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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 RAMADAN 21, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net 152 expatriates Airstrikes and Cricket oasis deported for ground combat for Asian Emsak: 03:10 driving without kill nearly 200 laborers Fajer: 03:20 Shrooq 04:55 license in Yemen in Qatar Dohr: 11:53 Asr: 15:27 Maghreb: 18:51 3 7 18 Eshaa: 20:22 Saudi arrests brothers linked Min 35º to Kuwait mosque bombing Max 48º High Tide 04:20 & 16:00 Detained Saudis took explosives to Kuwait Low Tide 10:45 & 22:50 40 PAGES NO: 16575 150 FILS DUBAI: Three Saudi brothers have been arrested in con- nection with the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque in Ramadan Kareem Kuwait last month, the Saudi and Kuwaiti authorities said yesterday. The attack during Friday prayers, which killed 27 Stay ‘connected’ people including the bomber, appeared aimed at stoking sectarian hatred in the energy-rich Gulf. Islamic State claimed responsibility. The three brothers were “parties to with supplication the crime of the sinful terrorist bombing that targeted the Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait,” the SPA state news By Teresa Lesher agency cited a security spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry as saying. asting in Ramadan is a fixed act of worship in the Two of the suspects, Majed and Mohammed Al-Zahrani, sense that it is performed in the ninth month of the drove across the border into Kuwait on Thursday afternoon FIslamic calendar, it begins and ends with citing the carrying the explosives for the attack in an ice cooler, new moons, and abstinence is prescribed between the Kuwait’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. They left after crack of dawn and sunset. Likewise, the five ritual daily passing the materials to Abdul-Rahman Sabah Aidan, an prayers, or salat, is a fixed and formalized form of prayer illegal resident in Kuwait who reportedly drove the bomber that follows specific timings, positions, and words in to the mosque and is now in custody, the ministry said. Arabic according to the pattern taught by Prophet Investigators found the explosives were of the same Muhammad (PBUH). These are great blessings from our type used in two suicide bombings on May 22 and May 29 Creator because instead of guessing which way of wor- against Shiite mosques in eastern Saudi Arabia, where the ship is best, we can worship God in the ways that He asked bulk of the kingdom’s Shiite minority lives, according to the us. The car used in transporting the explosives ministry. Majed was arrested in the western Saudi city of Although fasting in Ramadan and performing the five Taif while Mohammed was taken into custody after a daily prayers are performed in specific and limited times, shootout at a house near the Kuwaiti border in which two we are allowed and even encouraged to continue with policemen were wounded. A third brother, whom the min- voluntary acts of worship once they are complete. It is istries did not name and whose precise role was not meritorious to fast occasionally outside of Ramadan, and described, was arrested in Kuwait and extradited to Saudi to have ongoing, direct communication with our Creator Arabia. A fourth brother lives in Syria and is a member of throughout the day, every day. We don’t need to wait for a Islamic State, SPA cited the Saudi security spokesman as specific time or go to a specific place to turn to Him in sup- saying. plication, nor do we need to express ourselves in Arabic. The bombing was Kuwait’s deadliest militant attack and In fact, we should frequently and spontaneously ask the most lethal in any of the six hereditary-ruled Gulf Arab our Creator for whatever we need since Prophet states since a campaign of Al-Qaeda bombings was Muhammad (PBUH) said, “Allah is angry with those who stamped out in Saudi Arabia a decade ago. The attack has do not ask Him for anything” (Tirmidhi). Making supplica- raised concerns about the number of young Saudi men tions while fasting is highly recommended. The Prophet willing to travel to attack Shiites in smaller Gulf Arab states (PBUH) said, “The supplications of three persons are not and so make good on a threat by Islamic State to step up rejected: the supplication of a fasting person at the time of violence in the holy fasting month of Ramadan. breaking fast, of a just ruler, and of a person who is Photos show the Saudi brothers who were arrested The Saudi branch of the militant group has said it wants wronged. to clear the Arabian Peninsula of Shiites and has urged Continued on Page 13 The icebox containing the explosives in connection with the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait last month. young men in the kingdom to join its cause. — Reuters Saudi issues health ‘Security message’ to PAGE UK marks 7/7 bombings PAGE warning for pilgrims US citizens in Kuwait under Tunisia shadow

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has instructions to local bodies on how to address urged people intending to visit the holy sites to these threats. This year’s pre-conditions oblige conduct Umrah or Haj pilgrimage at Makkah to those arriving from yellow fever, meningitis and make sure they comply with necessary health seasonal flu-stricken nations to provide certifi- standards ahead of their visit. These include tak- cates of vaccination from their country of resi- ing necessary vaccinations against a number of dency, he said. ailments like meningitis and seasonal flu - the Those arriving from nations of the African latter applying, in particular, to those with heart Meningitis Belt - including the Gambia, Senegal, disease, kidney failure, respiratory or nerve ail- Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, ments, diabetes, congenital and acquired Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central immunodeficiency disorders and metabolic dis- African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, eases, along with pregnant women and obese Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea - will be also be obliged children and those under five. to receive a preventive vaccine upon entry into Those affected with chronic diseases and Saudi Arabia. the elderly were warned against making the Meanwhile, all pilgrims have been advised trip, and postponing the pilgrimage until being to follow instructions aimed at limiting the ably fit with regards to their safety. In reference spread of the MERS coronavirus and other respi- to the Ebola virus, the ministry said that the ratory ailments, including washing hands with denial of travel entry permits for residents of soap or disinfectants, using disposable tissues Guinea and Sierra Leone would continue as per when sneezing or coughing and getting rid of World Health Organization reports that suggest them after, limiting hand contact with the eyes, the continued spread of the disease in these nose and mouth, avoiding direct contact with two countries. those infected and wearing breathing masks in According to spokesman Dr Khaled crowded places. People have also been advised Marghalani, the ministry routinely monitors epi- to stay away from camel farms and to avoid demiological developments for diseases and touching these animals or drinking their milk - KUWAIT: Cars drive along the street in Kuwait City during a heavy dust storm yesterday. Visibility levels in some areas along the Seventh has a national committee which assesses the unheated or unpasteurized - or eating their Ring Road dropped to less than 200 meters yesterday due to sandstorms that hit Kuwait for the second straight day. — Photo by Yasser spread of diseases worldwide and issues meat uncooked. — KUNA Al-Zayyat (See Page 3) Palestinians connect to UAE businessman gives holy shrine with ‘selfies’ 3rd of assets to charity

JERUSALEM: Palestinians young and old also popular among Jews, who refer to the DUBAI: Prominent United Arab wealth in the Middle East. The Ghurairs have jumped on a trend for taking “selfies” at area as Temple Mount, the holiest place in Emirates businessman Abdullah are one of the leading merchant fami- Al Aqsa, the 8th century Muslim shrine in Judaism and the site of a Jewish temple Ahmad Al-Ghurair has donated more lies in the United Arab Emirates, and Jerusalem, both as a personal memento and destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Jews are than $1 billion - a third of his business their business interests are mainly split for relatives prevented from visiting the allowed to visit the area in small numbers, empire - to a foundation supporting between two branches controlled by ancient compound. While selfies are hardly but like other non-Muslims they are forbid- education in the Arab world, a move separate brothers. Abdullah’s lineage new, Palestinians have embraced the phe- den to pray, a source of increasing religious highlighting growing philanthropy runs banking, food, construction and nomenon during the holy month of tension in Jerusalem. among the Middle East rich. The real estate assets. Ramadan as a way of showing their presence Israel, which controls access to the ancient establishment of the Ghurair founda- Abdullah is also the father of bil- at Islam’s third holiest site. “We took it as a stone plaza lined by cypress trees and foun- tion comes days after Saudi Arabia’s lionaire Abdulaziz Al-Ghurair, whose memory, because maybe we won’t be able to tains, initially issued a large number of per- Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal said he was roles include chief executive of Dubai’s come again next Ramadan,” said Shorouq, a mits for Palestinians to visit this Ramadan. But pledging around $32 billion of his third-largest bank by assets, Mashreq, young woman from the occupied West Bank after a series of attacks targeting Israelis dur- wealth to good causes including chari- and head of the local banking federa- snapping pictures with her friend Shahira, ing the first week of the holy month, restric- ties working in healthcare, disaster tion. Under the plan announced at a GAZA: Ibrahim Al-Jamal, 17, and Ahmad Abu Jereda, relief and women’s rights. press conference led by Abdulaziz in both dressed in brightly colored headscarves tions were re-imposed. Still, hundreds of 16, carry Mona and Max, the female and male lion in the sunshine. thousands of Muslims from the West Bank, Both announcements were made Abdullah’s absence, a foundation was cubs, as they walk at a beach of Gaza City, in the during Islam’s holy month of being set up using profits and divi- “We took a selfie with the Dome of the Gaza, Israel and further afield are expected to northern Gaza Strip. Saduldin Al-Jamal had bought Rock!” said Shahira, referring to the golden- visit over the course of Ramadan, which ends Ramadan, a period which promotes dends from its portion of the Abdullah the cubs from the Gaza zoo, hit during last summer’s charity and thinking of those less for- Ahmad Al Ghurair group of compa- domed, ornately tiled octagon, from where around July 17. On the first Friday, 80,000 Israel-Hamas war. His family would take them to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is said to Muslims prayed at Al Aqsa, Israeli police said. tunate through fasting, while the size nies. parks or the beach and children (those brave of donations highlights the increasing Continued on Page 13 have ascended to heaven. The shrine-selfie is Continued on Page 13 enough) would come up to pat them. — AP LOCAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Sheikh Mishaal undergoes surgery

KUWAIT: National Guards Deputy Chief Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah has undergone a successful surgery, according to a statement by the Amiri Diwan yesterday. — KUNA

Sheikh Mishaal Al-Sabah Ramadan soap KUWAIT: Participants are pictured during a seminar hosted at Al-Khuraibet Diwan Monday night. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat operas’ review Diwan discusses protecting By Nawara Fattahova have plastic surgeries. Farouq hears this as he is inside, and is shocked. He KUWAIT: Kuwait Times is publishing decides to cancels his trip with Ghada Kuwait after mosque attack daily reviews of three Kuwaiti soap as he is afraid to lose Taiba. Ghada operas aired on Al Rai TV. Here is the warns him if he cancels the trip and By Faten Omar shocked to hear that, and that it was not Ghareq Kuwait’s security review of the 19th episode from: leaves the house, he can’t return, and Kankon’s business to do so because the war in In the meantime, lawyer Wasmi Al-Wasmi if he comes back, he won’t find her. KUWAIT: In light of the suicide bombing at Syria is a civil war and Kuwait did not declare war asserted that the bombing attack at Imam Al- ‘Qabil lil Kaser’ But he insists and is sure he will Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque two weeks ago, Al- with Syria and Syria is a brother country to Sadiq Mosque was not aimed to a particular cat- Jinan tells Wed about her strange always find her. Khuraibet Diwan recently hosted a seminar Kuwait. “What if Bashar Al-Assad the president of egory of persons or sect; rather it targeted the feelings for Ali without mentioning Nasser, the son of Futuh, faints titled, ‘They are my sons and the future chal- Syria stayed and then attacked Kuwait for fight- security of Kuwait. “They thought that it is easy his name and she thinks it may be while playing football at school. The lenge,’ where participants discussed how to pro- ing him?” he said. to break through the security of Kuwait and love. Wed also tells Jinan about her doctor tells Faisal that Nasser suffers tect Kuwait and the Kuwaiti people and try to make the Shiite fight the Sunni, but they feelings about Rakan and that he pro- from cardiac disease and that the clear up many of the misconceptions that are One person thought wrong, because Kuwait came out expected survival period in such cas- prevalent about Islam. Meanwhile, Dr Hassan Al-Johar said, “This sit- stronger,” Wasmi said. posed to her. Jinan doesn’t like it but “God ordered us to advice bad people, not to uation showed to the world that Kuwait is one “And you can see that when His Highness the tells her she will think about it. She es is around one year. kill them; but nowadays you will find these peo- person, there are no Shiites or Sunnis.” Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah tells Raja about it, and Raja advises When Fawziya is trying on the ple everywhere in groups teaching young peo- “Despite the grief that has be in every house came to the location after hours of the bombing, her to refuse as Rakan is not suitable dresses for Fawzy’s wedding, she sees ple how to protect Islam by killing more evil in Kuwait, which prevented them from taking that confirmed that there is no differences for Wed and the differences between another woman wearing the same non-Muslims,” Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli, Former iftar and suhoor, we still thank God for what hap- between Shiite or Sunni, citizens or expats, them are huge. dress, so she asks her whose wedding Minister of Oil, said in the event. pened because the country who sacrifice with its Muslim or Christian,” he added. He ended by say- Sulaiman pretends being drunk is she attending, and she tells her the Baghli continued by describing a short video martyrs, is a country that has noble goals.” ing that their role is to teach people that Islam is and tells Yousef he can’t forget Jinan. name of her ex-husband. She then on Al Jazeera channel showing a man called Johar admitted that when he visited the a religion of peace, not of killing, “And we should Yousef blames him for drinking and goes to him telling him not to get Ghareq Kankon wearing the Kuwaiti traditional injured, he was in pain from what he saw. “The all do like what Al-Khuraibet Diwan did and saying he lost Jinan with his bad married, although his wedding is the clothing with a cross on his chest, saying “On first thing that came to my mind... was, a word, make more seminars about this subject. What behavior, but Sulaiman assures if next day. behalf of the Kuwaiti people, we are proud to tell an incitement, an essay or an aggressive behav- happened yesterday will not be forgotten but Jinan gets back to him, he will Shihab, Nooriya’s son, is the inves- you that we have 3,000 mujahid fighters, where ior made the bomber do those actions, so we we will benefit from it,” he said. The seminar was change. Hiba goes to his room and tigator at the police station where we sent 1,000 to Aleppo, 1,000 to Idlib, and should be careful of what we say, do or how we attended by a number of members from parlia- warns him to stop this plan and stay Hamad complained against Fayza, 1,000 to Homs in Syria.” Baghli said that he was behave,” he said. ment, media, and lawyers. away from her and Yousef or she will and on that day she forgot her wallet expose his plan. there. He follows her the other day to Rakan tells his mother that he give it to her. It seems he likes her, as wants to marry Wed, but she tells him he asks his mother about her, and she Wed’s family may refuse as they are tells him Fayza is a good girl. not equal socially, as Wed is from a famous and rich family. Wed sends ‘Thakira min Waraq’ Rakan a message that she has agreed Jasim tries to convince Diana to to marry him and that she spoke to stay with him and get married, but her sister. she says she won’t leave her son for Raja employs a new employee to him. She sees their marriage impossi- watch Ali. The second day, he tells her ble and prefers to stay as friends. that Ali is eating breakfast in the Fajer complains to Noora that she storeroom and that Jinan is with him. is miserable and doesn’t know who So she goes there and sees them talk- her parents are. Fajer’s father calls her ing and eating. She blames Jinan this but Ghanim answers as her phone is behavior does not suit her. with him she isn’t there. He then goes to Fajer to give her the phone that ‘Ummina Rwehit Al Jannah’ she forgot with him. During breakfast, Futuh asks her Mashael plans a trip for the group mother where does she keeps her and invites Najd, Shouq and Noora, jewelry, and Fatma says in the safe, but Noora apologizes that she is not but she has forgotten the code as she able to go with them as she has a is mentally ill according to the docu- date. Fawaz calls Hamad asking him ments of the case. why Mashael is not calling him and Taiba takes the invitation cards of not answering his calls. Hamad tells Fawzy’s wedding to Ghada. She sees him about the trip, but he is not sure Farouq’s slippers and pen in her if Shouq will join them. Nawaf calls house, but she already knows he is Shouq and she asks him if he is com- KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah is seen during the meeting. — KUNA married to Ghada. Taiba tells her she ing with them on the trip, but he said wants to get divorced as she is tired Mashael did not invite him, and tells FM heads meeting on developing performance with her life and wants to change and her to take care of herself.

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime tee at the ministry. Foreign ministry were reviewed. A developing work at the ministry, Minister and Foreign Minister Ministry Undersecretary Khaled detailed presentation on devel- and diplomatic and consular Kuwait’s global moderate Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Suleiman Al-Jarallah attended oping performance was made missions abroad as well as Hamad Al-Sabah headed yester- the meeting during which some during the meeting to upgrade improving the working environ- day a meeting of the consular topics related to the develop- the staff of the ministry. This ment, training the ministry’s approach extolled: Envoy and diplomatic affairs commit- ment of performance at the move will contribute greatly to staff. — KUNA WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s Ambassador to on the rapprochement among various Canada Ali Al-Sammak reiterated sects of society. A statement issued by Kuwait’s moderate approach since its the Kuwaiti Embassy in Canada, sent to inception, based on the tolerant Islamic KUNA in Washington DC, said that Al- law, principles of the Quran and respect Sammak stressed that Kuwait has adopt- for the opinions of others. This came in a ed such moderate thinking globally meeting between Al-Sammak with John under the guidance of His Highness the McNee, CEO of the Canadian Centre for Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al pluralism, which specializes in studies Sabah, who was named by the UN last and exchange of information and views year as a Humanitarian Leader. —KUNA

US Embassy message: Sound personal practices in light of recent attack

KUWAIT: The United States’ Embassy in • Be aware of your surroundings. Kuwait sent the following security mes- Understand what “belongs” and what sage to US citizens in Kuwait: does not. Gulf Bank concludes its In light of the June 26 terrorist attack • Avoid traveling alone. Avoid isolat- in Kuwait, we want to remind US citizens ed areas, especially after dark. Tell of measures they can take to enhance friends, colleagues, or neighbors where Graduate Development Program their safety and security. We encourage you’re going and when you intend to US citizens to exercise keen security return. KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announced the successful to Banking; Financial Economics; Corporate Resources at Gulf Bank said: “We are truly proud awareness of their surroundings at all • Know where you are going and your conclusion of its Graduate Development Finance; Risk Management; Retail Finance and of this inspirational initiative that helped us times. The Embassy recommends that all destination. Find exits and have a plan Program which was held in collaboration with many more. transform our raw talent into potential leaders of US citizens in Kuwait monitor the media to escape. Select “safe havens” along your the Institute of Banking Studies (IBS) over nine Moreover, an important part of the program the future. By investing in our employees, we are for latest security developments. route, such as government buildings, months. was the journey towards self discovery; confi- creating future leaders and not only do we rec- The following are some measures you friends’ residences, shops or restaurants, The first batch of Gulf Bank candidates par- dence building and teamwork. The Graduates ognize outstanding talent, we are committed to and your family can take to increase your or gas stations. taking in the Graduate Development Program were assigned individual mentors from amongst inspiring this talent to bloom and prosper to the personal safety and security: • Always carry a charged cell phone. recently went through a series of meetings with the senior members of the executive team that greatest potential.” • Avoid crowds. Large gatherings can Make sure you have programmed emer- the business heads of the bank to decide on the turned out to be one of the most impactful Gulf Bank places great emphasis on the train- quickly become dangerous. gency numbers in all your family mem- best match of bank requirements and individual adjuncts of the program. The program conclud- ing and development of nationals through its • Keep a low profile. Be aware of how bers’ phones. preferences for different areas of work. The pro- ed with an international assignment that includ- Learning and Development department, which gram that was launched in October last year was ed visits to Barclays Bank and Citibank, London. produces tailor-made packages and training others dress and behave in public and try • Be prepared to postpone or cancel designed to train graduates with 1 to 3 years’ Also during their visit to the UK, the candidates courses as part of its training strategy. To find to blend in. activities. experience with the bank to become holistic met Lord Mayor of London, Alan Colin Drake out more about Gulf Bank’s initiatives and pro- • Vary your routes and times of travel. • Report concerns you may have to bankers. The 9-month intensive program cov- Yarrow. grams, visit the Bank’s bilingual website at Being less predictable makes you more the police and to the US Embassy in ered a myriad of subjects including Introduction Salma Al-Hajjaj, General Manager - Human www.e-gulfbank.com. difficult to target. Kuwait. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 LOCAL

KUWAIT VOICES

‘I want my kids to KUWAIT: (From left) Justice Ministry’s Acting Undersecretary Bader Al-Zamanan, Minister Yaqoub Al-Sane, KJA Treasurer Adnan Al-Rashid and have a better life’ Awqaf Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary Fareed Emadi. — Photo by Joseph Shagra

By Ben Garcia madam started to change her attitude towards her. “Even if you are tired, you Government to activate his Ramadan, Kuwait Times wants would be insulted and she would hurl to shift the conversation to the bad words against me,” she said. Tordinary folks that make up the “The mama (madam) would tell me, majority of this country. By listening to ‘You’re demanding a salary raise? Of all ‘electronic signature’ their stories and recognizing their the housemaids here, you’re the only humanity, we can remind ourselves one receiving KD 90, way more than and hopefully our readers of the ties the salary of others. Why demand Project helps make transactions easier that bind us all together as a species. more?’” Deocaria recalled. Deocaria Recently, Kuwait Times visited some told her employer it’s because that’s By Faten Omar face violence and terrorism and the deployment Combating terrorism former housemaids who sought refuge what they signed at the embassy, and of moderate Islamic thought. Emadi confirmed that the ministry of awqaf is at the Philippine Embassy in Faiha to so her employer started cursing her. KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti minister yesterday revealed concerned not only about mosques and Friday hear their story. Kuwait Times purpose- “She even spat on my face,” she said. that the government will activate ‘electronic sig- Family court sermons, but also the fight against terrorism and ly changed their names for their safety. After her ordeal, Deocaria later natures’ to make transactions easier. “Any politi- Sane praised the family court which protects extremism. “After the suicide attack at the Imam Deocaria is another runaway at the escaped with the help of a friend. cal observer can see the great cooperation and family and child rights and is a center that can Al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City, the higher com- Philippine embassy who escaped her Deocaria admitted that she has investment between the executive and legisla- resolve divorce, custody and alimony issues. He mittee at the awqaf decided to assign a commit- employer after working for them for been a hard working person. “I started tive branches for the public interest. A meeting added that the family court has qualified and tee to oversee and face terrorism. We have competent people from social fields to resolve four years and five months, serving as a helping my parents when I was six and will be held with the Public Authority for Civil worked on and prepared a national document, Information on Sunday to launch the electronic such issues. “The government has developed its house helper. “When I finished my first I helped them in the farm. I never which was submitted to the Cabinet,” he said. signature, because a ‘smart government’ should services and we’re amidst an unprecedented “We made sure that this national document is contract, I told my employers I don’t played in my childhood days. I did not have the facility of electronic signatures where- legislative revolution,” he said. “The ministry of committed to global standards and we focused want to come back any more. But I was watch TV nor had any form of enter- by people can finish all paperwork online,” justice has opened an office at the ministry of promised a KD 120 salary if I returned tainment. I did not play, not because I Minister of Justice, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs housing to serve citizens and make matters easi- on three themes. The first is guidance, which so after a long discussion with my hus- hated it but I did not want to spend the Yaqoub Al-Sane said. er for them. There is also cooperation between includes 24 initiatives and several organizations band, he allowed me to go,” she said. time just for that,” she said. Sane was speaking at a meeting organized by the Credit Bank and the ministry of housing,” will be involved. The second is the media and However, two years after returning to A mother of three kids, Deocaria the Kuwaiti Journalists Association (KJA) with Zamanan said. He said that the ministry of jus- the technical aspect, which has 14 initiatives. her employer, Deocaria revealed she said she would do almost everything the minister, Acting Undersecretary of the tice is allowing the ministry of housing to access The third is community security, and it includes did not receive any salary adjustment; for her children. “I want my kids to have Ministry of Justice Bader Al-Zamanan and the system and get all details about a citizen 10 initiatives that will help protect Kuwait,” rather, she was given the same amount a better life, better than what I have Assistant Undersecretary for Financial and without asking him to prepare his papers. “The Emadi said. He pointed out that the youth are of KD 90. already experienced. I want them to be Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Awqaf system also shows all details if a citizen is mar- the most important category in a society, and “We signed the new contract at the successful,” she said. She revealed that and Islamic Affairs Fareed Asad Emadi at the ried or single, necrology, if a power of attorney is everyone wants to control them by their ideas embassy, but it was only on paper. The her eldest is now 17 years old, her sec- association’s headquarters in Shuwaikh. valid and if a property owner is alive or not. The such as IS, and this is why the ministry of awqaf contract wasn’t followed at all until it ond, 13, and her youngest, eight. “Few The meeting addressed the latest develop- citizen can also check all details about the price is focusing on them through the media and oth- expired,” she said. In fact, Deocaria more years and I can take a break,” she ments at the ministries of justice and awqaf to of a property he wants to buy or sell,” he added. er networks to deliver messages to them. stayed five more months because they said. told her to wait and assured her of the Later, Deocaria revealed her wish. balance. Deocaria thought she’ll be “All I want is to go back to the paid at the end of her contract, but it Philippines as quickly as possible and if never happened. the embassy could help me get the Deocaria confided that after remaining salary from my sponsor,” she demanding her rightful raise, the said.

Cassation court rejects Al-Watan newspaper’s appeal

By A Saleh Blackouts MP Abdullah AL-Tamimi warned KUWAIT: The Court of Cassation yesterday Minister of Electricity and Water and rejected a request made by Al-Watan Press, Minister of Public Works Ahmad Al-Jassar Printing and Publishing House to suspend and his ministry officials of the conse- and appeal court’s decision to close down quences of the repeated blackouts in differ- Al-Watan newspaper and its subsidiary ent areas, especially those on a rather hot magazines. The Cassation Court’s ruling is day during Ramadan. “Why has Kuwait final. experienced such unjustified blackouts? Why did you not fix the power transformers Travel ban before the problem happened when tem- Justice Ministry’s Acting Undersecretary peratures were over 55 degrees centi- grade?”, he inquired, urging all MEW offi- Bader Al-Zamanan said that his ministry cials to ‘get out of their offices’ and have the was currently coordinating with the Interior initiative without waiting for a problem to Ministry on setting a mechanism by which happen before acting. The scene at the clinic after the fire was put out. Firefighters put out a fire on a vehicle in Abu Halifa. financial claim-related travel bans could be lifted immediately on border exits without Financial disclosure having to go to certain state departments Deputy Speaker of the parliament to pay off those claims. Mubarak Al-Khurainej recently filed his 152 expats deported for financial disclosure statement to the head School jammers of the Public Anti-Corruption Authority The Ministry of Education is currently Chancellor Abdulrahman Al-Namash. considering providing schools with wire- Khurainej is the first parliamentarian to file driving without license less signal jammers in order to be used dur- his statement. “I did so in implementation ing exams to prevent using modern tech- of law number 24/2012 and the authority’s nology in cheating. The step comes as the decree number 77/2015”, Khurainej Three rescued from Hawally clinic blaze ministry had detected a growing use of explained, noting that lawmakers should modern technology devices in cheating on be a role model to be followed by other By Hanan Al-Saadoun Fire at Doha port ed him for breathing difficulty. different exams. state officials. In another incident, a fire broke out in a fodder KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior’s Assistant shipment stored on an area of 100 square meters Police insulted Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General at Doha port, said security sources. The port fire- A sergeant major on a mall patrol reported Sandstorms further Abdullah Al-Muhanna announced that 152 expa- men responded to the scene and successfully that two citizens insulted him while on duty at Al- triates were arrested and immediately deported managed to control the fire within 35 minutes Bairaq Shopping Mall. After spotting the two sus- for driving without a driver’s license. In this without any casualties. pects harass other shoppers, the sergeant said he affects visibility regard, the ministry’s Public Relations And attempted to arrest them, but they both started Security Media Director Brigadier Adel Al- Car fire insulting him and tried to assault him but he By Meshaal Al-Enezi Hashash stressed that the ministry keeps trans- Also, a fire broke out in a vehicle in Abu Halifa. managed to control and apprehend them. A case mitting awareness messages in both Arabic and Firemen from Mangaf rushed to the scene where was filed. KUWAIT: Visibility levels in some areas English so that non-Arabic speaking expatriates they controlled the fire without reporting any casualties. Fight along the Seventh Ring Road dropped to would get the message and realize the danger A Syrian and a Jordanian were rushed to Adan less than 200 meters yesterday due to they pose on others and on themselves by violat- Four trapped in separate accidents hospital for treatment following a scuffle sandstorms that hit Kuwait for the sec- ing traffic rules including driving without a ond straight day. Accordingly, the Kuwait Two Arab expatriates were recently trapped between them in which they used sharp objects, license. inside the wreckage of their vehicle when it col- said security sources noting that an investigation Meteorology Department warned all lided into another along King Fahad highway, would be done afterwards. road users that visibility may even drop Fire in Hawally building said security sources, noting that firemen rushed further as the wind speed is forecasted A fire recently broke out on the third floor of a to the scene where they had to cut the wreckage RPG found to exceed 55 kilometers per hour. Hawally building used as private clinic. Security open to release the two trapped people and hand A citizen reported finding a rocket-propelled sources said that firemen from Hawally and them over to paramedics. In a similar incident, a grenade (RPG) at an open yard in Mahboula, said Trucks ban Salmiya rushed to the scene where they divided man was trapped in his vehicle’s wreckage when security sources. Bomb squads were called to the Kuwait Customs Director Khalid Al- themselves into firefighting, evacuation and ven- it crashed into another vehicle in Jaber Al-Ali. scene and handled the weapon. Saif recently contacted relevant local tilation teams. Three people who had been Qurain firemen rushed to the scene and managed authorities concerning banning vehicles trapped on the floor were rescued and treated for to release the man by cutting the crumpled vehi- Drug arrest and trucks heading to Syria or Lebanon smoke inhalation. cle steel. Also, a man in his seventies was seriously The public prosecution recently charged an through Saudi Arabia. Saif explained that injured when he lost control over his vehicle and Indian man with trading in drugs. During a sting the Fire in Mansouriya it turned over along Wafra road. Wafra firemen operation, an agent from the Drugs Control Jordanian customs had informed Similarly, a fire recently broke out in a released the man from the wreckage. General Department agreed to buy 20 grams of their Saudi counterparts about closing Mansouriya house, said security sources, noting heroin from him where he was arrested in his land border exits with Syria in view of that firemen from Shuhada and Hilali centers Trapped inside elevator room with one kilogram of raw heroin. The sus- the bad security situation there until fur- KUWAIT: Men cover their faces as they wait rushed to the scene where they controlled the fire A man was trapped inside an elevator at pect later confessed that he works for a central ther notice. Accordingly, all vehicles and at a bus stop during a heavy sand storm in and rescued some of the tenants who had been Aziziya shopping mall recently. The elevator mal- prison inmate, where he receives orders by phone trucks heading to Syria via KSA were not Kuwait City yesterday. trapped by the flames and smoke. Those rescued functioned and firemen from Mangaf rushed to and places the drugs near transformers or beside allowed to pass through. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat were treated on site for smoke inhalation. the scene, where they rescued the man and treat- trash dumpsters. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Photo of the day

A photograph from the book ‘Faces of Kuwait’ by Jack Wozniak (researched by Mahmoud Zakariya) shows two men sitting inside a shop that sells traditional Kuwaiti abayas and bishts.

KAMCO hosts Rijeemy Center for nutrition campaign

KUWAIT: KAMCO Investment Company - a leading investment Danah Al-Jasem, Head of the Marketing Department at company with one of the largest AUMs in the region, and a KAMCO said, “We are pleased to host an expert to inform and winner of the prestigious Kuwait Asset Manager of the Year educate our employees on maintaining healthy eating habits Award 2015 - recently organized a nutrition lecture for its during Ramadan. As part of KAMCO’s corporate social respon- employees in collaboration with Rijeemy Center. The informa- sibility initiative, we will continue to provide our employees tive lecture titled ‘Have a Healthy Ramadan’ focused on health with such educational events that support and focus on tips to consider in order to maintain a nutritious diet during health, education and the environment, thereby positively the holy month. impacting our society.” Ameer focused on several proven key KAMCO welcomed guest speaker and nutritionist elements that would not only help ease fasting during Abdulaziz Ameer, a clinical dietitian at Rijeemy Center, who Ramadan, but also promote an overall healthy lifestyle. He covered important topics related to hydration, exercise, nutri- also led an open discussion during which attendees had the tious intake and meal timings to consider not only during opportunity to ask health related questions and express their Ramadan, but also in everyday life. thoughts about maintaining a healthy diet.

1436 - 2015 21. What is the name of the Prophet to whom Taurat was revealed?

Prophet Mausa (Moses) Alaihis-Salam

Prophet ‚Isa (Jesus) Alaihis-Salam

Prophet ‚Ebraheem (Abraham) Alaihis-Salam

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) staff visited the Mubarak Hospital in Jabriya recently to share the iftar meal with medical staff there. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Gergean, a special tradition for children in celebration of Ramadan

By Faten Omar Gergean is a word which came from “gar- ga’a” which means the noisy sounds that come KUWAIT: Gergean is an annual tradition cele- from the iron cans of sweets. brated in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region, Before 1961, Gergean was also for which takes place on the 13th, 14th or the 15th teenagers and older people, but some of them of Ramadan when the moon is full. were bothering the neighbors so they made it Gergean is a special day for children to help only for children. Years ago, young people and them through their fast and encourage them children would carry tambourines and drums to fast every year. It is marked with children while singing traditional songs. Another differ- dressed in traditional attire where the boys ence between Gergean in the past and today is wear the dishdasha (a long robe with long that the celebration of Gergean was simple but sleeves) and the girls wear dara’a (kaftan) and nowadays, people will book halls, send invita- bokhnaq (fabric in different colors worn above tion cards and pay a lot of money for the the head). After iftar, they go in groups holding sweets, nuts and the traditional cloth. small bags and go door-to-door to receive Gergean has its roots in many Gulf coun- sweets and nuts from neighbors, while singing tries. They call it “Gergean” in Kuwait and Saudi traditional songs. While waiting in front of Arabia, “Qarnqaoh” in Qatar and Bahrain, neighbors’ doors, the children sing, “May Allah “Garngoshoh” in Oman, “Magenah” in Iraq and protect your son and give him a long life to live “the right tonight” in the UAE. with his mother...” Kuwait delivers Eid clothing to 500 Syrian families in Jordan KD 200 million humanitarian campaign in Iraq’s Kurdistan

CAPITALS: Kuwait Red Crescent Society has delivered Eid clothing to 500 Syrian refugee families in Jordan in coop- eration with the Jordan National Red Crescent Society. The society delivers clothing and necessary items for Syrian refugees every Eid to ease their sufferings and bring them some joy, the head of the society’s delegation Khaled Al-Zaid said. Meanwhile, chairman of the board of Jordan’s Red Crescent Mohammad Al-Hadeed noted that both Kuwaiti and Jordanian societies have been cooperating to aid Syrian refugees living in severe humanitarian conditions in nearby countries. There are currently about 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, who fled their country due to the five-year civil war.

Grand iftar Kuwaiti Ambassador to Kenya Qusay Al-Farhan is seen with Kuwaiti Ambassador to Kenya Qusay Al-Farhan is pictured dur- KRCS had organized a grand iftar (fast-breaking) ban- Kenyan Mining Minister Najib Balala while touring a Kuwaiti- ing a visit to a Kuwaiti-funded orphanage. quet on Monday for 800 displaced Syrian families in the funded project. Jordanian capital Amman. The banquet is meant to bring together and create Ramadan joy for the civil conflict- traumatized Syrian families, Zaid said. He added that the KRCS organizes, in cooperation with the Jordanian Red Crescent Society and several other local charities, iftar programs for Syrian refugees since the start of the conflict in 2011. This year’s plan aims to host iftar banquets for 28,000 Syrian families in Jordan over the holy fasting month of Ramadan, he noted. Hadeed said meanwhile that KRCS’s aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan is highly appreciated. He expressed hopes that others world countries would follow suit of Kuwait.

‘Biggest’ campaign In Erbil, the KRCS has started carrying out the initial People seen at a ‘grand iftar’ organized by the KRCS Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi is pictured in Erbil, Refugees in Erbil, Iraq phase of a KD 200 million humanitarian campaign that KRCS for displaced Syrian families in Jordan. Iraq where a KD 200 million humanitarian campaign was was allocated to help refugees in Iraq’s Kurdistan. The launched. campaign, the biggest aid campaign as of today, is real- ized in collaboration with Barazani Charity Foundation. It will give out a month worth of food items to more than 26,000 displaced families in Harsham refugee camp in Kurdistan. The first phase of this aid campaign will include the distribution of food items, KRCS Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi said. Medical care will be provided next, he added. Hasawi noted that conditions in the camp are harsh and require more attention and care. Kuwait’s General Consul in Erbil Omar Al- Kandari said that the KD 200 million aid campaign was given out last month under the directions of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to ease the suffering of the Iraqi refugees in Kurdistan. Kurdistan has announced that $1.4 billion is needed to provide food, shelter and medical care the camp settlers.

Direct Aid In Kenya, Mining Minister Najib Balala lauded the assis- tance provided by Kuwait’s Direct Aid Society to needy people and its humanitarian role in Africa, mainly build- ing of mosques and schools, and caring for orphans. The minister made the statement when he and the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Kenya Qusay Rashid Al-Farhan vis- ited some projects carried out by the society in some areas in Kenya. Balala affirmed the distinguished relations and fruitful cooperation between the governments of Kuwait and Kenya. Ambassador Farhan meanwhile commended the soci- ety’s role and its distinguished efforts in Africa, express- ing his gratitude to its staff for helping needy people. The visit included Arabco Secondary School in Kelvy province and al-Tawfiq Hospital, Kuwaiti Embassy said in a state- ment. The society deliv- ered some medical equip- SITUATION WANTED ment to the hospital, which is the only one for Muslims in Kenya, the Looking for job agency added. Meanwhile, as driver 11 years Ismail Hasan Hussein, experience in Kuwait, director of society’s office knowing all areas. in Kenya, thanked the Ambassador Farhan, the Please contact: minister and his accompa- 55748362 nying delegation for this visit. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Anbaa Al-Jarida I am Kuwait DNA: Fall of our humanity By Nermin Al-Hooti By Abdulmhsen Jum’a hen I received the news about the terrorist Wexplosion at Imam Al-Sadiq mosque dur- ing Friday prayers on June 26, I was, at that n Dec 4, 2008 the European Human Rights time, paying my teacher a visit to congratulate him Court in Strasbourg ordered various European on the holy month and ask him about his health. Opolice to delete and destroy their DNA databas- During the visit, my telephone received a consider- es of tens of thousands of individuals who had not able amount of messages in a disturbing manner, been indicted in any crime. It only allowed keeping prompting my mentor to ask me to check them DNA information of criminals already indicted by final because there might be something urgent. So I verdicts. These orders were made on grounds that get- read what was sent to me and I could not control ting DNA samples and keeping them was a clear viola- myself and I started crying. My mentor asked me tion of human rights, privacy and family rights, which what was wrong and I said, “tragedy in Kuwait.” I made the British police (which is already advanced in then asked whether he could turn on the TV to con- this field) to delete such information although Britain firm what I read, and when he did, we saw what I had just experienced a terrorist act on July 7, which could not tell him, for real, right there in front of our claimed the lives of 52, injured 700 people and para- eyes. lyzed London for an entire day. Then, after calming me down and following the Though some British calls demanded exceptional news, my mentor said, “What is important now is security measures because London was about to host what the Kuwaiti people will do after June 26.” the Olympics, the court believed that citizens’ and resi- So I asked him, “What do you mean?” So he said, dents’ humanity and the privacy of their families were “This is a message to Kuwaiti people and we may Al-Jarida more important. The same was done by Spain and have answered the enemy at the same hour, by the France despite experiencing terrorist attacks on their arrival of our father, the Amir of Kuwait, at the same soil. Following 9/11, 2001, which claimed the lives of time, to check on the Kuwaiti people. That is a mes- more than 3,000 people, destroyed civilian planes and struck US economic landmarks (World Trade Center) sage to every aggressor on our country that there is Al-Qabas and military ones such as the Pentagon, and during neither discrimination nor racism in our country, the preparation of the ‘Patriotic Act’, both the White but we are supposed to think of how to protect House and the Congress agreed that it would be Kuwait and ourselves to become a cohesive fort We remain as we are humane and ethical not include random DNA collec- that cannot be divided by sectarianism and that tion and imposing it on residents and visitors to this terror cannot destroy our national unity. In oth- American lands in the law. Notably, mass DNA collec- er words, do you remember when I told you to stay By Ahmad Al-Sarraf tion is only used in horse stables and cattle pens and away from the news that you receive through in zoos and game parks. WhatsApp and that we are supposed to listen to wretched political activist demanded, in a will happen, if this is true. What we are interested in Here in Kuwait, and despite its violation of articles 8, and read news from credible sources?” I answered, huge headline that covered half of the front here is not whether the request is true or not, but the 9 and 20 of the constitution and despite its violation of “Yes, I remember.” A page of Al-Watan newspaper before it was repercussions of the presence of that man in his aca- ethics and humanity, a law on compulsory collection of My teacher continued, “Do you also remember shut down, Daesh to behead its Shiite POWs, and to demic and educational post until today. DNA information and building a database with such when I told you not to deal with all that destroys leave 10 for him to enjoy butchering them! Later This does not indicate the weakness of our super- information is due to be proposed and approved after national unity through rumors that is being circulat- reports indicated that the minister of interior asked visory systems and their laxity with extremist groups a superficial limited discussion in parliament within ed by people who have agendas to instigate fitna the education minister to terminate the activist, who in the society, which may be cradling and encourag- days. Such a law would violate privacy, humanity, (strife) in our society? - All this must stop now and is a Sharia College graduate and a ‘professor’ at the ing them; rather it indicates the deep ethical and parentage and intimate relations that cannot be violat- should be ignored by the people of Kuwait. This ed under any human or religious laws except in cases ignorance makes the message and rumor senders university. humanitarian crises that we have been living in It seems the education minister did not respond Kuwait for years, which is represented in the extreme of crimes or disputes concerning parentage or getting in despair and their messages will be without value a country’s citizenship according to blood kinship. at the time, either due to the strange nature of the laxity in dealing with extremists, while being tough and importance for the Kuwaiti people: this is one In spite of our pain and sorrow for the martyrs side. The other side is the role of the media, request or for not going through the proper chan- with other citizens whose presence ‘may’ not repre- killed in the Al-Sadeq mosque attack, we cannot take because it should intensify national unity in the nels, so the education minister could only justify his sent any danger towards any government establish- such a security breach as an excuse to allow taboos coming days and this should not be limited to action and avoid embarrassment by saying that any ment, but despite this they were deprived from sever- like the awqaf ministry did. We cannot violate the advertisements and short programs; no, there termination decision is from the faculty or the univer- al jobs and were kept from even coming near them! humanity of Kuwaiti and resident families by such a should be an information plan that works on how sity council (I cannot remember which). On the other If our government, whether directly or indirectly, law. After all, what would having the terrorist suicide to instill values for national unity and enrich it in hand, the news of the request of termination may does not employ a group of citizens in certain jobs, bomber Fahd Al-Qabba’s DNA have given us, knowing our society through shows and programs. The not be true to start with, but the true thing is that the then do we blame those who blow up their mosques that he only arrived at 5:00 am and committed his media should be aware of the religious programs ‘educator and terrorist teacher’ is still at work. How and call for butchering them? Because for that univer- crime by noon the same day? Could having his DNA and select those who will present them and the great are our democracy and the regular work of our sity teacher to remain in his work and the continua- have prevented the crime? content of religious messages should be of national civil establishments, especially when we wish to do tion of a ban on employing a certain sect for many Therefore, this law and the way it is expected to be unity, brotherhood and mercy, through stories and something or to do the opposite! reasons here and there is evidence on the extreme passed by a parliament that is used to passing serious talks that support the issues we mentioned. Finally, Following the horrendous events at Imam Al- defect in the decision making mechanism, not from security-related laws very easily without scrutinizing education and the family have an important role by Sadiq mosque, there were reports of the interior min- the procedural and ethical point only, but from the them, would pace highly sensitive personal and indi- refraining from instilling sectarian extremism and ister’s request to the education minister, through the political aspect also. This means that nothing has vidual information in the hands of the authorities, building a society built on ‘I am Kuwait.’” same strange way, to terminate that “educator and been done, and we remain as we are! which is not done anywhere else worldwide. In addi- — Translated by Kuwait Times university professor”, but we are still waiting for what —Translated by Kuwait Times tion, diplomats and those at the same caliber might reject the idea and refuse giving DNA information about themselves or their children. Another controver- sial question may also arise: Does Kuwait have any Woman raped right to keep DNA information about visitors partici- pating in conferences held here and will each passport in Jahra office at the airport have a piece of cotton to take a DNA specimen from each weekend visitor or transit passenger staying overnight in Kuwait? KUWAIT: Three persons kidnapped a Filipina in Farwaniya and Such a law and the information that might be raped her in Jahra. According to a security source, the Filipina told Farwaniya police that she was beaten by two persons who forced accordingly collected might expose many secrets only her into a car driven by a third person. She added the three sus- Almighty Allah has kept concealed. It might create pects took her to an open area in Jahra and took turns raping her. endless family mazes. What would the interior ministry The suspects wanted to leave her there but she was able to con- do if, for instance, if it finds out that an expat who vince them to bring her back promising not to tell anyone about brought his family on dependant visas and then (after what happened. Detectives are looking for the suspects. doing DNA tests) finds out that one of his kids is not his biological child? Will the ministry refuse granting Man attempts to kill family him residency and tell the father about it? Moreover, such information is usually the most vul- Jahra police controlled a citizen who threatened to kill his nerable during wars, disasters and chaos. Just like family members in Saad Al-Abdallah. A security source what happened during the Iraqi invasion. What if a said the family told police that their son held them at gun- hacker breaks into the Kuwaiti people’s DNA database. point and threatened to shoot them. The citizen was later convinced to hand over his weapon and was sent to con- Collecting such information from non-criminals is very cerned authorities. dangerous for family and society safety and security. Accordingly, we do hereby plead to our father and leader, HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Man beats brother-in-law to defer endorsing such a law until further proper A citizen beat his brother-in-law in his diwaniya for beating studies are made and concerned parties consulted. his sister following a domestic dispute. A security source said The government can also be advised to consult the the sister called her brother and told him what happened, so constitutional court prior to applying the law and the brother went to his brother-in-law’s diwaniya in Ahmadi, spending fortunes on preparations needed for the beat him, but the brother-in-law escaped. The brother-in-law process such as special labs and technical staff. filed a complaint at the police station and detectives are —Translated by Kuwait Times looking for the suspect. VIVA sponsors NUKS UK Ireland’s students’ orientation Session

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- utives and directors. initiatives that interest and benefit stu- ing telecom operator, announced its The event was packed with activi- dents wherever they are, and con- sponsorship, for the third consecutive ties and events that benefited both tribute to the enrichment of their year, of the National Union of Kuwaiti male and female students who were knowledge and experience. The com- Students (NUKS) - United Kingdom and accepted into the sponsorship pro- pany has sponsored over the past few Ireland’s annual orientation event that gram in the UK or Ireland. A variety of years many youth-geared exhibitions, was held Thursday, July 02, 2015 at the activities were held, highlighting and conferences and activities, reaffirming Gulf University for Sciences and praising VIVA’s role as a strategic part- its support of its human resources as Technology (GUST). The event was ner, and the company’s numerous con- well as young Kuwaiti manpower. attended by members of the NUKS - tributions to support the NUKS’s activi- VIVA will continue to support vari- UK and Ireland, representatives of the ties and events organized in Britain ous social initiatives specially those Ministry of Higher Education, the and Kuwait. VIVA also congratulated geared towards education in order to Cultural British Attache, the Health this year’s scholarship recipients who promote and improve the educational Bureau, the students who were accept- will be studying in the UK and Ireland. system in Kuwaiti society, reaffirming ed into the scholarship program and VIVA is committed to supporting its position as a socially dedicated and their parents, in addition to VIVA’s exec- and sponsoring various activities and responsible institution. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 Obama says US to increase support for Pak mechanic says blindness no roadblock to success Syria opposition Page 12 Page 11

NAIROBI: Doctors and medical staff help a man injured in the Mander attack as he arrives to be treated at Kenyatta National Hospital in the capital yesterday. — AP Shabab kill 14 workers in Kenya Somalia-based militant group says raid targeted Christians

NAIROBI: Shabab militants killed at least 14 workers in said the Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels had confirmed they car- Minister Joseph Nkaissery, however, said the attackers had the internationally-backed government, Shabab is now northern Kenya yesterday, officials said, the latest in a wave ried out the attack against “Christian Kenyans”. “sneaked into the country” from Somalia and had then “run increasingly targeting Kenya. It has also stepped up attacks of attacks in the east African nation by the Somali-led A regional commissioner, Mohamud Saleh, said the back to Somalia”. He added that 130 residents were evacu- during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Islamists. The attack occurred just outside the town of attackers were believed to be Shabab members based in ated from the area. “We are still undertaking a security In late 2014, 28 passengers were dragged from a bus Mandera in Kenya’s far northeastern region, which borders Kenya’s northeast, which has seen a string of attacks in operation in the area,” he told reporters. near Mandera and executed. Days later in the same area, Ethiopia and war-torn Somalia, and comes a little more recent months. “We believe the assailants are members of 36 quarry workers were pulled from their tents at night and than two weeks before US President Barack Obama is due Al-Shabab terror group who are operating from sleeper Christian Workers Targeted murdered - after which many have moved to more secure to make his first presidential visit to Kenya, where his father cells in Mandera town,” Saleh told reporters in Garissa, The target of the attack was a guarded compound that locations such as the one that was attacked. In 2013, four was born. where in April the Shabab massacred 148 people at the is home to labourers who work in nearby quarries. Many Shabab gunmen killed at least 67 people in an assault on “People were sleeping when the attack happened. They town’s university, most of them students. labourers who work in the Muslim-majority border region the Westgate mall in the capital Nairobi. The upsurge in just came and hurled explosives into the houses,” said He said up to 150 people were targeted in the attack are Christians from central Kenya. Kenya’s National Disaster cross-border attacks and the emergence of Kenya-based Mandera County Commissioner Alex Ole Nkoyo, confirm- and praised the security forces for responding quickly. “Our Operation Centre said 13 of the dead were “non-locals” and Shabab cells is now Kenya’s number-one security ing 14 people had been killed in the attack. “These were Al- security officers have done a commendable job by rescu- one was from the area. It said five of the wounded had headache, as well as being a strategic blow given that Shabab from the nature of the attack. They used explosives ing 136 people from the hands of the bloodthirsty terror been airlifted to Nairobi for treatment. Under pressure in Nairobi sent troops into southern Somalia in 2011 in the and guns,” he said. A pro-Shabab website, Somalimemo, gangs,” he said, adding any loss of life was “painful”. Interior Somalia, where it has for years been fighting to overthrow hope they would protect the long, porous border. — AFP Air strikes, ground combat in Yemen killed nearly 200

SANAA: Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clash- local fighters say they are defending their people at a livestock market in the town of al- es killed at least 176 fighters and civilians in homes from Houthi incursions. Sunni Saudi Foyoush in the south. Also in the south, resi- Yemen on Monday, residents and media run by Arabia says it is bombing the Houthis to protect dents reported a further 30 killed in a raid they the Houthi movement said, the highest daily toll the Yemeni state. On Monday, about 63 people said apparently targeted a Houthi checkpoint since the Arab air offensive began more than were killed in air strikes on Amran province in on the main road between Aden and Lahj. They three months ago. The United Nations has been the north, among them 30 people at a market, said 10 of the dead were Houthi fighters. Tribal pushing for a halt to air raids and intensified Houthi-controlled state media agency Saba sources in the central desert province of Marib fighting that began on March 26. More than said. In the same province, about 20 fighters said about 20 Houthi fighters and soldiers 3,000 people have been killed since then as the and civilians were killed at a Houthi checkpoint fighting alongside them were killed in air raids Arab coalition tries stop the Houthis spreading outside the main city, also named Amran, about and gun battles with tribal fighters, who sup- across the country from the north. 50 km northwest of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, port Yemen’s president in exile Abd-Rabbu The Iran-allied Shiite Houthis say they are local residents said. Mansour Hadi. rebelling against a corrupt government, while Arab alliance war planes also killed about 60 Yesterday, UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed continues meetings with Houthi officials in Sanaa to try to broker a ceasefire to allow aid deliveries. One Houthi official said Monday’s attacks had dealt a blow to peace efforts. “Even as the UN envoy is pres- ent, there are a hundred martyrs and hundreds of wounded ... No truce, no retreat, no surren- der. Forward, forward heroes of Yemen, for vic- tory is coming,” Yahya Ali Al-Qahoom wrote on his Twitter account. Neither side has offered concessions as civil war rages. Fighting, bombing and a near-blockade by the Arab coalition has deepened suffering in what is one of the poorest countries in the region. The UN says more than 80 percent of Yemen’s 25 million people need some form of humanitarian aid. “(There is) a quite cata- strophic situation we are facing today after three months of hostilities,” Antoine Grand, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, told a UN briefing in Geneva by telephone from Sanaa. “It’s more than one million people displaced, 3,000 killed, shortage of fuel, basic public services - health, water, sanitation - that are collapsing, SANAA: Smoke billows following air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on a weapons depot at a one city after another that are collapsing,” he military airport currently controlled by Shiite Houthi rebels in the capital yesterday. —AFP said. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Nuke deal set to make Revolutionary Guards richer

VIENNA: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have done very the head of an oil consulting company, speaking on condi- well out of international sanctions - and if a nuclear deal is tion of anonymity. done in Vienna this week under which those sanctions are lifted, they are likely to do better still. The Revolutionary Competitive Advantages Guards Corps (IRGC), created by Ayatollah Ruhollah The IRGC’s construction arm, Khatam Al-Anbia, thought Khomeini during Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more by many to be Iran’s largest company, is developing parts of than just a military force. It is also an industrial empire with the giant South Pars gas field, and has a $1.2 billion contract political clout that has grown exponentially in the last to build a line of the Tehran metro and a $1.3 billion contract decade, benefiting from the favour of former president to build a pipeline to Pakistan. But the IRGC also enjoys oth- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, himself a former guardsman er significant competitive advantages, whch will be even and, most recently, from the opportunities created by more useful as sanctions recede. “Lower insurance, shipping, Western sanctions. and commission costs with the banks will also enable the A Western diplomat who follows Iran closely told Reuters Guards to freely import spare parts, equipment, and tech- that the IRGC’s recent annual turnover from all of its busi- nology from international companies,” the Western diplo- ness activities was estimated to be around $10-12 billion. mat said. An Iranian trader based in a Gulf country who does Iranian officials refuse to reveal the IRGC’s market share, but business with some IRGC-affiliated firms said the Guards’ $12 billion would be around a sixth of Iran’s declared GDP, at control over terminals in Iranian airports and ports helped current exchange rates. “They control major companies, and them to move commodities in and out without paying duty. businesses in Iran such as tourism, transportation, energy, Much of the IRGC’s business is done through front compa- construction, telecommunication and Internet,” said an nies, many of them not even formally owned by the Corps, Iranian official in Tehran who asked not to be named. but by individuals and firms linked to it. “For a few years “Lifting sanctions will boost the economy; it will help them now, the IRGC has being buying small and medium-sized to gain more money.” companies in Iran and using them as front companies,” the It was the IRGC, unquestioningly loyal to Supreme trader said. Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that suppressed student To do business in Iran, foreign companies need an protests in 1999 and also silenced the pro-reform protests Iranian partner, which for large-scale projects often means TEHRAN: Cars drive under a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah that followed Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in 2009. firms controlled by the IRGC. Analyst Hamid Farahvashian Khomeini at Bahonar street in northern Tehran yesterday. — AP That year, a company affiliated to the IRGC bought the said many of these front firms were not known at all, “and state-run telecoms company for about $8 billion. Soon will be used for the time when sanctions are lifted to work licly backed the principle of a nuclear deal, which would Iran. For all its skill in circumventing trade sanctions, for afterward, the United States and European Union slapped with foreign companies”. And that might, for instance, allow anyway be impossible without Khamenei’s support. instance by trading through third countries, some of the new sanctions on Iran’s oil and finance sectors, in a bid to the Western oil firms that Iran wants to lure back to do busi- restrictions have begun to prove insurmountable. force Iran to curtail a programme that it said was peaceful ness at arm’s length with Khatam Al-Anbia, which is desig- Good Reasons “The IRGC-affiliated companies lacked the technology but they argued could be used to develop nuclear weapons. nated by Washington as a “proliferator of weapons of mass “The establishment backs the deal. Khamenei has sup- and knowledge and ability to carry out projects,” said a for- As these sanctions began to bite, it was the IRGC that destruction”, and has at least 812 affiliated companies. ported the negotiations. Therefore, the IRGC, which is loyal mer Iranian official, who asked not to be named. “Basically, was asked to take up the business of the European oil “Companies should be careful when signing contracts to the leader, could not reject it,” said analyst Saeed Leylaz. sanctions were gradually making it impossible for even the firms that had been forced to pull back. “The government because they’ll never know who’s really behind those com- But the IRGC has good reasons of its own to welcome the IRGC to make money. That is why they support lifting sanc- rewarded them with huge no-bid contracts. Their front panies,” the Western diplomat said. Unlike some parts of deal, beyond the mere prospect of economic growth and tions - then they will earn money through their subcontrac- firms were named the winners of most of the bids,” said Iran’s hardline establishment, IRGC commanders have pub- contracts with the foreign firms now queuing up to invest in tors when the economy flourishes.”— Reuters Aden’s hospitals turn into hospices

ADEN: Overwhelmed by hundreds of sick and ing from renal failure at Al-Sadaka hospital’s dialy- wounded each day, hospitals in Yemen’s second sis unit, which was shut down for five days due to city Aden have been reduced to hospices lacking a lack of supplies. medicines and space as the country’s bloodshed rages on. “The world is watching us slowly die,” No Room said Abdullah Gahtan, a lawyer lying on a bed at “I wish I had died,” said 56-year-old Saud Saleh Aden’s Al-Sadaka hospital. Like many others in Qaed between sobs. Both her legs were amputat- the war-ravaged city, Gahtan is suffering from ed after she was hit by a mortar round that dengue fever, spreading fast across Aden. “The crashed near her home in Dar Saad as she ven- doctor prescribed a treatment, but we couldn’t tured out to fetch water. She was admitted to a find the medicines.” facility run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). But The World Health Organization said last with little room available, many patients are month that more than 3,000 dengue cases have camped in corridors, some on mattresses on the been reported in Yemen since March, adding that ground, others slumped on the floor with limbs the actual figure could be far higher. Medical wrapped in bandages amid children’s cries and sources in Aden say the mosquito-borne infec- screams. “Many of the patients are unable to go tious disease has already killed 260 people in the back home because their home has been port city in recent weeks. But dengue is only one destroyed or shelled. of the many diseases, such as malaria and “So that creates an issue when we have to typhoid, rapidly spreading across the port city discharge the patients,” said Thierry Goffeau, VIENNA: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (left), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (third left), China’s due to deteriorating sanitary conditions as rebels MSF project coordinator in Aden. “They don’t Foreign Minister Wang Yi (fourth left), High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and pro-government forces wage fierce battles. know where to go, but we cannot keep them Federica Mogherini (center), US Secretary of State John Kerry (fourth right), British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond (third right) The United Nations has declared its highest in hospital, so it’s a very difficult situation.” and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) meet at the table at the Palais Coburg Hotel yesterday.—AFP level of humanitarian emergency in Yemen, Aden residents and officials accuse the rebels where a Saudi-led Arab coalition has also been of randomly shelling residential areas of the bombing rebels since March 26. In addition to city with rockets and mortars. MSF says it has some 3,000 Yemenis killed since March, the war treated more than 4,000 people wounded in Iran talks miss deadline, has also left 14,000 wounded and displaced more seven facilities it runs and has managed to than a million people, according to the UN. It says deliver 100 tonnes of supplies, despite the 21 million, or 80 percent of Yemen’s population, dangers and a blockade imposed by both the need immediate help and that close to 13 million coalition and the rebels. All public hospitals set to go to end of week people are unable to meet their food needs, in Aden face similar problems, from drug while 15 million people have no health care. shortages to power cuts and a lack of space to But Aden, capital of the formerly independent admit patients. In Mansura district, the govern- VIENNA: Global powers seeking to need, to finalise the agreement”. return for lifting a web of sanctions, major problem that’s related to sanc- South Yemen, has borne the brunt of the war. The ment-run 22 May hospital is only admitting hammer home a deal to curtail Iran’s But she said it was still possible to after reaching a framework deal in tions: this is the problem of an arms catastrophic situation in the city was highlighted those with serious injuries due to the limited suspect nuclear program missed overcome the remaining differences April. “We have no deadline,” a embargo,” Lavrov told Interfax from again by the recent death of two patients suffer- space.— AFP another deadline yesterday, with all and reach a deal to draw a curtain on a spokesman for the Iranian delegation Vienna. Under the resolution, nations sides vowing to now keep working 13-year standoff with Iran, first trig- told AFP. are banned from selling convention until the end of the week. “We are con- gered when dissidents revealed its For many observers July 9 had weapons such as tanks and missiles to tinuing to negotiate for the next cou- nuclear program in 2002. US Secretary always been the real deadline, and the Tehran. And Russia is believed to be ple of days,” EU foreign policy chief of State John Kerry would remain in US team now has its back against the eager to start selling such arms again. Federica Mogherini told reporters dur- Vienna with Mogherini and their wall trying to nail down the final details An Iranian official revealed Monday ing a break from the negotiations in Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad by then. If Kerry fails to hand over a that Tehran was pushing for removal of Vienna, effectively stopping the clock. Zarif, the US delegation spokeswoman deal by late Thursday, US lawmakers any mention of a UN arms embargo in But the United States said the terms of Marie Harf said. “We are taking these will get 60 days instead 30 to review any final agreement. “There is no evi- a Nov 2013 interim accord under which negotiations day to day to see if we can and vote on it, which risks further com- dence that the arms embargo has any Iran has been cutting back its stock of conclude a comprehensive agreement,” plicating its implementation. relation with the nuclear issue,” the offi- enriched uranium in return for sanc- she said in a statement. “We’ve made cial said. tions relief would be extended until substantial progress in every area, but Anger at Arms Embargo A fact sheet put out by the State Friday, July 10, meaning this is the this work is highly technical and high Despite progress on a series of com- Department as part of the April effective new deadline. stakes for all of the countries involved. plicated annexes, negotiations have hit framework said that under the final It was the fifth time since 2013 - and We’re frankly more concerned about hurdles on how to ease sanctions deal there would be a new UN the second time in this round of talks - the quality of the deal than we are against Iran, probing allegations that in Security Council resolution to extend that the so-called P5+1 and Iran have about the clock,” Harf added. the past Tehran sought to develop “important restrictions on conven- missed their own target date to strike After talking deep into the night nuclear arms, and ensuring Iran can tional arms and ballistic missiles”. an unprecedented accord which has Monday, foreign ministers from the so- continue to have a modest, peaceful Western officials are uneasy about become bogged down over a number called P5+1 - Britain, China, France, nuclear program. Russian Foreign allowing Iran to buy conventional of weighty issues. Mogherini admitted Germany, Russia and the United States Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed how- weapons when it is accused of the seven nations at the negotiating - met twice Tuesday without their ever that at the 11th hour a new prob- fomenting unrest in the Middle East, table were “interpreting in a flexible Iranian counterparts. They are seeking lem had emerged - the lifting of a UN even though it is also fighting Islamic way our deadline, which means that to hammer out a final accord to put an conventional arms embargo on Iran. “I State militants, a common enemy for ADEN: Wounded Yemeni men rest in the Sadaka hospital in this largest city we are taking the time, the days we still atomic bomb out of Iran’s reach in can assure you that there remains one Washington and Tehran. — AFP in southern Yemen on July 5, 2015.— AFP Syria Kurds battle IS

BEIRUT: Kurdish fighters battled the Islamic be quick. “This is a long-term campaign,” he said. Monday in parts of northern Raqa province and State group in northern Syria yesterday after In recent days, the US-led coalition has northwestern Hasakeh province. President Barack Obama said the US-led coali- launched a series of heavy air strikes against IS, The Observatory reported that the jihadists tion was intensifying its campaign against the particularly targeting its de facto Syrian capital took the town of Ain Issa, around 55 km from jihadists in the conflict-riven country. The of Raqa city. On Saturday night and Sunday Raqqa, during the offensive, but Kurdish officials extremist group launched a major offensive on morning, nearly 30 IS fighters were reported and activists said an attack by the jihadists had Monday against villages controlled by the Kurds killed in US-led raids in and around the city, with been repelled. “There are still some pockets in in the northern provinces of Raqa and Hasakeh, infrastructure including bridges also destroyed the south of the town,” Kurdish activist Mustafa prompting fierce clashes. The Syrian in the strikes. According to US Defence Secretary Ebdi told AFP, adding that the anti-IS forces were Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based Ashton Carter, the recent strikes were not target- being backed by US-led strikes. “There are monitor, said about 80 IS fighters had been ing particular IS figures, but were intended to dozens of jihadist bodies on the battlefield,” he killed since Sunday morning in fighting and help Kurdish forces. said. The Kurds successfully regained control intensified US-led air strikes that began over the elsewhere of more than 10 villages in Raqa and weekend. Kurds Battle IS Offensive Hasakeh that were briefly overrun during the IS Obama said the US-led coalition battling the Since the US-led raids in Syria began last offensive, the Observatory said. “The coalition jihadist group - also known as ISIL - would step September, they have been key to helping aircraft have played an effective role in the up its campaign in Syria, while cautioning that a Kurdish forces repel IS and take territory from recapture,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel long battle remained. “We’re intensifying our them. In January, Kurdish forces secured the Rahman said. Heavy fighting was continuing on efforts against ISIL’s base in Syria. Our air strikes symbolic border town of Kobane after four Tuesday in several areas in the two provinces will continue to target the oil and gas facilities months of IS attempts to overrun it. And in where IS was on the offensive, he added. that fund so much of their operations,” he said. recent weeks, they seized the key town of Tal Elsewhere, at least 25 regime troops were Obama said the group’s “strategic weaknesses Abyad from IS, depriving the group of a conduit killed when a suicide bomber from Al-Qaeda’s ALEPPO: In this image posted on the Twitter page of Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front early yes- are real,” noting it has no air force and no sup- through which it transported weapons and Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front struck an army terday, one of the leaders of the Nusra Front (center left) explains to his fighters an attack plan port from any nation. But he cautioned that the fighters. But IS has fought back, launching a base in western Aleppo on Monday, the against the Syrian government forces in the western Zahra neighborhood of this city.—AP fight would likely face “setbacks” and would not major offensive against Kurdish forces on Observatory reported. — AFP

INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Dream of better life in UK fuels Calais migrant chaos

CALAIS/LONDON: Like many migrants which has sea and rail links to Britain, interviewed by Reuters near Calais. on tightening security and reducing the than 9,000 people were granted asylum drawn to the French port of Calais, Ali, a has been a migration bottleneck for cen- “Why in England? I was told that it was financial ‘pull factors’. Britain and France in the year to March 2015, while over 22-year-old Iraqi, is convinced his life turies, but tension has risen in recent better.” on Thursday pledged “joint information 25,000 applications were received. If will be better if he can make it across weeks due to a French ferry workers’ Britain’s economy overtook France to campaigns to inform migrants of the given asylum status, they have the the 30 km stretch of sea separating him strike which has blocked traffic around become the second largest in the reality of Great Britain’s asylum and same access to benefits as a British citi- from Britain. “I know people in London, the port. European Union last year, according the benefits systems”. zen. Those who choose to work illegally they can help me and it will be a new Television images of migrants lining International Monetary Fund, and Britain rather than claim asylum are not enti- life,” Ali said, speaking on the outskirts roads and scrambling to jump into mov- is forecast to grow twice as fast as France Poverty Line tled to any welfare cash, and immigra- of a Calais migrant slum. “It cannot be ing vehicles have provoked public and this year. With support groups denounc- In France, asylum-seekers receive tion laws due to be passed in the next worse than in France.” Dislocated by war, political anger, providing a stark illustra- ing the living conditions of migrants in basic and emergency medical care and year will introduce powers to confiscate political turmoil and poverty, 3,000 tion of a growing Europe-wide immigra- Calais as inhuman, the French govern- their children must attend school. their wages, if caught. “Since 2010 we migrants like Ali are living in makeshift tion crisis. British Prime Minister David ment has opened a reception centre just Asylum-seekers not in a state centre have made it systematically harder for camps in and around Calais, hoping to Cameron said the scenes were “totally outside Calais with showers, toilets, receive €11.35 ($12.61) per day, while people to illegally enter, work and find a way to the other side. unacceptable” and ministers from both washing facilities and electricity. those in shelters receive from Ä91 to remain in the UK,” Cameron’s spokes- If they make it, they expect to find France and Britain have pledged to But the outspoken mayor of Calais, €718 a month depending on criteria woman said. She said the new offence illicit employment in Britain’s booming increase security around the port to pro- Natacha Bouchart, said earlier this year such as the size of their family. In of ‘illegal working’ would make it clear shadow economy or to claim asylum in tect the economically important flows of that Britain offered the most generous Britain, asylum seekers are not entitled to migrants who have no right to be in a system often seen as more generous goods and tourists across the channel. conditions for migrants in Europe. to work or claim payments from the Britain that working illegally in the UK is than the French equivalent. Such beliefs Britain has sent a two mile long 9 foot Christian Salome, president of L’Auberge mainstream welfare system but are able a crime, with consequences for their are encouraged by the networks of traf- (2.75 m) high fence, last used to secure des Migrants, a French group that helps to use public services such as the earnings. fickers who squeeze money out of the 2012 London Olympics, to help keep migrants, said the reasons were more National Health Service. A single adult But for Ali, interviewed outside the migrants at every stage of their journey migrants away from the entrance to the deep-seated than access to govern- is entitled to a special asylum seeker recently opened but already oversub- from the war zones of the Middle East rail tunnel linking the countries. ment money. “In England, when they payment of £36.95 ($57.66) per week scribed Jules Ferry migrant day centre in and from Africa. But for the few who file an application for asylum, they have and for those who arrive without mon- Calais, nothing the British government make the crossing, that expectation ‘Why England?’ shelter, they exist, they are recognised,” ey or accommodation, the state pro- is doing has deterred him, or stopped may be wide of the mark. For many of those in Calais, the risks, he said. “In France, they submit an vides housing. his friends advising him to make the “All the belief that the roads of which include suffocation in the backs of application and they go back to a slum.” “As they are barred from working, crossing. “We phone each other, they London, the roads of Britain are paved trucks, falling from moving vehicles and Salome said many eschewed France asylum seekers are forced to live in are not treated as we are here in France, with gold - this is not the situation,” said violence in migrant camps, are worth and other European countries they had poverty and they have no choice but to where we are like animals. I just want to Habib Rahman, Chief Executive of the taking for a chance of entering the travelled through for a life in Britain rely on the government to provide be a human being,” said Ali, who was Joint Council for the Welfare of British system. “I ended up here when I because they could speak English, or them with somewhere safe to sleep at unemployed and without professional Immigrants, a British organisation. left my country where I risked my life. I had family members already living night,” said Dr Lisa Doyle, Head of qualifications in his native Iraq. “Some “What we know of the people here is fled. I do not know where to go, but not there. However, the thrust of political Advocacy at the London-based Refugee have managed to pass the frontier, so I that they are really struggling.” Calais, here,” said 25 year-old Aman, an Eritrean efforts to deter migrants has focused Council. British statistics show more am also trying.” —Reuters Migrant dies in ‘Chunnel’

CALAIS, France: A man was found dead discovery of migrants on a freight shuttle, yesterday in the Channel Tunnel, French early this morning, the shuttle was imme- authorities said, a rare accident providing diately stopped,” local authorities in the yet another example of the lengths taken Pas-de-Calais region said in a statement. by migrants desperate to reach Britain. “During an investigation by border police, Vehicle shuttle services and Eurostar pas- a deceased migrant was found in the tun- senger trains were delayed as one of the nel,” they added. six sections of the tunnel was closed for Although traffic was only briefly inter- investigations, although it remained rupted in the tunnel, the incident trig- unclear how the migrant had died. “For the gered three-hour delays on vehicle shuttle moment we suppose he wanted to climb services coming from the British side and onto the shuttle, which he missed, and an hour from France, according to opera- that he was hit by the train itself,” said tors Eurotunnel. Eurostar trains were also Patricio Martin from the border police, delayed. Intrusions into the undersea tun- referring to the shuttle train that takes nel have risen in recent weeks as increas- road vehicles through the tunnel. ingly desperate migrants seek new tactics The identity of the migrant was not to enter Britain. On Friday night about 150 known, but he was among some 40 people people tried to enter the boarding area evacuated from the tunnel. “Following the before being pushed back. — AFP 25 dead in attack in northern Nigeria

KANO, Nigeria: At least 25 people were killed were almost 100 people there, including the when a bomb blast ripped through a packed staff, the screening committee and account- government office in Zaria, northern Nigeria, ants from the banks. “There was a huge on Tuesday, in a suspected suicide attack like- explosion inside the hall followed by billows ly to be blamed on Boko Haram. The explo- of smoke and dust. Now the area has been sion occurred at about 9:00 am (0800 GMT), cordoned off by security men. “I can’t give as primary school teachers and public sector you an exact toll but I believe that dozens workers were queueing for identity checks, must have died given the number of people according to witnesses. “I am sad to confirm inside and the sound of the explosion.” that an IED (improvised explosive device) El-Rufai, from Buhari’s All Progressives most likely carried by a suicide bomber Congress (APC) party, said people in Zaria LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and London Mayor Boris Johnson take part in a wreath laying ceremony in Hyde Park exploded in the Sabon Gari LG (local govern- should be vigilant and avoid crowded places yesterday in memory of the 52 victims of the 7/7 London attacks. — AFP ment district) and killed 25 people, including such as mosques, churches and bus stations a two-year-old,” Kaduna state governor Nasir in the next few weeks. “We call on our people El-Rufai said. to report any suspicious persons and move- UK marks 7/7 bombings El-Rufai added in the statement posted on ments to law enforcement agents, traditional his Facebook account that 32 others were rulers and religious leaders,” he added in a injured and were being treated in hospital. post on Twitter. His warning followed a coun- Zaria, a mainly Muslim city some 75 km north try-wide order from the federal police chief, under shadow of Tunisia of the state capital Kaduna city, is near the Solomon Arase, to state commanders to border with Katsina and Kano states. On increase security at all places of worship. Monday night, a young girl believed to be “Adequate security has also been ordered aged just 13 was killed when explosives for venues where Muslims break (the Cameron warns terrorism threat persists strapped to her body detonated near a major Ramadan) fast in the evenings,” he said in a mosque in Kano city. That bombing followed statement late on Monday. Arase also said LONDON: Britain yesterday commemorated the Cathedral. A nationwide minute’s silence was introduced to clamp down on radical preachers a twin attack on a mosque and restaurant in street hawking and trading on roads in the 10th anniversary of the London suicide bomb- held at 1030 GMT, the second such gesture in and give police and security services tougher the central city of Jos on Sunday, which left capital Abuja had been banned, while unau- ings that claimed 52 lives, starting with a wreath- four days after Britain fell silent on Friday for powers to question and track suspects. 44 people dead, and a suicide bomb attack thorised taxis and buses were not allowed to laying ceremony at the Hyde Park memorial in those killed in Tunisia. For many of those directly Despite the new measures, intelligence chief on a church in Potiskum that killed five. park in the centre of the city. honour of the victims. Prime Minister David affected by the London bombings, the anniver- Andrew Parker yesterday warned that the risk Cameron laid a floral tribute in the park at 8:50 sary has brought back painful memories. David remained high. “Appalling acts are attempted by Huge Explosion Previous Attacks am (0750 GMT), the time the first of four bombs Boyce was a 25-year-old supervisor at Russell individuals who have grown up here but decided Boko Haram has increased the intensity Zaria has not been known as a stronghold was detonated on the city’s transport system on Square station and one of the first to witness the for whatever twisted reasons to identify their and frequency of its attacks on civilians since of Boko Haram, which has been fighting for July 7, 2005 by homegrown jihadists. The carnage. “There were body parts all over the own country as the enemy,” said the MI5 director President Muhammadu Buhari came to pow- six years to create a hardline Islamic state in anniversary comes less than a fortnight after an place and dead bodies lying all over the train,” he general. “The continuing fact that some people, er on May 29 vowing to crush the rebels. But northeast Nigeria, but it has been attacked attack in Tunisia highlighted the ongoing Islamist told AFP in an interview. born in the UK, with all the opportunities and he been unable to stem the bloodshed from before. In March last year, a prominent Salafist threat. Many lives were saved by people such as freedoms that modern Britain offers, can guerrilla-style attacks on “soft” targets. With cleric who had criticised the group was shot Thirty Britons were among 38 people killed Boyce, but the general emergency response was nonetheless make those sorts of warped choices the latest blast, nearly 550 people have been dead with his wife and son as he drove home when a gunman went on the rampage at a popu- fractured, hampered by poor communications presents a serious societal and security chal- killed since Buhari’s inauguration, according from teaching a theology class. An Islamic lar Tunisian beach resort on June 26, Britain’s inside the tunnels and between controllers. This lenge”. The national terror threat remains severe, to AFP reporting. Local government worker boarding school that he ran was previously worst terror incident since the transport bomb- has been overhauled, as has the government’s the second highest of five levels meaning an Mahmud Abbas said public sector staff and hit by a bomb blast and gunfire in Sept 2012. ings in 2005. “Ten years on from the 7/7 London counter-terrorism strategy, with new measures attack is highly likely.— AFP primary school teachers were undergoing Zaria was also where a French engineer attacks, the threat from terrorism continues to be screening to identify potential ghost workers managed to flee his captors in November as real as it is deadly,” Prime Minister David on the state payroll. 2013 after being held for nine months by the Cameron said. “The murder of 30 innocent Another staff member who was waiting Boko Haram offshoot Ansaru. In June 2012, Britons whilst holidaying in Tunisia is a brutal Frenchwoman jailed for outside, Mohammed Abubakar, said: “We bomb blasts ripped through two churches in reminder of that fact. But we will never be cowed were taking turns going into the hall in batch- Zaria, killing several worshippers and injuring by terrorism.” ‘magic cheese’ scam es for the screening and also to get our pay many others. Boko Haram claimed the In a social media tribute that quickly trended cheques. “The first batch had gone in. There attacks.— on Twitter, commuters posted pictures of them- PARIS: A French court yesterday jailed a promised that companies like French cosmetics selves walking to work as part of the woman for three years for conning thousands giant L’Oreal would snap up the cheese for use #WalkTogether campaign to honour the victims of Chileans into buying a kit to make “magic in whitening creams and other products. That of 7/7. The first three bombs exploded on London cheese” they could sell back to French cosmet- is, after they were sold to a company in Congo- Underground trains at Aldgate, Edgware Road ics firms for use in luxury beauty products. Brazzaville which would sell them on to France. and Russell Square stations. An hour later, a Gilberte Van Erpe, 74, was given a six-year Victims were told they could double their fourth suicide bomber blew himself up on a dou- prison sentence - three years suspended - and a initial investment in four months. To entice the ble-decker bus in Tavistock Square near Russell €250,000 ($270,000) fine for her scam in which first victims, the kits were given away for free, Square, killing and injuring some of those who she told victims the product they could make at and people were paid for their first batches of had been evacuated from the Underground. home was a prized ingredient used in creams exported “magic cheese”, convincing them to In the past decade, successive governments favoured by celebrities such as Michael reinvest their earnings. The success of the busi- have strengthened security powers and Jackson. ness initiative spread rapidly and a Chilean improved the way the emergency services But the goop was worthless and the scam investigation showed some 5,500 people were respond to attacks. But they are still struggling to became one of the biggest pyramid schemes ensnared. Many families mortgaged their hous- address the problem of radicalisation exposed by ever seen in South America. The “case of the es or became heavily indebted to invest in the the bombings, which were carried out not by for- magic cheese”, as it is known in France, began pyramid scheme, which raked in Ä14.5 million eign fighters but by four young men who were in 2005 when the businesswoman dubbed for the alleged scammers. Like most pyramid inspired by Al-Qaeda. Hundreds of British young “Madame Gil” held conferences around Chile schemes the scam relied on rapid growth, with people are now flocking to join the Islamic State urging people to become home producers of initial investors telling their friends, neighbours group in Syria and Iraq, raising fears that they the fermented product. Her company, Fermex and family about its profitability and getting might return to attack their homeland. Chile, had some 20 branches around Chile. them to join. Victims were spurred to sign up For €369, investors could buy a kit contain- friends and family with the promise of gifts and ing filters and a special powder which when reward money. One person received a cheque MAIDUGURI: Nigerian soldiers shoot into the air during a ceremony to mark the ‘Body Parts all over the Place’ mixed with milk and fermented, produced a of 100 million pesos ($155,000) for their recruit- release of suspected detainees cleared of being members of Boko Haram Islamists in Relatives and survivors were to gather at the small cheese pat they were told was highly ment skills that turned out to be fake, investiga- Borno State on Monday. The Nigerian army released 182 detainees, including 100 Hyde Park memorial later in the day to lay flowers sought after by the cosmetics industry. Fermex tions showed.—AFP men, 24 women, 18 teenagers and 40 children. — AFP and there will also be a service at St Paul’s INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

20 years of search and solitude for Srebrenica mothers

SARAJEVO: It’s been 20 years since 17 at the time of the massacre - will be went with his mother to seek refuge at “They told my son to go to the right, but them. Rijad started crying and just said: Fatima, Rejha and Sabaheta lost their among 136 more laid to rest there on the UN base at Potocari - only to be we stayed together. Than they yelled ‘Mum, please go’.” Her husband, who sons and husbands in the Srebrenica Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the dragged away by Serb soldiers. The and pulled him by the arm. I couldn’t do had joined the march into the forest, is massacre - but the grief is still as raw as if start of the killing. His remains were scene still haunts Sabaheta every day. anything; there were just too many of still missing. — AFP they disappeared yesterday. The night- exhumed from one of 93 mass graves mare began on July 11, 1995, the day uncovered to date around Srebrenica. “I Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern saw him. There was a pelvis, a foot, an Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, a UN-pro- arm, a leg. It’s awful,” she said, struggling Genocide: Gravest and tected zone at the time. “The shells were to hold back tears. Dzemal’s remains will falling everywhere. There were wounded join those of Fatima’s husband and their and dead people in the street. A lot of second son Seval - aged 21 at his death people, women, children, were fleeing,” - who have already been reburied at the hardest crime to prove recalled Fatima Aljic, 66, who now lives memorial after their bodies were found in Sarajevo. “Men and boys decided to in a mass grave in 1996. Her oldest son THE HAGUE: Genocide, the key series of crimes. the claims and says up to 500,000 go to the forest. We split with them.” Sabahudin was 22 when he went miss- charge arising from the Srebrenica In August 2001, the International Armenians died in fighting and of Her husband and two of their sons ing in 1992 from their village of Dobrak massacre two decades ago, is the Criminal Tribunal for the former starvation after Armenians sided with joined some 15,000 Muslim men and at the start of the three-and-a-half-year gravest crime in international humani- Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted ex- invading Russian troops. In 1994, the boys who began a 100-km march to civil war. He was never found. tarian law, yet it is also the most diffi- Bosnian Serb commander Radislav Rwandan genocide in which the UN reach territory controlled by Muslim cult to prove. Derived from the Greek Krstic on genocide charges for the first said some 800,000 Tutsis and moder- forces. Thousands of them never made ‘They Never Leave My Mind’ word “genos”, for race or tribe, and the time in Europe for his role at ate Hutus were murdered, led to the it. “We didn’t say anything at the Rejha Ademovic spends long days suffix “cide” from the Latin for “to kill”, Srebrenica. Almost 8,000 Muslim men creation of the International Criminal moment of separation. There was a lot of staring at a photo on the wall of her joy- genocide is defined by the United and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Arusha, confusion. Unable to say a single word, I ful two boys, taken three months before Nations as an “act committed with forces at the eastern enclave in July Tanzania. It has been handing out just hugged our youngest son,” she said. the massacre. Nezir was 22; Muamer intent to destroy in whole or in part, a 1995 during the Bosnian war in a mas- convictions since 1998 for the crime of Fatima and her mother fled to the UN was 15. Together with their father, they national, ethnic, racial or religious sacre that was also recognised as genocide and complicity. base in Potocari outside Srebrenica, had joined the march to Muslim-held group.” genocide by the UN’s highest Two former leaders of Cambodia’s where some 26,000 people - mostly territory. “I thought that the youngest The word was coined in 1944 by International Court of Justice in 2007. Khmer Rouge regime from 1975-79 women and children, but also hundreds would survive because he was a minor. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who The ICTY has handed down 14 con- were handed life sentences in Phnom of men - sought refuge. But it was his body that was found first,” took refuge in the United States, to victions for genocide and other crimes Penh for crimes against humanity last Twenty years later, the huge space is 65-year-old Rejha told AFP at her home describe crimes committed by Nazi committed at Srebrenica, according to August, and their genocide trial home to a memorial centre commemo- in Sarajevo. Nezir’s body was never Germany during the Holocaust. It was the tribunal’s website. Currently on tri- before a UN-sponsored tribunal con- rating the massacre, in which Bosnian recovered. Muamer’s, found in a mass used for the first time within a legal al are Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan tinues. Sudanese President Omar Al- Serb forces killed some 8,000 Muslim grave in 2006, has been laid to rest at framework by an international military Karadzic and his military counterpart Bashir is wanted by the International men and boys over the course of several the memorial; on Saturday Rejha will tribunal at Nuremberg to try Nazi Ratko Mladic, both facing charges Criminal Court (ICC) on an arrest war- bloody days in July 1995. The worst bury her husband Hakija there too. leaders for their crimes after the end including genocide for their roles in rant for genocide related to crimes atrocity in Europe since World War II, the “They never leave my mind,” she of World War II in 1945. Those accused the Srebrenica massacre. committed against Darfur’s civilian mass killing has been ruled a genocide said. “Sometimes I do not sleep all were however convicted of crimes Armenia claims the World War One population. Since its inception in by two international courts. More than night. They were really good boys - I against humanity. Genocide has been massacre of hundreds of thousands of 2002, The Hague-based ICC is the only 6,200 identified victims have been particularly regret that they left so recognised within international law Armenians by Ottoman security forces permanent independent international buried at the memorial centre. young.” Youth did not save Sabaheta since 1948, with the advent of the UN was genocide, and that an estimated court able to try the perpetrators of Fatima’s youngest son Dzemal - just Fezic’s son Rijad, either. The 16-year-old Convention, and lists murder among a 1.5 million were killed. Turkey rejects genocide on all continents.—AFP

Obama says US to increase support for Syria opposition WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said. “And I have made it clear to Obama pledged to increase US support my team that we will do more to train for the moderate opposition in Syria’s and equip the moderate opposition in civil war on Monday and said the United Syria.” Obama did not give details on States needed to do more at home to what more the United States would do in prevent attacks and combat Islamic State that regard. Republicans criticized the efforts to recruit followers. Obama, president for not having a successful speaking during a visit to the Pentagon, strategy. “His rhetoric doesn’t match real- noted the difficulty of preventing small- ity. Over the last year, ISIS has expanded scale attacks by “lone wolves” within the its reach exponentially - and the group’s US homeland despite success at prevent- influence continues to grow,” said ing large attacks since the Sept 11, 2001 Senator Tom Cotton, an Obama critic. assaults on New York and Washington. “We’re not going to defeat a radical “We’re going to have to pick up our jihadist army with more bureaucrats in game to prevent these attacks,” he said. DC and no funding for our military on Obama said there were no current the front lines.” plans to send additional US troops over- Obama said more needed to be seas and repeated that the fight against done to prevent Islamic State from the militant group also known as ISIL gaining recruits within the United would not be quick. He said US training States. US efforts to counter extremism of Iraqi forces had been ramped up after must not single out Muslim Americans being too slow. The US military has or any faith group, but the militant lamented that Iraq had not provided group was targeting its recruitment enough recruits to meet US training tar- efforts at that community, Obama said. gets. It has also acknowledged that “We also have to acknowledge that ISIL recruiting and training Syrians to fight has been particularly effective at reach- Islamic State was moving more slowly ing out to and recruiting vulnerable than expected, partly because of prob- people around the world, including COLUMBIA: South Carolina Sen John Scott and Sen Joel Lourie hugs after the Senate passed a bill that calls for the removal of the Confederate lems with vetting volunteers. here in the United States,” he said. flag from the Statehouse grounds on Monday. — AP “We continue to accelerate the deliv- Obama’s remarks came after US July 4 ery of critical equipment, including anti- Independence Day festivities passed tank weapons, to Iraqi security forces,” without a major attack. — Reuters South Carolina bill to remove Confederate flag advances Some want to keep symbol of slavery flying

CHARLESTON: South Carolina lawmakers took a could lead to calls for removing symbols from don’t think that’s fair.” Democrat Vincent step on Monday toward removing the other monuments and changing street and place Sheheen, who is white and introduced the bill, Confederate battle flag that flies at the state names honoring Confederate leaders. noted that he was mocked by politicians a year house in Columbia, long denounced as a symbol The legislation appears to have a good chance ago when he introduced similar legislation. He of slavery by critics. A bill to banish the flag from of success and could be approved as early as said the Charleston murders were a reminder a Civil War memorial on the capitol grounds to a tomorrow. Haley has said she will have the flag that a racist cultural divide still existed in the museum passed a crucial second reading in the removed immediately if the law is passed. A state. Removing the flag was “one small thing state Senate by an overwhelming vote of 37-3 recent poll by Charleston’s Post and Courier that we can do” to heal that divide, he said. after an emotional debate. It faced a final reading newspaper showed it enjoys the support of a While some white people might have emo- yesterday before it is taken up by the lower two-thirds majority in both houses as required tional ties to the Confederate flag, Senator Darrell House of Representatives. under state law. Several Senators on Monday Jackson, a black Democrat, reminded legislators Numerous elected officials, including spoke of being moved and inspired by the that the descendants of slaves look at it different- Republican Governor Nikki Haley, called for the Christian forgiveness displayed by relatives of the ly. “When I see a Confederate soldier, I don’t get flag’s removal after the June 17 killings of nine Emanuel 9 for the shooter, adding that removal goosebumps and get all warm and fuzzy,” he African-American churchgoers during Bible study of the flag was the proper way to honor them. “If said. “All I’m saying is you can’t force all of us to at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church they could be peacemakers in those dire circum- have the passion that some of you have about in Charleston. Photos of the white man charged stances ... I determined I can be a peacemaker certain things.” in the shootings showed him posing with the when it comes to a flag flying on our State House The Confederate flag was raised atop the flag on a website that also carried a racist mani- grounds,” said Senator Chip Campsen, a State House dome in 1961 as part of centennial festo. Republican who represents Charleston. commemorations of the Civil War. Critics said its Among the victims was the church’s pastor, placement was a sign of opposition by politicians Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was also a Healing a Divide? to the black civil rights movement at the time. In state senator, and his senate desk was draped in At least three senators spoke in favor of keep- 2000, after the National Association for the black for Monday’s debate. The flag’s defenders ing the flag flying. “I do understand that what Advancement of Colored People announced an argue it is part of South Carolina’s heritage, repre- happened in Charleston got a lot of people’s economic boycott of South Carolina and protest- WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama speaks alongside Secretary of Defense senting those who fought and died for the attention,” said Republican Senator Lee Bright, ers marched on the state capital, lawmakers Ashton Carter (left) following a meeting with top military officials about the military rebelling southern states in the Civil War. They who is white. “But I believe we’re placing the agreed to a compromise, moving the flag to a campaign against the Islamic State at the Pentagon on Monday. — AFP also worry that bringing down the flag, which blame of what one deranged lunatic did on peo- monument to Confederate war dead on the capi- has flown for more than 50 years at the capitol, ple that hold their southern heritage high and I tol grounds. — Reuters Public path to ‘Billionaires’ Beach’ open

MALIBU, California: It may be called “Billionaires’ access before opening up a path promised in 1983 in a lawsuit against the Coastal Commission to overturn Beach,” but the pristine views along one of Malibu’s exchange for a remodeling permit. At the time, it was its order opening a public pathway. California’s 2nd most exclusive coastlines are now easily accessible to one of about 1,300 promised walkways, though District Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the agency. anyone. After a decade-long legal fight that pitted many were never opened. In 2013, the commission approved a settlement public access advocates against a wealthy home- State law guarantees the public beach access up requiring Ackerberg to pay $1.1 million in fines. owner who refused to build a path, the California to the mean high tide line. But in areas like Malibu, Some of the money will go to the Mountains Coastal Commission is officially opening a third many affluent and influential residents have taken Recreation and Conservation Authority to operate accessway along the 1.5-mile Carbon Beach. “It’s an extensive measures to keep beachgoers out of their and maintain the pathway and reimburse the amazing stretch of coast that should be open to sandy backyards. The lengthy legal quarrel over Attorney General’s office for legal fees. everyone,” said Charles Lester, the commission’s exec- Carbon Beach access dates back to the 1980s. The Ackerberg said she and her husband considered utive director. state’s Coastal Commission issued Lisette and themselves advocates for both the environment and Carbon Beach is renowned for its majestic shore- Norman Ackerberg building permits in exchange for people with disabilities. She has offered to build a line and high net-worth celebrities and homeowners. providing a public accessway beside their house. wheelchair-accessible path to address the lack of Heavy-hitters include Larry Ellison, former chief exec- The Ackerbergs put up various impediments, accommodation for the disabled. “If this battle brings utive of Oracle Corp.; Hard Rock Caf√© co-founder including a 9-foot-high wall, large boulders, and a ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) access to other Peter Morton; and entertainment mogul David tennis court to resist building an easement. In 2009, accessways, that is progress and a worthy endeavor,” MALIBU, California: In this July 27, 2002 file photo, beachgoers walk past Geffen. Geffen spent years fighting against public Lisette Ackerberg, whose husband died in 2004, filed Ackerberg wrote in an email.—AP Hollywood mogul David Geffenís home on Carbon Beach. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Pak mechanic says blindness no roadblock to success KARACHI: As a boy, Asif Patel would take ging on the streets to make ends meet. They God and could do this work.” apart toys and transistor radios, relying only often have to deal with social taboos sur- He eventually bought his own car to train on his sense of touch to rebuild them, having rounding disability and have little by the way himself further in the intricacies of auto been robbed of his sight by a rare condition of government facilities to aid them in public mechanics, and started his career swapping that meant he was born without eyes. Now a spaces. Many are rejected by their own fami- out engines. And he is keen to distinguish renowned mechanic with his own workshop lies. himself as a true “mechanic” and not merely a in Pakistan’s sprawling metropolis of Karachi, fitter of parts, which he says any child can do. Patel’s story is a rare tale of success in a coun- ‘Gift from God’ “A mechanic’s work is to diagnose. Anyone try which offers few opportunities for the Not so for Patel. “No, I was encouraged at can become a fitter. The main thing is to diag- blind. At a small workshop that employs sev- home,” he says. The key to his success, he nose if there is a problem and why it is there,” en people in the city’s Lasbela area customers explains, is his keen sense of touch. “It is he said. “So it is a gift from Allah that I can come and go, leaving their cars in the trusted important for us that we touch, and see how find out what the fault actually is.” hands of their old mechanic. it is, and what it is.” After dropping out of Patel, 44, makes his way over to an older school, he found a part-time job at age 15 at Happy Customers Toyota, pops open the bonnet and places his an auto-workshop and was assigned the task Fahad Younis, a 30-something client with hands inside, feeling the out-of-tune whirring of dismantling a clutch plate. “I had to open his own car import-export business, drops off of the carburetor and carefully making adjust- the clutch plate and they were a little shocked a Nissan Platz for repair. He says Patel’s cus- ments. “I used to play with those things and I because they thought my confidence tomers come for one reason only: the quality used to break them,” he tells AFP of his child- showed that I had worked somewhere else of the work. “He fixes the problems whatever hood. “Whenever my dad brought things I too,” he said. The next part of his training they are,” he said. “We give him all our cars, big would open them up, then try to fit it back involved taking apart a gearbox. “I said ‘yes’ and small.” It has not always been a smooth how I opened it, and I saw how it worked.” and lay under the car and saw that the clutch ride. “Once I was experimenting with the KARACHI: This photograph taken on Feb 27, 2015, shows Pakistani blind Pakistan has nearly two million blind peo- plate we opened was put in with a flywheel engine and petrol and was squirting it in. It mechanic Asif Patel working on a car engine at his workshop. — AFP ple, according to the Fred Hollows and the area behind it is the gear,” he said. “So caught fire and I had to throw sand on it to Foundation, with more than half afflicted due mentally I figured out the rounds of the gear put it out,” Patel said. on working,” he said. handicapped from something, I would not be to treatable conditions like cataracts. and its foundations and in barely 15 minutes, Another time a jack collapsed while he While some might rue their luck at being able to do what I am doing right now,” he said. Opportunities for the blind, like those with I took it out and was done. When I opened was working under a car, dropping the vehi- blind, Patel says he prefers to count his bless- “If you do not have something from birth you other disabilities, are few and far between, and put the gear out, I gained their trust and cle on him. “I didn’t worry too much about it, ings - and insists he doesn’t really think of do not think it is missing. But if it is there and with many sight-impaired reduced to beg- they knew that this boy had some gift from just lifted it up, put in another jack and carried himself as disabled. “If I ever felt that I was taken from you, it hurts more.” —AFP India state seeks new scam probe amid deaths frenzy

NEW DELHI: The embattled chief minister of by state investigators would get to the bottom India’s Madhya Pradesh state yesterday asked of the allegations and there was no need for a federal investigators to carry out an independ- federal probe. ent probe into a jobs scandal after a spate of But he was forced into a u-turn on Tuesday deaths which opponents have linked to the amid the growing media frenzy in the wake of scam. Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested the death of the TV reporter Akshay Singh and since 2013 over the so-called Vyapam scandal in made a formal request for the Central Bureau of which thousands of people are alleged to have Investigation -India’s top federal investigation paid bribes in return for jobs on the state payroll agency - to take up the case. “Honouring public or for places in educational institutes. sentiments, I will request the High Court to order But opponents of the Madhaya Pradesh state a CBI probe. Democracy is run on public accept- government, run by Prime Minister Narendra ability,” Chauhan told reporters at a press confer- Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), say the scan- ence in the state capital Bhopal. dal is even more wide ranging and goes right to The 38-year-old Singh suffered a fatal heart the top of the administration. The sudden death attack on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh while of a television journalist at the weekend while interviewing the family of one of the female reporting on the scandal has fuelled allegations beneficiaries of the scam whose body was of a mass conspiracy that have been widely found on a railway track earlier in the week. reported by Indian newspapers and broadcast- While no one has so far been convicted in ers.Some reports say dozens of people linked to India’s notoriously slow legal system, around the scandal - whether as suspects in the inquiry 1,930 people have been arrested including a or else as witnesses or investigators - have died former state minister, several top bureaucrats in the last few years. While there is little evidence and hundreds of students. The scandal was to connect any of the deaths or to suggest foul exposed after police in 2013 arrested dozens of BEIJING: School students prepare to leave after visiting the Museum of the War of the Chinese People’s Resistance Against play, the main opposition Congress has accused people who had been paid to impersonate Japanese Aggression during ceremonies yesterday to open an exhibition marking the anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan of direct applicants in tests. The paying of money for Incident in 1937 near the bridge. — AFP involvement in the scandal from his time as state government jobs is a widespread problem in education minister and demanded his resigna- India while it is also common for candidates to tion. Chauhan had previously tried to fend off pay for fake qualifications or get someone to sit Dread and domination in the accusations, saying that an ongoing inquiry tests on their behalf. —AFP Chinese memories of war Relations with Japan remain tense

BEIJING: Almost eight decades since Yan Guiru was scared to go outside for days. Japanese troops-who Party stresses that under its leadership, China final- gripped by terror as shells rained on her Beijing had been allowed in China under terms set after ly overcame more than a century of humiliation by neighbourhood in the opening salvos of war foreign forces put down the 1900 Boxer Rebellion - outside powers dating back to the Opium Wars of between China and Japan, she recalls with horror a appeared to be patrolling the area as occupiers, the 19th century. It uses the “history of humiliation” conflict Communist leaders still use to legitimise she said. Eventually soldiers broke down the door, to achieve “unity and popular connection with the their rule. It was the night of July 7, 1937 when a and Yan and her sisters-in-law hid behind their hus- public”, said Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese poli- barrage of unrelenting gun and cannon-fire erupt- bands, fearing they could be dragged away and tics at the University of Sydney. ed. Then a recently married 17-year-old, Yan lived raped. “Thankfully, they did not take us,” Yan said. It was particularly important for Chinese about 100 m from the Marco Polo bridge, an “But they stole our pig, a chicken and everything President Xi Jinping, Brown said, with his “Chinese ancient 11-span arch in Beijing’s western suburbs they could find to eat.” Dream” concept based around “the country being mentioned in the Venetian traveller’s stories. poised to retake its great power status and be NEW DELHI: Indian officials gather around a Turkish Airlines aircraft as it sits on “The guns started suddenly. Somebody shouted ‘History of Humiliation’ respected and admired globally”. “History as a polit- the tarmac at Indira Gandhi International Airport yesterday. — AFP ‘The Japanese are coming!’, and then we rushed Yesterday’s ceremonies fit into months of com- ical tool rather than an academic discourse is into the house, shut the door and hid under the memorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of something that he cannot, and as a politician will beds,” said Yan, now 95. “I was so scared. Everyone the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against not, ignore,” he said. “So we have to expect more of Turkish plane diverts to was. I don’t know how long the shelling lasted,” she Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist this.” added. The skirmish - whose exact cause remains War, as Beijing calls the global conflict. They will Delhi over mirror ‘threat’ murky - served as pretext for Tokyo’s forces to seize culminate in September with a huge military ‘Down with the Little Japanese’ Beijing, triggering eight years of full-scale war, parade in Beijing. China’s official news agency It is a deep-seated narrative among ordinary NEW DELHI: A Turkish Airlines flight from adding that passengers were now being ques- which China says saw more than 20 million of its Xinhua said Monday that in the run-up to the Chinese. Yan still occupies the same traditional Bangkok to Istanbul made an emergency land- tioned about the message. The plane was being citizens die. march the country’s “silver screens and theatre one-storey courtyard house where she lived in ing in India yesterday after a bomb threat was examined in an isolated bay at the airport after China’s Communist leaders use historical victim- stages will be dominated by a wave of war stories 1937 and neighbours greet her respectfully as she scrawled in lipstick on a bathroom mirror, offi- the crew informed the pilot of a note on the mir- hood as a key element of their claim to a right to about Japan’s invasion of China”. edges forward with tiny steps on minute feet - she cials said. All 148 passengers and crew were ror of the plane’s washroom reportedly scribbled power and commemorations near the bridge yes- No fewer than 183 stage performances will be is one of only a few women still alive to have had immediately evacuated after the plane landed with lipstick. Sharma said that the plane was fly- terday highlighted the anniversary. In front of giant mounted, it said, with 10 new films, 12 TV series, 20 her feet bound, an agonising Chinese custom that safely in an isolated area at New Delhi’s Indira ing over the central Indian city of Nagpur when red banners, Liu Yunshan - a member of the ruling documentaries and three cartoon series aired saw young girls’ feet tightly wrapped to prevent Gandhi International Airport following the third the pilot requested air traffic control for an party’s politburo standing committee, its most nationwide, and more than 100 books and 20 elec- them growing. “Tell them ‘Down with the little bomb scare to hit the airline this year. “Crew saw emergency landing and diverted its course to powerful body - addressed hundreds of military tronic publications released. The drive was intend- Japanese!’” one of her neighbours shouted as she message on bathroom mirror that bomb in car- Delhi. It is the third such bomb threat to affect personnel, veterans and schoolchildren. Beijing ed to “illustrate the Chinese people’s bitter journey talked to AFP. go hold... Plane will be inspected for explosives,” Turkish Airlines this year alone. In April, a Turkish regularly accuses Tokyo of failing to fully acknowl- towards victory” and “highlight the anchoring role” The slogan was chanted by many taking part in the airport’s chief spokesman Saptarshi Sanyal Airlines passenger plane flying from Istanbul to edge wartime atrocities, and relations between the the Communist Party played in the war, it quoted anti-Japanese protests that Chinese authorities told AFP by text message. Basel turned back over Bulgarian air space after Asian powers have plunged in recent years as it Tian Jin, the deputy head of China’s media regula- allowed to take place in 2012 after Tokyo formally Mahesh Sharma, junior minister of civil avia- the discovery of a written note warning of a aggressively asserts its claims to disputed islands in tor, as saying. nationalised tiny islets known as the Diaoyus in tion, said that bomb disposal squads and bomb on board, which turned out to be false. A the East China Sea. For decades, the ruling party has played down China and the Senkakus in Japan. “I don’t think national security teams had not found any month before that, another one of its flights fly- When the gunfire stopped Yan’s petrified family the role of the larger Nationalist forces - which they Japan has admitted its crimes even today,” Yan said. bomb after scouring the main cabin. “Inside of ing from Istanbul to Brazil made a similar emer- - she lived with her husband, his parents and sisters defeated at the end of China’s civil war in 1949 - in “And I don’t think Japan will ever be a good friend the cabin has shown that there is no explosive gency landing in Morocco after the crew found a - emerged from under their beds but were too the conflict with Japan. Instead the Communist of China.” — AFP there. Now we are screening the luggage por- written note in one of the plane’s toilets warning tion,” Sharma told the NDTV news network, of a bomb.— AFP Taleban launch attacks on NATO, spy agency

KABUL: Two suicide attacks in Kabul yesterday bomb the street was strewn with rubble and bro- military convoy on the main road to Kabul air- targeting first NATO then the Afghan spy agency ken glass after the blast, which left a white SUV port, killing at least two Afghan civilians and left one person dead and five wounded, officials badly damaged and on fire. Kabul police wounding around 17. A week before that, insur- said, as the Taleban step up their annual summer spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said two of the gents launched a brazen attack on the Afghan offensive. In the first incident, a Taleban suicide three wounded in the first attack were civilians parliament. Police and soldiers beat back the car bomber targeting a NATO vehicle rocked the who suffered minor injuries and described the attack with only two civilians killed. But the inci- southeast of the city, wounding three people third as a “foreigner”, but there was no confirma- dent highlighted the Taleban’s continuing abili- including one described by the police as a “for- tion of identity or nationality. “We can confirm an ty to strike even at the heart of the heavily- eigner”. An hour later three Taleban attackers attack on coalition forces occurred in Kabul at secured capital. NATO’s combat mission formally tried to storm a branch office of the National approximately 11:30am,” a spokesperson for the ended in December after 13 years, but a small Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s main coalition told AFP adding that no foreign forces follow-up foreign force named Resolute intelligence agency. were killed in the attack. Support has stayed on to train and support local One militant on a motorcycle blew himself up, The second attack, on the spy agency, security forces. Stretched on multiple fronts and killing a guard, before other guards killed his two occurred in the same area of the city. “One attack- facing record casualties, Afghan forces are colleagues. It is the third time in three weeks that er on a motorcycle detonated his explosives at struggling to rein in the militants even as the the Afghan capital has come under significant the gate of an NDS office, killing a guard and government makes repeated efforts to jump- attack, and a week ago another NATO convoy wounding two,” said Abdul Rahman Rahimi Kabul start peace negotiations. The Taliban’s annual was hit by a suicide bomber on the road to the police chief. “The other two attackers who tried summer offensive, which began in late April, has airport. NATO ended its combat mission in the to enter the building were killed by other guards.” sent civilian and military casualties soaring and war-torn country in December, maintaining a The toll was confirmed by the NDS in a state- threatened major cities for the first time in a smaller residual force for training but leaving ment. decade. A fierce battle has been going on in the Afghan troops and police to face their first “fight- northern province of Kunduz, where last month ing season” battling the Taliban on their own. Summer Offensive Taleban fighters threatened to overrun their first KABUL: Smoke and flames rise from burning vehicles at the site of a bomb blast The Taleban claimed the attacks in messages Yesterday’s violence comes a week after a provincial capital since being toppled from that targeted NATO forces yesterday. —AFP on their Twitter account. In the wake of the car Taleban suicide car bomber targeted a NATO power in 2001. — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

PAMPLONA: A Jandilla bull charges at a participant during the first “encierro” (bull-run) of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain yesterday. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups. — AFP

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Continued from Page 1 Nevertheless, we should never be impatient if our supplication Continued from Page 1 wish and that God considers that they prayed here.” has not yet been answered. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said, Ameer Taha, from Jerusalem, held up a note for his Allah causes their supplications to rise above the clouds, and “You will be answered as long as you are not impatient and say, ‘I gates of heaven are opened for them, and God says, ‘By My have made a supplication and I have not been answered ‘“(Al- Many of those taking selfies were holding up hand- mother’s family, who he said were prevented from Might, I will help you, even if it be after a while’” (Tirmidhi). Muwatta, 15:29). He also said, “Supplicate and be assured of written notes addressed to relations who were not able coming to Jerusalem by Israeli security forces. “We take How should we supplicate? The Quran says, “The most beau- being answered, and know that Allah does not answer a suppli- to be there. “This message is for my relatives and son these pictures because we really care about them and tiful names belong to Allah, so call on Him by them” (7:180). cation from a careless heart which is not concentrating” because they are not allowed to enter Jerusalem,” said want them to enter Al Aqsa (through the pictures),” he Aishah said that the Prophet (PBUH) loved short but comprehen- (Tirmidhi). Ibtisam Thaher, a mother from the West Bank city of said. Mahdi Al-Karaki, from Hebron in the West Bank, sive, meaningful supplications more than others. He frequently If you notice that your prayers are never answered, it would Ramallah. On a piece of paper she had written: “Al said he just wanted to capture a piece of personal his- prayed, “O Allah, give us all the good of this world, and the good be useful to examine your deeds to see if there is an obstacle. For Aqsa’s minarets are calling you and praying for you, tory. “I haven’t been to Al Aqsa for 20 years,” he said. of the life hereafter, and save us from the punishment of the fire.” example, the Prophet (PBUH) mentioned a person who “lifts his He supplicated to God throughout the day, from the time he hands and makes supplication, ‘O Lord, O Lord,’ but his diet is Amjad. “They wanted to have a presence at Al Aqsa dur- “It’s a memory from Al Aqsa that I will post on woke up until he laid his head down to sleep - while eating, unlawful, his drink is unlawful, his clothes are unlawful, and his ing Ramadan,” she said. “I hope that I achieved their Facebook.” — Reuters dressing, walking, riding, working and visiting. He was known to nourishment is unlawful. How then can his supplication be have prayed, “My Lord, help me and do not turn against me. accepted?” You have nothing to lose by supplicating, even if you Grant me victory, and do not grant victory over me. never get what you asked for in this life. It could be that Almighty UAE businessman gives 3rd of assets... Plan on my behalf and do not plan against me. Guide me, and God, in His wisdom, may have not answered your prayer because make the guidance easy for me. Grant me victory over those who it was not in your best interest. Continued from Page 1 would be for private school education between act wrongfully toward me. O Allah, make me grateful to You, The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Any Muslim who makes a supplica- grades 6-12 as the government already supplies mindful of You, in awe of You, devoted to your obedience, hum- tion containing nothing which is sinful or which involves break- The foundation aims to spend 4.2 billion its citizens with generous scholarships for col- ble, penitent, and ever turning to You in repentance. My Lord, ing ties of relationship will be given for it by Allah one of three dirhams ($1.1 billion) over the next 10 years back- lege, said Abdulaziz, who will chair the founda- accept my repentance, wash away my sins, answer my supplica- things: He will give him swift answer, or store it up for him in the ing at least 15,000 scholarships initially for UAE tion’s board of trustees. “People drop out of high tion, clearly establish my evidence, guide my heart, make my next world, or turn away from him an equivalent amount of evil” tongue true, and draw out malice from my breast” (Abu (Tirmidhi). There are many beautiful supplications throughout nationals, before being expanded to include Arab school because they don’t have the funding to go Dawood). Whatever our need, there is none who can answer our the Quran, including Al-Fatiha (chapter 1) and the last 2 verses of expatriates living in the Gulf state and Arabs else- from a small village to a big city where the best prayers except our Creator. chapter 2. For a comprehensive supplication that covers all our where in the Arab world. universities are,” Abdulaziz told reporters. “This is We should be resolute and optimistic when making supplica- aspirations, we should often repeat verse 201 in chapter 2: “Our The scholarships would mostly be for high- a waste for the Arab world where such brilliant tions, even though sometimes we may pray again and again, yet Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in the life to come quality university education in a student’s coun- students don’t have access to proper college edu- we do not immediately have an answer to our prayer. and keep us safe from the torment of the Fire!” Amen! try of residence, although for UAE nationals it cation.” — Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 ANALYSIS

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Issues Desperate Gazans resort to makeshift homes year after war

By Adel Zaanoun

ouad Abu Asser and his family have returned to Ftheir neighborhood amid the rubble of the Gaza Strip-but something resembling a shed is what they now call home. “We hear talk and more talk, but we still haven’t seen anything,” the 54-year-old father said, referring to the slow pace of rebuilding in the Gaza Strip, devastated by last summer’s war with Israel. Wednesday marks a year since the war’s start, and thousands of homes in Gaza still have not been rebuilt, forcing residents like Abu Asser to construct makeshift houses where they once lived out of prefab- ricated supplies or rubble. The delay has been blamed on a variety of reasons, including Israel’s strict block- As Republican infighting grows, donors call for calm ade preventing the shipment of construction material into the coastal enclave and the failure of promised By Steve Peoples and Julie Bykowicz money to arrive from international donors. While few party officials see the reality television star as a trying to avoid intraparty backbiting, however, they can’t seem The result has been Gazans seeking to house their credible candidate, he has lashed out at a growing number of to avoid it. In an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” families in whatever way they can, with some 18,000 orried about “Republican-on-Republican violence,” top Republican critics who have condemned his recent description Cruz refused to condemn Trump’s comments, saying he’s not homes either destroyed or severely damaged during Wparty donors are taking action, with one firing off a let- of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists. Trump over the going to perpetrate “Republican-on-Republican violence.” the 50-day war. At the height of the conflict, the third ter calling for more civility and another seeking to weekend posted a message from another user on his Twitter Christie, who entered the presidential race last week, wasn’t hav- in six years, the United Nations had transformed 91 of block businessman Donald Trump from the debate stage alto- account charging that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush “has to like ing it. its schools in the Gaza Strip into shelters to house gether. Foster Friess, a Wyoming-based investor and one of the the Mexican illegals because of his wife,” Columba, who was “I find it ironic, right, that Ted Cruz is giving lectures on some 300,000 displaced. Short of money, the UN party’s top 20 donors in the last presidential contest, issued a let- born in Mexico. Campaigning in New Hampshire over the week- Republican-on-Republican violence,” Christie said on Fox agency for Palestinian refugees recently closed the last ter to 16 White House prospects and the Republican National end, Bush said he “absolutely” took the remark personally. Trump News, accusing the Texan of sponsoring hardball ads against shelter. Some of the displaced have been able to Committee late last week calling for candidates to stay on the has not apologized, but said Monday evening “somebody else” Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander in the 2014 primaries. “I return home, but more than 100,000 remain home- “civility reservation.” retweeted the message and “I don’t know anything about it” mean, all due respect, I don’t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz.” less-more than five percent of the Strip’s 1.8 million “Our candidates will benefit if they all submit to Ronald even though it was under his account. The Republican National Committee has dramatically reduced population. It is a major part of the misery facing Reagan’s 11th Commandment, ‘Thou shall not speak ill of a fel- Trump stood firm on his comments about immigrants, saying the number of primary debates before the 2016 contest large- Gazans a year after the war, which killed 2,251 low Republican,’” Friess wrote in a letter sent to Republican earlier Monday “the Mexican government is forcing their most ly to avoid the kind of attacks that bloodied their 2012 nomi- Palestinians, including 551 children, and 73 people on National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. A copy was unwanted people into the United States,” and “criminals, drug nee, Mitt Romney. As the last GOP nomination heated up in the Israeli side. obtained by The Associated Press. In the dispatch, Friess cites the dealers, rapists” are among them. He said “many fabulous peo- January 2012, Romney and former House Speaker Newt backing of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and Chicago Cubs ple” come from Mexico and the US is better for them, but this Gingrich got particularly nasty. Gingrich joined Obama sup- ‘Our only option’ co-owner Todd Ricketts. “Would you join the effort to inspire a country is “a dumping ground for Mexico.” Republican donor porters in attacking Romney’s business background, calling Abu Asser put together three prefabricated cabins- more civil way of making their points?” Friess wrote. “If they drift John Jordan said Monday that GOP leaders should take steps to him a “vulture capitalist.” forming two floors-amid the rubble of his former off the ‘civility reservation,’ let’s all immediately communicate block Trump’s access to the first presidential debate in early Donors remember those exchanges well and fear a repeat of home. Provided by Jordan, the cabins resemble the that to them.” August. Debate organizers at Fox News Channel, backed by the primary vitriol would lead to another general election loss. type used at construction sites, with white and grey The call for calm comes as the sprawling Republican field Republican National Committee, have released guidelines say- “Ninety-nine percent of leading donors saw the candidates walls. There is a room about nine square meters inside shows signs it could tip into a bare-knuckles struggle for the ing the top 10 candidates in national polling will be allowed to carve each other up in the 2012 primaries and come out weaker the first floor-not much bigger than a large closet-as nomination - a scenario that the party’s elite donors see as a dis- participate. Trump would qualify under the current terms, while for it and are determined not to let that happen again,” said Fred well as a small kitchen and bathroom. The two others tressing echo of four years ago. New Jersey Gov Chris Christie on contenders such as Ohio’s two-term Gov. John Kasich would not. Malek, who has helped raise money for GOP presidential candi- of the same size are perched on the gutted building’s Monday charged that Republicans don’t need Texas Sen. Ted “Someone in the party ought to start some sort of petition dates for four decades. Responding to Friess’ letter, former concrete slabs above. Fifteen family members live in Cruz’s “lectures.” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker repeatedly dismiss- saying, ‘If Trump’s going to be on the stage, I’m not going to be Arkansas Gov Mike Huckabee wrote he plans on “becoming the the makeshift complex, including two of Abu Asser’s es Republicans in Congress as doing little. And Kentucky Sen. on there with him,’” Jordan told the AP on Monday. “I’m toying nominee by playing a better game, not by breaking the legs of grandchildren who are disabled. Rand Paul regularly jabs his Republican opponents by name. Yet with the idea of it.” “It’s something I feel strongly about as some- my rivals.” “I hope that we don’t commit fratricide again as a par- “I live with my wife and our children in a prefabri- no candidate has injected more provocation into the 2016 body who not only cares about the Republican Party, but also ty,” Huckabee wrote, according to a copy of his response cated cabin on the ground floor and my sons Bashir Republican presidential primary than Trump. Latinos,” Jordan said. Even as the other candidates say they’re obtained by the AP.—AP and Salah live with their families in two prefabricated cabins above,” said Abu Asser, who is among the 44 percent of Gazans who are unemployed-what the Heart of darkness: Women dare not walk alone in central Mexico World Bank says is likely the highest rate anywhere. He said he was aware of the risks of collapse, but went By Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias ahead with the Lego-like construction anyway “because it was our only option after having suffered uadalupe Reyes clings to thoughts of so much”, with the family having constantly relied on Gher daughter one day flying a plane, a others for shelter. Many other Gazans have used simi- dream for the 18-year-old girl. Until lar types of construction or even more basic materials the teenager vanished 10 months ago in cen- to provide shelter for themselves. tral Mexico. Mariana is the latest in a growing number of girls and women who have disap- ‘No future’ peared, or worse, in the populous State of There has not been a total lack of progress in Mexico, which has become the most danger- rebuilding, but the work done so far has been ous region for women in a country that is all nowhere near what is necessary. A spokesman for UN too used to violence. The authorities believe relief agency UNRWA, Adnan Abu Hasna, said 61,000 they found Mariana’s remains and buried homes have been renovated. However, such work has them in a common grave without the pres- often involved relatively minor repairs apart from the ence of her family. But like many Mexicans 18,000 destroyed or severely damaged homes. looking for their missing kin, Reyes has little Millions of dollars were pledged to Gaza by interna- trust in the authorities. tional donors at a conference in Cairo in October, but Late last month, the desperate mother much of it has not been delivered. Robert Turner, UNR- convinced officials to exhume fragments of WA operations director for Gaza, said the agency has skull and bones to conduct her own DNA only received financing for 200 homes-despite having tests.”I’m not losing hope that she’s alive. But to rebuild 7,000 under his program. Essam Jouda has we have to wait for the DNA results,” Reyes been trying to maintain hope, if only for the benefit of said, almost whispering, after independent his 10-year-old son, Thaer, who lost his leg in the war forensic experts dug up the remains in a and spent months recovering in a German hospital. cemetery of the rural community of Jouda had not informed his son that his mother Nextlalpan. She was never allowed to see the and four of his brothers and sisters had been killed in remains before the burial. “They said that we the war until he returned. “When I would call my were not psychologically ready and that we father, he would tell me that my mother and my broth- had to accept what happened,” Reyes said. The ers and sisters were sleeping,” Thaer said with tears in willowy, black-haired girl, who took violin les- his eyes. “I was angry with mum because she never sons online, left her home on September 17 spoke to me. Actually mum is in paradise.” They are last year to make photocopies of documents now living in a prefabricated cabin at a refugee camp she needed to get a pilot scholarship. She in the north of the Gaza Strip. “We want to live, but never came back. without reconstruction of our homes, we will have no ‘The devil’s curve’ ECATEPEC: View of a mural at the foundation “Solidarity with Families” of victims of femicides reading “No More Femicides” life and our children will have no future,” said the 54- in Ecatepec, Mexico state. — AFP year-old Jouda. — AFP In the 1990s, Ciudad Juarez became infa- mous as the bodies of hundreds of murdered women turned up around the desert border 80,000 people have died and another 22,000 looked over a section of the grayish waterway prosecutor’s office did not provide figures of city. But the State of Mexico, a region known have gone missing. “Mexico lives a generalized known as “the devil’s curve.” “This is worse female murders despite repeated requests by as Edomex that surrounds Mexico City, at the violence which is the product of a militarized than Ciudad Juarez. It doesn’t stop,” said Irinea AFP. But Garcia, the gender crimes prosecutor, All articles appearing on these heart of the country, has eclipsed Juarez. strategy against organized crime and this Buendia, mother of a young woman who, said that “in numeric terms it is not as terrible pages are the personal opinion of Mutilated, burned or half-naked bodies have worsens the violence against women,” he said. according to an initial investigation, commit- as civil organizations say.” turned up in fields, abandoned lots or sewage “It’s a situation that gets worse because of ted suicide in 2010. Buendia took her case to Meanwhile, the body count keeps piling the writers. Kuwait Times takes no waters in the state of 15 million people. the high levels of impunity.” Maria de la Luz the Supreme Court, which in a landmark rul- up. Recently, passersby in Ecatepec found a responsibility for views expressed According to the national statistics insti- Estrada, director of the National Femicide ing forced authorities to reopen the investiga- woman in agony on the street: half her body therein. Kuwait Times invites read- tute, 14 of every 100 murders of women took Citizen Observatory, said two women disap- tion and treat the death of Mariana Lima as a was burned and still smoking. She was dead place in Edomex between 2008 and 2013, pear every day in Edomex. Several bodies possible femicide. by the time the police arrived. The victim was ers to voice their opinions. Please compared to 13.5 in Chihuahua, the state have been found in the De Los Remedios river, a single mother who had disappeared as she send submissions via email to: opin- where Juarez is located.The Edomex prosecu- in which sewer waters are dumped in the city ‘Never walk alone’ headed home from buying milk. Many [email protected] or via snail tor for gender crimes, Dylcia Garcia, said the of Ecatepec. That’s where Mariana’s alleged The journalist Humberto Padgett, in his women live in fear in Edomex. A group of mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. murders are due to domestic violence or sexu- remains were discovered. “This is one of the book “The Dead of the State,” wrote that 1,997 young women walking along a busy pedestri- al assaults. But the president of the Justice, favorite places to dump bodies,” said David women were murdered in Edomex between an bridge recalled how a neighbor disap- The editor reserves the right to edit Human Rights and Gender organization, Mancera, president of the civic association 2005 and 2011 — a period during which peared two months ago. “We are never alone. any submission as necessary. Rodolfo Dominguez, said the homicides come Solidarity with the Families. He gestured at Enrique Pena Nieto was governor of the state. We try to go in groups wherever we go,” said in the context of a brutal drug war in which how “easy” it is to get rid of corpses as he He is now the country’s president. The state Ayde, 17.— AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 SPORTS

Ferrer to play Davis Cup Martina joins Southampton Quah cleared to swim BARCELONA: Spain’s new Davis Cup captain Conchita Martinez sprung a sur- LONDON: Southampton have signed defender Cuco Martina from SINGAPORE: Singaporean teenager Quah Zheng Wen has been cleared prise yesterday by naming world number seven David Ferrer in her team for Dutch side FC Twente, the Premier League club said yesterday. Martina, to compete at the world swimming championships and the 2016 next week’s Group I tie away to Russia. a Curacao international, has signed a two-year deal at St Mary’s Olympics after the Ministry of Defence approved a request to defer his Ferrer was not expected to make himself available for the July 17-19 match Stadium. No details of a fee were released. mandatory national service. The 18-year-old, who won 12 medals, includ- in Vladivostok following a dispute between top players and the Spanish tennis The 25-year-old previously played for Saints assistant manager ing seven golds at last month’s Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, was in dan- federation (RFET) over the appointment last year of Gala Leon as the nation’s Erwin Koeman, the brother of Southampton manager Ronald, at RKC ger of missing both events because he was due to enlist for national serv- first female Davis Cup captain. After weeks of upheaval at the federation and Waalwijk. ice on Aug. 31. However, the Armed Forces Council (AFC) issued a state- the naming of a new president, Leon was sacked last week and Martinez, a for- “I know Ronald Koeman and Erwin Koeman-I worked with Erwin ment on Tuesday saying his enlistment had been delayed for a year, allow- mer Wimbledon champion who is also Spain’s Fed Cup captain, was named to for one year and everything was good,” Martina told Southampton’s ing him to compete at next month’s world championships in Russia and replace her until the end of the year. website (www.saintsfc.co.uk). “He knows my qualities and I know what Ferrer, who pulled out of Wimbledon on the eve of the tourna- the Olympics in Rio.“Quah has satisfied the conditions for defer- he wants. “It was a dream for me to play in the Premier League, and ment of exceptional sportsmen who can win honour for ment with an elbow injury, will be joined in the Spain team by finally I can play now. I hope to play many games and show the fans Pablo Andujar, Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Marc Lopez and David Singapore, as his recent performances were better than the who I am.” Marrero, Martinez told a news conference in Barcelona. The most recent Olympic Games’ qualifying times in the 200m five-times winners, missing the likes of Rafa Nadal, Feliciano Southampton’s executive director of football, Les Reed, said: “Cuco butterfly,” the statement said. Lopez and Tommy Robredo, need a victory to have a chance of is a versatile and experienced defender who will add strength and “The AFC has therefore decided to grant deferment to getting back into the elite World Group for next year’s compe- depth to our squad ahead of the coming season. Mr Quah from full-time NS (national service) till 31 tition. “I did not have much time to put the team together,” “Injuries to Ryan Bertrand and Bevis Mugabi highlighted the need August 2016, for him to train and participate in the Martinez said. “It has been a difficult situation because two to bring in another defender, and Cuco is the perfect solution.” 2016 Olympic Games.” In 2013, Quah’s team mate days before the squad announcement everyone had their Koeman’s side have also sold England right-back Nathaniel Clyne to Joseph Schooling, who won nine gold medals at the commitments and calendar plans, all important, and it was- Liverpool. Southampton open their Premier League campaign at SEA Games, was granted a deferment from national n’t easy. —Reuters Newcastle United on Aug. 9. — Reuters service until after the Rio Olympics. —Reuters White Sox see off Blue Jays

CHICAGO: Chris Sale’s bid for a record strike- center, and Cody Asche’s throw home pulled out streak ended, but he pitched a six-hitter catcher Carlos Ruiz away from the plate. He to help the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 victo- stretched in an effort to tag Ethier, but lost the ry over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday ball in the process. Rollins came home on a night in the fastest major league game in double by All-Star rookie Joc Pederson, giving almost four years. the Dodgers a 10-7 lead in a game that lasted 4 Sale (7-4) had struck out at least 10 batters hours, 13 minutes. in eight straight starts, matching the major league mark set by Pedro Martinez in 1999. CARDINALS 6, CUBS 0 The All-Star left-hander finished with six John Lackey threw seven scoreless innings strikeouts while outpitching former mentor and St. Louis beat Chicago despite Jon Lester Mark Buehrle (9-5), who also went the dis- taking a no-hitter into the seventh. tance. There were no walks in a game that Signed to a six-year, $155 million deal over took only 1 hour, 54 minutes. the offseason, Lester (4-7) remained winless in It was the speediest big league game since nine straight starts since beating Pittsburgh on Tampa Bay and Kansas City took 1:53 on Aug. 9, May 16. He allowed two hits and two unearned

MLB results/standings

Tampa Bay 8, NY Yankees 1; Toronto 10, Detroit 5; Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 1; Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 0 (10 innings); Boston 5, Houston 4; Pittsburgh 5, Cleveland 3; Baltimore 9, Chicago White Sox 1; Kansas City 3, Minnesota 2; St. Louis 3, San Diego 1; Chicago Cubs 2, Miami 0; Seattle 2, Oakland 1; NY Mets 8, LA Dodgers 0; Colorado 6, Arizona 4; LA Angels 12, Texas 6; Washington 3, San Francisco 1.

American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Washington 46 36 .561 - NY Yankees 44 38 .537 - NY Mets 42 41 .506 4.5 Baltimore 43 39 .524 1 Atlanta 40 42 .488 6 Tampa Bay 43 41 .512 2 Miami 35 48 .422 11.5 Toronto 43 41 .512 2 Philadelphia 28 56 .333 19 Boston 39 45 .464 6 Central Division Central Division St. Louis 53 28 .654 - Kansas City 46 33 .582 - Pittsburgh 47 34 .580 6 Minnesota 43 39 .524 4.5 Chicago Cubs 44 36 .550 8.5 Detroit 41 40 .506 6 Cleveland 38 43 .469 9 Cincinnati 36 44 .450 16.5 Chicago White Sox 36 43 .456 10 Milwaukee 36 48 .429 18.5 Western Division Western Division LOS ANGELES: Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Sean O’Sullivan throws to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the first inning of a base- Houston 48 36 .571 - LA Dodgers 46 37 .554 - ball game. — AP San Francisco 42 41 .506 4 LA Angels 44 38 .537 3 winning streak. The game was held up in the The left-hander allowed three runs and nine 2). Jared Hughes (2-1) pitched one scoreless Arizona 40 42 .488 5.5 Texas 41 42 .494 6.5 ninth inning while an injured fan received med- hits. An anticipated pitching duel between inning for the win as the Pirates beat the Padres Seattle 38 44 .463 9 San Diego 39 45 .464 7.5 ical attention after getting hit by a line drive. Keuchel and Carlos Carrasco never materialized. for just the fourth time in the team’s last 20 meet- Oakland 38 47 .447 10.5 Colorado 35 47 .427 10.5 AJ Pierzynski had four hits, including two dou- Carrasco (10-7), who came within one out of a no- ings at PNC Park. bles, and rookie pitcher Matt Wisler won for the hitter against Tampa Bay on Wednesday, allowed third time in four career starts. Johnson launched five runs in four innings. Preston Tucker had a REDS 3, NATIONALS 2 2011, STATS said. All of Chicago’s runs were runs while striking out eight for Chicago. Lester’s a two-run homer to right field in the first off Kyle career-high four hits for Houston, including a solo Eugenio Suarez hit a tiebreaking homer in the unearned. An error by shortstop Jose Reyes lead- bid for his second career no-hitter ended with Lohse. Milwaukee avoided further damage when homer in the fourth. Jose Altuve, Houston’s All- eighth inning, and the Reds stopped the ing off the eighth helped the White Sox score three one out in the seventh when Kris Bryant couldn’t Juan Uribe was caught in a rundown after Star second baseman, matched his career-high Nationals’ nine-game home winning streak. times and overcome a 2-1 deficit. Josh Donaldson handle Jhonny Peralta’s sharp grounder in back attempting to score on a grounder to third later 14-game hitting streak with two hits. Suarez went 3 for 4 with two RBIs to help the and Chris Colabello homered for Toronto. of third base. in the inning. Gerardo Parra hit a leadoff homer Reds snap a three-game skid and improve to 4-0 The Chicago defense then let Lester down for the Brewers in the bottom half, his third this PIRATES 2, PADRES 1 against Washington this year, clinching the season DODGERS 10, PHILLIES 7 when Bryant’s throw to second on a Jason season. Pedro Alvarez singled home the winning run series. With the score knotted at 2, Suarez drove an Jimmy Rollins hit a go-ahead single in the Heyward grounder went into right field. That was with two outs in the ninth inning, sending 0-2 pitch from Casey Janssen (0-2) just inside the seventh inning against his former team, rally- followed by Yadier Molina’s run-scoring sacrifice METS 3, GIANTS 0 Pittsburgh to its eighth win in 10 games. Alvarez’s left-field foul pole. Manny Parra (1-1) worked the ing NL West-leading Los Angeles past last-place fly to right, and Kolten Wong’s RBI single to left Jonathon Niese pitched eight sharp innings second career game-ending hit also beat his seventh and Aroldis Chapman got three outs for his Philadelphia. With one out, Jeanmar Gomez that put St. Louis ahead 2-0. for his first win in nearly two months, and New father-in-law, Padres interim manager Pat 17th save. One of Chapman’s fastballs was clocked gave up consecutive singles to Yasiel Puig and York beat San Francisco to hand the World Series Murphy. Andrew McCutchen started the winning at 103 mph. Danny Espinosa homered for the Andre Ethier, who moved up on pinch-hitter BRAVES 5, BREWERS 3 champions their seventh straight defeat. Johnny rally with a one-out walk off Brandon Maurer (5- Nationals, who had won 12 of 15 overall. — AP Alberto Callaspo’s groundout to the pitcher. Kelly Johnson homered and drove in three Monell snapped a scoreless tie with a two-run Rollins followed with a two-run single to left- runs as Atlanta ended Milwaukee’s eight-game double in the ninth against his former team. Michael Cuddyer had two hits, including a single Fans fight weather to that started the winning rally, to help the Mets improve to 3-1 on a six-game West Coast trip. It was New York’s second consecutive shutout, attend annual classic including an 8-0 victory Sunday at Dodger CEDAR RAPIDS: Weather delayed and Jordan Spieth, Jason Day, Davis Love III and Stadium behind rookie Steven Matz. shortened the event. But, summer rains Stewart Cink to town. Juan Lagares added an RBI single to make it 3- weren’t enough to keep fans away or damp- “It’s a once a year opportunity,” O’Donnell 0, and Jeurys Familia closed for his 23rd save. en the spirit of the event. Fans still lined fair- said. “Big names in golf don’t come around Mets pitchers have allowed exactly three hits in ways and huddled around greens to get here often. I wanted my kids to experience each of their last three wins. glimpses of their favorite golf professionals this, too.” Evan O’Neil, who plans to play golf and celebrities play in the fifth Zach next spring as a freshman at West Branch, TIGERS 12, MARINERS 5 Johnson Foundation Golf Classic Monday at had a chance to see top golfers like Johnson Nick Castellanos hit a home run and drove in Elmcrest Country Club. and Spieth, who were two of the most pop- four runs to lead a 19-hit outburst from Detroit in Golfers and spectators weren’t fazed by ular attractions. a win over Seattle. Castellanos had a season-high precipitation and wet grounds for the chari- He gathered with others along ropes to four hits and matched a season best with four ty fundraiser. Johnson was flattered, but not talk with and request autographs from RBIs. Victor Martinez added four hits, while J.D. shocked by the turnout. famous participants. He had an exchange Martinez had three hits and two RBIs. Mayckol “This community never ceases to amaze with former University of Iowa and National Guaipe (0-1) took the loss after allowing three me,” Johnson said. “They just come out. They Football League tight end Dallas Clark, who runs on two hits and a walk without getting an want to support. They want to help. They was one of six to seven players to sign a sou- out in relief. Alfredo Simon (8-5) gave up five runs want to basically wrap their arms around venir flag. “It’s pretty awesome,” Evan O’Neil on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings to earn the win. things like this and truly be a part of some- said. “Even though it’s only nine instead of Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma allowed five thing special.” 18 holes, it’s great.” runs on eight hits in five-plus innings. He struck Jan O’Neil, of Iowa City, attended with Johnson checked weather radars in the out three in his return from a strain in his back her 14-year-old son, Evan. Rain began when morning and worried that play would be and right shoulder area that sent him to the dis- they arrive, forcing them to wait it out at a canceled. Players and watchers stuck it out. abled list in April. nearby school. They weren’t deterred by the According to reports, more than $835,000 forecast. “We knew we’d come regardless,” was raised for Kids on Course, which bene- TWINS 4, ORIOLES 2 Jan O’Neil said. “We were hopeful.” fits students at Grant, Harrison and Van Brian Dozier hit a two-run homer in the 10th Doug Skeries, of Cedar Rapids, attended Buren Elementary Schools, inspiring confi- inning to lift Minnesota to the victory. Dozier for the second straight year and third over- dence in youth to realize individual poten- lined a 2-1 pitch from Tommy Hunter (2-2) into all. He was in place in time to see Jonathan tial in and out of the classroom by providing the seats in left for his 17th homer. Earlier in the Moore and Johnson play the No. 1 hole. “We creative and inventive opportunities for day, Dozier was selected as one of the five candi- sat in the car until the rain died down,” he connecting students and their families with dates for the final roster spot on the AL All-Star said. Brian O’Donnell, of Cedar Rapids, made the community and higher learning. team. Trevor May (5-7) pitched a scoreless 10th his first trip to the charity golf celebration, “We had three hours of good fun out inning to earn the win in his first relief appear- bringing his sons, Brady, Blake and Luke. The there and a great evening (Sunday) night,” ance of the season. Torii Hunter and Aaron Hicks star-studded field was a factor and they out- Johnson said. “We raised a lot of money for also homered for Minnesota. Manny Machado lasted the rain in the clubhouse, talking with what my board and, I know, our support and Adam Jones went deep for Baltimore. friends. “We came to watch with the lineup staff and this community knows is a great they have here,” O’Donnell said. “We heard it program. “I’m humbled,” Johnson said. “I’m ASTROS 9, INDIANS 4 was a very family friendly event.” excited. We’re helping kids and families Dallas Keuchel pitched six innings on the O’Donnell is the principal at St. Pius that have their backs against the wall, so to same day he was selected for the AL All-Star Catholic School. Johnson graduated from speak. If we can give them a little glimpse team, leading Houston to the road win. Keuchel Pius before attending Regis High School. He of hope and maybe even a little bit of (11-3), who leads the league in wins and is sec- serves as a role model with his efforts and direction and some opportunity all the ond with a 2.14 ERA, is a strong candidate to start CHICAGO: Toronto Blue Jays’ Devon Travis (29), reacts after striking out during the third the ZJFGC brings top PGA players like more better.” — AP inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox. — AP next Tuesday’s game in Cincinnati. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 SPORTS Mayweather stripped of WBO welterweight belt

WASHINGTON: Floyd Mayweather was two 154-pound world titles he holds, the Monday stripped by the World Boxing WBO World Championship Committee Organization of the welterweight world received no response from him or his title he won by beating Manny Pacquiao legal representatives on this matter. “The two months ago in what was dubbed WBO World Championship Committee is “the fight of the century”. allowed no other alternative but to cease Mayweather had failed to meet the to recognize Floyd Mayweather, Jr. as the deadline last Friday for paying the WBO Welterweight Champion of the $200,000 sanctioning fee required by the World and vacate his title.” Pacquiao told WBO after he took the belt from AFP yesterday that he thought the WBO Pacquiao on May 2 in Las Vegas, in the had been fair to his former opponent. richest fight of all time, earning a report- “Maybe he just didn’t want to pay the ed $220 million in the process. sanctioning fee. He was given enough WBO rules require boxers to pay 3 per- time to fulfil his responsibilities as WBO cent of their purse to fight for a world champion and to decide whether he title up to a maximum of $200,000. The should relinquish his WBO 147lb crown,” rules also prohibit WBO champions to the Filipino boxer said. hold any belts in any other weight divi- “I think the WBO championship com- sions. Mayweather is currently also the mittee behaved fairly before taking away WBC and WBA champion at junior mid- his crown.” After Mayweather (48-0, 26 dleweight (154lb), as well as at welter- KOs) defeated Pacquiao to unify three of weight (147lb). the four major welterweight world titles, A statement on the Puerto Rico-based he had declared that would vacate all his sanctioning body’s website confirmed titles in order to give younger fighters that Mayweather, regarded as the best the chance to win belts. “I don’t know if it pound-for-pound boxer in the world, will be Monday or maybe a couple was no longer the WBO champion. weeks,” Mayweather said at the post- “ Mayweather, Jr. failed to pay the fight news conference. $200,000.000 fee required of him as a “I’ll talk to my team and see what we participant of a WBO World need to do. Other fighters need a Championship Contest,” said the state- chance.” American Timothy Bradley, who ment. defeated countryman Jessie Vargas for DAYTONA: In this photo made early Monday, July 6, 2015, Austin Dillon (3) goes airborne and hits the catch fence as he was involved in a multi- “Despite affording Mayweather Jr. the the WBO interim welterweight belt on car crash on the final lap of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race. — AP courtesy of an extension to advise us of June 27, is now expected to be formally his position within the WBO elevated to full champion status by the Frightening NASCAR wreck Welterweight Division and to vacate the WBO.— AFP puts safety in the spotlight

DAYTONA BEACH: Riding bumper-to-bumper into victory lane at nearly 3 a.m. Monday after France said Monday that series engineers began at nearly 200 mph (322 kph), NASCAR driver watching the last-lap wreck in his rearview mir- examining the accident just five hours after Austin Dillon was smack in the middle of a pack ror. Runner-up Jimmie Johnson said Dillon was Dillon’s crash in the race, which was delayed by of cars headed to the checkered flag early lucky to be alive. more than three hours due to rain. “This is auto Monday morning when he was suddenly sent on That Dillon walked away with only a sore arm racing. We are going to have challenges and we the ride of his life. and tailbone, and only five fans suffered minor are going to have hard crashes,” France said. “You A wreck that began three rows ahead of him injuries, was a testament to NASCAR’s evolving learn from every single one of these things. The sent cars spinning all over the track. When one safety improvements. Kyle Larson walked away real good news for us is this is what we do: We turned into him, the force of the hit flipped his from a similar accident in a 2013 race at have an entire group of people who woke up car up and over two others. Dillon sailed nearly Daytona. The fence also was shredded, and the today trying to figure out how to make things upside down into the Daytona International debris field injured 28 fans. better.” But no solution will likely ever be perfect. Speedway fence with such a hard hit that it near- Daytona has since reinforced its fencing, and Although Johnson agreed with Dillon that slow- ly brought his car to a sudden stop. The fence part of the track’s ongoing $400 million renova- er speeds might help, “there’s no guarantees.” acted like a slingshot, sending the sheared race tion project has moved seating back a bit from Last weekend was Daytona’s first major event car back onto the track, where it landed on its the fence. “I’m really proud of the fact that the since Kyle Busch broke his right leg and left foot roof and was hit again while the engine block fence worked,” track President Joie Chitwood when he crashed into a concrete wall here in smoldered nearby. Left behind were a handful of said. Six-time NASCAR champion Johnson February. It led to the installation of a longer fans who received only minor injuries from the likened fencing to a “cheese grater” when a race safety barrier and the replacement of about debris, and a gaping hole in the fence, the mesh car sails into it and said the energy from the 200,000 square feet (18,500 square meters) of torn away. And Dillon? impact will almost always lead to heavy debris. grass with asphalt. Nearly everyone in NASCAR feared the worst Although he marveled at the lack of injuries, Busch’s crash led all tracks to review their looking at what remained of his car. Instead, he Johnson had no solution for preventing similar walls, and Dillon’s wreck likely will force a was helped out by rival crews and he gave the incidents. “I don’t know how you keep a 3,500- tougher look at fencing. Earnhardt, who admit- “I’m OK” two-handed wave used by late American pound (1,590-kilogram) car at 200 mph staying ted he questioned his mortality after his father’s bullrider Lane Frost to the stunned crowd. “It hap- in the racetrack,” Johnson said. “The fence held 2001 death and after a pair of concussions side- pened so quick,” said Dillon, the grandson of car up, it did function well, but the debris going off lined him in 2012, said it’s impossible to ever be owner Richard Childress and the first driver into the stands is something I don’t know how 100 percent safe. entrusted to drive the famed No. 3 that had been you can control.” Dillon, though, said NASCAR “These cars are going fast, and when you put out of use since Dale Earnhardt’s fatal 2001 crash must figure out a solution. them in odd, rare circumstances like that, they’re at Daytona. “You’re just holding on and praying “I think our speeds are too high, I really do,” going to go up in the air,” he said. “We do every- that you get through it, get to race again,” he said. he said. “I think everybody can get good racing thing we can and have made a lot of changes “I had just got done stopping and I had crew with lower speeds, and we can work on that and and incorporated a lot of things into these cars members everywhere. I thought that was really then figure out a way to keep cars on the to try to keep them on the ground, but you nev- special and cool. It comforted me pretty quick. ground. We’re fighting hard to make the racing er can in those imperfect situations. And then I just wanted to get out of there and let good; I hope fans enjoy all that. “It’s very dangerous. Racing has always been the fans know that I was OK, let my parents and “You go out there and you hold it wide open very dangerous. Fortunately for us, we’ve gotten grandparents know that I was all right.” to the end, checkers or wrecker, and hope you better and safer in the last (several) years. It’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. was near tears as he pulled make it through.” NASCAR Chairman Brian changed tremendously.” —AP Samoa declares holiday LAS VEGAS: In this May 2, 2015 file photo, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Manny Pacquiao fight in a welterweight unification bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. — AFP for historic All Blacks Test Americans, Briton gored APIA: Samoa is expected to come to a stand- with the exception of the now retired Brad Sonny Bill Williams, who plays Super rugby for still today when the All Blacks launch their Thorn whose place is taken by 17-Test lock the Waikato Chiefs and believes the All Blacks World Cup preparations by playing in the rug- Luke Romano. could be vulnerable. “The pressure is on them in 1st Pamplona bull run by-obsessed island nation for the first time. The backline is more makeshift with Dan because they are the best in the world,” he Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’lele Carter partnering Ellis in the halves, Sonny Bill told the Samoa Observer. PAMPLONA: Two Americans and a Briton bruises sustained in falls and crowd crushes Malielegaoi has declared a half-day holiday to Williams and Ryan Crotty in the centres, and “As a group we believe we can win. The were gored and eight others injured yester- during the nationally-televised run that day as thousands of daredevils dashed lasted just over two minutes. The daily run mark the historic occasion with a raft of public Israel Dagg handed the fullback slot despite boys are really up for it.” Conditions will favour alongside fighting bulls through the streets sees people dashing with six bulls along a activities including a street parade for the All missing all Super rugby since April because of Samoa with temperatures around 30 degrees of this northern Spanish city on the first narrow, 930-yard (850-meter) course from a Blacks. “We have to have a half day. It’s a day injury. “The team picked itself pretty easily. We Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) and a rock-hard bull run of the San Fermin festival, organiz- holding pen to the city’s bullring. The bulls where everyone should prepare to support went for people we want to see and people ground. “I guess on the day you’ll see the kind ers said. are then killed by professional matadors in the boys,” he told the nation of 192,000. World that need game time,” Hansen said. of rugby we’re trying to play. Obviously we Mike Webster, a 38-year-old occupation- bullfights each afternoon. Rugby hall-of-famer Michael Jones, who rep- Samoan coach Stephen Betham has also want to play the Samoan way-physical-and al therapist from Gainesville, Florida, was The nine-day fiesta in Pamplona, which resented both countries in his stellar career, gone for experience drawing on 18 European- see what happens from there,” Sale centre gored as he ran with the bulls in Pamplona features 24-hour street partying, was made said the long-awaited match was “huge” for based players in his 23-man squad and recall- Johnny Leota said. At a church service for the for his 38th time over the last 11 years, he famous in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel Samoans. “It’s certainly something that’s ing 47-Test veteran prop Census Johnston Samoans on Sunday, parish priest Ilalio Fulu said from his hospital bed. “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts thousands going to bring the whole country and the from retirement. urged the players to be “tough, but not San Fermin’s media office said he was of foreign tourists. hundreds of thousands of Samoans around The only Samoan newcomer is New rough”, adding: “If God is with us, who can be gored in the armpit, and Webster told The Bull runs are a traditional part of sum- the world to a standstill,” he said. The signifi- Zealand-born Tim Nanai-Williams, a cousin of against us?” — AFP Associated Press that he hasn’t decided mer festivals across Spain. Dozens are cance of the festival atmosphere was not lost whether he’ll run again because he first injured each year in the runs, most in falls. on All Blacks coach Steve Hansen but he needs to discuss the issue with his wife. Two men have died recently after being warned his world champion side not to be Also gored was a 27-year-old Californian gored by bulls in Spanish festivals - one overawed. identified by the media office only by his Saturday in the eastern town of Grao de “Clearly it’s going to be a big occasion and initials, D.M.O. A 30-year-old Briton with the Castellon and another June 24 in the south- it will be good for our guys to have to do initials A.B.O. was gored in the groin area. western town of Coria. something a bit different and see how they None of the three was said to be in seri- In all, 15 people have died from gorings react, including myself.” ous condition. Three other Americans were in Pamplona since record-keeping began in among the eight others injured, most with 1924 for the San Fermin festival. —AP However, his prime focus is to achieve a successful start to his goal of having the All Blacks become the first team to win back-to- back World Cups. “If we don’t take them seri- ously we will get one right between the eyes because they are a good side.” Samoa is the first of five Tests the All Blacks have before Hansen settles on a 31-man squad to defend their world championship. He started with a squad of 41 and added another nine to compensate for injuries and the unavailability of 17 players involved in Saturday’s Super rugby final between the Otago Highlanders and Wellington Hurricanes. Of the late additions, right wing George Moala will make his international debut while scrum-half Andy Ellis lines up for his first Test since the All Blacks beat France 8-7 in the 2011 World Cup final. APIA: Samoan rugby union players, Tusi Pisi (center left) and Jack Lam (center right) walk The same vastly experienced pack led by along during a parade to celebrate the rugby test they will play against the New Zealand SPAIN: A reveler is tossed by a bull during a celebration held at the bullring after the Richie McCaw which started that final four All Blacks.The All Blacks are making history by playing their first-ever test in the Pacific running of the bulls. — AP years ago will take the field against Samoa islands today. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 SPORTS

FRANCE: The pack rides during the fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 223.5 kilometers (138.9 miles) with start in Seraing, Belgium, and finish in Cambrai, France. — AP Martin in yellow at Tour de France

CAMBRAI: Tony Martin felt nothing but joy as and fortunately I could pay it back.” and had to change bike,” said Martin. had a tantrum and eventually lost around he finally got his hands on the yellow jersey John Degenkolb, the winner of the Paris- “I didn’t believe in the stage victory any 3min 30sec, leaving him 6min 30sec back in that had eluded him by a matter of seconds on Roubaix race whose cobbles were borrowed more, I just wanted to stay with the best but it total and with an uphill struggle to compete the previous three days at the Tour de France. for this stage, took second with Peter Sagan came together at the front and nobody want- for a podium finish. American Tejay Van The 30-year-old three-time world time-trial third. Martin, 30, had spent the first three days ed to chase so I just gave it a try. Garderen is now third overall at 25sec while champion made a daring solo attack from a in second place having lost out to Australian “I didn’t believe in this victory but some- Contador is still eighth at 48sec now. Nibali reduced peloton with 3.3km left of yesterday’s Rohan Dennis by five seconds in the opening how it happened and I still can’t believe it.” has a 1min 50sec gap to the lead with 223.5km cobbled fourth stage and held off the stage time-trial. He ended the second stage After a hectic last 50km, including 11.5km of Quintana at 2min 08sec but the Movistar charging pack to win by three seconds. 3sec behind Fabian Cancellara, who had taken cobbles across six sectors, the ‘fantastic four’ leader will have been relieved he didn’t lose That on its own would have been enough a 4sec bonus on the line for finishing third. favourites of Froome, reigning champion any more time to Froome. to snatch the yellow jersey from 2013 champi- Froome then finished second on the third Vincenzo Nibali, two-time winner Alberto Nibali admitted he was hoping to gain back on Chris Froome’s shoulders but he also took a stage to earn a 6sec bonus that left him just Contador and Colombian Nairo Quintana all time to the man he succeeded last year but 10sec time bonus on the line that gives him a 1sec ahead of Martin. finished in the leading group of around 25 rid- was not too disappointed. “I would have 12sec buffer to Froome in the overall stand- ers. Froome was gracious in losing the yellow hoped for a little more but it was a very diffi- ings. “Pure happiness! All the pressure and all BRAZEN ATTACK jersey. “Congratulations to Tony, it was a great cult day,” said the 30-year-old Italian. “I tried to the sadness from the last days has come off But his brazen attack after the last treacher- performance. He was very close to the yellow stay at the front in the cobbled sectors and now,” said the German Etixx-Quick Step rider. ous cobbles had been crossed paid off. It jersey these last few days and definitely didn’t take any big risks.” Before the race reach- “It’s a really emotional day and stage for almost didn’t, though, as Martin punctured deserves it for all the work he’s done,” said the es the mountains there are still a couple of me, I’m super happy for that. Everything went just before the final cobbled sector and had to Sky team leader. The big loser on the day, stages where time could be gained in uphill FRANCE: Germany’s Tony Martin cele- well and I’m super happy for this team. “They borrow team-mate Matteo Trentin’s bike. though, was French hope Thibaut Pinot, third finishes. “I’m also waiting for climbs because brates as he crosses the finish line to win supported me so much, they always believed “Today, all the bad luck turned into luck! overall last year. He suffered a mechanical there are many stages with little climbs at the the fourth stage of the Tour de France in me even after missing out these last days Before the last cobbled sector I had a flat tyre problem on the penultimate cobbled sector, end. I’ll take it day by day.” — AFP cycling race. — AP India’s fringe players sense Stokes tipped to opportunity fill Flintoff shoes MUMBAI: Zimbabwe may not be the strongest of opponents but the importance of an away series against them is not lost on CARDIFF: England captain Alastair new Australian boss, Trevor Baylis. England’s emerging stars. “I just like the India’s fringe players who are keen to make Cook believes all-rounder Ben Stokes His century at Lord’s showed Stokes way he goes about it ... Jos Buttler, Joe the most of the opportunity in absence of could have as big an impact upon the making good on the promise he Root (as well) ... the guys who will take their seniors. Ashes as Andrew Flintoff did a decade demonstrated with a hundred in just his this side forward in the next 10 years or India rested regular players including ago. Flintoff was the star of England’s second Test, against Australia in Perth a so.” But another of England’s young captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and put 2005 Ashes series victory with 402 runs rare England highlight in the midst of guns, Gary Ballance, is in the middle of a Ajinkya Rahane in charge of a second-string and 24 wickets as they beat Australia in their humiliating 5-0 Ashes defeat in slump although the Yorkshire batsman side for the three ODIs and two Twenty20 a Test campaign for the first time since 2013/14. still averages more than 52 in Tests. matches in Zimbabwe. The Africans are nine 1986/87. Stokes, like Flintoff a hard-hit- Stokes, 24, had plenty of ups and Since scoring a century and two places lower than India in the ODI rankings ting batsman and lively seamer, downs between those two centuries, fifties against the West Indies in April, but for someone like Robin Uthappa, who is impressed during England’s first Test including being left out of England’s Ballance has managed just 138 runs in expected to keep wicket in Dhoni’s absence, win against New Zealand at Lord’s this World Cup squad-as indeed was Cook. nine innings in all cricket. the series is precisely what he had been season with dashing innings of 92 and “I think over the last six months he’s “It hasn’t quite clicked for Gary this waiting for. “I am really grateful that I have 101, as well as taking two wickets in two really matured as a cricketer,” Cook said summer. But his record is fantastic he is finally got a whole series to play than just balls on the last day. of Stokes. “Being left out of the World a really good player,” said fellow left- one or two games a year,” Uthappa, who Mo Farah played the last of his 43 ODIs late last year, Asked who might emerge as an Cup squad hurt him. “We all know he’s hander Cook. “He’s got that fighting atti- told reporters on Monday. Ashes hero this year on the eve of the got the talent to be there, but he would tude to get him through.” “I want to make the most of it and want Britain’s Farah to first Test in Cardiff starting on say himself he wasn’t quite performing Ballance’s technique, which sees him to consolidate my spot in the side.” Uthappa Wednesday, Cook told a news confer- as he should have done to earn selec- move deep into the crease before the made his way into the Indian team as a 21- compete in London ence: “I’m going to pick another all- tion. “I like the way he’s gone about his ball is bowled, has been repeatedly year-old hard-hitting opener and impressed rounder-Ben Stokes. business this summer. He trains incredi- analysed by television pundits but Cook immediately hitting 86 in his ODI debut Anniversary Games “He’s been in fantastic form this sum- bly hard, and physically he’s in really said the Yorkshire batsman had no need against England in 2006. mer. “I believe he’s coming into his own. good shape.” to engage in major changes. He got a decent run in Indian colours but LONDON: Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah He feels comfortable, and I think he’s Cook added: “I think he understands “He’s got to stick to his method, failed to cement his place in the side. At 29, will run in the 3,000 metres at this month’s London going to have a fantastic summer,” the international cricket a little bit better because that’s what’s got him here to he’s now a more confident cricketer and Anniversary Games as he prepares for the world cham- opening batsman added. than he did when he first started. “I average 50-odd in Test cricket-a thou- even sees himself as a possible successor to pionships in Beijing starting in August. Stokes has looked assured since think that’s a natural thing, getting used sand runs in his first year,” Cook said. “All stumper Dhoni, having taken to full-time being promoted to number six in the to the environment. He loves the com- the good stuff, people can forget about keeping recently. Farah, who is aiming to successfully defend his world 5,000 and 10,000 metres titles next month in China, Test order by caretaker coach Paul petitive side of it.” Cook said Stokes’s very quickly. “He is a really good player, “I know the game I used to play was a Farbrace, now the assistant to England’s attitude was shared by several of and we back him to the hilt.” — AFP flash in the pan. That’s good to watch but believes the meet at the Olympic Stadium on July 24 consistency definitely takes a hit,” Uthappa comes at an ideal time. said. “I didn’t capitalise on the kind of “The race will be exciting on the Friday night at the opportunities I got as a young guy. “I was 21 Olympic Stadium. My training is going well and it is just and I could have had a firmer head on my what I need to prepare more for the IAAF World shoulders, I could have had someone to Championships”, he told the British Athletics website guide me, I could have had a million things. (www.britishathletics.org.uk). “I went through my own personal issues “This year’s World Championships are hugely impor- that kind of sidetracked me for a few years tant to me and the 3,000 metres at the Sainsbury’s to the point where I wanted to give up the Anniversary Games will be the best possible prepara- game. And then I kind of resurrected myself tion.” and I fell in love with the game completely.” The worlds will take place from Aug. 22-30. Farah, 32, For India’s regular test opener Murali Vijay withdrew from last month’s Diamond League meet in too, the series presents an opportunity to Birmingham citing stress over doping allegations faced stake his claim for ODI inclusion. by his coach Alberto Salazar, who has denied any The 31-year-old right-hander last played wrongdoing. an ODI for India two years back and the last “I can’t wait to run in front of a home crowd again of his seven T20 international in January, and thank the British public for all their support,” said 2011. “I always wanted to play all three for- mats of the game. It’s a great opportunity Farah, who won gold in the 5,000 and 10,000m at the for me,” Vijay said. “I got my chances but I London Olympics. have not been getting a (full) series. It’s very “I hope that the fans will come out and cheer me on difficult for a batsman. at the Olympic Stadium. Knowing how it felt to run in “I have been part of the Indian team for that stadium in 2012 and 2013 means I can’t wait to seven years now and I have played 14 ODIs, round off my World Championships build up with a suc- that says it all. Now is the opportunity for cessful run in front of the best spectators in the world”, me and I hope I can do justice to my talent.” he added. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who played “The Olympic Stadium feels like home to me. ‘Super the last of his 229 one-dayers in June 2011, Saturday’ at the London 2012 Olympic Games when will also be keen to do well in the series, Jess Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and I all won gold having lost the number one spinner’s place medals for our country was the finest hour for athletics to Ravichandran Ashwin, who has also been in Britain”, Farah said. rested. Harare Sports Club hosts the ODIs Ennis-Hill won the heptathlon title at the London on Friday, Sunday and next Tuesday, to be Games while Rutherford claimed the long jump crown. followed by Twenty20 Internationals on July This month’s event will be the last time the original 17 and 19 at the same venue. — Reuters London 2012 track is used before a new surface is laid CARDIFF: England cricket coach Trevor Bayliss (center) shares a joke with Ben Stokes (right) during an England training ses- for the 2017 world championships. — Reuters sion ahead of the Ashes cricket series against Australia. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 SPORTS Warner walks the line as Ashes start

CARDIFF: After what seems an even longer Strauss was confident series favourites than usual ‘phoney war’, England and Australia would not have things all their own Australia will get down to the actual business way. “I think if Australia do win, they’ll have to of contesting the Ashes when the first Test in play some outstanding cricket to do so,” he Cardiff starts today. said. Australia had several players who Australia may have won 5-0 on home soil impressed during the 2013 Ashes in England, when they last faced England in a Test series yet they still lost the series 3-0 and Strauss in 2013/14 but it is 14 years since they last was clear on what both sides needed to do if tasted Ashes glory in Britain. they were to triumph this time. “Win the big Much of the build-up has focused on the moments...There are times when you need to vexed issue of ‘sledging’ or verbal abuse of grab the game by the scruff of the neck. opponents, which is something the Pretty simple in theory, in practice a bit more International Cricket Council (ICC) are deter- difficult,” added Strauss. It is one of the tru- mined to eradicate from the sport. isms of Test cricket that the team with the bet- That Ranjan Madugalle, the ICC’s chief ter fast bowlers usually wins. A measure of the match referee, will be overseeing proceedings depth Australia’s pace reserves is that Ryan in Cardiff, suggests no let-up in the crack- Harris, who announced his retirement last down from the global governing body in week because of a persistent knee injury, was what remains cricket’s showpiece series. Hard- by no means a certainty to play at Cardiff. hitting Australia opener David Warner, fined Left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc believes twice by the ICC in the last 18 months, is walk- the fact that England’s top order is set to con- ing an especially fine line. “I’m on my last tain seven southpaws could work in his favour warning (before possible suspension) from and that of fellow ‘lefty’ Mitchell Johnson. the ICC,” Warner said last week. “These rules “I have worked a long time for my stock are being clamped down on now. “If you walk delivery being at a left-hander,” said Starc. towards a player, the umpires are going to “The consistency is getting to where it needs fine you.” to be and I’m starting to see results.” But England director of cricket Andrew When Cardiff staged its first Test, in 2009, Strauss, a former Ashes-winning captain, England’s last-wicket pair of James Anderson stressed there was more to being competitive and Monty Panesar clung on to salvage an than ‘mouthing off’ at the opposition. improbable draw against Australia. There DHAKA: Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (left) plays a shot as the South Africa wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock (right) looks on “I think we can over-hype an Ashes series, have been suggestions home groundsmen during the second T20 cricket match. — AFP which maybe puts the players under more should prepare lifeless pitches to nullify pressure to be really aggressive,” Strauss told Australia’s pace threat but England great Ian BBC Radio Five. Botham said: “We don’t want flat wickets. Proteas cruise home in “You can be very aggressive with the way “If you do, we might as well send the Ashes you play, you don’t necessarily need to do it, back now because that’ll play right into with the way you speak to the opposition.” For Australia’s hands,” the legendary all-rounder Australia captain Michael Clarke, winning an added at a sponsor’s event. With England’s away Ashes series after three losing tours attack set to feature the likes of Durham quick second Bangladesh T20 would fill a gap in his illustrious CV. Mark Wood, Botham also urged Cook to be Meanwhile for England, in their first series pro-active in the field. under new Australian coach Trevor Bayliss, the “Teams have worked out England used to DHAKA: Spinners Eddie Leie and Aaron Phangiso challenge is to see if they can continue to play sit back with defensive fields and wait for shared six wickets between them as South Africa SCOREBOARD the aggressive brand of cricket that served sides to make mistakes,” Botham said. “Don’t thrashed Bangladesh by 31 runs in the second them so well during their recent one-day do that now. This Australian team will go at Twenty20 international to take the two-match series win over New Zealand-the team that you hard so I think England have got to come series 2-0 in Dhaka yesterday. DHAKA: Scoreboard of the second Twenty20 international between Bangladesh and South Africa Australia beat in this year’s World Cup final. back hard.” — AFP Debutant leg-spinner Leie claimed 3-16 and at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday: left-arm spinner Phangiso took 3-30, as South Africa: Shakib Al Hasan c Rossouw b Phangiso 8 Bangladesh were all out for 138 runs with five balls Q. de Kock c Sabbir b Sunny 44 Mushfiqur Rahim c Rossouw c Leie 19 remaining in reply to South Africa’s 169-4. Cricket oasis for Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar put on 46 runs A. de Villiers c Rahim b Nasir 40 Sabbir Rahman c Miller b Leie 1 in the opening stand to give Bangladesh a strong J. Duminy c Shakib b Nasir 6 Nasir Hossain c Rossouw b Phangiso 0 start before Wayne Parnell removed Tamim for 13. F. du Plessis c Rahim b Mustafizur 16 Rony Talukdar b Abbott 21 Leie struck in his first over to drag Sarkar (37) D. Miller not out 30 Litton Das c Weise b Phangiso 10 Asian laborers out of his crease and had him stumped and then R. Rossouw not out 19 Mashrafe Mortaza b Abbot 17 dismissed Mushfiqur Rahim (19) and Sabbir Extras (b4, lb1, w9) 14 Arafat Sunny not out 5 Rahman (one) in successive balls. Total (four wickets; 20 overs) 169 Mustafizur Rahman b Abbott 0 Colorful place for cricket enthusiasts in Qatar Phangiso removed Shakib Al Hasan (eight) off Did not bat: D. Wiese, W. Parnell, A. Phangiso, K. Extras (w6, nb1) 7 his first ball before taking the wicket of Nasir Abbott, E. Leie Total (all out; 19.2 overs) 138 DOHA: In a nondescript corner of Doha’s watching, especially the teams’ supporters Hossain who fell for a duck and Litton Das (10) in Fall of wickets: 1-95 (de Kock), 2-102 (Duminy), 3- Fall of wickets: 1-46 (Tamim), 2-55 (Soumya), 3-69 Industrial Area, sandwiched between build- and friends, and especially people who have his next two overs to put South Africa in control. 102 (de Villiers), 4-136 (du Plessis). (Shakib), 4-82(Sabbir), 5-82 ing works, a dusty landscape and overused spent a long time in Qatar, who haven’t seen South Africa captain Faf du Plessis hailed his team’s Bowling: Sunny 4-0-31-1 (w2), Nasir 4-0-26- (Rahim), 6-82 (Nasir), 7-103 (Das), 8-125 roads, sits a green oasis for Asian laborers and this kind of facilities.” performance. “We had all the answers from a bowl- 2(w6), Mustafizur 4-0-34-1(w1), Shakib 4-0-37-0, (Mortaza), 9-137 (Rony), 10-138 (Mustafizur) cricket enthusiasts. One of those who attends a game every ing point of view,” he said. “So really proud of the Mortaza 3-0-25-0, Sarkar 1-0-11-0 Bowling: Abbott 3.2-0-20-3 (w3), Duminy 4-0-26- boys. Extremely tough conditions to beat The Asian Town Cricket Stadium is a color- night is mechanic Nitiss Sikder, a 35-year-old Bangladesh: 0 (nb1, w1), Parnell 3-0-29-1 (w2), Weise 2-0-17-0, Bangladesh 2-0 like that. Great job,” du Plessis ful place of rest and recreation in a mostly from Kolkata in eastern India. He has been liv- Tamim Iqbal c Wiese b Parnell 13 Leie 3-0-16-3, Phangiso 4-0-30-3. added. Paceman Kyle Abbott, who claimed three Soumya Sarkar st de Kock b Leie 37 Result: South Africa won 31 runs. grey-looking part of Qatar’s capital that ing in Doha for eight years and is a self-con- wickets for 20 runs, completed the rout with wick- serves as the engine room of the country’s fessed cricket lover. ets off his last two balls. Earlier, Quinton de Kock booming economy, full of small industrial Sikder is among the few regulars at the and AB de Villiers put 95 runs for South Africa in workshops, factories and laborers. moment but that might be about to change. the opening stand after du Plessis won the toss made a double strike in the next over to put a 32 runs in the last two overs to give South Africa a A large orange and blue-seated amphithe- A far bigger building has been completed and elected to bat. brake on the run flow. JP Duminy got a leading respectable total. Nasir finished with 2-26 for atre, the stadium’s capacity-14,000 — seems nearby. “Labor City”-Qatari place names may De Kock top-scored with 44 runs and de Villiers edge off the second ball of the over to hoist a Bangladesh. even more remarkable considering Qataris do not be imaginative but are accurate a vast added 40 as the visitors looked for a series sweep catch which Shakib gleefully took at short mid- “There are some positives. And we have to learn not play cricket and it is used mostly by ama- sand-colored housing complex for 70,000 after winning Sunday’s opening game by 52 runs. wicket to remove him for six. from our mistakes too,” Bangladesh captain teurs. The ground is actually larger than the workers is just opening its doors. Seven such Left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny forced de Kock De Villiers gloved the next ball to wicketkeeper Mashrafe Mortaza said. “So hopefully, we’ll come stadium housing Qatar’s current football “cities” will in total house 258,000 laborers as into chipping a catch to Sabbir at midwicket to Rahim to end his 34-ball innings which included back in the one-dayers. “We haven’t played too champions, Lekhwiya, and rivals Al-Sadd, Qatar attempts to build a better reputation earn Bangladesh’s first breakthrough in the 11th six sixes. David Miller survived a strong caught many T20s recently. Not an excuse. We just have to where Xavi Hernandez, formerly of Barcelona, on accommodation for foreign laborers. It over. Left-handed de Kock faced 31 balls and hit behind appeal in the same over to put on 34 runs improve,” he added. The two teams will now play a will play next season. could also provide a boon for Asian Town four fours and two sixes in his innings. Bangladesh for the fourth wicket with du Plessis (16). Miller (30 three-match one-day international series, begin- Asian Town is less than 2,000 seats short of Cricket Stadium. Shah Zaleri Sikka, an Indian were immediately back in the contest as Nasir not out) and Rilee Rossouw (19 not out) then took ning on July 10 at the same ground. —AFP the SWALEC stadium capacity where this cricket supporter, was one of the first to move summer’s first Ashes test between England into Labor City. and Australia, arguably the fiercest rivalry in Brilliant Younus guides cricket, starts today. Like many things in QATAR PREMIER LEAGUE? Qatar, the stadium owes its existence to the “The atmosphere is really good in Labour phenomenal change the energy-rich country City,” he said. “We get a good chance to rest in has undergone in recent years. our rooms as they are really nice and most Pakistan to series win It was built specifically for the vast number evenings we come here to pass the time and of laborers who have poured into Qatar, par- get a chance to watch a match as well.” ticularly from countries such as India, Chaudhry believes that with Labour City COLOMBO: Younus Khan’s epic unbeaten 171 guid- Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. nearby and the riches of Qatar, there is scope ed Pakistan to their highest successful run chase Between them, migrants from these four for bigger and better tournaments in Doha. yesterday, the tourists easing to a seven-wicket vic- countries account for almost one million of The Ramadan Tournament, made up of 18 tory over Sri Lanka to clinch the three-match series the 2.3 million people in Qatar, which has sides, awards 50,000 Qatari riyals ($13,500) to by a 2-1 margin. Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (59 not faced criticism for the treatment of foreign the winning team, enough to encourage out) blasted Jehan Mubarak for a six to seal workers. some to draft in professional players from Pakistan’s first test series win in Sri Lanka since 2006 overseas. But Chaudhry said organisers as the visitors chased down a daunting 377-run tar- HIGH STANDARD should aim higher and try to replicate the get in the second session of the final day. Shan On the night AFP visited, a T20 match was success of the popular T20 Indian Premier Masood (125) was the only Pakistani batsman to being held under floodlights between the League. “We are planning a Qatari Premier fall on Tuesday, having added a remarkable 242 “Shah XI”, mostly made up of players from League or Doha Premier League,” he said. runs with Younus to turn the match on its head Pakistan, and the eventual victors “Al Zaman “We are planning (a launch) for the first of after Sri Lanka had seized control. Exchange”, drawn largely from India. The stan- September. We are working on that. Inshallah, Shot out for 215 in the first innings and reeling dard was high though there was a sparse inshallah... we hope.” Whoever plays, it is likely at 13-2 in the second, Pakistan’s stunning victory Asian crowd-it was the middle of the week Sikder will be there watching and larger also saw them jump three places up to third in the and during the Muslim fasting month of crowds are expected. “Last time there was a test rankings. “This series means a lot to me. It was Ramadan. (big) match here a lot of people came to see a dream, after losing two-three series here,” Misbah “The laborers are living very near that’s it. The stadium was packed. If there are more said at the presentation ceremony. why they come,” said tournament organiser, matches like that in the future, a lot of people “The way they (Younus and Masood) played, Sajjad Chaudhry. “They are coming and will come,” he said. — AFP they almost took the game away from Sri Lanka. And once you have this sort of partnership at the top, it was an easy job for us,” he added. Pakistan began the final day needing 147 for a memorable win and off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal drew Masood out of his crease with flight and turn to have him stumped. The opener had earlier survived a strong caught-behind appeal when he was on 120 with bowler Angelo Mathews and wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal convinced he had edged it. Umpire Ian SRI LANKA: Pakistan cricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq poses with the trophy after his team’s Gould, however, deemed otherwise and Sri Lanka series victory following the third and final Test cricketmatch against Sri Lanka. — AFP moved on having exhausted both of their review opportunities. Younus continued to play with his characteristic fluency and was unbeaten after regis- tering his 11th 150-plus score in test cricket, the SCOREBOARD most by any batsman from his country. The 37-year-old batted for more than seven PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka: Final scoreboard on day five of the third Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka hours in a man-of-the-match display, also becom- at the Pallekele International Stadium yesterday: ing the first batsman to score five fourth innings centuries in test cricket. “It was not easy,” Younus Sri Lanka 1st innings: 278 (D. Karunaratne 130, Azhar Ali c Chandimal b Prasad 5 said. “But I have my own expectations from myself, U. Tharanga 46; Yasir Shah Younis Khan not out 171 to do well when the team is under pressure. I take 5-78, Rahat Ali 3-74) Misbah-ul Haq not out 59 the onus on myself to take my team to victory.” Pakistan 1st innings: 215 (Azhar Ali 52, Sarfraz Extras: (b5, lb10, w2, nb5) 22 Mathews, who struck a defiant century in Sri Ahmed 78 not out, D. Prasad 3-78, N. Pradeep 3- Total (for three wickets, 103.1 overs) 382 Lanka’s second innings, did not hide his disappoint- 29, T. Kaushal 3-37) Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Shehzad), 2-13 (Azhar), 3-255 ment. “I thought at 376, we were sitting pretty but Sri Lanka 2nd innings: 313 (U. Tharanga 48, A. (Masood). that was not the case. We’ll take definitely a lot of Mathews 122, D. Chandimal 67, Imran Khan 5-58) Bowling: Prasad 20-2-65-1 (nb1, w1), Lakmal 19- time to digest this defeat,” the all-rounder said. 5-48-1 (nb3), Pradeep 17-3-51-0 (w1), Mathews Pakistan 2nd innings (overnight 230-2): 13-2-34-0 (nb1) Kaushal 31-1-153-1, Mubarak QATAR: Asian laborers play cricket at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium in the Qatari Pakistani leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who claimed 24 wickets in three matches, won the man-of-the- Shan Masood st Chandimal b Kaushal 125 3.1-0-16-0. capital Doha. The Asian Town Cricket Stadium is a colorful place of rest and recre- Ahmed Shehzad b Lakmal 0 Pakistan won by seven wickets, clinch series 2-1. ation in a mostly grey-looking part of Qatar’s capital. — AFP series award. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 SPORTS Back to obscurity for all but a few after World Cup VANCOUVER: With the Women’s World Cup Soccer League earn yearly wages of Cup, soccer is merely part-time job notice of soccer in Asia,” Japan’s Aya Miyama more women in decision making positions. party over it was back to reality for many of between $6,842 and $37,800, which pales in squeezed in around jobs and families. said before her team fell to the United But it is at the domestic league level the players who headed home on Monday comparison to Real Madrid’s Cristiano The Women’s World Cup and the expo- States. “But just before the World Cup this where the sport must see real growth if to resume 9-to-5 jobs, school studies and Ronaldo ($79.6 million) and Barcelona’ sure it received allowed the sport to take time the popularity has begun to decline in women’s soccer is to flourish. “The national raising families. Lionel Messi ($73.8 million), who both rank another step forward but there is a still a Japan as well as Asia.” The challenge facing team is always the icing on the cake, it is the Women’s soccer basked in the spotlight in the top five on Forbes’ 2015 highest-paid large mountain to climb before the women’s soccer officials in Japan was not made any bit everyone sees,” said England coach Mark during the month-long tournament, deliver- athletes list. The US team will get $2 million game can come close to matching the men easier after their devastating loss to the Sampson, whose team was the World Cup ing an entertaining spectacle that produced for their World Cup win, well below the $35 in popularity. While the 2015 World Cup can United States. But efforts are being made surprise package and won the third-place record-smashing television ratings and an million Germany received for winning the be considered a massive success by most across the board to level the playing field match over Germany. eye-popping total attendance of 1.35 mil- men’s World Cup last year. sporting standards-entertainment, atten- and improve on the depth and quality of “But we can’t forget the hard work, the lion after 52 matches. Some of the American World Cup win- dance, and viewership-it will not dramatical- sport. FIFPro, world soccer’s players’ union, dedication that goes on back home to get But only a lucky few from the record 24 ners, however, will cash in on their success ly catapult women’s soccer into a new orbit. announced an initiative during the World these players into a position where they can teams that qualified for the tournament, through endorsement deals, most notably The trick now for FIFA and the national asso- Cup that it would allow women worldwide play in a World Cup, to get this team in a which the United States won on Sunday Carli Lloyd after she fired a sensational hat- ciations will be building on that momentum to join the union as direct members. position where they can compete in a World with a 5-2 win over Japan, will return home trick within the first 16 minutes of the final. and maintaining interest between major At the same time FIFA staged a three-day Cup and put the game in a place where to earn a living as a professional soccer play- But for the vast majority of the 552 play- international events. “When we won the women’s soccer leadership symposium in there are so many people playing it and so er. Players in the US-based National Women’s ers who competed in the Women’s World World Cup (in 2011) people began to take Vancouver with the purpose of putting many people interested in it.” — Reuters US seek Gold Cup glory

NEW YORK: There are few countries where a men’s national team can be overshadowed by its women’s side but Juergen Klinsmann’s United States face the task of grabbing public attention back for this week’s CONCACAF Gold Cup start. The Americans won the Women’s World Cup on Sunday with a 5-2 triumph over Japan, watched by a reported 25 million fans on television, but on Tuesday Klinsmann’s U.S. men’s team kick off their attempt to defend their regional title. There will be a fraction of the audience for the opening group game against Honduras in Frisco, Texas, but Klinsmann knows his side will be expected to out- shine CONCACAF rivals Mexico and Costa Rica to win their sixth Gold Cup. “It is very, very important to us obviously to do everything possible to win this competition. Winning it would qualify us for the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia, so putting the pieces together is very crucial,” said Klinsmann. The Americans have been placed with Honduras, Haiti and Panama in Group A in the 12- nation tournament which concludes with a final in Philadelphia on July 26. Mexico, who with six titles are the most suc- cessful team in CONCACAF competition, will pres- ent, as usual, the strongest challenge to Klinsmann’s team. Real Sociedad forward Carlos Vela has ended his dispute with the Mexican federation which led to him missing the World Cup last year and is back in the squad for the tournament. But ‘El Tri’ will be without striker Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez who broke a collar bone in DALLAS: In this March 24, 2015, file photo, Michael Bradley (foreground) of the USA national soccer team trains with teammates.— AP a friendly against Honduras last week. The Mexicans are in Group C with Cuba, Guatemala and Trinidad & Tobago. A tournament win for Mexico would force a Carli Lloyd seen as marketing darling playoff against the United States for a place in the 2017 Confederations Cup. The US won the 2013 WASHINGTON: Carli Lloyd has the person- Gold Cup and if they triumph again they will take ality and grit to become the next advertis- the CONCACAF spot in Russia. After Costa Rica’s ing sensation but the World Cup star exploits at the World Cup in Brazil last year, where should start aggressively hitting the mar- they reached the quarter-finals for the first time, ket because of the limited interest in the Central American nation believe they have a women’s soccer in the United States, ana- chance to win their first Gold Cup. The best finish lysts said on Monday. for the Ticos, who face El Salvador, Canada and Lloyd had three goals in the first 16 min- Jamaica in Group B, was a runners-up spot in utes to lead the Americans to a 5-2 victory 2002. The top two teams from each group qualify over Japan in the finals of the Women’s for the knockout phase along with the two best World Cup on Sunday in Vancouver, British third-placed teams. — Reuters Columbia. “She has what all corporate America is searching for - humility, intelli- gence, a sense of drama and aggression to Micronesia her game,” said Rick Horrow, chief execu- tive of Horrow Sports Ventures. humiliated 46-0 “And let’s not forget a record-setting hat trick in a dominant U.S. performance as SYDNEY: Micronesia were humiliated 46-0 by well.” Lloyd, 32, is a two-time Olympic gold Vanuatu yesterday in one of the most lop- medal-winning midfielder who plays for sided scores ever seen in football, with the the Houston Dash of the fledgling National Pacific nation urging FIFA to help them Women’s Soccer League. The New Jersey improve. native scored six goals in seven World Cup The latest drubbing followed a 38-0 loss to games. “She’s certainly more marketable Fiji and a 30-0 scoreline against Tahiti at the than she was even 48 hours ago,” said multi-event Pacific Games, meaning the David Carter, executive director of the USC Federated States of Micronesia conceded 114 (University of Southern California) Sports goals in their three group matches. Business Institute. Micronesia’s Australian coach Stan Foster “But the World Cup is one of the period- admitted it was “boys against men” on the ic events and it’s going to be up to her rep- field and called on FIFA officially to recognise resentatives to figure out how to maintain the nation and give them a world ranking, that after America gets back to baseball which he said would open the door to techni- and starts to prepare for training camps of cal assistance. “I’m hoping that FIFA will be the National Football League.” While the coming (to Micronesia) next week for inspec- NWSL is struggling to find its niche in the VANCOUVER: United States’ Carli Lloyd celebrates in this file photo. tions and to hopefully affiliate us with Asia,” sporting landscape, the Women’s World the men’s World Cup drew 18.2 million that you see once every four years,” he said. est in the United States wanes after the Foster said. “If they do, that will lead to us Cup was a rating bonanza. An estimated viewers on ESPN and ESPN2. AJ Maestas, “There’s far less competition in being a World Cup. having technical assistance and everything 20.3 million people watched the finals on president of a sports marketing research broadly visible female athlete.” But he added the advertising industry else that brings. That would be a huge boost.” Fox television in the United States, accord- firm, Navigate, said Lloyd was “extremely” Horrow said Lloyd’s representatives was looking for a women’s soccer star to The half-time score was 24-0 and Vanuatu, ing to preliminary data from Nielsen, a ranked 200 in the world, did not let up after valuable because there were not that many should have been on the phone with highlight following the storied career of record high for a soccer match in America. marketable female athletes. Madison Avenue advertising agencies “at Abby Wambach, “and we absolutely, the break in humid conditions in Papua New Last year’s US match against Portugal in Guinea, which is hosting the event. “There are only a handful of Olympians halftime” on Sunday because soccer inter- unequivocally found it.” — Reuters Vanuatu striker Jean Kaltack helped him- self to 16 goals, rocketing to top spot on the tournament scoring ladder. “They’re boys, not men,” Foster said of his team. Messi devastated “And they’ve been playing against well- seasoned men. I’m hoping the majority of our boys will be here for at least eight years.” by new final defeat Organisers labelled it the biggest win in international football history, although it is BUENOS AIRES: Lionel Messi has told of won a major title for 22 years. Messi left unlikely to go in the record books with the pain of losing the Copa America final the pitch ashen faced after the latest Micronesia not a FIFA member and it being after the football superstar faced criti- defeat and unconfirmed Spanish media an under-23 tournament. cism in his native Argentina. reports said he turned down the player The record scoreline in a senior interna- Messi finally posted a statement on of the tournament trophy. The trophy tional was American Samoa’s 31-0 loss to his facebook account late Monday hav- was withdrawn before the presentation Australia in 2001. However, in a lesson for the ing hidden his devastation at losing ceremony in Santiago. young Micronesians, the Samoans ignored another major final since the 4-1 penalty Messi and the other Argentine stars jibes about being the worst team in history shootout defeat by Chile on Saturday. were criticised by the country’s media for and eventually recorded their first ever win “There’s nothing more painful in their performance. Members of his family against Tonga in 2011. There was some good football than losing a final,” Messi said. were also abused by Chilean fans at the news for Micronesia, as Pacific Games organ- “But I don’t want to leave it any longer to match, according to Argentinian media. isers assured them they would be welcomed say thank you to everyone who has Some observers have warned that back when the event is next held in four years’ time. always supported us and continued to Messi could walk away from the national “That was big relief for me, because I was during the tough moments.” Messi, 28, side. “One day this boy is going to get really worried the organisers would take us has now lost one World Cup and two tired and will not want to come to play CHILE: Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi takes off the second place medal of the 2015 out of the competition because of our scores,” Copa America finals and still has to win a for the team,” former Argentine interna- Copa America football championship in this file photo. — AFP Foster said. “I’ve been assured that we’ll be major international event despite his tional Matias Almeyda, now coach of the allowed to come back and that they’re aware success with Barcelona. Banfield club, told Fox Sports television. deserves,” Almeyda added. Messi had a difficult (for Argentine players) to repeat that this is a development squad.” — AFP Argentina, beaten 1-0 by Germany in “He’s the best player in the world brilliant season with the all-conquering for the national team what they do for last year’s World Cup final, have now not and he is not treated in the way he Barcelona but Almeyda said “it is very their clubs.” — AFP Martin in Cricket oasis for yellow jersey Asian laborers in Qatar

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LONDON: Maria Sharapova of Russia returns a ball to Coco Vandeweghe of the United States during their singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships. — AP Serena books Sharapova showdown

LONDON: Maria Sharapova survived a gamesman- Sharapova needed two hours and 45 minutes before my serving motion was not, I don’t think, sportsman- that has brought her five major titles. on Court One. To reach the quarter-finals, Muguruza ship row as the Russian battled into the semi-finals she finally saw off unseeded Vandeweghe to reach like. I try to play as fair as I can. Azarenka is seeded 23rd after an injury-plagued beat fifth seed and former world number one with a 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2 victory over Coco her fifth Wimbledon semi-final and her first since “When I felt like it wasn’t being reciprocated, period, but the Belarusian has twice come close to Caroline Wozniacki on Monday and also defeated Vandeweghe yesterday. 2011. that’s when I spoke with the umpire for her to deal defeating Serena in the last two months, failing to 10th seed Angelique Kerber in the third round. Serena Williams survived a scare to book a But the world number four was accused of with.” But Sharapova insisted she was doing nothing convert on three match points and losing in the The 21-year-old, born in Venezuela but raised as a Wimbledon semi-final showdown with old rival unsporting behaviour by Vandeweghe, who was out of the ordinary. “It is what it is. What she said, I’m round of 16 in Madrid and then losing a 6-3, 4-2 lead tennis prodigy in Barcelona, had never been made Maria Sharapova as the world number one battled unhappy that Sharapova was moving during the 23- not going to argue against her words,” said the in the third round of the French Open. the semi-finals of a Grand Slam. back to defeat Victoria Azarenka 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. year-old American’s service action. Russian. Joining Sharapova in the last four was 20th Overall, Serena leads Azarenka 16-3 and has nev- She had fallen in the last eight of the French Williams was in danger of a shock quarter-final Vandeweghe protested to the umpire during the seed Garbine Muguruza, who defeated Swiss 15th er lost to her in a Grand Slam event, despite Open for the last years. “It is just amazing. I am so exit after a slow start on Centre Court, but the five- quarter-final and repeated her complaint in the seed Timea Bacsinszky 7-5, 6-3 to become the first Azarenka’s pushing her to three sets in the 2012 and happy. It was a very tough match and I am just so time Wimbledon champion eventually battered post-match press conference. “She (the umpire) said Spanish woman to make the Wimbledon semi-finals 2013 US Open finals. The quarter-finalists in the bot- excited. It was a very intense final game so it is just 23rd seed Azarenka into submission in two hours she didn’t believe she was doing it during the since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1997. tom half of this year’s draw are made up of four relief,” Muguruza said. “It is very hard to make the last and three minutes with a barrage of 43 winners and motion. I strongly disagreed. Towards the later end Sharapova was well below her best on Centre women who have never won a Grand Slam title or four of Wimbledon so to achieve this so I am very 14 aces. The 33-year-old American, aiming to win her of the second set, I said if she has a problem speak- Court, making 23 unforced errors, serving 10 double reached the number one ranking. It was Muguruza proud. “ Muguruza will take on Polish 13th seed fourth successive Grand Slam title and 21st in total, ing to Maria, if she’s too scared to do it, I had no faults and hitting only 19 winners. But the always who took the giant leap towards the sport’s upper Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2012 runner-up, or 21st will face world number four Sharapova on Thursday problem speaking to her,” said the American. tenacious 28-year-old somehow found a way to echelons as she defeated Bacsinszky, a surprise seed Madison Keys of the United States for a place in holding a 17-2 lead in their head to head record. “What I felt from her moving around in between secure her 20th Grand Slam semi-final appearance French Open semi-finalist last month, in 86 minutes the final. — AFP Big four eye semi spots

LONDON: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, “Maybe the guys are returning terrible,” Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka can justify joked Federer. “Gilles Simon is one of the best their status as Wimbledon’s big four by making return players we have in the game. I would the semi-finals today. think I’ll be tested a lot. So that streak’s maybe Defending champion, top seed and 2011 coming to an end, in my opinion.” Simon, one winner Djokovic takes on US Open champion of three over-30s in the last eight, last made Marin Cilic boasting a 12-0 career lead over the the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam in Australia Croatian. Seven-time champion Federer faces in 2009. Gilles Simon with the Frenchman playing in his He trails Federer 5-2 in career clashes. After maiden Wimbledon quarter-final while 2013 winning their first two meetings in 2008, the winner Murray, seeded three, is up against sur- Frenchman has lost five in succession prise quarter-finalist Vasek Pospisil of Canada. although their only two Grand Slam matches- Fourth seed Wawrinka tackles 2007 semi-final- at the 2011 Australian Open and 2013 French ist Richard Gasquet, the second Frenchman in Open-went to five sets. the last-eight. Murray is into his eighth successive Cilic, 26, lost to Djokovic in five sets in the Wimbledon quarter-final and takes a 3-0 lead quarter-finals in 2014 despite being two sets into his match-up with world number 56 to one ahead. He then went on to win a maid- Pospisil who had never previously got beyond en Grand Slam title at the US Open in the third round of a major before this September. Wimbledon. “I know him very well. We played many, All their three meetings have come in the many matches on different surfaces,” said last 10 months with the 25-year-old Canadian Djokovic after reaching his seventh successive unable to win a single set. Pospisil spent more Wimbledon quarter-final and 25th in a row at than eight hours on court on Monday, first the majors with a 6-7 (6/8), 6-7 (6/8), 6-1, 6-4, beating Viktor Troicki in the singles in five sets 7-5 win over Kevin Anderson of South Africa. and then losing a five-setter with Jack Sock “I remember him mentioning earlier this against Murray’s brother Jamie and John year that he wants to focus mostly on Peers. “He’s played a lot of tennis here which is Wimbledon, grass. That’s where he feels like he a positive for him,” said Murray. has a best chance besides US Open. He’s play- “But also maybe he’s a little bit fatigued. So ing at a very high level.” if that is the case, and I won’t bank on that Cilic admitted he needs to match Djokovic being the case, but if that is the case, I’ll try to LONDON: Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a ball to Kevin Anderson of South Africa during their singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis blow for blow today. “When Novak is playing use that to my advantage.” Pospisil’s win over Championships. — AP at the speed that he’s playing, I’m going to Troicki was his third five-set win in four rounds have to be more aggressive to play more risky at the All England Club this year. tennis,” said Cilic. Federer, 33, is bidding to French Open champion Wawrinka is in the Djokovic survives Anderson barrage become the oldest Wimbledon champion and quarter-finals for the second successive year win a record eighth title. The Swiss has been and is bidding to become just the fifth man to LONDON: Defending champion Novak Djokovic Anderson, the South African 14th seed, fired 40 ed due to fading light on Monday, it was the 29- virtually untroubled on serve on his way to a win Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the survived a barrage from big-hitting Kevin Anderson aces and 71 winners but committed 41 unforced year-old Anderson who was the more aggressive 13th Wimbledon quarter-final, just one behind same year. Wawrinka, the only quarter-finalist to reach his seventh successive Wimbledon quar- errors. Djokovic crashed 43 winners past his oppo- first up yesterday. Under damp, overcast skies on the record of 14 held by Jimmy Connors. not to have dropped a set at the tournament, ter-final yesterday. nent but hit just 19 unforced errors. “I think Kevin Court One, Djokovic had to save two break points He has yet to drop serve, has faced just two faces 21st seed Gasquet with the two men The top seed came from behind to win 6-7 (6/8), served exceptionally well. I found it one of the most in the fourth game. But Anderson eventually paid a break points in 58 service games and has com- locked at 1-1 in career meetings. 6-7 (6/8), 6-1, 6-4, 7-5 in a last-16 tie suspended due difficult matches I’ve played in my Wimbledon heavy price for his all-or-nothing approach as he mitted only three double faults. Gasquet won their first clash at the Paris to bad light on Monday at the end of the fourth set. career. At times I was really helpless with my tried to break through into a Grand Slam quarter- The last time he dropped serve was in the Masters in 2006 with the 30-year-old Swiss The Serb, who has now reached 25 Grand Slam returns. He was very aggressive,” said Djokovic. “I final for the first time in 26 attempts. He served up second set of his opening round win over gaining revenge at the 2013 French Open quarter-finals in a row, goes on to face Croatia’s US thought it was high-quality tennis in the fifth set. two double faults to go match points down in the Philipp Kohlschreiber in Halle-more than 100 when he recovered from two sets to love Open champion Marin Cilic for a place in the semi- “I was two sets down. To come back and win in 12th game and Djokovic secured victory when the service games ago. down to win a fourth round encounter. — AFP finals. Djokovic will be the overwhelming favorite five gives me great satisfaction and confidence for South African bungled a volley off a blistering serv- for that match today leads their head-to-head 12-0. the next challenge.” After their match was suspend- ice return by the top seed. — AFP Australia’s central bank holds interest rate at 2% Page 22

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BRUSSELS: Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos (sitting right) waits for the start of a round table meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the EU LEX building in Brussels yesterday.—AP Submit new debt plan or leave: Europe tells Greece Economy gasps for air with banks closed as system implodes

BRUSSELS: European leaders warned Greek Prime members of the euro-zone. Brussels, but said earlier that the six-month-old radi- Minister Alexis Tsipras to submit new bailout propos- cal Greek government wants “to continue the discus- als at an emergency summit yesterday or risk leaving France will do ‘everything’ sion” though how the far-leftists would use their Egypt continues slide, the euro, after Greeks defiantly voted ‘No’ to further Paris and Berlin remain divided despite the resounding victory in the summit talks remained austerity. Merkel-Hollande display of unity, with Germany’s unclear. Gulf hit by oil plunge The radical leftist leader will face his 18 euro-zone Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel insisting that talks counterparts in Brussels as the country’s economy on reducing Greece’s debt were impossible before Grim in Greece MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS gasps for air, with banks closed until at least Thursday Athens implements reforms. But French Prime The situation remains grim in Greece, where liq- amid fears the Greek financial system is imploding. Minister Manuel Valls insisted that a Greek exit from uidity-starved banks are unable to open until German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French the currency it joined in 2001 was not an option, Thursday at the earliest. DUBAI: Egypt’s stock market continued to slide yesterday, weighed down President Francois Hollande presented a united front drawing the line much more firmly than austerity- Athenians awoke yet again yesterday to the bleak by foreign exchange worries, while Gulf bourses fell moderately after oil when they met in Paris on the eve of the make-or- minded Berlin has so far. “France is convinced that we reality of closed banks and more lines at cash prices plunged. The Cairo index, which has been in a downtrend for over break summit, urging Tsipras to make “precise” pro- can’t take the risk of Greece leaving the euro-zone,” machines to make their daily withdrawal limit of 60 a month and tumbled 4.2 percent on Monday, sank a further 1.5 percent posals in order to restart talks. Valls told French radio, adding that France would do euros ($67), as fears grew the ATMs could soon be to 7,753 points. It had broken on Monday below major technical support Their tough stance was echoed by euro-zone “everything” to keep it in. A bridging loan is another running empty. “I’m very afraid we will get no cash between 8,125 and 8,261 points, the December and May lows. That trig- finance ministers and officials meeting hours before possibility to get Greece-which historically defaulted anymore in the coming days. They really have to fix it, gered a bearish right triangle formed by the highs and lows since mid- the summit, who warned that without a “credible” on its IMF debt last week-through a huge payment of end of this week at the latest, otherwise it (the econ- December and pointing down to around 6,800 points in the longer term. reform plan from the Greeks they could rule nothing more than 3 billion euros to the European Central omy) is collapsing,” said pharmacist Lambros Vritios. The market has been hit by foreign exchange and energy shortages, out. “Personally I am skeptical a deal will be found,” Bank on July 20, reports say. The European Central Bank, which has been keep- bloody clashes with militants in the Sinai, and a central bank decision to Slovakian Finance Minister Peter Kazimir told Greece’s new Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos is ing Greek lenders afloat, said Wednesday it had let the Egyptian pound resume depreciating last week. reporters. due to make his first appearance at Tuesday’s decided to maintain emergency funding to Greek Yesterday, the central bank held the pound steady at 7.73 to the US When asked if a so-called “Grexit” from the single Eurogroup meeting, a day after his outspoken motor- banks-so-called Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) dollar at its foreign exchange auction, in an apparent attempt to reassure currency was possible, EU Commissioner for the euro bike-riding predecessor Yanis Varoufakis stepped — at its current level of 89 billion euros. But it said the market. But the pound continued weakening in the black market, Valdis Dombrovskis said: “If trust is not rebuilt, if there down amid a rift with Athens’s creditors. The Oxford- Greece had to provide more collateral, a move that is no credible reform package, it cannot be excluded”. educated Tsakalotos was due to hold face-to-face will make it more difficult to access the vital funds in suggesting investors think more depreciation is only a matter of time. The summit comes two days after Greeks rejected talks with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the the future. Property firm Emaar Misr fell 2.8 percent to 3.45 Egyptian pounds, though reform terms for a new EU-IMF bailout in a hastily- Eurogroup of euro-zone finance ministers, ahead of The ECB’s future decisions on whether to keep turnover shrank considerably from the past levels of the past two days. arranged referendum that was a political victory for the meeting. Greece afloat will depend largely on the signals from The stock has plummeted after listing on Sunday at an initial public offer Tsipras but infuriated Europe. “It’s going to be very difficult,” Dijsselbloem said. the crunch meetings in Brussels yesterday, either that price of 3.80 pounds, and investor willingness to bail out of Emaar Misr Tsipras is expected to call for debt relief to cut “We’ll have to await new proposals from the Greek a deal is possible or that the gulf is too wide. even at a loss has hurt sentiment in the market. Before the listing, analysts Greece’s massive 320 billion euro ($350 billion) debt government, hopefully they’ll have them here today In Sunday’s referendum, 61 percent voted to reject had estimated fair value for the stock at around 4.70 pounds. Palm Hills mountain but that is a red line in many European and they’ll be credible.” austerity terms in exchange for releasing more funds Development, another major property stock, dropped 1.6 percent. capitals, especially in Berlin and the newer eastern Tsakalotos did not comment as he arrived in under an international bailout package. —AFP Telecom Egypt sank by the same amount. Arab Cotton Ginning dropped 2.5 percent after the government said it was halting all cotton imports in a bid to assist production and marketing of the local crop. The chairman of the Egyptian Chamber of Textile Industries said the textiles sector would be hurt by the lack of cheap cot- US trade deficit widens ton imports.

GULF as exports drop in May Brent crude oil dived more than 6 percent on Monday to around $56 a barrel, pressured by the Greek debt crisis and volatility in China’s stock markets, before recovering slightly to around $57 yesterday. Oil’s latest WASHINGTON: The US trade deficit widened in overseas sales of US-made capital goods. Imports May from the prior month, according to non-sea- slide is so steep that it may call into question investors’ hopes for a grad- May, fueled by a drop in exports that could height- fell by about $300 million, or 0.1 percent, to $230.5 sonally adjusted figures. Sales fell 4.2 percent to ual recovery of crude prices later this year, and raise the possibility of Gulf en concerns over weak overseas demand and a billion. France, 2.1 percent to Mexico and 3.0 percent to governments adopting additional spending restraints. But in contrast to strong US dollar. Prices for US Treasuries rose after the data, Japan. The US economy contracted at a 0.2 per- the stock price plunges triggered by oil price slides late last year and early The Commerce Department reported yesterday while US stock index futures were unchanged. The cent annual rate in the first quarter, hit by bad this year, Gulf stock markets fell only moderately on Tuesday, suggesting that the trade gap grew $1.2 billion to $41.9 bil- dollar gained against a basket of currencies. Since weather, a strong dollar, spending cuts in the ener- retail investors have become convinced regional economies can grow lion. That was less than the $42.6 billion deficit the middle of last year when the Federal Reserve gy sector and disruptions at West Coast ports. despite cheap oil. The 25-day correlation between Brent crude and expected by analysts and suggests Wall Street made clear it was planning to raise interest rates Other economic data, including figures on hir- Dubai’s stock index has stayed below 0.3 for most of the time since the economists may slightly raise their forecasts for to keep the economy from eventually overheating, ing and consumer spending, have pointed to a start of the June. The correlation with the Saudi stock index has been economic growth in the second quarter. the dollar has strengthened, making US exports rebound during the second quarter, and a firming higher because of heavily weighted Saudi petrochemical shares, but it is But the drop in exports in May highlights a less competitive. domestic economy could encourage the Fed to still only just above 0.3. The Saudi index fell 0.5 percent yesterday as change in the tenor of economic growth since the Since that time, Europe’s economy also has raise rates later this year. petrochemical firm Saudi Basic Industries lost 1.9 percent. Dubai’s index United States exited the 2007-2009 recession. The been on shaky ground and the European Central In May, the drop in imports came as purchases dropped 0.4 percent as Emaar Properties slipped 0.9 percent and con- economy relied more on export-led industries Bank has eased monetary policy, causing the euro from China rose 9.5 percent. That could fan further struction firm Drake & Scull declined 2.3 percent. But Amlak Finance , a such as manufacturing early in the recovery, but to weaken against the dollar. European policymak- criticism from US manufacturers that Chinese favourite of local retail investors seeking short-term profits, was the most growth is increasingly coming from domestic driv- ers are currently fighting a debt crisis in Greece firms are using a cheap currency and unfair subsi- heavily traded stock in Dubai and rose 0.8 percent. Abu Dhabi slipped 0.6 ers like construction and services as the economic that threatens to rip apart the continent’s mone- dies to gain market share in America. At the same percent as telecommunications blue chip Etisalat fell 1.1 percent. Qatar cycle matures. Exports fell $1.5 billion, or 0.8 per- tary union. time, US net imports of oil fell to $5.8 billion in slid 0.3 percent as Barwa Real Estate dropped 0.4 percent. —Reuters cent, to $188.6 billion in May, led by a drop in Exports of goods to Germany fell 6.0 percent in May, the lowest level since 2002. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 BUSINESS News In brief Australia’s central bank

Dollar stable against dinar at KD 0.302 KUWAIT: The US dollar exchange rate was stable against holds interest rate at 2% the Kuwaiti dinar in yesterday’s trading exchanging at KD 0.302 while the euro went down to KD 0.333, compared with Monday’s rates. The pound sterling exchange was sta- ble at KD 0.471 while the Swiss franc went down to KD Stevens eyes sustainable growth, inflation within target 0.320. The Japanese yen witnessed a slight decrease to SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank yes- reach at KD 0.002, said the daily bulletin of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK). terday kept interest rates on hold at 2.0 percent for the second-straight month, saying accommodative monetary poli- OPEC basket price down cy was needed with economic growth 58 cents to $55.76 subdued. The Reserve Bank of Australia VIENNA: OPEC daily basket price went down by 58 has slashed rates by 250 basis points cents to stand at $55.76 a barrel Monday compared since November 2011 to support the with $58.34 the previous Friday. The new OPEC resources-dependent economy as it Reference Basket of Crudes (ORB) is made up of the experiences a sharp fall in mining Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra investment, after an unprecedented Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), boom helped avoid a recession for Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab Light more than two decades. (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE), and Merey (Venezuela). In a statement mostly identical to the previous month, Reserve Bank gov- Abraaj Group buys majority ernor Glenn Stevens said it was appro- stake in Nigeria’s Mouka priate to leave interest rates DUBAI: Private equity group Abraaj has bought a majority unchanged. “Information on economic stake in Mouka, a Nigerian mattress manufacturer, and and financial conditions to be received plans to expand the business further into the West African over the period ahead will inform the market, the firm said yesterday. The acquisition is through board’s assessment of the outlook and one of Abraaj’s funds, in partnership with Moukarim hence whether the current stance of Family, the founding family of Mouka who will retain a policy will most effectively foster sus- minority stake in the company. No purchase price or a tainable growth and inflation consis- stake size was given. Mouka has 500 distributors for its mattresses in Nigeria. tent with the target,” he said in the statement. The RBA last cut the cash rate by 25 Sadara signs power deal basis points each in February and May. with Saudi Electricity Co Stevens continued his call for a SYDNEY: A boat (center) crosses under the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney yesterday. Australia’s central bank yesterday kept DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Basic Services said yes- weaker exchange rate despite the terday that its parent firm signed a 14.13 billion riyal interest rates on hold at 2.0 percent for the second-straight month, saying accommodative monetary policy was needed with Australian dollar’s recent falls against its economic growth subdued. — AFP ($3.77 billion) deal with Saudi Electricity Company to US counterpart, as investors pile into supply electric power to its chemicals complex in safe-haven currencies such as the now, the RBA is watching and waiting to fill the gap left by resources indus- ing to portray a story that while they are Jubail Industrial City. The agreement signed by Sadara and hasn’t any particular need to guide tries. Businesses have been reluctant to keeping an easing bias, there’s enough Chemical Company, the parent company of Sadara greenback owing to market ructions in Basic Services, has a 20 year renewable term, a state- Greece. the markets away from their current invest, while government spending evidence, certainly on the labour mar- ment from Sadara said. Sadara Chemical Company is a Watching and waiting “The expectations,” National Australia Bank’s remains soft. The unemployment rate ket side, that maybe two percent is as $20 billion joint venture between state-oil giant Saudi Australian dollar has declined notice- senior current strategist Emma Lawson has edged higher and hovered around a low as we’re going to need to go here,” Aramco and Dow Chemical Company. ably against a rising US dollar over the told AFP. “They are watching and seeing decade-high of 6.0 percent, wages O’Donaghoe said. Any RBA moves were past year, though less so against a bas- what’s happening globally but they’re growth has been slow and inflation con- more likely to be affected by offshore ket of currencies,” he said. “Further so far not concerned.” The governor tained within the central bank’s 2.0-3.0 developments, such as when the United Egypt’s pound steady briefly mentioned the fluctuations in percent target band. Stevens noted the States’ Federal Reserve raises near-zero at official auction depreciation seems both likely and nec- CAIRO: Egypt’s central bank held the Egyptian pound essary, particularly given the significant markets as a result of the turmoil in elevated levels of the jobless rate but interest rates, O’Donaghoe said. steady at 7.73 pounds to the dollar at a regular forex auc- declines in key commodity prices.” Greece and China, but pointed out that added that it “has been little changed Speculation is currently focused on a tion yesterday after letting the currency depreciate by 0.20 The local unit hardly moved on the long-term borrowing rates “remain recently”. Deutsche Bank senior econo- rise as early as September. pounds over the past week. The central bank said it had RBA’s decision, with the currency buy- remarkably low”. Australia’s economy mist Phil O’Donaghoe said the com- Deutsche Bank forecasts Australian offered $40 million and sold $39.6 million at a cut-off price ing 74.74 US cents. “There were very lit- has been growing below-trend in recent ments could point to a possible end of interest rates will remain on hold at 2.0 of 7.7301 pounds per dollar. tle changes in the statement and for months as non-mining sectors struggle the rate cutting cycle. “The RBA are try- percent this year and in 2016. — AFP

UAE crude oil exports to fall in Q4 DUBAI: United Arab Emirates (UAE) crude oil crude by 200,000 bpd to 1.6 million bpd, Indonesia hopes new tools will boost exports are expected to fall in the fourth according to a buyer of Abu Dhabi crude. quarter of 2015 as the Gulf OPEC member Also, a portion of the refinery’s through- appeal to foreign Islamic banks upgrades its Ruwais refinery and processes put is made up of the ultra light oil known as more oil to feed rising domestic demand, condensate, which is not included in the JAKARTA: Indonesian regulators are pro- part of its acquisition plans for 2016. It attract Islamic investors which operate industry and trading sources said. UAE’s crude output and export figures. moting new sharia-compliant financial joins Bahrain’s Al Baraka Banking Group predominantly in US dollars. Indonesia’s The UAE’s Ruwais refinery expansion, ADNOC has been exporting the Murban tools and considering easing foreign own- and Dubai Islamic Bank, which plan to central bank in 2010 helped establish the which more than doubles the plant’s capacity grade to Asia at the low-end of its contracted from 415,000 barrels per day (bpd), was com- tolerance levels since March, when it began ership limits for domestic Islamic banks, expand their operations in Southeast Asia’s International Islamic Liquidity pleted late last year and is expected to hit full to ramp up refinery operations at Ruwais. Run seeking to make the sector more appeal- largest economy. Management Corp (IILM), which regularly capacity before the end of the year, traders rates at the refinery are now at about 70-80 ing to foreign lenders. Indonesia is the Meanwhile, companies can raise cash in issues dollar-denominated sukuk for use as say. percent of capacity, according to trading world’s most populous Muslim nation but foreign currencies more easily with Islamic liquidity management tools. The plant will boost the UAE’s total refin- sources. ADNOC could not be reached for its Islamic finance sector is domestically instruments, after the country’s national But five years on, the IILM has made ing capacity to more than 1 million bpd, comment. Some trading sources said they focused and still has only niche status, sharia board approved sharia-compliant only modest headway in Indonesia. IILM which will help supply the local market and expect the export cuts to be higher than behind neighboring Malaysia and several currency hedging tools in April. sukuk have not yet been traded in the increase the country’s oil products exports. 250,000 bpd when Ruwais reaches full capaci- Gulf countries. The potential was illustrated in May local money market and there are still no The added refining capacity, however, will ty. In May, the UAE’s crude exports were The government wants to change that, when national flag carrier Garuda domestic primary dealer banks assigned to eat into crude available for exports, Gulf- around 2.8 million bpd, the source familiar and this year the financial regulator, Indonesia became the first Indonesian cor- make that happen, Indonesia’s central based oil and trading sources said. One with the matter said. That is compared with Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), launched a porate to tap the offshore market for bank said in response to Reuters ques- source familiar with the matter said the 2.64 million bpd a year earlier, according to five-year strategy that aims to triple the Islamic bonds (sukuk) with a $500 million, tions. IILM sukuk have been classified as a fourth-quarter fall in crude exports from official figures. A reduction in UAE crude flows sector’s market share to 15 percent by five-year deal. Garuda’s sukuk attracted 20 percent risk-weighted asset, equivalent state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company could help ease a global oil glut more quickly 2023. Last month, President Joko Widodo $1.8 billion in orders, with 56 percent to a corporate bond for capital adequacy could be as much as 200,000-250,000 bpd. than expected and thus support oil prices The cuts would not affect the long-term that have fallen by nearly half since mid-June threw his weight behind the drive by inau- going to Middle East investors. purposes, the central bank said. contracts ADNOC has with its clients, but it 2014. The UAE has one of the world’s highest gurating a national campaign by the OJK This falls short of the IILM’s intended would limit its short-term deals, the source rates of per capita oil consumption, driven by to promote awareness of Islamic finance. CURRENCY purpose of being a top-rated cash man- said. “These (short-term) volumes would go rapid economic and population growth, Attracting foreign capital is part of Last week, Indonesian Islamic banks agement tool, known as a high-quality liq- to the local market,” the source said. Some according to the US Energy Information those plans; the OJK is considering easing launched a standard contract template for uidity asset (HQLA), that could be used to reductions in exports have already been seen Administration. ADNOC has taken over sup- foreign ownership ceilings for Islamic sharia-compliant repurchase agreements, meet Basel III regulatory requirements. since ADNOC began commissioning work at plying the seven emirates of the UAE with banks, now at 40 percent. allowing the use of government-issued The issue of classifying IILM sukuk as Ruwais, but the diversions to the refinery fuel this year. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank said this week it sukuk as collateral. But other foreign-cur- HQLA is still being discussed, the central have been somewhat muted by a late-2014 UAE, controls more than 90 percent of the was considering entering the market as rency tools still need to be developed to bank said. —Reuters increase in the output of ADNOC’s flagship UAE’s oil reserves.—Reuters

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ATHENS: One of Greece’s most popular car- political culture, said Yannis Ktistakis, a pro- “painfully surprised” to have caused such a fans who grew up with his cartoons and Soviet KKE communist party, has deepened toonists has pulled down his Facebook page fessor of human rights at the University of heated reaction after poking fun at “religion, urged him to continue his work. “This just divisions in a society traditionally split after what appeared to be a concerted Rodopi in northern Greece. “These are not family and sometimes country, the three shows what sense of humour Syriza has,” between left and right and embraced some attack by pro-government cyber bullies. just attacks by frustrated unemployed peo- holy pylons of the conservative right” with- posted John Avlakiotis. of the bad practices of the past. A cartoon published by Arkas last month ple,” he said. “The climate has deteriorated.” out incident for many years. “There was an And Aristotelis Vathis wrote: “For some, “On a daily basis, there are so many arbi- seemed anodyne enough: a newscaster say- As Greece faces economic catastrophe, its uproar of negative comments, some more democracy only allows satirizing the other trary abuses. In another time, society and ing “I have complete trust in the govern- people fed up with the sacrifices needed to appropriate to the age of homo erectus,” he side. Democracy was born in Greece and it political parties would have revolted,” said ment. It has its feet firmly planted in the stay in the euro, a referendum on Sunday wrote. looks like it’s dying here.” The first leftists to Christina Poulidou, a commentator for the clouds.” split the country, with the government firm- rule modern Greece, Syriza raised hopes of Protagon news site. In one case, the partner But in Greece’s polarised political climate, ly behind the vote to reject more austerity. Philosophical Animals ending the corruption widely blamed for of a senior Syriza politician was appointed this prompted an avalanche of hostile mes- About 50 protesters recently stormed an Arkas emerged in the 1980s with car- plunging Greece into economic crisis. For head of the public water company. In anoth- sages. “You exposed yourself irreparably. It Athens Bar Association meeting which was toons of philosophical animals, such a decades, political life was dominated by er, a judge who wrote to European will be on your head, you’ll see,” said one. The debating the legality of the referendum. depressed rooster and a melodramatic cir- families with close ties to the country’s eco- Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker ruling leftist Syriza party, which came to They shouted, gestured and made threats, cus lion, who come up with lines such as: nomic elite. State sector jobs and contracts to express support for the Syriza govern- power in January promising to end austerity said association president Vasilis Alexandris. “Democracy is four wolves and a sheep vot- went to political friends, while powerful ment was made head of the supreme court, and stand up to international lenders, “Despite the profanities and the psychologi- ing on what to have for dinner.” Greek oligarchs controlled much of the contrary to a tradition of appointing by sen- denied it was involved. “Not only we had cal violence, we voted that the referendum A shy man who never shows up at the media. iority. After the cyber attack, Arkas posted nothing to do with this but we protested the was of questionable legality,” he said. “They papers that publish him, he has avoided Syriza politicians say they have had little another cartoon. His newscaster says: attack,” said Syriza spokeswoman Rania screamed: ‘We are building gallows for you’.” publicity for decades. He is rumored to be a time to tackle such problems while handling “According to reliable sources, the govern- Svingou, adding the party’s cyber team had Arkas, a recluse whose real name is psychiatrist or possibly a university professor the financial crisis, and deny accusations of ment has this last negotiating card to play issued a statement supporting the artist. unknown, did not respond to requests for and there are no published pictures of him. sowing discord. Critics say the government, with its lenders: ‘What are you going to do Such incidents however reveal a new comment. But he posted that he was The cyber attack prompted support from many of whose members hail from the pro- with it? You can’t take it with you’.” — Reuters German ‘Grexit’ calls raise more pressure on Merkel Bild urges Merkel to be tough at Greece summit

BERLIN: ”Today we need the Iron evening to agree a common posi- Chancellor,” read the front-page tion before the summit, but differ- headline in top-selling German ences in tone were evident in newspaper Bild yesterday, next to a statements they made to reporters picture of Angela Merkel in a before sitting down to dinner. On Prussian helmet. Tuesday, a chorus of European On page two, Bild laid out a 5- voices, seemingly pointed towards point plan for Merkel to bring Berlin, cried out for a deal with along with her to a summit in Tsipras, who is expected to put for- Brussels in the evening that could ward new proposals in Brussels in prove decisive in sealing Greece’s the hopes of clinching a third SEOUL: A currency trader walks by a screen showing the Korea Composite fate. The first point in the plan: the bailout package and avoiding a Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea immediate exit of Greece from the risky “Grexit”. Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul yesterday.—AP euro-zone. Merkel heads to the “France is doing everything, and summit under enormous domestic will do everything, for Greece to pressure to take a hard line with stay in the euro zone because its Athens. Bild is just the tip of the place is in the euro zone,” said Art imitates life as Frankfurt iceberg. Many members of her own French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. party, the conservative Christian European Commission overhauls Euro sculpture Democrats (CDU), have come President Jean-Claude Juncker, around to the view that the euro speaking in the European FRANKFURT: zone may be better off without Parliament in Strasbourg, warned: As a possible Greek exit from the the foot of the Eurotower headquarters, that the Greece. And her centre-left coali- “There are some in the European euro-zone looms ever larger, threatening to anti-capitalist protest group Occupy camped in a tion partners, the Social Democrats Union who openly or secretly are change the face of the euro forever, the curren- makeshift village of tents for months during (SPD), are also talking tough these working to exclude Greece from cy’s home city of Frankfurt is giving its famous 2012, in protest against the perceived greed and days, limiting Merkel’s room to the euro-zone.” Euro sculpture a much-needed facelift. corruption of banks. Time has left its mark on the forge compromises with Greek Merkel’s biggest dilemma cen- While the euro-zone’s leaders buckle down sculpture, however, and it is looking increasingly Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that tres around whether to grant for what could be the most decisive talks in the worse for wear. So, the non-profit association would keep Greece in the currency Greece debt relief. This has been a relatively short history of the single currency so Frankfurter Kultur Komitee has decided to com- bloc.“After the political escalation key demand of Tsipras from the far, few will fail to see a certain symbolism in the pletely renovate it for the first time in 13 years at of the past weeks, even Angela start of the negotiations, and he dismantling and renovation of the 14-metre (45- an estimated cost of 60,000 euros ($65,000). Merkel needs to pay attention to has the International Monetary feet), 50-tonne sculpture that has become one of The group originally bought the artwork for whether she has majorities behind Fund (IMF) on his side. German offi- Frankfurt’s most photographed landmarks. 350,000 euros. As part of the renovation, the her,” Stefan Kornelius wrote in an cials have signalled that they are The huge neon sign is the work of artist sculpture will be taken apart and cleaned. Its blue editorial in the Sueddeutsche open to stretching out the maturi- PARIS: German chancellor Angela Merkel (right) turns to look Ottmar Hoerl and was erected at the foot of the and yellow acrylic glass panels will be replaced. Zeitung yesterday. ties of Europe’s loans to Greece, at France’s President Francois Hollande (left) as she leaves the then headquarters of the European Central Bank Its 330 neon light strips will be swapped for ener- From Merkel’s major allies in but first they want Tsipras to com- Elysee Palace, in Paris, yesterday.—AP in Frankfurt’s financial district in 2001. Last year, gy-saving LED lighting, slashing power consump- Europe the pressure runs in the mit to reforms of Greek pensions, the ECB moved into its new, spectacular twin- tion by 80 percent and cutting electricity costs opposite direction. Key partners the labour market and the tax sys- tower headquarters in the east of the city. The from the current 12,000 euros per year. The work is rising on her to reconsider her came out in favor of a debt cut. such as France clearly want a deal tem. stance. In recent days, a host of top Point three of its five-point plan sculpture shows a blue Euro symbol with 12 yel- is being done by young apprentices from a with Greece and appear more will- They have all but ruled out a low stars representing each of the single curren- Frankfurt school and from the city’s craftsmen’s European officials, including the called for a 50 percent haircut on ing to make concessions to get “haircut”, or outright writedown of finance ministers of France and Europe’s loans to Greece. Its condi- cy’s initial member countries. Hoerl’s cartoonish guild. The project is being financed with dona- one. the value of the loans, because this sculpture, loved and loathed equally by tions, including the ECB itself, the German central Luxembourg, have said discussion tion for doing so however, was cut- Merkel visited French President is seen in Merkel’s entourage as of a debt writedown should not be ting Greece loose from the euro- Frankfurt’s inhabitants, remains in the green belt bank or Bundesbank, a number of private banks Francois Hollande on Monday politically dangerous. But pressure of park that girdles the city centre. It was here, at and private individual donors.—AFP taboo. And on Tuesday, Bild also zone. — Reuters Japan’s Aeon interested in buying Tesco’s Malaysia unit KUALA LUMPUR: Japan’s Aeon Co Ltd is interested its interest with corporate advisers, one person in buying the Malaysian operations of Britain’s familiar with the matter said. Tesco PLC, valued at about 900 million pounds “It’s still in the very early stage,” said one of the ($1.4 billion), people familiar with the matter told people. “It would only come after they (Tesco) are Reuters. Japan’s largest retailer has been venturing done with South Korea and Dunnhumby.” The peo- into Southeast Asia where purchasing power is ris- ple declined to be identified as they were not ing in fast-growing economies. In contrast, growth authorised to speak with media on the matter. has been hampered at home by deflation, sluggish Tesco, which has not expressed any intention to consumer spending and a shrinking population. sell its Malaysian business, declined to comment. A It bought the Malaysian arm of French retailer spokesman for Aeon said the company was not in Carrefour SA in 2012 for 250 million euros ($275 negotiations with Tesco. million) and last year expanded e-money services However, another source familiar with the mat- in Thailand. Buying Tesco’s operations would make ter said Aeon had been calling investment banks to Aeon Malaysia’s biggest hypermarkets group. The discuss advisory roles. No adviser has yet been Japanese retailer has 28 hypermarkets in the coun- appointed, the source added. try and plans to open 100 more stores in various “The sale of the South Korean unit will buy formats by 2020. Aeon also owns 51.7 percent of Tesco some time, so they could delay any further Aeon Co M Bhd, which has 29 outlets and four action until around March next year,” this source MaxValu supermarkets in Malaysia. said. Tesco shares were trading down 1.6 percent Tesco is currently seeking buyers for its $6 bil- by 1040 GMT. A spokesman for Sime Darby Bhd, lion South Korean business and a stake in data- which owns 30 percent of Tesco’s Malaysian arm, gathering arm Dunnhumby, to fund a turnaround said the Malaysian plantation-to-autos conglomer- in its home market. Britain’s biggest retailer is ate would always evaluate opportunities that may recovering from an accounting scandal and the enhance shareholder value. Sime Darby’s latest loss of market share to discount chains Aldi and annual report showed Tesco operates 49 stores Lidl. throughout Malaysia. Net profit rose 73 percent to Aeon, which started out selling traditional 82.2 million ringgit ($21.6 million) last year, on rev- kimono clothing in the late 1700s, is keen to buy enue that rose 1.1 percent to 4.65 billion ring- JACKSONVILLE: The MOL Competence, a 1036-foot long, 150-foot wide container ship carrying 45,000 tons of cargo, is moored at the TraPac Tesco’s Malaysian unit and has informally discussed git, the report showed. —Reuters Container Terminal in Jacksonville, Florida. The Commerce Department reported on the US trade gap for May 2015 yesterday.—AP Greek olive farmers demand Temasek global portfolio cash as bank fears grow reaches record $194bn SINGAPORE: LONDON/ATHENS: The cash economy restaurants-to pay their invoices in cash, needs to keep operating until mid-August. Singapore state investment “This was the most active year for us 28 percent of the total portfolio. emerging after the closure of Greece’s banks Dimizas said. “It worked for one week, but it Gaea was paying some suppliers and giant Temasek Holdings said yesterday its since the global financial crisis,” Temasek Temasek, however, said it had been is beginning to paralyze the country’s vital won’t work forever,” he said. “If we keep being transport firms using online banking. global portfolio reached a record Sg$266 chairman Lim Boon Heng said in a state- steadily expanding its holdings in China, olive oil industry as farmers demand cash for unable to find a raw material supplier that “If web banking transactions stop, I don’t billion ($194 billion) in the year to March, ment. “We made Sg$30 billion of new which accounts for 27 percent of its port- supplies that distributors are unable to pay. can be paid through the banking system and know whether we will be able to export. In driven by rise in global equities. investments and a record Sg$19 billion of folio, up from 25 percent the previous With the country’s lenders at risk of not only in cash, the deliveries will stop that case, we will have to see if we can use The value of its holdings increased 19 divestments,” he added. year and 23 percent in 2013. “From our default, Greece’s half a million olive growers, immediately.” foreign transport firms,” said Kefalogiannis. percent from the previous fiscal year’s Total shareholder return, which earlier investments in banks as broad many of them small family businesses, fear He said the company also risks running Olives have been cultivated in Greece for Sg$223 billion and is more than double its includes dividends it pays to the proxies of a transforming economy, we the banks will raid their accounts and are out of bottles and caps as they are supplied thousands of years and today the country is portfolio of Sg$103 billion 10 years ago, Singapore government and excludes cap- have broadened our exposure to include refusing to accept large payments via bank from abroad and capital controls make it the world’s third-largest producer of olive oil. the company said in its annual report. ital injections it receives, was 19.2 percent, sectors like insurance, consumer and transfer. “They want it in cash or they prefer hard to wire payments to foreign suppliers. Exports have grown about twice as fast Net profit was Sg$14.5 billion from a sharp improvement from the previous technology which are likely to benefit to keep their olive oil in their tanks,” said Chris Gaea, another olive oil supplier, is offering as domestic consumption over the past two Sg$10.9 billion last year, said Temasek, fiscal year’s 1.5 percent. Temasek said from the transformation of China,” it said. Dimizas, managing director of extra virgin farmers cheques that they can cash once the decades but, compared to Spain and Italy, one of the world’s biggest state-linked about half of its new investments were in The top three sectors it invested in last olive oil producer Greekpol in the northwest- banks re-open. “A single olive oil cargo costs there is very little large-scale industrialized investment vehicles whose whose hold- Asia, followed by North America and year were consumer, financial services as ern Peloponnese. Greekpol does not have about 100,000 euros, so you can imagine we olive farming. Of 520,000 olive growers, only ings include top global brands such as Europe, reflecting “our balanced outlook well as life sciences and agriculture. “We enough bank notes to keep paying the farm- don’t have such sums in cash,” Chief half are professional farmers, according to banking firm Standard Chartered, between a growing Asia and the recover- are cautiously optimistic for the next few ers even after it asked its own customers- Executive Aris Kefalogiannis told Reuters. He the United States Department of Singapore Airlines and Spanish energy ing mature markets”. Singapore remains years,” said Ravi Lambah, Temasek senior supermarket chains, grocery shops and said he had secured most of the supplies he Agriculture. —Reuters giant Repsol. the firm’s biggest market, accounting for managing director for investment. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 BUSINESS China stocks sink again despite govt efforts

SHANGHAI: Chinese shares took another tum- The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell Industry giant ICBC gained 3.80 percent to Monday. When the Communist Party 120 billion yuan ($19.3 billion) in so- ble yesterday defying government efforts to 1.29 percent, or 48.79 points, to end at 5.74 yuan while China Construction Bank launched a stock market-the ultimate called “blue chip” exchange traded funds arrest a precipitous fall that has wiped an esti- 3,727.12 on turnover of 776.1 billion yuan surged by its 10 percent daily limit to 7.47 capitalist tool — 25 years ago it kept (ETFs). The latest moves followed an mated $3.2 trillion off markets and threatens ($126.9 billion). It was down as much as 5.05 yuan. strict control over key decisions, includ- interest rate cut, relaxed rules on margin the world’s number-two economy. The gov- percent during the day. But Shandong Lukang Pharmaceutical lost ing which companies can list and who trading, and proposals to let the state ernment over the weekend announced a halt The Shenzhen Composite Index, which its 10 percent daily limit to 9.60 yuan while could invest. social security funds invest in equities- to initial public offerings (IPOs) and moves to tracks stocks on China’s second exchange, Anyuan Coal Industry Group also plummeted Under the administration of President which failed to arrest a near 30 percent pour funds into the market to end three weeks slumped 5.34 percent, or 109.02 points, to 10 percent to 5.81 yuan. Hong Kong equities Xi Jinping, policymakers unleashed a liq- fall over the three weeks to Friday. of plunging prices. 1,932.83 on thin turnover of 301.4 billion retreated 1.03 percent, tracking the mainland uidity surge and state media urged the “It’s coming to a point where you’re Analysts say the heavy-handed interven- yuan. There were some rises among heavy- sell-off with dual-listed firms’ prices tumbling market forward, seeking a boost for a covering one bad policy with another,” tion throws into question the pace of China’s weight blue-chips, which are the main benefi- in the city. slowing economy and populist cheer Tai Hui, Hong Kong-based chief Asia mar- economic reforms and the ability of the gov- ciaries of the government response, but most “The slumping Chinese stock market has among investors for their growing for- ket strategist at JPMorgan Asset ernment to engineer controlled deflation of firms fell, dragging down the index. Banks raised concerns of systemic risks,” ANZ tunes. Management, told Bloomberg News. what many describe as a stock market bubble. were among the biggest gainers in Shanghai. Banking Group said in a research note on Over 12 months Shanghai soared “A lot of investors are still concerned more than 150 percent. But Communist about another correction.” Haitong planners are now facing the challenge of Securities analyst Zhang Qi said it was trying to prevent a market crash that hard to tell where the bottom is for the could spark social unrest from disgrun- Shanghai market. tled investors and infect the larger econ- “With investors’ confidence towards omy. “China’s leadership has doubled the market shattered, it’s really hard to down on its efforts to prop up equity tell when it will start to stabilize and prices because it believes that its own recover from recent falls,” he said. credibility is now coupled to continued Chinese punters are overwhelmingly gains on the markets,” Mark Williams, small, retail investors who have made chief Asia economist for Capital bets using borrowed money through a Economics, said in a research report yes- practice called margin trading. Under it, terday. “It is following a risky path.” they only need to deposit a small pro- portion of the value of their trades, Correction fears potentially generating bigger profits but On Sunday, the government said the also exposing them to bigger losses. At a central bank would provide funds to the securities trading centre in downtown state-backed China Securities Finance Co. Shanghai, one elderly investor to help “protect the stability of the secu- expressed anger at the government for rities market”. The China Securities his losses. Regulatory Commission (CSRC) also said “I have been in the market for more there would be a temporary halt to IPOs, than 25 years and this is the worst fall in which tend to drain funds from the rest terms of the speed the market went of the market, hurting prices and senti- down,” said Gu Yongbiao, 60. “The gov- ment. ernment only cares about the institu- A day before, China’s 21 largest bro- tions and not the individual investors,” kerages said they would invest at least he said.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 BUSINESS

Britain faces first Conservative budget in two decades

LONDON: British Prime Minister David far this year will unleash more austerity to burden, but also address concerns that the percent of GDP in the current 2015/2016 slash a record deficit inherited from the previ- Cameron’s government will this week unveil raise another £12 billion ($19 billion, 17 billion welfare system encourages a culture of state financial year. The Chancellor also plans to ous Labor government. the first Conservative budget in almost 20 euros). handouts. save another £650 million per year by forcing The coalition had already promised the years, targeting deep welfare cutbacks to “You do have to look at the benefits sys- the state-funded BBC to foot the bill for the public purse would reach a surplus by honor a campaign pledge to slash spending. tem, the welfare system, and make sure that it ‘Enviable combination’ provision of free television licences for Britons 2018/2019. The economy is meanwhile fore- Finance minister George Osborne, boosted is fair for working people,” Osborne said Today’s budget will seek to build upon aged over 75. cast to grow by 2.5 percent this year and 2.3 by a surprise May 7 vote giving his centre- Sunday. “It is not fair that people out of work Osborne’s 2015/2016 annual budget that was “The BBC is also a publicly funded institu- percent in 2016, bringing higher taxation rev- right Conservative Party an outright majority, can earn more than people in work so we are presented under the previous coalition tion and so it does need to make savings and enues. “The UK economy is showing an envi- will present his latest spending and taxation going to cut the benefit cap.” administration in March. It will also be Britain’s contribute to what we need to do as a coun- able combination of decent growth, low infla- plans before parliament today. He will seek to cap annual welfare pay- first Conservative budget since 1996, when try to get our house in order. So we are in dis- tion and falling unemployment,” said Deloitte Osborne will have a free hand with public ments at £23,000 per household in London, former premier John Major was in power. cussion with the BBC,” he added Sunday. In chief economist Ian Stewart. finances after five years of coalition with the against the current level of £26,000. The During the coalition years, Osborne was addition, Osborne will announce new laws in “The government has an ambitious target centrist Liberal Democrats, while the summer amount will be lower still outside the capital. forced to soften some of his austerity meas- this week’s budget to force governments to for debt reduction and for cutting public budget comes amid mounting global con- Osborne has also said that Britons on ures in the face of fierce pressure from the Lib run a surplus. expenditure. “The July budget will map how cern over the debt crisis in anti-austerity higher incomes in subsidized council housing Dems. However, Osborne’s priority remains The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coali- Mr Osborne intends to meet those plans by Greece. Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne will have to pay closer to the market level of tackling Britain’s total debt, which stands at tion, which rose to power in 2010, oversaw specifying how cuts to departmental and has already vowed that his second budget so rent. The Conservatives want to lower the tax about £1.5 trillion, with a deficit of around 4.0 billions of pounds of cuts to state spending to welfare spending will be financed.” — AFP

Ex-trader Hayes wanted to do job perfectly, Libor trial hears

LONDON: Tom Hayes, the first person to to influence Libor rates- designed to reflect face trial by jury over allegations he con- the cost of inter-bank borrowing-for his spired to rig global Libor interest rates, told own trading benefit, prejudicing the inter- a London court yesterday he had not acted ests of others. According to the transcripts dishonestly and just wanted to do a good of Hayes’s interviews with the SFO after his job. arrest in December 2012, Hayes said he was Taking the stand for the first time in the extremely open about trying to influence high-profile trial at Southwark Crown rates, his managers knew what he was Court, the 35-year-old former UBS and doing and that the practice was wide- Citigroup star trader said he had only spread. admitted to wrongdoing in interviews with Based in Tokyo, Hayes traded in yen- British officials because he wanted to avoid denominated derivatives tied to Libor-the extradition to the United States. London interbank offered rate that deter- “Basically, I was petrified,” the Briton mines the prices of around $450 trillion of said, adding he feared facing charges in the financial contracts and loans worldwide. United States that might carry jail sen- Small movements in the rate could trans- tences of 20-30 years. By admitting to late into big profits or losses for his trading wrongdoing, Hayes said he believed he was book. ensuring his case would be heard in Britain. Hayes was diagnosed in May by an inde- But he added he did not think he had acted pendent medical expert with mild dishonestly, and that he had simply wanted Asperger’s Syndrome-a form of autism-and to do a good job for his employers. has been allowed to sit with his legal team “I wanted to do my job as perfectly as I and an independent intermediary while could,” he said. Hayes, a former yen deriva- the prosecution laid out its case. The glass- tives trader based in Tokyo, has pleaded enclosed security dock, where defendants not guilty to eight counts of conspiracy to more usually sit, has instead been used by defraud between 2006 and 2010 — an journalists as it affords a better view of pro- offence that can carry a 10-year jail sen- ceedings than the public gallery. Judge tence. Jeremy Cooke started the day by telling the Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) jury that people with Hayes’ condition MUMBAI: Indian Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut poses with the limited edition Nissan Micra car during its launch in Mumbai yesterday. —AFP alleges Hayes set up a network of brokers often did not detect shades of grey but and traders that spanned some of the tended to see the world in black and world’s most powerful financial institutions white.—Reuters Global funds not exposed to China rout, but risks loom Almost $3 trillion wiped off despite counter measures LONDON: A three-week, 30 percent slide in the it’s still very limited,” Hirn said. Her firm has held may be much larger because of other, unofficial, bor- world’s second-biggest equity market has had only a Chinese investment quotas since 2013 but has less rowing channels, BNP said. glancing effect on emerging market portfolios still than 5 percent of its total assets in that market. “Their holders are now, on average, under water. light on China’s Shanghai stocks, but the economic The recent falls also came after Shanghai shares This means that consumer wealth and confidence fallout from the shakeout poses a bigger risk. climbed 150 percent in the year to June, outperform- have been reduced, and so will the growth of their Almost $3 trillion has been wiped off the A-shares ing all other emerging and developed markets. spending,” the bank said. listed in Shanghai and Shenzen since mid-June, Markets in fellow BRIC states -whom Beijing meets in It reckons this year’s stable retail sales were despite increasingly frantic counter-measures. On summit this week - lagged significantly in this period helped by equity gains but warned that “negative Monday, an opening 8 percent bounce after a fresh A-shares have displayed little correlation with wealth effects resulting from the recent bear mar- liquidity addition gradually faded, with shares closing Asian, emerging and global peers - since mid-June ket will likely slow the consumer.” Therein lies the only 2 percent higher. emerging equities are down 4 percent and MSCI’s problem. Chinese growth may fall under 7 percent The moves are on global fund managers’ radar. Big main China index has lost 8 percent this year. With exports lacklustre, any drop in con- falls on Monday on Chinese depositary receipts (ADRs) (http://link.reuters.com/rac25w) sumption or rise in bad loans will hurt profits at listed in the United States hint at a further reverbera- Much of the move up was driven by a huge banks and companies that are listed not just locally tions. But with foreigners’ A-share exposure still minis- increase in margin lending - borrowing to invest - as but also in Hong Kong or New York. And with China cule, portfolios are so far largely unscathed. “To the locals bet on interest rate cuts and tried to front-run an comprising a fifth of emerging equity indexes, extent that the A-share market offers limited access to anticipated foreign influx. But foreign investors, better- portfolios could suffer losses later. Unchecked, they foreigners, the impact on global portfolios too has versed in the ways of markets, were pulling cash out may trigger an exodus from other emerging mar- been limited,” said Jorge Mariscal, chief investment well before the latest rout. Between January and May, kets, too. “The overall wealth effect is still positive, officer for emerging markets at UBS Wealth China-dedicated funds, which buy both mainland and but if this continues it may affect investment, con- Management, which manages $1 trillion of client offshore-listed stocks, shed $18 billion, according to sumption and the pace of structural reform,” money but holds no A-shares. EPFR Global. “Price-earnings ratios went off the wall Mariscal said. TOKYO: Pedestrians walk past a share prices board in Tokyo yesterday. The main reason is that A-shares are not included and were clearly moving into bubble territory,” said Already, by tinkering with regulation and mone- Japan’s share prices rose 272.67 points to close at 20,384.79 points at the in the main indexes. Instead, foreigners invest via Jan Dehn, head of research at Ashmore, which sold tary policy to temper market moves, Beijing is seen morning session of the Tokyo stock exchange, clawing back some of the pre- investment quotas and more recently, a stock connect just before the market peaked. to be backsliding on financial system reforms. Hirn vious day’s losses fuelled by greece’s austerity vote, which analysts said was system that gives more offshore investors direct of East Capital downplays the wider risks of declin- access to Shanghai shares. Underwater ing consumption, because securities investments overdone. — AFP Based on foreign take-up of investment quotas As Dehn points out, anyone buying A-shares a year comprise 6 percent of Chinese households’ balance and flows generated by the stock connect, no more ago would still be up 70 percent. But many of the sheet versus 17 percent in the United States. Cash than 2 percent of the Shanghai-Shenzen market capi- small-time Chinese buyers would have joined the par- accounts for 26 percent. The eventual inclusion of talization is owned by non-residents, says Karine Hirn, ty just as it was winding down. More than 30 million A-shares in major indexes will also offer support, a Hong Kong-based partner at East Capital. Some 85 new individual stock accounts were opened between she said. “It’s been a massive cold shower for peo- Setback for M&S as percent of transactions are conducted by China’s army end-March and mid-June, BNP Paribas notes. What’s ple,” Hirn said. “But if they manage to stabilize the of mom-and-pop investors. “There’s been a lot of talk more, margin purchase deals, believed to account for market and it’s 20-25 percent cheaper, there will be clothing sales dip about opening up the A-share market but let’s face it, almost 5 percent of tradable market capitalisation, people moving in.” —Reuters

LONDON: British retailer Marks & Spencer “What we have said very consistently is Gold falls on higher dollar reported a dip in first-quarter underlying the priority is on gross margin and we’re sales in its clothing, shoes and homeware delivering,” he told reporters. Some ana- business yesterday, a setback after a return lysts, however, remain concerned about to growth in the previous three months. weak sales. ahead of summit on Greece However, the 131-year-old mainstay of “Increasing gross margins alone is not a Britain’s shopping streets said it remained source of long-term growth,” said Credit LONDON: Gold fell yesterday as the would already have done so.” Platinum was down 0.7 percent Silver was down 0.8 percent at on track to grow profit margins this year-a Suisse analysts, who have an ‘underper- dollar climbed and investors Hedge funds and money man- at $1,051.75 an ounce, having $15.61 an ounce and palladium key target for its general merchandise busi- form’ rating on M&S shares and note a assessed a further fall in Chinese agers increased their short positions dropped to its lowest since March fell 1.4 percent to $667.50 an ness. firmer US dollar could hurt clothing retail- shares and awaited an emergency to the highest on record in the week 2009 at $1,043.50 an ounce on ounce, close to a two-year low hit Shares in Marks & Spencer (M&S), which ers’ margins in the coming quarters. Many euro-zone summit on Greece as the ended June 30, the US Commodity Monday. last week. — Reuters also sells groceries, have risen a quarter fashion retailers buy goods from factories country’s banks face potential col- Futures Trading Commission data over the last year on hopes the billions of in Asia, priced in dollars. lapse. Gold, usually seen as an alter- showed on Monday. pounds spent by Chief Executive Marc M&S said general merchandise sales at native investment in times of finan- In recent days, the weakness in Bolland on revamped products, stores, stores open over a year fell 0.4 percent in cial and economic uncertainty, has the euro from the Greek crisis has logistics and the website will pay off. They the 13 weeks to June 27. That was better so far failed to see significant safe- supported the dollar, which rose to a gave up early gains to be down 1.3 percent than analysts’ average forecast for a 1 per- haven buying due to the ongoing one-month high against a basket of by 0850 GMT after M&S updated on trading cent decline, but below 0.7 percent growth Greek crisis as fears of contagion leading currencies yesterday. ahead of its annual shareholder meeting at in the previous quarter-the division’s first seem to be limited, traders said. In wider markets, Chinese equi- London’s Wembley Stadium later in the day. growth in nearly four years. Bolland said an Spot gold eased 0.4 percent to ties failed to benefit from policy “Whilst it is disappointing that manage- unseasonally cool May hit the whole indus- $1,165.19 an ounce by 1208 GMT, measures at the weekend intended ment has not been able to sustain the posi- try, leading to widespread promotions in while US gold futures dropped 0.8 to halt a slide of almost 30 percent tive general merchandise trading momen- June. Official data, published last month, percent to $1,164.20 an ounce. Spot since mid-June. Gold’s upside has tum ... we are reasonably comfortable that attributed a sharp slowdown in British retail prices are within reach of the 3-1/2 also been hurt by the prospect of the slowdown broadly reflects slowing sales growth in May to shoppers buying month low of $1,156.85 hit on higher US interest rates later this market conditions in UK apparel,” said fewer clothes. Bolland said the general Thursday. Initial support is in the year, which would boost dollar Shore Capital analyst Darren Shirley, who merchandise business was, however, bene- $1,160-$1,165 area, followed by the demand and increase the opportu- has a ‘buy’ rating on the stock. fiting from a focus on improving quality year low of $1,142.90, MKS Group nity cost of holding the metal. M&S said it was keeping its guidance for and style. said in a note. For now, the focus remains on the the 2015-16 financial year, including grow- He also highlighted growth of 38.7 per- “I find it difficult to see a signifi- euro zone meeting. Athens is ing gross margins in the general merchan- cent at M&S.com, re-launched last year. cant move to the upside for gold expected to bring a proposal for a dise business by 1.5 to 2 percentage points. First quarter like-for-like sales in M&S’s because I would not know where deal to the summit after France and Bolland has stressed his non-food strategy food business rose 0.3 percent, a 23rd the spark would come from,” said Germany told Greece on Monday to is to primarily focus on gross margins, the straight quarterly rise and in line with fore- Gerhard Schubert of SC Consultancy come up with serious proposals in difference between the price it buys goods casts. In May M&S reported a rise in annual DMCC. order to restart financial aid talks. and the price it sells them, through profit for the first time in four years and “But it’s already all in the price, The European Central Bank left ATHENS: Orthodox monks walk in a street in downtown Athens’ Plaka improvements in its sourcing operations, analysts are forecasting another rise for anybody who wanted to be long emergency liquidity for Greek banks area yesterday. Euro-zone leaders held an emergency summit in rather than driving sales growth. 2015-16. — Reuters because of Greece and short at current levels but increased the Brussels yesterday to discuss the fallout from Greek voters’ defiant because of the Fed’s rate policy haircuts on the collateral it demands. “No” to further austerity measures.—AFP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 China’s stock market plunge: How did it happen?

SHANGHAI: Chinese stocks resumed Why did it fall? ing rules and reduced stock transaction falling yesterday despite the govern- On the same day as the market fees. Soon after the government ment unveiling an unprecedented pack- reached its peak, China’s securities regu- announced proposals to let social securi- age of measures to boost the flagging lator said it would tighten rules on mar- ty pension funds enter the stock market. market after a spectacular bull-run gin trading for individual investors. The The CSRC cut back on the number of reversed course in June. following day, the China Securities initial public offerings (IPOs), then went Regulatory Commission (CSRC) also a step further by halting them for the Why did the market surge? banned trading with funds borrowed near future. China’s central bank said it China’s stock market surge started in outside the margin trading system. would provide funds through the state- late 2014 despite the economy experi- When markets reopened investors backed China Securities Finance Co. to encing its slowest growth in 24 years. started to take profits on worries of over- “protect the stability of the securities market”, while the 21 largest brokerages The borrowing-fuelled rally began after valued stock prices and increasing mar- ket risk. The de-leveraging process soon said they would invest at least 120 bil- the central bank cut interest rates on became uncontrollable, resulting in lion yuan ($19.3 billion) in so-called November 21 for the first time in more Shanghai plunging almost 30 percent “blue chip” exchange traded funds than two years, and the launch of a over three weeks. Market sentiment (ETFs). scheme linking trading between the worsened as investors who traded on Shanghai and Hong Kong stock margin were forced to liquidate their What happens next? exchanges. The rally continued in 2015 stock holdings to make payment. No one really knows and the market with the benchmark Shanghai index remains wildly volatile. Investors forced climbing to the symbolic 5,000-point What’s being done to to sell could drive prices lower, or bar- level in early June, driven higher by mar- support the market? gain-hunters could see a buying oppor- around 4,000 points in the next month. activity added more than half a percent- gin trading, through which investors The Shanghai index plunged 7.4 per- tunity and step in. age point to China’s economic growth in only need to deposit a small proportion cent on June 26 and the next day China’s “With investors’ confidence towards What are the possible consequences? the first quarter, and a slowdown in the of the value of their trades, generating central bank announced cuts in both the market shattered, it’s really hard to Some analysts believe the stock mar- financial sector could have a wider bigger profits but also potentially expos- interest rates and the reserve require- tell when it will start to stabilise and ket plunge may hurt the economy, the impact. “The slumping Chinese stock ing them to bigger losses. ment ratio-the amount of money banks recover from recent falls,” Haitong world’s second largest, and could spark market has raised concerns of systemic When it peaked on June 12 it had must put aside. Securities analyst Zhang Qi told AFP. social unrest though the single-party risks,” ANZ Banking Group said, though it risen more than 150 percent over the The market regulator then He estimates that the benchmark state keeps a tight grip on dissent. added the stock rout had yet to become previous 12 months. announced a relaxation of margin trad- Shanghai index may rebound to There are estimates that stock trading a crisis. — AFP Hyundai Northern Gulf announces increase in sales on 2016 models KUWAIT: On the occasion of Ramadan, valuable promotions like this whenever pos- Hyundai Northern Gulf recently launched its sible.” Shoot and Win in the Month of Giving, The offer covers all of Hyundai’s lineup, where customers purchasing new Hyundai featuring a variety of models that cater to vehicles are given a chance to aim a mock equally varied requirements and budgets. Ramadan cannon and win a variety of prizes. Hyundai is also very proud of its showroom Additionally, all vehicles sold during services, designed to help customers find Ramadan come with a buy-back guarantee. their perfect match, and post-sales services, Prizes reach up to KD500, and the buy- which ensure trouble-free ownership of back guarantee ensures that a valuation of these reliable and great value vehicles. 85 percent in the first year, 70 percent in the Hyundai’s showrooms are open from second and 50 percent in the third year. The 9:30am to 3:30pm and then again from offer also includes a chance to win free com- 8:30pm to 11:30pm during Ramadan. prehensive insurance for the first year, free In addition to seasonal offers, Northern maintenance for the first year or 20,000km Gulf constantly offers a variety of promo- or HYUNDAI’s free lifetime warranty. tions to ensure customer satisfaction and to On the occasion of this promotion, which make Hyundai’s vehicles accessible to all runs from the 14th of June to the end of with competitive and reasonable prices. The Ramadan, Northern Gulf’s Marketing and company is also keen to reinforce Hyundai’s Promotions Department spokesperson said global brand value as a leading automotive “We’re proud to launch this promotion dur- brand that has been able to compete with ing the Holy month of Ramadan, and to add older legacy brands. The promotions stand a new seasonal spirit to our showrooms. The as a tribute to Hyundai’s customer-centric promotion gives our customers a unique philosophy, which places customer needs at opportunity to win back prizes on all 2016 the top of its priorities, whether before or Air Arabia enters 13th destination vehicles, and we hope to continue to launch after purchase. in Saudi Arabia with Tabuk service Al-Mulla International Exchange SHARJAH: Air Arabia announced yesterday the significant value to customers in the Kingdom. reflecting the overall growth of the Saudi avia- launch of regular services to Tabuk, which marks Commenting on the new service, Adel Ali, tion sector, the airline has seen increasing grants ‘Premier Lounge’ clients the airline’s 13th destination in Saudi Arabia and Group Chief Executive Officer, Air Arabia, said: demand for the appealing value for money 114thglobally. “The strengthening of our route network in product it offers. Today, the low cost pioneer chance to win a KD 15,000 car Starting July 30, 2015, the leading low-cost Saudi Arabia with the launch of Tabuk demon- operates over 120 weekly non-stop services into carrier will operate services on Tuesdays, strates the significance we attach to the the Kingdom and serves Saudi from its hubs in KUWAIT: Al Mulla Exchange has recently Exchange’s commitment to meeting its Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights will leave Kingdom. Going forward, our business focus for Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimahin UAE, Alexandria in announced an exciting and thrilling distinguished clients’ needs based on Sharjah International Airport at 09:20 and reach KSA will remain to be present where our cus- Egypt, and Amman in Jordan - to 13 destinations marketing promotion which will effec- the highest standards of efficiency in Tabuk Regional Airport at 11:20. 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The Premiere Lounges are estab- ‘Premier Lounge’ clients will have the lished now in Qurain, Salmiya, Abbassiya opportunity to win a car of their choice and Fahaheel. The Lounges promises a worth KD 15,000 for every remittance Data availability bias in the oil market world class service with a comfortable transaction carried out for an amount of LONDON: Why is there such good data about oil in ernment had given the public advanced warning to know if there is an oil shortage. The American sit in experience, a far cry from from the KD 1,000. Al Mulla International the United States but such poor data about every- of energy shortages. Even after they occurred, people want to know if there are oil tankers hustle and bustle of the branches. The Exchange gives its clients one opportu- where else? Accurate information is essential for there seemed to be no clear explanations or com- anchored offshore waiting for a price increase or Premiere Lounge is an ‘invitation only’ nity to win for every KD 1,000 they trans- good decision-making, so it is remarkable how lit- prehensible data,” historian Richard Vietor wrote available storage before they unload. The American service and only customers having the fer during the 3-months-long campaign tle reliable and timely data exists about the pro- later about the confusion and conspiracy theories people want to know whether major oil companies Premiere Lounge access card can avail that lasts from June 14, 2015 to duction and consumption of crude oil and refined (“Energy Policy in America”, 1984). are sitting on shut-in wells and hoarding produc- this service. September 14, 2015. The raffle draw will fuels outside the United States. 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The result is that oil analysts cannot even were colluding with the Organization of the Jackson chaired the powerful Senate ner of the three month promotion will Joshi further emphasized that Al agree on production and consumption yesterday Petroleum Exporting Countries to engineer short- Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and get to choose the car of their dreams Mulla International Exchange always and today, let alone predict what will happen ages and raise prices. turned the heat up on the industry. “The American worth KD 15,000/- from any car show seeks to provide a convenient service to tomorrow. “The news media only added to the confusion. people want to know why oil companies are mak- room of their choice. its clients, who it considers its top priori- And because the best and most readily accessi- Mistrust abounded as to the reality of the crisis and ing soaring profits. The American people want to Commenting on the subject, Rakish ty, adding that this principle allowed Al ble data is for the United States, the market puts its causes,” Vietor concluded. Conspiracy theories know if this so-called energy crisis is only a pretext, Joshi, General Manager, said: “The Mulla International Exchange to become excessive emphasis on what happens there and flourished because it turned out the government a cover ... to raise prices, to repeal environmental ‘Premier Lounge’ service inside branches the most favourite company among neglects developments elsewhere. The obsession relied almost exclusively on the oil and gas indus- laws and to force the adoption of new tax subsi- comes as part of Al Mulla International clients. with weekly rig counts, production estimates and tries for information on the state of production and dies,” Jackson wondered in January 1974. crude inventories in the United States as a sign of reserves. “In terms of getting the facts in the ener- wider supply-demand trends in the oil market has gy area, the federal government has completely DATA DEMAND been a case in point. delegated their responsibility to the oil industry,” Between 1973 and 1975, at least 25 of the 39 UK energy firms could But as long as US data is more accurate, detailed complained the chairman of a congressional com- permanent congressional committees then in exis- and timely than the numbers for other countries, mittee. “This deplorable situation has to end.” tence held hearings into some aspect of the energy face price cap this example of “availability bias” is set to continue. Senior officials from the administration testified crisis. The recurrent theme through the 1970s was they were satisfied with data they received from the need for better data. Congress published ENERGY CRISIS the National Petroleum Council, the American reports on everything from “Conflicting informa- LONDON: Britain’s largest energy suppliers A spokesman for Conservative Prime Some US data comes from private companies Petroleum Institute, the American Gas Association tion on fuel shortages” (1974) and “Energy data could face a price cap after a competition Minister David Cameron said the British such as Baker Hughes, which inherited the and other industry associations, but Congress was requirements of the federal government” (1974) to watchdog found they overcharged house- leader remained opposed to price regulation, decades-old rig count from the Hughes Tool adamant the government needed its own inde- “Energy information shortcomings and the gaso- holds by around 1.2 billion pounds each year seemingly conflicting with the Conservative Company, but most is produced by the federal gov- pendent information. “The American people want line shortage” (1979).—-Reuters ($1.9 billion) between 2009 and 2013. Britons Party’s previous stance that it would imple- ernment. The US Energy Information have seen energy bills double in the last ment changes set out by the CMA. Administration, the independent statistical and decade to 1,200 pounds a year, leading to The idea of a cap on energy prices was analysis arm of the Department of Energy, provides allegations that utilities were cheating them floated by former Labour Party leader Ed by far the best data on oil and other energy mar- and political pressure to curb increases. The Miliband when he promised to act on high kets anywhere in the world. utilities have denied ripping off customers. bills as part of his unsuccessful campaign for The EIA’s magnificent data collection and publi- The inquiry by the Competition and the May election. cation effort was born amid bitter recriminations Markets Authority (CMA) was launched a year Centrica said it had concerns about some about the federal government’s failure to foresee ago to clear up once and for all whether the of the proposals, including the price cap. Its the energy shortages of the 1970s. In early 1974, six largest suppliers were abusing their 90 shares traded down 1.2 percent at 1120 GMT, just months after Arab countries embargoed oil percent control of the market. while rival energy supplier SSE saw its stock exports to the United States, more US voters Britain’s biggest supplier, Centrica’s British fall 1 percent, modest declines reflecting blamed oil companies and their own government Gas, even faced the threat of being broken up relief at the initial outcome of the review. for shortages and price rises than the oil exporters. after a former energy minister raised the idea Britain’s largest energy suppliers are “The real trouble in the energy crisis is that the in a letter to the energy regulator. Centrica and SSE plus foreign-owned Scottish government does not seem to know how serious The CMA has now firmly ruled out such a Power, RWE npower, E.ON and EDF Energy. the shortage will be”, according to 53 percent of radical step, saying in its initial findings that those questioned in one survey conducted in suppliers were acting within the law and not SMALLER PLAYERS February 1974. Widespread suspicions arose that making excessive profits. Consumers who Britain’s retail energy market is relatively oil and gas companies were exacerbating the crisis failed to switch energy provider were howev- diverse in comparison with other European by deliberately withholding production to drive er paying too much, it added. countries, some of which only have one or prices higher. “We are proposing a transitional price cap two major energy suppliers. The prices which Even as late as 1979, more people were blaming which would actually protect those who are British consumers pay for energy use are in high prices on companies deliberately withholding disengaged and indeed those who are most line with European Union averages, but poor oil and gas production (65 percent) and refusing to disadvantaged,” Roger Witcomb, non-execu- household insulation tends to mean energy is drill wells unless prices were raised (61 percent) ATHENS: A lottery ticket vendor drinks coffee as he waits for customers in a street in down- tive director of the CMA, told BBC radio. lost and pushes up bills.— Reuters than OPEC (59 percent). “Neither industry nor gov- town Athens yesterday. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 TECHNOLOGY

Mobile is key to fulfilling promise of Internet connectivity: Report

WASHINGTON & GENEVA: The Internet apps. “We applaud this global shift in the subscribe. There are numerous countries between platforms, limiting choice and mobile Internet, there are challenges that Society yesterday released its 2015 Global Internet dynamic, with mobile playing a for which the cost of mobile Internet serv- competition between platforms. need to be addressed to ensure that all Internet Report, www.internetsociety.org/ significant role in the rapid pace of new ice is more than 5 or even 10 of average per “Today we associate the mobile Internet users - existing and future - enjoy the full globalinternetreport, the organization’s Internet users,” said Internet Society capita income. Further, while a significant with a smart device that runs on a specific benefits of access to the open Internet.” second annual report on the global state of President and CEO Kathy Brown. “The segment of the population can access and platform and provides access to the apps Report Highlights: 94 percent of the the Internet. Focused on the impact of the Internet is truly global and every new user afford the mobile Internet, they do not yet that we use,” suggests Michael Kende, global population is covered by a mobile mobile Internet, this year’s report shows online benefits other users, for social inter- have enough interest to begin using it. This Internet Society Chief Economist and network, 48 are covered by mobile broad- that mobile has fundamentally trans- action, economic opportunities and many can be attributed to language barriers and author of the report. “While this has created band, and 28 percent have subscribed to formed Internet access and use, and holds other benefits that were previously limited locally-relevant content, including a amazing benefits for users and an entire mobile Internet services. the key to fulfilling the promise of Internet unimaginable.” While the digital divide lack of access to major app stores in some app economy for developers, it locks users The gap between availability and connectivity for the next billion people. around the world is closing with the help of countries, which limits the usefulness of a into a chosen platform and ultimately limits adoption of mobile Internet is due to People are increasingly accessing the mobile, challenges still exist. One key find- smart device. choices in a way that is new to the Internet.” affordability and lack of relevant content. Internet through mobile devices. Today ing of the report is that given the availabili- Apps are increasingly used as the pri- The mobile Internet has allowed more Policymakers should focus on filling this there are more than 3 billion people online ty of the mobile Internet, affordability and mary means of interacting with the people to access the Internet to do more gap by making the services more afford- and the mobile Internet offers hundreds of lack of relevant content are now the main Internet, and the report highlights the things in more places. able by removing taxes on equipment, millions around the world their primary, if barriers to Internet access. Even taking into many benefits of apps as well as the chal- The report celebrates the role of the devices, and services, and eliminating not only, means of accessing the Internet. account regional variations, in most, if not lenges. The vast majority of apps are native mobile Internet in shifting the digital divide regulatory barriers for operators. Local In addition to providing access, benefits of all, countries, the availability of mobile to a particular proprietary mobile platform, debate from whether access is available, to hosting of content can also help lower the mobile Internet arise from using all the Internet service far outpaces adoption such as Android or Apple. This raises the whether the access is affordable and rele- costs by avoiding the use of relatively features embedded into smart devices, rates, meaning that a significant number of costs for developers to make apps for all vant. However, Kathy Brown notes that, expensive international capacity to which are typically accessed via convenient people have access to service, but do not platforms and for consumers to switch “Despite the remarkable evolution of the access content. Car dashboards that act like smart phones raise concerns Elaborate screens spark debate about security issues

SAN FRANCISCO: When it comes to dashboard the photo was taken. Text messages pop up on the government guidelines advise that drivers should displays that are more like smart phones, two dashboard, in addition to being read out loud. be able to complete tasks in a series of 1.5 or 2 sec- things are clear: Customers want them, and “If you don’t provide something that is useful, ond glances, for a total of no more than 12 sec- automakers are intent on supplying them. people will just use their smartphones, and we all onds. Some critics find even that standard too lax. But are they really a good idea? Car companies know that’s the biggest driver distraction there is,” “It should be set up so people can do it in just answer with an emphatic yes. They say outsized said Mark Dahncke, a spokesman for Audi. four glances,” says Henry Jasny, vice president of dashboard displays that behave more like smart Up to now, dashboard technology hasn’t fac- the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a phones will boost revenue and attract buyers. And tored highly into most car buying decisions, but Washington, DC-based group funded by insurers they also insist the new screens will make driving carmakers expect it to become increasingly impor- and others. His group has asked for the govern- less dangerous, because of well-integrated voice tant over the next 3-5 years. A recent study by the ment guidelines to become law, figuring that even controls and large touch screens that will keep market research company J.D. Power found that imperfect mandatory rules would be better than drivers from fumbling with more dangerous about 15 percent of consumers rule out buying a no requirements, and that during the rulemaking mobile phones. car if it lacks the latest technology, compared with process, the organization can fight for more strin- ST PETERSBURG: People posing for a selfie photograph in front of a banner depicting But the increasingly elaborate screens have also just 4 percent a year ago. gent regulation. Auto manufacturers are incorpo- Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg. Russian police yesterday launched sparked a broad debate about how much technol- rating popular smartphone features into displays in a campaign urging people to take safer selfies after around 100 were injured and ogy is appropriate in a car. “I think they (the LITTLE REGULATION different ways. dozens died this year in gruesome accidents while striking high-risk poses. — AFP screens) raise serious public safety questions,” said Currently, dashboard displays are only lightly Some, such as Hyundai, are simply making their Joe Simitian, the former California lawmaker who regulated. Many states forbid the airing of non- displays compatible with Android and iOS, the Russia police launch ‘safe selfie’ spearheaded the state’s laws on phone use while navigational videos by drivers while cars are in smartphone software from Google and Apple, so driving. “From a legislative standpoint, this is going motion, except for safety video systems designed drivers can see a bare-bones version of their phone guide after spate of deaths to be something legislators struggle with for years to help with backing up and other tasks. Federal on the screen. Other companies, including Tesla, are to come.” motor vehicle standards stipulate only a few rules, creating elaborate systems that don’t rely on sync- MOSCOW: Russian police yesterday “dozens of deadly accidents,” she added. “You can’t be looking at a screen and be looking including that the brightness on displays be ing with phones, but replicate many of the things launched a campaign urging people to “The problem really exists and leads to very at the road at the same time,” said David Strayer, a adjustable. consumers might use their phones to do, such as take safer selfies after around 100 were unfortunate consequences.” professor of cognition and neural science at the The National Highway Traffic Safety checking for nearby restaurants. Making the in- injured and dozens died this year in grue- University of Utah, who has written several studies Administration has issued driver-distraction guide- dash displays as responsive as possible with mini- some accidents while striking high-risk ‘Value your life’ on distracted driving. The screens “are enabling lines for dashboard displays in moving cars. They mal glances away from the road is a major goal, says poses. “A cool selfie could cost you your Hence the new campaign, which activities that take your eyes off the road for longer advise against displays that include photographs Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive for life,” the interior ministry warned in a new includes the leaflets, a video and online than most safety advocates would say is safe.” or moving images unrelated to driving, and sug- Nvidia, a company that makes hardware and soft- leaflet packed with tips such as “a selfie advice on the ministry’s website. The cam- His research shows that reading the average gest that drivers shouldn’t need to tap a button or ware for displays featured in Audis and Teslas. with a weapon kills”. paign uses warning signs in the style of text message-a function some of the screens sup- key more than six times to complete a task. But so “What we’re doing is developing graphics that That warning comes after a 21-year-old road signs to drive its message home, port-takes four seconds, far longer than what he far, the guidelines are voluntary, with automakers are intuitive, so you can gesture or swipe or zoom,” woman in Moscow accidentally shot herself although its basic graphics appear unlikely considers safe. But for automakers and their cus- under no obligation to comply. he said. “Something that responds like that, and is in the head in May while taking a selfie to appeal to teenagers. A figure holding a tomers, the souped-up screens are proving irre- The auto industry has issued voluntary guide- big, is much safer than a smartphone.” So far, insur- while holding a pistol. She suffered head selfie sticks wanders on a rail line in one sistible. In an Audi A3, for example, drivers who lines of its own. But in many cases, industry stan- ers haven’t taken a stand on the new souped-up dis- injuries but survived. image. “A selfie on the railway tracks is a sync their phones with their cars can check for dards fall short of the government’s. For example, plays. A large, interactive display on the dashboard That was just one in a string of recent bad idea if you value your life,” the leaflet mentions of themselves on Twitter and see those the industry guidelines say that drivers should be would neither increase nor decrease policy rates, selfie-related accidents. In January, two says. In another of the warning signs, which tweets on their dashboards-although not their full able to complete tasks on the displays in a series of said a spokeswoman for the Insurance Information young men blew themselves up in the can be viewed at Twitter streams. They can upload photos taken on single glances that generally take no more than 2 Institute, unless it was considered valuable enough Urals while taking a selfie holding a hand https://mvd.ru/safety_selfie, a figure smart phones and request mapping to the place seconds each, for a total of 20 seconds. But the to increase the risk of theft. — Reuters grenade with the pin pulled out. The cell clambers on an electricity pylon, while tak- phone with the selfie survived as a record. ing a selfie. The ministry has also created a In May, a teenager in the Ryazan region public safety video, set to a driving beat. It Time is ticking for consolidation died while attempting to take a selfie as he includes spectacular images shot by climbed on a railway bridge and acciden- Russia’s youth subculture of “roofers” - who tally came into contact with live wires. illicitly sneak into high-rise buildings and of marketing technology “Unfortunately we have noted recently that snap themselves on the top, their photos the number of accidents caused by lovers often going viral on social networking sites. By Jyoti Lalchandani chase stages, media channels, devices, and real-world of self-photography is constantly increas- “Before taking a selfie, everyone should interactions sell to the best customers the fastest. ing,” said Yelena Alexeyeva, an aide to the think about the fact that racing after a high arlier this year, chiefmartec.com released the lat- interior minister. number of ‘likes’ could lead him on a jour- est edition of its annual ‘Marketing Technology New approach “Since the beginning of the year we are ney to death and his last extreme photo ELandscape Supergraphic’, which showed 1,876 Capitalizing on these opportunities requires a radi- talking about some hundred cases of could turn out to be posthumous,” companies currently operating across 43 different cat- cally new approach to marketing - one that is data injuries for sure.” Selfies have also led to Alexeyeva warned. — AFP egories within the global marketing technology driven and creative, process oriented and responsive, space. That’s up from the already staggering 947 play- and hierarchical and entrepreneurial. Leadership ers that were identified in January 2014, and this latest requires extensive investment in marketing technolo- figure is likely to be a mere scratch on the surface; the gy and the drive to rapidly mature the infrastructure true number of players is thought to be much higher. and the organization’s ability to make best use of it. So its little surprise that “overwhelmed” is the buzz- The required technology is diverse and complex, so word of choice these days among those engaged in marketers must have a rational approach to acquiring, the marketing profession; with so much choice avail- using, and integrating systems for interaction, content able, confusion reigns over which way to turn next. production and management, data and analytics, and Marketers have absorbed an enormous amount of marketing management and administration. change, innovation, and transformation over the past After nearly 10 years of unbridled innovation, the five years, with emerging technologies such as cloud, marketing technology universe will soon enter a social, Big Data, and mobility, serving as a major phase of much-needed consolidation, with point solu- source of both disruption and opportunity. Many early tions that target one specific need within the organi- adopters of marketing technology now have complex zation evolving into broader suites and platforms that portfolios that span 40-50 different systems; larger address many different needs with a single product, this ‘siloed’ approach to marketing is simply no longer companies can have more than 200. Much of this product portfolio, or service. And as marketing plat- the answer. Indeed, such expectations call for an infra- technology was acquired to meet narrowly defined forms mature and ‘marketing as a service’ (MaaS) structure that is conceived, implemented, and operat- specifications within a single marketing function of a becomes pervasive, technology will diminish as a ed holistically. single business unit. And while these systems brought source of competitive advantage, with most compa- The opportunities presented by a consolidated incremental improvements, they were not conceived nies having access to the same capabilities and infra- and holistic marketing technology infrastructure as part of a wider ecosystem in which they are all con- structures. Therefore the long-term difference makers know almost no bounds. In-depth IDC research into nected via the customers they serve, the campaigns will be the proficiency and creativity of your people, technology ROI and the role of the chief marketing they support, and the data they produce and con- the efficiency of your processes, and your mastery of officer clearly shows that the companies that invest sume. customer behavior. So get planning now or get left Employees of the US drone company Matternet shows a drone carrying a mail box of most heavily in marketing technology lead in terms of So it is not only the thoroughly overcrowded mar- behind. Swiss Post yesterday at the airport of Bellechasse, western Switzerland during a press business performance. This is because marketers that keting technology landscape that requires an urgent are able to quickly and definitively separate individual conference. Swiss Post started a series of test for parcel delivery by drone in the alpine bout of consolidation. A similar approach must be —The columnist is group vice president and regional purchase intent from the overwhelming noise in the country that has many isolated villages in valleys surrounded by mountains. — AFP undertaken by the end users themselves, because this managing director for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey marketplace typically enjoy a huge head start over level of disconnect within their solutions portfolios at global ICT market intelligence and advisory firm their rivals, while companies whose marketers effec- risks accentuating the fragmentation of both market- International Data Corporation (IDC) . He can be con- tively utilize technology to serve the buyer across pur- FGM app launches in Britain as ing processes and the customer experience at a time tacted via Twitter@JyotiIDC when audiences expect completely seamless, highly school holiday danger zone nears personalized services from brands even before they become customers. LONDON: A new app designed to educate without experiencing the lasting trauma of Amazon pushes Prime Given this reality, now is the time for marketers to young people about female genital mutila- female genital mutilation,” Nicky Morgan, assess where they currently stand on the journey tion (FGM) was launched in Britain yesterday Britain’s minister for women and equalities, toward digital transformation and draft a roadmap service with day of deals amid a government crackdown on people said. “We need to raise awareness of this bar- that embraces a rational approach to technology who take girls abroad to undergo the prac- baric practice and ensure people know it is adoption over the next five years. Consolidating the tice during the summer holidays. unacceptable and illegal,” she added in a NEW YORK: Amazon is trying to lure more sub- analyst at Wedbush Securities, estimates there diverse world of marketing technology and the associ- Britain’s first FGM app, “Petals”, presents statement ahead of an event in Westminster scribers to its $99 Prime loyalty program by are 35 million to 40 million. ated organizational, process, and data work streams is facts and information about the practice, to launch the app, which was developed at pushing a day of discounts it calls “Prime Day” Pachter said he sees the move as an “experi- critical for market leadership. Marketers need to offers a quiz to test the user’s knowledge Coventry University. during the sleepier summer shopping season. ment” by Amazon to see how shoppers will develop structured, holistic approaches to managing and provides details on where young girls The app was released a month after The e-commerce retailer plans to offer thou- react to the sale. “Black Friday is an event the diverse portfolio of new technologies that have can receive help - including a direct link to British Prime Minister David Cameron sands of deals on July 15 in the nine countries because it kicks off the holiday shopping sea- reinvented marketing, employing solutions that serve an FGM advice line. FGM involves the partial announced plans to fast-track new FGM pro- that have the Prime loyalty program, including son,” he said. “I don’t think an event in mid-July the customer, operate as an ecosystem, exist in a cul- or total removal of external genitalia and can tection orders in time for the school summer the US, UK, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, will have much impact, and view it as more of a ture of creative collaboration, and work in concert cause serious physical and psychological holidays in Britain. The new legislation would Canada and Austria. The Seattle company says test by Amazon during a slow period to see with enterprise infrastructure. problems and complications in childbirth. see people suspected of trying to take a girl However, the reality is that today’s marketing the promotion is pegged to its 20th anniver- how a special Prime shopping day is received Some girls are at risk of being subjected to abroad for FGM asked to surrender their requires such a wide range of technical capabilities sary, which is July 16. by its customers.” FGM, which is often seen as a gateway to passport and travel documents, while those that many organizations find themselves unable to Amazon says there will be more deals on Amazon.com Inc. has been expanding its marriage and a way of preserving a girl’s who breach the orders could face up to five employ such a holistic approach. The result is an infra- July 15 than on Black Friday, the busy shopping Prime program’s offerings in an effort to add purity, when their parents take them abroad years in prison. The app, which is primarily structure of disparate - sometimes redundant - solu- day after Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday, the members, with additions such as grocery deliv- during school holidays to visit extended fam- aimed at girls and young women who are at tions that were implemented to solve activity-based Monday after Thanksgiving when many people ery, one-hour delivery in some cities, beefed up ily, British security forces say. risk from FGM, can be accessed on devices inefficiencies and not conceived as part of a larger go online to shop for deals. video streaming and the creation of a “Everyone has the right to live their life including smartphones and tablets, or a lap- marketing ecosystem. And with buyers increasingly Amazon doesn’t release the number of Bluetooth speaker called the Echo that syncs free from the fear of violence and abuse, and top, via an internet browser. —Reuters expecting continuity across every single touch point, Prime members it has, but Michael Pachter, an with Prime music. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE

After a clean kill, game-hunters defend the right to shoot

IWAMANZI: Adri Kitshoff aims her gun at the for hunting. Yet she is determined to prove free. “If practiced in a sustainable manner-that antelope and pulls the trigger. Killed in an that hunters in South Africa are an integral is to say by not killing more animals than instant, the animal collapses to the ground. part of conservation efforts. Her argument is a nature creates-hunting protects wildlife and The hunter rests her chin on the gun and clos- simple one-hunters come to PHASA from all the environment,” says Hermann es her eyes in a silent prayer of thanks that the over the world willing to pay tens of thou- Meyeridricks, the president of PHASA. animal did not suffer. Kitshoff, 57, has shot sands of dollars to track and kill buffalo, lion “Without sustainable use, there is no incen- many such animals before but, as she goes to and elephants in African countries where tro- tive to preserve vast natural areas, not for the corpse, her hands begin to tremble. “If I phy hunting is legal. landowners or for the people.” would ever become blasÈ when I’ve taken an These hunters pay big money in order to animal, that day would be my last day hunt- hunt. A 20-day lion hunt, for example, can A single shot ing,” said Kitshoff, stroking the dead blesbok’s cost 80,000 euros ($90,000) to 130,000 euros. In South Africa, hunting is only allowed on white face and brown coat. Some of the money goes back into the private reserves, not in national parks like the Kitshoff, director of PHASA, the profes- reserves, in what hunters describe as a virtu- Kruger. On a cool, sunny afternoon in June, sional hunters association of South Africa, ous cycle that enables people to maintain Kitshoff spent hours tracking different ani- knows that not everyone shares her passion large tracts of land where animals can roam mals in the Iwamanzi reserve in North West Province. Her code of ethics dictates that she does not shoot out of the Land Cruiser as it crosses the savannah. As a result, several potential prey have fled before Kitshoff suc- ceeds in approaching one close enough on foot. Finally, she spots the perfect animal: an KOSTER, South Africa: Professional hunter Tavi Fragoso (right) and a staff old solitary male, distinguishable by the white member of Iwamanzi Game Reserve in the North West Province load the circles on his horns indicating his advanced carcass of a hunted antelope onto the back of a vehicle at the Iwamanzi age, and soon it is dead with a single shot. Game Reserve in Koster. Kitshoff knows that not everyone shares her pas- “Hunters are not violent people who like sion for hunting, yet she is determined to prove that hunters in South Africa to kill,” said Meyeridricks. “Hunting is an expe- are an integral part of conservation efforts. — AFP rience that brings you closer to nature. You must know how to interpret the bush. You lated European perspective,” said ment minister, the legal hunting industry have to immerse yourself to the point of Meyeridricks. He says that it is not only the generates about 6.2 billion rand ($510 mil- being part of the ecosystem.” Despite their animals that need to be taken into account lion) a year. Several of the large environ- efforts to explain their side of the argument, but also the surrounding communities who mental organizations, including the World hunters are facing more and more pressure. benefit from the hunting industry. “For Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), support hunt- This year, two major airlines, South African wildlife to manage to survive and to thrive on ing, as long as the outfits follow legal, sus- Airways and Emirates Airlines, banned trans- this continent, African communities need to tainable and ethical practices. Back at port of elephant, rhino, lion and tiger tro- have some sort of benefit, and the only bene- Iwamanzi, the blesbok is positioned on its phies. In March 2015, Australia also outlawed fit they can have from wildlife is financial.” belly, with its legs folded under the body, KOSTER: Adri Kitshoff (left), chief executive officer of Professional Hunters’ the import of lion trophies. Such policies and its snout resting on the ground. Taking Association of South Africa (PHASA), takes aim at a target on the shooting make hunters furious. “Africa doesn’t have the Meat for eating her place behind the animal, Kitshoff poses range at the Iwamanzi Game Reserve in Koster. — AFP luxury to argue these things from a very iso- According to the South African environ- for a photo.—AFP New Brazil rules seek to cut Cesarean craze Campaign tackle C-section births ‘epidemic’

RIO DE JANEIRO: New regulations aimed at rolling the risks that could come with an unnecessary sur- the Cesarean. You can book it and you have your back Brazil’s obsession with Cesarean sections took gical procedure, she will be more sure in her deci- agenda. It’s not a question of saying, ‘Go to the hos- effect Monday, with the government hoping it can sion regarding the delivery, choosing what’s best pital now in the middle of the night.’” steer the country from its status as a world leader for her health and for her baby’s health.” in C-section births. The rules and a campaign called Changing the culture “Childbirth is normal!” address what Health Mothers mean money Cesareans may be convenient but they can also Minister Arthur Chioro has dubbed an “epidemic” Mass Cesareans are Brazil’s “international be dangerous for the mother and potentially pose of Cesareans, currently accounting for more than shame,” pediatrician Luciana Herrero said. grave future health consequences for the baby, half of births in this nation of 200 million. About 84 Ignorance and desire for convenience drive ranging from an increased risk of obesity to chronic percent of Brazilian mothers on private health care Brazilian mothers-to-be to the operating table, said illness. Herrero applauded government attempts to undergo the operation, in which the baby is deliv- the author of the just published book “Diario de make women better informed. “Knowledge is pow- MONROVIA: A file picture taken shows health care workers, wearing protective suits, ered through a small incision in the mother’s Bordo do Parto,” or “Guide to Childbirth.” But er,” she said. “Seven out of 10 Brazilian women leaving a high-risk area at the French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors with- abdomen-often for no other reason than the con- Herrero echoed many in Brazil, saying that “encour- begin their pregnancy intending to have a normal out borders) Elwa hospital in Monrovia. — AFP venience of being able to choose the date. agement” by doctors and hospitals is also to blame. delivery, but barely half of them do so. “I wonder In public hospitals, that figure is approximately Even when fees for a Cesarean and normal birth how many of these women changed their mind Experts call for WHO reform 40 percent. This still tops the 32 percent rate in the don’t vary, the surgical option is still more prof- during their pregnancy, how many had a real med- United States and is massively higher than World itable for hospitals because it can be scheduled to ical reason justifying surgery, and how many were after Ebola exposes failings Health Organization recommendations of 10 to 15 the minute and has little of the unpredictability- persuaded unnecessarily to have the Cesarean?” percent. Brazil’s new rules require doctors and hos- and possibly long working hours-of natural labor. But the latest government effort is still insuffi- pitals to share information with patients, notably Rosana Clein, a 37-year-old marketing manager cient. “I believe the solution must include other LONDON: Experts called yesterday for urgent, Sans Frontieres. WHO Director-General Margaret the number of Cesareans they have already carried in Rio, wanted to have her son naturally three sectors of society and be discussed openly with all root-and-branch changes to the World Health Chan, who has led the agency since January 2007, out. When they fail to give requested information, months ago. At the last minute, due to pain, she involved... so that together we can put births in Organization after an inadequate response to admitted in May it had been “overwhelmed” by the health insurance companies face fines of up to had Tom delivered by Cesarean. Even well before, Brazil onto a new path,” said Herrero. Clein said that West Africa’s vast and deadly Ebola outbreak. The the Ebola epidemic and “ought to have reacted far about $8,000. though, when she was insisting on keeping things after speaking with many other expectant and new UN agency “does not currently possess the capaci- earlier”. The experts also stressed that the 2005 Making patients better informed will help natural, she felt pressured. “I tried to find a doctor mothers over the last year, she feels change is ty or organizational culture to deliver a full emer- International Health Regulations, agreed by 196 diminish the rush for C-sections, health officials say. who was supposed to do a natural birth like this, already happening. “There are a lot of women try- gency public health response”, a panel of inde- WHO member countries to try to track and con- “Childbirth is one of the most important moments but in Brazil it’s not so easy. They try to convince ing now to have the natural way. They’re talking a pendent experts said in a report on the handling trol the spread of disease, must be strengthened in the life of a woman and her family,” said Jose you the best way is to do a Cesarean. They say lot about it, that it’s good for the baby, just in the of the Ebola crisis. The panel recommended that a and properly implemented to allow proper han- Carlos de Souza Abrahao, director of ANS, a special- you’re going to have a lot of pain the natural way,” same way that they say breastfeeding is good for $100 million contingency fund, suggested by dling of epidemics. ized health ministry agency. “By informing her of she said. “For the doctor, it’s really easier to have the baby.”—AFP WHO to support emergency responses in future, “The world simply cannot afford another peri- be fully financed by member states. “This is a od of inaction until the next health crisis,” it said. defining moment for the health of the global The 2005 International Health Regulations were community,” the report said. “(The) WHO must re- reviewed and changes recommended in 2011 establish its pre-eminence as the guardian of after the 2009/2010 H1N1 flu pandemic, the panel The battle for control of the global public health. This will require significant said, but many countries have not acted on that changes.” review - a failure that made the Ebola response Geneva-based WHO has been widely criticized even worse. “Had the recommendations for revi- human breast milk industry for its response to the Ebola epidemic - which sion made in 2011 by the Review Committee in killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Liberia relation to Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 been imple- and Sierra Leone - and for its early assurances that mented, the global community would have been TRENTON: It could trade for 400 times more than the the disease was under control despite repeated in a far better position to face the Ebola crisis,” the price of crude oil and 2,000 times more than iron ore. warnings to the contrary by the charity Medecins report said. — Reuters If sold off the shelf, it could cost more than 150 times the price of a gallon of cow’s milk and 15 times more than coffee. Going for as much as $4 per ounce, human breast milk is a hot commodity that is emerg- Thousands of birds abandon ing as a surprisingly cutthroat industry, one that states are seeking to regulate amid a battle for control eggs, nests on Florida island between nonprofit and for-profit banks that supply hospital neonatal units. The debate among the for- SEAHORSE KEY: The din created by thousands new predators. Did raccoons swim over from profit and nonprofit organizations can be sharp- of nesting birds is usually the first thing you another island? Perhaps some great horned elbowed. It centers on whose processes result in the notice about Seahorse Key, a 150-acre man- owls flew out at night and started feasting? safest milk for premature babies in neonatal intensive grove-covered dune off Florida’s Gulf Coast. But Traps caught a few raccoons, which is common, care units, which need the milk if a mother has diffi- in May, the key fell eerily quiet all at once. but not enough to have created a wholesale culty producing enough or the child has trouble Thousands of little blue herons, roseate spoon- abandonment. There were no telltale signs of latching. bills, snowy egrets, pelicans and other chatter- owls. Finally, Doig said, recent years have seen Each side claims the moral high ground, with non- ing birds were gone. Nests sat empty in trees; an increase in night flights over the area by sur- profits generally saying milk distribution should be eggs broken and scattered on the muddy veillance planes and helicopters used to combat altruistic and for-profit companies arguing mothers ground. drug runners. Although the planes’ noise could deserve to be compensated. In the United States, “It’s a dead zone now,” said Vic Doig, a US be disruptive, Doig admits it’s a longshot. there are two for-profit companies and soon to be Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. “This is where The abandonment concerns biologists three, and one nonprofit that oversees 15 milk banks the largest bird colony on the Gulf Coast of because it could have a ripple effect: Many bird in the US in addition to three in Canada. Ten nonprofit Florida used to be.” For decades, Seahorse Key species here return year after year to the same banks are in development. Against this backdrop, has been a protected way station for myriad nesting sites. The disruption provokes anxiety lawmakers in New Jersey and Michigan are consider- bird species. It’s part of the Cedar Keys National that this important island refuge could some- ing legislation to license banks, while legislators in Wildlife Refuge, which was established in 1929 how be lost. California, Maryland, New York and Texas already have WEST CHESTER: Rachel Palencik poses for a photograph with her frozen breast milk in West as a sanctuary for birds devastated by decades “Any rookery that’s persisted for decades as regulations. Chester, Pa. — AP of hunting for their colorful plumage. Accessible one of the largest colonies is incredibly impor- Mothers have long had far from a monolithic view only by boat, today it’s a rare island off Florida tant,” said Janell Brush, an avian researcher with on the question of milk banking, but what’s changing industry of a shortage of human milk available for companies, which offer moms $1 to $2.50 an ounce not dominated by human activity and develop- the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation is the availability of more options as the industry hospitals and NICUs. The nonprofit Human Milk for their milk and in turn sell to hospitals for roughly ment. Commission. “It’s quite a large colony. There had matures. For some, the work involved in cleaning bot- Banking Association of North America estimates that $4 an ounce, say that mothers have a right to earn When the birds come to nest, so too do biol- to be some intense event that would drive all tle parts and in pumping and storing their milk war- there are 4,000 moms using its banks across the money for their milk and that their model can end the ogists and naturalists who study the different these birds away.” rants being paid. Others view donating their milk, country and that it would take 60,000 to meet the shortage. colonies. But this year, the birds’ exit has the Biologist also don’t know how the disap- considered superior to formula in nutrition and demand for milk in hospitals nationwide. There is also Glenn Snow, co-founder of Only the Breast, is state’s avian biologists scrambling for answers. pearance will affect the island’s other animals, immunity-building qualities, as a charitable service. a largely shared view that it’s important for donor about to launch the International Milk Bank, which “It’s not uncommon for birds to abandon nests,” some of which rely on the birds to survive. “You just never know who it’s going to,” said Kelli milk to be thoroughly screened for bacteria, drugs will link the network of 49,000 members and 65 said Peter Frederick, a University of Florida Cottonmouth snakes eat bird predators like Russell, of Washington, North Carolina, who donates and adulteration by cow’s milk. But the agreement million ounces of milk within the Only the Breast wildlife biologist who has studied Florida’s birds rodents, and in turn the birds drop lots of fish her breast milk. “It could go to someone who could largely stops there. The nonprofits say they respect network with the new for-profit bank. “We’re bring- for nearly 30 years. “But, in this case, what’s puz- and other nutrients from the trees to feed the someday cure cancer or it could be someone that the right of moms to sell their milk because it is theirs, ing a massive supply to market,” Snow said. “We’re zling is that all of the species did it all at once.” snakes. In the meantime, tour operators that marries my son or takes care of me if I need help one but they question the profit motives of companies going to save a lot of babies’ lives.” The competition Doig said some of the Seahorse birds seem to once spent hours taking naturalists and bird day if I’m in the hospital.” Rachel Palencik, of West like Medolac, Prolacta and the soon-to-be- also centers on how the milk is processed, which is have moved to a nearby island, but they’re just a watchers to the island are making other plans. Chester, Pennsylvania, said her breast milk was taking operational International Milk Bank. “I don’t know if important to reduce contamination. Medolac, for fraction of the tens of thousands of birds that Mike O’Dell runs tours out of the little marina in up space in her freezer, so she tried to donate it to a you want the market influenced. You want the market example, highlights that it uses a sterilization would normally be nesting on the key right nearby Cedar Key. He said on a Tuesday in May bank but didn’t have enough. So she tried to sell it - served,” said John Honaman, executive director of the process that kills potential contaminants and also now. To find answers, service biologists have he led a group out to view thousands of birds and wouldn’t try it again. “A lot of it was either scam- nonprofit Human Milk Banking Association of North allows the milk to be stored at room temperature. been acting on the few clues they have. crowding the shores of the key. On Wednesday, mers or men wanting to consume it, which isn’t my America. He said he worries the for-profit banks draw Nonprofits use a pasteurization method and then First, they tested left-behind bird carcasses there was nothing. “It’s just that drastic,” O’Dell cup of tea,” she said. So she ended up donating to an potential donors away from association milk banks, freeze the milk before it’s shipped to hospitals, for disease or contaminants. Those tests came said. “There were none. It’s like a different individual mother rather than through a bank. which is a problem because he believes a spirit of according to the nonprofit milk banking associa- back negative. Next, they researched possible world.”—AP There’s broad agreement in the milk-banking altruism should govern the industry. The for-profit tion. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Chinese families of Yale students grow garden, tradition

NEW HAVEN: A once-vacant city block at the northern familiar vegetables that are fresher than anything they edge of Yale University now teems with exotic herbs and find in local markets. vegetables, tended carefully by a community of graying “The sun is shining. I’m sweating. It’s good,” said 63- people from China who are here to look after grandchil- year-old Zhang Zaixian, of Beijing, who was watering dren as their own children cultivate careers at the Ivy chives one day as her grandson attended preschool. “I am League school. In the trellis-filled garden, a patchwork of happy.” The urban garden began taking shape a decade small lots that are passed from family to family, they find ago, a product of the expatriate community that has friends, a routine for daily life in new surroundings and sprouted along with soaring numbers of students from China. About a quarter of all international students at Yale come from China, which has become the biggest source country by far for international students in the United States. Yale, which in 1854 graduated the first Chinese person to earn a degree from a US college, had 680 international scholars, 516 graduate students and 58 undergraduates from China last year. The gardeners come from a mix of urban and rural areas and abide by a few unwritten rules. Fertilizer is allowed, but pesticides are forbidden. Remove watering cans and clean up in the fall. Find another family to work your patch when you leave New Haven. Zhang, whose daughter earned a PhD in China before coming to do research at the Yale School of Medicine, said she had never done any gardening at home in China’s capital, where she had a career keeping statistics for industry and the navy. Zhang’s health had been waning before she first came to Connecticut, in 2009, but she said NEW HAVEN: Wang Nairu (left) and Xue Yafu head home after tending to a garden, in New tending to plants each day under smog-free skies has Haven, Conn. The urban garden on the northern edge of Yale University’s campus, where their made her feel renewed. The garden succeeds, she said, daughter is a postdoctoral student, began taking shape a decade ago - a product of the expa- because the gardeners belong to an older generation that triate community that has sprouted with the soaring numbers of students from China. — AP has patience. “Young people don’t want to do the labor,” she said. All the plants are edible. They include varieties of two-story apartment buildings across the street from the studies biology at Yale, said he nevertheless appreciates beans, scallions, tomatoes and cilantro that they eat or use garden - even if they choose not to do gardening them- the vegetables shared by his neighbors. Yale owns the to season dumplings and other dishes. selves. “I wasn’t farming anymore in China. Why should I land, which had been overgrown before a few families The produce, grown from seeds found in New York do farming here?” said Wang Lunji, 65, from Anhui started the planting, and Yale grounds crews have provid- NEW HAVEN: Wang Nairu waters plant in a gar- City’s Chinatown and some local Asian markets, is shared province in eastern China, where the land he once worked ed compost to help the gardeners. The only issues, they den, in New Haven, Conn. —AP with other Chinese families that live in the complex of was plowed under for development. Wang, whose son say, have been occasional theft or vandalism.—AP

Scientists point to narrowing gap Quake-hit Nepal gears up to for averting the climate disaster PARIS: Climate scientists gathered yester- gathering comes eight months after the tackle stunting in children day in Paris, five months before the dead- UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate line for a historic carbon-curbing pact, to Change (IPCC) brought out a report, widely THECHO: Shanti Maharjan, who gave show that a radical shift to sustainable considered the bible of climate science, birth to a baby girl 10 days ago, has spent energy can still limit disastrous planet which warned that the 2 C window was fast the last two months living under corru- warming. On current trends, humanity closing. gated iron sheets with her husband and would spend the estimated safe budget of five others after two major earthquakes Earth-warming greenhouse gases within Window is ‘tight’ reduced her mud-and-brick home to rub- 20-25 years, the experts said, and urged a Emissions will have to drop 40-70 per- ble. Adequate food, drinking water and quick and dramatic transformation of the cent between 2010 and 2050, and to zero aid such as tents and blankets have been energy sector. by 2100. The 2C target “has become hard to come by, she says, though scores “The world is at a critical crossroads,” UN extremely ambitious,” said Stocker, who of aid agencies rushed to the Himalayan Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a helped compile the IPCC report, but “sub- nation to help survivors. message read to the gathering of nearly stantial reductions over the next few What worries the 26-year-old mother 2,000 academics from around the world. decades can reduce climate risks. “That most is her inability to produce breastmilk Nations have committed to limiting aver- necessitates a transformation in the energy for her new-born daughter, who she fears age global warming to two degrees Celsius sector”-from emissions intensive coal, gas is at serious risk of malnutrition in the over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, but and oil to more sustainable sources like aftermath of the 7.8 and 7.3 magnitude research suggested the world could be solar and wind. World Meteorological quakes in April and May. “The earthquake heading for double that or more, he said. Organization (WMO) head Michel Jarraud destroyed everything, including our food Analysis of emissions curbs pledged by painted a picture of rising seas and more reserves,” said Maharjan, sitting under the nations to date to underpin the new cli- extreme storms and drought in a warmer iron sheeting on farmland on the out- mate rescue pact, showed the combined world. “It is still possible to change course skirts of the capital, Kathmandu. “There is effort will “not be sufficient to meet the 2 and limit climate change to a reasonable not enough food. Getting meat, oil and degree target,” said Ban. level,” he told the conference. “But time is fruits to eat is difficult in this situation. I “Clearly strong action still needs to be short.” am worried about my daughter’s nourish- taken.” The four-day international science Even at 2C warmer, the world will be a ment,” she said as the baby, wrapped in a huddle opened Tuesday in the French capi- more hostile place. Though it is difficult to green cloth, lay sleeping on a wooden tal, which will also host a November 30- attribute specific weather events to climate BHAKTAPUR: Nepalese laborers work on the reconstruction of destroyed buildings in Bhaktapur on the bed. The government, aware that disrup- December 11 UN climate conference for change, scientists say the world is already outskirts of Kathmandu. —AFP tion caused by the quakes could worsen 195 nations to thrash out the long-awaited 0.8 C warmer and the global mean sea level the country’s already high rate of child Asian nation could return to the 2001 lev- Those lucky enough to survive grow up have now launched a drive to reach out agreement. The gathering of academics 19 centimeters higher than in 1901. malnutrition is sending out teams of com- el of 57 percent, if authorities and aid without enough energy, protein, vita- to more than 500,000 women and chil- from nearly 100 countries will review the “Overall about half of all (plant and animal) munity nurses to give advice and food agencies do not respond effectively. “The mins and minerals, causing their brains dren who need supplementary food most up-to-date science on risks and solu- species have changed where they live, supplements to women and children in risk of malnutrition is high and requires and bodies to be stunted, and they are and medicines. More than 10,000 tions, including technological advances, to changing their distribution to track the the affected areas. A 2011 government the nutrition and other sectors like agri- often unable to fulfill their potential. female community volunteers will be feed into the Paris pact. shifting climate,” Camille Parmesan, from study showed that more than 40 percent culture, health, water, sanitation, educa- Government officials admit the chal- fanning out across 14 districts affected Scientists stressed the task was a diffi- the marine institute at Plymouth University, of Nepal’s under-five-year-olds were tion and social protection to respond ade- lenges, citing data showing that almost by the earthquakes, visiting devastated cult one, but not impossible. “At current told the conference. stunted, showing that the country child quately,” said Stanley Chitekwe, UNICEF’s 70 percent of Nepali children under the towns and villages and speaking to emissions, we have a time window of about But there was some good news too. The malnutrition rate was one of the world’s nutrition chief in Nepal. age of two suffer from anaemia caused new and expectant mothers about 20 to 25 years until that budget (of emis- International Energy Agency said in March highest. by iron deficiency. “This shows that breast-feeding their infants. The volun- sions consistent with 2 C) is exhausted,” that global emissions, the most prevalent Experts say the two quakes, which Drive to nourish (poor) nutrition is a very big problem. teers will also advise families on eating said Thomas Stocker, a professor of climate greenhouse gas, stalled for the first time in killed 8,895 people and destroyed half a Child malnutrition is an underlying The earthquake will further worsen the locally available nutritious foods such physics at Bern University.”There’s only a 40 years in 2014. The 2 C window, “is very million houses, could make things worse cause of death for 3 million children situation because people simply don’t as green vegetables and meat and will third of the emission budget that is remain- tight”, said Michael Grubb, a climate policy as survivors have inadequate food, water, annually around the world - nearly half have enough to eat, let alone have a distribute vitamin A, iron and folic acid, ing, and... we are using it up at an unprece- expert with the University College London, shelter, healthcare and sanitation. United of all child deaths - most of whom die nutritious diet,” said Health Ministry and other micronutrient supplements dented velocity. What we see today are the “but had last year’s data been different, it Nations officials warn that the rate of from preventable illnesses such as diar- official Krishna Prasad Paudel. to pregnant and breastfeeding highest emissions in history.” The science would have been even tighter.”— AFP stunting among children in the South rhoea due to weak immune systems. Supported by UNICEF, authorities women.—Reuters WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 Media Rotana, in heart of Dubai TECOM area

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he Orthodox Vacation Bible School (OVBS) conduct- As part of Parish charity projects and to encourage appreciate the initiative to encourage and educate about ents and what they have learned in 10 Days. All students ed by St Stephen’s IOC, Kuwait at Abbassiya St the students about generosity and awareness about the charity. were cheerful to participate in Songs, Action Songs, TJohn’s Hall for past ten days came to an end. OVBS - necessities of poor and needy people, an amount of Rs Rev Fr Saju Philip - Vicar of St Stephen’s IOC presided Stories, Interactive Game sessions etc which made their 2015 Director - Rev Fr Blesson Varghese (Faculty of liturgi- 50,000/- was collected and will be contributed to a the closing ceremony and Parish Trustee Raju K., summer school vacation to a memorable one. cal Music at Nagpur Orthodox Seminary) delivered the patient who need Kidney Transplantation. Rev Fr Blesson Secretary Binu Thomas, OVBS-2015 Superintendent Reji There were more than 280 students from different keynote address in the closing ceremony. He congratulat- Varghese emphasized about the charity collection by T Achenkunju, Convener Mary Abraham have delivered Parishes among Kuwait and 35 Teachers lead the classes ed the parish for the growth achieved and lauded the quoting the bible verses which was the OVBS 2015 speeches in the function. Sunday School headmaster Ajoy for ten days. Parents and Students were totally agreed activities by the Parish within a year from the establish- Theme “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” - St Jacob George presented the report of OVBS-2015. that the 10 Days they spent for OVBS shall be an asset in ment. Luke 6:36 and applauded the younger generation and Further to the public function, Kids presented their tal- their future life.

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Indian embassy statement

he Indian embassy has registered 290 deaths of Indian nationals during the period from 1 TJanuary 2015 to 30 June 2015. The mortal remains of 49 deceased Indian nationals were buried in Kuwait, as per the wishes of their family members, whereas mortal remains of 241 deceased Indian nationals were airlifted to India for last rites. The average time taken in Kuwait to repatriate mortal remains to India is 4 days.

Babtain awarded Egyptian Academy’s Movenpick Hotels and honorary doctorate

Resorts strengthens KUWAIT: The Cairo-based Academy of Arts decided to award famous Kuwaiti Poet Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain honorary doctorate, Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait presence in Jeddah Abdulkareem Suleiman announced Monday. The honoring comes in recognition of Babtain’s signifi- cant role in enriching Arab literature and culture, Movenpick Hotel Heraa Jeddah to open in 2019 Ambassador Suleiman said in a statement. He underlined that the cultural initiatives, projects and activities of the ovenpick Hotels and Resorts is for travellers stopping in Jeddah en-route Kuwaiti Poet and his prestigious institution, namely the consolidating its Saudi Arabia to the two Holy Cities, Makkah and Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babatain’s Prize for Poetic Mexpansion plans by adding a Madinah,” says Andreas Mattmuller, Chief Creativity, have undeniable impact on the Arab culture. fourth property in the kingdom’s thriving Operating Officer, Movenpick Hotels and The Egyptian diplomat added that a special celebration to city of Jeddah. Resorts, Middle East and Asia. confer Babtain with the honorary doctorate will be held at The 300-key Movenpick Hotel Heraa He was speaking after a management the headquarters of the Academy of Arts in Cairo next Jeddah, which is scheduled to open in the deal for Movenpick Hotel Heraa Jeddah September. — KUNA first quarter of 2019, will take Movenpick’s was recently inked with Dr. Mohamed Ali KSA offering to 14 properties strong. It is Al-Turki, Chairman/CEO of Mohamed Al- one of five Saudi new builds being rolled Turki Group of Companies. The signing cer- out by the hospitality firm over the next emony was attended by Jean Gabriel PÈrËs, four years, with two planned for Riyadh, President and CEO of Movenpick Hotels one for Al Khobar and the 233-key and Resorts. Movenpick Hotel City Star Jeddah. “Movenpick has a strong track record in Set to occupy a prime location on Prince managing properties in Jeddah and across Sultan Road, Movenpick Hotel Heraa Saudi Arabia, which made the hospitality Jeddah will be ideally placed to capitalize firm a natural partner for this exciting new on the city’s growing popularity as a busi- venture,” said Dr. Mohamed Ali Al-Turki. ness and leisure destination, with several The hotel will be in close proximity to major infrastructure developments under- high-profile mega developments such as way designed to cater to the on-going the Kingdom Tower and Jeddah Waterfront. swell in tourism numbers. Several “stand out” food and beverage out- “The hotel is just five minutes from lets including two signature restaurants, Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International plus a ballroom, seven meeting rooms, Airport, which is currently undergoing a health club with gym, and seven stand- $7.2 billion expansion to take its ultimate alone villas will set Movenpick’s new capacity to 80 million passengers annually. Jeddah property apart from the competi- We will therefore be the first point of call tion. GUST organizes charity iftar for laborers 500 Street Laborers and Sanitation Workers invited

On the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, Gulf University and religions to sit, eat, and socialize as one. This reflects the year. The iftar is the first of its kind to be organized by GUST, and we want to show our appreciation for everything they do to for Science and Technology (GUST) hosted a charity iftar for true spirit and nature of Ramadan as a time of giving and gen- will set a precedent for the years to come, as the university con- help our country.” nearly 500 of Kuwait’s street laborers and sanitation workers at erosity. stantly seeks ways to give back to the community. The charity iftar is the second in a series of Ramadan- the Fakhr El Deen Restaurant. Students, faculty, and staff, were Donald Bates, GUST President, said, “This iftar serves as a Anwar al Sabah, Head of OSL, said, “Ramadan helps us themed events that the university has organized. From the invited to share in the experience. golden opportunity to show off GUST’s altruistic nature. It gives remember the value of others regardless of their race or back- 14th until the 17th of June, GUST held its first ever graish- Organized and hosted by the University’s Office of Student me great pleasure to see so many familiar faces from our staff ground which inevitably brings all of us together. Ultimately, themed Student Recruitment Gala, where prospective stu- Life (OSL) and Public Relations (PR) Department, the iftar and students come and share a meal with workers, and show our aim is to try and make a positive difference to the lives of dents and their families were invited to visit the campus, learn brought together different people from various backgrounds their gratitude for all of the help they give us throughout the as many people as possible. These laborers are our heroes, and about the University, and register free of charge.

KFAS honors outstanding students

he Kuwait Foundation for the 2012 - 2016 strategy that is based on Advancement of Science (KFAS) supporting outstanding and gifted stu- Thosted a ceremony to honor the dents to continue their academic top ten high school graduates in achievements, General Manager Dr Kuwait for the school year 2014/2015. Adnan Shehabuddine said in a state- The ceremony came as part of KFAS’ ment. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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

You truly thought business was handled and everyone was on the Someone is pushing your buttons today and you’re likely to take it same page, but now it appears you’re sadly mistaken. You may have misread very personally. But even if your assumptions are built on facts, you still may be the situation or someone might have purposefully misled you. Either way, a overreacting. People have a variety of agendas and are motivated for a wide disagreement flares back up as unexpressed feelings rush to the surface. range of reasons. You might be jumping to an erroneous conclusion if you Although you believe you’re engaged in a fight to the finish, the Moon’s return believe anyone is purposefully trying to thwart your efforts. Fortunately, you’re a to your sign also offers you an opportunity to clear the air and begin anew. pro at diplomacy; your friendly charm can disarm almost anyone when you Give peace a chance; life’s too short to spend time in endless conflict. focus it in the right direction.

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

The cosmos is handing you a well-deserved moment to retreat No matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to please anyone and recuperate today, but this mellow phase won’t last long. Someone could today. But it’s as if reality is testing you to determine which obstacle irritates you ambush you with their personal demands, but luckily, you have a clever most. Your gut reaction is to push back with even more determination so you defense to defuse a potentially volatile conversation. Unfortunately, the obvi- can get the results you know are possible. Unfortunately, you won’t win by ous solution isn’t likely the right one. Rather than confronting the situation increasing your effort now, even if your willpower is strong. Stop struggling and head-on now, you might be better off going your separate ways for a while. A give it a rest; quit working against the current flow of energy. Surprisingly, much cooling-off period may be just what everyone needs to gain a fresh perspec- of the resistance will fade once your own mindset improves. The only one you tive and a more positive attitude. have to prove anything to is yourself.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Your creativity may be off the hook today, but others don’t seem to You may feel like time is running out, accentuating your sense of have an inkling of the artistic message you’re trying to convey. You urgency to achieve your goals. You’re trying to connect with the right people, ACROSS DOWN pour your heart into painting a picture or writing a song and, naturally, are quite but seem to be fighting an uphill battle of crossed messages and incomplete 1. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square 1. Not functioning properly. proud of your production. But somehow your peers respond with puzzled smiles, conversations. This is fleet-footed Mercury’s last day of his extended visit to and needless to say, you feel like an unappreciated artist. Ultimately, art is subjec- 2. A summary that repeats the substance of a meters. your curious-minded sign, adding a frenetic buzz to your thinking. 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A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali Lately you have been lulled into a false sense of security, but the Too many trivial tasks keep you from focusing on your long-term aspirations 18. An island republic on the island of Iceland. earth group. game is currently changing faster than you might realize. Relationship dynam- today. Your frustration mounts because the daily noise seems to just get louder no matter 20. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas 8. The compass point that is one point east ics are shifting, and you may already be using your crablike pincers to attempt what you try to do to shut it down. Under normal circumstances, you might be able to just and upland grasslands. (clockwise) of due north. to cling to the past. But your fears of the unknown are misplaced since the shrug it off and return to your work. However, you’re reaching a breaking point now that 22. A metal urn with a spigot at the base. 9. A crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint). days ahead will likely be an improvement over the past. Cleaning up old busi- someone’s emotional intensity is pushing you to the edge. Don’t be afraid of speaking 23. Obvious and dull. 10. French writer whose novels described the ness as quickly as possible helps to lighten the load you need to carry into the your piece to reestablish healthy boundaries. Just remember you will successfully get your 24. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat sordid side of city life (1804-1857). future. point across if you are as kind as you are direct in the delivery of your message. trimmed off. 11. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem 25. A crystalline metallic element not found in where a branch is lost. nature. 12. A communist nation that covers a vast terri- Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 26. A quantity of no importance. tory in eastern Asia. 27. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of 13. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are pro- You’re ready to pack your bags and head off into the sunset with You don’t need any external distractions today, especially if your duced. a liter. your favorite traveling companion, but your timing may be off. Matching your own thoughts are running amok. There are so many colorful ideas dancing in 14. An ancient upright stone slab bearing mark- your head that it’s nearly impossible to concentrate on your work. Nevertheless, 29. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and schedule with someone else’s can be more challenging now than you expected. ings. When you discover that your friend can’t accompany you on your big adventure responsibilities call and you must answer. It’s time to stop and get serious about poisonous and foul-smelling. 19. The Judeo-Christian God. today, you might waste your energy persuading them to turn their life upside your obligations. Fortunately, you’re capable of extraordinary mental feats; you 30. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set 21. A married male American Indian. down to accommodate your optimum timetable. Nevertheless, this pushy strate- can alter your thinking process to accommodate reality when you must. Quit for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire 28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes gy won’t work. It could take more time than you wish, but your best route to ful- chasing your tail and get to work. course. readily. filling your dream is to find common ground on which you both can stand. 33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 31. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the 37. A former communist country in eastern external persona) that is in touch with the Virgo (August 23-September 22) Europe and northern Asia. unconscious. Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly 32. French sculptor noted for his renderings of living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint the human form (1840-1917). You may not be making as much progress on your career path as Your core values are shifting to reflect your new philosophical per- spective, but you’re not sure how to make the transition real. Part of the prob- 34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs you prefer. Climbing the ladder of success isn’t easy because there are others Lawrence River. playing supporting roles on your ambitious journey. Unfortunately, your associ- lem is your current lack of direction. It’s as if a fog has descended, preventing northeast into the Rhine. 45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central ates might not even share similar goals, further complicating the current dynam- you from clearly seeing the path right in front of you. You might overcompen- America. 35. Someone who is morally reprehensible. ics. Communication can be infuriating today; it’s as if you’re each reading from sate by speeding up to hide your uncertainty. Unfortunately, a strategy built on 46. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs 36. Instructed and encouraged in moral, intellec- different scripts. Your best bet may be to take a hiatus and revisit the discussion denial will only court disaster as you run off the road. Slow down and share your tual, and spiritual improvement. some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous sub- in a few days when everyone is in a more positive frame of mind. Sometimes vulnerability with trusted allies who can help in your process of transformation. 38. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in stances. agreeing to disagree is the quickest way to cultivate peace. northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula. 47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 39. A fraudulent business scheme. 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material. 40. Any competition. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 48. United States sculptor and architect whose 42. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having public works include the memorial to veterans of columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959). lacking a midrib. 50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rub- 43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic ele- berized fabric. ment. 51. Someone who leaves one country to settle in 44. (law) A defense by an accused person pur- another. porting to show that he or she could not have 55. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the committed the crime in question. wife of a raja. 49. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the 58. A state in midwestern United States. maiden or family name of a married woman. 59. A song that was formerly popular. 52. Adapt anew. 53. A boy or man. 60. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a 54. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago. mosque. 56. (linguistics) Of speech sounds. 64. City in central Iran. 57. A dark purplish red. 68. The 2nd longest European river. 61. 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Caitlyn Jenner to write weekly editorials on LGBT issues

aitlyn Jenner will be writing weekly online editorials The series, titled “I Am Cait,” debuts July 26 on the E! Cabout LGBT people and issues. Jenner’s spokesman, Entertainment channel. The Olympic champion has been Alan Nierob, said Monday that the editorials on the part of the E! reality series “Keeping Up With the celebrity content website WhoSay are part of Jenner’s Kardashians,” about the extended family that includes effort to explore matters of concern to the LGBT communi- Jenner’s ex-wife, Kris Jenner, and stepdaughter Kim ty. Nierob declined to comment on other aspects of the Kardashian. effort, saying it’s too early to discuss them. This month, the former Bruce Jenner will be featured in an eight-episode series depicting her transition to a new life as a woman.

The Weeknd records Sykes cried making with West, Sheeran Grande song he Weeknd has recorded songs with Kanye West and Ed Sheeran. The 25-year-old musician is currently athan Sykes got emotional recording a track dedi- T working on his second album - tentatively titled Ncated to Ariana Grande. The former ‘The Wanted’ ‘Chapter III’ - and his pal Ed has revealed he has recorded a member - who dated the ‘Problem’ hitmaker for song with the producer for the collection, with the ‘All Day’ four months in 2013 - burst into tears in the studio while rapper also set to appear on the LP. Recalling a visit to The recording a track about his ex. Speaking to the Daily Mirror Weeknd’s house in Toronto during which he invited Ed to newspaper, the 22-year-old star revealed: “It was quite an work with him in the studio, he told Zane Lowe during his emotional day. I found that especially when you go over Beats 1 radio show: “In my head I’m like, ‘The Weeknd does- the lyrics again. It’s like, ‘Wow! Those are really deep lyrics.’ I n’t want to write a song!’ The Weeknd doesn’t work with got really emotional writing it. “I think three or four songs anyone. He’s got one feature on his album, which is Kanye were really emotional to write.”There’s one song called West. He doesn’t want to do that.” As well as confirming the ‘Famous’ which is about what do I have to do to make collaboration with the 38-year-old star, the ‘Thinking Out someone I care about, care about me as much as I do Loud’ singer confessed they did end up recording a track them? It’s basically saying: do I have to be famous; will you together, teasing it, “is really, really good”. The news comes only call me when I’m famous? Whenever I go through just two months after the ‘Earned It’ hitmaker brought something that’s not ideal, I don’t feel sorry for myself. I go, Kanye out as a special guest during his set at Californian ‘My God, this is going to be such a great song’.” The ‘Kiss Me music festival Coachella. The Weeknd - whose real name is Quick’ singer showed no hard feelings towards the Abel Tesfaye - is expected to release the highly-anticipated brunette beauty though as he thinks she’s an “incredible collection, which is the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Kiss Land’ talent”. He told the Daily Star newspaper: “It’s fantastic she’s which featured rapper Drake on the track ‘Live For’, later doing so well because she is such an incredible talent.”I’ve this year. Harding premieres known her quite a while and I know how much she’s always wanted a Grammy nomination, so she must have been so happy to get one this year.” debut single Meghan Trainor arah Harding has premiered her debut solo single, S‘Threads’. The track is the first music to be released by the singer since she split up with her Girls Aloud cancels more shows bandmates in 2013, with the star admitting she is taking a “new direction musically” with her own material. She said: eghan Trainor has cancelled two more shows in “I’ve spent a long time writing and recording, and after co- MDetroit and Chicago because of a haemorrhage writing ‘Threads’ I really feel this was the track to release as on her vocal cords. The 21-year-old singer - who my debut solo single and show my new direction musical- rose to international prominence last year with the hit sin- ly. It’s a very exciting time for me at the moment!” She gle ‘All About That Bass’ - was forced to announce the can- added on Twitter: “It’s me channeling my inner rock cellation of a string of shows last week and while two more chick...think Avril Levigne crossed with a bit of Gwen dates have been added to the list, Meghan has insisted Stefani but me in between (sic).” The 33-year-old musician she’s making a good recovery. Writing on Instagram, she will release the track on August 7 through Sony RED UK as said: “I have bad news, my doctor says I have to postpone part of a four-song EP, featuring a remix by K Gee and two two more dates, Detroit & Chicago and sadly I have to can- other new songs, ‘Live Before I Die’ and ‘Indelible’. Sarah cel my appearance at the Common Ground Music Festival. confessed it has been odd working on her own material But there is good news!! I’m feeling much better, have and shooting videos on her own following 11 years in Girls already rescheduled most dates and will come back Aloud though, especially because she’s used to her band- around to see you all soon!! (sic)” Meghan also thanked her mates Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley doctor for treating the haemorrhage on her vocal cords. Walsh and Nadine Coyle always being around. Asked what She wrote: “Thank you Dr. Kessler for seeing me immedi- it was like making the ‘Threads’ video on her own, she said ately and being so helpful and thank you guys for all the on Twitter: “Weird not having the girls around tbh but this edits/get well posts you made. You made me feel a lot bet- is something Iv needed to do for a long time now ter about this crappy situation. I love you all so much!! (sic)” so...cathartic (sic).”

Winehouse ‘was Pete Townshend more unwell than many thought’ reimagines Quadrophenia ete Townshend changed the course of rock training in classical trumpet and French Horn. This my’ director Asif Kapadia believes Amy Winehouse music last night when he premiered a classical meant that the classical reinterpretation of was more unwell than many thought. The ‘A Pversion of The Who’s famous mod opera ‘Quadrophenia’ - whose stand out moments last night London-born film-maker has claimed that Amy, ‘Quadrophenia’ at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The 70- were ‘5:15’, ‘Love Reign O’er Me’ and especially the who died in 2011, aged 27, suffered brain damage as a year-old guitarist was joined by an army of classical instrumental pieces ‘The Rock’, ‘I Am The Sea’ and the result of her alcohol and drug binges. He told The Sun musicians from the prestigious Royal Philharmonic title track ‘Quadrophenia’ - was able to transport the newspaper: “We can say she had a mental illness and brain Orchestra - including dozens of violinists, cellists, and audience to a different emotional space using the damage that came from all the overdoses and seizures she brass players - a hundred-piece choir, singers Alfie light, shade and subtlety that classical music can pro- had over the years.”That definitely affected her brain. She Boe and Billy Idol and actor Phil Daniels, who vide when well-executed. At the end of the show, in wasn’t thinking straight. “But there was enough in her that appeared in the original movie, for a spectacular new true classical style, Townshend and all his collabora- she was making choices and people around her were mak- take on the classic record. Townshend - who had tors took numerous curtain calls and bows with ing choices that, even if she hadn’t become a huge star, replaced his normally grungy grey T-shirt and jeans renowned conductor Robert Ziegler, taking his final there’s still the potential she could have chosen that path.” for a smart black suit and pristine white shirt - was on bow dressed humorously in a Mod parka complete This comes shortly after Mark Ronson, a friend and collabo- stage for much of the event singing the part of ‘The with Target logo. Pete Townshend’s ‘Classic rator, admitted he found it “tough” watching the movie, Godfather’ as well as playing guitar. Speaking after Quadrophenia’ has just been released on Deutsche but said he was pleased his wife Josephine de La Baume the show, a beaming Townshend told BANG Grammophon. Smith was able to learn more about Amy. He shared: “Obviously, Showbiz’s Managing Director Rick Sky: “I wanted to it’s tough to watch the film because it brings back memo- get a Who piece saved for posterity. I didn’t want to ries.”But what I love about it is that my wife never got to die without my most important works being commit- meet Amy and I am always telling her stories about us in collaborating with ted to sheet music for future generations. Of course the studio and the clever, witty things that Amy would say. there is some vanity involved in this but so many Who “We watched it and my wife said, ‘Now I get it, now I see songs are such great songs that I felt need keeping the Amy you talked about’. I forget that not everyone got and preserving as scores. “Rachel [Fuller, Townshend’s Drake to see that side of her.” partner] is a classically trained composer and she did wonders with the orchestration and score. It means ill Smith is working on new music with Drake. The ‘Quadrophenia’ can now be played in all sorts of ways W46-year-old rapper turned actor - who last - from a small ensemble led by a piano to a large released an album in 2005 titled ‘Lost And Found’ orchestra.” After a busy few weeks for the Who - - has revealed he’s writing new music, and may be collabo- including headline slots at Glastonbury and rating with the ‘Started From The Bottom’ hitmaker. Will Barclaycard British Summer Time - the veteran rocker revealed the news on the first episode of his son Jaden is planning a brief break but then will be back with a Smith’s new Beats 1 radio show, the new 24/7 radio station variety of new projects. He added: “It’s been a really running on Apple Music, during which he said the 16-year- hectic time for me. I am going to have a little rest old had invited him to a “group chat” with the hip hop star. because I want time to enjoy what I have now and to Elsewhere in the segment, the ‘Miami’ singer admitted he’s be happy and relaxed, but don’t worry, I have got so in a “creative ceiling” where he’s writing lots of material. He many different projects lined up, including commis- said: “I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet but I’m explor- sioning more operas. I am writing new songs all the ing. I’m in a creative ceiling. “I can’t write and stop, I have to time and also want to publish a novel.” Much pop keep going and going and write them out.” Drake isn’t the music can lend itself to classical re-working but in the first star Will has hinted at working with as he previously case of The Who this is especially so, partly because of stated he recorded “seven or eight” songs with Kanye West. Townshend’s love of classical composers and sadly He said at the time: “You know I’ve recorded a lot. I’ve deceased Who bass player John Entwistle’s rigorous recorded a lot. I don’t have anything I like yet, but I’ve probably recorded seven or eight [songs]. It’s not for cer- tain, it’s just explorative.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

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Jolie to make Catherine the Great biopic?

ngelina Jolie is seemingly planning to make a sovereign in Russia’s history, who led a war against the big screen star is going to completely give up the big Abiopic of Catherine the Great. The 40-year-old star - Ottoman Empire before her death in 1796. News of the screen, but it’s just a natural evolution of how content is who directed the war-sports drama ‘Unbroken’ last project comes shortly after Angelina’s husband Brad Pitt delivered and how the audience consumes it. The ability year - is set to make a biopic of the 18th-century empress signed a deal with Netflix to produce and star in online for Netflix to reach into so many homes and be on so of Russia after her production company, Jolie Pas, bought comedy ‘War Machine’. Under the terms of the deal, Netflix many devices has become very appealing to a star or pro- an option on Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book ‘Catherine has agreed to fund and distribute the film, with the joint ducer.” the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair’. The business venture said to be worth as much as $30 million. movie’s central character will be the longest-ruling female Reflecting on the deal, a senior box office analyst said: “No

Josh Trank didn’t like previous versions of ‘Fantastic Four’

he 31-year-old director thinks Simon Kinberg’s 2005 multipower slugfest. This movie is big. A lot of stakes.” While Tand 2007 adaptations of the comic book film - which ‘Fantastic Four’ is Josh’s first superhero movie, it isn’t the first starred Jessica Alba and Chris Evans - “weren’t very film he’s directed that has included superpowers, having good”, and, for this reason, he understands why audiences previously directed ‘Chronicle’ - which also starred Michael are skeptical about his upcoming interpretation, starring as one of three teenagers who discover they have kinetic Matt Bomer: I Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell. powers after a freak accident - and Josh thinks the two films Josh said: “I get the skepticism going into it because the pre- are linked in some way. Josh said: “‘Chronicle’ was all about vious movies weren’t very good. It’s a very hard title to the discovery and evolution of those powers. (‘Fantastic almost played crack.” However, the screenwriter insisted that his version of Four’) is like, ‘What if it’s a couple years later and it sucks?’” the superhero movie - due for release in August - is going to be a “slugfest”. Speaking to EntertainmentWeekly.com, Josh Superman said: “The audience should expect an epic, massive, huge,

att Bomer came close to securing the role of Matt insisted he has no regrets over not playing the part of MSuperman. The 37-year-old actor - who stars Superman. He told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “I alongside Channing Tatum in ‘Magic Mike XXL’ - have zero regrets about that, I feel like I’ve gotten to do has revealed he was cast as the iconic superhero in the ear- such a rich array of roles in so many different things. “I ly 2000s for a film to be directed by Brett Ratner - but the haven’t been too locked in ... I mean that’s a very iconic role project ultimately fell apart. He shared: “Brett chose me for to portray, to suddenly be that character in everyone’s the project and then it all fell apart. “It was a very lengthy minds forever.” process to get the role, I think it was over the course of three months because I went in in a cattle call. It sort of evolved from there. “It was a month of, ‘Okay, looks like this is going to happen’. And then it slowly fell apart.” However,

Monaghan’s McAdams ‘freaked minimalist out’ by fame achel McAdams got “freaked out” packing around Ireland in an attempt to Rwhen her career took off. The 36- seek clarity, and returned with a “reaffirma- year-old actress starred in a string of tion of wanting to work with great people” beauty well-known movies including ‘Mean Girls’, and a desire to do “not what was expected ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ of me”. However, nowadays, the blonde ichelle Monaghan is a “real minimalist” when between 2004 and 2005, but had to take beauty said she has more balance in her life Mit comes to beauty. The ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ some time off because she was petrified as she has become pickier about which star has confessed she prefers to sport super she was going to be “swept up” and “type- films she appears in and likes to stay down- “simple” makeup looks and loves going barefaced cast” forever. She confessed: “I got a little to-earth so she can effectively play “nor- when she isn’t on set to show off her freckly complex- freaked out. I didn’t quite know what I was mal” people in her movies. She explained ion. She said: “In terms of beauty, I’m a real minimal- getting into. It felt like I was being swept up to the Sunday Times Magazine: “I have to ist. I can only do really, really simple. It’s fun to change by this current and I wasn’t sure what I fill my cup back up sometimes and get up my look for roles, but I don’t really do it for daily wanted out of it. I got worried about being back to normal life if I’m going to portray life. I actually prefer as little makeup as possible. And typecast or suddenly only doing block- normal life”. really, that’s just kind of for practical purposes busters. I felt like I wasn’t on solid ground because I do wear so much makeup when I’m work- for a bit there, and I wanted to check back ing 14 hours a day. “I feel like I need to give my skin a in with me.” The ‘Southpaw’ star went back- break when I can. Also, in real life, I really like my freckles - I think they give women a really youthful look, which is nice.” However, the 39-year-old actress insists she is still skilled when it comes to putting on cosmetics after picking up tips while she worked as a model in her younger years. She explained: “Before getting into acting, I was modeling, so I already had a Amal Clooney’s pretty good sense of what worked on my face and what didn’t work on my face.” The brunette beauty also credits her mother Sharon for helping her dis- cover what suits her best. She told Into The Gloss: “I funny fashion sense got pretty into beauty even before I was acting. Credit goes to my mum. She always looked after my mal Clooney doesn’t take her style “too seri- nership with Giambattista and confessed she has long, thick hair. We didn’t have a lot of money, but ously”. According to designer Giambattista loved getting to know the designer as much as she would get me those Redken hair treatments and A Valli - who created outfits for the brunette she loves wearing his stunning creations. She said: put my hair in a hot towel and wash it in the sink - beauty for her wedding to actor George Clooney “I love the femininity and elegance of his clothes really take care of it. “I remember her telling me, ‘You in September last year - the human rights lawyer and the daring silhouettes. And he is so warm and should really brush out those curls. Brush out your has the “hugest sense of humor” when it comes to passionate about what he does. He is all heart as a bangs,’ and I was like, ‘It’s fine!’ She told me my hair her wardrobe. He told The Sunday Times newspa- designer and a person.” Giambattista also famously kind of looked like a doughnut when I didn’t take per’s Style magazine: “You would have to meet her dressed Rihanna in a voluminous bubblegum pink care of it, and I would be like, ‘Yeah, but I like dough- privately to know just how much more there is to gown at this year’s Grammy Awards and the ‘Rude nuts!’” her. “Her curiosity, her boundless passion, but also Boy’ hitmaker loved sporting his quirky creation that she has the hugest sense of humor with the on the red carpet. She said at the time: “I’m wear- way she dresses. She enjoys it but she doesn’t take ing Giambattista Valli [from his] new collection. I it too seriously. I adore her. “You know intellectual saw this dress on the Internet and I just fell in love is a state of mind, not the way you dress. The most with it.” intellectual women I have ever met in my life just want to have fun when it comes to their clothes.” Amal, 37, has also previously gushed over her part-

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Terminator Genisys doesn’t need James Cameron rnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t think that, it looks kind of like you need James scenes] are embarrassing, but fun. It leads to A‘Terminator Genisys’ needs James Cameron to say something good about the funny conversations and funny dialogue and Cameron’s help. The 67-year-old actor movie.”Which we don’t, because the movie great humor and everything like that. “It’s has insisted the fifth film in the ‘Terminator’ is a straight 10, it’s a fantastic movie.” The inevitable, you have to do it because it’s franchise is good enough to stand on its ‘Predator’ star’s comments come after what the movie shows, and there are certain own and is annoyed that Paramount is Paramount premiered a promotional video times you can cover things up, and there are showing a promotional video, where the earlier this month in which the ‘Avatar’ direc- certain times you don’t and you can’t. So original films’ director is endorsing it, as he tor told fans, “You’re gonna love this movie”, what? I don’t think there’s anyone here that had no involvement in the latest offering. and said he considers it the true third film in has anything to hide.”— BangShowbiz Speaking to Collider, Arnold said: “I do not the series. While Arnold is very proud of like the idea that the studio went out and ‘Terminator Genisys’, he recently admitted used it as a promotional material for the that he found shooting the nude scenes movie because I always felt that if you do “embarrassing”. He previously said: “[Nude lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Fashion Nyong’o, Blunt sparkle at Christian Dior couture garden show

elebrities such as Lupita Nyong’o and Emily Blunt Csparkled in the heat at Christian Dior’s vivid couture show, hosted in a timeless conservatory in Paris. It was the highlight of Monday’s fall-winter 2015-16 Paris Couture Week shows, which also included Giambattista Valli, Ralph & Russo, and Schiaparelli.

Dior celebrities hold court Lupita Nyong’o looked ravishing in a short, cherry red Dior couture dress Monday, and was at a loss for words on entering Christian Dior’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” show set inside the Rodin Museum. Guests ventured with trepidation on entering the huge, abstract painted conser- vatory garden that featured myriad multicolored panels - and some even tripped on the giant colored fruit scattered around the floor. “It’s really cool,” the actress said, looking around in amazement from her spot next to US Vogue Editor Anna Wintour. “It’s so incredible. I think I need to take a moment!” Emily Blunt - in a simple, white knee-length Dior gown - was equally amazed. “This is just extraordinary. This is kind of why I would walk from London to Paris to see this show. I’m so excited,” she said. The only thing she regretted about her trip was a lack of sufficient planning for France’s soar- ing temperatures, which have recently hit 40 degrees Mexican-born Oscar-award winning Kenyan actress Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). “I mean, I fry like an egg,” Lupita Nyong’o poses prior to the Christian Dior 2015- she said. “So I’m feeling like I should have put on more sun- 2016 fall/winter Haute Couture collection fashion screen. Or a higher factor.” Dior’s sweltering conservatory show. — AFP photos decor may well have contributed to the over-heating.

Models present creations for Christian Dior during the 2015-2016 fall/winter Haute Couture collection fashion show. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

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Dior time machine Ralph & Russo don’t do things by half In a surreal garden setting, Dior designer Raf Simons Even before their first on-calendar couture show in wove his creative needle in and out through different cen- Paris last year, Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo already turies. That produced an imaginative time-travel of a cou- boasted celebrity clients, including Angelina Jolie and ture show, which riffed on the styles of the Flemish Beyonce. Now, just two seasons in, the Ralph & Russo Masters, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. collection has been moved into a highly prized, visible The large fruit props on the runway conjured up scenes slot just after Dior, right in the middle of the couture from historic still-life oil paintings. week calendar. It’s quite a coup - and shows how the Long diaphanous column silhouettes in chiffon, like up-and-coming British house certainly doesn’t do medieval undergarments, floated by elegantly along- things by half. side gowns with high-cinched waists and wide, billow- Designer Ralph also works creatively by this philoso- ing sleeves that mirrored the old Flemish styles. Some phy, as showcased by Monday’s no-holds-barred glam- bejeweled net gilets were worn on the torso, evoking our. Split dresses, Balkan-style embroideries, huge satin chainmail in a beautiful touch. The sense of chic time- trains, a traffic-stopping gold bustier gown with exag- travel was further heightened with delicate dots and gerated floor-sweeping panels in the skirt, a pink pearl patterns on the fabrics - designs that evoked the French feathered cape - and one coat-dress that was so embel- Impressionists and the technique of Pointillism associat- lished, it looked like an ornate lace curtain. While there ed with artists like Georges Seurat. The coats were the seemed to be no common theme linking the varied highest point of this strong collection, with one stand- looks - it all made for real couture drama.—AP out: a flame-red coat with beautifully large tubular cuffs.

Models present creations for Ralph & Russo. Shoexpress Ramadan Collection 2015

his year Shoe express is set to woo customers with an have even when you’re just wearing our flat shoes that look and formal shoes that are combined with gentle tones Embody the glitz and glamour of the festivity this sea- Teclectic collection that will add a touch of elegance embodies the festive and glamorous feel of this season’s of elegance are enough reasons to get a pair or two from son with the clean, sheen to shiny materials and embellish- to your wardrobe. Sequence and exquisite patterns Ramadan line. You’ll fall in love head over heels with this this collection. It can definitely bring you to places in style ments of rhinestones in variety of stylish handbags, back- will capture the Ramadan spirit across ladies, mens and collection because it’s made just for stylish people like you in weather-appropriate polish. packs, sling bags, structured totes and evening bags that kids. Shoexpress has embodied opulence as well as style at who deserve beautiful footwear at an affordable price. The festive mood of Ramadan is greeted with bling, captures the right amount of opulence complimented with unbelievable everyday value was the view expressed by For men, the collection is inspired by the leisurely metallic, embellishments, different lacey materials and exotic animal prints and floral designs this season that Iesmoenie Jakoet, COO of Shoexpress. weather, our comprehensive range casual and comfortable satin that sets the mood for festivity for your little girls’ feet. would match your mood, outfit and literally your shoes! For women shine bright in the night with our wide- footwear that will make your look casually breezy, but still For the boys, we have updated our best-selling traditional You can be sure you will be at your best stylish self in this range of party shoes, pumps, and glammed up casuals cov- put-together in breathable fabrics, lightweight materials sandals and with our stylish casual shoes, this collection is festive season. ered in glitters, bedazzled with diamonds, gorgeous and dependable leather are the must-have this season. a must for every boy. Styles that are casually trendy form a So rush now to your favorite Shoexpress store located at embellishments and beautiful satins that would definitely Ranging from casual shoes in fun and sporty styles that are big part of the collection. Taking into account, the fun-lov- Star Mall, Mubarakiya, Farwaniya and The Avenues. make you standout and liven up your wardrobe. Fusing minimally-chic that are in colorful and trendy tones, classi- ing nature of kids, our collection embraces fashion and fun fashion, glam and ease, makes our ladies’ footwear a must- cal sandals silhouettes with a modern twist for an updated and is a must-have for kid’s closets. Nyong’o, Blunt sparkle at Christian Dior couture garden show

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A music band performs during the ‘Chupinazo’ (start rocket) celebration that marks the kickoff at noon sharp of the San Fermin estival,F in front of the Town Hall of Pamplona, northern Spain. A red-and-white sea of revelers soaked each other with drink in a packed Pamplona square to start off Spain’s most famous fiesta, the San Fermin bull-running festival. — AFP A crumbling Moorish dream is resurrected in Florida

he idea was to conjure up a slice of results are becoming apparent: murals, Middle Eastern splendor, in Florida. spruced-up urban areas and a community Smithsonian pips TUp went minarets and pastel-colored center with a growing calendar of cultural domes, and streets got names like Ali Baba events. Islamic style is the underlying and Aladdin. The result-the town of Opa- theme that holds all the projects together. New York rival with Irving locka-came to house the largest concentra- Dozens of volunteers recently refur- tion of Moorish revival architecture in the bished and decorated several blocks along United States. Now, however, it is just Ali Baba Avenue, applying fresh coats of Penn retrospective another poor, crumbling American com- paint and motifs based on the lines and munity, albeit one fighting to resurrect geometrical patterns typical of Middle itself with art. Eastern architecture. Some artists, rather Opa-locka-the name comes from a than settle in hip areas of Miami, are opting Seminole Indian word meaning big island for Opa-locka. “When I first moved here no covered with trees and swamps-was found- one believed that we were here to try to ed in 1926 as part of a construction boom actually make changes,” said Germane in southeast Florida. The surge saw other Barnes, an architect and designer who hails communities also arise with particular from Los Angeles. kinds of architecture such as Coral Gables, with Mediterranean-style buildings, or Miami Springs and its taste of the Spanish missions that dotted the US southwest. “During the 1920s there is this real state- craze, a lot of people moving to Florida. A man rides his bicycle by the Opa-Locka City Hall, in Opa-Locka, Florida. They want to make a quick profit,” said Jose built. These days only 50 or so remain, in Fernando Campos, age 65. The Opa-locka People look at a picture by photographer Irving Vazquez, a professor at the School of varying degrees of conservation or decay, Community Development Corporation has Penn showing a portrait of painter Pablo Picasso as Architecture and Interior Design at Miami said Vazquez. Twenty buildings here fea- spearheaded efforts to give the town a part of the exhibition ‘Irving Penn, Resonance’ at Dade College. “One of the things that ture on the national registry of historic facelift, especially with art projects but also Palazzo Grassi in Venice. — AFP would make these different developments buildings, including town hall, which through housing construction and restora- he Smithsonian American Art Museum, beat- unique was architecture,” he said. boasts towering minarets, six domes and tion of public parks and other green areas- ing its New York archrival to the punch, The exotic lure that the Middle East ample gardens. It was the centerpiece of all with public and private subsidies. announced Monday what it called the first ret- stirred in the United States inspired Glenn Curtiss’s grand plan. Now it is being The goal is to turn Opa-locka into a T restored. tourist draw that will appeal to some of the Curtiss, the millionaire entrepreneur who rospective of Irving Penn’s photography in nearly Signs of Opa-locka streets that are two decades. “Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty,” opening was the driving force behind Opa-locka. “So millions of people who visit nearby Miami Orient, or the idea of the Orient, 1920. We Bars and churches every year, said Willie Logan, president of named after characters of the book ‘One October 23, will feature 146 photographic prints, Thousand and One Nights’. many of them never exhibited or even seen before, are talking about the discovery of the tomb Indeed, the oasis that Curtiss foresaw the community development group. “The it said in a statement. New Jersey native Penn-who of Tutankhamun, also we had big movie dried up, and Opa-locka slid into decline. city is very unique, in the sense that it has “No one believed me when I said that I died in New York in October 2009 at age 92 — is blockbusters like ‘The Thief of Baghdad,’” The nadir came toward the end of the 20th its own airport, its own train station, its was actually going to move into the neigh- best known for his groundbreaking fashion photog- Vazquez added. While the town was under century as crime spread and the city Moorish architecture. It is a world-class city borhood.” People are noticing color coming raphy, notably in Vogue magazine, from the mid- construction, however, the real estate bub- earned a reputation for violence. The image that has the potential to be a great city,” back to the streets. “It is unique. You still go 1940s and into the 1950s. ble burst. A hurricane in 1926 also proved has stuck, even today. Forty percent of its said Logan. there and you are transported literally to a But the Smithsonian show will also include rare catastrophic for the project. Then Curtiss 16,000 residents — 65 percent of them place that you never suspected you would street scenes Penn shot in the 1930s and 1940s, as died in 1930, taking with him any hope of black and 30 percent Latino-live under the Color in the streets ever see here,” said Vazquez. “For me that is well as celebrity portraits, still lifes and “more private completing it. Of 100 Islamic-style build- poverty line. “Here, all there is are bars and The community development group has what makes Opa-locka so unique and so studio images,” the publicly-funded museum said. ings that were projected, only 70 were churches. Bars and churches,” said invested $2.5 million in art projects and the worth preserving.” — AFP Moreover, it will reveal a Super 8 home movie of Penn in Morocco, taken by his wife Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, it said. In announcing the exhibi- tion, the Smithsonian is upstaging New York’s famed Metropolitan Museum of Art, which last month announced its own Penn retrospective in April 2017 to mark the centennial of his birth. “‘Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty,’ the first retrospective of Penn’s work in nearly 20 years, will celebrate his legacy as a modern master and demonstrate the pho- tographer’s continued influence on the medium,” the Washington-based museum said in its statement. The Smithsonian’s collection of Penn photographs is slightly more extensive. It includes 60 prints that he personally donated in 1988 and another 100 that it received from the Irving Penn Foundation, which oversees his legacy. “A review of Penn’s whole career persuades me that in his last 20 years he became bolder and more daring, a turn that this exhibition begins to explore,” stated Betty Broun, the museum’s director. The Smithsonian exhibition will run through March 20 next year, after which it will tour several other American cities. — AFP Jose Vasquez, professor at Miami-Dade College School of Architecture, sits in his Volunteers walk by a mural during an arts initiative to embellish streets in the office in Miami, Florida with a model of an Opa-Locka house. impoverished city of Opa-Locka.