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DUBAI: When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Gulf Kuwait to raise states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaitis. Fast forward 25 years, and the homeless from Syria’s near- by war have found scant refuge in the Arab world’s rich- oil output after est states. For critics of the affluent Gulf, the contrast is profoundly unflattering, especially as several are backers double closure of the combatants in Syria’s conflict, so must, they argue, shoulder a special responsibility for its consequences. KUWAIT: Kuwait will raise its oil output by 250,000- The wrenching image of a Syrian Kurdish refugee boy 270,000 barrels a day by the end of the year to drowned on a Turkish beach has stoked debate in make up for production lost from two oilfields the Europe. The official silence makes many Gulf citizens OPEC member shares with Saudi Arabia that were uneasy. Paintings and cartoons of the young boy’s death forced to shut, a Kuwaiti oil industry source said. crowded Arab social media, one depicting little Aylan The Khafji oilfield was shut last year for environ- Continued on Page 15 mental reasons. It had been producing 280,000- 300,000 bpd. The Wafra oilfield closed in May due to operating difficulties. US oil major Chevron oper- New visa system ates the field on behalf of the Saudi government. So far, extra output from Kuwait’s other fields has for Kuwaitis in made up for around 200,000 bpd of the production lost from Wafra and Khafji, the source said, adding April: UK envoy that Kuwait’s total output is almost 2.9 million bpd. KUWAIT: The coming April will be the final date to Kuwait has limited spare production capacity and apply the new electronic visa system for Kuwaiti citi- has therefore been harder hit by the closures than zens, British Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge Saudi Arabia. Kuwait’s production capacity is esti- has stated. The new system will allow travelers to mated at around 3.2 million bpd, compared to the UK to get their visas within 48 hours through Saudi Arabia’s 12.5 million bpd. In July, Kuwaiti the web portal; however, this new system will not media reported on a leaked letter from Kuwaiti Oil include medical and student visas, he told Al-Rai Minister Ali Al-Omair to his Saudi counterpart Ali Al- newspaper yesterday. He also pointed out that UK Naimi in which he said Riyadh would have to com- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (right) is received by HH the Crown embassy will host a number of British security and pensate for future losses arising from the closure of Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (left) after he returned home yesterday from a private immigration officials to discuss the new visa system the Khafji oilfield. — Reuters visit to the UK. — KUNA with Kuwaiti authorities next week. — KUNA Turaiji targets Iranian envoy, embassy Tana wants citizenship of cell members revoked By Staff Reporter minister if he knew that the Iranian ambassador was in the intelligence serv- Saudis eye cut KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji yester- ice and that he was in charge of provid- day targeted the Iranian ambassador to ing support to the Houthi Shiite rebels in in fuel subsidy, Kuwait and the mission with 15 ques- Yemen between 2006 and 2009. tions to the foreign minister asking He also asked if the minister knew explicitly about their role in the alleged that the ambassador was responsible trim expenses terror cell busted by Kuwait last month. for stirring chaos in Bahrain in 2011 and RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s government is cutting Another MP Mohammad Tana, mean- demanded evidence that the minister unnecessary expenses and delaying some projects while called for revoking the citizenship did not know of this fact. to compensate for low oil prices, though projects of the cell members if they are convict- Turaiji asked if a controversial state- that are important for the economy will go ahead, ed in a final court order. MP Ahmad Al- ment issued by the Iranian embassy on Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said. His com- Qudhaibi however called for dealing Thursday that ridiculed Kuwaiti authori- ments, made in an interview with broadcaster CNBC with the latest developments away from ties and undermined the country’s sov- SOROCABA, Brazil: Graffiti depicting Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy Arabia during a visit to Washington with King sectarianism in a bid to diagnose distor- ereignty was something abnormal in who drowned off a Turkish beach, is seen yesterday in this town some 90 km Salman, were the clearest official signal yet that the tions in the country that allowed the diplomatic ties between countries. The from Sao Paulo. — AFP government was reducing expenditure in some penetration of terror ideology. lawmaker asked the minister why the areas as cheap oil slashed its revenues. Turaiji asked the foreign minister if ministry has not summoned the Iranian Failures expose rifts Meanwhile, a newspaper reported Saudi Arabia is the Iranian ambassador Ali Reza was ambassador to protest the statement looking more closely at cutting gasoline subsidies, a expelled by Saudi Arabia or any other that breached Kuwait’s sovereignty. move it has been studying for years, after the United country before he was appointed as the Turaiji inquired if the foreign ministry over Assad’s future Arab Emirates did so last month, with both states Iranian representative in Kuwait. He plans to recall the Kuwaiti ambassador trying to save money in the era of cheaper oil. Saudi asked if the foreign ministry has to Tehran for consultations over the BEIRUT/MOSCOW: While the desperate As a consequence, Syria looks set for ever domestic gasoline prices are some of the lowest in reviewed the CV of the ambassador and case in which Kuwaiti citizens are the world. Allowing them to rise would be one of flight of Syrians from their country’s war was greater fragmentation into a patchwork of ter- his diplomatic career before accepting accused of spying for the Islamic repub- the biggest economic reforms in the country for dominating news bulletins this summer, yet ritories, one of them the diminishing his appointment in the country. The lic. The lawmaker said that local media years and a highly politically sensitive one as many another diplomatic push to end the four- Damascus-based state where Assad appears lawmaker asked the minister if the min- has reported that two Iranian diplomats Saudis rely on cheap fuel. United Arab Emirates let istry knew that the ambassador was in are involved in the case and demanded year-old conflict was quietly running into the confident of survival with backing from his gasoline prices rise 24 percent last month. charge of the “Persian Gulf” affairs at the to know the names of the diplomats sand. That largely unnoticed failure has rein- Russian and Iranian allies. While some Western Assaf said the world’s top oil exporting country forced the view amongst Syria experts that officials say even Assad’s allies now recognise was well-prepared to cope with the plunge of crude Iranian foreign ministry and during that and also asked about the ministry’s there is no solution in sight, with one of the he cannot win back and stabilize Syria, prices since last year, and that Saudi policymakers time he issued highly aggressive and plans toward the embassy after its biggest obstacles a seemingly unbridgeable Moscow is setting out its case for supporting were taking it seriously. hostile statements against Saudi Arabia staff’s involvement in spy rings have international divide over President Bashar Al- him in ever more forthright terms. Continued on Page 15 with regards to a court verdict. been repeated. Assad’s future. Continued on Page 15 In another question, Turaiji asked the Continued on Page 15 Yemen strike boosts coalition resolve US Army’s latest beast

DUBAI: The first heavy losses suffered by the conflict with Iran through the proxy of Yemen”. against this Houthis-Saleh alliance is very near Saudi-led coalition in Yemen will only strengthen The rebels have suffered a wave of losses since now,” Alani said, adding that the problem in Yemen its resolve to neutralize the threat posed by Iran- July, when forces loyal to Hadi backed by air strikes for the coalition is Iran more than the rebels them- backed Shiite Houthi rebels, analysts say. On Friday, pushed them out of several regions in south selves. a missile strike on a base killed 45 Emirati soldiers, Yemen, starting with the port city of Aden. The Since the rebel offensive against the UN-backed 10 Saudis and five Bahrainis, the Sunni coalition’s insurgents trumpeted the deadly attack on the Hadi began, it has been seen as a threat to all Gulf highest death toll in a day since it unleashed its air Safer base in Marib province as “revenge for the states, said Alani. Iran was seen to be working campaign in March. “Now there is a determination crimes and the war of extermination being carried towards establishing a proxy in Yemen like the to be even more committed to the objective of sta- out by the Saudi aggressor and its mercenaries”. Tehran-backed Shiite Hezbollah movement in bilizing Yemen,” said security expert Mustafa Alani According to Mathieu Guidere, Arab geopolitics Lebanon, he said. “From day one this has not been of the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center. expert at Toulouse University in France, the rebels seen as a Yemeni problem... It’s a question of Iran’s The military response by the coalition, which “appear to have reached a point of no return. “This attempt to recreate the Hezbollah experience of mounted its campaign in support of exiled will push the coalition to intensify its attacks and Lebanon in the Arabian Peninsula.” President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, was swift. broaden its intervention.” The losses in Marib Friday’s Marib missile attack coincided with a Warplanes have relentlessly pounded positions of would spur the coalition to improve the security of meeting between Saudi King Salman and US the Huthi rebels and renegade troops loyal to oust- its forces on the ground and provide better air cov- President Barack Obama, on the monarch’s first visit ed president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Residents of the er, he added. to the United States since he acceded to the throne rebel-held capital Sanaa called the raids the heavi- Alani argued that the Huthis themselves could in January. “The Americans have no interest in get- est since the campaign began. “Between deescala- not have fired the Tochka missile, saying they were ting involved in this conflict. Yemen is as problem- tion and escalation, it is escalation that has been not capable of using the weapon. A unit from atic as Afghanistan,” said Heisbourg. At the same chosen” by the Saudis, said Francois Heisbourg, an Yemen’s elite Republican Guard, which remains time, Iran is also unlikely to get too involved, he adviser at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic loyal to Saleh, must have been behind the attack, argued. “I do not think that it (Iran) will deliberately Research. He said it would be a “significant failure” he said. He also downplayed the impact of the escalate. It does not have to do so, because Yemen’s This undated image shows a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), the winner of a bid to for the Saudis if the coalition were to back off now, human cost, calling coalition losses “insignificant” Shiites are capable of troubling the Saudis without replace thousands of Humvees, the culmination of a search that began in the years adding that the kingdom’s policy has been to “seek when compared with those of the rebels. “Victory much contribution from Iran,” he said. — AFP after the start of the war in Iraq in 2003. — AFP (See Page 27) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 LOCAL

WASHINGTON: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud meets Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. —KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meets OIC meets UNRWA’s Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl. —KUNA Secretary General Iyad Madani. Saudi King briefs Arab diplomats on US visit WASHINGTON: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud received a number of Arab diplomats in Washington late Saturday, including Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Sheikh Salem said that the Arab Ambassadors were honored to have met the Saudi King, indicating that the Monarch informed the diplomats on his visit which included a meeting with President Barack Obama. —KUNA

GCC states mull unifying oil products’ prices: ministry KUWAIT: The 15th preparatory meeting of GCC oil under- secretaries committee next, scheduled Wednesday in Doha, is planned to discuss the possibility of unifying prices of oil products in the GCC countries, Kuwait Oil min- istry said yesterday. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meets Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- In a statement to KUNA, the ministry said the meeting, to be attended by Kuwait Oil Ministry, would review a Sheikh Jaber Al-Abduallah Al-Sabah. Sabah meets UNRWA’s Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl. memo prepared by the general secretariat on the meetings of the GCC energy team in the World Trade Organization and Free Trade Agreements. Crown Prince receives OIC, UNRWA officials The meeting will also delve into a report by the presi- dent of the Working Group for GCC countries, which are KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Prince’s Diwan Sheikh Mubarak Sabah Al-Salem Al- Earlier, His Highness Sheikh Nawaf received Sheikh Jaber assigned to study and follow up developments on the Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the Secretary General Humoud Al-Sabah. Al-Abduallah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime meetings with the United Nations Framework Convention of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Meanwhile, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled held talks with Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and also review Madani and his accompanying delegation at Seif Palace Krenpol to discuss the role played by the United Nations Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled, Deputy Prime Minister and another report by the General Secretariat on meetings by yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign in giving relief to the Palestine refugees in the Near East. Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad mineral resources officials in GCC countries. Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah was in The meeting also tackled the UN’s humanitarian work in Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense The statement added that undersecretaries will also attendance. alleviating the suffering of the refugees and Kuwait’s Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister touch upon a memo by the Secretariat on meetings of His Highness also received the Commissioner-General support to UNRWA. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled also met and Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh as well as joint Media Committee specialists with the Organization of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Madani and discussed with him the organization’s Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al- of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), includ- Palestine Refugees in the Near East’s (UNRWA) Pierre upcoming program and the latest developments in the Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. His Highness also received ing the final decision on proposed media Memorandum Krahenbuhl and his accompanying delegation, in atten- region. Several officials at the ministry attend both the Acting Speaker of the National Assembly Ahmad Hajji of Understanding (MoU) to the Petroleum Cooperation dance of head of Protocols at His Highness the Crown meetings. Lari. —KUNA Committee in preparation for approval along with the Secretariat’s memorandum on cooperation between GCC countries in the field of renewable and comple- mentary energy and the report of the petroleum strate- gy committee. The Ministry’s statement asserted on the importance of the Doha meeting due to rapid changes in global oil indus- try and the push for stability in this regard, and the devel- opment of technical, economic, and media plans that would benefit development of GCC oil business. —KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah meets KFSD Director General Major General Yousef Al-Ansari. —KUNA KUWAIT: The National Security Apparatus chief Prime Minister receives fire service director Sheikh Thamar Al-Ali A-Sabah met yesterday with the Bangladeshi Ambassador Mohammad Ashab KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday Director General of Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) Major Adeen to discuss relations between Kuwait and General Yousef Al-Ansari. Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak lauded the efforts and sacrifices made by the KFSD and its members for the sake of the country. Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Bangladesh. The meeting also tackled regional Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah attended the meeting. —KUNA issues of common interest. —KUNA EQUATE participates in KISR summer training course graduation ceremony Sponsored by EQUATE for the 15th consecutive year

KUWAIT: EQUATE Petrochemical Company, Kuwait’s first been the 15th consecutive year EQUATE has sponsored EQUATE. In addition, during 2010, EQUATE signed a mem- the attendance of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of international joint-venture in this industry, participated in this training course as part of embodying its ‘Partners in orandum of understanding with KISR for collaboration in State for Youth Affairs Sheikha Al-Zain Sabah Al-Nasser Al- the graduation ceremony of the 38th Summer Training Success’ slogan with KISR. research relevant to the petrochemical industry, its indus- Sabah, KISR Director-General, as well as several leading Course for University and High School Students by Kuwait EQUATE President and CEO Mohammad Husain said, trial applications and technological tools. Without any figures from the institute and other bodies. Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). “Our partnership with KISR includes a number of fields doubt, developing human resources who represent the With the participation of over 150 high-school and The ceremony was under the patronage of the and topics relevant to the sectors of training, specialized cornerstone of sustainability is the main objective of this university students, the course addressed a number of Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, acting Minister of studies and industrial development. This training course partnership.” subjects relevant to KISR’s research programs and proj- Information and State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh is part of those initiatives and is considered one of the During the ceremony, EQUATE was represented by ects, chemistry, biology, computer, architecture, engi- Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. This has most important annual activities that are sponsored by Corporate Communications Leader Kholoud Al-Feeli with neering and others.

KUWAIT: Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah (second from left) attends the graduation ceremony. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 LOCAL 70 percent of Kuwaitis MP Azmi prepares to lactose intolerant: Study grill MOH minister High humidity to remain two more days By A Saleh By Meshaal Al-Enezi people tested are lactose intolerant,” commanders. He was arrested last she said, noting that they found that Saturday. KUWAIT: MP Hamdan Al-Azmi filed KUWAIT: Seventy percent of Kuwaitis the diagnosis was 98-100 percent an inquiry with Health Minister Dr are incapable of digesting lactose, accurate. Patients with such disorder Farwaniya projects Ali Al-Obaidi about the doctor according to a research study con- usually develop gases, acidity, diar- Nayef Al-Sour, Municipal Council responsible for the death of citizen ducted by Dr Wafa Al-Hashash, head rhea, sickness and sometimes vomit- member and the head of Farwaniya Saud Al-Azmi. MP Azmi specifically of the gastrointestinal tract and liver ing, she added. committee, criticized the Ministry of requested for information on the fol- unit at Al-Sabah Health zone. Lactose Public Works (MPW) and its minister lowing: who sponsored the doctor, High humidity for ignoring the projects Farwaniya why he was allowed to deal with The weather was dominated by had needed for several years now. patients while still being tested, the high humidity over the past two days “Meteorologists have been warning of contract he signed with the Ministry and would remain so for at least two a heavy rainy winter this year and of Health (MOH), why he was not more days, said Kuwait Meteorological MPW has not yet cleaned and pre- put under custody to prevent his Center. The center also forecasted pared rain drainage systems in escape, how expat doctors are hired, today’s weather to be relatively humid Farwaniya though it finished doing so Soud Al-Azmi’s condition on admis- with light to moderate south easterly in several other governorates days sion, a list of medical errors since MP Hamdan Al-Azmi Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi wind, with speed of 12 - 35 km/h by ago,” he said, wondering if the minis- 2012 and fatalities resulting thereof, day and humid especially over coastal ter would be responsible for the the number of cases filed against areas with light to moderate south flooding of Farwaniya streets. Sour the ministry over medical errors, the easterly to southerly wind, with speed also urged lawmakers representing number and nationality of doctors of 10 - 32 km/h by night. the fourth electoral constituency to who committed such mistakes since hold the minister accountable. 2012 and the measures taken Bedoon tweeter against them. MP Azmi’s inquiry is in The State Security referred a Salwa clinic preparation for the grilling motion is a sugar found in milk and dairy bedoon (stateless) man who was Meanwhile, Yousif Al-Ghareeb, he intends to file against Health products like cheese, labenah blogging under the alias ‘Chabreet Municipal Council member and the Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi over Saud (strained yogurt), butter, ice cream, Siyasi’ (political matches) to the public head of Hawalli committee, yesterday Al-Azmi’s death. cream, etc. It cannot be digested by prosecutor to be interrogated for slan- slammed what he described as false some people whose bodies lack the dering His Highness the Amir and the excuses made about the delay in the Retirement lactase enzyme needed to digest it, judiciary and, for spreading false building of a clinic in Block 11 in Deputy Prime Minister and causing symptoms like indigestion, Dr news. Notably, the suspect had used Salwa though the project had been Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh yes- Hashash explained. “After conducting his Twitter account to criticize several listed in the finance ministry’s terday issued a ministerial decision tests, we found that 70 percent of public figures, ministers and security 2012/2013 budget. referring 40 employees with over 30 years of service, including senior ones, to retirement.

Iranian fishing boats A bulldozer removes tents pitched illegally outside a house in Jahra Hassan Al-Sebaghah, Kuwait yesterday. Fishermen Union’s secretary, stressed resources,” he said, noting that the tents pitched outside some Jahra that the union’s board had a vision abundance of shrimp on the market houses were demolished yesterday when it demanded banning Iranian helped reduce it prices. by Kuwait Municipality. The munici- fishing boats during the shrimp and pality said the owners had been pre- Zubaidi (silver pomfret) fishing ban. Illegal diwaniyas viously notified and warned, but still “This helped save Kuwaiti fish A number of illegal diwaniyas and ignored such warnings.

The suspect arrested in Mangaf yesterday with Drugs, passports and IDs found with three citi- possession of 12 liquor bottles. zens arrested yesterday.

DOHA: Participants at the 19th GCC Justice Undersecretaries meeting are pictured in a group photo. —KUNA GCC to update convention on execution of judgments, judicial notifications

DOHA: Acting Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of ing priority to the GCC citizens in the members states, Justice Bader Al-Zamanan has underlined the necessity of after nationals, he said that Kuwait had already appointed updating the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Convention 33 Saudis, four Omanis, one from Bahrain and another for the Execution of Judgments, Delegations and Judicial from UAE. Notifications. The meeting had launched yesterday to discuss set- Fire trucks seen outside a Salmiya building where Firemen tackle the blaze at the apartment. The move goes in line with a decision taken by the ting up a comprehensive integration of all fields of justice a fire was reported yesterday. GCC Ministers of Justice during their 26th meeting in among the GCC countries. Chairman of the meeting, Kuwait earlier this year, Zamanan said after he led the Assistant Undersecretary for Legal Affairs at the Ministry Kuwaiti delegation to the 19th GCC Justice of Justice Ibrahim Moussa Hitmi said that GCC integration Three citizens arrested Undersecretaries meeting in Qatar yesterday. in various fields of justice is a necessity to face challenges He explained that the convention was issued in 1995 and difficulties and to make the GCC system of Justice and since then several new laws and legal measures have more influential to international relations. for drugs, passports theft been introduced in the member states. It has to keep The meeting tackled the implementation of the GCC pace with them. Technical committees will discuss the Ministries of Justice decisions in their 26th meeting which By Hanan Al-Saadoun Bootlegger arrested Collision issue in 2016, based on remarks and views to be delivered was held in Kuwait. In addition, the meeting shed light on An Indian man was arrested in A Saudi youth suffered fractures by the member states. a number of topics related to strengthening of the GCC KUWAIT: Three citizens were sent to Mangaf with 12 liquor bottles yes- when the car he was driving crashed Meanwhile, Zamanan said that yesterday’s meeting joint justice process. Moreover, it discussed a report by a Drugs Control General Department terday. The man confessed to trad- after attempting to escape from police had approved a proposal submitted by the GCC specialized technical committee to study the setting up Secretariat legal affairs department that the member of an economic judicial authority, a report on internation- (DCGD) for possession of drugs, while ing in liquor, a security source said. on Second Ring Road. A security source states could act as one group in legal and judiciary agree- al legal cooperation and the establishment of legal and they will be questioned about pass- He was sent to the concerned said the man who was not in a normal ments with other countries or international blocs. On giv- judicial training programs. —KUNA ports they had in their possession but authorities for further action. condition damaged two patrol cars. do not belong to them. The men were arrested after police saw them looking Salmiya fire Insult API seeks upgrading local work environment confused and afraid and then attempt- A fire in a ninth-floor apartment A non-commissioned police officer KUWAIT: The Arab Planning Institute (API) is seeking to Planning” program for the staff in the Ministry of State for ed to escape. The men had two was put out in record time by North accused a Kuwaiti man of insulting him develop the work environment, through activities for Youth Affairs, Malallah said that the Supreme Council for Kuwaiti passports, five civil IDs, four Salmiya firemen yesterday. No injuries after catching him driving recklessly building national human capabilities in all fields of social Planning and Development (SCPD) and the government military ranks, an American flag, Gulf were reported. Meanwhile, an investi- and issuing him a ticket. The citizen and economic development, Director General Dr Bader sector. The API has long experience of more than four currency and four envelopes of what is gation was opened to determine the denied the charges, while Ahmadi Malallah said yesterday. decades in the fields of consultations and development suspected as drugs. causes of the fire. police are investigating. In statements to KUNA on the sidelines of the “Strategic and other related domains. The program aims at upgrading performance of the national cadres at the youth ministry and the SCPD, he Kuwait’s cooperation level on detecting said. The SCPD is the only body specialized in develop- ment planning in all fields, Malallah said. He referred to a government initiative, supported by the National terror financing impressive: US Congressman Assembly, for the National Fund for Supporting and Developing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises KUWAIT: The level of cooperation encourage cooperation and infor- Islamic State (IS), Fitzpatrick said (IS) ability to recruit, train, equip finances that these groups get, (SMES). —KUNA with Kuwait on detecting terror- mation-sharing, which the “The most shocking matter about and ultimately break terror. which enables them to commit ism financing is impressive, US Kuwaiti side showed to be very IS is not just their brutality, but Following the money is what we these atrocities.” Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick cooperative at. We’ve met senior also the alarming way that do in the committee,” he under- He added that during the said yesterday. “It is important to officials of financial intelligence they’ve been growing, taking in lined. meetings with officials here, “we know that sometimes one needs from the Ministry of Finance and more land, being able to recruit, “We are here also to express learned that many laws relating to to look at laws and regulations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We and they are doing that, in part, our sympathies and solidarity to fighting terrorism have been current financial systems. And the are very impressed with the sin- by raising capital.” the people of Kuwait who lost changed, specifically after the main goal of our visit is to better cerity and seriousness,” he said. Along with military and diplo- family and loved ones in Imam Al- June 26th attack, and even understand the mission that we With the task force established macy, “follow the money. If you Sadeq terrorist attack on June 26 before; criminalizing terrorism have in the Committee, not just primarily to track finances of the cut off finances, you cut off their of this year, Fitzpatrick noted. “I financing and the right to freeze with the United States, but inter- admire how Kuwaitis rose above assets of terrorist groups if detect- nationally,” Fitzpatrick, told Kuwait the event and embraced each ed.” However, both Congressmen News Agency (KUNA) in an exclu- other; through visiting families of expressed optimism for the future sive interview. the ‘martyred’ and wounded, in the Middle East. Fitzpatrick, a Republican, along either at homes, hospitals or Fitzpatrick is serving his fourth with fellow Congressman Gregory places of worship.” term in the US House of Meeks, are in a visit to the country Representatives, representing as part of a tour that previously Tremendously impressive Pennsylvania’s 8th district and took them to Turkey and Qatar in Meanwhile, Congressman serves as the Vice Chairman of the their capacity as Chairman and Meeks, a Democrat, told KUNA House Financial Services vice chairman of a task force that the June 26th attack brought Subcommittee on Oversight and investigating terrorist financing; a Kuwaitis together. “That is Investigations. The US Treasury subcommittee of the Financial tremendously impressive,” he said. and Department of State have Services’ Committee at the US Meeks said that “in order to defeat been using such tactics to try to House of Representatives. our common enemy the IS, we combat IS and other terrorist “We have been making need to cooperate, just as I groups. The agencies took action changes in our financial system noticed during our meetings with last year that would freeze assets post 9/11 (2001), and recently US Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick (right) and Gregory Kuwaiti officials, who we see eye- and block financial transactions Kuwait has made several changes to-eye with in regards to fighting by two-dozen groups and individ- as well. Also we are here to Meeks. terrorism, and cutting off the uals. —KUNA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief Albanian citizenship Marine environment Cultural cooperation KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Albania Najib Al- KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team hailed the suc- KUWAIT: Chairman and General Director of Bader was granted an honorary citizenship award by cessful conclusion of a forum on encouraging Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Sheikh Mubarak Al- the city of Delvina, in appreciation of his efforts to voluntary work in marine environment protec- Duaij Al-Ibrahim Al-Sabah received yesterday the develop the two countries bilateral ties. The award tion, which the team held recently in Baltimore, Secretary-General of Kuwait’s National Council of came during a ceremony held in Delvina Municipality Maryland, the United States of America. The Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) Bader Al- yesterday to honor the outgoing Kuwaiti Ambassador. team gave five presentations during the three- Duwaish. They discussed means of enhancing Bader expressed his gratitude for the award which also day event covering its activities in coral reef pro- cooperation in the cultural and media fields. They reflects the efforts of both the Kuwaiti Embassy and tection, beach cleaning, removal of ship debris also discussed means of coordinating efforts dur- First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and other environmental projects, team mem- ing the celebration of ‘Kuwait: a capital of Islamic Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. — KUNA ber Dhari Al-Huwayel said. — KUNA Culture’ by next year. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Beyond the call of duty, a firefighter takes a break after tackling the flames. — KUNA photo Kuwait opens two schools at Amir’s village in Zaatari refugee camp

MAFRAQ: IICO President Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq opens two model IICO President Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq talks to Syrian refugee students schools at His Highness the Amir’s village at the Zaatari refugee camp. at His Highness the Amir’s school. MAFRAQ: President of Kuwait-based The Saturday opening ceremony was near future. Maatouq cited the UN honoring of Jordanian Education Minister Mohammad Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan Dr Hamad International Islamic Charitable Organization attended by officials from the UN children His Highness the Amir, a year ago, as the Thunaibat expressed gratitude for the State of Al-Duaij underlined that His Highness the (IICO) Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq opened two agency (UNICEF), the European Union’s mis- ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and Kuwait as a Kuwait and its people for their relentless Amir was following the humanitarian condi- model schools at His Highness the Amir sion in Jordan, the UN refugee agency and ‘Humanitarian Center.’ humanitarian support for people in need in tions of the Syrian refugees in the host Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s Jordan. Speaking to KUNA and Kuwait TV, different parts of the world. countries. Director of Zaatari camp Colonel village, in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Maatouq recalled that His Highness the Amir Syrian brothers He said Jordan’s response plan to address Abdulrahman Al-Amoush said Kuwait’s aid Maatouq, also Amiri Diwan Advisor and UN has ordered construction of 1,000 housing At his speech before the official opening of the growing refugees’ needs amounted to $2.8 convoys for the Syrian refugees did not stop. Secretary General’s Humanitarian envoy, said units in the camp along with mosques, the schools, Maatouq reiterated the Kuwaiti billion, however less than $600 million were Kuwait plans to build other model villages in the two schools would house more than 2,500 schools and mosques. “His Highness the Amir people support for their Syrian brothers. “We provided. He said $300 million were spent on Jordan, each containing 1,000 makeshift students and were built out of His Highness is keen that the largest number of Syrian male in Kuwait are working hard to ... alleviate the the construction of schools and expansion of houses in addition to public facilities. More the Amir’s keenness to provide education for and female students get the chance to have suffering of the displaced inside Syria and the existing ones to contain the Syrian refugees than 1.3 million refugees are living in the Syrian refugees living in the Zaatari proper education,” he said. He hoped those refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and other over the past two years. A similar amount is Jordan, over 500,000 of them live in Zaatari refugee camp, northern Jordan. students would be the backbone of Syria in refugee zones,” he said. needed in future. camp. — KUNA IICO graduates Quran students in Jordan

AMMAN: In the framework of its Al-Shafi’e program, learners a year and some of the learners complete the International Islamic Charitable Organization the course in ten months,” Dr Maatouq added. (IICO) organized a graduation ceremony for 114 Meanwhile, Ambassador Duaij spoke highly of the Jordanian Quran male and female students Saturday IICO efforts to promote Quran learning and advance night. The graduation ceremony, held at the Applied this holy program in collaboration with the Jordanian Science Private University, gathered Kuwait Quran preservation society (Hoffadh). He congratu- Ambassador to Jordan Dr Hamad Al-Duaij, IICO chair- lated the new graduates on their achievement and man Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq and its Director appreciated their perseverance and dedication to General Salem Hamada, rector and professors of the preserve the Holy Quran. university, and dozens of the graduates’ relatives. In the meantime, Hamada said Al-Shafi’e program Speaking to KUNA and Kuwait TV, Dr Maatouq attracted 600 Jordanian youths including today’s said: “We take great pride in this constellation of graduates. Head of the program Khaled Al-Qassar Jordanian youths who participated in Al-Shafi’e pro- said the enrolment in the program topped 4,000 peo- gram and completed learning the Holy Quran in just ple in 23 countries. He extolled His Highness the Amir three years.” Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for spon- He thanked the participants in the program and soring the IICO activities and thanked the Kuwaitis their parents who encouraged them to learn the Holy and Jordanians who contributed to the success of the AMMAN: IICO President Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq, Kuwait Ambassador to Jordan Dr Hamad Al-Duaij and other guests are pic- Quran. “The IICO graduates more than 100 Quran program. — KUNA tured with students at the graduation ceremony. — KUNA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 LOCAL

KUWAIT: This file photo shows elementary stage students walking to their school. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Schools increasing fees without permission face closure: Ministry 288,000 private school students begin academic year

KUWAIT: Any school that increases Some 288,000 students, including The number of students attending fees without permission from the 70,000 Kuwaiti nationals, began their private schools this year increased by Ministry of Education will be forced to school year at private educational 10 percent, said Busairi, adding that return fees or face closure, a senior institutions yesterday. Around 156,281 the department will issue the final ministry official said yesterday. The students, including 50,000 Kuwaiti’s, numbers when registration at private ministry’s department for private edu- were attending foreign private schools was done. The strategy to cation will impose ministerial legisla- schools while students attending receive the private schools students is tions on keeping fees without increas- Arabic private schools were at around set in motion and hopefully proce- es, head of the department Abdullah 131,706 students, including some dures will run smoothly, affirmed the Al-Busairi said. 25,000 Kuwaitis, Busairi said. official. — KUNA Interior Ministry ready for new school year

By Hanan Al-Saadoun activities sector at the Ministry of Education for every stage, starting KUWAIT: Director General of with kindergarten and going all the Relations and Security Information way to the 12th grade. During the Department at the Interior Ministry program, the Relations and Security Brigadier Adel Al-Hashash said that Information Department will partici- concerned authorities completed pate in lectures and distribute their preparations for the new school brochures in order to raise awareness year 2015/2016. The department pre- on safety measures, he explained. pared an integrated media campaign Brig Hashash urged all drivers to under the slogan ‘the safety of our cooperate with policemen and follow children is our commitment,’ he said. the security and traffic messages that The campaign includes broadcasting will be broadcasted live to deal with awareness messages on local TV and congestions and traffic jams. radio stations, in addition to live inter- Alternative roads can be used in Brigadier Adel Al-Hashash views with security officials, he added. accordance with announcements Meanwhile, Brig Hashash revealed be made during the school year in made through a special operations that a security awareness program will cooperation with the educational room, he said. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 From the Arabic press Crime Al-Qabas Report Terrorism Detectives and the Man hits police funding country’s security cars with helmet KUWAIT: A Gulf national was placed under guard at Al-Razi By Abdelrahman Al-Duaij hospital and a blood sample was taken to check for the presence of alcohol in his blood stream. The man faces sev- t is with the help of Allah Almighty that the eral charges including damaging patrol cars and attacking citizen now has confidence in detectives, and traffic officers. A police source said the man refused to stop that they will catch any criminal or fugitive on Second Ring Road, then when officers gave chase, he I hours after committing a crime and filing crimes suddenly stopped causing the damage of another patrol car. The man then got out of his car with a helmet and against unknowns is something from the past, smashed the glass of the patrols, then got in the car again except on rare occasions. Allah has given Kuwait and attempted to escape but he collided with a half lorry help to discover what the enemies are plotting, and was forced to stop. and that security authorities are ready for them. But with great regret, they may get assistance from residents of the country who are loyal to Officer injured while on duty them. Do these people deserve to be sincere chil- Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for General dren of their country, or are they intruders Security Maj Gen Abdelfattah Al-Ali visited Major helped by who adopted them? Rather they are a Abdallah Al-Merdas who was slightly injured while on disgrace to their families and tribes. They must be duty. Major Merdas launched a security campaign near Al-Jarida exiled form this country of security and safety. a chicken company in Sulaibiya, when four men Kuwait is known for liking good things for attempted to escape and almost hit Major Merdas who every human being of any ethnicity or religion, avoided them. The four were arrested and charged and its goodness covers all countries that need with attempting to escape and attempting to kill an material and moral help, be it from the Kuwaiti officer while on duty. government or citizens who are raised on liking to help and giving to their brothers in humanity Corpse found on beach and religion. Al-Anbaa Kuwait announced that the United Nations A body of an Asian man that was found near the seaside in said all aid given by Kuwait to all foreign causes Fintas was sent to the coroner, as there are suspicions of has nothing to do with what terrorists get in foul play. A security source said a call was received about financial support and aid. But the regretful thing the body on the beach, so following the legal procedure, Arab Spring ‘Gulfanization’ is that those who want evil and harm for Kuwait detectives were informed who are investigating the case. are some of the owners of companies and presti- By Salah Al-Sayer gious stores in the country, who are not being Narrow escape harmed either verbally or physically by the hen some Arab people revolted against the Arab Spring. To their bad luck, Gulf people Kuwaiti government or individuals. A would be kidnapper of a Filipina woman let her go Um Amer (Arabs used to call hyenas by this when she screamed and sought help from passersby. A their tyrant rulers during the Arab Spring realized the trick before it was too late and start- name) reached out to the owner of a tent in the security source said the person was driving a car and Wand went out to streets demonstrating, ed exposing those vicious groups to everybody. attempted to push the woman inside when she left work. all better off Arab peoples, including those in the We have been living in better off countries led desert out of fear of hunters who were chasing In another story, an Asian woman reported to police that Arabian Gulf who enjoy having stability, good by wise ruling families who had proved their her. Then when he harbored her and gave her a compatriot of hers attempted to kidnap her and force rulers and good subject-ruler relations, applaud- competence through the worse and better condi- food and water, and when she felt secure, she her to commit vice acts. She said the man is known for ed such revolts out of sup- tions, turned deserts into attacked him, and her punishment was death. working in ‘brothels.’ Investigations are ongoing. porting the oppressed great cities and calm, safe Will the person who betrayed his country after and rejecting tyranny. and secure communities. growing up in it be a trusted citizen? Rather, the That was such a noble Gulf people realized the Nevertheless, so many Quranic verse sets the punishment for corruptors Transgender party busted move that both our peo- ignorant people have on earth. I do not say they should be killed or cru- ples and governments trick before it was too late been demanding change. A security source said police responded to call about a cified, but should be exiled, so they can live with have been historically But when you ask one of mixed party in Fintas area including transexuals. Police and started exposing those the criminals that are spread all over the Arab arrested several of those present and the organizers. Legal brought up to. them, “What type of world, with great regret. Finally, we hope that the However, driven by change are you demand- procedures are being taken towards them. vicious groups to everybody. deputy premier and interior minister rewards the enthusiasm, Gulf people ing, Sonny?” he would detectives who are awake while people are were unaware that politi- only respond by meaning- asleep. cally-motivated Islam groups had taken advan- less statements and phrases that only show how Translated by Kuwait Times Domestic violence tage of the Arab Spring and tried ‘importing’ and brainwashed he was into becoming someone — A citizen accused her brother for beating her following ‘smuggling’ those revolutions into the Gulf. who sees prosperity as misery and would not hes- family disputes. She filed a complaint at Fahad Al- Therefore, they started ‘pretending virtues to cov- itate to destroy himself and his own country with Ahamd police station. He said that he beat her after er vice,’ magnifying mistakes and twisting the the illusion that he would be rewarded by palaces she spoke loudly to him. Police are investigating. outcome for their own interests and to serve their in heaven. Al-Jarida —Al-Rai, Al-Anbaa misleading mottos with the aim of ‘Gulfanizing’ —Translated by Kuwait Times Out of Prosecution asks to discussion return gag order on Hezb cell By Ali Mahmoud Khajah

KUWAIT: Public prosecution wrote to the court request- do not usually get carried away with calls to ing to re-issue a decision to ban media coverage of the have a minister step down or resign over the Hezbollah cell case on all media including social networks Ipresence of some mistakes within his ministry, on the same day it sent the Hezbollah cell case to court in and this is simply because we rarely find a mistake- which 25 citizens are accused, informed sources said. The less ministry in Kuwait. In addition, such calls may sources added that the prosecution does have the author- cost us a competitive official who could have been ity to request a re-issuance of the coverage ban, so it capable of developing his ministry and saving what asked the court to issue a ban order. The first court session is left of it. on the case will be held on September 15. —Al-Qabas For example, I am totally against calling the min- ister of public works to resign whenever a severe mistake takes place in building a new road, espe- cially if such a minister has come to office after the Awqaf suspends road construction has already started. I am not for calling the information minister to resign if KTV preachers makes a technical mistake and describes Israel as a ‘friendly country’ either. Nonetheless, I would KUWAIT: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs plans expect both ministers to take disciplinary measures to suspend several preachers for promoting expiatory and hold those responsible accountable for such and extreme ideology. An official source said the min- mistakes. istry received several complaints from worshipers, then The Ministry of Health’s (MoH) mistake that after reviewing speeches and lessons, violations were claimed the life of a young citizen because of a found warranting their suspension. The source added medical error is very bitter and cruel. It can happen everywhere worldwide regardless of how devel- that some of the violators enjoy being protected by oped a country is because human errors do happen some officials in the ministry. They explained that in one including the most tragic ones that end in losing case, instead of holding an expatriate preacher to human lives. The mistake can originate from the account for several violations, the preacher was given system adopted on selecting doctors in the first several jobs to enjoy financial advantages, while the place, when the specialized interviewing commit- manager who complained against him was transferred tee disregards precision and carefulness when to another department. —Al-Qabas selecting them, which is also possible as a result of accumulated corruption. Kuwait’s MoH is surely the largest lab to test Health offices ministers and the government has been appointing health ministers whenever it wishes to introduce a to be protected new sheikh, distribute ministerial positions accord- ing to tribal or doctrinal measures or whenever a KUWAIT: The Health Ministry plans to sign contracts doctor publishes an ad about his private clinic in with security companies to protect its health offices local dailies, and thus the ministry that requires the abroad, informed sources said, adding that they will greatest deal of discipline and order turns into a lab start with the Kuwait health office in Paris, France. This to try each minister and assess them. However, the death of a citizen due to medical move comes after the financial attachÈ at Kuwait’s error is directly the responsibility of the health min- health office in Paris Faisal Al-Zamanan was attacked ister regardless of how deteriorated the ministry is. in a vehicle he was riding with others to deliver As I mentioned in the beginning of this article, I do patients money to the office, the sources said. not usually get carried away with calls to have a The Kuwait health office in France received three minster step down or resign over mistakes, but I offers and will choose one company to sign a contract expect such ministers to take disciplinary measures with very soon, they added. —Al-Anbaa and hold those responsible accountable for such mistakes. The health minister did not act properly compared List of bedoons to the severity of the fatal medical mistake that claimed a citizen’s precious life, which is completely in 1965 census intolerable. What happened reflects severe lenience and irresponsibility. Medical errors do happen, yet submitted what is unacceptable is that the doctor responsible for it manages to officially and legally flee Kuwait the KUWAIT: The Central Agency for Illegal Residents is following day without even having to forge a pass- currently studying the remaining lists of bedoons regis- port or something, which indicates a great deal of tered in the 1965 census pending submittal to the irresponsibility and unacceptable insolence. Higher Citizenship Committee, said well-informed So, if handling Kuwait’s most precious assets - human beings - is taken so lightly and the minister sources. The sources added the agency tried contact- turns up to be incapable of being up to his simplest ing those who had not filed nor updated their informa- duties and responsibilities, he should better step tion yet to do so as soon as possible. Documents refer- down for the greater good of Kuwait and of every ring to the 1965 census, the first conducted in Kuwaitís human being living in this country! history, are key for consideration to receive the Kuwaiti —Translated by Kuwait Times citizenship. —Al-Anbaa MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 ‘Trumpisms’ that would Monks claim victory as Myanmar Muslims face election exclusion spell trouble for anyone but Trump Page 13 Page 12

FRANKFURT: Migrants are welcomed by locals after their arrival at the main railway station. — AFP 10k refugees pour into Germany Greeted with cheers, welcome signs

BERLIN: Thousands more migrants streamed into Germany yes- “When I approached the baby, I said to myself, ‘Dear God I terday, greeted with cheers and “welcome” signs, as Pope Francis hope he’s alive.’ But he showed no signs of life. I was crushed,” he called on every Catholic parish in Europe to take in a refugee told Turkey’s Dogan news agency, “I have a six-year-old son. The family. In moving scenes, the newcomers clutching their chil- moment I saw the baby, I thought about my own son and put dren and sparse belongings stepped off trains to applause from myself into his father’s place. Words cannot describe what a sad well-wishers who held balloons, snapped photos and gave them and tragic sight it was.” water, food and clothes. The scale of suffering has led Germany in recent days to drop German police said they expected a record 10,000 refugees normal formalities and allow in vastly higher numbers of to arrive in the southern state of Bavaria alone by the end of the refugees. As train and busloads have kept on coming from day. “The people here treat us so well, they treat us like real Hungary, Germany took in another 6,000 people by 1500 GMT human beings, not like in Syria,” said Mohammad, 32, from the yesterday and expected 4,000 more through the day, after about devastated town of Qusayr, his eyes welling up with tears. 8,000 refugees arrived on Saturday, police told AFP. Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II has exposed a In all, Europe’s most populous nation expects 800,000 new growing east-west rift within the EU, with frontline Hungary- asylum applications this year-four times last year’s total and which first held back migrants, but later sent them on to Austria more than any other EU nation-at an estimated cost to the state and Germany-rejecting the bloc’s “failed immigration policy”. of 10 billion Euros ($11 billion). As refugees got off trains, police Hungary’s conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has directed them to waiting buses bound for temporary shelters, sought to secure his country’s Serbian border with a fence, has which have been set up in public buildings, hotels and army bar- voiced concern about mostly Muslim refugees undermining racks across the country. what he called Europe’s Christian identity. Pope Francis, howev- “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here,” crowds er, in a Sunday sermon stressed it was Christian to help those in chanted overnight at the Frankfurt railway station. In a sign the desperate need and urged “every parish, every religious commu- exodus from Syria shows no sign of abating, rescuers in Cyprus nity, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe” to take in a said yesterday they had saved more than 100 refugees fleeing family. the war after their boat ran into trouble off the eastern “Faced with the tragedy of tens of thousands of asylum-seek- Mediterranean island. ers fleeing death (as) victims of war and hunger who are hoping to start a new life, the gospel calls on us to be the neighbor of ‘Must be EU solution’ the smallest and the most abandoned, to give them concrete But Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann warned yesterday hope,” he said in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. The Vatican’s two his country’s admittance of thousands of refugees crossing from parishes would take in two refugee families “in the coming days”, Hungary was just a “temporary” measure. “There is no alternative he said, setting an example for more than 50,000 other parishes to a common European solution,” said Faymann, calling for an EU across the continent. summit immediately after a September 14 interior ministers’ meeting. ‘Sad and tragic’ Berlin and other capitals have called for binding refugee quo- Europe’s conscience has been pricked by pictures of the life- tas for each EU country, and common rules on the granting of less body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi lying on a asylum. With many migrants also still crossing to Greek islands Turkish beach. Turkish police officer Mehmet Ciplak, who was close to Turkey, Athens yesterday sent more troops to Lesbos pictured cradling the toddler’s body, has recounted how he after fresh clashes between police and migrants, the public prayed the little boy was still alive as he walked towards him and broadcaster said, while Syrian refugees on the island were tar- scooped him up from the water’s edge. geted in Molotov cocktail attacks. — AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Congratulations on the 67th birthday of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) national unity. Democracy is a common and exchange their experience and political idea desirable for and acceptable achievements on a wide scale so that sci- to people with differing thoughts and ence and technology in our country political views, and is a noble right due to develop rapidly. The federal state should people from all walks of life as masters of actively encourage exchange and cooper- thestate and society. ation between artists and sportsmen from The DFRK should develop a full demo- the north and south and ensure that the cratic social and political system which scientists in the two halves together opposes dictatorship and intelligence pol- uncover and protect the cultural heritage itics and firmly guarantees and defends of our nation and that they study and the freedoms and rights of the people. develop our unique written and spoken The federal state should guarantee free- language. If this is done, our national cul- dom to form political parties and social ture and arts will flourish to the full and organizations and their freedom of action, the unique characteristics of our people freedom of religious belief, speech, the as a homogeneous nation will be pre- press, assembly and demonstration, and served. guarantee the rights of the people in Education is a very important under- north and south to travel freely across the taking which decides the fate of the country and to conduct political, econom- nation. The federal government should ic and cultural activities freely in any area. train large numbers of able technical The federal government should pur- experts and steadily raise the cultural and sue a fair policy which will guarantee intellectual levels of the entire people by equality between the interests of the two developing a popular education system regions, two systems, different parties, and giving active state and social support groups, classes and circles in the country to educational work. without bias towards either side. All the policies pursued by the federal govern- Transport and Communication ment should proceed from the principle Fifth, the DFRK should reopen transport of great national unity and contribute to and communications links between the the uniform development and prosperity north and south and ensure the free use of of the country through the strengthening the means of transport and communica- of national unity and cooperation. tions all across the country. Transport and The federal government should not communications represent the arteries and The Great Leaders President KIM IL SUNG and General KIM JONG IL at question the past records of any of the nervous system of the country. Because Lake Chon on Mt. Paekdu organizations or individuals in the north the territory has been divided in two and or the south that work for the develop- transport and communications have been DPRK Foundation and Development national union and reunification. Our Party ment of the unified state, but should join severed, our people cannot see or hear The DPRK was founded by its founding maintains that the country should be hands with them, and should not allow from their families and relatives, although father, the Great Leader of the Korean People reunified by founding a Federal Republic any form of political reprisal or persecu- they live within easy reach. This is a tragedy. President KIM IL SUNG on 9 September through the establishment of a unified tion. Restoring transport and communications 1948. President KIM IL SUNG turned the national government on the condition links between the north and south is the DPRK, once underdeveloped, into a dignified that the north and the south recognize Economic Cooperation only way to end the national tragedy and and advanced socialist state, Juche in ideolo- and tolerate each other’s ideas and social Third, the DFRK should effect econom- realize full political, economic and cultural gy, independent in politics, self-sufficient in systems, a government in which the two ic cooperation and exchange between exchange and cooperation. Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN acknowledging at a Mass Rally & Military the economy, and self-reliant in national sides are represented on an equal footing north and south and ensure the develop- Parade. defense. and under which they exercise regional ment of an independent national econo- Stable Livelihoods Under the Songun leadership of the Great autonomy with equal rights and duties. ests. coordinate the foreign relations of the my. In the two parts of our country there Sixth, the DFRK should ensure a stable Leader General KIM JONG IL, the DPRK devel- As the unified government of the fed- The DFRK should make vigorous north and the south properly to make sure is a wealth of natural resources that can livelihood for the entire people including oped into a strong political and military pow- eral state, the supreme national federal efforts to enable all Korean nationals liv- that the two regional governments act still be exploited and also the economic the workers, peasants and other working er, with a harmoniously-developed economic assembly and the federal standing com- ing abroad to enjoy their internationally consistently with each other in their for- foundations that have been built in the masses and promote their welfare system- structure and a reliable nuclear deterrent. The mittee, its permanent organ, should dis- accepted legal rights and liberties, and eign activities. past. If, once the country is reunified, the atically. The working masses are the mas- great ideas of and achievements made by the cuss and decide political affairs, matters of give them strong support and encourage- north and the south develop their natural ters of the state and society and the cre- great leaders President KIM IL SUNG and national defense, foreign affairs and other ment in their struggle for democratic Unified State resources jointly and use their existing ators of all material wealth. Guaranteeing a General KIM JONG IL for the development matters of common concern related to the national rights. The federal government Tenth, the DFRK should, as a unified economic foundations effectively through stable life for the working people and and strengthening of the DPRK are being interests of the country and the nation as a should guarantee the rights of all our state representing the whole nation, cooperation and mutual assistance, our steadily promoting their well-being should carried forward and shined brilliantly whole, fairly and in accordance with the overseas compatriots to travel freely to develop friendly relations with all the national economy will be able to develop be the most important principle in the under the sagacious leadership of the desire for national unity, cooperation and their motherland and to return home and countries of the world and pursue a at a very rapid pace, and our people will activities of a democratic state which respected Marshal KIM JONG UN. reunification; they should also promote live and act freely at a place of residence peaceful foreign policy. The DFRK should the coordinated development of the all be able to enjoy as good a life as any serves the people, and this is also a duty to of their choice. be the only representative of the entire Reasonable Proposal country and the nation and realize unity other people. the nation devolving on the unified gov- Korean nation in its foreign relations. The for Korea’s Reunification and cooperation between the north and Economic cooperation and exchange ernment. Foreign relations federal state should represent the entire between north and south should be real- In all its activities the federal state President KIM IL SUNG taught to south in all spheres. The unified govern- Ninth, the DFRK should deal properly Korean nation at the United Nations and in ized on the basis of recognizing the differ- should give priority to stabilizing the lives reunify the divided Koreas independent- ment of the federal state should respect with the foreign relations established by other international organizations and ent economic systems and diverse eco- of the people from all social strata includ- ly and peacefully through great nation- the two social systems, as well as the wish- the north and the south prior to reunifica- must send a single delegation to all inter- nomic activities of enterprises in the two ing the workers, peasants and other sec- al unity. es of the administrative organizations, tion, and should coordinate the foreign national gatherings where the whole parts of the country. The federal govern- tions of the working people and to pro- The President put forward a reason- every party, every group, and every sec- activities of the two regional governments nation is to be represented. ment should recognize and protect state, moting their welfare. It should ensure a able proposal for reunification in his tion of the people in the north and south in a unified manner. It is only when the for- The DFRK should adhere to the line of cooperative and private property in the decent life for everyone by guaranteeing address at the 6th Congress of the and prevent one side from imposing its eign relations built up by the north and neutrality, follow the policy of non-align- north and south as well as personal adequate living conditions for the entire Workers’ Party of Korea on 10 October, will on the other. the south prior to national reunification ment and develop friendly relations with The DFRK should be a neutral country effects, and refrain from restricting or working people with regard to food, cloth- 1980, as published below a part of his are conducted in the right manner that it all nations on the principles of independ- which does not join any political-military encroaching upon the property of capital- ing and shelter and by raising the living speech. will be possible to ensure both the inter- ence, noninterference in internal affairs, alliance or bloc. Since the two parts of the ists and their business activities as long as standards of the poor to those of the mid- ests of the nation as a whole and the inter- equality, mutual benefit and peaceful country, north and south, with different they help develop the national economy dle class. Let Us Reunify the Country ests of the two halves of the country with- coexistence. In particular, it should actively ideas and social systems are to be united and do not engage in monopolist or com- The federal state should provide work Independently and Peacefully in the framework of the unified state and develop neighborly relations with the to form a single federal state, it is necessary prador activities. The federal state should for all able-bodied people, ensure ade- Based on the noble ideals and princi- to enable the federal state to develop countries surrounding ours. and most reasonable for the DFRK to be a ensure that the north and the south joint- quate conditions for work and rest and ples laid down in the July 4 North-South friendly relations with the various coun- The DFRK should be a peace-loving neutral state. The DFRK, as a united state ly develop and exploit mineral, marine introduce a wage system, a price policy Joint Statement, and taking into consider- tries of the world on an equitable footing. nation and pursue a peaceful foreign poli- embracing the whole territory and all the and other natural resources, and further and an equitable tax system so as to guar- ation the actual situation in our country in The DFRK should repeal all the treaties cy. A unified Korea will not threaten people of our country, should pursue a the division of labor and promote trade antee a stable livelihood for the working which different ideologies and social sys- and agreements with other countries that aggression against the countries neigh- policy which accords with the fundamen- extensively on the principles of coopera- people. Steps should be taken for different tems exist in north and south, we must are detrimental to national unity, including boring ours or any other nations of the tal interests and demands of the entire tion and mutual accommodation, while enterprises, including small and medium- seek the shortest and surest way to nation- military treaties concluded separately by world and will not be a party to or cooper- Korean people. Our Party deems it appro- coordinating the economic activities of all sized ones, to conduct production activi- al reunification and make positive efforts the north and the south prior to reunifica- ate in any international act of aggression. priate that the DFRK should put forward production units and enterprises in keep- ties on a normal basis in order to ensure to reunify the country. tion. Of the foreign relations established The federal state should make the Korean and carry out the following policy: ing with the interests of the various class- the working people’s livelihood and, in par- Our Party considers that the most real- by the north and the south, those rela- peninsula a permanent peace zone and es and circles. It would be advisable for ticular, the state should give active support istic and reasonable way to reunify the tions, economic relations included, that do nuclear-free zone. To this end, it should Independent Policy the authorities and enterprises in the to the poor peasants and fishermen, small country independently, peacefully and on not run counter to the common interests ban the presence of foreign troops and First, the DFRK should adhere to inde- north and south to set up and operate merchants and handicraftsmen in their the principle of great national unity is to of the nation should be maintained. foreign military bases on its territory and pendence in all state activities and pursue joint companies, common markets and work. The federal state should pay close draw the north and the south together The federal state should permit the prohibit the manufacture, introduction an independent policy. Independence is the like rationally. attention to the education of the working into a federal state, leaving the ideas and north and the south to cooperate eco- and use of nuclear weapons. the basic mark of an independent state; it people and the improvement of health social systems existing in the north and nomically with other countries irrespective The ten-point policy for the DFRK accu- is the lifeblood of the country and the Uniform Progress services for them and adopt adequate south as they are. of the social system of the country rately reflects the common aspirations and nation. Only when a state exercises sover- Fourth, the DFRK should realize north- measures to this end, so that all working For a long time, ever since liberation, involved. It should leave intact the capital demands of the entire Korean nation and eignty with firm independence in its activi- south exchange and cooperation in the people and their families can receive an different social systems have existed and ties can it uphold the dignity and honor of invested by other nations in South Korea illuminates the road ahead for a unified spheres of science, culture and education education and medical treatment. different ideas have prevailed in north and the nation and ensure the development prior to the reunification of the country Korea. The plan for national reunification and ensure the uniform progress of the south. If, in these circumstances, the coun- and prosperity of the country in keeping and continue to guarantee the conces- and the ten-point political program for the country’s science and technology, nation- Combined National Army try is to be reunified through national with the desires of the people. sions of these countries. unified state proposed by our Party on this al culture and arts, and national educa- Seventh, the DFRK should remove the union, neither side should regard its own The DFRK should be a fully independ- The DFRK should permit the govern- occasion will win the active support and tion. state of military confrontation between ideology and social system as absolute. If ent and sovereign state and a non-aligned ments of the two halves of the country to approval of all the Korean people and will Our people have time-honored, glori- the north and south and form a com- the north or the south should consider its nation which is not a satellite of any other establish bilateral relations with other be warmly welcomed by the people of the ous cultural traditions. Resourceful and bined national army to defend the nation own ideology and social system absolute nation and does not depend on any for- countries. The federal state will have to world. talented, our nation has, since olden against invasion. Military confrontation or try to force them on the other side, it eign forces. The DFRK should oppose all times, admirably developed science, tech- between the huge armed forces of the will inevitably lead to confrontation and forms of foreign interference and depend- nology, culture and arts. Since liberation, north and south gives rise to misunder- conflict, and this will lead to the further ence on foreign forces, exercise complete large numbers of able scientists and tech- standing, mistrust and discord and is a aggravation of the state of division. Since sovereignty in its internal and external nicians, as well as talented cultural work- threat to peace. the entire people regard national reunifi- activities and settle all questions arising in ers and artists, have grown up in the The federal state should reduce the cation as the supreme task, the differences state politics independently in keeping northern and southern parts of our coun- military strength of the two sides to in ideology and system should not be an with the fundamental interests of the try. If they pool their efforts and talents 100,000-150,000 men each in order to insurmountable barrier to reunification. Korean nation and the actual situation in through exchange and cooperation, our end the state of military confrontation People with different ideas can live in one our country. science and technology, national culture between north and south and bring fratri- country, and different social system can and arts will flourish even more brilliantly. cidal strife to an end once and for all. At coexist in a unified country. National Unity The federal state should ensure that the same time, it is essential to abolish the We will never force our ideas and social Second, the DFRK should effect scientists and technicians in the north and Military Demarcation Line between north system upon South Korea and will subor- democracy throughout the country and south undertake scientific research jointly and south, dismantle all military installa- dinate everything to the interests of in all areas of society and promote great tions in its vicinity, dissolve militia organi- zations in both halves of the country and prohibit the military training of civilians. The federal state should amalgamate the Korean People’s Army and the “National Army” of south Korea and form a single combined national army. As the national army of the unified state inde- pendent of either side, north or south, the combined national army should under- take the duty of national defence under the unified leadership of the federal gov- ernment. All costs incurred in maintaining the combined national army and in defending the country should be borne jointly by the north and the south.

Oversea Koreans Eighth, the DFRK should defend and protect the national rights and interests of all oversea Koreans. Many of our Korean compatriots are living abroad. As their motherland, the DFRK should assume the responsibility and duty of defending and A Mechanized Unit of the Korean People's Army at a Military Parade protecting their national rights and inter- Ryugyong Dental Hospital

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Netamyahu: Israel will not be submerged by refugees

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin There is already hostility in Israel toward der between Eilat and where a new airport will Netanyahu yesterday said he would not allow asylum-seekers from Africa and a concerted be built in the Timna Valley. “We will continue Israel to be “submerged” by refugees after calls government effort to repatriate them. Rights the fence up to the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu for the Jewish state to take in those fleeing groups say thousands of African asylum seek- said. That would take it into the Israeli-occu- Syria’s war. Speaking at the weekly cabinet ers have been coerced into “voluntary” depar- pied West Bank along the Jordan Valley, an meeting, Netanyahu also announced the start tures. Official figures show 45,000 illegal immi- area which is already under Israeli military con- of construction of a fence along Israel’s border grants are in Israel, almost all from Eritrea and trol but is claimed by the Palestinians as part of with Jordan, according to his office. Sudan. Most of those not in detention live in their state. Israel has insisted on maintaining “We will not allow Israel to be submerged poor areas of southern Tel Aviv, where there troops in the area in any final peace agree- by a wave of illegal migrants and terrorist have been several protests against them. ment, a stance completely rejected by the activists,” Netanyahu said. “Israel is not indiffer- Palestinians who say it would be a violation of ent to the human tragedy of Syrian and African ‘To the Golan heights’ their sovereignty and merely perpetuate the refugees... but Israel is a small country-very The start of construction of the 30-kilome- occupation. small-without demographic or geographic tre fence announced by Netanyahu involves Israel also has a fence that runs along the depth. That is why we must control our bor- extension of a security barrier to part of its Syrian frontier through the Israeli-occupied ders.” Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on eastern border with Jordan in a bid to keep out Golan Heights. Those fences are in addition to Saturday said Israel should take in Syrian militants and illegal migrants. a barrier that runs through the West Bank, refugees, recalling the plight of Jews who Netanyahu said when it was approved in which Israel began building during the second sought refuge from past conflicts. Palestinian June that the new fence was a continuation of Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which lasted president Mahmud Abbas also called for Israel a 240-kilometre barrier built along the from 2000-2005. Israel seized 1,200 square to allow Palestinians from refugee camps in Egyptian border which “blocked the entry of kilometers of the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Syria to travel to the Palestinian territories, illegal migrants into Israel and the various ter- Six Day War and annexed it 14 years later, in a whose external borders are controlled by the rorist movements”. In its first stage, the new move never recognized by the international JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabi- Jewish state. fence is being built along Israel’s eastern bor- community. — AFP net meeting at his office. — AFP

News in brief

Iraq puts new F-16s against IS jihadists

BAGHDAD: Iraq has put F-16 warplanes acquired from the United States into action against the Islamic State group for the first time, the commander of the air force said yesterday. “Fifteen air strikes were carried out in the past four days,” Staff Lieutenant General Anwar Hama Amin told AFP following a news conference in Baghdad. “Smart weapons” were used in the strikes, Amin said, without specifying the type. Defense Minister Khaled al- Obaidi told the news conference that the strikes had achieved “important results” and that the jets will have “an impact on the conduct of operations in the future.” Amin told the news conference that the F-16 strikes had taken place in Salaheddin and Kirkuk provinces, north of Baghdad. The first four Iraqi F-16s arrived from the United States in mid-July, out of a total of 36 Washington has agreed to sell to Baghdad. The pur- chase had been a source of tension, with Baghdad repeatedly complaining that they have not been deliv- ered quickly enough. Insecurity in Iraq, where IS seized significant territory in June 2014, had delayed the deliv- ery of the jets, with the first batch being sent to Arizona, where Iraqi pilots have been training. An Iraqi pilot was killed when his F-16 crashed during training in Arizona NICOSIA: Refugees fleeing the war in Syria arrive at the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp a few hours after they were rescued as their boat ran into trouble overnight off the earlier this year. Mediterranean island. — AFP Iran says EU must live up to Cyprus saves 114 fleeing historic duty on migrants TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that European countries have a “humanitarian and historic duty” to do more to shelter migrants arriving at its borders. “The world, especially Europe, has a humanitarian and his- Syria in fishing vessel toric duty to (...) help these displaced and stranded people,” Rouhani said, quoted on his website. Europe has been facing an unprecedented influx this Lebanese, Palestinians among the rescued summer of people seeking refuge, many of them from war- torn Syria but also from Africa. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said Saturday that 366,402 migrants have NICOSIA: Rescuers in Cyprus yesterday saved parts of Europe. The boat was mainly carrying but “there were no serious injuries warranting a existing information it appears that each crossed the Mediterranean to Europe this year, with 2,800 more than 100 refugees fleeing the war in Syria Syrian refugees, but also some Lebanese and transfer to the hospital,” the interior minister refugee paid more than 3,000 Euros ($3,345) killed or missing en route. “We are glad some European after their boat ran into trouble overnight off Palestinians from Syria, Hasikos said. Cyprus, a said. Yesterday afternoon, three buses carrying each” for the journey, Angelides said. countries have taken positive measures to save the dis- the Mediterranean island, authorities said. The member of the European Union, lies just 100 87 of the refugees reached the reception camp Last September, some 345 Syrian and placed immigrants and we hope that other EU countries 114 people, including 54 women and children, kilometers off the Syrian coast but has so far at Kokkinotrimithia outside Nicosia, officials Palestinian refugees were rescued by a cruise would join this trend,” said Rouhani. had been aboard a small fishing boat about 40 avoided a mass influx of refugees from the said. liner in stormy waters off the island’s coast and Rouhani, speaking as he received Hungary’s new nautical miles from the southern Cypriot port of country’s conflict, with most preferring to Outside the centre, men and women were housed for several months before their camp ambassador, Janos Kuac, said Iran hosts more migrants Larnaca at the time they struck trouble, said a bypass the island to reach the European main- seen walking in past high barbed-wire fences, was closed. Two months later, about 220 Syrian from neighboring countries, mostly Afghanistan and Iraq, source in the island’s Joint Rescue Coordination land. some carrying children and babies in their arms. refugees crammed onto a fishing boat were res- than any other state in the region. “All the problems ... stem Centre. Cyprus police said they had arrested Late on Saturday night, the boat’s captain Official news agency CNA said some others had cued off the coast of Turkish-occupied northern from the threat of radical groups and terrorists that have three people who had admitted to smuggling sent a distress signal as the vessel was listing asked for asylum and been taken to an asylum Cyprus after hitting rough seas. caused fear and displacement among innocent people in the refugees, of whom more than half were because its engine stopped working, prompt- centre outside Larnaca. Police spokesman Europe has been facing an unprecedented the region,” he said. Hungary is a key point of entry to the transferred to a reception camp outside Nicosia ing the police and army to launch a rescue Andreas Angelides said the three people arrest- influx this summer of people seeking refuge, EU for migrants and refugees from the Middle East and yesterday. The boat had departed from the operation, authorities said. All of those on board ed were expected to appear in court on many of them from war-torn Syria. The UN Asia trekking up through the Balkans to western Europe Syrian port town of Tartus and stopped in the stricken vessel were safely brought ashore Monday. refugee agency says more than 2,500 people after crossing the Mediterranean to Greece. Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, authorities said. to Larnaca by 7:00 am yesterday, police said. Police said the three suspects - aged 47, 33 have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos told and 28 — faced charges of people trafficking. this year, many of them Syrian refugees des- reporters the refugees had been headed for Rescued children and babies Local newspaper Phileleftheros reported that perate to escape their country’s four-and-a- Greece, with some hoping to travel on to other Some of them received first aid at the port, the boat’s captain was among them. “From the half year war. — AFP Australia firm on migrant quota but Dutch journalist Strikes rock Sanaa will admit more SYDNEY: Australian leader Tony Abbott said yesterday the govern- detained while ment would welcome a higher portion of Syrian refugees amid reporting on Kurds Europe’s humanitarian crisis, but would not increase its annual after rebel attack refugee intake. Europe is facing an unprecedented influx of people seeking safe-havens, many from war-torn Syria, with the human cost ISTANBUL: A Dutch journalist based in Turkey’s of the crisis reflected in images of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi whose mainly Kurdish southeast said yesterday she had SANAA: Powerful explosions shook the ern stronghold last year and seized the capi- day’s bombardment was one of the heaviest body washed up on a Turkish beach. Canberra takes a hardline been detained while covering the pro-Kurdish Yemeni capital yesterday, witnesses said, tal Sanaa unopposed before advancing on since the air campaign began. “The first stance against asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia by boat, with People’s Democratic Party (HDP) — the second time after the Saudi-led coalition vowed to press second city Aden in March. strike after dawn prayers shook our house,” Abbott saying Friday that tough policies were needed to stop she was arrested by Turkish authorities. Frederike its air war following a rebel missile strike that The latest coalition raids pounded posi- said Sadeq Al-Juhayfi, a resident of Al-Haffa, drownings at sea. The prime minister said he was moved by photo- Geerdink wrote on her Twitter account that she had killed dozens of Gulf soldiers. The United tions of the rebels and renegade troops loyal southeast of Sanaa, where a military base graphs of the three-year-old and was sending Immigration Minister been detained in the Yuksekova district of Hakkari Arab Emirates had pledged to quickly to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was targeted. Witnesses in the area said Peter Dutton to Geneva late yesterday for talks with the UN refugee province and would be questioned by a prosecutor. avenge its heaviest ever military loss after 45 was forced to resign in 2012 following a explosions were still heard around midday agency UNHCR, amid a growing domestic push to address the crisis. She said she was with a group of “human shields” of its soldiers were killed in Friday’s missile bloody uprising. Coalition warplanes struck at the base, suggesting it housed an arms But despite calls from opposition parties Labor and Greens for an at the time of her arrest and that the entire group attack, along with 10 Saudis and five military bases on the Nahdain and Fajj Attan depot. increase in the refugee intake, Abbott said the annual 2015-16 quo- had been taken into custody. Dutch news agency Bahrainis. The UAE is part of the Arab coali- hills and the neighboring presidential com- Meanwhile, normally bustling areas of ta, at 13,750, would remain the same. “We are disposed to take more ANP reported that Geerdink was detained while tion formed in March aimed at stopping the plex, south of Sanaa, as well as a headquar- the capital remained empty and shops were people from that troubled region under our refugee and humanitar- travelling with HDP members and cited her family as Iran-backed rebels from taking full control of ters for Special Forces. mostly shuttered. Students taking exams at ian program, and we are open to providing more financial assis- saying she was being held for entering a “forbidden Yemen and at restoring the rule of exiled Also targeted were Houthi positions in Abdulrazzaq Al-Sanaani high school, in tance to the UNHCR,” he told reporters in Canberra. zone”. President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. the northern neighborhoods of Sufan and Hadda neighborhood, said they abandoned He declined to specify how many more would be accepted, but The Dutch foreign ministry wrote on Twitter that Complaining of marginalization, the Shiite Al-Nahda, forcing scores of residents to flee, their tests and fled. “We usually get hun- said Australia took in almost 4,500 refugees from Iraq and Syria last the Dutch embassy in Ankara was following up on Houthi rebels descended from their north- the witnesses said. Witnesses said yester- dreds of customers... Today, workers have year and “we are prepared to take significant numbers this year giv- the case with Turkish authorities. Geerdink, who ran away and there are no people in the en the ongoing crisis and its scale”. The focus would be on families, moved to Turkey in 2006, writes mainly about the street,” said Kamal Al-Majidi, a waiter at a women and children residing in camps “on the edges of Syria”, country’s Kurdish population. She was arrested ear- restaurant in Hadda. The Houthis said Abbott said, particularly from persecuted minorities. lier this year on charges of spreading “terrorist prop- Friday’s missile attack was “revenge” for six Abbott added that Australia was already gradually lifting its aganda” for the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party months of deadly air raids, but the coalition annual refugee intake-to 16,250 in 2017-18 and to 18,750 the fol- (PKK) but was acquitted of the charges in April. vowed there would be no let-up in its air lowing year. By contrast, Labor agreed at its July national conference There is growing concern about press freedom in war. The coalition launched the bombing to double the current refugee intake to 27,500 by 2025, while the Turkey, with journalists complaining of a squeeze on campaign when President Hadi fled to Saudi Greens have called on the government to accept an additional media critical of the government as Ankara wages a Arabia in March after the rebels entered his 20,000 Syrian refugees on top of the current allocation. major offensive against Kurdish militants. Turkish last refuge, Aden. After loyalists recaptured Other countries helping out include Britain, to take in 15,000 authorities on Thursday released two British the southern port in July, the coalition Syrian refugees according to a Sunday Times report, and Canada, to reporters working for US-based media outlet Vice launched a ground operation that has seen accept an additional 10,000 people from Syria and Iraq annually News, who were held on terror charges for a week. the rebels pushed back from five southern over the next three years. Under Australia’s immigration policy, asy- Thomas Bruning, secretary-general of the Dutch provinces, although they still control Sanaa lum-seekers that arrive by boat are sent to Pacific island camps in Association of Journalists, accused Turkey of trying and much of the north and centre. Nauru and Papua New Guinea and blocked from resettling on the to muzzle the press. “The importance of the freedom For the UAE, Friday’s losses were the island continent even if they are found to be refugees. of the press does not seem to interest this country heaviest since the formation of the federa- After Abbott came into power in September 2013, the govern- any more. The situation of Turkish media is worrying tion in 1971, and the oil-rich Gulf state has ment launched a military-led operation to turn boats back. Abbott but now foreign journalists can also not do their SANAA: Smoke billows from buildings after reported air-strikes by the vowed to retaliate. “Our revenge shall not said the current crisis needed a security response, with Australia set work,” he said. — AFP Saudi-led coalition on arms warehouses at al-Dailami air base, controlled take long,” warned Abu Dhabi Crown Prince to reveal this week if it will extend its air campaign against the by Yemeni Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies. — AFP Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. — AFP Islamic State group in Iraq into Syria following a US request. — AFP

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Britain’s next political star is a 60-something socialist

LONDON: Britain’s surprising new political Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives in favorite. Polls put him ahead of his three main- star is a rumpled 66-year-old with a set of May - many in the party have yearned for a stream rivals, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham socialist ideas many thought had faded with return to old-school values. and Liz Kendall - though pollsters concede the Cold War. Jeremy Corbyn, the runaway Patrick Diamond, a former Labor policy predicting an internal party race is tricky. favorite in a contest to lead the opposition adviser who lectures at Queen Mary University Corbyn is backed by several big trade unions, Labor Party, opposes NATO and nuclear of London, said Corbyn’s campaign has tapped and by social media-savvy youngsters who weapons, plans to apologize for the invasion into a feeling “that the last Labor government have emblazoned his name on T-shirts and of Iraq and wants to end austerity, heavily tax was putting power before principle.” Asked at a hashtagged it across social media. His rallies the rich and nationalize Britain’s railways. recent public meeting what Labor stood for, have drawn 2,000-strong crowds and his sup- Opponents say the longtime lawmaker is Corbyn said it is “a party that should be proud porters have dominated candidates’ debates. a relic of the past who will drive away mod- of its socialist principles” and dedicated to the erate voters. But to supporters - many of redistribution of wealth. Like Trump and Sanders them young, new to politics and brimming Blair was a staunch ally of President George Like Republican maverick Donald Trump with enthusiasm - his old-fashioned ideas W. Bush - too staunch for many in the party, and Democrat left-wing candidate Bernie are the future. who have never forgiven him for committing Sanders in the United States, Corbyn reaches “It’s a breath of fresh air,” said 24-year-old British troops to the 2003 US-led invasion of voters that other politicians can’t. Like Alex Anthony, holding an “I’m on team Iraq. Corbyn has said he’ll apologize “to the Trump, he appears to speak his mind without Jeremy Corbyn” sign outside a candidates’ British people for taking them into the Iraq war consulting spin doctors or focus groups first. debate. “I’m sick and tired of the other candi- on the basis of deception, and to the Iraqi peo- Like Sanders, he proposes an alternative to dates ignoring the fact that it wasn’t ordinary ple for the suffering we have helped cause.” He belt-tightening economic policies that have people that created the financial crisis.” If also favors scrapping Britain’s nuclear made many people worse off. Corbyn’s anti- Corbyn tops the leadership ballot when weapons, has called for Britain to leave the austerity policies include more public spend- EDINBURGH: In this file picture taken on August 14, 2015, Labour leadership results are announced Sept.12, it will mark an NATO military alliance, wants warmer relations ing higher taxes for the rich and a clamp- contender Jeremy Corbyn takes part in a campaign rally. — AFP abrupt left turn for a Labor Party that has with Russia and opposes air strikes against the down on tax evasion. been moving toward the center for decades. Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. “If the And like young leftist parties Syriza in Under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and party was looking for someone who is the Greece and Podemos in Spain, “Corbynmania” backbencher who has represented London’s sider his potential victory a disaster that could Gordon Brown, the party shed its commitment antithesis of Tony Blair, they’ve found him,” is firing up many people previously disillu- Islington North constituency since 1983 with- have been avoided. Corbyn has little support to nationalized industry, wooed big business, Diamond said. sioned with mainstream politics. “He’s making out ever holding a senior party post, often among Labor legislators, but several nominat- adopted modern PR methods - and spent 13 Corbyn started the contest to replace elec- politics sexy again,” said Corbyn-supporting looks bemused by his rock-star status. ed him for the leadership ballot in the belief years in office. But since Labor lost power in tion-losing leader Ed Miliband as a 100-to-1 doctor Natasha Chari, 50. “The age of the spin His popularity has surprised and alarmed that he was a harmless fringe figure who 2010 - and was thumped again by Prime longshot, but is now bookmakers’ strong doctor is over.” Corbyn, a bike-riding, bearded most Labor leaders and lawmakers, who con- would broaden the debate. — AFP Graft-weary Guatemalans to choose new president

GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalans streamed to the Baldizon trailed at 22.9 percent. Former first lady polls Sunday in general elections held amid public Sandra Torres held 18.4 percent. The election caps a disenchantment with government just days after tumultuous week that reinforced many voters’ the country’s president was jailed on corruption belief that the polls are meaningless without a charges. Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (1300 massive clean-up of the political system. GMT) across the impoverished Central American On Tuesday, Congress lifted immunity from nation, with 7.5 million voters eligible to cast bal- prosecution for Perez, who stands accused of over- lots for president, vice president, a new Congress, seeing a massive corruption customs scheme. By 388 mayors and members of a regional parliament. Wednesday he had stepped down from office and Calm prevailed as voting began although anti- was arrested the following day on a court order. As corruption protests were expected in Guatemala a criminal suspect, he cannot vote. “We wanted City as residents head to the polls. Television them to push back the elections so that we could showed lines forming outside polling stations. At have change in the electoral law,” human rights some, table workers began the day with a prayer activist Ivonne Alvarez, 63, told AFP during a and played the national anthem. protest Saturday, adding that she would not vote. Clashes on Saturday between supporters from different parties left one person dead and resulted Ongoing protests in 26 arrests in the southern town of Santa Protesters have long called for an overhaul of Barbara, marring an otherwise violence-free run- the political system to purge corruption, which up to the elections. Adding to the angry, unsettled accounts for 50 percent of party financing, mood, residents in some communities have according to the Central American Institute for threatened to beat up outsiders who show up to Fiscal Studies. In Guatemala City Saturday, several vote in their precincts. hundred people demonstrated, with some Some 35,000 police officers were deployed to dressed in black and carrying cardboard coffins keep order during the election, which comes just and a tombstone. Prosecutors say Perez, a 64- days after president Otto Perez was forced to resign year-old retired general, ran a network of corrupt to face corruption charges after months of protests. officials that took bribes from businesses to clear MICHIGAN: In this Aug. 11, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears before addressing a GOP fundrais- Leading the presidential race in pre-election polls is their imports through customs at a fraction of the ing event. — AP comedian Jimmy Morales, a political novice who official tax rate. The bribes amounted to $3.8 mil- rose to fame playing a simpleton who accidentally lion between May 2014 and April 2015, including ends up becoming president. $800,000 received by Perez, prosecutors allege. ‘Trumpisms’ that would spell A poll released Thursday put Morales slightly The former president has denied any involve- ahead with 25 percent of the vote, while long-time ment. A judge on Tuesday will decide whether to trouble for anyone but Trump frontrunner and right-wing lawyer Manuel indict Perez formally. — AFP From mocking POWs to battling Fox News

WASHINGTON: Lobbing rhetorical stink bombs at a down over North Vietnam. He refused to leave, ahead other candidates might be sunk by petty name-call- large group of voters is not the normal way to get of his fellow prisoners, when given the chance. ing and a hair-trigger reaction to what is said about ahead in US politics. Nor is alienating prominent fig- Trump, who has accused McCain of doing too little to him, that seems to slide off Teflon Trump. ures of your own party. But Donald Trump has help veterans, knocked the senator in July, first dis- turned the do’s and don’ts of campaigns on their puting that he was a hero, then declaring: “He’s a war Flip-flopping head, prospering with tactics that could sink anyone hero ‘cause he was captured. I like people that weren’t Flip-flopping is trouble for most politicians, but else. A review of “Trumpisms” that only Trump could captured, OK?” Even the most partisan Democrats Trump has done it merrily and with apparent get away with. hail McCain’s service to his country. impunity. He has shrugged off his old support for abortion rights and a single-payer health care sys- About those huddled masses Taking on Fox News tem, and his former identification with the After Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss to President Barack Trump was furious at Fox News anchor Megyn Democratic Party, with that-was-then-this-is-now Obama, the Republican Party went through a period Kelly for asking about his history of insulting com- nonchalance. Trump says conservative darling of soul-searching and determined that candidates ments aimed at women during the first GOP debate, Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat, too, and needed to stop alienating Latino voters if they want- and he has not forgiven her in the weeks since. Trump Trump says he shouldn’t be held accountable for ed to recapture the White House. Enter Trump, who in repeatedly has questioned Kelly’s professionalism past views. his announcement speech accused the Mexican gov- and went as far as to tell CNN that she had “blood ernment of sending its criminals and rapists across coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her Unsavory support the border and has proposed building a massive bor- wherever” during the debate. The Kelly feud has led Two brothers were on their way home from a der wall and deporting every person in the country to clashes between Trump and Roger Ailes, the Fox Boston Red Sox game when, police said, they brutal- GUATEMALA CITY: Demonstrators hold defaced campaign posters of presidential illegally. He’s thrived. Romney, in contrast, earned News chairman, who has called on Trump to apolo- ly beat a sleeping homeless man who is Hispanic. hopeful Manuel Baldizon, of the Democratic Freedom Revival Party, as they demand plenty of grief merely by suggesting that people in gize. Republicans tend not to pick a fight with Fox. One later allegedly justified the attack by saying election reform. — AFP the country illegally would deport themselves if the Trump “was right” about deporting “all these illegals.” US denied them work and public benefits. Late night tweets While he eventually denounced the incident, Trump’s It’s late in the night and all through the house, initial response was tepid. “I think that would be a Mocking prisoners of war not a creature is stirring - except Trump. He’s devel- shame,” he said, before adding: “I will say, the people Biden’s wife may share Arizona Sen John McCain may not be some con- oped a habit of logging onto Twitter in the wee that are following me are very passionate. They love servatives’ cup of tea, but he nonetheless spent 5-1/2 hours to deliver an assortment of broadsides, often this country. They want this country to be great years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot at the previous evening’s cable news shows. While again. And they are very passionate.” — AP his hesitance for race

WASHINGTON: Vice President Joe Biden’s funeral a few weeks ago and that their grief was reluctance to enter the presidential race centers “just written all over them.” Hundreds rally in support on his family. His wife, Jill, has never relished “Beau was always a part of those delibera- political life and is said to share his misgivings tions, and they are grieving terribly,” Sloan said. about whether the Bidens are emotionally “When he’s run in the past, the family’s been a equipped for another campaign. Those close to very active part. This time, given the situation, it of jailed anti-gay US clerk the second lady say she won’t stand in the way will be a really long, thoughtful process.” Jill of her husband’s political ambitions, but her Biden campaigned actively for her husband WASHINGTON: Hundreds rallied epicenter for the culture war over gay feelings about a White House bid are a major when he ran in 2008, and then when he joined Saturday as a show of support for the US marriage, seemingly resolved by the factor in Biden’s decision. Only three months President Barack Obama’s winning ticket. As clerk who was sent to jail this week for Supreme Court’s decision. after losing their son, Beau, to brain cancer, the second lady, she has played a visible role pro- refusing to issue same-sex marriage While Judge David Bunning has said 72-year-old Biden appeared somber and weary moting education and military families. Said her licenses, local media reported. Kim Davis, Davis can be released as soon as she at an Atlanta synagogue Thursday night as he spokesman, James Gleeson: “Anyone speculat- jailed since Thursday for contempt of agrees to issue marriage licenses to any- pondered his family’s readiness. “The honest-to- ing about Dr. Biden is only doing just that - court, refused to issue the licenses due one who qualifies, as her position God answer is I just don’t know,” he said. speculating.” She previously has said her hus- to her opposition to gay marriage, which requires, or resigns from that position, While the vice president’s deliberations have band would make an excellent president, the US Supreme Court legalized across she can be held indefinitely if she refuses played out in semi-public fashion, Jill Biden’s Gleeson noted, adding that “she will continue to the United States in June. to do so. Her attorney said Friday she has have taken place away from the spotlight. She support him in his career, as he has always sup- A born-again Christian, Davis says no intention to resign or to “violate her has yet to discuss in detail with her staff her ported Dr. Biden in hers.” God’s authority trumps the laws her job conscience and betray her God.” views on a possible presidential run. But she has Speculation about a late entrance by Biden requires her to follow. The mayor of Outside in the sunny parking lot, the been looking out for her husband and echoing has spiked in recent weeks as he has actively Grayson, Kentucky, where she is being supporters admired her defiance. “She his concerns about whether he can completely explored the possibility of jumping in. Such a held, agrees. “You play a role in this was in good spirits last night (..) She was devote himself to a hard-fought campaign, move would reshuffle the Democratic primary moment of history and may God bless joking and laughing, saying honey I’m according to several people who have spoken at a time when some in the party are concerned you and God bless Kim Davis,” Mayor just as comfortable as can be. She’ll be to her in recent weeks. about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign strug- George Steele told the crowd at the rally, fine,” her husband, Joe Davis, told WKYT. gles and pine for more options. Forty-five per- according to local broadcaster WKYT. A larger rally has been planned for Private deliberations cent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Many of the supporters made the 80- Tuesday by Republican presidential can- Some of these people demanded anonymi- independents said they wanted Biden to run in mile trek from neighboring Rowan didate and minister Mike Huckabee, who ty because they didn’t feel comfortable publicly a Gallup poll last month. Biden has been speak- County, where Davis is employed, the plans to visit Davis in jail and then discussing the family’s private deliberations. ing with donors, longtime supporters and channel said. The pink-and-beige deten- protest outside against what he calls the Sonia Sloan, a Biden family friend since the potential endorsers as aides and friends tally 1970s who volunteered for his past campaigns, how much money they might be able to raise KENTUCKY: Supporters of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis hold up signs tion center at the end of dead-end street “criminalization of Christianity in this said she saw the Bidens at a mutual friend’s for a campaign and how quickly. — AP in support of her, outside the Carter County Detention Center. — AP in 4,000-person Grayson has become an country.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 News Monks claim victory as Myanmar in brief

Thailand’s army-backed Muslims face election exclusion council rejects charter BANGKOK: Thailand’s military-backed legislature yes- terday rejected an unpopular draft of a new constitu- Anti-Muslim campaign stokes religious tensions tion, delaying a return to democracy following a coup last year. The junta-picked drafters had hoped the pro- posed charter would move the Southeast Asian country MANDALAY: With a smile, Myanmar’s most four bills that include curbs on inter-faith past almost a decade of political conflicts, but it was notorious Buddhist monk boasts of the sleep- marriage, family size and conversion. met with strong opposition on almost all sides of the less nights he endures on his self-appointed Branding the NLD’s reluctance to back the laws as a “black mark”, he warned against any political divide. The legislature appointed by the junta, quest against the country’s Muslims-one that he claims has helped strip voting rights from attempt to change them. “Any government known as the National Reform Council, voted down the hundreds of thousands of the religious that amends these laws will be brought draft 135-105, with seven abstentions. The rejection, minority. down,” he predicted. The monk, who has although welcomed by many, still sets back a tentative Wirathu, whose anti-Muslim campaign has earned international notoriety for calling plan for Thailand’s transition to electoral democracy, stoked religious tensions in the Buddhist- the UN rights envoy Yanghee Lee a “whore”, with the military retaining substantial powers until a majority nation, said he spends most nights welcomed the lack of Muslim election par- new constitution is drafted. A new 21-member drafting at his tranquil Mandalay monastery glued to ticipation. “We do not want any foreigner in committee will now be appointed with a mandate to his computer screen, streaming images from the parliament,” he said. write a new charter within 180 days. It also needs some of the world’s most violent Islamic ter- approval by the legislature and will be put to a referen- rorist organizations. He then posts messages ‘Unfree and unfair’ dum - meaning elections aren’t likely until at least 2017, to his 91,000 Facebook followers, helping Sitting MP Shwe Maung has been at the according to analysts, if the new draft is approved. The foment the idea that Buddhism is under sharp end of that campaign. The Rohingya government had previously said elections could take threat. lawmaker for the ruling Union Solidarity and place late next year. “The army has been uncommitted “Many days I don’t sleep at all,” the monk, Development Party (USDP) was recently from the beginning of the process, but it’s quite signifi- who goes by one name, told AFP, adding his barred from running in the November polls. cant to have a rejection at this stage rather than a rejec- work is so arduous that he lacks the time Election officials disqualified him after decid- tion at the referendum,” said Ambika Ahuja, an analyst enjoyed by President Thein Sein and opposi- ing his parents were not citizens-despite the for the Eurasia Group political risk firm. tion leader Aung San Suu Kyi to “have family fact he currently holds the seat and his father meals and put on make-up”. was a senior policeman. Myanmar’s Muslims, who make up at least “How many times do we need approval? five percent of the 51-million population, MANDALAY: This photo taken on August 26, 2015 shows a Muslim man visiting the Now in the middle of the 21st century, 2015, China must drop ‘deceitfulness’ have a long history of involvement in public Joon Mosque in Myanmar’s second biggest city. — AFP we are in the transition of disciplined democ- on disputed sea: Philippines life. But they have faced increasing marginal- dreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya in Suu Kyi “must be afraid” of the monks, the racy in Myanmar. If this is the case the elec- MANILA: Beijing must offer more than hollow ization under the current quasi-civilian gov- strife-torn Rakhine state. In March Myanmar source said on condition of anonymity. tion will be unfree and unfair,” he told AFP, promises if it wishes to secure peace in the disputed ernment that replaced junta rule in 2011. revoked temporary identification documents- “People see this as religious discrimina- referring to the junta’s term for the country’s South China Sea and beyond, a spokesman for the Recent years have also seen bouts of a move affecting hundreds of thousands of tion. Many Muslims are saying they will not managed political transition. Rohingya, who Philippine defense department said yesterday. The deadly anti-Muslim violence and there are Rohingya, who have since been stripped of vote,” the source added. The disappointment are often labeled immigrants from remarks came days after China flaunted its military fears the spread of hate speech could trigger voting rights after parliament banned people was evident at Mandalay’s historic and Bangladesh despite many having long histo- might with a massive parade to mark the end of further troubles in the run-up to the nation’s without full citizenship from voting. bustling Joon Mosque, where trustee Khin ries in Myanmar, were courted by the USDP in World War II, though President Xi Jinping said at the landmark November 8 election. Observers say both Suu Kyi’s opposition Maung Win said local people had long sup- the run-up to flawed 2010 elections. event his country was dedicated to peace and does Wirathu, whose soft voice belies the vitriol National League for Democracy and ported the NLD. “It seems Muslims are not But they have been increasingly ostracized “not seek hegemony”. “The Chinese leadership behind his words, is the best known member Myanmar’s ruling party have bowed to the accepted at all. In a real democracy, we would since deadly 2012 unrest between Buddhists should go beyond deceitful rhetoric claiming of an alliance of monks who have inserted hardliners, declining to field Muslim candi- have the right to choose,” he said. and Muslims in Rakhine, which left some peaceful efforts before their aggression takes a their hardline stance into Myanmar’s main- dates for polls seen as a crucial test of demo- Buddhist hardliners have painted 140,000, mainly Rohingya, confined to des- greater and irreparable toll on the region and stream politics. He was jailed in 2003 for incit- cratic progress. The move risks leaving non- Myanmar’s opposition leader as sympathetic perate displacement camps. beyond,” Peter Paul Galvez, the department ing religious tension under the former mili- Rohingya Muslims who are entitled to vote to Muslims-a potential Achilles heel in the The Muslim vote in Shwe Maung’s Rakhine spokesman said in a statement. “We call on China’s tary rulers. But their successors have without Muslim candidates to back at the polls. The “shift to the right is very worrying” constituency area of Butthidaung has all but government to show its sincerity by, at the least, appeared keen to allow his brand of national- polls. for Myanmar, said analyst Khin Zaw Win of disappeared-from 150,000 in 2010 to an esti- stopping all ongoing construction and militariza- ist Buddhism to flourish. Yangon-based political think-tank the mated 10 following the move to revoke tem- He claimed “victory” for pressuring gov- porary identification documents and restrict tion activities and to refrain from restricting free- ‘A bad omen’ Tampadipa Institute. “It is a very bad omen ernment to push controversial laws through A senior Muslim NLD member told AFP for the Muslims of this country,” he told AFP. voting rights. “If people cannot vote, what will dom of flight and navigation,” in the flashpoint sea, parliament-which rights groups say discrimi- that “not a single Muslim” was among more Swathed in his monk’s robe, Wirathu said be the use of the candidacy? If the candidacy he said. China claims almost all of the South China nate against women and religious minorities- than 1,000 party candidates for the upcoming Buddhist organizations are gearing up for a is denied, for whom will people vote?” he Sea-a vital maritime route, rich fishing ground and and helping to snatch voting rights from hun- elections-the first it has fought for 25 years. celebration to mark the passage into law of said. — AFP potential source of vast minerals-despite compet- ing claims from the Philippines as well as Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. Pakistan marks 50th anniversary

Yakuza forms new group amid fears of gang war of India war amid high tensions TOKYO: Thousands of Japanese “yakuza” mobsters have officially formed a new group after splitting off ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday marked the sides in August. Earlier in the month, a meet- from the country’s largest organized crime syndicate, 50th anniversary of its second war with arch- ing between the Indian and Pakistani national raising concerns for possible inter-gang conflicts, rival India, weeks after the two nuclear powers security advisers in New Delhi was called off at faced off in some of their deadliest skirmishes the last minute due to a dispute about reports said yesterday. Leaders of 13 factions kicked for over a decade. The major fighting of the whether the agenda should include Kashmir. out of the “Yamaguchi-gumi” syndicate-Japan’s largest war took place between August and Sunday’s commemoration began with a mobster or “yakuza” group which boasts 23,000 mem- September 1965, with both sides claiming vic- 31-gun salute at dawn in the capital bers and associates-held the first formal meeting on tory after it ended in stalemate following the Islamabad and similar displays in other cities. Saturday in the western city of Kobe, local media intervention of the United States and the A minute’s silence was observed across the reported. One of the expelled factions is known as the Soviet Union. country to pay tribute to the almost 4,000 Yamaken-gumi, which has about 2,000 members and Every year Pakistan celebrates September troops killed in the fighting, with Prime whose head was chosen to lead the spin-off, according 6 as “Defense Day” with the media eulogizing Minister Nawaz Sharif laying a wreath at the to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The rival group is the powerful army for thwarting Indian monument of a war hero in the eastern city of expected to have a total membership of about 3,000, “aggression”. But there is widespread agree- Lahore. Air Force fighter jets carried out aero- the Yomiuri said. Like the Italian Mafia and Chinese tri- ment among historians that the conflict batics displays across the country. ads, the yakuza engage in everything from gambling, began after Pakistani forces infiltrated the In the village of Kundanpur, which lies drugs and prostitution to loan sharking, protection Indian-administered part of the disputed along the border and was the scene of some rackets and white-collar crime. But unlike their foreign mountainous territory of Kashmir. Since gain- of the worst fighting both recently and in ing independence from Britain in 1947, the 1965, residents grieved for loved ones lost in counterparts, they are not illegal and each of the desig- ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Air Force personnel take part in a ceremony to mark Pakistan two countries have fought three wars-two of recent cross-border shelling. “My husband, his nated groups have their own headquarters. As fears Defense Day at the Mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. — AP rise that the split could lead to a wave of gang violence, them over Kashmir. The territory is divided brother and nephew died in the shelling. They dren, was killed. Another man, Malik Akhtar unintended consequences can cause them to Japanese police last week called for nationwide vigi- between the two countries but claimed in full were the only breadwinners for us. What are by both. Relations have worsened significantly we going to do now?” said a woman called Awan, said he feared the recent skirmishes reignite,” warned an editorial in Pakistan’s lance, holding an emergency meeting with special offi- were a sign that history could be repeating Dawn newspaper, which urged both sides to cers from the country’s 47 prefectures. since 2014, with shelling across the border Laila, whose spouse Qamar Sajjad, a worker in claiming a total of around 20 lives on both a glove factory and the father of their two chil- itself. “When conflicts are allowed to fester, end their cyclical conflicts. — AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Lim Chang-Won

here is a lot of sympathetic shouting going on at the call centre, with volunteers bellowing down phone Tlines at elderly people, checking their contact details ... checking they are still alive. Patience is paramount, as the callers struggle to work their way through tens of thousands of names, following North and South Korea’s recent decision to organise a reunion for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. With logistics talks between the two rivals’ Red Cross associations due to open on Monday, the pressure is on to draw up a list of possible South Korean participants in the event - expected to take place in early October. Time, or more specifically the lack of it, has always been at the heart of the emotional family reunion process, which began in earnest back in 2000. Initially it was an annual event, but strained cross-border relations have allowed only one reunion in the past five years. For most of the South Life is no party for the poor in Tajikistan Koreans on the waiting list - many in their 80s and 90s - time is simply running out. By Akbar Borisov and Chris Rickleton The unpopular 2007 law was adopted to stop families from the state anti-corruption agency. The leader’s youngest son, racking up giant debts hosting huge events, traditionally seen Somoni, also made headlines when a schoolboy posing as A Dwindling List hen Tajik programmer Amirbek Isayev invited friends here as boosting one’s social status. Among its restrictions are him last year extorted more than $50,000 from a businessman Of the nearly 130,000 people who have applied for a to celebrate his 25th birthday in the capital stringent limits on the number of guests able to attend wed- in exchange for a promise of land. Although the imposter was reunion spot since 1988, more than half have since died, and WDushanbe in June, he could never have imagined the dings and funerals. According to the government’s detained in May, Tajik social media users saw the incident as the mortality rate grows with every passing year. And with consequences. Held in an Irish-themed pub, it was a modest Commission to Monitor Compliance with Customs and indicative of the public’s lack of faith in the rule of law. just a few hundred names making the final cut for each fete by all accounts. The cake had no candles and no writing to Traditions, Isayev’s party was one of 249 such violations regis- event, only 3,668 people on the list have actually taken part indicate it was a birthday celebration. “The restaurant bill came tered in the first half of 2015. Trivialising ‘Darker Side’ in a reunion. In the Red Cross call centre in Seoul, the volun- to just over $80 for 13 people, but our ‘dessert’ turned out to be Well-known political commentator Zafar Abdullayev con- This month, Tajikistan’s government took steps to count- teers are still working through the first stage - contacting the much more expensive,” Isayev told AFP bitterly. ceded that while there may be “objective reasons” for the er perceptions of impunity for the elite - and bring much- more than 66,000 names on the waiting list. Nearly two months after pictures of the gathering were measure, it affects poor people disproportionately in a country needed cash into the state budget - by publishing lists of The first priority is simply to check they are still alive and, posted on Facebook, Isayev was slapped with a $600 fine. The where the minimum wage is just under $40 per month. “The pop stars who have racked up dozens of unpaid fines for if so, whether they are still willing - or indeed physically capa- young man, it turns out, had broken a ban on public birthday fines represent huge sums for poor families - perhaps three to violating traffic laws. Among them is Zhanna Shainyan, a ble - to participate in a reunion if among those finally chosen. celebrations - part of a 2007 law to limit exorbitant spending six months of their income,” Abdullayev told AFP. “But for rich sweet-voiced blonde believed to be a personal favourite of “It’s a long, arduous task, contacting that many elderly peo- on parties in this impoverished ex-Soviet state of more than violators of the law, many of whom are relatives of highly Rakhmon who has headlined major concerts organised by ple, one-by-one, double-checking their addresses, telephone eight million people. Currently unemployed and unable to ranked officials, these fines are hardly a punishment at all.” the national leadership. The interior ministry said she had numbers and other information,” said Red Cross official Woo pay the fine, Isayev has vowed to appeal what he calls “this violated the traffic code 54 times - though oddly said she Kwang-Ho. It also kicks off an emotional roller-coaster for great injustice”. International media caught wind of the story, Nepotism and Inequality had not paid a single fine. those who receive the calls - raising their hopes of a meeting bringing amused attention to this little-known Central Asian Nepotism and inequality have become common com- The international press has jeered other examples of Tajik they have longed for but which, statistically, they are very state northeast of Afghanistan with its “party ban”. plaints in a country led by Rakhmon since 1992. Yet all has heavy-handedness, including reports of police detaining unlikely to experience. been grudgingly tolerated thanks to the relative stability his Halloween party-goers dressed as zombies and witches, or Elite Impunity rule has ensured following a five-year civil war that ended in shaving the beards of observant Muslims as part of a crack- Frustration and Ill Health But the incident barely brought a grin to Tajiks themselves, 1997. “In recent years, the relatives of officials in Tajikistan have down on fundamentalists. The reported shavings, which “We find there’s a growing number of people who just tired of what they say is a double standard on excessive been involved in drug smuggling, shooting at police officers police denied were official policy, gave rise to scams in which don’t want to know anymore. They’re so frustrated,” said Woo. spending on weddings and parties. Ordinary citizens, they and killing pedestrians in hit and runs,” said Edward Lemon, a con artists sold devout citizens fake permits for the right to “And then there are many who are simply now too frail to say, appear to be subject to a different set of rules than the researcher on Tajikistan from Britain’s University of Exeter. “All of sport facial hair. While such offbeat stories grab headlines, consider participating. “The reality is that this list will be near- country’s elite. One oft-cited example is a video leaked onto them have escaped with minor punishments where ordinary Lemon of the University of Exeter warned about trivialising ly empty in a decade from now,” he added. Being selected YouTube in 2013 showing 62-year-old President Emomali citizens would have been severely penalised,” he told AFP. the country’s “darker side”. “Freedom of speech is severely does not automatically mean a reunion spot. First the North Rakhmon singing and dancing exuberantly at a lavish wed- To add insult to injury, in March the president named his restricted, torture is widely used by police and the same Korean side will have to check whether the relatives on that ding for his oldest son. oldest son, Rustam, believed to be in his late 20s, in charge of regime has ruled the country for over 20 years,” he said. —AFP side of the border are still alive and willing to take part. And even then nothing is guaranteed, as North Korea has, in the past, cancelled reunions at the last minute due to some dispute or other. Kim Kyung-Jae, 83, has waited for more than Crisis tears at EU cohesion, tarnishes image 20 years to see the younger sister he left behind in the north- eastern coastal town of Bukcheong. The third son of an afflu- By Paul Taylor For the first time in a decade since 10 the beginning of the euro crisis, Europe needed a common asylum policy capable ent family who owned several fishing boats, Kim and his central European countries joined the EU, became part of the moral problem, not part of filtering applicants, sending home those brothers left their hometown in 1951 as the war closed in. eep divisions over how to cope with the crisis has opened up an east-west of the solution,” said Antonio Vitorino, presi- who were not entitled to asylum and relo- “My father told me to leave and stay in a safe place for a a flood of migrants from the Middle divide, with most new member states refus- dent of the Jacques Delors Institute, a pro- cating genuine refugees according to while. I never saw or spoke to him again,” he told AFP. DEast, Africa and Asia pose a threat to ing to accept quotas of refugees, some EU think-tank. “This migration crisis adds a member states’ capacity to receive them. the European Union’s values and global explicitly citing religious grounds. That little bit more to the loss of the exemplary Traumatic Separation Because the Korean conflict concluded with an armistice standing and may diminish its ability to act prompted Austrian Chancellor Werner role of European integration.” Boost for ‘Brexit’? rather than a peace treaty, the two Koreas technically remain jointly to reform the euro zone and ease Faymann to say that, if the eastern states The socialist Portuguese former EU jus- As EU leaders struggle to come up with at war and direct exchanges of letters or telephone calls are Greece’s debt. With harrowing images of did not share the burden, the EU should tice and home affairs commissioner, who a joint approach, their discord also bodes ill banned. Kim only found out his sister was still alive in 1992 drowning children, refugees being herded reconsider its future financial aid for their helped frame the flawed asylum rules that for attempts to find collective solutions to when a friend living in the United States visited Bukcheong. on and off trains and beaten by police, and development. have crumbled under the weight of this economic and environmental challenges He then managed to communicate with her on a relatively barbed-wire fences slicing across Europe, Hungary, the Czech Republic and year’s influx, said Europe’s profile as “a land such as reforming the euro zone or fighting regular basis from 1997-2004 when his trading company the migration crisis is the moral equivalent Slovakia, from which refugees fled to west- of human dignity and respect for interna- climate change. “The EU has trouble han- posted him to Japan. “My visual memories of my sister have of the euro zone crisis. In both cases, the ern Europe to escape Communist crack- tional commitments” was at stake. In areas dling more than one problem at a time,” dimmed a lot, but I’m still desperate to see her. That won’t principle of solidarity is being sorely tested. downs in 1956 and 1968, are among those of the world such as southeast Asia and said Tina Fordham, chief global political change until I’m in my coffin,” Kim said. By making the EU look ineffective, dis- most vehemently opposed to any manda- Latin America that once looked to the EU as analyst at US banking giant Citi, who con- united and heartless, pitting member states tory distribution of asylum seekers now. a model of regional integration, people siders the migration crisis a major source of Slim Chance against each other and fuelling political Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has were now saying: “You used to teach us political risk for Europe. “Discord and back- His chances are slim. For the last reunion in February populism and anti-Muslim sentiment, the said the migrants pose a threat to Europe’s how to solve our problems and now you’re tracking over refugees and migration could 2014, a computer was used to randomly select 500 candi- latest crisis is undermining the ideals of “Christian roots”, while both Slovakia and unable to solve your own problems.” end up fragmenting EU cohesion, taking dates, after taking age and family background into account. European integration. However, it often the Czech Republic have said they would Vitorino acknowledged that the Dublin away the political oxygen to deal with other That number was reduced to 200 after interviews and med- takes a bout of disarray and recrimination take in only a handful of preferably convention he helped draft, which stipu- challenges in the economy or Ukraine,” she ical exams, and the two Koreas drew up a final list of 100 each before the EU finds a joint response to a Christian refugees. lates that the country where a refugee first told Reuters in an interview. after checking if relatives were still alive on the other side. For new challenge. Policy may be shifting in Orban has accused Merkel of exacerbat- enters the EU is responsible for handling Governments could fall over the issue the lucky ones who do take part, the reunions are hugely reaction to unbearable pictures of suffering, ing the crisis by announcing Germany’s the asylum claim, was unfair to states on and upcoming elections could be swayed. emotional - almost traumatic - affairs, with many of the large- and to fears that the Schengen zone of willingness to admit large numbers of Europe’s fringes, which received little finan- Already, the rise of anti-immigration pop- ly elderly participants breaking down and sobbing as they open-border travel among 26 continental Syrians, encouraging more migrants to risk cial or practical help. “Practice shows that ulist parties was putting the Nordic social cling to each other. European countries may otherwise fall their lives in a scramble for Europe that has the system did not work,” he said. “Now model at risk. Fordham also saw a possible The events typically last several days and the joy of the apart. overwhelmed Hungarian authorities. “Since things have got out of control.” Europe impact on Britain’s negotiations to change reunion is tempered by the pain of the inevitable - and this “The world is watching us,” German its relationship with the EU before it holds a time permanent - separation at the end. “Many feel Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week as referendum on continued membership by depressed afterwards because they can’t maintain contact she tried to persuade European peers to the end of 2017. “The UK’s perceived failure with relatives,” said Shim Coo-Seob, who leads an association share the burden of taking in people flee- to participate in burden-sharing could fur- of separated families in Seoul. “It’s time the government put a ing war and misery in Syria, Iraq, ther undermine David Cameron’s ability to priority on securing an uninterrupted channel for the Afghanistan, Libya and beyond. “If Europe extract concessions ahead of the referen- exchange of letters,” he said. —AFP fails on the refugee question, its tight bond dum,” she said. with universal human rights will be Cameron has refused to join any destroyed and it will no longer be the European scheme to relocate refugees, and Europe we dreamed of,” she said. insisted the answer was not to take in more All articles appearing on these people until he bowed to media pressure pages are the personal opinion of East-West Divide after an outpouring of emotion over pic- Merkel’s bold attempt to exercise leader- tures of a drowned Syrian toddler on a the writers. Kuwait Times takes no ship, in contrast to her deep caution in the Turkish beach. Peter Kellner, president of responsibility for views expressed euro crisis, has won only cautious support the opinion pollster YouGov, said the therein. Kuwait Times invites read- from close allies like France, where domes- refugee crisis and British public anxiety ers to voice their opinions. Please tic opposition to more immigration is about uncontrolled immigration from EU strong and been rejected outright by coun- countries made a vote for “Brexit” more like- send submissions via email to: opin- tries such as Hungary and Britain. For many ly, though still not the most probable out- [email protected] or via snail European politicians trying to keep in tune come. “In the public mind they feed a single mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. with voters, preventing unwanted immigra- narrative: that Britain is being swamped by The editor reserves the right to edit tion is a greater priority than welcoming new arrivals and the EU carries much of the any submission as necessary. hundreds of thousands of haggard, uproot- A refugee cries as he arrives at the main station in Dortmund, western blame,” Kellner wrote in a comment for ed foreigners, especially if they are Muslims. Germany, yesterday. —AFP Prospect magazine. —Reuters NEWS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

An Emirati tribesman walks through the sand dunes of the Liwa desert, 220 kms west of Abu Dhabi, in this Nov 23, 2013 photo. — AFP

Saudis eye cut in fuel subsidy, trim expenses Continued from Page 1 about how they would handle it - have started to worry Al-Watan’s Saturday edition quoted unnamed sources stay low, slashing state revenues. The reform could also financial markets, with the cost of insuring against the as saying Saudi Arabia cannot leave gasoline prices at help hold back burgeoning consumption. Domestic oil “We have built reserves, cut public debt to near-zero risk of a Saudi sovereign debt default rising. ultra-low levels indefinitely because that would hurt the product demand rose 5.1 percent year-on-year to a levels and we are now working on cutting unnecessary Assaf did not give details of how he was cutting economy. The newspaper did not elaborate on when the record 2.98 million barrels per day in June, according to expenses while focusing on main development projects spending. Last December, the ministry said it would government might make a decision and gave no details the Joint Oil Data Initiative. and on building human resources in the kingdom,” he “rationalize” spending on public salaries, but analysts on the possible reform. However, a source in the Gulf oil Al-Watan quoted Fahd Al-Anazi, deputy chairman of said in the interview, broadcast yesterday. believe outright salary cuts would be too politically sensi- industry told Reuters that Saudi officials were “seriously” the economic and energy committee in the Shura “There are some projects like the ones that have been tive to introduce. With Saudi Arabia embroiled in a war in thinking about reducing fuel subsidies gradually. Council, a top state advisory body, as saying any approved a few years ago and haven’t been carried out Yemen, security spending looks unlikely to be cut. So Riyadh would probably not act as aggressively as the changes to subsidies would have to be accompanied by until now - that means such projects are not currently infrastructure projects may feel the brunt; for example, a UAE because of political and economic considerations, other measures to preserve public welfare such as pro- necessary and can be delayed,” he added. “Projects in sec- plan to build soccer stadiums around the country has the source said. He said UAE officials had advised Riyadh viding cheaper public transport. This implied major tors such as education, health and infrastructure are not been scaled back, a $201 million contract to buy high- to “start small”, possibly raising prices just a few percent. reform might still be years away. The government is only important for the private sector but also for the speed trains was cancelled, and expansion of an oilfield Saudi energy officials could not immediately be reached building public transport systems but the Riyadh metro long-term growth of the Saudi economy.” has been slowed, sources told Reuters in recent weeks. for comment. Unleaded gasoline costs only about 15 US is only due to be completed in 2019, for example. The International Monetary Fund and private analysts In July, Riyadh began issuing sovereign bonds for the cents per litre in Saudi Arabia, the world’s lowest price Because higher gasoline prices could fuel inflation in have calculated Saudi Arabia may run a huge budget first time since 2007 to help cover its budget deficit. Assaf after Venezuela, according to website mytravelcost.com. other goods, Anazi suggested the government might deficit of $120 billion or more this year because of cheap said the government would continue issuing bonds and Economists estimate removing gasoline subsidies introduce new subsidies for some food and consumer oil. Its financial reserves, which total over $600 billion, might also sell Islamic bonds, or sukuk, to finance specific would save the kingdom nearly 30 billion riyals ($8 bil- items, or let poorer people keep their fuel subsidy. Such mean it is in no danger of running out of money for sev- projects. “There may be an issue (of sukuk) before the lion) annually, Al-Watan reported. That would be a signif- subsidies would be provided to Saudi citizens rather eral years. But the prospect of a long period of low oil end of 2015 but I cannot say this will continue - it all icant saving in a budget deficit which analysts estimate than the large number of foreigners in the country, he prices - and the fact that officials have said little publicly depends on the need to finance the budget deficit.” could total $120 billion or more this year if crude prices said. — Agencies

Turaiji targets Iranian envoy, embassy Failures expose rifts over Assad’s future Continued from Page 1 the only thing certain will be after the court issues its Continued from Page 1 Moscow has allowed him to absorb the advances by verdict. The lawmaker praised the government for the insurgents who, while better equipped than before, still Tana meanwhile said that those who are convicted measures taken regarding the cell that was busted last Russia’s foreign minister in recent days reiterated the remain mostly defenceless against the Syrian govern- by court in the case should have their citizenships month with large amounts of weapons seized. Russian view that Assad is a legitimate leader, slammed ment air strikes. “So far, there is no real political solution revoked. He however called for not politicizing the Qudhaibi however criticized the government’s han- the US position to the contrary as “counterproductive”, because of the unlimited support from Russia and Iran,” case in order to safeguard national unity, adding that dling of the case in not being sufficiently transparent and likened the west’s approach to Syria to its failures in said Bashar Al-Zoubi, head of one of the biggest rebel most of what is being circulated now are rumors, and and failing to effectively deal with the Iranian position. Iraq and Libya. Russia meanwhile continues to supply groups fighting Assad in southern Syria, speaking to Assad with weapons. A Syrian military official told Reuters via WhatsApp from Syria. Reuters there has recently been a “big shift” in Russian Assad, who describes all the groups fighting him as Syrian refugees put Gulf under spotlight military support, including new weapons and training. terrorists, has poured cold water on the idea of immi- “Our ties are always developing but in these days a nent political progress. In a recent interview, he said the Continued from Page 1 have done what we can to offer them the basics including qualitative shift has happened. We call it a qualitative war would only be near its end when states “conspiring food, medicine, host centres, and we have allowed the shift in Arabic, which means big,” the Syrian official said. against Syria” ceased doing so - a reference to Saudi Kurdi’s corpse laid out before an open grave with inert Syrian kids to study in our schools,” the source said. Such assertions are difficult to verify, but US Arabia and Turkey. A steady flow of Iranian officials to figures in traditional Gulf Arab cloaks and robes holding Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his concern Damascus has also underlined Tehran’s support for an shovels. Another showed the three-year old’s head slumped Hospitality? over reports of increased Russian involvement in a tele- ally who has safeguarded its interests in the Levant in toward a tombstone marked “the Arab conscience”. Gulf officials and those defending Gulf policies say the phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alliance with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Sara Hashash of rights group Amnesty International outrage overlooks the billions donated to Syrian refugee on Saturday. The New York Times said Russia had sent a group fighting alongside Assad in Syria. Since conclud- called the Gulf Arab states’ behavior “utterly shameful” and camps abroad and the delicate demographics of countries military advance team to Syria, citing American intelli- ing its nuclear deal, Iran says it is trying to launch a new criticized Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United where expatriate workers already nearly outnumber locals. gence analysts. Reflecting the logjam over Assad, some push to resolve the Syrian war. But there is no sign of Arab Emirates for officially taking in zero refugees. Turkey “Qatar has provided over $2 billion in aid to the Syrian peo- of the ideas being tabled for advancing a political Tehran giving ground on Assad. hosts almost 2 million, tiny Lebanon over a million and other ple in addition to the $106 million provided by Qatar’s semi- process sidestep the question of his future altogether - restive and poor neighbors hundreds of thousands. The Gulf governmental institutions,” a Qatari diplomat said. at least for now, according to a diplomat tracking the No Alternative? states’ supporters say the numbers involved in Syria’s crisis Others felt Gulf states should go further. “(The Gulf) conflict. Moscow and Tehran’s backing for Assad is under- are vastly larger than in Kuwait’s case. They point to the should accept Syrian refugees. Saudis and Syrians have Yet this remains the biggest single obstacle to break- pinned by the fact they see no alternative who can funding Gulf states have given to aid efforts in countries always been brothers and sisters. Aside from the fact that ing a diplomatic impasse around a war whose repercus- guarantee their interests. While Assad may control a neighboring Syria. “Qatar is very small and already donating our religion requires us to do so, helping refugees should be sions are being felt like never before in Europe, which fifth or even less of Syria, they still see him as the cor- to refugees in Jordan, Turkey and northern Iraq. For logistical a natural reaction to what we have seen in the media,” 22- faces a migration crisis fuelled by Syrian refugees. In nerstone of what remains of the state, including the mil- reasons Qatar cannot take in large numbers of refugees so year old Saudi student Noor Almulla said. Another Saudi stu- turn, it is a big complication for efforts to fight the itary and security forces which many Syria experts instead Qatar chooses to support them financially,” said dent, Sara Khalid, 23, said Gulf Arab states “as their neigh- Islamic State group that has flourished in the bloodshed believe would fragment were he gone. Russia is push- Abdullah Al-Athbah, editor in chief of Arab Newspaper. bors and fellow Muslims” had a greater responsibility to of a conflict that has killed a quarter of a million people ing for the Syrian government to be included in interna- But sympathy for Syria’s refugees is on the rise. “It gives us Syrian refugees than Europeans. and driven another 11 million from their homes. tional efforts to fight Islamic State. Saudi Arabia is one a glimmer of hope after these recent drowning episodes to While none of the Gulf Arab states have signed onto key Despite a US-led bombing campaign against the of the states to have rejected the idea. see broad campaigns of sympathy and solidarity with the global agreements defining refugee status and imposing jihadist group, Islamic State (ISIS) still holds wide areas A senior Russian diplomatic source said: “Proposals issue of Syrian refugees by governments and peoples in responsibilities on countries to grant asylum, the United of Syria and is poised for further moves towards the big, by our partners for the change of regime in Damascus some European countries,” wrote Zeid Al-Zeid in a column Nations Refugee Agency praised the Gulf’s “hospitality”. “The Assad-controlled cities in the west: Islamic State already are illegitimate. They only say Assad must go - and then for Kuwait’s Al-An newspaper yesterday. “But it makes us sor- six GCC governments continue to respect international stan- has a presence in the southern suburbs of Damascus. what? I don’t think they have any idea. There used to be ry and makes us wonder about the absence of any official dards with regards to protecting refugees,” especially in not “I don’t see a tremendous amount of change out of no terrorists in Iraq, the same in Libya. And now the response by Arab states ... we’re seeing a silence that’s scan- repatriating them back to their war-torn homes, Nabil the Iranians or Russians. There is some talk of them Libyan state has fallen apart and the terrorists are roam- dalous.” Othman, the UNHCR’s representative in the Gulf told Reuters. being tired, but their positions are pretty firm,” said ing there.” Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, a commentator in the United While authorities generally apply “humanitarian considera- Andrew Tabler, a Middle East specialist with the The new US special envoy for Syria, Michael Ratney, Arab Emirates, said he suspected Gulf states were wary of tions” to those overstaying their visas, Othman said work or Washington Institute. “They think that Assad’s immedi- gave the polar opposite view after his Aug 28 visit to allowing in large numbers of politically vocal Arabs who local sponsorship still mostly defined residency status. ate departure would lead to a collapse of the regime. Moscow. “We are cognizant that Assad’s continued might somehow influence a traditionally passive society. But Foreign workers outnumber locals five to one in the UAE Washington also sees a rapid collapse of the regime as tenure fuels extremism and inflames tensions in the he said Gulf states should open their doors to the refugees. and Qatar, where well-heeled European families and South something that would be a boon for ISIS. They are in a region. That is why a political transition is not only nec- “The Gulf states often complain that the Arabic language is Asian workers are omnipresent while long-robed citizens are conundrum: if Assad goes right away, it would help ISIS, essary for the good of the people of Syria, but an impor- underused and that our culture is under threat due to the rare. Refugee camps are, and will likely remain, non-existent. but if he doesn’t go at all, you have no hope of putting tant part of the fight to defeat the extremists,” a US large number of foreign immigrants,” Qassemi said. “Here is “The numbers of foreigners are overwhelming. Here we the pieces of Syria back together again,” he said. statement said. an opportunity to host a group of people who can help alle- have 90 percent - do you want to turn local people into “This recent outburst of diplomacy is because every- While insisting Assad must go, US officials are not viate such concerns and are in need of refuge, fleeing a bru- minorities in their own countries? They already are, but to do one was becoming concerned, and rightfully so. But the specific about when or how. That leaves open the possi- tal war.” it really?” said UAE Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political scientist. results of that process were remarkably poor. They seem bility of a transition that begins with him still in office - One Kuwaiti analyst, a regular fixture on pan-Arab news Over the decades, Saudi Arabia has become home to to cement the earlier political positions of the region an almost impossible sell to the rebels fighting him. In shows, raised hackles by saying in a television interview last around half a million Syrians and the UAE to over 150,000, when it comes to Syria.” The recent flurry of diplomatic any case, Russia has rejected the idea of any pre-negoti- week that refugees were better suited to poorer countries, and the welcome extended to these and other expat profes- activity followed the conclusion of Iran’s nuclear deal ated exit for Assad. In comments closest in weeks to failing to acknowledge the pledges of rich European coun- sionals has helped fuel a boom in Gulf economies. But since with world powers and included high-level meetings outlining what Moscow might see as an acceptable way tries like Germany to take in many thousands. “Gulf countries the unrest and wars unleashed by the Arab Spring pro- between states with a stake in the conflict, with Russia forward on dealing with Assad, Russia said on Friday the clearly can and should do an awful lot more,” said Oxfam’s democracy uprisings in 2011, those governments have taking the lead. Syrian president was ready to hold early parliamentary Syria country director Daniel Gorevan. He called on Gulf adopted a stricter line on accepting Palestinians, Syrians and elections and share power with moderate opposition. states to “offer up work places, family unification schemes, Shiites - a sign of just how much the rich and stable Gulf ‘Unlimited Support’ The UN mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has essentially other legal avenues for them to get into Gulf ruled by absolute monarchs is wary of importing political Assad has wagered on the West rehabilitating him as invited warring parties to take part in UN-led working countries and to be able to earn a living.” contagions. a partner in the war against Islamic State. But while the groups to address matters including political and con- In Arab states beyond the Gulf, there is immense sympa- Iyad Al-Baghdadi, a Palestinian blogger and activist priority for US policy in Syria today is battling Islamic stitutional issues, and military and security issues. One thy for Syrians, but mixed views on the feasibility of helping. deported from the UAE last year, has criticized the response State, not unseating Assad, Washington has stuck by its of the big complications he faces is dealing with the “Tunisia is not able to welcome any refugees. We cannot of the Gulf states and laments the closed borders and repres- position that he is part of the problem, saying his bru- vast number of rebel factions. While some are getting accept Syrian refugees. After the revolution of 2011, Tunisia sion. Recalling time spent in a Norwegian refugee camp with tality has fuelled extremism. The 49-year-old who better organized on the political front, disunity in was the first to pay the price in terms of refugees. We have Syrian refugee friends, he said on Twitter: “Something about assumed power 15 years ago upon the death of his opposition ranks is still seen as a major challenge to welcomed 1.2 million Libyans and that has cost us a lot,” this felt absolutely alien - three grown Arab Muslim men who father, Hafez Al-Assad, has shown no appetite for nego- the diplomatic track. A Western diplomat tracking the Boujemaa Rmili, a spokesman for the Nidaa Tounes party were made homeless and are seeking refuge in... tiations despite losing more ground to rebels this year conflict said de Mistura’s plan would be “very slow”. which forms part of the governing coalition. Migrants from Scandinavia”. “The Arab world is 5 million square miles. When and admitting the Syrian army faces a manpower prob- “At the moment no one is talking about (Assad) Syria and Sahel countries into Algeria are estimated at my son was born, among the worst thoughts was how it has lem. departing or not. The Syrians are loving it ... Damascus 55,000, a source from Algeria’s red crescent told Reuters. “We no space for him.” — Reuters The military support from backers in Tehran and is calm.” — Reuters MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 SPORTS

Buffon set for 150 caps Six killed in Spain rally Watson ends Test career MILAN: Legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon hopes to stretch his impressive tally of MADRID: Six people were killed and several others LONDON: Australia all-rounder Shane Watson quit Test cricket with immediate effect yes- caps for Italy past the 150 mark as he targets playing for several more seasons at the top injured when a rally car spun out of control at the terday, accepting defeat in his battle against injuries that have ravaged his career. level. Juventus ‘keeper Buffon will reach the landmark when the Azzurri host Bulgaria later Coruna rally in the northwestern Spanish region of The 34-year-old announced the decision after sustaining a calf injury in Saturday’s one- Sunday in a Euro 2016 fixture that could edge Antonio Conte’s men closer towards qualifi- Galicia on Saturday, the Civil Guard said. day victory over England that ended his tour, Cricket Australia (CA) said on their website. “I cation for next summer’s finals in France. The driver lost control and skidded off the track announce my retirement from test cricket today with a heavy heart,” Watson, who finished Buffon, who earned his first Italy cap in 1997 when he replaced Gianluca Pagliuca killing four women, one of whom was pregnant, and his 59-match test career with 3,731 runs and a 35-plus average, said in a CA statement. during a 1-1 World Cup qualifying draw away to Russia, remains Italy’s undisputed num- “I have given my all to be the best I can be, physically, technically and mentally, and ber one goalkeeper after 18 years of loyal service. Despite the advancing years, the 37- two men. About a dozen people were hurt. “One of the drivers took the track at a much higher while I have not always achieved the personal goals that I set myself in test cricket, to have year-old said he is not about to hang up his gloves just yet. “I read somewhere that I’m played over 50 tests and to have captained my country is more than I ever dreamed of.” aiming for 200 caps, but that’s not an objective of mine,” Buffon told speed than he should have and he veered off a curve, slamming into around 20 people,” a Civil Guard Watson, who remains available for one-dayers and Twenty20 Internationals, reporters. “Obviously I want to add quite a few more, but how many I played his last test in the Ashes opener at Cardiff before being dropped spokesman said. don’t know. The nice thing about getting older is gaining the from the Australian side who lost the series 3-2 last month. Two other awareness and appreciating the value of what you’re doing.” Television footage showed a rally car careering off members of Australia’s losing Ashes party-Michael Clarke and Chris Buffon’s achievements over the years at club and international level a woodland track into a throng of onlookers in a cloud Rogers-have also announced their international retirements. have won him an army of fans around the world. Although Italy of dust. Local media reported that the driver and co- “On this tour I have seen how the next generation of young are no longer the footballing superpower they used to be, driver were unharmed. The spokesman was unable to Australian cricketers are ready to take the game forward,” Watson said. “I Buffon is still considered one of the game’s best ever shot- confirm that information. hope to continue to represent my country in both shorter formats of the stoppers. Last season he was pivotal as Juventus won their “The Coruna Rally is in mourning. My deepest con- game, and I believe that I still have a significant amount to contribute.” fourth consecutive Serie A title, their first league and dolences to the bereaved and wishes for a complete Since his 2005 test debut against Pakistan, regular hamstring and Cup double in 20 years and reached the Champions recovery of those injured,” Prime Minister Mariano back injuries have taken toll on Watson’s body and his League final for the first time in 12 years, only to be Rajoy, who is from Galicia, said on his official Twitter stock has fallen considerably over the last couple of outclassed 3-1 by Barcelona. —AFP feed. — Reuters years. —Reuters Mets rout Marlins, Orioles stumble

MIAMI: Bartolo Colon pitched a nine-hitter and made a nifty behind-the-back toss on a grounder, and the New York Mets hit three homers in a 7-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Saturday night. Colon (13-11) struck out two and walked none while throwing 100 pitches and extending his scoreless innings streak to 25. The 42-year-old right-hander became the oldest Mets pitcher to throw a shutout. He topped Miguel Batista, who threw one at age 40 in 2011. It was Colon’s 36th career complete game and 13th career shutout. He last accomplished both feats during the 2013 season. It was also the 12th shutout for Mets pitchers this season. Travis d’Arnaud and Wilmer Flores hit back-to-back homers in a four-run first inning and Juan Lagares went deep in a three-run second to help the Mets win at Miami for the 10th time in the last 15 games. Brad Hand (4-5) gave up all seven runs and six hits in 1 2/3 innings to fall to 0-5 in his career against the Mets.

BLUE JAYS 5, ORIOLES 1 David Price earned his 100th career victory, Jose Bautista hit his 32nd home run of the sea- son and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-1 on Saturday. The AL East-leading Blue Jays bounced back from a 10-2 loss to Baltimore on Friday night. Toronto hasn’t dropped two in a row since Aug. 14-15 against the Yankees. Price (14-5) allowed one run and three hits in seven innings. He’s 5-1 with a 2.15 ERA since join- ing Toronto in a July 30 trade with Detroit, and 100-56 overall in eight seasons. Bautista hit a solo home run off Mike Wright (2-4) in the first and made it 2-0 with an RBI double in the third. MIAMI: New York Mets’ Juan Lagares (12) slides into the tag by Miami Marlins third baseman Miguel Rojas (19) after he tried to stretch his single in the sixth inning. — AP seventh against Jeremy Jeffress (5-0) on Skip Matt Carpenter homered and St. Louis beat for the first time in 17 career starts after losing games over .500. Kenley Jansen got the last three RAYS 3, YANKEES 2 Schumaker’s bases-loaded double-play ball. Pittsburgh. Garcia (8-4) struck out a season-high his first six decisions. Quintana, who is 4-1 in nine outs for his 29th save in 31 chances. Tyson Ross Didi Gregorius lined out with the bases Herrera then greeted Hoover (7-1) with his first nine, walked one and allowed four hits for his starts since July 24, yielded five doubles - includ- (10-10) gave up a run and five hits in six innings. loaded to end the eighth inning and whipped his homer since Aug. 9. 50th career win to help the Cardinals push their ing two to Kendrys Morales. He struck out four He walked two and struck out three. Pederson bat toward the dugout, a telling sign of frustra- Will Smith pitched the eighth and Francisco lead over the Pirates to 6 1/2 games in the NL and walked none. Ramirez homered - his eighth added an RBI single in the eighth. tion for the Yankees during a costly loss. Rodriguez picked up his 34th save despite allow- Central. Kevin Siegrist followed with a scoreless hit in nine at-bats - in the fourth inning with Jose Asdrubal Cabrera hit a two-run single and ing one-out singles by Joey Votto and Brandon eighth before Trevor Rosenthal gave up a two- Abreu and Avisail Garcia aboard. Ramirez was RANGERS 2, ANGELS 1 Kevin Kiermaier had an RBI single as Tampa Bay Phillips, who finished with four hits. out run in the ninth. Carpenter’s 21st homer was down in the count 1-2 before parking a Danny Derek Holland allowed three hits over eight handed Nathan Eovaldi (14-3) his first loss since a two-run shot in the seventh and put the Duffy curveball over the left-center wall. Geovany innings and Rougned Odor hit a tiebreaking sac- mid-June, snapping the right-hander’s nine- CUBS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 0 Cardinals ahead 4-0. Pittsburgh starter Charlie Soto hit a solo homer in the seventh, his fifth rifice fly in the eighth to lead Texas. game winning streak. Rays third baseman Evan Jake Arrieta pitched eight innings of four-hit Morton (8-7) went six innings and allowed two home run in 21 games. Duffy (7-7) was pulled Holland (3-1) struck out five and walked two. Longoria left the game with a bruised right fore- ball for his major league-best 18th win to lead runs, one earned, and four hits. after seven innings, allowing four runs on seven He yielded just one hit through his last 6 1/3 arm, three innings after he was hit by a pitch. the Cubs. Arrieta also struck out seven in his first hits, while striking out seven and walking two. innings in his fifth start of the season, six days New York, which leads the AL wild-card race, start since he threw his first career no-hitter TIGERS 6, INDIANS 0 after throwing a three-hit shutout against fell 1 1/2 games behind first-place Toronto in the against the Dodgers last Sunday. It was the sev- Alfredo Simon pitched seven strong innings GIANTS 7, ROCKIES 3 Baltimore and striking out 11. The left-hander AL East. The Blue Jays beat Baltimore 5-1. The enth consecutive victory for the right-hander, and J.D. Martinez homered as slumping Detroit Jake Peavy doubled twice and pitched into spent most of the season on the disabled list Yankees had won three straight and six of seven - who has allowed just two earned runs in 50 1/3 beat Cleveland. Simon (12-9) became the first the sixth inning, and San Francisco snapped a with a shoulder strain after getting injured in his but they’ve dropped six of nine at home. Xavier innings during his win streak. Tigers pitcher besides Justin Verlander to win a seven-game losing streak. Angel Pagan and season debut on April 10 against Houston. Cedeno (4-1) struck out four in 1 2/3 hitless Arrieta (18-6) allowed two hits in the first, but game since his own one-hit shutout of the innings, and Brad Boxberger got three quick outs struck out Jarrod Saltalamacchia to end the Rangers on Aug. 20. This time, he didn’t allow a for his AL-high 34th save in 39 chances. inning. Hector Rondon yielded two hits in the hit until the sixth and only gave up two hits ninth before finishing for his 26th save in 30 while walking four. BREWERS 7, REDS 3 chances. Simon allowed 14 runs in 9 1-3 innings in two Rookie Shane Peterson hit his first career Robbie Ray (3-11) struck out eight in five starts between his wins over Texas and home run, Elian Herrera added his second homer innings. The left-hander allowed two runs and Cleveland. Despite his winning record, he is tied of the day and Ariel Pena got the win in his major four hits, but dropped to 0-7 with a 5.23 ERA in for the major league lead with seven starts allow- league debut as Milwaukee completed a sweep 10 starts since his last victory on July 7. ing six-plus runs. of their day-night doubleheader against The Tigers had lost seven of its previous eight Cincinnati. RED SOX 9, PHILLIES 2 games and were outscored 71-21 in that stretch. Peterson led off the sixth inning with a 366- David Ortiz hit his 496th career home run, Danny Salazar (12-8) lasted 3 2/3 innings, allow- foot drive into the right field seats for his second reaching 30 in a season for a team-record ninth ing six runs on eight hits and a walk. RBI of the game, helping the Brewers extend time as Boston beat Philadelphia. their winning streak to six games with their first The 39-year-old Ortiz surpassed Hall of Famer TWINS 3, ASTROS 2 doubleheader sweep since taking two from the Ted Williams’ eight 30-homer seasons with the Eddie Rosario hit a tiebreaking two-run triple Cubs on July 30, 2013, in Chicago. Milwaukee Red Sox. Big Papi set the mark with a drive that in the ninth inning and Minnesota held on to won the opener of the day-night doubleheader hooked around the Pesky Pole, capping an eight- beat Houston. Ervin Santana (4-4) gave up just 8-6. Herrera broke the second game open in the run fourth inning. Xander Bogaerts hit a three- one run and six hits over eight innings to help ninth with his seventh homer of the season, a run double during Boston’s big burst. the Twins bounce back after an 8-0 loss in the three-run shot. Pena (1-0) allowed two runs over Wade Miley (11-10) five hits in posting his first series opener the previous night. three innings in relief of Wily Peralta after a one- career complete game. He retired the first 12 bat- With the score tied 1-1, Brian Dozier singled hour, 33-minute thunderstorm delay. Keyvius ters in his 130th career start. Alec Asher (0-2) was off Houston closer Luke Gregerson (7-3) to open Sampson (2-3) gave up three runs in three tagged for seven runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 the ninth, and moved to second on Joe Mauer’s innings. innings in his second major league start. grounder. In the first game, Herrera hit a tiebreaking Trevor Plouffe was hit by a pitch with two home run on reliever J.J. Hoover’s first pitch of CARDINALS 4, PIRATES 1 outs, and Rosario followed with his hit to right the eighth inning. The Reds made it 6-all in the Jaime Garcia pitched seven scoreless innings, field that a diving George Springer got a glove on but couldn’t hold. Kevin Jepsen gave up a leadoff homer to Jed Lowrie in the bottom of the MLB results/standings ninth but finished up for his 11th save. TORONTO: Baltimore Orioles’ starting pitcher Mike Wright works against the Toronto Blue Jays during the second inning of a baseball game. — AP NATIONALS 8, BRAVES 2 Tampa Bay 3, NY Yankees 2; Toronto 5, Baltimore 1; Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 6; Chicago Cubs 2, Arizona 0; Bryce Harper had three hits, including his Gregor Blanco went deep for the Giants, who One-out singles by Mitch Moreland and Elvis St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 1; Boston 9, Philadelphia 2; Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 3; Washington 8, Atlanta 2; 33rd home run, and Gio Gonzalez tossed six had 15 hits. Andrus against Joe Smith (4-5) put runners at the Detroit 6, Cleveland 0; NY Mets 7, Miami 0; Minnesota 3, Houston 2; Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City 1; scoreless innings to lead Washington to its fourth Nolan Arenado homered for the sixth straight corners and Odor followed with his scoring fly- San Francisco 7, Colorado 3; LA Dodgers 2, San Diego 0; Texas 2, LA Angels 1; Seattle 8, Oakland 3. straight win. game to set a Rockies franchise record. It ball to left-center. Shawn Tolleson pitched a per- The Nationals remained five games back of matched the longest streak in the majors since fect ninth for his 29th save in 31 attempts. American League National League the NL East-leading Mets, who beat the Marlins Chris Davis did it with Baltimore in 2012. Eastern Division Eastern Division 7-0. Harper’s two-run blast, which doubled as his Peavy (5-6) doubled and scored in a two-run MARINERS 8, ATHLETICS 3 W L PCT GB NY Mets 75 60 .556 - 500th career hit, capped a four-run third inning fifth and then had an RBI double in the sixth to Felix Hernandez pitched eight strong innings, Toronto 77 58 .570 - Washington 70 65 .519 5 against Atlanta starter Shelby Miller (5-13). The give the Giants a 5-1 lead. It was the 12th multi- Robinson Cano drove in two runs, and Seattle NY Yankees 75 59 .560 1.5 Miami 56 80 .412 19.5 National League batting leader also doubled hit game of his career and the first time he has won its fourth straight. Logan Morrison and Tampa Bay 67 68 .496 10 Atlanta 54 82 .397 21.5 twice. Gonzalez (10-7) held the Braves hitless doubled twice. Chad Bettis (6-5) gave up four Shawn O’Malley each homered as the Mariners Baltimore 65 70 .481 12 Philadelphia 53 83 .390 22.5 through five innings. He allowed two hits with 10 runs and eight hits in 4 1/3 innings. matched their season-best win streak from May Boston 63 72 .467 14 Central Division strikeouts and four walks for his first victory since 8-12, which included a three-game sweep of the Central Division St. Louis 87 48 .644 - Aug. 10. Ryan Zimmerman also drove in two DODGERS 2, PADRES 0 A’s. Mark Trumbo, Kyle Seager and Brad Miller Kansas City 82 53 .607 - Pittsburgh 80 54 .597 6.5 Minnesota 70 65 .519 12 runs. Ian Desmond added three hits. The Braves Alex Wood pitched seven strong innings, and also drove in runs. Chicago Cubs 77 57 .575 9.5 Cleveland 65 69 .485 16.5 extended their season-high losing streak to 11 Carl Crawford and Joc Pederson had run-scoring Mark Canha hit a home run and Billy Butler Milwaukee 60 75 .444 27 Chicago White Sox 64 70 .478 17.5 games. Miller, an All-Star this season, has hits to lead the Dodgers. Wood (10-9) gave up had two RBIs for the A’s, who lost their fourth Cincinnati 55 79 .410 31.5 Detroit 62 73 .459 20 dropped 12 straight decisions and gone 20 starts three hits, walked four and hit a batter while straight. Stephen Vogt went 2 for 3 against Western Division Western Division without a win. striking out four in his eighth start for the Hernandez and is hitting .524 (11-for-21) against LA Dodgers 77 58 .570 - Houston 74 62 .544 - Dodgers since coming over in a trade from him. Hernandez (16-8) allowed three runs and six San Francisco 70 66 .515 7.5 Texas 71 63 .530 2 WHITE SOX 6, ROYALS 1 Atlanta. hits in his eight innings. He did not walk a batter Arizona 65 71 .478 12.5 LA Angels 68 67 .504 5.5 Jose Quintana pitched seven scoreless Crawford’s RBI double in the fourth was and struck out nine. A’s starter Jesse Chavez (7- San Diego 65 71 .478 12.5 Seattle 65 71 .478 9 innings and Alexei Ramirez hit a three-run homer enough for Los Angeles to win for the 10th time 14) allowed five runs on six hits in two-plus Colorado 56 79 .415 21 Oakland 58 78 .426 16 for Chicago. Quintana (8-10) defeated the Royals in 12 games and improve to a season-high 19 innings, his shortest outing of the year. — AP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 SPORTS

ARLINGTON: Alabama running back Derrick Henry (2) carries against Wisconsin defenders TJ Edwards (53) and Leon Jacobs (bottom) during the first half of an NCAA college football game. — AP Alabama wins season opener

ARLINGTON: Alabama running back Derrick enced quarterbacks, led the Cardinals to a NOTRE DAME 38, TEXAS 3 GEORGIA 51, LOUISIANA MONROE 14 CLEMSON 49, WOFFORD 10 Henry ran for 147 yards and three touchdowns couple of late touchdowns that made it inter- Notre Dame’s Malik Zaire passed for 313 Georgia beat Louisiana-Monroe in game Clemson’s Deshaun Watson threw for 194 as the No. 3-ranked Crimson Tide beat No. 20- esting. yards in his first home start, and Notre Dame that was called off with just under 10 minutes yards and two touchdowns, and Clemson ranked Wisconsin 35-17 on Saturday in the col- USC 55, ARKANSAS ST. 6 held Texas to 163 yards of total offense. Zaire left because of lightning in the area. A few overcame star receiver Mike Williams scary lege season opener for both teams. In other USC’s Cody Kessler passed for 236 yards was 19-of-22 passing with three touchdowns, minutes after the Bulldogs scored their final injury when hitting the goalpost support and key results, Oregon beat Eastern Washington and four touchdowns to lead the Trojans to a including a 66-yard scoring strike to Will Fuller. touchdown, coach Mark Richt walked over to spraining his neck. in a high-scoring encounter, Auburn had a big win over Arkansas State. Tre Madden the officials to discuss game conditions, and tighter-than-expected win against Louisville rushed for 106 yards and a score. Madden, TEXAS A&M 38, ARIZONA ST. 17 the decision was made to end it. UCLA 34, VIRGINIA 16 and University of Southern California cruised JuJu Smith-Schuster, Steven Mitchell Jr. and Texas A&M’s Kyle Allen threw for a score UCLA’s Josh Rosen passed for 351 yards and past Arkansas State. Oklahoma transfer Taylor McNamara caught early and sealed the game by running for a FLORIDA STATE 59, TEXAS STATE 16 three touchdowns in a stellar debut, leading Alabama played Wisconsin at the Dallas TD passes from Kessler in the Trojans’ first touchdown and throwing for another in the Everett Golson threw four touchdown pass- the Bruins past Virginia. Cowboys stadium, and used Jake Coker at game since the official end of scholarship fourth quarter after having being temporarily es in his Florida State debut. The graduate quarterback. He was 15-of-21 passing for 213 restrictions on the perennial power. benched. Allen won the starting job in presea- transfer from Notre Dame was 19 for 25 for MCNEESE STATE AT LSU, CANCELED yards and a touchdown while playing until Kessler went 19 for 26 with no turnovers. son camp, but spent most of the third quarter 302 yards. Persistent lightning strikes forced officials late in the third quarter. Although he was sacked five times, he steadily on the bench before returning early in the He matched his career high for touchdown to cancel Louisiana State’s season opener with In former offensive coordinator Paul led the Trojans to a 36-point lead before tak- fourth and capping a long drive with a 12-yard passes set last year in Notre Dame’s victory McNeese State following a delay of nearly four Chryst’s first game as Wisconsin’s coach, the ing the fourth quarter off. touchdown run that made it 24-14. over Syracuse. hours. Badgers were held to 40 yards rushing. They had averaged 264 yards per game on the MISSISSIPPI 76, UT MARTIN 3 ground over the previous five seasons. Mississippi’s Chad Kelly threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns and scored on a 20-yard run OREGON 61, EASTERN WASHINGTON 42 in a giant win against University of Texas Martin. Oregon’s Vernon Adams threw for two touchdowns but left his much-anticipated ARKANSAS 48, UTEP 13 debut after a scary fourth-quarter hit and the Arkansas’ Brandon Allen threw for a career- Ducks beat his former team Eastern high 308 yards and matched his best with four Washington to open the season. touchdown passes in victory over University of Royce Freeman ran for a career-high 180 Texas El Paso. yards and three scores for the Ducks. Adams, who transferred to the Ducks for his final year OKLAHOMA 41, AKRON 3 of college eligibility, was ushered to the locker Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield passed for 388 room after he staggered getting up from a late yards and three touchdowns as the Sooners hit by Eastern Washington’s John Kreifels, who beat Akron. was ejected. NORTHWESTERN 16, STANFORD 6 AUBURN 31, LOUISVILLE 24 Northwestern’s Clayton Thorson ran 42 Auburn’s defense made a couple of huge yards for a touchdown while playing turnover- plays early to offset three interceptions thrown free ball at quarterback in a surprise victory by Jeremy Johnson, and the Tigers held off against Stanford. Louisville. The Tigers’ first touchdown in the opener MISSOURI 34, SE MISSOURI 3 was set up by an interception, and Justin Missouri’s Kentrell Brothers had a career- Garrett returned a fumble 82 yards to make it best 16 tackles and blocked a punt that was 14-0. That’s just what Auburn wanted out of returned for a touchdown as Missouri beat Will Muschamp, who took over as defensive state rival Southeast Missouri. coordinator after being fired as coach at Southeastern Conference rival Florida. TENNESSEE 59, BOWLING GREEN 30 Auburn led 31-10 after a touchdown with Tennessee’s Jalen Hurd had three first-half just over 10 minutes remaining but Louisville touchdown runs to lead the Volunteers past quarterback Lamar Jackson, who got the bulk BATON ROUGE: McNeese State defensive back Dominique Hill (7) defends a pass against LSU wide receiver Malachi Dupre (15) during the Bowling Green in a game delayed 80 minutes of the playing time over three more experi- first half of an NCAA college football game. — AP by lightning in the third quarter. —AP Slattery bags Hoffman leads as Russian Open Spieth misses cut

MOSCOW: Lee Slattery bounced back 2011. Goya was second after a 68, with NORTON: Former winner Charley Hoffman few days before getting back to work. from an erratic start to shoot a 2-under defending champion David Horsey of earned a three-shot lead after the second “I’m going to take some time away, proba- 69 yesterday that was enough for a one- England (68) another shot back in third round at the Deutsche Bank Championship bly it’s going to be good for me to take four shot victory at the Russian Open. following a bogey-free round. Northern on Saturday, while fellow American Jordan days and not touch a club,” he told reporters, The Englishman entered the final Ireland’s Michael Hoey was one of four Spieth missed consecutive cuts for the first largely blaming his putting for the six-over time in his career. 148 total. “I don’t feel it’s far off, even though round with the lead but two bogeys on players to share fourth place on 12 under. Hoffman took advantage of his early tee my scores have been far off. It’s almost been the front nine left him temporarily two South African Jake Roos set a course time to gather nine birdies for an eight- like a bad dream, like I have to wake up and shots behind Argentina’s Estanislao Goya. record with an eight-under 63, hauling under-par 63 at the Boston TPC where he get the putts to go in again.” However, Slattery birdied three of his last him up the leaderboard from 34th won in 2010. He posted a 12-under 130 Hoffman, a three-time PGA Tour winner eight holes, including a chip in from the overnight to joint eighth. In damp con- halfway total, with Brendon de Jonge of who was on the leaderboard for a long time rough on the 17th, while Goya bogeyed ditions at the Skolkovo Golf Club, the Zimbabwe (68) the closest pursuer on nine- at the Masters this year before finishing equal the 13th and 15th. start of play was delayed by two hours under. Australian Jason Day, who has won ninth, started well with eight birdies on his “That chip in was massive,” said due to fog. three times in his last four events, including opening 14 holes, including a near hole-in- Slattery, who narrowly missed out on a Golf has become increasingly popular the PGA Championship, sat six shots back in a one on the par-three 11th, his second hole. European Tour card for this season. in recent years with the Russian elite, and tie for 10th after successive 68s. “This is one of those courses that when “Having to ask a lot of promoters for the tournament attracted a small but Masters and US Open champion Spieth you get up on the tees it sets up well visually invites, it’s been a difficult year. I forgot well-heeled crowd, some with body- missed his second straight cut with a 73 for for me,” American Hoffman said. “I also tend to what it was like to write letters. I’ve writ- guards in tow. Andrei Pavlov pleased the his fourth above-par round in a row. It is the make a few more putts on these greens. ten a lot this year and it’s just nice to be spectators by becoming the first Russian first time in his pro career that the 22-year-old “I’m in a nice position after two days, but able to finish the year off like this with a ever to make the cut at a European Tour Spieth has missed successive cuts. With the obviously we have a lot of golf left.” Northern win.” Slattery finished with a 15-under event, but he could not keep up the PGA Tour taking a one-week break before the Irishman Rory McIlroy was among those total of 269 as he secured his second same form for the final two rounds, fin- NORTON: Charley Hoffman watches his tee shot on the third event of the FedExCup playoffs, the with a lot of ground to make up after the career European Tour win, and first since ishing 71st on 13 over. — AP 16th hole during the second round of the Deutsche BMW Championship near Chicago, the world world number one shot 74 to fall 14 strokes Bank Championship golf tournament. — AP number two plans to forget about golf for a behind. — AP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 SPORTS Pumas looking to make biggest leap

LONDON: Possessing a side who can against Georgia, Tonga and Namibia to beat anyone on a good day, Argentina reach their customary quarter-final spot. are aiming high at the World Cup with The quarter-finals should be a given their sights set on the ultimate goal. since they joined the Rugby “Our dream is to be world champi- Championship in 2012 with two guaran- ons,” says Pumas’ captain and hooker teed annual tests against each of the Agustin Creevy. Given that they rarely three top southern hemisphere teams. beat either the top southern hemisphere But the players know they must keep teams or England, most observers could their feet on the ground, aware that the be excused a certain scepticism. A more likes of Georgia are also progressing realistic objective would be to emulate apace and a shock result in their second their fine 2007 generation by reaching match would leave them needing other the semi-finals for the second time. results to go their way. A week after Argentina succeeded in 2007 with Argentina handed South Africa the victories over leading European sides Rugby Championship wooden spoon, Ireland and Scotland but came unstuck the Springboks took their revenge with against South Africa. Now with a first win victory in a World Cup warmup in over the Springboks under their belt Buenos Aires over the team coach Daniel after the August upset in Durban, the Hourcade said he would field against only team they have yet to beat are New New Zealand. Although Argentina are Zealand. playing an expansive attacking game “(The South Africa win) was really under Hourcade, defence is the key nice but victories don’t last long, it’s in according to scrumhalf Tomas Cubelli. the past and you have to look forward,” “When we are strong and don’t give said flyhalf Juan Martin Hernandez. “Our away tries, the team feels confident, sol- perspective doesn’t change after the vic- id and from there we go into attack,” tory though it’s true that this kind of win Cubelli said. “On top of that, when this helps spiritually because it reflects our happens, our opponents start to wear good work (in training).” down mentally.” Argentina’s expanding NEW YORK: Roger Federer of Switzerland, returns a shot to Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, during the third round of the US Open tennis Upsetting the world champion All player base means there is ample cover tournament. — AP Blacks at Wembley in their opening Pool for the likes of winger Gonzalo Camacho C match on Sept. 20 would be the per- and prop Juan Figallo, veterans of the fect start but they are far more likely to 2011 World Cup who failed to make the Federer, Murray cruise, lose that match and win the others squad due to injury. — Reuters Bouchard suffers injury

NEW YORK: Roger Federer and Andy Murray The big South African, boosted by a title on Open champion Azarenka. coasted into the US Open fourth round Saturday the hard courts of Winston Salem last weekend, Fifth seed Stan Wawrinka, the French Open as Canadian poster girl Eugenie Bouchard suf- made the last 16 with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/3) champion, made the last 16 with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), fered a potentially tournament-ending head win over Austria’s Dominic Thiem. 6-4 win over Belgian world number 107 Rubens injury in a freak fall. Five-time champion and “It was much slower conditions today which Bemmelmans. Wawrinka goes on to face world number two Federer claimed a 6-3, 6-4, 6- made it tough to serve but easier to return so unseeded American Donald Young, who pulled 4 victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber, his 10th win there were a lot of long rallies,” said Murray. “He off his second comeback from two sets to love in 10 meetings against the 29th-ranked German. got the early break but I got it back straight- down to beat Serbian 22nd seed Viktor Troicki 4- Murray, seeded three and the New York away, used my variety and made it tough for 6, 0-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2, 6-4. champion in 2012, brushed aside Thomaz him.” Bouchard was facing a battle to make her Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych, a semi-final- Bellucci of Brazil 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 for his 40th career scheduled last-16 clash with Italy’s Roberto Vinci ist in 2012, reached the last 16 for a fourth suc- win at the US Open. on Sunday after injuring her head in a fall in the cessive year by beating Spain’s Guillermo GarcÌa- Federer, 34, hoping to become the oldest women’s locker room on Friday. Lopez 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (9/7), 6-3, 6-3. champion since Ken Rosewall in 1970, will next The 21-year-old Canadian withdrew from the He next plays 12th seed Richard Gasquet, one face US 13th seed John Isner, who progressed women’s and mixed doubles tournament on of four Frenchmen in the last 16, who defeated after Czech opponent Jiri Vesely retired with a medical advice. Organisers had been due to Australia’s Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-3, 6-1. neck injury after dropping the first two sets. update her status late Saturday but also sched- Romanian second seed Simona Halep Federer has now reached the fourth round in uled Bouchard to play last on Louis Armstrong reached the last 16 with a 6-2, 6-3 win over New York for the 15th year as he looks to return Stadium on Sunday to maximise her chances of American qualifier Shelby Rogers. Next up for to the final for the first time since 2009. taking part. Halep is Germany’s 24th seed Sabine Lisicki, who “I won the big points today, I served well Two-time runner-up Victoria Azarenka, the came back from 1-5 down in the final set to when I had to, even though it was up and down 20th seed, triumphed over 11th-seeded German defeat Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic 6- for both of us,” said Federer, who will take a 4-1 Angelique Kerber in an Arthur Ashe Stadium 4, 4-6, 7-5 before collapsing to the floor in floods career lead over Isner into their fourth-round thriller lasting almost three hours. of tears. Two-time Wimbledon winner Petra clash. Murray had needed to rally from two sets Azarenka, whose season has been blighted Kvitova, the Czech fifth seed, eased past Anna down to see off France’s Adrian Mannarino in the by a left thigh injury, won 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 on a sixth KarolÌna Schmiedlova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-1. second round. But despite falling a break down match point having trailed 2-5 in the first set. She next faces British qualifier Johanna in the first set on Saturday, he eventually The 26-year-old took her record over Kerber Konta, the world number 97 who beat German breezed to victory over the 30th-ranked, left- to 5-0 on the back of 51 winners to her oppo- 18th seed Andrea Petkovic 7-6 (7/2), 6-3. handed Bellucci. nent’s 46 in a merciless contest of big-hitting. Samantha Stosur, the 2011 champion and the Murray, who has advanced to the quarter- Both players saved a combined 26 break last woman to beat Serena Williams at the tour- finals or better at his last 18 Grand Slams, next points before the Belarusian prevailed to set-up nament, battled past Italy’s Sara Errani 7-5, 2-6, faces South Africa’s 15th seed Kevin Anderson. a last-16 clash with America’s Varvara 6-1. Next for Stosur is another Italian, 26th seed Anderson has never gone beyond the fourth Lepchenko. “Angelique is a great fighter but I Flavia Pennetta, a 2013 semi-finalist, who put round at a major and trails Murray 4-1 in career enjoy the hustle and getting winners and chas- out world number 149 Petra Cetkovska 1-6, 6-1, meetings including two clashes this year. ing down every ball,” said two-time Australian 6-4. — AFP Australia defeat US in World Cup warm-up

CHICAGO: A second-string Australian team turned a narrow half-time lead into a comfort- able 47-10 victory over the United States in a World Cup warm-up game in Chicago on Catch every kick, try Saturday. The Wallabies rested several players includ- ing captain and hooker Stephen Moore, and and tackle with OSN did not look like the number two team in the world in a poor first half display at Soldier Field. Exclusive HD coverage of They led only 14-10 at the break, before the Rugby World Cup 2015 raising their game and scoring five unan- swered second-half tries against their error- prone opponents. The result was a far cry DUBAI: The Rugby World Cup returns White, New Zealand’s great open side from the 74-6 thrashing New Zealand inflicted this month to OSN, the broadcaster who flanker Josh Kronfeld, 1999 Rugby World on the American Eagles at the same venue first introduced rugby to the region with Cup winner Australian Joe Roff and 1995 last year. Nonetheless, Australian prop James Rugby World Cup 2003. This will be the Rugby World Cup winner South African Slipper expressed satisfaction with the result fourth time the region’s leading pay-TV Joel Stransky. after his first game as captain. network and the home of world-class Andy Warkman, Vice President Sport “It was a good win,” he told NBC Sports sport brings the tournament to the and Production, OSN, commented: Network in an on-field interview. “We came region’s screens, with unprecedented live “Rugby was first brought to the region by here to win. We ended up doing that.” Slipper and exclusive coverage of all 48 matches OSN and we are delighted to again bring diplomatically praised the Americans and pre- in stunning HD. this prestigious tournament to the dicted they would more than make up the OSN Sports 1 HD has become OSN screens of millions of our viewers who numbers at the World Cup in England. Sports Rugby World Cup HD for the dura- have been waiting in anticipation for the “Proves how good the Eagles are,” he said. tion of the tournament; the channel is action to begin. We have assembled a “They came out in that first half and played free and dedicated to the biggest event fantastic team of experts consisting of some really great rugby. They’re going to go in the rugby union calendar and the world-cup winners and legends of rugby far in the World Cup. Credit to them. Both third largest sporting tournament in the from the Northern and Southern hemi- teams showed physicality.” SOLDIER FIELD: United States’ Alan Macginty (left) and Zachary Fenoglio (bottom) tackle Australia’s world. spheres who will supply our viewers with American captain Chris Wyles lamented Ben McCalman (center) during the first half of aninternational rugby test match. — AP The channel will include classic Rugby fascinating insights, top-notch pre and that his team could not replicate their first- World Cup matches, documentaries, pre- post-match analysis and we will be intro- half form after the break. “I felt our first half views and highlights. All of the live ducing exciting new state of the art tech- was pretty good,” said Wyles. Namibia target elusive matches will be broadcast on the chan- nology so we entertain fans throughout “We were pretty happy with that in a way. nel and will be complemented by exten- the tournament.” But we let ourselves down in the second half. first World Cup victory sive pre and post-match studio coverage “Rugby World Cup 2015 is a key part That being said, Australia’s a good team.” providing expert analysis and in-depth of OSN’s commitment to deliver the very CAPE TOWN: Namibia’s sole aim at the rugby World Brought in last October as a technical advisor, Australia took advantage of American lock punditry by OSN’S team of former inter- best high quality of live sport and to Cup is to end a run of 15 straight defeats at the Davies replaced former coach Danie Vermeulen in Greg Peterson being sinbinned early in the national stars. bring the most momentous and impor- global showpiece as they go into the 2015 tourna- June. Vermeulen claimed he did not have the full game with tries to fly-half Bernard Foley and The OSN World Cup team of rugby tant international events to viewers ment with some good form behind them. support of the Namibian Rugby Union, but was also scrumhalf Nick Phipps. The US hit back with a legends have been carefully chosen to across the region.’’ From the group They have lost all their World Cup matches since battling a run of poor form. Since then Namibia penalty by Irish-born A.J. MacGinty and a try their first appearance in 1999, conceding almost have won all four matches under Davies, complet- represent the wide spread of nationali- stages all the way to the quarter-finals by scrum half Mike Petrie to get within strik- 1,000 points in the process, but there is real hope ing a pair of home victories over Russia, and crush- ties in the region to give customers the our team will be broadcasting from the ing distance at the break and raise hopes of they can halt that trend in England. ing defeats of Zimbabwe and Kenya. While that best viewing experience and views from brand new OSN studios in Dubai Media an upset. Michael Cheika’s side did not con- Not in their opener, when they take on champi- opposition may be modest, they have at least built both hemispheres. City. After the quarter-finals the whole cede any points in the second half, though ons New Zealand at London’s Olympic stadium on some momentum going into the World Cup with The team is made up of one of team will fly to London to cover the the Americans came close several times Sept. 24, but later on in Exeter against Tonga (Sept. the help of new backline coach Pieter Rossouw, a Britain’s leading sport’s presenters, Jim semi-finals and final from pitch side at 29) and Georgia (Oct. 7). They finish their Pool C former South Africa wing. before committing basic turnovers that the Rosenthal; British and Irish Lions centre Twickenham Stadium taking OSN sports campaign against Argentina in Leicester on Oct. 11. “There’s a lot of courage and character, and we Wallabies pounced on. Australia start their pairing from the victorious 1997 tour of fans to the very heart of the action. Stay All of those teams are placed well above Namibia’s will be doing everything to get that first ever win at World Cup in Pool A against Fiji on Sept. 23, South Africa, England’s Jeremy Guscott tuned and catch all the action only on 20th position in the World Rugby rankings, but they a World Cup,” Davies said. “I am pleased with the while the US begin their Pool B campaign and Wales’ Scott Gibbs, South African OSN Sports Rugby World Cup HD from are the fixtures where the country will be keen to dynamics of the players who are based in Namibia three days earlier against Samoa. — Reuters show their progress under Welsh coach Phil Davies. and those who play professionally. —Reuters Rugby World Cup winning coach Jake September 18, 2015. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 SPORTS Even Paralympians could struggle in unfriendly Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO: With their Mad Max-style wheel- said Junior, “is what we are living with.” Some 4,350 athletes from 178 countries are “The handicapped parking spaces are constantly chairs, tattoos, and aggression-filled faces, Rio de Wheelchair rugby players are not complainers. expected at the Rio Paralympics. But the city is barely taken,” his girlfriend Tarcila Formiga, who is able-bod- Janeiro’s wheelchair rugby players would seem near When their game was invented in the 1970s in Canada, ready. “Just to accommodate the athletes, welcome ied, said while watching from on the sidelines of the impossible to stop. early participants called it “murderball.” Becoming a the athletes and help them in-we have to make an rugby court. But in the city hosting the Paralympic Games a year full Paralympic medal sport in 2000, murderball fea- effort,” Rio 2016 organizing committee spokesman Formiga, 30, said her relationship with Prestes has from today, just one typically broken sidewalk is tures teams of four dodging, passing, sprinting and Mario Andrada admitted last month. opened her eyes to the reality faced by the disabled in enough to bring the toughest to a halt. battering their way with a ball to the opposing end By way of example, he pointed out that the the world’s seventh biggest economy. “Accessibility is our number one problem,” said line. It’s full on. biggest private vehicle currently available for carrying “It’s the details. For example, you go to a hotel here Gilson Dias Wirzma Junior, 28, part of the national The wheelchairs, fitted with battering rams and wheelchair passengers has a capacity of only eight. and ask if they have an adapted room and they say Brazilian wheelchair rugby team and a hopeful for the special wheel covers, look more like miniature battle That’s not one full squad from a typical wheelchair yes, but then the bed turns out to be too high for the Summer Paralympics, which start September 7, 2016 wagons from a dystopian movie than the symbol of rugby team. Even with all their skill and strength, person in the wheelchair to transfer easily,” she said. in Rio. In his Rio suburb of Sao Goncalo, for example, people who have been crippled. And while striking wheelchair rugby players are no different when it “It’s the little details-but imagine all that together “there are no real sidewalks,” said Junior, who was left a with hands is not allowed, the wheelchair-on-wheel- comes to the Rio obstacle course. when the games start?” Celebrations marking the tetraplegic when he was dumped by a wave while chair hits are brutal. “One of the symbols of Rio are the Portuguese Paralympic one-year countdown on Monday will aim swimming in 2007. “Taking the bus is nearly impossi- During training, Santer members raced around the sidewalks,” said another player, Renan Prestes, 28, to start raising awareness. ble. There’s only one bus on my route that has wheel- basketball-sized court, strapped into their chairs, and referring to the stylish, but uneven black and white Accessibility will also be a key theme at the open- chair access. You can wait for up to two hours.” Rio de using their partially disabled hands and arms to power mosaic paving common in southern neighborhoods. ing ceremony on September 7 next year. “Things are Janeiro, the “Marvelous City,” will attract visitors from themselves with surprising speed and agility. One of “But for us they’re a nightmare.” getting better” ahead of the games, says Mayr, one of around the world during the Paralympics and the the heaviest players, a tall bearded man with a number Crossing Rio’s busy streets can be equally frustrat- the first in Brazil to take up the sport in 2008. But after Olympics in August. But anyone relying on wheel- 7 shirt, was knocked clean over, requiring two assis- ing and more dangerous. “You find streets where having traveled widely-he will soon go to San Diego, chairs-fans and athletes alike-will face Olympian-sized tants to pick him up and put the chair back on its there’s a ramp on one side, but not the other and California for a disabled surfing contest-Mayr knows hurdles. Preparing for practice at a spartan court in wheels. “The hits are what I really enjoy,” veteran player you’re half way across the street when you realize,” how far Rio has to climb before becoming wheelchair- northern Rio, members of the Santer wheelchair rugby Eduardo Mayr, 43, said with a great smile from his Prestes said. “You’re stuck.” Prestes, who suffered spinal friendly. “This is not Europe and this is not the United club traded horror stories of broken pavements, miss- heavily scarred wheelchair, before wiping the sweat cord injuries during a swimming accident, drives a car, States,” he said. “The United States-that’s like ing ramps and malfunctioning elevators. “Sadly, that,” from his face and racing off again. but even so he is not in the clear. Disneyland for us.” — AFP Ghana, Senegal win but South Africa suffer shock

CAPE TOWN: Ghana and Senegal places below them, as goalkeeper secured away wins in the African Nations Itumeleng Khune dropped a free kick Cup qualifiers on Saturday but it proved into his own net in the opening five min- an embarrassing day for the continent’s utes before the visitors’ debutant defend- other footballing heavyweights with er Siyabonga Zulu was sent off. Nigeria drawing and South Africa and Despite being down to 10 men, South Tunisia beaten. Africa equalised only to give away two There was an historic first-ever victory late goals in a 3-1 defeat which marks the for South Sudan, who beat Equatorial biggest scalp in Mauritania’s limited Guinea 1-0 at home after failing to win in international history. their first 11 internationals since becom- Tunisia lost 1-0 away in Liberia, who ing the world game’s newest nation four were celebrating a return home as they years ago. A late free kick from Mubarak hosted their first full international since Wakaso handed Ghana a 1-0 win over the end of the Ebola crisis. Francis Rwanda in Kigali and a second successive Grandpa Doe, whose recall to the squad win in the preliminaries for the 2017 had been criticised, got the game’s only finals in Gabon. goal. Joel Mogorosi’s strike handed Cheikhou Kouyate and Sadio Mane Botswana a 1-0 home win over Burkina scored either side of halftime to give Faso, who were Nations Cup runners-up Senegal a 2-0 away victory in Namibia in 2013. Nordin Amrabat, Youssef El Arabi and maintain their 100 percent record in and Nabil Dirar scored as Morocco won Group K. 3-0 away in tiny Sao Tome e Principe and But Nigeria were held to a goalless Fode Dore got a hat trick as Congo draw away in Tanzania in a disappointing emerged 4-2 winners in Guinea Bissau. A start for new coach Sunday Oliseh with further 12 games are scheduled for debutant English-born goalkeeper Carl Sunday as teams continue the qualifica- Ikeme proving the difference between a tion process for the tournament in single point and defeat for the visitors. Gabon. The winners of the 13 groups South Africa suffered a major setback plus the two best-placed runners-up in Mauritania, ranked by FIFA some 40 qualify for the finals. — Reuters Scots counting on Hampden boost GLASGOW: Leigh Griffiths has vowed to to the Germans in Dortmund in the help save Scotland’s Euro 2016 dream if group opener in September last year he is unleashed against Germany at thanks to a double from Bayern Munich Hampden Park today. star Thomas Mueller. HARRISON: Brazil’s Neymar (10) has his jersey tugged by Costa Rica’s Daniel Colindres (24) during the second half of an international friendly soccer match. — AP The Celtic striker was limited to a The Germans enjoyed a stuttering fleeting appearance as a second half sub- start to their campaign with a draw stitute in the disappointing 1-0 defeat to against Ireland and a defeat to Poland Hulk gives lacklustre Brazil Georgia on Friday which severely dented but moved to the top of Group D follow- Scotland’s hopes of qualifying for their ing Friday’s 3-1 win over Poland, who first major finals since 1998. Scotland will face at Hampden in Ireland’s 4-0 win over minnows October. 1-0 victory over Costa Rica Gibraltar saw Scotland drop to fourth in Despite the fact the World Cup win- Group D and means the match against ners appear to be hitting top form again, NEW YORK: Lacklustre Brazil beat Costa Rica 1- five minutes, shooting straight at the keeper left. Brazil perked up when Kaka replaced Hulk world champions Germany is almost a forward Shaun Maloney believes 0 in New Jersey on Saturday but the revamped when it looked easier to score. midway through the second half as the experi- must-win if Gordon Strachan’s side are to Scotland can make up for the defeat team of the five-times world champions failed Dunga’s team could not build on the Hulk enced midfielder brought an urgency and cre- secure one of the two automatic qualify- against Georgia by picking up points to impress in their penultimate friendly before goal and neither team looked particularly men- ativity to the side. ing spots. against Germany and Poland. “These are next month’s World Cup qualifiers. acing for the remainder of an uneventful first “It was great. I was proud to be back after Griffiths has grabbed eight goals for two humungous games and it adds pres- Zenit St Petersburg striker Hulk scored after period. The pace quickened in the second half eight months and feeling the warmth of the Celtic in a prolific start to the season and sure, but this is why teams qualify and nine minutes when he muscled his way past a with Brazil looking the more dangerous. fans here was special,” Kaka told TV Globo. “I the striker hopes to bring that form into teams don’t,” Maloney said. “I think we defender and fired home from 12 metres. Marcelo cut in from the left and came close feel I can contribute a lot in the short and medi- the match against Joachim Loew’s side if have to deal with that pressure and we Hulk started for the first time since enduring twice in the first few minutes and Douglas um term. Strachan gives him a chance up front. are very hopeful that we can change the a disappointing World Cup last year while Costa, one of Brazil’s best players, did the same. I’ve played in two World Cup qualifiers and if “I would love a crack at the Germans. result of late yesterday, or on the follow- coach Dunga gave debuts to Gremio goalkeep- Bryan Ruiz thought he had equalised in the Dunga wants me I have plenty to offer.” Brazil It’s an honour to put a strip on for your ing gathering. “Obviously we’re going er Marcelo Grohe and Santos midfielder Lucas 55th minute, smashing a through ball into the meet the United States in a friendly on Tuesday Lima. Only two players remained from the side roof of the net, but Canadian referee Mathieu in New England and then kick off their World country and if I’m selected or on the into it as huge underdogs with the way that lost the Copa America quarter-final to Bourdeau unfairly ruled it offside. Cup qualifying campaign against Chile in bench I would love to get on,” Griffiths Germany have played over the last year Paraguay in July. Brazil dominated the first half Bayern Munich’s Costa also had a goal Santiago in October. Costa Rica host Uruguay in said. “I don’t see why we can’t still beat or two. “We’ll give it our best shot and and David Luiz almost gave them the lead after unluckily chalked off with a quarter of an hour a friendly next week. — Reuters Germany. It’s at Hampden Park and we see if it’s good enough.” have beaten the best there before. “We Despite Scotland’s defeat in Georgia, got good results against France, Holland, Germany’s World Cup-winning defender Italy. A draw against Germany. I don’t see Mats Hummels believes Strachan’s side Early England qualification gives why we can’t get something on Monday will remain a threat in Group D. as well. “Teams come to Hampden and “They are dangerous and it doesn’t tend to raise their game a bit. I don’t depend on how they played the last Hodgson time to experiment know why. But now we just have to look game,” the Borussia Dortmund centre- to go and get the three points.” back said. LONDON: England’s early qualification for next formances for Swansea. Everton defender John Griffiths added: “The group is definite- “We know they have a good team, a year’s Euro 2016 finals in France has given man- Stones and his club mate Ross Barkley, also 21, ly not dead. The gaffer came in and told strong team and some good individual ager Roy Hodgson the rare luxury of being able who scored his first goal for England against San us it could easily have gone the other players and of course a very passionate to experiment with his selections well ahead of Marino and now has 14 caps, look set for long way. “We still have three games to play, stadium. “It will be a tough game if we let the tournament kicking off. England’s 6-0 win international careers. nine points to play for. I still believe we them play, if we let them have chances, over San Marino on Saturday maintained their Young forwards like Harry Kane, 22, of have a realistic chance of winning them the crowd will get enthusiastic and the perfect record in Group E with seven wins out of Tottenham Hotspur, and Raheem Sterling, 20, of all.” Scotland suffered a narrow 2-1 defeat team will always be better then.” — AFP seven and they became the first country to take Manchester City, also provide options for their place alongside the French hosts in the Hodgson in attack. expanded 24-team finals. Rooney, meanwhile, may not have made a It was the earliest England have ever quali- blistering start to the season with Manchester fied for any major tournament apart from when United, but the skipper, who will be 30 next they hosted the World Cup in 1966 and the month, is still a key figure as far as Hodgson is European championship in 1996, and skipper concerned. Rooney equalled Bobby Charlton’s Wayne Rooney now wants them to win every all-time England record of 49 goals against San match in their qualifying group for the first time. Marino before Hodgson swapped him for Kane With a home game to come against with nearly an hour played. Switzerland on Tuesday followed by October’s Some have criticised Hodgson for taking him double-header against Estonia at Wembley England coach Roy Hodgson off when the record was there to be broken, but before signing off with a visit to Lithuania, Although England failed to get out of the the manager explained: “The substitution was England could well make it 10 wins out of 10 group stage in the World Cup last year, they are planned with a view to Tuesday night against and preserve their long unbeaten run in both now unbeaten in their last 12 internationals. Switzerland. World Cup and Euro qualifiers which dates back They were always likely to emerge unscathed “It would be nice if Wayne got his 50th goal 26 matches to a 1-0 loss to Ukraine in October from a Euro qualifying group against the likes of against Switzerland, but one thing for certain is 2009. Hodgson told the BBC: “I’m not sure early San Marino, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia and that he will get it. “It is not as if this was his last qualification gives us any particular advantage Switzerland, but younger players have game and his only chance. “If this was his last because we are going to take a lot of time to impressed Hodgson during the course of the game for England and he needed that one goal, plan and improve anyway. campaign. then I wouldn’t have taken him off.” “What it could do is give me the opportunity Liverpool defender Nathaniel Clyne, 24, looks Rooney added: “I’m delighted to have for experimentation because we did not get that like being England’s best right-back since Gary equalled the record, now I’d like to break it, but ahead of the World Cup when we had to win our Neville while Jonjo Shelvey, 23, has played his more importantly I hope we can make it 10 wins Leigh Griffiths last two qualifiers to get to Brazil.” way back into the squad after some fine per- out of 10.” — Reuters Federer, Murray Hulk gives cruise, Bouchard lacklustre Brazil suffers injury 1-0 victory over Costa Rica

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OVIEDO: Spain’s forward Pedro Rodriguez (right) vies with Slovakia’s midfielder Lukas Tesak during the Euro 2016 qualifying football match. — AFP Spain avenges Slovakia loss

OVIEDO: Spain avenged a rare loss to Slovakia with a 2-0 Charlton’s record. He got one from the penalty spot in the wondering if it was time for coach Vicente del Bosque to leader Austria won its sixth game in a row. victory on Saturday as Spain pulled level on points with 13th minute but was taken off just before the hour mark, start over. Artyom Dzyuba’s 38th-minute strike ended Russia’s Slovakia and took the lead of Group C on head-to-head denying him a chance of a second goal against a tiring And although he promised to rejuvenate his side, a 11-month wait for a competitive goal before a hectic results. home defense late on. starting lineup of 11 veterans from the Brazil World Cup end to the match saw both teams fail to convert good Spain got early goals from Jordi Alba and Andres Iniesta He’ll get a first chance to reach 50 goals against played like two-time European champions and could have chances. to deal Slovakia its first loss in qualifying for next summer’s Switzerland tomorrow. “It would have been great if it had won by a wider margin. Russia, in its first match under new coach Leonid tournament. Last year, Slovakia ended Spain’s 36-game happened tonight,” Rooney said, “but it will be (great) “Objective accomplished,” Iniesta said. Alba headed in a Slutsky, stayed in third place but was only one point unbeaten run in qualifiers. Also, Sweden lost star striker tomorrowy, if selected, with the tradition at Wembley.” An well-placed pass from David Silva to get Spain going in the behind Sweden, which holds the second of the auto- Zlatan Ibrahimovic to injury in a 1-0 defeat to Russia in own goal, as well as second-half goals by Ross Barkley, Theo fifth minute. Iniesta then converted Spain’s dominance into matic qualifying places. Group G. Walcott (two), and Harry Kane completed England’s win. a second goal after Diego Costa earned a penalty kick a Ibrahimovic was replaced by Ola Toivonen at half- Here is closer look at Saturday’s qualifying matches: Switzerland roared back to beat Slovenia 3-2 and remain half-hour in. time after complaining of a leg injury. Coach Erik second at six points behind England. Switerland was losing Also, Ukraine beat Belarus 3-1 to remain in third place, Hamren said it was not clear if Ibrahimovic would be GROUP E 2-0 until Josip Drmic scored his first of two goals in the three points behind Spain and Slovakia, and setting up a able to play against Austria on Tuesday. England achieved its target in Serravalle. Wayne Rooney 80th. Valentin Stocker leveled in the 84th before Drmic got big match at Slovakia tomorrow. Luxembourg edged “It’s a big difference if he’s playing or not, because fell just short of his. With a routine win against a San Marino the winner four minutes into stoppage time. Slovenia is Macedonia 1-0 with an injury-time goal to escape last he’s a world-class player,” Hamren said. Austria needs team that included a barman, a lawyer, a pharmacist, and a third, while Estonia beat Lithuania 1-0 and is fourth. place. just one point from its last three games in order to qual- student, England guaranteed its place in Euro 2016 with ify after beating Moldova 1-0 at home thanks to Zlatan three games to spare and remained on course to finish GROUP C GROUP G Junuzovic’s goal. Also, fourth-place Montenegro won 2- group play with maximum points. Last year’s shock defeat at Slovakia on the heels of Russia moved back into contention for an automatic 0 at home against Liechtenstein with goals from Fatos Rooney started the match needing two goals to surpass Spain’s poor showing at the 2014 World Cup had many qualifying spot with the win over Sweden, while group Beciraj and Stevan Jovetic. — AP Hamilton wins Italian GP Rodriguez slashes MONZA: Lewis Hamilton’s 40th career victory in yes- This, said members of rival teams, was enough to terday’s Italian Grand Prix and, with it, a 53-points represent a clear breach of the sport’s strict technical advantage in the drivers’ world championship was regulations and should have resulted in automatic Aru’s Vuelta lead confirmed late Sunday after a two-hour stewards’ exclusion. inquiry. The defending two-time world champion But after more than two hours of deliberations, MADRID: Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez Rodriguez, with Majka and Dumoulin had faced possible disqualification following a tech- during which the stewards talked to the technical closed to within one second of Vuelta just under one and a half minutes nical report that claimed his Mercedes team had delegate and representatives of both Mercedes and leader Fabio Aru when he stormed clear behind in third and fourth respectively. raced on tyres that were set at a pressure that was Pirelli, they took into consideration that Mercedes’ on the punishing summit finish to win “I worked really well on the stage and too low and infringed the technical regulations. tyre warming blankets had been disconnected from the 15th stage yesterday. I enjoyed it a lot,” Rodriguez, who But in a statement issued nearly three hours after their power source and that their tyres were “signifi- Katusha rider Rodriguez timed his secured a 10-second bonus for the stage the race, the stewards said that they had deter- cantly below” the maximum permitted tyre blanket late burst to perfection to beat Poland’s win, told reporters. mined the pressure in the tyres concerned were at temperature when measured on the grid. In addi- Rafal Majka (Tinkoff-Saxo) into second “He (Dumoulin) has been pretty quick the minimum start pressure recommended by tion, said the statement, “the stewards are satisfied place by 12 seconds, with Rodriguez’s in the mountains so maybe he won’t be Pirelli-when they were fitted to the car. that the team followed the currently specified pro- team mate and compatriot Daniel so fast in the time trial, we don’t know,” This and the team’s adherence to safety proce- cedure supervised by the tyre manufacturer for the Moreno a further two seconds back in added the 36-year-old. dures was sufficient evidence of Mercedes’ good safe operation of the tyres”. third. “Dumoulin is in contention. Each day intent to sway the decision in their favor. “I don’t It ended by adding that the stewards recom- Italian Aru (Astana), who led he is losing some time but what we know what to say about it, it’s not my job,” said mended that the tyre manufacturer and the FIA Rodriguez by 26 seconds overnight, don’t know is if he is holding back on Hamilton, when faced with the claims. “Today I’ve hold further meetings to provide clear guidance to crossed together with Colombian purpose. Maybe the lad is more intelli- been so happy with how the car has been in the the teams on measurement protocols. Movistar rider Nairo Quintana one sec- gent than we think.” race. The stewards’ decision meant that the result ond behind Moreno after the 175.8-kilo- Yesterday’s 15th stage was the sec- “Formula One is about running to the bare min- stands with Hamilton as winner and local hero four- metre slog from Comillas to Sotres. ond of three consecutive summit finish- imum. For whatever reason today, 0.3psi - if that’s time champion German Sebastian Vettel confirmed MONZA: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, holds up the trophy as he cele- Dutchman Tom Dumoulin (Giant- es in the three-week race, which ends on what it was - 0.3psi... It makes no difference to the in second place for Ferrari - not promoted to winner, Alpecin), who is expected to put in a Sept. 13 in central Madrid. car, particularly on one tyre. I’m sure Pirelli could as many of the tifosi had hoped. brates on the podium after winning the Formula One Italian Grand Prix. — AP strong performance in Wednesday’s Riders face another tough test on prove it. That’s not the reason we won.” Vettel had earlier said he did not welcome the time trial, remains one of the favourites Monday with a 185-kilometre slog from It was claimed in a report by the sport’s technical tyres controversy and the way in which claims were “In a lot of respect and fairness, he did a very for overall victory despite finishing 51 Luarca to Ermita de Alba which delegate Jo Bauer that the left rear tyres on the made to take the result away from Hamilton. good job today and you have to accept that.” Vettel seconds down in 12th and slipping to includes seven punishing climbs and Mercedes cars of both Briton Hamilton and his “I think it’s not fair to question Lewis because he added: “I was second on the podium and that’s the fourth overall on Sunday. Dumoulin will need another good day Mercedes team-mate German Nico Rosberg were doesn’t know what’s going on, so that’s that. In prin- emotions I got and I am grateful for them. I had a With six stages remaining, Aru retains in the mountains if he is to stay with ‘below the specified minimum tyre starting pressure’ ciple, the tyres last a little bit longer (with lower great car today - not good enough to win, but good the leader’s red jersey ahead of the leaders. — Reuters when checked on the grid before the race. pressures), but as I said, I don’t think it matters. enough just to finish second.” — AFP 56% of Kuwait residents expect financial situation to improve

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ANKARA: (Front row, L to R) Deputy Executive Director of UN Women Lakshmi Puri, Turkey’s G20 Sherpa Ambassador Ayse Sinirlioglu, Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Sahin, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Cevdet Yilmaz, President of W20 Turkey Gulden Turktan, Turkish Prime Minister’s wife Sare Davutoglu, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Family and Social Affairs Minister Aysen Gurcan, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Jose Angel Gurria, Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) Vice President Sumeyye Erdogan and Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) Arancha Gonzalez pose for a group photo during the Women-20 (W20) Official Launch yesterday. — AFP G20 charts careful course in turbulent waters Bloc launches new group to empower women

ANKARA: Warily watching economic clouds the global economy. The final G20 communique unsurprisingly be pruned further. But the ministers and cen- Schaeuble said China had objected to a phrase gathering in China and the possibility of an end Talking to KUNA, W20 member, Turkish Sare stayed clear of any specific mention of China. tral bank chiefs said they were confident “the in the final communique saying “monetary poli- to zero interest rates in the United States, G20 Yilmaz said that women have to enjoy all their But, in a clear nudge to Beijing, it also urged global economic recovery will gain speed”, cy alone cannot lead to balanced growth”, but it leaders steered a careful course at their meet- rights, including economic freedom. One major states to avoid competitive currency devalua- vowing to carefully calibrate economic and had remained in on his insistence. Lagarde ing in Turkey at a time of uneven and fragile aim of the W20 to is to empower women to tions that would give an unfair advantage to monetary policies in the pursuit of this goal. added that China was undergoing an “unbeliev- growth. effectively take part in global economy, realiz- domestic exporters. It also did not make any Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Cevdet ably difficult” transformation in reforming its The two-day gathering in the Turkish capital ing their economic and social independence direct reference to the US Federal Reserve, with Yilmaz, who chaired the meeting, said “we are economy and it is “unsurprising there are Ankara came less than a month after China through proper job opportunities, Yilmaz, who economists warning a lift-off interest rate rise at aware of the risks and challenges ahead of us.” bumps” on the way. shocked financial markets with a surprise deval- is also head of the Women and Democracy its meeting in September could deal a body “The world needs better cooperation of the uation of its currency, triggering global jitters Association (KADEM). blow to vulnerable emerging markets. chief players.” ‘Downside risks’ about declining growth and slumping stocks in She stressed the fact that women are half But the statement appeared to acknowl- A senior US Treasury official, who asked not In contrast with previous meetings, the G20 the world’s second-largest economy. the earth’s population, expressing hope for edge a Fed rate rise could be on the cards at to be named, said that US growth was “stable gathering was not dominated by crisis in the Meanwhile, what global recovery there is bridging the gap between man and woman, some point, saying that “in line with the and steady” but added it would be good if euro-zone, with the deal on Greece’s debt remains desperately uneven across the G20, especially in wages and nature of work. improving economic outlook, monetary policy “Europe was growing in a stronger way than it soothing nerves. “The situation in Europe is with the United States picking up pace while She pointed to the problems facing women tightening is more likely in some advanced is.” considerably better than it was a year ago,” the Europe is only now emerging from crisis, and who are working in the government offices, economies.” Lagarde said there was an The official said that economic policymakers US official said, while also urging against com- top emerging markets like Russia and Brazil are urging further efforts to overcome such prob- “extremely broad and in-depth discussion” of needed to make use of all three tools available placency. mired in recession. lems so that they can play their due role in soci- the Fed’s policies. She urged the US central to them-monetary policy, fiscal policy and “It’s important to look over the horizon and “The major challenge facing the global ety. According to Yilmaz, the G20 will discuss bank to make the move when there was “no structural reforms-rather than just monetary ask what is the sustainable growth path and I economy is that growth remains moderate and the social differences between men and uncertainty”. policy alone. think that is going to require more policy work uneven,” said International Monetary Fund women and will issue 11 items, the top six of The US official said that China meanwhile in Europe.” The situation is even tougher in (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde. “The which will be submitted to the group’s summit ‘Recovery to gain speed’ understands that “many in the world are watch- emerging markets, with recession hit Brazil and current economic situation is characterized by due in Turley in November, for endorsement. The communique acknowledged the fragili- ing” its communications with markets after its Russia recording contractions in growth of 1.9 the word uncertainty,” she said. These items include setting strategies and urg- ty of the recovery, saying “global growth falls surprise devaluation and called on Beijing to percent and 4.6 percent in the second quarter. The G20 yesterday launched in Ankara a ing governments to pay more attention to short of our expectations”. keep up its ambitious reform agenda. “There is Host Turkey is faring little better as its currency new grouping, W20, with the chief aim of women in their policies, she said. Once they are The IMF has said in its latest world economic a learning process-one of the lessons of the last hits historic lows in value against the US dollar. boosting women’s role in global economy. endorsed, they are likely to lead to a change on outlook that it expects global growth to be 3.3 month is how important it is to be clear about “Downside risks to the outlook have increased, Finance ministers and central bank governors the international policies toward women, she percent in 2015 and expand to 3.8 percent in policy,” said the official. particularly for emerging market economies,” from the G20 are meeting in Turkey for talks on added. 2016 — forecasts Lagarde said would have to German Finance Minister Wolfgang said Lagarde.— Agencies Weak oil drags stocks down, Saudi advances New tools needed MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS to stem capital DUBAI: Most Gulf stock markets fell yesterday, yesterday and was the main support for the to prompt index compiler MSCI to include the tracking weak oil prices, but Saudi Arabia rose Saudi index, while Banque Saudi Fransi second-biggest telecommunications operator after the government said it would keep bor- jumped 2.6 percent. in the Gulf in its emerging markets benchmark. flight from Kuwait rowing to finance important projects and Alassaf’s interview was positive for the mar- MSCI will announce the details of its next quar- Etisalat lifted Abu Dhabi ahead of expected ket in general because it was one of the first terly review on Nov. 12. KUWAIT: Two Kuwaiti analysts stressed tary”, has cast dark shadows on traders, foreign fund inflows. times that a top Saudi official had described All other Gulf markets were negative. the dire need to develop new investment noting that the market lost KD 2 billion in Oil futures fell on Friday as traders shrugged publicly how Riyadh would cope with an era of Dubai’s index fell 0.8 percent with most stocks tools to avoid withdrawal of more com- August. off a drop in the number of US rigs drilling for cheap oil; a lack of transparency in economic in the red, although developer DAMAC, the panies from the Kuwait Stock Exchange Al-Tarrah referred to some “fault” in the oil and focused instead on a supply glut and policy-making has worried some investors. most traded company, pared early losses and (KSE) after several firms have already quit. market that has to be repaired as soon as declining stock prices on Wall Street. Brent But retailers Jarir Marketing and Alhokair climbed 0.9 percent, buoyed by an upcoming They agreed in separate interviews that a possible to preserve people’s money, crude settled down $1.07 at $49.61 a barrel; it fell 2.4 and 4.7 percent respectively after local dividend. major factor that forced about 10 compa- especially small traders. He agreed that fell almost 1 percent on the week. newspaper Al-Watan reported the government Qatar’s bourse lost 0.6 percent, also falling nies to quit the KSE recently was that the the listing at the KSE constitutes a finan- But Saudi Arabia’s main stock index climbed was studying whether to cut state subsidies broadly. Oman slipped 0.05 percent and capitalization value of their stocks did not cial and an administrative burden for 0.6 percent yesterday after Finance Minister that keep domestic gasoline prices at some of Kuwait’s index was down 1.6 percent. Kuwait- match with their announced value on the many firms that could not apply the Ibrahim Alassaf said the cabinet would press the lowest levels in the world. listed shares in GFH, the Bahrain-based market, besides the cost of listing they recent decisions taken by the Capital ahead with projects deemed important for the Such a move, which may still be years in the investment firm, tumbled 5.4 percent after pay annually. markets Authority. He urged the con- economy, while cutting unnecessary expenses future, could eat into discretionary income and GFH said its board of directors had approved Other reasons were the low trading cerned authorities to develop investment to compensate for low oil prices. force Saudis to cut spending on items such as the voluntary delisting of its shares from the over their stocks and the drop of their alternatives to stop the phenomenon. In an interview with CNBC Arabia, Alassaf the smartphones and tablets sold by Jarir. Also, Kuwait Stock Exchange. The company said capital value, in addition to new laws Meanwhile, the KSE ended yesterday’s said the government would continue issuing the government said it would open up the this would focus trading on its home listing they could not cope with, such as the session in the red zone, as the Weighted bonds and might also sell sukuk to finance retail and wholesale trade sectors to compa- and the main secondary market for its shares, governance bill. General-Manager of Al- Index fell by 5.09 points, the Price Index specific projects. Rating agency Standard and nies fully owned by foreigners. This could Dubai, where volume is highest. In Dubai, Arabi Financial Brokerage Company lost 91.82 points, reaching 5,666 points, Poor’s said last week that banks’ profitability eventually mean more competition for Saudi GFH fell 1.8 percent. Maitham Al-Shakhth said this is a “healthy and the KSX 15 went down by 14.36 would benefit from buying government debt. retailers. Egypt’s main index pulled back 0.3 percent phenomenon” as it helps “clean” the mar- points. The number of trades was 3,618 “We believe the banks will accommodate after jumping 2.0 percent in the previous ses- ket and only keeps companies with with a value of KD 11 million and a vol- government issuance through a gradual shift UAE, EGYPT sion. Pioneers Holding dropped 3.2 percent strong solvency. ume of 168 million. from low-yielding, short-term liquid assets and Elsewhere in the Gulf, telecommunications after the firm said market demand for its Some think that withdrawals are likely The first session of the week was private sector credits to higher-yielding, firm Etisalat surged 4.3 percent, lifting the Abu shares offered as part of a capital increase was to harm the market, even if the firms can- dominated by anticipation, as some longer-term government exposures,” it said in a Dhabi index 0.7 percent, after the company close to zero. In the first phase of the 3 billion not take decisions, or if they make loss, he market makers refrained from getting report. “We expect this shift to be positive for said it would allow foreign and institutional Egyptian pound ($383 million) public offer, it told KUNA. They are mistaken. involved in trading amid rising specula- the banks’ net interest margins and revenue investors to own its shares from Sept. 15 in a had received applications for just 136 shares On the other hand, head of the Traders tions and rapid profit-taking operations generation.” Al-Rajhi Bank jumped 2.3 percent long-awaited move. Analysts say this is likely out of 170 million shares offered. —Reuters Society Mohammed Al-Tarrah adopted a over some stocks that hit tempting view that the withdrawal, though “volun- prices last week. — KUNA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 BUSINESS

56% of Kuwait residents expect News in brief

financial situation to improve US dollar steady against Kuwaiti dinar KUWAIT: US dollar stabilized vis-a-vis the Kuwaiti BAYT.COM AND YOUGOV SURVEY dinar, trading at KD 0.302 while the euro dropped to KD 0.337 yesterday compared to Thursday’s KUWAIT: The latest Bayt.com Middle East and North Africa Consumer Spending the opposite to be true. Over the course of the next six trading, the Central Bank of Kuwait said. The ster- Consumer Confidence Index survey, conducted by 38 percent of those surveyed in Kuwait are planning to months, 40 percent of employed Kuwait respondents Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, and invest in a motor vehicle in the next 12 months. Of those, expect the number of employees in their organization to ling pound was down to KD 0.458, while the Swiss YouGov, a leading market research agency, shows that 32 percent are planning to buy a new vehicle, while 37 increase. franc remained at KD 311, and the Japanese yen while 46 percent of Kuwait respondents say that their sav- percent are planning to buy a used one. 46 percent of With regards to satisfaction levels, a little under half of remained unchanged at KD 0.002. ings have decreased in comparison to last year, the majori- Kuwait respondents are not planning on purchasing a employed Kuwait respondents (49 percent) are satisfied ty of residents have a positive outlook on the future of the vehicle. with career growth opportunities. 35 percent are satisfied country’s economy, as well as their own financial future. When it comes to investing in property, 30 percent of with their current compensation while46 percent are dis- DIB Pakistan eyes flotation Kuwait respondents are planning to invest in the next 12 satisfied with their current salary and allowances. When it in first quarter of 2016 Country’s Economic Situation months, while more than half have no plans to invest. Of comes to non-monetary benefits 42 percent of employed 22 percent of Kuwait respondents believe that the those who are planning to buy property,half will invest in Kuwait respondents are satisfied, while 40 percent feel the DUBAI: The Pakistan arm of Dubai Islamic Bank plans country’s economy has improved in the last six months, an apartment, while 30 percent plan to buy a villa/town- opposite. 49 percent of employed respondents in Kuwait to list a quarter of its shares on the Karachi Stock while 22 percent believe that it has receded. 41 percent of house/bungalow and 20 percent will purchase commer- feel secure in their jobs. Exchange in the first quarter of 2016, its chief execu- respondents believe that the economy has remained the cial property. Majority (51 percent) of respondents who “When looking at the region in its entirety, the outlook tive was quoted as saying in the Khaleej Times yes- same. Additionally, 44 percent of respondents expect the are planning to invest in property in Kuwait plan to buy is a positive one,” said Suhail Al-Masri, VP of Sales, economy to improve in the next six months, while 26 per- new property in the next 12 months, while 15 percent will Bayt.com. “When it comes to jobs, the outlook is positive terday. Junaid Ahmed said that the bank would ben- cent expect it to remain the same. 35 percent respondents invest in pre-owned property. as well. Now is a good time for professionals to focus on efit from a growing Pakistani economy and invest- in Kuwait believe that business conditions are either good Regarding consumer goods, 22 percent of Kuwait resi- job search strategies, and brand themselves online. A ment opportunities from large-scale government or very good, while 21 percent believe that business condi- dents plan to purchase a tablet or smartphone in the next great way to do this is through our Bayt.com Public Profile, infrastructure projects, including a $46 billion project tions are either bad or very bad. Moreover, the majority of six months, while 22 percent will invest in a desktop or lap- where jobseekers can create a profile solely for themselves with China, dubbed the China-Pakistan Economic employed respondents (56 percent) believe that business top. More than one in 5 respondents from Kuwait are plan- and increase their visibility on popular search engines. At conditions will improve in a year’s time. ning to buy furniture over the same time period. An LCD or Bayt.com, we always endeavour to empower the region’s Corridor. “We have recommended the management Plasma television (14 percent), air conditioner (11 percent), job seekers and employers by providing them with the lat- to float around 25 percent share on the exchange as Personal Economic Situation washing machine (10 percent) and refrigerator (9 percent), est technology and vital statistics relating to recruitment.” the market is moving in upward direction and it is 25 percent of Kuwait respondents believe that their or are also among n the respondents’ list of priorities. Elissavet Vraka, Research Manager, YouGov, said: right time to float the share,” he said. The Karachi their family’s current financial situation is better now than “Gauging consumer opinion is a powerful tool for reveal- Stock Exchange’s benchmark 100 index is up 5.48 it was six months ago, and 47 percent believe that it Current Job Perspective ing the current attitudes and sentiments about the busi- remained the same. 19 percent believe that their financial Presently, 40 percent of the respondents surveyed ness and economic conditions in a specific country. With percent year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters situation is worse. The future outlook is positive too: 56 believe that there are plenty of jobs available in Kuwait, the majority of people anticipating an increase in living data. DIB Pakistan held assets at the end of June percent of respondents believe that their personal financial with 20 percent claiming availability across multiple costs and having experienced a decrease in savings, it may worth 124.99 billion rupees ($1.2 billion) and made situation will improve in the next six months, while 25 per- industries and 20 percent claiming availability across a be time to take an evaluative look at the stability of per- profit after tax of 108.4 million in the second quarter cent believe that it will remain the same. When it comes to limited number of industries. 45 percent believe that there sonal financial situations.” of 2015, down 49 percent year-on-year, according to cost of living, 77 percent of respondents expect it to are few jobs available in Kuwait. In regards to future avail- Data for the Bayt.com Consumer Confidence Index sur- increase, while 11 percent expect it to remain the same. ability of jobs,32 percent of Kuwait respondents expect vey was collected online from July 27 to August 22015, the earnings statement on its website. 46 percent of Kuwait respondents say that their savings job availability to increase in the next six months. with 8,882 respondents from the UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, have decreased in comparison to last year. 15 percent In Kuwait, 39 percent of employed respondents feel Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, claim that their savings have increased, while 33 percent that the number of employees in their companies over the Tunisia and Algeria. Males and females aged over 18 years claim that they have remained the same. past six months has increased, while 29 percent believe old, of all nationalities, were included in the survey. Egyptian pound steady at official dollar sale Bahrain’s GFH CAIRO: Egypt’s central bank kept the pound Gold price drops to steady at a dollar sale yesterday, selling $37.8 mil- board okays lion at a cut-off price of 7.7301 pounds per dollar, unchanged from Thursday. The central bank had Kuwait delisting $1,112 per ounce kept the pound at 7.5301 for five months until July, when it allowed it to slide to 7.6301. On July DUBAI: Gulf Finance House, the Bahrain-based investment firm, said yesterday its board of directors had approved the voluntary 5 the bank let it slip a further 0.10 pounds. delisting of its shares from the Kuwait Stock Exchange. It would KUWAIT: Gold prices retreated by one the best resolution for investors around The remaining precious metals also Allowing the pound to weaken in a controlled way begin the application process for delisting with Kuwait’s Capital percent at the end of last week to reach the world as a safe haven against the dropped as Platinum ended the weeks’ could boost exports and attract further invest- Market Authority, although the bourse filing announcing the move 1,112 dollars per ounce, affected by the money markets fluctuations. trading at $994 per ounce with $8 dif- ment but it also raises Egypt’s already large bill for unrest status that characterized the Any surprises in the international ference from the opening prices, while did not disclose a date for when shares would cease trading. The imported fuel and food staples. Egypt has sought decision meant GFH could focus trading on its home and the main markets following the release of stock and bonds market will positively the palladium decreased by $11 to secondary market for its shares, Dubai. The move would also save American labor market data, a report affect the gold price, while the continu- close at $580 per ounce. The local mar- to tame a once-thriving currency black market on the costs of the listing and eliminate any possible arbitrage by Sabaek Al-Kuwait Company said ity of the Greek debt crisis will con- kets were characterized by calmness by with measures such as a cap on dollar-denominat- opportunities and incidences of violating rules in Kuwait which con- yesterday. tribute in improving the gold prices, the beginning of last week, while it with ed bank deposits. The central bank gave permis- tradict regulations in its home market, the statement added. GFH The continuing decline of unem- regarding the quantitative easing oper- the gradual move of gold prices and sion in January to trade dollars up to 0.10 pounds said in July it was once again studying the possibility of delisting in ployment rates in the United States above or below the official rate, with currency Kuwait, after announcing in April a review of its listings that ulti- negatively affected the prices of gold exchange bureaux allowed to trade at 0.15 mately kept Kuwait but decided to delist its global depositary and other precious minerals after the receipts in London. —Reuters American economy succeeded in creat- pounds above or below the official rate. One trad- ing 173,000 jobs in last August, while er at an exchange bureau said the pound was Etisalat to open shares to analysts expected only 217,000 jobs to changing hands at 8.04 pounds per dollar and foreigners from Sep 15 see light, the report added. The analysts another trader said it was changing at 8.05 expected the gold prices to rise, while pounds per dollar, weaker than Thursday’s rates of ABU DHABI: Foreign individuals and institutional investors will the value of the dollar to decrease after 8.02 and 8.03. be allowed for the first time to buy shares of UAE telecoms the release of US economic data, as the giant Etisalat from September 15, the company said in a state- comprehensive positive development ment yesterday. Etisalat, the second largest Arab telecoms firm in the unemployment percentages in after Saudi Telecom, serves 145 million customers in 15 coun- US to reach 5.1 percent has played a Maaden says subsidiary’s tries. Previously only Emirati individuals were allowed to own great role in not improving the gold ammonia plant reopened shares in the firm, which is 60 percent owned by the UAE gov- prices, it said. DUBAI: A subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Mining Co ernment. It decided in June to open up ownership to foreign The report expected a high demand individuals and investors of the 40 percent of the firm in pri- on gold will continue until the begin- has resumed operations at its ammonia plant after vate hands. ning of current week’s trading, support- completing technical repairs of the facility’s heat “Trading in Etisalat Group’s shares on the Abu Dhabi Stock ed by the Asian and European markets ations of the European Central Bank, improvements in the sales of pure gold exchanger, the company, known as Ma’aden, said Exchange by non-UAE individuals... will start on Tuesday, 15 performances, and with the absence of the report added. and Jewelry made of gold by the end of in a bourse filing yesterday. The plant belongs to September 2015,” said a statement from the firm’s board posted on the American market on Monday The silver accompanied the gold rel- last week, as one kilo of gold reach KD the exchange’s website. It specified that under the new rules shares Maaden Phosphate Company, a 70/30 joint ven- because of the Labor Day holiday. egation by the beginning of the week, 11,000. would be open to “foreign individuals, foreign corporate entities, ture between Maaden and Saudi Basic Industries while it reached its highest value last The local market is characterized by UAE free zone entities and UAE incorporated entities.” Total foreign The financial analysis of the upcom- Corp (SABIC). The plant, located at Ras Al-Khair in ownership in Etisalat will not be allowed to exceed 20 percent. ing period shows that bets of rising Thursday, hitting $14.9 per ounce while purchasing power, which resulted in a gold prices are more probably to take it decreased last Friday to hit $14.4 per rise of gold sales, especially that there is the east of the kingdom, was shut on Aug. 21 to Etisalat’s share price rose by about 5 percent on the news, pushing allow repairs to take place. The shutdown had “no the Abu Dhabi index to open slightly up as the bourse in neighbor- place, as the dollar is affected after the ounce to close its trading session on a leek of cash money from the stock ing Dubai dropped 1.6 percent. When the news was first announced Federal Reserve started to push the that price, while the silver is expected to market, which led to an increase of significant financial impact” on Maaden and obli- in June, Etisalat’s share price rose the maximum allowed 15 percent interest prices as the dollar value is stabilized by above $15 during the demand of gold alloy sales, specifically gations to customers were not affected, the state- for two consecutive days. —AFP decreasing, sheltering by gold will be coming weeks, the report said. those of 21 and 22 carats. —KUNA ment said.

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Jordanian Dinar 427.305 US Dollars Mint 0.299400 0.303400 20 gram 226.690 Egyptian Pound 38.617 10 gram 116.040 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Sri Lankan Rupees 2.212 5 gram 58.700 Indian Rupees 4.555 Bangladesh Taka 0.003400 0.004000 Japanese Yen 2.520 Pakistani Rupees 2.907 Chinese Yuan 0.046257 0.049757 Indian Rupees 4.575 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036994 0.039744 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Bangladesh Taka 3.889 Pakistani Rupees 2.907 Philippines Pesso 6.474 Indian upee 0.004386 0.004776 Srilankan Rupees 2.249 Cyprus pound 577.595 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Nepali Rupees 2.867 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 3.534 Japanese Yen 0.002466 0.002646 Singapore Dollar 14.940 Australian Dollar 195.10 Syrian Pound 2.605 Kenyan Shilling 0.003149 0.003149 Hongkong Dollar 39.077 Canadian Dollar 232.03 Nepalese Rupees 3.845 Korean Won 0.000245 0.000260 Bangladesh Taka 3.892 Swiss Franc 316.58 Malaysian Ringgit 71.130 Malaysian Ringgit 0.068843 0.074843 Philippine Peso 6.482 Euro 341.13 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 48.025 Nepalese Rupee 0.002963 0.003133 Thai Baht 8.489 US Dollar 303.20 Thai Bhat 9.405 Pakistan Rupee 0.002778 0.003058 Sterling Pound 462.63 Turkish Lira 100.915 Philippine Peso 0.006315 0.006595 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.58 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Bangladesh Taka 3.892 Saudi Riyal 80.080 Singapore Dollar 0.210836 0.216836 Indian Rupee 4.564 Qatari Riyal 83.235 South African Rand 0.016320 0.024820 Omani Riyal 787.030 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.210 Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001978 0.002558 Bahraini Dinar 804.700 Nepali Rupee 2.851 Taiwan 0.009683 0.009863 UAE Dirham 82.498 Pakistani Rupee 2.910 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Thai Baht 0.008155 0.008705 UAE Dirhams 0.08250 Europe ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 0.8058 Belgian Franc 0.007905 0.008905 Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.475 Egyptian Pound 0.03861 British Pound 0.454101 0.463101 Bahraini Dinar 0.796295 0.804295 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.704 Jordanian Dinar 0.4312 Czech Korune 0.004517 0.016517 Egyptian Pound 0.037856 0.040686 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.414 Omani Riyal 0.7873 Danish Krone 0.041291 0.046291 Tunisian Dinar 156.270 Qatari Riyal 0.08360 Euro 0.333123 0.341123 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Saudi Riyal 0.08087 Jordanian Dinar 427.480 Norwegian Krone 0.032730 0.037930 Iraqi Dinar 0.000198 0.000258 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.033 Romanian Leu 0.086918 0.086918 Jordanian Dinar 0.423359 0.430859 Syrian Lira 2.159 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Slovakia 0.009034 0.019034 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 31.712 Swedish Krona 0.032007 0.037007 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Swiss Franc 0.305810 0.316010 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020505 0.044505 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.102831 0.109831 Nigerian Naira 0.001250 0.001885 US Dollar Transfer 302.850 US Dollar 302.950 Omani Riyal 0.780491 0.786171 Canadian Dollar 230.335 Euro 342.830 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082515 0.083728 Sterling Pound 460.665 Sterling Pound 465.030 Australian Dollar 0.201796 0.213296 Saudi Riyal 0.080163 0.080863 Euro 339.765 Canadian dollar 229.520 New Zealand Dollar 0.184902 0.194402 Syrian Pound 0.001284 0.001504 Swiss Frank 295.955 Turkish lira 103.570 Tunisian Dinar 0.151227 0.159227 Bahrain Dinar 804.860 Swiss Franc 316.460 Turkish Lira 0.102831 0.109831 UAE Dirhams 82.860 America Australian dollar 214.110 Qatari Riyals 90.850 Canadian Dollar 0.223410 0.231910 UAE Dirhams 0.081515 0.082664 US Dollar Buying 301.650 Saudi Riyals 81.590 US Dollars 0.298900 0.303400 Yemeni Riyal 0.001369 0.001449 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 B U S I N E S S

Egypt gas find a big draw for international investors CAIRO: The discovery by Eni of a huge gas field kind of discovery,” Allman-Ward told Reuters. “It UPWARD REVISION repaid by the end of 2016, six months later than an off the Egyptian coast could attract international will no doubt kick off a lot more interest from Until last week’s discovery, Egypt was estimated earlier pledge. energy companies that had steered clear of Egypt international oil companies in Egypt as an explo- to have 70 tcf of undiscovered gas. In light of the An agreement signed in August 2014 allows because of late debt payments and low prices, a ration destination.” new field, Allman-Ward believes there will be an Dana Gas, which produces about 31,500 barrels of leading gas producer in the country said. Egypt hopes the field’s estimated 30 trillion upward revision to the estimate for total reserves oil equivalent per day in Egypt and relies on the The estimated size and quality of the discovery cubic feet (tcf) of gas will help to ease an energy that have yet to be found. country for more than half of its output, to recover announced by Italy’s Eni last week, combined crisis that has stymied efforts to rebuild an econo- “That in itself will mean that it will generate a lot outstanding arrears of $185 million by exporting with Egypt’s recent efforts to meet overdue debt my battered by political unrest since an uprising of additional interest in the petroleum sector,” he the government’s share of gas, Allman-Ward said. repayments to foreign companies, will attract toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011. said. In July Egypt raised the prices it pays Eni and “What has improved over the past 12-18 months interest from far and wide, said Patrick Allman- Gas production has steadily declined while Edison for the gas they produce in a move intended has been the likelihood of the ability of the govern- Ward, CEO of United Arab Emirates (UAE) energy consumption has risen, but low prices offered by to encourage investment in energy. ment to pay,” he said. “... This indicates that the company Dana Gas. “People in petroleum tend to the government and delays in paying arrears have Egypt’s oil minister said in August that its $3.5 investments made by the private sector into the have a feeding frenzy kind of response to this discouraged investment. billion of debt to foreign oil companies would be country will get their return.” — Reuters China, costs, contango, and currency still key drivers BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH REPORT

KUWAIT: Commodities as an asset class have less attractive than equities or bonds. Moreover, Chinese inflation eases, and GDP growth slows underperformed equities and fixed income in the fundamental outlook still remains blurred down further, China’s nominal GDP in USD will recent years. Yet commodities have behaved as by the “4Cs”. Surely, higher US interest rates likely stagnate. And so will global GDP in USD. advertised, delivering negative returns on flag- could push curves into backwardation at some ging global growth and inflation. After all, point next year, reducing the negative carry on Strong G3 world nominal GDP in USD has struggled to commodity investments. One may even argue Surely there is no imminent catalyst to expand in recent years, posting an annualized that the massive commodity cost deflation of reignite EM FX strength and FX overshooting is increase of 0.8 percent in the 2011-15 period. recent years could ease. But our economics a risk given recent China capital outflows. Still, That compares to a staggering 8.2 percent in team believes that the strong USD trend, cou- there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Our the previous 10 years. So is this the time to add pled with a slowing Chinese economy, is here to economists point out that a strong economic to commodity positions? Not yet. In our view, a stay. backdrop for G3 economies (US, euro-zone, cocktail of “4Cs”-currency headwinds, China Recent EM FX weakness should give pause Japan) historically benefitted EMs. Our team SHANGHAI: An investor looks on at a digital board showing stock market move- headwinds, contango headwinds, and cost for thought. In particular, our analysis shows the forecasts precisely a surge in global GDP growth ments at a brokerage house in Shanghai. Global stock markets will be on edge this deflation headwinds-that has driven commodi- disproportionate impact of China FX on all com- from 3.2 percent to 3.8 percent from this year to coming week yesterday as China announces a slew of data investors will comb for ty investor returns into negative territory is not modities, with even nat gas, sugar, or wheat next, so investors may want to consider “buying clues about slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. — AFP about to change. tending to respond strongly to movements in on dips”. Pronounced cyclical rallies, a key fea- the CNY. Other EM FX elasticities are large too, ture of the market in the 1980s and 1990s, may Still early but generally more muted with the exception of happen at lower commodity price levels. As the China market could drop A simple risk parity portfolio of equities, pairs such as copper and Chile. This evidence is drastic recent moves in oil suggest, we think bonds, and commodities would point to keep- concerning. After all, China’s GDP in USD commodity investors will just have to turn much as world awaits data ing commodity exposure well below historical expanded by 25 percent in 2007 on strong GDP more tactical. As such, we believe strategies like averages at the moment. High volatility mixed growth, high domestic inflation, and fast-paced COT momentum should continue to perform in SHANGHAI: Global stock markets will be on in a single week last month.In a bid for more sus- with negative returns has made commodities CNY appreciation. If CNY strength reverses, this environment. edge this coming week as China announces a tainable growth, Chinese policymakers are seek- slew of data investors will comb for clues about ing a tectonic shift to domestic consumption slowing growth in the world’s second-largest and away from state-led investment. economy. The government is scheduled to “Pessimism over China’s short-term outlook is release monthly trade and inflation figures, as overdone and a growth pick-up in the second well as industrial output, fixed-asset investment half is already in the pipeline,” ratings agency and retail sales in the coming days. Fitch said in a report Friday. “But expectations for An official Chinese manufacturing survey last the economy’s growth potential in the medium week sent world markets into a tailspin, as term are shifting lower as the scale of the investors gave vent to worries China’s economy restructuring challenge becomes clearer.” is headed for a “hard landing”. ANZ Banking Group forecasts China’s gross Although analysts cautioned not to read too domestic product (GDP) growth will slump to an much into the monthly release of the annual 6.4 percent in the third quarter, before Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), Chinese rebounding to 6.8 percent in the October to growth is clearly slowing and more weak data December period-but still below the govern- could be an excuse to sell. “There is a risk (of ment’s full-year goal of around 7.0 percent. overreaction) because investors’ confidence lev- “Further aggressive monetary easing and el is at a very fragile stage. Any data that’s not on proactive fiscal policy, along with financial liber- the good side, investors will react more than alisation, are needed to maintain GDP growth” at they should,” Jackson Wong, associate director at the official target, it said in a research report. Simsen International Financial Group in Hong China last month reduced interest rates and Kong, told AFP. China’s economy expanded 7.0 cut the amount of money banks must hold in percent in each of the first two quarters, slowing reserve to try to bolster its economy and end the from 7.4 percent growth last year, which was its country’s worst stock market rout in almost two weakest since 1990. decades. Japanese bank Nomura is forecasting But investors were alarmed by authorities’ “weak” trade data for August with exports falling surprise lowering of the yuan currency’s central 7.0 percent year-on-year and imports dropping rate against the US dollar by nearly five percent 10 percent. — AFP

Broker says he’s innocent in missing Iran oil rig case DUBAI: Four years after Iran spent $87 million to Iran, Tehran ended up paying out all of the $87 LONDON: A couple enjoy the sun as they sit in front of a row of cars at the ‘Porsche Classics at the Castle’ event at Hedingham Castle, east of buy an oil drilling rig that was never delivered, million, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted London yesterday. The event is a chance for Porsche enthusiasts to display and enjoy cars from the German manufacturer before getting the the broker in the deal has given his side of a story by his ministry’s news agency Shana as saying. chance to bid on over 60 classic cars at the largest auction of its kind in the world. — AFP he describes as a cautionary tale for Western Zanganeh, who was not in office at the time of investors impatient for an end to sanctions. the deal, did not say where the funds were Speaking to clear his name after being thought to have gone. Some Iranian media accused by a former Iranian official and conser- reports have said the rig is now operating in vative media close to security forces of stealing Mexico. “I was supposed to receive $3 million as a German industries make economic some of the money, Reza Mostafavi Tabatabaei broker but most of the money went to the pock- gave a rare first-hand description of the case. ets of people in the IOEC who were involved in Over the last several months, “the case of the the contract,” Tabatabaei said. case to welcome refugees missing rig” has seized newspaper headlines in Morad Shirani, an adviser to state-linked Iran, trended on social media and become the Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction BERLIN: As thousands of refugees fore be the answer as many of them are of the Chamber of Crafts, Holger among Chancellor Angela Merkel’s con- subject of debate in parliament. The oil ministry Co (IOEC), was arrested in Tehran this week as arrive every day in Germany, calls are young and have “really good qualifica- Schwannecke. The German govern- servatives there is still much resistance is investigating and parliament’s speaker has part of a judicial investigation into possible cor- growing louder from business leaders tions,” said Grillo at BDI. Already, at a ment does not seem to lack good to being perceived as too welcoming. asked the head of its energy commission to look ruption related to the deal, state media said. An in Europe’s biggest economy to offer local level, more and more businesses intentions. Her party opposed an immigration law into it. An Iranian now living in Dubai, Tabatabaei attempt to reach Shirani or a representative for them jobs. are opening their doors to the new “People who arrive here as refugees demanded by the coalition partners, told Reuters he had not been formally charged, comment was unsuccessful and it was not clear “If we can integrate them quickly arrivals, encouraged by new initiatives. should quickly become our neighbors the Social Democrat party, that would but his family in Iran had come under pressure whether he or anyone else has been charged. into the jobs market, we’ll be helping In the Augsburg region of Bavaria in and our colleagues,” said Labour and simplify access to the labour market. from the authorities and he had been blocked An IOEC spokeswoman in Tehran, contacted the refugees, but also helping ourselves south Germany, for example, the HWK Social Affairs Minister Andrea Nahles, The conservatives are also worried from accessing tens of millions of dollars of by telephone, said the firm’s policy was to avoid as well,” the head of the powerful BDI local Chamber of Crafts has appointed whose ministry in late July relaxed the that finding work or an internship assets in the country. commenting on the oil rig case, which was not industry federation, Ulrich Grillo, said an “intercultural advisor” to deal specifi- conditions for refugees to access com- might be used by some asylum seekers His account, which could not be fully verified, the responsibility of its current management. this week. cally with the issue. And the advisor has pany internships. “A lot has already as an insurance policy to stay in sheds light on the complex ways in which Tehran For the countless Syrians, Afghans succeeded in placing 63 young happened,” said Sait Demir, intercultural Germany even if their request for has avoided sanctions. The US-led penalties may NO GUARANTEES and Eritreans fleeing war and oppres- refugees in a training scheme since the advisor at HWK in Augsburg. But refuge were denied. — AFP be lifted early next year following an internation- Ali Taheri Motlagh, head of the IOEC when sion in their home countries and seek- start of the year. In order to copy and al agreement on Tehran’s disputed nuclear pro- the deal was done, told the Jomhuri Eslami ing refuge in Europe, Germany is their amplify the success of such schemes, gram in July, clearing the way for foreign oil firms newspaper last month sanctions had made it chief destination, as it is for Kosovars the head of the BDA employers’ federa- to return to Iran. impossible for Iran to guarantee delivery of the and Albanians. tion, Ingo Kramer, has called for “efforts In 2011, sanctions made it difficult for Tehran rig or even trace which accounts the money was Europe’s top economy expects to at all levels”. to rent oil drilling rigs, so the Iranian Offshore going into. “We used to do things hoping God receive 800,000 asylum seekers this His call was particularly aimed at Engineering and Construction Co (IOEC) would help us,” he was quoted as saying. He told year-a record figure. Germany’s leaders, said Alexander approached Tabatabaei and asked him to find the newspaper the Turkish trading company Beyond the humanitarian impera- Wilhelm, who is in charge of labour one to buy, both he and state media said. actually belonged to Tabatabaei, who he said tive to offer protection, businesses are market policy at the BDA. “It’s up to the Tabatabaei, a veteran trader of oil industry equip- had kept some of the money it received - an alle- increasingly seeing an economic case government to act” by easing the rules ment in the Gulf, said he found a rig owned by gation Tabatabaei categorically denied. to keep the asylum seekers, particularly on access to jobs, Wilhelm told AFP. Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere SA Tabatabaei said he himself was excluded since Germany’s rapidly ageing popula- Companies want a guarantee that a (GSP) but because of sanctions on the IOEC, the from all meetings and correspondence between tion and low birth rate are slowly trainee they take on will not be deport- deal had to be routed through a trading compa- IOEC and the trading company and the rig own- depleting its pool of skilled labor. ed from one day to the next. ny registered in Turkey. GSP Communications er over the deal at early stage, so he does not At 6.4 percent, unemployment in Businesses must also currently prove Director Radu Petrescu said the company did not know either where the money was transferred Germany is currently at its lowest level that there is no German candidate to fill know Tabatabaei. “His accusations are absurd,” he to. The oil ministry is investigating the deal and since unification, but the employers’ a position before they hire a refugee or said, adding, “the information from this so-called parliament’s speaker has asked the head of its federation BDA estimates the country is asylum-seeker, a rule which the Labour broker is not true”. He said GSP had had two oil Energy Commission to investigate. Judicial still short of 140,000 engineers, pro- Agency would like to see abolished as rigs in Iran in the past and would return to Iran if authorities have not commented apart from say- grammers and technicians. The health- soon as possible. sanctions are lifted. ing the case is still open and several people are care and leisure sectors are also wring- under investigation. ing their hands for qualified workers. In Learning German SANCTIONS-BUSTING Tabatabaei told Reuters he was innocent of all, some 40,000 training places across On businesses’ wish list of things are Tabatabaei said the rig cost $67 million but any wrongdoing and was being targeted by all sectors are expected to remain the speeding up procedures for recog- the IOEC approved a payment of $87 million on politically well-connected people in Tehran, who unfilled this year. The Prognos think- nising professional and educational the grounds that the extra was needed to bypass he said were making him a scapegoat. He tank forecasts the shortage of qualified qualifications, assessing arrivals’ qualifi- the sanctions. “Because of the sanctions, Iran did- declined to name them. “The missing oil rig case workers will rise to 1.8 million in 2020, cations upon registration and putting n’t have enough money to pay for the rig,” he shows that not only sanctions have damaged and as many as 3.9 million by 2040, if more money on the table to help them said. “Because of the delay in payments, the sell- Iran’s oil industry but also corruption, misman- nothing is done. learn German. This is because “to enter ing company cancelled the contract.” agement, political rivalries and the influence of the labour market or secure an appren- Even though the rig was never delivered to security and military forces,” he said. — Reuters Well-qualified ticeship, there is generally a lack of ANKARA: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director The influx of migrants could there- German language skills,” said the head Christine Lagarde speaks during the Women-20 official launch. —AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 B U S I N E S S Global markets on tenterhooks ahead of China data WALL STREET WEEKAHEAD NEW YORK: Slowing growth in emerging Thomson Reuters data. could happen fairly quickly,” said Tim seas and imports here, resulting in mostly insulated from global mar- markets and currency fluctuations in S&P revenue is expected to fall 2.8 Ghriskey, chief investment officer of shrinking revenue and earnings for kets, is the only S&P sector that has anticipation of a US interest rate hike percent for the quarter, led by steep Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York. US multinationals. shown improving estimates for both may push third-quarter revenue and declines in the energy and materials sec- The dollar index, measuring the In addition, demand is likely slow- third-quarter earnings and revenue. earnings estimates lower this month. tors. As companies tend to revise guid- greenback against a basket of major cur- er in many overseas markets with With crude oil prices falling sharply, Wall Street expects a 3.4 percent decline ance around the end of the quarter, esti- rencies, has risen 0.8 percent so far this slowing growth in China and reces- the energy sector is faring the worst, in earnings for the S&P 500 for the quar- mates may become even less optimistic. quarter after falling 2.9 percent last sions in Brazil and Russia hurting with current expectations for a 62 ter. Estimates have already fallen for 9 “Analysts will likely be pulling in their quarter. Ghriskey sees the currency’s both revenue and earnings. percent earnings decline and a 33 out of 10 of the benchmark index’s sec- reins going into the quarterly reports strength hurting the competitiveness of Jim Paulsen, chief investment percent revenue drop. tors so far this year, according to and the pre-announcement season. This US exports against local products over- officer at Wells Capital Management Analysts expect the materials sec- in Minneapolis, says that since the tor to report a 11.8 percent earnings majority of S&P companies tend to decline due to falling commodities beat earnings estimates every quar- prices and a 10.4 percent revenue ter, he will focus more on revenue drop. They see earnings for industri- than the bottom line, which can be als, which have big overseas expo- tweaked with cost cuts and share sure, falling 4.9 percent and revenue buybacks to beat estimates. falling 5 percent. But Paulsen is not optimistic Many investors hope the equity about the coming quarter. “It seems market becomes less volatile after clear to me that top-line sales August’s sharp swings. But earnings results will be a little disappointing weakness could make jittery market again,” he said. “If you look at what’s participants question valuations all going on in global economies, it over again. “A lot of people think the doesn’t paint a real good picture of market will come back. If we see what top-line growth will be like. fundamentals that challenge that The question is: ‘How much of that is story, that could be a very signifi- already factored in?’” cant part of this earnings season,” US telecommunications, which is said Paulsen. — Reuters MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 B U S I N E S S ECB cuts growth and inflation outlook NBK MONEY MARKETS REPORT KUWAIT: The US dollar has a mixed perform- has the opposite performance, dropping to a 75th consecutive month. major sub-components, although each Purchasing Managers’ Index came at 57.3 in ance last week. Indeed, data showing US fresh six and a half year low of 0.6901, after United States trade deficit dropped in July remained elevated after reaching multi-year August, up from 57.1 in July and well above unemployment in August at its lowest level domestic data showed the economy grew at a to its lowest level in five months as exports high levels in July. The employment measure the neutral 50.0 threshold. The construction since 2008 did little to clear away currency slower-than-expected pace last quarter. The rose, signaling underlying strength in the showed the largest drop of 3.6 points, busi- sector maintained its position as a strong markets’ uncertainties over whether the economy expanded 0.2 percent from the pre- economy amid concerns about a global ness activity measure dipped by 1.0 point engine of job creation in August, as perma- Federal Reserve will raise rates later this vious quarter and was up 2 percent compared growth slowdown. The US Commerce while the new order measure edged down- nent staff numbers and sub-contractor month. to the same period last year. Growth dropped Department said the trade gap narrowed 7.4 ward by 0.4, and the supplier delivery compo- demand both picked up over the month. In a report many analysts had considered due to a “significant” decline in mining and percent to a seasonally adjusted 41.86 Billion nent eased by 0.4 points. as key for Fed policymakers, the government construction activity. The Australian Dollar US Dollars in July from a deficit of $45.21 bil- UK manufacturing sector drops said US non-farm payroll change increased closed the week at 0.6905. lion in June. Euro area inflation rate unchanged United Kingdom Manufacturing less than expected in August. The weak data In the commodities world, oil prices remain June’s figures were also revised from a pre- The Euro zone inflation rate held steady in Purchasing Managers’ Index dropped in could be a catalyst for the Federal Reserve not extremely volatile, after enjoying the viously reported deficit of $43.8 billion. The August, underlining the challenge facing August to 51.5 from 51.9 in July, well below to raise interest rate hike in the next meeting European Central Bank policy makers as they the average for the current near two-and-a- even with unemployment rate fell to a near seek to improve consumer-price growth. The half year sequence of expansion 54.2.The seven and a half year low of 5.1 percent and European Union’s statistics office said euro- manufacturing sector looks unlikely to make wages accelerated. In details, nonfarm pay- zone prices rose 0.2 percent year-on-year this much of a contribution to the solid gain in rolls increased 173,000 last month as the month, the same as in July. Excluding the broader GDP growth expected for the third manufacturing sector lost the most jobs since volatile energy and food price, the core infla- quarter. July 2013, after an upwardly revised 245,000 tion rate rose 0.9 percent year-on-year in Australia’s central bank maintained the rise in July. It was the smallest gain in employ- August, the same as in July. official cash rate unchanged at 2 percent, as ment in five months. Expectations of a rate The Governing Council of the ECB decided predicted by markets and economists follow- hike in September have continued to decline that the interest rate on the main refinancing ing reductions in May and February. However, as a slowdown in China has brought increased operations and the interest rates on the mar- Governor Stevens left the door open for fur- market volatility across asset classes. ginal lending facility and the deposit facility ther rate cuts saying the monetary policy The Euro started the week at 1.1170 to would remain unchanged at 0.05 percent, needs to be accommodative. move up to a high of 1.1330 after the 0.30 percent and -0.20 percent respectively. European Union’s statistics office said euro- The ECB president Draghi said, “The risks to Japans manufacturing zone prices rose 0.2 percent year-on-year this the Euro area growth outlook remain on the In Asia, Japan’s Purchasing Managers Index month. The currency subsequently dropped downside, reflecting in particular the height- rose 51.7 in August, up from 51.2 in July, against the US dollar reaching a low of 1.1088 ened uncertainties related to the external thereby signaling a stronger rate of improve- after the European Central Bank cut its infla- environment.” Additionally, Draghi said the ment in operating conditions in the Japanese tion and growth forecasts for 2015 and the bond-buying program may run beyond manufacturing sector. Moreover, the latest next two years. The ECB is now forecasting September 2016 and the bank may adjust its reading was the second highest of 2015 so far. economic growth in the euro-zone of 1.4 per- size and composition if the outlook for The overall improvement in the Japanese cent in 2015, down from 1.5 percent and 1.7 growth and inflation weakens further. manufacturing sector was supported by a percent in 2016, compared with its previous sharp increase in new orders, with growth projection of 1.9 percent. The Euro closed the strongest rally for 25 years over three sessions, US trade deficit with China increase slightly by UK service sector expands accelerating the fastest since January. week at 1.1153 ahead of the long weekend. during which prices rallied 25 percent. Later 0.4 percent, exports to China dropped 1.9 per- United Kingdom services grew at the The sterling pound opened the week at in the week, Brent oil endured its worst fall for cent while imports dipped 0.2 percent. weakest pace in more than two years in China’s manufacturing 1.5393, rising slightly to reach a high of four years, closing down 9 percent on the August, underlining signs the economy is China’s manufacturing sector shrank at its 1.5436. The upward move was short lived as week at below $50 a barrel. The drop in oil Unemployment claims improve slowing in the third quarter. Growth in the UK fastest pace in three years in August, support- the currency spent the whole week under prices came after the US senate confirmed it US unemployment benefits rose more than services sector, which accounts for around 78 ing concerns over the health of the world’s pressure reaching a low of 1.5160. The drop would pass a nuclear deal with Iran, opening forecast to an eight-week high, but the trend percent of the nation’s economic output, second-largest economy despite the latest was mainly on the back of weaker UK service the door for the lifting of sanctions and an continued to point to a strengthening labor unexpectedly slowed in August. Services PMI government’s effort to support the economy. sector. Indeed, data showed the slowest increase in exports. market. Initial claims for state unemployment declined to 55.6 down from 57.4 in July. The The Purchasing Managers’ Index dropped to growth in more than two years in August, benefits increased 5,000 to a seasonally services PMI came in well below even the 49.7 in August from the previous month’s underlining signs that the economy is slowing US manufacturing sector adjusted 274,000 for the week ended August most pessimistic of economists’ forecast, the reading of 50.0, in line with expectations. in the third quarter. The Pound closed the The rate of growth in the United States 8. Although claims have risen slightly, they economy looks set to grow by 0.5 percent in Beijing has set an official economic growth week at 1.5168. manufacturing sector slowed in August to its have remained below the 300,000 threshold, the third quarter, down from 0.7 percent in target of 7 percent for this year, down from In Asia, the Japanese yen opened the week weakest level in over two years. The Institute which is associated with a firming job market. the three months to June. 7.4 percent in 2014. However, some econo- at the 121.65 level against the US dollar. After for Supply Management said its index of Economic activity in the non-manufactur- mists believe real growth levels may already data showed Japan’s Purchasing Managers national factory activity dropped to 51.1 from ing sector grew in August for the 67th consec- UK construction sector improves be much lower, with cooling exports and Index rose to a seven-month high, the curren- 52.7 the month before, marking the lowest utive month. However, the ISM non-manufac- The UK construction companies remained domestic demand. cy remained well bid, reaching a low of reading since May 2013. Despite the weak turing index decreased to 59.0 in August 2015 in an expansionary mode during August, with Kuwait 118.75.The pair closed for the week near its reading, economic activity in the manufactur- after surging to a near-decade high of 60.3 in business activity and employment levels both Kuwaiti dinar at 0.30215 lows at 119.00. ing sector expanded in August for the 32nd July. The slight drop in the headline index expanding at a strong pace. The headline sea- The USDKD opened at 0.30215 yesterday morn- The Australian dollar on the other hand month, and the overall economy grew for the reflected a slower pace of activity in all four sonally adjusted Markit UK Construction ing. Aeroflot-Transaero deal, bigger but not better MOSCOW: By acquiring its struggling rival Transaero, the deal after the details of government talks were ment then turned to Aeroflot to save the carrier, Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot is likely to find itself in a leaked earlier this week, with Aeroflot’s shares tum- instead of reaching into state coffers. “It will be a costly tight spot with an additional debt burden and a fleet bling nearly 10 percent on the Moscow exchange on and lengthy process for Aeroflot to restructure this of ageing aircraft, analysts said. Tuesday and Wednesday. “I think that the manage- new acquisition,” Gazprombank analysts said in a note. State-controlled Aeroflot announced this week its ment of Aeroflot is not jumping with joy because they “Transaero suffers under a mammoth debt burden purchase of 75 percent plus one of Transaero’s shares have serious work ahead of them,” the head of the and it is unclear how this debt will be restructured.” for the symbolic price of one ruble, citing the privately- Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Igor Artemyev, told Although Aeroflot did not suffer from the econom- held airline’s “extremely difficult financial position.” The reporters. Artemyev-whose service had no major ic crisis as much as its competitors, the company lost Russian government had backed consolidation of the objections to the deal-added that the authorities 3.5 billion rubles ($52.4 million) in the first half of 2015. two airlines, which is expected to begin today. “could not imagine spending two to three years on a Its debt is now expected to skyrocket with the It is “undoubtedly the most important and signifi- bankruptcy procedure” for Transaero. incorporation of Transaero. Having modernized its cant decision” Aeroflot has ever taken, company chair- Transaero, which began operating in 1991, was the fleet and revamped its image, Aeroflot will also be man Kirill Androsov said in a statement. The acquisi- country’s biggest privately-owned carrier. forced to absorb some 100 ageing aircraft from tion would take Aeroflot closer to its goal of carrying The company has been strangled with debt-esti- Transaero, including long-range Boeing planes. “I am 70 million passengers a year by 2025, he added. mated at 65 billion rubles ($960 million) as of late 2014 certain no one at Aeroflot is happy with this purchase,” The incorporation of Transaero will increase — since the ruble collapsed last year on the back of said Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader Aeroflot’s domination of the domestic market, control- Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and lower who used to sit on the company’s board. ling over half of the country’s air traffic with a fleet of energy prices. The Russian currency’s weakness “Aeroflot’s fleet is relatively young, as opposed to more than 300 aircraft-larger than that of British increased Transaero’s spending in dollars for the leas- Transaero’s. Despite being massive and state-owned, Airways and Alitalia. In any event, being 51-percent ing of aircraft, technical maintenance and loan reim- the company abided by market rules more than owned by the state, Aeroflot could hardly turn down bursement. Meanwhile, Russians’ falling purchasing Transaero did.” he added. “We are creating a super the deal. “The Russian government has decided to res- power has led Aeroflot, which flies to many popular monopoly... Everyone will suffer from it, the con- cue Transaero-Russia’s second-largest airline - from holiday destinations in Asia and the Caribbean, to sell sumers first and foremost.” But other analysts defend- bankruptcy by forcing state-owned Aeroflot to buy cut-price tickets to fill planes. ed the deal, saying it will help reduce competition for the carrier,” analysts at Gazprombank said. Aeroflot and lead to increased prices in the long term. ‘Mammoth debt burden’ That prospect however could be limited by the ruble’s ‘Not jumping with joy’ After having offered financial support to Transaero depreciation and consumers’ reduced purchasing Investors and analysts have been skeptical about when the ruble crashed last year, the Russian govern- power, analysts from VTB Capital noted. -— AFP

VIVA announces 5th daily draw winners of prepaid campaign

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing Awwadh Al-Otaibi, Sarah Yousef and most developed telecom operator, Abdullah Algharib, Saud Mahya Zayed announced the fifth lucky winners of its Almutairi. Both new and existing pre- weekly draws campaign that gives pre- paid customers are eligible to enter dai- paid customers a chance to win $1,500 ly and monthly draws throughout the daily cash prize for every KD1 they promotion period, upon recharging spend on recharge, as well as $5,000 their lines with KD 1 credit. Lucky win- monthly. The campaign that started on ners of the daily draws will get $1,500 28 July 2015 will be valid for six consec- cash prize while winners of the monthly utive months. draws will get $5,000 cash prize. VIVA VIVA’s prepaid daily draws is taking reiterates its commitment to providing place once a week with seven winners, unique promotions designed to create one winner for every day of the week to an exceptional customer experience get the $1,500 cash prize. The winners and reward its prepaid customers for for the fifth week, held on 1 September their continued trust in VIVA. VIVA will 2015 are: Mohammad Naser Salem continue to seek new and innovative Alhareth, Ahmad Abdulsalam ways to facilitate the lives of its cus- Mohammed Alnajjar, Alwain De Souza, tomers and share with them the latest Abdulqader Yousef Biyari, Sarah Mohsen in communication technology. ABIDJIAN: Mechanics apprentices repair a second-hand motor in their garage in a scrapyard of the popular district of Abobo in Abidjian, where second-hand motors and spare parts are sold. — AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 B U S I N E S S ‘Black Monday’ dims global investment mood Tadawul index second worst performing in world in August MARKAZ MONTHLY MARKET REPORT KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” recently released its the red. Amman index (1.2 percent) was the only market that Monthly Market Research report. In this report, Markaz exam- ended the month in the green. ines and analyzes the performance of equity markets in the Sell-off in Chinese equities combined with the fall in oil MENA region as well as the global equity markets for the month prices were the reason behind the overall fall in stock markets in of August. The report stated that Kuwait’s price index ended the the region. In August, China’s manufacturing activity had con- month of August with a loss of 6.9 percent, while the weighted tracted at its fastest pace in three years, reinforcing fears of a index declined by 8 percent. Brent crude fell 18 percent in slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy despite a flur- August, before recovering in the last week of the month, and ry of government support measures. The Chinese manufactur- closing the month at $54.15/bbl, a 3.7 percent rise. The last ing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to a three-year low of minute surge was fueled by an OPEC commentary indicating 49.7 last month, down from 50 in July, implying a contraction. that the cartel was willing to talk to other producers to achieve Tadawul index was the second worst performing in the world in fair oil prices, as well as by a downward revision of US output. August, after the Athens index, following the slump in oil price, EIA estimates that US daily production has fallen by 0.1m bar- which accounts for nearly 90 percent of the country’s revenue . rels, while the number of rigs drilling for oil in the US has fallen Unclear fiscal policy, continuing fall in oil prices, and outlook 58 percent since October. downgrade by Fitch ratings from “stable” to “negative” con- The report added that MENA markets ended in red during tributed to the negative sentiment among investors. the month of August 2015. Saudi Arabia (-17.3 percent) suffered MENA markets liquidity rose in August, with volume increas- the most, followed by Dubai (-11.6 percent), Egypt (-11.5 per- ing 50 percent and value traded rising 56.4 percent, as the mar- cent) and Oman (-10.5 percent). The August decline in the ket activity improved after the lull in July, due to Ramadan. The MENA wiped out all gains made by the stock markets since the notable exceptions to this trend were seen in Abu Dhabi and beginning of the year, with all of the indices now dipping into Morocco. Abu Dhabi’s total value traded decreased by 34 per- cent and the volume traded decreased by 7 percent, while tic consumption driven economy. Slowdown in Chinese econo- Morocco’s value traded decreased by 17 percent, and volume my seems to have had significant global repercussion, with mar- traded decreased by 36 percent. kets across the world falling in response to Chinese equities sell- Ezdan Holdings (Qatar) had the only positive return (8.2 per- off. Attempts to manage the economic slowdown (Easing rates cent) among the blue chip stocks during the month of August, by PBOC, Yuvan devaluation etc.) have not borne fruit. Although after MSCI indicated that it would raise the weightings for the there is no significant economic impact on developed stock in the Emerging Markets index by the end of August. The economies, the developed markets fell due to negative senti- worst performing stocks were Kuwait Food (-24.1 percent), Al- ment surrounding global policy makers. The impact will be Rajhi Bank (-17.6 percent), and Saudi Basic (-16.5 percent). most felt on EM and GCC, which export commodities to China. Kuwait Food Co. (Americana) released its Q2 results in August, China consumes 57 percent of World’s copper and imports and the company declared a slump in profit of 46 percent due 2/3rds of world’s Iron ore. to slower sales during the Muslim month of fasting and higher Shares in China had soared 155 percent in the 12 months operating costs. SABIC, meanwhile, continues to be affected by leading up to June 2015, as individual investors borrowed heav- the fall in oil prices. ily to invest into a bull market. But all of this came to a standstill, Chinese sell off - Black Monday as the index hit a seven-year peak in June 2015, with signs of Global equities have sold off in recent days on growing con- economic slowdown, decline in manufacturing activity, and an cerns that a slowdown in China will trigger a global recession. overvalued market. On the 24th Aug 2015, now dubbed “Black China has emerged as a significant driver of global economic Monday”, China’s stock markets lost all their gains for the year, growth, and accounts for almost half of the world growth and intensifying worries about the world’s second-largest economy, 15 percent of global economic output. Chinese economy is in leading to commodities such as crude oil and copper tumbling transition, shifting from an export-led growth model to domes- to multi-year lows.

Burgan Bank announces winners of Yawmi account KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the maximize their chances to becoming a winner. names of the lucky winners of its Yawmi account The more customers deposit, the higher the draw, each taking home a prize of KD 5,000. chances they receive of winning. The lucky winners for the daily draws took For more information on opening a Yawmi home a cash-prize of KD 5,000 each and account or about the new quarterly draw, cus- they are: tomers are urged to visit their nearest Burgan 1. Kaid Fakhruddin & or Salim Cylewala Bank branch and receive all the details, or sim- 2. Ahmad Abdullah Hasan Aldosari ply call the bank’s Call Center at 1804080 where 3. Mohammad Ibrahim Mohammad Alkhabbaz customer service representatives will be 4. Jaber Haneef Jaber Haneef delighted to assist with any questions on the 5. Sami Momdouh Khalaf Salem Yawmi account or any of the bank’s products To further add to the anticipation of Yawmi and services. account customers, Burgan Bank now offers a Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the Quarterly Draw with more chances to win higher youngest commercial Bank and second largest rewards, entitling one lucky customer to win KD by assets in Kuwait, with a significant focus on 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi Account the corporate and financial institutions sectors, now offers Daily and quarterly Draws, the as well as having a growing retail, and private Quarterly Draw requires customers to maintain a bank customer base. Burgan Bank has five minimum amount of KD 500 in their account for majority owned subsidiaries, which include 2 months prior to draw date. Additionally, every Jordan Kuwait Bank, Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan KD 10 in the account, will entitle customers to Bank - Turkey, Bank of Baghdad, Tunis one chance of winning. If the account balance is International Bank, in which Burgan Bank owns a KD 500 and above, the account holder will be majority stake. Burgan Bank Group has one of qualified for both the quarterly and daily draws. the largest regional branch networks with more Burgan Bank encourages everyone to open a than 235 branches across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Waleed Mubarak Al-Azmi wins brand new Yawmi account and/or increase their deposit to Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Lebanon and Palestine. Mercedes CLA with NBK upon salary transfer

KUWAIT: Waleed Mubarak Mefarreh Al-Azmi Fatema Ali Abedi, Mohammed Khaled Al- cash back when using their credit cards, won a brand new Mercedes CLA with Rafeea, Ahmad Fahem Al-Dhafeeri, Zainab including complimentary airport lounge National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) campaign Abdulla Mohammed and Tahani Fahad Al- access, concierge service and many exclusive aimed to reward new and existing customers Mutairi each won KD 500 in the weekly draws global offers, as well as NBK Rewards pro- who transfer their salary to the bank with held during the month of July. NBK also gram, the largest loyalty program in Kuwait instant, weekly and monthly prizes. offered instant cash prizes to its new cus- that guarantees rewards at many of the best Ahmed Al-Khader, Deputy NBK General tomers who transferred their salary to the international and local brands in Kuwait. Manager, Consumer Banking Group and Kay bank during July. In addition, customers will enjoy easy Schleef, Business Development Manager at This Campaign entitled “Transfer your salary transfer, instant card issuance, quick Abdul Rahman Al-Bisher and Zaid Al-Kazemi Salary and Win instant, weekly and monthly auto loan approval within 30 minutes and Company, presented the prize to the winner prizes’ is valid until December 2015. New the best banking services through NBK’s at Al-Bisher and Zaid show room, the exclu- customers who transfer their salary to NBK largest branch network in Kuwait including sive Mercedes-Benz dealer in Kuwait. will get a cash prize from KD 100 up to KD NBK’s branch at Kuwait’s International “Banking with NBK is rewarding in all 5000 instantly, and enter a weekly draw to Airport which is available 24/7 and the most ways,” said Al-Azmi. “NBK is truly the leading win KD 500. The campaign offers all existing advanced Mobile Banking and Online bank- bank not only for its unique and exclusive and new customers who have their salaries ing services that are available around the services but for the strong relation it builds transferred to NBK to enter a monthly draw clock to ensure that customers are able to with its customers and deep understanding on 6 brand new Mercedes CLAs. carry out their transactions easily at any time to their needs and expectations. NBK is the This campaign offers customers a variety and wherever they are. bank of choice for me and my family since of features and exclusive benefits. NBK cus- NBK pioneered many firsts in both the years and I’m very proud to be an NBK cus- tomers will benefit from a free credit card for local and regional markets by offering inno- tomer,” he said. the first year and exclusive discounts and vative products and value added services. AUB announces winners in draw in Al-Hassad Islamic Saving program Al-Tijari announces winners KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank held its weekly draw of Najwa Sayed Mohd, Ahmad Mazed AlAotaibi , Al-Hassad Islamic Saving program on Ahmad Mohammad Al-SaqoubiI , Saoud September02, 2015. This program offers the Mohamad Al Dossari, Mariam Ahmad Al Meilam, of Al-Najma Account biggest prize amount to the largest number of AbdullahYousef Al Omari, Zeeba Abdulla winners. The prize program succeeded in becom- Mohammed, Fatema Abdulla Ali, Ali Baqer Habib, KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait another 4 mega prizes during the year ing the first and only prize account in Kuwait com- Fauzia Masqsood, Mohammed Saeed, Zaianb pliant with the Islamic Sharia principles. The pro- Abdulla Ali, Abdulla Ashoor Khalil, Adel Ahmed held the Al-Najma Account draw yester- worth KD 100,000 each on different gram has been developed to fulfil the needs of Mohd, Khawla Ali Al-Shehab. day. The draw was held under the occasions: The National Day, Eid Al-Fitr, the Bank customers and increase their opportuni- The Prize program of “Al-Hassad Islamic supervision of the Ministry of Eid Al-Adha and on the 19th of June ties in winning sizeable and attractive prizes in Saving” from Ahli United Bank offers a weekly Commerce & Industry represented by which is the date of the bank’s estab- addition to enjoying the latest banking advan- grand prize worth KD 25,000 in addition to 25 Abdulaziz Ashkanani. lishment. tages that Ahli United Bank provides. weekly prizes worth a total of KD 25,000 distrib- With a minimum balance of KD 500, On this occasion, the bank issued the follow- uted to 25 prizes, KD 1,000 for each winner. The winners of the Al-Najma daily customers will be eligible for the daily ing press release: Al Hassad Islamic Saving pro- In addition, prizes of Al-Hassad Islamic saving draw are:- draw provided that the money is in the gram offers the highest amounts of prizes which program from Ahli United Bank offer 4 quarterly Jaiunddin Junida — KD 7000, account one week prior to the daily amount to KD 3.4 million per year. This Program grand prizes announced in quarterly draws. Each Hassan Ali Jassim — KD 7000, draw or 2 months prior to the mega also offers 26 weekly prizes, with the highest is a “Salary for Life” prize which is worth KD Abbas Thangabba — KD 7000, draw. In addition, for each KD 25 a cus- number of weekly winners. The Islamic Hassad 25,000/-. In general, Ahli United Bank continues Anu Surendran — KD 7000, tomer can get one chance for winning Saving Account may be opened by the lowest to offer innovative tools and means to meet the Asim Murtaza Bhutto— KD 7000. instead of KD 50. Commercial Bank of amount to open an account, which is KD 100. needs of its customers to match the Bank’s long Kuwait takes this opportunity to con- The winner of the weekly grand prize in the history of distinctive services which extend over The Commercial Bank of Kuwait gratulate all lucky winners and also amount of KD 25,000 is: Falah Eid Al-Azmi . 73 years during which the Bank managed to take announces the biggest daily draw in extends appreciation to the Ministry of The winners of the KD 1,000 prize each : the lead among local banks. Kuwait with the launch of the new Commerce and Industry for their effec- Mohammad Kadhem Al-Saffar , Badreyah Mefleh Najma account. Customers of the bank tive supervision of the draws which Al-Suwaileh, Sulaiman Esmaeel Mohammad, can now enjoy a KD 7,000 daily prize were conducted in an orderly and Leslie Lawrence Saldanha, Jamal which is the highest in the country and organized manner. MohammadAhmad, Bader Habeb Al Awad, Hanaa Mohd Al Humood, Samir Najeeb Hanna, Khalleel Hafedh Mahmoud, Talal Mohammed Al Enezi, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 t e c h n o l o g y

Safe screens made for those glued to their smartphones BERLIN: As it gets harder to tear our eyes away blue light frequencies, which are below 450 are used to light up smartphones, televisions or different wavelengths of light and showed that “we should not be afraid of the screens”. from smartphones, televisions, tablets or com- nanometers, to above 460 nanometers,” said computers. But the problem is the blue ray that those between 415 and 455 nanometers “The real problem is over-consumption,” the puters, concerns are growing over a blue light Philips’ marketing director Stefan Sommer. emitted at the same time, which is feared to killed the cells. specialist on retina illnesses said, warning emitted by their screens, blamed for harming Other brands like Asus and BenQ, along pose potentially serious health consequences. In other words, deep blue light, which is people against spending more than six hours the retina and causing interrupted sleep. with American firm ViewSonic, have also seized close to ultra-violet light, is particularly harm- in front of their screens. Children’s eyes are Electronics giants are turning crisis to an on “safe” screens as a new selling point. “We’ve Beware of ‘overconsumption’ ful to eyes. Nevertheless, the scientist says, most vulnerable, as their retinas are clear and opportunity-quickly declaring that their latest been told from a very early age by parents that It is all scare-mongering or scientific fact? “that must be taken in proportion as the light they “will be exposed over 40 or 50 years”. For products feature “safe” screens. too much screen time, in front of a TV or a com- Serge Picaud, a researcher at the Institute of intensities produced by our screens are still those who cannot help but stay glued to At the IFA mega consumer electronics puter, is bad. So a ‘safe’ screen might resonate Sight in Paris, has a more measured take on it. relatively weak compared to sunlight”. “Those screens, Gualino prescribes special glasses to show in Berlin, Dutch company Philips is show- with consumers,” said Paul Gray, an analyst at “We should not be so afraid that we bin all our who worry about harm caused by screens, do filter out the blue light. Such glasses are wide- casing a new technology for its computer IHS Global Insight. Because it generates a rela- screens,” he said. Picaud carried out a study in they also wear sunglasses at the beach?” ly available in Japan, while in France, lens screens called “SoftBlue,” which it claims is gen- tively high intensity of light from just a low 2013 in which he exposed sample retina cells asked Picaud. Vincent Gualino, an ophthal- maker Essilor offers special lenses that screen tler on the retina. “We are shifting the harmful amount of energy, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from a pig-similar to those found in humans-to mologist at a French hospital also believes out the harmful rays. — AFP

Apple event to focus on next iPhones, TV revamp SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is expected to unveil lyst Van Baker. “They have the premium content updated iPhones Wednesday along with an lined up, so the real differentiator is to bring net- Apple TV revamp that may signal a push into work television to the platform.” online television streaming dominated by Netflix. Apple remained mum even as rumors Keys to the kingdom ran rampant about what is in store at the San “Original programming is the only solution to Francisco media event. In trademark enigmatic Apple’s biggest problem in the video world: style, invitations provided little more than the nobody wants to sell Apple content rights” said time and place of the event, to be held at the Forrester analyst James McQuivey. “After watch- spacious Bill Graham Civic Auditorium near city ing what happened to the music business when hall. A line on the invite reading: “Hey Siri, give us Apple was given the keys to the kingdom, video a hint,” led many to believe that virtual assistant producers and programmers are more than gun software Siri, which is built into Apple devices, shy about handing the same power to Apple in will help people find shows or movies on Apple the world of TV shows.” TV. Apple TV is also believed to be getting its own Apple became a power to be reckoned with in App Store, which will be open to outside devel- digital music sales due to the popularity of its opers who can make games and other content mobile devices and iTunes online shop. While for it. Apple was at the forefront of the shift to digital The third-generation Apple TV was intro- music, the world of Internet-streamed television duced slightly more than three years ago. The already has powerful players. “Apple’s opportuni- California-based company long downplayed ty to shape the market is gone, they’re just join- Apple TV as a “hobby” after the original version ing this program already in progress,” McQuivey was released in 2007. “They are finally revisiting said. their hobby, the Apple TV,” said Forrester analyst Data gathered by Forrester indicated that 19 Frank Gillett. Apple is dabbling with the idea of percent of US adults who use the Internet are making online television programming in a move interested in or use Apple TV. That percentage that would challenge established players such as jumps to nearly a third when it is limited to online Netflix and Amazon Prime, according to a recent adults ranging from age 27 to 35. While bringing report in show-business magazine Variety. “There Siri to Apple TV would be noteworthy, the analyst is a definite movement toward cord-cutting, and did not see that alone as being enough to get Apple is in position to do that,” said Gartner ana- people to rush out and buy the hardware. — AFP WISCONSIN: This undated image released by Oshkosh shows an assembly line worker attaching a tire on a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) at Oshkosh’s Production Facility. — AFP US army to unleash new all-purpose beast, ‘JLTV’ The successor to the iconic Humvee WASHINGTON: First there was the Jeep, n’t have a V-shape hull (to deflect a Protect the ‘precious cargo’ and small, bulletproof windows. The then came the Humvee. Now the US mili- blast).” The military pushed to reinforce John Bryant, the senior vice presi- vehicle is comparatively speedy, going tary has a new all-purpose vehicle that’s Humvees, but they remained vulnerable. dent of defense programs at Oshkosh, up to 70 percent faster than any other destined to become another emblem of Then came an accelerated program to said vehicle designers focused on the military vehicle over rough terrain. And American fighting power: The JLTV. deliver more than 24,000 new “mine- threat of roadside bombs. Unlike in a it’s light enough to be carried by a CH-47 Granted, the name is not as catchy as its resistant ambush protected vehicles”-or Humvee, parts of the new JLTV fragment Chinook helicopter. predecessors, but the Joint Light Tactical MRAPs-at a cost of roughly $45 billion. so explosive forces are carried away from Vehicle signals a technological leap for- the cab, helping to dissipate the deadly Foreign interest ward that the military hopes will protect $6.75 billion contract energy. Just as the Humvee was adopted by troops for decades to come. But these reinforced trucks were “Pieces of the vehicle will definitely foreign armies around the world, Bryant Army officials last month announced heavy, making it hard to deposit them fly off,” Bryant told AFP. “They are sup- said several countries have already POLAND: Members of the Kielce University of Technology team watch their “Impuls” Mars the winner of a bid to replace thousands where they were needed, and running posed to behave that way. You can see expressed an interest in the JLTV. “The rover prior to the European Rover Challenge 2015 on September 5, 2015 in Checiny, of Humvees, the culmination of a search counter to a Pentagon push for a faster, significant levels of destruction to por- requirement for protected mobility com- southern Poland. A total of 27 university teams from twelve countries participate in this that began in the years after the start of lighter fighting force. So the military tions of the vehicle, and yet the crew bined with extreme off-road capabilities year’s competition for Mars rovers that for the first time took place in 2007. — AFP the war in Iraq in 2003. While the beefy- started looking for a replacement vehicle capsule with that precious cargo inside seems to be a relatively universal looking Humvee was praised for its as mobile as a Humvee but with the pro- remains intact-and the crew survives.” requirement,” he said. speed and ubiquity as invading US tection of a MRAP. While precise technical specifications In the wake of the first Gulf War from troops poured into Iraq, a growing insur- The Army on August 25 announced a remain secret, Bryant said the new vehi- 1990 to 1991, the Humvee gained gency and the spread of roadside bombs $6.75 billion contract for the Wisconsin- cle has been designed for the future, worldwide fame as news crews filmed it Faces of diversity at there and in Afghanistan soon spelled based manufacturer Oshkosh, which has meaning it can be readily adapted for roaring across desert sands. The vehicle, trouble for the vehicle-and its occupants. a long track record of building military changing military needs. which is technically called the HMMWV, US Internet giants With a flat underbelly and low clear- trucks and armored vehicles. Oshkosh For instance, it can come fitted with a became so popular in the United States ance, the Humvee was ill-equipped to beat competitors Lockheed Martin and turret for a regular gunner, or else it can that AM General made a civilian version SAN FRANCISCO: White or Asian men are the INTEL cope with the deadly blast of an explo- AM General, which makes the Humvee. be equipped with a remotely operated called the Hummer. One of the original typical employees in major US technology Intel has also adopted the Rooney Rule. The sive device. Instead of deflecting or dissi- The rivals may yet file protests over the weapon. Similarly, it would be relatively purchasers was another well-muscled firms, and this has changed little since the first world’s largest chip maker disclosed a break- pating the energy, much of it would contract award, which could potentially straightforward to make the vehicle American icon, Arnold Schwarzenegger. wave of “diversity reporting” last year. down of staff in July that was virtually shoot into the cab, often with fatal trigger delays. In total, the Army plans to remote-controlled or give it a hybrid- Though the Army will continue to Workforce data provided by companies was unchanged compared to the end of 2014. Men results. buy nearly 50,000 of the vehicles before electric engine. Imagine a convoy of mil- maintain a fleet of Humvees, their num- global regarding gender and limited to the account for 75 percent of employees, and even “An armored Humvee is not designed 2040, while the Marine Corps wants itary vehicles: if the leading one is bers will gradually dwindle. But the vehi- United States regarding ethnicity. 80 percent in technological jobs. Fifty-four per- to deal with landmines, the architecture 5,500. The total value of the contract over remote-controlled and hits a roadside cle remains popular with foreign armies- cent of employees are white, followed by Asian is all wrong,” said Jim Hasick, a senior fel- that time is estimated at $30 billion, with bomb, there is no crew to get injured. last year the US government approved GOOGLE workers at 32 percent. Hispanics made up some low at the Atlantic Council think tank. “It Oshkosh beginning to deliver vehicles 10 The Oshkosh JLTV has a hulking front the sale of more than 3,300 of them to Google was overall 70 percent male in eight percent of the workforce while 3.5 percent sits far too close to the ground and does- months from now. end covering a 6.6-liter diesel engine the Mexican military. — AFP January 2015, a make-up unchanged from the was black. Intel is striving to have its workforce previous year. When it came to purely technology reflect the demographics of the US population jobs, the percentage of men rose to 82. Some 60 by 2020, with a goal of 40 percent “diversity” percent of Google employees were white, while hires this year. In June, Intel launched an invest- about 31 percent were said to be Asian. The ment fund of $125 million targeting start-ups Opportunity found in lack Internet giant stepped up recruitment of blacks run by women or ethic minorities. and Hispanics last year, but their share of the workforce remained unchanged at two and three MICROSOFT’s percent respectively. Google said that it has Microsoft’s ranks of employees was 72 per- of diversity in tech sector ramped up university recruitment and is devoting cent men in late June, and the share rose to 83 $150 million this year to improving diversity. percent for technology positions. The US soft- SAN FRANCISCO: Too many white men them pictures and saving money on posts because they tend to attract men Helpful hints for companies interest- ware giant classified 59 percent of its workers as and too few women, blacks and prison phone calls. NewMe has directly while putting off women by seeming ed in improving workplace diversity APPLE “Caucasian,” and said it was 29 percent Asian, Latinos: While fueling debate, the lack invested in 39 startups, and has given overly aggressive, according to Textio included anonymizing resumes and Apple increased last year’s hiring of women, starting with chief executive Satya Nadella. Only of diversity in Silicon Valley is also “hundreds of entrepreneurs” access to chief executive Kieran Snyder. “We think making a practice of including at least blacks and Hispanics by more than 50 percent, five percent of Microsoft’s workforce was Latino inspiring startups focused on improv- its network, according to Benton. of ourselves as sort of a spell-check that one minority candidate when inter- adding a total of 15,900 positions in new record and three percent was black-levels virtually ing the mix. The homogeneous work- “Minority entrepreneurs don’t have a is very powerful,” Snyder told AFP. viewing for positions. Achieving diversi- for the world’s biggest technology company, unchanged from an initial diversity report pub- force in the US technology industry lot of people in their network where Twitter last month enlisted Textio’s ty could also require giving recruiters according to chief executive Tim Cook, who main- lished in October of last year. became a hot topic after an attention- they can get help on their ideas,” small team in Seattle to help the one- more time to seek out minority candi- tained that there was “a lot more work to be grabbing civil trial last year that aired Benton said. “We kind of become that to-many messaging service reach dates and revamping corporate culture done.” California-based Apple’s workforce was 69 AMAZON charges of sexism at a powerful Silicon person.” aggressive workplace diversity goals. so women or ethnic minorities lean in percent men at the end of June, compared with Amazon reported that 63 percent of its work- Valley venture capital firm and disclo- Northern California-based Unitive was instead of pull out. 70 percent last summer. The share reached 79 ers as of the middle of last year were men. A sures by Internet titans that workforces Unconscious bias founded with a vision of eliminating “Women are leaving the technology percent for technology positions. Some 54 per- racial breakdown of employees was given as 60 are mostly male and very white. Notions that they lack influential “unconscious bias” by recruiters. sector at twice the rate of men,” and not cent of Apple employees were white, while about percent white; 15 percent black; 13 percent It was “logical” that entrepreneurs connections or are missing degrees Job recruiters often have images in due to “family reasons” but because of 11 percent were Asian. Apple showed a relatively Asian, and nine percent Hispanic. Civil rights would strive to tackle the challenge, from “good” universities are among their minds of who they think would be workplace culture and lack of advance- high proportion of employees who were Hispanic activist the Rev Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow according to Angela Benton, a black handicaps minorities must get past best for a position, according to Unitive ment opportunities, according to (11 percent, unchanged) and black (eight per- Push group criticized the lack of details about woman with a pioneering role in when seeking investors or jobs. founder Laura Mather, who said the Emerson. With this perspective in mind, cent, up one point). job assignments, contending that a high per- NewMe accelerator that has worked Startups launched since last year have software is tailored to keep recruiters San Francisco startup Doxa applies a centage of the online retailing giant’s black and with minority entrepreneurs since set out to tackle unconscious preju- focused on what matters. Unitive soft- dating profile style approach for FACEBOOK Latino employees “work in their warehouses.” 2011. Benton cited the example of dices that can thwart efforts to build ware showcases applicant information women seeking promising workplace Facebook has Sheryl Sandberg as its second Pigeonly. more diversity into workplaces. relevent to jobs and “hides” other matches. most powerful executive but was still 68 percent YAHOO! Frederick Hutson was serving time Seattle-based Textio uses machine resume information on secondary Compatability criteria include men in late May, down one point from the previ- Yahoo has a woman at the helm, with former in prison for moving a mountain of learning and linguistic analysis to make pages. It also lays out interview ques- schedule flexibility, parental leave ben- ous year. The share reached 84 percent when lim- Google executive Marissa Mayer working as marijuana when he came up with a mil- sure that the way something is written, tions that target relevant skills. efits, and opportunities for advance- ited to technological positions. Whites made up chief executive since mid-2012. The company’s lion-dollar idea for Internet startup such as a job posting, resonates with ment. Some of those interviewed 55 percent of the social network’s workforce in a overall workforce was 37 percent female in June Pigeonly. Along with frustration over the desired audience. “Textio was Buzz and good intentions lamented that while some companies drop of two percent from a year earlier, while the in a share unchanged from a year earlier. Men getting pictures from loved ones out- founded on this simple vision: how you “The success of efforts will depend polish their images with talk of diversi- share of Asians rose two percent to 36 percent. still dominated technology jobs, accounting for side prison walls, he felt that US write changes who you reach,” the start- on what is happening in your organiza- ty, the “good intentions” are not backed The share of Hispanics and blacks did not change, about 84 percent of employees. Approximately inmates were charged astronomical up said at is website. “We use the pat- tion now, and what your culture is,” by meaningful resources. Emerson not- remaining four percent and two percent respec- 47 percent of Yahoo workers were white, while rates for phone calls. Hutson was in a terns that we find to predict the per- warned Joelle Emerson, a former dis- ed that oftentimes firms not committed tively. Facebook has begun resorting at times to a the share for Asians was given as 43 percent. halfway house for ex-cons in 2012 formance of your job posting and help crimination and harassment case attor- to change have leaders who “do not “Rooney Rule” that has been in force since 2003 in Hispanic and blacks made up four and two per- when he and a partner went to work on you fix it before you ever publish it.” ney who founded consulting firm understand” the value of diversity to the National Football League. cent of the Yahoo workforce respectively. — AFP Pigeonly. The startup provided online For example, Textio flags sports or Paradigm, whose clients include their businesses and who think it is just tools for locating inmates, sending military analogies popular in tech job Pinterest. the latest “buzz.” — AFP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 H E A L T H & S C I E N C E

WHO sounds alarm over big Indian supplier of tuberculosis drugs LONDON/MUMBAI: A major Indian sup- cheap generic medicines to countries the report, adding that independent con- The inspectors also criticized the qual- said approvals would be suspended and plier of tuberculosis drugs to developing worldwide which has been tarnished by sultants who had visited the factory since ity of drug testing and said some of the it would recommend that agencies stop countries has been severely criticized by a series of quality problems. Svizera is the WHO inspection in June had found it results may have been manipulated. “The buying from Svizera if the problems are the World Health Organization for inade- important well beyond India because it is to be up to standard. “We are convinced above examples raise serious concerns not rectified within a reasonable time. quate manufacturing standards and poor one of four manufacturers with a long- that ... we can resolve this issue in short regarding the integrity, reliability and The US Food and Drug Administration testing procedures. The United Nations term contract to supply medicines to the time,” Sapte said in an emailed statement. accuracy of the data generated and avail- has previously imposed sanctions on a agency issued a warning letter to Stop TB Partnership, a WHO-backed able at your manufacturing site and on number of Indian drugmakers, causing Mumbai-based Svizera Labs, part of organization set up in 2001 to fight Serious concerns your ability to prevent contamination severe problems for companies such as Maneesh Pharmaceuticals, stating that tuberculosis in more than 100 countries. The lengthy list of deficiencies identi- and cross-contamination of your prod- Ranbaxy, now part of Sun Pharmaceutical the approval and use of its products The WHO, which checks on medicines fied by the WHO team included rusty and ucts,” the letter stated. Industries. More recently, the WHO has would be suspended if “critical and major used by UN agencies, issued the “notice unclean surfaces on drug packaging Svizera will not be allowed to submit also become more assertive on quality observations are not corrected within a of concern” letter to Svizera on Sept 2 set- lines, defective seals and black mould in a new products under the WHO pre-quali- issues. Its inspectors issued another hard- reasonable time frame”. ting out 10 shortcomings. Svizera cleaning area, generally low hygiene fication approval process until the notice hitting notice of concern in June to The move is the latest setback for Managing Director Vinay Sapte said he standards, and inadequate factory of concern is lifted. Its existing medicines Indian clinical research organization India’s drugs industry, a vital source of disagreed strongly with the content of record-keeping. will not be affected for now but the WHO Quest Life Sciences. — Reuters

Novartis to start human tests with Google lens in 2016 ZURICH: Novartis plans the first human need for costly hospital visits. Jimenez indi- tests next year of a “smart” contact lens it is cated the plan has encountered headwinds. developing with Google designed to help “In the United States, we proposed to restore the eye’s natural autofocus. “This insurers a differentiated price calculated project is progressing well,” Novartis Chief according to length of stay,” Jimenez said. Executive Joe Jimenez told Swiss newspa- “Few insurers entered in the field. They told per Le Temps in an interview. “I had said it us that the system was too complicated.” would take about five years to see a prod- Novartis finally established the price at uct on the market,” Jimenez told the paper. around $4,500 per year, he said. “The calendar is on track and we are already The CEO, a former executive at developing a technological lens prototype Reddiwip-maker ConAgra Foods who (that) should be tested on humans in 2016.” joined Novartis in 2007, also said the com- A Novartis spokesman told Reuters that pany expects its generics business Sandoz Jimenez was referring to a smart lens for “will always be large enough to be competi- accommodative vision correction in people tive worldwide” without joining a consolida- with presbyopia, or age-related long sight- tion trend. Israeli generics rival Teva agreed edness, who can no longer read without to buy Allergan’s generics unit in July for glasses. Under an agreement signed with more than $40 billion. Google in 2014, Novartis is also developing “There is no project on our side to par- smart contact lenses to help diabetics track ticipate in this consolidation trend because their blood glucose levels. Jimenez also dis- we cannot ensure this growth,” Jimenez cussed Novartis’ efforts to test a novel pay- said. Novartis, which owns a one-third vot- for-performance pricing model with some ing stake in pharmaceuticals rival Roche, customers for its new heart failure drug has trade agreements with Roche on two Entresto. Earlier this year, Novartis said it drugs and Jimenez said he can imagine was pursuing a system under which cus- research and development collaborations, tomers would get the drug at a discount as well. “But the opportunity hasn’t pre- but then pay Novartis more if it cut the sented itself yet,” he said. —Reuters FRANCE: A file photo taken on June 20, 2011 in Autun shows students choosing their food in the canteen of La Chataigneraie middle school. — AFP Veggie meals for all schools, a solution in secular France? ‘We can’t force children to eat against their religious believes’

PARIS: To serve or not to serve pork in ‘Just don’t eat pork’ kosher. “We have to respond to regula- lic establishments. “I have parents who the canteens of France’s secular state The debate over what to serve chil- tions currently in place today, which have told me they want to put their schools? As a new school year begins, dren in school canteens has raged on are to serve well-balanced meals,” she children in public school, but they the divisive issue has once again come and off for years in France, which says. “We don’t have to worry about want them to eat kosher. And today, to the fore as mayors from three towns prides itself on its 1905 law separating any other demands at school, which is we’re starting to see the same phe- have banned non-pork options in can- the state and religion, but also has secular. “Pork is not served up that nomenon with Muslims.” teens to respect the country’s strict Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish often, and parents know it. The days So what about the vegetarian divide between education and religion, populations. There are no overarching when there is pork, children just don’t option that Jego is championing? Too triggering accusations of discrimina- guidelines that govern what should be eat pork, and parents make up for the costly, tough to create well-balanced tion. put on children’s plates and it is up to lack of protein in the evening, it’s that menus and children will probably Enter Yves Jego, a lawmaker who more than 34,000 mayors around the simple.” avoid them, say critics. But the central wants to introduce a draft bill making country to take their own decisions. city of Saint-Etienne has served them vegetarian meals obligatory in schools Many schools offer an alternative Deserting public schools up since January after new mayor Gael as a pragmatic way of bypassing secu- when pork, or more generally meat, is Not so for Francois Pupponi, the Perdriau realized that some children larity rules and accommodating Jews served to tacitly cater to religious mayor of the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, did not eat all their food for religious and Muslims who do not eat pork, or requirements but halal or kosher meals known for its ethnic diversity and large reasons. Hindus, many of whom shun meat in are shunned as going against seculari- Jewish population. “Those who have The additional meals come at no general. “Can we force a Catholic child ty. The only city that serves up halal such extreme positions... don’t under- extra cost for parents or authorities. to eat meat on Good Friday because meals is Strasbourg in the northeastern stand that they are achieving the exact Now, 15 percent of school children pick nothing else is available, or a Jewish or region of Alsace, which was under opposite of what they are looking for,” the vegetarian option, he says, which Muslim kid to eat pork?,” the lawmaker German rule in 1905 when France vot- he said. “They will end up with a secu- on a typical day might consist of a from the centrist UDI party asks on his ed in favor of the separation of state lar public school, but there will be no- lentil salad, omelette with carrots and online petition, which has garnered and religion and is therefore not one left. All those who are religious will rice, cheese and fruit. “This solution DOYLESTOWN: Christine Kitzler, left, a transgender woman from Myrtle Beach, SC, more than 123,000 signatures so far. “I bound by secularity laws. leave, and public schools will no longer addresses different issues-vegetarian listens as her surgeon, Dr Christine McGinn speaks to reporters. — AP will... submit a draft bill to make vege- For Isabelle Maincion, who looks be a place where people mix, a place of or religious issues without getting into tarian menus obligatory in all canteens after the school meal portfolio at the dialogue and education for all.” debates that I find a little unhealthy, as an alternative to daily menus to allow Association of French Mayors, there is Pupponi said many Jewish children where people argue that if you don’t Judge OKs gender surgery those who do not want meat or fish, no debate to be had on whether to now attended private schools due in like a certain type of food, then don’t whatever the reason, to eat healthily.” serve pork or not, let alone halal or part to the lack of kosher meals in pub- eat it,” Perdriau said. — AFP opposed by 48-year-old’s parents DOYLESTOWN: A judge cleared the way for a 48- would not interfere with medically necessary care year-old transgender woman to undergo gender- for any other issue. Here a court has refused to reassignment surgery, rejecting her parents’ effort interfere with medically necessary care for gender Nepal’s ‘ice doctors’ risk to block the operation because they say she’s men- dysphoria.” tally incompetent. Christine Kitzler, testifying at an In ruling for Christine Kitzler, the judge said he emergency hearing, showed a clear understanding recognized she had suffered from depression and of the three-hour procedure and its risks, Judge C substance abuse but noted she had testified to all for sole Everest hopeful Theodore Fritsch Jr said. He dismissed her parents’ being sober for three years and had demonstrated demand that he appoint a legal guardian and sub- an ability to understand her decisions. Kitzler KATHMANDU: Ang Kami Sherpa is one spring. This year, Japan’s Nobokazu Kuriki “Our job is more difficult this year, the Control Committee (SPCC), which man- ject her to an independent medical exam. earned a liberal arts degree from Ohio University of Nepal’s most experienced “ice doc- is the only climber planning an attempt mountain has changed (after the quake),” ages the peak, said there was no option “I’m so happy,” Kitzler whispered when the and has a deep knowledge and keen understand- tors”-the mountaineers who brave on the summit, although a six-person Sherpa told AFP by phone from Everest but to send the route-setters up once the judge ruled. Kitzler’s lawyers and Philadelphia-area ing of politics, her father testified. Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu support team is expected to accompany base camp, where the ice doctors have government issues a permit for the surgeon were trying to schedule the operation for Christine Kitzler, who lives in Myrtle Beach, icefall to prepare it for the climbing sea- him to Camp 2, about 6,400 meters high already begun work. “There is always a mountain. “It is our job to set the route, this week. The surgeon, Dr Christine McGinn, said South Carolina, already has been through 16 son-but even he is more nervous than and usually around two days of trekking risk up here but we are a little more regardless of the number of climbers,” he she would cover the cost. The operation had been months of pre-operative preparation and has usual this time round. Sherpa is among a beyond base camp. At 63, Sherpa is more scared this year.” Highly-skilled moun- told AFP. “Tourism as a whole has suf- set for Tuesday before Klaus and Ingrid Kitzler won received clearances from mental health profession- group of ice doctors who returned to the familiar with Everest than most, having taineers like Sherpa are the first men on fered a downfall, at least if there is an a temporary injunction. Christine Kitzler said hav- als that she is knowingly and willingly undergoing 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain in kicked off his mountaineering career in the peak every season, using ropes and Everest summit this year, it will help send ing her body match the gender she has identified gender reassignment, her doctor said. August-four months after a huge earth- 1975 when he assisted Japan’s Junko ladders to build a route across plunging out a positive message.” with since growing up outside Cleveland, Ohio, quake that triggered a deadly avalanche Tabei in her successful bid to become the crevasses and constantly shifting ice. This would save her from backsliding into alcohol and Child’s health at its base camp. They are readying the first woman to summit the peak. But this year the dangers are even higher than ‘Backbone of mountaineering’ drug addiction. Kitzler said the surgery would complete a tran- route for the autumn season, when even time, the veteran ice doctor says even he usual with Nepal still experiencing regu- Every day the ice doctor and his team “It’s barbaric to keep me this way, not to take sition rooted in nights as a child spent locked in the in a normal year only a handful of is worried after April’s quake, which killed lar aftershocks, further increasing the risk set off from base camp before dawn, this risk,” she said. “Then I suffer and I go back to bathroom trying on her mother’s makeup and climbers attempt the summit, most opt- nearly 9,000 people, 18 of them on the of avalanches. The avalanche that hit on often working for over 12 hours at a drinking, and that’s barbaric. I can’t maintain being wearing women’s clothing to college classes. ing for the more favorable conditions of world’s highest peak. April 25 was the second in as many years stretch. Although Sherpa developed his a sober man, being happy, because it hasn’t hap- Beyond her emotional well-being, she said, surgery after 16 Nepali guides lost their lives on skills on the job, in recent years, ice doc- pened. It can’t happen. I don’t have a choice.” Her would enable her to compete as a woman in run- the icefall in 2014, sparking a shutdown tors have enrolled at the nearby Khumbu parents argued that a childhood learning disorder ning events and use the women’s locker room at of the peak. Climbing Center, set up by US moun- and depression had compromised her judgment her gym. On the witness stand, Klaus Kitzler under- taineer Conrad Anker in memory of and that her HIV and hepatitis C diagnoses would scored his concern for his child’s health. He said he Aftershocks and avalanches renowned alpinist Alex Lowe who died make the surgery far riskier. would accept her surgery if an independent psy- Many in the mountaineering com- in 1999. “The ice doctors know the chiatrist deemed her fit to make the decision. munity question the wisdom of asking mountain the best, they are highly expe- Drug dealers “I accept it, but I want to stop it,” Klaus Kitzler the elite climbers to brave aftershocks rienced,” said Ang Tshering Sherpa, presi- Their lawyer, Julia Morrow, suggested Christine told the judge. “I would love to have a son back and avalanches for the sake of a single dent of Nepal’s mountaineering associa- Kitzler was easily overborne and was submitting to who goes to church with us on Sunday mornings.” summit hopeful. An ice doctor can earn tion. her surgeon’s wishes - just as she had when allow- He repeatedly referred to Christine Kitzler, born in $3,500 in a season, sometimes more in “They are the backbone of moun- ing drug dealers to grow marijuana in her home 1967 as Christopher Klaus Kitzler, as “he” and “son” tips from foreign mountaineers, a large taineering on Everest, all other climbs during college and drifters to crash at a mobile in his testimony. After a judge told him to use femi- sum in a country where the average depend on the initial risk they take.” US home where she lived. Transgender legal activist nine or gender-neutral pronouns, he settled on annual income is about $705. veteran mountaineer and Everest expert Michael Silverman couldn’t recall another case in “that person” before occasionally slipping back into Mountaineering is a huge revenue earn- Alan Arnette said days get shorter and which competency was challenged to halt a gen- masculine phrasing. er for impoverished Nepal, home to colder as winter approaches, making der-reassignment surgery. Klaus Kitzler, an auto technician who emigrated eight of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000 summits less likely. “Spring Everest expe- Silverman, executive director of the from Germany in the 1960s, watched from the meters. ditions have a 66 percent success (rate) Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, gallery as Christine Kitzler testified. When she said Everest alone attracts hundreds of compared to 29 percent in the autumn,” called the tactic extreme and applauded the she hoped her parents would call her by that name climbers during the April to May spring Arnette told AFP. Nevertheless, Japanese judge’s ruling as clearing another hurdle in the way someday, he snickered and whispered “never.” NEPAL : A file picture taken on April 24, 2015 shows trekkers and season, when weather conditions are climber Kuriki said he was determined to climbers making their way up a trail leading to the village of Gorak of transgender people finding their true selves. “They have a daughter. They don’t have a son,” deemed ideal. Ang Dorjee Sherpa, presi- climb in the autumn and hoped to sum- “This is another court recognizing that transgender Christine Kitzler said. “I’ll have the parts. I am a Shep and Everest Base Camp deep in the Kumbhu region of the dent of the Sagarmatha Pollution mit in mid-September. — AFP Sagamartha National Forest. — AFP health care is health care,” Silverman said. “A court woman.” —‚ AP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 H E A L T H & S C I E N C E

Reproductive control can be a form of partner violence WASHINGTON: Intimate partner violence or script is provided by the National Health abuse can take the form of birth control sabo- Resource Center on Domestic Violence in part- tage, pregnancy pressure or coercion, which nership with The American Congress of can have devastating consequences including Obstetricians and Gynecologists that a provider unintended pregnancy, abortion and psycho- can request online, she said. Pediatricians, fami- logical trauma, according to a new review. This ly practitioners, obstetrician/gynecologists, type of intimate partner violence is called ‘repro- internists, and nurse practitioners should all be ductive coercion,’ and health care providers aware of reproductive coercion, she said. should know how to screen for it and intervene Future studies should also investigate if and effectively, the authors write. how men or people in the LGBT community “Ultimately, (reproductive coercion) is about experience reproductive coercion, the authors power and control - the perpetrators get off on write in the American Journal of Obstetrics and that feeling of having complete power over Gynecology. “Intimate partner violence hap- their partners, even to the point of controlling a pens (to women in) all races, socioeconomic bodily function exclusive to women: pregnan- classes, all levels of education,” said Dr Rebekah cy,” said lead author Dr Jeanna Park of the Gee, associate professor of Health Policy and University of Illinois in Chicago. “And although it Management and Obstetrics and Gynecology at seems irrational to threaten, coerce or trick a Louisiana State University, who was not part of woman into acts that lead to pregnancy, perpe- the new review. “It doesn’t spare anyone, and I trators will then often force their partners to ask every single patient.” abort the pregnancy, further perpetuating the cycle of partner violence,” Park told Reuters Being victimized Health by email. Women who are poorly educated, have low RWANDA: Youths dressed in gorilla costumes to represent the newly-named gorillas, entertain the crowd by mimicking the ani- Most often, women are the victims of repro- economic means or rely on partners for income mals’ behavior, at a baby gorilla naming ceremony in Kinigi, northern Rwanda. — AP photos ductive coercion, but men can be victimized as are more vulnerable and have a harder time well, the authors write. It often goes unrecog- leaving or becoming independent, Gee told nized by doctors or victims themselves. Birth Reuters Health by phone. “Providers may sus- control sabotage can include hiding or destroy- pect (reproductive coercion) when a patient has Rwanda names 24 baby mountain ing contraceptive pills, removing vaginal rings, a known history of intimate partner violence, patches or intrauterine devices (IUDs) without a expresses a desire to obtain contraception but partner’s permission, removing or breaking repeatedly loses her prescription or changes her gorillas in annual tradition condoms, or not withdrawing when that was contraceptive method frequently, presents with the agreed upon method of contraception. frequent unintended pregnancies or sexually ‘Wish,’ ‘Power,’ ‘Courage,’ ‘Conviviality’ and ‘Ornament’ Coercion can also include threatening to transmitted infections, or appears apprehensive leave or to hurt a partner who does not agree to of her partner discovering her contraceptive or KINIGI, Rwanda: Youths wearing gorilla police official and a wildlife expert from become pregnant, or who does not agree to pregnancy choices,” Park said. If a patient says costumes and rubber boots grunted and Yale University in the United States, that terminate a pregnancy, depending on the yes, they are being victimized, the next steps scampered in front of Rwanda’s president announced the baby gorilla names. desires of the perpetrator. will depend on where in the country they live on Saturday during the ceremonial nam- Dressed in white shirts and green robes, and what the patient desires-ideally she can ing of 24 baby mountain gorillas in the and carrying beaded sticks, they trailed Domestic violence immediately be referred to a shelter or social African country, where the critically the actors in gorilla suits across a wooden Between 15 and 25 percent of women may services, Gee said. But this process can be com- endangered animals live in volcano-stud- walkway strewn with straw and decorated experience reproductive coercion at some plicated and take hours to sort out, and those ded forests that are visited by increasing with flowers. point, according to other studies. “Screening hours are not reimbursed by insurance compa- numbers of foreign tourists. can be performed in conjunction with, or inde- nies, she noted. If a woman chooses to stay with The young gorillas, whose families are Promote tourism pendent of, intimate partner violence screening the perpetrator, discrete methods of contracep- closely monitored by trackers and The names bestowed on the gorillas with an open ended question like, “what chal- tion that are less susceptible to tampering, such researchers, were in their wild habitat and included the words for “Wish,” “Power,” lenges have you had with your current or previ- as an intrauterine device, subdermal implant or not at the naming event in Kinigi, a village “Courage,” “Conviviality” and “Ornament” ous contraceptive methods?’” Park said. contraceptive injection should be discussed, near the entrance to Rwanda’s Volcanoes in the Rwandan language. The Rwandan A more detailed screening and assessment Park said. — Reuters National Park. But thousands of people, government hopes the naming ceremo- including students, soldiers, villagers and ny, which began in 2005 and is based on a diplomats, gathered there to celebrate similar tradition among Rwandans, will the threatened population of mountain highlight the importance of protecting Arthritis may be worse in poor gorillas, whose image adorns numerous mountain gorillas as well as promote the RWANDA: Youths dressed in gorilla costumes to represent the newly- countries but seem worse in rich ones sculptures in Rwanda as well as a national tourism industry, which brought in more named gorillas. currency banknote. than $300 million last year and is the NEW YORK: A study of people with rheumatoid daily functioning over the past week, such as dress- Against the backdrop of cloud-cov- country’s top foreign currency earner. with the right mechanism to ensure that spans Volcanoes National Park as well as arthritis (RA) finds that those in wealthy nations are ing and grooming, eating, walking, hygiene, ered volcanic peaks, people waved little Researchers also refer to the names to protection is there for all.” parks in neighboring Uganda and the more troubled by it, even though people in poor errands and chores. They also rated their own over- blue, green and yellow national flags and identify gorillas and their families while Kagame thanked the crowd for their Democratic Republic of Congo. More countries have more severe symptoms. The results, all disease state and level of fatigue. Patients in presidential bodyguards scanned the conducting studies in the wild. involvement in protecting the mountain mountain gorillas live in a separate area tallied from 17 countries, suggest that cultural fac- Morocco had an average of 6.7 swollen joints, the open-air venue as President Paul Kagame The key is to convince Rwandan com- gorillas, and also said people should take of Uganda. The number of mountain tors may influence patients’ perception of their ill- highest count, those in the Netherlands averaged spoke from a dais, delighting conserva- munities that they will benefit from sup- advantage of security in Rwanda to work gorillas, defined as a gorilla subspecies, ness, and possibly even the results of clinical trials 0.9, representing the lowest count. Patients in poor- tionists who see small, landlocked porting conservation, senior tourism offi- hard. Led by Kagame since 2000, Rwanda dropped dramatically in the last century in different locations, researchers say. er countries, on average, had higher levels of Rwanda as a model for other African cial Yamina Karitanyi said in an interview has had strong economic growth in because of poaching, disease and “Such differences are worrisome as they clearly inflammation. countries struggling to preserve their with The Associated Press. Five percent of recent years, brightening the prospects of human encroachment. The total popula- point to avoidable (not caused by biologic or But patients’ rating of their average daily func- wildlife in the face of increased poaching revenues from Rwanda’s national parks a country that was devastated by geno- tion of mountain gorillas is currently an genetic factors) health inequities,” lead study tioning was worst in Taiwan, one of the wealthier and human encroachment on animal are invested in schools and other commu- cide in 1994. The fortunes of Rwanda’s estimated 900. However, the population author Polina Putrik of Maastricht University nations. On a scale of 0 to 3, with lower scores indi- habitats. “It’s really a showcase, the way nity projects, she said. “It’s a joint effort. mountain gorillas are also improving, in the Virunga Massif is growing at a rate Medical Center in the Netherlands said by email. cating greater impairment, average scores were 0.7 they’re working, because you have buy-in We work with them every day,” Karitanyi though the situation is delicate. of about 4 percent a year, said Dr Mike Rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease, in Taiwan and 1.5 in the Netherlands. Venezuela, from the highest political level,” said Allan said. She acknowledged that juggling the Cranfield, co-director of Gorilla Doctors, affects the joints, connective tissues, muscle, ten- the third-poorest country on the list, had the low- Carlson, a Swedish conservationist who needs of people and wildlife is difficult, Human population a group that provides medical care to dons and fibrous tissue, causing pain and deformi- est fatigue scores at 1.7 on a scale of zero to 10, was in a group, including a Rwandan saying: “We have got to work to come up They live in the Virunga Massif, which the apes. . — AP ty. According to the World Health Organization, RA compared to the Netherlands, the second-wealthi- strikes 0.3 to 1 percent of the population. “Patients est country, with an average fatigue score of 5. experience a lot of anxiety about the future, the unpredictable course of their disease, side effects Social roles of medication and loss of social roles,” Putrik said. The differences between wealthier and poor- Previous studies have found international differ- er countries remained significant even after ences in patients’ perception of their disease, but patient age, gender, education, other chronic dis- it’s unclear how those perceptions align with dis- eases and medications were taken into account. ease severity, she and her colleagues say. Putrik’s team says patients might view their dis- As reported in Annals of the Rheumatic ease as worse in higher income countries Diseases, the researchers studied 3,920 RA patients because of a combination of expectations and in countries with widely varying gross domestic culture. “On the one hand, in richer countries, the products, ranging from the US (the richest) to best rheumatoid arthritis care is more accessible Morocco (the poorest). The average patient was 56; and patients may have over-optimistic expecta- most were women. Doctors counted their tender tions of the treatment,” Putrik said. “On the other and swollen joints, tested blood to measure inflam- hand . . . patients may also experience higher mation and made an overall assessment of the pressure in terms of performing many social roles patient’s disease on a scale ranging from “inactive” (family, work, social life) and therefore feel less RWANDA: Residents from the local community attend a baby gorilla RWANDA: A baby mountain gorilla is held by its mother, on Mount to “severe.” Patients answered questions about their satisfied with their health state.” — Reuters naming ceremony. Bisoke volcano in Volcanoes National Park, northern Rwanda. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

New Look launches newest trendiest 4th store in Kuwait at Promenade Mall

s part of its strategy to strengthen the brands position in Kuwait, New Look, Athe leading fast fashion retailer expand- ed its presence in Kuwait with the launch of its fourth outlet at Promenade Mall, Hawally. The lavish new store has a summer collec- tion focusing on striking prints with animal magnetism. The collection is designed to high- light the joy of dressing up. Patterned and lace separates are accentuated with gold embell- ishments and accessories. Silhouettes are easy and relaxed to reflect the high summer season. The collection revolves around maxi dress- es and wide flowing trousers in leopard print, sleek neutrals or gilded brocade. Highlight pieces include lacy or embellished waterfall jackets and cover-ups. Design details are incorporated in a sequined top or a dress embroidered in metallic thread, perfect for a festive gathering. Accessories further complement the extrav- ence. Over the years we have grown and this conscious customers the latest collections agant looks, in jewelled clutches, translucent expansion encompasses our commitment to with the highest standards of service in a spa- box bags and heels adorned with bows or cov- our discerning fashion conscious customers in cious and trendy location. We will continue ered in metallic gold and pewter. They bring Kuwait”. with such extensive expansions in the com- together an overall look that is both on-trend “New Look is now present in four key shop- ing years and try to serve our customers in and indulgent, perfect for the season. ping areas of Kuwait (The Avenues, Al Bairaq every possible manner” concluded Basu. Mall , Al Salam Mall and now in Promenade Shopping at New Look is an experience in Strategic expansion Mall), which makes us more accessible and effi- itself. From trendy fashion looks to inspiring Speaking at the launch of the new store cient in customer service delivery. Our proximi- accessories, the store is designed for easy Saibal Basu, Chief Operating Officer, Landmark ty allows us to provide the customers with the browsing and colorful display areas. Group Kuwait said, “Strategic expansion has latest update on trends, sales and promotions. Discover more about New Look Middle always played an important role in New Look’s The launch in Hawally will allow us to deliver East on Facebook, follow New Look on growth strategy ever since the launch of its first on our promise to deliver premium services Twitter, watch our latest style videos on New store in Kuwait in 2007. We are focused on and ensuring that our customers are well taken Look Middle East You Tube channel or get aggressively expanding our presence through care of by well-trained, vibrant and energetic your dose of style news and inspiration from new retail outlets that bring us closer to our staff.” following New Look Middle East on customers and provide an enriched experi- “We are committed to provide fashion Instagram.

College, hotel collaborate to deliver English course

lgonquin College - Kuwait and The College’s partnership with forming with Kuwaiti organizations, the Al-Jahra Copthorne Hotel the Al-Jahra Copthorne Hotel and companies and government depart- Aand Resort worked together Resort - which is part of the land- ments as it explores better ways to to deliver a much-needed ‘English mark 450,000 square meter “Slayil Al serve the needs of Kuwait’s many Booster’ course in Jahra and the Jahra Resort” in Jahra - is one of communities, including the results were a spectacular success. many partnerships the College is Governorate of Jahra. Alaa Selim, Manager of the Hotel said “The College wanted to deliver an English course to serve the needs of the Jahra community and we were very pleased to offer our facili- ties and services.” “This is an excellent example of two organizations working together to serve our community,” noted Algonquin College-Kuwait President Dr David McHardy. “There were adults in the Jahra community who wanted to improve their English in order to attend College or University or for use at work. We had a curricu- lum and wonderful teachers and the hotel had a lovely room to use as a classroom and could provide deli- cious coffee and cakes. All of us - including the students - committed Icsk Amman Students’ ourselves to making the course work and the result was a great course, improved English skills, and every- outstanding achievements one satisfied with the outcomes. It could not have worked out better.” Algonquin College - Kuwait is wo students of the Indian -’Ignite 2015’ organized by Science organized by the popular news por- Kuwait’s first Canadian College. It Community School Kuwait, International Forum (SIF) Kuwait. The tal indiansinkuwait.com (IIK). The Amman, have performed theme given for this year was ‘A unique contest was part of their spe- offers full-time and part-time pro- T grams in English, Business and IT. Its exceedingly well in competitions Journey to Mars’ and hundreds of cial supplement ‘Tiranga’ to com- organized by different organizations students from 16 Indian Schools of memorate India’s’ Independence brand-new state-of-the-art campus of Kuwait. Kuwait had enthusiastically partici- Day. is conveniently located just off the Master Efrem Joseph Charles of pated in the contest. The Principal of ICSK Amman 6th Ring Road in Al-Naseem (just Class VI was declared as the In another achievement, Afreen Rajesh Nair C applauded the winners west of Saud Al Abdullah City) and it Outstanding Performer (Sub Junior Shaikh of Class IX was awarded third for their efforts and commendable is currently enrolling students for category) in the writing competition price in the drawing competition performance. the fall semester. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

GUST President Professor Donald Bates Guest Speaker Shuaib Rashid Head of OSL Anwar Al-Sabah Fahad Al-Khalifa Internal Scholarship Office Director

Students at the orientation A scene from the campus tour GUST, PUC welcome freshmen at annual orientation

ulf University for Science and Technology this world - and we are here to help you do Among the PUC’s responsibilities is determin- commitment to academic quality with interna- Center gave the students an inside look into (GUST) hosted its annual student orien- that. We are honored to have the Private ing accreditation requirements for all private tional standards. Today, we are thrilled to wel- the services including academic advising, Gtation at its conference center last Universities Council as part of our orientation universities, reviewing performance to ensure come a new group of our students to university learning support and counseling; assuring Wednesday. Organized by the Office of Student this year. GUST and the PUC have enjoyed a commitment to the provisions of the universi- life and wish them the best of luck and success.” them that the Center is available to help Life (OSL) before the start of every fall semester, long-standing partnership where we’ve ties’ founding decree and providing scholar- In attendance, guest speaker Shuaib Rashid, through any situation. The Foundation the orientation allows students to get all the worked together for the benefit and enrich- ships to students within standards set by the emphasized to the students the importance of Program also introduced their unit, its opera- information they need to start their academic ment of our students.” council. During the orientation, PUC represen- a college experience in shaping your skills, tions, the benefits of taking foundation cours- year with confidence and ensure a smooth tran- The event was also attended by Dr Sabah tatives discussed the roles and procedures of character and confidence for the future. New es, and the best ways for students to excel in sition into their new academic journey. Al-Quaddoomi, VP of Academic Services, Dr the PUC Scholarship Office as well as the students also had the visit with GUST’s depart- the program in order to move on to their aca- Welcoming the students, GUST President, Salah Al-Sharhan, VP of Academic Affairs and processes and timelines for the social ments and learn more about all the services demic courses. Professor Donald Bates said, “I want each and distinguished Private Universities Council allowance. available to them. During the orientation, the The orientation concluded with a campus every one of you to consider this place, GUST, (PUC) representatives: Fahad Al-Khalifa, Dr Habib Abul, Secretary General of the Admission and Registration Department tour where students also enjoyed a live violin- your second home. It is here that you will dis- Director of the Internal Scholarship Office, Private Universities Council said, “We are explained some of the important procedures ist, and a caricature artist who drew portraits as cover yourself and figure out who you want to Aljawhara Al-Ghaith, Social Allowance Auditor, adamant on creating a healthy learning envi- for class registration, add and drop, and their a memento of their first of many evenings at be and how you want to make a difference in and Noura Al-Dhubaibi, Public Relations Office. ronment that is in line with our objectives and advisor procedures. The Student Success GUST.

Founder’s Day celebrations held at Bhavan Kuwait

appiness does not come from doing Council, and Kalyani Mukherjee added grace my, Bhavan’s Rhythmscapes, transcended the available to them and grow professionally for who forsook the luxury of their birthday cele- easy work but from the afterglow of to the 9th Founder’s Day Celebrations. norms of aesthetic perfection and thereby the benefit of the society. His exhortation to brations as requested by the school manage- Hsatisfaction that comes with the transfixed the audience. The iridescent colors, ‘make a difference’ was reciprocated with ment in an attempt to sensitize them to the achievement of seemingly difficult tasks that Festivities the sheer elegance of dramatis personae rounds of applause. needs of the less-privileged and mentally demanded our best. Reveling in the glow of The cultural evening was solemnized and truthfully and carefully portrayed by the prodi- challenged children. The gesture was well- achievements, Bhavan (Indian Educational sanctified with a prayer song rendered by the gious performers set against the backdrop of Reflections accepted by the parent community and the School) family celebrated the 9th Founder’s minstrels of IES. The ceremonial lamp was then the ‘Kurukshetra’ battlefield and sassy sound Rajni Menon (Head of Bhavan’s Pearl amount was raised within a few months. Day splendidly in the school auditorium on 04 conjointly lit by Rodha Mahmood, N K effects set the school auditorium on fire. The Nursery, Rawdah) briefed the audience on Mahmood thanked the parents, students, September, 2015 as a mark of reverence to the Ramachandran Menon, Sudha auditorium reverberated with ‘encore’ from the the new venture of Bhavan. Jyoti Fatima, teachers and the management for their phil- founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan institutions Ramachandran, Sooraj Ramchandran, and T audience and the performers as well as the (HoD, French) recollected the initial days of anthropic and humanitarian help extended in the Middle East, N K Ramachandran Menon. Premkumar. choreographers were rightly rewarded with a IES. They attributed the success of Bhavan to to the less-fortunate children in general and The proud privilege to welcome the gather- standing ovation for the splendid ballet ‘The the educational philosophy of its founder N K the chairman in particular amid thunderous Founder and his philosophy ing was vested upon Lalitha Premkumar, the Geethopadesha.’ Ramachandran Menon, an exemplary educa- applause. Bhavan family celebrates Founder’s Day Vice Principal, KG and Primary wings. The floral A magical show by a young Bhavanite tional philosopher, and its committed staff every year to reavow their dedication to the bouquets of love, reverence and appreciation namely Aaditya Abdul of grade IV mesmerized under the leadership of T Premkumar, one of Felicitations guiding principles of Bhavan as envisioned by were extended to the guests and special invi- the audience. A musical rendition by the tal- the most successful principals in the Middle In honor of their enthusiastic efforts, the far-sighted visionary N.K.Ramachandran tees by the school supreme council members. ented twin brothers Kishore Raja and Kishan East region. members of the staff were felicitated with Menon, chairman, Bhavans Middle East, who The main attraction of the mega event was Raja (Grade 12), with Adwait Rajesh (Grade 7), Gopika Murali of grade 8 and Aju Paul, a mementos and certificates for completing introduced value-based education in the the concoction of cultural events - a magical and Neorah Sony (Grade 7) was indeed soul- pioneer parent of IES, expressed their views five years of exemplary service, for offering Arabian Peninsula in the year 2006 with the potion of dance, drama, music and many more soothing. They were accompanied on the on the ‘Midas Touch’ of the chairman as well their services as coordinators and for regular- inception of Bhavan Kuwait, the maiden ven- presented with sheer grace and enchanting drum pad and the ‘veena’ by Master Mihir Raj as the dedication of the teachers. Ebey ity in attendance. Austin Antony (HoD, ture of Menon who firmly believes that educa- charm. The students and staff displayed their (Grade 7) and Sijitha Rajesh respectively. Samuel, the spouse of Asha Ebey (HoD Comp Physics), Asha Ebey (HoD, Computer Science) tion without inculcating values is futile. The finest flairs in front of an enthusiastic audience The culmination of the cultural fiesta was Science) shared with the audience the pain and Anita Sadananda (Vice Principal, Senior private education scenario in the Middle East comprising parents, pedagogues, pupils and marked with a fantabulous folk ‘rangoli’ dance that the teachers take to live up to the expec- Wing, HoD, Commerce) who made the school remained unacquainted with this philosophy the family of the staff members of IES. An invo- performance ‘dhitang dhitang nache’ from the tations of the students, the parents and the proud by tirelessly preparing and producing until Bhavan institutions were brought to the cation dance staged by the sprouting talents state of West Bengal by the versatile teachers management and the emotional support that toppers in Kuwait were also awarded certifi- arid shores of GCC. Bhavan’s philosophy met of Bhavan, performed in the style of ‘Kerala much to the awe and appreciation of the audi- their spouses ought to give them. A docu- cates of appreciation for their dynamism and immediate success and today Bhavan houses Nadanam’, garnered tons of appreciation from ence. mentary about ‘Life at Bhavan, from a sincerity. more than 10,000 students across the GCC. the audience. T Premkumar, Principal, in the presence of teacher’s perspective’ was also screened. T Premkumar, principal, IES proposed the The presence of eminent personalities, The icing on the cake indeed was a spec- the Vice Principals and the heads of Bhavan’s vote of thanks. Mary Christiane and Omaira Rodha Mahmood, the Chairperson , tacular balletic portrayal of ‘The Nursery Schools, on behalf of the Bhavan fra- Charity begins at home Aslam were the emcees for the day. Curtains Foundation of Hope, Sooraj Ramachandran, Geethopadesha’. The epic was enlivened by ternity, presented a token of reverential grati- An amount of KD 800 was presented to on the 9th Founder’s Day were drawn with a the Director, Bhavan Middle East, Abu Dhabi, the most talented students of Bhavan’s tude to N K Ramachandran Menon, the chair- Rhoda Mahmood, the Chairperson, sumptuous buffet dinner hosted by the Dr Binumon, Principal , ICSK and Convener of Rhythmscapes. More than 30 performers care- man, Bhavans Middle East. Menon exhorted Foundation of Hope, by the school chairman. school chairman in honor of the parents, the Kuwait Chapter of the Gulf cooperation fully sifted by the trainers of the dance acade- the staff to utilize the immense opportunities The amount was raised by the students of IES invitees and the guests. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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

It feels as if you have one last chance to revisit your childhood to salvage You’re standing on shaky ground today, and aren’t so sure of your next move. something meaningful you left behind. Perhaps you set aside some artistic Nevertheless, it’s time to take the lessons you’ve learned over the past six weeks pursuit or creative pastime as you grew up and were told to be more and put them to good use. Trusting your feelings to steer you in the right direc- responsible. Surprisingly, resurrecting an old hobby can bring a deep sense tion now gives you a chance to take a stand about something important. of emotional fulfillment no matter how many years have gone by. True Although social alliances appear to be changing, your foundation is strongest expressions of the soul are not bound by time, space or matter. when you speak from your heart.

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

You know that you should be planning for your future now, however, you All this time you’ve been working in the dark and finally, you can see the light at can’t help but take one more stroll down Memory Lane to replay the good the end of the tunnel. You have been applying yourself diligently without even times you’ve shared with friends and family. However, the trick is to a glimpse of the ultimate destination. But now, the horizon is growing visible remember there are just as many wonderful experiences ahead. Instead of through the lifting clouds and your anticipation grows by leaps and bounds. getting stuck in the past today, put your mind to creating special occasions Share your dreams with others while magnetic Venus is attracting people of with the ones you love in the present moment that will grow into future importance to your 10th House of Status. There’s no reason to compromise memories down the road. Gratitude is evergreen. your goals when you are so close to achieving them.

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

You want to spend time reliving the glory days but your past might not What seemed next-to-impossible just last week now seems highly likely. It’s 4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made ACROSS actually be as awesome as you remember it. You may have blown the tempting to take people’s stories at face value, especially when it’s more fun to 1. Pan with a convex bottom. from aba cloth. events out of proportion over time, but they seem so real to you now. disregard the details and focus on the big picture today. However, you might 4. Cause to be more favorably inclined. 5. A tricycle (usually propelled by ped- think that heading out on your own would be a good idea until you remember 11. A detailed description of design criteria alling). Nevertheless, you are eager to talk about your recollections and could even hope to reconnect with old friends from college or even your childhood how entangled your life is with everyone else’s. Fortunately, you can pull off a for a piece of work. 6. Grammatical number category referring major coup with just a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work. Cross your fingers 15. Any of various primates with short tails to two or more items or units. pals. Reaching out to reminisce is a lovely diversion on a Sunday afternoon; and hope for the best. or no tail at all. 7. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age pick up the phone and just say hello. 16. Someone employed as an errand boy who defeated Thor in a wrestling match. and luggage carrier around hotels. 8. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk). 17. Great in vertical dimension. 9. A chronic drinker. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 18. A young woman making her debut into 10. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an infor- society. mal term for `eye'). 19. Flatter in an obsequious manner. 11. Workplace for the teaching or practice You still may be hooked on old tapes when it comes to receiving love and You’re not typically all that comfortable letting others take care of you, but 20. A powerful operating system devel- of an art. money. But you need to remember that’s how you lived in the past. Now, as recently you spent a considerable amount of time reassessing your relationships. oped at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. 12. Someone who procures customers for sweet Venus is turning direct, it’s time to break habits that no longer serve You can’t help but notice how much others want to help you and it fills you with 21. Someone who works (or provides work- whores (in England they call a pimp a you well. Focusing on your lack of resources does nothing to enhance your intense gratitude. Instead of seeing your vulnerability as a weakness, it’s time to ers) during a strike. ponce). see it as a strength. Your reevaluation phase is over; accept support when offered bank account. If you’re always fretting about the scarcity in your life, you’ll 23. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and 13. English essayist (1775-1834). — emotional, physical or fiscal — and return the favor when given a chance. never feel the abundance around you. Prosperity starts as a state of mind. erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers 14. Being ten more than one hundred sixty. composed of three petals and three droop- 22. An imaginary elephant that appears in ing sepals. a series of French books for children. 25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a sin- 24. United States writer (born in Poland) Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) gle ovary having one or many seeds within who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). a fleshy wall or pericarp. 26. A white metallic element that burns 27. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree with a brilliant light. You have waited for this day long enough. Even though your life might not radi- You can see the love that’s shining all around you where only recently you widely grown in mild climates as an orna- 28. King of England who was renounced by cally change today, it feels like the tables are finally turning in your direction. felt there was little to be found. Oddly enough, it’s possible that nothing has mental for its heart-shaped leaves and fra- Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar You can sense something different in the atmosphere, as if a weight has been changed — except you and what your heart wants. Rehashing an old issue grant yellow-green flowers followed by (died in 959). lifted. However, you’re not quite ready to put on your dancing shoes just yet; may be particularly cathartic now, especially if you go back to make amends. hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red 30. Of or relating to George Boole or his your emotions are sinking into more serious realms now as you ask important It’s amazing how much healing can occur with just a simple apology. As berries. logic. questions. But once you have your answers, you will be good to go. Shakespeare wrote, “A light heart lives long.” 29. The blood group whose red cells carry 33. Swelling from excessive accumulation both the A and B antigens. of serous fluid in tissue. 31. Any of numerous local fertility and 34. At right angles to the length of a ship or nature deities worshipped by ancient airplane. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) Semitic peoples. 36. A platform raised above the surround- 32. Absence of the pupil in an eye. ing level to give prominence to the person 35. A member of a pastoral people living in on it. Your ability to remain rational grows weaker when confronted by the emotions You’re ready to break old patterns that prevent you from experiencing love the Nilgiri hills of southern India. 37. American professional baseball player of someone who matters to your heart. Unfortunately, your recent sacrifices as fully as possible. You’re tired of running into the same old ghosts that keep 38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity. who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth might have tilted the scales too far in another person’s favor. Although gentle reappearing as long as you don’t fully address your fears. Thankfully, your 39. Showing characteristics of age, espe- (born in 1934). Venus is turning direct in your 12th House of Soul Consciousness, spiritual love cially having gray or white hair. relationships take on a whole new vibration if you’re willing to learn from 40. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is may not be a satisfactory substitute for romantic love. Nevertheless, the emo- 44. American prizefighter who won the your past mistakes. To err is human; to forgive is divine. a British term). tional tides are shifting and your compassionate attitude could pay off with sur- world heavyweight championship three 41. Support column consisting of a steel prising results. times (born in 1942). cylinder filled with concrete. 47. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous 42. A comedian who uses gags. perennials. 43. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 49. A person who rescues you from harm Greek mythology. or danger. 45. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug 51. A single symbol that represents an (trade name Clinoril). entire word or phrase. 46. The branch of engineering science that 52. A silvery ductile metallic element found studies the uses of electricity and the primarily in bauxite. equipment for power generation and dis- 53. A large oven for firing or burning or tribution and the control of machines and drying such things as porcelain or bricks. communication. 55. A benevolent aspect of Devi. 48. The taste experience when vinegar or 56. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili pep- lemon juice is taken into the mouth. pers or chili powder often with tomatoes 50. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) and kidney beans. 59. Make amends for. used as an oral or parenteral calcium block- 63. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their er in cases of hypertension or congestive language or culture. heart failure or angina or migraine. 67. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa. 54. A peninsula in southwestern Europe. 68. The amount a salary is increased. 57. United States golfer who won many 70. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of major golf tournaments (born in 1912). rubberized fabric. 58. An iconic mental representation. 71. 10 grams. 60. A cricket ball bowled as if to break one 72. Asiatic epithet for Rhea or Cybele. way that actually breaks in the opposite 74. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- way. cially in Turkey). 61. The beach at a seaside resort. 75. The compass point midway between 62. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order northeast and east. Cycadales. 76. A genus of Picidae. 64. The villain in William Shakespeare's 77. A master's degree in education. tragedy who tricked Othello into murder- ing his wife. DOWN 65. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or 1. A large number or amount. ship for attaching mooring lines). 2. An organization of countries formed in 66. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a 1961 to agree on a common policy for the mosque. sale of petroleum. 69. Of southern Europe. 3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on 73. A metric unit of volume equal to one a skewer usually with vegetables. tenth of a liter. Yesterday’s Solution

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The ‘Drunk In Love’ hitmaker will report- Bedly record the producer’s single ‘Lose It All (Runnin’)’ which has been removed from YouTube after Beyonce said she wanted to have it for herself. The insider said: “Bey called him to discuss the track and it’s thought she will record her vocals in the next couple of weeks.” The producer hit the headlines back in July when former One Direction star Zayn Malik hit out at him on Twitter branding him a “fat joke” following sev- eral months together in the studio where they had been working on the 22-year-old singer’s debut solo album. But Bey doesn’t seem put off by his falling out with Zayn and is even persuading her husband Jay Z to sign him to his record label Roc Nation. A music indus- try insider told The Sun newspaper: “Naughty Boy’s track ‘La La La’ became a worldwide hit and it managed to catch the attention of Jay Z.”The rapper personally is the ‘worst pop star’ is the ‘worst invited him to the Roc Nation pre-Grammy brunch in February and expressed his interest then over signing Naughty Boy up to his label. They then also met for a chat at the Hotel Bel Air in Beverly Hills. “Jay is always keen on supporting British talent and has signed the likes of Rita [Ora] and Alexa Goddard. He knows that if he manages to get Naughty Boy he will have a huge star on his hands. “Beyonce played a major role in the

Horan talks with Naughty Boy and they have formed a close friendship. She shares Jay’s belief in Naughty Boy’s tal- ents and has expressed an interest in working on a track together.” iall Horan thinks he is the “worst pop star my heart pounding.” In contrast, both Liam Payne that ever walked the planet”. The One and Louis Tomlinson are daredevils who like to try NDirection star will go on an extended hia- new things. Liam said: “I like to think I’m a bit of a tus with the group next March but has admitted daredevil at heart - Louis and I jumped off a tower he isn’t very adventurous and claims the wildest in Las Vegas, it was really scary.” Louis added to Bernard Sumner: New Order ‘never’ split thing he ever does is play golf. He said: “I’m not Top of the Pops magazine: “I like to have fun. I very daring, I’m all about a gentle game of golf. don’t think you should be held back by being too I’m actually quite boring and probably the worst scared to do certain things. “I’d love to swim with pop star that ever walked the planet.” And his sharks or chill with lions. I think that would be ernard Sumner insists New Order have “never” split bandmate Harry Styles admitted he is equally not really cool.” up. The ‘Blue Monday’ singer says the group have very rock and roll. He said: “I’m really not adven- Benjoyed a number of lengthy hiatuses but never turous. Sitting down with a cup of tea is what gets officially called it a day, despite former bassist Peter Hook proclaiming they had disbanded following his departure in 2007. Bernard said: “Not true. We never did split up. We’ve had long, long periods off but we never officially packed it in. And it’s not really for Hooky to split The Vamps’ Tristan the band up on his own, is it? It’s not his decision.” The 59-year-old musician admitted he has been a “miserable” in the past, but thinks his former bandmate should have been more understanding of his reasons for not touring Evans a ‘pest’ at school more. He told Q magazine: “To be fair, I think he thought I was being a miserable at the time and I probably was. He wanted us to tour more. “But I didn’t want to get he Vamps’ Tristan Evans was a “pest” at school. The 21-year-old drummer admits he was sucked into the touring atmosphere of drinking too constantly in trouble when he was younger and received “detention upon detention” for much and we had health issues at home. I needed to be This bad behavior. He said: “I was a pest. I was really hyperactive, would talk back to the around to support my family and he knew that. “It teacher and speak to my friends when we were supposed to be working. “I did a lot of bad became very competitive - one-way competitive. Hooky things. I was rude and couldn’t be bothered to do my homework. I got kicked out of class all and I have got very different personalities and I don’t the time and I even smashed a few windows playing football. I got detention upon detention.” think we’re meant to share the same space.” While Tristan was a bad boy, his bandmate James McVey rarely got into trouble and even made friends with his teachers. He said:” I was too good to get into any big trouble. When I wore my black converse I always got told off. Teachers hate it, but I only got a warning. “By the end of school I’d become friends with most of the teachers and did what I was told.” Mullen Jr wants U2 Both Brad Simpson and Connor Ball confessed they mainly ran into trou- ble because of their laziness. Connor said: “I never had a detention but I to play smaller gigs was lazy. I did all my homework on the bus on the way to school. “It was arry Mullen Jr thinks U2 need to get smaller. The 53-year-old a long journey though, about 45 rocker thinks it would be “so cool” if the group took time off to minutes, so that’s OK, isn’t it?” Brad Lplay cover versions for “fun” and then shunned their usual stadi- added to Top of the Pops magazine: um shows in favour of intimate club gigs - though he also admits it “I wasn’t a naughty child but I did get could lead to the end of the band. He said: “When this tour is over, we lots of detentions for being late. I should set off on a trip where we learn how to play other people’s hated getting out of bed in the songs for fun and then go back and record an album with what we’ve morning - and I still do.” learned.”Just as an experiment. Go back to clubs you were really fit in and be good in there. “We actually need to go backwards. Benjamin Button is where we’re at. I mean, it could be the end of the band but it would be so cool.” And frontman Bono hinted the new direction could be a realistic possibility for the band. He told Q magazine: “People say, ‘You love Neil Young and Radiohead and their intimacies, so why can’t you just be privately rather than publicly ambitious? And we’ll have to look at it. I am asking a few fundamental questions. “We’ve been playing stadiums now for about 30 years. Bit mad. “This is like being in Arsenal in 1985 and you’re still going for the Loaf’s new musical direction Champions League now. With the same team! But then you get a hint from the universe saying there’s a cost.” eat Loaf’s new LP is “completely different’ from anything he’s released before. The ‘Bat Out of Hell’ hitmaker believes that as soon as fans hear the forthcoming Mrecord ‘Braver Than We Are’, their mouths are “gonna hang open” right from the first song. He said: “Anything else that’s out there right now. There are a couple of normal rock pieces but, for the most part, it’s completely different. “When you hear the opening track, your mouth’s gonna hang open. You’re either gonna take the CD and throw it Banks wants a against the wall, or you’re going to go, ‘I gotta see what’s coming next.’” The 67-year-old musician also shared more details about the tracks, admitting most are quite “long” and his belief that the opening song is “pretty wild”. He told Billboard magazine: “The first song Genesis reunion people will either love or despise, which is the way I like it. The opening number is pretty wild. It’s not long; the second song is long, and the third song is really long, and the fourth song is kind of long, and then the fifth song goes into a ‘down and out kind of guy,’ and ... ony Banks would “love” a Genesis reunion. The keyboard what’s the sixth song? I can’t remember past that.” player insists he will “never say never” to getting back togeth- Ter with his bandmates, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and potentially original singer Peter Gabriel, but the only thing stop- ping them is Phil is “not quite able” to play the drums like “he did in the past”. Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz t (at the Progressive Music Awards 2015 at the Underglobe below ‘Old fashioned’ Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, Tony said: “I’d love to say that we are, but I know nothing of it. “It’s never a problem for me really. Mike and I see each other a songwriters Disclosure lot and we are always up for any- thing really. The problem really is isclosure write songs the “old fashioned” way. The electronic Phil is not quite able to do what he duo - made up of brothers Guy 24, and Howard, 21 - rose to did in the past, but we never say prominence with electronic hits such as ‘White Noise’ and D never.” The 65-year-old musician - ‘Latch’, which featured with Sam Smith, from their debut LP ‘Settle’ but who was honoured at the ceremo- confessed they are actually prefer the traditional approach to making ny with the Prog God title - thinks music and always start their songs on a piano. Guy explained: “We it would be great to play the same write in a very old-fashioned way with Howard and Jimmy (Napes, set they did in 2007 on the ‘Turn It their songwriting partner) around a piano, which is a relatively quick On Again’ tour. Tony is adamant process. It’s the post-production that takes longer. That’s the bit where just because they are “getting a bit I really concentrate and take a long time on the detail.” And the pair older” a reunion is still a possibility have taken even more of an instrumental approach to their second because they “all get on” still. He studio album ‘Caracal’. Guy added in an interview with The Sun news- explained: “Despite what you paper: “We’ve approached this album like a band - writing the songs might read sometimes we all get and using vocalists, not samples.” Since the success of ‘Settle’ the broth- on. I’d love to do the tour we did ers have got to meet a host of music legends and superstar pop peers before in 2007 with Daryl but they never get star-struck. Howard said: “After the Grammys we Stuermer and Chester Thompson. had a party in the Hollywood Hills and Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran We are all getting a bit older, but were there and it was fine.”Once you meet them, you realize they are we are all still alive.” just normal people. “Before I met Sting, I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Sting!’ And then I met him and it was like, ‘Oh, he’s just a nice guy.’ “ LIFESTYLE37 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 Gossip

Patrick Harris wants to host Oscars again eil Patrick Harris would love to host the Oscars again. The 42-year-old actor presented the prestigious awards ceremony in Los Angeles earli- Ner this year and admits he would definitely be up for the challenge if he’s approached to do it a second time. The former ‘How I Met Your Mother’ star said: “I knew what I was getting into. It’s a beast, but I’d love to do it again if I was asked!” The four-time Emmy winner is gearing up for the launch of his new live weekly variety series, ‘Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris,’ on NBC later this month and claims it’s a dream come true. He explained: “You’ll get to see a bunch of cool things. It’s essentially showing audiences six or seven shows simultaneously. There are singing-competition shows and there are dancing-competition shows already. I didn’t think there was room in the world for another version of that. “I’m going to be pranking celebrities... I went and photobombed a wedding. It will be fun and, I’m hoping a little bit game changing.” Neil also plans to invite some of his celebrity friends to join him on the show. He told Us Weekly magazine: “We have a celebrity announcer every week. I’m not supposed to say who our first one is, but it rhymes with Peace Mithertroon.”

50 Cent’s junk food binge Washington’s Cent loved eating cookies and cake while watching Jake Gyllenhaal go through intense training for ‘Southpaw’. The rapper stars alongside the actor in boxing 50movie ‘Southpaw’ and enjoyed having the “luxury” of having to gain weight while Jake slimmed down. He said: “I enjoyed myself on the set. Jake did a great job, he really slimmed himself down. People say that they can’t get rid of five pounds for the summer, you dance parties know what I’m saying? “I had to put on weight for my role. I had the luxury of cookies. I enjoyed myself. While he was going through intense training, I was having cookies and cake.” erry Washington has dance parties with her daugh- The 40-year-old rapper was previously approached to star in a movie with Eminem and could- ter. The ‘Scandal’ actress loves grooving around the n’t believe his friend turned down a huge pay deal for what seemed like an easy job. He told Q Khouse with 16-month-old Isabelle - her first child magazine: “I remember I flew from LA to Detroit to talk to Em about a movie. It was a film with husband Nnamdi Asomugha - to the youngster’s where we were supposed to be playing two guys from different sides of the tracks. I’m like the favorite songs. She said: “We’re firm believers in at-home head of this gang in Detroit and he’s the head of another gang. “His thing was he didn’t like to dance parties. She has this little Apple radio and for a while leave Detroit, he didn’t tour as often as he could because he didn’t want to come back from our favorite song was ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams, but she tour and have Hailie [his daughter] be grown, you know? So I said, ‘Hey, they want to give you now also likes ‘Uptown Funk’ by Bruno Mars.” The 38-year- eight million dollars to do it and we don’t have to leave Detroit so you can go home every old actress is keen for her daughter to grow up to be com- night.’ “He read the synopsis and was like, ‘It’s cool, but we should do something like ‘The fortable in her own skin and doesn’t want her to have other Warriors’. I said, “The Warriors’? What the hell? Did you just hear me say they want to give you people’s ideas of beauty imposed on her. She said: “I’ll tell eight million dollars and you don’t have to leave Detroit? He didn’t care.” her [when she’s older] that it’s important to not put the val- ue of beauty in other people’s hands.”You have to nurture a relationship with yourself that makes you feel beautiful and not give that power to anyone else.” Though she is comfortable with herself, the ‘Django Unchained’ actress found she felt “pressure” to lose weight after her daughter was born. She told Red magazine: “I remember after my daughter was born thinking there was a lot of pressure about how quickly you could lose the baby weight or not.”It’s like your duchess, Kate. You know, the minute her kids are born we all expect her to be outside the hospital with a perfect blow dry and for her to look effortlessly flaw- less. There’s definitely still a pressure there.”

Craig is the ‘best Bond of all time’ arc Forster thinks Daniel Craig is the “best Bond” of all time. The 45- year-old film-maker - who helmed the 2008 Bond movie ‘Quantum Mof Solace’ - has claimed Daniel has created the best version of the iconic secret agent, ahead of the likes of Sir Sean Connery and Sir Roger Moore. The director, who’s just finished making the new Amazon series ‘Hand of God’, told BANG Showbiz: “I don’t want to be that actor who is filling his shoes, because I think it would be a very difficult task, because I think he has been, for me, the best Bond and he’s just really special.” A number of big names have been linked to the coveted role, including Idris Elba, Eddie Redmayne and Damian Lewis, and earlier this week, Australian actor Hugh has ‘lovely suits Jackman also admitted he would “seriously consider” playing the part. Hugh, Scott 46, said he was approached about taking on the role of the spy 10 years ago before Daniel Craig got the job. He shared: “I sort of have [been asked]. At the time I was just about to do ‘X-Men 2’ and I was like, ‘Ah, I don’t think it’s the and nice desk’ in Spectre right time’. But it was not an easy one to give up.” Season one of the Forster- directed Amazon original series ‘Hand of God’ is available to view on Prime Video now. ndrew Scott has “lovely suits and a nice desk” in ‘Spectre’. The 38-year-old actor admits he is sworn to secrecy about the role he plays in the new James Bond movie Abut revealed he plays the head of the Centre for National Security and his part is linked to exploring the “ethics” of surveillance. He said: “I play the head of an organization called the Centre for National Security. It’s about ethics and how the new world of surveil- lance compares with the old world of surveillance and the tension between them. “And The Hulk cut out of Hardy reveals Ronnie that is officially all I can say. Although I can tell you that I get to have lovely suits and a nice desk.” Andrew also reprises his role as villainous Moriarty in the upcoming ‘Sherlock’ Christmas special and admits it is tough not being able to speak about his work. He said: “I Captain America: make-up routine for Legend seem to be in the habit of doing projects I can’t talk about. Plot is everything in Bond. You om Hardy has revealed it took him over an hour to switch between the roles of don’t want to give the fun away.” But the Irish star did reveal his parents were “delighted” Civil War Ronnie and Reggie Kray for ‘Legend’. The 37-year-old actor portrays both twin broth- by his Bond casting. He told Red magazine: “I was at home when I got the call and rang my Ters - who were notorious London gangsters in the 60s - in the new real life crime film parents right away. They were delighted. I’ve done a lot of experimental theatre, so I say he Hulk has been cut out of ‘Captain America: Civil War’. and he had to don fake teeth, hair and a nose to portray Ronnie compared to his natural I’m doing a play at the Royal Court and they’re like, ‘Oh...’ But everybody has t least heard The iconic comic book character - played by Mark look for Reggie. Hardy and his make-up artist had to master the process quickly because about Bond.” TRuffalo - was originally due to appear in the much- they only had seven weeks to shoot the movie. Speaking at the press conference for the anticipated new Marvel movie, but was ultimately omitted film in London, he said: “It took about an because his comeback story was too big to include. Mark hour to an hour-and-a-half (to change). It explained: “The reason is too great to be revealed in this had to be quick, we had teeth, a wig, we Joaquin Phoenix: I don’t need movie. “I was in the script but then they removed my charac- had to plump up the nose, ageing stipple ter. They don’t want to reveal make-up. So there was about an hour’s Oscar success where is he and why. I don’t worth of make-up between Ronnie and even know if Hulk will be back Reggie but we only had seven weeks to soon.” What’s more, Mark sug- shoot so couldn’t faff about, we had to do oaquin Phoenix isn’t interested in Oscar glory. The 40-year-old actor has enjoyed gested an entire movie would it quite quickly. There were also wedges three nominations for ‘Gladiator’ (2000), ‘Walk The Line’ (2005) and ‘The Master’ need to be dedicated to the in the shoes because Ronnie had to be a (2012), and is widely accepted as one Hollywood’s greatest actors - but confessed J storyline. He told BadTaste.it: bit taller, and an extra layer of shirts so he doesn’t give a second thought to winning at the annual Academy Awards. He said: “They want to keep the revela- he’s shirts were bigger, a double-breasted “That doesn’t mean anything. That’s other people’s idea of success. Whereas I still feel tion of what happened a suit, waistcoat, glasses so there was a dif- that I’m not satisfied.” With a career CV that includes playing historical figures, modern secret, because it is something ferent silhouette between the two guys philosophers and music icons, his acting career is packed with diversity but Joaquin really big.” This comes shortly but it all had to come in an hour to an hopes his best is yet to come. He told The Times after Martin Freeman revealed hour-and-a-half.” Christopher Eccleston newspaper: “It’s impossible for me to say. I just he’s set to play an “ambiguous” plays Detective Chief Superintendent know that I’m not satisfied yet. I just know that I character in ‘Captain America: Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read, the police officer haven’t done that thing where I’ve achieved Civil War’. The 43-year-old Brit who pursues the Krays for their crimes something. I don’t feel that I’ve done that yet.” shared: “He works for the and eventually puts them behind bars. And the star credits his siblings Rain, Summer, American government. He His make-up routine was significantly quicker than Hardy’s but he was astonished by how Liberty and River Phoenix - who died in 1993 of works in conjunction with the superheroes, and certain much he looked like his late grandfather when dressed as his alter ego. Eccleston a drug overdose - for his lack of competitive agencies that help to tame the superheroes’ power, I sup- explained: “I looked exactly like my paternal grandfather, and he was a frightening man! I nature and interest in grand accolades. He said: pose. So you’re not quite sure which side he’s on. It looks a lit- was struck by that when they put me in the gear and I based it on him, his effect on me as “I never grew up with that idea of competition. tle bit like he’s playing one game when actually he’s playing a child and his basic outlook as I imagined it.” Both Hardy and Eccleston attended the We didn’t compete as kids, and maybe because another. “It’s the kind of character I like because it’s ambigu- world premiere of ‘Legend’ at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London last night. At we were such a close family our parents down- ous and because you don’t know whether he’s good or bad. I the event, Hardy and his wife Charlotte Riley - accompanied by their pet dog Woody - played the idea of competing. “So the idea of like that area that isn’t black or white, I like the grays, because announced to the world they are expecting a baby together as Charlotte’s figure-hugging all these big movies having awards campaigns I think there’s just more fun to be had in not playing one dress showed off a burgeoning baby bump. Hardy and Eccleston were also joined by their with money behind them kind of bothered me.” obvious line.” —Bang Showbiz co-stars Emily Browning, David Thewlis and Tara Fitzgerald on the special blue carpet as well as a host of stars such as former Smiths singer Morrissey. lifestyle MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 MUSIC & MOVIES Beyonce offers female empowerment themes at Philly show

eyonce sang her usual hits, changed multiple times and hit high notes at Bthe Budweiser Made In America music festival in Philadelphia. She also pulled more than ever from her Destiny’s Child catalog, interpolated inspirational words from Maya Angelou and UFC fighter Ronda Rousey and told the feverish audi- ence near the end of her 90-minute set : “I am so, so happy to celebrate my birthday with y’all.” Beyonce, who turned 34 on Friday, headlined the first night of her hus- band’s two-day music festival held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Though Jay Z didn’t join the pop diva onstage Saturday night, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams’ presence was felt. Sporting a light pink leotard and red knee-high boots, Beyonce kicked off her set with a slow rendition of “Crazy In Love.” It eventually hit its normal tempo, but lat- er she wove in “Bootylicious.” And throughout her set, the audience watched her energetically perform “Say My Name,” Beyonce, right, performing with Ed Sheeran during Stevie Wonder: Songs in the “Jumpin’ Jumpin’” and dance slickly to Key of Life - An All-Star Grammy Salute, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. lyrics from “Independent Women Part I.” “Where my survivors at?” she yelled before screamed loudly as recent words from that isn’t for a purpose, because I’m not a performing “Survivor.” “Shout-out to my Rousey blasted from the speakers about do-nothing (chick).” girl Kelly, I love you. My girl Michelle, I love girls who fall under the category of “do- Beyonce also performed hits like “7/11,” you,” she said. “If you survived bad rela- nothing chicks.” “The kind of chick that just “Ring the Alarm,” “Run the World (Girls),” tionships, if you survived illnesses. When it tries to be pretty and be taken care of by “Flawless,” “Halo,” “Love on Top” and “Drunk gets tough, that’s when you work harder.” someone else. That’s why I think it’s hilari- In Love.” She changed into a bedazzled Beyonce offered words of encourage- ous if my body looks masculine or some- Philadelphia Sixers shirt before singing ment and empowerment, per usual, to the thing like that. Listen, just because my body “Feeling Myself,” and she closed her set with Nick Jonas performs at the Made in America crowd of screaming fans. She took it to a was developed for a purpose other than the upbeat “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” festival, Saturday in Philadelphia. — AP new level when a background dancer (sleeping with) millionaires doesn’t mean Other performers at the Made In America moved beautifully to the words of it’s masculine,” Rousey’s audio was heard on Saturday included Modest Mouse, Nick Beyonce performing at the 57th annual Grammy Angelou’s classic “Phenomenal Woman” in and also appeared on the large screen. Jonas and Meek Mill. The Weeknd head- Awards in Los Angeles. — AP photos between songs, and the audience “There’s not a single muscle on my body lined the festival yesterday. — AP Obama to award arts medals to Sally Field, Stephen King

Sally Field attends the “Hello, My Name is Doris” US actress Kristen red carpet during the South by Southwest Film Stewart signs Festival in Austin, Texas. — AP photos autographs as she arrives for the screening of the movie “Equals” presented in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival at Venice Lido. —AFP ‘Kill Me Please’: A new face of Latin American Cinema Author Stephen King poses for the cameras, during a promotional tour for his latest novel, ‘Doctor laying in Venice Horizons, “Kill Me and Santiago. breed of genre auteurs. shopping and dress in expensive clothes. Sleep’, a sequel to ‘The Shining’, in Paris.—AP Please,” the feature debut of Brazil’s No favela poverty drama, “Kill Me” is set Skewering the new Brazilian Dream, and “I wanted to highlight how developing ctress Sally Field and author Stephen King are among PAnita Rocha da Silveira, reveals one at an exclusive high school in Rio de half serial killer suspenser, “Kill Me, Please” countries, and their new middle classes, luminaries set to receive a National Medal of Arts or a of the new faces of Latin American cinema. Janeiro’s Barra de Tijuca, which will host is also a coming of age dramedy. Story fol- deal with these new spaces. Also, I want- ANational Humanities Medal from President Barack The pic is part of the growing trend of pan- much of the 2016 Olympics, a zone of new lows 15-year-old Bia and her gaggle of ed to bring some of my own experiences Obama. Obama will bestow the honors on 18 people and regional co-production, as it was produced high rises, and seemingly endless real- friends after a girl’s body is found near the as a teenager to the film, but making three institutions during a White House ceremony on by two of Latin America’s most energetic estate construction. Produced by a woman- school. They react with morbid curiosity as them over the top, fantastical,” Rocha da Thursday. Field, of Los Angeles, is receiving an arts medal for co-production practitioners: Rio de Janeiro- Bananeira’s Vania Catani-”Kill Me, Please” is more corpses appear and Bia becomes Silveira told Variety. Pic was lensed by showing dignity, empathy and fearlessness in performances based Bananeira Films and Argentina’s REI also directed by a woman, and a new mem- obsessed by the crimes. When not worry- Joao Atala using a palette of increasingly that have touched audiences worldwide, as well as for show- Cinema, headed by Benjamin Domenech ber at that of Latin America’s growing ing about crimes, they play volleyball, go lively colors. — Reuters ing those same qualities in her off-screen advocacy for women, LGBT rights and public health. King, of Bangor, Maine, is also receiving an arts medal for combining storytelling with analysis of human nature, and for With ‘Steve Jobs,’ Fassbender US based Iranian Auteur Amir thrilling readers through decades of work. Alice Waters, chef- owner of the organic restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, shoots to the top of this California, is receiving a National Humanities Medal for her Naderi to Shoot ‘Mountain’ in Italy work as a champion of a holistic approach to eating and health. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National year’s Best Actor Oscar Race Endowment for the Humanities were created by Congress in S -based Iranian auteur Amir Naderi (“The Runner”), 1965 to provide grants to support artistic excellence and cre- he truth is I half anticipated Michael Fassbender to be a who is a Venice fest aficionado, will shoot his first ativity, and to advance the understanding and appreciation of weak link of Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs,” which world pre- Ufeature in Italian, titled “Mountain,” set in a semi- history, literature, philosophy and language. Both independ- Tmiered as a “work in progress” here Saturday night. abandoned village at the foothills of an Alpine peak. It fol- ent agencies are celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year. Something about the repressed accent in the trailer and the curi- lows his Japan-set “The Cut,” and “Vegas: Based on a True The remaining recipients are: ous casting call in the first place, maybe. Whatever the case, let’s Story,” in competition on the Lido in 2008. “The Cut,” which National Medal of Arts: just say the “Shame” and “12 Years a Slave” star crushes the role of was an homage to yakuza movies, opened the fest’s Venice * John Baldessari, visual artist, Venice, California the eponymous tortured genius and then some in a film that Days section in 2011. The highly symbolic “Mountain” is set * Ping Chong, theater director, choreographer and video and takes bold strides within a well-worn genre and is sure to take off centuries ago in a village under Mount Latemar, in Italy’s throughout the season...if the charac- installation artist, New York City Alto Adige region, where a farmer and his wife struggle ter doesn’t put viewers off, that is. * Miriam Col?n, actress, theater founder and director, New with the fact that the 2,500-meter tall peak keeps the sun York City Because that can sometimes be a from shining on their crops. * The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York City hurdle. Jobs is very unlikable * Ann Hamilton, visual artist, Columbus, Ohio throughout. It’s the borderline thesis “The film is one hundred percent in Italian, though, like * Meredith Monk, composer, singer and performer, New York of the film: “It takes alot to invent the my other movies, there isn’t that much dialogue in it,” City future.” But that’s what’s so com- Naderi said. “In all my movies I try to push the characters in * George Shirley, tenor, Ann Arbor, Michigan pelling about the picture in this con- different cultures, different countries, different situations. * University Musical Society, Performing Arts Presenter, Ann ception. It’s not a greatest hits biopic. “Ultimately my characters are all survivors, because I Arbor, Michigan It’s a character study interested in believe humans should always make something impossi- * Tobias Wolff, author and educator, Stanford, California how Jobs grows within a 24 year span ble possible,” he added. National Humanities Medal:Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, his- (the launch of the Macintosh in 1984 Italian actors Andrea Sartoretti, whose credits include torian, Auburndale, Massachusetts through the launch of the iMac in TV series “Crime Novel” and “Mission: Impossible III,” and * Annie Dillard, author, Key West, Florida Michael Fassbender 1998), focusing on his innovations at Claudia Potenza (“Basilicata Coast to Coast”) will star. * Clemente Course in the Humanities, Annandale-On-Hudson, Apple, his eventual release from the Principal photography will start Sept. 14 and the shoot is in Japan, with fellow Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami who New York company, his relationship with a daughter he wouldn’t claim for expected to last around six weeks in an specially built first made a movie first in Italy, “Certified Copy,” in 2010, * Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, novelist and philosopher, years, his triumphant return to the Apple fold and his volatile rap- ghost village. Pic is being co-produced by Italy’s Citrullo and subsequently one in Japan, titled “Like Someone in Boston port with co-workers and colleagues. * Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter, Archer Some are already calling it “Birdman” by way of Aaron Sorkin, Intl., the filmmakers’ collective comprising Carlo Love,” in 2012. “Abbas is a close friend,” Naderi said. “After I City, Texas and there’s a lot of that in there. The gifted scribe’s rat-tat-tat Hintermann, Gerardo Panichi, Michele Petochi e Jerome made ‘Cut’ in Japan (in 2011) I pushed him to go make a * Everett L. Fly, architect, San Antonio delivery on the page must have yielded a script full of white Caltagirone, with Italy’s Zhivago Media and New York- movie there and he told me to get to Italy; but every film- * Jhumpa Lahiri, author, New York City space, because it’s wall-to-wall dialogue. Like another film at the based restoration and preservation company Cineric with maker wants to make a movie in Italy.” Martin Scorsese’s * Fedwa Malti-Douglas, professor and scholar, Rhinebeck, fest dependent on talking-head drama, Tom McCarthy’s financing from RAI Cinema, the BLS fund (also behind the Film Foundation restore Naderi’s 1985 Iranian picture New York “Spotlight,” it falls on the editor (Elliot Graham) to keep things “Everest”) and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Fund. “The Runner,” his semi-autobiographical portrait of a young * Vicki Lynn Ruiz, historian, Irvine, California. — AP moving, and indeed, the choice of structuring the film with a Interestingly there is somewhat of a parallel, in reverse, boy struggling to survive on the streets after losing his series of near-vignettes helps this immensely. — Reuters to Naderi making “Mountain” in Italy after making a movie family during the Iran-Iraq War. — Reuters lifestyle MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 FEATURES Decor goes global at the NY now show

oday, home decorating can be a This photo provided by game of curatorial discovery. It’s fun Donna Wilson shows a to find an artisan-forged wall hook, a T Hungry Wolf tray from the uniquely carved stool, a cool contempo- London-based illustrator rary art piece or a hand-painted table- and designer Wilson. cloth, each from some far-flung corner of the world. The NY Now show is one place where retailers can find goods like those all in one place, and chances are you’ll see many of them in stores in a few months. The wholesale-only market, which recently concluded its biannual fair at the Javits Center in Manhattan, offers interna- This photo provided by Made Goods tional buyers - large retail chains, museum shows an oversized tortoise shell gift shops, gift catalogs, independent motif that sets the stage for a ceramic shopkeepers - an opportunity to one-stop This photo provided by Made Goods stool that is finished in crackled gold shop for everything from gourmet house- shows a Corina chandelier that is craft- or black pearl, made in Vietnam. wares to bedding to furniture. Designers ed from wound Philippine Nito fiber. and manufacturers from around The organic roots of the piece add to its the world set up booths. sculptural, modern vibe. A new and grow- ing component Decades ago you might have done a is Artisan whole room with a Japanese flair, or a Moroccan vibe. Not now. “The new look of global isn’t one single country,” says Tom Mirabile of Lifetime Brands, a Garden City, New York, company that makes and mar- kets household products. “It’s a cultural mashup. You could call it neo-global, or geo-hybrid. We’re embracing this style because it makes us feel worldly and well- traveled.”

Some show highlights: This photo provided by Ayadeena shows a pillow from the women’s craft collective in Jordan, that was Made Goods had a sophisticated col- an award finalist at this August’s NY Now show in New York. — AP lection of faux shagreen (shark-skin) items including a stool wrapped with a band of hobby eventually led her to fund this initiative to brass, and a slim side table. The Corina help improve the lives of underprivileged, uneducat- pendant shade was a cylinder wound of ed yet talented women who are restricted from the fibers from the Philippine Nito vine. Burnt workplace by family obligations or cultural mores. wood encased in resin created a striking The group was a show award finalist for its Indian silk base for the Vietnamese Eskor lamp. And and French cotton Deema pillow, intricately hand- also from Viet Nam, an oversize tortoise- sewn in a Middle Eastern print. shell motif graced a ceramic stool glazed Modern art met ancient craft in Bridge for Africa’s in either a crackled gold or black pearl fin- display of colorful Lavumisa baskets from Swaziland, ish. The Lexi side table featured an elabo- woven out of indigenous grasses into pop art swirls. rate Indian mosaic print using camel bone London designer Donna Wilson showed her new inlaid in gray or white resin, for a piece collection of winsome, animal-print dinnerware and Resource, that was feminine without being fussy. soft toys. Her bone china and melamine plates and an area at the At Pigeon & Poodle, there were table- cups featured illustrations of friendly bears, wolves fair where buyers top and bath accessories made from and foxes gamboling among tropical fruits. can source and discuss honed onyx; water hyacinth; wave-pat- Yamazaki, a Japanese housewares company, had terned resin; and a graphic, black-and- well-designed home-storage solutions, including a This photo provided by Donna opportunities with fledgling In this photo provided by Made Goods, a faux white-veined Nero marble. white, woven-steel basket with wood handles; sleek, Wilson shows a Forest dinner plate craftspeople and importers. The NY Now shagreen (shark skin) clads a chic dresser crafted Ayadeena, a women’s craft collective in wood-veneer jewelry and gadget holders; and an from the London-based illustrator show makes it clear that globalized design in Vietnam. Jordan, was founded by Hanan Jaber umbrella stand made of laser-cut metal evoking a and designer Wilson. is alive and thriving. Sahawneh. Her childhood cross-stitching bird’s nest. — AP

This photo provided by Chris Emmert Design shows a selection of mosaic stones handcrafted by Chris Emmert. This undated photo shows a selection of mosaic stones handcrafted by Kathryn Boylston, of Evergreen, Colo. Make splashy garden and other keepsakes with mosaic stones nne Marie Price taught herself mosaic art, creating stones. Emmert sells her mosaic stones at her Etsy.com entire sheet of colored glass at specialty and online stores, intricate designs and portraits with cut pieces of shop, ChrisEmmertMosaic. says Boylston. Keep an eye on Craigslist’s online classified Astained glass. Recently, she began balancing her Garden designer Kathryn Boylston also makes mosaic advertisements for supplies, says Emmert, who looks for usual large projects with smaller ones: She turns her mosa- stones, and sells them at Sundance By Design, a shop she artists who are retiring. “When I find someone getting out ic touch to smooth stones that she picks up on beach- manages in Evergreen, Colorado. “It’s a convenient, readily of it, it’s a lot of glass,” she says. combing and mountain hikes near her Huntington Beach, available surface that’s not going to blow away in the land- • Accent your work with found objects, jewelry pieces, California, home. “I’ve always been a collector of things, of scape,” Boylston says. Also, “it’s just a pretty little thing to have pebbles, glass beads and more. “Look around you and see small objects, of rocks,” says Price. Now, “I’ve found a use for in your garden.” The process may be simple - adhere glass what you have just right there,” says Price. all those little things I’ve picked up.” and other pieces to the stone with a waterproof, silicone • Outline simple shapes with a string of small ball chain Price combines tesserae - mosaic-speak for the glass adhesive and then fill in the spaces with grout - but there’s for a striking effect, says Boylston. and ceramic pieces - with other materials, including peb- still a learning curve. “Don’t stress on the design. The first one • When finished adhering colorful materials, outline the bles, shells and glass beads. On the stones, she keeps the is not going to be your masterpiece,” Emmert advises. design with painter’s tape, leaving 1/8-inch around the design simple with a single, vivid flower shape, spiral or piece. After grouting, and before the grout thoroughly leaf. The works can be displayed indoors or out. Chris Additional tips from these experts: dries, remove the tape. This will create a clean grout line, Emmert of Eugene, Oregon, creates mosaics on a variety of • You can take a class - Emmert and Price teach them - says Boylston. surfaces, including mirrors and pendants, but primarily but the process is also learnable fromYouTube videos, each • Use an epoxy grout and you won’t need a sealer to enjoys crafting mosaic rocks. says. protect stones left outdoors, says Emmert. “Once you mas- “I still enjoy doing it because I like the rocks. There’s nev- • Assemble your supplies and clear several hours for the ter it, you don’t have to worry about it crumbling or crack- er a bad rock out there,” she says with a laugh. Emmert project. There are few tools: tile or glass nippers and pro- ing. It holds its color very well,” she says. mostly uses Pennsylvania bluestone; it’s dense, flat and can tective eyewear. Making mosaics soon becomes soothing and feeds the endure both hot and cold weather. That makes it perfect • Ask for scraps at a stained-glass shop. The glass and creative spirit, Emmert says: “You’re creating rubble and This undated photo provided by Anne Marie Price for making garden art and her custom-made pet memorial variety are great, and it’s less daunting than buying an then putting it back together again.” — AP shows a mosaic stone handcrafted by Price. Decor goes global at the NY now show

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Fireworks explode above Saint Basil’s cathedral during the Spasskaya Tower international military music festi- val on the Red Square in Moscow. — AFP photos

Participants from Italy perform during the Spasskaya Tower international military music Festival.

Participants perform during the Spasskaya Tower international military music Festival. French singer Mireille Mathieu performs.

China’s participants perform during the Spasskaya Tower international military and music Festival. Participants from Pakistan perform.

Japanese participants perform. Belgian participants perform. Belgian participants perform. Russians live it up in ‘Londongrad’ in new show iding around London in a beat up Lada who dropped out of Oxford, disgusted at the want to go there, because it’s just not inter- suade the channel to use subtitles instead. nowadays, as tensions between the West and are an unlikely team: A maths genius, a class system. Passing for a Londoner in his esting enough,” said Idov, a novelist and for- Russia are at an all-time high,” said Ryvkin. Rbeautiful heiress and an unflappable scruffy parka, Misha likes to joke about his mer editor of Russian GQ who currently lives ‘Not a word censored’ “You need this assertive rhetoric to rein- taxi driver who speaks no English. They are fellow countrymen just off the plane. At the between Moscow and Berlin. “It does paint a He praised the channel for not making any force whatever stereotypes Russians have of some of the colorful cast of characters in Heathrow airport arrivals area, he scans the more diverse picture of Russians in London, changes to the script, despite the freeze in themselves.” The idea of the show is quite dif- “Londongrad,” a new drama airing on Russian passengers with a cynical eye and lists the as it steers away from the stereotype that we relations with the West since the pilot was ferent, Idov insisted. “Obviously the show is television this week that depicts the English typical types from a Moscow hipster-”trying all have six to nine zeroes in our bank filmed in 2013. “Not a word was censored and not about the Russians triumphing over the capital’s diverse Russian community. In a first too hard”-to an oil executive coming to buy a accounts,” said Ryvkin, who worked on televi- no one has ever come to us and said ‘Come West in any way. It’s a show about Russians for Russian TV, 80 percent of the scenes were pad in Mayfair. sion and film projects in Russia and wrote for on guys, let’s make it a little more patriotic or sticking together.” While the first episode filmed on location in London, the makers say. British paper The Guardian before moving jingoistic.’ And thank God for that,” Idov said. shown to journalists is broadly comedic, the The fast-paced series premiering todayon Avoiding cliches back to the US recently. The only addition to the show was a swag- show as a whole is more of an adventure dra- CTC tells the story of a “concierge” agency set Unusually for Russian television, the show “The show definitely sports some leopard gering tagline to the title: “Londongrad: Look ma, the makers say, with even an element of up to get super-rich Russians out of scrapes- was scripted by two Americans, Michael Idov print, though.” Much of the Londongrad’s dia- what we’re made of!”, implying that Russians tragedy. “Londongrad deals with the phe- for a hefty fee, naturally. In the first episode, and Andrew Ryvkin, who both have Russian logue was written and filmed in English as are somehow outsmarting the British. The nomenon of some-not all-Russians abroad. the agency’s boss, Misha, discreetly fishes the roots and speak the language fluently. They the Russian characters interact with British writers said that in the current climate of anti- It’s about the people who cannot, for the life drunken playboy son of a loaded Russian offi- say they tried to avoid the cliches of peroxide people. But Russians will miss out on the Western sentiment, they believed the channel of them, integrate,” said Ryvkin. “They live cial out of a police cell. blondes in leopard print or oligarchs owning nuances, since all the dialogue was dubbed needed to put this spin on the show-even if it there for decades, they speak the language, Misha, played by up-and-coming actor football clubs. “Everyone was expecting that over into Russian by the channel. This deci- is not reflected by the content. “I think it’s the they may even have British citizenship, but Nikita Efremov, is a brilliant mathematician and that’s precisely why Andrew and I didn’t sion “pains me,” Idov said, but he failed to per- only way to sell a show about Russians abroad they’ve never left Russia.” — AFP