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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 SHAWWAL 23, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cabinet mulls Imran Khan’s Ferguson police Federer, bill to collect lawmakers shot teen six Serena win unlicensed to resign times; National titles at firearms2 in poll row7 Guard10 deploys Cincinnati20 Alleged militant financier Max 43º Min 29º briefly detained at border High Tide 05:23 & 19:57 Low Tide Shafi, Hajjaj to file lawsuits against US, UN 13:12 40 PAGES NO: 16259 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait briefly detained a prominent cleric less News than two weeks after the United States included him on in brief a sanctions list on suspicion he was funnelling money to militants in Iraq and Syria, his lawyer said yesterday. Shafi Al-Ajmi, who was detained on Sunday on the border Americana denies with Saudi Arabia while returning home from a pilgrim- talks with Savola age, was released after four hours of questioning, his DUBAI: Kuwait Food Co (Americana) said yesterday that it had no lawyer said. “He was released without any charges,” the knowledge of any talks with Saudi Arabia’s Savola Group on a possi- lawyer, Mohammed Al-Jumia, told Reuters. “He is now at ble acquisition of Americana. “The board and executive administra- home.” tion deny knowledge of any negotiations with Savola regarding an Jumia said he planned to file a lawsuit against the US acquisition of Americana,” the Kuwaiti company said in a statement Treasury to lift his client’s name from its blacklist, but to its stock exchange. A recent meeting between the two companies gave no further details. An Interior Ministry spokesman was intended only to discuss the possibility of joint cooperation in could not immediately be reached for comment. Kuwait certain fields and markets; the meeting did not result in any devel- has been one of the biggest humanitarian donors to opment requiring disclosure, Americana said. Its shares, suspended since last Thursday pending clarification of the issue, resume trading. Syrian refugees through the United Nations, but it has Savola said last Wednesday that it had begun preliminary talks on a also struggled to control unofficial fundraising for oppo- potential acquisition of Americana. It said it had attended an investor sition groups in Syria by private individuals. road show held by Americana’s management, but talks had not yet Kuwait has stepped up its monitoring of individuals reached a stage that would require disclosure. and charities suspected of collecting donations for mili- tants linked to Al-Qaeda in Syria and in Iraq. On Aug 6, the United States imposed sanctions on Shafi and two Tremors in Kuwait other men suspected of funnelling money from Kuwait after quake hits Iran to Islamic State, the Al-Qaeda splinter group that has TEHRAN: Tremors were felt in Kuwait after a strong 6.1-mag- seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. Washington nitude earthquake struck the province of Ilam in western Iran also said the men had helped smuggle fighters to yesterday, injuring at least 250 people and causing extensive Afghanistan and Iraq. damage to buildings. The US Geological Survey, reporting the Last year, Kuwait banned a television show that Shafi magnitude of the quake at 6.3, said it struck 36 km southeast appeared on, saying it incited hatred. As well as calling of the city of Abdanan, near the border with Iraq. Director for for armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar Al- Environmental Crises and Supervisor of the National Seismic Assad, Shafi has called on supporters to torture and kill Network at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Abdullah fighters in Syria linked to the Lebanese Shiite group Al-Enezi told KUNA the network detected the quake at a Hezbollah, evidence of how the Syria conflict has aggra- depth of 10 km, centered in the Zagros mountain range, Kuwait Science Club divers unfurl a giant Kuwaiti flag at the end of a 14th exploratory voyage to the Red Sea. vated Sunni-Shiite tensions across the Middle East. which is a seismically-active region. According to Iran state tel- The club said in a statement that its divers explored and documented the wrecks of four sunken ships. — KUNA Continued on Page 13 evision, the quake occurred at 7:02 am near the town of Mour-Mouri. The chief of the crisis committee for the area, Ahmad Karami, later said 250 people had been injured in the quake. Robbers ambush In the village of Mour-Mouri, a number of homes and public buildings were damaged, according to the official IRNA news Saudi prince’s agency. It added that damage also occurred in eight nearby villages. A number of people spent the night outside their homes after at least 44 smaller tremors struck the area yester- convoy in Paris day, media reported. Iran stands on several seismic fault lines. €250,000 stolen

KPC in 10-year oil PARIS: Heavily armed robbers mounted a brazen deal with Sinopec attack on the motorcade of a Saudi prince in Paris, KUWAIT/BEIJING: Kuwait has concluded a new 10-year deal with making off with €250,000 in cash and stealing diplo- China’s Sinopec Corp to nearly double its supplies by offering to ship matic papers, French police said yesterday. The spec- the oil and sell on a more competitive cost-and-freight basis, accord- tacular robbery took place in northern Paris late on ing to a KPC official and a trading source yesterday. State-run Kuwait Sunday as the motorcade was making its way from a Petroleum Corp will export 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil plush hotel on the Champs Elysees to an airport in Le under the agreement, which would amount to 15 percent of Kuwaiti Bourget, said police, who confirmed there were no petroleum exports and estimated to be worth $120 billion, said injuries. A gang of “between five and eight” thieves in Nasser Al-Mudaf, KPC’s head of international marketing told Reuters. two BMWs hijacked the first of around 10 vehicles in Mudaf said the contract replaces a previous one for between the convoy, driving off with the three occupants before 160,000 bpd 170,000 bpd that had expired. “We look for the best letting them go, police said. markets which has stability and gives high return to KPC,” said Mudaf. A police source and Le Parisien daily had said the The agreement with Sinopec’s trading arm, Unipec, was reached “in men were armed with Kalashnikov rifles but an official accordance with international prices and under purely commercial later clarified to say they were carrying handguns. The terms,” he said, adding the quantity was subject to increase, but did Saudis’ Mercedes and one of the thieves’ BMWs were not specify by how much. An official signing ceremony will be held later found abandoned and burned out in the village of in Hong Kong in three days, he said. Continued on Page 13 No equal justice as Israel razes Palestinians’ homes Gaza truce in balance • Toll tops 2,000 JERUSALEM: Israeli troops yesterday demolished the homes of two Palestinians it suspects of the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June, the army said. The homes of Hussam Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha were destroyed before dawn and the house of a third suspect, Marwan Kawasme, was sealed up, the army said. Israel accuses Hamas Islamist militants of the abduction and killing of Jewish seminary students Gil- Ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah, who went miss- ing on June 12 and were discovered dead a couple of weeks later in the West Bank. Hamas has neither con- firmed nor denied the accusations. Hussam Kawasme, a 40-year-old resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, was arrested on July 11 but the other two suspects remain at large, the army said. The killings set off a cycle of violence that began with the suspected revenge murder by three Jewish suspects of Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16, in Jerusalem and led to a now five-week war between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip. Abu Khudair’s father, Hussein, demanded equal justice under Israeli law for Mohammed’s killers, saying their homes should also be destroyed. “There is no justice in Israeli law, it is racist. I have been calling for the demolition of houses of those who killed Mohammed,” Hussein Abu Khudair told Reuters. He said he would again call for the HEBRON: A Palestinian sits in the rubble of the house demolition of the homes of the three suspected killers - of Hussam Kawasme after it was demolished by the two of them minors - when their trial resumes next month. Israeli army in this West Bank city yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 13 TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 LOCAL UN to honor Kuwait, Amir for humanitarian role KUWAIT: Minister of Information, Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- Humoud Al-Sabah said yesterday that the United Nations has named Kuwait as an “international humanitarian cen- ter”, and His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a “humanitarian leader”. The State of Kuwait, represented by His Highness the Amir, will be honored next September at the UN’s headquar- Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah chairs yesterday’s weekly cabinet meeting at Seif Palace. — KUNA ters in New York in an appreciation to Kuwait’s significant humanitarian role, Sheikh Salman said in a press statement. He pointed out that Kuwait marks Cabinet mulls bill to launch today the World Humanitarian Day which commemorates all people who have lost their lives in humanitarian weapon collection campaigns service and celebrates the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the world. Step to protect security, stability Sheikh Salman also said that the His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah KUWAIT: Aiming to counter the disturbing and and Acting Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs the Executive Committee of the Organization of ministry of information will devote all Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah growing phenomenon of illegal possession of Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the Israeli aggression its abilities to celebrate Kuwait’s honor- He also highlighted Kuwait efforts in weapons, the cabinet yesterday asked its legal due to threat imposed by the spread of such ille- against Gaza Strip. ing at the UN, especially since Kuwait’s assisting conflict-affected countries, committee to revise and finalize a bill to allow gal weapons the country’s security and stability. The Foreign Minister also informed the cabinet humanitarian efforts are significant in particularly its early sensing of the security campaigns to collect unlicensed arms and During the meeting, the ministers also about the outcome of his recent talks with Arab building and development, as well as in Syrian crisis, for which it rushed to meet ammunition. approved three agreements for cooperation with League Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby, supporting scientific research and the UN’s call to host first and second The bill allows the Public Prosecutor to issue international organizations and friendly countries. Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and human investment that reached several donors’ conference to aid the Syrian warrants to police to inspect individuals, homes, The ratified agreements are for legal coopera- Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu which human societies. people, adding at the same time that buildings and means of transport in search for tion between Kuwait and the International mainly focused on the Israeli offensive on Gaza In this regard, the Minister lauded Kuwait was also at top of the countries unlicensed arms or ammunition, announced Development Law Organization; transport infra- and the recent regional and international devel- the efforts exerted by Kuwait Fund for that supported the Palestinian people Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting structure cooperation between Kuwaiti and Spain; opments. On this regard, the cabinet reiterated its Arab Economic Development (KFAED), in the Gaza Strip lately. Kuwait’s sup- Justice Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- and visa exemption for holders of diplomatic, spe- strong condemnation of the Israeli practices Arab Fund for Economic and Social portive role of humanitarian and devel- Mubarak Al-Sabah following the cabinet meeting cial and service passports between Kuwait and against Palestinian people and properties. Development (AFSED), Kuwait opmental work has contributed in bol- held yesterday at Seif Palace under the chairman- China. It also urged the international community to Foundation for Advancement of stering its status in the international ship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh At the beginning of the meeting, First Deputy intervene to stop the Israeli abuses and violation Science (KFAS), in addition to other community, which always backed Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah of all international laws. The cabinet also discussed relief and youth voluntary institutions Kuwait in various circumstances, said He stated that the bill was presented to the Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah briefed the cabinet on the latest developments in the Arab region and and philanthropic works. Sheikh Salman. — KUNA cabinet by Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister the outcome of the emergency meeting held by world. — KUNA Kuwait distributes 9,400 food Agriculture authority packages to Syrian refugees AMMAN: Kuwait’s Higher Committee for His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Syrian Refugees Relief began yesterday pro- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to help alleviate the to launch 39 new parks viding food aid to Syrian refugees living at var- suffering of Syrian people, Dr Hamad Al-Duaij, ious areas in the Kingdom. Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan, told KUNA The food aid, valued at USD 3,850, will be while attending the a ceremony of this occa- distributed in 9,400 packages that are pre- sion. Plans to build enclosed halls for jogging For his part, Dr Fahad Al-Rashidi, head of sented by Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and By Nawara Fattahova use is of international standards,” he explained. new gardens in the Capital governorate. We will Islamic Affairs within the framework of the the higher committee’s delegation, com- PAAAFR has a contract with different compa- also develop the Watiya and the Anjifa beaches. urgent relief program for the Syrian people. mended Jordan’s role in bearing the fallouts KUWAIT: As a desert country, Kuwait spends lav- nies in the six governorates, and another compa- We are holding various awareness programs and The aid is part of the campaign of Kuwait’s of Syrian refugee, praising at the same time ishly on greenery and planting trees in public ny is responsible for maintaining roads, parks and campaigns in schools, shopping malls and plac- urgent relief program for the Syrian people the Kuwaiti Embassy in facilitating the delega- places. The Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs other utilities. “Recently PAAAFR executed various ing ads in the streets and the press. We also hold which was launched under the directives of tion’s mission. — KUNA and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) is in charge of plant- projects, including developing the Bidaa round- an annual competition for the most beautiful ing in most public places including roads, parks about, planting palms and developing some loca- house garden. Recently, we also decided to MP demands citizenship revocation and open spaces. But there are a few places that tions in Saad Al-Abdullah,” added Sanad. plant traditional Kuwaiti plants such as acacia, come under different authorities. rhamnus and bambar, which do not need much regardless of political position Currently, there are 145 public parks in Kuwait. Enclosed halls water and are declining,” he noted. “We are working on creating 39 new parks all over The department has many future plans. “We By A Saleh expressed amazement at the unlawful ter- Kuwait. PAAAFR has also set up 38 football fields noticed that more people are jogging and walk- Public damage mination of a number of citizens working with synthetic grass and 48 playgrounds for chil- ing. As Kuwait’s weather is very hot in summer Sanad also complained of damage, destruc- KUWAIT: MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan urged in the oil sector without even subjecting dren. We are responsible for maintaining the and cold in winter, people mostly practice this tion and vandalism. “Unfortunately, many utili- the government to withdraw citizenship them to gradual penalties before firing plants and greenery and utilities at existing loca- hobby at shopping malls. So we are planning to ties in the parks are damaged by the public. For from those who got it illegally or unlaw- them. “This move threatens the state’s tions and new ones. In the past, we focused on build 18 enclosed halls, three in each gover- instance, a swing that is supposed to be used by fully regardless of them being supportive Kuwaitization strategy,” he warned, noting plants, but later we also added landscaping, stat- norate. These halls will be air-conditioned and a child is damaged by adults who swing on it till of or against the government. He also not- that these citizens have been accordingly ues and rocks,” Ghanim Al-Sanad, Head of the heated, so people can walk there the whole year. it breaks. Also, some teenagers have burned the ed that opposition leaders’ citizenships subjected to social, psychological and Execution and Maintenance Department of the Every hall will also have a children’s play yard shades in the parks or in the parking lots with were not withdrawn in the past because financial hardships. Landscaping Sector of PAAAFR, told Kuwait Times. and a multipurpose playground,” he pointed out. lighters. Others sprayed the walls of another they did not create such chaos and confu- Also yesterday, MP Hamdan Al-Azmi “We are also working on a plan to develop park with graffiti, and when we cleaned it the sion. He also predicted that the next par- urged Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi to Synthetic turf the Nuwaiseeb highway. It’s a 47-km long road, next day, we found the same graffiti after two liamentary tem would be very ‘hot’ reconsider treating sterile citizens abroad Some people have criticized the introduction and we will beautify 27 km of it. Furthermore, days saying we will continue spraying if you because of the many files and crises it on condition that they undergo at least of synthetic turf in Kuwait recently, but Sanad there is a plan for developing five main high- clean it. We thought of installing cameras, but would have to discuss. two treatment attempts in local private defended its use. “It is better for the environ- ways - Abdali, Salmi, Mina Abdullah, Wafra and the residents who live around the park rejected ment. We live in a desert country and we should Mina Zour. On the Abdali road for instance, there it, claiming it’s a breach of their privacy. So now hospitals. “Many countries have managed Separately, and in continuation of dis- conserve water. We use treated sewage water to will be 10 rows of plants on each side of the 80 we will apply the new system of using Google cussing issues related to the Ministry of to treat sterility, so why not send sterile water plants, as a gallon of fuel is burned to pro- km road,” he said. Earth by entering the location and we can get Awqaf and Islamic affairs, MP Saleh citizens to advanced countries?” he asked. duce a gallon of water. So it’s environment- PAAAFR has contracts for executing more the recording of the specific time to catch those Ashour filed an inquiry to the deputy PM, In other news, Director of Al-Sabah friendly to use synthetic grass, and the one we projects. “We are working on establishing 39 who commit any damage,” he concluded. minister of interior and acting minister of medical zone Dr Adel Al-Asfour said that Awqaf and Islamic affairs Sheikh the new Al-Razi Hospital project would be Mohammed Al-Khaled about the number concluded by mid-2015 and that con- of conferences, forums and seminars held struction of the outpatient clinic building locally or abroad by the ministry since would be over by the end of this year. On 2005, the names of the guests and speak- another health issue, Health Ministry ers taking part in them and their national- assistant undersecretary for medicine and ities, the cost, a list of preachers invited to medical equipment affairs Dr Omar Al- preach in Kuwaiti mosques since 2005, Sayyed said that Kuwait and other GCC the cost of their invitations, the number of states would start a unified medicine pric- Quran houses in Kuwait and the ministeri- ing system in October, which would also al decision on supervising Shiite mosques. involve a unified profit margin for medi- Meanwhile, MP Adnan Abdulsamad cine agents and pharmacies.

A PAAAFR project at a beach in Salmiya. (Inset) Ghanim Al-Sanad — Photos by Joseph Shagra Humidity to hit 95% till Thursday: Ramadan Temperature drops to 44 C next week: Saadoun KUWAIT: Historian and astronomer Adel Al- weather shifts before the beginning of that humidity would rise to over 95 percent Saadoun announced that the ‘Suhail’ season autumn, this time of the year is usually in coastal areas over the four coming days would begin by Aug 24 once the ‘Kulaibain’ marked with slow wind. He also expected and that it would be very tiring during day- season that started on Aug 11 and was that wind speed would vary between 10-20 time, before it drops by Thursday. Ramadan marked by strong southeasterly humid wind kph while humidity would reach 40 percent attributed high humidity levels to the sea- is over. Saadoun added this year’s humidity in coastal areas. He also forecast that tem- sonal Indian low winds which makes winds was delayed a few days and that it would peratures would vary between 46-47 in the northern areas of the Gulf go in the last a few more days before the winds shifts degrees and then drop to 44 by next week anticlockwise direction, carrying much to northeasterly and then northwesterly that during daytime and to mid-30s during the vapor that increases humidity levels. “This would be relatively devoid of any humidity. night. marks the end of the heat wave by the end Saadoun also noted that due to the rapid Meteorologist Essa Ramadan predicted of August,” he added. — Al-Watan TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 LOCAL Volunteers express joy at meeting others’ needs Kuwaiti activists: aid work unparalleled experience

Lana Al-Rushaid during a visit to Syrian refugees. Abdelkireem Al-Shatti during a field work.

KUWAIT: “Work on the field and in the midst of victims of World Humanitarian Day, August 19, is a time to recog- brate the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the natural and other humanitarian disasters is an unparalleled Celebrating humanitarian work nize those who face danger and adversity in order to help globe. This year the UN and its humanitarian partners con- experience for the workers who plant seeds of hope in the She said the pity she feels is reserved for those who others. The day was designated by the General Assembly tinue their ground-breaking campaign called “The world hearts of those in dire need of support,” Kuwaiti humani- spend their lives engrossed in trivialities and have no care to coincide with the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of needs more...” which is the first-of-its-kind project that tarian activists said. The activists were speaking as the for others. “Humanitarian work changes your perspective the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. turns words into aid. — KUNA world is set to mark World Humanitarian Day today, as des- and makes you a better person,” she stressed. World Humanitarian Day is also an opportunity to cele- ignated by the United Nations’ General Assembly. Volunteer, paramedic, and field photographer Abdulrahman Al-Yousef said he started with volunteer work at the Abeer II Center in service of people with spe- cial needs where he discovered “a world that abounds with sentiments of fraternity and solidarity and a field of work that is full of smiles, free of grudges, and characterized by peace.” Al-Yousef was awarded the Kuwait Volunteer of the Year trophy in 2008 and had been abroad part of several humanitarian missions. He said he found inner peace through ten years of volunteer work. He is most eager to jump to action upon hearing of a need for humanitarian work anywhere in the world, he said, and the positive spirit of this line of action spills into all aspects of his life and even affects his family life, he noted.

A closer glimpse The activist recalled working to help orphans in Yemen and to aid flood victims in Bosnia, as well as working to help families in need in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Bahrain. He also noted he had worked in England in the area of reha- bilitation of hospital patients and serving them. “I was fortunate to join the team at The City Magazine, which is now part of my daily life, and this had enabled me to visit Yemen and take a closer glimpse of the life of an orphan, which taught me to appreciate patience and all the little things with which I am blessed.” Founder of a volunteer group and with experience as field doctor and a volunteer in India, activist Sara Al-Timimi said the work enabled her to really learn about other cul- tures rather than just hear of them. “You don’t get to enjoy the same feeling you get through field and volunteer work if you limit yourself to making a donation in the safety and comfort of your home,” he argued. Direct contact with those in need of medical help in particular fills you with a sense of apprecia- tion and gratitude for the education, knowledge, and resources you have access to as you actually help save lives, he continued. Another activist, Abdelkireem Al-Shatti, said he entered this field with a feeling of being on the giving end, but now realizes he is actually on the receiving end. “In relief and volunteer work, you trade effort and sweat for con- tentment and true joy.”

Great joy Working with people bearing the brunt of extreme poverty and others rendered homeless or on the run by war and strife puts you before the realization that they feel great joy at meeting the simplest demand and in the most modest of circumstances. “We in the more privileged soci- eties, on the other hand, have an endless list of wants and needs and can rarely find a sense of satisfaction!” The volunteer then mentioned working in the field has its ironies. “The work gives you a measure of satisfaction, but at the same time, seeing the tattered rags and the des- titute faces makes you angry at your inability to provide something more decent for the needy,” he explained. On the administrative and organizational level, he said forming teams and securing the needed finances is greater a challenge in this field than in individual or collec- tive business enterprises. His experience with volunteer teamwork and seeing things start from seed to blossom to something immense and of international scope, he confessed, “teaches you to work in any environment and handle any kind of stress and challenge in life.” Work in direct contact with refugees had brought on a major change in character for another volunteer. Lana Al- Rushaid said working to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon helped her change from a person who was angry at what such people suffer to one eager to lend a hand wherever and however possible.

Abdulrahman Al-Yousef during a humanitarian mission. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 LOCAL Woman murdered inside Adailiya home Victim killed with shot to the head

By Hanan Al-Saadoun gations indicate that she died due to a bullet to her head. The Crime exact motives behind the crime remain unknown, though Crime Report KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti woman was found dead in her Adailiya crime scene investigators say that they found evidence which Report home in an apparent armed robbery according to preliminary could suggest that the woman’s house was targeted by investigations. The victim’s body was sent to the medical thieves. The victim, who lived alone, was 50-years old at the MoI sued over examiner to determine the exact cause of death. Early investi- time of her death. Detectives are working on the case. Senior citizen police negligence killed in crash KUWAIT: Lawyer Dalal Al-Mulla has accused the Interior Ministry of negligence and grave professional miscon- By Hanan Al-Saadoun duct committed by an investigator while on duty. The incident began when a man and a veiled woman were KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man in his sixties was killed in a colli- caught drunk inside a car. When the said investigator sion with a car driven by a 19-year-old man. The accident questioned the woman - who gave him a civil ID belong- took place on King Fahd Road. ing to another woman (the complainant) - he did not ask the veiled woman to remove her veil to confirm her identity. This resulted in the drunkenness case being Break-in and robbery registered against the complainant and not the woman who was arrested. Mulla was sentenced for a crime she A citizen told police that he found his car window did not commit. The complainant said her husband, after smashed and his wallet stolen, though it did not learning about the sentence, divorced her and gained contain money. The incident took place in Shaab custody of their children. Club’s parking area. Mulla filed a complaint against an unidentified per- son and accused him of forgery, presenting her ID instead of the arrested woman’s, and taking advantage Search for fake policeman of the investigator’s mistake. She said when fingerprints of the complainant and those of the woman who was Three Asians told police in Sabah Al-Salem that four men questioned were compared, they did not match. They wearing dishdashas entered their residence and claimed belonged to her (veiled) sister and this proved the for- to be detectives. The four refused to show their IDs, beat gery, prompting the cassation court to nullify the cus- the Asians and stole KD 350 and mobile phones. An tody ruling and return the children to their mother. The KUWAIT: The Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate organized a lecture by Dr Nami Al-Nami on manage- investigation is underway. Interior Ministry is being sued for the breakdown in the ment and marketing, which was attended by officials from the Interior Ministry, Justice Ministry, the complainant’s marriage and for the extended loss of cus- governorate and co-operative societies. Major General Mohammad Al-Durai’ie attended the event on tody of her children. behalf Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governor Ahmad Al-Rujaib. Drunk man caught near embassy A Sri Lankan man was taken to Bayan police station Drugs Possession Education minister after he attempted to force his way into the Special missions patrols arrested four men, a Kuwaiti American Embassy. He was found in an abnormal girl, an American, a Syrian and a bedoon during condition. security campaigns in various areas, as drugs were inaugurates two schools found on them. A security source said that patrols in Suicide attempt Salwa suspected two men in a car and when they inspected them, they found a hashish joint and a A citizen in his late 50s attempted suicide by ingesting a shabu envelope. Meanwhile patrols arrested a large quantity of tranquilizer pills. He was admitted to female citizen in Salwa who was wanted for a 14-day Adan Hospital’s ICU. A case was filed to determine his detention on a beating charge. She had a Captagon motives. tablet and a hashish joint. A Kuwaiti and a Syrian with expired iqama were arrested at a checkpoint with hashish and cigarette rolling paper. In Salmiya, two Kuwaitis and an American were caught under Natural causes the influence of drugs, and a shabu envelope and A citizen in South Surra told police his maid was marijuana were found with them. All arrestees were dead. Examinations showed the death was of natu- sent to the concerned authorities. ral causes. A case was filed for investigations.

Sexual assault reported in Salmiya Hashish possession In a case shrouded with mystery, a girl told Jahra police Minister Al-Medej and other ministry officials during a press conference held as part of the tour. A female citizen and an Arab woman were found drunk — Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh that she was drugged and sexually assaulted. She said and had hashish with them. They were referred to the that a young man asked her out for dinner. When she felt proper authorities to face charges. dizzy after eating, she said the man asked her not to leave the car. He then took her to a Salmiya hotel. She claimed the man gave her narcotic tablets for two days, Policeman mugged raped her, then returned her to where her car was parked. Investigations are under way. A police officer and a bedoon told Jahra police that they were robbed of KD 400 while they were in the bedoon’s car in Saad Al-Abdullah. Investigations are Drugs abuse ongoing. Hawally police arrested four men for possessing and using drugs. They also arrested a citizen sentenced to 15 years in jail for a drugs offence. Shuwaikh cus- toms officers sent an Iranian expat to the narcotics authorities for possessing 150 tablets hidden in a can of peanuts. The arrest was made when the Iranian’s belongings were searched and officers found the tablets mixed with peanuts to keep them from being noticed.

Minister Al-Medej and his team during the tour. Al-Medej inspects a basketball Theft of electricity meters court at one of the schools. A representative of a building owner told Maidan Hawally police that unidentified persons stole 15 elec- KUWAIT: The government continuous Minister, made those remarks during about preparations in general and tricity meters. He did not accuse anyone. supporting education in Kuwait by tours he conducted at two new schools working hard to ensure all areas are —Al-Watan, Al-Anbaa opening new schools in various around in the capital education zone. “The tour ready,” he indicated. the country in anticipation of the new is the start of making sure that work is Education ministry have been work- academic year, a senior official said yes- going on as should be and schools are ing for three months, as they hold Money crimes terday. Dr Abdelmohsen Al-Medej, the ready for 2014-2015,” he said. meetings and cooperate with other Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of The minister added that the new state bodies such as health and interior dominate offenses Commerce and Industry, Acting schools were re-built according to the ministries to avoid any mistakes, he Education and Higher Education most recent style. “We are optimistic added. —KUNA KUWAIT: Money crimes dominated offenses in Kuwait in 2013, according to official statistics from the Interior Ministry reported by Al-Qabas. Drug and alcohol related Passenger traffic rose crimes, followed by murder and assault rounded out the top three types of crimes committed in the country. 6% in July: DGCA The statistics indicated that that the total incoming cas- es of prosecution increased from 12,000, 196 cases issued KUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in 2012 to 14,000, 590 cases in 2013. The total number of announced yesterday a 6 percent increase in passenger abductions, arrests and detention reached 4.2 percent traffic at Kuwait International Airport and 8 percent and 2 while crimes of reputation amounted to 1.4 percent. percent increase in aircraft movements and cargo activity, As for the nationality of the accused in money crimes: respectively, during the month of July. Kuwaitis ranked first with 574 accused, while Saudi nation- DGCA’s latest statistics show that the total number of Liquor factory busted passengers who passed through the airport amounted to als ranked second with 276 accused and Syrians came in Ahmadi detectives busted a location in Sabah Al-Ahmad used the third place with 131 accused of money-related offens- 776,144 during the month of July; incoming passengers reached 295,998 while outgoing travelers were 348,799. to manufacture homebrewed liquor for sale. Police found 17 es. Lebanese (81) and the remainder included Jordanians, barrels filled with liquor, 324 bottles prepared for sale and 10 Palestinians and Indians and finally bedoons. There were The number of aircraft movement, meanwhile, rose to 7,279 in July, compared to 6,727 of that of last year. The cooking gas cylinders used in making the drinks. Two Asian also 2,959 crimes registered with the nationalities of the men were arrested during the operation. perpetrators unknown. number of incoming and outgoing commercial flights Misdemeanor cases registered included: cheque reached 6,799 compared to those of 6,295 in July of 2013. offences, which decreased from 1135 to 268, as well as Moreover, cargo activity has seen a rise of 2% (i.e. 15.8 mil- drug addict offences from 471 in 2012 to 440 in 2013. The lion kilograms) compared to the 15.5 million kilograms in Visit visa holders may total cases filed for the commercial affairs offences formed 2013. —KUNA undergo medical tests the largest number compared to the total cases filed in public prosecution. —Al-Qabas KUWAIT: Health Ministry sources told Al-Rai news- paper that the ministry is studying the imposition Domestic labor visa of medical checkups on visit visa holders coming to visit the country in a step to control communicable transfer commences diseases. The sources said that some of these arrivals are able KUWAIT: Acting director of the Manpower Public to obtain work permits and stay in the country, which Authority, Abdullah Al-Motoutah, announced that all labor constitutes an additional factor in the spread of dis- departments have started receiving applications to trans- KUWAIT: Major General Khalid Al-Dayeen, the eases. The sources pointed to the need to take this fer domestic labor visas into private sector ones from Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for important step as a preventive measure. The sources gave the example of a Nigerian football Sunday, August 17th. Motoutah said that transfer would be Correctional Facilities Affairs, met yesterday with open for three months in collaboration with the Interior player who was quarantined on suspicion of contract- Ministry on conditions that applicants have spent at least Makram Sawwah, representative of the International ing Ebola. Although tests proved he was free of the one year working for their sponsor and that the visa should Committee of the Red Cross in Kuwait. The two sides disease, he was prevented from entering the country be transferred to the same sponsor or to one of his first discussed cooperation in prisoners’ rehabilitation until the Ministry of Health agreed to allow him in. degree relatives. —Al-Anbaa and training programs among other topics. LOCAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

In Brief Jahra blackout Road Maintenance Shrimp prices KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water announced that a blackout that hit some districts in KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works placed a tender KUWAIT: Prices of Kuwaiti shrimp dropped from KD 70 Jahra recently was caused by malfunction in a 33 for a maintenance project for highways in Kuwait dur- a basket to KD 55 according to observations at Sharq’s kilovolt cable that connects the Jahra A main station, ing the Central Tenders Commission’s recent meeting. fish market Sunday. The Ministry of Commerce and and another connected to the Jahra P station. The The ministry is looking to go ahead with a new plan to Industry set the sale percentage at the auction at 30 problem caused power outage at the main station carry out full maintenance works at roads around percent for customers, 35 percent for merchants at the and five others connected with it. — KUNA Kuwait based on a specific time schedule, according to market and 35 percent for companies, which helped a ministry source. The ministry also placed a tender for reduce the prices, the Kuwaiti Fishermen Association maintenance works at Jahra Governorate’s sewerage said. — Al-Rai network. — Al-Qabas Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A view of the sunset flanked by buildings along Kuwait City’s horizon. — Photo by Joseph Shagra

Some of the students who took part in the program. (inset) Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid. NBK concludes students summer program KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) “The -five hour daily sessions featured a concluded its 2014 Summer Internship mixture of theoretical and practical training Program for high school and college stu- dedicated to providing the interns with dents. More than 150 students participated valuable knowledge on a variety of sub- in the Summer Internship Program this jects including team work, creative think- year. Students participated in field activities ing, means of self expression and modern including visits to the NBK Hospital and banking procedures, in addition to provid- other public and private institutions. ing interns with greater exposure to daily Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid, NBK Public banking practices and norms,” Rushaid Relations Manager said that NBK views the added. Summer Internship Program as an exten- The 2014 Summer Internship Program sion of NBK’s education outreach services. follows several successful years of NBK “This program is a demonstration of NBK’s Summer Internship Programs. NBK regular- long-standing social involvement and com- ly organizes and designs events and pack- mitment towards providing Kuwait’s ages for the youth of the country to famil- younger generation with appropriate iarize them with the world of banking and opportunities to experience firsthand the make them responsible citizens. banking profession.”

KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) announced sponsoring the annual conference for the National Union of Kuwait Students (NUKS) - United States of America Branch which takes place from 26 November 2014 to 29 November 2014. The picture shows Ali Mousa, CBK Chairman of the Board (center) after receiving Khalid Al-Nafisi, treasurer of the NUKS - USA Branch (right) at his office. Amani Al- Wara’a, the CBK’s Assistant General Director - Media and Public Relations Department, is also seen in the picture. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 LOCAL

wIn my vie kuwait digest Don’t be cruel Palestinians view Meshaal role positive

By Abdullah Erakat By Labeed Abdal espite talk of popular pique at Khaled Meshaal because of his accumulated wealth and impetuous goading of DIsrael from the safe distance of 1,200 miles while the Gaza Strip suffered carnage and devastation, the Hamas leader- in-exile has nevertheless emerged from the month-long siege of Gaza with a solid majority of Gazans feeling he casts a “posi- [email protected] tive” image. According to one Palestinian pundit, Meshaal is ris- ing from the ashes of Gaza as the figure its residents most desire took a moment recently to listen to a song by one to lead them. of the greatest artists in human history: Elvis According to Dr. Hani Al-Basoos, a Gaza-based security and IPresley. In the song titled ‘Don’t be Cruel’, Elvis asks political analyst, it’s exactly the distance between Gaza and the girl he loves not to be cruel to him, because he Doha where Meshaal lives that was instrumental in honing his loves her and plans to marry her. He keeps repeating image and solidifying his leadership role. Other leaders - the the same call to her in the song, saying that he sits ones who remained in Gaza, albeit underground during the alone in his house and insisting his true love for her. IRSAL Al-Watan fighting — were removed from the public’s daily perception, Al- I have received many feedback letters from my Basoos told The Media Line. “You could not see any one of them dear readers, in which they reiterate something that I because they might be a target for an Israeli air strike.” Meshaal often call for in my columns, which is promoting has profound edge over the Gaza-shut-in leadership in his abili- peace between people regardless of race, religion, ty to move around and be seen constantly on television, often sectarian group or social category. At the end of the from Qatar. His prominence in the Egyptian-mediated talks also provided him with access to Cairo that would arguably be denied to him because of Hamas’ relationship to the Muslim kuwait digest Brotherhood, banned and vilified by the Al-Sisi regime. The 58-year old Hamas leader was born near Jerusalem and There is no doubt that moved to Kuwait shortly after the outbreak of the 1967 war and Mobile phone hell! joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1971. When former Iraqi human goodness, for- President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Meshaal moved to Jordan where he became the Hamas bureau chief. giveness and respecting By Ahmed Al-Sarraf Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu suffered one of the largest embarrassments during his first term of office in 1997 people’s dignity is a duty apanese workers are the most productive vacation and do nothing for another week after when he ordered Meshaal poisoned for his role in attacks in all civilizations, worldwide and they rarely demand annual returning to work. against Israeli citizens. But the assassination attempt failed and Jleaves. Therefore, as they are the best ones and A study made by the Bank of America showed resulted in a deal struck between Netanyahu and an angry King religions and basic ethics. out of fear of fatigue or sickness, their superiors have that 47 per cent of smartphone users cannot spend Hussein, through which Meshaal was provided with the anti- been forcing them to go on longer leaves over the a single day without their devices, which is a very dote to the poison. Following years of living in Damascus under the protection past few decades, and accordingly, we started see- dangerous figure, especially with the rapid increase of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Meshaal was in all practicali- day, we are all humans. And people, both men and ing Japanese tourists everywhere in the world. They in smartphone users’ attachment to such devices. ty exiled again as the civil war heated up, placing the Hamas women, should share equal rights and duties to build are not rare amongst tourists anymore. Some of them cannot even do without their phones leader in an uncomfortable political position. His move to Doha human societies. Like many of my colleagues in 1965, I had a sub- for a day. The study also showed that a high percent- was predictable based on the strong support Qatar provides to The world is bothered today by crises that affected scription of the National Geographic magazine and age of them cannot do without their phones for Hamas. Once the fighting began in the Gaza Strip, his access many societies, and originated mostly from one par- and visibility became far greater than Gaza-based chief Ismail in one of its issues, a photo of a German factory more than an hour. Over 51 percent check their Haniyyeh or any of his other comrades and according to many, ty’s baseless belief that others are of a lower status or worker operating a huge machine caught my atten- mobile phones every hour, while 35 percent check making him the best choice to lead Hamas. less deserving than they are for land, wealth or even tion. A small table was placed near the machine with them constantly, that is once every 10 minutes. In the opinion of Al-Basoos, the Meshaal paradigm will stay appreciation. Authorities responsible for public aware- lots of presents wrapped in gift paper and ribbons. Asking the people subject to the survey about var- around for the foreseeable future. “Any leader of Hamas that fol- ness in each state have the duty of ensuring that the The caption underneath said that on his last day of ious pleasures they are willing to give up or do away lows, will have to be outside of Palestine because he will have to principle of human equality is applied all the time. have freedom of movement and a relationship with the interna- There is no doubt that human goodness, forgive- work in the factory and after a 40-year-long career, with in case someone steals their mobile phone and tional community,” the Islamic University professor told The ness and respecting people’s dignity is a duty in all the man refused to celebrate his retirement during promises to return it on condition that they sacrifice Media Line. He said Hamas was losing popularity during the civilizations, religions and basic ethics. We hope to see factory working hours and told his colleagues that one of them, 45 percent said they were willing to four or five months leading up to the Gaza war, but has since these basics adopted every day all around the world, they would have to wait a few minutes after working give up alcohol, 34 percent said they’d give up regained what was lost and added to it as a result of its con- and that authorities worldwide avoid controlling peo- hours to do so! chocolate and 35 percent said they’d give sex. The frontation with Israel. “Because of its ability to fight the occupa- ple’s fate and distributing wealth by discrimination Things are different in our side of the world. For study also showed that most youth consider smart- tion forces, it gained more popularity and if we have elections now, Hamas will most likely win,” he said. based on social categorization. And for that I say, one reason or another, we are used to stop work- phones as the most important part of their daily life! don’t be cruel. During the first two weeks of fighting, the Arab World for ing a week before going out on a month-long —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas Research and Development (AWRAD) polled 300 West Bank Palestinians and 150 Palestinians deemed to be “opinion lead- ers” on issues relating to the war. Because of the war, it was not possible to poll Gazans. The result of the citizens’ poll was that 66% of West Bankers - presumed to be Fatah-leaning - believe regional opinion Meshaal played a positive role during the Gaza war while only 13% felt Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s role Egypt and the US: A strategic was equally positive. Although the “opinion leaders” disagreed, finding Meshaal’s role as negative, they did agree that “Abbas tug of war relationship did not do a good job.” “For the first time in three or four years, we’ve seen that sup- port for Hamas has increased and bypassed Fatah in the West Bank,” said AWRAD General Director Dr. Nader Saeed, explaining that the questions were very specific to how every leader is dealing with the subject of a cease-fire. Hamas polled 31% “positive” to Fatah’s 25%. “This a major By Shaher Zakaria decline for support of Fatah from 40% and that’s an 11% increase of support for Hamas. For Meshaal, in terms of the resistance, in terms of the war in Gaza, he is doing well because he is part of a product position. But personally, I don’t think he has a chance [of winning out over Fatah/Abbas] among Palestinians because he is outside of Palestine and is seen as a [email protected] follower of regional politics instead of Palestinian politics,” opined Saeed. He also predicts that Hamas’ popularity will revert to pre-war gypt has gone through numerous different peri- levels and Meshaal’s personal popularity along with it. ods and phases over the past three years, all part Disagreeing with Al Basoos, he says Palestinians will ultimately Eof an extensive period of transformation whose favor former Hamas Prime Minister Haniyyeh. “Under the rubble definitive outcome is yet to be known. The nation visi- now, a great deal of the truth is missing. It’s a “lose-lose” situa- bly has real terrorism, economical and social issues. The tion for Hamas and Meshaal, ‘when things settle down in Gaza.’” whole world realizes Egypt’s significance in the greater Saeed says the bigger question is what the future holds for Middle Eastern region, being the most populated Arab Abbas and Fatah and whether their popularity will return. The country, guardian of the Suez Canal, a neighbor of Palestinian President was harshly criticized by the people for Israel with a peace treaty linking both nations and lying having what was perceived to be an inactive role and for keep- at a crossroads between Africa, Asia and Europe. ing a low profile during the Gaza war. The current Egyptian government views requests “I don’t think Abbas and Fatah will be able to return to their for reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood as pre-war standing.” Hamas is going through a crisis and is trying hopeless, and the US has not been successful finding to present itself as a defender of Palestinian rights, Saeed says. support in Cairo for a government that would include But the reality of it is that they are relying on Qatar and Turkey to the Brotherhood. The more the US calls for reconcilia- support their position while it’s Egypt that is “the main pillar of tion efforts with the Muslim Brotherhood the more Palestinian politics. People know that Egypt has fought wars for damage it will do to US-Egyptian relations. Palestine,” he says. He uses the waning popularity of Al-Jazeera Washington, hence, faces a dilemma: To continue television as proof of Qatar’s declining influence. The Qatar- based network has lost 50% (25%, down from 75%) of its the military aid or deny it. Truthfully speaking there is Palestinian viewership during the past 3 years. “More and more little hope of influencing Egypt’s domestic politics and people are seeing Al-Jazeera and Qatar as trying to divide one must say if the United States were to reevaluate Palestinians,” according to Saeed. the aid package it is doubtful to have an effect on Jordan-based analyst Daoud Kuttab agrees that “Meshaal Cairo’s cooperation. Washington’s ultimate aim is to and Hamas came out of the war stronger than they were before have Egypt strategically aligned with the United States; the fighting, but says, “I don’t think this popularity will be long however, many calls from the Egyptian elite and peo- lived and I doubt it will translate directly to high votes in nation- ple in the street have called for Egypt to dispose of the al elections,” he told The Media Line. US aid as they view it a portal by which the United Kuttab says that the situation on the ground and internal States can meddle in Egyptian internal policies. Palestinian unity has precedence over all other issues and Additionally, over the years the relationship between admonishes Palestinians not to accept conditions that go the United States and Egypt has progressively grown against their higher interests. to highlight the security side at the expense of the eco- “Qatar has acted as it has in the past using its money, nomic side. This “Mubarak regime” assistance makes media and other influences to remind the world that Qatar no sense, cannot be continued anymore, and is outdat- exists and must be taken seriously,” he said. The Egyptian web- ed given the current circumstance today. site, “Dotmasr” quoted a former Egyptian official as saying The United States should change attention to an Qatar paid Hamas $50 billion dollars not to agree to the first investment on the Egyptian people. It should empha- cease-fire proposed by Egypt, the acceptance of which would size on the society more than whoever is in power. The arguably have prevented 90% of the Palestinian casualties. new relationship needs to send the indication that the But Al-Basoos is skeptical of the report, calling it “baseless.” cooperation is with the country of Egypt not just the He says this is not the first time Qatar and Egypt have military. Today, there is a growing generation of young exchanged accusations. While he says Qatar does not have Egyptians who need to be educated and equipped to the political and military capabilities that Egypt has, Doha, he enter the work force. The United States assistance says, would never use its money to harm the Palestinians. He should aim to directly affect the population; empower- also says that Israel would never allow Qatar to be the media- ing the Egyptian people and refining their economic tor and Egypt is the only state that can “get the Palestinians visions. The United States needs to invest in higher and Israelis to some middle ground.” education and human development and only then will Meanwhile, Kuttab says he would have liked Abbas or at the United States be viewed favorably to the ordinary least Palestinian Prime Minister Hamdallah to be in Gaza dur- Egyptian citizen. ing the war. “But,” he says, “the time for politics is after the guns stop.” —The Media Line TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan delivers a speech during a protest yesterday. — AP Khan’s lawmakers to resign in Pakistan poll row India cancels Pakistan talks over Kashmir

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani opposition politician Imran numbers had ebbed and life was returning to nor- Khan’s party announced yesterday it is to renounce mal. all its parliamentary seats, in a bitter row with the There was more condemnation for Khan’s civil dis- government over alleged poll rigging. Former cricket obedience call from the business community. The star Khan claims last year’s general election, in which Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party came third, Industry said the focus should be on getting the was rigged and has demanded Prime Minister Nawaz shaky economy back on track. “Pakistan is in critical Sharif resign and hold new polls. economic and political condition and political activi- The dramatic mass resignation came as the gov- ties have hampered the process of economic and ernment tried to launch formal talks with Khan and commercial development of the country,” its presi- populist cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who is leading a paral- dent Zakaria Usman said in a statement. A stinging lel protest, also calling for new elections. Addressing editorial from Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest English-lan- his workers later in the evening, Khan said he would guage newspaper, said Khan had “miscalculated dis- march on Islamabad’s high-security “Red Zone” with astrously and painted himself and his party into a his party workers and supporters today. corner”. “I will lead the march on the Red Zone and my workers will follow me,” he told protesters, asking his Fragile democracy party workers to remain peaceful during the march. Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) has The heavily guarded Red Zone houses Pakistan’s top accused Khan of trying to derail Pakistan’s perennial- government buildings and many foreign embassies. ly fragile democratic system. PML-N lawmaker and Khan and Qadri on Saturday led thousands of sup- spokeswoman Marvi Memon said the government porters on a “long march” to the capital from the was not concerned by Khan’s “ludicrous” civil disobe- eastern city of Lahore, hoping to mobilize a mass dience appeal. The nuclear-armed country has expe- movement to oust Sharif. But Khan’s protest failed to rienced three military coups and the latest crisis has attract the vast crowds he had promised and other triggered more speculation about possible interven- opposition parties yesterday shunned his call for a tion by the powerful armed forces. But sources said campaign of civil disobedience, leaving him looking back-channel talks to resolve the row were under increasingly isolated. way yesterday and the government said it would soon announce cross-party committees to hold for- Decision time mal talks with PTI and Qadri. PTI vice-chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi Meanwhile, India yesterday cancelled talks with announced the shock mass resignation of MPs late Pakistan scheduled for next week, angrily berating yesterday afternoon. “We are resigning from the Islamabad over a meeting between Pakistan’s high National Assembly, Punjab Assembly, Baluchistan commissioner and Kashmiri separatists. The foreign Assembly and Sindh Assembly,” Qureshi told ministry said yesterday’s meeting between the reporters. He said the party was still making a deci- Pakistani envoy and separatist leaders in Indian- sion about what to do in northwestern Khyber- administered Kashmir had undermined efforts by Pakhtunkhwa province, where they are in power. the new Indian government to engage with The MPs’ resignations must be submitted to the Islamabad. Pakistan said the cancellation of talks national assembly speaker and passed on to the between Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and election commission. Qureshi did not say when this her Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry would happen. PTI scored their best-ever perform- was a “setback” for relations between the nuclear- ance in last year’s election, which Sharif won in a armed neighbors. landslide victory and was rated as free and credible Pakistan’s foreign office described meetings with by international observers. They won 27 seats-which pro-independence leaders as a “longstanding prac- will now go to by-elections-and were awarded seven tice” ahead of talks with India, held “to facilitate more through Pakistan’s quota system for getting meaningful discussions”. “The Indian decision is a women and religious minorities into parliament. setback to the efforts by our leadership to promote Analyst Rahimullah Yusufzai said Khan had “isolat- good neighborly relations with India,” the foreign ed and weakened” himself with the civil disobedi- office said in a statement. Relations between the two ence call and the mass resignation was a risky gam- neighbors broke down after attacks by Pakistani ble. “This is an act of desperation. It will not bring gunmen on India’s commercial hub Mumbai in 2008 the government under pressure-it has already sur- in which 166 people were killed. vived pressure of the march,” he told AFP. But Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sur- prise move to invite his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz ‘Unconstitutional’ Sharif to his swearing-in ceremony in May spurred Before PTI’s unexpected, high-stakes gamble, oth- hopes that peace talks between the two countries er opposition parties had distanced themselves from could resume. Last month, they scheduled talks Khan’s call for people to stop paying taxes and utility between Singh and Chaudhry for August 25. The bills in protest against the government. Former pres- high commissioner’s provocative move to meet with ident Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan separatists comes at a time of political turmoil in People’s Party, the largest opposition party, said Pakistan, where opposition leader Imran Khan has Khan’s willingness to use “unconstitutional means” to called for mass civil disobedience to unseat the gov- pursue his goals threatened democracy. ernment. Khan, the former cricket star who leads the “Democracy and nation will not be served by calls Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party, has led thou- for civil disobedience nor by a stubborn refusal by sands of supporters from the eastern city of Lahore any side to engage in a meaningful dialogue on to rally in Islamabad to demand that the government political issues,” Zardari said in a statement. The resign. Pakistan has experienced three military coups authorities deployed tens of thousands of security and the latest crisis has triggered more speculation personnel on Islamabad’s streets and blocked main about possible intervention by the powerful armed roads to contain the protests, but by yesterday their forces. — Agencies TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Japanese man feared kidnapped by Syrian militants

TOKYO: Japan’s government said yesterday it was violence-wracked Syria, which is now operating out state and we are seeking to confirm the safety of can also be seen at the website of Tokyo-based pri- investigating a video posted online that appears to of neighboring Jordan. the person through various routes,” he said. Since vate military firm PMC, which lists Yukawa as its show a kidnapped Japanese man being roughly “We are gathering all available information 2011, Japan has been recommending that its chief executive. Pictures on the website, which kept interrogated by Syrian militants. The video, which available, including on social media such as nationals stay away from the strife-torn country. crashing yesterday afternoon, show him with right- surfaced over the weekend, shows a man who Facebook and Twitter, but we have to be cautious The foreign ministry as well as the prime minister’s wing Japanese activists. Details about the kind of identified himself as Haruna Yukawa lying on the about the credibility of that kind of information,” a office and National Policy Agency have set up a services the firm offered were not immediately ground with blood trickling down his face as his ministry official told reporters. “We need to confirm special team to deal with the incident, the ministry available. apparent captors question him. The man, with mat- facts around the case.” Some messages on social official said. Calls to the firm went unanswered yesterday ted brown hair and wearing a black T-shirt stained media referred to Yukawa as a spy, and said he had But he declined to confirm the identity of the and it was unclear if the company had other by dust and sweat, offered brief responses to ques- been executed by Islamic State (IS) militants. The person on the video, or even if a person named employees. Its website said the firm has branch tions posed in English about why he was in Syria foreign ministry was “not in a position to directly Haruna Yukawa was missing. “Because of the situa- offices in “Turkey, Syria, Africa”. There was no evi- and the reason he was carrying a gun. contact” the group, the official said. “We are trying tion in Syria, we don’t have any staff in the country dence of the company at the Tokyo address given He replied in stilted English that he was a “pho- to make a contact with them in any way we can,” he and we have no plan to send anyone,” he said. Early on the website, a 13-storey office building. Yukawa tographer” and a “journalist, half doctor”, as his added. No one has claimed responsibility for the last year, a Japanese trucker who entered Syria also has a blog with video footage of what he interrogators accused him of lying, with one plac- apparent kidnapping. clandestinely through Turkey made headlines as a describes as massacres in the northern Syrian city ing a long knife near his chest before the video war tourist who said he was shooting photos and of Aleppo by President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces. stops. “I’m no soldier,” the man said in the video as ‘Private military firm’ video of conflict. Japanese nationals’ involvement as combatants in apparently dubbed on Middle-Eastern music Vice foreign minister Akitaka Saiki later told Another online video that appeared at the foreign conflicts is limited, although the country’s played. Japan’s foreign ministry said it was trying to reporters that the civil war in Syria made it difficult weekend showed a man believed to be Yukawa extensive media is usually well-represented in verify the man’s identity through its embassy in to investigate the case. “Syria is in a very confused test-firing an AK-47 assault rifle in Syria. The video hotspots. — AFP 6 killed in mystery airstrikes in Libya

US, Egyptian, NATO officials deny involvement

CAIRO: Airstrikes launched by an unknown party targeting station Al-Naba that the jet fighters were “foreign” and Islamist-led militias in Libya’s capital killed six people yes- urged the government to take action against what he terday, authorities said, as the interim government vowed described as a “blatant foreign intervention.” A statement to investigate the strikes amid raging street battles. The by the Libyan Army chief of staff’s media office said that confusion over who launched the two fighter jets shows jets used “guided bombs” not in the possession of the the chaos still engulfing Libya after the 2011 civil war that Libyan army. It also said the fighters couldn’t have flown toppled down longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. In a out of Wittiya because it is closed and Libyan jets can’t fly statement, the government demanded the chief of staff for long distances at night due to needing to refuel. Tarek and military intelligence to investigate the predawn strikes Mitri, the outgoing UN envoy to Libya, denied that it was yesterday morning targeting positions of militias originally involved the strikes. He said both France and Italy denied from the coastal city of Misrata and its Islamist allies. being involved in the strikes either. The violence in Libya is The strikes, under the cover of darkness, sparked fears rooted to the empowerment of militias after successive that a foreign country like Italy carried out the attack, as transitional governments depended on them to maintain the Libyan military does not have aircraft that can fly at order in the absence of a strong police force or a unified night, according to a former colonel in the Libyan air force. military. It also came as part of a backlash by Islamist fac- Libya’s newly elected parliament recently asked the United tions after losing their power in parliament following June Nations to protect its civilians and stop the fighting. Italy’s elections and in the face of a campaign by Hifter against ambassador to Libya even went on local television to say extremist Islamic militias in Benghazi, Libya’s second- his country was not involved. largest city. MOSUL: Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters celebrate sitting on the back of a truck as they head to the Mosul dam Ahmed Hadiya, the spokesman for Libya Shield, an In Tripoli, fighting since June concentrated around its on the Tigris river that they recaptured from Islamic State jihadists. — AFP umbrella group for militias, suggested that the warplanes international airport, controlled since 2011 by militias affili- took off from the Wittiya air base west of Tripoli and target- ated to the mountain town of Zintan. Its opponents, a mix- ed a base taken over by his militias recently. He did not ture of Mistara militias and Islamists, launched a surprise Iraq says it seizes Mosul provide more details. A militiaman from the coastal city of attack on the airport aiming to drive them out. The fighting Misrata said the jets belong to forces allied to renegade has destroyed the airport and seen rockets fall on residen- Gen Khalifa Hifter. The militiaman spoke on condition of tial areas, sparking fears of wider chaos and prompting anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to journal- diplomats, foreign nationals and Libyans to flee. For six Dam; militants deny it ists. hours, Egypt yesterday cancelled all flights to Libya, saying Ali Al-Shekhli, an army spokesman, later told television Libyan authorities had closed the country’s airspace. — AP BAGHDAD: Backed by US airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish specify whether there were any US airstrikes in the area of forces yesterday wrested back control of the country’s the dam yesterday. Local residents and others in the area largest dam from Islamic militants, a military spokesman in could not immediately be contacted to confirm the securi- Baghdad said, as fighting was reported to be underway for ty forces’ recapture of the dam. Jewish-Muslim wedding the rest of the strategic complex. Soon after the news Iraq’s Defense Ministry said security forces “liberated a broke, the Islamic State group, which two weeks ago cap- large part of the Mosul Dam” with the help of US airstrikes, tured the Mosul Dam spanning the Tigris River just north of adding that forces are working to fully free the entire com- brings out Israel tensions the city of Mosul, denied the claim, insisting it was still in plex. In a statement, US Central Command said it carried control of the facility. out 15 airstrikes near the dam yesterday with fighter jets, A US defense official in Washington confirmed the bombers and drones. However, a senior Kurdish command- RISHON LETZION: Mahmud and Islamic State group has not entirely lost control of the er told The Associated Press that his peshmerga forces had Morel never imagined that on the Mosul Dam. “It’s not over,” the official said, speaking on withdrawn from the dam complex yesterday afternoon happiest day of their lives, they condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing military opera- because it was heavily rigged with explosives. He spoke on would walk down the aisle to racist tions. The retaking of the dam would mark the first major condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to chants by extremists opposed to victory for the Iraqi and Kurdish forces battling the Islamic talk to journalists. In an online statement, the Islamic State the marriage of a Muslim and a Jew. militants since US airstrikes began earlier this month. denied losing control of the dam, dismissing the govern- Their Sunday night wedding near However, the conflicting accounts that emerged yesterday ment claim as “mere propaganda war.” The statement, Tel Aviv was marred by the bitter underscored the fluid nature of the situation as Kurdish which could not be independently verified, was posted on shouting of several hundred young and Iraqi forces try to reassert themselves after weeks of a website frequently used by the militants. The US protesters who joined a rally called setbacks. launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq for by Lehava, an extremist more than a week ago in a bid to halt its advance across rightwing Israeli group that fights Troops get backing the north. The US military said US forces conducted nine against intermarriage. Retaking the dam could significantly boost their morale strikes Saturday and another 16 on Sunday. as they try to free territory overrun by the Islamic State in a Dressed in T-shirts bearing racist blitz this summer. The dam and its broader complex hold International concerns slogans and whipped up by weeks great strategic value as they supply electricity and water to The US and France have agreed to arm Kurdish fight- of war in Gaza, the demonstrators a large part of the country. Army spokesman Lt Gen ers - with the US providing light weapons and ammuni- played cat and mouse with around Qassim Al-Moussawi said the dam itself was secured by tion. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius refused to 100 policemen trying to stop them Kurdish peshmerga troops and Iraqi security forces yester- specify the type of arms France would deliver, saying from insulting and abusing the day but that the southern side of the complex remains only they would be “sophisticated.” The British and happy couple and their guests. contested and that fierce fighting is underway to free that German governments have also stated their willingness Supporters of the young couple area. At least 170 bombs have been dismantled around to supply the Kurds with weapons. The dam’s seizure by handed out flowers and waved the dam but many more remain, Al-Moussawi added in a Islamic State militants on Aug 7 was part of a string of signs reading: “Love conquers all” televised statement. He said that militants fled to areas victories by the Sunni radical group as it looks to expand and “Jew and Muslims refuse to be near the south of the complex, hiding in homes and Al- its hold in northern Iraq, driving back Kurdish forces, enemies.” “Death to Arabs!” yelled Moussawi said earlier yesterday that the Iraqi and Kurdish sending minority communities fleeing and unleashing a back the protestors who waved forces “hoisted the Iraqi flag over” the dam. He added that wave of violence over a territory straddling the Syria-Iraq giant Israeli flags. The ugly con- the troops were backed by a joint aerial support but didn’t border. — AP frontation made headlines and was carried live on national television in microcosm of the tensions which have been tearing at the seams of Israeli society, particularly over the In Gaza, emotional wounds past two months. The love story between this 26- TEL AVIV: Arab Israeli Muslim groom, Mahmoud Mansour (left), and his of war remain unhealed year-old Israeli Romeo and his 23- Israeli bride Morel Malcha sit on a couch in Mahmoud’s family home ahead year-old Juliet began five years ago of their wedding ceremony. — AFP when businessman Mahmud BEIT LAHIYA: Shahed Quishta was curled up in an armchair Works Agency. Children are especially vulnerable because Mansur met Morel Malka. He is her arms bare, the bride entered and worrying.” “Mahmud and Morel one late afternoon during the Gaza war when a shell they can’t put their experiences into context yet, he said. Muslim, she is Jewish, but has since the room as music played and was from Jaffa decided to get married slammed into her living room. Shrapnel pierced the 8-year The U.N. estimates that about 373,000 children in Gaza converted to Islam. Although they warmly swept up in an affectionate and live out their existence in a old’s head and neck, and she died minutes after arriving at a need direct psychological intervention because they’ve wit- knew their union would spark fami- embrace by her soon-to-be in-laws. democratic state. Expressions of hospital. Her funeral was held before nightfall, in line with nessed violence, lost a relative or have been displaced. Such ly tensions, they had no way of “Morel is my second daughter, I had incitement against them are outra- Muslim tradition. Her family couldn’t host a customary children often display one or more of a range of symptoms, just one and now I have two!” geous and worrying,” said Rivlin, three-day wake, typically attended by hundreds of people, including bed-wetting, nightmares, irritability or clinging to knowing that it would become a catalyst for nationwide tensions fur- smiled Mohammed Mansur as he who holds far-right views but is because streets remained dangerous during ongoing fight- parents. gazed on his son’s bride. known as a staunch defender of ing between Israel and Gaza militants. Almost a month ther exacerbated by weeks of dead- ly fighting in Gaza. democracy. after her death from what her father says was an Israeli tank Counselors offer psychological ‘first aid’ ‘Nothing to celebrate’ “Not everybody has to join in the shell, her family remains paralyzed by grief. In the last major round of fighting in Gaza in the winter And they had no idea of the storm that would erupt after they But Morel’s father was not there. joy of Mahmud and Morel but Sister Rojina, 14, can’t sleep in the room they shared, of 2008-2009, about 18,000 of some 190,000 children He had already announced on tele- everyone must treat them with dig- spending nights on a mattress in the hallway. Her mother attending UN-run schools required counseling, Zaqout said. posted details of their forthcoming nuptials on Facebook, triggering vision that he would not attend “his nity,” he wrote on his Facebook Nisreen, 38, takes clothes from Shahed’s closet from time to Several hundred still haven’t recovered, he said, adding that daughter’s marriage to an Arab.” page, wishing the couple “health, time, crying as she inhales the lingering scent. The Quishtas repeated exposure to trauma - a given in Gaza - compounds calls by Lehava for demonstrators to storm their wedding hall. Her fiancÈ had spent most of the peace and joy.” Justice Minister Tzipi are among thousands who suffered a loss during the cur- the problem. Some 100 UN trauma counselors now visit day at court in Rishon LeTzion in an Livni said such expressions of rent Israel-Hamas war, the third in Gaza in just over five several dozen crowded UN schools that have been turned “Nothing will break us, we’ll have a attempt to prevent the expected hatred made her ashamed. “This years. The emotional wounds, though sometimes hidden, into shelters for those who fled or were made homeless by wonderful marriage, the most demonstration from happening. His kind of extremism is unbearable,” can be seen in the grim statistics of the conflict. Close to the fighting. Several private groups providing trauma relief beautiful that you can imagine,” she told public radio. The couple 2,000 Palestinians were killed, including 459 children, and have also sprung up in recent years, though the demand Mahmud said before the ceremony. lawyer explained all the attempts to more than 10,000 people were wounded since fighting continues to outstrip available treatment. Before the main reception, the intimidate and harass the couple in employed bodyguards who had to began July 8, according to UN figures. About 20 percent of The counselors offer psychological “first aid” to those at family pushed back the furniture recent days, but the judge allowed verify the guest list and even frisk Gaza’s population of 1.8 million people has been displaced, the shelters. Children are usually accessible, eagerly joining inside their small apartment in the the protest to go ahead, on condi- hundreds of guests, who had to including about 100,000 whose homes were destroyed or playgroups in school courtyards or picking up crayons to ancient port town of Jaffa, known tion it took place some 200 meters push their way through a crowd of damaged beyond repair. draw what they saw in the war. At least 30 percent of the for its mixed Jewish-Arab popula- from the wedding hall. demonstrators. “This is a wedding Based on these numbers, “the psychological effects (in children at the shelters will need longer-term treatment, tion, decorated the room and laid The affair, which was splashed but there is nothing to celebrate this war) will be much higher than in the previous ones,” Zaqout estimated. Adults are often reluctant - especially out sweet pastries on plates. across the local media, even because assimilation is a scourge,” said Dr. Iyad Zaqout, who runs the community mental men. On a recent morning, counselor Kamel Kahlout from Dressed in an ornate white and sil- reached the ears of President said Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein health program of Gaza’s main aid group, the UN Relief and the Gaza branch of a US-based group, — AP ver dress with a plunging cleavage, Reuven Rivlin, who said the incite- in reference to Jews and non-Jews ment against them was “outrageous mixing. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

Assange hopes to exit London ‘soon’

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who British bail terms. “I am leaving the embassy had no intention of handing himself over to the has spent over two years in Ecuador’s London soon... but perhaps not for the reasons that police, he added. embassy to avoid a sex crimes inquiry in Sweden, Murdoch press and Sky news are saying at the Ecuador’s Patino said he would try to hold talks said yesterday he planned to leave the building moment,” Assange told reporters at the embassy with his British counterpart to resolve the case. “soon”, but Britain signaled it would still arrest him in central London. Britain’s Sky News, part owned Recent changes to British extradition laws may if he tried. Assange made the surprise assertion by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, had earlier mean Assange would not be facing extradition if during a news conference alongside Ecuador’s reported that Assange was considering leaving his case had just started. Britain’s Foreign Office Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino. But his the embassy due to deteriorating health. said it remained as committed as ever to reaching spokesman played down the chances of an immi- a diplomatic solution to the problem, but reiterat- nent departure, saying the British government ‘Call off the siege’ ed that Assange still needed to be extradited. “As would first need to revise its position and let him WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of confi- ever we look to Ecuador to help bring this difficult, leave without arrest, something it has repeatedly dential US documents on the Internet in 2010. and costly, situation to an end,” a spokeswoman refused to do. That embarrassed the United States, and some said. The 43-year-old Australian fled to the embassy critics say it put national security and people’s The Assange issue has put Britain and Ecuador in June 2012 to avoid extradition for questioning lives at risk. Ecuador later granted Assange politi- at odds, with London angered by the decision of in Sweden over sex assault and rape allegations, cal asylum. But he was unable to leave Britain and Ecuador’s socialist President Rafael Correa to grant which he denies. He says he fears that if extradited has ended up living in the embassy’s cramped him asylum and Quito unhappy at the British to Sweden he would then be handed over to the quarters in central London. His comments briefly refusal to allow him safe passage. Asked about his United States, where he could be tried for one of raised the possibility of his leaving imminently. health, Assange said anyone would be affected by LONDON: Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino (left) shakes the largest information leaks in US history. But Kristinn Hrafnsson, his spokesman, told spending two years in a building with no outside hands with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a press con- Assange would be arrested if he exited the reporters that he could only do so if the British areas or direct sunlight, a complaint he has made ference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy yesterday. — AP London embassy because he has breached his government “calls off the siege outside”. Assange several times before. — Reuters ‘Surf’s up’ in S Africa’s shacklands

CAPE TOWN: Not many teenagers would feel cold winter water than they should. And safer in a shark-infested sea than in their own some carry boards that are the worse for neighborhood, but Luxolo Ponco does. His wear. But when they reach the beach and home is in the violent Khayelitsha township have done their warm-up run, along with a in Cape Town, but he has found refuge a traditional song and dance for energy, they short walk down a dusty road and over the plunge into the sea with astonishing confi- dunes, at Monwabisi beach. “When the gangs dence. fight I come here to surf and I feel safe,” he Most of them could not swim when they says. Safety is relative. A week before Luxolo joined the program and have barely seen the spoke to AFP a surfer was attacked by a Great beach, despite its proximity to their homes. White shark just a few kilometers down the “There is this amazing resource on their beach. doorstep-people in other areas pay millions And in June, a fisherman was shot dead by to live by the beach,” says Conibear, 32. A robbers before dawn on the same stretch of keen surfer who first came to South Africa coastline. But Luxolo, 17, is one of about 250 with the ambition of becoming a wine maker, youths from Khayelitsha who have found a Conibear fell in love with both the Cape and a new perspective on life with Waves for local woman, to whom he is now married. Change, a non-governmental organization Moved by the plight of people in the town- founded and run by British surfer Tim ships-the name given to urban areas for Conibear. With a cold wind blowing one blacks under apartheid-he established Waves recent winter’s day, more than 30 children for Change with the idea of getting children aged from seven upwards gathered cheerful- hooked on surfing rather than the more neg- ly in a scruffy compound housing an old con- ative attractions of their neighborhood. This tainer full of surfboards and wetsuits. helps secure regular attendance at the pro- The compound is surrounded by concrete gramme, which also “promotes active learn- walls topped with razor wire, but the contrast ing, open discussion and connection to fur- between their surroundings in Khayelitsha ther social, health and educational support”, LUGANSK: A Ukrainian soldier gestures as he talks with children yesterday. — AFP and the nearby beach is stark. Khayelitsha he says. sprawls for 43 square kilometers (16 square miles) of makeshift shacks and humble hous- ‘The sea helped me change’ Dozens killed in attack es over a flat and featureless plain. Most of the children have experienced emotional trauma, ranging from physical and ‘No more gangsters’ sexual abuse to domestic violence and neg- The beach looks out on the vast blue lect. Many are referred to the program by on convoy in Ukraine waters of False Bay, which curves from a dra- schools where they are seen to be struggling. matic mountain range in the east to Cape The children “learn to believe in themselves Point, Africa’s most south-western tip. The and realise they can achieve their goals,” says KIEV: Dozens of people, including women and overnight, building on a weekend breakthrough Problems in the ranks Cape’s famed natural beauty draws multi- Nolwazi Makhuluphala, the NGO’s senior children, were killed fleeing fighting in eastern when troops raised the national flag in Luhansk, In a further sign that the rebel leadership tudes of tourists, but South Africa is a work in child and youth care officer. Khayelitsha pro- Ukraine yesterday when their convoy of buses a city held by pro-Russian separatists since fight- may be facing deep problems in its ranks, it progress just 20 years after the end of the gram manager ‘MacGyver’ Ngeyakhe, 26, was hit by rocket fire, military spokesmen said. ing began in April. Troops blockaded or recap- said it was setting up military tribunals and racial system of apartheid, which barred peo- sporting a big smile through a few missing bringing in the death penalty for a string of ple like Luxolo from ‘whites-only’ beaches. teeth, plenty of tattoos and an earring in each Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels of targeting tured rebel-held positions after international The anger and despair among impoverished ear, has a past matching those of the children the convoy, which it said was bearing white flags talks in Berlin failed to reach agreement on a offences including treason, desertion, espi- people who feel they have not benefitted in his care. when it was hit near the eastern city of Luhansk. ceasefire. Nine soldiers were killed. onage, attempts on the lives of the leadership enough under the new black majority gov- “I was a bad boy. The sea helped me The separatists denied responsibility. “The rebels Western sanctions against Moscow have and sabotage. “Introducing the death penalty ernment often explodes into violence. change,” he says. As evidence of the fact that were expecting the convoy and destroyed it failed to stem what NATO says is a steady supply is not revenge, it is the highest degree of But on the beach at Monwabisi, the chil- the program is doing the same for the young- entirely,” military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told of military equipment and men sent from Russia social protection,” the rebels’ website quoted a dren and the teenagers put that behind sters in his care he points out that “they still journalists. “We haven’t been able to count the to help the rebels. Russia denies sending sup- senior rebel leader, Vladimir Antyufeyev, as them. “I love surfing too much,” says wanted to surf the day of the shark attack”. A number of victims... dozens (were killed).” port, saying the rebels have seized equipment saying. Thozamile Nompondo, a fit 19-year-old who shy 13-year-old, who gave his name only as The convoy had been in an area of fierce from the Ukrainians. President Petro Poroshenko Kiev’s military says desertions and defec- has been with the program since he was 16 Asenathi, had a wonderfully ironic explana- fighting between government forces and the called on his top security advisers yesterday to tions are now posing a big problem for the and is one of the ‘young leaders’ of project. tion for this courage, unwittingly reflecting separatists when it came under fire from rebel address claims by the rebels to have received separatists and hitting their morale despite He says he sniffed glue and smoked marijua- the fact that the sea was for so long a pre- Grad and mortar launchers, the spokesmen said. new stocks of heavy Russian military equipment competing claims by the rebels that they are na, feeling pressured by his friends in the serve of whites. “We are scared of the sharks, “A powerful artillery strike hit a refugee convoy and 1,200 trained Russian fighters. receiving more arms from Russia and trained township to join one of the gangs. “Since I but we told ourselves that we never heard near the area of Khryashchuvatye and Referring to the heavy loss in life among gov- fighters. The possibility that the rebels might joined surfing I said no more gangsters. It has that there were black people who were eaten Novosvitlivka. The force of the blow on the con- ernment forces, he said: “Today we need regroup be facing a rout presents Russian President changed my life.” The children pull on their by the sharks-it’s always white people only. voy was so strong that people were burned alive our forces to defend our territory and continue Vladimir Putin, who boosted their ambitions wetsuits bought with sponsors’ money, some That’s what we told ourselves to keep us in the vehicles - they weren’t able to get them- offensive actions by the army.” Russian Foreign by speaking of the creation of a “New Russia” a bit baggy and likely to let in more of the strong.” — AFP selves out,” military spokesman Anatoly Proshin Minister Sergei Lavrov said all issues around a in eastern Ukraine, with a difficult choice. told Ukrainian news channel 112.ua.Describing humanitarian convoy sent by Moscow to relieve If he remains silent and allows their defeat, the attack as a “bloody crime”, Lysenko, said: “A needy areas of eastern Ukraine had been he risks losing face before the “hawks” at lot of people have been killed including women resolved but no progress had been made in his home and the Russian people who have large- and children. The number of the dead is being talks in Berlin on Sunday with the Ukrainian, ly applauded Moscow’s annexation of Crimea established.” A rebel leader denied his forces had German and French foreign ministers on a cease- in March. But by trying to maintain pressure the military capability to conduct such an attack, fire or a political solution. on Kiev’s pro-western leaders through further and accused Kiev forces of regularly attacking Russia says it would like a ceasefire to allow support for the rebels, he risks wider econom- the area and also using Russian-made Grad mis- aid to get to people trapped by the fighting. A ic sanctions from the United States and siles. 280-truck convoy sent by Russia and carrying European Union. “The Ukrainians themselves have bombed the tons of humanitarian aid has been stalled at the Western sanctions have targeted Russia’s road constantly with airplanes and Grads. It Ukrainian border since last week, as Kiev has financial and energy sectors as well as dozens seems they’ve now killed more civilians like insisted on formalities so it can be properly dis- of people close to Putin, and Russia has retali- they’ve been doing for months now. We don’t tributed by the Red Cross. Ukrainian Foreign ated by banning a wide range of US and EU have the ability to send Grads into that territory,” Minister Pavlo Klimkin, who was at the Berlin food imports. Moscow has struggled to con- said Andrei Purgin, deputy prime minister of the talks, said: “Russia must close the border and stop trol subsequent price rises and said yesterday self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. shelling. If you have mercenaries and weaponry it would allow imports from former Soviet Another rebel spokesman denied any civilian coming through the border from the Russian Belarus and Kazakhstan of food made from convoy had been struck, challenging the Kiev federation how can you reach a ceasefire? “It’s Western raw materials which fall under the authorities to produce evidence. not about terminology or conditions. It’s about embargo. Vedomosti daily newspaper said substance. If you want peace, you have to use Moscow might ban imports of cars, among KHAYELITSHA: Children taking part in the Waves for Change program surf at Monwabisi Rebels under pressure peaceful means not the means of war,” Klimkin other things, if the United States and the EU Beach, Khayelitsha about 30 km from the centre of Cape Town. — AFP The Kiev military reported new successes said, according to a ministry Twitter post. take additional action against it.—Reuters ‘Yes’ camp gains ground before independence vote

LONDON: A month to the day until Scotland ence at 43 percent compared to 57 percent for during the 2008 financial crisis. votes on whether to split from Britain, opinion those who wanted Scotland to stay part of the Salmond wants a formal, euro-style currency polls yesterday showed the pro-independence United Kingdom. Undecided voters were not union between the remainder of the UK and a camp gaining ground as First Minister Alex included. Earlier this month, the same poll separate state of Scotland. However, the Salmond insisted his side had a “spring in their gave the ‘No’ camp 61 percent and the ‘Yes’ Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition gov- step”. But the polls still showed a strong lead for camp 39 percent. ernment in London has ruled this out-a posi- the ‘No’ camp ahead of the vote on September On Sunday, an ICM poll for the Scotland on tion backed by the Labour opposition. 18, suggesting voters are on course to reject Sunday newspaper put ‘No’ on 55 percent and Salmond insists an independent Scotland could independence. Debate in the campaign has so ‘Yes’ on 45 percent, again excluding undecided continue to use the pound regardless, much as far focused on Scotland’s economy, particularly voters. That represented a two percentage Panama uses the US dollar. Blair McDougall, on the currency post-independence.”One of the point increase for the ‘Yes’ side and a decrease campaign director for the Better Together cam- things that the polls today indicate is it is mov- of the same margin for ‘No’ in the past month. paign which opposes independence, said the ing in our direction,” Salmond told the BBC. Currency has dominated the independence polls showed most voters wanted Scotland to “I think it’s actually becoming more clearly debate since August 5, when Salmond was stay in Britain. “Scots still don’t know what cur- understood that we can’t actually be stopped seen as having come off worse in his first tele- rency we would use in a separate Scotland,” he from using the pound.”A YouGov poll for The vised debate with Alistair Darling, leader of the said. “It all means independence isn’t a risk ARBROATH ABBEY: Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond (left) with Historic Scotland Times newspaper put support for independ- ‘No’ campaign and Britain’s finance minister worth taking.” — AFP employee Douglas Wilson during a visit to Arbroath Abbey yesterday. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

FERGUSON: (Left) Protestors hold signs during a protest on West Florissant Road in Ferguson, Missouri. (Right) Demonstrators protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown. —AFP Missouri governor deploys Credibility concerns in National Guard to Ferguson Missouri shooting probe FERGUSON: After a week of violent clashes Ferguson, where the shooting occurred, between police and protesters, Missouri many residents say they have long been Autopsy shows unarmed teen repeatedly shot authorities leading the investigation into the harassed and intimidated by the police police shooting death of an unarmed black department, which has just three black offi- FERGUSON: Missouri’s governor on the head. As night fell in Ferguson Helping investigation ordered all the protesters to dis- teenager are increasingly facing questions cers on its 53-member force. They also have Monday ordered the National Sunday, another peaceful protest Brown also was shot four times perse, and many did, but about 100 about whether their eventual findings can no confidence in McCulloch, who has been a Guard to a St Louis suburb con- quickly deteriorated and the streets in the right arm, and all the bullets stood about two blocks away until be seen as credible among residents who prosecutor since 1991. vulsed by protests over the fatal were empty well before the mid- were fired into his front, Baden said. getting hit by another volley of tear are highly distrustful of those in charge. The “He’s not going to prosecute the police shooting of an unarmed black teen, night curfew. The Justice Department already gas. coming days and weeks will be crucial as officers,” said Robert Fowler, a 48-year-old after a night in which police used “Based on the conditions, I had had deepened its investigation into Protesters laid a line of cinder grand jurors begin hearing evidence that electrician. “In the ghetto... every police offi- tear gas to clear protesters off the no alternative but to elevate the the shooting. A day earlier, officials blocks across the street in an will help determine whether Ferguson cer, he’s letting go free. They call it justifiable streets well ahead of a curfew. Gov level of response,” said Capt Ron said 40 FBI agents were going door- apparent attempt to block police police officer Darren Wilson is charged with homicide.” Part of the skepticism stems from Jay Nixon said the National Guard Johnson of the Missouri Highway to-door gathering information in vehicles, which easily plowed a state crime for the Aug 9 shooting of 18- McCulloch’s past. He comes from a family of would help “in restoring peace and Patrol, who is in charge of security the Ferguson neighborhood where through. Someone set a trash bin year-old Michael Brown. police officers and, in 1964 when McCulloch order” to Ferguson, where protests in Ferguson. At least two people Brown was shot to death Aug 9. A on fire, and the crackle of gunfire The US Justice Department is conducting was 12 years old, his father was fatally shot over the killing of 18-year-old were wounded in shootings by federally conducted autopsy “more could be heard from several blocks a separate civil rights investigation, which while responding to a call. Others point to a Michael Brown by a white police civilians, he said. The “extraordinary closely focused on entry point of away. Within two hours, most peo- could mean there are two decisions about 2001 case, where McCulloch brought no ple had been cleared off West whether to charge Wilson, who is white. The charges against two officers who fired 21 Florissant Avenue, one of the com- state’s case is being overseen by St Louis shots into a vehicle, killing two black men munity’s main thoroughfares. The County Prosecuting Attorney Bob during an attempted drug arrest. A streets remained quiet as the cur- McCulloch, who is white, and remains in McCulloch spokesman told The Associated few began. It was to remain in charge despite mounting pressure to step Press the prosecutor has no plans to step effect until 5 am. Earlier in the day, aside from some local residents and black St aside from the Brown case. Johnson said he had met members Louis area officials who believe he cannot be “The people of this county have placed of Brown’s family and the experi- impartial. In some other prominent cases - their trust in me,” McCulloch told TV station ence “brought tears to my eyes and most notably, the 2012 racially charged KMOV. “I’ve been as fair and impartial and shame to my heart.” shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida - spe- done as thorough of a job as we could.” US cial state prosecutors have been appointed Rep William Lacy Clay Jr, St Louis County In charge of security to determine whether to pursue charges. Executive Charlie Dooley and state Sens “When this is over,” he told the That sometimes has occurred only after the Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Jamilah Nasheed crowd, “I’m going to go in my son’s local authorities took no action. But under - all of whom are black - have called on room. My black son, who wears his Missouri law, it “would be highly, highly, McCulloch to consent to a special prosecutor. pants sagging, who wears his hat highly unusual” for a prosecutor to step Nasheed started an online petition and cocked to the side, got tattoos on aside merely because of racial tensions in a got more than 15,000 signatures within two his arms, but that’s my baby.” high-profile case, said Peter Joy, a days seeking a special prosecutor. “In the Johnson added: “We all need to Washington University law professor who past, justice has not been achieved in these thank the Browns for Michael. directs the school’s Criminal Justice Clinic. types of police shootings,” said Clay, who rep- Because Michael’s going to make it That’s because in Missouri, “the buck stops resents the area. “So I have no comfort with better for our sons to be better with the head prosecutor” in each county. local-authority prosecution, the judicial sys- black men.” “Just because the case is really hot and tem or even police conducting a thorough The protests have been going really controversial would not be a reason and conclusive investigation that delivers on since Brown’s death heightened why I would seek a special prosecutor,” said justice to family of Michael Brown.” racial tensions between the pre- Eric Zahnd, a Kansas City-area prosecutor “Simply put: he has a natural bias,” dominantly black community and who is a past president of the Missouri Chappelle-Nadal, the local state senator, said the mostly white Ferguson Police Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. Police of McCulloch. “My community doesn’t trust FERGUSON: A man gets help after being overcome by tear gas that police launched at demon- Department, leading to several say Brown failed to move out of the center him.” Although it was not a racially charged strators. —AP run-ins between police and pro- of the street when Wilson asked him to, and scenario, Missouri does have a recent case in testers and prompting Nixon to a scuffle ensued before he was shot. which a special prosecutor took over a highly officer entered their second week. circumstances” surrounding projectiles, defensive wounds and put the state highway patrol in Witnesses say Brown had his hands up as publicized case. Last October, a prosecutor in Police said they acted in response Brown’s death and a request by his bruises” might help that investiga- charge of security. Wilson fired multiple rounds. rural northwest Missouri asked a judge to to gunfire, looting, vandalism and family prompted the Justice tion, said David Weinstein, a former Ferguson police waited six days Wilson, a six-year police veteran who had appoint a special prosecutor after public protesters who hurled Molotov Department’s decision to conduct a federal prosecutor who supervised to publicly reveal the name of the no previous complaints against him, has concerns that he didn’t do enough before cocktails. third autopsy, agency spokesman the criminal civil rights section of officer and documents alleging been on paid administrative leave since the dropping felony charges against a teenage “These violent acts are a disserv- Brian Fallon said in a statement. The Miami’s US attorney’s office. Brown robbed a convenience store shooting and the department has refused to boy accused of sexually assaulting a younger ice to the family of Michael Brown examination was to take place as Federal authorities also want to shortly before he was killed. Police comment on his whereabouts. Associated girl. A judge appointed a Kansas City area and his memory and to the people soon as possible, Fallon said. The calm any public fears that no action Chief Thomas Jackson said the offi- Press reporters have been unable to contact prosecutor to take a new look at the case, of this community who yearn for results of a state-performed autop- will be taken on the case, Weinstein cer did not know Brown was a rob- him at any addresses or phone numbers list- and Matthew Barnett pleaded guilty in justice to be served and to feel safe sy would be taken into account said. Police have said little about bery suspect when he encountered ed under that name in the St Louis area. In January to misdemeanor child endanger- in their own homes,” Nixon said in a along with the federal examination the encounter between Brown and him walking in the street with a the predominantly black St Louis suburb of ment. —AP statement. The latest confronta- in the Justice Department’s ongo- the officer, except to say that it friend. The officer who shot Brown tions came on the same day ing civil rights investigation, Fallon involved a scuffle in which the offi- has been identified as Darren Attorney General Eric Holder said. Dr Michael Baden, a former cer was injured and Brown was Wilson, a six-year police veteran ordered a federal medical examiner New York City chief medical exam- shot. Witnesses say the teenager who had no previous complaints to perform another autopsy on iner, told The New York Times that had his hands in the air as the offi- against him. Wilson has been on Brown, and as a preliminary private one of the bullets entered the top cer fired multiple rounds. Sunday’s paid administrative leave since the autopsy reported by The New York of Brown’s skull, suggesting his clashes in Ferguson erupted three shooting, and the department has Times found Brown was shot at head was bent forward when he hours before the curfew imposed refused to comment on his where- least six times, including twice in suffered a fatal injury. by Nixon. Officers in riot gear abouts. —AP Tens of thousands mourn Brazil presidential candidate Campos

RECIFE: More than 160,000 mourners turned out to said that the black box recovered from the wreck- ment. Speculation has centered on Campos’s wid- pay their respects to Brazilian presidential candi- age failed to record the final flight. “At the moment ow and fellow socialist Beto Albuquerque as poten- date Eduardo Campos here Sunday after the popu- of the accident, all of the victims were united in the tial vice-presidential running mates. lar socialist politician’s death in a plane crash last same ideals,” Fernando Saburido, archbishop of week. A burst of fireworks marked his burial after a Olinda and Recife, said at the ceremony. Rousseff booed THOMASTON: In this photo, a monster alligator weighing 1011.5 pounds packed crowd of tens of thousands of people A popular former governor of the northeastern measuring 15-feet long is pictured in Thomaston, Ala. —AP accompanied his body, carried in a flag-draped fire Election season begins state of Pernambuco, Campos was married with truck, through the streets to a family vault in Recife’s Campos had been running third in opinion polls five children. His wife and children plus Silva rode largest cemetery. The burial took place at 6:35 pm for Brazil’s October election, with campaign season in the fire truck which took Campos’s body to be Alabama hunters haul (2135 GMT) after being delayed more than an hour formally beginning today. His party is expected to buried alongside his grandfather, Miguel Arraes, by the throngs of mourners, many of whom shout- announce the name of its new candidate tomor- himself a revered local politician in northeastern in 450-kilo alligator ed “Eduardo, warrior for the Brazilian people!” dur- row, according to its president Roberto Amaral. Brazil. Around 250 police officers were on duty for ing the procession. Campos’s running mate, 56-year-old environmen- Sunday’s ceremonies, which began at 10:30 am CAMDEN: A group of Alabama hunters but weighing it posed a challenge. The Earlier in the day, a line stretching some three talist Marina Silva, is widely expected to be named (1330 GMT). Rousseff, who leads the polls for are celebrating the catch of a lifetime: A first attempt completely destroyed a kilometers (1.9 miles) queued to file past Campos’s in his place, according to local press. October’s elections, was booed by sections of the 15-foot (4.5-meter)-long alligator weigh- winch assembly used to hoist most aver- coffin outside Recife’s local government headquar- Silva, an evangelical Christian who appeals to crowd as she arrived for the mass. Former ing more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilo- age gators. So they had to use a backhoe ters to say a final farewell. President Dilma Rousseff both religious conservatives and the left, could radi- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and several min- grams). Al.com reports the monster to lift the animal. The alligator is the was in attendance as ceremonies got under way cally shake up the race if she replaces him, leverag- isters accompanied Rousseff. Lula, a close friend of gator was pulled from the water in south largest ever legally killed by an Alabama with an open-air mass. Campos, 49, died when his ing her compelling personal story and broad-based the family, wept as he embraced Campos’s widow Alabama early Saturday during the state’s hunter. It was caught by Mandy and John campaign jet slammed into houses in Santos city in appeal. Born into a poor family of rubber tappers in Renate after the mass, followed by Rousseff and alligator hunting season. Alabama Stokes, Kevin Jenkins and his children, bad weather on Wednesday, killing all seven people the Amazon, Silva only learned to read and write at the current second-place presidential contender, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries biolo- 16-year-old Savannah and 14-year-old on board and setting buildings alight. Brazil’s air 16 years old, the start of a meteoric rise to become Aecio Neves. Rousseff and Lula left Recife before gists were able to measure the alligator, Parker. —AP force, which is in charge of the investigation, has a figurehead of the country’s environmental move- the burial. —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

India’s Hindu nationalists tighten grip over ruling party

NEW DELHI: Several members of India’s most pow- its propagandists, espousing “Hindutva” or seated hostility to India’s 160 million Muslims and tation to youth, and to all regions of the country,” erful right-wing Hindu group were named to posi- Hinduness as the cultural identity of India. On that the group is a threat to the country’s secular said J P Nadda, one of the general secretaries, about tions within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Saturday, Modi’s handpicked head of the BJP, Amit foundations. the new series of appointments. He made no com- officials said on Sunday, signaling a more overt role Shah, named a new team to lead the party into a Many leaders of the BJP have had some associa- ment on the greater role of BJP’s parent body. Ties for the party’s ideological parent that usually oper- clutch of state elections this year that it hopes to win tion with the ideological parent at one time or the between RSS and its political off-spring the BJP have ates in the shadows. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak after a triumphant national election. other and there was always one or two RSS officials been traditionally close, but differences surfaced Sangh (RSS) provides the backbone to the BJP and Eleven of the 14 vice presidents and seven of the deputed to the political party to act as the go- during a previous BJP government as its pushed for other Hindu groups in the country, its members are eight general secretaries have been associated with between and to ensure they were on the same page. free-market reforms ran into resistance from hard- known for their austerity and a life-long commit- the RSS or its wings in the past, underlining Shah’s But the new team reflects a far greater control over line RSS members. The RSS advocates “swadeshi” or ment to building a militarily strong and economical- trust in the organization, best known for the morn- the BJP that swept to power in the election this year economic self-reliance in which domestic industry ly prosperous India. ing drills they hold each day across India featuring with the biggest mandate any political party has must be promoted so it can compete with foreign Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who swept to Nazi-style salutes, patriotic songs and sermons won in 30 years, helped by the grassroots support firms. Co-opting its members inside the political par- power in May, joined the secretive Hindu group in extolling the greatness of Hindu civilization. Critics provided by the ideological parent. ty will ensure greater cohesion on key economic and his early teens, rising eventually to become one of however say the Hindutva ideology masks a deep- “It is the core team, this is about giving represen- political issues, say supporters of Modi. — Reuters Floods kill nearly 200 in Nepal, India Authorities battle against cholera outbreak KATHMANDU: Floods and landslides in Nepal and north- ern India have killed nearly 200 people and scores more are missing, local authorities said yesterday. Nepal has been worst hit, with 105 people confirmed dead after torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding, devas- tating entire villages in what the country’s prime minister termed a “national tragedy”. Another 136 people are missing, and authorities are battling to prevent an out- break of cholera after some survivors showed symptoms of the potentially fatal disease. Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala pledged to “expe- dite the rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts” and expressed his sorrow over the deaths. In neighboring India’s Uttar Pradesh state, flooding has claimed at least 48 lives and forced around 500,000 people to leave their homes, relief commissioner KS Bhadoriya told AFP.Twelve people lost their lives in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, while nine people were killed and 40,000 others evacuated in Bihar state, which borders Nepal’s eastern plains, officials told AFP. Hundreds die every year in floods and landslides dur- ing the monsoon season in South Asia. In Nepal, the gov- ernment deployed more than 3,400 workers and four hel- icopters to rescue stranded people and deliver emer- ASSAM: Indian villagers move in a country boat through a flooded village in Morigaon district of northeastern gency supplies as the weather cleared after three days of Assam state yesterday. — AP incessant rain last week. “Yesterday, they were only able to drop relief materials... because there was nowhere for dinating the health ministry’s efforts to prevent an epi- helicopters, thousands of people have been evacuated the helicopter to land, but today they have managed to demic. to temporary shelters. In Surkhet district, which suffered reach all the affected areas,” said Jhankanath Dhakal, “People suffering from fever, dysentery, diarrhea are the worst damage with roads still underwater, officials chief of Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Centre. being treated at nearby health posts. The problems said workers were struggling to locate scores of people Dhakal said the confirmed toll had risen to 105 after arose because of impure drinking water and food,” Dahal reported missing. “The flood has destroyed our water another seven bodies were found yesterday. In the told AFP. Cholera, a potentially deadly disease which pipes, our roads and cut off our electricity, making it dif- worst-hit districts of Surkhet, Bardiya and Dang, officials causes severe diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration, is ficult for us to carry out necessary search and rescue BARABANKI, Uttar Pradesh: Flood affected Indian vil- scrambled to provide distraught villagers with clean contracted by consuming food or water contaminated operations,” district official Jagat Bahadur Basnet told lagers sit in country boats as they try to move to safer drinking water kits to try to avert a possible cholera out- by human faeces. AFP. The deaths come two weeks after Nepal’s worst places in Harinarayanpur village in Barabanki district break. “We have diagnosed a few cases displaying symp- As water levels gradually recede, allowing rescue landslide in more than a decade smashed into hamlets of Uttar Pradesh state yesterday. — AP toms of cholera,” said Tulashi Prasad Dahal, who is coor- workers to use land routes instead of relying entirely on in the hilly northeast and killed 156 people. — AFP Pak interfaith couples AVAILABLE IN ALL BOOTS PHARMACIES IN KUWAIT brave threats for love

LAHORE: Thirteen years ago among believe there are thousands of such cas- Christian teacher from the same eastern the whirring looms of a garment factory es every year. The couple say they now city met and fell in love with camera- in an eastern Pakistani city, a Muslim live among a more understanding com- man Salman Khawaja who had come to woman fell in love with a Christian co- munity that provides them support and record a show about Christmas festivi- worker. Now married with three chil- respect their choices-but it wasn’t ties in 2006. Drawn to Islamic traditions dren, Kalsoom Bibi and her husband always this way. and culture since her childhood, Sana Yousuf Bhatti have been shunned by “The life after marriage was terrible. decided to embrace Islam. The couple’s their communities, endured death We went into hiding because the family lives became “hellish” after marriage threats and an abduction, all in the and community threatened to kill us. and they said they had to leave their name of religious honor in this conser- “We lived in hiding in Islamabad for sev- city to avoid death. vative Islamic country. Marriage out of eral months and my son was born dur- “We were threatened from both choice remains a taboo in Pakistan, par- ing that time,” she said. Yousuf said the Christian and Muslim communities. So ticularly when it involves a partner out- most harrowing incident early on in we decided to leave the city to save our side one’s own clan or faith group. their marriage when he was abducted lives,” Sana told AFP holding her two- While marriages between different by four Muslim militants and driven year-old son. Despite being a journalist members of Abrahamic faiths-including hours out of town to a deserted spot. with connections to local government Judaism, Christianity and Islam — is “They kept me there for several days officials, Salman found himself helpless permitted by law, a Muslim woman may and asked me why I married my wife. to fight back. “We decided to get mar- not marry a non-Muslim man. People “They wanted to kill me, but when I told ried in another city to avoid any attacks who chose to convert out from Islam them that I married my wife with her by our families and communities,” he can be charged with blasphemy and own will and because she also wanted said. face life in prison. Kalsoom’s first to marry me-and that I did not force her “Back at our homes, our families encounter with a member of another into this marriage-they softened and were planning to kill us for marrying religion came at school, where the only released me after some days,” he added. across religion as they thought we had Christian student was mercilessly bul- Naveed Walter, President of Human stolen their pride and honor. “It was very lied. Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), said the difficult period for us, we remained in When she met Yousuf, she decided case was symptomatic of a wider prob- hiding for six months to avoid any to question him about his faith to find lem, which remains largely hidden from attacks. I had no career over there,” he out more. Long hours of discussion sight. “In such cases (inter-faith mar- said, adding that he drove a taxi to earn brought the two close together, and she riages) people try to attack the whole a living. “When the situation got better, eventually decided to convert. It is a fact community,” he said. Walter added his we returned ... but my family refused to she hides to this day from her family. organization had estimated 10,000 cas- accept us. Then we rented a house in a “My mother died requesting me to es nationwide over the past four years. low category residential area and start- leave my Christian husband,” Kalsoom, a ed a new life.” short woman in her twenties with deep Honor killings brown eyes said, sitting on her bed in a Legally, there are no provisions in the Rising extremism modest two-room house with her hus- criminal code against leaving Islam, For some, the trauma never goes band and children. though the country’s blasphemy law- away. Nadia, a petite, light-skinned 19- “Had she known that I myself have which carries a life sentence-has been year-old former Muslim fell in love with been converted to Christianity, she invoked in recent cases against apos- 24-year-old Christian man Shamaun would had died with grief or asked her tates. But even when members from the Anwar, an embroiderer, who used to family to kill me.” Such unions aren’t offi- minority community convert to Islam, smile at her in the street as they went cially recorded but rights activists they can still face a backlash. Sana, a to work. They planned to marry in secret until Nadia’s parents found out about them and forced her to marry her cousin instead. When she refused to move in with him, they began beat- ing her. “They used to beat me whenever I told them that I won’t live with my hus- band and will marry Shamaun,” she said. “They still threaten me, even after I divorced my cousin and married Shamaun. I am now more scared because I have converted to Christianity,” she added tearfully. Some campaigners including lawyer Akmal Bhatti advocate the creation of a civil marriage code as is the case in India so that it is possible to keep faith out of the wedding ceremony. Others are less hopeful, citing the rising number of attacks against the country’s belea- FAISALABAD: In this photograph, Pakistani Christian Bushra Parveen (left) guered minorities as a sign of rising and her husband Riaz Masih pose with their children at their home. — AFP intolerance. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Survivors of Indonesia tour boat drank urine to live

SAPE: Thirteen people lost at sea for and drink their own urine. Two Spanish island, a popular tourist destination. food. Dehydrated, exhausted and sun- came out shouting ‘Very dangerous sit- two days when their tourist boat sank in men were still missing after the boat, The vessel went down slowly, break- burnt, they resorted to drinking their uation!’” as water started gushing into Indonesia were rescued yesterday after which was also carrying Indonesian ing up into pieces, close to tiny own urine and eating leaves until they the boat, he said. a horrific ordeal that had forced other crew, sank Saturday as it made the long Sangeang island after running into a were rescued by a passing boat the next Budiawan, search and rescue chief survivors to swim to a volcanic island voyage from Lombok island to Komodo reef and being hit by a storm. But there day, Homassel said. on Lombok, said the second group was was no communications equipment on They were taken to nearby Sumbawa found early yesterday by fishermen, board to radio for help. A first group of island, where they received medical floating about 60 miles (100 kilometers) 10 foreigners of various nationalities treatment. None of them were seriously off the coast of Sumbawa. An immigra- including Britons, Germans and Italians, injured. “I was really very lucky,” the tion official on Sumbawa said none of was rescued on Sunday. A French sur- Frenchman added. The group departed the second group was seriously injured. vivor told how they perched on the roof yesterday afternoon, with some flying They were “quite weak as they didn’t eat of the boat for hours as it sank, and to Bali and some to Jakarta, a local offi- or drink for several days in the sea. They eventually decided to swim to an island cial said. have minor injuries like scratches,” he on the horizon, even though a volcano The second group rescued yesterday said. The boat was carrying 25 people. on it was emitting smoke at the time. was made up of eight foreigners, four The foreigners rescued were from New Bertrand Homassel told AFP it took Indonesian crew and an Indonesian Zealand, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, six hours to swim to the island, but they tour guide. Several were in the lifeboat Germany, France and Italy. had no choice as the vessel’s single when the vessel went down while oth- A search for the two Spanish men, lifeboat only had room for a handful of ers put on life jackets and swam along- involving the police and military, was people. “The others climbed onto the side. Dutchman Jan van Ommen, recov- suspended late yesterday as light fad- roof of the boat, which had not com- ering in Sape town on Sumbawa, said ed, said Budiawan, who like many pletely sunk,” he said. “We were five kilo- they were in the water for about 40 Indonesians goes by one name. He meters (three miles) from the coast- hours, and took it in turns to spend added the operation would resume there were many big waves separating stints either in the lifeboat or floating in today. Komodo island is one of several us from the coast. the water wearing the life jackets. islands that make up the Komodo National Park, a protected area. Its Dehydrated, exhausted, sunburnt Dangerous situation eponymous lizards can grow up to “People started to panic... Everyone “So we had this system, and in the three meters (10 feet) long and have a took the decision to swim to the closest beginning it was not easy ... but later on venomous bite. Indonesia relies heavi- island five kilometers away, where there the system went on, and we changed ly on boats to connect its more than SAPE: Survivors from the boat that sank Saturday evening on its way was an erupting volcano.” After finally and changed,” he said. He recalled how 17,000 islands, but has a poor mar- reaching the island on Saturday the crew started panicking on Friday itime safety record. However boat from Lombok island to Komodo island, receive medical treatments at a evening, they found it deserted, and night when the boat was hit by a storm sinkings involving foreign tourists are hospital in Sape, Indonesia. —AP there was no fresh drinking water or and began taking on water. “The crew rare. —AFP Pope urges Korean reconciliation Pope seeks uniting ‘with no victors or vanquished’

SEOUL: Pope Francis yesterday called Korea and South Korea in a technical people,” Francis said. Near the conclu- cessor, John Paul II, had to avoid for peace and reconciliation on the state of war. A group of defectors from sion of yesterday’s Mass, a choir sang, Chinese airspace during an Asia trip. divided Korean peninsula and sent a North Korea and relatives of South “Our wish is unification.” On Sunday, Francis said Asian gov- further message of goodwill to China, Koreans abducted by the North were ernments should not fear Christians, as wrapping-up a five day trip to South invited to the mass, which was attend- China message they did not want to “come as con- Korea and the first papal visit to Asia in ed by South Korean President Park As the pope’s plane entered querors” but be integral parts of local 15 years. Before a Mass yesterday at Geun-hye. North Korea turned down Chinese airspace on its return flight to cultures. The remarks were intended Seoul’s Myeongdong Cathedral, an invitation from the South Korean Rome, Francis sent a telegram to for communist-ruled countries such as Francis prayed with a small number of Catholic church for members of its Chinese President Xi Jinping, following China, North Korea and Vietnam. The “comfort women”, who were forced to state-run Korean Catholic Association up an unprecedented message sent Catholic Church in China is divided into an “official” Church known as the HENAN: This photo shows 21-year-old Vietnamese bride Vu Thi Hong Thuy “Patriotic Association” answerable to the Communist Party, and an under- posing with a photo of her Chinese husband in Weijian village, in China’s ground Church that swears allegiance Henan province. —AFP only to the pope in Rome. China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it had “noted” the pope’s China seeks brides for position, and repeated its position that Beijing was sincere about wanting to richer, for poorer improve relations with the Vatican. “We are willing to keep working hard with LINQI, China: Their marriages were arranged for father-in-law seemed proud of the newest addi- the Vatican to carry out constructive cash, but some of the Vietnamese women who tion to his family. “Vietnamese women are just like dialogue and push for the improve- have found unlikely Prince Charmings in remote us, they do any kind of work, and work hard,” said ment of bilateral ties,” the ministry said Chinese villages say they are living happily ever Liu Shuanggen. “It’s not easy to find wives in this in a statement to Reuters. In its state- after. “Economically, life is better here in China,” place, women are few.” ment, it did not address the issue of said Nguyen Thi Hang, one of around two dozen Chinese barred from attending a youth women from Vietnam who have married men in Leftover men event in South Korea. Linqi. The township is a patchwork of hamlets It is a refrain heard across China, where About half of more than 100 spaced among cornfields deep in the mountains decades of sex-selective abortions by families who Chinese who had planned to attend of Henan, one of China’s poorer provinces. prefer boys to girls now see 118 males born for Sunday’s Asian Youth Day event were It is some 1,700 kilometers (1,060 miles) away every 100 females, according to government sta- unable to do so due to “a complicated from Vietnam, but is a new market for an expand- tistics. The resulting gender gap has led to an situation inside China”, an official with ing-and sometimes abusive-marriage trade with explosion in “bride prices”, payments traditionally the local organiser of the pope’s visit Southeast Asia. The business is fuelled by demand made by the groom’s relatives, hitting men in the told reporters on Thursday. from rural Chinese men struggling to find wives in poor countryside the hardest. the face of their country’s huge gender imbalance, “To get married, the bride’s family will often ‘Honor and hope’ driven by its limits on family size. Hang, 30, arrived require a car and a house, so it’s easier to get mar- SEOUL: Catholic worshippers gather outside Myeongdong cathedral during a mass by Pope One of the “comfort women” who in Linqi last November, and struggles to communi- ried if you have more money,” said shopkeeper Francis yesterday. —AFP sat in the front row at yesterday’s Mass, cate with customers at the dusty village store Wang Yangfang, adding: “In Vietnam, they demand Kim Bok-dong, gave Francis a small where she sells noodles, cola and cigarettes. lower prices.” The typical cost for a Vietnamese work as sex slaves for Japanese sol- to attend yesterday’s Mass, citing the during his flight to South Korea on butterfly-shaped pin that he wore on But her basic living conditions-a tiny bedroom woman is 20,000 yuan ($3,200), Linqi residents diers occupying the country before start of joint US-South Korean military Thursday. “Returning to Rome after my his vestment. The pin is a symbol of with bare concrete walls, and an outdoor long- said-less than a quarter of the local price, and such and during the World War Two. drills, also due to begin yesterday. “Let visit to Korea, I wish to renew to your their campaign, meant to convey that drop toilet next to a cage of chickens-are an a bargain that more than 20 Vietnamese women “Today’s Mass is first and foremost a us pray... for the emergence of new excellency and your fellow citizens the they want to be liberated and fly in a improvement on her previous home, she said.”We have found homes in the area in recent years. But prayer for reconciliation in this Korean opportunities for dialogue, encounter assurance of my best wishes, as I peaceful and free world, a non-profit lived in a bad quality brick house in Vietnam, and the trade is also rife with abuses. At a shelter in family,” Francis said, following up on an and the resolution of differences, for invoke divine blessings upon your group that supports the women said. were farmers so had to work hard in the rice fields,” Vietnam, AFP this year spoke to a dozen girls who impromptu prayer on Friday when he continued generosity in providing land,” the pope’s telegram said. While it About 150,000 to 200,000 Korean she said. Her marriage to a local 22-year-old was said they were tricked by relatives, friends or urged Koreans to work to unite as one humanitarian assistance to those in is tradition for the pope to send a mes- women served as Japanese sex slaves, arranged by her family, she said, with small cere- boyfriends and sold to Chinese men as brides. family, “with no victors or vanquished”. need, and for an ever greater recogni- sage to countries he’s flying over, the and most lived out their lives in monies held in her home town, and China. “I knew Myanmar’s government said in a 2011 report The 1950-1953 Korean war ended tion that all Koreans are brothers and Vatican and Beijing have long had silence; 56 are still alive, according to they gave my family some money, but I did not that most trafficking from the country is “commit- in an armed truce that leaves North sisters, members of one family, one fraught relations, and Francis’ prede- another nonprofit group. —Reuters dare ask my parents about that,” she said. ted solely with the intention of forcing girls and “My relatives told me to marry a Chinese man, women into marriages with Chinese men”. Chinese they told me they care for their wives, and I would- police “rescued and repatriated” 1,281 abducted S Korea running out of spent n’t have to work so much, just enjoy life,” she foreign women in 2012 alone, most of them from added, smiling at a group of children buying southeast Asia, the state-run China Daily reported. sweets. Her construction worker husband spends Experts say lax law enforcement in rural areas nuclear fuel storage space most of the year away from the village and was means thousands of other cases probably go not present when AFP visited, but her grey-haired undiscovered. —AFP

SEOUL: South Korea needs to quickly find additional which would be the second-best option,” Hong said. the Kori area of Busan city, just over 300 km (190 miles) space where it can store its spent nuclear fuel because Efforts to store spent fuel more densely in the tem- southeast of Seoul, are forecast to start running out of Crime threatens Myanmar stability: UN some of its temporary storage capacity will be full by porary storage would simply earn time and could not storage space from 2016. The country’s reactors pro- 2016, an independent body that advises the govern- be the ultimate solution, Hong added. Nuclear plants in duce around 750 tons of spent fuel each year. —Reuters YANGON: The UN yesterday warned that Golden Triangle-and frontiers with China ment on nuclear issues said yesterday. The country has widespread criminal activity in Myanmar and India still provide a network of smug- 23 nuclear reactors supplying about a third of its power. was undermining stability and develop- gling routes for everything from drugs to Seoul has been under pressure to cut its reliance on ment, as it hailed a new partnership with the illicit wildlife, timber and human trafficking. nuclear power since late 2012 when safety scandals led government to tackle “significant” crime and “The significant financial proceeds generat- to the temporary shutdown of reactors to replace parts drug problems in the impoverished country. ed by different forms of trafficking in supplied with fake certificates. Myanmar-the world’s second largest opium Myanmar are laundered and distort the At the end of last year, 13,254 tons of spent fuel was producer after Afghanistan and Southeast legitimate economy, corrupt public officials, being held in temporary storage at nuclear plants, Asia’s biggest synthetic drug maker-has and undermine stability,” the UNODC said in according to data from the commission, mostly in water signed a “landmark” agreement to work a statement. tanks but some in concrete containers. Public disquiet with the United Nations Office on Drugs The UNODC’s country program agree- over nuclear power and the disposal of spent fuel has and Crime (UNODC) at it grapples with nar- ment with Myanmar, which will last until also risen because of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in cotics and illicit trafficking. “Criminal activity 2017, covers a variety of areas, including Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Spent in Myanmar is undermining development transnational organized crime, anti-corrup- fuel was stored in water at the Fukushima plant, too. efforts, increasing human insecurity and tion, criminal justice, and providing alterna- As at most nuclear plants in Japan, spent fuel is threatening the peace process,” said UNODC tive development for opium poppy farmers. stored on site at the Fukushima station high above the regional representative Jeremy Douglas, Myanmar’s opium production soared to its ground in reactor buildings. In South Korea, a Public according to a statement. Myanmar was highest level in more than a decade in 2013, Engagement Commission grouping 13 nuclear experts, under outright military rule for decades until producing an estimated 870 tons, UNODC professors, city council members and an official from a a quasi-civilian regime took power in 2011, said in December. private environmental watchdog was formally set up in ushering in broad reforms that have seen The figure was driven both by higher October 2013 to take account of public opinion on the former pariah state lauded by the inter- yields and a larger area under cultivation in spent nuclear fuel issues and feed into policy decisions. national community and attracted a flood of eastern regions of Myanmar, where ethnic Commission Chairman Hong Doo-seung, who has foreign investment as most Western sanc- minority rebels have battled government been working on this topic for 25 years, told Reuters in tions were dismantled. troops for years and political changes have an interview it was now urgent to find more storage SEOUL: South Korean rescue personnel tend to mock victims during an anti-terror But the country’s remote war-torn bor- yet to translate into tangible economic ben- sites for spent fuel. “We will have to stop nuclear power drill as part of an annual joint military drill called Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), out- ders with Thailand and Laos-the so-called efits for impoverished communities. —AFP generation if we fail to find additional temporary space, side a tunnel yesterday. —AFP NEWS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

No equal justice as Israel razes Palestinians’... Robbers ambush Saudi prince’s convoy... Continued from Page 1 ty. “The Egyptians have submitted a draft ance and the Zionist enemy ends today,” Continued from Page 1 tion is under way into this unacceptable attack.” that was met with a great degree of flexi- Hamas’s exiled deputy leader Mussa Abu “It’s quite an unusual attack. They were obviously Hussam Kawasme’s arrest was made bility by both sides, the Israelis and Marzouk wrote on Facebook shortly Saint-Mesmes, to the northeast of Paris, well-informed. It’s true that it’s quite a rare way of public for the first time earlier this month Palestinians. There has been progress,” he before the talks began. “No positive approximately 40 km from the scene of the operating,” one police source told AFP. The head in a court document in a case over told AFP, speaking on condition of results until now. Everything will be decid- crime. Police found two €500 notes, documents of a national police union, Nicolas Comte, said: whether houses belonging to him and anonymity, saying the draft adopted the ed on the ground.” in Arabic, and medication near the burnt-out “We need to find out what they were looking for, two other suspects should be destroyed Palestinian demands, including that of an Netanyahu has said Israel would only wrecks of the two cars. No suspects have yet the money or the documents.” “I hope we will also as a punitive measure. The document said “airport and (sea) port”. “Both delegations accept an agreement which contained “a been apprehended. have efficient cooperation with the Saudi author- Kawasme, who has not yet been indicted, are now consulting with their leaderships,” clear answer” to its security needs, while According to Le Parisien, the robbers made off ities,” he added. with “sensitive” diplomatic documents. A source The investigation has been turned over to the had admitted helping to organise the kid- he said. Hamas has insisted there will be no deal close to the investigation confirmed the theft of BRB special police unit in charge of armed rob- napping of the three Israeli youths, secur- As the midnight deadline neared, without an end to Israel’s eight-year diplomatic documents but told AFP: “For the beries. One source close to the investigation, who ing funding from Hamas and buying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blockade on Gaza. The talks are centred moment, we have no details about the nature of did not wish to be named, said: “If they were weapons which he passed on to the two warned that Israel would hit back hard if on an Egyptian proposal for a lasting these documents. They could be sensitive docu- looking for sensitive documents, that changes other suspects. He also was alleged to Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza ceasefire, which postpones discussions on ments but they could equally well be unimpor- the nature of the crime. It will no longer be an have helped to bury the bodies of the resume. “We are ready for all scenarios... the thorniest issues, such as Hamas tant.” The Saudi embassy in Paris put out a state- armed robbery, but something more complicat- teenagers in a plot of land he had bought the army is preparing for a very strong demands for a port and airport in Gaza, ment, carried by the official SPA agency in Saudi ed.” Initial results of the investigation have a few months earlier. He has made no response if the firing (of rockets) resumes,” for another month. Negotiations on Arabia, saying that the vehicle was “hired by a revealed that the robbers were obviously “aware public comment about the incident. The he said. “In the turbulent Middle East, you exchanging the remains of two Israeli sol- Saudi citizen” and was not an embassy car. of what they would find by attacking that specific military statement said Israel’s supreme need a mixture of force and patience and diers for the release of Palestinian prison- However, the embassy said it had “helped the cit- car and not the others,” he added. Frederic court had affirmed the military’s wish to the IDF (army) has a lot of both.” Ahead of ers would also be delayed for a month. izen until he left Paris”. Lagache, from the Alliance police union, said: demolish the homes and had rejected the deadline, Palestinian president Following talks with Meshaal in Doha, The Saudi embassy said it was cooperating “We’re dealing with a heavily armed and deter- three appeals by the suspects’ families Mahmoud Abbas was travelling to Doha Abbas will travel to Cairo later in the week with French authorities on the matter but mined group of criminals. Once again, unfortu- against their destruction. for talks with exiled Hamas chief Khaled to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah embassy spokespeople could not be reached for nately, we see that these individuals had no fear Meanwhile, negotiators in Cairo were Meshaal and the Qatari emir. Qatar is a al-Sisi, a Palestinian official told AFP. In an comment. Romain Nadal, a spokesman for the of the police and were not concerned about the pushing Israel and the Palestinians to put key backer of Hamas, the de facto ruler of indication Israel was shifting its thinking French foreign ministry said only: “An investiga- consequences of their actions.” — Agencies a decisive end to weeks of bloodshed in Gaza. away from a negotiated truce agreement, Gaza yesterday as the clock ticked down As diplomatic efforts intensified, Gaza’s it began implementing a series of unilat- on another temporary truce. As the death health ministry said the death toll from eral measures to ease conditions in Gaza. Alleged militant financier briefly... toll in the war-torn Gaza Strip pushed the fighting rose above 2,000 as more On Sunday, Israel said it had lifted a total over 2,000, Egyptian negotiators were people died of their wounds. The figures ban on fishing which had been in place Continued from Page 1 evidence to prove the accusation,” he stressed. He pressing both sides to reach agreement showed 2,016 people had been killed and since July 8, allowing boats to go out to also promised to take legal measures in collabora- before a midnight (2100 GMT) deadline 10,196 wounded. Among the dead were sea for up to three nautical miles. Down at Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al- tion with the foreign ministry in order to undo the marking the end of a five-day truce. The 541 children, 250 women and 95 elderly the fishing port, a few fishermen could be Humoud Al-Sabah said at the time that authorities injustice on him by putting his name on the terror- aim is to broker a long-term arrangement men. Separately, the Israeli army con- seen taking their boats out for an early would investigate how a show featuring the cleric ism list. He added that he would hire a lawyer to halt more than a month of bloody firmed that five of its 64 dead soldiers catch, although they kept close to shore, was allowed to be broadcast on state television. soon to follow up the case. fighting which erupted on July 8, were killed by “friendly fire”. Despite con- well within the new limit, an AFP corre- On Friday, the UN Security Council imposed Hajjaj stressed that he was not a terrorist and although both sides have largely lowered cern over the looming deadline, the spondent said. sanctions on six people suspected of financing that all he did was send aid to the oppressed their guns since August 4 thanks to a streets of Gaza City were bustling with Meanwhile, Israel’s Shin Bet internal Islamist militants, including two Kuwaitis, in a Syrian people who have been experiencing the series of temporary truces. women and children shopping for food as security agency confirmed that between move aimed at weakening Islamic State and Al- worst forms of crimes committed by the Assad As millions in and around Gaza men sat outside in the shade. May and August it had arrested 93 Hamas Qaeda’s Syrian wing, Nusra Front. One of the sanc- regime. He also stressed that he is not affiliated to enjoyed an eighth day of calm brought on With the negotiations in their final activists in the West Bank and annexed tioned Kuwaitis was identified as Hajjaj Al-Ajmi, any of the organizations fighting in Syria and that by two back-to-back truces, tensions were stretch, meetings at the Egyptian intelli- east Jerusalem, 46 of whom were interro- another prominent cleric who belongs to the everybody around him knows this. “The UN should once again on the rise over fears the fight- gence headquarters resumed at 1200 gated by the agency. It also said it confis- same extended tribe as Shafi Al-Ajmi’s. have listed Bashar Al-Assad and his regime on that ing could start again. But a senior mem- GMT, but there was little indication that cated 600,000 shekels ($170,000) from the Hajjaj has urged the foreign ministry to reject list for all the crimes they committed against the ber of the Palestinian delegation insisted either side was willing to back down on its Islamist movement’s coffers, along with the UN resolution and not to take it into consider- Syrian people,” he added, pointing out that he there had been “progress”, with both sides demands. “The fifth day of the ceasefire 24 rifles, six pistols, seven rocket launchers ation. “Listing my name on the international terror- would return home on Wednesday to file his griev- demonstrating “a great degree” of flexibili- and the negotiations between the resist- and a lot of ammunition. — Agencies ism list is groundless and there is no substantial ance against the UN resolution. — Agencies TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 ANALYSIS

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Issues Landmark Brazil poll contains good news for Rousseff

By Brian Winter

lthough a new poll shows Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff suddenly facing a tougher road Ato re-election, she also saw a sharp recovery in her approval ratings and resilient voter support through what will likely be the campaign’s most emotional and volatile period. The first poll since the death in a plane crash last week of Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was released early yester- day, showing Rousseff in a statistical dead heat in the event of a runoff against Campos’ likely replacement, environmentalist Marina Silva. Brazilian financial markets gained following the poll, which seemed to rule out any chance that Rousseff US Congress can still do deals when it must could avoid a runoff and win the election outright on Oct 5. Most investors do not like Rousseff’s left-leaning By Andrew Taylor al funding for highway projects and transit sys- Georgia, even if it wasn’t on the political radar General Electric. “We do have more ideological policies and markets have generally risen in recent tems from drying up this month. Voting against nationally. Still, several important bills face trouble people taking these ranking member and chair months with each sign that she might not win a second ashington may be a sea of dysfunction, either effort could have cost lawmakers in as some committee chairmen pursue ideology positions,” said Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, term. Yet there were several strong signs in Rousseff’s but the current Congress is offering a few November’s elections. over pragmatism. Rep Jeb Hensarling, a Texas former House Agriculture Committee chairman favor within the nationwide survey by pollster Wreminders about how a bill becomes a The veterans bill came together when Republican who heads the House Financial and now its top Democrat. Datafolha, and Brazil’s currency and main stocks index law: compromise. That’s been in short supply as Democrats agreed to lower the price tag and Services Committee, won a tight 30-27 vote in his With the departure of Miller, Harkin, Waxman gave up some of their early gains as investors looked lawmakers have tried to tackle a surge of Central Republicans accepted adding the additional cost committee for a bill that would change home and Camp, and Reps Eric Cantor and John Dingell, closely at the poll numbers. American youths entering the US from Mexico and to the national debt. On the highway bill, Senate financing by eliminating mortgage giants Fannie Congress is losing some of its most accomplished The percentage of voters who say Rousseff’s govern- find a long-term fix to funding the nation’s high- Democrats bowed to House Republicans on Mae and Freddie Mac. It is unlikely to advance fur- deal-cutters. As a result of rapid turnover, the con- ment is “good” or “great” rose to 38 percent, up six per- ways. And more compromise will be needed next financing it through anticipated revenues the gov- ther this year. Hensarling, a favorite of the right centration of lawmaking power has moved to centage points from the previous Datafolha poll in July. month to keep the government open past ernment might or might not reap a decade from and former head of the conservative Republican leadership offices instead of committees. The September, renew expired tax breaks, reauthorize now. Those weren’t the only deals in Congress over Study Committee, has appeared uninterested in increasing polarization on Capitol Hill also con- Those who said it was “bad” or “terrible” dropped six the Export-Import Bank and extend the govern- the last couple of months. Legislation on job train- cutting deals with Democrats. That puts his panel tributes to fewer lawmakers knowing how the points to 23 percent, while those rating it as “OK” was ment’s terrorism insurance program. After that, the ing programs advanced after House Republicans at odds with the counterpart Senate Banking, game is played. “It involves a lot of patience, perse- unchanged at 38 percent. “As incredible as it may sound, coming retirement of veteran dealmakers like dropped their most ideological demands and Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and its tra- verance. Things always don’t happen right away,” the poll shows that Rousseff’s approval ratings got a Reps Henry Waxman and Dave Camp may only worked closely with Democratic veterans like Rep. dition of handling bills in bipartisan fashion. Waxman said. “The key is that you need compro- considerable boost. And that’s actually a more impor- make compromise tougher. George Miller of California and Sen. Tom Harkin of On some issues, Hesnarling probably won’t get mise. And unfortunately, there are a lot of new tant variable than voter intention at this stage,” said Jo„o However, when it came to improving veterans’ Iowa. Both came to Congress in the mid-1970s and his way. His leadership was undermined this year Republicans - tea party, right-wing Republicans - Augusto de Castro Neves, Latin America director at the health care, overhauling job training programs, are retiring at year’s end. when coastal state lawmakers succeeded in weak- who think that compromise is a dirty word and Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. “After several authorizing water projects and “unlocking” cell- ening recent changes to the government’s much- talking to the Democrats is like complicity with the months of negative news for Rousseff,” he added, “there’s phones for use in other networks, Congress man- Ideology over Pragmatism criticized flood insurance program. He seems likely enemy.” Waxman’s fingerprints are all over the finally some good news for her.” aged to get the job done. The recent wave of law- A water resources measure, sealed in May and to lose to the Senate this fall when Congress Affordable Care Act, major Medicaid expansions, Rousseff’s approval ratings recovered during a peri- making fell into two broad categories: bills signed by President Barack Obama in June, was renews the government program that backstops food labeling, the Clean Air Act and the advent of od that saw inflation slow sharply. Her term has been Congress had to do to avoid embarrassment and the product of the traditionally bipartisan Senate insurance companies in the event of a major ter- generic drugs. “Except for the Affordable Care Act, plagued by slow economic growth and prices rising at less controversial measures lawmakers decided Environment and Public Works and House rorist attack. And he faces an uphill battle against every bill that I authored that became law had around 6 percent a year. Her opponents have consis- they wanted. The must-do bills included $16 bil- Transportation and Infrastructure committees. The Democrats and establishment Republicans to kill some Republican support,” Waxman said. “I always tently hammered her for being weak on inflation, but lion to improve veterans’ access to health care and bill gave individual lawmakers political wins for the Export-Import Bank, which helps finance worked with them to try to find a way to make it July saw a decline in air fares as well as food prices as a short-term $11 billion measure to prevent feder- projects such as dredging the Port of Savannah in exports by US companies such as Boeing and bipartisan.” —AP the soccer World Cup, which Brazil hosted, drew to an end. Datafolha began taking its most recent poll last Thursday, the day after Campos died in a plane crash. Brazilian media have since then been full of praise Rohingya name in Myanmar goes unspoken for Campos, a business-friendly former governor who had been in third place in polls with about 8 percent By Matthew Pennington including the term “Bengali” that the govern- Information Minister Ye Htut said in an email to uses “Burma”, although US officials also refer to support but was widely seen as one of Brazil’s brightest ment uses to describe Rohingya - is to “invite AP that the name had never been accepted by “Myanmar” - a sign of the improved ties with young politicians and likely to mount a strong cam- yanmar’s downtrodden Rohingya conflict.” The department says its policy on using Myanmar citizens. He said it was created by a the former pariah state. But in this contest over paign for president in 2018. Silva had been Campos’ Muslims have been denied citizenship, “Rohingya,” however, hasn’t changed. separatist movement in the 1950s and then semantics, the stakes are higher. Rohingya running mate but was much better known nationally, Mtargeted in deadly sectarian violence used by exile activists to pressure Myanmar’s were excluded from a UN-supported national thanks to her high profile as an environmental activist and corralled into dirty camps without aid. To ‘Deplorable’ former military government at the United census this spring if they identified themselves and her strong third place finish as a presidential candi- heap on the indignity, Myanmar’s government is Foreign aid workers have been caught up in Nations in the 1990s. as Rohingya. They face stiff restrictions on trav- date in the last election in 2010, when she took about pressuring foreign officials not to speak the the tensions. Buddhist hardliners have While there is a reference to “Rohingya” by a el, jobs, education and how many children they 20 percent of the vote. group’s name, and the tactic appears to be attacked homes and offices of aid workers it British writer published in 1799, use of the can have. They are also unwelcome in working. UN officials say they avoid the term in accuses of helping Muslims and not the smaller term by the Muslim community in Rakhine to Bangladesh, where they have fled during Can Silva Sustain the Surge? public to avoid stirring tensions between the number of Buddhists also displaced by the vio- identify themselves is fairly recent, according crackdowns inside Myanmar since the 1970s. Some analysts had expected a stronger showing for country’s Buddhists and Muslims. And after lence. Doctors Without Borders was expelled to Jacques Leider, an expert on the region’s his- Either because of government prodding or Silva in the Datafolha poll following the emotion of Secretary of State John Kerry recently met with by the government in February and is still wait- tory. Rohingya leaders claim their people are a desire to avoid confrontation, staff of foreign Campos’ death. It showed Silva would win 21 percent of Myanmar leaders, a senior State Department ing to be allowed back. The humanitarian situ- descendants of Muslims who settled in embassies and aid agencies in Myanmar rarely votes in first round of voting, just one percentage point official told reporters the US thinks the name issue should be “set aside”. ahead of the other main opposition candidate, centrist That disappoints Tun Khin, president of the Senator Aecio Neves, but behind Rousseff, who had 36 activist group Burmese Rohingya Organisation percent. Strikingly, support for Rousseff and Neves in a UK. He said by not using it, governments are co- first round was exactly the same as in polls a month operating with a policy of repression. “How will ago. the rights of the Rohingya be protected by peo- That means that Silva’s growth of 13 percentage ple who won’t even use the word ‘Rohingya’?” points compared to Campos came from voters who had he said. Myanmar authorities view the Rohingya previously said they were undecided or would spoil as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, not one their ballots in protest, as opposed to her taking votes of the 135 officially recognized ethnic groups. from the other two main contenders. In a second round, Longstanding discrimination against this state- which analysts say now looks almost certain, the less minority, estimated to number 1.3 million, Datafolha poll showed Silva with a 47 percent to 43 per- has intensified as Myanmar has opened up after cent advantage over Rousseff, meaning they are techni- decades of military rule. More than 140,000 cally tied since the survey had a margin of error of plus Rohingya have been trapped in crowded camps or minus two percentage points. since extremist mobs from the Buddhist majori- Some analysts question whether Silva will be able to ty began chasing them from their homes two grow much in polls considering her coalition’s relatively years ago, killing up to 280 people. weak nationwide presence, comparatively small cam- Racism against the Rohingya is widespread, paign funds and allotted time for free public TV advertis- and some see in the communal violence the ing, as well as her past reputation for unpredictable deci- warning signs of genocide. The United States sions. Some members of Campos’ Brazilian Socialist Party has called on the government to protect them. also doubt Silva’s commitment to the party platform, When President Barack Obama visited Myanmar which could provoke some tensions on the campaign less than two years ago, he told students at trail. Silva, who ran as the Green Party candidate in 2010, Yangon University: “There is no excuse for vio- has sought to play down those concerns. —Reuters lence against innocent people. And the Rohingya hold themselves - hold within them- selves the same dignity as you do, and I do.” Yet neither Kerry this month, nor top human All articles appearing on these rights envoy Tom Malinowski during a June visit, In this June 25, 2014, file photo, a Rohingya refugee holds her daughter who suffers from a skin disease in their pages are the personal opinion of uttered the term at their news conferences when they talked with concern about the situa- makeshift tent at Dar Paing camp north of Sittwe in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. —AP the writers. Kuwait Times takes no tion in Rakhine state, where sectarian violence is ation has worsened. The UN said the number of Rakhine before British colonial rule, which say “Rohingya” in public these days, and may responsibility for views expressed perhaps worst. Buddhist mob attacks against severe malnutrition cases more than doubled began after a war in 1823. The British occupa- simply say, “Muslims”. In June, the UN children’s therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Rohingya and other Muslims have spread from between March and June, and the world body’s tion opened the doors to much more migra- agency even apologized for using the term the western state to other parts of the country, top human rights envoy for Myanmar, Yanghee tion of Muslims from Bengal. Current Myanmar “Rohingya” at a presentation in Rakhine, an ers to voice their opinions. Please sparking fears that nascent democratic reforms Lee, last month called the situation law denies full citizenship to those whose incident which drew criticism from rights send submissions via email to: opin- in the nation could be undermined by growing “deplorable”. descendants arrived after 1823. activists. “Any humanitarian agency or donor [email protected] or via snail religious intolerance. She said she’d been repeatedly told by the who refuses to use the term is not just betray- mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. The State Department official, speaking on government not to use the name “Rohingya”, Semantics ing fundamental tenants of human rights law, condition of anonymity because the official was although she noted under international law The name debate is reminiscent of whether but displaying cowardice that has no place in The editor reserves the right to edit not authorized to speak publicly, said the US’ that minorities have to the right to self-identify to call the country by its old name, Burma, or any modern humanitarian project,” said David any submission as necessary. position is that to force either community to on the basis of their national, ethnic, religious Myanmar - the title adopted by the then-ruling Mathieson, senior researcher on Myanmar for accept a name that they consider offensive - and linguistic characteristics. Myanmar military junta in 1989. Washington still officially Human Rights Watch. —AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 SPORTS

Dhoni blamed for England debacle Tiernan-Locke’s Neymar set to feature in Suarez’s Barca debut MADRID: Brazilian striker Neymar has been given the all clear to play his first game since suffering a NEW DELHI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s captain- doping ban upheld broken vertebra in his back during the World Cup when cy has come under increasing scrutiny with Barcelona play Mexican side Club Leon yesterday. The many former cricketers blaming him for LONDON: UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has upheld former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke’s two-year ban after irregularities were found 22-year-old could get his first experience of playing India’s 3-1 test series defeat in England. A in his biological passport, the organisation announced yesterday. alongside new teammate Luis Suarez as the debate erupted on Dhoni’s future as Tiernan-Locke withdrew from racing in September after being ques- Uruguayan is expected to make his Barca test captain after India was bowled out tioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) over a discrepancy in debut after being cleared to play in friendly for a measly 94 and lost by an innings his blood data. He blamed the finding on an “alcoholic binge” and sub- matches last week by the Court of Arbitration sequent dehydration but the UKAD said he had used “a prohibited for Sport, despite serving a four-month ban and 244 runs at the Oval in the final from competitive games. Neymar missed out test of a five-game series. The innings substance (an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent) and/or prohibited method (blood doping) to boost his levels of haemoglobin”. “This was on his country’s ultimately disastrous 7-1 semi- lasted only 29.2 overs in what was a based on expert opinion on the conclusions drawn from a blood sam- final defeat to Germany on home soil after suffer- second successive loss inside three ple taken on 22 September 2012 under the UCI Athlete Biological ing the injury when he was clattered by Juan days for India. Dhoni, who survived the Passport (ABP) programme,” the UKAD added. “This sample was Camilo Zuniga towards the end of Brazil’s 2-1 quar- axe after India suffered 4-0 losses in assessed against four further samples taken to build a profile of the rid- ter-final win over Colombia. However, the injury both England and Australia in 2011, has er’s blood.” The UKAD said Tiernan-Locke, 29, had failed to sufficiently could have been much worse as Neymar revealed that now lost 14 away tests. Former India cap- explain the abnormal values, which were taken before he joined Team had the impact of Zuniga’s knee on his back been cen- Sky. The rider was previously stripped of his 2012 Tour of Britain title timetres higher he could have been left paralysed. tain Dilip Vengsarkar and former New and 2012 world championship results, and was sacked by Team Sky. Lionel Messi is also likely to get his first outing since his Zealand batsman Martin Crowe were “This is the first Athlete Biological Passport case handled by UK Anti- Argentina side lost the World Cup final to Germany on among those to criticize Dhoni’s leadership on Doping, handed down under the rules by the UCI,” UKAD legal director Monday as Barca finalise their pre-season build up to the start the England tour. —AP Graham Arthur said in a statement. —Reuters of the La Liga campaign when they host Elche on Sunday. —AFP US vulnerable without big names: Prigioni

BELGRADE: Hosts Spain and several other dream of becoming a household name. teams are capable of defeating a United “There, that’s me,” he said proudly as he States side missing their biggest names at showed off a photo of himself as a 10-year- the Aug. 30-Sept. 14 basketball World Cup, old ballboy at the 1990 World Cup in New York Knicks playmaker Pablo Prigioni Argentina, huddled in a corner as told Reuters. Yugoslavia beat the Soviet Union in the The 37-year-old Argentina point guard, final in Buenos Aires”I was there every day who joined the Knicks in 2012 from and watched all the games. Spanish side Caja Laboral, also announced “I am closer to the end of my career than that he would be quitting the international the beginning but I will carry on for a few stage after the 24-nation tournament in more years and the World Cup will not be order to focus on his NBA career. my last tournament for Argentina,” said 34- “Spain and a few other teams now have year-old power forward Scola. a chance of beating the United States,” said Prigioni at the warm-up event in Belgrade Great experience where Argentina were soundly beaten by Prigioni has decided to hang up his host nation Serbia and Puerto Rico. Argentina jersey after the World Cup to stay “It will be interesting to see how they in shape for the most demanding basket- will adjust now they are missing their ball environment there is. biggest names.” “The World Cup will be my last tourna- LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo ment for the national team because I want Anthony, Kevin Love and Blake Griffin have to focus entirely on the NBA next season,” all rejected invitations to play as the he said. Americans prepare to defend the World “Playing in the NBA is a great experience Cup they won in Istanbul in 2010. and one that came out of the blue because Prigioni’s Argentina team mate Luis I didn’t expect the opportunity so late in Scola, now plying his trade with the Indiana my career. “I try to enjoy every day, it’s the Pacers after five seasons at the Houston best place to play basketball and a very JIANGSU: Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte competes to win the women’s 50m breaststroke final swimming competition at the 2014 Youth Rockets and one at the Phoenix Suns, nice thing in the twilight of a player’s believes the title holders remain strong career.” Like the US and several other teams Olympic Games in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province yesterday. More than 3,700 competitors aged 15 to 18 were expected favourites. Argentina will also be at less than full to participate in the games, with many hoping to build towards a place at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. —AFP “The United States are always a good strength as guard Manu Ginobili, who won team no matter who plays and Spain will his fourth NBA title with the San Antonio obviously be contenders too as the host Spurs in June, will miss out along with nation,” Scola told Reuters. Milwaukee Bucks forward Carlos Delfino. World record holder Meilutyte “We are a work in progress but I believe Prigioni said his country may find it diffi- we are a good team too capable of making cult to advance to the latter stages of the an impact. My expectations are high but World Cup without the influential duo. wins gold at Youth Games we have to improve because we won’t beat “It will be very tough for us without anybody if we play like we did in Belgrade.” Ginobili and Delfino but we will have to Having been a key player in Argentina’s adjust and play without them,” he added. NANJING: Big things are expected of world photo finish gave the Briton the win, New teams after yesterday’s games. Fiji, one of the shock triumph at the 2004 Olympics and “We have to believe in our young players record holder and Olympic champion Ruta Zealand filed a protest, which proved unsuc- favourites for the men’s title, lost twice yester- their runners-up finish in the 2002 World and find a way to compete with the Meilutyte at the Youth Olympic Games in cessful. day, to France and Argentina. Cup, Scola reminisced about his boyhood resources we have.” —Reuters Nanjing and the Lithuanian did not disappoint “It was quite tense but I’m glad it went this China’s women beat Tunisia 34-0 and the yesterday, cruising to gold in the women’s 50 way in the end,” Dijkstra said. “It was such a United States 29-7 yesterday, while Australia meters breaststroke final. good race, and Danny’s such a good athlete. I’m thrashed the Americans 38-0 and routed Spain The 17-year-old, who won 100m breaststroke really pleased with the result and that I’ve got 41-0. Malaysia ‘nude games’ gold at the London Games two years ago and this gold medal now.” Rattanaphon Pakkaratha won the women’s holds the 50m world record, cruised home in a Some 3,800 athletes are taking part in the 53 kg weightlifting title to earn Thailand’s first time of 30.14 seconds ahead of German Julia second edition of the Youth Games, which gold of the Games, which kicked-off on Sunday organiser apologises Willers (31.78) and Hungary’s Anna Sztankovics debuted in Singapore four years ago. The without Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria after (31.84) Games, which close on Aug. 28, are open to ath- they withdrew because of the Ebola outbreak in Also on Day 2 of competition in China, letes aged 14-18. Africa. KUALA LUMPUR: The organiser of a who lives in neighbouring Singapore. Ukraine’s Pavlo Korostylov blocked out the The IOC had banned three west African ath- nudist sports festival has apologised for Five more Malaysians are in police cus- crowd noise and music, not to mention the Different class letes from competing in combat sports and holding the event, which triggered out- tody, while two others have been pressure of performing in front of International One of the highest profile athletes in Nanjing pool events in China as a precaution after the rage in Muslim-majority Malaysia and led released after their statements were tak- Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas is Lithuania’s Meilutyte, who was in a different world’s worst outbreak of Ebola, which has to the arrest of eight people. en, police said. Bach, to win gold in the men’s 10m air pistol. class to her 50m breaststroke rivals yesterday. claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in A video of the May gathering, called “We are still looking for another seven Among the 19 gold medals up for grabs on Meilutyte, who set a world record of 29.48 in the region. the “Nude Sport Games 2014”, first people, including from Myanmar and the Monday, Britain’s Ben Dijkstra won the men’s the event at the world championships in IOC President Bach said on Saturday that fol- appeared on social media earlier this Philippines,” Penang district police chief triathlon title but had to wait more than an hour Barcelona last year, is also entered in the 100m lowing the move, taken after discussion with month and went viral. Lai Fah Hin told AFP. for his win to be confirmed. breaststroke in Nanjing, as well as the 100m the World Health Organisation, the govern- It showed naked participants Police are investigating participants Dijkstra and New Zealand’s Daniel Hoy freestyle and 200m individual medley. ments of Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone had engaged in a range of activities including for acts of public obscenity and “insulting crossed the line together after almost an hour In rugby sevens, Argentina’s men and opted against allowing their athletes to com- body painting, dancing, relay races and the modesty” of others, charges that of swimming, cycling and running and when a Australia’s women remain the only unbeaten pete in the 13-day multi-sport event. —Reuters various other contests on a secluded could result in five years in prison. The Penang beach. gathering has been condemned by Co-organiser Albert Yam, who is in Muslim conservatives and non-Muslims police custody, has publicly apologised alike, and triggered heated online for the “naturist event” in an open letter exchanges between critics and support- to the government of the state of ers of the nudists. Penang, the New Straits Times reported In the video, a naked woman is seen Monday. riding horseback on a man, while in “We will not do it again and please another, a nude woman crawls over three accept our deepest apologies for our unclad men lying next to each other in misconduct, which has caused embar- the sand. About 60 percent of Malaysia’s rassment to the country,” he said. nearly 30 million people are Muslim eth- Yam, who is in his 40s, is a Malaysian nic Malays. —AFP 15-year-old Windle wins men’s 10m title

KNOXVILLE: Jordan Windle is a national pened to be available. “That was the only champion diver before he’s old enough to one that was open that I could get into be a licensed driver. Windle, who doesn’t because it was a little late getting into one,” turn 16 until November, convincingly won Windle said. “I just thought it was a very the men’s 10-meter title with interesting sport, so I just did it from there 527.8 points Sunday to cap the final day on.” of the US national diving championships. Although Windle earned four gold Windle exceeded 90 points on each of his medals and one silver at the junior national first three dives. championships this month, Sunday marked He started his day by earning 103.6 his best day yet as a diver. Windle won the points on a forward 4 1/2-somersault tuck. 10-meter championship by nearly an 85- That was the only 100-point dive by any- point margin over Mark Anderson, who one in the six-day event. “It definitely had 442.9 points. Zachary Cooper was third boosted my confidence,” Windle said. “From with 426.55. there on, my coach was really excited for Windle wasn’t the only diver with reason me and just told me to have fun and stuff. to celebrate. Ariel Rittenhouse of Santa That’s what I did through the whole event.” Cruz, California, closed a productive week This is the latest chapter in Windle’s by winning the women’s 3-meter competi- compelling rise. Windle was born in tion with 350.45 points. Laura Ryan was Cambodia and was placed in an orphanage second with 336.75 points and Elisabeth as a baby after his parents died. He was Dawson was third with 328.5. adopted as an 18-month-old and moved to Rittenhouse, a 2008 Olympian, had the United States. He now lives in teamed with Amanda Burke of Morrisville, North Carolina. Southampton, Pennsylvania, to win the 3- Windle started diving at age 7. When meter synchronized title a day earlier. school ended his family wanted to him to Rittenhouse also placed second in the 1- JIANGSU: Denmark’s Emil Deleuran Hansen (L), New Zealand’s Daniel Hoy (C) and Britain’s Ben Dijkstra compete the men’s triathlon at go to summer camp. A diving camp hap- meter Wednesday. —AP the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province yesterday. —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 SPORTS

All Blacks to forge even further ahead of the rest of the world

WELLINGTON: New Zealand may have 1924 ‘Invincibles’ teams, Johnson’s study passed down through the years, from their “commitment to learning” despite of their 32 tests. missed out on setting a new record for shows. player-to-player. the revolution in rugby over the last 30 Going into last weekend’s match consecutive test victories but their domi- “There has been an ethos, or legacy of “The senior players created an infor- years. “The world operates at such a fast against Australia, they had equalled a nation of the game is unlikely to stop winning since the 1905 and 1924 teams mal group that took over and set the pace, technological change is over- record for top-tier nations jointly held by soon, an academic study claims. that has been carried on,” the 75-year-old standards and the values of the team,” he whelming us and to keep up, sports really the 1965-69 All Blacks and the 1997-98 The study, by former rugby adminis- lead author of ‘Legends in Black - New said. “If the members of the group believe need to be committed to learning,” he Springboks with a 17-match winning trator and provincial player Tom Johnson, Zealand Rugby Greats on Why We Win’ in those values and it shows them they said. streak. has looked at how a small South Pacific told Reuters. can be successful, then that becomes “This is one of the things I found with The streak ended on Saturday with the country of less than 4.5 million people “We established very early on that part of the culture.” the current All Blacks (from) the Graham 12-12 draw in Sydney but Johnson said has managed to dominate world rugby legacy of winning. As such our public is Johnson’s book stemmed from his Henry regime through to the current day the constant evolution of the All Blacks for so long. very demanding of our coaches and play- PhD thesis into organisational culture and is that they have made a commitment to culture would help them recover their The All Blacks have won more than 76 ers. Only winning is good enough.” macro-environmental factors influencing learning.” hegemony quickly enough. percent of their 516 test matches since Johnson’s research involved interview- change and he argues that even the That commitment has not just “Culture is a stabilising thing and if you 1903, 10 percent higher than South ing former All Blacks greats and revealed strongest culture is no guarantee of suc- allowed the All Blacks to maintain their don’t change you get set in your ways Africa, who have the second best record, that in the absence of the sort of coach- cess if it fails to adapt. high standards but to forge even further and there is the likelihood of getting winning 66 percent of their 432 tests. ing and management structures that ahead of the rest of the world. beaten,” he said. New Zealand’s winning percentage exist today, the team culture was fostered Advantage In the 10 years since Henry was “That’s why I think the current team has exceeded 80 percent since rugby by the players themselves. He believes the All Blacks are an excel- appointed in 2004, they won almost 88 have adopted a learning culture. They turned professional in 1995 but the cul- And while the All Blacks now embrace lent case study for any organisation percent of their matches. Under current have to. If they don’t they will be beaten. ture behind their success can be traced the best of modern support structures, because of the way they have managed coach Hansen, who took over after the “And that is what has made them very directly back to the 1905 ‘Originals’ and that underlying winning culture has been to maintain their advantage through 2011 World Cup, they have lost just one successful.” —Reuters Yang beats Conners in final of US Amateur

JOHNS CREEK: South Korea’s Gunn Yang has disk that required laser surgery. Just three completed his improbable run to the US weeks ago, he withdrew from the California Amateur title with a 2-and-1 victory over Open after playing his first nine holes at 6 Canada’s Corey Conners on Sunday. over. At No. 776, Yang became the lowest- Now, at the home club of Bobby Jones, ranked player in the world amateur stand- the greatest amateur of them all, Yang hoist- ings to win the country’s biggest title for ed the Havemeyer Trophy. “I was just trying non-professional golfers. Along the way, he to build up my confidence,” he said. “I never beat five players inside the top 100, includ- thought that I could get the US. ing the 44th-ranked Conners. Amateur right away, I mean, one year The 20-year-old Yang, a San Diego State after the surgery. This is just a dream come player, never trailed in the 36-hole final at true.” Conners never led in the match, but he Atlanta Athletic Club, pushing his lead to 2 had a chance to push it to the 36th hole with up with four to play by rolling in an 18-foot a 15-footer for birdie at No. 17. It slid by the birdie putt at No. 14. He closed out the right side of the cup, and he settled for par. match with a tap-in par at No. 17, the 35th Yang, whose 18-footer to win the match hole. caught the right lip of the cup and spun out, The South Korean was 1 up after the knocked in what was nothing more than a morning round. Afternoon play was halted gimme par to wrap up the match. He by a rain delay of 1 hour, 37 minutes. Yang pumped his fist, hugged his caddie and let was one of the most unlikely champions in out a scream. the history of the event, which was first held Conners’ loss came one week after in 1895. A student at San Diego State another Canadian, Brooke Mackenzie University, he has played in just four college Henderson, lost in the final of the US events, his career sidetracked by a herniated Women’s Amateur. —AP

SANTA CLARA: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Blaine Gabbert (2) passes against the Denver Broncos during the first half of an NFL preseason football game in Santa Clara, California, Sunday. —AP Manning dominant for Denver in win over 49ers

SANTA CLARA: Peyton Manning threw a 17-yard CJ Anderson ran for a 1-yard TD, while Matt his two carries. Wide receiver Michael Crabtree touchdown pass to Julius Thomas and dominat- Prater kicked a 26-yard field goal and Mitch also appeared as defensive stars Patrick Willis and JOHNS CREEK: Gunn Yang of Korea hits out of the bunker on the eleventh ed in his two series, leading the Denver Broncos Ewald added a late 22-yarder. San Francisco’s typ- Justin Smith got the day off. hole during the final match of the US Amateur Championship on Sunday at past the San Francisco 49ers 34-0 on Sunday to ically spot-on Phil Dawson sailed two long kicks Broncos cornerback Kayvon Webster missed the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia. —AFP spoil the NFL debut at sparkling $1.2 billion Levi’s wide right. Denver did it on defense, too, getting the game after spraining an ankle during Stadium. two interceptions and a fumble recovery and a Saturday’s practice. Denver already was thin as The 38-year-old Manning, beginning his 17th goal-line stand to end the game. The Broncos Chris Harris Jr. returns from tearing his left anteri- season after throwing for an NFL-record 55 recovered another fumble on special teams. or cruciate ligament during the playoffs. Tricky 18th hole helps touchdowns last year, completed 12 of 14 passes The 49ers lost safety Antoine Bethea to a con- Linebacker Von Miller, who tore his right ACL for 102 yards and a 120.8 rating. He was 8 for 8 cussion early in the second quarter. He was able in Week 16, could still play in the preseason, Villegas win Wyndham on Denver’s second drive, then backup Brock to walk off on his own, but later left for the locker while that is unlikely for Harris. Denver remains Osweiler took over and threw for a score and led room. without running back Montee Ball, who is work- GREENSBORO: Camilo Villegas got some season event. another touchdown drive in a preseason ing back from an appendectomy earlier this help from an unlikely source on his way to his Villegas had four birdies and an eagle on matchup of the past two Super Bowl losers. Traffic concerns month. Kaepernick had his chances during his first victory in a while. the front nine, added a birdie on the par-5 Colin Kaepernick went 5 for 9 for 39 yards in Denver linebacker Lamin Barrow limped off brief stint on the field. On third-and-4 from the The tricky 18th hole at Sedgefield Country 15th and watched the rest of the tournament his two series before a sellout crowd at the team’s early in the second half with a lower leg injury, 37, Kaepernick barely overthrew Brandon Lloyd Club tripped up his top two challengers. from the air-conditioned scorer’s tent with his flashy new digs in the heart of Silicon Valley. then the Broncos lost tight end Gerrell Robinson in the end zone. Villegas won the Wyndham Championship by caddie. “I was hoping for a playoff,” Villegas Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes beat to a knee injury. Dawson then missed his first field goal a stroke Sunday for his first on the PGA Tour said. Turns out, he didn’t have to hit another the Seattle Sounders in the stadium’s first sport- As San Francisco struggled in all phases, tens attempt in the new stadium, sending a 55-yarder since 2010 after Freddie Jacobson and Nick shot, not after the rest of the field struggled ing event Aug. 1. of thousands of fans made their way out midway wide right. He missed wide right again from the Watney ran into trouble on the final hole. “I late. Instead, he earned his fourth PGA Tour Demaryius Thomas had three catches on through the third quarter - certainly helping to other end on a 44-yarder late in the first half, and thought somebody was going to get” a birdie title and first since the 2010 Honda Classic. Denver’s opening drive, including a 20-yard gain. alleviate traffic concerns. The 49ers ended a four these weren’t in the unpredictable elements of on 18, Villegas said. He also became the second first-round That gives Thomas 10 receptions for 89 yards in decade run at Candlestick Park last season. Candlestick. The 49ers are scoreless in their last Nobody who could catch him did. That leader to win this tournament since its 2008 Denver’s two victories against the NFC West’s Two key members of San Francisco’s offense seven quarters and have been outscored 57-3 gave the Colombian $954,000 in prize money move back to Sedgefield and first since Arjun powerhouses, the Super Bowl champion Seattle made their first appearances of the preseason, this preseason. They lost 23-3 at Baltimore on and 500 FedEx Cup points in the final regular- Atwal in 2010. —AP Seahawks and San Francisco. with Frank Gore running for 9 yards on the first of Aug 7. —AP IRB vow to do everything to grow women’s rugby

PARIS: World rugby union’s governing body, Memorable the IRB, has vowed to do “everything” to “I send my congratulations to England grow the women’s game in the wake of a who played so well, but also to Canada who highly successful World Cup won by won so many fans here during this World England. Cup.” Goalkicking Canada wing Magali The tournament captured the imagina- Harvey, who scored a memorable 80-metre tion of a French public, who not only tuned try in the semi-final victory over France, was in in their millions to watch on television, named the IRB Women’s Player of the Year. but came in their thousands to grounds to The 24-year-old edged out her captain watch five rounds of matches live. and Canada number 8 Kelly Russell, Ireland Such fervour in a country known for par- full back Niamh Briggs and France No 8 Safi ticularly fickle fans has been a major boost N’Diaye. for the International Rugby Board (IRB) as it “Her try against France in the semi-final looks ahead to the Rio Olympics in 2016 was perhaps the tournament highlight and when men and women’s rugby sevens will certainly one of the tries of the year. I was make their debut. privileged to have been sitting in the stand to “The fact that so many spectators have watch it live,” Lapasset said. come to watch, as well as record television Focus for many players who featured in audiences at home, is a testament to the France will turn swiftly away to the process of quality of rugby that has been on display,” qualifying for the rugby sevens at the Rio IRB president Bernard Lapasset said after Games. watching England beat Canada 21-9 in That begins with four of the 15 spots on Sunday’s final. offer (Brazil having already qualified as hosts) “The women’s game is certainly on the up at the 2014-15 IRB Sevens World Series, while and we will be doing everything we can at each of the six regional rugby unions will the IRB to make sure that upward trend con- have an Olympic qualification event from tinues.” which one team will qualify. Lapasset heaped praise on the final day The high-octane abbreviated form of the of competition, with France finishing third regular 15-a-side game made its debut on the after outgunning Ireland 25-18 at Stade Jean Olympic programme this week at the Youth Bouin, the western Parisian home of Top 14 Summer Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. club Stade Francais, before England took “It has been a special day for the global centre stage. “What an amazing way to finish rugby family and the young players are very an amazing women’s Rugby World Cup,” the much aware that they have been making his- Frenchman said. tory,” Lapasset said of a competition watched “The TV and media coverage, the atmos- by former International Olympic Committee PARIS: French junior Sports minister Thierry Braillard (C) poses with players of France’s women rugby union national team yester- phere at the matches and the way that this president Jacques Rogge. “We are proud to day at the Sports ministry in Paris. On the eve, the team won the IRB Women’s Rugby World Cup third place match. —AFP tournament has captured the public’s imagi- be back on the Olympic stage and Nanjing nation has been remarkable. has made us feel very welcome.” —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 SPORTS Refreshed Australia ready to get back in the saddle

SYDNEY: Australia are refreshed and champing at in the previous year, and the amount of cricket earned them. period of time which is going to be a challenge the bit to play international matches again as they they will be playing over the next 12 months, The break has not completely cleared the injury but everyone is fresh and that’s what you want to prepare to hit the road for another hectic two Lehmann said the time off had been vital. list - Ryan Harris remains in rehab after knee sur- start with,” he added. years of cricket, according to coach Darren “Professionally, everyone was tired - coaches gery - but Clarke has recovered from a shoulder “So we’re going to be a bit rusty with the skills, Lehmann. were tired, players were very tired and they did an injury. but that’s okay. We’re going to make mistakes, but After a four-month break from international amazing amount of work in 12 months so to get a that’s okay. cricket, Michael Clarke will lead a one-day squad break before we go on the road for two years was Finding form “What we need to do is build and build and to Zimbabwe tomorrow for a triangular series also pretty important,” Lehmann told the Cricket All rounder Shane Watson will miss the tour build to become a better test side, a better one- featuring South Africa. Australia website. after rolling his ankle by standing on a ball in train- day side, a better Twenty20 side.” That starts a long cycle of almost non-stop “Now the challenge is getting us back up to the ing last week and David Warner has decided to Clarke said the players needed to focus simply cricket with test series against Pakistan in the skill level that we need to compete at international skip the trip to remain in Sydney to be with his on the challenge immediately in front of them. United Arab Emirates in October and India back in cricket because we’ve had the break and we’ll fiancee, who is expecting their first child. “If you look at our next block of two years Australia in December and January. have to get that very quickly because we’ve got Lehmann, whose arrival as coach last year there’s a lot of cricket, and some really important An ODI series against India and England follows Zimbabwe and South Africa. helped bring on a remarkable transformation of cricket as well so that’s exciting for us,” he said. as part of the preparations for the World Cup, “I think everyone is jumping out - they just Australia’s cricketing fortunes, does not expect the “But I think that’s for others to focus on and which Australia is hosting with New Zealand early want to play.” Australia still top the rankings in players to hit top form straight away. work out what teams they’re thinking, what play- next year, before another test series in West Indies one-day internationals but have slipped from the “From my point of view, we’ve got to get them ers they’re thinking for conditions all around the and the defence of the Ashes in England. number one status in test cricket that a 5-0 Ashes up-skilled quick enough to compete at interna- world over the next two years. “For us, it’s about Given Australia had played 10 Ashes tests alone sweep and 2-1 series victory in South Africa tional level and then keep them there for a long performing well.” —Reuters S Lanka sweep Pakistan, Herath grabs 14 wickets

COLOMBO: Rangana Herath’s 14-wick- been playing well. Losing to them isn’t The offense can carry a penalty of Riaz’s dismissal sealed victory for Sri et match haul helped ensure former really what you call a humiliation as an official reprimand to a fine of up to Lanka, with Junaid Khan unable to bat Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene they played better cricket them us,” 50 percent of the match fee. Pakistan after being hit on the head by a retired from test cricket with a series said Misbah. started the last day at 127-7, facing Dhammika Prasad bouncer in the first sweep against Pakistan yesterday. “You only learn from your defeats almost inevitable defeat with only the innings. Herath took 5-57 in the second and it’s not like we played bad cricket possibility of rain giving them some The batting failed again for innings to propel Sri Lanka to a 105- we did play good cricket but they hope of saving the test. Pakistan, after the bowlers got the run victory on the final morning of the were little bit better than us. When you Sarfraz Ahmed followed up his cen- tourists back into contention on second test after Pakistan was dis- lose 2-0 or 1-0 it’s not different but you tury in the first innings with 55 in the Sunday with eight Sri Lanka wickets missed for 165 chasing 271 at the never get disappointed rather try to second before he was for 105 in a remarkable comeback. But Sinhalese Sports Club. He finished improve with every game you play caught by Kumar Sangakkara in the Sri Lanka, led by Dhammika Prasad’s with a career-best 14-184 for the and move on.” deep off seam bowler Chanaka two quick wickets and Herath, reveled match, surpassing his previous mark of Jayawardene ended his 149-match, Welegedara. Ahmed faced 89 deliver- in the conditions and gave long-serv- 12-157 against Bangladesh last year, 17-year test career with 11,814 runs at ies and hit two boundaries but his ing Jayawardene a fitting farewell to and increased his series tally to 23 an average of nearly 50. His contribu- wicket spelled the end for Pakistan. the five-day format. —AP wickets after a match-winning per- tion in his last match was 58 runs, formance in the first test at Galle. including a half century in the second He was named both player of the innings, and three catches at his cus- SCOREBOARD match and the series. “We knew they tomary slips position. The 54 he scored were going come hard at us, they play in his last innings was his 50th half COLOMBO: Final scoreboard on the fifth day of the second Test between our spinners very well as well. So it’s century. He also posted 34 test cen- Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo yesterday: just that we won those difficult situa- turies in a long and distinguished span Sri Lanka 1st innings: 320 (U. Asad Shafiq st Dickwella b Herath 32 tions and I thought those little phases at the elite level. Tharanga 92, K. Silva 41, Junaid Khan Sarfraz Ahmed c Sangakkara b we had to fight really hard we fought After Kaushal Silva caught Wahab 5-87, Wahab Riaz 3-88) Welegedara 55 really hard,” Sri Lanka captain Angelo Riaz for the last wicket, Jayawardene Pakistan 1st innings: 332 (Ahmed Abdur Rehman lbw b Perera 5 Mathews said. was carried off the Sinhalese Sports Shehzad 58, Sarfraz Ahmed 103, R. Wahab Riaz c Silva b Herath 17 “I am pretty pleased the way the Ground on the shoulders of his team- Herath 9-127) Saeed Ajmal not out 3 whole team turning up wanting to win mates. President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka 2nd innings: 282 (U. Junaid Khan did not bat - absent every day. Starting from the second who was a guest, handed Jayawardene Tharanga 45, K. Sangakkara 59, M. injured - test against South Africa upto now it a souvenir to mark the occasion. Jayawardene 54, A. Mathews 43 not Extras: (b4, lb7, nb3) 14 has been brilliant.” out, Wahab Riaz 3-76, Saeed Ajmal 3-89) Total (all out, 52.1 overs) 165 Sri Lanka lost the home test series Reprimanded Pakistan 2nd innings: (overnight Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Manzoor), 2-21 against South Africa last month. Meanwhile the International 127-7): (Shehzad), 3-31 (Ali), 4-39 (Misbah), 5- Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said Cricket Council has reprimanded Khurram Manzoor c Dickwella b 50 (Khan), 6-105 (Shafiq), 7-122 Herath was the difference between Pakistan off spinner Saeed Ajmal for Prasad 10 (Rehman), 8-151 (Sarfraz), 9-165 (Riaz). two teams and said there was no using obscene language during the Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Prasad 8 Bowling: Welegedara 9-4-22-1, Prasad shame in losing to a better team. fourth day’s play Sunday. The ICC said Azhar Ali c Jayawardene b Herath 10 8-0-29-2 (nb3), Herath 22.1-2-57-5, “It’s (losing) a part of the game, but in a statement that the words were Younis Khan lbw b Herath 8 Perera 13-1-46-1. you haven’t lost to a low ranked as picked up by stumps microphone and Misbah-ul Haq c Jayawardene b Sri Lanka won by 105 runs, sweep they are the fine side and recently won heard on television during Sri Lanka’s Herath 3 series 2-0. a series against England so they have 105th over. Jayawardene ends Test career in perfect style

COLOMBO: Mahela Jayawardene ended his illus- trious 17-year test career in near perfect style in the whitewash win for Sri Lanka against Pakistan yesterday. A half-century at his home ground, another century stand with his friend and favorite batting partner Kumar Sangakkara, capped with his teammates carrying him off the field on their shoulders. In retirement he will be preparing a special place in his trophy cabinet for his 15-year test cap as he turns his attention to playing at next year’s World Cup, before quitting international cricket altogether. He will also be giving more time to his work with the players’ trade union and a cancer hospital project close to heart in memory of his late broth- er. In 149 tests since making his debut in 1997, Jayawardene retired Monday on the final day of the second test at the Sinhalese Sports Club with 11,814 career runs at an average of 49.84. He has 50 half-centuries and 34 centuries. Jayawardene made his debut against India in 1997 as a 20-year-old and scored a half-century in his first innings which largely went unnoticed COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene holds his daughter Sansa as wife Christina because of Sri Lanka’s record breaking 952-6 with watches at the end of the second cricket Test match against Pakistan in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sanath Jayasuriya (340) and Roshan Mahanama yesterday. Sri Lanka won the series 2-0. —AP (225) in a 576-run partnership. Later, he himself scored 374 in a record-break- ing 624-run partnership with Sangakkara who scored 287 during a test series against South Anderson channels his anger Africa in 2006. “The decision to retire was something I have LONDON: James Anderson has said the fall-out ‘sledging’ or verbal abuse of opposition batsmen been thinking for some time and came to a point I from his row with Ravindra Jadeja helped him star out in the middle. And in the light of that, felt that for me the right time was right,” in a 3-1 Test series win over India. England Anderson said he had tried to let his bowling, Jayawardene told reporters after the match. wrapped up the five-match contest with a colos- above all else, do the talking for him. “It was just a gut feeling, but have I always gone sal innings and 244-run victory, completed inside “Possibly, in the last few games, I have concen- with my gut feelings.” “Given the fact that we don’t three days, at The Oval on Sunday. trated more on being aggressive with the ball have test cricket for another 12 months it’s time for Spearhead seamer Anderson was named rather than my mouth,” Anderson said. a new generation to take over. I will try and help England’s man-of-the-series after taking 25 wick- “I think I tried to be as aggressive. Whether I that rebuilding process as I could.” In retirement ets at an average of 20.60 as he made inroads into tried to say any less, I don’t know. But I think the from tests Jayawardene has some plans one which an ever-more fallible India top order. Jadeja incident made me more determined to will be to start a cancer hospital project in the Anderson’s sparkling form prompted a succes- perform on the field. southern province through a charity that he is part sion of increasingly low totals that culminated “At Southampton, when the stuff was going on of. The organization has built a $ 4 million hospital with the tourists’ humiliating 94 all out in their around before and after the game (the Lancashire in northern Jaffna, affected by the country’s quar- second innings at The Oval. But had India had paceman had his hearing the day after England’s their way, Anderson would not have been playing series-levelling victory), we were so focused on ter-century civil war.Another would be to make at all by that stage. Indian management brought winning that game, and since then we’ve not let room in his trophy cabinet for his test cap which a Level Three charge under the International India back into the series.” he has worn for 15 years. Cricket Council’s code of conduct, alleging he had However, Anderson insisted he was not about “It has a huge value, I have stitched it and man- “abused and pushed” Jadeja in a pavilion incident to abandon his aggressive on-field style that he aged to wear it for such a long time,” Jayawardene during the drawn first Test at Trent Bridge. believes has been a key to a career that has now said pointing at his cap which he wore for a last The charges were dismissed by ICC code of seen him take 380 wickets in 99 Tests. COLOMBO: This combination of images created yesterday, shows time.”It’s been with me for 15 years now, the first conduct commissioner Gordon Lewis, who also Only all-round great Ian Botham, with 383, has Sri Lankan cricketer Kaushal Silva (R) and teammate Kumar two years we had a different cap. I think this will rescinded the 50 percent match fee fine imposed taken more Test wickets for England. “The reason Sangakkara (L) colliding as they combine to take a catch to defeat go in my trophy cabinet at the top, have a nice on Jadeja by match referee David Boon, the for- I struggled, I think, in the early part of my career is Pakistan during the final day of the second Test match between Sri place I have already planned that.” “It’s not an easy mer Australia batsman. because I was the timid, shy character that I am Lanka and Pakistan at The Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) Ground in thing to let it go but I think there will be a lot of However, what did emerge from the hearing off the field when I was on it,” said the 32-year-old Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka won the second and final Test against talent who are waiting to wear this cap which is a was Anderson’s fondness for some pretty crude Anderson. —AFP Pakistan by 105 runs to sweep the series 2-0. —AFP great thing,” he said. —AP SPORTS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

As Man Utd owners cash in, need to buy stars grows

LONDON: With new investors to attract and a Watching the Glazers cash in, following a 2005 Transfer window lowing campaign unless the team returns to the team in need of strengthening to appease dis- leveraged takeover that has cost the club around That’s been clear throughout 2014, but the Premier League’s top four. United has an gruntled fans, it’s a busy August at Manchester $1.2 billion in finance costs, has proved particular- wisdom of the spending is less so. Signing Juan admirable commitment to promoting talent from United as England’s biggest club tries to push ly galling for some fans after the 2013 champions Mata in January for a club-record 37.1 million its academy, although to shareholders they are deals over the line on two fronts. In Manchester, finished seventh in May. pounds (then $61 million) briefly raised morale deemed players “carried on the balance sheet at new manager Louis van Gaal has been evaluating Success, though, has been measured by other under Moyes. But the midfielder couldn’t hold zero book value.” One of the refashioned back the state of his squad after a sobering loss to factors in the last year at Old Trafford. Take slide down a regular place at Chelsea and would go on three on Saturday was Tyler Blackett, making his Swansea - United’s first defeat at home on the nine of that investor presentation. No major tro- to play just once at the World Cup - in Spain’s first-team debut at 20 in an unaccustomed defen- opening day in 42 years. Just two weeks remain phy was collected in 2013-14 but it did take “22 group-stage finale having already been eliminat- sive formation alongside Chris Smalling and Phil for Van Gaal and executive vice chairman Ed days to become the biggest Premier League club” ed. The much-vaunted summer transfer window Jones. Woodward to convince players to join a team in on photo-sharing platform Instagram. arrivals aren’t established international players, Hardly a trio of names to instil fear yet into transition, out of the Champions League and fac- Fans have struggled to reconcile their 136- yet both Luke Shaw and Ander Herrara com- opponents to win titles or indeed plaster on the ing a fight to return there. year-old club’s heritage and the capitalist motives manded fees of around $50 million. Patrice Evra, side of noodles in Malaysia, wine in Chile or credit In financial institutions this month, the task for of the Floridian owners whose affinity to United is one of three veteran defenders to leave in the off- cards in the United Arab Emirates in the Glazers’ United’s leadership is highlighting the club’s to the brand’s money-making abilities. Slide 17 season, was replaced with 19 year-old left back pursuit of global sponsorship riches. Revenue robustness and downplaying any turmoil in the underscores this when United is called a “leading Shaw. When the three-times-capped Englishman rose to another club-record of around 430 million post-Alex Ferguson era following the team’s col- global marketing platform,” enabling sponsors to joined from Southampton in June, he had pounds ($727 million) for the year to June 30, lapse under David Moyes last season. have an “association with success.” Even after last appeared just once at the World Cup - like Mata, 2014. Despite Van Gaal questioning the commer- “Manchester United is the most watched club season’s despondency, Adidas signed a 10-year in the final group game with England unable to cial demands during the pre-season slog across with the biggest fanbase”, a presentation being kit deal worth around $1.3 billion from 2015 on advance. the United States, fans won’t be able to count on shown on the investor roadshow declares. The top of a seven-year $559 million shirt sponsorship Herrara, signed from Athletic Bilbao, is a cen- the former Netherlands and Barcelona coach join- Glazer family, which controls United, announced with Chevrolet that has just started. tral midfielder who at 25 is yet to make a senior ing their anti-Glazer protests. last month that it was selling another 12 million Woodward has been so keen to reassure fans international appearance for Spain. The challenge In fact, the 2-1 home collapse to Swansea on shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The six that the owners are not just milking the club of is convincing world-class players to join at an Saturday might have reinvigorated the anti- children of the recently deceased Malcolm Glazer cash that he boasted in July: “We’re not afraid of uncertain period in the 20-time English champi- Glazer campaign online, but the years of glory will raise $196 million while retaining more than spending significant amounts of money ... we are ons’ history with no Champions League football under Ferguson eradicated much of the desire to 80 percent of the voting power. in a very strong financial position.” on offer this season - and potentially in the fol- expose a sustained public front. — AP

MLB results/standings Morse paces Giants to

Baltimore 4, Cleveland 1; Seattle 8, Detroit 1; Chicago Cubs 2, NY Mets 1; Miami 10, Arizona 3; Houston 8, 5-2 win over Phillies Boston 1; NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 2; Chicago White Sox 7, Toronto 5; Kansas City 12, Minnesota 6; St. Louis 7, SAN FRANCISCO: Michael Morse got three hits San Diego 6; Texas 3, LA Angels 2; San Francisco 5, and scored twice as the San Francisco Giants MARLINS 10, DIAMONDBACKS 3 Philadelphia 2; Milwaukee 7, LA Dodgers 2; Colorado 10, won consecutive home games for the first time The Miami Marlins, backed by Giancarlo Cincinnati 9; Washington 6, Pittsburgh 5 (11 Innings); in over two months, beating the Philadelphia Stanton’s three-run homer and four RBIs, Atlanta 4, Oakland 3; Colorado 10, Cincinnati 5. Phillies 5-2 on Sunday. Andrew Susac had two reached .500 with a win over the Arizona hits and drove in the go-ahead run for the Diamondbacks. Stanton, the right fielder, has Giants, who won their first series at home since powered Miami (62-62) this season and leads American League taking two of three from Arizona right before the National League in homers (32) and RBIs Eastern Division the All-Star break. Brandon Crawford drove in a (88). W L PCT GB pair of runs. Chase Utley and Cody Asche drove Baltimore 70 52 .574 - in runs for the Phillies, who have lost seven of CUBS 2, METS 1 NY Yankees 63 59 .516 7 their last nine. Tim Lincecum (10-8) managed to Shortstop Starlin Castro homered on the first Toronto 64 61 .512 7.5 work through five innings to end a personal pitch of the ninth inning to snap a tie and lift the Tampa Bay 61 63 .492 10 three-game losing streak. He gave up two runs Chicago Cubs to a win over the New York Mets. and seven hits, walking four and striking out Castro and right fielder Ryan Sweeney each had Boston 56 67 .455 14.5 two. Lincecum needed 76 pitches to finish three two hits while third baseman Luis Valbuena had innings and came out after throwing 97. The an RBI single in the fourth for the Cubs (53-70), Central Division Phillies stranded eight runners over the first five who snapped a three-game losing streak. Kansas City 68 55 .553 - innings, including the bases loaded in the third. Detroit 66 56 .541 1.5 Javier Lopez, Jean Machi, Sergio Romo and ROCKIES 10, REDS 9 (FIRST GAME) Cleveland 62 61 .504 6 Santiago Casilla combined for four scoreless Drew Stubbs’ three-run homer capped the innings, allowing two hits and striking out nine. Rockies’ five-run ninth inning, and Colorado ral- Chicago White Sox 59 65 .476 9.5 Casilla earned his 10th save in 13 chances. Not lied for a stunning win over the Cincinnati Reds. ARLINGTON: Texas Rangers’ Adam Rosales (9) follows through on his game winning single Minnesota 55 67 .451 12.5 since June 8 had the Giants won two straight at Stubbs finished with three hits and Nolan in front of Los Angeles Angels catcher Hank Conger (24) during the ninth inning of a base- AT&T Park. David Buchanan (6-7) allowed two Arenado went 4-for-4 as Colorado overcame a 9- ball game, Sunday, in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers won 3-2. — AP Western Division earned runs and nine hits in 6 2-3 innings. 5 deficit in the ninth. Cincinnati (61-62) closer LA Angels 72 50 .590 - second inning, and increased their American Detroit Tigers. Young (12-6) allowed four hits and Aroldis Chapman walked all four batters he Oakland 73 51 .589 - NATIONALS 6, PIRATES 5 (11 INNINGS) League Central lead to 1 1/2 games. struck out four while winning his fourth consec- faced in the pivotal inning, setting the come- Pinch-hitter Scott Hairston had an RBI sacri- back in motion. Seattle 67 56 .545 5.5 utive decision. Second baseman Robinson Cano fice fly in the last of the 11th against reliever Houston 52 73 .416 21.5 RANGERS 3, ANGELS 2 scored three runs and right fielder Chris Brandon Cumpton as the Washington Nationals Adam Rosales drove in the winning run in Denorfia added three hits and an RBI for the ROCKIES 10, REDS 5 (SECOND GAME) Texas 48 76 .387 25 beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to sweep the three- the ninth inning with a walk-off RBI single that Mariners (67-56), who took two of three games Michael Cuddyer hit for the cycle to highlight game series. The hit scored right fielder Jayson scored third baseman Adrian Beltre in the Texas in the series. The Tigers fell to 66-56. Colorado’s doubleheader sweep of Cincinnati. National League Werth, who led off the 11th with a double off Rangers’ comeback victory over the Los Angeles Cuddyer doubled in the eighth inning, where Eastern Division the wall in left and went to third on a ground- Angels. Earlier in the ninth inning, first baseman ORIOLES 4, INDIANS 1 the Rockies scored five runs, to complete the out. It was the second walk-off win in as many feat. The Rockies beat the Reds 10-9 in the earlier Washington 69 53 .566 - Mike Carp had singled in the tying run for Texas Steve Pearce and Jonathan Schoop homered days for the first-placed Nationals (69-53) who game. Atlanta 64 60 .516 6 (48-76), which halted a four-game losing streak. and Kevin Gausman combined with three reliev- won their sixth in a row while the Pirates (64-60) Right-hander Huston Street lost the 2-1 lead in ers on a two-hitter as the Baltimore Orioles beat Miami 62 62 .500 8 lost for the fifth straight game. The winning the ninth to suffer the defeat for Los Angeles the Cleveland Indians. Gausman (7-4) pitched six WHITE SOX 7, BLUE JAYS 5 NY Mets 59 66 .472 11.5 pitcher was Ross Detwiler (2-2), who threw a (72-50), giving up his first run in 13 appearances innings and held the Indians to one run on two Conor Gillaspie hit his first career grand slam Philadelphia 54 70 .435 16 scoreless 10th and 11th innings. since being acquired in a trade last month. hits. Left-hander Zach Britton pitched the ninth in a six-run first inning and the Chicago White to pick up his 26th save for the first-place Orioles Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays. After allowing a Central Division BREWERS 7, DODGERS 2 CARDINALS 7, PADRES 6 (70-52). run in the top of the first, Chicago (59-65) Catcher Jonathan Lucroy homered and stormed back in the bottom half against right- Milwaukee 70 55 .560 - Jumping out to a 5-0 lead before they made drove in five runs, leading the Milwaukee the second inning’s first out, the Cardinals main- YANKEES 4, RAYS 2 hander Drew Hutchison. St. Louis 66 57 .537 3 Brewers to a sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers tained their grip on the National League’s top New York Yankees got strong pitching from Pittsburgh 64 60 .516 5.5 with a victory. Carlos Gomez hit his 20th home wild card spot with a win over the Padres. Hiroki Kuroda and strung together four consecu- BRAVES 4, A’S 3 Cincinnati 61 63 .492 8.5 run as the Brewers (70-55) handed the Dodgers Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright (15-7) tied tive hits in the fifth inning to beat the Tampa Bay Justin Upton and Chris Johnson backed Mike Chicago Cubs 53 70 .431 16 their first three-game sweep of the season. The Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto for the league lead in Rays. Kurodo pitched 6 2/3 innings to get the Minor with home runs, and the Atlanta Braves Brewers also unseated the Dodgers (70-56) for wins, going seven innings. Wainwright allowed win for the Yankees. Evan Longoria recorded completed a three-game interleague sweep the National League’s best record. seven hits and four runs, three earned, with a both RBIs for the Rays (61-63). with a victory over Oakland. Minor (5-8) allowed Western Division just four hits over seven innings for the Braves LA Dodgers 70 56 .556 - walk and five strikeouts. Third baseman Matt ROYALS 12, TWINS 6 Carpenter was the heavy hitter for St Louis (66- ASTROS 8, RED SOX 1 (64-60), the only damage against him two bases- San Francisco 65 58 .528 3.5 A seven-run second inning powered the 57), going 3-for-4 with a solo homer. Jose Altuve had four hits, including a grand empty homers by A’s first baseman Nate San Diego 58 65 .472 10.5 Kansas City Royals to a win over the Minnesota slam in a six-run second inning as the Astros Freiman. The A’s (73-51) completed a 1-6 road Arizona 53 71 .427 16 Twins in a rain-delayed affair. After a 30-minute MARINERS 8, TIGERS 1 earned a split of their four-game series with the trip with their fifth consecutive loss and fell into Colorado 49 75 .395 20 delay to start the game, much of the contest was Chris Young tossed six scoreless innings and Red Sox. Altuve, who leads the Major Leagues a tie for first place with the Los Angeles Angels in played in a light rain. The Royals clobbered Twins Kyle Seager drove in three runs as the Seattle with 173 hits, finished the game hitting Major the American League West. Oakland led by four starter Tommy Milone, who was chased in the Mariners cruised to a victory over the sloppy League-best .339. games at the start of the trip. — Agencies Gordon races to first win at Michigan since 2001

BROOKLYN: It had been 13 years since Jeff Gordon’s last victory at there,” Logano said. “We’ve got to find a little bit more speed to Michigan - which came during the same season as his most recent keep up with one car today - 24 car was the best, only because he championship on NASCAR’s top series. One of those droughts is was good on the long run. We weren’t as good on the long run. finally over. Can the 43-year-old driver end the other as well? There were eight cautions, including a fairly early one when “Certainly things are going well - there’s no doubt about that,” Danica Patrick’s car spun and Justin Allgaier crashed into her. Nine Gordon said. “I’m as shocked as anybody else.” Gordon raced to his cars were caught up in that incident, including Matt Kenseth’s No. third Sprint Cup victory of the year, holding off Kevin Harvick on 20 Toyota. Kenseth never really recovered, finishing 38th. Sunday for his first win at Michigan International Speedway since Brad Keselowski rubbed against the wall with about 32 laps 2001. Gordon broke the track qualifying record Friday when he remaining and finished eighth, remaining winless at this track in took the pole at 206.558 mph. He followed that up with his third his home state. Johnson overcame some problems of his own to Cup victory at MIS - and took over the points lead from Hendrick finish ninth, his first top-10 showing in six races. Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. After a series of cau- Jeff Burton was 37th after replacing Tony Stewart in the No. 14 tions, Gordon came off the final restart well and led with 16 laps car. Stewart skipped his second straight Cup race after he struck remaining. He fought off a challenge from Joey Logano and main- and killed a driver at a dirt-track race in New York last weekend. tained a comfortable margin over Harvick, winning the 400-mile Hendrick and Stewart-Haas Racing are alliance teams. race by 1.412 seconds in his No. 24 Chevrolet. Hendrick said he hasn’t talked to Stewart, but he’s been in touch “Joey, as we rolled up to some of the restarts - not that last one, with Eddie Jarvis, Stewart’s longtime business manager. but some of the other ones - as guys were starting to sort of antici- “I think they’re making the best of the situation that they’re in,” pate it, he was slowing down, and when he slowed down, every- Hendrick said. “Tony’s got a lot of good folks around him.” Gordon body got bottled up, and then he’d take off,” Gordon said. “That won for the 91st time on the Cup circuit, and this is his first three- last one, I thought he had a good start, but I had a good one, too.” win season since 2011. He took over the lead in the standings by Harvick was second, followed by Logano, Paul Menard and three points over Earnhardt. Gordon also won this season at Earnhardt. Kansas and Indianapolis. “As a driver, especially somebody that’s Gordon completed a sweep at MIS for Hendrick. Jimmie been getting beat up over the years about restarts, it’s pretty nice Johnson won the June race on the two-mile oval. “I think all of our to have the last two wins come down to restarts.” teams are running well, but this is a big, big win,” owner Rick Assuming they attempt to qualify for the final three races of Hendrick said. “It’s great to see Jeff so happy. He’s like a little kid the regular-season, the 12 drivers with victories this season have again, so I think it’s going to be really, really important for the all wrapped up spots in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Kenseth momentum he’s carrying right now into the Chase.” remains the top driver without a victory in the standings, but he Logano was second to Gordon in qualifying. He led 86 laps dropped to fifth place. If the regular season ended now, the last BROOKLYN: Jeff Gordon, driver of the #24 Axalta Chevrolet, poses in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Gordon was in front for 68. “We can win a championship. I four drivers in the Chase would be Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Clint Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday in Brooklyn, Michigan. — AFP really feel we can do that. That’s the message I want to put out Bowyer and Greg Biffle.—AP SPORTS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

Photo of the day Mertesacker on standby for Arsenal’s European qualifier

LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene week preparation, but he’s willing to play, Wenger is considering bringing defender no problem. We are a bit short.” Per Mertesacker back from his post-World Frenchman Koscielny drew the Gunners Cup layoff early as injury cover for today’s level on the stroke of halftime on Champions League first leg playoff Saturday after Brede Hangeland’s glanc- against Besiktas. ing header gave Palace the lead at the Mertesacker and his Germany team Emirates Stadium. mates Mesut Ozil and Lukas Podolski The centreback played the full 90 min- were given the extended break by utes but suffered from pain in his foot, Wenger after the World Cup triumph in while Gibbs lasted little over an hour Brazil last month with the trio scheduled before succumbing to a hamstring injury. to miss the first few weeks of the cam- Arsenal are aiming to reach the paign. Champions League group stage for the However, defenders Laurent Koscielny 17th consecutive season. and Kieran Gibbs suffered knocks in After an impressive 3-0 Community Saturday’s last-gasp 2-1 win over Crystal Shield win over champions Manchester Palace in their English Premier League City and the victory over Palace, courtesy opener meaning Mertesacker, who last of Aaron Ramsey’s late winner, Wenger week announced his international retire- was confident of progressing past the ment, could be drafted in to play in Turkish side. Turkey. “We are desperate to do it because we “We will assess Koscielny on Monday,” want to play in the Champions League Wenger was quoted as saying by British and we know how big these games are,” media on Monday. Wenger added. “We had to give a lot, “If he’s fit and capable to play, we play hopefully we will recover and be ready for him. It was our plan to bring the Germans tonight. “We are desperate to go through, back in contention for Everton (on no matter what it costs we want to go Saturday). But in case of emergency I will through. We have always a difficult draw, take Mertesacker. Ken Roczen competes in the AMA Pro Motocross Championships at Unadilla we had Fenerbahce last year, this time we “Ideally he would need one more have Besiktas. It’s difficult.” — Reuters Valley Sports Center in New Berlin, New York, USA — www.redbull.com Monaco blown away by Bordeaux comeback

PARIS: Monaco suffered a second Goalkeeper Danijel Subasic had Sane had headed on a free-kick. defeat in as many games this season to beat away a Khazri free-kick, but And there was worse to come as Bordeaux came from behind to Monaco took the lead in the final with quarter of an hour remaining beat the principality club 4-1 in minute of the opening period when as Khazri scored from the spot after Ligue 1 on Sunday. Dimitar Valere Germain’s right-wing cross drawing a foul from Subasic just Berbatov gave the visitors the lead was headed into the net at the far inside the box as the Monaco at the Stade Chaban-Delmas just post by Bulgarian striker Berbatov. defence imploded. before half-time, but having lost at Sagnol, who played in the last home to Lorient last weekend, Monaco side that won the title in Marseille beaten Leonardo Jardim’s side collapsed in 2000, reshuffled his tactical set-up Saint-Etienne are the only other the face of a brilliant Bordeaux sec- at the break and Bordeaux required side to have won their opening two ond-half performance. only three minutes to draw level, matches after they also came from behind to beat Reims 3-1 at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. Loic Perrin deflected a Benjamin Moukandjo shot into his own net to give Reims-who held champions Paris Saint-Germain last week-an interval lead, but Max-Alain Gradel, Kevin Monnet-Paquet and Mevlut Erding all found the net in the sec- ond half for Les Verts. However, like Jardim, new Marseille coach Marcelo Bielsa is MADRID: (L to R) Real Madrid’s Croatian midfielder Luka Modric, Real Madrid’s Portuguese defenders Fabio Coentrao, finding the adaptation to life in and Pepe and Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo take part in a training session at Valdebebas training Ligue 1 something of a challenge. ground in Madrid yesterday, on the eve of the Spanish Super Cup match Real Madrid CF vs Atletico de Madrid. — AFP After OM threw away a two-goal lead to draw 3-3 in Bastia last week, his first home game at the helm ended in a chorus of jeers after a Real even better than deflating 2-0 defeat to southern rivals Montpellier, whose goals came from Anthony Mounier and Morgan Sanson. last season: Ancelotti The Stade Velodrome was hold- ing its first game since work finished on a new main stand, completing MADRID: Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti believes his side er players. Tomorrow one team will play and on Friday a differ- will be even stronger this campaign than the one which won ent team will play. the refurbishment done for Euro the Champions League and Copa del Rey last season. “I don’t remember the Ozil situation and I am not going to 2016, which France will host, and Madrid have added World Cup stars James Rodriguez, Toni start talking about that topic because I will lose my concentra- the game was watched by a crowd Kroos and Keylor Navas at an expense of over 100 million tion on tomorrow’s game. “I don’t know what Di Maria has of more than 50,000. euros as they aim to lift a potential six trophies this season. decided. He is ready and it could be that he can help us. Until BORDEAUX: Monaco’s midfielder Joao Moutinho (R) vies with Bordeaux’s “I am not satisfied. One point out They already have one to their name after defeating Sevilla August 31 that is the line we will take. Whether he stays or defender Diego Contento (L) during the French L1 football match Bordeaux of six against opponents who are 2-0 to win the European Super Cup in Cardiff last week and goes, after that everything will return to normal.” (FCGB) vs Moncao (ASMFC) on Sunday at the Chaban Delmas Stadium in expected to finish in the bottom will face Atletico Madrid in a repeat of the Champions League Atletico have also been busy in the transfer market as they Bordeaux. Bordeaux won 4-1. — AFP half is not a very good outcome,” final over two legs on Tuesday and Friday in the Spanish Super have brought in nine players to help replace Thibaut Courtois, admitted Bielsa, although he added: Cup. “I think we have a better team than last season because Filipe Luis and Diego Costa who have all moved to Chelsea. Two goals from Uruguayan strik- Rolan turning the ball in after Julien “I think there were more things of we have signed three players that add quality to the team,” However, despite ending the dominance of Real and er Diego Rolan and penalties from Faubert’s cross had been headed value in the match than things that Ancelotti said yesterday. Barcelona to win La Liga last season, coach Diego Simeone Emiliano Sala and Wahbi Khazri back across goal by former Bayern we need to fix.” Whilst Rodriguez and Kroos went straight into the starting has played down expectations ahead of the new campaign. made it two wins out of two for Les Munich full-back Diego Contento. On Saturday, PSG brushed aside line-up for the victory over Sevilla, Navas has had to wait to “We need to look at Sevilla, Valencia and Athletic Bilbao. Girondins, who are top of the fledg- Argentine striker Sala, making his SC Bastia 2-0 with Lucas and make his competitive debut and Ancelotti confirmed that Iker We will try to fight with them for the Champions League ling table with a maximum six first Ligue 1 start, then scored from Edinson Cavani on target, but their Casillas will once again start in goal. Argentinean midfielder places,” said the Argentine. points after a fine start under their the penalty spot after Aymen win was overshadowed by the ear- Angel di Maria also didn’t feature in Cardiff amidst reports that “With 95 million euros we have signed nine players, Real new coach Willy Sagnol. Abdennour was harshly adjudged ly loss of Zlatan Ibrahimovic due he could be sold before the end of the transfer window with Madrid have signed two players for 95 million. That is the dif- Radamel Falcao was again left on to have fouled his fellow Tunisian to a side strain and an after-match Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain reportedly inter- ference.” Atletico will hand debuts to their star signings the bench at kick-off for Monaco, Khazri inside the area. incident in the tunnel which saw ested. However, Ancelotti dismissed comparisons with Mesut Antoine Griezmann and Mario Mandzukic in attack. although Jardim did make five Monaco sent on Falcao but they Bastia’s Brazilian striker Brandao Ozil this time last year before his deadline day move to However, Arda Tura misses out with a hamstring injury and Arsenal. “Di Maria is available like all the other players. It could new goalkeeper Jan Oblak will start on the bench as he lacks changes to his team, including fell further behind in the 65th headbutt Thiago Motta, leaving be that he starts and has his chance, but he is just like the oth- match fitness after suffering a hip injury in pre-season. — AFP recalling Jeremy Toulalan in mid- minute when Rolan, in an offside the PSG player with a fractured field. position, converted after Lamine nose. — AFP Crystal Palace fined over Cardiff ‘spy’ row

LONDON: Crystal Palace have been fined over claims and transactions relating to the League each club shall they obtained information about Cardiff City’s line-up behave towards each other club and the league with prior to a game against the Welsh club last season, the the utmost good faith”. Premier League announced yesterday. Palace could now face a fine of up to £25,000 The Premier League’s board upheld a complaint from ($41,800, 31,300 euros). Neither club was prepared to Cardiff that tactical information was leaked to Palace comment on the matter. Cardiff’s complaint reportedly officials ahead of the London’s side 3-0 win in the Welsh centred on their belief that Palace’s sporting director capital on April 5. Iain Moody, who left Cardiff earlier in the season, had “The Premier League board has considered a com- used his contacts at the club to acquire information plaint from Cardiff City regarding the conduct of a about their plans for the game. Crystal Palace official,” a statement from the league Moody described the allegations as “incredibly, read. extraordinarily untrue” and Palace also denied the “The board found that Crystal Palace breached Rule claims. Cardiff were relegated from the English top LONDON: Arsenal’s French manager Arsene Wenger (2L) attends a training session at their London Colney facility in B.16 and has exercised its summary jurisdiction and flight at the end of last season, while Palace finished Hertfordshire, north of London, yesterday ahead of their UEFA Champions League Play-off first-leg football match fined the club.” The rule cited states that “in all matters 11th.— AFP against Besiktas today. — AFP World record Jayawardene holder Meilutyte ends Test wins gold at career in Youth Games perfect style

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CINCINNATI: Roger Federer of Switzerland is presented the winner’s trophy by John F. Barrett, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Western & Southern Financial Group, after a final match against David Ferrer of Spain on day 9 of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Family Tennis Center late Sunday, in Cincinnati, Ohio. — AFP Federer, Serena win at Cincinnati Rodger captures sixth Cincinnati title MASON: By now, everyone knows Roger Federer’s itinerary for “Definitely my best performance of the summer,” she said. Cincinnati: Get his game in order, raise the winner’s trophy, “Hopefully not the last. “This is definitely a level that can take leave town with a lot of confidence for the US Open. Might as me to the (US Open) title. I still have a lot of work to do. It’s defi- well rename it the Federer Cup. nitely a better level than I’ve played all year, to be honest.” Federer won his unprecedented sixth title in Cincinnati on Ivanovic was treated for a stomach ailment during her nearly 3- Sunday, beating David Ferrer 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 at the Western & hour win over Maria Sharapova in the semifinals Saturday night. Southern Open. He’s reached the finals six times and won all six. She didn’t have much left against Williams, who dominated How does this keep happening? with her serve. “I don’t know,” he said. “I just really enjoy myself here.” Serena Williams couldn’t say that until Sunday, when she got her first Williams had 12 aces Cincinnati championship on her sixth try. Williams needed only “Only?” Ivanovic said. “It felt like way more.” The only other 62 minutes to beat Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-1 and earn a title that event that Williams had played six times without a title is had always slipped away. Sydney. She finally got her win in Cincinnati with the help of a “I love this moment,” she said. “I love holding up the trophy.” favorable matchup. Williams is 7-1 in her career against The tournament’s brackets opened up when defending cham- Ivanovic, the only loss coming at the Australian Open this year. pions Rafael Nadal and Victoria Azarenka withdrew because of Although their last three matches have been close - all injuries. Top-seeded Novak Djokovic had a rough week and got going three sets - this one was one-sided after the first few knocked out in his second match. games. “I felt like she was dominating,” Ivanovic said. There was one constant: Federer playing well on Cincinnati’s Williams developed a stiff back that limited her serve in the fast courts. “I’m really pleased with the week. Overall, it went semifinals Saturday night. She moved stiffly at the start Sunday, from good to great,” the Swiss star said. “My game’s exactly double-faulted in the first game and was broken - an ominous where I want it to be.” sign. But she started moving better and took control with her His latest title came against an opponent he has dominated serve, pulling even at 3-3. She clinched the set when Ivanovic throughout his career. Federer improved to 16-0 against Ferrer, double-faulted twice in a row. The back problem came into play who has won only five sets off him overall. Ferrer took advan- in the second set. Williams winced after a serve in the opening tage of Federer’s lull in the second set, but couldn’t keep up. game and arched her back. She stretched her back a few times “The third set, he served unbelievable,” Ferrer said. “He played between points and played through it.”I felt it a little bit in the really good and I was a little bit tired. But anyway, with Roger it’s second, but I just was so excited for this final and to be in the difficult, no?” Title No. 6 ended a bit of a slump for Federer, who final,” she said. “I just really felt like I had nothing to lose. So I was had lost his last four Masters finals matches. He was the runner- able to relax.” Despite the loss, Ivanovic will move back into the up to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Toronto a week earlier. top 10 in the WTA rankings with her strong showing in “I’ve been bringing home some smaller ones,” Federer said Cincinnati. after raising the large winner’s trophy. “I’m happy to get the big “It’s the biggest final I’ve been in in a while. It feels good to one.” Williams opened the day by winning her elusive title so be part of it,” she said. “There are still a few points in my game convincingly that she’s thinking another one could be on its that I feel I need to work on for the US Open and also for the CINCINNATI: Serena Williams and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia pose with their trophies after the final match on day 9 of the Western way soon. end of season. Definitely exciting times.” — AP & Southern Open at the Linder Family Tennis Center on Sunday, in Cincinnati, Ohio. — AFP Nadal out of US Open with wrist injury

NEW YORK: Champion Rafa Nadal has pulled “Not much more I can do right now other Wimbledon on July 2. out of the US Open, which begins next than accept the situation and, as always in my It is another worrying setback for Nadal who Monday, after failing to recover from a right case, work hard in order to be able to compete has had to battle back from lengthy injury lay- wrist injury. The 28-year-old Spaniard sus- at the highest level once I am back.” offs several times in his brilliant career. tained the injury in practice last month and The 14-times grand slam winner also tri- After being sidelined for seven months with had been training with a cast on his right wrist, umphed at Flushing Meadows in 2010. Despite a knee problem, he returned in February 2013 forcing him to miss the Rogers Cup in Toronto missing the entire North American hardcourt to win 10 titles including grand slams in Paris and last week’s Cincinnati Open. campaign, Nadal had hoped to compete in and New York. Injuries also caused Nadal to “I am very sorry to announce I won’t be able New York, previously posting a picture of him- miss the defence of his Wimbledon title in 2009 to play at this year’s US Open,” the world num- self working on court with his uncle and coach and his Olympic crown in 2012. NEW YORK: In this Sept 7, 2013, file photo, Rafael Nadal, of Spain, returns a shot to Richard ber two said on Facebook yesterday. “I am sure Toni with a black wrist support clearly visible. The winner of 64 career singles titles, he Gasquet, of France, during the semifinals of the 2013 US Open tennis tournament in New you understand that it is a very tough moment The left-hander, who plays with a double- has claimed four trophies this year and has York. Nadal will not defend his title at the US Open because of an injured right wrist. Nadal for me since it is a tournament I love and where handed backhand, won his ninth French Open set no time frame for a return to competition. and the tournament announced his withdrawal yesterday, a week before the year’s last Grand I have great memories from fans, the night title in June but has not played since losing in The US Open will be held from Aug 25 to Slam tournament begins. — AP matches, so many things. the fourth round to Australian Nick Kyrgios at Sept 8. — Reuters EU vegetable growers to get 125m euros to face Russia ban

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DONETSK: Refugees from eastern Ukraine wait for food in a refugee camp near the Russian city of Donetsk, Rostov region, about 15 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border. Economic crisis in Russia and sluggish demand from Turkey weighed on hopes for an export-led recovery in the euro-zone in June, official data showed yesterday. — AFP Euro-zone exports hit by Russian crisis Sluggish demand from Turkey weighs on recovery

BRUSSELS: Economic crisis in Russia and slug- hit Russia and an 8 percent drop from Turkey, have pushed through reforms recommended quarter, casting a cloud over the crisis-hit year,” Berenberg’s Schulz said. In June, Britain gish demand from Turkey weighed on hopes which is suffering an economic slowdown. by the EU. But there are fears the crisis in region. In June, powerhouse Germany was the posted the widest trade deficit in the 28- for an export-led recovery in the euro-zone in With imports up a slight 0.5 percent, this Ukraine will weigh on growth this year and only major euro-zone economy to post a sig- nation EU, at 48.1 billion euros, followed by June, official data showed yesterday. Exports meant countries in the euro-zone posted a some EU leaders have warned that sanctions nificant increase in exports for the year to France, Spain and Greece. from the 18-nation single currency zone marginally higher 16.8-billion-euro trade sur- against Russia, which came into effect this date, which rose three percent from the same Overall, the EU posted a trade surplus of a dipped by 0.5 percent in June compared with plus in June, up from 15.4 billion euros the month, could further derail the bloc’s fragile period in 2013. Exports in Spain and Portugal, 2.9 billion euros in June, pushed wider than May to 162.2 billion euros ($217 billion), the month before. recovery from the euro-zone debt crisis. which slumped into deep recessions during the previous month by a drop in imported Eurostat statistics agency said. “Weaker external demand played an impor- “Not just the crisis of Russia’s economy, but the euro-zone debt crisis, dropped one per- energy. Looking ahead in the euro-zone, “June’s euro-zone trade data provided yet tant part in the slowdown of the euro-zone also the temporary slowdown in the US and cent. Greek exports were down 8 percent. Hinds of Capital Economics forecast improve- further evidence that the external sector export-led recovery in the second quarter,” some emerging markets contributed to the Meanwhile, demand for euro-zone exports ment “as exporters start to feel some benefit remains too weak to make up for the region’s said Christian Schulz, economist at Berenberg spring lull,” said Schulz. was up a strong 8 percent in Britain, where an from the recent depreciation of the euro”. A feeble domestic recovery,” said Jessica Hinds of Bank. economic recovery is underway. Demand from strong euro especially against the dollar has Capital Economics. Policy-makers in Brussels had hoped the Britain a bright spot China was also up 8 percent. been criticized by both governments and Euro-zone exports were dragged down by euro-zone economy was recovering on the Growth figures last week showed the euro- “The UK was one of the few very strong companies as a major constraint to expanding a 14 percent slump in demand from sanction- back of exports from periphery countries that zone economy ground to a halt in the second bright spots for trade in the first half of the exports. — AFP Egypt in largest drop in 8 weeks Emerging assets firmer as Russia outperforms

MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS LONDON: Russian assets outperformed Emerging equities touched new 2-1/2- broader emerging markets yesterday with week highs, with stocks across central DUBAI: Egypt’s stock benchmark suffered its Egyptian pounds ($2.7 million) in the three although index volumes slumped to a week- the ruble shrugging off a central bank Europe also gaining ground. Polish stocks largest decline in eight weeks yesterday as months to March 31. That compares with a low. Qatar National Bank and Industries Qatar move to allow it greater flexibility after traded at two-month highs while the zloty investors booked gains after the previous profit of 202 million pounds a year earlier. the largest listed companies by market value diplomatic efforts appeared to defuse firmed slightly. day’s six-year peak, while most Gulf markets The slump was due to disruptions to pow- - climbed 2.9 and 2.4 percent respectively, some of the tensions with Ukraine. The Korean won hit five-week highs, rose in thin trade. er supplies which hurt steel production, said while Qatar Islamic Bank rose 4.1 percent. After diplomatic talks over the weekend leading emerging currencies as most Cairo’s measure fell 1.4 percent in a broad Paul Chekaiban, Ezz Steel chairman and MSCI will raise the weighting of these between Russia, Germany, France and emerging assets benefited from US sell-off. Trading volume was up by more than managing director. “We expect the opera- three stocks on its emerging market index at Ukraine, Russia said objections to it send- Treasury yields at 16-month lows and a a third from a day earlier, which may indicate tional efficiency of our business model to the end of this month and investors may buy ing a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine had weak dollar following a run of disappoint- further selling is likely - the benchmark rose partially offset the negative impact of the this trio until then, said Shuaa’s Khan. been resolved. However, it also said no ing US and global economic data. 17 percent from June 29 to Aug. 17, so detrimental general conditions in which our progress had been made toward a cease- Indian stocks hit a fresh record high. investors may opt to take more profits this industry will operate in Egypt during the UAE gains fire between government and rebel forces “The premise was that developed markets week. Commercial International Bank and remainder of 2014,” he added. Dubai’s index rose 0.7 percent, its biggest in the east of Ukraine. While tensions are were recovering, that included Europe, and EFG Hermes were among the most notable gain in a week. Nearly 116 million shares trad- still simmering, with reports that Moscow now we’re seeing Europe is definitely not losers, dropping 3.7 and 5.9 percent respec- Kuwait’s Americana ed, which was more than double Sunday’s threatened to ban car imports from Europe recovering,” Solot said. “Our base scenario tively. Shares in Kuwait Food Co (Americana) fell total but still low compared to recent market if European countries imposed more sanc- is those three economies (US, UK and “Egypt has been grinding higher for the 0.6 percent after the company said it had no norms; nine of the 12 sessions this year in tions, markets were encouraged by the China) are doing OK ... but it’s a fragile past months and there’s a direct correlation knowledge of any talks with Saudi Arabia’s which fewer than 200 million shares traded talks, with dollar-denominated stocks up premise.” with the political situation, which has been Savola Group over a possible acquisition of have been in August. more than 1 percent to one-month highs. The ruble also firmed 0.2 percent to the slowly but surely consolidating,” said Amer Americana. The stock had been suspended “A lot of fund managers and retail investors Ilan Solot, a strategist at Brown Brothers dollar even though the central bank Khan, senior executive officer at Shuaa Asset since Aug. 13, when it rose 2.6 percent to a are still away and volumes probably won’t Harriman, said a two-tier dynamic was evi- announced it had widened its exchange Management in Dubai. “Given the market’s record high following a statement from return until September,” added Khan. dent in markets, keeping Russian - and rate corridor by 2 rubles to allow the cur- gains, it’s natural to see investors booking Savola saying the Saudi firm was preliminary “Looking at the volumes, there’s not much emerging assets - trading in ranges but rency more flexibility. It also reduced the some profits.” Khan expects Egypt’s tentative talks to buy Americana. you can infer to say there’s a clear trend.” with a firmer bias. volume of interventions required to shift political stability will allow the market to Americana is part of the Kharafi family Emaar Properties and contractor Drake & Scull “At the high level it looks like diplomatic the ruble’s corridor. reach new highs in the longer term. business empire. National Investment Co - each climbed 1.5 percent. Property-related efforts are gaining a little bit of traction, at Analysts expect ruble weakness to con- However, Ezz Steel provided a reminder of another Kharafi company - also declined, stocks tend to lead market moves in the UAE. the low level it looks like fighting is intensi- tinue however, with the currency already the continuing difficulties with which many falling 3.7 percent. Savola shares lost 2.5 per- Abu Dhabi also rose, adding 0.7 percent. fying,” Solot said. But he added: “They are down almost 9 percent versus the dollar Egyptian firms still contend. Its shares fell 1.1 cent in Riyadh; analysts think an Americana Aldar Properties was the most active stock, at least expressing the knowledge that this year, as Russia’s economy heads percent, trimming their 2014 gains to 11.3 acquisition might be a good fit for the com- rising 2.2 percent. Saudi Arabia edged up 0.1 everybody has more to lose than to gain towards recession. Analysts at SEB in percent, after it swung to a first-quarter loss. pany. Qatar’s measure rose 1.7 percent to an percent, hitting a new six-and-a-half year with this conflict ... at this stage I don’t Stockholm forecast the ruble to trade at The firm made a net loss of 19 million 11-week high. Most blue chip stocks rallied, high. — Reuters think there’s any real contagion to emerg- 38.5 per dollar over the next 12 months ing markets.” from 36 currently. — Reuters

BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 US investors don’t reap big returns quite often Companies flee US tax system

WASHINGTON: Establishing a tax domicile abroad to avoid ny. Transocean did not respond to requests for comment. A US taxes is a hot strategy in corporate America, but many Rowan spokeswoman referred questions to the company web companies that have done such “inversion” deals have failed site. It said the company’s 2012 UK redomiciling “was to produce above-average returns for investors, a Reuters designed to enhance shareholder value,” while putting Rowan analysis has found. Looking back three decades at 52 com- closer to customers and North Sea operations and enabling it pleted transactions, the review showed 19 of the companies to stay competitive “with the effective tax rates of its global have subsequently outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 competitors, most of which are domiciled outside the US.” index, while 19 have underperformed. Another 10 have been Beyond oilfield services, the inversion strategy has been bought by rivals, three have gone out of business and one has used by a half-dozen US insurance firms, with half of them reincorporated back in the United States. outperforming and the rest either acquired or out of business. Among the poorest performers in the review were oilfield White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd, managed from services and engineering firms, all from Texas. Among them Hanover, New Hampshire, has outpaced the S&P500 by 248 was the first of these companies to invert, McDermott percent since reorganizing in 1999 as a Bermuda corporation, International Inc, which moved its tax home-base to Panama for example. A spokesman for the company said it had no in 1983. comment. Drugmakers are dominating the latest wave of inversions An official counts ruble banknotes at a bank in Moscow. and most of them have outperformed the benchmark index. So far in 2014, five U.S. pharmaceutical firms have agreed to redomicile to Ireland, Canada or the Netherlands. Deals that have not been completed were excluded from the review. It is Russia pushes ahead with impossible to know how the companies might have fared in the market had they not inverted. Innumerable factors other than taxes influence a stock’s performance, and no two of ruble free float plans these deals are identical, complicating simple comparisons. But the analysis makes one thing clear: inversions, on their MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank announced yesterday it The ruble was showing slight gains in trading around mid- own, despite largely providing the tax savings that companies would intervene less in the foreign exchange market to sup- day (0800 GMT) at 36.026 to the US dollar and 44.229 to the seek, are no guarantee of superior returns for investors. The port the ruble as it works toward letting the currency float euro. The Russian central bank has been gradually reducing its deals basically involve a US company initially forming or buy- freely by the end of the year. Despite considerable turbu- support for the ruble over the past year as it prepares to shift ing a foreign company. Then the US company shifts its tax lence in the markets due to the crisis in Ukraine and to inflation-targeting. domicile out of the US and into the foreign company’s home Intense competition Western sanctions against Russia, the central bank said it However, that goal has been vigorously debated as the country. The name “inversion” comes from the idea of turning The analysis, using Reuters data and analytics, measured had widened the range in which the ruble trades freely and ruble has shed about 12 percent of its value against the dollar the company upside down, making a smaller offshore unit the simple share price performance against the S&P 500 index that it would no longer intervene to smooth volatility within over the past year as the Russian economy slowed and new head and the larger US business the body. using two benchmarks - the date when each company com- that range. investors spooked by the crisis in Ukraine pulled out money. Companies that do these deals typically promise share- pleted its inversion deal, and the date when each deal was It also reduced the amount of its intervention, from $1 bil- Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and tighten- holders will benefit. But aside from stock price underperfor- announced. lion (747 million euros) to $350 million, before shifting the val- ing Western sanctions on the Russian economy have seen the mance by many, inversions can also impose substantial up- With only four exceptions, the inverted companies that ue of the ruble’s trading band. The Bank of Russia said “the ruble hit record lows against the dollar and euro, and during front tax costs. When a deal occurs, investors must recognize were still in business since doing their deals either uniformly above-mentioned changes are carried out as part of the tran- the month of March alone the central bank spent $22 billion any taxable capital gains on their stockholdings. These costs underperformed or outperformed on both benchmarks. sition to an inflation-targeting regime,” which it noted requires defending the Russian currency. The ruble has stabilized since are not taken into account in the study as they differ for each For instance, US engineering and construction group “abandoning any measures to manage the exchange rate”. and the bank has gradually reduced its intervention in the for- shareholder and don’t apply in some cases. Foster Wheeler AG announced in November 2000 - when its Most Western central banks set an inflation target and adjust eign exchange market to zero in July. Markets were destabi- “For some companies, these inversions are really smart stock was worth about $45 per share - that it was inverting to interest rates to try to ensure gradual increases in prices, leav- lized again at the end of July by the imposition of the first sec- business moves. For others, they’re less smart ... You don’t Bermuda. The deal, a statement said, was “expected to benefit ing the currencies to float freely. tor-wide sanctions against the Russian economy, but always know if it’s going to work,” said James Hines, professor Foster Wheeler and its stockholders for several reasons.” “The Bank of Russia plans to complete the transition to a rebounded when Moscow imposed its own bans on US and of law and economics at the University of Michigan and one of Since the announcement, the company’s stock has lagged floating exchange rate regime by the end of 2014,” it added in EU food products. To reduce capital flight, support the value a handful of academics who have closely studied these deals. the S&P 500 by 50 percent; since the deal was concluded in a statement. The central bank added it expected the changes of the ruble and limit price increases, the central bank has May 2001, it has trailed the index by 83 percent. Foster “will not have a significant impact on current ruble fluctua- been gradually raising interest rates since March. The last hike Taxes and Texas Wheeler agreed in January 2014 to be acquired by UK rival tions” given the Russian currency has been trading in the mid- at the end of July of half a percentage point took the rate to Corporations that invert say they are only seeking to pay Amec Plc for about $32.69 per share in Amec stock and cash at dle of its band. 8.0 percent. — AFP the lowest tax rate they can get, noting this is what sharehold- the time. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. ers would expect them to do. Inversion was pioneered as a Foster Wheeler spokesman Scott Lamb said the company strategy by oilfield companies that reincorporated chiefly in dealt with weak markets, several problematic projects and a the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Britain. Most have lagged major debt restructuring after it inverted to Bermuda. It recov- Nationwide Q1 profit the S&P500 since their inversions were completed: ered and so did its stock price, but the 2008 economic down- McDermott by 85 percent; Rowan Cos Plc by 35 percent; turn, he said, brought “an extended period of moderate Transocean Ltd by 18 percent; among others. These oilfield demand and intense competitive pressure. These conditions stocks also largely underperformed narrower Thomson have adversely affected the performance of all of the compa- more than doubles Reuters and Dow Jones oil and gas equipment and services nies in this sector.” Also, in the past decade, he said, the com- sector indexes, looking as far back as index data allows. pany’s revenue and employment base have largely shifted out LONDON: Nationwide Building Society , Britain’s biggest cus- lion pounds. The big five of Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank McDermott did not reply to questions sent to the compa- of North America. — Reuters tomer-owned lender, more than doubled its first-quarter prof- of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and Santander UK control about it, helped by improvements to its balance sheet, it said yester- 80 percent of the market for personal current accounts. day. Nationwide, Britain’s third-largest mortgage lender and second-biggest provider of saving products, also said it House price correction expected house prices to continue to moderate over the Data released yesterday by property website Rightmove medium term, after showing strong growth earlier in the year showed a prediction made by Nationwide Chief Executive and prompting fears of a bubble. Underlying profit of 263 mil- Graham Beale in May for a cooling of house prices in London lion pounds ($440 million) in the three months to June 30 was over the summer had been borne out. After soaring earlier in up 117 percent against the same period last year. the year, asking prices in London fell for a third month, drop- Profitability at Nationwide has been steadily improving ping nearly 6 percent between July and August. Across the over the last two years, after it repriced maturing longer-term UK, prices of property coming onto the market fell by 2.9 per- fixed rate mortgages onto higher current market rates, which cent from July. boosted margins, Group Finance Director Mark Rennison told Rennison said a natural correction from the strong growth Reuters. It has also seen a moderation in impairment charges in prices at the start of the year would probably stay in place after reducing its exposure to some commercial real estate, a in the short to medium term but prices could pick up later. “big issue” for the lender, Rennison said. “In the long term you can’t get away from the fact that the It now has a core capital ratio of 16.3 percent and leverage UK housing market is undersupplied. We don’t see it (the cor- ratio of 3.7 percent, ahead of a target set by Britain’s financial rection) being a permanent feature,” he said. It was too early to regulator. As well as deleveraging, Nationwide has been seek- call the future of prices in London, Rennison said, because the ing to challenge the dominance of Britain’s five biggest banks, higher number of cash buyers and overseas investors make it wooing customers disillusioned by scandals including the less predictable. A clearer picture would emerge in the mis-selling of loan insurance and the rigging of benchmark autumn, a more normal period for activity, he said. interest rates. It has been offering interest of 5 percent a year Separate data from the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) on some accounts and has won customers from rivals as a showed on Monday that British customers made 6.9 billion result of new rules making it easier to switch accounts. online banking transactions last year, or 800,000 an hour, The mutual society, which is targeting 10 percent market compared with a total of 5 billion in 2009. share, said it accounted for 6.4 percent of the current account Rennison said this shift, described by the BBA as a “seismic ABERDEEN: A picture shows section of the BP ETAP (Eastern Trough Area Project) oil platform in the North Sea, around market in the first quarter, up slightly from 6.2 percent. change” in the way customers manage their finances, has 100 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland. Debt, North Sea oil and the pound sterling are just some of the economic issues Member deposits increased by 1.5 billion pounds to 132 bil- been visible in its customers’ behaviour. — Reuters pitting Edinburgh against London ahead of Scotland’s independence referendum in one month’s time. — AFP

Slow pace of rail Corporate foreign tax moves recovery stirs fear have bedeviled US for decades

of future woes WASHINGTON: The US government has interest payments to make its US income grappled for more than 30 years with cor- smaller for tax purposes, while the foreign TORONTO: More than eight months after an extreme winter porate deals known as inversions in which parent books interest income at its home began snarling North American rail traffic, a Reuters analysis US companies shift their tax domiciles country’s lower tax rate. of industry data shows delays lingering, raising the risk of a abroad to avoid US taxes. Fifty-two substan- second winter of chaos on the rails. Across the continent’s tial deals like this have occurred since 1983, Treasury responds seven largest operators, trains ran almost 8 percent slower about half of them since the 2008-2009 The US Treasury Department expressed on average and sat idle at key terminals for nearly three credit crisis, according to a Reuters analysis. concern about the deals in 2002. Congress hours longer in the second quarter than a year earlier, data Here is a summary of US government in 2004 adopted Section 7874 of the tax from the main railroads, known as Class 1, show. While efforts to manage them. code. It set two tests of whether an inverted Canada’s rail operators have nearly recovered, many US company would be treated as foreign or operators lag far behind. The concerns are sharpest in the US Island time domestic by the US government. First, if the Farm Belt, with lawmakers fearful that the biggest crops on The first inversion in 1983 was followed a original US company’s investors still held 80 record may be slow to reach markets or could even rot. year later by two new rules from the US percent or more of the new foreign parent’s Rail logjams contributed to the economic slowdown Internal Revenue Service. No more big shares, the new parent would be treated as Fishing boats anchored at a wharf on Faroe Islands early in the year, rippling across corporate America and inversions followed for more than a decade. a US company, not a foreign one. affecting everything from car makers to ethanol producers. In the mid-1990s, the deals resumed, typi- Second, the same treatment would EU lifts ban on herring Many experts blame an incomplete recovery from last win- cally with US corporations setting up small- apply if the new, foreign parent had no ter’s freight backlogs, coupled with record crops and rising er companies in Bermuda or the Cayman “substantial business activities” in its home competition with crude oil tankers for track space amid an Islands. Many energy and insurance compa- country. This specifically targeted island tax- imports from Faroe Isles economic recovery. “It’s like a sinking ship - you’re bailing nies did this. haven holding companies that were often out at one end, but it’s coming in the other end just as fast, if In these inversions, the new island tax little more than a post office box. After BRUSSELS: The European Union lifted its year- and Iceland, took its case to the World Trade not faster,” said Citigroup Global Markets transportation haven company would become the parent these rules were adopted, the deals dried long import ban on herring and mackerel from Organization (WTO), accusing the EU of violat- analyst Christian Wetherbee. Performance fell behind as of the US business, though core operations up again. the Faroe Islands yesterday, ending a dispute ing international maritime law. The fishing loads grew: between April and June, US rail carload vol- stayed in the United States. The name over alleged over-fishing in the northern industry accounted for about 80 percent of umes grew 5.4 percent and intermodal traffic, which “inversion” came from the idea of turning Next wave Atlantic. The decision to lift the ban from Aug. Faroese exports in 2011, according to the gov- include shipments partly by rail, rose 8 percent, Association the company upside down, making the off- Another wave started in 2008, but this 20 was made after the Faroe Islands, a self-gov- ernment. The Commission said the newly of American Railroads (AAR) data shows. At the same time, shore company the head and US operations time, the deals had changed. Most no erned territory within the Danish Realm and agreed catch limit would not endanger the the industry is producing “tremendous” margins, profit and the body. longer targeted island havens. Instead, new not part of the EU, agreed to limit herring conservation of stocks in the area but added cash flow, with some companies setting records, said rail Inversions allowed US companies to foreign parents for inversions were being catches for 2014 to 40,000 tons, the European that the lifting of the import ban does not rep- analyst Tony Hatch. The largest operators plan to spend book foreign profits at low or no taxes acquired in buyouts and mergers in Canada, Commission said in a statement. The EU resent a tacit agreement by the EU that 40,000 about 18 to 20 percent of annual revenue this year on new abroad, putting them out of the reach of Ireland, Britain and the Netherlands. imposed the ban in August last year and pro- tons is a legitimate share for the Faroe Islands. terminals, track, sidings and equipment to help boost the US Internal Revenue Service. By book- Also, deals were being structured to hibited Faroe Islands vessels from docking in “It is merely indicative of the fact that the capacity and efficiency, according to Thomson Reuters data. ing the income in a foreign country with a take advantage of a part of the law that EU ports in a row over alleged over-fishing, sustainability of the stock is no longer in jeop- That is slightly higher than recent average annual spending. lower tax rate, those profits could quickly said if the original U.S. shareholders with the world’s biggest fish importer saying it ardy,” the Commission said. In 2013 the Faroe Some shippers complain that spending hasn’t been suffi- be put to use at a lower cost. owned from 60 to 80 percent of the new, had to protect a fish stock referred to as the Islands awarded itself a quota that more than cient to meet demand, especially in bad weather. Still, many Plus, the strategy made other legal tax- foreign parent, it would be treated as a Atlanto-Scandian herring. trebled its previously agreed shared of the investment projects are multi-year improvements that can’t avoidance moves easier, such as US earn- foreign entity, but with some restrictions. The Faroe Islands, a small archipelago in the Atlanto-Scandian herring stock, triggering the quickly fix traffic jams.—Reuters ings stripping. That involves a foreign par- The IRS issued new rules, but they were north Atlantic Ocean halfway between Norway import ban.—Reuters ent lending to a US unit, which deducts repeatedly revised.—Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 Asian shares higher but Ukraine tensions weigh

HONG KONG: Asian shares mostly rose yes- sion after the military ended months of politi- Berlin on Sunday. any hint of a change to the Fed’s interest Capital added 3.11 percent to 9.28 ring- terday but gains were capped by the latest cal deadlock with a coup-failed to produce a The two sides ended the “difficult” talks on rate plans. Last month Yellen told git. Manila gained 0.27 percent, or 19.07 tensions between Russia and Ukraine, despite rally, with stocks shedding 0.28 percent, or the crisis with no concrete advances but Congress the Fed would hold its near- percent, to 7,027.58. Top-traded some progress cited in the “difficult” negotia- 4.26 points, to close at 1,542.36. Southeast “some progress”, host Germany said, as clash- zero interest rate policy until the US Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. tions between the two sides. Also weighing Asia’s second largest economy still looks set es continued on the ground. economy strengthens, but may raise bucked the trend to fall by 0.43 percent on sentiment was a report showing China’s for a disappointing year, with officials clipping The nature of the progress was not dis- rates if the jobs market kept improving. to 3,236 points while Ayala Land Inc. rose foreign direct investment slumped to a two- the growth outlook for 2014 — forecasting closed by either party, but Germany’s Foreign The euro bought $1.3393 and 137.05 1.88 percent to 32.60 pesos. year low, adding to a series of downbeat data 1.5-2.0 percent expansion yesterday, down Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed the yen against 1.3397 and 137.11 yen in US Mumbai advanced 1.10 percent or about the world’s second largest economy. from a previous estimate of 1.5-2.5 percent. need for both nations to avoid “sliding ever trade. In oil markets, US benchmark West 287.73 points to end at 26,390.96, having But bargain hunting pushed Shanghai US shares rebounded late Friday to end deeper into a direct confrontation”. Texas Intermediate for September deliv- touched a new high of 26,413.11 points higher, rising 0.57 percent, or 12.74 points, to mixed after an early bout of selling on news ery was down 62 cents at $96.73, while during the session. Gitanjali Gems rose an eight-month closing high of 2,239.47. that Ukraine had shelled Russian armored Dollar expected to gain Brent crude for October fell 92 cents to 8.70 percent 69.95 rupees, while Amara Hong Kong ended flat, edging up 0.52 points vehicles after they entered its territory. The In currency markets, the dollar edged $102.61. Raja Batteries rose 7.29 percent to 577.40 to 24,955.46. Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down down to 102.32 yen in afternoon Asian trade, Gold traded at $1,302.22 an ounce at rupees. Sydney gained 0.37 percent, or 20.6 points, 0.30 percent at 16,662.91, after earlier having compared with 102.34 yen in New York late 1105 GMT compared to $1,313.53 an Taipei fell 0.71 percent, or 65.5 points, to 5,587.1, but Seoul lost 0.49 percent, or shed 0.50 percent on the news. Worries that Friday. The greenback is expected to gain in ounce late Friday. to 9,141.31. Taiwan Semiconductor 10.09 points, to 2,053.13. Tokyo closed flat, the incident would lead to a direct clash volatile forex trading this week, ahead of a Manufacturing Co was 0.81 percent low- inching up 4.26 points to 15,322.60. In between the two ebbed after Moscow denied speech on Friday by US Federal Reserve chief In other markets er at Tw$123.0 while Hon Hai Precision Thailand, news that the economy grew 0.9 the incursion and Ukraine’s foreign minister Janet Yellen at the central bank’s annual eco- Jakarta rose 0.15 percent, or 7.79 Industry was unchanged at Tw$108.0. percent in the second quarter dodging reces- agreed to meet his Russian counterpart in nomic policy symposium as investors look for points, to close at 5,156.75. Carmaker Singapore eased 0.06 percent, or 1.99 Astra International was up 0.33 percent points, to 3,312.78. Oversea-Chinese to 7,675 rupiah, while Bank Permata fell Banking Corp was flat at Sg$10.20 while 0.36 percent to 1,375 rupiah. Singapore Telecommunications was 0.26 Kuala Lumpur shed 0.14 percent, or percent lower at Sg$3.90. Wellington lost 2.56 points, closing at 1,861.75. Utility 0.14 percent, or 6.96 points, to 5,071.12. giant Tenaga Nasional slipped 0.16 per- Genesis Energy was down 1.37 percent cent to 12.30 ringgit, Telekom Malaysia at NZ$1.80 and Spark was off 2.08 per- declined 0.48 percent to 6.24 and RHB cent at NZ$2.82. — AFP

NEW YORK: A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York. European stocks bounced back yesterday from Ukraine-related concerns that had caused sharp selling a week earlier. — AP Brent falls below $103 on easing geopolitical risks

SINGAPORE/LONDON: Brent crude fell geopolitical risks seemingly easing, peo- more than $1 to trade below $102.5 a ple don’t want to hold long positions,” barrel yesterday, as the threat of wider Sandu said. conflict in Ukraine diminished, oil output increased in Libya and worries eased over Small volumes supply from key producer Iraq. Despite Libya’s improving output and The drop followed a spike in bench- the reopening of ports in the east of the mark prices on both sides of the Atlantic country, oil production in the North on Friday when fighting in east Ukraine African state is still way off the 1.4 million intensified. In what may be a break- barrels per day it produced last year through in Ukraine’s campaign against before a series of strikes, protests and pro-Moscow separatists, government blockades slashed output to as low as forces raised their national flag over a 200,000 bpd. “Libya is something of an police station in the city of Luhansk that enigma for oil markets. The production was for months under rebel control. volumes are still quite small and let’s see Also reassuring investors, Russia’s how many ships actually load at the Foreign Ministry said yesterday a “certain reopened ports,” said Sandu. In Iraq, progress” was achieved during talks Kurdish fighters pushed to retake the among Russia, Germany, France and country’s largest dam on Sunday and the Ukraine in Berlin on Sunday. United States conducted a second day of “There was a scare on Friday, but air strikes in the area, in a drive to reverse investors realized over the weekend that gains by Islamic State insurgents. geopolitical threats are becoming less The fighting in Iraq has yet to affect oil serious,” said Avtar Sandu, a senior com- supplies from southern oil ports. In the modities manager at Phillip Futures in north, Iraqi Kurdistan has delivered its Singapore. Brent crude for October deliv- third major cargo of crude oil, showing ery had fallen $1.32 to $102.21 a barrel by the autonomous region is finding more 0837 GMT. The contract closed $1.52 a buyers despite legal pressure from barrel higher on Friday. Baghdad. Adding to the easing of ten- US crude for September delivery was sions and improved output in Libya, 88 cents lower at $96.47 a barrel, after Brent prices have been weighed down by ending the previous session up $1.77 a low demand from refineries in Europe barrel. There were also improvements in and Asia in recent months. oil supplies, with Libya’s oil production Refinery crude runs in Europe remain rising to 535,000 barrels a day (bpd) on well below last year’s level, even after ris- Sunday from 400,000 bpd earlier in the ing in July compared with June. “Despite week due to higher output at the south- the improvement in European crude western El Sharara and El Feel fields, a runs, we continue to see deep contango spokesman for National Oil Corp (NOC) and bearish price action around expiry, as said. the market struggles to find buyers will- “We have a situation where invento- ing to take physical delivery,” analysts at ries and supplies are rising. So with Morgan Staley said in a note. — Reuters Gold lower on strong shares LONDON: Gold edged lower yesterday as interest rates would encourage investors to European shares rebounded on easing ten- withdraw money from non-interest-bearing sions in Ukraine, but a flat dollar and assets such as gold. depressed US Treasury yields limited losses Standard Bank analyst Walter de Wet said and kept the metal’s prices around the $1,300 the market was not expecting any shift in the mark. Fed’s strategy this week. “This $1,284-$1,300 Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday range is providing very good support ... with “certain progress” was achieved during talks the market pretty much pricing in most of between Russia, Germany, France and the political tensions.” European shares rallied Ukraine in Berlin on Sunday about ways to as the threat of wider conflict in Ukraine end the military conflict in eastern Ukraine. seemed to diminish, although the situation Spot gold fell 0.3 percent to $1,300.00 by remained delicate. 1158 GMT, while US gold futures for Tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East December delivery were down 0.4 percent at have largely contributed to gold’s near 8 per- $1,301.30. cent gain this year, igniting bouts of demand The dollar was flat against a basket of cur- when investors turned to assets perceived as rencies after a sixth straight weekly loss, and an insurance against risk. However, any impe- the yield on the benchmark 10-year US tus these events has provided has not lasted Treasury note was close to a 12-month low long, analysts said. hit the previous week. Hedge funds and money managers boost- Returns from US bonds are closely ed their bullish bets on gold futures and watched by the gold market, given that the metal pays no interest. The market was await- options for the first time in three weeks, data ing the annual meeting of central bankers in from the Commodity Futures Trading Jackson Hole on Thursday for clues about the Commission showed on Friday. “Gross short timing of interest rate increases, while Federal positions are at their lowest since December Reserve chief Janet Yellen was due to speak 2012. This underscores the fragility of prices ... on Friday. given the absence of a sustained significant The US central bank is expected to raise move higher amid rising geopolitical ten- rates in the middle of next year, depending sions and a lack of bearish interest in gold,” on the strength of the economy. Higher Barclays said in a note. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 Foreign investment in China slumps in July

BEIJING: Foreign direct investment (FDI) into to $2.83 billion, with that from the EU slump- China dropped by more than a sixth year-on- ing 17.5 percent to $3.83 billion and from the year to a two-year low in July, the govern- US down a similar 17.4 percent to $1.81 bil- ment said yesterday, but denied any link to lion. But investment from South Korea-which Beijing’s multiple probes into foreign compa- has been enjoying closer diplomatic ties with nies. FDI-which excludes investment in finan- China-rose 34.6 percent to $2.92 billion, and cial sectors-fell 16.95 percent in the month to from Britain, the home of troubled pharma- $7.81 billion, the commerce ministry said, its ceutical giant GSK, soared 61.2 percent to lowest since July 2012, when it was $7.579 $730 million. For the current year as a whole, billion. Shen said FDI is still expected to grow at a The fall saw FDI in the first seven months similar pace to 2013, when it rose 5.3 percent decline 0.35 percent to $71.14 billion, elimi- year-on-year in 2013 to $117.6 billion. nating a small increase at the half-year stage. “Foreign companies will not be scared Chinese authorities have in recent months away by investigations into the cases,” Shen launched anti-monopoly, pricing and other added. China’s own overseas investment in inquiries into foreign firms in sectors ranging non-financial sectors soared 84.9 percent from auto manufacturing and pharmaceuti- year-on-year in July, to $9.21 billion, the min- cals to baby milk. The probes have raised con- istry said. For the first seven months of the cerns among investors that Beijing is target- year it was up 4.0 percent to $52.55 billion. ing overseas companies. But commerce min- “This is the first growth since February this istry spokesman Shen Danyang denied any year, after the impact of big projects last year connection between the investigations and waned,” the ministry said in a statement. the fall in FDI. “It is only normal that there is Chinese investment into the EU leaped by volatility of FDI in individual months when 293.1 percent year-on-year for the period, China steps up efforts to balance the eco- and into Japan by 160.9 percent, the ministry nomic structure,” he told reporters. said, without giving totals. “It is not sufficient enough to reflect the Investment into the US was up 12.8 per- general trend. It must not be linked to the cent to $2.82 billion. Shen expected China’s MIAMI: A construction worker carries a sheet of plywood at the site of a 36-floor high rise condominium in Miami. The National Association of Home anti-monopoly probes into some foreign overseas investment to grow around 10 per- Builders reported on sentiment among US builders yesterday. — AP invested companies or be associated with cent this year, more than the increase in FDI. other baseless speculations.” “It will be a new normal for overseas “All market players should operate their investment to exceed FDI,” he said. China’s Unemployment rises in business according to the law,” he added. economy expanded 7.7 percent in 2013, the “They should be punished according to the same as 2012 — the worst pace since 7.6 per- law and be subject to appropriate legal cent in 1999. Beijing’s official growth target penalties if they violate the law.” for this year is 7.5 percent, the same as last most US states in July In the first seven months of the year, year’s. Gross domestic product grew 7.4 per- investment from Japan crashed 45.4 percent cent in the first half of this year. — AFP Homebuilder confidence up in August

WASHINGTON: Unemployment rates rose in 30 US ly increase in a row and the highest since January, called move-up buyers are generally in a better finan- states last month, even as employers in two-thirds of when it was 56. Readings above 50 indicate more cial position to buy than first-time buyers and have the states stepped up hiring. The trends reflect an builders view sales conditions as good, rather than helped drive sales for some of the nation’s biggest increase in job-hunters nationwide as an improving poor. homebuilders. In the latest NAHB index, which was economy has encouraged more people to seek work. based on responses from 366 builders, builder confi- The Labor Department says unemployment rates fell Outlook better dence improved nationally and on a regional basis, in eight states in July and were unchanged in 12. At Builders’ view of current sales conditions for sin- with readings for the Midwest, West, Northeast and the same time, hiring rose in 36 states, fell in 13, and gle-family homes, their outlook for sales over the next South all posting gains from last month. The index was unchanged in Iowa. six months and traffic by prospective buyers each gauging current sales conditions for single-family The national unemployment rate ticked up to 6.2 increased since July. The brighter outlook bodes is a homes rose two points to 58, while builders’ outlook percent in July from 6.1 percent in June, the govern- positive sign for the new-home market after a lacklus- for sales over the next six months also rose two ment said earlier this month, even as employers ter summer. points, climbing to 65. A measure of traffic by added 209,000 jobs. More Americans launched job Sales of new homes are running behind last year’s prospective buyers increased three points to 42. searches last month but didn’t find work, lifting the pace. They slid 8.1 percent in June to a seasonally Housing, while still a long way from the boom of number of unemployed. Still, the increase suggests adjusted annual rate of 406,000. A mix of rising home several years ago, has been recovering over the past they’re more optimistic about their prospects. prices, higher mortgage rates and meager wage two years. Though new homes represent only a frac- Meanwhile, US homebuilders are feeling more growth has made it more difficult for would-be tion of the housing market, they have an outsize confident in their sales prospects headed into next homebuyers to purchase a newly built home, particu- impact on the economy. Each home built creates an year, a sign that home construction and sales of new- larly first-time buyers. average of three jobs for a year and generates about ly built homes may pick up after stalling this summer. At the same time, the US economy has been $90,000 in tax revenue, according to NAHB data. BEIJING: A delivery courier checks the packages inside his three-wheeled vehicle in The National Association of Home Builders/Wells adding jobs at a solid clip, with gains topping 200,000 The builder confidence survey sent shares in US Beijing yesterday. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China dropped by more than a Fargo builder sentiment index released Monday rose jobs every month in the six months through July. homebuilders higher in morning trading yesterday. sixth year-on-year in July, the government said on August 18, but denied any link to this month to 55, up two points from a revised read- And the pickup in home values has spurred TRI Pointe Homes Inc led the sector. The stock rose 52 Beijing’s multiple probes into foreign companies. — AFP ing of 53 in July. The latest reading is the third month- homeowners to trade up to a nicer home. These so- cents, or 3.8 percent, to $14.26. — AP

German CB warns world Britain’s top tensions clouding outlook bosses earn

FRANKFURT: Germany’s central bank yester- the second quarter, after growing by 0.7 ‘143 times more’ day warned that global tensions including percent in the first three months of this year, the Ukraine crisis have clouded its outlook for as geopolitical risks from the crises in than staff this year, although it does not expect the Ukraine and the Middle East weighed on Europe’s biggest economy to shrink further. sentiment. LONDON: The heads of Britain’s “A flurry of unfavorable news reports relating In the euro area as a whole, which stagnat- largest companies earned 143 times to the international environment have damp- ed in the second quarter, there would be a as much as their average employee ened Germany’s economic outlook in the sec- “resumption of positive economic growth, last year, a study said yesterday, expos- ond half of the year,” the Bundesbank wrote in albeit not at the pace predicted by many ana- ing the growing pay gap between its latest monthly report. lysts in the spring,” the Bundesbank predict- bosses and workers. The wage divide “Current indicators cast doubt on the ed. The underlying cyclical trend in some has nearly tripled since 1998, when assumption on which the spring forecasts member countries was turning out to be the average chief executive of firms in were based, namely that the underlying cycli- weaker than expected. “At the same time, the the FTSE 100 earnt 47 times as much cal trend would strengthen further in the sec- geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe owing as staff, the report found. ond half of 2014,” it said. to the Ukraine conflict as well as in other The British government has “Nonetheless, sentiment has deteriorat- parts of the world are now appearing to brought in laws to curb executive pay ed from a high level, which, together with weigh more heavily on corporate sentiment. and bonuses since the financial crisis, the fact that the trend for domestic demand “Although they will only affect a small per- but a severe squeeze on wage growth remains basically upwards, suggests that centage of EU exports directly, the recently has fuelled public anger about highly- the economy will not change direction,” the enacted EU sanctions and the Russian paid senior executives. “When bosses Bundesbank wrote. German gross domestic response are likely to dampen sentiment,” the make hundreds of times as much product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 percent in report said. — AFP money as the rest of the workforce, it creates a deep sense of unfairness,” said Deborah Hargreaves, director of the High Pay Centre think-tank, which PriceWaterhouseCoopers wrote the report. NEW YORK: A photographer makes pictures of the board at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York’s Times The largest pay gap was at mining Square shortly after shares of Google started trading. Google’s IPO 10 years ago launched the company group Randgold Resources, where on a trajectory that continues to reshape its business and much of the world in its orbit. —AP to pay $25m in bank case boss Mark Bristow was paid £4.4 mil- lion ($7.36 million, 5.5 million euros) ALBANY, NY: PriceWaterhouseCoopers will PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ commitment to last year-1,500 as much as his average pay $25 million and face a two-year sus- meeting changes in regulatory expecta- employee. Wall St rises as Ukraine pension from consulting for new bank tions, he said. The department said Martin Sorrell, which heads up mar- clients under an agreement with New York PriceWaterhouseCoopers reviewed the keting giant WPP, took home a pay regulators following an investigation that Tokyo bank’s dollar-clearing activity and package nearly 800 times bigger than fear recedes, M&A backs showed the company improperly altered a transactions that potentially should have his employees of £29.8 million, the report about Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi been blocked. The company found the study found. At retailer Next, boss laundering money. Yesterday’s agreement bank had issued special instructions to Simon Wolfson earned almost 460 NEW YORK: US stocks advanced yesterday, with the activity, giving people confidence that higher stock followed a $250 million settlement employees to strip out wire messages that times as much as his average worker Dow Industrials up roughly one percent, as the threat prices are here to stay.” between the bank and the same regulators would have triggered alerts, the depart- in 2013 — but then chose to distribute of an escalation of tensions in Ukraine appeared to Housing stocks moved higher after the last year. New York’s Department of ment said. The bank had denied having his bonus to staff. The study comes wane and the latest flurry of merger action supported NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index showed Financial Services said its investigation such a policy only weeks earlier when after the Bank of England last week equities. Russia said all issues related to its humanitar- homebuilder sentiment rose to 55 in August, its high- showed PriceWaterhouseCoopers, under meeting with regulators. halved its pay growth forecast for this ian convoy to Ukraine had been resolved but said no est level since January, from 53 in July. The PHLX pressure from bank executives, improperly The consultant revised its draft report to year to below the rate of inflation at progress has been made toward a ceasefire or politi- housing sector index climbed 1.3 percent. The Dow altered a report to regulators on bank wire delete the English translation of the bank’s 1.25 percent. cal solution to the fighting in the east of the country Jones industrial average rose 161.92 points or 0.97 transfers on behalf of Iran, Sudan and other wire-stripping instructions and other infor- Governor Mark Carney said the fig- after talks between Russia, Germany, France and percent, to 16,824.83, the S&P 500 gained 15.6 points countries under US sanctions. mation about it, according to the depart- ures reflected “relatively unprecedent- Ukraine on Sunday. or 0.8 percent, to 1,970.66 and the Nasdaq Composite “We are continuing to find examples of ment. Versions of the report “were progres- ed weak wage growth” in Britain. The However, the region remained unsettled as added 38.32 points or 0.86 percent, to 4,503.25. improper influence and misconduct in the sively sanitized based on changes demand- gloomy forecast came after official Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels on Monday of hit- Procter & Gamble Co is working with advisors, bank consulting industry,” department ed by the bank,” the department said. data showed that annual pay fell by ting a refugee convoy of buses with rocket fire near including Goldman Sachs Group, as the world’s Superintendent Ben Lawsky said. “When Two PriceWaterhouseCoopers partners 0.2 percent in the second quarter of the eastern city of Luhansk, but the separatists denied largest household products maker reviews up to 100 bank executives pressure a consultant to responsible for supervising the report are the year-the first decline since the responsibility. underperforming brands for potential divestiture, whitewash a supposedly ‘objective’ report now retired. The $25 million represents an height of the financial crisis in 2009. Mergers and acquisitions continued to flourish people familiar with the matter said. P&G shares were to regulators - and the consultant goes approximation of the fees and expenses The squeeze on people’s spending and provide a lift to equities. Discount retailer Dollar up 1 percent to $82.64. along with it - that can strike at the very the company received for the report plus power comes even as Britain’s growth General Corp offered to buy Family Dollar Stores Inc In a relatively light week for economic data, heart of our system of prudential over- the department’s investigation cost. picked up pace, with the economy for $8.95 billion, trumping an offer by Dollar Tree Inc. investors will closely monitor the Aug. 21-23 annual sight.” Miles Everson, US advisory leader for The regulators also noted that now bigger than before the start of Family Dollar shares gained 5.1 percent to $79.91 meeting of top central bankers at Jackson Hole, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, said the agree- PriceWaterhouseCoopers withheld more the global financial meltdown in 2008. while Dollar General jumped 9.8 percent to $63.07 as Wyoming, for possible insight about the path for ment related to a single engagement com- than 20 percent of one director’s compen- “The government needs to take the two best performers on the S&P 500. The S&P monetary policy. Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s pleted more than six years ago in which sation after it came to light the director more radical action on top pay to retail index climbed 1 percent. July meeting will be released on Wednesday. the company searched for and identified repeatedly had suggested the company deliver a fair economy that ordinary “People left Friday unsure of whether or not the Earnings season will effectively draw to a close this transactions that were self-reported by the stop conducting further analysis that people can have faith in,” said Ukrainian conflict was escalating and they seem to week with results from retailers including Home bank to regulators. Its detailed report “dis- might show bank wrongdoing. The direc- Hargreaves. The think-tank carried out have come back today thinking it’s not,” said Rick Depot, Target Corp and Gap Inc. According to closed the relevant facts” that it learned, he tor, presently a partner, was quoted in the the study using pay figures from com- Meckler, president of LibertyView Capital Thomson Reuters data through Monday, of the 467 said. settlement agreement signed Monday but pany reports and data from the Management in Jersey City, New Jersey. “That has companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earn- The resolution of the case reinforces was not named. —AP Pensions Investment Research been the major driver, but then you have the usual ings, 67.9 percent have topped analyst expectations, Consultants. — AFP suspects of what has supported this market all along - besting the 63 beat rate since 1994 and the 67 per- a somewhat improving economy and continued M&A cent rate for the past four quarters. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

Qalaa Holdings reports consolidated revenues

CAIRO: Qalaa Holdings (CCAP.CA on the a key milestone in our transformation Egyptian Exchange, formerly Citadel into an investment company,” said Capital) reported yesterday its financial Qalaa Holdings Chairman and Founder results for the three months ending 31 Ahmed Heikal. “Most of our highest- March 2014, its first full set of consoli- profile companies made very good dated financials since the closing of a progress in the first quarter and we capital increase to EGP 8 billion that expect similarly strong performances in marked the decisive step of its transfor- the second quarter, particularly from mation into an investment company. energy division standout TAQA Arabia Full subscribed capital increase to and cement division units ASEC Minya EGP 8 billion allowed Qalaa Holdings to and Misr Qena Cement. take majority stakes in most of its sub- “Heading into the second half of the sidiaries in core industries including year, Qalaa Holdings will continue to energy, cement, agrifoods, transporta- maintain a sharp focus on driving oper- tion & logistics and mining. ational improvements across our Lenovo enters Kuwait smartphone Accordingly, Citadel Capital’s consoli- investments, divesting non-core hold- dated financial statements are now pre- ings, and investing in governance sys- pared using a full consolidation tems at the company and portfolio lev- market with compelling portfolio method instead of the equity method els. From energy to infrastructure, the used in previous years. macroeconomic outlook that has long Trendsetting all-glass design S850 leads August wave The company accordingly reports a informed our investment theses is 14 percent year-on-year rise in 1Q14 increasingly being vindicated by devel- KUWAIT: Lenovo yesterday announced the also one of the highest among existing premi- “Lenovo is world’s fourth smartphone vendor revenues to EGP 1,366.9 million, up opments across our footprint, from launch of its smartphone portfolio for the first um smartphones. and continues to develop new designs and fea- from pro-forma1 revenues of EGP Egypt to East Africa.” time in Kuwait, carefully designed to fit every Rated at 500nits maximum brightness out- tures to fit our consumers’ various needs. 1,203.6 million in the same quarter the As part of Qalaa Holdings’ program style, personality and budget. Lenovo smart- put, the display is easily viewable outdoors cou- Supporting Lenovo’s long-term goal to lead the previous year. Notably, gross profit to shed non-core assets, the company phones cater to top-end users, stylish trendset- pled with richer colors and wide viewing angles. PC+ era, and the growing popularity of our surged 46 percent to EGP 238.1 million exited in April 2014 its full majority ters, multi-media enthusiasts, social media afi- In addition, with 83.5 percent of the usable smartphones worldwide, speaks volume of our while EBIDTA was a positive EGP 29.0 stake in a leading Sudan-based bank cionados and conscious spender. Newly screen estate, users can view more content, product innovation and commitment to meet million against a negative EGP 125.9 (Sudanese Egyptian Bank) in a $22 mil- launched worldwide, the highly anticipated thanks to an ultra-narrow frame design. the changing market requirements and con- million in 1Q13. lion sale to the Islamic Solidarity Bank Vibe Z2 Pro is the hottest Lenovo smartphone The first wave of Lenovo smartphones sumer demands.” Net losses in 1Q14 widened 7 per- of Sudan; Qalaa Holdings remains a to hit the market, designed with the perform- launched in Kuwait hit the market in August “According to Ipsos MediaCT report, smart- cent year-on-year to EGP 231.9 million large-scale investor in Sudan. In addi- ance-hungry user in mind. Exhibiting a large 6- and include the dual-SIM and quad-core S- phone users in Middle East and Africa are on the back of increased charges relat- tion, the company expects to complete inch screen with 2K resolution, the VIBE Z2 Pro series with the slim and fashionable S850 with expected to reach 156.4 million in 2014 and ed to discontinued operations at port- its divestiture of Sphinx Glass, a leading offers consumers an immersive multimedia its 5-inch HD display and all-glass design; the 251.9 million by 2017,” added Sharay Shams, folio companies including ESACO (a Egyptian producer of float glass and experience. An advanced 16MP rear camera S860 with its 5.3-inch HD display and epic Head of Smartphone Business at Lenovo Middle company of ASEC Holdings) as well as portfolio company of non-core plat- with image stabilization effortlessly captures 4000mAh battery, delivering up to 24 hours’ talk East and Africa. “Smartphone penetration in El-Aguizy, Elmisrieen, Enjoy and Mom’s form GlassWorks, by the end of August brilliant photos and 4K videos rivaling high-end time on 3G and 43 hours on 2G, plus 40 days’ Kuwait grew by 20 percentage points to 69% in Foods (all at agrifoods company 2014. Qalaa Holdings and Saudi compact cameras. At just 7.7mm thin with a active standby; the S650 with its 4.7-inch HD 2013, as compared to 49% in 2012, signaling a Gozour) and certain non-core compa- Arabia’s Construction Products Holding unique metallic brushed-weave design, the VIBE display and laser-etched, fabric-feel cover with a tremendous growth in the market that we are nies. Management believes it possible Co. (CPC) signed in June 2014 a sale Z2 Pro promises stellar performance, in style, 3D-textured design. confident of tapping into. This year, we are see- that these charges could be recovered and purchase agreement for the trans- with the blazingly fast Qualcomm Snapdragon In addition to the S-series, Lenovo has ing a hunger for smartphones and an increase (in full or in part) upon the exit of the action, execution of which is scheduled 801 processor. launched the affordable A369i with dual-SIM in mobile data usage, enabling a new world of companies in question. for completion by the end of August Lenovo smartphones will be available at all and 4-inch display, running on its powerful mobile business, entertainment and social net- “The release of our first consolidated 2014 upon satisfaction of all conditions major retailers and will be distributed in Kuwait 1.3GHz dual-core processor. working.” financials post the asset purchases precedent and the final transfer of through Al-Ghanim who will also provide after September will see the release of the high- Select models of Lenovo’s smartphones will made possible by our share issuance is shares. sales support. performance and blazingly fast Vibe Z2 Pro, also come equipped with a range of DOit apps; VIBE Z2 Pro offers a wide range of pro pho- along with five other models, bringing Lenovo’s with the award-winning SHAREit, users can tography features and, unlike other smart- total Kuwait portfolio to 10 smartphones. instantly share pictures, videos, music files, doc- phones, the integrated 16MP rear camera uses a Commenting on the launch of the new uments, contacts and even apps with up to five 16:9 BSI sensor that captures widescreen photos smartphone portfolio, Shashank Sharma, devices without an Internet connection. It wire- at full resolution. 4K resolution and high-speed Director, Mobile Business Group at Lenovo lessly transfers information or even the app 120fps recordings are also supported. Middle East and Africa, said, “The Middle East, itself between devices at up to 40x faster than Optical image stabilization and an enhanced GCC in particular, is a strategically important Bluetooth. SECUREit optimizes and protects 6 element lens are incorporated to boost the market for Lenovo’s smartphones. With the con- users’ mobile data with its menu of data-protec- already strong low-light shooting performance tinued expansion of 4G networks in the region, tion tools. With a single touch, it protects of the BSI senor. Shutterbugs will also appreci- and a strong push towards smart cities and con- against viruses, spam and malware, and if the ate Zero Shutter Lag, manual shooting settings nectivity, there is a natural consumer need for tablet becomes lost or stolen, anti-theft protec- and a HDR-ready custom SNAPit camera app. smartphones at all levels. Lenovo fans have tion locks it down. SECUREit acts as a privacy The VIBE Z2 Pro can be further set apart by been asking us to bring our products to the guard to protect against unwarranted access to its 6-inch display, producing razor-sharp and market, and we’re happy to finally be able to users’ private information and also makes the true-to-life visuals. The IPS panel not only packs provide consumers with our flagship smart- tablet operate faster by taking actions such as 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, its 490ppi screen density is phones.” closing redundant background apps. Toyota sells over 350,000 vehicles in Mideast for first 6 months of 2014

DUBAI: Toyota yesterday announced a steady Dynamic Torque Control 4WD. Famed for its ultra-tough quality, the Hilux growth in sales in the Middle East (GCC, Yemen, Sales of Toyota’s iconic Land Cruiser SUV with pick-up also saw a 17 percent increase to sell Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq) selling 356,805 units its sophisticated blend of off-road performance, 81,705 units during this period. Available with a in the first half of 2014 (Jan- June 2014) which is a phenomenal go-anywhere capability, on-road 2.7L or 2.0L Petrol Engine with Variable Valve 6 percent growth in sales as compared to the comfort and unparalleled refinement, also wit- Timing - intelligent (VVT-i) the Hilux’s engine same period in 2013. Toyota’s sales saw a bal- nessed an increase selling 41,083 units during generates high performance and provides excel- anced growth across its diverse portfolio of the first half of 2014 to see a 4 percent increase. lent fuel efficiency. 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TORONTO: Fitness buffs who can’t make it to cise physiology at Johnson & Johnson’s the gym but still want to exercise can turn to Human Performance Institute. apps for a short, intense workout when they The app employs videos to guide users are pressed for time. The US Centers for through high-intensity circuit training rou- Disease Control recommend that adults do at tines that are customized based on fitness least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activi- level and desired intensity. ty weekly. But recent studies suggest even “A lot of people are convinced they need short bouts of exercise can have positive to go to a fancy gym with fancy equipment, health effects. but something like a squat arguably is more Sworkit, a new fitness app for iPhone and beneficial and transferable to life than a leg Android devices, takes users through work- press machine,” Jordan explained. Users can outs as short as five minutes that can be done customize about 1,000 different workouts on anywhere. “We realized that a lot of people the app, which is available in 30 countries. don’t have a lot of time, so we created an app Greg Wells, assistant professor of kinesiol- for people to squeeze in bite-sized incre- ogy at the University of Toronto, said even ments of exercise throughout their day where small bursts of physical activity have a posi- they don’t need to be at a gym or use equip- tive effect. ment,” said Benjamin Young, CEO of “The physiology is such that you not only Washington, D.C.-based company Nexercise, get a workout after the short seven minutes creator of the app. you do it, but you’re also benefiting during The free app will put together a custom the period after, when your body is recover- training circuit based on what users want to ing. So it could actually be 30 minutes of focus on - strength, cardio, or stretching, for physical stress and that’s why these workouts how long, and the specific part of the body. can be really effective,” said Wells. The routine is made up of 30-second exer- “But whether it’s better than 40 minutes of cises that are demonstrated with videos, or interval training or an hour run, yoga class, or users can create their own workouts with the weights, I’m not 100 percent sure we can say app. The Johnson & Johnson Official 7 Minute that,” he added. Wells noted the surge in Workout app for iPhone and Android devices shorter workouts, including a 20-minute one also provides users with short fitness rou- at a Toronto gym called Medx Precision tines. Fitness, where clients can exercise during a “We live in a fast-paced, addicted-to- lunch break without changing clothes. “It’s speed society where everyone is looking for getting people to do something. And that’s quicker and faster solutions in all aspects of what we have to accomplish right now,” he Some of the 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, at the Ivanpah Solar ElectirIc Generating System in Primm, Nevada. New estimates for the Ivanpah their lives,” said Chris Jordan, director of exer- said. — Reuters solar plant, an innovative year-old $2.2 billion solar project with Google as a major investor, say thousands of birds are dying yearly, roasted by the concentrated sun rays from the more than 300,000 mirrors. — AP Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air Investigators report death of one ‘streamer’ every two minutes

IVANPAH DRY LAKE, California: Workers at a state- ly become a streamer.” of California. of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a US Fish and Wildlife officials say they want a The commission’s staff estimates the proposed name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrat- death toll for a full year of operation. Given the appar- new tower would be almost four times as dangerous ed sun rays - “streamers,” for the smoke plume that ent scale of bird deaths at Ivanpah, authorities should to birds as the Ivanpah plant. The agency is expected comes from birds that ignite in midair. thoroughly track bird kills there for a year, including to decide this autumn on the proposal. While biolo- Federal wildlife investigators who visited the during annual migratory seasons, before granting any gists say there is no known feasible way to curb the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as more permits for that kind of solar technology, said number of birds killed, the companies behind the birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one George, of the Audubon Society. projects say they are hoping to find one - studying “streamer” every two minutes, are urging California The toll on birds has been surprising, said Robert whether lights, sounds or some other technology officials to halt the operator’s application to build a Weisenmiller, chairman of the California Energy would scare them away, said Joseph Desmond, senior still-bigger version. Commission. “We didn’t see a lot of impact” on birds at vice president at BrightSource Energy. The investigators want the halt until the full extent the first, smaller power towers in the US and Europe, BrightSource also is offering $1.8 million in com- of the deaths can be assessed. Estimates per year now range from a low of about a thousand by BrightSource to 28,000 by an expert for the Center for Biological Diversity environmental group. The deaths are “alarming. It’s hard to say whether that’s the location or the technology,” said Garry This photo provided by NASA shows a tiny Peruvian research satellite (right of center) George, renewable-energy director for the California launched by spacewalking astronauts aboard the International Space Station, yesterday. chapter of the Audubon Society. “There needs to be The satellite, weighing barely 2 pounds, holds instruments to measure temperature and some caution.” pressure and cameras that will photograph Earth. —AP The bird kills mark the latest instance in which the quest for clean energy sometimes has inadvertent Spacewalking astronauts environmental harm. Solar farms have been criticized for their impacts on desert tortoises, and wind farms have killed birds, including numerous raptors. release Peruvian satellite “We take this issue very seriously,” said Jeff Holland, a spokesman for NRG Solar of Carlsbad, California, the CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Spacewalking flying freely. second of the three companies behind the plant. The astronauts launched a tiny Peruvian With that completed, Artemiev and third, Google, deferred comment to its partners. The research satellite yesterday, setting it loose Skvortsov set about installing fresh science $2.2 billion plant, which launched in February, is at on a mission to observe Earth. experiments outside the Russian portion of Ivanpah Dry Lake near the California-Nevada border. Russian Oleg Artemiev cast the 4-inch the space station and retrieving old ones. The operator says it is the world’s biggest plant to (10-centimeter) box off with his gloved “Be careful,” Russian Mission Control out- employ so-called power towers. right hand as the International Space side Moscow warned as the astronauts More than 300,000 mirrors, each the size of a Station sailed 260 miles (418 kilometers) made their way to their next work site. garage door, reflect solar rays onto three boiler towers above the cloud-flecked planet. The The two conducted a spacewalk in June, each looming up to 40 stories high. The water inside is nanosatellite gently tumbled as it cleared a few months after moving into the space heated to produce steam, which turns turbines that the vicinity of the orbiting complex, pre- station. Four other men live there: another generate enough electricity for 140,000 homes. cisely as planned. Russian, two Americans and one German. Sun rays sent up by the field of mirrors are bright The US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned Yellow-rumped Warbler that was found at the “One, two, three,” someone called out in US spacewalks, meanwhile, remain on hold. enough to dazzle pilots flying in and out of Las Vegas Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert. — AP Russian as Artemiev let go of the satellite. NASA hoped to resume spacewalks this and Los Angeles. Federal wildlife officials said Ivanpah Cameras watched as the nanosatellite - month after a yearlong investigation but might act as a “mega-trap” for wildlife, with the bright Weisenmiller said. The commission is now considering pensation for anticipated bird deaths at Palen, named Chasqui after the Inca messengers delayed the activity until fall to get fresh light of the plant attracting insects, which in turn the application from Oakland-based BrightSource to Desmond said. The company is proposing the money who were fleet of foot - increased its dis- spacesuit batteries on board. The SpaceX attract insect-eating birds that fly to their death in the build a mirror field and a 75-story power tower that for programs such as those to spay and neuter domes- tance and grew smaller. Artemiev’s Russian company will deliver the batteries on a intensely focused light rays. would reach above the sand dunes and creek washes tic cats, which a government study found kill over 1.4 spacewalking partner, Alexander Skvortsov, Dragon supply ship next month. Engineers Federal and state biologists call the number of between Joshua Tree National Park and the California- billion birds a year. Opponents say that would do tried to keep his helmet camera aimed at are concerned about the fuses of the on- deaths significant, based on sightings of birds getting Arizona border. nothing to help the desert birds at the proposed site. the satellite as it floated away. board batteries. singed and falling, and on retrieval of carcasses with The proposed plant is on a flight path for birds Power-tower proponents are fighting to keep the The satellite - barely 2 pounds (less than Before the battery issue, NASA was feathers charred too severely for flight. between the Colorado River and California’s largest deaths from forcing a pause in the building of new 1 kilogram) - holds and instruments to stymied by a spacesuit problem that nearly Ivanpah officials dispute the source of the so- lake, the Salton Sea - an area, experts say, is richer in plants when they see the technology on the verge of measure temperature and pressure and cost an Italian astronaut his life last sum- called streamers, saying at least some of the puffs of avian life than the Ivanpah plant, with protected gold- becoming more affordable and accessible, said cameras that will photograph Earth. It’s a mer. Luca Parmitano’s helmet flooded with smoke mark insects and bits of airborne trash being en eagles and peregrine falcons and more than 100 Thomas Conroy, a renewable-energy expert. When it technological learning experience for the water from the suit’s cooling system, and ignited by the solar rays. other species of birds recorded there. comes to powering the country’s grids, “diversity of National University of Engineering in Lima. he barely made it back inside. The investi- Wildlife officials who witnessed the phenomena U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials warned technology ... is critical,” Conroy said. “Nobody should A Russian cargo ship delivered the device gation into that incident is now complete, say many of the clouds of smoke were too big to come California this month that the power-tower style of be arguing let’s be all coal, all solar,” all wind, or all earlier this year. Less than a half-hour into with safety improvements made to the US from anything but a bird, and they add that they saw solar technology holds “the highest lethality potential” nuclear. “And every one of those technologies has a the spacewalk, the satellite was on its way, spacesuits. — AP “birds entering the solar flux and igniting, consequent- of the many solar projects burgeoning in the deserts long list of pros and cons.” — AP With cigars and crystal, Volvo makes eyes at Chinese rich

GOTHENBURG, Sweden: With headlights shaped and an emphasis on safety, but also wants to make will brake the car on dangerous left turns, and the But the first preview of the car, for a small Li’s influence can be seen in the XC90 four like Thor’s hammer and space for a humidity-con- swanky cars that will seduce affluent Chinese cus- company says its four-cylinder engine is an indus- group of journalists at the company’s headquar- seater, which is aimed at Asian executives with trolled cigar case, Volvo’s new cars are sporting lux- tomers away from the likes of BMW, Mercedes-Benz try beater in terms of combining power with low ters in Gothenburg, shows design is to the fore. chauffeurs. Product strategy head Lex ury features and designer glitz to catch the eye of and Audi. The XC90 has anti-collision detectors that emissions. The seven-seater features a sleeker logo, and Kerssemakers recounted how Li visited the the booming Chinese market and shed their safe- inside are Scandinavian touches of light wood Gothenburg headquarters about two years ago but-dull skin. and leather, a tablet-like, touch-screen control and sat in the back seat of a XC90 prototype. The XC90 SUV launch on Aug. 26 will be make panel, and a minimalist dashboard. The head of “It doesn’t work. I don’t have enough space,” or break for a company moving into a premium the gear stick is Swedish crystal. he complained. Kerssemakers told his team to market dominated by German rivals. It will be the “This is Scandinavian design without the take the front seats and put them in the rear, first fully new car under Chinese parent Zhejiang bling-bling,” said chief marketing head Alain and take everything out so they could redesign Geely Holding Group Co, which bought Volvo from Visser. “The XC90 is a signal that we are here as a it to create as luxurious an environment as pos- Ford Motor Co four years ago, and heralds the premium brand. It is a signal that other models sible.“That would never have happened without revamp of its entire product range to more upmar- are going in that direction.” a Chinese owner,” he said. “Two or three times a ket models. The XC90 will be followed next year by a S90 year he comes, he has an opinion,” Kerssemakers It follows a five-year, $11-billion investment pro- sedan, aimed at the United States and China, said. “Why don’t you try this, try that? Especially gram aimed at doubling Volvo sales, which for two which could become the world’s biggest premi- interior wise ... this is what my friends like, and decades have been stuck at around 400,000 cars a um market by 2020. they are rich customers.” year. It hopes the new line will reverse declining CEO Samuelsson denied there had been any sales in the US, but must persuade customers to ‘Too Scandinavian’ split, and said the company had been largely spend up to 100,000 euros for a brand many associ- Last year Volvo owner Li Shufu was reported given a free hand. “Our traditional values are ate with functional family cars. “Prices will be the to have called Volvo’s interiors “too getting more and more important,” Samuelsson same level as competitors like the Germans,” said Scandinavian”, and the rollout of the new cars added. “The one-baby policy makes safety Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson. “Customers should will show that Volvo has accepted many of the important.” He said the company would also not expect to buy them cheaper than an Audi.” Chinese demands to make its cars more appeal- emphasise in China, where poor air quality The new cars aim to reconcile strategic tensions ing to China’s wealthy. sometimes makes headlines, that its vehicles in the 87-year-old carmaker, which remains wed- “The Chinese wall has thawed,” said Philippe come fitted with air filters to keep the fumes ded to Scandinavian understatement, greenness Houchois, an analyst at UBS. outside.—Reuters HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

Extra mastectomy may not extend life for some breast cancer patients

NEW YORK: For some women with early stage breast vive for 20 years. For stage II breast cancer, 77 per- group there was not a meaningful survival benefit.” ing at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. For those cancer, removing the healthy breast likely doesn’t cent survive for at least 10 years and 58 percent sur- Prophylactic mastectomy of the healthy breast has women very troubled by the 0.7 percent chance of afford much of a survival benefit, according to a new vive at least 20 years. become much more common in recent years, in part developing cancer in the second breast, the addi- study. “A lot of women with cancer in one breast For all age groups and tumor types in the study, because doctors suggest it and in part because tional surgery may be worthwhile. But from a soci- decide to have both breasts removed to try to the risk of developing cancer in the opposite breast women believe it will help them in the long run, etal perspective, the cost of the procedure, its com- improve their survival or life expectancy,” said senior after diagnosis was less than one percent each year, Tuttle said. Given that a double mastectomy essen- plications, reconstruction and resulting negative author Dr Todd M Tuttle, a surgeon at the University the authors wrote in the Journal of the National tially doubles the invasiveness and surgical risk of a effects on body image may outweigh the modest of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Cancer Institute. Given how rare breast cancer in the one-sided mastectomy, complication rates from the benefit of the extra surgery, they write. Adding For some women - such as those at high genetic opposite breast is for this group of women, having surgery double as well, he said. The new model did quality of life to the model would likely diminish risk for breast cancer - removing a still-healthy breast both breasts removed at once only increased life not account for other factors including surgical com- the benefit further and turn it into a net harm, they may very well help in the long run, Tuttle said. But expectancy by at most seven months for women plications, cost or quality of life. write. Ultimately, the choice should depend on the the women in the current study did not have the diagnosed with stage I cancer and less than four In an editorial published with the study, Dr patient’s unique values and expectations. BRCA gene mutations that would have greatly months for women with stage II cancer. Estimates Stephen G Pauker and Dr Mohamed Alseiari write, Tuttle reiterated that his hypothetical survival increased their risk of cancer in both breasts. Tuttle were even lower for older women and women with “Although the survival benefit from (removing the model only applies to women without the BRCA and his coauthors used published data to develop a estrogen-receptor positive cancers. other breast) is small as demonstrated in this model, mutation. “The group that benefits primarily model for predicting survival rates over 20 years for it is greater than zero, which suggests that for some from contralateral mastectomy is the ones with women diagnosed with stage I or II cancer at age 40, Surgical risk patients even that small gain may be enough to hereditary breast cancer,” he said. “I always rec- 50 or 60. “We chose the best group that we could possibly make (the surgery) a not unreasonable choice.” ommend that women see a genetic counselor According to the existing data, more than 98 per- find - women less than 40, women with estrogen- and get the genetic testing.” He added, “If you cent of women diagnosed with stage I breast cancer receptor negative breast cancer, women with stage I,” Negative effects have the mutation, it’s a very reasonable option will survive at least 10 years, and 90 percent will sur- Tuttle told Reuters Health by phone. “Even in that Pauker and Alseiari study clinical decision-mak- to consider.”— AP Kids’ brains reorganize when learning math skills

WASHINGTON: Sometime in elementary school, you quit new memories come in - short-term working memory - and counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scien- then can be sent elsewhere for longer-term storage and tists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, retrieval. Those hippocampal connections increased with and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn the kids’ math performance. “The stronger the connections, math. The take-home advice: Drilling your kids on simple the greater each individual’s ability to retrieve facts from addition and multiplication may pay off. “Experience really memory,” said Dr Vinod Menon, a psychiatry professor at does matter,” said Dr Kathy Mann Koepke of the National Stanford and the study’s senior author. Institutes of Health, which funded the research. Healthy chil- But that’s not the whole story. Next, Menon’s team put dren start making that switch between counting to what’s 20 adolescents and 20 adults into the MRI machines and called fact retrieval when they’re 8 years old to 9 years old, gave them the same simple addition problems. It turns when they’re still working on fundamental addition and sub- out that adults don’t use their memory-crunching hip- traction. How well kids make that shift to memory-based pocampus in the same way. Instead of using a lot of effort, problem-solving is known to predict their ultimate math retrieving six plus four equals 10 from long-term storage achievement. Those who fall behind “are impairing or slowing was almost automatic, Menon said. In other words, over down their math learning later on,” Mann Koepke said. But time the brain became increasingly efficient at retrieving why do some kids make the transition easier than others? To facts. Think of it like a bumpy, grassy field, NIH’s Mann start finding out, Stanford University researchers first peeked Koepke explained. Walk over the same spot enough and a into the brains of 28 children as they solved a series of simple smooth, grass-free path forms, making it easier to get addition problems inside a brain-scanning MRI machine. No from start to end. If your brain doesn’t have to work as Study questions need for scribbling out the answer: The 7- to 9-year-olds saw a calcula- hard on simple math, it has more working memory free to tion - three plus four equals seven, for example - flash on a process the teacher’s brand-new lesson on more complex screen and pushed a button to say if the answer was right or math. most people to cut salt wrong. Scientists recorded how quickly they responded and “The study provides new evidence that this experience what regions of their brain became active as they did. In a sep- with math actually changes the hippocampal patterns, or arate session, they also tested the kids face to face, watching if the connections. They become more stable with skill devel- NEW YORK: A large international study questions the con- for moderation.” they moved their lips or counted on their fingers, for compari- opment,” she said. “So learning your addition and multipli- ventional wisdom that most people should cut back on salt, The study was sponsored by the McMaster institute, non- son with the brain data. cation tables and having them in rote memory helps.” Quiz suggesting that the amount most folks consume is OK for profit and government groups and industry, but funders had The children were tested twice, roughly a year apart. As the your child in different orders, she advised - nine times three heart health - and too little may be as bad as too much. The no role in running it. The countries included Canada but not kids got older, their answers relied more on memory and and then 10 times nine - to make sure they really remem- findings came under immediate attack by other scientists. the United States; China accounted for 42 percent of partici- became faster and more accurate, and it showed in the brain. ber and didn’t have to think it through. Limiting salt is still important for people with high blood pres- pants. About 40 percent had high blood pressure. Sodium lev- There was less activity in the prefrontal and parietal regions While the study focuses on math, Mann Koepke said sure - and in fact, a second study estimates that too much els were estimated from a single urine test instead of the pre- associated with counting and more in the brain’s memory cognitive development in general probably works the same sodium contributes to up to 1.65 million deaths each year. The ferred method of over 24 hours at multiple times, which Yusuf center, the hippocampus, the researchers reported Sunday in way. After all, kids who match sounds to letters earlier learn studies both have strengths and weaknesses, and come as the said was impractical in such a big group. That drew criticism Nature Neuroscience. to read faster. Stanford’s Menon said the next step is to US government is preparing to nudge industry to trim sodium from a host of scientists. “This is a fundamental flaw” that study what goes wrong with this system in children with in processed and restaurant foods. undermines confidence in the results, said Dr Elliott Antman, a Retrieving facts math learning disabilities, so that scientists might try new The first study’s leader, Dr Salim Yusuf of McMaster Brigham and Women’s Hospital cardiologist who is president The hippocampus is sort of like a relay station where strategies to help them learn. — AP University’s Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, of the Heart Association. Ontario, urged keeping an open mind. “There are those who have made a career out of promoting extreme sodium reduc- The second study tion that will attack us,” he said. It’s better to focus on healthy Dr Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and a lifestyles and overall diets instead of a single element, “and former Heart Association president, said the single measure is that is something everyone can rally around.” No one should a big limitation, but that researchers “did the best they could” view this as permission to eat more salt, he said, adding that in such a large study and that the findings still have some “most people should stay where they are.” merit. “I find the potassium data of great interest” for poten- The studies are in Thursday’s New England Journal of tially lowering risk, he said. Dr Martin O’Donnell of McMaster Medicine. Yusuf’s is observational, rather than a strict experi- University, one of the researchers, said potatoes, bananas, ment, and has big limitations in its methods. But its size lends avocados, leafy greens, nuts, apricots, salmon and mushrooms strength - more than 100,000 people in 17 countries, the are high in potassium, and “it’s easier for people to add things largest on this topic. It’s also from a general population, not to their diet than to take away” something like salt. just people at high risk of heart disease, as many past studies The second study in the journal, on how much sodium have been. contributes to heart-related deaths, was led by Dr Dariush Mozaffarian of Tufts University and the Harvard School of Researchers found Public Health, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates 1. Sodium levels generally correlate with the risk of high Foundation. Researchers looked at dozens of studies around blood pressure. But this link is strongest when sodium the world on sodium intake, calculated its relationship to high intake is high and wasn’t seen at all when consumption is blood pressure, and then the relationship of high blood pres- low. The link also is stronger as people age. sure to cardiovascular deaths. There were 1.65 million deaths 2. A different nutrient - potassium, found in vegetables and from intake over 2 grams of sodium a day, they estimate, and fruits - seems to lower blood pressure and heart risks, and half a million deaths based on current worldwide consump- offsets sodium’s effect. tion of 4 grams a day, said Mozaffarian, who has consulted for 3. People who consume 3 to 6 grams of sodium a day (about some food makers. 8 to 15 grams of salt) had the lowest risk of heart prob- His study is less controversial and shows why policies to lems or death from any cause during the nearly four-year curb salt are important, Michael Jacobson of the consumer study. More or less sodium raised risk. About three-fourths group Center for Science in the Public Interest, wrote in an of the world’s population is in the ideal range. Americans email. The federal Food and Drug Administration is preparing average roughly 4 grams a day. voluntary guidelines asking industry to trim sodium in Guidelines from various groups for heart disease preven- processed foods, the main source in the diet. “The totality of tion recommend 1.5 to 2.4 grams of sodium a day. The the evidence strongly supports” limiting sodium, Antman said, American Heart Association advises no more than 1.5 grams. and the Heart Association feels “now is the time for action and “These are now the best data available,” Dr Brian Strom said of not hesitation anymore.” Nutrition scientists Marion Nestle at the new study. Strom, the chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical New York University agreed. “People don’t eat salt, they eat and Health Sciences, led an Institute of Medicine panel last food,” she said. “Lots of people have high blood pressure and year that found little evidence to support very low sodium lev- lots of people are getting older,” making salt a growing con- NEW YORK: In this Oct 1, 2013, file photo, third grade teacher Melissa Grieshober teaches a math lesson at els. “Too-high sodium is bad. Too low also may be bad, and cern, she said. “That’s the context in which this is taking Silver Lake Elementary School in Middletown. — AP sodium isn’t the whole story,” Strom said. “People should go place.”— AP Ebola health workers battle death, heat, rumors

LONDON: Doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West a young girl, about 6, who came in late in the illness that heat makes it impossible to work continuously for Africa are working 14-hour days, seven days a week, who was bleeding from her bowels, very dehydrated more than an hour. It means tasks have to be complet- wearing head-to-toe gear in the heat of muddy clinics. and delirious,” he said. Ebola wiped out her immediate ed with near-military precision. Her makeshift Ebola Agonizing death is the norm. The hellish conditions family - so she was all alone. tent hospital in Gueckedou, southern Guinea, was aren’t the only problem: Health workers struggle to “She was very frightened and very reluctant to converted from an earlier clinic set up by Doctors convince patients they’re trying to help them, not hurt engage, and just wanted to push people away,” he Without Borders to handle cholera epidemics. “If you them. Rumors are rife that Western aid workers are said. Fowler spent days trying to help her, bringing her have to do patients’ blood work and IVs, you focus importing Ebola, stealing bodies or even deliberately things she wanted like Fanta soda. “She eventually only on this, and you know your other team members infecting patients. Winning trust is made harder by a developed this sense that this person in the suit who’s will get the patients food and drink,” she said. The full suit of hood, goggles, mask and gown that hides a bit scary is trying to help me.” One day he brought tough odds don’t make it easier to see a patient die. their faces. the girl her favorite dish: cucumbers and lime. “She “You want to say so much ... because they’re in so chowed down,” he said - a sign that she was on the Grotesque positions much pain,” said nurse Monia Sayah, of Doctors mend. Fowler said the girl was close to being dis- “There was a very strong, resilient, gentleman, who Without Borders. “They suffer so much, but they can charged by the time he left Guinea. always made an effort to sit up and open his eyes and only see your eyes.” The outbreak has hit three of the tell us how grateful he was that we were here,” said world’s poorest countries, where health systems there Witnessing the horror Sahah. She said the man appeared to be improving were already woefully understaffed and ill-equipped. The girl is the exception rather than the rule. Death but suddenly deteriorated. She was forced to take a In Liberia, there is only one doctor for every 100,000 is the fate of more than half of the West Africans infect- break after getting dehydrated. When he returned people, while in Sierra Leone there are two, according ed in the Ebola outbreak. “With the mortality rate about 40 minutes later, he was dead. to the World Health Organization; there were no statis- being what it is,” Fowler said, “you know every day “When a patient dies like that, it’s very upsetting tics available for Guinea. The figure is 245 for the there will be a couple of patients on your ward who because we’re their last hope.” Cokie van der Velde, a United States. didn’t make it through the night.” Dr Kent Brantly - an sanitation specialist for Doctors Without Borders in Emotional distress conspires with exhaustion and American who fell sick from Ebola last month treating Guinea and Liberia, cleaned Ebola wards - washing dehydration, but doctors say it’s hard to stop working. patients - echoed Fowler in speaking of the moral floors, emptying buckets and collecting bodies. One “When the need is so great, you can’t justify not being weight of the struggle. “I held the hands of countless day, she came across a harrowing sight. “I walked into there for a day or going home earlier,” said Dr Robert individuals as this terrible disease took their lives away a room with four bodies and they’d all died in the Fowler, who recently worked in Guinea and Sierra from them,” Brantly said in a statement this month. “I most grotesque positions, with a lot of blood and Leone. The critical care doctor at Sunnybrook Hospital witnessed the horror firsthand and I can still remem- feces everywhere,” she said. “During the night, one in Toronto, Canada - now on sabbatical with the World ber every face and name.” man had crawled to the door and the other people LIBERIA: Health workers move the body of a fellow health worker who was found Health Organization - said that the barrier of the pro- Brantly is now being treated in an Atlanta hospital. who died, they seemed to have fallen off their beds dead in a seat, and who they believe passed away from the Ebola virus, at one of the tective suit is big but not insurmountable. “There was His condition was improving. Sayah, the nurse, said and were bent backwards.”—AP largest hospitals in the city of Monrovia . — AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

World Innovation Summit for Health invites innovators to showcase their projects at 2015 Summit

DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health with the curation team of Tim Brown of global ideas (WISH) has announced its first ‘Innovation consultancy IDEO, and Bright Simons, President of Showcases’ competition, giving healthcare innova- mPedigree Network and social innovator and entre- Indian poachers threaten lesser-known animals tors the chance to demonstrate their work in front preneur. of more than 1,000 global experts and decision- Professor the Lord Darziof Denham, said: “The NEW DELHI: Wildlife poachers, hindered by considered a delicacy, and their scales, which are meat and bones has led to the near-disappear- makers at the next Summit taking place on 17-18 Innovation Showcases are a fantastic example of India’s efforts to protect majestic endangered ani- used in traditional Chinese medicine. The scales ance of the monitor lizard in the Indian country- February 2015. how we capture and disseminate information about mals including tigers and rhinos, have begun to are made of keratin, the same protein that forms side, said Tito Joseph, a program manager for the ‘Innovation Showcase’ pods were introduced at valuable but previously underexposed innovations, think smaller. And activists say scores of the coun- hair and fingernails, and have no documented society. Monitor lizard meat, especially the tongue the inaugural Summit in December 2013 to provide and were undoubtedly one of the most popular fea- try’s lesser-known species are vanishing from the medicinal value. The pangolin trade was once and liver, is mistakenly believed to have aphrodisi- a dedicated space where delegates could meet tures of the inaugural Summit. wild as a result. The Indian pangolin - a scaly critter obscure in India, with an average of only about acal properties, while lizard skin finds use in high- promising innovators and experience their projects By opening up the application process this year, whose defense mechanism of rolling up into a three a year reportedly killed by poachers end bags and belts. Such animals became more first-hand. This year, WISH has opened the we want to inspire grassroots innovators, invite ball is no help against humans - and the star tor- between 1990 and 2008. Wright said that soared attractive to poachers as the Indian government Innovation Showcase selection process in order to them into our global community, and give them the toise - a popular pet that maxes out at a foot in to an average of more than 320 per year from strengthened the tiger conservation program it highlight innovations in a range of fields that have unique chance to attract support and investment length - are just two of the species that are being 2009 to 2013. began nearly four decades ago. Vast swathes of the potential to help transform healthcare world- from the individuals and organizations that are in a killed or smuggled in increasing numbers while forests and hills have been turned into tiger wide. position to help them make a real difference to the conservation efforts focus on such iconic animals Demand for lizard skin reserves and national parks. In order to be considered, innovators with fully lives of millions of people.” such as tigers and elephants. That only covers confirmed seizures. Customs Indian officials deny neglecting lesser-known developed projects are invited to submit a two- The competition closes on 31 October 2014. To “The problem is that we were turning a blind officials and wildlife experts estimate that seizures species. Creating the tiger reserves also helps pro- minute video explaining the benefits of their prod- submit an application or find out more about the eye to all lesser-known species and suddenly this form only 10 percent of the total illegal trade. The tect smaller species in these areas, they say. “The uct, service or digital solution. While projects in any Innovation Showcases competition, entrants should very lucrative trade has been allowed to explode,” International Union for the Conservation of focus on tigers does not mean that other species field relevant to healthcare innovation are eligible, visit the website at: http://www.wish.org.qa/2015- said Belinda Wright, director of the Wildlife Nature estimated in a report last month that more are not taken care of,” said S.B. Negi of the Wildlife the 2015 Summit will focus on the seven specific summit/innovation-showcases/ Protection Society of India, an advocacy group. than a million pangolins have been poached from Crime Control Bureau, a government agency. challenges of: Communicating Complex Health Qatar Foundation has established WISH to Wildlife specialists say the growing affluence of habitats in Asia and Africa. Star tortoise seizures But the bureau has only just begun efforts to Messages; Delivering Affordable Cancer Care; ensure impactful outcomes in healthcare innova- China, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian coun- by airport and port customs officials also have collect data on many smaller species now in peril, Dementia; Diabetes; Patient Safety; Universal Health tion in Qatar, regionally, and globally. Through tries has helped drive the demand for exotic ani- increased dramatically, from an average of less including the pangolin, reflecting the scant atten- Coverage; and Mental Wellbeing in Children and WISH, Qatar Foundation is supporting the nation in mals. Some are kept as pets, while others are eat- than 800 per year from 1990 to 1999 to more than tion they have received so far. Kamal Datta, a Young People. establishing healthcare initiatives for the benefit of en for their purported but questionable medicinal 3,000 per year from 2002 to 2013, according to director at the bureau, said the agency has asked Winners will be selected by Professor the Lord the globe while remaining closely aligned to the or aphrodisiacal properties. the protection society. wildlife departments in India’s 29 states to collect Darzi of Denham, Executive Chair of WISH, along vision of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, its Chairperson. Pangolins are killed for their meat, which is Similarly, the growing demand for lizard skin, the data, but some have yet to begin. —AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 20 Kuwaiti players shine at VIVA Manchester Utd’s Training Program

IVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most developed telecom Voperator, announced the return of the 20 players who visited and practiced at Manchester United’s Cardington training ground in Manchester. All the players enjoyed a fully funded week-long training camp in Manchester, being trained by the team’s best coaches, and playing a game at Old Trafford. The training program which com- prised of several workshops and activities educated the players on the best maneuvers, attacks, different scenarios and conditioned games. The program also focuses on different technical areas, such as dribbling, short passing, turning and finishing. After a rigorous full training program, the Manchester United coaches selected the top performing players from over 200 players from around the world, seven of whom were out- standing players from Kuwait: Nasser Amir, Mohamed Al-Shatti, Mohamed Taleb, Humoud Al-Wasmi, Khalifa Al- Khalifa, Abdullah Al-Bader and Saoud Al-Sherieda. VIVA Manchester United coaches honored them noting their shining performance on the field and wished them all the best of luck in their future football dreams. Commenting on this occasion, Ayman Al-Mutairi, Senior Manager Corporate Communications at VIVA said: “We are proud of the young excitement the players have dis- ing professional football players.” ing camp in Manchester, being as VIVA officials who will all ensure National Football team. Each of the Kuwaiti athletes who have demon- played since the beginning of the The top 20 players were chosen trained by the best Manchester that they are taken care of during players were judged on the basis of strated their abilities throughout the trip, and we hope that they continue from over 200 participants who United coaches. The Manchester their travels. their foot-balling capability and tal- training program, and to have six of on their path to sporting success. joined in the Manchester United United Soccer School (MUSS) is a pri- The top 20 players were chosen by ent, physical fitness, discipline, their our players selected and honored by VIVA will continue to support all Soccer Academy try outs, which were vate facility very close to Manchester a joint judging committee consisting communication skills amongst each MUSS coaches makes us all very these young athletes in bringing held in April 2014. All the players will city center. The players will be accom- of MUSS coaches and a Kuwaiti team other as players and their general proud. We shared the enthusiasm and them closer to their dream of becom- enjoy a fully funded week-long train- panied by trainers, supervisors as well led by players from the Kuwaiti conduct on and off the field.

Movie Night: Final Student Visa The Ottomans Day at US Embassy

he Ottoman Empire was one of the most power- is August 21 ful states in the world, a multinational, multilin- Tgual empire controlling much of Southeast he US Embassy Consular Section calls on stu- Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and dents to register for the final student visa day the Horn of Africa. With Constantinople as its capital, for this year, the Ottoman Empire controlled vast lands around the T Thursday, August 21. Mediterranean basin and was the pivot of interactions The Consular Section between the East and West for over six centuries. Learn more about the greatest empire the world has has dedicated all ever seen with this 50 minute documentary to be appointments on this shown free of charge at Ties Center on Thursday, day to students current- August 28 at 7 pm. ly studying or planning on studying in the United States. Students are welcome to apply for their visas on any days available, however on August 21, Pets and animal student applicants will be given priority. Earlier in August, the US Embassy’s Consular Section held rescue in Kuwait two student visa days, on August 7 and August 12, supporting students to apply for their visas and get hy should we help animals when ACK’s PUC scholarship to their classes on time. Encouraging Kuwaiti stu- there are so many people in need? dents to pursue higher educational opportunities WWhat is the stance of Islam regarding application period continues in the US is one of the top priorities of the US the treatment of animals? What can you do to Mission in Kuwait. Students are advised to log on help Kuwait’s strayed, abandoned, and abused he Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) announces that the Private Universities Council scholarship to www.ustraveldocs.com to apply for their visa, animals? Join us for an informative and com- application period for High school and British schools graduates is open till August 26. In addi- schedule their appointment, and to obtain infor- pelling discussion of these issues and more. If Ttion, the deadline for ACK & Box Hill College Diploma graduates looking to enroll in a Bachelor’s mation on what they should bring to their inter- Degree program at ACK is also on August 26, 2014. Applicants are welcome to visit the ACK campus, view. you would like to start helping animals in need located in West Mishref from Sunday through Thursday, from 8:00 am till 3:00 pm. right away, please bring along some dog or cat food as a donation to our local animal shelter. Guest speaker, Claudia Farkas Al-Rashoud, is Indian MP addresses expat issues in Kuwait photojournalist and animal rescuer. Claudia Farkas Al-Rashoud will be presenting along ndian parliament member and issue of higher airline fares being charged with a representative from Protecting Animal Communist Party of India’s (Marxist) by Indian carriers to various Indian destina- Welfare Society Kuwait (PAWS), who will be IKerala state committee member P K Biju tions from Kuwait, he said fluctuations in MP addressed a small gathering of fares are a global phenomenon, but by talking about their challenging work on Malayalam media persons here on Sunday increasing the number of airlines and fre- Sunday, August 17 at 7 pm. We hope you can evening in Salmiya. The visiting Indian par- quencies during peak seasons may be an join us and we thank you for caring. liamentarian interacted with the media option. Also authorities in Kerala are seri- and exchanged views on a variety of issues ously pursuing the possibility of launching The TIES Center is the social and educational particularly concerning Non-Resident an airline by the state government. hub for English Speaking Muslims in Kuwait. Indians living in Kuwait. Biju arrived in More stringent measures are required For more information, please call 25231015 or Kuwait as the chief guest of the valedictory to be taken to prevent recruiting agents e-mail [email protected] or visit www.ties- session of the Malayalam language pro- from indulging in fraudulent recruitments gram organized by Kerala Art Lovers after pocketing hefty commissions. Indian center.net. Association (KALA) Kuwait last Friday at immigration laws also have to be tight- Indian Central School auditorium, ened in order to check human trafficking Abbassiya. from India, he said. Indian labor laws are He also presented the Best Pravasi outdated as they were drafted in the colo- Brazil Embassy Social Worker Award instituted by KALA nial era. “The Indian labor laws need to be Kuwait to well-known Indian social worker drastically altered in order to safeguard the rom August 1, 2014, from Oman P M Jaber. The award was insti- interests of domestic laborers working all processing fees tuted in the name of late Ramesh, a long- within the country and overseas,” he Fof the Consular time office-bearer and well-known leader added. Section should be paid of KALA Kuwait, who passed away last year. teaching expat children their mother of Indian parliament and the CPI (M) party KALA Kuwait president Saji through NBK Bank - AC Addressing the journalists, Biju lauded the tongue Malayalam. leader, he is aware of the problems being Janardhanan and secretary T V Jayan were no. 1003720037, receipts efforts being taken by KALA Kuwait in The MP pointed out that as a member faced by Indians in Kuwait. Regarding the also present during the press conference. should be presented to the Consular Section. ‘Gouri Shankaram’ What’s On - Submission Guidelines released am Pynummoodu , well-known cultural All photos submitted for What’s On activist in Kuwait released “Gouri should be minimum 200dpi. SShankaram” (Travalogue) written by Binish K Babu, member of Kerala Art Lovers Association Articles must be in plain text and (Kala-Kuwait) and a well known social activist, by should include name and phone handing over the first copy to Shuba Shine, Vanitha Vedi Kuwait Secretary last week. numbers. Articles and photos that Parameswaran activist and writer introduced fail to meet these requirements will about the book to the audience. The meeting was held at Mangaf Kala Center. Shaju Haneef presided not be published. over the meeting. Rahil Mohandas welcomed the audience. A range of communities participated in Please send them to the function. “Think Books” undertook the publica- [email protected] tion of the book. Binish a native of Cherai, Ernakulam, Keralam is working as a cost controller in a private firm. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 WHAT’S ON

Farewell dinner hosted for outgoing Ambassador of Vietnam

ye Khaing, the Ambassador of the Union of Myanmar on behalf of the ASEAN committee in Kuwait hosted a farewell dinner for outgoing Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Buic Quoc ATrung at Crowne Plaza during the weekend. Asian diplomats and media persons attended the reception of Aye Khaing. TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

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10:20 I Was Murdered 08:30 IPL Highlights 05:05 How It’s Made 10:45 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 01:00 Knife Fight-PG15 09:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 00:05 Spooks 05:30 How Do They Do It? 11:10 Dr G: Medical Examiner 03:00 Magic Journey To Africa- Highlights 01:00 Eastenders 06:00 Gold Rush 12:00 Finding Bigfoot PG15 10:30 ICC World T20 Highlights 01:30 Doctors 07:00 Dual Survival 12:50 Forensic Detectives 05:00 Kathmandu Lullaby-PG15 11:30 ICC World T20 Highlights 02:00 New Tricks 07:50 Manhunt 13:40 Murder Shift 07:00 Knife Fight-PG15 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 02:50 Lee Evans: Big Live At The O2 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 14:30 Disappeared 09:00 Between Us-PG15 13:00 Live England v India 03:45 Blackadder The Third 09:30 Storage Hunters 15:20 I Was Murdered 11:00 Kathmandu Lullaby-PG15 International Test Series 04:15 The Weakest Link 09:55 Auction Hunters 15:45 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 13:00 The Chateau Meroux-PG15 21:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 05:00 Teletubbies 10:20 What’s In The Barn? 16:10 Dr G: Medical Examiner 15:00 Hyde Park On Hudson-PG15 Highlights 05:25 3rd & Bird MRS.DOUBTFIRE ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 10:45 How It’s Made 17:00 Finding Bigfoot 17:00 Between Us-PG15 22:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 05:35 The Green Balloon Club 11:10 How Do They Do It? 17:50 Forensic Detectives 19:00 I, Anna-PG15 Highlights 06:00 Nina And The Neurons: In 07:55 Good Luck Charlie 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 05:00 None of the Above 11:35 Deadliest Catch 18:40 Murder Shift 23:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue The Lab 08:20 Win, Lose Or Draw 06:10 Sweet Genius 05:30 None of the Above 21:00 There Be Dragons-PG15 12:25 Outback Truckers 19:30 Disappeared Highlights 06:15 Teletubbies 08:45 Dog With A Blog 07:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 06:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 23:00 Barney’s Version-18 20:20 I Was Murdered 06:40 3rd & Bird 13:15 Alaska: The Last Frontier 09:05 Dog With A Blog 07:25 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 07:00 Wild Nile 20:45 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 06:50 The Green Balloon Club 14:05 Storage Hunters 09:30 Good Luck Charlie 07:50 Guy’s Big Bite 08:00 Blowdown 21:10 Dr G: Medical Examiner 07:15 The Weakest Link 14:30 Auction Hunters 09:55 Good Luck Charlie 08:15 Unique Eats 09:00 Mega Factories 22:00 Waco: The Survivors’ Story 08:00 Blackadder The Third 14:55 What’s In The Barn? 10:15 Suite Life On Deck 08:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 10:00 One Ocean 03:00 Jakob The Liar-PG15 22:50 I Almost Got Away With It 08:30 As Time Goes By 15:20 Dual Survival 10:40 Suite Life On Deck Basics 11:00 Ancient Megastructures 05:00 Matching Jack-PG15 23:40 I Almost Got Away With It 00:00 Storage Wars 09:00 Eastenders 16:10 Manhunt 11:05 That’s So Raven 09:05 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 12:00 Is It Real? 07:00 Crazy / Beautiful-PG15 00:30 Pawn Stars 09:30 Doctors 17:00 Fast N’ Loud 11:25 That’s So Raven Basics 13:00 Master of Disaster 09:00 I Am-PG15 01:00 Pawn Stars 10:00 New Tricks 17:50 How It’s Made 11:50 A.N.T. Farm 09:30 Sweet Genius 14:00 Nat Geo’s Top 10 Photos 10:30 Matching Jack-PG15 01:30 Pawn Stars 10:50 Little Dorrit 18:15 How Do They Do It? 12:15 A.N.T. Farm 10:20 Easy Chinese 15:00 China Circus 12:15 Kandahar Break: Fortress Of 02:00 Pawn Stars UK 11:40 Blackadder The Third 18:40 Gold Rush 12:35 Good Luck Charlie 10:45 All You Can Meat 16:00 Apocalypse: The Second War-PG15 02:30 Pawn Stars UK 12:10 Blackadder The Third 19:30 River Monsters 13:00 Good Luck Charlie 11:35 Marion’s Thailand World War 14:00 Quiet Flows The Don-PG15 00:00 Violetta 03:00 Storage Wars 12:40 The Weakest Link 20:20 Robson’s New Extreme 13:25 Jessie 12:00 Reza’s African Kitchen 17:00 Caught In The Act 17:00 I Am-PG15 00:45 The Hive 03:30 Storage Wars 13:25 Eastenders Fishing Challenge 13:45 Jessie 12:25 Charly’s Cake Angels 18:00 Prehistoric Predators 19:00 Year Of The Dog-PG15 13:55 Doctors 00:50 Art Attack 04:00 Pawn Stars 21:10 Auction Hunters 14:10 Austin & Ally 12:50 Siba’s Table 19:00 China Circus 23:00 Take This Waltz-18 14:25 New Tricks 21:35 What’s In The Barn? 01:15 Art Attack 14:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 13:15 Jenny Morris Cooks The 20:00 Access 360 World Heritage 04:30 Pawn Stars 15:15 Little Dorrit 22:00 River Monsters: Year Of 01:40 Jungle Junction 15:00 Gravity Falls Riviera 21:00 Caught In The Act 05:00 Bamazon 16:05 Blackadder The Third Beasts 01:55 Jungle Junction 15:25 Gravity Falls 13:40 Sandwich King 22:00 Prehistoric Predators 06:00 Storage Wars: New York 16:35 The Weakest Link 22:50 Off The Hook: Extreme 02:05 Jungle Junction 15:45 Mako Mermaids 14:05 The Next Food Network Star 23:00 Ancient Megastructures 06:30 Counting Cars 17:20 Eastenders Catches 02:20 Jungle Junction 16:10 Violetta 14:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 01:00 Alex Cross-PG15 07:00 Pawn Stars 17:50 Doctors 23:15 Off The Hook: Extreme 02:30 Violetta 17:00 I Didn’t Do It 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite 03:00 White House Down-PG15 07:30 Pawn Stars 18:20 New Tricks Catches 03:15 The Hive 17:20 Jessie 15:45 Chopped 05:15 Love And Honor-PG15 08:00 American Restoration 19:10 Starlings 23:40 Robson’s New Extreme 03:20 Art Attack 17:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:35 Unique Eats 07:00 Lego Batman: The Movie - DC 08:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 20:00 Little Dorrit Fishing Challenge 03:45 Art Attack Super Heroes Unite-PG 09:00 Storage Wars: New York Teenage Witch 17:00 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 20:50 Blackadder Goes Forth 04:10 Jungle Junction 09:00 Moonrise Kingdom-PG15 09:30 Counting Cars 18:10 Liv And Maddie 17:25 Jenny Morris Cooks The Stewart 21:20 Blackadder Goes Forth 04:20 Jungle Junction 10:45 White House Down-PG15 10:00 Pawn Stars 18:30 Mako Mermaids Riviera 01:00 Last Week Tonight With John 21:50 Gavin & Stacey 04:35 Jungle Junction 13:00 42-PG15 10:30 Pawn Stars 18:55 Mako Mermaids 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Oliver 22:20 Gavin & Stacey 04:50 Jungle Junction 15:15 Monsters University-PG 11:00 Storage Wars 22:50 Sean Lock Live 19:20 Violetta 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 01:30 Eastbound & Down 05:00 Art Attack 17:00 Moonrise Kingdom-PG15 11:30 Storage Wars 23:45 The Weakest Link 20:05 Liv And Maddie 18:40 Siba’s Table 02:00 Veep 00:20 The Gadget Show 05:25 Art Attack 19:00 Grown Ups 2-PG15 12:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Jessie 19:05 Marion’s Thailand 02:30 Silicon Valley 00:45 How Stuff’s Made 05:50 Mouk 21:00 The Big Wedding-PG15 13:00 Bamazon 20:50 Dog With A Blog 19:30 Sandwich King 04:00 2 Broke Girls 01:10 The Kustomizer 06:00 Jessie 22:30 Zero Dark Thirty-18 14:00 Pawn Stars UK 21:15 Mako Mermaids 19:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 02:00 X-Machines 06:25 Good Luck Charlie 14:30 Pawn Stars UK 21:40 Austin & Ally 20:20 All You Can Meat Jimmy Fallon 02:45 Mythbusters 06:45 Good Luck Charlie 22:00 Good Luck Charlie 21:10 Chopped 15:00 Pawn Stars 00:20 Come Dine With Me 05:30 Better Off Ted 03:35 Science Of The Movies 07:10 Good Luck Charlie 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 22:00 Sweet Genius 18:00 Storage Wars 01:05 Antiques Roadshow 06:00 Two And A Half Men 04:30 Alien Mysteries 07:35 Good Luck Charlie 22:50 Shake It Up 22:50 Unique Eats 18:30 Storage Wars 06:30 Last Man Standing 01:00 Ben 10: Alien Swarm 19:00 Pawn Stars 23:10 Wolfblood 23:15 Unique Eats 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 02:45 Everyone’s Hero 23:35 Wolfblood 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:30 Pawn Stars 08:00 Two And A Half Men 04:30 Princess And The Pea 20:00 Pawn Stars UK 08:30 Better Off Ted 06:00 Blue Elephant 2 20:30 Pawn Stars UK 09:30 Dads 08:00 Freddy Frogface 21:00 Pawn Stars 10:00 Enlisted 10:00 The Great Bear 21:30 Storage Wars 10:30 Last Man Standing 11:30 The Elf Who Stole Christmas 22:00 Storage Wars 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 13:00 Everyone’s Hero 22:30 Barry’d Treasure 00:00 Untold 00:40 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Jimmy Fallon 14:30 Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia 23:00 Storage Wars: New York 00:55 The Soup Of Here! 12:00 2 Broke Girls 16:00 Krazzy Planet 23:30 Storage Wars: New York 01:25 Keeping Up With The 02:00 Emmerdale 12:30 2 Broke Girls 18:00 The Great Bear Kardashians 02:55 Coronation Street 13:00 Better Off Ted 20:00 Turboosters 02:20 E! News 03:25 James Nesbitt’s Ireland 13:30 Last Man Standing 22:00 Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia 03:15 Escape Club 04:20 Cook Me The Money 14:30 Dads 23:30 Krazzy Planet 04:10 E! Investigates 05:15 The Chase 15:00 Enlisted 05:05 E!ES 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 06:10 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out 00:10 Breaking Amish: Brave New 06:00 THS Stewart Of Here! World... 07:50 Style Star 16:00 The Colbert Report 07:30 James Nesbitt’s Ireland 01:00 Family Fat Surgeons 08:20 E! News 16:30 Two And A Half Men 08:25 Cook Me The Money 00:00 What To Expect When You’re 01:50 Hoarding: Buried Alive 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 09:20 Brendan’s Magical Mystery Expecting-PG15 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 10:15 Giuliana & Bill 18:00 The Neighbors Tour 02:00 The Mortal Instruments: City 03:05 Family Fat Surgeons 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 19:00 Cougar Town 09:45 Come Dine With Me Ireland Of Bones-PG15 03:55 Long Island Medium 12:05 E! News 19:30 Enlisted 10:15 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 04:15 A Christmas Story 2-PG 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 11:10 Emmerdale 06:00 The Arrangement-PG15 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 13:35 E!ES Jimmy Fallon 12:00 Coronation Street 08:00 Now Is Good-PG15 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 14:30 Style Star 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 12:30 Come Dine With Me Ireland 09:45 Charlie And The Chocolate 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 15:00 Keeping Up With The Stewart 12:55 The Chase Factory-PG 07:00 What Not To Wear Kardashians 21:30 The Colbert Report 13:50 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out 11:45 The Mortal Instruments: City 07:50 The Next Great Baker 16:00 Keeping Up With The 22:00 Legit Of Here! Of Bones-PG15 08:40 Your Style In His Hands Kardashians 22:30 Girls 15:10 Brendan’s Magical Mystery 14:00 The Forger-PG15 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 17:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 23:00 Getting On Tour 16:00 Now Is Good-PG15 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 17:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 15:35 Brendan’s Magical Mystery 18:00 One Direction: This Is Us-PG 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 18:00 The Drama Queen Tour 20:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 11:10 Cake Boss 19:00 E!ES 16:00 Come Dine With Me Ireland 22:00 Django Unchained-18 11:35 Jon & Kate Plus 8 20:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 16:30 Murdoch Mysteries 12:00 Little People, Big World 20:30 Giuliana & Bill 18:20 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out 00:00 The Blacklist 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 21:30 Giuliana & Bill Of Here! 01:00 Treme 13:15 Oprah’s Next Chapter 22:30 Fashion Police 19:35 Brendan’s Magical Mystery 02:00 Defiance 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 23:30 Chelsea Lately 00:00 PGA European Tour Tour 03:00 House Of Cards Highlights 14:55 Extreme Couponing 20:00 Come Dine With Me Ireland 05:00 Twisted 01:00 Golfing World 15:20 Cake Boss 20:30 Murdoch Mysteries 06:00 The Blacklist 02:00 NRL Premiership 15:45 What Not To Wear 22:20 Coronation Street 07:00 Grey’s Anatomy 04:00 Futbol Mundial 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 22:50 Emmerdale 08:00 Revenge 04:30 Champions Tour 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 00:05 Sweet Genius 23:45 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 09:00 Defiance 07:00 Golfing World 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 00:55 Marion’s Thailand 10:00 Twisted 08:00 PGA Tour Highlights 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 01:20 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 12:00 Emmerdale 09:00 PGA European Tour 18:40 Little People, Big World 01:45 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:30 Coronation Street Highlights 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 02:10 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 20:05 Extreme Couponing 02:35 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 14:00 Revenge 11:00 The Rugby Championship 20:30 Cake Boss 15:00 The Blacklist 21:00 Hoarding: Buried Alive 03:00 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 00:00 Blowdown 13:00 The Rugby Championship 16:00 Emmerdale 21:55 My Naked Secret 03:25 Guy’s Big Bite 01:00 Mega Factories 15:00 The Rugby Championship 16:30 Coronation Street 22:20 My Naked Secret 03:50 Chopped 02:00 One Ocean 17:00 The Rugby Championship 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 22:50 Long Island Medium 04:40 All You Can Meat 03:00 Dangerous Encounters 19:00 NRL Full Time 18:00 Revenge 23:15 Hoarding: Buried Alive SAFE ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 05:30 Unwrapped 04:00 Street Monkeys 19:30 Futbol Mundial Classifieds

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

Kuwait WANTED KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY REQUIRED (14/08/2014 TO 20/08/2014) QUALIFIED AUDITOR FOR ESTABLISHED SALES PROMOTERS SHARQIA-1 LUCY (DIG) 3:15 PM NO THU+FRI+SAT (FEMALE) – KUWAIT DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:30 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 5:15 PM LUCY (DIG) 1:15 AM COMPANY HAVING POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 3:15 PM LUCY (DIG) 7:00 PM EXPERIENCE Excellent opportunity for Sales DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 5:00 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 9:00 PM AVENUES-3 Promoters with a World leading KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 7:30 PM LUCY (DIG) 10:45 PM LUCY (DIG) 2:00 PM IN KUWAIT Oral care Brand in Kuwait. PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 9:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 10:45 PM LUCY (DIG) 4:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 9:30 PM LUCY (DIG) 1:00 AM LUCY (DIG) 6:00 PM APPLY BY EMAIL ID DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 11:30 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG-3D) 8:00 PM [email protected] Requirements NO SUN+TUE+WED FANAR-4 LUCY (DIG) 10:00 PM 1 + years of Experience in Brand promotions with BARBIE AND THE SECRET DOOR (DIG) 12:45 PM LUCY (DIG) 12:05 AM SHARQIA-2 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 2:45 PM SITUATION WANTED any reputed Brand. THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 5:15 PM 360º- 1 An Indian male with - Excellent communication and customer care skills THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 3:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 7:45 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG-3D) 12:30 PM finance master degree and Pleasing personality SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 6:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 10:15 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 3:00 PM 15 years experience in THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 8:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:45 AM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG-3D) 5:30 PM Kuwait & UAE, now in Strong listening, presentation and social skills SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:30 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 8:00 PM Kuwait with Article 18 visa. Interviews for the shortlisted candidates will be THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:30 AM FANAR-5 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 10:30 PM Seeking a placement in conducted during 25 and 26 August 2014. SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:30 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 1:00 AM finance or admin. Please SHARQIA-3 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 2:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED call 66857681. (C 4832) Send in your resumes to GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 1:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 4:30 PM 16-8-2014 LUCY (DIG) 4:00 PM SINGHAM RETURNS (DIG) (Hindi) 6:30 PM 360º- 2 [email protected] or call +971504593449 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 6:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 9:30 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 1:15 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 8:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 9:30 PM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 3:30 PM FOR SALE LUCY (DIG) 11:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 11:45 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 5:45 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 1:00 AM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 8:00 PM 2008 Audi Q7 black, full MARINA-1 KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:15 PM options, excellent condi- MUHALAB-1 POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 1:00 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 12:30 AM tion, KD 7,500. Contact: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 1:30 PM BARBIE AND THE SECRET DOOR (DIG) 2:45 PM 90905788. (C 4831) POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 4:15 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 4:30 PM 360º- 3 12-8-2014 POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 6:00 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 6:15 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG-3D) 2:00 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 7:45 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:00 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG-3D) 4:00 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:15 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG-3D) 6:00 PM ACCOMMODATION HERCULES (DIG) 10:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:30 AM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 8:00 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:30 AM THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 10:00 PM Sharing accommodation MARINA-2 HERCULES (DIG) 10:00 PM for family or working ladies, MUHALAB-2 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:05 AM Salmiya behind Apollo hos- GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 12:30 PM LUCY (DIG) 3:00 PM pital with Srilankan family. LUCY (DIG) 3:00 PM LUCY (DIG) 5:00 PM AL-KOUT.1 (C 4834) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 5:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 7:00 PM BARBIE AND THE SECRET DOOR (DIG) 1:00 PM LUCY (DIG) 7:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 9:30 PM LUCY (DIG) 2:45 PM Big room for rent (Filipino GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 9:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:05 AM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 4:45 PM only) family/2 working GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 12:05 AM LUCY (DIG) 6:45 PM ladies, new bldg with cen- MARINA-3 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:45 PM tral AC, having TFC & MUHALAB-3 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 1:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:45 PM kitchen facility, opposite THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 2:00 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 3:45 PM LUCY (DIG) 12:45 AM Shifa Al Jazeera Medical THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 4:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 6:15 PM Center Farwaniya. Call SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 7:00 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 9:00 PM AL-KOUT.2 65965871. THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 9:00 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 11:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 2:00 PM 19-8-2014 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 11:30 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 4:30 PM AVENUES-1 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 7:00 PM Prayer timings FANAR-1 BARBIE AND THE SECRET DOOR (DIG) 12:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 9:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 1:00 PM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 2:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 9:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 3:45 PM BARBIE AND THE SECRET DOOR (DIG) 4:30 PM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 12:05 AM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 6:30 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 6:30 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 8:45 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 8:45 PM AL-KOUT.3 WANTED DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 11:30 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 11:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 1:30 PM HERCULES (DIG) 11:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 4:00 PM Sales Agents and Sales FANAR-2 KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 1:00 AM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 6:30 PM Distributors for Hypermarkets GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 1:30 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 9:00 PM TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 4:00 PM AVENUES-2 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 11:30 PM Fajr: 03:54 Candidate should have: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (DIG) 7:15 PM POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (DIG) 1:00 PM Shorook 05:18 kexperience in Kuwait/ relations with Hypermarkets. 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Your common sense is required today when someone wants to involve you This is a rewarding day. Everything you do turns out positive and construc- in a fantastic deal! You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and working tive. You work well with those in authority who are independent and original and today with others. Thinking things through, accounting for all the details, making careful meas- you will find the opportunity to work with senior business people. The goal to achieve a urements–these and similar experiences keep your mind active and involved. You may high turnover in merchandise finds you expressing some good ideas. You like radical enjoy a job that involves buying merchandise for a company, such as clothing, antiques, approaches and find yourself in support of whatever new wave product or breakthrough etc. This evening is a good time to think about how your goals are shaping up these days. advance is next in line. You are in the mood to express yourself, entertain and perform for Maturing may mean the difference between what you want and what you really want. others this evening. This can be a wonderful evening to visit with friends and will enjoy Write out your goals: what you want for your future. A flirtation could lift your spirits this drop-in guests. You enjoy being surrounded by an audience and may decide to do go evening. A friendship may turn the corner into sweet love. into a fun performance skit. You can be magnetic and dynamic.

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

A call from a friend early today morning may have you busy trying to get Your energies are more in balance today than in the recent past. Your own out of your workday. When you do get to work you put a lot of energy into your work so personal expression is positive and leans toward positive results. You have made some that you can take off early to be with this friend or loved one. This may mean a new birth decisions and others accept your opinions. Others will sometimes, however, test your or some other event that is worthy of a little time out from the usual daily life. Until this optimism. You are disciplined, hard working and are good at getting others to work with evening, relaxing may have been impossible. It takes perseverance, focus and organiza- and for you. Everything seems to conspire to put you in the center of attention. You man- tion to get through this busy day. Curb your tendency to push ahead of others and bide age to get your ideas across to others very well. This afternoon you may find yourself with your time this afternoon. This evening you may find your taste in art exhilarating. You your friends–working together on some mechanical problem or learning about the may want to try your hand at some craft. Perhaps this is a good time to invite your loved mechanics of some equipment. This evening there are opportunities to have good con- one on a shopping expedition–maybe for new baby clothes. versation with those you love.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You may not place much value on ideas today. Something that someone Today will be a bit different from the rest of this week. You may find some- says or communicates to you may need to be rephrased. You would do well one hard to understand–this could be a customer. Your wisdom and not to request some time to think about what has been said. You are optimistic and have a ACROSS DOWN your emotions will prove the winner here. Although this may not be the best time to push most positive outlook on many things. In today’s situation, you just have to be matter-of- 1. Former measure of the US economy. 1. A compact mass. your ideas or demand things from others, your management and directional abilities are fact in your communication as well as giving yourself time to evaluate or review. You are in high focus. Remove the emotions and you will find answers you never realized existed. 4. Liquorice-flavored seeds or oil used in 2. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agricul- full of compassion and love to help in family matters of all sorts. This afternoon you may Good contracts and agreements are all possible today. These can be productive days, but find that you really enjoy a new little person that is in your surroundings. This may mean a cookies or cakes or pickles. ture and patron of scribes and schools. do not take anyone for granted. Continual discovery, persistent search and transforma- neighbor’s new baby or a new grandchild or even a newcomer in your own home. A sur- 11. A slight indication. 3. A person who is of equal standing with tion keep you on the move and growing. Just think, without the changes, you might only prise visit from a relative is pleasant and informative this evening. 15. Towards the side away from the wind. another in a group. stagnate. You are able to rise above any difficulties today. 16. A town in east central Michigan on an 4. United States tennis player who was the arm of Lake Huron. first Black to win United States and English 17. Characterized by lightness and insub- singles championships (1943-1993). Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) stantiality. 5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the Figuring things out, spotting the fly in the ointment, separating the sheep 18. A religious belief of African origin involv- You have enthusiasm today. There is a good amount of support from those alkali metal group. from the goats–these things take on special significance now. Your sense of around you for whatever needs accomplishing. You feel well and eager. Challenges will ing witchcraft and sorcery. 6. One of the five major classes of humor will see you through many tense moments. This is a great time to reflect and assess 20. Related on the mother's side. encourage you to use that fine intuition of yours. Remember to focus and give yourself just where you are and how you are progressing toward your goals. This could be the best immunoglobulins. time before responding. This afternoon you will find you can look back on this day and be 21. Kamarupan languages spoken in north- time to make any changes that are necessary in order to speed your progress. You have a 7. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of pleased with your decisions. You may even want to brag a little. Your mind could be quite heightened interest in health and diet–as well as an urge to get things organized into a eastern India and western Burma. the fantastic adventures he had in his voy- clear and natural. Ideas are flowing and come with ease–project planning is successful. rational system. There is much mental busywork today. The good life and all that is fine 22. 3rd largest island in the world. This afternoon you feel like talking to friends and you could talk, talk, talk. You appreciate, and luxurious may be what you value, and you enjoy making your own way and finding ages. care and are concerned about life, equality, gentleness and acceptance. 24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB 8. Render capable or able for some task. solutions to whatever problems you encounter. gun. 9. Take in solid food. 25. Imperial moths. 10. A person of unquestioning obedience. 27. Capable of being scaled. 11. A notation cancelling a previous sharp or Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature flat. This is a time when you can put your practical insights into words and con- Your positivism lets you get right to the point and you have little patience deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peo- with those who waste time. You have plenty of enthusiasm and warm up to 12. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true. vey them to others. Communication with authority figures is enhanced now. Continued ples. things and people quickly. You have an inner self-confidence that burns with its own light. 13. An instinctive motive. concentration on your own work is important and no matter how well you do your job From this time forward, expect a more confident, outgoing attitude, for you have brought 33. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt. you will pay close attention today because of a special guest. You could find that you are 14. An unfledged or nestling hawk. to close a time of inward examination and learning. A growing sense of direction and self- 34. A group of biological taxa or species that appreciated for your ability to act and get things done. This is a time when you can expect 19. Administer an oil or ointment to. worth will find you reaching out and establishing yourself. This is a good time to consoli- share features inherited from a common a little boost, some sort of extra support or recognition for your many talents. Ambitious 23. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka date and organize your affairs or rearrange your living situation. You could be seen by oth- ancestor. schemes and the pursuit of success and status take on a high priority now. This brings a ers as just the person to be put in charge of some project requiring a stable mindset. Keep Bay. focus on the successful and the pragmatic–whatever it takes to get you ahead in the long 38. A river in north central Switzerland that your eye focused for good investment possibilities. 26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising run. Grab some time to exercise and enjoy the evening. runs northeast into the Rhine. solely the razorbill. 39. A blow that renders the opponent 28. Electronic equipment that provides visual unconscious. images of varying electrical quantities. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 40. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related 29. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads. You possess a powerful, persistent drive and are a hard, steady worker. Today will prove to be a successful time to be with others and to work products. Others may find you deep, with a sense of mission and mystery. You are willing to do work together. With people still taking vacations you may find yourself working at more jobs 41. The quantity contained in a keg. 31. A city in western Germany near the Dutch others would not go near–quietly bending things to your idea of how things should work. than your own. You would make a good manager, so the work is not difficult, but it is time consuming. You continue to think along a broad scope and there are words you may use 42. The smallest multiple that is exactly divis- and Belgian borders. Your life path involves cutting through appearances and superficialities and laying bare 32. (used of persons or the military) the reality of a situation. This could mean that the business world is an open book for to let supervisors know how you feel about the extra work. Obtaining and exchanging ible by every member of a set of numbers. you–easy to read. This could be a period of great material gain; it is certainly a time when information may be important to future work. Tremendous discipline and a love of routine 47. Having a shell or or containing shell. Characterized by having or bearing arms. material things have a great deal of importance for you. This evening would be a good work will all come into play. You will be able to simplify a subject to its essential elements. 50. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk 35. Jordan's port. time to read a romantic book or take in a movie and to just spend quiet time with your You show off your inner drive to be thorough and responsible in minute detail–self-disci- loved one. A young person may want to share his or her future ideas. plined. Relax this evening. of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in 36. Socially or conventionally correct. the Highlands of Scotland). 37. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic 51. Yellow-fever mosquitos. plants. 52. A region of Malaysia in northeastern 43. A master's degree in library science. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution Borneo. 44. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea 53. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or fish of Atlantic and Pacific and the wife of a raja. Mediterranean. 54. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic 45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on element that resembles iron but is not mag- a skewer usually with vegetables. netic. 46. A percussion instrument consisting of a 57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usual- that is highly corrosion-resistant. ly held between the thumb and fingers) that 59. The branch of computer science that deal are made to click together (as by Spanish with writing computer programs that can dancers) in rhythm with the dance. solve problems creatively. 48. United States tennis player (born in 62. The condition of being haploid. Czechoslovakia) who won several singles 66. Contemptibly small in amount. championships. 69. An ester of adenosine that is converted to 49. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate ATP for energy storage. having a saclike body with siphons through 70. Relating to bees or beekeeping. which water enters and leaves. 73. A plant hormone promoting elongation 55. The capital of Nationalist China. of stems and roots. 56. A genus of Stromateidae. 74. Large brownish-green New Zealand par- 58. Strike with disgust or revulsion. rot. 60. Collect or gather. 75. Either of two large northern marine 61. A city of central China. mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide 63. Chief port of Yemen. over thick blubber. 64. A kiln for drying hops. 76. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for 65. A member of an extinct North American punching small holes. Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley 77. An inflammatory complication of leprosy in northern California. that results in painful skin lesions on the 67. A field of cultivated and mowed grass. arms and legs and face. 68. A university in Connecticut. 78. The property of being very small in size. 71. A Chadic language spoken in northern 79. The compass point that is midway Nigeria. between north and northeast. 72. A strong emotion. Yesterday’s Solution

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Stallone prepares for Rambo 5

ylvester Stallone is preparing to appear in ‘Rambo 5.’ described the much-hyped flick as his version of ‘No Country Stallone, 68, recently starred in the third installment of for Old Men’, the neo-Western thriller starring Javier Bardem Sthe ‘Expendables’ franchise - in which he appeared and Tommy Lee Jones. There is also the expectation that alongside the likes of Harrison Ford and Jason Statham - and Stallone will prise the role of boxing champion Rocky Balboa he’s already working towards starring in ‘Rambo 5.’ He said, in a new movie called ‘Creed’, which will see the iconic charac- “I’m getting ready for ‘Rambo 5.’ I’m starting to work out. I’m ter mentor the grandson of his rival-turned-friend Apollo going to be appropriately vicious and all that stuff, but intel- Creed. The lead role in the flick is to be played by Michael B. lectual. A killer with a heart. Smart, yet stupid. Tall, yet short. Jordan, who is best known for playing the role of Wallace in Broad, but thin. You know what I mean. We’re going to try to ‘The Wire.’ cover all the boundaries.” The fifth ‘Rambo’ film will see the central character - played by Stallone - face off against a Mexican cartel, with the action hero having previously

Morrissey insists he’s been dropped from record label orrissey insists he has been dropped by his record label, despite the company deny- ing his claims. The former Smiths frontman is adamant he has proof in an email that Mhe was ditched by Capitol-Harvest Records, but label boss Steve Barnett has dis- missed claims the organization and the 55-year-old singer have parted company following the release of his solo album ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business.’ In a statement on fan site True To You, Morrissey wrote, “Both Morrissey and Morrissey’s lawyer are in possession of email correspondence from Steve Barnett (head of Capitol-Harvest Records), and also from Steve Barnett’s personal assistant, both of whom confirm that Capitol-Harvest have ended their relationship with Morrissey. No recording Agreement with Capitol-Harvest was ever signed by Morrissey, and Morrissey retains full ownership of [new album] World Peace is None Of Your Business. Contrary to the assured Billboard report, Capitol-Harvest have very clearly stated that they would have no interest in licensing a second album by Morrissey. [Law firm] Russell’s [London], who represent Morrissey, are presently concluding Morrissey’s relationship with Harvest Records. Once again, Morrissey is in search of a new label.” But last week, a source told Billboard that Morrissey hadn’t been dropped from his label and was halfway through his two-album deal with the company.

Osbourne to launch fashion line

elly Osbourne is launching a fashion line. The TV personality has teamed up with Rhames Australian brand Jupi to create the ‘Stories...By Kelly Osbourne’ collection for HSN.com, returns Kwhich will be released on September 25, reports WWD. The designs will be revealed as 13 ready to wear looks - including a polka dot jumpsuit, a rose-adorned polyester chiffon blouse, a Union Jack-inspired drop-waist dress and a cap-sleeve sheath dress - which will retail from $55 for new Mission: to $170 and have already been requested by singer Ciara and popstar Taylor Swift. She said of the collection, “I believe that every time you wear something, you have a story of where you wore it, whether it be good or bad. My mission is not to be the number-one fashion designer in Impossible the world. I’m not trying to change or come up with anything that people haven’t already done. I’m just trying to make fashion fair and make good quality basics available to all women.” Kelly, ing Rhames is to return for the next ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie. The high- 29 - who is a fashion correspondent for E! and hosts the US series ‘Fashion Police’ - has seen her ly-anticipated new flick, which is set to get underway in the UK later this dress size fluctuate between a size 0 and 16 and was determined to design a line that was acces- Vyear, will see Christopher McQuarrie assume directing duties and Rhames, sible to women of every size. She explained, “Because I have been everything from a size 0 to 55, reprise the role of hacker Luther Stickell. The news was confirmed by the pretty much almost a 16, depending on the brand, it made me realize all the tricks I had learned director, who tweeted, “Welcome back Mr Rhames.” The actor, who also starred to cover up certain areas or to detract from certain areas, and what I like in clothing. It’s really in ‘Pulp Fiction and ‘Dawn of the Dead’, appeared in earlier ‘Mission: Impossible’ unfair that America has this disillusion that the most common size is size 14, and that’s only films, and will now feature alongside Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, as well as because that’s as big as most fashion designers go.” Jupi’s founder and chairman, Bruno Schiavi, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg. Pegg, 44, who is set to play the role of gadget added, “It’s not cost-effective from a manufacturer’s point of view, but it was very important for nerd Benji Dunn for the third time, says he enjoys making the films and provid- Kelly to have every shape and size.” ing there is still an appetite among fans to watch them, the franchise will not go away. He said, “It’s my third one and I’m very excited to be back on that train, it’s a very exciting ride. So as long as people want them, I guess we’ll keep making them.” It’s been confirmed the latest installment in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ fran- chise will open in the UK on December 26, 2015.

North West stars in Ratajkowski CR Fashion Book snacks on cupcakes orth West has been named an unconventional style icon mily Ratajkowski snacks on cupcakes. The 23-year-old in the CR Fashion Book. The 13-month-old daughter of model and actress has admitted that she doesn’t crave Nrapper Kanye West and reality TV star Kim Kardashian Ejunk food but occasionally allows herself to indulge in West has been photographed for the latest edition of former baked goods. She told Elle magazine, “I wouldn’t say I am the Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld’s magazine in a spread devot- type of girl who craves Doritos but I definitely love a good ed to the ‘Legends’ of the fashion world. The toddler - who was cupcake sometimes. You know what I mean?. Or a croissant in shot for the feature by famed photographer Michael Avedon - the morning. I think it is like really important to give yourself a is pictured sporting a Chanel cashmere sweater and miniature break.” The stunning brunette - who stars alongside Ben studded handbag, along with the brand’s signature pearl ear- Affleck in the upcoming film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s nov- rings and is labelled a “future” fashion legend, reports el ‘Gone Girl’ - also prefers to cook her own meals to control Telegraph.co.uk. Karl Lagerfeld - Chanel’s creative director - is her sugar and salt intake and as a self-professed “carnivore” quoted next to the tot as saying, “It’s never too early to care chooses to whip up iron-rich meat options instead of salads. about fashion!” It isn’t the first time North has appeared in the She explained, “I cook a lot, so that really helps. You know how pages of one of the world’s fashion bibles after the youngster much salt and sugar and all of that kind of stuff you are put- made her magazine debut in a spread for US Vogue along with ting in your body. I am definitely not the kind of person who her famous parents in April this year. North is joined in the you will find eating a salad.” In addition to her healthy diet, ‘Legends’ feature by fashion designers Stephen Burrows and Emily also relies on a strict exercise regime and counts on her Bob Mackie and the late photographer Bob Richardson. bi-weekly yoga classes to help maintain her incredible figure. Supermodel Lara Stone was also photographed for the feature She said: “Doing yoga a couple of times a week is a really big to portray the late Italian architect Carlo Mollino. part of my regime.” Emily is currently filming ‘We Are Your friends’ alongside Zac Efron, which is set for release in 2015.

Aerosmith resume tour after Kramer illness erosmith have resumed their tour after Joey Kramer under- “Media blowing out of proportion The truth is Yes my husband went a procedure following heart complications. The group @joeykramer is in the hospital having a procedure related to his heart Apostponed a show at California’s Concord Pavilion in Concord (sic)” Aerosmith have nine dates left on their US tour with Denver set last Wednesday due to the drummer’s illness, but the 64-year-old to be their next stop tomorrow evening. The Concord Pavilion musician insists he feels “better than ever” and is raring to go on the announced the group were cancelling their show on Wednesday just band’s ‘Let Rock Rule’ tour. He said in a statement, “I’m feeling better hours before doors at the venue were due to open. They wrote on than ever and I’ll be back sitting in the best seat in the house, hitting their Facebook page, “Due to illness, Aerosmith has been forced to it harder than ever for our amazing fans. My gratitude and thanks for cancel tonight’s performance at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, CA. all the love and support showered on me during this time.” He also The band regrets not being able to perform for their fans. Refunds will tweeted, “Feelin’ good, feelin’ groovy, feelin’ great!!! Nothin’ keeps the be available at point of purchase.” Kramedog down. (sic)” Joey’s wife Linda took to Twitter last week to confirm the star had undergone a procedure on his heart. She wrote, lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

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Hamm takes break after ‘Mad Men’

on Hamm is “enjoying” being in “chill-out” mode. The 43-year- Young Doctor’s Notebook and Other Stories’ and though he plays old actor has taken a break since filming his final scenes in a middle-aged Russian doctor who can travel back in time to Jadvertising drama ‘Mad Men’ and insists he is “too old” to advise his younger self, he admits he would never have listened if have done what some of his former colleagues did and head the same thing had happened to him as a young man - because straight into a new project. He said, “I’m taking some meetings on he thought all older people were “stupid.” Speaking to USA Today projects, but mostly I’ve been in chill-out. I’ve enjoyed it, and I newspaper, he said, “I think everyone would love a chance to talk think it was warranted. I worked hard for eight years. I know some to their younger selves. The only trouble is that the younger self of my castmates are on to other projects, but I’m too old for that. will never listen. I know I wouldn’t have. I thought everyone older I’m looking in the mirror right now. I see more grey than ever.” Jon was stupid.” can currently be seen starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in ‘A

Somerhalder Radcliffe admires happy with Reed

Darke’s an Somerhalder “couldn’t be happier” with Nikki Reed. passion The ‘Vampire Diaries’ actor has been rumored to be dat- Iing the ‘Twilight Saga’ actress for the past few months and he is thankful for her “support and love.” He told E! for NFL News, “Life is good. There’s a lot of support and love from a aniel Radcliffe appreciates Erin Darke’s passion for sport. lot of people. I couldn’t be happier if I tried.” It was recently The ‘What If’ actor loves the fact Erin Darke is as big a fan revealed the 35-year-old hunk - who split from ‘Vampire Dof NFL as he is and finds it fascinating being able to dis- Diaries’ co-star Nina Dobrev in May 2013 after three years cuss the game with her. The 25-year-old actor also admitted he of dating - and his new girlfriend had adopted a horse finds it hard to “suppress” his emotions and is always honest together. Alongside a picture of himself and the equine, he about his feelings. Asked if he is as hopeless as women as his wrote on Instagram, “Proud new dad. What amazing crea- ‘What If’ character, he told The Guardian newspaper, “No, I’m a lot tures they are. Wow. His name is Eagle. Thank you better at being direct at things, I’m not good at suppressing that @iamnikkireed for snapping this special moment, with our stuff. If I have a crush on a girl she’s going to know about it.” The big baby boy. (sic)” The pair first sparked rumours they are ‘Harry Potter’ actor prepares intensely for his movie roles and dating after they were spotted at a farmer’s market in Los can’t even watch movies or go to the theatre when learning a Angeles last month, where Ian held a protective arm script as he just feels guilty about not being word-perfect. He around Nikki, who separated from husband Paul McDonald said, “I can’t even watch plays or films when I’m learning lines. I in March. The duo - who have been friends for a long time start to think, hang on, they know all their lines and I don’t ... so I - used to go on double dates when they were with their have to go home immediately and learn them.” previous partners, and Nikki is said to still be good friends with Ian’s ex-girlfriend, Nina. Nina has recently said she supports Ian in all that he does and they remain close friends.

Brown and Karrueche back together

hris Brown and Karrueche Tran have claimed Chris dumped Karrueche because unveils baby daughter online fuelled speculation they are back she was an “opportunist.” A source said Price Ctogether. The on/off couple - who were recently, “He found out she was texting and believed to have ended their three-year rela- sending photos to other guys while they tionship for good earlier this month - were were together. He was also furious she did atie Price has unveiled her baby daugh- soo sweet.congratulations:) (sic).” Meanwhile, spotted together at a charity football game in interviews for her clothing line and talked ter online. The former glamour model Katie could be set to enter the ‘Celebrity Big Los Angeles on Saturday and seemed more in about their relationship.” It was previously Kgave birth to the latest member of her Brother’ house. She is said to have originally love than ever. Ahead of the game, Chris claimed Karrueche dumped the ‘Loyal’ hit- family - her fifth child and second with hus- planned to take part in the upcoming series, wrote on Instagram, “It’s going down! Team maker because he liked two fan photos on band Kieran Hayler - two weeks prematurely, which starts tonight, but had to withdraw Breezy vs. Quincy [Jones’] team (sic)” The Instagram of himself and ex-girlfriend and has taken to her popular YouGossip page because of her pregnancy. However, she’s brunette beauty was seen cheering on the Rihanna - who he has been frequently re- to post a black and white photo of her now said to be in talks to appear in the next ‘Turn Up the Music’ singer from the sidelines, linked with during his off periods with the adorable newborn, whose name she is still series, which will take place in January. A before they embraced on the field and were model together and is too “immature” for her. yet to reveal. Alongside the image of her new source told the Daily Star newspaper, “Kate openly affectionate as they left the game. child, Katie posted: “Sooo cute (sic).” Katie, 36, has been high on the list of dream CBB con- Later in the evening, the 25-year-old singer gave birth on August 4, since when she has testants in every series. This time she is deter- posed for a selfie with the 26-year-old model been teasing her fans by posting shots of the mined to make it.” as they drove through Los Angeles. Their date baby’s hands and feet. This time, though, she day comes just over a week after it was went the whole way and posted a picture of the peaceful-looking child wrapped in a blan- ket. The picture prompted a warm reacted from fans, with one poster saying: “Lovely.just Moss parties on Madonna’s birthday

ate Moss partied with Madonna at her birth- giant ‘M’ and intertwined with pink feather boas, day party over the weekend. The 40-year- who were clearly enjoying their evening. She Kold supermodel joined the ‘Material Girl’ wrote, “House of M! House of Fun! La Vie en Rose! singer in celebrating her 56th birthday at a lavish Madonna - who was joined the event on Saturday 1920s-themed celebration in a private villa in by her children, Lourdes, 17, Rocco, 14, David, Cannes, France, where the pair were pictured cozy- eight, and Mercy, also eight - also shared a picture ing up together in revealing flapper outfits. of her youngest son looking dapper in a black Madonna posted the photo of herself wearing a tuxedo. She wrote alongside the picture: “My beaded black dress next to the iconic model - who escort for the evening! #swag #boom #living- was clad in a strappy black gown - on her forlove.(sic)” Instagram account yesterday. The ‘Holiday’ singer also shared a shot of partygoers posing in front of

Rooney snubs husband’s fist game as captain

oleen Rooney snubbed husband Wayne Rooney’s first dren Kai, four, and 14-month-old Klay with her mother in game as Manchester United club captain to party at V Liverpool as she made the trip down south past V Festival’s CFestival instead on Saturday. The 28-year-old star other Staffordshire location to the Essex site. Despite miss- headed to the music extravaganza at Hylands Park in ing Wayne’s big moment, the star - who took the couple’s Chelmsford, Essex, on the weekend to let her hair down sons to Brazil during the summer to watch their footballer with a number of female pals instead of supporting her oth- dad play for England in the World Cup - did manage to get er half at Old Trafford, Manchester, where his team suffered on Twitter to show her support to her husband. Before a dismal defeat to Swansea. Despite Wayne scoring United’s United’s game against Swansea, she tweeted, “Good luck to only goal of the game, he couldn’t inspire the team to a vic- @WayneRooney .... First premiership game as Captain!!! (sic)” tory in his first game as official club captain on a full-time A number of other stars also made it into Virgin Media’s basis following the appointment by his new manager Louis Louder Lounge area including ‘Skins’ beauty Kaya Van Gaal. While Wayne and United were struggling on the Scodelario, Katherine Jenkins and The Saturdays’ Vanessa pitch, Coleen was having a wonderful time in Virgin Media’s White. Louder Lounge VIP area at the festival, 221 miles away from Old Trafford. She was said to have left her and Wayne’s chil- lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 Music & Movies Jackie Chan’s son Jaycee arrested on drug charges aycee Chan, son of martial arts superstar Jackie Chan, has been arrested in Beijing in connection with possi- Jble drug use. According to reports by Chinese online and state media, Jaycee Chan (aka Fang Zuming) was pres- ent when Taiwanese actor Kai Ko (aka Ko Chen-tung), star of “You Are The Apple Of My Eye,” was recently arrested on drugs charges. Subsequently, The People’s Daily, one of the most important state media in China, reported that Chan was arrested after police found 100 grams of marijuana at his home. The problems for Chan and Ko follow a succession of other recent arrests in China of mainland, Taiwanese and Hong Kong actors on drugs charges. Their detention also follows the announcement last week that some 42 enter- tainment and performance agencies had stuck an agree- ment to boycott celebrities that take drugs. The agreement was organized by the Beijing Trade Association for Performances and called for the member companies to avoid giving work to drug-using actors or using tainted Ace Frehley outta this celebrities in promotional events. Jin Zhihai, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Anti- Drug Office, said that as public figures, stars need to pro- world on ‘Space Invader’ vide good examples for juveniles and society. Other recent cases involved actor Gao Hu caught taking drugs on Aug. 4, singer Li Daimo, director Zhang Yuan, screenwriter Ning Caishen actor Zhang Mo, and Hong Kong actor Roy ith seven-plus years of sobriety and “I’m In Need of Love” on his first solo Cheung. It is unclear what, if any, impact Jaycee Chan’s under his belt, the original Kiss record. “Gimme A Feelin’” is a timeless rocker, issues will have on the trajectory of Jackie Chan. Chan sen- Wlead guitarist has recorded his best with thick guitar chords, and “I Wanna Hold ior, himself the son of a pre-war opium smuggler, has solo album since his groundbreaking self- You” and “What Every Girl Wants” could be sometimes distanced himself from his son and previously titled album in 1978. With walls of wailing melodic hits. On “Change” and “Inside the said that Jaycee will not inherit any of his fortune. However guitars, droning feedback and snarling Vortex,” Frehley showcases some impressive Jackie Chan was recently in London promoting the UK solos, Ace Frehley launches an old-school growth as a songwriter and arranger, with release of “Chinese Zodiac.” ‘70s-style hard rock jam fest. It kicks off with complex chord progressions and melody Among the topics he discussed with The Guardian was him talk-singing his way through the title lines. The only weak track is a vanilla remake his recent conversion to a more responsible form of parent- track, about a well-intentioned extraterres- of Steve Miller’s “The Joker” that adds noth- ing. Speaking in the UK, Jackie Chan also confirmed that he trial who comes to save the Earth, and it ing to the plodding original, but apparently was in early talks to board fourth installments in the “Rush includes a sudden tempo change for the was too much for Frehley to resist with its Hour” and “The Expendables” franchises. Jaycee Chan, 31, guitar solo just like he did on “Snowblind” “Space Cowboy” intro. —AP has appeared in some 20 movies including “The Drummer” and “The Sun Also Rises.” Brought up in Los Angeles, he has Review also tried to launch a music career. —Reuters Jaycee Chan Action films bore me, says ‘Lucy’ director Luc Besson

rench director Luc Besson’s new film, sonar...so that was interesting for me,” he said. meeting and talking about the subject and she “Lucy”, about a woman who ingests a Besson’s movie contains plenty of high-octane asked tons of questions about the brain and Fdrug that gives her supernormal mental action sequences, but the director said that as where I got the information and then she read powers, says action films bore him - but his he grew older he found he felt the need to “mix the script and she came back with more ques- movie still has a spectacular car chase through philosophical content with fun”. “I’m a movie- tions and I was very pleased by that, she was Paris. Besson, whose other sci-fi hit, “The Fifth goer also and I am 50 years old now,” he said. “I acting like a real worker who wants to make it Element” (1997), starred Bruce Willis and Milla am not a 16-year-old moviegoer and I love good.” Jovovich, has turned to the versatile Scarlett Johansson to play the Lucy of the title. Within minutes of ingesting the drug, Johansson can walk on the ceiling, and a minute or two after that she can gun down anything that moves. Eventually she can read minds, learn Chinese in seconds, stop traffic and drive like no one has driven since “The French Connection” - but this time the wrong way through the tunnels and arcades of Paris, without putting a scratch on her metallic blue Peugeot. Besson, who wrote the screenplay as well as directing, started with the idea that the aver- age person uses only 10 percent of the brain’s cognitive powers. “I guess we are not at the Coryell sings of love, maximum so it’s very exciting to think about it, what can we do more,” Besson told Reuters in action film and thriller and all this, but I need The special effects-laden movie is released an interview in advance of the film’s British pre- content now, I need more. You know if it’s just by Universal Pictures and was made for a rela- lust in new album miere on Aug 22. The film is interspersed with an action film, I get bored after an hour even if tively inexpensive $40 million, according to the clips from the animal kingdom, including some it’s really well done.” movie site Box Office Mojo. The film, which also musician walks into a bar. A female But the younger Coryell’s smoky tenor of dolphins, which intrigued Besson because of Besson has praised Johansson for her per- stars Morgan Freeman as a university professor stranger kisses him. He flees. For more than compensates. He’s a Huey Lewis the capacities they have that humans do not, formance - but also her punctuality. “I was very who helps Lucy understand what is happening AMurali Coryell, this is no joke. Love- sound-alike who can pull off a pop burst such such as natural sonar. happy with the first meeting because she was to her, has already taken in more than $128.9 life dysfunction is a recurring theme on as “Waiting and Wasting Away,” a jazzy ballad on time,” he said with a laugh. “She has no million worldwide, according to Screen Daily. It “Restless Mind,” and luckily for us, Coryell’s like the title cut, the blues of “I Need A decent person make-up and she has no entourage, so she topped the French and North American box woes inspire warm, embracing R&B to Someone to Love,” and even the closing sev- “I can build a sonar but I can’t have a comes as a decent person and it was just about offices on release. —Reuters soothe the soul music fans. Coryell’s lyrics en-minute cover, “Let’s Get It On.” While it’s aren’t much - the bar scene in “Crime of risky business to take on Marvin Gaye, Coryell Opportunity” is silly, while “Sex Maniac” is gives the chestnut fresh fizz with an inventive worse. And the 44-year-old son of veteran vocal arrangement. He sings a lot about jazz-rock guitarist Larry Coryell can’t match heartache, but as “Let’s Get It On” makes clear, his dad’s instrumental chops. Few can. Coryell has his act together. —AP America’s cartoon cat Garfield Artists cover landmark gets TV makeover in Indonesia he comic strip cat Garfield was created in The film industry in Indonesia, Malaysia, ‘Creation bible’ America, but the animated television series Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam is The learning curve to animate Garfield, which Johnny Cash album Tbased on the famous Jim Davis cartoon worth a total of $1.15 billion in 2014 through started as a comic strip by Davis in 1978, is not character is produced at a sprawling studio on ticket sales (box office) and cinema advertising, too steep for Infinite’s team of animators who the Indonesian resort island of Batam. Infinite and is projected to jump nearly 17 percent to are mostly Indonesians, Wiluan said. France’s hroughout his career, Johnny Cash ment of Native Americans. Cash’s record Studios started in 1997 as a film post-production $1.34 billion by 2018, according to Dargaud Media, which owns the rights to “The sang about the downtrodden, giv- label tried talking him out of releasing the company with 13 people. In part building on the PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates. Britain’s Garfield Show”, has come up with a “creation Ting a voice to the voiceless. But his album, fearing it would alienate his coun- success of Garfield, it has diversified into creat- Pinewood Studios Group, famous for its James bible” which is followed by the subcontractors in 1964 concept album, “Bitter Tears: Ballads try music fan base, but his regard for ing its own content production as well as anima- Bond film franchise, partnered the Malaysian the production process. “It basically enables any- of the American Indian,” started a new speaking out against injustice was more tion and visual effects, with facilities that employ government’s investment arm Khazanah one to follow the instructions of how this char- conversation about social awareness. The important. 200 people in Indonesia and Singapore. Nasional Berhad to open Pinewood Iskandar acter would look, feel and act,” Wiluan said. collection of songs written by Cash and Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Southeast Asia has been emerging as a film pro- Malaysia Studios in June. “I guess why Garfield has been so successful Peter La Farge provided strong commen- Steve Earle, The Milk Carton Kids and oth- duction centre, with an expanding local work- American studio The Weinstein Company will all over the world is because it’s the adventure of tary about the US government’s mistreat- ers transform Cash’s political statement force and growing exports to the region or even use the $170 million complex in the southern a really cute cat and everyone understands it.” into a rootsy collection in the new to the traditional creative powerhouses like the Malaysian state of Johor as the shooting site for On top of bringing to life characters originating album, “Look Again to the Wind: United States and Europe. “Marco Polo”, a series about the Italian mer- in the West, Southeast Asian film makers are Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited.” “The Southeast Asian region is chant traveller from Venice, media increasingly tapping on local culture to create Kristofferson handles the original very new to the media game. I reported. It will be shown on US video unique content that appeals to both domestic album’s biggest track, “The Ballad of think we’ve been in the streaming service Netflix. In and international markets. Ira Hayes,” with help from Gillian business for about a decade Singapore, “Star Wars” creator “The Raid 2”, an action movie co-produced by Welch and David Rawlings. Other or just over a decade, Lucasfilm launched a visual effects Indonesia’s PT. Merantau Films about a police standout performances include whereas the rest of the world and animation hub in January officer using the traditional silat martial arts to Harris taking on “Apache Tears,” a has had a lot of time develop- to work on Hollywood fight thugs, was shown at the Sundance Film heartfelt version of “The Talking ing their creative economy,” blockbusters and bolster Festival earlier this year to several positive Leaves” with Nancy Blake supported Infinite Chief Executive Mike its marketing reviews. by Harris, Welch and Rawlings, and Wiluan told Reuters. “I think efforts in Malaysian animation studio Les’ Copaque Rhiannon Giddens’ haunting cover it’s a great opportunity. When Asia. Production Sdn Bhd produces the popular “Upin of “The Vanishing Race.” The cover we go out to the world, we and Ipin” television show about a pair of 5-year- album also includes three additional come out as a region as old twins experiencing their first-ever fast in the tracks: reprises of “As Long as the opposed to just coming out as a Muslim month of Ramadan. The show is Grass Shall Grow” and “Apache Tears,” singular country and trying to broadcast by the Disney Channel, Turkey’s and a track left off the original called compete within such a small Hilal TV, as well as television stations in “Look Again to the Wind.” —AP region.” Malaysia and Indonesia. —Reuters lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 Music & Movies

Review ‘The Iron Ministry’

or those absolutely convinced of the types of Chinese train travel. genius of Lucien Castaing- Taylor and FVerena Paravel’s “Leviathan,” along Ethnic minorities comes J.P. Sniadecki (“People’s Park”) with The helmer alternates between these his sensory documentary “The Iron sorts of cramped, aging conveyances and Ministry.” Sniadecki, co-director with sleek, modern carriages-it’s difficult to tell Paravel on “Foreign Parts” and also a mem- whether he’s imposed an editing scheme, ber of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, or if the documentary has been put togeth- spent three years shooting on trains in er more or less based on impressionistic China-old and new, congested and spa- sensations. Crowded, filthy train cars chock- cious. Designed as a broadly impressionis- a-block with people and possessions sud- tic vision of the ways the country’s vast rail- denly give way to clean, antiseptic ones road system is used, the pic is non-ideolog- where social contact is far more standoffish ical and intermittently engrossing, catering than it is among the communal, village-like to viewers especially drawn to this type of scrum on regional lines. Attention wanes non-narrative docu filmmaking. Fests will when Sniadecki spends too long trailing an naturally board. official snack-cart vendor-viewers may feel The helmer, fluent in Mandarin, alter- the urge to anticipate the employee’s nates between engaging with passengers responses with their own “No, instant noo- and shooting what he sees in a closely dles are sold out,” and others will be won- observational style. Nothing is directly dering, “Are we there yet?” identified, neither locale nor timeframe, Of greater interest are scenes in which and the editing has no geographic logic. Sniadecki observes interactions or Instead, Sniadecki offers a formally con- becomes an active participant in conversa- trolled look at the range of classes, the tions, as when a Hui Muslim heading for implied changes wrought by China’s eco- Shangrao chats with fellow passengers nomic boom, and the interactions particu- who sing the praises of China’s policies lar to train travel. Refreshingly, Sniadecki towards ethnic minorities (no, it’s not a Debbie Reynolds selected for allows the film-or rather, some passengers- joke). Elsewhere, a woman complains of to engage in politics, from the rights of low wages and long factory hours, while in minorities to economic pressures. While a train near or in Tibet, a political activist SAG Life Achievement Award cerebral in intent and planning, the pic talks about minor industrialists coming to doesn’t feel overly straitjacketed by theory Lhasa and making fortunes at the expense and offers unexpected moments of amuse- of locals. On yet another journey, young ebbie Reynolds has been named the 51st for her work in the eponymous NBC series “The ment. middle-class men express concern about recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Debbie Reynolds Show” and headlined ABC’s Sniadecki opens with shots of accor- the country’s environmental policies, and Award for her career and humanitarian “Aloha Paradise” in 1981. She joined with dion-like connectors between train cars, discuss the possibility of emigrating. D lensed so closeup as to be abstract. The dis- Humor, often conspicuously absent in sen- accomplishments. The award will be presented at Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine and Joan the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Collins in the 2001 ABC telefilm “These Old orienting effect acts like the antithesis of sory ethnography docus, crops up occa- Jan 25. Reynolds has starred in more than 50 Broads,” co-written by Reynolds’ daughter, Carrie Soviet glorifications of machine energy, in sionally, especially when a young boy in movies, two Broadway shows, two TV series and Fisher. She debuted her first nightclub act at the which every movement is a vital celebra- one of the better sleeper cars runs through dozens of TV, cabaret and concert appearances. Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas in 1960. Reynolds has tion of progress: Here, there’s a sense of an invented, and very funny, litany of dos The 82-year-old Reynolds has been in show busi- been a headliner on the casino circuit and toured aging infrastructure and outmoded tech- and don’ts on trains. ness for 66 years. often on the average of 44 weeks a year. She nology, furthered by the next shot of a toi- Handheld visuals are fluid, almost Her first movie role came in the 1950 musical headlined her own showroom, the Star Theatre, let bowl full of cigarette butts (several of freeform, yet very much aware of what is “the Daughter of Rosie O’Grady” followed by a at the Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino in Las Sniadecki’s trains have since been taken being kept in and out of the frame; long role as “Boop-Boop-A-Doop” girl Helen Kane in Vegas, which she owned and operated from 1993 out of commission). Even more disconcert- passages without even a glimpse of a win- “Three Little Words,” for which she received an to 1998. ing is the image that follows, of raw calves’ dow provide a claustrophobic feeling suit- MGM contract and the first of five Golden Globe SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard said, “I’m livers hanging from a hook in a dirty pas- able to the jammed cars. The sensation of nominations. She appeared in “Singin’ in the Rain” thrilled that SAG-AFTRA is presenting our Life sage by the car door. An expanded view of movement, and the jerky swaying of the opposite Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor; “The Achievement Award to Debbie Reynolds. She is a the compartment reveals a host of meats in trains, is also a constant, as is the noise of Unsinkable Molly Brown,” for which she was nom- tremendously talented performer with a diverse a makeshift onboard butcher stall, a sight the tracks-for some a lullaby, for others inated for an Oscar; “How the West Was Won,” “The body of screen and stage work, live performances guaranteed to put most viewers off certain inescapable clatter. —Reuters Tender Trap,” “Mary, Mary,” “Goodbye Charlie,” and several hit records. Her generous spirit and In this May 21, 2013 file photo, actress “Divorce American Style,” “How Sweet It Is,” “The unforgettable performances have entertained Debbie Reynolds poses for a portrait Catered Affair,” “In & Out” and “Mother,” for audiences across the globe, moving us all from which received a Golden Globe nomination. laughter to tears and back again. Congratulations, in Beverly Hills, Calif. —AP She received a 1970 Golden Globe nomination Debbie, on your life achievements.” —Reuters Review ‘Mad Men’ season 7: Moss has ‘grown and changed’ with Peggy

ad Men” concludes its seventh and final season next spring, and its stars are now “Mcontemplating life beyond the hit AMC series. In a new interview with Gotham magazine, Jon Hamm interviews co-star Elisabeth Moss about her lat- est projects, including upcoming films “The One I Love” and “Listen Up Philip,” and how she’s preparing to say farewell to her Emmy-nominated role as Peggy Olson. In the Q&A, Hamm asks whether Moss can feel the difference between her “Mad Men” character and those she’s developing in other projects. ‘Turtles’outmuscle Stallone, “It’s a lot scarier,” Moss concedes. “We’ve had so much time to live with the characters on ‘Mad Men.’ We’ve grown and changed with them.” The actress also praises her “Mad Men” castmates and her career trajectory, Schwarzenegger at box office admitting, “work-ing really makes me happy. I have been lucky to work with really great people. I haven’t he “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” remained hearted action romp took just $16.2 million on its had many scarring experiences at work... I just haven’t. in top spot at the North American box office opening weekend to finish in fourth. I’ve had hard times; that’s for sure. Not everyone I’ve Tthis weekend, outmuscling the latest install- worked with has been a f-ing angel, but I am happiest ment of Sylvester Stallone’s geriatric “Expendables” Telekinetic powers ‘A Fuller Life’ when I’m at work. I know what I’m doing. Regardless of action-hero franchise, estimates showed Sunday. The first two films in “The Expendables” series what else is happening in my life, I can go to work and The famous pizza-munching turtles, on a mission had taken $34.8 million and $28.6 million in their things are okay.” to save New York from diabolical evil-doers plot- opening weekends, suggesting that interest in the “The One I Love” was shot in 17 days and had a 50- am Fuller’s daughter Samantha made a No Return”), as Fuller describes his experi- ting to unleash a virus across the city, raked in franchise, which groups together a galaxy of action page “scipt-ment” rather than a full script. “It was a com- wise decision to utilize passages from ences wandering across the US at the height $28.4 million in their second weekend in theaters, stars including Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sher father’s autobiography as the of the Depression and his first shocking pletely different experience from ‘Mad Men.’ We were box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported. Wesley Snipes, Jet Li, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford, soundtrack for her documentary “A Fuller encounter with the Ku Klux Klan. The chap- sort of flying by the seat of our pants,” Moss says. “But The turtles remained just ahead of Marvel’s is firmly on the wane. In fifth place was dystopian Life.” Read aloud and with great feeling by ter, titled “Freelance,” is punctuated by clips you don’t want to do the same thing on your hiatus.” For “Guardians of the Galaxy” in second place, the criti- drama “The Giver” based on Lois Lowry’s 1993 nov- actors and directors who admired and from Fuller’s lunatic-asylum vision of America more from Moss, click over to Gotham. —Reuters cally acclaimed science-fiction superhero romp el of the same name. The film, starring Jeff Bridges, worked with him, these visceral, punchy sen- in “Shock Corridor”-namely, the extraordi- which added another $24.7 million to its three- Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites, earned $12.8 tences vividly conjure up an extraordinarily nary scene where Hari Rhodes, driven mad week haul of $222.3 million. Third spot was taken million. Turbulent weather disaster movie “Into The vital, fiercely engaged gestalt. But if the pic by his treatment as the first black student in by raunchy adult comedy “Let’s Be Cops,” starring Storm” was in sixth place with $7.7 million while effectively evokes Fuller the man, it fails to do an all-white Southern university, “invents” the Damon Wayans Jr, about two friends who become “The Hundred Foot Journey,” a romantic comedy equal justice to Fuller the filmmaker, and its KKK, his face contorted with hatred as he entangled in criminal intrigue when they dress up with Helen Mirren and Om Puri as culture-clashing clip selections sometimes feel truncated and whips his fellow inmates into a frenzy, lead- as police officers for a costume party. restaurateurs, was seventh with $7.1 million. over-literal in their application. A loving trib- ing a race riot against a hapless black janitor The film, which has been savaged by over- French action film “Lucy,” starring Scarlett ute for those well versed in the Fuller canon, who happens by. All-too-brief snippets from whelmingly negative reviews, nevertheless took Johansson as a drug mule with telekinetic powers, the doc may prove less revelatory than enter- other Fuller films attest to his groundbreak- $17.7 million in its opening weekend, meaning the was eighth with $5.3 million in its fourth week in taining for neophytes. ing inclusion of blacks and Asians in impor- film will turn a profit after costing around $17 mil- theaters. Ninth place was taken by dance movie There is something endearing about the tant, even leading roles. lion to make. But it was a disappointing bow for “Step Up All In,” which took $2.7 million. Rounding sight of Samantha with her father’s rifle awk- But the lion’s share of this orated autobi- the latest installment of Stallone’s “The out the top 10 was the Oscar-tipped drama wardly slung over her shoulder as she pays ography concerns Fuller’s WWII adventures, Expendables” saga. The third movie in the light- “Boyhood,” which earned $2.1 million. —AFP affectionate homage to him in the film’s pro- the majority of the docu’s actors hailing from logue; this hokiness feels infinitely preferable his long-dreamt-of magnum opus, 1980’s to the smudged resentments present in so “The Big Red One.” Samantha supplements many “daddy dearest” docus. Certainly, the clips with a wealth of hitherto-unseen 16mm Country artists rock recitation of Fuller’s pithy prose prevents the footage shot by Fuller as an parade of guest stars from simply mouthing infantryman/photographer assigned to map panegyrics (though a coda does include a out the harrowing tableaux through which out for Motley Crue light sprinkling of effusive encomiums). he passed, including stark shots of the Archival glimpses of New York in the Falkenau concentration camp that Fuller’s ountry artists have long paid tribute Florida Georgia Line pales in compari- 1920s; photos of Fuller first as a young copy- unit liberated, images from which indelibly to rock acts compatible with coun- son with the formulaic “If I Die Tomorrow.” boy, and then as a cocky fledgling crime haunt his later features. But this strictly biog- Ctry music, from the Eagles to Buddy The same goes for Cassadee Pope, who reporter; and clips from his feisty turn-of-the- raphical approach inevitably reduces Fuller’s Holly to country-loving British acts the went from rock to country after winning century newspaper yarn “Park Row” accom- most explosive imagery and innovatively Beatles and Rolling Stones. But a heavy the third season of “The Voice,” but lacks pany passages read by James Franco (whose jagged editing to mere anecdotal illustration. metal act like Motley Crue? For anyone lis- authority on “The Animal In Me,” even excuse for inclusion seems to be his sheer Only the relatively lengthy excerpts from tening to the arena-rock crunch in country with Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander as a duet ubiquitousness) and Jennifer Beals. The latter the race riot in “Shock Corridor” and the music in recent years, country covering partner. Highlights include Justin Moore’s starred as a photojournalist in Fuller’s last “wham-bam ouch-ma’am” opening of “Naked the Crue isn’t a surprise at all. What may “Home Sweet Home,” with its Lynyrd film, the rarely seen 1990 French TV movie Kiss”-where a furious, fiery Constance Towers be surprise, though, is how ferociously Skynyrd-guitar tone and soulful vocals, “The Madonna and the Dragon,” a few shots wields a flailing pocketbook, reducing her some of country’s more mild-mannered The Mavericks using a Latin rhythm on of which are interpolated here. The tone pimp to a quivering pulp-give full reign to the acts rise to the occasion. Rascal Flatts has “Dr Feelgood” to bring out its dramatic shifts radically in a section given enormous force and intensity of Fuller’s unique filmmak- never come close to rocking as hard as on story line, Eli Young Band’s sweetly empathy by actor-director Bill Duke (star of ing gifts. Fittingly, Samantha entrusts Towers its version of “Kickstart My Heart,” which melodic “Don’t Go Away Mad” and Lee herself with reading Fuller’s description of rightly opens the album and sets the bar Ann Rimes’ swinging “Smoking In The Extraordinary scene how to grab an audience by the balls from for others to match. Boys Room.” —AP Fuller’s penultimate film, 1989’s “Street of the get-go. —Reuters Elisabeth Moss Jackie Chan’s son, Jaycee arrested on drug charges

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Indian Hindu devotees gesture before attempting to form a human pyramid in a bid to reach and break a dahi-handi (curd-pot) suspended in air during celebrations for the Janmashtami festival in Mumbai yesterday. Participants receive prize money by constructing a human pyramid tall enough to enable the topmost person to reach the pot and claim the contents after breaking it. —AFP Spa show is a feast for the senses

Warm stone massages for hands and feet are demon- strated by Omni Hotels & Resorts, at the International Spa Association event, in New York. — AP

To soothe puffy eyes, cold Limoges porcelain spoons are applied to a woman’s face, a treatment from The Spa at The Hotel Hershey.

Lindsay Martin, from Hilton Head Health demonstrates muscle therapy using a small hard rubber ball that’s rolled on feet, shoulders and other trigger points.

A ‘Muds & Suds’ hand or foot scrub, made from Dogfish Head non-alcoholic Brewery beer, offered at The Lodge at Mindy Jacquat, from the Aspira Spa, at Elkhart Lake, Wis, demonstrates massages and other services inspired by Woodloch, in Hawley. indigenous traditions, using lake water, fresh cedar and other ingredients grown on site. mells good, tastes good, feels good: The International shoulders and other trigger points. Spa Association’s annual industry show was a feast for Omni Hotels & Resorts also demonstrated massage for Sthe senses. Spas showed products and treatments that hands and feet, using warm, smooth black stones. Several seemed good enough to eat - and a few demonstrations actu- spas featured services inspired by indigenous or spiritual tra- ally did involve edibles. Others at the show held last week in ditions. Aspira The Spa in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, uses lake Manhattan offered services inspired by indigenous healing rit- water, fresh cedar and other ingredients grown on-site in uals and traditions. massages and other treatments. Mandarin Oriental Hotel The Spa of the Rockies in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, fea- Group’s Will Schneider demonstrated a meditation program tured skin products from Eminence Organics in creamy pastel designed to teach mindfulness and how to slow the body colors with ingredients like strawberry rhubarb and pink down. And the Sedona, Arizona spa Mii amo offered the Lindsay Martin demonstrates muscle therapy using a grapefruit. The Lodge at Woodloch, in Hawley, Pennsylvania, Native American-inspired Hozhooji ritual, in which blessings small hard rubber ball that’s rolled on feet, shoulders offered a beer-based hand-and-foot scrub, in addition to an are sought as tobacco is placed in a small pouch. — AP and other trigger points. actual edible: Tuscan melon gazpacho with Thai basil and The Sedona, Ariz, spa Mii amo demonstrates a Native blush-tiger tomatoes. American-inspired ritual called Hozhooji, in which bless- Chocolate’s always on the menu at The Spa at The Hotel ings are sought as tobacco is placed in a small pouch. Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in the form of chocolate body wraps, facials and scrubs. But at the show, Hershey demonstrated a treatment using chilled Limoges porcelain spoons to soothe puffy eyes. The Travaasa spa demonstrated handmade sugar scrubs using ingredients like rose petals and lavender, grown on the spa’s urban farm in Austin, Texas. Massage Envy Spas, a chain of day spas that just opened its 1,000th franchise in Philadelphia, also showed off a sugar scrub used in foot therapy. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, demonstrated vegetarian stir-fry cooking to promote its Healthy Living Program. The program offers a class trip to a restaurant to teach participants how to order healthy menu items. Hilton Head Health, on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is also focusing on wellness, adding that to the center’s origi- A chef prepares a dish as part of a presentation by the Tuscan melon gazpacho with Thai basil and blush-tiger nal focus on weight loss. At the spa show, representatives Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program, based in tomatoes, from The Lodge at Woodloch, in Hawley, Pa, is Massage Envy Spas offers sugar scrub foot therapy. demonstrated muscle therapy using small balls rolled on feet, Rochester. displayed at the International Spa Association event.