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KUWAIT: Cars line up at a petrol station late into the night yesterday. ñ Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

By Shakir Reshamwala increase according to the distance trav- Minister assures elled and the waiting period. As for air- KUWAIT: Long lines of cars snaked out of port taxis/limousines, the new fares are no hike in prices gas stations yesterday, as motorists calculated on the type of vehicle and the rushed to fill up before petrol prices go destination, ranging from KD 5 to KD 35. By Faten Omar up tomorrow, Sept 1. While government The Cabinet raised petrol prices late officials have reassured the public that last month as part of economic reforms KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Yousef prices of basic commodities and services aimed at countering falling oil revenues. Al-Ali affirmed yesterday that the introduction of will not be increased, Deputy Premier and From tomorrow, the price of low new fuel prices from tomorrow will not “affect prices Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- octane petrol will rise by 41 percent to 85 of basic commodities”. Any unjustified bid to raise Khalid Al-Sabah yesterday issued ministe- fils a liter from 60 fils, while high grade prices “will be met with firm measures by ministry rial decisions setting new tariffs for taxis petrol will increase by 61 percent to 105 inspectors”, he said, warning wholesale and retail and public transport. The new charges fils from 65 fils. These two types account merchants and businessmen against hiking prices are based on the distance travelled. for most of the petrol consumed in the on the pretext that fuel costs have increased. According to the new amendments country. The price of environmentally Ali was speaking during a visit to Siddeeq yes- that go into effect tomorrow, public friendly low-emission “ultra” petrol will terday, adding there can be no increase in prices transport fares range from 150 fils within go up by 83 percent to 165 fils a liter without the approval of the Ministry of Commerce. Kuwait City to as much as 600 fils to from 95 fils. He said the government will apply law 10/79 with Jahra and Ahmadi. Travelling from The new ministerial decisions are as its penalties against price manipulators. “It is the Kuwait City on public transport to border follows: citizens’ right to complain and inform the ministry areas will cost KD 2.500. if anyone raises prices. The complainant must prove The new taxi fares have been set Article One the increase with a receipt. according to their type - private taxis, call Article 1, 2 of ministerial decree ABU DHABI: Smoke billows from a building under construction in a residential and Continued on Page 13 taxis, roaming taxis - ranging from a base 173/1982 shall be amended as follows: commercial district of the capital after a fire broke out yesterday. — AFP charge of 350 fils to 600 fils, which will Continued on Page 13

Under-construction tower Iran to pay costs of PAGE ‘Willy Wonka’ star PAGE in Abu Dhabi catches fire infertility treatment Gene Wilder dies ABU DHABI: A major fire broke out yester- overnight at its other properties in the city. day in a residential and commercial district “The fire took place at the building of the United Arab Emirates’ capital, wit- which is in the final stages of construc- nesses said, injuring 13 people. The blaze tion,” a technician with the Ghantoot Turkey op in Syria fraught with risk was in a 25-storey building under con- Group which is undertaking the project struction beside the Rotana Beach Hotel told AFP. Thick black smoke could be and the Abu Dhabi Mall, emergency work- seen billowing from the blue-colored ers said. Witnesses said hundreds of labor- tower for miles. Fire later broke out again IS spokesman Adnani killed in Aleppo ers were evacuated from the building site in the lower part of the building, an AFP ISTANBUL: Turkey’s week-old cross-border a “loose agreement” between the two as authorities sealed off the surrounding correspondent said. Emergency services, operation in Syria could become a drawn- sides to suspend hostilities “for at least area, and a security official at the hotel overseen by helicopters, were still bat- out affair that stokes tensions with the next couple of days”. Turkey neither said guests and staff were also evacuated tling the blaze by nightfall. Qatar, Turkey Washington if Ankara continues to take confirmed nor denied the claim, saying as a precaution. Guests were put up Continued on Page 13 the fight to US-backed Kurdish fighters, only it awaited the fulfillment of a asserting ties analysts say. Turkey says its unprecedented Kurdish promise to the US to retreat east offensive aims to rid the border of both of the Euphrates river “as soon as possi- Dubai burnishes arts DOHA: With his fate still uncertain just hours after the Islamic State group and the anti-IS ble”. Deputy Prime Minister Numan the launch of the July 15 coup, Turkey’s President Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara also Kurtulmus confirmed Monday the army Recep Tayyip Erdogan received his first call of sup- considers a terrorist group. But since send- aimed to prevent the creation of a with new opera house port from a foreign leader. On the other end of the ing in tanks to help Syrian Arab rebels rout Kurdish-controlled corridor running line was Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, IS from the border town of Jarabulus last nearly the entire length of the border, giving his unequivocal backing for the embattled week, Turkey’s fight has been mainly with which would bolster Kurdish PKK rebels leader, Erdogan told Turkish media. “It was a signifi- forces affiliated to the YPG. in southeast Turkey. cant show of political support at a time when the Yesterday, the US said it had brokered Continued on Page 13 situation in Turkey was still highly uncertain,” said Rice University’s Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. “And it contrasted sharply with the lukewarm statements that came out of Western capitals, both at the time and in the weeks since the attempted coup.” Those tepid reactions from elsewhere have been readily highlighted by Erdogan supporters. And at the same time that Turkey has grown suspicious of some in the West, it has ostentatiously thanked the Gulf emirate, especially in Doha. August is a hot and sticky month in the Qatari capital when many envoys flee the heat and head overseas, but not so Turkish ambassador Ahmet Demirok who has been conspicuous only by his presence. In the days following the coup, Demirok hosted a press conference at his embassy in part to give a government overview of the situation back home for the up to 8,000 Turks living in the emirate, and DUBAI: A woman walks near the new Dubai Opera on Aug 28, 2016. The city-state also to thank the Qataris. Earlier this month is opening the Dubai Opera tonight, in the shadow of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s Demirok, together with the local Turkish Chamber tallest building. The building resembles one of the many traditional wooden Continued on Page 13 This undated image shows Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, the Islamic State militant dhows still plying the Dubai Creek. — AP (See Page 37) group’s spokesman, who was killed in northern Syria. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Chairperson and CEO of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Kuwait Airways Rasha Al-Roumi, Captain Abdulmohsen Al-Faq’aan, and Engineer Talal Al-Tamimi. — Amiri Al-Sabah meets with former MP Rashid Saif Al-Hojailan Al-Sabah meets with Dr Nayif Al-Harbi. Diwan and KUNA photos and Dr Ahmad Rashid Al-Hojailan. Amir meets Kuwait Airways officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir who presented her PhD in political Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- science. Separately, His Highness the Sabah received at Bayan Palace yes- Crown Prince received Minister of terday Chairperson and CEO of Commerce and Industry Dr Yousef Kuwait Airways Rasha Al-Roumi, Al-Ali, as well as former minister Captain Abdulmohsen Al-Faq’aan, Ahmad Al-Abdullah Baqer. and Engineer Talal Al-Tamimi. The officials briefed His Highness the Condolences Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- In other news, His Highness the Jaber Al-Sabah on the company’s Amir sent a cable to Yemeni future plans and strategies. Roumi President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi later met with His Highness the expressing his condolences over the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- victims of the terrorist attack against Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as well. a military base in Aden on Monday. Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir His Highness the Amir condemned received Montaha Mohammad Al-Ajil this terrorist act, which left tens of who won the Global Leadership people killed and injured, praying to Awards 2016 for fashion category Almighty God to bestow mercy held in Bali. His Highness also sepa- upon souls of the victims and rately received Dr Abdullah wished the injured quick recovery. Abdulqader Al-Kamali and Dr Nayif Al- His Highness the Amir, in the Harbi, who presented to His Highness cable, affirmed the State of Kuwait’s their PhD in basic education. strong condemnation of this brazen His Highness received former MP terrorist act that targeted innocent Rashid Saif Al-Hojailan and Dr people. He also reiterated the unwa- Ahmad Rashid Al-Hojailan who pre- vering rejection of all forms of terror- sented His Highness with a PhD on ism, Kuwait’s solidarity with the administrative law. Meanwhile, His international community in the fight Highness received Dr Abdulaziz Al- against this scourge, as well the Sunafi, who presented to His efforts aimed at drying up its Highness his PhD thesis in mathe- resources. His Highness the Crown matics. Moreover, His Highness Prince and His Highness the Prime received Dr Haifa Al-Ajmi who pre- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- sented her PhD thesis in petroleum Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Montaha Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Dr Istiqlal Al-Azmi. Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Dr Abdulaziz Al-Sunafi. engineering and Dr Istiqlal Al-Azmi to President Hadi. —KUNA Mohammad Al-Ajil.

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Airways meets with Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Yousef Al-Ali. meets with former minister Ahmad Al-Abdullah Baqer. Rasha Al-Roumi. Kuwait’s contributions help alleviate suffering of Syrian people: UNICEF

KUWAIT: UN Children Fund (UNICEF) has high- Some 26 of hospitals in Syria were not func- also for building resilience through strengthen- The funding of Kuwait has reached hun- dren and their families, both inside Syria and in lighted the State of Kuwait’s contributions to tions, resulting in 42 percent of population lack- ing of national systems and capacities to dreds of thousands of needy Syrians to help the neighboring countries. help Syrian people suffering from conflict that ing access to basic health care. One-third of address medium and long-term needs of provide a variety of services like water, sanita- “Kuwait funding has been critical to the Syria shattered their country, thus depriving millions children under five years old have not been refugees and host communities. tion and hygiene, health and nutrition, educa- crisis emergency response and has enabled from decent living conditions, health and nutri- reached with routine immunization, said the Kuwait’s role was not restricted to direct tion, in addition to clothes for winter. UNICEF to scale up operations through expand- tion, and education for children. UNICEF report. involvement in UNICEF’s activities, but through UNICEF expressed utmost gratitude to the ed capacities not only to save lives, but also to Syria has been facing the largest humanitari- It noted that one in every four schools was collaborating with other organizations to pro- State of Kuwait for its “significant and flexible” build resilience to address medium and long- an crisis in the world, with an estimated 13.5 destroyed or damaged, and more than two mil- vide funding to support education, protecting contribution which has enabled the UN agency term needs of Syria’s children, adolescents and million people in need of urgent life-saving lion children were out of school. This situation children in Syria from losing hope in their future to maximize its response to needs of Syrian chil- their families,” said the UNICEF report. — KUNA assistance inside Syria, including six million chil- was further aggravated by water shortages, by giving them access to skills, knowledge and dren. Families have been forced from their where around 70 percent of population live opportunities in safe places. homes and livelihoods have been destroyed. without regular access to water, both due to This collaboration, part of the ‘No Lost Alabama Senate commends More than four million people have fled the deliberate cuts by parties to the conflict and Generation’ initiative, benefited 320,000 Syrian country and 6.5 million were internally dis- extensive damage to water infrastructure. children inside Syria and in neighboring coun- placed (IDPs). tries. “Children who are not in school are more Amir’s humanitarian efforts The Kuwaiti government and people rushed Generous contribution vulnerable to protection risks such as labor, to help their Syrian brethren soon after the con- Kuwait, answering the UN calls, made gener- begging or fending for themselves on the KUWAIT: The US Alabama State Senate has campaigns have been launched to aid flict broke out in March 2011, and have con- ous contribution to UNICEF to support the streets and child marriages and forced recruit- adopted a resolution commending the refugees in Syria’s neighboring countries.” tributed $24 million to help millions of people Syrian people. The purpose of this $45 million ment to armed groups inside Syria,” said the humanitarian efforts of His Highness the The Senate pointed to His Highness the who have become either IDPs or refugees in contribution was to address large scale humani- report. Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Amir’s support to the Palestinian cause and neighboring countries - Turkey, Lebanon, tarian needs by targeting the most vulnerable But the Kuwaiti funding provided tangible Sabah. In the resolution, put forward by people, with donations channeled through Jordan, Iraq an Egypt. through prioritized, life-saving interventions support to education and access to psychoso- Senator William Beasley on August 19, the the United Nations Relief and Works UNICEF, in a report released last July high- that alleviated suffering, while maintaining and cial support through recreational activities, Senate conveys “highest commendation — Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near lighting Kuwait’s contribution since June 2015, protecting human dignity. counseling and sport, said the report. The fund- - to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- East (UNRWA). said the Arab Gulf country contributed $45 mil- The contribution enabled UNICEF to address ing, added the report, continued to help Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for being the At the behest of His Highness the Amir, lion to the Fund to support the “Syria Crisis needs of children and their families inside Syria 293,443 Syrian children regain a sense of nor- humanitarian leader of Kuwait affirming Kuwait has rendered assistance to other Response.” This contribution, a tiny part of and in neighboring countries, thus enabled the malcy in “their often turbulent lives.” the country’s positive and leading role for countries struck by catastrophes, including Kuwait’s assistance, was divided into $24 mil- UN agency to support safe water supply and humanitarian assistance.” His Highness the Bangladesh, following a cyclone in 2007, lion to support Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, other services to prevent outbreak of diarrhea, Horrible picture Amir was honored by the UN in 2014, as a Turkey and Japan in the aftermath of Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, while $21 million typhoid, polio, and other water-borne and con- Much has been achieved but a lot remains ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and Kuwait as a destructive earthquakes in 2011, Somalia allocated to help the Whole of Syria. tagious diseases. to be done, said UNICEF, depicting a horrible ‘Humanitarian Center.’ in 2011, and the Philippines in 2014, the The Syrian people’s needs have been grow- UNICEF and its partners reached 4.8 million picture of the conditions of the Syrian people. It Since His Highness the Amir assumed resolution said. ing with no resolution to the conflict, now in its people inside Syria and 954,124 refugees with said about 5.1 million people inside Syria were power in 2006, “Kuwait’s humanitarian aid In addition, Kuwait “made a generous fifth year, looked imminent. The conflict killed water sanitation and hygiene interventions, living in areas with explosive remnants of war, has experienced a worldwide reach as the donation to the World Health Organization more than 250,000 people and wounded many which included clean drinking water. These while one in four children were at risk of devel- efforts have raised the volume of aid and (WHO) to aid in the combat of the spread of more others. Children were particularly vulnera- supplies, said the report, were critical to ensure oping a mental disorder. More than 6,000 relief supplies provided to countries hit by Ebola virus.” The resolution highly appreciat- ble to grave rights violations such as recruit- a healthy environment. schools - or some one-third of total schools - catastrophes sand crises, “ the resolution ed His Highness the Amir’s efforts as “an ment into armed groups including exploitation The Kuwait funding has also enabled could no longer be used because they were read. It reviewed the Kuwaiti aid to the active member in the international commu- and abuse. Access to basic services such as edu- UNICEF to expand its human resources, finan- destroyed, damaged, sheltering displaced fami- Syrian people since the outbreak of their nity with a long history of commitment to cation, health care, water sanitation and social cial preparedness and response capacity, not lies or being used for military purposes. More crisis in 2011, as “several humanitarian international and humanitarian aid.” — KUNA services remained inadequate. only for immediate life-saving interventions but than 52,000 teachers have left the country. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 LOCAL

Switzerland, Kuwait open new Hollande stresses ‘confident chapter in ties: Ambassador relations’ with GCC countries BERN: The First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah’s Terrorism global, lasting threat: French President visit to Switzerland has resulted in opening a new chapter in the bilateral PARIS: French President Francois Hollande yester- fight the scourge of terrorism. relations between the State of Kuwait day stressed the close ties built up between France Hollande stressed that France and the United and the European nation, Kuwaits and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, States and the NATO alliance were working together ambassador said. as well as the ongoing cooperation in fighting ter- to improve cooperation and coordination in Syria, Ambassador Bader Al-Tunaib said the rorism and seeking regional stability. Speaking in a where IS has taken control of large areas but is warm hospitality accorded to Minister keynote address to France’s foreign ambassadors under increasing pressure to retreat and is losing Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled and his delega- convened at the Elysee Palace, Hollande said France ground. tion reflected the Swiss Government’s was willing to work with the countries in of the Gulf He also indicated “regular exchanges” with Russia sentiments of admiration toward the region and further friendly ties, and also work on on the Syrian question and he urged that Russia Kuwaiti Government and people. The bridging the divide with Iran as it seeks to re-inte- become “an actor” in finding a settlement to the Swiss leaders admire Kuwait’s develop- grate the international community. conflict, rather than “a protagonist” involved in the ment policies and generous aid to Hollande said that France favored this re-inte- military campaign to support the Damascus regime. needy nations, eye the Gulf State as a gration after decades of isolation of Iran because of key regional “political and development Kuwaiti Ambassador to Switzerland its controversial and opaque nuclear programs. “If The Syrian crisis player” and a prospected vital partner at Bader Al-Tunaib Iran wants to achieve (reintegration), it must con- A diplomatic source told KUNA that Hollande the development level, Ambassador tribute to calming the situation in the region,” discussed Syria with Russian President Vladimir Tunaib added. are the best avenues for restoring stabil- Hollande said. Putin on the side-lines of the latest G20 meeting Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled’s meetings ity to the region. The two sides have “France is ready to facilitate this process with the and that Putin is coming to Paris for talks on with the senior leaders, namely the also tackled economic cooperation countries of the Gulf,” he added. “Everyone knows October 19, when the subject will be broached president, the foreign minister and the namely in the business sector. Bern wit- the confident relations that we have been able to again. But Hollande also warned that terrorism can- PARIS: French President Francois Hollande parliament speaker, dealt with boosting nessed on Monday a ceremony marking build up with these countries.” The president said not be defeated if the sources of conflict are not gestures as he addresses French ambassa- the bilateral ties, stability in the Middle the 50th anniversary of establishing the there were several areas where France saw a poten- addressed. dors yesterday in Paris. — AFP East, the refugees and human rights, he Swiss-Kuwaiti diplomatic ties. The event tial role as a ‘useful’ broker or mediator. “If we want to take a lucid look at this, there will said, adding that the two sides con- was attended by Sheikh Sabah Al- be no victorious fight against terrorism if the crises perfectly understood” in view of the terror attacks curred that dialogue and negotiations Khaled and the Swiss leaders. — KUNA Global threat that give it a fertile ground do not find (solutions),” carried out by IS in Turkey, Hollande continued. But Meanwhile, Hollande warned that terrorism is the President remarked. Among these crises, he cit- he spoke out to caution against the Turkish action “the greatest threat” being faced by the internation- ed the “horrible tragedy” in Syria, with more than against Kurdish forces, which are supported by the al community and this threat is set to last. Speaking 300,000 dead, five million refugees outside the Coalition, saying this kind of action was “contradic- to France’s 181 ambassadors on post abroad, the country and nine million internally displaced. tory and brings the risk of a general blow-up” in the French leader said his country was intensifying its Hollande condemned the terrible humanitarian conflict. efforts to fight terrorism which is emerging in many catastrophe in Syria, the use of chemical weapons Hollande reiterated a frequent call for a halt to areas throughout the globe. by the regime and probably by the Islamic State the fighting and a resumption of the peace process Much of the terrorist threat emanates from so- forces and the huge number of abuses of human which he said exists and should be used. “The called Islamic State operations in Syria and Iraq, rights and myriad violations of humanitarian law. (Syrian) regime and its supporters think the solution where France has recently increased its military “There must be a halt to this carnage and France is military while the way out is political,” he affirmed, activity against this extremist group. But Hollande calls for this immediately, “ the French leader stated, noting that the peace negotiations track has never cautioned that threats from this group and others adding that “these crimes cannot go unpunished.” He really been exploited to the full. had emerged in other areas. further warned about the risk of the Syrian war Hollande also addressed the moribund Middle “In Libya, in Yemen, in Egypt, in Somalia, Nigeria, spreading and he said it had “grave consequences for East peace process that France has been seeking to with Boko Haram, and even in Asia recently in the region, for Europe and (France’s) own security.” revive, notably by hosting a ministerial conference Bangladesh (and) I could continue the list,” he said. in June to establish a framework for fresh talks “The whole world in therefore concerned, and it will Foreign forces between Israelis and Palestinians. Even if the move be for the duration,” he added. He said France and “Today the massive presence of foreign forces in has been rejected by Israel, Hollande said that he the international community must not only act Syria demonstrates the internationalization of the hoped for ‘concrete measures’ as decided at the against terrorism but “prepare for this war that will conflict,” he warned. The recent entry of Turkish June meeting and which are planned before the be long.” He urged “all partners” to work together to troops into Syria to combat Islamic State “can be end of the year. — KUNA Kuwaiti teachers invited to Arabic teaching program in US Youth to invest in 1,000 school canteens

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti teachers are invited to be involved in a special US program to teach Arabic to American students in a US college, the US Embassy’s Cultural Attache Dr Zennia Paganini announced yesterday. Explaining some features of the program, called the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program, Dr Paganini said it is a nine-month activity for early career English teachers or professionals in related fields who will teach Arabic to US students in a US college. The program is fully funded by the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs and it is an integral part of the Fulbright Foreign Student exchange program. Dr Paganini shed some light on prospected impact of the program on the Kuwait-US relations, saying the FLTA participants will have an excellent opportunity to extend their knowledge of the socie- ty and culture of the United States while serving as cultural ambassadors of Kuwait. In addition to being teaching assistants of Arabic Dr Zennia Paganini, the US Cultural Attache Education Minister Dr Bader Al-Essa to US students, participants will engage in communi- in Kuwait ty service activities, learn about US values, and share tact short-listed applicants for interviews. Last date their Kuwaiti culture with American citizens. “This community outreach projects. As a result, FLTAs also to submit applications will be on September third. year, we are delighted to be working closely with the typically gain experience in public speaking and pre- (Kuwait) Ministry of Education to publicize the pro- senting. FLTAs attend a mid-year enrichment confer- School canteens gram to English language teachers,” Dr Paganini said. ence, and also enroll in two college courses dealing In other news, the Ministry of Education Elaborating on the program benefits, she said with US Studies per semester, at their host institu- announced yesterday that it will offer Kuwaiti youth Kuwaiti teachers will have an excellent opportunity tions, which affords them a wonderful chance to the opportunity to invest in 1,000 school canteens. Kuwait tackles to connect with other language teaching profession- gain further insight into US culture and society. After This step seeks to support youth in small and medi- als and academics. This year, the Bureau of Education the program, Fulbright FLTAs return to their home um enterprises, Minister of Education and Higher and Cultural Affairs is expected to fund approximate- countries and can immediately apply their newly Education Dr Bader Al-Essa said after heading a dwindling fish wealth ly 100 Arabic Fulbright FLTA participants from the acquired professional skills and experience to direct- meeting at the Ministry of Education for supporting Middle East and North African region. ly benefit their own educational institutions. the youth projects. The meeting was attended by the KUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific campaign, released more than 126, 000 On application requirement, the cultural attach ministry’s officials, representatives of the National Research (KISR) launched yesterday the fish into the territorial waters, he said, indi- Direct communication said applicants must be Kuwaiti citizens who are Fund for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) second phase of a national campaign titled cating that the project is vital to make up Those participants will meet in an Arabic FLTA ori- English teachers, or recent graduates of American Development and in addition of 30 young men. ‘enriching the fish wealth,’ effective for dwindling amounts of the fish in entation to prepare for their teaching experience. studies, journalism/media studies, or Essa stated that a team is formed with members September. Dr Khaled Abdulelah, in charge Kuwait’s sea waters. He called for absten- During the program, the FLTAs will be in direct com- American/English literature. from Ministry of Education, State Ministry of Youth of KISR’s fish breeding, said that the insti- tion from excessive fishing or acts that munication with American students and faculty English language proficiency is mandatory and Affairs, SME and a number of young people, where tute will release into the sea waters up to damage the marine environment. The first members on US campuses, which will help strength- should be demonstrated with a TOEFL IBT score (79- they will put the outline and framework for this idea. 135,000 fish during the coming days; in phase of the project, patronized by His en their foreign language instruction skills, and refine 80 minimum) or ILETS score (6.0 in total). Complete Up to 30 days’ grace period was given to work out coordination with government authorities Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf their English language proficiency. applications should be submitted through the links the relevant plan. This project goes in line with His and public welfare societies. Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, was They will also interact with host communities in available on the US Embassy’s social media platforms Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber The institute, in the first stage of the launched last August. — KUNA conversation groups, extracurricular activities, and on twitter and Instagram. The Embassy will only con- Al-Sabah’s desire to support Kuwaiti youth, the minis- ter concluded. — KUNA EPA launches campaign to protect local Islands

KUWAIT: Environment Public Authority (EPA) announced yesterday it has prepared a national cam- paign to protect and rehabilitate some locations on Kuwaiti islands, namely Kubbar, Um Al-Maradim and Garuh. The first campaign will be launched on Kubbar Island, as EPA holds daily meetings with various state institutions to prepare for this campaign, EPA’s Director General Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said. The latest meetings were held with Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), he added. EPA is working on rehabilitating Kubbar as it is the most visited island, thanks to its close proximity, big size and its biological diversity, he said. Kubbar has Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sabah been subjected to many environmental violations, a its wildlife, as it cherishes a large number of coral reefs matter that would necessitate cooperation be fostered and is a heaven for rare sea birds, he said. among the state institutions to lift the wastes from Meanwhile, Kubbar is currently witnessing cleaning this island, he added. campaigns for its shores and coral reefs, he added. Um It is considered one of the most beautiful Kuwaiti Al-Maradim and Garuh islands are the other two islands and a touristic destination which requires great islands which need be given extra care to protect its care to to be made in order to protect and maintain natural richness, he concluded. — KUNA The Kubbar island. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 LOCAL Four top Interior Ministry officials retired

By A Saleh and Meshaal Al-Enezi Undersecretary Matar Al-Mutairi said inspec- tion teams have been formed in all gover- KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior norates to follow and monitor prices in coop- Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- eratives and submit regular reports on the Sabah issued decisions to retire Major results in order to take legal action. Mutairi General Mahmoud Al-Tabbakh, Major General said this step comes in implementation of the Abdullah Al-Ali, Brig Abdelrahman Al-Suhail Cabinet decision asking social affairs and and Major General Faisal Al-Seneen. The deci- commerce ministries to check prices to make sion included the promotion of the major sure that the gasoline price hike will not be generals to lieutenant generals and the used to increase other prices by some busi- brigadier to major general. nesses.

Reduced rents Official spokesman of Public Authority for Housing Welfare Ibrahim Al-Nashi said West Abdullah al-Mubarak project, which includes Two vehicles pictured following an accident between Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and KUWAIT: A vehicle flipped over following an accident 5,201 lots, is one of the biggest residential Abdullah Al-Mubarak. on Sixth Ring Road. areas built by PAHW, adding that most resi- dents will build three floors that includes at least two flats in each plot, which will add th nearly 15,000 flats in the market, and this will Driver killed in 6 reduce rents in the country. Nashi said the distribution mechanism of building permits are linked to the municipality, adding that the PAHW is interested in the actual date of com- Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister pletion, preceded by coordination with the Ring Road accident Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah Ministry of Electricity and Water, besides con- tacts with the Kuwait Credit Bank in order to Price control get real estate loans, which will be in By Hanan Al-Saadoun fire center responded and found a man trapped contained and kept from spreading, then sand Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor’s November. in a vehicle. Parts of the car were cut and he was was heaped on the fire to put it out. No injuries KUWAIT: An Asian driver was killed when the car freed. He was injured in the shoulder. In another were reported. Meanwhile, trees caught fire in he was driving flipped over several times on incident, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate’s (KFSD) Sabah Al-Nasser, which was fought by Jleeb Al- Sixth Ring Road near the shooting range. Jahra public relations and information department Shuyoukh center. The fire was limited, contained occupational fire center rushed to the scene and said a truck flipped over near Naseem round- and put out in 10 minutes. found the driver dead, and handed his body to about. Jahra occupational fire center responded, forensic authorities. A case was filed to investi- with backup from Jahra fire center, and the truck Inappropriate decal gate the causes of the accident. Meanwhile, a was pulled aside. The Ministry of Interior’s relations and securi- vehicle flipped over on King Fahd Road. Qurain ty information department said police arrested a fire center dealt with the accident and the Fires man who placed an inappropriate decal on his injured driver was rescued and handed to para- Fire broke out in a cement company in Mina car. It said the sticker was seen on social media, medics. A case was filed for investigations. Abdullah. Umm Al-Haiman fire center, backed by then concerned authorities identified and locat- Separately, two vehicles collided between Jleeb Mina Abdullah fire center, responded and found ed him, and he was arrested and sent to con- Al-Shuyoukh and Abdullah Al-Mubarak, so Jleeb out the fire was in the tire dump. The fire was cerned authorities.

Municipality inspectors check slaughterhouses

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality organized houses under the supervision of acting inspection tours at slaughterhouses in all director Abdallah Al-Shimmari. Jahra governorates to make sure they are com- municipality slaughterhouse official pletely ready and guarantee the smooth Mughaimesh Al-Enezi said the abattoir is KUWAIT: The Coastguard General Department organized cleaning campaigns at flow of work. The inspection included ready with 115 butchers, 40 loading work- Kubbar, Garouh and Um Al-Maradem islands recently in cooperation with Kuwait examining the equipment and prepara- ers, 30 cleaners and 25 municipality Municipality. tions at the main and temporary slaughter- employees.

KUWAIT: Acting Deputy Director General for Prevention Sector at KFSD Brig Abdullah Fahd said the department inspected north Zour power station. The inspection included fire equipment which KFDS asked to be installed, such as firefighting systems and water pumps during the construction stages. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 LOCAL

In Brief Security chief meets Defense Ministry attends Dutch King praises Czech war veterans event ties with Kuwait Algerian diplomat PRAGUE: The Kuwaiti Ministry of THE HAGUE: King Willem-Alexander of KUWAIT: Chief of the National Security Defense has recently taken part in a cere- Netherlands has hailed the strong ties between Bureau Sheikh Thamer Al-Ali Al-Sabah held a mony in the Czech Republic marking the his country and Kuwait, mainly in the economic meeting with Algerian Ambassador to 25th anniversary of Kuwait’s Liberation field. While meeting the outgoing Kuwaiti Kuwait Abdulhameed Abdawi, discussing war, in which Czech forces participated. Ambassador Hafeedh Al-Ajmi on Monday, King with him issues of regional and international The ceremony was organized by the War Willem-Alexander noted the economic cooper- importance. Moreover, the meeting also Veterans Department at the Czech ation between the two sides, recalling the selec- touched on ways to develop bilateral rela- Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces, tion of The Hague as the headquarters for tions, the National Security Bureau said in a the Kuwaiti embassy in Prague said in a Kuwait Petroleum International (Q8). — KUNA statement. — KUNA statement yesterday. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A worm’s-eye view for Kuwait Towers. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Commercial bank organizes educational campaign

KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait con- tributed to the education process in Hawally gov- ernorate. In that regard, the bank announced that it organized a campaign that aims at providing part of school requirements to elementary stu- dents. The support is part of the bank’s prepara- tions to support several social activities organized by Kuwait’s governorates to serve members of the society. Assistant Director General, Advertisement and Public Relations, Amani Al- Waraa, said the support given by the bank to Hawally governorate shows once again CBKís keenness on supporting social activities of civil society institutions, headed by Kuwait gover- norates, for their material and moral contribu- tions to residents.

People warned from fake domestic help offices

KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s relations and security information department warned citi- zens and expats against falling victim to ads by fake domestic help offices, adding they should only deal with licensed ones and not through social media. It said that the department of residency detectives noticed that many citizen and expats submitted com- plaints against bogus domestic help offices. The fraudsters take the maids, who are on article 20 visas, to homes in order to con- vince owners of the home delivery service, though all those offices are bogus and registered and do not have licenses. After they deliver the maid and get the fees, the turn off their mobiles and tell the maid to escape again, in order for her serv- ices to be offered to anoth- er family in the same illegal way. LOCAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016

NBK concludes its 2016 Summer Training Program

KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) concluded the third training course of its 2016 Summer Training Program, which is dedicated to students aged between 15 and 20 years. The course featured visits to Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Al-Rai Media Group, and other places where they underwent training to prepare to enter the labor market. The program, held for the fifteenth consecutive year, consists of four courses, each lasts for two weeks with 5-hour- long daily courses.

KUWAIT: Director of Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad met recently with Dr Adnan Al-Tamimi, President of the GCC Emergency KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry set up a pavilion at Kuwait International Airport to provide assistance to pilgrims leaving from or passing Management Center. The two sides discussed improving cooperation in the fields of through Kuwait to the holy lands in Saudi Arabia. firefighting and emergency management. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun VIVA announces special hajj offer for KD 12

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing customers will be eligible to enjoy unlimit- and most developed telecom operator, ed calls and data, using the Saudi network announced the special hajj offer for both STC. VIVA is a leader in the telecom arena in postpaid and prepaid customers, during Kuwait, thus it is keen to provide the pil- performing the holy duty in Saudi grims ease of mind during the season of Arabia, starting 28 August until 16 hajj by launching this special package. To September 2016. activate this package, send 44 to 102 , and Hajj package aims to ease the pilgrims’ for further information please visit one of journey to Makkah, by being able to stay in the 70 VIVA branches, or the VIVA website touch with their families and loved ones as at www.viva.com.kw, or call VIVA’s 24 hour soon as they arrive. For only KD 12, all VIVA call center on 102.

KUWAIT: The Retirees Care Division at the Interior Ministry’s Service Centers General Department hosted retired officers in their weekly meet- ing yesterday, in attendance of Major General Adeeb Al-Suwaidan, Director of the Service Centers General Department, and Colonel Saif Al- Mutairi, Director of the Retirees Care Division. During the meeting, Mutairi announced a new service for retirees, who can now obtain salary certificates directly from service centers. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 Kerry presses for closer India trade Libya’s last chemical weapons stocks shipped out and security ties

Page 8 Page 11 IS buried thousands in 72 mass graves 5,200 to more than 15,000 people buried

HARDAN: Surrounded by smoke and firm AllSource Analysis. Of the 72 mass main road and the railway outside Mosul. flames, the sound of gunshots echoing graves documented by AP, the smallest The bodies are believed to be packed around him, the young man crouched in contains three bodies; the largest is tightly together, side by side in a space the creek for hours, listening to the men believed to hold thousands, but no one approximately the length of two football in his family die. On the other side of the knows for sure. fields end to end, in what the AllSource mountain, another survivor peered analysis described as a “sardine trench.” through binoculars as the handcuffed Watch the slaughter Tire tracks lead to and from the site. men of neighboring villages were shot On the northern flank of Sinjar moun- “There’s actually earth that has been and then buried by a waiting bulldozer. tain, five grave sites ring a desert cross- pushed over and actually moved to cover For six days he watched as the extremists roads. It is here that the young men of parts of the ravine. As we look across the filled one grave after another with his Hardan village are buried, under thirties entire ravine we only see that in this one friends and relatives. and piles of cracked earth. They were location,” said Wood. “Ultimately there are Between them, the two scenes of hor- killed in the bloody IS offensive of August many, many more sites across Iraq and ror on Sinjar mountain contain six burial 2014. Through his binoculars, Arkan Syria that have yet to be either forensical- sites and the bodies of more than 100 Qassem watched it all. His village, Gurmiz, ly exhumed or be able to be detailed and people, just a small fraction of the mass is just up the slope from Hardan, giving a there’s quite a bit more research that graves Islamic State extremists have scat- clear view over the plain below. When the needs to take place.” tered across Iraq and Syria. In exclusive jihadis swept over the area, everyone in The key, Wood said, is having photos interviews, photos and research, The Gurmiz fled up the mountaintop for to indicate a grave’s location taken soon Associated Press has documented and refuge. Then Arkan and nine other men after its creation. Justice has been done in mapped 72 of the mass graves, the most returned to their village with light at least one IS mass killing - that of about comprehensive survey so far, with many weapons to try to defend their homes. 1,700 Iraqi soldiers who were forced to lie more expected to be uncovered as the Instead, all they could do was watch face-down in a ditch and then machine- Islamic State group’s territory shrinks. the slaughter below. Arkan witnessed the gunned at Camp Speicher. On Aug 21, 36 In Syria, AP has obtained locations for militants set up checkpoints, preventing men convicted in those killings were 17 mass graves, including one with the residents from leaving. Women and chil- hanged at Iraq’s Nasiriyah prison. But jus- bodies of hundreds of members of a sin- dren were taken away. Then the killings tice is likely to be elusive in areas still firm- gle tribe all but exterminated when IS began. The first night, Arkan saw the mili- ly under IS control, even though the extremists took over their region. For at tants line up a group of handcuffed men extremists have filmed themselves com- least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in terri- in the headlights of a bulldozer at an mitting the atrocities. That’s the case for a tory too dangerous to excavate, officials intersection, less than a kilometer (half deep natural sinkhole outside Mosul that do not even guess the number of dead. mile) down the slope from Gurmiz. They RAMADI: An Iraqi security forces forensic team works at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of is now a pit of corpses. In others, the estimates are based on gunned the men down, then the bulldoz- Iraqi civilians, security forces and members of their families, including women and children, killed by Islamic State In Syria’s Raqqa province, thousands of memories of traumatized survivors, er plowed the earth over their bodies. group militants at the stadium area in Ramadi, Iraq. — AP bodies are believed to have been thrown Islamic State propaganda and what can Over six days, Arkan and his comrades into the giant Al-Houta crevasse. be gleaned from a cursory look at the watched helplessly as the fighters issue of its online English-language mag- ravine, according to a report cited by shoot us from behind, going down the Conditions in much of Syria remain a mys- earth. Still, even the known victims brought out three more groups of men - azine Dabiq, it scolded Muslims for allow- AllSource. “I was number 43. I heard them row,” according to the Human Rights tery. Activists believe there are hundreds buried are staggering - from 5,200 to several dozen each, usually with hands ing the Yazidis to continue existing, call- say ‘615,’ and then one ISIS guy said, ‘We’re Watch account of a survivor identified of mass graves in IS-controlled areas that more than 15,000. bound - to the crossroads and killed ing their ancient religion a form of pagan- going to eat well tonight.’ only as AS. The men survived by pretend- can only be explored when fighting stops. Sinjar mountain is dotted with mass them. He didn’t always see what they did ism. It quoted Quranic verses to justify A man behind us asked, ‘Are you ing to be dead. Using their accounts and By that time, they fear any effort to docu- graves, some in territory clawed back with the bodies. One time, he saw them killing the Yazidis unless they become ready?’ Another person answered ‘Yes,’ others, AllSource examined an image ment the massacres, exhume and identify from IS after the group’s onslaught lighting a bonfire, but he couldn’t see Muslim. Thwarted in their halfhearted and began shooting at us with a from July 17, 2014, that appeared to show the remains will become infinitely more against the Yazidi minority in August why. Finally, the jihadis brought in attempt at conversions, the fighters sepa- machine-gun. Then they all started to the location as described, between a complicated. — AP 2014; others in the deadly no man’s land artillery and prepared to make an assault rated about 35 teenage girls and young that has yet to be secured. The bodies of on Gurmiz. Arkan and his comrades fled women from the rest, crammed them Talal Murat’s father, uncles and cousins lie up the mountain to where their families into a few cars and drove away. The mili- beneath the rubble of the family farm, had taken refuge. Now, since IS fighters tants herded the older women and awaiting a time when it is safe for surviv- were driven out of the area, the 32-year- young children into the farmhouse and ing relatives to return to the place where old has returned to his home. locked the door. Then they lined the men the men were gunned down. On Sinjar’s But he’s haunted by the site. As docu- and teenaged boys against the wall of the other flank, Rasho Qassim drives daily mented by the aid group Yazda, which stables - around 40 in all, including Talal. past the graves holding the bodies of his has mapped the Sinjar sites, the graves There were too many of them, too two sons. are in a rough pentagon flanking the bunched up, to efficiently mow down, so The road is in territory long since crossroads, largely unprotected. Around the fighters then ordered them to lie on the ground in a row, Talal said. That was when his uncle told him to make a run for it. Talal bolted into his uncle’s hayfield, as did several other men. The militants fired at them, and the bullets ignited the hay, dry from the summer sun. The fire cov- ered Talal’s escape, and he took shelter in a nearby creek. There he hid, listening as the gunmen shot his family to death. He eventually fled toward the mountain, joined by three others who had survived the massacre. Four out of 40. Back at the farm, the gunmen eventually left and the women and children emerged, looking around with growing horror. Nouri Murat, Talal’s mother, found her husband. His body was untouched, but his head was shattered. Her daughters, she said, were confused at first. “This is strange, this body is wearing my father’s clothes,” one of them said. As Nouri franti- SINJAR: Photo shows a skeleton exhumed from a mass grave contain- cally searched around the property for ing Yazidis killed by Islamic State militants in the Sinjar region of any surviving menfolk, her 9-year-old northern Iraq. — AP daughter Rukhan lay down beside her father’s corpse. Finally, other women per- suaded the family to head to the moun- seized back, but the five sites are one of them is a mesh fence and a wind- tain before the Islamic State fighters untouched, roped off and awaiting the battered sign. As Arkan spoke at the site, returned. As they began the long walk money or the political will for excavation, a shepherd herded his flock nearby. “I north, Nouri noticed Rukhan’s bloody fist. as the evidence they contain is scoured have lots of people I know there. Mostly Fearing her daughter was wounded, she away by the wind and baked by the sun. friends and neighbors,” he said. “It’s very pried open the girl’s clenched fingers. “We want to take them out of here. There difficult to look at them every day.” Inside were a handful of her father’s teeth. are only bones left. But they said ‘No, they have to stay there, a committee will come ‘My father’s clothes’ They don’t hide their crimes and exhume them later,’” said Qassim, As IS fighters swarmed into the Sinjar Nearly every area freed from IS control standing at the edge of the flimsy fence area in early August 2014, Talal fled his has unmasked new mass graves, like one surrounding one site, where his two sons town along with his father, mother, four found by the sports stadium in the Iraqi are buried. “It has been two years but sisters and younger brother. They and city of Ramadi. Many of the graves them- nobody has come.” dozens of other men, women and chil- selves are easy enough to find, most cov- IS made no attempt to hide its atroci- dren from his extended clan converged ered with just a thin coating of earth. ties. In fact it boasted of them. But prov- on an uncle’s farm outside the town of Tel “They don’t even try to hide their crimes,” ing what United Nations officials and oth- Azer. They prayed it was remote enough said Sirwan Jalal, the director of Iraqi ers have described as an ongoing geno- to escape the killings that were already Kurdistan’s agency in charge of mass cide - and prosecuting those behind it engulfing so many Yazidis. It wasn’t. The graves. “They are beheading them, shoot- will be complicated as the graves deterio- jihadis fired at the house from a distance. ing them, running them over in cars, all rate. “We see clear evidence of the intent Then they rolled up in their vehicles and kinds of killing techniques, and they don’t to destroy the Yazidi people,” said Naomi shot one man in the head as they stood even try to hide it.” No one outside IS has Kikoler, who recently visited the region in the yard. They surrounded the farm- seen the Iraqi ravine where hundreds of for the Holocaust Museum in house, ordered everyone outside and Shiite prison inmates were killed point Washington, D.C. “There’s been virtually demanded the impossible: Convert. blank and then torched. Satellite images no effort to systematically document the The Yazidi faith, one of the region’s of scraped dirt along the river point to its crimes perpetrated, to preserve the evi- oldest, has elements of Christianity and location, according to Steve Wood of dence, and to ensure that mass graves are Islam but is distinct. Yazidis worship the AllSource. identified and protected.” Peacock Angel, fallen and forgiven by His analysts triangulated survivors’ Then there are the graves still out of God under their tradition, and their accounts and began to systematically reach. The Islamic State group’s atrocities shrines feature carved images of the birds search the desert according to their extend well outside the Yazidi region in and references to the sun. Muslim descriptions of that day, June 10, 2014. northern Iraq. Satellites offer the clearest extremists condemned them as “devil The inmates were separated out by reli- look at massacres such as the one at worshippers” and over the centuries have gion, and Shiites were loaded onto trucks, Badoush Prison in June 2014 that left 600 subjected them to multiple massacres - driven for a few kilometers and forced to male inmates dead. A patch of scraped 72, by the Yazidis’ count. line up and count off, according to earth and tire tracks show the likely In its own propaganda, the Islamic accounts by 15 survivors gathered by killing site, according to exclusive photos State group made clear its intention to Human Rights Watch. Then they knelt obtained by the imagery intelligence wipe out the Yazidi community. In an along the edge of the crescent-shaped INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 Libya’s last chemical weapons stocks shipped out

TRIPOLI: Libya has shipped the last of its chemical spokesman said the government “can neither con- weapons stocks out of the country, officials said firm nor deny” reports of its involvement. yesterday, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the The UN Security Council on July 22 endorsed arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands. The plans to remove Libya’s remaining chemical move will ease fears that extremists like the Islamic weapons from the country and prevent them from State group could gain access to the weapons in falling into the hands of extremists like IS. Libya Libya, which has been wracked by chaos since the joined the UN convention on eliminating chemical 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. A senior weapons in 2004 as part of Gaddafi’s ultimately security official told AFP the stocks, including 23 abortive efforts to shake off the country’s pariah tanks of chemicals, were shipped out on a Danish status and mend relations with the West. The con- vessel on Saturday from the port of Misrata, under vention uses a broad definition of “chemical the supervision of the United Nations, and were weapons” to include not only those already pre- destined for Germany. pared for delivery but also toxic chemicals intended The stocks had been stored in the central Jafa for use in weapons and the precursors used to cre- area, about 200 kilometers south of Sirte where ate them. Libyan pro-government forces are battling IS At the time Libya joined the convention, it jihadists, he said. “We as Libyans did not want these declared 24.7 tons of sulphur mustard, 1,390 tons of weapons, especially during the current security sit- precursor chemicals and more than 3,500 aerial uation and with the presence of IS in the region,” bombs containing chemical weapons. It had elimi- the security official said. The deputy prime minister nated all the aerial bombs, 51 percent of the sul- of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), phur mustard and 40 percent of the precursor Mussa El-Koni, confirmed the operation. “All of chemicals by 2011, when operations to destroy the Libya’s chemical arsenal has been shipped out of arsenal were interrupted by the uprising against the country,” he said. “This is good news for Libya, Kadhafi, according to the OPCW. and for the peace of Libya, and we thank all the Of three chemical weapons production facilities countries that participated and the UN.” also declared in 2004, two were destroyed and one The Danish government had earlier this month converted for civilian use, it said. Fears over Libya’s offered to send a container vessel, support ship and TRIPOLI: A team of Libyan experts and military engineers monitor a dump tank, under the supervi- remaining stockpiles grew with the rise of the local 200 staff to handle the operation, coordinated by sion of the United Nations, in Tripoli. Experts were assigned to dump the toxic chemicals found in the branch of IS, which took advantage of the country’s the UN-backed Organization for the Prohibition of air defense missiles and ammunition that was left over from the former Libyan leader Muammar turmoil last year to seize control of the coastal city Chemical Weapons (OPCW). In an emailed state- Gaddafi’s regime. — AFP of Sirte. Forces loyal to the internationally backed ment to AFP, the OPCW said: “We are not in a posi- GNA, a unity government that was declared earlier tion to disclose operational details of an ongoing 500 tons of toxic chemicals GEKA, Germany’s state-owned company for dispos- this year but has struggled to assert its authority, effort.” It specified however that the stocks in ques- A German defense ministry spokesman said the ing of chemical weapons. “These chemical products have made significant gains against IS in Sirte. After tion “are industrial chemicals in wide use as well as shipment would arrive in Germany “in the coming can be used to produce toxic gases or warfare capturing most of the city including IS’s central precursor chemicals that are several stages away weeks” and contained “about 500 tons of toxic agents, but are not toxic gases or warfare agents,” headquarters earlier this month, loyalist forces have from being actual chemical weapons.” chemical products” that would be destroyed by the spokesman said. A Danish foreign ministry cornered the jihadists in one last district. — AFP World Vision urges Israel to try ‘Hamas aid’ case in public Israel destroys home of Palestinian linked to deadly attack

JERUSALEM: World Vision’s global president has UN Danny Danon said the allegations showed a a rabbi, it said yesterday. The army said it questioned Israeli accusations that the NGO’s “troubling trend of the systematic exploitation destroyed the home of Mohammed Abed Gaza head diverted millions of dollars in aid to (of aid) by Hamas terrorists.” But Jenkins called Almajid Mohammed El-Amaira, 38, in Dura, Hamas and said his trial should be open to the the scale of the allegations against Halabi “very southwest of the West Bank city of Hebron. public. A pre-trial hearing for World Vision’s difficult to reconcile” with reality. Amaira, a member of the Palestinian Authority Mohammed Al-Halabi was held in secret yester- The NGO has said its Gaza budget for the past security services, was arrested several weeks day morning in the southern Israeli city of 10 years was only $22.5 million, making the ago, accused of having helped plan and carry Beersheba. “A trial is legitimate if it is transpar- numbers alleged all but impossible. Charities out the attack on July 1, when gunmen opened ent,” World Vision International’s president Kevin working in Gaza have some of the tightest con- fire on a car near Hebron. Jenkins said in one of his first interviews since trols on funds in the world, partly due to tough The car crashed, killing rabbi Michael Mark, Halabi was charged on August 4. “Obviously with counter-terrorism legislation. The impoverished who led a religious school in the Israeli settle- such serious allegations against a staff member, Palestinian enclave has one of the world’s high- ment of Otniel, and wounding two family mem- we are calling for him to have a fair hearing.” est unemployment rates. More than two-thirds bers, according to the army. Amaira is accused of He said the allegations against Halabi were so of the population rely on some form of foreign having acted as the driver in the attack. Another MOGADISHU: A member of Somalia’s security services patrols the scene of a suicide serious that the NGO was hoping for an open tri- aid, according to the United Nations. “We are not Palestinian accused over the attack, Mohamed car bomb blast yesterday in Mogadishu. — AFP al to learn as many lessons as possible if they a naive organization. We have world-class sys- Fakih, 29, was killed during a raid in July that were proved correct. “As much as our donors tems to prevent the sort of things that are being saw Israeli forces fire anti-tank missiles at a Car bomb outside Somali want the truth to come out, we want the truth to alleged here,” Jenkins said. house in the West Bank village of Surif. Israel reg- come out,” he said. “Our whole reputation is ularly destroys the homes of Palestinians based on integrity.” All media and even World Israel destroys home accused of attacks as part of efforts to deter President’s Palace kills 10 Vision staff were prevented from attending yes- In another development, Israel’s military future violence. Palestinians and human rights MOGADISHU: At least 10 people, including Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, said the attack terday’s hearing, Halabi’s lawyer said. The accu- overnight destroyed the home of a Palestinian activists say the policy amounts to collective soldiers and civilians, were killed in had killed 15 soldiers and “injured many sations against him were read out while Halabi, accused of involvement in a shooting attack in punishment, forcing families to suffer for the Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday others including a lawmaker”. Seeking to wearing a brown prisoner’s uniform, stood the occupied West Bank that led to the death of acts of others. — Agencies when a car bomb claimed by Al Shabaab impose its own harsh form of Islam, Al motionless, lawyer Lea Tsemel said. Halabi has exploded outside the Presidential Palace Shabaab, wants to topple the Western not yet spoken in the court but intends to plead and also damaged two nearby hotels, an backed government in Mogadishu and also not guilty, she said. official said. Information Minister push out the 22,000-strong African Union The case will reconvene in early October. On Mohamed Abdi Hayir told state radio that a mandated AMISOM peace keeping force August 4, Israel alleged that Halabi had diverted meeting of security officials was under way backing it. The group was pushed out of more than $7.2 million each year since 2010 to inside one of the hotels, the SYL, at the Mogadishu by AMISOM in 2011 but have Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs the time of blast and that one minister and remained a serious threat, launching fre- Gaza Strip. This allegedly equated to 60 percent some state radio journalists were injured in quent attacks aimed at overthrowing the of the NGO’s budget for Gaza, with much of the the attack. government. money being syphoned off to Hamas’s military The hotel is frequented by government The militants have claimed responsibility wing to fight the Jewish state, according to the officials and police said it believed the facil- for several explosions in Mogadishu, includ- charges. He initially confessed, Israel said, ity was the likely target. The SYL and anoth- ing a car bomb and gun attack last week at though Amnesty International said Monday er hospitality facility, both located near the a popular beach restaurant in the capital there were allegations he had been mistreated Presidential Palace, were partially that killed 10 people. In a separate incident, in custody and “may have been forced into ‘con- destroyed by the blast, Major Mohamed Ali, al Shabaab fighters attacked military bases fessing’ under duress.” The rights group also a police officer said. “The blast killed 10 housing government and African Union called for the trial to be opened to the media. (people) including soldiers and civilians troops south west of the capital Mogadishu ‘Difficult to reconcile’ and 30 others were wounded,” Ali said. late on Monday, police and the group said Halabi’s arrest was followed by similar allega- Gunfire could be heard after the blast and a yesterday. Military officer Major Bile Farah tions against a Save the Children employee and huge cloud of smoke rose above the said a soldier and two Al Shabaab fighters the arrest of a United Nations worker for alleged- palace, outside which were the remnants of were killed in the attack in K-50 and Muri in ly funneling rubble to Hamas to build a military the car and splattered blood, according to Lower Shabelle region. Abu Musab told jetty. The UN has disputed the allegations. Israel a Reuters witness. Reuters the group’s fighters had killed 10 and Palestinian militants in Gaza have fought Al Shabaab’s Radio Andaluz said the soldiers and commandeered a vehicle from three wars since 2008 and Hamas is labeled a Islamist group was behind the attack and the Somali government soldiers in the terrorist organization by the United States and BEIT HANUN: Palestinians walk near buildings which were destroyed during the 50-day war their military operations spokesman, Monday attack. —Reuters the European Union. Israeli ambassador to the between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014 in Beit Hanun. — AFP 3 hurt in suicide blast at Oil fires cast black cloud China’s Kyrgyzstan embassy over Iraq’s retaken town QAYYARA: It gets darker earlier these 50 tanker truckloads a day from region, but Reuters could not locate BISHKEK: A van driven by a suicide bomber exploded after put the strength of the blast at an equivalent of up to 10 days in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara and nearby Najma oilfields to any such efforts at the wells closest to ramming through a gate at the Chinese embassy in kilos (22 pounds) of TNT, and one said body parts thought Qayyara, which Islamic State militants neighboring Syria. A sign remains on residential areas. Kyrgyzstan yesterday, injuring three people, authorities to be from the attacker were found several hundred meters abandoned about a week ago after the main road announcing prices of Around a dozen separate plumes of said. “As a result of the explosion, only the suicide bomber (yards) from the blast site. setting fire to many of the region’s oil crude in places like the Syrian city of smoke were still distinguishable across terrorist died. Security guards were injured,” Kyrgyzstan’s Local residents told AFP that the blast had blown in wells. Smoke billowing into the sky Aleppo, 550 km west of Qayyara. the horizon as night fell, when a convoy deputy Prime Minister Jenish Razakov told journalists at their windows and caused their houses to shake. Pictures during a Reuters visit on Monday blot- Rudimentary refineries once used to of firetrucks approached the town. It was the scene. posted on social media purporting to be from the embassy ted out the sun in central districts refine oil for local consumption have not immediately clear how long it will Razakov said the three wounded were all Kyrgyz showed a gate smashed open and debris inside the com- hours before nightfall, producing an been abandoned on the side of the take to extinguish the flames. When employees of the embassy and that they have been hospi- pound. An AFP journalist close to the scene said that dam- apocalyptic scene in this desert settle- road leading east out of the town. The Iraq’s military torched hundreds of talized. Local medics said their injuries were not serious. age could be seen on the embassy buildings and that ment which lacks electricity amid 49 smell of petrol now overwhelms the Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991 ahead of Impoverished majority-Muslim Kyrgyzstan-which borders police had cordoned off the area as emergency services degree Celsius temperatures. area, wind carrying the smoke from advancing US-led forces, most fires western China-has a history of political instability and bat- worked. Law enforcement officials also blocked traffic on The Iraqi military’s recapture of well fires into the town centre. More burned for around two months but tling Islamist extremism. Authorities say the country faces one of the city’s main highways and were checking vehi- Qayyara, along with a nearby airbase than a few minutes in the area leaves some wells were not capped for almost a the threat of attacks from Islamic State group jihadists after cles. Employees from the Chinese and nearby American in July, is the latest and most signifi- one’s throat burning, and children year. The Oil Ministry said it does not some 500 Kyrgyz left to fight for the group in Iraq and embassy on the edge of the city were evacuated, the cant advance in a US-backed push to walking the streets have quickly devel- expect to resume production from the Syria. Chinese officials have previously been targeted in Kyrgyz emergency service said. An economically troubled Mosul, the largest city under Islamic oped coughs. Abdel Aziz Saleh, a 25- Qayyara region before Mosul’s recapture. attacks linked to radicals from China’s Uighur minority, ally of Russia, Kyrgyzstan has seen two governments over- State control anywhere in its self-pro- year-old Qayyara resident, said he The two main fields, Qayyara and Najma, which lives just across the border in the restive Xinjiang thrown and ethnic violence claim hundreds of lives since it claimed caliphate. Baghdad wants to wants Baghdad to put out the fires as used to produce 30,000 barrels per day province. gained independence in 1991. The authorities regularly retake Mosul before the end of the soon as possible. of heavy crude before the takeover by Law enforcement sources said that a Mitsubishi Delica announce that they have foiled attacks planned by IS in the year, which it says will effectively end “They are suffocating us,” he said. Islamic State. Despite the well fires, van smashed through a gate at the embassy yesterday country. Security forces last year said they had engaged in the militants’ presence in Iraq more “The birds, the animals are black, the Qayyara remains full of inhabitants. than two years after they seized a third people are black. Gas rains down on us Whereas civilians in most other areas morning before exploding in the centre of the compound several deadly shootouts with suspected “terrorists” in the of its territory. Some officials from at night. Now the gas has reached the recaptured from Islamic State fled ahead close to the ambassador’s residence. A police source con- capital Bishkek. One of the three suicide bombers who car- countries in the US-led coalition sup- residential areas.” He and other resi- of or during government offensives the firmed to AFP that the vehicle was driven by a suicide ried out a deadly attack blamed on IS at the international porting the Iraqi forces have said that dents said oil had spilled into the near- majority of Qayyara’s roughly 20,000 resi- bomber and described the incident as a “terrorist attack”. airport in the Turkish city Istanbul in June was reported to timeline may be too ambitious. Yet the by Tigris River - assertions denied by dents have stayed put. A counter-terror- China’s foreign ministry condemned the attack as an be from Kyrgyzstan. loss of Qayyara certainly dealt a blow the oil ministry, which said the oil spills ism officer said that was partly due to the “extreme and violent act” but refused to classify it as terror- Chinese officials in Kyrgyzstan have previously been tar- to Islamic State, which had extracted had been contained by trenches. speed with which the army recaptured ism. “We asked the Kyrgyz side to get to the bottom of this geted, with one shot dead in 2000 in an attack blamed on oil from some 60 wells and sold it to While several bodies were seen float- Qayyara, surprising the Islamic State incident and hold whoever is behind this accountable,” radicals from the Uighur minority. In 2014 Kyrgyz authori- help finance its activities. ing in the river on Monday, Reuters fighters before they were able to dig in. spokeswoman Hua Chunying told journalists. ties said they killed 11 people, including Uighur rebels, try- could not confirm it had been contam- Qayyara is also located near a military air- Kyrgyz officials have not yet pointed the finger of blame ing to cross into the country. Violence has plagued China’s 50 tanker truckloads inated with oil. Iraq says it has put out field, so many residents in the area have at any specific group, and President Almazbek Atambayev northwestern region of Xinjiang, in recent years, some- Islamic State used to ship at least fires at four oil wells in the Qayyara relatives in the army. — Reuters ordered a “thorough investigation”. Kyrgyz police sources times spreading beyond it. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 Brazil’s evangelicals pray for sinful politicians

BRASILIA: If pastor Francisco Carlos ber of seats but a Pentecostal environmen- ancient Temple of Solomon in Sao Paulo, Soares de Menezes’s prayers are talist, Marina Silva, came close to winning are often lavish affairs. answered, Dilma Rousseff won’t be the the presidency from Rouseff. And now With its mirrored walls and security last Brazilian leader sent to the political Congress’s evangelical block is exercising gates, one suburban church in Brasilia hellfires. The 68-year-old suspended its clout to chastize Rousseff-formally on looked more like an insurance company or president appears set to be stripped of trial for illegal budget manipulations, but medical center. But in poorer neighbor- office when the Senate votes, starting essentially being blamed for Brazil’s dire hoods, including in the often ignored yesterday, on whether she is guilty of fid- economy. The block threw its weight favela communities of Brazil, small, scrappy dling the nation’s accounts and taking behind impeachment in April, citing “the evangelical churches are havens from drug unauthorized loans. Many of those grave economic, moral, ethical and political pushers and gangs. “The more we can get attacking Rousseff, however, are them- crisis across Brazil.” people away from drugs and put them on selves accused in criminal cases ranging a good path, the better,” said Antonio from embezzlement to vote buying and Havens Mendes de Lima, 42, who works as a clean- bribery. In Brasilia, a capital city renowned for er at a Seventh Day Adventists church in De Menzes, a pastor at Memorial political back stabbing and corruption, the the capital.Like the evangelists, that Baptist Church, part of a rapidly growing Memorial Baptist Church could be seen as denomination promotes strict social rules evangelical Christian movement in Brazil, a sanctuary of goodness. From one build- and missionary work. says sadly that sin has been around “since ing come the soaring voices of adults at mankind turned from God.” But now choir practice. In another, children are Who’s the sinner? Brazil’s current political turmoil, he says, is learning about the Bible. Small groups of But money and politics are dragging a sign that God is bringing change. De young people sit in circles on the grass or the evangelicals into sins of their own. Menzes, 57, points to a vast anti-corrup- SAO PAULO: Demonstrators shout slogans against acting Brazil’s President steps of the church playing guitar or dis- Eduardo Cunha, who as speaker of the low- tion probe called Operation Car Wash that Michel Temer during a rally in support of Brazil’s suspended President Dilma cussing religion. Everyone smiles. “I want to er house was instrumental in getting the has led to prosecutions and convictions of Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil. — AP thank God for my good exam results,” a impeachment process started against some of Brazil’s most powerful men over Rising power evangelical churches-such as the Assembly teenager can be heard telling friends in a Rousseff, made a name as a host of an the last year. “God is acting,” he said at the While Brazil is still a majority Roman of God and the Universal Church, which are soft voice. Adherents of the evangelical evangelical radio station and he peppers sprawling church complex in the capital Catholic country, religious and political both led by multi-millionaire pastor- brand around Brazil praise its social speeches with religious references. Now Brasilia. “We believe that many of the momentum is increasingly with the upstart tycoons-are rapidly gathering souls and activism and ability to rescue people from Cunha has been stripped of his speaker’s things that are happening are the answers evangelical Christians, who now account influence. In the 2014 elections, evangelical violence and crime. Evangelical churches, post and is fighting to hold on to his seat in to our prayers.” for almost a quarter of the population. The candidates not only gained a record num- like the $300 million replica of Jerusalem’s the face of corruption charges. — AFP

US Justice Department focuses on police treatment of mentally ill

WASHINGTON: Justice Department lawyers resource-starved mental health infrastructure. investigating police agencies for claims of racial More than 14 percent of male jail inmates and discrimination and excessive force are increas- 31 percent of female inmates are affected by ingly turning up a different problem: Officers’ serious mental illness, according to a July interactions with the mentally ill. The latest speech by Justice Department official Eve Hill, example came in Baltimore, where a critical who said society has for too long relied on report on that department’s policies found that arrests and jail rather than treatment for the officers end up in unnecessarily violent con- mentally ill. frontations with mentally disabled people who “From the standpoint of police, they are in many instances haven’t even committed somewhat frustrated because many of the peo- crimes. The report cited instances of officers ple who are walking the streets and who are in using a stun gun to subdue an agitated man need of help are not getting it,” said Chuck who refused to leave a vacant building and of Wexler, executive director of the Police spraying mace to force a troubled person - said Executive Research Forum. “They have been out by his father to be unarmed and off his medica- on the streets, they can’t afford medication, and tions - out of an apartment. so the police wind up being the only one they Though past federal investigations have come in contact with.” The Justice Department addressed the problem, the Baltimore report has incorporated treatment of the mentally ill went a step further: It was the first time the into several of its wide-ranging civil rights inves- Justice Department has explicitly found that a tigations of troubled police departments. police department’s policies violated the “I think some police departments have real- Americans with Disabilities Act. The finding is ly made it a priority and are doing quite a bit. I intended to chart a path to what federal officials don’t know that that’s consistent across all the hope will be far-reaching improvements, includ- departments,” said Amy Watson, a mental ing better training for dispatchers and officers, health policy professor at the University of diversion of more people to treatment rather Illinois at Chicago. A 2011 Justice Department than jail and stronger relationships with mental report on Seattle criticized officers for too health specialists. quickly resorting to force when encountering “Through the course of our work in the last people with mental illness or under the influ- several years on this bucket of issues, we’ve ence of drugs. In Cleveland, officers were WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama arrives at The White House in Washington DC. — AFP seen how important it is to get at the mental found to use stun guns against people with health issues as early in the system as possible,” limited cognitive abilities, and in one case used Vanita Gupta, head of the department’s Civil one on a suicidal deaf man who may not have 6 US senators urge Obama to Rights Division, said in an interview. Civil rights understood their commands, according to a officials say the Baltimore report builds on work 2014 report. they’ve done in investigating the treatment of Albuquerque, New Mexico officers respond- the mentally ill in various settings. In Mississippi, ing to a domestic violence complaint used the prioritize cyber crime at G20 the Hinds County jail in June agreed to better same tactic on a man who had doused himself screening for mental illness as part of a settle- with gasoline, the Justice Department said. Letter cites $81 million Bangladesh Bank heist ment, and the Justice Department sued the Those cities have since reached court-enforce- state as a whole this month, saying it was ille- able consent decrees aimed at overhauling NEW YORK: Six US senators have urged President to work with your counterparts and prioritize this motivated cyber espionage, an agreement intended gally making mentally ill people go into state- practices. The Portland police department, Barack Obama to prioritize cyber crime at this week- discussion at the G20 leaders level in September,” it to reduce the estimated hundreds of billions of dol- run psychiatric hospitals. which also came under investigation, agreed to end’s Group of 20 summit in China, in the wake of said of the summit to be held in Hangzhou, China, lars worth of commercial trade secrets that are But it’s the work with police departments new training and accountability measures the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central adding that “executive leadership circles across the stolen by foreign governments seeking to benefit that often attracts the most attention. Even as under a settlement. A federal monitor in bank, according to a letter obtained by Reuters. In globe” needed to pay more attention to the risks. industry in their own countries. police forces improve training and develop February found the Seattle police department the letter sent to the White House ahead of the Sept A senator in the Philippines has said Chinese Since then, the Bangladesh Bank attack and intervention teams to respond to individuals in was sending trained crisis intervention officers 4-5 summit, Sherrod Brown, a senior Democrat on hackers were likely to have pulled off the others that have emerged are only some of the the throes of a crisis, concerns remain that offi- to “crisis events in the great majority of the Senate Banking Committee, and five other Bangladesh Bank heist, citing a network of Chinese threats posed by cyber criminals, the senators cers aren’t adequately equipped for the situa- instances” and had given some level of training Democratic senators say they want the US president people involved in the routing of the stolen funds wrote. World regulators should “erect more robust tions and are being forced to fill the void of a to all officers in the last two years. — AP to press leaders from the world’s 20 biggest through Manila. Beijing has dismissed the sugges- defenses and collaborative systems to prevent and economies to commit in joint communiques to a tion. Copies of the letter from the US senators were mitigate the impact of successful attacks,” the letter “coordinated strategy to combat cyber-crime at criti- also sent to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and said, noting that steps already taken by SWIFT are cal financial institutions.” US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. not enough. Bangladesh said it supported raising The letter, dated Monday, suggests that concern the issue at G20. “In most cases, cyber attacks and among US lawmakers is growing over the February Obama-Xi talks crimes take place from outside the country,” said incident in which hackers breached Bangladesh The other senators signing the letter were Mark Zunaid Ahmed Palak, a junior government minister Bank’s systems and used the SWIFT banking net- Warner and Martin Heinrich, both members of the for information and communications technology. work to request nearly $1 billion from an account Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence; Kirsten “So while addressing fast growing cyber attacks, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Some Gillibrand and Debbie Stabenow, the ranking there should be a coordinated approach involving of the dozens of orders were filled, with much of Democrat on the Senate’s Committee on global stakeholders.” the lost $81 million disappearing into Philippines Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The White The Fed and other US regulators said in a letter casinos - prompting months of international finger- House expects G20 members at the summit “to last week they were focused on cyber risks and con- pointing, an ongoing investigation, and several affirm their commitment to cooperate to fight trols at banks in the wake of the Bangladesh inci- requests from members of Congress for answers cybercrime and to enhance confidence and trust in dent, though they offered few specifics. Peters, a from the Fed and from SWIFT, the secure messaging the digital economy,” a senior administration offi- member of the Senate’s Committee on Homeland service that banks use to transfer money around cial said. Security and Governmental Affairs, told Reuters he is the world. Asked generally about cyber security on considering requesting a committee hearing on the “Our financial institutions are connected in order Monday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said heist. “I am concerned about the response and what to facilitate global commerce, but cyber criminals - at a press conference: “I would anticipate that this steps have been taken to make sure it doesn’t hap- CLEVELAND: Vanita Gupta, the head of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, whether independent or state-sponsored - imperil issue more generally will be on the agenda” when pen again,” he said in an interview. “You just need speaks in Cleveland. Justice Department lawyers investigating police agencies for this international system in a way few threats have,” Obama meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, the G20 more collaboration and sharing of information... racial discrimination and excessive force are increasingly finding a different prob- the senators, headed by Gary Peters of Michigan, summit host, later this week. At a November sum- because often times all these entities aren’t talking lem: Officers’ interactions with the mentally ill. — AP wrote in the letter to Obama. “We strongly urge you mit, the G20 pledged not to conduct economically to each other.” — Reuters Trump’s deportation waffle shows campaign weaknesses

SEATTLE: Donald Trump and his aides used to say making decisions. “It’s just puzzling,” said Lanhee Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne that voters didn’t care about the nitty-gritty of policy Chen, who has served as a policy adviser to several Conway, has said she’s pushing her boss to get more details. But now those details are tripping up his Republican presidential candidates. “This is the issue specific. Yet his positions on a host of issues remain campaign. For more than a week now, as he’s tried to on which he rose to prominence in the primary and vague at best. For example, while Trump has shine the spotlight on his rival, Trump has appeared the issue on which he continues to stake much of his slammed the Common Core education standards and to wrestle with one of his signature proposals: A campaign.” touts the benefits of local control of education, he has pledge to expel everyone living in the US illegally From the start, Trump has never been the kind of no formal, detailed plans for improving public with the help of a “deportation force.” At a Fox News candidate to pore over thick policy books. Indeed, he schools. He talks about student loan debt and the town hall taping last week, in the face of pressing has mocked Clinton on the subject. “She’s got people increasing costs of higher education, but has yet to questions, the GOP nominee proceeded to poll the that sit in cubicles writing policy all day. Nothing’s propose solutions. He has teased plans to make child- audience at length on the fate of an estimated 11 ever going to happen. It’s just a waste of paper,” he care more affordable, but has missed his own dead- million people. told Time Magazine in June. “My voters don’t care line for unveiling them.Trump’s supporters say ques- It was a stunning display of indecision from a can- and the public doesn’t care. They know you’re going tions about his recent waffling on the deportation didate who has asked voters to put enormous faith to do a good job once you’re there.” To date, Trump’s question are overblown. His running mate, Mike in his gut instincts. Trump is now planning a major campaign has posted just seven policy proposals on Pence, describes him as “a CEO at work” as he consults speech today, during which he’s expected to finally his website, totaling just over 9,000 words. with various stakeholders. “You see someone who is clarify his stance. Supporters are hoping for a strong, There are 38 on Clinton’s “issues” page, ranging engaging the American people, listening to the decisive showing. But the episode underscores how from efforts to cure Alzheimer’s disease to Wall Street American people,” Pence told CNN on Sunday. “He is little time his campaign has invested in outlining and criminal justice reform, and her campaign boasts hearing from all sides.” But Chen, the Republican poli- how he would accomplish his goals as president, that it has now released 65 policy fact sheets, total- cy adviser, said a President Trump arriving at the especially when compared with the detailed plans of ing 112,735 words. “I’ve laid out the best I could, the White House without detailed plans could be limited his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. specific plans and ideas that I want to pursue as your in how much he might achieve, since a new presi- And for critics, many already disposed to vote president because I have this old-fashioned idea,” dent’s power is at its apex early on. “If you’re not able NEW YORK: A family walks by a store in the ethnically diverse neighborhood of against him, his wavering on what has been his sig- Clinton said during a recent speech in Colorado. to hit the ground running, chances are you’re going Queens in New York City. Queens County is one of the five most diverse counties in nature issue seems like a warning that he’s unable to “When you run for president, you ought to tell peo- to run into serious resistance if you sit there studying the United States with a large Latino and Asian population among other groups. handle a central element of any president’s job - ple what you want to do as their president.” something for the first 100 days,” he said. — AP Immigration has once again become a topic dividing the candidates in the upcoming US presidential election. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016

Ghost of Austria’s last monarch still looms large News In brief VIENNA: Even a century after his death, last monarch of the old school”-has left a tion attempt, and unified Austria and death of his daughter Sophie, the murder Austria’s mutton-chop whiskered emperor lasting imprint on Vienna. The capital is Hungary in 1867. Franz Joseph also tore of Sisi, the suicide of his son Rudolf, and Franz Joseph still looms large in the strewn with the vestiges of his reign, from down Vienna’s claustrophobic fortification the execution of his brother. In light of so 130 men and boys still national consciousness-both as the custo- a solemn statue in the gardens of the walls, paving the way for the splendid much grief, Franz Joseph grew from a missing in Cameroon dian of imperial glory and the tragic figure Hofburg palace-now home to the presi- Ringstrasse boulevard which transformed charming young man to an increasingly DAKAR: One hundred thirty men and boys remain missing responsible for its decline. For 68 years, dential offices-to the initials “FJ” engraved the city into a glittering chocolate box isolated and taciturn leader over the years. in Cameroon nearly two years after a government crack- the head of the powerful Habsburg on many public buildings constructed metropolis. At the start of the 20th centu- The biggest blow, however, came at the down on suspected members of the Nigeria-based Boko dynasty reigned over a multi-ethnic realm under his orders. He still towers over daily ry, Vienna rivaled Paris, London and Berlin end of his life. It is one of history’s great Haram extremists, Amnesty International said yesterday, with more than 50 million people, making politics in the shape of a marble relief as a hub of cultural refinement. ironies that Franz Joseph himself would calling on the government to provide answers. Authorities him one of the world’s longest-serving showing him as a roman emperor above The emergence of photography and sound the death knell for his beloved on Dec 27, 2014 arrested more than 200 people in leaders. the main entrance of the parliament. moving images turned Franz Joseph-a empire when he declared war on Serbia in Magdeme and Double villages in Cameroon’s Far North To commemorate the centenary of his Alongside his beautiful wife Elisabeth, very private person-into a reluctant media July 1914 after the assassinations of the region, Amnesty said. The arrests were part of a push by death in November, the City of Vienna is affectionately known as “Sisi”, the strap- star. “Franz Joseph is the first monarch imperial heir presumptive Franz Ferdinand the government to combat Boko Haram. They came within currently showcasing six exhibitions at ping emperor also appears on postcards, whose voice and face are known beyond and his wife. days of Cameroon’s first airstrikes against the Islamic landmark locations, including the world- fridge magnets and countless other oil paintings,” noted Vocelka, in reference The move would not only trigger World extremists to dislodge about 1,000 fighters who had seized famous Schoenbrunn Palace where Franz tourist trinkets. to the huge trove of pictures available to War I but also lead to the collapse of both a military base and attacked several villages along the bor- Joseph was born in 1830. The aim is to the public today. But the conservative the monarchy and the empire. It prompt- der with Nigeria, according to reports at the time. More shed light on the personality cult sur- Reluctant media star ruler was not comfortable with the new ed modern commentators to call him a than 25 of the arrested men died in custody and 45 were rounding the emperor, whose image used In the course of his lifetime, the emper- technologies, preferring to seek the peace “moderately talented” and even “power- transferred to a prison the next day, with three more dying to feature on every school, train station or witnessed no less than 150 internation- and quiet of his summer retreat in Bad less” leader who was defied by the extraor- due to dire conditions, Amnesty said. Nine civilians were and army barracks. “For Austrians, he’s a al rulers come and go. When he was Ischl. Here too, his legend lives on. Every dinary challenges of his time. “Towards the killed, and 70 homes destroyed in the operations in the depoliticized figure which doesn’t elicit a crowned in 1848 aged barely 18, the era August, the spa town in Upper Austria re- end of his life Franz Joseph became a relic two villages by the military, it said. longing for the monarchy but rather culti- belonged to horse carriages and ballroom enacts the imperial visits with a faux royal of a time long past, increasingly isolated vates a nostalgia of the ‘good old days’, dances. By the time he died on November couple arriving by steam train amid much from the developments taking place in kept alive by skilful marketing,” said one of 21, 1916, “there were planes, the cinema, pomp and military fanfare. contemporary society,” observed historian Venezuela to expel 3 the exhibitions’ curators, historian Karl the telephone”, wrote current affairs mag- Martin Mutschlechner, another curator of Al Jazeera journalists Vocelka who recently published a biogra- azine Profil in a recent special edition. A Charming to taciturn the current exhibitions. “With his rigid tra- CARACAS: Venezuela is set to expel a crew of Al phy of Franz Joseph. pragmatic leader with a penchant for mili- The myth surrounding Franz Joseph ditionalism, (he) thus contributed to the Jazeera journalists who were intending to cover an To this day, the stern-looking patriarch- tary uniforms, Franz Joseph crushed was further fuelled by the tragedies over- decline of the monarchy against his own opposition march against President Nicolas Maduro, who proudly referred to himself as “the nationalist revolts, survived an assassina- shadowing his personal life: the early best intentions.”— AFP the country’s union of journalists said. With Venezuela in the throes of severe economic and political crises, the opposition has called for a march on Caracas tomorrow to press its constitutionally sanctioned demand for a referendum to remove Maduro. The Fight for Syria’s Aleppo exposes authorities detained three employees of the Qatar- based channel when they arrived Monday at Maiquetia international airport outside Caracas, the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) said on Twitter. the limits of Russian air power “Teresa Bo, correspondent, Lagmi Chavez, producer, and a cameraman (from) @AlJazeera were detained in Maiquetia,” the SNTP tweeted, saying their equipment Use of base stirs political row in Iran was confiscated. The cameraman was named in local media reports as Mariano Rosendi. The journalists trav- elled from Argentina but are to be deported to MOSCOW: Russia’s politically-sensitive humanitarian disaster because of a short- Colombia, the SNTP added. Media rights groups fre- and ultimately fruitless decision to launch age of supplies. quently criticize Venezuela for violating the freedom of bombing missions on Syria from Iranian The Iranian base was a crucial logistical the press. soil has exposed the limits to its air power, cog in this escalation in Aleppo because leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy without it, Russia’s Tupolev jets have to fly to advance its aims. People familiar with the greater distance to Syria from Russia, More Bangladeshi workers Russia’s military said Moscow opted for and back. That means carrying more fuel, jailed for ‘terror financing’ the sorties from Iran - and Tehran agreed which reduces the bomb payload they can SINGAPORE: Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers to allow them - because they were strug- carry, and also - because of the longer accused of planning to join the Islamic State group were gling to achieve their aim of crushing flight time - cuts into the number of sor- jailed yesterday in Singapore for raising money to fund rebels in the city of Aleppo. ties they can fly. Air bases inside govern- attacks in their homeland. Zzaman Daulat, 34, and Mamun The gamble failed and rebels fighting ment-controlled parts of Syria were not Leakot Ali, 29, were jailed for two years and two and a half suitable for the Tupolev aircraft, and their ally, Syrian President Bashar Al- years, respectively, after admitting terrorist financing adapting them would be expensive, Aasad, remain ensconced in parts of charges in a district court. Court documents said the men according to Kashin. The person close to Aleppo. Russia began air strikes on Syria in contributed between Sg$200 ($146) and Sg$500 to help the defense ministry said of the logistical support of Assad on Sept 30 last year, fund a terror campaign in Bangladesh, and plotted to over- challenges facing Russia’s air operation: launched from bases in government-held throw the government there to set up a caliphate. They “We don’t have all that many planes.” territory and from warships. Then this were the second set of Bangladeshi workers to be jailed month, facing logistical problems in under a Singaporean law against terrorist financing. In July Peace overtures mounting an expensive campaign at a four Bangladeshi workers were jailed for between two and During the intensified bombing, the time of tight state finances, it intensified AL KHALFATLI: Syrian families, fleeing the Islamic State group and the ongoing five years for the same offence. The six were among a sec- rebel forces in Aleppo even counter- the bombing of Aleppo in what turned fighting, carry their belongings as they arrive to take refuge in the Syrian village of ond group of Bangladeshis rounded up in Singapore after attacked in the middle of this month, out to be a brief series of raids from Iran. Al-Khalfatli, held by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), near the Syrian-Turkish border, 27 were arrested in late 2015, also over alleged plots in breaking the siege and restoring access to The strikes on the Aleppo rebels seem to north of Aleppo. — AFP their homeland. All from the first group have since been supply routes. According to defense have achieved little beyond stirring a deported. political row in Iran, whose constitution sensitive for Iran: the last time a foreign Aleppo escalation experts, Russia does have the military forbids the establishment of any kind of power had used an Iranian air base was in Russia’s desire to use the base was capacity to intensify its bombing in Syria further, whether or not it has access to the foreign military base. World War Two. Some Iranian lawmakers “linked to the increase in intensity of mili- Yemen Al-Qaeda suspect The fact that Russia went to such called it a breach of the constitution while tary activity in the Aleppo area”, said Vasily Iranian base. But that would mean more expense for Russia, which is struggling to killed in US drone strike lengths to achieve its aims in Aleppo and Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said Kashin, an analyst with the Center for fill gaps in its budget, faces a parliamen- ADEN: A presumed US drone strike in southern Yemen still failed could strengthen the hand of that, by publicly revealing the arrange- Analysis and Technologies in Moscow, tary election next month, and has seen killed an Al-Qaeda suspect and wounded two more those in Moscow who believe the opera- ment, Moscow had committed a “betrayal which advises Russia’s defense sector. “It the Syrian operation drag on far past the yesterday, a security official said. The strike hit a vehicle tion in Syria has reached a watershed, and of trust”. seemed that, in the opinion of the Syrian, Kremlin’s original timetable. In May, carrying the three jihadists in the eastern suburbs of that it is time to seek a negotiated solution. By Aug 22, Iran’s foreign ministry Russian and Iranian commands, a water- President Vladimir Putin announced that Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, the source said. “I get the feeling we’re like a horse at the announced that Russia’s use of the base shed moment is coming.” That chimed in “the main part” of Russian armed forces in The United States has carried out numerous drone circus, running around in a circle since had ended. In Moscow, the defense min- with other evidence that Russia and its Syria would start to withdraw, saying that strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula oper- Sept. 30 when we first deployed our aircraft istry said aircraft operating from the bases allies were ramping up their efforts to take their work had “on the whole, been ful- atives in Yemen. American officials said this month that there,” said a person close to the Russian had completed their tasks. control of Aleppo over the last two filled”. But still the bombing went on. the US military had killed three AQAP fighters in a defense ministry who spoke on condition A spokesmen for Russia’s defense min- months. The leader of Lebanon’s The difficulty of making progress mili- strike, also in Shabwa. On Wednesday, drone strikes of anonymity. “Our forces are insufficient, istry and spokeswoman for the foreign Hezbollah, which is allied to Iran, said on killed seven Al-Qaeda suspects in south and east ministry did not respond to Reuters ques- June 24 that the movement would send tarily will make a negotiated solution our coordination with the Iranians is not at more attractive to the Kremlin. Russia Yemen. AQAP and the Islamic State group have tions about its objectives in Aleppo and more fighters to the Aleppo area. The bat- the required level. We need to change agreed on Thursday to a 48-hour humani- exploited a power vacuum created by the conflict its use of the Iranian base. But Andrei tle for the city was of strategic importance, something. What, I don’t know.” tarian ceasefire in Aleppo to allow aid between the government and Iran-backed rebels to Klimov, a pro-Kremlin member of the for- he said. deliveries to get through, UN officials said. expand their presence in the Arabian Peninsula coun- eign affairs committee in the upper Since then, residents and opposition Iranian sensitivities Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US try. The US has vowed to continue its campaign house of Russia’s parliament, said the activists have reported an increase in the Russia’s defense ministry announced Secretary of State John Kerry met in against AQAP, which it considers to be the Al-Qaeda cost of the Syrian operation may have intensity of raids on Aleppo, including the on Aug. 16 that it had for the first time Geneva on Friday to talk about a possible network’s deadliest franchise. A Saudi-led Arab military been a factor. “We are trying to conduct high-altitude operations which distinguish used an air base in Iran from which to truce in Syria. Huge differences though coalition that backs the Yemeni government has also the operation in Syria within certain Russian bombing from that by low-flying launch air attacks on Syria. On subsequent remain between Moscow and its allies on turned its sights on AQAP, targeting it with air strikes. sums,” he told Reuters. “The defense min- Syrian aircraft. That was matched on the days, long-range Russian Tupolev 22M3 one hand, and the United States and its bombers, escorted by Sukhoi fighters, istry has other expenditures. Therefore to ground by an offensive from Syrian gov- allies on the other, not least over the took off on sorties from the Nojeh air base, optimize costs, more economical routes ernment forces which left rebel-held areas future of Assad. Previous openings for Kosovo police arrest six near the Iranian city of Hamadan. Letting are sought. Any sensible country does besieged. Aid organizations reported a peace talks have dissolved into renewed in connection with blast Russia base aircraft there was politically the same thing.” jump in civilian casualties and warned of a fighting. — Reuters PRISTINA: Kosovo police arrested six people yesterday in connection with a grenade fired at the parliament building earlier this month that was claimed by a hardline national- ist group. The suspects are all members of the biggest Greece launches private TV tender amid controversy opposition party, Vetevendosje, whose lawmakers have released teargas in parliament several times over the past ATHENS: Greece yesterday launched a multi-million euro licences, with opening bids starting at three million euros from TV managers. Authorities say they want to clean up year while its supporters clashed with police outside. They auction for four private TV licences, a process originally due ($3.4 million). Their representatives will be locked up in an an industry known for workforce exploitation and rumored oppose an EU-brokered accord with Serbia giving more two decades ago and now marked by political infighting. office building with no outside communication until the under-the-table deals between media moguls, bankers autonomy to Serb-held areas of Kosovo and a border deal Eight groups are vying for the four 10-year nationwide process is complete, a move prompting angry protests and influential politicians, while bringing an end to 25 with Montenegro, both of which are essential for building years of chaotic licensing. closer ties with the European Union. While making the Government officials have noted that ever since private TV arrests, police recovered three automatic rifles, two pistols broadcasts began in Greece, channels have been allowed and a rifle with a telescopic sight, police and prosecutors to operate on provisional licenses renewed 15 times since said in a joint statement. The attack on parliament hap- 1995. And a contract for Greece’s digital TV provider was pened on Aug. 4, when two motorcyclists fired a rocket- concluded two years ago with just one contestant, they propelled grenade as they drove past. The building was note. But critics say the overhaul is merely a ploy by Prime damaged but no one was hurt. Minister Alexis Tsipras to replace established TV barons- who have opposed his leftist Syriza party in the past-with others more to his liking.

Mattress in tow Six of the eight groups participating in the auction have raised objections about the process. The first private chan- nel to hit the air in 1989, Mega, has already been eliminat- ed from the tender over outstanding debts. The first-ever tender is held under unprecedented security inside the state ministry of information in Athens. The six-floor build- ing was emptied of staff last week and bunk beds moved in for what looks to be a two-day process. Rival TV represen- tatives were shown arriving early Tuesday with luggage. One had a mattress in tow. They are to be kept in complete isolation, and under closed-circuit TV surveillance, to prevent arranged bids. They are not to leave the building or communicate with the outside world until the process is concluded. One TV manager called the conditions “humiliating” while another said stations were being “held to ransom”. Skai TV has sar- castically likened the procedure to reality TV show “Survivor”. Others have called it “Big Brother with TV chiefs”. Greece’s top administrative court on Friday turned down a ATHENS: A man walks past video screens displaying TV channels in Athens yesterday. Greece launched a multi- request by several of the channels to block the process. The Police officers seize fire arms and bullets during a raid million euro auction for four private TV licenses - a process originally due two decades ago and now marked by government has said stations that continue broadcast were Kosovo police detained six people over their political infighting. Eight groups are vying for the four 10-year nationwide licenses, with opening bids starting at nationwide without a license will be blocked three months involvement in an attack at the parliament building three million euros ($3.4 million). — AFP after the auction is concluded. — AFP earlier this month. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Bangladesh upholds Islamist tycoon’s death sentence

DHAKA: A wealthy tycoon who was a chief Yesterday’s decision is considered a wide strike for Wednesday, calling the financier for Bangladesh’s largest Islamist major blow for the Jamaat-e-Islami party, charges against Ali “false” and “baseless” and party could be executed in days after losing which the 63-year-old Ali had helped revive accusing the government of exacting “politi- his final appeal yesterday against a death by setting up charities, businesses and trusts cal vengeance”. sentence from a controversial war crimes tri- linked to it after it was allowed to operate in bunal. The Supreme Court rejected Mir the late 1970s. His son Mir Ahmed Bin TV station shut Quasem Ali’s last attempt to overturn the Quasem, who was part of his legal defense Before he was arrested in 2012 on 14 war death penalty handed down two years ago team, was allegedly abducted by security crimes charges, Ali headed the Diganta by the domestic tribunal for murders com- forces earlier in August, which critics say was Media Corporation, which owns a pro- mitted during Bangladesh’s 1971 independ- an attempt to sow fear and prevent protests Jamaat daily and a television station that ence conflict. “Now he has a chance to seek against the imminent execution. Security was shut down in 2013 for stoking religious presidential clemency. Or else the verdict was tight in Dhaka yesterday, even though tensions. Defense lawyers have said the could be executed anytime whenever the the party has in recent months eschewed charges against him were baseless. “Mir state wants,” Attorney General Mahbubey violent protests in reaction to war crimes Quasem Ali wasn’t directly involved in war Alam told reporters. verdicts and there was no immediate sign of crimes. False witnesses were provided to Five opposition leaders including four unrest. frame charges against him. The future gener- leading Islamists have already been executed The war crimes tribunal set up by the ation and law experts will scrutinize the ver- for war crimes since 2013. They were all government has divided the country, with dict whether it was justified,” Khandker hanged just days after their appeals were supporters of Jamaat and the main opposi- Mahbub Hossain said. rejected by the Supreme Court. Their families tion Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) The court ruling comes a day after a visit said they had refused to seek a presidential branding them a sham aimed at eliminating to Dhaka by US Secretary of State John Kerry pardon as they did not want to legitimize the their leaders. The executions and convictions who said the best way to combat extremism DHAKA: File photo shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir whole trials process. Ali, who became a ship- of Jamaat officials plunged Bangladesh into was “to live up to the core values of democ- Quasem Ali waving as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal ping and real estate tycoon, was convicted in one of its worst crises in 2013 when tens of racy”. Bangladesh has been hit by a series of court in Dhaka. A wealthy tycoon who was a chief financier for November 2014 of a series of crimes during thousands of Islamist activists clashed with deadly assaults by Islamist extremists in Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party could be executed in days after losing Bangladesh’s war of separation from police in protests that left some 500 people recent months, including an horrific attack his final appeal yesterday, against a death sentence from a controversial Pakistan, including the abduction and mur- dead. The Islamist party, which is banned on a Dhaka cafe in July in which 22 people, war crimes tribunal. — AFP der of a young independence fighter. from contesting elections, called a nation- mostly foreigners, were killed. — AFP

Nepal bans Indian police couple for faking Mount Everest climb

KATHMANDU: Nepal has imposed a 10- ment is considering revising the proce- year mountaineering ban on an Indian dure for certifying claims of an ascent. couple who faked photographs purport- The current system demands photos, ing to show them at the top of Mount reports from team leaders and govern- Everest, an official said yesterday. Dinesh ment liaison officers stationed at the and Tarakeshwari Rathod, both police base camp-but has been open to constables, said they reached the top of attempts at fakery. “We will consult the world’s highest mountain on May 23. experts to see what technologies or But fellow climbers cast doubt on their processes we can use and make every claim, saying their photos at the summit party more responsible to prevent such were doctored. Nepal’s tourism depart- false claims in the future,” Upadhayaya ment initially certified their claim but lat- said. Many of those who reach the top of er conducted an investigation. the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain “Our investigation shows that the have gone on to make money or forge couple faked their summit. We have careers as motivational speakers and imposed a 10-year ban against them authors. from climbing any mountain in Nepal,” A total of 456 people, including more tourism department chief Sudarshan than 250 foreigners, summited Everest Prasad Dhakal said of the decision made during the recently ended spring sea- on Monday. Dhakal said an analysis of son, after two consecutive years of dead- the photos submitted by the couple ly disasters that led to almost all showed they had superimposed them- attempts being abandoned. selves and their banners onto photos Mountaineering is a major revenue- taken by another Indian climber of his earner for the impoverished Himalayan Everest summit. “Despite several nation. This year’s string of successful attempts to get clarifications from them, summits is expected to boost the indus- NEW DELHI: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State John Kerry arrive prior to a meeting in ewN Delhi yes- they did not cooperate with us during try, which was left reeling after an earth- terday. — AFP the investigation. The two Sherpas that quake last year killed almost 9,000 peo- assisted them are also absconding,” ple nationwide. Hundreds fled Everest Dhakal said. “The ban should serve as a last year after an earthquake-triggered Kerry presses for closer warning for mountaineers to follow avalanche at base camp killed 18 people. ethics,” he said. Only one climber reached the top in Tourism ministry spokesman 2014 after an avalanche killed 16 Nepali Ghanshyam Upadhyaya said the govern- guides that year. — AFP India trade, security ties US, India try to counter China’s rising influence

NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State John Kerry giant Westinghouse has been held up in the past by ness. Carter said the agreement would make joint pressed yesterday for more cooperation with India concerns over an Indian law that would make US operations between their militaries logistically easier on security and trade as the world’s two biggest companies liable for accidents at plants they helped and more efficient. democracies try to strengthen ties, in part to count- build. Swaraj said she wanted to see closer military Washington has increasingly turned its focus to er China’s rising influence. Kerry also said he was cooperation so that India could build more sophisti- Asia as it tries to counter China’s growing assertive- hopeful of moving ahead on a deal to provide cated hardware at home. ness in the South China Sea, and is eager for India nuclear energy assistance to India, as the nations India, the world’s biggest arms importer, wants to play a greater role in its network of regional seek to meet an ambitious goal of boosting annual access to US technology so it can develop better defense alliances. Regional superpower China is trade fivefold to around $500 billion. weapons-a key part of Modi’s campaign to boost expanding its deep-water naval presence and stak- “I’m very, very confident that we will continue to domestic manufacturing. India has historically relied ing a claim to disputed areas of the South China strengthen what President Obama has called the heavily on Russia for arms imports, but has now Sea and the East China Sea. Both Carter and defining partnership of the 21st century,” Kerry said turned to the US as it undergoes a lucrative and Parrikar stressed that the new agreement did not in New Delhi, adding that cooperation on trade and major modernization of its ageing military. “We want allow for US bases to be set up on Indian soil nor security has “room to be able to further grow”. He to take our expanding defense cooperation to the for troops to be stationed there. was speaking before chairing a “strategic and com- next stage of co-production and co-development,” US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, who is mercial dialogue” with his counterpart Sushma Swaraj said. taking part in the talks in Delhi, has said the idea of Swaraj, launched by the nations’ leaders in 2015. increasing two-way trade from $100 billion to $500 Kerry, who will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi Defense pact billion was ambitious. Modi, who enjoys close ties yesterday during the two-day visit, said he wanted The talks come one day after the two sides with US President Barack Obama, pledged to over- progress on an agreement about construction of signed an agreement in Washington that allows haul India’s economy after winning landslide elec- nuclear reactors. access to each other’s military bases for repairs and tions in 2014, to attract much-needed foreign invest- Indian climber, Satyarup Sidhantha holds on his right hand a photograph that “We also hope to see our civil nuclear coopera- resupplies. US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and ment and boost growth. Kerry arrived late Monday shows him on Mount Everest, along with what he says is an altered version of tion take shape in the form of new reactors that will his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar sealed the from Bangladesh where he said there was evidence the same used by an Indian couple to make it appear they were on the summit, deliver reliable electricity to tens of millions of pact in efforts to strengthen defense ties to counter to link the extremists behind a recent series of dead- as he displays them for the Associated Press in Kolkata, India. — AP Indian households,” Kerry said. The deal involving US concerns over China’s growing military assertive- ly attacks there to the Islamic State group. — AFP

As disaster losses mount, Sri Lanka Taleban appoint new military develops tool, system to track them

ARANAYAKE: Sri Lanka is planning to coordinating relief. chief as new leader settles in begin testing its first web-based disas- “There is no uniform system to report ter damage and loss reporting system the damages or calculate losses, which is ISLAMABAD: The Taleban have appointed a new mil- has been no progress in talks since Taleban leader increase in their fighting in the provinces,” Akbari said. by the end of the year, authorities say. hampering disaster planning measures,” itary chief as the insurgents try to gain ground rather Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone strike Since Mansour’s death, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has The Disaster Management Center (DMC) Samansiri said. A clear example came than talk peace under a new leadership, Taleban offi- in May in Pakistan. Mansour was succeeded by launched a stepped-up campaign to verify the identi- is developing the program and training during heavy floods in May. The Disaster cials said in telephone interviews over the weekend. Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the notorious ty of roughly 1.5 million Afghans living in Pakistan, public officials on its use, said Srimal Management Center said that 691 hous- They said that the appointment of Mullah Ibrahim Haqqani network gained a prominent role in the many possessing Pakistani identity cards, some legal- Samansiri, the DMC assistant director. es had been destroyed while 4,888 had Sadar, once a close ally of Taleban founder Mullah leadership structure. ly obtained and others illegally acquired. Mansour The program will enlist at least one gov- been damaged between May 15 and Mohammed Omar, heralds a commitment to con- “I can’t see any green light toward peace by the was carrying a Pakistani passport and identity card ernment official from each district - or a May 22. However, Finance Minister Ravi frontation at a time when multiple governments are Taleban for Afghanistan and instead we have seen an under an alias. — AP representative of a non-governmental Karunanayake said the government trying to coax the Taleban to the negotiating table. organizations in some cases - who is expected housing damages to be high- Sadar is a battle-hardened commander, who gained linked to disaster management and er. He said around 128,000 likely were prominence among Taleban foot soldiers following who will be tasked with uploading damaged and at least a sixth of those the movement’s overthrow in 2001. The two officials information. would need complete rebuilding. both spoke on condition of anonymity because they The data then will be fed to a nation- There have also been discrepancies were not authorized to speak publicly for the Taleban. al data base maintained by the Treasury in the number of fatalities and people Sadar’s appointment coincides with an uptick in at the Finance Ministry. “For example, if missing reported by the DMC and the Taleban attacks against Afghan security forces. The it is the road sector, we would have the Sri Lanka Red Cross. The DMC data United States has sent additional troops to district engineer who would upload shows 89 deaths and 102 missing from Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, where its data on affected or closed roads, dam- May’s disaster, while the Red Cross says capital, Lashkar Gah, is under pressure. The provincial ages and closures,” Samansiri said. The the missing could be above 200, citing council head Kareem Atal earlier said roughly 80 per- DMC official said that the request for available population records. “The cent of Helmand is already under Taleban control. So such a program had come from the problem arises because untrained per- far this month, Taleban fighters have attacked Afghan Treasury in mid-2015. “They were very sonnel are collecting data for various security forces in northern Kunduz province, briefly keen to get precise up-to-date informa- departments. There is no uniformity in taking control of a district headquarters. The militants tion so that they could plan relief the collection or in the reporting,” said also overran a district in northern Baghlan province efforts,” he said. Right now, information Jagath Mahedra, the DMC head for and in eastern Paktia province. about losses and damage from prob- Kegalle District, one of those worst Meanwhile, in eastern Nangarhar province, lems such as flooding, landslides and affected by the floods. He said a uni- Taleban militants are fighting pitched battles with drought is collected in a less-coordinat- form reporting tool would minimize security forces. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense says ed way. Administrative officials in affect- errors in data collection. The new its security forces are waging operations in 15 ed districts collect data and send it to reporting tool is being funded as part provinces. Mohammad Akbari a member of their district offices, which then send it of a $110 million World Bank Climate Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, which is tasked HERAT: Taleban fighters react to a speech by a senior leader of a breakaway faction of the Taleban, to the DMC or other government bodies Resilience Program. — Reuters with talking peace with insurgent groups, said there Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, in the Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. — AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 Denied work, Rohingya trapped in limbo in Malaysia Fleeing persecution at home, thousands of Rohingya land in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: The first time he tried to ment considers them to be illegal these people first and then decide on the gather experts and officials to discuss paying for medical treatment or even just escape a tough existence in his village in migrants. Now there is a glimmer of hope short-, medium- and long-term solution ways to absorb refugees in Southeast Asia finding a place to rent. In an open-air mar- western Myanmar in 2004, Junaid Zafar for the many Rohingya and other refugees for them including job and education into the legal workforce. ket in Ampang, where refugees gather in was thrown in jail for five years. Like many living in Malaysia, as authorities make a opportunities,” he said. While the refugees the evening, another Rohingya other Rohingya Muslims, Zafar was seek- renewed effort to try to improve their are recognized by the UN’s refugee agency ‘It’s not easy’ Muhammad Ayub has been working as a ing to flee poverty and persecution in access to work. UNHCR, Malaysia does not extend protec- For Zafar, he said even when he man- tailor since arriving in Malaysia four years Buddhist-majority Myanmar and he did tion, job opportunities or education to aged to find a job, usually as a waiter in ago. He worked from home in the begin- not wait long after being released from jail Dirty, difficult, dangerous them, as it is not party to the refugee con- restaurants, his wage is only half of what ning but was later given a job at a shop by to try again. This time, his parents sold off The government has in the past said it vention. Barred from working officially, other migrant workers get, and that he a sympathetic employer. “I am grateful I possessions to raise about $1,000 to pay would consider allowing refugees to work many refugees end up finding odd jobs as can be dismissed at any time. “Sometimes can find work and send money home. people smugglers to take him to Malaysia. but details and implementation had been cleaners, or working in restaurants or on I have a job, sometimes I don’t. Although when the local authorities come Zafar, the eldest of three siblings, finally sketchy. Some officials feared a relaxation construction sites. The country relies heav- You never know, it’s not easy,” he told for their routine check, we have to pull made it in 2011. But like thousands of oth- of the policy would lead to an influx of ily on foreign laborers for jobs shunned by Thomson Reuters Foundation at a down the shutter straight away and run,” er Rohingya in Malaysia, he now finds him- migrant workers. But this month the cre- Malaysians in what is known as the “3D” - Rohingya community centre in Ampang, a Ayub said. self living in a precarious limbo, having to ation of a government-led task force was dirty, difficult and dangerous - industries. neighborhood that is home to many Zafar said he could not face going work illegally due to official restrictions, announced to handle refugee registration But the lack of a formal status often refugees and a short drive from down- home, but looked forward to the day he and with resettlement to another country issues. Malaysian Deputy Home Minister leaves refugees vulnerable to exploitation, town Kuala Lumpur. At the restaurant, he could resettle in another country, and where he could lead a more stable life a Nur Jazlan Mohamed told the Thomson said lawyer Andrew Khoo, a co-chairper- is paid about 30 Malaysian ringgit ($7.50) bring his parents and siblings there. “I distant dream. Reuters Foundation that the task force son of the human rights committee at the for a 12 hour-shift. want to go back to my village but our situ- “I have been here for five years, some would also look into the possibility of Malaysian Bar, the country’s main legal On a few occasions, the restaurant ation hasn’t improved,” he said of the new other refugees have been here for 10 opening up the job market for refugees professional body. owners refused to pay him, but he had no Myanmar government led by Nobel peace years. I feel like I am wasting my life,” the and allowing refugee children formal edu- “As long as the government doesn’t legal recourse and had to look for new laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s party. For the tall, slender man, now 31, said. Zafar - like cation. “(The task force) will look into recognize their status, let alone the ability jobs, he said. Without a formal status, oth- time being, Zafar said he was hoping to some 150,000 refugees and asylum-seek- issues of refugees in Malaysia, which to access work legally, they are susceptible er refugees Thomson Reuters Foundation get a stable job in Malaysia, and perhaps ers in Malaysia, mainly from Myanmar - include the Rohingya, in a more compre- to abuse, exploitation and mistreatment,” spoke to also described harassment from one day, he said with a shy grin, he would does not have formal status in the country hensive manner,” he said in a telephone Khoo said. A conference in Bangkok this law enforcement officials, who demand be able to bring his childhood sweetheart as Malaysia is not a signatory to the United interview. week as part of the so-called Bali process bribes or threaten arrests. from his village to a better country and Nations Refugee Convention. The govern- “It will decide on the recognition of on people smuggling and trafficking, will Other challenges they face include marry her. — Reuters Typhoon Lionrock slams into Japan’s northeast

TOKYO: A strong typhoon slammed into using heavy machinery to pile huge sand- northeastern Japan yesterday, dumping bags along the coast in a bid to hold back heavy rain and generating high waves that raging waves, as they opened up some caused flooding along the Pacific coast. public buildings for use as shelters. Schools Typhoon Lionrock made landfall near the were closed across the affected area, city of Ofunato shortly before 6 pm, the broadcasters reported. Japan Meteorological Agency said, after At the crippled Fukushima Daiichi moving up Japan’s Pacific Ocean coastline. nuclear plant, efforts were made to secure Packing wind gusts up to 162 kilometers construction cranes and equipment from per hour, the storm was moving northwest violent winds, operator Tokyo Electric at 50 kilometers per hour, it said. Power Co said. Some sensitive decommis- It is the first typhoon to directly land in sioning work was suspended, they added. the region from the Pacific Ocean since the The typhoon was affecting manufacturing country’s present weather observation sys- and travel, with Toyota suspending produc- tem was introduced in 1951, the agency tion at two of its plants in the region, the said. Typhoons usually approach Japan company said, though added they were from the south and southwest before mov- expected to restart today. Some 120 ing northward across the archipelago. domestic flights have also been cancelled, While there were no official reports of casu- public broadcaster NHK said. In the north- alties, local media reported some minor ern part of the country, some Shinkansen injuries, such as a fall by a 40-year-old super fast bullet trains were suspended. woman in strong winds. Lionrock comes on the heels of two oth- Authorities warned of landslides and ers that hit Japan in the past nine days, high water due to expected heavy rain of resulting in two deaths, the cancellation of up to eight centimeters per hour. Landfall, hundreds of domestic flights and disrup- which came at high tide, brought flooding tions to train services. Formed more than along the coast. 10 days ago, it has become the longest- Television footage showed local resi- lasting typhoon of those that have devel- MANILA: Philippine Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) work at the scene where two suspects were shot dead following an encounter and dents struggling to walk amid water above oped north of the 30th parallel north, shootout with police at a checkpoint along a highway in Manila. More than 2,000 people have died violent deaths since Duterte took office two their knees in the city of Miyako, where breaking a 46-year-old record, according to months ago and immediately implemented his scorched-earth plans to eradicate drugs in society, ordering police to shoot dead traffickers and some cars were half-submerged and some the private Weathernews agency. The pre- urging ordinary citizens to kill addicts. — AFP 600 people were advised to evacuate. vious record-holding typhoon in that cate- Miyako was one of the northeastern coast- gory was in 1970, which survived for nine line cities hit in March 2011 by a deadly days and six hours, Weathernews said on its tsunami generated by a massive magni- website. Lionrock was expected to cut ‘Alleged drug lord’ shot tude 9.0 offshore earthquake, which also across Japan’s main island of Honshu and triggered meltdown at the Fukushima head out to sea towards Russia and China, Daiichi nuclear plant. Local authorities were according to the weather agency. — AFP dead by Philippine police Businessman and wife killed, fuelling concerns

MANILA: A Philippine businessman and his wife drug trade. “The most probable motive is that that his security forces are not carrying out were shot dead after the police chief branded the mastermind wanted to silence the couple. extrajudicial killings. Police have reported killing him a drug lord, authorities said yesterday, Perhaps the mastermind was afraid the victims more than 700 people they accused of being fuelling concerns about extrajudicial killings in would implicate them,” Gentiles said. Odicta had involved in drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte’s crime war. More expressed fears for his life after local authorities But police and Duterte say they have only than 2,000 people have been killed since alleged he was the top drug lord in the central killed in self-defense. Dela Rosa said last week Duterte was sworn into office two months ago province of Iloilo, according to his lawyer. there were another 1,190 killings under investi- and immediately launched a law-and-order Odicta had said he was innocent but national gation, but they were likely due to drug gangs crackdown, with the United States, the United police chief Ronald dela Rosa insisted last week murdering people who could implicate each Nations and rights groups voicing alarm at the he was the drug lord. “Who is he fooling? You other. Critics of the crime war say security forces bloodshed. know he is the drug lord but he is still denying and hired assassins are carrying out mass mur- On Monday, Melvin Odicta, a businessman it? Tell it to the Marines,” dela Rosa told reporters der, with people not involved in drugs also accused of being a drug trafficker known as on Friday in Iloilo. being killed amid a dire breakdown in the rule of “Dragon”, and his wife were shot dead at Aklan Duterte has repeatedly said that drug traffick- law. Duterte has railed against his critics, accus- port in the central Philippines after getting off a ers deserve to die and urged security forces to ing them of siding with drug traffickers, and ferry, police reported. Regional police chief Jose kill them. During the election campaign he warned there will be no let up. “I consider the Gentiles said yesterday the lone gunman had yet promised that 100,000 people would die in his fight against drugs a war. There is a crisis in this to be identified, but was likely also linked to the war on crime. However he said in recent weeks country,” Duterte said on Monday. — AFP Philippine military ramps up Abu Sayyaf offensive MIYAGI: Waves crash against a coastal road in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan yesterday. — AP JOLO: The Philippine military deployed thou- stance when his overtures were rejected. “Go out millions of dollars from kidnappings-for-ransom. sands of extra troops yesterday to destroy an and destroy them. Kill whoever they are,” Duterte While its leaders have in recent years pledged Islamic extremist group notorious for kidnap- said last week, in reference to the Abu Sayyaf. allegiance to the Islamic State group, analysts Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to hold major ping foreigners, after 15 soldiers were killed, The Abu Sayyaf is a loose network of a militants say the group is mainly focused on a lucrative peace summit with ethnic rebels authorities said. President Rodrigo Duterte has formed in the 1990s with seed money from kidnapping business rather than religious ideol- ordered his security forces to wipe out the Abu Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network. It is based ogy. This year the militants beheaded two NAYPYITAW: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi port for the talks, observers say. As Sayyaf, which has declared allegiance to the in remote Muslim populated southern islands of Canadians after their demands for millions of is launching a major push to end decades of Myanmar’s economy opens up, China is Islamic State group and recently beheaded two the mainly Catholic Philippines, and has earned dollars in ransoms were rejected. — AFP fighting between rebels and the military, vying for influence with the United States. Canadian hostages. But an assault that began with many of the country’s myriad armed President Xi Jinping pledged his country last week on the heavily forested island of Jolo, groups gathering for a peace conference in would play a “constructive role” in the peace one of the Abu Sayyaf’s strongholds about 900 the capital Naypyitaw. Suu Kyi has made the process when Suu Kyi visited China this kilometers south of Manila, has met fierce resist- peace process a priority for her administra- month. Myanmar has been torn by fighting ance. Fifteen troops were killed and another 10 tion, which faces sky-high expectations at between the military, which seized power in were injured in a single encounter with the Abu home and abroad after sweeping to power the 1962 coup, and ethnic armed groups Sayyaf on Monday, regional military spokesman in an election last November to end more almost without a break since the end of the Major Filemon Tan said. than half a century of military-backed rule. Second World War, as rebels pushed for An additional 2,500 troops were yesterday Few concrete proposals are to emerge recognition of their rights and greater deployed to Jolo and nearby islands, according this week, with delegates expecting to meet autonomy from the central government. to presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella. “The every six months to tackle issues ranging The meeting, which begins on president is focused on making sure that the from security, political representation and Wednesday, has been billed as the “21st- threat from the Abu Sayyaf group should be ter- culture to sharing the fruits of the country’s Century Panglong Conference”, a reference minated as soon as possible,” Abella told mineral riches. to the agreement between the majority reporters in Manila. Tan said the extra troops But the fact that Nobel Peace Prize laure- Bamar and ethnic minorities in 1947 that would join two brigades already involved in the ate Suu Kyi has been able to bring the vast formed the Union of Burma. It was held by fighting. He declined to give specific numbers, majority of the rebels to the negotiating Suu Kyi’s father and Myanmar’s national but there are at least 1,000 soldiers in a brigade. table only five months after taking power is hero, General Aung San. “The ambition of Tan said the military would be able to achieve a sign of progress, experts say. 1947 Panglong Conference was to get inde- the goal set by Duterte, but conceded the rough Powerful armed groups from regions pendence. Today’s ambition is domestic terrain and possible assistance from local bordering China, who refused to sign a peace and unity of the whole country,” said Muslim residents were working to the Abu ceasefire last October under the previous 84-year-old veteran journalist Phoe Thauk Sayyaf’s advantage. military-backed government, are now set to Kyar, who was 14 at the time of the Duterte, who has been in office for two take part, partly owing to China’s tacit sup- Panglong Conference. — Reuters months, initially called on the Abu Sayyaf to lay MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte salutes during a wreath-laying ceremony at the down their arms but quickly adopted a tougher National Heroes’ Cemetery as part of commemorations for National Heroes’ Day in Manila. — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 School told to halt hair ‘racism’ Qatar, Turkey asserting ties Continued from Page 1 government figures. Politically, and for reasons of security, it JOHANNESBURG: A South African school was ordered yes- of conduct... must be reviewed and the clause dealing with has also proved crucial. terday to suspend allegedly racist hairstyle regulations hairstyles should be suspended in the meantime.” It also of Commerce, hosted an evening at a top Doha hotel com- Qatar and Turkey have backed opposition groups in the after black pupils said they had been called monkeys by accused the school of a heavy-handed response for calling plete with canapes, speeches and a presentation on the eco- Libyan civil war, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and also teachers for wearing banned ‘afros’. Local education in police and armed security guards to deal with protests. nomic ties between the two countries. supported rebels fighting Bashar Al-Assad’s Syrian regime. authorities in Gauteng province gave Pretoria High School Other allegations raised by students during Monday’s The affable ambassador has also been pictured meeting Their alliance provides a counterweight to other regional for Girls 21 days to re-assess its rules after protests by stu- talks included being banned from speaking ethnic lan- Qatari government officials. “We have a very strong relation- powers, particularly Saudi Arabia and Iran, and is viewed with dents triggered a public dispute over alleged racism. The guages on school premises and suffered discrimination from ship with Qatar,” Demirok told AFP. “We have no problem in “suspicion” by the United Arab Emirates, said Ulrichsen. And prestigious school in the capital Pretoria was historically white teachers and pupils. A white student allegedly told a our history with Qatar. There’s cultural and policy similarities Turkey has a military base in Qatar which houses up to 3,000 attended by whites only but it admitted black children fol- black student that she did not need a pencil as her finger and the people are very close and the relationship between troops or possibly more “depending on the needs”, said lowing the end of apartheid in 1994. was black enough, and white students allegedly complained our leaders is excellent.” The love-in has continued with Demirok. Some pupils said they were forced to chemically about taught “kaffir” music, using an insulting term for a Turkish First Deputy Prime Minister Omer Faruk Korkmaz giv- “In my view the Qatar-Turkey axis has some important com- straighten their hair and not wear afro hairstyles that black African. ing an interview to Qatar’s Arabic-language newspaper Al- mon ground,” said Christopher Davidson, an academic in were deemed untidy. After visiting the school on Monday Former pupil Mishka Wazar, 19, told AFP that controver- Sharq to further praise the emir. Middle East politics at Britain’s Durham University. “Both have for talks with senior staff and students, provincial educa- sies over racism at the school had been brewing for years. And on Aug 24, Doha and Ankara signed twinning agree- cultivated political Islam at home and abroad to press their tion minister Panyaza Lesufi said a probe into the allega- “During my time there were problems around similar issues, ments. That came one day after a Turkish company won a $2- agendas, both see each other as a useful partner in countering tions would be launched. “Learners feel that they are not but no one ever took it to the level these girls have done,” billion contract to build a 10-lane highway in northern Qatar, rival powers, whether in Riyadh or in Tehran.” And while the allowed to wear Black hairstyles, such as Afro. Specifically, said Wazar, who is now at university. “We would write letters and two days before ubiquitous Qatari broadcaster beIN military base is “symbolic”, it provides “a clear signal to the school policy limits the length of the hairstyle,” the and our complaints were largely ignored.” Wazar, who left Media announced it had purchased Turkey’s pay TV company Washington, Riyadh, and Tehran, that Ankara is well placed to ministry said in a statement. “Some educators tell them the school last year, said the rules must be adjusted to fit Digiturk. Moving into the Turkish market was “essential”, said take over the US role in the future if the need arises”, he added. they look like monkeys, or have nests on their heads.” changing demographics. She said she had witnessed black beIN chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi. Are there any fault lines? Possibly Turkey’s evolving stance At the weekend, defiant black students with afro hair- girls being pulled aside from school assembly and criticized In short, Qatar, has had a good coup. Relations post-July 15 in Syria which potentially is “something to keep an eye on”, styles and braids held a protest at the school against the for their hair. “The teacher would usually tell them to fix have built upon an alliance which has proved strong in recent said Davidson. Ulrichsen says the two countries will be long-standing regulations. Politicians quickly weighed in, their hair... make it smooth,” she said. “Most of these rules years. Both benefit from the economic alliance - trade increasingly focused on domestic issues in the near future. with the two largest opposition parties criticizing the gov- are really hard to adhere to if your hair is not of a certain between the two countries at the end of 2015 stood at $1.26 Demirok, though, is clear that the alliance is strong. “We are ernment-run school. The ministry statement said “the code texture.” — AFP billion, up from $769 million in 2013 - according to Turkish very good teammates,” he said. — AFP

Public transport, taxi fares revised... Under-construction tower in Abu Dhabi... Continued from Page 1 No. 8 Continued from Page 1 still in progress. Abu Dhabi has experienced a real estate Area: Jahra, Mutlaa, Doha Port, Entertainment City, boom in recent years, as has the neighboring emirate of Article 1 Jaber Al-Ahmad, Saad Al-Abdullah, Qairawan, Nahda, Ten of those injured were civil defense and other emer- Dubai where several fires have hit high-profile buildings. The tariff for taxis will be as follows: Mutlaa, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port, West Sulaibkhat gency personnel, according to a statement carried by In July, fire ripped through a 75-storey apartment block in Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 12; (5 passen- state news agency WAM. The WAM report quoted the Dubai Marina, with no casualties reported, but last New First: Private taxis gers) KD 18, (7 passengers) KD 22. Stretch limo - KD 27 head of Abu Dhabi’s civil defense department as saying Year’s Eve 16 people were injured in a huge blaze at the 1- Start of the service (when boarding the cab) will that investigations to determine the cause of the fire were luxury Address Downtown Hotel. -— Agencies be KD 0.500 No. 9 2- 150 fils per kilometer Area: Zour, Khairan, Marine Sabah Al-Ahmad 3- 50 fils per waiting minute. Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 17; (5 passen- In case of a breakdown during the service that caus- gers) KD 22, (7 passengers) KD 27. Stretch limo - KD 32 Turkey op in Syria fraught with risk es the car to stop, no waiting period will be calculated, Continued from Page 1 Relations (ECFR) wrote in a paper. “For the Kurds the entire conflict only the traveled distance. No. 10 has been about establishing a quasi-state of their own within Syria; Area: Abdaly, Salmy, Nuwaiseeb, Wafra, Subbiya But defending a buffer zone between Kurdish-controlled areas for Turkey it is now about preventing such an outcome.” Second: Airport taxi tariffs of both types (airport Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 21; (5 passen- on either side of the Euphrates could suck Turkey deeper into the Turkey’s foray has also raised questions about its stance in limousine/airport taxi) as per the following table: gers) KD 27, (7 passengers) KD 32. Stretch limo - KD 35 five-year conflict, said Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Syria’s core conflict, between Russian-backed Syrian President No. 1 Article 2 Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Bashar Al-Assad’s regime and the various rebel factions trying to Area: Sabhan, Magwa, Farwaniya, Jleeb, Rehab, Public transport tariffs will be as follows per passen- “Ultimately, Syria could yet turn into a territorial extension of the oust him. Turkey has been a fierce opponent of Assad but recently Ishbeliya, Ardiya, Rabiya, Rai, Omariya, Khaitan, Siddeeq, ger: protracted fighting between Turkey and the PKK going on since appeared to soften its stance. Both Russia and Damascus issued Salam, Hitteen, Shuhada, Zahra, Mubarak Abdullah Al- • Within the old walls: 150 fils 1984,” he warned. By Monday, Turkish forces and their rebel allies only muted protests when Turkish tanks rumbled into Syria, Jaber, Surra, Qurtuba, Yarmouk • From Kuwait City to residential areas within the lim- had advanced to within around 15 km of Manbij, a city west of the flanked by anti-Assad rebels. That could change if the offensive Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 5; (5 passen- its of Third Ring Road and vice versa: 200 fils Euphrates taken by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic spurs on rebels the Syrian regime in the battered city of Aleppo gers) KD 7, (7 passengers) KD 8. Stretch limo - KD 13. • From Kuwait City to residential and industrial areas Forces (SDF) from IS earlier this month. Turkey has demanded that and other flashpoints. “In the end, it is hard to imagine that the dif- within Fourth Ring Road or vice versa: 250 fils pro- Kurdish forces leave the mainly Arab town. ferent actors can simultaneously remain in alignment on the No. 2 • From Kuwait City to residential and industrial areas Aaron Stein of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Centre for the Kurdish question while maintaining a brutal fight elsewhere,” the Area: Khaldiya, Adailiya, Faiha, Kaifan, Shamiya, within Fifth Ring Road or vice versa: 300 fils Middle East said any further advances would leave the Turks ECFR said. Kuwait City, Residential Shuwaikh, Industrial Shuwaikh, • From Kuwait City to residential and remote areas exposed. On Saturday, Turkey lost a soldier whose tank was hit by a Back at home, the operation could also lead to an escalation in Riggae, Andalus, Granada, Sulaibkhat, Abdullah Al- within Sixth Ring Road and vice versa: 350 fils missile - its first casualty in the operation. The army said it had killed the fighting between the Turkish military and the PKK. The PKK Salem • From Kuwait City to Ahmadi and Fahaheel or vice 25 “terrorists” - claims disputed by a monitoring group which said have killed hundreds of Turkish security force members since a Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 6; (5 passen- versa: 600 fils. Turkish strikes had killed dozens of mostly civilians. “Everything truce fell apart last year while a PKK offshoot has claimed three sui- gers) KD 8, (7 passengers) KD 13. Stretch limo - KD 18 • From Kuwait City to Fintas or vice versa: 500 fils. they’ve done so far has been easy and they’ve already taken a loss,” cide bombings in Istanbul and Ankara. “If there is a more sustained • From Kuwait City to Jahra or vice versa: 600 fils Stein said, referring to Turkey. “If they want to fight through (to confrontation with the YPG that will certainly have a negative No. 3 • From Kuwait City to Abdaly, Salmy and Nuwaiseeb Manbij) they’ll take more casualties,” he said calling the M60 tanks impact... in relation to the ongoing struggle against the PKK,” Ulgen Area: Hawally, Nugra, Maidan Hawally, Shaab, or vice versa: KD 2.500 deployed by Turkey “museum pieces” that are vulnerable to road- said. Salmiya, Rawda, Qadsiya, Nuzha, Daiya, Bneid Al-Gar, side bombs. Meanwhile, the Islamic State group yesterday said its Mansouriya, Jabriya Article Two So far Turkey has kept the operation relatively small, deploying spokesman Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani was killed while monitor- Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 6; (5 passen- Article 1 of the ministerial decision 2029/2001 with only a few dozen tanks and a few hundred troops alongside a larg- ing military operations in the Syrian province of Aleppo. Quoting a gers) KD 8, (7 passengers) KD 13. Stretch limo - KD 18 regards to call taxi meters shall be amended as follows: er force of Syrian rebels. But as it gains ground it could be forced to “military source”, the IS news agency Amaq said “Sheikh Abu step up its presence, to help the rebels hold their ground. “What Mohamed Al-Adnani, the spokesman of the Islamic State, was mar- No. 4 Article 1 Turkey does not want is for that territory to fall back into the hands tyred while surveying operations to repel the military campaigns Area: Rumaithiya, Salwa, Messila, Bayan, Mishref, First: Start of service (when boarding the cab) is cal- of the Islamic State or the Syrian Kurds,” Sinan Ulgen, a former against Aleppo”. Mubarak Al-Abdullah culated at 600 fils. Turkish diplomat who chairs the EDAM think tank in Istanbul, said. Amaq did not say how Adnani, born Taha Subhi Falaha in Syria’s Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 6; (5 passen- Second: During the service: Ulgen said he expected the Turkish army to set up a beachhead Idlib Province in 1977, was killed. Islamic State published a eulogy gers) KD 8, (7 passengers) KD 13. Stretch limo - KD 18 1- 200 fils per kilometer. around Jarabulus, advancing and retreating from there for surgical dated Aug 29, but giving no further details. It said he died after a 2- 70 fils per waiting minute. strikes. “long voyage crowned by sacrifice” and vowed “revenge” at the No. 5 In case of a sudden breakdown during the service Further clashes with the YPG would add to tensions with NATO hands of a “new generation born unto the Islamic State”. IS has reg- Area: Firdous, Sulaibiya, Sabah Al-Nasser, West that causes the car to stop, the waiting period is not ally Washington, which loudly protested the weekend clashes, call- ularly urged followers to target disbelievers. Adnani made such Abdullah Mubarak, Abdullah Mubarak calculated, and only the traveled distance will be calcu- ing on both sides to focus their fire on Islamic State. “It is hard to request in Sept 2014, calling on supporters to use stones, knives or Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 7; (5 passen- lated. see how this does not get messy,” the European Council on Foreign even vehicles in their attacks. — Agencies gers) KD 10, (7 passengers) KD 13. Stretch limo - KD 18 Article Three No. 6 Article 5 of ministerial decision 182/ 2004 with Area: Dhahr, Qurain, Adan, Qusoor, Jaber Al-Ali, regards to setting roaming taxi meters will be amended Minister assures no hike in prices Funaitees, Fintas, Hadiya, Reqqa, Fahd Al-Ahmad to become as follows: Continued from Page 1 them. “Till this moment, there have been no significant Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 7; (5 passen- First: Start of service (when boarding the cab) is cal- Then the ministry decide whether the seller had the increases in (necessities’) prices, except in some cases,” gers) KD 10, (7 passengers) KD 18. Stretch limo - KD 22 culated at 350 fils. right to raise the price or not,” he explained. he added, reaffirming violators have been referred to No. 7 Second: During the service: Ali said that the ministry has already issued 372 cita- the commercial prosecution. Area: Mangaf, Sabahiya, Fahaheel, Ahmadi, Shuaiba, 1- 125 fils per kilometer. tions in August, of which only 11 were related to raising Ministry staff, including those entrusted with trade Sabah Al-Ahmad, Ali Sabah Al-Salem 2- 40 fils per waiting minute. prices, while the rest were for offenses including not supervision and consumer protection, have been work- Type of car: Saloon (4 passengers) KD 7; (5 passen- In case of a sudden breakdown during the service that labeling the price of a product or its expiry date, point- ing diligently to counter any drastic hike in the prices of gers) KD 13, (7 passengers) KD 18. Stretch limo - KD 22 causes the car to stop, the waiting period is not calculat- ing out that the ministry has taken legal procedures basic products. He urged citizens to call the hotline 135 ed, and only the traveled distance will be calculated. against such violations and those who committed to report any violations. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 ANALYSIS

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By Waakhe Simon WUDU

ar-torn South Sudan’s slide into chaos resumed last month with fresh fighting in Wthe capital Juba that forced rebel leader turned vice president and peace deal signatory Riek Machar to flee. With the spike in clashes came a surge of abuse of civilians by armed men including rape, murder and looting. A year-old peace deal was only partly implemented and, as July’s battles showed, was insufficient to stop the war-yet regional and foreign powers cling to it as the country’s only hope. So where next for hopes of peace in South Sudan and for rebel leader Machar?

Is there still a peace agreement in South Sudan? The deal, signed in August last year by rebel leader Why an emblematic city has turned to Trump Machar and President Salva Kiir, hangs in the balance. Machar has fled the country and been replaced as vice By Timothy Aeppel er things, they couldn’t support Clinton: men in the lowest group of earners has Union Power president by Taban Deng Gai, who leads a Juba-based She’s the wife of former President Bill grown over this period. The trend is particu- To illustrate this power, he cites a locally faction of the opposition SPLM/A-IO. Deng’s appoint- ne night a month, retired auto work- Clinton, who signed the North American larly pronounced in the Rust Belt states of famous episode from the 1960s, when wait- ment has yet to be fully accepted by either Machar loy- ers shuffle into a former elementary Free Trade Agreement, which many here Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. resses at a big downtown hotel went on alists or the international community that forced Oschool classroom here to discuss their blame for Muncie’s economic decline. They Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at strike for higher wages. “A group of police got through the peace deal. During a visit to Kenya this legal fight against the company that can- were uneasy with the often fiery rhetoric of New York University’s Stern School of rough and tried to break up the pickets,” says month, US Secretary of State John Kerry hinted at US celled their health care benefits seven years Trump, the other side’s top candidate. Yet Business, studies how people adopt their Connolly. A local union leader - who had acceptance of the new reality when he described ago. But the conversation often turns quickly both plan to vote for Trump in November, political beliefs. “Trump is the first candidate nothing to do with the waitresses, other than Machar’s ouster as a “replacement of personnel” that to presidential politics. “It can get pretty heat- and Reynolds says they’ve grown comfort- to speak to-and speak for-working-class knowing about them through community was legal under the agreement. ed,” says Gerald Poor, the group’s 77-year-old able with the choice. “I know, it sounds like white men in a long time,” Haidt says. That connections - called the then-mayor, who president, of their political discussions. “I call we’re confused,” he says. separates him from the last two Republican was visiting Washington, and “ordered him Where is rebel leader Riek Machar? it to order if it gets out of hand.” But they’re not. Like many Trump support- nominees. Mitt Romney, who lost in 2012, home” to intervene. The mayor returned and Machar fled Juba on foot after fighting in the city Their anger is understandable. The group ers, he glides over the unappealing aspects didn’t do that, “and John McCain didn’t par- the police backed off. ended on July 11. He resurfaced in the neighboring is a remnant of a once-powerful United Auto of the candidate’s message to lock onto ticularly reach out to that constituency” in “The strikers weren’t union members-but Democratic Republic of Congo on Aug 18 and then Workers union local, which at its peak in the those that he likes. For Reynolds, it’s the hope 2008. As for Trump’s extreme positions and there was a system of connections that gave flew to the Sudanese capital Khartoum for unspecified 1960s represented over 5,000 workers who of bringing back jobs for his children, some outright falsehoods, Haidt notes, “If your them a sense of control,” says Connolly. With medical treatment. Aides say Machar is eager to made transmissions in Muncie for of whom still struggle to find decent work. hero says things that are untrue, you’ll cut the decline of the unions, working-class peo- reassert himself politically as soon as he is fit and well BorgWarner Inc, the global auto parts maker. Trump’s gloomy world view is often dis- him slack.” ple “feel like they’ve been robbed of that by visiting regional countries that are members of the An American flag drapes the wall at one end missed as hyperbole, such as when he Muncie was once the epitome of voice.” And yet unions, which were unable to IGAD bloc (Intergovernmental Authority on of the room, portraits of former labor bosses described crime and collapsed economies in America’s muscular manufacturing economy. prevent the factory closures that ravaged the Development), which has led successive rounds of line the other, salvaged from a union hall that America’s cities at the Republican National After natural gas was discovered here late in city, are often viewed just as suspiciously peace talks. had its own baseball field. Convention. But for someone in Muncie, the 19th century, the city attracted dozens of here as most national politicians are. That For this group of mostly white, working- that’s not far off reality. energy-intensive glass manufacturers, most tension is visible at the old school where the Who backs Machar and who is against him? class men, the last two decades have An analysis by Reuters found Delaware notably Ball Corp, which built sprawling fac- BorgWarner retirees meet. Machar left a sharply divided (and, in Juba, militari- brought much loss. In this election - with the County is an extreme example of the declin- tories that churned out millions of mason The Muncie Delaware County Senior ly defeated) former rebel movement in his wake when victory of the populist Donald Trump as the ing fortunes of America’s white working-class jars. The auto industry followed, and Muncie Center was created to give retirees from the he fled. Deng enjoys the backing of Kiir but field com- Republican Party nominee and the strong men. In 2000, white men with less than a col- became a hub for transmission making. The big factories - particularly men - a place to go manders, armed forces and SPLM/A-IO leaders outside run by the populist Bernie Sanders for the lege degree accounted for about three-quar- term “Muncie transmission” is still used by for companionship and activities. One recent Juba continue to back Machar - for now. “Machar is Democratic Party crown - many say they feel ters of all white men living in the county. By hot rod enthusiasts when talking about gear- day, the room the BorgWarner retirees use still an influential leader as long as he is alive,” said they’re finally being heard again. Working- 2014, their proportion had dropped by about boxes produced here by General Motors was filled with seniors learning line dancing. James Okuk, a political scientist at Juba University. class white men were once a force to be reck- 5 percentage points, according to the US Corp in the 1960s. One particularly powerful “Some people don’t like the photos” of the Regional bloc IGAD has said that Deng should step oned with in American politics. Many here Census Bureau. But while this group’s share version is the “rock crusher”, used in union leaders, says Jim Shields, a janitor, aside when Machar returns, but the longer Machar is speak wistfully of how John F Kennedy of the population held relatively steady, the Corvettes and other muscle cars. motioning toward the 10 portraits that adorn absent the stronger Deng’s claim becomes and he stopped at BorgWarner to talk to workers earnings of white men with full-time jobs BorgWarner, based in Auburn Hills, the front of the room. They feel the images may yet consolidate his position among the former when he campaigned in 1960. For these had fallen dramatically. Michigan, has even deeper roots in Muncie carry an implicitly political, pro-union mes- rebels too. One way to achieve this, analysts say, men, this year’s election is a rare taste of the In 2000, 47 percent of white men working than GM. Warner Gear was founded here in sage. So, there was a fuss the last time the would be for Deng and Kiir to move ahead with inte- clout they once took for granted. full time were in the bottom third of earners, 1901 and merged with other businesses to building was used as a polling station, he grating rebel forces into the national army, effectively In the primary, Trump received the most with incomes of $50,000 or less, based on create what became BorgWarner in the late said. “We had complaints.” Now, when the disarming Machar while implementing a key provision votes of any candidate in either party in 2015 dollars. By 2014, 60 percent of them 1920s. Many former workers here still call it BorgWarner retiree group isn’t meeting, of the peace accords. Delaware County, which encompasses were in the bottom third. Meanwhile, the Warner Gear. In the 1920s, a husband-and- Shields carefully drapes a long bolt of fabric Muncie. Just over 52 percent of Republican percentage of white men in full-time jobs wife team of sociologists picked the city to over the pictures to conceal them. Can Machar stage a comeback? voters went for Trump. Democrats picked making between $50,000 and $100,000 study the values in a typical American com- Michael Hicks, a Ball State economist who Machar loyalists are being rooted out of South Sanders over Hillary Clinton by an even dropped from 43 percent to 32 percent. And munity. They called it “Middletown”, to con- studies manufacturing, says a mix of exas- Sudan’s parliament and cabinet and being replaced wider margin. “Candidates in the past made the percentage in the ranks of earners above ceal the identity of a place they felt was peration with unions and the political elite with Deng’s allies, weakening Machar’s influence. Five a lot of promises to the working class in this $100,000 slipped from 11 percent to 8 per- emblematic of the country as a whole. created the perfect opening for Trump. “It’s out of 10 SPLM-IO ministers have been replaced along country and failed to follow through with it,” cent. In essence, white men in Muncie have Muncie residents soon figured out it was all always easier to blame a larger force for your with 25 out of 50 MPs. Meanwhile Deng has quickly says 66-year-old Bruce Reynolds, who fol- slid down from every rung of the economic about them. problems, whether that’s Mexicans or taken up the functions of the vice presidency, under- lowed his father and grandfather into a ladder. They have clustered at the bottom, The Center for Middletown Studies-at Ball greedy factory owners,” he says. “But these taking official visits to both Kenya and Sudan in recent career at BorgWarner. Gazing through the poorer and more isolated than ever before, State University-has continued the work, people aren’t stupid. They know the jobs weeks. Machar’s future appears to rest in foreign hands rusted chain link fence that encircles the even as the overall US economy has grown compiling oral histories and, in recent years, aren’t coming back.” The bigger concern for and is largely dependent on whether the international sprawling, abandoned factory, where he and globalized. focused on the devastation of deindustrial- many of them, he says, is what will happen community is willing to move ahead on a peace agree- notes with precision that he worked for “32 ization. James Connolly, a history professor to their children. The Reynolds family is a ment without him. and a half years”, he says he’s still skeptical of Muncie as ‘Middletown’ who runs the center, says that more than good example. Bruce Reynolds’s oldest son, both side’s promises. The same trend is visible in faded industri- anything else, Muncie’s working-class white Bruce Jr, is a Baptist pastor and is supporting Will the promised UN ‘protection force’ be al pockets from New Jersey and upstate New men feel a loss of power. When the big facto- Trump, albeit reluctantly. “I don’t think any of deployed? The White Slide York to Alabama and Kentucky. According to ries were humming, the unions were an them can fix it,” Bruce Jr says of the fallout he On August 12 the UN Security Council approved the Neither Trump nor Clinton was his first the data, in about 1,800 counties across the unstoppable force-not just for getting good sees from economic hardship in his congre- deployment of a so-called “protection force” in South choice. Reynolds and his wife voted for United States-nearly 60 percent of those paychecks and lush benefits, but a voice in gation, from growing drug addiction to bro- Sudan to bolster the much-criticized peacekeeping Sanders in the primary, he says. Among oth- where data is available-the share of white almost everything else. ken families. — Reuters operation there and enable the implementation of the peace agreement. Machar has said he will not return to Juba until a “neutral force” is in place and his safety guaranteed, but Kiir’s government has resisted the UN plan, insisting it is a challenge to South Sudan’s sover- Uzbekistan in uncertainty with Karimov ill eignty and that further negotiations over the force’s mandate are needed. While South Sudan has stopped By Max Delany daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva announced The country has never held an election gained massive wealth under Karimov.” short of refusing to accept more peacekeepers, the on social media Monday that he was in a “sta- judged free and fair by international moni- Critics accuse Karimov of ruthlessly eviscerat- government has yet to accept them either, and it is x-Soviet nation Uzbekistan has plunged ble” condition in hospital after suffering a tors. “There are two questions now: First, is ing all opposition in the cotton-rich country - impossible to imagine UN soldiers being deployed into unchartered territory after strong- cerebral hemorrhage over the weekend. there a plan for succession we don’t know most prominently with the alleged massacre against the will of the government. — AFP Eman leader Islam Karimov, who has Since then the authorities in the tightly-con- about? Second, even if there is, will the prin- of hundreds of protesters in the city of dominated the country for over 25 years, was trolled state have released no further official cipals stick to it?” Radnitz said. Andijan in 2005. rushed into intensive care after a brain hem- statement on his health. In theory the head of the senate should But the veteran operator has managed to orrhage. While conflicting rumors of step in if Karimov dies or is incapable of rul- play Russia, the West and China off against All articles appearing on these pages Karimov’s condition buzz through the Central ‘No One Knows’ ing, but analysts dismissed him as a water- each other to keep his regime from total iso- Asian nation, one thing is sure - the strategic While there has been no confirmation of carrier. Instead those tipped to take over lation. Swerdlow from Human Rights Watch are the personal opinion of the writers. country is facing a moment of uncertainty Karimov’s latest condition and he could in more long term in the case of Karimov’s long said that while “certainly we could get more Kuwait Times takes no responsibility unparallelled in its post-Soviet history. “The theory stage a recovery, the gravity of his ill- illness or death include Prime Minister of the same or we could get even worse” in developments are unprecedented,” Steve ness has left many in the country now facing Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Deputy Prime terms of human rights from any new leader- for views expressed therein. Kuwait Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher for Human up to the prospect of life without the only Minister Rustam Azimov, Kamoliddin ship, this was a moment for “maximum lever- Times invites readers to voice their Rights Watch, told AFP. “The entire state has ruler they have ever known. “Uzbeks have Rabbimov, an independent Uzbek political age” from the West for Uzbekistan to clean been Islam Karimov, Islam Karimov has been known for a long time that that moment analyst based in France, told AFP. “I think in up its act. “The fear is that in order to avoid opinions. Please send submissions via the state for over quarter of a century ruling would arrive, so no one would be surprised, the corridors of power they have already any future leader of Uzbekistan running email to: [email protected] or with an iron fist.” but no one knows what will happen next,” started fighting,” closely into the embrace of the Kremlin Former Soviet apparatchik Karimov, 78, said Scott Radnitz, an associate professor at Rabbimov said, while predicting the elite they’ll need to reserve their criticism,” via snail mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, whose brutal crackdown on dissent has been the University of Washington told AFP. will be keen to ensure the transition is “more Swerdlow said. “The truth is if Western diplo- Kuwait. The editor reserves the right to widely criticized by rights groups, has been at Despite being dogged by persistent or less stable”. “On the one hand the political mats are looking at this objectively is that the helm of the strategic country bordering health rumors, Karimov lacks a clear succes- elite is fighting each other and regrouping Uzbekistan has always charted a course edit any submission as necessary. Afghanistan from since before it gained inde- sor after being re-elected to a fifth term in but on the other, they understand they need away or independent of Moscow and will pendence from Moscow in 1991. His younger 2015 with more than 90 percent of the vote. to keep control of the country. They have likely continue to do so.” — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 SPORTS

Czech midfielder Rosicky Remy loaned to Crystal Arsenal seal move for returns to Sparta Prague Palace by Chelsea Spanish striker Perez PRAGUE: Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky signed a two-year contract with LONDON: France international striker Loic Remy will spend the 2016-17 season LONDON: Arsenal have completed a deal to sign Spanish striker Lucas Perez from Sparta Prague yesterday, returning to his first club following the end of his con- on loan at Crystal Palace from Chelsea, the two Premier League clubs Deportivo La Coruna, the Premier League club announced yesterday. Arsenal did not tract with Arsenal. “I’m very happy to return to Sparta. I’ve never forgotten where announced yesterday. Remy, 29, has been used sparingly since joining Chelsea disclose either the length of Perez’s contract or the transfer fee, but British media I got my start,” the 35-year-old told reporters. “I’d like to thank Arsenal for every- from Queens Park Rangers in August 2014, making 46 appearances and scor- reports said the 27-year-old had cost around 17 million pounds ($22.3 million, 20 mil- thing. They did an incredible job of taking care of me when I was ing 12 goals. The move to Selhurst Park reunites him with Palace manager Alan lion euros). Arsenal are also believed to be close to signing Germany defender injured,” he added about his 10-year stint with the London Pardew, who was Remy’s manager during the 2013-14 season at Newcastle Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia for around 35 million pounds. Discussing Perez, side. The Czech Republic captain left Sparta in 2001 for United. “This is a very good chance for me and a big opportunity,” Remy told Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told the club website: “He’s not only a goalscorer, he’s a guy who combines well with partners, who can give Borussia Dortmund for 14.5 million euros ($16 million) the Palace website. “It was very important to know Alan Pardew as he is a very a final ball and makes good runs. “He’s got a good eye for goal and — a record transfer sum for a Czech player-before join- good manager and I am happy to be here.” Remy won the Premier League title ing Arsenal in 2006. The veteran player dubbed “the lit- had an outstanding season last year.” Arsenal are reported to have and the League Cup in his first season at Chelsea. But Chelsea’s reliance on seen off competition from Premier League rivals Everton to secure tle Mozart” has seen his star career hampered by a Diego Costa meant he rarely featured last season and he would have faced Perez’s signature. Perez, who is uncapped, scored 19 goals for string of injuries. Rosicky played only 19 minutes for extra competition from new signing Michy Batshuayi had he remained at Deportivo last season, including 17 in La Liga. He also scored the win- Arsenal last season because of injuries plaguing him Stamford Bridge. The former Lyon, Nice and Marseille striker has won 31 caps ning goal in their 2-1 win over Eibar on the opening day of this season. since a Euro qualifier in Iceland in June 2015. A fresh for France, scoring seven goals, but has not played for his country in nearly two He began his career with Atletico Madrid’s C team and has also hamstring injury at Euro 2016 then forced him to years. “Loic has been a target of mine throughout this transfer window and I’m played for Rayo Vallecano, Ukrainian side Karpaty Lviv and miss the rest of the tournament. — AFP delighted the deal has been done,” Pardew said. — AFP Greek club PAOK. — AFP Chargers sign rookie Bosa to 4-year deal

SAN DIEGO: Defensive end Joey Bosa ended his monthlong holdout Monday when he signed a four-year contract with the San Diego Chargers. The team announced the signing five days after the two sides went public in their nasty spat over payment of Bosa’s $17 million signing bonus and whether the contract would have off- set language. The signing also came a day after San Diego’s defense played poorly in a 23-10 exhibition loss at Minnesota. “I’m happy to be here and there is no animos- ity between us,” Bosa said. “It’s just a matter of business and I’m happy to have it out of the way. I am very relieved. I knew this was going to get done. I was surprised how long it took. Of course I would have loved to have been out there with my teammates but the NFL is a business.”“We just wanted what was fair and what people in that position got the last four or five years,” Bosa added. VANCOUVER: Man Kaur, 100, of India, competes in the 100-meter track and field Coach Mike McCoy said he heard of Bosa event at the Americas Masters Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday. —AP agreeing to terms before Sunday’s game and said he had to “keep it to myself.” “He’s here to help us win and I told the team he’s here to help 100-year-old runner us win,” McCoy said. “Regardless of when he got here, let’s go.” The Chargers threatened last Wednesday to reduce from India inspires their offer to Bosa under the assumption he wouldn’t be ready to play a full season. Bosa, the SAN DIEGO: File photo, San Diego Chargers rookie defensive end Joey Bosa trains during an at US Masters Games No. 3 overall pick out of Ohio State, was the last NFL football rookie training camp in San Diego. Bosa’s holdout has overshadowed everything rookie to sign. The Chargers said last week that else going on with the Chargers, who went public with the contract dispute. — AP VANCOUVER: Man Kaur from India needed “I asked her. ‘You have no problem, no they had given Bosa’s agents their best offer and the public side of the contract dispute. Earlier was public, she thought, because she was send- almost a minute-and-a-half to cross the fin- knee problem, no heart problem, you that it was rejected. Brian Ayrault, Bosa’s main this month, Cheryl Bosa posted a remark toward ing it to somebody else. Leave it to a mom to ish line in the 100-meter dash, but she still should start running,’” he recalled. Kaur has representative, replied with his own statement the Chargers on Facebook. In a reply to someone mess up on Facebook.”Bosa’s father, John, is a picked up a gold medal Monday at the now won more than 20 medals in Masters saying the team had manipulated the facts and frustrated by the impasse, she wrote: “It bums former first-round draft pick of the Miami American Masters Games. That’s because Games across the globe. While practicing in that going public would not strengthen the me out for him so much. Dolphins. He held out for 41 days as a rookie. the 100-year-old Kaur was the only female her home of Chandigarh, she goes out team’s relationship with the player. Wish we pulled an Eli Manning on draft day.” Bosa missed 31 days but said he followed a competitor in her age category at the com- every evening to run five or 10 short dis- There was no immediate indication of what On Thursday, Cheryl Bosa retweeted an article stringent workout regimen while away. “I was petition for older athletes. tances, said Singh. led to the deal getting done. critical of the Chargers and added the comment, doing everything I could to be ready when I When she crossed the finish line in Singh said his mother believes in pro- Bosa said he’s capable of playing in the open- “The Chargers were petty and terrible even showed up here,” Bosa said. “I think I’ve put Vancouver, her competitors - many of them moting running to other older women. er on Sept. 11 at the Kansas City Chiefs. “I’m before they tried to stiff Joey Bosa.” myself in the best possible shape I could be in.” in their 70s and 80s - were there to cheer “She encourages them, old ladies, that they obviously a step behind the other guys this late “What do you expect a mom to do?” Bosa The Bosa spat came amid the Chargers’ push her on. should run, they should not eat wrong into the game,” Bosa said. said. “She loves me, she wants what’s best for me for a ballot initiative that will ask voters for a $1.1 Kaur’s energy and drive to compete foods, and they should encourage their “I trust the coaches and they obviously have a and she made a dumb decision, like I have billion subsidy via an increase in the hotel tax to have become an inspiration to participants children also to take part in the Games.” plan ready for me. I’m just not sure what that is.” before, saying something she shouldn’t have help pay for a new stadium and convention cen- in the unique international event for ath- Charmaine Crooks, a five-time Olympian Bosa also discussed his mother’s involvement in said on social media. She honestly had no idea it ter downtown. — AP letes over 30. “When she wins, she goes who won a silver medal for Canada in the back to India, and she’s excited to tell oth- women’s 4x400-meter relay in 1984, serves ers, ‘I have won so many medals from this as an athlete ambassador for the Masters country,’ “ said her son Gurdev Singh, 78, Games. She praised Kaur’s “dynamic spirit.” translating for his mother. “Winning makes “I know that it’s inspired me. Hey, I’ve got her happy.” almost 50 more years to go, right?” Crooks After Kaur finished the sprint in one said. “She’s inspiring everyone, young and minute and 21 seconds, she stood smiling old.” The World Masters Games take place with her hands raised in the air. Asked how every four years, with regional games in she felt, she breathed heavily and clutched between. The Americas Masters Games in a bottle of water, unable to speak. Earlier, Vancouver is the first summer regional she won gold medals in the javelin and games in North America, Crooks said. shot put. Singh, 78, who also is competing The average age of the athletes is 49, in the Games, said he encouraged his and there’s one man who is even older than mother to start running at age 93 because Kaur - 101-year-old Nihal Gill of Richmond, he knew she could become a star. British Columbia. — AP

RIO DE JANEIRO: Documents belonging to Ireland’s Patrick Hickey, a member of the International Olympic Committee’s executive board, that include his Olympics’ credential and passport are displayed alongside Olympic tickets during a police press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 17, 2016. — AP Irish chief Hickey freed pending ticket probe

RIO DE JANEIRO: A Brazilian court granted con- the prisons service told AFP in an email. IOC president Thomas Bach said Hickey had ditional release from jail Monday to top Irish His lawyers had requested his release “given the right to be considered innocent until proven Olympic official Patrick Hickey due to ill health the patient’s critical state of health,” court docu- guilty. The Olympic Council of Ireland has com- while he is investigated over an alleged ticket ments showed. Hickey’s lawyer Anne Marie missioned an independent review of its han- scam. Rio de Janeiro Judge Fernando de James said last week that he has a “serious heart dling of Rio 2016 ticketing arrangements. Almeida agreed in a ruling to “revoke the pre- condition.” ventive imprisonment ordered against the IRISH, BRITISH SUSPECTS patient Patrick Joseph Hickey,” but ordered him JAIL CONCERNS The courts on Saturday provisionally released not to leave Brazil. Hickey spent one night in a Rio hospital after another Irish suspect: Kevin Mallon, director of Hickey, 71, is the highest-profile suspect in an his detention, which stunned the International British hospitality firm THG. Mallon was arrested alleged scam to illegally sell tickets to this Olympic Committee (IOC) at the height of the on August 5 and was also held at Bangu. month’s Rio Olympic Games for thousands of Games. His family urged the Irish government Police said they seized hundreds of tickets dollars. Prosecutors have estimated the profits to “urgently intervene in addressing the from Mallon. Mallon was caught in a hotel in the from the black market sales at $3 million. extremely worrying issues surrounding his arrest heart of the Olympic zone, selling tickets to a Hickey is an International Olympic and detention,” in a statement last week via their group of buyers. Committee member and head of the Olympic lawyer. Tickets, including for the Rio opening cere- Council of Ireland and the European Olympic James said the family were “gravely con- mony, with a face value of about $1,400 were Committees. He was arrested at dawn on cerned” about the manner of Hickey’s arrest, his offered for sale at $8,000, police said. On August August 17 at a luxury Rio hotel where he was detention in a high-security prison without 21, they seized passports from three other Irish staying with other IOC members. charge, his health and his right to a fair hearing. Olympic officials suspected in the scam: Kevin He was held in Rio’s Bangu maximum security On August 26, more than a week after his Kilty, Dermot Henihan and Stephen Martin. prison. “It does not seem that his release will detention, she said Hickey had still not been Police have issued arrest warrants for several VANCOUVER: Man Kaur, wears the gold medals she won in shot put and javelin pose any obstacle or risk for public order or charged nor been able to apply for bail. She said other suspects including Marcus Evans, a British events before competing in the 100-meter track and field event at the Americas criminal proceedings,” de Almeida ruled. Hickey the family believe he has been through a businessman who is the chairman of the Ipswich Masters Games in Vancouver. — AP had still not left jail by early evening Monday, “degrading and humiliating ordeal.” football club in England. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 SPORTS After Rio scandal, Lochte to appear on US reality show NEW YORK: Disgraced Olympic swimmer Ryan have recommended that Lochte be charged with his head. “I take full responsibility. I’m human. I season starting on Sept. 12 will include 16 year-old Lochte is joining the “Dancing With the Stars” cast, falsely reporting a crime. made a mistake. A very big mistake.” U.S. Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez, former ABC television announced yesterday, as the gold The swimmer, who was also vilified in the media “Everyone has got to be sick and tired about Texas governor Rick Perry, and rapper Vanilla Ice. medalist said he thought reaction to his tale about over the incident, did not say whether he planned hearing about this. I just want to move forward,” “Dancing With the Stars,” in which celebrities being held up at a Rio de Janeiro gas station had to return to Brazil to face the charges. added Lochte, his silver-dyed hair now returned to a are paired with professional ballroom dancers been blown out of proportion. “I think it’s everyone blowing this way out of pro- more natural brown. The 12-time Olympic medalist and voted off by the public, has been a popular Lochte, 32, was dropped by four of his major portion. I think that’s what happened,” Lochte told said his appearance on the 23rd season of “Dancing venue for those seeking a comeback or trying to sponsors after admitting he “overexaggerated” a ABC television’s “Good Morning America” on With the Stars,” was under discussion before he change their public image. Past contestants have tale about being robbed and held at gunpoint with Tuesday, when asked whether he had embarrassed went to the Rio games. After the London Olympics included Bristol Palin, daughter of the 2008 three other swimmers after a party during the Rio the United States with his actions. in 2012 he was given his own, short-lived, TV reality Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Olympics. Brazilian authorities say the group “Like I said, I did lie about that one part,” said show “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” Palin, singer Donny Osmond, and retired Olympic destroyed a bathroom and urinated in public, and Lochte, referring to his claim that a gun was held to Other “Dancing With the Stars” contestants in the speed skater Apolo Ohno. — Reuters Westwood, Kaymer, Pieters get captain’s picks for Ryder Cup

VIRGINIA WATER: Europe captain Darren Clarke opted for a mix of form and experience in his picks for the Ryder Cup yesterday, with Thomas Pieters, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer join- ing a team seeking an unprecedented fourth straight victory. Clarke said Westwood and Kaymer, both for- mer top-ranked players and Ryder Cup veterans, were “very obvious” choices, but he had sleep- less nights over his final selection.It boiled down to Pieters vs. Russell Knox, players who have won events on different sides of the Atlantic this month. Pieters, who won the Made in Denmark on Sunday in front of Clarke, got the nod. “It’s one of the most difficult periods in the whole of my golfing career,” said Clarke, who added that the phone call to let down Knox was “one of the toughest I have ever had to make.” The addition of Pieters meant the European team will have six Ryder Cup rookies in Hazeltine next month. Masters champions Danny Willett, Chris Wood, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Andy Sullivan and Matt Fitzpatrick also will sample golf’s Tomas Lavanini biggest team event for the first time. They quali- fied automatically along with four-time major winner Rory McIlroy, British Open champion Pumas lock Lavanini Henrik Stenson, Olympic gold medalist Justin Rose, and Sergio Garcia. That partly explains Clarke’s desire for more out for season balance to the team, and therefore his call for WENTWORTH: European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke smiles during a press conference at Westwood - a longtime friend - and Kaymer. Wentworth Golf Club, Virginia Waters, England yesterday. Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and with ligament injury It will be the 43-year-old Westwood’s 10th Thomas Pieters will fill out the European team as Darren Clarke’s captain’s picks for the Ryder straight Ryder Cup, while two-time major cham- Cup against the United States at Hazeltine from Sept 30-Oct 2. Clarke announced his choices at pion Kaymer has played in the last three Ryder the European Tour’s headquarters at Wentworth yesterday. — AP BUENOS AIRES: Argentina lock Tomas centre Jeronimo de la Fuente, who also Cups and made the putt that ensured Europe Lavanini will require surgery on a damaged missed Argentina’s two matches against Championship this month, and ranked No. 20 - of the world,” Clarke said of Pieters, a big-hitting would retain the cup at Medinah in 2012. They knee ligament and will be out of action the Springboks, is included after recovering the sixth highest position for a European. His Belgian who played college golf at Illinois and will offer experienced voices in the team room. until next year, missing the remainder of from injury. win at a WGC event in Shanghai last year didn’t won the NCAA individual title in 2012 at Riviera. “Because all our rookies are playing frequent- the Rugby Championship and the Pumas’ Felipe Ezcurra was named as a third count toward Ryder Cup qualification because “He brings a bit more of the X-factor. He is going ly in America now, it’s not quite what it used to tour of Europe in November. scrumhalf. Botto said flyhalf Nicolas he wasn’t a member of the European Tour at that to blossom. He will be a star.” be,” Clarke said. “That being said, the Ryder Cup Lavanini picked up the injury in Sanchez and centre Juan Martin Hernandez stage. If he had been, Knox would be an auto- Clarke said he recently set up a WhatsApp is not like any other event.” Argentina’s 26-24 victory over South Africa were recovering from head injuries and all matic qualifier. group with his vice-captains regarding the cap- Clarke said Luke Donald - another former No. in Salta on Saturday and was not included being well would be available for selection Pieters stood out, though, after an impressive tain’s picks. “Anyone who’s been playing well, it’s 1 and a four-time Ryder Cup winner - and in the tour party for the Pumas’ Oceania leg for both matches. run of finishes over the past month: Fourth place been on there,” Clarke said. Graeme McDowell would also have been in con- of the championship when they face New Argentina face world champions New at the Olympics, second place at the Czech Pieters’ name will have popped up more than tention to join Westwood and Kaymer, if their Zealand and Australia. Zealand, who top the standings after home Masters, and then a third victory in the past year anyone else. “It’s been a little bit crazy,” Pieters form was better. In the end, it was a straight “Unfortunately, we have just confirmed and away wins over Australia, in Hamilton at the Made in Denmark where he birdied the said. “I was playing well but the results weren’t shootout between Knox and Pieters. The US- Tomas Lavanini’s injury,” team doctor on Sept. 10 and the Wallabies in Perth a last three holes to win. Pieters was grouped with there and I guess I had to step it up at the end. I based Knox is a two-time winner on the US PGA Guillermo Botto said. week later. Clarke for the first two rounds. can’t wait to get on that plane and be with the Tour this season, including at the Travelers “It’s a cruciate ligament injury and we Squad: Forwards: Nahuel Tetaz “He has the talent to go all the way to the top team the whole week.” — AP expect to do surgery in three to four weeks Chaparro, Felipe Arregui, Agustin Creevy and then he’ll have an estimated recovery (captain), Lucas Noguera Paz, Julian time of six months.” The tour squad, posted Montoya, Ramiro Herrera, Enrique Pieretto, Rafael Nadal’s wrist needs ‘a on the Argentine Rugby Union website Matias Alemanno, Guido Petti, Marcos (www.uar.com.ar) on Monday, is also miss- Kremer, Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Pablo ing wing Manuel Montero, who tore a thigh Matera, Javier Ortega Desio, Leonardo muscle against the Springboks. Senatore, Facundo Isa. little more time’ at US Open Coming into coach Daniel Hourcade’s Backs: Martin Landajo, Tomas Cubelli, 28-man squad is number eight Leonardo Felipe Ezcurra, Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias, Senatore, who has served a 10-week sus- Nicolas Sanchez, Santiago Cordero, Ramiro NEW YORK: As Rafael Nadal stood near the net pension for biting handed out during the Moyano, Jeronimo de la Fuente, Juan at the US Open after winning his first Grand Super Rugby competition in May. Martin Hernandez, Matias Moroni, Matias Slam match in three months Monday, he unrav- Matias Moroni returns from the Pumas Orlando, Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino, eled the thick wrap of white tape protecting his Olympic rugby sevens team and fellow Joaquin Tuculet. — Reuters all important left wrist and then clutched at that arm with his right hand. Sure, there were matches that provided more drama or surprises on Day 1 at Flushing Meadows. There was 20th-seeded John Isner’s come- back from two sets down to edge 18-year-old Frances Tiafoe before a rowdy, standing-room- only crowd at the new Grandstand. A first-round loss by Rio Olympics gold medalist Monica Puig. French Open champion Garbine Muguruza’s complaints about having trouble breathing after dropping the first set of a match she would go on to win in three. Nothing, though, was as meaningful when it comes to what could go on over the next two weeks as how 14-time major champion Nadal’s wrist felt during and after a relatively straight- forward 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Denis Istomin. The match was played at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the new $150 million retractable roof remained open under a blue sky, but still offered some extra shade on a day when the temperature reached 90 degrees. NEW YORK: Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot to Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan during his first The good news, Nadal said afterward, is that round Men’s Singles match on Day One of the 2016 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King the pain is gone from the part of his body that National Tennis Center on Monday in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of whips those violent, topspin-heavy forehands New York City. — AFP that are the key to his success - 14 of his 21 win- ners came off that wing. day we can play a little bit better.” of the U.S. Open’s fifth-set tiebreaker to close it There were other folks feeling that way, too, out in about 31/2 hours. Afterward, an exhaust- Lwazi Mvovo THE BAD NEWS FOR NADAL? for varying reasons. Isner, for one, had to be ed Tiafoe leaned into Isner’s chest when they He still is working on feeling comfortable hit- rather relieved to escape with a 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), met at the net. “The last thing I heard him say is, Mvovo recalled to ting down-the-line forehands, in particular, after 6-2, 7-6 (3) victory over Tiafoe in their all- ‘Don’t let this get you down,’” Tiafoe recalled. sitting out - not just zero real matches, but bare- American matchup.Tiafoe first built his big lead, Puig was seeded at a Grand Slam tournament ly any practice, either - from his withdrawal at let it slip away, then served for the match after for the first time, at No. 32, and was back on South Africa squad the French breaking Isner for a 5-3 lead in the fifth set. But court a little more than two weeks after becom- Open in late May to the Olympics this month. Isner broke there. ing the first athlete representing Puerto Rico to “Not easy to go 21/2 months out of competi- “Probably played the best return game I earn a gold medal in any sport at any Olympics. CAPE TOWN: South Africa have recalled Squad: tion, in the middle of the season, without hit- played all match,” Isner said. “Even though I was “A lot of pressure,” she said. “A lot of expecta- winger Lwazi Mvovo to their tour squad for Backs: Damian de Allende, Juan de ting a forehand,” Nadal said. “I need to have the pretty haggard out there, I got a jolt of energy tion.” She exited the US Open quickly, beaten 6- the Rugby Championship matches in Jongh (Stormers), Faf de Klerk (Lions), confidence again with my wrist.” when I got it back to 5-4.”And then the winner of 4, 6-2 by Zheng Saisai of China. “You know Australia and New Zealand next month. Johan Goosen (Racing Metro), Bryan Both Nadal and his coach, Uncle Toni, the longest match in tennis history - 70-68 in the what?” Puig said afterward. “This isn’t going to Mvovo replaced Ruan Combrink after he Habana (Toulon), Francois Hougaard described the way Rafael changed the way he fifth set at Wimbledon in 2010 - took advantage be the last of me.” — AP was ruled out for six weeks having frac- (Worcester), Elton Jantjies (Lions), Jesse hits a forehand during the Rio Games to try to tured his fibula in the 26-24 loss to Kriel (Bulls), Lionel Mapoe (Lions), Lwazi avoid pain. Both said things are improving. Argentina in Salta on Saturday. Mvovo (Sharks), Rudy Paige (Bulls), Morne But as Toni noted: “We need a little time.” Scrumhalf Francois Hougaard, named in Steyn (Stade Francais). Istomin, who is from Uzbekistan and is Girl finds stolen the squad for the Southern Hemisphere ranked 107th, was not exactly likely to give championship but not considered for the Forwards: Lourens Adriaanse (Sharks), Nadal much of a test. He entered the day 0-4 Olympic gold medal two matches against Argentina due to a Lood de Jager (Cheetahs), Pieter-Steph du against the two-time U.S. Open champion, hav- knee injury, has also rejoined the squad. Toit, Eben Etzebeth (Stormers), Steven ing dropped 10 of the 11 sets they’d played. He ATLANTA: An Olympic champion is thanking a when she spotted the gold medal discarded in Flyhalf Elton Jantjies left the field early Kitshoff (Bordeaux), Vincent Koch had lost his past 20 matches against top-10 7-year-old Atlanta girl who found his gold a pile of garbage. Chloe returned the medal to in the second half in Salta with a bruised (Stormers), Jaco Kriel (Lions), Francois Louw opponents. Plus, he’s been dealing with an medal in a pile of trash weeks after it got stolen. Jacobi, who had posted about the theft on thigh muscle but has been cleared to tour, (Bath), Malcolm Marx (Lions), Bongi injured right hamstring lately. Joe Jacobi won the medal in men’s canoe social media. The former Olympian then prom- though he remains a doubt for the test Mbonambi (Stormers), Teboho Mohoje So what did he think of Nadal’s play Monday? double slalom at the 1992 Olympics in ised to visit Chloe’s school and let her class- against Australia in Brisbane on Sept. 10. (Cheetahs), Franco Mostert (Lions), Tendai “For the first set, I was feeling that he was not Barcelona. Jacobi says it was stolen when mates know about her good deed. The Springboks travel to Christchurch to Mtawarira (Sharks), Trevor Nyakane (Bulls), hitting hard,” Istomin said. “A lot of short balls.” somebody broke into his car in June. Weeks Jacobi spoke Monday to Chloe’s first-grade face tournament leaders New Zealand a Adriaan Strauss (Bulls), Warren Whiteley Nadal’s summation of his day: “Not very good; later, Chloe Smith was walking with her father class at Woodson Park Academy. — AP week later. (Lions). — Reuters not very bad.” Uncle Toni’s take? “I hope every WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 SPORTS

NEW YORK: Miami Marlins’ Ichiro Suzuki (51) slides into second with a double as New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, left, waits for the ball during the eighth inning of a baseball game Monday at Citi Field in New York. Second base umpire Paul Emmel is at right. — AP Cespedes homers in 10th as Mets top Marlins in opener

NEW YORK: Yoenis Cespedes homered with two the throw to first to start the inning. Gimenez high seven runs in four-plus innings. The Rays, RANGERS 6, MARINERS 3 ROCKIES 8, DODGERS 1 outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the fouled off two bunt attempts before poking a buried in last in the AL East, have lost three of four. Yu Darvish struck out nine in 6 2/3 innings and Jon Gray pitched six scoreless innings, Nick New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Miami single through the right side with Almonte mov- Carlos Beltran homered among three hits, help- Hundley hit a two-run homer and the Colorado Marlins on Monday night. Jose Reyes dashed ing to second. Third baseman Miguel Sano field- NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 0 ing Texas beat Seattle. The American League- beat NL West-leading Los Angeles. Gray (9-6) sur- home to score the tying run in the eighth on a ed Rajai Davis’ slow roller. Tanner Roark threw seven impressive innings, leading Rangers won the first of six straight rendered four hits and struck out eight in a crisp dangerous collision at the plate. Two innings lat- Third base umpire Ron Kupla ruled Sano Jayson Werth hit a solo homer and Washington games at home against the two teams chasing performance for his first win since Aug. 2. He was er, Cespedes, who sat out Sunday’s loss to tagged Almonte and the call was upheld after a beat Philadelphia. Roark (14-7) allowed four sin- them in the AL West and dropped the Mariners helped out by centerfielder Charlie Blackmon, Philadelphia after his nagging right quadriceps Cleveland challenge. Kipnis then hit the second gles and struck out five. Marc Rzepczynski tossed into third place, a game behind Houston and 9 who made a sliding catch in the fifth to thwart a flared up, launched a no-doubt drive to left-cen- pitch from Kinztler for the game-winner. Zach a perfect eighth and Mark Melancon finished off 1/2 back of Texas. Darvish (5-3) easily outpitched big inning. ter on a 1-1 pitch from Nick Wittgren (4-3). The McAllister (3-2) worked out of a bases-loaded the four-hitter. Phillies rookie Jake Thompson (1- fellow Japanese right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma for DJ LeMahieu had a two-run double in a five- Mets pulled even with Miami for second place in jam in the 10th, retiring Max Kepler on a fly ball 4) allowed two runs and seven hits in seven his third straight win, leaving to a standing ova- run seventh that turned a pitching duel into a the NL East. With its seventh victory in nine to end the inning. innings. It was the longest and best of his five tion with a 6-1 lead in the seventh after throwing rout. Kenta Maeda (13-8) was electric once again games, New York remained 2 1/2 games behind career starts. Werth lined a solo shot to left in the 110 pitches, the most since his return from at Coors Field - except for a hanging slider to St. Louis for the league’s second wild card. Rookie TIGERS 4, WHITE SOX 3 first against his former team. Bryce Harper raced Tommy John surgery. Sam Dyson struck out two Hundley in the fourth. The right-hander with the left-hander Josh Smoker (1-0) struck out two in a Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a two-run homer in home from first on Anthony Rendon’s single to in a perfect ninth for his 30th save, giving Texas quirky delivery allowed four hits over five perfect inning for his first major league win. the bottom of the eighth inning to lift Detroit. left-center to make it 2-0 in the first. Clint 13 strikeouts. Iwakuma (14-10) lost his third innings. Maeda has a 2.12 ERA in three starts at Justin Upton also went deep for the Tigers, who Robinson and Trea Turner had RBI singles off straight start while matching his shortest outing the hitter friendly park. CARDINALS 6, BREWERS 5 pulled within a game of Baltimore for the Frank Herrmann in the ninth. of the season at three innings. Stephen Piscotty scored on a throwing error American League’s second wild card. Detroit ANGELS 9, REDS 2 in the ninth inning after Carlos Martinez struck trailed 3-2 after a solo homer in the seventh by CUBS 8, PIRATES 7, 13 INNINGS ASTROS 6, ATHLETICS 0 Mike Trout and Albert Pujols each hit one of out a career-high 13, leading the St. Louis past Chicago’s Tyler Saladino, but Saltalamacchia’s Miguel Montero hit a game-ending RBI single Jose Altuve homered, Joe Musgrove and the Angels’ five home runs in a win over Milwaukee. With two on and nobody out in the towering drive to right-center off Nate Jones (5- in the 13th inning, and Chicago rallied for a wild three relievers combined on a four-hitter as Cincinnati. ninth, Yadier Molina dropped down a bunt. 3) put the Tigers ahead. Justin Wilson (4-4) got win over Pittsburgh. Dexter Fowler, Kris Bryant Houston beat Oakland. Musgrove (2-2) struck out Trout went 3 for 4 with two RBIs and two Reliever Tyler Thornburg (5-5) threw to third base the win in relief, and Francisco Rodriguez pitched and Anthony Rizzo set the stage for Montero’s seven, walked three and allowed three hits over runs, joining Alex Rodriguez as one of two for a force out, but Jonathan Villar’s throw to first a perfect ninth for his 37th save in 40 chances. clutch swing with consecutive RBI singles against 5 1/3 innings, and then Luke Gregerson, Pat players to score 100 runs five times before his was wild, allowing Piscotty to score. After Saladino drove in all three Chicago runs. James Jeff Locke (9-8), plating the tying run. After Ben Neshek and Brad Peacock closed things out. age-25 season. Pujols hit his 586th homer, Martinez held Milwaukee to one run over six Shields allowed two runs and six hits in six Zobrist was walked intentionally, Montero lined a Musgrove had allowed 13 runs over his last two tying Frank Robinson for ninth on the career innings, the Brewers scored four runs in the sev- innings. clean single into left field. Rob Zastryzny (1-0) starts. Houston closed within two games of the list. Kole Calhoun was a triple short of the enth to take a 5-3 lead. St. Louis tied it in the RED SOX 9, RAYS 4 got his first major league win despite allowing second AL wild card with the win and Baltimore’s cycle, and C.J. Cron homered among his three eighth on a two-run homer by Randal Grichuk off Rick Porcello became the majors’ first 18- Josh Harrison’s sacrifice fly in the top half of the loss. A’s starter Sean Manaea (5-9) left after 3 1/3 hits for the Angels. Corey Knebel. Seung Hwan Oh pitched a perfect game winner and the first Red Sox pitcher in 70 inning. Jorge Soler and Willson Contreras home- innings with a right rhomboid strain. Matt Shoemaker (9-13) allowed two runs and ninth for his 14th save. Miguel Socolovich (1-0) years to open a season 13-0 in Fenway Park, red for the Cubs, and Javier Baez collected four Altuve hit his second homer in two games to seven hits over seven innings. After giving up a pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings to pick up his first going seven solid innings in Boston’s victory over hits. Pittsburgh had won eight straight road lead off the sixth and extend Houston’s lead to two-run homer to Joey Votto in the first, win. Jedd Gyorko and Kolten Wong each hit solo Tampa Bay. Mookie Betts hit his 30th homer, a games. It fell 1 1/2 games back of St Louis for the 3-0. Alex Bregman hit a two-run single and Shoemaker settled in to win his third straight home runs for the Cardinals. solo shot, and drove in two runs for the Red Sox, second NL wild card. Carlos Correa had an RBI single as part of a decision. Dan Straily (10-7) allowed seven runs in who hold the AL’s first wild-card spot but had three-run seventh. 2 2/3 innings. — AP INDIANS 1, TWINS 0, 10 INNINGS lost four of five. BLUE JAYS 5, ORIOLES 1 Jason Kipnis’ 10th-inning single scored Chris Brock Holt had three hits and drove in two Josh Donaldson hit his fourth homer in two Gimenez as Cleveland handed Minnesota its runs, Travis Shaw had three hits and Chris Young days and Jose Bautista also went deep in support 11th straight loss. Kipnis lined a 1-0 pitch from added a tiebreaking two-run double for Boston. of Marco Estrada, leading Toronto past Baltimore. Brandon Kintzler (0-1) with one out to left-center Porcello (18-3) allowed three runs and six hits, The Blue Jays lead the third-place Orioles by to finally break up the scoreless game. Abraham striking out seven without issuing a walk. Matt four games in the AL East. Baltimore has lost four Almonte pushed a bunt past Kintzler and beat Andriese (6-6) took the loss, giving up a season- out of five and is clinging to the second wild card. Donaldson hit a solo homer in the fourth to tie it 1-1. The AL MVP had three homers in a 9-6 win over Minnesota on Sunday. Estrada (8-6) MLB results/standings allowed one run and four hits with four strike- outs over seven-plus innings. The Blue Jays have Toronto 5, Baltimore 1; Washington 4, Philadelphia 0; Detroit 4, Chicago White Sox 3; NY Mets won three of his four starts against the Orioles 2, Miami 1 (10 innings); Cleveland 1, Minnesota 0 (10 innings); Boston 9, Tampa Bay 4; St. this year. J.J. Hardy provided Baltimore’s only run Louis 6, Milwaukee 5; Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 7 (13 innings); Texas 6, Seattle 3; Houston 6, with his eighth homer in the third. Baltimore left- Oakland 0; Kansas City 8, NY Yankees 5; Colorado 8, LA Dodgers 1; La Angels 9, Cincinnati 2. hander Wade Miley (8-11) allowed three runs and American League National League five hits while tying a season high with nine Eastern Division Eastern Division strikeouts over seven innings. W L PCT GB Washington 76 55 .580 - ROYALS 8, YANKEES 5 Toronto 75 56 .573 - Miami 67 64 .511 9 Dillon Gee kept the Royals’ momentum going Boston 73 58 .557 2 NY Mets 67 64 .511 9 Baltimore 71 60 .542 4 with six sharp innings, Alcides Escobar hit a Philadelphia 60 71 .458 16 three-run homer and Kansas City beat the New NY Yankees 67 63 .515 7.5 Atlanta 48 83 .366 28 Tampa Bay 55 75 .423 19.5 York Yankees. Gee (6-7) allowed only four hits Central Division and a run in the latest impressive start by the Central Division Chicago Cubs 83 47 .638 - Cleveland 74 56 .569 - Royals’ staff, helping the reigning World Series St. Louis 69 61 .531 14 Detroit 70 61 .534 4.5 champions win for the 18th time in 22 games. Pittsburgh 67 62 .519 15.5 Kansas City 69 62 .527 5.5 Lorenzo Cain, Kendrys Morales and Alex Gordon Chicago W Sox 63 67 .485 11 Milwaukee 56 75 .427 27.5 drove in runs off Michael Pineda (6-11) during a Minnesota 49 82 .374 25.5 Cincinnati 55 75 .423 28 five-hit salvo in the first inning. Western Division Western Division Pineda then retired 15 straight before getting Texas 78 54 .591 - LA Dodgers 73 58 .557 - into a two-on, no-outs jam in the seventh that Houston 69 62 .527 8.5 San Francisco 71 59 .546 1.5 led to Escobar’s homer off reliever Blake Parker. Seattle 68 63 .519 9.5 Colorado 63 68 .481 10 Starlin Castro drove in two runs for the Yankees, LA Angels 57 74 .435 20.5 San Diego 55 75 .423 17.5 the second in a four-run eighth inning that BALTIMORE: Manny Machado #13 of the Baltimore Orioles throws out Justin Smoak #14 Oakland 57 74 .435 20.5 Arizona 55 76 .420 18 forced Kansas City manager Ned Yost to summon (not pictured) of the Toronto Blue Jays in the seventh inning at Oriole Park at Camden fill-in closer Kelvin Herrera. Yards on Mondat in Baltimore, Maryland. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 SPORTS NZ to keep trialling day-night first-class cricket WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket tional cricket, is to host one of the am (2130 GMT). Only one of the other year and while the ball swung apprecia- Eden Park has been designated the first appear to be pushing ahead with plans to Plunket Shield games scheduled to begin venues scheduled to host first class crick- bly and batsmen said they found it diffi- test on that tour, with the second at trial day-night first class matches as they on March 6. et this season, Napier’s McLean Park, has cult to see after twilight, administrators Christchurch’s Hagley Oval, which does not build towards hosting their inaugural pink Auckland’s Eden Park and Hamilton’s lights. All of the Plunket Shield matches felt the interest generated had been suf- have lights. NZC had considered holding a ball home test against England in 2018. Seddon Park, both of which have lights, there are scheduled as day games. ficient to continue to explore the con- round of first class day-night matches earli- NZC released their 2016/17 domestic will also host matches starting on March NZC has said they hoped to play their cept. Next year’s Plunket Shield matches er this year with an eye to playing one of fixture list yesterday and Wellington 6. All three games have not had their first day-night test match at home should give NZC the opportunity to test their tests against South Africa next March Regional Stadium, which has never host- start times confirmed, while every other against England in 2018. the conditions likely to be faced by both with the pink ball, but had to scrap the ed a first class match and has been used Plunket Shield match in the 2016/17 sea- New Zealand played Australia in the sides in 2018, with the England tour pen- idea after McLean Park’s lights were solely for day-night limited-overs interna- son has a traditional start time of 10:30 inaugural day-night test in Adelaide last cilled in for mid-February to late March. deemed not strong enough. — Reuters No regrets for legend Keane as he prepares final bow

DUBLIN: Retiring Ireland legend Robbie Keane thing about me, I’ve always turned up, I’ve says he would not have swapped a major club always tried my best. “Even with injuries, you honour for his international career. The LA get injections before games. And that’s just Galaxy striker will play for his country for the the love for Ireland and that’s the love for the last time in tonight’s friendly with Oman at country.” Oman could become the 37th differ- Lansdowne Road. With 67 goals in 145 appear- ent country to be on the wrong side of a ances, Keane is 15th on the all-time internation- Keane strike, and he has history on his side al goalscorers list, just one behind German leg- with 42 of his 67 goals scored on home soil. end Gerd Muller. The 36-year-old Keane could “I don’t care about Muller’s record or any- overtake the man who won three European one, I’m chasing the next one because that’s Cups with Bayern Munich in the 1970s, but he’d what I’ve done since I was seven. I don’t know never change anything about his international any different,” Keane said. career, that covered 18 years and three major “I want to sign off with a goal. There is no finals. “No way. No chance,” said Keane. way I’m going into this game half hearted. “I’ll miss everything about playing for “Just because it’s my last game, I’m not going Ireland, first and foremost, I’ll miss pulling to go into it thinking ‘I’ll enjoy the moment’, that green jersey on. “For me, more than any- as soon as that whistle goes, I’ll want to win thing, that’s been the highlight of my career. the game.” He’s received good luck messages “I’ve played for many clubs but the Ireland jer- since announcing his retirement from David sey always seemed to fit me the best. “I’ve Beckham, Steven Gerrard and Mick McCarthy, enjoyed every minute of it. I’ll miss it all. “All I among others, but had special thanks to can do now is watch from the side and wish Ireland manager Martin O’Neill for asking him the team well. “It’s going to be a little bit dif- to play in Wednesday’s game. “I spoke to him ferent for me, a bit surreal.” Over 18 years have after the Euros and thanked him, Roy (Keane), passed since Keane made his Ireland debut everyone,” said Keane. against the Czech Republic as a raw 17-year- “I said I would announce it (retiring) in a old striker at Wolverhampton Wanderers. few weeks and then I got the call from Martin Since then he has played for nine clubs to see if I would play this game as an appreci- including Inter Milan, Leeds United, ation to you and I said of course, no problem. Tottenham, Liverpool, Celtic and Los Angeles I was delighted and humbled to have the Galaxy. Although Keane is 13th in the opportunity.” Keane is expecting an emotion- Premier League’s all-time goalscoring charts, al night in front of a packed house in Dublin, with 126 goals, he won just one major trophy for the game that comes just five days before in British football, the 2008 League Cup with the country’s World Cup 2018 qualification Tottenham, but has since added three MLS campaign opener in Serbia. Cups in the United States. “It’s certainly going to be difficult to keep But the international scene was always a dry eye, there is no question about it,” he what mattered most to the Dubliner, often to admitted. “It’s been my life since I was 17 years the annoyance of his club managers. of age. Knowing on tomorrow that it’s going to “I could never understand why people be the last time I’ve played for Ireland, waking pulled out of games, I could never get my up that morning is going to be very very head around that and still to this day can’t,” he strange for me. Even packing my bags for one said, revealing he rejected requests by club last time was very weird, it’s the weirdest, managers to skip international duty. “One strangest feeling I’ve ever had.” —AFP

PRETORIA: New Zealand’s batsman Henry Nicholls, left, watches as South Africa’s bowler Kagiso Rabada, fields off his shot duringthe fourth day of theSteyn second cricket test match between South sets Africa and New Zealand, at Centurionup Park in Pretoria,South South Africa, yesterday. — AP African series win

CENTURION: Fast bowler Dale Steyn set up a Latham tried to leave the ball from Steyn that was dropped by Stiaan van Zyl at third slip off series-clinching 204-run win for South Africa on bowled him but it lifted sharply and bounced off Philander when he had five and two runs later the fourth day of the second and final Test his raised bat onto the stumps. Guptill, a heavy seemed lucky to get the benefit of the doubt Robbie Keane against New Zealand at SuperSport Park yester- scorer in limited overs international cricket, from television umpire Richard Illingworth when day. Steyn took three wickets with his first 11 again raised doubts about his technique in Test the South Africans appeared convinced that he balls of the innings and finished with five for 33 cricket when he edged a ball that seamed away had gloved Philander to De Kock. England set new ODI record as New Zealand were bowled out for 195 despite from him. In three innings in the truncated South Africa added 27 runs in 13 overs, for a defiant innings of 76 by Henry Nicholls. series, Latham and Guptill scored a combined 23 the loss of Philander’s wicket, before declaring of 444-3 against Pakistan It looked as though it would be easy for the runs and the highest total at the fall of the sec- their second innings on 132 for seven. Temba hosts when Steyn and Vernon Philander ripped ond wicket was 13, putting pressure on Bavuma made 40 not out. Tim Southee bowled NOTTINGHAM: England recorded the record 171 yesterday. highest-ever team total in a one-day inter- Jos Buttler followed up with the quick- through New Zealand’s top four batsmen for Williamson and the remaining batsmen. Watling Philander and finished with three for 46. — AFP national when they made 444 for three est-ever England ODI fifty, off just 22 seven runs inside the first four overs of the against Pakistan at Trent Bridge yesterday. balls, on his way to an unbeaten 90 off 51 innings. But the left-handed Nicholls, playing in In what was the 3,773rd match at this balls featuring seven fours and seven six- his sixth Test match, displayed courage and con- SCOREBOARD level England’s total surpassed the previ- es. Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Wahab centration in making his second Test half-centu- ous record of 443 for nine by Sri Lanka Riaz, who twice took ‘wickets’ with no- ry and highest score to delay South Africa’s cele- against the Netherlands at Amstelveen in balls, finished with figures of none for 110 brations. He found a similarly determined part- CENTURION, South Africa: Final scores on the fourth day of the second and final Test between 2006. It was also the highest ODI total in in his maximum 10 overs. That was the ner in BJ Watling, who made 32 in a two-hour, South Africa and New Zealand at SuperSport Park yesterday: 68-run fifth wicket partnership, while Mitchell a match between two Test nations, top- second-most expensive return in an ODI, South Africa, first innings, 481-8 dec New Zealand, second innings Santner, Doug Bracewell and Tim Southee all ping South Africa’s 439 for two against behind Australian Mick Lewis’s none for New Zealand, first innings, 214 T. Latham b Steyn 0 provided varying degrees of resistance. Nicholls the West Indies at Johannesburg last 113 against South Africa at Johannesburg M. Guptill c Amla b Steyn 0 was last man out after batting for 255 minutes. year. Alex Hales, on his Nottinghamshire in 2006. England lead their five-match South Africa, second innings K. Williamson c De Kock b Philander 5 He faced 140 balls and hit 12 fours. home ground, made an England ODI series with Pakistan 2-0. — AFP (overnight 105-6) R. Taylor lbw b Steyn 0 Steyn bowled Tom Latham with the first ball S. Cook lbw b Boult 4 H. Nicholls c Rabada b Steyn 76 of the final innings, then had Latham’s fellow Q. de Kock c Williamson b Bracewell 50 B. Watling lbw b Piedt 32 opener, Martin Guptill, caught at first slip, also H. Amla c Guptill b Southee 1 M. Santner b Steyn 16 for a first ball duck, off the final ball of the over. J. Duminy lbw b Southee 0 D. Bracewell lbw b Philander 30 The magnitude of New Zealand’s task was F. du Plessis c Taylor b Boult 6 T. Southee b Rabada 14 shown in the second over when captain and first T. Bavuma not out 40 N. Wagner lbw b Rabada 3 innings top-scorer Kane Williamson was struck a S. van Zyl c Watling b Wagner 5 T. Boult not out 0 painful blow on the left hand by a ball from V. Philander b Southee 14 Extras (b10, lb7, w2) 19 Vernon Philander which reared up off a good D. Piedt not out 0 Total (58.2 overs) 195 length. He required lengthy treatment before Extras (b4, lb1, nb1, w6) 12 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Latham), 2-3 (Guptill), 3-5 resuming his innings. The team physiotherapist Total (7 wkts dec, 47 overs) 132 (Taylor), 4-7 (Williamson), 5-75 (Watling), 6- went onto the field twice more to treat the play- Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Cook), 2-32 (Amla), 3-32 118 (Santner), 7-164 (Bracewell), 8-187 er before Williamson was caught behind off (Duminy), 4-47 (Du Plessis), 5-82 (De Kock), 6- (Southee), 9-195 (Wagner) Philander for five. In between, Ross Taylor was 98 (Van Zyl), 7-129 (Philander) Bowling: Steyn 16.2-4-33-5, Philander 14-4-34- trapped leg before wicket by an unplayable ball Bowling: Southee 16-6-46-3 (1w), Boult 14-3- 2 (1w), Rabada 13-2-54-2 (1w), Van Zyl 3-1-5-0, from Steyn, which skidded through barely above 44-2, Bracewell 7-2-19-1, Wagner 10-1-18-1 Piedt 12-3-52-1. ankle height off a pitch with increasingly unpre- (1nb, 1w) Result: South Africa won by 204 runs. dictable bounce. Van Basten quits Dutch team for FIFA job

AMSTERDAM: Netherlands assistant coach development and reform of football, and to use 2016 finals in France. Marco van Basten is to give up the role by the my ideas and opinions over issues like playing The Netherlands start their campaign to end of the year as the leadership crisis surround- rules, refereeing and development programmes,” reach the 2018 World Cup finals away at Sweden ing the side took another twist yesterday, a week Van Basten said in a KNVB statement. next Tuesday. Advocaat and Van Basten are both before the Dutch kick off their 2018 World Cup “I have agreed with Danny Blind to stay as an former national team coaches in their own right campaign. assistant until the end of the year.” and were expected to form a powerful support Van Basten is the second of Danny Blind’s The loss of his deputy is the latest blow for team for Blind. assistants to announce their departure in the Blind, who had asked another former European However, Advocaat left after just three last two weeks after Dick Advocaat opted to take Footballer of the Year, Ruud Gullit, to assist him, months and Van Basten’s impending departure over as head coach of Turkish side Fenerbahce. only for negotiations to break down. is a further blow. The Dutch football association (KNVB) con- The acrimonious fallout between Gullit and “Of course I’m not happy but the FIFA job is NOTTINGHAM: England’s Alex Hales celebrates his century during the third firmed the 51-year-old’s impending exit on the KNVB has since dominated Dutch sports something that is tailor made for Marco. Even one day international cricket match, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England, Tuesday, saying Van Basten was leaving to start pages at a time when the team are hoping to though it means I have to find another succes- yesterday. — AP work with the sport’s global governing body. make a positive start to World Cup qualifying sor, it is a great opportunity for him,” Blind said in “FIFA have offered me a chance to work in the after the disappointment of missing the Euro a statement yesterday. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 SPORTS

New Russia coach shakes up squad amid World Cup worries

MOSCOW: New Russia boss Stanislav Cup campaign. ‘LIFTING THE FANS’ that garnered a million signatures. “It’s clear that the discipline is one of Cherchesov has made wholesale changes Among the new faces are Rostov goalie Those called up to the new-look squad “This petition shows that our fans his top priorities,” he said. “I expect that his for his first game in charge against Turkey Soslan Dzhanayev, left-back Fedor agreed that they needed to turn round aren’t indifferent,” Cherchesov told the players will battle for the win in every sin- as he bids to revive a demoralised squad to Kudryashov and midfielder Yury Gazinsky perfomances after the summer’s abysmal press. “Our primary task is to build a com- gle match under his guidance.” host the World Cup in less than two years. of Krasnodar. showing. petitive team by 2018.” The political backdrop to the match in Only eight of the 23-man squad that Cherchesov also invited CSKA “The team have not been good in their But the former Spartak and Dynamo Turkey will add extra spice to the occassion. crashed out of Euro 2016 have been Moscow’s Brazilian right-back Mario recent matches,” keeper Dzhanayev told Moscow boss does not have many options The game comes after the strongman lead- retained for the friendly against Turkey in Fernandes, who recently acquired Russian the press after a training session near as he looks to alleviate supporter ire. “He ers of the the two countries Vladimir Putin Antalya today. The match partly aims to citizenship but is not yet eligible to play Moscow. “We need to lift the interest of has a scanty choice of players,” football and Recep Tayyip Erdogan dramatically ease political tensions between the coun- for the country, along to training. our supporters. That’s why we all need to pundit Igor Rabiner at newspaper Sports made up after an angry seven-month dis- tries. Russia also play Ghana in Moscow on “We need to create the right chemistry play as hard as we can.” Express told AFP. pute over Turkey’s shooting down of a September 6. to make the players feel pleasure when Former Legia Warsaw trainer “There’s obviously a shortage of bright Russian jet on the Syrian border last Former international goalkeeper they join the national side,” Cherchesov Cherchesov, 52, has a huge workload talent in the current generation of Russian November. Despite Russian football officials Cherchesov replaced Leonid Slutsky after told the press after his appointment. ahead of him to transform a team whose footballers.” Rabiner said Cherchesov’s no- saying they have received full security assur- the flop in France with the mammoth task “First of all we need to restore respect Euro 2016 performances sparked an nonsense approach should help give his ances for the match, media reports said few of turning around the squad for the World to the team.” online campaign to dismiss all the players stars a much needed kick. Russian fans are likely to attend. — AFP Hart arrives for Torino medical

MILAN: England goalkeeper Joe Hart dence following a disastrous Euro 2016 arrived in Turin yesterday ahead of under- campaign for England, who saw hopes of going a medical that should see him sign a contending for the title undone during a season-long loan deal with the unfashion- sensational 2-1 last 16 defeat to Iceland able Serie A club. Hart, 29, has fallen out of that pre-empted the resignation of manag- favour with Pep Guardiola at Manchester er Roy Hodgson. City following the signing of Claudio Bravo Hart was considered to be amongst the from Barcelona and is set to join Torino in a key culprits after making errors against bid to preserve his club future and interna- Wales and Iceland, but if he expected to tional career following England’s spectacu- find succour in the comfort of his lar Euro 2016 exit. Premiership club he was wrong. Television pictures showed Hart arriving When Guardiola signed Bravo from at the city’s Caselle airport and widespread Barcelona, Hart lost his number one spot. reports in the Italian media said he will sign To retain his place as England ‘keeper, Hart for Sinisa Mihajlovic’s side Tuesday if he needs regular football in a season that will successfully completes a medical. Hart’s see the Three Lions begin their qualifying agent is reported as saying in the Turin- campaign for the 2018 World Cup in a based sports daily Tuttosport: “Yes, Joe Hart Group F featuring Scotland, Slovakia, will play at Torino. It’s a done deal. He has Slovenia, Lithuania and Malta. said ‘yes’ to the club and now Manchester But Hart, who will be keen to avoid the City have given the OK.” Hart would fate of the many English players who failed become only the third English goalkeeper to make an impact in Serie A, has reason for to play in Italy’s top flight and the first since apprehension. One of Mihajloivoc’s first 1929/30, an era in which English players- decisions at Milan was to hand 16-year-old some of whom helped lay the foundations goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma his of some of Italy’s biggest clubs-were preva- Serie A debut, leading to the contentious lent in the country’s top flight. demotion of experienced Spaniard Diego Prior to Hart, James Richardson Lopez. Spensley played for Genoa at the turn of Donnarumma, widely expected to suc- the 20th century, when Hoberlin Hood ceed Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon turned out between the posts for AC Milan. as Italy’s number one some time in the It is considered a major coup for Torino, future, remains Milan’s first choice ‘keeper. who have been given a boost in their bid to Media reports said the option of looking secure a place in next season’s Europa to sign Hart came through Attilio League, especially with City agreeing to Lombardo, the former Sampdoria winger pay a significant portion of Hart’s annual who was Roberto Mancini’s assistant at TRNAVA: England’s striker Wayne Rooney (L) and defender Kyle Walker (R) take part in a training session at St George’s Park near Burton-Upon- salary of 3.3m pounds (4.2m euro). Manchester City and is now Mihajlovic’s Trent in central England yesterday ahead of their World Cup 2018 qualifier football match against Slovakia. England face Slovakia in a World Hart, meanwhile, has the chance to gain assistant at Torino. Hart could make his Cup qualifier in Trnava on September 4. — AFP valuable experience in one of the world’s Torino debut on September 11 when the toughest league in terms of tactics. ‘Granata’ face Atalanta in Bergamo. He is expected to take the gloves from Mihajlovic’s men have made a mixed Rooney to end England Daniele Padelli, who has failed to impress start to the campaign, following their 3-2 coach Sinisa Mihajlovic since he arrived at opening defeat to Milan at the San Siro the club several months after his sacking with a 5-1 demolition of Bologna that saw by AC Milan last season. new Italy call-up Andrea Belotti hit a hat- career after World Cup It would allow Hart to rebuild confi- trick. — AFP

BURTON-ON-TRENT: Wayne Rooney the last World Cup in Brazil two years ago and, major tournament goal at Euro 2012, but announced yesterday that the campaign for the with Rooney as captain, were humiliated by min- England fell in the quarter-finals. 2018 World Cup in Russia will be his last as an nows Iceland in the last at Euro 2016. Although Rooney was deployed in midfield England player. “I have had a fantastic international career so by former manager Roy Hodgson during Euro “Realistically I know myself that Russia will be far, played a lot of games and enjoyed every 2016, Allardyce has indicated he intends to use my last opportunity to do anything with minute, but at some point it is going to come to him in a number 10 role. England,” Rooney told a press conference at St an end,” Rooney said. “I’m not old, I’m 30 years of Rooney has been playing in that position George’s Park in Burton, central England. age, and come Russia I feel that will be the time under new United manager Jose Mourinho since “So I’m going to try and enjoy these two years for me to say goodbye to international football. the start of the season, but the former Everton and hopefully I can end my career with England “My mind is made up. It is up to Sam player said he was happy to play anywhere. on a high.” New England manager Sam Allardyce Allardyce again over the next two years, but if “It’s the manager’s decision,” Rooney said. “We confirmed on Monday that Rooney, 30, will be selected, I will have enjoyed it. Some highs, haven’t spoken about that. In the next few days kept on as captain for the World Cup qualifying some lows, but I’ll be an immensely proud man.” we’ll speak about it more, whether it’s as a mid- campaign, which begins in Slovakia on Sunday. fielder or attacker. The Manchester United striker will make his ‘MIDFIELDER OR ATTACKER’ “It’s only a day we’ve been together, but you 116th England appearance in Trnava, taking him Rooney’s most impressive performance for can see he’s a relaxed guy, and since we’ve been past David Beckham as the country’s most- England at a major tournament remains Euro here the camp has been good. It’s just a matter capped outfield player. 2004 in Portugal, when, aged only 18, he scored of getting on the training pitch. Captain since August 2014, Rooney is also four goals as Sven Goran Eriksson’s side reached “I’m looking forward to getting back on the England’s record goal-scorer with 53 goals. the last eight. pitch. We have bad memories from the last game But in six major tournament appearances England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 and he (against Iceland), obviously. We have to put it with England, he has never gone further than did not manage to find the net as they met with behind us. “It was disappointing the way we the quarter-finals. disappointment at the World Cups of 2006 and went out of the tournament. You can’t forget it, England crashed out in the group phase at 2010. Rooney ended an eight-year wait for a but it’s a new era for us, a new manager.” — AFP Injury leaves Messi in doubt for qualifiers

MADRID: Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has returned home to Argentina but remains doubt- TURIN: Goalkeeper Joe Hart poses with a fan upon his arrival at the Torino soccer ful for World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and team headquarters in Turin, Italy, yesterday. England goalkeeper Joe Hart is on the Venezuela with his club confirming the 29-year- verge of completing a loan move to Torino from Manchester City. The 29-year-old was old is struggling with a sore left hamstring. greeted by around 200 fans loudly chanting his name at Torino’s headquarters. — AP Messi played in Sunday’s 1-0 league win at Athletic Bilbao but underwent tests on Monday after admitting that the injury was causing him pain. “Tests conducted have confirmed that Lionel Valencia’s Alcacer Messi has a sore left adductor muscle. Both the medical services of FC Barcelona and the AFA (Argentina Football Association) have agreed on joins Barcelona this report,” Barcelona said in a statement. “The player will travel to Argentina to join the BARCELONA: Spain international Paco Neymar known as MSN. national team and the evolution of the discom- Alcacer has joined Barcelona from Alcacer scored 13 goals in 34 appear- fort will decide his availability to play in the Valencia in a 30 million euro ($33 million) ances for Valencia last year and also games scheduled.” five-year deal, announced the Catalan made six assists. The youngster was also Argentina sit third in the 10-team South giants yesterday. a double Euro winner with the Spanish American qualifying group on 11 points from six “Valencia’s Paco Alcacer is now a Under-19’s in 2011 and 21012. matches, two points behind leading pair Barcelona player and has signed a five Known as “Paco” he has had an equally Uruguay and Ecuador. year contract.” said Barcelona in a press flying start to his international career Edgardo Bauza will take charge of Argentina release. The fee for the 23-year-old will be with la Roja (13 appearances, six goals). for the first time when they host Uruguay in 26 million pounds with an additional two He was Spain’s most prolific goalscorer Mendoza on Thursday before the side travels to million in add-ons. during the qualifications for Euro 2016 Venezuela for another qualifier in Merida five Barca striker Munir-El-Haddadi is also netting five times. days later. thought to be part of the deal as he Alcacer leaves his boyhood club Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero and transfers to Valencia on a year long loan Valencia with whom he started his pro- Paris St Germain midfielder Javier Pastore have with a 12 million euro ($10 million) buy fessional career in 2010 when he was just already pulled out of the squad through injury, out clause at the end of the loan. The 20- 17-year-old. so the 2014 World Cup runners-up will be hop- year-old scored eight in 25 appearances The young Spaniard will have the diffi- ing Messi can be fit enough to play. Earlier this for the Spanish champions last season. cult task of breaking into Barca’s attack- month, Messi, who has scored 55 goals in 133 Alcacer completes Barcelona’s attack- ing line-up but coach Luis Enrique is appearances for his country, reversed a decision DUSSELDORF: Germany’s captain Bastian Schweinsteiger poses with female supporters in ing quartet and will largely be used as expected to give a lot of game time in to retire from the national team after they lost Duesseldorf, Germany, prior to the friendly soccer match against Finland, yesterday. backup to Barca trio Messi-Suarez- order to rest his star front three. — AFP the Copa America final to Chile in a penalty Schweinsteiger will play his last match for the national team today in Moenchengladbach, shootout at the end of June. — Reuters Germany. — AP 100-year-old runner Rooney to end from India inspires career after at US Masters 2018 World Cup Games15 19 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 2016

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NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns against Jerzy Janowicz of Poland during their 2016 US Open 2016 Men’s Singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Monday in New York. — AFP Djokovic beats scare, Nadal eases

NEW YORK: Defending champion Novak Djokovic over- games of the first set but eventually pulled through man Dustin Brown 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Kerber needed just over Puig with the Puerto Rican losing 6-4, 6-2 to China’s came an arm injury scare and long-time rival Rafael Nadal against Janowicz who had played just two matches all 30 minutes to get her pursuit of a first US Open title off Zheng Saisai. Kayla Day, just 16 and ranked at a lowly shone in 33-degree heat as the US Open showcased its year due to a knee injury. “It was hard to follow Phil to a winning start. 374 in the world, was 6-2, 4-2 up on Madison Brengle $650 million upgrade on Monday. Collins,” joked Djokovic in reference to the lengthy open- The German was leading Polona Hercog 6-0, 1-0 when her fellow American quit with an injury. World number one Djokovic, also the 2011 winner in ing ceremony which featured the veteran English rocker when the Slovenian called it quits having won just nine Day next faces American eighth seed Madison Keys New York and chasing his third major of the year, defeat- under the new $150 million roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium. points. Kerber, a semi-finalist in 2011, next faces Mirjana who beat compatriot Alison Riske 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 in a ed Jerzy Janowicz of Poland 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. Nadal, the On his arm injury, Djokovic added: “It’s never easy to Lucic-Baroni of Croatia. Muguruza carved out a gritty 2- tie which ended at 1.48am, the latest finish to a women’s 2010 and 2013 champion and seeded to face Djokovic in play at this level throughout the year. There are periods 6, 6-0, 6-3 win over Belgian qualifier Elise Mertens, match in tournament history. the semi-finals, eased to a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 win over Denis where you aren’t 100 percent.” Djokovic next faces Jiri ranked at 137. But the French Open champion needed Croatian seventh seed Marin Cilic, the 2014 champion Istomin of Uzbekistan. Vesely, the Czech who knocked him out of Monte Carlo courtside treatment from a doctor after dropping the and winner in Cincinnati last week, eased past Brazil’s In the women’s event, second seeded Angelique this year. Nadal’s reward for a fifth win in five meetings first set. Rogerio Dutra Silva 6-4, 7-5, 6-1. Kerber, the Australian Open champion, needed just 33 with Istomin is a match-up with Italian veteran Andreas Flamboyant French 10th seed Gael Monfils took his minutes to progress but Roland Garros winner Garbine Seppi. A wrist injury forced the Spaniard into an early DOCTOR’S ORDERS summer hardcourt record to 15-2 with a 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 win Muguruza required three sets and a visit from the doctor retirement at the French Open and sidelined him from The consultation certainly worked as she reeled off over Gilles Muller of Luxemburg. Monfils almost suffered before she survived. Djokovic had admitted that he was Wimbledon before a gold medal run in the doubles at the next seven games to lay the foundation for her win. a freak accident when a giant courtside clock fell “not 100 percent” after suffering a wrist injury on the eve the Olympics helped ease his misery. Muguruza plays Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia for a towards him as he collided with the back wall, chasing of the Olympics where he was a first-round loser. But it “The most important thing is that I am here in New place in the last 32. down a Muller shot. The Flushing Meadows complex has was the upper right arm that bothered the Serb on York. Injuries are part of the career. I had a hard time this French 13th seed Richard Gasquet, a semi-finalist been radically and expensively remodelled for this year. Monday night as he played his first Grand Slam match year,” said the fourth seed. three years ago, was the day’s biggest casualty. He went However, the old Grandstand court, due to be demol- since his shock third round exit at Wimbledon. Canadian fifth seed Milos Raonic, the runner-up to down to 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 to British world number 84 Kyle ished after the tournament, was pressed into action after The 29-year-old needed treatment after just five Andy Murray at Wimbledon, overcame German danger- Edmund. Also exiting was Olympic champion Monica the new Court 10 was deemed unplayable. — AFP Olympic gold medalist Monica Puig out of US Open

NEW YORK: Sure, Monica Puig would said. “It’s not just me.” have loved another week between the She upset Kerber, Muguruza and a Olympics and the US Open to “come third major champ, Petra Kvitova, on her down from the high” of becoming Puerto stunning run to gold. Less than a week Rico’s first gold medalist. ago, Puig was in Puerto Rico, riding in a Then again, that’s not how the tennis parade with other Olympians through calendar works. Puig realizes that if she streets packed with admirers - her victory wants to climb back to those heights, a joyous respite from the island’s eco- she’ll need to figure out this sort of turn- nomic crisis. around. For now, she’s a 22-year-old who Then it was back to the grind of ten- was seeded 32nd at the US Open and nis. When she took the court Monday, lost her first-round match in straight sets. with plenty of Puerto Rican fans cheering Zheng Saisai, ranked 61st, upset Puig 6-4, her on, she knew she wouldn’t be viewed 6-2 on Monday. as the player who has never made it past “These are new waters for me, new the fourth round at a major or the sec- territory,” Puig said. “I’m going to have to ond round at the US Open. start getting used to it.” She noted that “A lot of pressure, a lot of expectation,” Angelique Kerber, the player she beat in Puig said. “Once it starts becoming a little the gold-medal match, was able to come bit more of a habit,” she added, “then I’ll right back from a draining run in Rio de feel comfortable.” Janeiro to reach the final at Cincinnati. Zheng, another 22-year-old, upset Kerber, in contrast, is 28 and an Agnieszka Radwanska at the Olympics. Australian Open champ and Wimbledon She’ll be seeking to reach the third round runner-up this year. at a Grand Slam for the first time when “She’s been there,” Puig said. “She she faces 59th-ranked Kateryna knows what it’s like. She knows she’s No. Bondarenko. 2 in the world. She’s tested the waters And Puig will get back to working on out a little bit. “I’m brand new to this.” how to start making some magical runs And back when Kerber was brand at the majors. “I need to keep racking up new to being a major champion just a as much experience as I can,” Puig said. few months ago, she lost in the first “You know what? This isn’t going to be round of her next Grand Slam. Garbine the last of me. I know I’m going to keep Muguruza, also 22, struggled as well fol- working hard. The Olympics was some- NEW YORK: Denisa Allertova of the Czech Republic hits the ball against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during their 2016 US Open Women’s Single lowing her French Open title. thing that happened because of all my Match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York yesterday. — AFP “A lot of people go through this,” Puig hard work.”— AP London groups open line to Dublin after Brexit Page 23

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LONDON: People wait outside the Apple store in Covent Garden in London yesterday. The European Commission’s demand for Apple to pay Ireland some 13 billion euros in back taxes has put the country in the strange position of refusing the windfall for fear of scaring away valuable investment. — AFP EU hits Apple with 13 bn euro tax bill US warns economic ties in peril, iPhone maker to appeal

BRUSSELS: The EU ordered tech giant Apple to Ireland’s Finance Minister Michael Noonan world’s biggest free trade deal, meant to be in 2014 — equivalent to 50 euros for every mil- pay a record 13 billion euros in back taxes in described the ruling as “bizarre” and “an exer- completed before US President Barack Obama lion, Vestager added. Tensions have been grow- Ireland, a move Washington warned could cise in politics by the Competition steps down in January. Tax avoidance has ing between Washington and Brussels over a damage hugely important transatlantic eco- Commission”. Dublin, which suffered from moved sharply up the political agenda since EU series of anti-trust investigations targeting com- nomic ties. Brussels said Apple, the world’s harsh austerity measures after it was bailed governments adopted tough austerity policies panies such as Apple, Amazon, Starbucks and most valuable company, avoided virtually all out during the eurozone debt crisis, has vigor- to balance the public finances, driving public Fiat Chrysler. Apple said “we will appeal and we tax on its business in the bloc by illegal ously defended its low tax rates as a way of resentment that the rich paid relatively little tax. are confident the decision will be overturned.” arrangements with Dublin which gave the boosting the economy. The issue was highlighted close to home by the “It will have a profound and harmful effect on company an unfair advantage over competi- “If you look at the small print on an Apple LuxLeaks scandal which revealed that European investment and job creation in Europe,” the com- tors. iPhone, it says designed in California and Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker‘s pany added. Irish Finance Minister Michael Apple and the Irish government immediate- manufactured in China and that means any native Luxembourg gave companies huge tax Noonan said the decision “leaves me with no ly said they would appeal against the European profits that accrued didn’t accrue in Ireland breaks while he was prime minister. In October choice but to seek cabinet approval to appeal Commission ruling, with the iPhone maker and so I can’t see why the tax liability is in Brussels ordered US coffee giant Starbucks and the decision before the European Courts”. The warning it could cost European jobs. Ireland,” he said. Italian automaker Fiat to each repay up to 30 Apple tax bill dwarfs the previous EU record for a Ireland has attracted multinationals over But Vestager said Apple’s Irish operation million euros ($34 million) in back taxes to the state aid, the 1.3 billion euros received by the many years by offering extremely favourable was a sham-Apple’s “so-called head office in Netherlands and Luxembourg respectively. The Nurburgring race track from German authorities. sweetheart tax deals to generate much-needed Ireland only existed on paper. It had no European Union yesterday ordered Apple to pay The US stepped up its rhetoric ahead of the jobs and investment but Brussels said it broke employees, no premises and no real activities.” a record 13 billion euros in back taxes in Ireland, decision, accusing the European Commission of EU laws on state aid. “This decision sends a clear Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of saying deals allowing the US tech giant to pay unilateralism and overstepping its mandate. message. Member states cannot give unfair tax just 0.005 per cent on its European profits in almost no tax were illegal. In the latest in a series A bill of 300 million euros this year for benefits to selected companies, no matter if 2014 — equivalent to just 50 euros for every of rulings that has angered Washington, Swedish engineer Atlas Copco AB to pay Belgian European or foreign, large or small,” EU million, Vestager said. Brussels said the world’s most valuable compa- tax is the current known record. Other compa- Competition Commissioner Margrethe The Apple tax bill dwarfs the previous EU ny avoided tax bills on virtually all its profits in nies ordered to pay back taxes in Belgium, many Vestager said. Margrethe Vestager record for a state aid case-1.3 billion euros for the bloc under its arrangements with Dublin. of them European, have not disclosed figures. “This is not a penalty, this is unpaid taxes to the Nurburgring race track in Germany. For Apple, whose earnings of $18 billion last be paid,” Vestager said as she presented the national sales totalling billions. Apple chief Tim ‘No employees, no premises’ year were the biggest ever reported by a corpo- findings of a three-year investigation. The Cook said he was “confident” the EU ruling US anger Apple has had a base at the southern city of ration, finding several billion dollars should not announcement comes amid growing tensions would be overturned, adding that the Silicon Washington has made increasingly angry Cork since 1980 and employs 5,000 people in be an insurmountable problem. The 13 billion between Washington and Brussels over a series Valley giant was the biggest taxpayer in Ireland, comments over the case in recent weeks, and Ireland, through which it routes its international euros represents about 6 percent of the firm’s of EU anti-trust investigations targeting other the United States and the world. yesterday it echoed Apple’s warnings that the sales, avoiding billions in corporation taxes. But cash pile. As of June, Apple reported it had cash, giant US companies such as Google, Amazon, “The most profound and harmful effect of tax bill could hurt the European economy. The Vestager-who has launched a series of cases cash equivalents and marketable securities of McDonald’s, Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler. this ruling will be on investment and job cre- US Treasury said the ruling “could threaten to against US firms-said that Apple’s “so-called $231.5 billion, of which 92.8 percent, or $214.9 ation in Europe,” he said. Cook also warned that undermine foreign investment, the business cli- head office in Ireland only existed on paper. It billion, were held in foreign subsidiaries. It paid ‘Devastating blow’ the ruling was a “devastating blow to the sover- mate in Europe, and the important spirit of eco- had no employees, no premises and no real $2.67 billion in taxes during its latest quarter at Apple has had a base in the southern city of eignty of EU member states over their own tax nomic partnership between the US and the EU.” activities.” an effective tax rate of 25.5 percent, leaving it Cork since 1980 and employs nearly 6,000 peo- matters”, echoing the concerns of Dublin over The Apple decision may also complicate Apple as a result paid an effective corporate with net income of $7.8 billion according to ple in Ireland, through which it routes its inter- the decision. struggling EU-US talks on what would be the tax rate of 0.005 per cent on its European profits company filings. — Agencies Gulf mostly rises Macron resigns in step but turnover low towards presidency run

MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS PARIS: French Economy Minister Emmanuel September. “After that we will make proposals, Macron resigned yesterday clearing the way for and after that candidacy questions will be dealt DUBAI: Most Gulf stock markets rose yesterday in the last several weeks by FTSE’s plan to include some a presidential bid that will further unsettle an with,” the spokeswoman said. Macron’s place in response to firmer oil prices and global bourses but major Qatari stocks in its secondary emerging mar- already wide-open race. the government had become increasingly awk- trading turnover in Saudi Arabia and Dubai was low, ket index. An announcement of its picks is due after The 38-year-old former investment banker, ward after he repeatedly criticized left-wing suggesting many investors did not expect an extend- the close on Wednesday. one of France’s most popular politicians, did totems like France’s 35-hour work week and ed rally and were staying away. Saudi Arabia’s index Islamic lender Masraf Al-Rayan, which could make not immediately say he would run in the 2017 created his own party in April, casting it as gained 1.0 percent in a broad rise, with rising stocks FTSE’s list, rose 1.8 percent. Dubai’s index rose 0.5 per- election but is widely expected to do so, hav- leaning neither left nor right. outnumbering losers by 119 to 22. But the market cent in thin trade, with all 10 of the most active stocks ing quit the government and created his own A source in Macron’s inner circle said the recorded its second smallest daily volume this year. gaining. GFH Financial , the most heavily traded stock, political party. rapidly evolving political situation, in which for- The smallest was on Aug. 21. surged 4.3 percent to its highest level in 21 months. “Emmanuel Macron ... today handed in to mer president Nicolas Sarkozy and two former Major lender Al-Rajhi Bank, which has dropped But courier Aramex, which had jumped 2.3 percent the president of the Republic his resignation Socialist ministers had declared their intention sharply in recent weeks because of concern about on Monday, retreated 2.2 percent. Abu Dhabi edged from the government to fully devote himself to to run for president, had forced the hand of the bad loans due to Saudi Arabia’s economic slowdown, down 0.02 percent with real estate firms attracting his political party,” Socialist President Francois minister, who the source said had initially rose 2.3 percent. Al-Tayyar Travel Group surged 4.3 the most activity. Aldar Properties rose 0.7 percent Hollande’s office said in a statement. Finance planned to resign mid-September. — Reuters percent. The company offers services to Islamic pil- after it said it would start construction of a new resi- Minister Michel Sapin, a close ally of Hollande, If confirmed, a Macron bid for the presiden- grims for the haj, which starts this year on Sept. 9. As dential development in Abu Dhabi, while Eshraq will add the economy ministry to his portfolio. cy would further harm Hollande’s chances of many as 1.5 million external and domestic pilgrims Properties jumped 6.3 percent. In Egypt, the index The government’s pro-reform line is not re-election, with polls already suggesting he are expected to perform the haj in Mecca, roughly added 0.6 percent as Global Telecom jumped 5.3 per- expected to change. would be very unlikely to even make it into the the same number as last year, Saudi media reported, cent and investment bank EFG Hermes added 3.1 A spokeswoman said Macron would not run-off round. Hollande also has challengers but the government plans to boost the number of percent after Natixis, which recently bought an 11.8 announce a presidential bid on Tuesday. His from the left, including more hardline Socialists Umrah pilgrims sharply in coming years. Qatar’s percent stake in EFG from Dubai Financial Group, new party will first conduct a door-to-door such as former industry minister Arnaud index rose 0.5 percent, having been supported over appointed representatives to EFG’s board. — Reuters campaign to gauge opinion and collect voters’ Montebourg and ex-education minister Benoit French Economy Minister Emmanuel grievances on French politics by the end of Hamon. — Reuters Macron WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 BUSINESS Saudi Electricity may delay News In brief

Kuwait oil price down Jeddah plant expansion 31 cents to $43.87 pb KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down 31 cents Monday to settle at $43.87 per barrel as opposed to $44.18 pb last Friday, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) New plant near Riyadh in the pipeline yesterday. The price of oil in the world markets went down in fear of production inflation in the Middle East and the KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Electricity Co (SEC) will like- request for comment. Jeddah South, for which the first viable once more. Two of the sources said the extension hike in the US dollar exchange rate backed by anticipa- ly delay the planned expansion of its Jeddah South power phase started in May, would help meet growing electricity of the bidding was because fuel allocations had not yet tions over an increase of the interest rate in the US by the plant, but is still expected to start tendering for a plant demand in the western region, particularly from the holy been agreed. The first phase of the Jeddah South plant end of the year. The future contracts of the West Texas near Riyadh by the end of the year, industry sources told cities of Makkah and Madina. was oil fired. brand went down by 66 cents to reach $46.98 pb. The Reuters. SEC in April first invited companies to bid to build the The world’s largest oil exporter burns a significant future contracts of the Brent mix also went down by 66 The utility, the Gulf’s largest, faces multiple challenges extension to the plant, which aims to nearly double its amount of crude in power generation, particularly during cents to reach $49.26 pb. as it tries to keep up with rampant growth in power capabilities by adding as much as 1,400 MW of capacity, peak summer months, so the kingdom wants to substitute demand even as lower oil revenues constrain government but the date to submit technical bids has been extended this for natural gas to ensure more oil can be exported - spending on infrastructure projects. The fuel to be used in twice. The current bid deadline is Sept. 25, but this will like- important when Saudi is facing another substantial budget US dollar stable any new plant is also an issue given Saudi Arabia wants to ly be extended further, said the sources who declined to be shortfall in 2016. However, despite prioritizing gas for pow- against KD at 0.301 prioritise exports of crude oil by cutting domestic liquid identified as the information isn’t public. er generation, supplies in Saudi Arabia are stretched, con- KUWAIT: The US dollar’s exchange rate against the burning and using natural gas instead. “Officially SEC did not put (the plan) on hold, it just straining expansion. Kuwaiti dinar was stable at 0.301, whereas the euro’s Jeddah South’s expansion had been due to be funded keeps extending it,” said one of the sources. A new plant in Riyadh is still expected to go ahead. rate went down to KD 0.337 compared to Monday’s at state level, but the Riyadh scheme is earmarked as an Many Gulf companies typically avoid formally suspend- Known as PP15, it will be SEC’s largest plant, with a capaci- exchange rates, said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) independent power producer (IPP) project, meaning pri- ing or cancelling a project due to a resultant loss of pres- ty of more than 5,000 MW. The company is expected to yesterday. The rate of the pound sterling went down vate sector developers would shoulder the financing bur- tige. Instead, deadlines are repeatedly pushed back until invite expressions of interest from interested developers to KD 0.394, as well as the Swiss franc which also went den. State-controlled SEC did not respond to an emailed interest wanes, or conditions change to make the scheme towards the end of this year, sources said. — Reuters down to KD 0.307. The Japanese yen went up to KD 0.002.

Qatar central bank invites bids for 1bn riyal T-bills DUBAI: The Qatar central bank has invited banks to bid in a 1 billion riyal ($275 million) Treasury bill auction to be held today, according to a document seen by Reuters. The bills would be sold in three-, six- and nine-month tranches, with results of the monthly sale to be revealed on Thursday, the document showed. Between January and March, the central bank cancelled monthly sales of T-bills because of tightening liquidity in the banking system due to low oil and gas prices. But since then, liquidity has improved somewhat, and the sales have resumed. In the last sale on Aug 2, it issued 1.2 billion riyals of bills.

Saudi Bank Al Bilad prices 2bn riyal sukuk issue DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Bank Al Bilad priced an Islamic bond issue worth 2 billion riyals ($533 million) at 200 basis points above the three-month Saudi interbank offered rate, the lender said in a bourse statement yes- terday. The sukuk have a tenor of 10 years, with the bank having the right to call the bond at the end of the fifth year. They were sold through a private place- ment. Bank Al-Bilad, one of the smaller lenders in Saudi Arabia, said funds raised would support its capi- tal base in line with Basel III standards.

Over a million Indian workers to go on strike MAZAR-I-SHARIF: An Afghan street vendor sells second hand shoes on his cart stall along the roadside in Mazar-i-Sharif. —AFP NEW DELHI: More than a million Indian workers in bank- ing, telecoms and other sectors will go on strike on Friday, seeking higher wages and to protest against Prime Oil prices rise on US weather Iran plans first phase of Minister Narendra Modi’s labour reforms and a plan to close some loss-making firms. Trade unions including the fears, OPEC speculation oil deal tenders from Sept All India Trade Unions Congress and Centre of Indian Trade Unions rejected a government appeal on Tuesday to call LONDON: Oil futures rose yesterday sup- does not believe an intervention in oil mar- BEIRUT: Iran plans to hold an oil and Rouhani resisted any deal that could off the strike, saying it failed to address their demands. ported by production suspensions in the kets is necessary since the “market is mov- gas bidding round for foreign firms end the so-called buyback system under Since taking charge in May 2014, Modi has implement- US Gulf due to an expected tropical storm ing in the right direction”. from late September, Ali Kardor, manag- which foreign firms are banned from ed a raft of economic reforms and is trying to ease labour and speculation that producers meeting in Iraq - which exported more crude this ing director of the National Iranian Oil owning stakes in Iranian companies. laws to attract foreign investment and make it easier to do Algeria next month will act to prop up month from its southern ports than in July - Company (NIOC), was quoted as saying The new contracts are divided into business in the country. prices. Brent crude futures were trading at will continue ramping up output, its oil by the oil ministry’s news agency three main categories: exploration, The government aims to raise 560 billion rupees ($8.35 $49.53 per barrel at 1142 GMT, up 27 cents minister said on Saturday. A Nigerian mili- SHANA yesterday. development of discovered fields that billion) through privatisation this fiscal year, and shut down from the previous close. tant group has said it has ended attacks on The first tender, which is likely to be would lead to production, and some companies. Losses at 77 state-run companies US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude the nation’s oil and gas industry that have for the South Azadegan oil field in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to increase exceeded $4 billion in the last fiscal year. Tapan Sen, gener- was up 36 cents at $47.34 a barrel. Oil and reduced the OPEC member’s output by southwestern Iran, will take place output. al secretary of the Centre of Trade Unions, said there had gas operators in the US Gulf of Mexico have 700,000 barrels a day to 1.56 million bpd. between Oct. 14 and Oct 21, Kardor said. The duration of the contract is up to not been any “tangible proactive steps” by the government shut output equal to 168,334 barrels per But the prospect of a recovery in oil pro- “It’s likely that letters will be sent to 20 years from the start of development to address union demands such as a rollback of privatisa- day (bpd) of oil and 190 million cubic feet duction from Libya happening any time foreign companies next week as per reg- and can be extended for five years if tion in sectors like defence and railways, and an increase in per day of natural gas as a precaution soon was tempered after the head of the ulations so that the companies can pres- EOR techniques are applied on a field. minimum wages. against a tropical storm, the US Bureau of country’s National Oil Corp. said budgetary ent their information,” Kardor said. Iran Under the new contract model there will He said the strike would go on despite Finance Minister Safety and Environmental Enforcement delays from the new government were needs foreign investment to repair and be technological assistance for storage Arun Jaitley’s promise on Tuesday that the government said on Monday. Oil prices have also been undermining oil production. “Oil prices are upgrade its oil and gas fields and is also facilities, equipment construction and to would release state employees’ bonuses for the last two taking direction from speculation that a caught between concerns about oversup- years, and increase minimum wages for unskilled laborers. meeting next month in Algeria of major ply and a strong dollar on the one hand seeking the transfer of technology to its Iranian oil services companies, SHANA oil industry after a decade of isolation. reported. Iran has also signed seven new The unions also oppose a government directive to producers, including members of the and the prospect of further jawboning state-run pension funds to put more money into stock Organization of the Petroleum Exporting from OPEC members that some form of Three contracts are expected to be initial agreements with foreign oil com- signed by the end of the year which will panies, Kardor said according to SHANA. markets. Another major union, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Countries, could yield a production deal to production freeze could be on the cards,” Sangh, which is loosely affiliated with the Hindu nationalist bring in approximately $10 billion in rev- The contracts to study Iranian oil- support prices. CMC Markets senior analyst Michael group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological par- enue for the country, Kardor said. The fields were signed with firms including “Prices are still finding support from the Hewson said. ent of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, is not joining the launch of the Iran Petroleum Contract Austria’s OMV, France’s Total , expectations of an agreement on produc- The huge global oil oversupply that has strike.Some workers at Coal India Ltd are due to join the tion caps being reached at the late- weighed on prices for the past two years (IPC) for oil and gas development deals Germany’s Wintershall, Indonesia’s strike but company officials said they did not expect any September meeting,” Commerzbank said in may not clear until the second half of 2017, has been postponed several times as Pertamina, Russia’s Lukoil and shortfall in supplies for power companies as there was an a note. Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Shell’s chief energy adviser Wim Thomas hardline rivals of President Hassan Zarubezhneft, he said. — Reuters oversupply of the fuel. —Reuters Khalid Al-Falih told Reuters last week he told Reuters. — Reuters

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FRANKFURT/DUBLIN: Ireland says the Brexit considering moving more business to Ireland the interest of companies looking to relocate. vote has led to a jump in enquiries from London while the funds arm of insurer Prudential is look- Jim Stewart, an academic with Trinity firms considering opening offices in Dublin, one ing at expanding Dublin operations. College Dublin, said Ireland’s financial centre of a handful of European cities trying to draw Mark Hemsley, the European head of pan- had hosted many of the vehicles involved in the business away from Britain’s financial centre. European stock exchange Bats, said that Ireland financial crash and that it used “smoke and mir- Irish officials say they have had more than was “attractive because it’s the most similar to rors” to “camouflage” some activity. 35 concrete enquiries from financial groups the UK structure”. Two lawyers who advise finan- “It is not just the tax concession,” he said. “It’s looking at setting up a base or expanding in cial services firms told Reuters that a group of regulatory as well. The concession is that there is Ireland, which is recovering after near bankrupt- less than a dozen executives would be enough sometimes no regulation.” Stewart points to the cy in the financial crash. “Post-Brexit, it’s meant a to open an arm for an insurer or fund manager extensive use of special purpose vehicles, lot more meetings, more phone calls and a lot in Ireland. Moving part of a bank, however, including section 110 companies, allowing more travel,” said Eoghan Murphy, the minister would typically be a bigger task, requiring more deductions to cut tax on profits to as little as NEW YORK: A woman shops in an Aeropostale clothing store, in New York. The tasked with promoting Ireland as a financial cen- capital and staff to be relocated. “Brexit repre- zero. Reliance on tax breaks may have spawned Conference Board released its August index on US consumer confidence yester- tre. “I’m in daily contact with different players in sents a historic opportunity,” said Kieran a financial sector with little real activity with day. —AP the industry.” Financial companies based in Donoghue of Ireland’s Industrial Development Stewart saying investment funds are largely London are concerned that Britain’s vote to leave Authority. “Over the next few weeks, our administrated rather than run from Dublin’s the European Union will stop them selling prod- approach will be dialled up.” International Financial Services Centre (IFSC). US consumer confidence in ucts in the bloc. EU member Ireland’s tax regime “A lot of the jobs in the IFSC are fairly low makes it an attractive alternative. However, there TAX REGIME CHALLENGED skilled,” he said. “The thinking is always done in a Aug highest in 11 months will be questions as to whether it can maintain But Ireland, whose prime minister Enda major financial centre.” Such criticism is rejected its appeal after EU regulators yesterday ruled Kenny once told a foreign business audience by Irish authorities, including the central bank, WASHINGTON: US consumer confidence ly from 22.1 percent to 23.4 percent. that a special scheme used by US technology that they could “call me any time”, faces obsta- which said licensing procedures are rigorous. rose in August to its highest level in 11 Economists said that the climb in confi- giant Apple to route profits through Ireland was cles to growing its financial centre, which “It’s the opposite to a brass plate financial months, suggesting economic growth dence reflected stronger job gains seen in illegal and ordered the company pay billion of employs more than 30,000 people. Dublin’s centre,” said Padraic White, a former head of the could pick up in the second half of the year. recent months, as well as strength in the euros in taxes to the Irish government. open-door policy and flexibility could be upset IDA agency. “Ireland has a transparent tax sys- The Conference Board said yesterday stock market and home prices, which Ireland is trying to woo companies with the by the European Commission’s demand that tem. There is no such thing as a tax deal. There is that its consumer confidence index rose to boost consumers’ net worth. offer of a contracting entity, a legal toehold on Apple hand over up to 13 billion euros to the an aspect of sheer jealousy and envy.” 101.1, up from 96.7 in July. It was the high- They expect the momentum in jobs to the island that could be expanded when Britain Irish government for only paying between 0.005 After years of cutbacks, Ireland also has oth- est level for confidence since the index hit boost incomes and spur stronger consumer leaves the EU, allowing them to keep the same and 1 percent on European profits. er problems. As construction of new homes 102.6 last September. spending. That should help growth accel- access to the European market. Businesses are Ireland said it intended to appeal the deci- lagged, rents in Dublin have risen above the The gain reflected consumers’ brighter erate in the second half of this year, after being courted by other financial centres includ- sion. The iPhones maker cut tax by channelling peak at the height of the property boom. views about current the economic situa- four quarters of an anemic average growth ing Frankfurt and Paris as executives consider profits through Irish subsidiaries. The penalty, Many in London are still biding their time, tion and their expectations for the future. rate of 1.2 percent. Many analysts believe alternatives to London while British Prime overturning a tax arrangement agreed decades listening carefully to the campaigns from The percentage of those surveyed who gross domestic product will top 3 percent Minister Theresa May weighs when to trigger ago with Dublin, challenges the low-tax regime Ireland, Paris and Frankfurt as well as keeping an saw business conditions as “good” in the current quarter. “Growth will be sup- two-year-long exit negotiations. that has been the cornerstone of Ireland’s econ- eye on Brexit progress in Britain. increased from 27.3 percent to 30 percent. ported by consumer confidence and job Some, particularly in fund management and omy. Low taxes also underpin its financial cen- “Most thought this would never happen,” Those who viewed business conditions as growth,” Jennifer Lee, senior economist at insurance, say they are warming to Dublin. tre, home to more than 6200 investment funds, said Simon Tilford of the Centre for European “bad” remained virtually unchanged at BMO Capital Markets, said in reaction to the Insurers Admiral and Beazley have said they are and were that regime to falter, it could dampen Reform, a London-based think tank. — Reuters 18.4 percent. Consumers who regarded consumer confidence report. The govern- jobs as “plentiful” increased from 23 per- ment will release the August jobs report on cent to 26 percent, although those who Friday. Many economists are looking for a felt jobs were “hard to get” also rose slight- gain of around 180,000 jobs. —AP Slowing German inflation puts pressure on ECB

BERLIN: German annual inflation slowed “Now we clearly see downside risks to this unexpectedly in August, preliminary data forecast. We’ll probably have stable infla- showed yesterday, suggesting price pres- tion of 0.2 percent in the euro zone,” sures in Europe’s largest economy remain Holstein said. “And this would clearly raise weak despite the European Central Bank’s the pressure on the ECB to unleash more ultra-loose monetary policy. The eurozone monetary stimulus.” has struggled with little or no inflation for A breakdown of Germany’s non-har- the past year, caused mainly by a plunge in monised consumer price data showed that oil prices. The ECB expects the bloc-wide energy prices remained the main drag on figure to stay below its target of just under the headline figure, but they fell less 2 percent for some years despite its mone- sharply than in the previous month. Costs tary stimulus. for food and services increased slower than German prices, harmonized to compare in July. Holstein said he expected German with other European countries (HICP), were headline inflation to rise in the coming up by 0.3 percent on the year after rising by months as the drag from the energy com- 0.4 percent in July, the Federal Statistics ponent would ease in the course of the Office said. year. “Today’s German inflation data will not This was below a Reuters consensus make the ECB’s already difficult life any eas- forecast for consumer prices to rise by 0.5 ier,” ING chief economist Carsten Brzeski percent. DZ bank economist Michael said. Still, the ECB will probably try to buy Holstein said the surprisingly weak German some additional time before making inflation data indicated that the euro zone another move, he added. figure, due out today, would now also “In order not to come entirely empty- come in weaker than expected. handed at next week’s press conference, For the bloc, economists polled by the ECB could drop the current deposit rate Reuters so far expected the rate to inch up floor for its purchases of government to 0.3 percent from 0.2 percent in July. bonds,” Brzeski said. — Reuters

LAVAL: Communications director of the Lactalis Group, Michel Nalet (4thR), next to the Prefect of Mayenne Frederic Veaux (3rdR) and Central Normandy Producers Organisation (OPNC) representative Sebastien Amand (2ndR), speaks to journalists after the negotiations between France’s Macron aims milkproducers and the Lactalis group yesterday at the prefecture of Mayenne in Laval, northwestern France. —AFP high at young age Lactalis strikes price deal PARIS: High-flyer Emmanuel Macron ment. Macron’s first big test in office was enjoyed a meteoric rise from investment to convince the notoriously change- banker to economy minister and could averse French to accept reforms to kick- be about to test whether France is pre- start their economy, with business- with French milk producers pared to elect a business-friendly presi- friendly laws such as allowing shops to dent under the age of 40. In just two open more often on Sundays. The move PARIS/RENNES: Lactalis, the world’s largest the agreement without giving any details. whole, Lactalis will lift prices to 290 euros per years in the Socialist government, sparked angry protests. Prime Minister dairy firm, reached a deal with French milk pro- French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called 1,000 litres for the milk purchased between Macron confronted leftist ideals head-on, Manuel Valls ultimately had to force the ducers yesterday to raise prices paid to suppliers the deal a positive agreement on Twitter. August and December, a member of a producers questioning the 35-hour work week and so-called “Macron Law” through parlia- and farmers called off their week-long protests, Between 2,000 and 3,000 farmers have protest- group said. Lactalis was paying 257 euros per blaming high unemployment and weak ment without a vote to avoid leftist the company and unions said. Lactalis agreed to ed since Monday last week outside the family- 1,000 litres before the talks. growth on “a lack of competitiveness rebels sinking it. (and) a loss of French economic muscle”. Macron’s flair-and the fact that he is a pay an average 275 euros ($307) per 1,000 litres owned firm’s headquarters in Laval, northwest- “It’s much better than what Lactalis had The 38-year-old’s maverick attitude fresh face in France’s little-changing politi- for the whole of 2016, Dominique Barrau, secre- ern France, bringing hundreds of tractors, cows offered so far,” Pascal Clement, president of the has often angered his leftist colleagues, cal scene-has seen him win over many tary general of France’s largest farm union and trailers. Farmers also carried out protests in FNSEA’s regional branch for western France, but the brickbats aimed at him by rivals young, cosmopolitan people. It is these FNSEA, told Reuters. “It brings Lactalis to the lev- supermarkets and called on consumers to boy- said. Still, unions put production costs at about have failed to derail his ambitions. “If “winners from globalization”, as Le Monde el of its competitors,” Barrau said, adding that the cott Lactalis products. 330 to 380 euros per 1,000 litres, depending on approval was a criterion in this country, newspaper described them, who flock to union had called for an end to protests. The offer European dairy farmers are struggling with the size of the farm. Lactalis does not publish nothing would ever get done,” Macron rallies of Macron’s political movement “En was 10 euros higher than an initial proposal a slump in milk prices caused by oversupply results but said on its website it has a turnover said last year. His willingness to chal- Marche” (On the Move) that he set up this before the first talks on Thursday last week, after the European Union scrapped quotas last of 17 billion euros ($19 billion), employs nearly lenge orthodoxies also extends to his year. Yet, it is unclear how wide the appeal unions said. Lactalis, which produces cheese, year, Russia banned Western food imports and 75,000 people in 85 countries in Europe, the personal life: at age 17, he ran off with a really is of a man who has never held elect- milk, butter and yoghurt with brands including Chinese dairy imports weakened. To reach the Americas, Asia and Africa, and has factories in teacher at his high-school-a woman 20 ed office, and Macron has certainly rubbed President, Bridel, Galbani and Lactel, confirmed average level of 275 euros for the year as a 43 countries. — Reuters years his senior, to whom he is married. many up the wrong way. In June, angry Quitting the government will allow union activists pelted him with eggs and him to prepare a run for president next yelled at him to “get lost” in reaction to a year, possibly challenging President video in which he told a member of the US bank earnings in Q2 climbed 1.4% to $43.6bn Francois Hollande, who plucked him powerful CGT union that “the best way to from obscurity in 2014 to join his govern- afford a suit is to work”. — AFP WASHINGTON: US banks’ earn- ings in the April-June period rose 1.4 percent from a year earlier as growth in lending Fed’s Fischer says US job market fueled interest income. The data issued yesterday by the ‘very close’ to full strength Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. showed continued WASHINGTON: The US job market is nearly Asked about the dollar yesterday, strength in the banking indus- at full strength and the pace of interest rate Fischer said the currency’s strength affect- try eight years after the finan- increases by the Federal Reserve will ed US inflation and company profits but cial crisis struck. However, the depend on how well the economy is doing, improvements in the labor market showed impact of low oil prices on Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said yes- the economy had withstood this headwind. energy companies led banks to terday. The Fed has signaled since March it would continue to post bigger losses In an interview with Bloomberg TV, lift rates twice this year, but investors have on commercial and industrial Fischer did not comment on the timing of been skeptical. loans. The FDIC reported that the next Fed rate hike but said “we choose Prices for Fed funds futures yesterday US banks earned $43.6 billion the pace on basis of data,” and that US suggested they expect about a 20 percent in the second quarter, up from “employment is very close to full employ- chance of a hike next month and just over $43 billion a year earlier. ment.” Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Friday even odds for such a move in December. The Around 60 percent of banks she thought the case had grown stronger Fed also has a policy meeting scheduled for reported an increase in profit in recent months for an interest rate early November. The US Labor Department’s from a year earlier. Only 4.5 increase, remarks that Fischer later that day monthly employment report on Friday is percent of banks were unprof- said were consistent with a view that the expected to show the economy added itable, down sharply from 5.8 US central bank might raise rates at its next 180,000 jobs in August, according to the MIAMI BEACH: A Chase Bank branch in North Miami Beach, Fla. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp released percent in the second quarter policy meeting in September. median forecast in a Reuters poll. — Reuters US bank industry earnings for the second quarter yesterday. —AP of 2015. — AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 Dollar, shares rise on US rate hike expectations

LONDON: Growing expectations the Federal cent probability of a hike in September and it has Prime Minister Matteo Renzi staked his future on a said investment plans among services firms, symposium of central bankers that Reserve will raise US interest rates this year moved from about 50 to 60 for December, which referendum on parliamentary reform. Data from the largest sector of the British economy, “the case for an increase in the federal pushed the dollar up for a seventh time in eight is considerably higher than a week ago,” said German states suggested inflation was little were at their lowest in more than four years. funds rate has strengthened in recent days yesterday. Stocks rose. Rabobank’s US-focused economist, Philip Marey. changed in August from July and around 0.5 per- “Looking ahead, the service sector faces a months”. Attention now turns to the release The dollar reached a 2 1/2-week high in “Now we are waiting for the next big thing, cent compared with a year ago, adding to the challenging environment in which to grow on Friday of the US jobs report, seen as a against other top currencies in European trading. which is payrolls (US jobs data) on Friday,” he debate on whether the European Central Bank will and invest, with uncertainty about demand guide to whether the Fed will move sooner The pan-regional FTSEurofirst 300 rose 0.5 percent added, saying the first batch of Q3 GDP data at the continue to cut rates. weighing on firms’ minds,” said the CBI’s head rather than later. “Without question, jobs day as banking and industrial stocks advanced. end of October would be key. The focus on US of economic analysis and surveys, Anna is always a monthly highlight, but given the Doubts remain about when US monetary poli- rates put bonds under pressure, with German BREXIT BRUISES Leach. The signs of weakness in the economy Federal Reserve board’s tilt at Jackson cy will change, especially with an election in Bund yields pulled up by 10-year Treasury’s rise to Bank of England figures showed lending to and the uncertain outlook for U.S. monetary Hole, it plainly appears it will take a big sur- November. But both Fed Chair Janet Yellen and 1.5850 percent. British consumers slowed in July, the month after policy led sterling to slip back towards $1.30. prise to derail a 2016 Fed hike expectation at Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggested on Friday the The yield on Italy’s 10-year BTP bond rose 1.5 Britain voted to leave the European Union. The pound has fallen more than 1 percent this point,” Stephen Innes, senior trader at case for a rate increase was strengthening, and basis points to 1.13 percent before its planned sale Mortgage approvals dropped to their lowest since against the dollar since Friday’s comments OANDA, said in a note. “Investor odds of lift- Fischer is due to speak later. of up to 7.75 billion euros of three bonds later. The January, although tax changes may have distorted by the Fed’s Yellen and Fischer. off are hovering near 70 percent for “The market is now pricing around a 36 per- sales will be the first major test of sentiment since the figures. The Confederation of British Industry “The BoE’s easing bias, softer UK econom- December and ic data and sterling’s role as a funding curren- Friday’s jobs data will offer more informa- cy will all keep the bearish ... momentum in tion about the probability of a hike in place,” said ING currency strategist Viraj Patel. September than anything else.” The dollar Asian markets rose yesterday, with Tokyo rose to 102.42 yen from 101.88 yen in New largely recovering from initial losses as York, with the Japanese unit also dragged expectations of a US interest rate rise and down by comments from the country’s top talk of more Japanese monetary easing central banker suggesting a further loosen- pushed the yen down against the dollar. ing of monetary policy. The weaker yen After Monday’s sell-off across most markets, could not help Japan’s Nikkei index extend fuelled by the prospect of higher US borrow- Monday’s more than two percent rally, and it ing costs, investors returned to buying- ended down 0.1 percent. However, Hong buoyed by a rally on Wall Street as fresh data Kong rose 0.9 percent, while Shanghai end- indicated improvement in the world’s top ed up 0.2 percent, Sydney gained 0.2 per- economy. Bets on a rate rise this year have cent and Seoul rallied 0.4 percent. There soared after Federal Reserve boss Janet were also gains in Singapore, Taipei and Yellen said last week at the Jackson Hole Wellington. — Agencies BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016

Iowa at center of debate over EU-US trade deal unlikely ‘shadow insurance’ deals IOWA CITY: For cash-strapped life insur- before Obama leaves office ance companies, the deal sounds almost too good to be true: A state law allows them to create complex financial instru- France wants more talks before agreement ments to transfer liabilities to new sub- sidiaries, instantly wiping huge debts off PARIS: France said yesterday it wanted to halt don’t want to analyse the mind and the inten- be halted at a meeting of foreign trade ministers their balance sheets. So-called “shadow thorny EU-US trade talks as President Francois tions of President Hollande. And it is clear that in Bratislava in September, Fekl added. He did insurance” agreements have exploded Hollande said there would be no deal until after for the moment we do not have enough-we not say when or under what conditions the talks over the last decade, but a growing num- President Barack Obama leaves office in January. can’t conclude before the end of the year,” the could restart. Germany’s Gabriel yesterday said ber of critics, including economists and However the EU commissioner in charge of the Swede said. But she added: “We have the aim that “given the current state of the talks, no consumer advocates, say the practice negotiations said they have not broken down and we still have... that we should aim to con- agreement is possible”. “We’ll see if the US posi- threatens the solvency of insurers and and the aim is still a deal by the time President clude under the Obama presidency. That is still tion changes after the presidential election. If puts policyholders and taxpayers at risk. Barack Obama leaves office. French junior trade our aim. “And if that is not possible it makes there is no change, there will be no TTIP,” he said. In 2013, then-New York insurance reg- minister Matthias Fekl said there was “no more sense to make as much progress as possible.” Activists who have opposed TTIP since negotia- ulator Benjamin Lawsky warned that the political support in France” for the talks because However Fekl said Paris sees an imbalance in tions began in 2013 say the deal would only arrangements amounted to “financial US negotiators were offering “nothing or just alchemy” and were reminiscent of prac- crumbs”. “France calls for an end to these nego- tices that contributed to the 2008 finan- tiations,” Fekl told RMC radio. Hollande, in a cial meltdown. But these opaque instru- speech to France’s diplomatic corps, chose his ments are not being concocted on Wall words more carefully but said it would be an Street. They emerged in places like Cedar “illusion” to say a deal was close. “The current Rapids, Iowa, at the headquarters of discussions on the treaty between Europe and TransAmerica Life, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Aegon NV, which was This undated photo provided by the United States will not lead to an agreement deemed one of nine too-big-to-fail insur- Jeffrey Belth shows Joseph M Belth, a by the end of the year,” he said. ers in the world by a global standards professor emeritus of insurance at “France would rather see things as they are board last year. Indiana University. Belth has been an and not harbor the illusion that an agreement “I think that the industry is headed for outspoken critic of the practice of will be struck before the end of the US presi- serious trouble with this,” said Joseph M. “shadow insurance,” in which life dent’s term in office.” But EU trade commissioner Belth, a professor emeritus of insurance insurers create subsidiaries to take on Cecilia Malmstroem said that she did not agree at Indiana University, who calls the prac- some of their liabilities. — AP that the negotiations had failed. tice “a shell game.” “They have been difficult, of course, we knew increases the risk of default. Belth has been seeking to force the from the beginning, but they have not failed,” The Office of Financial Research - an Iowa Insurance Division to release docu- she said. Germany’s vice chancellor and econo- arm of the US Treasury created after the ments related to eight shadow insurance my minister Sigmar Gabriel had said Sunday the 2008 financial collapse to analyze risks - subsidiaries that have been set up by negotiations were effectively dead in the water. called in a report earlier this year for TransAmerica and other companies “The talks with the US have de facto failed more disclosure of the arrangements under a 2010 state law that has encour- because we Europeans of course must not suc- and additional requirements that they aged the practice. Insurers say the cumb to American demands... nothing is moving be backed by quality assets. arrangements - which they call captive forward”, Gabriel said. Belth is author of a consumer’s guide reinsurance - are not risky but simply The EU Commission and US negotiators to life insurance and former 40-year edi- PARIS: French President Francois Hollande gestures as he addresses French ambassadors yes- free them from 2001 accounting rules began work on the Transatlantic Trade and tor of The Insurance Forum, a monthly terday. —AP mandating that they hold excess cash Investment Partnership (TTIP) in 2013, aiming to journal that ceased publication in 2013. reserves. Some state insurance regula- create the world’s largest free-trade area before the negotiations in favour of the US side. “The benefit multinationals and harm consumers. He has been seeking copies of the prom- tors have agreed with that argument and Obama ends his term. But the talks have Americans give nothing or just crumbs... that is not Behind the scenes, top diplomats have told AFP ises that insurers made to their Iowa sub- reject Lawsky’s warnings, saying it is a become bogged down amid widespread suspi- how negotiations are done between allies,” he said. talks may be suspended until after the US presi- sidiaries and other documents under the responsible practice when done appro- cion in the 28-nation EU that a deal would dential election in November and could even be open records law. He says the records priately. The National Association of undercut the bloc’s standards in key areas such ‘Clear and definitive halt’ put on hold until after elections in France and would show just how risky they are, say- Insurance Commissioners has been as health and welfare. Malmstroem admitted “We need a clear and definitive halt to these Germany next year. All EU member states and ing the information should be available working with members to oversee the to policyholders, shareholders and tax- there would be no deal by the end of this year as negotiations in order to restart on a good foun- the European parliament must ratify any TTIP deals and limit the risks. payers. Iowa Insurance Commissioner originally envisaged when the talks started. “I dation.” France will make its case for the talks to deal before it can take effect. — AFP Nick Gerhart has denied his requests, Flexibility TransAmerica spokesman Greg Tucker saying the documents are part of insur- noted that group declined to ban such ers’ “plans of operation,” which are confi- Sustainability certified India tea arrangements in 2014 after “careful con- dential under Iowa law. Gerhart has sideration” and made few changes to the argued that his staff routinely examines rules governing them. Life insurers have the transactions to ensure they are estates ‘violate’ workers’ rights been seeking more flexibility at a time sound, and that Iowa has been more transparent than other states by releas- when they are struggling to cover finan- CHENNAI: Tea estates in southern India are hir- and The India Committee of the Netherlands, struction and emergencies. Temporary workers ing the subsidiaries’ financial statements cial promises made to beneficiaries ing temporary workers during peak plucking non-governmental organizations working on have to repay the advance in full if they want to online every year. decades ago, when interest rates were season and denying these laborers basic rights labour and human rights. Tea plantations in leave the estate for other work, creating a cycle After reviewing those statements, far higher. The system works like this: of debt bondage in some cases. Koijen and Yogo found that six of the as required by law, said a report released yester- India - the world’s second largest producer of Insurers create wholly owned sub- day. A survey in the southern state of Tamil tea after China - employ an estimated 3.5 mil- The report found that risks of injury or ill- sidiaries on paper that assume some of eight subsidiaries created in Iowa “have significant negative equity under statu- Nadu at two tea estates - both certified by the lion workers, the report said. The report focused ness remain high, particularly among female the company’s liabilities. Those debts are international nonprofit Rainforest Alliance - on the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu, one of the workers. It also found that overtime hours and transferred off the parent company’s tory accounting” - meaning their assets are worth less than their liabilities under found that in 2015, up to half of the workforce main tea-growing belts in India with approxi- compensation do not comply with legal books, lowering the amount of capital were temporary workers, and most were mately 200,000 tea plantation workers. requirements or the criteria of the Rainforest reserves they are required to hold to pay traditional insurance industry standards. Belth said he got interested in Iowa’s migrants or retirees. Focus group discussions Up to half of the workforce are migrants from Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture off policies. That frees up cash that com- and individual interviews with the workers other parts of India. According to the Indian Network of non-profit conservation groups. panies can use instead to pay dividends, practices two years ago, when Bellevue, Washington-based Symetra Life showed the casual laborers did not receive a Plantation Act of 1951, all workers, temporary Responding to the findings, the Rainforest make acquisitions and increase execu- bonus, contributions for their children’s school and permanent, should be treated equally. Alliance said they had formally complained to tive pay, all while shaving their federal Insurance Company announced it was fees, a pension fund, creche facilities or other However, poor enforcement by government the two certified plantations, and an investiga- tax bills. The parent companies retain the moving its legal headquarters to Iowa “to social security benefits given to permanent authorities has allowed estate managers to tion had been initiated. Unilever, a buyer from risks because they grant their sub- take advantage of the state-of-the-art sidiaries “guarantees” or “notes” promis- statutes and regulations governing the workers. deny workers their rights, the report said. The both plantations, said they welcomed the re- ing to pay their debts. The details of life insurance industry in Iowa.” Symetra “Tea workers around the world are facing report also raised concerns about advances audit of the estates and were “fully engaged those agreements are largely secret, has since set up one of the shadow insur- dangerous and degrading working conditions,” paid once a year to workers to meet their with their suppliers to improve labor, safety making them impossible to analyze. ers in the state, but its size pales in com- said the report by India-based Glocal Research expenses for education, marriage, house con- and housing standards”. — Reuters Iowa and a handful of other states parison to those created by TransAmerica. have taken the lead in permitting the TransAmerica has set up one subsidiary practice. A paper published by the that carries a “parental guarantee” of more Gold lower as Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in than $2 billion and a second that has a May found that U.S. life insurance and “credit linked note” worth $924 million. focus shifts annuity liabilities ceded to shadow insur- Under traditional accounting rules for the ers grew to $364 billion in 2012 from $11 industry, insurers could not count those to US data billion a decade earlier - or 25 cents of as assets but Iowa has permitted them. every dollar for companies that use Belth said that he’s trying to shine a light LONDON: Gold fell yesterday after Federal them. The authors, Ralph Koijen and on a practice that should not be confiden- Reserve officials sounded a hawkish note on Motohiro Yogo, said the practice may tial. “What’s the secret? They don’t want interest rates, boosting the dollar, while reduce the price of life insurance policies this discussed. I think that is the bottom attention turned to US payrolls data this by about 10 percent on average but also line,” he said.—AP week for further clues on the pace of rate hikes. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Friday the case for higher rates was strengthening, though she gave little clarity on when it would move. Later that day Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggested a hike was possi- ble as soon as September and yesterday he said the U.S. job market was nearly at full strength. Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at $1,320.33 an ounce at 1149 GMT, while U.S. gold futures for December delivery were down $3.7 an ounce at $1,323.40. The pace of rate hikes is heavily depend- ent on US economic data. Non-farm pay- rolls data due on Friday is seen as a key measure of the strength of the US labour market, and could reinforce hawkish mes- sages from Yellen and other Fed officials. “For this week, the focus is on one thing and one thing only, which is the US non- farm payrolls,” Think Markets chief market analyst Naeem Aslam said. “This is the final ANDOVER: A home for sale in Andover, Massachusetts. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20- piece of the puzzle which will enable the city home price index for June was released yesterday. —AP A Union Jack flag and a European flag blow in the wind in front of the city hall in Fed to make their timeline decision with London. —AP respect to a rate hike.” Gold is highly sensitive to rising US inter- US home prices rise in June Germany’s EU commissioner est rates, as these increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion, while at slowest pace in 10 months boosting the dollar, in which it is priced. The doubts Brexit will happen dollar rose against the euro yesterday as investors focused on the next set of US data WASHINGTON: US home prices rose modestly percent in Portland, 11 percent in Seattle, and BERLIN: Germany’s EU Commissioner start a two-year countdown to Britain’s exit to see whether it supports expectations the in June, pushed up by strong sales and a limit- 9.2 percent in Denver. Those three cities have Guenther Oettinger raised doubts yester- from the European Union. Prime Minister Fed will raise interest rates soon. ed supply of available properties. The Standard topped the list of price gains for the past five day about whether Britain would leave Theresa May has said it will not be enacted Employers are expected on Friday to & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home months. Cities in the Midwest were mixed. the bloc, saying he wouldn’t bet on this year, the government needing time to show 180,000 job gains in August, accord- price index, released yesterday, increased 5.1 Home prices in Cleveland and Chicago rose 2.5 “Brexit”. Oettinger told Germany’s daily shape Britain’s exit objectives first. German ing to a Reuters poll, below the better-than- percent in June compared with a year ago. percent and 3.3 percent, respectively, while in Bild that he assumed June’s referendum Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for expected 255,000 additions in July and That’s down from a 5.3 percent annual gain in Minneapolis they climbed 5.1 percent, the outcome in favour of Britain exiting the giving London the time it needs to plot the 292,000 gains in June. May and is the slowest year-over-year pace same as the nationwide pace. EU was “binding”. way forward and has refused to enter into “With investors pricing in a greater likeli- since last August. Southern cities saw stronger price gains. “But it is possible that public opinion preliminary negotiations before Article 50 hood of a Fed rate increase before year end, Home values are still soaring in the They rose 8.9 percent in Dallas, 7.9 percent in will tip if the economic situation in the is activated. pressure is likely to continue to weigh on Northwest, but have slowed to more sustain- Tampa, and 5.8 percent in Atlanta. The 20-city wake of the Brexit vote worsens,” said The commissioner said public opinion in gold,” MKS said in a note. Silver was down able rates elsewhere. In Northeastern cities price index plunged after the housing bubble Oettinger, who is Digital Economy Britain could shift against leaving the bloc 0.4 percent at $18.77 an ounce, having hit a such as New York and Washington, DC, they are started to burst in 2006, plummeting by more Commissioner. “In any case, I wouldn’t if the economy worsens as a result of the two-month low of $18.36 in the previous rising at roughly the rate of inflation, and in than a third before prices began to rise again in place any major bets on Brexit.” Oettinger country’s decision to exit. session. Platinum was 0.2 percent higher at Boston, less than 5 percent. Still, nationwide March 2012. In June, they were still 8.1 percent predicted that the longer the British gov- Britain voted in a June 23 referendum to $1,076.20, while palladium was down 0.2 prices are increasing more quickly than below their peak level. ernment waited to trigger Article 50 of the leave the 28-nation EU. New Prime Minister percent at $694.60. Platinum’s discount to incomes as buyers compete for the dwindling The Case-Shiller index covers roughly half of EU’s Lisbon Treaty-the legal process for Theresa May hasn’t formally triggered the gold narrowed to $244 an ounce, from a supply of available homes. That could stifle US homes. The index measures prices com- leaving the bloc-”the more insecure the sit- start of withdrawal negotiations but is con- near seven-week high of $253 an ounce at sales in the coming months. pared with those in January 2000 and creates a uation will become-economically and polit- vening her Cabinet to discuss the potential the end of last week. — Reuters Home prices in the Northwest continued to three-month moving average. The June figures ically”. Once Article 50 is triggered, it would first steps today. — Agencies climb at a double-digit pace. They rose 12.6 are the latest available. —AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 BUSINESS Zain introduces local data roaming offer for B2B customers

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KUWAIT: The stylish and versatile 2016 Honda CR-V has received a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score, the top score available in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). Earlier, the CR-V earned a TOP SAFETY PICK+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), making it a collision safety leader and standout choice in the SUV market. The 2016 CR-V, has also been recognized by KBB.com’s expert staff of editors for their ability to meet the needs of families, with a keen focus on various factors including safety and performance. “Consumers have made the CR-V America’s A hand holding an iphone next to the Apple logo in New York City. — AFP best-selling SUV for good reason, and this top government safety rating just adds one more Multi-billion Apple appealing and class-leading attribute,” said Jeff Conrad, senior vice president and general man- ager of the Honda Division. “Honda is committed windfall puts Ireland to offering vehicles that deliver advanced safety, fun-to-drive performance and connectivity, with top fuel economy ratings. CR-V is that kind of in unusual bind vehicle.” In receiving the 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score DUBLIN: The European Commission’s headquartered multinationals such as from NHTSA, the 2016 CR-V has also met the demand for Apple to pay Ireland some 13 Google and Facebook have been heavily requirements of the agency’s technologies. The billion euros in back taxes has put the coun- criticised internationally in recent years. 2016 Honda CR-V utilizes the latest generation try in the strange position of refusing the On revenues of 12.4 billion euros in 2011, of Honda’s Advanced Compatibility Engineering windfall for fear of scaring away valuable Google paid just 22 million euros in taxes (ACE) body structure which helps make the CR-V investment. Rather than welcoming the in Ireland. highly effective at absorbing and dispersing the cash-equivalent to around five percent of its Irish MEP Brian Hayes said he feared the energy of a frontal collision crash. gross domestic product-the government ruling could damage Ireland’s future ability Key Safety and Driver-Assistive Features: has vowed to appeal the ruling, fearing an to attract investment, although it will likely In addition to the application of Honda’s ever greatest cost to its economy and jobs. be welcomed in many European capitals, ACE(tm) body-structure, the 2016 CR-V features Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he particularly in Paris. The Irish corporate tax a host of standard active and passive safety fea- disagreed “profoundly” with Brussels while rate has been widely criticised by Ireland’s tures and offers many standard and available Apple chief Tim Cook warned the ruling EU partners, while France is a leading critic driver-assistive technologies, such as: threatened jobs and investment in Europe. of a race-to-the-bottom among EU member * SmartVent Front Side Airbags * Multi-Angle Rearview Camera with Guidelines thiness, airbag technology, collision compatibili- Cook said Apple, the world’s most valu- states to cut tax and social conditions to * Side Curtain Airbags with Rollover Sensor ty and pedestrian safety. able company, was now in the “unusual attract foreign investment. * Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children Honda Safety Leadership Based in part on advancements to Honda’s position” of being asked to pay taxes to a “I have no doubt this will cause signifi- (LATCH) Honda has a long history of leadership in the Advanced Compatibility Engineering(tm) government that says they are not due. But cant reputational damage to the country * Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) with Traction development and application of advanced tech- (ACE(tm)) body structure, Honda is a leader in opposition politicians urged Ireland, which and that is why the government must Control nologies designed to enhance the safety of all third-party crash test ratings within the indus- has suffered years of austerity following a appeal this decision,” Irish MEP Hayes told * Motion-Adaptive Electric Power Steering (EPS) road users, including automobile occupants, try. The company also is broadly applying painful recession during the eurozone, to national broadcaster RTE. Investment house * Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) motorcycle riders and pedestrians. The company advanced safety and driver-assistive technolo- take the Silicon Valley giant’s cash. AJ Bell said in a note that the decision * Honda LaneWatch (EX, EX-L Navi) operates two of the world’s most sophisticated gies. Also, all Honda vehicles have applied a “EUR13bn Apple Tax could build 86,000 “could deter fresh investment by leading * Hill Start Assist (HSA) crash test facilities, and is responsible for numer- rearview camera as standard equipment since council houses. Shelter for Apple but none corporations, to the potential detriment of * Expanded View Driver’s Mirror ous pioneering efforts in the areas of crashwor- the 2015 model year. for the homeless,” tweeted left-wing opposi- employment and income tax contributions”. tion politician Richard Boyd Barrett. More than seven out of 10 people in a national ‘Rich with talent’ radio poll also thought that Dublin should Apple was quick to point out that it Why the EU says Apple must take the money, piling pressure on the gov- invested in Ireland when the country was ernment. struggling economically. Cook noted that the company had opened its first facility in pay Ireland $14.5bn in tax ‘Greater tax fairness’ Cork in southwest Ireland in 1980 at a time But Ireland has to weigh up the cash when the area was beset by “high unem- LONDON: The European Commission (EC) cized the EU approach of using competition law was helped by its ability to secure access to windfall against the potentially more long- ployment and extremely low economic ordered Apple Inc. to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of to challenge tax rulings. They say the approach documents in which Irish officials were unusu- term damage the ruling could do to its investments”. up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) yesterday as is targeting US companies, deviates from accept- ally frank about the agreement they made with image as a low-tax place to do business. “Apple’s leaders saw a community rich it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid. ed international practice and threatens US Apple. Multinationals with major operations in with talent and one they believed could investment in Europe. EU states wanting to secure investment by Ireland now employ more than 170,000 accommodate growth if the company was What is the EC alleging? A US Treasury Department White Paper last helping companies avoid tax will in future be people-one in ten workers-and the corpo- fortunate enough to succeed,” he said. “As The European Union’s (EU) executive arm has week said “it continues to consider potential more careful about leaving a paper trail which rate tax rate of 12.5 percent is one of the our business has grown over the years, we ruled that Ireland made a deal with Apple that responses should the Commission continue its could suggest a tax ruling is a sweetheart deal. lowest in Europe. have become the largest taxpayer in had no basis in tax law. The Commission said this present course”. The EU’s principal legal adviser on tax, Richard This corporate tax regime has been one Ireland, the largest taxpayer in the United involved cutting Apple’s tax bill to almost zero, U.S law allows the President to double taxes Lyal, wrote in a legal journal last year that “It is of the cornerstones of its strategy for States, and the largest taxpayer in the in return for Apple building factories in Ireland. on citizens and companies from countries likely to be only in extreme cases that one can attracting inward investment and it has world,” he wrote. The EC says that is unfair and that Apple must which apply “discriminatory or extraterritorial with confidence say that a particular decision been spectacularly successful in doing so in Meanwhile, one trader said that Britain, pay Ireland the tax it would have paid if normal taxes” on US firms. If the EC prevails, does this reflects a misapplication of the chosen method”. recent years. With 5,000 workers and anoth- which voted to leave the EU in June, could tax rules were applied. means that multinationals won’t be able to Without evidence of an “extreme” deviance from er 1,000 promised, Apple is the single end up being the beneficiary. “If Ireland avoid tax in the EU? accepted norms, the Commission would likely be biggest employer in Cork, Ireland’s second- cannot offer sweetheart deals within the Why does the EU care if No. The Commission’s case against Ireland reluctant to initiate a tax case. — Reuters biggest city, and one of several US tech EU, the City of London can perhaps offer Ireland does not tax Apple? giants with their European hubs in Ireland. something more appealing outside the The EU believes sweetheart tax deals help Although the case pertains solely to bloc,” said Neil Wilson from currency trader divert investment and jobs away from countries Apple, the tax practices of other Dublin- ETX Capital. — AFP where it would normally go. Also, the tens of bil- lions of dollars in profits which Apple enjoys tax free in Ireland each year are generated almost IMF insists on international exclusively outside Ireland. Hence, Ireland’s deal deprives other EU countries of tax revenue they audit of Mozambique debt might otherwise earn. MAPUTO: The International Monetary in an interview on Radio Mozambique, Is Ireland about to land a windfall? Fund (IMF) is demanding an external the public broadcaster. Not anytime soon. Ireland’s finance minister forensic audit of Mozambique’s public “Investors are still interested in invest- said he plans to appeal the ruling in Europe’s debt to regain investor confidence after a ing in Mozambique and this will bring highest court. That will likely take two years or scandal over more than $2 billion in foreign exchange, will bring dollars, but more and Apple may make legal challenges and secret loans, its local representative said for this we need also the return of confi- is also likely to be able to fight any demands yesterday. dence,” he added. from Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners in Irish Parliament and the attorney-general’s The debt crisis and aid suspension has courts, tax lawyers say. office have launched investigations into hit Mozambique hard, with its currency, the undisclosed borrowing in 2013 and the metical, losing nearly 40 percent Might Apple settle? 2014 but the government has baulked at against the dollar since January and eco- It can certainly afford to, with more than $200 opening up its books to outside auditors. nomic growth slowing to below 4 per- billion in cash or readily marketable securities. But However, the IMF, which suspended cent. With foreign debt soaring towards since $13 billion is not a major sum for Apple, assistance when the loans came to light 100 percent of GDP, the government has investors won’t be too worried about the uncertain- this year, has insisted on external scrutiny been forced to revise its 2016 budget, ty it faces and consequently it won’t be under pres- as a precursor to resuming financial aid which now shows a deficit equal to 11.3 sure from shareholders to settle. The company has to what is one of the world’s poorest percent of GDP, while the central bank been aggressive in defended its tax practices, with countries. “It is important to move quick- hiked interest rates by 300 basis points in CEO Tim Cook testifying to Congress on the issue. ly to an international forensic audit,” its July to try to prop up the currency and representative, Alex Segura-Ubiergo, said contain inflation. — Reuters What does the US government think? TOKYO: A woman walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a The US Treasury and lawmakers have criti- securities firm in Tokyo yesterday. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 TECHNOLOGY Selecting your strategic datacenter partner

By Sachin Bhardwaj quently limit movement and activity. Or is the data- center go to reduce human errors? Are the process- center located in a region of geologic activity with es and procedures of operation documented? How he right selection of a datacenter is a blend of frequent tectonic movements that can stress the well are the staff trained on these processes and auditing tangible metrics and assessing the building structures? procedures? Are the processes flexible enough and Thuman side of operations. Every datacenter Is there a significant power feeder connection or is change management built into the datacenter has its share of strengths and characteristics that is utility substation nearby that ensures that uninter- operations? How does the datacenter manage serv- the sum of its capital investments and innovative rupted power is available for the datacenter? What ice level agreements, maintenance schedules, and way of operations. An end-customer wanting to is its distance to the nearest highway, urban city, planned downtime? select a datacenter that meets its requirements in airport, nuclear plant, important infrastructure, that Datacenters compliant with Tier III and Tier IV terms of availability and reliability must be ready to needs to be balanced in terms of remoteness, levels have redundant and fault tolerant capacities go down both the paths of assessments. accessibility and proximity as required? inbuilt and hence should rarely have any down- What should you look for in your datacenter time. But datacenters compliant with Tier I and Tier partner? Below are some important categories for 3. Design II levels will need to go through planned downtime assessment: An important attribute inside a datacenter is not and will need to actively manage their service level just how much existing equipment is stacked and agreements accordingly. A datacenter is also a busi- 1.Certifications how it is stacked, but also how new equipment will ness and the stability of the business model, share- Third party certifications can help end cus- be stacked and configured. What are the options holders, and profitability is an important part of the tomers gain confidence in the publicly available available to bring in new equipment in terms of consideration. credentials of a datacenter. As an example, The individual cabinets, cages with racks, data modules Global Data Center Authority, Uptime Institute’s Tier and private rooms? And once decided how the 6. Other factors Standard offers four grades I, II, III, IV in the areas of equipment will be stacked and configured, what is Physical security is an integral part of the opera- constructed facility and operational sustainability. If the availability of power and cooling per square tions with varying degrees of importance for every a datacenter is compliant and graded for its con- area of space leased. datacenter. This usually includes surveillance, bio- structed facility it becomes eligible to be certified Does the datacenter follow raised floors and metrics and two factor authentication. Similarly, for operational sustainability. cooling below with equipment racks directly commissioning and maintenance of critical equip- In summary, it covers staffing levels, skills, train- secured to the concrete floor slabs? This is usually customer to become less susceptible to latency ment is an important operational procedure. This ing, qualifications, effectiveness of maintenance an important consideration for heavy and sensitive issues that may arise from time to time with specific covers end of life replacement, selection of new and datacenter operations, policies that affect plan- equipment. Other parameters to validate during providers and through specific routes. equipment, and incorporation of redundant equip- ning and coordination of activities, building charac- selection are cooling efficiency, power density per The ideal situation arises when the datacenter ment. Critical equipment is usually UPS devices, teristics, site location, organisational controls and rack, modular approach to build up, and just in time provides direct connectivity to service providers generators, switchgear, chillers, utility connections, security. Certifications are also independently pro- space expansion. Lastly, what is the availability of they are contracted with. As well as the option of control monitoring systems. Another key aspect is vided by Payment Card Industry and HIPPA temporary office space when employees from end- bringing in other service providers on demand the presence of Data Center Infrastructure amongst others. customer organizations are expected to function without any specific preferences or bias towards Management that can alert when there is a reduc- on-site. any of them. This is sometimes referred to as carrier tion in planned availability and reliability in real 2. Location neutrality. time. Finally, most datacenters tend to offer their The location of the datacenter is one of the most 4. Connectivity own share of hosted IT solutions and going forward important single factors that can influence its selec- The best advantages for an end-customer are 5. Operations this may increasingly become the final point of dif- tion. Is the datacenter located in a region of when the datacenter offers the choice of network Auditing the physical attributes of a datacenter ferentiation. — Sachin Bhardwaj is Director, extreme weather change susceptible to large scale connectivity from multiple service providers and is usually one side of the selection process. The oth- Marketing & Business Development at eHosting changes of wind, rain, and snow? These can fre- from multiple landing points. This allows the end- er side is the human audit. How well does a data- DataFort. Self-driving cars go public; Uber now offering rides Science-fiction stories slowly becoming reality

SAN FRANCISCO: The option to hail a ride in a University of South Carolina professor who stud- Each winter the city gets about 30 inches of self-driving car, which was science fiction just a ies self-driving technology. “Part of this is market- snow, which can cover lane lines and trick few years ago, will soon be available to Uber ing in the sense that they’re going to be doing autonomous car sensors that use them to help users in Pittsburgh, the first time the technology continued research and development of these guide the ride. has been offered to the general public. Within systems,” he said. Uber also announced that it weeks, the company announced Thursday, cus- was acquiring a startup called Otto that has Backup drivers tomers will be able to opt into a test program focused on developing self-driving big rigs and is Use of the backup drivers is also an acknowl- and summon an autonomous Ford Fusion. But stocked with big talent in the still-small world of edgement that current autonomous driving sys- since the technology has not been perfected, the self-driving technology, including Anthony tems cannot handle the wide range of unpre- CORK, Southern Ireland: A man passing by buildings on The Apple campus in Cork, cars will come with human backup drivers to Levandowski, one of the field’s pioneers. Kalanick dictable circumstances on public roads. Timothy southern Ireland. — AFP handle any unexpected situations. said the acquisition signals Uber’s intent to get Carone, a Notre Dame professor who has written Although other companies including Google into the movement of goods and freight. about the future of automation, noted that Uber are testing self-driving cars on public roads, none In another deal, the company announced a is mitigating the risk with its own drivers - unlike 13 billion euros would be offers rides to regular people. As an enticement, $300 million alliance with Volvo to supply vehi- Tesla Motors, which put semi-autonomous tech- the autonomous rides will be free, the company cles and technology. The announcements may nology in the hands of individual customers. huge windfall for Ireland said. Uber, which has a self-driving research lab in push it ahead of its prime competitor, Lyft, which “This is a way to get autonomous cars out there Pittsburgh, has no immediate plans to deploy earlier this year took a $500 million investment and accepted and increase the adoption rate,” BRUSSELS: 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) problem is “mismatches between different autonomous cars in other cities. But in an inter- from General Motors. Those arrangements are Carone said. “It will take a decade of testing looks like a ton of money for any nation. But countries’ tax rules.” Whereas Ireland taxes view with The Associated Press, CEO Travis part of a flurry of deals between Silicon Valley before an 18-year-old can get in the car and tell for the 4.6 million people of the Republic of only a multinational company’s profits on Kalanick said development of the vehicles is tech companies, traditional automakers and ride- it where to go.” Uber-branded test cars have Ireland, among the least populous in the 28- sales within Ireland - a country of barely 4.6 paramount for the San Francisco company, which hailing companies as they vie for autonomous been on Pittsburgh roads for several months. nation EU, it’s almost unfathomable. Should million and representing a tiny fraction of has grown exponentially after starting seven car leadership. Google has been testing self-dri- Standing at a bus stop, Anthony Fielder of the Apple eventually pay the Irish that sum, it those companies’ global business - the years ago. “We’ve got to be laser-focused on get- ving cars on public roads since 2009 but has nev- suburb of Carnegie was open to the idea. “I’d be would represent about 2,825 euros ($3,150) United States often seeks to recoup tax on a ting this to market, because it’s not a side project er offered large-scale rides to the public. Uber’s willing to try it as long as there’s a real human per man, woman and child. In government US-headquartered company’s profits world- for us,” he said. “This is everything. This is all the move to haul passengers with autonomous vehi- there to hit the brakes, you know, if the thing coffers, that money would easily wipe out wide. marbles for Uber.” Without drivers, the cost of cles is not surprising, given the company’s history goes belly-up,” he said. “We can only rely on Ireland’s 2016 deficit and put the country Cody said Apple’s profits “that are not hailing a ride will be cheaper than owning a car, of pushing into gray areas with little or no regula- technology so much or it’s going to bite us.” back in the black for the first time in a generated by their Irish branches - such as changing the way we all get around, Kalanick has tion, Walker Smith said. Kalanick would not speculate on when Uber decade. profits from technology, design and market- said. Local laws in Pittsburgh may require a driver might be ready to dispense with the human Ireland’s accelerating economy is already ing that are generated outside Ireland - can- behind the wheel, but Pennsylvania has no laws driver, saying that full automation can only be producing rapid growth in tax collections not be charged with Irish tax under Irish tax Signal of intent governing autonomous cars and their role in used now in limited places with little traffic. from workers, sales tax and an EU-leading law.” He says the Revenue Commissioners By using human backup drivers, Uber is basi- ride-hailing, he said. He predicted that drivers That’s different from the relative chaos of even a multinational sector of around 1,000 compa- applied the same Irish tax rules to Apple as cally testing the technology and taking people will often have to intervene in Pittsburgh, with its small downtown, much less a big city where nies with Irish bases. Last year the country to around 1,000 other multinationals, most along for the ride, said Bryant Walker Smith, a winding, hilly roads and vast number of bridges. drivers do not always follow the rules. — AP spent around 48.5 billion euros - some 13 bil- of them American, with bases in Ireland. He lion euros of that on health care, the same says: “Full tax due was paid in accordance sum as Tuesday’s tax order - and recorded a with the law.” deficit below 5 billion euros. 12:45 pm Race for Facebook data center 1:15 pm Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan Apple has derided the European Union’s has rejected the European Commission’s rul- ruling that it must pay up to 13 billion euros ing and says Ireland will appeal the judg- raises tax-break questions ($14.5 billion) in back taxes to Ireland. In a ment, insisting that Ireland’s tax rules were response yesterday, it accused the EU com- transparent and straightforward. He has SALT LAKE CITY: The race between a small town petition authorities of ignoring international rejected findings that Ireland cut an espe- on the Rio Grande in New Mexico and a Salt Lake and Irish tax law and seeking to scare for- cially generous tax-avoidance deal to boost City suburb to entice a new Facebook data cen- eign investment out of Europe. Like the Irish Apple’s investments in Ireland, where the ter with millions of dollars in tax breaks and sub- government, the company vowed to appeal company employs 5,500 and plans to sidies is raising questions about public invest- and overturn the order. Apple said in a state- expand further. Noonan said Tuesday in a ments in a booming cloud-computing economy ment: “The European Commission has statement issued minutes after the judg- that typically brings few local jobs. launched an effort to rewrite Apple’s history ment: “I disagree profoundly with the com- In West Jordan, Utah, an initial plan to offer in Europe, ignore Ireland’s tax laws and mission’s decision. Our tax system is found- some $240 million in tax breaks over two upend the international tax system in the ed on the strict application of the law ... decades fell apart after several local leaders said process.” It added: “The commission’s case is without exception. The decision leaves me the lure was too rich. Negotiations have since not about how much Apple pays in taxes, it’s with no choice but to seek Cabinet approval restarted. In New Mexico, The Los Lunas Village about which government collects the mon- to appeal the decision before the European Council agreed to give up all property taxes for ey. It will have a profound and harmful effect courts.” He accused European regulators of 30 years in exchange for annual payments that on investment and job creation in Europe.” trying to undermine the integrity of Ireland’s start at $50,000 and top out at nearly a half-mil- 1:05 pm. tax system and subverting rights reserved lion dollars. The village has yet to provide a tally Ireland’s tax collection agency, the for sovereign EU states. He said a successful of the revenues it would forgo under a complex Revenue Commissioners, insists that Apple appeal, which could take years, would “pro- economic development agreement that also hasn’t dodged a penny of lawfully calculated vide tax certainty to business.” Ireland’s involves tax breaks on billions of dollars in com- tax in Ireland. The Revenue Commissioner Cabinet will meet Wednesday to confirm puter equipment over time. Officials in West chairman, Niall Cody, says the overarching plans to appeal the judgment. —AP Jordan say they can hardly compete with the generous offer from the town of 15,000 people in New Mexico. Dave Swenson, an economist at Livestream of Kim Dotcom Iowa State University, says West Jordan’s initial offer was greater than the total combined tax hearing a first for NZ breaks offered for seven other data centers in Iowa. “This is nothing but a giveaway,” Swenson WEST JORDAN UTAH: Land in West Jordan, Utah, that may be purchased by FaceBook for a data center. The race between the small town of Los Lunas in New Mexico and the Salt Lake WELLINGTON: A New Zealand judge gave room,” said Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken. said. Los Lunas officials foresee a possible $1.8 City suburb of West Jordan to entice a new Facebook data center with millions in tax breaks permission yesterday for the hearing of “The Internet isn’t run by any one nation, so billion construction project that provides as and subsidies is raising questions about public investments in a booming cloud-computing German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom’s we thought the solution itself would come many as 300 direct temporary jobs, and just 50 economy that typically brings few local jobs. —AP appeal against his extradition to be from the Internet.” Dotcom was arranging permanent jobs thereafter - a fraction of the streamed on YouTube, making it the coun- for a videographer to start recording the steady employment at the local Walmart distri- way to attract advertisers and eyeballs, but it hard by a downturn in the oil and natural gas try’s first court case to be broadcast on the proceedings from Wednesday, the lawyer bution center. also requires more space. sectors, and where computer chip maker Intel Internet. The six-week hearing opened in added. They will appear on Youtube with a Still, supporters of such deals see an opportu- Data centers are typically large facilities filled has been steadily unwinding a major manufac- Auckland this week, nine months after a 20-minute time lag to ensure removal of nity to attract a hot company that would bring with rows of hard-drives and servers that store turing plant that was an early beneficiary of sim- lower court ruled Kim Dotcom could be any material suppressed by the court. tax revenue despite the incentives and could and process vast amounts of information. ilar property tax breaks using industrial revenue sent to the United States to face copyright The judge ordered the stream to be tak- attract other high-tech companies. “If you’re in They’re increasingly essential to the global econ- bonds. There’s been some question about infringement and money-laundering en down at the end of the hearing. New the market for a new car and this dealer offers a omy, but on the ground they function more like whether the estimated 50 jobs are worth the charges over the filesharing website Zealand government prosecutors, who are rebate for the same car and this dealer doesn’t, storage facilities that need few people to keep trouble, but state Rep. Alonzo Baldonado, R-Los Megaupload. representing the United States, had argued where are you going to buy the car?” said Vale them running. Lunas, anticipates that construction will spill The case has been closely watched by against the livestreaming. The government Hale, executive director of the Utah Governor’s While the Facebook plan has been con- over into other parts of the economy. Among the media industry and developers in the law office did not immediately respond to a Office of Economic Development. Facebook’s tentious in Utah, it’s enjoyed broad political sup- other infrastructure upgrades, three industrial- file-sharing business for signs of how far request for comment but a spokeswoman latest expansion comes as the social media giant port in New Mexico, where the Los Lunas Village scale solar power plants would be built to offset the United States is willing to go to protect on Monday said it was not appropriate to looks to beef up its video presence, said John Council voted to sweeten the offer last week. electricity consumed by the data center. The US copyright holders. “It’s very important comment while the matter was before the Harrington, a data center expert with Verify New Mexico officials appear eager to please plants would be paid for through a power pur- that the entire world gets to see the court- courts. — Reuters Research Associates. Video is increasingly the businesses willing to set up shop in a state hit chase agreement with Facebook. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Dogs, like humans, distinguish words and intonation

WASHINGTON: Dogs distinguish words and intona- separately analyzes what we say and how we say it, tion in the same region of the brain as humans, but also integrates the two types of information, to according to a new study of how man’s best friend arrive at a unified meaning,” says Attila Andics, a interprets our language. Published Monday in the research fellow at Eotvos Lorand University. “Our journal Science, the report by researchers at findings suggest that dogs can also do all that, and Budapest’s Eotvos Lorand University shows the they use very similar brain mechanisms,” a discovery canine brain is capable of interpreting both what that could help facilitate communication and coop- we say and how we say it. eration between dogs and humans. Dogs, like humans, use the brain’s left hemi- The scientists studied thirteen dogs who sphere to interpret words and regions of the right remained lying still while a brain scanner measured hemisphere to analyze intonation. The brain’s their brain activity as they listened to their owners pleasure center is activated only when words of speak. They found the dogs would activate an area kindness and praise are accompanied by the appro- of the right brain to distinguish between intona- priate intonation, the researchers determined. The tion signaling kindness and neutral tones. The observations suggest that the neural mechanisms researchers had already identified that the same for processing words evolved much earlier than pre- part of dogs’ brains interprets non-verbal sounds viously believed and that they are not unique to the that elicit emotions. The same area of the human human brain. brain plays a similar role, suggesting that the mech- In surroundings with many spoken words such anisms for interpreting intonation aren’t specific to BUDAPEST: Some trained dogs involved in a study to investigate how dog brains process speech sit as a family home, understanding of word meanings speech. “What makes words uniquely human is not around a scanner in Budapest, Hungary. Scientists have found that dogs use the same brain areas as can develop even in the brains of animals unable to a special neural capacity, but our invention of using humans to process language. — AP speak, the study shows. “The human brain not only them,” the scientists said. — AFP Free school meals in Brazil help local farmers stay on the land World’s biggest universal school feeding program

BRASILIA: At an elementary school in Brazil’s capi- These farmers are some of the prime beneficiaries of ing more in the city. The program also helps farmers tal, students are not too concerned about who has hundreds of millions of dollars of government make decisions on investing in new seeds or tech- produced their food as they tuck into an afternoon spending on school meals. nology because they can plan ahead on what crops snack of pineapple and watermelon. Nevertheless, A 2009 law stipulates that authorities must they will grow by liasing with nutritionists like they are among 45 million students benefiting from spend at least 30 percent of their school meal budg- Santana. the world’s biggest universal school feeding pro- et on produce from smallholder farmers. At the ele- gram, whose meals are helping keep Brazil’s small mentary school in south Brasilia, nutritionist Sumara Unique link farmers on the land. Family farmers and coopera- de Oliveira Santana said the law is helping farmers Across Brazil, more than one million small farms tives have seen their fortunes rise as a result of the to stay on the land because it encourages local pro- have no formal land title deeds, according to official program, which guarantees them a local market and duction. “Smallholder farmers and local producers data. These farmers simply occupy the land where has helped to expand formal land rights nationwide. have priority when we buy food for the schools,” they produce or live in settlements with no formal “Incomes have increased significantly because of Santana told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, as title, but even they benefit from the program. it,” Amanda Venturim, agricultural adviser to a coop- she supervised several dozen rowdy students during Having a direct relationships with the state through erative of 56 small farmers outside Brasilia, told the snack break. For their part, the kids were not too the school feeding program helps small farmers and Thomson Reuters Foundation. “The government concerned with the details of land politics. cooperatives to gain formal ownership over their makes a contract with us beforehand so farmers “Pineapple is my favorite fruit for a snack,” said sev- land. Many farmers who work with Venturim on the know how much food they need to produce and en-year-old Anderson Souza. “For lunch I like meat, cooperative farm lease public land from the state, how much they will receive,” said Venturim, standing but I don’t know where all the food comes from.” but they use their earnings from school meal con- beside vast grain elevators on the dry savannah land tracts as a springboard to gain title deeds. “We have that surrounds the capital. The cooperative has been Landed farmers a process going to receive final land titles,” Venturim selling food to the government for school meals for Most of Brazil’s food - about 70 percent of what’s said. “Now, we have a concession, but we would CALIFORNIA: A Northern Spotted owl sits on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. three years, she said, enabling farmers to invest in consumed in the country - comes from small farm- rather be owners.” Wildlife officials say the northern spotted owl has been listed under the new equipment and to retain control of their land. ers, according to the UN. About three-quarters of Formal title deeds can be difficult for small farm- California Endangered Species Act. The state’s Fish and Game Commission voted these small farms are owned by farmers who have ers to obtain; the process for formalizing land claims unanimously to add the threatened bird to the list, ending a four-year process by Local preference official land title deeds, according to government has been criticized as expensive, time-consuming the Environmental Protection Information Center, or EPIC. — AP First developed in the 1950s, Brazil’s school feed- data. Access to a guaranteed market through the and bureaucratic. As Brazil is mired in political crisis ing initiative has expanded rapidly over the past feeding program allows small farmers to keep con- and suffers its worst recession since the 1930s, ana- decade as part of a successful push for “zero hunger” trol of their land, Venturim said. Farmers say they lysts see the school feeding program and its support in Latin America’s most populous country. About a now know roughly how much they will be earning for small farmers’ land rights as a rare public policy Canada leader touts quarter of Brazilians receive free meals under the each year and can apply for credit and other govern- bright spot. “We believe this is an excellent example program as it provides food to all of the country’s ment support due to their participation in the initia- for other countries,” Isadora Ferreira, a UN official agricultural safety amid students enrolled in government schools. Brazil has tive. It means they don’t have to migrate to cities in who monitors the program, told the Thomson about five million small farms, according to the UN’s search of work, unlike many farmers in the develop- Reuters Foundation. “The link with smallholder farm- China canola dispute Centre of Excellence Against Hunger in Brasilia. ing world who leave their land in the hopes of earn- ers in unique.” — Reuters BEIJING: Canadian farm goods are high second-largest trading product with China. quality and safe, Prime Minister Justin Canada’s canola farmers are close to Trudeau said in Beijing yesterday as his harvesting this year’s crop, and Freeland trade minister said Canada was working said the government was “working really hard to resolve a canola import dispute hard” to keep the China market open and that threatens C$2 billion ($1.5 billion) in find a resolution. Chinese officials in business. Trudeau is seeking deeper ties Ottawa have said the two countries were with China but a the canola spat, govern- having “positive consultations” and the ment divisions over China policy and the issue could be “resolved properly through case of a detained citizen could limit his joint efforts”. Under the new standard, gains. China will allow no more than 1 percent of China is Canada’s top export market for foreign matter per canola shipment, down the oilseed, and Ottawa has taken an from a current maximum of 2.5 percent. increasingly strong line in talks on a new There has been no reply to a request for standard, which industry participants say further information or comment to China’s would significantly raise costs for quarantine authority, the agency that for- exporters. China says the standard is neces- mulated the new standard. sary to prevent the spread of blackleg dis- Traders have suggested that China’s real ease from Canadian canola into Chinese reason for a higher standard is that its crops of rapeseed, another name for the domestic rapeseed oil stocks are high. agricultural commodity. Beijing sold 2.8 million tons of rapeseed oil Speaking to Chinese entrepreneurs from state reserves in the first half of the shortly after landing in Beijing, Trudeau year, reducing import demand. Trudeau, said Canada had always had a reputation who meets Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as a safe, clean and responsible country. “In today, has also said he will raise human our agriculture, we use high-quality prod- rights, an issue of great sensitivity in ucts and we create high-quality products Beijing. Ottawa is pressing the case of and goods,” Trudeau said, without making Canadian citizen Kevin Garratt, who was direct reference to the canola dispute. indicted on charges of spying and stealing Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland told state secrets earlier this year. Yesterday, reporters after Trudeau’s speech that China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said CARTERTON: Cows stand in a pen before they are milked on a dairy farm near Carterton, New Zealand. New Zealand police said yesterday, that Canada had made very clear what a key Canada should not let “groundless con- they were investigating reports of the unlikely crime at a South Island farm. Locals said 500 milking cows could have been taken from the herd issue canola is. “This is a big deal for cerns” about human rights stand in the way of 1,300 anytime between early July, when they were last counted, and late August. The stolen cows are worth about 750,000 New Zealand dol- Canada,” she said. Canola is the country’s of cooperation. — Reuters lars ($543,000). — AP Iran government to cover Goodbye, herring? Biotech bait infertility treatment costs gives lobstermen alternative TEHRAN: Iran will help couples meet planning budgets have been cut and the cost of infertility treatment as the prevention methods like vasectomies government tackles a growing crisis have been banned. A growing number PORTLAND: Lobster and crab fishermen have the price and reduce the availability of lobsters The product has been tested with blue crab that has seen millions of couples failing of clinics offer in-vitro fertilization (IVF) baited traps with dead herring for generations, and crabs. fishermen off Virginia and North Carolina since to conceive, the government — fertilizing a sperm and an egg in a but an effort to find a synthetic substitute for for- Development of synthetic baits could cut into 2014 and with New Jersey blue crab fishermen and announced yesterday. “As of today, all lab-but a cycle of treatment can cost age fish is nearing fruition just as the little fish are the $20 billion US bait fishery, which dates to the Florida stone crab fishermen since last year. There infertile Iranian couples, who number around $2,000, around five months’ in short supply, threatening livelihoods in a lucra- Colonial era and plays a role in some other com- was also a pilot test with lobster fishermen in Nova about two million couples, can enjoy wages for the average worker, and suc- tive industry. With about $1 million in funding mercial fisheries, as well as in food products and Scotia, and an extensive test is scheduled for the coverage of their expenses,” ISNA cess is not guaranteed. from the National Science Foundation, a small nutritional supplements. Fishermen caught more November. In coastal Virginia, blue crab fisherman news agency quoted deputy health Iran has a broadly progressive atti- company has developed “OrganoBait,” a hockey than 200 million pounds of herring and 1.2 billion Malcolm Luebkert is one of a handful of fishermen minister Mohammad Aghajani as say- tude to modern medicine, and some of puck-shaped product packed with an artificial pounds of menhaden in 2014. New England fish- testing out the synthetic bait, and he said he’s ing. State insurance will cover 85 per- the most advanced facilities in the attractant crabs and lobsters love. Commercial ing managers are guiding the industry through a bracing for a future when bait fish shortages cent of the costs, he said-the first time Middle East, but such treatments fishermen have long experimented with alterna- shortage of herring offshore by limiting the num- become the norm. So far, he said, the synthetic infertility treatments have been cov- remain a sensitive issue. As well as tive baits. They have tried other fish species, ber of days they can fish closer to the coast. alternative seems effective. “When menhaden ered-and the government has allocated social taboos, Iranians must contend processed slabs of horseshoe crab, even cow hide Without the restrictions, officials say, fishermen becomes scarce, we need an alternative, and we around $30 million (27 million euros) with varying instructions from religious and pigs feet. Some products remain on the mar- would be at risk of exceeding quotas the govern- need one that’s good,” he said. for the project. Experts believe infertili- leaders. It is illegal, for instance, to ket; many have gone quickly. ment establishes to protect fish species from over- Mark Pfister, a bait dealer who intends to sell ty has been on the rise in Iran, and say directly insert into a woman the sperm No one has made commercially successful syn- exploitation. OrganoBait in Florida once it is on the market, said Iran’s worsening pollution is a key of a man who is not her husband. Using thetic bait, and even animal-based alternatives OrganoBait, developed by the Greensboro, the early returns on stone crabs are promising. The cause. another woman’s eggs is less contro- don’t always gain market acceptance, said Bob North Carolina, firm Kepley Biosystems, is different price point for the product has not been deter- A study in 2012 found that 20 per- versial, although a “temporary mar- Bayer, a professor of veterinary science at the from other alternative baits. It’s not an animal prod- mined, though Dellinger said it will be priced com- cent of couples were failing to conceive riage” is recommended between the University of Maine who studies lobsters and has uct, but instead a calcium-based tablet made with petitively with bait fish, which can cost about 30 after trying for a year-putting the coun- man and female donor that can be worked on attractants for 30 years. “If somebody synthetic materials that replicate the smell of cents per pound. “There have been baits out try around five to eight percentage annulled after the operation. There is a comes up with a good one, it will be used,” Bayer decaying fish to attract lobsters and crabs. Kepley before, but they’ve all failed,” Pfister said. “This one points higher than the global average grey area, however, since some clerics said. “If it’s effective and cost effective.” The lob- president Anthony Dellinger said the product could looks like it’s not going to fail.” Getting fishermen reported by the World Health say an egg that has already been fertil- ster catch has been booming, but the fleet is suf- take pressure off forage fish, which some environ- on board will present challenges. Stephen Train, a Organization. Supreme leader ized in a lab-even with a third party’s fering the most acute bait shortage facing the mentalists say need protection. “This is an area that lobster fisherman based in Long Island, Maine, said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for sperm-is considered to have its own fishing industry. Lobster traps typically are baited can benefit from some science and technology,” he’s more inclined to suffer high prices and volatili- efforts to increase the population, cur- identity and can therefore be implant- with herring. However, not enough herring are Dellinger said. “You can just eliminate the bait sec- ty in bait fish availability than take a chance on an rently 80 million. In recent years family ed into the womb. — AFP being caught in the waters far off New England. If tor and it will be more fish in the ocean. Less impact unproven alternative. “I don’t know if it would fish,” prolonged, experts say, the shortage could raise on sea turtles, dolphins, all of the cute little critters.” Train said. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Alaskans live among bears both real and brightly colored

ANCHORAGE: Alaska’s largest city is home to more the state Department of Fish and Game. The rest of statues with a summer conference of 700 inter- One bear has a birch forest painted on its side, than 300 grizzly and black bears - and now more of Anchorage includes national forest, a state national bear scientists brought to Anchorage by while others are painted with rivers, wildflowers or than a dozen multicolored ones. Life-size statues wildlife refuge, 55 to 65 grizzlies and 250 to 350 the International Association for Bear Research & the northern lights. A bear sponsored by an ice painted by city artists for a public art installation black bears. Bears can be deadly if they are sur- Management. Carlson reached out to America’s cream shop has a tongue that appears to be licking called “Bears on Parade” are popping up as part of prised. To minimize maulings, the department’s Fiberglass Animals of Seward, Nebraska, which has ice cream off its face. “I love that tongue,” Carlson an effort to raise awareness that if you live in Anchorage Bear Committee, which is dedicated to helped create more than 300 public art projects said, and it could fit into the theme of what a bear Anchorage, you live near bears. “The whole point local bear conservation, tries to educate people with fiberglass sculptures. Fifteen bears arrived by should not eat - human food. “Make sure your trash of this was to engage in conversation about bears about how to live alongside the animals. “Not all flatbed truck looking like polar bears - completely is put away, because that trash bear will be a prob- and their habitat - the food that they eat, where bears eat salmon,” said Carlson, also a committee white. Sponsors paid either $1,750 or $3,000 for lem,” she said. The statues arrived too late for the they live,” said Brenda Carlson, a tourism official member. “Some eat berries, depending on where bears. So far, 13 have been painted, sealed and early summer bear conference, but some scientists who helped organize the program. they are. We really wanted it to spark conversation erected. Artists received loose instructions. The will benefit. The committee is donating nearly The city spans 1,958 square miles, but people about the bears.” adornment had to be family-friendly and reflect the $8,000 from statue sponsorships to the next confer- occupy only about 204 square miles, according to The panel wanted to coordinate the installation beauty of Alaska, Carlson said. ence to cover scientists’ expenses. — AP Vectura’s therapy misses the primary goal in trial LONDON: Drugmaker Vectura Group Plc said benefit, the news is clearly disappointing its asthma therapy Flutiform had not met the since it means Flutiform will remain limited primary endpoint in a late-stage trial to to promotion for use in asthma,” Stifel ana- determine its ability to treat COPD, a type of lysts wrote in a note. lung disease, sending the British firm’s stock With asthma and chronic obstructive pul- to its lowest in 21 months. Flutiform had not monary disease (COPD) affecting about 500 significantly reduced the yearly rate of wors- million people worldwide, the opportunity ening conditions in patients with moderate in the sector is considered massive, Goldman and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary Sachs analysts estimated in a report last year. disease (COPD), versus mono-component Vectura agreed to buy rival SkyePharma in LABA treatment, respiratory drug specialist March for 441 million pounds, in a tie-up to Vectura said on Tuesday. create a lung disease group with expertise Vectura said its European license part- across different inhaler technologies. The ner Mundipharma, which carried out the final-stage COPD trial involved 1,767 ran- study, had indicated that these phase III domly picked patients in 16 countries, where result would prevent it from making a reg- neither the patients nor the administrator ulatory filing for COPD indication in know the critical aspects of the experiment, Europe. “Whilst several previous ICS/LABA guarding against both experimenter bias studies have also failed to show a similar and placebo effects. — Reuters SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth with station science

CAPE CANAVERAL: A SpaceX Dragon cap- winds and following seas.” sule returned to Earth on Friday with scien- The Dragon delivered a new docking tific gifts from the International Space port last month that will be used in another Station. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins waved year or two by SpaceX and Boeing, which goodbye as the Dragon slowly flew away are developing crew capsules for NASA. Its SINGAPORE: A National Environmental Agency (NEA) scatters mosquito pellets in a drainage around the Aljunied neighborhood in Singapore Friday morning. Six hours later, the space- shuttles five years retired, the space agency yesterday. Singapore on August 29 confirmed more Zika infections, bringing the total number of cases past 50 as mosquito-fighting teams sat- craft parachuted into the Pacific, just off has turned over orbital deliveries of both urated the scene of the outbreak amid growing public alarm. — AFP Mexico’s Baja California coast. It’s loaded cargo and astronauts to private companies, with 3,000 pounds of research and equip- in order to focus on Mars exploration. In the ment, including 12 mice that flew up on the meantime, NASA astronauts ride in Russian Pregnant women urged to Dragon as part of a genetic study. “Good capsules to the space station. SpaceX is the splashdown of Dragon confirmed,” SpaceX only space station shipper capable of reported via Twitter. Rubins and Japanese returning items for analysis back to Earth; astronaut Takuya Onishi used the big robot that’s why the Dragon is so important to avoid Singapore amid zika arm to release the capsule. Mission Control NASA. Everyone else’s cargo ships are filled thanked the astronauts for their effort, then with trash at mission’s end and burn up on Australia, Taiwan and South Korea issue travel warnings added, “To the Dragon recovery team, fair re-entry. — AP

SINGAPORE: Australia, Taiwan and South Korea pregnancy for two months. South Korean travel- and moist dirt from drains. The majority of those advised pregnant women and those attempting ers will receive text messages with the warning infected with Zika in Singapore were foreign to get pregnant to avoid travel to Singapore after when they arrive in Singapore. Malaysia and workers, but the government has not disclosed an outbreak of the Zika virus infected more than Indonesia, Singapore’s closest neighbors, have their nationalities. The High Commission of 50 people in the city-state. The outbreak and the stepped up protective measures following the Bangladesh, which represents the largest com- warnings come as a potential blow to tourism in outbreak, introducing thermal scanners at air- munity of foreign workers, said none of the work- one of the world’s busiest travel hubs, which is ports and border checkpoints. ers were Bangladeshis. The Chinese and already struggling to recover from a slump amid Singapore’s Tourism Board said it was moni- Myanmar embassies in Singapore said they had tepid global growth. toring developments, adding the city state not been notified by Singapore whether their cit- Singapore reported its first case of locally- remained a “safe travel destination”, and it was izens were among those infected. The Thai transmitted Zika at the weekend, and the num- premature to consider any impact. More than 55 embassy did not immediately return a call seek- ber of reported infections of the mosquito-borne million people pass through Singapore’s Changi ing comment. virus has since jumped to 56. At least three dozen airport every year. In the first half of this year, Foreign workers in Singapore, employed of those have since made a full recovery. The Zika tourism arrivals reached almost 8.2 million, com- mostly in the construction and marine industries, virus was detected in Brazil last year and has pared with around 7.3 million in the same period can earn as little as S$2 ($1.47) an hour, often since spread across the Americas. It poses a risk of last year. Online retailer Lazada Singapore said work 12-14 hours a day and take few days off. to pregnant women because it can cause severe yesterday it has seen sales of mosquito repellent They are unlikely to travel often. The GuocoLand birth defects. It has been linked in Brazil to more and other deterrent products rise fivefold over construction site, where the infected workers than 1,800 cases of microcephaly, a rare birth the past three days compared to a week ago. were found, remained closed on Tuesday morn- defect where babies are born with abnormally ing, according to a Reuters photographer at the small heads and brains. Foreign workers scene. It was ordered on Sunday to halt work and The 56 confirmed cases in Singapore include Authorities continued to inspect thousands of rectify the conditions that allowed mosquitoes to only one woman. Taiwan, Australia and South homes in seven parts of Singapore, including five breed. Regional health experts said the Zika virus NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (second right) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Korea advised pregnant women and those plan- foreign worker dormitories, on Tuesday. Officials is likely to be significantly under-reported across (right) look at the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the SpaceX Rocket Development ning pregnancy to postpone trips to Singapore. sprayed insecticide and removed potential mos- tropical Southeast Asia as local health authorities Facility in McGregor, Texas. — AP Those returning from the country should avoid quito breeding habitats such as stagnant water fail to conduct adequate screening. — Reuters WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2016

GUST students make a difference in Nepal

tudents and staff from Gulf University for Science and pared media materials and documented their activities with Technology (GUST) joined forces with the Kuwait-based photos, videos, and journals. Dr Fahad Al-Sumait, Head of the SNGO, OXadventure, to undertake a two-week volunteer Mass Communication and Media Department, commented, “We trip to Nepal between July 19 and August 2 as part of a universi- encourage our students to undertake trips like this every year ty-sponsored internship. The goal of this trip was to help reno- because it helps build their character while also providing them vate a school building in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital and with opportunities to practice various media skills. So it benefits conduct educational outreach. In addition to volunteering, the everyone involved: the students, the university and most impor- students had the opportunity to hike the Himalayan Mountains tantly the local communities in which they work.” and visit remote communities. This trip is the third annual aid-work internship conducted During the trip, students visited six villages, giving them first- by the MCM Department at GUST in partnership with hand experience with some of Nepal’s traditions and culture. OxAdventure, which is a local non-profit organization estab- The interns and staff who accompanied them stayed in modest lished by young Kuwaitis in 2013, with the aim of educating a local guesthouses, executed demanding physical labor and younger generation about global citizenship and donating developed teamwork skills. The intent was to have them experi- their time and energy to affected communities. The previous ence life as the local Nepalese do while also helping the commu- two trips had students build an orphanage for a school com- nities. Since the students were representatives from the Mass munity in Bangalore, India and a community center with a Communication and Media (MCM) major at GUST, they also pre- computer-training lab in Sri Lanka.

A campaign to paint the disabled parking spaces in blue kicked off at Mais Al-Ghanem restaurant this week, in cooperation with olunteersv from the ‘I Can’ group. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2016

Enjoy a memorable Eid Al-Adha at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa

umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa is offering “Eid Al-Adha is one of the most important events during offering all the amenities to ensure a relaxing stay, to the entertained and engaged. While Eid is the perfect time to guests the most memorable stay during the upcoming the year and we look forward to being a part of these cele- Five-Bedroom Villas that provides views of the glittering gather on one table, the hotel’s mouth-watering buffet JEid Al-Adha holiday. During the festive period, the lux- brations, while continuing to offer memorable experiences Arabian Gulf, the hotel’s majestic pools and the hotel gar- restaurant, Garden CafÈ, is providing a special Eid offer- urious five-star hotel is providing families and friends with suited to the tastes of our guests,” General Manager Hakan dens, Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa has a room ing. Live cooking stations, featuring mixed grills, tandoor, the ultimate experience. From the most luxurious rooms Petek said. to suit all needs. seafood dishes, ouzi and other favorite Arabic specialties and tantalizing menu options available at the idyllic Whether looking to unwind and relax, or to celebrate in The needs of younger guests are catered to with the are all on the menu. During lunch and dinner from 10 resort’s restaurants, to bespoke treatments provided at the a unique environment, guests are welcomed to take hotel’s Sinbad’s Kids’ Club and The Scene Teens Club. With September through to 12, families and friends can country’s Best Luxury Resort Spa, as voted in 2015 by the advantage of the hotel’s array of room options. From the the latest computer games and table-top activities, to indulge in a variety of dishes, while enjoying the restau- World Luxury Spa Awards. well-appointed Deluxe Rooms, exquisitely decorated and watersports fun, children of all ages will be inspired, rant’s panoramic views.

ABK introduces new offer for Visa cardholders at Jumeirah restaurants

n partnership with Visa, Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) applies include: Salt restaurant, Pepper Steakhouse, recently announced its latest offer, whereby ABK Visa Garden Cafe, Olio, Arabesque, Mint Cafe and Tea Lounge. Icredit, prepaid and debit cardholders are offered an To make use of the offer, ABK Visa cardholders must exclusive 20 percent discount when dining at any of request the discount prior to paying the bill. For more Jumeirah Kuwait’s seven signature restaurants. The offer information on Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait please visit will run until 30 September, 2016. eahli.com or contact an ABK customer service agent via The seven signature restaurants where the offer ‘Ahlan Ahli’ at 1899899.

Sebamed participated in various health awareness activities organized recently by the Ministry of Health at medical centers around Kuwait. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

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10:05 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:05 IRC 6522 Lamerd 10:05 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 AXB 890 Mangalore/Bahrain 10:55 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:25 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:45 MEA 404 Beirut 11:00 JAD 309 Amman 21:20 QTR 1071 Doha 10:35 DLH 634 Doha 20:50 JZR 561 Sohag 11:25 ALK 229 Colombo 21:20 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 AVV 655 Asyut 11:30 THY 764 Istanbul 21:30 IRM 1189 Mashhad 10:55 KAC 351 Kochi 21:00 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 QTR 1082 Doha 21:55 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 KAC 543 Cairo 21:00 IAW 157 Al Najaf 11:55 GFA 219 Bahrain 22:00 KAC 153 Istanbul 11:00 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 ETD 9819 Abu Dhabi 12:10 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 11:15 KAC 564 Amman 22:05 OMA 648 Muscat 21:15 FDB 075 Dubai 12:25 KAC 561 Amman 11:20 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 JZR 241 Amman 12:30 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:15 QTR 1089 Doha 21:45 SAW 701 Damascus 12:35 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 UAE 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You take an attitude of gratitude today as you move forward with your Professional and creative projects will keep you busy all day long-working career plans-loved ones support your ideas. Your system of values may deepen, provid- overtime may be a possibility. Intuition is a fact of life and you are sensitive, kind and gentle, a ing you with a better sense of discrimination and good taste. You will begin to make little romantic too-with a tender heart. You always work for a real future, doing what has to be good choices in the area of investments now. There is a lot of mental energy to com- done. You love all that is musical and artistic. You also have a sensitivity to all that is psychic. plete your plans but there must be a balance maintained so you are not too stressed. At Your energies are available when needed and that attitude of cooperation is how you gain home you get down to the business of cleaning up your act, taking care of loose ends the most of any one moment-living fully. This evening is a good time to relax with your loved and attending to any details you may have neglected up to now. Health, food and phys- one. A quiet walk or a dinner outside your living area gives you opportunities to grow togeth- ical condition come under scrutiny and you work to care for these matters. Perhaps you er and understand one another. Romance is possible. Put on some of your favorite music and will encourage loved ones to join you in some new and fun daily exercise. dance to the beat.

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

There could be some restrictions on your activities at work today-you may You appreciate your particular situation and enjoy the professional support find yourself pacing the floor much of the morning. Inactivity can be just as stressful as from those around you. This may mean it is your turn to lecture or speak to a group of people too much activity. Repairing machinery or perhaps taking inventory would be beneficial. about your progress or about your technique or to encourage financial gifts for a cause. You Perhaps you could find ways in which you can be of help to someone else. This will speed constantly cultivate only a joyful mind and do the uttermost to pass that attitude along to things along and then you will find a busy afternoon. Your ambitions are admirable but others. It’s wisdom, not knowledge, that counts now. You may find yourself surrounded by sometimes one has to take small steps before the leaps forward can be beneficial. Things your peers after the workday has ended. This evening you may be helping a relative or friend are beginning to look better in the financial realm and this would be a good time to seek by babysitting. Your creative imagination is in full swing. You have a strong sense for the dra- financial advice on investments. Honest, frank and to the point, you hate routines and matic and the ability to express ideas of a mystical flavor. If there is a sort of story time tonight, love the outdoors, travel and sports. It is time to consider a vacation. it will be lots of fun.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Gemini (May 21-June 20) Everything seems to be working together and you enjoy all the communica- Your outward seriousness and no-nonsense approach to things are obvi- tion technology. New gadgets for communication are the latest, greatest tools. You are ous to all. This deliberate sense of responsibility comes across and is central to your per- very skilled at implementing change and improving existing circumstances. You will seek sonality and the way you relate to other people. Everything is run through your check- to understand and improve situations wherever you are, as you enjoy securing ways to a ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie. point to see if it holds up and can pass the test. You can be a stickler with details today. better living. Inventions and discoveries, in particular in communications, computers and ACROSS You are driven and passionate in your pursuit of change and inner growth. You possess, 1. Any of various units of capacity. 3. An accidental hole that allows something electronics, may be possible. Perhaps you have a new computer, exercise machine or cook- at the core, an intensity that burns through superficialities, searching for opportunities to 4. A resident of Alabama. (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape. ing tool. You bring incentive to areas where new development or improvement is taking face the truth and render the evident to view. This ceaseless analytical activity, while cen- place. You can teach and help others to improve conditions in their lives. This is a good day 12. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa. 4. The biblical name for ancient Syria. tral to your nature, may be the source of discomfort to others. You will find opportunities with much inspiration. 15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary. 5. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by to be with your friends this afternoon. 16. Gradually decreasing in tempo. voltage differences on electrodes along the 17. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. path. 18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part 6. A member of an Indian people formerly living Capricorn (December 22-January 19) of an organism. along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 19. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an 7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to This morning will be a time of introspection. You may find yourself visiting a You are a solid supporter, always gravitating to the heart of things. You may have output that is proportional to the input. 10 decibels. new location for your business or checking out a real-estate investment. trouble getting yourself motivated today, but others had better watch out once you get rolling! Whether this is personal or professional, your input seems to be an important factor in 20. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke. 8. Of or at or relating to an anode. You have a stick-to-itiveness that will find you in the thick of things-toughing it out today. This is completing the deal. A difficult co-worker may vocalize a bit of jealousy. You show toler- 22. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion 9. Type genus of the Mugilidae. a good day for accomplishing whatever you set out to do. Lovers, children and other people or ance and are accepting of differences-you have good insights into a need for better com- research. 10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the things dear to your heart are emphasized now. You may be surprised at those who come for- munication. You will compromise or otherwise show your abilities and possibilities. There 24. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces. heaviest of the halogen series). ward to show their appreciation of your talents and your hard work. Taking chances can bring is an opportunity for a social affair this afternoon and positive communication among co- 26. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture 11. A sign of assent or salutation or command. big rewards. This can be an expansive, creative and even romantic phase; a time you will look workers, friends, neighbors or relatives will put you in a good position to have your own and patron of scribes and schools. 12. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale back on with pride and fondness; a camera would be an important item to bring with you. needs met. Take the opportunity this evening to relax. 27. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradition- with large dorsal fin. ally secret. 13. According to the Old Testament he was a 29. Adopted in order to deceive. pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 32. A close friend who accompanies his buddies (9th century BC). in their activities. 14. An aromatic balsam. You express yourself well and enjoy teaching and guiding others. You are will- You could be planning the weekend from your desk today. A family outing 37. Be about. 21. Undo the bolt of. ing to speak to a variety of groups in order to get an important message across. You present a is just what has been needed to really enjoy the input that each person can offer. Phoning clever presentation. You are very motivated when it comes to communication of all forms- ahead will allow you reservations for a place at a park or motel at a popular resort or tourist 41. British composer (1857-1934). 23. A band worn around the arm for decoration. phone, voice, letters, computers and the like. Your home environment, friends and surroundings 42. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic pro- attraction. If you want emotional support and atte ntion, you must communicate and that 25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. in general get your attention this afternoon. You may find yourself wanting to catch up on the is what this weekend is all about-positive communication. Don’t forget to take your cam- tozoa that form temporary pseudopods for 28. A flexible container with a single opening. lives of your loved ones as well. While working with young people you will be able to teach era, as there will be some funny moments you will want to refer to later. You may look back feeding and locomotion. 30. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian sound ideas to them. You will be able to gain some insight, perhaps new ideas or methods from on this time as very comfortable. You have a great sensitivity about the needs of others-an 43. English philosopher and jurist. emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged these young people as well. There is a relentless drive to pursue knowledge. A literary club holds awareness of karma, or the link between the present and the past, is your path to spiritual 44. Pulled or drawn tight. for plotting to massacre them. a special fascination. growth now. 45. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission 31. Using the voice. of Radiation) Optical device that produces an 33. A republic in eastern Africa. intense monochromatic beam of coherent 34. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) light. 35. (South African) A camp defended by a circu- Completing old projects finally gives you a sense of relief. Unanswered 49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in lar formation of wagons. You have flashes of intuition all day long and seem to know the right answers to most any quandary. You could be unique in matters of psychology and all that questions finally have an answer. If you are looking to change jobs, now is a Turkey). 36. A large fleet. is mystical. You have unusual ways to help or care for others and there are insights into good time to prepare your resume and plan your path of action-not necessarily a time to 50. Either extremity of something that has 38. A soft silvery metallic element. your physical well-being. The urge for family travel is strong at this time. If you are not change. If you have complaints, take notes of dates, times and facts. You may change your length. 39. Offering fun and gaiety. working today, you will be on the road to a fun destination. If you are working today, you mind about changing your job. Ideas and thoughts will have greater meaning and form 51. Any of various small plant-sucking insects. 40. A United Nations agency created to assist could find yourself really looking forward to a weekend trip-perhaps a camp-out. You are this afternoon. You may be encouraged to try your hand at some new project or help in 52. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections developing nations by loans guaranteed by very creative in your approach to home, family and the domestic scene. You have natural some planning committee. You can appreciate an imaginative approach and may value insight into just living life. You may want to relax this evening by gardening, cooking or communal or futuristic ideas. Refinement and relationships are the keys to emotional satis- of the skin. member governments. faction this evening. Close personal ties to other people are most important now. 56. An emotional response that has been 46. A drug combination found in some over- just being with the family. acquired by conditioning. the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and 58. An intensely radioactive metallic element Phenacetin and Caffeine). that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores. 47. Irish playwright remembered for his satirical Word Search Yesterday Solution 59. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel. comedies of manners (1751-1816). 62. Delivered from danger. 48. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties 66. Capital of Tuvalu. comprising the island of Ireland. 69. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of 53. A Hindu disciple of a swami. coal and iron ore. 54. Of hair color. 72. 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A Nepalese shepherd watching his herd in the Korala border area near the Nepal-China Border in Upper Mustang.

n Nepal’s isolated, high-altitude desert of Upper Mustang, a new road to China is bringing economic Itransformation to the former Buddhist kingdom, once a centre for trans-Himalayan commerce. The remote region is ringed with vast canyons and red mountains that, legends say, are stained with the blood of a demon killed by the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. Yet the recently completed unpaved highway that connects Upper Mustang with China is also bringing unprecedented cultural change to a region that was closed off to foreign visitors until 1992. In the medieval walled capital of Lo Manthang, young men have swapped Tibetan robes for blue jeans and local cafes broadcast live coverage of Euro 2016 matches to rapt viewers. Nevertheless, while modern life holds consider- able allure for many, the push to preserve traditional cul- ture is no less important to the local Loba community. Buddhists who speak a variant of the Tibetan language, they have lived in Upper Mustang for centuries. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ongoing effort to restore sacred murals and monuments, supported by foreign and Nepali non-profit organizations, including the Lo Gyalpo Jigme Foundation, which is headed by the for- A view of the walled city monastery and stupa of Lo Manthang in Upper Mustang. mer king of Upper Mustang. Although the region’s rich her- This file photograph shows a Nepalese woman and her horse walking past a small temple itage escaped the ravages of the Cultural Revolution that in Ghemi Village in Upper Mustang. hit neighboring China, its monuments fell prey to environ- mental damage. Wind and rain eroded mud walls and caused wooden rooftop beams to decay, while smoke from ceremonial but- ter lamps darkened indoor frescos. Over the last decade, restorers have been working hard to shore up structures, clean murals and retouch damaged paintings in line with Buddhist beliefs. Buddhists believe it is better to pray to undamaged images of the Buddha, and see it as their duty to repair and retouch them when necessary. The painstak- ing process involves grinding gemstones like lapis lazuli and malachite into a fine powder, which is then mixed with water and animal glue to create luminous pigments fit for gods. After last year’s massive earthquake killed nearly 9,000 in Nepal and severely damaged monasteries in Lo Manthang, restorers now face an even bigger challenge. Like many here, they too are locked in a race to preserve Upper Mustang’s unique cultural legacy for future genera- tions. — AFP

A general view of animals near a stupa (chorten) at Ghemi village in Lo Manthang in A Buddhist monk walking past children in Ghemi Village in Upper Mustang, north-west of Upper Mustang. Kathmandu.

Vehicles driving along a dirt road to Lo Manthang in Upper Mustang. A Nepalese herder with several horses leading mules through the mountains in File photograph shows Nepalese artists as they restore sacred murals in a Upper Mustang, north-west of Kathmandu. monastery in Lo Manthang in Upper Mustang.

Kerry Washington: ‘Two pregnancies have been very different’

candal” creator Shonda Rhimes didn’t know what the story is,” Washington said recently when she new for 2016 is that fashion industry heavy-hitters - Her ‘inner Olivia pope’ that star Kerry Washington had another sat down with The Associated Press. “She knows including Tory Burch and Christian Louboutin - are The Purple Purse campaign comes at a particularly “Sbaby on the way when a less-is-more plan about how many episodes she needs left to get there. joining Washington, with each designing limited- busy time for Washington. In July, she returned to was put in place for season six of the political thriller. And that was her decision.” edition purple purses to be auctioned off for the work on “Scandal,” in which she plays Olivia Pope, a The ABC series will have just 16 episodes next season. It was only a couple weeks after Rhimes’ cause. The auctions are set to take place in October. fictional fixer for Washington’s elite. The actress also And fans will have to wait until January to see how announcement about the new “Scandal” game plan They will be followed by a retail bag sometime this has been navigating Emmy season. She has two nom- the show’s many cliffhangers play out. Rhimes “knows that Washington told her boss that she and her hus- fall, and there will be a monthlong daily handbag inations for the TV movie “Confirmation,” which cen- band, former NFL star and current film actor and pro- giveaway to contributors to the Purple Purse ters on the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of ducer, Nnamdi Asomugha, were expecting again. Challenge. The 2015 campaign raised more than $3 Clarence Thomas (played by Wendell Pierce) and alle- They have a two-year-old daughter, Isabelle Amarachi million, and a spokesperson for the Allstate gations he sexually harassed one of his employees, Asomugha. Foundation says the charity is aiming to best that Anita Hill (played by Washington). Washington is with the 2016 campaign. nominated for her performance, as well as for serving The mum mom Washington says purses also will be given to as one of the movie’s executive producers. Washington, 39, smiles and jokingly denies she’s charities to use for their own fundraising. Purple is “I think the thing that most surprised me about carrying a second child. She pats her baby bump, the color for domestic-violence awareness. The producing is that it kind of brings out my own inner laughs and says she’d merely eaten too much for purse represents freedom from financial abuse, a Olivia Pope, ironically,” Washington says. “I love pro- lunch. So, how is having a second child different from tactic frequently used to trap victims in the relation- ducing because it allows me to play other characters having the first? “Every day is different,” she says. “And, ships. Washington recalls a recent encounter an in other worlds in other situations. But that part of for me, definitely these two pregnancies have been abuse victim, “A woman came up to me, in a room me, that part of Kerry that likes to be a fixer and a very different.” When asked how each pregnancy has full of people (and said), ‘I just want you to know, helper and solve problems, is really able to play. I’m been unique, she veers away from the subject. Kerry that when I left, I wore purple for an entire year,’” not exactly wearing a white suit or a white hat or car- Washington is not one to talk publicly about her per- Washington says. “I knew what that meant and she rying Prada. I usually have on sneakers and jeans and Actress Kerry sonal life. knew what that meant. And it was the power of this a baseball cap. But I still have a little Olivia Pope with Washington poses metaphor: That she didn’t need to give me details me when I’m producing.”— AP for a portrait at The color purple about her black eyes. She didn’t have to give me The Hollywood For the last three years, Washington has been an details about her destroyed credit, or her empty Roosevelt Hotel in ambassador for the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse bank account, or the mode of transportation that Los Angeles. — AP campaign, which raises money to benefit nearly 200 was taken from her. She could just say to me, ‘I wore domestic-violence nonprofits worldwide. What’s purple.’” WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 lifestyle

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Photos show the village of Assaf in Chouf District, Mount Lebanon governorate. — Photos by Ayoub Khaddaj Lebanon’s Assaf village: A marvelous location in Chouf district

he village of Assaf in Chouf District, Mount Lebanon governorate, is a haven for culture, outstanding natural scenery, and arts. From Tmeticulously carved sculptures, houses built from natural stones, as well as the abundance of trees and vegetation, Assaf village is one of the locations that would surely leave visitors marveling in awe of what they have experienced and seen. — KUNA

Skyscraper-filled Dubai burnishes arts scene with new opera

lready filled with towering skyscrapers, Dubai will soon offer Those on hand for a dress rehearsal Tuesday of the opera “The Barber soaring arias inside a new opera house. The city-state is open- of Seville” also stopped journalists and those gathered from taking pic- Aing the Dubai Opera on Wednesday night, in the shadow of the tures outside of the building, as migrant workers rushed to finish con- Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. This isn’t the first opera house structing a set of exterior stairs. The opera will open Wednesday night built on the Arabian Peninsula, as Oman opened the Royal Opera with a performance by famed Spanish tenor Placido Domingo. House Muscat in 2011. But the arrival of the performance center The Dubai Opera offers a new draw for planned Emaar high-rise comes as part of a greater push by the United Arab Emirates, already residential towers downtown, and could bring concerts and events home to engineering marvels, into the world of the fine arts. out of the cavernous, air-conditioned halls of the city’s World Trade “It certainly couldn’t be said that Dubai has no culture; it’s got an Center. The arrival of the opera house comes amid a push in the seven- enormous amount of culture,” Dubai Opera’s chief executive Jasper sheikhdom United Arab Emirates to increase its presence on the glob- Hope told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “What it hasn’t had is a al arts stage. In the country’s capital, construction continues on the world-class stage, a world-class facility to display that culture. “What Louvre Abu Dhabi, the forthcoming Emirati branch of the famed Dubai Opera offers is an opportunity now for people to know that Parisian art gallery. A branch of the New York-based Guggenheim there is a home - a true home - for world-class culture here in Dubai.” Museum is also planned. And in Dubai, a fledging art district has The opera house resembles a dhow, the traditional wooden boat that sprung up among the factories and warehouses of its Al Quoz industri- can still be seen plying the waters of the Dubai Creek. Its glass bow ris- al area. es up to a point looking out at the dancing Dubai Fountain, and a mul- The new development has proven divisive at times. Many in the art ti-story glass chandelier resembling a fishing net hangs in the lobby. world have criticized Abu Dhabi’s penchant for franchising existing The building sits near the 828-meter (2,717-foot) -tall Burj Khalifa and names, and human rights groups have raised concerns about the con- the nearby Dubai Mall in the city-state’s chic downtown. ditions faced by migrant workers. But Hope said the building of the Inside, individual air conditioning vents beneath the 2,000-some opera house wouldn’t mark the end of Dubai’s efforts at drawing cul- seats are designed to quietly cool the auditorium during the desert tural events, but rather its beginning. “This can inspire all kinds of per- Singers perform on stage yesterday during a dress rehearsal of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera “The barber of Seville city’s boiling summers, when temperatures exceed 50 degrees Celsius formance - amateur and professional,” he said. “It can inspire the next at Dubai’s new opera house, on the eve of its official opening in the Gulf Emirate. A boat-shaped hulk of steel (122 degrees Fahrenheit). The auditorium can be reconfigured for gala generation to really understand what world-class live entertainment is and glass at the foot of the world’s tallest tower, Dubai’s new opera house is set to boost the cultural life of the events and other performances. Emaar Properties, which is partially all about. And that deserves something of this scale.” — AP Gulf’s business hub. The ultra-modern 2,000-seat venue was developed by Dubai-based Emaar Properties, which owned by the Dubai government, developed the opera house. It also built the Burj Khalifa, and can transform into three modes, operating as a theatre, concert hall and a flat- refused to say how much the structure cost when asked by the AP. floored hall suitable for banquets and weddings. — AFP

Opera singer Rocio Ignacio, left, performs the role of Rosina as singer Opera singer Rocio Ignacio performs the role of Rosina in a dress rehearsal of Singer Domenico Balzani, center, performs the role of Don Bartolo as singer Domenico Balzani, right, performs the role of Don Bartolo in a dress rehearsal “The Barber of Seville”. Massimo Cavalletti performs the role of Figaro in a dress rehearsal of “The of “The Barber of Seville” at the new Dubai Opera in Dubai, United Arab Barber of Seville”. Emirates.

Massimo Cavalletti, left, performs the role of Figaro as Bogdan Mihai, right, plays the role of Il Conte d’Almaviva and Journalists and onlookers stand during the intermission of a dress rehearsal of “The Barber of Seville”. Rocio Ignacio, above, performs the role of Rosina in a dress rehearsal of “The Barber of Seville”. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016

MUSIC & MOVIES Film Review: ‘Morgan’ obots, supercomputers, automatons: The his- (Jennifer Jason Leigh), that they’re going to have to Morgan and become her wary family. They tend to tory of sci-fi can be boiled down to a laundry cut back on the time she spends outdoors-time that think of her as a real person, whereas Lee hews to Rlist of humanoid machines whose very exis- Morgan values with so much emotion that she the company line that Morgan should be referred to tence raises the question, “Yes, but do they have reacts to the news by leaping out of her chair and as “it” (which seems a bit extreme, given that even feelings?” The title character of “Morgan” is, in many trying to claw the guardian’s eye out. ocean liners are called “she”). ways, a successor to all those spooky-chilly faux- So here’s the rub: Morgan has feelings, but she The hang-loose team, the members of which human techno marvels. Except that Morgan does also has a highly overdeveloped (or maybe just live like drunken bohemians in Portland, include have feelings. She’s not a replicant built out of uncontrolled) id. She’ll stare down an interviewer Toby Jones as the head scientist, Michelle Yeoh as diodes and synthetic skin; she was bred-and born-in across the table with a look to kill, and then she’ll Morgan’s stern lab-coated “mother,” and Rose Leslie a lab out of synthetic DNA. She’s a not-so-far- attempt to make good on it; she can glare into a as her vivacious behaviorist BFF. All of them remain fetched version of a “human” being who emerges surveillance camera and let the person watching loyal to her, even after Morgan gets interviewed by out of the era of cloning and the corporate obses- feel as if she’s looking right back at them. In her cell, a smug psychiatric evaluator (Paul Giamatti) whose sion with genetic modification. she sits in her sweatshirt, listening to classical music, driving motivation seems to be to prove that he’s Anya Taylor-Joy, the actress who plays her (it’s a sulky figure of hovering brilliance and menace, like superior to her. By the time he’s done goading her, her first major movie role), was 19 when “Morgan” Dr Lecter crossed with Negasonic Teenage Warhead. she has made mincemeat of him. “Morgan” is linked, was shot, but she looks much younger, and though The person who’s been assigned to determine in theme and design, to last year’s “Ex Machina,” she does have eyebrows, they barely register. All Morgan’s fate is Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), a risk- which also told the story of an eerie lifelike you notice, under Morgan’s gray hoodie, is her lumi- management consultant with a mysterious agenda. humanoid experiment locked away inside a corpo- nous ghostly pallor, her upper lip cut like an “M,” and rate woodland bunker. But the highly creepy origi- This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Kate Mara, right, in a scene from ‘Morgan.’ the startling intensity of her oversized dark almond Cold and rigid nality of that film, apart from its eye-popping flesh- — AP eyes, which recall the image of extraterrestrials from It’s part of the way the movie works that as soon meets-metallurgic-skeleton effects, is that it wasn’t the ‘70s. She may on some level be human, but she as we see Mara, with her fastidious slick clipped hair just about whether the robot in question had feel- themes, it uses them as grist for an overload of are a few moments when something in the movie is every inch a creature. and steely eyes, as well as a manner so professional- ings or not. “commercial” action. “Morgan” isn’t a movie that strikes a chord. All science fiction is metaphor, and a ly cold and rigid that she makes her sister Rooney should be climaxing with fistfights, yet by the time thriller about a hellion ingenue with a dead stare Explosive scene look like Sarah Silverman, it’s hard not to notice that ‘Commercial’ action Morgan gets out in the woods again, trying to who is really a thing but has feelings anyway, and The movie is a sci-fi potboiler that starts off by Lee seems to share a certain spirit with Morgan, It was about the compulsive need of everyone escape Lee, the efficiency expert-turned-company will kill you if you threaten to take them away, is fostering some genuine interest in a character who even though she’s basically been brought in to shut around her, especially the men, to believe that she assassin, she’s become the tween Hannibal Lecter expressing something about the state of girlhood seems to express something of her moment. her down. The others are a team of hipster scientists had feelings. “Morgan” is the first feature directed by meets Jason Bourne. today. If only it could figure out what. — Reuters Morgan, who’s technically just 5 years old (though who have been secluded, for seven years, in a top- Luke Scott, the son of Ridley Scott (who serves as It’s all to set up the film’s big kicker of a twist (in a far smarter and stronger than her years), is a corpo- secret mansion headquarters that resembles a one of the producers), and it’s little more than a scene that features the original big-screen Lecter, rate experiment who has grown up in a glassed-in bombed-out Wayne Manor, located on the edge of schlock replay of “Ex Machina.” It toys around with Brian Cox). “Morgan,” in the end, takes enough over- concrete bunker. The film opens with an explosive a woods that looks like it could be the setting for a some of the same situations, but it doesn’t know wrought and even ridiculous turns to seriously com- scene in which she’s told, by one of her guardians remote summer camp. There, they’ve raised where to take them. Instead of developing its promise its chance of finding an audience. Yet there

Keys to pay Alicia Keys Box Office Top 20: tribute to Clive ‘Don’t Breathe’ Davis during inhales $26.4 million he modestly budgeted horror movie “Don’t Breathe” scared off competitors at the box office this weekend, taking first Tplace with $26.4 million in its first days in theaters. Directed Black Ball by Fede Alvarez, “Don’t Breathe” cost only around $10 million to produce. It knocked the comic book movie “Suicide Squad” into licia Keys is paying tribute to the second place, after a three-week run in first. “Suicide Squad” took record executive who offered her a in $12.2 million, bringing its domestic total to $283 million. Arecording contract more than 15 Holdovers “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “Sausage Party” years ago at her charity’s annual black-tie took the third and four place spots with $7.8 million and $7.5 mil- event. Music mogul Clive Davis will receive lion, respectively. Rounding out the top five was the Jason the humanitarian award at the 13th annu- Statham-led sequel “Mechanic: Resurrection,” which debuted to al Black Ball on Oct 19 in New York. The $7.5 million. The top 20 movies at US and Canadian theaters event is an extension of Keys’ charity, Keep Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, a Child Alive, which launched in 2003 and number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total supports HIV and AIDS victims in Africa gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by and India. Patti Smith and A$AP Rocky will comScore: perform at the event at the Hammerstein 1. “Don’t Breathe,” Sony Ballroom. 2. “Suicide Squad,” Warner Bros Keys says she’s honoring the 84-year- 3. “Kubo And The Two Strings,” Focus Features old Davis “for his long-standing commit- 4. “Sausage Party,” Sony ment in the fight against AIDS.” Davis is 5. “Mechanic: Resurrection,” Lionsgate credited with launching the careers of 6. “Pete’s Dragon,” Disney Whitney Houston, Keys, Smith and Barry 7. “War Dogs,” Warner Bros Manilow. He also helped engineers the 8. “Bad Moms,” STX Entertainment comebacks of Aretha Franklin and Carlos 9. “Jason Bourne,” Universal Santana.-AP 10. “Ben-Hur,” Paramount 11. “The Secret Life Of Pets,” Universal 12. “Hell Or High Water,” Lionsgate 13. “Florence Foster Jenkins,” Paramount 14. “Southside With You,” Roadside Attractions 15. “Star Trek Beyond,” Paramount 16. “Hands Of Stone,” The Weinstein Company Fall Preview: Warren Beatty’s 17. “Lights Out,” Warner Bros 18. “Finding Dory,” Disney 19. “Greater,” Hammond Entertainment Hughes film finally takes off 20. “Ghostbusters,” Sony — AP

arren Beatty is standing outside an early screen- here,” says Beatty, who was taken under the wing of Elia most renowned playboys making a movie about sexual ing of his new film, “Rules Don’t Apply” - definitely Kazan and cast in 1961’s star-making “Splendor in the repression. Before marrying Annette Benning, Beatty was WNOT a Howard Hughes biopic, he wants to make Grass.” linked to everyone from Diane Keaton to Madonna. Peter clear - discussing his connection to the famously reclusive Biskind’s 2010 biography, “Star,” tried to estimate the industrialist and movie mogul. “I never met him,” he says, Vibrant film women he’s slept with, coming up with 12,775 - a figure grinning. “And I met everybody.” At 79 and 15 years since Many doubted whether Beatty, a notorious fiddler and Beatty disputes. He and Benning (who has a smart part in his last film, the man affectionately known as “The Pro” is perfectionist known for bouts of indecision, would ever the film) have four nearly grown children. Of his 180 back. Beatty, whose exploits on and off the screen made make his Hughes film. He first obtained the rights in the degree turn from bachelor to family man Beatty says, “The him an unqualified Hollywood legend, has finally made the mid ‘70s. But the happy surprise of “Rules Don’t Apply,” idea of divorce appalled me and still does.” Family has been This undated file image released by Sony Pictures shows Howard Hughes film he’s contemplated on and off for 40 which 20th Century Fox will release Nov. 23 , is not only his primary interest in the years since his last film, the 2001 Jane Levy, left, and Dylan Minnette in a scene from ‘Dont years. that Beatty has at last completed it, but that he’s made a disappointment “Town & Country.” “They’re more interest- Breathe.’ — AP ing than any movie,” he says.

Outspoken politically The title “Rules Don’t Apply” is also well suited to Beatty, who reigned over 1970s Hollywood and later with distinct- Oops! Bieber not ly unconventional films like the era-defining “Bonnie and Clyde” and the communist epic “Reds.” “Bonnie and Clyde” back on Instagram he made happen at a time when it was seen as arrogant for, as he puts it, “a pretty boy in the movies” to produce a film. Beatty was also unusually outspoken politically, and after a 2-week break used his celebrity for political influence. “I grew up in a circumstance where there were societal alse alarm! Justin Bieber hasn’t actually returned to rules, there were rules laid down by custom or religion,” Instagram. Bieber’s account briefly returned to public says Beatty. “I don’t know that I’m such a courageous rule- Fview Monday for his nearly 78 million Instagram follow- breaker but I do like it when you say it. I’ve been very lucky. ers with week-old pictures and videos of Bieber introducing The words that might sum it up are: The access that early his new dog, Todd. However, the pop star later turned it off fame and fortune can bring one if they are alert. Rules will again and said on Twitter , “it was an accident.” Bieber left be changed. Rules will be broken.” Beatty, 15 times an Instagram two weeks ago amid criticism of pictures of him Academy Award nominee and an Irving G. Thalberg Award and Lionel Richie’s daughter Sofia from fans of Bieber’s ex-girl- recipient in 2000, hasn’t directed since 1998’s political friend Selena Gomez. satire “Bulworth.” He remains gentlemanly and deliberate Before his account disappeared, he responded to the nega- with his words. Asked about his views on Donald Trump, he tivity by writing, “I’m suggests anyone reading this article would already know gonna make my his opinion. “I hope you’ll put in parentheses, ‘He said Instagram private if you laughingly,’” he adds. guys don’t stop the hate Beatty now finds himself wading back into a somewhat this is getting out of foreign movie business. “The public seems to want to know hand, if you guys are real- This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Lily Collins, left, and Alden Ehrenreich in a scene from ‘Rules Don’t what it’s going to get before they leave the house,” he says. ly fans you wouldn’t be Apply,’ in theaters on November 23. — AP “I think that sort of applies to fast food also.” But another so mean to people that I trend is more heartening to him: “I would say that the like.” Bieber’s return was The focus of the film - written, directed, produced and snappy, vibrant film, carried by its young stars and memo- biggest change the world is going through ... is the libera- celebrated Monday on starring Beatty - has shifted with time. Its central characters rable for its portrait of Hollywood power players and their tion of the female,” says Beatty. He’s been attending screen- Twitter with #Justin are a Southern Baptist actress (Lily Collins), one of two pawns. Sex plays a significant role. “I felt it was time to ings of “Rules Don’t Apply” partly to get a better feel for ReactivatedParty. It fol- dozen Hughes has put up in bungalows for either starlet or make another movie and time to make a movie about a big today’s movie distribution. Looking over at a small theater lowed the #Justin romantic consideration, and her young Methodist driver subject - what I would call the comical and sometimes sad before the movie starts, he sardonically observes: “You’re Deactivated Party trend (Alden Ehrenreich). They’re both ambitious but innocent consequences of American sexual puritanism,” says Beatty. all on your iPhones.” Asked how it feels for him to finally be that popped up when he new arrivals to Los Angeles hoping to catch a break with “That attitude, I don’t think it’s expired. We have to admit releasing his Hughes film, Beatty smiles. “Old,” he says. Yet left Instagram. — AP their unseen benefactor. Not coincidentally, the year is it’s made us the laughing stock of France, for instance, Beatty has already navigated a series of eras in Hollywood. 1958, the same year Beatty - a Virginia Southern Baptist, where the chief of state gets into some mischief and his What’s one more?—AP himself - came to Hollywood, following his sister, Shirley numbers go up. Here the opposite is true.” MacLaine. “I got kind of lucky kind of fast when I came out There’s something fitting about one of Hollywood’s Justin Bieber lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016

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In this Aug 27, 1981 file photo, Gilda Radner, center, and Gene Wilder, right, perform in a This file photo taken on September 7, 1984 shows US actor and director Gene Wilder pos- scene from the film ‘Hanky Panky,’ directed by Sidney Poitier in Boston. — AP photos es with his wife Gilda Radner, during the 10th American Film Festival of Deauville.

Actor Gene Wilder, star of Gene Wilder: 30 years of laughter Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83 Gene Wilder, who died on Monday following a battle with Alzheimer’s, left behind a body of work that began 50 years ago and includes some of the greatest ever ene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who comedies. Here are 10 of his landmark roles: brought his deft comedic touch to such Gunforgettable roles as the neurotic account- 1. “Death of a Salesman” (1966) ant in “The Producers” and the mad scientist of Alex Segal’s Emmy Award-winning adaptation for “Young Frankenstein,” has died. He was 83. Wilder’s television of Arthur Miller’s iconic play, starring Lee J nephew said Monday that the actor and writer Cobb from the original 1949 Broadway cast as Willy died late Sunday at his home in Stamford, Loman. Wilder played Bernard, the son of Loman’s Connecticut, of complications from Alzheimer’s dis- neighbor. ease. No funeral arrangements have been announced. Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a 2. “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) statement that Wilder was diagnosed with the dis- Wilder portrays Eugene Grizzard, one of the fugi- ease three years ago, but kept the condition pri- tive duo’s hostages, in his big screen debut. vate so as not to disappoint fans. Wilder started his acting career on the stage, 3. “The Producers” (1968) but millions knew him from his work in the movies, Wilder was nominated for a best supporting actor especially his collaborations with Mel Brooks on Oscar for the first of his many collaborations with leg- “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young endary filmmaker Mel Brooks. In a Dec 27, 1977 file photo, Frankenstein.” The last film - with Wilder playing a actor Gene Wilder looks California-born descendant of the mad scientist, 4. “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) thoughtful during an inter- insisting that his name is pronounced “Frahn-ken- Wilder plays candy impresario Willy Wonka in per- view in New York. SHTEEN” - was co-written by Brooks and Wilder and haps his most celebrated role. Legend has it-incorrectly- earned the pair an Oscar nomination for adapted that Fred Astaire was in the running for the part. Ron screenplay. “Gene Wilder, one of the truly great tal- This file photo taken on March 17, 2008 shows actor and author Gene Wilder posing with copies of Moody and Jon Pertwee were considered before Wilder ents of our time, is gone,” Brooks wrote in a state- was chosen. ment Monday. “He blessed every film we did his new book ‘The Woman Who Wouldn’t’ at Barnes & Noble Bookstore at The Grove in West Hollywood, California. together with his special magic and he blessed my 5. “Blazing Saddles” (1974) life with his friendship. He will be so missed.” With take a human form. If there’s a heaven he has a “Springtime For Hitler” and plan to flee with the Mel Brooks’s searing satire of racism and depictions his unkempt hair and big, buggy eyes, Wilder was a Golden Ticket.” money raised for the show’s production. Wilder’s of the American Old West and the collaboration that master at playing panicked characters caught up in Cloris Leachman, Wilder’s “Young Frankenstein” performance received a supporting actor Oscar nearly never was. Oscar-winning Gig Young was cast as schemes that only a madman such as Brooks could co-star, tweeted, “Oh, Gene, it’s too soon!” Wilder nod. the Waco Kid, but he collapsed during his first scene devise, whether reviving a monster in “Young was close friends with Richard Pryor and their con- and Wilder was flown in to replace him. Frankenstein” or bilking Broadway in “The trasting personas - Wilder uptight, Pryor loose - Outstanding guest actor Producers.” Brooks would call him “God’s perfect were ideal for comedy. They co-starred in four Before starring in “The Producers,” he had a 6. “Young Frankenstein” (1974) prey, the victim in all of us.” films: “Silver Streak,” “Stir Crazy,” “See No Evil, Hear small role as the hostage of gangsters in the 1967 An affectionate parody of the horror genre in which No Evil” and “Another You.” And they created sever- classic “Bonnie and Clyde.” He peaked in the mid- Wilder plays a descendant of Mary Shelley’s Victor al memorable scenes, particularly when Pryor pro- 1970s with the twin Brooks hits “Blazing Saddles” Frankenstein. Another Mel Brooks collaboration and vided Wilder with directions on how to “act black” and “Young Frankenstein.” Wilder went on to write another Oscar nomination, this time for the script he as they tried to avoid police in “Silver Streak.” But several screenplays and direct five features, includ- wrote with the director. Wilder would insist he was no comedian. He told ing “The Woman in Red” and “Haunted Robert Osborne in a 2013 interview that it was the Honeymoon,” in which he co-starred with his third 7. “The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter biggest misconception about him. wife, Gilda Radner. The two met while making the Brother” (1975) 1982 film “Hanky-Panky” and married in 1984. After A musical comedy remarkable only for the fact that Nothing special Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, Wilder spent it was Wilder’s directorial debut. “Wilder seems to be “What a comic, what a funny guy, all that stuff! much of his time after promoting cancer research taking things somewhat seriously, yet the details are And I’m not. I’m really not. Except in a comedy in and opened a support facility for cancer patients. often so obscured, you never get around to caring all films,” Wilder said. “But I make my wife laugh once In 1991, he testified before Congress about the that much,” concludes a reviewer on the Classic Movie or twice in the house, but nothing special. But need for increased testing for cancer. Guide website. when people see me in a movie and it’s funny then That same year, he appeared in his final film they stop and say things to me about ‘how funny role: “Another You” with Pryor. Wilder worked most- 8. “Stir Crazy” (1980) you were.’ But I don’t think I’m that funny. I think I ly in television in recent years, including appear- With Sidney Poitier at the helm, Wilder delivers a can be in the movies.” A Milwaukee native, Wilder ances on “Will & Grace” one of which earned him an bravura performance in this prison comedy that reunit- was born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933. Emmy Award for outstanding guest actor - and a ed him with Richard Pryor after “Silver Streak” (1976) When he was 6, his mother suffered a heart attack starring role in the short-lived sitcom “Something and was a huge hit. The box office total marked the first that left her a semi-invalid. He soon began impro- Wilder.” In 2015, he was among the voices in the time a film directed by an African-American earned vising comedy skits to entertain her, the first indi- animated “The Yo Gabba Gabba! Movie 2.” As for more than $100 million. cation of his future career. He started taking acting why he stopped appearing on the big screen, classes at age 12. In 1961, he became a member of Wilder said in 2013 he was turned off by the noise 9. “The Woman in Red” (1984) Lee Strasberg’s prestigious Actor’s Studio in and foul language in modern movies. “I didn’t want Another movie directed by and starring Wilder that In a Dec 9, 1977 file photo, actor Gene Wilder is shown during an interview Manhattan. to do the kind of junk I was seeing,” he said in an won an Oscar for best original song-”I Just Called To Say with Jean Claude Bouis at his New York City Hotel. That same year, he made both his off-Broadway interview. “I didn’t want to do 3D for instance. I did- I Love You,” written and performed by Stevie Wonder. and Broadway debuts using the stage name Gene n’t want to do ones where there’s just bombing Wilder started a relationship with co-star Gilda Radner, Wilder. He won the Clarence Derwent Award, given and loud and swearing, so much swearing... can’t who became his third wife in 1984. Funniest and sweetest energies to promising newcomers, for the Broadway work in they just stop and talk instead of swearing?” Wilder But he also knew how to keep it cool as the Graham Greene’s comedy “The Complaisant Lover.” is survived by his wife, Karen, whom he married in 10. “Will and Grace” (1997) boozing gunslinger in “Blazing Saddles” or the A key break came in 1963 when he co-starred with 1991, and his daughter from a previous marriage, With his big screen career behind him, Wilder charming candy man in the children’s favorite Anne Bancroft in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage,” Katherine, from whom he was estranged. — AP guest-starred on two episodes of NBC’s “Will and Grace,” “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” His crazi- and met Brooks, her future husband. Brooks cast winning an Emmy Award for outstanding guest actor est role: the therapist having an affair with a sheep Wilder in “The Producers” as Leo Bloom, an on a comedy series. — AFP in Woody Allen’s “Everything You Wanted to Know accountant who discovers the liberating joys of About Sex.” Tweeted Jim Carrey: “Gene Wilder was greed and corruption as he and Max Bialystock one of the funniest and sweetest energies ever to (Zero Mostel) conceive a Broadway flop titled

‘Beauty and the Beast’ producer Kane says Gene Wilder posts character images gave her a second chance t age 23, Carol Kane was fresh off a great clowns - the Chaplin of talkies in some producer on the upcoming live-action Best Actress Oscar nomination with no ways,” she said. “The World’s Greatest Lover” adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast” Aprospects on the horizon. The phone was not particularly well-received when it Ahas invited his social media followers hadn’t rung for a year, she said. Then Gene came out in 1977. Kane thinks it might not to be his guest to a first look at several char- Wilder called. “Out of the blue I got a call from have gotten the right publicity. “It was a little acters from the film. “Beauty and the Beast” Gene saying that he’d like to meet me about under the radar unfortunately,” she said. “But I co-producer Jack Morrissey posted images ‘The World’s Greatest Lover,’” Kane said think that it holds up beautifully and that it’s on his Facebook account Friday of computer- Monday. “(It) was a comedy, which I’d never lovely and funny and worth a second look.” generated renditions of Ewan McGregor as done before. I have no idea why he thought I Kane would stay in touch with Wilder on and candelabra Lumiere and Ian McKellen as could do it, but he was a purist, he was kind off over the years, and she loved seeing the clock Cogsworth, as well as Dan Stevens in of a poet and I met him and he asked me to friendship of Wilder, Mel Brooks and Dom his human prince form. do this movie with him.” DeLuise (who also starred in “The World’s Morrissey says the images are from a Wilder, who died Sunday at 83, wrote, Greatest Lover” as the studio mogul). sneak preview that will be included in the directed and starred in “The World’s Greatest Wilder and Kane reunited in 2001 to per- 25th anniversary edition of the 1991 animat- Lover,” about a baker (Wilder) and his wife form in three classic one-act farces at the ed “Beauty and the Beasty” out Sept 20. (Kane) who move to Hollywood during the Westport Country Playhouse, but she’ll Emma Watson, who plays protagonist Belle, silent film era to enter a talent search for always remember the great significance of was previously glimpsed in a teaser trailer someone who might compete with Rudolph that phone call more than 40 years ago. “He released earlier this summer. Disney’s live- Valentino. Kane, 64, was only 25 by the time it was a gentle man and a gentleman ... a true, action “Beauty and the Beast” is set for wrapped, but getting that call from Wilder true artist,” Kane said. “We never saw anyone release March 17, 2017. — AP still felt to her like “a second chance,” she said. like him before or after.”— AP In this March 14, 2016, file photo, Carol She remembers Wilder being compassion- Kane attends a special screening of ate and inspirational as a director but serious In this July 31, 2011, file photo, actor Dan Stevens poses ‘Everything Is Copy’ at The Museum of and sensitive, too. “(He was) clearly one the for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. — AP Modern Art in New York. — AP Actor Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies at 83

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Steampunk enthusiasts attend the first day of ‘The Asylum Steampunk Festival’ in Lincoln, northern England. — AFP Internet star sings of Gaza cat and ‘My Trousers’

obbed by fans wherever he goes, Adel ployed and two-thirds of the population depend on for- become popular with the under-30s who see no future for Meshoukhi is the kind of singer that perhaps only eign aid. “I am a human being, I don’t want to make war themselves in Gaza. The Gaza Strip is a “giant prison” A picture shows Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi performing on a MGaza could produce: An internet sensation who with anyone, I just want to live,” said Meshoukhi in the where people live like “sardines in a tin”, said Meshoukhi. rooftop overlooking Gaza City. — AFP photos depends on a modest stipend from Hamas. Very few peo- house he still shares with his parents in the Rafah refugee For psychiatrist Samir Zaqout, the singer’s success comes ple in Gaza, the small Palestinian territory ruled by the camp. “But nobody listens to us.” from tapping into “the desperation born of social and eco- Islamist movement Hamas, haven’t heard of the young nomic pressure on young Palestinians”. and disenchanted Meshoukhi. He has performed for 10 Hamas employee This has allowed him to “achieve enormous popularity years as a singer and also acts in television and radio dra- If he talks to cats in the song that made him famous, in a short time”. Meshoukhi speaks from experience of mas. “it’s because they at least are harmless”. His lyrics are mild struggling to make ends meet. He has no lucrative con- But despite his fame among Palestinians, he earns but often gently satirical. His latest song, “My Trousers,” tract or flashy lifestyle-fame has not brought riches. The barely anything from his art and used to work for the posted earlier this month, tells of dirty laundry but evokes English graduate, divorced and childless, relies on the Hamas security services until he was accidentally shot in the economic struggles of young people. As such, he has stipend from the department of national security. Three the leg during training three years ago. Still convalescing, years after the shooting accident, he receives only half his he gets a partial-and sporadic income-from them. The former monthly wage. “How can you live on a salary of musical comedian’s most popular song is actually an ode 1,200 shekels ($318)?” he asked. to a cat. “Do not be afraid of me pussycat, do not run And that is only when the money is paid, which it is away,” sings the 32-year-old in Arabic, while wandering often not because of political infighting and financial the dark empty streets of Rafah in southern Gaza. “I’m only shortfalls. In conservative Gaza, even moderately satirical a human being.” songs can spark a backlash. Hamas authorities even The video was made with just his own cellphone and a accused him of “harming the military” by acting and computer, but it has been shared hundreds of thousands singing in his spare time, he said. “These wild songs aim Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi (center) performing during a wedding of times on Facebook. Young people listen to the song, to destroy our conservative youth,” posted one critic on in Rafah in the southern Gaza City. called “Fear Not”, and other hits repeatedly on their Facebook. And he has been detained by Hamas police phones or at wedding parties. The secret of his success? eight times, he said. His light style, which mixes jokes and irony for Gazans In a video posted on YouTube, Meshoukhi has a crack keen to forget politics for a few minutes. “I no longer at the territory’s Islamist rulers. “Hamas, leave office. It’s speak of politics and war because we are all fed up, we been 10 years you’ve been responsible for the plight of want to have some fun,” said Meshoukhi, round-faced Gazans. You sent us back 300 years,” he bellows. “We have with cropped black hair. no electricity, no water, no jobs and borders are closed. The singer causes a stir every time he arrives, sunglass- Life, dreams, hopes, everything is finished!” It is precisely es on his nose as ever, at crowded cafes on the because “he is afraid of nothing and speaks the needs of Mediterranean seafront. On the night AFP spent with him, youth” that he is so popular, said Saleh Al-Moughir, a Meshoukhi was invited to a wedding party in a refugee Gazan actor. — AFP camp in Rafah, where he was guest of honour. “Everyone loves Adel here,” grinned Ibrahim al-Nireb, brother of the groom, who repeatedly took selfies with the star who “brings smiles to people’s faces”. Gaza, in which 1.9 million people live behind largely closed borders with Israel and Palestinian singer Adel Egypt, is still in recovery from a devastating 2014 war with Meshoukhi performing on a rooftop overlooking Gaza City. Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi (center) performing during a wedding Israel. Around 45 percent of its workforce are unem- in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi posing for pictures during a wedding Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi speaking on the phone at his home in Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi writing at his home in Rafah in the southern Gaza in Rafah. Rafah. Strip.