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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 RABI AL-AWWAL 2, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net

OPEC agrees on first Max 22º Min 13º output cut since 2008 High Tide 13:59 Russia to reduce production too • Oil jumps above $50 Low Tide 07:25 & 19:05 40 PAGES NO: 17067 150 FILS VIENNA: The OPEC oil cartel defied expectations yester- day and nailed down its first joint output cut since 2008 after tough talks in Vienna, sending oil prices soaring. Amir reappoints Sheikh Jaber as PM Brent North Sea crude for January delivery was up $3.77 at $50.15, the first time it has risen above $50 in a By B Izzak their first coordination meeting hosted month. West Texas Intermediate was up $3.98 at $49.21. by veteran opposition MP Mohammad The accord announced by the Organization of the KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Al-Mutair. The meeting was attended by Petroleum Exporting Countries is aimed at reducing a Ahmad Al-Sabah yesterday renamed 25 lawmakers and two more who could global supply glut that has kept prices painfully low. outgoing Prime Minister HH Sheikh not attend said they support its deci- It represents a dramatic reversal from OPEC’s Saudi- Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to form the sions. Mutair said the meeting discussed led strategy, introduced in 2014, of flooding the market next Cabinet. The decision came after at length the issue of electing the speak- to pressure rivals, in particular US shale oil producers. the Amir held consultations with former er, as three opposition MPs have said The cartel will lower its monthly output by 1.2 million speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and for- they will contest. Mutair said he decided barrels per day (bpd) to 32.5 million bpd from Jan 1, mer prime minister HH Sheikh Nasser to withdraw from the race in favor of Qatar’s energy minister and president of the OPEC con- Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, in MPs Abdullah Al-Roumi and Shuaib Al- ference said. “This is a major step forward and we think addition to Sheikh Jaber himself. Former Muwaizri. A four-MP committee was this is a historic agreement, which will definitely help three-time speaker and opposition also formed to study the cases of Roumi rebalance the market and reduce the stock overhang,” leader Ahmad Al-Saadoun was not pres- and Muwaizri in order to try and help Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada told a news conference ent at the consultations. select one of the two. in Vienna. He also said that the deal will help lift global Sheikh Jaber was first appointed to Their next meeting will be held on inflation accelerate to a “more healthy rate”, including in the post in late 2011 after the resigna- Saturday with the aim to resolve the the United States. tion of Sheikh Nasser. He has to form the speakership issue and come up with It finalizes a preliminary deal struck in September in new Cabinet before Dec 11 when the one candidate to face off with Ghanem, Algeria when OPEC agreed to cut production but left National Assembly is scheduled to hold who is expected to run. Several lawmak- the details to clear up later. Negotiations got bogged its first meeting. Newly-elected MPs ers have openly called for electing a down in a game of poker between OPEC’s three biggest have called on the prime minister to new speaker to replace Ghanem. MP producers, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, on who would do carefully read the outcome of the gener- Yousef Al-Fadhalah, who did not attend the heavy lifting. Iraq had said it did not want to pump al polls, in which the opposition won the opposition meeting, called on his less crude because it was short of money to fight KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the almost half of the 50 seats. Twitter account on the government Islamic State group extremists. It also disputed how Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday. —KUNA Meanwhile, opposition MPs held Continued on Page 13 much it actually produced. Continued on Page 13 Currency ban slims PAGE Palestine startups PAGE fat India weddings keep innovating Riyadh Motor Show back in gear

RIYADH: In a Saudi economy where began on Tuesday night. European luxury restraint is the buzzword, this week’s brands are absent from the show, which is small-scale Riyadh Motor Show is a sign of targeted at the average buyer and takes Alwaleed: Let the times. But following widespread eco- up just one section of a Riyadh conven- nomic austerity in the kingdom hit by tion center. Much of the hall is devoted to falling oil revenues, the fact that the event auto accessories. Saudi media described women drive is being held at all after a three-year the exhibition space as several times absence has given hope to car retailers. smaller than at the previous show. RIYADH: An outspoken billionaire Saudi prince has Although it is usually an annual event, the Retailers in the kingdom in general are called for an “urgent” end to his country’s ban on NEW YORK: Former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin, US President- last show was in 2012. “There was not complaining of lower sales and residents women driving, saying it is a matter not just of rights Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, speaks with reporters in much interest from different companies say they have less money to spend. On top but of economic necessity. “Stop the debate: Time for the lobby of Trump Tower yesterday. — AP to participate” in the intervening years, of hikes in the prices of petrol, electricity women to drive,” Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on his said Alaa Aboumerhi, general manager of and water over the past year, the cabinet official Twitter account. Alwaleed is an unusually forth- marketing for Hyundai Wallan, Saudi dis- in September imposed a wage freeze on right member of Saudi Arabia’s extensive royal family. tributors for the South Korean brand. civil servants, who make up the bulk of the Trump to leave business to He holds no political posts but chairs Kingdom Hyundai sedans are on display along- workforce. Among saving measures at the Holding Co, which has interests including in US bank- side rivals including Japan’s Toyota, highest levels, top government officials focus on running country ing giant Citigroup and the Euro Disney theme park. China’s Chery and US brands Chevrolet will no longer be given cars. He is a longtime advocate of women’s rights in the and GMC at the four-day event which Continued on Page 13 Treasury chief named conservative Islamic kingdom, which has NEW YORK: US President-elect Donald way have a conflict of interest with my var- some of the world’s Trump yesterday tried to stifle concerns ious businesses,” he tweeted. tightest restrictions on that his business empire represents a con- US law does not require Trump to give women and is the only flict of interest, promising to put it aside as up his business portfolio, although the country where they he packed his cabinet roster with fellow Constitution states that no federal official are not allowed to billionaires. In one of his trademark can receive a gift or “emolument” from a drive. In conjunction predawn tweetstorms, the Manhattan real foreign government. Some previous presi- Prince Alwaleed with his short tweet, estate mogul said that next month, he will dents have placed investments in a blind Alwaleed’s office reveal a plan to put aside his “great busi- trust, but they were not required to do so. issued an uncharacteristically long statement late ness in total in order to fully focus on run- Critics argue it would be an unprecedent- Tuesday outlining his reasons for supporting an end to ning the country”. ed ethical conflict for Trump to maintain the ban. “Preventing a woman from driving a car is The 70-year-old tycoon did not say who an interest in properties spanning the today an issue of rights similar to the one that forbade would take over his multi-billion dollar globe that rely in part on goodwill from her from receiving an education or having an inde- global property and luxury branding inter- foreign governments and regulators. pendent identity,” Alwaleed said. “They are all unjust ests, but said his children would be pres- And, even on home soil, his company acts by a traditional society, far more restrictive than ent at a December 15 news conference. He has attracted criticism for marketing the what is lawfully allowed by the precepts of religion.” has previously said his daughter Ivanka new Trump International Hotel in He also detailed the “economic costs” of women and sons Eric and Don Jr could take day- Washington - just a few blocks from the having to rely on foreign private drivers or taxis, since to-day charge of the business while he is White House - to foreign diplomats. But his public transit is not a viable alternative in the king- president, but it is not clear what he would new chief of staff , Reince Priebus, insisted dom. Using foreign drivers drains billions of dollars do with his personal stake. “While I am not there were “smart ethics lawyers” working from the Saudi economy, Alwaleed said. RIYADH: Saudi women look at a luxury sports car during the 30th International mandated to do this under the law, I feel it on a “plan”. Continued on Page 13 Riyadh Motor Show on Tuesday. — AFP is visually important, as president, to in no Continued on Page 13 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets meets with His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- with First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- with former National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. Jaber Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan photos Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Amir holds traditional consultations before appointing premier His Highness receives invitation to attend GCC summit

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Jaber Al-Mubarak, Sheikh Sabah Al- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Khaled, Deputy Prime Minister and Sabah received at Bayan Palace yes- Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad terday former National Assembly Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem, for- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of mer Prime Minister His Highness Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al- Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al- Sabah. Ahmad Al-Sabah and His Highness In other news, His Highness the the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Amir received a letter from Bahraini Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, which meeting is part of the current tradi- was delivered by the Bahraini tional consultations conducted to Ambassador to Kuwait, Sheikh Khalifa appoint the new prime minister. His bin Hamad Al Khalifa. The letter Highness the Amir earlier met with included an invitation to His Highness His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh the Amir to attend the 37th session of Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the GCC’s supreme council and the and later with First Deputy Prime GCC summit that will be held next Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh month in Manama with the participa- Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. tion of the United Kingdom’s Prime Meanwhile, His Highness the Minister, Theresa May. Deputy Crown Prince met with Ghanem, His Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs, Sheikh His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah attended the with former Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al- meets with Bahraini Ambassador to Kuwait Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Mohammed, His Highness Sheikh meeting.— KUNA Ahmad Al-Sabah. Al Khalifa. Kuwait, UK eye closer ties UK to organize investment expo on Kuwait KUWAIT: Means of boosting cooperation, main- ly the economic and consultative areas between Kuwait and Britain were the focus of discussions between Chairman of Capital Markets Authority (CMA) Board of Commissioners Nayef Al-Hajraf and Lord Mayor of the City of London Andrew Parmley. The two sides discussed developing coopera- tion in the training and rehabilitation fields which are in line with the agreement that was signed for this purpose last August, the authori- ty said in a press statement yesterday. The agree- ment aims to serve dealers of securities activities through implementing the international qualifi- cations tests on limited jobs to raise sufficiency KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarallah meets with US of dealers at market, it added. Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman. — KUNA The deal stressed the need to share expertise with international institutions so as to upgrade Kuwait’s market, it noted. The authority stressed that it seeks to establish, or contribute to estab- Deputy FM meets lishing, an educational or a training institution in the area of securities markets, the statement US Ambassador concluded. Investment expo KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled ments. Foreign Ministry officials attended Meanwhile, Parmley announced on Tuesday that the UK plans to organize an exhibition on Suleiman Al-Jarallah met yesterday with the meeting, including Assistant Foreign KUWAIT: Chairman of Capital Markets Authority (CMA) Board of Commissioners Nayef Al- investment opportunities in Kuwait, adding that Minister for Al-Jarallah’s Office Affairs Hajraf meets with Lord Mayor of the City of London Andrew Parmley. — KUNA US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence it is slated for 2017 in London in coordination Silverman, discussing bilateral relations Ambassador Ayham Abdullatif Al-Omar and cooperation of Kuwait Direct Investment Director-General, Bader Al-Saad, CEO of Kuwait to transform the country into commercial and between the two countries in addition to and Assistant Foreign Minister for the Promotion Authority (KDIPA). Investment Authority (KIA), and representatives financial hub, and the inauguration of HSBC’s latest regional and international develop- Two Americas, Reem Al-Khaled. —KUNA Parmley made his remarks on the sidelines of of a number of economic institutions in London, new headquarters, said the British official. his official visit to Kuwait, during which he met he said. On the volume of trade-exchange, he said with several Kuwaiti officials and businessmen to that British exports to Kuwait has amounted to Kuwaiti envoy discusses Australia’s discuss boosting commercial ties between the Income sources around GBP 1.5 billion in 2015. On entry visas, two countries. These meetings also highlighted details on Parmley said that his government issues near- membership candidacy for UNHCR The two-day visit was very fruitful and includ- Kuwait’s plan to diversify its income sources and ly 100,000 visas annually for Kuwaiti citizens, ed a number of significant meetings with minimize dependence on oil as a main source adding that the UK has also recently adopted KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Ambassador to The UNHCR is made of 47 Member Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister and for the country’s income, Parmley said. The the use of e-Visa system to facilitate the Australia Najib Abdulrahman Al-Bader States, which are elected by the majority Acting Oil Minister Anas Al-Saleh, Sheikh Dr Kuwaiti-British talks also tackled other vital sub- issuance and approval procedures for the and Australia’s First Assistant Secretary of members of the General Assembly of Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, KDIPA’s jects such as Kuwait’s development plan, efforts applicants. — KUNA Multilateral Policy Division Lachlan the United Nations through direct and Strahan discussed Australia’s candidacy secret ballot. The General Assembly takes for membership of the United Nations into account the candidate States’ contri- Kuwait, UK Human Rights Council (UNHCR) for the bution to the promotion and protection 2018-20 term. of human rights, as well as their volun- discuss boosting This is the first time Australia has tary pledges and commitments in this sought membership of the Human regard. military ties Rights Council. Australia is gathering The Council’s Membership is based on support to get a seat on the UN Human equitable geographical distribution. KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Rights Council for the 2018 to 2020, Seats are distributed as follows: African Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah dis- Bader pointed out in a press statement States: 13 seats, Asia-Pacific States: 13 cussed with Britain’s Chief of the Air Staff Air yesterday. Australia enjoys an ‘excellent’ seats, Latin American and Caribbean Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier discussed boosting record on human right issues and has States: 8 seats, Western European and defense ties. The two officials also discussed issues proved itself as a good global citizen and other States: 7 seats and Eastern of common interest, Kuwaiti Army Moral guidance a powerful advocate for change. European States: 6 seats. —KUNA department said yesterday. The meeting was attended by British Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge, British Defense Attache Captain Finlay McLean, Kuwaiti Army Chief of Staff KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khodhr and meets with Britain’s Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier. — KUNA other officials. Separately, Kuwait’s Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans Authority Major General Ahmad Abdulwahab Al-Omairi said that ongoing military meetings between Kuwait and Italy aims to enhance cooperation up to its highest level. Moral Guidance and Public Relations Department of the Kuwaiti Defense Ministry said in a press statement yesterday that General Omairi’s remark came on the sidelines of the sign- ing ceremony for the ninth meeting minutes for the Kuwaiti-Italian military committee to activate the Military Memorandum of Understanding between both nations. General Omairi welcomed the visiting Italian military delegation, where he conveyed greetings from Defense Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Kuwaiti Ambassador to Australia Najib Al-Bader meets with Australia’s First Assistant and Army’s Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans Authority Major General Ahmad Secretary Multilateral Policy Division Lachlan Strahan. Khodhr, the statement added. — KUNA Abdulwahab Al-Omairi poses for a group photo with the Italian military delegation. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 LOCAL

Kuwait reiterates support Kandari first MP to file for Palestinian cause NEW YORK: The State of Kuwait has financial disclosure reiterated its firm stance supporting the Palestinian cause, which has been on the top priorities of the United Rain continues through tomorrow Nations. This came in a speech by Kuwait’s Permanent Mission to the UN By Meshaal Al-Enezi effecting socioeconomic reforms won the years in prison and acquitting lawyer Falah Al- delivered by second secretary Naif elections. Hajraf and Bader Abdul Aziz, who had all been Ghazi Al-Otaibi before the 71st ses- KUWAIT: MP Abdul Kareem Al-Kandari yester- KDF also called to show national solidarity accused in a state security case. sion of the UN General Assembly on day submitted his financial disclosure state- and political stability by cancelling and amend- Also yesterday, a lawyer filed a state security Tuesday night. ment to the Public Anti-Corruption Authority, ing a number of laws that undermine liberties. case against a poetess accusing her of posting Otaibi, in the speech, lauded the becoming the first lawmaker to do so. Furthermore, KDF stressed that the top public a tweet in which she insulted and denigrated steadfastness and struggle of Accordingly, the authority reminded other law- priorities now include issuing a general the followers of a doctrine, which undermines Palestinian people against the Israeli makers that they had to submit their state- amnesty to free all prisoners of conscience, national solidarity. The poetess is expected to occupation, stressing Kuwait’s support ments within 60 days after the declaration of cancelling the political isolation law, passing a be summoned for further investigations. for Palestinians to gain all their legal NEW YORK: The second secretary of parliamentary election results. law to protect citizenship and prevent with- political rights through establishing Kuwait’s Permanent Mission to the UN In the meantime, MP Yousef Al-Fadhalah drawing them except through court orders Rain continues an independent state of Palestine and Naif Ghazi Al-Otaibi delivers his urged the government to perform differently related to forgery, and amending and develop- Following rain in various areas including speech. — KUNA with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital and show more cooperation with the parlia- ing the current electoral system to adopt the Salmi and Jahra where it rained relatively heavi- based on the 1967 borders, and set a Palestinian detainees and prisoners ment, starting with the inaugural session when relative electoral list system in order to achieve ly, Kuwait Meteorology Department reminded deadline to end Israel’s occupation of and sending an international commit- the speaker, deputy speaker and committee justice amongst various electoral constituen- of its previous warning that scattered rain the Palestinian territories. tee to investigate the situation in the members are elected. “I urge the government cies and prevent by-elections and vote-buying. might fall and could sometimes be thundery, accompanied by winds of up to 50 kph. The The State of Kuwait also has wel- Israeli prisons. He affirmed Kuwait’s to refrain from voting in these elections to In addition, KDF also called for holding a show its good intentions,” he underlined, not- national conference with the participation of all department also expects rain showers to con- comed the French initiative calling for backing to the Palestine’s request call- ing that the government has the right to take blocs without alienating any in order to jointly tinue today and tomorrow. holding an international conference ing for getting the UN full member- part in the voting but added it is not a must. discuss various views on political, social, eco- for peace to issue an international ship to be a step for achieving a com- nomic and educational reforms. University project multilateral mechanism aiming to prehensive and fair solution to the Cautious optimism Led by the acting assistant secretary general stop fully illegal settlement activities Palestinian -Israel conflict. Separately, the Kuwait Democratic Forum Challenge for planning and follow up at the Supreme and then ending Israel’s occupation, Kuwait also has buttressed (KDF) said that the recent elections created a Meanwhile, a candidate who lost in the elec- Planning and Development Council Haifa Al- he said. Palestine to join the international state of cautious optimism that calls for tions yesterday filed a strange complaint con- Mudaf, a team including a number of female He affirmed that Kuwait has but- charters, conventions and organiza- selecting a suitable Cabinet accordingly. In a testing the results. He wondered how he did engineers and researchers yesterday visited the tressed all efforts and endeavors by tions, he stated. The Kuwaiti represen- press release it issued yesterday, KDF stressed not get any vote - not even his own. “I did vote Sabah Al-Salem University City project site. the international community aiming tative called on the international com- that the elections led to considerable change for myself!” he exclaimed. In the meantime, a Mudaf said that the visit was part of the follow- to reach a comprehensive and fair munity, mainly the Security Council, of up to 60 percent in the new parliament for- number of Mutairi tribe diwans urged all the up plan for the projects listed in the develop- solution to the Palestinian cause to provide an international protection mation, and this calls for the government to tribe’s candidates in the fourth constituency to ment plan to make sure work is progressing based on the Arab Peace Initiative, the to the unarmed Palestinian people liv- meticulously review the results and accord- file complaints contesting the election results. according to schedule. She added that two of principles of international law and ing under the Israel’s military occupa- ingly appoint a Cabinet suitable for this par- Separately, a court yesterday sustained a the faculties’ buildings will be completed and international legitimacy resolutions. tion. Kuwait stresses that the Security ticular phase, especially when a large number previous ruling sentencing a blogger known as handed over next year, while the other nine Kuwait has denounced Israel’s con- Council must assume its responsibili- of young lawmakers who are more capable of ‘Chabreet Seyassi’ (Political Matches) to 10 colleges would be completed in 2019. tinued illegal and inhumane blockage ties towards implementing its resolu- on the Gaza Strip that constitutes a tions, mainly 242, 338, 1397 and 1515, violation of the US Security Council and pressing Israel to halt its blatant resolution 1860 and the Fourth violations of the international human- Geneva Convention in 1949, he itarian law on Palestinian territories so added. as to put an end to the cause, Otaibi Otaibi called for releasing concluded. — KUNA Kuwait won’t reduce Egyptian manpower

By A Saleh enhancing cooperation between both countries as part of bilateral cooperation in KUWAIT: Egyptian minister of immigration various fields. She added the major prob- and Egyptians abroad affairs Nabila lem facing the Egyptian community in Makram stressed that Kuwait’s ambassador Kuwait and other GCC states is the sponsor- to Cairo Mohammed Saleh Al-Thuwayyekh ship system. Makram also highlighted that strongly denied any intention to reduce the she was in constant contact with relevant number of Egyptians in Kuwait. Makram Kuwaiti authorities to resolve the Egyptian added that she met Thuwayyekh to discuss teachers’ rent allowance problem. KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Al-Sabah greets an officer.—Interior Ministry photos delivers his speech at the ceremony. Bogus helpers’ Interior Minister hails officers’ efforts KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Suleiman Al-Fahad and Advisor Lieutenant parliamentary elections. He also thanked all Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled Al- General Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Khalifa. ministry servicemen and civil employees for office busted Hamad Al-Sabah met yesterday with senior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled hailed securi- the efforts they exerted in implementing vari- ministry officials to highlight their achieve- ty forces, and conveyed greetings from His ous security plans carried out in the past few By Hanan Al-Saadoun cables, so a team was formed and the ments and work on developing various min- Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- months, starting with security preparations for suspects were arrested following an istry sectors. The meeting, which has become Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince the holy month of Ramadan, the Hajj season, KUWAIT: Detectives received informa- investigation. Authorities found more a habit since Sheikh Mohammad assumed his Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah the Ashura occasion during the Islamic month tion about an unlicensed domestic than 1,000 kilograms of copper, and position, was attended by several assistant and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh of Muharram, in addition to securing various helpers office run by an Ethiopian man. tools used in cutting the cables. The undersecretaries and top security officials, Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah for the mosques and Husseiniyas and schools and fac- The man provided helpers on an hourly suspects confessed to the thefts. including Undersecretary Lieutenant General success of security plans during the recent ing other security threats. basis to citizens and expats, which is ille- Moreover it was discovered that none gal according to Kuwait’s labor regula- of them worked for their ‘sponsors’ but tions. Furthermore, all the maids were instead paid black market sponsors for either absconding or working for other their visas. 14.6 percent sponsors. Residency detectives conduct- ed a raid and all persons inside were Municipality inspection campaigns Kuwaiti adults arrested. Kuwait has seen an uptick in Kuwait Municipality continued its the establishment of unlicensed or ‘fake’ food inspection campaigns targeting diabetic: MoH offices hiring out domestic helpers as baqalas, restaurants, co-ops and grocery the costs of recruiting domestic helpers stores. The Public Relations Department KUWAIT: Around 14.6 percent of from abroad has risen drastically. said Mubarak Al-Kabeer Municipality adults in Kuwait have high blood glu- branch carried out an inspection cam- cose levels, the Ministry of Health Cable theft gang arrested paign on a factory west of Abu Fateera (MoH) revealed yesterday, citing a Residency detectives arrested mem- area resulting in issuing one citation for study conducted in collaboration with bers of a gang involved in the theft of a violation that involved an employee the World Health Organization (WHO). electricity cables belonging to the working before obtaining a health In a ceremony to mark the ‘World Ministry of Electricity and Water. license and not complying with cleanli- Diabetes Day’, head of the MoH’s Detectives uncovered a gang consist- ness rules. The department asked peo- media office Ghalia Al-Mutairi noted ing of a number of Bangladeshi nation- ple to call the hotline (1844448) in case that around 6.1 percent of adults have als, who were involved in stealing the any complaint at any time. been diagnosed with blood disorders. Moreover, she revealed that diabetes accounted for 4 percent of the total of deaths in Kuwait in 2012, adding that the disease is prevalent in Gulf A view of the attendance at the discussion. Cooperation Council (GCC) nations. The number of diabetics in the world has quadrupled since 1980, the Cultural discussion result of obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, Mutairi added. She also high- lighted the need for diabetics to undergo regular medical tests to help at Sheikh Jaber center treat the disease. Meanwhile, MoH announced that it KUWAIT: A group of intellectuals with different cultures and religions the sake of survival, thus it is not a is due to host next month 17 interna- discussed on Tuesday the concept “so how can a person scrap cultural luxury,” he said. Members of the tional consultant physicians who will of culture and its multi-faceted diversity, and fight for the spread of audience called for respect of the be conducting intricate surgical pro- influence in the globe and Arab one culture and excluding others?” cultural diversity and respect of cedures, with help from a multination- world in general, and in Kuwait in he wondered. the others. They said media and This photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows members of a gang al contingent of doctors in the coun- particular. The seminar, presented “Culture is a way of survival educational institutions have a arrested for stealing cables. try. In a statement issued yesterday, by former information minister Dr and cannot be scrapped. We have vital role to play to boost this MoH noted that the visit is part of the Saad Al-Ajmi and moderated by ex- to live with cultural diversity for belief. — KUNA ministry’s endeavor of inviting health information minister Mohammad experts to Kuwait on a monthly basis, Al-Sanousi, discussed if culture was Kuwait Airways plane has where they will share their knowhow a luxury or a mean to survival. with local doctors. Moreover, the 17 Sanousi, in the seminar held at minor accident in Mumbai consultant physicians, all of whom are Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural well versed in a variety of medical Center, said generally human beings lost interest in culture in KUWAIT: A Kuwait Airways passenger International Airport when the contact fields, hail from nine nations including the United States, United Kingdom, general and reading, and instead plane was involved in a minor accident between the wings took place. The other became glued to the social media at Mumbai airport, the company said in plane was moving. Canada, Italy, France and others. The physicians will also take part in med- which he described as “a weapon a statement yesterday. It said the Slight damage was caused to the with positive and negative ical lectures, workshops and confer- wingtip of an A320 aircraft scratched wing of the Kuwaiti Airways plane. impacts.” Ajmi said culture has ences, the statement added. MoH rou- Kuwait Airways’ A330 aircraft’s left out- According to the statement, Indian many linguistic explanations which tinely undertakes such initiatives in board flap after landing at the airport. authorities have opened an investigation could differ in behaviors between Kuwait Airways flight KU301 had left in the accident. It added that the passen- efforts to infuse some international literate and illiterate persons. Kuwait International Airport earlier yes- gers were safely disembarked, and an expertise into the country’s healthcare Culture, he said, also meant the civ- KUWAIT: Former information minister Mohammad Al-Sanousi terday, and the plane was parked at alternative plane was provided for the system. — KUNA ilization of a certain community. (right) speaks during the lecture as former minister Dr Saad Al-Ajmi Mumbai’s Chhatrapti Shivaji Mumbai-Kuwait return flight. Allah the Almighty created people looks on. — KUNA LOCAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

In Brief Amir condoles Brazil Crown Prince congratulates PM Bahrain affirms ties KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince MANAMA: Minister of the Bahraini Royal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condolences Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Diwan Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Salman yesterday to Brazilian President Michel Temer, on the sent a congratulatory letter to His Highness Al-Khalifa stressed yesterday the impor- victims of the Colombian plane crash which killed a Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah tance of the Kuwaiti-Bahraini deep-rooted number of players of a Brazilian soccer team and for being appointed as Prime Minister by an ties and distinguished relations. This came Amiri decree earlier yesterday. His Highness during his visit along with General injured others. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh the Prime Minister was also assigned to name Commander of Bahrain’s Defense Force Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness his new cabinet members. In his letter, His Sheikh Khalifa Bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa to Dean the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Highness the Crown Prince wished His of the Diplomatic Corps, Kuwaiti Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables to President Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak success in Ambassador to Bahrain Sheikh Azzam Temer. —KUNA his endeavors. —KUNA Mubarak Al-Sabah. —KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: The ‘Marina Waves’; a landmark structure located in the Marina Crescent in Salmiya. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Kuwaiti charity organization provides multi-purpose facilities in Djibouti

DJIBOUTI: A picture of Al-Rahma (mercy) International Association’s multi-purpose building complexes in Djibouti. —KUNA DJIBOUTI: Al-Rahma (mercy) International students and orphans, said Dr Fatouh. He added pital which in turn will increase the facility’s Association’s multi-purpose building complexes that the complex also provides services to the capacity to treat and receive patients. in Djibouti and Obock provinces, are important less fortunate as well as scholarships for stu- In the meantime, head of the association’s facilities that highlighted the generosity of the dents who excelled in their studies. public relations Dr Ahmad Abdelmutaleb said Kuwaiti people. The facility, which opened in Meanwhile, head of the complex’s health that another complex was opened in the 2007, offered various kinds of services to the services center and hospital Dr Mohammad Al- province of Obock, 280 kilometers from the local populace, Head of the Djibouti province Sharqawi revealed that their facility was heavily capital city Djibouti. The facility played a similar complex Dr Abdullah Fatouh, noting that it sought by people due to the high standard of role to the one in the capital region, said the mainly catered to the health and educational health services. The center has the latest and up- official, adding that the complex in Obock needs of the Djiboutian people. to-date medical gadgetry used in treatment, played a major role in receiving some 3,000 The complex hosts a school and an orphan- said Dr Sharqawi who noted that more wards Yemeni refugees escaping the wail of war in age that answered the need of over a thousand and departments were being opened in the hos- their country. —KUNA

Kuwait distributes money coupons to displaced Iraqis

IRBIL: The State of Kuwait on Tuesday other parts of the world, are upon distributed money coupons to displaced instructions of His Highness the Amir Iraqi people in the northern city of Irbil to Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- buy their needs from shops. Kuwait is Sabah to help the needy people, he said. keen on helping the displaced Iraqis as Kuwait, said Kanderi, would distribute part of its “Kuwait by your side” cam- the money coupons to 10,000 families. paign, and is distributing money The Kuwaiti humanitarian assistance, coupons to the displaced from Mosul, he added, would also include health and Salahuddin and Anbar to give them free education services, or building of shel- choice to buy their own needs from ters. Kuwait launched its campaign in shops, said Dr Omar Al-Kanderi, Consul Iraq’s Kurdistan province in the middle of General in Irbil. 2015, and has distributed around The aid, whether the ones in Iraq or 170,000 food baskets so far. —KUNA LOCAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 Kuwait, Turkey discuss boosting investment, trade

ISTANBUL: Minister of Commerce and Industry Yousif Al-Ali met with Turkish Minister of Development Lutfi Elvan to discuss boosting trade and commerce. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 7th Bosphorus Summit, which kicked off on Tuesday and concludes today in Istanbul. The two sides also discussed investment opportunities and sharing experi- ence in the field. Ali had stated Tuesday that Kuwait placed sig- nificance on participating in the summit “to dis- cuss ways of cooperation with friendly coun- tries,” adding that this participation comes as DUBAI: Kuwait Consul General in Dubai and UAE’s Northern Emirates Theyab part of its efforts to take part in major interna- Al-Rashidi delivers his country’s participation paper in Expo 2020 to tional economic summits. Chairman of event’s Dubai Higher Committee Sheikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum. —KUNA Effective presence Ali pointed out that the Arab presence in the summit was effective, with Saudi Arabia taking Kuwait hands participation part as a guest of honor. The Saudi delegation to the three-day event was led by Dr Majed Al- paper in Dubai’s ‘Expo 2020’ Qasabi, Minister of Commerce and Investment, who addressed the gathering by voicing his DUBAI: Kuwait officially handed yester- perity, progress, security and stability. country’s plan to have an advanced economic day its participation paper in the interna- Expo 2020’s Chairman stressed the rank by the year 2030 despite the world econom- tional fair ‘Expo 2020’ to be held in Dubai, committee’s keenness in offering the ic recess, citing the key economic reforms project- the United Arab Emirates. The paper was Kuwaiti side all the possible facilities to ed by the Saudi economy over the coming few ISTANBUL: Minister of Commerce and Industry Yousif Al-Ali (left) meets with Turkish years. Qasabi also shed light on the Kingdom’s handed during a meeting between the best serve the country’s pavilion. Expo Minister of Development Lutfi Elvan. —KUNA Kuwait Consul General in Dubai and UAE’s 2020 is a modern cultural event that is plan to launch a number of non-oil economic reforms, including promising economic sectors need to be met with exceptional support from Erdogan said Turkey has been waiting for an Northern Emirates Theyab Al-Rashidi and held every five years, and is considered and government services, thanking organizers of partners and international financial institutions. answer from the EU for over 50 years, and criti- Chairman of the Expo 2020 Dubai’s the largest of its kind worldwide. Each the event for choosing the Kingdom as guest of He drew the attention that his government has cized last week’s non-binding vote by the country takes part in this fair with a pavil- Higher Committee Sheikh Ahmad Bin honor. The economic summit is scheduled to dis- launched a package of economic and financial European Parliament urging a freeze to Turkey’s Saeed Al Maktoum. ion in which it demonstrates various cuss, among other issues, Saudi Arabia’s vision reforms to attract investment. EU accession talks, calling it “harassment.” “Kuwait is preparing to take part in this aspects of its civilization and achieve- 2030 and Turkey’s vision 2023. The summit is held under the theme ‘An “We have not closed the EU subject yet. But important international event that Dubai ments in the cultural, scientific and eco- International Goal ... An International Future’ in the picture we have faced does not allow us to will be hosting for four years, being an nomic sectors. Exceptional circumstances the participation of official delegates from 70 fall for positive expectations on this subject. important opportunity to reflect the dis- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had countries, including heads of state, prime minis- There are always many alternatives before tinguished deep-rooted relations Celebrations stated in the opening of the summit that his ters, senior officials and businesspeople. Turkey. We would continue our way by consider- between both countries”, Rashidi said fol- In other news, Kuwait’s Information country is facing exceptional circumstances that On its stalled EU membership request, ing one of these options,” said Erdogan. —KUNA lowing the meeting. Ministry participated Tuesday in celebra- tions marking the United Arab Emirates Bright image (UAE) National and Martyr Days, held at Kuwait’s participation in this Expo will the City Walk in Dubai. UAE Minister of KFAED’s Tunisia investments help achieve contribute in reflecting a bright image of Culture Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al- the joint heritage in the Gulf region, as Nahyan launched the four-day celebra- well as the Kuwaiti achievements in vari- tions and visited the Kuwaiti pavilion, and economic, social stability: Ambassador ous domains for millions of expected visi- got acquainted with the publications and tors to this international event, he said. old photos displayed. TUNIS: Investment volume of in the international conference Addressing the opening of the senting 14 UN missions, foreign Kuwait will communicate with Expo Jassem Al-Hamar, director of supervi- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic to support the economy and two-day event last Tuesday, countries and leading internation- 2010’s Organizing Committee by next sion and evaluation sector at Information Development (KFAED) in Tunisia investment (Tunisia 2020) reaf- Minister Saleh said that they are al banks, in addition to business- month in order to set the first steps for Ministry’s Foreign Media Department, reflects a strong desire to help the firmed this aspiration, Ali Al- following with relief Tunisia’s people. The Kuwaiti delegation establishing the Kuwaiti pavilion, he said the pavilion reflected Kuwait’s keen- Arab country achieve economic Dhifeeri, Kuwait’s Ambassador to achievements on the political lev- accompanying Al-Saleh includes added. ness to share the UAE and its citizens their and social stability, a Kuwaiti Tunisia said. el. “Tunisia has completed all KFAED Director General Rashidi expressed his deep confidence national celebrations. diplomat said yesterday. On Tuesday, the Fund offered phases of democratic transition Abdulwahab Al-Bader, KFAED in the leadership and management of Hamar said the pavilion aimed at high- The participation of Tunisia soft loans worth $500 mil- with the least damage that usually regional director for the Arab UAE’s national cadres in managing Expo lighting to visitors the deep-rooted rela- Representative of His Highness lion over the coming five years, results in such deep transforma- countries Abdullah Al-Saqr and 2020. Meanwhile, he congratulated UAE’s tions between the Kuwaiti and UAE peo- the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad while other Kuwaiti investment tions of the political and social Executive Director of the Public political leadership and people on the ple. Many countries are participating in cel- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime bodies are closely eyeing business structure,” he noted. Reserve Division at Kuwait occasion of their country’s National and ebrations held at the City Walk to display Minister, Minister of Finance and opportunities in the country, Al- Up to 2,000 delegates are tak- Investment Authority Bader Al- Ajeel. —KUNA Martyr Days, wishing them further pros- their cultural and artistic activities. —KUNA Acting Oil Minister Anas Al-Saleh Thifeeri said. ing part in the conference, repre- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 From the Arabic press

Al-Anbaa Crime Report Is the Assembly’s 2016 Driver runs over important? Parliament man to ‘scare him’

By Nermin Al-Houti KUWAIT: A 19-year-old Kuwaiti citizen ran over a Bangladeshi man who was sitting at a bus stop in a bid to any people may find the title of my column ‘scare him’. The man told police he was just ‘having fun’ and a little strange, and the majority might that he was driving along with a friend of his in Shaab Maccuse me of being undemocratic. Despite when he saw the victim at the bus stop. The citizen drove all these hypothetical theories, I repeat the question: the car towards him to ‘scare him off,’ then hit him when he Is there any importance of the existence of the did not move, according to his statements. Police and National Assembly? The column today has two parts paramedics went to the scene, sent the victim to Mubarak to present the question to our readers, and I leave hospital and arrested the driver. Separately, a citizen told the judgment and finding the solution to them. police she ran over a juvenile in Sabah Al-Salem area. The The first part is about the money spent on the boy was taken to Adan hospital while the woman was tak- Assembly and the nation’s deputies. We should cal- en to the police station for questioning. culate the money being spent out of the state budg- et on Abdullah Al-Salem Hall and those who work Strange kidnapping there. There should be an office for each MP, who A strange case of suspected kidnapping was reported needs at least two or three employees (as secre- in Nahda area. A man called police to report that a taries), and the offices themselves should be finely woman had been kidnapped but when police went to furnished, along with state-of-the-art electronic the area, located behind a housing care building, they equipment, bearing in mind that all these acces- found an unlocked car but no one inside. The man told sories are replaced every year. How many employ- police that he saw a woman getting into another car, ees, tea boys and office boys are there to keep the driven by an unknown man. He also mentioned that MP’s mood at its best? We should not forget that a the woman was his wife and she got into the car with- car is also allocated to each MP, as if the deputies of out being forced. Police are investigating.

the nation do not possess cars. It seems that if “any- Al-Jarida thing is free...give me more”. Helper robs sponsor Three meals a day and afternoon tea - this is not A citizen told Mubarak Al-Kabeer police that her Nepalese an assembly; it is a five-star restaurant. My dear MPs, domestic helper stole KD 900 worth of jewelry and KD what about the food in your own houses, and what Al-Jarida 2,000 in cash before disappearing. A case was filed and about the personal chef? This is in addition to sta- investigations are ongoing. tionery, security employees and WiFi services so that Corruption, a major issue our MPs can tweet and play games. We should not forget the official trips and the Majles TV Channel, so By Hassan Al-Essa Flat damaged that the people’s voices can be heard. The question A citizen accused two persons he knows of damaging that presents itself is - is there anyone among us he prime issue the new young parliament is fac- with opinions are haunted by the laws and people are his brother’s flat because of previous dispute. who heard a whimper about his issues inside Detectives are working on the case. Abdullah Al-Salem Hall? The majority are silent ing is corruption at various state bodies. This does chased out of the country and forced to leave, which is because of interests that we do not know or hear Tnot mean that there are no other worthy con- the worst intimidation. They are not only deprived of about, and only our MPs know about it, but only cerns, but corruption is our major concern. It is a deep- expression, but are also forced to say what the string- Sexual assault care about their personal interests and ignore our rooted disease that has been undermining the state’s pullers want them to speak, eventually, joining a large A woman in her twenties trusted a colleague of hers who nation’s voice. foundations and has very strong connections with flock that does not dare to speak about corruption in promised to marry her, and went with him for a ride. But public. These sheep continue living without noticing The second part: How many assemblies came influential private sector establishments and individu- when they were alone, the man sexually assaulted her so als. Fighting the corruption ghost ought to be a major the butchers waiting at the corner of the near future. into existence? They either got dissolved or their she jumped from the car and ran away. The woman went concern for lawmakers who still believe that Kuwait is This state of indifference and getting over-indulged term ended. What are MPs’ achievements and work to a police station and filed a report. more than just a source of money from which they in daily consumption habits is our real dilemma. We are compared to the prosperous life they enjoy under wish to get as much as they can. on the verge of an economic disaster under a com- the Abdullah Al-Salem dome? How many petitions According to bribery principles, corruption does not pletely incompetent political administration that still Medical malpractice? were presented at the complaints committee, and only mean deals worth billions or mega contracts that runs things by old methods and limited mentality, A citizen accused a doctor of causing the death of his how many out of them were discussed and solved? are tainted. It goes far beyond and includes the whole which resists change and fears facing challenges. 51-year-old mother due to a medical error. The case Nothing, in my own personal opinion. If the Audit chain of command, from small employees who get For now, the new parliament doesn’t need to file an was referred to detectives to investigate the doctor’s Bureau gets an opportunity to account for all the paid without doing any work to the top of the ‘misery’ interpellation to absorb public anger and gain more credentials and treatment. mistakes of its employees, we will find a huge ladder, and ministers who adjust everything with the public support if it goes beyond any redlines. Public amount of financial violations, and the decision will help of special advisors who push their own interests. awareness is what the country really needs right now. be to abolish the Assembly, because it is a burden to The cycle endlessly continues from up to down and We are facing serious challenges at the border. The Harasser attacked our nation. “If you cannot say what is right, then do vice versa. Corruption also goes beyond financial issues region is changing and moving fast into the unknown A citizen attacked a young man who was harassing his not cheer what is wrong.” — Sheikh Mohammad Al- and prevails in the legislation and monitoring while ‘they’ remain the same. Keep up to what you wife. The attacker was arrested and the young man was Mitwalli Al-Shaarawi. machineries that keep reflecting endless ugly images. have been entrusted with. taken to Mubarak Hospital and placed under guard. — Translated by Kuwait Times Corruption is also oppressing free opinion. People — Translated by Kuwait Times — Translations from the Arabic press KFH holds ‘creativity’ workshop for employees

KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) munication skills, understanding creativ- organized a specialized brainstorming ity in relation to individuals (Mind workshop themed ‘Unleash Your Mapping), creating the ‘right’ (creative) Creativity’ for its employees as part of its environment at the workplace - tools policy to invest in the human resources, and suggestions, creative problem solv- while equipping them with all what they ing tools, application of creative need to optimally assume their duties as thoughts - understanding problem, gen- per highest standards of quality. erating ideas, planning for action, dis- The 4-day workshop encompassed cussing tools and techniques, around 60 male and female staff from Brainstorming (Town hall process), trans- different departments at the bank. It pri- actional Analysis and creative applica- marily focused on alternate thinking and tion, ideation, conversion, implementa- idea generation processes. The work- tion in addition to the ability to take risks shop was designed to unlock creative and experiment (attitude building). potential of participants to develop a Participants expressed their appreciation renewed outlook towards business. for holding this workshop as it paved the Moreover, the workshop tackled way for creating innovative environment many skills in efforts to achieve its objec- and offered the techniques to unleash tives such as focusing on effective com- their Creative spirit.

EQUATE sponsors GPCA forum

DUBAI: EQUATE Petrochemical Company, a Husain explained, “The petrochemical indus- the event and interact with other delegates. global producer of petrochemicals, sponsored try still faces the same challenges of fluctuating EQUATE’s sponsorship of the professor and the the 11th Annual Gulf Petrochemicals and prices due to supply and demand, feedstock students for this event and other previous GPCA Chemicals Association (GPCA) Forum as part of availability, adequate infrastructure and, most activities is part of the Memorandum of its contribution to the growth and progress of important, specialized human capital. Understanding (MoU) signed with the college the industrial sector. Regardless of these challenges, EQUATE contin- during 2008 for overall partnership in industrial EQUATE President and CEO Mohammad ues its efforts as petrochemical company with and academic fields. Husain said, “During 2015, the Arabian Gulf’s operations in Kuwait, North America and During the exhibition on the sidelines of the petrochemical production exceeded 144 million Europe. Such a focus on our values of Trust, forum, EQUATE hosted a number of prominent tons, which increased from almost 137 million Sustainability, Reliability and Innovation have figures in the petrochemical industry, energy tons in 2014. Such rates prove this region’s sta- enables us to become the world’s second and economic sectors. EQUATE’s participation tus as a global petrochemical production hub.” largest Ethylene Glycol (EG) producer. At the included a display stand welcoming the event’s Husain, who is also a GPCA Board Member, same time, EQUATE is currently the only Middle over 2000 participants from around the globe. noted, “Petrochemicals remain the Arabian Eastern company that has been successful to The 11th Annual GPCA Forum 2016 is held Gulf’s second main source of income after oil. access USA shale gas resources.” in Dubai, UAE, during November 27-29. The For this industry to continue its positive contri- As part of its participation in the event for forum gathers top executives from petrochem- bution, it requires sustainability and innovation the 11th year, EQUATE sponsored a professor ical and chemical companies, as well as gov- through advanced solutions, high-quality prod- and students from the College of Engineering ernment bodies and other entities to discuss ucts and top in-class services.” and Petroleum at Kuwait University to attend various topics. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 Trump dines with Romney, plans Over 10,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh new victory tour Page 11 Page 9 50,000 pour out of east Aleppo ‘Motionless body of a girl was left crumpled in the street’

ALEPPO: More than 50,000 Syrians have joined Aleppo yesterday saw dozens of displaced resi- Syria’s Red Crescent is offering assistance in humanitarian official and the UN’s peace envoy stop the killing of innocent civilians and get a growing exodus of terrified civilians from east dents huddled on the back of pick-up trucks government-held areas, but does not yet have Staffan de Mistura. British Foreign Minister to the negotiating table,” he told AFP after Aleppo, a monitor said yesterday, as the UN under the pounding rain. Hundreds also access to east Aleppo. Boris Johnson said he hoped the meeting meeting his Cypriot counterpart in Nicosia. Security Council was set for emergency talks massed in the newly recaptured neighbour- The UN has for months sought access to the could lead to “an end to the carnage, particu- Syria’s opposition National Coalition said it on fighting in the city. As government forces hood of Jabal Badro to board government bus- east, but a plan it presented earlier this month larly in Aleppo”. was working with France on a draft UN resolu- pressed an assault in the divided city, regime es heading to west Aleppo. “The situation of to deliver aid has yet to be approved by the “I would urge all those with responsibility tion seeking an immediate ceasefire in artillery fire killed at least 26 civilians in east those fleeing is desperate,” said Pawel Krzysiek, government. The UN Security Council is to hold for that, both the Assad regime and their sup- Aleppo, though regime ally Russia was likely Aleppo yesterday morning, the Syrian head of communications for the International an emergency meeting later yesterday on the porters in Russia... to think of what they can to veto such a proposal. Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Syria. situation, receiving a briefing from a UN do to bring peace, stop the bombardment, Civilians have poured out of the besieged ‘Waiting for death’ rebel-held east, battered by air strikes and Yesterday morning, 26 civilians including heavy artillery fire by advancing regime forces. seven children were killed in government AFP’s correspondent in a southeastern district artillery fire on the Jubb Al-Qubbeh district in described artillery shells “coming down like east Aleppo, the Observatory said. The White rain” yesterday. After one mortar attack, the Helmets rescue group published photos of the motionless body of a girl was left crumpled in aftermath of the shelling on Jubb Al-Qubbeh, the street, her arm severed and her head showing an apocalyptic scene with bodies, pierced by a sliver of shrapnel. Rescue volun- pieces of flesh, and suitcases strewn across the teers carried her body away on a motorcycle. street. In one image, a young man wept next Regime forces and allied fighters have to two bodies, their top halves obscured by seized a third of the rebel-held east of Aleppo blankets. The feet of one body were clad in since they began an operation to recapture all pink socks, the other wore red boots done up of the battered second city just over a fortnight with white laces. The Observatory says nearly ago. They now fully control the city’s northeast 300 civilians, including 33 children, have been and pressed their offensive yesterday on killed in east Aleppo since the latest govern- Aleppo’s southeastern edges, advancing in the ment assault began on November 15. Another Sheikh Saeed district, according to state news 48 civilians have been killed in west Aleppo, agency SANA. The loss of Aleppo would be the according to the monitor. biggest blow for Syria’s opposition since the State news agency SANA said eight civilians conflict began in March 2011 with anti-govern- including two children had been killed in rebel ment protests, before spiraling into a civil war. fire on several districts in the city’s west yester- day. The violence in the city has prompted inter- ‘Situation desperate’ national concern, though there has been little More than 50,000 people have fled Aleppo’s sign of a plan to intervene. UN rights chief Zeid rebel-held districts, the Observatory said yes- Ra’ad Al-Hussein on Wednesday said civilians in terday, including at least 20,000 to govern- eastern Aleppo faced “a nightmare which clearly ment-held territory and another 30,000 to violates the most basic norms of human rights Kurdish-controlled districts. Many others have and any shred of human decency.” “Pounded by travelled south into the remaining territory accelerating bombardment, deliberately held by rebels. deprived of food and medical care, many of Another AFP correspondent near a tempo- ALEPPO: This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents them-including small children-report that they rary government-run shelter on the edge of and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian boy sittiing next to bodies after artillery fire struck the Jub Al-Quba district. —AP are simply waiting for death,” he said. —AFP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 Gaza private security firms’ muscle men ring up dollars

GAZA: Trained in martial arts and coordinate with the authorities. Akram Al- tar fire and has fought several wars with Gaza’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry. They ing out simulations on how to protect firearms, their muscled physiques burst- Balawi, who runs the Castle Security Hamas and other militant groups in recent learn martial arts, the use of weapons and clients and get them away from danger. A ing out of tight t-shirts, young men in Company, said he had 6,000 applicants years. Balawi said his guards only carry how to deal with volatile crowds. gun, an AK-47 rifle and a submachine gun Gaza are increasingly finding work with when he announced he was hiring. He guns when escorting a convoy of money Staff earn between $400 and $600 a were used in the drill. “We learnt that using private security firms retained by banks, snapped up 65 men. “Our staff are careful- or foreign ambassadors. Major missions, month, Balawi said. Eyad Al-Bozom, the a weapon is the last resort,” said Islam local celebrities and international visitors. ly selected, they are body-built, highly like visits by UN officials and senior Interior Ministry spokesman, said visits by Salama, 21, an undergraduate in Arabic. Three private security companies are now educated and with good manners,” said European figures, are usually escorted by international delegations are coordinated “Before the weapon comes the muscle of competing in Gaza, offering protection for Balawi, sitting in his office in the heart of Hamas-run security, he said. with them and Hamas’s security teams are the tongue.” high-profile Arab and Western delegations Gaza City. “They are not affiliated with not paid. Recently their units protected a Saeed Youssef, a 25-year-old business or cautious businessmen shifting goods political factions.” ‘Muscle of the tongue’ group of Western diplomats in Gaza, he said. graduate, said he rushed to apply because and cash around the fenced-in territory. While Hamas maintains tight security He recently opened the door to women “(Private security) is still a new experience work opportunities in Gaza were so scarce. While Hamas, the Islamist group that in Gaza, where around two million applicants. And, with Gaza unemployment but we are keen to pursue it and develop it “We are forced to cope with the labour has run Gaza since 2007, has its own Palestinians live, there are occasional skir- at 43 percent - and as high as 60 percent so we give a chance to the civil community market. I needed the job to build a life, armed units to protect international visi- mishes among militant factions and some among graduates - there is no shortage of to be part of this issue,” Bozom said. have a future,” he said. “People view the tors, it does not object to competition criminal activity. Israel also carries out candidates for a decent paying job. Those At an open space in Gaza, 35 new appli- unemployed as losers, even if they are from private companies, as long as they occasional air strikes in response to mor- accepted receive paid training at a unit of cants were put through their paces, carry- educated.” — Reuters Abbas to address Fatah congress

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Hamas outreach President Mahmud Abbas addresses his Fatah’s five-day congress is expected to Fatah party’s first congress since 2009 yes- discuss whether to seek to introduce a UN terday as he contends with internal dissent Security Council resolution against Israeli and grim prospects for advancing his settlements. Abbas, head of Fatah, the decades-long goal of achieving a Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian state. The 81-year-old leader Palestinian Authority following Yasser was re-elected head of Fatah as the con- Arafat’s death in 2004, has consistently gress opened on Tuesday, but speculation called for a negotiated solution and has mounted over who will eventually suc- opposed another violent uprising. But he ceed him as Palestinian president. He has has grown unpopular, with polls showing not publicly supported a successor. most Palestinians want him to resign, and His speech is before some 1,400 dele- many have lost faith in the so-called peace gates in Ramallah. It comes with process spelled out in the Oslo accords of Palestinians facing continued Jewish settle- the 1990s that he helped negotiate. ment building in the occupied West Bank Some analysts see the congress as an and an incoming Donald Trump adminis- attempt by Abbas to marginalize political tration in the United States seen as far opponents, including longtime rival more friendly to Israel. More than 600,000 Mohammed Dahlan, currently in exile in Israeli settlers now live in the West Bank the United Arab Emirates. Observers have and east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians seen the reduced number of officials to see as their future capital. vote-down from more than 2,000 in 2009 The United States, European Union and — as part of a move to exclude Dahlan others have warned that continued settle- supporters. ment building is eating away at prospects The election of members of Fatah’s par- for a two-state solution to the conflict, the liament and its central committee will sig- basis of years of negotiations. A controver- nal the direction the oldest Palestinian par- sial Israeli bill to legalize some 4,000 settler ty will take. The congress also comes with homes in the West Bank had been due to Fatah and its Islamist rival Hamas, in power come up for a first reading in parliament on in the Gaza Strip, still deeply divided. Fatah Wednesday, but it was delayed until dominates the Palestinian Authority, which Monday as behind-the-scenes debate con- runs the West Bank. However, a letter from ADANA: This picture obtained from the Ihlas News Agency shows an injured girl taken to hospital following a fire at a school. — AFP tinued. exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in The international community considers which he said he was “ready to cooperate all Israeli settlements in Israeli-annexed with Fatah,” was read at the opening of the Eight held over Turkey girl east Jerusalem and the West Bank to be congress on Tuesday. illegal, whether they are authorized by the Abbas and Meshaal recently met in government or not. The Israeli government Qatar for the first time in two years. On differentiates between those it has Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki- dorm fire as anger grows approved and those it has not. The moon warned that hopes for a two-state progress of the bill, approved earlier by a solution were fading fast, decrying settle- committee of ministers on behalf of the ment building and home demolitions by Anger growing over possible negligence government, has demonstrated the power Israel. But he also criticized the Palestinians’ of the settler movement in Israel. “paralyzing lack of unity”. — AFP ISTANBUL: Turkey yesterday detained eight Dogan said most of the dead would be iden- broadcast of images of the catastrophe’s after- people over a deadly fire at a dormitory for tified using DNA tests, in a sign that the victims math, a common measure after such disasters. schoolgirls that left 12 people dead, as anger were too badly burned to be identified visually. grew over possible negligence that caused the Ten of those killed were schoolchildren aged up ‘A shame and a crime’ tragedy. The blaze, which officials said was likely to 14, while the fire also claimed the life of a The head of the Egitim-Is education union caused by an electrical fault, tore through the member of the teaching staff. The four-year-old Mehmet Balik said the dormitory belonged to a building’s wooden interior on Tuesday night as daughter of the dormitory manager being held religious Sunni Muslim sect in Aladag known as panicked youngsters tried to jump from win- by the police also died, Dogan said. Twenty-four the Suleymanci. The girls had been sleeping there dows to safety. people including 16 children were injured, as the state-run dormitory had been demolished Some officials suggested many of the victims Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told a press ahead of expansion works, Dogan reported. were killed on the top floors of the dormitory in conference. Media reports said the Suleymanci accommoda- the southern region of Adana after they were tion was the girls’ only option in the area. unable to open a fire door to flee the flames. “We Fire doors shut? The Suleymanci is one of the biggest reli- will learn lessons from this and we will do what Officials said the fire was likely caused by an gious communities in Turkey and is renowned needs to be done to ensure this never happens electrical fault which then spread rapidly due to for having a major influence in politics. The pro- again,” said Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz, the dormitory’s wooden structures and carpeted Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) adding that an inspection in June had not floors. Adana governor Mahmut Demirtas said blamed the government for failing to properly uncovered any issues. In Ankara, Turkish police Tuesday some of the schoolgirls were injured fund education accommodation, forcing poor used tear gas to disperse a protest outside the after jumping out of windows to escape the families to use accommodation run by religious education ministry by activists angered that the flames. He added that none of those injured was communities. “Such fires are not the first and devastated dormitory was managed by an influ- in a serious condition. Adana city mayor Huseyin will not be the last so long as the government’s ential religious sect. Sozlu told Turkish television Tuesday that the policy and irresponsibility remain in place,” it dormitory’s fire door was locked and that most said in a statement. RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, waves to fellow Fatah DNA tests needed of the dead were recovered from near that exit. “It is a shame and crime to condemn our chil- members as he arrives for the opening session of the Fatah party conference, in the Those detained as part of the investigation But Kaynak said that according to initial find- dren to uncontrolled dorms and any form of West Bank city. — AP into accusations of “causing death by negli- ings, the door had been unlocked. “There’s even a abuse.” But ruling party spokesman Yasin Aktay gence” include the manager of the dormitory in curtain hanging near the exit door undamaged,” emphasized that “the fact the building the Aladag district of Adana, the Dogan news he said, but added that the situation would belonged to a religious community” could not Report points to Iran agency said. Five people were detained initially become clearer after an investigation. The build- be accepted as the sole reason for the fire. “It is while three other suspects were being treated ing is assessed twice a year by the education min- too early now to make links but if there is such a for wounds in hospital. A total of 14 arrest war- istry, Kaynak said, adding that it was last checked scenario, if there is such neglect, it will not be arms pipeline to Yemen rants have been issued. in June. The Turkish government banned the ignored,” he said. — AFP RIYADH: International investigators have UAE forces within the Saudi-led coalition found a suspected “weapon pipeline” reported recovering in Yemen a Kornet from Iran through Somalia to Yemen which CAR said is part of “the same pro- Iraqi family’s search for where Shiite rebels are battling the gov- duction run” as those on the dhow. This ernment, according to a report released “supports allegations that the weapons yesterday. Saudi Arabia and the United originated in Iran and that the dhow’s States have accused Iran of arming the cargo was destined for Yemen,” CAR said. ‘Lost Girl’ taken by IS Houthi rebels in Yemen, but Tehran French government sources said the denies the charges. Since March last year dhow was headed to Somalia “for possi- Riyadh has led an Arab coalition fighting ble transhipment to Yemen,” CAR said. KHAZER: In a camp near Mosul a picture of a Christian town of Qaraqosh, about 15 km south- wrenched the girl away. the Houthis and their allies in support of Light machine guns, suspected to be three-year-old girl, snatched from her mother’s east of Mosul, including Nuh and her husband, “Who will look after her? She needs me,” Yemen’s internationally recognized presi- North Korean made, were found with the breast by Islamic State militants when they over- along with Christina, their youngest daughter. It pleaded Nuh, trailing the man as he got off the dent, Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, after the same serial number sequence on both ran her Christian town two years ago, is taped to is a decision they have lived to regret, but at the bus with her daughter. He said he was following rebels overran much of the country. The dhows, “which suggests that the materiel a wall along with a desperate plea from her par- time it was unclear how the militants would orders from his emir, or commander, before dis- analysis by Conflict Armament Research derived from the same original consign- ents. “Lost Girl”, reads the poster in the displaced treat them, and Nuh said she expected Iraqi appearing into the hospital, barring her way. She (CAR) is based on the seizure in February ment,” the report added. It also referred people’s camp, urging anyone with information security forces to regain control in a matter of continued to beg, and eventually the emir and March this year of weapons from to the US Navy’s seizure from a dhow in about Christina Ezzo Abada to call the number days. Nevertheless, they sent their four elder emerged from the hospital carrying Christina, dhows, traditional sailing vessels, in the March of AK-type assault rifles, rocket provided. children to safety in the nearby Kurdish region as who was crying. “I told him to give her back to Arabian Sea. launchers and machine guns which the Almost nothing is known about what hap- a precaution. me,” recalled Nuh. “He didn’t speak. With his eyes British-based CAR, which is primarily US believed “originated in Iran and were pened to Christina since her abduction, but her he motioned at me to get back on the bus.” funded by the European Union, analyzed destined for Yemen.” Two of the dhows family assumes she was taken to Mosul and is Snatched When she resisted, the militants first threat- photographs of weapons confiscated were made by Al Mansoor of Iran, CAR praying she will be found among the tens of Twenty days went by in Qaraqosh with ened and then forced her onto the bus, which from the dhows by the Australian warship said. Although their findings were “rela- thousands of people now fleeing the city. In the Christina and her parents holed up at home, drove to a wasteland on the edge of Islamic HMAS Darwin and the French frigate FS tively limited,” the investigators said their cramped cabin where they live, her parents keep fearful of the black-clad militants, who came to State territory and dumped the entire group Provence. The ships were part of a joint analysis “suggests the existence of a vigil around the television, tuned to a channel them demanding they convert to Islam, but also there. That was the last time Nuh saw her daugh- international task force that operates sep- weapon pipeline extending from Iran to tracking the progress of Iraqi security forces as provided food and water when asked. On Aug ter. In the days after she was taken, Christina’s arately from the Saudi coalition. HMAS Somalia and Yemen”. they fight to recapture the city from Islamic 22, 2014, the militants instructed all remaining parents calledlocal Arabs with links to Islamic Darwin seized more than 2,000 weapons, This involves “significant quantities of State. A picture of Christina hangs on the wall Christians to gather at a local hospital for med- State who told them she had been placed with a including AK-type assault rifles and 100 Iranian-manufactured weapons and next to an image of Jesus. ical tests, and Nuh and her husband obeyed. But family and was in safe hands. But then contact Iranian-manufactured rocket launchers, weapons that plausibly derive from “We hope she’s alive,” said her mother, Aida there were no tests, and after a short interval the was lost. Further efforts to track the girl down from the dhow bound for Somalia, CAR Iranian stockpiles,” they said. It said that Nuh, the dark circles around her eyes giving her militants ordered them onto a minibus waiting have yielded nothing, although some speculate said. The seizure by FS Provence included traffickers offload weapons in the semi- a haunted expression. “Maybe someone will outside, which had been smeared with mud to she ended up in an Islamic State orphanage. It is 2,000 assault rifles “characteristic of autonomous region of Puntland in north- bring her and look for us and make contact. God prevent passengers looking out or anyone see- not clear why the militants kidnapped Christina, Iranian manufacture” and 64 Hoshdar-M ern Somalia “for local arms markets or as knows”. Christina’s case is unusual. Although ing in. who would now be five-years-old. Iranian-made sniper rifles, all of which transhipment points for onward supply Islamic State is known for its brutality and has The militants, whom Nuh identified as local Earlier this week, the family returned to were in new condition, CAR said. to Yemen”. Other analysts have ques- kidnapped thousands of men, women and chil- Arabs, searched the group of around 30 Qaraqosh for the first time since leaving more tioned the extent of Tehran’s influence dren from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, Christians faced Christians for valuables, which they took, and than two years ago. On the way there, the car Stockpiles over the Houthis, a minority group which a different ultimatum under the militants’ rule- separated four members of the group before stopped and Christina’s father, who is blind, got There were also nine Russian-made fought six wars against Yemen’s govern- pay a special tax for protection, convert to Islam, corralling the rest onto the bus. Nuh sat with out and heard the voice of a young girl. “I heard Kornet anti-tank guided missiles, it said. ment from 2004 to 2010. — AFP or die by the sword. Christina on her lap and was breast-feeding her ‘papa! papa!’,” he said. “I called ‘Christina! Most fled, but around 30 remained in the when one of the militants came up and Christina!’, but she didn’t reply”. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 Reckoning for Pelosi: Dems vote for leader

WASHINGTON: Minority Leader Nancy “I think Tim Ryan would be a great “I believe we must do more than sim- dence heading into the vote. Known for two California Democrats, Linda Sanchez Pelosi faced a reckoning from fellow leader. He’s a new generation and I think ply paper over the cracks,” said Rep. Ruben her vote-counting skills, the Californian and Barbara Lee. Either would become House Democrats on yesterday as frustrat- he would appeal to a lot of millennials Gallego of Arizona, one of a handful of asserted she had support of two-thirds of the first minority woman in leadership. ed lawmakers tried to oust her from the and young people in this country,” Rep House Democrats to endorse Ryan. “We Democrats locked up. “Leader Pelosi is On the eve of the House leadership leadership post she’s held for over a Steve Lynch, D-Mass., said as he headed can’t just say the right things - we must honored to receive the overwhelming elections, 85-year-old Rep. Sander Levin, decade. The 76-year-old California into the session. “He brings a certain take concrete steps to move our party in support of her colleagues,” said the top Democrat on the House Ways and Democrat, known as a master vote count- excitement and also a bit of common the right direction.” The 76-year-old Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill. “That so many Means Committee, said he will not seek er, was expected to beat back the chal- sense from Youngstown, Ohio.” “Our base has been promising some changes to members are so enthusiastic and eager to re-election to the panel post, clearing the lenge from Ohio Rep Tim Ryan as is working people and we’ve got to talk assuage concerns in her caucus, including take active roles in the caucus is music to way for a younger lawmaker to move into Democrats met behind closed doors. about that. We’ve got to tell working peo- adding a member of the freshmen class to her ears.” the spot on the powerful committee. But she was forced to promise changes ple in this country that we care about her leadership team. But her proposals do Other top leadership posts are uncon- Becerra and Rep. Richard Neal of to the caucus to answer complaints from them,” Lynch said. little to ensure new blood at the very top tested, with Steny Hoyer of Maryland Massachusetts told House Democrats lawmakers fed up with being shut out of Leadership elections were originally or change the seniority system that has expected to stay in the No. 2 job of whip, they are interested in the position. the upper ranks of leadership, especially scheduled to be held before Thanksgiving key committees led by lawmakers in their and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina in the Republicans are on track to hold at least in the wake of a devastating election that but were delayed to give Democrats more 80s at a moment when the party needs to No. 3 position of assistant leader. The 240 seats in the House next year. installed a GOP monopoly over Congress time to discuss and process the election be defending President Barack Obama’s position of conference chairman is term- Democrats, who had high hopes of signifi- and the White House. A half-dozen results and consider a path forward. Many health care law and other initiatives. limited, and Xavier Becerra of California is cant gains in the election, picked up just Democrats were slated to deliver testimo- are discouraged after losing the White expected to be replaced by Joe Crowley six seats on Election Day earlier this nials to Pelosi in nominating speeches, House and making smaller than expected Overwhelming support of New York. There is a contest for the month and remain in the minority with but the disenchantment was evident. gains in both chambers of Congress. Nonetheless Pelosi projected confi- position of conference vice chair between 194 seats. — AP Trump dines with Romney, plans new victory tour ‘Trump will lead us to a better future’

NEW YORK: Donald Trump dined Tuesday at one of New York’s swankiest restaurants with Mitt Romney, his erstwhile foe turned potential fron- trunner in the race to become America’s next secretary of state. The dinner came as the presi- dent-elect got a shot in the arm by a manufac- turing company announcing a deal to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the Rust Belt and as the New York billionaire prepared to switch his attentions from job interviews to a post-election victory tour. “We will keep our companies and jobs in HAVANA: People line the Malecon seaside boulevard as they watch the motorcade the US. Thanks Carrier,” Trump tweeted late transporting the remains of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. — AP Tuesday, referring to the Indiana-based air con- ditioning company that announced the deal. The choice of Jean-Georges, a three-starred Viva Fidel!: Castro takes Michelin restaurant overlooking Central Park run by celebrity French chef Jean-Georges final voyage across Cuba Vongerichten and popular with New York high society, was the clearest indication yet that HAVANA: A military jeep carried the ashes of picture memorial to Castro at the Trump may select Romney as his chief diplomat. Fidel Castro along streets lined with flag- Revolution Square. The commemorations After the dinner, Romney offered words of praise waving Cubans in Havana yesterday, starting in the capital ended with a massive rally for Trump that contrasted sharply with his past criticisms, saying he had been “impressed” by his NEW YORK CITY: President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney dine at Jean Georges a four-day journey to his final resting place Tuesday night at the square attended by restaurant. — AFP across the island. After two days of tributes in Latin American, African and Caribbean acceptance speech and subsequent prepara- Havana, the “caravan of freedom” departed leaders, along with the Greek prime minis- tions for office, calling it “a wonderful evening.” face the delicate task of reassuring foreign allies Monday, has by far the most foreign policy on a 950-kilometer trek retracing the route of ter-the only European leader at the event. “I think you’re going to see America continue alarmed by the president-elect’s rhetoric on the experience, but was forced to resign from the the revolution’s victory tour of 1959. Raul Castro, 85, thanked the “countless to lead the world in this century,” Romney told campaign trail. Other key posts yet to be CIA after showing classified material to his mis- The flag-covered urn rested on a small gestures of solidarity and affection from reporters, saying he had “increasing hope that announced are the secretaries of defense and tress Paula Broadwell. In 2015, he pleaded guilty olive-green trailer, flanked by white flowers around the world” and ending with the rev- president-elect Trump is the very man who can treasury-for which US media reported that to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classi- and protected by a glass case as Havana bid olutionary battle cry, “Until victory, always!” lead us to that better future.” The brash real estate Trump was expected to name former Goldman fied materials, and was put on probation and farewell to the communist icon who ruled But the presidents of Western powers, and tycoon and the former Republican nominee who Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin. fined $100,000. the island with an iron fist for almost half a even friendly nations including Russia, lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama were But the search for the right diplomat has century. Hundreds of thousands chanted “I China and Iran, sent deputies in their place. joined by Trump’s incoming chief of staff Reince proved contentious with some of Trump’s inner Jobs to stay am Fidel!” and “viva Fidel!” as the “caravan of The absences underscored the divisive Priebus in full view of other diners, who included circle horrified at the prospect of rewarding a Helping Trump claim success on his election freedom” headed on long trip that will end legacy of a leader who defied the United CNN’s senior White House correspondent. prominent critic with such a plum job. Romney’s pledge to save American jobs from going over- with a final ceremony in the eastern city of States, backed guerrilla movements in Latin In a restaurant where dinner starts at $148 a distrust of Russia-at odds with a president-elect seas, air-conditioning company Carrier Corp Santiago de Cuba on Sunday. America and deployed his army to conflicts head, the Trump team said they feasted on garlic who has spoken admiringly of Vladimir Putin- announced it had reached a deal with the presi- Senior officials of the government and in Africa during the Cold War. soup with thyme, sauteed frog legs and scallops and the respect he generally commands have dent-elect and vice president-elect Mike Pence Communist Party, and Castro’s longtime Leftist Latin American leaders vowed to with caramelized cauliflower and a caper raisin been touted as qualities by establishment “to keep close to 1,000 jobs.” Trump had tweeted partner, Dalia Soto del Valle, attended the carry the torch of Castro’s revolution as emulsion. For their main course, both the presi- Americans. It remains unclear how influential on America’s Thanksgiving holiday last week that farewell ceremony at the armed forces min- they addressed the rally. “Today it is up to dent-elect and Priebus opted for prime sirloin the secretary of state would be on crafting for- he was seeking to persuade the company to stay istry before the caravan headed out. us to raise the flags of independence of the with a citrus glaze and carrots, and Romney for eign policy with Trump loyalist and retired gen- in the United States. Cubans were observing the fifth of nine great fatherland, today it is up to us to hold lamb chops with the mushroom bolognese eral Michael Flynn already nominated as nation- The New York Times reported that Trump and days of mourning for Castro following his the flag of dignity and freedom of the peo- sauce. All three had chocolate cake. Asked by a al security adviser. Pence plan to appear at the company’s death on Friday at age 90. Castro ruled ple,” said Venezuelan President Nicolas reporter briefly allowed to observe the meal Besides Romney, other potential candidates Indianapolis plant on Thursday to announce from 1959 until an illness forced him to Maduro, whose late mentor, Hugo Chavez, whether it was going well, the president-elect are celebrated general yet scandal-clad former they have struck a deal after the company had hand power to his brother, Raul, in 2006. had a special bond with Castro. Allies flashed a thumbs up. CIA director David Petraeus, Senate Foreign threatened to move 2,000 jobs to Mexico.The “It’s very moving to say goodbye to a praised Castro in almost religious tones, Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker and same day, both Trump and Pence are also sched- person who meant so much but who lived with Bolivian President Evo Morales saying, Mnuchin touted former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. Earlier uled to lead a post-election rally in Cincinnati, long enough to accomplish what he want- “Fidel is not dead. ...Fidel is more alive than It was the second face-to-face meeting in 10 Tuesday, Trump met Corker, 64, who said that Ohio. The evening event at the home of the ed,” said a tearful Esperanza Pares, 86. ever, more necessary than ever.” days between Trump and the 69-year-old former he thought Trump had narrowed the choice “to Cincinnati Cyclones, with a maximum capacity of Castro’s ashes will take the reverse route Massachusetts governor, who savaged him as a a very small group of people” and it was impor- more than 17,000, is expected to be similar to that his band of guerrilla fighters took after Fading left “conman” and a “fraud” during the election cam- tant that he selects somebody on the same those that drew enthusiastic crowds of thou- defeating dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro’s death, however, comes as Latin paign. Trump’s secretary of state will be wave length. sands during the campaign. The transition team From January 2 to January 8, 1959, the America’s left is losing ground. Maduro is America’s public face to the world who could Petraeus, who met the president-elect on has dubbed it a “thank you tour.” — AFP bearded rebels traveled from Santiago to facing a deep economic crisis and fighting Havana, stopping in Castro’s home region, opposition attempts to hold a recall refer- Holguin, as well as the cities of Camaguey, endum, while Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was Trump’s idea of ‘presidential’ Las Tunas, Sancti Spiritus, Santa Clara and impeached in August and a conservative Matanzas. One of the most symbol-filled took over in Argentina last year. US stops of this last trip will be in Santa Clara, President Barack Obama, who along with where the ashes of his Argentine comrade- Raul Castro ended decades of enmity to differs from past presidents in-arms, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, rest. The restore diplomatic relations, did not attend urn will be laid to rest at the Santa Ifigenia the rally, sending an advisor and a diplomat WASHINGTON: Donald Trump, that most ernment that is preparing to take control in the cemetery, next to the mausoleum of 19th without the status of a “presidential delega- unconventional of presidential candidates, last United States.” century independence hero Jose Marti. tion.” “We continue to have some significant spring pledged that he would act perfectly pres- “To call this the ‘new normal’ is to make light concerns about the way the Cuban govern- idential when the time was right. of the seriousness of what’s going on,” Mann ‘Until victory, always!’ ment currently operates, particularly with “I will be so presidential that you’ll call me said. Trump has “got to get some discipline,” said The trip follows two days of tributes in regard to protecting the basic human and you’ll say, ‘Donald, you have to stop that, it’s New York University’s Paul Light, another scholar Havana where hundreds of thousands were rights of the Cuban people,” White House too much,’” he promised during a March televi- of government. “He’s just got to get on this.” On encouraged by the government to view a spokesman Josh Earnest said. — AFP sion interview. Less than two months from the matter of Trump’s tweeting, Light said, “If he’s Inauguration Day, there are growing signs that up at 3 a.m. about to tweet, he should start read- Trump’s idea of what’s presidential may never ing something about his agenda instead. He’s Clinton team sees recount sync up with past norms - to the delight of some under-informed and so is his staff.” and dismay of others. as big waste of resources The president-elect has kept up his habit of Threatening tweets sending unfiltered tweets, directly challenged The concerns extend well beyond matters of WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton’s aides and week where all I wanted to do was curl the First Amendment right to burn the flag and style. Trump’s out-of-the-blue tweet this week supporters are urging dispirited Democrats up with a good book and our dogs and selected a flame-throwing outsider for a top that people who burn the flag should face jail to channel their frustrations about the elec- never leave the house again,” Clinton said adviser. He’s shown no hesitation to traffic in time or a loss of citizenship had Republicans tion results into political causes - just not in an emotional speech at a gala for the unsubstantiated rumors, has mixed dealings in MEXICO CITY: In this Wednesday, Aug 31, stepping forward to defend First Amendment into efforts to recount ballots in three bat- Children’s Defense Fund, her one public business and government, and has flouted 2016, file photo, Republican presidential can- rights. His unfounded charges that millions of tleground states. appearance since her loss. Former diplomatic conventions to make his own sug- didate Donald Trump speaks during a joint Americans voted illegally sow distrust in the The former Democratic presidential can- President Bill Clinton, meanwhile, has gestion for who should be Britain’s ambassador statement with Mexico’s President Enrique integrity of the US electoral system. didate and her close aides see the recount been poring over the election results, to the US, a job that happens to already be filled. Pena Nieto. — AP On matters of press access, the idea that the drive largely as a waste of resources, second-guessing decisions by top cam- He’s picked numerous fights with individual ing the big leap to the Oval Office, has expressed whereabouts of the president or president-elect according to people close to Clinton. The paign aides and intensely trying to figure journalists, disregarded past practices on press hope that the weight of the office will ultimately might be unknown in a time of national emer- effort is being fueled by Green Party candi- out how his wife lost the white working- access and dabbled in the name-calling that was have a sobering effect on Trump, cautioning gency has troubling implications beyond mere date Jill Stein, who’s formed an organiza- class voters who were the base of his commonplace during his candidacy. people against assuming “the worst.” inconvenience for reporters. And experts on tion to try to force recounts in Wisconsin, electoral coalition, say people familiar Trump’s search for Cabinet nominees has “How you campaign isn’t always the same as government ethics say that if the president Michigan and Pennsylvania. with the campaign. played out like a reality TV show, with a number how you govern,” Obama said in one of a string doesn’t sell off his vast business buildings, he’ll “Believe me if there was anything I of candidates engaged in unabashed self-pro- of recent comments trying to provide some be subject to a never-ending string of conflict- could do to make Hillary Clinton the next Possible discrepancies motion while their assets and liabilities are pub- measure of reassurance to those concerned of-interest questions that will cast a cloud over president of the United States I would,” Clinton’s team was aware of possible licly debated by members of the president- about the next president. “Sometimes when his policy actions. said former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, discrepancies soon after the election, elect’s own transition team. (It’s normally a hush- you’re campaigning, you’re trying to stir up pas- Trump said yesterday he was drawing up a longtime Clinton supporter. “But this is telling top donors on a conference call four hush process until the unveiling of an sions. When you govern, you actually have reali- plans to take himself “completely out” of his a big waste of time.” Aides say Clinton is days after the election that they were look- appointee). Trump’s tweet that “Fidel Castro is ty in front of you, and you have to figure out, business operations. But it wasn’t clear if he focused on moving past her unexpected ing into potential problems in the three dead!” had none of the diplomatic subtleties ‘How do I make this work.’ “ planned to put his businesses in a blind trust - as defeat and has devoted little attention to states. But while many campaign staffers normally associated with such an international Republican Rep Mark Meadows of North presidents have traditionally done - or leave the recount or thinking about her politi- believe Russian hacking influenced the out- development. Carolina, a strong conservative and a Trump them in his children’s hands. Polls show Trump’s cal future. She’s been spending time with come of the election, blaming foreign defender, said of the transition, “You gotta break favorability ratings have ticked up since the elec- her grandchildren and going for walks actors for incursions into campaign and ‘New normal’ a few eggs to make an omelet.” But Thomas tion, even if they are still extremely low for an near her Westchester home. Sightings of Democratic National Committee emails, Is all of this, then, the “new normal” for what Mann, a longtime scholar of government from incoming president. Clinton hiking with her dogs and shop- they’ve found no evidence of the kind of to expect from a Trump administration or a the Brookings Institution, said that while people A CNN survey released last week found that ping at a Rhode Island bookstore went widespread ballot box tampering that reflection of the growing pains associated with can hope for the best, “There’s no reason to take Trump’s favorability rating had gone from 36 viral on social media. would change the results of the race - or any presidential transition? President Barack what’s going on with anything other than great percent a few weeks before the election to 47 “There have been a few times this past even flip a single state. — AP Obama, who knows a thing or two about mak- uneasiness and caution about the kind of gov- percent 10 days after the vote. — AP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Austria far-right and left happy with regional union

EISENSTADT: Campaigners for Austria’s right has carved out a cozy alliance with the close to the unions, broke a major taboo ology, on the other pragmatism. Ideology of thousands of migrants that trekked Greens-backed presidential candidate Social Democrats, one of the country’s two last year by entering into a coalition with would have eventually pushed us into the through the state last year. Alexander Van der Bellen are having a hard main parties. The SPOe, which grew out of a the populist Freedom Party (FPOe). opposition,” SPOe Burgenland chief Helmut time in Burgenland state, where the far- Marxist worker’s movement and remains As a result, the FPOe’s presidential Schuster told AFP. Model for the future? poster boy Norbert Hofer is expected to His party lost a whopping six points at Eisenstadt residents seem happy with easily beat his rival on December 4 in the the regional polls in May 2015 despite win- the arrangement. “It’s good that the parties eastern region, on Hungary’s border. The ning the race, dropping to 42 percent. The are able to sit around the same table,” said a 45-year-old scored over 60 percent in SPOe decided to skip its conservative part- couple in their 30s, who did not want to be Burgenland in the first run-off in May, ner, which had come second, and instead identified. “You can’t really say that the which was annulled over procedural irregu- turn to the third-placed FPOe to form a FPOe’s presence is being felt on a regional larities. “Some local SPOe mayors are sup- regional government. “It’s a way of winning level.” Petrik agrees that the impact has porting Van der Bellen... but there are many back voters who left us for the FPOe by been subtle but warns that therein lies the who don’t openly campaign for Hofer but making them a new offer,” Schuster said. danger. “The atmosphere and the rhetoric will vote for him,” Burgenland Greens MP The move had been carefully planned. have changed, the words are no longer Regina Petrik told AFP in a recent interview. Ahead of the ballot, the SPOe had already those of the SPOe,” the Greens MP noted. Burgenland’s political marriage is “the gauged members’ opinions about a possi- She criticizes the heavy focus on securi- first great tear in the red barricade put up in ble far-right alliance. ty in Burgenland, where crime statistics 1986” when Franz Vranitzky broke off the “Close to 90 percent were in favor,” were already the lowest in Austria long short-lived coalition with the FPOe after he according to Geza Molnar, head of FPOe before last year’s election. And yet police was elected chancellor, according to Burgenland. Negotiations between the two numbers are being stocked up, giving peo- Austrian news magazine Profil. It is also a parties went smoothly, he said. Hans Niessl, ple “the false impression that they’re living clear sign of both the seemingly unstop- who has led the SPOe Burgenland for more in an insecure world, which isn’t true”, said pable rise of the FPOe and the crisis plagu- than 15 years, “prioritized security and the Petrik. Despite her reservations, the ing the ruling establishment, made up of job market, with a political course very sim- Burgenland example could become a mod- the SPOe and the conservative People’s ilar to ours,” Molnar told AFP. el for Austria’s next government. Party. Like elsewhere in Europe and the US, Those who see a “taboo break” in the The far-right, which consistently leads disgruntled voters punished the traditional coalition are mainly “elite Social opinion polls, is tipped to win the sched- parties by knocking their two presidential Democrats” from outside Burgenland. uled 2018 general election. The SPOe, led candidates out of the first round in April. “We’ve created a positive image on a local by Chancellor Christian Kern, recently level, with goal-oriented personalities launched talks to define “criteria” for coali- VIENNA: In this May 20, 2016 file photo Norbert Hofer candidate for ‘Extraordinarily good’ showing that they want to work together,” tion partners. Although the FPOe has not presidential elections of Austria’s Freedom Party, FPOE, and Heinz- In Eisenstadt, Burgenland’s small capital he added. The SPOe also hails what it calls been explicitly named, they’re definitely on Christian Strache, from left, head of Austria’s Freedom Party, FPOE, look of 14,000 people, the SPOe sees the union an “extraordinarily good collaboration” everyone’s mind-much to Molnar’s delight. as a solution to the weakening of the with the FPOe, highlighting among other “Our alliance has helped erase the preju- out at supporters during the final election campaign event. —AP Austrian left. “On the one hand there’s ide- things the successful management of tens dices toward the FPOe,” he said. —AFP A Paris town’s brash shift to the far right String of jihadist attacks changing mindsets

MANTES-LA-VILLE: Emilie Fougerolles ‘Permanent fear’ to capitalise on economic gloom and mainstream parties worked together voted for the far left in 2012 and is “We live in permanent fear,” said concern about Europe’s biggest to block it. “troubled by the racism” of France’s far- Fougerolles, who was especially migrant crisis since World War II. As Now, thanks partly to deep disar- right National Front, but nevertheless shaken by the jihadist murder in June part of this strategy, she has report- ray on the left, voter surveys predict she is seriously thinking of voting for its this year of a police officer and his edly instructed FN mayors not to that Le Pen will come in second or presidential candidate Marine Le Pen companion in Magnanville, just a few make waves in their cities. Cyril even first in the first round of the next year. kilometers away. One of her four Nauth, a 35-year-old history and presidential vote in April, qualifying The 34-year-old sales clerk lives in daughters was taking a judo class geography teacher and the first FN her for the May run-off. She is then the Paris dormitory town of Mantes-la- only 200 meters away from the scene mayor in the Paris region, failed to tipped to lose, most likely to the new- Ville, one of 10 cities the National Front of the attack at the time. That was see through on his campaign promis- ly chosen rightwing candidate Francois Fillon. But after the shock election of Donald Trump in the PARIS: Vincent Martinez, one the defendants, speaks to press after three for- United States, no-one is writing off Le mer Air France employees on trial for ripping company executives’ shirts Pen’s chances. during a dispute over layoffs were found guilty in a case that highlighted the country’s sometimes violent labor relations. —AFP ‘I won’t hide it’ Franck Party, a 49-year-old super- market manager, said he would “nev- er” have voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen 3 guilty in Air France because he is “too over the top,” but he has voted FN since Marine took ‘shirt-ripping’ trial over. “Her positions on defending France’s identity resonate with me,” PARIS: Three former Air France employees human resources boss Xavier Broseta he said, adding that he opposes on trial for ripping company executives’ before he was stripped to the waist in “mass immigration” and the “dictator- shirts during a dispute over layoffs were front of television cameras. Prime Minister ship of Brussels”. found guilty yesterday in a case that high- Manuel Valls had called for the defen- Like Party, many residents of lighted the country’s fraught labor rela- dants, whom he branded “rogues”, to be Mantes-la-Ville, which is slightly tions. They were given suspended prison given stiff sentences. poorer than the national average, sentences of three to four months over the make no bones about voting FN. “I attack in October 2015 that left one execu- Union activism won’t hide it,” said Alain Baudouin, a tive naked to the waist and another with The attack came to symbolize the often 56-year-old former carworker who his shirt and jacket in tatters. fraught relations between company exec- has taken early retirement, slam- Appearing in court in northeast Paris, utives and trade union representatives in ming “these immigrants who have two others who faced the same charges of France and led to questions about the lim- everything”. A former mason who “organized violence” were acquitted. The its of legitimate protest. Incidents of so- gave his name only as Frederic company said the sentences “enable us to called “boss-napping”, in which executives agreed, saying he was sacked close this sad episode”, but lawyer Lilia are held against their will during negotia- “because of Turkish and Polish work- Mhissen, acting on behalf of most of the tions over job cuts, have spread in recent ers”, adding: “Vive the FN”. defendants, said she would encourage years. In 2014, workers at a Goodyear tire Patricia, a 58-year-old woman them to appeal. Images of furious activists factory in northern France held two direc- who works at Mantes-la-Ville’s town MANTES-LA-VILLE: This file photo taken on March 31, 2014 shows Cyril Nauth, newly elected chasing down the executives at the air- tors captive for close to 300 hours to hall, said she did not regret voting FN mayor of Mantes-la-Ville for the French far-right Front National (FN) party, posing in front of the line’s headquarters on the edge of Paris protest the closure of the plant. in the 2014 municipal elections, and made the front pages around the world The CGT has organized protests against city hall of Mantes-la-Ville. —AFP said she would vote for Le Pen in when the confrontation took place. the Air France trial, with one member (FN) seized control of during municipal when Fougerolles began taking an es to block a new mosque in Mantes- 2017. Like Fougerolles, she has seen The protests were led by the hard-left accusing the company and courts of “crim- elections in 2014. interest in Le Pen. “She has good la-Ville, though he has cut subsidies little change in the city. “Maybe the CGT, France’s largest union, over the air- inalizing union action.” Air France-KLM Since then, residents are ideas when it comes to terrorism,” to civic groups. streets are cleaner?” she said, before line’s plans to cut 2,900 jobs. Ten other for- returned to profit last year after seven relieved that “nothing has Fougerolles said. “If her name weren’t Le Pen has also seized on the fears adding that for her the main thing is: mer and current employees from the com- years of losses, but faces stiff competition changed in our daily lives,” Le Pen I would have no doubts at all generated by the attacks with prom- “We need to revitalize France!” A pany were fined 500 Euros ($530) yester- from Asian and Gulf airlines as well as new, Fougerolles said in the low-rise about voting for her.” The 48-year-old ises of boosting security and counter- woman in her 70s who declined to day for damaging the company’s property low-cost long-haul alternatives. town some 50 kilometers west of FN leader is the youngest daughter ing perceived Islamic inroads into give her name said she voted for the after they broke down a gate at the head- Air France, which employs around the French capital. The string of of the fiery and openly xenophobic French society. The so-called “de- FN mayor because she was “fed up of quarters during the demonstration. 55,000 people, still faces tensions with jihadist attacks that have claimed Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led the party demonising” strategy has translated state handouts and immigrants.” But Pierre Plissonnier, director of long-haul pilots and flight crews who staged strikes 238 lives in France since January for nearly 40 years. into votes, and the party won 28 per- when it comes to the presidency, she operations at the airline, had told the in late July. The airline also faces a down- 2015 have contributed to the shift Since succeeding him in 2011 she cent in the first round of last year’s said she preferred Fillon. Being mayor court of his “humiliation” at seeing pic- turn in bookings, notably by Japanese, in the town of around 20,000 has worked to shed the party’s racist regional elections, though it was is “after all not the same as running a tures of himself with a ripped shirt and Chinese and American customers, inhabitants. and anti-Semitic image while hoping defeated in the run-off when the country,” she said. —AFP jacket scrambling over a fence to escape because of the string of jihadist attacks the mob. The court also viewed footage in that have hit France over the past two Brexiteers fighting EU’s metric system which a worker can be heard threatening years. —AFP

HUNTINGDON: Armed with high-vis jackets, a lad- “When we took down the first sign my heart was there’s really a lot of people who feel like me and EU to boost joint der and a half-inch spanner, Tony Bennett and beating in fear that we would be arrested,” said they’re rebels as well,” said Norman, sipping a cup of Derek Norman are the foot soldiers of Brexit, wag- Bennett. “After you do it a few times, you lose the tea. At its peak, ARM was made up of about 100 ing a slow but successful battle against metrication, fear.” They see their campaign as a crucial part in activists, including Norman’s wife Kay, who acted as defense spending one street at a time. As the setting sun casts an harnessing support for Britain to leave the a look-out. Her codename was “half-pint”, while orange glow on the high street in Thaxted, a small European Union, which culminated in the June vote Norman’s was “wun-tun”. Bennett opted for “hun- town in southeast England, Bennett carefully sticks for Brexit. dredweight”, because, he explained, “it’s a quirky BRUSSELS: The EU unveiled ambitious active EU military role and ultimately what a plastic card onto a street sign so it gives distances measure — 112 pounds-that summarizes our plans yesterday to boost joint defense he calls a “European Army”. in yards, not meters. “They were such nice signs, it Arrested seven times weights and measures system. It’s completely daft spending including on shared assets like To stand on its own two feet, the EU was a shame to alter them,” Norman, the 82-year- ARM’s 15-year campaign is testament to the but we like it.” drones and helicopters, as concerns grow “must invest in the common development old chairman of Active Resistance to Metrication authority of the high-vis jacket often they are left that President-elect Donald Trump may of technologies and equipment of strategic (ARM), told AFP. alone to amend or remove signs, with passers-by ‘Time will prove their folly’ downgrade the US security commitment. importance-from land, air, sea and space Speaking at his home in Huntingdon, eastern and even police assuming they are working for a A former Royal Air Force radio engineer, Norman Trump shocked longtime NATO allies in capabilities to cyber security,” he said. What England, after the Thaxted job, he said imperial local authority. In jobs ranging from Stansted accepts that the metric system is here to stay for Europe when he suggested on the cam- is known as the European Defense Action measurements are “part of our culture” that need Airport to the Tower of London, Bennett insists many areas of public life. But he says: “Most people paign trail be would think twice about com- Plan targets more efficient defense spend- defending. Britain first began introducing the they are only taking down illegal signs and are measure their height in feet and inches, most peo- ing to their aid if they had not paid their ing and increased joint research and pro- metric system in the 1960s, and the move was therefore doing nothing wrong. The 69-year-old ple want to lose a pound or a stone in weight-and defense dues. That prospect, combined with curement. accelerated by the need to harmonize measure- says that more often than not local authorities that’s nationwide. Why do we need to change?” He the Ukraine and migrant crises plus nuclear- ments across the European Union. But the gov- admit their mistake and amend the signs them- adds: “It was our own system of measurements that armed Britain’s shock vote to quit the ‘Competitive defense market’ ernment has stepped back from ditching imperial selves, with more than 3,000 signs taken down brought about the industrial revolution and put the European Union, have moved security It proposes increasing the current 25 mil- measures altogether due to public opposition, nationwide as a result. great into Great Britain.” sharply up the bloc’s agenda. lion euros ($27 million) allocated to defense driven by activists such as Norman and Bennett- However, he has been arrested seven times and For Derek Pollard, the secretary of the UK Metric “If Europe does not take care of its own research in the overall EU budget to 90 million both supporters of the anti-EU UK Independence in 2002 was convicted of criminal damage and Association, however, the current system is unsus- security, nobody else will do it for us,” euros by 2020, when it should be replaced by Party (UKIP). theft, although the latter conviction was over- tainable. “There are already many areas of metric European Commission head Jean-Claude a dedicated program worth 500 million annu- Today, while most public business and packaged turned. On the wall in Norman’s sitting room is a usage in the UK economy, from construction and Juncker said in a statement as the plans ally. Another fund, potentially worth five bil- food use metric units, traffic signs are in miles and cartoon of greengrocer Stephen Thoburn, one of manufacturing, science, medicine and mapping, were announced. “A strong, competitive and lion euros per year, would help member states yards and beer, cider and milk are sold in pints. In the the “Metric Martyrs” who was prosecuted for failing and for these, there is no going back,” he told AFP. innovative defense industrial base is what acquire military assets jointly so as to reduce confusion, local authorities and businesses continue to adhere to the new rules on metric weights and He sees no benefit in prosecuting people like ARM will give us strategic autonomy,” said the cost, the statement said, citing as exam- to install signs in meters-which Norman and Bennett, measures. through the courts, however, saying: “Time will Juncker, who has long pushed for a more ples drones or helicopters. —AFP ARM’s secretary, feel they have a duty to amend. “I have felt that I’m a rebel. but I also feel that prove the folly of their activities.” —AFP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Rwanda to probe French officials’ genocide role

KIGALIL: Rwanda on Tuesday concerned individuals should be effective action. When it did finally to distract attention from what they repeated accusations that French opened a formal probe into 20 formally charged or not”. send in troops-in Operation say is his own poor human rights soldiers were both accomplices and French officials suspected of play- Muhumuza said the relevant Turquoise-it was accused of only record. “actors” in the bloodbath. ing a role in the 1994 genocide, in a French authorities had been con- doing so to counter the advance of When contacted by AFP, the The remarks prompted France to move likely to further sour diplo- tacted and that full cooperation was the Tutsi rebels of Paul Kagame, French defense ministry referred to pull out of ceremonies to mark the matic ties with France. Kigali has expected. The dispute centers on who is now president, allowing the a statement issued on November 16 20th anniversary of the massacres. long accused France of complicity France’s role prior to the genocide perpetrators to escape to neighbor- by Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le The stormy relationship took an in the genocide of some 800,000 as a close ally of the Hutu nationalist ing Zaire which later became the Drian after a list of 22 high-ranking even worse turn when the French mostly ethnic Tutsis, at the hands of regime of Juvenal Habyarimana. The Democratic Republic of Congo. French officers suspected of judiciary decided in October to re- Hutu extremists, angering Paris and shooting down of his plane over involvement was first published by open an investigation into the straining relations. Kigali on April 6, 1994 was the event Long-running spat Kigali. There was “nothing new” in shooting down of Habyarimana’s “The inquiry, for now, is focused that triggered 100 days of meticu- France says its soldiers were only the list, Le Drian said at the time, plane to hear testimony from a for- on 20 individuals whom, according lously planned slaughter. France is deployed after most of the killing adding that it was “almost identical mer general who accuses Kagame to information gathered so far, are accused of missing or ignoring the had happened and that their pres- to one produced in 2008” and “to of being behind the assassination. required by the prosecution author- warning signs, and of training the ence helped save thousands of say that the French army took park “It is France which should be in the ity to explain or provide clarity on soldiers and militiamen who carried lives. And French officials insist that in genocide was a disgraceful lie”. dock,” said Kagame. In apparent allegations against them,” said pros- out the killings. any guilt for failing to prevent the Although relations between Kigali retaliation, Rwanda on November 1 ecutor general Richard Muhumuza And when the genocide was in genocide is shared by the entire and Paris were completely frozen published the list of 22 senior in a statement. This will enable full swing, it was further accused of international community, accusing from 2006 to 2009, they were on French officers it accuses of being prosecutors to decide “whether the using its diplomatic clout to stall Kagame of raising the issue in a bid the mend until 2014 when Kagame involved in the genocide. —AFP UN: Over 10,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh ‘Actual number could be much higher’

DHAKA: At least 10,000 Rohingya Little to no aid in Bangladesh said the number of most of them illegally, although have arrived in Bangladesh in “They have been stuck in the arrivals had risen this week. But so around 32,000 are formally regis- recent weeks after fleeing violence island for almost a week without far little or no aid has been provid- tered as refugees. Tan said the UN in neighboring Myanmar, the sufficient food and clothes,” Abu ed for the new arrivals with was urging the Bangladesh gov- United Nations said yesterday. An Ghalib told AFP. But a spokesman Bangladeshi authorities fearing ernment to allow the Rohingya estimated 30,000 Rohingya, a for the Bangladesh border guards food, medicine and shelter will safe haven. “We are ready to sup- Muslim minority living mostly in said the claims could not be veri- encourage more to cross the bor- port the government to provide Myanmar, have been forced to fied as the island was not der. Shinji Kubo, who heads the UN effective humanitarian assistance leave their homes since a bloody Bangladeshi territory. Bangladesh refugee agency in Bangladesh, said for these individuals in need of crackdown by the army in the has reinforced its border posts and the new arrivals needed “urgent” international protection,” she said. western state of Rakhine. deployed coast guard ships in an help. “Obviously these people have Violence in Rakhine-home to the NEELUM VALLEY: In this photograph taken on November 18, 2016, Pakistani Bangladesh has stepped up effort to prevent a fresh influx of come from Myanmar after terrible stateless ethnic group loathed by Kashmiri men prepare an underground bunker in Athmuqam village at the patrols on the border to try to stop refugees. In the past two weeks, experiences and without any many of Myanmar’s Buddhist Line of Control, the de facto border between Pakistan and India. —AFP them from entering, but last week Bangladeshi border guards have belongings. The winter is approach- majority-has surged in the last it said thousands had flooded into prevented hundreds of boats ing. So everyone is really worried month after security forces poured the country, many with nothing packed with Rohingya women and about their wellbeing,” he said. into the area. It followed a series of Urgent rush to build bunkers in but the clothes they were wearing. children from entering the country. More than 230,000 Rohingya attacks on police posts blamed on “Based on reports by various Nevertheless Rohingya leaders are already living in Bangladesh, local militants. —AFP Pakistani Kashmir as fears grow humanitarian agencies, we esti- mate that there could be 10,000 NEELUM VALLEY, Pakistan: Residents in says the government plans to build new arrivals in recent weeks,” said Pakistani Kashmir are racing to build “community bunkers”. Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the underground bunkers for the first time Kashmir is one of the world’s most dan- UN refugee agency in Bangkok. since the 1990s, frightened by what they gerous flashpoints, bitterly divided “The situation is fast changing and say is the worst cross-border violence between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan the actual number could be much since a ceasefire was agreed in 2003. since the end of British colonial rule in 1947 higher.” Months of tension between India and but claimed in full by both. They have Those interviewed by AFP inside Pakistan have erupted into shellings and already fought two wars over the moun- Bangladesh had horrifying stories gunfire across the disputed Kashmir fron- tainous region, but years of relative peace tier, claiming the lives of dozens of peo- after the 2003 ceasefire were shattered in of gang rape, torture and murder ple, including civilians. September, after India blamed Pakistani at the hands of Myanmar’s security People in Azad Kashmir’s Neelum Valley militants for a raid on an army base that forces. Analysis of satellite images say the attacks come once or twice a week, killed 19 soldiers. by Human Rights Watch found and they never know when they might India said it had responded by carrying hundreds of buildings in Rohingya have to dive for cover. Chand Bibi has con- out “surgical strikes” across the heavily mili- villages have been razed. Myanmar crete and steel rods waiting to be trans- tarized border, sparking a furious reaction has denied allegations of abuse, formed into an underground bunker from Islamabad, which denied the strikes but has also banned foreign jour- where her terrified family can take shelter took place. On Tuesday armed militants nalists and independent investiga- as the monstrous boom of shelling reawak- stormed a major Indian army base near the tors from accessing the area to ens old nightmares. “You are talking about frontier with Pakistan, killing seven soldiers investigate. Myanmar’s de facto fear,” the 62-year-old says. “We are near to in the most audacious such attack since the leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel dying at the moment we hear the boom. September raid. The fear spiraling on the peace laureate, has faced a grow- “The voice of the guns is horrible.” Pakistani side is not only consuming resi- ing international backlash for what When it comes, Bibi and her relatives dents tourism to the scenic Neelum Valley a UN official has said amounts to a pile blankets, quilts and clothes on top of has plummeted this year, local official campaign of ethnic cleansing. their children to muffle the noise and their Sardar Abdul Waheed tells AFP. “I am nerv- Yesterday she vowed to work for panic. Soon the extended family of about ous that if this situation continues my “peace and national reconciliation”, 20 people will be able to flee underground whole investment will be sunk,” says saying her country faced many to the bunker they have paid 300,000 Zulfiqar Ali, who built a guesthouse in the challenges, but did not mention Pakistani rupees ($3,000) to build-just valley last year. under the cost of constructing a mud the violence in Rakhine state. house in the valley, where the average Valley cut off Rohingya community leaders in worker makes around 800 rupees per day. Since AFP’s visit the Neelum Valley has Bangladesh said another 3,000 dis- Sultan Ahmed is spending even more: been cut off. Cross-border firing hit a civilian placed Rohingya were stranded on In this May 20, 2015, file photo, migrants including Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims sit on the deck up to 500,000 rupees for a three meter by bus there on November 23, killing at least an island in the Naf River that of their boat as they wait to be rescued by Acehnese fishermen on the sea off East Aceh, four meter (10 foot by 14 foot) space rein- nine people, one of the highest one-day tolls divides the two countries, attempt- Indonesia. —AP forced by more than 20 centimeters (eight since the latest unrest began. In response ing to enter Bangladesh. inches) of concrete, fortified with steel authorities shut down the main road con- rods, and buried under nearly a meter of necting the Azad Kashmir capital of soil. Some 25 people will be able to take Muzaffarabad with the valley, effectively seal- shelter inside the bunker once it is com- ing it off from the rest of Pakistan with no In Bangladesh, young students pleted, the 47-year-old teacher says. word when it will be reopened. Before the valley was closed, many residents told AFP Business booming for masons they could not afford to leave and had protect families from floods Local mason Ghulam Hussain tells AFP nowhere to go. his business has increased because of Others, however, said they refused to be the renewed violence, as he packs his driven away. Those who cannot pay the high KURIGRAM: Bangladeshi teacher Monjurul students about disasters and climate change. during floods, in the local language, includ- tools after finishing a bunker at one cost of transporting bunker materials from Islam was talking to his class of 10-year-olds The National Curriculum and Textbook Board ing advice to stay away from electricity house to rush to another and start again. Kashmir’s main cities to the remote valley are about how the planet is heating up, when has included climate change and disasters in poles, find a safe place to go in advance, Around half a million people live within fortifying their homes in whatever way they Mosammat Ferdousi stood up and asked: “We the school syllabus since 2013. There are and store books up high. Islam told the range of Indian fire along the Pakistani can. “We are just placing sandbags to reinforce chapters on climate change and disasters in Thomson Reuters Foundation the school side of the Line of Control, the de facto the front walls,” says 65-year-old widow Zarina are experiencing heavy floods in the last few border that has divided the Himalayan Bibi, head of a family of 15. “We are in a state of years - is this linked to climate change?” Islam the books used by children aged between 10 also conducts drills, where teachers show region since 2003, according to Farooq fear all the time. We don’t know when the told his pupils climate change “might be a rea- and 15, in classes five to 10. students how to perform first aid on those Haider Khan, leader of Azad Kashmir. He Indian troops will start shelling again.” —AFP son”, adding scientists believe the country’s In addition, some humanitarian agencies injured in floods or earthquakes. increasingly frequent floods and lightning run disaster management programs in strikes could be linked to global warming. schools. International charity Save the Community benefit “Most of my students know about climate Children, for example, is leading such a Class Five student Tanjila Akhter said chil- Indian women enter landmark change, its impacts and what they should do,” project in three disaster-prone areas, fund- dren pass on the information to their par- mosque with song and tears said Islam, head teacher at Char Bazra ed by the European Commission and assist- ents and neighbors. “Most of my neighbors Uttarpara Primary School in Bozra village, in ed by local NGO Rangpur Dinajpur Rural think I know a lot about floods and other MUMBAI: Hundreds of women poured into that had filed a petition in the Mumbai High the northern district of Kurigram. Ferdousi said Service. It is being implemented in 50 such things, as they get benefit from me,” the inner sanctum of the iconic Haji Ali Court for equal access. “This is a beginning. It she and her classmates had learned “we need schools covering some 4,600 pupils, includ- she said. Amina Begum, 35, whose daughter Dargah mosque in Mumbai on Tuesday gives me greater confidence about other to plant lots of trees” to combat climate ing Char Bazra Uttarpara Primary. “Students studies at the school, said she had learned a after a Supreme Court order granted them matters of gender justice we are fighting for, change. and their guardians are very enthusiastic lot from her child. equal access, sparking hope for other cases such as triple talaq,” whereby a Muslim man Their school is near the Teesta River, and about learning disaster management as “We experience floods every year. In the of discrimination against women. The can divorce his wife by saying “talaq” - or “I during the monsoon season which lasts from they benefit from it in any major disaster,” past, we did not have a plan for floods lengthy legal battle for women to enter the divorce you” - three times. June to December, it goes under water. River said project technical officer KM Alamgir beforehand, but after my daughter told me heart of Haji Ali Dargah is one of many cases The Haji Ali Dargah mosque, built on an bank erosion is also a big problem here, and Hossen. we should have one, now we work out earli- for equal access in places of worship in India. islet about 500 meters from the coast, can teachers fear their school might disappear into Every year, thousands of Bangladeshi er where we will take shelter during floods, Members of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust, which only be reached at low tide and draws thou- the river some day. Every year, hundreds of schools are affected by floods. This August and how to take care of our essential pos- had argued it would be a “grievous sin” to sands of worshippers each day. On Tuesday, schools in Kurigram district are inundated. In alone, more than 1,000 primary schools sessions and livestock,” she said. “Our loss allow women near the tomb of the 15th women entered the shrine with their heads August, around 250 primary schools were were flooded in northern and central due to floods is insignificant compared to century Sufi saint housed within the covered, amid song and prayer, Soman said. closed for more than two weeks due to flood- regions of the low-lying nation. At Char previous years,” she added. mosque, welcomed women from across Women had been allowed in Haji Ali Dargah’s ing. “During monsoon, we need to shift the Bazra Uttarpara Primary School, Class Three Jahangir Alam, a community leader and India on Tuesday with tea. inner sanctum until 2011, when their entry school to nearby high land,” Islam said. “As this teacher Khadiza Begum has taught her stu- member of the school management com- “It was a hugely emotional experience. It was suddenly banned. BMMA filed a petition is a flood-prone area, we also teach students dents what to do when flooding hits. She mittee, said the whole village is gaining has been a tough battle, with many hard- in 2014 against the ban, and the Mumbai what to do during a flood,” he added. asked them if they would drink floodwater. from the school’s disaster management pro- ships, but we are glad we prevailed,” said court in August ordered the mosque’s trust to “No, Madam,” the whole class chanted. gram. “Children are change agents. When Zakia Soman, co-founder of Bharatiya lift it. The trust challenged the order in the In the syllabus “Flood water can cause diarrhoea,” one stu- they tell their parents about what they have Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), or Indian Supreme Court, which last month upheld the In Bangladesh, both the government and dent replied. Many posters in the school to do during a flood, their parents pay heed Muslim Women’s Movement, a rights group lower court’s order. —Reuters aid groups are working in schools to educate give practical instructions on how to act to the warnings,” he said. —Reuters THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

S Korean opposition struggles for clear impeachment plan

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s tion lawmakers to pass an impeachment through They said they would still take part in a possible a ruling on her fate. The court would have 180 days conditional resignation offer appears to be causing parliament, and they would need help from dis- impeachment vote on Dec 9 if details for an April to deliberate. Park, in her Tuesday speech, contin- cracks in what previously had been a strong push senters in Park’s ruling Saenuri Party. resignation aren’t worked out through negotia- ued to deny accusations by prosecutors that she for her impeachment, with opponents now strug- tions, Hwang’s office said. Opposition parties have colluded in the criminal activities of her longtime gling to set a date for a vote to strip her of power. Impeachment motion previously said a vote on Park’s impeachment friend Choi Soon-sil, who, despite having no official Park offered Tuesday to leave office if parliament The three opposition parties and anti-Park inde- would take place either on Friday or Dec 9, because role in government, allegedly had a say in policy arranges a safe transfer of power, triggering an pendent lawmakers have a total of 172 seats in the parliamentary plenary sessions are already sched- decisions and exploited her presidential ties to bul- immediate backlash from opposition parties, which 300-seat National Assembly. A passage of an uled on those days. “It’s true that some cracks have ly companies into giving large sums of money to called the overture a stalling tactic to help the pres- impeachment motion requires at least 200 votes in taken place at anti-Park forces in the Saenuri Party businesses and foundations that Choi controlled. ident navigate through a huge political scandal favor. About 40 ruling party lawmakers have after her speech,” said an official at the main oppo- involving her shadowy confidante. expressed their willingness to vote to oust Park. But sition Democratic Party, formerly known by its Confidential documents Leaders of the country’s three main opposition after Park’s resignation offer Tuesday, made in an Korean-language name, Minjoo. The official, who Prosecutors have indicted Choi, two ex-presi- parties met yesterday and agreed to stick with their address to the nation, anti-Park lawmakers gath- requested anonymity because he wasn’t author- dential officials and a music video director known plan to try to vote on an impeachment motion as ered and agreed it would be best for Park to resign ized to speak to the media, said opposition parties as a Choi associate for extortion, leaking confiden- early as Friday. But they also said they’d meet again in April, after the installation of a neutral Cabinet are using unofficial, backroom channels to see if tial documents and other charges. The scandal has if that plan does not work, meaning they’re bracing that can help ensure a stable power transfer until a they can still secure enough Saenuri lawmakers sparked mass protests every Saturday in Seoul. for the possibility that a Friday vote might not take new president is elected, according to the office of who would align with their impeachment drive. About 30,000 anti-Park demonstrators gathered in place. Much of their hesitation to pick a clear date is Hwang Young-cheul, one of the lawmakers who If impeached, Park’s presidential powers would the city’s downtown area yesterday, according to due to the fact that there are not enough opposi- attended the meeting. be suspended until the Constitutional Court makes protest organizers. — AP

HK’s anti-China lawmakers lose appeal over seat ban

HONG KONG: Two pro-independence giance to Hong Kong as a special adminis- Hong Kong lawmakers lost their appeal trative region of China. The judgment said yesterday against a ban preventing them the court’s duty to apply the city’s constitu- from taking up their seats in parliament as tion, known as the Basic Law, outweighed Beijing faces accusations of stepping up the doctrine of separation of powers and interference in the city’s politics. Baggio non-intervention. Leung and Yau Wai-ching deliberately mis- read their oaths of office, inserted exple- ‘Political suppression’ tives and draped themselves with “Hong Yau and Baggio were originally offered a Kong is not China” flags during a swearing- second chance at taking the oath by the in ceremony in October. president of the legislature, but Beijing Speaking after yesterday’s judgment, an stepped in to prevent that. Its special inter- angry Leung said the “invisible hand” of pretation of the Basic Law ruled that any Beijing had intervened in Hong Kong’s oath-taker who does not follow the pre- affairs. Leung and Yau were voted in to scribed wording of the oath, “or takes the parliament in citywide polls in September oath in a manner which is not sincere or which saw several rebel candidates take not solemn”, should be disqualified. seats for the first time, advocating either Yesterday’s appeal judgment said there independence or self-determination for could be “no dispute” that Yau and Leung Hong Kong. had declined to take the oath. Leung said The new movement supporting a possi- he did not believe he had done anything ble split from Beijing for the semi- wrong. “The way the oath incident has autonomous city has gained traction as developed from an affair within Hong Kong young pro-democracy campaigners grow to what it is now is unexpected to us all,” he increasingly frustrated with a lack of politi- told reporters. Leung said the pair were cal reform. Beijing hit out at the pair in a actively considering their next step but had special “interpretation” of the city’s consti- not decided whether to proceed to the BANDA ACEH: Indonesian military personnel and officials gather for a photograph with performers during an “Archipelago tution earlier in November that effectively Court of Final Appeal. Unity” gathering, being held across the country to call for peace and reduce tensions ahead of a December 2 protest. — AFP prevented them from taking up their seats The judgment came as the government because of the way they took the oath. announced plans to take a third newly Following Beijing’s protest, Hong Kong’s elected lawmaker to court over her oath- Indonesia protests awaken High Court ruled the two lawmakers taking. The department of justice said it should be disqualified from the legislature would initiate proceedings against teacher because their oaths were invalid, in an Lau Siu-lai, a prominent activist who made unprecedented judicial review brought by her name during the city’s mass pro- fears for minority Chinese the city’s leader and justice secretary. Yau democracy rallies in 2014 and now advo- and Leung appealed, but lost out yester- cates self-determination for Hong Kong. day in a judgment that took Beijing’s ruling It gave no further detail on the grounds A country with a history of lashing out into account, amid criticism that the sepa- for the case. Lau’s oath was rejected during ration of powers in Hong Kong has been her swearing in as she read the pledge at a compromised. snail’s pace, leaving long gaps between JAKARTA: The capital of Muslim-majority Painful memories the Middle East have made greater inroads than The Court of Appeal’s judgment referred every word. She was later given a second Indonesia is on edge ahead of what is expected For Chinese Indonesians, the controversy has believed. to Beijing’s ruling as giving the “true mean- chance to read it and was able to take up to be a second massive protest by conservative awakened painful memories of the mass Ahok is running for a second term as gover- ing” to the part of the constitution that her seat. Lau slammed the decision to take Muslims against its Christian governor and no protests that ousted late dictator Suharto dur- nor in elections due in February but since the requires lawmakers to take an oath of alle- her to court as “political suppression”. — AFP group more so than its Chinese minority. They ing the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Boiling blasphemy accusations erupted in September, have reason to be concerned. The movement resentment against immigrant Chinese tycoons his sky-high popularity in opinion polls has against the governor, who is being prosecuted who profited from ties to Suharto and his melted away. A pro-tolerance rally in Jakarta on for allegedly insulting the Quran, has overflowed famously corrupt family spilled over into mob Nov. 19 attracted less than 10,000 people. A mil- with racial slurs against his Chinese ancestry, an attacks on Chinese property and people, killing itary-organized event in the city on Wednesday unnerving sign in a country with a history of many. Nearly two decades later, Jakarta’s meant to showcase respect for all of Indonesia’s lashing out violently against the ethnic minority Chinatown is still scarred by the burned out six officially recognized religions was mainly that makes up 1 percent of its 250 million people. shells of buildings torched in the chaos. populated by soldiers, schoolchildren and The first major protest against Gov. Basuki “Certainly as Chinese descendants, we are police, who had no choice about attending. “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama on Nov 4 drew more still traumatized by the riots in 1998,” said than 100,000 people to Jakarta’s streets. Some Clement Alexander, a grocery store owner in a Clogged streets held up banners calling for Ahok to be killed or narrow lane of the bustling Petak Sembilan mar- For the Nov 4 protest, the normally clogged decrying Chinese influence. It ended in violence, ket in Chinatown. “We heard that horrible event streets of Jakarta were nearly emptied of cars, with one death and dozens injured after hard-lin- may happen again if the government fails to embassies closed, countries such as Australia ers attacked police. A separate mob tried to control the protests. It’s scared us, but we can- issued advisories against travel to the city and invade the apartment complex where Ahok lives not do anything except pray,” he said. many businesses shuttered for the day, particu- in the north of the city and vandalized property “For rich ethnic Chinese, they could flee to larly in Chinatown. “We are afraid the riots in in the area, which is home to many Chinese. Singapore or to other countries, but for lower- 1998 would be repeated. But I don’t want to Hard-line organizers of the protest, who were class people like me it is rather difficult, we just talk about that horrible event,” said Jhony Tan, unsatisfied by a police decision earlier this month survive and depend on the government for pro- owner of a store selling Buddhist worship para- to formally name Ahok as a suspect in the blas- tection.” When Ahok in 2012 became the first phernalia. phemy case instead of arresting him, are promis- Chinese to be elected deputy governor of “I hope the government can handle this ing another giant rally on Friday. After police Jakarta, and the first Christian in half a century, issue, so there’s no negative impact to any other pressure, they have agreed to concentrate the it was seen as a sign of the pluralistic tolerance community, especially to ethnic Chinese here. If rally around a national monument in central fostered by the moderate form of Islam prac- they fail, Indonesia will be ruined,” he said. “I’m HONG KONG: Democratically elected lawmaker, teacher Lau Siu-lai (C), from the Jakarta and insist it will be peaceful. The furor ticed in Indonesia. sure the majority of Indonesian people are will- ‘Democracy Groundwork’ party, holds a press conference with other lawmakers at over Ahok, sparked by his criticism of detractors But his rise to governor in 2014 to replace ing to see that this problem has nothing to do the Legislative Council (Legco). — AFP who argued the Quran prohibits Muslims from political ally Joko “Jokowi” Widodo after his elec- with us.” Christianto Wibisono, an ethnic Chinese having a non-Muslim leader, has highlighted reli- tion as president was unpalatable to hard-liners. businessman and former government adviser gious and racial fault lines in Indonesia, the With the support of moderates that hope to whose home was burned in the 1998 riots, said world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the gain from Ahok’s fall, they have elevated their that despite communal tensions, he is hopeful Philippines ends siege against growing challenge from proponents of Shariah agenda to the national stage, and revealed that the government will maintain calm during law to its secular system of government. intolerant interpretations of Islam adapted from Friday’s protest and beyond. — AP rebels pledged to Islamic State

MANILA: Troops in the southern home city, Davao, which killed 14 people Philippines retook a disused building and wounded more than 70. Last week At revolt site, Filipinos protest Marcos burial from Muslim militants yesterday, ending Duterte appealed to the Islamic State- an intense five-day siege that killed linked Abu Sayyaf to disarm and start MANILA: Thousands of Filipino protesters him up.” Protesters held up pro-democracy plac- corruption and human rights violations. dozens of fighters the authorities say had talks. He urged them to halt piracy and returned yesterday to the site of a 1986 revolt ards, including one that read, “Keep calm and Yesterday’s protest was the latest in a growing pledged allegiance to Islamic State. The kidnapping and not retaliate on civilians that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos, this time democracy will die.” political storm following the Nov. 18 burial, incident highlights the challenges facing for military operations to drive the rebels to condemn his burial at a heroes’ cemetery. Millions gathered three decades ago at the which was allowed by President Rodrigo Duterte President Rodrigo Duterte in keeping from their island strongholds. Duterte Police said at least 3,000 people gathered at the site just outside the main military and police and upheld by the Supreme Court amid protests order in the Philippines, particularly in has recently warned Islamic State could “People Power” monument along the main EDSA camps in a largely peaceful uprising to oust by anti-Marcos groups. his native south, riven by nationalist take root in the Philippines and stressed highway in metropolitan Manila, chanting “Dig Marcos, ending a presidency marked by massive The rally speakers included Maria Serena rebellions for decades. the need to avoid “contamination”, a risk Diokno, who resigned Tuesday as head of the The military stepped up its offensive also faced by neighbouring Malaysia and government’s historical commission to protest after the weekend, pounding rebels Indonesia. the burial. “We should never forget our history,” holed up in a disused municipal hall with The former mayor, who is overseeing Diokno said. “We won’t allow even a part of the artillery and bombs dropped from air- a drugs crackdown that has killed more dictatorship to return.” A few thousand activists craft. The army said 30 security forces than 2,500 people, offered an olive gathered separately last week in a “Black Friday” were wounded and 61 rebels killed in the branch to Maute, questioning why it protest at Manila’s seaside Rizal Park, where they operation. The militants belonged to the wanted to take orders from Islamic State. carried Marcos’ effigy in a mock coffin. Maute group, one of several Islamist “Maute, they are inspired by ISIS,” Duterte Duterte, whose father served in Marcos’s groups in the country’s restive south. said in a speech, using an abbreviation Cabinet, allowed the burial on grounds that there The siege ended as Duterte visited that refers to Islamic State. “I did not was no law barring his interment at the Heroes’ injured soldiers in Lanao del Sur want to wage a war against my own Cemetery, where presidents, soldiers, statesmen province, where seven of his advance countrymen. Please do not force my and national artists are buried. It was a political risk security party were wounded on hand.” But he vowed not to relent. in a country where democracy advocates still cele- Tuesday, when suspected Maute militias “When the time comes, it’s going to brate Marcos’s ouster each year. Duterte’s decision set off a bomb under their truck. “The be a war against terrorism and drugs and was upheld earlier this month by the Supreme town is deserted and the Maute is with- I will tell you now, I will be harsh,” Duterte Court. Marcos opponents had 15 days to appeal drawing towards the mountain,” said mil- said. “As harsh as I can ever be.” the decision, but Marcos’s family, backed by itary spokesman Brigadier-General Separately, two men were arrested on Duterte’s defense and military officials, buried him Restituto Padilla. “They have been deci- Monday north of the capital, Manila, over in a secrecy-shrouded ceremony with military hon- mated. The capability to sustain and get the planting of a homemade bomb near ors at the cemetery. The stealthy burial enraged back to the fight is no longer there.” the US embassy. The device was detonat- democracy advocates and sparked protests in The government suspects the Maute ed safely by police, who suspect the MANILA: Anti-Marcos activists shout slogans during a protest at the People Power monument Manila and other cities, including in southern group in a Sept. 2 bombing in Duterte’s Maute of being behind it. — Reuters against the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes’ Cemetery. —AFP Davao city, the president’s hometown. —AP NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

Trump to leave business to focus... Continued from Page 1 backed by Democratic Party supporter George Soros. He financed Hollywood blockbusters like “Avatar” and “Suicide Trump has admitted the hotel’s brand is probably “hot- Squad”. ter” now that he is the president, but has vaguely prom- Alongside Mnuchin, Trump picked Ross, best known for ised to “phase out” his hands-on, check-signing role in investing in failing steel and coal firms and turning them Trump Organization business. into saleable investments, as commerce secretary. Meanwhile, the Republican is building the cabinet team Appearing with Ross on CNBC, 53-year-old Mnuchin said: that will join him in the capital after his Jan 20 inaugura- “We’re thrilled to be here and we’re thrilled to work for the tion with a mission to “drain the swamp” of Washington president-elect and honored to have these positions.” corruption. So far, aside from former generals sidelined by Mnuchin’s appointment is widely seen as a reward for President Barack Obama’s administration, Trump has taking Trump’s side at a time when many of the focused on recruiting super-rich conservative figures from Republican Party’s major donors, such as the billionaire Wall Street and private business. On Tuesday, Trump dined Koch brothers, had shunned him. Trump’s picks are the first on frog legs, scallops and sirloin at a Michelin-starred major nominations to his economic policy team. The presi- restaurant with Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts gover- dent-elect has vowed to cut corporate taxes and to nor and private equity baron. encourage multinational companies to repatriate their Romney’s own failed 2012 campaign for the presidency earnings. He plans to scrap the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial foundered in part because Democrats tagged him as a reforms, enacted to protect consumers and the financial member of an aloof, super-rich elite, but Trump is consid- system from Wall Street excesses that some argue caused ering him as a possible secretary of state. The latest two the financial crisis. figures Trump has nominated for senior roles - Wall Street Ross has advocated a steep tariff on Chinese steel veteran Steven Mnuchin and stressed asset investor Wilbur imports to prevent what Trump has alleged is the dump- Ross - are both billionaires and even richer than Romney. ing of cheap commodities on the US market. Today, Trump’s defeated Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, Trump was scheduled to embark on a victory tour of was attacked during the campaign for accepting hundreds sorts, leading an evening rally with his running mate of thousands of dollars for giving private speeches to Mike Pence in Cincinnati, Ohio. The pair are also to Goldman Sachs bankers. But Trump, having already appear earlier in the day at the Indianapolis plant of an named former Goldman banker Steve Bannon as his chief air conditioning firm that announced yesterday it would strategist, this week nominated another, Mnuchin, for the maintain 1,000 jobs in the Rust Belt - a pledge Trump had key role of Treasury secretary. Mnuchin was a partner in made during the campaign. The transition team has Goldman Sachs before he launched an investment fund dubbed it a “thank you tour”. — AFP

Alwaleed: Let women drive

Continued from Page 1 online. A slow expansion of women’s rights began under the late king Abdullah, who in 2013 named them to the An Emirati man carries balloons yesterday in the “Flags Garden”, featuring 4,000 UAE flags creating the He calculated that families spend an average of 3,800 Shura Council which advises cabinet. Abdullah also shape of the country’s map, two days ahead of UAE National Day in Dubai. —AP riyals ($1,000) a month on a driver, money which other- announced that women could for the first time vote and wise could help household incomes at a time when many run in municipal elections, which were held last December. are making do with less. These and other decisions were initially opposed by “cer- Even if their husbands can take time out to transport tain elements” in Saudi society but soon became accepted, Riyadh Motor Show back in gear the women, that requires temporarily leaving the office Alwaleed said, calling for “a similarly decisive” political act. Continued from Page 1 preened in a convertible while taking a selfie. Across the and “undermines the productivity of the workforce”, In April, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aisle, a DJ spun hip hop tunes beside a display of colored Alwaleed said. “Having women drive has become an said change cannot be forced, and “it is up to Saudi socie- Economic cutbacks will be accompanied by a drop in wheel rims and a vintage Chevrolet. urgent social demand predicated upon current economic ty”. In Alwaleed’s view, however, “what cannot be allowed automobile sales this year, Aboumerhi said. “As for Even though the conservative kingdom is the world’s circumstances.” The prince said he is making his call on is to have one segment imposing its preferences on the Hyundai, we are still maintaining our market share”, with only country where women cannot drive, visitors includ- behalf of those with “limited means”. rest of society”. Sahar Hassan Nasief, a women’s rights sales of about 50,000 units per year which places it sec- ed a few women dressed in traditional black abaya robes. Activists say women’s driving is not technically illegal activist in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, said the appeal from ond in the Saudi market, he said. The motor show, which There were no scantily clad females helping to promote but that the ban is linked to tradition and custom. Some such an influential figure could help to bring about the Arab News daily said drew an estimated 10,000 visi- the cars, as occurs in many countries. A luxury car show in women have challenged the prohibition by getting change. “Everybody’s talking about him,” she told AFP. “I tors on the opening day, is a chance for dealers to show Saudi Arabia’s slightly more liberal Red Sea city of Jeddah behind the wheel and posting images of themselves think his comments gave us a lot of hope.” — AFP off their latest models and to even take orders. was reportedly sanctioned after it used female sales pro- Onsite bankers are ready to help with financing. “The moters. economy, it’s not really good,” said Hassan Abdulaziz, Local media reported last month that pictures on OPEC agrees on first output cut since 2008 manning the Toyota display which included a Hilux diesel social media showed young Saudi women posing in pickup truck that sells for 104,000 riyals ($27,733). long white robes with their faces uncovered in front of a Continued from Page 1 has committed to reducing its output by 300,000 bpd. Around him, Saudi men in traditional white thobes lifted car display. Jeddah will next month host the annual Before the meeting, Falih said OPEC was focusing on bonnets and sat in the driver’s seats. Saudi International Motor Show, the kingdom’s largest. Iran has only been able to freely to export oil since significant cuts and hoped Russia and other non-OPEC Marketing student Waleed Mubarak sounded optimistic Organizers of that event say Saudi Arabia is the Middle last year’s nuclear deal came into force in January, and producers would contribute a reduction of another 0.6 about the kingdom’s prospects as he looked for a new car East’s biggest importer of vehicles and auto parts. wants to return to pre-sanctions output levels. The dis- million bpd. “It will mean that we (Saudi) take a big cut with a budget of 150,000 riyals. “There’s no problem with A car remains essential for getting around Saudi pute was complicated by the fierce rivalry between Iran and a big hit from our current production and from our the economy now in Saudi Arabia,” he said. Another visitor, cities crisscrossed by multi-lane highways, where public and Saudi Arabia, backing different sides in the wars in forecast for 2017,” Falih said. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Abdullah Bajabar, wasn’t so sure. Having just returned from transit projects are under development but not yet fin- Yemen and Syria. Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at Zanganeh yesterday said he was positive since Iran had several years in Canada, he said he needs a car even though ished. For Hyundai’s Aboumerhi, Saudi Arabia’s intensi- Forex.com, said before OPEC’s announcement that Iran not been asked to cut output. He also said Russia was “the economic situation is difficult”. fied effort to diversify its oil-dependent economy was “playing a clever game” against its archrival. ready to reduce production. “Moscow have agreed to Other visitors seemed more interested in filming should lead to an improvement next year. “By the end of But Saudi Arabia also played hardball, saying it was reduce their production and cut after our decision,” themselves and the vehicles, which included monster this year there will be a lot of changes, positive changes, prepared to leave the Austrian capital without a deal. Zanganeh said. trucks and a yellow sports car slung so low it seemed to which will reflect for sure on the automotive sector,” Energy Minister Khaled Al-Falih had said recovering While consumers might not welcome the more touch the floor. A young Saudi man in Western clothes Aboumerhi said. — AFP demand will boost prices next year - cut or no cut. Even expensive fuel that a deal would bring, OPEC members’ though expectations were therefore low, failure to get a public finances have been shot to bits by two years of deal would have sent oil prices tumbling, perhaps as rock-bottom prices. It has exacerbated an already des- Amir reappoints Sheikh Jaber as PM low as $30 per barrel, analysts had said. Also it would perate situation in Venezuela, where Human Rights have reignited debate about the very purpose of OPEC, Watch says shortages of basics are so bad that there is a Continued from Page 1 pose economic reforms and measures that do not add 56 years after its creation. “profound humanitarian crisis”. Even fabulously wealthy any burden on citizens. Saudi Arabia would contribute around 0.5 million Saudi Arabia has slashed salaries and spending and is to refrain from voting in the election of the speaker Newly-elected Islamist opposition MP Abdullah bpd by reducing output to 10.06 million bpd, a source on course for a budget deficit of $87 billion in 2016, and and other posts in the Assembly, including panels. MP Fahhad said two messages have already been sent to the said, while Iran would freeze output at close to current owes foreign firms billions in unpaid bills. The low crude Mohamamd Al-Huwailah also said the present political government - one by the ballot boxes and the second by levels of 3.797 million bpd and other members would price has also hit investment in oil facilities, raising the situation requires the election of a new speaker for the the opposition MPs’ meeting yesterday. He said the gov- also cut production. “OPEC has proved to the skeptics prospect of oil shortages further down the line. new Assembly. Mutair said the meeting also discussed ernment must understand these messages. MP Hamdan that it is not dead. The move will speed up market rebal- However, further downwards pressure on oil prices how to tackle the most urgent issues of revocation of cit- Al-Azemi said the threat to dissolve the Assembly no ancing and erosion of the global oil glut,” said OPEC could come from the United States and president-elect izenships and scrapping laws passed by the previous longer scares opposition MPs. He said he expects the watcher Amrita Sen from Energy Aspects. Donald Trump, whose policies could see a renewed rise in Assembly, which curb public freedoms. The meeting new Assembly to be dissolved and fresh elections in Jan Focus will now turn to OPEC’s efforts to get non- US oil production. Trump has promised to eliminate regu- agreed to prepare a roadmap for dealing with the leg- 2018. New MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl, the son of late pro-gov- members, in particular Russia, to reduce their output by lations restricting fracking, support oil and gas pipeline islative requirements in the new Assembly. They agreed ernment MP Nabil Al-Fadhl, strongly criticized the oppo- a hoped-for 600,000 bpd. Russia has said it is ready only construction and open restricted federal lands and off- the need to amend the voting system, prohibit with- sition lawmakers’ meeting, saying such meetings divide to freeze production but Sada said yesterday that Russia shore areas for exploration, including Alaska. — Agencies drawal of citizenships without a court ruling and pro- the Assembly. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 ANALYSIS

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By Ian Simpson

ailed as “America’s Subway” when it began operating 40 years ago, Washington’s Metro Htransit system now could serve as Exhibit A for the US infrastructure woes President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to fix. Crucial to helping the federal government run smoothly, the second- busiest US subway is facing falling ridership, acci- dents, a $290 million budget gap, job cuts and soar- ing costs to fix its crumbling rail lines. Its problems became clear in March when the system shut down for a day of safety inspections fol- lowing a fire. That caused commuter chaos in the nation’s capital, leaving workers scrambling to find transportation via buses, carpools and bikes. Trump claims mirror conspiracy website Passenger traffic has fallen nearly 20 percent from a 2009 peak, with former riders finding other ways to ome of the most incendiary claims Fear of Sharia get to work or telecommuting to avoid the trains. made by Donald Trump - both For example, Carusone said that The power of ‘fake news’ This has set off a vicious cycle of lower revenues Sbefore and after his election - infowars ran “completely fabricated” stories leading to service cuts and higher fares that drive appear to be based on a US website saying that Muslims were imposing sharia he Internet rumor had the makings of a “My first reaction was there’s a bunch of crazies more riders away. denounced as a purveyor of hoaxes and law in US cities. “If the president believes bizarrely sordid scandal involving a top out there. Everyone is hyped up about the elec- The head of the system’s largest union says the conspiracy theories. The president-elect’s that and starts to make policy based on political aide to Hillary Clinton, allegations of tion, so it will go away,” Alefantis told AFP. “But Metro is in a “death spiral,” and analysts suggest its T unsubstantiated claim this week that the belief that we have sharia law, we have pedophilia and a restaurant in an upscale part of instead it went the other direction.” only way out could be bankruptcy or a federal “millions” of people voted illegally in this a problem,” said Carusone. Infowars has Washington. It ended in death threats against a takeover. Trump’s vow for $1 trillion in infrastructure month’s election had been reported on nonetheless amassed a significant reader small business owner - and became a shocking ‘Weaponized’ Social Media spending across the country offered a rare glimmer the infowars.com website, based on a base - with some 14.3 million unique glob- case study in the dangers of the growing preva- After Donald Trump’s shock victory, things got of hope to the Washington Metropolitan Area study debunked by the online fact-check al visitors and 75 million views over the lence of “fake news”. The fake news phenomenon even worse. “It was a combination of people Transit Authority, which oversees the subway. group Snopes and others. past month, according to the web intelli- has sent major internet companies scrambling to telling us that they were going to come and do “Since he is a Republican and we have a It was not the first time Trump had gence firm Quantcast. respond amid claims that bogus reports that pro- something or that we’ve been found out and that Republican Congress, there is now no excuse for not repeated information reported in Other spectacular - and wholly unsub- liferated ahead of the US presidential election we should show where the tunnels are,” Alefantis getting this done,” said authority Chairman Jack infowars, a site operated by radio host stantiated - stories on the site included may have skewed the result. told AFP. To all appearances, there is nothing unto- Evans, who has backed a federal takeover of the 190 Alex Jones, who is known for claims that claims that Clinton was involved in a child This episode started in October after ward about Comet. Friendly and stylish, the km system. The system is of particular concern to the 9/11 attacks were faked by the US pedophilia ring operated out of a WikiLeaks published a batch of hacked emails restaurant is divided into several areas, including federal officials since many of the 700,000 people government. During the White House Washington pizza parlor, and that juice from John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton’s pres- one with ping-pong and Fussball tables, and idential campaign. Journalists and others have stages for alternative rock performances in the who ride it each day work for the US government. campaign, Trump had repeated claims boxes had been laced with chemicals to pored over the tens of thousands of stolen com- evening. “Comet is a place that bridges,” said When it struggles to stay open during snowstorms, made on infowars that his rival Hillary induce homosexuality in children. In the munications in search of politically relevant infor- neighborhood resident Leslie Harris who is help- it often snarls government operations. Clinton was “wearing an earpiece” and most recent incident, Trump appeared to Metro is far from alone in falling behind, with sub- mation. But some readers honed in on a handful ing the restaurant respond to the onslaught. “In that Muslims had celebrated during the echo the claim by infowars that he would of innocuous messages recounting a Clinton the early evening, people with strollers bring their ways in nearby New York and Boston also facing bil- Sept 11 attacks. have won the popular vote against Clinton lions of dollars in delayed maintenance. Nationwide, fundraiser involving James Alefantis, the owner of little kids in for pizzas. It’s an adult hang out but Left-leaning media watchdog group in addition to the Electoral College if votes a popular Washington pizzeria called Comet. the irony of it is that it has also been this safe place the US public transit system faces an $86 billion Media Matters for America has docu- by illegal immigrants were discounted. As Almost immediately, “pizzagate” was born as for our teenagers.” repair backlog, according to the American Public mented dozens of instances where it stands, Clinton won the popular vote by right-leaning conspiracy theorists on the discus- Alefantis believes the “coordinated and Transportation Association. Washington’s subway Trump has recycled claims from Jones more than two million ballots and both sion sites 4chan and Reddit claimed Comet was orchestrated attack” was in reality retribution for has long been plagued by safety systems that the and infowars. Trump has not repeated experts and officials across the political not just a purveyor of pizza and beer but in fact a his political views and his support of Democrats. National Transportation Safety Board this year called some of the most outlandish claims on spectrum have disparaged Trump’s unsub- sinister front hiding a politically connected “I’m an independent business owner and I feel I “fundamentally flawed.” Eighteen passengers and infowars - that aliens from space had stantiated claim of mass fraud. pedophile ring. Word quickly spread. “They’ve have the right to make decisions on who I sup- workers have died since 2005, according to the landed in Florida or that the mass killing Trump was interviewed during the cam- apparently uncovered an elite child trafficking port and how I utilize my resources,” he said. Federal Transit Administration. The agency took over of children at Sandy Hook Elementary paign by Jones, who also claimed to have network which celebrates its tendencies using Alefantis has contacted the local police and the safety supervision last year, the first time a subway School was faked to win support for gun had several phone conversations with the code words and disturbing artworks,” alleged the Federal Bureau of Investigation but there is little system has come under US government oversight control - but critics say that it would be Republican billionaire, raising concerns website The Vigilant Citizen, which claims to study that can be done for the time being. Under pres- for such lapses. troubling for the president-elect to rely about influence on policy. “Alex Jones is symbols. sure, Reddit has closed the “pizzagate” discussion, on the site for information. the most prolific and unhinged conspiracy In this world, nothing was innocent. Nude citing “repeated violations of the terms of our con- Repair Costs Soar “A lot of what he (Jones) says is just theorist in America,” said Mark Potok, a sen- paintings on the walls were suspect. Patterns on a tent policy”. Metro General Manager General Manager Paul pure nonsense,” said Angelo Carusone of ior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law child’s dress or the menu revealed supposed But the attacks have not ended. “It would be pedophile symbols and a picture of a girl playing like whack-a-mole,” said Claire Wardle of the Tow Wiedefeld said he would have moved a lot faster Media Matters. “What he is presenting is Center, a civil rights group which monitors with masking tape was evidence of sexual abuse. Center for Digital Journalism. “It’s impossible to to fix some of the issues had he known the extent an alternative universe. He is advancing a “hate groups.” “The fact that our president- Theorists even resorted to the French language in regulate or to police these places so instead we of the problems when he took the job a year ago. broader world view that there is a global elect treats him as if he were a serious “We are working very hard to do the best that we search of potential codes: the name James have to think of other ways to give users tools to world government and every day they thinker and critic is appalling. This is a man Alefantis was supposedly derived from the French recognize what’s trustworthy or not.” In the mean- can for the agency and for this region,” Wiedefeld are going out there to take away your who believes, among other things, that the told a news conference this month. He has said the phrase for “I love children.” time, Alefantis is calling for greater social media power.” For Carusone, it remains unclear government is responsible for the As the Nov 8 election drew near, hundreds of awareness. “It has to be recognized within the repair program will cost $60 million, but a federal if Trump believes what was published on Oklahoma City bombing, the Boston threatening messages flooded Alefantis’s broader society that social media can be report this month said the final price tag could be infowars or is merely pandering to its Marathon attack, the mass murder in Instagram account. The restaurant’s Facebook weaponized,” he said. “You can be easily taken double that. readers, but he said either scenario Orlando, Florida, and any number of other page was also barraged with negative comments. down or destroyed by this sort of attacks.” —AFP Much of the trouble at Metro, which also carries would be disturbing. similar attacks by terrorists.” —AFP many of the 21 million tourists who visit Washington each year, results from a two-track design that means trains cannot be diverted for repairs or traffic. The system sprawls from Park again buys time, but failure looms Washington into neighboring Maryland and Virginia. It relies on those states, as well as federal and local governments, to cover close to half its he pulled off a deft bit of political maneuvering, proba- Park over what prosecutors say was collusion with Choi Soon- affairs. Choi held no official government position, and costs. bly born of desperation. Now South Korea’s president sil, a confidante who allegedly had a large say in government allegedly used her ties to the president to pressure companies Washington’s Democratic mayor has proposed a Shas a sliver of breathing space as impeachment closes in into giving money to foundations and companies Choi con- 1-cent sales tax to fund the system, an idea the and millions throng the streets to clamor for her to just go trolled or established. Park denies prosecutors’ claims. Virginia and Maryland governors rejected. In a pro- away. For Park Geun-hye, the next few days, perhaps the most While the politicians scramble to regroup, the presi- posed $1.8 billion budget for the fiscal year begin- crucial in her presidency, will determine what political price dent’s speech has angered many citizens. After all, they say, she will pay, and exactly how much time she has bought. if Park really cared about what most South Koreans say ning in July that Wiedefeld called “a reality check,” Lawmakers want to impeach Park over prosecutors’ allega- they want, she would have simply resigned. Instead, she Metro warned it would need to run trains less fre- tions she allowed a confidante to pull government strings and appears to be looking to regain just enough of her former quently and raise fares to offset declining revenue. pursue extortion schemes. allies’ backing to at least delay the effort to get the neces- Metro workers flooded a board meeting this Her offer to shorten her term in office if a bickering parlia- sary two-thirds support needed in parliament for month to condemn the proposed cuts, which ment can set up a legal pathway to do so has been widely crit- impeachment. include hundreds of layoffs. “Metro’s budget icized as a stalling ploy aimed at luring back members of her This puts opposition lawmakers in something of a should not be balanced on the backs of riders and conservative party who supported impeachment. That sup- bind. Where they once had a strong momentum for workers,” said Steve Williams, vice president of port by former Park loyalists is crucial if a coalition of oppo- impeachment provided by huge protests each week- Teamsters Local 922. sition parties is going to secure the necessary impeach- end, they now may face painful negotiations in a deeply But cost cuts are not keeping up with the decline ment votes. divided parliament. This means navigating a splintered in revenue, and Metro will have to ask for another Park’s conditional resignation proposal, if it delays ruling party and the sometimes conflicting views of vari- $130 million from the District of Columbia, Virginia impeachment, could give her time to search for a way to ous opposition parties. Although unlikely, legislative and Maryland to close a projected $290 million exit with some sense of grace, rather than be impeached squabbling could even allow Park to limp across the fin- shortfall in its next budget. —Reuters and stripped of power while a court reviews whether to ish line of her single, five-year term in early 2018. drive her from office. To some extent, she has already suc- All the while, everyone must gauge how this will play in ceeded in wriggling some of the way out from what had Dec 2017 presidential elections, and the widely expected very recently looked like an impossible political situation. presidential campaign of Ban Ki-moon, who is finishing up All articles appearing on these pages are What had seemed to be an inexorable legislative march his term as UN secretary general. So Park may have bought the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait toward impeachment has slowed, though it’s not yet clear herself some time. But she has done nothing to change the Times takes no responsibility for views how much. widespread feeling here that she must go. If lawmakers fail Some of Park’s former allies who’d turned against her to impeach her tomorrow, this may become especially expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites now say that an impeachment vote originally planned for clear on Saturday. readers to voice their opinions. Please send tomorrow should be pushed back a week. Some influential As has happened the last five Saturdays, hundreds of submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- members of her ruling party also called yesterday for thousands of people are again expected to choke down- times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 impeachment efforts to pause while lawmakers examine how town Seoul’s streets in a party-like atmosphere of defiance. to set up a legal roadmap for Park’s resignation proposal. This could allow lawmakers to win back the energy they Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right Opposition parties agreed yesterday to push for an will need to unite disparate groups in parliament and push to edit any submission as necessary. impeachment vote tomorrow, but will regroup and try again through an impeachment vote. In the end, Park’s political Dec 9 if they don’t have enough initial support to impeach machinations may only delay the inevitable. —AP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

Swing king Akram to El Clasico to hold minute’s ICC clears Hafeez’s train S Lanka pacers silence for air crash victims bowling action MADRID: Saturday’s blockbuster La Liga clash between ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Hafeez’s bowling action was cleared by the COLOMBO: Sri Lanka yesterday said it has roped in legendary Pakistan paceman Barcelona and Real Madrid will be preceded by a minute’s International Cricket Council yesterday, and the Pakistan offspinner can Wasim Akram as a mentor ahead of the team’s gruelling tour of South Africa next silence for the 71 people killed in a plane crash that deci- resume bowling in internationals. Hafeez was reassessed in Brisbane on Nov. month. Akram, 50, will conduct a day-long coaching clinic in Colombo today, Sri mated the Brazilian football team Chapecoense. “Every day 17, when it was revealed that the amount of elbow extension for all of his Lanka Cricket said, in what would be the first of a series of programmes involving for- and every weekend there are hundreds of thousands of offspin deliveries was within the allowed 15-degree level of tolerance. He eign experts. “We are honoured that Akram has accepted our invitation to be a part players travelling in cars, buses, trains and planes... they are was first suspended from bowling in November 2014, and of this initiative,” Sri Lanka Cricket chief Thilanga Sumathipala said. Sumathipala also always exposed to this risk of accidents,” said La Liga presi- reassessed and permitted to resume bowling in April said the 2019 World Cup could be within the grasp of Sri Lanka if the team is given dent Javier Tebas on Wednesday. “We want to recognise, 2015. He was reported again in June 2015 during a the right guidance. Sri Lanka won the World Cup in 1996 but choked twice in the remember and offer our condolences to the families.” A test against Sri Lanka at Galle, and was subsequent- finals of the 2007 and 2011 editions. The latest coaching session minute’s silence will also be held before all matches in the ly suspended from bowling for 12 months in July comes as the victorious team returned home Tuesday after Copa del Rey across Spain on today. Madrid, Barca and 2015 after an independent assessment revealed he beating Zimbabwe in a two-Test series in Harare and lifting a Atletico Madrid were among a host of Spanish clubs to employed an illegal bowling action for the second triangular tournament that also involved the West Indies. express shock and sadness at the plane crash in Colombia time in 24 months. The ICC said in a statement that Regarded as one of the best left-arm pacemen ever to grace the on Tuesday. Former Atletico midfielder Cleber Santana was umpires were still able to report Hafeez if they game, Akram took 414 Test wickets and 502 in 356 one-day one of those killed as the plane went down just before believe he was displaying a suspect action. To assist internationals-both still a Pakistan record. Sri Lanka are set to reaching its destination in Medellin, where Chapecoense the umpires, they will be provided with images and tour South Africa for three Tests, three T20 matches and five ODIs were to play in a Copa Sudamericana final. Three video footage of the bowler’s remodeled legal bowl- starting December 26, with national coach Graham Ford warning Chapecoense players were among six survivors rescued ing action. Hafeez has 52 wickets in tests, 129 in of a tough challenge against the formidable Proteas. — AFP from the wreckage.—AFP ODIs, and 46 in T20s. — AP

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KUWAIT: Contributing to the events of Al Khaled stressed that this participa- the annual charitable RUNQ8 benefiting tion comes within the scope of ACICO’s the Fawziya Al Sultan Center for corporate social responsibility plans that Treatment & Development of Special aim to strengthen relations between the Needs Children, ACICO Group - Kuwait’s company and the active institutions leading Construction Materials within the community. Manufacturer - eagerly participated in Al Khaled extended her appreciation support of this noble cause. to all ACICO participants for their consci- Conveying her delight, Eng Ghosson entious involvement in this noble Al Khaled - Deputy Chief Executive humanitarian cause, and was delighted Officer of ACICO Industries, expressed as one of ACICO’s participants earned the the importance the company associates 8th place completing 5k at this charita- with participation in such community ble race. She also expressed her deep events that contribute towards shedding gratitude to the organizers and those light on social challenges that require responsible for the event wishing them attention from all sectors of society. all the best and success for their future. Bach lauds Rio, tells Tokyo organizers promise Tokyo ‘to show the way’ TOKYO: The head of the “However it’s fair to recognise the cost-cutting for Olympics International Olympic Committee report that has been produced,” he yesterday praised the Rio Games for added, referring to a November 2015 overcoming significant difficulties, bombshell World Anti-Doping TOKYO: Hoping to avoid last-minute financial while urging 2020 host Tokyo to put Agency (WADA) study that unveiled pressures, Japanese officials said yesterday they are determined to keep total costs of the 2020 its own stamp on the event. systematic state-sponsored doping Tokyo Olympics Games below 2 trillion yen ($18 IOC President Thomas Bach and corruption. billion) after a three-day debriefing from organ- addressed the close of a debriefing Among other attendees were izers of the Rio de Janeiro Games. event held in Tokyo to reflect on Rio’s South Korea’s Pyeongchang, host of Rio was forced to make cuts up to the open- experiences and share tips with the Winter Games in 2018, and ing of this year’s games because the Brazilian future host cities. Beijing, which is holding them in economy went into severe recession after the Rio, faced “extremely difficult polit- 2022. Bach said Tokyo should “show Olympics were awarded in 2009. ical circumstances in Brazil”, Bach said the way for future organisers how Tokyo’s estimated costs have ballooned in the via live video from Switzerland, well Olympic Games can be organised face of construction costs that have soared since adding it also faced “financial, social in a sustainable and feasible way.” the city launched its bid for the Olympics in 2011 and ethical” issues. Tokyo vice governor Takashi and secured the games in 2013. Despite that, the Games were “the Yamamoto also praised Rio and said “We’re committed to reducing costs,” Tokyo most consumed games ever in the Japanese capital will follow in its organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said Olympic history,” he said, adding this footsteps. after the debriefing wrapped up. “The city gov- was down to the hard work of the “Even with financial constraints, ernment, the national government and the organisers. Rio achieved success by tapping pri- organizing committee must all work together.” A Tokyo government panel has said the cost The 2016 Rio Olympics were gen- vate sector capital,” he said at the of the Olympics could exceed $30 billion - four erally seen as successful despite meeting. “That’s something Tokyo times the initial estimate - unless drastic cuts are Brazil’s political and economic crisis as must learn from.” made. Muto proposed putting a 2 trillion yen well as security and attendance prob- Tokyo is under intense pressure to ($18 billion) cap on total Olympic costs but IOC lems. The three-day meeting drew slash costs amid warnings that the vice president John Coates said the ceiling was senior officials from the IOC and 2022 Games could cost an eye-pop- too high. “The figure of 2 trillion is a starting TOKYO: John Coates, chairperson of the International Olympic Commettee (IOC) Coordination Olympic organisers from both Rio and ping $30 billion-four times the initial point,” Muto said. “From there we will move to Commission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, gestures as he makes a speech during the Tokyo as well as their respective may- estimate and almost triple that of the reduce it further. Mr. Coates has said it should be closing plenary session of the tree-day IOC Debriefing meeting of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic ors. But it was focused mostly on 2012 London Olympics. lower and we agree with that.” More than 500 Games in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP broad issues including logistics, plan- On Tuesday, Tokyo Governor Yuriko officials took part in the debriefing sessions here ning and communication, while prob- Koike dropped a proposal to move a that are aimed at drawing lessons from the Rio lems that have plagued the Olympics canoeing and rowing venue outside Games for Tokyo and other future organizers. such as doping were not on the agen- the capital, instead vowing to cut Representatives of the International Olympic KDSC to hold annual da, officials said. construction costs on that and anoth- Committee, Tokyo organizers and Japan’s central “The topic was not discussed,” IOC er facility, while delaying a decision and city governments have been meeting in official Christophe Dubi, told a press on whether to build a new volleyball Tokyo to discuss ways of reducing costs. international festival conference after the meeting. facility or use an existing one. —AFP Tokyo Olympic organizers agreed Tuesday to keep the rowing, canoe sprint and swimming venues at their planned sites in Tokyo, rather than moving them to exiting venues outside the capital. A decision on a possible switch of the volleyball venue was postponed until late December. Coates, who heads the IOC’s coordi- nation commission for the Tokyo Games, emphasized the need to resolve issues quickly. “The sooner you get out there and arrive at entering into your various procurement con- tracts to commence construction then the cheaper it’s going to be,” he said. Tokyo initially won the bid on a promise to stage a compact games but has moved several events to neighboring prefectures since beating out Istanbul and Madrid in the IOC voting. Basketball will be staged in Saitama, a one- hour train ride north of Tokyo, while cycling was Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah Shafi Al-Hajiri transferred to Izu, over two hours away from the KUWAIT: Kuwait Disabled Sports Club patronage of Information Minister, State capital. In addition to the IOC executives and (KDSC) will organize the Annual Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman representatives from Rio and Tokyo, the debrief- International Festival Day for solidarity Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Al- ing was attended by organizers of the 2018 with the disabled next Saturday at the club Hajiri said the festival’s operetta is an hon- Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, premises. The festival includes a sports oring of Kuwait’s athletics players Ahmad and 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, as well as tournament for the disabled that will con- Naqa for winning the gold medal in the delegations from the three bid cities for the tinue until December 6. KDSC Chairman Paralympics. He said Kuwait’s shooter IOC President Thomas Bach 2024 Olympics - Paris, Budapest and Los Shafi Al-Hajiri said the festival is under the Fuhaid Al-Daihani will also be honored. Angeles. —AP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS Victorious Kuwait tennis players return home

By Abdellatif Sharaa

KUWAIT: Kuwait Tennis team that won the doubles gold medal in the men’s and juniors Arab Championship that was held in Morocco returned home. President of Kuwait and Arab Tennis Federations Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Abdallah Al-Sabah, Deputy Chairman of KTF Abdelsamad Al-Aryan, Board Member Ali Al-Daihani, and PSA repre- sentative Bashar Al-Kandari received the delegation. Kuwait’s players Mohammad Al-Ghareeb and Abdallah Maqdis won the doubles gold medal after beating Morocco’s Khalid Alloush and Mahdi Jaddi in the final match 6/3, 6/3. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber expressed his satisfaction with Al-Ghareeb and Maqdis’ achievements, and dedicated it to HH The Amir and HH The Crown Prince and Kuwaiti people. On the other hand Kuwait was on top of all Arab countries that participated in Davis Cup, including those in North Africa. Kuwait placed 59th worldwide, followed by Tunis 65, Morocco 71, Algeria 83, Lebanon 84, Syria 85, Egypt 95, Qatar 97, UAE 100, Jordan 101, Iraq 107, Bahrain 108, Saudi Arabia 113, Oman 122 and Libya 132. KSSC to organise Firefighting Coe, Russia shooting tourney again in IAAF spotlight By Abdellatif Sharaa

MONACO: A reform-driven Sebastian Coe and KUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sports Club drugs-tainted Russia will again be in the spot- (KSSC) will organize the Public Sports light of athletics’ world governing body when Authority tournament at Sheikh Sabah Al- the IAAF gathers for three days of crunch meet- Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex from ings starting today. December 2-4. The tournament includes A crucial part of the opening IAAF Council skeet, trap, double trap, 10m pistol and meeting will be dedicated to the latest update rifle, and 50m rifle besides Olympic from Norwegian Rune Andersen, the head of the archery. IAAF Taskforce looking into the steps Russia is President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting taking to combat doping. Federations Eng. Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi The International Association of Athletics lauded the interest of Public Authority for Federations first enforced a ban on Russian ath- sports in shooting and shooters and the letes in international competition in November support it gives to ensure continued suc- 2015 after a bombshell World Anti-Doping cess at all levels and arenas. Agency (WADA) report unveiled systematic The closing ceremony will be held state-sponsored doping and corruption. Sunday, December 4 at 7 pm at the shoot- Duaij Al-Otaibi Andersen will report to IAAF’s decision-mak- ing club premises. ing body whether he thinks Russia have since met the reinstatement conditions set down. The initial ban has twice been extended, in March Six Nations introduces bonus and June this year. It was Andersen’s latter Taskforce report in points to reward attacking rugby Vienna that scuppered Russian athletes’ chances Sebastian Coe of competing at the Rio Games, despite a last- LONDON: Attacking rugby will be reward- is unique and is, more often than not, driv- ditch campaign to overthrow the ban led by In the women’s category, 10,000 m Olympic Thompson of Jamaica and the Olympic ham- ed with bonus points in next year’s Six en by a number of teams on equal champi- Russian President Vladimir Putin. champion Almaz Ayana from Ethiopia is up mer thrower champion, Poland’s Anita Nations, organisers said yesterday, includ- onship points all competing for first place Putin has in recent days, however, approved a against double sprint champion Elaine Wlodarczyk. —AFP ing match winners taking four points on the table,” said Feehan. law criminalising doping in sports, while Russian instead of two. “It is important for us to ensure that any Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has prom- The Six Nations is the last major rugby bonus-point system which is implemented ised anti-doping inspectors full access to military CAS bans Chernova, Ennis-Hill tournament to introduce bonus points- would not, in any way, take away from this cities which are normally closed to members of Super Rugby had them from the inception unique dynamic. the public although often listed as training set for third world title of the competition in 1996, the World Cup “At the same time, we are also conscious bases by many Russian athletes. Staying with the anti-doping theme, Coe will brought them in from 2003 and the south- that we must reward try-scoring and an LAUSANNE: Russian heptathlete Tatyana gold medal. Triple World Champion WOW.” on Saturday preside over a Special IAAF ern hemisphere Rugby Championship and attacking style of play that will deliver more Chernova was banned by the Court of Ennis-Hill, the 2012 Olympic champion, European Champions Cup also awards tries and greater rewards for fans and play- Congress, a one-issue meeting concentrating on the governance structure reform proposals pre- Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday for won her other heptathlon world golds at them. The move, which will be on a trial ers alike.” doping and stripped of her 2011 world Berlin in 2009 and Beijing last year. basis and apply also to the Women’s and Even losing sides can come away with sented in his ‘Time for Change’ document. The reforms have already been given whole- title, effectively handing the crown to As well as losing her 2011 world title Under-20s Six Nations tournaments, will something if they meet certain provisos, Jessica Ennis-Hill. Chernova has also been deprived of her see the winners of each match receive four gaining one point for either losing by seven sale support by the IAAF Athletes Commission, whose members said they believed that the Chernova’s gold medal from the world 2012 Olympic bronze, with Lithuania’s points instead of two, but if they score four points or less or for scoring four tries in a championships in Daegu, South Korea is Austra Skujyte set to inherit third. CAS or more tries they will garner a bonus point defeat, and two points if they lose by seven reforms would “set and enforce higher ethical now set to be awarded to the Briton Ennis- issued bans for Russian middle distance as well. The new measure for the Six points or less but score four tries in the standards and enable athletics to regain the Nations has been called for by many within process. If there is a draw both teams split credibility and trust it deserves”. Hill, the 2012 London Olympic champion runners Ekaterina Sharmina (three years) the game in recent years. the points as before, only this time they will Coe has gone out of his way to ensure his and silver medallist at this year’s Rio and Kristina Ugarova (two years). John Feehan, chief executive of the Six get two apiece. reform process is widely understood, having Games. CAS banned Chernova, 28, for All three cases were referred to CAS by Nations, said they had sought to strike the A Grand Slam like England achieved in embarked on a roadshow in October and three years and eight months, with all her athletics’ governing body the IAAF in right balance between rewarding attacking their first Six Nations under Eddie Jones November that took in the Dominican Republic, results over a two-year period from the February with the top sports court step- rugby and maintaining the climax to the this year will see the team awarded three Chile, Portugal, Australia, Qatar and South Africa. world championships in 2011 now void. ping in to take over from Russia’s suspend- showpiece-in the 2015 edition three coun- extra points, which would give them some The Briton, twice an Olympic 1500m gold Ennis-Hill, who won world gold in her own ed athletics federation the ARAF. tries went into the final games with form of insurance over teams who might medallist, is pushing for an independent drugs right in 2009 and 2015, has long called for The IAAF had ruled that CAS was to chances of winning the crown. lose a match but gain enough bonus points testing regime as part of his overhaul of world the 2011 title to go to her after Chernova determine the fate of all Russian athletes “The drama and excitement of the last to overhaul the side that beat all of their athletics, saying that “results management” has had a sample from the 2009 world champi- accused of doping. weekend of the Six Nations Championship rivals. — AFP been a failure given “national interest involved”. onships retested later to reveal an anabolic This trio were found guilty after their He is proposing an “independent Athletics steroid. Chernova, just the latest Russian “Athlete Biological Passports (ABP) showed Integrity Unit”, which will be responsible for dop- athlete punished for doping, would not evidence of blood doping,” CAS said in a ing matters, taking powers away from national have been eligible to compete in South statement. Tuesday’s verdicts are open to World chess battle heads associations. The unit would also look into ille- gal betting and transfers of allegiance. Korea if her positive test had been discov- appeal. In its statement CAS said: “The col- for tiebreak endgame Other mooted reforms include a restructur- ered at the time. lection of the blood samples for these ath- ing of the IAAF Council so that it has 50 percent Soon after the CAS statement came out, letes started many years ago (dating back Ennis-Hill posted a message on Instagram to 2009 for Ms Chernova, to 2011-2012 for NEW YORK: The battle for the world the door of the press room after defeat in female membership, new checks and balances on the president, and new vetting procedures alongside a picture of her and a celebrat- the others), but the analysis of the blood chess crown heads into a four-game the eighth round, earning a fine of five ing Chernova in Daegu. “This image was values and of the Biological Passports was tiebreaker yesterday, after 12 regular percent of his prize money. on individuals. The proposed changes, which need a two- forever imprinted in my mind! However conducted in 2015.” rounds failed to separate reigning cham- thirds’ majority to be passed at Saturday’s vote, much it drove me on for what I was about Russia’s image in world sports has been pion Magnus Carlsen and his Russian ‘CAPABLE OF UPSET’ have been brought about by the scandal which to achieve at my first Olympics in London, badly tarnished by evidence of state-spon- challenger Sergei Karyakin. Karyakin, a child prodigy who became continues to engulf athletics. in my heart I just knew it was wrong,” sored doping that saw its athletics team After a win apiece and nine draws, the the youngest ever chess grandmaster at Ennis-Hill wrote. and entire Paralympics squad excluded pair head into the chess equivalent of the age of 12, has known Carlsen for ‘COVER UP’ “So happy to finally be receiving my from the Rio Games this summer. — AFP extra time in soccer, beginning a series of years and has little to lose, with no-one In the latest revelation, a weekend report by four quickfire games in New York at 2pm even expecting him to reach the final. Germany’s ARD television and France’s Le (1900 GMT). Unlike the earlier rounds, “Sergei has impressed everyone with Monde newspaper said the wanted son of oust- which lasted an average of six hours, the his tenacity these last few weeks so he is ed IAAF president Lamine Diack took millions of rapid play rules mean the players have perfectly capable of pulling an upset,” euros from Russian competitors in return for just 25 minutes each, so each game will said So, who travelled to New York from “total protection” from failed doping tests. be over in an hour. If they are still tied Minnesota to watch the clash. Six athletes each paid between 300,000 and afterwards they will play a series of blitz Much has been made of the clash as a 700,000 euros ($318,000-$740,000) to top offi- games, played at the rate of five minutes reprise of the great Cold War chess bat- cials including Papa Massata Diack who is want- per player at the start, with three sec- tles of the 1970s, but Karyakin, who is ed by French authorities but in hiding in his onds added after each move. from Crimea and supported Russia’s 2014 native Senegal, the report said. “If there is still no winner, Carlsen and annexation of the peninsula, has played His father, Lamine Diack, who was charged Karyakin will play an Armageddon game down political overtones. after standing down as IAAF president in August in which white has five minutes and But he knows that a hero’s welcome 2015, is under house arrest in France. black has four, but black only has to draw will await him in Russia-where chess was “The organised cover-up of suspected doping to win the match,” the World Chess elevated to the status of national institu- in the world of track and field has as such Federation said. The accelerated games tion in the Soviet era-if he wins the assumed a previously unimagined scale,” said leave plenty of opportunity for harried crown. The last Russian to claim the title ARD. “And once again, it is primarily athletes mistakes, and while predictions are diffi- was Vladimir Kramnik in 2007. from one nation under scrutiny: Russia.” cult, Carlsen-a king of the blitz format- In a sign of the final’s significance to Sandwiched between the two IAAF meetings remains favourite. Moscow, President Vladimir Putin’s come the IAAF Athletics Awards, which were The Norwegian, who turned 26 yester- spokesman Dimitry Peskov was in New cancelled last year in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris. day, has played several blitz tournaments York to see the start of the head-to-head. Fresh from securing an unprecedented third this year, beating US grandmaster Hikaru As well as the title, the winner will also consecutive treble of Olympic golds at the Rio Nakamura in one in October. take home 600,000 euros ($637,000), Games, Usain Bolt is hot favourite to walk away But he has occasionally shown flashes while the loser will walk away with a con- with the men’s Athlete of the Year award from Jessica Ennis-Hill of losing his cool, as when he slammed solation prize of 400,000 euros. — AFP Mo Farah and Wayde van Niekerk. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

Australia’s Cummins to make latest comeback in one-dayers

SYDNEY: Pat Cummins’ international than a year for the three-match real pace. With Australia choosing not to Cummins, man of the match in his ed overs cricket then he could be in the career has had more than its fair share of Chappell-Hadlee series. rest test spearheads Mitchell Starc and test debut, has been blighted by injury frame for Australia’s tour of India next false starts due to injuries but captain The 23-year-old missed all of last sea- Josh Hazlewood, Smith had three gen- since, suffering heel problems, a torn February. “Obviously he’s going to play Steve Smith hopes the upcoming one- son after yet another stress fracture in uinely quick bowlers at his disposal for side muscle and stress fractures in his these one-dayers. I dare say he’ll play the day series against New Zealand will his lower back but returned with a the series against New Zealand that back. Such have been the extent of his one-dayers at the back end of the sum- prove a launchpad for the Australia fast vengeance in Australia’s domestic one- starts in Sydney on Sunday. injuries, he has played just eight first- mer as well and I think after Christmas bowler to kick on. day competition last month, taking 15 “It looked like he bowled with some class games since he made his debut for he might be playing some Shield crick- The right armer, who made a dream wickets at 18.60. good pace so it’s nice to have the option New South Wales against Tasmania in et,” Smith added. “India’s possible. He’s test debut against South Africa as a raw Chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns of Starc, Hazlewood and Cummins at our Hobart as a 17-year-old. His last first- obviously got to play some Shield crick- 18-year-old in 2011 with match figures said when the one-day squad was disposal,” Smith told Australian class game was on last year’s Ashes tour et first and see how he goes ... how his of seven for 117, was recalled to the named last week that he was particularly Associated Press in Sydney on of England. Smith, however, said that if body holds up. “So far he’s going pretty Australian side for the first time in more pleased to see him back bowling with Wednesday. “It’s very exciting.” he could prove his fitness through limit- well.”—Reuters Cook and England to unwind before Test

MOHALI: England captain Alastair Cook is for the first time and are now staring at a looking forward to a rare week-long break series defeat against top-ranked India. in a hectic playing schedule after the heavy But Cook remembered that four years third Test defeat against India in Mohali ago in India England came back from 1-0 Tuesday. Virat Kohli’s side won by eight down to win the four-Test series 2-1 and wickets to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in said that if they show greater consistency the five-Test series. they can still save the series. But England’s players are looking to “The challenge is try and put in that per- unwind with some welcome down time in formance in which consistently, over five Dubai before making the short trip from days, we play well. “We have done it in one the Gulf resort city to Mumbai for the game (the first Test in Rajkot), we haven’t fourth Test, which begins on December 8. done it in the other two,” said Cook. “The break comes at a very good time, Cook said it was difficult to compare obviously, after three back-to-back Test with the 2012 tour, because the two teams matches,” Cook told reporters after the have changed character since. defeat. Some of the England squad have “The India we played in 2012 was differ- been on duty since landing in Bangladesh ent, probably an ageing team compared to on September 30 for three one-day inter- now,” Cook said, adding that his current nationals followed by the 1-1 draw in the side were still learning how to tackle unfa- Test series there. Cook himself has spent miliar sub-continent conditions with low, just 18 hours with his new-born daughter turning pitches. after dashing home from the Bangladesh “In 2012 we were a lot more experi- tour for her birth. enced and had played a lot more in the “We have this week off and I think, most sub-continent over the three years before people going to Dubai,” said Cook. that. “This side, only two in the top order “Mentally it will be break from cricket. We (Joe Root and Cook himself) have played will come back little bit more refreshed.” more than one or two games in the sub- Cook’s team has endured tough couple continent before we played in Bangladesh. of months after losing a Test to Bangladesh That’s probably the difference.” —AFP Flying Finn eyes favourite WIESBADEN: F1 Mercedes driver and 2016 World Champion, Nico Rosberg from Germany celebrates with fans in Wiesbaden Germany, yester- Wild Oats in Sydney to Hobart day. Rosberg was born in Wiesbaden. — AP

SYDNEY: Australia’s blue water Sydney backwards it’s new. She’s a very radical to Hobart classic will this year see the thing, incorporating a lot of ideas. domination of eight-time line honours “We should be good in light airs,” he Hamilton one of the best, winner Wild Oats challenged by a added. “In some conditions we will be up Scandinavian dark horse and a Korean there but we are focusing on taking the dubut among more Asian entries. boat to the finish line.” Four supermaxis will tackle the gru- That’s the ambition of most entrants but no friend: Rosberg elling 628-nautical-mile race among a for the 72nd version of the race from field of 93, organisers said yesterday, Sydney down Australia’s east coast and WIESBADEN: with local hero Wild Oats the favourite. across the wild Bass Strait to Hobart. Formula One world champion when he deliberately slowed the pace from “It will always be difficult between us. We Skipper Mark Richards can’t forget last Nico Rosberg hailed Mercedes team mate the front in Abu Dhabi, hoping to back are in the same team and race against each year’s shock retirement with a split mast ARRIVE IN ONE PIECE Lewis Hamilton as one of the greatest driv- Rosberg into a position where rival drivers other for titles,” Rosberg said. “It is virtually and said improvements had been made. Another rebadged supermaxi is ers of all time yesterday but ruled out forg- could overtake the German in a last-ditch impossible to have a good relationship. We “We’ve learnt a lot from last year,” he Scallywag, now owned by Hong Kong ing any friendly ties with the Briton as long effort to overhaul his 12-point deficit. used to be best friends when we were said at the official launch for the businessman Seng Huang Lee, which as they raced each other. “Lewis is one of the best of all time. He young so at least we have this respect for December 26 race. came second in line honours last year as Rosberg, who lost out to Hamilton in the sets a high standard,” the 31-year-old each other. This helps somewhat,” he added. “Our preparation this year has been Ragamuffin. previous two years, made it third time lucky Rosberg told reporters during a visit to his “I do not know how he feels at the fantastic,” including thousands of miles Supermaxi Perpetual Loyal is also when he clinched his maiden title with a Wiesbaden birthplace in Germany. moment but I know how I felt in 2014 and of sailing and some “tweaking”. back for another tilt after pulling out of second-place finish behind the triple world The tense atmosphere between the 2015.” Rosberg lost any hope of claiming Richards has removed the yacht’s hori- the previous two races with damage. champion at the season finale in Abu Dhabi childhood friends as they waited for the 2014 title with an engine problem at zontal hydrofoil, explaining that a new Among 12 international entries, the on Sunday. Sunday’s podium ceremony spoke volumes, the final race of the season but he has be 11-metre long forward section of the hull Korea Ocean Sailing Club has chartered a The pair have been at loggerheads all with Rosberg hoisting the sport’s 86-year- free of such reliability issues this year. negated the need for it. It also makes the 52-footer and named it Sonic for the season and their frosty relationship had old commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone “For me it was difficult to stomach. In vessel 300 kilograms lighter. nation’s first Sydney to Hobart. been compared by Mercedes boss Toto into the air but choosing to ignore 2015 I lost to him again. It will now take Wild Oats XI, which will be racing in its Team Korea is mostly from Seoul and Wolff as a volcano ready to erupt. Hamilton. There was minimal eye contact, some time for him to process this,” 12th Sydney to Hobart, “is still a great Busan with experience from the Hamilton compounded matters further let alone a handshake. Rosberg said. — Reuters machine,” he added. America’s Cup, while skipper Kwangmin Finn Ludde Ingvall took line honours ‘Andrew’ Rho contested last year’s race in 2000 and 2004 and he is back for 2016 aboard Flying Fish Arctos, the organisers with Nicorette completely redesigned said. China has two entries for 2016 with Pakistan can bounce back and renamed CQS. The 90-foot maxi has Dong Qing back with Ark323 and a new grown into a 100-foot supermaxi in a bid crew after a stormy debut ended in early to rival the world’s fastest yachts, with retirement for the country’s first ever legendary New Zealand skipper Chris entry last year. “We did not expect 50- against new-look Aussies Dixon at the helm. knot winds,” Qing said of the savage Ingvall, who lives in Sydney, rates Wild southerlies that blasted the race in 2015, Oats “the best yacht in the world”, with dozens of boats pulling out. LAHORE: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq believes it can despite its early retirement last year “This year we are going to be better.” bounce back from its 2-0 loss in New Zealand when it takes allowing US supermaxi Comanche to win Overall handicap honours went to on a new-look Australia in a three-test series next month. in two days, eight hours, 58 minutes and Australia’s Balance last December with “Australia is not a settled team, and they have made 30 seconds. the TP52 competing again, hoping for a changes in the last (test) match (against South Africa),” “It’s not the same boat,” he told second successive crown. “We will be Misbah said in Lahore yesterday. “Their new players are reporters about CQS. “From the mast for- doing our damnedest to get there in one familiar with their own conditions, but at the same time ward, it’s new and from the steering piece,” said owner Paul Clitheroe. —AFP when someone comes new into test matches, you have a chance to exploit it.” Australia avoided being whitewashed by South Africa as new caps Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, and Nic Maddinson won the day-night third test in Adelaide last weekend. Misbah returned home after losing the first test in Christchurch because of the death of his father-in-law. He would have missed the second test in Hamilton anyway, because he was handed a one-match suspension for another slow over-rate. He will rejoin the team before the first day-night Test in Brisbane on Dec. 15. Pakistan’s top order struggled in seaming conditions in New Zealand. They lost nine wickets in the last session in Hamilton to lose by 138 runs. Only opener Sami Aslam and Babar Azam scored half-centuries in four test innings. However, Pakistan kept faith in the same 16-man squad for the three tests against Australia. “Conditions were difficult in New Zealand with plenty of grass on both wickets,” Misbah said. “But I believe wickets will be better in Australia, and this team has the capability to make a comeback.” Pakistan, which rose to No. 1 in the test rankings, slipped to No. 4 after losing in New Zealand. But Misbah said Pakistan wasn’t suddenly a bad team. “In one series, if your bowlers or batsmen do not per- form, you can’t say it’s not a good team,” he said. “We have been taking 20 wickets (in a test match) in UAE, and I hope the players have learnt their les- sons in New Zealand.” The 42-year-old Misbah, who has already quit ODIs and Twenty20s for Pakistan, has no immediate plans to quit tests, and said as long as he stayed fit and the team needed him he will play on. “The team’s confidence level has come down with the recent performances in New Zealand. I am focusing on the Australian series and raising the level of SYDNEY: Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race 2015 winner Paul Clitheroe, owner/skip- the team and regaining the confidence of players. per of Balance, and Mark Richards, skipper Wild Oats XI pose with the trophy at the “I have said before, you don’t know what happens Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney yesterday. Australia’s grueling Sydney to tomorrow, but I have no fitness problem and hope to play Hobart yacht race, one of the world’s most famous races starts on Boxing Day and is as long as I stay fit. If I felt the team still needs me and I stay the 72nd edition of the epic contest. — AFP fit, I will continue playing.” —AP Misbah-ul-Haq THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

FA expected to confirm Southgate as England boss

LONDON: Gareth Southgate is expect- his four games in charge to convince the er Graeme Le Saux and League following the 3-0 World Cup qualifying England also beat Malta and drew in ed to be approved as the new England FA to hand him the post on a perma- Managers’ Association chairman win over Scotland. Slovenia before a 2-2 friendly draw with manager by Football Association chiefs nent basis. Southgate’s position should Howard Wilkinson were all involved. Newspaper reports suggested the Spain in Southgate’s last game, when yestersday, according to British media be ratified during an FA board meeting While it was billed as an interview it skipper was drunk and made an they squandered a two-goal lead in the reports. later, although an official announce- was more of a discussion about unscheduled appearance at a wedding final minutes at Wembley. Southgate has been in interim ment is unlikely to be immediate. Southgate’s vision of the England team. reception, with chief executive Glenn Southgate’s backroom team will be charge since replacing Sam Allardyce in The former Middlesbrough boss, who Glenn had previously confirmed promising an investigation into the con- discussed at the board meeting, with September after he was forced out just would become England’s third manager Southgate was in a strong position and duct of all players and staff during their Chelsea assistant coach Steve Holland 67 days into his reign following a Daily this year following the departures of the former England defender wanted free time. set to be handed a full-time role with Telegraph investigation into corruption Roy Hodgson and Allardyce, spoke to a the job. Southgate was unbeaten in his four the senior national side. The FA must in football. five-man panel at St George’s Park last During his brief tenure Southgate games, winning two and drawing two, also look at the age group set-ups with The 46-year-old Southgate has made Monday after the end of his interim has already had to deal with controversy including this month’s win over under-20 manager Aidy Boothroyd hav- it clear he wants the job and, given the reign. FA chairman Greg Clarke, chief with captain Wayne Rooney pictured Scotland which left England top of ing temporarily stepped up to replace lack of other quality candidates, is executive Martin Glenn, technical direc- mingling with guests at the hotel where Group F as they bid to reach the 2018 Southgate, who had previously served believed to have done enough during tor Dan Ashworth, former England play- England were based during his free time World Cup. as under-21 boss. —AFP Tiger finds support from rivals he inspired

NASSAU: Tiger Woods never knew he had infamous sex scandal, but has kindled new so many friends among his golfing rivals friendships from a new generation of tour until he needed their support after a 15- players, those he inspired rather than dom- month back injury layoff that ends today at inated. “I think Tiger has softened now with the Hero World Challenge. The former his kids and the way he’s interacted in the world number one returns in the 18-player (Ryder Cup) team room, what he said, how invitational after having not played a com- he put his arm around certain people and petitive round since August 2015, the trying to inspire them,” Watson said. “His longest layoff of the 14-time major champi- own foundation is probably changing him, on’s career. making him realize that there’s more than “I’ve missed being out here with the just golf or being the greatest golfer of all guys. I miss the fraternity. I miss the cama- time. That’s going to help him in golf and raderie,” Woods said Tuesday. “I’ve had a lot it’s going to help him in life.” more close friends out here than I thought.” Watson, the 2012 and 2014 Masters win- Two-time Masters champion Bubba ner, won last year’s Challenge with a 25- Watson says Woods has benefitted from under par 263 total over the 7,267-yard bonds made in the days when he inspired Ernie Els-designed layout at the Albany an epic fan following but seemed distant resort. The event is owned by Woods’ foun- and alone from rivals. dation and is putting down roots in the “Tiger is a great man and to see him Bahamas after three sites in three years. open up, I think it’s for the better,” Watson Watson is among those who have played it said. “He has got a smile on the face and a through several injury comebacks for bounce in his step. Who cares about the Woods, whose ailing knees and back cut golf? “I think he’s learning that now that we into his campaigns before wiping out his all miss him. We miss the interaction with 2015-16 season. “It’s amazing to see the him, seeing him practice, just listening and outpouring of support from our side. He learning from him. So I think he sees how has meant so much to all of us. He has much he truly is missed.” Woods grew near- inspired all of us, touched all of us in differ- er to some players during his time as a US ent ways,” Watson said. “We’re just excited, assistant Ryder Cup capitain earlier this us guys in the field. We’re pulling for him year. “My relationships with a lot of these and want him to be the best he can.” players have gotten closer, either through hanging out at the restaurant (the Woods ‘WE WANT OUR CHAMPION BACK’ Jupiter) or if it’s out playing or the Ryder Watson summed up the feelings of Cup, going out to dinner and BSing, it has many golf fans who dream of Woods’ glory been fun,” Woods said. era but just want to see him play, in the MILWAUKEE: Milwaukee Bucks’ Michael Beasley and Cleveland Cavaliers’ Tristan Thompson go after a loose ball during the second half of an “I’ve had a lot of friends help me. It’s same way that Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer NBA basketball game Tuesday, in Milwaukee. — AP hard to fathom how many players have and Gary Player were loved long past their really rallied and tried to help me come peak days. “Just let us watch you for four back and offered any kind of advice, any days,” Watson said. “I don’t care what the kind of help, whether it’s with equipment, score is. We want our champion back. We Antetokounmpo stars as playing, getting out and going out to din- want our Tiger Woods back. ner, just being part of the tour and part of “If he feels good after four days and he’s the fraternity.” not hurting on Monday morning, then he’ll play in January. He’ll play these events that Bucks stun Cavaliers ‘MORE THAN JUST GOLF’ we’re used to seeing him in and used to Woods seemed a man alone during watching him dominate and get excited much of his career’s success and after his about.” — AFP MILWAUKEE: Giannis Antetokounmpo tied a Nets. DeAndre Jordan had 21 points and 23 point hole by the second quarter. career high with 34 points and the Milwaukee rebounds for the Clippers, who rested Griffin, Bucks stunned the Cleveland Cavaliers 118-101 their leading scorer. JAZZ 120, ROCKETS 101 on Tuesday night. Antetokounmpo added 12 Gordon Hayward scored a season-high 31 rebounds and five assists while Milwaukee end- MAGIC 95, SPURS 83 points, helping Utah beat Houston for its sea- ed Cleveland’s four-game winning streak. Jabari Serge Ibaka had 18 points and Orlando took son-best fourth straight win. Utah started Parker had 18 points and Michael Beasley had advantage of a sloppy night by San Antonio to strong en route to a season high for scoring. 17 off the bench for the Bucks. LeBron James snap the Spurs’ nine-game winning streak. San Rodney Hood had 10 points during a 20-5 first- had 22 points for the Cavaliers, who fell to 13-3. Antonio committed a season-high 19 turnovers quarter run after trailing 16-9, and Houston Kyrie Irving added 20 points. Milwaukee led by in its worst scoring performance of the season. never led again. Hood finished with 19 22 points in the fourth quarter and cruised past The Spurs have four home losses in the first two points.Rudy Gobert recorded his 11th double- the defending champions, who benched their months of this season after falling just once at double of the season with 16 points, 14 starters midway through the final period. The AT&T Center in 2015-16. Evan Fournier scored rebounds and three blocks. Hayward had seven Bucks outscored Cleveland by 14 points in the 13 points and Nikola Vucevic had 12 to help the assists and five rebounds. James Harden scored third quarter. Cleveland rode hot early shooting Magic snap a four-game skid. Orlando entered 26 points but was an inefficient 8 for 23 from to a 14-point first quarter lead, but Milwaukee having lost eight of 11, but they were looser the field. He also had seven assists and five closed on a 10-0 run and trailed by only two at and more fluid than San Antonio from the start. rebounds, while Eric Gordon scored 24 points the end of the period. The hot hands of The Spurs’ turnovers resulted in 19 points for off the bench. Antetokounmpo and Beasley sparked the Magic. Kawhi Leonard had 21 points for San Milwaukee in the second quarter as the Bucks Antonio and LaMarcus Aldridge added 16. PISTONS 112, HORNETS 89 built an advantage of eight points before lead- Tobias Harris scored 24 points, Kentavious ing 58-54 at the half. PELICANS 105, LAKERS 88 Caldwell-Pope and Marcus Morris each had 18 Anthony Davis had 41 points and 16 points and Detroit beat Charlotte for its third NETS 127, CLIPPERS 122, 2OT rebounds, helping New Orleans dominate straight win. Ish Smith added 13 points whhile Sean Kilpatrick scored 31 of his career-high short-handed Los Angeles. Jrue Holiday scored Detroit shot 49 percent from the field. Kemba 38 points after the third quarter and Brooklyn 22 points in his first start this season and Omer Walker had 23 points for the Hornets, who were stopped a seven-game losing streak with a Asik had 10 points and 11 assists while New playing their fourth game in five nights. The double-overtime victory over Los Angeles. The Orleans snapped a two-game skid. The Lakers Pistons hadn’t played since Saturday and Clippers started the game without Blake Griffin, expected to be healthier with forward Julius looked much fresher throughout the game in ended it without the ejected coach Doc Rivers Randle returning to the lineup following a snapping Charlotte’s two-game winning streak. and dropped their third straight game by blow- three-game absence because of a hip injury, Detroit took a 10-point lead into the fourth ing an 18-point lead. Chris Paul had 26 points, but about two minutes into the game, starting quarter after Caldwell-Pope knocked down a 13 assists and 10 rebounds for the Clippers, but shooting guard Nick Young was carried off with pair of 3-pointers late in the third. Things got NASSAU: Tiger Woods of the United States takes a club from his bag, alongside cad- the best guard on the floor in crunch time was a strained right Achilles tendon. Lou Williams sloppy from there with the Hornets turning the die Joe LaCava, on the fourth hole during the pro-am ahead of the Hero World Kilpatrick, who also had a career-best 14 scored 16 points for the Lakers and Randle fin- ball over frequently on bad passes, and the Challenge at Albany, The Bahamas yesterday in Nassau, Bahamas. — AFP rebounds. Brook Lopez added 27 points for the ished with 12, but Los Angeles was in a 20- game quickly turning into a blowout. —AP Super Bowl winner Sharper gets 20 years for drug-rape

LOS ANGELES: Former NFL star Darren friends turned into nightmares they can no waking up in his hotel room confused and dis- Sharper was sentenced Tuesday a 20-year longer escape after he secretly slipped drugs in covering they had been sexually assaulted. prison term, ending a tour of shame and pun- their shot glasses and insisted they drink. Both Sharper’s arrest came as the NFL was deal- ishment in the courthouse where he first women blacked out and later awoke to the ing with off-field problems with players admitted drugging and raping women in four groggy reality that something terribly wrong accused of crimes ranging from spousal abuse states. had occurred that they couldn’t immediately to murder. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael comprehend in their drug-induced stupor. The second woman, identified as Jane Doe Pastor denounced Sharper’s “horrible conduct” “I started vomiting, my head was pounding 4, was with a friend when they were drugged and “disgraceful abuse of trust” during the hear- and I had trouble seeing clearly,” said one vic- by Sharper in his hotel room in 2013, hours ing that concluded prosecutions that tim, who said her rape on Jan. 15, 2014 was “the after they met at a Sports Illustrated 50th unmasked the popular former all-pro safety worst night of my life.” anniversary party. She woke up on a bed with and Super Bowl champ as a serial rapist. The woman, identified only as Jane Doe 2, her clothes on, blood coming out of her nose Under the terms of a plea deal negotiated teared up before she even addressed the court and did now know where she was. She said her with prosecutors in four states, Sharper will be and dabbed at her nose with a tissue through- friend had been sexually assaulted, and both eligible for parole in about eight years because out. She said her surfing career spiraled down- fled fearing for their lives. California law requires he serve half his sen- ward afterward, she lost her self-confidence, “It’s one thing to be a victim, but to be the tence and he has already been behind bars lives in fear and at one point considered sui- victim that got ‘lucky’ in some eyes is not more than two years since his arrest. cide. “The only good thing about this situation easy to live with,” Jane Doe 4 said. “When I But he will probably serve more time if an is that this disgusting low-life human will be think back to that night I wonder what he appeals court upholds an 18-year prison sen- sent to prison for many years and is likely he could have done to me. That’s not lucky. It’s tence handed down by a New Orleans federal will never be able to do to this to another haunting.” The Associated Press does not judge who rejected the deal as too lenient. woman again,” she said. “I hope this scumbag generally name people who are victims of Sharper has appealed that harsher sentence. will now feel as worthless as he has made me sex crimes. Sharper retired from the league in LOS ANGELES: In this Feb. 20, 2014, file photo, Darren Sharper looks toward his attorney, Sharper, 41, sat quietly in court in orange jail feel.” Sharper, 41, was working as an NFL net- 2011 after a 14-year career with the Green Blair Berk, during an appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles. The former scrubs and never addressed the court or two work analyst when women in several cities Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings and, final- NFL football star’s tour of shame and punishment reached its conclusion in the Los emotional victims who spoke about evenings began reporting how nights of partying with ly, in New Orleans with the Saints, where he Angeles courtroom where he first admitted drugging and raping women in several states. that began innocently enough partying with their girlfriends and Sharper ended with them won a Super Bowl.—AP Sharper was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. — AP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 SPORTS

Someday soccer will return to Chapecoense, as at Man Utd

LONDON: Someday, somehow, soccer club tournament - when the charter air- Chapecoense disaster. “We are with you squad had been destined for greatness. later. “Munich killed not only a lot of the will likely return at Chapecoense. line carrying the players, staff and media fraternally.” The Chapecoense administra- The team was flying back from Belgrade players who were on that flight but some Through the grieving and after the crashed into a Colombian mountainside, tors who survived or didn’t travel with after securing a place in the European of the survivors, too, and all the young funerals of the 19 team members who killing 71 on board. the team have to balance the responsi- Cup semifinals. Two months later, a players who had to come in a year or two died in a plane crash, soccer will proba- Three players survived, but all suf- bility of caring for the families in mourn- reassembled United team lost to AC early. They were never the same.” A bly be played again, just as it was at fered serious injuries. In 1958, eight ing and the players still alive. Matheus Milan. “I played my heart out on the decade later, United won European soc- Manchester United and Torino following Manchester United players died on a Saroli, the coach’s son, forgot his pass- night and I was man of the match cer’s top prize for the first time. Charlton, similar tragedies. snowy Munich runway. Led on the field port so he couldn’t travel. An injury pre- against Milan,” forward Kenny fittingly, scored twice in a 4-1 victory “For so many years I was at the heart by the 20-year-old Charlton, the English vented Alejandro Martinuccio from join- Morgans, who died in 2012, recalled over Benfica in the European Cup final, of Manchester United’s effort to maintain team soon set about ensuring the soul of ing his team in Colombia for the first leg in 2008 ahead of 50th anniversary of the capping the recovery of a club that has its place in football,” England great “Busby Babes” was not extinguished. of the Copa Sudamericana final against disaster. “Then I just sort of packed my gone on to become the most successful Bobby Charlton wrote in his 2007 autobi- Torino was the dominant force in Atletico Nacional - the biggest match in career in. I didn’t want to play in the first in the English game. ography. “There was always one great Italian soccer before the 1949 Superga the club’s history. team because I missed the boys that had “(Munich) brought a great deal of hope: the return to greatness of my air disaster killed 18 players. The team Since the crash, Chapecoense has died.” After Munich, some United players sympathy at the time and, from then on, beloved club.” had won the previous four Serie A titles, been offered players on loan by rival felt abandoned by the club. “Jackie the romance was built purely because of Chapecoense, a team from the small but it took until 1976 for the team to win clubs Flamengo, Palmeiras and Sao Paulo Blanchflower and Johnny Berry found life the way Matt rebuilt the team and won Brazilian town of Chapeco, was on its the league again - its last league title. in order to keep going, just like very hard after Munich,” teammate Albert the European Cup in ‘68,” former United way to play in the Copa Sudamericana “It’s a destiny that binds us inextrica- Manchester United was 58 years ago. Scanlon recalled in the 2007 book “The manager Alex Ferguson said, “and did it final - South America’s second biggest bly,” Torino wrote on Twitter after the Matt Busby’s talented 1958 United Lost Babes” before his death two years the right way.” —AP

Agent provocateur Pique leads Barca into fresh Clasico battle

MADRID: Among the stalwarts of alongside Lionel Messi before returning to Barcelona’s near decade of dominance of Barca in 2008 after a brief spell in England. Spanish football there is no one that stokes “He expresses himself wonderfully. He the ire of Real Madrid like Gerard Pique. has a great ability to communicate,” was Pique is Barca’s best defender, leader, Barca boss Luis Enrique’s reaction to Pique’s possible future president and principal recent admission that he sees himself as a provocateur to the Madrid fans and media. future Barca president rather than coach. Yet, ahead of the latest meeting “I would vote for him,” added between the Spanish giants on Saturday, Manchester City boss and still Barca mem- Barcelona, who trail Madrid by six points at ber Pep Guardiola. the top of La Liga, need the positive side of Pique is far from all talk. Current Barca Pique’s game and character more than ever. president Josep Maria Bartomeu admitted “With you it all began” are words the for- the club’s 220 million euro ($236 million) mer Manchester United man has become shirt sponsorship with Japanese online synonomous with in Spain. retailer Rakuten was initiated by a dinner His thanks to Colombian musician Kevin set up by Pique and his world famous Roldan at Barca’s treble celebrations in Colombian pop star partner Shakira. 2015 for performing at Cristiano Ronaldo’s However, his outspoken nature has 30th birthday party that precipitated a often caused a backlash. Madrid collapse in La Liga sparked a Pique has openly supported a campaign wicked backlash. for Catalonia to be given a referendum on Pique was booed for months after even independence. when playing for Spain. However, the roles In October he announced his decision may now be reversed. Madrid’s revival to retire from international football after under coach Zinedine Zidane in 2016 the 2018 World Cup after being falsely began when Pique opened the scoring the accused of cutting the colours of the last time the sides met in April. Spanish flag off his shirt in the latest of When Pique nodded Barca in front, the series of spurious controversies question- Catalans were set to move a mammoth 13 ing his commitment to play for Spain. points clear in the title race. In a match always charged with political Instead, Real battled back to win 2-1, as well as sporting tension, Spanish eyes LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s Welsh striker Ben Woodburn scores his team’s second goal during the English League Cup quarter-final football match missed out on the title to Barca by just one will be peeled on Pique’s performance as between Liverpool and Leeds United at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on Tuesday.—AFP point on the final day of the season and much as Messi and Ronaldo. — AFP haven’t lost in La Liga since. LEADER Woodburn helps Liverpool Whilst the captaincy at the Camp Nou is awarded based on longevity, Pique is Matches on TV undoubtedly the leader of this Barca team (Local Timings) now shorn of the likes Carles Puyol and reach League Cup semis Xavi Hernandez. Spain Copa del Rey “On Saturday we have more to play for LONDON: Liverpool reached the League Cup than Madrid, they can lose, we can’t,” he semi-finals after 17-year-old Ben Woodburn Hercules v Barcelona 0:00 said on Monday. “We always need to enjoyed a night to remember by becoming the Football mourns Brazilian believe in this team.” beIN SPORTS 3 HD club’s youngest ever goalscorer when he beIN SPORTS MAX 4 FR wrapped up a 2-0 victory over Leeds United on players killed in air crash FUTURE PRESIDENT? beIN SPORTS 17 HD ES Tuesday. Often chosen to face the media in the The youngster volleyed powerfully into the MEDELLON: Emotional tributes were paid The plane went down about 50 kilometers most difficult times, Pique also sets the Valladolid v Sociedad 22:00 net from close range in front of the Kop in the yesterday to the Brazilian football team (30 miles) from Medellin, in a remote moun- tone on and off the field for a Barca side beIN SPORTS 81st minute to double Liverpool’s lead and Chapecoense Real that was virtually wiped out tain area called Cerro Gordo. that has lost some of its identity this sea- simultaneously erase former England striker in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains Chapecoense were on their way to play son. The champions had less possession in Gimnastica v Deportivo Alaves 23:00 Michael Owen from the club’s record books. that killed 71 people. The charter plane, a Atletico Nacional of Medellin in the first leg of a match they didn’t win for the first time At 17 years and 45 days, Woodburn was 98 British Aerospace 146, reported electrical the Copa Sudamericana final. The two black beIN SPORTS since 2008 in being thoroughly outplayed days younger than Owen, when he found the problems just before the crash as it arrived in box recorders have been found but no imme- by Real Sociedad in a 1-1 draw on Sunday. net for the first time in 1997. Medellin where Chapecoense were to play in diate details were given. The dead included “The performance at Anoeta was a dis- Huesca v Las Palmas 23:00 It had been a testing evening for Liverpool, the Copa Sudamericana final. most of the team and 20 Brazilian journalists aster,” said Pique, who was brought beIN SPORTS who were frustrated for the majority of the tie at But a Colombian military source said the traveling to cover the match. through the club’s famed youth academy Anfield and were outplayed at times by their airliner may have run out of fuel. “It is very second-tier opponents, with Leeds pegging suspicious that despite the impact there was Missed plane them back and striking the woodwork in the no explosion. That reinforces the theory of the Four people did not turn up for the flight second half. However, the hosts’ Divock Origi slid lack of fuel,” the source told AFP. including a journalist and two politicians. “It’s Russian game left in the home the opening goal after 76 minutes before The weather at the time of the disaster was one of those things in life. Only God knows Woodburn struck four minutes later agains the bad. Six people miraculously survived the why I ended up staying behind,” said Luciano cold after calendar switch Anfield side’s old rivals. crash Monday night. Three of the survivors Buligon, the mayor of Chapeco in southern “We all know how young Woodburn is, but it were footballers, but goalkeeper Jackson Brazil. Crying, Plinio Filho, the head of the MOSCOW: The Russian Premier League He added that the key to improving the doesn’t look like this in training sessions,” Follmann had his right leg amputated, said the club’s advisory council, recalled the players has suffered from falling attendances since popularity of the sport at the home of the Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp told Sky Sports. San Vicente Foundation Hospital outside telling him they were off to “chase a dream” as changing its calendar six years ago as freez- 2018 World Cup hosts is to improve the “It’s a nice story and all the boys are really happy Medellin. Two flight crew and a journalist fol- they left. “The group was like a family. It was a ing conditions and a lack of indoor stadi- infrastructure, especially the provision of for him. Everybody is smiling in the dressing lowing Chapecoense for the game against group of friends, where everyone laughed a ums make life uncomfortable for fans and indoor facilities. room.” Liverpool will be joined in the last four by Medellin also escaped. lot, even in defeat,” he said. players. The winter break therefore cannot “There should be only one decision and Hull City, who got past Championship (second- Brazil ordered three days of national Footage of the club on the plane before come soon enough for a league which that is to build the necessary infrastructure tier) leaders Newcastle United as the visitors mourning for the team. Fans flocked to the take-off aired on TV channel Gigavision in goes into hibernation for three months on around the country, especially in the Urals missed three penalties in a 3-1 shootout defeat Chapecoense stadium in Brazil to mourn the Bolivia, where the team departed from the city Dec. 5 with temperatures having plummet- and Siberia where the winters are particu- after the match had finished 1-1 at the end of team, who have emerged from nowhere over of Santa Cruz after taking a commercial flight ed below zero. larly harsh.” extra time. the past two years to take South American from Brazil. The same plane was used two There have been calls for a return to the From 1992 until 2010, the Russian cham- football by storm. weeks ago to fly the Argentine national team ‘spring-autumn’ system that was jettisoned pionship had a ‘spring-autumn’ system, EIGHT CHANGES Other Brazilian clubs have offered them with Messi on board to San Juan, Argentina for in 2010 from the current ‘autumn-spring’ which started in March and finished in With a host of injuries to deal with and a con- players so they can carry on competing. a World Cup qualifying match, specialist web- arrangement but not from Russian Football November. This calendar is traditionally gested festive fixture schedule looming, Special funds have also been set up. sites said. Chapecoense coach Mauro Stumpf Union (RFU) honorary president Vyacheslav used in countries in the north of Europe Liverpool coach Klopp rang made eight changes Football legends Pele and Maradona and told Gigavision he hoped the plane would Koloskov. like Sweden and Norway, where winter from the side that beat Sunderland in the current superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano “bring (us) luck” like it did when the team flew “This would be laughed at around the starts early, and by November pitches can Premier League on Saturday and gave several Ronaldo led tributes to the Chapecoense with the same company to a quarter-final world,” the former RFU chief, who wants be covered in snow. youngsters an opportunity to shine. team. Ronaldo joined Real Madrid teammates match last month. clubs’ infrastructure and facilities to be However, former RFU president Sergei There was a makeshift feel to the way in a minute’s silence for the Brazilian team. The British Aerospace 146 airliner entered upgraded, said in a telephone interview. Fursenko decided the country would be Liverpool played in the first half as Leeds into operation in 1999 and previously “The new system is more progressive better off moving to an ‘autumn-spring’ sys- enjoyed the best chances with Hadi Sacko forc- BLACK BOXES FOUND belonged to two other airlines, a spokesman than ‘spring-autumn’ as it is adapted to the tem from 2012 after a transitional 18- ing a superb early save from Simon Mignolet “The pain is terrible. Just as we had made it, for the manufacturer told AFP. Britain’s Air European and world standards. However, it month season in 2011/12 so the campaign and Kemar Roofe curling a beautiful effort I will not say to the top, but to have national Accidents Investigation Branch said it was does have its faults,” he told Reuters. could finish in May.—Reuters against the post after the break. prominence, a tragedy like this happens,” club sending experts along with representatives of It was not until later in the second period that vice-president Ivan Tozzo told Globo SporTV. the plane’s manufacturer BAE Systems to the hosts began to find some rhythm, with “It is very difficult, a very great tragedy.” Colombia to help the investigation.—AFP Georginio Wijnaldum striking the post minutes before Origi slid in to poke a brilliant cross from another youngster, Trent Alexander-Arnold, in at the near post. Woodburn’s moment arrived five minutes lat- er with Origi’s cross to the far post finding the young striker unmarked. He smashed the ball high into the net and wheeled away in celebra- tion in front of a jubilant Kop. A drab encounter that finished 0-0 after 90 minutes at Hull sprang to life in extra time as Newcastle took the lead when Mohamed Diame prodded home in the 98th against his former club. The advantage lasted just a minute, howev- er, with Robert Snodgrass equalising for Hull, who played with 10 men in extra time after strik- er Dieumerci Mbokani was sent off in the 89th. Hull keeper Eldin Jakupovic was the shootout hero, saving from Jonjo Shelvey and Yoan Gouffran, while their Newcastle team mate Dwight Gayle hit the crossbar. CHAPECO: People attend a mass in memoriam of the players of Brazilian team GUINGAMO: Guingamp’s players warm up prior to the French L1 football match Arsenal host Southampton and Manchester Chapecoense Real killed in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains, in Chapeco, in the Guingamp against Nice yesterday at the Roudourou stadium in Guingamp, western United welcome West Ham United in the two southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on Tuesday. —AFP of France. — AFP remaining ties later. —Reuters Firefighting Coe, Hamilton one of Russia again in the best, but no IAAF spotlight16 friend:17 Rosberg THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

Super Bowl winner Sharper gets 20 years for drug-rape Page 18

NEW YORK: Henrik Lundqvist #30 and Ryan McDonagh #27 of the New York Rangers block the net late in the third period as Derek Ryan #33 of the Carolina Hurricanes takes the shot at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday in New York City. The Rangers defeated the Hurricanes 2-1. — AFP Nash, Vesey rally Rangers to win over Hurricanes NEW YORK: Jimmy Vesey scored the tiebreak- stop Giroux’s one-timer. two straight. Frederik Andersen stopped 28 ing power-play goal with 5:12 remaining to lift shots. Connor McDavid and Andrej Sekera the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the JETS 3, DEVILS 2 scored for the Oilers, who have lost three in a Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night. Rick Nash Mark Scheifele and Patrik Laine each scored row. Cam Talbot gave up four goals on 14 shots Bennell charged had a goal and an assist, Nick Holden also his 13th goal of the season to help Winnipeg over the first two periods, and Jonas Gustavsson scored and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 19 shots beat New Jersey. Blake Wheeler had the other stopped all nine shots he faced in the third. to help the Rangers snap a four-game skid at goal for the Jets, and Scheifele added an assist. Matthews got the Maple Leafs on the score- with child abuse home (0-3-1). Hurricanes defenseman Ron Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves in his fifth board at 5:45 of the first, and van Riemsdyk Hainsey received a double-minor for hooking straight start for Winnipeg. Devils rookie Miles made it 2-0 less than 3 minutes into the second. LONDON: Former coach Barry Bennell, who and an unsportsmanlike misconduct with 6:47 Wood, with his first NHL goal, and Nick Lappin After Sekera pulled Edmonton within one, Kadri is at the centre of a scandal rocking English to go and Vesey took advantage 95 seconds lat- scored for New Jersey. Cory Schneider stopped restored the two-goal lead at 6:00. Hyman football, was on Tuesday charged with eight er for his eight goal of the season and first since 26 shots for the Devils, who had earned at least extended Toronto’s lead to 4-1 with just over 3 counts of child abuse, prosecutors said. Nov. 12. Viktor Stalberg scored twice in the first a point in their previous three games (1-0-2). minutes remaining in the middle period. Bennell, who has already served three period in his return to New York for the first Winnipeg has won five straight at home. jail terms for previous child sex offences, has time since leaving the Rangers to sign with SHARKS 2, COYOTES 1 faced a slew of new allegations by at least Carolina in the offseason. Cam Ward finished RED WINGS 3, STARS 1 Brent Burns scored a power-play goal 19 20 former footballers spanning three with 25 saves as the Hurricanes lost for the third Anthony Mantha scored the go-ahead goal seconds into overtime and San Jose wrapped decades beginning in the 1970s when he time in four games. midway through the second period and Detroit up a successful homestand with a victory over was working for Crewe Alexandra, beat Dallas. Petr Mrazek stopped 34 shots for Arizona. Chris Tierney also scored and Martin Manchester City and Stoke City. “Following a SABRES 5, SENATORS 4 the Red Wings, who are 3-0-1 in their last four Jones made 18 saves. San Jose won four of review of the evidence, in accordance with Jack Eichel had a goal and an assist in his sea- games for their best stretch in more than a five games on the homestand and improved the Code for Crown Prosecutors, Mr Bennell, son debut as Buffalo beat Ottawa. Ryan O’Reilly month. Kari Lehtonen made 17 saves for the to 8-3 overall at the Shark Tank this season. 62, has today been charged with eight scored twice for the Sabres, while Kyle Okposo Stars. He was pulled for an extra skater with Max Domi scored the lone goal for the offences of sexual assault against a boy and Sam Reinhart also scored. Robin Lehner more than 2 minutes left, and the Red Wings Coyotes, who lost their fifth straight in San under the age of 14,” said a statement from started and gave up one goal on six shots took advantage when Steve Ott scored an emp- Jose. Mike Smith made 40 saves but had no the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). before leaving late in the first period. Anders ty-net goal to make it 3 -1 with 1:03 remaining. chance on Burns’ one-timer in overtime. Bennell, who it was revealed on Monday had to be hospitalised when he was found Nilsson replaced him and stopped 26 shots. Dallas, playing the second of back-to-back Martin Hanzal was called for high-sticking unconscious in a hotel near London, will Mike Hoffman had three goals and an assist for games on the road, has dropped two straight Melker Karlsson with 0.3 seconds left in regu- appear in court on December 14. Barry Bennell the Senators, and Mark Stone also scored in his and won just three of its last nine overall. lation and the Sharks did not take long to cap- The latest charges stem from Cheshire deal with the issues after they had been 200th NHL game. Craig Anderson, making his italize in the extra period. San Jose set up Police but six other police forces are investi- BLUE JACKETS 5, LIGHTNING 1 ignored. “It’s certainly the biggest (crisis) I sixth straight start, made 23 saves. Eichel had quickly in the offensive zone and Joe Pavelski gating accusations made against Bennell in can remember,” said Clarke. “I think the missed the first 21 games after spraining his left Josh Anderson had a goal and two assists, fed Burns at the top of the faceoff circle for a scandal Football Association Chairman moral consequences of failing to deal with ankle ahead of the Sabres’ season opener. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 26 shots and the big shot that beat Smith for his ninth goal Greg Clarke has called “the greatest crisis” in some of these issues in the past we must Columbus cruised past Tampa Bay. Scott of the season. English football he could recall. get to the bottom of.” BLACKHAWKS 2, PANTHERS 1, SO Hartnell had a goal and an assist, and William Former Newcastle player Derek Bell, who Richard Panik and Artemi Panarin scored in a Karlsson, Alexander Wennberg and Sam Gagner DUCKS 2, CANADIENS 1 waived his anonymity to the Guardian, Clarke doesn’t know if the FA at the time shootout, and Chicago beat Florida in the also scored as the Blue Jackets beat the John Gibson made 39 saves and Anaheim claimed he was subjected to “horrendous” deliberately turned a blind eye to the Panthers’ first game since Tom Rowe took over Lightning for the second time in five days. got goals from Richard Rakell and defenseman sexual abuse at his local boys football club goings on although a reporter who made a documentary about sex abuse in football as interim coach. Panik also scored in regulation Columbus is 8-1-1 in its last 10 home games. Cam Fowler to beat NHL-leading Montreal. in the 1970s. “It was pure, unbelievable for Channel Four in 1997 has claimed there and Corey Crawford made 38 saves in Chicago’s Columbus played sharp defense, kept the puck Andrew Shaw scored with 2 minutes left and heartache. Thinking my mam and dad were next door and he was performing these sex- is a FA report from 2005 detailing 250 vic- first home game in 16 days. The Blackhawks in Tampa Bay’s end and created plenty of good Carey Price stopped 36 shots for the Canadiens tims and spread over a number of clubs. went 3-3-1 on their 12-day circus trip. Panarin looks and quality shots. Andrei Vasilevskiy (16-5-2). Struggling just a few days ago, the ual acts. He had groomed us for a couple of years and he thought it was normal,” Bell “I don’t know if there was a cover-up or beat Roberto Luongo with a slick backhand in made 33 saves, and Valtteri Filppula scored for Ducks (11-8-4) suddenly look like a different not, I really don’t know,” said Clarke. the second round of the shootout. After the Lightning with less than 3 minutes left to team. They had lost three consecutive games said. “Deep down in my mind I knew it wasn’t normal, but I was so scared to speak Clarke told the BBC the FA review would Aleksander Barkov was stopped by Crawford at spoil the shutout. before winning Friday at San Jose, the defend- not seek to speak to alleged victims, in the other end, Panik converted his chance with ing Western Conference champion. Gibson was and come out and say it wasn’t right.” Former Northern Ireland international agreement with the police, nor would he a well -placed wrist shot past Luongo on the PREDATORS 5, AVALANCHE 3 stellar in net, fending off his first 38 shots before Mark Williams spoke out, with Sky News confer with his predecessors as chairman. glove side. Florida returned to the ice for the Ryan Johansen and Austin Watson each had Montreal, having pulled its goalie, got a late revealing he had waived his anonymity to Meanwhile, a newspaper report on first time since coach Gerard Gallant was fired a goal and an assist to lead Nashville past score from Shaw. describe his torment. “My life has been Tuesday claimed Chelsea made a secret after a 3-2 loss at Carolina on Sunday night. Colorado. Viktor Arvidsson, Mike Fisher and affected irreversibly both personally and payment to a former youth team player CANUCKS 5, WILD 4 Jaromir Jagr scored in the third period and Kevin Fiala also scored, and Roman Josi had two professionally and it has been soul-destroy- who accused a talent scout, the late Eddie Luongo made 32 saves, but the Panthers lost assists for the Predators. Pekka Rinne stopped Sven Baertschi scored his second of the ing to carry this burden for 30 years,” he said. Heath, of sexually assaulting him during the for the third time in four games. 37 shots, improving to 17-7-2 in his career night with 2:35 left in regulation as Vancouver Police Scotland have also confirmed they 1970s. An undisclosed sum was given to the against the Avalanche. He also finished the beat Minnesota. Brandon Sutter and Ben have launched a probe following abuse alle- unnamed former player on the condition FLYERS 3, BRUINS 2, SO month 9-1-2. Johansen and Watson scored in Hutton each had a goal and an assist, and Loui gations north of the border. the alleged abuse would not be made pub- Shayne Gostisbehere scored in the ninth the first 2:42 of the third period to put Nashville Eriksson also scored for Vancouver. Henrik Sedin The FA has also launched its own internal lic, The Telegraph reported, citing a source. round of a shootout to lift Philadelphia past up 5-2. The Predators have won eight of 11. and Troy Stecher had two assists each and Ryan review appointing leading lawyer Kate The player went to the club around three Boston. Steve Mason made 45 saves through Mikko Rantanen and Rene Bourque each had a Miller stopped 38 shots. Ryan Suter scored the Gallafent, an expert in child protection, to years ago and has also spoken to the overtime, and defenseman Michael Del Zotto goal and an assist, and Mikhail Grigorenko also tying goal late in the third for Minnesota. Jason head it up. The British Government Metropolitan Police, the newspaper added. and center Claude Giroux scored in regulation scored for Colorado, which has started a five- Pominville had two goals, Jason Zucker added a announced on Tuesday they will bring the Ahead of the report being published for the Flyers, who won their second straight. game homestand 0-2-1. goal and an assist, and Nino Niederreiter had police and the FA together for a meeting on Chelsea announced they have retained an David Krejci and Brad Marchand had the goals two assists. Darcy Kuemper got the start with the developing scandal. external law firm to carry out an investiga- for the Bruins, who lost for the fourth time in MAPLE LEAFS 4, OILERS 2 Devan Dubnyk given the night off and finished Clarke took over as FA chairman in tion concerning an individual employed by the club in the 1970s, who is now dead. five games. Tuukka Rask turned aside 19 shots Auston Matthews scored his 10th goal of the with 30 saves. Baertschi, who has struggled to August and has already had to deal with the “The club has contacted the FA to ensure and seven of nine shooters in the tiebreaker. season as the Toronto beat Edmonton for the rediscover his scoring touch that emerged removal of Sam Allardyce as England coach that all possible assistance is provided as Both goalies were outstanding in overtime. Maple Leafs’ second road win of the season. toward the end of last season, tipped Stecher’s over comments he made in a newspaper sting and the ‘poppygate’ row with FIFA. part of their wider investigation,” a Chelsea Mason snatched a shot by Krejci with about 30 James van Riemsdyk, Nazem Kadri and Zach point shot to cap a crazy third period that saw He told Sky News it was time to finally statement read. — AFP seconds remaining, and Rask slid to his right to Hyman also scored for Toronto, which has won the teams combine for five goals. — AP Gulf Bank appoints Daher as Chief Executive Officer Page 23

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NEW DELHI: An Indian vendor waits for customers in a shop supplying traditional wedding dresses and suits in New Delhi. Jatin Pal’s wedding was just days away and his family were finalizing plans for an extravagant multi-day celebration until Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned high denomination notes overnight, throwing cold water over the festivities. — AFP India cash ban slims down big fat weddings

NEW DELHI: Jatin Pal’s wedding was just days cy ban means many families are being forced one-time withdrawal of 250,000 rupees per away and his family were finalizing plans for to cut back. “Indian parents start planning and wedding party to help cover costs-small fry for an extravagant multi-day celebration then saving for the wedding as soon as a child is an Indian wedding. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi banned born,” Priyanka Gupta, owner of a bridal store But Pal’s father Ranbir said they had twice high denomination notes overnight, casting a told AFP, adding that she had seen a signifi- tried and failed to get the extra money under dark shadow over the festivities. Within hours cant drop in business since the demonetisa- the scheme-which requires paperwork prov- of Modi’s surprise November 8 announce- tion. Delhi-based wedding planner Shrawan ing a wedding is in the works-and instead bor- ment, 500 and 1,000 rupee ($7.25, $14.50) Kumar said most of his clients spend between rowed around 450,000 rupees from friends. “It notes-some 85 percent of all cash in circula- 1.5 million and 2 million rupees, but that some is frustrating when you have saved money for tion-were withdrawn, leaving millions across had scaled back plans by as much as 40 per- the wedding but can’t use it,” said Ranbir. “We the vast country out of pocket. cent. Others have simply decided to postpone should be making arrangements for over 700 The move-described by the prime minister or even cancel. “I can’t pay the waiter, photog- guests who will come to the wedding. Look as a “surgical strike” against corruption and tax rapher, transport, florist, vegetable seller what we are doing.” evasion-coincided with the start of India’s through cheques. We are at a loss,” Kumar said. Short of cash, the family has had to scale annual wedding season, when thousands mar- Another casualty has been one of Delhi’s old- back the celebrations. Madhur Jain, who runs ry during a three-month period deemed aus- est gold markets, which has temporarily a wedding card shop in Old Delhi, said he had picious in the Hindu faith. “We marry once and closed after tax officers raided jewelers across received just three orders a week since the you try to make it memorable in every possi- the country on reports of a gold buying spree demonetisation, down from an average of 30. ble way. But the cash crunch is proving other- following the currency ban as people tried to “The old notes are out and new notes are wise,” said Pal. “This has soured the happiness turned their cash into gold. Almost 50 percent nowhere to be seen,” Jain said. But despite and left a bad feeling.” of gold sales in India are linked to weddings, most customers paying in cash, bridal shop Life savings are ploughed into weddings in according to the World Gold Council, with AHMEDABAD: An Indian bride poses for a photograph holding 2500 INR in cash, given as a owner Gupta was quick to dismiss suggestions India, with a typical urban family spending up most purchases made in cash. mandatory ‘mahr’ payment by the groom’s family to the bride at the time of marriage, and that so-called “black money”-unaccounted to $75,000 on celebrations, according to an which legally becomes her property, a mass wedding ceremony in Ahmedabad. — AFP money was involved in the industry. “There is estimate by Goldman Sachs. Traders say ‘No black money’ to get into circulation. The government has bring more into the formal-and taxable-bank- no black money involved in the weddings,” she almost all wedding-related purchases are tra- Stubbornly long queues outside banks put temporary restrictions on the amount of ing sector. said. “More than anything this means shat- ditionally made in cash from savings put aside have become a ubiquitous sight across the cash people can exchange or withdraw in an Following outrage from families planning tered dreams of families (hoping) to celebrate over years–even decades–but that the curren- country as the new rupee bills have been slow attempt to wean the country off cash and weddings, the government allowed a special an ideal wedding.” — AFP Callers for dollars: Inside India’s scam call centers Alleged kingpin sought by Indian police

MUMBAI: In late September, a woman in 75 arrests following October raids on three the US would seek the extradition of suspects in cards and turning over the redemption codes, ees from bringing pens and phones to work. National City, California, received a voice mes- premises in the Thane suburb of Mumbai. India, and warned others engaged in similar Indian investigators said. “They used to blast out Reuters was unable to independently confirm sage on her phone saying she was in trouble Charges include conspiracy to commit identity schemes they could face jail terms. In interviews pre-recorded messages to thousands of citizens the accounts provided by call center workers. with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over “tax theft, impersonation of an officer of the United before the US charges were filed, police, sus- who were asked to call back. When they called Another former worker, an economics gradu- evasion or tax fraud”. States, wire fraud and money laundering. Indian pects and call center workers in India told back, there was a center just like this,” said ate, told Reuters she took a job without knowing Panicking, she rang the number and told a police say they are looking for Sagar Thakkar, a Reuters how the scam was run. Training materi- Manere at Thane police. what the center did. The 12,000 rupee ($180) man who said he was from the IRS: “I can pay man in his early 30s also known as Shaggy, who als and taped conversations, which investigators Acting on a tip-off, police raided premises in monthly salary was well below the going rate for $500,” half the sum demanded. “I could do a pay- they believe masterminded the scam. Thakkar believe were made by call center instructors for early October as call center workers settled in for a graduate, she said, but it was a job, and “peo- ment plan. I just can’t pay all of it at once.” was also among those named by the US training purposes, shed some light on an opera- their shift. The buildings housed seven call cen- ple aren’t hiring.” She said several of her col- “Ma’am, you can pay $500 today itself. You can do Department of Justice. Reuters was unable to tion aimed to exploit the aged and gullible. ters, and over a few days more than 700 people leagues looked as though they had just left high that?” the man asked, adding that lawyers would contact Thakkar for comment; he is not known were detained. Most have since been released, school. Her first week was spent in training with look at her accounts and work out a monthly to have a lawyer, and police believe he fled to ‘Taught to be tough’ but told not to leave the city. Callers bullied their floor managers. While callers spoke to their vic- payment plan, but she had to pay half now. Dubai last month. “The revenue was unpredictable. Some days victims with the threat of arrest, jail, seized tims, she said dozens of trainees squeezed in In transcripts of the conversation that investi- “We are trying to complete the procedure to were good, some were bad,” Haider Ali Ayub homes and confiscated passports. “There was around the room, and had to memorize pages of gators shared with Reuters, the man told her to issue a red corner notice for Thakkar,” Parag Mansuri, who said he managed operations at one instance where an old lady was crying,” dialogue for use on calls. keep the phone line open and drive to a nearby Manere, a deputy commissioner at Thane police, one fake call center, told Reuters as he was because she didn’t have the money to pay, said a Another former employee said his instructors grocery store, where she bought $500 worth of told Reuters, referring to an Interpol arrest war- returned to jail in India last month after a court former call center worker who spoke only on told him his work was illegal, but there was iTunes gift cards and gave the ‘agent’ the rant. Police said Thakkar led a lavish lifestyle, fre- extended his custody. He is among the 75 arrest- condition of anonymity. “But we kept insisting “nothing to worry about.” Callers made “fast redemption codes. She had just been scammed - quenting 5-star hotels and driving expensive ed by Indian police. “On a good day, we extract- on the money. We were taught to be tough,” he money”, another former caller told Reuters. In one of at least 15,000 people the US Justice cars with proceeds from the scam. He gave one, ed as much as $20,000 from a single US citizen,” said. On a follow-up raid in Ahmedabad, 500 comments confirmed by investigating officer Department says lost more than $300 million in a 25 million rupee ($365,000) Audi R8, to his girl- he said. In India, the sheer scale of the operation kms north of Mumbai, police uncovered what Mukund Hatote, the worker said: “For every dol- an “enormous and complex fraud” running since friend. “We have seized an Audi car, and are try- surprised many. For months, hundreds of young they believe was “a nerve centre for these cen- lar you brought in, you were given 2 rupees 2013. The department last month brought grand ing to find other assets of Thakkar,” Manere said. men and women worked nights at several call ters,” said Manere. “A lot of money has been (around a third of a US cent).” jury charges against 56 people in India and the The FBI, which is involved in the investiga- centers in Thane. transacted. It’s been going on for a few years.” People wanted to leave rather than be United States for “telefraud” scams run from fake tions, declined to comment. The Department of Callers posed as IRS officers and threatened The police raids found little in the way of docu- involved in something they suspected was ille- call centers in India. Justice did not respond to requests for comment their victims, often newly-arrived immigrants mentation, beyond some training materials. gal, he said, but carried on because managers Investigators have arrested 20 people in the for this article. At a news conference last month, and the elderly, into paying fictitious tax penal- Another former worker said this was likely offered weekly incentives, such as cash or gadg- United States, and Indian authorities have made Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said ties electronically - sometimes by buying gift because call center managers stopped employ- ets, for meeting their targets. — Reuters THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS Mideast funds more bullish on equities UAE top pick, Kuwait sees most bullish balance

DUBAI: Middle East funds have become more catalyst news item that would drive prices up,” Managers have turned less bullish towards bullish towards equities in the region but are said Talal Samhouri, head of asset management Saudi equities, however; 29 percent said they cautious towards Saudi Arabia and Egypt after at Qatar’s Amwal. Qatari shares, which in last expect to increase allocations there and 21 per- spectacular rebounds in those stock markets, a month’s survey drew the most bearish balance cent to reduce them, compared to ratios of 36 monthly Reuters poll found. since the survey was launched in September percent and 14 percent last month. “Saudi mar- The poll of 14 leading fund managers, con- 2013, are back in some managers’ good graces, ket valuations have come up in the past two ducted over the last week, found 43 percent with 29 percent saying they expect to increase weeks so much that any negative news coming expect to increase their allocation to Middle East allocations there and 21 percent anticipating from the potential OPEC deal (to cut oil output) equities over the next three months and 7 per- reductions. Last month, only 7 percent said they would mean a major pull-back for the stock mar- cent to reduce them. This is the most bullish bal- would increase and 50 percent said they would ket,” said Samhouri at Amwal. Similarly, Egypt’s ance towards equities since January, and com- cut back. index jumped 37 percent after the Nov. 3 float of pares to ratios of 14 percent and 7 percent in last “Historically, Qatari companies have paid the Egyptian pound, but the rally has begun to month’s survey. healthy dividends with the entire distribution make valuations less attractive, particularly given “The next three months coincide with the made during Q1 2017. Combined with the sec- continued headwinds for the Egyptian economy. annual results of the public companies, and ond half of Qatar’s inclusion in the FTSE emerg- Twenty-one percent of managers now more importantly their dividend distributions for ing market index in March 2017, this provides expect to increase allocations to Egyptian equi- 2016 profits,” said Mohammed Ali Yassin, head of opportunities in a number of stocks,” said Akber ties and 29 percent to reduce them, compared asset management at Abu Dhabi’s NBAD Khan, head of asset management at Doha- to 21 percent and 43 percent last month. The Securities. “This will prove to be a positive cata- based Al Rayan Investment. survey shows, however, that Kuwait’s stock mar- lyst for those companies whose cash dividend ket - long neglected by Gulf investors because distribution could yield 4 percent or more.” The Saudi, Egypt of poor liquidity - is gaining popularity, with United Arab Emirates is the most favored coun- Fund managers are cautious, however, on managers citing attractive valuations after this try among equity investors, with 57 percent of two equity markets that have soared in the last year’s underperformance. Twenty-nine percent participants saying they expect to raise alloca- several weeks. Saudi Arabia’s index has jumped expect to raise allocations there and only 7 per- tions there while only 7 percent expect to over 25 percent since the government’s $17.5 cent to reduce them - the most bullish balance reduce them. That compares with ratios of 29 billion international bond issue in late October for Kuwait since the Reuters poll was launched percent and 7 percent last month. eased fears about its ability to cope with an era in September 2013. “Some stocks are offering “The UAE market is getting attractive in of cheap oil, and helped it begin making good value now after having corrected,” said terms of valuations, so it seems a good time to delayed payments to settle its debts to private Vishal Gupta, portfolio manager at Dubai-based increase allocations. The only thing missing is a companies. Rasmala. — Reuters Zain announces Community Partner of the Qout Market

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications com- pany in Kuwait, announced its main Community Partnership of the new season of Qout Market; Kuwait’s largest artisanal farmers gathering. The market, consid- ered the largest of its kind in Kuwait, launches next Saturday from 9 AM - 5 PM at the Circle of Peace - Shaheed Park, and will be held every first Saturday of every month until February 2017. The company expressed its eagerness in playing a vital role by partnering with this initiative as part of its ongoing efforts of raising a generation of young Kuwaitis to shoulder the national economy through their unwavering talents. The company’s solid and well-focused Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility strategy continuously works towards identifying initiatives like Qout Market that carry a clear objective of developing youth talents. The community-based farmers market helps and supports local farmers and artisans to exchange thoughts and ideas while offering the opportunity for visitors to express their opinions towards the products available. Qout Market has a proven record of success, HSBC inaugurates its new having attracted over 15,000 visitors in previous sea- sons. The market’s selection of vendors includes a com- bination of fresh produced items as well as handmade offices in Al Hamra Tower items where people can stop by to enjoy on the spot. Zain will be participating in the market through its KUWAIT: HSBC Bank Middle East Limited the value of investing in their well-being. own booth, which will serve as a platform for all visitors in Kuwait inaugurated the new offices in Al The Bank adapted the new lay-out to be in wishing to know more about the company’s latest Hamra Tower yesterday during a special line with international standards that offer offerings, promotions, and smart devices. The booth event attended by The Lord Mayor of open office spaces, access to break-out will also include a Gamers section dedicated to the London, dignitaries from the British rooms and state-of-the-art facilities for online gaming community to offer them Zain’s exclu- Embassy in Kuwait and customers. This meetings. Al Hamra Tower was recently sive packages. The company will also hold a draw for was the official opening of the new offices awarded with the “Smartest Building” in visitors with great prizes. Zain expressed its ongoing that are located on the 37th Floor in Al Kuwait award based on its connectivity, keenness in supporting events that uplift the talents of Hamra Tower. During the event Roger safety, energy efficiency and quality of life Kuwaiti youth to higher levels, by encouraging out- Winfield, CEO of HSBC in Kuwait said: it offers to its occupants. standing projects and ideas. Zain’s support is aimed at “HSBC’s history in Kuwait dates back over “We understand the importance of a investing in the creative abilities of young Kuwaiti 70 years since its first branch was estab- working environment that is conducive to entrepreneurs, preparing them to engage in the busi- lished, and more than a decade since its friendly and open working conditions that ness world by encouraging them further and nurturing return to the country in 2005. enhances employee engagement and pro- innovation within their businesses. The Bank has witnessed the country’s ductivity. Our employees are our most economic growth and established key valuable asset and an investment of this relationships with government entities kind is proof to the priority that we place and local large businesses in support of on their well-being,” Roger Winfield added. their growth ambitions.” The new offices in The Bank, over the last decade, also great- Al Hamra Tower bring the Bank closer to ly invested in the nationalization of its the business hub of the city and even clos- workforce and has a growing number of er to its clients. It also gives HSBC easier Kuwaiti employees. “Investing in the devel- access to decision-making centers and will opment of local talent is equally impor- streamline service offerings to its current tant. We are an international bank in customers. Kuwait and need to invest in the local HSBC values the importance of good human capital for the sustainable growth quality working environments for its of the community and its people.” Roger employees, and the new offices underline concluded.

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Swiss Franc 303.370 Japanese Yen 0.002624 0.002804 Australian Dollar 230.110 BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL US Dollar Buying 304.600 Kenyan Shilling 0.002996 0.002996 ASIAN COUNTRIES Korean Won 0.000251 0.000266 CURRENCY BUY SELL Japanese Yen 2.713 GOLD Malaysian Ringgit 0.065184 0.071184 Europe Indian Rupees 4.468 20 Gram 244.13 Nepalese Rupee 0.002838 0.003008 Pakistani Rupees 2.916 British Pound 0.374887 0.384887 10 Gram 124.98 Pakistan Rupee 0.002668 0.002958 Srilankan Rupees 2.059 5 Gram 63.34 Czech Korune 0.003987 0.015987 Philippine Peso 0.006009 0.006309 Nepali Rupees 2.791 Danish Krone 0.039591 0.044591 Singapore Dollar 215.350 Sierra Leone 0.000052 0.000058 Euro 0. 319413 0.328413 Hongkong Dollar 39.433 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Singapore Dollar 0.209030 0.219060 Norwegian Krone 0.031720 0.036920 Bangladesh Taka 3.860 South African Rand 0.015910 0.024410 Philippine Peso 6.152 Romanian Leu 0.071766 0.071766 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001641 0.002221 Thai Baht 8.608 Slovakia 0.009164 0.019164 US Dollar 305.450 Taiwan 0.009468 0.009648 Canadian Dolla 228.145 Swedish Krona 0.029198 0.034198 GCC COUNTRIES Thai Baht 0.008250 0.008800 Sterling Pound 380.415 Swiss Franc 0.295066 0.306066 Saudi Riyal 81.601 Euro 325.355 Qatari Riyal 84.046 Turkish Lira 0.087218 0.097518 Swiss Frank 302.840 Arab ani Riyal 794.699 Bahrain Dinar 809.725 Bahraini Dinar 0.804569 0.813069 Bahraini Dinar 81.540 Australasia UAE Dirhams 83.555 Egyptian Pound 0.015625 0.024878 UAE Dirham 83.302 Australian Dollar 0.220032 0.232032 Qatari Riyals 84.775 Iranian Riyal 0.000085 0.000086 Saudi Riyals 82.380 New Zealand Dollar 0.211841 0.221341 ARAB COUNTRIES Iraqi Dinar 0.000180 0.000240 Jordanian Dinar 431.985 Egyptian Pound - Cash 23.900 Jordanian Dinar 0.426259 0.435259 Egyptian Pound 17.561 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 17.190 America Sri Lankan Rupees 2.058 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.228 Canadian Dollar 0.221941 0.230941 Indian Rupees 4.452 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Tunisian Dinar 133.830 Georgina Lari 0.138117 0.138117 Pakistani Rupees 2.913 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020116 0.044116 Jordanian Dinar 430.920 Bangladesh Taka 3.878 US Dollars 0.301700 0.306400 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.039 Nigerian Naira 0.000401 0.001036 Philippines Pesso 6.136 US Dollars Mint 0.302200 0.306400 Syrian Lira 2.180 Omani Riyal 0.787865 0.793545 Cyprus pound 167.747 Morocco Dirham 30.889 Qatar Riyal 0.083184 0.084634 Japanese Yen 3.725 Asia Syrian Pound 2.430 Saudi Riyal 0.080460 0.081760 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bangladesh Taka 0.003375 0.003959 Nepalese Rupees 3.780 Syrian Pound 0.001297 0.001517 US Dollar Transfer 305.800 Chinese Yuan 0.042846 0.046346 Malaysian Ringgit 69.400 Tunisian Dinar 0.129553 0.137553 Euro 326.900 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 44.775 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037339 0.040089 Sterling Pound 383.170 Turkish Lira 0.087218 0.097518 Thai Bhat 9.575 Indian Rupee 0.000093 0.004604 Canadian dollar 228.460 UAE Dirhams 0.081834 0.083534 Turkish Lira 89.700 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Turkish lira 900.700 Yemeni Riyal 0.001012 0.001092 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS No chicken, no cafes: Egyptians scrimp as prices leap

CAIRO: Money had already been tight as tion has forced him to stop eating chicken Struggling to cope with price increases, Even before the pound plunge, infla- state-run news agency. food and electricity bills climbed for and borrow cash from friends to make some Egyptians are scrimping on meals, tion had stood at 13.6 percent in October. weeks. So Ashraf Mahrous, a 45-year-old ends meet. He also gave up his regular buying used clothes or considering mov- A hard currency crisis led to shortages in Business environment civil servant, warned his wife, “Black days evening cafe visits and slashed his son’s ing their children to cheaper schools. Even medicines and basic staples like sugar. Tuvey predicts inflation won’t fall back are ahead,” when Egypt floated its pound allowance. “We can no longer survive on the better off are feeling the pinch. And Unrest and uncertainty after Egypt’s 2011 to single digits until near the end of 2018, and hiked fuel prices this month. Mahrous my salary,” Mahrous, a father of two, said. more price jumps are likely amid a slew of uprising has hurt tourism and deterred and it could take even longer before is now looking for a side job. Rising infla- “The situation is very, very, very difficult.” economic decisions designed to revive a foreign investors. “Egyptians are in for a Egyptians see the rewards for their sacri- battered economy, lure back investors and tough time over the next year,” said Jason fices in the form of more jobs and wage end a dollar crunch. Egypt recently took Tuvey, Middle East economist at Capital growth. Investors want to see more what many economists say is the neces- Economics who expects inflation to peak changes to improve the business environ- sary step of floating its pound and cutting at more than 20 percent in the middle of ment, he said. “Egypt has all the ingredi- fuel subsidies as it sealed a $12 billion loan next year. While the recent decisions ents to become a manufacturing hub,” he deal with the International Monetary Fund. “should ultimately lay the foundations for said. “To the extent that a weaker pound a period of stronger economic growth,” it and economic reforms could spark a move Pound loses value will take time before such benefits can be in that direction, we’d certainly see job The Egyptian pound quickly lost about reaped, he said. prospects stem from prospects of growth, half its value, plunging to around 18 to the Mohamed Abu Basha, senior econo- and wages as well should pick up.” dollar, in a country heavily dependent on mist at investment bank EFG-Hermes, said Until then, officials have counseled imports ranging from food items to raw he expects inflation to average 18.5 per- patience and promised to protect the materials. With salaries remaining largely cent in the fiscal year that ends in July neediest. In a bid to soften the blow, the the same, nearly everyone in the already 2017, reaching the highest annual average central bank raised its key interest rates by deeply impoverished country effectively since at least 2008. The first signs of relief three percentage points this month and had a sudden, large pay cut. Multiple pre- aren’t likely before mid-2017, he said. After the army is handing out millions of food vious governments had balked at such that, economic recovery may start as for- parcels at discounted prices. These efforts moves for fear of stoking unrest. The eign currency shortages ease and invest- provide little consolation to Mahrous, who devaluation came after other steps that ment picks up, he said. Finance Minister said his daily transportation costs have increased prices - the introduction of a val- Amr el-Garhy said inflation was expected increased after the fuel subsidy cuts. Food CAIRO: Egyptians carry their children as they shop at a popular market in Cairo, ue-added tax and hike in household elec- to ease to around 10 percent during the eats up the largest chunk of his salary of Egypt. — AP tricity prices. second half of 2017, according to the 1,300 pounds a month, he said. — AP

News in brief

Bank of England urged to remove the £5 note LONDON: A petition calling for the Bank of England to remove a new banknote from circulation had on Tuesday received more than 70,000 signatures, with critics angry it is produced with animal product. The polymer £5 notes ($6.2, 5.9 euros) were unveiled in September, with the Bank of England extolling the new banknotes for being waterproof and having enhanced security features. But the central bank has this week come under fire for using tallow, a product derived from animal fats, in the polymer pellets used to make the £5 notes. A Change.org petition calling for animal products to be removed from banknotes has now gained more than 70,000 signatures. “This is unacceptable to millions of vegans, vegetarians, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and others in the UK,” the petition reads. Doug Maw, a 47-year-old vegan who started the petition, said the use of tallow was “incredibly disrespectful”. “We have no choice with money. We have to use it. They issue it through ATMs and hand them to us in shops.

Striking Lufthansa pilots ground nearly 900 flights BERLIN: The latest strike by Lufthansa pilots grounded almost 900 flights yesterday and German companies and other Lufthansa staff called for an end to the protests which are costing the airline 10-15 million euros a day. Pilots staged a four-day strike last week then resumed their protest over pay that dates back to early 2014 on Tuesday, taking the number of cancelled flights in the latest round of walkouts to about 4,500. One of Lufthansa’s major cor- porate customers, Siemens , said the strikes were harming the Germany economy and the country’s image and warned Lufthansa that it needed to become more reliable. “As a major customer we have to consider how we can deal with this on a long-term basis,” Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser told German daily Bild, adding that the pilots should resume talks. Analysts have said the walkouts are a good PELALAWAN, Indonesia: A girl pushes a cart while working at a palm oil plantation area in Pelalawan, Riau province in Indonesia’s Sumatra island. — AFP opportunity for rivals such as Ryanair and easyJet to gain market share and could mean Lufthansa misses its 2016 profit target. Its shares dropped 2.7 percent yesterday. Labor abuses found at Indonesian palm

Egypt’s CIB in talks to sell 70% CI stake plantations supplying global companies CAIRO: Egypt’s largest listed bank CIB is close to finalizing a deal to sell a 70 percent stake in its investment banking arm CI Capital to a group of local investors, sources with Kids as young as 8 work in ‘hazardous’ conditions knowledge of the discussions said yesterday. Commercial International Bank declined to comment. A deal to sell CI JAKARTA: Global consumer companies, 43 percent of the global palm oil trade. fied in Amnesty International’s report have Maruli Hasoloan, a senior official at the man- Capital to Beltone Financial, a unit of billionaire Naguib including Unilever, Nestle, Kellogg and Other companies operating palm planta- no place in our supply chain,” Nestle said. power ministry, told Reuters in an email. Sawiris’s Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Procter & Gamble, have sourced palm oil tions in Indonesia include Golden Agri- The company said it would investigate alle- The ministry will also study working con- Holding, was agreed in February but later fell through from Indonesian plantations where labor Resources Ltd, Indofood Agri Resources Ltd gations related to its purchase of palm oil ditions at palm plantations and improve after the deal failed to secure approval from the Egyptian abuses were uncovered, Amnesty and PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk. Even though along with its suppliers. Procter & Gamble labour protection in Indonesia, he said. Agus Financial Supervisory Authority. Sawiris said at the time International said yesterday. Children as Indonesia has strong labour laws under also said in an email it is working with Justianto, an official at Indonesia’s environ- he planned to merge CI Capital with Beltone Financial to young as eight worked in “hazardous” con- which most of the abuses can amount to Wilmar to “ensure they can remedy any ment ministry, said that a company found create one of Egypt’s largest investment firms. Banking ditions at palm plantations run by criminal offences, these laws are poorly potential human rights infringements in guilty of labor violations could get its permit sources said CIB had been seeking to find other buyers for Singapore-based Wilmar International Ltd enforced by the government, Amnesty said. their supply chain”. revoked, but it is “not in the environment the investment bank, whose market value they estimated and its suppliers on the Indonesian islands Wilmar said it welcomed the NGO’s report, ministry’s domain.” US snack and breakfast at near 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($56.24 million). One of Kalimantan and Sumatra, Amnesty said which helps to highlight labour issues with- Reducing child labor food company Kellogg Co said it is commit- source familiar with the deal said it was likely to be com- in a report. in the broader palm oil industry, but added Indonesia is the world’s biggest producer ted to ensuring that its palm oil is obtained pleted “within hours”. Amnesty, which said it interviewed 120 that finding a solution requires the collabo- of palm oil, used in everything from snacks from “known and certified sources that are workers, alleges that many of them worked ration of governments, companies and civil and soaps to cosmetics and biofuels. The environmentally appropriate, socially bene- long hours for low pay and without ade- society organizations. “We acknowledge sector employs millions, and plantation ficial and economically viable”. Mejda Group set to back quate safety equipment. The palm oil from that there are ongoing labor issues in the operators say it is difficult to have complete If Kellogg finds or is made aware of any Tunisian tourism project these plantations could be traced to nine palm oil industry, and these issues could oversight of labor conditions. No company supply chain violations, it would discuss TUNIS: Qatar’s Mejda Group is to sign a deal to develop a multinational companies, it said. “Despite affect any palm company operating in would “consciously” hire underage labor as corrective actions with its suppliers, it $220 million tourism complex near Tunis, a Tunisian official promising customers that there will be no Indonesia,” it said. that is against the law, but some plantation said. “If the concerns are not adequately and a representative of the Qatari group said yesterday. exploitation in their palm oil supply chains, “The focus on Wilmar ... is often used to workers get their children to help out, addressed, we take action to remove The tourism complex will be located just north of the big brands continue to profit from draw attention to problems in the wider Sumarjono Saragih, an official at the them from our chain.” Unilever said while Tunisian capital at Raoued, and will include a luxury hotel, appalling abuses,” said Meghna Abraham, palm oil industry.” Wilmar supplies around Indonesian Palm Oil Association, told significant progress has been made to 90 rental villas and a shopping centre, a senior Tunisian senior investigator at Amnesty. The NGO 10 percent of the total palm oil used in Reuters by telephone. “If children want to tackle environmental issues associated official said. The project is expected to create 1,500 jobs, said it chose Wilmar as the focus of its Nestle’s products, the Swiss food giant said help their parents, companies cannot forbid with palm cultivation, more needs to be with work to start in December, the official said. Mejda investigation as the company is the world’s in an email. Nestle said it is working with that,” Saragih said. The government has done to address “these deeply concerning Group has already built a luxury hotel in Tabarka, close to largest processor and merchandiser of Wilmar to improve the traceability of the been trying to reduce child labour by giving social issues” and promised to work with the Algerian border in north-west Tunisia. The deal for the palm and lauric oils, controlling more than commodity. “Practices such as those identi- subsidies and other assistance to families, its partners. — Reuters new development, announced at a two-day international investment conference in Tunis, is due to be signed later by Mejda Group and Tunisia’s tourism minister. After the con- ference opened on Tuesday Western and regional partners, including Qatar, pledged billions of dollars in financial Gulf Bank appoints Daher assistance for Tunisia. as Chief Executive Officer Brazil economy shrinks 0.8% in third quarter RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s ailing economy shrank again in KUWAIT: Gulf Bank yesterday announced the into the future. The Bank’s Board of Directors, the third quarter, with GDP falling 0.8 percent, the state appointment of Antoine Daher as Chief management team, and I are looking forward to statistics office said yesterday. The performance was Executive Officer, effective 1 December 2016, working closely with him in creating the next slightly better than market expectations of a 0.9 percent following the approval of the Central Bank of chapter of the Gulf Bank success story.” drop, but was the seventh consecutive quarterly decline. Kuwait. Daher, previously Gulf Bank’s Deputy Daher was assigned the position of Deputy Brazil’s economy is in its deepest recession for decades CEO, succeeds Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno who had CEO, Wholesale Banking at Gulf Bank in 2013. and the country’s credit rating has been reduced to junk been CEO since March 2014. Omar Kutayba Prior to joining Gulf Bank, he served as General status by all three main international rating agencies. Alghanim, Chairman of Gulf Bank, commented Manager for Domestic Corporate Banking at However, center-right President Michel Temer, who took on the appointment: “We are very pleased to National Bank of Kuwait from 2011 to 2013 and over this year after the impeachment of leftist president welcome Antoine Daher as Gulf Bank’s new Head of the Domestic Multinational unit from Dilma Rousseff, has vowed to introduce strong austerity Chief Executive Officer. 2007 to 2011. Daher also worked at National measures to balance the books. A first stage in the pro- He has been part of the Bank’s senior man- City Bank in the USA, where he held several gram-a 20 year budget freeze-was approved in an initial agement team since 2013, and he has a track positions in Project Finance, Structured Finance, vote by the Senate late Tuesday. The austerity policies record of strong leadership, both within and Corporate Banking, and Capital Markets. Daher are running into resistance from unions and many public outside of Gulf Bank. His deep banking and holds a BSc in Civil Engineering, and an MBA employees who say the measures will only make an financial knowledge, combined with his thor- from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. already painful economic situation worse. ough understanding of Kuwait and the region, He has also attended Executive Education make him uniquely qualified to lead Gulf Bank courses given by the Harvard Business School. Antoine Daher CEO Omar Alghanim THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS Gold pressured by firm dollar, vulnerable to downside

LONDON: Gold was barely changed yesterday, buying.” The shock withdrawal of high-value provider J Rotbart & Co. with INTL FCStone. “A failure by OPEC to added 0.1 percent at $918.49. Palladium but some analysts say there is scope for further notes to fight “black money” in India, the world’s An expected US interest rate hike by the agree on a credible cut will send oil prices climbed to an intraday high of $772.70 an downside after bullion endured its worst month second biggest consumer of gold, has hit gold Federal Reserve in December has also been sharply lower and possibly drag gold down ounce, its strongest since June 2015, paring of losses since June 2013. Gold has shed about 7 demand during the peak wedding season. Spot pressuring gold. Gold is highly sensitive to ris- with it. However, we could see the dollar gains to $766.72, up 0.9 percent. Palladium percent in November and analyst Daniel gold yesterday was down 0.1 percent at ing rates, which lift the opportunity cost of weaken as a result of oil selling off and this has risen over 23 percent this month, its Briesemann at Commerzbank in Frankfurt reck- $1,187.67 an ounce at 1100 GMT. US gold holding non-yielding assets such as bullion, could boost gold,” Meir said. Silver rose 0.4 best since February 2008, outperforming ons that bullion has not yet stabilized. “Recently futures fell 0.1 percent to $1,186.70. while boosting the dollar, in which it is priced. percent to $16.66 an ounce while platinum other metals. — Reuters there’s been a perfect storm against gold with Bullion has lost $150 from a Nov 9 post US The dollar hit its highest level against a basket higher risk appetite, rising stock markets and election high of $1,337.40 per ounce, hurt by a of major currencies for almost 14 years last bond yields, massive ETF (exchange traded rally in the US dollar on surging Treasury yields week and was slightly firmer yesterday as US fund) outflows and the withdrawal of specula- as investors believed President-elect Donald debt yields resumed their ascent. Oil surged tive financial investors,” he said. Trump’s policies would invoke faster inflation. yesterday on prospects for an OPEC output cut “We don’t think this is over yet. Normally low- “Markets seem to accept Trump as good for to curb oversupply. er prices should attract higher demand, but the business,” said Joshua Rotbart, managing part- “The impact of an OPEC deal on gold would Indian situation is putting the brakes on gold ner at Hong Kong-based bullion services be tricky to assess,” said Edward Meir, an analyst

JAKARTA: Indonesian technicians work on the assembly line during a tour of the newly launched BMW 7-series luxury car plant in Jakarta yesterday. — AFP Asia stocks up Dollar softness to help EM currencies

HONG KONG: Asian stocks rose to three- domestic focus and positive reform week highs yesterday, supported by gains progress.” Valuations also remain attractive on Wall Street and growing expectations for Asian stocks. On a price-to-book basis, the dollar may be peaking after a hefty rally MSCI Asia ex-Japan remains below a ten since the US election pulled funds out of year median value of 1.8 times, according emerging markets. Oil bounced as to Thomson Reuters data. investors looked ahead to developments at In currency markets, the dollar contin- the Organization of the Petroleum ued to take a breather against a trade- Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in weighted basket of its peers, down 1 per- Vienna later in the day. A six percent rise in cent in the last four days. The dollar’s recent the dollar against a trade-weighted basket gains - 7 percent versus the yen and 3 per- of currencies since Republican Donald cent against the euro - has come on the Trump’s upset US election win has ham- back of expectations of stepped up fiscal mered emerging markets, as investors spending, higher inflation and a faster pace pulled money out in favor of US dollar- of monetary tightening by the Federal based assets on bets Trump will boost fiscal Reserve. However, market watchers say fur- spending, growth and inflation. ther dollar gains will be hard fought. “The More than $16 billion have been sucked expectations phase will likely end soon as out of emerging markets in the two weeks investors are focused on what the real following the Nov. 8 vote but stock impact of the Trump administration would exchange data in India, Indonesia, be on the market,” said Yoshinori Shigemi, a Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and South global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Korea indicate the outflows may be slow- Management. ing. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific Treasury yields have edged lower after shares outside Japan rose 0.3 percent, its peaking at 2.42 percent on the ten-year highest since Nov 11. Still, it is set for a sec- benchmark bond last Friday. The curve, the ond consecutive monthly drop in a sign of gap between the ten and two year yield, has the uncertainty around Trump’s presidency steepened by 20 basis points in the last and the outlook for global growth. three weeks. Oil slumped by roughly 4 per- Australian shares were down 0.5 per- cent on Tuesday before bouncing somewhat cent, the Nikkei up 0.1 percent and South as most analysts concluded the OPEC bloc Korea 0.4 percent higher. “We are starting would cobble together a deal in Vienna to to see some pull back on the US reflation cut production to some extent. The meeting trade and stabilization in US rates,” said Fan starts at 1000 GMT. Brent futures were up 0.9 Cheuk Wan, head of Asia investment strate- percent at $46.80 per barrel while US crude gy at HSBC Private Bank. “As a result we see gained 0.6 percent to $45.50 per barrel. A good investment opportunities in the broad index of commodities was down 2 Asian markets in the coming months, par- percent. Spot gold was up 0.4 percent at ticularly in markets which have a strong $1192.74 an ounce. —Reuters

Oil soars on OPEC hopes, dollar renews its surge

LONDON: Oil jumped more than 6 per- show these changed expectations are cent and the dollar, US bond yields and justified.” stocks all pushed higher yesterday as European stocks were lifted by a signals from OPEC suggested the group jump in oil companies amid the OPEC was closing in on a deal to cut produc- talk, although banks struggled as Royal tion. Combined with fresh concern Bank of Scotland failed a Bank of about China’s banking system, a stress England stress test and Italian lenders test for British banks and a raft of euro fell before a referendum on the coun- zone data, the OPEC meeting topped try’s political system on Sunday. Worries off a wild November for financial mar- about China’s financial sector had also kets that has been dominated by spread in Asia overnight. Shanghai Donald Trump’s victory in the US presi- stocks fell about 1 percent amid con- dential election. Brent oil was still rising, cern about government moves to stem having surged back towards $49 a bar- capital flight and halt the recent sharp rel after OPEC’s secretary general said a fall in the yuan. “The stress could contin- deal would be reached as he headed ue for a while,” said Gu Weiyong, chief into a meeting of the group in Vienna. investment officer at hedge fund Ucom Top oil producer Saudi Arabia said a Investment Co. “Whether the situation deal was close despite some loose ends. gets better depends on the willingness Iran, which is considered crucial to a of the central bank to inject more liq- breakthrough because its output has uidity into the system.” been rising after western sanctions were lifted, said it was also “optimistic”. “I Emerging pain think we are looking at a very positive Emerging stocks rose marginally but meeting,” added UAE Energy Minister were headed for their biggest monthly Suhail bin Mohammed Al-Mazroui, who fall since January. Currencies hit by the was echoed by counterparts from latest onslaught from the dollar were Angola, Algeria and Nigeria. A possible also set to close November with hefty rise in oil prices has also been feeding losses. The Turkish lira and Mexican expectations for a rebound in global peso have lost around 8 to 9 percent inflation. Those expectations have been versus the dollar for their biggest gathering momentum since Trump monthly declines since 2008 and 2012 promised $1 trillion of new spending on respectively. Not only riskier assets have infrastructure. suffered. Gold is on track for its biggest It has meant an electrifying run for monthly decline since mid 2013, largely the dollar, which was up at 1.0645 per pressured by the bets of a series of US euro and 113.04 yen by 1020 GMT as it interest rate hikes over the next year. headed for its strongest month against The euro has fallen over 3 percent. the Japanese currency in seven years. Euro-zone inflation for November came US Treasury yields-the benchmark for in at 0.6 percent year-on-year yesterday. global borrowing costs-were also rising That was its highest in two years, after a two-day pause. They hovered although still below the European just under 2.33 percent, having started Central Bank’s preferred level of just November at just over 1.8 percent. under 2 percent. The ECB meets next “Dollar strength has mainly been driv- week, and expectations are the bank en by expectations, so these can only will extend its stimulus program, carry you so far,” Commerzbank curren- already at more than 1.5 trillion euros. cy strategist Esther Reichelt said. “In Euro-zone government bond yields the end we want to see some facts to nudged lower yesterday. —Reuters THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 BUSINESS

Coca-Cola and NBC expand investment in Gaza KUWAIT: The Coca-Cola Company and employment opportunities for Palestinian Palestinian communities for almost 18 years, “Empowered with the spirit of leadership Since 1998, NBC, The Coca-Cola Company National Beverage Company (NBC) yesterday youth. The ‘Empowering Sustainable and our new Gaza plant shows our ongoing and with self-confidence, skill, and talent, NBC and The Coca-Cola Foundation have support- officially inaugurated a new Coca-Cola bot- Communities in Gaza’ initiative aims to sup- commitment to investing and supporting has worked with partners on the ground to ed dozens of community initiatives including tling facility located in Gaza, which represents port over 30,000 Palestinian beneficiaries progress in communities around the world,” expand its supply chain from city-to-city and an after-school football program, in collabora- a $20 million investment in the region. The within three years. said Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief village to village in the West Bank, with a long- tion with PACES, which offered 10,000 new bottling facility further expands National The charitable initiative includes plans to Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company. term hope and clear ambition to operating in Palestinian students with football coaching Beverage Company’s Palestinian operations to construct a desalination plant near Al Maghazi “We believe that strong businesses can help Gaza,” said Imad Hindi, the General Manager of and life-skills training. Access to computer four bottling plants and four distribution cen- refugee camp in the center of Gaza that will enable strong communities, and we are delight- NBC, “This new productive operation will labs has also been provided for the first time ters, and immediately creates 120 direct jobs provide a sustainable water source to a popu- ed to welcome new Gazan employees, distribu- eventually create thousands of direct and indi- for 27,000 Palestinian school students in rural in Gaza, while indirectly supporting more than lation of more than 24,000 registered tors and retailers to our Coca-Cola system, while rect job opportunities to address unemploy- villages through the “Lana Al Ghad” 1,200 Palestinians through a local value-chain refugees. NBC is the third largest Palestinian jointly undertaking important work with NBC ment challenges and make a tangible contri- school.com project. of suppliers, distributors and retailers. employer and the fifth largest Palestinian and Mercy Corps that we believe can have a bution to the Gazan economy.” For the last five years, aspiring Palestinian Following planned future expansion within investor with over 600 direct employees, and positive and lasting impact for years to come.” Accredited with international quality stan- entrepreneurs have also participated in the the next three years, the Coca-Cola Gaza plant is the largest food and beverage company in “Ever since NBC first began operations, we dards and following Coca-Cola’s robust global Coca-Cola MENA Scholarship Program, attend- will eventually employ 270 people, bringing the region, having produced sparkling and have been firmly committed to building a suc- certifications, the new Gaza bottling facility ing a month-long world-class business skills the total number of direct Palestinian jobs stills beverage products since 1998, including cessful Palestinian business that can create and distribution center spans over 15,000 program in the United States created by Coca- across the West Bank and Gaza to more than Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Cappy juice, Arwa employment opportunities, support the nation- square meters and contains a single bottling Cola, Indiana University’s Global Business 750, and the total number of indirect job and Jericho mineral water. al economy and demonstrate the great capabili- line that is capable of filling up to Institute and the US State Department. opportunities to more than 7,500. With existing bottling facilities in Jericho, ties of our region while serving products of the 36,000returnable glass bottles per hour with Recently, and as part of a commitment to envi- The Coca-Cola Foundation, NBC and Mercy Tulkarem, Ramallah and its Ramallah head- very highest quality,” said ZahiKhouri, Founder Coca-Cola sparkling beverages. ronmental stewardship, NBC has inaugurated Corps, the international development organi- quarters and main distribution center, con- and Chairman of National Beverage Company. The Coca-Cola beverages produced in the a power generation plant of photoelectric zation, also announced a new $1.3 million struction of the Gaza plant began in 2014 and “The opening of our first Gaza plant is an impor- new bottling plant will be distributed in Gazan cells in its headquarters, which will generate charitable initiative designed to address two began production in April 2016. “National tant milestone in this journey and provides communities through 18 branded trucks 320 kilowatts of electricity to meet 90% of the regional development challenges -ensuring Beverage Company and Coca-Cola share great great evidence of the tremendous commercial which will move from city-to-city and from vil- power needs of the headquarters and main access to clean drinking water and creating pride in having been part of the fabric of opportunity that exists.” lage-to-village. warehouses of NBC. RBS fails the Bank of England ‘stress test’ RBS needs $2.49 billion in additional capital

LONDON: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will cut Barclays’ escape lender’s new capital plan has already been costs and sell assets to boost capital levels, it Barclays also fell short by some measures but accepted by the PRA. said yesterday after failing this year’s Bank of will not have to submit a new capital-raising England stress test, which warned of a “challeng- plan because it has already announced steps to Satisfactory overall ing” outlook for Britain’s financial system. State- strengthen its defences, the BoE Financial Policy The level of capital in the UK banking system backed RBS rushed out a statement after the Committee (FPC) said. Standard Chartered was satisfactory, the Bank of England said, at result announcement to say it would take a missed the test’s minimum Tier 1 capital target 13.5 percent of risk-weighted assets and the range of actions to make up the capital shortfall but also escapes the need for new capital-raising need for RBS and Barclays to raise their capital identified by the tests of around 2 billion pounds measures because of steps already being taken. holdings does not alter the overall picture. “The ($2.49 billion). The performance of the seven lenders tested Financial Policy Committee judged that, as a The bank’s shares were down 2.3 percent at was worse than many market participants had consequence of the stress test, the banking sys- 192 pence by 0901 GMT. The unexpected result expected. “This is the highest average fall in tem is in aggregate capitalized to support the underlines the litany of problems with which CET1 (a measure of capital) and leverage ratios real economy in a severe, broad and synchro- RBS is grappling, including a mounting legal bill we’ve seen in the history of a UK concurrent nized stress scenario,” the FPC said. for misconduct before the 2008 financial crisis stress test,” said Steven Hall, banking partner at The Bank of England also gave more detail on and difficulties selling off assets such as its KPMG. This year’s health check, the third so far a second stress test that will be introduced next Williams & Glyn banking business. Analysts said by the Bank of England since the 2007-09 finan- year alongside its annual check, saying that it the result would further delay RBS’s ability to cial crisis forced taxpayers to bail out lenders will cover a seven-year period-compared with start returning capital to shareholders. such as RBS, was the toughest yet, with scenar- five in the basic test-and look at “severe head- “We expect RBS will announce further ios combining shocks to both global and domes- winds” challenging profitability. Banks could be restructuring at its full-year results, likely dash- tic economies. required to change their business models to ing any hopes for excess capital returns,” Jefferies Britain’s financial system faces elevated risks make them more sustainable as they face a pro- analyst Joseph Dickerson said in a note. The from leaving the European Union and market longed period of low interest rates and uncer- lender said it had agreed a plan of action with volatility after the US election, the Bank of tainty over Britain’s future relations with the the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the England said. HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, European Union after it leaves the bloc. Bank of England’s enforcement arm, that should Nationwide and Santander UK did not reveal any “Changes to business models as the UK with- NBK’s ‘Business mean it does not have to tap markets to raise capital inadequacies in the test, the central bank draws from the EU could have implications for the money. “RBS has agreed a revised capital said. Britain’s banking system underwent a resilience,” the central bank said. The Bank of plan with the PRA to improve its stress resilience severe real-life test in June when markets and England is now developing a system-wide test to Services Clients’ in light of the various challenges and uncertain- sterling plummeted in response to Britain’s vote assess the dynamics of broader markets under ties facing both the bank and the wider econo- to leave the European Union. stress and will conduct an in-depth assessment of KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait presents my,” the bank said. RBS is expected to settle soon RBS said that it needs an extra percentage risks from derivatives trades. The FPC also published its Business Services Clients - an integrated with US authorities over its alleged mis-selling of point of capital, equating to about 2 billion yesterday an assessment of insurers’ investment bundle of banking services and solutions, mortgage backed securities in the run-up to the pounds, which could be achieved by further activities, concluding that changes are needed to which provide businesses with more flexi- financial crisis. asset sales rather than tapping markets. The the EU’s Solvency II insurance rules. — Reuters bility and security. The program is aimed at providing an exceptional banking experi- ence to businessmen and supporting their projects. The business banking services of Luxury shoppers crowd UK National Bank of Kuwait provide an unprecedented banking experience, through the management of clients bank- capital for Brexit bargains ing business, and giving them the opportu- nity to concentrate on their business. NBK LONDON: While the prospect of Brexit is weigh- is unique in making available branches and ing on much of the British economy, tourism and specialized offices for its business banking luxury goods businesses are cashing in on bar- services at the most modern methods Bader Al-Mutawa gain-hungry visitors lured by the slide in the through specialized client relations officers pound. London’s tourism agency says sales of round the clock. products to remain the number one bank- goods eligible for sales-tax exemption have gone Assistant Director General of Personal ing partner. NBK business services provide up by a third since the Brexit vote in June, which Banking Services at NBK and Director of an integral group of services and products sent the pound sterling plunging against the Business Banking Services Department that include facilities related to financing euro and dollar. “We calculated that over the last Bader Al-Mutawa said NBK has always been projects and business accounts that can four months it’s been about 12 percent cheaper keen on developing its performance and easily be managed. for Europeans to come and shop here,” said Chris Gottlieb, head of leisure marketing at the agency London & Partners. The pound is now at 1.17 euros compared with 1.3 euros before the shock Euro-zone inflation vote to leave the European Union, while it has also fallen to $1.25 from $1.49. The result is that London has become the cheapest city for luxury hits 31-month high goods shopping in the world in dollar terms, BRUSSELS: Euro-zone inflation rose to a ing higher this month, 0.6 percent means according to a study by Deloitte. two-and-half-year high in November as Europe is short of a full-fledged recovery. Europe moved further away from the very Analyst Howard Archer said that core infla- ‘Going to spend much more’ low consumer prices that have put an tion-stripped of highly volatile food and oil In tourist areas, the effects are evident. “We’re already fragile economic recovery under prices-still remained far too low at 0.8 per- going to spend much more money than we threat. The level matched forecasts by ana- cent. “The muted November core inflation planned to,” said Radostina Nonova, a Bulgarian lysts and will come as a relief to the data highlight that the ECB cannot relax on tourist, laughing as she lugged her bags on LONDON: Pedestrians carry shopping bags in Oxford Street in central London. — AFP European Central Bank which has embarked the inflation front yet, even if the headline Carnaby Street in the heart of London’s shop- assembled in the States. But with the weakening “Before the vote, European tourists were cou- on a highly controversial and massive stim- rate looks primed to rise appreciably over ping district. “We didn’t plan to shop too much of the pound it actually happens to be cheaper ples who came to be together and maybe ulus program to boost inflation. The the next few months,” Archer of IHS Global but it’s obvious that the prices are very good for for the American tourists to buy an American bought a couple of things,” said James, the man- Eurostat statistics agency yesterday said Insight wrote. World oil prices have crept up us. “So we shop and we can afford to eat and product in London,” said Denis Sagajevs, who ager of a luxury men’s clothes shop on Carnaby consumer prices in the 19-country currency in recent months, snapping a long decline drink outside. That was not possible years ago,” works in Shinola, a shop selling watches and Street. “Now, there are groups of friends who bloc rose by 0.6 percent this month, the first that destabilized the global economy and she said. French tourist Christophe Disic said he leather accessories. “It’s affected by the fact that rush in. They grab everything they can carry.” time it has hit that level since April 2014. brought a spell of deflation to Europe. ECB did not come just because the pound was low they can claim VAT on their way back. We pretty James estimated that European and US shop- The euro-zone’s ultra-low inflation is a huge chief Mario Draghi earlier this month said but “when we changed our money we realised much on a day to day basis explain that to cus- pers coming to his store have increased by worry for the ECB, where the goal is to keep the euro-zone’s tentative recovery remained we had a few more pounds for fewer euros”. tomers from the States. It happens to be quite a around 50 percent. Instead of spending on inflation near 2.0 percent. heavily reliant on the bank’s monetary When speaking to US tourists, shopkeepers strong sales driver,” he said. costly advertising in British newspapers as it Inflation reflects underlying consumer boost, fuelling expectations of more stimu- are quick to take out their calculators. “We’re an Some shops are adapting their advertising did before, his firm is changing tactic to appeal demand in the economy and while still edg- lus to come. — AP American brand. Our products are designed and and sales tactics to the new consumer behavior. more to overseas visitors. — AP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 business

flydubai inaugurates Bangkok service

KUWAIT: Dubai-based flydubai has offi- trade ties, our respective roles as cially launched its Bangkok service, regional trade fair capitals, and to our marking the start of its first double daily cultural and tourism development.” route outside of the GCC. The inaugural Passengers travelling on the new flight from Dubai International Terminal Bangkok route will have the option of a 2 landed at Bangkok International Business Class experience, benefitting Airport today, providing connecting from a dedicated 24-hour Business routes for travel through Dubai. As a Team to assist with bookings and popular tourist destination, Bangkok enquiries throughout the journey, as offers holidaymakers a variety of experi- well as priority check-in service, com- ences from adventure, sport, and health fortable spacious seats and a range of and wellness retreats. In addition, flights in-flight entertainment and dining to Bangkok will provide passengers with options. WiFi services are available on alternative travel options into neighbor- half of the flydubai fleet. ing South East Asian cities. Passengers travelling in Economy Commenting on the launch of the Class on the new Bangkok route will new route, Ghaith Al Ghaith, Chief have access to interactive audio and Executive Officer at flydubai, said: flydubai joins the nation in mourning through Thailand, but additionally connect ing and spending reward points sim- video seat back entertainment systems “Today’s inaugural flight to Bangkok is a their leader.” Thailand to Russia and Europe via Dubai, ple and straightforward. Discussing with more than 1,200 hours of films, significant milestone for our airline and Speaking at a press conference held strengthening the UAE’s position as an the start of flydubai flights to television and music. A hot meal is also represents the increasing maturity of fly- with the Tourism Authority of Thailand international travel hub.” Bangkok, Tanes Petsuwan, the TAT included. For the launch of flights to dubai’s network. We look forward to (TAT), Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice Thailand is the latest addition to fly- Deputy Governor for International Bangkok, flydubai is offering special offering business and leisure travelers President, Commercial (GCC, Subcontinent dubai’s network of more than 90 desti- Marketing (Europe, Africa, Middle East promo rates. Business Class return fares from both Dubai and Bangkok increased and Africa) for flydubai, said: “Bangkok is nations, offering increased choice and and Americas) said “flydubai’s new to Bangkok will start at AED 3,240 while choice and flexibility across our network.” one of the most visited tourist destinations flexibility for business and leisure pas- direct flights between Dubai and Economy Class return fares will start at Reflecting on the recent passing of His in the world, offering a wide range of sengers. By the end of the second half Bangkok adds another welcome AED 1,240 including taxes. Flights can Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, attractions and activities. With the addition of the year the airline will have added dimension to UAE-Thailand relations in be purchased from flydubai’s website Ghaith Al Ghaith added: “We would like of this important city to flydubai’s growing eight new aircraft to its fleet. flydubai a number of ways. (flydubai.com), its Customer Centre to express our heartfelt condolences to network we will not only offer passengers has recently launched its rewards pro- The start of these flights brings (+971) 600 54 44 45, flydubai travel the Thai people on the loss of their King. from Dubai alternative travel options gram, OPEN, designed to make earn- fresh promise to our business and shops or through travel partners.

Plaza memories may unnerve UAE’s Gulf Capital may Trump-fueled US dollar bulls sell some investments DUBAI: Private equity firm Gulf Capital Notable deals include Gulf-based Markets draw parallels between Trump and Reagan plans to sell some of its investments Adeptio’s acquisition of a 67 percent towards the end of 2017 and early stake in Kuwait Food Co (Americana) 2018 as market sentiment and the from a wealthy Kuwaiti family for about LONDON: Parallels between Donald Trump’s US Washington. “The Plaza agreement was a US ini- against Volcker/Reagan era, even if the path for regional economy improve, its chief $2.35 billion, and the merger of Abu economic plan and early 1980s Reaganomics tiative,” Lawson told Reuters in an email. “In pres- US policy and the dollar appears to be diverging executive said. Dhabi’s two largest banks, National Bank have supercharged the dollar, reminding some ent circumstances, that seems unlikely to occur.” widely with Europe and Japan. Karim El Solh declined to say which of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank, in a that its rampant gains 30 years ago eventually Jim O’Neill, former chief economist at Then there’s emerging markets, and China in stakes the Abu Dhabi-based company, deal due to be completed early next year. required intervention to reverse them. The Goldman Sachs who was cutting his teeth in cur- particular. Emerging markets now account for one of the biggest private equity firms in Gulf Capital said this month it had greenback’s surge under then-president Ronald rency markets in New York at the time of the more than half global economic output and the region, was considering offloading acquired a controlling stake in Reagan was so powerful that by 1985 it required accord, agrees that no action will be taken yet. have stockpiled trillions of dollars of foreign but said that they would be appealing to Sporter.com, an online retailer of sports a rare international accord between the world’s But history shows that dollar appreciation exchange reserves, much of that banked in US global strategic buyers. Sources familiar and nutrition supplements in the Gulf five leading economic powers and their central always ends up being met with resistance from bonds. The electronic flow of capital across bor- with the situation said Gulf Capital’s stake region, while it bought Saudi Arabian banks to weaken the currency - the so-called Washington. “Dollar expansions usually end ders has never been greater or faster. Thirty five in Egyptian medical firm TechnoScan and food and drinks distributor Multibrands Plaza Accord, named after the New York hotel when US policymakers stop them and say years ago their presence on the global economic its remaining stake in utility business in May. Once Gulf Capital’s investments where the deal was inked. ‘enough is enough’,” O’Neill said. “It’s inevitable and financial stage was negligible. China’s Metito Holdings were both for sale. reach the five-year mark, the firm starts Trump - who purely coincidently owned the that Washington curbs the dollar rally at some weighting in the trade-weighted dollar in 1981 “Regionally, over the next two years, to actively plan for a sale, El Solh said. Plaza for a while after the accord - has pledged a point. It’s illogical that the US can tolerate a was less than 1.5 percent. Today, it is almost 22 as the market comes back and “We are hopeful that we will be able to $1 trillion fiscal package of tax cuts and infra- sharp rise in the trade-weighted dollar.” percent. China is now the world’s second biggest economies recover, we will consider close some interesting global exits in the structure spending over 10 years. This follows a economy, the largest international creditor to some regional exits,” El Solh said in an near future despite the soft regional eco- path set by Reagan in the early 1980s and mar- Not the same the United States, and dollar-denominated bor- interview. “I can see the exits coming nomic environment,” he said. kets are taking their cue. The rise in US bond While there are parallels today with the early rowing in emerging markets runs into the tril- more towards the end of 2017 and early “Some of our companies with a global yields and expected path for interest rates based 1980s, there are also huge differences. When lions of dollars. 2018 as the regional markets recover and geographic footprint, a fast growth rate on growth prospects has boosted the dollar’s Reagan entered the White House in 1981 the US The stock of dollar-denominated debt of investor sentiment comes back,” he said. and a large diversified customer base will five-year rally, lifting the currency to a 14-year current account was broadly balanced. But the non-banks outside the United States currently Economies in the Gulf have been hurt by be appealing to global strategic buyers.” high. Most observers expect it to appreciate dollar’s surge and debt-driven consumer boom stands at just under $10 trillion, of which $3.3 the slide in oil prices since the middle of Gulf Capital acquired its stake in Dubai- next year as the US economy outperforms and blew it out to a deficit of around 3 percent of trillion is in emerging markets, according to the 2014, which has hit spending by govern- based Metito in 2006 and the company the Federal Reserve raises rates while other gross domestic product by Plaza. The deficit Bank for International Settlements. This world- ments dependent on energy revenues has established itself as the largest pri- major economies and central banks lag behind. today is just over 2 percent of GDP compared wide vulnerability to a rampantly strong dollar and sapped consumer confidence. vately owned water group in the Middle But the dollar can only rise so much without with a record 6 percent a decade ago, but could could serve as an automatic stabilizer because Economists think regional growth could East, with a focus on developing markets. harming US manufacturing, a sector Trump has start to widen again if a Trump boom emerges to it is in everyone’s interest to keep it for overly rebound slightly in 2017, on the assump- In July 2014, it sold 32 per cent of the promised to support. Memories linger of the widen the US growth and yield gap with the rest strengthening. Steve Barrow, head of G10 strat- tion oil prices pick up. company to Japan’s Mitsubishi three million manufacturing jobs lost in the early of the developed world. egy at Standard Bank and who also cut his Despite the slowdown in growth, Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy 1980s under Reagan before the historic agree- Another difference is the level of US interest teeth in financial markets at the time of Plaza, merger and acquisition activity in the Industries, leaving it with a 23.8 per cent ment in 1985 between the Group of Five leading rates and inflation. Back then, Fed chief Paul reckons the dollar’s “impulsive” rally could go Gulf has been relatively brisk in 2016 as stake. In November 2009 it purchased a economies to bring the dollar down. Nigel Volcker crushed 15 percent inflation by virtually another 10 percent before being corrected by the low oil prices have pushed family- 75 percent holding in TechnoScan, the Lawson, British finance minister in 1985 and a doubling interest rates to 18 percent in 1981. US the market. “Plaza came after the dollar had owned businesses to spin-off assets and largest chain of medical diagnostic imag- signatory of the Plaza Accord, notes that the inflation and rates may be moving higher again, turned. Central banks came in to reinforce it,” state-linked companies to consolidate. ing centers in the Middle East. —Reuters drive to weaken the dollar then was led by but from historically low levels. They pale Barrow said. —Reuters Ooredoo customers can get 2 phones in one contract period A new feature to all Shamel post-paid plan customers

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Our main about paying bills for months that ensure that they are making full use comical way. For more information goal as a company is to meet our val- they don’t use. Additionally, Ooredoo of their package. about Shamel website, please visit ued customers’ needs; therefore, we now allows customers to transfer Customers can visit the Shamel the following website: shamel.oore- have added a new feature which will contracts to other customers even website, which allows customers to doo.com.kw THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 TECHNOLOGY Electric car factory planned in Arizona to have 2,000 workers PHOENIX: Electric car maker Lucid Motors although the project has been stalled amid automakers are manufacturing their own said Tuesday it will build a manufacturing questions about its funding source. electric vehicles. And battery technology is plant in Arizona that will begin production highly expensive. in 2018 as it looks to compete in the fast- Prominent role “We’ll see if Lucid can do it any better growing market for luxury electric vehicles. Automotive jobs took on a prominent than Tesla has,” Abuelsamid said. “The car’s The company said it chose the Casa role in the recent presidential race as Donald not going to be in production until quite a Grande location from dozens of other spots Trump repeatedly blasted trade agreements ways out. I wouldn’t call it entirely paper- around the country. Construction of the facto- that shifted manufacturing from the Rust work at this point because they do have real, ry will begin next year in a move expected to Belt to other countries. developed prototypes but it’s certainly not bring an initial 400 jobs. The company proj- Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has made job ready for prime time yet.” ects the plant will have 2,000 workers by 2022. creation and a business-friendly climate top He also noted how startups are at the Lucid, which recently changed its name priorities of his administration. He previously mercy of investors who can become skittish from Atieva, has been around for a decade, made a trip to California to lure the Lucid about handing over cash. He cited the focusing its early years on making batteries. factory. “It’s a real sign that the state is attrac- Faraday plant in Nevada where construction Its staff includes former Tesla employees, tive, that California companies and compa- work was suspended recently at the factory including its chief technology officer. nies from around the country see Arizona as site. Abuelsamid said the Chinese entrepre- The decision came amid rising demand a great place to do business,” Ducey said. neur backing that company was also an ear- for electric cars from traditional automakers Lucid is receiving government assistance ly investor in Lucid. and Silicon Valley startups such as Lucid. from the Arizona Commerce Authority that A news conference announcing the move Tesla Motors is building a sprawling battery could total in the millions. The future for Tuesday featured business and political lead- LORDSTOWN, Ohio: In this Tuesday, June 15, 2010, file photo, workers at factory near Reno, Nevada, after receiving a startup electric vehicle makers is far from a ers along with top company officials. The General Motors’ Lordstown Assembly plant put the final touches on Chevy generous $1.3 billion incentive package sure thing, especially for companies that company showed off two prototypes for its Cobalts. — AP from the Nevada Legislature. have yet to manufacture a single car, said planned car. “We’re very excited to be bring- Faraday Future, another electric car mak- Sam Abuelsamid, a senior analyst for the tives. He cites a litany of challenges. more affordable Model 3. Vehicle reliability is ing new jobs and our innovative technology er, is building a factory near Las Vegas after market research firm Navigant who has Tesla has struggled to turn a profit a major concern for any new car maker, to Casa Grande,” said Brian Barron, Lucid’s getting $335 million from the state, studied Lucid and met with company execu- despite huge demand for its Model X and especially in a marketplace where traditional director of global manufacturing. — AP Netflix launches downloads for offline viewing on smartphones, tablets

LOS ANGELES: Netflix has finally rolled out also want to continue their ‘Stranger a feature subscribers have been requesting Things’ binge while on airplanes and other for years: The company will now let mem- places where internet is expensive or limit- bers worldwide download select TV shows ed,” Eddy Wu, Netflix’s director of product and movies for viewing on Apple and innovation, wrote in a blog post announc- Android devices while disconnected from ing the feature. the internet. Amazon Prime Video has offered offline The latest versions of the company’s viewing to members on iOS and Android mobile apps include a “download” button apps for more than a year, while YouTube on the details page for a film or TV series- Red subscribers also have access to videos although not all titles on the streaming in offline mode. service are currently available to watch Netflix’s new download feature is includ- offline. The app also includes a “find some- ed in all plans and available for Android thing to download” feature. and iOS phones and tablets. To download Netflix said it will add more series and titles, users will need iOS 8.0 or later or movies to download in the future. Original Android 4.4.2 or later as well as the latest series including “Orange Is The New Black,” update of Netflix’s app. “Narcos,” “House of Cards,” “Stranger Things,” Netflix execs had previously raised the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Master of prospect of allowing downloads for offline None” and “The Crown” are available for viewing, but they had suggested the com- download starting yesterday. pany would first launch the feature in “While many members enjoy watching countries with constrained bandwidth Netflix at home, we’ve often heard they infrastructure. — Reuters Facebook adds free RAMALLAH: Hussein Nasir al-Din points towards a screen at the office of his company Red Crow, a startup that monitors security developments games like ‘Pac-Man’ and sends real-time alerts and maps to clients on August 17, 2016. — AFP to Messenger app Palestinian start-ups NEW YORK: You can now play “Pac-Man” begin in 30 countries, with 17 titles, with your Facebook Messenger buddies. though more will come. In addition to Facebook is adding the option to play Messenger, users can also play solo innovate way past obstacles games with your contacts on the mes- games in their Facebook news feed. saging app beginning this past Tuesday. Facebook tested the waters with two You can access the feature in the latest simple Messenger games earlier this year version of the app by tapping a game - soccer and basketball, both of which Specializing in US real estate controller icon. Games available include involved flicking balls on the screen with classics such as “Pac-Man,” “Space your finger. They proved popular. RAMALLAH: At first glance, Mashvisor is just found himself stranded in the city as roads were around $800,000 (750,000 euros) in ten start-ups Invaders” and “Galaga,” as well as newer Facebook has a long history with one of thousands of websites specializing in US closed, 45 kilometers (30 miles) from their so far, according to its executive director Ambar titles like “Words With Friends.” It’s the lat- gaming, which began with “FarmVille” real estate. But it has a unique feature, unde- Ramallah offices. “He was stuck in Hebron and I Amleh. She stresses their work is not charity. est effort by the world’s biggest social years ago when people logged in using tectable to customers: its designers created it in was stuck in Ramallah and we were still working “This isn’t work that should be funded by donors network to get people to spend even desktop computers. But since then, the West Bank and it is run from the Israel-occu- on our company,” explains Abu al-Zolof. or grants. The expectations of making money more time on its properties. Facebook gaming has sort of fallen by pied Palestinian territory. And the American-Palestinian says the online should be there from the beginning because we Messenger has a billion users. The app the wayside, even as mobile games from “The great thing about a start-up is you can nature of what they do means they can avoid are creating companies,” she told AFP. will recommend games based on “Candy Crush” to “Pokemon Go” have work on it anywhere in the world. You can be in many of the frustrations for other companies in Palestinians are still a long way behind Israel, whether your friends play. Currently remained popular. Facebook hopes to Palestine, you can be in Cambodia, Vietnam, the West Bank, where the Israeli army check- where companies in Tel Aviv’s start-up scene there is no way to play with people who change that with its Instant Games. China. It doesn’t matter,” explains Peter Abu al- points often present very physical challenges to regularly sell for tens or hundreds of millions of are not your Messenger contacts, so if The games themselves are simple to Zolof, who founded Mashvisor more than a year commerce. “There are no walls, there are no dollars. In 2013, Google bought the Israeli traffic your friends don’t like to play games, you play, and like the earlier soccer and bas- ago with a friend. challenges, there is nothing that can stop this app Waze for more than $1 billion, a figure are out of luck. ketball games, load inside Messenger Last week, Mashvisor became the first kind of thing,” he says. “It’s a virtual market, so unimaginable in the Palestinian scene. Called “Instant Games,” the feature will and don’t open in a separate app. — AP Palestinian company to get the support of the there are no checkpoints where they tell you: But Amleh points out the huge government influential American 500 Startups venture capi- ‘You can’t sell this. You can’t take this out of the support for Israeli start-ups, which don’t exist in tal fund. It is one of a number of Palestinian country.’” The company benefited from the sup- the Palestinian territories. “I think more and start-ups in the occupied Palestinian territories, port of the Ramallah-based Leaders, an organi- more people are starting to see that they really long overshadowed by Israel’s so-called “Start- sation that helps nurture start-ups. can make something they have been dreaming up Nation”. about come true.” The online platform automates and analyses ‘No unemployment’ Hussein Nasir al-Din and his partner Laila US real estate data nationwide to find investors Shadi Atshan, Leader’s director general, told Aqal have a business inextricably linked to the the best property deals. As in Silicon Valley, the AFP that in the start-up scene there was “no conflict-monitoring the security situation in staff dress casually, drink coffee from state-of- unemployment-unlike almost all other indus- Israel and the Palestinian territories. The Red the-art machines in garish colours, and pad tries and economic sectors in Palestine which Crow website, run out of a small office in through the office wearing US-made head- have high unemployment”. “Those with good Ramallah, monitors security developments and phones around their necks. skills can earn a very high income.” sends real-time alerts and maps to clients. But working in the West Bank brings unique The unemployment rate in the occupied Their customers include UN agencies, diplo- challenges. In October 2015, a wave of violence Palestinian territories is 27 percent, according to mats and organizations that operate in the field broke out across Israel and the Palestinian terri- figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of and adjust their security programs according to tories. Abu al-Zolof’s friend and founding part- Statistics. events. Soon they want to expand to the ner Mohamed Jebrini, who lives in Hebron, The Ibtikar investment fund has invested Egyptian and Iraqi markets. — AFP Sun setting on Japan solar boom

CHIBA, Japan: The sun is setting on Japan’s er fuel alternatives and electricity sector reform - tions within about 100 km of Tokyo, which clean-energy boom, despite projects like a mas- which have all contributed to the slowdown in Greenpeace has branded “simply insane” over sive floating solar farm near Tokyo, as the govern- growth,” BMI Research said in a report. health concerns posed by air pollution. ment cuts subsidies and bets on nuclear and coal- fired power, critics say. Workers at the floating ‘Simply Insane’ Energy Security power station, one of the world’s biggest, have Some say Japan’s future solar potential now Coal is also the biggest climate change culprit, just finished laying about 50,000 interconnected sits squarely on the roofs of millions of homes. generating more carbon pollution per unit of ener- panels on a vast dam reservoir. Taking up space “There is still a big potential for the Japanese gy generated than oil or gas. Within the G7 club of equivalent to several Tokyo Dome-sized baseball market,” said Atsuhiko Hirano, head of Solar rich nations, Japan is alone in investing heavily in stadiums, the vast carpet of panels will supply Frontier, a unit of Japanese oil giant Showa Shell. coal-fired energy on its own soil, with more than 40 SAN FRANCISCO: This image provided by Facebook shows a demonstration of power to about 5,000 homes from early 2018. “Utility-scale projects have been the driver so far. new power plants in the pipeline. That sets it apart Facebook’s new option to play games with contacts on Facebook Messenger. The project is the centerpiece of a solar-domi- In contrast, the residential market has not grown from even big polluters such as China and India Beginning Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, the feature can be accessed in the latest ver- nated wave of renewable energy investments so much. So there is still much more area where which are pushing away from coal-fired power - sion of the messaging app by tapping a game controller icon. — AP that followed the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disas- we can grow. “(But) we are pushing the govern- although US President-elect Donald Trump has ter. The accident forced the shutdown of reactors ment to go further.” vowed to bring back coal and refocus US energy that had supplied about one-quarter of resource- Solar accounts for a small fraction of Japan’s policy on fossil fuels. “Japan is betting its economy San Francisco’s public poor Japan’s energy. To plug the gap, electricity energy mix - 3.3 percent in 2015. But Tokyo has and energy security on risky coal investments,” said providers have been obliged since 2012 to buy said it wants renewables - also including hydro Taylor Dimsdale, Washington-based head of railway system hit by hackers power generated from green suppliers, including and wind power - to account for 22 to 24 percent research at energy think-tank E3G. “The coal devel- solar, at above-market rates - known as feed-in of the total by 2030. Critical government support opment pipeline in the rest of the G7 countries has tariffs - fixed by the government each year. appears to be waning, however, as Tokyo drives a dried up with no further plants expected beyond a SAN FRANCISCO: Some passengers on San tive information in an attempt to be paid for But renewable energy investments have push to restart mothballed atomic reactors - an handful of projects that are already under construc- Francisco’s public railway enjoyed free rides the data’s return. Regular fares were still plateaued and are set to fall in the coming years unpopular move among the nuclear-wary public. tion.” Japan was among the worst performers in during part of the Thanksgiving holiday charged for bus rides. as Tokyo cuts back subsidies while commodities The pro-nuclear drive is supported by utilities, terms of countries cutting back on energy-related weekend after hackers infiltrated hundreds Agency spokesman Paul Rose says an including coal, oil and natural gas remain cheap. which complained about being forced to buy CO2 emissions in an annual ranking released during of its workers’ computers and email investigation determined that the hackers Japan is also facing a shortage of land for new and distribute subsidized power, especially with UN climate talks in November. Critics say they don’t accounts. didn’t get any financial records or other solar installations. oil and natural gas prices at multi-year lows. have much hope for Tokyo’s long-term commitment The San Francisco Municipal Transport- potentially damaging information about Kyocera, which is behind the floating farm Japan is also raising eyebrows with plans to to renewable energy. “After the Fukushima disaster ation Agency says it decided to open the the system’s customers or employees. As of south of Tokyo, is building a solar plant on an invest billions of dollars at home and abroad in there was an infatuation with renewable energy and gates at underground stations of its light rail late Monday afternoon, the agency was still abandoned golf course. “Several dynamics in the new power plants fired by cheap coal - even as it the government was clearly pressing the accelera- system Friday and Saturday after detecting a trying to determine how much revenue it Japanese power sector have shifted since (2012) - calls for more green power at home. That tor,” said Kimiko Hirata, international director for the “ransomware” attack aimed at stealing sensi- lost while giving free rides. — AP such as weakening government support, cheap- includes half a dozen large coal-fired power sta- Japanese NGO Kiko Network. — AFP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Drug epidemic stalls HIV decline in whites who shoot up

NEW YORK: The long decline in HIV infections the vice president-elect - declared a public health among white people who inject drugs has stalled, emergency and authorized a limited need-exchange another grim side effect of the nation’s drug abuse program to prevent the virus from spreading further. epidemic. Until recently, HIV cases in injection drug users Health officials released the news Tuesday, as part had been falling for all racial groups. Cases still are of a call for more use of needle exchange programs. falling in blacks and Hispanics. But for whites they “We really risk stalling or reversing decades of stopped falling in 2012. In 2014, for the first time, a progress on HIV transmission,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, larger number of white inject drug users were diag- director of the Centers for Disease Control and nosed with HIV than injection drug users in any oth- Prevention. er racial or ethnic group. Traditionally, far more cases The report comes as the nation is facing an ongo- were seen in urban blacks. ing epidemic of opioid and heroin use that has led to At least part of the reason is that white injection an increase in drug overdose deaths, particularly drug users are often younger and more likely to among white people. The increase in drug abuse is share needles, according to a 22-city CDC study of also hampering efforts to slow diseases carried in the people who inject drugs. Nearly half of white injec- blood that can be spread when injection drug users tion drug users shared needles with other addicts in share needles. 2015, compared with a third of Hispanics and a fifth The CDC previously reported a rise in new hepati- of blacks. Needle exchange programs give out clean tis C infections, which is tied largely to injection syringe needles in exchange for used ones. Medical drugs. Most cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, experts have found that such programs cut down are transmitted through sex - only about one in 11 transmission of HIV and do not cause increases in HIV infections diagnosed each year are among peo- drug use. ple who inject drugs. But sharing dirty needles can Congress, though, has gone back and forth on spread HIV much more quickly. allowing the federal government to fund the pro- More than 100 injection drug users were infected grams. For now, federal funds can be used for some with HIV in early 2015 in rural Scott County, Indiana. program costs, but not for the purchase of sterile AUSTIN, Indiana: In this April 4, 2015 file photo, a sign points to the entrance of the Community The state’s governor at the time - Mike Pence, now needles or syringes. —AP Outreach Center. — AP

Sen Warren blasts drug approval bill as ‘extortion’

WASHINGTON: Sen. Elizabeth Warren has their lesson from this month’s elections. delivered a ferocious attack on congres- Hillary Clinton shockingly lost her White sional Republicans and Senate Majority House bid to Republican Donald Trump Leader Mitch McConnell over a medical and Democrats remained in the House and research bill, putting fellow Democrats on Senate minority, making only small gains the spot by pushing them to oppose a in each chamber. measure she said “is corrupt, and it is very, Warren is expected to try tugging her very dangerous.” party toward more progressive policies, As Congress began the final stretch of while some more moderate Democrats are its post-election session, Warren said the emphasizing the need to appeal to the 996-page measure - a top priority for GOP type of working-class white voters who leaders and backed by the biomedical helped Trump win Midwestern states car- industry - was riddled with provisions ried in recent elections by Democrats. that she called “a bunch of special give- The House plans to vote on the aways” to big pharmaceutical companies. research legislation Wednesday, with “They didn’t send us here to whimper, Senate consideration expected next week. whine or grovel,” she said on the Senate The measure calls for spending $6.3 bil- floor about Democrats, using the populist lion over the next decade, including $4.8 rhetoric that has given her one of her par- billion for research at the National ty’s highest profiles. “They sent us here to Institutes of Health. There is also $1 billion say no to efforts to sell Congress to the for grants to states for drug abuse preven- highest bidder.” tion and research, and $500 million for the All but taunting her own party, Warren, Food and Drug Administration to acceler- D-Mass., said, “Republicans will control ate drug and medical device approval this government, but they cannot hand processes. that control over to big corporations To pay for that, the bill would cut a unless Democrats roll over and allow public health fund in President Barack them to do so.” Obama’s health care law, reduce some PINGTANG, China: This picture taken on September 24, 2016 shows the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). — AFP She said the research bill would “legal- payments made by Medicaid and ize fraud” by reducing the scientific evi- Medicare and sell oil held in the govern- dence the government needs to approve ment’s strategic petroleum reserve. ‘Thank the aliens’: Thousands existing drugs for new uses. She said it Warren said the bill benefits a would “cover up bribery” by exempting Republican donor who backs contentious displaced for China’s huge telescope medical companies from publicly report- therapies that are supposed to regener- ing some payments they make to doctors. ate cells. She did not name the donor dur- Those provisions, she said, outweighed the ing her speech but said McConnell, R-Ky., Seeking global prominence “tiny fig leaf” of additional money the bill has accepted contributions from him. A provides for biomedical research and com- McConnell spokesman declined to com- bating abuse of addictive opioid drugs. “I ment. PINGTANG, China: Humanity’s best bet at comes at the cost of forcibly displacing about Arecibo telescope, which is only 305 meters cannot vote for this bill. I will fight it No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn detecting aliens is a giant silver Chinese dish the 9,000 villagers who called the site in Pingtang across. “We said we had to be a little more daring, because I know the difference between of Texas, on the Senate floor as Warren size of 30 football fields-one that simultaneously county their home. because we had to surpass the US no matter compromise and extortion,” said Warren, spoke, criticized her for making “a politi- showcases Beijing’s abilities to deploy cutting- Many were outraged at being forced to leave what,” Peng said. “I think we can get a few Nobel who some mention as a potential 2020 cal speech” and launching “personal edge technologies and ignore objectors’ rights as the valley surrounded by forested karst hills and prizes out of it. We as Chinese people really want presidential contender. attacks” on senators and called her com- it seeks global prominence. hundreds of families are now suing the govern- to win them.” Warren’s comments came with ments “beneath the dignity of the United The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ment, with some cases being heard this week. The world’s most populous country and sec- Democrats in the early stages of decoding States Senate.” — AP Telescope (FAST) in the country’s southwest, Octogenarian Han Jingfu drank pesticide days ond-largest economy has so far only won one sci- which was launched in September and cost 1.2 after being made to sign a relocation contract entific Nobel, awarded last year to chemist Tu billion yuan ($180 million) to build, is the world’s and died at his front door, neighbors and relatives Youyou for medicine. FAST’s receivers are more largest radio telescope. said. China built FAST as part of efforts to take on sensitive than any previous radio telescope, and Once fully operational, FAST will be able to international rivals and raise its embarrassingly its pioneering technology can change the shape peer deeper into space than ever before, examin- low tally of Nobel Prizes, explained Peng Bo, of the dish to track celestial objects as the Earth ing pulsars, dark matter and gravitational waves- director of China’s National Astronomical rotates. It could catalogue as many pulsars in a and searching for signs of life. Authorities also Observatories, which oversees the telescope. year as had been found in the past 50, Peng said. hope it will bring tourist dollars to the province of The 500-metre-wide (1,640 feet) dish dwarfs But he acknowledged that FAST will be overtaken Guizhou, one of China’s poorest regions. But it its nearest competitor, the US’s Puerto Rico-based by the larger Square Kilometre Array telescope in South Africa and Australia, which will be built over the next decade.

Trump nominates Pence ally ‘Pushed into a corner’ FAST needs a five kilometer-wide (three miles) to oversee health programs “radio silence” buffer zone around it with elec- tronics banned in order to reduce interference with the sky’s much fainter frequencies. Relocated INDIANAPOLIS: The architect of Gov. Mike moting personal responsibility while providing residents would “enjoy better living standards”, Pence’s Medicaid expansion in Indiana is subsidized health protection to those who can the official Xinhua news agency said when the expected to play a key role in determining least afford it,” she wrote. The nomination, if dish was completed in July. “Villagers in nearby how Republicans replace President Barack approved, would give Verma a significant communities admired their luck, saying they Obama’s health care law. voice in the policies Trump’s presidential should ‘thank the aliens’,” it added. Seema Verma, a consultant who helped administration chooses to pursue if he makes But villagers allege land grabs without com- design Pence’s approach to the Medicaid pro- good on a campaign promise to repeal and MANCHESTER, New Hampshire: In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth pensation, forced demolitions and unlawful gram for the poor in Indiana, was named replace the ACA. Warren, D-Mass. speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary detentions, and up to 500 families are suing the Tuesday as Donald Trump’s choice to head up Under Pence, Indiana accepted federal Clinton at St. Anselm College. — AP Pingtang county government. Lu Zhenglong, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid money made available for low-income heath whose case was heard Tuesday, said officials Services. Republicans praised her nomination. care under Obama’s law. But the state only demolished his house without warning or con- President-elect Trump said in a statement that took the money after the Obama administra- sent when he was not even present, burying his Want to delay death? Then swim, her decades of experience “will transform our tion agreed to an added twist: requiring poor health care system for the benefit of all people to pay nominal fees for the care they furniture. “What would have happened if I had dance, or get on court, study shows Americans.” receive. Those who don’t keep up on monthly been inside?” he told AFP, adding that authorities But supporters of the current health care payments, which can be as low as $4, aren’t eli- had “pushed ordinary people into a corner. It’s LONDON: Swimming, racquet sports annual health surveys for England and law were less pleased. They oppose require- gible for as many services. really unbelievable”. A neighbor also surnamed Lu and aerobics are associated with the Scotland carried out between 1994 and ments that poor people pay for medical care, In most states, the poor are not required to said: “They’ve chased us all off to some wasteland best odds of staving off death, and in 2008, covering 80,306 adults with an which is included in the Medicaid policy pay such fees. The Indiana program has and ordered us to live there with no way to main- particular of reducing the risk of dying average age of 52. Participants were adopted in Indiana and is up for consideration extended health care benefits to more than tain our old standards of living. For 90 percent of from heart disease or stroke, scientists asked about what type and how much by other Republican-led states. “We’re really 300,000 people in the state. us, basic survival is a problem.” said on Tuesday. exercise they had done in the preced- concerned,” said Judith Solomon, vice presi- In Kentucky, where Verma consulted for The rubble of their homes now lies under soil In a study of various types of exer- ing four weeks, and whether it had dent for health policy at the liberal Center for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, the state has and new saplings in a tourist park just outside the cise and their risk levels, the researchers been enough to make them breathless Budget and Policy Priorities. requested federal permission to require peo- radio silence zone, with a museum, a space- found that participation in specific and sweaty. Prior to Pence, Verma was a consultant to ple on the state’s Medicaid plan to pay month- themed hotel and visitor reception facilities sports showed significant benefits for Exercise included heavy domestic former Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, ly premiums, have a job or volunteer for a which will sell tickets for nearly $100 each. public health, and urged doctors and chores and gardening; walking; cycling; who pushed for a precursor to Pence’s current charity to remain eligible for health benefits. According to the Pingtang county government policymakers to encourage people to swimming; aerobics, gymnastics or Medicaid plan. Her firm, SVC Inc., has been Pence has said that requiring the poor to website, the park was aimed at “high-end people take them up. dance; running; football or rugby; and paid more than $6.6 million by the state of make payments for Medicaid means they are from developed cities” and cost more than 1.5 bil- While the research, published in the badminton, tennis or squash. The sur- Indiana since 2011 for her consulting work, taking personal responsibility and have “skin in lion yuan-more than the telescope itself. British Journal and Sports Medicine, vival of each participant was tracked for according to records. the game.” showed no added advantage for peo- an average of nine years, during which In a 2008 blog post on the website But some Republicans in his home state dis- ‘Eye to the sky’ ple who favor running and football or time 8,790 of them died from all causes HealthAffairs, co-authored with a Daniels’ agreed. Republican Indiana state Rep. Ed Clere, Meng Xiujun, whose Elites Law Firm in the rugby, independent experts said this and 1,909 from heart disease or stroke. administration official, Verma outlined a phi- former chairman of a health care committee in southern city of Guangzhou is handling most of was purely due to the design of the Overall, compared with respondents losophy that “melds two themes of American the state’s General Assembly, said require- the cases, said officials tried to intimidate him, study. “This study must not be misinter- who had not done a given sport, risk of society that typically collide in our health care ments other than fees, such as quitting smok- telling him he should “see the bigger picture for a preted as showing that running and death during the follow up period from system, rugged individualism and the Judeo ing or taking steps to improve personal health, key national project”. But he told AFP: “This isn’t football do not protect against heart any cause was 47 percent lower among Christian ethic.” also demonstrate “personal responsibility” and just a matter of economic interests-once you start disease,” said Tim Chico, a consultant those who played racquet sports, 28 could be more cost effective in the long run. “In asking average citizens to kneel down or beat cardiologist at professor at Britain’s percent lower among swimmers, 27 Personal responsibilty my experience there was an unwillingness to them, it becomes about human rights and prob- Sheffield University who was asked to percent lower among dance aerobics Indiana’s Medicaid program “combines expand the conversation beyond financial par- lems with China’s rule of law.” The Pingtang coun- comment on the findings. fans and 15 percent lower among these diametrically opposed themes by pro- ticipation,” Clere said. — AP ty government did not respond to requests for The study analyzed data from 11 cyclists. — Reuters comment by AFP. — AFP THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Leaning San Francisco tower seen sinking from space

SAN FRANCISCO: Engineers in San ment around the world, and particularly Francisco have tunneled underground subsidence “hotspots” in Europe, said to try and understand the sinking of the Pierre Potin, Sentinel-1 mission manager 58-storey Millennium Tower. Now comes for the ESA. an analysis from space. The European The ESA decided to conduct regular Space Agency has released detailed observations of the San Francisco Bay data from satellite imagery that shows Area, including the Hayward Fault, since the skyscraper in San Francisco’s finan- it is prone to tectonic movement and cial district is continuing to sink at a earthquakes, said Potin, who is based in steady rate - and perhaps faster than Italy. Data from the satellite, which is previously known. orbiting about 400 miles (700 kilome- The luxury high-rise that opened its ters) from the earth’s surface, was doors in 2009 has been dubbed the recorded every 24 days. Leaning Tower of San Francisco. It has The building’s developer, Millennium sunk about 16 inches into landfill and is Partners, insists the building is safe for tilting several inches to the northwest. A occupancy and could withstand an dispute over the building’s construction earthquake. The developer’s spokesman in the seismically active city has spurred PJ Johnston said he had no direct com- numerous lawsuits involving the devel- ment on the satellite data but issued a oper, the city and owners of its multimil- statement saying that the Millennium lion dollar apartments. Tower is a state-of-the-art building that Engineers have estimated the build- was “designed and constructed to the ing is sinking at a rate of about 1-inch extraordinarily high standards” mandat- per year. The Sentinel-1 twin satellites ed by San Francisco. show almost double that rate based on He reiterated the developers’ blame data collected from April 2015 to for the tower’s problems on the city’s WASHINGTON: Minority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., speaks to the media with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, after the Senate Policy September 2016. construction of an adjacent railway sta- tion, which they say removed ground Luncheon on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. — AP What the data shows water from beneath the Millennium The satellite data shows the Tower that caused it to sink and tilt. Millennium Tower sunk 40 to 45 millime- The city agency, the Transbay Joint GOP could repeal, before ters - or 1.6 to 1.8 inches - over a recent Powers Authority, blames the building’s one-year period and almost double that “inadequate foundation” which is not amount - 70 to 75 mm (2.6 to 2.9 inches) anchored to bedrock. The tower is sup- - over its 17-month observation period, ported by piles driven 60 to 90 feet into replacing, Obamacare said Petar Marinkovic, founder and chief landfill. scientist of PPO Labs which analyzed the Engineers hired by the building and satellite’s radar imagery for the ESA its developers have drilled deep holes swift action on Trump’s promise along with Norway-based research insti- around the building to test soil samples tute Norut. “What can be concluded to determine if the building has stopped WASHINGTON: Congress may vote to repeal legislative maneuver called “budget reconcilia- Republicans, in the sober, cold nights when they from our data, is that the Millennium sinking, and if there’s a way to fix it. President Barack Obama’s health care law before tion” to repeal the health law with a simple sit around after their 57th repeal vote, say, ‘What Tower is sinking at a steady rate,” One of the building’s tenants, Jerry coming up with a replacement, GOP leaders said majority vote in the 100-member Senate. But to in the world would we do if we repealed it?’ They Marinkovic said in a telephone interview Dodson, says that developers have giv- Tuesday. advance a replacement they would likely need don’t have a plan.” Monday from The Hague, Netherlands. en tenants the impression that the sink- The approach could allow congressional 60 votes, requiring some Democrats to go along. The back-and-forth came the same day The data detected a small slowdown ing was slowing and stopping. “To have Republicans to take swift action on one of Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Trump announced the selection of House this summer but one that needs further the space agency looking at it debunks President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign Schumer of New York has already warned Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia as his sec- analysis, he said, and does not change what (developers) have put out there. promises, while putting off the hard part. And Republicans he will try to turn their efforts to retary of Health and Human Services. Price the overall data. “There is quite a steady Now we know it’s continuing to sink at while repealing the law could be done with repeal the health law into a political nightmare. helped craft a House GOP plan on health care subsidence.” an accelerated rate,” said Dodson, an GOP votes alone, any replacement plan would Democrats argued Tuesday that GOP plans to that was unveiled over the summer, relying on The Sentinel-1 study is not focused attorney who has helped organize likely require the cooperation of minority pass a repeal bill but delay the replacement individual tax credits to allow people to buy cov- on the Millennium Tower but is part of a homeowners lawsuits. “I can tell you that Democrats in the Senate, something that will wouldn’t work. The resulting uncertainty could erage from private insurers. But the proposal fell larger mission by the European Space satellite data is way more accurate that not be easy to come by. cause insurance companies to flee the market- far short of a full-scale replacement, leaving key Agency tracking urban ground move- digging in the dirt.” — AP “Nothing’s been decided yet but I would place, said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois. questions unanswered including the size of the move through and repeal and then go to work “We’d find ourselves with even fewer options tax credits, the overall price tag of the plan, and on replacing,” House Majority Leader Kevin out there,” Durbin said. “So I think the how many people would be covered. — AP McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol. “I think once it’s repealed you will have hopefully fewer people playing politics, and then everybody coming to the table to find the best policy.” “We Under-50 smokers face will get started on this right way,” the California Republican added. Without specifying a time- higher heart attack risk line, McCarthy suggested Congress could vote on a repeal quickly, while putting off the date for it PARIS: Smokers under 50 are eight times treatment for a common type of heart attack- to take effect. As that date neared, McCarthy pre- more likely than non-smokers of the same age known by the acronym STEMI-between 2009 dicted, there would be political pressure for all to have a major heart attack, scientists said and 2012. Such attacks result in a large por- parties to come together around a replacement. yesterday. The gap in risk between those who tion of the heart muscle dying. Nearly half the Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate do and don’t consume tobacco diminishes patients were current smokers. The rest were Republican, outlined a similar process, with a with age, dropping to a five-fold difference almost evenly divided between ex-smokers repeal vote followed by “a multiyear transition among 50-to-65 year-olds, and a three-fold and people who had never picked up the into the replacement.” “This is a failed piece of gap among over-65s, the team said. tobacco habit. legislation and it’s coming apart at the seams,” The findings are surprising because On average, current smokers were at least Cornyn said, “but it’s going to take us a while to younger men and women typically do not a decade younger than ex- or never-smokers make that transition from the repeal to actually have as many of the health problems-dia- when the heart attack hit, the study found. replacing it with more affordable coverage.” betes, high blood pressure or cholesterol- They were also twice as likely as non-smokers associated with an increased chance of heart to previously have suffered from coronary Repeal history failure. “Smoking is perhaps the most power- artery disease. Across the population of South Six years after the Affordable Health Care Act ful of all risk factors, exerting its effect much Yorkshire, 27 percent of adults under the age became law, congressional Republicans have sooner than any other,” concluded the study, of 50 consumed tobacco, said the study. But voted dozens of times to repeal it in part or full. published in the journal Heart. nearly 75 percent of STEMI heart attack But they still haven’t unified behind legislation All smokers face a markedly higher danger patients under 50 were smokers. to replace it, or to ensure that the 20 million of heart attacks than non-smokers, but it had Overall, smokers were more than three people who’ve gained coverage don’t suddenly not been clear how the risk compared times as likely to have a STEMI than ex- and find themselves uninsured. between age brackets. To find out, a team of non-smokers combined, the data showed. The SAN FRANCISCO: The image provided by the European Space Agency ESA on Now that Trump has won the presidency and researchers led by Ever Grech of The South results should be a wake-up call to young Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, shows the Millennium Tower on the base of modified Republicans will control both chambers of Yorkshire Cardiothoracic Centre at Northern smokers, the researchers warned. “Further Copernicus Sentinel satellite data. — AP Congress next year, the GOP will have to deliver. General Hospital in Sheffield, England, exam- efforts to reduce smoking in the youngest are That is certain to be tricky. ined data from 1,727 adults who underwent needed,” the study said. — AFP In one complication, Republicans can use a WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

AL-SAYER MEDICAL SPONSORS 19TH SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE FOR KUWAIT DENTAL ASSOCIATION

n the presence of Minister of Health, Al-Sayer Medical ment as well as provide training and development serv- exchange expertise and learn about the latest develop- booth and Dr. Hossam Afify escorted him on a tour to Company, one of Al-Sayer Group Holding Companies, ices for physicians through the latest technologies in the ments in this area." introduce and explain the displayed products. Isponsored the 19th Scientific Conference for Kuwait field of dentistry. On this occasion, Al-Sayer Medical Company designated "Our participation in this conference is part of Al-Sayer Dental Association and the 46th conference for Arab According to Dr. Hossam Afify General Manager Al- a big booth to display its wide collection of the latest den- Medical Company commitment to provide integrated Dentists Unions, which was held under the patronage and Sayer Medical Company "We would like to extend our con- tistry products by leading global medical companies. Al- medical solutions through our partnership and representa- presence of Minister of Health Dr. Ali Al Obaidi. gratulation to Dr. Ali Al Obaidi Minister of Health for this Sayer's booth attracted large number of visitors who tion of many world's leading medical companies, which Several lectures were delivered during the conference successful conference and Dr. Sami Al Manea Head of inquired about the company's products and services. A was represented in our booth this year in the conference, by a large number of specialists from Gulf Countries, Kuwait Dental Association and Secretary General of Arab professional team representing Al-Sayer Medical Company by dedicating a place for workshops for our visitors of doc- Arab Countries, US, Canada, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Dentists Union and Dr. Eyad Al Makeet Head of Conference assisted the visitors with regard to the technical informa- tors to practically experience the latest equipment and dis- Brazil and south Africa. The conference was a great plat- who contributed to the development of dentistry services tion and details of the displayed products. played products under the supervision of a specialized form to explore the latest medical devices and equip- in Kuwait giving the opportunity for professionals to Dr. Ali Al Obaidi H.E. Minister of Health visited Al-Sayer's global team from our principals" Dr. Afify added.

GUST's Global Studies Center hosts Seminar on the Geopolitics of Food Security

ulf University for Science and Technology's (GUST) also its largest importer of food. Global food value chains and Global Studies Center (GSC), in coordination with the a sustainable management of the water-energy-food nexus GKuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science are crucial for its future." (KFAS), hosted a seminar titled "The Geopolitics of Food The lecture, which lasted for 45 minutes, was followed by a Security: New Players in Global Value Chains and what it Q&A session where attendees had the chance to question and Means for Food Importers in the Middle East". The session was discuss Prof. Weortz's arguments. led by Prof. Eckart Woertz, a scientific advisor to the Kuwait The GSC was founded in 2015 year in partnership with the Chair at Sciences Po in Paris, and was attended by students, National University of Singapore, and aims to conduct cut- faculty, and the general public. ting-edge research on cross-national political, economic, The purpose of the seminar was to provide a Middle social, cultural, and environmental issues of critical impor- Eastern frame of reference to the Gulf food system and the tance, and share research output and information regionally way their societies are situated within the global food-produc- and globally. It seeks to foster public understanding of global tion economy. This included going through earlier Gulf invest- issues and support the policy-making processes of concerned ment attempts in the 1970s, and how they fit in the newly states. emerging geo-economic landscape of global food markets. Previous events hosted by the GSC include a discussion to Dr. Eckart then related this to the wake of the global food cri- commemorate the 25th anniversary of the liberation of sis of 2008, where Middle Eastern oil producers announced Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, sponsored by the US Embassy multi-billion dollar investments to secure food supplies from in Kuwait, a lecture by Dr. Peter Sluglett, an expert on Middle outside the region. He also highlighted the controversy of Eastern history and Director of the Middle East Institute at these investments at the heart of the global food security NUS, entitled: "An Improvement on Colonialism? The 'A' challenge that put the Middle East in the spotlight of simulta- Mandates and their Legacy in the Middle East", and one by Dr. neous global crises in the fields of food, finance, and energy. Daniel Brumberg, the Kuwait Program Visiting Professor at the Speaking ahead of the lecture, prof. Woertz, said, "The Paris School of International Affairs, on US-Arab Relations in a JW Marriott Kuwait holds a dinner Middle East is not only the world's largest oil exporter, but Time of Crisis. for La Chaine des Rotisseurs

W Marriott Kuwait held a casual dinner for La In addition, the menu features decadent desserts, Chaine des Rotisseurs Bailliage du Koweit including bitter chocolate mousse cake, exotic fruit JMembers to celebrate the opening of its new platters, crËme br˚lÈe and the famous New York restaurant 'Crossroads'. cheese cake. And for beverages, the menu provides The dinner was kicked off by a speech given by an array of exotic fruit and vegetable drinks. the Cluster General Manager of Kuwait Marriott One of the restaurant's unique features is the Hotels, Mr. George Aoun, in which he thanked the open kitchen, which enables guests to see and smell Chaine members for attending the dinner and their food choices while chefs are preparing them. explained the concept of the new restaurant Furthermore, the different food stations at 'Crossroads'. Crossroads are seamlessly fused within the large and Guests were treated to an exquisite buffet featur- elegant dining space, to allow guests to enjoy an ing dishes from all over the world, including Italian, exciting and fun experience. Indian, Asian and Mediterranean delicacies. The Cluster General Manager of Marriott Hotels in restaurant also offers extensive a la carte menus with Kuwait, Mr. George Aoun said 'with this new addi- regional and international dishes such as latin chur- tion, we are looking to move away from the tradi- rasco, five-spice rosemary bbqued ribs, Sicilian style tional dining concept and provide guests with a seabass, pan-roasted salmon and cilantro prawns. more enjoyable dining experience. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 Douha Hayba to head the Marketing & PR Department at Movenpick Hotel & Resort Al Bida'a

ovenpick Hotel & Resort Al Bida'a has announced its appointment of MDouha Hayba as the hotel's Marketing & PR Manager. Prior to her appointment, Douha was a valuable member of the hotel's Meetings & Events sales team where she has joined in 2014 and had a remarkable track record and accordingly was promoted to Meetings & Events Sales Manager. Due to her diligence and excellence in the field of Marketing and Public Relations, she has been selected by the hotel man- agement to take over the post of Marketing & PR Manager and spearhead the depart- Constitution Day program held ment's operation. Mr. Maged Gubr, the hotel's General Manager, has congratulated Douha on her in the Indian Embassy auditorium appointment and stressed on his confi- dence of her ability and skills to further develop the hotel's Marketing Department. he benevolent presence of His Excellency Sunil Jain, the Indian Ambassador to Kuwait, distinguished Tguests, and the large audience including teachers, students and parents added the sparkling light in the Constitution Day program held in the Indian Embassy audi- Marc Guenther appointed as torium. This event was conducted as part of the year - long nationwide celebrations to mark the 125th birth anniver- the new General Manager at sary Dr Ambedkar, the chairman of the historic drafting committee of Indian Constitution. The Regency Hotel Kuwait A.K. Srivastava, Second Secretary - Community Welfare welcomed the gathering. The Ambassador and officials paid floral tribute to Dr B.R. Ambedkar. arc brings to The Regency Hotel unveil my experience for the mutual Pani J Anthony, Recipient of Dr Ambedkar National Kuwait more than 20 years of success and to keep this property at Award, MUN Speaker and HR Manager, in his inspiring Mhigh standards hospitality the leading board of luxury hotels" speech on Indian Constitution and National integration, experience across Europe, Asia and the said: Marc Guenther, General Manager- thanked the Embassy for their good efforts in arranging Middle East, with a strong emphasis on The Regency Hotel Kuwait. such awareness program, and for the Good Samaritan role Food & Beverage operations. played for the people irrespective of seasons and situa- He has enjoyed successful tenures tions, it won a thunderous applause from the audience. His with established global hotel chains sudden quizzing was answered by Naman Singh, student such as Kempinski Hotels, Hilton of Indian English Academy School, Salmiya. Worldwide and other luxury hotels in numerous countries including the UAE, Jordan, Indonesia, Germany and Russia. "I believe his broad range of expertise will be valuable to The Regency Hotel Kuwait thus we continue positioning ourselves as the leading hotel in Kuwait and Marc will play a distinguished role when it comes to our many extension and enhancement projects that will maintain the position of The Regency Hotel at the forefront of ultra-luxury hotels in Kuwait and the Middle East" said Jameel Al Sane, Chairman and CEO, Abdul Razzaq Al Sane & Sons Group. "Kuwait is an exciting country and I got fascinated at my first step inside the hotel premises. It is a splendid property with an opulent heritage, since its initial opening back in 1981 and re-opening in 2009. I am delight- ed and proud to join the team and THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

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10:10 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:20 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:10 DLH 634 Doha 21:35 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 MEA 402 Beirut 21:20 JZR 778 Jeddah 10:30 FDB 5054 Dubai 21:50 SYR 341 Damascus 11:00 ALK 229 Colombo 21:25 FDB 056 Dubai 10:35 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 KAC 774 Riyadh 11:05 UAE 859 Dubai 21:40 QTR 1071 Doha 10:40 JAI 571 Mumbai 21:55 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:15 KAC 676 Dubai 21:45 SVA 513 Riyadh 11:00 KAC 205 Islamabad 22:00 MSC 403 Asyut 11:15 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 IRA 672 Ahwaz 11:10 KAC 351 Kochi 22:00 JZR 165 Dubai 11:30 KAC 174 Munich 22:00 AVV 654 Asyut 11:10 KAC 783 Jeddah 22:10 FDK 801 Damascus 11:45 QTR 1082 Doha 22:00 KAC 501 Beirut 11:15 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 MEA 404 Beirut 11:55 KLM 417 Amsterdam 22:05 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:25 MEA 403 Beirut 22:20 KAC 744 Dammam 12:10 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:05 RBG 554 Alexandria 11:55 ALK 230 Colombo 22:25 FEG 953 Asyut 12:35 NIA 151 Cairo 22:10 SYR 342 Damascus 12:00 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:30 JZR 561 Sohag 12:40 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:15 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:05 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:45 JZR 239 Amman 12:45 AIC 981 Chennai/Ahmedabad 22:25 KAC 661 Abu Dhabi 12:05 KAC 1543 Cairo 22:45 FDB 075 Dubai 12:50 JZR 241 Amman 22:45 MSC 404 Asyut 12:15 KAC 381 Delhi 22:45 UAE 860 Dubai 22:55 UAE 871 Dubai 12:50 JZR 185 Dubai 23:15 FDK 802 Damascus 12:45 KLM 417 Dammam/Amsterdam 23:05 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 KAC 156 Istanbul 23:25 MEA 405 Beirut 12:55 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:05 AXB 393 Kozhikode 13:10 FDB 071 Dubai 23:45 FEG 934 Sohag 13:35 NIA 152 Cairo 23:10 JZR 1333 Al Najaf 13:25 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:50 JZR 176 Dubai 13:45 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 stars34 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

CROSSWORD 1447 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) It is important to take all the time you need in order to get clear about your Acting on impulse can lead you in the wrong direction this wednesday, so situation in the workplace. You may want more flexibility or you may want less. watch for the tendency to become rushed: you could regret your response. Now is not the Whatever the situation, now may be the time to look within the company for which you time for you to initiate any big changes. Continue with your hard work and pay attention work and find a new and perhaps, more suitable job for yourself. You want to be able to to the details-you will see great results. You may have to take more time with a particular change with the times and much of your desire comes from the new technological customer or project today as complications or delays are sure to happen. A new energy developments. Don’t be caught sleeping at the switch, thinking things will remain the shift and whatever you do in the professional realm will have positive results but it won’t same. They will not, and if you do not prepare yourself to deal with change you could come without effort. Making friends is easy for you. You extend a hand in kindness today- find the rug pulled out from under you! Now is a time to gather and exchange informa- perhaps to a new co-worker. A get-together with friends after work is valuable if work tion that prepares you for staying on top of things. issues are not in any of your conversations.

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

Before work begins today you may enjoy breakfast at a bagel shop near Moody, even dreamy, describes the emotions most of this day. A practical your office. Money, sex, health and travel may be the many topics of discussion. There way of thinking may be hard to find. You set your mind to completing your work and by could be a lot of fun conversations. You show off your ideas for the workplace. The abili- making sure to take your breaks-you do well as the day proceeds. This is a time when you ty to communicate with superiors comes easily. Practicality and clarity are most impor- desire material success and are looking to receive a considerable monetary gain. An unfo- tant to you at this time. Breakthroughs in your career could open up now, making it pos- cused mind can be just as bad as a stress-filled day so keep a notepad handy for your stray sible for you to solve problems and reach new levels of accomplishment. Improved solu- thoughts, let them go and then get back into a steady flow of work. Your psychic and intu- tions and insights make this an opportunity not to be passed. Take care of the necessary itive nature is very strong. You feel and sense things that others do not. Tonight you will underpinnings of life-health, work and such. Being with somebody that has the same be able to create a balance as you read your own horoscope or perhaps you will order a thinking as you is fun this evening. horoscope for an upcoming new birth in your family.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Today may bring opportunities to change your professional position in the You listen to the viewpoints of others and you can be most patient when workplace. There could also be a turning point that may require some care- you really feel like plunging ahead. Today, you are an expert at saying no without saying the word, “no.” you prosper by following your own principles at this time. 82. A port city in southern Wales on an ful thought on your part. Be open to the ideas and feelings of others. There is a need for ACROSS new information and fresh opinions. You can make great headway with whatever you are You know what is best for you and you keep to your own path. Many of your challenges 1. Inquire about. inlet of the Bristol Channel. involved with just now. This could be in personal life and in business. Projects you have for the remainder of this year will only come when you stray from the plans you have 4. A town in southeastern New Mexico on 83. A loose sleeveless outer garment not been giving much attention to lately may be completed this afternoon. It looks as if already made. You work well in group settings. You will be able to help the group stay on- the Pecos River near the Mexican border. made from aba cloth. you could receive the help you have been wanting at home. Be attentive, there is a need path. Higher-ups are watching-they see the management capabilities you exhibit. A heal- 12. Any of various long-tailed rodents sim- to take plenty of time with tools on the home front this evening. Pay attention to what ing between friends takes place tonight. You will enjoy the celebrations this evening! Surprises come from everywhere. ilar to but larger than a mouse. DOWN you are doing. Acting on impulse can lead to false starts. Relax to music. 15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in 1. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- which the pilot is talked down by ground cially in Turkey). control using precision approach radar. 2. The act of scanning. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. A large group of islands in the south 3. God of love and erotic desire. Pacific including Melanesia and 4. A sheath worn to protect a finger. Your goals stand in stark contrast to the goals of others now: adjustments This is a great workday. Much can be accomplished. You may be sought after Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes 5. Ending in a sharp point. and compromises must be made in the interest of harmony. Failure to take as just the person to enter into a problem-solving exercise. Your directional such steps can increase tension between you and others-especially those closest to you. abilities, plus the talent of getting to the core of a situation, are in high focus. This is a pro- Australasia and the Malay Archipelago). 6. Brought back to original condition. Now is the time to act, because it does not get easier if you let the moment slip away. gressive day in which plans can be made and finding your way through just about any 17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 7. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta Women play an important role in making your business or professional life more lucrative. problem ends positively-you feel successful. Good advice from a guide or older person is 18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). with sauce and cheese and meat or veg- A business social is where you can talk with people in the business world that have ideas available if you need it. This is a time to expand your expectations both intellectually and 19. Oriental moth that produces brownish etables. of places to apply for a new job or job change. Your home and family environment is likely spiritually. Education, publishing, broadcasting, the law, politics and advertising offer silk. 8. Resembling a serpent in form. to be the scene of a few challenges. It is important to take action aimed at dealing with opportunities, if you are on the lookout for them. Discussions of travel prevail tonight. 20. A Russian peasant (especially prior to 9. A state of northeastern India. changes of this sort-otherwise, a sense of insecurity can develop. Perhaps some solid plans can be made about direction and expenses. 1917). 10. A radioactive element of the actinide 21. Type genus of the Anatidae. series. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 23. A member of an Indian people former- 11. Fallow deer. Leo (July 23-August 22) ly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana 12. The seventh month of the Moslem cal- You put a lot of pleasure into being single, and then on the other hand, you Ideas and communication with others about your ideas help you to adjust and Texas. endar. think you might be content in a couple relationship. This is the kind of thinking that fills your own plans. You may find yourself moving toward a different job iden- tification because of some newly discovered talent. Information that you have been 25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike 13. A blue dye obtained from plants or your mind. It could be that it has been a long time since you have seriously dated. examining and thinking about will now begin to take shape. This next period is one of Someone special may be pushing you for an answer with regard to marriage. Whatever part of an organism. made synthetically. embarking on new projects. You will feel more confident and outgoing. Social relation- the case, couple-hood is on your mind. You may find yourself asking questions of your co- 26. An aircraft that is supported in flight 14. The basic unit of money in ships are a special focus now. Travel and animated discussions play a part in this and could worker friends and sizing up people that seem happy in a relationship. New means of self- Bangladesh. be less than satisfying in some respects. Important financial decisions require more infor- by unpowered rotating horizontal wings expression and communication are possible at this time-there is new technology to learn. mation than you realize just now. It’s important to gather all the facts necessary to give (or blades). 22. Low tree ferns with large fronds. You may find yourself wanting to change your appearance today. In-depth discussions you a realistic idea of what you are getting into, particularly in owning property. 29. Any of various ferns of the genus 24. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool tem- find you at your mental best. Dryopteris. perate regions. 32. American prizefighter who won the 27. A city in the European part of Russia. world heavyweight championship three 28. Being three more than fifty. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) times (born in 1942). 30. An informal word (abstracted from 35. Scale-like structure between the base words with this ending) for some uniden- Do not be tempted by easy ways to make money or become involved in Careful today-your drive and passions may put you at odds with authority of the wing and the halter of a two- tified branch of knowledge. risky ventures. Someone will try to get you to invest or purchase a product that is ques- figures. There is a tendency just now toward clashes and emotional confrontations. Put winged fly. 31. Being on the outside or further from a tionable for a very tempting price. Good results happen if you check credentials, seek your investigative techniques to work and look for the opportunity to improve-not neces- financial advice or compare products. Any plans made today that include ways in which sarily to report or complain. You have a lot of ideas for improving a variety of life situations. 36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. center. you could increase your income will be productive. This could include teaching, consulta- Now is the time to express yourself. A clear-minded insight into new plans and methods is 38. Wading birds of warm regions having 33. Of a pale purple color. tion or part-time work. There is clear insight into your own plans and methods of working available to you this afternoon. All of us play the role of the caregiver from time to time. It long slender down-curved bills. 34. The fourth month of the Hindu calen- this afternoon. This is a good time to make decisions in your own professional life or to is just as important to give love as it is to receive it. Today, you teach the people you care 40. Memorization by repetition. dar. create a presentation or proposal that will show your superiors a way to help improve for to share their competence and strength as well as their problems and vulnerability. 45. Small genus of dioecious tropical 37. Half the width of an em. business. Some form of social entertainment is enjoyed this evening. You encourage communication. aquatic plants. 39. Cheese containing a blue mold. 47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or 41. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped BB gun. roll with hard crust. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 48. The azimuth of a celestial body is the 42. The blood group whose red cells carry angle between the vertical plane contain- both the A and B antigens. ing it and the plane of the meridian. 43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the 49. The sense organ for hearing and equi- earth and mother of Cronus and the librium. Titans in ancient mythology. 50. Large hardy shrub with showy and 44. A member of a Turkic people of strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in Uzbekistan and neighboring areas. short terminal racemes. 46. Adorned by inlays. 54. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug 51. 100 avos equal 1 pataca. (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and 52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity. Aflaxen). 53. By bad luck. 56. Any of numerous local fertility and 55. Normal relaxed breathing. nature deities worshipped by ancient 58. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium. Semitic peoples. 59. Large dark brown North American 57. Fleshy folds of tissue as those sur- arboreal carnivorous mammal. rounding the mouth. 61. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and 60. Using the voice. earth. 62. The Mongol people living the the cen- 63. A genus of Lamnidae. tral and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia. 64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked 66. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the on a skewer usually with vegetables. family Burseraceae and used as incense. 65. Jordan's port. 68. A large indefinite number. 67. Female equine animal. 71. A branch of the Tai languages. 69. A persistently annoying person. 72. (archaic) The emperor of Japan. 70. Hinge joint in the human leg connect- 74. A group of southern Bantu languages. ing the tibia and fibula with the femur and 76. A master's degree in business. protected in front by the patella. 77. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that 73. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abun- was formed by an explosion. dance and fertility. 78. Experiencing or manifesting pleasure. 75. An agency of the United Nations affili- 80. Tag the base runner to get him out. ated with the World Bank. 81. An inflammatory disease involving the 79. A radioactive transuranic element syn- sebaceous glands of the skin. thesized from californium.

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arrie Fisher took four years to accept that she had bipolar disorder. The 60- tled bipolar disorder. She explained: "Initially I didn't like the groups. I felt like I had year-old actress - who is best known for portraying Princess Leia in the 'Star been banished to sit with a group of other misfits like myself to sit still for an hour. CWars' franchise - was diagnosed with the mental health condition, that is But then someone said, 'You don't have to like these meetings, you just have to go, marked by sharp mood swings at the age of 24, but she was initially unwilling to go until you like them.' "That took me by surprise. I didn't have to like something I accept the situation. She shared: "I was told that I was bipolar when I was 24 but was did? Wow, what a concept. I thought I had to like everything - so I would wait to be unable to accept that diagnosis until I was 28 when I overdosed and finally got sober. OK with something and if I didn't get there it was permission to give up. "But if I did- Only then was I able to see nothing else could explain away my behavior." Carrie sub- n't have to like it - if I just had to effectively put my head down and move through sequently started attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as she finally came to terms some uncomfortable feelings till I got to the other side - what a notion! "My comfort with her own troubles. Acting as an agony aunt for readers of The Guardian newspa- wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult per in a feature dubbed 'Advice from the dark side', she spilled: "Going to AA helped feelings was. However long it might seem to take and however unfair it might seem, me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to it was my job to do it." talk about them and find relief and humor through that." Carrie was initially reluctant to attend the AA meetings, but she soon came to see the value in them as she bat-

Kate Mara dumped boyfriend for Super Bowl trophydent

ate Mara dumped her boyfriend after he dented her family's Super Bowl trophy. The 33-year-old Kstar's uncle John Mara owns the New York Giants American football side and after they won the NFL tournament in 2008 she took her then-boyfriend, who she hasn't named, to her parents' house to see the famous Vince Lombardi Trophy, but he dropped the sil- verware and booted it with steel-capped footwear. Kate - who has previously dated British stars Charlie Cox and Max Minghella, and is currently in a relation- ship with Jamie Bell - said: "My parents, my mom specifically, was very excited about this. And she said [to Kate's ex], 'Would you like to see it? Would you like to hold it?' "He was a very enthusiastic man and he put on the gloves and then he went to lift up the trophy, but he lifted it up from the base, which we didn't know wasn't connected to the trophy, and it fell. "In slow- motion I saw, he was wearing these steel-toed boots, he was a pretty good soccer player and he kicked his foot up and caught the trophy with his boot and then caught it in his hands. "And he dented, just a tiny part. It never hit the ground though and I look over at my dad who is in the kitchen just watching the whole thing happen." Kate's father Timothy was formerly vice president for player evaluation for the Giants, but she also has an allegiance to NFL side Pittsburgh Steelers. Her mother Kathleen's side of the family, the Rooneys - which is where her sister Rooney Mara gets her stage name from - are the owners of the club. The Steelers are set to take on the Giants on Sunday but Kate admits it is a win-win situation for her. Speaking on talk show 'Conan', she added: "The good news is we always win. Someone's always happy."

Yolanda Hadid teaches Bella Hadid how to pose Kim Kardashian wants olanda Hadid taught daughter Bella did @LadyGaga #Sisterhood (sic)." And the home for Christmas Hadid how to pose for Victoria's Secret brunette beauty has revealed she is set to Kanye YFashion Show. The 52-year-old parent - have two costume changes during the fash- who is the daughter of supermodels Bella ion extravaganza, which will take place in im Kardashian West wants "nothing Christmas Day. The source added to and Gigi - has been praised by her youngest Paris, France, which will see her adorn an more" than to have Kanye West home HollywoodLife.com: "It is her current hope child as an "emotional angel" because she has embellished top made of 6000 crystals. Kfor Christmas. The 36-year-old reality and frame of mind and she is looking to make been supporting her brood prior to their However, Bella believes her sparkly attire TV star is desperate to spend the festive peri- it happen no matter what." It was previously appearance on the catwalk yesterday and has makes her look like a "disco ball". Speaking od with her rapper husband and their kids, thought Kanye - who had to cancel the advised her on the best way to stand when about her costume, she said: "I look like a dis- rather than him be in a hospital bed at the remaining dates of his 'Saint Pablo Tour' as a she hits the runway. Speaking to PEOPLE, the co ball. It's so beautiful and shiny." Meanwhile, UCLA Medical Center in Los Angles, where he result of his hospitalization - could be getting 20-year-old catwalk icon said: "[Yolanda is] Bella has revealed she "can't believe" she will was admitted for treatment for exhaustion out of the medical facility last Monday but my emotional angel. "She always makes me be modelling alongside her older sibling and and sleep deprivation last week. A source now it is not known when he might be feel so much better. Just like any mother "best friend" Gigi in her debut catwalk show said: "Even if Kanye is recommended by the allowed home with his family. When he is would. "She's just like, 'Shoulders back, be for the fashion house. The brunette beauty doctors to stay in the hospital for the foresee- released, the 'Flashing Lights' hitmaker's per- confident and walk strong.'" The 'Real took to social media to share her excitement, able future, Kim still wants him to be home sonal doctor will take care of him. Kim has Housewives of Beverly Hills' star has revealed which saw her share a picture of her and the for Christmas. "She would be happy for him been visiting him as much as possible in hos- she is "so excited" to see her daughters mod- 21 year old merrily skipping along hand in to return to the hospital afterwards, but Kim pital and will continue to help him as much as elling alongside one another in the lingerie hand. She captioned the Instagram post: wants nothing more than to be with her kids she can when he has released. A source giants showcase today. The proud parent "can't believe I get to experience all of this and Kanye in the comfort of their own home recently said: "Kim has been amazing. She shared a picture of Gigi and Bella cuddling up with my best friend! i LOVE you! (sic)." and not in the confines of a hospital bed for knew he couldn't keep going the way he was. to Lady Gaga, who will be performing at the Christmas." Kim - who has children North, She has been by his side through all of this, event, which she captioned: "I'am so excited three, and 11-month-old Saint, with the 39- helping to feed him and laying by his side." to see you girls tomorrow night...... #Paris# year-old star - is said to be hoping "no matter VictoriaSecret #MyGirls @gigihadid@bellaha- what" that he will be allowed out in time for Sarah Jessica Parker UK former first lady Samantha Cameron to open first-ever store launches fashion line arah Jessica Parker is set to open her "first" SJP designer has hinted she can't "actually believe" it is all coming Collection store. The 51-year-old actress has revealed true. Alongside a picture of the golden haired beauty - who early five months after leaving Downing Street, Britain's former first lady Safter "many trips" to Washington DC where she has been founded her footwear line in 2014 - wearing a high visibility Samantha Cameron has launched a fashion label-revealed, naturally, in discussing her designs and construction visits she will be jacket and hard hat consulting her team about her plans, NBritish Vogue magazine. The 45-year-old wife of former Conservative unveiling her debut shop on December 8, and the fashion which was shared to her Instagram account, she wrote: "Today prime minister David Cameron won many fans for her smart but modern style I reveal every detail of our long held secret! After many trips during his six years in office, drawing comparisons with US first lady Michelle on @amtrak to DC, on-site construction visits, meetings on Obama. Art school educated, Cameron was formerly the creative director of design and curating a very special collection we are opening luxury leather goods and stationery firm Smythson, where she remains a cre- our first standalone @sjpcollection store inside the brand new ative consultant, and has also been studying pattern-cutting. Free from the @mgmnationalharbor. The big launch is on December 8th and constraints of public life, she has now come up with her own collection of 40 I'm counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until we pieces which will go on sale early next year. "I felt that there was a lot of officially open the doors. Because perhaps then I will actually American and French brands out there that fit that bracket of designer con- believe it's real. Follow @sjpcollection to learn more over the temporary with the right price point and the right styling, but there aren't that coming weeks and months. X, Sj (sic)." Meanwhile, the 'Sex many British brands which fill that space," she told Vogue. She added: "I've and the City' star has revealed her daughters, Marion and spent a lot of time trying stuff on my friends." The brand name, Cefinn, is Tabitha - who she has with her husband Matthew Broderick - reportedly derived from her children's names- Elwen, Florence, Ivan and Nancy. are already thinking about ways to take over her empire Alexandra Shulman, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, was quoted in The Times because they have "designs" thought out that they're itching as saying that the collection had a broad appeal, predicting that it would be to put into practice to boost the company's success. Speaking popular as workwear. "Like all designers Samantha has reflected her own taste previously, she said: "Apparently one of my daughters is plot- in the clothes-they are quite simple well-cut shapes, hard-wearing with a lot of ting to take over mama's company. She has designs." However, concentration on the fabrics so that they won't look rubbish by the end of a Sarah isn't overly surprised as one of the twins is obsessed busy day and there are a lot of separates," she said. She added: "The collection with fashion. She explained: "I think she really likes being is above your average high street price but not anywhere near international bossy. No... I think she likes organizing things and kind of put- designer prices. "This slot in the shopping market is actually doing very well at ting things into action. If I walk on the stairs or they see me the moment so it's a good time for her to be launching." David Cameron getting dressed, they have opinions about what I'm wearing. resigned after the vote to leave the European Union, which he had opposed, They don't offer up design ideas yet, but I'm sure that's all and was succeeded by Theresa May on July 13. moments away."— Bang Showbiz THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES 'Westworld' actress reveals she was raped twice

S actress Evan Rachel Wood, who plays one of the lead- The actress, who is bisexual, said she had hesitated about ried to burlesque star Dita Von Teese. ing characters in the new hit TV series "Westworld," has coming forward in the past for fear of being accused of seek- "I met somebody that promised freedom and expression Uspoken out about being raped twice in an open letter ing attention or being told "it wasn't a big deal or that's not and no judgments," she told the magazine. Wood plays she posted on Twitter. The 29-year-old said she had revealed really rape." "I don't believe we live in a time where people can Dolores, an android in the sci-fi series "Westworld" based on the attacks in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine and stay silent any longer. I certainly can't," she wrote. "Not given the 1973 movie of the same name about a Western theme decided to also share her story on social media as she did not the state our world is in with its blatant bigotry and sexism." park of the future. In the first episode, her character is shown want to "stay silent any longer." The actress said she had been Wood said although she was happy in her life, she was "still being dragged off to be raped. The actress posted a message raped by a "significant other" and then by the owner of a bar. not ok." on Twitter on Tuesday, several hours after sharing her letter, "The first time I was unsure that if it was done by a partner saying that she would be taking a break from social media. it was still in fact rape, until too late," Wood wrote. "Also who 'You are not alone' "Thank you for all your support and courageous stories. would believe me. "And the second time, I thought it was my "I think it's important for people to know that, for survivors You are not alone. xo," she tweeted. Fans posted encouraging fault and that I should have fought back more, but I was to own that, and that the pressure to just get over it already, messages on her Twitter feed, hailing her as a role model and scared." She said the attacks took place "many, many years should be lifted," said the star, who was briefly married to vowing support. "We'll be here when you come back!" one fan ago" and that she had come to understand that she was not at actor Jamie Bell and had a son with him in 2013. The actress tweeted. — AFP fault. The star added in her Twitter posting as well as the also defended her past controversial relationship with the This file photo shows actress Evan Rachel Wood arriving Rolling Stone interview that she believes the assaults were rock star Marilyn Manson in the Rolling Stone interview, say- for the Gala In The Garden honoring musician Joni "one of the many factors" that played a part in an attempt to ing she was "craving danger and excitement" when she met Mitchell and artist Mark Bradford at the Hammer Museum commit suicide at age 22. him at age 18 in Los Angeles. He was 36 at the time and mar- in Los Angeles, California. — AP Dolly Parton heartbroken by Preacher turns unlikely wildfires torching her hometown rocker with Broken Bones ith a rich, soulful voice that soars More bank teller than rock star ountry music icon Dolly Parton says wasn't damaged but more than a dozen cab- high and deep, Paul Janeway has Janeway's voice-graceful but erupting into she's heartbroken about wildfires that ins operated by the park were damaged or commanded growing crowds as the forceful, brassy fermatas-calls to mind not tore through the Tennessee county destroyed by the wildfires. W C frontman of his band St Paul and The Broken only Baptist preachers but also soul masters where she grew up but spared the Dollywood Parton is scheduled to appear on NBC's Bones. But Janeway has little interest in the such as Al Green and the late Otis Redding. theme park that bears her name. In a state- "The Voice" on Tuesday night, her representa- rock 'n' roll lifestyle. The affable 33-year-old Janeway, who is white, tackles his conserva- ment released Tuesday by her publicists, tives had previously announced. She will per- said he learned how to lead the enthusiastic tive state's political and racial fault-lines Parton said she's been watching the "terrible form her 1973 hit song "Jolene" with Miley audiences at rock venues from spending his through the music, but with the subtlety of a fires" in the Great Smoky Mountains. At least Cyrus and Pentatonix. Parton is a native of teenage years training as a preacher. "In reflective religious scholar. On "Sea of Noise," 14,000 people have been forced to evacuate Sevier County, Tennessee, which includes church, there were moments when you the second album by St. Paul and The Broken the tourist area of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. both Gatlinburg and nearby Pigeon Forge, thought you were connecting as a people, Bones which was released in September, Three people were killed in the wildfires, and according to historical documents on the and I think music has the ability to do that," Janeway bends gender on "I'll Be Your more than a dozen others were injured, park's website. In the mid-1980s, Parton part- Janeway, sipping a bottle of cola, said in the Woman" and repeatedly muses on questions authorities said. "I am praying for all the fami- nered with the Herschend family who ran the drawl of his native Alabama as he prepared to of faith. lies affected by the fire and the firefighters park, then known as Silver Dollar City. It play a sold-out show before 3,000 people at "All the people they are praying / But there who are working so hard to keep everyone opened under the new name of Dollywood in New York's Terminal 5 club. ain't love no more / Just bullets and hate," he safe," she said. 1986. — AP "With any great public speaker, there is a sings on "Waves." With a band with roots in In a video released just hours before the rhythm to the way they speak, and the tone- soul but also R&B and rock, St Paul and The wildfires engulfed Gatlinburg and areas the high and low, being captivated, keeping Broken Bones has drawn inevitable parallels around Pigeon Forge, Parton urged people to someone's attention, understanding valleys to Alabama Shakes, a fellow group from the prevent forest fires. Parton appears with In this file photo, Dolly and peaks," he said. "That's how we write a Southern state that has quickly won success Smokey Bear in the 30-second video released Parton poses in the press set-list. We'll take 'em all the way up here and through acclaim for a gifted singer. Yet Sunday by Great Smoky Mountains National room with the Willie Nelson take 'em down-kind of an emotional roller- Janeway, who in January will lead his band on Park. She tells people to avoid burning leaves Lifetime Achievement coaster in a way." The bespectacled Janeway- its latest tour of Europe, is strikingly fatalistic and parking vehicles on dry grass, and warns Award during the 50th who still looks more like a Bible student than about his rising fame. "This was not a dream that even a campfire can spark a wildfire. annual CMA Awards in a rock star-went to church for as long as he realized," he said of his music career. "It was a Dollywood officials said the theme park itself Nashville, Tenn. — AP knew and at 11, a pastor took him under his realization just that this was what I was sup- wing, letting him preach-or "perform," as posed to be doing." Janeway also described it-on select days. "In my family, you work hard and you put Janeway's faith eventually grew complex. He your head down," he said. "I was a bank teller Indian court orders cinemas to play national anthem embraces the power of religious experience, for a little while. I approach it in the same but is no longer observant in the way of his way." Janeway demands little on tour except youth. plenty of water to preserve his voice. After ll cinemas must play the national anthem Abhinav Shrivastava, the lawyer for the private should stand. "I thought that was what I wanted to do-I each show, Janeway, who is married, said he before screening movies and audiences plaintiff in the case. Playing the national anthem "would instill a wanted to be a preacher for the rest of my generally returns to his hotel room and reads Ashould stand for it, India's highest court Many cinemas already play the national anthem sense of committed patriotism and nationalism", life. And then I got to be 19 or so, and I just a book. "I never drank alcohol and I never ruled yesterday, drawing angry accusations of an before screenings, but only the western state of they said. The ruling drew sharp criticism, with kind of fell out of love with it," he said. smoked a cigarette. I don't participate," he assault on civil liberties. The Supreme Court panel Maharashtra has made it mandatory to do so, and many saying it was a violation of civil liberties. "It is Janeway grew up with limited exposure to said with a laugh. "I have bad language, but said cinemas should display the national flag on the issue of whether audiences should be made to bad enough for the Supreme Court to scorn indi- rock, with his mother strictly controling the that's about it. — AFP the screen as the anthem was played, and that stand has long been the subject of debate. "When vidual freedom. To do so on an issue as unserious music at home. "I could listen to Gospel making people stand up would instill a sense of the national anthem is played it is imperative for and arbitrary as what should be done at cinema music, of course, and any sort of religious patriotism. "The national anthem has to be played everyone to show honor and respect," the judges halls is terrible," wrote Nitin Pai, founder of the music and then a little bit of soul," he said, in cinema halls before the feature film is played said, according to the Livelaw news website, a Takshashila Institution think tank, in a blog post. explaining with a grin: "Marvin Gaye pre- with the national flag displayed on the screen," said comment Indian media said meant audiences The issue has long been controversial in India, 'Let's Get It On.' A little safer!" where some liberals say freedom of speech is being stifled by the right-wing nationalist government currently in power. Last month a disabled man described how he was attacked in a cinema in western India for failing to stand for the anthem. And in January a Bollywood scriptwriter was heckled inside a cinema in Mumbai after he refused to stand for the song. C Kalyan, vice presi- dent of the Film Federation of India, said producers favored the ruling as it would end the confusion. "We played it in some states, but now the court rul- ing is clear," Kalyan told AFP. Shekhar Kapur, the Indian film maker behind "Elizabeth" and "Bandit Queen", said he hoped the court would also order the parliament to sing the national anthem. "Often its drama too is movie-like," he tweeted. — AFP

In this photograph taken on October 7, 2011, movie the- atre hall watchman Mahendra Pratap Rai, 65, sits In this file photo Paul Janeway, lead singer of the US soul band St Paul and The Broken at the Eros theatre in Bones, performing on stage during the Rock-en-Seine music festival in Saint-Cloud near Mumbai. — AFP Paris, France. — AP

In 'Jackie,' a fractured Kennedy fable Review istory, lately run amok, is ordered with such tidy, force- ful finesse by Natalie Portman's Jacqueline Kennedy in Hin the piercing "Jackie." Summoning a journalist to Hyannis Port in 1963, not long after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, she coolly sets the record for her late husband's legacy, coining "Camelot" and shaping the mythology. Some details that don't fit the narrative she simply crosses out. "I don't smoke," she tells the Life magazine reporter (Billy Crudup), with a cigarette dangling between her fingers. Pablo Larrain's "Jackie," a work of probing intimacy and shattered stereotype, is an electrifyingly fractured portrait of the former First Lady. Gone is the image of the wan, serene Jackie. Here, instead, is a savvy public-relations operator, a steely widow in grief and a woman redefining herself amid tragedy. "I'm his wi-" she begins saying after Dallas. "Whatever I am now." The more complicated view of the mysterious Kennedy is inspired partly by the revelatory private interviews conduct- ed by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and released in 2011. She was This image released by Fox Searchlight shows Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in the This image released by Fox Searchlight shows Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in a not purely her pillbox-wearing public image, not merely a film, "Jackie." — AP photos scene from the film, "Jackie." totem of grace, the candid tapes revealed. Throughout "Jackie," we feel her discomfort at playing a starring role in an pained public performance is a kind of sacrifice. "Jackie" is at White House tour (recreated with black-and-white precision), what they've been writing?" she first greets the reporter. "It's American fairy tale turned nightmare. The disharmony, sound- once a deconstruction of the Jackie Kennedy fable and a are familiar. Others are strikingly surreal. Kennedy silently no way to be remembered." Portman's Kennedy is, from the ed by Mica Levi's knotted, gloomy score, is always there dramatization of its making. Penned by Noah Oppenheim marching through a vacant White House, her pink suit blood- start, probably thornier and more uneasy than the woman between persona and person. ("The Maze Runner"), "Jackie" evades the traditional biopic for- ied from the shooting, is an unshakable image that feels ever was. Portman and Larrain have sharpened her and super- mat like a disease. It's organized around the Hyannis Port straight out of Kubrick. imposed her story on a rigorously crafted but resolutely cold Before the assassination interview with flashbacks to events large and small before the And then there's Kennedy stomping through rainy surface. "Jackie," though endlessly fascinating, can feel like a "We're the beautiful people, right?" she sarcastically quips. assassination, during it and after. Many of the scenes, quiet Arlington, her heels digging into the wet ground. Seeking a character study conducted on a surgical table.—AP Exiting Air Force One, she deadpans to her husband (Caspar and empty, are shot less like flashbacks than like Kennedy's spot for what will be the Eternal Flame, she is, through force of Phillipson), "I love crowds." In Larrain's hands, Kennedy's own splintered, haunted memories. Some, like her televised will, staking a plot in history for her husband. "Have you read lifestyle THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

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Personal belongings of the leader of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso A dummy behind bars representing the leader of the terrorist group Sendero A police officer stands near a painting depicting the leader of the terrorist (Shining Path), Abimael Guzman, and other stuff related to the group, are dis- Luminoso (Shining Path)and Abimael Guzman is displayed. group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). played in a small museum at the anti-terrorist direction Dircote dedicated to Guzman and his guerrilla, in Lima. — AFP photos Peru museum of Maoist rebels bears warning for future n a gloomy room in Peru's anti-terrorism police head- quarters lies a trove of old red flags and books of Marx, Iseized from jailed communist rebel leader Abimael Guzman. Now the police officers who curate this mini- museum in Lima fear a new generation could be dusting off the legacy of the leader of the dreaded Shining Path guerrilla force. In one corner, dressed in striped convict's overalls with his trademark brown sunglasses and bushy black beard, stands a lopsided effigy of Guzman himself- shut in a cage. That is how many Peruvians prefer to think of the insurgent, who turns 82 on Saturday. His fighters waged a two-decade fight against the Peruvian state that authorities say left 70,000 dead.

Bloody history Personal belongings of the leader of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), Among the collection-open for visits only by appoint- Abimael Guzman is displayed. ment-are personal effects taken from other Shining Path followers who were jailed over the years. Peru turned a page on a dark, bloody period in its history when Guzman was captured in 1992 and handed a permanent life sen- tence. But officials warn that now two political groups are trying to revive his legacy. The Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights (MOVADEF) is a group of families of imprisoned guerrillas, considered by police to be the Political path Personal belongings of the Shining Path's political wing. MOVADEF and FUDEPP have tried to run for office in elec- leader of the terrorist group Another allied group is also active, police say: the tions but have met with legal obstacles. Authorities fear their Sendero Luminoso (Shining People's Unity and Defense Front (FUDEPP). "The aim of political efforts are a prelude to more violence. In September, Path), Abimael Guzman, the museum is to show that the message of Guzman's cult a court barred them from seeking office until they formally and other stuff related to was one of death and destruction," says Jorge Luis Pinzas, renounce Guzman's teachings of violence. Authorities esti- the group, are displayed in the retired police colonel who looks after the museum. mate some 400 members of what remains of Shining Path are a small museum. "That is something that the young people who did not live engaged in drug trafficking in the remote southeast. through the time of terrorism have to learn, now that The two political groups meanwhile have some 2,500 MOVADEF is trying to recruit them." members -- 70 percent of the students, police say. They demand a general amnesty for all who took part in the con- Preying on poor flict on both sides-including Guzman. His lawyers meanwhile Peru has enjoyed a relative economic boom in recent have tried unsuccessfully in the courts to reclaim his book col- years, but millions still live in poverty. And now growth is lection. The library occupies the walls of a whole room and slowing. Pinzas says the Maoist political groups are preying includes books by Karl Marx, Mao, Lenin and more. The books on the young and poor to revive Guzman's fundamentalist offer a tour through the political mind of the philosophy pro- message: that society should be rebuilt through violent fessor turned guerrilla. There is even an old travel guide: "How struggle. "Both groups are like wolves in sheep's clothing," To Travel Through Europe On Five Dollars a Day." — AP Personal belongings of the leader of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) says Pinzas. "They do not want a new society. They want to and Abimael Guzman is displayed. destroy it."

A booby trap used by the terrorist group Sendero Picture taken at a museum at the anti-terrorist direction Books on Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung that A dummy representing the leader of the terrorist group Luminoso (Shining Path) is displayed. Dircote that keeps some personal belongings of the leader belonged to the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), Abimael Guzman is dis- of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), Path), are seen in the small museum at the anti-terrorist direc- played. Abimael Guzman, and other stuff related to the group. tion Dircote dedicated to the group's leader Abimael Guzman. Giving chains: Holiday customers enjoy paying it forward

isa Ludwinski expects to sell more pie at her fee and doughnuts for others and give the recipi- Detroit bakery during the holiday season, ents printed cards asking them to "pay it forward Land not just to people enjoying it them- in memory of Luke." They find that these small selves. She anticipates that customers will buy gifts not only keep Luke's memory alive but pieces of pie for strangers through the shop's inspire others to perform "random acts of kind- "Pie-it-Forward" program. Ludwinski, owner of ness," she said. "We are so happy that people Sister Pie, launched the program last fall. continue to do this. It definitely lightens our Shoppers buy a coupon for a free slice of a pie, hearts." and the coupons get hung on a wall. Anyone Mason Wartman also has seen how powerful who visits can take one down to get some pie. pay-it-forward opportunities can be. He has giv- "It's a way to provide pie for a variety of peo- en away more than 70,000 slices of pizza paid for ple - people who are hungry or people who have by the customers of his Philadelphia restaurant, never been to our pie shop before," said Rosa's Fresh Pizza. The effort started a couple of Ludwinski, whose specialties include Salted years ago when a customer learned that home- Maple and Cranberry Crumble. Although the less people occasionally visited the eatery, which program runs year-round, Ludwinski has found sells pizza for $1 a slice. The customer offered to that customers are more enthusiastic about it pay in advance for a slice to be given to someone during the holidays. in need. He also told Wartman about an Italian Pay-it-forward programs seem to gain custom called "caffe sospeso," or suspended cof- momentum around Christmas. Customers at fee: Someone who has had good fortune pays Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts around the coun- for an extra cup of coffee to be given later to try have made headlines in recent Decembers by someone down on his luck. buying coffee for the person behind them in line Wartman decided to keep track of the prepaid - leading to chains of hundreds of free drinks in slices with sticky notes, which soon covered the streaks that can last for hours. Most people - walls of his restaurant. After the pay-it-forward even those who don't donate to charity - value program was featured on local and national generosity, and paying for someone's coffee is an media, the sticky notes became unwieldy and easy way to express that, said Patricia Snell Wartman created a button on the cash register to Herzog, an assistant professor of sociology and This photo provided by Lisa Ludwinski shows the Pie-it-Forward wall at Sister Pie in Detroit, Mich. — AP photos record the free slices. Customers like the program criminal justice at the University of Arkansas in front of you. This person in line is being really and asked the manager to give it, along with a Molly Shanahan, creative director for the restau- because they can see it helping others, he said. Fayetteville who co-authored "American generous. It makes you feel called to respond," note explaining the date's significance, to a fami- rant. Diners continued to load the card through "It's very transparent," he said. "My employees Generosity: Who Gives and Why" (Oxford she said. MaryJo Dunn was amazed when an ly having lunch at the restaurant. the next day. "It took off," said Shanahan. "It cre- never ask, would you like to donate today? It's just University Press, 2016). anonymous gift that she made in honor of her ated this energy. It inspired people. It was a out there. Everyone knows what we do." — AP "It just makes you feel good," she said. "It's like late son became a pay-it-forward phenomenon National media flame that ignited the whole place." smiling at someone. You're passing on visible at the First and Last Tavern in Glastonbury, The family that was chosen was celebrating For Dunn, whose son died of cancer in 2015, goodness." Also, nobody wants to be the person Connecticut. On Feb. 20, what would have been their son's birthday; they insisted on reloading the outpouring made a bad day more bearable. who breaks the chain, she said. "It's put right in Luke's second birthday, Dunn bought a gift card the card and giving it to another family, said She and her husband, Shane, routinely buy cof- lifestyle THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016

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Afghan men walk at the site of the giant Buddha statues, which were destroyed by the Taleban in 2001 in Bamiyan province.

An Afghan Hazara boy carrying a canister heads out to fetch water in Bamiyan province.

This picture shows the site of the giant Buddha statues, which were destroyed by the Taleban in 2001 in Bamiyan province. — AFP photos Rebuilding history? Debate rages over lost Afghan Buddhas

or centuries they stood, two monumental turies. It was the Buddhist history of the area that German restorers, in favor of reconstructing the ancient statues of Buddha carved into the the Taleban wanted to erase in the name of Islam, statues, have already rebuilt the feet of the smaller Fcliffs of Bamiyan, loved and revered by gener- when they blew the statues up in 2001. The explo- Buddha, nearly ten meters long. "We have some ations of Afghans -- only to be pulverized by the sions left deep cracks along the niches, which over fragments of the original Buddhas," says Bert Taleban in an act of cultural genocide. It felt like the years have expanded, weathered, the rock Praxenthaler, a Bavarian art historian who has the loss of family for many who live and tend their crumbling against the elements. worked in Bamiyan since 2003. "It would be a kind crops nearby-but some 15 years on they are hope- Greatly weakened the cliff threatens collapse, of statue with a lot of gaps and holes of course, but Afghan Hazara women walk along the road in Bamiyan province. ful these awe-inspiring relics can be reconstructed. Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento adds. "The focus for this is the first honorable approach to the history," But experts are divided on the value of rebuilding UNESCO is to preserve the remains of the statues," he argues. "If we have a really good funding, we the artefacts, with some insisting it is more impor- said Ghula Reza Mohammadi, representative of the could do it in a period of about five years." tant to preserve the remains of the entire crum- UN agency in Bamiyan. UNESCO has reinforced the bling site. niche of the Shamama with the help of Japanese Prevent another Palmyra Archaeologists and restorers, mostly Afghan, funding, and is now working on that of the Salsal, But why bother, wonders Bendezu-Sarmiento: German, Japanese and French, working in the enmeshed in giant scaffolding."Since 2001, German "In history so much has disappeared yet we have Bamiyan Valley in central Afghanistan will meet researchers have also worked on protecting the still kept the memory, the Buddhas will remain in from December 1-3 in Munich, Germany. There wall murals-there are more than 4,000 caves in the collective memory even so," he says. "Leaving they will try to move forward on the issue, as much Bamiyan and all of them have designs and were aside nostalgia, the urgency is rather to prevent it a matter of the conservation of the UNESCO World painted," says Ghula Reza. from happening again," he concluded, citing Heritage Site as of the memories and culture of a Palmyra, the Greco-Roman oasis in the Syrian brutalized community. All Afghans, especially the desert devastated in 2015 by the Islamic State peasants tending potatoes at the front of the cliffs, group. The debate surrounding the Buddhas is not mourn the loss of the tutelary silhouettes-the only technical, says Masanori Nagaoka, director of largest, the Salsal, was 56 meters high; its feminine cultural heritage at UNESCO in Kabul, arguing that version, the Shamama, 38 meters. consideration must also be given to ethical, They were blasted in April 2001 by the Taleban, humanitarian and human rights points of view. who had taken control of the province and killed "Statues are not just a physical representa- thousands of Hazara civilians, a Shiite Muslim tion... they have meaning for people, to represent Afghan Hazara children stand in front of the cave where they live with their family in minority in Bamiyan. "For us, they were like par- their history and their diversity of culture or in Bamiyan province. ents," said Hakim Safa, the 27-year-old representa- depth respect for religious dialogue. "So if the tive from the Afghan culture ministry selling tickets reconstruction of the Buddha statues would con- at the site. "I feel as though I had lost family." "In the tribute to revitalizing such memories or dignity, villages local people very much want the Buddhas this has to be (considered)," he added, describing to be rebuilt... They are always asking us, when will a rebuild as a potential "contribution to a peaceful you be ready to begin?" says Rassoul Chojai, pro- world." The debate will not be decided in Munich, fessor of archeology at the University of Bamiyan. where experts will simply agree on the work to But the statues were so thoroughly destroyed preserve the site-or in Abu Dhabi, where Afghan that it is not even clear if they ever could be recon- President Ashraf Ghani will attend a separate con- structed. UNESCO and the archaeologists have ference on safeguarding cultural heritage this gathered fragments, a clutter of rocks and stones weekend. But the question is already on the agen- of various sizes. But the bulk of the monuments has da of an international conference on Bamiyan simply vanished, reduced to dust. "The destruction next autumn in Tokyo. — AFP of the great Buddhas is total," confirms Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, director of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA) and member of the committee for the preservation of Bamiyan which will meet in Germany. The cliff, he says, is "pierced with thousands of decorated caves, connected by stairs, corridors, Photo shows the used in the past by monks and hermits" until the site of the giant slow arrival of Islam from the 8th to the 11th cen- Buddha statues. This picture shows the site of the giant Buddha statues.

Bradley Cooper to Star in World Jessica Rothe to star in War II Drama 'Atlantic Wall' MGM's musical radley Cooper has signed on to star in to the outcome of the war. He's also compelled 'Valley Girl' the World War II drama "Atlantic Wall" as to fulfill a promise to protect the young son of Ban American paratrooper operating a murdered ally. GM has tapped Jessica Rothe ("La portrayed the Alexis character in behind enemy lines. Gavin O'Connor will direct Related Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper's 'A Star La Land") as the female lead in Lionsgate's upcoming musical "La La Land," from a Black List script by Zach Dean. Is Born' Gets 2018 Release Date "We're thrilled MMGM's musical adaptation of the as one of the roommates of Emma Stone's Producers are Imperative Entertainment's Dan Imperative is bringing 'Atlantic Wall' to life on 1983 comedy "Valley Girl." The new "Valley character. The film, directed by Damien Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, along with screen with a talented filmmaker like Gavin," Girl" is produced by Matt Smith. Rachel Lee Chazelle, will open in limited theatrical Madhouse Entertainment's Adam Kolbrenner. Friedkin said. "Bradley's phenomenal track Goldenberg came on two weeks ago to release on Dec 9. The movie will center on a paratrooper, strand- record speaks for itself. He's perfect to portray direct from a script by Amy Talkington. Clay Variety reported in October that Rothe ed behind enemy lines hours before D-Day our complicated, often reluctant hero. We can't Weiner had been attached to direct the was starring in Blumhouse's horror movie and tasked with delivering intelligence critical imagine better creative partners." Cooper project several years ago. Nicolas Cage and "Half to Death." Rothe just wrapped the starred as a marksman in "American Sniper," Deborah Foreman starred in the original indie feature "Forever My Girl." Her other and is toplining and directing the remake of "A movie, which was directed by Martha credits include Gabriele Muccino's Star Is Born" with Lady Gaga. O'Connor direct- Coolidge in a story of Foreman's Valley Girl "Summertime," "The Disaster Artist," and ed Ben Affleck in the thriller "The Accountant." falling in love with Cage's punk-rock char- "Please Stand By" with Dakota Fanning and Cooper will exec produce "Atlantic Wall" acter. The film, which cost only $350,000 to Toni Collette. She also appeared in the web with Joint Effort producing partner Todd produce, was a solid performer at the box series "High Maintenance," which recently Phillips. Imperative said it plans to co-finance office with $17 million. sold to HBO, and currently stars in MTV's the film and is in talks with Warner Bros. to The movie was released in the wake of comedy "Mary + Jane." Rothe is repped by come on as a financial partner. Imperative also the success of Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl" Gersh, Principato Young and Hansen said it plans to shoot on location in Normandy. song, in which his 14-year-old daughter Jacobson. The news was first reported by Cooper is represented by CAA, and O'Connor is Moon Unit Zappa mocked the unique Deadline Hollywood. — Reuters repped by WME. Dean is repped by WME, speech patterns of teenage girls from the Madhouse, and attorney Andrew Hurwitz. The Valley. The soundtrack for the original news was first reported by Deadline "Valley Girl" featured songs from the Hollywood. — Reuters Plimsouls, Josie Cotton, Bonnie Hayes, Bradley Cooper Modern English, and the Payolas. Rothe Rebuilding history? Debate rages over lost Afghan Buddhas

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A gull tries to land on an occupied pole at the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany. — AP YUMMM!: A sculpture Exhibit offers rare glimpse at Bunny Mellon's botanical art made from Peeps at he started gardening at age 5 and became a consummate time to document what kinds of tulips were available," Fraser horticulturalist and art collector, particularly of botanical said. "And at one point, Mellon bought up bunches of these very Sart. But until now, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon's vast collection rare tulip illustrations." a Baltimore museum could be seen by invitation only at her Oak Spring Garden estate The show also includes hand-colored engravings by French and library, just outside Washington, DC. In what is being billed artist Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues; floral works by artists in the he American Visionary Art Museum is known for as a coming-out party for the Mellon collection, more than 50 French royal court for King Louis XIV; and 18th century watercol- highlighting the work of self-taught artists, as works, most never before shown in public, are now on view at ors on vellum by German artist Georg Dionysius Ehret. A volup- Twell as mechanical devices, toys and whirligigs the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. tuous 1737 Ehret painting of a Southern magnolia stands out for with colorful moving parts. But through Sept 3, visitors The show, "Redoute to Warhol: Bunny Mellon's Botanical Art," its painstaking detail. In another section is a wall of 17th century can see an exhibit titled "YUMMM! The History, will remain on view at the garden's Lester T. Mertz Library studies of plants, insects, spiders, mollusks and reptiles by Jan Fantasy, and Future of Food," which examines the through Feb 12. Mellon - who designed the present Rose Garden Van Kessel the Elder. human relationship with food. It includes a 6-foot tall at the White House and restored a "potager" garden at Versailles, "The Van Kessels are my favorites," Fraser said. "We suspect sculpture by Christian Twamley called "Sweepish Chef," in France - had, by the time of her death in 2014 at age 103, they were originally built into a 'Cabinet of Curiosities' and were which is made out of candy Peeps. The exhibit begins amassed thousands of works of botanical art. They included later framed in this way. They record what was probably a real with a 10-foot motorized food mandala by Wendy engravings, watercolors, works on paper and canvas, and more collection and are so beautifully rendered." There are also 19th Photo provided by the New York Botanical Garden shows Brackman, complete with bee pollinators that bob as than 10,000 rare and scholarly books. All were housed at Oak and 20th century works on paper and canvas by artists including the wheel turns. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne Spring, in Upperville, Virginia. Jan van Kessel the Elder's "Still life study of plants, insects, Henri Rousseau and Pablo Picasso. One of the more recent works arachnids, mollusks, and reptiles," 1653-58, Oil on copper. has a life-sized Gummy Bear self-portrait in the exhibit, "The collection certainly traces the history of gardening and in the show is an Andy Warhol illustration - and handwritten which runs through Sept 3. horticulture... but also the evolution of our interaction with recipe - for a cookbook. Entitled "Vine Leaf Marinade," it's a 1959 some of Mellon's own living topiary trees from Oak Spring. The museum will be showing "Matt Sesow: Shock plants, from some of the earliest books on the cultivation on ink and watercolor on paper. and Awe" through May 28. The exhibit includes about plants," said Sir Peter Crane, president of the Oak Spring Garden "In addition to being an avid collector of art, she trained her Although there is no immediate plan for the exhibit to travel own topiaries," said Susan Fraser, vice-president and director of 150 works, including many of the artist's colorful and Foundation. "This is the first public glimpse" of the collection, he beyond New York, Crane said an increasing number of works fantastical depictions of animals and autobiographical said, "and it's the tip of the iceberg." The New York show begins in the botanical garden's library. Organized chronologically and by from the collection will be loaned to other exhibits around the theme, the exhibit begins with 14th century drawings from paintings with his personalized symbolic icons that the library's rotunda with reproductions of enormous, trompe country. A small selection is to be exhibited at the Yale Center for recur throughout his work. The permanent collection l'oeil panels by French painter Fernand Renard, commissioned by books pertaining to gardening and agriculture. Another section British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, starting in February. — AP shows gorgeous images of tulips from the 17th century, when includes Vollis Simpson's 3-ton whirligig, which invit- Mellon for the walls of her greenhouse. They feature objects ingly rotates outside the museum. The wind-powered meant to represent her life and passions. Although there is no the demand for rare bulbs became so intense that some tulip varieties cost more than a house. "They needed artists at that sculpture, part of the museum's permanent collection, garden component of this winter show, the rotunda does feature is 55 feet tall. Simpson, a farmer, mechanic and artist, was 76 years old when he made it as a salute to nearby Federal Hill and life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness. Simpson, who died in 2013, built his first whirligig to power a washing machine while he was stationed on Saipan in the Marianas Islands in World War II. The museum includes three renovated industrial buildings on about 1 acre. — AP

This undated photo provided by the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore shows This undated photo provided by the New York Botanical This undated photo provided by the New York Botanical This undated photo provided by the New York Botanical ‘Brackman’s Botanical Bonanza!’ by Wendy Garden shows Andy Warhol’s ‘Vine Leaf Marinade,’ ca. Garden shows Georg Dionysius Ehret’s ‘Magnolia grandi- Garden shows Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues’ ‘A Young Brackman. — AP 1955, ink and watercolor on paper. — AP photos flora (Southern Magnolia),’ bodycolor on vellum, ca. 1737. Daughter of the Picts,’ ca. 1585, watercolor and gouache, touched with gold on parchment.