Ajman Tribe to Meet AMIR After Citizenships Revoked

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 RAMADAN 25, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Saudi stock MERS virus Real Madrid market to found in sign up allow foreign air of Saudi Golden Boot Emsak: 03:21 investment camel barn Rodriguez Fajer: 03:31 Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:30 Maghreb: 18:45 21 28 20 Eshaa: 20:14 Ajman tribe to meet Amir Max 46º after citizenships revoked Min 30º High Tide 08:20 & 22:50 Liberals demand reconciliation, fresh polls • Oppn slams ‘cheap revenge’ Low Tide 02:25 & 16:23 40 PAGES NO: 16235 150 FILS By Staff Reporter Ramadan Kareem KUWAIT: The Ajman tribe, one of the largest bedouin Itikaaf is sunnah tribes in Kuwait, decided after a meeting late Monday night to send a delegation to HH the Amir to discuss the raise be to Allah, Who is, concerning His ser- government’s decision to revoke the citizenship of several vants, Acquainted and Seeing. Out of His members of the tribe. The government meanwhile pub- Pbounty and grace, Allah rewards much for little lished its decisions revoking the citizenship of Ahmad Jabr deeds. May He exalt the mention of the Prophet Al-Shemmari, the owner of the pro-opposition Al-Youm Muhammad (PBUH) who was sent as a guide, a satellite channel and Alam Al-Youm newspaper, and for- bringer of glad tidings and a warner, as well as that mer Islamist opposition MP Abdullah Al-Barghash, two of of his family and companions. his brothers and his sister. The decisions also revoke the cit- Ramadan is a wonderful season for those who izenship of all family members of the five people. seek salvation and endeavor to free themselves from Barghash and his brothers and sister belong to the Hell. The month is distinguished by verification of Ajman tribe which called for an emergency meeting after the acts of worship, multiplication of rewards and the decisions were announced. The meeting was chaired the descent of mercies. From the other distinguish- by the tribe’s chief Sultan bin Hathleen, who said that the ing characteristics of this month is the last ten days meeting agreed to send a delegation to the Amir over the thereof. It was narrated on the authority of Aisha, issue. Hathleen also said that both the decisions will be may Allah be pleased with her that she said, “The raised with the Amir. No date has yet been set for the Prophet (PBUH) would exert his best (in worship) meeting. during the last ten days (of Ramadan) more than at Meanwhile, angry reactions continued from leading other times.” [Muslim] opposition figures and groups, with the liberal Kuwait It was also narrated on her authority that, “With Democratic Forum calling for a national reconciliation, the the start of the last ten days (of Ramadan), the resignation of the government, dissolving the National Messenger of Allah (PBUH) used to tighten up his Assembly and holding fresh elections. KDF reiterated in a loincloth (ie, refrain from sexual intercourse), stay up statement its warning to the government not to involve at night and keep his family awake.” [Al-Bukhari & itself in the ongoing political dispute between highly influ- Muslim] It was also narrated that she said, “The ential figures. The forum described the government’s deci- Prophet (PBUH) would pray and also sleep during sion as an act of provocation against its opponents taken the nights of the first twenty days of Ramadan. GAZA CITY: A Palestinian youth holds a Holy Quran as he stands yesterday in the rubble of the Al Aqsa under the pretext of implementing the law. Continued on Page 15 Martyrs mosque, destroyed by an overnight Israeli strike. — AP (See Page 7) Continued on Page 15 WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 LOCAL

Food of Ramadan Quaker Oats Apple Cinnamon Delight

Ingredients • 7 tbsps. Quaker Oats • 1 cup non-fat or low fat milk • 1/2 cup water • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder • 1/4 tsp. salt • 1 tsp. brown sugar • 1 small apple, diced

Preparation • Cook Quaker Oats with milk and water until the porridge thickens and is cooked. • Add cinnamon powder and salt and mix well. • Add diced apple, mix well, and serve immediately. Zain provides prayer essentials at mosques

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommu- mentioned that this initiative is one of Thafeeri Mosque in Jahra. The company located at mosques’ entrances to pro- nications company in Kuwait, many charitable and humanitarian activ- also showed its support to the Grand vide worshippers with more comfortable announced yesterday that it shared the ities it conducts annually to foster an Mosque’s volunteers by catering to their circumstances during the hot weather spiritual blessings of the Last 10 Days of even more spiritual environment during needs. conditions. This year, Zain’s CSR program the Holy Month of Ramadan by distrib- the Holy Month of Ramadan. The com- Zain added that the Ramadan gifts provided an extensive array of programs uting Ramadan gifts and prayer essen- pany was keen to provide comfort to and prayer essentials included wheel- during the Holy Month, including the tials to a number of Kuwait’s biggest and worshippers performing their Qiyam chairs for the elderly, prayer chairs for distribution of daily Iftar meals; the dis- most prominent mosques. The company prayers at a number of Kuwait’s biggest those who perform praying while sitting, tribution of essential food supplies distributed gifts to worshippers during and most visited mosques during the prayer mats, as well as electronic prayer “Machla” to needy families; a celebration Qiyam Prayer to cover their needs dur- holy moth, most notably the Grand beads devices. The company also provid- with the Ministry of Social Affairs’ care ing this blessed time of the year. Mosque in Al Asimah, Jaber Al Ali ed free of charge beverages and ice centers, as well as many other sports In a press statement the company Mosque in South Surrah, and Uqlah Al cream through several vans that were and recreational activities. Burgan Bank shares blessings of Ramadan

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently concluded its annual most celebrated times of the year. Burgan Bank’s Corporate Club, Kuwait Center of Mental Health, The Kuwaiti Society spirit of giving during the Holy month of Ramadan. Burgan Girgean visits to a number of organizations and associa- Communications representatives took part in the visits by for Guardians of the Disabled, Palliative Care Center, Bank is committed to being a key player in Kuwait’s social tions as part of its corporate social responsibility activities. distributing Girgean gift bags to young patients and their Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, Abeer 2 Center, and the fabric and continues to support such activities throughout The visits aim to draw smiles on people’s faces during the families while providing a fun-packed day of activities. Kuwait Cancer Control Center. Through this old Kuwaiti tra- the year, reiterating the Bank’s commitment to the wider Holy Month of Ramadan, which is considered one of the The bank’s visits covered the Kuwait Disabled Sports dition, the bank’s Girgean visits aimed at encouraging the community. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 LOCAL

AAW hosts its annual ghabga

KUWAIT: Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa pany’s eight lines of business in spirit of con- the event honored and celebrated the hard- Faisal Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa said: “The blessings. This is the perfect time to recognize Commercial Co (AAW) hosted its annual necting them in a friendly, high-spirited envi- work and dedication of 30 team members in Holy Month of Ramadan marks the five-year the hard work and effort of the members of ghabga last week bringing together 300 ronment outside the workspace. Hosted by AAW’s Support Divisions over the last five milestone of many of our team members. It is the AAW team and thank them for their many members of the AAW family across the com- popular TV anchor and celebrity, Sally Al-Kadi, years. AAW Chairman and Managing Director, also a time to spread gratitude and count our years of dedication to the company.”

114,000 sick leaves in three weeks KUWAIT: Public sector employees took more than 114,000 sick leaves during the first 22 days of Ramadan, a local daily reported yesterday, quoting official statistics. The leaves were taken by more than 38,000 employees, or 12.5 percent of the total number of public sector employees that reaches around 305,000. The leaves taken between June 28, 2014 and July 20, 2014 cost the state KD 2.2 billion, according to a source with knowledge of Civil Service Commission statistics. The sick leaves were dominated by female employees with 77,000 days, compared to 37,000 days for their male counterparts. The Health Ministry saw the largest number of sick leaves taken with 18,000, followed by the Education Ministry with 16,000. The source who spoke to Al-Watan on the condition of anonymity that the number of sick leaves is expected to increase during the last week of Ramadan. Evidence of this appeared as early as Sunday when a tour revealed that attendance at most departments in the Ministriesí Complex barely reached 50 percent amid slow business, according to an Al-Qabas report. In other news, the Kuwait Banks Association announced a 4-day Eid Al-Fitr holiday that starts on Monday. The decision was taken to avoid closing branches for clients for nine consecutive days, Secretary Dr Hamad Al-Hasawi told Al- Watan. He added that Sunday is normal working day regardless whether Eid falls on Monday or Tuesday. — Al-Watan & Al-Qabas WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 LOCAL Indian commits suicide

KUWAIT: An Indian expat committed sui- and insulted. Three women and a man cide in her sponsor’s house in Mahboula, told police that three persons insulted and making it the eighth case in less than 24 beat them, the others made a similar hours. claim. In another development a citizen told Bayan police that his elderly father Wife beaten up who lives by himself called him and told An Arab female expat told Maidan him an unidentified person entered the Hawally police that she was visiting a house, broke a safe and took KD 700. friend and saw her husband, so he beat her Police are investigating. Also a Palestinian up. She presented a medical report along expat told Salmiya police that an unidenti- with the complaint. Meanwhile, a fight fied person broke into his apartment and broke out between two Arab expats after stole jewelry. one of them, an Egyptian, bought a phone for KD210 from a store, then came back Eating in public two hours later to return it because he A police major general sent two female thought the price was excessive. The seller citizens to Surra police station for eating refused, so a verbal exchange took place in public during the day. The two were dis- before escalating to blows. Both men were covered to be in an abnormal condition, taken to Fahaheel police station. and they caused a traffic accident and obstructed traffic. Account balance dropping A citizen told Rawda police that he Asian woman robbed was surprised by his bank account bal- An unidentified person robbed an ance dropping, so he obtained a state- Asian woman of her bag at knifepoint in ment to discover six transactions of vari- front of her home in Hawally and escaped. ous amounts for a total of KD290. He said The victim told police that the bag con- he does not know how the transactions tained her salary, phone and ID cards. were made and that no one knows his Police are investigating. Also, a citizen told PIN number. Salhiya police that someone broke into his car and took a briefcase that contained Beaten and insulted documents and KD 5,000. Criminal evi- Seven citizens, male and female, dence lifted fingerprints, and detectives exchanged accusations of being beaten are working on the case.

KUWAIT: A jet-skier seen in front of people on a beach in Salmiya area of Kuwait City as temperatures soars. Segregation at —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat dentistry clinics? MSAL ‘monitoring’ the KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health is mulling ly in the initial report. proposals to provide dental care in separate The ministry says that the step improves clinics for Kuwaitis and expatriates. The the quality of services at its overcrowded news, first reported by Al-Jarida daily yester- medical facilities, in light of the lack of infra- public benefit societies day, comes one year after the ministry structure development that is adequate approved a nationality-based segregation with the pace of the country’s demographic system for clinical appointments at public growth. The decision last year sparked neg- hospital. The system gives Kuwaiti patients ative reactions given its ‘discriminatory’ Parliament approves several foreign agreements priority in medical check-ups at outpatient nature. The ministry explained later that the clinics during morning shifts and limits for- plan will not be applied at emergency KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Al-Shemmeri, and another decree to withdraw Djoomart Otorbaev, to His Highness the Amir eigners’ check-up times to afternoon shifts. rooms and trauma centers at public hospi- Labor is ‘closely monitoring’ the activities of the the citizenship of Saad Hashr Ayed Al-Barghash, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, The newest study suggests that a similar tals and polyclinics which remain open to public benefit societies to make sure they play Abdullah Hashr Ayed Al-Barghash, Nasser Hashr inviting him to visit Kyrgyzstan. scenario would be followed at state-run Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis equally through- a positive role for the development of the Ayed Al-Barghash, Noura Hashr Ayed Al- On the Arab scene, the Cabinet listened to a dental clinics in Kuwait. Such a decision out the day. Nonetheless, the decision Kuwaiti society, Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh has Barghash. The move has been taken as per detailed account by First Deputy Prime Minister would create more frustration from the brought criticism to Kuwait locally and said. During a Cabinet meeting on Monday, Repeated Article 21 of the Law on Kuwaiti and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah approach of discriminating between people internationally, including from Human Minister Sabeeh reviewed the procedures taken Citizenship No 15/1959. The cabinet was also Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on the results of his in healthcare based on nationality, accord- Rights Watch and the US Department of by the Ministry to face any form of deviation notified of the decree by His Highness the Amir participation in a recent emergency meeting of ing to ministry sources quoted anonymous- State’s Human Rights Report. —Al-Jarida from the targets of the public benefit societies Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah com- Arab Foreign Ministers which discussed devel- as defined by law, as well as their basic system missioning His Highness the Prime Minister to opments in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday’s meeting and purposes according to which they were lead the Kuwaiti delegation to the 69th session also discussed the political scene in light of Live Eid Celebrations granted licenses. of the UN General Assembly in New York, and reports on the overall political developments, She said that some of these societies have deliver the country’s speech on behalf of His on both Arab and international levels. at the Khairan Resort been closed down after they committed viola- Highness the Amir. tions. The Cabinet weekly meeting was held By the same token, the Cabinet was informed Foreign agreements KUWAIT: The Touristic Enterprises Company yesterday at Seif Palace under chairmanship of of His Highness the Amir’s decree commission- In another development, the Kuwaiti parlia- reached an agreement with the Information His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber ing His Highness the Prime Minister to attend ment approved a draft law for foreign invest- Ministry to broadcast Eid A-Fitr celebrations Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. During the the celebration by the giant auto maker Daimler ment promotion and protection agreements at the Khairan Resort live on Kuwait TV. The meeting, the Cabinet reviewed the speech by in Germany on the occasion of the 40th anniver- between the Kuwaiti government and each of one-hour show will be aired from 6:00 pm on His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad sary of the successful partnership between the Iraq, Honduras, Tanzania and Kenya. The parlia- the first three days of Eid, said Saqr Al-Badr, Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on the occasion of the last ten company and the Kuwait Investment Authority. ment’s foreign affairs committee also passed a the Public Relations and Media Department days of the Holy Muslim fasting month of The Cabinet also reviewed the message sent draft law for the establishment of an HQ for the Manager at TEC. The company allocated Ramadan in which he urged the international to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- GCC Emergency Management Centre. A memo- valuable prizes for a game show that will be community to stop the Israeli aggression on Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah from Iran’s President randum of understanding on plans for preferen- aired during the program, Badr added. He Gaza, and called the Kuwaiti people, especially Hassan Rouhani on the tragic humanitarian con- tial tariffs between Organization of Islamic also announced that the agreement with the the youth, to work harder for their country’s ditions in Gaza and the importance of assisting Cooperation member states was also passed. Information Ministry includes organizing a future. the Palestinian people against the Israeli The committee also approved an agreement for game show on Radio Kuwait. The two-hour The Cabinet has approved a draft decree to aggressive practices. It also reviewed the mes- the avoidance of dual taxation and the preven- show will air starting from 8:30 pm on the revoke the citizenship of Ahmad Kathem Afet sage by Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic tion of fiscal evasion. —Agencies Eid’s four days. Meanwhile, Badr said that the Entertainment City welcomes visitors during Eid every day from 5:00 pm to 1:00 am. He also announced that the Ice Skating Rink will not be able to welcome visitors because the building will be used for a play performance during the holiday. Saqr Al-Badr Ministry tackles drug peddling in schools

KUWAIT: The Education Ministry launched Hundreds of drug pills were found with efforts to tackle drug peddling in schools as high school students, who admitted that they the number of students abusing drugs in obtained them from schoolmates who sell public and private schools increased exces- drugs on behalf of traffickers outside, accord- sively in the past year, according to a ministry ing to the source. Captagon was the main official. The efforts include constant coordina- drug found with the teenagers, in addition to tion with the Interior Ministry to keep track of Tramadol and other substances. The Interior the spread of drugs in schools, said the Ministry keeps relevant authorities in the source who spoke to Al-Rai on the condition Education Ministry updated about addicts’ Explosion at steel factory of anonymity. Furthermore, the ministry movements. However, a shortage in psychol- decided to form a national campaign to ogists and social workers has prevented the By Hanan Al-Saadoun study the spread of drugs and psychotropic Education Ministry from playing an adequate substances, the source said. monitoring role, the source said. —Al-Rai KUWAIT: An explosion was reported at a steel factory in Mina Abdullah Monday night, causing multiple fires inside and outside the place. The explosion sent shrapnel of burning metal OCHA chief exalts hundreds of meters around the factory’s perimeter, according to workers in nearby fac- tories. No injuries were reported in the inci- Kuwait’s donation dent. Firefighters from the Abdullah Port, Industrial Shuwaiba and backup fire stations KUWAIT: Director of the United Nations in humanitarian work as part of its for- tackled the blaze. An investigation was opened Office for the Coordination of eign policies. The Kuwaiti envoy pointed to determine whether foul play is involved. Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Rashid out that another substantial donation of Accident Khalikov lauded Kuwait’s recent gener- $10 million was given by First Deputy Separately, a motorist was critically ous aid of $10 million to help in Iraq’s dis- Prime Minister and Foreign Minister wounded in an accident reported on King placement crisis. Khalikov made this Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Fahd Highway Monday night. The Kuwaiti remark in a press statement yesterday, Sabah to support the health sector in the man was involved in a two-car collision near after meeting with Kuwait Permanent Palestinian territories. On June 29, the the Wafra Bridge, and was trapped inside his Delegate at the United Nations in Cabinet had approved a donation of $10 wrecked vehicle. Firefighters freed the man Geneva Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim. million to help the Iraqi displaced per- before he was taken in an ambulance to the Al-Ghunaim, meanwhile, said that the sons who have fled their country due to hospital. A case was filed for investigations. state of Kuwait has always been involved instability. —KUNA Unified contract grants one Kuwait approves child protection law KUWAIT: Minister of Health Ali Al-Obaidi lies, said Al-Sahlawi. approved yesterday an amended ministerial law The committee includes experts from the pub- day off for domestic workers number (314/2009) for child protection against lic and private sectors, members of NGOs, and abuse and negligence. Kuwait decided to form child-related societies, he added. Head of the By A Saleh to provide the worker with food and clothes that employee has the right to keep his or her passport the supreme national committee for child pro- pediatric and premature infants department in ensure them a decent living and allow them to con- in their possession, and the right to have one day tection according to article number 116/2013 to the Ministry and Vice President of the committee KUWAIT: Labor affairs ministers in Gulf Cooperation tact their families periodically. off a week. If for any reason the employee is set plans and measures to protect children Mona Al-Khawary said that the committee aims at Council countries meet in Kuwait in November in According to the contract, the employer is required to work during their designated day off, against all types of abuse, Undersecretary of the studying the current child protection laws and order to discuss a unified GCC contract for domestic required to pay for the worker’s recruitment and they would be entitled to a replacement day off or Ministry of Health and Chairman of the commit- legislations in order to develop them. The commit- workers. The draft law of the contract makes it visa fees, as well as fees for renewing or canceling financial compensation. The employer is also tee Khalid Al-Sahlawi told Kuwait News Agency tee also works on bringing awareness to people mandatory for employers to provide decent accom- the worker’s visa. The employer must also pay the required to pay his employee on the last working (KUNA). The law includes taking legal measures about child rights, she said, adding that the com- modation and necessary requirements in a way that costs of the worker’s travel after the contract day of the month, while the worker signs a receipt against child abusers and provide psychological mittee will also follow on procedures in child honors their privacy. The employer is also required expires. The contract also requires that the to ensure that he or she received the salary in full. and social therapy to the children and their fami- abuse cases with the Ministry of Interior. —KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 LOCAL

The Big 5 Kuwait announces dates for its second edition Kuwait’s construction sector to hit $17.5 billion

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s construction sec- the continued professional develop- Andy White, Group Event tor has witnessed remarkable ment of its delegates. Director, The Big 5, said, “The growth at a steady pace, driven by demand for fresh technology and the announcement of several infra- Airport Expansion new building material is on a steady structure projects in recent times. The $698.5 million KIA redevelop- rise in Kuwait, driven by a robust According to a recent report by ment project is one of the key proj- performance of the construction Ventures Middle East, the construc- ects in Kuwait, which includes and infrastructure sector. The total tion contracts in the country are set improvement of airport buildings cost of infrastructure and construc- to reach $17.5 billion by the end of and enhancement of other facilities tion projects in 2014 will touch $ 2014 from $9.8 billion in 2011. such as fire stations, rescue centers 23.2 billion. All this activity strongly Among the major infrastructure and service roads. The planned supports the need for The Big 5 projects under various stages of expansion will increase the airport’s Kuwait, which is set to present the planning and construction are annual capacity to 20 million pas- latest tools and equipments for the Kuwait International Airport (KIA) re- sengers. Likewise, the construction construction sector during its sec- development project, Kuwait Metro of the second terminal worth $3.3 ond edition. With a greater exhibi- project, and the Kuwait National Rail billion will be able to handle 13 mil- tion area on offer, we are confident Road System. lion passengers annually during the that we will continue to provide In line with these industry devel- first phases, with plans to increase to industry professionals with an opments, The Big 5 Kuwait, Kuwait’s 25 million and 50 million during opportunity to source new and largest building and construction subsequent phases. international products, a place to exhibition, has announced the network and also an opportunity to KUWAIT: Photo shows construction works going on at site. launch of its second edition, follow- Infrastructure Development continue their professional developing a successful debut last year. To The $7 billion Kuwait Metro proj- ment through the series of free to Kuwait Dive Team urges halt of be held from September 22 - 24, ect is another vital project currently attend educational features.” 2014 at the Kuwait International Fair, in the stages of design and supervi- Launched in 2013, The Big 5 the exhibition will showcase a com- sion. Nearly 65 per cent under- Kuwait received an overwhelming Jaber Bridge’s sea pilling works prehensive range of innovative ground, the Metro will cover more response for its first ever show. products and cutting edge tech- than 160 km, comprising 69 stations 5,000+ industry professionals, which KUWAIT: Kuwait Dive Team called for ficult mission. The Team also Jaber Al-Ahmad al-Sabah, is to link nologies for the construction sector. on its three lines. Lastly, the Kuwait include architects, engineers, con- stop to the current sea pilling works expressed readiness to help imple- the capital Kuwait City with the In addition, The Big 5 Kuwait will National Rail Road System to be tractors and developers, attended of Sheikh Jaber Bridge project to pro- ment the mission and move the northern Subbiya area, which is to tect marine species in the targeted marine species in the area to a safer become home to the Silk City project. also feature a Live Demonstration built at an investment of $10 billion the three-day event to source prod- area. In a press statement, the Team place. Kuwait Dive Team is a group of It involves construction of two sea Theatre to give hands-on demon- will be an integrated rail network ucts for $116 billion real estate and said that the current pilling works in dedicated divers and marine life spe- bridges, one linked to Subbiya and strations of the new products along with a total length of 511 km double infrastructure projects that are this marine species-rich area consti- cialists who are working tirelessly and the other linked to Doha. The project with other special events such as the track. To be built on a “build, operate underway in the country. Being the tute a violation to the international voluntarily to protect the marine will also include 2 man-made islands FM Congress, certified workshops, and transfer” (BOT) basis, the project largest construction exhibition in ecosystem protection regulations. environment of Kuwait. They have of 30 hectares; one on the northern networking round tables, and a How is currently in the final process of the country, The Big 5 Kuwait com- These works should be stopped to been awarded many times for their side and the other on the southern to Trade in Kuwait Seminar. These design with budget and allocation plements the growing momentum safeguard the marine species and work. side of the bridge which will house free to attend special features have being already made and the tender- in the Kuwaiti construction sector by ecosystem in the area, the statement The multibillion dollar-cost Sheikh maintenance and traffic emergency been designed with the Kuwait con- ing process expected to commence offering new concepts and solutions said, adding that moving the marine Jaber Bridge project is a causeway, to buildings, fueling stations and boat struction market in mind and ensure soon. in building technology. species to more safe areas is not a dif- be named after late Amir Sheikh docks.—KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 LOCAL

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By Dr Ebtihal Al-Khateeb boy tells his mother after she reprimand- ed him for failure to score a high GPA like Ahis brother: “Why bother? A high or low By Labeed Abdal GPA is the same. Eventually, I will be sent on a scholarship abroad or enroll in a university here, and ‘wasta’ (connections) will help me out after I graduate.” When this kind of logic infil- trates into young people’s minds, then we have [email protected] reached a very dangerous point. We are reaping an entire generation that does not see work

Al-Anbaa he arrival of Emirates’ A380 superjumbo plane and diligence as standards for its development. to Kuwait International Airport - the first time This is what they learned from the state, and Tsuch an aircraft landed in Kuwait - is an histori- this is what ‘adults’ told them. Your marks or cal step in the relationship between the Gulf The Cooperation Council states. Emirates highlighted it efforts are not necessary to achieve conven- Zionist as an ‘important step for the future’, especially since ience in life. The rentier system and right con- Lobby it comes on the 25th anniversary of the launch of its nections are all you need. services to Kuwait. Being one of the first destina- I do not blame young people today. They tions in the carriers’ history, Kuwait has a special grew up in a state where establishments lost place in the company’s strategy as Emirates eyes to their high status in a rentier society that values increase its flights here, the management said in a quantity over quality. The proof of this is when statement. Launching flights of the double-decker jet in the government wanted to answer complaints Kuwait gives a better traveling experience in newest regarding seat shortages at Kuwait University, kuwait digest aircraft. This cooperation between Kuwait and the the first thing that then Minister of Education Ahmad Al-Mulaifi did was instruct the universi- Renewing voters’ confidence ty to accept more freshmen, otherwise deans must submit their resignations, according to Launching flights of newspaper reports at the time. When the KU By Abdellatif Al-Duaij the double-decker jet could not enroll more students, the ministry opted for quantity over quality again, and the embers of the current Assembly, like those before The Assembly passed the amendment of the constitu- in Kuwait gives a better them, are looking for effective and direct means tional court law, making it possible for citizens to contest door for scholarships overseas was left wide Mto satisfy their voters and convince them to renew the constitutionality of laws, which is a right that was a traveling experience in open for all applicants - regardless of their GPA. their confidence in them during the next elections. The taboo for citizens during the past 50 years. The state did Almost everyone became qualified for a schol- current Assembly members feel greater pressure and need not spend even one fils, did not borrow from the social newest aircraft. arship, putting the hard worker and the careless for the continuation of this confidence because of the security or open the future generations fund or the gener- on the same level. siege imposed by opposition groups on what they call the al reserve funds, and despite that the current Assembly This is how competition and the ‘you reap one-vote Assembly. dazzled voters and the rest of citizens and it can be said United Arab Emirates opens new horizons, making what you sow’ concept are killed. Instead of Also, like those before them, most current MPs are look- without feeling of the extremism that muzzled its critics ing for opportunities and means to appease voters through and directed a knockout blow to those who lived on ridi- the new announcement worthy of appreciation for building a new university as soon as possible or distribution and squandering of public funds on them in culing it. the UAE. I could not be happier after hearing the constructing more colleges to face people’s the form of increases or employment allowances, or in the Former (strong) Assemblies failed, or maybe did not news, and wish further success to Emirates, and grumblings, the government opted with easy form of direct grants, or by increasing aid and government care about amending the constitutional court law, just like more development to the UAE. and destructive solutions like always. It services. This was possible and easy in the past, with the they failed to take interest in developmental, social and Hopefully, more people will receive the news crammed students in overcrowded classes, low- presence of a small number of people and financial surplus political issues. Former assemblies replaced the positive positively and wish further success to the Emirates, that facilitated and even imposed this policy. legislation and necessary development of the regime’s because strangely enough, people have increasing- ered standards and sold creativity for the price ly been reacting negatively to news about stories of of silencing the disgruntled. The rentier system, But currently we have a population glut and have an establishments and structure, and they resorted instead to expected budget deficit towards employees’ salaries and exaggerated supervision and inspection and strictly guard- success in other places. It appears that this has wages, so members of the National Assembly must simply ing public funds. The current National Assembly is the become a phenomenon these days, and has I always wonder what search for means other than grants and financial gifts to result of renewing the shape, type and directions of voters. become highlighted by social media that put attract or even convince their voters. There is a way, or Its members today have a major opportunity to renew its human interaction on highest levels. It is important role can we play to curb the rather better means, to attract the attention of voters, work and achievements through the necessary care of to be careful while reading the huge amount of which is to pay attention to minorities’ rights or even the amending, enhancing and passing legislations that were information we come across everyday on social growth of this idea that is rights of the public that they ignored either because of a ignored by the previous Assemblies. media, and make sure to verify information in order growing within them like lack of knowledge or prejudice of former assemblies. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas to avoid being influenced by false information. an active mold? Some of us see this similar to falling from a high place. Gazans pay heavy price for

‘wasta’ and social connections based on benefits have killed hope and the actual desire to Hamas ties to Brotherhood work hard among our young people, to the point in which they became confident that their efforts mean nothing to a rentier system that By Abdullah H Erakat consulted and therefore could not agree negative impact on the relationship.” he standing if not justification for the Hamas to elements of a truce where the content said. array of tunnels used for staging attacks puts them on an equal level regardless of how s the situation becomes increasing- was unknown.” Dr. Samir Awad, professor of on Israelis, admonishing that “saying the perseverant they are, and a factious system that ly dire in the Gaza Strip, some are But according to Abdelraouf, the true International politics at Birzeit University, tunnels are used to ‘attack’ the Israelis is discriminates between them even if their Aseeing the noticeable absence of reason for the rejection was that it origi- disagrees. He says that Egypt has not not the correct phrasing. Rather, they are results are the same. vociferous support from the Arab world nated with a French request to Qatar to been playing a “positive role.” He argues to ‘defend’ the Palestinians.” I always wonder what role can we play to for beleaguered Gazans as a function of use its influence with to reach a ceasefire. that Egypt will not succeed in returning “The Israelis expect that if the curb the growth of this idea that is growing the Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood relation- She suggests that had the initiative come the situation to what it was before the lat- Palestinians are attacked, they should lie from deposed Egyptian President and est violence began. “Egypt is not sponsor- down and play dead, and not to raise within them like an active mold? Some of us see ship. “Egyptians feel bad for the Palestinians not affiliated with Hamas... Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed ing Palestinians,” he said. “They are not their voice, let alone fight back against this similar to falling from a high place. What [but] the people of Gaza are paying the Morsi, Hamas would have agreed to it. really pressuring for their needs and the Israeli aggression,” according to can we do aside from repeated complaining? I price because of the enemy relationship Abdelraouf believes the feeling among demands,” he told The Media Line. He says Abdullah, who expressed the hope that would like to remind people again of LoYAC. which exists of between Hamas, Qatar and Egyptians is that underlying the Hamas the role of Egypt can be either that of “the West, namely the United States and Not only does LoYAC help young people make Turkey on one side, versus Egypt [on the rejection was an attempt to discredit adversary or mediator, but not both. President Obama, will take into account use of their free time and saves them from lack other],” Mahitab Abdelraouf, an Egyptian Egypt’s new president, Al-Sisi. “Egypt is losing its very important role in the lives of the Palestinians as he does the Abdullah asserts that the position of the region as a mediator and as a country Israelis.” What’s important is for Israel to of purpose and low education standards, it also journalist, told The Media Line. Abdelraouf suggests, for instance, that attempts to change the concepts through the Islamist Hamas movement is using its which they manage their lives, their perception media to turn Gazans against Egypt. She of themselves and evaluation of their results, as offers the example of a presumably much- well as improve their self-confidence and needed shipment of humanitarian goods dependence on their own efforts. All of these delivered by Egypt to the Gaza Strip last are concepts that build the human being. week that was sent back upon orders from Hamas officials. Hamas claimed it did so While I have previously wrote to urge people because the products’ “use-by” dates had to support LoYAC, I thought I would take a expired. But according to Abdelraouf, the small step in that direction as well. Since I do incident was an attempt to sew animosity not have something of influence except for a toward Egypt among Gazans and even head full of ideas, which is something that can- West Bank Palestinians. not provide results unless the ideas are associ- “The Egyptians are not against opening the Rafah crossing [the primary location ated with actions, this is how I would like to for people crossing between Egypt and contribute - to any institution willing to provide the Gaza Strip]. They are against Hamas.” active support to LoYAC and help sponsor their She argued that, “if Rafah was functioning activities for a period of time, I am willing to under the control of Mahmoud Abbas and provide everything I can from my experience in the Palestinian Authority, there would be the English language, including writing, conver- no problem in opening it. But since Hamas rules it, it will stay closed.” Hamas was sation, literature, philosophy, arts, translation, weakened by the fall of the Muslim etc, either through courses, workshops or any- Brotherhood earlier this year. Egyptians thing that employees of the institution need perceive Hamas as not only sympathizing throughout the year. with the organization, but through its mili- This is everything I can offer, and I am willing tary wing actually participating in terrorist to offer it professionally and with full commit- operations against the state of Egypt.” Dr Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the ment, as long as the institution provides neces- Palestine Legislative Council’s political sary support for LoYAC that helps it stand on its committee and senior official of the feet and continue its enlightening path. I know Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), I am not offering very much, but the little I can has warned Palestinians against becoming provide is all I have got, and I know that if it res- involved with the political intrigues play- GAZA: A Palestinian man stands on the wreckage of a car as he searches the rubble of his destroyed apartment fol- ing out in the Arab world lest they work lowing an Israeli air strike in the center of Gaza City yesterday. —AFP onates among those with resources, maybe it against the Palestinian people. Abdullah can achieve a lot for youngsters who soon will warns “it’s important not to be ‘influenced grow up to lead the society. We all work for our one way or another. We try to keep all the Palestinian Authority is that no one that has ties with Israel.” not only respect International laws and own good, and our own good is in the future, regional differences outside the question can deny that Hamas is a part of the At the end of the day, according to treaties but for them to be implemented. safety and development of this country. The of Palestine,” he told The Media Line. Palestinian population and that the PLO Awad, neither Hamas nor Israel is ready for Citing the loss of 32 Palestinian families in Last week, Israel agreed to a cease-fire and its chairman Mahmoud Abbas is look- Egypt to offer a new peace plan. The PLO’s the course of the Israeli operation so far, future of this country lies in the next genera- agreement presented by Egyptian ing out for the interests of all of the peo- Abdullah strikes a position sympathetic to Abdullah said he hopes that “the West, tion, so let us plant its seeds in the right envi- President Abdel-Fatteh Al-Sisi which was ple. “What the leadership is doing is those espoused by Hamas. He considers namely the United States President ronment so that it can produce the right fruits. rejected by Hamas. Hamas spokesman Isra paving the way for a smooth relationship Gaza to be an “open prison,” charging that, Barack Obama will take into account the —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida Al-Mo Dallal told The Media Line it was between Gaza and Egypt. But from time “Gazans cannot breathe air without the lives of the Palestinians as he does the rejected because Hamas “had not been to time, there are hiccups which have a permission of the Israelis.” He offers under- Israelis.” —The Media Line WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

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GAZA STRIP: Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City, Gaza Strip, yesterday, as Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of locations along the coastal area and diplomatic efforts intensified to end the two-week war. — AP World pushes for truce as Israel batters Gaza Kerry in Cairo pushing for ceasefire

GAZA CITY: The UN chief and Washington’s top diplomat Shoukri and later met the president, former military chief Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas five members of the same family, who died in a strike on Deir were holding a flurry of meetings in Cairo yesterday to push Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Washington’s top diplomat, who has held talks in Doha, pledging to work together for a ceasefire al-Balah in central Gaza. for an end to violence in Gaza that has killed more than 590 invested much of his tenure in an unsuccessful bid for a last- and to lift the blockade on Gaza. “Hamas and Abbas agreed Another 3,640 people have been wounded. Israel has said Palestinians. As the conflict entered its third week, neither side ing Middle East peace agreement, said he would discuss the that all Palestinian factions should work as a team towards a Operation Protective Edge is to stamp out rocket fire from showed any sign of willingness to pull back, with Israel pursu- Egyptian proposal, which calls for a ceasefire followed by ceasefire,” Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior official in Abbas’s Fatah Gaza, and on July 17 it sent in ground troops to destroy crossing a relentless campaign of shelling and air strikes, and mili- negotiations. party, told AFP after Monday’s meeting. border tunnels used by Hamas militants to infiltrate southern tants hitting back with rocket fire and fierce attacks on troops “It was decided that there should be a ceasefire first, and Israel. Since the offensive, more than 100,000 Gazans have operating on the ground. Gaza medics say the Palestinian ‘Very complicated issues’ we will continue discussions with Egypt and all regional and fled their homes, seeking shelter in 69 schools run by the dead include many women and children, while 27 of the 29 The talks were on “how we can build on it and hopefully international sides until we crystallise the content of a final Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Israeli victims were soldiers killed since a ground assault find not only a way to a ceasefire but a way to deal with the peace agreement.” A senior Hamas official, however, said the began late on July 17. Yesterday morning, civil defence crews underlying issues, which are very complicated,” he said. movement was insisting on a full agreement before it ceased Another 2 soldiers killed with a crane parked outside the Salam building in Gaza City, UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who has also come to the Egyptian firing. Early Tuesday, the Israeli army said another two of its which was hit in an Israeli air strike on Monday. The tower capital to push for a truce, was to hold separate talks with Sisi troops had been killed in clashes in Gaza a day earlier, raising block’s top five floors had collapsed onto its bottom four yesterday before heading to Jerusalem to meet with Israeli 100,000 displaced Monday’s toll to nine soldiers. It confirmed that a soldier floors. The leg of a person was visible from the street, lying on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry has demanded There was no halt to the bloodshed in Gaza, with at least Hamas claimed to have captured two days ago-Oron Shaul- a piece of rubble caked with streams of dried blood. that Hamas agree to end the fighting to spare further blood- 20 people killed in fresh Israeli strikes on Tuesday, raising the was dead but that his body remains unaccounted for. Overall, World powers have urged Hamas to accept an Egyptian- shed, in a call echoed by the Arab League. death toll since Israel launched its operation on July 8 to 593, 27 soldiers have died in the past four days, with 13 killed on brokered ceasefire and stop raining rockets into Israel from “Only Hamas now needs to make the decision to spare emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Sunday alone in what was the bloodiest single day for the the Gaza Strip, demands it has so far resisted. innocent civilians from this violence,” he said on Monday. Nine of yesterday’s dead were women, one of whom was Israeli military since the Lebanon war of 2006. Two Israeli civil- Kerry opened talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh As the diplomatic push gathered steam, Hamas leader pregnant, and the toll also included a four-year-old girl, and ians have also been killed by rocket fire. — AFP Jakarta governor wins election

JAKARTA: Jakarta governor Joko Widodo, who captured the hearts of millions of Indonesians with his common man image, won the country’s presidential election with 53 percent of the vote, final results showed yesterday. Widodo, a former furniture exporter known to most as “Jokowi,” is the first candidate in a direct presidential election with no ties to the former dictator Suharto, who ruled for 30 years before being overthrown in 1998. The other contender, former general Prabowo Subianto, declared he was withdrawing from the contest shortly before the numbers were released by the Election Commission, saying there was massive fraud during the election and that it was unfair and undemocratic. Widodo had maintained a slim lead of about 4 percentage points in unofficial “quick counts” by polling agencies released after the July 9 election. But Subianto, who has declared assets of $140 million and was on his third bid for the presidency, repeatedly claimed that polling firms with links to his campaign showed he was ahead. “We reject the 2014 presidential election which is illegitimate and therefore we withdraw from the ongoing process,” he said. Observers of the July 9 election said they were generally fair and free, with minimal abnormalities. Maswadi Rauf, a political professor at the University of Indonesia, said he saw no sign of significant fraud, as alleged by Subianto. Subianto’s rejection of the results “reflects the real attitudes of the elite, who have not yet ready to accept losing,” Rauf said. “We are still in transition to democracy, which is indeed not our culture. And what is happening indicates we still immature, we need to learn.” There were no immediate reports of violence. About 100 Subianto supporters held a peaceful protest about 300 meters (300 yards) from the Election Commission building in downtown Jakarta, chanting “Prabowo is the real president” and holding banners saying that the commission should stop cheating. The building was surrounded by thousands of policemen to maintain security after a particularly nasty presidential campaign marred by smear tactics from both camps. Widodo blamed his drop in opinion polls in the weeks before the election on character assaults that accused him, among other things, of not being a follower of Islam - which he denounced.—AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 INTERNATIONAL American Jews, other ‘lone soldiers’ serve Israel WASHINGTON: The two Americans killed marching in the desert and taking up of 15 or who never lived there, their serv- who re-direct their own life paths to pro- through the desert. He lived for almost in fighting in the Gaza Strip followed in arms to defend the Jewish state. ice is voluntary. For many, it is a calling, a tect Israel, those enlistees are given a four months inside a worn tent from the the footsteps of scores of Jews from There are about 2,000 lone soldiers cur- way to get back to their roots and unite hero’s welcome and a lifetime of Shabbat Vietnam War era. around the world who have volunteered rently serving in the military, said Marina the world’s Jewish population. Some have dinner invitations from their fellow sol- Israeli troops wondered why he would to fight for Israel. Rozhansky, spokeswoman at the Israel dual citizenship. Others speak little to no diers, who become their surrogate fami- leave the palm trees and beaches they Israel calls them the lone soldiers: They Consul General in Los Angeles. Groups for Hebrew and have only recently been to lies.” had seen in movies. “They didn’t under- are men and women in the prime of their families of lone soldiers have recently Israel. Thousands of people attended stand why a kid from Hollywood was lives who have left their parents and often started in Los Angeles and other cities, Max Steinberg, 24, who grew up in Carmeli’s funeral in the northern Israeli there,” he said. “But after you stuck around, comfortable lives behind in places like providing a support network as the fight- Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, port town of Haifa after they would respect you and understand Sydney, London, Los Angeles and else- ing intensifies. joined six months after he visited Israel for a Facebook status called for Israelis to (that) we’re here together to try and pro- where to join the Israel Defense Forces, For Jews who left Israel before the age the first time on a Birthright Israel trip with come in droves so that the lone soldier tect the same thing.” his younger brother and sister in June would be not be alone at this final resting When Fishbein heard of the two 2012, said Jake Steinberg, who spoke to place. Tearful mourners rested their heads Americans killed, it touched him deeply, The Associated Press hours after learning on his coffin, which was draped in an he said. He has struggled to post on his his brother, a sharpshooter in the Golani Israeli flag. Before it was lowered into the Facebook page his emotions or even give Brigade, was among 13 Israeli soldiers and grave, piles of flowers were set upon the an explanation to his friends in California scores of Palestinians over the weekend coffin, as mourners cried beside it. as to why he felt the need to serve. He who died during the first major ground Mike Fishbein, who grew up in Los never wanted to join the US armed forces, battle in two weeks of fighting between Angeles, said he felt like he was missing a Fishbein said. Israel and Hamas. The Jewish Journal was connection to his Jewish identity in For the 25-year-old commercial pro- first to report Steinberg’s death. California. He spent a year volunteering duction assistant, serving in the Israel “He got there and felt a connection to and studying in Israel, but that experience Defense Forces was the culmination of Israel, saw that as a place he could live and only deepened his desire to do more. milestones in his life, he said. In ninth be successful, and he went for it,” Jake “I believe in that country. I believe in grade, he accompanied his father with a Steinberg said. the Jewish people and the country’s rea- documentary crew filming the unearthing Nissim Sean Carmeli, 21, the second son to exist, so I thought I can’t just go of Jewish artefacts in a once largely Jewish American killed, was from South Padre back home to Los Angeles,” said Fishbein, town in Poland that was destroyed in the Island, Texas, and he felt that same strong who served about two years with the Holocaust. connection to the country he had only Israel Defense Forces starting in 2009. “That was a surreal experience for a LOS ANGELES: This March 2010 photo provided by Mike Fishbein shows moved to four years ago. After Fishbein enlisted, he spent 30 ninth-grade kid to go through, but it set Fishbein, middle, a US-born soldier from Los Angeles, with fellow “Lone soldiers are a kind of star in days learning Hebrew along with more me up to go to Israel and serve,” he said. Americans David Wisefield, left, and Ilan Benjamin, all fighting for the Israel,” according to the Jewish Journal in a than two dozen others from Panama, “Every lone soldier has had something Israel Defense Forces. The two Americans killed in fighting in the Gaza report. “For Israeli kids, army service is a South Africa, Australia and other nations. similar.” Josh Reznick, 24, who works for a Strip followed in the footsteps of scores of Jews from around the world rite of passage. But because it is a choice He then went through basic training, real estate investment firm in Baltimore, who have volunteered to fight for Israel. —AP for the young members of the Diaspora which included a 40-mile nighttime march briefly considered Turkey arrests dozens of top police officers in new swoop Raids conducted in 22 cities across Turkey

ANKARA: Turkish authorities yes- Most of the suspects are said to said when asked why he was ence in the country’s police and terday arrested dozens of senior have held key positions during the detained. judiciary and concocting a graft police officers in a criminal probe anti-graft probe against Erdogan in The suspects are accused of scandal to unseat his government over alleged illegal wire-tapping December. In the huge operation espionage, illegal wire-tapping, for- ahead of March local polls. and forgery, the latest crackdown conducted in the early morning, gery in official documents, violation Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted Justice on opponents of Prime Minister police in Istanbul alone raided of privacy, fabricating evidence, and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of almost 200 addresses. and violation of secrecy of investi- scored a decisive victory in those presidential polls. The Hurriyet daily said on its gation, the reports said. local polls, and the prime minister A total of 67 serving and former website that simultaneous raids The public prosecutor’s office in is now standing in elections for top police officers were arrested, were conducted in 22 cities across Istanbul said in a statement that president to be held on August 10. After 11 years in power which has seen his government tame the influence of the once-powerful mil- NABLUS: Women attend a demonstration against the Israeli military action in itary, Erdogan has declared a war Gaza, at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, yesterday. —AP against Gulen, accusing him of running a “parallel state”. In a television interview late Tunnel attack fears turn Monday, Erdogan bitterly vowed that the fight against the Gulen Gaza border into ghost towns movement would continue “non- stop” while calling on the United NIR AM: ‘Residents stay in your homes! Do lifestyle in the remote, pastoral kibbutzim. States to extradite the exiled cleric not go outside!’ read the text message sent But since July 8, when Israel launched an from his base in Pennsylvania. at dawn to the Israelis living on a kibbutz offensive aimed at destroying militants’ rock- “I expect the United States to near the Gaza border, as soldiers searched et stockpiles and secret tunnel network, take a stance on the Gulen issue,” the grounds for Palestinian gunmen. most of the families have abandoned the Erdogan said. Erdogan has faced While the Nir Am kibbutz was under lock- border lands. More than 600 Palestinians, the worst crisis of his over decade- down on Monday, a deadly battle ensued many of them civilians, have died in the long rule after allegations that he between the Israeli troops and a squad of fighting, along with 29 Israelis, including 27 and his allies engaged in corrup- Gaza militants, who had tunnelled their way soldiers. tion which ranged from bribery to across the border and emerged about a mile gold smuggling and illicit trade away from the farm community. Underground Gaza with Iran. Israel said it killed 10 gunmen in the bat- Israel has dubbed the network of subter- His Islamic-leaning government tle. The military said some were wearing ranean passages “Underground Gaza”, has already sacked thousands of Israeli army uniform and were equipped which it says serves as Hamas command police and prosecutors believed to with explosive belts. Four Israeli soldiers, bunkers and houses rocket-launch silos. The be linked to the movement in the including the commanding officer, died in military says it has discovered 23 tunnels wake of the scandal and tightened the fight. and destroyed six so far. controls over the judiciary and the “The threat of a mortar bomb is nothing Some of those cement-fortified burrows Internet. compared to a militant force of 10 men com- reached into Israel and since the offensive Erdogan and Gulen were once ing into our community to carry out a mas- began, Palestinian gunmen have tried to close allies who transformed the sacre,” said Shaike Shaked, one of the cross into Israel at least four times. ISTANBUL: Former vice president of the Financial Crime department of the Istanbul police, political landscape of Turkey, which founders of a nearby Israeli africultural com- “We’re already used to the rockets (fired Kazim Aksoy (C), detained as part of a criminal probe over alleged corruption, leaves a hospital for decades was ruled by secular munity, Netiv Haasara. from Gaza), but the tunnels are new,” said in Istanbul after a medical check-up at the start of his custody yesterday. —AFP governments closely watched over Three days ago, Shaked said, a tunnel Amit Bing, 22, who was born in the Nir Am. by coup-happy generals. opening was discovered 500 meters from “We knew about them, but we never prosecutors said in a statement. Turkey. Television pictures showed arrest warrants had been issued for Gulenists, said to number in the his home, which has been hit twice by believed it would reach so close,” she said. Most of the arrests were in Istanbul the senior police officers being led 115 suspects and 67 were detained millions and known for their piety Palestinian rockets in the past few years. The Outside her home, sleeping Israeli troops but raids were also carried out in in handcuffs with some raising their so far. It said thousands of people and business acumen, say their buzz of Israeli drones and non-stop Israeli were stretched across the lawn. “There are the capital Ankara and cities includ- hands above their heads in a show were illegally wire-tapped includ- faith seeks to merge a “civil Islam” artillery shells fired into Gaza sounded as his no families here anymore, they have all left,” ing Izmir and Diyarbakir. of defiance. ing Erdogan, cabinet members, as with modernity, science and wife bounced their 18-month-old grandson said Bing’s neighbour, Salit Ben-Abu, 25. Television reports said that the Among those arrested in well as the head of Turkey’s Turkish nationalism. on a trampoline in their front yard. Media reports suggest the military has just arrests represented a new sweep Istanbul were two former heads of National Intelligence Organisation Gulen, who left for the US in Gaza’s tower blocks can be seen from one dedicated tunnel-hunting unit, code against the movement of Erdogan’s the city’s elite anti-terror unit Omer (MIT) Hakan Fidan. 1999 to escape charges of anti-sec- Netiv Haasara’s, flowering gardens and the named “Ferrets”, within the specialised regi- former ally Fethullah Gulen in the Kose and Yurt Atayun. “I surren- ular activities by the government of fields where Shaked grows tomatoes. Like ment of its engineering corps - potentially no wake of a vast corruption scandal that dered but as you see they put the ‘US must extradite Gulen’ the time, has denied being behind other farming villages on the Gaza border, it more than a few dozen commandos equipped broke late last year implicating the handcuffs behind my back,” Atayun Erdogan has accused supporters the graft allegations against has drawn youngsters seeking escape from with breathing apparatus, attack dogs and prime minister and his inner circle. told reporters. “It is all political,” he of Gulen of holding excessive influ- Erdogan. —AFP bustling city life in pursuit of a slow quiet scouting robots. —Reuters Church in Gaza shelters Muslims fleeing war

GAZA: About 1,000 Palestinian Muslims flee- Orthodox minority, the largest of the Christian 100,000 Palestinians - about 6 per cent of ing Israeli shells devastating their Gaza neigh- communities here. Gaza’s entire population - have sought shelter bourhood have found shelter in a building Only about 1,400 Christians - Orthodox, with the United Nations Relief and Works they otherwise would rarely if ever enter, the Catholics and Protestants - live among the 1.8 Agency (UNRWA), crowding into 70 schools, city’s 12th-century Greek Orthodox Church. million Muslims, meaning they make up 0.08 the organisation said. Despite its thick walls dating back to the percent of the population in the crowded Refugees streaming from Shejaia in the Crusades, the Church of Saint Porphyrius was Gaza Strip dominated by Hamas, an Islamist eastern part of Gaza City to the church in the still not a very safe haven. Shortly after they group. Their life as a religious minority has not southwestern area of al-Zaytun said they did arrived, Israeli aircraft bombed a nearby field, always been easy When the then Pope not know where else they could go now. spraying shrapnel on the church and damag- Benedict quoted a medieval scholardescribing “We have escaped from our houses and ing graves. Islam as violent and irrational in 2006, came here and they bombed the church. But children from the Shejaia district, where unknown militants attacked five churches in Where should we go? Let them tell us where some 72 Palestinians - many of them women Palestinian areas, including Saint Porphyrius - we should go,” insisted Jawaher Sukkar, who and children - were killed during fighting even though it is Orthodox, not Catholic. fled with her children. between Israeli forces and Hamas militants on Accusing Israel of targeting civilians, she Sunday, were busy playing football in the yard Nowhere Else To Go said: “The shells chased us as we ran ... can you yesterday. Palestinian officials, including from Hamas, imagine, a boy falling the ground and his Their mothers watched on mattresses and denounced that violence and it was not mother cannot stop to pick him up?” plastic chairs provided by the church, along repeated. It all seemed far away now as One possible reason for the shelling close with food, blankets and toys. “We have opened Gazans reached out to help neighbours who to the church is that Israel’s military believes the church in order to help people. This is the have lost their homes in the two-week Israeli militants have used cemeteries to launch rock- duty of the church and we are doing all we offensive. ets fired at its cities and to hide weaponry. can to help them,” Archbishop Alexios told “The mosque nearby and the neighbours of Despite the overcrowding and danger, Reuters as the sounds of small children the church are all helping. We are still in need Alexios said there has been some joy in echoed outside his office at the church. of mattresses, blankets, food and most impor- the church in the midst of tragedy. “At the beginning there were 600 people tant is petrol, as we suffer blackouts. If there is “Yesterday, a woman gave birth to a baby, GAZA CITY: Palestinian relatives of Hasan Baker, 60-years-old, grieve during and today they became a thousand - mostly no electricity we cannot have water also,” said a new life. Man should be hopeful.. There his funeral in Gaza City, yesterday. A series of Israeli air strikes early killed children and women. Some of those children the archbishop. is death but also there is life too,” he said seven people in Gaza, including five members of the same family, emer- are a week old,” said the head of Gaza’s Greek Since the start of the offensive, more than with a smile. —Reuters gency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Cooler weather aids crews fighting Washington fire SPOKANE: Firefighters and local authorities miles (982 square kilometers), fire Burn, which consumed 238,920 acres Spokane-based National Weather Service home. Koczewski was a retired Washington are heartened by weather forecasts that call spokesman Andrew Sanbri said Monday. (96,690 hectares) in southwestern meteorologist Greg Koch. State Patrol trooper and US Marine, Rogers for continued cooler temperatures and high- That would make it the largest wildfire in the Washington in 1902 and was the largest Then on Wednesday a vigorous front is said. There are more than 1,600 firefighters er humidity as they battle a destructive wild- state since record-keeping started.”There is recorded forest fire in state history, accord- expected to cover Washington, bringing rain battling the flames, assisted by more than fire that has charred hundreds of square optimism in the air, but we don’t want to ing to HistoryLink.org, an online resource of to much of the state. But it will also bring 100 fire engines, helicopters dropping buck- miles in Washington state and is the largest give the impression that all is good,” Sanbri Washington state history. The Yacolt Burn lightning, Koch added. ets of water and planes spreading flame in state history. said. “Things are improving.” killed 38 people. “We may get some rain where we need it, retardant, Sanbri said. They just hope that the “lightning watch” The fire was just 2 percent contained Rogers has estimated that 150 homes but we may also experience some lightning Many towns in the scenic Methow Valley also forecast this week doesn’t ignite new Monday. Fire crews quickly attacked a new have been destroyed already, but he sus- that could cause some new ignitions,” he remain without power and have limited fires. “We don’t need any more lightning,” fire east of Tonasket on Monday, Rogers said. pected that number could rise. The fire is said. landline and cellphone service. Fully restor- Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said A half-dozen homes were briefly evacuated, being blamed for one death. The fire has created smoky conditions ing power to the area could take weeks, Monday night. but the fire burned past them with no Firefighters were hampered by the loss of and reduced air quality in much of eastern Okanogan County Public Utility District offi- “Right now there’s honestly no wind,” destruction. Residents of a couple of dozen electricity in the area due to downed power Washington and northern Idaho. cials told KREM. Rogers said, noting that rising evening additional rural homes were told to leave lines and poles, which hurt communications. One man died of an apparent heart The towns of Brewster, Pateros, Twisp winds complicated earlier firefighting Monday, but Rogers said that was just a pre- There was no estimate on when utilities attack while fighting the fire near his home, and Winthrop were temporarily powering efforts. “I’m hoping this is helping.” The caution. would be restored. Rogers said. Rob Koczewski, 67, was stricken water systems and sewer services by genera- Carlton Complex of fires in north-central At 243,000 acres (98,340 hectares), the The forecast for Tuesday called for lighter on Saturday while he and his wife were haul- tor, said Mark Clemens, a spokesman at the Washington had burned about 379 square Carlton Complex is larger than the Yacolt winds and lower temperatures, said ing water and digging fire lines near their state Emergency Operations Center. —AP Crash victims’ remains reach Ukraine-held city Russia challenges accusations

DONETSK: A train carrying the remains of many of People’s Republic as an armed rebel placed the 20 times. The rival sides were now fighting around the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 boxes on a desk. the city of Lysychansk, some 130 kilometres north- arrived in a Ukrainian government-held city yes- A small group of Malaysian air crash experts east of Donetsk, he said. Kiev also said it recap- terday on the first leg of their final journey home became the first international accident investiga- tured the adjacent town of Severodonetsk and the to be reclaimed by their families. tors to reach the site yesterday, escorted by a con- rebels confirmed they were forced out. Five refrigerated wagons containing 200 body voy of international monitors and heavily armed Shaken by the deaths of nearly 300 people on bags reached the city of Kharkiv after pro-Russian separatist fighters. the Malaysian airliner, Western governments have separatists agreed to hand over the plane’s black As they went about their work, loud explosions threatened Russia with stiffer penalties. KHARKIV: The train carrying the 280 bodies recovered from the downed boxes to Malaysian authorities and the bodies to were heard on the outskirts of Donetsk, some 60 European Union foreign ministers were meet- Malaysian flight MH17 arrives at the Malyshev Plant, in the government- the Netherlands, where many victims had lived. km (40 miles) from the site One shell was sticking ing yesterday to discuss further penalties against held Ukrainian city of Kharkiv yesterday, from the eastern Ukrainian city of The train slowly rolled into the grounds of an out from a hole outside a residential block with a Russia, but the most they are expected to do is to arms industry plant, where the remains are due to pool of blood next to it. speed up implementation of sanctions against Donetsk. Rebels controlling the crash site released the morgue train under be unloaded and flown to the Netherlands for the “A woman was killed here, her son was sitting individuals, and possibly companies, agreed in intense international pressure, finally allowing a great majority of the 298 lengthy process of identification. A spokeswoman next to her crying,” said Tamara Lelyk, a 73-year- principle last week before the plane was brought crash victims to begin the long journey home. —AFP for a Dutch team of forensic experts in Kharkiv old cleaning lady. The shooting down of the airlin- down. said departure was not expected before er has sharply deepened the Ukrainian crisis, in France said it would deliver a second helicopter Wednesday. which separatist gunmen in the Russian-speaking carrier to Russia despite opposition from Britain Ex-teacher convicted The Malaysia Airlines plane was flying from east have been fighting government forces since and France, highlighting the difficulties in reach- Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot pro-Western protesters in Kiev forced out a pro- ing an agreement on a response from Western of pushing wife off cliff down on July 17 near Donetsk, a stronghold of Moscow president and Russia annexed Crimea in powers. pro-Russian rebels, where fighting with Ukrainian March. Diplomats say more serious sanctions against ROCKLAND: A former Maine man was when Black, 71, hit his wife on the head troops flared again yesterday. whole sectors of the Russian economy will found guilty Monday of six felonies for with a rock before pushing her off 800-foot Western governments, including European Sanctions depend largely on the line taken by the Dutch, bashing his wife on the head with a rock Maiden Cliff in April 2011. Both Zahn and Union ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday, Putin said a Ukrainian military “tank attack” on because of the high number of Dutch victims. and pushing her off a cliff because of a dis- Black tumbled down the mountainside, have threatened Russia with broader sanctions for Donetsk was “unacceptable” and urged the West At the United Nations, the Security Council pute over an affair and a $4 million inheri- and both were hospitalized for more than what they say is its backing of the militia although to put pressure on Kiev to end hostilities. unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday tance. a week. Zahn said she believed he was pur- they are struggling to agree a response. But Ukraine’s parliament approved a presiden- demanding those responsible “be held to account The couple, Charles Black and Lisa Zahn, suing her down the mountain, while Black Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would tial decree to call up more military reserves and and that all states cooperate fully with efforts to retired teachers from Kansas, had moved to told investigators that he had no memory urge the separatists to allow a full investigation men under 50 to fight the rebels in eastern establish accountability”. the coastal Maine community of Camden. of hitting her or pushing her off the cliff. He which the Netherlands said it would lead. Malaysia Ukraine and to protect the border where there is a It also demanded that armed groups allow But they argued over an affair Black had told police that he’d collected two rocks said it would send the black boxes to a British lab concentration of Russian troops. “safe, secure, full and unrestricted access” to the with an Arizona woman and how he spent while they were on the mountaintop with for analysis. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s crash site. Putin noted an increased use of lan- money from the inheritance, which was the thinking that they’d toss them over the “Here they are, the black boxes,” separatist Security Council, said 13 Ukrainian troops were guage of “ultimatums and sanctions” towards from her father. cliff, symbolizing getting rid of baggage leader Aleksander Borodai told journalists at the killed in fighting in the east in the last day when Russia and called for more dialogue with the Prosecutors said the dispute culminated and hoping for a fresh start. —AP headquarters of his self-proclaimed Donetsk “terrorists” attacked the army and their roadblocks West. Wave of migrant children threatens to swamp US immigration courts

WASHINGTON: A deluge of Central forced labor by human smugglers. aims to lure 15 judges out of retire- American children pouring into the “It’s like conducting death-penalty ment and find another 60 permanent United States threatens to burst the cases in a traffic court,” said Marks, hires from the ranks of immigration seams of already overstuffed immigra- referring to the high volume of cases lawyers. tion courts, and President Barack and often weighty decisions judges But about 100 judges, more than Obama’s steps to ease the crisis are face over whether to return children to one-third of the stable, are eligible to likely to make matters worse rather crime-infested homelands. retire this year, Juan Osuna, director of than better for some, US officials and The court overload is rising in part the department’s Executive Office for immigration lawyers said. because of a flood of unaccompanied Immigration Review that administers “We are reaching a point of implo- minors from Honduras, Guatemala and the courts, told Congress. Even if only sion, if we have not already reached it,” El Salvador. Fleeing poverty and vio- half leave, Osuna said it would hamper said Judge Dana Leigh Marks of San lence, many risk the trip alone, often Obama’s efforts to expand the court. Francisco, who has been deciding trying to reunite with families in the “As the stress gets worse, it immigration cases since 1987 and is United States. becomes a far more difficult job and president of the National Association Unless the flow of migrants from people are increasingly likely to retire of Immigration Judges. Central America subsides, the U.S. gov- at their earliest opportunity rather than The problem, according to judges, ernment estimates about 90,000 chil- well into retirement (age),” Marks said. lawyers and immigration groups, is the dren will arrive this year, growing to Immigration judges have been sheer number of cases clogging the 150,000 next year. instructed to upend their regular case courts, due in part to beefed-up law Obama has asked Congress to fund dockets to concentrate mainly on enforcement at the southwestern U.S. the hiring of 75 more immigration unaccompanied children and women border with Mexico. judges and instructed the immigration with children who are in detention. That could be bad news for the thousands of immigrants whose cases already have languished for years. Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, represents a client whose case illustrates both the cumbersome bureaucracy of the understaffed courts and the unintended consequences of Obama’s “children first” directive. In 2005, Adams’ client fled Eritrea and legally entered the United States. The woman’s immigration troubles began when she applied for US citizenship, hoping to help bring her husband to the United States after years of sepa- ration. US immigration officials discovered a paperwork problem with her original entry and began deportation proceed- File photo shows a group of immigrants from Honduras and El ings. On her scheduled court date, the Salvador who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally are stopped in judge was out sick and a new date was Granjeno, Texas. The influx at the border is largely families with set for more than a year later. Adams children or by minors traveling alone. —AP said if cases of unaccompanied minors were given priority, it would likely further delay his client’s case. US immigration courts have a back- courts to prioritize children’s cases. log of 375,373 cases, almost 50,000 But his two-pronged plan is unlikely ‘Find a Lawyer’ more than they faced two years ago, to transform a court system that some Juvenile cases are heard on Monday according to Justice Department fig- experts say has been saddled with mornings in Baltimore, Maryland and ures. increasingly complicated immigration Wednesday afternoons in Arlington, Marks, one of the 243 judges presid- laws from Congress since the late Virginia. At those times, the immigra- ing over 59 immigration courts in the 1990s, spates of spiking border appre- tion courthouses fill with bottle-fed United States, is setting hearing dates hensions and insufficient funding. babies, antsy toddlers and nervous 25- What was the first house to be built in Mecca? as far off as 2018. It now typically takes teenagers. three to five years for cases to clear the Retiring Judges Judge Lisa Dornell in Baltimore system, judges and lawyers said. Budget pressures have contributed encourages families to bring blankets On a recent Wednesday at a crowd- to the courts’ struggles. With Central or teddy bears to help comfort young ed immigration court in Arlington, American illegal migration accelerating children during the proceedings. - The House of Symposium (Dar Al-Nadwah) Virginia, a judge was setting February in fiscal 2012, Congress allocated $302 Around 30 cases can move through 2017 asylum hearings for juveniles. million for the courts. The following Dornell’s courtroom during a Monday Yes No Some of the children who appear in year, funding actually fell to $289 mil- morning session. Another judge told court suffer from debilitating illnesses lion, although this year it has risen Reuters she uses humor to get kids’ or are scarred from traumas experi- slightly to $312 million. attention, like flying a paper airplane to enced during the journey north, from To fulfill Obama’s request of 75 amuse a 10-year-old during a particu- rape and other injuries to hunger and more judges, the Justice Department larly tense hearing. —Reuters INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

Moscow mayor sacks metro chief over crash

MOSCOW: The mayor of Moscow yesterday announced saying by the Interfax news agency. Besedin was appointed in 2011 by Sobyanin on a five- that the metro is the safest form of transport”. he had fired the head of the capital’s metro over a devas- Three carriages went off the rails between stations year contract. His predecessor had voluntarily stepped In his first statement in the post, Pegov vowed to per- tating crash that killed 22 people and injured more than deep in a tunnel on July 15 in an accident that investiga- under pressure over alleged corruption and died soon sonally inspect every station on the metro. Russia has 200. “What happened on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, tors suggest was due to a failure in a section of track that afterwards. He will be succeeded by Dmitry Pegov, who launched a probe into safety breaches linked to the crash this tragedy, has cancelled out the huge amount of work allows trains to change lines. started out as an assistant train driver and currently and has arrested four suspects. that was carried out in the metro in recent years,” Mayor The accident shocked Russians and came as a major heads a department that is introducing high-speed trains Two metro workers were detained the day after the Sergei Sobyanin told a meeting. blow for the metro, which prides itself on reliability and to Russia. crash, followed this week by the deputy head of the body “The head of the metro, Ivan Sergeyevich Besedin is safety even though its ornate Stalin-era stations struggle Sobyanin said his main task would be to raise passen- that repairs metro stations, and the director of a construc- being relieved of his position,” Sobyanin was quoted as to contain nine million passengers at peak periods. ger safety and carry out development plans to “prove tion materials firm. — AP 11 parents of Nigeria’s abducted girls die

LAGOS: About a dozen parents of the more than 200 kid- nappings said 219 girls still are missing. But the communi- napped Nigerian schoolgirls will never see their daughters ty says there are more because some parents refused to again. Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Islamic give the committee their daughters’ names, fearing the extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have stigma involved. died and their hometown, Chibok, is under siege from the mil- Boko Haram filmed a video in which they threatened to sell itants, residents report. the students into slavery and as child brides. It also showed a Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies couple of the girls describing their “conversion” from brought to Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby vil- Christianity to Islam. lage of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insist- At least two have died of snake bites, a mediator who was ed on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists. liaising with Boko Haram told AP two months ago. At that At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high time he said at least 20 of the girls were ill - not surprising giv- blood pressure and other illnesses that the community en that they are probably being held in an area infested with blames on trauma due to the mass abduction 100 days ago, malarial mosquitoes, poisonous snakes and spiders, and rely- said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their ing on unclean water from rivers. names. “One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went Most of the schoolgirls are still believed to be held in the into a kind of coma and kept repeating the names of his Sambisa Forest - a wildlife reserve that includes almost impen- daughters, until life left him,” said Bitrus. etrably thick jungle as well as more open savannah. The forest Chibok is cut off because of frequent attacks on the roads borders on sand dunes marking the edge of the Sahara BRUSSELS: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, talks with Italy’s Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, center, that are studded with burned out vehicles. Commercial flights Desert. Sightings of the girls and their captors have been and Croatia’s Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, during an EU foreign ministers council at the European Council building in no longer go into the troubled area and the government has reported in neighboring Cameroon and Chad. In Chibok, the Brussels, yesterday. European Union foreign ministers are meeting to consider further sanctions against Russia because of halted charter flights. town’s population is under stress. the downing of a Malaysian jetliner, with Britain and some other countries demanding much tougher measures. — AP Through numerous phone calls to Chibok and the sur- “There are families that are putting up four and five other rounding area, The Associated Press has gathered information families,” local leader Bitrus said, adding that food stocks are about the situation in the town where the students were kid- depleted. Livestock has been looted by Boko Haram so vil- EU ministers threaten napped from their school. lagers are arriving empty handed. Worst of all, no one is planting though it is the rainy season, he said. More danger is on the horizon “There is a famine looming,” he warned. Chibok and nearby Boko Haram is closing in on Chibok, attacking villages ever villages are targets because they are enclaves of staunch Russia with sanctions closer to the town. Villagers who survive the assaults are Christians in predominantly Muslim north Nigeria. swarming into the town, swelling its population and straining The number of soldiers guarding Chibok has increased resources. A food crisis looms, along with shortages of money from 15 to about 200 since the kidnapping but they have Germany says diplomacy no longer enough and fuel, said community leader Bitrus. done little to increase security in Chibok, said Bitrus. The sol- On the bright side, some of the young women who diers often refuse to deploy to villages under attack though BRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers threatened Russia outside pressure. Socialist Party leader Jean-Christophe escaped are recovering, said a health worker, who insisted on there is advance warning 90 percent of the time, he said. yesterday with harsher sanctions over Ukraine, but tougher talk Cambadelis said Cameron should “start by cleaning up his own anonymity because he feared reprisals from Boko Haram. Girls Last month the extremists took control and raised their may not be matched by much action after France’s president sig- backyard”, referring to the presence of Russian oligarchs close to who had first refused to discuss their experience, now are talk- black flags over two villages within 30 nalled the disputed delivery of a warship to Moscow would go Putin in London. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said ing about it and taking part in therapeutic singing and draw- kilometers (18 miles) of Chibok. Last week they ordered ahead. The 28 EU ministers met under growing pressure from the the Netherlands, which has until now has been hesitant about ing - a few drew homes, some painted flowers and one young residents of another village just 16 kilometers (10 miles) away United States and Britain to step up sanctions after the downing imposing tougher measures on Moscow, was not opposed to fur- woman drew a picture of a soldier with a gun last week. to clear out, Bitrus said. Every village in the neighboring of a Malaysian Airlines plane last week in an area of eastern ther sanctions. “There is no Dutch blockade of further sanctions. Girls who said they would never go back to school now Damboa area has been attacked and sacked, and all the vil- Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists. German Foreign The Netherlands wants that the European Union makes a united, are thinking about how to continue their education, he lages bordering Cameroon have been burned and are desert- Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that while Berlin was still and also strong, clear, statement against the unrest in eastern said. Counseling is being offered to families of those ed, Bitrus said, quoting residents who fled. willing to talk with Russia, greater economic pressure was needed Ukraine,” he told reporters. abducted and to some of the 57 students who managed to The attacks continue despite the fact the military placed to make Moscow change course. EU officials said the ministers were likely at most to add more escape in the first few days, said the health worker. He is the area under a state of emergency in May 2013. Residents “I say we remain open to defusing the situation with all politi- names and entities to a list subject to asset freezes and visa bans, among 36 newly trained in grief and rape counseling, feel so abandoned that they appealed this month for the cal and diplomatic means but it will be necessary to accompany since any decision to move to so-called “phase three” economic under a program funded by USAID.All the escapees remain United Nations to send troops to protect them. The UN has this willingness with higher pressure, which also means sharper sanctions would require a summit of EU leaders. The next summit deeply concerned about their schoolmates who did not repeatedly urged Nigeria’s government to live up to its inter- measures,” he told reporters on arrival. Several other ministers is not due until Aug. 30 although heads of state and government get away. A presidential committee investigating the kid- national responsibility to protect citizens. — AP entering the meeting called for an arms embargo on Russia to try could be convened earlier if there is agreement. Britain’s new to stem a flow of weapons that is fuelling the conflict, including Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he would urge fellow surface-to-air missiles suspected of bringing down the airliner. ministers to “send a very clear and strong signal to Russia today”. The severity of the EU response could depend on the “This terrible incident happened in the first place because of Netherlands, which suffered the greatest loss of life when flight Russia’s support to the separatists in eastern Ukraine, because of MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed last the flow of heavy weapons from Russia into eastern Ukraine and Thursday - 193 of the 298 people killed were Dutch. Washington we have to address that today,” he told reporters. says the plane was brought down by a surface-to-air missile fired An arms embargo was “one of the things we have to look at,” from territory in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatists. he said. Ministers from Sweden, Austria and Lithuania also called US President Barack Obama has piled pressure on Europe for a for an arms embargo on Russia. None of those countries sells more forceful response, and the three leading EU powers - Britain, any arms to Moscow. “What happened (the plane crash) is a con- France and Germany - said they should be ready to ratchet up sequence of the fact that since the end of June in particular, sanctions. Russia has been stepping up significantly the shipments of heavy arms of different sort to the separatists. In violation of Consensus Difficult commitments and in violation of our demands. And that we But there was no sign that finding consensus would be any must focus on,” Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt told easier, with many European governments concerned to protect reporters. In a step apparently designed to embarrass Russia, crucial Russian energy supplies and business ties with Moscow. Britain’s interior ministry announced a decision to hold a public Differences between Britain and France burst into the open on inquiry into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, Monday when President Francois Hollande said delivery of a first who died of radioactive polonium poisoning in London in 2006. French helicopter carrier built for Russia would go ahead, hours Litvinenko blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin on his after British Prime Minister David Cameron had said such a deliv- deathbed for ordering his killing. Moscow denied any involve- ery would be “unthinkable” in his country. Hollande said the han- ment. Britain had rejected a request for an inquest last year dover of a second warship under a 1.2 billion euro ($1.62 billion) when relations with Russia were warmer. Lithuanian Foreign contract signed in 2011 by his predecessor would depend on Minister Linas Linkevicius said it was “time to name names” and Russia’s attitude. Hollande won support among both his own to put Ukraine’s breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk on Socialists and the conservative opposition UMP for standing up to the EU’s list of terrorist organisations. — Reuters

ABUJA: In this Thursday May 22, 2014 file photo, people attend a demonstration calling on the government to res- Britain to hold inquiry into cue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, in Abuja. At least 11 parents of the more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls will never see their daughters again. Since the mass abduction ex-spy Litvinenko’s death of the schoolgirls by Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok, is under siege from the militants, residents report. — AP LONDON: The British government yesterday announced a their death, they do not apportion blame. But three High Court public inquiry to investigate who was behind the death of judges ruled in February that May must reconsider her decision, Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy poisoned with following a challenge by Marina Litvinenko. radioactive tea in London in 2006. The move comes as London “It sends a message to Sasha’s murderers: no matter how Berlusconi dreams of political comeback presses for greater sanctions against Moscow over the downing strong and powerful you are, truth will win out in the end and of a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine and is likely to anger you will be held accountable for your crimes,” Marina Litvinenko ROME: Silvio Berlusconi’s acquittal in a high-profile sex-for- ‘A declaration of intent’ the Kremlin and further chill relations between Britain and said. “It has taken nearly eight years to bring those culpable for hire case has boosted the former Italian prime minister’s deter- Though Berlusconi has kept a low public profile while car- Russia. The inquiry will be able to look at whether the Russian Sasha’s murder to justice. I look forward to the day when the mination to revive his political career, despite his growing iso- rying out community service for tax fraud, he has been deliber- state was behind the mysterious killing of Kremlin critic truth behind my husband’s murder is revealed for the whole lation in the corridors of power. The 77-year-old’s conviction to ating creating a new “federation of parties” on the right, built Litvinenko, which outraged London at the time and plunged world to see.” Inquest judge Owen himself had called for a pub- seven years in jail for paying for sex with an underage prosti- around Forza Italia and NCD. relations with Moscow into the deep freeze. lic inquiry, saying his work had been undermined and he could tute, known as “Ruby the Heart Stealer”, was overturned by an “With the acquittal in the Ruby case, we’ve now moved Home Secretary Theresa May, the interior minister, not hold a “fair and fearless” inquest, because he was not appeals court on Friday. from the theoretical to the practical,” Italy’s best-selling Corriere announced the probe would specifically seek to “identify where allowed to see secret evidence about the Kremlin’s alleged pos- The media magnate is now rumoured to be attempting to della Sera daily said. All right-wing parties-including the anti- responsibility for the death lies”. sible role in the killing.—AFP rekindle relations with his former right-hand man and prodigy, immigration Northern League and Fratelli d’Italia (“Brothers of “I very much hope that this inquiry will be of some comfort Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, who broke ties in November Italy”) — will be consulted on the federation, a “declaration of to his widow,” she added, in a statement given to parliament. to set up his own party, the “New Centre Right” (NCD). “In a cer- intent” will be signed and a programme established, it said. His widow Marina said on Tuesday she was “relieved and tain sense Berlusconi has never been out of the game. He’s The aim is to hold primaries in time for regional elections delighted” with the decision to launch a public inquiry. always been an important player able to pull in millions of later in the year and pick a candidate to become leader of the Litvinenko, 43, a former agent in Russia’s FSB intelligence votes,” political scientist Roberto D’Alimonte told AFP. A friend- opposition and eventually run against the young and charis- agency who turned against his former masters, was poisoned ship deal would boost the right wing-which fared badly in the matic Renzi at the next general elections in 2018. Berlusconi with radioactive polonium-210 while drinking tea at a London European elections-and possibly help put Berlusconi back on and Alfano are expected to hold a working lunch on the sub- hotel. In a deathbed letter, Litvinenko said he believed Russian the political map after a series of legal scandals which saw him ject this week-though the latter is determined not to relinquish President Vladimir Putin was involved in his killing after he pub- ousted from parliament last year. The two men, who have not the NDC’s goals. licly criticised the leader, himself an ex-KGB agent. been on speaking terms for months, were reported by Italian “Either Forza Italia wants to join us in creating a large, popu- British police have identified Russian spy-turned-lawmaker media on Monday to have had a lengthy conversion about lar and European alliance, or it wants to play footsie with the Andrei Lugovoi as the chief suspect and have issued an arrest healing the rifts between the NCD and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia racist and anti-European extreme right,” he told the warrant for fellow former agent Dmitri Kovtun in relation to the (“Go Italy”) party. “Let’s end the fighting, the Italians are tired. Messaggero daily in an interview on Sunday. “We are not ask- death, but Moscow has refused to hand them over. They both Let’s work to bring the moderates together,” the billionaire is ing for an act of generosity. We are asking for a clear political deny involvement. Litvinenko’s death triggered a deep freeze in reported to have said to Alfano, who is considered a traitor by line which is compatible with ours,” he said. Political expert diplomatic relations between Britain and Russia which took sev- many of Berlusconi’s fiercest supporters. Gianfranco Pasquino at Johns Hopkins School in Bologna told eral years to thaw. The public inquiry move is likely to anger The 43-year-old is said to have assured his undivided loyal- AFP he doubted Berlusconi would be able to revive his career Putin at a time when relations are already under severe strain in ty in return. The small NDC is a key ally in Prime Minister with a last-ditch attempt to unite the right and bring Alfano the aftermath of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight in Matteo Renzi’s coalition government and holds three impor- back into his inner circle. “The split with Berlusconi is too seri- Ukraine, plus Russia’s annexation of Crimea from its neighbour. tant ministries-interior, transport and health-but only man- ous. If Alfano wanted to come back to Forza Italia he would LONDON: Widow of Russian dissident Alexander aged to win just under 4.0 percent at the EU elections. The cen- have to have to fight those who don’t want him. The right is ‘Truth will win out’ Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko (R) sits along with her tre-right in general suffered, with a beleaguered Forza Italia seriously fragmented,” he said. “Renzi is enjoying an extraordi- May originally wanted to wait for the results of a separate lawyer Elena Tsirlina during a press conference in central pocketing just 16.8 percent of the vote, while Renzi’s centre- nary moment and there’s nothing Berlusconi can do about it,” inquest into the death, which was begun by senior judge London yesterday. The British government announced a left Democratic Party (PD) scored a stunning win over the the professor said, adding that the centre-left “looks like it will Robert Owen. In English law, inquests are held to examine sud- public inquiry to investigate who was behind the death of Eurosceptic right with 40.8 percent. be in power for a long time.”—AFP den, violent or unnatural deaths. While they determine the Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy poisoned place and time of death as well as how the deceased came by with radioactive tea in London in 2006. — AFP

INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 India faces crisis over dwindling numbers of girls: UN

NEW DELHI: The dwindling numbers of Indian girls, selection. boys and the number of girls younger than six plum- ing in few convictions. There were 221 cases of foeti- caused by the illegal abortion of millions of babies, has India’s traditionally male-dominated culture views meted for the fifth straight decade. cide reported in 2013, up from 210 in 2012, the reached “emergency proportions”, fuelling an increase sons as assets-breadwinners who will provide for the “The sharply declining child-sex ratio in India has National Crime Records Bureau says. in crimes such as kidnapping and trafficking, the family, carry on the family name, and perform the last reached emergency proportions and urgent action UN officials said India’s economic and social United Nations warned yesterday. rites for their parents, an important ritual in many must be taken to alleviate this crisis,” Puri added. progress had failed in the area of sex selection, and the Despite laws that ban expectant parents from run- faiths. Girls, however, are often seen as a liability, with A May 2011 study in British medical journal the unbalanced sex ratio was contributing to crimes such ning tests to determine the gender of unborn children, families having to dig deep for a substantial dowry to Lancet found that up to 12 million Indian girls were as rape, abduction and trafficking. female foeticide remains a common practice in parts of ensure a desirable match. In a culture that views pre- aborted over the last three decades, resulting in a The entire social structure will have to change, with India, where a preference for sons runs deep. marital sex as bringing shame to the girl’s family, par- skewed child sex ratio of 918 girls to every 1,000 boys a battle waged against the root causes of a preference “It is tragically ironic that the one who creates life is ents also worry about their safety. in 2011, versus 962 in 1981. for sons, said Lise Grande, the U.N. resident coordinator herself denied the right to be born,” said Lakshmi Puri, India’s 2011 census showed that while the overall Activists blame ultrasonography for the rise in abor- in India. “This may be one of the hardest, most difficult deputy executive director of UN Women, at the launch female-to-male ratio has improved marginally since the tions, saying the technology is used for sex determina- struggles India faces, but it is arguably one of its most of a new study on sex ratios and gender-biased sex last census a decade ago, fewer girls were born than tion. But the crime is tough to check, they add, result- important,” she added. — Reuters Thai king endorses junta’s constitution

BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta won approval European Union for a return to a demo- tionary constitution will instead tend to from the king yesterday for an interim cratic path. The interim constitution, when build sympathy and more support for constitution mapping out year-long politi- published, is expected to give an indica- Thaksin from rural and impoverished cal reforms expected to curb the influence tion of how the military plans to run the Thais.” He said the kingdom’s arch-royalists of fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra. country and overhaul the political system, would have to use tactics such as “gerry- It was the first time the revered but ail- although the main changes are expected mandering on a massive scale” to prevent ing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, has to come later in a permanent charter. another election victory by a pro-Thaksin granted an audience to coup leader The May coup was the latest chapter in party. The army chief seized power after General Prayut Chan-O-Cha since the mili- a long-running political crisis broadly pit- nearly seven months of protests saw 28 tary seized power two months ago. ting Thaksin’s billionaire family and its sup- people killed and paralysed the govern- “General Prayut met His Majesty the porters against a royalist establishment ment of former prime minister Yingluck King, who has endorsed the interim con- backed by parts of the military and judici- Shinawatra, who is Thaksin’s sister, and her stitution,” said deputy army spokeswoman ary. “The goal is to utterly destroy the Puea Thai Party. Colonel Sirichan Ngathong. influence of Thaksin,” said Paul Chambers, The junta, which has curtailed civil lib- Prayut has ruled out holding elections director of research at the Institute of erties, has said it plans to share power until around October 2015, despite Southeast Asian Affairs in Chiang Mai. “But with a new interim government, with the appeals from the United States and the a military government and new reac- military retaining control of national security. The new cabinet is expected to be picked by a junta-appointed national assembly which observers anticipate will be broadly subservient to the military. The reforms could result in the lower PHNOM PENH: MP-elect from the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Long Ry (C) raises his hands as he is released house of parliament becoming partially on bail from Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh yesterday. Cambodia’s main opposition party struck a deal with strongman appointed, like the upper house, said Kan premier Hun Sen to end its year-long boycott of parliament triggered by a disputed election. — AFP Yuenyong, executive director of the Siam Intelligence Unit think-tank. “The conservatives know that if they let a normal elec- Cambodia opposition ends tion happen again, the Puea Thai Party and Yingluck maybe can win another landslide,” he told AFP. He said the new boycott of parliament constitution could also include an amnesty for the coup-makers. But Kan added that there was also “a lot of political conflict within the conservatives them- Eight opposition politicians released selves”, so it was unclear how radical the reforms would be. PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s main clashes between demonstrators and gave the CPP 68 seats to 55 for the The junta chief received approval from opposition party struck a deal yester- security forces. CNRP. The opposition garnered just the king-the world’s longest-serving day with strongman premier Hun Sen The eight were released on bail 300,000 fewer votes than the ruling monarch-to run the country days after the to end its year-long boycott of parlia- shortly after the end of the talks yes- party as it secured a significant parlia- KABUL: Afghan and foreign security forces inspect the site of a suicide May 22 coup. On that occasion he did not ment triggered by a disputed election. terday, according to a CNRP lawyer. mentary gain on the previous vote. attack at the deputy counter narcotic compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, meet Bhumibol, who has lived at his sea- The Cambodia National Rescue Party Rights groups have denounced the While it failed to unseat Hun Sen, yesterday. An Afghan official said that four security guards were killed and side palace in the resort of Hua Hin south (CNRP) said it had agreed to break the charges against the politicians, who the poll was the ruling party’s worst six others wounded after a suicide bomber on a motorbike carried out the of Bangkok since leaving hospital in August deadlock and take up its seats in the could face up to 30 years in prison if election result since 1998. The CPP lost attack. — AP 2013 after almost four years. —AFP National Assembly in return for a convicted. 22 seats in a sign of falling support for promise of electoral reforms. Under the agreement the parties the strongman-a former Khmer Rouge It had refused to join parliament will reform the National Election cadre who has vowed to remain in since elections in July 2013, accusing Committee a key demand by the power until he is 74. Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s opposition which accused the body of Opposition supporters have staged Party of stealing victory with wide- endorsing a vote riddled by fraud. The several major demonstrations against spread vote-rigging. “Today we have new committee will have nine mem- Hun Sen’s government with Rainsy, a reached a common political resolution bers, four from each of the two main French-educated former banker, previ- to end the political crisis,” opposition parties, and another selected between ously rejecting the poll result and vow- leader Sam Rainsy told reporters after them. A CPP official said that would ing to fight for new polls. talks with Hun Sen. pave the way for elections which will But yesterday’s deal will see the “We have no choice,” he added. not take place before February 2018, CNRP lawmakers soon take their par- “The only appropriate way is to end despite an earlier call by the opposi- liamentary oath, according to opposi- the political crisis and the tense situation for fresh polls to be held sooner. tion spokesman Yim Sovann. tion.” Hun Sen, who has held power for Since his defection from the Khmer nearly three decades, described the Dwindling support Rouge, Hun Sen has drawn popularity deal as a “success”. Hun Sen, 61, is regularly criticised for overseeing Cambodia’s transforma- Analysts say Rainsy’s return to the by campaigners for ignoring human tion from a nation devastated by the negotiating table may have been rights and stamping out dissent. regime’s “Killing Fields” genocide era in spurred by last week’s arrest of the A crackdown on striking garment the late 1970s to become one of eight CNRP politicians for insurrection workers in January left four people Southeast Asia’s most vibrant over a protest in the capital which saw dead. Official results of last year’s poll economies. — AFP Body of missing S Korean shipping tycoon found

SEOUL: South Korean police said yes- sinking, including all 15 crew members which his children and close associates terday that a badly decomposed body tasked with navigating the ship, and are large shareholders. The government found surrounded by liquor bottles in a employees at Chonghaejin, a company offered a $100,000 bounty for Yoo’s eld- field last month was that of a fugitive that operated the ferry, over suspicions est son, and one of his daughters was billionaire businessman blamed for of improper stowage and overloading arrested in France in May. April’s ferry disaster that killed more of cargo. The crew members face The predecessor company went than 300 people. charges of negligence and failing to bankrupt in the late 1990s but Yoo’s The body was found in a field of apri- perform their duties to rescue passen- family continued to operate ferry busi- cot trees in the southern city of gers, with four of them facing homicide nesses under the names of other com- Suncheon on June 12, local police sta- charges. Yoo faced allegations of tax panies, including one that eventually tion chief Wu Hyung-ho told a news evasion, embezzlement and profession- became Chonghaejin. conference. He said DNA and fingerprint al negligence. Officials suspect the sink- Yoo is also a member of a church samples taken from the body matched ing may have happened because that critics and defectors say is a cult. those of the wanted man, Yoo Byung- Chonghaejin illicitly funneled profits to Yoo’s church made headlines in 1987 eun. Wu said the body had decayed his family and failed to spend enough when 32 people, who critics suspect beyond recognition when it was found money on safety and personnel. were church members, were found and a more thorough examination was Yoo, head of the now-defunct prede- dead in the attic of a factory near Seoul needed to find how and when he died. cessor of Chonghaejin, allegedly still in what authorities said was a collective An initial investigation showed there controlled the company through a com- murder-suicide pact. Church members was no evidence that he was murdered, plex web of holding companies in have denied involvement. —AP he said. The dead man was wearing a pair of expensive shoes and a luxurious Italian brand Loro Piana winter parka. Also found near him were three empty Korean liquor bottles, a cloth bag and a magnifying glass, Wu said. The state-run National Forensic Service took about 40 days to run the DNA tests. Suncheon police officers said the lab will conduct additional tests to find the cause and timing of Yoo’s death. Police and prosecutors have been seeking Yoo since May and had offered a $500,000 reward for tips about him. They believe Yoo was the owner of the ferry and that his alleged corruption may have contributed to its sinking. The sinking, one of South Korea’s deadliest disasters in decades, has caused an outpouring of national grief and renewed scrutiny about public safe- SEOUL: People watch TV news showing Yoo Byung-eun, the fugitive owner ty. About 100 days after the disaster, 294 of the sunken ferry Sewol, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, bodies have been retrieved but 10 peo- yesterday. South Korean police said that a badly decomposed body of Yoo ple are still missing. found surrounded by liquor bottles in a field last month was that of a fugi- Prosecutors said Monday that 139 tive billionaire businessman blamed for April’s ferry disaster that killed people had been arrested over the ferry more than 300 people. — AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 China domestic abuse victims voiceless as network disbands BEIJING: The beatings began a month after Ma. Almost two decades ago Beijing hosted a the wedding, she says. For more than two landmark World Conference on Women that years the kicking, pushing and slapping con- laid out a plan for promoting women’s rights tinued, as Ma Shuyun’s husband-who had across the globe. wanted a son-abused not only his wife but But China itself remains without a national also their baby daughter. domestic violence law, and the country’s Late one night, after Ma sought help from Anti-Domestic Violence Network (ADVN), its Beijing police, her husband-helped by her first and largest umbrella group on the issue, mother-in-law-wrapped her in a duvet, sat on has announced its own surprise dissolution. top of her and choked her until she began to “It will have a detrimental impact, because lose consciousness. Afterwards police when it comes to professional anti-domestic detained not Ma’s husband but her older violence work nationwide, of course the more brother, who had rushed to save his sister, power we have, the better,” said Hou, whose fighting off her assailant. Beijing-based Maple Women’s Psychological Counselling Centre was one of the ADVN’s 72 members.

‘Complete denial’ Less than two decades ago, physical abuse was not even acceptable as grounds for divorce in China. Then, in 2001, the marriage law was amended to explicitly ban domestic violence for the first time. But while attitudes have changed, abuse still takes place in 24.7 percent of Chinese families, according to the All China Women’s BEIJING: A Chinese People’s Liberation Army cadet adjusts dancing humanoid robots at the PLA’s Armoured Forces Engineering Academy in Federation, which is linked to the ruling Beijing yesterday. China’s military opened up its engineering academy to journalists yesterday, with demonstrations of rolling tanks, bayonet Communist Party. drills and dancing robots. — AFP “When I started working here 18 or 20 BEIJING: This photo taken on July 17, years ago, around the time of the Beijing Chinese army shows off dancing robots 2014 shows Ma Shuyun during an inter- Women’s Conference, you couldn’t talk to the view in Beijing as she describes beatings government about it; it was like it didn’t exist,” BEIJING: To the sound of Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Young soldiers chatted with reporters while A fearsome procession of 10 rolling tanks-intended by her husband. — AFP said Joan Kaufman, director of the Columbia Time for Africa) robots demonstrated their dance showing off technological projects including to showcase the PLA’s military prowess-also held Global Centers East Asia, a branch of steps, screaming recruits drilled with bayonets and drones and small Transformer-like robots in echoes of the most memorable image from the 1989 “They didn’t arrest my husband, because Columbia University in New York. tanks rolled as China’s military offered a rare moment bright primary colours. The dancing machines’ Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy pro- they thought my injuries weren’t serious “They were in complete denial. But over of openness Tuesday. military purpose was not explained, but the testers, a subject about which any public discussion enough,” said the 36-year-old. “They thought the years (advocates worked) to take it The exposition, held at the Armoured Forces opening lyrics of the Colombian singer’s 2010 has long been banned by the ruling Communist Party. it was just a marital dispute.” Ma’s husband is beyond just being considered a private family Engineering Academy in Beijing, was touted by senior World Cup anthem used as their backing track China, home to the world’s largest military, far out- now seeking a divorce, custody of their matter and not a crime,” said Kaufman, who People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officials as an opportu- run: “You’re a good soldier/Choosing your bat- numbers its Asian neighbours in manpower, ships, air- daughter and monthly child support pay- helped set up the ADVN. But existing laws do nity to burnish civilian-military and international ties tles/Pick yourself up and dust yourself off/And craft and defence spending. Its official military budg- ments of 1,500 yuan ($242) from her. not define domestic violence, so that many ahead of Army Day, the August 1 commemoration of back in the saddle. et-which in recent years has seen regular double-digit A court rejected her own lawsuit against victims-if they report abuse at all-are shuffled the Communist-led army’s founding. “The most No ‘enemy’ in mind rises-last year came to $119.5 billion, far short of the him for lack of evidence, and her brother has from police to women’s federation to neigh- important thing is that we have mutual understand- US’s $495.5 billion but nonetheless sparking concern been in jail for the past eight months. The sto- bourhood committee, with authorities reluc- ing,” Liu Degang, the academy’s vice president, told “You’re on the front line/Everyone’s watching/You in the region. China and Japan have long been at odds ry is commonplace in China, where domestic tant to intervene unless serious injury is AFP. “We undergo training just like every other country know it’s serious, we’re getting closer/This isn’t over.” over what Beijing sees as Tokyo’s failure to atone for its violence is estimated to occur in a quarter of involved. China’s Communist-controlled par- in the world. We also love peace.” A promotional guide Hanging over the event’s convivial atmosphere were military atrocities before and during World War II. In families and authorities are reluctant to inter- liament, the National People’s Congress, for the event, described as the first of its kind at the questions about China’s ballooning military spending, recent weeks, China has been releasing daily “confes- vene in what they deem a “private” matter, agreed in 2012 to consider a draft domestic academy that foreign media had been allowed to its tense relations with rival Japan and a much-publi- sions” by Japanese war criminals convicted in the according to Hou Zhiming, a veteran violence law written by activists, but it has yet attend, noted that “cadets, instructors and command- cised anti-graft campaign that has swept up one of 1950s, while state-run media have intensified criticism women’s rights advocate who has counselled to be acted on.—AFP ers would like to be interviewed”. the Chinese army’s most powerful officials. of Tokyo.—AFP MANSOORI

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By Mariane Barriaux

he Israeli-Palestinian conflict stirs up passions the world over and never more so than in France where Thuge Muslim and Jewish communities, a heavy colo- nial past and societal divides create an explosive mix. Like many European countries, France has been the scene of protests against the Jewish state’s deadly Gaza offensive, but in Paris and the suburb town of Sarcelles, three rallies descended into violence, sending locals scurrying as protesters clashed with riot police. “The conflict stirs passions, opposition, stigmatisation (in France) much more than elsewhere,” says Pascal Boniface, director of the Paris-based Institute of International and Strategic Relations and author of a book on the subject. Arab rifts may complicate search for truce At the start in 2000 of the second Palestinian intifada, for instance, Jewish people, synagogues and businesses were By Amena Bakr, Yasmine Saleh and Shadia Nasralla own demands for stopping rocket fire into Israel, including At the root of the rift are opposing attitudes to the targeted in a wave of anti-Semitism that caused huge con- the release of prisoners and the lifting of an economic block- Muslim Brotherhood, which helped sweep Hosni Mubarak cern. Many point to the fact that France has the largest he push for a Gaza ceasefire risks becoming mired in a ade. from power in Egypt in 2011 only to be ousted itself last Muslim and Jewish communities in western Europe - regional tussle for influence between conservative With Egypt’s initiative sidelined, all eyes turned to Doha, year. Its ideology challenges the principle of conservative around 5 million Muslims and half a million Jews. Many of TArab states and Islamist-friendly governments, with where visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on dynastic rule long dominant in the Gulf: Some of its leading the country’s Muslims are of Arab origin - from North Africa - rival powers competing to take credit for a truce, analysts Monday met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who lives in the members are based in Qatar and broadcast their views via unlike other European countries such as Britain where many and some officials say. The main protagonists are Arab Qatari capital, a senior Qatari source told Reuters. An official the country’s media, angering other Gulf Arab states. Qatar come from South Asia. “It’s one of the reasons why echoes heavyweight Egypt and the tiny Gulf state of Qatar, on in Cairo said the Gaza battle “is part of a regional conflict is accused of using its alliance with Hamas to elbow its way of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are louder in France,” says opposite sides of a regional standoff over Hamas, the between Qatar, Egypt and Turkey. “Hamas ... ran to Qatar, into efforts to mediate between the movement and Israel. Marc Hecker, a political scientist and author of “French Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, and its ideologi- which Egypt hates most, to ask it for intervention, and at the Critics suspect Qatar wants to repair an international Intifada?”. cal patron the Muslim Brotherhood. end we are sure Hamas will eventually settle with an agree- image clouded by months of allegations of poor labour President Francois Hollande warned last week that he Both camps suggest the other is motivated as much by ment that is so similar to a proposal that Egypt had offered, rights, alleged corruption over the 2022 World Cup and does not want to see the conflict “imported into France.” But a desire to polish diplomatic prestige and crush political but with Doha’s signature.” political tensions with its Gulf Arab neighbours. But Western for sociologist Michel Wieviorka, the Middle East unrest adversaries as by the humanitarian goal of protecting US Secretary of State John Kerry, due in Cairo late on governments see Qatar, maverick though it be, as a poten- merely exacerbates already-existing tensions in society Palestinian lives from the Israeli military. “Gaza has turned Monday, is likely to have to mediate between Egypt and tially significant regional mediator because of its links to where Jews fear a rise in anti-Semitism, second-generation very suddenly into the theatre in which this new alignment Qatar in a bid to end the fighting in Gaza. “The dilemma is Islamist movements in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere. Qatar immigrants feel marginalised and a radical Islamic fringe within the Arab world is being expressed,” said UK-based now to get Egypt and Qatar to agree. It is obvious that denies any ulterior motive and notes that Washington has grows. “You have people who say ‘I am from the Arab- analyst Ghanem Nusseibeh. “Gaza is the first test for these Hamas had delegated Qatar to be its spokesman in the openly asked it to talk to Hamas. Foreign Minister Khaled al- Muslim world, my universe was colonised and exploited and new alliances, and this has affected the possibility of reach- talks,” said an Egyptian diplomat. “Kerry is here to try to Attiyah said on Sunday Qatar’s role was just to facilitate com- today I am excluded, I am a victim of discrimination and in a ing a ceasefire there.” He was referring to Qatar, Turkey, mediate between Qatar and Egypt to agree on a deal that munication. way what is happening to me is the same thing as what is Sudan and non-Arab Iran, the main members of a loose Hamas would approve.” Another foreign ministry source happening to Palestinians in Gaza’,” he said. grouping of states which believe Islamists represent the said: “Egypt will be asked by Kerry to add in Hamas’ condi- ‘Bloodshed Needs to Stop’ future of Middle East politics. tions and then Kerry will go to Qatar and ask it to ask Hamas A source familiar with the matter said Qatar will not press Far-left Heavily Involved That camp stands in increasingly overt competition with to approve the amended deal.” Hamas to change or reduce its demands. In Saudi Arabia, But experts say it is too simplistic to merely point to ten- a conservative, pro-Western group led by Egypt, Jordan, the For reasons of history and geography, Egypt has always where suspicion of Hamas is particularly strong, as an ally of sions between Muslim and Jewish communities. “This con- United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, most of whom are seen itself as the most effective mediator in the Israeli- the Brotherhood and of Iran, Riyadh’s main regional adver- flict has had echoes in France for decades, particularly since intent on crushing the Brotherhood and see it as a threat. Palestinian conflict in neighbouring Gaza. But critics say saries, newspapers have abandoned a tradition of blaming the Six-Day War in 1967,” says Hecker, referring to the con- That cleavage is now apparent in the diplomacy over Gaza. Egypt’s strongly anti-Islamist government is trying to pres- Israel alone to also attack the Palestinian group. “The Hamas flict that saw Israel take control of territories in Egypt, Jordan sure Hamas into accepting a truce offering few concessions leadership, from Egyptian blood to Palestinian blood,” was and Syria in less than a week. Before that, public opinion in Ceasefire Plan for the group. Its aim, they say, is to weaken the movement the headline of an opinion article by Fadi Ibrahim Al- France was largely pro-Israel - as was the country’s foreign Qatar bankrolled the elected Muslim Brotherhood gov- and allied Islamist forces in Egypt. Hamas leaders said they Dhahabi in the daily Al-Jazeera newspaper on Sunday. He policy. But the end of France’s war with former colony ernment of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, who was were not consulted on the Egyptian move, and it did not argued that Hamas was stoking the war in Gaza not for the Algeria in 1962 contributed to a gradual change in thinking, overthrown by the military a year ago. Saudi Arabia and the address their demands. With peace efforts delicately poised, sake of Palestinian liberation, but as part of a wider Muslim sealed by President Charles de Gaulle’s 1967 comments con- UAE have since poured in money to support strongman Gaza now appears to be a test of strength in a regional Brotherhood campaign against Egypt’s government and to demning Israel. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who led the takeover and has since struggle for power. win favour with Iran. At the time, pro-Palestinian activism was largely driven been elected president after outlawing and suppressing the Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, part of a recently by the far-left and Muslim activism on the issue only Brotherhood. Under his rule, Egypt has tightened its stran- Interference formed national unity government intended to overcome emerged in the 1990s, according to Hecker. Even now, glehold on the southern end of the Gaza Strip, closing tun- Emirati political scientist Abdulkhaleq Abdulla said Gaza rivalry between Hamas and the more secular Fatah national- “when you go to the biggest pro-Palestinian demonstra- nels to try to block supplies of weapons and prevent mili- mediation had seen “a lot of political interference”. “Qatar ist movement, told Reuters he had seen no tug-of-war tions, there are parts of the procession where you think tants crossing. was unhappy with the Egyptian ceasefire (plan). They are among Arab states. “This is not the case. There is no competi- you’re in a May 1 rally due to the sheer number of union and Egyptian officials suspect Qatar encouraged Hamas to very uncomfortable that it came from Egypt. The Qataris are tion between Arab countries, they all want to stop the far-left activists.” reject a ceasefire plan Cairo put forward last week to try to trying to undermine Egypt politically, and the victim is the bloodshed,” he said. “All Arab countries want to bring an end But the violence in Sarcelles - sometimes known as “Little end an Israeli assault that has now killed more than 500 ceasefire that Egypt has proposed. “The terms of the prob- to this fountain of blood in Gaza, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt are Jerusalem” for its large community of Sephardic Jews - saw Palestinians as well as 18 Israeli soldiers and two Israeli civil- lem is - who will present the ceasefire? Who will win the first all in agreement. And the leaders of these countries have looters destroy Jewish businesses and shout anti-Israel ians. Palestinian officials said the proposal contained little political match between those two new camps within the put their differences aside and all agree that the bloodshed obscenities. Georges Asaraf, the Jewish owner of a pizzeria more than Israeli and U.S. terms for a truce. Hamas has its Arab world?” Abdulla said. needs to stop”. —Reuters in Sarcelles whose windows were destroyed, was still reeling from the shock Monday. “They were after Israelites but we have always lived together as brothers,” he said. Election anything but certain for Rousseff By Anthony Boadle and Neves tied in a second round. cent, double that of Neves, while 29 percent for campaign spots under Brazilian electoral Policies ‘Provoke’ Tensions The numbers have energized the Neves now rate her government bad or terrible, worse law. She also enjoys the backing of her men- Some experts say that in the latest Israeli-Palestinian razilian President Dilma Rousseff until camp, giving it an array of issues to exploit on than at the peak of last year’s protests. tor and predecessor as president, Luiz Inacio conflict, the French government has not helped ease ten- recently appeared to be cruising toward the campaign trail. “Conditions are ripe for an Lula da Silva, a legendary campaigner and sions. After Israel launched its offensive in response to rock- re-election in October but she now finds opposition victory - Dilma’s rejection numbers, Urban Angst still Brazil’s most popular politician. et attacks by Hamas militants, Hollande initially condemned B herself in a tight race as an already sluggish Workers’ Party fatigue, the economic downturn The anger from those protests did not Worried about Rousseff’s slide in the “aggressions” against the Jewish state but made no mention economy takes a turn for the worse. Economic and a lack of new policy ideas from the govern- spill over into Brazil’s hosting of the recent polls, Lula has called on her campaign to of Palestinian casualties, which 14 days into the conflict growth, slow for most of her term, looks even ment,” Senator Aloysio Nunes, Neves’ running World Cup soccer tournament, an event that aggressively tout the reduction in poverty have gone over the 500 mark. Then a decision to ban the less promising this year with economists mate, told Reuters on Monday. If Neves can pull was widely praised in sporting terms and and other social gains that Brazil has seen protests in Paris and Sarcelles due to fears of unrest further expecting a contraction in the second quarter. off an upset, investors expect a return to the which did little to harm Rousseff because it under the Workers’ Party. During Lula’s two fanned the flames of resentment. They went ahead anyway, Inflation is running at just over 6.5 percent and business-friendly policies that paved the way unfolded with few of the logistical night- terms, the Workers’ Party received consider- and turned violent. By contrast, rallies in other parts of the employment figures, long one of the bright for the economic boom that Brazil enjoyed last mares that many expected. Still, the tourna- able campaign contributions from some of country were peaceful. spots in Latin America’s biggest economy, decade. He has pledged to restore Brazil’s fiscal ment was perceived to go smoothly largely Brazil’s largest businesses, happy with a “The French exception is not the protests in support of recently began to show trouble. Industrial out- credibility by reining in public spending with- because Brazil declared holidays in host booming economy and an expanding con- Gaza victims - these take place all over the world, even in put has slumped for the last three months and out sacrificing the social welfare programs that cities around most games, ensuring less of sumer market. Israel. It’s the ban on protesting,” said sociologist Eric Fassin. is on track to shrink more the 1 percent this are so popular with Rousseff’s base. the chaos that regularly cripples Brazil’s But Brazil’s business class dislikes Rousseff “In other words, what needs to be explained are not social year, prompting some manufacturers to start As they head into intense campaigning for streets, trains and airports. As voters refocus for what they consider her heavy-handed tensions but governmental policies that supposedly cutting jobs. the next two months, both Neves and Eduardo on daily issues from which they were dis- intervention in the economy. Her policies, respond to these, but in reality provoke them.” Whatever the Frustration in Brazil’s biggest cities is also Campos, a dark-horse upstart candidate from tracted because of the World Cup, urban they argue, have cut profit margins, discour- reasons behind the violence, the Jewish community has mounting. Poor public services and traffic grid- another left-leaning party, will focus on the angst could manifest itself at the ballot box. aged investment and made Brazil less com- once again expressed its concern at what it says is a rise in lock, both factors that helped lead to mass negatives that have begun to rattle the founda- “Life in Brazil’s cities is deteriorating fast petitive. Though most companies will hedge anti-Semitism. Some 2,200 Jews left France in the first six demonstrations across Brazil last year, make tions of Rousseff’s support. and there is a very strong public sentiment their bets and contribute financing to all months of the year compared with less than 600 a year ago, daily life for many an increasingly unbear- “Rousseff’s worst enemy is that the government is not doing what it candidates, Brazilian markets have increas- and Prime Minister Manuel Valls has slammed “intolerable” able slog. While many Brazilians are still not Aecio Neves. It’s her should be doing to improve electricity, ingly shown how much they hope for a acts of anti-Semitism. —AFP thankful to Rousseff’s leftist Workers’ own rejection num- water, sewage and transport services,” said Rousseff loss. The Bovespa stock index has Party for two previous terms of sus- bers,” said Thiago de Jose Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, a politi- risen more than 25 percent since mid-March, tained economic growth, what had Arag„o, a partner at cal scientist at the University of Sao Paulo. To when Rousseff’s popularity first began to All articles appearing on these been unflinching support for her Arko Advice consul- make matters worse for Rousseff, the coali- weaken. pages are the personal opinion of government has recently begun to tancy in Brasilia. tion that sustains her government in Neves has struck a chord with investors by slip. Those numbers, Congress is tenuous because some smaller pledging to refrain from meddling in the the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Rousseff does not have enough analysts say, mean parties are angry with her Workers’ Party, affairs of state-controlled firms like oil giant responsibility for views expressed votes to win the Oct. 5 election out- that many Campos which routinely balks at requests from allies Petrobras, whose finances have been severe- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- right, according to figures released voters, if he gets for key administration posts. ly weakened under a Rousseff administration by pollster Datafolha on Friday. And eliminated in the Even if they are nominally on board with policy that forces the company to sell fuel ers to voice their opinions. Please her main challenger, centrist Aecio first round of voting, her campaign at the national level, many will below market prices. The election now looks send submissions via email to: opin- Neves, has narrowed her lead in a like- are likely to turn to back other parties in state and mayoral races, so close that experts in Brazilian politics are [email protected] or via snail ly second-round runoff from 27 per- Neves in the runoff. fueling tensions that could further under- holding off predicting an outcome. “I don’t centage points in February to just 4 The Datafolha poll mine her overall support. To be sure, Rousseff know who will win,” said Vera Chaia, a politics mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. points, a statistical tie. A separate poll showed that the number has some heavy artillery to roll out in the professor at Sao Paulo’s Catholic University. The editor reserves the right to edit released Saturday by the Sensus of Brazilians who say they months ahead. In addition to the rich cam- “Up to a month ago, before the World Cup, I any submission as necessary. polling institute also shows the elec- will never vote for paign coffers and marketing muscle of the thought she could win. But now it’s hard to tion headed to a runoff, with Rousseff Rousseff is up to 35 per- Workers’ Party, she will enjoy ample TV time say.” —Reuters NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

People climb onto window ledges to try to avoid a bull during the bull rope festival through the streets of Grazalema in Spain on Monday. — AFP Erdogan chooses diatribes over mediation

ISTANBUL: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip committing “genocide” in Gaza and has Turkish public opinion overwhelmingly Authority and Hamas, said Pope. Brotherhood presidency in Cairo. Only ties Erdogan has sacrificed any possibility of also compared the mentality of some ele- hostile to Israel’s policies, his diatribes can with Qatar seem to be flourishing. Erdogan Turkey playing a mediation role in Gaza in ments in Israeli society to that of Adolf only help him at the polls. “This scores Turkey’s Ties with Allies Fray has himself made clear that the process of favour of seeking to impress voters ahead Hitler, comments that enraged Prime good electoral points for him. A pro-Israeli Turkey is already reaping the diplomatic normalisation of relations between Turkey of presidential polls with the toughest ever Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. or pro-Jewish approach would never bene- cost of Erdogan’s broadsides. A country and Israel - downgraded after the deadly anti-Israeli rhetoric from a Turkish leader. Turkey’s usually mildly-spoken Foreign fit a politician who still tries to portray him- that once boasted of having good relations storming by Israeli commandos of a Before the rise to power of Erdogan’s Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also launched self as the leader of the Sunni world,” said with all major powers is now looking Turkish activist ship off Gaza in 2010 - is Islamic-rooted Justice and Development his own incendiary attack against Israel Aktar. increasingly isolated with several tradition- now at an end. Yet both Turkey and Israel Party (AKP) over a decade ago, NATO mem- over the weekend, saying Turkey had no In the aftermath of angry pro- al alliances under heavy strain. Erdogan have a mutual interest in keeping relations ber Turkey was Israel’s key ally in the reason to be impartial. “Turkey is by no Palestinian protests in Ankara where appears happy to pick a fight with and some analysts speculate that behind Islamic world, a policy enthusiastically means impartial and can have no support- Turkish protesters climbed onto the walls Washington with the US State Department closed doors cooperation between security cheered by the United States. Erdogan has ing role in the mediation efforts,” Cengiz of the Israeli envoy’s residence, Israel branding his comments on Israel “offensive services is continuing. long presented himself as a champion of Aktar, professor of political science at the pulled most of its staff from the country and wrong” but the prime minister hitting Trade is far from insignificant - the total the Palestinian cause and leader of the Istanbul Policy Center, told AFP. and denounced Turkey’s failure to protect back by saying the United States needed to trade volume between the two countries entire Sunni Muslim world. its missions. “With the Turkish leadership’s engage in “self-criticism”. The nominee for rose to $5 billion in 2013, compared to $3.4 But his anti-Israel rhetoric has reached One Eye on August Polls anti-Israel rhetoric, Turkey has now lost the new US ambassador to Ankara, John billion in 2008. “Behind closed-doors, I still new heights in the Gaza conflict, with com- Erdogan, who is now in the throes of nearly all of its ability to have political Bass, acknowledged that Turkey was “drift- believe that efforts are underway to nor- ments aimed at causing the maximum campaigning for presidential elections on influence in Israel,” said Hugh Pope of the ing” to authoritarianism under Erdogan. malise the relations. They can gain offence in the Jewish State by comparing August 10 that he is widely expected to International Crisis Group. The one sup- Ties with not only Egypt but also Saudi momentum as early as after the elections,” its strategy in Gaza to the actions of Nazi win, has whipped up the crowds at mass porting role that Turkey could play is that Arabia have frayed after the Riyadh-backed said Nihat Ali Ozcan of the Economic Policy Germany. Erdogan has accused Israel of rallies with his anti-Israeli rhetoric. With of mediating between the Palestinian coup that overthrew the Muslim Research Foundation of Turkey. — AFP Ajman tribe to meet Amir after... Continued from Page 1 will not accept the measure. Former Islamist opposition MP Faisal Al-Mislem also described the decision as an act of revenge. The statement also criticized the National Assembly for decid- “Revoking the citizenship of Barghash and Shemmari is a cheap ing to support one of the parties, thus drawing the nation into way of revenge ... which confirms the size of the catastrophe in the ongoing political disputes. The forum also accused the gov- Kuwait,” Mislem wrote on his Twitter account. ernment of taking decisions and adopting policies that serve its Former Islamist opposition MP Falah Al-Sawwagh said the narrow interests and those of its allies at the expense of the coun- action is an indication of the government’s random policy and try’s stability and security. warned that this will lead to instability in the country. Former Leading opposition figure and former MP Musallam Al-Barrak opposition MP Salem Al-Namlan said the action came because of said the revoking of citizenship of Shemmari and Barghash is an they are from the opposition, and in order to pave the way to act of unlawful revenge to scare the opposition. Barrak said that steal public funds. Local observers and online activists have the government action came to punish them for their patriotic expected that more similar decisions by the government will fol- stances of fighting corruption, adding that the Kuwaiti people low soon and may include “big names”. Itikaaf is sunnah Continued from Page 1 mention Allah, recite the Quran, pray and worship. Avoid whatever distracts you of worldly affairs. It is permissible to engage in But when it was the last ten nights, he would be more diligent lawful talk with your family or others for an interest need. It was and tighten up his loincloth.” [Ahmad] narrated on the authority of Safiyyah, the Mother of the Believers, Itikaaf is one of the special acts of the last ten days of may Allah be pleased with her, that, “The Prophet (PBUH) was Ramadan. It is to stay at the masjid (mosque) with the sole inten- performing itikaaf and I came to visit him. I talked to him for a tion of worshipping and obeying Allah there. It is based on evi- while and then I got up to go back (to my home) and he got up dence from the Quran and the sunnah. In the Quran, Allah the with me....” [Al-Bukhari & Muslim] Almighty Says: And do not have relations with them as long as You are permitted to go out of the mosque when there is a you are staying for worship in the mosques. [Quran 2: 187] In the necessity, such as answering the call of nature, bringing food and sunnah it was narrated on the authority of Aisha, may Allah be drink if there is no one to bring this for you, seeking treatment if pleased with her, that the Prophet (PBUH) ceaselessly observed you get sick while observing itikaaf and going to the aid of a sick itikaaf during the last ten days of Ramadan until he died. Then his person from your family whom you are obliged to care for when wives did the same after him. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim] there is no one to do this other than you. However, going out of Itikaaf is one of the deserted recommended acts of worship, the mosque for something that opposes itikaaf, such as selling or which is only observed by a few while many are heedless of it. Az- buying, having sexual intercourse with one’s wife or touching her Zuhri, may Allah have mercy upon him, commented, “How (i.e. foreplay), and so on, violates itikaaf. strange are the Muslims! Why do they neglect itikaaf when the Dear observer of itikaaf, if you have company, then choose a Prophet (PBUH) did not leave it from his arrival in Madinah until companion who helps you to obey Allah, strengthens your his death?” morale and is keen to spend his time in goodness and worship. My dear Muslim, you should hasten to revive this great sun- Avoid those who waste their time in vain talk. Some observers of nah and urge people and encourage them to perform it, starting itikaaf show diligence during the first few days and then feel slack with yourself. This worldly life is nothing but a few stages and a and lazy and spend their time in useless conversations which few days, so get rid of all the worldly obstacles and beauties and may even lead them to engage in unlawful talk, such as backbit- be keen to attain this great reward. Allocate these few days to ing! free yourself of all distractions and tasks and move to Allah with Dear Muslim, while performing itikaaf is a recommended act your heart and whole being in humbleness, submissiveness, and of worship, maintaining your home and children is an obligation. tears in order to join the procession of the successful. So beware of neglecting to take care of your family, for that is Dear Muslim, itikaaf is to be performed at any mosque where more important. You should try to perform the two tasks at the the congregational prayer is performed. When one observes same time. Be keen to the utmost to guard your family members itikaaf for a period that includes a Friday, it is recommended that against temptations. Do not make itikaaf a cause for neglecting he observes it in a mosque where the Friday prayer is performed. the due rights of others. It is better, if possible, to take your sons Otherwise, he is allowed to go to a mosque where the Friday to perform itikaaf along with you, for this acts as a method of nur- prayer is performed and then go back to his place of itikaaf. turing, makes you feel comfort, boosts affection and love Be keen to perform itikaaf in a mosque where there is neither between you and trains them to worship. If this is difficult for overcrowding nor noise and disturbance. Choose a mosque them, then they should at least observe one night of itikaaf along where no one knows you and where you know no one as well. with you. You should reward them abundantly and encourage This is more likely to help you dedicate your intention and free them to do so. your heart and mind of talking to people, sitting and socializing Dear Muslim, the seasons of obedience are stations from with them. If you perform itikaaf at one of the two Holy Mosques, which the traveler seeks provision on his way to a garden whose avoid taking up the space of other worshippers. Rather, make width is like the distance between the heavens and the earth. room for others to pray. Do not be one of those who like to show You should be one of those who are wise and discerning and others that they are observing itikaaf so that they would greet thus do not miss such opportunities and stations without obtain- you or make room for you. Some observers of itikaaf sometimes ing the gifts of Allah and winning the great reward. abandon the taraweeh and qiyaam prayers (the voluntary Be keen to perform itikaaf with a truthful and sincere inten- prayers at night in Ramadan) and disturb others with engaging in tion. Avoid showing off, hypocrisy, love of praise and conceit. loud, vain talk. Dedicate all your righteous deeds for the sake of Allah the Itikaaf is recommended at any time. A Muslim can start and Almighty. Allah Says: And they were not commanded except to end it anytime he wants. However, it is better to perform it during worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion, inclining to Ramadan, and particularly in the last ten days. After performing truth... [Quran 98: 5] In a famous hadeeth, the Prophet (PBUH) the Fajr (dawn) prayer of the 21st of Ramadan, one should start said: “Deeds are judged based upon the intentions, and for every- itikaaf and stay at the mosque until he goes out to perform the one what he has intended...” [Al-Bukhari & Muslim] Eid prayer, as this is the recommended time for ending it. Choosing a mosque where no one knows you and where you It is indeed a great opportunity for just a few hours so that the know no one helps you to achieve sincerity. You have no need to Muslim may utilize this seclusion from people and free himself for openly tell about your itikaaf on Eid day or afterwards. May Allah the worship of Allah at one of His mosques. He does so with the make worship a source of pleasure for you and include you sole intention of seeking reward from Allah as well as witnessing among the successful servants who are accepted by Him. May he Laylatul Qadr (the night of Divine Decree) before the end of life forgive our sins as well as the sins of our parents and those of all and facing reckoning before Allah the Almighty. the Muslims. May He exalt the mention of Prophet Muhammad Dear observer of itikaaf, be keen to intensively remember and (PBUH), his family and companions. — Islamweb WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 SPORTS

FA backs manager Hodgson Tiago signs for Atletico LeBron begins tour of China LONDON: England coach Roy Hodgson retains the support of the Football BARCELONA: Portuguese midfielder Tiago has signed a new two-year BEIJING: LeBron James began his tour of China on Monday by exchanging Association despite the team’s dismal showing at the World Cup last month, FA deal with Atletico Madrid, the La Liga champions confirmed yesterday, gifts with another former child prodigy. The Cleveland Cavaliers’ star was greet- Chairman Greg Dyke said yesterday. ruling out a possible return to former club Chelsea. ed by pianist Lang Lang at the Wukesong Sports Center in Beijing in front of Dyke said he thought Hodgson did “quite a good job” in Brazil and repeated The 33-year-old originally turned down offers of a new contract at hundreds of basketball fans. his view that there were too many foreign players in the Premier League for the the Calderon and was widely reported to be set for a switch back to The two exchanged gifts, with Lang Lang receiving a pair of basketball national team to thrive. “I’ve got a lot of time for him (Hodgson),” Dyke told MPs Chelsea at the end of last season as a free agent, but the move failed shoes and James getting an album of Lang Lang’s music and a CD with the when asked about the England team’s performance during a parliamentary hear- to materialise. “The Portuguese player will continue at our club for two FIFA Brazil World Cup music. The two stars also played the piano together - a more seasons after the agreement he has made,” a club statement ing. Dyke said deep-rooted problems in English soccer would make it tough for “piano dunk” as Lang Lang called it. “Every time I come here, the game of bas- the national team to repeat their sole World Cup success on home soil in 1966. said. Valencia were also interested in Tiago, who was a key member of Atletico’s La Liga winning side last season, but he preferred to remain ketball grows more and more,” James told the crowd. “It’s been great all the “The real problem is there is no pathway for 17 or 18-year-old English boys to get way from before I came to 2008 Beijing Olympics and all the way now through the system,” he said. in Madrid, where he initially arrived on loan from Juventus in 2010, for me to come back in 2014. “I think it’s going to get tougher and tougher unless we do making the move permanent the following year. something about it,” he said, lamenting the fact that only around “The club offered me the chance to stay. I feel proud because we The game continues to rise and I think that’s amazing.” The five- 30 percent of Premier League players are English. had an incredible season and then I thought it was the right moment day trip is being sponsored by Nike. James will also be visiting He said that world champions Germany had “an unwritten to move on. I had the chance to play in different international leagues,” Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and two cities in Taiwan - Kaohsiung rule” over the number of foreign players in the Bundesliga, cre- Tiago said. “I took my time to look at the different options during the and Taipei. “I am very blessed and the game of basketball has ating room for talented German youngsters to come through. summer but when it came to making the decision, I felt that only with given me everything and more than I can dream of to my “The other problem we’ve got is that none of our players play Atletico would I be sure of not making a mistake.” family, myself and my friends,” James said. “And that’s why overseas,” added Dyke. Hodgson has also said that English players Tiago also denied rumors that he had walked away from the club for me, I always give everything I can to the game, when I would benefit from gaining experience by playing abroad and on bad terms at the end of the last campaign. “Over the weeks, a lot of am on the basketball floor, both on and off court, might get more opportunities than they do in the Premier false things have been written about me but that doesn’t change any- because it has given me so much things that I never League. —Reuters thing,” Tiago added. —Reuters dreamed about. —AP Red Sox rout Blue Jays

TORONTO: David Ortiz hit the 452nd and bases-loaded single in the 10th inning, lift- had three hits and two RBIs, Buster Posey 453rd home runs of his career, moving past ing the Marlins to a victory over the Braves. drove in two runs and the Giants remained Boston great Carl Yastrzemski into 36th Christian Yelich led off the 10th with a single tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers for first place on the all-time list as the Red Sox won off Shae Simmons (1-2) and moved to sec- place in the NL West. their fifth straight game Monday night, ond on Jordany Valdespin’s sacrifice bunt. Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong gave up routing the Toronto Blue Jays 14-1. Following an intentional walk to Giancarlo four runs - three earned - and 11 hits in Ortiz matched Yastrzemski with a two- Stanton, Simmons walked Casey McGehee three-plus innings. But San Francisco’s run blast to center off left-hander Brad Mills to load the bases. bullpen combined for six scoreless innings. in the fourth, then broke the short-lived tie Jones broke a 1-1 tie with his grounder George Kontos (2-0) gave up one hit and with another two-run shot off Mills in the past Simmons into center field. Bryan Morris struck out three in two innings in relief to fifth, his 21st and 22nd homers of the sea- (7-0) stranded two runners in a scoreless earn the win. Santiago Casilla pitched the son. It was the third multihomer game of ninth. Steve Cishek pitched a perfect 10th ninth for his sixth save in nine tries. the season for Ortiz and the 44th of his inning for his 22nd save. Jarrod Making his first start since May 18 career. Saltalamacchia hit his 10th homer for Miami because of an elbow injury, Lee (4-5) Ortiz’s first homer ended his 0-for-18 skid in the fifth for a 1-1 tie that held until the allowed six runs and 12 hits in 5 2-3 innings against Toronto and an 0-for-11 slump over- ninth. in this one. all. Mike Napoli followed Ortiz’s second shot with his 12th homer, the fourth time this DODGERS 5, PIRATES 2 TWINS 4, INDIANS 3 season Boston has gone back-to-back. John Ryu Hyun-jin pitched seven strong Josh Willingham’s tiebreaking home run Lackey (11-6) allowed one run and two hits innings and Adrian Gonzalez reached base in the eighth inning sent the Twins to a vic- in seven innings to win his second straight five times as the Dodgers beat the Pirates. tory over the Indians. Kurt Suzuki had a start. Ryu (11-5) joined Zack Greinke and two-run double among his three hits, Trevor Clayton Kershaw in making the Dodgers the Plouffe hit an RBI double and the Twins beat RANGERS 4, YANKEES 2 first team in the majors with three 11-game the Indians at home for the first time in Miles Mikolas earned his first win as a winners. more than 11 months. starter, pitching into the eighth inning and The left-hander allowed two runs and Suzuki, a first-time All-Star selection who leading the Rangers to a victory over the five hits with a walk and five strikeouts. was the catcher for the ninth inning of the sloppy Yankees.Trailing by a run with none Justin Turner had two RBIs and scored twice American League’s victory here at Target on and two outs in the sixth, Texas got run- for the Dodgers, who snapped Pittsburgh’s Field last week, posted his ninth three-hit scoring singles from Geovany Soto, six-game home winning streak. Pirates game this season. He raised his batting Rougned Odor and Choo Shin-soo to go starter Edinson Volquez (8-7) had won four average to .311 and is 25 for 63 in his last 17 ahead in only its third win in 17 July games. straight starts, tying his career high. Los games. In another All-Star game reprise, Adrian Beltre drove in the Rangers’ first Angeles played without right fielder Yasiel Glen Perkins pitched a perfect ninth for his run with a fielder’s choice in the third inning Puig (left hand) and shortstop Hanley 23rd save in 26 chances. on one of New York’s five errors - three by Ramirez (left wrist) after both were injured starting pitcher Shane Greene (2-1). when they were hit by pitches last weekend WHITE SOX 3, ROYALS 1 Second baseman Brian Roberts and in St. Louis. Puig and Ramirez had X-rays in Chris Sale pitched seven effective innings shortstop Derek Jeter made the other errors Pittsburgh that came back negative in his first outing since the All-Star break for the Yankees, who had not committed Monday. and Adam Dunn had two RBIs and scored a five in a nine-inning game since Aug. 20, run to lead the White Sox to a victory over 1998, against Minnesota. GIANTS 7, PHILLIES 4 the slumping Royals. Adam Duvall hit a two-run homer to Sale (9-1) wasn’t at his best, allowing sev- MARLINS 3, BRAVES 1 spoil Cliff Lee’s return from the disabled list en hits and a walk in seven innings, but he Garrett Jones drove in two runs with a as the Giants beat the Phillies. Hunter Pence worked out of jams in the fourth and sixth innings. He struck out eight and now has allowed three runs or less in 14 of his 15 starts this season. Jake Petricka pitched the ninth for his fourth save. Dunn went 1-for-2 with a pair of walks as the White Sox for the fourth time in six TORONTO: Craig Breslow No. 32 of the Boston Red Sox celebrates their victory with games. Danny Valencia went 1-for-2 with a Christian Vazquez No. 55 during MLB game action against the Toronto Blue Jays. — AFP RBI for Kansas City, which has dropped four straight and seven of eight. Jeremy Guthrie ond, his fifth in the last 15 games. Jackson rob Travis d’Arnaud of a home run in the (5-9) gave up three runs on five hits in six added a solo shot. Both were off starter sixth. Seager had RBIs singles in his first two innings. Vidal Nuno (0-2). Verlander (9-8) allowed at-bats and Zunino hit his 14th homer of three runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings to the season, an estimated 415-foot shot off BREWERS 5, REDS 2 win for the third time in his last four starts. starter Jonathon Niese (5-5) into the second Milwaukee scored three runs off two mis- He struck out five to pass Hal Newhouser on deck in left field. judged balls in the outfield by Chris Heisey, the Tigers’ all-time strikeout list (1,772). Joe and Wily Peralta pitched seven strong Nathan pitched a scoreless ninth for his ORIOLES 4, ANGELS 2 innings in the Brewers’ victory over the 20th save in 25 opportunities.Gerardo Parra Adam Jones hit a pair of two-run homers, Reds. homered for Arizona. including a tiebreaking shot in the sixth Ryan Braun hit a two-run double in the inning as the Orioles beat the Angels. Bud third on which Heisey took a couple of steps MARINERS 5, METS 2 Norris (8-6) won for the fifth time in his last six in before retreating as the high liner went Kyle Seager drove in two runs, Mike starts, allowing two runs - one earned - and over his head. The four-year veteran with Zunino homered into the second deck at eight hits over 6 2-3 innings with eight strike- 134 career starts in left field apparently lost Safeco Field and Dustin Ackley stole a home outs and two walks. The Orioles increased Carlos Gomez’s high fly ball to the warning run with a leaping catch at the wall in the their AL East lead to four games over the New RunQ8 race to support children track in the fourth inning that turned into Mariners’ win over the Mets. York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays. Norris an RBI ground-rule double that made it 4-0. After losing two of three to the Angels was recalled from Double-A Bowie, where he with disabilities in Kuwait Peralta (11-6) allowed three hits, including after the All-Star break, Seattle got a solid was optioned on July 10 in order to keep him KUWAIT: Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation dren to engage with their family at home Billy Hamilton’s solo homer. Francisco start from Roenis Elias and improved to 8-2 on his regular routine during the All-Star Institute (FSRI) announced that its annual and friends in school, which in turn helps Rodriguez threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his 29th all-time against the Mets. break. The Orioles did the same thing with RunQ8 race will be held this year on Nov. them build foundations for a bright future save. Cincinnati’s Mat Latos (2-2) gave up Elias (8-8) threw 5 1-3 innings before Tuesday’s scheduled starter, Miguel Gonzalez, 29, with all proceeds going towards sup- and a higher quality of life. four earned runs and eight hits in seven leaving with cramping in his left forearm. who was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk on July porting underprivileged children with phys- Dr. Hamdan added, “Ongoing treatment innings. Seattle’s bullpen was stellar the rest of the 11. Zach Britton pitched a perfect ninth for ical and/or cognitive disabilities through for children takes a toll on the family finan- way, helped by Ackley’s outstanding grab to his 17th save. — AP the non-profit Children’s Evaluation and cially, and we see cases in Kuwait whereby NATIONALS 7, ROCKIES 2 Rehabilitation Center (CERC) founded and families delay seeking treatment for their Ian Desmond tied a career high with five managed by FSRI. child due to financial constraints. CERC aims hits, including a two-run homer, and Doug CERC is the first facility of its kind to be to ensure that children do get the treat- MLB results/standings Fister threw effectively into the sixth to help launched in Kuwait that provides compre- ment they require to live a better life.” hensive and multidisciplinary rehabilitation Pledging support in this year’s race are the Nationals beat the sinking Rockies. Texas 4, Ny Yankees 2; San Francisco 7, Philadelphia 4; LA Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh 2; Boston evaluations and care for children with phys- founding partner Agility, and bronze spon- Fister (9-2) - all “elbows and knees” as 14, Toronto 1; Miami 3, Atlanta 1 (10 Innings); Chicago White Sox 3, Kansas City 1; ical and/or cognitive disabilities with the sors: ASAR Legal, Porsche, Tareq Co. and Charlie Blackmon described him allowed Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 2; Minnesota 4, Cleveland 3; Washington 7, Colorado 2; Detroit 4, aim of improving their overall quality of life. iSqueeze. FSRI also urges companies to nine hits before being pulled with two outs Arizona 3; Baltimore 4, LA Angels 2; Seattle 5, NY Mets 2. RunQ8 is an annual 10-kilometer run become partners in the run to support the in the sixth after running into trouble. organized by FSRI, with a clear mandate to cause and help raise proceeds. Desmond had four singles - including one American League National League raise public awareness on health issues “No partner is too big or too small for us. off the arm of reliever LaTroy Hawkins in the Eastern Division Eastern Division affecting communities in Kuwait, support- We are firm believers that anyone can con- ninth - to go with his 17th homer of the sea- W L PCT GB Washington 54 43 .557 - ing healthcare initiatives, as well as encour- tribute in any way they would like to. This son. Baltimore 54 44 .551 - Atlanta 54 45 .545 1 aging healthy living amongst the communi- includes being formal partners through the Franklin Morales (5-5) surrendered four NY Yankees 50 48 .510 4 Miami 46 52 .469 8.5 ty-at-large. Medical Director of FSRI, Dr. Platinum, Gold and Bronze packages or runs - three earned - in six innings. Ben Toronto 51 49 .510 4 NY Mets 46 53 .465 9 Elham Hamdan, said, “RunQ8 will support even through encouraging employees to Paulsen had two hits and drove in a run in Boston 47 52 .475 7.5 the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation participate by organizing for it as a compa- Philadelphia 43 56 .434 12 his major league debut for the Rockies, Tampa Bay 47 53 .470 8 Center for the second year in-a-row, helping ny team effort,” concluded Dr. Hamdan. Central Division who’ve lost six straight. Central Division provide affordable treatment to children CERC is a non-profit organization and Milwaukee 55 45 .550 - Detroit 55 41 .573 - with disabilities, and to fund treatment for provides affordable treatments that cater to TIGERS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 3 St. Louis 54 45 .545 0.5 those who do not have access to it.” all segments of society, and even helps fam- Cleveland 50 49 .505 6.5 Pittsburgh 52 47 .525 2.5 Torii Hunter and Austin Jackson home- Kansas City 48 50 .490 8 The establishment of CERC aims to build ilies who cannot afford care. CERC fee struc- Cincinnati 51 48 .515 3.5 red, and Justin Verlander moved into third Chicago White Sox 48 52 .480 9 an interdisciplinary care center where prac- ture is affordable to the average family in place on Detroit’s career strikeout list as the Chicago Cubs 40 57 .412 13.5 titioners set a treatment plan that combines Kuwait, and funds some of the treatments Minnesota 45 53 .459 11 Tigers opened their interleague series in Western Division the programs needed by each child, and for children through the support of various Western Division San Francisco 55 44 .556 - collaborate on the progress of the child, in a community entities and donors, as well as Arizona by beating the Diamondbacks. Oakland 61 37 .622 - unique setting that builds more capacity through the annual RunQ8 charity Miguel Cabrera drove in the go-ahead run LA Angels 59 39 .602 2 LA Dodgers 56 45 .554 - and broadens access to treatment in Kuwait marathon. CERC also treats referrals from in the seventh inning with a booming single Seattle 53 46 .535 8.5 San Diego 43 55 .439 11.5 for children with physical and/or cognitive Bayt Abdullah Hospice for terminally ill chil- just below the home run line on the Chase Houston 41 58 .414 20.5 Arizona 43 57 .430 12.5 disabilities. This setting helps empower children without fees. Field porch in left-center. Texas 40 59 .404 21.5 Colorado 40 59 .404 15 Hunter had a two-run homer in the sec- WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 SPORTS Feng backs Singapore Photo of the day as table tennis toppers

GLASGOW: Feng Tianwei insists be successful in Scotland. She told Austria, where they have been train- Singapore can be confident of repeat- AFP: “I have been leading the women’s ing for six hours a day, and world ing their dominance of New Delhi in team for several years. “For this number 12 Gao feels ready. the table tennis at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, we have a “We have been sparring with play- Commonwealth Games. new team but the confidence is high ers of specific playing styles in prepa- World number four Feng is the and our younger players have shown ration for the games,” Gao told AFP. strong favourite to retain the women’s a lot of fighting spirit. “I believe that “We have been busy training and in singles title she won four years ago, the younger players are able to deal such a way where we are prepared for when Singapore collected six gold with the pressure and perform their every scenario, positive or negative. and five silvers from a total of 24 best. I hope we can continue our suc- “There will be definitely pressure at medals on offer. The 27-year-old was cess at the Games.” any games but I am confident and prepared and we hope to repeat Singapore’s success at the Commonwealth Games.” India’s best ever player Sharath Kamal Achanta, winner of the singles and team gold in 2006 and doubles in 2010, is determined that the Singapore team will not have it all their own way. Kamal, currently ranked 44th in the world, is confident of adding to his total haul of five Commonwealth Games medals. He told AFP: “The Commonwealth Games has always been important for India especially for Josh Sheehan of Australia performs during the Final of the third stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in table tennis as this is one place where Madrid, Spain. — www.redbull.com we can win medals. “Usually in the Olympic Games and Asian Games we are not in contention but in the Commonwealth Games we Friendly city set for stand a good chance to win even the gold medal. “Singapore are the best in the business in the Commonwealth Games Friendly Games and they are quite strong players but nevertheless I would be able to give Feng Tianwei them a run for their money. GLASGOW: “You bet we’re ready,” visitor Amanpreet Singh was taken by ect also includes the Athletes’ Village, “I would really like to win back the declared Glasgow’s council leader as the “the beauty of the city.” which will be turned into 700 mixed ten- the flag bearer for her country at the In the men’s event, Singapore’s Gao gold from the mighty Singaporeans Scottish city once again welcomed the Nearby Buchanan Street was fes- ancy homes after the Games. But in the opening ceremony of the London Ning, beaten by fellow countryman but I will have to play to the best of world to the banks of the River Clyde for tooned with bunting and banners carry- housing estates in the shadow of Celtic Olympics, where she won two bronze Yang Zi in the final four years ago, is my abilities every time I face them. I the 20th Commonwealth Games. Known ing the words “bring it on” in a font Park, neighbours chat over the fence medals, two years ago. also confident he can live up to expec- am hoping to take back at least one as an “emporium of the world” during its inspired by legendary designer Charles seemingly oblivious to the frenetic late She is comfortable in her role as tations. The Singapore team have gold medal home along with me this heyday as a trading port, the city is now Rennie Mackintosh, one of the city’s preparations taking place nearby. team leader and expects the team to been gearing up for Glasgow in Linz, time.” — AFP braced for the arrival of 100,000 over- most famous sons. “I’m no interested,” snapped one man seas sports fans and over 4,000 athletes Children played on the statues of standing outside his front door. Council from the 71 competing nations. Clyde-the part-human, part-thistle mas- leader Matheson points to the 5,000 jobs Crusaders eager to advance Speaking to AFP from his office in the cot-dotted around the city, while train and apprenticeships created as a result City Chambers-a grand Victorian sand- commuters arriving at Central Station of the Games and new infrastructure stone building symbolic of Glasgow’s were greeted with a giant countdown projects that he claims helped insulate WELLINGTON: Cold southwesterly winds are bringing formance against the Sharks in Christchurch during the proud history-council leader Gordon clock. Glasgow from the recent economic cri- snow to Christchurch but stalwarts Richie McCaw and regular season. Playing against 14 men for more than 60 Matheson promised a warm welcome Early risers were treated to the sis. “Having the Games forced us to do Dan Carter are gambolling around like spring lambs as minutes of the game after Jean Deysel’s red card, and 13 for guests. Queen’s Baton-the Games’ equivalent of the right thing as a city, which is invest in the Canterbury Crusaders prepare for their Super Rugby for a period when Willem Alberts was sin-binned in the “The Friendly Games have come to the Olympic Torch-being zip-lined across the long-term,” he explained. semi-final against a ravenous Sharks side. second half, the Crusaders looked like they had forgot- the friendly city,” he said. “Glasgow’s the Clyde from the top of the Finnieston Gareth Williams, head of policy for McCaw, according to local media, was the first out of ten how to play the game at all let alone how to exploit always ready to welcome the world.” Crane, a reminder of a time when the business lobby group the Scottish the changing sheds at training on Monday, barrelling their numerical advantage. Matson said the team would When asked if the city was well-pre- city produced one fifth of the world’s Council for Development and Industry, along at full tilt while the rest of his team mates saun- analyse that match again in their buildup this week, pared, Matheson replied: “You bet we’re ships and a quarter of its locomotives. told AFP that he also expected long- tered onto the field. though former Crusaders stalwart Andrew Mehrtens ready! We could have done this a year Sandra White, member of Scottish term benefits. The 33-year-old All Blacks captain’s eagerness to said he felt the side would need little reminding. ago. “It’s an enormous honor for me to parliament for Glasgow Kelvin, told AFP He hoped that the event would make drive his side to an 11th Super Rugby final undoubtedly “Frankly, they were embarrassed that night in be leader of the city at this time,” he she expected guests to be “amazed” by Scotland a world-leader in event man- has been fuelled by a lack of playing time for a month Christchurch, and this will be a shot at redemption added. In the city’s George Square, over- the city’s architecture and busker-filled agement and set the stage for negotiat- after he broke a rib during the test series against they’ll relish,” Mehrtens wrote in his column for Fairfax looked by the chambers, the sense of streets. ing better trade terms with India for the England. Media. anticipation was growing ahead of But some locals complained about country’s lucrative whisky producers, but The eagerness may also have been to highlight to his “They thrive on that challenge, excitement generat- today’s opening ceremony. the disruption to the city’s east end. argued the Games’ “greatest legacy” coaches that he was ready and willing to throw his body ed by a game with that edge to it. “The playoffs always A long queue snaked in front of a “They’re shutting off a lot of streets, but would be the boosting of skills. into the fray against a formidable Sharks outfit that brought the best out of Crusaders teams I played in. It makeshift ticket office, while tourists it’s only a fortnight,” said 26-year-old However, with the opening ceremo- destroyed the Otago Highlanders up front last week. was a time of the year we loved, and usually found posed for pictures in front of the square’s painter Craig King. “And it looks a lot bet- ny within touching distance, the focus “We’re going into a semi-final and we’ve learned another level to go to.” new focal point, a sculpture of the offi- ter than before.” The east end hosts was now on fun. “It’s going to be from the past that it’s fine being available to play,” assis- World Player of the Year Kieran Read missed that 30- cial Games logo. Celtic Park, where the opening ceremo- watched by more than a billion people tant coach Tabai Matson told local reporters. “But we 25 loss in May, while the return of world leading points Sam David, who travelled from ny will take place, the new Emirates and it’s going to be magnificent,” Malaysia for the Games, praised the “very Arena and the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. claimed Matheson. “It’s an unprecedent- actually need people who are ready to go and be at 100 scorer Carter from a six-month sabbatical should also welcoming” Glaswegians, while Indian The area’s massive regeneration proj- ed opportunity.” — AFP miles per hour.” help lift the performance of the home side on Saturday. The most successful team in Super Rugby, the Carter did not play for the Crusaders until their third- Crusaders have not won a title since 2008 and the clos- to-last regular season fixture and is a man on a mission est they have come to adding an eighth was when they after coming back refreshed, according to team mate lost the final to the Queensland Reds in 2011 after a bril- Andy Ellis. “I haven’t seen him this committed and excit- liant individual try by Will Genia. ed about this environment,” Ellis told Television New The Crusaders’ one-eyed supporters have been Zealand of his former All Blacks colleague, who has slot- grumbling about the ‘drought’ - despite the team mak- ted into inside centre with Colin Slade at flyhalf. ing at least the semi-finals every season since. “He’s sacrificed so much. He’s not drinking and we For many, another failure should mean the sack for know DC loves a beer. He’s in the pool after every ses- coach Todd Blackadder. Or worse, banishment to sion, he’s stretching, he’s in the gym first thing in the Auckland. The Crusaders turned in an inexplicable per- morning. “It’s just incredible.” — Reuters Agility sponsors Kuwait Triathlon Team

KUWAIT: Agility has signed an agreement to sponsor the Triathlon in Stockholm and the Asian Games in South Kuwait Triathlon Team comprising four talented triath- Korea. Muhannad Al Omari, Sales Director of Agility letes, Najla Al Jeraiwi, Salah Al Duwaisan, Taiba Al Nouri Kuwait and Nader Sakeen Al Kandari, Senior Director, and Ali Al Rakhayes. The six-month sponsorship agree- Agility Real Estate, represented Agility at the official sign- ment will see Agility sponsoring the team’s participation in ing ceremony of the sponsorship. triathlon competitions all over the world. Speaking on behalf of the triathlon team, Salah Al Triathlon is a fast-growing sport in Kuwait and Agility Duwaisan said, “We are very grateful and pleased to have aims to support Kuwait’s national triathletes as they com- the support of Agility through their sponsorship. Agility is pete in global events. In March this year, the Kuwait a highly respected household name in Kuwait and their GLASGOW: A general view of the athletics and track and field facilities at Hampden Park Stadium is pictured in triathlon team won four gold medals and one silver medal support will go a long way in growing the sport in Kuwait Glasgow yesterday, ahead of the start of the 2014 Commonwealth Games which begin today. — AFP at the Arab Triathlon Open Championships held in Egypt. and making it easier for us to compete in regional and This year, the team is also scheduled to compete in a num- international triathlons. We look forward to doing our best ber of international triathlons, including the ITU World to do Kuwait proud.” Athletes added to Games as outbreak stemmed GLASGOW: The athletes’ village at the Commonwealth and Tobago, Tanzania, Australia, Ghana and the Bahamas. Games welcomed 1,000 more competitors from 25 coun- Traffic restrictions - special lanes for Games vehicles - tries on Monday, and none of them should have to worry went into effect across Scotland’s largest city on Monday, about a stomach virus that affected staff at the site last two days ahead of the opening ceremony. It will be held at week. Celtic Park, home of Celtic FC football club, and 69-year-old Games officials said an outbreak of norovirus, a highly rocker Rod Stewart and singer Susan Boyle will be part of contagious gastrointestinal illness which affected 53 the festivities involving 2,000 cast members and 40,000 employees, was under control. A temporary toilet facility spectators. identified as a likely source of the infection was shut down. Usain Bolt is the biggest name among the athletes in the The news came as a relief to Commonwealth Games 11-day event, but he will only compete in Jamaica’s 4x100- Federation officials ahead of Wednesday’s start. Four years meter relay. Mo Farah, who won both the 5,000 and 10,000 ago in New Delhi, more than a dozen swimmers from meters for the home country at the London Olympics in Australia and England fell ill from a stomach virus at the 2012, is scheduled to run in both events if he can overcome swimming venue, and before the India games began there a stomach muscle injury. were complaints about unsanitary conditions in the ath- The event is being held less than a month before letes’ village. Scotland’s Sept. 18 referendum on whether to break away Earlier on Monday, the Glasgow entry list of nearly 4,500 from the rest of Britain, and politics won’t ever be far away. athletes from 71 countries in 17 sports was increased slight- The country’s first minister, pro-independence Scottish ly when organizers approved late entries, adding 48 com- National Party leader Alex Salmond, will hold a news confer- petitors. While the original deadline for entries was June 11, ence at the main press center on Tuesday. Salmond has the affected athletes were not entered due to administra- appealed to Scottish patriotism throughout the referendum tive oversights by their national officials. campaign as he attempts to break up a union first formed Those officials received a slap on the wrist from the fed- with England in 1707 with a shared monarch, currency and eration. “The CGF executive board took the view that wher- a London-based government. ever possible athletes should not suffer because of the fail- The current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, is expected to KUWAIT: (From left to right) Muhannad Al Omari, Sales Director of Agility Kuwait, Najla Al Jeraiwi, Taiba Al Nouri, ings of their administrators,” president Prince Imran said. officially open the games on Wednesday, with Salmond not Salah Al Duwaisan, Ali Al Rakhayes, Coach Vicent Beltran and Nader Sakeen Al Kandari, Senior Director, Agility The athletes were from Kenya, Jamaica, Uganda, Trinidad far from her side. — AP Real Estate. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 SPORTS

SPAIN: Spanish matador Manuel Diaz ‘El Cordobes’ performs a pass on a bull during a bullfight at La Linea de la Concepcion’s bullring. — AFP England’s keeper Prior to take break from cricket S Africa aim to end

LONDON: England wicketkeeper Matt can’t do my job to the level I expect of Prior is taking a break from the game for myself.” the rest of the domestic season following Prior has played 79 tests since making Sri Lanka series jinx the 95-run defeat by India in the second his debut in 2007, scoring more than test at Lord’s on Monday, he told the 4,000 runs including seven centuries at an England and Wales Cricket Board website. average of 40.18. COLOMBO: An upbeat South Africa will look to Prior, under pressure for his place after His absence will be another blow for carry their winning momentum in the second a poor run of form with the gloves and a struggling England team who have Test against Sri Lanka beginning tomorrow, and the bat, has not retired from international not won in their last 10 tests following break a 21-year-old jinx on the island. cricket but at the age of 32 and with the retirement of off-spinner Graeme The Proteas, the current world number two, ongoing injury problems his future must Swann, the axing of leading batsman have not won a Test series in Sri Lanka since be in serious doubt. Kevin Pietersen and the unavailability 1993 when they first toured the country and “I’m not doing justice to myself and of Jonathan Trott due to a stress-relat- beat the hosts 1-0. more importantly the team and that is ed illness. On their next three tours, they won one Test what matters first and foremost,” Prior Captain Alastair Cook is under while losing two series and drawing one. But a said. “I tore my quad before the first test enormous pressure but after the new dawn seems to be beckoning for the visi- and my right hand has been beaten to a defeat by India in the second test left tors after they won the first Test in Galle on pulp, but the main issue is the Achilles. England 1-0 down in the five-match Sunday by 153 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the two- “Now we have the time, I want to be series, he said he would not be stand- Test series, and hand Hashim Amla a winning pro-active about how we deal with it so I ing down from the job. England one- start to his captaincy. imagine that I’ll have an operation. “I’ve day wicketkeeper Jos Buttler is likely “Not many teams have come here and won a always said as long as I can do my job I to be drafted into the squad for the Test series so it’s obviously on the back of our will manage the pain and get on with it, third test starting in Southampton on minds,” said Amla, the first non-white player to but it has now got to the point where I Sunday. — Reuters lead South Africa in a full-time capacity. Amla, 31, was named captain last month following the retirement of Graeme Smith who led the Proteas in a record 109 Tests. Five alive thanks Amla’s debut leadership was unconventional and daring, evident in the way he declared the innings at tea on the fourth day rather than take to Lee withdrawal the safer option of batting out the last session. SRI LANKA: South African cricket captain Hashim Amla (left) and Sri Lanka cricket captain It meant the hosts needed to score 370 runs Angelo Mathews look on in this file photo. — AFP in four sessions to win the match. At one point, it GLASGOW: England’s Rajiv Ouseph now that Lee’s out, after that anything can Steyn, was the middle order that has failed to The last time South Africa played a Test series appeared the game was slipping away from believes there are as many as five potential happen. “We’re all at a fairly similar level so click, even in the preceding one-dayers which in Sri Lanka in 2006, they lost 2-0, but only three South Africa but fast bowlers Dale Steyn and winners of the men’s badminton singles at it will just come down to who plays well on South Africa won 2-1, their first ODI series win in players from that tour are part of the current Morne Morkel ripped through the top order on the Commonwealth Games following the the day, deals with the pressure the best.” Sri Lanka. side. the fifth morning to ensure a well-deserved win. withdrawal of Malaysia’s world number one The women’s event will also be without its “Right from the ODI series, our middle-order Steyn will again be crucial at Colombo’s Lee Chong Wei. top player and reigning champion after batting has not been delivering,” the Sri Lankan Squads: Sinhalese Sports Club ground, where South Lee, winner of four gold medals at the India’s Saina Nehwal pulled out the week skipper said. “We have seven batters in the side Sri Lanka (from): Angelo Mathews (captain), Africa won by an innings and 208 runs in 1993 last two Games, aggravated a thigh prob- before the tournament due to leg blisters. and to expect only one player to deliver all the Lahiru Thirimanne, Upul Tharanga, Kaushal Silva, thanks to fast bowlers Allan Donald and Brett lem at the start of the month and was It leaves India’s 19-year-old PV Sindhu as time is wrong.” Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Dinesh Schultz. forced to pull out of the Glasgow games. the top seed, while Scotland’s Kirsty Mathews can rely on at least one player to Chandimal, Kithuruwan Vithanage, Rangana Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews conced- His absence leaves fellow Malaysian Wei Gilmour is the second-highest ranked play- come good with the bat in the decider-Mahela Herath, Dilruwan Perera, Ajantha Mendis, ed that Steyn would be a big factor in Colombo. Feng Chong, India’s Kashyap Parupalli and er in the tournament. Jayawardene has scored 10 hundreds at Suranga Lakmal, Shaminda Eranga, Dhammika “Steyn is an unbelievable bowler, any captain Ouseph, 20th, 22nd and 26th respectively, Despite Nehwal’s absence, Gilmour will Colombo-the most by any batsman at a single Prasad, Chanaka Welegedara. South Africa would love to have a guy like him in his side,” he as the top-ranked players in the tourna- still be happy with a medal of any descrip- venue. Jayawardene, 37, is due to retire next (from): Hashim Amla (captain) Alviro Petersen, said. “On that flat wicket (in Galle), he came out ment. tion and is wary of the challenge of Michelle month after a two-Test series at home against Dean Elgar, Faf du Plessis, AB de Villiers, JP really hard and bowled fast. Not too many fast Ouseph, who lost to Lee in the singles Li of Canada and Malaysia’s Tee Jing Yi. Pakistan. A victory at Colombo will see Amla’s Duminy, Stiaan van Zyl, Vernon Philander, Morne bowlers end up with nine-wicket hauls in Galle.” final in New Delhi four years ago, thinks the “I’ve lost three times to (Nehwal) this sea- men reclaim the number one ranking they lost Morkel, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Kyle Abbott, The other concern for Mathews, apart from absence of the world number one will make son and I’ve played Sindhu once and beat- to Australia recently after two years at the top. Quinton de Kock, Dane Piedt. — AFP it a far more competitive tournament. en her once so I’ve got a decent record He told AFP: “It definitely opens it up for there,” she told AFP. everyone else. It’s a massive loss to the tour- “The competition is so strong. You never Nicol confident of doubles sweep nament not having the world number one rule out the Malaysians and Singapore have here and it’s nice to put yourself up against another couple of good players so I would GLASGOW: World number one Nicol David is the best in the world. be happy with a medal of any colour. sure she can deliver Malaysia’s first women’s “But there are probably four or five sin- “In the past I’ve used crowds to my doubles gold medal as well as another singles gles players here who are thinking this is advantage and I’m hoping they will help me title at the Commonwealth Games. their chance to go out and win and I’m one rather than hinder me. To win a medal in David, 30, the world’s top-ranked player of those. front of my home crowd would be the high- since 2006 is looking to retain the singles title “Getting a medal is the first priority but, light of my career.” — AFP she won in New Delhi four years ago in Glasgow, where five of the world’s top seven will be competing. She claims she is full of confidence after overcoming England’s world number two Laura Massaro at the British Open in May. But David maintains the doubles, where she and world number seven Low Wee Wern are seeded fourth, is also a major priority ahead of her fourth Commonwealth Games. “Winning the British Open was a great feeling because of its prestige. I really wanted to get the title back and it was tough as Laura was playing superb squash,” she told the Malaysia Star. “It is going to be very similar in terms of intensity in Glasgow. I believe everyone will be gunning for the gold too. “It is tougher in the doubles. We have to adjust our playing style as the court is wider. At the end of the day, it’s down to us to do what needs to be done. “I think Wee Wern is a good partner because Nicol David she is solid and she just keeps going. She will do the strong favourite to take gold the men’s “I obviously hope to still win gold but there’s her part well and I just need to reduce the mis- event. no way that I can be the favourite having not takes I make.” The reigning world champion and world played for this amount of time,” Matthew said. In singles, David comes up against Vanessa number two underwent knee surgery in June “If they want to consider me the favourite Florens of Mauritius in the first round, while the but will be ready to compete in Glasgow. that’s up to them, but I certainly won’t be in my men’s top seed Nick Matthew faces another The 33-year-old claims his recent injury wor- own mind, so that will take the pressure off. Mauritian, Xavier Koenig. ries mean he should not be considered a cer- “This is my third Games, I’m on to the experi- England’s Matthew, winner of the men’s sin- tainty for gold but feels his experience at three enced end of things now. I’ve got a lot of experi- Injured Lee Chong Wei withdraws from Commonwealth Games. gles and men’s doubles titles four years ago, is previous Commonwealth Games will be crucial. ence and it’s about time I used it.”— AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 SPORTS Moustachioed Basque seeks Bolivar’s first final

BOLIVIA: Xabier Azkargorta, the last man to coach Sporting visit Nacional of Paraguay for the first leg of Quito at 2,800 metres, an advantage Bolivar are keen San Lorenzo need the trio for their tilt at the tro- Bolivia at the World Cup finals 20 years ago, is this their semi-final in Asuncion late yesterday. to exploit in the home leg against San Lorenzo next phy and to end years of jibes by fans of the other month seeking to add another extraordinary mile- Azkargorta, 60, who sports a bushy white mous- week. San Lorenzo’s coach Edgardo Bauza is looking four teams in Argentina’s so-called Big Five-Boca stone to his remarkable career in the South tache, is looking to veteran former Ecuador striker to win the trophy for a second time after seeing his Juniors, River Plate, Independiente and Racing Club, American soccer backwater. Carlos Tenorio, signed last month, for goals as he LDU Quito side crowned as Ecuador’s first South all Libertadores Cup winners. The moustachioed Basque, who led Bolivia at the seeks an upset at the Nuevo Gasometro. American champions in 2008. In the wake of Brazil’s humiliating semi-final exit 1994 finals in the United States, having qualified for “Bolivar have shown what’s already happened in The 56-year-old Argentine was in danger of los- from their own World Cup finals, this year’s last four the first time since 1950, is now hoping to make his Ecuador with (2008 champions) LDU Quito - that it ing a top trio of players during the long break, while line-up is the first since 1991 not to feature a current club Bolivar the first from Bolivia to reach the isn’t only the big teams from Brazil and Argentina the World Cup took place, but negotiations have Brazilian team-and it will therefore be the first time final of South America’s top club competition, the that can win international titles,” said Tenorio. ensured forward Ignacio Piatti sees the tournament since 2005 that Brazil has not supplied a finalist. Libertadores Cup. Standing in their way are the “They got this far because of the great squad out before his move to Montreal Impact in Canada. It will also be the first time that the champions Libertadores Cup favourites San Lorenzo, who they there is. I’m very hopeful,” the 35-year-old striker said Paraguayan holding midfielder Nestor Ortigoza’s have not come from Brazil since 2009. Ronaldinho’s visit in Buenos Aires today for the first leg of a keen- in an interview published on Monday in the Bolivian contract with San Lorenzo was due to end on June title holders Atletico Mineiro were eliminated by ly-anticipated semi-final. daily El Deber (www.eldeber.com.bo). 30 but he managed to agree a new three-year deal. Atletico Nacional of Colombia in the round of 16. The long-awaited clash follows the resumption of Tenorio has an asset he shares with the Bolivians Veteran Leandro Romagnoli had a red card in the None of the four semi-finalists have reached the final the competition after a 10-week break for the World in the team, based in La Paz 3,600 metres above sea quarter-final annulled by regional governing body before and Bolivar are the first Bolivian side to reach Cup finals in Brazil when Uruguay’s Defensor level, having been accustomed to the thin air of CONMEBOL after a mistake by the referee. the last four since they did so in 1986. — Reuters

PSG punished after Chelsea disabled fans threatened BERNE: Paris St Germain must close two of Chelsea FC (Art. 14 of the 2014 UEFA sections of the Parc des Princes stadium for Disciplinary Regulations),” UEFA said. The their next European home game after their Chelsea fans were seated in front of home supporters threatened and insulted dis- PSG supporters and told British media that abled Chelsea fans during a match in April, they were insulted and had bottles thrown UEFA said yesterday. at them throughout the game. “All I could UEFA’s control, ethics and disciplinary see around me were bottles that had been board ordered the closure of sections 104 thrown, there were 10 of us and thousands and 105 of the stadium were ordered fol- of them,” Lisa Hayden told the BBC. “(I lowing the incidents at the Champions thought) we’re not going to get out of League quarter-final first-leg game on April here...... It seemed like hell.” PSG have quali- 2. “The sanction has been imposed for the fied directly for the group stage this season discriminatory conduct of some Paris St as French champions and the ban will Germain supporters towards disabled fans apply at their first home game. — Reuters English FA keeps up pressure on FIFA over Qatar World Cup

LONDON: FIFA should review the decision “I think there will be a World Cup in to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar if an Russia,” Dyke told reporters after the hear- investigation shows that corruption played ing. He had earlier told lawmakers that a a part in the winning bid, English Football decision to move a World Cup should not Association Chairman Greg Dyke said yes- be based on “one week’s events”. Dyke said terday. Appearing before a parliamentary he believe that FIFA President Sepp Blatter committee, Dyke said FIFA should publish in would be re-elected if he stands again next full a report into the bidding process for year despite corruption allegations sur- QATAR: Leon Kalin, chairman of the International Handball Federation (IHF) Commission of Organizing and Competition, holds up the name of 2018 and 2022 being compiled by rounding world soccer’s governing body. a contending country during the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship official draw. — AFP American lawyer Michael Garcia. Blatter has been head of FIFA since 1998 However, Dyke played down talking of and is expected to seek another term. “If he stripping Russia of the 2018 tournament runs again he will win,” Dyke said, adding because of political tensions over Ukraine. that European distaste for the methods of Dunga succeeds Scolari Garcia, who has been leading a FIFA the 78-year-old Swiss was not shared in oth- ethics committee investigation into allega- er parts of the world. tions of corruption surrounding the award Dyke said that England, which lost out to RIO DE JANEIRO: The Brazilian Football of the 2022 World Cup to the Gulf state, will Russia in the bidding for 2018, would focus Confederation (CBF) yesterday appointed Dunga as submit his report in September. on hosting European events for the time coach, replacing Luiz Felipe Scolari, whose contract “If Mr Garcia shows that there have been being. He said Blatter’s dislike for the British was not renewed after the hosts’ World Cup semi- corrupt activities, the whole thing should media, which has led campaigns to expose final thrashing by Germany. be reconsidered,” Dyke said. Dyke said he FIFA corruption, made it impossible to win a The 50-year-old Dunga, Brazil’s 1994 World-Cup was convinced that the tournament would World Cup bid. winning skipper, takes the reins for a second time not be held in June or July if it was played in “Mr Blatter’s view of the English media is having led the Selecao at the 2010 tournament. Qatar because of the intense heat, with a such that he says why would you want to “I am immensely happy - thank you for your move to a cooler time of the year like take it to England?” the former head of the confidence in me,” said Dunga, who in his playing November or December a certainty. BBC said. The plain-speaking Dyke jokingly days was a tough-tackling midfielder with Serie A Dyke played down suggestions that compared FIFA to a one-party state, in com- side Fiorentina and Germany’s Stuttgart, and who Russia could be stripped of the World Cup ments unlikely to endear him to Blatter. also had a spell in Japan with Jubilo Iwata. as a punishment for the downing of a pas- Referring to a meeting of FIFA’s congress “The fans are very down right now but they are senger plane over Ukraine last week which in Sao Paulo he attended in June, Dyke said right behind the team which means so much to Western nations have blamed on separatists it was “like something out of North Korea at them,” Dunga continued. “I am not here to sell a backed by Moscow. times — hail to the leader.” — Reuters dream, we must get down to work,” he added, arriving with a brief to make the team shipshape for the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign with next year’s Copa America in Chile a first test. “We must get results and forge a side for 2018. This team is very young. We must find the way to blend new players with those who have more experience. “We have to work conscientiously. And not just the players, but the press and the fans too,” said Dunga, who in 60 games in charge in his first stint never really won over the fans who yearned for more “jogo bonito” (beautiful game) and less bat- RIO DE JENEIRO: Brazil’s 1994 World-Cup winning skipper Carlos Verri, better known as ‘Dunga’, tling grit. speaks during his presentation as new coach of the Brazilian national football team. — AFP His no nonsense style dating from his days as a player was decried by some but his 91 caps showed the esteem in which he was held and that Ronaldo ready to rumble respect has endured, CBF president Jose Maria Marin said. “He was world champion, captain of a world after World Cup flop champion side,” Marin said. “He has what it takes to TOKYO: Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, described last season as “amazing”. He listed sev- Pep Guardiola lead the Brazil team. The numbers show he absolutely has the ability to take charge.” putting a miserable World Cup behind him, yes- eral individual trophies while Real Madrid won a Dunga said Brazil had to understand that the terday declared himself fit and ready to go as he 10th Champions League title and the Copa del Guardiola warns foes modern game is constantly evolving. “Football chases trophies at Real Madrid. Rey, the oldest Spanish football competition. changes every instant and every day. Attacking “I’ll try my best all the season like I do it every Ronaldo was the top scorer in La Liga and football, as people understand it, is to play with year. I’ll try to be the best, try to help my team, the Champions League and won his second not to copy Germany four or five up front. But at the World Cup you saw try to score goals and try to win titles,” the 29- Ballon d’Or as well as the European Golden teams marking 10 metres behind the half-way year-old striker told a sponsor’s event in Tokyo, Shoe, among other honours. WASHINGTON: Bayern Munich coach Pep have tough matches against Mexican club line!” Dunga was fired after a quarter-final loss to adding he would like to play “six, seven more The chiselled Ronaldo was in Japan to pro- Guardiola warned yesterday that those seeing Chivas on July 31 in suburban New York and Holland in South Africa four years ago but previ- years” at the top level of club competition. mote a series of fitness products, including an Germany as a model for success after their the Major League Soccer All-Stars at Portland, ously landed both the Copa America title and the Portugal failed to make the World Cup airplane-shaped device meant to shape up World Cup triumph need greater dedication Oregon, on August 6 in warm-up matches for Confederations Cup having replaced Carlos Alberto knockout round in Brazil last month with one facial muscles, after posting an online photo of and patience with their own philosophies. the upcoming Bundesliga campaign. In addi- Parreira as coach in 2006 despite having no dugout win, one loss and one draw in their group as an himself wearing a black mask that went viral. Speaking ahead of the reigning Bundesliga tion to fitness issues, several Bayern players experience. injury-hit Ronaldo squandered plenty of Ronaldo added that he hoped for a repeat of champions’ upcoming US tour, the 43-year-old had key roles in Germany’s run to the World Brazil suffered one of the biggest upsets in chances and notched up just one goal. He had last season’s glory, saying he will have an Spaniard said teams who try to reboot their Cup title. “We want to make a good game and World Cup history at home this month after they been hampered by a left leg injury since just “opportunity to win five, six titles this year-so football program after World Cup failures risk win but we are not in the best moment,” lost their semi-final 7-1 to eventual champions before the global tournament. fantastic. I’m really focused”. falling further behind. “Any system is good. Guardiola said. “Nine of the most important Germany. “I’m really focused. My injury is gone. I feel “This is my goal for every season-to prepare Any system is wrong,” Guardiola said in a con- players on the team they are still on holidays. I Benefiting Dunga’s cause was the fact that he is very, very good,” Ronaldo said, adding he want- myself 100 percent. And for me every season is a ference call. know in this moment (opponents) are fitter someone who can trace his footballing lineage ed to kick off and finish the Spanish top-flight challenge so I want to be good again. “I dedicate “I’m not convinced because England is out than us. “We’re going to play in the best way within the Brazilian game back 27 years, to when league season “in good shape.” Without referring myself 100 percent and I want to carry on like and Italy is out their system is bad or because possible, the way we believe. Forget about the he made his international debut. to his World Cup diaster in Brazil, the striker that until I finish my career.” — AFP Germany won that the philosophy is right. results and what’s going on with the score. We Over that time Brazil have constantly fretted “Every federation has to believe in what they play our best for the people who come to see about how to recapture the halcyon era of Pele and have and make the best facilities and (oppor- us and make the best game possible.” company, who turned the game into an art form tunities) for the players to develop their tal- Guardiola says he expects 19-year-old between 1958 and 1970, since when fans have ents.” While World Cup results every four years winger Julian Green, who scored a spectacular lamented a more cautious approach which many weigh heavily upon football squads world- goal for the United States against Belgium in a feel Dunga personifies. wide, Guardiola says one bad game can doom World Cup defeat, will stay on Bayern’s top Early favorite for the post, assuming Brazil did your dreams in any event, noting how his squad for the coming campaign. “My first idea, not make a leap of faith in appointing a foreign ideas were copied during a successful run at he’s going to stay for the rest of the season,” coach, was ex-Corinthians boss Tite. Barcelona before his Bayern move. “All the Guardiola said while noting that other factors But the appointment of Gilmar Rinaldi, a reserve people went and copied that. It’s a big mis- could change that decision before the season goalkeeper on the 1994 team and a close friend, to take,” he said. “You copy that and because of starts. replace Parreira as technical coordinator, helped that one day you won. But one day you are Green is nursing a sore knee but will tour Dunga’s cause. going to lose. with Bayern in America. “We were really “The candidate who is favored in the polls is not “Be patient with the coach and be patient impressed with his talent, his movement to the always the one who wins,” said Dunga, admitting with the players and you are going to be goal,” said Guardiola. “He’s going to travel in he believed he would have to win over the 80 per- good.” Guardiola cited his homeland Spain’s the US and I hope he’s going to be fit and be cent of observers he estimated were not enthralled early exit after winning the title in 2010 and able to play for us. at his return. Marin said the appointment was the decision not to toss out the entire coach- “It’s not easy moving up to the senior team designed to broach the need for reform yet within ing staff and philosophy. but he deserves to try to keep going here and continuity. “This choice of Dunga is our project. “Spain lost and they will keep going with play with us.” Beyond Green, Guardiola was There has been an exchange of ideas between the same coach and same style of play. And impressed with the US World Cup side of everyone-the idea is one of continuity.” Dunga’s maybe they will go back,” he said. “It’s a matter German legend Jurgen Klinsmann. “United first match in charge will be a September 5 friendly of believing in what you do.” States is making a lot of steps forward in their against Colombia in Miami. — AFP Cristiano Ronaldo For now, Guardiola believes his squad will concept about football,” he said. —AFP Friendly city set for Dunga succeeds Friendly Games Scolari

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FRANCE : Australia’s Michael Rogers (right) ride in a breakaway during the 237.5 km sixteenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race. (Inset) Rogers celebrates after crossing the finish line. — AP Rogers wins first Tour stage

FRANCE: Australian Michael Rogers finally earnt his first stage The other big loser amongst the leading pack was American Asked where he’d expected to be at this time, Peraud alluded includes three first category climbs before the hors category victory in his 10th Tour de France yesterday. The three-time world Tejay Van Garderen who was dropped much earlier than Bardet to the withdrawal of favourites Chris Froome and Alberto summit finish at Saint-Lary. It’s the biggest danger for sprinters timetrial champion, riding for Tinkoff-Saxo, came home on his and gave up around 3:30 to drop to more than four minutes off a Contador through injury earlier in the race. who will need to get home inside the time limit in order to con- own at the end of the mammoth 237.5km 16th stage from podium spot. “I expected there would two more ahead of me for starters,” tinue. If that isn’t enough, Thursday’s 145.5km stage from Pau Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon. Meanwhile, Jean-Christophe Peraud admitted he had not he added. But that’s not to say Peraud, whose best previous finish tackles the two behemoths of the race, the Col du Tourmalet and The wily veteran, who won two stages at the Giro d’Italia in even ridden the three tough Pyrenean stages at the Tour de was ninth in 2011, didn’t come into the race with ambitions. the Hautacam summit finish. May after coming back from a temporary doping suspension, France in advance because he didn’t expect to be competing for “The aim was fifth place but now there’s perhaps room to do With Nibali almost over the hill and out of sight, there is at outfoxed four escape companions to finish 9sec ahead of a podium. better.” One who can hardly do any better is Italian Nibali, who least an intriguing battle for second with five riders separated by Frenchman Thomas Voeckler, who took second in a sprint finish The 37-year-old French rider has unexpectedly found himself leads second-placed Alejandro Valverde by 4:37. just 1:31. ahead of Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus. in sixth place overall and only 1min 18sec of a podium position Even so, he said he and his Astana teammates will need to American Tejay Van Garderen is fifth and says that closeness Further behind Italian Vincenzo Nibali held onto his race with less than a week to go. take care. “The week that’s coming is very important, the best should make for exciting racing amongst the leading names. leader’s yellow jersey, 4min 37sec ahead of Alejandro Valverde, as The veteran AG2R rider is enjoying a surprise Indian summer thing will be to keep our concentration because there will be dif- “It definitely makes for interesting racing, if everyone was sep- he came home in a small and elite group of his closest rivals. to his career as he largely flies under the radar with most of the ficulties,” said the 29-year-old Italian. arated by two minutes (between each rider) it wouldn’t be that One of the big losers on the day, though, was 23-year-old attention focussed on runaway race leader Vincenzo Nibali and “We must be wary of breakaways because there will be peo- much fun to watch any more,” he said. Frenchman Romain Bardet, who was dropped on the hors cate- young French hopes Romain Bardet, his teammate, and Thibaut ple who are now a long way back in the standings who could get “Since Nibali has a solid lead he looks almost untouchable. It’s gory Port de Bales climb and lost 1:50 to his rivals for a podium Pinot. But now that he finds himself in the thick of battle for a top into a dangerous breakaway, so it could become difficult to man- good there are more battles going on, it makes it exciting.” finish. finish, Peraud is regretting not having studied the next three age the race and the support of the team will be very important.” Even so, Van Garderen denied the chasers have already given That promoted 24-year-old compatriot Thibaut Pinot from Pyrenean stages more closely. Tuesday’s 237.5km trek from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de- up on overhauling Nibali to simply concentrate on battling each fourth to third with veteran 37-year-old Jean Christophe Peraud, Asked if he knew any of the climbs he would scale from Luchon is the longest stage of the race and tackles the hors cate- other. “I don’t think we’ve been racing each other rather than rac- another Frenchman, moving up from sixth to fourth. Tuesday to Thursday, Peraud replied: “No, not at all. I’ve never gory Porte de Bales climb before heading into a speedy 20km ing him (Nibali) necessarily,” he said. “It’s just when he attacks no- Bardet dropped from third to fifth and is now 6:40 off Nibali done the Hautacam because I didn’t have enough time. “We’ve descent to the finish. one has the legs to follow but then when we start to chase it but, more importantly having started the day 16sec ahead of had a very busy season and I’m a father. I regret that a little bit. I Wednesday’s stage from Saint-Gaudens is more than 100km becomes tactical because some people want to pull and try to Pinot, he now trails his compatriot by 1:36. didn’t expect to be at this level.” shorter at 124.5km but that will merely push the pace up and it get him back and other people want to get a free ride.” — AFP Golden Boot Rodriguez Haase calms his nerves to kick for Real Madrid by winning Gstaad start GSTAAD: Last year’s finalist Robin Haase had to Gstaad. Two-time champion Thomaz Bellucci MADRID: Real Madrid yesterday signed Colombian Monaco paid EUR45 million ($60m) when he fight through an extended case of first-match began his quest for a hat-trick as he beat striker James Rodriguez, the top scorer at the World signed from FC Porto of Portugal. Monaco said in a nerves to advance over Aleksandr Nedovyesov Austrian qualifier Gerald Melzer, brother of Cup, from Monaco on a six season contract. statement that it had not wanted to sell Rodriguez but 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 6-3 on another rainy day at the Jurgen Melzer, 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and a quarter. Spanish media said Real paid about EUR80 million that it was “proud to have carried out one of the Swiss Open yesterday. The Dutchman, who lost Kenny De Schepper of France beat Italy’s ($108m) for Rodriguez, making him one of the most biggest transfers in football history.” the final a year ago on the Bernese alpine clay Filippo Volandri 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) while Blaz Rola of expensive players ever. Neither club gave a figure, but Spanish sports daily Marca, which has close ties to Russian Mikhail Youzhny, failed to close out Slovenia stopped Brazilian Fabiano De Paula 6- Monaco said it was “one of the biggest transfers in with Real Madrid’s board, said Real will pay EUR75 mil- his win in two sets against the 99th-ranked 4, 6-4. football history.” lion straight away and up to five million more in add Nedovyesov who beat him in the spring at Meanwhile, Dudi Sela and American Sam Rodriguez, 23, scored six goals for Colombia at the ons. If confirmed, the fee would make Rodriguez the Casablanca. Querrey advanced to the second round of the World Cup to win the Golden Boot award. A spectacu- fifth most expensive player in history behind Gareth Haase led a set and 5-4 when he was broken, ATP Atlanta Open with victories Monday while lar volley against Uruguay went down as one of the Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo (both of Real) and Neymar and with Kazakh Nedovyesov winning a tiebreaker French third seed Gael Monfils withdrew from best goals of any World Cup. Luis Suarez of Barcelona. to take the contest into a deciding set. the event. Sela ousted American Donald Young Shortly before the announcement, Rodriguez Rodriguez went to the World Cup as Colombia’s The seventh seed found his game just in 6-3, 6-0 while Querrey blasted 20 aces in elimi- posed for pictures and gave the thumbs up sign as he second best known striker. But Radamel Falcao was time, though, breaking for 3-1 to earn the edge nating countryman Steve Johnson 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 left a Madrid clinic where he passed a medical test. injured in January leaving the starring role to his for eventual victory. Haase admitted that his in the $568,000 hardcourt event, an early warm- “I am very happy. We will talk later,” he told Monaco teammate as Colombia reached the last 16 case of early-match nerves lasted much longer up tournament for the US Open. Querrey, who reporters. The Colombian striker is Real’s second major for the first time. Uruguay’s coach Oscar Tabarez com- than expected as he finally advanced in just won in 92 minutes after taking the only break of signing in five days as they prepare for a new season pared Rodriguez to Argentine legends Diego under two hours in a contest played in mid- the match in the final game, and Sela will meet of confrontation against eternal rivals Barcelona. Maradona and Lionel Messi, the “players who succeed teens temperatures and occasional drizzle. “It’s in the second round with the winner in line to German midfielder Toni Kroos moved from Bayern in doing things because they are special.” normal to have some nerves but they usually go face Canadian fourth seed Vasek Pospisil in the Munich on Thursday, just days after the 24-year-old The Colombian has made it clear for a long time away in the first few games,” said world number quarter-finals. helped Germany win the World Cup. that it was the Spanish league that he wanted to get 51 Haase, winner of two career titles. “In the first Monfils, who has been nagged by a right Real have also been linked with a move for Keylor to. “The Spanish league is a league that I’ve always BRAZIL: Colombia’s midfielder James Rodriguez and second sets I was playing with nerves. knee injury, was replaced in the draw by New Navas, the goalkeeper whose heroics helped Costa watched-it’s different from the English League, which runs with the ball in this file photo. — AFP “It was only in the third set that I relaxed for Zealand qualifier Michael Venus. Rica reach the World Cup quarter finals. Navas plays is very physical,” he told FIFA.com in an interview in Banfield” after scoring an extraordinary left-footed lob the first time. I was feeling a lot of pressure, I Venus, ranked 349th in the world, enjoys a with Levante in the Spanish first division. November. for the unfashionable side in February 2010. He had finalist points to defend from last year, and first-round bye in quest of the $103,000 top Rodriguez had only been at Monaco for one year “The game in Spain is more about technique, and moved to FC Porto in Portugal where more spectacu- I’ve not been playing that well on clay. prize. He will face either American Jack Sock or but his sizzling performance at the World Cup made about getting more touches on the ball. That’s why I lar goals brought three league titles in three seasons. “I’ve had some good matches but I lost Colombia’s Alejandro Gonzalez in the second him the number one target for many European clubs. like it so much.” Rodriguez started his career at 16 for Monaco bought him in May 2013. them. I can only look ahead to the next round. round. US top seed John Isner and South In a FIFA.com poll released Monday, his volley Colombian second division side Envigado FC and built Rodriguez prides himself most in having been There are no certain (easy) matches any more.” African second seed Kevin Anderson, two of the against Uruguay in the last 16 was declared goal of the up an immediate reputation. dubbed ‘El Pibe Nueva’ (the New Kid) in place of Carlos Haase, whose two titles came on clay in tour’s tallest players, met in last year’s final with World Cup by more than four million voters-three In 2008, he was signed by Argetinian side Atletico Valderrama, Colombia’s star of the 1990s, who was Kitzbuehel in 2011 and 2012, won his 12th Isner taking the title after two prior Atlanta run- quarters of those who took part. Banfield where he became known as “James Bond of called ‘El Pibe’. — AFP match of the season and improved to 5-1 at ner-up finishes. - — AFP Libya oil output slips Page 23

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RIYADH: Women shop at a mall in the Saudi capital in this June 12, 2011 file photo. — AFP Saudi to open $530bn bourse to foreigners Authorities want to diversify economy beyond oil

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s cabinet gave permission of the rules under which the reform would take elsewhere in the Gulf, the market cap is bigger to the financial regulator to open the Arab place. and the traded volume and traded value are World’s biggest stock market to direct invest- The websites of the CMA and the stock much bigger.” ment by foreign financial institutions. The open- exchange did not contain any reference to the Al-Thaqeb: Warba Bank ing of the Saudi market, capitalized at about statement yesterday morning, suggesting the Diversify $530 billion, is one of the most keenly awaited cabinet’s announcement may have been just Saudi authorities, who want to use the stock economic reforms in the world’s biggest oil one of a series of procedural steps, not an indi- market to create jobs, diversify the economy continues to achieve exporter. The bourse would be one of the cation that trade was about to begin. beyond oil and expose local firms to more mar- world’s last major exchanges to begin welcom- Nevertheless, fund managers said the news ket discipline, have been preparing for the ing foreign money. could give an immediate boost to the Saudi opening for years, and have completed most high growth rates “The cabinet authorized the Capital Market market as local investors anticipated fresh fund technical preparations. Test trades have already Authority - at a time it sees as appropriate - to inflows worth billions of dollars. The market taken place, suggesting that when the market is KUWAIT: Warba Bank has achieved net profit of loss of KD 178,000 for the same period of the pre- allow foreign financial institutions to buy and index is up 14.2 percent so far this year. opened, fresh foreign investment could start to KD 43,000 by the end of the second quarter 2014 vious year. This illustrates the quality and diversity sell stocks on the Saudi stock market, according “I think this is very positive news for Saudi flow in very quickly. compared to a loss of KD 2.141 million for the of the bank’s assets portfolio and maintaining to rules to be laid down by the CMA,” the cabi- Arabia,” said Sanyalak Manibhandu, manager of But the government has delayed imple- same period 2013. The financial statements indi- high growth rates despite the competitive pres- net said in a statement seen yesterday. The one- research at NBAD Securities in Abu Dhabi. menting the reform, apparently concerned cate that the bank has achieved sures faced by the bank.” added sentence statement did not specify a timetable “There are many attractions to investing: the about causing volatility in the market as well as operating revenues of KD 8 mil- Al-Thaqeb. for the market to be opened, or give any details market in Saudi is much more diversified than the political sensitivity of allowing foreigners to lion by the end of the second Jassar D Al-Jassar, Vice build large stakes in top Saudi companies. quarter this year compared to Chairman of the Board and Airlines body says govts should Currently, foreigners are limited to buying Saudi KD 5 million for the same peri- Chief Executive Officer of Warba stocks via swaps involving international banks od in 2013 at an increase of Bank, confirmed that the one of and through a small number of exchange-trad- about 62.6 percent. most positive indicators of lead review of airspace risks ed funds, which are relatively expensive and inconvenient options. Foreigners are at present Emad Al-Thaqeb, Board of bank’s growing activities is the BERLIN: Governments should take the lead Monday it would support an airlines confer- Directors Chairman, said; “The growth of the financing portfo- in reviewing how risk assessments for air- ence and that airlines, industry organizations believed to own no more than about 5 percent bank continues its strategy that lio from KD 304 million at the space are made, the head of the and government authorities would have to of the Saudi market, and to account for a small- aims at expanding the business International Air Transport Association said, jointly review how they approach interna- er fraction of stock trading turnover. end of the first half of 2014 sidestepping calls for a conference of global tional security. Proposals circulated by Saudi authorities to base to provide excellent serv- compared to KD 156 million by airlines on the matter. The issue of flying over IATA repeated yesterday that MH17 was the financial industry have indicated that Saudi ices to the bank’s corporate and the end of the first half of 2013, conflict zones is in focus after Malaysia using a route that was open. “Malaysia Arabia will follow a model similar to China, retail customers. Within the representing a growth rate of Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Airlines was a clearly identified commercial Taiwan and some other major emerging mar- same context during the first 95 percent. rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on jet,” Tyler said. “And it was shot down - in kets in opening its bourse. Qualified foreign half of the year at Jahra area, Al-Jassar pointed out that in investors, awarded licenses based on factors the bank opened a new branch terms of risk management, the Thursday. complete violation of international laws, Emad Al-Thaqeb The head of Emirates, one of the world’s standards and conventions - while broad- such as the amount of their assets under man- which is the largest in addition bank enjoys high degree of agement, would be given quotas for their largest airlines, called on Sunday for an inter- casting its identity and presence on an open to a series of six other branches asset quality, where non-per- investment in the market, while there would be national meeting of airlines to discuss the and busy air corridor at an altitude that was serving the bank’s customers. forming facilities represent only ceilings for foreign ownership of companies. industry’s response to the downing and sug- deemed to be safe.” Under the intense competi- 0.26 percent, which is one of Potential foreign interest in Saudi stocks is gested IATA could call a conference. But While airlines regularly fly over conflict believed to be large, because of the country’s tion, the bank targets presence the best ratios compared with Geneva-based IATA, which represents zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan and the strong economy - the International Monetary at overseas markets by the international rates. In addition, around 200 global airlines, said yesterday it skies over Ukraine are a major route for those Fund on Monday raised its forecast for Saudi arranging syndicated facilities the capital adequacy ratio far was up to governments and air traffic control flying between Europe and Asia, the downing growth this year to 4.6 percent - and the pres- that contribute to the diversifi- exceeded the limits set by Basel authorities to provide information about has shocked the industry and prompted calls ence of some of the region’s top blue-chip firms. cation of the bank’s profit and CBK instructions and routes and restrictions. for a rethink on assessing the threats to pas- These include Saudi Basic Industries Corp, one resources and also represent- guidelines. This indicates that “No effort should be spared in ensuring senger planes flying thousands of meters of the world’s largest petrochemicals groups, ing new addition to syndicated the bank enjoys strong and sol- that this outrage is not repeated,” IATA above fighting on the ground. Malaysia and National Commercial Bank the kingdom’s finance process arranged by id financial position that sup- Director General Tony Tyler said in a state- Airlines rerouted a flight over Syria on Sunday largest lender, which plans an initial public offer the bank. ports the future growth of the ment. “Governments will need to take the after its usual path over Ukraine was closed, of shares later this year that could be worth $4 “During the first half of bank’s business. lead in reviewing how airspace risk assess- reflecting the challenges airlines face in finding billion to $5 billion. 2014, the Bank achieved sever- Further, Warba Bank won ments are made,” he said, adding that the conflict-free routes between Asia and Europe. Because it is closed to direct foreign invest- al positive financial indicators the award of “The Best New industry would support governments Tyler also called for the crash site of MH17 ment, the Saudi market has been excluded from of which the most significant Bank in the Middle East” for through the International Civil Aviation to be secured urgently and for the bodies to the major international equity indexes compiled are: the growth of total assets 2014, according to the rating Organization (ICAO), the aviation safety arm be returned in a respectful manner. A train by companies such as MSCI, even as the much to KD 497 million compared to Jassar Al-Jassar of the United Nations. carrying the remains of many of the nearly smaller markets of Qatar and the United Arab conducted by “Banker Middle The European Cockpit Association, which 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane Emirates were upgraded earlier this year. KD 344 million by the end of the first half of 2013 East” magazine. This Award is added to the bank’s represents 38,000 European pilots from 37 downed over Ukraine arrived in Ukrainian Opening the Saudi bourse would be expected at a growth rate of 44 percent, while maintaining previous successes and reflects its focus on devel- European states, said it also believed the government territory yesterday as a sepa- to lead to its inclusion in such indexes, helping high level of asset quality; customers’ deposits oping and expanding its customers base, meeting responsibility lay with governments. “Any ratist leader handed over the plane’s black to establish the Gulf as a mainstream destination increased to KD 291 million compared to KD 182 their banking needs, and seizing new opportuni- threat or risk assessment should be done by boxes to Malaysian experts. “This was a terri- for international investors. Following regulatory million by the end of the first half of 2013 at an ties for growth in corporate and retail finance.” governments because they are the ones with ble crime. But flying remains safe. And every- reforms in the past couple of years, the Saudi increase of 60 percent which clearly proves that “For Warba’s future, we remain confident that the access to information from security one involved in global air transport is fully market is one of the most stable and tightly reg- the bank has earned customers’ confidence. Given the bank is well positioned to avail from future sources,” ECA President Nico Voorbach told dedicated to making it even safer,” Tyler ulated in the Middle East, fund managers say; it the business results, the profits earned before pro- growth opportunities at both local and regional Reuters. Germany’s Lufthansa said on added. — Reuters has avoided the wild swings seen in recent visions amounted to KD 885,000 compared to a levels.” concluded Al-Jassar. months in markets such as Dubai. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 BUSINESS

Toyota reveals ‘car of the future’

KUWIT: Toyota Motor Corporation has gy sources; developing efficient, low- Toyota began leasing the “Toyota FCHV”, revealed the exterior design and Japan emission vehicles; and driving real and a fuel cell SUV, on a limited basis in Japan pricing of its hydrogen fuel cell sedan, positive environmental change by popu- and the US. first unveiled as a concept at the Tokyo larizing these vehicles. Hydrogen is a par- Significant improvements have been Motor Show last year. The car will launch ticularly promising alternative fuel since made to the FC system since 2002. The in Japan before April 2015, and prepara- it can be produced using a wide variety fuel cell sedan Toyota revealed today, for tions are underway for launches in the of primary energy sources, including example, features performance similar to US and European markets in the summer solar and wind power. When com- a gasoline engine vehicle, with a cruising of 2015. In Japan, the fuel cell sedan will pressed, it has a higher energy density range of approximately 700 km (accord- go on sale at Toyota dealerships priced at than batteries and is easier to store and ing to Toyota measurements taken under approximately 7 million yen (MSRP transport. In addition to its potential as a the Japanese Ministry of Land, excludes consumption tax). Initially, sales fuel for home and automotive use, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s will be limited to regions where hydro- hydrogen could be used in a wide range JC08 test cycle) and a refueling time of gen refueling infrastructure is being of applications, including large-scale roughly three minutes. When driven, it developed. US and Europe prices have power generation. emits only the water vapor produced by not yet been decided. Likewise, more Toyota has been developing fuel cell the reaction between hydrogen and oxy- detailed information, such as specifica- vehicles in-house for more than 20 years. gen. Fuel cell vehicles contribute to the tions, exact prices and sales targets, will Toyota’s fuel cell system includes a pro- diversification of automobile fuels, emit be announced later. prietary FC Stack, which generates elec- no CO2 or environmentally harmful sub- potential, and are ideal environment- gen-related initiatives, such as develop- Toyota’s commitment to environ- tricity from the chemical reaction stances during operation, and offer the friendly vehicles for promoting a sustain- ing and testing fuel cells for use in ment-friendly vehicles is based on three between hydrogen and oxygen, and convenience of gasoline-powered cars. able mobility society. Toyota Group com- homes, and developing fuel cell forklifts basic principles: embracing diverse ener- high-pressure hydrogen tanks. In 2002, Toyota believes they have a great deal of panies are also engaging in other hydro- and fuel cell buses. Argentine default in balance as govt refuses to capitulate

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President my which is in recession and grappling estimated, in a fight to shore up the cur- Cristina Fernandez’s unflinching poker with one of the world’s fastest rates of rency and cover a rising import bill. face in the battle against “holdout” inflation. While time is running out, some investors suing the country is increasing The funds have said through their investors hope Fernandez will reach a the odds that her government will lawyers that they are prepared to talk, late deal so that Argentina can once default for a second time in 12 years at including listening to Argentina’s needs again tap global markets to bolster its the end of this month. She has refused on when it pays. But lead holdout, NML thin reserves and finance the develop- to budge from her stance that Capital Ltd, said on Friday that Buenos ment of vast shale oil and gas resources. Argentina cannot pay out in full to the Aires appeared determined to default “I don’t see any scenario in which a holdout hedge funds, which snapped after a week of defiant rhetoric and no default is positive, not even for Cristina’s up bonds on the cheap after its $100 negotiations. “The chances of a default ideology,” said Alberto Bernal, a partner billion default in 2002. That is despite have increased. I am still hoping they at Miami-based Bulltick Capital Markets. indirect talks aimed at cutting a deal. are playing a game of poker” said “It would mean she defaults on the Fernandez last week told leaders of Claudio Loser, an Argentine who bonds that her late husband restruc- the BRICS emerging economies that it worked for decades at the International tured,” Bernal said, referring to was “impossible” to pay holdouts the full Monetary Fund and now is president of Fernandez’s partner and predecessor as face value of the debt they hold. The advisory firm Centennial Group. president, Nestor Kirchner. “She knows funds, she said, could enter a bond The tough-talking Fernandez has that the benefits from an accord would swap matching the terms of restructur- pledged to keep paying the country’s be enormous.” BUENOS AIRES: A girl pets a cow during the Rural Society’s annual exposition in Buenos Aires. The exhibition has ing deals in 2005 and 2010, which saw restructured debt but vows never to pay taken place each year in July since 1886. Primarily a farming show, breeders arrive from all over the country to creditors accept large writedowns. It is at face value the “vultures” that bought Optimism waning exhibit their livestock, particularly cattle. — AP an old offer the holdouts have previous- the bonds at a steep discount and are For years, Argentina refused to nego- ly scoffed at and they have no reason to suing for full payment. Argentina’s tiate with the holdouts. Now it has run 75-25 in favor of a settlement in the capital markets and relieving stress on thrash out a deal. take it now given that US courts have exclusion from global capital markets out of legal options to circumvent a week ending July 11, said Siobhan its balance of payments deficit. “If “We see a 55 percent chance they ruled in their favor and put Argentina means an eventual default would be 2012 ruling by US District Judge Thomas Morden, head of Latin America Strategy Argentina does not schedule a meet- succeed in winning a stay. We’re a bit on the verge of default. highly unlikely to send shockwaves Griesa that it pay the funds $1.33 billion, at Jefferies. Even so, the price of ing (this week), then we assume that more pessimistic than we were While it is part of Fernandez’s negoti- through emerging markets worldwide. plus interest. Griesa also ruled it could Argentina’s US denominated Discount bond prices will discount higher deal before,” said Alejo Costa, head of ating position and she still has time to But it would further weaken not service restructured debt before set- bond is up 14.7 percent since the US risk ahead of the imminent deadline,” strategy at local investment bank cut a deal behind closed doors, her Argentina’s peso currency, which has tling with the funds, meaning it would Supreme Court declined Argentina’s Morden said. The market mood is Puente. Argentina also says capitulat- aggressive tone has repeatedly angered fallen 20 percent on the official rate so fall into default. appeal in mid-June, indicating markets already shifting because of the lack of ing to the holdouts would break a holdouts and the US judge at the center far this year, and fuel upside inflationary The spread between upside and still see a positive outcome. progress since Economy Minister Axel legal clause prohibiting it from servic- of the case, making it more difficult to risks. Foreign reserves, which hit an downside price risk on the Discount Morden said investors expect Kicillof told mediator Daniel Pollack ing debt on terms better than those cut a deal. A default risks more econom- eight-year low this year, stand at $30 bil- bonds showed the probability of a set- Argentina to act rationally and negoti- that Argentina wanted a stay on the accepted by creditors who took the ic pain for Latin America’s No. 3 econo- lion and could fall by up to a third, Loser tlement slipping to 65-35 last week from ate a settlement, enabling a return to court ruling, to allow more time to haircut.— Reuters

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In Asian trad- arrive in Israel later in the day. However, 0.3 percent in June, after rising food prices plane. After days of uncertainty, a train 47.10. “The separatists have reportedly ing, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific there was no sign of any let-up in the pushed the index to its biggest increase in carrying the remains of some of the met several of the key demands coming shares outside Japan rose about 0.75 per- fighting around Gaza, with plumes of more than a year in May. “It will be inter- almost 300 victims arrived in Ukrainian from Malaysia and Western countries,” cent to reach its highest since 2011 as black smoke spiraling into the sky, and esting to see how euro dollar trades into government territory and separatist lead- Sberbank Investment Research analysts shares in China saw their biggest gain in 2- Israeli shells raining down on the coastal the CPI numbers,” Saxo Bank head of FX ers have handed Malaysian authorities said. 1/2 months. enclave. strategy, John Hardy, said. “If it’s higher the aircraft’s flight recorders. The rebound in risk was also helped by Most Asian currencies also climbed on than expected, is it dollar positive on the That helped settle market nerves, lift- more solid US company earnings and the updraft. Thailand’s baht hit an eight- US data view that it pulls the Fed guidance for- ing shares both in Europe and Asia and merger activity in the previous session, month high on hopes an interim constitu- The various pockets of geopolitical ward on the first rate hike? Or is dollar pushing back many of the safe-haven though analysts remained wary about tion planned by the military will stabilize uncertainty left the yield on the bench- negative because the Fed is seen being assets like the yen, gold and government Ukraine and Russia given the delicate the country. Indonesia’s rupiah wobbled mark 10-year US Treasury - the traditional complacent on inflation and behind the bonds that have been in demand over nature of events. EU foreign ministers though as the likely loser in its presidential go-to asset in times of tension - at 2.483 curve?” he said. The dollar rose to a six- the last week. Europe’s FTSEurofirst 300 gather later in the day in Brussels to dis- election, former general Prabowo percent in European trading, not far from week high against a basket of major cur- index climbed 1 percent as the main cuss the situation and possibly recom- Subianto, denounced the vote as unde- its year low of 2.4 percent. Yields on 30- rencies ahead of the data, pushing the bourses in London, Frankfurt and Paris all mend further sanctions against Russia. mocratic, creating confusion about the year Treasuries inched down to 3.263 per- euro firmly back under $1.35 in the made ground and dollar-traded stocks in Russia’s Security Council, headed by official results. cent from a US close at 3.264 percent on process, as worries about nearby Ukraine Moscow saw their first rise in almost two President Vladimir Putin, is also due to Intense fighting in the Gaza Strip has Monday. Investors were also awaiting US and Russia also weighed on the shared weeks. meet in Moscow. also unsettled investors in recent days, but consumer prices data due at 1230 GMT for currency. —Reuters UK watchdog upholds $770,000 fine on ‘king of mining’ banker

LONDON: Britain’s financial watchdog has behind me and get on with my business upheld a 450,000 pound ($768,000) fine on career,” he said in a statement published on former JPMorgan banker Ian Hannam - a his website, thanking JP Morgan, friends prominent dealmaker once dubbed the and family who stood by him during “these “king of mining” - for market abuse after a difficult five years”. The case hinged on two protracted court battle. In an effort to clear emails Hannam sent in 2008 to Iraqi his name, Hannam had fought to overturn Kurdistan’s oil minister Ashti Hawrami on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) ini- behalf Heritage Oil , a client, which the reg- tial findings and fine of 2012. But in May, he ulator alleged included potential inside lost his appeal in a landmark case that information about a potential takeover and fuelled a high-level debate about how con- a potential oil discovery. fidential information should be treated dur- No-one traded on the information in ing deals. Hannam’s emails and the regulator did not The former soldier, who became one of remove his “fit and proper” status, required London’s most prominent investment for working in London’s financial sector. bankers renowned for his bulging contacts Hannam, who resigned from his job in 2012 book and knack for a new idea, was await- to fight the allegations, argued the emails ing news about whether the original FCA were too imprecise to constitute insider fine would be upheld - one of the largest information - and might even have been levied against an individual in Britain. inaccurate. Imposing the penalty, the head of the FCA’s The case laid bare the ease with which enforcement and financial crime division bankers handle potentially market-moving Tracey McDermott urged all financial pro- information. The FCA accused him of hav- fessionals to pay close attention to a judg- ing a “relaxed and improper” attitude and a ment that did not question Hannam’s “casual” attitude to disclosure beyond that integrity, but sought to bring clarity to the allowed and necessary to do his job. But grey area of what constitutes acceptable lawyers said the case was a timely reminder business conduct. that the FCA, born last year with fresh pow- “It (the Tribunal judgment) should leave ers to enforce market conduct, should not market participants in no doubt that casual be overly hasty in its attempts to improve and uncontrolled distribution of inside infor- market integrity in London. “Ian Hannam is HONG KONG: A worker cleans a billboard outside a shopping mall yesterday. The southern Chinese territory was ranked the mation is not acceptable in today’s markets,” one of the few prominent City (of London) she said yesterday. Hannam, dubbed “king figures who have challenged an FCA fine,” most expensive for retailers in the world by commercial real estate giant CBRE in 2014, as prime rents surpassed those of the of mining” because of his weight in the said Simon Morris of London law firm CMS. most exclusive addresses in New York, London and Paris. —AFP resources sector, said he had decided “While he didn’t succeed others have, and against appealing the Tribunal decision and this gives the FCA the important reminder said he hoped his decision to challenge the that all its decisions must be of sufficient FCA findings would ensure others were now quality to sustain judicial scrutiny.” Libya oil output slips better able to understand the scope and Hannam, who was not immediately avail- effect of inside information rules. able for comment, has until August 7 to “I now wish to put this difficult period pay the fine in full. —Reuters Fresh clashes in Tripoli and Benghazi TRIPOLI: Libyan oil production has fallen, turn- are battling Islamist militants who have set up with Justice and Construction Party, a wing of ing back a hard-won increase since April in the base there. the Muslim Brotherhood. revenue flow for the government facing There were no immediate reports on casual- Libya’s oil resources have often been targeted increased fighting around the airport in the capi- ties from Monday’s fighting in Benghazi or the by armed groups since 2011 to push the govern- tal and in the eastern city of Benghazi. The El- Qasr Ben Ghashir neighborhood near Tripoli air- ment for financial or political gain. Last year a Feel oilfield last week was forced to cut back due port where residents have been forced from string of protests slashed oil output to less than to events in Tripoli, where two rival brigades of their homes or trapped by the gun battles. half the usual 1.4 million barrels per day. militias have fought over control of the airport. “There are a lot of families still stuck and not A negotiated deal in April mostly ended a El-Feel, operated by state-run National Oil able to get out because of the intensity of the year-long blockade by a former rebel command- Corporation and Italy’s ENI, is protected by secu- shelling and bombing, which is with all kinds of er over four key oil ports, allowing Libya to slow- rity guards from the northwestern Zintan region, heavy weapons,” said local area mayor ly rebuild production, shipping crude and earn- whose fighters also protect the airport where Mohammad Abdullah. The clashes have stopped ing vital oil revenue. One of Libya’s ports, Brega, clashes have gone on for a week. National Oil most international flights, damaged more than a is expected to be operating within a “few days” Company spokesman Mohamed El Harari said dozen planes parked at the airport - one Airbus after the government reached a deal with output as of Monday was around 450,000 bpd jet billowed black smoke after being hit on protesting security guards to end a blockade, compared with 555,000 bpd on Thursday. Monday - and prompted the United Nations to NOC’s Harari said. According to Reuters AIS Live At least 47 people have died in the week-long pull its staff out of Libya. tanker tracking service, no tankers had loaded Tripoli airport clashes, which involved artillery, The airport clash reflects national divisions so far at Brega. One crude shipment left the Grad rockets and anti-aircraft guns, in some of between two main factions: those from the 230,000 barrels-per-day Zawiya port, supplied the heaviest street fighting since the 2011 civil western town of Zintan and their allies who are by the El Sharara oilfield, which was recently war.Fresh fighting broke out on Monday night in loosely tied to the National Forces Alliance politi- reopened. The Olympic Spirit II, carrying Tripoli and Benghazi where armed forces and cal movement, and the more Islamist-leaning Aframax, crude oil, headed to the Spanish port troops loyal to a renegade former army general Misrata brigades and allied militias who side of Bilbao having left July 20. —Reuters Pretoria sees shale Royal Mail parcel revenues TOKYO: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic employee displays the new steamer “EH-SA95”, which sprays nanometer-scale hot steam and micro sized gas as ‘game changer’ struck as competition bites cold mist yesterday. Panasonic will put their new products on the market from JOHANNESBURG: A South African anti-fracking group threat- LONDON: Britain’s Royal Mail said growing to be lower than we had anticipated,” Royal September 1. —AFP ened a legal challenge yesterday to government plans to grant competition had cut its revenue expecta- Mail chief executive Moya Greene said in a shale gas exploration licenses in the pristine semi-desert of the tions from parcel deliveries, leaving it statement. Karoo, saying the regulatory process had been marked by reliant on tight cost control and its tradi- “However, through cost control meas- Japan, Mongolia “patent ineptitude”. In a February State of the Nation address, tional letters business to hit full-year profit ures and with continued good letters per- President Jacob Zuma described shale gas as a “game changer” forecasts. Shares in the group, sold off to formance we expect to be able to offset the for the economy and said Pretoria would allow hydraulic fractur- much controversy last October in Britain’s impact on profit such that our overall per- sign free trade deal ing, or fracking, “within the framework of our good environmen- biggest privatization in decades, fell as formance would remain in line with our much as 4.5 percent in early trading. expectations for the full year.” At 0900 GMT, TOKYO: Japan and Mongolia signed a free-trade Japanese companies to invest in Mongolia,” a sen- tal laws”. The government had been expected to publish regulations overseeing shale exploration before an election in May this Parcel deliveries account for about half Royal Mail shares had pared their losses to deal yesterday, as Tokyo looks to tap the fast-grow- ior trade ministry official told AFP. “The trade bal- of Royal Mail’s turnover and its growth in trade down 0.9 percent at 461.88 pence, ing economy and its vast supply of natural ance between Mongolia and Japan is currently a year although there is still no sign of the rules. Fracking involves digging wells up to 4 km deep and pumping in large amounts of an industry buoyed by online shopping is a within a UK benchmark equities index up resources. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe surplus for Japan, but that can change quickly if key investment focus for shareholders in 0.8 percent. The shares were floated at 330 and Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj mineral imports rise,” he added. Japan-Mongolia water and chemicals under high pressure to crack the shale rock and release the gas. In a dry region such as the Karoo, in the mid- light of declining letter volumes. But the pence last year, and then soared as much announced the deal in a joint statement, with the trade stood at 31.20 billion yen ($307 million) last group faces stiff competition in its main UK as 87 percent, prompting criticism from pair set to hold a press briefing in Tokyo from 7:00 year, far behind Tokyo’s massive trade relationships dle of the country, any change in water use causes concern. Green groups wanting to protect the Karoo, believed to hold sig- parcels market from the likes of UPS, TNT unions and the main opposition Labor par- pm local time (1000 GMT). Under the deal that with the United States and China. In April, Japan and Yodel, and it was dealt a blow in the ty that taxpayers had been short changed covers a range of products including beef and cars, reached a broad trade agreement with Australia nificant shale gas deposits, said Pretoria was incapable of ensuring firms such as Royal Dutch Shell, at the forefront of the frack- past year when online retailer Amazon - its in the privatization. all Mongolian exports to Japan and 96 percent of and is working on a wide-ranging deal with the single biggest customer worth six percent Japanese products sent to Mongolia will be European Union and the so-called Trans-Pacific ing push, would adhere to the rules. They accused the energy companies of already drawing up slip-shod environmental plans of sales - moved to launch its own delivery Fighting on many fronts exempt from tariffs within the next decade, offi- Partnership (TPP), a vast Pacific-wide deal led by service. Royal Mail said UK letter volumes cials said. the United States. Resource-rich Mongolia, wedged and failing to consult communities and landowners, violating fundamental property rights. “The key challenge remains weakness in declined 3 percent in its first quarter - bet- The agreement could help foster stability in the between Russia and China, has seen big economic parcel pricing in the UK. In our view, the ter than its expected range of a 4-6 percent region, a foreign ministry official added, as Japan growth in recent years as global firms eye its vast “The environmental management plans are fatally flawed,” Jonathan Deal, head of the Treasure the Karoo Action Group company faces a considerable volume and fall per year - as consumers increasingly use works to resolve the case of Japanese citizens natural resources. pricing challenge in parcels in the next 18 email, but revenue rose by the same abducted during the Cold War by North Korean In May, Pyongyang agreed to reinvestigate the (TKAG), told a news conference. “The state is not ready to manage either exploration or production.” If the government failed to months,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Robin amount thanks to price increases and an agents. Mongolia is one of the few countries that kidnapping of Japanese citizens during the 1970s Byde said, keeping a “sell” rating on Royal uplift from mail related to European and has formal diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, and 1980s, in what appeared to be a significant heed TKAG’s call for a moratorium on exploration licenses within 30 days, the group would seek a pre-emptive injunction block- Mail shares. The group, which is also facing local elections. That helped offset a 1 per- which is regularly criticized for stoking regional breakthrough on an issue that has long hampered regulatory probes in Britain and abroad, cent fall in UK parcels revenue, with vol- tensions. “(We’re) hoping to deepen ties with Tokyo’s relations with Pyongyang. They have no ing them and was prepared to go to the Constitutional Court, he added. said higher stamp prices lifted group rev- umes up just 1 percent. Revenue in its Mongolia to work together on keeping stability in formal diplomatic ties. Japan earlier this month lift- enue 2 percent in the three months to June European parcels arm GLS rose 6 percent. northeast Asia,” the official said. ed some of its own sanctions on North Korea fol- Deal declined to reveal TKAG’s backers although Cartier billionaire Johann Rupert, South Africa’s richest man and a major 29, the first quarter of its financial year, Greene said full-year parcels revenue The trade deal includes a so-called investor- lowing the apparent deal. North Korean agents meeting analyst forecasts. would be dependent on its second-half state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause, which allows kidnapped dozens-and possibly hundreds-of Karoo landowner, told Reuters last year he was prepared to fund a challenge as far as necessary. Shell and the government’s But parcel sales were hit by the changes performance and no further weakening in firms to pursue compensation claims if they think Japanese citizens to help train spies in language at Amazon, rivals cutting their prices and its addressable UK parcels market. The firm government policy has damaged their investment- and customs. The actual number and fate of some Department of Mineral Resources did not have immediate comment. The first formal interest in shale gas in the Karoo began in by the stronger pound, which affected has opened its network for longer on week- which has been criticized for giving firms too much of the abducted remains a point of contention, export volumes. “Given the increasing chal- ends to receive goods from e-tailers and power over public policy. “It’s important that the with Tokyo saying Pyongyang had not come clean 2008, with an application for exploration rights by Bundu Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of Australia’s Challenger Energy. —Reuters lenges we are facing in the UK parcels mar- launched Sunday delivery services to help ISDS clause is included in the deal, as it encourages on the issue. —AFP ket, our parcels revenue for the year is likely boost its business. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 BUSINESS Netflix tops 50M subscribers as Q2 earnings soar SAN FRANCISCO: Netflix’s second-quarter The second quarter featured one of The Internet video service’s vast library European countries in September, including grows, the DVD-by-mail rental business that earnings more than doubled as new Netflix’s marquee attractions, “Orange Is The also includes thousands of previously Germany and France. As part of its effort to once was the company’s foundation is slowly episodes from one of its hit series helped the New Black,” which returned for its second released movies and shows already shown continue attracting subscribers, Netflix dis- crumbling. The DVD rental service shed Internet video service surpass 50 million season in early June. As with Netflix’s other on traditional TV networks. Netflix Inc. end- closed plans to start selling gift cards this fall another 391,000 subscribers in the second worldwide subscribers for the first time. The original series, all 13 episodes of “Orange Is ed June with 36.2 million subscribers in the in brick-and-mortar stores in the US, Canada, quarter to end June with fewer than 6.3 gains announced Monday include an addi- The New Black,” were released simultaneous- US and another 13.8 million customers in Mexico, and Germany. The company so far million customers. That’s a decline of 55 tional 570,000 U.S. subscribers, slightly more ly so subscribers could watch the story roughly 40 other countries. The Los Gatos, has only sold gift certificates online. percent in less than three years. Netflix than Netflix’s management predicted. The unfold on their own schedules. “Orange Is California company picked up 1.1 million The second-quarter performance will like- earned $71 million, or $1.15 per share, dur- quarter is typically the company’s slowest of the New Black,” set in a women’s prison, subscribers outside the US in the second ly alleviate any concerns that a price increase ing the April-June period. That compared to the year, as people spend more time out- received 12 of the 31 Emmy Award nomina- quarter, a figure that also topped manage- imposed in early May would undercut income of $29.5 million, or 49 cents per doors instead of watching video. Investors tions bestowed upon Netflix programming ment’s projections. Netflix’s growth. Netflix raised its rates by $1 share, at the same time last year. This year’s applauded the second-quarter results as for this year’s awards. Netflix’s Emmy nomi- The company expects to add another 3.7 to $9 per month for Internet video streaming earnings per share were a penny above the Netflix’s stock rose $4.65 to $456.60 in nations eclipsed the 24 garnered by long- million worldwide subscribers in the current in the US, but the company eased the blow average estimate among analysts surveyed extended trading. The shares have surged by time pay-TV channel Showtime, which col- quarter ending in September, including 1.3 by allowing existing subscribers to continue by FactSet. Revenue climbed 25 percent 23 percent this year while the Standard & lected 24, but lagged far behind HBO’s pace- million US customers. It also plans to start paying the old price for at least two years. As from last year to $1.3 billion, matching ana- Poor’s 500 index has increased 7 percent. setting 99 nominations. selling its Internet video service in six more Netflix’s video-streaming service steadily lyst projections. — AP

QUINCY: In this photo, a mailman delivers mail to a house for sale in Quincy, Mass. The National Association of Realtors reports on existing-home sales in June on Tuesday, July 22, 2014. —AP More than half of consumers optimistic on job prospects LONDON: More than half of consumers way.” By region, consumers in the Asia globally expect job prospects to be good Pacific were most confident about job to excellent in the year ahead, a survey prospects with 65 percent seeing favor- showed yesterday. That helped push able job opportunities for the year ahead, global consumer confidence up in the up from 64 percent in the first quarter. second quarter to its highest since the Globally, 56 percent of respondents to first quarter of 2007, according to the sur- the survey viewed their personal finances vey by global information and insights positively, up from 55 percent over the company Nielsen. past three consecutive quarters. North India overtook Indonesia as the most America reported the biggest increase, optimistic consumer market, while with 63 percent of respondents feeling Portugal and Slovenia were the most pes- secure in money matters over the next 12 simistic. Japan and Hong Kong saw the months, up from 59 percent in the first biggest declines in confidence from the quarter. previous quarter. The Nielsen Global While consumer confidence in debt- Consumer Confidence Index rose 1 point laden euro zone economies remained in the second quarter to 97, according to weak it improved sharply in Italy, which the survey, conducted between May 12 Nielsen attributed to confidence in Prime and 30. The reading headed closer to the Minister Matteo Renzi’s new government, 100 mark that signals optimism among formed in February. Confidence also con- consumers. tinued to slowly improve in Greece, US consumers were the eighth most France and Spain. Outside the euro zone, upbeat globally as optimism about job consumer sentiment in Britain rose to its prospects surged. “Payroll growth is visi- highest level since 2007 as the country’s ble across a range of (US) sectors, which economy continued to outperform euro is also positive,” said Venkatesh Bala, chief zone peers. economist at the Cambridge Group, a Ukraine, meanwhile, saw a rebound in part of Nielsen. “However, real-wage consumer sentiment after a sharp fall in growth of workers has been anemic so the first quarter following a political crisis far, and needs to pick up substantially, and tensions with Russia after Moscow along with other improvements in the annexed the Crimea region. The Nielsen labor market, in order for consumer survey covered more than 30,000 online spending to increase in a broad-based consumers across 60 markets. —Reuters

Publicis posts profit slump

PARIS: French advertising giant Publicis “Given the situation in Europe and the reported a big profit fall yesterday and slow pick-up in the emerging economies, was cautious about its outlook this year, we prefer to be extremely cautious on causing its shares to fall sharply. Net prof- growth prospects and prioritize cost con- it for the first half of the year fell by 16.9 trol in order to achieve a margin closer to percent to 260 million euros ($351 mil- our goal for the full year.” In the first half of lion), weighed down by the strength of the year, internal growth by the group the euro. Sales were about steady com- was 1.4 percent and its target for the full pared with the equivalent figure last year, year was 4.0 percent, although this now showing a gain of 0.2 percent to 3.365 bil- looked difficult to achieve, the group said. lion euros, but performance slowed sharply in the second quarter. Figures not satisfactory Shares in the group fell by 5.50 percent After a difficult year in 2013, the group initially, recovering mid-morning for a loss had achieved internal growth of 3.3 per- of 4.89 percent to 55.99 euros Group cent in the first quarter of this year, but Chairman Maurice Levy said at a press this slowed down sharply to 0.5 percent in conference that the effort by manage- the second quarter. “These figures are not ment put into an attempted merger with satisfactory by our standards,” Levy said. US advertising giant Omnicom, which fell Warning that 2014 would be “a difficult through in May, may have weighed on year”, he said that this would not under- performance. The merger would have mine the group’s medium-term prospects created the biggest advertising group in and the business plan up to 2018 was the world, with 130,000 staff and annual being revised to take account of market sales of about 20 billion euros, overtaking conditions and investment needed. The British group WPP. Publicis said then that results statement said the group expected the deal fell through because of deep dif- to do much better in the second half of ferences which widened during the nego- the year “with growth picking up smartly tiations, administrative problems, and an as of the third quarter.”In morning trad- unduly long timetable. ing, shares in the group were down by Publicis is an international advertising 4.89 percent to 55.99 euros. The overall group and, as such, is an indicator of Paris market as measured by the CAC 40 trends in the economies where it operates index was up by 0.38 percent. since companies are quick to adjust their Brokers Aurel BG commented that advertising campaigns to the business cli- although analysts had expected a slow- mate and their launches of new products. down in the second quarter, the setback Operating margin, equivalent to operat- was bigger than had been expected. “Its ing profit for an advertising group, fell by possible that the unsuccessful merger 5.4 percent in the first half. “The first half- with Omnicom explains part of the disap- year was heavily impacted by exchange pointment with the first-half figures,” the rates which had an adverse effect on rev- brokers said. At Bank of America Merrill enue of 148 million euro,” Levy said in a Lynch, analyst Ruchi Malaiya said: “While statement. “Growth stalled in the second this is undoubtedly a disappointing quar- quarter,” owing mainly to the delaying or ter, we believe Publicis can regain some cancellation of advertising campaigns momentum in the second half and use and “lagging economies in Europe and cash to support strong total shareholder emerging countries,” he said. returns.” —AFP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 Detroit retirees vote in favor of pension cuts Support for pension changes triggers $816m bailout

DETROIT: A year after filing for bankruptcy, dations and the Detroit Institute of Arts. The The judge set aside a day last week to hear Detroit is building momentum to get out, espe- money would prevent the sale of city-owned art the personal stories of retirees frightened about cially after workers and retirees voted in favor of and avoid deeper pension cuts. The judge, how- getting smaller checks. The average annual pen- major pension changes just a few weeks before ever, still must agree. Anthony Sabino, a bank- sion for police and fire retirees is $32,000, while a judge holds a crucial trial that could end the ruptcy expert who teaches business law at St. most other retired city workers get $19,000 to largest public filing in US history. Pension cuts John’s University in New York, said results of the $20,000. Orr has said pension changes are unfor- were approved in a landslide, according to voting are a big win for the city. “It will pave the tunate but necessary because two funds are results filed shortly before midnight Monday. way for a confirmation hearing. Detroit will be underfunded by billions. If investment perform- The tally from 60 days of voting gives the city a able to move forward, not with absolute finan- ance improves in the years ahead, he said, the boost as Judge Steven Rhodes determines cial certainty but far more than Detroit has cuts could be restored. whether Detroit’s overall strategy to eliminate or enjoyed in decades,” he said. Indeed, a Boston- Many retiree organizations had urged a “yes” reduce $18 billion in long-term debt is fair and based restructuring expert hired to advise the vote, insisting the pension changes were the feasible to all creditors. Trial starts Aug 14. judge said Monday Detroit’s overall bankruptcy best option under tough circumstances. But “I want to thank city retirees and active plan is “feasible,” a key standard at the upcoming Dorothy Baker, 64, disagreed. Besides the pen- FLORIDA: In this photo, Baltazar Rosado pumps gasoline into his car at a Chevron gaso- employees who voted for casting aside the rhet- trial. sion cut, the library retiree who lives in suburban line station in Pembroke Pines, Fla. — AP oric and making an informed, positive decision But Marti Kopacz warned that antiquated St Clair Shores would lose a portion of her annu- about their future and the future of the city,” said computer systems, a pledge to spend more than ity earnings. “Don’t they sell assets in bankrupt- Kevyn Orr, the state-appointed emergency man- $1 billion to improve services after bankruptcy cy? They haven’t sold any assets. There are park- US consumer prices ager who has been handling Detroit’s finances and a “cultural malady” among workers all will ing garages and golf courses,” said Baker, who since March 2013. General retirees would get a be challenges. “There are ... employees who worked for Detroit for nearly 39 years. The 4.5 percent pension cut and lose annual infla- don’t grasp that their job is to provide a service Michigan Constitution says public pensions can’t up 0.3 percent in June tion adjustments. They accepted the changes to the taxpayers versus the taxpayers owing be cut, but Rhodes said in December that feder- with 73 percent of ballots in favor. Retired police them a job,” Kopacz said in a report released al bankruptcy law trumps that shield. It was a officers and firefighters would lose only a por- Monday. There are tens of thousands of credi- groundbreaking opinion that could influence WASHINGTON: US consumer prices rose in The Federal Reserve is expected to keep tion of their annual cost-of-living raise. Eighty- tors in Detroit’s bankruptcy, from bond holders local governments across the country that go June at a slightly slower pace than in May with interest rates exceptionally low as long as infla- two percent in that class voted “yes.” to businesses that provide soap, but much of broke. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette two-thirds of the June advance driven by the tion does not show signs of moving beyond its Voting ended July 11, and the counting was the focus of the last year has been on the rough- believes the judge is wrong, but he won’t appeal largest jump in gasoline prices in a year. Prices targeted rate. The forecast of many analysts is done by a private company. Support for the ly 32,000 retirees and current and former work- now that retirees have voted for the cuts. “I will rose 0.3 percent in June following a 0.4 percent that the Fed will keep a key short-term interest pension changes triggers an extraordinary $816 ers banking on a pension. They have put a real respect their decision,” Schuette said in a state- rise in May, the Labor Department reported rate at a record low near zero over the next year yesterday. The May increase had been the with the first rate increase not occurring until million bailout from the state of Michigan, foun- and often anguished face on the process. ment. — AP biggest one-month gain in more than a year. the summer of 2015. But analysts stress that Energy prices were up 1.6 percent, nearly dou- this outlook depends heavily on prices remain- ble the May gain, reflecting a sharp 3.3 percent ing in check. Should there be signs that infla- rise in gasoline costs. But food costs edged up tion is starting to accelerate, then the central just 0.1 percent, the smallest gain since bank could begin raising interest rates sooner, January. Core prices, which exclude volatile possibly in the spring of next year. The Fed food and energy, were up just 0.1 percent. Over holds its two-day meeting next week, starting the past 12 months, core prices are up 1.9 per- yesterday. In delivering the central bank’s cent, an indication of moderate inflation. twice-a-year report to Congress last week, Fed Overall prices have risen 2.1 percent in the past Chair Janet Yellen sent a strong signal that the 12 months. While the 12-month price gains are central bank still believed the economy needed up from extremely low readings earlier this help despite recent solid job gains which have year, the figures are close to the 2 percent pushed the unemployment rate down to 6.1 annual price gains that the Federal Reserve percent, the lowest level in nearly six years. seeks to achieve. Yellen acknowledged the improvement in the The 3.3 percent jump in gasoline costs was labor market but also noted that unemploy- not expected to be repeated in July given that ment remains above the 5.2 percent to 5.5 per- pump prices have been falling in recent weeks. cent range that Fed officials view as optimal. The AAA says the nationwide average for a gal- She said that while inflation had risen slightly, lon of gas stood at $3.57 on Monday, down the increase is not occurring at a pace that the from $3.68 a month ago and an indication that central bank views as a threat. energy prices may be easing slightly. Food The Fed seeks to achieve maximum costs have been rising sharply this year, reflect- employment with inflation rising at a modest ing a variety of factors from cold weather hurt- pace of around 2 percent a year. Low inflation, ing winter crops in such states as Florida and a the result of a deep recession which has kept severe drought in California. Airplane ticket the lid on labor costs, has allowed the Fed to prices surged by 5.8 percent in May, the largest keep interest rates at exceptionally low levels. amount in 15 years, but ticket prices moderat- The benchmark interest rate has been near ed to a smaller 0.4 percent rise in June. zero since December 2008. The harsh winter Economists believe energy price gains will pushed the overall economy into reverse in the slow in coming months although tensions in first three months of the year with growth the Middle East and Ukraine could derail those falling at an annual rate of 2.9 percent. But ana- hopes if they trigger a surge in global oil prices. lysts say a solid rebound in the spring pushed Food costs have been driven higher this year growth up to between 2.5 percent and 3 per- by a variety of factors including a harsh winter cent and they see improvements in the labor and a drought in California but economists market contributing to stronger consumer believe the June moderation could be the spending and even stronger growth in the sec- YANGON: Ferry boat drivers wait for customers at a jetty in Yangon yesterday. In January the International Monetary Fund forecast growth in fiscal beginning of slower food increases. ond half of this year. — AP 2013-2014 to rise to 7.5 percent and near 7.8 percent the following year. — AFP

New Portugal BES bank boss reassures investors Blumhouse signs deal LONDON/LISBON: The naming of the first the bank to name an independent CEO. A family affair with Universal Pictures CEO from outside the founding clan of Banco Bento, 60, is expected to be confirmed as The bank revealed on June 30 that it was Espirito Santo (BES) has reassured investors, new boss at a shareholder meeting on July owed 980 million euros by family-controlled but he will be under pressure to explain how 31. “There is a perception that this (Bento) is companies, including 780 million euros of LOS ANGELES: Universal Pictures and grossed close to $200 million worldwide, Portugal’s biggest bank will recover nearly a what the Bank of Portugal wanted and the direct exposure to ESFG and unspecified ESFG Blumhouse Productions have sealed a making it the most profitable film in billion euros lent to family-controlled firms. market hoped for,” said Andre Rodrigues, an subsidiaries, and 200 million euros owed by a new 10-year first-look production agree- Hollywood history. The company’s first BES nominated respected economist Vitor analyst at Caixa Banco de Investimento. company called Rioforte, which in turn owns ment that will also include partnerships film with Universal was the huge sum- with Universal TV and Universal Cable mer 2013 hit “The Purge,” which debuted Bento on Saturday as CEO, just five days after The Espirito Santo clan still holds a 25 per- 49.25 percent of ESFG. Investors said they Productions, the two companies said at No. 1 and grossed 11 times its $3 mil- revealing it was owed 980 million euros by cent stake in the bank through a holding were concerned not only by the size of the Sunday. Universal and Blumhouse have lion budget in the first weekend ($34.1 firms controlled by the founding Espirito company, the Espirito Santo Financial Group exposure but also by the absence of a been partners since 2011, and word of million). Santo family, 700 million more than had (ESFG) whose interests range from insurance detailed breakdown of who the loans are to. the new arrangement came on the same Blumhouse’s next releases with been disclosed when it raised 1.045 billion in to hotels and property. Investors, who spoke “If the debt is to trading companies, I’m day that Blumhouse’s “The Purge: Universal will be the supernatural thriller new capital from shareholders on June 11. to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said fine with that, if the debt is to holding compa- Anarchy” opened to $28 million at the “Ouija,” which will be released Oct. 24, The weekend nomination of Bento, a for- the firm had still not fully explained all of the nies, there’s no obvious assets and recover- weekend box office - or three times its 2014; a psychological thriller starring mer head of Portugal’s debt agency, signaled debt to family-controlled holding compa- ability,” said one analyst, a view echoed by production budget. Jennifer Lopez, “The Boy Next Door” several. In the May capital raising documents, Blumhouse will also bring its “Sinister” which opens Jan. 23, 2015; and the next BES said that none of the loans to related par- horror movie franchise to Focus Features, chapter in the “Insidious” franchise to be ties were subject to individual impairment, making Universal home to three of the released by Focus Features. meaning they had no specific evidence that company’s most profitable micro-budget Blumhouse and Universal’s other any of them would not be repaid in full. Any franchises including “The Purge” and micro-budget projects in development related party loans granted after March 2014 “Insidious,” which is already based at and production include Hasbro’s “Jem had to pass through a newly-created Related Focus. “This studio has had an incredible and the Holograms” and “In a Valley of Party Transactions Control Committee. BES experience working with Blumhouse and Violence,” starring Ethan Hawke and John did not answer questions on what level of it only makes sense to broaden that part- Travolta. scrutiny was present before this committee nership to NBCUniversal’s broadcast and “Jeff and Donna and the entire team was established. cable networks,” said Universal Filmed at Universal are the best at what they do,” Entertainment Chairman Jeff Shell, who said Blum. “They take our micro-budget, made the announcement Sunday along filmmaker-driven genre movies and turn Angolan link with Universal Pictures Chairman Donna them into highly-profitable, global fran- Another worry lurking for investors is Langley and Jason Blum, chief executive chises through their commitment, pas- Angola, the former Portuguese colony where at Blumhouse. sion and creativity. “The first thing peo- BES has a 55 percent stake in a bank with a 6 “Jason and his team bring an energy ple see when they walk into Blumhouse billion euro loan book. The Angolan state has and focus that can be felt across the is the ‘wall of directors’ where we hang guaranteed 70 percent of the bank’s loan company and we are thrilled to honor photos of all of our filmmakers. We are book, but several investors and analysts said his passion for entertainment with a long very excited to continue building on our this did not give them much comfort, citing a term commitment and extension of that success with Universal by adding to that lack of information about its legal basis and relationship,” Shell said. Langley, who ever growing wall and giving more and Angola’s poor credit rating. recruited Blum to come to Universal more directors and now show-runners BES’s holding in the bank is only worth a added, “Jason founded a company in creative freedom to tell their stories.” few hundred million euros, but BES confirmed Blumhouse that is unique and cutting Blumhouse will also be forming part- to Reuters that it has more than 2 billion euros edge, and we’re honored that they call nerships with NBCUniversal to provide a of cash placed with the Angola bank. In an Universal home. Jason is extremely driv- variety of content including network and LISBON: Portuguese bookbinder Ilidio Antonio, 62, applies egg whites to the cover of new en and highly creative. His style coupled cable television shows, digital properties books as he works in his workshop in Lisbon. — AP extreme situation, that liquidity could be hard to get back. “The biggest concern for with his industry relationships and and more. Blumhouse has been ramping a break from the past. Shares in BES were nies. investors is that BES has more liabilities than strategic business model have been a up its TV business and is working on lower on Monday but had risen last week as “There is a good deal more that needs to they had recorded and too few assets and the recipe for much success between our both scripted and non-scripted shows it became clear that new management was come out in terms of intra group debt and guarantee from Angola is not very assuring,” companies. We look forward to expand- including projects for Syfy (“Ascension,” likely to be named. The share price had lost guarantees,” one investor, who sold his hold- said a London portfolio manager who would ing our opportunities together.” which is currently in production), MTV Blumhouse’s film division specializes (“Eye Candy”), ABC and Mike Darnell. 30 percent since early June. The bank has ings of BES bonds in recent weeks, told not disclose if he has BES exposure. in micro-budget genre movies, which Blumhouse previously executive pro- been under scrutiny for weeks after report- Reuters. Investors and analysts have also pin- However, last month’s recapitalization includes the highly profitable duced the Emmy-nominated and Critics’ ing “material irregularities” at a holding com- pointed BES’s Angolan subsidiary, which has gives the bank the ability to withstand some “Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious,” “The Choice award-winner “The Normal Heart” pany of the Espirito Santo family, which more than 2 billion euros of funding from losses, both on its loans to family companies Purge” and “Sinister” franchises, which for HBO, “Stranded” for Syfy and “The founded the bank in the 19th Century but the Portuguese bank, as cause for concern. and its exposure to Angola. Dublin-based have grossed more than $1.2 billion River” for ABC. CAA, Blumhouse consult- surrendered control as part of last month’s However, BES stock has supporters, such as Merrion Stockbrokers told clients the bank worldwide on combined budgets under ant Charles Layton, John Diemer and capital increase. London-based Citigroup analyst Stefan should still have a capital buffer of 1.5 billion $40 million. Blumhouse’s model began Carlos Goodman negotiated the deal Family patriarch Ricardo Espirito Santo Nedialkov who rated it a strong buy last euros even if it is forced to write off 25 per- with the original “Paranormal Activity,” with NBCUniversal on behalfof Salgado stepped down as CEO last month. week, arguing that the worst news was cent of its Angolan loans and half its inter- which was made for $15,000 and Blumhouse. — Reuters The Bank of Portugal, as regulator, had urged already accounted for in the share price. group liabilities. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

Celebrate Eid with exceptional discounts from Honda Alghanim

KUWAIT: In celebration of Eid Al-Fitr, Honda Alghanim Touch Screen and i-MID, LaneWatch System, Bilingual tem, rear air conditioning outlet and charging ports, until 2:00 pm and from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. The marks the joyous occasion by offering its customers a Navigation System, Power Leather Seats and Smart Smart Entry as well as Bluetooth HFT technology. showroom will resume its normal working hours special promotion on select 2014 Honda vehicles. Entry and Smart Start. Also included is the Accord Ultimately, no matter what Honda vehicle customers effective the second day of Eid Al-Fitr. Inspired by the generosity of the blessed holiday, cus- Coupe, a car that takes sporty elegance to the level choose, their driving experience will always be excep- Alghanim Motors, the sole distributor of Honda tomers will double their joy with premium savings on thanks to its range of refined features such as power tional and totally in their control. automobiles, motorcycles, power products, and the car of their dreams from Honda Alghanim. leather seats, ODMD touch screen, LaneWatch System, This special offer is just in time for Eid Al-Fitr as to marine products in Kuwait, is committed to providing The offer features the Accord Sedan, a car that ele- LED daytime running lights and taillights. And last but urge both customers and Honda enthusiasts to test- customers with flexible payment solutions and effi- gantly combines comfort and exceptional perform- not least, the all-new 2014 City, with its sleek exterior drive a Honda vehicle of their choice along with pre- cient and cost-effective services. The waiting lounge ance while complementing the needs of its passen- lines and exceptionally accommodating interior, mium savings upon purchasing. Honda Alghanim offers entertainment and comfort for customers with gers, with a remarkable array of available features where passengers will enjoy a wealth of premium fea- welcomes customers to its Safat Alghanim showroom gaming consoles, digital satellite TV, free wireless such as bright LED Headlights and Taillights, ODMD tures such as a7-inch advanced touch panel audio sys- during Ramadan from Saturday to Friday 10:00 am internet and relaxing massage chairs.

Leadership program joins UAE school of govt

The Abdulaziz Bin Humaid Leadership Program, a first- of-its-kind program that aims to empower talented young individuals with essential leadership qualities, received an invitation to officially join the Knowledge and Policies Council of Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government. Speaking on the occasion, Faisal Al-Nuaimi, Head of the committee at ALP said: “We are honored to join the ABU DHABI: Women laborers along with Etihad Airways’ volunteers at one of the largest labor camp facilities. Knowledge and Policies Council of Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government which includes a selected group of leadership programs in the UAE. This membership is highly important to us and a clear evidence of Etihad Airways organizes donation drive the high quality of the program and its ability, within a short span of time, to reach leading position in the UAE ABU DHABI: To mark Zayed Humanitarian Day (19 to deliver special gift packs of fresh fruit, canned food and 2014, the ‘iVolunteer’ program is a wide-ranging volunteer- and region, by meeting the expectations and require- Ramadan) and in the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan, personal care items. ing initiative that engages staff in community-related ments of federal government”. Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Volunteers also distributed hot meals to about 330 activities, supporting the work of local charities across the The ‘Knowledge and Policies Council’ aims to pro- Emirates, organised a donation drive for women living at women laborers in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Cause UAE and in other parts of the world. The ‘iVolunteer’ promote meaningful dialogue, highlight issues and public one of the largest labor camp facilities in Abu Dhabi. This Connect, a UAE-based community group that is dedicated to gram aims to promote and support a culture of social policies that are of relevance to both the community year 19 Ramadan corresponds to 17 July. increase creative collaboration between causes, communities responsibility and provides a platform for those interested and government, and enrich knowledge amongst vari- The initiative, the first organized under Etihad Airways’ and companies. The Etihad Airways Duty Free team recently to volunteer in community work. Since the launch, the pro- ous government entities. The council will provide Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ‘iVolunteer’ program, hosted a merchandise sale at the airline’s head office in Abu gram has witnessed great success, and in less than two insights and recommendations on areas that impact the saw over 50 volunteers from the airline’s Abu Dhabi head Dhabito raise funds and support the donation drive. months, has registered over 400 employees from around cooperation and development of government perform- office visiting the Mohammed bin Zayed City labor camp Launched by Etihad Airways’ CSR department in June the airline’s global network. ance, while enhancing personal and institutional communication to facilitate intra-government relations. Al-Nuaimi went on to emphasize that joining the Knowledge and Policies Council of Mohammed Bin AL-Mazaya holds annual Rashid School of Government constitutes a major milestone for the Abdulaziz Bin Humaid Leadership Program Ramadan ghabqa and clear evidence of the program’s leading position, superior quality, and intelligent design. The membership of Knowledge and Policies Council will help spur KUWAIT: Al-Mazaya holding company held ured, today’s session serves to symbolize the further development in the program to reach higher its annual Ramadan ghabqa in the Marina loyalty that the company wants for all its international levels. Hotel at the presence of the board of direc- employees, and as an expression of their dis- Al-Nuaimi added: “Our membership in the tors and CEO Ibrahim Al-Saqabi, and all tinct role in crowning its ongoing success”. Knowledge and Policies Council will enable us propose employees of the company. They added: “We work as one team, from suggestions that make a quantum leap in leadership The ceremony welcomed the holy month the top of the pyramid of the company to the programs in the country. These recommendations will of Ramadan in the presence of everyone to bottom, and we are pleased to take part in all focus on the creation of a system to measure the quality emphasize the support of human bonds, and these different conversations and dialogue; of inputs and outputs of young leadership programs in spread of spirit of friendship while develop- we believe that holding such events is impor- the UAE, while taking into consideration the uniqueness ing the relationships that enhance the com- tant because it has a role in strengthening of its program in developing its main topics and objec- pany’s position. The ghabqa ceremony has a ties and cohesion, and deepens human inter- tives. The proposed system will offer a benchmark to variety of activities including families of the actions among employees through building evaluate leadership programs in the country and to employees getting to know each other, and a bridges of acquaintance and communications accredit the ones that meet the requirements. Through series of competitions and recreational activi- in the future, confirming that our company the council, we will seek to build a federal database for ties. will spare no effort to do anything that will graduates of leadership programs to facilitate the selec- On this occasion, Al-Mazaya management support its staff, their professional capabili- tion of the best candidates to fill senior positions in had a few introductory words, welcoming ties, and improving aspects of life and public and private sectors. This move will help maintain those who came, calling on Allah the humanity.” New 2015 Cadillac Escalade drives the positive returns of graduates and spread knowledge Almighty to accept everyone’s fasting and The management concluded by thanking by passing the experiences among members of com- prayers, and their good deeds, and hoping members of the board, and welcoming the high consumer interest in Kuwait munity”. that Allah the Almighty may direct everyone new staff in the company who joined recent- As well as being personally overseen by Sheikh to the right path and fulfill their goals on both ly, wishing everyone success and luck. For DUBAI: The all-new 2015 Cadillac Escalade - set option for SUV lovers in Kuwait.” Abdulaziz bin Humaid Al-Nuaimi, the program has the sides, work and family, in this life and afterlife. their part, the employees appreciated the to arrive in showrooms across the Middle East in Essentially, the 2015 Escalade takes design patronage of His Highness Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid The management emphasized too that positive role of the company in dealing with August 2014 - is already proving to be a huge and technical elements from Cadillac’s product Al-Nuaimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of the members of the board are the leadership their different needs, and its continued success amongst Kuwait consumers. According expansion to elevate the brand’s signature SUV. Ajman, and Sheikh Ammar bin Humaid Al-Nuaimi the that sets in place the successful plans of the enthusiasm to meet them and communicate to Yusuf A. Alghanim & Sons Automotive Group, The product line will consist of the standard Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive Council. company, but the employees are the soul of with them, stressing that the having this the exclusive dealer for Cadillac in Kuwait, the Escalade model, as well as the extended-length The vision of Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Humaid Al- the company, and they are the basic of every annual Ramadan ceremony would strengthen pioneering vehicle has received a staggering ESV edition, which offers a 14-inch-longer (355 Nuaimi, Chairman of the program is to find a new gen- accomplishmentof the company. relationship among employees, support com- amount of pre-orders in the last three months. mm) wheelbase and approximately 20 inches eration of qualified young leaders. Sheikh Abdulaziz bin “We gather today in the holy month of munication bonds with each other in the holy This high level of demand is largely attrib- (508 mm) more in overall length, maximizing Humaid has also personally undertaken oversight of the Ramadan to announce our pride, commit- month of Ramadan, and recognizing that the uted to the flagship SUV’s redesigned exterior space for third-row passengers and 60 percent professional advancement of graduates of the first edi- ment and appreciation to the great efforts commitment to the completion of their work and interior, which combines new levels of luxu- more cargo space behind the third-row seat. tion, which was run in collaboration with major interna- from everyone and to their prominent role in does not mean neglecting the spirit of broth- ry with the latest technology. Offered with 4WD drivetrain, the 2015 tional training and consultancy firms. raising this company’s name high and in put- erhood and humanity, which is what they “The all-new 2015 Cadillac Escalade is Escalade features a new 6.2L V-8 engine that is ting it among the top companies in the world considered an important incentive to work to strongly resonating amongst consumers, as more powerful and more efficient than previ- of real estate. Although the real value of the serve the company and to achieve its various reflected by the increased number of pre-orders ous models. It also boasts Cadillac’s Magnetic employees of the company cannot be meas- goals. across key dealerships in the region,” said Felix Ride Control - the world’s fastest-reacting sus- Weller - Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing pension system. Director for Cadillac in the Middle East. “The The exterior features crisp, new and more sophisticated luxury SUV - designed to establish sophisticated surfaces, accented by dramatic new benchmarks for hand-tailored craftsman- light-emitting diode, or LED, lighting. In parallel, ship and technology - both meets and exceeds the new interior features cut-and-sewn and customer expectations, delivering an unparal- wrapped materials, with wood trim options leled driving experience for the most discerning chosen for elegance and authenticity. Seats car enthusiasts. The massive amount of interest were engineered to be more comfortable and in the 2015 Escalade is further testament to the sculpted in appearance. In addition, the new Cadillac brand’s impeccable reputation here in interior is dramatically quieter thanks to a the Middle East.” stronger new body structure, new and Alghanim Automotive’s Sales Director - enhanced acoustic material, and Bose Active Abdallah Mouazzen, echoed that statement, Noise Cancellation technology. CUE, Cadillac’s adding: “At Alghanim Automotive, our goal has advanced system for connectivity and control, is long been to provide our customers with high also standard, featuring state-of-the-art voice quality products with exceptional features and recognition with touch controls common with excellent customer service. The 2015 Cadillac the world’s most popular tablets and mobile Faisal Al-Nuaimi Escalade ticks all the boxes, making it a popular devices. Omkar realtors set up Dubai office

Mumbai-based luxury realty brand Omkar Realtors & Mumbai is also one of the largest developers of city’s luxury ed to be rolled out soon. from international and domestic space have been engaged by Developers Private Limited (omkar.com) announced the housing which also includes a joint venture with construction Within short spans, every project by Omkar has appreciat- the much admired brand. The expat team working on its key launch of its Dubai office, located at Aspin Tower on Sheikh giant Larsen & Toubro. The company which has developed ed tremendously. While Omkar Alta Monte, Maladis currently luxury projects in Mumbai includes expertise associated with Zayed Road. and delivered more than 4 million sq.ft., area in Mumbai is cur- being offered at Rs 13,250 psf., the flagship Omkar 1973 Worli the iconic Dubai Festival Centre. According to company’s Managing Director, Babulal Varma, rently engaged in developing over 20 million sq ft, area span- is priced at approximate Rs 40,000 psf, reflecting approximate- While the company has attracted investments from lead- Omkar Realtors has an existing customer base globally includ- ning residential and commercial segments across city’s prime ly 26 percent y-on-y returns over a 3-year span. ing private equity funds and financial institutions, its average ing the GCC markets and that the Dubai overseas office would locations.The company’s future development pipeline Globally leading names in architectural designing and lux- year-on-year profit yield for investors across projects has far further serve as the gateway to NRI property buyers spread includes an additional 20 million sq. ft space which is expect- ury amenities backed by some of the best talent pool drawn outperformed the prime market average. It has also engaged across Middle East. The NRI community has been constantly leading international architecture and design firms Foster + looking out for attractive propositions in premium property Partners from UK and the US-based Callison for its premium market back in India; especially Mumbai, Varma added. residential projects. This marks the entry of Foster + Partners The decade-young Omkar brand currently enjoys the marin Mumbai’s luxury residential space. ket leadership in Mumbai’s redevelopment space and has suc- Over a period of time, Omkar has been engaging the tar- cessfully designed projects aimed at luxury gated communi- get audiences oversees, including markets like Dubai, London, ties. This includes its most anticipated ultra-luxury residential Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya amongst others by way of exhi- development Omkar 1973 Worli and the largest gated com- bitions, events and strategic networking. With the opening of munity in Mumbai’s suburbs, Omkar Alta Monte. company’s Dubai office, the company expects to create a The company’s Dubai team, based out of Dubai, will be ini- direct interface with the Middle East buyers and investors. tially offering four of its prime luxury residential projects for Backed by a strong legacy of over five decades, Omkar is the GCC audience. The four projects include Omkar 1973 managed by second generation entrepreneurs. The manage- Worli (Worli), Omkar Alta Monte (Malad East), Veda Exclusive ment consists of seasoned professionals with expertise in real (Parel) and Ananta (Goregaon East). (From left to right) Bharat Dhuppar — Chief Marketing Officer, Devang Varma — Director, Umesh Jaandiyal — estate, infrastructure, steel manufacturing, oil exploration, The company which holds a strong land bank inventory in Head Sales GCC and John Guest — Head - EPC. shipping and construction. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 technology Microsoft makes design central to its future

Kaspersky Lab: Quick tips for a safe and secure holiday

NEW YORK: Summer is in full bloom and Anti-Theft protection feature in Kaspersky that means many people will be heading Internet Security - multi-device can hide off for some well-deserved vacations. details about contacts, calls, text mes- However, just like you should check out sages and logs if the phone is lost or any health advice before traveling to stolen, and makes it possible to block the another part of the world, so you should device, delete data, find its location and take care to ‘vaccinate’ yourself against any even to take photo of anyone who tries to increased risk of cyber-infection on your use it. travels. Don’t forget that the risk of cybercrime can be much higher when traveling. While on holiday: Keeping this in mind, here is Kaspersky While being on a family holiday, it’s Lab’s quick guide to an (electronically) important to have a few contact numbers secure holiday. in case of any emergencies. This becomes particularly important when travelling Booking your holiday: abroad when Internet connections may When you’ve found a reliable site to not always be available. Therefore all book your accommodation, don’t forget to numbers should be kept on the phone, be careful about paying online. Before on a laptop and in writing somewhere. making a transaction, check your device Also when traveling out of the country, and all the software to make sure it is com- make sure you know how to make calls to pletely up-to-date with the latest security your home country from your destination. features. A service to pass money must be checked for security reasons and a solid Wi-Fi Hotspots: anti-virus programme with a built-in safe It is important to take particular care at money protection feature must be always hotspots, i.e. when using free Wi-Fi in run. Kaspersky Lab’s Safe Money technolo- hotels or coffee shops, for there are dan- gy checks that the website is secure, gers lurking here. If possible, it is better to ensures users are not being tricked by a avoid online banking, shopping or mak- fake or fraudulent website and then opens ing any other sensitive transactions from the site in a special, protected mode. hotspots unless a secure VPN connection is secured. For those who know in Devices: advance that they will be using hotspots, WASHINGTON: In this photo taken July 3, 2014, Albert Shum, who heads interaction design across a range of Microsoft products including per- Of course most people like to take a the advice is to keep safe by installing a sonal computer operating systems, Xbox game consoles, and phones, poses for a photo in front of a projection of icons used by those systems, mobile or computer away with them. But VPN app or software. in Redmond. — AP photos if your device has valuable data on it - whether it’s a phone, tablet or laptop - Credit Cards: travelers must make sure they have a Bring more than one credit or debit back-up waiting for them back home. card with you, so you have a Plan B if your That way, if a machine is stolen, broken or card is lost or cancelled. If you travel with lost all the data will be safe on an external large amounts of cash, keep it in the hotel hard drive. safe (along with your passport unless you When using mobile devices on vaca- need to carry it with you). tion, users should install some sort of anti- It is essential to take all the suggested theft protection, or at least be sure they steps to ensure that your holiday is well know how to use the in-built anti-theft protected against any cybercrime threats features on their device. For example the or scams that might disturb your fun. New EMC VMAX3: Industry’s first enterprise data service platform NEW YORK: EMC Corporation ship as the previous generation VMAX (NYSE:EMC) announced the highly anticipated VMAX3Family, which transforms More trusted WASHINGTON: Albert Shum poses for a photo in front of a projection WASHINGTON: Ralf Groene demonstrates a digital pen on the screen of of examples of the popular “hamburger button,” an icon that is cur- VMAX from enterprise storage to an The new flash-optimized VMAX3 his Surface tablet computer in a 3-D printing room at a Microsoft rently used in many different ways on phones and tablets. design lab. enterprise data service platform. This delivers the agility and economics of the fundamentally changes what has - until cloud, with the control and trust of the now - been possible with enterprise stor- VMAX Family’s greater than 99.9999% REDMOND: Before Ralf Groene helped devise the age by bringing new levels of cloud-like (“six nines”) availability. look and feel of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, he agility, efficiency and control within the EMCProtectPoint, a new data protec- designed food - or “food concepts,” he says, for peo- data center. tion solution, enables direct backup from ple on the go. Among them: dried noodles that Historically, IT delivered data services primary storage to protection storage. come wrapped around a pair of chopsticks; a tubu- to internal clients while maintaining full Providing up to 10x faster backup and lar meal that can be pulled with two fingers from a control of the data center. IT was the instant access to protected data, this car cup holder base; and a fork that squeezes out trusted sole provider, but constrained by innovative approach enables backing up sauce. a lack of agility in rolling out new appli- the VMAX3 directly to a Data Domain Though none of these ideas made it into produc- cations efficiently. The advent of public system, eliminating the need for tradition, the principles behind them can be applied to cloud services allowed business owners tional backup computing devices that fit into busy lives, says to bypass IT and quickly procure the infrastructureAndreducting total cost of Groene, and they are just as varied as the ones applications they needed. This self-ser- ownership by up to 65%. Microsoft now uses to redesign all its software and vice approach delivered new levels of devices. “In a way, we’ve designed Surface with very agility; however, it added risk by placing New agility similar principles,” Groene said on a recent tour of the company’s data outside of IT’s trust- VMAX3 delivers radically simple sin- the Surface lab on Microsoft’s sprawling campus in ed control. gle-click provisioning while also Redmond, Washington. “Surface is trying to dissolve To help IT organizations regain con- enabling customers to define service lev- into your day.” trol, a new and far-more agile data center el objectives across consolidated mixed Groene and his team designed the Surface to infrastructure is required. The VMAX3 workloads using the new VMAX accompany its users everywhere. It can be used as a enterprise data service platform enables Advanced FAST Suite. With EMC ViPR tablet-style news reader propped up on its kick- customers to regain control of where integration, these capabilities are provid- stand while you eat your morning bowl of cereal, as best to run specific workloads, within the ed through a self-service model. a notepad to be scribbled on with a digital pen at a data center or in the public cloud. New embedded cloud access capabili- business meeting, and for watching a movie while sitting on your couch later in the day. VMAX3 introduces this innovation to ties will be delivered through TwinStrata, Microsoft is putting an emphasis on design help customers manage their Storage-as- Inc, which EMC acquired today. excellence more than ever - to make its products a-Service through predictable service TwinStrata’s advanced cloud tiering tech- more competitive with offerings from rivals Apple, levels at hybrid cloud scale. nology enables customers to move infre- Google, and Amazon and to prod its hardware mak- quently accessed data to the public ing partners to dream up new, more innovative WASHINGTON: Ralf Groene, chief designer for the Microsoft Surface tablet computer, poses for a photo Technology Highlights cloud for lower TCO. TwinStrata today devices. In recent years, the software giant has put a with a Surface 3 Pro tablet, right, in front of a milling machine used to produce parts for the computer, There architecture of VMAX3 is based supports many of the leading public priority on fashioning devices that work around like the one he is holding at left. upon the new HYPERMAX OS and cloud providers on the market today, and people’s lives, help reduce information overload and Shum was part of the team that revolutionized the it previewed at its Build developer conference in Dynamic Virtual Matrix architecture. will add support for other market leaders become intimate, personal and knowledgeable Windows Phone software design to feature the April. HYPERMAX OS is the industry’s first open as well. about their users. boxy, “live tiles” that are central to the Windows 8 Groene’s Surface team already showed off converged storage hypervisor and oper- And yes, Microsoft is even trying to make touch-based interface. Shum now heads “interac- design improvements with the Surface Pro 3, ating system. It enables VMAX3 to Availability and services devices attractive, cool and desirable, top execu- tion design” for PC operating systems, Xbox game released in June. Clicking the device’s accompany- embed storage infrastructure services VMAX3 with HYPERMAX OS are tives say. Over the last four years, Microsoft has consoles, and phones, all of which were previously ing pen launches the OneNote note-taking app, so like cloud access, data mobility and data expected to be available in the third doubled the number of designers it employs to managed separately. it’s as ready as a yellow legal pad for scribbling. And protection directly on the array. This quarter of 2014 with additional capabili- some 1,400. They have backgrounds as varied as Microsoft’s modern design philosophy draws a new bar magnet on the keyboard cover and a delivers new levels of data center effi- ties to follow. Embedded file and filmmaking, food and footwear. While that pales in upon the minimalist Bauhaus movement, which kickstand with a wider range of motion helped cre- ciency and consolidation by reducing ProtectPoint will be available in the comparison to the 64,000 engineers who make up stresses function over ornamentation, while adding ated a sturdier foundation for typing on a lap. footprint and energy requirements. In fourth quarter of 2014 for additional over half the company’s workforce, designers are in clean typography and swooping motions. This Another problem the design team is working on: addition, HYPERMAX OS delivers the abil- license fees. TwinStrata integration now shaping products, building user interfaces common design language is key to making fixing the “hamburger” icon, says Shum. ity to perform real-time and non-disrup- details will be announced at a later date. and mocking up devices with wood and 3-D print- Microsoft’s offerings seem like a related family of The icon, featured in Windows Phone and the tive data services. EMC Global Services consulting and ers. products and services. Xbox One, has three stacked lines resembling two The Dynamic Virtual Matrix architec- implementation services are available for “It used to be that engineers ruled the roost and With minimal market share in both tablets and buns and a patty. It mostly acts as a “junk drawer” for ture enables customers to dynamically VMAX3 deployments. engineers would bring in designers to make icons,” phones, Microsoft has its work cut out for it. Yet a random menu items, so it’s not clear what you’ll get focus on design over compatibility under new CEO when you click on it, Shum says. allocate processing power for improved says Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s corporate vice presi- Satya Nadella means Microsoft can make products On the Xbox One controller for instance, a physi- performance and to ensure predictable Analyst quote: dent overseeing personal computers, tablets and phones. “It’s changed now.” and services for non-Windows platforms, such as cal hamburger button represents “enter” on a virtual service levels at scale. VMAX3 combines Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, and still retain the keyboard. In games like “Titanfall,” it brings up a the control and trust of the traditional Mark Peters, ESG A break from the past look, feel and functionality of the Microsoft brand. menu of various in-game options. In Windows data center with the flexibility, econom- “EMC says it wants to redefine the Even as the company eliminates 18,000 jobs - Steve Kaneko, a design manager who has been Phone’s Cortana app, though, a hamburger button ics and scale of the cloud, delivering cus- enterprise storage market with its new most of them related to its purchase of Nokia’s with Microsoft since 1991 and has worked on Office, will bring up options for interacting with the digital tomers a more powerful, trusted and VMAX3, and to help the process it has devices unit - Microsoft is empowering people like Windows and other projects, said it’s important for assistant. agile system. created a self-descriptive and incisive Belfiore and Groene to challenge conventional the company to not only design its products to work Shum says his team wants to make the icon work term for its product: an ‘enterprise data notions of what Windows devices can do. well on other platforms, but to talk about what similarly across devices. A hint: it will act like a sign- More Powerful service platform.’ While such style can Microsoft’s new design ethos is a break from the design means to Microsoft. post in a city with many neighborhoods. “It should The new VMAX3 hybrid systems - certainly help, ultimately it is substance past - a time, not long ago, when the company’s That’s become an easier conversation to have always be this thing that allows you to go to differ- including the 100K, 200K and 400K - are that matters: and in this regard the software was largely a workplace necessity housed with top executives including Nadella, who took ent parts of the city,” he says. The company is also purpose-built to support the hybrid VMAX3 does not disappoint. It is a pur- in functional plastic that was crafted by other com- over as chief executive in February. It’s a dialogue working to expand the use of the Cortana digital cloud by dynamically allocating up to pose-built platform that uses heavy dos- panies. It’s no secret that Apple is the world’s most the company wants to start with consumers, assistant, which is active on some Windows Phone 384 processing cores on-demand to es of both raw horsepower and beloved technology company in part because its Kaneko says. devices. The voice-activated persona is meant to meet the performance requirements of advanced, innovative functionality to devices are sleek, comfortable, and easy to use. And offer help proactively - giving you a snapshot of traf- dynamic mixed workloads. The new sys- deliver and manage predictable service Microsoft now wants to infuse its products with the ‘Junk drawer’ fic on the route from the office to your home when tems are designed so that customers can levels at scale. It is designed to allow IT same qualities. Designers today are woven into the As part of one noteworthy design project, the the workday ends, for instance. start “small” - from 100’s of virtual organizations to enjoy the attractive process, from the early stages of product develop- company plans to make greater use of the tiles in an Kat Holmes, a principal designer who helped machines - and grow totens of thou- economics, workload-flexibility and self- ment to the way products are marketed to con- update to the Windows 8.1 operating system. design Cortana, is working on ways that it might sands of virtual machines, all while deliv- service aspects of a cloud approach in sumers, Belfiore says. Pressing Start while in desktop mode will soon bring work in other Microsoft devices, from PCs to the ering predictable service levels. combination with the sheer trust, avail- Microsoft has also recently elevated designers to up several boxy live tiles in the pop-up menu, from Xbox. The guiding principle, which adheres closely VMAX3 offers up to 3X faster perform- ability and scalability of a traditional more prominent leadership roles. which users can launch touch-first apps in the tradi- to Microsoft’s new philosophy, is to help the user in ance and 50% lower total cost of owner- data center.” Take Albert Shum. A former designer for Nike, tional mouse-and-keyboard environment - a feature various ways depending on the situation. — AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Chocolate too bitter? Swap sugar for mushrooms

NEW YORK: An upstart US food technol- made of sugar, according to industry may, however, not be as simple as they ogy company has developed a unique experts. Hahn said his MycoSmooth first appear. Cutting the sugar content fermentation process using mushrooms technology, invented by the company’s may pose new hurdles for confectionery to reduce bitterness in cocoa beans that chief science officer Brooks J. Kelly, can makers if they cut sugar use and replace it believes will cut sugar content in cut the amount of sugar needed in the it with higher cocoa or milk content. chocolate candy. A year after first average chocolate bar by half, from 31 Both are more expensive than sugar. “If launching its fermentation method to grams to about 15 grams. you wind up taking sugar out and rais- reduce bitterness in coffee beans, one of The company is in talks with “major ing the (cocoa) liquor content, you will the world’s biggest commodity markets, chocolate players” in the United States, raise the fat content of the bar, which MycoTechnology, Inc is expanding into but Hahn declined to name them. From will be higher calories,” said Ed Seguine, cocoa and will launch its process yester- its Denver headquarters, the company president of Seguine Cacao Cocoa & day. The market is smaller, but the will start processing its own beans as Chocolate Advisors in Hanover, potential may be bigger with health- well as those on behalf of its customers Pennsylvania, with over 30 years’ experi- conscious consumers seeking lower- and will license out the technology. The ence in chocolate product research. calorie foods amid mounting concerns process will compete with other more “It doesn’t make economic sense about obesity and diabetes. widely used methods, including the because you’ve got to put something in “We use mushrooms that we train “Dutching” process that was developed its place,” Seguine said. After coffee and specifically to remove unwanted aspects in the 1800s and modifies the bean’s cocoa, MycoTechnology is looking at of food and infuse it with the natural taste with an alkalizing agent. widening the use of its procedure to health benefits of the mushroom,” said MycoTechnology’s chemical-free process bulk agricultural markets like rice and Alan Hahn, chief executive of reduces the bitterness, rather than other grains. In the process, MycoTechnology, Inc, formed in 2013 in masking it, at minimal cost. It adds “pen- MycoTechnology takes fermented beans, CHICAGO: Hershey’s chocolate bars are shown in Chicago, Illinois. Hershey Co, Denver, Colorado. “Particularly with nies per lb” to the cost of cocoa, Hahn sterilizes them and then inoculates them the No 1 candy producer in the US, is raising the price of its chocolate by 8 per- chocolate, the bitterness is a big issue. said. with their unique strains of mushroom cent due to the rising cost of cocoa. This is the company’s fist price increase in We remove that bitterness and the need root systems that have been trained three years. — AFP for sugar is reduced drastically.” About Coffee to cocoa specifically to remove bitterness. The and for the following seven to 21 days, urally feed on moisture, oxygen and sug- half of the average milk chocolate bar is MycoTechnology’s chocolate plans beans are then placed in a sealed bag the roots do their work. Mushrooms nat- ars.—Reuters MERS virus detected in air samples from Saudi barn MERS virus has killed at least 327 people, infected 850 LONDON: Saudi scientists have found gene borne MERS-CoV molecules, which were 100 genes, the scientists found that the first air fragments of the deadly Middle East percent identical with the viral genomic sample, collected on Nov 7, 2013, contained Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in air sequence detected from a camel actively genetic fragments of the MERS virus. This from a barn housing an infected camel and shedding the virus in the same barn on the was the same day that one of the patient’s say this suggests the disease may be trans- same day, warrants further investigations camels tested positive for the disease, they mitted through the air. MERS, a serious respi- and measures to prevent possible airborne explained in a report of their work. The other ratory illness caused by a virus known as a transmission of this deadly virus,” said Esam samples did not test positive for the MERS coronavirus (CoV), has infected at least 850 Azhar, an associate professor of medical virus - suggesting short or intermittent shed- people since it first emerged two years ago virology at King Abdulaziz University in ding of the virus into the air surrounding the and killed at least 327 of them, according to Jeddah who led the study. camels, Azhar said. latest figures from the European Centre for Viruses that spread through air - such as Further tests of the first air sample con- MELBOURNE: Activists display placards during a rally at the AIDS Conference 2014 at Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). flu viruses for example - are far more likely to firmed the presence of MERS genetic the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) yesterday. The elusive The vast majority of human cases have spread swiftly and widely in human popula- sequences and showed that the fragments quest for an HIV cure received a boost at the world AIDS conference yesterday as sci- been in Saudi Arabia, but isolated MERS cas- tions than those that can only move from an were identical to fragments detected in the entists said they had forced the virus out of a hiding place where it had lurked after es have been reported across Europe and in animal to a person, or from person to person, camel and its sick owner. “This study also being suppressed by drugs. — AFP Asia and the United States in people linked via direct contact. For their research, Azhar’s underscores the importance of obtaining a who have recently travelled in the Middle team collected three air samples on three detailed clinical history with particular East. Scientists are not sure of the origin of consecutive days from a camel barn near emphasis on any animal exposure for any AIDS study sees advance the virus, but several studies have linked it to Jeddah owned by a 43-year-old male MERS MERS case, especially because recent camels and some experts think it is being patient who later died from the disease. Four reports suggest higher risk of (MERS) infec- for ‘kick and kill’ strategy passed to humans through close physical of the man’s nine camels had shown signs of tions among people working with camels,” contact or through the consumption of nasal discharge the week before the patient Azhar said. The World Health Organization MELBOURNE: The elusive quest for an HIV Schmeltz Sogaard. “This is a step in the camel meat or camel milk. became ill, and he had applied a topical and the Saudi Health Ministry have advised cure received a boost at the world AIDS right direction but there is a long way to go However, in this latest study, published in medicine in the nose of one of the sick camel farm and slaughterhouse workers to conference yesterday as scientists said they and many obstacles to overcome before we the online journal of the American Society camels a week before experiencing symp- take precautions against MERS by ensuring had forced the virus out of a hiding place can start talking about a cure against HIV.” for Microbiology mBio, scientists said the toms. good hygiene, including frequent hand where it had lurked after being suppressed detection of the virus in air samples was con- Using a laboratory technique called washing after touching animals, facial pro- by drugs. The experiment, carried out with HIV ‘fingerprint’ cerning and needed to be followed up. “The reverse transcription polymerase chain reac- tection where feasible, and wearing of pro- six HIV-infected volunteers, is an important Seen through a microscope, the reacti- clear message here is that detection of air- tion (RT-PCR) to detect levels of particular tective clothing.—Reuters advance in the so-called “kick-and-kill” vated virus leaves a trace on the outside of approach for a cure, they said. The tech- infected CD4 immune cells as it returns to nique aims to force the human immunode- the bloodstream, he said. The hope is that ficiency virus (HIV) from its last redoubt this tiny smear, rather like a fingerprint at a after it is beaten back by antiretroviral crime scene, can be spotted by so-called drugs. These drugs can bring HIV in the killer T-cells, the immune system’s heavy blood to below detectable levels, enabling armor. The researchers now hope to com- sick patients to return almost miraculously bine romidepsin to wake up the dormant to normal life. But the therapy has to be HIV and then use a vaccine called vacc-4x taken every day, is costly and carries poten- to prime T-cells to recognize and then tial side effects. If the drugs are stopped, destroy the bolthole. The six volunteers did HIV usually rebounds within a few weeks not suffer any major side effects from and starts once more to infect other romidepsin, apart from known complaints immune cells, exposing the body to oppor- such as passing fatigue and nausea, and tunistic microbes. the lymphoma drug did not interfere with So scientists, for the last three years, their antiretrovirals. Cure research suffered have focused on ways to kick HIV out of its a big disappointment in the run-up to the bolthole and then kill the hideaway cells. In 2014 AIDS forum with the news that a a presentation at the International AIDS strategic prong-delivering a powerful dose Conference in Melbourne, researchers from of antiretrovirals at a very early stage of Aarhus University in Denmark described a infection-is unlikely to work. step forward in the first stage of this Hopes had centered on an American process. Six patients who were on anti- infant known as “the Mississippi Baby”, who retrovirals took an anti-cancer drug called was born with HIV. She was given drugs romidepsin, which prompted virus produc- immediately at birth and the treatment tion in HIV-infected cells to crank up to continued for 18 months, when physicians between 2.1 and 3.9 times above normal. In lost track of her. When doctors next five patients, the level of virus in the blood checked her five months later, they found increased to measurable levels, an impor- no sign of the virus. Now, though, it has tant threshold. been found that after the child had lived The pilot study sought only to see if it for 27 months without HIV and drugs, the was possible to flush out the hiding virus virus has bounced back. Research on lab and make it detectable. Further work will monkeys published on Sunday in the jour- show whether all the remaining virus was nal Nature suggests HIV’s haven, formally exposed this way. And a way has to be called the reservoir, is established within found to destroy the holdout cells where days of infection. On Monday, scientists at HIV reproduces after waking up. “We have Temple University in Philadelphia reported now shown that we can activate a hiber- using an enzyme to snip out HIV genes nating virus with romidepsin and that the from infected human cells in a lab dish, a activated virus moves into the bloodstream useful but still very early contribution in large amounts,” said lead researcher Ole towards a cure.—AFP Encephalitis kills 60 in east India in fortnight WEIHAI: An elderly man exercises as he fishes in Weihai, east China’s Shandong province yesterday. Tens of thousands of domestic tourists visit NEW DELHI: An outbreak of encephalitis has day, while visiting a hospital in Siliguri, some the coastal city during summer. — AFP killed 60 people in two weeks in the eastern 460 kilometers (285 miles) north of state cap- Indian state of West Bengal, a top health offi- ital Kolkata. “We are dedicated to this. The cial has said, calling the situation “alarming’. cases are happening and that’s why people Hundreds of mainly children die across India are here. We are trying to help everyone,” he China City ‘sealed off’ each year from the mosquito-borne virus, said. India’s most populous states of Uttar but West Bengal is not normally one of the Pradesh and Bihar further north are ravaged worst-hit states. Only five people died last by encephalitis every year as mainly mal- over bubonic plague year in West Bengal from Japanese nourished children succumb to the disease. encephalitis, one form of the virus which nor- Encephalitis causes brain inflammation mally hits during the monsoon season when and can result in brain damage. Symptoms BEIJING: A Chinese city has been sealed off and “The city has enough rice, flour and oil to Diseases”. Bubonic plague is a bacterial infection mosquitos breed. West Bengal health servic- include headaches, seizures and fever. Health 151 people placed in quarantine since last week supply all its residents for up to one month,” the most well known for the “Black Death”, a virulent es director Biswaranjan Satpathy said late on experts say 70 million children nationwide after a man died of bubonic plague, state media report added. “Local residents and those in quar- epidemic of the disease that killed tens of mil- Monday there had been a sudden spike in are at risk. National health minister Harsh said yesterday. The 30,000 people living in antine are all in stable condition.” CCTV said lions of people in 14th-century Europe. Primarily cases and deaths between July 7 and 20. Vardhan last month ordered “extraordinary Yumen in the northwestern province of Gansu “authorities are not allowing anyone to leave”, an animal illness, it is extremely rare in humans. Satpathy chaired a meeting of state medical steps” to end encephalitis, including an are not being allowed to leave, and police at although a previous report by the China Daily The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says on officers on Monday to assess the situation immunisation drive and dedicated hospital roadblocks on the perimeter of the city are newspaper said “four quarantine sectors” had its website that modern antibiotics are effective that he said had reached “alarming propor- beds for encephalitis patients in affected dis- telling motorists to find alternative routes, state been set up in the city. No further cases had in treating plague, but that without prompt tions”. tricts. Although there is a vaccine for broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said. been reported yesterday. Plague is categorized treatment, the disease can cause serious illness He said there was no specific reason for Japanese encephalitis, mainly children die The 38-year-old victim died last Wednesday, the as a “Class A infectious disease” in China, a report or death. “Human plague infections continue to the jump, and instead cited “seasonal vari- from other forms of the disease, including report said, and had been in contact with a dead by the official news agency Xinhua said, “the occur in the western United States, but signifi- ance”. “It wasn’t like this in June, it suddenly acute encephalitis syndrome, the exact caus- marmot, a small furry animal which lives on most serious under China’s Law on the cantly more cases occur in parts of Africa and shot up,” Satpathy also told reporters yester- es of which are not known.— AFP grasslands and is related to the squirrel. Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Asia,” it adds.— AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Hopkins pays $190 million in Genetic mapping triggers pelvis exam pix settlement BALTIMORE: For Myra James, the pital was unaware of Levy’s “horrible new hope on schizophrenia process of going to the gynecologist is conduct,” and that he had become a now too much to bear. Since she found “rogue employee” when he began WASHINGTON: Scientists have linked more large studies to ferret out genes related to Dr Thomas Insel, director of the National out her practitioner of 20 years, Dr Nikita recording his patients. than 100 spots in our DNA to the risk of devel- schizophrenia risk because each gene general- Institute of Mental Health, which funded the Levy, had been using tiny cameras to Levy graduated from the Weill Cornell oping schizophrenia, casting light on the mys- ly has only a very weak effect. Schizophrenia is work, said the study provides useful hints secretly record his patients’ genitals, she Medical College in Manhattan, and com- tery of what makes the disease tick. Such work a debilitating mental disorder that makes it about the biology of the disease, especially the said, “I can’t bring myself to go back.” pleted his internship and residency at could eventually point to new treatments, hard to tell the difference between what is real link to the immune system. “This really is a big Levy, 54, had worked at the East Kings County Hospital Center. He began although they are many years away. Already, and not real, and affects about one out of step forward,” Insel said. “It’s not an answer; it’s Baltimore Medical Center, a Johns working at Hopkins in 1988, and was the new results provide the first hard genetic every 100 people. Studies estimate that it costs a step forward toward an answer.” Scientists Hopkins community clinic, for 25 years working at Hopkins East Baltimore evidence to bolster a theory connecting the $60 billion in the US each year. Scientists have already knew that families with autoimmune before he was fired in February of 2013 Medical Center at the end. He saw immune system to the disease. More than 100 long known that genes play a part, and this disorders tend to have higher rates of schizo- after admitting to the misconduct and roughly 12,600 patients during his years researchers from around the world collaborat- work further confirms that. phrenia, and there’s been a link between cer- surrendering his devices to authorities. at Hopkins. “He was cold, and I was kind ed in the biggest-ever genomic mapping of The results are a “big step” toward finding tain viral infections in the second trimester of A search of his home revealed 1,200 of scared of him,” James said. “His bed- schizophrenia, for which scientists had previ- drug therapies, said study lead author Dr pregnancy and higher rates of schizophrenia in videos, and hundreds of images, accord- side manner - he didn’t have any. But all ously uncovered only about a couple of dozen Michael O’Donovan, deputy director of the offspring, Insel said. ing to authorities. Levy committed sui- my doctors were at Hopkins. I’ve had risk-related genes. MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and With the new work, “now it’s very clear that cide 10 days after his firing. On Monday, two surgeries there, my primary doctor The study included the genetic codes of Genomics at Cardiff University School of there’s something going in the immune sys- Johns Hopkins Hospital agreed to a $190 is there. I was used to going there for more than 150,000 people - nearly 37,000 of Medicine in Wales. While 108 genetic markers tem” with schizophrenia, said Eric Lander, million settlement with about 8,000 for- everything.” them diagnosed with the disease. Researchers are a lot, the study authors say they tend to founding director of the Broad Institute, which mer patients of Levy’s who contacted Some women told of being inappro- found 108 genetic markers for risk of getting implicate a narrower group of biological func- was heavily involved in the research. lawyers after Levy’s conduct was made priately touched and verbally abused by the disease, 83 of them not previously report- tions, giving some but not too many hints for O’Donovan figures most people have at least public last year. James, like all 12,600 of Levy, according to Schochor. Some said ed. And scientists say there are still likely more scientists to pursue. “It’s a map or maze. It’s 20 to 30 genes that nudge them toward devel- Levy’s former patients, does not know if they were regularly summoned to Levy’s to be found. “It’s a genetic revelation; schizo- telling you were to start, it’s not telling you oping schizophrenia, probably many more, but she is among those who were recorded - office for unnecessary pelvic exams. “Did phrenia has been a mystery,” said study co- where to end,” O’Donovan said. Scientists who don’t have the disorder itself. That’s because it faces of patients are not visible in the he take pictures of me? There’s no way of author Steve McCarroll, director of genetics for didn’t work on the study were excited by the may still take an environmental or emotional images, lawyers said, rendering it impos- knowing,” said another former patient the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. possibilities it opens up. “This makes me more trigger to bring on the illness. Insel was espe- sible to identify their subjects - but she whose two children were delivered by “Results like this give you things to work on. optimistic than I was yesterday,” said American cially excited about one study finding, that said her faith and trust has been Levy. “I felt violated, because I don’t It takes it out of the zone of guesses about Psychiatric Association president Dr Paul people with the most genetic markers were 15 irreparably eroded by the possibility. know if for sure if he had pictures of me, which genes are relevant.” The results were Summergrad, psychiatrist-in-chief at Tufts times more likely to have schizophrenia than “You’re lying there, exposed. It’s violat- or who has seen them.” His suicide - by released Monday by the journal Nature. It takes Medical Center. those with the fewest markers. — AP ing and it’s horrible, and my trust is wrapping his head in a plastic bag with a gone. Period,” she said. hose connected to a helium tank - frus- The Associated Press normally does trated everyone who wanted to know not identify possible victims of sex his motives and see him face justice. Street fishing thrives in waterways of Paris crimes, but James, 67, agreed to the use Once alerted to Levy’s conduct, hos- of her name. The settlement all but clos- pital authorities quickly notified PARIS: Quentin Nespoulous is standing by Canal pupils must return the fish to the water after show- the Seine, in the 90s, around 15. Today, there are es a case attorneys for both Johns Baltimore police and escorted Levy off Saint Martin, a once run-down waterway in Paris ing them off for the cameras and smartphones. around 30.” Fishing began taking off in Paris in 2009, Hopkins and Levy’s former patients say campus. Police and federal investigators that has been cleaned up and turned into a popular Wearing jeans, with sunglasses perched on his head, according to the French Fishing Federation (FFP). traumatized thousands of women who, later said they found no evidence he haunt for young bohemians. Only this 19-year-old is 16-year-old Paul Germanon says he comes to the Today, more than 6,500 people in the city and the according to the women’s lead attorney, shared the material with others. not here for a hipster hangout or a canalside bistro, canal to fish to “escape into his own bubble by the inner suburbs count themselves among France’s 1.3 Jonathan Schochor, are still - a year and Schochor said all the images will be but to fish. Nespoulous is part of a new wave of water”. “I’m very highly strung, and I find that this million fishing permit holders. a half later - “extraordinarily upset.” “They destroyed by court order. “It is our hope “street fishers” taking to the French capital’s canals sport, which requires so much concentration, calms And the Parisian anglers don’t want the small fry are in fear, dismayed, angry, and anxious that this settlement - and findings by as well as the Seine, where pike, giant catfish and me down,” he says. but aim for a sizeable catch-perch and chub along over a breach of faith, a breach of trust, a law enforcement that images were not black bass have returned in large numbers to with the pike and black bass, said an FFP spokesper- betrayal on the part of the medical sys- shared - helps those affected achieve a healthier waters. “Contrary to what you might think, Tourists welcome son Julie Miquel. Tourists, too, are starting to ask tem,” Schochor said during a news con- measure of closure,” DeVreis said. Paris is bursting with fish, and big ones too,” says The banks of the Seine were once populated by about the sport, with queries oddly cropping up on ference Monday. “Many of our clients still The settlement involves eight law Nespoulous. There are “some monsters in the Seine”, fishermen-scenes often captured by late 19th-cen- travel forums alongside the more usual bid for feel betrayed, and still feel the breach of firms and is subject to final approval by he adds. “The biggest fish I caught, a catfish, was tury artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Georges advice on good hotels or restaurants. The city has trust they have experienced, and they Judge Sylvester B Cox after a “fairness 1.90 meters long.” Seurat before industrialization and the pollution responded with an online map showing top fishing have fallen out of the medical system.” hearing” where the women can speak. Instead of rubber boots and flatcaps, the urban that came with it made fishing a less attractive spots along both the Seine and the Canal Saint The preliminary settlement is one of Each plaintiff was interviewed by a fisherman is more likely to be sporting jeans and a T- proposition. The Seine was “nearly dead” by the ear- Martin. Like the locals, foreign visitors will need a the largest on record in the U.S. involv- forensic psychologist and a post-trau- shirt, and the practice seems to be drawing an ever- ly 1960s, when only three of the 32 endemic fish permit, or “carte de peche”, to fish in the city. While ing sexual misconduct by a physician. matic-stress specialist to determine how younger crowd. Fred Miessner said he began teach- species could occasionally be spotted in the river, the annual permit costs around 90 euros ($122), the Hopkins said insurance will cover the much trauma she suffered and how ing children the basics of street fishing a few years according to the UN World Water Assessment cards cost just a few euros for a child, or 10 euros a settlement, which “properly balances the much money she will receive. Hopkins ago. “It was the children who asked me,” he says. To Program. From 1991 to 2001, some 10 billion euros day for visitors. concerns of thousands of plaintiffs with sent out letters to Levy’s entire patient join his free class, children from age seven need to ($13.5 billion) went into cleanup work in the Seine The permit can be bought online at the website obligations the Health System has to list last year, apologizing to the women know how to swim and have a fishing licence, and River basin, including for the construction of more cartedepeche.fr, which has versions in English, provide ongoing and superior care to and urging them to seek care with other own a rod and reel and a bag of lures. Passersby and than 500 new wastewater treatment plants, the German and Spanish. Back by the canal, Miessner the community.” Hopkins’ attorney Hopkins specialists. “Hopkins had no the beeping of car horns do not seem to put them WWAP says. Celia Blauel, the deputy mayor in shows a young protege how to make a knot to Donald DeVreis on Monday said the hos- idea or inkling,” DeVreis said. —AP off. “In Paris, we don’t fish to eat, but to be in contact charge of environmental sustainability and water, attach a plastic fish lure to the end of his line-”the with fish and with nature,” says Miessner, whose told AFP: “In the ‘70s, there were five types of fish in key thing budding fishermen need to learn”.—AFP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 Enjoy your Eid at Movenpick Hotel Kuwait - Free Trade Zone

inal touches for Eid packages at Movenpick Hotel band music. dom to choose from the hotels air conditioned tents at the Kuwait were finalized to turn the property into a family Eating at Movenpick Hotel Kuwait becomes a beautiful Garden Restaurant, where a generous special dishes are Fheaven with great discounts and special offers. experience with the Italian restaurant Al Dente offers the served to family and friends with life oriental band music For all connoisseurs, the Movenpick Hotel Kuwait pro- real Italian spirit with its special and diversified Italian menu, and flavored Hubble - bubble throughout Eid days. vides an exceptional offer at Bays Restaurant during their as for the Brazilian Cuts restaurant, it offers delicious barbe- And it is important to mention that Movenpick Hotel stay. Renowned for its panoramic view overlooking the cued varieties of meat, along side of succulent platters and Kuwait offers a special and elegant English lounge, where the hotel’s swimming pools, guests can enjoy lavish Eid Brunch live entertainment famous Movenpick Ice Cream is served, with a huge variety buffets at Bays International Restaurant with life oriental Furthermore, Movenpick Kuwait guests have the free- of tea and snacks, at the sounds of a Live Piano every night.

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Shaab Sea Club concludes activities he Shaab Sea Club concluded activities organized for club members and their families during the holy month of Ramadan. The activities include competitions in tennis, table tennis, football, and a competition for memorizing the Holy Quran. Touristic Enterprises Company officials, including Jassem Al-Shumais, the Beaches and Sea Clubs Department Manager, and Dhari Al-As’ousy, Acting TSupervisor for the Shaab Sea Club, attended the conclusion ceremony. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

Atlantis The Palm, Dubai finalizes preparations to welcome Eid Al Fitr

tlantis The Palm, Dubai, the leading entertainment Waterpark and free admission to beautiful underwater rants for every person including Ronda Locatelli, Asian with the spectacular Aquaventure 3 for 1 Summer Offer. With resort in the Middle East, announced yesterday the exhibits in The Lost Chambers Aquarium, guests will also Republic and TBJ, for every night of stay. For parents look- every ticket purchased to Aquaventure Waterpark, guests Acompletion of its preparations to welcome Eid Al Fitr enjoy special offers on experiences in Dolphin Bay and Sea ing to enjoy some well-deserved alone time, the package receive free lunch and free admission to beautiful underwa- which will include several family offerings during the three- Lion point. also includes a 2 for 1 spa treatment (30 minute head, neck ter exhibits in The Lost Chambers Aquarium. Lunch is a com- day holiday. In partnership with VISA, Atlantis will continue also offer- and shoulder massage) at ShuiQi Spa & Fitness and compli- bo meal deal (drink and meal) redeemable at two restaurants The Eid offerings will provide guests staying at the resort ing The Visa Family Fun package valid till 30th September mentary daily afternoon or morning access to Kids Club or in park with over 20 mouth-watering lunch options including for KWD 140 with a variety of activities to keep everyone 2014. The offer includes one night in a Deluxe Room includ- Club Rush per day per child. gourmet burgers and pizza, mouthwatering Arabic cuisine entertained. With unlimited access to Aquaventure ing breakfast and lunch or dinner from a choice of 14 restau- Aquaventure Waterpark will continue rewarding its guests and exotic Indian and asian fare.

Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr with Sheraton Kuwait and Four Points by Sheraton Kuwait Al-Andalus Trading holds raffle draw elebrate Eid Al- Fitr this year paramount offerings of international Avenues Mall, complimentary shuttle ‘Win an Action Packed Summer with Samsung’ with Sheraton Kuwait, A Luxury cuisine in Al Hambra for breakfast, service to avenues mall and late CCollection Hotel and Four Points lunch and dinner buffet at both the check-out. The newly renovated and he Al-Andalus Trading Company age that includes 2 business class ances worldwide, and it was no sur- by Sheraton. There is no better way to Sheraton Kuwait and at Grand expanded Four Points by Sheraton announced the release of its return tickets on Emirates Airlines for prise that it was selected from among start Eid Al Fitr than with delectable Avenue, The Avenues. The Four Points Kuwait is offering a special family “Win an Action Packed Summer 2 adults, deluxe category rooms in a several others as the sole distributor and sumptuous global cuisines and by Sheraton Kuwait will be open for summer package for you to best enjoy T with Samsung” promotional cam- 5-star hotel for 5 nights. of Samsung Electronics, the no. 1 unique cultural experiences. all to enjoy its deliciously sumptuous your Eid holiday, where you will be paign on purchases of Samsung tele- The “Win an Action Packed brand in the world. Commemorate the joys of Eid Al- buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner able to take advantage of the conve- visions, where the purchase of one of Summer with Samsung” was organ- It is worth noting that the response Fitr in the indigenous atmosphere with an added option of a la carte. niently located Starbucks in the lobby, the select Samsung TV models gives ized by Al-Andalus Trading Company to the Raffle Draw had been over- with Sheraton Kuwait, experience the For the families planning to cele- the fantastic health club with a superb the opportunity for buyers to enter in on the side of the World Cup games whelming, which indicates clients’ exemplary fine dining of the bona fide brate the Eid Al Fitr with Sheraton view of Kuwait City, the exquisite a raffle draw to win the trip for two to with the objective to continue to confidence in the Samsung products Italian cuisine at Riccardo. Guests are Kuwait, A Luxury Collection Hotel, panoramic view while enjoying a Seychelles, Cape Town or Shanghai for maintain its competitive edge as the as a result of the continuing promo- also able to conveniently enjoy take advantage of our exclusive relaxing swim on the 42nd floor and five nights, besides winning instantly leading retailer for household elec- tional campaigns that are organized authentic Lebanese cuisine at Le upgrade from a standard room to a the most dependable service. a Go Sport gift vouchers and compli- tronic and electric equipment in by Al-Andalus Trading to keep its Tarbouche, exotic and delicious Indian junior suite at the price of a standard On this occasion, Fahed Abushaar, mentary giveaways including Kuwait. Even 50 years after it was first clients abreast with the latest that are Cuisine at Bukhara, genuine Iranian room, inclusive of: daily breakfast, the General Manager and Area Samsung AirTracks*. company has established in Kuwait in 1963, Al- produced by Samsung to meet their cuisine at Shahrayar, marvelous complimentary Wi-Fi, complimentary Director and the family of Sheraton packaged a special prize for the win- Andalus has been the preferred brand ever growing needs for quality house- English tea and light snacks at the shopping discount vouchers to use at Kuwait, would like to take this oppor- ner of the draw on purchases of for most of the biggest brand names hold electronics and electric equip- English Tea Lounge and serving the the M.H. Al Shaya retail outlets at the tunity to wish everyone a Happy Eid. Samsung televisions, as a travel pack- in electronic and household appli- ment.

The Regency prepares for Eid Al Fitr with exciting offers

he General Manager Aurelio Giraudo said “Firstly, I is similar to The Royal Brunch served every Friday from unforgettable. The Ladies’ Lounge will be open daily start- would like to wish the citizens of Kuwait and the 12:30PM until 3:30PM. The brunch will include an array of ing from the first day of Eid Al Fitr until 31st October, 2014 TMuslim community a blessed Eid Al Fitr and may it delicious salads, appetizers, main dishes and desserts. from 8.00am to 7 pm, with exclusive memberships and be filled with joy.” He also added; “We are preparing a Children will also enjoy the brunch, with a magic show, daily entries for 12 years and above. Kindly note that number of exciting surprises for our guests to make their face painting and kid’s food corner which includes a pop- owing to high demand, The Ladies Lounge occasionally stay special. We have put together a number of offers of corn station, ice cream and chocolate fountain. reaches full capacity (100 guests) and in order to maintain our elegant rooms and luxurious suites that overlook the And to celebrate the summer with a completely new the level of five star services expected at The Regency we Arabian Gulf and our garden and swimming pools.” The vision and higher standards, The Regency will once again do restrict entrance at certain times. We have created a Regency will also feature an upgraded brunch buffet at open the doors of its swimming pools, beaches and exclu- mechanism in which we contact ladies when there is avail- Silk Road Restaurant daily during the Eid Holidays, which sive Ladies Lounge to make your stay at The Regency able space. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

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Arrival Flights on Wednesday 23/7/2014 Departure Flights on Wednesday 23/7/2014 MISCELLANEOUS Airlines Flt Route Time Airlines Flt Route Time QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 AIC 982 Ahmedabad/Hyderabad/Chennai 00:05 Looking for a 3-4 years old JZR 239 Amman 00:20 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:20 automatic car in Kerala. JZR 267 Beirut 00:25 UAL 981 IAD 00:25 Interested please call: JZR 539 Cairo 00:30 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 69080683. (C 4816) PGT 4970 Istanbul 00:30 JZR 502 Luxor 01:30 22-7-2014 DLH 637 Dammam 00:35 DLH 637 Frankfurt 01:35 JZR 565 Sohag 00:45 PGT 4971 Istanbul 01:45 PGT 858 Istanbul 01:25 THY 773 Istanbul 02:20 CHANGE OF NAME THY 764 Istanbul 01:40 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:45 I, Ibrahim Navabjan holder MSC 404 Sohag 03:30 of Indian Passport No. GFA 211 Bahrain 02:00 THY 769 Istanbul 03:40 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 F0497541 hereby change Suitable alliance invited UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 my name to Ibrahim from born again Christian MSC 403 Sohag 02:30 FDB 068 Dubai 03:45 JAI 576 Kochi/Abu Dhabi 02:35 Nawabjaan Shaikh women between age 34 to RJA 645 Amman 03:55 Thiruchirapalle T.N. 38 with good job, for a born ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 02:45 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:10 THY 768 Istanbul 02:50 Mumbai. A-Sector C-Line again Christian bachelor, MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 FDB 067 Dubai 03:05 R.No. 11. Cheeta camp, age 46. Working in Kuwait OMA 644 Muscat 04:20 RJA 644 Amman 03:10 Trombay Mumbai 400088 for a defense co. Contact QTR 1077 Doha 04:25 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 MS. (C 4815) email: [email protected] MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 OMA 643 Muscat 03:20 17-7-2014 16-7-2914 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 JZR 560 Sohag 05:35 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:10 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 MATRIMONIAL Prayer timings THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 RBG 556 Alexandria 06:05 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 25 years old good looking RBG 555 Alexandria 05:25 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 Pakistani Lift Engineer KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 employed in reputed com- BAW 157 London 06:35 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 pany, earning very hand- KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 KAC 545 Alexandria 07:20 some salary owning BMW KAC 204 Lahore 07:35 BAW 156 London 08:25 car, living in luxury fur- JZR 503 Luxor 07:40 FDB 054 Dubai 08:25 nished apartment belong- FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 ing to known landlord Jatt KAC 288 Dhaka 07:45 KAC 117 New York 09:05 family looking for educated KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 and extra beautiful girl for Fajr: 03:31 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 immediate marriage. zaidi- Shorook 05:03 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 [email protected] Duhr: 11:54 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:55 KAC 364 Colombo 08:00 om, Fintas PO Box 1476, Asr: 15:29 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 Code 51015 Kuwait. Maghrib: 18:46 KAC 344 Chennai 08:20 FDB 056 Dubai 10:20 Isha: 20:15 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:25 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 IRA 665 Shiraz 09:25 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 KAC 501 Beirut 11:40 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 IAW 157 Baghdad/Al Najaf 11:00 IAW 158 Al Najaf/Baghdad 12:00 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 12:10 JZR 561 Sohag 12:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 SYR 341 Damascus 12:05 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 JAV 621 Amman 12:10 KAC 103 London 12:30 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 JZR 786 Riyadh 12:50 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 SYR 342 Damascus 13:05 CLX 792 Luxembourg 13:15 JAV 622 Amman 13:10 FDB 057 Dubai 13:45 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:15 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 KAC 546 Alexandria 14:15 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 FDB 058 Dubai 14:25 SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 CLX 792 Hanoi 14:30 KNE 472 Jeddah 14:40 QTR 1079 Doha 14:55 KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 15:00 ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 KNE 462 Madinah 15:45 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 NIA 251 Alexandria 16:00 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:35 JZR 787 Riyadh 16:15 SVA 503 Madinah/Jeddah 15:45 QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 FDB 051 Dubai 16:25 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 UAE 857 Dubai 16:45 KAC 513 Tehran 16:20 KAC 562 Amman 16:50 KNE 463 Madinah 16:30 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 JZR 357 Mashhad 17:30 NIA 262 Luxor 17:00 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 JZR 483 Istanbul 17:55 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:30 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 KAC 166 Paris/Rome 18:40 JZR 564 Sohag 18:20 FDB 063 Dubai 18:45 UAE 858 Dubai 18:25 RBG 553 Alexandria 18:55 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 KAC 618 Doha 19:00 FDB 064 Dubai 19:25 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:00 QTR 1081 Doha 19:25 ABY 129 Sharjah 19:00 RBG 554 Alexandria 19:35 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 ABY 120 Sharjah 19:40 KAC 502 Beirut 19:20 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:45 KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 MSR 619 Alexandria 20:30 MSR 606 Luxor 19:30 KAC 283 Dhaka 20:30 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 KAC 102 New York/London 19:35 FDB 062 Dubai 20:45 OMA 647 Muscat 19:55 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:50 FDB 061 Dubai 20:05 KAC 361 Colombo 20:50 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:15 DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 IYE 826 Sanaa 20:20 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 ETD 919 Abu Dhabi 20:25 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 KAC 514 Tehran 20:50 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 IYE 827 Mukalla/Sanaa 21:20 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 ETD 920 Sharjah 22:25 KNE 460 Riyadh 22:00 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 FDB 059 Dubai 22:10 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 BBC 043 Dhaka 23:10 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 NIA 263 Luxor 23:20 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 KNE 461 Riyadh 22:50 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 FDB 060 Dubai 22:50 KLM 411 Amsterdam/Dammam 23:40 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:35 THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 KAC 415 Kuala Lumpur/Jakarta 23:50

DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION stars34 WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

CROSSWORD 617 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) Whatever frustration appears this morning will be short term. You You may find yourself more interested in security these days. You are, by might feel that some avenue of support has been cut off or blocked. Do nature, very domestic and enjoy nice surroundings. You may become not take these problems personally. Arguments of an emotional kind are just a part expert at search and inquiry into the nature of a subject-be it life, scientific research, etc. of life from time to time. Your inner self-confidence may be lacking just now-consid- You have a passion for searching, finding out and communicating. If you are more con- er this a great time to test your ability to rise above a difficult situation. If you listen cerned with security these days, call the police department and have an officer come to to that inner voice of yours instead of the ego, you will quickly know the right path your house to inspect your home and give suggestions. You will discover things you didn’t to take in most situations. Do not forget that you are very gifted, having great mag- know and you will be pleased to find many things you are doing that actually make your netism and a powerful mind. You can do anything you want to do in this life, if you home more secure than most. Perhaps one or two of your neighbors will want their homes can manage to get moving in one direction and keep at it. There are possibilities for inspected as well. You will have time to tidy up around the house this afternoon. a romantic and fun evening.

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

You are aggressive in the pursuit of gaining insight into all that is new, In-depth discussions and probing conversations find you at your mental different and out of the ordinary. You communicate with excellent skill and it is stim- best. Your problem solving abilities work very well today. This could be a ulating just being with you. You could be most persuasive and successful with oth- good time to come to grips with any repeat difficulties-for taking control of the forces ers. A group situation may need some guidance and you can affect a positive change within you that slow your progress. In other words-negative moods and plans that slow among the group. This calls out for your experience and grace. This is a natural for you down could be worked through-let go and move forward. Do not burn your bridges self-expression and lends itself to your particular ideas and thoughts. You will find behind you; learn that the only things we truly can control are ourselves. This afternoon is a good time to become better organized or rearrange your living situation. Catching a good communication between your co-workers, friends and neighbors this after- glimpse of a special sale in a store window may have you investigating some new home or noon. This is a great time to be with others in an atmosphere of work or play. You yard equipment. Things to help create a simple life are important now. will have plenty of energy for whatever you choose to do today.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You have an inner urge to be all things to all people and will respond, There is a sense of emotional coolness or detachment at the personal level or find someone to respond, particularly if there is a need to meet. You today. It is ideas that count for you now, more than narrowly personal con- may find plenty of opportunities to be a coordinator of events today. You are a natu- cerns. Progress with a new relationship is positive. Your ambitions are of high caliber and ACROSS 3. Area around the altar of a church for the ral diplomat, always courteous and concerned with the comfort and welfare of oth- you attract high-caliber people into your life. You try hard and you always push on toward 1. Characteristic of a mob. clergy and choir. ers. You stay in the background, but are able to manipulate and bring out coopera- whatever goals you have in mind. This is an impressionable time, highlighting your more spiritual nature. Anything that stirs your higher emotions will be favored now. A love of 4. A public register showing the details of 4. The unit of frequency. tion in others every time. You are very motivated when it comes to matters of care and service-taking care of details. You are up for any task that requires conservation. music and art will feed your soul. The social scene in general is very important during this ownership and value of land. 5. A particular geographical region of indefi- time and can have a very decided influence on your career or community life. Politics nite boundary (usually serving some special There is an urge to salvage everything. You love other people, large and small 12. A former monetary unit in Great Britain. groups and relationships in general. You may want to enjoy your hobby this evening would be an option, if you are interested. 15. Any of various primates with short tails or purpose or distinguished by its people or cul- or visit with a friend. no tail at all. ture or geography). 16. City in the Transvaal. 6. Without the natural or usual covering. 17. A constellation in the southern hemi- 7. A member of an Indian people formerly liv- sphere near Telescopium and Norma. ing along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 18. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from Texas. the command module to the surface of the 8. A chronic drinker. You are doing very well with training yourself not to worry so much. As You have an innate love of the law and working things through, and you are a result, you may want to be aware that it would be easy to be reclusive moon and back. 9. A drug (trade name Trental) used to treat not put off by problems and obstacles. On the contrary, you look forward to and that would make you unhappy; find the middle road. You are who you are and solving them. You will be working with others regarding vocation or career guidance 19. Assembly possessing high legislative pow- claudication. today is a great day to just enjoy being you! Fine art, wine and food are in the fore- ers. today. There may be a career-counseling weekend soon for the young people in your 10. A state in New England. cast for tonight. Consider eating lightly during the day so that you can really dive in community. You can wisely advise. Frivolous people and timewasters, however, had bet- 20. A mountain peak in the Andes in 11. Having or showing keen interest or and enjoy the celebrations later this evening. Professionally, you excel. You are a ter keep their distance from you. There is a sense of emotional coolness when you Argentina (21,654 feet high). intense desire or impatient expectancy. credit to your calling. If you need more funds for a project around your living quar- become focused, but you have a special affinity with helping others. Many find you a gen- 22. Someone who works (or provides workers) 12. A large bundle bound for storage or trans- ters, consider writing a how-to book or instruction manual on car games for kids or erous and loving person. Shopping this evening, the new and the unusual may grab your during a strike. how to talk to the animals, etc. A charity organization comes to your attention this attention. Careful, you may not have gotten paid yet. port. summer. Happy birthday! 24. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed 13. Using speech rather than writing. diving bird of northern seas. 14. Something causes misery or death. 25. A Bantu language sometimes considered a 21. The region of the body of a vertebrate Aquarius (January 20- February 18) dialect of Zulu. between the thorax and the pelvis. Leo (July 23-August 22) 27. An associate degree in nursing. 23. An aggressive remark directed at a person A quiet time this morning allows you time to focus and enjoy that “floating” 29. Treacherously cowardly. like a missile and intended to have a telling Today you will be able to tackle tasks that require real discipline or organi- feeling. Your imagination is very powerful today. You and your loved ones 31. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi zation. You find yourself in a very practical mood and working with the rise may find fun conversations about dreams. This is a good time to write with real originality- effect. and fall of an interesting day. You can really convey yourself to others. You are very career- in the struggle for home rule. 26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal there are new story ideas. Inventions and creative ideas are possible. You sense and have a oriented and it is important to you that today your personal reputation and honor are rec- built-in knowledge of what others can only guess. This is nothing that you have accom- 34. Strike with disgust or revulsion. to 10 liters. ognized. If you are trying to convince others of some new type of technique, it may be a 35. Toward the mouth or oral region. plished or labored for as you were born with this ability and this information. Others sense 28. A subtle difference in meaning or opinion good idea to have some supported statistics to back up your words. You possess a natural this and learn about themselves from being with you. They soak up the information you 39. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic or attitude. sense of organization and practical insight and may excel at managing or supervising oth- convey so effortlessly. This whole day is a day of appreciation, for the people that love you protozoa that form temporary pseudopods 30. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat ers. You love belonging to a large-scale organization. Tonight it is time to leave work to the butterflies that visit your garden. behind and use your energy to enjoy some out-of-doors fun tonight. for feeding and locomotion. trimmed off. 40. An official language of the Republic of 32. Preserve a dead body. South Africa. 33. The locus of feelings and intuitions. 42. A master's degree in business. 36. The capital of Morocco. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 43. The compass point that is one point east 37. Of or containing nitrogen. (clockwise) of due north. 38. A corticosteroid drug (trade names You have a strong sense of duty to complete whatever is set before you in New ways to communicate or an easy manner will make conversations and 46. A percussion instrument consisting of a Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or interactions go well. You may find yourself more talkative than at any other pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually the workplace today. A conservative streak sets you against anything that is not realistic. Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to You have no patience for pie-in-the-sky ideas and things that are not secured. Remember time. A dialogue with an older person or someone in authority may take place. You have held between the thumb and fingers) that are treat allergies or inflammation. a slower pace will get you where you want to go. Mysticism and psychic phenomena an unusual ability to motivate other people; especially in group work today. Your enthusi- made to click together (as by Spanish 41. A radioactive element of the actinide intrigue you, despite your convictions to the contrary. You could take a vacation from asm is catching, making you an ideal teacher or group leader, especially with young peo- dancers) in rhythm with the dance. your responsibilities and explore some more imaginative regions. Short trips or some hob- ple. 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Twain’s Vegas residency to end in December

ountry superstar Shania Twain will end her residency in Las came to town in November 2012. Traffic down the Las Vegas Strip Vegas with a final show Dec 13, two years after she made a was temporarily halted for a herd of horses that accompanied her Cgrand Sin City entrance on horseback and began performing on her grand entrance. Her stage show features trained horses, a at Caesars Palace. Twain announced 16 “Shania: Still the One” shows live band and a flying motorcycle. Organizers said at the time that in October and December, in addition to summer performances Twain’s residency would be a two-year engagement. She will have running through Saturday at the Colosseum - the same venue that performed more than 110 shows by the end of the year. hosts fellow Canadian Celine Dion. “I can’t thank Las Vegas enough,” Twain said in a statement, calling the city “home” and noting an after-school program she launched in a needy Las Vegas school. “I started the first international Shania Kids Can clubhouse in Las Vegas because I love this city, and my time here has given me more than anyone can ever know.” The singer, known for hits including “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” and “That Don’t Impress Me Much,”

Library honors Billy Joel Elba in talks to star in with US pop music prize Ritchie’s ‘Knights of the he Library of Congress is honoring Billy Joel with its Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Librarian James TBillington said yesterday the singer-songwriter, Roundtable: King Arthur’ whose hits include “Piano Man” and “Uptown Girl,” will receive the prize in Washington in November. The here’s a “RocknRolla” reunion on the horizon, as Idris Elba Gershwin Prize honors a living artist’s lifetime achievement is in talks to co-star in Guy Ritchie’s “Knights of the in music. Previous recipients include Paul Simon, Stevie TRoundtable: King Arthur” an individual familiar with the Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, the songwriting duo of Burt project has told TheWrap. Elba is not circling the lead role of Bacharach and the late Hal David, and Carole King. Joel is Arthur, but rather an older Knight named Bedivere, Arthur’s among the world’s most popular recording artists. He has father’s right-hand man who takes it upon himself to train the said his piano-driven compositions spring from personal young warrior for battle as he learns his true destiny. Joby experiences, and that he strives to write songs that capture Harold wrote the script and will produce with his Safehouse and transcend those moments. With a career spanning 50 Pictures partner Tory Tunnell, as well as Akiva Goldsman and years in the entertainment industry, Joel is the sixth top- Lionel Wigram. Warner Bros will release Ritchie’s medieval movie selling artist of all time. on July 22, 2016. Elba next stars in the home invasion thriller “No Good Deed” and the Sean Penn action movie “The Gunman,” as well as Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation.” He’ll also voice Shere Khan in Disney’s “The Jungle Book.” Elba, who won a Golden Globe several years ago for “Luther,” is represented by WME, Headshell Management and the Artists Partnership. Williams lashes out at British Airways aisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark of “Game of Thrones,” finally figured out how to stick ‘em with the pointy end - the pointy end Mof her social media account, at least. The 17-year-old HBO star’s character is famous for her fiery spirit, adaptive nature, and relative profi- ciency with a sword, but in real life she’s making a name for herself as a disgruntled airline customer. After being refused entrance to British Airways’ business class lounge for being under age (she won’t turn 18 until April 2015) and unaccompanied by an adult, the up-and-coming starlet aired her grievances Sunday on Twitter. “Denied from the business lounge once again for being under 18 and without an adult.. @British_Airways sort your shit out.,” Williams’ profanity-charged tweet, which now has more than 2,000 favorites, read. The airline replied just three hours later. The company was polite and apologetic, but stood firm on its position. “@Maisie_Williams Hi Maisie. We’re sorry if you were disappointed, lounge guests must be 18 or older. We look forward to welcoming you soon.,” the airline responded. Problem solved, right? Not so much. When you play the game of business class lounge disputes, you either win or you continue tweeting, apparently. “Yes.. @British_Airways fully understand that, my question is why? Why can we travel alone but not use the lounge? It makes no sense.,” Williams continued. “Just saying if 16-18 yr olds are grown up enough to travel 5,400 miles around the world..” Season 5 of “Game of Thrones” will air in next spring.

Dwayne Johnson Vin Diesel: Fast and to play Shazam Furious 7 ‘hardest’ film he’s made wayne Johnson has revealed he could play Shazam. The hunky actor, 42, revealed the news in an interview with LoveFilm, when he Dsaid that his character “would have the power of Superman”. Asked about his ambitions, Johnson said: “Shazam, of course, I would love to play. in Diesel says ‘Fast & Furious 7’ was the Sadly, Paul died before finishing filming his They approached me about [Captain Marvel] and [villain] Black Adam as “hardest movie” he’s ever made. Filming scenes for ‘Fast & Furious 7’ and his brothers well. “We’ve been meeting for months. We’re toying with either one. I has now wrapped for the seventh install- Caleb and Cody Walker were asked to fill in for think it’s up to the fans. Without question.” The DC Comics character - V whose powers are magical rather than alien - will be better-known to ment of the film franchise and actor Vin Diesel their late sibling as a body double, so that the has opened up about the pain of losing his co- movie could be completed. Dwayne “The Rock” some comic book fans as Captain Marvel. Described as ‘The World’s star Paul Walker in a tragic car accident in late Johnson - who also stars in the film - previously Mightiest Mortal’, Shazam is considered to be among the most impressive 2013. Talking to Access Hollywood, Vin reflected: confessed that completing the project was “bit- of the DC characters and would seem to be a good fit for Johnson’s incred- “It was surreal. Needless to say the hardest tersweet”. He shared: “Last day on set, it was bit- ible physique. However, he could also play the role of Black Adam, who is movie I’ve ever done. “I remember when the tersweet. It was emotional, it was beautiful. It almost identical in appearance to Shazam, but whose personality has tragedy happened. My mother said, ‘It’s not fair was amazing, it was sad, it was all those things. been corrupted by magical powers. Johnson has confirmed that he is hap- that you have to mourn in front of the world’. We are all in the business we all know and love py for the fans to decide which of the roles they want him to play. He said: “What’s even harder is to mourn and simultane- Paul Walker and we truly lost one of the good “I think it’s up to the fans, very specifically because they are passionate ously pretend that that person is next to you. It’s ones.” He added: “My number one thought is for about the comic book, about the history and mythology [of the charac- very, very weird.” Paul - who played Brian his daughter [Meadow Walker]. I believe she is ter].” O’Conner in the films - died in November last doing okay. I think she’s doing as okay as she year while in the passenger seat of a car being can.” driven by his friend Roger Rodas. The car burst into flames after hitting a lamppost in California Chastain and it’s thought that the vehicle could have been travelling at up to 100 miles per hour. to be honored at Deauville American Film Festival essica Chastain will be honored at the Deauville American Film Festival. The ‘Lawless’ actress is to be recognized as the next hon- Joree during the festival - which is set to take place in Deauville, France, this September - after impressing its director, Bruno Barde, with her “grace, talent and beauty”, reports Digital Spy. He explained: “The tribute is a token of our affection, admiration, recognition and esteem for the talent of the recipient. “For the past few years, we have been paying tribute to those actresses who embody the cinema of today and who will form the legacy of tomorrow. “We salute her grace and talent and the beauty of the truth she brings to her performance.” Barde added that the 37-year-old actress - who earned Academy Award, BAF- TA and Golden Globe-nominations for her role in ‘The Help’ and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her part in the 2012 military thriller ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ - has earned the title through her constant stream of attention-grabbing performances. He said: “When we first discovered Jessica Chastain, we had the definite feeling that here was someone special on-screen. Through her successive roles, she has confirmed her emotional capacity to grab the limelight.” Chastain can next be seen in ‘Interstellar’, ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Miss Julie’ and Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’, in which she stars alongside Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014

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Benson loves ‘freedom’ of independent film shley Benson loves the “freedom and challenge” of admits the level of recognition she received when out with independent film. The ‘Spring Breakers’ actress - co-stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez was “crazy”. Awho is best known for playing Hanna Marin in TV She told Company magazine: “When I went to Europe for show ‘Pretty Little Liars’ - is hoping to make more movies as the ‘Spring Breakers’ tour, that was nuts because I also had she enjoys stepping away from the long-running show. Selena and Vanessa with me. It just created a whole craze! She said: “Film is where I want to head towards and every “I remember being in Paris and we were at a mall shop- year I try.”I’d love to do independent films, I think there’s ping, and we looked out of the window and there was more freedom and more of a challenge. “Because I’ve thousands of people waiting outside - like we were the played the same character on the show for years, any Beatles. It was like, ‘Woah, this is crazy.’ chance I get to play someone completely different to who I am or what I’ve played before, I like to jump at.” While the 24-year-old star enjoyed working on ‘Spring Breakers’, she

Paul van Dyk slams artists who ‘sound the same’ erman DJ Paul van Dyk has slammed artists who all “sound the same”. As a pioneer of the elec- Gtronic dance genre, the musician has spoken out against DJs who copy each other and thinks they all sound indistinguishable from one another. Talking to Radio.com, the Grammy Award-nominated DJ vented about the situation, explaining: “The problem I see, let’s call it ‘EDM soup’, it’s all sounding the same. It’s like, I’m pretty sure even fans of this music can’t say, ‘This is the new track by this person’ or, ‘That new track by that person’, because they all sound the same. “I don’t want One Direction electronic music to die once the EDM hype is over. This music is there to stay forever, therefore we need to focus on artists who made music that lasts longer than to release new film three minutes on the radio.” The 42-year-old DJ also expressed his frustration with DJs who are too reliant ne Direction are to release what is expected to be Milan’s San Siro Stadium on June 28 and 29 as part of the on technology to do their job for them, although Paul the “biggest concert movie ever”. The ‘Little Things’ Italian leg of their current world tour, and will also include does admit that he currently has a large amount of kit hitmakers - who released a film about their lives on behind-the-scenes footage captured by the group’s friend O to assist him when doing a gig. He said: “When I’m the road, ‘This is Us’, last August - will bring out ‘Where We Ben Winston and a previously unseen interview with band playing now, I pretty much have a recording studio Are: The Concert Film’ in over 50 countries on October 11 members Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zayn with me onstage. I have keyboards, computers, custom and 12, promising a huge global audience for the screen- Malik and Niall Horan. The film is executive produced by made mixers, a lot of controllers that enable me to be ings. A source told The Sun newspaper: “This could Simon Cowell and has been made by Fulwell 73, the same really interactive and actually play things, “I prefer become the biggest concert movie ever-there’s going to company behind ‘This Is Us’. The group’s last film drew in maybe me pressing the wrong key at some point and be more than 10,000 screenings internationally. “So many over £40 million at the UK and US box office. still be able to be live than everything being pro- 1D fans didn’t get the chance to buy tickets to the band’s grammed and you just put the USB stick in the CD play- show because the stadium tour sold out - but this means er, press play and then [wave your hands].That has no one will have to miss out.” The concert was filmed in nothing to do with what electronic music means to me and the real followers of electronic music.”

Lovatois inspired by Pinterest

emi Lovato gets her hair style inspiration from Pinterest. The 21-year-old singer - who currently sports lavender and silver The Libertines promise DombrÈ-colored locks - gets her ideas for her vibrant styles from the website, which allows users to post photographs and pictures they like to a virtual pin board. When asked what color she was going to dye ‘special’ release her hair next, Demi told E! News: “I was kind of bored of the colors that I’ve had and I wanted something that wasn’t as like out there as hot he Libertines wants to do something Palace in September. He said: “We’re gonna pink. So I changed it. I love lavender and I thought silver could be really “more special” than a new album. The be doing some new songs at Ally Pally. We cool, too. “I love going on Pinterest and looking at different hair colors. Treunited ‘I Get Along’ group have been were just working on one right now, before Whenever I see like a cool color I sit with it for a little bit, and if it’s real- writing new material together, but they want you came in. I can tell you that one of them ly, really good then I’ll get it.” The ‘Heart Attack’ hitmaker - who was to do something different to a regular has got this in it [makes a noise on a vintage recently announced as the new face of Skechers footwear - claims she release. Drummer Gary Powell told XFM: “I typewriter].” Gary previously admitted he constantly gets fed up of having the same look for too long and has think that would [be] the plan to maybe do a and his bandmates would only record new tried colors including bubblegum pink and teal-green. Unsurprisingly, new album. But hopefully we’re gonna material if their current run of European Demi - who is dating ‘That 70s Show’ actor Wilmer Valderrama - also maybe try something that might be a little shows, including a performance in London’s admitted that it won’t be long until she visits the hairdressers again. bit different. Everybody does an album, Hyde Park earlier this month, went well. He The former ‘X Factor USA’ judge said: “I really want to do just a solid col- everyone does an EP... “We wanna do some- said: “We’re pretty much using this whole or, no ombre. But the second I do that I’m probably going to want the thing that might be a little more special than period of time as a lightness test for how we ombre back with some crazy color. Or the second I do that I’ll want to just release another album. Everything we do can move forward. It would be very easy to go blonde!” has to be about the connectivity between us say ‘yeah we’ll do some new material’, but, and our friends and family, being the fans. for instance, if we went and played Hyde And we want to do something special for Park and it wasn’t well received and every- them.” Meanwhile, co-frontman Pete Doherty body hated it then it would be very difficult - who is joined in the band by Gary, Carl Barat for the band to actually move forward.” and John Hassall - promised fans will get their first listen of new tracks when the group perform three shows at London’s Alexandra

U2 to release new album later this year

2 will release their new album later this year. The four-piece rock band - made up of lead singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton Uand drummer Larry Mullen Jr. - are said to be planning to release their currently unnamed thirteenth studio album, this November. It is believed the band - who are set to play at one of the iTunes Festival gigs at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, in September - could even have their new material ready to debut at the performance. The album is the first to be released by the group in five years and will follow-up the their 2009 work ‘No Line On The Horizon’. However, it has been a difficult time for singer-songwriter Bono, 54, who is believed to have suffered from writers block throughout the production process. A source told The Sun newspaper: “The U2 comeback is very much on for this year. This album has been a real struggle for them to make. “It’s taken a long time and Bono didn’t find it easy.”But they feel very confident now and are convinced the wait has been worth it.” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES N American box office goes bananas for ‘Apes’

awn of the Planet of the Apes” clung $29.8 million in ticket sales for second place in lion in ticket sales. Meanwhile cop comedy “22 tight to the top of the North American the sequel’s debut week. Next in line with $17.5 Jump Street,” featuring Jonah Hill and Channing ‘Dbox office for a second week in a row, million was “Planes: Fire & Rescue,” the Disney Tatum, landed in seventh place with $4.7 million. final figures showed Monday. The “Apes” saga, computer-animated tale of talking aircraft work- Summer blockbuster sequel “How to Train based on the Pierre Boulle sci-fi tale of humans ing to fight blazes and help save a national park. Your Dragon 2” raked in $3.9 million to come and primates clashing to survive, earned $36.3 It follows on the heels of last year’s “Planes.” in eighth. In ninth place was family-friendly million in its second week out, for a total of $139 “Transformers: Age of Extinction” was pushed sci-fi flick “Earth to Echo,” which earned $3.3 million during its two weeks in theaters so far, to fifth place with $9.8 million or $227 million in million in its third week. Rounding out the top according to box office tracker Exhibitor total ticket sales over four weeks. In sixth was 10 was “Maleficent,” the modern retelling of Relations. Second, third and fourth places were comic romp “Tammy,” starring Melissa McCarthy, the life of Sleeping Beauty’s arch-nemesis, as each held by box office newcomers. whose road trip with her alcoholic grandmother, played by Angelina Jolie, which grossed $3.2 Horror-thriller “The Purge: Anarchy” scared up played by Susan Sarandon, brought in $7.4 mil- million. — AFP Casablanca piano up for sale

he iconic piano from of the cast and production mem- Hollywood romance os. All of the lots come from a pri- T“Casablanca” goes on sale at vate collector. “Bonhams is thrilled auction in New York in November, to represent this remarkable the highlight of more than two ‘Casablanca’ collection, certainly dozen collectors’ items from the one of the most significant film Indian Bollywood actors Rajneesh Duggal, Ranjeet and Subhashree Ganguly pose fabled war-time classic. “Play it, memorabilia collections still in during the trailer launch of their upcoming Hindi film ‘Spark’ in Mumbai on July 21, Sam,” says a stunning Ingrid private hands,” said Catherine 2014. —AFP Berman, cajoling Dooley Wilson Williamson, director of into singing “As Time Goes By” Entertainment Memorabilia at before a moody Humphrey Bonhams. The auction house Bogart storms over to find his ex- expects the piano to sell for seven lover sitting in his nightclub. figures. It last sold for $602,500 at Watts in negotiations to Wilson’s character Sam first auction in 2012, below Sotheby’s played the song on the piano for then estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 Bogart’s character Rick and million. The sale also features a join Gyllenhaal in ‘Demolition’ Bergman’s Ilsa when they fell in host of other collector pieces love in Paris as Nazi troops from other films, including a test advanced on the French capital. dress and pinafore designed for The salmon-colored instrument is Judy Garland for the 1939 pro- the star of more than 30 items duction of “The Wizard of Oz.” The from the 1942 black and white items will go on display in pre- movie offered for sale on view exhibitions held in Los November 24 by Bonhams auc- Angeles from November 6-9 and tion house and Turner Classic in New York from November 20- Movies. 24. “Casablanca” is ranked one of Also on sale are the doors of the greatest American films of all “Rick’s Cafe Americain,” Bogart’s time by the American Film nightclub where Bergman asks Institute. The Warner Bros movie Bogart to help her fugitive Czech won three Oscars in 1943 for Best resistance leader husband escape Picture, Best Writing (Screenplay) to America. Other lots include and Best Director. It is perhaps passports and transit papers cre- best known for Bogart’s catch- File picture taken June 13, 1996 shows the piano used in the 1942 ated for the film, a final draft phrase to Bergman “Here’s lookin’ movie ‘Casablanca’ to play ‘As Time Goes By’ sitting on display inside screenplay, signed photographs at you, kid.” — AFP the Warner Brothers Studio Museum in Burbank, California. — AFP

Naomi Watts ‘Birdman’ to close wo-time Oscar nominee Naomi Gyllenhaal’s character as she learns of his Ryan, Alda, ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Watts is in negotiations to star pain and loss. Vallee has previously Topposite Jake Gyllenhaal in described “Demolition” as “a powerful actor Join Spielberg movie “Demolition,” which is slated to be the and touching story, written with a strong New York Film Fest next film from “Dallas Buyers Club” direc- and sincere desire to try to understand scar nominees Amy Ryan and Alan Alda, as well as Billy Magnussen tor Jean-Marc Vallee, an individual famil- the human psyche, what makes us so (“Boardwalk Empire”) are joining Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s iar with the project has told TheWrap. unique, so special, what makes us love. Ountitled Cold War thriller, it was announced Monday by Disney, Black Label Media is financing and This is a script of a rare quality, of a beau- which distributes DreamWorks’ live-action movies. 20th Century Fox is co- producing the movie with Mudd, whose tiful humanity.” Black Label boarded the financing the film with DreamWorks. Spielberg is directing from a script by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russ project in October 2013, while Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, based on an original screenplay by Matt Smith will produce with Black Label’s Gyllenhaal’s involvement was first Charman. Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill and Trent revealed back in June. The DreamWorks movie is based on the true story of James Donovan, an Luckinbill. Right of Way’s Jason Reitman A dozen years after “The Ring” made attorney who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the and Helen Estabrook will executive pro- Watts a movie star, the Australian actress CIA sends him on a near-impossible duce with Nathan Ross, who is Vallee’s is as in-demand as ever. Watts is currently mission to negotiate the release of a producing partner and manager. filming the “Divergent” sequel “Insurgent” captured American U-2 pilot. Based on the 2007 Black List script by with Shailene Woodley, and she’s slated Ryan joins British actor Mark Bryan Sipe, “Demolition” follows a young to reprise her role as Evelyn, leader of the Rylance in the film, as she has closed investment banker (Gyllenhaal) strug- Factionless, in both “Allegiant” movies. a deal to play Hanks’ wife. Alda and gling to understand his emotional dis- She’s also attached to play Matthew Magnusson are still in talks, as is “The connect following the tragic death of his McConaughey’s wife in Gus Van Sant’s Knick” star Eve Hewson, who will play wife in an auto accident. As he tears drama “Sea of Trees.” Watts has two Oscar Hanks’ daughter, as TheWrap first apart his life in a distraught effort to see nominations under her belt for “The reported earlier on Monday. The where he went wrong, he becomes Impossible” and Alejandro Gonzalez British actress will be trading one obsessed with destruction and develops Inarritu’s “21 Grams,” and she’ll soon be famous father for another, as she is a unique relationship with a single moth- busy promoting a trio of awards season the daughter of U2 frontman Bono. er (Watts) who rescues him. movies - she co-stars in Inarritu’s festival- Spielberg is producing with Marc Should a deal close, Watts would play bound showbiz comedy “Birdman”; plays Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, a pot-smoking customer service repre- a stripper alongside Bill Murray in “St. while Daniel Lupi and Adam Somner sentative for the company behind a Vincent”; and stars opposite Ben Stiller in will executive produce. DreamWorks vending machine that eats the protago- Noah Baumbach’s “While We’re Young.” executive Jonathan Eirich will over- nist’s money. Though she’s dating her Watts is represented by CAA and Untitled see the project for the studio. own boss, she begins to fall for Entertainment. — Reuters Production is set to begin in September and will be shot on location in New York and Berlin. Disney will release Spielberg’s untitled Cold Crowe movie starring War thriller on Oct. 16, 2015. Ryan earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as a Boston Cooper, Stone delayed to 2015 mother in Ben Affleck’s directorial lejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of debut “Gone Baby Gone.” She recently Ignorance” will serve as the closing-night attraction at the 2014 played the wife of another Oscar win- New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center olumbia Pictures and Regency tractor (Cooper) who returns to the site of his A ner, Colin Firth, in the West Memphis announced on Monday. The film, which will have its world premiere at the Enterprises have pushed the release of greatest career triumphs - the US Space pro- 3 movie “Devil’s Knot.” Ryan will soon Venice Film Festival a month earlier, stars Michael Keaton as a fading Cthe untitled Cameron Crowe movie to gram in Honolulu, Hawaii - where he recon- be seen in Alejandro Gonzalez action hero trying to revive his career with a stage production of a May 29, 2015. The film had been slated to hit nects with a long-ago love (McAdams) while Inarritu’s “Birdman” as well as the studio films “Goosebumps” and “Monster Raymond Carver story. Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis and theaters in December. Bradley Cooper, unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Trucks.” She’s repped by the Gersh Agency and attorney Dave Feldman. Alda Andrea Riseborough also appear in the film. Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams star Air Force watchdog (Stone) assigned to him. earned an Oscar nomination for his supporting performance in “The “Birdman” will be the third Inarritu film to appear at NYFF, following alongside Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, In play is a complex satellite system being Aviator.” He’s currently filming an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel “Amores Perros” in 2000 and “21 Grams” in 2003. The Fox Searchlight/New John Krasinski and Bill Murray. “Once we saw launched by an enigmatic billionaire with “The Longest Ride.” He’s repped by ICM Partners. Magnussen is a former Regency release opens theatrically on Oct 17. This year’s NYFF will open the film, we knew that it would make a per- suspicious intentions (Murray). In addition to soap star who has been grabbing high-profile feature roles, including the on Sept. 26 with the world premiere of David Fincher’s “Gone Girl,” and will fect summer release. The movie is Cameron writing and directing the film, Crowe pro- big job of replacing Jake Gyllenhaal as Rapunzel’s Prince in Disney’s musical run through Oct 12. It will also include a centerpiece gala screening of at his best,” said Jeff Blake, chairman of duced the picture with Scott Rudin and “Into the Woods.” He also co-starred in Whit Stillman’s “Damsels in Distress.” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice.” Tickets will go on sale to the pub- worldwide marketing and distribution for Cameron Crowe. The movie was executive He’s repped by WME, Authentic Talent and Literary Management and attor- lic on Sept 7, with subscription packages now available to Film Society of Sony Pictures. produced by Ilona Herzberg, Eli Bush and ney Robert Offer.— Reuters Lincoln Center members — Reuters Story follows a celebrated military con- Ben Waisbren. — Reuters lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Israel violence moves production of FX’s ‘Tyrant’ roduction of FX’s series “Tyrant” recently relocated from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, Pshowrunner Howard Gordon told a TV Critics’ panel Monday. “Tel Aviv was under missile fire and people were running into bomb shelters. I don’t think anybody felt physically threatened, but it was not conducive to shooting,” he said. “Tyrant” stars Adam Rayner as the second son of a dictator in a fictional Mideast country who returns with his family after making a life in America. FX says the show moved last week and season one’s remaining two episodes will be shot in Turkey. “Tyrant” is not the only show that has reconsidered filming in Israel. Last week, “Homeland” showrunner Alex Gansa told writers, “We spent about two weeks seriously considering the possibility of setting the show in Israel this season. And all I can tell you is I’m very happy that we didn’t.” The show is now shooting in Cape Town, South Africa. This photo released by FX shows Mor Polanuer, left, as Samira and Fares Fares, This photo released by Showtime shows Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in “Homeland,” Season 4, Conflict between Hamas militants and Israel as Fauzi, in a scene from the TV series, “Tyrant,” which aired Tuesday, July 15, filmed in South Africa. broke out two weeks ago. — AP 2014, 10. — AP photos ‘The Purge: Anarchy’: How Jason Blum deal complements Universal’s monster mash strategy he big weekend showing by “The Purge: Anarchy” at the the studio is working with writer-producers Alex Kurtzman (the box office - it more than tripled its production budget “Spider-Man” and “Star Trek” franchises) and Chris Morgan (the Twith $29 million in its first three days - is a scenario that is “Fast and Furious” movies) to reboot its classic monster movies turning into part of the strategy for Universal. Simply put, the like Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, the studio is trying to drive its bottom line by sending chills up Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Invisible Man, the Bride of Frankenstein and the Mummy. “Every studio is mining whatever they have in their libraries to build new properties to create tentpole movies that will have global impact,” said BoxOffice.com vice-president and senior analyst Phil Contrino. Those monster movie remakes are envisioned as action- thrillers rather than horror movies, and may to a degree make superheroes of the classic creatures. The goal is to intertwine and mix-and-match the monsters, creating a stable of related Helen McCrory characters upon which to build franchises as Disney has done with Marvel’s and Warners Bros. has with the DC Comics cast. They’ll be more traditional projects, considerably costlier to Modern ‘Medea’ in London stars make and market than Blum’s specialty, which is producing chillers with tiny budgets that bring huge returns. The ceiling is higher - horror movies rarely play well overseas and achieve blockbuster-type global grosses - but the investment and risk Potter film’s Helen McCrory are greater, too. Blum’s franchises “Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious,” “The Purge” and “Sinister” have grossed more than elen McCrory of Harry Potter trayed twice on screen, throws her all kneel and weep in front of a man like $1.2 billion worldwide - and the combined budgets of those fame is a chain-smoking Medea into the role of the spurned wife who that except to get my own way?” That movies is under $40 million. Hand pop duo Goldfrapp provides gets revenge by killing her own chil- extra day will prove to be the undoing As specialties go in today’s risk-averse movie business, a riveting score for a new staging in dren. of everyone. Jason, the same one from that’s a great one. The producer famously caught box-office London of Euripides’s 2,500-year-old “I might be choked with misery, mythology whom Medea helped to lightning in a bottle in 2009 with the original “Paranormal play that may not be the “Medea” of all famished by grief but there is still life in steal the Golden Fleece from her own Activity,” which was made for $15,000 and grossed close to time but is certainly one for this age. me,” Medea wails, before unearthing a father in far-away Colchis, is the perfect $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in The adaptation, which had its press sack containing a poisoned garment for male hypocrite. “It seems I must defend Hollywood history. Since Universal Pictures Chairman Donna night at Britain’s National Theatre on Kreusa to wear, and a dagger to kill her myself,” he says. “I married, I made you Langley brought the producer in 2011, the Blum business Monday, sets the scene as the audience sons. “I’m not finished. There’s trouble happy, I civilized you - you were nothing model has blossomed with the studio’s marketing and distri- enters to see Medea’s two young, come to the house of Kreon.” McCrory, when I found you.” bution muscle behind it. doomed sons lying in sleeping bags on all winsomeness and guile one minute, “We are strangers here ... we would “The marketing team and the producers really did a great stage, watching television under the and spitting poison the next, is hardly have starved ... I can keep you and our job of working together with ‘Anarchy,’” said Contrino, noting watchful eye of their nurse. off stage for a minute of the 90-minute family safe.” But essentially this is a play that the bottom line on the original film screamed sequel, but On a floor above them is a room with production, directed by Carrie Cracknell, about women driven to the extreme of there was a considerable criticism of the first movie from a banquet table set with a wedding whose staging of “Blurred Lines” about what the text says only one woman has moviegoers. “They listened to their fan base and and made cake, Their father, Jason, played by rape culture was a hit for the National ever done before, which is to kill her your spine, and has now positioned itself to do so on the changes for ‘Anarchy,” and that obviously helped. Danny Sapani, will marry Kreusa, the last year. own children. cheap and with big-budget tentpole projects. Sunday’s “Extending and broadening the deal with Blum makes young daughter of King Kreon of The adaptation, by the National The women of Corinth are the Greek decade-long extension of its partnership with low-budget hor- sense,” Contrino continued. “His movies are more reliable a bet Corinth in a nuptial that has fired Jason’s associate director Ben Power, updates chorus, questioning Medea about her ror king Jason Blum, whose Blumhouse Productions is behind and less risky than just about anything in the marketplace right first wife into a vengeful rage. At the the language to modern idiom but dis- intentions and asking how she could do “The Purge” and several other cut-rate horror franchises, is a now, and should be very complimentary in terms of what back of the set is a primeval forest that penses with some of the nuances of such a thing. They also perform twitchy big part of the picture. Another is last week’s disclosure that Universal’s trying to do overall.” — Reuters could serve double duty for the witches other versions. He pares the role of King dances to the Goldfrapp score sugges- from “Macbeth” and where Medea howls Kreon, played by Martin Turner, who as tive of the pressures on women who, as her curses and will later kill her sons. a result gives in a bit too easily to Medea says, must split in two to give The nurse, played by Michaela Coel, Medea’s plea to stay an extra day before birth. She says she would rather go into is the Cassandra of the evening, who in being banished from Corinth. In one of battle like a man than ever do it again. her prologue says there is only one way several of Power’s updatings that drew In the end Medea overcomes her the play can end - and returns at the laughs from the audience, Medea reas- love for her children, and for Jason, to conclusion to say, in effect, “Well, I told sures the nurse who has seen her kow- provide him and his by-then dead bride, you so.” McCrory, reprising in some ways towing to Kreon that she has not sud- who has been reduced to a heap of her Narcissa Malfoy witch from the denly gone soft. bones by the poisoned robe, with the Potter films, but also deploying the wedding day from Hell. The audience, Indian Bollywood charm of former British Prime Minister Driven to the extreme though, gets a great 90 minutes of the- dancer Remo Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie, whom she por- “Do you honestly believe I would atre. — Reuters Fernandes, actresses Madhuri Dixit and Rani Mukerji, and director Karan Johar Vine star Mendes finds pose for a photograph during a promotional event breakthrough on pop charts for the forthcoming Hindi film ‘Mardaani’ ix seconds isn’t a long time, but Vine superstar Shawn Records. “I never really looked at Vine as a resource to find in Mumbai Mendes made the time count when posting cover talent,” Chareton said. “We knew the social following was yesterday. — AFP Ssongs on the social media platform. The teen singer there, but he had never sold a song before,” Gertler added. says he would pick the hits he would cover - and the sec- “Coming to New York and seeing that girls were showing tions of the tracks - and post them on Vine to showcase his up to his hotel and seeing that these numbers online were talents and grab positive attention. “You’d think, ‘I don’t translating to physical people was when we were kind of Kanye West wants to ‘fight for understand why the kid has so many followers because it’s like, ‘OK, this is getting serious.’” Chareton said Mendes’ only six seconds. How are you supposed to know if he’s sound will echo Ed Sheeran, John Mayer and OneRepublic. any good at six seconds?’ But there’s an art behind getting “I want this to be the complete antithesis of Austin the re-education of what celebrity is’ people to be intrigued because you only have six or six Mahone. Even though he’s going on tour with him to kind and a half seconds to impress people,” he said in a recent of garner that same demographic and fan base, we want anye West is more than just a celebrity, and that’s the tioned from not even being allowed to attend runway shows interview. quality records,” he said. Some people have likened theme of the rapper-entrepreneur’s latest interview to now collaborating with designers, in addition to launching Mendes, who will be 16 next month, secured a follow- Mendes to Bieber, a Canadian teen who had a break- Kwith GQ. Predictably, West was full of Kanye-isms in the his own fashion line. “I’m here to fight for the re-education of ing on Vine, where he had 300,000 fans awaiting his posts. through on the Universal Music Group label. Chareton said lengthy Q&A, where he compares himself to a blowfish, wants what celebrity is,” he says. “To say, ‘Yes, we are celebrities, but Record labels caught wind of his strong social media pres- he’s OK with the comparison, but notes that fans should to “fight for the re-education of what celebrity is,” and stays as yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also ence. “Island Records was the first record label to ... also expect something different. “I take no offense to that thoughtful.’” acknowledge me,” said Mendes, who signed with the label. because (Bieber) became extremely successful, but the He tells the magazine of his many run-ins with the “After that, quickly Republic Records, and then Atlantic one thing I will say about Shawn is you’re never going to paparazzi and his reputation for being on the offensive: “I’m a Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros It was all the labels see him onstage with 30 background blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish. I wasn’t coming out at once. It was absolutely insane like knowing that this dancers, pyrotechnics and records of my house going to a paparazzi’s house to attack them. I’m many record labels were interested in me.” produced and having features defending my family in front of my own house. I’m defending Mendes’ strong social media stardom is translating to from Nicki Minaj,” he my name as someone’s screaming something negative at me. the pop charts: His single, the ballad “Life of the Party,” said. —AP That’s a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a debuted at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t month, selling an impressive 148,000 tracks. He has 2.8 fol- want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help lowers on Vine and 1.3 million followers on Twitter. He will people.” But he’s got a new album to finish first, which he release his four-song, self-titled EP next week and will go thinks will drop in September, October or November. One on tour with Austin Mahone and Fifth Harmony on Friday year since its release, he’s - of course - still very proud of his in San Antonio. “Yeezus” album. “I think Yeezus is the beginning of a com- Mendes began posting clips on Vine last year from his Canadian music pletely new era of music. It was all new rules. It just broke home in Canada, starting with a cover of Justin Bieber’s “As artist Shawn modest as always by declaring himself personally responsible every rule possible. None of the ideas were popular ideas ... I Long as You Love Me.” His manager, Andrew Gertler, dis- Mendes poses for at least 50% of Balenciaga’s men’s shoes sales. would have just liked to have had more nudity in it. That’s the covered the singer after searching YouTube for covers of A for a portrait, West seems frustrated by the public’s perception of him only thing,” West says of his oft-parodied music video “Bound Great Big World’s “Say Something.” He immediately sent on Wednesday, and seems to want to change that now. West says he’s already 2.” “I just want to do crazy, colorful shit like that that has more the clip to Ziggy Chareton, an A&R manager at Island July 9, 2014, in changed the way the fashion industry sees him, having transi- nudity.” — Reuters New York. — AP Shania Twain’s Vegas residency to end in December

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In this photo released by Fox, Homer explains why he wants to bring back the annual 4th of July fireworks display, after it’s cancelled for budget reasons, in the “Yellow Badge of Cowardge” Season Finale episode of “The Simpsons,” in May 2014.—AP ‘Simpsons’ marathon, digital

he full 25-year run of “The Simpsons” will dents. “I’m not going to over-promise, but I “Simpsons” episodes and “The Simpsons executives said. Fans of Sideshow Bob, for ed show and winner of 28 Emmy Awards. For arrive on cable channel FXX with a sum- think this website will provide you with afford- Movie,” in chronological order, will begin Aug instance, will see “curated” material that the first time in 20 years, however, the show Tmer marathon, to be followed this fall by able health care,” longtime “Simpsons” execu- 21 and air 24 hours a day through Sept 1. includes a list of his attempted murder victims missed out on a top-series nomination for a digital extravaganza that could turn other TV tive producer Al Jean told a TV critics’ meeting Beginning on Sept 2, FXX will regularly air “The Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson, among this year’s awards, airing Aug 25. FXX will get shows yellow with envy. A website and app Monday. He said the accompanying app “com- Simpsons” throughout its weekday and week- others. Clips and the treasure trove of future seasons of “The Simpsons” that air new dubbed “Simpsons World” will allow on- pletely blew me away.” end schedule, with a Sunday “mini-marathon” “Simpsons” factoids can be shared through on Fox.—AP demand access to all of the 500-plus episodes SimpsonsWorld.com and content available of eight episodes. social media. of Fox’s animated comedy and enable users to through FXNOW apps for devices including “Simpsons World,” the encyclopedic book FXX announced last November that it had search through the life histories of Mr Burns, iPhone, Xbox and smart TVs are set to debut in by series creator Matt Groening, was the secured exclusive cable and video-on- Bart and other lemon-hued Springfield resi- October. FXX’s marathon showing of all “bible” for the digital content, FX Networks demand rights to TV’s longest-running script- Marathon 18-hour Shakespeare play dazzles Avignon n 18-hour version of Shakespeare’s epic “Henry VI” ended to sustained applause early yesterday at AFrance’s top arts festival in Avignon, marking a triumph for the play’s 32-year-old director. The daunting task involving 21 actors, 150 characters, seven intermissions and 10,000 verses took a decade to come to fruition, director Thomas Jolly said, describing a long-cherished dream that finally turned to reality. The play began at 0800 GMT on Monday at the Avignon Arts Festival and ended at 0200 GMT yesterday. It will be held two more times in the southern French city before being staged elsewhere-but only in shorter parts. After graduating from drama school in the northwestern city of Rennes in 2006, Jolly got a few students together to create a theatre company he named “Piccola Familia”, or Little Family. Three years later, Jolly said he decided to stage Henry VI-a three-part play-in one go despite huge odds. “We were a very young company, six at the time... and it’s a project thought to be impossible to put together,” Jolly said. “It took time to convince people: too heavy, too expensive, too many people,” were the arguments against it, he said. “Henry VI is not just a story of two families-Lancaster with a red rose as its emblem and York with a white rose that chase after each other to know who will be king-but more a portrait of a century in revolution,” Jolly said.

Rollerblades and red phone “Everything changes between the 15th century described in the play and the 16th century of Shakespeare: printing is born... Galileo declares that the earth is round, navigation and trade explode”, and Protestant Reformation emerges which questioned a lot of prevailing Christian ideas, he added. The play is set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses-a series of dynastic wars for the throne of England pitting two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: York and Lancaster. The conflict resulted from social and financial troubles that followed an earlier and long drawn war, combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry VI, which revived interest in the alternative claim to the throne of Richard, Duke of York. “It is pertinent to see how the king has no power, like the politicians we have elected and who seem impotent,” Jolly said. The play-which actually runs for 13 hours minus inter- vals-features several anachronisms such as rollerblades used by a royal messenger and a red telephone. It is not the first time that Avignon has seen marathon plays. “La Servante” directed by current festival director Olivier Py in 1995 lasted 24 hours and a nine-hour version of the Indian epic “Mahabharata” directed by Peter Brook took place in 1985.—AFP