to life these days. Doubts and insecurity are a thing of the past. Best of all, You also may enjoy reminiscing with old friends about pleasant memories of the past. Your sen- 45. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only Lamaism. relations with the opposite sex are at a peak. This is a super kind of day to go on a date, be mar- timentality is showing! This is a time that signifies an interest in the motivations and desires of be opened from the outside with a key. 37. The Oceanic language spoken by the ried or to be in love! others. 48. A Portuguese province on the south Maori people in New Zealand. coast of China and two islands in the 38. Essential oil or perfume obtained from South China Sea. flowers. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 49. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount. 42. Sour or bitter in taste. 50. Offering fun and gaiety. 43. A dark region of considerable extent on 52. To make a mistake or be incorrect. the surface of the moon. 53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 44. The large trunk artery that carries blood Arabia or North Africa. from the left ventricle of the heart to 54. A Chadic language spoken south of branch arteries. Lake Chad. 46. A small tent used as a dressing room 56. A legal document issued by a court or beside the sea or a swimming pool. 47. Greek mythology. judicial officer. 51. Ninth month of the Revolutionary cal- 57. English theoretical physicist who endar (May and June). applied relativity theory to quantum 55. An uncertain region on the east shore mechanics and predicted the existence of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo- of antimatter and the positron (1902- European people once lived. 1984). 58. Any of several plants of the genus 59. Half the width of an em. Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a 60. A workplace for the conduct of scientif- nutritious starch. ic research. 61. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in 62. The cry made by sheep. the Dali region of Yunnan. 63. A quantity of no importance. 64. The brightest star in Cygnus. 67. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or 65. Italian violin maker in Cremona. sensuality. 66. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 70. General term for any terrestrial arthro- 68. Very dark black. pod having an elongated body com- 69. A small cake leavened with yeast. posed of many similar segments. 71. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a 74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made ratchet to move a wheel forward or pre- from aba cloth. vent it from moving backward. 75. (Norse mythology) A dwarf who pos- 72. An organization of countries formed in sessed a treasure that was stolen by 1961 to agree on a common policy for Loki. the sale of petroleum. 78. Plant with an elongated head of broad 73. An informal term for a father. stalked leaves resembling celery. 76. A nucleic acid consisting of large mole- 79. A former monetary unit in Great Britain. cules shaped like a double helix. 80. A region of northeastern Italy on the 77. Cause annoyance in. Yesterday’s Solution

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Kuwait Beautiful & Green

Group photo shows Minister of Information and State Minister of Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, Kuwait Times Editor in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Kuwait Times Deputy General Manager Adnan Saad, judge panelist Ameera Ashkanani and Abdulaziz Arty with the winners.

— Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Joseph Shagra

Kuwait Times fetes young artists — Special Needs category Winners of the 10th Student Art Competition ‘Kuwait Beautiful and Green’ awarded

By Faten Omar with special needs. Nehal Al-Soroji, Teacher at Manarat uwait Times held the award cere- School, told Kuwait Times that “the cre- mony of the 10th Student Art ative Ghalia Khalid Al-Saei who won the KCompetition ‘Kuwait Beautiful and first place in the Special Needs category Green’ on Monday at the Gulf University was my best student, she draw her for Science and Technology. It was held painting in the school and continue under the patronage of Sheikh Salman working at home because we only have Sabah Al-Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, 2 classes a week. Ghalia worked so hard Minister of Information and Minister of in the 3 weeks, she used a lot of colors in State for Youth Affairs. The contest was her painting according to my advice.” distinguished this year as it celebrated The 3 winners of the Special Needs 10 years, with the participation of more category were Ghalia Khalid Al-Saei from than 11,800 students from the ages of 6 Manarat School, Mishari Abul from to 18 from over 90 public, private, Arab Kuwait English School and Abbas Salah and foreign schools in Kuwait, in addi- from Hope School. And the Best among tion to special needs students. the Best was Roseanne Ismail from A panel of judges comprising Kuwaiti British School of Kuwait. Members of the and expatriate artists evaluated the art- judging panel were honored at the end work according to age and category of of the ceremony. The event was spon- students. The categories were sored by Saudi Arabian Chevron and Elementary (6-8 and 9-11), Intermediate Zain, and the closing ceremony was (12-14), Secondary (15-17) and students hosted by GUST.

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Painting by first winner Ghalia Khalid Al- Saei, Manarat School. Painting by second winner Mishari Abul, Kuwait English School.

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1st winner Ghalia Khalid Al -Saei 5. Yasmeen and Jumana Al-Harbi Manarat School Manarat School

2nd winner Mishari Abul 6. Hadeel Kuwait English School Khalifa School

3rd winner Abbas Salah 7. Khaled Al-Hajeri Hope School Manarat School

Runners up 8. Bader Mohammed Khalifa School 1. Anfal Bou Hamad Kuwait English 9. Johann D’Souza Kuwait English School 2. Shiekha Ahmad Al-Khalaf Al-Khorafi Center 10. Ali Akbar Manarat School 3. Jenan Al-Safar Manarat School 11. Ali Nejim Khalifa School 4. Ahmad Ali Alsaed Khalifa School 12. Lolwa Ahmed Manarat School Painting by third winner Abbas Salah, Hope School.

Anfal Bou Hamad, Kuwait English School. Shiekha Ahmad Al-Khalaf, Al-Khorafi Center. Jenan Al-Safar, Manarat School.

Ahmad Ali Alsaed, Khalifa School. Yasmeen and Jumana Al-Harbi, Manarat School. Hadeel, Khalifa School.

Khaled Al-Hajeri, Manarat School. Bader Mohammed, Khalifa School. Johann D’Souza, Kuwait English School.

Ali Akbar, Manarat School. Ali Nejim, Khalifa School. Lolwa Ahmed, Manarat School.

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(From left) Kuwait Times Deputy General Manager Adnan Saad, judge panelist Ameera Ashkanani, Lebanese artist Aline Khabbaz, Ali Haidar from Smart.Spot, Chevron’s Hadi Al-Qahtani, Painting by Roseanne Ismail from British School of Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, Zain’s Waleed Al-Kashti, judge Kuwait. panelists Abdul Kareem Al- Enezy, Abdulaziz Arty and Svitlana Arndt. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Joseph Shagra

(From left) Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Hadi Al-Qahtani and (right) Minister Sheikh Salman (From left) Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Hadi Al-Qahtani and (right) Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah award Huda Al-Zahem from Foundation of Hope. Al-Sabah award Lebanese artist Aline Khabbaz.

(From left) Hadi Al-Qahtani, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah, Waleed Al-Kashti and Adnan Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah and Hadi Al-Qahtani award Saad are pictured after the minister was honored. Roseanne Ismail from British School of Kuwait.

(Left) Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan, Hadi Al-Qahtani and Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah award judge panelist Abdulaziz Arty, Svitlana Arndt (center), and Ameera Ashkanani (right).

(Left) Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan and Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah award Chevron’s Hadi Al-Qahtani, Zain’s Waleed Al-Kashti (center) and Ali Haidar from Smart.Spot (right).

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Picture taken on December 10, 1999, shows German novelist and literature Nobel Prize winner Guenter Grass receiving In this Dec 10, 1999 file photo Nobel prize winner for literature, Guenter Grass of Germany, displays his Nobel medal fol- the Nobel Prize from Swedish King Carl Gustaf in Stockholm. — AP /AFP photos lowing the awards ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Excerpts from books and speeches by Guenter Grass

erman novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize- be read as a sign of shock, let alone horror. I most my 12-year-old sons how the old nationalism con- winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic likely viewed the Waffen SS as an elite unit that tinues to make its presence felt, and how impor- Gtreatment of the Nazi era, died yesterday at the was sent into action whenever a breach in the tant it is to see our German nation as an entity age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered front line had to be stopped up.” - from 2007 auto- with specific tasks to perform in the areas of soci- man with a drooping moustache, Grass spurned the biographical profile in The New Yorker. ety, economic development, and peace-keeping, I German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual dis- realize how great the national vacuum is, and how tance, insisting that a writer’s duty was to be at the 3. “I may as well come right out with it: I was one of quickly it might be filled again by the dema- frontline of moral and political debate. For many, he those clairaudient infants whose mental develop- gogues who are always waiting in the wings. The was the voice of a German generation that came of ment is completed at birth and after that merely nationalist stew of yore may have gone sour, but age in World War Two and bore the burden of their needs a certain amount of filling in. The moment I it still finds takers.” - from a 1970 speech. parents’ guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis. was born I took a very critical attitude toward the first utterances to slip from my parents beneath 5. “Everything that has thus far become a book for 1. “I’m still not sure how to go about this: Should I the light bulbs. My ears were keenly alert. It seems me has been subservient to time or has chafed do as I was taught and unpack one life at a time, pretty well established that they were small, bent under it. As a contemporary, I have written in order, or do I have to sneak up on time in a over, gummed up, and in any case cute, yet they against the passage of time. The past made me crabwalk, seeming to go backward but actually caught the words that were my first impressions throw it in the path of the present to make the scuttling sideways, and thereby working my way and as such have preserved their importance for present stumble. The future could only be under- forward fairly rapidly?” - from “Crabwalk”. me. And what my ear took in my tiny brain evalu- stood on the basis of past made present. First and ated. After meditating at some length on what I foremost, I found myself harnessed to German 2. “My new marching orders made it clear where the had heard, I decided to do certain things and on time, constrained to steer a course cutting recruit with my name was to undergo basic train- no account to do certain others.” - from “The Tin obliquely across the epochs, disregarding the ing: on a drill ground of the Waffen SS, as a panzer Drum.” convenience of chronology. Epic moraines had to gunner, somewhere far off in the Bohemian be cleared away, reality sloughed off again and Picture taken on September 16, 1991, shows German novelist and graphic artist Woods. The question is: Was I frightened by what 4. “I have a nightmare vision of a postwar genera- again. There’s no end to it. So many dead. And Guenter Grass presenting his book “Four Decades- A Workshop’s Report” (“Vier was obvious then in the recruitment office, as I tion that grows up in the traditional straight jack- everywhere, even where life might release joy and Jahrzehnte - Ein Werkstattbericht”) at Arts Academy Freie Akademie der K¸nste in am terrified now by the double ‘S,’ even as I write et of nation-statehood simply because the new pleasure might take its fling, the great crime casts Hamburg, northern Germany. this more than sixty years later? There is nothing idea of the two states of the German nation fails its shadow, which time cannot efface.” - from a carved into the onion skin of my memory that can to reach the public. Even when I try to explain to 1982 speech. — Reuters

‘Fault in Our Stars’ wins big at MTV awards

Mark Ruffalo, from left, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, and Shailene Woodley accepts the award for best kiss for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’. Chris Evans present Robert Downey Jr with the generation award at the MTV Movie Awards. — AP/AFP photos

US reality TV star Kim Kardashian carries her daughter een tear-jerker “The Fault in Our Stars” and North West as she and her husband rapper Kanye West “American Sniper” actor Bradley Cooper were (back) exit a car upon their arrival. — AFP Tthe big winners at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Cooper took Best Male Performance for “Sniper”-Clint Eastwood’s Iraq war Kardashian, West drama which was nominated for six Oscars and was a massive hit at the North American box office. Shailene Woodley took the honor in the female category-as in Jerusalem for well as the special MTV Trailblazer Award-for her turn in “The Fault in Our Stars” as a teenager with cancer who falls in love with a fellow young cancer sufferer daughter’s baptism (Ansel Elgort) at a support group. The duo’s powerful on-screen chemistry was recog- reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rapper nized as they took home the award for Best Kiss and husband Kanye West were in Jerusalem’s Old City the film, which had cinema-goers in floods of tears, USyesterday for the baptism of their daughter at the was named Movie Of The Year. Veteran Meryl Streep Armenian Cathedral, church officials said. The couple flew in won the Best Villain prize for “Into the Woods,” while from Armenia, landing at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport before other offbeat awards included Best Fight, which went driving straight to the Holy City for the ceremony. As the con- to Will Poulter and Dylan O’Brien for “The Maze voy pulled up to St James Cathedral in a narrow street of the Runner.” Armenian Quarter, hoards of fans thronged the car, screaming Zac Efron was honored for Best Shirtless and wolf-whistling as Kardashian climbed out of the car hold- Performance in “Neighbors” at the awards, which take ing her 21-month-old daughter, North. a sideways look at the film industry and fall outside “It’s a baptism that will take place,” Archbishop Aris Kevin Hart poses in the press room Bradley Cooper accepts the award for best male performance for ‘American with the comedic genius award. Sniper’. the traditional Hollywood awards season. Efron and Shirvanian told reporters gathered at the entrance to the Dave Franco were named Best Duo for the comedy, church. “Kim Kardashian’s daughter will be baptised and she which received decidedly mixed reviews from film crit- will become a Christian officially and a member of the ics on release. Robert Downey Jr was recognized for Armenian church.” The diminutive star, who is known for her his achievements down the decades with the curves, was modestly attired in a floor-length gold pleated Generation Award. The actor received the prize from dress, with long sleeves and plunging cross-over neckline, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth while her daughter wore a long white dress, her feet bare and Jeremy Renner, some of his fellow cast of “The despite unseasonably chilly weather. Avengers: Age of Ultron”, which is about to be West was dressed all in white. The couple disappeared into released. the church for the ceremony, after which they were expected “In the 34 years that have passed since the birth of to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City’s MTV, I’ve grown up, I’ve struggled, I’ve failed. I’ve par- Christian Quarter. The sprawling church is built on the site tied way too much,” joked Downey, 50, clutching the where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and rose again. award, which resembles a box of popcorn. Sporting a They were also expected to visit the Western Wall, the holiest pair of sunglasses, he then turned serious, adding: “I site at which Jews can pray which is located inside the Jewish begged for second chances and literally clawed my Quarter. The US TV star’s Armenian roots are on her father’s way to the top.” As is usual for any awards night, many side, with the family emigrating to the US from an area that were more interested in what the great and good of now lies inside Turkey. Hollywood were showcasing on the red carpet. Her eight-day trip to Armenia coincided with memorial Johansson paraded in a pink jumpsuit that matched ceremonies to mark the centenary of the massacres of as her rosy cheeks and lips, while Jennifer Lopez was many as 1.5 million Armenians in the last days of the Ottoman striking in an all-black tuxedo-miniskirt combo and Empire. Many historians describe the World War I slaughter as high heels that left little to the imagination. Model the 20th century’s first genocide, but Turkey hotly denies the and actress Cara Delevingne also stood out in a pur- accusations. ple minidress complete with lace and dramatic drap- Pope Francis used the word “genocide” at a special mass at ing. — AFP the Vatican on Sunday to mark the centenary, sparking fury John Green, center, and the cast and crew of ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ accept the award for movie of the year. from Turkey. — AFP Excerpts from books and speeches by Guenter Grass

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Concert attendees walk past a giant butterfly sculpture on the main grounds on day three of the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California on April 12, 2015. —AFP Ancient Thracian culture reveals splendor at Louvre

xquisitely crafted gold, silver and bronze this latest exhibition aims to paint a broader pic- This ruler of the Odrysian kingdom had been objects will go on display at the Louvre muse- ture of the lifestyle of the Thracians by showing the buried together with his gold wreath, headpiece, Eum in Paris this week, giving visitors a rare tools used to carve the pieces. horse ornaments, drinking cups and even glass glimpse of the ancient Thracian culture that pro- It will also showcase for the first time the exact playing dice. “Seuthes’ face will personalize ancient duced them. Many stories still remain untold about replicas of four Thracian tombs from central Thrace for the public,” French commissioner this refined civilization whose citizens included Bulgaria, where some of the precious finds were Alexandre Baralis said. In addition to unveiling the Orpheus, the mythical son of a Thracian king, and uncovered. One of them contained another center- spectacular craft behind Thrace’s treasures, the legendary gladiator Spartacus who led an uprising piece of the exhibition-the life-size bronze head of exhibition aims to shed a light on famous Thracian against Rome. King Seuthes III with eyes made of alabaster and a rulers. Today, “ancient Thrace is most famous for its glass paste lending extreme liveliness to the king’s “What we want to do is to present a historical unique goldsmithing works”, Bulgarian exhibition sculptured face. and archeological synthesis that allows us to go A gold amphora of the Thracian Panagyurishte treasure. commissioner Milena Tonkova told AFP ahead of further, to give substance, and offers a global per- Tuesday’s opening. One of the exhibition high- spective on the history of the Odrysian kingdom lights is the Panagyurishte ritual beverage set the from 479 to 278 BC,” Baralis said. “We want to show most prized possession of these ancient people that the Thracians, as actors of the ancient world, who inhabited the Balkan peninsula from the 2nd were as influential as the Greek, the Macedonians millennium BC to the 3rd century AD. or the Romans.” Made of 23-carat gold, it consists of a phial, an amphora with centaur-shaped handles and seven Bulgarian tourism boost rhytons, and drinking vessels carved in the form of The exhibition will also provide an opportunity women’s and animal heads, with a total weight of to Bulgaria to bolster its image as one of the three six kilos (13 pounds). Since Communist times, European countries with the richest cultural her- Bulgaria has been exhibiting gold and silver itage after Greece and Italy. “The exhibition at the Thracian treasures found on its territory in muse- Louvre will offer us a trampoline for promoting cul- ums around the world, from Mexico to India and tural tourism,” said Tourism Minister Nikolina Japan. Angelkova. Bulgaria is currently mostly known for its winter resorts and Black Sea beaches but Not just about gold according to the minister, it has a huge potential to But “it won’t just be the umpteenth exhibition in attract new tourism to the dozens of reconstructed France of Thracian gold: it will offer the general Thracian burial sites. — AFP public an opportunity to gain broader insight into this culture,” said Francoise Gaultier, the director of Louvre’s Department of Greek, Etruscan, and A bronze head found near Roman Antiquities. Beyond the stunning wares, the village of Shipka.

A bronze helmet and a scaled armor dating Silver with golden decorations knee-shield back to the 4th century BC. (knemida) found in the town of Vratza.

A gold Rhyton (drinking horn). The Thracian Panagyurishte treasure, dating back to 4th century BC at the National History Museum in Sofia. — AFP photos